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PSPCL floats 2 tenders for procurement of total 500 MW solar power – Daily Pioneer
Punjab's power utility — the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) — had floated two tenders for procurement of a total 500 megawatt (MW) solar power. The tenders have been floated.......
Punjab's power utility — the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) — had floated two tenders for procurement of a total 500 megawatt (MW) solar power. The tenders have been floated on the directives of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
These two solar power projects, having a capacity of 250 MW each, will be located anywhere in India and another in Punjab to meet the rising demand of power in the State to develop and promote green power, said a spokesperson of the Chief Minister's Office. The bidders all across the country participated in the tender.
"Under the tender for procurement of 250 MW solar power from projects located anywhere in India, ReNew Dinkar Jyoti Private Limited has offered 250 MW Solar power at the rate of Rs 2.33 per kilowatt-hour (kWh)," said PSPCL chairman-cum-managing director A Venu Prasad.
Prasad said that under the tender for procurement of 250 MW solar power from projects located anywhere in Punjab, SJVN Limited has offered 100 MW Solar power at the rate of Rs 2.69 per kWh and SAEL Limited has offered 50 MW solar power at the rate of Rs 2.69 per kWh.
The CMD also pointed out that PSPCL had also signed PSA with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) under which 500 MW hybrid (solar-plus-wind) power shall be available to PSPCL starting from this December in phases and is likely to be fully available by the end of the financial year 2021-22.
Likewise, the PSPCL has also signed an MoU with CESL — a Joint Venture of PSUs under Ministry of Power — for the development of 140 MW Solar PV power projects at spare land of 66 KV Substations of PSPCL to increase the share of clean, green, and low tariff Renewable Power, said Prasad adding that the PSPCL has already tied up for about 951 MW solar power from various projects and PSPCL is committed to serve its consumers with the best quality of reliable and cheap power.
With the addition of this power, PSPCL generation capacity will be enhanced to 14,500 MW, he added.
Source: https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/state-editions/pspcl-floats-2-tenders-for-procurement-of-total-500-mw-solar-power.html
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At H4 chart of USD CAD, Alligator is moving upwards. Indicators are in red zone; angulation is closing; there might be Squat bar on the MFI. Bearish fractal may reach Alligator's jaw (blue line).
At H1 chart of USD CAD, Alligator is sleeping. Price is forming bullish fractal; indicators are in red zone; there is Green bar on the MFI and might be Squat one too. I expect slight breakout of fractals to the downside.
At H4 chart of NZD USD, Alligator is moving southwards. Price is forming bullish fractal; indicators are in red zone; there are no Squat bars on the MFI. Bullish fractal may reach Alligator's jaw (blue line), and then I expect breakout of fractals to the downside.
At H1 chart of NZD USD, Alligator is sleeping. AO and AC are in green zone; there are no Squat bars on the MFI. I expect slight breakout of fractals to the upside.


Job creation: Lead efforts to create 80,000 projected new jobs with a focus on high-wage target industries.
Wage growth: Increase the average wage of the jobs created to 150 percent of the state's 2017 median average.
Capital investment: Attract $7 billion in capital investment to Arizona.
Increased exports: Expand export revenues across target industries by 25 percent.
Entrepreneurial vitality: Elevate Arizona to a top-five state as measured by entrepreneurial density, funding and connectivity.
In addition to increased goals for job creation, wage growth and capital investment, the ACA is building upon its first five-year plan by adding the two new goals for growing exports and enhancing entrepreneurial vitality - both important factors in strengthening Arizona's economy. The plan also places a strong emphasis on 10 next-gen technology trends in areas where Arizona is well-positioned to establish a leadership role.
While the ACA will expand its focus to emerging next-gen technologies, it remains dedicated to developing targeted established industries including aerospace & defense, bioscience & health care, business & financial services, manufacturing, and technology & innovation. The targeted established industries have also been expanded this year to include film & digital media.
Combined, these targeted industries have had significant economic and fiscal impact in Arizona. A 2017 report by the Seidman Research Institute at the Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business found that over the past five years, aerospace & defense, bioscience & health care, business & financial services, manufacturing, and technology & innovation collectively provided 50 percent of the annual Gross State Product, or $153 billion, and 60 percent of the state's total annual employment, or 1.8 million employees.
The entire five-year business plan can be found on the newly redesigned ACA website, www.azcommerce.com.


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FOREIGNER CONFIRM JOHN PARR AS SPECIAL GUEST
AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM ON TUESDAY 7th JUNE 2016
Universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world, FOREIGNER will rock across Europe for a massive summer 2016 Tour. A formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, the band will belt out full electric performances of their biggest anthems at some of Europe's greatest venues starting at the London Palladium on Tuesday 7th June, followed by dates at Belgium's Graspop, Cologne's Tanzbrunnen, Tel Aviv's Caesarea Amphitheatre, and more.
FOREIGNER'S very special guest at the London Palladium will be JOHN PARR, whose music career spans over 30 years, with over ten million album sales and movie soundtracks including the hit singles St. Elmo's Fire, Restless Heart and NaughtyNaughty. Parr has worked with some of the biggest stars in the business, including Meatloaf, Heart, The Beach Boys, and Tina Turner.
Tickets for the London Palladium concert can be booked online from
www.livenation.co.uk/artist/foreigner-tickets /ticketmaster.co.uk.
Fans will see why itFeels Like The First Time when the band performs rock's greatest hits including the unforgettable anthems Juke Box Hero, Cold As Ice, Urgent, and I Want To Know What Love Is. With ten multi-platinum albums and sixteen Top 30 hits, FOREIGNER are universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with album sales, now exceeding 75 million. The band continues to rock the charts after more than thirty years.
FOREIGNER'S popularity continues to soar, having taken over the US media in 2015 with recent music usage in shows like Orange Is the New Black, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and the films Pitch Perfect, and Magic Mike. FOREIGNER are sure to generate the same excitement this summer as they bring their enduring brand of rock and popularity across the sea. "Our music has touched a lot of people worldwide," says lead guitarist and founder Mick Jones. "Unwittingly, we're weaved into the fabric of people's lives."
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This issue includes studies on Adelita del Campo and Julián Antonio Ramírez, two exiled Republicans who worked for over thirty years as radio broadcasters in Spanish of Radio París. Your file is kept in the Biblioteca Valenciana.
He is also dedicated to "Republican Exile of 1939 in Algeria and North Africa."


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Theodore Lidz (ur. 1 kwietnia 1910 w Nowym Jorku, zm. 16 lutego 2001 w Hamden, Connecticut) – amerykański lekarz psychiatra. Autor szeregu prac na temat schizofrenii i psychoterapii u pacjentów ze schizofrenią. Zwolennik badań nad środowiskowymi uwarunkowaniami chorób psychicznych.

Wybrane prace
 The person, his and her development throughout the life cycle. Basic Books, 1983
 The origin and treatment of schizophrenic disorders. Basic Books, 1973
 The family and human adaptation: three lectures. International Universities Press, 1968
 Theodore Lidz, Ruth Wilmanns Lidz, Harriette Dukeley Borsuch: Oedipus in the Stone Age: a psychoanalytic study of masculinization in Papua New Guinea. International Universities Press, 1989

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańscy psychiatrzy
Urodzeni w 1910
Zmarli w 2001

