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TM4 designs electrical motors suitable for the automotive market. To carry out the tests required to certify the motors, TM4 mandated LDV Consultants to design one of its test beds.
The TM4 motor needed a test bed that would allow the drive shaft to rotate in both directions. What made this test bed unique was the fact that the power transmission had to go through a belt. To facilitate the required movement with the type of transmission selected, LDV had to design and test a double tensioner system.
The engine torque was monitored during testing. Selecting the drive shaft tolerances between the pulley and the torquemeter was a critical process as this could affect the test results.
Camoplast Solideal implemented a procedure the purpose of which was to optimize the components of the track drive system on the John Deer tractor in order to reduce the number of components in the track drive system and in turn, lower the costs incurred to manufacture and install the drive system.
It is within this context that Camoplast Solideal mandated LDV to perform computer simulations of the new designs.
LDV was responsible for evaluating the internal stresses using various loading scenarios and comparing the results with the existing parts. The results were submitted to Camoplast Solideal in a summary report prepared by LDV.
Bombardier is a recognized world leader in ground and air transportation. Its Bombardier Transportation division offers one of the most comprehensive rail vehicle portfolios in the world.
An accident caused extensive damage to one side of the Metrolink car #125. Bombardier Transportation mandated LDV Consultants to assess the damages and provide a repair scenario.
Prepare a repair scenario together with the Process Engineering Department of the Thunder Bay plant.
RapidKL, a public transportation service company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, mandated Bombardier to perform the engineering and supervise the work needed to be able to couple four cars together.
Bombardier Transportation, Kingston division, mandated LDV Consultants to inspect the cars that needed to be converted, outline the scope of the work to be carried out and validate the required changes through calculations and analysis. In addition, LDV was tasked with the following: draft a detailed procedure, certify welder qualifications, provide technical support to the Bombardier team in Malaysia and supervise the work on site.
Via Rail is renowned as a leader in rail passenger transportation. Via owns and operates Renaissance long-distance intercity railroad cars.
Renaissance cars are equipped with retractable car steps to facilitate access to the cabin. Given that access platforms in some train stations are four (4) inches higher than those found in other stations, the car steps cannot be fully open without coming into contact with these platforms.
LDV was therefore mandated to design a new retractable car step that could be adapted to the existing car, with minimum changes to the car.


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Q: Why Template parameter is Interface but I am asked anyway to use "default(I)"? I think it is a bit strange, I want "I" to be only a interface type, and T being a class implenenting that interface type (or extending it).
Seems either I'm unable to set "null" value or to force correctly to just restrict the template to interface type.
public class MyClass< T, I> where T: I
{
    private I myInterface = null; // error here. I have to use "default(I)"
}

Am I forcing correctly to have I "interface" ? otherwise why should I have to use "default(I)"?
The reason to use I is because T has overloaded null check operator (I'm using Unity3D and hence I have to check equality over interface to avoid a bottleneck.
Well in reality I have:
public class MyClass< T, I>: MonoBehaviour, where T: MonoBehaviour, I
{
    private I myInterface = null; // error here. I have to use "default(I)"
}

A: Because the code below is a valid implementation to your generic type parameters, you can't be 100% sure T is a class (the only type being nullable):
MyClass<int, IEquatable<int>> m;

However, using the class constraint, it is:
public class MyClass<T, I> where T: I where I : class
{
    private I myInterface = null; // <-- now it is valid
}

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US crime
US court orders son of Russian MP to be held on computer hacking charges
Roman Seleznev, arrested in the Maldives, must stay in custody on charges of stealing more than 2m credit card numbers
Roman Seleznev's lawyers Robert Ray and Ely Goldin talk to reporters outside the court. Photograph: Gene Johnson/AP Photograph: Gene Johnson/AP
Associated Press in Seattle
Fri 15 Aug 2014 21.49 EDT
Last modified on Wed 20 Sep 2017 12.19 EDT
A US federal judge has ordered the son of a prominent Russian MP to remain in custody until his trial on computer hacking charges, after a prosecutor said evidence recovered from his laptop after his arrest in the Maldives gave new insights into the breadth of his activities.
Roman Seleznev, 30, the son of Russian MP Valery Seleznev, appeared in US district court in Seattle, where he was indicted in 2011 on charges that involved hacking into computerised cash registers, stealing hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers and selling the data online for at least $2m.
Seleznev faces similar but unrelated charges in Nevada.
In arguing for Seleznev to remain in custody, assistant US attorney Norman Barbosa told the court that at first look, his laptop contained 2.1m stolen credit card numbers, his criminal behaviour had not stopped and his profits had topped $17m.
"Those funds have remained beyond the reach of US law enforcement, so they are probably almost definitely available to the defendant" should he try to flee, Barbosa told magistrate judge James Donohue.
Even as Seleznev was on holiday in the Maldives he had been searching the online system of the US federal courts for charges filed against him under his own name and his online nicknames, Barbosa said.
The grand jury in Washington state indicted Seleznev on charges of bank fraud, obtaining information from a protected computer, aggravated identity theft, trafficking in unauthorised access devices and possessing stolen credit card numbers.
A month after the then-sealed indictment was returned, Seleznev suffered a brain injury in a terrorist bombing of a cafe in Morocco. He remained in a coma for two weeks and underwent a series of operations, said Robert Ray, one of his lawyers.
US secret service agents, working with local officials, arrested Seleznev at an airport in the Maldives last month as he was preparing to return to Russia from a holiday with his girlfriend. He was flown to the US territory of Guam, where another federal judge sent him to Seattle.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry a range of potential penalties, with some counts punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The Russian foreign ministry has accused the US government of kidnapping Seleznev, and Ray reiterated that claim on Friday.
The prosecutor did not respond to that comment but said Seleznev had been careful to constrain his extensive international travel to countries that did not have an extradition treaty with the US. He noted that the arrest in the Maldives was made with help from local authorities despite the lack of an extradition treaty.
Ray suggested that his client should be released after posting $100,000 in cash on a $1m bond, and that he could be placed in home detention, with electronic monitoring and no internet access.
Ray conceded that the risk of escape was a valid concern for the court but said it could be overcome by those conditions, and that Seleznev posed no threat to public safety.
"He's not going anywhere," Ray said. "This case does not involve an act of terrorism. It does not involve an act of war."
Even though Seleznev has surrendered his passport, "the court has no doubt he would be able to procure" documents that would enable him to escape, the judge said.
Andrey Yushmanov, Russia's consul general in Seattle, attended the hearing and said the government remained concerned about the circumstances of Seleznev's arrest. He said that if the US had a problem with the behaviour of one of its citizens, it should have contacted Russia. Instead, he said, the US turned to a third-party nation, as it did when it arrested Russian arms merchant Viktor Bout in Thailand in 2008.

