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#ifndef CScreenUnits_H
#define CScreenUnits_H

#include <cassert>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

#define CScreenUnitsMgrInst CScreenUnitsMgr::instance()

/*!
 * Screen units manager class to manage system widget conversion data
 */
class CScreenUnitsMgr {
 public:
  static CScreenUnitsMgr *instance() {
    CScreenUnitsMgr **p = instPtr();

    if (! *p)
      *p = new CScreenUnitsMgr;

    return *p;
  }

  static void release() {
    CScreenUnitsMgr **p = instPtr();

    delete *p;

    *p = nullptr;
  }

  //! get/set em size in pixels
  double emSize() const { return emSize_; }
  void setEmSize(double r) { emSize_ = r; }

  //! get/set ex size in pixels
  double exSize() const { return exSize_; }
  void setExSize(double r) { exSize_ = r; }

  //! get/set pixels (dots) per inch
  double dpi() const { return dpi_; }
  void setDpi(double r) { dpi_ = r; }

  //! get/set mm size in pixels
  double mmSize() const { return dpi()/25.4; }

  //! get/set screen scale (percent)
  double screenScale() const { return screenScale_; }
  void setScreenScale(double s) { screenScale_ = s; }

  //! get/set screen width
  double screenWidth() const { return screenWidth_; }
  void setScreenWidth(double r) { screenWidth_ = r; }

  //! get/set screen height
  double screenHeight() const { return screenHeight_; }
  void setScreenHeight(double r) { screenHeight_ = r; }

 private:
  static CScreenUnitsMgr **instPtr() {
    static CScreenUnitsMgr *inst;

    return &inst;
  }

 private:
  CScreenUnitsMgr() { }
 ~CScreenUnitsMgr() { }

 private:
  double emSize_       { 1 };
  double exSize_       { 1 };
  double dpi_          { 75.0 };
  double screenScale_  { 100.0 };
  double screenWidth_  { 1280.0 };
  double screenHeight_ { 1024.0 };
};

//------

/*!
 * Class for screen units value.
 *
 * Uses correctly configured CScreenUnitsMgr data for conversions
 *
 * Note: rvalue optional parameters are for reference value (percent and ratio)
 */
class CScreenUnits {
 public:
  enum class Units {
    NONE,
    EM,
    EX,
    PX,
    PT,
    PC,
    CM,
    MM,
    IN,
    PERCENT,
    RATIO
  };

 public:
  static CScreenUnits makePixel(double value) {
    return CScreenUnits(value, Units::PX);
  }

  static CScreenUnits makePercent(double value) {
    return CScreenUnits(value, Units::PERCENT);
  }

  //---

  CScreenUnits() { }

  CScreenUnits(double value, Units units=Units::PX) :
   value_(value), units_(units) {
  }

  explicit CScreenUnits(Units units, double value=1.0) :
   value_(value), units_(units) {
  }

  virtual ~CScreenUnits() { }

  //---

  bool isValid() const { return units_ != Units::NONE; }

  //---

  double value(Units units=Units::PX) const {
    assert(units_ == units);

    return value_;
  }

  Units units() const { return units_; }

  const CScreenUnits &setValue(double value, Units units=Units::PX) {
    assert(units_ == units);

    value_ = value;

    return *this;
  }

  const CScreenUnits &setUnits(Units units, const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) {
    if (units == units_) return *this;

    switch (units) {
      case Units::EM     : value_ = em     (rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::EX     : value_ = ex     (rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::PX     : value_ = px     (rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::PT     : value_ = pt     (rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::PC     : value_ = pc     (rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::CM     : value_ = cm     (rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::MM     : value_ = mm     (rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::IN     : value_ = in     (rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::PERCENT: value_ = percent(rvalue).value_; break;
      case Units::RATIO  : value_ = ratio  (rvalue).value_; break;
      default: assert(false); break;
    }

    units_ = units;

    return *this;
  }

  int ivalue() const {
    assert(isPixel());

    if (value_ >= 0)
      return int(value_ + 0.5);
    else
      return int(value_ - 0.5);
  }

  //---

  CScreenUnits em(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (units_ == Units::EM) return *this;

    return CScreenUnits(toPixel(rvalue)/CScreenUnitsMgrInst->emSize(), Units::EM);
  }

  CScreenUnits ex(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (units_ == Units::EX) return *this;

    return CScreenUnits(toPixel(rvalue)/CScreenUnitsMgrInst->exSize(), Units::EX);
  }

  CScreenUnits px(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (isPixel()) return *this;

    return CScreenUnits(toPixel(rvalue), Units::PX);
  }

  CScreenUnits pt(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (units_ == Units::PT) return *this;

    return CScreenUnits(72.0*toInch(rvalue), Units::PT);
  }

  CScreenUnits pc(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (units_ == Units::PC) return *this;

    return CScreenUnits(6.0*toInch(rvalue), Units::PC);
  }

  CScreenUnits cm(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (units_ == Units::CM) return *this;

    return CScreenUnits(toMm(rvalue)/10.0, Units::CM);
  }

  CScreenUnits mm(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (units_ == Units::MM) return *this;

    return CScreenUnits(toMm(rvalue), Units::MM);
  }

  CScreenUnits in(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (units_ == Units::IN) return *this;

    return CScreenUnits(toInch(rvalue), Units::IN);
  }

  CScreenUnits percent(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (isPercent()) return *this;

    if (units_ == Units::RATIO) return CScreenUnits(value_*100, Units::PERCENT);

    assert(rvalue.units_ != Units::NONE);

    double value = 100.0*toPixel(rvalue)/rvalue.toPixel();

    return CScreenUnits(value, Units::PERCENT);
  }

  CScreenUnits ratio(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if (units_ == Units::RATIO) return *this;

    if (isPercent()) return CScreenUnits(value_/100, Units::RATIO);

    assert(rvalue.units_ != Units::NONE);

    double value = toPixel(rvalue)/rvalue.toPixel();

    return CScreenUnits(value, Units::RATIO);
  }

  //---

  bool isPixel() const { return (units() == Units::PX); }

  bool isPercent() const { return (units() == Units::PERCENT); }

  //---

  double pxValue(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    return px(rvalue).value_;
  }

  double ptValue(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    return pt(rvalue).value_;
  }

  double percentValue(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    return percent(rvalue).value_;
  }

  double ratioValue(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    return ratio(rvalue).value_;
  }

  //---

  std::string typeName() const {
    return typeName(units_);
  }

  static std::string typeName(Units units) {
    switch (units) {
      case Units::EM:      return "em";
      case Units::EX:      return "ex";
      case Units::PX:      return "px";
      case Units::PT:      return "pt";
      case Units::PC:      return "pc";
      case Units::CM:      return "cm";
      case Units::MM:      return "mm";
      case Units::IN:      return "in";
      case Units::PERCENT: return "%";
      case Units::RATIO:   return "ratio";
      default: assert(false); return "";
    }
  }

