I am a graphic designer, art director and a painter based in New York and Paris. I have already presented my work on more than twenty exhibition in Paris and elsewhere in France in renowned places and museums. As an art director i also worked for LVMH and other french big groups, mostly on websites and apps design and also on brands identities.
After a few years i have been moving several times to China to paint two giants murals in very famous districts in the city and for several exhibitions including one in the 7th most famous city of the big country including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu. I am now established on the US territory in New York, and work as an art director for Avant-Garde USA corp, and still as an artist.


Eating nuts supplies you with protein, fiber and healthy fats and also helps you meet your daily needs for magnesium and potassium. However, most nuts are a better source of magnesium than potassium. These minerals are essential for fluid balance, muscle and nerve function, protein synthesis, blood sugar control, blood pressure regulation, strong bones and a normal heart rhythm. Men need at least 420 milligrams of magnesium per day and women need at least 320 milligrams, according to the Institute of Medicine. Both men and women need at least 4,700 milligrams of potassium daily. Because they are high in healthy fats, nuts are a concentrated source of calories, so limiting yourself to one portion is a good idea.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture notes that almonds are a good source of both magnesium and potassium. From one-third cup of almonds you'll get roughly 349 milligrams of potassium and about 129 milligrams of magnesium. Eating a serving of almonds per day meets about 7 percent of your need for potassium and 31 to 40 percent of your need for magnesium. The nutritional values vary only slightly whether you choose to eat them raw, roasted or blanched.
Cashew nuts are another way to get both magnesium and potassium. A one-third cup serving of roasted cashews contains 272 milligrams of potassium, or 6 percent of your daily need. You'll also get about 117 milligrams of magnesium, which meets 28 to 36 percent of your daily need. For the least amount of added fat and sodium, choose unsalted, dry-roasted cashews. They make a great snack on their own or can be added to salads or stir fries for extra nutrients and crunch.
Brazil nuts are a less common nut that grow on giant trees in the Amazon jungle in South America. They're larger than most nuts and have a rich, creamy flavor. Eating a one-third-cup serving gives you 167 milligrams of magnesium and 292 milligrams of potassium. This meets 6 percent of your need for potassium and 40 to 52 percent of your need for magnesium. You can find Brazil nuts in many bulk food sections and they're commonly added to deluxe mixed nut blends.
You can also eat raw or roasted pistachios or dried pine nuts to get more of these minerals. one-third-cup serving of pistachios gives you roughly 420 milligrams of potassium and 50 milligrams of magnesium, which meets about 9 percent and 12 to 16 percent of your needs respectively. From one-third cup of pine nuts you'll get 269 milligrams of potassium, or 6 percent of your daily need, and 113 milligrams of magnesium, or 27 to 35 percent of your daily need.
Many seeds, while not technically nuts, provide both minerals as well. Roasted pumpkin seeds provide about 147 milligrams of potassium and 42 milligrams of magnesium per one-quarter-cup serving. A one-quarter-cup serving of sesame seeds gives you 126 milligrams of magnesium and 168 milligrams of potassium. Sunflower seeds also provide 44 milligrams of magnesium and 165 milligrams of potassium per one-quarter cup.
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The Bukit peninsula is at the south end of Bali and is home to some of the Worlds most famous surf spots. Padang Padang Surf Camp is located at the very heart of these breaks and will find the best waves for you on any given day.
No matter your ability you will have the opportunity to surf and be mentored by expert surf guides that are determined to make you a better surfer at our Surf School.
The above image shows a map of our surf camp in relation to some of these breaks that we will be exploring in detail.
Padang Padang rights is also known as baby Padang. It is located at the other side of the channel to the world famous Padang Padang.
But this is a soft mellow break due to the shape of the reef and is the perfect spot for beginners that are learning to surf.
It breaks both left and right. The left is a long ride and can be ridden almost all the way to the next surf break (Impossibles) while the right is a shorter ride that takes you back to the channel for an easy paddle back to the line up. This is the surf spot where many of the local Balinese kids learn to surf.
Padang Padang is known as the balinese pipeline as it is very similar to Hawaaii's very own pipeline. It is a very fast long barrelling wave that lives up to it's reputation as the most serious wave in bali.
The waves come in fast out of deep water and breaks over a shallow coral reef which makes the wave barrel (tube). Expert surfers only.
If you are lucky you might catch the odd celebrity at Padang Padang beach.
Uluwatu is the indicator break for the west side of the bukit and is very consistent. Picks up any swell and never flat. The wide reef offers many different peaks which all turn on at different tide stages. The Peak is immediately in front of you as you paddle out of the cave and is a consistent wave that works at all tide stages but is best from mid to high tide. Outside corners only breaks at low tide on the biggest swells and is a classic wave. This is the go to big wave riding spot when the swell is big enough. Racetrack is a fast racy wave that works best at low to mid tide. Fast racy and so much fun. The best waves are growers, start at shoulder high and get bigger and bigger. The end section throws a great barrel but be careful as rather shallow and many flesh eating hungry crabs waiting for a taste of you skin Temples is a bit of a paddle from the main peak so tends to be less busy and works best at mid to high tide. The bombie will break on the biggest swells and is rideable at up to 30 foot or even bigger! Our surf guides are experts at this break and many have grown up surfing Uluwatu and have participated in several local invitational competitions. In general Uluwatu is best suited for the advanced surfers, but conditions are commonly appropriate for intermediate surfers.
Impossibles is a fast racy wave that is very picturesque. There are 3 seperate peaks on this wide reef which breaks up the crowds. On the right conditions with a good size swell and offshore wind it is possible for the sections to link up and to get a ride of a mile or more to the warungs at bingin. Due to how quickly this wave breaks it is almost explicitly for advanced surfers but can be good for intermediates on smaller days.
Bingin is a perfect machine wave that works best around mid tide. It is a very consistent wave and throws out many perfect barrels. If you want to practice barrel riding lefts - bingin could be the perfect location. At low tide it can be very shallow and for expert surfers only. At high tide the wave can break very soft and is where the bali children learn to surf. High tide can be perfect for intermediate surfers on a small day, but mostly only suitable for advanced surfers and due to the highly localised nature of the spot, best to go with a local surf guide.
Dreamland is a beautiful white sand beach a short walk from Impossibles & Bingin. There are many different breaks that work at different satges of the tide and is suitable for novice surfers as it breaks over sand. The best wave is an A frame peak that works best at low tide on a big swell. There is also a punchy shorebreak wave where you will see balinese and visitng surfers exhibiting their skills at the water's edge. Dreamland is a perfect location to spend the day surfing, sunbathing and handing out in the local warungs. On small days Dreamland is suitable for beginner surfers but it is a particular favourite of intermediate surfers as there are a variety of spots that work on different tides and swell sizes. On bigger days the A frame can be phenomenal and is only suitable for advanced surfers.
Balangan is the next break on the bukit and is waking distance from dreamland. It is a reef break but has a beautiful white sand beach which is very quiet and beautiful. Balangan is still relatively undeveloped and retains that old bali charm. Balangan is a fun left hander that can break quite fast so wave selection and positioning is key here. Very popular with intermediate surfers but also suitable for beginner surfers on the smaller days. Balangan can be ridden at any tide but low tide is a bit challenging for novices and so is usually best on mid to high tide.
There are steps all the way down, but save some energy for the climb back up. Nyang Nyang works best on a high tide and small swell. Like the other south coast breaks does not handle the trade winds, or wet season winds. Usually best in the morning or early/late season when the winds are light. Suitable mostly for advanced surfers we will occasionally take intermediates there by boat on small days.
Pandawa was a secret spot called timbers for a very long enjoyable time. The new road access changed all that but the wave still breaks as good as it ever does and is now a popular sightseeing destination for Indonesian tourists. Mostly lefts breaking into a channel, on big days it can be compared to teahupoo hence the name timbers. The rights are fickle but can be fun if you don't mind the brutal paddle back to the line up against the current without any channel. Due to the strong current it is usually only suitable for advanced surfers.
Greenbowls, also sometimes called Greenballs, picks up any swell direction but is very exposed to the trade winds. You need to pick your time carefully to go here when it's not too big and not blown out. Breaks mostly right into a channel but also can pick up a few lefts. Beware of the strong sweeping current and make sure you save some energy for the huge climb back to the top. If you are very tired there is a 75 year old woman who will carry your board up for a small fee. Popular with intermediate surfers, Greenbowls picks up a lot of swell and on the bigger days is only suitable for advanced surfers. Be careful not to lose your board here as there is a nasty rip current that is impossible to swim against.
Black stone is a fun wave that jacks up quicly out of deep water and mostly breaks left. The bounce from the rock forms a peaky wedge that can be tricky to take off on and offers a fast zippy ride that is more suitable for advanced surfers. There is also a shifty right hander that breaks into deep water which on the day can be good. A little bit further from the rock the wave is more mellow and suitable for intermediates and beginner surf lessons on smaller days. Black stone is adjacent to Mushroom rock and it usually depends on the wind direction to determine which wave is the better one to surf.
Airport rights breaks very near the runway on the Jimbaran side. Picks up less swell than airport lefts but is a better quality wave. In fact it is one of the best right handers in Bali and one of the few waves that break right on the west coast. Very fast sucky take off, the wave walls up and while many waves are too fast, if you pick the right one the ride is about 300 metres and ends in a bowly barrelling shallow end section. If you see a bald guy out there ripping it may be Kelly Slater as this is his favourite wave in Bali. On smaller days the wave is suitable for intermediate surfers but when in the overhead class it is advanced surfers only and you need a step up board on the bigger days.
Toro Toro is a surf camp favourite. Highlight of a stay with Padang Padang Surf Camp is to take the fun boat to Toro Toro. Very easy wave and the right can peel for incredibly long distance. At high tide there is a left hander that can be fun but is a short ride breaking into a deep water channel. Toro Toro is an easy wave and perfect for intermediate surfers. When the swell gets bigger the inside section can be fun and for beginner surfers the tower can be perfect.
Balian is a perfect A frame rivermouth break. A deep water channel etched out for thousands of years by water running from the mountains, funnels waves just where you want them: in front of our house Balian Surf Villa. In addition to the A frame peak there is an inside left that has some protection from the trade winds and is popular with intermediate surfers. On the other side of the river is a dredging barrelling right hander that is more suitable for advanced surfers.