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Q: What's a a good way to stop a pool of threads from running? I've been working on a project lately, and i need to manage a pair of thread pools.
What the worker threads in the pools do is basically execute some kind of pop operation to each respective queue, eventually wait on a condition variable (pthread_cond_t) if there is no available value in the queue, and once they get an item, parse it and execute operations accordingly.
What i'm concerned about is the fact that i want to have no memory leaks, and to achieve that i noticed that calling a pthread_cancel on each thread when the main process is exiting is definitely a bad idea, as it leaves a lot of garbage around.
The point is, my first thought was to use a exit flag which i can set when the threads need to exit, so that they can easily free memory and call a pthread_exit...
I guess i should set this flag, then send a broadcast signal to the threads waiting on the condition variable and check the flag right after the pop operation...
Is this really the correct way to implement a good thread pool termination? I don't feel that much confident about this...
I'm writing some pseudo-code here to explain what i'm talking about
Each pool thread will run some code structured like this:
/* Worker thread (which will run on each pool thread) */
{ /* Thread initialization */ ... }
loop {
   value = pop();
   { /* Mutex lock because of the shared flag */ ... }
   if (flag) {{ /* Free memory and unlock mutex */ ... } pthread_exit(); }
   { /* Unlock the mutex */ ... }
   { /* Elaborate value */ ... }
}
return NULL;

And there will be some kind of pool_stopRunning() function which will look like:
/* pool_stopRunning() function code */
{ /* Acquire flag mutex */ ... }
setFlag(flag);
{ /* Unlock flag mutex */ ... }
{ /* Acquire queue mutex */ ... }
pthread_cond_broadcast(...);
{ /* Unlock queue mutex */ ... }

Thanks in advance, i just need to be sure that there isn't a fancy-er way to stop a thread pool... (or get to know a better way, by any chance)
As always, i'm sorry if there is any typo, i'm not and english speaker and it's kind of late right now >:

A: What you are describing will work, but I would suggest a different approach...
You already have a mechanism for assigning tasks to threads, complete with all appropriate synchronization. So instead of complicating the design with some new parallel mechanism, just define a new type of task called "STOP". If there are N threads servicing a queue and you want to terminate them, push N STOP tasks onto the queue. Then just wait for all of the threads to terminate. (This last can be done via "join", so it should not require any new mechanism, either.)
No muss, no fuss.

A: With respect to symmetry with setting the flag and reducing serialization, this code:
{ /* Mutex lock because of the shared flag */ ... }
if (flag) {{ /* Free memory and unlock mutex */ ... } pthread_exit(); }
{ /* Unlock the mutex */ ... }

should look like this:
{ /* Mutex lock because of the shared flag */ ... }
flagcopy = readFlag();
{ /* Unlock the mutex */ ... }
if (flagcopy) {{ /* Free memory ... } pthread_exit(); }

Having said that, you can (should?) factor the mutex code into the setFlag and readFlag methods.
There is one more thing. If the flag is only a boolean and it is only changed once before the whole thing shuts down (i.e., it's never unset after being set), then I would argue that protecting the read with a mutex is not required.
I say this because if the above assumptions are true and if the loop's duration is very short and the loop iteration frequency is high, then you would be imposing undue serialization upon the business task and potentially increasing the response time unacceptably.


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Q: Please always sort Red status tags to the top of the tag list (Tag tab) in Meta Those tags are, to me at least, of higher interest than other tags on this site.
It would be great to be able to see all of them at the top of the list of tags.

A: I would also put the "required" tag in front of indivual tag lists (on questions)

A: There are some tags that have a double width border around them, I would put those first. Followed by the status-* tags.
If you notice the feature-request tag has a double width border, it also happens to be the highest used tag.


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Justia Dockets & Filings Eighth Circuit Arkansas Eastern District Valentine v. Boyce et al Filing 5
Valentine v. Boyce et al
JUDGMENT: Pursuant to the 4 Order filed on this date, it is considered, ordered, and adjudged that plaintiff Jeffrey Lee Valentine's complaint is dismissed without prejudice. The relief sought is denied. Dismissal of this action counts as a "strike" and the Court certifies that an in forma pauperis appeal taken from the Order and Judgment dismissing this action is considered frivolous and not in good faith. Signed by Judge Kristine G. Baker on 07/14/2015. (rhm)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS NORTHERN DIVISION JEFFREY LEE VALENTINE v. PLAINTIFF Case No. 1:15-cv-00080-KGB HENRY H. BOYCE, Head Prosecutor, Newport Prosecutor's Office; et al. DEFENDANTS JUDGMENT Pursuant to the Order filed on this date, it is considered, ordered, and adjudged that plaintiff Jeffrey Lee Valentine's complaint is dismissed without prejudice. The relief sought is denied. Dismissal of this action counts as a "strike" within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), and the Court certifies pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that an in forma pauperis appeal taken from the Order and Judgment dismissing this action is considered frivolous and not in good faith. SO ADJUDGED this 14th day of July, 2015. ____________________________________ Kristine G. Baker United States District Judge


