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Catherine Zeta-Jones Hopes to Remove Stigma Around Bipolar Disorder
Actress hopes to others suffering silently with the disorder.
By AMANDA KEEGAN and LEEZEL TANGLAO
Catherine Zeta-Jones on Bipolar Disorder
Actress is raising awareness in hopes of easing stigma of the illness.
April 20, 2011— -- After revealing she suffers from bipolar disorder, Academy Award-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is hoping to help remove some of the stigma from the illness and convince others to seek the help they need.
Last week, Zeta-Jones' publicist said she recently checked into a mental health facility to treat her bipolar II disorder.
She spent five days in that facility and is now on medication.
The actress released a statement saying, "this is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am one of them...if my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help...then it's worth it."
Bipolar disorder, which is also known as manic depressive illness, is a mental illness that is described by mood swings between the two psychological pulls of depression and euphoria.
According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, stress is one trigger for the disorder.
Bouts of Depression
Friends say Zeta-Jones knew she was depressed. But not until she checked herself into a mental health facility did she find out that she is bipolar.
The actress is featured in this week's People magazine and friends reportedly tell the magazine that Zeta-Jones had been struggling with bouts of depression even before her husband, actor Michael Douglas was diagnosed with stage IV throat cancer.
They said she sought help because she is about to film a new movie.
"I think she also looked at Michael and said he was given a second chance so we have been given a second chance I want to celebrate our life together and this was really the step to do that," said Sharon Cotliar of People magazine.
Friends told the magazine that Zeta-Jones was functioning at a high level, sad, but struggling.
"What they initially thought was depression and only found out that when she went to this hospital that in fact it was bipolar II disorder…very simple bouts of depression, at first not seeming to be too overwhelming, to getting increasingly overwhelming, and to the point to where she was having a hard time getting up in the morning," said Cotliar.
Doctors say Zeta-Jones' candor will be helpful to other adults suffering silently with bipolar.
"I think Catherine Zeta-Jones has broken a huge taboo by actually talking about bipolar. This is a serious illness that affects a good 2 to 3 percent of the population -- to actually talk about it not only bravely but with some candor is a heroic thing to do," said Dr. Soroya Bacchus, a psychiatrist. "That kind of heroism inspires people to talk about their own issues and maybe seek treatment that they never would have done unless Catherine Zeta-Jones of stature, her celebrity would have talked about this."
ABC News' Lara Salahi contributed to this report.

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S7 Airlines, a oneworld® global airline alliance member, was included in the list of the greenest airlines in the world, according to the climate protection organisation Atmosfair. The annual rating was presented at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn.
In its study, Atmosfair estimated the greenhouse gas emissions of more than 200 of the world's leading airlines. S7 Airlines was ranked 20 and became the only Russian airline in the top 50 list. When compiling the rating, the experts took into account the amount of CO2 emissions in tons per passenger-kilometre.
Reducing the negative impact on the environment is an important activity of S7 Airlines. When it comes to the development of its air fleet, the airline focuses on the latest designs of the world's leading manufacturers, as modern aircraft boast greater efficiency and environmental friendliness compared to aircraft of the previous generation.
In summer, S7 Airlines was the first Russian airline to operate modern Airbus A320neo aircraft with improved environmental performance. Gradually, the aircraft of the renewed family will replace all Airbus A320 aircraft in its air fleet. S7 Airlines has also signed the contract for the delivery of new Boeing 737 MAX scheduled for 2018. The company will become the first Russian operator of these aircraft of the new type.
Airbus A320neo is equipped with the latest Pratt & Whitney Pure Power PW1100G-JM engines, which reduce fuel consumption, and Sharklets wing tips made of composite materials, which improve the aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft. The results of the first months of operation of new aircraft have shown, that on average the fuel consumption is reduced up to 20%, depending on the route, which significantly reduces CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. In addition, Airbus A320neo, the quietest aircraft of its class, has the area of the sound wake when taking off that is 50% less than that of the aircraft of the previous generation.


Are We There Yet??: Wordless Wednesday - "Gone Fishing??"
Wordless Wednesday - "Gone Fishing??"
I don't think that there are any limitations on weeds but I'm pretty sure this one got thrown back anyway!
That looks a lovely place!! i have never tried fishing, is it fun?
This was the last day of a 3 day trip to Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. The day before, Saturday, Bruce and I fished from 4:30 in the AM until 9:00 pm. This was a small cove off the main lake. We were just trolling along and not having much luck when I felt a tug on my line. I set the hook and nearly took Bruce out with the weed. He always picked on me for bring up the "salad" so he took a picture of the "big one". Of course what he didn't take a picture of was the 5lb Smallie I caught the day before. I can not wait to go back up this summer. This year we are going a little earlier and hope to catch the bass pre-spawn.
Thanks for the background, Andrew. And I think it's a great weed no matter what anyone says! I hope to have one of my own someday if you actually do teach me how to fish.
Claire as I have tried to explain to many others, there is something almost Zen-like about fishing. Most people think it is a worm a hook and off you go. Nothing could be farther from the truth. There is weather conditions, water color and temp, moon phase, feeding activity, and then you have to choose the proper lure and present it so the fish will be attracted to it.
Anyway the Zen part is being on a calm, still lake with the sun coming up and the birds singing in the trees along the shoreline. The night scavengers hurrying back to thier lares for a days sleep. All of the tension just leaves your body.
Then all the planning you have put into it pays off and WHAM-O the line goes taunt, the rodtip bends and now the good part, the fight. There is nothing on this earth quit the same as fighting a fish for 5-10 minutes and then swinging it over the side of the boat and "lipping" it. You look at it and often wonder if anyone has caught this fish before or are you the first one. We strictly do catch and release, so the fish is returned back to the water as safely as possible so that others may enjoy the same thrill I just ecxperianced.
Did I answer you question Claire?
Now, that looks exactly like what I'd pull out. Actually, this reminds me of the thrill of catching something when I was girl!
Wow! What an answer but no you haven't! is it fun? (i am jesting!).
I think i would get bored, if i could do a hike and then come back and do the fishing?
Sorry if that ruined your zen moment!
Not to worry, Claire, I'm sure he'll be fine! And he promised to take me fishing this summer so that maybe I can learn some "Zen". I figure I'll be lucky if I can catch a weed!
I think its something you have to try before you can really appreciate it, with surroundings like that i think you probably could feel very zen like!
Still looks like a beautiful day.
Now there's a catch, lol. What a beautiful place to fish.
That's true for fishing you have to be wordless, otherwise there would be no fish anymore. But the above comment about being zen while fishing, I don't understand, you can be zen by starring in the water without killing a poor fish !
Jo, that IS a big one. Lol.
Weed or not, that makes me want to go fishing. I am SO ready for spring! Happy WW.
Gattina - In Andrew's defense, he doesn't kill the fish - he gives them a kiss and releases them back into the water. I think the "kiss" thing is all part of it as I've seen them do it at tournaments also.
It looks so peaceful there :) bliss, I think. Such a lovely picture for wordless wednesday.
Wait until you hear about the one that got away!!!!
This is a very pretty WW picture, not a good catch, but the view is beautiful!!
HA. Nice catch! LOL Been there, done that, caught that! Great share.
Hope your busy day was survivable!
hey there... you are making me long for summer!
Such a pretty scenery and what a large weed!!
Ya!----and the BIGGEST got away. It was THAT BIG!!
Ya know?---this is a neat photo. The area that he's fishing at is astoundingly beautiful. And I bet oh so peaceful!!
What is it about men and fishing I wonder. Looks like one happy chap, and a beautiful day.
Great pic! Makes me long for summer to get here quick!
And was that the prize catch for the day! LOL Im up!
I have not tried fishing.. Probably i'll soon try it..
Nothing like getting some fresh air while out fishing. He looks like he's in his element.
...and you should have seen the one that got away!
I love this photo! What a great sense of humor!
But, the pic is funny.
The answer is up! Go take a look and see if you hit the jackpot!
I hope you caught a big fish!
*LOL* Great catch! Looks like most of mine.
I'll be going fishing for the first time this summer. I think I'm looking forward to it. I'll like it better if there's no fish on my hook!
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Amanda gets a new look!
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Oh well, that certainly explains it then!
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MTG Commander/Elder Dragon Highlander • View topic - The Nephilim?
Due to the fact that there are no 4 coloured generals, my play group has decided to include the Nephilim from Guildpact as acceptable generals. They are legendary for the purposes of being a commander.
Post subject: Re: The Nephilim?
There was a thread here about that already. If I wasn't at work I might even have time to search for it.
Our group let them before.
They are a lot of fun, but the novelty will wear off after a while.
That thread is located here. The majority of the folks were against allowing them.
They are legendary for the purposes of being a commander.
That's how I would do it, too: not change the rules to allow non-legendary creatures, just change the card to make it a legendary creature. So it can still be legend-ruled out by a Clone, or tutored up by Captain Sisay if it somehow gets Condemned. One strange thing about this is that if someone else happens to be playing a Nephilim in their deck, I would want the card errata to be consistent, so that Nephilim would be legendary as well.
And yeah, until WotC actually does print 4-color legends, I think allowing Nephilim as a Commander in your playgroup is a good idea.
If a creature is 4 or more colors, he qualifies as a general. Plain and simple, no wording about nephilim or creatures with changeling. that would encompass all the nephilim as well as the only 2 creatures that are 5 color, but, not legendary: fusion elemental and maelstrom archangel.
So, instead of a bunch of cards that people could try to sneak in b/c of changeling, u only have 2 that u don't want. Those 2 creatures don't bring anything new or more abusive then some of the legends do. But, if u really wanted to, all u would have to do is put them in the braids and rofellos pile and say u can have them in your deck, but, not as your general.
If the only issue about the nephilim were how to incorporate them as legends and not cause confusion or trickery with changelings, this fixes that and the extra sentence about the other 2 fixes that loophole, if anyone would even care about them. What do u guys think? It hit me while i was sleeping.
I like the idea of a lieutenant, but I agree that it shouldn't be any colors your general isn't. And I also agree that it should only be castable once your general is on the battlefield. However, I feel like the lieutenant would probably be abused, even if it didn't return to your command zone. There are a few mono color legends that would be degenerate in a deck with other colors, and this would enable them.


