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A Philosophy: The Tao Of Luke
"So I was deep in grief and then I was comfort eating and getting high and drinking. You know, you feed the wolf. And I did. I fed the wolf, a lot. Looking back it was like drugs, drink, food were three things I filled the void with."
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Whether it's as a DJ, restauranteur or music promoter, Luke Cowdrey and his self-confessed "ADHD mind" have a lot going on. For the uninitiated, outside of his status as half of Manchester's beloved Electric Chair organisers and DJs, The Unabombers, Luke's also one of the funniest and most astute users of Instagram (@lukeunabomber). Against the platform's endless airbrushed photos of people doing topless yoga while drinking charcoal lattes, his "Day One" videos detail his attempts to get fit and stay healthy as a 52 year old crisp lover and jazz enthusiast.
The "Day One" posts are a humane counterpoint to the impossible expectations of the health and wellness factory. They show how it's possible to have aspirations to do better but still live in the real world. It just so happens that they had to come from someone who's more interested in test pressings than press-ups; a member of that diminishing tradition of smart working-class boys who grew up knowing that they could get away with a quip and a snarl. He's a pilled-up punk in chambray and pastel; the Yacht-Rock Johnny Rotten.
We met up and I started with some questions which I stole from an interview with the fitness industry's perma-tanned pet Brillo pad, Joe Wicks:
What are your top tips for beginning a fitness journey?
It depends where you're at and why you're doing it, but it's all about your mind. In the last ten or fifteen years I've had so many aborted attempts to be fit that it's become a mental thing. Until your mind clicks in and you can decide exactly what you want to achieve then it's a very hard thing to accomplish. For me walking is the one, the Forest Gump daily mad walk, it sweats out the poison. There's a calming of the mind. It's definitely not about following the rigidity of some diet.
You post quite a lot about food, what's good for healing body and mind?
Without a shadow of a doubt; broth, pho, noodles. The food of the gods for me. If I was to run a diet club I'd tell people to walk every day and eat big bowls of bone broth, pho with fish or chicken and just loads of garlic and herbs. When you stop feeding the wolf and you actually put some goodness into your soul there's nothing better. Number two would be a slow-cooked ragu because I think there's a definite cathartic process of coming home, having a glass of wine, starting cooking a really beautiful old-school ragu with chicken livers, everything in it. Cooking it slowly all day, almost getting pissed as you cook it, and cooking for a group of people, family or friends.
Putting good food in you 100% changes the way you feel. I take the piss out of this diet thing but there's some truth in it. I'd definitely have a drink. I don't drink every day now, I choose my battles and these big, hearty, one-pot killers would be right.
So you're ok with having an off-day?
Having an off-day is 100% part of who I am. I'll always have it in me to have addictions towards booze and food and beyond. I think anyone who grew up and was going out in the 80's and 90's is likely going to have huge cognitive dissonance between doing things which you know are bad for you but make you feel better at the time. I'll always have that in me. Falling off the wagon is always there. I'm not an addict but it's always there.
The Day One posts feel like your attempt to reconcile how difficult and absurd it can be to manage real life against expectations. Why did you start them?
Really the Day One thing started when I was 40, it was about life after grief. My dad and one of my best mates passed away in really bad circumstances and it was like just a classic dysfunctional moment where I was on self-destruct for quite a while. I ended up making friendships and I'd be back in my flat and there were all these people with half-ears from Ancoats. Somehow I'd met them in the pub and then there were big groups of people having parties in the house. I just opened myself up to the elements and it was really quite sad. You'd sit there and it'd be Monday morning and you'd think "What the fuck are these people doing in my house?"
So I was deep in grief and then I was comfort eating and getting high and drinking. You know, you feed the wolf. And I did. I fed the wolf, a lot.
Looking back it was like drugs, drink, food were three things I filled the void with. And weird things like I'd go on shopping trips and buy loads of Japanese fucking robots and dolls, almost like a slight addiction.
That mixture of hedonism and self-destruction can mean you end up eating fried chicken at four in the morning in your boxer shorts, watching MTV, slowly dying down the backs of sofas. I used to do a lot of it by myself, which is really sad. It was from that that Day One started, finding alternative ways to fill the void.
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How do you think things have changed culturally since you began that journey? We seem to have become much more focused on wellbeing.
It's a very brutal, toxic world out there and so mental health is seen as much more real now. People write it off as the millennial over-sensitivity, but I don't agree with that. I think there's always been mental health issues but it's much more spoken about now, but then the world is much more bullying and toxic now too.
I think wellbeing in a very Californian happy clappy way doesn't necessarily solve that issue. But at the same time it would be very trite of me to negate the importance of wellbeing, because look at me I'd be dead now if it wasn't for wellbeing.
People respond to a very toxic world with very specific things, some of which may make you feel better, like being a vegan or eating in a certain way or being mindful, but then that becomes an industry and becomes very faux and empty as well.
How do you think it's interacted with the dance music world?
Culturally, I remember some of the bigger clubs in Manchester started to change maybe fifteen years ago or longer. There was less of the evangelism, less of the idealism of acid house. I look back and although it can come across as a bit pretentious, it's still true that music meant something, it wasn't just the stupidity of taking pills and dribbling.
But I began to notice at the beginning of the 90's, lads, big lads, ripped, muscles, coming through. And they were changing body language too. People were less friendly. That's not to say that there weren't pockets where there was still that level of togetherness but it did change. There came this moment where the Alpha, burger, ket, 100 gram protein box lads turned up and gradually the dance floor changed.
But I actually think that the tide has become to turn again. The idea that things can't ever be like they used to be is kind of bollocks. Right now, there's a feeling that music is important again, it's not just something you take on the treadmill or something that accompanies your 100 gram diet plan.
What's the simplest piece of advice for a healthier lifestyle?
Don't feed the wolf. But if you do feed the wolf then don't do it for too long. For me, having fed the wolf for ten years on and off, it makes you feel slow and lethargic. Serendipity and change only happen when you get off the sofa, otherwise you end up just falling down the backs and cracks into some abyss and that's where you'll stay. Eat good food and get good sleep. And I do truly believe in daily exercise. You should do something you love. If you can go to the gym then fine, but everyone's different. For me there's nothing better than walking, and I mean fast walking as well. Come off-piste, don't have a road, go off-road!
And don't take it all too seriously, don't believe the hype, you don't have to become some faux Californian happy clapping health guru. There is humour in it, we are human and we're full of contradictions, things don't always work out.
And don't try and be too clever. Whilst I take the piss out of this whole new vegan culture of clean living, which actually can be a form of eating disorder, I also think we shouldn't be too smartarse about it. You need some empathy and warmth and love for things that aren't quite perfect. I mean, are you going to be so sanctimonious that you can't go with your heart? As my dad once said, being right all the time is overrated.
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Sophia Bush celebrated life of late ex at Burning Man Festival
By Daily Dish on September 9, 2015 at 5:57 PM
Sophia Bush and Dan Fredinburg.
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Actress Sophia Bush turned her weekend trip to the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert into a memorial of sorts for her late ex-boyfriend Dan Fredinburg in honor of his birthday.
The Google executive and adventurer was killed in a devastating avalanche in Nepal in April, a year after his split from Bush, who he had enjoyed a long-distance relationship with from 2013 to early 2014.
The former "One Tree Hill" star recently admitted losing Fredinburg had "shattered" her, and she decided to mark what would have been his 34th birthday this week by sharing stories about him with friends at the Burning Man festival, which they had once visited together.
She took to Instagram.com on Tuesday and marked the special day by recalling her weekend, admitting she saw signs of Fredinburg "deep in the desert, many times."
I still don't know what the words are. Magic. Friendship. Memories. Consciousness. Dimensions. Infinite. Break. Dance. Live. Believe. Do. So many. None are the one. They're puzzle pieces but not the whole picture. What I do know is that you are missed. That you are still here. That you changed us, inspired us, pushed us, and guided us. What I do know is that I saw you this weekend, deep in the desert, many times. I saw a man in spandex & a Viking hat, near the ashes of the wooden man that burned on the playa the night before. I turned to the Minion gals, pointing, & said "hey Viking I see you!" & pulled up to the man to take a photo of the back of his hat, under the giant bird-shaped cloud that had followed us around all day. His friend noticed me & said, "he'll kiss you if you ask him," and I laughed and thanked him, but passed, explaining that I just wanted to take a photo of his hat. The friend said, "Hey Dan, this girl wants to take a pic of your hat!" "Of course your name is Dan," I said, & he turned toward me on his bike, which of course had a Minion toy strapped to the front of it. The girls and I all laughed aloud, got misty eyed, & turned to go, knowing you'd been saying hello. It happened all weekend. We told stories. We screamed your name to the sky & scribbled it all over the temple & left your photos & prayer flags & glitter everywhere. We screamed "I love you!!" as it burned & a chorus of "I love yous" began echoing among the tens of thousands of people watching, bouncing all over the playa as it had when I once stood watching that structure burn with you & someone else screamed the same thing for someone who had most likely meant to them what you mean to us. So today, on your birthday, our first #LiveDanDay, I'll say it again. I love you my friend. I'm grateful for every memory. I'm grateful that we had a friendship that defied context, & a connection that defies physical boundaries even now. Your squad reps you hard, dear one. We live bigger because of you. We will keep writing your name in the sand & dancing in the dust to honor it. To all of you out there who need a little inspiring, take it from Dan. Live big. #LiveDanDay15
A photo posted by Sophia Bush (@sophiabush) on Sep 8, 2015 at 7:45pm PDT
Confessing she is still lost for words over his death, she wrote, "What I do know is that you are missed. That you are still here. That you changed us, inspired us, pushed us, and guided us. What I do know is that I saw you this weekend, deep in the desert, many times."
Recalling how she and her friends paid tribute to Fredinburg, she continued, "We told stories. We screamed your name to the sky & scribbled it all over the temple & left your photos & prayer flags & glitter everywhere. We screamed 'I love you!!' as it burned & a chorus of 'I love yous' began echoing among the tens of thousands of people watching, bouncing all over the playa as it had when I once stood watching that structure burn with you & someone else screamed the same thing for someone who had most likely meant to them what you mean to us.
"So today, on your birthday, our first #LiveDanDay, I'll say it again. I love you my friend. I'm grateful for every memory. I'm grateful that we had a friendship that defied context, & a connection that defies physical boundaries even now. Your squad reps you hard, dear one. We live bigger because of you. We will keep writing your name in the sand & dancing in the dust to honor it. To all of you out there who need a little inspiring, take it from Dan. Live big."
A photo posted by Sophia Bush (@sophiabush) on Sep 9, 2015 at 12:27pm PDT
Bush wasn't the only star remembering a late loved one at Burning Man – over the weekend, actress Susan Sarandon revealed she had spread some of late author and LSD advocate Timothy Leary's ashes at the festival site.