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The first, and by far the only complete translation of Tukaramachi Gatha or The Collected Tukaram into English was done by J. Nelson Fraser and K.B. Marathe. This was published by the Christian Literature Society, Madras (1905-1915). The only other European language version of selected poems of Tukaram is G.A. Deleury's Toukaram :Psaumes du perlerin (Gallimard, Paris, 1956). Fraser and Marathe's translation comprises 3721 poems in all. Justin E. Abbott's monumental 11-volume series, Poet-Saints of Maharashtra (Scottish Mission Industries, Poona, 1926) and Nicol Macnicol's Psalms of Maratha Saints (Christian Literature Society, Calcutta, 1919) contain much fewer. Fraser and Abbot have both attempted prose paraphrases while Macnicol has superimposed a heavily stylized verse-form quite alien to the fluid colloquial folk-style of the original. Deleury's 101 poems in French translation are the only European attempt to create a poetic analogue of Tukaram's original work. The distinguished Anglo-Marathi poet, Arun Kolatkar has published 9 translations of Tukaram's poems (Poetry India, Bombay, 1966) and my own earlier versions of Tukaram have appeared in Fakir, Delos, Modern Poetry in Translation, Translation and the South-Asian Digest of Literature.
This is hardly an adequate bibliography considering Tukaram's towering stature as a poet and his pervasive influence on Marathi language and literature. He represents the vital link in the mutation of a medieval Marathi literary tradition into modern Marathi literature. His poems (nearly 5000) encompass the entire gamut of Marathi culture. The dimensions of his work are so monumental that they will keep many future generations of translators creatively occupied. In a sense, therefore, Tukaram is a poet who belongs more to the future than to a historically bound specific past.
as a whole. Tukaram forces one to face the fundamental problem of translating poetry: beneath the simple and elegant surface structure of the source text lies a richer and vastly complex deep structure that the target text must somehow suggest. This is nothing short of a project lasting an exasperating lifetime. It is much easier to play-act the role of Tukaram as a stylized vignette in whatever the prevailing etat de langue permits. The culture of poetry is more biased and partisan than the culture of translation. One would hesitate to elaborate on this point at this juncture; but it needs to be made albeit in passing.
Problems of translation can be compared to problems of instrumentation. The naked eye does not see what can be seen only through a telescope; but a radio telescope literally makes the invisible visible. An electron microscope is designed to "see" what lies beyond sight by definition.
Unfortunately, there is no equipment engineered to read beneath the surface of a specific source text. If the target text is only an attempt to create a model of the source text, then every aspect of the source text becomes equally sacrosanct and translation becomes obviously impossible.
Unless the translator presumes or directly apprehends how the source text functions, he cannot begin to look for a possible translation. Poems function in delicate, intricate and dynamic ways. Their original existence does not depend on specific audiences or the possibility of eventual translators. No translation can absolutely do away with the idea of the source text as an autonomously functioning whole in another linguistic space and time.
There is an implicit strangeness in every translated work, especially in translated poetry. A translated poem is at best, an intimate stranger among its counterparts in the target language. The stranger will retain traces of an odd accent; peculiar turns of phrase, exotic references and even a wistful homesick look. These are happy signs that poetry is born and is alive and kicking elsewhere too. That other minds do exist is a fact that should be as often celebrated as it is mourned by some puritanical critics.
Religion in Maharashtra, in Tukaram's time, was a practice that separated communities, classes and castes. Bhakti was the middle way between the extremes of Brahminism on the one hand and folk religion on the other. It was also the most democratic and egalitarian community of worshippers, sharing a way of life and caring for all life with a deep sense of compassion. The legacy of Jainism and Buddhism had not disappeared altogether in Maharashtra. It was regenerated in the form of Bhakti. Tukaram's penetrating criticism of the degenerated state of Brahminical Hinduism, and his scathing comments on bigotry and obscurantism, profiteering and profligacy in the name of religion, bear witness to his universal humanistic concerns. He had the abhorrence of a true realist for any superstitious belief or practice. He understood the nature of language well enough to understand how it can be used to bewitch, mislead and distort. He had a healthy suspicion of god-men and gurus. He believed that the individual alone was ultimately responsible for his own spiritual liberation. He was not an escapist. His mysticism was not rooted in a rejection of reality but rather in a spirited response to it after its total acceptance as a basic fact of life. Tukaram's hard common sense is not contracted by his mysticism: the two reinforce each other.
The Marathi poet-saints are an exception to the general rule that Indian devotional literature shows little awareness of the prevailing social conditions. The Marathi "saints", both implicitly and explicitly, questioned the elitist monopoly of spiritual knowledge and privilege embodied in the caste hierarchy. They were strongly egalitarian and preached universal love and compassion. They trusted their native language, Marathi, more than Sanskrit of the scriptures or the erudite commentaries thereon. They made language a form of shared religion and religion a shared language. It is they who helped to bind the Marathas together against the Mughals on the basis not of any religious ideology but a territorial cultural identity. Their egalitarian legacy continues into modern times with Jotiba Phule, Vitthal Ramji Shinde, Chattrapati Shahu, Sayaji Rao Gaekwar and B.R. Ambedkar - all outstanding social reformers and activists. The gamut of Bhakti poetry has amazing depth, width and range: it is hermitic, esoteric, cryptic, mystical; it is sensuous, lyrical, deeply emotional, devotional, it is vivid, graphic, frank, direct; it is ironic, sarcastic, critical; it is colloquial, comic, absurd; it is imaginative, inventive, experimental; it is intense, angry, assertive and full of protest. In the 4000-plus poems of Tukaram handed down to us by an unbroken oral tradition, there are poems to which all the above adjectives fit.
The tradition of the Marathi saints conceives the role of a poet in its own unique way and I am sure this has a deep ethno-poetic significance. Bhakti is founded in a spirit of universal fellowship. Its basic principle is sharing. The deity does not represent any sectarian dogma to the Bhakta but only a common object of universal love or a common spiritual focus. Poetry is another expression of the same fellowship. Tukaram may have written his poems in loneliness but he recited them to live audiences in a shrine of Vitthal. Hundreds of people gathered to listen his poetry. The poetess Bahinabai a contemporary and a devoted follower of Tukaram has described how Tukaram in a state of trance, chanted his poems while an enraptured audience rocked to their rhythm.
This has been a tradition from the time of Jnanadev (1275-1296), the founder of Marathi poetry and the cult of Vithoba and Namdeo (1270-1350), the great forerunner of Tukaram.
The audience consisted of common village-folk, including women and low-caste people, thrilled by the heights their own language scaled and stirred by the depths it touched.
Paul Valery defines the difference between prose and poetry as comparable to the difference between walking and dancing and Tukaram's recitation must have seemed to his audience like pure dance, turning nothingness into space.
Life, in all its aspects was the subject of such poetry. Tukaram himself believed that he was only a medium of the poetry, saying, "God speaks through me." This was said in humility and not with the pompous arrogance of a god-man or the smug egoism of a poet laureate.
The saints are perhaps inaccurately called so because the Marathi word "sant" used for them sounds so similar. The Marathi word is derived from the Sanskrit "sat" which denotes being and awareness, purity and divine spirit, wisdom and sagacity, the quality of being emancipated and of being true. The relative emphases are somewhat different in the Christian concept of sainthood, though there is an overlap.
The poet-saint fusion in Marathi gives us a unique view of poetry itself. In this view, moral integrity and spiritual greatness are critical characteristics of both poetry and the poet.
Tukaram saw himself as primarily a poet. He has explicitly written about being a poet, the responsibility of a poet, the difficulties in being a poet and so forth. He has also criticized certain kinds of poetry and poets. It is clear that he would have agreed with Heidegger that in poetry the language becomes one with the being of language. Poetry was, for him, a precise description of the human condition in its naked totality. It was certainly not an effete form of entertainment for him. Nor was it ornamental. Language was a divine gift and it had to be returned to its source, via poetry, with selfless devotion.
This would sound like a cliché, but Tukaram's genius partly lies in his ability to transform the external world into its spiritual analogue. The whole world became a sort of functional metaphor in his poetry, a text. His poems have an apparently simple surface. But beneath the simple surface lies a complex understructure and the tension between the two is always subtly suggested.
The famous "signature line" of each poem, "Says Tuka" opens the door to deeper structure. Aphoristic, witty, satirical, ironic, wry, absurd, startling or mystical, these endings of Tukaram's poems often set the entire poem into sudden reverse motion. They point to an invisible, circular or spiral continuity between the apparent and the real, between everyday language and the intricate world-image that it often innocently implies.
Thus, Tukaram sees the relationship between God and His devotee as the relationship between God and his devotee. Tukaram is not proposing the absolutely external existence of God, independent of man. He knows that it is the devotee who creates an anthropomorphic image of God. He know that in a sense it is a make-believe God entirely at the mercy of his creator-devotee using a man-made language.
Tukaram is interested in a godlike experience of being where there is no boundary between the subjective and the objective, the personal and the impersonal, the individual and cosmic. He sees his own consciousness as a cosmic event rooted in the everyday world but stretching infinitely to the deceptive limits of awareness. "Too scarce to occupy an atom," he writes, "Tuka is as vast as the sky."
One more striking aspects of Tukaram's poetry is its distinct ethno-poetics or the Marathi-ness of its conception.
Medieval Marathi poetry developed in two divergent directions. One continued from the Sanskrit classics - both religious and secular - and from the somewhat different classicism of Prakrit poetry. In either case, it followed older, established models and non-native literary sources. Imitations of Sanskrit models in a highly Sanskritized language and using Sanskrit prosody as "well as stylistic devices characterize this trend in Marathi literature. These "classicists" neglected or deliberately excluded the use of native resources of demotic, colloquial Marathi. Luckily, though this trend has continued in Marathi for the last 700 years, only minority of writers (of not too significant talent) have produced classicist literature.
to the core of a literary text in a collective realization of some poet's work. This open-ended and down-to-earth nativism found its fullest expression in Tukaram, three centuries after Jnanadev and Namdeo had broken new ground by founding demotic Marathi poetry itself.
Bhakti poetry as a whole has so profoundly shaped the very world-image of Marathi speakers that even unsuspecting moderns cannot escape its pervasive mould. But Tukaram gave Bhakti itself new existential dimensions. In this he was anticipating the spiritual anguish of modern man two centuries ahead of his time. He was also anticipating a form of personal, confessional poetry that seeks articulate liberation from the deepest traumas man experiences and represses out of fear. Tukaram's poetry expresses pain and bewilderment, fear and anxiety, exasperation and desperateness, boredom and meaninglessness - in fact all the feelings that characterize modern self-awareness. Tukaram's poetry is always apparently easy to understand and simple in its structure. But it has many hidden traps. It has a deadpan irony that is not easy to detect. It has deadly paradoxes and a savage black humour. Tukaram himself is often paradoxical: he is an image-worshipping iconoclast; he is a sensuous ascetic; he is an intense Bhakta who would not hesitate to destroy his God out of sheer love. Tukaram knows that he is in charge of his own feelings and the meaning of his poetry. This is not merely the confidence of a master craftsman; it is much more. It is his conviction that man is responsible for his own spiritual destiny as much as he is in charge of his own worldly affairs. He believes that freedom means self-determination. He sees the connection between being and making choice. His belief is a conscious choice for which he has willingly paid a price.
Tukaram is therefore not only the last great Bhakti poet in Marathi but he is also the first truly modern Marathi poet in terms of temper and thematic choice, technique and vision. He is certainly the most vital link between medieval and modern Marathi poetry.
Tukaram's stature in Marathi literature is comparable to that of Shakespeare in English or Goethe in German. He could be called the quintessential Marathi poet reflecting the genius or the language as well as its characteristic literary culture. There is no other Marathi writer who has so deeply and widely influenced Marathi literary culture since. Tukaram's poetry has shaped the Marathi language, as it is spoken by 50 million people today and not just the literary language. Perhaps one should compare his influence with that of the King James Version of the Bible upon speakers of the English language. For Tukaram's poetry is also used by illiterate millions to voice their prayers or to express their love of God.
worldly, he is able to create a revealing analogue of spiritual life out of this-worldly language. He is, thus, able to prove how close to common speech the roots of great poetry lie. Yet his poetry does not yield the secret of its seamless excellence to even the most sophisticated stylistic analysis. He is so great an artist that his draughtsmanship seems to be an integral part of a prodigious instinct, a genius.
Tukaram's prolific output, by and large, consists of a single spiritual autobiography revealed in its myriad facets. It defies any classification once it is realized that common thematic strands and recurrent motifs homogenize his work as a whole. In the end what we begin to hear is a single voice - unique and unmistakable - urgent, intense, human and erasing the boundary between the private domain and the public. Tukaram is an accessible poet and yet his is a very difficult one. He keeps growing on you.


