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Yale Environment 360 article about Xolobeni conflict
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How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa's Wild Coast (E360.Yale.Edu)
The murder of activist Sikhosiphi Rhadebe has not stopped communities in South Africa's Pondoland region from opposing plans for a major titanium mine. What's at stake are ecologically important lands – and, for the villagers, a way of life. Third in a series.
BY FRED PEARCE • MARCH 13, 2017
An E360 Series: Environmentalists at Risk
They called him "Bazooka" after his favorite soccer star. But Sikhosiphi Rhadebe's real love was the magnificent coastal lands of South Africa's Eastern Cape, where he chaired a community organization campaigning to prevent an Australian mining company from strip-mining their sand dunes for titanium, one of the world's most commercially valuable metals.
One evening last March, a Volkswagen Polo pulled up at his home, and two men posing as police dragged Bazooka outside. When he resisted, they shot him eight times in front of his 17-year-old son, then sped away. "Bazooka" was dead. Nearly a year later, there had been no arrests, and no apparent progress in the investigation into his murder. I had come to find out why.
Sometimes, the boundaries between different worlds are breathtakingly stark. Leaving the airport at Durban on the east coast of South Africa, I drove south for three hours down the coastal highway past surfing beach resorts, condominiums, and retirement villages to a giant casino complex beyond Port Edward, the last tourist town.
Here, the coastal highway abruptly ends. A narrow footbridge crosses the River Mzamba to a very different landscape, where manicured lawns are replaced by rolling pastureland; four-lane highways become tracks impassable when wet; cars give way to cattle; and neat condominiums are replaced by ramshackle villages with metal-roofed shacks.
The footbridge — funded by an Austrian non-profit group upset at reports of children drowning as they tried to swim the river — takes you from modern South Africa to Pondoland, South Africa's least economically developed region, which under apartheid white rule was the nominally independent tribal homeland of Transkei. State power lines and plumbing still don't go to these villages. There are instead wells, drainage pits, and the occasional rooftop solar panel.
The region is also an environmentally important area, a transition zone between sub-tropical and temperate climates. Its sweeping hillsides, dunes, seasonal wetlands, woodlands, estuaries, and offshore reefs are a biodiversity hotspot. Ecologists have designated the region as the Pondoland Center for Plant Endemism, with a host of species found nowhere else in the world.
Crossing the footbridge, I found a constant stream of villagers. Some used it to go to work at the casino, others to attend school. I met an elderly woman, Alice Mbuthuma, carrying a huge bundle of firewood on her head. She had a great smile and seemed in no hurry.
Rhadebe's murder is one of many that villagers say resulted from the mining dispute and were perpetrated by killers in their midst.
Alice turned out to be the mother of a woman I had come to see on the other side, Nonhle Mbuthuma, a colleague of Rhadebe in the fierce campaign for the land rights of the people of Pondoland. A couple of hours before he was killed, the 50-year-old Rhadebe, who ran a local taxi company, had called Mbuthuma to warn of rumors they were both on a hit list because of their opposition to the mine.
Mbuthuma was waiting for me in Xolobeni, a village in Pondoland with expansive views across fields and dunes toward the Indian Ocean. Xolobeni has become the heart of the revolt against the mining plan that would take much of this land. "You met my mother? Carrying firewood?" she asked in surprise. She had just flown back from a solidarity meeting with grassroots activists in Kenya. Since Rhadebe's slaying, she has had a constant bodyguard.
Mbuthuma still has her mother's smile. Her life and that of her mother have been hugely different — one a villager collecting firewood, the other an activist whose work has attracted international attention. But they remain close. And that element of continuity at the heart of this community could bode ill for Mark Caruso, the chairman of an Australian company called Mineral Resource Commodities (MRC).
Almost two decades ago, he identified the sand dunes that extend along the coast of eastern Pondoland and up to two kilometers inland as among the world's 10 richest reserves of ilmenite, the ore that contains the metal titanium. MRC's South African subsidiary Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM), with a local partner, the Xolobeni Empowerment Company (Xolco), has applied for mining rights.
But, far from embracing this project as a potential economic boon, many of the residents of the five villages adjacent to the dunes reject it. They say their world would be destroyed by mining. Coordinated by the Amadiba Crisis Committee set up by Rhadebe, Mbuthuma, and community elders a decade ago, and backed by South African human rights lawyers, these villagers have taken on Caruso and asserted their rights under customary law to veto any mining plan.
The case has deeply split the communities of Pondoland, with some tribal leaders backing the mines. Chief Lunga Baleni has been made a director of both TEM and Xolco. The opponents don't say the mining companies directly killed Rhadebe. But they do say the mining plan, and the creation of companies like Xolco, has created an atmosphere in which some members of their own community, eager to profit from future mining, have become violent.
What I had not realized before my visit is that Rhadebe's murder is one of many that villagers say have resulted from the mining dispute and were perpetrated by killers in their midst, with the weapons of choice ranging from traditional poisons to bush knives and guns.
There are killing fields in Pondoland, and they are part of a global pattern. The NGO Global Witness has logged about 200 such slayings in each of the past two years, in what it regards as an epidemic of violence against environmental and land rights activists who seek to block development projects ranging from mines, to dams, to timber cutting, to agricultural plantations. Communities that take a stand against such projects, Global Witness reports, "are finding themselves in the firing line."
Xolobeni is the village closest to the dunes and to the Kwanyana block, which, with the richest reserves of titanium, is the area of the dunes earmarked for mining first. That is where I had come to hear Mbuthuma speak. With her bodyguard hovering outside, she was chairing a packed meeting in the village's crude metal-roofed community hall.
From the hall, we could see the dunes stretching for 10 kilometers in either direction, all the way to the footbridge, and coming inland for 1.5 kilometers, almost to the door of the community hall.
'If we stay together, we can change mining not just here in Xolobeni but in all of South Africa.'
Some 300 people had walked for miles to the hall to hear a report from the lawyers who were contesting the companies' application for a mining license. And at the meeting they started another action that formally initiated the process. Local headwoman Duduzile Baleni signed an affidavit addressed to the High Court in Pretoria on behalf of her people, asking it to declare that the minerals minister does not have the authority to grant mining rights on any land held under customary tribal law.