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Ep. 9: Annihilation
Cinema of Meaning
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Cinema of Meaning is a conversational podcast that seeks to explore the depths of what cinema has to offer. Each week, we discuss an individual film to get a better understanding of its storytelling qualities, to examine its cinematic techniques, and to uncover its deeper meanings. Hosted by video essayists Tom van der Linden from the channel Like Stories of Old and Thomas Flight.
Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the challenges of depicting the incomprehensible, the problem of identity in an ever-transforming world, and our tendency for self-sabotage and self-destruction, in Alex Garland's Annihilation.
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A Marine's Prayer
Glossary (Marine Speak)
Semper Gumby
Uniform Regulations
Commandant and Sergeant Major
Navy & USMC
Regiment Structure
USMC Structure
Commandant's Reading List
Museum Virtual Experience
OFFICIAL MARINE CORPS LINKS
MARINE CORPS SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDANCE
Social Media Guidance for Unofficial Posts
Clothing Allowance
Flag Etiquette
The Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS)
Impact of a Government Shutdown
L.I.N.K.S. Program
Medical Discharge
Military Accessions Vital to National Interest
Real I.D. and Base Access
Spouse Registration After Marriage
GI Bill: How it Works
GI Bill: How to Use
Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day: What's the Difference?
Military Appreciation Month
Military Family Month
Sgt Major Bradley Kasal
Christopher "Gus" Loria
Enrique "Kiki" Camarena
Frederick C. Branch
Guy Gabaldon
James Anderson, Jr.
Larry Diggs
Lewis "Chesty" Puller
Opha Mae Johnson
R. Lee Ermey
Sgt. John Basilone
Ambassadors in Blue
Hispanics in the Marine Corps
Montford Point Marines
Revolutionary War Marines
Women in the Marines
THIS MONTH IN MARINE CORPS HISTORY
BATTLES & EVENTS
Battle of Belleau Wood
Battle of Iwo Jima
Beirut Bombing
Centennial of Women in the Marine Corps
HISTORY FROM MARINE PARENTS
History of the Marine Corps from MarineParents.com
TRADITIONS & CORPS LORE
Birthday & Birthday Ball
Christmas Poem, "Merry Christmas, My Friend"
Eagle, Globe, and Anchor (EGA)
Marine Corps Flag
Marine Corps Seal
The Marines' Hymn
Mottos & Slogans
NCO Sword
Oath of Enlistment
Rifleman's Creed
Saint Barbara
The United States Military Code of Conduct
About the Corps
Marine Corps Life
Marine Corps Promotions
Information for questions regarding promotions for enlisted Marines.
There is one question that any good Marine will ask on a regular basis. "How can I get promoted?" That answer will vary depending on the rank of the Marine. We will keep it simple and stick to the basics of getting promoted. If anyone wants to read a more in-depth description of the promotion system, click here to read the Marine Corps Promotion Manual.
Promotions to Private First Class and Lance Corporal
Marines who have served 6 months active duty as a Private are eligible for promotion to Private First Class (PFC), as long as their service is deemed satisfactory by the Commander. Time spent in boot camp does count towards the required 6 months. The same requirement exists for reservists as well. Marines who have served 8 months active duty as a PFC and 9 months time in service (TIS) are eligible for promotion to Lance Corporal (LCpl), again as long as their service is deemed satisfactory by the Commander. As a reservist, the same requirements apply.
Meritorious Promotions to Private First Class and Lance Corporal
A Commander can meritoriously promote a Marine to PFC if they believe they have shown outstanding leadership and performance. This applies to Reserve commands as well. A similar procedure occurs for meritorious promotion to LCpl. However, a command may hold a meritorious promotion board for LCpl each quarter; which will occur in December, March, June, and September.
Promotions to Corporal and Sergeant
Promotions to Corporal (Cpl) and Sergeant (Sgt) are slightly more complicated. The eligibility for promotions to these ranks is based on a composite score. The components that go into computing this score are:
Rifle Score-Determined by the Marine's score on the rifle range.
Physical Fitness Test-Based on the Marine's physical fitness test score.
Combat Fitness Test-Based on the Marine's combat fitness test score.
Proficiency Rating-A rating given quarterly by the Marine's supervisor based on the Marine's performance, ranging from 0 to 5.0.
Conduct Rating-A rating given quarterly by the Marine's supervisor based on the Marine's conduct, ranging from 0 to 5.0.
Time in Service-The total number of months of service.
Time in Grade-The total number of months served in their present grade/rank.
Drill Instructor/Recruiter/Security Bonus Points-Commands can add 100 bonus points for Marine's serving as Drill Instructors, Recruiters, and Marine Security Guards.
Education-Marine's can receive up to 100 points for military and civilian education.
Command Recruiting Referrals- E-3's and E-4's can refer individuals to recruiters. If those individuals enlist in the Marine Corps those Marine's will earn 20 bonus points per individual with a maximum of 100 points.
All of these components added together make up the Marine's composite score. Once their composite score is equal to or greater than the quarterly cutting score for that rank, they will be eligible for promotion. However, there is also a time in grade (TIG) and time in service (TIS) component to factor in. To be eligible for a promotion to Corporal, a Lance Corporal must have a minimum of 12 months TIG. This was updated in MARADMINS Number: 055/16. In order to be promoted to Sergeant, Corporals must have 48 months time in service. This was updated in MARADMINS Number: 697/19.
Meritorious Promotions to Corporal and Sergeant
A Commander can meritoriously promote a Marine to Cpl or Sgt if they believe that Marine has shown outstanding leadership and performance. There are quarterly promotion boards held in December, March, June, and September.
Staff Non-Commissioned Officer Promotions
Each fiscal year the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) holds selection boards to examine Marines in the rank of Sgt, SSgt, GySgt, MSgt, and 1stSgt. While evaluating the Marine they will take into consideration their performance, leadership, professional and technical knowledge, experience, growth potential, motivation, physical fitness, personal appearance, conduct, moral character, and maturity. Time in grade and time in service will also factor in. Sergeants looking to be promote to Staff Sergeant must have 60 months time in service and 36 months time in grade. The board will also refer to the Marine's Fitness Report (FitRep), which is a review of that Marine's performance during a specific time period. Meritorious promotions for Staff NCO's are slightly more complicated and can be read in depth in MCO 1400.32D,USMC Promotion Manual, starting on page 118.
Promotions are cause for celebration and Marines have their own traditions. As the parent of a Marine, you can commemorate their promotion with an engraved coin with your Marine's name, new rank, and date of promotion.
Click the image for our engraved coin from The EGA Shop:
Written by David Ogden, Sgt. USMC '11-'16.
David was a Sergeant with the United States Marine Corps from 2011-2016. He is a combat veteran. He has worked at Marine Parents as a writer since he left the Marine Corps. He is currently in college and writes for the organization full-time. Click here to read more about the author.


