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Laurent Cantet: "It is terrible that you have to choose between the ultraliberalism of Macron or the fascism of Le Pen"
Laurent Cantet (Melle, France, 60 years old) realized that he was politically aware when he was only 8 years old "perhaps because I come from a family of militants". After a childhood marked by May 68 and a youth of student movements, he soon realized that his left-wing ideas led him to feel brotherhood with immigrants and without papers, but that he could not fit into a party: "My soul It doesn't work with that compromise." He found refuge in social cinema, which he conquered in 1999 with Human Resources, a devastating critique of the contemporary world of work. She now casts her gaze on social networks in Arthur Rambothe story of a teenager of North African origin raised in a banlieue who succeeds in the elite Parisian literary scene but whose career is cut short by his past history on Twitter. We meet Cantet in Madrid in the same week that France decides its political future.
Ask. The debate that in 1968 took place in assemblies today on social networks. Why do you have such a negative view of them?
Response. I don't want to sound totally reactionary. I am aware of the importance of social networks for militants who organize movements, who exchange ideas, but I have the impression that on Twitter one expresses himself in any way: you have to react very quickly, you don't think before writing. I think that tendency to think in slogans is part of contemporary culture. And that simplification of thought scares me.
P. Why do even adults become infantilized?
R. I think we are not adults in front of social networks. That's exactly what the movie talks about. We have to work on trying to understand what role we have in this machine, what place they occupy in our lives and what violence they generate in a public debate. And I think we haven't done any of that yet. It is as if we are still learning to use them.
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P. With his film it is concluded that the networks favor the rise of the extreme right. The rise of fascism in Europe, however, occurred at a time when there were no networks. How do you explain that?
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R. Extremism of any kind works on very simple ideas, I would even say simplistic. When you have a complex idea, a few characters are not enough to express it. And that is why networks are a perfect tool for extremism. It is not necessary to take into account the complexity of thought.
P. But are there real well-founded reasons for the discontent and anger that circulate on the networks or are they a morbid invention?
R. There are very good reasons for discontent. Today's young people, like Karim in the film, explain it to the beast and although I don't share the attitude, I understand the anger. This is also why networks are a true reflection of modern society.
There are very good reasons for discontent. Today's young people explain it to the beast and although I don't share the attitude, I understand the anger
P. Who do you think has contributed more to legitimizing hate speech in France, Marine Le Pen or Michel Houellebecq?
R. For me, there is no such dichotomy. Marine Le Pen wants to take control of the country, which is not the case with Houellebecq at all. A political conviction has nothing to do with exercising freedom of expression. I think you can write the psychology of a serial killer without wanting to kill anyone. And it is also interesting to look at the world with all its excesses to understand it better.
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P. There is always an important effort in his work to explain the origins and roots of anger and hatred. Do you not believe in the possibility that evil simply exists?
R. I don't care if it exists. What interests me is trying to understand the mechanisms of people and to achieve this I try not to enter into moral judgments. As Renoir says, everyone has their reasons. And it is those reasons that I want to study. It may be very materialistic of me, I don't know.
P. What does the photo of Macron lying on the sofa mean?
R. I think that Macron has a very elitist image, of being well above the people because he himself feels essential. It's a way of telling people: look, I'm like you, I throw myself on a sofa, I'm not wearing a tie, it shows the hair on my chest. It is something very calculated by his communication consultants.
P. At what point do you think the power of the people began to move so far away in France?
R. Mitterrand stayed in power for a long time and there began a discontent that settled. The left-wing militants realized that with a left-wing president it is more delicate to make demands. Then came the successive social crises that installed discouragement. And finally came Hollande, who, for me, destroyed left-wing thought, mixing it with right-wing thought, intentionally and dishonestly creating confusion. His catchphrase was "Finance is my enemy"…and he went to great lengths to satisfy the bankers! The population feels betrayed by politicians, not only in France, everywhere, but young people begin to judge the judge and begin to try to make his point of view heard and that reassures me.
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P. The leading actor in the film came out of a banlieu in real life and now they offer you contracts with brands. To what extent has the luxury industry turned the world to the right?
R. The need to be part of the consumer society is transforming even people's thinking. Now four-year-olds know about the existence of a specific brand of sneakers. It is a way of existing and defining oneself that until recently was unthinkable and it terrifies me quite a bit. We are toys in the hands of commercial mechanisms that are eating us.
P. And how have you managed to get your own children to escape the clutches of the consumer society, so present in France?
R. Not attaching any importance to such things myself, I guess. But these issues are also social markers. Sometimes luxury matters more to the marginal kids of the banlieues than the privileged.
R. Are you afraid of what may happen tomorrow?
R. I am convinced that Macron will win. The terrible thing is that the word of the left no longer has any echo and that the dilemma is to choose between the ultra-liberalism of Macron or the fascism of Le Pen.
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I have been pleased to see a court ruling that has secured a £2.7m settlement for my client more than 10 years after her divorce.
The judgement in favour of Nicola Briers sends out a clear message that people must declare their true financial position or face the consequences, even years later.
The case has also highlighted the need for a formal court order to rule on any financial settlement following a split.
When Mrs Briers and her former husband Glenn separated in 2002 after 18 years of marriage, Mr Briers' fashion company, which owns the Lambretta brand, was turning over £1m a year.
Following their divorce in 2005, Mr Briers gave his ex-wife £150,000 to pay off the mortgage and she kept the family home in Willenhall. She also received a support payment of £10,000 a year and child maintenance, but no financial order was made.
In 2015, a judge sitting at the Family Court in Birmingham ruled that Mr Briers should pay a lump sum of £1.6m to his former partner and transfer 25 per cent of a Standard Life pension, the Standard Life policy and his Standard Life shares to her - totalling around £2.7m.
Mr Briers appealed the decision, claiming his ex-wife should only be given a lump sum of £500,000, but judges at the Court of Appeal dismissed his claim, meaning the mother of three will now receive the £2.7m payout.
I am very pleased with the ruling in favour of Mrs Briers, which recognised that a full and final settlement of the couple's financial affairs had never been concluded.
Although 10 years passed between the divorce and Mrs Briers' application for a financial remedy order, the key issue here is not that this is a retrospective application.
The message here is that unless you give full and frank disclosure of your financial situation at the time of divorce, a court can revisit this, even 10 years down the line. The court found that Mr Briers' failure to honestly disclose his assets meant that Mrs Briers has not given her informed consent to the settlement.
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Pennant FY 162
Built by Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.)
Launched 30 Dec 1936
Commissioned Nov 1939
Completed in March 1937.
Taken over by the Admiralty on 1 September 1939.
Displacement: 501 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.
Sold in 1945.
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1 Skr. Charles Lamb Buchan, RNR 10 Nov 1939 Mar 1941
2 T/S.Lt. Frederick Lorraine Mackenzie, RNVR Mar 1941 Mar 1942
3 T/Lt. Christopher Pawley, RNVR Mar 1942 Feb 1944
4 T/Lt. Denis Hugh Crampton, RNR Feb 1944 4 Aug 1944
5 T/Lt. Arthur Robert James Tilston, DSC, SANF(V) 4 Aug 1944 Jun 1945
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HMS H 28 (Lt. A.W. Langridge, RN) departed Plymouth for Portsmouth. She was escorted by HMS Arctic Explorer (T/Lt. F.L. Mackenzie, RNVR). (1)
HrMs O 10 (Lt. J.H. Geijs, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Lough Foyle together with HMS Monkshood (Lt.Cdr. J.E.R. Wilford, RNR), HMS Dahlia (T/Lt. M.S. Work, RNR), HMS Egret (Cdr. C.R.S. Farquhar, RN), HMS Fishguard (Lt.Cdr. H.L. Pryse, RNR) and HMS Arctic Explorer (T/Lt. C. Pawley, RNVR). (2)
HrMs O 10 (Lt. J.H. Geijs, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Lough Foyle together with HMS Arctic Explorer (T/Lt. C. Pawley, RNVR), HMS Beagle (Lt.Cdr. R.T. White, DSO and Bar, RN), USS Temptress (Lt.Cdr. W.H. Kirvan, USN) and USS Fury (Lt. N. Adair, Jr., USN). (2)
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Jaguar and Land Rover cars are joining the fight against superbugs and killing them in their cars' air conditioning units before they can infect their occupants.
The automaker is fitting future models of its vehicles with an ultraviolet light (UVC) to sterilise the interior of the cars.
UV lights have been used in the medical world for more than 70 years and is effective at killing pathogens - including bacteria and viruses.
High energy rays from UV light sterilise the contents of the air conditioning system before it is pumped around the car's cabin, reducing the risk of infection.
UV technology is already used for disinfecting water, filtering air and sterilising surfaces but the move to implement it in a car would be a first for the industry.
Exposing pathogens to UVC destroys bonds within the DNA of the harmful microorganism and renders it useless and harmless to humans.
Healthcare and maintaining the well-being of the driver and other occupants is a growing priority for Land Rover and Jaguar, who are owned by the same firm.
Its current heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, which are available in the all-electric Jaguar I-PACE and Range Rover Sport, uses high voltage to manipulate air particles.
The firm claims trillions of nano-sized negatively charged particles (ions) deactivate pathogens by forming larger particles.
These are then trapped by the car's filters and discarded.
Ion technology such as this, Jaguar Land Rover claims, is also effective at getting rid of smells and allergens.
The firm claims UVC technology in cars would be able to stop the spread of cold and flu while also reducing the transmission of major superbugs by up to 30 per cent.
Immunology expert, Dr Hellmut Münch, CEO at Medical Enzyme Research Association, added: 'The rise of superbugs and allergens is one of the largest threats we face as a species today.
'Investment in immunology is vital in ensuring that our immune systems stay ahead of the race against microorganisms, which are evolving far quicker than traditional pharmaceuticals can keep pace with.
Antibiotics have been doled out unnecessarily by GPs and hospital staff for decades, fueling once harmless bacteria to become superbugs.
