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Sharp Edges (One More Light Live)
Recorded in the months just prior to Chester Bennington's tragic suicide, One More Night Live feels like last call for one of the alt-metal era's definitive bands. Their energy is explosive--obviously. But what's also apparent is the sheer breadth of their sonic vision. After all, here's a group that has no problem encompassing both melodic rock riddled with electro-pop hooks ("Talking to Myself") and mosh pit jams hurling out raspy howls and razor riffs ("Bleed It Out"). In fact, Linkin Park sound totally in their element when making such daring, even controversial leaps. Another thing to watch out for is the darkness creeping through Bennington's lyrics. This, of course, is hindsight, but it's near impossible not to see a ballad like "Crawling" (which first appeared on 2000's Hybrid Theory) as some kind of cry for help that no one ever heard. Seriously, it's downright chilling when the vocalist cries, "Crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heal. Fear is how I fall, confusing what is real."
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Talking to Myself (One More Light Live)
Burn It Down (One More Light Live)
Battle Symphony (One More Light Live)
New Divide (One More Light Live)
Invisible (One More Light Live)
Nobody Can Save Me (One More Light Live)
One More Light (One More Light Live)
Crawling (One More Light Live)
Leave Out All the Rest (One More Light Live)
Good Goodbye (feat. Stormzy) (One More Light Live)
What I've Done (One More Light Live)
In the End (One More Light Live)
Numb (One More Light Live)
Heavy (One More Light Live)
Bleed It Out (One More Light Live)
Derniers albums de Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory (Bonus Edition)


Lakewood Townhouses is located at 1310 East North Street Apt 8 in Salina, KS.
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"Het Groene Hart", is a residential building for elder people in the Netherlands.
This small facility has been set up based on the most actual views for independent and social living for elderly people set to the highest standards. The project consist of a central placed atrium with 16 apartments around it of which the main window is equipped with a slide construction so the living room is in open connection with the central court. The atrium itself is as such part of the living space of each single apartment. As in this set up the apartments do not have a fire rating of 60 minutes the HI-FOG® system has been accepted as an equivalent solution which has made this open construction possible.