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Growing up in the ARPAnet days, I only had access to the books in the local library and small B. Dalton's. I believe I found Merrill's economics tutorial The Toothpaste Millionaire at a book fair and liked it enough to track down her magnum opus The Pushcart War in the library. The book has more or less stayed in print, though, and it certainly sells better than most of the books I talk about here.
The majority of the books I read in primary school haven't stayed with me except for a detail or two, but three authors stand out as having imprinted themselves far more deeply on my young brain: Daniel Pinkwater, Ellen Raskin, and Jean Merrill. (I'm leaving aside obvious classics like The Phantom Tollbooth.) They are all fundamentally urban authors, though beyond that they don't have a lot in common beyond being very strange. (Raskin's profound Figgs and Phantoms was simply incomprehensible to me at the time, and I'm sure I wouldn't have known what to make of Pinkwater's brilliant Young Adult Novel had I stumbled on it.)
Merrill's work is not as crafted or sheerly inspired as that of the other two, but The Pushcart War stood out for its epic scope and comparatively large cast, as well as its political intrigue, which was beyond anything else I'd read. Looking back at it now, though, the book is far more bizarre, because the allegorical content is so strong, certainly as great as in C.S. Lewis or Philip Pullman. Except that this is a secular book and it's allegorizing political and social struggles, and doing saw awfully specifically. Some appropriate subtitles would be:
Saul Alinsky for Beginners
A Young Person's Guide to the Battle of Algiers
Ho Chi Minh Jr.
The subject of the book is, for the most part, guerilla warfare and insurgency. Three big trucking firms seek to have pushcarts banned from New York to clear the streets for more trucks, making way for (it is later revealed) banning cars and even small trucks as well. They work with the corrupt mayor, but the pushcart owners wage war by shooting tacks into tires, causing the trucks to break down and annoy the public/civilians, turning them against the trucks.
This seems like a pretty blatant allegory for Vietnam in particular, since the failure of the US's huge forces against asymmetrical guerrilla warfare resulted from absurd civilian deaths causing the Vietnamese to increasingly side with the Vietcong. But the book was published in 1964. Vietnam did not have the overwhelming presence in American life then that it would have a few years later, but I get the sense Merrill was pretty well-informed and politically interested. Still, the book could also be drawing from French experiences in Algeria, or perhaps France's own futile war in Vietnam against the Viet Minh.
There are also echoes of the civil rights movement in the nonviolent protests that occur toward the end of the book, but honestly, they are much weaker, as there is no analogue for segregation or discrimination. And the nonviolent protest is less entertaining than the tales of taking out trucks with pea-shooters. I remember being disappointed as a kid that the guerrilla war ended (though it is picked up briefly by kids imitating the cool guerrillas) in favor of more abstract dealings.
Those more abstract dealings are also allegorical. "The Three," the leaders of the trucking firms, are two big thuggish guys named Moe Mammoth and Walter Tiger, as well as the slick mastermind Louie Livergreen. (Livergreen, like a majority of the characters, is clearly of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, though unlike Pushcart King Maxie Hammerman and elderly but stubborn pushcart owner Mr. Jerusalem, he does not speak in a Yiddish-derived idiolect. There is no mention of religion in the whole book, though.) When they are first shown riling up their truckers to cause more trouble for the pushcarts, there is this bizarre footnote (the whole book is fashioned as an academic documentary account):
"The Three" were originally known as "The Big Three," but this caused some confusion as the leaders of three important nations of the time were also called The Big Three, and after a city newspaper ran a headline announcing BIG THREE CARVE UP CHINA (over a story about Mammoth, LEMA, and Tiger Trucking buying out the China Carting & Storage Co.), there was some international trouble in the course of which Moscow was bombed by an Indo-Chinese pilot. After that the city papers referred to the three big trucking firms simply as The Three.
Capitalists/imperialists that they are, "The Three" pretty much own New York Mayor Emmett Cudd, at least until public opinion turns so decisively against the trucks that the mayor drops them without a second thought. Cudd's schemes are somewhat limited by the unnamed Police Commissioner (all police officials go unnamed, in fact), who enforces law and order but does refuse to go on witch hunts. He comes off more affably than the others despite going unnamed, and I have to wonder why Merrill chose to leave him anonymous. It almost seems to enforce a conservative dictum that entrenched civil servants will remain less corrupt than elected officials.
Still, the message is pretty clearly "hearts and minds." Ultimately, popular opinion rules, and there's no way to get traction if the public hates you. Ah, if only life were so simple. Still, this is one of the best social realist kid books ever written, and far more fun than Chernyshevsky's What is to Be Done?
One loose end. While Moe and Tiger give up and Louie Livergreen goes into hiding and (it is hinted) is killed, Cudd gets reelected mayor without suffering any ill consequences. This bugged me as a kid. It still bugs me now.
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I want introduce the book to my 2nd grade class. I have 20 students and despite our previous school librarian's comments that the book is too hard for young children, I am thinking of giving each of my students their own copy. Most of my students can read at a 6th grade level and I think they would enjoy it. If you know anyone who would like to donate 21 copies of Pushcart War, send them my name. Thanks, Mrs. Neal 2nd grade LTE Austin, TX 78734 [email protected]
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The ABI has kicked off a series of crunch talks with the government over flooding with demands for ministerial action over flood defences in return for continued cover in high risk zones.
Tuesday night's meeting was attended by members of the government, including Environment Minister Phil Woolas, the ABI's executive team and representatives from Norwich Union and Royal & SunAlliance.
The review process is expected to conclude in the spring with a decision by insurers on whether they will continue to follow the gentleman's agreement that binds them to offer cover in flood prone areas – known as the Statement of Principles.
The current agreement expires in the autumn.
The ABI wants the government to acknowledge the need for change in key areas including; better coordination and the development of a central body to management the flood risk; more robust assessments of flood risks, particularly when it comes to drains; and a commitment by government to not build new developments on flood plains.
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We are always excited to feature mom-preneuers! This week, we asked the same 5 questions of Wonderland Bake Shoppe! She makes AMAZING cakes and cupcakes!
1. What inspired you to create a cake business?
Decorating cakes started as something I did as a hobby. It was my time to myself to do something I enjoy. I soon realized that I had a talent in decorating and a love and passion it as well. So I decided to go into business.
The honest answer here is...HELP! I have a verry supportive husband which is very important. Also, we have very involved grandparents. Dont get me wrong I still feel pulled in a million different directions sometimes, and it's tough, but it so much easier with support.
Go for it! Once an amazing woman told me find something you would do for free for the rest of your life and find a way to make money at it. So I would definately pass this advice on. If you have a talent or idea you want to share with the world and aren't afraid of some hard work just go for it!
4. Who has inspired you most in creating yummy cakes?
My mother in law is who got me into cake decorating. She decorated cakes as a hobby for years.
5. Is there any exciting news about your business that you want to share?
I am always looking to push the bar and do the unexpected. Right now I'm am expirimenting with making cakes have moving parts. Also I have started offering decorated sugar cookies that can be decorated in any way with any logo.