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Q: ionic File download using FTP I have a problem with the FTP plugin (http://ionicframework.com/docs/native/ftp/). I want to download a series of files from an FTP one by one and once a file is downloaded the application should read the file and insert the data into a database. The problem is that the application reads the file before it is downloaded 100% and I do not know how to fix it.
According to the documentation, the download percentage is returned, but I do not know how to launch the function once it reaches 100% (resDL=1).
This is my code:
this.ftp.download(pathLocal+'lecturaData/'+filename, filename)
            .then((resDL: any)=>{
                if (resDL == 1) {
                    return this.FromFileToBBDD(this.file.externalDataDirectory+'lecturaData/', filename);
                }
            })
          .catch((error: any) => {
            console.error(error);
          });

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On Thursday (8 November 2018), Ran Neu-Ner, the host of CNBC's Crypto Trader show, released the video of an interview with Gabor Gurbacs, the Director of Digital Assets Strategy at ETF and mututal fund manager VanEck. This article focuses on the main highlights from this interview.
A: Well, America wants a Bitcoin ETF… So, we are close… The final deadline that they can approve this ETF or deny it is 2/27 2019 [27 February 2019]. The next decision upcoming is December 29th this year.
Q: So, what's happening on December 29th and what is the February date?
Q: What makes you think you're going to be successful?
It's a physical Bitcoin ETF; so, it stays true to the underlying Bitcoin.
It's fully insured. So, if there are any thefts, hacks, or losses, the insurance covers it.
A: VanEck has a 60+ years relationship with the regulators, and we speak regularly with the regulators… I do think that the SEC is open to discussing improvements and proposals with market participants… Right now, the Coinbases and the larger exchanges of the world operate in this semi gray area, and the regulators don't do much about it because they don't want to squash innovation, but at the same time, they want to make sure that the capital markets stay intact. And I think the ETF solved this question of not squashing any innovation and at the same time bring some level of regulation to the digital asset space.


