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Джон Лафия (2 апреля 1957 — 29 апреля 2020) — американский сценарист кино и телевидения, режиссёр, продюсер и музыкант. Обучался в Калифорнийском университете в Лос-Анджелесе, где получил степень бакалавра в области кино и телевидения. Лафия работал над более чем 30 проектами и написал сценарии или срежиссировал фильмы для Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, New Line Cinema, Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures, MGM / UA, Warner Bros., NBC, CBS, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate и многих других независимых компаний. Наиболее известен как сценарист комедийных хорроров про куклу Чаки.

Карьера
Первым художественным фильмом Джона Лафии стала криминально-мистическая комедия «Голубая игуана». Он написал сценарий и сам же выступил режиссёром, а также спродюсировал саундтрек. Фильм был выбран для специального полуночного показа во Дворце Фестивалей на Каннском кинофестивале 1988 года . Лафия был соавтором сценария к культовому комедийному слэшеру «Детские игры» (1988), где впервые появляется кукла-убийца Чакки. Будучи уже именитым сценаристом, он придумал имя этому персонажу и его коронную фразу «Привет, я Чаки, хочешь поиграть?» После выхода лента «Детские игры» стала лидером проката в Северной Америки. Фильм получил премию Сатурн за лучший фильм ужасов, а также номинацию за лучший сценарий. Фильм также был отобран на Международный фестиваль du Film Fantastique d'Avoriaz. Скивел, «Детские игры 2» (1990), Лафия уже ставил как режиссёр. Фильм дебютировал под первым номером в чартах Северной Америки, был номинирован на премию Сатурн, а также отобран на Международный фестиваль du Film Fantastique d'Avoriaz. После «Детских игр 2» Лафия продолжил разрабатывать жанр, занявшись проектом «Лучший друг человека» (1993), как сценарист и режиссёр, поставив этот фильм на New Line Cinema. Фильм дебютировал на второй строчке в чартах Северной Америки. «Лучший друг человека» получил специальный приз на Международном кинофестивале в Жерармере, за него проголосовало жюри во главе с Терри Гиллиамом и Уолтером Хиллом. «Лучший друг человека» также был номинирован на премию Сатурн за лучший научно-фантастический фильм, а также был отобран в программу Международного фестиваля фантастических фильмов в Брюсселе.

В середине 90-х Лафия стала пионером новых медиа. Он был режиссёром видеоигры Corpse Killer (1994) для Digital Pictures / Sega, а также интерактивной тематической подборки Bombmeister (1995) для Sony / Interfilm. Оба проекта сочетают компьютерные технологии с «живым» видео и цифровой графикой, представляя зрителям интерактивный мир, который в то время только начинал появляться на горизонте. Лафия также стал активным участником коротких и длинных телепроектов, сняв несколько эпизодов «Вавилона 5» и телефильмы: «Крысы», «Хамелеон 3»: «Тёмный ангел», «Монстр», «Огненный шторм»: «Последний бой в Йеллоустоне») и «Код 1114» для Paramount, Fox, A&E и CBS. Кульминацией этой деятельности стал мини-сериал NBC «10.5» (2004) и его продолжение «10.5: Апокалипсис» (2006), которое Лафия написал, поставил и спродюсировал. После выпуска «10.5» стал мини-сериалом года с самым высоким рейтингом, собрав 20 миллионов зрителей за две ночи, и входит в пятёрку лучших мини-сериалов десятилетия.

До своей карьеры режиссёра Лафия участвовал в андеграундной музыкальной сцене Лос-Анджелеса. Называясь Его ранняя работа, Prayers (1984), была выпущена на кассетном лейбле Tranceport Tapes под именем John J. Lafia, с обложкой Лейна Смита с оригинальной артом Lafia. За этим последовали треки на LA Mantra Two ( 1984) и Phantom Cuts (1985.) Лафия также фигурировал в антологии «Английский как второй язык» (1983) вместе с поэтами из Лос-Анджелеса Чарльзом Буковски, Вандой Коулман и Иксен Червенкой . У него есть трек на немецком сборнике, Voices From North America (1994), записанный с продюсером / музыкантом Этаном Джеймсом. В 2008 году Джон снова сосредоточился на сочинении и записи как своей основной художественной практике. Он создал небольшую рок-оперу «Баллада Фрэнка и Коры» (2013), для которой написал музыку и исполнил вокальную партию главного персонажа. В 2019 году Discos Transgenero был выпущен ограниченный тираж двойной пластинки с музыкой Джона, распространявшийся Aguirre Records. Этот сборник «Джон Лафия 1980—1985» был выпущен также и в цифровом виде. Лафия готовил новые релизы, охватывающие архивный материал того же периода, и продолжал записывать новый материал в своей студии в Сильвер Лейк, Калифорния .

Смерть
Джон Лафия покончил жизнь самоубийством 29 апреля 2020 года; после него остались дети и его бывшая жена.

Видеоигры
 Corpse Killer (1995)

Дискография
 English as a Second Language: Odyssey Girls (1983) — композитор, продюсер
 Prayers (1984) — композитор, исполнитель
 LA Mantra 2: Queen Of The Nile (1984) — композитор, исполнитель
 Phantom Takes: The Moth (1985) — композитор, исполнитель
 Voices From North America: The Confession (1986) — композитор, исполнитель
 John Lafia 1980—1985 (2019) — композитор, исполнитель

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Выпускники Школы театра, кино и телевидения Калифорнийского университета в Лос-Анджелесе
Выпускники Калифорнийского университета в Лос-Анджелесе


Can we design a truly inclusive accessibility icon?
It's one of the best-known symbols in the world. Used in airports, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, offices, bathrooms, and parking lots around the world, it still somehow goes unnoticed by many people.
It's the symbol for universal access, the icon that represents inclusive design for people with physical disabilities. First conceived as an empty wheelchair by Danish design student Susanne Koefoed as part of a 1968 competition sponsored by the United Nations and the International Standards Organization, the symbol wasn't widely used until 1990, when George W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and made it official.
But a lot has changed in the past 20 years, and in 2010 artist and design researcher Sara Hendren and philosophy professor Brian Glenney wanted to draw attention to the symbol as a way to address issues around inclusivity. They launched the Accessible Icon Project in order to introduce a new icon that features a more dynamic figure—one that aimed to portray individuals with physical disabilities in a new light.
Under the legal concept called "equivalent facilitation," the new dynamic icon is legally permitted if it offers "equal or better accommodation" for the audience in question. It's difficult to say if the work of the Accessible Icon Project meets that criteria until a court rules on the matter, but because the new icon follows the original design so closely in terms of color and shape, some experts believe it would be allowed. The state of New York and the U.S. Department of the Treasury have already installed signs featuring the new icon, but in May 2015, the Department of Transportation declined to adopt the symbol, noting that it was not "unmistakably similar" to the original.
In spite of the icon's adoption by several non-government groups, like the Jacksonville Jaguars and Nissan's "Taxi of Tomorrow," as well its inclusion in two exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art, the members of the Accessible Icon Project insist that universal adoption was never the goal.
AIGA is currently in the process of updating its Symbol Signs resource, a set of passenger/pedestrian symbols available to use free of charge, with an aim to include an accessibility icon this summer.
Learn more about the project at Sara Hendren's site, accessibleicon.org and Tim Ferguson Sauder's design portfolio site, asmallpercent.com.
Scott Kirkwood is a freelance copywriter and creative director in Denver, CO, with a focus on the outdoors, nonprofits and "do-gooder" companies. He is also a frequent contributor to HOW Magazine and AIGA design blogs.
This system of 50 symbol signs, produced by AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life.
Amongst the crushing piles of online applications and correspondences spamming modern-day employers, how do you make a good impression via email?


This inevitably affects the quality of the decisions made and the likelihood of the chosen treatment providing the best outcome for that particular patient.
A critical element of information that needs to be clearly communicated to patients is the risk associated with each available treatment.
the impact that event will have on the patient.
However, the way a risk is explained (for example, whether the emphasis is on the advantages or the disadvantages of a treatment) is vitally important. It can affect how patients understand and perceive risks and, therefore, how they compare options.
Without treatment you have a 20% chance of having a heart attack in 10 years.
Without treatment you have an 80% chance of not having a heart attack in 10 years.
Many people struggle with health statistics and risk. Shared Decision Making encourages a different type of conversation about risk – in particular using simplified communication techniques to ensure that the conversation is as clear as possible. This means that people will have a much better understanding about the comparative risks inherent in different types of treatment.