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Q: Setting ContentControl.Content back to null does not change UI I am developing an Windows Store App (8.1) using XAML. In the UI ContentControls with data-specific content are displayed. For this, I successfully use DataTemplateSelectors.
The following problem occurs: The initial ContentControl.Content property is null and the TemplateSelector returns my personal NullTemplate correctly. Afterwards, the content is set to the data object to display and the DataTemplateSelector successfully returns the correct template.
But if the Content property is set back to null, nothing happens. The DataTemplateSelector is not being called by the UI (even with both ***Core-methods overriden and implemented).
Here is the configuration of the ContentControl
                <ContentControl
                    Content="{Binding ButtonContent,ElementName=root}"
                    ContentTemplateSelector="{Binding ButtonContentTemplateSelector,ElementName=root}"/>

(Both Bindings provide the data correctly.)
The content template selector
public class DefaultComboBoxItemTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector
{
    public DataTemplate NullTemplate { get; set; }

    public DataTemplate ObjectTemplate { get; set; }

    public DefaultComboBoxItemTemplateSelector() : base() { }

    protected override DataTemplate SelectTemplateCore(object item, DependencyObject container)
    {
        if (item == null) return NullTemplate;
        else return ObjectTemplate;
    }
    protected override DataTemplate SelectTemplateCore(object item)
    {
        return SelectTemplateCore(item, null);
    }
}