The World Health Organization has previously warned if nothing is done the world was headed for a 'post-antibiotic' era.
It claimed common infections, such as chlamydia, will become killers without immediate answers to the growing crisis.
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As the US moves toward war, some teachers are offering their students extra instruction in the fine art of making peace.
As the United States inches closer to war with Iraq, some teachers are seizing the opportunity to capture student attention with history and geography classes that analyze the conflict.
For others, these tense times are the perfect moment to delve more deeply into "peace education."
At many schools, teachers informally probe student attitudes and provoke discussion. But some schools are experimenting with a variety of more structured approaches.
At Santa Fe High School, for instance, Karey Thorne teaches a semester-long course called "Peace Jam." The curriculum - which has been taught to about 13,000 students worldwide since it was developed six years ago in Denver - teaches students about both individual peacemakers and peaceable societies throughout history. It also highlights the work of Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
Ms. Thorne, southwest coordinator for Peace Jam, challenges her students by asking: "Is peace simply the absence of war? What else do you need?"
While most of her students are quick to condemn the push toward a US entrance into war, some are surprised to realize that concepts of war and peace apply to their own lives as well.
"When people get into angry positions and polarize one another, it doesn't matter whom they're against, President Bush or Saddam Hussein - they're warring," Thorne says.
"To create peace, you have to have peace in yourself."
During the course, Thorne introduces her students to the ideas of thinkers such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. "King was not carrying any hostility, and that's why he was so powerful."
In last year's Peace Jam class, a student saw her personal life transformed by applying some of the concepts she was learning. "Mariana had always been in gangs," Thorne says. Ideas put forward in the class about a more peaceful way of living were at first startling to her.
"She couldn't believe it was possible not to react in anger when provoked, but then she tried it," Thorne says. "She didn't respond when girls in the gang began to harass her. It was like magic; suddenly Mariana realized that she could be in control."
At Hamilton High School in Memphis, Tenn., teacher Clementhia Poole includes Peace Jam in the school's literary-club activities. The focus is largely on introducing the teens to as many different cultures as possible. As a result, her students, most of them African-American, sponsored a multicultural luncheon with another high school. It featured songs, dances, and foods from 19 ethnic groups.
"Anything that offers cultural awareness will promote peace," Ms. Poole says, "because basically people are afraid of what they don't know."
Across the state, Kirk Lafone introduces Peace Jam activities into his social ethics class at the private Webb School of Knoxville, where the student body is largely upper-class and white. For these students, an aspect of "peace education" has been to look beyond their privileges.
Last year's class developed a project in a nearby low-income Appalachian town. "What we wanted to do was create relationships that were not based on charity, but on mutual respect," Lafone says.
For Michael Marciano, who teaches at St. Pius High School in Albuquerque, N.M., discussions of peace are more closely linked to religion.
Mr. Marciano teaches a course called "Social Gospel." The walls of his classroom bear pictures of Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Mother Teresa.
He challenges students to consider how religious teaching holds up in the face of today's conflicts.
"Do you think Jesus was weak?" he asks when students insist that force must be used to confront a figure like Saddam Hussein.
"I want students to make evaluations based on what Jesus lived and taught, which may differ from the agenda of the US government."
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Author Bonus: 22a) Holly Jolly Secrets/I Remember You (Adventure Time)
Hey, guess what? YET ANOTHER ADD-ON. This makes 5, and this one's actually a double. Aren't you folks lucky that you're getting so much more content that I'm pretty sure nobody reads? (Update: Okay, so, I do have readers now. And they're all smart and attractive.). While one of these, "Holly Jolly Secrets," did air before I wrote the original list, despite its merit, it didn't become one of the best episodes ever until its emotional set-up was finally, truly, cashed in on by "I Remember You." Since this is an add-on, I'm going to just go ahead and pair them. It's my list, I do what I want.
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Adventure Time started as the single most generic fantasy show ever. It takes place in the enchanted land of Ooo, which is populated largely by princesses, magic creatures, and
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whatever random thing can have a face drawn on it. However, it also is one of the best examples ever of the term "Cerebus Syndrome." Cerebus Syndrome is named after a comic called Cerebus the Aardvark which started off as light and fun stories of a mischievous aardvark, then eventually revealed that all of the light and fun stuff had actually had huge consequences resulting in literal genocide, and ends with the main character being dragged off to what appears to be Hell. Basically, it's when something moves from "kids' show" to "adult," or, if you're from my generation, it moves from "90s Don Bluth" to "80s Acid-tripping Don Bluth." The whole process of tone shift starts when it's revealed that Ooo is not a different world, it's actually Earth after the "Great Mushroom War," which is revealed to be the nuclear war that blew a visible chunk out of the world and poisoned everything. Again, kids' show.
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The main characters are: Finn the Human (Jeremy Shada), a young boy, later a young man, originally believed to be the only human; Jake the Dog (John DiMaggio), his shapeshifting "brother;" Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the science savvy but ethically-challenged-at-times ruler of the Candy Kingdom; Marceline the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson), the 1000-year-old half-demon rock goddess; BMO (Niki Yang), an artificial intelligence robot with a child-like mind; and the Ice King (Tom Kenny), a crazy wizard with ice powers and an obsession with kidnapping princesses.
"Holly Jolly Secrets" starts off with Finn and Jake digging up a box of VHS tapes that the Ice King had buried. They return home to watch them, only for the Ice King, who doesn't remember burying them, to find out that Finn and Jake are watching "secret tapes" and wants to join them, unaware that they're his. The episode mostly focuses on Finn and Jake listening to these tapes, which turn out to be Ice King's boring video diary, while Ice King schemes to get into their house, using various Christmas themes (despite the fact that Christmas doesn't exist in Ooo). Eventually, however, they get to the last tape, and the episode suddenly shifts. The last tape shows a man who vaguely resembles the Ice King. The man identifies himself as archeologist Simon Petrikov, a man who bought a crown and put it on as a joke for his girlfriend. It turns out that the crown is cursed, and, while it gives him ice magic, it also drives him slowly insane. As the tape plays out, we are shown a man slowly losing his grip on reality, his form shifting more and more to resembling the Ice King, and the background showing us the apocalyptic war, until finally, Simon is shown screaming that he knows he's going to "do things that hurt [people]", and he begs their forgiveness because he can't help it. At the same time, we're shown that he also is screaming for his lost "princess," his fiancé Betty, explaining why he feels a compulsion to kidnap princesses.
Now, up until this point, the audience didn't really know much about the Ice King except that he's weird and often the antagonist. In this episode, we find out that he's literally the victim of something out of his control, and he's screaming for help from within the labyrinth of his mind. A later episode shows that this is literal: His mind lives inside a maze in the crown that he cannot leave. It's rare for any show to so completely re-contextualize a character, and this show does it in 30 minutes. An amazing accomplishment, managing to show that the villain is just another victim, and reminding the audience that the people we think are evil may just be in pain. This would be a fine set of laurels to rest upon with Ice King, but the writers decided to one-up themselves hard in the episode "I Remember You."
"I Remember You" starts with the Ice King wanting to write a song in order to get the princesses to like him. This is a weird, but childish premise. He then decides to grab a bunch of his "old lyric notes for inspiration" and solicit Marceline the Vampire Queen for help. When he arrives, he is confronted by Finn and Jake who try to drive him off before being told by her that Ice King can stay. Finn and Jake leave, and Ice King starts to sing a song about his love of princesses, which slowly devolves into him crying about how alone and unloved he feels before randomly lashing out. Marceline tells him to "stop acting crazy," and the Ice King flees her, scared. Marcy sings the song "Nuts" which reveals that she has spent 1000 years periodically trying to hang out with him, but that his insanity inevitably drives her away until he tracks her down again. But, despite that, she still loves him and is happy to see him, leading her to question if she's actually the one who's crazy for her lack of self-preservation instincts. She then confronts him with his real identity, Simon Petrikov, only to find that despite his predisposition to find her, he doesn't actually remember their history together or even his own.
Okay, so, this is pretty sad so far, but not into "I'm going to drink another beer and two shots after writing this review" sad. But, unfortunately for my liver, Marceline then finds that, among the papers that Ice King brought over is a letter addressed to her as a child, apologizing for what he is going to do. Ice King, not realizing it's a letter, convinces her to sing it, leading to one of the most heartbreaking songs I've ever heard, including the chorus "Please forgive me for whatever I do… when I don't remember you." The audience is then treated to a flashback of a child Marcy standing alone in the wreckage of the nuclear apocalypse, being given a stuffed animal by a still only partially cursed Simon Petrikov, with us knowing what he'll eventually deal with.
It's Alzheimer's. The episode is about Alzheimer's. The writers may not have intended it, but they nailed it. Ice King's condition, while it makes him feel sad and alone, is more torturous on those who love him and have to see how he is just an unstable shadow of his former self than it is on him. You will hold out hope that maybe they can see you and remember you, and maybe for a few minutes you can feel like they do, but then they slide back into delirium and it breaks your heart all over again. Sometimes they'll be afraid of you because you're a stranger to them. Sometimes you'll see them believe that there's nobody who loves or cares about them because they just don't remember it. And sometimes you'll be standing in front of someone, knowing that they're here, but not really here. You've lost them without losing them. This episode does in 12 minutes what entire books on the subject have trouble doing. If you aren't heartbroken at the end, I don't know if you're human.
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package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.lookup;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LogEvent;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.Plugin;