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Democrats working to flip Central Valley seats…
Fired-up Bay Area volunteers are secret weapon for Democrats working to flip Central Valley congressional seats
Democratic volunteers Scott Carlson, left, of Palo Alto, and Sophie Winfree, right, of Turlock, register Ceres resident Daniel Yerez to vote as his mother Ana Yerez looks on last weekend. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area are having an impact in competitive Central Valley congressional districts like this one. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Democratic volunteer Philip Gerrie, left, hands over a pen to Anna Williams, both of San Francisco, as Sophie Winfree, 16, second from left, of Turlock, helps to register volunteers for canvassing in Ceres, Calif., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area went door to door to talk to voters in the competitive 10th congressional district. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Lucia Nunez, left, an organizer with the California Democratic Party, speaks to Democratic volunteers before they go canvassing in Ceres, Calif., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area went door to door to talk to voters in the competitive 10th congressional district. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Democratic volunteers Sophie Winfree, 16, left, of Turlock, and Scott Carlson, of Palo Alto, canvass in a neighborhood of Ceres, Calif., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area went door to door to talk to voters in the competitive 10th congressional district. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Democratic volunteer Scott Carlson, left, of Palo Alto, talks to voter Xochilt Guzman during canvassing in Ceres, Calif., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area went door to door to talk to voters in the competitive 10th congressional district. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
A Democratic volunteer grabs a pen before going canvassing in Ceres, Calif., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area went door to door to talk to voters in the competitive 10th congressional district. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Democratic volunteers Scott Carlson, left, of Palo Alto, and Sophie Winfree, 16, right, of Turlock, register Daniel Yerez, 17, as his mother Ana Yerez, looks on during canvassing in Ceres, Calif., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area went door to door to talk to voters in the competitive 10th congressional district. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Patrick Kolasinski, right, a Democratic candidate for Stanislaus County District Attorney, speaks to volunteers before they go canvassing in Ceres, Calif., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area went door to door to talk to voters in the competitive 10th congressional district. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Lucia Nunez, left, California Democratic Party organizer director for CA-10, speaks to Democratic volunteers before they go canvassing in Ceres, Calif., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area went door to door to talk to voters in the competitive 10th congressional district. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
By Casey Tolan | ctolan@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2018 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2018 at 4:38 a.m.
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CERES — Before Donald Trump was elected president, Scott Carlson would have been hard-pressed to find the Central Valley town of Ceres on a map. The 63-year-old writer from Palo Alto had rarely set foot in the Valley before, unless you count driving through on the way to Yosemite.
But on the Saturday before Memorial Day, Carlson found himself walking up and down residential streets here, knocking on locals' doors and telling them why they should vote for a Democrat for Congress.
He was one of dozens of people from the Bay Area who made the one-to-two-hour drive over the Diablo Range to canvass for Democrats that weekend — part of an army of fired-up volunteers who have focused on the Central Valley in an unprecedented bid to help Democrats win competitive House seats.
"It gets you out of your Silicon Valley bubble," Carlson said as he prepared his clipboard. "This is the real California, in some ways — Joan Didion's California."
The Bay Area has always exported its surplus of Democratic activist fervor. In presidential election years, a steady stream of volunteers make their way up Interstate 80 to knock on doors in swing state Nevada.
But Central Valley Democrats say they've never seen this scale of outside assistance in their local congressional races, which for years have received relatively scant attention from the state and national parties. During past elections, "we had a couple college students coming out," said Jess Self, the president of the Central Valley Democratic Club. "This is a hundred-fold of that."
For most Bay Area volunteers, that newfound enthusiasm was fanned by Trump's victory, and harnessed by a network of local progressive groups that have sprung up to combat his administration over the last year and a half, including Swing Left and Indivisible.
"I got involved because I was so disgusted with Trump," said Mary Trounstine, a retired molecular biologist who now goes canvassing regularly in the Fresno area with her local group, Swing Left San Leandro. "I came to the conclusion that our only option was to take back the House."
That Democratic dream hinges on a handful of competitive races in California, including two or three in the agriculturally rich Central Valley. The party is targeting Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, and Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, whose districts both voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Also on the list, although a steeper challenge, is Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, whose leadership of the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation transformed him into a bogeyman for liberals.
Hundreds of carpooling activists, armed with clipboards, fliers and talking points, have encouraged Democrats to get to the polls in these districts, where turnout has lagged in the past. And they plan to keep up the pressure before the general election.
But some local voters aren't thrilled about outsiders coming in.
"They don't live here, so they don't have any right to try to manipulate the vote," said Arlene Avila, 70, a Republican in Turlock whose family goes back four generations in the area. "What upsets me is the Bay Area is just the opposite of us politically, and they seem to control the entire state."
And GOP strategists are ready to paint the activists as San Francisco liberals who just don't fit in the less-affluent region of close-knit small towns and sprawling dairy farms.
People in the Bay Area bubble are "so far to the left they don't know how far out of touch they are," said Jim DeMartini, a Stanislaus County supervisor and the chair of the county Republican Party. "Hating Trump is not going to resonate well out here — it might work in Berkeley, but not here."
The visitors don't advertise the fact that they're from out of town when they go door to door, instead describing themselves as volunteers for the Democratic Party — but they won't hide it if asked.
"It usually doesn't come up," said Carole Flores, 69, a retired first grade teacher and activist with Swing Left Peninsula. "We're not going there trying to tell people what to do — we're there to assist and give them more manpower." She and other volunteers stress that they always take direction from local organizers.
The manpower boost they deliver is impressive — at last weekend's canvass in Ceres, 45 of the 52 people who showed up were from the Bay Area, organizers said. The volunteers went house to house armed with clipboards and smartphones running an app that told them which doors to knock on and which people to talk to. They focused on Democrats, urging them to send in their ballots early, while staying neutral about which of the half-dozen candidates running against Denham they should support.
Carlson, the Palo Alto writer, was in the Valley volunteering for the 11th time since Trump's election. He teamed up with Sophie Winfree, a 16-year-old from Turlock who helped organize a pro-gun control walkout at her high school this year. Deployed to a mostly Latino neighborhood, the duo navigated their way down cul-de-sacs filled with squat homes, connecting with voters in English and Spanglish and chatting over yapping dogs and whirring lawnmowers.
Most people on their list had only the vaguest idea of who was running in the upcoming congressional election. Xochilt Guzman, who's been living in Ceres for almost a decade, told Carlson and Winfree she thought Denham was a Democrat. She was surprised when they informed her that her congressman is a Republican who voted in line with Trump's positions 97 percent of the time.
"Anything that comes out of (Trump's) mouth is nonsense," Guzman said, vowing to vote against Denham.
That confusion is common, Winfree said as she walked to the next house: "People might not know Denham, but they know Trump. The most effective way you can tell voters about him is comparing his record with Trump's."
Carlson and Winfree registered two new voters, including Noemy Lopez, 37, who spends three hours on the road each day commuting to her job as an office assistant in Hollister. She said she simply hadn't had time to think about the upcoming election or registering to vote until the volunteers showed up at her doorstep.
"I've never seen someone come here to talk about elections," she said. "That's cool."
One reason Carlson says he volunteers so often is that the decisions of the Central Valley Republicans affect people in the Bay Area too. Last year, for example, Denham and his GOP colleagues helped delay almost $650 million in federal grants for a project to improve Caltrain service.
Meanwhile, Bay Area volunteers are also connecting with Central Valley voters without having to cross the hills. One of the region's nerve centers of liberal activism is the Democratic Volunteer Center, an office associated with the Santa Clara County Democratic Party that's tucked behind a Highway 101 off-ramp in Palo Alto. It's become a busy hub for phone banking to Denham's district and other competitive seats around the country.
On a recent Tuesday evening, about 30 volunteers — mostly women — sat at folding tables diligently writing postcards to voters in the 22nd District, urging them to cast their ballots for Andrew Janz, the top Democratic candidate running against Nunes. The volunteers signed their first names, highlighted their handwritten messages in bright colors and slapped on stickers to make them stand out from the typical political junk mail.
"We try to make them personal and eye-catching if people are on their way to the recycle bin with it," said Johanna Schmid, a 72-year-old retiree from Sunnyvale. "They can tell a real person wrote it."
After some postcard-making events, although not this one, a package of hundreds of postcards is hand-delivered to the Central Valley and mailed to voters from there, organizers said — in order to avoid a Palo Alto postmark going to a voter in Visalia.
Activists also plan to ramp up their efforts before November's general election: Swing Left San Francisco brought in a Spanish teacher to give a session on political vocabulary, in order to help volunteers communicate better in the Latino-heavy districts. Other activists have planned multi-day trips to the Valley, sleeping in the spare rooms of their local counterparts.
Beatrice Von Schulthess, 59, who was also at the Memorial Day weekend canvass in Ceres, decided to retire from her job at a San Francisco bookstore the week after Trump won to devote more time to political activism.
"I thought they were going to seem almost foreign to me," Von Schulthess said of the Central Valley voters. "(But) we all share the same concerns… People open their doors and really want to talk to you."
Update, 6/2: This story was updated to clarify that postcards from the recent postcard-making event were not sent from the Central Valley.
Casey Tolan | Politics reporter
Casey Tolan covers national politics and the Trump administration for the Bay Area News Group. Previously, he was a reporter for the news website Fusion, where he covered criminal justice, immigration, and politics. His reporting has also been published in CNN, Slate, the Village Voice, the Texas Observer, the Daily Beast and other news outlets. Casey grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from Columbia University.
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Earlier this week, Governor Dayton released his proposal for bonding for this upcoming legislative session. Within the full $775 million proposal he put forth is $32 million for housing. This proposal is a major boon for housing, and includes much - but not all - that advocates asked for.
$25 million to address foreclosures, permanent supportive housing for the homeless, and federally subsidized rental housing. These bonds are Housing Infrastructure bonds, meaning the bonds will be sold by the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, with the legislature pledging to repay through appropriating general funds.
$7 million to rehabilitate aging Public Housing stock which serves extremely low income Minnesotans, including people with disabilities and seniors. These bonds are General Obligation bonds.
Advocates had hoped for $30 million and $10 million respectively for the two types of bonds, for a total package of $40 million.
Legislators disagree about not only the size of the bonding bill, but the type of projects which should be included. Disagreements, and eventually compromise, will follow over the course of the legislative session.
In the meantime, housing advocates are themselves considering the best strategy to ensure a positive bonding outcome for housing this session. We will have to determine whether to rally around the amount the Governor has proposed or to push for more. Stay tuned for updates.
See http://www.mmb.state.mn.us/doc/budget/bud-cap/12/gov-rec.pdf for the full list of proposed items in the Governor's proposal. Housing items are on page 7.