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Q: FastAPI JWT Invalid Token Trying to figure out why I'm getting an invalid token error given my code below. I'm testing registration and authentication via my API.
I create a dummy account and then check my email for the verification link. Everything is working great until I click on the link in the email and receive a 400 bad request and due to my debugging the error is caused by an "Invalid Token".
here is my code:
route_user.py:
from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException, status
from fastapi import Depends
from jose import jwt

from db.models.users import User
from schemas.users import UserCreate, ShowUser
from db.repository.users_data_access_layer import Users
from core.auth import Auth
from core.mailer import Mailer
from core.config import Settings
from depends import get_user_db

router = APIRouter()

get_settings = Settings()

@router.post("/", response_model=ShowUser)
async def create_user(form_data: UserCreate = Depends(), users: Users = Depends(get_user_db)):
    if await users.check_user(email=form_data.email) is not None:
        raise HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST,
            detail="User already exists"
        )
    elif await users.check_username(username=form_data.username) is not None:
        raise HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST,
            detail="Username already exists"
        )

    new_user = await users.register_user(username=form_data.username, email=form_data.email, hashed_password=form_data.password)
    #print(new_user)
    confirmation = Auth.get_confirmation_token(new_user.id)
    #print(confirmation)
    new_user.confirmation = confirmation["jti"]
    # users.db_session.add(new_user)
    # await users.db_session.flush()
    print(new_user.confirmation)

    try:
        Mailer.send_confirmation_message(confirmation["token"], form_data.email)
    except ConnectionRefusedError:
        raise HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_500_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
            detail="Email couldn't be send. Please try again."
        )
    # users.db_session.add(new_user)
    # await users.db_session.flush()
    #return new_user