That is the legal issue at the core of their dispute, according to Henk Smith of the Johannesburg-based Legal Resources Center, which is backing the legal actions: the question of where state law ends and customary law begins.
This is no abstract matter for the people of Xolobeni. "You fought to protect your land under apartheid," lawyer Johan Lorenzen told the meeting. He was recalling the Mpondo revolt in 1960-62, the first substantive uprising against apartheid. "Until you make a decision in customary law, there can be no mining," he said, pausing for translation into the local Pondo dialect. "The fight is going to be long. But your voice is being heard. If we stay together we can change mining not just here in Xolobeni, but in all of South Africa." That rallying cry brought the assembly to its feet.
But things are not quite so simple. Under pressure from the mining companies, customary law — the traditional rules established under local chiefs and headmen — is finding it hard to adapt. Who is in charge of the customary process? Is it bottom-up democracy, or dictatorship driven by the chiefs? In an apparent effort to snuff out opposition to mining, the pro-mining chief, Lunga Baleni, had recently dismissed the villagers' local headwoman, Duduzile Baleni. But her villagers say the chief is not entitled to do that.
"The chiefs of Pondoland don't come before the people," says Mbuthuma.
That internal conflict was one reason why the meeting in the hall was so important. The large and enthusiastic attendance showed that the headwoman had the support of her community in opposing the mine. They witnessed her signing the affidavit, along with a commissioner of oaths, Piet Beukes of the non-profit Bench Marks Foundation, brought in for the occasion. As the papers were signed, the crowd of more than 300 rose from their wooden benches and unleashed defiant chants against the miners and condemning the killing of Rhadebe.
The people here feel angry, but also besieged. They believe the government has deliberately starved them of investment in basic services like piped water and electricity because they refuse to accept the government's priorities for economic development.
They want development, these villagers say, but they don't want their land stripped bare. While some of the area designated for mining consists of barren dunes, much of it is grassland that villagers use for pasture and kitchen gardens and that contains ancestral graveyards — all of which could be lost. And villagers do not want the only infrastructure project they are being offered, a parallel plan — considered essential to the mining project — to extend the coastal highway from Port Edward right through their land.
Many in Pondoland see tourism as a far more attractive development alternative than mining. "We'd be in favor of tourism, provided we were involved," said Mbuthuma. The potential here is huge. The coastline is spectacular. Before the mining scheme came along, the whole roadless stretch of coastal east Pondoland was zoned for conservation and tourism.
There is much of value to conserve. It is the last surviving "wild" stretch of what has long been known as South Africa's Wild Coast. The newly created mining zone will rip out the heart of the ecological area known as the Pondoland Center of Endemism. With almost 200 known endemic species, it is South Africa's second richest botanical reserve — after the more famous fynbos region in the Western Cape — with species unknown elsewhere, including the Pondo coconut, the Pondo ghost bush, and Pondo poison pea.
According to an environmental management plan commissioning by TEM, the Kwanyana block has seasonal wetlands, dune forests, and "coastal grassland with a wide range of grass species." Offshore is the Pondoland Marine Protected Area, which includes "some of South Africa's most pristine estuaries." Established in 2004, the protected zone stretches from the Mzamba River for the length of the proposed mining area, and it contains subtropical reefs and several endemic species of sparid fish.
Published mining proposals insist that only small areas of the dunes will be mined at a time, that the first line of dunes will be left intact, and the landscape will be rehabilitated afterward for arable farming. But villagers say that the mine will pollute coastal waters, where they collect crayfish, drain local aquifers, and dry up rivers and wetlands.
The meeting was drawing to a close. Mbuthuma was tiring. Erect and commanding while speaking and chairing the meeting, she slumped perceptively as she left the platform, then looked around for her bodyguard. Outside, her husband — Dick Forslund, a social activist and economist from the Cape Town-based Alternative Information and Development Center — said he was concerned for her safety. He recounted the roll call of the dead among fellow activists in Mbuthuma's long struggle. It wasn't just Bazooka.
Activist Scorpion Dimane was believed poisoned during high tensions over an earlier mining application in 2008. He died mysteriously after speaking out against people who took gifts from the mining company. Two women may have suffered the same fate that year after shouting down a minister at a meeting called to support mining. Traditionally, Forslund said, killing in Pondoland was by poisoning, using one of the medicinal plants in their sacred groves.
In 2015, there was a spate of shootings after heated meetings in Xolobeni about the mining project. A 61-year-old woman was stabbed. Afterward, four men were charged with a range of offenses, including attempted murder, and six others, including directors of Xolco, were given court orders banning them from taking firearms into the community.
After the funeral of Rhadebe, there were attacks on two journalists. Lungani Mkhize, Mbuthuma's newly assigned bodyguard, came to their rescue. "They ended up in hospital, but would have been killed if we hadn't intervened," he told me. In a series of affidavits, villagers have named two people allegedly responsible for the attacks. But nobody has been arrested.
Following publicity surrounding the murder of Rhadebe, South African minerals minister Mosebenzi Zwane announced an 18-month moratorium on the mining application, while tempers cooled. And the mining magnate behind the scheme, Mark Caruso, ostensibly pulled out of the project, handing over control of TEM to another local partner, Keysha Investments 178, so that the mine could be "managed exclusively by South African people."
'The government and the mining company are working hand in hand to make sure the mining takes place,' Mbuthuma says.
These developments led some outside observers to believe that the community had won a great victory, that the headlines created by the assassination of their leader had had an effect that a decade of peaceful campaigning had not. But the community and its legal advisors doubt anything has really changed. "The government and the mining company are working hand in hand to make sure the mining takes place," says Mbuthuma.
The evidence suggests she may be right. The new local partner of TEM, Keysha, is an unlikely lead company on a billion-dollar mining project. Company records reviewed at the end of 2016 show its sole active directors are a law services firm and a Pondo chief who also sits on the boards of TEM and Xolco. It has no operating assets or mining experience. And five months after the "divestment," Caruso and another Australian, Peter Torre, remained as directors of TEM. MRC still appears to be in charge.
When Yale Environment 360 put this interpretation to the company, its South African public relations consultant Anne Dunn said that, "MRC has no comment." She also declined to solicit a reply from mining director Lunga Baleni to a question about a potential conflict of interest between his company position and his role as a Pondo chief.