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*I use protobuf dll link because I want my dll small.

*I load my dll using windows API LoadLibrary() and it returns 1114(ERROR_DLL_INIT_FAILED).

*I try to use Procmon to figure out what happened.

*I see something like this in call stack:

"16","ntdll.dll","RtlRaiseException + 0x2d9","0x7ffe5b0eb629","C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll"
"17","KernelBase.dll","RaiseException + 0x68","0x7ffe58443c58","C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll"
"18","vcruntime140.dll","CxxThrowException + 0xc2","0x7ffe433c4462","C:\Windows\System32\vcruntime140.dll"
"19","libprotobuf.dll","google::protobuf::internal::LogMessage::Finish + 0x128","0x7ffe39206ed8","C:\Program Files......\libprotobuf.dll"
"20","libprotobuf.dll","google::protobuf::DescriptorPool::InternalAddGeneratedFile + 0xd1","0x7ffe392541d1","C:\Program Files......\libprotobuf.dll"

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*If I use protobuf static link, this problem vanished.

*protobuf version is 3.0.0

Question:
Is it possible to see the log of google protobuf?
I want to know the root cause.

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Popular media feed us stories how the third world is only creating trash and we in Europe are so into cleaning the planet, which is not true.
Neither are some of my neighbours particularly into sorting their trash, not to mention cutting their landfill waste, but luckily nor are the less developed countries evil either.
This one idea seems to be maybe the first step towards something better, but hopefully, there are followers.
Pappadavada, a restaurant in Kochi, India, has found a brilliant way to feed the hungry.
Instead of throwing away unfinished food, the restaurant is encouraging their customers and other people to put leftover food in a refrigerator placed just outside their eatery. The food will then be available for free for hungry people to take – no conditions, no questions asked at all.
China is responsible for 25% of carbon emission into Earth atmosphere, and the general consensus is that they are the evil of ecology on our planet, but is that so?
Korea Zero Waste Movement Network has been reporting such cool things it really is a shame not more European places adopt them!
For example, there was a Fast-food Franchisee Without Disposables Opened in Seoul, also, they work hard towards fast-food chains to stop using disposable cutlery, cups and plates.
This is a plague here truly!
Whenever I have to eat out I compare everything to really simple food stalls in Central London where you will get your food packed in biodegradable paper boxes with wooden forks.
But even quite posh places will put plastic cutlery into my bag more often than not. Sometimes even when explicitly told not to. Sigh.


You can't have a good Catholic country without a good juicy relic.
Remember István, the guy that sings about war and religion? The guy that was our fist Christian king? We are talking about the same guy today. A bare 50 years after his death, he was declared a saint by the Pope (things like that were on the fast track back in those days, especially when you were the converting sovereign of a new kingdom). And once István was a saint, that meant that every bit of his body was also a potential relic.
Enter the Holy Right Hand, also known as the Szent Jobb (which is Hungarian for Holy Right, duh). We don't know exactly when it stopped being attached to the rest of our holy king, but probably very soon before or after he became a saint. The right hand was revered in its own monastery, until it wasn't. Hungary had a long and tumultuous history, involving the Mongolian Invasion, the Ottoman Rule, and other lovely times of intense cultural exchange, so the Jobb, much like other pieces of art and history, went on an adventurous multiple-century Odyssey before it found its way back on the map in the 18th century. It is currently being kept in the St. István Basilica in Budapest, in its own chapel.
According to some historical sources, the relic originally included the entire right arm of our revered king. But, as Medieval business goes, the more relics were needed from a limited pool of saints, the smallest bits they got chopped into. At some point during the middle ages, the arm was detached from the hand, and then further divided to satisfy all the demand for mummified sacred royalty. As it stands today, the relic includes the wrist and the hand. Periodically it is carried around on August 20th (For Americans: Our version of the 4th of July) in great pomp, and it frequently visits other cities around the country. Sometimes on a boat.
How do we know after a thousand years that the hand belonged to István? We don't, really. It is one of the favorite pastimes of scientists and historians to banter about it. There are facts on both sides. Some people think it is the hand of a mummy that the Turks sold back to the Christians as a relic (since they ruled Egypt at the time, so mummies were easy to come by cheap). There is a possibility for a DNA analysis (we have various bits and pieces of confirmed kings around the country), but it has not been done yet.
If you stick around after A to Z is over, you can read some more about our national relics (among other gory things). Follow in email or through Blogger on the Right.
Raising my right hand in salute to St. Istvan!
According to some historical sources, the relic originally included the entire right arm of our revered king-- wow, how's that for gory detail? This was a fascinating post, Csenge!
It's all a bit macabre and barbaric, if you ask me. The best bit is, I think you can throw in a coin to get the hand illuminated for a short time. So István keeps generating revenue for the Catholic Church even a thousand years after his coronation. Not bad, huh?