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Drewniak dwubarwny (Bunocephalus coracoideus) − gatunek słodkowodnej ryby sumokształtnej z rodziny Aspredinidae.

Występowanie
Żyje w Ameryce Południowej, od Amazonki po La Plata.

Dorosłe osobniki osiągają długość do 10 cm. Żeruje w nocy, za dnia zakopuje się w piasku. Formy dziko żyjące, zaatakowane potrafią zadać bolesne rany za pomocą twardych promieni płetw piersiowych.

Hodowla w akwarium
Świetnie  nadająca  się ryba do akwarium wielogatunkowego. Nie jest agresywna wobec ryb lecz nie należy umieszczać jej ze zbyt małymi rybami. Drewniak jest ryba nocną toteż należy pamiętać, by karmić ją po zgaszeniu światła w akwarium.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Aspredinidae
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1874 roku

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A Writing Life Imitates Art – Publishers Weekly
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Jonathan
By Karen Holt
Jonathan Santlofer writes his heroes tall. "I'm 5'7″ so I like to compensate," he says. And he writes them brave, something else he insists he's not. "I'm a big baby. If I see a knife on the table, I think it's going to jump up and stab me."
But Santlofer and his characters do have one thing, a big one, in common—a preoccupation with art. In his mysteries, art fuels everything that matters. Killers conflate violence with artistic expression, while the good guys look to visual art for clues to catch the villains.
As for Santlofer, he was a successful painter for decades before he became an author. He has been pursuing both careers since publishing his first mystery, The Death Artist, in 2002. With his fourth book, Anatomy of Fear (Morrow, Apr.) he combines his two talents, in what the publisher is calling "a novel of visual suspense."
A police sketch artist tracks a sociopath who leaves behind elaborate drawings of his victims. A plot that revolves around sketches gives Santlofer the chance to sprinkle pictures throughout the book, some representing his character's' sketches, others illustrating scenes almost as in a graphic novel.
The drawings aren't a gimmick, says Santlofer, but a storytelling tool. "If the pictures didn't enhance the plot, the pictures went," he says. Explaining his decision to combine the two disciplines, he adds, "This is going to sound really California, but I'm really at a time in my life when creative energy is creative energy. It doesn't matter how you use it."
Sitting inside his artist's studio in Manhattan one recent afternoon, we are surrounded by both sides of his art—those works meant for a gallery, and those headed for the bookstore. Dominating one wall is an oil painting made to resemble an imagined wall in Andy Warhol's studio, with insouciantly arranged pictures of such icons as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Onassis. On another wall, Mona Lisa smiles while words run across her face, backwards as if written inside the glass that encases her at the Louvre.
A third wall is dotted with unframed pencil sketches drawn for the book. One shows a young woman in a hiked-up miniskirt stabbed, lying in her own blood (his daughter, Doria, modeled for the sketch). Another sketch shows a man is slumped in a chair, fatally shot, his body on fire (Santlofer drew this one looking at himself in a mirror).
The author has never really kept his two careers separate. He set his first three books in the upscale world of people who create, sell or can afford to buy fine art. The heroine of those books, Kate McKinnon, is a statuesque beauty who can dazzle Manhattan's elite with her knowledge of art history and outwit a serial killer with equal grace.
In Anatomy of Fear, Santlofer leaves behind Kate and her rarified environment for the grittier community of New York cops and Nate Rodriguez, the tall, handsome sketch artist brought in to solve a series of killings. Fans of Santlofer's earlier books needn't worry; Santlofer says he'll bring his heroine back.
Santlofer owes his dual career to a crisis. In 1989, a fire at a Chicago gallery wiped out most of his art, so he moved with his wife, Joy, and daughter to Rome to begin rebuilding a body of work. During that time, he started writing. In the wake of the fire, he discovered a new interest in creating something literal and tangible. He abandoned the abstract work on which he'd built his reputation and began painting representational art.
"Most people don't like you to change too much," he recalls. "All the critics who'd supported me turned on me. It took five or six years to get back on track and for people to take my work seriously again."
That may help explain why he thinks of publishing as kinder than the art world. Another big difference, he says, is that books can reach an audience far beyond the few who frequent art galleries. "If you write a book, thousands of people will read it," he says. "It's a totally different way of connecting to the public world than you would ever have as a painter."
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FACT CHECK: Is This Picture from a Covington Catholic High School Basketball Game?
In the aftermath of a controversy over a viral video that appeared to show students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky mocking a Native American elder while wearing "Make America Great Again" hats, that school came under significant public and news media scrutiny.
In that context, a photograph of some of the school's students covered in what looked to be black body paint yelling at a black player during a basketball game also went viral:
At least three reasons suggested this photograph was an authentic image. First, the official YouTube page of Covington Catholic posted a (now deleted) video on 24 January 2018 titled "Colonel Crazies Compilation Video" — a reference to the nickname given to that school's cheering section — which showed numerous students covered in black paint present at several basketball games. One clip could possibly be from the same game shown in the photograph, based on the distribution of painted players and the year (2012) the video was allegedly taken:
Second, the photograph appeared to originate with a message board for Kentucky prep schools titled BluegrassPreps.com where it was posted on 7 December 2015, well before the controversy over the January 2019 viral video. The photograph was posted as part of a discussion on whether or not "The Colonel Crazies' treatment of inbounders" — players making an inbound passes — should change, and the thread included posts from several individuals defending both the antics and the wearing of black paint as well.
Third, the photograph appeared to depict a game between Covington Catholic and "Clark County," based on the uniform of the opposing player, a game that actually took place. The event was Covington Catholic's season opening game at George Rogers Clark High School, which was held on 27 November 2012. An archived version of Covington Catholic's school newspaper described their opponent as "Clark County" in that game, which Covington won 59-38.
Based on comments in the BluegrassPreps message board, the intent of the black body paint was not racial but was instead a school tradition related to "black out" games, during which fans wore black to support the team. That being said, at least one person in the thread posited a connection to racist minstrel shows from the 19th century that used blackface on white actors to depict African Americans unfavorably. "That guy on the right looks like he might have been researching minstrelsy before the game," one post read.
We reached out to the director of athletics at Covington Catholic via email to get more clarity on their cheering practices and will update our post if we receive a response. Regardless of intent, however, the photograph is an authentic depiction of a Covington Catholic basketball game that we infer took place on 27 November 2012.
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The 2023 Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana is the 22nd edition of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana (also referred to as the Copa Sudamericana), South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.