@router.get("/verify/{token}")
async def verify(token: str, users: Users = Depends(get_user_db)):
    invalid_token_error = HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Invalid Token")
    try:
        payload = jwt.decode(token, get_settings.SECRET_KEY, algorithms=[get_settings.TOKEN_ALGORITHM])
        print(payload['sub'])
        print(payload['jti'])
    except jwt.JWSError:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="Token has Expired")
    if payload['scope'] != 'registration':
        raise invalid_token_error
    #print(payload['sub'])
    user = await users.get_user_by_id(id=payload['sub'])
    #print(user)
    #print('hello2')
    #print(user)
    print(User.confirmation)
    print(User.id)
    if not user or await users.get_confirmation_uuid(str(User.confirmation)) != payload['jti']:
        print('hello')
        raise invalid_token_error
    # if user.is_active:
    #     #print('hello2')
    #     raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="User already Activated")
    # user.confirmation = None
    # user.is_active = True
    # return user

user_data_access_layer:
from core.hashing import Hasher
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import select
from sqlalchemy.sql import exists

from db.models.users import User
from schemas.users import UserCreate
from core.hashing import Hasher

db_session = Session

class Users():

    def __init__(self, db_session: Session):
        self.db_session = db_session

            #print('user created')

    async def register_user(self, username: str, email: str, hashed_password: str):
        new_user = User(username=username, email=email, hashed_password=Hasher.get_password_hash(hashed_password))
        self.db_session.add(new_user)
        await self.db_session.flush()
        return new_user

    async def check_user(self, email: str):
        user_exist = await self.db_session.execute(select(User).filter(User.email==email))
        #print(user_exist)
        return user_exist.scalar_one_or_none()

    async def check_username(self, username: str):
        user_exist = await self.db_session.execute(select(User).filter(User.username==username))
        #print(user_exist)
        return user_exist.scalar_one_or_none()

    async def get_user_by_id(self, id: str):
        user_exist = await self.db_session.execute(select(User).filter(User.id==id))
        #print(user_exist)
        return user_exist.scalar_one_or_none()

    async def get_confirmation_uuid(self, confirmation_uuid: str):
        user_exist = await self.db_session.execute(select(User).filter(str(User.confirmation)==confirmation_uuid))
        #print(user_exist)
        return user_exist.scalar_one_or_none()

auth.py
from jose import jwt
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from core.config import Settings
from pydantic import UUID4
import uuid
from passlib.context import CryptContext

settings = Settings()

class Auth:
    password_context = CryptContext(schemes=["bcrypt"], deprecated="auto")

    @classmethod
    def get_password_hash(cls, password: str) -> str:
        return cls.password_context.hash(password)

    @staticmethod
    def get_token(data: dict, expires_delta: int):
        pass
        to_encode = data.copy()
        to_encode.update({
            "exp": datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(seconds=expires_delta),
            "iss": settings.PROJECT_NAME
        })
        return jwt.encode(
            to_encode,
            settings.SECRET_KEY,
            algorithm=settings.TOKEN_ALGORITHM
        )

    @staticmethod
    def get_confirmation_token(user_id: UUID4):
        jti = uuid.uuid4()
        claims = {
            "sub": str(user_id),
            "scope": "registration",
            "jti": str(jti)
        }
        return {
            "jti": jti,
            "token": Auth.get_token(
                claims,
                settings.REGISTRATION_TOKEN_LIFETIME
            )
        }

models.py
import uuid
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import UUID
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, Boolean, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship

from db.base_class import Base

class User(Base):
    id = Column(UUID(as_uuid=True), primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4)
    username = Column(String, unique=True, nullable=False)
    email = Column(String, nullable=False, unique=True, index=True)
    hashed_password = Column(String(255), nullable=False)
    is_active = Column(Boolean, default=False)
    is_superuser = Column(Boolean, default=False)
    confirmation = Column(UUID(as_uuid=True), nullable=True, default=uuid.uuid4)
    jobs = relationship("Job", back_populates="owner")

When I try to check Does the user exist? Is the token ID stored in the database? in
if not user or await users.get_confirmation_uuid(str(User.confirmation)) != payload['jti']:

I get "detail": "Invalid Token" and when I print(User.confirmation) it gives me User.id instead.
After the email sent database log:
User.confirmation
1867657b-7cfa-471f-9daa-92ea192abb5a
E-mail has been sent!
INFO:     127.0.0.1:64005 - "POST /registration/?username=usertest&email=tutepoha%40livinginsurance.co.uk&password=usertest123 HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
2021-07-16 18:18:37,973 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.Engine UPDATE "user" SET confirmation=%s WHERE "user".id = %s
2021-07-16 18:18:37,974 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.Engine [generated in 0.00079s] (UUID('1867657b-7cfa-471f-9daa-92ea192abb5a'), UUID('674ead42-44a3-46b0-9645-689885ace026'))

Not sure what the problem is, I've tried de-bugging to my extent but now I've hit a wall.

A: There are different problems in your code now.
In your code :
if not user or await users.get_confirmation_uuid(str(User.confirmation))!= payload['jti']:
You check users.get_confirmation_uuid(str(User.confirmation)) As said above, you are comparing a value of your class since you are calling User instead of user. In the second case, you call the instance while in the first, you call the class
And the comparison
users.get_confirmation_uuid str (user.confirmation))! = Payload ['jti']
can never be true since your users.get_confirmation_uuid method does not return a UID value but a list of User object. So calling it to the users.get_confirmation method is actually unnecessary. You just need to do the following:
if not user or user.confirmation! = payload['jti']:
But, the problem is more than that. Currently, your method for retrieving a user users.get_user_by_id(id=payload['sub'])
returns a list, not a single object. Thus, you must either return a single object or browse the list.
Here is the code I propose to fix all this:
The methods have been changed to return an object and not a list
user_data_access_layer.py
from fastapi import HTTPException, status

from db.models.users import User
from schemas.users import UserCreate
from db_config import SESSION
from auth import Auth

class Users():

    def __init__(self):
        pass

    @classmethod
    async def save(cls, user_instance):
        try:
            SESSION.add(user_instance)
            SESSION.commit()
        except Exception as error:
            SESSION.rollback()
            raise HTTPException(status_code=status.HTTP_500_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)

    @classmethod
    async def get_user_by_id(cls, id):
        user = await SESSION.query(User).filter(User.id == id).one_or_none()
        return user

    @classmethod
    async def get_user_by_username(cls, username):
        user = await SESSION.query(User).filter(User.username == username).one_or_none()
        return user

    @classmethod
    async def get_user_by_email(cls, email):
        user = await SESSION.query(User).filter(User.email == email).one_or_none()
        return user