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https://www.aeris.com/news/post/m2m-now-features-aeris-designing-m2ms-financial-strategic-uncertainties/
M2M Now Features Aeris in "Designing out M2M's Financial and Strategic Uncertainties"
Designing out M2M's financial and strategic uncertainties
Separating tangible business potential in the M2M world from all the visionary hype out there can still be difficult, says Alun Lewis. Service providers, individual businesses and almost every industry vertical are all looking at its potential from their different perspectives and with greatly varying degrees of commitment and assurance.
Everyone knows that machine-to-machine communications (M2M) is going to be huge – and possibly even strategically vital for many companies – but, for some of those looking to develop M2M strategies, substantial uncertainties still exist about costs of ownership, investment returns and technology choices.
In that context then, it's well worth looking at the experience of specialist M2M service provider Aeris Communications, which is now entering the EMEA marketplace. In business in the US for over 17 years, the company has grown rapidly and consistently, providing 'white label' M2M services to some major cellular operators while also working directly with a wide variety of end-user companies.
Having shown a healthy profit for the last three years,and with Aeris' early investment in its own core network, application platforms, billing and management systems, and cloud infrastructure now shown to be paying off, the company is keen to share its proven insights, expertise and technologies with the growing M2M community over here.
Working across multiple sectors
While working across multiple sectors, the company claims leadership in the US automotive sector, supporting manufacturers like Hyundai by providing automatic Vehicle Crash Notification services for their half million strong customer base.
For telematics specialist PeopleNet, who support a community of nearly 200,000 long-haul trucks, Aeris's operations emphasise the need to build truly scalable and flexible systems and what it calls its 'Made for Machines' technology strategy. The company's figures are certainly impressive, regularly processing around 20 million cellular signaling transactions and 30 million mobile IP transactions each day – with these numbers growing by a factor of ten during peak periods.
For Mohsen Mohseninia, the ex-Logica executive recently appointed as EMEA VP Market Development for Aeris Communications, there are a number of critical differences between M2M operations in EMEA and in North America. These make it crucial for customers to recognise the impact these could have when selecting an appropriate partner, especially where support for truly international operations is involved.
"North America and EMEA are in very different places as far as the development of M2M markets are concerned," he says. "For a start, our customers in EMEA – whether they are operators looking for white label solutions or individual companies themselves – are focused on a truly international marketplace. That means dealing with a much wider mix of cellular standards and network technologies and providing global SIMs, as well as delivering appropriate multi-language support through the portals that we provide to give our customers direct control over their services.
"Another key difference," Mohseninia adds, "are the two very different approaches that have evolved in the region. In North America, much of the development of M2M has been as a result of focused, ground-up innovation by individual companies across many market sectors and verticals. By contrast, at least in Europe, a lot of development has been top down, driven by regulation focused on areas such as vehicle safety or on environmental issues such as smart metering."
"Relationships between the different service providers here (in Europe) are also much more complex across the regions, with the big players switching between competition and co-operation as their tactics change," he continues.
"That complexity can translate into headaches for end customers who try to deal directly with the service providers themselves and grow their own international coverage. We have many years of experience in negotiating wholesale capacity across multiple cellular carriers to ensure that our enterprise customers get the optimum footprint for their needs at an optimum price. In addition, where we have access to multiple networks, our technology allows a device to choose the best signal from amongst the different networks available at any one point," says Mohseninia.
Aeris's strategy of building its own supporting systems, adding intelligence and opening up APIs to allow customers to easily integrate the company's cloud-based M2M environment with their own business systems, certainly seems to fit in with the general development path of the whole sector. According to recent research by Informa, although most revenues in the M2M sector have historically come from the provision of basic connectivity services, that picture will shift significantly over the next few years with business intelligence, service level management and professional services generating most of the money.
Based on years of experience working with customers to develop specific customers M2M services, Aeris has developed a wide range of systems and platforms unique to the M2M industry.
At the heart of Aeris's offering lies its own fully patented solution, consisting of three main radio access technology agnostic elements: AerFrame, which interacts with the various signalling systems in the host networks and provides HLR, GGSN and other functions with enhanced capabilities; AerPort, their connectivity management platform; and the company's application enablement platform AerCloud.
Flexibility and scalability
Supporting and integrated with all these are the necessary OSS/BSS functions, each also designed to deal with the specific requirements demanded by the highly individualised M2M environment, such as near-infinite flexibility in tariff plans, high volume service provisioning and easy and fast creation and prototyping of new services by the customers themselves.
For Aeris's Mohseninia, all these functionalities translate into multiple benefits for both service providers and their customers and put the direct control of devices firmly into their hands – while also cutting costs into the bargain.
"Thanks to its deep integration with the core network elements and the supporting systems such as ERP systems from SAP and Oracle, AerPort can provide far more than just the basic usage information that's available on traditional connectivity management platforms. This translates into numerous strategic advantages for users," he says. "For example, they have far greater access to network information to troubleshoot a service or a device. AerPort also allows customers to access some of the unique capabilities of our network elements – such as dynamic hotlining or VLR clearing, to name but a few – that have proven to be extremely valuable to all our customers across every vertical market. Similarly, the seamless links with AerCloud, our Application Enablement Platform, enable application developers to rapidly create and deploy M2M business applications at minimal costs, with zero integration overheads and involving much lower risks for the carriers involved.
"As the market matures," he continues, "there's also going to be a continuing need to support an increasingly diverse device community out there over long timescales. With our AerCloud Secure Protocol Adoption Layer, enterprise customers can evolve their devices, using next generation sensor technologies, for example, without needing to change the actual applications that consume and manage that data.
Here Mohseninia argues that attempts to develop standards for the M2M sector – either by the telecoms industry or by individual market sectors and user organisations – could act as a drag on fast time to market and driving real innovation. "M2M needs to be characterised by dynamism and agility," he says. "If service providers are to grow new revenues and relationships and customers are to develop differentiators to compete more effectively. We've designed our entire technology environment to put creativity and flexibility directly into the hands of the customers. "
Simpler automotive service
He highlights a number of examples of this: "One major US car manufacturer wanted to get out of the business of providing call centre support for an Automatic Crash Notification service that they provided with their vehicles. Using our platform they were able to easily redesign their service so that alerts and details were instead forwarded to the nearest emergency service call point (PSAP) without the need for interim human communications.
"Another major telematics customer has been able to use our 'ShoulderTap' application to reach out to a vehicle and re-establish an active IP connection when it's switched off. That gave our customer a real competitive advantage in their particular market," says Mohseninia.
"Looking only slightly further into the future", Mohseninia adds, "we have full support for LTEbased services as well, while in terms of complementing our applications and analysis features, we're already preparing for the convergence of M2M with 'Big Data' and creating a 'crowd-sourced' component."
"We have a significant advantage compared with many of our competitors in not only owning our own technologies and patents – and so control our own destiny and can provide unique capabilities – but, as a result, we're also able to be very, very flexible when it comes to commercial relationships, licensing and tariffs, he says. "This is very important given the huge variations in M2M traffic and usage patterns between different customers and instead allows them to focus on monitoring key events, rather than being forced to impose a subscription model from the consumer world. One of our customers, for example, runs a huge fleet of harvesters which are off the road outside of the season – they only need connectivity and support for four months of the year!"
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Q: Laravel droplist from the database I am newbie in laravel and I like to have a droplist with the values from the database table. How can I do it, actually I have an error: "Undefined variable: claims" (I think data is not passing) - I think it's because of few reasons: because of View function or different reasons.
If you have a droplist code and you can explain your code with details - please, share it with me!
Example of a droplist I like to have(taking the values from the db):
Definitions of my values and variables:
mainpage - my html page

Drop - my table with the name "claim_type" in the db

$claims - variable with info from the table "claim_type" from the database

Yea, I declared my table with function
protected $table = 'claim_type';

Here is my Controller with the name MainController:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Main;
use App\Drop;

class MainController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $claims = Drop::all();
        return View::make('mainpage')->with('users', $claims);
    }

And my html:
@extends('layout.mainlayout')

@section('content')
<form method="POST" action="{{ url('/') }}/querty">
{{ csrf_field()}}

Force form:

 You can add you information here, Sir:

 Name:
        <input type="text" name="name" />

 Email:
        <input type="text" name="email" />

    <form method="POST" action="{{ url('/') }}/add">
    @foreach($claims as $claim)
    <option value="$claim->id">{{$claim->type}}</option>
    @endforeach
    </form>

 Where:
        <input type="text" name="where" />

 Description:
        <input type="text" name="description" />

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Explose it!</button>

</form>
@endsection

My route:
Route::post('/mainpage', 'MainController@index');

Actually, saw a lot of articles, please explain me how it works.
Thank you!
I hope this post will help also for the different coders
Tested methods from different users:
class MainController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $claims = Drop::all();
        dd($claims);
        return View::make('mainpage')->with(claims);
    }

In Views (tested methods):
@foreach($claims as $claim)
        <option value="$claim->id">{{$claims->type}}</option>
    @endforeach

A: On index method in controller yo have two errors
$claims = Drop::all()->get();// use this get()
return View::make('mainpage')->with('users', claims);// you don`t need $
And where did you get this users
And in view you need foreach
 @foreach($claims as $claim)
    <option value="$claim->id">{{$claims->type}}</option>
@endforeach

And also i think that your model don`t see your table in db because of naming convention. Model name is plural of your db table name. If you have table claimTypes model is claimType

A: Sorry, the code is correct. Thanks to the Zoran Kabic's help, I fixed the bug.
My error was: for each form Route we can call only one controller. For example, we can't add few Controllers.
Route::get('/', 'MainController@index');
Route::get('/', 'DropController@index');//incorrect, only one controller for each path
My code, it's woking well and tested at 146%:
The result of my code, values are taking from the db
Routing:
Route::get('/', 'MainController@index'); //you need to use get method,
     //and your controller and index (in my case it's MainContoller and @index - index)

Model (in my case it's named as Drop.php):
namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Eloquent;
class Drop extends Eloquent
{
    public $table = 'claim_type'; //table name in your DB

}

Controller (in my case MainController.php)
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Drop; //using our Model

class MainController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {

    $claims = Drop::all();//taking the values from db to variable

    return view('mainpage', ['claims'=> $claims]); //value to the view from the value $claims

    }

Thanks for all!
Hope my answer will help sb in the future!


Aluminium, with its exceptional recyclability, minimal maintenance and proven lifetime performance, successfully responds to the need for environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions.
In building applications, aluminium virtually always requires surface treatment. Yet, the choice of surface treatment of aluminum is as important as the choice of the material itself.
Anodising enhances the natural qualities of aluminium still further; it permits a strongly contemporary finish with incomparable corrosion and abrasion resistance. Unique amongst surface treatments, such as coatings, anodising is totally integrated with the metallic substrate - it is not simply a film applied to cover the surface. The result - pure aluminium - is a perfectly and repeatedly recyclable material with remarkable performance characteristics.
These same exceptional qualities can be found in new product applications in anodising, which now provide new and infinite texture and design possibilities for building exteriors.
The modern, aesthetic beauty of anodised aluminium is founded on its many unique properties. Anodising is a transparent finish integral with the metal, which retains and enhances the inherent beauty of the aluminium; it is totally UV resistant.
A totally homogeneous appearance can be guaranteed, thanks to the nature of the anodising process and the very tight quality controls on both the aluminium and the surface treatment. Colours, textures and patterns can be incorporated in the anodic film, enhancing the natural metallic appearance without affecting the total UV resistance.
The ''living'' quality of its natural metallic sheen, combining texture with - colour, guarantees a creative interaction of the surfaces and shapes of the building with the constantly changing light conditions through the day and across the different seasons.
The anodic layer will retain its original beauty and protection against corrosion throughout the life of the building - as proven by independent inspection of buildings of more than 30 years old.