The final will be played in Montevideo, Uruguay on 28 October 2023, as announced by CONMEBOL president Alejandro Domínguez on 8 March 2023.

The winners of the 2023 Copa Sudamericana will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2023 Copa Libertadores in the 2024 Recopa Sudamericana. They will also automatically qualify for the 2024 Copa Libertadores group stage.

Independiente del Valle are the titleholders, but since they qualified for the 2023 Copa Libertadores group stage as Copa Sudamericana champions, they will only be able to defend their title if they end in third place of their Copa Libertadores group.

Format changes
On 19 December 2022, CONMEBOL announced format changes to the Copa Sudamericana starting from this edition while maintaining the same number of matches to be played. The following changes were implemented:
The first stage of the tournament, where teams from all associations (except Argentina and Brazil) play against a team from their same association on a home-and-away two-legged basis, will be played on a single-leg format.
The eight group runner-ups will not be eliminated, but will instead play a play-off round prior to the round of 16 against the eight third-placed teams of the Copa Libertadores group stage, which previously advanced directly to the round of 16. The winners of this round will qualify for the round of 16 along with the Copa Sudamericana group winners.

Teams
The following 44 teams from the 10 CONMEBOL associations qualified for the tournament:
Argentina and Brazil: 6 berths each
All other associations: 4 berths each

The entry stage is determined as follows:
 Group stage: 12 teams (teams from Argentina and Brazil)
 First stage: 32 teams (teams from all other associations)

Notes

A further 12 teams eliminated from the 2023 Copa Libertadores will be transferred to the Copa Sudamericana, entering the group stage and the knockout round play-offs.

Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows:

Draws

The draw for the group stage will be held on 27 March 2023. Teams will be seeded by their CONMEBOL Clubs ranking as of 9 December 2022, with the four teams transferred from the 2023 Copa Libertadores being seeded into Pot 4. For the group stage, the 32 qualified teams will be drawn into eight groups (Groups A–H) of four containing a team from each of the four pots.

First stage

Group stage

The following 32 teams will be involved in the group stage (CONMEBOL Clubs ranking as of 9 December 2022 shown in parentheses):

Pot 1
 Peñarol (8)
 São Paulo (9)
 Santos (10)
 LDU Quito (21)
 Estudiantes (23)
 Emelec (29)
 San Lorenzo (31)
 Santa Fe (34)

Pot 2
 Defensa y Justicia (37)
 Guaraní (41)
 Red Bull Bragantino (45)
 Universitario (46)
 Deportes Tolima (47)
 Botafogo (59)
 Newell's Old Boys (61)
 Palestino (67)

Pot 3
 Oriente Petrolero (81)
 Estudiantes de Mérida (96)
 Danubio (103)
 Tigre (108)
 América Mineiro (118)
 Blooming (121)
 Goiás (136)
 Universidad César Vallejo (149)

Pot 4
 Audax Italiano (153)
 Gimnasia y Esgrima (162)
 Academia Puerto Cabello (232)
 Tacuary (No rank)
 Millonarios (57)
 Huracán (58)
 Fortaleza (78)
 Magallanes (215)

Notes

Statistics

Top scorers

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See also
2023 Copa Libertadores