As the meeting in Xolobeni broke up, one man proudly untethered his horse, another picked his mountain bike out of the bushes, but most set off for home on foot, taking the long strides of those used to walking everywhere. I headed with the community's lawyers for the dunes down by the ocean, where mining could be underway within two years.
They are stunning. British colonial administrators 140 years ago wrote in awe of the "red desert" here, giving the lie to claims that the dunes are a result of over-grazing by villagers' cattle.
Sheltering from the sun under a bush, we encountered three eight-year-old boys from Xolobeni, resting on their way home from a football match with a neighboring village. They didn't know about the mining row. But one ended our conversation with the request, "Can you give me a job?"
Returning to Xolobeni, we passed small gardens where villagers grow maize, sweet potatoes, guava, sugar cane, and what looked like cannabis plants. By the community hall, behind the latrines, was a small sacred grove of trees, where medicinal plants — and poisons, likely — are grown.
The hall was deserted. But on a nearby hillock, Mbuthuma was scouring the horizon for the remaining outsiders. Bringing us onto traditional lands carried the responsibility to see us safely departed before nightfall. In a place where killings are all too frequent, it could be dangerous to linger.
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In 2008, Congress created a "mark-to-market" exit tax regime through Sec. 877A, enacted as part of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax (HEART) Act of 2008, P.L. 110-245.Sec. 877A generally imposes a tax on expatriates by providing that all property of a covered expatriate is treated as sold on the day before the expatriation date at its fair market value (FMV). Any gain arising from the deemed sale constitutes income to the extent the gain exceeds an inflation-indexedthreshold income amount, which was $713,000 for 2018 (Rev. Proc. 2017-58), for the tax year of the deemed sale.
Before continuing, several important definitions are helpful in examining exit strategies. The term "expatriate" means (1) any U.S. citizen who relinquishes his or her citizenship and (2) any long-term resident of the United States who ceases to be a lawful permanent resident of the United States (Sec. 877A(g)(2)).A long-term resident is an individual who is a lawful permanent resident (i.e., a green card holder) of the United States in at least eight tax years during the period of 15 tax years ending with the tax year that includes the expatriation date (Sec. 877A(g)(5)).
The term "covered expatriate" means an expatriate who (1) has an average annual net income tax liability for the five preceding tax years ending before the expatriation date that exceeds a specified amount that is adjusted for inflation ($165,000 in 2018 (Rev. Proc. 2017-58)) (the "tax liability test"); (2) has a net worth of $2 million or more as of the expatriation date (the "net-worth test"); or (3) fails to certify, under penalties of perjury, compliance with all U.S. federal tax obligations for the five tax years preceding the tax year that includes the expatriation date, including, but not limited to, obligations to file income tax, employment tax, gift tax, and information returns, if applicable, and obligations to pay all relevant tax liabilities, interest, and penalties (the "certification test") (Sec. 877A(g)(1)(A)).
The "expatriation date" is the date an individual relinquishes U.S. citizenship or, in the case of a long-term resident of the United States, the date on which the individual ceases to be a lawful permanent resident of the United States (Sec. 877A(g)(3)).
In addition, property also includes a person's beneficial interest in a trust that would not constitute part of his or her estate (Notice 2009-85, §3(A), citing Notice 97-19, §3). This inclusion applies only to a grantor trust in which the covered expatriate (1) is treated as the owner of the trust and (2) has a beneficial interest, such as a revocable trust. Other common estate-planning vehicles such as grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) and qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs) would also be captured (J. Comm. on Tax'n, Technical Explanation of H.R. 6081 (JCX-44-08) at 43 (May 20, 2008)).
For purposes of calculating the exit tax, the built-in gain (or loss) of each asset is computed by subtracting the asset's adjusted basis from the asset's FMV (id.). Non-U.S. tax residents who have become U.S. tax residents should note a special rule. Solely for purposes of determining the exit tax, property that was held by a nonresident alien on the day that individual first became a resident of the United States will have a basis on that date of not less than the property's FMV on that date (Sec. 877A(h)(2)).
The third asset specifically excluded from the deemed-sale regime is an interest in a nongrantor trust. Unless an election is made, instead of the standard mark-to-market regime, Sec. 877A essentially takes a wait-and-see approach to taxing nongrantor trusts. Tax is imposed when distributions are made to a covered expatriate, at which time the trustee of a nongrantor trust must withhold 30% of the taxable portion of the distribution (Sec. 877A(f)(1)(A)).A covered expatriate can opt out of this method and elect not to use the wait-and-see approach, and to instead accelerate income recognition. If this election is made, the covered expatriate is treated as having received the value of his interest in the trust on the day before the expatriation date. As a result of this election, "no subsequent distribution from the trust to the covered expatriate will be subject to 30 percent withholding" (Notice 2009-85, §7(D)).
These rules and exceptions present some exit planning opportunities. The most obvious step in expatriation planning is to reduce assets below the $2 million threshold so that the covered expatriate will fail the net-worth test. Because there is no lookback period to consider, a potentially covered expatriate can use the gift tax marital deduction by making unlimited gifts to a U.S. citizen spouse (assuming he or she will not be expatriating) or gifting up to $152,000 (the inflation-adjustedamount for 2018 (Rev. Proc. 2017-58)) to a noncitizen spouse before the departure date.
As an alternative to outright gifting, an expatriate might create and fund an expatriation trust such as an irrevocable self-settled, nongrantor U.S. discretionary trust under the laws of a jurisdiction that has asset protection legislation. Other essential considerations in structuring the trust include precluding classification as a grantor trust for U.S. income tax purposes under Secs. 671-679 and renouncing any retained limited testamentary power of appointment so as to sustain a position of noninclusion of the expatriation trust's assets.


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The most hilarious face-off with a cockroach ever recorded unfolded in a hotel room in Thailand. Joakim was on a holiday with his wife on Phi Phi Island, Thailand, when their room was visited by an unwelcome guest – a cockroach. Joakim, armed with an empty crisp tube, went on a quest to catch the cockroach. Dressed only in underpants, he is screaming and chasing the cockroach around the hotel room while his wife records the whole thing and laughs in the background.