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Movie review – Thoroughbreds
05 Tuesday Jun 2018
anton yelchin, anya taylor joy, cory finley, olivia cooke, paul sparks, thoroughbreds
Cory Finley's directorial debut has been likened to Heathers and American Psycho, which felt like a long reach for me.
The trailer plays with a vibrant, youthful pulse that would lend weight to this likeness, but that's purely down to marketing and editing of said piece.
The crux of the film rests solely on the lead female characters as the driving force; both offer deep layers of complexity, which as they unravel provide more than meets the eye. The rub though is in their vacuous demeanour, which finds them hard to warm to, especially as we originally journey through the eyes of Amanda (Olivia Cooke – who seriously must be questioning her film choices at this stage, The Quiet Ones, Ouija, The Limehouse Golem) who is revealed to have an unspecified mental disorder where she is devoid of any emotion.
Whilst Cooke plays this with a decent level of macabre and melancholic humour, it leaves you struggling to know who to connect to.
In some sense, you could argue that this attachment comes with Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy – who keeps churning out captivating performances in her work) but her elitist view on the world and lifestyle embedded in high society can alienate you from her motives and place them purely as petty and spoilt.
Whilst the late Anton Yelchin injects an interesting balance as drug dealing dropout, Tim, balanced in juxtaposition to coldness, and yet strangely pleasurable to see the women gain the upper hand in the triangle relationship as they plot to murder Lily's stepfather, Mark (gloriously played by Paul Sparks – House of Cards, Boardwalk Empire).
Back to Finley who also wrote the screenplay for Thoroughbreds and for his first feature cuts together a decent enough plotline to keep you interested and definitely with enough twists and turns in the narrative to keep you intrigued.
In some cases, there is a sense of superiority in the way the dialogue is delivered, venturing on the side of trying too hard to be clever, which can feel a bit verbose and alienate its audience.
It's a fine first effort from Finley, which relies on the strength of the two leads to pull a fairly weighty script into what feels a long 90min running time.
Thankfully there is enough intrigue and playfulness in the script to pepper the audience along to its conclusion, but this is not groundbreaking, nor will it win the hearts of hard-core horror enthusiasts.
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Interview with Critical Defiance done by Patrick posted on 12-22-18
Interview with Critical Defiance done by Patrick
1.Hello how are things going in Chile this week? Please introduce yourself to the readers?
Hello, I'm Felipe Alvarado from Critical Defiance, a thrash metal band from Villa Alemana, Chile. We decided to create this band in order to play aggressive and violent thrash metal that reflects our deepest emotions and to condemn an increasingly decadent society and generation. Lately, things are going great here in Chile. We had a show last Friday and it was amazing, people reacted with lots of energy to our music. So for us it is cool that they like what we are doing.
2.When did you first start listening to thrash metal and who were the first bands you discovered? Who are some of your current favorite bands in the scene today?
We started listening heavy metal and rock when we were in school (I was in a catholic school by the way). At that time I used to listen to bands like AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Queen, Metallica and Megadeth; then I met the former guitar player of the band and we started listening thrash metal, basically from the bay area SF and the Chilean scene. Bands like Toxic, Annihilator, Razor and Vio-Lence were and continue to be among our favorites.
3.When did you first meet the other members of the band and was it long before you all started Critical Defiance? How did you all choose Critical Defiance as the name of the band?
All the members of Critical Defiance are devoted thrashers. So, we met at local shows. The guitar player, Felipe Espinoza, was my best friend from school and we both shared the same interest in heavy metal music. And talking about the name, Critical Defiance, it means our resistance against a corrupt society and commercial music that rules the world today.
4.What is the current line up for the band and who would you say are the bands biggest influences?
The current line-up is: Ignacio Arévalo (Bass player), Nicolas Pastene (Drums), Felipe Espinoza (Lead guitar) and finally me, Felipe Alvarado, (Vocals and Rythm/Lead guitar). Our main Influences are Megadeth, Metallica, Voivod, Slayer and Annihilator, also other bands like Yes, Rush, King Crimson, The Beatles and Los Jaivas from Chile.
5.Misconception is the bands debut which will be released in Feb.2019 through Unspeakable Axe Rec. when did you and the band first come in contact with this label?
Our first contact with UAR was back in 2016 when we had the urgent necessity to find a label that shared our same vision. Not only related to music but also related to the message. In UAR we found the loyalty and respect that we were looking for.
6.How long did it take the band to write the music for the debut release? Does the whole band take part in the writing process or does one member write everything?
Basically, the writing process for the debut release was a work that took almost all of our lives and it encompasses all of our experiences. Life lessons, feelings and desires are compacted and putted together in Misconception. The songwriting is made by Felipe Alvarado and each member of the band participates in the arrangements.
7.Who usually handles writing the lyrics for the music and what are some subjects written about on the debut release?
The lyrics were written by Joaquín Muñoz (former member) and Felipe Alvarado. Some of the subjects in the album are violence, war, corruption, political tyranny, the self and our deepest emotions as well as misconceptions rooted in collective thought.
8.Besides the upcoming debut release early next year does the band have any other merchandise currently available for the readers to buy?If yes what is available and where can the readers buy it?
No, we haven't yet.
9.Has Critical Defiance had the opportunity to play very many live shows over the last few years? What have been some of the bands most memorable shows so far?
We enjoy every show we do. Here in Chile, the metalheads are fucking insane.
10.Are their any tours or shows planned in 2019 in support of the debut release? If yes where will the band be playing and who are some bands you will be sharing the stage with?
Yes, we want to do a show for our debut release here in Valparaíso. But we have nothing clear yet.
11.When you need to take a break from working on new music and band business what do you like to do in your free time?
Songwriting is a full time job (the second album is almost completed). And we spend our free time playing football, trekking and hanging out with family and friends.
12. Critical Defiance comes out of the Chilean thrash metal scene. What is your opinion of the thrash metal scene in Chile over the years?
We have excellent exponents in the thrash and death metal scene here in Chile, old school bands like Necrosis, Pentagram, Massakre, Warpath; and newer bands like, Mental Devastation, Terror Strike, Demoniac and Ripper which are the best in the local scene. The underground Chilean scene is really passionate about the music.
13.Who are your all-time favorite bands coming out of Chile and are their any new bands you feel the readers should check out soon?
You should definitely check a lot of bands from the Chilean scene we mentioned.
14.Besides playing in Critical Defiance do you or any of the members currently play in any other bands? If yes please tell the readers a little about them?
Felipe Espinoza also plays in Mental Devastation, The Aggressor and Unholyness. Nicolas Pastene is currently in Armored Knight, Unholyness and The Aggressor.
We are really looking forward to the release of the album; it is a really wonderful experience to have the opportunity to capture our deepest thoughts and turn them into the music that we have loved for many years of our lives.
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This celebrated Ealing comedy tells the classic black comedy tale set in 1956 of a sweet innocent old lady, alone in her home, pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing. Many will know the 50s film and the script has been artfully adapted for the stage by Graham Linehan (credits include Father Ted, The IT Crowd among others). It was greeted with great reviews when it first played in the West End in 2011.
Eccentric widow Louise Wilberforce lives with her chatty macaw in a house in King's Cross. She's known to the local police as a fantasist. But when approached by Professor Marcus, a slippery would-be lodger, she is remarkably gullible. Instead of suspecting Marcus and his four henchmen as they plot a robbery, she falls for their pretence of being musicians in rehearsal, despite their showing no trace of musical talent.
This will be, we hope, a laugh out loud comedy but with a really splendid range of character roles, it has a dark side as the play builds to its climax with Mrs Wilberforce vs the bank robbers! Departing a little from the famous film with Alec Guinness, all the gangster parts are written strongly. Important to note is that those cast should find and inhabit the role and not attempt to copy how characters were portrayed in the film.
Mrs Louisa Wilberforce: Female, acting mid 70s to early 80s. Eccentric, but not cute. Displaying an air of innocence under a veil of firmness.
Professor Marcus: Male 40s to 50s. Charming, but rather creepy with the air of an 'academic'. The leader and 'mastermind' of the gang.
Major Courtney: Male 40s to 50s. A retired major, or at least purports to be one. Has military bearing but doesn't engender confidence.
Harry Robinson: Male 20s to early 30s. A 'spiv' and 'teddy boy' of the era, nervous with some dubious habits.
One-Round: Male 30s. Needs to portray a large muscular character, a punch drunk ex boxer. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Louis Harvey: Male 30s to early 50s. The most sinister of the gang with an air of menace and trusting no one.
Constable Macdonald: Male late 30s to early 50s. An archetypal policeman of the time (no Line of Duty). Smaller part, but important role.
Mrs Jane Tromleyton: Female 70s. A very small speaking part and one of the ladies attending the musical soirée that the gang are pressed into giving.
Mrs Wilberforce's Guests: 5 Females who attend the musical soirée hosted by Mrs Wilberforce who have non-scripted parts, but make plenty of noise!
Please note: the ages above refer to the ages to be portrayed and are a guide. Please consider choosing a passage from the play to read and act at the audition.