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At least 43 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia, Red Crescent says
By Reuters - 03 July 2021 - 15:19
The boat had set off from Zuwara, on Libya's northwest coast, carrying migrants from Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Bangladesh, the humanitarian organisation said.
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At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent told Reuters on Saturday.
In recent months, several drowning incidents have occurred off the Tunisian coast, with an increase in the frequency of attempted crossings to Europe from Tunisia and Libya towards Italy as the weather has improved.
"The navy rescued 84 migrants and 43 others drowned in a boat that set off from Libya's Zuwara towards Europe," Red Crescent official Mongi Slim said.
Hundreds of thousands of people have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing in recent years, many of them fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.
Arrivals in Italy - one of the main migrant routes into Europe - had been falling in recent years, but numbers picked up again in 2021.
Almost 19,800 migrants have arrived since the beginning of the year against just over 6,700 in the same period last year, Italian interior Ministry figures show.
At least 23 African migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia, NGO says
At least 23 migrants from Africa drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, and 70 were ...
At least 17 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunis
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Saint Stephen, Protomartyr – 26 December
All that we know of the life of Stephen is contained in two chapters (6 and 7) of the Acts of the Apostles. His date and place of birth are not known. He was a Hellenistic Jew and his name is Greek (coming from the word stephanos, meaning a 'crown') and he probably was born or even lived outside the borders of Palestine. Nor do we know when or where or how he was converted to Christianity.
The first Christians held what they owned in common, so that the needs of each person were taken care of. However, the Acts tells us that the Hellenists, the Greek-speaking members of the community, were complaining that some of them, especially the widows, were not being taken looked after properly. The Apostles, busy with their work of evangelising, felt they did not have time to take care of this problem. So seven good and prudent men, who were also Hellenists, were chosen to take care of the situation. The seven were prayed over and ordained by the imposition of hands. The names of the seven are given. Stephen, who heads the list is called "a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit", then Philip, known as "the Evangelist", Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas – all Greek names. (Nicholas, we are told, was a convert to Judaism.) They were appointed by the Apostles to look after the distribution of alms and would be called 'deacons'. The word 'deacon' [diaconus] means 'one who serves'. They also helped in the ministry of preaching.
Stephen himself early on showed himself a formidable debater with some of the Jews. We are told that the 'Synagogue of Roman Freedmen' (Jews from Cyrene, Alexandria, Cilicia and Asia Minor) "would undertake to engage Stephen in debate, but they proved no match for the wisdom and spirit with which he spoke". These people, touched to the quick, got charges made against Stephen that he had spoken blasphemies against Moses and against God.
Stephen was then arrested and brought before the Sanhedrin, the same court that Jesus had to face during his Passion. False witnesses attested that Stephen never stopped speaking against the holy place (the Temple) and the Law (of Moses). They claimed they heard him say that "Jesus the Nazorean" would destroy the Temple and change the customs which Moses had handed down. These, of course, were distortions of what Jesus actually said. He did say that if the Temple was brought down he would raise it in three days (referring, of course, to the temple that was his own Body). And he explicitly said that no one should change one jot of the Mosaic Law but he also said that one had to go further than the letter of the Law in interpreting its meaning (cf. Matt 5:17-48).
The Acts say that during all these accusations "Stephen's face seemed like that of an angel".
Stephen, in response to the high priest's request, then made his defence in a long speech. It took the form of a quite detailed summary of the history of the Jewish people and their stormy relationship with God which often involved the rejection of the leaders that God had appointed to lead them. Even allowing for some editing by the author of Acts, Stephen was clearly well versed in the Scriptures and in the history of the Jewish people, as well as being an eloquent and powerful speaker.
His defence of his beliefs was that God does not depend on the Temple which, like the Law of Moses, was temporary in nature and waiting to be replaced and fulfilled by the Christ, the Messiah and Prophet foretold by Moses and for whom the Jewish people had been waiting so long. "The Most High does not dwell in buildings made by human hands, for as the prophet says: 'The heavens are my throne, the earth is my footstool; what kind of house can you build me? What is my resting place to be like?' (Isaiah 66)."
Stephen concluded by calling his hearers "stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears" who had over the centuries refused to listen to God and the leaders he appointed. "Was there ever any prophet whom your fathers did not persecute?" They put to death those who foretold the coming of the Just One; now they had killed the Just One himself.
Not surprisingly, this speech did not go down very well. "They were stung to the heart; they ground their teeth in anger at him."
Then Stephen, echoing the words of his beloved Master and filled with the Spirit of God, cried out: "Look! I see an opening in the sky, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand." His hearers, shocked by what they regarded as absolute blasphemy (as in the case of Jesus), rushed forward, dragged Stephen out of the city and began to stone him to death.
As the men stripped to do the stoning, they piled their clothes at the foot of a young man who looked on approvingly – he was the zealous Pharisee, Saul. And as Stephen lay dying beneath the barrage of stones he was heard to cry – again in imitation of his Master on the cross – "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And then he died. It was probably around the year 35 AD (assuming that Jesus died about the year 33).
At least since the 4th century (or earlier) Stephen's feast has been observed in both the Eastern and Western Churches. His cult received a boost when what was believed to be his grave was found by a priest, Lucian, at Kafr Gamala in 415. Later, his relics were moved to Constantinople and then to Rome together with some stones believed to have been used in his martyrdom.
From early times he was the patron of deacons.
He has been named patron of many churches, including a number of French cathedrals such as Bourges, Sens and Toulouse. Many churches in England were dedicated to him, especially after the Norman Conquest.
In art he is often shown holding a book of the Gospels with a stone and sometimes a palm of martyrdom. There is a fine cycle of pictures by Fra Angelico now kept at the Vatican.
Some people might find it strange that this feast of a martyr should follow immediately after the joyful celebration of the Birth of Jesus we call Christmas. Yet, it is really altogether appropriate. The Christmas story itself is full of challenge as Mary and
Joseph are forced to leave their home in Nazareth just when she is going to have her baby. And, that after the long journey to Bethlehem, there is no decent lodging and they have to take shelter in a stable where animals were kept. Is this how the Son of God, our King and Lord, is to appear in our world? Jesus' mission of self-giving begins right here and is the first step in the saga that will eventually bring him to the high point of his mission – his suffering, death and resurrection. What could be more fitting than, on the day after his appearance among us, we recall the first disciple of his Way to follow in his footsteps – and to do so all the way.
The Gospel reading, taken from Matthew's gospel, could almost have had Stephen in mind. It is taken from the discourse given by Jesus in chapter 10 where he sends out his disciples on their mission to do the same work he is doing. He also warns them of the kind of reception that they can expect to meet.
In the verse before today's passage Jesus tells them that he is sending them out "like sheep among wolves" and that they "must be clever as snakes and innocent as doves". As our passage today begins, Jesus spells out just what that means.
They are to be on their guard because "they will hale you into court, they will flog you in their synagogues". Some of their fellow Jews will be doing this to them. But they will also "be brought to trial before rulers and kings, … and before the Gentiles on my account". People of other religions and none will also act against them.
At the same time, when they are handed over, they are not to be anxious about what they should say in their defence or how to say it. "When the hour comes, you will given what you are to say." The reason is that it will not be they who speak but the Spirit of the Father and Jesus speaking through them.
We can see much of this taking place in the martyrdom of Stephen. He was both clever, highly intelligent but also totally innocent of any of the charges laid against him. He was hauled before a court. He knew exactly what to say and the only reply his accusers could make was to stone him to death in anger. But he was at peace and, in his dying moments, forgave his killers.
The First Reading from the Acts of the Apostles recounts the story of Stephen beginning with his encounter with the 'Synagogue of Roman Freedmen', who were not able to best Stephen in argument about the truth of Christ.
It then skips the address that Stephen made to Sanhedrin and goes straight to his last moments. First, filled with the Holy Spirit (as Jesus had promised) he told the assembly about the vision he had of Jesus sitting at the Father's right hand. The crowd stopped their ears to prevent them listening to such blasphemies. The Scriptures had long ago said that no one could look on the face of God and live. Stephen had made it worse; he had put the man Jesus side by side with Yahweh.
He was rushed out of the city for immediate execution and stoned to death. And, as we saw, there was a young man named Saul at whose feet the executioners left their clothes. He looked on with total approval. This act would see the beginning of a great persecution against the church community in Jerusalem, led by Saul.
Yet, as Jesus had said of himself, "unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies…" Out of this tragic death would come the conversion of Saul to become Paul, the great Apostle of the Gentiles. How much did the death of Stephen really influence Paul? Was it those words of forgiveness that he uttered as the stones rained down on him? As the Church would say later on: the blood of martyrs is the seed of faith.
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Local Marketing Vault Review - Is It A Scam? - What Does It Cost?
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I am interested in finding out more details about the program. Thanks for reaching out to me.
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How much does the Vault cost?
What was the cost to have access to their program, The Vault? I am wanting to try this but want to get an idea of a price. I am limited on a lot of funds but if it's a reasonable price I am willing to try it out.