/**
 * Looks up values from the log event.
 */
@Plugin(name = "event", category = StrLookup.CATEGORY)
public class EventLookup extends AbstractLookup {

    /**
     * Looks up the value from the logging event.
     * @param event The current LogEvent.
     * @param key  the key to be looked up.
     * @return The value of the specified log event field.
     */
    @Override
    public String lookup(final LogEvent event, final String key) {
        if (event == null) {
            return null;
        }
        switch (key) {
            case "Marker": {
                return event.getMarker() != null ? event.getMarker().getName() : null;
            }
            case "ThreadName": {
                return event.getThreadName();
            }
            case "Level": {
                return event.getLevel().toString();
            }
            case "ThreadId": {
                return Long.toString(event.getThreadId());
            }
            case "Timestamp": {
                return Long.toString(event.getTimeMillis());
            }
            case "Exception": {
                if (event.getThrown() != null) {
                    return event.getThrown().getClass().getSimpleName();
                }
                if (event.getThrownProxy() != null) {
                    return event.getThrownProxy().getName();
                }
                return null;
            }
            case "Logger": {
                return event.getLoggerName();
            }
            case "Message": {
                return event.getMessage().getFormattedMessage();
            }
            default: {
                return null;
            }
        }
    }
}

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George Nelson Edwards, M.D. (1830–1868) was an English writer and physician.

Life
Edwards was the son of a surgeon, was born at Eye, Suffolk, in 1830, and received his school education in part at the grammar school of Yarmouth, and in part at that of Beccles. He obtained one of the studentships in medicine endowed by Tancred, a Yorkshire squire, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.B. in 1851, and after studying at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, obtained the license in medicine then given by the university of Cambridge in 1854, and became M.D. in 1859.

He was elected assistant-physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1860, was secretary to the medical council of the hospital from 14 January 1865 to 9 February 1867, and was in 1866 elected lecturer on forensic medicine in the medical school. He also held the office of medical registrar, and was elected physician to the hospital 23 January 1867, but did not long enjoy that office. One day, while going round the wards, he fell down in an uræmic convulsion, was moved to his own house, a victim of chronic Bright's disease. He grew blind so gradually that he did not know when he had totally ceased to see. A physician who had been at Caius College with him used constantly to visit him, and one day found him sitting before a window through which a bright sun was shining on his face. 'Please draw up the blind,' said Edwards, unconscious that the atrophy of his optic discs was complete.

He died 6 December 1868.

Works
He edited the first three volumes of the 'St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports,' 1865–7, and published in 1862 'The Examination of the Chest in a Series of Tables.' He described (St, Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, i. 141 ) two cases of poisoning by mercuric methide, the symptoms of 'which were then new to medicine, and also wrote a paper 'On the Value of Palpation in the Diagnosis of Tubercular Disease of the Lungs' (ib. ii. 216).

References

1830 births
1868 deaths
19th-century English medical doctors

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If you don't have an independent network security monitor working on your server, you're taking a huge security risk. Because of the importance of your company's network, and its daily functions routing e-mail, accepting electronic orders, and housing customer databases, you'll want to make sure your server continues running smoothly. Because of that, you simply can't afford to run the basic security tools that come built in to your network.
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A network security monitor is especially indispensable for those who do not have a 24 hour staff. Most medium-sized businesses (and even many large corporations) simply don't have the luxury of a full-time, around-the-clock technical staff. Because of this limitation, it's important that you have a network security monitor guarding your network when no one else can.
Luckily, you can purchase a network security monitor online for a nominal fee. These monitors will generate reports in plain English, as well as log sessions and activity on your network.