Namaste! As you may know, I've just came back from my trip to Nepal. It was an amazing and unforgettable experience! I spent the last month teaching english in a secondary school, in the district of Lamjung. Despite the Culture Shock; living in a small village up on a hill, not so much electricity, away from a big city and surrounded by rice fields and animals (including goats, buffaloes and monkeys hihih), I had such a great time and would never forget what I lived and the people I met!!! The students were adorable, with such big hearts and teaching them was fantastic! It reminded me how a simple life can make you really happy! The children there, are not spoiled as we are here in the Western World, they work a lot and live a simple and happy life!
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Q: MKMapVIew shows googleMap in iOS 5 and Apple map in iOS 6
Possible Duplicate:
Let users choose between Google Maps and Apple Maps in IOS 6?

In my app, i have used MKMapView which shows google maps in iOS 5.0 but it shows Apple map in iOS 6.0. I, want to show google map in both the OS, because Apple Map is not available in iOS 5.0. Is it possible?  Any suggestion will be accepted.

A: Let users choose between Google Maps and Apple Maps in IOS 6?
That question pretty much answers it, however someone else on here has provided a Google maps overlay you can try!
https://github.com/mladjan/GoogleMapsOverlayiOS


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Q: Set default value for dict from json.loads I want to add default value for key not exist in json.loads
I have a list of keys like this
["id", "name", "wkt", "created", "radius", "round"]

and many line json file which doesn't have enough keys like this:
{"id":"1", "name":"a", "round":5}
{"id":"2", "wkt": "POINT(1.1)", "created":"2018-22-11T10:00:00"}
{"id":"3", "radius":3}

Expect result:
{"id":"1", "name": "a", "wkt":null, "created":null, "radius":null, "round":5}

My current sollution
for line in lines:
    line_dict = json.loads(line)
    for key in keys:
        if not key in line_dict:
            line_dict[key] = None
    yield line_dict

Expect result
I want to find more efficient way to set default for not exist keys with json.loads. With object_hooks or object_pair_hook i had no success so far.

A: You can initialise a dictionary of empty values and update accordingly.
keys = ["id", "name", "wkt", "created", "radius", "round"]
default = dict.fromkeys(keys, None)

def read_json(filename):
    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
        for line in f:
            d = default.copy()
            d.update(json.loads(line))
            yield d

A: I might be misunderstanding your question, but can you not do something like this?
def filler(d):
   for i in ["id", "name", "wkt", "created", "radius", "round"]:
     if i not in d:
       d[i] = None
   return d

json.loads('{"id":"1", "name":"a", "round":5}', object_hook=filler)

For me, this returns
{u'name': u'a', 'created': None, u'id': u'1', 'radius': None, 'wkt': None, u'round': 5}