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White half-pigskin over old boards.
Member of the de Lisle family; their arms (or, a fesse sable between two chevrons sable) on fol. 19; dedication on fol. 122 written by Robert de Lisle giving the book to his daughter Audere and after her death to his daughter Alborou; Roger de Bettesthorne, 1331; John and Eleanor de Mere, fourteenth century (?); Emme Drew, fourteenth or fifteenth century (?); James Spoor, before 1787 or 1789; George Shepherd, 1787 or 1789; Margett Colefer; London, Sotheby's, May 19, 1958, lot 96; purchased there by Arthur Rau, Paris for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Ms. book of hours for the use of Sarum (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in England, possibly York, 1316-1331.
The De Lisle Hours dates between 1316 and 1331 because of the Short Office of the Cross, ascribed to Pope John XXII (1316-1334), on fols. 2v-4v, and the added note on the birth of Roger de Bettesthorne's son, John, 1331, on pastedown on inside front cover.
Decoration: 18 large miniatures, 10 historiated initials, 1 historiated margin, numerous decorated initials; this manuscript contains a rare cycle of the Ages of Man, picturing a woman and man conversing, the latter aging steadily.


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Jupiter and Saturn: a Duet
Art and science go hand-in-hand. The most obvious example of the two, in my opinion, would be Leonardo Da Vinci.
Tomorrow is not only the Winter Solstice, but we are going to witness what is called the 'Great' Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, where the two planets come close together to look like one bright star.
But while single conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn occur once every 20 years, such triple conjunctions are far less frequent, occurring about once every 180 years on average; the last time was in 1981, but the next won't happen until 2239. ~space.com
What makes this year's spectacle so rare, then? It's been nearly 400 years since the planets passed this close to each other in the sky, and nearly 800 years since the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter occurred at night, as it will for 2020, allowing nearly everyone around the world to witness this "great conjunction
-NASA
I excelled in science and of course art, during my school years. I was interested in most sciences, but mainly biology, natural sciences, and astronomy.
I bought a very powerful telescope years ago, one that can be programmed to track the moving earth and sky, and attach a camera to it. It was intended to be set up on the large deck of our country home in the Catskills, but then, things changed and my telescope is waiting in storage to be set up again.
Like many large cities, we suffer from light pollution which makes it a challenge for any amateur astronomer to enjoy the night sky.
Perhaps this conjunction is a sign of good things to come in 2021, a brighter future for all, who knows.
I am grateful to be here to witness this phenomenon, and capture Jupiter and Saturn in all their dazzling, splendor.
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Glenn A. Westwong, age 85, passed away on September 4, 2018.
Glenn was born June 20, 1933 in Everett, WA. He married Marlene Newell on April 17, 1953. Marlene and Glenn had three beautiful children, Rose, Ginger and Randy. Glenn spent most of his years building fiberglass boats, and all knew him for that.
He enjoyed family life in Darrington, WA, fishing and sharing the good news from the Bible with others as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
He is survived by his wife, Marlene, his daughter, Rose, and son, Randy.
His love and humor is something we will miss but never forget.
A special thanks to the medical staff who helped in caring for Glenn.
For information regarding memorial service please call: (360) 631-7273.


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I decided to try the MIPS for better protection. The sweat pads are an upgrade from a base helmet and seem to be more durable. They dry quickly. I have stayed pretty cool riding in the Texas mountains this summer. Foray is a good value as well.
Awesome helmet for the money!
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I like this helmet very much but bought the matte white, fits excellent with the micro adjustment in the back, excellent ventilation...I would definitely buy another one !
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When I smashed the Propero mtb'ing I replaced it with a $60 Lazer Tonic. Ewwww bulky buckle, weird strapping hate it!
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Great protection for a good price.
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I'm very glad that I did. I came off my bike at 34mph (car driver) and the Foray did an excellent job of protecting my noggin. The outer shell took a pasting and I had a wonderful bruise in the shape of the helmet liner, but that's all. Thank you Giro for making this excellent helmet!
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(April 5th, 2017, New York, USA) – In response to a new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) published today in The Lancet, Vital Strategies calls on governments and civil society to redouble their efforts to implement and support strong tobacco control policies to save one billion daily smokers – and their dependents – from health and economic harm.
The report finds that 13 countries sustained significant annual rates of decline in tobacco use between both from 1990 to 2005 and 2005 to 2015, including Australia, the United States, and Brazil. In addition, daily smoking prevalence declined faster between 2005 and 2015 in 18 countries, including Nepal, Chile, and Ukraine. Vital Strategies also calls on advocates and media to shine more light on the tobacco industry's attempts to derail and delay health policies for the sake of profit.
Three countries account for over half of all men who smoke daily worldwide: China with 254 million, India with 91 million, and Indonesia with 50 million. China also is home to 14 million female daily smokers and India to 13.5 million, second and third only to the United States with 17 million female daily smokers.
The Global Burden of Disease study is open-access research article, published in The Lancet at www.lancet.com/gbd. In addition to the study, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle updated its data visualization tool to reflect data through 2015. The tool can be accessed at www.vizhub.com/tobacco.