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PopCrush Mini-Mix 21: Featuring Jessie J, Demi Lovato + More [LISTEN]
Michelle McGahan
It's Friday, PopCrushers, and you know what that means… the latest installment of the PopCrush Mini-Mix! PopCrush Mini-Mix 21 features some of our all-time favorite pop songs, including our latest obsession, Jessie J's 'Bang Bang,' along with tracks from Demi Lovato, Katy Perry, Magic! and Sam Smith. What are you waiting for? Crank it up!
The party starts the second the mix does, and how could it not with a killer track like the Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj-featured 'Bang Bang'? The empowering song (and those unbelievable vocals from Jessie J) is the perfect way to kick off your weekend!
Next up is Magic!'s 'Rude,' one of the biggest hits of the summer. While the original version of the crazy catchy track definitely has that reggae vibe, the remixed version is all about the club beats, infusing the song with a sick EDM edge. The slow background beats seamlessly slide into Katy Perry's 'E.T.,' and we all know a PopCrush Mini-Mix isn't complete without some Katy Perry.
Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me' is the next tune to get infused with the club vibes, followed by Demi Lovato's party anthem 'Really Don't Care' as the playlist concludes with heavy EDM beats -- perfect for a night out on the town!
Check out the track list below, and listen to PopCrush Mini-Mix 21 above.
Jessie J/Ariana Grande/Nicki Minaj - 'Bang Bang'
Magic! - 'Rude'
Katy Perry Feat. Kanye West - 'E.T.'
Sam Smith - Stay With Me'
Demi Lovato - 'Really Don't Care'
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#include <sstream>

using namespace Atlas;

/// <summary>
/// Get the directory where all user data should be stored
/// </summary>
/// <returns>base path for user data (e.g. saves etc.)</returns>
std::string IO::GetUserDataDirectory()
{
	return AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetUserDataPath() + AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetPathSeparator() + "Atlas";
}

/// <summary>
/// Get the directory where all textures should be stored
/// </summary>
/// <returns>base path for textures</returns>
std::string IO::GetTextureDirectory()
{
	return AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetDataPath() + "Textures" + AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetPathSeparator();
}

/// <summary>
/// Get the directory where all sounds should be stored
/// </summary>
/// <returns>base path for sounds</returns>
std::string IO::GetSoundDirectory()
{
	return AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetDataPath() + "Sound" + AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetPathSeparator();
}

/// <summary>
/// Get the directory where all scenes should be stored
/// </summary>
/// <returns>base path for scenes</returns>
std::string IO::GetSceneDirectory()
{
	return AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetDataPath() + "Scenes" + AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetPathSeparator();
}

/// <summary>
/// Get the directory where all shader files should be stored
/// </summary>
/// <returns>base path for shaders</returns>
std::string IO::GetShaderDirectory()
{
	return AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetDataPath() + "Shaders" + AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetPathSeparator();
}

/// <summary>
/// Get the directory where all model files should be stored
/// </summary>
/// <returns>base path for models</returns>
std::string IO::GetModelDirectory()
{
	return AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetDataPath() + "Models" + AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::GetPathSeparator();
}

///
///
void ParseFaceElement(char* data, std::vector<unsigned short>* vertexIndices, std::vector<unsigned short>* normalIndices)
{
	const int LINE_LEN = 256;
	char index[16];
	std::stringstream face(data);
	int vi;
	int vni;

	face.getline(index, LINE_LEN, '/');
	vi = atoi(index) - 1;
	vertexIndices->push_back(vi);

	face.getline(index, LINE_LEN, '/');
	// ti = atoi(temp);

	face.getline(index, LINE_LEN, '/');
	vni = atoi(index) -1;
	normalIndices->push_back(vni);
}

///
///
glm::vec3 ParseObjVec3(std::stringstream& s)
{
	const int LINE_LEN = 256;
	char temp[16];
	s.getline(temp, LINE_LEN, ' ');
	float x = atof(temp);
	s.getline(temp, LINE_LEN, ' ');
	float y = atof(temp);
	s.getline(temp, LINE_LEN, ' ');
	float z = atof(temp);
	return glm::vec3(x, y, z);
}

///
///
bool IO::ParseObjFile(std::string& filePath, std::vector<glm::vec3>* outVertices, std::vector<glm::vec3>* outNormals, std::vector<unsigned short>* vertexIndices, std::vector<unsigned short>* normalIndices)
{
	std::string fileContent;
	AtlasAPI::AtlasAPIHelper::LoadTextFile(filePath, fileContent);

	std::stringstream s(fileContent);
	const int LINE_LEN = 256;
	char curLine[LINE_LEN];
	char line[LINE_LEN];

	while (!s.eof()) {
		s.getline(curLine, LINE_LEN);
		if (curLine[0] == '\0') {
			continue;
		}
		std::stringstream ln(curLine);

		ln.getline(line, LINE_LEN, ' ');
		if (line[0] == '#') {
			continue;
		}
		else if (line[0] == 'v') {
			if (line[1] == 'n') {
				// Normals
				outNormals->push_back(ParseObjVec3(ln));
			}
			else if (line[1] == 't') {