    @classmethod
    async def get_user_by_confirmation(cls, confirmation):
        user = await SESSION.query(User).filter(User.confirmation == confirmation).one_or_none()
        return user

    @classmethod
    async def create_user(self, user: UserCreate):
        new_user = User(username=user.username,
                        email=user.email,
                        hashed_password=Auth.get_password_hash(user.password)
                        )
        cls.save(new_user)
        return new_user

routes.py

@router.get("/verify/{token}")
async def verify(token: str, users: Users = Depends(get_user_db)):
    invalid_token_error = HTTPException(
        status_code=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST, detail="Invalid Token")

    # TRYING DECODE TOKEN
    try:
        payload = jwt.decode(token, get_settings.SECRET_KEY, algorithms=[
                             get_settings.TOKEN_ALGORITHM])
    except jwt.JWSError:
        raise HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_403_FORBIDDEN, detail="Token has Expired")

    # CHECK IF THE SCOPE IS OK
    if payload['scope'] != 'registration':
        raise invalid_token_error

    # TRY TO GET AN USER WITH THE ID FROM TOKEN
    user = await Users.get_user_by_id(id=payload['sub'])

    # CHECK IF WE FOUND AN USER AND IF THE UID CONFIRMATION IS THE SAME OF THE TOKEN
    if not user or str(user.confirmation) != str(payload['jti']):
        raise invalid_token_error

    # CHECK IF THE USER IS ALREADY ACTIVE
    if user.is_active:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=status.HTTP_403_FORBIDDEN,
                            detail="User already Activated")

    # IF ALL IT'S OK, WE UPDATE THE CONFIRMATION AND IS_ACTIVE ATTRIBUTE AND CALL THE SAVE METHOD
    user.confirmation = None
    user.is_active = True
    Users.save(user)
    return user