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post-title Ebrahim Ehrari.80 | Anniversary Exhibition | Galerie Berlin-Baku | 27.05.–27.07.2018
Ebrahim Ehrari.80 | Anniversary Exhibition | Galerie Berlin-Baku | 27.05.–27.07.2018
until 27.07. | #2023ARTatBerlin | Galerie Berlin-Baku shows from 27th May 2018 the anniversary exhibition "Ebrahim Ehrari.80" on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the artist.
The master of Aquatinta has turned 80! On the occasion of Ebrahim Ehrari's 80th birthday we, the Gallery Berlin-Baku & qgallery are dedicating him a jubilee exhibition from May 27 to July 27, 2018, that gives very good insights into his comprehensive artistic life's work.
The exhibition shows the wide range of his artistic work from the beginning of the seventies until today. The main focus of the show is primarily graphics with seemingly surrealistic and metaphorical imagery in addition to colorful paintings and early optical illusions. The artworks reflect the rich and diverse life experiences of the artist, show many motifs enriched with symbols and also hints at critical debates with society and politics.
Ebrahim Ehrari, Verteidigung, 1974
Aqua tinta, 30 x 40 cm
Many years Ebrahim Ehrari's artistic work focused on graphics (especially Aqua Tinta) – and he was a master of his trade. His metaphorical encrypted imagery contains elements of surrealism, the game with perspectives and spaces, picking up proportions and bringing together different levels of reality. The balance between European and Oriental pictorial tradition, between iconic/ descriptive and poetic symbolic results in a new visual world full of rich allusions. The explanations of the symbolism actually is not required. Quite clearly the frame stands for bondage, the tip for threat, the water for life and the horse for power.
Ebrahim Ehrari, Herausgesprungen.
Colour etching, 36,2 x 46,8 cm
Ebrahim Ehrari, Ikarus,
Ebrahim Ehrari, Herausgesprungen, 1975
Ebrahim Ehrari, Suche nach Geborgenheit,
Colour etching, 50 x 70 cm
Ebrahim Ehrari, Es ist zu eng, 1997
Aquatinta, 60 x 80 cm
Yet he did not leave it at that. The artist Ehrari went into an experimental phase and over the years he acquired various changing techniques. For three years, he created computer art, and finally he concentrated on painting. This is also his present focus. He is remained notwithstanding true to himself, he continues to use not only his old but also new symbols, indeterminate forms, socio-critical themes and fantasy games. This exciting mixture can be found in his new paintings again, colourful moments with intense colors and tremendous forms.
Ebrahim Ehrari, Eine Luftblase, 2013
Oil & acrylic on canvas, 150 x 100 cm
Ebrahim Ehrari was born in 1938 in Urmia (West Azerbaijan, Iran). In 1966 he moved to Europe and studied in 1969 at the HdK (University of Fine Arts) with professors Wolfgang Ludwig and Hans Förtsch. After completing his studies, Ehrari returned to Iran with his family and took a lectureship at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Academy of Applied Arts (Graphic Arts) in Tehran. But in 1976 he came back to Berlin for good and took over the direction of the etching workshop of the BBK (Federal Association of Visual Artists) at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, which he held until 2003.
Since 1993, Ebrahim Ehrari has been actively involved in cultural exchange between Azerbaijan and Germany. He has initiated, supported and implemented many projects.
His artistic work comprises about 3000 works. It contains about 2500 graphic works.
Ebrahim Ehrari has been involved in numerous exhibition projects in Germany and abroad and his works are represented in numerous collections around the world, like in Afghanistan, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Germany, France, Greece, Great Britain, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, South Korea, the Czech Republic and the USA.
Vernissage: Sunday, 27th May 2018, noon – 2:00 p.m.
Exhibition period: Sunday, 27th May to Friday, 27th July 2018
Zur Galerie Berlin-Baku
Image caption: Ebrahim Ehrari.80 Jubiläumsausstellung – courtesy by Galerie Berlin Baku
Exhibition Ebrahim Ehrari.80 – Anniversary Exhibition – Galerie Berlin Baku | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin | Kunst in Berlin | Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
#2023ARTatBerlin
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SSC - REDAKTION 16th May 2018
Contemporary Art, Painting, Solo Exhibition [Schöneberg], Berlin-Baku, Exhibitions Berlin Galleries, FEATURED, Year 2018