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Review: End Game
On January 2, 2021 By coilerxiiIn Review
After five hits that ranged from "good" to "excellent", the Jonathan Grave series finally gets a miss in End Game. Which is a shame, for it's still an uncovered gem of a series. Now, five solid books is an excellent run, and even this on its own isn't that bad. But it's still weaker than what had come before.
Basically, the formula is there stronger than ever, which means that all the issues with it are also there and stronger than ever. What makes things far worse is a mundane plot and dull antagonists who just don't seem fitting. That its super-protagonist gets involved at all feels off in a way that none of the previous other plots did. Those felt like challenges befitting someone of Grave's abilities. Here, it feels weirdly like a 1990-2000s technothriller where the villains have to be propped up in a crude way. And the whole point of the small-unit action hero thriller is that it shouldn't have to rely on such gimmicks.
So this is a disappointment. A readable disappointment, but still a definite disappointment. For authors who've proved their worth, the expectations often feel higher. And this didn't meet them.
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Q: C# ASP.NET EF Database first : The type was not mapped I'm getting mapping errors when running a database first project. I know where I'm supposed to fix them but it's been a while since I've done database first and I can't figure out how to fix it. The more I seem to change things, the more goes wrong.
Any links to tutorials, guides or blog posts about these mapping problems or solutions are welcome. I can't find anything via Google that explains what I should change.

The type 'Paycento_Models.Domain.Campaign' was not mapped. Check that
  the type has not been explicitly excluded by using the Ignore method
  or NotMappedAttribute data annotation. Verify that the type was
  defined as a class, is not primitive, nested or generic, and does not
  inherit from EntityObject.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of
  the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more
  information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: The type
  'Paycento_Models.Domain.Campaign' was not mapped. Check that the type
  has not been explicitly excluded by using the Ignore method or
  NotMappedAttribute data annotation. Verify that the type was defined
  as a class, is not primitive, nested or generic, and does not inherit
  from EntityObject.

A: This problem arises because your model is not aware of your changes in the database. In order to resolve this problem, right click your model and select update from database. Your model somehow does not have the right storage model in the xml.

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In praise to local talent, upcoming Melbourne-based DJ, Dee Jay Eveready gives listeners a new experience of hip-hop with his latest mixtape, Listening Therapy.
With an in-depth knowledge of hip-hop and well-crafted sonic techniques, Dee Jay Eveready displays his turntable prowess. Conscious attention to detail is evident within his mixtapes, through the use of intro's, interludes, outro's & track remixes. This is definitely a mixtape any hip-hop enthusiast can head-bop to.


This is The Bean Green Coffee Company. We roast coffee. We make coffee too. We also drink coffee. We drink a lot of coffee.
There are some things you should know about this particular coffee company. We stock exclusively Ethiopian beans. This is a Winter family affair. We like it simple. Everything is pretty straightforward at 147 Helen Joseph Road. The only complexity comes from the depth of flavour our coffee has to offer.
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Isopropyl alcohol is an alcohol compound with a chemical formula of C3H8O and structural formula of CH3CHOCH3. Commonly referred to as rubbing alcohol, it has a variety of uses both in industry and the home, with a density of 0.786 20kg/m3 and a molecular weight of 60.1.
Indirect hydration: This process involves a hydration reaction between sulphuric acid and propene to produce a mixture of sulphate esters. These are then hydrolysed by steam to generate isopropyl alcohol, which can then be distilled to increase concentration.
A common by-product in this reaction – diisopropyl ether – can be recycled back into the reaction and eventually converted to isopropyl alcohol. This process can use low-quality propene and predominates in America.
Direct hydration: This method involves a hydration reaction directly between water and propene, without the intervention of sulphuric acid. This reaction is typically conducted at high pressure in the presence of acidic catalysts.
Similarly, the solution can then be distilled to increase concentration. A simple distillation yields a solution with around 87% isopropyl alcohol. Azeotropic distillation with cyclohexane needed to obtain higher concentrations. In contrast to the previous method, this process requires the use of higher-purity propene and is more common in Europe.
Hydrogenation of acetone: Acetone can be hydrogenated using a mixture of chromium and copper oxide to produce isopropyl alcohol. This process is particularly useful when coupled with the cumene process and excess acetone.
What is Isopropyl alcohol used for?
As a reactive element with other substances, in order to form various chemical products.
Isopropyl alcohol has a high toxicity level and as such should never be ingested or allowed to come into contact with skin. Please refer to our MSDS file for more details on the correct storage and handling of isopropyl alcohol, as well as steps to take in cases of poisoning.
We supply isopropyl alcohol for analytical use in 2.5L and 25L containers, with discounts available for bulk orders. This product is sold with a minimum of 99.5% purity levels. Further information can be found in the Sales Product Specification, available to download from our website.
We also offer isopropyl alcohol for general and laboratory use.
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#ifndef SETTINGS_H
#define SETTINGS_H

#include <vector>

#include "ImAcq.h"

/**
 * @author Clemens Korner
 */

namespace tld
{

/**
 * In this class all settings are stored.
 */
class Settings
{
public:
    /**
     * Standard-Constructor
     */
    Settings();
    ~Settings();
    bool m_trackerEnabled;
    bool m_varianceFilterEnabled;
    bool m_ensembleClassifierEnabled;
    bool m_nnClassifierEnabled;
    bool m_useProportionalShift; //!< sets scanwindows off by a percentage value of the window dimensions (specified in proportionalShift) rather than 1px.
    bool m_loadModel; //!< if true, model specified by "modelPath" is loaded at startup
    bool m_selectManually; //!< if true, user can select initial bounding box (which then overrides the setting "initialBoundingBox")
    bool m_learningEnabled; //!< enables learning while processing
    bool m_showOutput; //!< creates a window displaying results
    bool m_showNotConfident; //!< show bounding box also if confidence is low
    bool m_showColorImage; //!< shows color images instead of greyscale
    bool m_showDetections; //!< shows detections
    bool m_showForeground; //!< shows foreground
    bool m_saveOutput; //!< specifies whether to save visual output
    bool m_alternating; //!< if set to true, detector is disabled while tracker is running.
    bool m_exportModelAfterRun; //!< if set to true, model is exported after run.
    int m_trajectory; //!< specifies the number of the last frames which are considered by the trajectory; 0 disables the trajectory
    int m_method; //!< method of capturing: IMACQ_CAM, IMACQ_IMGS or IMACQ_VID
    int m_startFrame; //!< first frame of capturing
    int m_lastFrame; //!< last frame of caputing; 0 means take all frames
    int m_minScale; //!< number of scales smaller than initial object size
    int m_maxScale; //!< number of scales larger than initial object size
    int m_numFeatures; //!< number of features
    int m_numTrees; //!< number of trees
    float m_thetaP;
    float m_thetaN;
    int m_seed;
    int m_minSize; //!< minimum size of scanWindows
    int m_camNo; //!< Which camera to use
    float m_fps; //!< Frames per second
    float m_threshold; //!< threshold for determining positive results
    float m_proportionalShift; //!< proportional shift
    std::string  m_imagePath; //!< path to the images or the video if m_method is IMACQ_VID or IMACQ_IMGS
    std::string m_modelPath; //!< if modelPath is not set then either an initialBoundingBox must be specified or selectManually must be true.
    std::string m_modelExportFile; //!< Path where model is saved on export.
    std::string m_outputDir; //!< required if saveOutput = true, no default
    std::string m_printResults; //!< path to the file were the results should be printed; NULL -> results will not be printed
    std::string m_printTiming; //!< path to the file were the timings should be printed; NULL -> results will not be printed
    std::vector<int> m_initialBoundingBox; //!< Initial Bounding Box can be specified here
};