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Panasonic Lumix FX100 review
Is this the perfect compact from Panasonic?
By tech.co.uk staff published 27 August 07
You might have thought the megapixel war was over but Panasonic has reignited it with the FX100. This is more than just a muscle-flexing exercise, though, as the image quality is superb. But for photographers who do want this level of resolution the FX100 is too basic
Excellent build, and a great lens
Good image quality, with little noise
Feature set could be better
We've all seen a story about a guy who has spent the last five years in his garage squashing the engine from a fighter jet into a Mini. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 is a bit like that.
Under its hood you'll find the equivalent of that jet engine - a pumping 12MP sensor. That's as many megapixels as you'll find in a Nikon D2X or a Canon EOS 5D, enough to produce 34MB files that will make quality A3 prints: Panasonic claims A2 prints ''with spectacular results''.
Fortunately, the FX100 doesn't look like its been knocked-up in a garage. Panasonic has been making some of the most well-built and desirable small cameras of the last few years and the FX100 is by no means an exception. The camera we tested came in gun-metal silver and oozed quality.
If you're going to squeeze this many megapixels into a tiny body you need a good lens to get the best out of it and Panasonic once again uses quality Leica glass. Even at the 28mm wide-angle end, barrel distortion is hardly noticeable.
Sharpness is excellent and the autofocus is generally good but there are two disappointing aspects to the lens. The first is the macro facility, which doesn't enable you to get very close, and the other is the plodding nature of the zoom.
Away from the lens and the megapixels, the functions of the FX100 are basic. In the 'normal' mode you can alter the ISO, use exposure compensation, set auto bracketing and change the white balance. If that level of complexity foxes you, then you can use the simple mode where even a hardened Luddite will find satisfaction. Despite this ease of operation, if you have fat fingers, this isn't the camera for you - the buttons are really tiny.
Keep the noise down
While there's been no doubt about the high build quality of the Lumix range, the images they produce haven't always been up to scratch. At sensitivities up to ISO 200, they perform perfectly well but above that horrible things begin to happen. In some models this shows itself with unacceptable amounts of noise, while in others the noise reduction is so intense that all you're left with is a mushy lack of detail.
Panasonic has taken on board the criticism and the FX100 has a new, larger 1/1.72-inch CCD that promises superior image quality. Panasonic says of the camera: ''Delicate flower petals, subtle skin textures, the changing hues of a sunset - the FX100 captures the nuances of images such as these with breathtaking clarity and detail.''
There are definite improvements here at high ISOs, but it's still a long way from the breathtaking detail promised. The FX100 takes perfectly good images at ISO 400, even up to 800, but above that noise becomes a real issue. At ISO 1600 you not only get a lot of noise in the shadows but also ugly noise in the colour.
Keep below ISO 400 and the FX100 is capable of producing excellent image quality. The ISO 80 image of the bus was printed to A3+ (13x19-inch) and the quality is quite simply stunning. This quality does pose a question; who exactly is the FX100 aimed at? Panasonic seems unsure and its competitors have tailored their cameras better to their individual markets.
The basic point-and-shoot nature of the FX100, coupled with an excellent lens and crisp LCD, makes it a perfect pocket snapper for most occasional photographers. But how many of these really need a 12MP compact when they probably never print an image larger than A5? And if you're an experienced photographer looking for a high-quality compact, then you'll find the basic nature of the FX100 a bit too limiting.
If owning one of the smallest, most stylish, megapixel-loaded cameras is important to you then you are going to love the FX100. If all you are looking for is a pocket-sized camera to take on holiday, then you're better looking elsewhere.
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If base is (locale_t) 0, a new object is created.
If base refers to valid existing locale object (i.e., an object returned by a previous call to newlocale() or duplocale(3)), then that object is modified by the call. If the call is successful, the contents of base are unspecified (in particular, the object referred to by base may be freed, and a new object created). Therefore, the caller should ensure that it stops using base before the call to newlocale(), and should subsequently refer to the modified object via the reference returned as the function result. If the call fails, the contents of base remain valid and unchanged.
If base is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE (see duplocale(3)), or is not (locale_t) 0 and is not a valid locale object handle, the behavior is undefined.
The category_mask argument is a bit mask that specifies the locale categories that are to be set in a newly created locale object or modified in an existing object. The mask is constructed by a bitwise OR of the constants LC_ADDRESS_MASK, LC_CTYPE_MASK, LC_COLLATE_MASK, LC_IDENTIFICATION_MASK, LC_MEASUREMENT_MASK, LC_MESSAGES_MASK, LC_MONETARY_MASK, LC_NUMERIC_MASK, LC_NAME_MASK, LC_PAPER_MASK, LC_TELEPHONE_MASK, and LC_TIME_MASK. Alternatively, the mask can be specified as LC_ALL_MASK, which is equivalent to ORing all of the preceding constants.
For each category specified in category_mask, the locale data from locale will be used in the object returned by newlocale(). If a new locale object is being created, data for all categories not specified in category_mask is taken from the default ("POSIX") locale.
A minimal locale environment for C language programs.
An implementation-defined native environment corresponding to the values of the LC_* and LANG environment variables (see locale(7)).
The freelocale() function deallocates the resources associated with locobj, a locale object previously returned by a call to newlocale() or duplocale(3). If locobj is LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or is not valid locale object handle, the results are undefined.
Once a locale object has been freed, the program should make no further use of it.
On success, newlocale() returns a handle that can be used in calls to duplocale(3), freelocale(), and other functions that take a locale_t argument. On error, newlocale() returns (locale_t) 0, and sets errno to indicate the cause of the error.
One or more bits in category_mask do not correspond to a valid locale category.
locale is not a string pointer referring to a valid locale.
Insufficient memory to create a locale object.
The newlocale() and freelocale() functions first appeared in version 2.3 of the GNU C library.
Each locale object created by newlocale() should be deallocated using freelocale(3).
The program below takes up to two command-line arguments, which each identify locales. The first argument is required, and is used to set the LC_NUMERIC category in a locale object created using newlocale(). The second command-line argument is optional; if it is present, it is used to set the LC_TIME category of the locale object.
Displaying a floating-point number with a fractional part. This output will be affected by the LC_NUMERIC setting. In many European-language locales, the fractional part of the number is separated from the integer part using a comma, rather than a period.
Displaying the date. The format and language of the output will be affected by the LC_TIME setting.
The following shell sessions show some example runs of this program.
$ LC_ALL=mi_NZ ./a.out fr_FR ""