  //---

  friend bool operator<(const CScreenUnits &lhs, const CScreenUnits &rhs) {
    return lhs.px().ivalue() < rhs.px().ivalue();
  }

  friend bool operator<=(const CScreenUnits &lhs, const CScreenUnits &rhs) {
    return lhs.px().ivalue() <= rhs.px().ivalue();
  }

  friend bool operator>(const CScreenUnits &lhs, const CScreenUnits &rhs) {
    return lhs.px().ivalue() > rhs.px().ivalue();
  }

  friend bool operator>=(const CScreenUnits &lhs, const CScreenUnits &rhs) {
    return lhs.px().ivalue() >= rhs.px().ivalue();
  }

  friend bool operator==(const CScreenUnits &lhs, const CScreenUnits &rhs) {
    return lhs.px().ivalue() == rhs.px().ivalue();
  }

  friend bool operator!=(const CScreenUnits &lhs, const CScreenUnits &rhs) {
    return lhs.px().ivalue() != rhs.px().ivalue();
  }

  friend CScreenUnits operator*(const CScreenUnits &lhs, double rhs) {
    return CScreenUnits(lhs.value_*rhs, lhs.units_);
  }

  friend CScreenUnits operator*(double lhs, const CScreenUnits &rhs) {
    return CScreenUnits(rhs.value_*lhs, rhs.units_);
  }

  friend CScreenUnits operator/(const CScreenUnits &lhs, double rhs) {
    return CScreenUnits(lhs.value_/rhs, lhs.units_);
  }

  //---

  void print(std::ostream &os) const {
    if      (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::EM)
      os << value_ << "em";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::EX)
      os << value_ << "ex";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::PT)
      os << value_ << "pt";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::PC)
      os << value_ << "pc";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::CM)
      os << value_ << "cm";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::MM)
      os << value_ << "mm";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::IN)
      os << value_ << "in";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::PX)
      os << value_ << "px";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::PERCENT)
      os << value_ << "%";
    else if (units_ == CScreenUnits::Units::RATIO)
      os << value_ << "ratio";
    else
      os << value_;
  }

  std::string toString() const {
    std::stringstream ss;

    ss << *this;

    return ss.str();
  }

  friend std::ostream &operator<<(std::ostream &os, const CScreenUnits &units) {
    units.print(os);

    return os;
  }

  //---

 private:
  double toPixel(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    if      (isPercent()) {
      if (rvalue.units_ != Units::NONE)
        return rvalue.toPixel()*value_/100.0;
      else
        return CScreenUnitsMgrInst->screenScale()*value_/100.0;
    }
    else if (units_ == Units::RATIO) {
      assert(rvalue.units_ != Units::NONE);

      return rvalue.toPixel()*value_;
    }

    double value1 = 0.0;

    switch (units_) {
      case Units::EM: value1 = value_*CScreenUnitsMgrInst->emSize(); break;
      case Units::EX: value1 = value_*CScreenUnitsMgrInst->exSize(); break;
      case Units::PX: value1 = value_; break;
      case Units::PT: value1 = (CScreenUnitsMgrInst->mmSize()*25.4*value_)/72.0; break;
      case Units::PC: value1 = (CScreenUnitsMgrInst->mmSize()*25.4*value_)/6.0; break;
      case Units::CM: value1 = (CScreenUnitsMgrInst->mmSize()*10.0*value_); break;
      case Units::MM: value1 = (CScreenUnitsMgrInst->mmSize()*value_); break;
      case Units::IN: value1 = (CScreenUnitsMgrInst->mmSize()*25.4*value_); break;
      default: assert(false); break;
    }

    return value1;
  }

  double toMm(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    return toPixel(rvalue)/CScreenUnitsMgrInst->mmSize();
  }

  double toInch(const CScreenUnits &rvalue=CScreenUnits()) const {
    return toMm(rvalue)/25.4;
  }

 private:
  double value_ { 0.0 };
  Units  units_ { Units::NONE };
};

#endif


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Q: "Could not parse ontology" that was included into other ontology(owl-api) I try to load an ontology (test.owl) that includes bfo.owl.
Versions of the used APIs:
OWL-API 3.4.3
hermit 1.3.8.4
It is possible to open the test ontology with Protégé 5.
But when I try to load test.owl with my code, I get the error message below, which I don't understand. Is there anybody out there who can help me understanding the message and finding a way to load the ontology?
org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.UnloadableImportException: Could not load imported ontology: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2014-05-03/bfo.owl Cause: Problem parsing http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2014-05-03/bfo.owl
Could not parse ontology.  Either a suitable parser could not be found, or parsing failed.  See parser logs below for explanation.
The following parsers were tried:
1) RDFXMLParser
2) OWLXMLParser
3) OWLFunctionalSyntaxOWLParser
4) TurtleOntologyParser
5) OWLOBOParser
6) KRSS2OWLParser
7) ManchesterOWLSyntaxOntologyParser

Detailed logs:
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Parser: RDFXMLParser
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2014-05-03/bfo.owl; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 50; Leerstellen erforderlich zwischen publicId und systemId.

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Parser: OWLXMLParser
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2014-05-03/bfo.owl; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 50; Leerstellen erforderlich zwischen publicId und systemId

Sorry for having the second part of the error message in a different style - but as I am not allowed to have more than 2 links in a text (due to lack of reputation) and I still wanted you to be able to test the link to bfo.owl, I had to be creative.

A: Owlapi 3.4 is ancient and many bugs have been fixed since. Protégé 5 uses 4.2.5.
There is a HermiT release compatible with owlapi 4, search Maven Central for version 1.3.8.413 (I curated the fork, it's released under net.sourceforge.owlapi).
This is also the HermiT version bundled with Protege 5.