}

#endif /* SETTINGS_H */

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Many families wonder what life will be like after their children leave the hospital. Most children can and do return to their typical day-to-day lives, but there may be a few bumps along the way. Below are some things you can do as a parent to help your family transition from a critical illness. Make sure you consult with your child's healthcare provider before following any of these guidelines. Some children may need adjustments to their normal routines for a while after hospitalization, and that is ok. Your healthcare provider should be able to help you decide which activities are ok and what you need to adjust or hold off on for a while.
As much as you can, try to keep up normal routines. Swim lessons, chores, dog walking, Sunday dinners, church, whatever was typical before the illness.
Set normal behavior expectations for all children, including the child that was sick. Keep the same expectations for sharing, homework, chores, screen time, and general behavior in public or around family as you had before the illness.
Encourage fun activities and visits from friends for all family members. Support systems, friends, and fun will help everyone cope with the illness and transition back to a more normal routine.
Encourage your children to talk about their feelings if they want to. This includes the sick child and their siblings.
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Staffing Management
Core Competencies Remain Critical to Success
By Bill Pasmore, Sylvester Taylor
Checking off core competencies is as important as ever to develop leadership skills.
While no one can see the future with perfect clarity, we must be prepared to adapt to whatever we encounter, not just what we expect. It is crucial then that business leaders need to start developing critical competencies now in order to be prepared for future business and leadership challenges.
Ten years ago, and again in 2016, our organization, the Center for Creative Leadership, queried its most recent database of 360 assessment responses and asked the bosses and coworkers of tens of thousands of leaders three key questions:
What leadership skills and perspectives are critical for success?
How strong is the leadership bench in these critical skills and perspectives?
And what potential pitfalls lie ahead for these leaders?
The studies included data from more than 40,000 executives rated by more than 400,000 coworkers and bosses. Using the language of the 360 assessments we deployed, they told us that leading employees; strategic perspective; decisiveness; composure; change management; and building relationships were the most critical skills in order for the organizations to survive and thrive. Interestingly, 10 years later, the list looks about the same, with composure dropping out of the top six and being a quick study replacing it.
We also asked about the skills that are most needed to ensure career success. Then and now, managing change; learning agility; interpersonal relationships; and collaboration led the list of critical skills. It's safe to assume that as we go forward, these bedrock core competencies will remain important.
As we examine these skills that are shaping how organizations are beginning to operate differently and will operate in the future, we see the convergence of new generational preferences, new forms of technology-supported collaboration, globalization, flatter organizational structures, more open organizational boundaries, rapid advances in knowledge of all kinds, and the use of big data analytics shifting the landscape within which leaders (and others) exercise influence.
As indicated by the subtle shifts in the most important skills needed today, in today's hyperfast world of constant complex change, there are some competencies that will rise to even greater prominence than in the past.
Discovery-based learning.
While the ability to learn has always been a desirable trait in leaders, the criticality of learning will grow in a world of fast-paced, innovation-driven change. The type of learning that will be required is not just learning from books or even experience, which in our research has accounted for about 70 percent of what leaders say they know about leadership. Now, learning agility is important, combined with learning from experiments versus relying on experience alone. This competency is exhibited through:
Curiosity and openness to new ideas and points of view.
Willingness to take calculated risks in order to learn.
The ability to structure learning experiments that produce fresh insights.
Encouraging dissent, challenge and sustained tension during the period that new ideas are being fermented.
Actively seeking input from a wide variety of sources inside and outside the organization.
Challenging the status quo; maintaining a state of perpetual interest in making things better.
Collaborative strategic decision making.
Engaging others as partners in making decisions is something that good leaders have always done. However, this was balanced in the past with a healthy dose of "willingness to take charge and make the tough calls" as an individual leader in the face of confusion or disagreement. The need to provide "leadership" was an excuse for control-oriented leaders to exercise authority even in situations where collaborative leadership might have produced better decisions. In the future, flatter organizational structures, cultures of equality and teamwork among knowledgeable contributors in and outside the organization, and less willingness on the part of members of the new generations to put up with positional power over knowledge-based power will force leaders to adapt. In his book "The Open Organization," CEO Jim Whitehurst of software maker Red Hat describes in detail how he needed to shift his leadership style from the time that he led a turnaround at Delta Airlines to accommodate the non-hierarchical, collaborative culture of Red Hat. It is a shift that many leaders will need to make, and it requires the following capabilities:
Understanding the value of collaborative decision-making and being able to lead processes that bring out the best in what people have to offer.
Instead of "influencing without authority," learning how to influence with authority to create interdependent rather than dependent organizational cultures.
Demonstrating authentic support for people working together to make and own decisions of importance to the future of the enterprise, when it really matters.
The ability to recognize when the need to reach consensus is driving out dissent and overpowering high-quality decision-making.
Seeking the best solution versus the most expedient one.
Shaping work for meaning.
Millennials are looking for challenging assignments that provide opportunities for learning and growth. As only about 13 percent of the workforce is highly engaged, there is much work to be done. It's not that young people want to flee large bureaucratic organizations to join startups; most would prefer to continue to work where they are but won't if opportunities to learn, grow and advance seem limited or a long way off. There are plenty of meaningful challenges to be tackled in large organizations but this work can't be reserved for the few versus the many. Leaders can support and develop this organizational competency by:
Stimulating and then listening to ideas that can be translated into meaningful opportunities by those who invent them.
Acknowledging and rewarding efforts to make the organization better or more successful, especially when it is beyond job requirements or expectations.
Providing time, space and resources for innovation that anyone with a worthwhile idea can access.
Removing barriers that exist to people exploring ideas with others across the organization and outside of it.
Allowing people to assume positions of influence based on their ideas rather than their titles alone.
Activating Open Networks.
Organizations of the future will rely more on networks of temporary contributors from outside the organization much more than organizations do today. Beyond outsourcing jobs to reduce expenses, leaders of the future will recognize that the expertise and capabilities that can be captured via full-time employment are but a microcosm of the total expertise available in the global labor pool. Knowing how to create and leverage open networks will be a key differentiator between successful leaders of the past and those of the future. To realize the value of open networks, leaders must begin by:
Defining and structuring meaningful projects in which experts outside of the organization can assist.
Activating and facilitating networks of individuals collaborating virtually to bring out the best thinking and fastest speed to market.
Ensuring adequate engagement from internal resources in supporting open networks and capitalizing on their innovations to help the organization achieve optimal diversification and growth.
Influencing the activities of voluntary network contributors to "steer" them toward valued outcomes.
Learning to build more powerful open networks that seize key knowledge assets and translate them into high-payoff investments.
Leading complex and continuous change.
Leading a single complex change is difficult, but leading multiple, simultaneous complex changes requires skills of a higher order. Today, the success of single change efforts remains stuck at about 33 percent, a figure that hasn't moved for decades despite years of research, executive education and acknowledgment that there is a serious problem here. In the future, change will be key to every major breakthrough, of which there are potentially very many. To seize these opportunities, leaders will need to up their game concerning change by taking the following steps:
Get ahead of the change curve by identifying and prioritizing opportunities more quickly.
Building greater capacity in individuals, teams, units and networks to undertake successful change.
Understanding the interdependencies of multiple simultaneous changes and address them rather than hoping that the competing demands for resources, time and attention will somehow sort themselves out.
Continuously increase the speed of change by doing it better, not pushing harder.
Pursuing vertical development.
Vertical development is adding more complex thinking capacity versus simply adding more skills to a repertoire. Since the complex challenges of the future will require systems thinking at a much higher level, leaders must be able to elevate their ability to see the entire picture and take actions that will enable long-term shifts in strategy and capabilities. Instead of breaking things down into discrete short-term activities, leaders will need to be able to balance the here and now against preparing for the future, by:
Developing the ability to see patterns and shift systems and processes to enable future possibilities.
Learning to think in terms of paradoxes or polarities instead of focusing exclusively on the ends of a continuum.
Envisioning long-term possibilities rather than being paralyzed by current limitations or barriers to innovation.
Understanding the potential of technology to transform the organization and the world.
Seeing beyond personal achievement and advancement in order to ignite collaborative efforts to achieve what would otherwise be impossible. These are just a few areas in which workforce competencies are shifting. As we begin 2017, people managers and leaders should resolve to be nimble in identifying and addressing the changing competencies for the success of your employees and your organization.
Sylvester Taylor is director of assessments, tools and publications for the Center for Creative Leadership. Bill Pasmore is an adviser to CEOs, boards and senior teams at CCL. Comment below or email editors@workforce.com.
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Q: Imprimir e receber valores de Struct de Vetores em uma função Procurei em diversos lugares sobre isso mas não achei nenhuma resposta correta, queria saber o método correto de preencher um vetor de estrutura passada por referência pra uma função e depois imprimir em outra, nesse código embaixo eu tentei fazer algo do tipo pra tentar preencher mas não deu certo, obrigado desde já.
#include <stdio.h>