Any ideas, why the UI does not use the NullTemplate after setting the Content property to null?
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April 26, 2017 Shah R. Alam
Talking is good...
It is very brave and commendable to see Prince Harry and Prince William talking about the loss of their mother, Princess Diana. It has taken 20 years for the prince's to come out and openly talk about how they were affected. I can only imagine what they went through with such a tragic loss of their mother. The anxiety, the heartache, the depression and their overall mental health would have been affected enormously. The strength and courage the Princes are showing by coming out and talking about it has left me speechless considering the closed stiff upper lip nature of the Establishment of the Royal Family
I read the interview Prince Harry gave to the Telegraph newspaper.
It was his brother Prince William who urged Harry to seek to counselling, just to go and talk about it.
Mental health can be affected by many things in life, the soldiers who come back from combat duty, the loss of a parent, loss of a job, body shaming and in this day and age of social media an ever increasing 'social anxiety'.
I am finding and seeing that the victims of such 'social anxiety' are getting younger and younger. Kids try to live up to inappropriate role models and aspire to lifestyles of people they see on TV and in music videos. This, in turn, puts stresses and strains on their parents, which then leads to anxiety, depression and mental health issues for the parents.
On planet Earth today we have such a gap in how mental health is dealt with between the less developed countries and countries such as the UK and US. First, and foremost regardless of where in the world the sufferer is, nobody wants to talk about it. It is seen as a disease and the sufferer is treated as a pariah. This causes friends and family members to avoid contact which puts the sufferer in a more downward spiral when what they need is someone to talk to.
Let me take Bangladesh for example. In some poorer communities in the country, the answer to mental health issues is that the person is possessed by an evil spirit and therefore they must be cleansed of this. The methods employed by healers and shamans is scary, to say the least. One option is to simply abandon the person and fend for themselves. In extreme cases, they are chained at the ankle and locked indoors. In the well to do communities where people are able to afford doctors, the solution is no easier or helpful to the sufferer. I have come across cases of people being put into mental institutions that are horrifying, and brutal. With people locked up and god knows what else deemed necessary done to them by the institution owners. I came across a recent case where the family of an elderly person who had a nervous breakdown, having shown no previous signs of any issues, was first put in a mental institution. When the family realised the horrific conditions brought him home and kept him in a drugged up comatose state 24/7. A country like Bangladesh does not have any systems, institutions or trained professionals of any sort to cater to people suffering from any kind of mental illness. Plus, the culture of the society is such that "you do not talk about stuff". Therefore, statistics are not available to know the extent of mental health issues in a country the size of Alabama with 161 million people.
What about the UK? A first world country that does have the means, the professionals and institutions to support such a big and unseen health problem. Again the lack of places to go and talk about issues is scarce. I recall a story many years ago when a teenager of a family that I used to know lost their sole surviving parent. The onset of depression consumed the young person's life. They were unable to cope and their fellow elder siblings took them to the doctor who prescribed anti-depressants. The siblings didn't know how to deal with as they were dealing with their own grief. The general practitioner was not trained to ask the correct questions to get to the root cause of this young person's depression, anxiety and eventual mental breakdown. Even, I did not know anything about what was going on and could be of no help. Luckily this person somehow got through and over time they recovered and today they are happily married with children.
Above all what I have seen in the UK especially in the Bangladeshi immigrant community, the social and cultural hang-ups brought over still reside and have a deep hold on people. This means not talking about issues of anxiety, depression and mental health overall. I believe that the "not talking about it' resides in all communities in the UK regardless of race, religion, colour and income levels.
In the UK 1 in 4 adults have been diagnosed with a mental illness. Almost a fifth more have experienced mental illness without being diagnosed with it. Depression was the most commonly diagnosed form of mental illness. Women (33%) were more likely to report being diagnosed with a mental illness than men (19%). Men's unwillingness to talk about such issues hides a problem that can manifest in family life, work relationships and lead to violent behaviour. In 2016 before his departure the then Prime Minister David Cameron pledged £1 Billion to support mental health services in the UK, This was prompted by a letter from 442 psychotherapists, counsellors and academics to The Guardian in 2015 after an austerity measure in the budget to make cuts in mental health services.
Let's look at some numbers in the US. 1 in 5 adults or 43.8 million people experience a mental health issue in any given year. Anxiety disorders (42 million people) leads as the most common diagnosis, followed by depression (16 million), bipolar disorder (6.1 million) and schizophrenia (2.4 million). Mental health issues have no borders nor boundaries, however, African-American and Hispanic people used mental health services at half the rate of Caucasian Americans and Asian-Americans used such services at only a third the rate.
The cost to the US economy is $193.2 billion per year in lost earnings. Apart from the economic costs, the lives that are lost is staggering. People with mental health issues die 25 years earlier, more than 90% of children who died by suicide have mental health conditions and every day 18-22 war veterans die by committing suicide.
Mental health by purely looking at the numbers is incomprehensibly scary. We need to talk more, listen more and acknowledge that within every family, in every community and in every country there is a hidden killer lurking. The hidden killer is that if you do not talk about this issue there is no recovery for those who are suffering. The key challenge is getting rid of the taboo around talking about it. We easily discuss and debate other diseases like diabetes, heart disease among others, yet we are ashamed to talk about everyday events that happen to every person on this planet that can lead to anxiety, depression etc.
I am emboldened, proud and happy to see the Princes of the United Kingdom leading the debate openly and candidly. Let us join in that march to remove any stigma around mental health, and get help for our loved ones, friends and community members as needed.
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Alterna TV
Changing-Places Latin America 12/08/2014
Changing Places LatAm: Jake Wheeler, Melissa Vogel, Alexandre Jordao, Augusto Valente…
::: Jake Wheeler- SapientNitro ::: Melissa Vogel-IBOPE Media ::: Sonia Guzmán – Grupo BT brands + tourism ::: Marina Lemos – David ::: Vanina Beraldi – Softtek ::: María Chaparro – Alcance Media Group ::: Alexandre Jordao – Augusto Valente-Batanga Media::: Roberto Perez-Alterna TV :::
Jake Wheeler joins la comunidad, a part of SapientNitro, as Creative Director. Jake brings with him more than a decade of creative leadership in content and campaign development across both digital and traditional channels. Based in Miami, he will report directly to Jose Molla and Joaquin Molla, Chief Creative Officers at la comunidad. Wheeler joins la comunidad from Grey New York where he led the Volvo North America business as Executive Creative Director. Prior to Grey, he served as Creative Director at SapientNitro.Wheeler also oversaw key projects for Bacardi, Tag Heuer, and Microsoft in China.
Melissa Vogel takes over IBOPE Media Multimedia management for Brazil and Latin America. In this new position, she will be responsible for business strategy, operations, product development and the launch of audio, text and multimedia measurement tools including Target Index.Part of IBOPE Group for 18 years, she was executive director of New Business for the IBOPE Group and general manager of operations for IBOPE Media in Panama. He also managed the operational areas of IBOPE Nielsen Online Brazil (internet), Target Group Index Brazil and Media Mix (Radio and Newspaper). In the last three years, she has held positions in Marketing, being responsible for auditing solutions and advertising investment in , and more recently, for the area management. Melissa has a degree in Radio and Television from the School of Communication and Arts (ECA) of the University of Sao Paulo.
Batanga is expanding content offerings into Spanish-speaking Latin America:
Alexandre Jordao, currently General Manager of Batanga Brazil, will be taking on an expanded role, overseeing all of the company's Latin American business out of Batanga Media's Sao Paulo office as EVP/GM of Latin America.
Augusto Valente will be overseeing Batanga Media's just spun off Performance Advertising Business. The new unit is called Groovit Digital. Valente is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Alterna'TV, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Americas based in Miami, has announced the appointment of Roberto Perez as Senior Director, Marketing and Distribution, for the United States, Canada and Mexico. The announcement was made today by Aymeric Genty, the new CEO of Alterna'TV.Perez brings nearly a decade of marketing and distribution experience with America's largest cable and satellite service providers to his new role with Alterna'TV, having worked for DirecTV, Comcast and Cox Communications.As Senior Director, Marketing and Distribution for the U.S., Canada and Mexico, Perez will be responsible for increasing carriage and enhancing market penetration for the suite of channels and networks represented by Alterna'TV in North America and Mexico.Perez joins Alterna'TV after serving as a Retention Consultant for DirecTV in El Segundo, CA. Prior to this, he was Director of Marketing at Comcast, a post he held since 2010. Previously, Perez worked as a Multicultural Marketing Strategist for Cox Communications (2007 to 2010) A graduate of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) in Caracas, Venezuela, Perez earned a Master's degree in Business Administration from Atlanta's Oglethorpe University.
Maria Chaparro is the new account executive at Alcance Media Group in Mexico, after having worked with the newspaper El Universal and Grupo Expansion. Chaparro is a graduate of Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (TEC) with a focus on digital marketing.
Grupo BT brands + tourism has hired Sonia Guzman as sales director for Latin America. Guzmán will work from Miami offices. BT + tourism brands clients include Condé Nast Traveler for United States and Spain markets, and Financial Times, plus its own set of media including Boletin Turistico publications and platforms, Travelista and Travelers Guide. Recently, it has also incorporated Forbes representation in Mexico , USA and Canada.
Marina Lemos is Brazilian advertising agency David new director of digital integration. Lemos has 14 years of experience in the digital market and worked in agencies like 10 minutos and Ogilvy & Mather. She has held several accounts including Kraft Foods, Coca Cola, Claro, Magazine Luiza, Kimberly & Clark and Motorola, among others.
Vanina Beraldi has taken over as Softtek new head of regional marketing for hispanic South America.Softtek is a provider of IT services for Hispanic South America.
New wellness TV channel INTI Network addresses Hispanic audiences
What: Alterna'TV is launching a Hispanic-focused wellness channel called INTI Network TV to cable television providers in the U.S.
Why is it important: As Alterna TV's affiliate director of sales Maricela Hernandez puts is, Latinos are very much interested in improving themselves, their environment and in wellness topics in general. Branded communications can address this interest.
Alterna'TV, a subsidiary of Latin America's satellite service provider Satmex, is launching a Hispanic-focused wellness channel called INTI Network TV to cable television providers in the U.S. The channel's programming will include yoga, meditation, self-help, spiritual growth, relationship to the environment, family and community, travel, arts and culture, among other wellness topics for Spanish-speaking, 25 to 54 year old Latinos.
The network, INTI, is named after the Inca word for sun, "initi," which means the source from which life radiates. In short, INTI Network TV is "the essence of who we are."
U.S. carriage partners working with Alterna'TV are: AT&T U-Verse; Cablevision's iO en Espanol; Charter Latino; Comcast; DirecTV; Dish Network; Grande Communications; RCN; San Bruno Municipal Cable TV; Time Warner Cable and Wave Broadband.
Sources: Voxxi, Hispanic Business.


3 weeks ago this coming Monday we got news from our landlord that he's planning on selling the house we've been living in for the last 14 years. BAM. Totally threw my world into a spin which hasn't fully stopped yet.
We've been scrapping together some funds for a down payment, to buy a place instead of renting since rentals around here are more than a mortgage payment would be. Even with a minimal down payment, moving costs (and possible home improvement costs) are blowing my mind. Still unsure of where we will be living in the next few months… and business has been slow this year too, so that just adds to the stress.
Then yesterday my husband and I woke up to see our baby Rita Dog all ready "to go". She was 15 and a half and had been hurting and medicated for a while with 4 fused vertebra. The last month or so she deteriorated to the point where we were carrying her everywhere, but she still seemed like she wanted to be with us… and then she stopped eating. If you've ever owned a dog through old age, you know how they tell you when it's time…? well, we heard her.
We called a vet who came to the house and so lovingly helped us say goodbye to our little beloved beast. Rita let the vet do her thing without moving and my husband held her through the entire process. Many tears later, we are happy we were able to share the love of a wonderful rescued dog and have a life together that will live on in our memories forever.
I'm very happy the sun is out today, I need it to clear the stress and sadness away.
Gail, so sorry for your loss! And sorry I only got to meet her the once, but can see that she'll continue to live on with you all. Be well!
Already feeling better ~ really couldn't have been more perfect, it's just always sad to say goodbye.
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Watch: 'Hot Summer Nights' trailer starring Timothée Chalamet.
April 13, 2018 | by Shahlin Graves
'Call Me By Your Name' and 'Ladybird' breakout actor Timothée Chalamet stars in 'Hot Summer Nights' - the debut film from first-time director and writer Elijah Bynum.
"In Hot Summer Nights, written and directed by Elijah Bynum, Call Me By Your Name's Timothée Chalamet stars as Daniel, a shy, awkward young man unwillingly sent to spend the summer in Cape Cod. As he struggles to adjust to his new surroundings, he befriends the neighborhood drug dealer Hunter (Alex Roe), a friendship which opens to him a new and unexpected world."
Watch the trailer below...
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StyleTimothée Chalamet on the cover of Document, Fall/Winter 2020.
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Nancy's Nook : Tea Party!
Mother's Parkwood Retirement Community knows how to do things up right.
Saturday they had their Mother's Day Tea. Ladies were encouraged to decorate tables, and invite friends to join them.
They're Sue and Germain, and they're wearing the hats Mother gave them. (Those hats fold up into little purses.).
That last picture is of Jean with her beautiful granddaughters.
Where's my mother, you ask?
In my next post you'll see some more pictures of her, along with most of the rest of us.
We ate at Parkwood today.
Talk about a lovely meal, and a lovely Mother's Day!
I hope yours has been good!