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Home > Policy and analysis > Reports > Guidance for allegations of student misconduct: implementation of the Universities UK/Pinsent Masons guidance on how to handle alleged student misconduct which may also constitute a criminal offence
Guidance for allegations of student misconduct: implementation of the Universities UK/Pinsent Masons guidance on how to handle alleged student misconduct which may also constitute a criminal offence
Equality, diversity and inclusion Student experience
Universities UK is working with institutions to implement guidance published by Pinsent Masons in 2016 on how to deal with instances of alleged student misconduct which may also constitute a criminal offence.
The guidance, an update of the previous 'Zellick guidelines', marks a significant departure in the way these cases should be handled, including changes to structures, systems, processes and procedures, for which there is no precedent nor 'off-the-shelf' solution.
This update, the first of a planned series, explores recent work with Coventry University to develop a case-management system, and sets out practical advice on taking first disclosures.
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Prof. Ph. D. Remigijus Venckus
Media Artist & Critic
Main Publications, Monographs
Venckus, R. (2017). Creative and Cultural Industries – from Capitalism to Postmodernity. Constructing a New / Traditional Region Identity: Integrity, Intelligence, Competitiveness: Collective monograph.
Venckus, R. (2016). An Excursus on Fashion: Walt Disney, Hello Kitty, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and the Dialectic of Enlightment. Inter-Studia Humanitatis, 19, 25–41. Data Base: Index Copernicus. ISSN 1822-1114 (Print), ISSN 2424-3353 (Online).
Venckus, R. (2014). Deconstructional Concept of Metaphysical Archive and Its Application: Case Study of Deimantas Narkevičius' Video Film His-Story. Art History & Criticism, 10(2), 193–203. Data Base: Lituanistika, MLA International Bibliography; ISSN 1822-4555 (Print), ISSN 2335-8769 (Online).
Venckus, R. (2012). The Ideas of Trans-Humanism in the Context of the Modern Culture of the New Media. Studies in Contemporary Society, 3(1), 286- 297. Data Base: EBSCO, Index Copernicus. ISSN 2029-431X.
Venckus, R. (2012). The Theoretical Issues on the Mirror Reflection at the Conception of Immersion. Art History & Criticism, 8, 56–65. Data Base: Lituanistika, MLA International Bibliography; ISSN 1822-4555 (Print), ISSN 2335-8769 (Online).
Venckus, R. (2011). Philosophy of Bioart and Genetic Art. The Spaces of Creation, 15, 95–103. Data Base: EBSCO, Erih Plus, Ulrich's, CEEOL, Index Copernicus. ISSN 1822-1076.
Photo by Alina Ožič (LŽ)
Venckus, R. (2011). Rudolfas Levulis' video on theTheme of Lithuania: Form and Content Analysis. National Identity in Media Culture. Vilnius: Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Kitos knygos,171-182. ISBN 978-609-427-062-8.
Venckus, R. (2011). Transhumanism Culture and the Creation of a New Body. The Spaces of Creation, 14, 84–91. Data Base: EBSCO, Erih Plus, Ulrich's, CEEOL, Index Copernicus. ISSN 1822-1076.
Venckus, R. (2010). Alienation Strategies in the Immersion Project of Cinematography. Inter-studia humanitatis, 11, 107-119 (duomenų bazė Index Copernicus). Data Base: Index Copernicus. ISSN 1822-1114 (Print), ISSN 2424-3353 (Online).
Venckus, R. (2009). Media Death, Meeting Ghosts and Psychoanalysis in Virtual Space. The Influence of the Internet on the Contemporary Society: Proceedings of international conference. Klaipėda: Všį Socialinių mokslų kolegija, 48-52. ISBN 978-9955-648-03-1.
Venckus, R. (2009). Meeting Ghosts: (De)Reconstruction of Poetry Films of Henrikas Šablevičius. Acta Humanitarica Universitatis Saulensis, 9, 157-166. Data Base: Index Copernicus, MLA International Bibliography. ISSN 1822-7309.
Venckus, R. (2009). Psychoanalytic Shows and Meetings with Ghosts. Inter-studia humanitatis, 8, 98-108. Data Base: Index Copernicus. ISSN 1822-1114 (Print), ISSN 2424-3353 (Online).
Venckus, R., Gerulaitis, D., Gelžinienė, R., Povilaitienė, N. (2009). Creativity and Social Integration: method book. Šiauliai: Šiauliai University Publishing House, 1-109. ISBN 978-609-430-002-8.
Venckus, R. (2008). Non-Visual Video Art. Inter-studia humanitatis, 6, 156-164. Data Base: Index Copernicus. ISSN 1822-1114 (Print), ISSN 2424-3353 (Online).
Venckus, R. (2008). The avant-guarde and experimental traces in nonprofessional cinema. The Spaces of Creation, 9, 81-99. Data Base: EBSCO, Erih Plus, Ulrich's, CEEOL, Index Copernicus. ISSN 1822-1076.
Venckus, R. (2008). Video Art as a Form of Resistence Representation Rules of Cinematography. Young Scientists Works, 4(20), 58-64. Data Base: Index Copernicus, Ceeol. ISSN 1648-8776.
Venckus, R. (2008). Video Art Deconstruction: method book. Šiauliai: Šiauliai University Publishing House, 1-72. ISBN 978-9986-38-852-4.
Venckus, R. (2007). Video Art as a phenomenon of audiovisual culture. Young Scientists Works, 1(12), 45-50. Data Base: Index Copernicus, Ceeol. ISSN 1648-8776.
See Venckus' articles in Lithuanian
Venckus, R. Sukovienė, J., R. Kondratavičienė (08-12-2016). Classical Music as a Fundamental Text of Culture: Stimulation of Pre-school Children's Interests in Classical Music. Pre-school and Pre-primary Education Teachers Training: International conference. Kaunas: Kaunas College.
Venckus, R. (14-10-2015). The Negative Concepts of Culture Industries and Transhumanistic Culture Divides and Intersections. Higher Education: Perspectives and Challenges: International scientific-practical conference to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Vilniaus College.
Venckus, R. (12-05-2009). The Death of the Media, a Ghost Encounter, and Psychoanalysis in Cyberspace. The Influence of the Internet on Modern Society: International Scientific Conference. Klaipėda: College of Social Sciences.
Venckus, R. (07-05-2009). Meeting the Ghosts in Poetry Films of Henrikas Šablevičius. Alternation of Cultural Memory and Local History: Report at International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the Millenium of Lithuania. Šiauliai: Šiauliai University.
Venckus, R. (2008-04-22). Avant-garde and Experimental Cinema Traces in Non-professional Film. Art Faculty: Past and Future: International Conference. Šiauliai: Šiauliai University.
Delivered Subjects
Since 2004, Prof. Ph. D. Remigijus Venckus has delivered lectures on thirty-three subjects for Bachelor (BA) and four for Master (MA) studies students.
At Present
Since the autumn of 2018, Prof. Ph. D. Remigijus Venckus has been lecturing at Vilnius Gediminas Technicall University, for BA and MA students on informatics engineering and design technologies domains. BA subjects:
Multimedia Elements Design
Computer Games Design
Digital Images Technologies
MA subjects:
Visual Effects Management
Animation Design
Cinematography Narratives and Technologies
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See education background
2019 –2017 at Vytautas Gediminas Technical University
BA subjects for the studies of communication domain:
Introduction to Entertainment Industries
BA subjects for the studies of electronic engineering domain includes Special Effects and Video Projections
2019 – 2015 at Kazimieras Simonavičius University
Fashion Portfolio Management
Fashion, Technologies and Culture
Audiovisual Technologies, Art and Marketing
Audiovisual Communication
BA Thesis seminars
2017 – 2010 at Vytautas Magnus University
BA subjects for the studies of media art domain:
Film Creation
Visuality and Creative Industries
BA subjects for the studies of communication domain includes Public Communication Technologies and Innovations
BA subjects for the studies of informatics engineering domain:
Audiovisual Technologies
Basics of Audiovisual Art
MA subjects for the studies of communication domain:
Creative Industries: Production of Imagination
Creative Industries and Popular Culture
MA subject for the studies of philology domain includes Cyber-text Poetics
Vilnius University BA subjects for the studies of humanity domain includes Audiovisual technologies
Vilnius Academy of Art BA subjects for the studies of fine and applied arts:
Photography and Video Art
Šiauliai University BA subjects for the studies of media art domain:
Audiovisual Technologies and Art
Media Project
Art Semiotic
Cinema History
29-02-2019 31-05-2019. Autodesk Maya: professional animation training. Rector's Order No. 1153-PM. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
29-01-2019 – 30-01-2019. Basics of Andragogy: professor competencies training, 10 academic hours. Rector's Order No. 106. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
28-01-2019. Evaluation Principles and Strategies: professor competencies training, 4 academic hours. Rector's Order No. 106. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
2018 – 2019. Interactive Video Tutorials; Design Thinking Application in Didactics; PowerPoint Presentations; Criteria for Graduation Theses; Levels and methods of assessment of subject results; Teaching in English: professor competencies training, 4 academic hours. Rector's Order No. 511. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
18-03-2018 – 31-05-2018. English Language Learning: 40 academic hours. Certificate No. 339, Rector's Order No. 273. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
05-10-2017. Preventing Student Dropouts: 5 academic hours. Certificate No. EKG-35. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
13-09-2017. Changes in Student Achievement at Three Levels: professor competencies training, 4 academic hours. Certificate No. EKG-35. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
31-08-2017 – 18-01-2018. Introduction to VGTU Activities: 21,5academic hours. Certificate No. EKG-35. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
14-05-2017 – 21-05-2017. Administrators' training by Erasmus+ program. International University Travnik, Bosnia-Hercogovina.
01- 2017. Internationalism and Quality: Leadership in Balance Research. Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education, Lithuania
26-09-2016 – 30-09-2016. Administrators' training by Erasmus+ program. Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
09-06-2016. Updating European Higher Education Quality (ESG-2015). Certificate No. 8ESF3-69. Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education, Lithuania
17-12-2015. Seminar for Study Programs Self Evaluation Compilers. Certificate No. 8ESF3-95. Center for Quality Assessment in Higher Education, Lithuania
01-12-2015. Student-Oriented Studies: training for higher education administrators and professors. Certificate No. 8ESF3-59. Center for Quality Assessment in Higher Education, Lithuania.
20-09-2015 – 25-09-2015. Administrators' training by Erasmus+ program. High School of Arts and Design ESAD. Porto, Portugal.
10-06-2009 – 12-06-2009. 'Aperture 2': software professional training for trainers, Baltic International Academy. Riga, Latvia
07-06-2008 – 12-06-2008. Administrators' training by Erasmus+ program. Baltic International Academy. Riga, Latvia
20-05-2005 – 22-05-2005. Art Curators Training. Lithuanian Center for the Improvement of Cultural Work, Lithuania
Membership in Organizations, Committees, Expert Activity
31-08-2018 – 01-09–2017 Head of Events Engineering Bachelor study program Committee at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. The domain of electronic engineering.
31-08-2018 – 01-09–2017 Head of Entertainment Industries Bachelor study program Committee at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. The domain of communication and creative industries.
2016 – 2017 Author of the Bachelor study program 'Sound Design' at Kazimieras Simonavičius University. The domain of music and technologies.
2015 Member of Kazimieras Simonavičius University self-evaluation Committee.
01-06–2015 – 14-08-2017 Member of the Creative Society and Economy Institute Board at Kazimieras Simonavičius University.
01-06–2015 – 14-08-2017 Head of Bachelor and Master Studies Committee of Creative Society and Economy Institute at Kazimieras Simonavičius University. The domain of communication and creative industries.
2015 Member of the Integrated Creative Communication Master program self-evaluation Committee at Kazmieras Simonavičius University.
23-04-2015 – 27-09-2016 Member of Kazimieras Simonavičius University Senate.
02-01–2015 – 30-06-2015 Member of the New Media Art Studies Committee at Vytautas Magnus University;
2015 Member of the New Media Art Bachelor program self-evaluation Committee at Vytautas Magnus University.
2015 Head of the Creative and Cultural Industries, Fashion Industry, Entertainment and Tourism Industry Bachelor programs self-evaluation Committees at Kazimieras Simonavičius University.
2009 – 2015 member of the Šiauliai UNESCO Club.
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2019 – 2018. Aplication of Audiovisual Media to Design and Innovations Implementation: non-formal children's education program. Project. No. 09.2.2-ESFA-V-729-01-001. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.
06-10-2012 – 12-10-2012. Cooperation between Lithuanistic (Baltistic) centers and Lithuanian Institutions of Education. ES project No. VP1-2.2-ŠMM-08-V-02-006.
30-01-2011 – 12-12-2012. International Joint Degree Study Program in the Field of Digital Arts and Media Arts: feasibility study. ES project No. VP1-2.2-ŠMM-07-K-02-017. Project visits: 27-02-2012 – 05-03-2012 Art University,Poznan, Poland; 05-03-2012 – 09-03-2012 Marie Skłodowska Curie University, Lublin, Poland; 12-12-2011 – 16-12-2011 Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia; 15-11-2011 – 18-11-2011 High School of Arts and Design ESAD, Porto, Portugal.
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The winner was chosen in two rounds of voting - the first to select the top 3 and the second to select the winner. The voting was a mixture of televoting (50%) and a specially formed jury (50%).
Oksana Ļepska - Live On!
Lauris Reiniks was another member of F.L.Y who represented the country on home soil in 2003.
Prior to the final, two semi-finals and a "second chance" round decided about the twelve songs in the Latvian final this year. In the first two semi-finals, five songs out of ten qualified for the final, three chosen by televote while the other two were selected by a specially-formed expert jury. There was another chance for the losers of the first two semi-finals in the "second-chance" round where two more songs reached the final, one selected by televote and the other by the expert jury. Unfortunately, the song by Trianas Parks couldn't be performed in tonight's final due to an illness of the group's lead singer, so in the end, there were just 11 songs present in the final.
If you have missed the Latvian final or if you would like to watch it again, you can do this here at this site.
Latvia didn't reach the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest last year when Aisha's What For missed out on a final spot. Will the country be more successful this year?