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Be part of a global movement and use #ShareAMealSA locally to donate a meal
At Knorr, we believe that delicious and nutritious food should be within everyone's reach. That's why we value our partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme and have launched a social media campaign this year guaranteed to put smiles on faces around the world. The campaign will encourage people across the globe to tweet to donate a meal to a local food charity, enabling EVERYONE to help create a brighter future where nutritious food is more accessible.body 1
Share a Meal South Africa: how can YOU get involved?
On World Food Day (Sunday 16 October) all you need do is tweet #ShareAMealSA (or post the same hashtag on our whatsfordinner? Facebook page) and Knorr will donate a meal on your behalf in partnership with FoodForward SA. It's really that simple – and we'll be available all day on both Twitter and Facebook to thank you for your contribution!
In parallel, globally Knorr is donating ONE MILLION nutritious meals to the World Food Programme.
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Their services include food rescuing, virtual food banking, food management, and enterprise and skills development. If you'd like to find out more, or make a further donation on World Food Day, visit their website or their Facebook page.
More About Knorr And World Food Day
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OMS is moving into Britain because of the support offered to new space firms. Originating in Boulder, Colorado, the company is opening a data-processing center in Harwell, Oxfordshire, and a hardware facility in Glasgow, Scotland. "The UK's In-Orbit Demonstration program is unique; it doesn't exist anywhere else," says OMS CEO William Hosack. "The speed with which we were able to integrate into the UK space ecosystem and start the conversation is blazingly fast. "And for small companies in space that's really important - we don't have the luxury of waiting around 10 years to launch our satellite; we need to do it inside 18 months," he told BBC News.
The IOD space mission will deliver the first OMS satellite to orbit, and is expected to immediately change the global availability of weather data by delivering detailed weather information which complements data available from the large institutional satellites that are currently in use. Using a number of innovative engineering techniques, OMS has reduced the footprint from satellites weighing up to 2,500 kg down to a package the size of a shoebox. Just as importantly, OMS technology reduces weather satellite deployment costs by some 95%.
The payload, consisting of a 10 x 10 x 15 cm sized instrument in a 3U CubeSat satellite, will be launched in autumn 2018 by NanoRacks and put into low earth orbit via their NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) on the International Space Station – via NanoRacks' Space Act Agreement with NASA's US National Lab. Innovate UK has invested £1.5 million in the IOD program, which offers a CubeSat platform from Clyde Space and associated launch for four missions.
The objectives of the IOD-1 GEMS Mission are centered around demonstrating the successful operation of the MiniRad payload and providing representative data that can be used to demonstrate to potential customers the validity of the service.
OMS projects its GEMS (Global Environmental Monitoring Satellite) program will scale to some thirty-five units on orbit, providing temperature, humidity and precipitation at different levels throughout the atmosphere, with a fifteen-minute refresh rate – for any point on the globe.
OMS anticipates delivering actionable weather data to a wide variety of markets including aerospace, maritime transportation, agriculture, insurance and energy. Airlines and shipping companies will be able to plan routes that optimize weather conditions, reducing delays, fuel consumption and emissions while operating with greater safety. Reductions of transoceanic flight times by just three minutes per segment will save the global airline industry nearly one million dollars in a single day.
The vastly improved refresh rate will also allow for more accurate forecasting and tracking of major weather events such as hurricanes, and better weather mitigation planning for farmers around the world, improving the stability and security of the global food supply.
- The Platform, a 3U CubeSat manufactured by Clyde Space Ltd. (CSL).
- The Ground Segment consisting the Catapult's GHY-99 ground station at Goonhilly Earth Station, UK and the Catapult's CEMS data infrastructure for control and processing.
- A deployment from the ISS provided via NanoRacks' Space Act Agreement with NASA's US National Lab.
- A User Segment via the recently announced ICED (International Center for Earth Data) collaboration between OMS and the University of Edinburgh.
The IOD-1 GEMS Mission has a nominal lifetime of 6 months that can be split into 4 distinct phases as highlighted in Figure 4.
Microwave radiance assimilation has been shown to have the largest positive impact to the accuracy of NWP (Numerical Weather Prediction) models of any assimilated observation by C. Cardinali (Ref. 10). This is due to their penetration through clouds allowing for all-weather characterization of the state of the atmosphere. Other critical surface, cloud, and precipitation parameters are derived from the soundings, and include surface skin temperature/emissivity, sea ice edge/concentration, total precipitable water, the hydrometeor products of non-precipitating cloud liquid, rain and cloud ice, and indirect detection of the rate and phase distribution of precipitation.
- Employing proven technology used in many larger weather monitoring platforms, such as the ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder) aboard the JPSS-1 (Joint Polar Satellite System-1), the innovative OMS radiometer will deliver highly-accurate temperature, humidity, and precipitation data critical for business decisions at a fraction of the cost of heritage government programs. The mission is part of the In-Orbit Demonstrator (IOD) Program, funded by Innovate UK and managed by the Satellite Applications Catapult. OMS is on track to launch six to eight satellites in 2019 to establish its Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) constellation.
- The payload, consisting of a 10 x 10 x 15cm sized instrument in a 3U CubeSat satellite, will be launched in autumn 2018 by NanoRacks and put into LEO (Low Earth Orbit) via their CubeSat deployer (NRCSD) on the International Space Station. Innovate UK has invested œ1.5 million in the IOD program which offers a CubeSat platform from Clyde Space and associated launch for four missions.
- OMS, originally of Boulder, Colorado, is a leader in developing advanced instrumentation for small satellites that gather weather data more frequently and with better clarity than the large institutional satellites that are currently in use. Using a number of innovative engineering techniques, OMS has reduced the footprint from satellites weighing up to 2,500 kg down to a package the size of a shoebox. Just as importantly, OMS technology reduces weather satellite deployment costs by some 95 percent.
- Its GEMS (Global Environmental Monitoring Satellites) will record temperature, humidity and precipitation at different levels throughout the atmosphere. When the full constellation of 35 satellites is in service by 2020, OMS will be able to provide global coverage at 16 km2 resolution, with data refreshed every 15 minutes, rather than once or twice per day which is currently the norm.
- The company predicts this will open up a wide variety of opportunities in various markets including aerospace, maritime transportation, agriculture, insurance and energy. Airlines and shipping companies will be able to plan routes that optimize weather conditions, reducing delays, fuel consumption and emissions while operating with greater safety. Reductions of transoceanic flight times by just three minutes per segment will save the global airline industry nearly œ1 million in a single day.
- The vastly improved refresh rate will also allow for more accurate forecasting and tracking of major weather events such as hurricanes, and better weather mitigation planning for the global farming industry. Global food security is a major concern of OMS, and the company is confident that GEMS will play a key role in this area.
- The IOD mission will serve as the first step of the GEMS roll-out and provide the "proof of concept" for the first ever commercial space-based microwave radiometer sounding spectrometer, retrieving temperature data in eight vertical atmospheric layers.
- OMS chose to test its technology through the IOD program because of Britain's unique "space ecosystem". Having pioneered the concept of small satellites and being the global leader in the development of large constellations, Britain is recognized worldwide for its ability to foster innovation in space services. "We could have gone anywhere, but for us the UK is the center of gravity," said William Hosack, CEO, OMS.
These subsystems are arranged as shown in Figure 3. The total satellite mass including payload will be approximately 4 kg.
EPS Electrical Power Subsystem): The combination of the CSL FlexU EPS, Double Deploy Solar Panels with 28 Spectrolab UTJ Cells, and 30 Whr battery provide the required 12 V, 3V3 and BATV buses to the various subsystems and payload. A payload duty of cycle of 50% is expected to be possible within the energy budget allowed, with the possibility for a higher duty cycle with optimization during operations.