struct carnaval
{
        char nome [10];
        char cor [10];
        int quantidade;
};

int main ()
{
        int x=1;

        struct carnaval blocos[2];
        void listar();
        void incluir();
        void buscar();

        while (x!=0)
        {

                printf ("1) Incluir\n");
                printf ("2) Listar\n");
                printf ("3) Buscar\n");
                printf ("0) Sair\n");

                scanf ("%d", &x);

                if (x==0)
                {
                        break;
                }
                switch (x)
                {
                        case 1:
                        incluir (blocos);
                        break;
                        case 2:
                        listar (blocos);
                        break;
                        case 3:
                        buscar ();
                        break;
                        case 0:
                        break;
                        default:
                        printf ("valor inválido\n");
                        break;
                }
        }
}

void incluir (struct carnaval *incluido[])
{
        int i;
        for (i=0; i<2; i++)
        {
                getchar();
                fgets ((*incluido)[i].nome, 10, stdin);
                fgets ((*incluido)[i].cor, 10, stdin);
                scanf ("%d", &(*incluido)[i].quantidade);
        }

}

void listar (struct carnaval print[])
{
        int y;

        for (y=0; y<2; y++)
        {
                printf ("\n%s", print[y].nome);
                printf ("%s", print[y].cor);
                printf ("%d\n\n", print[y].quantidade);
        }
}

void buscar ()
{
        printf ("teste\n");
}

A: O seu código tem alguns erros. O primeiro deles é que quando se deseja passar um vetor como parâmetro de uma função, a sintaxe do tipo void incluir (struct carnaval *incluido[]) pode ser utilizada quando se trabalha com um vetor bidimensional.
Por outro lado, quando se trabalha com vetores unidimensionais, que é o seu caso, deve-se declarar como parâmetro ou um vetor (unidimensional), e.g. struct carnaval incluido[], ou um ponteiro, e.g. struct carnaval *incluido.
A forma que você acessa os dados de incluido também está equivocada. Por exemplo, no lugar de (*incluido)[i].nome, você deveria ter escrito somente incluido[i].nome. Quanto a isso, lembre-se que vetores já são passados por referência e que [i] é o suficiente para acessar o conteúdo do array na posição i.
Dito isso, segue a função void incluir() com as correções dos erros apontados:
void incluir (struct carnaval incluido[])
{
        int i;
        for (i=0; i<2; i++)
        {
               getchar();
               fgets (incluido[i].nome, 10, stdin);
               fgets (incluido[i].cor, 10, stdin);
               scanf ("%d", &incluido[i].quantidade);
        }

}


Find out more about applying to University as a mature student.
We hold regular Access Day visits for prospective mature students, giving them the opportunity to look around our sites, meet our colleagues from Admissions and Student Support and Guidance, and hear talks on chosen subjects, such as Accommodation and Student Finance.
I'm not sure if my qualifications are appropriate?
Will I receive support from the University whilst studying?
The Student Futures team at the University of Chester are second to none and strive to provide support to every student throughout their time at the University of Chester. They are there to help with anything to do with student welfare, such as finance, childcare, disability and student development. They also hold Mature Student Welcome Events at the start of term, at both our Chester and Warrington Campuses.
How do I find funding to attend University?
There are many forms of support available for mature students. If you are under 25 years old and are married, or have children or if you are over 25 years old when you start your course, you will be classed as an independent student, and therefore be able to apply for extra funding throughout your full –time course. Other sources of support are available for mature students, such as the 24+ Advanced Learning Loan.
Are there many mature students at the University of Chester?
At the University of Chester, over 60% of students are over the age of 21 years old when they embark on their degree. Mature students can also sign up to the university's Mature Student Mentoring Scheme where mature students currently in their 2nd and 3rd year help make your transition to first year as smooth as possible.
Mature Students can study any course offered by the University of Chester or any other university as long as you meet the entry requirements of the course you are applying for. Visit our course pages for information on the programmes available and their entry requirements.
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Sophie Eleonore Helene von Kortzfleisch (* 27. Dezember 1749 in Groß-Jännowitz; † 18. Juni 1823 in Breslau), geboren als Sophie Eleonore von Wuntsch, in zweiter Ehe verheiratet als Sophie Eleonore von Titzenhofer, war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.

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Sophie Eleonore von Kortzfleisch war die älteste Tochter des kursächsischen und polnischen Majors Georg Ernst von Wuntsch auf Groß-Jännowitz bei Liegnitz und dessen Gattin Anna Eleonore geborene Freiin von Seherr-Thoß. Schon früh zeigte Sophie Eleonore Talent und Neigung für die Poesie. Seit ihrem 18. Lebensjahr begann sie selbst Gedichte zu schreiben, wobei es sich hauptsächlich um Gelegenheitsgedichte und Gefühlspoesie handelte. Eine erste Sammlung ihrer Gedichte erschien im Jahr 1776 anonym unter dem Titel Poetische Versuche eines adelichen Frauenzimmers an ihre Freunde. Im gleichen Jahre veröffentlichte sie zwei weitere dramatische Werke: Laufus und Lydia und Osmann und Bella. Im Jahr 1778 erschien ihre Operette Wilhelm und Hannchen. In den Jahren 1792 und 1793 wurden drei Gedichtsammlungen unter ihrem vollen Namen, und nicht mehr wie früher anonym, bei Vieweg veröffentlicht. Viele ihrer Gedichte sind stark patriotisch geprägt und bezeugen eine treue, hingebende Anhänglichkeit an das preußische Königshaus.

Sophie Eleonore von Kortzfleisch war in erster Ehe mit Karl Wilhelm von Kortzfleisch verheiratet. Dieser war Stabsrittmeister und Eskadronchef und später Postmeister in Ratibor. Er starb im Jahr 1805. Drei Jahre später vermählte sich Sophie Eleonore mit Friedrich Wilhelm von Titzenhofer, der seit 1805 als Kapitän in Inaktivität getreten war. Friedrich Wilhelm von Titzenhofer starb am 1. Februar 1813 am Fieber. Sophie Eleonore wurde am 16. Januar 1816 vom preußischen Hof der Louisenorden für ihr patriotisches Wirken verliehen. Sie starb am 18. Juni 1823 in Breslau.

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 (anonym:) Poetische Versuche eines adelichen Frauenzimmers an ihre Freunde. Verlage von Chr. Fr. Gutsch in Breslau (1776)
 (anonym:) Laufus und Lydia, ein Drama in 3 Aufzügen nach den moralischen Erzählungen des Herrn v. Marmontel, verfertigt von einem adelichen Frauenzimmer in Schlesien. Breslau (1776)
 (anonym:) Osmann und Bella, ein Drama in 5 Aufzügen von einem Frauenzimmer in Schlesien. Breslau (1776)
 (anonym:) Wilhelm und Hannchen (1778)
 Frühere Gedichte. Vieweg Berlin (1792–93, Neuabdruck der poetischen Versuche von 1776)
 Gedichte. Vieweg Berlin (1792–93)
 Vermischte Aufsätze in Poesie und Prosa für Damen. Vieweg Berlin (1792–93)
 Vermischte Schriften. Braunes Berlin und Breslau (1811)
 Neun Gedichte in Das Landwehrkreuz in der Schlacht an der Katzbach Graß, Barth & Co. in Jauer (1816)