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Announced back in October 2017 during FAB Live, Space Precinct: Reloaded is a revival of the 1994 TV show Space Precinct, set 10 years before the show we join Aria Fontane as she becomes the first human cop in Demeter City. The writer, Chris Thompson, tells us the story of how Space Precinct: Reloaded came about.
I had been working with Anderson Entertainment for about two years by this point and I had been immensely inspired by a lot of the creativity on the various projects we had been working on. By this stage, we had just wrapped production on the UFO documentaries for the Network Blu-ray and were beginning to start planning for the various Captain Scarlet 50th anniversary projects. I really wanted to get into writing and had only recently been getting into comics, particularly Titans Doctor Who and IDW's Godzilla: Rulers of Earth series. I had been looking to give the Anderson series a similar treatment.
Out of all the shows that we had access to, something jumped out at me about Space Precinct. While I have fond memories of the show, it hadn't been one I'd revisited much, partly due to the great potential it displayed but sadly often fell short on. It had a great premise and potentially if done right, a comic adaptation could stand on its own and not necessarily have to rely on the show to get readers in.
I took the idea to Jamie and to my surprise and partial terror (it's easy to come up with ideas but significantly more difficult to actually follow through with them) he said yes, if I could find an artist and stay within budget then we had a go for a test first issue.
I'd love to say that finding an artist was an incredibly drawn out and gruelling adventure but in reality, I walked into my local Forbidden Planet, asked my friend Brian, who was working if he knew any local artists. He said "Yes, he's upstairs" and boom, that's how I met Connor Flanagan.
Connor's enthusiasm for the project basically got him the job immediately, he quickly produced some sketches of Brogan and Haldane and some nice street scenes. His character work was really high standard and I'm super happy with the work he's produced for this comic.
The decision to base it on different characters from the show came from a number of reasons, we weren't entirely sure we had the rights to use the likenesses of the original actors and I didn't want to give people the impression that they needed to see the original show first. We asked ourselves what the opposite of Brogan and Haldane would be and we came up with Aria Fontane and Lupita Asiri, the jaded veteran who doesn't want to be there and the plucky newbie that wants to try anything.
The prequel idea came from wanting to retain some aspects of the show. Every fan of the series comes out praising Jerome Willis' Captain Podly and Richard James, who played Officer Hubble Orrin, played a big part in renewing my interest in the show. Setting it 10 years before the series allows us to keep these characters while also subtly changing the world to fit a more 'alien' style.
Another factor I considered was the show's unfilmed pilot script "Demeter City". This episode would have shown why Brogan and Haldane transferred and became the first human cops on Demeter (ignoring the fact that Castle was already there, in a wonderful piece of Space Precinct logic.) This gap in the story sets it up for Fontane to become the first human years earlier and have a much more difficult time fitting in.
Another important part of the puzzle was world building, something the original show didn't do a lot of, mostly relying on human tropes to fill in the blanks for the aliens. Here Andrew Clements provided us with an opening newspaper to set the scene and made suggestions for content throughout, from street names to alien crisp flavours, while Christian Tarpey (purveyor of the travelling Space Precinct Museum of fine wares and curios) helped us avoid unnecessary conflict with what came before (or rather, what will come after!).
Ultimately we have big plans for these characters and this world but Space Precinct: Reloaded is a humble start. It's an adventure like the opening gambit of a Bond movie designed to establish these characters and the new (old) Demeter City. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed creating it!
Space Precinct: Reloaded is now available to pre-order from the Gerry Anderson Store!
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E: I think the way Indonesians say "Thank You" is really beautiful.
Me: Huh? What do you mean?" (alias dalam hati: "He, maksud loo?").
E: When Indonesians say "Thank You", it's like "Here, receive love (Terima Kasih)". And the other person reciprocates with, "Likewise (Sama-sama)". I just think that, that's such a beautiful way to say thank you.
So embarassed to say that I never thought of it that way and it took me this long & someone else to point out to me how lovely indeed the meaning of that word is in Indonesian. I now have a newfound appreciation for the word.