			}
			else {
				outVertices->push_back(ParseObjVec3(ln));
			}
		}
		else if (line[0] == 'f')
		{
			char temp[16];
			ln.getline(temp, LINE_LEN, ' ');
			ParseFaceElement(temp, vertexIndices, normalIndices);
			int v1I = vertexIndices->back();
			int n1I = normalIndices->back();

			ln.getline(temp, LINE_LEN, ' ');
			ParseFaceElement(temp, vertexIndices, normalIndices);

			ln.getline(temp, LINE_LEN, ' ');
			ParseFaceElement(temp, vertexIndices, normalIndices);
			int v2I = vertexIndices->back();
			int n2I = normalIndices->back();

			ln.getline(temp, LINE_LEN, ' ');
			if (strlen(temp) > 0) {

				vertexIndices->push_back(v1I);
				vertexIndices->push_back(v2I);
				normalIndices->push_back(n1I);
				normalIndices->push_back(n2I);
				ParseFaceElement(temp, vertexIndices, normalIndices);
			}
		}
		//else {
		//	std::string mat = "mtllib";
		//	std::string umat = "usemtl";
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A note on: The Night-Time Economy exhibition & special view in London
A lovely evening celebrating the exhibition Kate Mercer have produced this year, photography and poetry beautifully balanced, after visiting Newport, coming to London, with a good few dozen folk down in the basement gallery of Rich Mix, near Brick Lane, on one of the hottest days of the year.
Great to have Nia Davies, Ghazal Mosadeq and Marcus Slease read too, all with new works responding to the themes of our work. Visit www.theenemiesproject.com/nighttimeeconomy and www.stevenjfowler.com/nighttimeeconomy
Tags kate, katie, mercer, newport, night-time, night, time, economy, exhibition, photography, poet, poetry, sj, fowler, marcus, slease, nia, davies, ghazal, mosadeq, reading, london, rich, mix
Published: Poetry Wales - a collaboration with Joe Dunthorne
A beautiful new issue of Poetry Wales edited by Nia Davies, and the first time I've been in the magazine. Delighted for that debut to be with Joe Dunthorne, with our collaboration, Iceland, about the nation and the supermarket.
The work was written for Gelynion, which Nia and I curated and has a special feature in Poetry Wales, including great work by Zoe Skoulding, Ghazal Mosadeq and others the tour commissioned. Check it out and buy this issue!
http://poetrywales.co.uk/currentissue/
Tags poetry, wales, gelynion, magazine, poetryjoe, dunthorne, collaboration, poem, poet, iceland, nation, supermarket, nia, davies
Blog #7: Gelynion in London - June 5th 2015
A bash to finish. All the core poets together for one last time (this time around anyway) as well as a host of people travelling from Wales and new collaborations from London based poets too. Still fresh of course, though in just a week it felt as thought the time in Wales itself has been long ago, it was lovely to feel the closeness of the tour exactly where we had left it in Hay. Real bonds have been made.
The first half of the night was dedicated to those we had met on the tour and those specifically asked to present new works for the night, who lived in London. It was a seismic split between quite lyrical poetry, some beautiful works from Sampurna Chatterji & Sharon Morris, David Berridge & Steven Hitchins, and some far wilder, more performance orientated work. I almost had to tackle Cris Paul for setting fire to the Conservative manifesto almost directly below a smoke alarm during his performance with Josh Robinson and this was very much the spirit we had allowed to be present in Gelynion, if people wanted it to be.
The final part of the night saw Joe, Eurig, Nia, Rhys, Zoe and I do another showcase, roundrobin, where we read excerpts of our longer collaborations in quick succession. It was the best of what we'd done, which was always gratifying and of a high standard. Such brilliant writers and such generous people, if I am to have other experiences as rich and memorable as Gelynion I should live to be a lucky man.
visit www.theenemiesproject.com/gelynion for all the vids
Tags gelynion, wales, welsh, enemies, project, tour, london, rich, mix, finale, joe, dunthorne, zoe, skoulding, rhys, trimble, eurig, salisbury, nia, davies
Blog #5: Gelynion in Bangor: May 26th 2015
An incredible drive through Snowdonia, a scenic route for our privilege, Joe, Nia and Eurig accompanied me in from the west coast and up into the mountains. We stopped a few times to hear Eurig's description of the places, his climbs, and to pose for catalogue model, or boyband-like (I won't reveal our hypothetical band name), photoshoots. Such beautiful weather, perfect blue skies and though busy, what seemed to me completely pristine country.
Into Bangor, and it struck me as a very charming place, Zoe's homeland, a University town, but also with its intense population (I saw teen scraps in the highstreet within minutes, sustained) the countryside surrounding encroached and struck me as an oasis of a place in someways. Our reading was the same night as our travelling so we soon visited the Blue Sky Café and Nia and I met Elan Mererid Rhys, the wonderful auto-harp player and folk musician, whom I had come across in Cecil Sharp House in London, by pure chance, a few weeks before, just like Patrick Rimes. Elan could not have been more warm hearted and wonderful to work with, and Nia and I decided to read the 6 way collaborative poem written by the group and published by Hazard press over the playing of Elan, to set everything gently, and it worked out so nicely.
In the end, I think Bangor was my favourite event. The quality of some of the work was so remarkable, the café was packed, 50 or 60 people, or more, and such a memorable assortment of works. Ghazal Mosadeq, who had travelled all the way from London, presented amazing work with Ifor Ap Glyn. Robert Sheppard, who travelled from Manchester, worked with Alys Conran to generate another mysterious European poet. Sophie McKeand, Fiona Cameron, Karen Owen, Sian Northey, really I could list the whole evening. It was a special one.
Sophie McKeand & Fiona Cameron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJirFOPHuK0 - Karen Owen & Sian Northey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08J_iqWZZY - Ifor Ap Glyn & Ghazal Mosadeq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMFTBB6k-hc - Robert Sheppard & Alys Conran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVOfQEMoss4 - Nia Davies, SJ Fowler & Elan Mererid Rhys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u827pCCzBiQ - Zoë Skoulding & Eurig Salisbury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2_G9SukXvE - Joe Dunthorne & Rhys Trimble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC0luz3pIUM - Elan Mererid Rhys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paq3P9ElV68
Tags bangor, enemies, project, gelynion, wales, welsh, poetry, poem, collaboration, blue, sky, cafe, snowdonia, elan, mererid, rhys, nia, davies, joe, dunthorne, zoe, skoulding, eurig, salisbury, rhystrimble
Blog #4: Gelynion in Aberystwyth: May 25th
Nia, the commander, rightly so, led the way, kind enough to drive up the West coast of Wales with Rhys, Annwn and I in the backseat, travelling to Aberystwyth, one of the most isolated cities in the UK, and a beautiful place - a university town, sat on the sea. It possessed a completely different atmosphere to our previous stops on the tour so far. Eurig's hometown, really the bastion for Welsh language studies and history, Aberystwyth seemed to possess the spirit of independence I had been fascinated to see, really Welsh culture. The seafront was lined with the flags of disputed or marginalised nations in a show of solidarity. I'd also been told our gig was highly anticipated. Really the places I have yet to travel to are the ones I await the most.
We travelled with Rhys' dog Annwn, who I instantly fell in love with and finally felt like there was someone on the tour I could really show my true feelings to. We all stopped by the sea in a small town on the way into Aberystwyth, and I tried to escape with Annwn, but he turned back, loyal to Rhys. A free day upon arrival, Joe, Nia and I ate out and spoke later into the night, the first real chance for the natural side effect of such a project as Gelynion to inculcate the exchanges that build friendships and rich collaborations. Joe and I continued to speak over breakfast each day, and getting to know him far better, a deep privilege, was an education as well as a pleasure.
For the reading, set up on the hills of Aberytwyth, in the University, I collaborated with Eurig, and it being his home town, I was fortunate to work with him. We decided to repair the besmirchment of the mythical Welsh hero Owen Glendower by rewriting Henry IV. Shakespeare remixed, and we dragged in Rhys, Nia and Joe as the performance became a kind of anti-amateur dramatics. The gig itself was packed, held at Aberystwyth Arts Studio, the University's massive 70s concrete architecture housing the beautiful circular dome where we set up in the round. We had to find more chairs in the end, such was the turnout. The reading felt more like a workshop, such was the familiarity of the atmosphere. It was great to see Jemma King, Amy McCauley, Mari Sion, Kath Stansfield, and all the other poets, all of whom I had researched and many of whom were local through study and not birth, reinterpret the collaborative medium once again.
We all piled into a tiny Moroccan restaurant to close out the night, the real unity and cohesion of the group and the project becoming palpable. The first pangs that the whole thing has gone by too fast already.
Nicky Arscott & Kath Stansfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B0sRusEDJw - Mari Siôn & Elin Ap Hywel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgjrpZZ-bXg - Siân Melangell Dafydd & John Barnie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phtm6u8QzwY - Amy McCauley & Jemma L King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUQmaWFTD3A - Joe Dunthorne & Zoë Skoulding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVA7veibyc - Nia Davies & Rhys Trimble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTslGiEnVHg - SJ Fowler & Eurig Salisbury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kJPjOpHePA
Check out www.theenemiesproject.com/gelynion or www.stevenjfowler.com/gelynion for all the blogs!
Tags gelynion, enemies, project, wales, welsh, tour, collaboration, eurig, salisbury, joe, dunthorne, nia, davies, rhys, trimble, annwn, the, dog, aberystwyth, university, performance, shakespeare, owen, glendower
Gelynion: a publication by Hazard Press
Thanks to the remarkable skill and generosity of Jeremy Dixon, Gelynion was accompanied by a beautiful, handmade publication. A six way collaborative poem, where each of the core touring six poets - Nia Davies, Zoë Skoulding, Eurig Salisbury, Joe Dunthorne, SJ Fowler & Rhys Trimble - each wrote a line, and then, with names removed, each other poet added a line, wherever they wished on the page until six poems of six lines had been written. Each poem a truly collaborative work.
Jeremy, who makes such wonderful literary objects at http://hazardpress.co.uk/ then handcrafted just 60 copies for a limited edtion run. He had them waiting for us at the very first gig in Newport and they proved to be a great success throughout the tour. It's hard to convey their delicate and unique character, small and elaborately finished. A huge thanks to Jeremy, do visit Hazard Press and peruse their wares.
The poems within were read twice on the tour, including being the very last reading at the last Welsh gig, at the Hay Festival, where each of us six stood to read a poem each. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb40wuSWBxo
Tags gelynion, publication, jeremy, dixon, hazard, press, cardiff, limited, edition, pamphlet, tour, enemies, project, six, way, collaborative, poem, zoe, skoulding, joe, dunthorne, nia, davies, rhys, trimble, eurig, salisbury, sj, fowler
Gelynion: Enemies Cymru: Blog #1 - Newport
What a way to begin Gelynion, in Newport, with an amazing night that did everything I hope Enemies might do. In so much that it became something utterly its own, nothing to do with me, nothing to do with what I could predict or shape. Or in this case, pivotally, what my co-curator Nia Davies and I could shape. It was an occasion for people to share a space, to exchange their new collaborations, to support & meet, to be in a new place or see a familiar place new. And it was a community, it wasn't artificial in anyway, but gracefully warm and positive and generous. Such a lovely way to begin our tour of Wales, and our attempt to do something ambitious with contemporary Welsh poetry and poets.
The first time I've visited Newport, let alone the first time I've read in the city, and I made my way straight to our venue, Project Space, a reclaimed high street shop, to be welcomed by Kate Mercer, a photographer and artist who manages the activities. From the get go the hospitality was evident, that people had taken it upon themselves to welcome us coming to Newport, specifically, and later in the evening Jonathan Edwards would say it is a place often overlooked culturally and all the better for Enemies for that.
I was collaborating with Rhys Trimble, a friend from previous times and someone whose work I admire, and, rarely, a folk musician, the marvellous Patrick Rimes, whom I'd seen by chance at Cecil Sharp House representing Welsh folk in London just two weeks before and invited. This made our collaboration, one of 3 core pairs from the 6 poets touring the whole of Gelynion, and one of 9 pairs on the night, unique. We spent the afternoon hammering out our work, a structure of exchange and accompaniment with refrains, in abstract poetry and declaration, that complimented all of us and our strengths, hopefully.
The event was full, we needed more seats, with over 60 laid out, and the event had a very natural rhythm to the myriad of approaches the pairs provided. Kate North and Katrin Lloyd offered some Oulipo, close to my heart, while pairs from the Walking Cities project, which paired Welsh and Indian poets, and left us with the serendipitous boon of amazing Indian poets at our reading, explicated their previous exchanges from already established works. Ranjit Hoskote and Tishani Doshi were both immensely assured and graceful in their readings. Cris Paul and Samantha Walton upped the density of the texts, and the pace, and were followed by a brilliant and beautiful art poetry performance from Josh Robinsin and Merega. A revelation to discover Josh's work through Gelynion, we share so many interests.
Rhys and I and Patrick made a good hoof of it, and Joe Dunthorne and Eurig Salisbury were witty and on point as ever. Zoe Skoulding and Nia Davies were the highlight of the night, such a balance in their collaboration between force and textual density, and synchronicity of reading. I was able to discern their entire piece, it revealed itself to me in its reading, which is normally the opposite of how I experience such things, getting a trace to be moulded into my own thoughts. We then finished with Patrick Rimes playing one last piece of music, and as the perfect end to a generous and memorable night in Newport.
Tags gelynion, welsh, enemies, project, cymru, wales, newport, projects, space, south, nia, davies, patrick, rimes, rhys, trimble, collaboration, poetry, poet, poem, collaborative, zoe, skoulding, eurig, salisbury, joe, dunthorne
Turkish Solidarity poetry project - Solidaritypark
http://solidaritypark.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/they-will-have-dried-by-december/ my poem, the first post of the project, for my friends in Istanbul, Gonca Ozmen, Efe Duyan and others who I have met there and in London over the last three or four years. I've had the privilege to visit the city 3 times since 2010 and the courage of the protestors to maintain the secular and free nature of their nation will make a difference which will reverberate for generations to come. Their bravery and sacrifice will stand for something.
"I cannot applaud tyranny, I can never love a tyrant." Turkish poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy, quoted by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on stage before a crowd of 10,000 on 6th June, 2013.
According to Alev Yaman and Erda Halisdemir, reporting for English PEN, Erdogan also invoked Ersoy's epic Safahat and 13th century Anatolian Sufi humanist poet Yunus Emre. Poetry, then, is at the heart of the struggle in Turkey, and -- as with public space -- no government, politician or party should be able to claim control over the power of poetry to inspire, persuade and empathise. We as poets internationally propose a poetic #ResistTurkey / #OccupyGezi to celebrate both the spaces and discourses of freedom of expression, which Erdogan's government has repressed.
We offer our words in solidarity, as translations and inspirations drawn from the creative protests in words and actions taking place across Turkey, and we invite you to join us in doing the same.
Email your own poems or a poem written by someone else (if you are not a poet) as attachments, or send us a link if you've posted elsewhere, to: solidarityparkpoetry@gmail.com. Please submit no more than three poems and include a short bio and an image that either reflects your thoughts on resistance or an author photo. We welcome poems in all languages, including sign languages and visual poetry. If you do have an English translation handy by a reputable translator then do send it along. Turkish-English and English-Turkish translators are also invited to get in touch!
"Come here, let's make peace, let's not be strangers to one another." Yunus Emre
PEN report link: http://www.englishpen.org/blog-erdogan-rallies-base-with-fiery-rhetoric/
Yours In Solidarity,
Nia Davies, Sascha Akhtar, Sophie Mayer
Tags #occupygezi, #resistturkey, davies, december, dried, nia, poetry, solidarity, turkey, turkish