References

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Six Cities, Six Big Tech Ideas Coming to Boston on December 1: Stephen Wolfram to Keynote
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. Ahem.
[A giant "6×6" fills the screen.]
Macho narrator voice:
Star Wars had The Empire Strikes Back (Vader: "I am your father")
The Godfather had The Godfather Part II (Pacino: "You broke my heart")
Mad Max had The Road Warrior…well, you get the idea.
Now Xconomy presents 6×6, the long-awaited sequel to its riveting, change-the-world program from last December, 5×5. (It was "5×5" because we weren't in New York City yet. Now we are.)
Yes, for the second straight year, Xconomy has canvassed its national network to find the most original, sensational, and transformative tech ideas out there—across software, hardware, digital media, social technologies, robotics, and more. We are inviting a select few speakers to Boston for an afternoon of mind-bending presentations and business networking.
It's all taking place on the afternoon of Thursday, December 1, from 1:30-5:30 pm, at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology in downtown Boston. One featured speaker will be on hand from each of our six cities: Boston, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, and San Diego. We hope "6×6: Six Cities, Six Big Tech Ideas" will be a rallying point for the Boston tech community to get together and discuss the future of their fields with our out-of-town guests.
The concept is to highlight some of the BIGGEST tech ideas out there—as well as the nuts and bolts of how founders are building successful businesses around these ideas. This event is about truly changing the world, so we've asked everyone to please check their daily deals, social network plug-ins, and run-of-the-mill mobile apps at the door.
Who better to set the table than Stephen Wolfram? We've invited the renowned scientist, inventor, and business leader to give the opening keynote. Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha. So he knows a little bit about changing the world from a software, computing, and business perspective. Oh, and he also spent 10-plus years working to reinvent the entire landscape of modern scientific thought with his book project, A New Kind of Science. I'll stop there, but you can read an interview I did with Wolfram around the beginning of last year. (As for what he'll talk about on Dec. 1, it's safe to say I have no freaking idea—but I'll keep you posted.)
Here's a quick rundown on who's representing our six cities at 6×6:
—From the hometown of Boston, we have Dave Icke, the CEO of Cambridge-based MC10, a pioneer in developing flexible electronics and sensors for consumer, healthcare, and energy markets.
—New York City is sending Jason Baptiste, the CEO of OnSwipe, a scrappy young startup that is trying to invent the future of media through a new tablet publishing platform.
—Representing Detroit is Nathaniel Borenstein, the Chief Scientist of Mimecast, an e-mail management company headquartered in the U.K. Borenstein, who's based in Michigan, is one of the fathers of modern e-mail systems, and will talk about the future of communication in the cloud.
—From San Francisco comes Adam Goldstein, the CEO of Hipmunk, an online travel search company that's been making waves with its novel visual interface for finding flights and hotels.
—Seattle will be repped by Kabir Shahani, the CEO of Appature, a fast-growing startup specializing in social and relationship marketing technologies for the healthcare industry.
—And from the sunny climes of San Diego comes Bill Walker, Chief of Global Hawk Business Development at Northrop Grumman, the aerospace and defense tech giant. Walker will talk about high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
We also have a few intriguing "burst" bonus talks to highlight, from some of the most exciting startups around Boston. They will include Affectiva (CEO Dave Berman), an MIT Media Lab spinout that's commercializing software to make your computer or smartphone understand your emotional state (talk about a big idea); Krush (CEO Gina Ashe), an ambitious startup focused on social commerce and marketing for apparel and lifestyle brands; and GrabCAD (CEO Hardi Meybaum), a company that's connecting engineers with people who need stuff built, via an online community and marketplace.
We are really looking forward to 6×6, and we hope to see you there on Dec. 1. You can register at the special super saver rate here.
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Myron May, identified as the suspected shooter at Florida State University, was an FSU alumnus and attorney who recently resigned his job in a Las Cruces, N.M., district attorney's office and reportedly was having financial difficulties.
Myron May, identified as the shooter at Florida State University, was an FSU alumnus who had recently quit as a prosecutor in New Mexico, was having financial troubles and believed the government was spying on him, authorities said Thursday.
The 31-year-old native of Dayton, Ohio, who grew up in the Florida Panhandle, was shot and killed by police about 12:30 a.m. after he wounded three people at an FSU library.
"Mr. May was in a state of crisis ... struggling either psychologically or emotionally," Police Chief Michael DeLeo told reporters.
A 2005 FSU grad, May had recently moved back to the Tallahassee area after leaving his job with the Las Cruces, N.M., district attorney's office in October.
Last month, a former girlfriend filed a harassment complaint alleging May told her police were bugging his home and car. She also said May had developed a "severe mental disorder" and was taking medication, according to a police report obtained by the Associated Press.
On his Facebook page, May posted Bible verses and links to conspiracy theories about the government reading people's minds.
His final entry, at 7:57 p.m. Tuesday, was a New Testament verse, Matthew 5:3: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Although May stated on his Facebook page that he was "in-house" lawyer for the Taunton Family Children's Home in Wewahitchka, where he attended junior and senior high, the founder of the home said his only connection was having stayed there frequently as a teenager.
She said May lived with his grandmother after coming out of a "bad situation" with his parents.
"We're just all astounded. We had no idea that he would do something like this," Abigail Taunton said. "Obviously, he was not in his right mind."
May had studied at Gulf Coast State College before graduating from FSU. He got his law degree at Texas Tech University School of Law and, at one point, worked at a law firm in Houston.
May joined the Las Cruces DA's staff in January, moving from the public defender's office, District Attorney Mark D'Antonio said at a news conference. On Oct. 6, he left a resignation letter on his desk and never returned; he gave no hint he planned to quit.
"I was shocked beyond words and deeply saddened," D'Antonio said of the shooting, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported. "... We're all quite put aside by this. We don't understand the nature of it, we don't understand all the facts, but it's extremely shocking to us all."
He added he was not aware of any mental health problems May may have suffered.