After last week's announcement of the discovery of two long-lost Boston Blackie stories, it's difficult to follow up with anything nearly as exciting this time around. But I have managed to dig a special treat up from the depths of the archives. Scads of pictures exist of Boston Blackie in his various onscreen incarnations. But presented here, for the first time in 93 years, is a photo of Jack Boyle on the set of a Hollywood production.
This image was first presented in the July 1, 1922 issue of the motion picture industry publication Exhibitor's Trade Review, as part of their coverage of the big budget Boston Blackie feature THE FACE IN THE FOG. Few photos of Boyle are known to exist today, so it's fascinating to find one presenting him collaborating on bringing one of his stories to the silver screen.
BREAKING NEWS … An Exciting Boston Blackie Discovery!
How many Boston Blackie stories did Jack Boyle publish? This has been a point of contention for years. H.K. Fly's often-reprinted 1919 collection presented seven Blackie tales, which for nearly a century were the only specimens of Boyle's writing available in book form. But when this volume was republished by Gregg Press in 1979, Ed Hoch's introduction to the new edition pointed out that further Blackie exploits were chronicled in the AMERICAN, RED BOOK and COSMOPOLITAN magazines. Ultimately, examinations of these periodicals brought to light another fourteen Blackie yarns, increasing the series' total count to twenty-one. For years, this was thought to represent Boyle's complete output on his most celebrated creation — until the advent of the internet. In the 21st century, research online revealed a "missing" Blackie story, serialized in THE LOS ANGELES TIMES five years after Boyle published his last story in THE COSMOPOLITAN. This curtain call to the Boston Blackie adventures was eventually reprinted in Coachwhip Publications' 2012 collection BOSTON BLACKIE & FRIENDS, definitively setting the count of the complete Blackie saga at twenty-two.
I'm thrilled to announce the discovery of not one, but TWO hitherto unknown Boston Blackie stories, both from the pen of Jack Boyle. The pair, written in a period during which Boyle's literary output had primarily turned away from his rogue hero, has languished for more than ninety years in the pages of a publication not typically associated with the author. Through a kindness of Providence, their existence was discovered in time to allow for their inclusion in my upcoming collection THE COMPLETE BOSTON BLACKIE. Of course, preparing the texts for publication will mean a further delay in a project that is already behind schedule, but I'm happy to run beyond my original deadline if it means presenting all twenty-four installments of the Blackie canon in their entirety.


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Parvulago
(Durieu) R. Bauer, M. Lutz, Piatek, Vánky & Oberw., Mycological Research 111 (10): 1203 (2007)
Ustilaginomycetes
Ustilaginales
Ustilaginaceae
Synonymy: ≡ Ustilago marina Durieu, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot.: 134 (1866)
Parvulago R. Bauer, M. Lutz, Piatek, Vánky & Oberw., Mycological Research 111 (10): 1203 (2007)
Type and marine species:
Parvulago marina (Durieu) R. Bauer, M. Lutz, Piatek, Vánky & Oberw., Mycological Research 111 (10): 1203 (2007)
≡ Ustilago marina Durieu, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot.: 134 (1866)
Index Fungorum Number: 510844 Faceoffungi Number: N/A
Sori at the base of the host culms in the form of bullate or onion-shaped swellings, covered by the epidermis and containing black, agglutinated spore masses; spores single. Sori without peridia.
Durieu (1886). Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., Sér. 5 5: 134
Bauer R, Lutz M, Piatek M, Vánky K, Oberwinkler F (2007). Flamingomyces and Parvulago, two new genera of ustilagomycotinous species from marine enviroment. Mycological Research. 111(10): 1199–1206.
Va´nky K (1994). European Smut Fungi. Gustav FischerVerlag, Stuttgart.
On Eleocharis parvula (Cyperaceae).
Finland, France, Germany, UK, Norway, and Sweden.
NOTES: The species was first described by Durieu (1866) Eleocharis parvula. However, it has been infrequently collected and little studied and its position in the Ustilaginales questioned because of the hosts marine habitat which is "an anomalous ustilaginomycotinous habitat" (Va´nky1994). Bauer et al. (2007) in a study of the ultrastructure of teliospore walls, teliospore germination, hyphal septation, cellular interactions, and nucleotide sequences from the D1/D2 region of the nuLSU rRNA gene of Ustilago marina showed it differed from other Ustilaginaceae phylogenetically and in the mode of sporulation (occurs exclusively at the base of the host plant culms). They, therefore introduced the new genus Parvulago to accommodate U. marina.


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Q: Parso Java Library Issue I am trying to use the Parso Java Library in order to read in a .sas7bdat file. My goal is to convert it to a CSV, and then manipulate it further afterwards. Directions I am following for setting it up are here. I have the parso .jar file imported into Eclipse successfully. However, when I try to instantiate as so:
    InputStream streamIn = new FileInputStream(sasFile);
    SasFileReader sasFileReader = new SasFileReader(streamIn);

I get this exception:
    Exception in thread "main"
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:org/slf4j/LoggerFactory
at com.ggasoftware.parso.SasFileReader.<clinit>(SasFileReader.java:30)
at sas7bdatFileConverter.convert(sas7bdatFileConverter.java:25)
at sas7bdatFileConverter.main(sas7bdatFileConverter.java:11)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)

I would greatly appreciate any hints as to what I might be missing here. Thank you!

A: The page you cited says you should be using a Maven dependency (which will automatically download all the jar files needed), but it seems like you are directly importing the jar file.
Because you're not using Maven, you also need to include a slf4j jar file (and that's either slf4j-api which doesn't actually do anything, or at least slf4j-simple which logs to the console).
Simply go to http://www.slf4j.org/ and download the newest package, then take out slf4j-api-<version>.jar (and slf4j-simple-<version>.jar if you want to see the Parso library logging into your console).
In the long run, definitely learn how to use Maven, it will immensely ease your pain with library management.


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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

/**
 A `TRSProductReview` represents one specific customer's review about a given product.

 You shouldn't create instances of this class yourself, instead use
 `[TRSProduct loadReviewsFromBackendWithTrustedShopsID:apiToken:successBlock:failureBlock:]` to load all reviews
 for a specific product from the Trusted Shops backend.

 You can then use `TRSProductReview` objects to, for example, display reviews in a table to show your users
 what other customers think of the product.
 */
@interface TRSProductReview : NSObject

/** The date on which this review was given. */
@property (nonatomic, readonly, nonnull) NSDate *creationDate;
/** The comment the customer who reviewed the product gave. */
@property (nonatomic, readonly, nonnull) NSString *comment;
/** The mark, or grade, the customer gave the product. Lies between 1 and 5, where 1 is the worst rating and 5 the best. */
@property (nonatomic, readonly, nonnull) NSNumber *mark;
/** A unique identifier for this review. */
@property (nonatomic, readonly, nonnull) NSString *UID;
/** An array of `TRSCriteria` objects, "subcategories" associated with this review. */
@property (nonatomic, readonly, nonnull) NSArray *criteria;

/**
 The designated initializer.