At one point, the cockroach goes behind the bed side table and Joakim approaches it in order to give it a quick nudge, which causes the cockroach to shoot towards him, making the man jump back and scream "It's so fast!". As his wife laughs behind the camera, the man offers her to give it a try: "Come hunt it for yourself then," adding, "be the man now." When she turns down the offer, he continues to chase the cockroach around. Very unsuccessfully, one might add.


Some time ago I read Ted Holt's Guru tip Sharing Simplifies Source Code in which he showed an approach to building reports in a modular programming environment. At the time I can remember thinking that it would be interesting to see how V6 RPG's ability to pass files as parameters might offer an even simpler approach.
Simpler, that is, once you know how to pass files as parameters! Well, it has taken me almost a year, but I finally got round to working on it, and I confess I rather like the results.
Ted's original approach required that a driver CL program be written that would perform an override on the print file so that its open data path (ODP) could be shared. The CL also called each of the programs in turn and then deleted the override. This new approach does away with the CL program because it does not require an override. You simply call the initial report program and it can then call as many secondary programs as and when it needs. In fact, it offers an additional benefit in that a secondary program can be called to add data to the report at any point in the process and as often as is required. That really does add reporting power to a modular application.
Let's begin with the changes needed to the main program (AR101R) to allow it to pass the printer file to the secondary program (AR102R). Here are the two additional pieces of code required. First is the prototype for calling the secondary report program.
The second parameter is the indicator associated with the F-spec OFLIND keyword for the file. When we pass a file as a parameter, RPG links up all of the "under the covers" stuff for us, but any items such as the overflow flag that we need to reference in our logic must be passed explicitly.
Once the prototype is in place, all that remains is to add the call logic in the appropriate spot.
The file is passed simply by specifying its name as the first parameter, and the field associated with the OFLIND keyword is passed as the second parameter. Those are the only changes we need.
The first thing to notice is that the F-spec entry uses the keyword TEMPLATE. This tells the compiler that we want to be able to use the file's details (record formats, fields, etc.) but not to open the file in the program. In fact the only reason I even defined it is so that I could use the LIKEFILE keyword on the procedure interface (PI).
One other thing to note is that I had to define two data structures recap01DS and pageHdrDS. These are based (LIKEREC) on the print file record formats that I want to use. This is necessary because when a file is passed as a parameter, no I or O specs are generated and therefore all I/O operations must be made using the Result DS method. Note that this is required even in cases such as the page header (pageHdrDS), where there are no variables in the record format. I still had to specify the appropriate DS or the compiler got upset.
Personally I rather like that–particularly in programs that use multiple files as it makes it clear which file is being written to without having to know which record format relates to which file.
In trying to keep the example code close to Ted's original, I also used embedded SQL in the recap program. That highlighted a deficiency in the SQL pre-compiler's handling of LIKEREC data structures. According to the manual, and my experience bears this out, LikeRec structures are only allowed as host variables if they don't have the second parameter specified (i.e., the *Input, *Output, *All option). Since in most cases the RPG compiler doesn't like to use them in result field I/O operations unless that second parameter is present, we have ourselves a Catch-22 situation.
In this case I got around it by coding a DS (recapData) to hold the host variables, which made SQL happy, and then used EVAL-CORR to copy the fields to the output record DS, which made RPG happy. In my opinion this shouldn't be necessary as the two structures are identical in every way, but right now we seem to be stuck with the limitation.
First, with this approach it is no longer necessary to artificially keep the file open by returning without setting LR. Also, there is no override needed and therefore no requirement for the CL program.
Second, I find this approach more versatile because it makes it practical to insert data generated by another program/procedure into the middle of a report, not just at the end. For example, I could perform some recap operations at the end of (say) each department.
Finally, it makes it easy to optionally include additional report types in the output file. For example recap summaries might only be output at the end of the month and more comprehensive summaries at the end of the year. Alternatively individual summaries might be triggered to meet the needs of individual users.
All of this while maintaining Ted's objective of not having to add complexity to the original report to add the recap data. Having explored this technique, it is certainly one that I will be using in the future.


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Sukirti Amatya è la giovane figlia di un vecchio amico. Da generazioni abitanti a Asan Tole, l'antico cuore commerciale di Kathmandu. Nel suo blog racconta come i luoghi della sua infanzia stanno perdendosi. La foto è stata scattata da casa sua nel 1982.
Nowadays walking in the streets I grew up is becoming sad every day. "Ason tole" where my family grew up and where our childhood is mostly spent. The streets of the Ason Tole have been there for more than century. And some shops are there for more than half-century. Even our old house is more than a century old house. But as the part of the development, we all migrated from that place. All our family have now shifted to other places but still, we go to Ason to shop. Shopping in the Ason and New Road have been like culture to us. Every shops and corner are in our mind and know them so well. Every time if we need anything we go to the same old streets.
But the old streets and the old heritage sites are changing day by day. Every time I go there will be some changes. After the massive earthquake in 2015 has changed the whole face of those old streets. Most of the buildings are damaged. Some were fully damaged and some have major cracks. But still, the shops are opened in the major damaged buildings.
Most of the people have a perspective of making high concrete buildings. But are those building good in the streets like Ason? What will happen to our old streets? Am I the only one who has this in my head?
Not only the buildings but the temples are also been buried under the development. This building above is another example of heritage lost in the development. This is Paltan Chhen/ Paltan Ghar which was built before 1832 B.S. This building have been there more than 243 years old and no one cares about it. The building has been ignored by most of the people who come in this area, only a few people know about this and it's importance.
Also our old house in one of the Chowks of Ason. This building is also lost in the making of a new high concrete building.


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Teaser for new Korean variety show 'Seojin's' with Park Seo-joon, BTS' V released
The teaser for the upcoming new Korean variety show "Seojin's Korean Street Food" has been released.
Jessy Mendiola allows fans a peek at Baby Rosie's face
It was not a full-on face reveal but it was enough for fans eager to catch a glimpse of Isabella Rose Manzano, daughter of celebrities Jessy Mendiola and Luis Manzano.
Eva Green enters UK court battle over unmade film
LONDON (AFP) – A lengthy legal dispute over a never-made film starring French actress Eva Green reached London's High Court on Thursday.
FASHION PULIS: Nearby pal
Privacy is a perennial issue for celebrities. Torn between keeping their moments to themselves and connecting with fans by showing their ordinary routine, famous personalities have to make a decision.