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Masterchef drew to a close this week, with Natalie being crowned the winner.
Following several weeks of judging the best amateur cooking in the whole country, surely Greg Wallace and John Torrode have the best job in food?
Here's the What Kate Baked Top 10 Best Jobs in Food!
10. Straight in at Ten is Judge of the National Pie Championships. Elastic jogging trousers at the ready folks, judges for this US competition attend training before they begin the judging. That's right, training. Apparently, it isn't just a simple case of pie-spoon-mouth-tummy-score.
9. In at 9: London Fashion Week Chef. Lets be honest, models don't really eat stuff, right? Think of all those glorious leftovers!
7. Steady at Seven, it's....Mary Berry. Queen of Prime-Time Baking Shows! Nation's Nicest Judge! Friend of Mel-n-Sue!
6. At six: The Coffee Master Roaster. Just think how cheerful you'd be each morning as you wake to the smell of some of the World's best coffee beans roasting merrily.
5. And the Top five! Master Brewer...Gin Queen... Champagne Buyer... cocktail Maestro... Pimms Secret-Keeper...Its the Best Boozy Jobs!
3. Its the Top Three! In at 3: Primal Ice Cream Therapist. I'm sorry, what? This, folks, is the name given to the 'Flavour Guru' at a well-known Ice Cream company. The job involves eating up to a whooping five pints of ice cream a week.
2. Father Christmas- just think, how many mince pies does he get to eat on Christmas Eve? Exactly.
As for the Worst Job in Food...surely that goes to the 'Garbage Anthropologist'?
Hi Kate. I've been reading your blog for a while but have never left a comment.
Your cake sounds delicious. I've been looking for a new chocolate cake recipe to try. Can wait to taste it !!
Lovely looking and sounding cake Kate :) I am a HUGE fan of Mackays (check out the bramble preserve, I am addicted!).
I've always fancied being a crisp taster in the Monster Munch factory...maybe that could be added to the list?
This cake looks lovely, I have been wanting to mix chocolate and lime together in a recipe for a while and this sounds like the one for me!
hahaha, I love this list, I az glad to be a food blogger and it's nr 1! Yuppi!
fabulous list! when i lived in london many years ago (i'm now in hobart, australia), i worked at the chocolate society near sloane square. just as a shop girl, but we were encouraged to eat the chocolate so we knew what the product was, for better customer service! best months of my life, and spoiled me for good chocolate for life.


Reconvening with the same trio of Verlaines as for the last album Over the moon a decade ago, Pot boiler is a hybrid mix of my favourite Graeme Downes record (Some disenchanted evening) and least favourite (Hammers and anvils), though these are relatively slim and ever-narrowing margins in what is a consistently impressive body of work (as described in a recent B/w here). Back on Flying Nun for the first time since 1990, Graeme appears to have been afforded a budget for brass and strings more or less throughout, rarely the case in days of old, allowing these songs orchestral flesh. Not that he is one to deploy this fortification in any way but judiciously.
Graeme has returned about as disenchanted as he was in 1990, probably more so, for there's less solace in making art out of misery in middle age. The sleeve dedication, along with songs like 'All messed up', '16 years' and 'Midlife crisis', suggest that this is to some greater or lesser extent a break-up record. Not surprising if you look back over the Verlaines song book, which is riddled with failing romances, or at least relationships viewed in the coldest light of day – but little before has been this sustained or quite this bitter.
Perversely the highlights are the songs least a part of this blood on the tracks. With lyrics not by Graeme but David Kominsky, 'Sunday in Sevastopol' portrays that ruined and rebuilt city, and the challenge of writing music for someone else's words has broken free one of Graeme's loveliest melodies as well as orchestration with a suitably Crimean feel. Far be it from me to suggest that the singer is identifying here with Sevastopol's ravaged and bloody history. On 'If you can't beat them' Graeme knocks out a great little pop song about relenting and writing great little pop songs, even if, as he confesses in the lyric, those are ones with a musical phrase or two borrowed from 20th century French composer Darius Milhaud. 'It's easier to harden a broken heart (than mend it)' objectifies the loss that seems to have driven Graeme Downes back in the studio, while 'Real good life' closes the album with a trombone-fuelled but typically double-edged high. The final lines 'You're a winner, you're a shiner / But you're out of time you're too damned tired so / Say goodnight' sound pretty final.
But that would be to read too much into the words of a performer who has always relished the drama he puts into his song writing, for work has apparently already begun on the next Verlaines album.


Zambia ought to consider cashing in from the onset of the hybrid era as the top copper producer in Africa. Dr Albert Muchanga, the Commissioner for Trade and Industry at the African Union said that capitalizing on gains once electric cars are eventually introduced onto the African continent will serve as an added advantage to the country.
Dr. Muchanga's sentiments are in line with a statement issued by First Secretary Press Kellys Kaunda on the side-lines of a high-level German-Africa Business day. According to reports from the conference, electric car ranges are set to increase as more and more companies and governments move to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. There are also indications that there is need to expand the battery life and output of these cars in order to both contend with and surpass gas-powered vehicles.
Meanwhile, reports have it that leading vehicle manufacturing nations in Europe have decided to forego diesel and petrol engines for electric ones. According to the same report, this will likely mark the single biggest technological leap since the introduction of the internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto in 1876.
German and French governments have voted to ban diesel and petrol-powered vehicles in 10 years. This is according to one report. Consequently, Germany is thus offering subsidies valued at US $1.4Bn to manufacturers on a first-come-first served basis. Similarly, Norway is offering consumers a subsidy of US $4693.18 when buying an electric vehicle until 2020.
It has also done reportedly well with 32.5% of cars on the road being either Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) or Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV). They intend to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2025.
What's more, the growing number of electric vehicles hitting roads is set to fuel a significant increase in copper demand from the sector over the coming decade. This is according to an industry report released earlier on this week.
Moreover, there is projected increase in demand for hybrid cars. A report by consultancy IDTechEx, commissioned by the International Copper Association (ICA) goes on to add that this is good news for copper countries. The firm's Senior Technology Analyst Franco Gonzalez said that the aforementioned increase will raise copper demand for electric cars and buses from 185,000 tonnes in 2017 to 1.74m tonnes in 2027.
As such, countries like Zambia could gain from this surge once value addition is executed This is due to the fact that electric vehicles use a substantial amount of copper in their batteries as well as in the windings and copper rotors used in electric motors. In essence, a single car can have up to six kilometers of copper wiring, according to the ICA.
Now, with the global market for copper being around 23.9m tonnes, according to the International Copper Study Group, it is possible that electric vehicles account for about 6% of global copper demand in ten years. This, according to an analyst, will be a significant increase from this year's percentage which currently stands at less than 1%.


We should tell you, the footage you are about to witness is pretty graphic, proceed with caution.
At the time, 21 year old, Alexis Esneault, was on vacation while she was filming a tour cruise off the coast of Costa Rica on her GoPro handheld camera. In the video you can see the heavy waves formulating on the water and you can virtually feel the boat tipping to the left. It didn't take long before the panic and anxiety set in as people slid from one side of the boat to the other and began taking on a rush of ocean water. The 100 plus passenger catamaran quickly tipped onto it's side trapping people under the upper deck's blue canopy. You can see people's heads bobbing in the water as Alexis holds on to nearby railing before the boat totally went under. You can hear the screams and see struggling tourists hanging on for dear life as the boat quickly sank, and the water taking Alexis under. The aftermath of sinking cruise ship resulted in the death of three elderly passengers, Ivor Stanley Hopkins, 80, Edna Oliver, 68, and Sharon Johnson, 70.
The survivors floated among the dead and all you are able to hear is the rushing water and screams of terror from the floating tourists as they awaited to be rescued. Nearby private boats took on as many passengers as they could as they waited for rescue boats and officials to arrive. Most of the people were forced to remain in the water for over an hour before being rescued and transported to a multiple emergency centers off the coast. The National Meteorological Institute had issued a warning about strong winds off the coast of the island, but the port captain authorized the boat to set sail that day.
We're not exactly why this footage is just now surfacing but bless the souls that lost their lives that day while just enjoying some earned time off while in Costa Rica. We always try to prevent these things from happening, the signs of something like this occurred, the authorities were warned, and went through with risking lives anyway. We're not placing blame, but we definitely need to be more careful. As for Alexis Esneault and the rest of the survivors, keep faith and stay strong, we hope it's been a brighter and prosperous year for you guys.


I follow the route of a familiar day-time walk, a muddy, flint-studded path that leads away from the house into a wood. I follow it through the well thinned hazels and out onto the edge of the farmland beyond. I am alone. Arriving at the fringes of more established woodland, thick with young saplings between vast, smooth-trucked beeches, the path takes me along a rough strip of grass between the wood and a large, L-shaped field. In the distance there is an orphanage where, on daytime walks, I sometimes hear children laughing and playing together. In the dream there is only silence. Where the path turns a corner towards the lane I pass an old wooden shed, that is gradually falling back into nettles and briars. When I reach the point where the path crosses a narrow back road, I am suddenly confronted by a vast black wolf, standing at least as tall as myself. It always appears as if out of the air, materializing at the edge of the shadows just where the road runs in under overhanging trees. I know instantly that my only hope is to lie down on the road with my eyes closed, hold my breath, keep absolutely still. I must play dead, as I have done hundreds of times before. On each occasion I wait to see what will happen next. Usually, after what seems like an eternity, as the wolf sniffs around me, I wake in absolute terror just as it starts to eat me alive.