Communications Subsystems: The IOD-1 GEMS platform will utilize the CPUT VUTRX for telecommand (over VHF) and telemetry (over UHF) with 9.6 kbit/s duplex communication. This has been combined with CSL's dual, dipole ADM for omnidirectional coverage. — To downlink the larger volumes of payload data, CPUT's HSTX will be employed, operating within the 2.2-2.3GHz part of S-band. The HSTX is capable of 10 Mbit/s raw data rate, which equates to approximately 4.5 Mbit/s usable given the selection of modulation and encoding schemes, resulting a data budget of approximately 950 MB per day given the available ground stations.
ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem): The ADCS for the IOD-1 GEMS platform consists of a version of CSL standard High Precision ADCS, incorporating 5 x Coarse Sun Sensors, 5 x Magnetorquers, a 3-axis reaction wheel system, rates sensors and magnetometers in the ADCS motherboard, a GPS receiver on the OBC, and 4 x additional 3rd Party Fine Sun Sensors for improved knowledge. The ADCS provides <0.5º pointing knowledge when in sunlight, with <2 º pointing control. The inclusion of star tracker to enable better pointing knowledge (including during eclipse) was evaluated but deemed unfeasible due to volume constraints, and as such the operation of the payload will be constrained mostly to the sunlit portion of the orbit.
Data Handling Subsystems & Software: CSL's standard OBC (On-Board Computer) forms the hearth of the IOD-1 GEMS platform and will be running on-board software developed by Bright Ascension Ltd (BAL), based upon their GenerationOne Flight Software Development Kit, enable mostly automatic scheduled operation of the platform, with scheduling performed in the BAL Mission Control Software.
Platform Configuration: The completed platform configuration with the double deploy solar panels and payload in their deployed configuration. In a nominal payload operational mode, the satellite will be orientated with the -Z face (the payload mirror) in the along-track direction.
Expected Results and Impact: While the IOD-1 GEMS Missions is in the AITV (Assembly, Integration, Test and Verification) phase at the time publishing with the launch anticipated for 2019, the expected results and impacts of the successful competition of the IOD-1 Mission are threefold: those specific to the payload, those enabling the follow up constellation and those to the wide UK space industry.
Expected IOD-1 Mission Results: Successful completion of the IOD-1 GEMS Mission by the end of 2019 would provide OMS with verification that the MiniRad sensor design works correctly and provide an initial data sets to prime the pipes of the downstream value add services that will utilize the data provided by the operational GEMS constellation. — The successful completion will also mark a milestone for the Catapult, proving that it can lead delivery of small satellite mission to the benefit of its partner companies and consortia in a short 18-month timescale.
Future GEMS Constellation: Successful completion of the IOD-1 GEMS mission is an enabling step to OMS deploying its GEMS (Global Environmental Monitoring System) which will record temperature, humidity and precipitation at different levels throughout the atmosphere. When the full constellation of 35-40 satellites is in service, OMS will be able to provide global coverage at 16 km2 resolution, with data refreshed every 15 minutes, rather than once or twice per day which is currently the norm.
The Cygnus NG-11 spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the space station until 23 July , when it will depart, deploy NanoRacks customer CubeSats into a higher orbit, and then have an extended mission in orbit until December before it will dispose of several tons of trash during a scheduled fiery reentry and destruction in Earth's atmosphere.
Orbit: Near-circular orbit, altitude of ~ 400 km, inclination = 51.6º, period of ~ 92 minutes.
MiniRad is a passive microwave radiometer capable of measuring temperature at different levels of the atmosphere. The resulting data has a wide range of applications from improved weather forecasting, better crop yields and safer and more efficient route planning for aviation and shipping (Ref. 3).
Microwave radiance assimilation has been shown to have the largest positive impact to the accuracy of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models of any assimilated observation by Cardinali. 10) This is due to their penetration through clouds allowing for all-weather characterization of the state of the atmosphere. Other critical surface, cloud, and precipitation parameters are derived from the soundings, and include surface skin temperature/emissivity, sea ice edge/concentration, total precipitable water, the hydrometeor products of non-precipitating cloud liquid, rain and cloud ice, and indirect detection of the rate and phase distribution of precipitation.
Measurement principle: IOD-1 is the initial step in the OMS GEMS constellation which is the first commercially owned and operated space-based radiometer at the 118.75 GHz oxygen resonance. This radiometer will provide vertical retrieval of atmospheric temperature profiles from 0 to 30 km by using a cross-track scanning sounder with 8 channels in the 118.75 GHz oxygen resonance band for temperature retrievals. These highly sensitive radiometers can probe closer to the ground by measuring as high as 6 GHz off the center frequency.
Payload heritage: The 118 GHz oxygen band, while well-known from airborne demonstrations is a relatively new radiometric measurement from space. The China Meteorological Administration's (CMA) MicroWave Humidity Sounder-2 (MWHS-2) on-board the FY- 3C (Feng-Yun-3C) polar orbiting satellite launched in 2013 operates a 118 GHz spectrometer for which the data has been successfully assimilated into the ECMWF forecast model. The choice of band at a higher frequency, as opposed to current temperature sounders observing in the oxygen band at 50-57 GHz, allows for the payload (i.e. reflector aperture) to be smaller while maintaining high spatial resolution. OMS developed and demonstrated the 118 GHz radiometer on an aircraft platform prior to the IOD-1 mission and an experimental version of the instrument is due to launch in 2019 (NASA IceBridge and PolarCube).
Payload configuration and operation: The OMS sounder has a spinning offset parabolic main reflector that is unshrouded and supported by a boom appendage that extends from the spacecraft (Figure NO TAG#). The boom is mechanically deployed after launch which minimizes reaction torque on the vehicle when compared to other CubeSat designs where the entire instrument (reflector, feed horns, electronics, shroud, etc.) rotates. In addition, it enables full (along-track and across-track) Nyquist spatial sampling by achieving the necessary 1 Hz rate of mirror rotation, an unobstructed view of cold space for calibration, and precise compensation of spillover radiation. The instrument power consumption is less than 8 W and the instrument produces lower data downlink needs as compared to imagers which ideally suits it for CubeSat platforms.
Data product and uses: Data will be downlinked to the Catapult's Ground Segment and then data will be brought into OMS's ICED (International Center for Earth Data) which is responsible for ingestion, data processing, storage, and distribution. ICED is an international collaboration of academic and commercial entities who are leveraging their respective skills and new data sources to meet new data needs. Customers will be able to securely access the ICED environment to update subscriptions, retrieve data on demand, and leverage the common cloud services for their own proprietary data, algorithms, and analytics. Customers include those who are impacted by weather or the environment, including transpiration, energy, food production and insurance.
Enabling the next step development: OMS is designing new small satellite sensors and platforms to provide low latency and high spatial resolution data products and services to enable actionable weather intelligence. OMS is working toward a constellation architecture with the information gained during the IOD-1 mission.
Beginning in the mid 1990's, weather data began a transition from a high science data only used by the military, researchers, and the largest of risk mitigation practices, to a tool used in all aspects of business across countless markets. Today the use of weather data is prolific and will only continue to be integrated deeper into business and market operations. As rapid as the growth of weather data usage has been, there is still a substantial amount of the Earth's surface and atmosphere that remain under observed. To date, the primary providers of weather data have been government agencies such as NASA, NOAA, US Air Force, ESA, EUMETSAT, JAXA, etc. As with any new technical industry that stems from government research and development, there comes a day when private industry will become the leader and technology driver. OMS intends to facilitate that transition by leading the way as a premium commercial alternative in weather data acquisition.
1) Our state-of-the-art microwave sensor is the core instrument of our satellites. It observes two channels, water and oxygen. Infrared cameras are focused on temperature wavelength and filtered visible cameras offer NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index).
2) Primary observation data includes temperature and moisture measurements. These two pieces of information can be combined to monitor a vast array of weather events.
3) The weather data is consolidated at our terrestrial control center. It can be delivered to you via VPN (Virtual Private Network), directly over the web, or in a writable package. There are a number of other delivery methods.
4) Data can be made available whenever and wherever you require. It may flow internally or be distributed to client-designated rework or analytics partners.
5) The data we provide is used by our clients for financial modeling, catastrophe preparation, risk mitigation, agriculture, transportation, and research.