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Weiner: The Saddest Sex Scandal of Them All
June 16, 2016 by Dr. Jason Johnson
With a name like Anthony Weiner, a sex scandal was bound to happen. At least that was the reaction of most Americans to the Weiner sex debacle in 2011 when New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner came to national attention as the center of America's first social media sex scandal.
However, in the new Sundance documentary Weiner, by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, there is no rehashing of the past or even a condemnation of the present. The documentary, screening now in art house theaters across the nation, gives a surprisingly in-depth and sad look at how sex scandals may be entertaining to the press and the public but have a devastating impact on the real people who go through them. You may go into Weiner looking for a laugh and some political schadenfreude, but you will finish wondering why anybody ever bothers to run for political office anymore.
Weiner has an easygoing camera style that brings you right into the story from the beginning, whether you know much about politics or not. This is the biggest project by Kriegman and Steinberg to date (although Kriegman once worked on MTV's excellent Made series), and it shows. They don't wow you with bells and whistles but do get you right into the story, splicing clips of Weiner's rise to fame and political power with present-day interviews of him reflecting on the documentary.
The film begins with a montage of just how powerful Anthony Weiner had become from his election to Congress in 1999 to his resignation in 2011. He blew up in the heyday of liberal-media pushback against the George W. Bush administration. Weiner, at his best, was a hot take machine, brash, funny and always pushing the Democratic (and his own) agenda. Air America radio needed someone to attack the Bush tax cuts? Anthony Weiner was there. Keith Olbermann needed a progressive voice on the Affordable Care Act? Weiner was right there on MSNBC. Weiner was also a savvy user of social media when most members of Congress were still on flip phones and Myspace.
"[Weiner] was unique in that he was very talented as a politician in the sense of his ability to use the tools of modern media. That really did set him apart," said Kriegman, one of the film's directors. "He became a prominent voice in the Democratic Party because he knew how to speak in a way that went viral on YouTube."
All of this makes the sex scandal that took him down initially in 2011 all the more ironic. Weiner was busted for sending pictures of his penis to women over Twitter, a scandal that eventually led to his resignation. The Weiner documentary begins in 2013 when the former congressman is planning a political comeback by running for mayor of New York City.
Like all good documentaries, you are taken for a ride on the subject's roller coaster of a life in unexpected and interesting ways. When Weiner starts running for mayor, he takes the jokes about his past indiscretions in stride, and you see that many voters actually want to hear what he has to say, remembering that he was a pretty effective member of Congress. In the film, his wife, Huma Abedin (the longtime personal assistant to Hillary Clinton), regularly comes up from Washington, D.C., to campaign with her husband and help him move past his former scandal. All of it is working well (he was doing well in the polls) until the other shoe drops.
Apparently, Weiner never stopped slipping into DMs despite his claims that he had cleaned up his act. Just as his campaign started, pictures and texts surfaced showing that a year after his apology and resignation, he was posing under the pseudonym "Carlos Danger" and sexting a 22-year-old woman in Indiana. The whole documentary changes at that point, and it's apparent. As a viewer you can tell the directors thought they were going to film the story of a political comeback, and instead ended up filming the story of a brand-new scandal, happening in real time, and the impact it had on everyone.
Watching a sex scandal begin and tear apart a political campaign (and a family) from the inside is like watching an explosion in slow motion. From the way the staff has to learn how to respond to the media to the strain these new revelations put on Weiner's marriage, you are taken aback at how a sideshow for American voters can become a harrowing experience for the people who have to live their day-to-day lives with a costly mistake. Especially Weiner's wife, Abedin.
Abedin's close relationship with Clinton, and the parallels between Bill Clinton's behavior in the '90s and what Weiner was doing, are not lost on anyone in the documentary. Hillary Clinton refers to Abedin as her "other daughter." Bill Clinton presided at the wedding between Abedin and Weiner, and when Weiner cheated the first time, it was to Bill Clinton that he supposedly made a tearful apology. Abedin was in an untenable position, but that did not stop how she was treated by the press, something captured wonderfully in the movie.
According to the film's producer, Steinberg: "In terms of Huma, just like Anthony, [she] was reduced to a character; so was he. In some ways, even more."
I will admit, after seeing Abedin's trials in Weiner, I regretted suggesting on MSNBC and CNN at the time that she was staying with her husband as some sort of Machiavellian attempt to seek political power. She is neither a scheming Cersei nor a Stepford wife. She's a woman desperately trying to maintain her family with a man who seems incapable of being accountable.
By the time Weiner ends, you want it to be over for everyone involved. The cameras follow the former congressman as he uses his toddler son, Barry Bonds style, to protect himself from the press while he goes to the voting booth. You get the impression that Weiner gave the documentary crew such intimate access (there was only one scene where he closed the door to cameras so he and Abedin could argue) not because he wanted to be honest, but because he still thought he could win and the documentary would be his "I told you so" moment.
In the pantheon of political-campaign documentaries The War Room, Street Fight,Journeys With George and the like, Weinermay not be so much a look into campaign dynamics as it is a look at the dynamics of our modern media and the humanizing impact of sex scandals on regular people. Nevertheless, you will be glad you saw it, and ultimately sad that you remember it.
This article originally appeared online at The Root.
Filed Under: Jason Johnson Weekly Column Tagged With: Anthony Weiner, movie, sex scandal


The TS-990 is Kenwood's flagship HF transceiver. It covers all amateur HF bands plus six meters in all conventional modes (SSB, AM, FM, CW) as well as selected digital modes (PSK and RTTY). This page is here to serve as a knowledge base for the unit. I'll be adding information as time permits.
If you own a TS-990 you've come to the right place!
TS-990 Configuration Files: What's Inside? This document illustrates the structure of the TS-990's configuration files - - and how to use this knowledge to your advantage.
Interfacing the TS-990 to the Icom PW1 A marriage made in heaven! Learn how to configure your TS-990 to work reliably and safely with an ICOM PW-1 kilowatt amplifier.
TS-990 Spectral Display During Straight Key Night 2014 Click the link to see the TS-990 receiver in action during a massive CW contest!
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Linear or proportional relationships are an enormous subject in arithmetic schooling. despite the fact that, contemporary study has proven that secondary college scholars have a powerful tendency to use the linear version in occasions the place it's not acceptable. This overgeneralization of linearity is usually often called the "illusion of linearity" and has a powerful adverse influence on scholars' reasoning and challenge fixing talents.
As a result of complexity of the mitochondrial process and the myriad genes serious about their functionality, the scientific manifestations of mitochondrial illnesses are remarkably variable and heterogeneous. The laboratory and scientific methodologies used to judge disorder may well range broadly, and thusly a scientific presentation of the various protocols which are utilized to the review of those clinically and genetically heterogeneous problems has confirmed to be crucial.
This booklet constitutes the completely refereed post-conference complaints of the 4th foreign Workshop, COSADE 2013, held in Paris, France, in March 2013. The thirteen revised complete papers awarded including invited talks have been rigorously chosen from 39 submissions and acquire really latest ends up in cryptographic engineering, from suggestions to artifacts, from software program to undefined, from assault to countermeasure.