 This method is mainly used internally during the construction of reviews in
 `[TRSProduct loadReviewsFromBackendWithTrustedShopsID:apiToken:successBlock:failureBlock:]`.
 @param creationDate the creation date of the review.
 @param comment the comment the reviewer gave.
 @param mark the mark, or grade, the reviewer gave.
 @param UID the UID used in the Trusted Shops backend.
 @param criteria an array of `TRSCriteria` objects.
 */
- (nullable instancetype)initWithCreationDate:(nonnull NSDate *)creationDate
									  comment:(nonnull NSString *)comment
										 mark:(nonnull NSNumber *)mark
										  UID:(nonnull NSString *)UID
									 criteria:(nonnull NSArray *)criteria NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER;
/**
 The `init` method is unavaiable on `TRSProductReview`s.
 */
- (nonnull instancetype)init __attribute__((unavailable("You cannot create an instance through init - please use initWithCreationDate:comment:mark:UID:criteria:")));

@end

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Bandwidth caps could lead to ISPs benefiting from piracy
As Time Warner begins experimenting with bandwidth caps, which are commonplace …
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Bandwidth caps are almost universally loathed, except by the companies that implement them. Consumers hate them because they have to treat the Internet not as an inexhaustable resource, but as something that's doled out to them. Each page they view, video they watch, or song they stream moves the needle closer to zero with the resultant overage charges. Tech companies don't like them either. Video services such as Joost and Vuze rely on P2P to deliver their goods, and that, too is going to keep the bandwidth meter spinning, as will an HD rental from your Apple TV. Even sites like Hulu and YouTube may see less traffic from metered households.
How did we get into this position? It's a result of cable ISPs essentially doing the equivalent of an airline overbooking a flight. But instead of getting bumped to the next available flight and being given a free roundtrip ticket anywhere in the lower 48, like airline passengers, cable customers get lower speeds and bandwidth caps. Although there's plenty of fine print about actual speed and performance from cable ISPs, they've historically marketed their services as fast and unlimited in scope. Comcast's admission of throttling BitTorrent traffic has led to, among other things, class-action lawsuits accusing them of false advertising.
To their credit, some cable ISPs are working on modernizing their networks and infrastructure to handle increased demand. But others are relying on traffic shaping, throttling, and bandwidth caps to keep traffic at manageable levels.
Some people find little to object to when it comes to bandwidth caps. Proponents of caps argue that they offer a fair option for those whose Internet use is truly minimal, and require those who plan to run their connections full throttle 24/7 to pay for the privilege.
Profiting from piracy?
What about those customers who want to treat their connections as an all-you-can-eat buffet? It's that group of customers that have the potential to rake in the most revenue for bandwidth-capping ISPs. Like it or not, a lot of the traffic from heavy users comes from P2P and other forms of file-sharing. Sure, some of that is legit, consisting of content from legitimate P2P companies and things like Linux distros. But much of it is illicit content: movies, TV shows, and music. P2P devotees who are forced to live under caps may still choose to exceed their allotments, or pay for a higher cap to satisfy their bandwidth jones. The illicit traffic will still be flowing through the ISP's tubes, but with one important distinction: the ISP will now be profiting from their subscribers' use of P2P. Want to download the crappy camcorder cap of Kung-Fu Panda? You can still do it, and you'll now be paying your ISP extra for the privilege should you be exceeding the cap.
With all of the attention that Big Content has been throwing ISPs' way this year (filtering, anyone?), it's a sure bet that the possibility of ISPs making still more money from their users' nefarious activities will draw their attention. "We understand why ISPs might want to experiment with tiered pricing models, given the rapid growth of legitimate high-bandwidth content online," RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth told Ars. "But it would be troubling if ISPs were to profit from piracy, by charging more for bandwidth used for illegal downloading."
If anything, the possibility of this happening is likely to turn up the pressure on ISPs to begin filtering out all infringing content from their networks, and neither the ISPs (with the exception of AT&T) nor their customers are anxious to see copyright filters deployed. In the meantime, bandwidth caps appear to be here to stay. It's a fact of life in Canada and many other parts of the world, the second-largest cable ISP in the US is experimenting with them, and the largest one is watching it with interest. We have many freedoms to reflect on in the US on this Independence Day. Hopefully, independence from filtering won't prove too fleeting.
Eric Bangeman Eric has been using personal computers since 1980 and writing about them at Ars Technica since 2003, where he currently serves as Managing Editor.
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It was Monday, and Bintu had just given birth. But the baby is not going into the warm embrace of his father.
Birth is ordinarily a joyous moment and the climax of this is normally the seventh day; but Bintu, a displaced woman living in Doron Baga IDP camp, had hers with mixed feelings—for her, it is a reminder of everything that did not go well with her.
The baby's father, who is supposed to be the poster boy of the day, is out of this supposed celebration.
The seventh day, in most Muslim homes, comes with anticipations of what name the child will bear, which is followed by a lot of merry popped out of slaughtering of a sacrificial ram.
It is normally largely the prerogative of the father to give, or at least suggest the name, in an ideal state; but this boy's father would not be playing this or any of his other fatherly roles.
The question is even whether he knew he had a new baby.
Perhaps he would go for one of those who would not care, even if he knew, as he probably may have had many of them scattered in places where he spreads his 'dirt'.
Laying on the bare floor of her ten-by-eight feet polythene tent, inside which nobody is left in doubt of the overwhelming heat, about 40 degrees Celsius according to a specialized clock, Bintu is dead sure that her day-old child (as at the time of YERWA EXPRESS NEWS' visit), who is her fourth, would not enjoy these 'privileges'.
The fourth child is unlucky in many ways; but ultimately because his father is actually a 'nobody'.
Even the mother only remember him as someone with whom she had 'bartered' N5, 000 with sex, one-off!
The money, for whose reason dignity was sacrificed, was to meet some of what she described as 'pressing needs'.
But the result of what is an obvious 'mistake', is, for her, a fourth child, who she will now have to cater for alone.
Nobody can tell if she is free of STDs.
'I met the man on a year ago when I was about to go home with nothing after a hectic day of begging on the streets of Maiduguri.
'He offered N5, 000 to sleep with me for one day,' she narrated, while clutching her newborn baby.
'I agreed to his offer, I collected the N5, 000 and I bought some foodstuff that lasted for only one week,' the IDP turned beggar said.
But from a need to feed her three orphaned kids, she now has welcomed to her family a fourth child, who she would feed for several hundreds of weeks, alone!
This understanding was not lost on her, as she admitted that 'at that point (her) challenges increased.'
Apart from these, while she may enjoy some respite until her baby grows, Bintu also has an impending question to answer, which is to tell him who his father is.
And her story is true of many women in the camp.
There are many children living there, who are victims of parental abandonment—even as their biological parents are alive.
Many of them are under ten, which means they were born in the camp.
Perhaps even those who were legitimately born, turn out later to be victims of neglect from their parents.
In an interview with Babagana Makinta, the camp chairman described the situations of many IDPs as pathetic.
'See this crowd of children, if you can investigate, many of them were adopted by their grandmothers and family members.
'Most of the children are fatherless and not in school, they end up becoming beggars, very irresponsible…,' Makinta said.
This story was supported by Journalists for Christ through World Association of Christian Communication (WACC) and Bread for the World – German Protestant Agency for Diaconia and Development.
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India will support Sri Lanka in these difficult times: Jaishankar
India on Thursday assured Sri Lanka of its support to tide over "difficult times" even as it welcomed the Trincomalee tank farms project saying it will augment bilateral energy security.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, when asked at a media briefing on the possibility of India extending the credit line to help Sri Lanka overcome its economic crisis, said it has always stood by the people of that country.
After a telephonic conversation with his Sri Lankan counterpart, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India will support Sri Lanka in "these difficult times".
"Greeted FM G.L. Peiris of Sri Lanka in the New Year. A reliable friend, India will support Sri Lanka in these difficult times. Agreed to remain in close touch," Jaishankar tweeted.
On the fishermen issue, Bagchi said that the Indian High Commission in Colombo has been making efforts to ensure the early release of the remaining Indian fishermen detained by Sri Lankan authorities last month.
Sri Lanka had detained a total of 68 fishermen and 12 of them have already been released.
Bagchi said both sides are in consultation for early holding of a meeting of the joint working group on fisheries.
On Sri Lanka's Cabinet approving the deal to jointly develop the Trincomalee oil tank farm with India, Bagchi said it will boost bilateral energy cooperation.
"We have seen reports that the Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved the development of the Trincomalee tank farms. Energy security is an important area of our bilateral cooperation with Sri Lanka," he said.
"We are in consultation with the Government of Sri Lanka for the modernisation of the Trincomalee tank farms. This will allow for the storage of fuel and will augment bilateral energy security," Bagchi added.
The Sri Lankan government said that after reviewing the three existing agreements with the Indian government regarding the strategic Trincomalee oil tank complex, commonly known as the Trinco oil tank farm, the two sides have reached an agreement to implement a joint development project.
On the query on extending the credit line by India, Bagchi referred to the visit to New Delhi by Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa last month.
"He briefed the Indian side on the economic situation in Sri Lanka and his government's approach in addressing these challenges. India has always stood by the Sri Lankan people and Sri Lanka is an important part of our neighbourhood first policy," Bagchi said.
He said during Rajapaksa's visit, discussions took place on deepening cooperation in areas of food and health security, energy security, the balance of payment issues and Indian investments in Sri Lanka among others.
"I understand that further consultations are ongoing," Bagchi said.
(PTI)