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#1 of 10 Top Android App Agencies of 2022 - Lounge Lizard is a creative agency that offers a wide range of services including app development, web design/development, UX design, branding, digital marketing, website maintenance, and more. Its app development services are among its most popular offerings, and it has seen ample experience with designing for phones, tablets, and even wearable technology. Currently, Lounge Lizard has two offices in New York, one in Washington DC, and another in Nashville. The agency boasts a perfect 5 out of 5 rating on UpCity, and its list of clients and serviced industries is quite long and prestigious.
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Appstem
#2 of 10 Top Android Development Agencies of 2022 - With a high-profile list of clients, including Enterprise, Tesla, Johnson & Johnson, and Lionsgate, Appstem is one of the most prolific software development companies in the economy today. They classify themselves a cutting-edge, boutique firm that offers high specific development services to their clients. Soon to be celebrating their 12th year of operation, Appstem begins their development process through a meticulous level of research and planning, followed by the creation of human-focused websites and mobile apps. Not only are they able to handle incredibly complex logistics, but they offer continuous support for their clients; updating and enhancing features deemed essential for business success.
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In the mid-1960s, Erato recorded a good many of Jolivet�s works. These recordings were either conducted or supervised by the composer. This and the fact that most performers taking part in these recordings had a long association with the music give them an unmistakable ring of authenticity, although younger musicians have now successfully followed suit. Some time later, all the concertos, but the Bassoon Concerto, were re-issued in a boxed set of LPs. Now, at long last, Erato are re-issuing these splendid performances in a generously filled and neatly re-mastered 4-CD set. Among others this brings several works back into the current catalogue. Several works, such as the cello concertos, the Ondes Martenot Concerto and Cinq Danses rituelles (at least in their orchestral guise) have not been recorded since the time of these Erato recordings. This set includes works from various periods of Jolivet�s busy composing career which allows for a pretty comprehensive survey.
The earlier works are the fairly well-known. These include Incantations for solo flute of 1936-1937 and the rarely heard Cinq Danses rituelles of 1939, although the original piano version is reasonably well represented on disc. Incantations is the first and the best known of several substantial works for solo instruments that Jolivet composed throughout his career. The other ones (Suite rhapsodique for violin, Asceses for clarinet, Eglogues for viola and Suite en concert for cello) are rather less well-known, although they have all been recorded. André Navarra�s recording of Suite en concert for Erato was coupled Kodaly�s Sonata for solo cello. Both Cinq Danses rituelles and Incantations as well as the piano suite Mana belong to Jolivet�s first period. The music adheres to some of the �principles� set-out by the Jeune France group (Messiaen, Jolivet, Baudrier and Daniel-Lesur), "to restore music�s ancient, original meaning when it was the magic and incantatory expression of the sacred in human communities" (Jolivet�s own words). Jolivet stuck to this and other guidelines all his life. His meeting and private studies with Edgard Varèse also greatly helped him achieving his ideals, at least in musical terms. One might be tempted to consider Cinq Danses as a remake of Stravinsky�s Rite of Spring, which must have been at the back of his mind at the time, but which is a literally unique achievement, difficult to imitate and impossible to emulate. Jolivet went his own way and the end result is a gripping score of great intensity and great expressive strength, but ultimately tamer that Stravinsky�s earth-shaking masterpiece.
During the war years, Jolivet�s music became much simpler and more accessible, although he managed to avoid neo-classical clichés; the same clichés rejected by Jeune France. This is clearly to be heard in the beautiful Suite liturgique (1942 - voice, oboe doubling cor anglais, cello and harp) and Poèmes intimes (1944 � voice and piano which Bernac and Poulenc often performed in recitals), both heard here, and the lovely Pastorales de Noël (1943 � flute, bassoon and harp), not included here though I think that it, too, was recorded by Erato. Suite liturgique, for solo female voice and instruments, originates in some incidental music for Henri Ghéon�s Mystère de la visitation. The version for female voices and instruments heard here was made at the suggestion of Lily Laskine. Poèmes intimes on words by Louis Emié is dedicated to the composer�s wife on their 10th wedding anniversary. He will do so every ten years. Epithalame for chorus and Yin Yang for strings were similarly celebrating other such anniversaries. All the pieces of that period, i.e. up to about 1950, are characterised by clarity, economy of means and direct appeal, without ever falling into the trap of facility. The Serenade for wind quintet and the fairly well-known Chant de Linos provide further examples of such clear, direct, superbly crafted and expressive music, for all its apparent simplicity.
Concertos (he composed twelve of them) feature prominently in Jolivet�s output. They were composed at various periods of his life and under varied circumstances (some were written as test pieces while other were written with specific soloists in mind), so that each has its own character. It may be surprising to know that the Concerto for ondes Martenot was the first to be composed. Other composers had used the ondes Martenot previously (one thinks of Messiaen in his sextet La Fête des belles eaux and Koechlin in Le Buisson ardent and the Seven Stars Symphony as well as Honegger in Jeanne au Bûcher); but Jolivet�s may well be the first full-fledged concerto for the instrument. Obliquely inspired by the myth of Orpheus, it is in three movements, albeit not along the traditional pattern (fast-slow-fast). The tension accumulated in the course of the first two movements, and particularly in the central nightmarish movement, is released in the beautifully magical final movement ending peacefully on a luminous final major chord. There are not that many concertos for ondes Martenot (I can mention that of Marcel Landowski, Concertino "alla francese" of Jacques Charpentier and the refined and subtly impressionistic Kaleidoscope of Jacques Bondon as equally successful works for ondes Martenot and orchestra or instrumental ensemble). The present re-issue of Jolivet�s superb concerto is most welcome. The Flute Concerto (1949), the Trumpet Concertino (1948), the Harp Concerto (1952), the Trumpet Concerto No.2 and the Suite en concert (1965/6) for flute and percussion, often referred to as Flute Concerto No.2, are comparatively better-known. They are fairly often heard in concert and well served as far as recordings are concerned; I will not dwell on them for too long. Suffice it to say that they are all superbly written for the instruments, calling for musicality and virtuosity as well, but never gratuitously so. They all cleverly avoid all the instrumental formulas that one may sometimes find in such pieces. All the soloists play with the prerequisite virtuosity, technique and commitment. Jean-Pierre Rampal often played Jolivet�s music for flute, and Maurice André really made Jolivet�s trumpet music his own. Two other trumpet works here were often championed by Maurice André, the short Arioso barocco (1968 � trumpet and organ) and the more substantial Heptade (1970 � trumpet and percussion). In his recording of Heptade, André is accompanied by a huge array of percussion instruments played by no less than Jean-Claude Casadesus, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Diego Masson and Jean-Charles François. This highly demanding virtuoso piece in seven contrasted movements (hence its title), was written for Maurice André and uses the whole gamut of modern trumpet playing calling for a remarkable agility � and musicality � on the player�s part to bring it off successfully. Need I say that Maurice André does bring it off in a most successful way? On the other hand, the delightful Bassoon Concerto is somewhat lesser-known, which is a pity because it does not pale when compared to the other wind concertos.
The cello was Jolivet�s own instrument, so no wonder that his cello concertos are among his greatest achievements. By the time he completed his Cello Concerto No.1 (1962), Jolivet had already composed one of his most gripping and personal, and at times controversial, works - the impressive Piano Concerto of 1951 (a recording of it is now available again on Les Rarissimes de André Jolivet � EMI 7243 5 85237-2 that I reviewed here some time ago). In this as in the First Cello Concerto, Jolivet, now in his full maturity and in full command of his skills, really achieves his Jeune France ideals, in invigorating musical terms full of contrasts, arresting sonorities and rhythmic alertness. In the first and second movements of the First Cello Concerto, the music conjures mysterious, ominous, primeval visions, no less so in the extraordinary second movement; really a jungle in sounds that also includes a remarkable cadenza. The third movement, a brilliant moto perpetuo, has the dancing quality often associated with Jolivet�s final movements, and rushes headlong towards its mightily assertive conclusion. Suite en concert for solo cello was completed some time later. This impressive, often quite beautiful work in five contrasted movements is certainly not unworthy the comparison with Bach�s cello suites (to which it pays a passing tribute), Bartok�s Sonata for Solo Violin and, of course, Kodaly�s grand Sonata for Solo Cello. This demanding music (Navarra once recalled in an interview how his fingers were bleeding after the first run-through), though, still is as communicative as ever. This led to the completion of the Second Cello Concerto written for and first performed by Rostropovich. Though unmistakably by the same composer, the Second Cello Concerto is poles apart from its predecessor. First, it is scored for strings (including a solo quintet surrounding the soloist). Second, it is on the whole more lyrical. The music, as demanding as ever, fully displays Jolivet�s orchestral mastery; for, while renouncing the hugely varied sound palette of the First Cello Concerto, Jolivet conjures some remarkably imaginative and powerfully expressive string writing. As far as I am concerned, Jolivet�s cello concertos undoubtedly belong to his greatest achievements, though they are still unjustly and shamefully neglected by cellists, which is hard to understand, when one thinks of the comparative popularity of Dutilleux�s and Lutosławski�s equally demanding and rewarding concertos.
One of the Erato recordings, that � much to my dismay � is unaccountably missing in the present compilation, is that of the magnificent �concerto for voice and orchestra� Songe à nouveau rêvé (1970), one of his supreme masterpieces and one of the peaks of his output. It was available on the same LP as Poèmes intimes (STU 71120) marvellously sung by Colette Herzog with superb support from the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg conducted by Alain Lombard. I know that making compilations such as this one often poses cruel dilemmas; but I cannot understand how this could have been left out. I hope that it will soon be re-issued in one way or another.
All these works are superbly played by artists long associated with Jolivet�s music. The recorded sound is generally very fine. The original recordings of the Harp Concerto and of the Ondes Martenot Concerto were a bit problematic, but they now sound remarkably well.
Apart from my reservation concerning the absence of Songe à nouveau rêvé, this compilation is a must for all admirers of Jolivet�s music, the more so that some of these works are otherwise unavailable on CD. This set is also a fair introduction to Jolivet�s substantial and varied output. As such it may be safely recommended to those who want to investigate his music, in excellent performances and at quite approachable expense.