Academy launches probe after indie film's surprise Oscars nod
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Friday it was launching a review of Oscars campaigning, days after a small indie film surprised industry-watchers with a shock nomination to Hollywood's most prestigious awards.
Dina Bonnevie reminds guests: 'Cakes are to be eaten and not to be pasted on other people's faces'
Actress Dina Bonnevie blew her birthday cake with a simple reminder to her guests: cakes are to be eaten and not to be pasted on other people's faces.
Rez Cortez in his most daring as 'Mang Kanor' on AQ Prime
A living legend. This is how local cineastes will describe veteran actor Rez Cortez. We've always known him for portraying the role of the villain, but throughout his long career, he's also dabbled in action, fantasy, and drama. Name the genre and he's probably done it.
K-pop group TXT's 'The Name Chapter: Temptation' sells 1.86 M copies on first day of release
K-pop boy band Tomorrow X Together (TXT)'s new album has sold more than 1.8 million copies on the first day of release.
65 million years ago, humans arrived on Earth. Who will survive when Past meets Future? From the writers of A Quiet Place and producer Sam Raimi, comes the epic action thriller 65, starring Adam Driver. Check out the brand new trailer below and watch the film exclusively in cinemas across the Philippines this March.
TV5 and ABS-CBN boost primetime TV with new shows Dirty Linen and FPJ's Batang Quiapo
The groundbreaking collaboration between media giants TV5 and ABS-CBN makes 2023 even more jam-packed and action-filled with the domination of primetime TV by star-studded programs like Dirty Linen and the much-awaited return of Coco Martin in FPJ's Batang Quiapo, in commemoration of Fernando Poe Jr.'s 18th Death Anniversary.
STREAMING REVIEWS: The long arm of comedy
Today we have two comedies that come from different ends of the spectrum. You People plays like an interracial relationship sit-com, while Hit the Road is a serious theme working with laughs to get the message across.
Kapuso stars Barbie Forteza and David Licauco are grateful for the huge followings of their tandem, popularly known as FiLay, a play of the names of their characters Fidel and Klay in the blockbuster primetime series "Maria Clara at Ibarra" on GMA Network.
WayV to hold fan meeting in Manila
Chinese boy band WayV will be returning to Manila for a fan meeting.
K-pop boy band TXT sets goals with new album 'The Name Chapter: Temptation'
K-pop idol group Tomorrow X Together (TXT) made their comeback on Jan. 27 with a new album and aim to top the Billboard chart.
Rhian Ramos keeps mum on rumored breakup with Sam Verzosa
Rhian Ramos is not yet ready to address rumors about her relationship with Sam Verzosa.
Universal Records Philippines partners with Ingrooves Music Group for global distribution
Ingrooves Music Group, a world leader in music distribution, marketing, and technology, has signed Universal Records, one of the Philippines' leading independent record labels to a global distribution deal. The first release under the new deal is the release of a Christian Bautista tribute album, The Way You Look at Me: The Songs of Christian Bautista, out on March 3.
Valentina's (Janella Salvador) death devastated Darna (Jane De Leon) who had just revealed her superhuman identity to Valentina to save Ding (Zaijian Jaranilla) in the Jan. 26 episode of "Mars Ravelo's Darna," which trended on Twitter with the topics Regina, Valentina, and #DarnaStrongAsEver.
Pinoys make it to 'America's Got Talent: All Stars' finals
Pinoy couple Jervin and Anjanette Minor, otherwise known as The Power Duo, has barged into the finals of "America's Got Talent: All Stars."
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Arlene Aguirre plays with her formerly conjoined twin sons, Clarence, left, and Carl, now 12. On Monday, the family will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the risky surgery that separated the boys (shown in inset).
One twin uses an iPad, plays video games and dances to Michael Jackson tunes. The other has significant, possibly permanent, problems walking and talking.
The delicate separation 10 years ago of conjoined twins from the Philippines wasn't perfect, but the boys' mother says their very survival is reason enough to celebrate the anniversary.
"When they were born, the doctors at home told me, 'You have to choose which one is to live,'" Arlene Aguirre said. "I said, 'I cannot choose that.' The doctors here did not ask me to choose."
The boys, now 12, were born joined at the top of their heads, unable to sit up, stand straight, eat normally — or see each other.
Once their case was accepted by the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, leaving Carl and Clarence conjoined was not an option.
"If they hadn't come to us when they did, they would have just withered away and died," said Dr. Robert Marion, the boys' pediatrician, who plans to be at the hospital Monday to mark the separation anniversary. "I am extremely proud of having been a part of this. I'm a little disappointed with some of the outcome but, clearly, to see how these kids have survived and are for the most part thriving, is really wonderful."
Montefiore's president and CEO, Dr. Steven Safyer, said, "We are honored to have played a part in helping these boys develop into the unique individuals they are today."
The boys were separated on Aug. 4, 2004, in an operation that climaxed a then-unusual "staged separation" that took four surgeries over nine months.
When it was over, Dr. David Staffenberg, the boys' plastic surgeon, told the mother, "You're now the mother of two boys."
Aguirre, who never left the area after the operation and now raises the boys in Scarsdale, said she throws birthday parties twice a year — on April 21, the day they were born, and on Aug. 4.
"The historical treatment was basically to sacrifice one to save the other," said the lead surgeon, Dr. James Goodrich. "The staged separation turned out to be obviously very successful."
He and his team have since separated four other sets of joined-at-the-head twins in London, Melbourne and Riyadh.
The Aguirre boys shared a "bridge" of brain, 5 or 6 centimeters long, that had to be divided. "When you get beyond 1 centimeter or 2 centimeters, one or both kids takes a hit," Goodrich said.
Eventually there was some degeneration of Carl's right parietal lobe, which controls the left side, Goodrich said. Carl suffered seizures, now controlled with medication, and has limited use of his left arm and leg.
Carl uses a wheelchair and leg braces, and there's hope he'll eventually be able to walk on his own, though Goodrich doubts there will be a full recovery.
As for speech, his mother said he can utter just a word or two at a time, such as "bye" and "thank you." He spends the school day in classes for kids with multiple disabilities and gets occupational, physical and speech therapy.