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Q: Detect regtangles in a low contrast image using opencv in python for reading by tesseract I would like to detect the labels in images like this one for the purpose of extracting the text using tesseract. I have tried various combinations of thresholding and using edge detection. However I can only detect about half of the labels at a time at max. These are a few of the images I've been trying to read the labels from:
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All of the labels have the same aspect ratio (the width is 3.5 times larger than the height) so I'm trying to find contours that have a minAreaRect with that same aspect ratio. The hard part is handing the labels on the lighter background. This is the code I have so far:
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
import numpy as np
import argparse
import cv2
import os

ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("-i", "--image", required=True,
    help="path to input image to be OCR'd")
args = vars(ap.parse_args())

#function to crop an image to a minAreaRect
def crop_minAreaRect(img, rect):
    # rotate img
    angle = rect[2]
    rows,cols = img.shape[0], img.shape[1]
    M = cv2.getRotationMatrix2D((cols/2,rows/2),angle,1)
    img_rot = cv2.warpAffine(img,M,(cols,rows))

    # rotate bounding box
    rect0 = (rect[0], rect[1], 0.0)
    box = cv2.boxPoints(rect)
    pts = np.int0(cv2.transform(np.array([box]), M))[0]
    pts[pts < 0] = 0

    # crop
    img_crop = img_rot[pts[1][1]:pts[0][1],
                       pts[1][0]:pts[2][0]]

    return img_crop

# load image and apply threshold
image = cv2.imread(args["image"])
bw = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
#bw = cv2.threshold(bw, 210, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)[1]
bw = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(bw, 255, cv2.ADAPTIVE_THRESH_GAUSSIAN_C, cv2.THRESH_BINARY, 27, 20)
#do edge detection
v = np.median(bw)
sigma = 0.5
lower = int(max(0, (1.0 - sigma) * v))
upper = int(min(255, (1.0 + sigma) * v))
bw = cv2.Canny(bw, lower, upper)
kernel = np.ones((5,5), np.uint8)
bw = cv2.dilate(bw,kernel,iterations=1)

#find contours
image2, contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(bw,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
bw = cv2.drawContours(bw,contours,0,(0,0,255),2)
cv2.imwrite("edge.png", bw)

#test which contours have the correct aspect ratio
largestarea = 0.0
passes = []
for contour in contours:
    (x,y),(w,h),a = cv2.minAreaRect(contour)
    if h > 20 and w > 20:
        if h > w:
            maxdim = h
            mindim = w
        else:
            maxdim = w
            mindim = h
        ratio = maxdim/mindim
        print("ratio: {}".format(ratio))
        if (ratio > 3.4 and ratio < 3.6):
            passes.append(contour)
if not passes:
    print "no passes"
    exit()

passboxes = []
i = 1

#crop out each label and attemp to extract text
for ps in passes:
    rect = cv2.minAreaRect(ps)
    bw = crop_minAreaRect(image, rect)
    cv2.imwrite("{}.png".format(i), bw)
    i += 1
    h, w = bw.shape[:2]
    print str(h) + "x" + str(w)
    if w and h:
        bw = cv2.cvtColor(bw, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
        bw = cv2.threshold(bw, 50, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY | cv2.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
        cv2.imwrite("output.png", bw)
        im = Image.open("output.png")
        w, h = im.size
        print "W:{} H:{}".format(w,h)
        if h > w:
            print ("rotating")
            im.rotate(90)
            im.save("output.png")
        print pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open("output.png"))
        im.rotate(180)
        im.save("output.png")
        print pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open("output.png"))
        box = cv2.boxPoints(cv2.minAreaRect(ps))
        passboxes.append(np.int0(box))
        im.close()

cnts = cv2.drawContours(image,passboxes,0,(0,0,255),2)
cnts = cv2.drawContours(cnts,contours,-1,(255,255,0),2)
cnts = cv2.drawContours(cnts, passes, -1, (0,255,0), 3)
cv2.imwrite("output2.png", image)

I believe the problem I have could be the parameters for the thresholding. Or I could be over complicating this.

A: Only the white labels with "A-08337" and such? The following detects all of them on both images:
import numpy as np
import cv2

img = cv2.imread('labels.jpg')

#downscale the image because Canny tends to work better on smaller images
w, h, c = img.shape
resize_coeff = 0.25
img = cv2.resize(img, (int(resize_coeff*h), int(resize_coeff*w)))

#find edges, then contours
canny = cv2.Canny(img, 100, 200)
_, contours, _ = cv2.findContours(canny, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)

#draw the contours, do morphological close operation
#to close possible small gaps, then find contours again on the result
w, h, c = img.shape
blank = np.zeros((w, h)).astype(np.uint8)
cv2.drawContours(blank, contours, -1, 1, 1)
blank = cv2.morphologyEx(blank, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, np.ones((3, 3), np.uint8))
_, contours, _ = cv2.findContours(blank, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)

#keep only contours of more or less correct area and perimeter
contours = [c for c in contours if 800 < cv2.contourArea(c) < 1600]
contours = [c for c in contours if cv2.arcLength(c, True) < 200]
cv2.drawContours(img, contours, -1, (0, 0, 255), 1)

cv2.imwrite("contours.png", img)

Probably with some additional convexity check you can get rid of the "Verbatim" contours and such (for example, only keep contours with near zero difference between their area and their convex hull's area).


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For more than 80 years, Reynolds and Reynolds has served automotive retailers with business forms and industry-leading software, trusted business practices, and award-winning service and support. As a result, Reynolds has been a partner with automotive dealers since the 1920s to help improve business operations and profitability in the dealership and to help dealers serve the changing needs of their customers.
1920s:
Reynolds creates the first standardized accounting forms and a paper-based accounting system to be used by Chevrolet and its retailers. The structured data generated through this innovation helped Chevrolet overtake Ford in the marketplace. The innovation also lays the groundwork for Reynolds to become the major supplier of forms to the entire automobile retailer market.
Reynolds becomes the first to offer computer services to automotive retailers throughout the nation - a key first step in transforming the way individual retailers and car companies manage their businesses.
1970s: The original Universal Computer Systems, Inc. (UCS) is founded as a regional data processing service bureau, providing local dealerships with weekly reports of their parts inventory.
Reynolds introduces the ERA® dealership management system (DMS). ERA totally integrates all business office functions - boosting productivity and profits to new levels through the seamless transfer of data throughout the enterprise. Successor UCS companies began selling an in-house small IBM mainframe system and establishes itself as a product development leader.
The ERA system continues to be the mass-market leader in dealership management systems. UCS continues its leadership in product development and technology innovation through its POWER DMS, introducing POWER Workstation (client / server) technology for dealerships.
Reynolds and UCS both harness the power of the Internet by providing comprehensive customer relationship management solutions, Internet-enabled applications, and advances in dealership management systems. These solutions help dealerships adapt to a new technology-driven environment and capitalize on every customer interaction.
Reynolds and Reynolds and UCS merged in 2006 under the Reynolds name, forming the pre-eminent dealer services provider and offering dealers their choice of DMS — ERA or POWER — and an array of retail applications, documents, and services. Today, Reynolds continues to enhance both the ERA and POWER systems with new applications and functionality that extend into every area of dealership operations.


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Santa Eufemia fue un título cardenalicio de la Iglesia católica. Fue instaurado el 8 de febrero de 1566 por el papa Pío V y suprimido en 1587 por el papa Sixto V.