what happened to the LDAP authentication in OX?
Can you explain why it has changed to something else?
There is no LDAP in Hyperion. At the moment all user data is stored in the database. This does not mean that this will always be the case but at the moment it is.
In our case we wanted to migrate all the config stuff to LDAP because of OX User authentication. But now we have to investigate again all that.
As René wrote - for the moment no LDAP is supported, but this will change in the future. Keep in mind that the current release of Hyperion is not a "concreted" release. The CVS will be updated regularly.
I never liked the situation to have two different databases to store these informations. So these are greate news to me, that i do not have to deal with redundent data any more. It should all be done in one place.
Yes, you're right but with LDAP you have some benefits like a hierarchy concept of user permissions which is easy to setup.
Yes, and many large companies have modelled their structure and saved their employees' data in directories like LDAP. So, this will be available some day but Hyperion is not that far yet.
We actually setup an Samba PDC with LDAP for Central User Authentification based on the OX 0.8.2 LDAP tree.
So OX6 Looks really nice, but without LDAP Support we couldn't upgrade or Migrate to OX6. So Please build in the LDAP support ASAP.
Also, if you're well into java, you can use our authentication abstraction. You can pretty much plug in any authentication you like, but the users must still exist in both places (unless you want to plug around a lot more, also possible, but major surgery).
Which priority has this for the developer?
If its not the highest I'd like to do some work on this.
I have looked through the abstract classes LoginInfo, UserStorage ... etc. And i see some things already there for LDAP.
1.) Can i start with the "old" ox5 schema or will the new one totally different?
2.) If ... ... if i get through this, where to post a patch? I can't find a product or version for Hyperion in Bugzilla.
Any comments, hints are very welcome!
I'd suggest you open an enhancement for the server and describe what you want to do, even before starting, just to make sure everyone notices it.