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Hiking along the Costa Vicentina - I love Sagres!
Today I decided the hike tour would be a good one to explore, 8KM along the cliffs of the south coast, with some spectacular views, as illustrated below.
The tour lasts about 2h 30m and at times is slightly challenging, but anyone with a little determination can do it, plus, there was a taxi for the return journey, so we could walk further on the tour. My recommendation of the day is long trousers. I made the mistake of wearing shorts, and my legs currently feel like a cat has sharpened its claws on me. Also, bring water, as climbing the cliffs builds up a thirst.
Anyway, the tour is mostly over flat ground, and is a good way to see the wildlife such as lizards and warthogs, not to mention the scenery, which was equally stunning. Quite an amusing thing to do is to stand on one of the cliffs, and throw a large rock onto the rocks below. The sound of it shattering I found to be quite satisfying.
You will probably have worked up a appetite after the walk, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a sandy beach and a restaurant at the end of the walk, which was a great relief.


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We save the images in the directory containing the static contents under the directory images_saved/username. The username directory is created if needed. If it already exists mkdir fails and we do nothing.
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int * CalendarLib.Calendar.t * ((int * CalendarLib.Calendar.t) list). The first integer is the name under which will be saved the image, the first time is the last update for that user and the list contains the names and times of old images. We need those times to timestamp the entries of the feed.
We find the url of the images with Eliom_service.static_dir. It is a service taking file path as parameter, serving the content of the static directory. We use Eliom_uri.make_string_uri to get the url as a string.