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Travis Strikes Again : No More Heroes – Complete Edition
Of the first two No More Heroes, one of the most appreciated aspects was the protagonist: Travis Touchdown. A surname that recalls the best action in the hard sport of American football, perfectly fitting to define a character involved in situations where everything is over the top. Violence, dialogues, humor, all declined with the irreverent stylistic code of Suda51, but with some further touches to characterize it.
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Travis Strikes Again is in fact a middle chapter, a glue among the main ones, created with the intention of emulating an indie production and "playing with games", making both the ideas of the story, and the gameplay itself, a combination of quotes and find it extravagant and creative.
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However, the general setting remains that of the hack & slash with an inclined view, devoid of role-playing components, but full of action and with decidedly well-structured boss battles. Travis and Badman can retrieve multiple cartridges containing new abilities to equip and use in combat, but the base always remains two types of attack (typically divided into strong-slow and weak-fast) and a dodge. The pace of the game is therefore very dynamic and devoted to pure arcade, very suitable for those looking for a title with which to have fun and to alternate with other more decompressed and dispersive ones such as open worlds. It is possible to play in a local cooperative in two, finding in this way a greater involvement in the purely playful part. However, even if faced alone it is difficult to get bored because of the huge amount of extravagant ideas that always keep the attention high for all the 10 hours necessary for completion, denoting a good overall longevity.
In fact, the numerous ideas with which the perspective and the playability itself are modified are surprising, proposing levels with a top view in which to get out of a maze, or two-dimensional platform sections, or still others slightly exploratory.
That Travis Strikes Again "plays with games" can be seen from his continuous quotation of game design, as well as images. Because if on the one hand we move on to emulate completely different play types, on the other we also pay homage to them in the atmosphere and in the representation, even trespassing on the explicit.
For the occasion, in fact, several collaborations have been stipulated with indie studios, inserting the logos of really existing games in the form of t-shirts that Travis or Badman can wear as if they were admirers of the titles in question. In fact, collectibles allow you to obtain decorative garments dedicated to Dead Cells, Blazing Chrome, Hollow Knight, Furi, Steamworld Dig and many more. But these are just some of the many easter eggs present, as every dialogue and moment creates a sort of estrangement or laughter with which to amaze the player (such as the breakages of the fourth wall, here implemented with a lot of irony). There are also numerous references to the previous Suda51 games, from the most famous, such as Killer Seven to the more niche ones such as Silver Case.
Graphically speaking, the title uses the Unreal Engine in a very colorful, albeit not very detailed way, with a sort of cel shading with tints that tend to computer digital acid, rather than the tenuous cartoonish. However, there is talk of a production that is placed in the medium-economic range, therefore the quality is congruent with its value and finds an enhancement in the visionary and always varied touch with which the settings are built (with suggestive shots in their being anomalous, such as the passage under the arch made of mechanical bulldozers). The soundtrack mixes 16-bit style synthesizer music, with electronic tracks from other Suda games, creating a kind of quotation also in the audio sector.
Travis Strikes Again is a fast and dynamic arcade title, immediate and perfect to play as an interlude from more challenging titles. The huge amount of quotes, ideas and variations implemented both in the dialogues and in the game design, keeps the involvement high whether you play it alone or in a cooperative.
About ten hours to complete it the first time. But there are several characters.
A hack & slash based on a few simple commands.
Collectibles and Extras
Numerous collectibles that unlock tributes to the contemporary indie scene.
Game Name: Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4
Dubbing language: English
Texts language: Italian
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Graphics in line with mid-range productions, but with a visionary touch in the creation of the atmospheres and a very effective acid color coloring to the surreal tones of the game.
Electronic music halfway between 16-bit synthesizer and remixing of tracks from other Grassoppher Entertainment games, for a rhythmic and citational soundtrack at the same time.
Few commands, for a simple and immediate playability, not particularly deep, but smooth, enjoyable and with a challenging difficulty curve at the right point. The numerous variations of game design proposed in the levels considerably increase the overall variety.
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Raising Cubby: John Elder Robison's New Book
John Elder Robison, author of the bestselling memoir Look Me In the Eye, will be adding another book to his impressive bibliography early next year. In March, the new book Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives will hit bookshelves. Growing up with Asberger's Syndrome during a time when no one knew what to make of it, Robison may have seemed a bit unusual—but still succeeded in living an incredible life. Today, he is an author, adjunct professor at Elms College in Massachusetts, was recently appointed to the U.S. Government's Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, and is currently involved in autism research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre.
On his website, Robison has this to say on his hopes for the new book: "I hope Raising Cubby will inspire students to see that there are many paths to success, and that oddball traits or interests may in fact lead to our best opportunities. I also hope it will inspire communities to embrace their misfits and understand how much they have to offer." In the book, he tells the story of a father who is a little bit different raising a son who is just a little bit different, too. And how those differences bring them together and lead them both to extraordinary things.
Here's Amazon's early review of what is sure to be another hit:
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad's relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble. Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn't a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. When his son, Cubby, asked, "Where did I come from?" John said he'd bought him at the Kid Store and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would "do all chores." He read electrical engineering manuals to Cubby at bedtime. He told Cubby that wizards turned children into stone when they misbehaved.
Still, John got the basics right. He made sure Cubby never drank diesel fuel at the automobile repair shop he owns. And he gave him a life of adventure: By the time Cubby was ten, he'd steered a Coast Guard cutter, driven a freight locomotive, and run an antique Rolls Royce into a fence. The one thing John couldn't figure out was what to do when school authorities decided that Cubby was dumb and stubborn—the very same thing he had been told as a child. Did Cubby have Asperger's too? The answer was unclear. One thing was clear, though: By the time he turned seventeen, Cubby had become a brilliant chemist—smart enough to make military-grade explosives and bring state and federal agents calling. Afterward, with Cubby facing up to sixty years in prison, both father and son were forced to take stock of their lives, finally coming to terms with being "on the spectrum" as both a challenge and a unique gift.
By turns tender, suspenseful, and hilarious, this is more than just the story of raising Cubby. It's the story of a father and son who grow up together.


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The Kaduna High Court has fixed February 24 and 25, 2020 to resume the trial of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, also known as Shi'ite, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and wife, Zeenat.
The PUNCH reports that the IMN leader and his wife are standing trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly and disruption of public peace, among other charges, following the clash of his group with the Nigerian Army in December 2015.
The High Court had on December 5, 2019, ordered the Department of State Services to transfer the Shi'ite leader and his wife to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Kaduna.
The court's order was a sequel to an application by one of the defendants' lawyers, Haruna Magashi, in December 5, 2019, at the resumed hearing of the defendants in Kaduna. This was eight months after the last hearing in March 24, 2019.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, had on March 24, 2019, adjourned the trial of the IMN leader indefinitely to enable him to serve on the panel of the Presidential and National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal in Yobe State.
At the resumed hearing on today (Thursday), Justice Kurada said the case was adjourned to allow the defendants appear and take their plea.
El-Zazaky's Lead Counsel, Femi Falana, SAN, told journalists shortly after the adjournment that his clients were absent in court due to their poor state of health.
Falana expressed dissatisfaction over the way and manner the state was being cordoned-off by security operatives each time the case was up for hearing.
Also, the state Director of Public Prosecution, who is the lead prosecutor to the Kaduna State Government, Mr Dari Bayero, told journalists that the witnesses in the case are set to testify in court at the adjourned date.
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About as metal as they are fashionable, Iron Chic delivered their newly forged album 'The Constant One' in early December; seemingly more than happy to merely carry on where they left off with the 2010 debut album 'Not Like This'. The typical "breath of fresh air" plaudit is hardly an apt description for this particular album; generic, clichéd and "not 'Not like this'" would be a closer description of this latest effort from the Long Island quintet.
'The Constant One' is the band's first album working with Bridge Nine Records, who also happen to boast New Found Glory and Gallows on their books. Sound-wise, this album slots snugly between the two aforementioned bands, managing to sound slightly heavier and more angst-ridden than New Found Glory without having to resort to the undecipherable shrieks employed by Gallows.
The album starts off with a short prelude, 'The End', not only borrowing the title of My Chemical Romance's prelude in 'The Black Parade', but also echoing the melody of Smashing Pumpkin's 'Today'. However, this is where the comparisons to these two bands end.