Food can help in strengthening the uterine lining which helps implantation and pregnancies. The most important food that can help in strengthening the uterine lining does not have any processed sugar nor are they processed. These foods contain good carbohydrates and are composed of food and grains as well as vegetables and fruits. They encourage the uterine lining to reach a suitable thickness to help implantation.
Uterine lining grows by 1 or 2 mm based on the estrogen level. Once ovulation is completed, a lining of 8 to 13 mm is achieved and it is normal. In case it does not come to this level, it is hard to implant in such a uterus. Some of the causes for an inadequate lining include scarring, infection and poor levels of hormones. There could also be poor supply of blood to the uterus and there could also be endometrial antibodies.
How can the diet make a difference in the Uterine Lining?
Estrogen is responsible for the growth of the lining and as the estrogen level begins to decrease, the lining decreases. Sugar should be limited as it could upset the hormonal balance. By eating a healthy diet consisting of whole foods, the body will be healthy. Health practitioners state that people need to include food which contains phytoestrogens. Peas are natural contraceptives and must be avoided. Protein and food rich in iron content must be consumed in larger quantities. Some of the food that needs to be consumed includes lean meat, animal proteins, rice and oats, beans and legumes, lentils, cabbage, green leafy vegetables, nuts, celery, mushrooms, and seeds. Acupuncture and Chinese medicines are also believed to be beneficial to the uterus as they are known to improve the circulation of the blood and brings blood to the uterus.
These foods are most essential, especially for those who are experiencing a miscarriage and suspect that they are infertile. It is helpful if such people consider consulting with a doctor and get a fertility diet plan customized for their needs. This helps them to eat right and stay healthy despite going through this phase. By preparing the endometrial lining of the uterus to make it thicker, the chances for a successful implantation also increases correspondingly.


Cineplex Entertainment, one of Canada's leading entertainment companies, has deployed the Content Direct solution by Hall 14 exhibitor CSG International to enhance the user experience of Cineplex's digital commerce platform, CineplexStore.com. Content Direct enables customers to rent or purchase digital content on-demand across a range of devices, including PC, Mac, Roku, iOS, Android, as well as Samsung and LG smart televisions.
"With this change, as well as others made in recent months, we feel we've taken CineplexStore.com to the next level of digital entertainment," explained Pat Marshall, vice president of communications and investor relations at Cineplex. Content Direct is designed to integrate with the SCENE loyalty programme and also with SuperTicket, the first-ever bundled offering with multiple studios that allows guests to purchase a theatre admission ticket and pre-order a digital download of the movie at the same time.


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France, Britain Brace for Widespread Strikes
PARIS (Dispatches) - The cost-of-living crisis has prompted workers from energy sectors, railways and airlines across Europe to either threaten or undertake strike action.
Now, strikes by energy sector workers are beginning to wreak havoc on French fuel and power supplies, with petrol stations that slashed prices at the pump in recent weeks hit hard as they struggle with runaway demand and low stocks. The fuel shortages have been the most acute in northern France, where one major TotalEnergies storage facility is at a standstill as workers demand higher wages to cope with inflation. Local authorities said on Thursday they had obtained access to strategic fuel stocks to ease the situation as huge queues formed outside petrol stations and some ran dry. They have also banned the sale of petrol and diesel in jerry cans. But strains are being felt elsewhere in the country too, and have exposed the limits of government efforts to contain the fallout from an energy crisis ravaging Europe.
Workers across several industries, including at oil refineries and at beleaguered nuclear power operator EDF, are staging walkouts to push for higher salaries. Meanwhile, the government sought to shield consumers from rising living costs by spending €7.5bn on fuel subsidies this year and leaning on Total to make additional discounts — but that has now added to the scramble at some gas stations. Drivers are now rushing to refill at Total forecourts, causing huge gridlocks from the roads of Paris to north-east France close to the border with Belgium, where people have been crossing to refuel at better rates. The prefect's office in the Hauts-de-France region asked people to refrain from panic buying on Thursday, to help essential services fill up.
The group said it does not lack fuel stocks, even though some 60 per cent of France's refining capacity has been affected by stoppages.
300,000 Nurses Vote for Strike in UK
UK nurses begin biggest strike ballot in more than 100 years
More than 300,000 members of Britain's largest nursing union will begin voting on Thursday over a strike to demand a pay rise that keeps up with soaring inflation, the biggest ballot in its 106-year history.
The Royal College of Nursing said it had been forced into the move after years of real-terms wage cuts deterred people from joining the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), leaving huge staffing gaps across the service.
"We are understaffed, undervalued and underpaid," RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said. "For years our profession has been pushed to the edge, and now patient safety is paying the price."
The union said it wanted a pay rise of 5% above inflation to overcome real-term pay cuts as its members struggle to cope with the soaring cost of living.
The union's boss said below inflation pay meant workers could neither afford to stay in or join the profession, adding that "patient care was at risk" due to thousands of unfilled nursing jobs across Britain.
A spokesperson for the government's Department of Health and Social Care said they hoped nurses would consider carefully the impact any strike would have on patients.
"We value the hard work of NHS nurses and are working hard to support them," the spokesperson said, setting out previous pay rises it had given to the sector.
The NHS, still recovering from the hit to services during the COVID-19 pandemic, is facing its worst ever staffing crisis amid a backlog for care.
The NHS, which has provided healthcare free at the point of use since 1948, has also seen a record rise in the number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment and increased wait times at accident and emergency departments.


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Magda Linette e Katarzyna Piter erano le detentrici del titolo, ma Piter quest'anno non ha partecipato. Linette ha fatto coppia con Naomi Broady, ma ha perso in semifinale contro Il doppio del torneo di tennis Ankara Cup 2013, facente parte della categoria ITF Women's Circuit, ha avuto come vincitrici Julija Bejhel'zymer e Çağla Büyükakçay.