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Asians still viewing London as property investment hotspot
Chris Harvey
Barely a month goes by without a fresh voice predicting the end of Asian investment into London, or the emergence of a serious challenger to their dominance of the market.
In these pages last month, it was argued that northern England has become the new property investment hotspot for Chinese and Hong Kong investors due to "northshoring".
And the month also brought research from Savills indicating that UK investors had overtaken buyers from Asia as the most active group in London's West End property market in the first six months of the year, suggesting Asians collectively had gone cold on the capital.
These figures are surprising, if not totally unexpected. But it is a mistake to generalise.
We have acted for more than 40 Asian investors on their landmark UK acquisitions – including being involved in the transactions of both the 'Cheesegrater' and 'Walkie Talkie' skyscrapers last year – and so are increasingly asked to judge whether Asian investment into London is finally running out of steam.
In truth, there is no straightforward answer. It really comes down to the type of Asian investor you are focusing on; we have worked with many different types, who in turn have different challenges, sources of capital and investment criteria that you need to bear in mind when assessing appetite.
There has been a fall in the level of investment from mainland Chinese buyers, and this can be attributed largely to the Chinese government's capital controls on outbound investment.
These controls have been relaxed recently with the announcement in June that Chinese investors will be able to redeploy capital in the UK as long as the money is 'recycled' from existing UK property holdings or raised through non-Chinese banks.
And we do not expect any significant increase in investment from this type of Asian investor in 2018 and beyond.
Yet other types of Asian investors still see London as an attractive location.
And following the Brexit vote in June 2016, we noticed a marked increase in investment from buyers based in Hong Kong, which isn't caught by the capital controls.
These range from high net worth individuals, to family businesses and listed companies controlled by wealthy families and their private money.
They sought to take advantage of the weak pound and comparatively attractive yields, though maintained confidence in the long-term health of the UK economy.
More recently, we have seen caution from some of the more established and well-known Hong Kong investors. But this is counterbalanced by plenty of entrants, many of whom are diversifying their wealth from other industries.
This steady stream of investment from Hong Kong has actually been exceeded by an increase in activity from Singaporean and Korean investors in the first half of this year, filling in the gap left behind by Chinese buyers.
The pool of potential purchasers is as wide as ever. If anything, Asian investors complain there is little stock available to purchase – which may be another factor in the pessimistic forecasts from some quarters.
We are confident that London will continue to thrive and believe few other cities, whether in the north of the UK or further afield, can truly match what the UK capital has to offer to Asian investors of all types.
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Since 1998, Eric Hermanson has been buying, selling, investing, and rehabbing homes with a concentration in the Uptown, Linden Hills, and Northeast markets. Eric's previous experience of having managed a multitude of rental properties, as well as restoring and flipping dozens more, brings a unique perspective and skill when representing clients. This extraordinary insight has allowed Eric to help clients find equity in existing properties that often goes unrecognized. He is a firm believer that every real-estate purchase is an investment and is always working with his clients in mind to help them assess how to make the best choices possible.
Eric's clients are drawn to his passion and integrity which are two of his core values that have helped him navigate through both profitable and challenging markets. His commitment to exceed his clients needs and expectations is a refreshing approach that has warranted solid results.


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Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF) Weekly Ratings on April 29, 2018
| Tuesday, May 01, 2018
Guyana Goldfields Inc. (TSE:GUY) has 0.00% since April 30, 2017 and is. It has outperformed by 5.51% the S&P500. Fidelity National Financial had a return on equity of 13.04% and a net margin of 6.73%. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Fidelity National Financial from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a research report on Monday. [Full Article...]
On May, 1 Gramercy Property Trust (GPT) Analysts See $0.50 EPS
Gramercy Property Trust stock traded up $0.20 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $23.50. (NYSE:GPT) has 7 ratings reports on April 30, 2018 according to StockzIntelligence. GPT's profit will be $82.59 million for 11.84 P/E if the $0.50 EPS becomes a reality. Papa MurphyÂ's Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns, operates, and franchises Take Â'NÂ' Bake pizza stores. [Full Article...]
Fedex Corp Com (FDX) Holding Has Upped by Underhill Investment Management Llc
Webster Bank who had been investing in Celgene Corp for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $68.58B market cap company. Shares of FedEx stock traded up $2.58 on Friday, reaching $244.49. Since February 8, 2018, it had 1 buy, and 3 insider sales for $3.58 million activity. Next Century Growth Ltd Com holds 0.3% of its portfolio in FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) for 9,761 shares. [Full Article...]
Analysts See $0.31 EPS for Paylocity Holding Corporation (PCTY)
Paylocity had a net margin of 3.57% and a return on equity of 8.93%. In other Paylocity news, Director Ellen Carnahan bought 1,380 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Friday , March 16th. The stock has "Buy" rating by Stifel Nicolaus on Monday, August 7. Oppenheimer initiated the stock with "Perform" rating in Friday , December 2 report. [Full Article...]
Brokerages Set Crown Castle International Corp. (CCI) Target Price at $112.73
Sharlyn C. Heslam decreased its stake in Realpage Inc (RP) by 15.3% based on its latest 2017Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. Insiders own 0.36% of the company's stock. On Monday, April 23 the stock has "Buy" rating by RBC Capital Markets. Crown Castle International had a net margin of 8.87% and a return on equity of 4.06%. [Full Article...]
Malami asks court to nullify suspension of Omo-Agege
Mr Omo-Agege was suspended for describing the Senate's decision to amend the Electoral Act as a plot against President Muhammadu Buhari. While referring the court to the case of Senator Ali Ndume, Izinyon said the suspension of his client is not an internal affair of the Senate as the rights of his client were violated. [Full Article...]
Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM): A Detailed Look at its Institutional Ownership
Moving -0.67% from the previous session and touching $127.41 on a recent trade, shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) have been on a number of investor watchlists of late. Wetherby Asset Mgmt holds 145,316 shares. Massachusetts-based Howland Capital has invested 1.43% in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM ). North Star Investment Management Corp. [Full Article...]
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) Expected to Announce Earnings of $0.68 Per Share
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Israel-Palestine – can Obama's errors be rectified?
Bradley Burston, an American-born Israeli journalist, is a regular columnist for the influential daily, Ha'aretz. In today's edition (21 December), he produces a brilliant analysis of the mistakes President Obama has perpetrated in his Middle East strategy. He weighs the effectiveness of Obama's strategy against Sun Tzu's ancient The Art of War.
Burston points out how very effectively Obama followed these principles in much of his domestic policy, and how abysmally he failed to do so in respect of his approach to the Middle East. Burston reckons the President should have taken more fully into account the inherently hardline background and beliefs of Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu; the instability of Netanyahu's coalition foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, the former nightclub bouncer determined to bar entry to any peace progress; and should have made a realistic assessment of the chance of a working rapprochement between Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Ismail Haniyeh's Hamas in Gaza.
The last point is worth emphasising, for of what value would a peace accord be between Israel and a Palestinian Authority whose writ ran only in the West Bank? The past year has shown that every attempt to broker an understanding between Hamas and Fatah – the party of President Mahmoud Abbas – has failed. Hamas are irretrievably rejectionist – not only of any sort of peace accord with Israel, but of any rapprochement with the PA. They seized power in Gaza in a bloody coup d'état, and their aim clearly is to extend their power over the rest of the Palestinian body politic, converting it to their extreme Islamist ideology.
To illustrate Obama's failure in respect of his settlement policy, he quotes another of Sun Tzus's principles: The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. Burston asserts, not without reason, that Obama's demand for a freeze on building in the West Bank settlements including East Jerusalem played into the hands of the pro-settlement right (for to the fury of many in Israeli politics, and not only those on the right, Washington persisted in including East Jerusalem in the demand for a construction freeze).
Burston asserts that if the administration had taken more time and care, it might have realized in advance that the original 9-month building freeze would not in itself be enough to bring the PA back to negotiations. In fact, once the freeze had run its course, the subsequent high-profile dispute over continued Israeli construction both in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem brought the first phase of the peace process to a shuddering halt.
Even more to the point – something Burston does not touch on – the moment that Washington made public its view that all construction on the West Bank and East Jerusalem was unacceptable and should be halted (and this it did quite early on and reiterated more than once), the US administration had effectively backed Mahmoud Abbas into a corner from which there was no escape. Without so clear-cut an opinion from America, Abbas could have brokered a deal with Netanyhau, an understanding of the sort that has existed for many years. Construction in the West Bank has never inhibited previous attempts by Israel and the Palestinians at talking about the issues. It has proved an insurmountable stumbling block this time simply because the US has made it so – and in the process has strengthened the hands of Obama's pro-settlement, anti-peace process opponents in Israel and the United States.
Mistake C: Thinking that the Israeli Labour leader, Ehud Barak, a conviction dove on the peace process, could effectively influence Netanyahu.
Mistake D: Making the same error with Israel that he had with the Arabs, that is, thinking that there was a connection between what Netanyahu said in public, and what he did in practice.
The end result? A foundering of the first phase of the peace process that had been so painstakingly brokered by Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, and finally brought to the point of direct face-to-face talks at the end of August.
For two senior US officials arrived in Israel on Sunday (19 December) to continue discussions with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and officials, as part of the Obama administration's attempt to revive the diplomatic process between the two sides. Dan Shapiro, Director of the US National Security Council, and David Hale, deputy to US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell, are set to meet with senior prime ministerial aides Isaac Molho, Ron Dermer and Uzi Arad. They will also meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and the PA's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat.
Also on Sunday, a group of over 100 Israeli politicians and activists from across the political spectrum visited PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian leaders in Ramallah, under the auspices of the Geneva Initiative. The delegation was led by former Labour Chairman Amram Mitzna. It included members of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, from the centrist Kadima and left-leaning Labour and Meretz parties, as well as activists from the centre-right Likud party and ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Abbas told the gathering that he had reached understandings with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on security issues during talks in 2008, and rejected accusations that he had failed to respond to Olmert's peace proposal.
With many in Israel sceptical about the chances of a breakthrough in final status talks, there are various voices calling for an alternative approach, including the opposition Kadima party's deputy leader and former Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz. Ideas include some form of interim agreement, as opposed to a final status accord, which would give the Palestinians greater control over the West Bank, whilst deferring for now the final status issues.