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HomeCrimeSandy Twp: mother-daughter fight over ride to New Castle, man punches lottery machine at Sheetz
Sandy Twp: mother-daughter fight over ride to New Castle, man punches lottery machine at Sheetz
Fri, April 30, 2021 by wcednews
Sandy Township, PA – Sandy Township Police say they responded to a number of domestic incidents, including a fight between a mother and daughter over the daughter wanting a ride to New Castle… two men who live on Hepburn Road in a physical argument over a set of keys to a vehicle… and a man who got angry while playing a lottery machine at the Blinker Light Sheetz, who punched the lottery machine screen and caused it to shatter.
Read the full police reports from Sandy Township:
A 50-year-old Hepburn Road man reported the 58-year-old man who lives above his garage, punched him in the face. Officers spoke to both parties and found they had gotten into an argument over keys to a vehicle that culminated with the punch. Charges are pending.
A 52-year-old Olanta woman reported when she got home from shopping at the DuBois Mall, she found damage to both the front and rear of her vehicle.
A 20-year-old DuBois man lost control of his vehicle while traveling on Kiwanis Trail, when he hit loose gravel on the side of the road, causing the vehicle to travel into a wooded area, and coming to rest on its drivers side. Neither the driver or his passenger were injured and the vehicle was towed from the scene.
Employees of the Blinker Light Sheetz reported that a man got angry while playing a lottery machine and hit the screen, causing it to shatter. Investigation continues.
A vehicle driven by a 45-year-old Treasure Lake man and another vehicle were involved in an accident at the Treasure Lake front gate. Minor injuries and damage reported.
A vehicle driven by a 16-year-old DuBois girl was stopped in traffic on SR 255, when a vehicle driven by a 46-year-old Woodland woman was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting her. Minor damage and no injuries reported.
A 52-year-old Penfield woman reported that when she got home from work, her 34-year-old daughter asked for a ride to New Castle. When the woman told her daughter no, the daughter started taunting her, and the woman eventually pushed her away. The altercation turned into a physical altercation between the two women. Both women have been charged.
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Cristiano Ronaldo showed why he is regarded by many as the best football player in the World, by helping the Portuguese Team beating the Netherlands by 2-1, this Sunday night. The Portuguese star scored a brace and made sure his son's 2nd birthday didn't get unnoticed, as he dedicated his two goals and the EURO 2012 quarter-finals passage to Cristiano Ronaldo Jr.
Portugal earned a thrilling 2-1 victory against Holland this Sunday night and assured their presence in the EURO 2012 quarter-finals. With half world expecting Ronaldo and Portugal to flunk in one of the most important games of the season, the Real Madrid forward silenced the critics once again, in what has probably been his best performance ever in a Portuguese jersey. Two goals, two shots hitting the post, endless runs from start to end and several great passes that led to goalscoring opportunities for his teammates... that's how good Ronaldo was this Sunday night! The Portuguese Team will now clash against the Czech Republic in the EURO 2012 quarter-finals, in a match scheduled for next Thursday (June 21).
The game didn't defraud expectations, as Holland and Portugal presented the fans a very open game, right from the kickoff. The Dutch were in a very uncomfortable position, as they had two defeats in their previous games against Denmark and Germany, forcing them to get the 3 points against Portugal and wait for a German win at the other group match. As for the Portuguese Team, they knew that a victory against Holland would assure them with a ticket for the EURO 2012 quarter-finals, as long as Denmark wouldn't win against Germany with a certain amount of goals scored.
With 11 minutes on the clock, Holland took the lead after a great goal scored by Tottenham's midfielder, Rafael van der Vaart. The play started in Arjen Robben's feet, who took on a defender as he cutted inside from the right. He then made a short pass to Van der Vaart, who controlled the ball and striked a terrific and accurate curled shot, leaving no chances for the Portuguese goalkeeper, Rui Patrício.
The Portuguese reaction didn't take too long and the game became more open and exciting in the following minutes. Cristiano Ronaldo was close to the equalizer 5 minutes after Van der Vaart's opener, but his right-foot shot hitted the post and the Dutch lead would remain valid for a little longer.
Near the 28th minute of the first half, the long awaited goal from Cristiano Ronaldo finally arrived and this time, there was no pressure capable of affecting the Portuguese player's concentration in front of goal. It all started in a great initiative from the new Valencia CF signing, João Pereira, who drove the ball inside just before making a great assist for CR7, with the outside part of his foot. Cristiano Ronaldo knew he couldn't waste such great opportunity and beat Stekelenburg for the first time, levelling things up in Kharkiv.
Half-time would reach with no more goals being scored, despite the fact that both teams kept playing in a very offensive way. The final and decisive goal took place deep in the second half, around the 74th minute. Once again, Cristiano Ronaldo came to the rescue and finally proved to be able to to carry the Portuguese team on his back. In a perfect counter attack, Nani was left with plenty of space to rush through the right wing and had no problems in spotting and assisting his former Manchester United teammate, sprinting at the other side of the pitch. It was then up to Cristiano Ronaldo to sit down a Dutch defender just before hitting the back of the net for the second time in the game, in great style. Ronaldo then took the opportunity to send a dedication to his son, Cristiano Ronaldo Junior, who celebrated his second birthday this Sunday (June 17).
The result wouldn't suffer any further changes and Portugal earned a final 2-1 victory Holland, that assured the desired passage to the EURO 2012 quarter-finals. Moreover, the likes of Ronaldo, Pepe, Fábio Coentrão, João Moutinho and Nani rised to the occasion and proved that this Portuguese team may still have a say in the fight for the EURO 2012 title. The next opponent goes by the name of Czech Republich, a side that left behind Russia and Poland, who were theoretically favorites in Group A.
Real Madrid's season is now over and there are no games left in their schedule until the pre-seasons starts by July. Cristiano Ronaldo is now with the Portuguese Team at the EURO 2012 and the next game will be against the Czech Republic in the EURO 2012 quarter-finals, next Thursday (June 21). In the meanwhile, you can watch France vs Sweden, Spain vs Croatia, England vs Ukraine and Italy vs Ireland, all from our football live streams section. Cristiano Ronaldo will certainly be on the line-up, when Portugal faces the Czech Republic for the EURO 2012 quarter-finals.