Titulares
 Guido Luca Ferrero (8 febrero 1566 - 6 marzo 1566)
 Francesco Crasso (o Grasso) (6 marzo 1566 - 29 agosto 1566)
 Giovanni Aldobrandini (9 junio 1570 - 20 noviembre 1570)
 Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet (20 noviembre 1570 - 23 marzo 1587)

Referencias

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Cal State LA, Verizon boost STEM education among East Los Angeles middle school boys
By Cal State LA News Service
California State University, Los Angeles has joined a program under Verizon Innovative Learning to provide science, technology, engineering, and math experiences to middle school boys in East Los Angeles.
Students will participate in summer intensive courses on the university campus to learn skills such as coding, 3-D printing, robotics and entrepreneurship that will help to make them competitive for future careers in a digital economy. Throughout the 2017-18 school year, students will return to Cal State LA each month, for mentoring and continued training in STEM subjects. Through the partnership, Cal State LA was awarded a $400,000 grant.
The Verizon Innovative Learning program is a first-of-its-kind, two-year initiative that partners with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) to bring STEM skills to minority, middle school young men. This year, the program has expanded to 16 universities nationwide.
"This partnership with Verizon will allow us to reach younger students and spark their interest in STEM," said William A. Covino, president of Cal State LA. "Our participation in the Verizon Innovative Learning program underscores our role as a leader in STEM. Cal State LA graduates are changing the face of STEM professions across the country."
The National Science Foundation has noted Cal State LA's success in graduating students of color who go on to earn the Ph.D. in STEM fields.
The need for diversity in STEM professions is well-documented. There are currently more than 4 million available jobs in science and technology. "However, millions of kids from underserved communities don't know they exist and can't compete for them because they lack access to technology and tech education. We need more kids to see the world of possibilities waiting for them," Verizon noted.
The Verizon Innovative Learning initiative seeks to provide that access.
"Cal State LA is a perfect partner because of its longstanding ties with the community of East Los Angeles," said Octavio Villalpando, Cal State LA's vice provost for diversity and engaged learning and chief diversity officer for Academic and Student Life. "Through service-learning classes, Cal State LA students contribute hours of service to local schools and community-based organizations. We are a part of this community and we know it well."
The Verizon Innovative Learning program will benefit students in sixth and seventh grades from five middle schools: Belvedere, Brooklyn Avenue-SPAN, Griffith, Hollenbeck, and Stevenson.
The schools are part of the GO East LA initiative, a joint effort of the Los Angeles Unified School District, East Los Angeles College, and Cal State LA. The initiative was created in 2014 to promote greater academic outcomes for all East L.A. students by focusing on college awareness, preparation, completion, and career readiness.
Bianca Guzman, director of GO East LA, will coordinate the Verizon program at Cal State LA with support from University faculty members Mauricio Castillo, Claudia Kouyoumdjian, and Jessica Morales-Chicas.
"We're delighted that students in East L.A. will have an opportunity to participate in the Verizon Innovative Learning program," Guzman said.
The middle school students who satisfactorily complete the program are eligible to receive a free tablet from Cal State LA. They are also eligible to receive college course credit, and an opportunity to sign up for an apprenticeship certificate program to create computer applications.
"Through this program students will learn that they can become creators of technology," said Jose A. Gomez, executive vice president for Cal State LA. "One of these kids is the next Bill Gates, or Jeff Bezos, or Steve Jobs."
Photos: Top, Joseph Garcia from Griffith Middle School is one of the students who will be taking part in the Verizon Innovative Learning program at Cal State LA. Bottom, A student learning how to code on a tablet. (Credit: J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)
California State University, Los Angeles is the premier comprehensive public university in the heart of Los Angeles. Cal State LA is ranked number one in the United States for the upward mobility of its students. Cal State LA is dedicated to engagement, service, and the public good, offering nationally recognized programs in science, the arts, business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education, and the humanities. Founded in 1947, the University serves more than 28,000 students and has more than 245,000 distinguished alumni.


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Person of Significant Control: UK Companies House Reporting Requirements
To align with AMLD 4 rules for reporting beneficial ownership, the UK has developed Person of Significant Control (PSC) requirements for companies, limited liability partnerships and eligible Scottish partnerships. They must report the PSC to Companies House, the UK register, within 14 days of any change. Note, the 14-day requirement became effective June 26, 2017.
Still with us? Either you're involved with a UK company that has to comply, or perhaps you're interested in compliance and know that similar requirements are coming your way. In any case, let's examine the specific rules, how to comply, and what it means for compliance officers around the world.
Who is a Person of Significant Control?
A PSC is an individual who either:
holds more than 25% of shares in the company
holds more than 25% of voting rights in the company
holds the right to appoint or remove the majority of the board of directors of the company
has the right to exercise, or actually exercises, significant influence or control over the company
Also, a trust or firm that satisfies one of the first four conditions if it were an individual is also considered a PSC.
While the first three conditions are binary — they do or they don't —the phrase significant influence or control requires further definition. There are numerous conditions that might apply, so let's look at guidance provided by the UK Secretary of State, Right to exercise significant influence or control over a company:
2.6. Where a person has absolute decision rights over decisions related to the running of the business of the company, for example relating to:
(a) Adopting or amending the company's business plan;
(b) Changing the nature of the company's business;
(c) Making any additional borrowing from lenders;
(d) Appointment or removal of the CEO;
(e) Establishing or amending any profit-sharing, bonus or other incentive scheme of any nature for directors or employees; or
(f) The grant of options under a share option or other share based incentive scheme.
3.3. A person would exercise "significant influence or control" if:
(a) They are significantly involved in the management and direction of the company, for example:
A person, who is not a member of the board of directors, but regularly or consistently directs or influences a significant section of the board, or is regularly consulted on board decisions and whose views influence decisions made by the board.
This list is not exhaustive, but rather to give you an idea of some of the individuals that need PSC consideration.
What Information is Required from a PSC?
PSC's must report identifying information to the company. They can volunteer the information as soon as they know they are a PSC or notice an error in the PSC register. Or, if they get a notice from the company requesting the information, they must respond. If you don't —and don't have a good reason for non-response — it could be a criminal offense.
While companies must take reasonable steps to contact the PSC, the onus is on the PSC, especially in cases where there is direct and indirect ownership; the PSC knows how much they own and they can hide their true ownership level from the company.
The information must also be confirmed before entering it into the register. If the information comes from the PSC, that is confirmation enough. Or, if it comes from someone the PSC knows, or is in the original filing, that also counts as confirmation.
The following information is required:
Usual residential address (not disclosed)
Date they became a PSC
Type of PSC conditions
If there's an application for public disclosure protection
Note, these laws apply to UK registered companies; "Overseas entities operating in the UK might be subject to requirements in their home country but are not subject to the requirements of Part 21A to hold a register."
Only including UK companies points to the difficulty of tracking down complex cross-border ownership structures. As a Dun & Bradstreet report, The Intricacies of Ownership and Control: Understanding Beneficial Ownership Structures states:
However, most of these sources have limited or no access to offshore entities or contain unreliable, incomplete data. According to the World Bank, even when public registries do exist, such as the UK's "Persons of Significant Control" (PSC) register, detailed information on Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBO) is very rarely included because it is not mandatory. Despite the efforts by governments and regulators to increase transparency and disclosure, information on the UBO of offshore corporate vehicles will not be included in Anti-Money Laundering / Counter-Terrorism Funding central registries.
PSC reporting requirements and the Companies House register are a step forward for transparency. However, there is still considerable work to close loopholes and extend reporting requirements to off-shore entities.
Meanwhile, for UK companies, there's the practical aspect of compliance. While the original requirements have been in place for over a year, the 14-day reporting rules are new and require compliance now. Do you have processes in place to do deal with new PSC rules?
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Bafana Bafana and Wits centre-back Buhle Mkhwanazi is as tough as nails.
Bafana Bafana's ever-changing squad suggests not many players are guaranteed a place for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) tournament to be hosted by Egypt.
The SA senior national team is in Group D alongside Morocco, Ivory Coast and Namibia.
Bafana will play all their group matches at Al Salam Stadium in the capital, Cairo. They face the Ivorians on June 24 in their first match, before tackling Namibia four days later, on June 28.
They then play their last match of the group on July 1 against Morocco.
Coach Stuart Baxter said Bafana's preparations for the tournament will now start and a big part of that is to put together a team that can make up for lost time after they failed to qualify for the 2017 edition.
But who's going to be in Baxter's squad for Afcon?
The goalkeeping department may not be difficult to put together, especially if Bafana's number one Itumeleng Khune of Kaizer Chiefs has fully recovered from the shoulder injury that has sidelined him for months.
He's most certainly going to be joined by Darren Keet and Ronwen Williams of Bidvest Wits and SuperSport United respectively.
Because of injuries, Baxter has been forced into making changes all the time, including in defence.
The two constant figures in the defensive line have been captain Thulani Hlatshwayo and Buhle Mkhwanazi, who both play for Wits.
In the first match of the 2019 qualifiers against Nigeria in Uyo, which Bafana won 2-0, Hlatshwayo partnered Kaizer Chiefs centre-back Mulomowandau Mathoho.
But since then, Mathoho has struggled with injury and Hlatshwayo and Mkhwanazi went on to play five matches together.
In the left-back area, their club teammate Sifiso Hlanti appears to have cemented his place, with Innocent Maela of Orlando Pirates also in the picture.
The right-back position will certainly be up for grabs with constant changes there over the course of the qualifiers. The likes of Ramahlwe Mphahlele (Chiefs) and Thamsanqa Mkhize (Cape Town City) have featured.
In midfield, Baxter may have a bit of a hard time in terms of who to pick or leave out of the squad. Themba Zwane (Mamelodi Sundowns), Kamohelo Mokotjo (Brentford, England), Dean Furman (SuperSport United), Bongani Zungu (Amiens, France) and Keagan Dolly (Montpellier, France) are some of Baxter's favourites.
Even though Zungu and Dolly were out injured for months, they were recalled for the last match against Libya, which Bafana won 2-1 in Tunisia recently. The duo didn't feature, but one thing is clear, Baxter hasn't forgotten about them.
But the trick is that Sundowns' defensive midfield pair of Hlompho Kekana and Tiyani Mabunda have benefited a lot from playing CAF Champions League football over the past few years and have also been in the reckoning with regards to Bafana, so snubbing them would be some injustice.
And Thulani Serero, who plays for Vitesse in the Netherlands, has also made a return to the squad in recent games.
Serero had been out in the cold after he rejected a call-up because he wasn't given assurances that he would play against Senegal in the Fifa 2018 World Cup qualifiers.
1-1 draw against Nigeria last year and would have to convince Baxter he's worthy of a place in the team.
Upfront, Belgium-based Percy Tau, who's turning out for Saint Gilloise, is assured of a place alongside Lebo Mothiba of French Ligue 1 side, Strasbourg.
Baxter would then have to consider the likes of Lebohang Maboe (Sundowns), Dino Ndlovu (Zhejiang Greentown, China), Lars Veldwijk (Sparta Rotterdam, Netherlands) among his attacking options.
One thing that's clear is that there are lots of places up for grabs in the squad.