When you listen to new, fancy audio gear every few days, it's easy to become jaded. There are so many good headphones and speakers outs that very few ever make think 'wow' anymore.
Devialet's Phantom Reactor, a tiny, $999 speaker with unreasonably deep sound, is one of those products.
I realize the apparent hyperbole above, but in a market with as much snake oil as audio, I don't take that wow factor lightly. The Reactor takes everything that made the original Phantoms (and the higher-end variants) so impressive and miniaturizes it to almost absurd levels.
I couldn't help but laugh the first time I checked it out at Devialet's New York store. The Reactor is a fourth the size of the original Phantom – about the size of a Sonos One or HomePod – but I'm not sure I'd be able to tell the sound apart without a direct comparison.
As with the originals, the Reactor's secret weapon is its bass. A speaker this size should not be able to reach down to 18hz with such authority – which normally requires a bulky, expensive, and separate subwoofer – but the Reactor didn't struggle to create genuine physical rumble in the listening room. For comparison, The KEF LS50W, much larger speakers which I actually preferred to the original Phantom, 'only' reach down to about 40hz.
It wasn't just flabby, attention-grabbing bass either. With the disclaimer that I only listened for about 10-15 minutes and didn't choose my own tracks, I felt the low end was tight, textured, and relatively free of midrange bloat. I've mainly focused on the bass response because of the engineering feat required to achieve it in this form factor, but the entire frequency response actually seemed rather neutral for a consumer product. Though I didn't get to see a graph, Devialet says the speaker has a frequency response accuracy within ±1dB from 25hz to 20,000hz.
In other words, it didn't sound like a speaker that was straining to reach low just for the sake of it. Devialet may be inching towards the mainstream with the Reactor, but it's still a hi-fi company.
Mind you, this was all coming out of a single speaker. In fact, the Reactor won't launch with stereo support, which is frustrating; I can't imagine too many audiophiles will be satisfied with mono. It's also a shame because its size makes for an excellent alternative to a 2.1 setup under a TV.
Devialet, for its part, promises stereo will arrive via a software update soon.
There are changes beyond sound as well. Devialet say it's completely revamping its lackluster app and improving connectivity. I had serious issues with both of these when I reviewed the first Phantoms, which put a serious damper on the impressive acoustic performance. Devialet isn't a software company, but it needs to deliver on convenience if it wants to reach a wider audience.
All that being said, the one feature I'm most excited about is the simple addition of a 3.5mm input. Optical audio is still on board, but 3.5mm is much more convenient to hook up to a phone, laptop, or other device. I just hope the Reactor's latency is low enough to handle timing-sensitive tasks like music production or gaming.
It's worth reiterating I only listened to the Reactor for a few minutes, that the software is still a question mark, and that I need to test it in a less-controlled environment. Maybe the wow factor will eventually wear off, but for now, the Phantom Reactor left me with one of the most positive first impressions I've had with an audio product.
The Reactor will be available in two versions, one rated at 600W and one at 900W (theoretically, the only difference should be performance at the loudest volumes). Pre-orders begin on October 24, with exact availability yet to be announced. We'll be giving it the review treatment soon, so stay tuned.


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Some among Trump's White House South Lawn audience were paid to be there /
Some among Trump's White House South Lawn audience were paid to be there
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Donald Trump has always been a game show kind of guy, so it's maybe not a surprise that his first public rally after his hospitalization for COVID-19 symptoms turned into a game show itself, of sorts.
Do you like prizes, kids? Do like prizes enough to listen to Donald Trump talk? Do you like prizes enough to risk your life during a deadly pandemic to listen to Donald Trump talk? Well then, you are in luck! Because conservative weirdo Candace Owens is handing out free travel and lodging to anyone willing to put on an oversized blue T-shirt and risk pandemic death on the White House's South Lawn.
Yeah, that's right. Donald Trump's White House rally on Saturday, the one that was absolutely not a campaign event, the one that featured Trump addressing an adoring teal-shirted and mostly maskless crowd wedged shoulder to shoulder, the scene right out of Evita 2: Mar-a-Lago Boogaloo, the ol' balcony Mussolini routine—an unknown number of those folks were paid to be there. ABC News reports that Owens' fake grassroots "BLEXIT" group offered to cover travel and lodging expenses for a "limited" number of people who showed up and were willing to wear the light blue T-shirts. Owens' group was already organizing a separate fake grassroots Washington, D.C., event on the same day; the White House crowd was gathered from there.
What seems to have happened, reading between the lines, is that Donald Trump was going absolutely stir-crazy and wanted to get back out on the campaign trail, contagious or not contagious, and like the previous "drive once around the hospital while unnecessarily exposing my Secret Service agents to my deadly illness," this was the hurried compromise offered to him by his staff and doctors. Bring an audience to him so that he would stay in the building a few more days rather than taking his coronavirus-infected, pneumonia-having self on a road trip.
Don't worry, though: It wasn't a campaign event. Just an event specifically for far-right voters, ones specifically gathered to encourage Black Americans to vote for Trump and Trump's allies, to hear a Donald Trump speech about "law and order," by which he means crushing the Black Lives Matter demands for police reform, with guest expenses paid by one of Trump's more visible and conspiracy-adjacent allies out of whatever slush fund first birthed the idea for their Washington, D.C. rally to begin with—one that Owens explicitly called an "anti-Black Lives Matter event," just in case people weren't clear about what the agenda was.
Eh. At this point it would be more surprising if some stunt Trump pulled wasn't a fake-ass reality show moment. The South Lawn just recovered from the totally nonpartisan (checks notes) Republican National Convention; now it's going to need repair again. It's you and me that will be paying for those repairs this time, by the way. Because all involved are insistent that this was a presidenting speech, not a campaign speech.
We do, however, have our answer. Yes, there are people willing to risk COVID-19 to see Typhoid Hitler lie to them in person, and especially so if somebody else is paying their bills. Seeing it on television is one thing, but if you go in person you can always hope that the man's spittle will land directly on you, infecting you with Dear Leader's own, um, pandemic superpowers.
Whatever. You do you, Trump supporters. Preferably over there—as far away as possible. The American version of the worldwide pandemic is slowly morphing into a partisan disease, a disease spreading most aggressively among Trump-supporting states and communities while Dear Leader rants about everything being a hoax and ... sigh. Whatever.