After a half year of slaving away on my senior thesis and a decently long break of unemployment and graduating, I decided to give the site another new look. Most of it was fueled by the fact that I wanted to move some of the right-column content to the left of the picture for better readability and give more space for the art to breathe. Of course, the CSS file self imploded itself in the middle of editing and I just decided to upgrade to ComicPress 2.9. It reminds me why I worship my CSS Pocket Reference book and is possibly the most abused textbook I bought. Now, there's just a couple images I need to update and the site will be spiffy new.
Another thought that came up while redesigning the site was if I wanted to have the colors change depending on the time of day or weather. I know it's possible, but I feel like it's more flashy than functional. Although I'll admit, I was pretty attached to the sunset version of the header. What can I say? I'm a sucker for beautiful skies.


Bad news for the 2 prime time dramas that AKB members are in.
Let's start with the most drastic one. Hanazakari no Kimitachi e 2011, which stars the lovely Maeda Atsuko as the lead girl Ashiya Mizuki. The show also includes fellow AKB48 members Kashiwagi Yuki, Ichikawa Miori, Oba Mina and Nagao Mariya. AKB48's latest single Flying Get is used as the theme song of the drama.
The show's rating's on it's 1st episode weren't spectacular, only 10.1% which is quite average for a prime time drama. However it fell down drastically on the 2nd episode, down to 6.0%. Ratings managed to pull up by 1.9% to 7.9% for it's 3rd episode, but dropped yet again in the latest episode to an all time low of 5.5%. Out of all the prime time dramas currently airing, Hana Kimi 2011 has the lowest rating by a landslide.
But why? Some of the reasons I've seen on the net are incorrect casting (especially of the guys), a very rushed plot, storyline or scenes not making sense, or that it just doesn't live up to the original. Indeed when I watched the first 3 episodes, it pales in comparison. The episodes weren't as funny or as interesting. The acting was fine so that wasn't the problem. Maybe it was just too early to make a remake of such a highly regarded drama.
Nevertheless, it really has to buck up on the next episode. a rating of 5.5% is really really low for a prime time drama and the people investing their money on the drama will not be pleased. The drama could have it's timeslot moved back, an episode or two cut, worst case scenario is that the drama gets it's plug pulled completely. Hopefully that doesn't happen because I wanna see where this new plot goes. A low rating will also damage Acchan's acting reputation.
Next up is Ikemen desu ne, with Kojima Haruna as NANA. Not a main character but her role isn't minor either. The drama had average ratings too of 10.9% when it started, and managed to raise it just ever slightly by 0.1%. It dropped 2.7% however on it's 3rd episode to 8.3%. It still has time to catch up though. Since I haven't watched the show due to time constraints, I can't comment on it sorry.
And now looking at the opposite end of the spectrum, the top rated drama of the season is Zettai Reido 2 which started out at 15.4% and it's current ratings are 13.1%. Bull Doctor comes in at 2nd, starting at 13.9%. Even after a drop down to 10.8%, it managed to regain it's rankings back to 13.8% for the latest episode. Not surprisingly, both of them are crime/suspense related. Will the danso dramas stand a chance against them?


While Manpreet dons the captains armband, the responsibilities of his deputy will be shouldered by Chinglensana Singh.
In an athlete's world, sleep is synonymous to rejuvenation, recovery and better performance.
The Mumbai lad made his international debut at the six-nation Volvo tournament in 2015.
India's colts, who won the Junior World Cup last year, had a fabulous outing in 2016.
Sreejesh feels the level of game will be entirely different in the senior team.
India skipper PR Sreejesh says that his players share good banter with the Pakistan players, once the match between the two teams is over.
There was no Indian in the 2016 Player of the Year nominations and in the 2016 Coach of the Year nominations.


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Eating peanuts may extend your life
Health studies rarely involve people on opposite sides of the globe who have very different lifestyles. However, researchers at Vanderbilt Medical School took that approach when they pooled data from dietary studies of 72,000 men and women in the southeastern United States and 135,000 people in Shanghai, China. It turns out that the Americans and Chinese have something in common—they both eat a lot of peanuts—and they may be living longer as a result.
All of the participants filled out detailed questionnaires on the foods they ate regularly. The research team noted that peanuts accounted for 50% of nuts eaten by Americans and almost all the nuts consumed by the Chinese.
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Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 226 people involved in 158 corruption cases, a state-media report said. The
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Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 226 people involved in 158 corruption cases, a state-media report said. The National Anti-corruption Commission accused them of exploiting their authorities to accept briberies, Xinhua news agency quoted the report as saying on Thursday. One of the cases, which was reported in August, involved Saudi officers and civilians working for the Defence Ministry. They were accused of accepting briberies totalling 1.229 billion Saudi Riyals ($327 million), in addition to forgeries and money laundering. Another case involved a retired National Guard officer who was charged with accepting bribery of 8.2 million Saudi Riyals when he was in active duty. The commission vowed to continue its fight against corruption, highlighting that the penalty against those who commit briberies could be waived if they report the cases to the authorities. Saudi Arabia has been leading a war against corruption in the last few years as part of its efforts to protect the strength of its economy. (IANS)
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I looked in my closet at the jeans and t-shirts. Nothing seemed right. Nothing seemed to fit. I left my room and entered my mom's closet. I looked at her skirts and dresses and held them up to my body in the mirror. I felt real when looked I at myself holding up the pink skirt. I found one of my mom's yellow dresses and put in on. I went downstairs with my palms sweating and heart racing. I entered the kitchen and my mom dropped her mug on the floor. I saw the coffee splash and the white mug shatter into pieces. Her mouth was left hanging. I looked at her eyes to see disappointment. I ran from the room with my eyes glassy. She didn't need to say anything. I saw her disappointment.
I went to school as my same, fake self.
"Hey Desmond. How'd it go?" My friend Madeline asked me in her joyous voice. She and Joel were the only one's who knew about my gender confusion.
"Not good." I answered in my annoying voice.
"Okay." I said as the bell rang, signaling for period one.
The second I got home; I hide my face and smudged my makeup. I ran upstairs and didn't even bother to grab a snack. I locked myself in there until it was time to go to bed.
The next morning, I didn't even bother to get up. I waited in bed until I heard my mom's red car door slam shut. I heard her and Dad arguing this morning. Probably about me. I got up and threw on the closest thing of clothing and snatched my wallet up from my nightstand. I took my bike and biked my way to the mall. I don't care if my mom and dad weren't ok with me. I was.
When I got to the mall and only went shopping at female clothing shops, I could feel the eyes staring at me. I could feel them burning into my skin. I bought as many dresses and skirts as I could with my money. At the end of the day, I had so many new clothes; I couldn't count them all.
I entered my home with bags hanging off of my arms. My mom rushed towards the door and started screaming at me. I could see my dad in the kitchen sitting drinking his glass of beer. I could tell him and mom had been fighting. Mom's eyes were stained with tears and I'm sure my dad was drunk. I ignored my mom's yelling and walked up to my room. When I went down for dinner, it was a deafening silence. My mom looked at me in the face and noticed something off. Something not right. We made eye contact. I wanted to look away but I couldn't.
"Why? Why are you wearing makeup? Your are a boy and boy's shouldn't wear makeup." She said weakly. My father looked up from his plate and looked me in the eye. He scanned my face. He saw my eye shadow and long eyelashes. He walked away, not saying a word.
When I woke up the next morning, I already knew what I was going to wear. I swept out of bed and went straight to my mirror to start my makeup. I chose a bright pink dress with lace all throughout it. I felt true and honest. I put on black tights and a pair of black high heels with a bow at the end of them. My brown, curly hair seemed just right with this outfit, even though it was short.
I walked down the stairs to see my mom looming over the stove. I smelt food. I wasn't sure what she was cooking. I stopped at the end of the stairs and took a deep breath. As I stepped onto the hardwood floor and my mother heard my heel hit the ground. She jerked her head towards the stairs and faked a smile.
"You look beautiful today." She said, faking a bright pink smile. I could see her eyes turn to glass.
"He… left." She said with a long sigh. She started to tear up. I gave her a hug. As I started to leave, I said goodbye.
"Desmond!" My mother yelled. I turned my head down the hall to where she stood.
"What should I call you now?" She asked. There was a long pause. I hadn't considered this at all. I thought for a moment, and then it hit me.
"Call me Stephanie. Stef works too." I said flashing her a smile. She smiled back at me.
"I like that name, Stef. It fits you." I walked out the door and into the darkness of the real world. The sun hit my face and lit up my dress. I looked down at my outfit and it seemed brighter, more vibrant.
I walked into the doors of Marina High School. I felt confident. I also felt a giant knot in my stomach. I saw eyes turn to me and people whisper. My father always said people starred because they were jealous. I saw Madeline walking down the hall and I grabbed her arm before she could go any further. She looked at me and grinned.
"You… Need to tell me where you got that dress. I'm absolutely in love with it." She squealed loudly.
"Do I look good." I asked with my words shaking.
"You look fabulous. I'm so proud of you for doing this." She wrapped her arms around me and squeezed. I took a deep breathe in and out.
"Don't be nervous," She whispered in my ear. "What's your name?" she asked, pulling away from me. I took a deep breathe.
"Stef… I like it." She grinned wildly.