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Thanks for indulging me last week. That's all the wallowing in self-pity until next year… I promise.
This week, let's go back to flash fiction.
For eight years, it was just Mar and Bar, or Mars Bar to some. Blond-headed, green-eyed Barkley was Bar, and black-haired, brown-eyed me was Mario. Thick as thieves, we hung out, backed one another's plays, made a great horseshoe tossing team, and occasionally got on one another's nerves.
During one of those latter times, Bar invited Wanda in. She was an all-right girl… so far as girls went. She could bat better than I could, but I was a way better pitcher. Before long, Wanda and I began to grate. Bar was the oil that kept us from flaying one another.
By senior year, she'd managed to wedge her way so firmly between us, I wasn't even certain if Bar knew I was around any longer. I was flipping invisible to my best friend. We'd be doing something together, and things would be almost like old times when she'd show up and claim his attention. Pow. Just like that, I was invisible, man. Invisible.
A couple of months ago, I figured it had become physical between them. Bar never said as much, but he dropped hints. And Wanda became more defensive. I felt like a fifth-wheel and tried pulling away, but Bar wouldn't let me. I didn't understand it any better than Wanda did, but when the best friend I'd ever had wouldn't let go, no way could I stand on my own two legs and do it myself.
Wanda and Bar enrolled in a local college while I was going out of state, so the summer after graduation was heaven with a lot of torture thrown in. After the break was over, I'd be forcibly parted from my best-buddy-for-life. The thought hurt, but at least the invisibility factor would be ended. I'd be on my own forming new friendships. Midway through the summer break, I realized that same concept had finally struck Bar.
I have no idea if his awakening was a factor or not, but shortly after that, things changed. We went to a baseball game together—without Wanda. She was helping her mother shop. Then a friend's birthday bash rolled around with Wanda nowhere in sight. Not feeling good, apparently. Then came the Friday night Bar stood outside my window and yelled my name until my father woke me and told me to go shut him up.
He was soused. Broken up like I'd never seen him before. I no sooner settled in the passenger's seat in his car than he stifled a sob.
For two years now, she hadn't wanted to talk to anyone but Bar. Hell, she didn't even talk to me, and I was there practically all the time. Of course, Richard was a good-looking fellow and the captain of the baseball team.
I almost bit my tongue when he threw his arms around me and buried his head in my shoulder, sobbing as if he'd just received a death sentence.
Hope danced through me, prickling my insides. Did he mean it? Maybe he needed me now more than he needed her. Maybe we'd….
Whoa there, Mario Quincy Jones! Where was this going? A couple of years back I'd have liked to… To what? Get it on with Barkley Jelson? Yeah, I would have. Back then we were a couple of curious kids. That would have been innocent experimentation. But now? Now it would carry more meaning. Maybe more than I wanted. He shifted in the seat, tightening his grip on me.
Oh, Lord! What would I do if he made a move on me? Did I want him to? Yes. No. Maybe. From the way my nerve ends tingled and my mouth went dry, I likely hoped he would. But he must have come to his senses. He released me and leaned back in his own seat.
After planning a trip to the local swimming pool tomorrow, I got out of the car and stood brimming with happiness at having my best friend back, at no longer being invisible. Then as I watched him pull off down the street, I frowned into the night as something else tugged at me. Could it be regret at not taking advantage of a moment that would never come again?
We all have moments like this in our past, don't we? Moments we let pass and later regret or feel relieved over. Mario told me later that he heard Bar and Wanda got back together during the next semester. That was okay with him. He was forging new friendships and standing on his own two feet.
Please: Keep on reading. Keep on writing. And keep on submitting your work to publishers and agents. You have something to say… so say it.
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This deluxe official Nintendo costume comes with everything you need to look like Mario (no power-up required!), from his famous overalls and cap, to his curled up mustache and white gloves. It even comes with an inflatable belly, so you don't have to carb-load on pasta to give yourself Mario's trademark paunch. So suit up, stomp on some wild mushrooms while pretending they're Goombas, and relive those Mario-memories in the real world.