She said Clarence, who can be difficult to understand when he speaks, also gets some special instruction in communication. But unlike Carl, he is an attention-seeking preteen who leaps up to high-five visitors and is quick to show them his favorite video games.
"He's kind of a delightful kid," said Marion, who is chief of genetics at the Children's Hospital. "I think he's going to be a typical adult."
Clarence shows tenderness toward his quiet twin, and Arlene Aguirre said, "He feels like he's the big brother. He likes to read to Carl, and he's very patient."
Both boys still wear helmets to protect their skulls. Goodrich said that once they're fully grown, the skulls will be patched.
Arlene Aguirre said, "I did the right thing," when she accepted Montefiore's offer to do the surgery — and absorb the multimillion-dollar cost.
And caring for her sons alone — she's a single mother — is getting easier as the boys grow up in their white house behind a picket fence off a busy road. She has a support network of friends who come over on weekends to stay with the boys while she buys groceries and runs errands.
With Montefiore's support, the family lives in the U.S. on a medical visa. They have not been back to their hometown of Salay in the Philippines — and Arlene Aguirre said she misses her family. She hopes that she and her sons can eventually become American citizens.
"The boys are Americans, really," she said. "They don't want my Filipino food. They like spaghetti, mashed potatoes — and McDonald's, of course."


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Why Did The Nintendo GameCube Fail?
1 Reasons why the Gamecube failed
1.1 No Online Availability
1.2 Poor Launch Title
1.3 The Controllers
1.4 Appearance
1.5 The Lack of a DVD Player
The GameCube had promised to bring something extraordinary. And it was capable of 480p when hooked up with the right cables. With the launch of the GameCube, Nintendo entered the gaming industry for the very first time and people were expecting a lot from them.
So why did the Nintendo GameCube fail?
The Gamecube's failure was a result of timing and competition. The Gamecube was released just months before the first Xbox was and the PS2 was released just a year prior. Ultimately the competition from these two powerhouse consoles was too much for the Gamecube to handle.
The Gamecube is still popular today in its own right and it currently costs more to buy a used Gamecube than it does to buy either the PS2 or Xbox as the games that Nintendo releases are often timeless and well loved by many people.
If you would like to know more about why the Nintendo GameCube failed, you will want to keep reading this article. You can also watch the video below if you prefer.
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Reasons why the Gamecube failed
The GameCube was able to earn Nintendo a small profit, but it lost the Nintendo sizeable market share and earned third place in terms of hardware sales. This is the reason why the game has earned the title "A Commercial Failure." Below are a few things that contributed to the game's failure.
No Online Availability
The no-online presence had taken the GameCube away from "Being the Best" and that's why they have earned a failure tag. The game was supposed to compete with Xbox and PlayStation at the time of the release, but couldn't stand out in the competition.
The PlayStation 2 followed suit with the online presence, requiring the purchase of an adapter, but all the online services were absolutely free. On the other hand, Xbox live services were sophisticated and this is why PlayStation was able to compete with them and earned the "Deserving Respect."
Many of the game lovers considered "No online presence" as a missing feature and that's why they preferred Playstation and Xbox over Nintendo's gaming console.
Nowadays, Nintendo is seriously pursuing online gaming, because the launch of GameCube is still haunting them and will haunt them for a long time.
Poor Launch Title
Nintendo was always famous for launching the games with the title "Mario Bros" and this is why people loved to buy the game. But, when they launched the GameCube, they didn't include the game bundle in the title name. The game Super Mario 64 was available at the launch to be purchased separately.
Instead of launching with the name "Luigi's Mansion", the Super Mario 64 was always a better choice for Nintendo. The "Luigi's Mansion" name wasn't that appealing to adult gamers, and all those who were looking for the "Super Mario 64" ended up being disappointed.
At the time of game launching, the system also launched "Wace Race, Super Monkey Ball, and Star Wars." Honestly, all the games were excellent. However, none of them reached the popularity they should have reached.
The Controllers
The GameCube controllers can't be recognized as a complete failure, but they were not up to the mark if we compare the controllers of the Nintendo Gaming Console with Playstation 2 and Xbox.
The controllers of the game were originally designed for the game "Smash Bros", but you can run them with other titles as well. But, the "C" stick of the controller wasn't as precise as the PS2 and Xbox's analog stick.
When talking about the "Z" button, the button wasn't replicated on both sides, which means that the GameCube control pad was missing the "Shoulder Button" found on the competitor's controller. Finally, the design of the "Nintendo Gaming Controller". When compared to Microsoft and PS2, Nintendo's console wasn't as sleek and professional looking.
But, the build quality of the Nintendo GameCube was relatively higher than both of the big giants.
In the gaming world, video games are no longer perceived as toys. Video games are now considered as a "hobby" to be enjoyed by everyone. Unfortunately, the GameCube opposed this type of "Advertising" before the launch of the game and this is why they ended up "Having an appearance of a toy rather than a serious gaming console."
Despite beating the PS2 in terms of powerful hardware, the size of the gaming console was small and the choice of selecting the "Purple" color at the time of launch was slightly a poor decision.
The colorful representation of the "Gaming Console" at the launch time added the perception that the "GameCube was a toy." And this might be the reason why most people didn't take the console seriously.
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The Lack of a DVD Player
It may seem unimportant today, but when the game was launched, the lack of a DVD player caused the console to hit a severe setback in sales. The launch of PS2 with the DVD player totally outsmarted Nintendo at that time, and with the option of playing the DVD movie on the console, nobody opted for the Nintendo gaming console.
Not only PS2, but the Xbox technology also introduced the DVD player. Nintendo, opting for their microdisk at that time wasn't a great move because if you're not going up with the technology, you're going to face failure and Nintendo had learned that.
The generation at that time welcomed DVD player gaming consoles, and this is the reason why PS2 and Xbox had made a lot more sales compared to Nintendo.
So, in conclusion, the GameCube's failure contributed to the fact that it couldn't be played online. It didn't have a DVD player, and the appearance made it look like a toy, rather than a video game. It also couldn't make enough sales to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. All of these things played a major part in Nintendo's failure to keep the GameCube alive.
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How to plot a graph with discrete data points in Matlab?
used regularly by many people for many complex and ground breaking applications. But, people don't use it for one simple thing, Plotting graphs when we have a set of discrete data points. Probably the major reason for this is that many people don't know how to plot this kind of graph. So, in this article we will try to show you how you can do this in Matlab.