Verse 164: The foolish man who, on account of his wrong views, scorns the teaching of homage-worthy Noble Ones (Ariyas) who live according to the Dhamma is like the bamboo which bears fruit for its own destruction.
While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (164) of this book, with reference to Thera Kala.
Once in Savatthi, an elderly woman was looking after a Thera named Kala, like her own son. One day hearing from her neighbours about the virtues of the Buddha, she wished very much to go to the Jetavana monastery and listen to the discourses given by the Buddha. So she told Thera Kala about her wishes; but the thera advised her against it. Three times she spoke to him about her wishes but he always dissuaded her. But one day, in spite of his dissuasion, the lady decided to go. After asking her daughter to look to the needs of Thera Kala she left the house. When Thera Kala came on his usual round of alms-food, he learned that the lady of the house had left for the Jetavana monastery. Then he reflected, "It is quite possible that the lady of this house is losing her faith in me." So, he made haste and quickly followed her to the monastery. There, he found her listening to the discourse being given by the Buddha. He approached the Buddha respectfully, and said, "Venerable Sir! This woman is very dull; she will not be able to understand the sublime Dhamma; please teach her only about charity (dana) and morality (sila)."
The Buddha knew very well that Thera Kala was talking out of spite and with an ulterior motive. So he said to Thera Kala, "Bhikkhu! Because you are foolish and because of your wrong view, you scorn my Teaching. You yourself are your own ruin; in fact, you are only trying to destroy yourself."
At the end of the discourse the elderly lady attained Sotapatti Fruition.