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SAP denies building backdoors for NSA
By Allie Coyne on Mar 17, 2015 9:25AM
Says it doesn't customise for specific clients.
Software giant SAP has denied reports that it is working with the US National Security Agency to support the agency's mass surveillance capabilities within its own big data technologies.
The company over the weekend responded to recent reports in German media about a partnership with the NSA relating to its HANA in-memory database platform and other technologies, saying the reports were "misleading and flawed".
SAP is listed as one of the NSA's contractors alongside Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northcorp, according to the reports.
The reports highlighted the role SAP subsidiaries - such as SAP National Security Services 2 in the US, which serves government clients - had in supporting the surveillance activities of law enforcement agencies with SAP's Inxight, Sybase and HANA products.
Sybase's largest customer is the NSA, according to the reports.
The HANA software allows for the processing of huge volumes of data, which was attractive to law enforcement agencies for surveillance and data collection purposes, the reports stated.
But SAP CEO Bill McDermott denied the claims, and said the company did not customise its software for specific clients.
"There are no so-called backdoors built into SAP software and customer data cannot be retrieved externally. No company is more committed to data privacy and security than SAP," he said in a statement.
McDermott said it was "unquestionably" in SAP's interest to offer software to public agencies "as they look to improve outcomes through innovation".
"The subsidiaries we have created to work with governmental organisations in the US and elsewhere are independently managed and are reviewed by independent external auditors. Claims that this setup allows access to customer data are false," he said.
"Technology is one of the means to ensure our safety and to protect people's lives. If our technology contributes to upholding a safe, free and open society, we are honoured by this and committed to doing so with the utmost integrity."
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Lev Leviev Quitting Israel
December 30, 2007 / Editor / 0 Comments
The announcement by Billionaire Lev Leviev, one of Israel's wealthiest citizens, that he and his family are planning to leave Israel is causing reverberations all over Israel, and the Jewish world. Reported destination for Mr. Leviev is London, England, where the businessman and entrepreneur already has varied business interests. He is Chairman of African Israel Development Company, is also head of L.L.D. Diamonds, the largest diamond manufacturing company in Israel and one of the largest in the world. Leviev, age 51, came to Israel originally from Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1971, and has been one of the leaders of the Bukharian Jewish community in Israel for many years. The billionaire's personal fortune has been estimated at "between 4 and 7 billion dollars", and he is rated number 278 by Forbes rating of the wealthiest people in the world.
A deeply religious man, Leviev made the news several years ago when he purchased the controlling interest in the exclusive Ramat Aviv Shopping Mall, and almost immediately prevented the multi-screen cinema there from being open on Shabbat and Jewish religious holidays. Although the cinema later opened its doors during Jewish holy days, Leviev retaliated by announcing that he would remove the cinema entirely from the mall. Leviev is deeply involved in the Chabad religious movement, and has made large donations to the Chabad Movement in both Israel and abroad. He was a personal friend of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, who has been refereed by many as the Jewish "Meshiach" or Messiah.
Leviev's diamond empire, which includes mines in both Russia and southern Africa, has given him so much clout that he has even challenged the DeBeers international diamond syndicate by saying that due to the size and scale of his operations, he doesn't need to be a Debeers diamond "sight-holder" since he has enough access to raw, uncut diamonds from his own sources. His real estate empire has also reached a state where he is purchasing exclusive property in cities such as London and New York City, some of which cost more than half a billion dollars. Besides purchasing various luxurious properties in the U.S., his Africa Israel company also owns controlling interest in the 1,700 "Fina" gas stations which are spread all over the continental U.S.
Leviev is a strong family man and the father of nine children. Recently, he appointed his eldest daughter to be the CEO of Africa-Israel, which may have been an advanced notification of his intention to relocate. He has also been recently quoted that he is very dissatisfied with the present political situation in Israel and also in the manner in which many non-religious Israelis are living, including their desecration of the Sabbath and religious holidays. Israel's dealing with the Palestinians has also been disappointing to Leviev, especially in regards to the Olmert government's willingness to return most of the West Bank in return for a peace agreement.
Whether Leviev and his family will like living in an increasingly Muslim influenced city like London is too early to tell. London's Jewish population has recently taken on a religious revival which many younger families choosing to become deeply religious. London's business proximity is probably attractive to Mr. Leviev as the city of nearly 20 million has one of the largest diamond bourses in the world. And regarding his many business interests in Israel, London is only a 4 hour plane flight away. While this move may not be permanent one, Mr. Leviev appears to be sending the State of Israel a distinct message that it should consider putting its political and religious house in order before it's too late to do so.
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Next Gen Driving Puts CE Companies Behind Wheel
Automotive Market Research, Analysis and Commentary
As the automotive and entertainment worlds continue to converge, with next generation driving technology firmly at the wheel, Futuresource Consulting explores the trends and developments in its comprehensive new automotive market report.
"There's no doubt that the car is the next entertainment and communications battleground," says Mike Fisher, Associate Director at Futuresource Consulting. "As autonomous driving technologies start to become commoditised, the consumer electronics industry is stepping in. It's playing a significant role in differentiating car manufacturers' products through enhancing entertainment and improving productivity during car journeys. With new car demand rising on a global scale, the automotive market could prove to be a significant driver of revenues for many players in the consumer electronics industry."
Car Market on the Rise
The worldwide passenger car market is expected to exceed 85 million auto shipments in 2018, rising to more than 100 million shipments in 2025. The majority of this growth is being driven by developing nations. As an example, the market in India is expected to nearly double in size from 2017 to 2025. Markets such as the UK, USA and Western Europe have hit saturation point, but they do show significant opportunities for high-tech autonomous driving and in car entertainment systems.
Tech Giants Take Control
"Tech giants with expertise in AI, the likes of Apple, Google and Amazon, have opportunities to dive deeper into vehicle ecosystems, enabling passengers to bring their digital lives inside the car," says Fisher. "A whole range of new services is coming into play, such as personal virtual assistants, and personalisation using AI and facial recognition. Fuel and parking payments, toll payments and postal deliveries to vehicles will all become commonplace, together with more targeted retail and e-commerce services."
The advent of fully autonomous vehicles will open up consumer electronics opportunities even further. The first ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance Systems) level four car – a vehicle that features a high, but not complete, level of autonomy – is expected by 2020, allowing the driver to be completely distracted by other tasks in most driving scenarios.
"We're not there yet, but AI is setting the scene for even more personalised services," says Fisher, "such as the intelligent and emotional concepts showcased by Mercedes, Hyundai and Toyota, as well as 3D holographic virtual assistants, as demonstrated by BMW and others."
Security, Personalisation & Privacy
With car manufacturers exploring the emerging trend for shared mobility services (MaaS), additional requirements for vehicle security and personalisation will come to the fore. This new way of accessing cars without the inconvenience and cost of ownership, could hold huge appeal for urban and younger consumers. It's likely that MaaS will require new approaches to vehicle security and personalisation, such as facial and voice recognition sign-in, which adjusts vehicle settings based on pre-set individual preferences, as well as enabling or disabling some features based on the trim level specified by each occupant.
"Beyond entertainment and communications, we're also going to see the rise of connected car data as a multi-billion-dollar market," says Fisher. "Everything from real-time maps, to car repair diagnostics, to pay-as-you-drive insurance policies will be made possible by the flow of data across networks. However, this all relies on personal data recording and brings privacy legislation into play, a dangerous minefield that needs to be negotiated with care. Not only can this lead to heavy fines, but any security breaches may also sow the seeds of consumer distrust.
"As the automotive and CE industries continue to intertwine, there are plenty of opportunities for the consumer electronics industry in the automotive realm and it won't be long before the savvy switched-on vendors begin rising to the surface."


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Q: My JavaScript file is linked, but JavaScript code is not working My JavaScript file is linked and also working, I came to know this when i linked the .js file, i made an alert("working"); and it was working but when i did further coding it didn't work.
Then i tried on google chrome console (image is attached), it started working. Why the .js file is responding at first but not working afterwards.

document.querySelector("button").AddEventListener("click", handleClick);

function handleClick(){
        alert("I am Clicked!!!");
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>Drum Kit</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
        <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo" rel="stylesheet">

Drum  Kit

                <button class="w drum">w</button>
                <button class="a drum">a</button>
                <button class="s drum">s</button>
                <button class="d drum">d</button>
                <button class="j drum">j</button>
                <button class="k drum">k</button>
                <button class="l drum">l</button>

                Made with ❤ in London.

A: This has something to do with your query selector. You selected all buttons with one querySelector. When you selected all the buttons with a querySelectorAll the eventListener only works on the first element. So I've created a for loop that loop trough all buttons.

var btn = document.querySelectorAll("button");

for (var i = 0 ; i < btn.length; i++) {
   btn[i].addEventListener('click' , handleClick) ;
}

function handleClick(){
        alert("I am Clicked!!!");
}

Drum  Kit

                <button class="w drum">w</button>
                <button class="a drum">a</button>
                <button class="s drum">s</button>
                <button class="d drum">d</button>
                <button class="j drum">j</button>
                <button class="k drum">k</button>
                <button class="l drum">l</button>

                Made with ❤ in London.

A: You have some errors:

*

*If should use addEventListener not AddEventListener:

document.querySelector("button").addEventListener('click',handleClick)
function handleClick(){
        alert("I am Clicked!!!");
}

Drum  Kit

     <button class="w drum">w</button>
     <button class="a drum">a</button>
     <button class="s drum">s</button>
     <button class="d drum">d</button>
     <button class="j drum">j</button>
     <button class="k drum">k</button>
     <button class="l drum">l</button>

*Your code will only work for the first button, if you want to apply the function to all buttons you need to use querySelectorAll and loop over the list to add the event listener to every button as follows:

let btns = document.querySelectorAll("button");
for(let i = 0; i < btns.length; i++)
     btns[i].addEventListener('click', handleClick)
function handleClick(){
        alert("I am Clicked!!!");
}

Drum  Kit

     <button class="w drum">w</button>
     <button class="a drum">a</button>
     <button class="s drum">s</button>
     <button class="d drum">d</button>
     <button class="j drum">j</button>
     <button class="k drum">k</button>
     <button class="l drum">l</button>


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Prezydent Zielonej Góry wybierany jest przez mieszkańców miasta w wyborach powszechnych, równych, tajnych i bezpośrednich. Jest organem wykonawczym miasta Zielona Góra jako jednostki samorządu terytorialnego

Prusy (Niemcy)

Burmistrzowie (?–1945)
Martinus Bockmueller
Marcin Bademeier
~1581 : Walentyn Rottstock
17 sierpnia 1582–1582 : Szymon Krech (Kriech)
Prüfer
~1654 : Bademeier
1661–1669: Christoph Hirthe (1621–1682)
~1683 : Joachim Semler ( – 1708)
1717–1740: Johann Augustin von Breitenfeld (1661–1742)
1741–1746: Johann Carl Dehmel (1682–1749)
1746–1775: Christoph Fredrich Benjamin Kaufmann (1717–05.09.1775)
29 stycznia 1809–1815: Carl August Bergmüller (1774–1843)
1821–1832: Carl August Bergmüller
1833–3 października 1847 : Kruger Andreas
1848–1854: Hauptner
22 sierpnia 1854–1866 : Gühler
1866–1869: Nietschke
1870~ : Kampfmeier
1878–1901: Wilhelm Gayl (1842–1903)
1901–1926: Ernst Ouvrier (1866–1935)
1927 Alfred Finke
1927–1933: Ernst Busse (1885–1959)
1933 Arthur Lemme
1945 Karl Laube

Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa i Rzeczpospolita Polska

Burmistrzowie (1945–1948)

Prezydenci (1949)

Przewodniczący Prezydium Miejskiej Rady Narodowej (1950–1973)

Prezydenci (od 1973)

Wybory (od 2002)

2002

2006

2010

2015
Wybory do Rady Miasta Zielona Góra oraz Prezydenta Zielonej Góry odbyły się 15 marca 2015 r. a nie jak w całej Polsce 16 listopada 2014 r. Spowodowane było to połączeniem Gminy Zielona Góra z Miastem Zielona Góra

2018

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Madrasostes rafflesi är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Renaud Maurice Adrien Paulian 1979. Madrasostes rafflesi ingår i släktet Madrasostes och familjen Hybosoridae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

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The Queen Bee doesn't believe their past tense moments were exactly how "The Talk" co-host described them.
The Queen Bee adored how Queen Bey slayed her photo spread saluting the iconic rapper.
Is there anything Teyana Taylor can't do?
Did Remy and Kim just form the next great rap duo?
The Bee is ready for one more rumble.


It's now roughly a year since I was laid off. I immediately got some advice from my still-employed colleagues that sounded supportive, but was 100 percent wrong.
"The summer's almost over. You should take some time for yourself and enjoy the sunshine."
Yes, it's tempting to get up late the next morning, grab your bathing suit and a long forgotten book and hit the beach. Don't. Hit the computer instead. Sign up for unemployment, so money starts trickling in from the state as soon as possible.
More importantly, hit the ground running and start looking at jobs immediately. Even if you immediately update your resumé to provide the end date of this last job, it will still look like you're employed for at least a month. It's an important month.
"You just took a tough hit. Take some time for yourself and lick your wounds to regroup. That way you can start with a more positive outlook."
If you're extremely angry about being laid off, don't take it out on yourself by creating extra handicaps. Delaying a job hunt is one huge handicap you don't have to have.
Time is important and hitting the ground running demonstrates to potential employers that you're just that type of person — the one who can accept challenges and immediately take steps to meet them.
If you are extremely angry, get counseling. An angry attitude comes through in cover letters, resumés and interviews. Anger can be your own worst enemy in landing a new position.
If you delay starting a job search, anger tends to just fester and the procrastination rarely results in a better attitude. My experience shows that procrastination more often serves to just make the anger worse as it gets harder and harder to start a search and easier and easier to play the blame game on the previous employer.
"It will be great not to have to get up early in the morning. You can let yourself go a bit and relax in your sweats."
It's important to set and maintain a routine that lets you stay upbeat and energetic. This includes continuing to get up early each day as if you were going to work and then — going to work. Except now you're going to work on yourself and not for your ex-employer.
Working on yourself includes continuing to get dressed, albeit not in business casual clothes or a suit. But definitely don't wear sweats or let yourself go. The only time you should put on sweats is when you're exercising, in order to create the best you that you can be for job interviews and first impressions.
"This is a great time to take a vacation. You won't have time once you get a new job."
Going on vacation when unemployed is a terrible idea. Vacations are expensive and you don't know how long you'll need unemployment insurance, severance or savings to last. If you have a reason to visit someone in another city as an opportunity to also seek jobs in that city, then go for it. But if the vacation is simply to give yourself a change of scenery, this is not the time.
Instead, when you get a job offer, negotiate an extra week before the start date. Certainly if you were working, you would likely need to give two weeks notice to an employer. There's nothing wrong with starting a new job two weeks after it's offered as well, except now it's to tie up personal loose ends, perhaps buy a new outfit, and go on vacation!
At least if you run up the credit card on this type of vacation, you will soon be seeing a steady paycheck to help pay the debt.
Here's the hard truth: When you're laid off, it's no time to lay back. It will likely take you many months to get a new job. With all that time in front of you, it can be easy to fall into the trap of not getting started sooner rather than later. Don't.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get started all over again right away.
The next day after a layoff can set the tone for your job search. Make that next day, and all the days that follow, ones where you hold your head high and give yourself the fighting chance you so richly deserve.
Don't lick your wounds. Instead, play music from Rocky, get up from the countdown, and get yourself back in the ring. Some cardio boxing at home can't hurt either. It's all about getting your head in the game as fast as possible. Vacations and R&R? There's plenty of time for that later.
Rhona Bronson is an AOLJobs.com contributor. She has spent more than 30 years in marketing and communications positions with well-known consumer product and media brands. After being laid off as a Senior VP of Marketing in 2009, she started a marketing and consulting company in North Jersey. She later led a marketing group for a regional newspaper in South Jersey. Laid off again in 2013, Bronson conducted a focused job search resulting in her newest position as Director of Marketing for the Delaware River and Bay Authority.