3.Seeing your data points, write a Matlab program just like the one shown below.
4.The graph output will look something like this, just as we can expect.
So, That's it. Simple enough. Try this new way & you'll probably open Matlab much often than you normally would. Thanks for Visiting and As always, Have a Happy Reading !
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Black History Trailblazers and Changemakers 2020--DAY 13: Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano who was the first African American to become a leading performer at the Metropolitan Opera and is recognized as one of the most popular American classical singers of her time.
Born Mary Violet Leontyne Price on February 10, 1927, in Laurel, Mississippi, she seemed destined for success from the start. After waiting for 13 years to have a child her parents showered her with immense love and attention and gave her every opportunity to foster her love of music. Her father James was a carpenter and mother Katie was a midwife with a beautiful singing voice who sang in the church choir. They gave her a toy piano when she was three. At age five she began piano lessons with a local teacher. When she was in kindergarten they traded in their phonograph to pay down on an upright piano. Then, at age 14 her mom took her to hear famed contralto Marian Anderson perform in Jackson, Mississippi who became a great inspiration.
While in high school, Leontyne began working part-time as a maid and babysitter for a wealthy white family, the Chisholms. They further encouraged her love of music by allowing her freedom to not only play the piano in their music room but also to listen to the radio and record player. She gave her first public concert at age 16, playing the piano and singing at the Columbus, Mississippi Air Field.
After a number of notable recitals, the Chisholms stepped in again to give recitals and in the fall of 1948 and 1949 defrayed some of Leontyne's expenses when she enrolled at the Juilliard School in New York and won a scholarship. She became fascinated by opera after hearing Ljuba Welitsch sing Salome at the Met,
In September 1964, at 37-years-old Price was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B. Johnson. Then in 1985, she became a National Medal of Arts recipient. Throughout her career, Price's recordings earned her numerous honors, including more than a dozen Grammy Awards.
One of the first African-American singers to earn international acclaim in the field, Price became known for her roles in Il Trovatore, Antony and Cleopatra, and Aida. She created an impressive musical legacy.
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Withrow sneaked away for lunch with his family, including two daughters home from college, but otherwise worked at his accounting firm.
Lyons visited with ranch hands and worked in his office. "It's kind of a normal day," he said. "Hey, the sun still comes up in the morning."
Withrow received 3,346 votes, or 48.4 percent, but is in striking distance of Lyons' 3,542 votes, or 51.24 percent.
The county clerk's office has 22,000 to 23,000 mail-in ballots left to count, as well as more than 1,350 provisional ballots that are awaiting examination. There are five supervisors' districts, so it's fair to assume that about a fifth of those ballots will go to the Lyons-Withrow race, and about a fifth will belong to the campaign for Monteith's seat.
Four years ago, Monteith waited two weeks for word that he'd prevailed by only 16 votes out of more than 23,000 cast over Janice Keating. He won't tear his hair out this time, he said, to see if his commanding lead on Tuesday translates into an outright win, or whether he'll campaign for five months more.
"I had people calling and congratulating me. I say, 'Thank you very much, but let's hold off till the final analysis,' " Monteith said.
The District 4 incumbent's 5,513 votes amount to 51.54 percent. He'll need to stay above 50 percent to avoid a November contest with Irizarry, who captured 3,278 votes, or 30.64 percent.
A third candidate, Carmen Sabatino, trailed with 1,857 votes, or 17.36 percent, and conceded Tuesday.
Irizarry said his resolve to ignore Sabatino's attacks seems to have worked. He wore a Lance Armstrong victory uniform Wednesday, he said, while unwinding on his bicycle.
"I did what I love best," Irizarry said. He referred to the ride — not biting nails while waiting to see if he lives to fight another day.
Bee staff writer Garth Stapley can be reached at gstapley@modbee.com or 578-2390.
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There are now real people, living in real homes, in the real town of Ebbsfleet! A handful of homes are occupied, with more families moving in every month. This process should accelerate over the next ten years, by which time there may be as many as 15,000 homes.
The new town of Ebbsfleet is close to the M25, next door to Bluewater Shopping Centre. It is less than 20 minutes to London on the new high-speed train service. It will serve as a dynamo for economic regeneration for the area and will attract many working people and families. The plans look exciting, with new schools and extensive retail and leisure facilities. Yet the developers have no plans to include any faith buildings.


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The Esplanade
Point Vicente Lighthouse
Wild Waves at the Pier
Morning Fog
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Seeing Eye to Eye
Space Needle in a Ball
Mt. Shasta from the Air
Purple Twilight
Afternoon on 24th St.
Wet Pier
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Sunlight Though the Pier
Winter Day at the Manhattan Beach Pier
Steps to the Sea
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March was a pretty good reading month for me! I didn't read quite as much as I'd hoped, but I did find some new favorites. Overall, I'm happy with the ten books I read this month; I didn't rate anything below a 3 (though one of them was a borderline 2). And even the ones I didn't love, I'm glad I read, because they're books I'd been meaning to read for a while. I feel I should mention that this month was a first for me in that there is one book I didn't give a rating to, and that's simply because it was a self-published book that felt like a draft, and I didn't feel right rating something that didn't seem finished to me.
If you're interested in seeing everything I read in the month of March, check out the list below. And let me know what your favorite read of the month was!
An Unattractive Vampire … I'll admit, I kind of want to skim that book just because of the title! My March Wrap-Up.


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Cardiff Poetry Experiment
Amy De'Ath, Graham Hartill, Allen Fisher
Amy De'Ath's poetry chapbooks include ON MY LOVE FOR gender abolition (Capricious 2016), Lower Parallel (Barque 2014), Caribou (Bad Press 2011), and Erec & Enide (Salt 2010). With Fred Wah, she is the editor of a poetics anthology, Toward. Some. Air. (Banff Centre Press 2015). Her criticism has appeared in Women: A Cultural Review, Anguish Language (Archive Books 2015), and Cambridge Literary Review, and is forthcoming in After Objectvism: Reconfiguring 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics (U of Iowa P 2017). She is a PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University and lives in Vanco…uver, on unceded Coast Salish Territories.