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Superb Drum Mics for Live Sound
Joel Nichols on 2013/06/04
If you're looking for a rugged, great sounding set of mics for live use, then I'd really recommend this set. For studio uses, I personally find the "Pre-EQd" nature of them to be restrictive, but to be fair, I only purchased them for live use, and for that they are superb! The mics are supplied in a metal flight case, with custom cutouts for each mics. It's a rugged housing although isn't as strong as a true flight case, so I tend to keep mine inside another trunk That said, it's far better than just having some pouches rolling around everywhere.
The clips supplied with the mics are also worth a mention. The D-Vice clamps used for attaching the mics to drum rims are superb, allowing much more freedom of movement than a traditional clamp, like those found on the Sennheiser E604. The ability to attach other clips to them is also a useful feature, and I use an extra one to fit an Audiotechnica Pro 37R underneath snare drums without the need for a stand. The standard clips for the D6 and ADX-51s are also excellent, with the ability to tighten them without having to reach for a screwdriver being massively helpful when setting up against the clock.
Looking at the mics individually, let's start with the D6. It's become a very respected live mic and is featured on many riders these days. Starting with the design, the compact size makes it easy to position, even on drums with small ports - a major advantage over mics like the AKG D112. Sound wise, it definitely goes after the "American" sound, with a fat bottom end, scooped mids and clicky highs. This is generally what I'd dial in for other mics anyway, so I don't find the pre-EQd nature a problem - indeed, it leaves most of my EQ available for compensating for the drum, rather than the mic. With a good gate, this mic allows for extremely tight low end without any hint of muddiness or boominess. For jazz bands, some experimentation with positioning is needed to get a little more of a rounded, organic sound, but for louder pop, rock and funk acts very little EQ is needed.
The i5 is Audix's attempt to go after the SM57, and in the design stakes it wins by being shorter than the Shure competitor, making it much easier to position on a snare drum, keeping it out of the drummer's way. It also is fully metal, without the plastic end of the 57, meaning if the drummer hits it by mistake, you shouldn't have a problem. Sound wise, think of it as an SM57 with extra sizzle. For electric guitars, I find it to be just a little too harsh and unnatural, but on snares I'd take it over a 57 any day! I'm often finding myself leaving the EQ completely flat and getting the crisp, punchy snare sound I want without any hint of harshness or artificial sound.
Now for the D2s, specifically designed for rack toms. Design wise these, as well as the D4, almost look like a mini D6. While slightly larger than something like a Sennheiser E604, they're certainly not big enough to cause problems. Tuned specifically for rack toms, these have a good tonal balance between capturing the warmth and depth of the toms, while not letting resonance and mud get out of control. I wouldn't say they're as "run 'em flat" as the i5, but they're certainly good.
The D4 is the final dynamic mic in the set, specifically designed for floor toms. I think it's great that a mic is included specifically for this application, as floor toms have their own unique challenges compared to their rack equivalents; the main ones being the sheer depth, low end and resonance. The D4, distinguished from the D2 by its red grille, handles this superbly. Like the i5, I find myself needing very little EQ and still achieving the warm, fully and punchy sound I want, even on drums that aren't well tuned.
Finally the ADX-51s, the overhead mics included in the set. These really do have a sound signature great for overheads, crisp, detailed, and minimizing any washiness which is a big problem I often find with overhead mics. The inclusion of a switchable low cut and PAD also adds to their versatility. I've had good results using them on hats, ride, and acoustic guitar, as well as room mics. That said, for some uses, you may find the top end just a little bright out of the box and needing a bit of a cut. Saying that though, the top end remains smooth in most uses and never sounds scratchy or harsh.
Overall, if you're looking for a live set that gives the sound you'll want in most settings almost right out of the box, I can really recommend this. For studio users, I think you'll want a more flat sounding set allowing you to get a more natural, organic sound with more freedom for creativity.
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Florence regains strength as a hurricane: 'Plan for the worst, pray for the best'
John Bacon
Florence strengthened into a hurricane again Sunday as forecasters warned the menacing storm could deliver a brutal hit along the East Coast by the end of the week.
Florence was forecast to become a Category 3 hurricane by Monday with sustained winds of more than 110 mph. And it's not likely to weaken before reaching the shores of North and South Carolina and Virginia on Thursday, AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Rossi said.
The ground is already saturated from recent rains, rivers are high, and the storm will be moving slowly when it arrives, exacerbating the situation, Rossi told USA TODAY.
"This is very scary rain event potentially setting up this week," Rossi said. "Florence could dump a foot of rain in places that cannot handle it, making for a very scary flooding situation in some areas."
The National Hurricane Center's breakdown of storm strength says Category 3 storms can bring "devastating" destruction. Homes can be damaged, trees uprooted and electricity and water can be knocked out for days or weeks, the center warns.
"There is an increasing risk of life-threatening hazards from storm surge and heavy rainfall from the Carolinas into the mid-Atlantic region," the hurricane center tweeted.
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The Navy said all ships in Virginia's coastal Hampton Roads area were preparing to leave port for open seas Monday. Admiral Christopher Grady said ships can better weather "storms of this magnitude when they are underway."
South Carolina emergency management officials said they were "preparing for the possibility of a large-scale disaster."
Virginia joined North and South Carolina in declaring a state of emergency ahead of the storm. Gov. Ralph Northam said the Virginia National Guard, the Virginia State Police and other state agencies have already begun preparations.
Because of the uncertainty of the storm's track, Northam encouraged all state residents to prepare for the storm. Florence could bring significant flooding along the coast all the way to rivers and streams in the western part of the state, he said.
"I encourage Virginians to monitor forecasts and make their own preparations now," Northam said.
All three governors urged residents to assemble emergency kits including food, water, medications, pet supplies and important documents that might be needed if evacuations are necessary.
"Now is the time for your family also to prepare and stay tuned for more updates," South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said. "Plan for the worst, pray for the best."
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Background Chronic disease prevention and screening (CDPS) has been identified as a top priority in primary care. However, primary care providers often lack time, evidence-based tools, and consistent guidelines to effectively address CDPS. Building on Existing Tools to Improve Chronic Disease Prevention and Screening in Primary Care (BETTER) is a novel approach that introduces a new role, that of the prevention practitioner; the prevention practitioner meets with patients, one on one, to undertake a personalised CDPS visit. Understanding patients' perspectives is important for clinicians and other stakeholders aiming to address and integrate CDPS.
Aim To describe patients' perspectives regarding visits with a prevention practitioner in BETTER 2, an implementation study that was carried out after the BETTER trial and featured a higher proportion of patients in rural and remote locations.
Design & setting Qualitative description based on patient feedback surveys, completed by patients in three primary care clinics (urban, rural, and remote) in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Method Patients' perspectives were assessed based on responses from 91 feedback forms. In total, 154 patients (aged 40–65 years) received ≥1 prevention visit(s) from a prevention practitioner and were asked to provide written feedback. In addition to demographics, patients were asked what they liked about their visit(s), what they would have liked to be different, and invited to make any other comments. Qualitative description was used to analyse the data.
Results Four main themes emerged from patients' feedback: value of visit (patients appreciated the visit with a prevention practitioner); visit characteristics (the visit was personalised, comprehensive, and sufficiently long); prevention practitioners' characteristics (professionalism and interpersonal skills); and patients' concerns (termination of the programme and access to preventative care).
Conclusion Patients appreciated the visits they received with a prevention practitioner and expressed their desire to receive sustained CDPS in primary care.
Despite the outcome measures, descriptive statistics, and the input from participants in the BETTER 2 programme, one perspective was missing: that of patients. What did patients think of their visits with a prevention practitioner? Did those who received this perceive it as a duplication of services or unnecessary? Did they like it? If they did, what did they like about it? What would they have liked to be different? The literature suggests that patients often have a different view of their needs than their primary care providers.10 Understanding patients' perspectives is important for clinicians and other stakeholders aiming to address and integrate CDPS; as such, this study aimed to describe patients' perspectives of the BETTER approach and the prevention visit(s) they received with a prevention practitioner as part of the BETTER 2 programme.
brief action planning,6 a structured approach to behaviour change based on the principles of motivational interviewing.
The role of prevention practitioner was taken on by a licensed practical nurse in the rural site, a nurse practitioner shared between two small remote communities, and a nurse practitioner in an urban academic practice.
Waiting-room posters, clinician referral, the media (for example, news articles), and mail-out invitations were used to invite patients aged 40–65 years to enroll in BETTER 2. Interested patients contacted their clinic to receive more information about the study and schedule a prevention visit with the prevention practitioner. Patients provided written informed consent at their first visit and were invited to attend a follow-up visit with the prevention practitioner approximately 6 months later. After each prevention visit (baseline and follow-up), patients were provided with a feedback form and information letter, which invited them to give the study team feedback on the programme and their prevention visit(s).
Providing feedback was voluntary and was completed by submitting anonymous forms using a closed comment box located in each clinic's waiting area or through the mail using a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. Patients were made aware that submitting their completed feedback form to the study team indicated that they were consenting to participate in that component of the study.
CDPS = chronic disease prevention screening. CFIR = Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research. RCT = randomised controlled trial.
Patients were initially invited to participate in telephone interviews, but only two patients over the course of 2 months participated. These two patients gave positive reviews of BETTER 2 and the team recognised that there was a risk of selection bias as patients who were unhappy were less likely to participate in interviews. Given the low response to requests for telephone interviews, and as patients had already committed a significant amount of time to the project (approximately 3 hours per visit including filling out surveys, travel time, and so on), the team designed a patient survey to obtain feedback. Patients who completed at least one visit with a prevention practitioner were invited to fill out a feedback form that was designed to take around 5–7 minutes to complete.
Survey responses were collected and sorted by question in Microsoft® Excel. Two investigators with expertise in qualitative methods performed a first iteration of data analysis independently using content analysis and qualitative description. The independent analyses were then reviewed and discussed by the same researchers, along with two other members of the larger team to ensure consensus. Minor discrepancies were resolved through discussion.
In total, 154 patients (35 male [23%] and 119 female [77%]) participated in the BETTER 2 programme. A total of 91 feedback forms were returned, of which 26 (29%) were from men and 65 (71%) from women. Thirty-nine (43%) of responses were from the remote/rural areas and 52 (57%) from the urban setting.
Although some patients' comments focused on one theme, others were associated with both.
limited access to preventative care.
The qualitative implementation study identified that, although primary care providers (including prevention practitioners) and managers appreciated and embraced the prevention visits, some physicians questioned the value of such visits for patients.9 Interestingly, none of the patients who provided feedback shared those doubts, despite having the opportunity do to so anonymously.
This study focused on patients' perspectives of the prevention visits they received as part of the BETTER 2 study, which they perceived as beneficial, important, and meaningful. Patients also expressed their concern about the termination of the programme and their having limited access, as they saw it, to preventative care in their settings.
Patients' perspectives contribute a critical layer to the growing body of research on CDPS in primary care across urban and rural/remote contexts. Given that patients are getting more involved in the healthcare decision-making process, their experiences and perceptions are important. The authors' ability to collect 91 patient feedback forms, from a potential total of 154, is a major strength of this study; it demonstrates that a large proportion of participating patients took advantage of the opportunity to share their perspectives anonymously. Feedback was also obtained from diverse settings; 43% of completed feedback forms came from rural/remote primary care settings and 57% from urban settings. In the context of the larger study — in which patients were asked to dedicate time to the prevention visits (baseline and follow-up), completion of health surveys, and any resulting laboratory or screening tests when these were out of date — feedback forms were a non-intrusive, quick, and an easy way to collect patients' comments and opinions.
One limitation of this qualitative study is that the results are solely based on written voluntary feedback from self-selected patients who returned their feedback forms. To mitigate against this possible limitation, all patients who had received at least one visit from the prevention practitioner were also sent a copy of the patient feedback form and information letter in the post, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope; this ensured that all participants had the opportunity to provide feedback, be it positive or not. Although this strategy could have resulted in patients submitting feedback more than once, the feedback received via mail-out was minimal.
A further limitation is that it is possible that patients who were interested in CDPS are overrepresented in the sample, as participation in the prevention visits was voluntary. Finally, as feedback was kept short and concise to respect patients' time and mitigate against the demands associated with participating in BETTER 2, participants' responses did not allow for extensive or more-elaborate analyses, and provided only a snapshot of patients' perspectives.
Although family physicians who see CDPS as an integral part of their practice may question the effectiveness of having a prevention practitioner in their primary care setting, patients' feedback was overwhelmingly positive and they perceived their visits with a prevention practitioner as valuable and worthwhile. Patients expressed their desire to receive sustained CDPS in primary care, across urban and rural/remote contexts, which adds an important perspective on the impact and implementation of the BETTER approach. The findings presented here inform primary care teams who are interested in enhancing their CDPS practices.
The authors would like to thank the BETTER 2 prevention practitioners for their participation, as well as the Centre for Collaboration, Motivation and Innovation for providing the BETTER 2 prevention practitioners with training on brief action planning.
This research was made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada through the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) (RES0016626). Eva Grunfeld is supported by a clinician scientist award from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), with funds from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI). The opinions, results and conclusions reported here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views from the funders. No endorsement by CPAC, OICR or MRI is intended or should be inferred.
Ethical approval for BETTER 2 was received from the Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Alberta (reference number: Pro00039331) and the Health Research Ethics Authority of Newfoundland and Labrador (reference number: 13.120).
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The nation's largest banks are strongly capitalized and are holding more liquid assets than they were in the leadup to the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve noted today in its inaugural report on financial stability.
The nation's largest banks are strongly capitalized and are holding more liquid assets than they were in the leadup to the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve noted today in its inaugural report on financial stability. The report — which will be published twice a year — examines the resilience of the financial system and highlights potential vulnerabilities that could affect financial stability.
While regulators expressed confidence overall in the health of the financial sector, they are concerned about a rise in riskier business debt — including high-yield bonds and leveraged loans — which has increased in recent quarters and now totals $2 trillion. They also noted that credit standards for some business loans have loosened. Meanwhile, household borrowing has grown at a low-to-moderate pace relative to income, the report noted.
In the near term, regulators noted that Brexit and uncertainties in the Eurozone could pose potential risks to the financial system, as could an economic slowdown in China. In addition, uncertainties related to U.S. trade policies and geopolitical uncertainties could also make investors more risk averse in the months ahead, the Fed said.


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