We already have Perl, we already have Java, and both claim they can do the job on the web. So why introduce another language? Why use PHP?
PHP is just the smallest tool that gets the job done. Why use anything else than a hammer when you just want to pound a nail in the wall.
Together with MySQL, PHP provides a simple and complete web solution on the server side. It is simple: you can create very quickly a web prototype. It is also highly scalable: some of the largest web sites use PHP.
Whether the task is to generate HTML, manage sessions or interact with a database, PHP always comes with a very simple solution.
Many languages have difficult concepts to grasp; some of them are even weird at times. This is not the case for PHP. In fact, if you know any modern language, you should be able to learn PHP quickly.
PHP is a simple scripting language and you can certainly write sloppy code with it. However if you want you can write highly maintainable code; actually, you can easily write object-oriented code. In fact, PHP 5 can look very similar to Java (with one big hole: no packages/namespaces).
The best PHP feature may seem like a little thing. The big deal is that you can mix PHP tags and HTML tags: you can put PHP code inside HTML tags, and you can put HTML tags in PHP code. This makes it a very pragmatic tool to produce HTML pages, the core of the web.
I heard at a conference that at one point Yahoo wanted to standardize their development on one language. They reviewed 10 possible solutions and they ended up choosing PHP: the deal breaker was that capability of embedding PHP tags directly into the HTML.
So, as far as I am concerned, on the server-side PHP is just the best tool for web development (i.e. web page manufacturing).
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Elected member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Cancer Institute (WIA; Regional Cancer Centre), Adyar, Chennai, 2018.
Elected member of Cancer Biology task force of the Department of Biotechnology, 2017.
Senior Scientist Award of the Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy, 2017.
Indian National Science Academy (INSA) travel grant to present work at the Annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research, San Diego, USA (April 5-9, 2014).
Indian Council of Medical Research International fellowship for young biomedical scientists, 2012-2013.
Indian Council of Medical Research International travel fellowship to present work at the annual meeting of the AARC, Chicago, USA, 2012.
'Faculty from developing countries' award from American Association for Cancer Research, USA, March, 2010.
Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute, USA to attend the NCI sponsored summer curriculum courses on cancer prevention, July-Aug, 2009.
American association for cancer research – National cancer institute (AACR-NCI) International investigator opportunity grant, 2008.
Selected as a member of the multidisciplinary young scientist team, by the Indian National Science Academy and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to shape the future of Indian Science (2008).
Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA, 2008.
Indian National Science Academy (INSA) travel grant to present work at the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Mechanisms and Models of Cancer (Aug 16-20, 2006).
Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India, travel fellowship to present abstract at the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Mechanisms and Models of Cancer (Aug 16-20, 2006).
International Cancer Technology Transfer Fellowship (ICRETT) of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), 2005.
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust travel award, 2005.
Long-Term Overseas Associateship Award, of the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, 2003-04.
Young Scientist Award of the Department of Science and Technology, 2001.
Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Allahabad, India, 2001.
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust award for training in the field of Microarray Technology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from August - October, 2000.
Sir Jamshetji Tata Trust award for training in the field of Microarray Technology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from August - October, 2000.
Young scientist medal of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) for the year 1998.
Young scientist award of the Association of Microbiologists of India for the year 1995.
Student bursary of USD 200 from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory awarded to Mr Animireddy Srinivas, PhD student in nominee's laboratory to present work at the CSHL 'Epigenetics and Chromatin' meeting, 2018.
Award of travel bursary from the Immunology Foundation to Mr Raju Kumar, PhD student in nominee's laboratory to present work at the annual American Association of Cancer Research meeting, Chicago, USA, 2018.
DST-SERB international travel scheme (ITS) support Mr Raju Kumar, PhD student in nominee's laboratory, to present work at the annual American Association of Cancer Research meeting, Chicago, USA, 2018.
Travel award to Ms Ashmala Naz, PhD student in the nominee's laboratory to present work at the 37th Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR), 2018.
Sponsorship and complete financial support from the National Cancer Institute, USA to Ms Ashmala Naz to attend 'short course in genetic and epigenetic epidemiology' at ACTREC, Mumbai, 2017.
Best Poster Award for Ms Bala Pratyusha, Phd student in the nominee's laboratory, from the SciGenome Research Foundation to present work at the 2017 Next Generation Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT) meeting at Bhubaneswar, India.
Full scholarship and travel award for Ms Bala Pratyusha, Phd student in the nominee's laboratory, from the SciGenome Research Foundation to present work at the 2017 Next Generation Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT) meeting at Bhubaneswar, India.
Full scholarship and travel award for Ms Bala Pratyusha, Phd student in the nominee's laboratory, from the SciGenome Research Foundation to present work at the 2016 Next Generation Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT) meeting at Cochin, India.
Dr Raju kumar, Research Scholar - Best Poster Award at Manipal University Research Colloquium held in April, 2016.
Dr Ratheesh Raman, Research scholar - Young Scientist Award of AP academy of sciences, 2014.
Mr Raju Adduri, Research Scholar - Award of travel bursary from the GP Talwar Immunology Foundation to present work at the annual AACR meeting, San Diego, USA, 2014.
Mr Ajay K Chaudhary, Technical Assistant - Travel award to International Conference of Human Genetics and 39th Annual Meeting of the Indian Society of Human Genetics, 2014.
Dr Ratheesh Raman, Research Scholar - CSIR travel award to attend the Annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research, 2013.
Dr Ratheesh Raman, Research Scholar - Best poster award, The Global Cancer Genome Consortium meeting, ACTREC, Mumbai, 2012.
Dr P Ramaswamy, Research Scholar - Student fellowship from Cold Spring Harbor awarded 'Mechanisms and Models of Cancer' meeting, 2012.
Dr Ravikanth Kongara, DNB Student (enrolled under Prof R A Sastry, Head, Surgical Gastroenterology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad) - Best paper award 20th national conference of the association of surgical gastroenterology, 2010, Hyderabad.
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Investors didn't like the sound of something they heard about Pandora today.
Shares of the streaming music company were off more than 4% Friday afternoon, the biggest percentage loss of any Barron's Next 50 stock. The company announced the extension of some convertible notes on Thursday night, and concerns about dilution likely contributed to the shares' slide. But some odd, if not necessarily unusual, comments about M&A, could have also figured in.
On Thursday at a B. Riley conference, CFO Naveen Chopra responded to a question about recent statements by Liberty Media (FWONA) CEO Greg Maffei in which he alluded to "synergies" between Pandora Media and bankrupt radio company iHeartMedia, in which Liberty may be interested, as well as other assets—perhaps including Sirius XM (SIRI), which Liberty owns most of and also owns some of Pandora.
Maffei, it should be noted, is Pandora's (P) chairman, and Liberty is a part owner of Pandora. "I'm not sure it would be very smart for me to claim that the vision of the a chairman of our company is a bad one," Chopra replied.
• Maffei has previously expressed interest in buying Pandora at the right price. His statements sometimes move the company's shares.
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The Geopolitics of Water Negotiations succeeding the GERD Project in the Nile River Basin
The Nile River is the main conflict over its waters between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. Since Egypt depends on the Nile for its entire water supply, securing the downstream parts of the river has always been one of Egypt's national priorities. The dispute between the two states, Egypt and Ethiopia, is rooted in the legacy of British imperialism in North, Northeast and Central Africa during the 20th century.
Anwar Hassen Tsega
Water politics has come to be one of the central themes of debate and concern among different academic, political and economic domains in the globalized world. Thus, water geopolitics has sought to understand and analyze how water politics is imagined spatially. Though the Nile River runs through ten African countries, the main conflict over its waters is between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. Since Egypt depends on the Nile for its entire water supply, securing the downstream parts of the river has always been one of Egypt's national priorities. The dispute between the two states, Egypt and Ethiopia, is rooted in the legacy of British imperialism in North, Northeast and Central Africa during the 20th century. As Cascão (2009) discussed a declaration from 1929 by London granted the bulk of the water of this area of the Nile to Egypt and Sudan.
However, it has been less than a decade whereby Ethiopia's bargaining power has become much greater than normally acknowledged. To be sure, it is shored up by Ethiopia's geographic advantage as upstream riparian and provider of 85% of the Nile flows. Moreover, it is not until the last two years, where the discourse of water geopolitics moved away from being dominated by ideas like national security and power. Therefore, the paper focuses on the role of power and hegemony in particular, as a complement to the wide range of issues covered in negotiations. By doing so, the article analyzes the Egypt's position as the hegemonic power in the horn of Africa contested by Ethiopia. In order to simplify my argument and analysis, I focused on Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt to explicate the extent of water crisis in the North Eastern part of Africa. To accomplish these tasks, a critical geopolitical approach, practical discourse, has been used to analyze the geopolitical implications of speeches of politicians and leaders. Application of critical hydro-politics is thus useful for interpretation of the power plays that grease or block the cogs of the decision-making machinery. Since practical geopolitics describes the actual practice of geopolitical strategy (i.e. foreign policy), the paper look into the country's foreign policy in relation to the changing power relations in the Nile Basin, especially from the onset of the GERD project which witnesses tension among the three countries. Principally, the study attempts to analyze the geopolitical implications of the newly Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on regional water politics and speculated on whether it has reinforced or undermined the regional power of Egypt.
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İsrail'in Afrika Siyaseti: İzolasyondan "Normalleşme"ye
Kuzey Irak ve Türkiye
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>RR-880
Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense
Policy and Practice
by Jessie Riposo, Megan McKernan, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Geoffrey McGovern, Daniel Tremblay, Jason Kumar, Jerry M. Sollinger
Critical Infrastructure Protection,
Cyber and Data Sciences,
Cybersecurity,
Databases and Data Collection, Analysis, and Processing,
Military Acquisition and Procurement,
Military Information Technology Systems,
United States Department of Defense
PDF file 1 MB
Research Question
What are the problems and challenges associated with sharing unclassified information within the Department of Defense?
Acquisition data underpin the management and oversight of the U.S. defense acquisition portfolio. However, balancing security and transparency has been an ongoing challenge. Some acquisition professionals are not getting the data they need to perform their assigned duties or are not getting the data and information in an efficient manner. To help guide the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) in addressing these problems, the RAND Corporation identified access problems at the OSD level — including those organizations that require access to data and information to support OSD, such as analytic support federally funded research and development centers and direct support contractors — and evaluated the role of policy in determining access. The study also involved a limited review of how data are shared between OSD and the military departments.
Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense finds that the process for gaining access to data is inefficient and may not provide access to the best data to support analysis, and that OSD analytic groups and support contractors face particular challenges in gaining access to data. Given the inherent complexity in securing data and sharing data, any solutions to problems associated with data sharing must be well thought out to avoid the multitude of unintended consequences that could arise.
The Process for Gaining Access to Data Is Inefficient and May Not Provide Access to the Best Data to Support Analysis
Government personnel and those supporting the government do not always get their first choice of data.
Alternative sources often have data of lower quality, that are older and thus less accurate, or that are subject to a number of caveats.
OSD Analytic Groups and Support Contractors Face Particular Challenges in Gaining Access to Data
OSD analytic groups often do not have access to the originators of the data, which precludes them from going to the primary source. They may also have poor visibility of all viable data sources.
Direct support contractors have problems similar to OSD analysts, but these problems can be compounded by laws, regulations, and policy that restrict access to certain types of information. Support contractors require special permissions to view nontechnical proprietary data.
Access Problems Occur for Several Reasons
Data access policy is highly decentralized, not well known, and subject to a wide range of interpretation.
The markings for unclassified information play a significant role in access. The owner or creator of a document determines what protections or markings are required. However, marking criteria are not always clear or consistently applied.
Institutional and cultural barriers inhibit sharing.
Options for solving the proprietary data-access problem:
The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD[AT&L]) could seek additional billets and insource any functions that require access to proprietary data; this would require Office of Professional Management and congressional support.
USD[AT&L] could reallocate billets to functions that currently require access to proprietary information; this would require cross-organizational prioritization — a difficult process that might be insufficient.
General access could be established for all direct support contractors; this would require legislative or contractual changes.
Additional contractual language could be placed on all DoD acquisition contracts, granting support contractors restricted access to their data. Contractors who receive the data would have to demonstrate company firewalls, training, personal agreements, and need to know akin to those for classified information.
The government could seek an alternative ruling on the nondisclosure requirements, whereby blanket nondisclosure agreements could be signed between the government and a direct support organization, or a company and a direct support organization to cover multiple tasks.
Options to address the confusion regarding policy:
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD[AT&L]) could create and maintain a central, authoritative online resource that references all relevant guidance on information management, handling, access, and release for acquisition data.
OUSD(AT&L) could consider providing additional training for its staff on the identification and protection of data.
In areas where conflicting interpretations of guidance are particularly problematic (e.g., For Official Use Only and proprietary information), additional guidance on how to identify this type of information upfront would be useful.
Directives and incentives could be established so that markings that appear to be incorrect are challenged.
Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Executive Summary
Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: A Closer Look at the Origins and Implementation of Controlled Unclassified Information Labels and Security Policy
Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Doing Data Right in Weapon System Acquisition
Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Considerations for Implementing the Controlled Unclassified Information Reform Program
The Policy Landscape
Practical Issues and Challenges to Sharing Acquisition Data
Proprietary Data: A Case Study
Conclusions and Options
DoD Policies Affecting Data Sharing
Discussions with OSD
Central Repository Case Studies
Technical Data Rights
This research was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/RR880
Document Number: RR-880-OSD
Databases and Data Collection, Analysis, and Processing
Military Acquisition and Procurement
Military Information Technology Systems
Riposo, Jessie, Megan McKernan, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Geoffrey McGovern, Daniel Tremblay, Jason Kumar, and Jerry M. Sollinger, Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Policy and Practice. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2015. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR880.html. Also available in print form.
Riposo, Jessie, Megan McKernan, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Geoffrey McGovern, Daniel Tremblay, Jason Kumar, and Jerry M. Sollinger, Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Policy and Practice, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-880-OSD, 2015. As of July 18, 2019: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR880.html