Graham Hartill's latest collection is Chroma (Boiled String, 2013). He also publishes collaborative translations (with Wu Fu-Sheng) from classical Chinese and essays on poetics and creative writing in health and social care settings. He works as a writer in residence in HMP Parc and teaches on the MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes for the Metanoia Institute.
Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher and art historian, lives in Hereford, UK. Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University; over 150 single-authored publications of poetry, graphics, aesthetic theory and art documentation; exhibited in many shows from Tate Britain to King's Gallery York. Examples of his work in the Tate Collection, The King's Archive London, the Living Museum, Iceland and various British and international private collections. Last single-artist show was at the Apple Store Gallery Hereford in 2013. Two recent books of poetry and image were: TIP REGARD, and SPUTTOR. A second edition of the collected PLACE books of poetry was published earlier this year, the collected GRAVITY books are scheduled for publication in autumn, 2016. There is a book of essays on poetry and art, IMPERFECT FIT, due from University of Alabama Press also this autumn.
Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by discussions
Refreshments available for purchase
Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)
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CMS Connector between FrameMaker 11 and CQ 5.5 now available. And it is open source!
We are happy to announce the availability of CMS connector between FM 11 and CQ 5.5. If you recall, in September 2012, we had released a sample CQ connector with FrameMaker 11, for which Kapil blogged here. The sample connector was based on the new CMS Connector Framework and was open source so that the developers can take the connector code and build more functionality.
The new CQ connector is also open source, but it is ready to use for production environment. We have enhanced several of the features of the sample connector and added new ones. This connector is as good as other CMS connectors such as SharePoint and Documentum in terms of functionality. Furthermore, since it is open source, you can customize this connector and build even more functionality on top of what is available out-of-the-box.
1. Create Session and Logout: User can create a CQ session with the help of connection manager UI. After successful login, user can work on various other features like checkin, checkout etc.
2. Repository Browser: The repository browsing functionality will help user in browsing the contents of the CQ Server. The content shown in the repository browser will be of following types.
Node: A node is a hierarchical entity in the workspace. Node can be container or non- container. Each container node contains folder and files. The folders can further contain sub-folders and/or files. Depending on the node type, a node may have required or optional sub-nodes and properties.
Property: A property is a content entity. Properties can store text data and numbers.
Document: User will be able to upload a local file to the CQ Server. This operation will be also called import. Upload operation takes the document and all its dependents/file references to the repository. User can also upload active file.
Folder: User will be able to upload a folder and its contents to the CQ Server. Upload folder operation takes all the folder's documents and their dependents/file references to the repository.
Open Read-Only: User can open a file from the repository without checking it out. On read only operation the document and its dependents will be downloaded to the local cache in read only mode. The file will be opened in the FM.
Checkout and Edit: User will be able to checkout the file and its dependents from the CQ server. The edit operation will open the file for editing if it is checked out. User can choose to checkout the file with or without its dependents.
Checkin: User will be able to checkin the checkout file and it's all dependents as minor version to repository.
Cancel Checkout: User can cancel checkout a file and its dependents.
5. Delete: User can delete a folder, a file or file with all dependents.
6. Create Folder: User will be able to create a new folder in the CQ server.
Show Checkout Files: This option will list all the documents which are checked out in the selected folder.
Show Dependents: This option will list all the dependencies of the selected document including the dependencies of the dependents documents.
Show Versions: This option will list all the versions of a document. The user will be able to see the properties of selected object from the show version dialog.
Properties: The property dialog will list the properties exposed by the CQ for a particular object i.e. container, folder and document. The property can be read only and it is not editable.
Basic Search: In the Basic Search user will be able to type a text and FrameMaker will look for the text in the name of all the files which comes in the context of selected node. The search result will be shown in a search result dialog. The user can do the operation on the objects present in the search result dialog. User can also use wildcards in the search name instead of fulltext.
8. Import References: FrameMaker will also allow importing and insertion of references from CQ Server itself for e.g. importing of graphics from repository, add a component to the checkout book, insertion of cross ref etc.
1. Support of DAM Assets: FrameMaker provides support for CQ DAM (Digital Asset Management), in addition to other node types such as nt:file. DAM is a digital asset management tool that enables users across an organization to manage, store, and access images, videos, documents, audio clips, and rich media such as Flash files for use on the web, in print, and for digital distribution.
2. Advanced Search: The users can now do advance search where can specify the folder path, file types, CQ Tags, and the date range during which the file was modified.
3. CQ Preferences: The user can customize the user experience of the CQ Connector by modifying the CQPreference.xml file in the FM installed directory. Following customization are possible by changing the preference file.
Filename Restrictions: This flag allows user to define which characters will be allowed for any file of folder in CQ. The user will not be able to create or upload a file or a folder which contains a restricted character.
Users Area: By default all the checked out files will be downloaded in the APPDATA folder. However, the user have the flexibility to define a specific folder location where they want to download files from CQ.
Suppress Alerts: Users can choose to suppress various dialog alerts which come while uploading/downloading the documents for missing references. All the suppressed alerts will be logged in the FrameMaker console.
CQ Repository Tree: The users can configure the folder which they want to see in the CQ Repository tree.
Progress Bar: For low bandwidth networks or slower server connections the file operations can take a long time. Users have an option to see the progress bar for various UI operations such as upload/checkout/check-in/tree-browsing etc to signify work in progress.
4. Download Dependents: During the checkout user has the flexibility to download or not download the dependent files. This feature allows users to download the dependent files for those files which were checked-out without dependent files earlier.
5. Show Metadata: The Metadata dialog lists the metadata associated with a node such as node type, creator tool, modified dates etc. These properties are read only and cannot be edited from the connector.
6. Copy: This feature allows users to copy certain files from one CQ folder to another.
7. Move: This feature allows users to move/cut-paste certain files from one CQ folder to another.
8. Resolve Missing File: FrameMaker automatically resolves all dependencies for files uploaded outside FrameMaker when files are opened/checked-out from the connector. Hence, saving a lot of manual effort that goes into reference resolution.
You can download the Adobe CQ connector from here or simply visit the FrameMaker developer page and scroll down to the section titled "CMS Connector" to learn more about the connectors. After unzipping the contents, you can see the sample connector source, compiled DLLs, Readme etc.
We hope that you will find this CQ connector useful. Please let us know your feedback once you have tried and used it.
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