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After being disappointed with the current options for publishing content online, Jake Counsell created Criticl as a place to create quality content and engage in high minded discussion.
By Kimberlee Morrison
The early promise of the internet was the democratization of media. There was the ideal of the citizen journalist who would take part in gathering, reporting and analysing the news. But as online media matured, we found that the old media companies were adapting to the new medium, and new media companies operating in much the same fashion as their predecessors.
It was this very ideal of citizen journalism that inspired Jake Counsell and Claire Wagner to create Criticl. The mission: create a site where anyone could create an account, write thoughtful content, and the community would help the best content rise to the top.
Counsell said he was frustrated with sites like Medium because they're so isolated and if you don't have a following on Twitter, it's hard to build one on Medium. That means a lot of good content goes unnoticed and unread, Counsell told SocialTimes:
There's a lot of people today that can write really good content. It's up to people who own sites like Medium and Criticl to nurture good behavior and nurture good content creation.
Criticl takes on the challenge by offering a "dead simple" registration process and an algorithm designed to surface quality content without the help of moderators. Counsell said bad content rarely makes it to the front page, but if it does it's probably because the conversation attached to the content has value.
Quality content is determined algorithmically, using metrics that include views, up-vote-to-down-vote ratio, and the total number of comments. The goal is to expand the metrics, by using the up-vote-down-vote system to determine quality comments, which will also help determine the quality of the content overall. Counsell explained:
I want to empower the new generation of internet users to create deep, immersive and intelligent content. And I want all of that content to be met with a deep and immersive level of discourse.
Since launching just before the new year, Criticl has gained more than 4,000 registered users, with most users finding the site via Twitter promotion or through word-of-mouth. While there's no revenue sharing at present, Counsell said Criticl plans to use an advertising business model, using promoted posts. Eventually, the hope is to get get to a place where the site can also employ a revenue sharing model, where popular writers are compensated for their content.
In the end, Counsell said his vision for Criticl is to become a legitimate source of news and information online. Paying writers through an affiliate or partnership program is a key part of attracting real journalists to create content on the site. His hope is to empower more people to become citizen journalists:
It's really crazy that we get our news from such a small group of people.
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This article was written By John Berra on 15 Mar 2012, and is filed under Uncategorized.
About John Berra
John Berra is lecturer in Film and Language Studies at Renmin University of China. He is the editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Japan (Intellect, 2010/12/15), co-editor of World Film Locations: Beijing (Intellect, 2012) and World Film Locations: Shanghai (Intellect, 2014). He has also contributed to Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema (BFI, 2014), Ozu International: Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura (EUP, 2019).
Chaos (Japan, 1999)
Japanese noir has rarely been more seductive than Chaos, a skilfully-crafted thriller by Ring (1998) director Hideo Nakata, who briefly leaves the realms of the supernatural to focus on a sexually-charged blackmail scam. Gullible handyman Goro (Masato Hagiwara) becomes involved in a risky scheme when he meets Satomi (Miki Nakatani), the beautiful but unhappy wife of wealthy businessman Komiyama (Ken Mitsuishi). Satomi is convinced that her husband is having an affair, and Goro agrees to 'kidnap' her as a means of determining whether her spouse still has marital feelings based on whether or not he pays the ransom money. Goro ties-up Satomi in a cramped apartment to add authenticity to their plan, and then arranges the drop. When the husband receives the kidnapper's demand, he contacts the police who begin to investigate. Upon returning to the apartment, Goro discovers that Satomi has been murdered and that he has been framed for the crime. Shortly after disposing of the body in the woods, Goro sees the 'dead' woman on the street. Now aware that he is a pawn in a dangerous game, he tries to turn the tables and clear his conscience. In-keeping with its exploration of criminality, Chaos pilfers from a range of suitable sources: the hard-boiled fiction of James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Vertigo (1958), and Brian De Palma's implausible but stylistically compelling early-1980s thrillers. However, this is a particularly Japanese spin on tried-and-tested genre territory, largely due to Nakata's predilection for kinky role playing.
The title of the film refers not only to the state of flux that the principal characters find themselves in as the kidnapping plot escalates beyond their control, but to the manner in which Nakata arranges the story: flashbacks may initially cause some confusion for the viewer as Chaos becomes a cinematic jigsaw puzzle, although the motivations of all concerned are eventually revealed. It's a variation on the multiple-viewpoint structure that Akira Kurosawa pioneered with Rashomon (1950), but was popularised much later by such genre-savvy American independent filmmakers as Quentin Tarantino and Bryan Singer. When remaking East Asian films was in vogue in Hollywood following the success of Gore Verbinski's The Ring (2002), a new version of Chaos was rumoured with Robert De Niro and Benicio Del Toro suggested for the respective roles of the businessman and the blackmailer, while Jonathon Glazer of Sexy Beast (2000) fame was set to direct. It may have been a more appropriate remake choice than Nakata's Dark Water (2002), which was awkwardly transplanted from Tokyo to New York by Walter Salles in 2005. Indeed, Chaos uses recognisable tropes (corpse disposal, relationships defined by mutual suspicion, the city shrouded in heavy rain) and familiar archetypes (the cold husband, the femme fatale, the morally-compromised lover) that would not be lost in translation. Yet while these stock genre elements could have been retained, the sadomasochist desire between Goro and Satomi, which only intensifies after the kidnapper realises that he has been deceived, would surely have been diluted.
An extended scene in which Goro adds 'realism' to the staged kidnapping by tying up and harassing Satomi is all the more uncomfortable for the matter-of-fact manner in which it is handled; Goro seems to be taking control of the situation – he provides Satomi with a set of rules to follow in order for their plan to work without complications, and makes sure that the knots are as tight as possible – but she clearly has a hold over her 'captor' which transcends physical entrapment. It is in these situations that Nakata's recurrent themes of anxiety and fear are pulled into a more sexualised context, with the dangers of the unknown lurking within desperate human beings rather than on a cursed video cassette. The elliptical climax, which is prompted by a miscommunication during foreplay, emphasises that Goro and Satomi cannot trust one another, or that she is at least unable to have a straight-forward relationship once the sheer thrill of acting out high-stakes scenarios has worn off. As such, the mechanics of the story actually become secondary to sustaining atmosphere with regular Nakata composer Kenji Kawai contributing an exotic, percussion-based score that evokes the primal instincts that come into play when one false move could mean imprisonment. As with many thrillers that rely on sudden twists to maintain interest, Chaos has its fair share of inconsistencies, but Nakata weaves such an intoxicating web of amoral activity that it is easy to become immersed in its ingenious labyrinth of cross and double-cross.
Chaos is screening this Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at the Japan Society in New York City as part of the Society's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" film program. For more information and tickets, go to the Japan Society page for this screening here.
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Q: Python/HTML: UnicodeDecodeError I'm working on Flask (which has probably nothing to do with this problem) web app which uses python. I'm getting this error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 5: invalid continuation byte . I put # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- on the top of the file but still getting the same. This is a part of the code:
s+="Searching results for: \"%s \"

".encode("utf-8") % (pattern)

    for i in orderedList[0:10]:
        a=a+1
        res=(SC.dictionaryMemory.get(i))

        try:
            resString= ', '.join(res)
        except:
            print("Chyba!")

        with open('somefile.txt', 'a') as the_file:
            the_file.write(resString)

        s+="%s: %s,
".decode("utf-8") % (i, resString.decode("utf-8"))

    return (s.decode("utf-8") if (len(orderedList)>0) else "Nebyli nalezeny zadne vyrazy.".encode("utf-8")))

And this is s traceback I get on html page:
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1836, in __call__
return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1820, in wsgi_app
response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e))
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1403, in handle_exception
reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app
response = self.full_dispatch_request()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request
rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception
reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1475, in full_dispatch_request
rv = self.dispatch_request()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1461, in dispatch_request
return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
File "D:\workspace\AproximateSearchPython2\WebApp.py", line 74, in search
s+="%s: %s,
".decode("utf-8") % (i, resString.decode("utf-8"))
File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 5: invalid continuation byte

The problem is in my opinion in content of resString. In somefile.txt is this:
společné, obecný, veřejný, společný, prostý, obyčejný, obvyklý, obecný, společný, běľný

Will you give me some advice please?
EDIT: I changed decode to encode, but the same problem appeared.
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1836, in __call__
return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1820, in wsgi_app
response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e))
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1403, in handle_exception
reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app
response = self.full_dispatch_request()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request
rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception
reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1475, in full_dispatch_request
rv = self.dispatch_request()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1461, in dispatch_request
return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
File "D:\workspace\AproximateSearchPython2\WebApp.py", line 75, in search
s+="%s: %s,
".encode("utf-8") % (i, resString.encode("utf-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 5: invalid continuation byte

A: s+= unicode("""Searching results for: "{pattern}"

""").encode("utf-8").format(pattern=pattern)