August is traditionally a thin month on stock markets in the Northern hemisphere. The second-in-charge managers are left to run the show and trading volume normally drops: nobody wants to take big positions when it may be difficult to unwind. In 2015 there is also the spectre of a major interest rate decision a few weeks into September.
August 2015 started flat. Indeed 2015 as a whole had mostly been quiet in the US and UK markets. The Standard & Poors 500 epitomised the monotony: until the mid-August China crisis the index had spent 2015 in a range no more than 3.5% either side of its January starting level (largely between 2,000 and 2,100). In the UK, until mid-August the FTSE 100 had spent much of the year churning between 6,500 (it opened at 6,566) and 7,000.
The events of August moved both markets into correction territory (a fall of more than 10% from the previous high), although the S&P 500 ended the month only 7.4% below the all-time peak it set in May. Other markets were harder hit: A report in the FT said that 40% of world markets tracked by Absolute Strategy Research were in bear market territory (a fall of over 20%). The table below helps put the events of the month into more perspective.
The volatility of August will potentially be replaced by the September variety. The key date to watch is Thursday 17 September, when the Federal Reserve finishes its rate setting meeting and we will learn whether US rates are going up for the first time since June 2006.


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Q: Jmeter error "javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property" I am using Jmeter for the first time and when I try running any of the pre-defined functions in JMS Point-to-point I see issue as below:-

javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial

I am not much sure on what class name has to be specified here.
Below is the info from logs:-
017-06-27 22:59:06,868 ERROR o.a.j.p.j.s.JMSSampler: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
    at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_101]
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_101]
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_101]
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_101]
    at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.jms.sampler.JMSSampler.threadStarted(JMSSampler.java:329) [ApacheJMeter_jms.jar:3.2 r1790748]
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread$ThreadListenerTraverser.addNode(JMeterThread.java:677) [ApacheJMeter_core.jar:3.2 r1790748]
    at org.apache.jorphan.collections.HashTree.traverseInto(HashTree.java:996) [jorphan.jar:3.2 r1790748]
    at org.apache.jorphan.collections.HashTree.traverse(HashTree.java:978) [jorphan.jar:3.2 r1790748]
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.threadStarted(JMeterThread.java:646) [ApacheJMeter_core.jar:3.2 r1790748]
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.initRun(JMeterThread.java:634) [ApacheJMeter_core.jar:3.2 r1790748]
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:250) [ApacheJMeter_core.jar:3.2 r1790748]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_101]
2017-06-27 22:59:06,915 INFO o.a.j.f.LogFunction: Thread Group 1-1  :  "Hello world"
2017-06-27 22:59:06,915 WARN o.a.j.p.j.s.JMSSampler: Session may not be null while creating message

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A: You need to provide the fully qualified class name of the factory class that will create the initial context. An initial context is the starting point for naming operations.
See javax.naming.Context class JavaDoc for more detailed explanation (if it helps).
So basically you need to figure out what Message Queue server you need to test and once you know at least what is being used you will need to find out correct QueueConnectionFactory and InitialContext class names, queue names and other JMS Properties.
Check out Building a JMS Testing Plan - Apache JMeter article for more information.