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Random: UK's Royal Mail Issues Set Of Classic Video Game Stamps
Replacing the Queen's head
by Ryan Craddock Tue 7th Jan 2020
Sending letters and birthday cards is about to get a whole lot more exciting in the UK, as Royal Mail announces a new set of classic gaming stamps.
There are 12 different designs set to be available in total; Royal Mail says that the stamps are "celebrating the joy of gaming with pioneering and influential UK-designed games from the 1980s and '90s". Perhaps the most special of the lot is a pack of four that chart the evolution of Tomb Raider and its protagonist, Lara Croft, but we have a rundown of all the other games represented below, too.
If you like the look of these, you can pre-order a full set from the Royal Mail website for £14.25. They'll also be going on general sale at 7,000 Post Offices across the UK from 21 January.
Here's that rundown we promised:
Elite (1984) - was a pioneering space-trading game originally made for BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Made by Cambridge based duo, David Braben and Ian Bell, the game is legendary and arguably changed the face of computer gaming. Using a tiny amount of memory, this was the first genuine 3D game where players navigated a spaceship through galaxies. It is regularly listed among the most important video games ever created.
Dizzy (1987) - was devised and created by the Oliver twins and published by Codemasters. It went on to become one of the most successful British game franchises of the era. Originally created for the Amstrad CPC, it quickly converted to ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and other computers and consoles. The game's main character is an adventuring egg that runs and tumbles around a fantasy world solving puzzles by collecting interesting objects.
Populous (1989) – was the first civilisation building game and one of the most successful games for PC ever produced. A real-time strategy game, it has won numerous awards and has been voted among one of the most important games of all time. It was created by Bullfrog Productions.
Lemmings (1991) – was created by Dundee based DMA, and was one of the best received games of the 1990s. The objective is to save lemmings, and apply abilities to individuals to aid their escape.
Micro Machines (1991) – a ground-breaking race game developed by Codemasters, where players race miniature toy vehicles. Influential and immensely popular; the game is regarded as a classic.
Sensible Soccer (1992) – is considered by many to be the father of digital football games, and still retains a following. It was listed as one of the 10 most important video games of all time by a committee of US games experts.
WipeOut (1995) – was developed in Liverpool by Sony's Psygnosis studio. WipeOut was a revolutionary futuristic racing game for the new PlayStation that became a cult hit. It featured original music by Orbital and The Chemical Brothers.
Worms (1995) – was published by Team 17 and featured cartoon-style warfare between worms. The series went on to become an international success story, helping Wakefield-based, Team 17, to become a leading international games publisher.
We imagine most people buying these will be doing so just to keep them at home, but we're secretly hoping to receive something in the post with one on just for the novelty. What a weird, but cool idea.
Obito_Sigma
Ah yes. All the classic games, like Tomb Raider, Adventures of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider Chronicles, and Tomb Raider (2013).
Hams96
Ok need that worms stamp tbh, got loads of fond memories of playing that game with my parents
Oh my god, that aladdin deck enhancer dude lol
BionicDodo
The Sensi, Micro Machines, Worms and Lemmings stamps are great!
If this is supposed to celebrate "influential UK designed games", why is Tomb Raider (2013) developed by the American Crystal Dynamics here?
It's not like one of the best selling games of all time came from the UK cough cough GTA V was developed by Rockstar North.
The 2013 rebooted Tomb Raider isn't British, is it?
It's clever how the stamps themselves remind you of the 90s when people used stamps...
BulkSlash
Apparently no games were made in the UK after the '90s... other than Tomb Raider 2013 which definitely wasn't a Canadian development team. I'm guessing they were told they couldn't use Lara without plugging the recent games.
Not too impressed with the Wipeout stamp either, it looks like it's from an emulator given how sharp the polygons are.
sixrings
Sensible soccer would be a great switch port
OMG, Micro Machines, Populous, Sensible Soccer, Worms... games I've actually played - something relevant to me for once
But where-in-the-hell is Speedball 2?
First_Amendment
I don't belive in any queen king only elected or hired should have any kind of influence in this world.Please as all "royalty" to forefit thier titles and supposed claim to birthright/association as royals.
Where are the Rareware stamps?
KitsuneNight
@Toy_Link
Possible that Rockstar wasn't interested.
Aronin
Where's Rare at? They were arguably the most influential British developer in the mid-late nineties, and probably Nintendo's best 2nd party developer during that same period. They deserve at least ONE stamp!
That's actually pretty cool.
USWITCH64
Very strange selection of games here, did they pick them from a hat?
HobbitGamer
@First_Amendment You could troll better if you used correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Should've stayed with your old username, because the First Amendment includes Freedom of Speech, not Freidome if Spech
TheFatPlumber
Where's GoldenEye? And Rare for that matter? And why are there four different Tomb Raider mentions?
Wolfgabe
No Rareware stamps I am disappoint
@HobbitGamer You tell them, trying to hurt your British pride. Unacceptable. Hit them where it hurts with your presumption of intelligence. Haha
@HobbitGamer no
@USWITCH64 No most are quite iconic in the Uk. I grew up in the 90s and loved most of these games
jockmahon
micro machines was f'ing great, pool table courses where amazing
Ooyah
Am not sure why there is quite so much Lara... but Dizzy, Elite, Lemmings and Sensi are wonderfully informed choices, I think.
@Ooyah To my shame I'd never even heard of Dizzy. But surely something like Manic Miner could better represent the spectrum? That, or a stamp with "R Tape Loading Error" written at the bottom.
@Yas
Yeah! Manic Miner, or Jet Set Willy would have been great! Or Horace! 😆
ALinkttPresent
The Mac and Linux versions of Tomb Raider 2013 were ported by UK-based Feral Interactive. But regardless, the Tomb Raider franchise was originally created in the UK, so it makes sense that they would want to embrace any and all installments of it regardless of where that specific game was developed.
beuiz
The Tomb Raider stamps are separate to the classic British gaming ones. So that's why there's four Tomb Raider ones and one of them isn't British and whatever other questions were going on.
Search for the actual stamps, it's a lot clearer.
Man, the guy who took those screens sure knew what he was doing. Wonder who could have been...
Cool, I want the WipeOut ones.
@Mince I'm not British 😁
@HobbitGamer well theres my presumption lol.
They should have done an Odd Job stamp obviously
Dr_Corndog
A nice reminder that some really great games have come out of those little isles. Lemmings and Worms...to say nothing of the great games Rare made back in the day!
Wormold
It's worth a purchase. Probably an investment.
Jayofmaya
@First_Amendment I agree, bunch of butt munching royalists have voted you down lol.
Bit random, though.
KoopaTheQuick
Bring back Dizzy!
SKTTR
The only game that is available on Switch is Worms, but I'd buy Elite and Lemmings for the console as well.
Markiemania95
@m8e3point1415 The fact that they're a Japanese developer and not British probably also factored into their exclusion here...
BrandonGiesing
If they wanted to include more recent British developed games, Forza Horizon on Xbox is made by a British developer.
Gravitron
Loved Worms. Dont think I would have been into it if my best friend wasnt from the UK.
ShiroiTaka
I would love Elite 2 on Switch, the original was amazing for its size the entire game fit on 1 floppy disk on PC and 2 on Atari ST. Lost much of my youth to that game!
@KitsuneNight Rockstar wasnt into it or the Government decided it would be a good idea not to associate with Rockstar based on the violent nature of most of their games.
Either those things or that only the original 2 GTA games were made in Scotland. Not bad games but arent exactly classics on the level of GTA3 and onward.
Bondi_Surfer
Sensible Soccer is my favourite game of all time. I want that stamp! And I'd love a Switch version ... I'm sick of waiting for Sociable Soccer (and doubt it'll see the light of day on Switch)
Morlock5K
Shame for never hearing of Dizzy. Absolutely fantastic adventure games that are well over due a reboot!
Wed 8th Jan 2020
@Gravitron haven't Rockstar [North] always been based on Scotland? Previously named DMA, which made one of these stamp featured games
@jco83 I'm saying literally made in Scotland. The boys were in NYC when 3 was made if I recall correctly. All the same I'm pretty sure the main reason they weren't featured on the stamps is the violent nature of the games rather than where they were produced
Wish You could pick four of your choice, mine would be, Dizzy, Elite, Populous and (hmm stuck between Sensible Soccer and Micromachines)
That's pretty nice.
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Samuel Pierpont Langley (ur. 22 sierpnia 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts, zm. 27 lutego 1906, Aiken, Karolina Południowa) – amerykański fizyk, astronom oraz pionier w dziedzinie aeronautyki.

Życiorys
Jego główną pasję naukową stanowiła aktywność słoneczna i jej wpływ na pogodę. W 1878 roku wynalazł bolometr usprawniający pomiary energii przenoszonej przez promieniowanie słoneczne i jest autorem metody Langleya umożliwiającej określenie pochłaniania atmosfery, a tym samym określenie stałej słonecznej.

Podczas pobytu w Allegheny przeprowadzał ważne eksperymenty związane z siłami: nośną i oporu w lotnictwie w zależności od prędkości. Bazując na tych doświadczeniach, wyjaśnił na czym polega szybowanie ptaków oraz lot ślizgowy (bez poruszania skrzydłami). W 1896 roku został konstruktorem maszyn latających. Samoloty były bezzałogowe, miały dwie pary skrzydeł o rozpiętości 4,3 m, ważyły 11,8 kg; napędzały je silniki parowe. Samolot Langleya uniósł się w powietrze za pomocą katapulty i rozbił się w Potomaku 8 grudnia 1903 roku (9 dni przed udanym lotem braci Wright w pobliżu Kitty Hawk).

W latach 1887–1906 był sekretarzem Smithsonian Institution. W 1890 założył Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Nagrody i upamiętnienie
W 1886 został pierwszym laureatem Medalu Henry'ego Drapera. W tym samym roku przyznano mu Medal Rumforda. W 1898 roku otrzymał nagrodę Prix Jules-Janssen.

Jego imieniem nazwano pierwszy amerykański lotniskowiec USS Langley (CV-1) oddany do użytku w 1920 roku, a także górę Mount Langley będącą wybitnym szczytem w górach Sierra Nevada.

Jego imię nosi też planetoida (3866) Langley i krater na Księżycu.

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Amerykańscy astronomowie XIX wieku
Amerykańscy astronomowie XX wieku
Amerykańscy fizycy XIX wieku
Amerykańscy fizycy XX wieku
Amerykańscy konstruktorzy lotniczy
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Laureaci Medalu Rumforda
Laureaci Prix Jules-Janssen
Laureaci Medalu Henry'ego Drapera
Osoby upamiętnione nazwami kraterów na Księżycu
Osoby upamiętnione nazwami planetoid
Urodzeni w 1834
Zmarli w 1906