Il doppio del torneo di tennis Ankara Cup 2013, facente parte della categoria ITF Women's Circuit, ha avuto come vincitrici Julija Bejhel'zymer e Çağla Büyükakçay che hanno battuto in finale Eléni Daniilídou e Aleksandra Krunić 6–3, 6–3.

Teste di serie

  Eléni Daniilídou /  Aleksandra Krunić (finale)
  Naomi Broady /  Magda Linette (semifinali)

  Julija Bejhel'zymer /  Çağla Büyükakçay (Campionesse)
  Kristina Barrois /  Vitalija D'jačenko (quarti di finale)

Tabellone

Collegamenti esterni

Ankara Cup 2013


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Impressions of "Donnie Darko: Directors Cut"
June 30, 2006 September 17, 2020
I'm on mini-vacation today, and took the time to watch Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut. I had already seen Donnie Darko (original version) twice, and I was expecting something slightly better (based on reviews of friends).
A Greencine interview with the Director reveals:
To many people, Donnie Darko was simply a flop that quickly dropped out of American theaters in the fall of 2001 with a paltry $515,000 in earnings, a fraction of its under-$5 million budget. But then something curious happened. It became a minor hit in Britain and a staple on the midnight movie circuit and was discovered by a whole new crowd when it was released on DVD, where it's rung up over $10 million in sales and remains a top seller on Amazon. The dense, demanding, imaginative and elusive tale of a contemporary Holden Caulfield in a grim and glorious world of nightmares and dreams and alternate realities took hold in the imagination of teenagers and high school kids.
Its post-theatrical success led an almost unprecedented experiment: Donnie Darko may be the first "flop" given a new theatrical life by a director's cut.
The director's cut is a whole other movie. For a feal of the difference: imagine that the director's cut of Farenheit 9/11 revealed that John Kerry was Osama bin Laden in disguise.
So many changes were made to the film that I was able to watch it with new eyes. The effect of added and changed dialog is quite enjoyable and lets me appreciate both versions as separate works around the same motif.
Good job, Hollywood!
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2 thoughts on "Impressions of "Donnie Darko: Directors Cut""
I haven't seen the new version yet, but I listened to the directors commentary on the first version and it was strange, like he thought Donnie was a superhero. Wacky stuff.
I haven't seen it either but I've heard more bad things than good, like they give too much away. I honestly don't have any interest in seeing it since I liked the original so much. Most director's cuts seem to have too much filler put back in because they liked some performance or camera work. The original cut is usually the one with unnecessary scenes cut out, keeping only what is required to move the story forward. Director's cuts can be overindulgent to the point of boring an audience. This isn't the case all the time. The Director's Cut of Bladerunner is the classic example of a superior version.


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Most of us are aware of the site in Tunisia that was the complex of buildings that served as the set for Tatooine. Well, apparently it is getting harder to make a pilgrimage to the site. This is because of recent developments regarding the terrorist group ISIS. Government officials caution tourists against visiting a number of areas in Tunisia, including some in the neighborhood of the Star Wars sets.
It looks like the Tunisian city of Tataouine has become a sort of hub for terrorists that want to enter Libya to join ISIS. The city is about 60 miles from the Libyan border. The United States Embassy is warning travelers to stay away from border areas. The British government cautions against "all but essential travel" to a large area that includes Tataouine and other sites that are Star Wars film locations. It is best to wait until after the unrest has died down if you plan on going to these locations. Cool as it is, it isn't worth dying over.


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MTN Nigeria Office
MTN appoints advisors on proposed Nigeria market listing
MTN Nigeria on Thursday appointed Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited and its affiliates as transaction advisors to undertake the spade work on its proposed listing of its shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (The NSE).
The telecoms firm said Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited would be exercising the mandate together with its affiliates, namely The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and Standard Advisory London Limited and Citigroup Global Markets Limited.
MTN said the full syndicate, which would function as Joint Transaction Advisors and Joint Global Coordinators, with Stanbic acting as Lead Issuing House, would also include Nigerian receiving agents, banks and other advisers to be appointed in due course, as appropriate.
As part of the conditions agreed with the Nigerian government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) last month, to settle the crisis over the $3.4 billion (N1.04 trillion) fine imposed in October 2015, MTN Nigeria had announced its intention to list its shares on the NSE as soon as commercially and legally possible.
"MTN Nigeria is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has resolved to proceed with preparations for a listing of MTN Nigeria on The NSE", the telecoms firm said on Thursday in a statement.
As part of preparations, it said it had established a management task team charged with the responsibility of guiding it towards a listing targeted to take effect in 2017.
The proposed listing, the MTN Group explained, would however be "subject to suitable market circumstances and conditions and the appropriate approvals from relevant regulators and other stakeholders."
The inauguration of the management task team, it pointed out, did not constitute an announcement of an intention to float MTN Nigeria, saying further announcements would be made on this issue at appropriate intervals on progress.
At the end of negotiations last month over the crisis that followed the fine saga, both NCC and MTN Nigeria had agreed that the company would pay only N330 billion, out of the N780 billion it was earlier reduced to, from the initial N1.04 trillion.
The NCC had imposed the fine after MTN failed to disconnect5.1 million registered telephone lines within the prescribed deadline.
In line with the terms of the resolution, the balance of N280 billion would be paid by MTN in six tranches between now and May 31, 2019, including payment of N30 billion immediately within 30 days from June 10, 2016 when the agreement was signed.
Other tranches of payments, in line with the payment plan, included another N30 billion by March 31, 2017; March 31, 2018 (N55 billion), December 31, 2018 (N55 billion), March 31, 2019 (N55 billion) and the balance of N55 billion on May 31, 2019.
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