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Does Meditation Help Fuel Entrepreneurial Success?
By Cathy Lynn Grossman
(RNS) Entrepreneurs behave just like most Americans when it comes to religion—but with one spiritual twist.
They're significantly more likely to pray several times a day or to meditate, said sociologist Kevin Dougherty, a co-author of the Baylor Religion Survey that was released Tuesday (Sept. 20).
The survey can't answer whether prayerful, peaceful folks are more likely to take a business risk, or whether the stress of a start-up drives folks to their knees or to the lotus position, Dougherty said.
But either way, 34 percent of entrepreneurs say they frequently look up to the Lord, compared with 27 percent of non-entrepreneurs. Nearly as many (32 percent) say they look inward in meditation, while just 22 percent of non-entrepreneurs say they practice any of the eight forms of meditation—including Christian, Jewish and Buddhist variations—listed on the survey.
Leading the way: Christian meditation, reported by 18 percent of entrepreneurs.
Leah Rampy of McLean, Va., who ran her own company as an executive leadership coach, said her prayers were often that "the spirit would work through me."
Mindful meditation was cited by 17 percent of entrepreneurs. Wendy Woods, a consultant based in Toronto, shares with her corporate clients how "meditation helps me push away fear and bring in calm and creativity."
Buddhist meditation worked for Ray Yeh, of Ukiah, Calif., who created and ran a software sales company for 20 years. He found "working 12 hours a day, seven days a week leaves you no time to think, to get in touch with your inner self." Yeh sold the company in 1999 and now lives in a Buddhist monastery in Northern California.
Psychologist Kenneth Pargament, a scholar in residence at the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, put it this way:
"Entrepreneurs have a strong sense they can take matters into their own hands. But they also face risk, unpredictability and uncertainty," he said. "Prayer and meditation can be important resources for people who are trying to achieve a lot and yet still face the reality that there is only so much they can control."
Questions on entrepreneurs were a part of the survey underwritten by Baylor's sociology department, the National Study of Religion and Entrepreneurial Behavior and the National Science Foundation.
(Cathy Lynn Grossman writes for USA Today.)
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PROFESSOR PETER HENNESSY (Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield) is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary University and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. He is the leading historian of post-1945 Britain, especially its politics and politicians, which he writes (and speaks) about in a vivid and witty way. His many books and his journalism offer trenchant analysis of the British constitution and the 'hidden wiring' of government , including the secret state and the bomb. Books include Distilling the Frenzy: Writing the History of One's Own Times (2012) Cabinets and the Bomb (2007) Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties (2006) The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War (2002) The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945 (2000) The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution (1995) Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (1992) Whitehall (1989) and Cabinet (1986). This 'conversation' will range widely over Peter's many interests and offers an opportunity to hear from someone with a unique place in the study of the recent history of British politics and society.
Professor Tony Wright is Professorial Fellow in Politics at Birkbeck College and Professor of Politics at UCL. MP for Cannock Chase from 1992 to 2010, he chaired the Reform of the House of Commons Committee (publishing the report 'Rebuilding the House' in 2009.) He chaired the Public Administration Committee of the House of Commons from 1999 to 2010. He has been co- editor of Political Quarterly since 1995. His most recent publications are Doing Politics (2012), British Politics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd ed, 2013) and an article asking 'What is it about Politicians? in the current edition of Political Quarterly.
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Great Torrington School, located in Devon, have recently been awarded a Gold Artsmark award. GTS used Artsmark as a tool to help them understand and realise where they could go and how they could further ingrain the arts in the curriculum.
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Continuing my spotlight on this year's World Cinema Documentary Competition: From the UK/Spain, Ben Lewis' GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN, about the international controversy behind the Internet giant's quest to copy the world's books.
The goal of accumulating all human knowledge in one repository has been a dream since ancient times. Only recently, however, has that dream become a reality. Quietly and behind closed doors, Google has been executing a project to scan and digitize every printed word on the planet. Working with the world's most prestigious libraries, the webmasters are reinventing the limits of copyright in the name of free access to anyone, anywhere. What can possibly be wrong with this picture?
As GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN reveals, a whole lot. Some argue that Google's actions represent aggressive theft on an enormous scale, others see them as an attempt to monopolize our shared cultural heritage, and still others view the project as an attempt to flatten our minds by consolidating complex ideas into searchable "extra long tweets." At first slowly, and then with intensifying conviction, a diverse coalition mobilizes to stop the fulfillment of this ambitious dream. Incisive and riveting as it uncovers a high-stakes multinational heist, Ben Lewis' film voices an important alternative to the technological utopianism of our time.
Lewis has been directing and producing non-fiction for television for over a decade, with past projects screening on the international festival circuit at notable events such as Hot Docs and IDFA. His most recent project, POOR US: AN ANIMATED HISTORY OF POVERTY, is part of the acclaimed WHY POVERTY? series.
Lewis takes what at first appears to be a fairly simple issue and expertly untangles a complex knot of underlying concerns and motivations. The result is a fascinating consideration of technology's potential, and of Google's ultimate aspirations, as they come up against the practical and legal limits placed on our desire to have everything available at our fingertips.
View the film's trailer on Vimeo. For more information, check out the doc's website and Facebook page. For Lewis' thoughts on the doc, check out his Indiewire interview. For screening dates and times at Sundance, click the link in the first paragraph.
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All eyes on Donald Trump speech as trade talks enter into a third day, will stock gains continue?
The S&P 500 entered its third consecutive winning streak which is the best spree since late November 2018. This has brought gains of around 10% since it bottomed in December. The backdrop for Tuesday's optimism seemed to have stemmed from bets of positive outcomes on US China trade talks which are being extended into a third day.
Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump dropped hints that negotiations are going along nicely, adding that he wants a deal soon to boost the markets. The general improvement in market mood led to gains in Asia, European and US benchmark stock indexes. Sentiment-linked crude oil prices rose for a 6th day, adding to its best climbing streak in about 8 months.
Crude oil also received a boost later in the day when the American Petroleum Institute reported that stockpiles contracted about 6.13m bbl last week. As a result, the Canadian Dollar was one of the best performing majors as it closely followed the commodity. Canadian government bond yields also rallied, perhaps reflecting fading BoC rate cut bets ahead of today's monetary policy announcement.
The US Dollar had a rather choppy session, but ultimately finished the day cautiously higher. While rising bond yields supported the currency, fading demand for haven assets worked against it. Surprisingly, the pro-risk New Zealand Dollar weakened despite the rise in stocks. Partial gains in the more liquid and higher-yielding US Dollar might have prevented NZD from outperforming.
As the markets transitioned into Wednesday's Asia Pacific trading session, there was a sudden and quick burst of aggressive 'risk on' trade. The Australian and New Zealand Dollars pushed higher as the anti-risk Japanese Yen fell short. The US Dollar also saw a slight pullback. This may have been as a result of Japanese shares following Wall Street higher.
The Topix Index opened almost 1 percent higher. Top-tier event risk during the session looks to be a speech from US President Donald Trump around 2:00 GMT. He will be addressing the nation about border security amidst a prolonged government shutdown which entered its 18th day. Newswires reported that he will not be resorting to declare a national emergency.
Unless one is avoided, the economic implications may weigh on sentiment and domestic equities ahead. Markets will also be awaiting more progress on US China trade talks. Should the results be in line with what the White House is alluding to, the recovery in market mood since December may extend. This risks weakening the Japanese Yen while boding well for sentiment-linked currencies such as AUD which may extend gains this week.