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India is the 17th largest export economy in the world and the 45th most complex economy according to the Economic Complexity Index (ECI). In 2017, India exported $292B and imported $417B, resulting in a negative trade balance of $125B. In 2017 the GDP of India was $2.6T and its GDP per capita was $7.06k.
The top exports of India are Refined Petroleum ($30.2B), Diamonds ($26.5B), Packaged Medicaments ($13.2B), Jewellery ($8.66B) and Rice ($7.05B), using the 1992 revision of the HS (Harmonized System) classification. Its top imports are Crude Petroleum ($74.7B), Gold ($39B), Diamonds ($20.7B), Coal Briquettes ($19.4B) and Petroleum Gas ($12.2B).
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India borders Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Burma, Nepal and Pakistan by land and Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Thailand by sea.
In 2017 India exported $292B, making it the 17th largest exporter in the world. During the last five years the exports of India have increased at an annualized rate of 1.2%, from $273B in 2012 to $292B in 2017. The most recent exports are led by Refined Petroleum which represent 10.3% of the total exports of India, followed by Diamonds, which account for 9.1%.
In 2017 India imported $417B, making it the 11th largest importer in the world. During the last five years the imports of India have decreased at an annualized rate of -1.6%, from $449B in 2012 to $417B in 2017. The most recent imports are led by Crude Petroleum which represent 17.9% of the total imports of India, followed by Gold, which account for 9.3%.
As of 2017 India had a negative trade balance of $125B in net imports. As compared to their trade balance in 1995 when they had a positive trade balance of $340M in net exports.
The top export destinations of India are the United States ($44.3B), the United Arab Emirates ($28B), China ($14.8B), Hong Kong ($12.7B) and Germany ($9.9B).
The top import origins of India are China ($68.8B), the United States ($22.8B), the United Arab Emirates ($22.1B), Switzerland ($20.9B) and Saudi Arabia ($19.4B).
Economic Complexity of India
The economy of India has an Economic Complexity Index (ECI) of 0.36 making it the 45th most complex country. India exports 390 products with revealed comparative advantage (meaning that its share of global exports is larger than what would be expected from the size of its export economy and from the size of a product's global market).
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This hotel is conveniently located in the centre of Fortaleza, in the north east of Brazil. Meireles beach is only about 250 m away. The city centre and Fortaleza's conference centre are some 10 minutes from the hotel. The international airport may be reached in approximately 20 minutes by car.
The hotel is located in a privileged region, near the center, the sea and some turistic points as the Forte dos Reis Magos. It has a fast and easy acess to the dunes as to the famous water meeting of the sea and the Potengi river.
This hotel is located at the sandy beach of Ponta Negra, which is considered to be the most beautiful beach in the city. There are some excellent restaurants nearby, as well as the convention centre and the shopping centre. It also not far from tourist attractions such as the Morro do Careca and the Parque das Dunas. The hotel has easy to access to Natal airport.
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This hotel is situated in the residential area of Recifer, just 500 m from the beach of Boa Viagem. The lively centre of the harbour town with the impressive old town as well as countless shops and entertainment venues is easily reached in 15 minutes by car. The congress centre of Recife lies about 15 km from the hotel. Enjoying the status of a historical and UNSECO world heritage site, the town of Olinda affords a multitude of Baroque architecture and is only a 30-minute drive away. Guararapes airport is only 2.5 km from the hotel.
The famous Copacabana Beach is only 50 m from this hotel. Guests need only venture a few steps from the hotel in order to explore the countless entertainment venues such as the bars, clubs and restaurants. The centre of Rio de Janeiro is only a 10 minutes drive from the hotel. Good transport connections are available to the international airport.
This hotel is located in Rio de Janeiro in front of Copacabana beach, 3 km from the city centre, close to Ipanema and Leblon Beaches, in walking distance from excellent shopping, restaurants, nightclubs, 24 hour newsstands, drugstores and all attractions.
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This charming hotel offers a stunning location in São Paulo. It is an ideal location from which to explore the attractions of the city, such as the Alameda Santos or the Paulista Avenue. Entertainment and shopping venues are all located in the neighbourhood.
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This attractive hotel is situated in one of the largest cities of South America, São Paulo. An abundance of shops and entertainment venues are located in the immediate vicinity.
This pleasant city hotel lies just a stone's throw from the famous Paulista Avenue. The financial, cultural and leisure centres of the city are located in the immediate vicinity. Congonhas airport is about 4 km away and Guarulhos airport is some 10 km from the hotel.
This business hotel is located in a central yet quiet area of São Paulo. It is not far from Ibirapuera Park and the immediate vicinity offers a diverse range of shopping and entertainment facilities. In addition, links to the public transport network can easily be reached on foot.
This appealing hotel enjoys a great inner city location only a block from Paraiso underground station. The hotel provides an ideal point of departure for those wishing to explore the sights of São Paulo such as the Avenida Paulista Square and the famous Avenida 23 De Maio.
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Information radiators are a great way for you to communicate information to a team that they just are not seeing for themselves. It also helps you to not have to nag the team with information they aren't ready to hear about things they are doing that self-sabotaging.
I created this radiator when I was working with a team that had gone through several sprints where they kept voicing that they were going to finish all the work until the last day when they finally admitted that they were not going to finish. I'm not sure if they were deceiving themselves or if they were afraid to admit failure but either way there were several reasons why I could see early in the sprint that they were not going to complete the work, but they couldn't accept fate until the last day of the sprint. By then, there wasn't much that could be done to change directions or not frustrate stakeholders with surprise unfinished work.
The radiator I used is pretty simple. I wrote and labeled a line for each day of the sprint across a piece of flip chart paper. (This could be easily done on a white board.) Then I wrote the numbers 1-10 evenly across the lines. I then divided the lines into 3 parts and highlighted one part red, yellow in the middle, and green on the right. Across the bottom I wrote, "How confident are we that we will meet our sprint commitment at 80% or higher?" I selected 80% because the company had a 80% metric that they expected teams on average to complete 80% of the work each sprint. You should label this however seems appropriate to your organization.
I introduced the information radiator to the team and explained that I had noticed that we seem to be confident that we will finish the work until the last day but we were ending up with lots of unfinished work each sprint. I asked them if it would be okay if I just did a check in with them once a day during the sprint to see how they felt about their ability to complete the work they selected. So, every day at around 3pm I would ask the team for their gut check, which was their personal confidence level on a scale of 1-10 that we would finish the work in the sprint. If they were all in green then all was well. If they were in yellow or red the team would regroup and figure out what changes they needed to make in the way they were working and would also decide if any communication needed to go out to stakeholders for work in jeopardy.
On the 5th day of the sprint something amazing happened. One of the developers stood up at about 2:30pm and declared to the team. "Look everyone, in about 30 minutes she is going to ask us about our gut check and I can't honestly answer because I have no idea where we are. Testing tasks are just sitting there and I have no idea what's happening!" Then, the team FINALLY had a heated discussion about the fact that testing tasks were not broken down into individual tasks and no one had any idea what was being tested and how testing was progressing on each story. At the end of their heated debate they decided that they would no longer write tasks like "implement" or "test." Instead, they agreed to write their tasks more specifically like, "write test cases," "write automated test," "regression test," and similar for development tasks.
I was so proud of this team! I knew that this was the problem and had tried to get the team to break down their tasks and to push on the tester to explain where they were on the work each day since his 3 hour testing tasks were lasting 3-4 days. However, until they could see it with their own eyes they weren't ready to accept that a change needed to be made. They also needed to get to a place where they were ready to have some healthy conflict instead of just "being nice" all the time.
After this incident the team was better about being open and questioning why work was not getting completed to identify if there were impediments or additional assistance needed. Another side effect of using this radiator was that someone wanted to know why the team was shooting for 80% as a goal. The team discussed this and decided that even though 80% was acceptable for the company they should strive to always get 95-100% of the work completed each sprint. They also decided that if they got 100% for 3-4 sprints they would raise the bar and take in more work to try to increase their velocity.
Remember, this information radiator is not intended to be a whipping stick. When I asked about their gut check I just indicated where people were. You can write a dot or an x or whatever other type of indication is right for your team. I wrote their names. You could even leave off the numbers and have the team just write an X on the line where they are. The colors are important so don't leave those off.
I didn't use this radiator with the team for very long. I think I used it for two sprints. It had done the work I needed it to do so I stopped when it was no longer valuable. If you decide to use this radiator, please let me know about your experience and send me a picture!


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The Lie Detective is a character-driven documentary series that follows the work of independent Polygraph Examiner and self-professed truth seeker, Ken Donaldson, as he helps people from all walks of life in their quest for honesty, resolution and freedom from deception.
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Phil Vassar's heart-swelling embrace of life's richest blessings is apparent throughout Prayer Of A Common Man, especially on lead single "Love Is A Beautiful Thing." At the same time, his writing has grown more introspective and personal, as "This Is My Life" and the title track can attest. The new album may show Vassar's serious side, but he hasn't forgotten how to have fun. "My Chevrolet," "Why Don't Ya" and "Baby Rocks" rank among his best toe-tappers and are already getting warm receptions at his heralded live shows.
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Nancy Pelosi Was Left Seeing Red After Her Party Made One Catastrophic Mistake
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Nancy Pelosi's majority in Congress is on the verge of collapsing.
And with Democrats running away from this top election issue, the Red Wave could be huge.
Now, Pelosi has found herself in damage control mode after her party made one catastrophic mistake that could cost them everything.
The top two election issues most Americans are weighing in the 2022 midterms are obvious: the economy and immigration.
Not only is inflation running out of control and sapping the purchasing power and wealth of hundreds of millions of Americans, but the immigration crisis Joe Biden triggered on the southern border is breaking records by the day as tens of thousands of migrants spill across a completely undefended border.
And on both of these issues, Democrats are being forced to run away from a disaster of their own making.
But on the immigration front in particular, Pelosi's own party is on the verge of committing a catastrophic mistake that could cost them dozens of seats in November.
Fox News reports, "Vulnerable Democrats running in tight midterm races will not say if they oppose amnesty for migrants who entered the U.S. illegally through the southern border. Last week, Fox News Digital asked the same set of vulnerable Democrats if they believed the border was secure, receiving only one response from one House member who lives in a border state."
Not only are Democrats trying to ignore the border crisis, but they're even trying to hide from their pro-amnesty views because they know publicly running on their immigration record would be a massive political blunder that could cost many of them their re-election bids.
But the problem Democrats have is that no matter how much they want to pretend that the November election is about anything but the top two issues most Americans care about, that doesn't mean that they won't be exempt from the consequences of ignoring these issues.
And the fact that the party is now abandoning their public support for open borders and amnesty and wants to act like immigration isn't even on the ballot whatsoever suggests that Pelosi's loyalists are heading for a crushing defeat.
"More than 200,000 migrants came through the border in August alone, and border officials encountered over 2 million people crossing into the U.S. this fiscal year. After the record number of crossings, none of the Democrats answered whether they believe millions of migrants in the U.S. should be granted amnesty," adds Fox News.
The true scale of the immigration crisis Biden created is now painfully clear for millions of Americans living in Arizona or along the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, and with Republican governors like Ron DeSantis now shipping illegal immigrants to liberal bastions like Martha's Vineyard, even the Left's most elitist strongholds are now having to face the consequences of their open borders policies.
Pelosi knows this too, which is why she's caught between a rock and a hard place.
Speaking out on immigration would only result in losing more voters from her own left-wing base, while ignoring the problem entirely will just continue to alienate swing voters in November, leaving the Democrat leader with few appealing options as the campaign season enters full-swing.
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