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On Saturday, January 21st a stretch of Boxing cards spanning four events in a five day period continued. Following an exciting eleven bout card promoted by Undisputed Promotions in Kissimmee, FL on January 20th, night two of Florida Boxing showcased two Boxing events taking place on both the east and west coast of the state. First, in Miami at Casino Miami, rising Heavyweight contender Jonathan Guidry squared off against former WBC Heavyweight world champion Bernane Stiverne in a bout scheduled for ten rounds.
In previewing this fight, this observer stated that this appeared to be an encounter between two fighters moving in different directions in their respective careers. Guidry being the fighter on the rise, Stiverne having not won a fight in nearly eight years, who has also dealt with lengthy periods of inactivity as well. While seemingly every fight in the Heavyweight division currently between contenders of any description has the sub-plot of whether the fighters involved can provide a strong argument for themselves as for trying to move themselves into position to challenge for a world championship, this fight was one where no argument could be made for either fighter.
For ten rounds, the two fighters, who fought in the main event of a card presented by Hall of Fame promoter Don King's Don King Productions, engaged in a fight where neither fighter seemed to take the initiative. Whether it was due to a respect between the two fighters or a bad clash of styles, Guidry and Stiverne's bout may be described as a brisk sparring session as opposed to a competitive fight if one did not know better based on the pace the fight was fought as well as the lack of action throughout. At the conclusion of the ten round bout, it was Guidry who would have his hand raised in victory by a wide unanimous decision based largely on the fact that he was the more active of the two fighters throughout.
With the victory, Guidry retained his North American Boxing Association (NABA) Heavyweight title and should maintain his standing in terms of the world rankings as a fighter on the rise. Although he did what he needed to do and scored a victory over a notable opponent, Guidry may have been able to get a stoppage in this fight had he been more aggressive. It is true that every fighter can have a bad night at the office, but for a fighter in his position that is trying to move his way into world championship contention, Guidry will need to do a little more to force himself into the discussion of potential world title challengers. As for Bernane Stiverne, after losing five of his last six fights over nearly eight years, it may be time for him to think about retirement.
This now brings us to the second main event that took place on January 21st as we move to the west coast of Florida where undefeated Jr. Middleweight Antonio Tarver Jr. headlined a Boxing card at Calta's Fitness and Boxing in Tampa. The son of former two-division world champion Antonio Tarver headlined a card promoted by his father's Tarver Promotions by facing fellow undefeated Drew Dwelly in a scheduled ten round bout. Whenever I have the opportunity to cover the offspring of a fighter that I have watched and in this case had covered in years past, I tend to look for similarities in terms of style between the parent and the new generation of fighter.
In this case, this was the first time I had the opportunity to see Antonio Tarver Jr. in action, so I was keenly interested in what I would see in this fight. It should also be noted that when it comes to the children of great fighters as Antonio Tarver was, it is not uncommon to see them matched against opposition that some might call soft or questionable, at least in the very early stages of their careers. This would not be the case for Antonio Tarver's eleventh professional fight as Drew Dwelly was also unbeaten and proved to provide him with a decent test in a fight that was for the vacant North American Boxing Federation (NABF Jr. Middleweight championship.
Dwelly did this by applying pressure on Tarver early in the fight and trying to both cut the ring off and force him to go toe to toe with him. While this strategy had mixed results for Dwelly, this seemed as though it would be crucial in terms of Tarver's development as a fighter.
As far as the similarities between Tarver Sr. and Tarver Jr. in terms of style, Tarver Sr. was a fighter that dominated most of his fights by his ability to double and triple jab his opponents, mixing in the rest of his offense, which were often highlighted by hooks to the head, and moving laterally to keep an opponent from being able to close the gap. While Tarver Jr. did show some characteristics of his father's style, what I observed was more of a style based on counter punching and being able to catch his opponent in between punches while in the midst of exchanges. While this was slightly different both in terms of style as well as general approach in comparison to his father, Tarver Jr. did show glimpses of hand speed and punching power that was quite similar to Tarver Sr.
The edge in hand speed as well as his precision timing ultimately resulted in Tarver being able to land the cleaner, more effective punches of the two fighters. In the eighth round, Tarver would bring the fight to a sudden conclusion. After having Dwelly in trouble in the latter stages of round seven, Tarver put his opponent down with a combination highlighted by left hands that sent Dwelly down and out on the canvas. What was the eleventh win of his career, Antonio Tarver Jr. appears to be nearing title contention as winning the NABF championship will move him up the rankings in the World Boxing Council (WBC) Jr. Middleweight ratings, which the NABF is affiliated with the organization similar to Jonathan Guidry holding the NABA championship in the Heavyweight division per its affiliation with the World Boxing Association (WBA).
Out of the two victors in these two fights, it was Antonio Tarver Jr. that was the more impressive of the two, but it is important for Johnathan Guidry to remember that not every fight that you win will have a head-turning, highlight-reel like performance and he ultimately did what he needed to do in his fight with Bermane Stiverne to get a victory. As for where Tarver and Guidry will go in terms of their progression throughout 2023, it obviously remains to be seen, but with each scoring a win, each has successfully taken a step forward.
"And That's The Boxing Truth."
Posted by Beau Denison at 1:02 PM
Labels: Antonio Tarver, Antonio Tarver Jr., Bermane Stiverne, Don King, Drew Dwelly, Florida Boxing, Jonathan Guidry, The Boxing Truth