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Nyo Min Lwin (; born 28 September 1979) is a Burmese film director, scriptwriter and former actor. He is best known for directing the first Myanmar LGBT film The Gemini (2016) and the first Myanmar sci-fi film Ananda: Rise of Notra (2019). His career began as an actor in Burmese films and gained success as a director in the early days of his career by directing horror films.  Throughout his career, he has acted in over 15 films and directed over 100 films.

Early life and education
Nyo  Min Lwin was born on 28 September 1979 in Yangon, Myanmar. He is the only son of Aung Win, a writer who wrote under the pen name Pike Htwe, and his wife Khin Mya Thi. He attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 6 Ahlone and also attended to Myanmar Motion Picture Organisation's Acting Class in 1998. He graduated from University of Distance Education, Yangon with a degree in Psychology in 2013.

Career
He studied filmmaking when 15 years old. In 1998, he debuted as an actor in the television series Mayana Kone The. He has since appeared in many films. He wrote his first script in 1999 for the film Kyun Taw Chit Thaw Min Ma Myar. He then took a directing course under Academy winner director Mg Myo Min (Yin Twin Phyit) in 2000 before settling into the director's chair himself. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with the film Thein Mwei Sue (Delicated Thorn) in 2000. In 2002, he directed his first psychological thriller film Ein Mat Pya Dite (Dream Museum) was not exactly released. In 2006, he produced his first real ghost film Nya Kyaung (The Night School), a big hit with lovers of the genre. His first blockbuster film was Hninsi Ka Kyoe in 2014. In the same year, he directed his first big-screen film Datshin Yike Thu Myar.

In 2015, he directed the horror film The Loom, not only directed, but also took on a leading role in this film. The film has been shot entirely with an iPhone 6 and 6+, and an iPhone 5 and 5+ for the sound recording. He also used an iPad Air and a MacBook Pro for editing and an iPad Air to provide the background music. He used an iPhone 6+ for colour corrections and brought the movie up to the 4K resolution standard (4096 x 2160) to show it in local cinemas. The same year, he co-founded the Night School Pictures and Algebra VFX Studio. He also directed the first Myanmar sci-fi film Ananda: Rise of Notra, was screened in Myanmar cinemas on 11 July 2019.

In 2016, he directed the film The Gemini, was the first LGBT film in cinema of Myanmar and openly railed against the Burmese homosexuality laws. The film was screened in Myanmar cinemas on 2 December 2016 and also premiered at the Cinema Village in New York City on 9 September 2016, and became the first Burmese film shown in Hollywood.

In 2019, he directed the film Mya Mya, base on the true story of Mya Mya, a girl who was raped and murdered.

Selected filmography

Film
over 15 films, including
Won Pa Lway Nya Thone Nar Yi (2009)
Nya Tasay (2009)
Nga Main Ma Ko Chauk Tae Tasay (2013)
Ta Ma Lon (2013)
Di Nya Lar Mae (2014)
Yay Khae Tit Tar (2015)
The Loom (2015)
Sit Ko Mone Ywae Tite Khae Ti (2018)

Directed film
Over 100 films, including
Thein Mwei Sue (2000)
Nya Kyaung (2006)
Won Pa Lway Nya Thone Nar Yi (2009)
Nya Tasay (2009)
Ta Ma Lon (2013)
Nga Main Ma Ko Chauk Tae Tasay (2013)
Di Nya Lar Mae (2014)
Hninsi Ka Kyoe (2014)
Lat Phwae Chin Thee Khan Par (2014)
The Fridge (2015)
The Wedding Night (2015)
Ko Ko Ma Ngo Par Nae (2015)
Yay Khae Tit Tar (2015)

Directed film (Cinema)
Datshin Yike Thu Myar (2014)
Lu Thar Myar Ko Chauk Lant Yan Tasay (2014)
The Loom (2015)
Ta Kaung Alo Shi The (2015)
The Gemini (2016)
Angel of Vengeance (2016)
Ananda: Rise of Notra (2019)
Mya Mya (2020)
The Teacher(2023)

Personal life
Nyo Min Lwin married to Sandar Lwin in 2015. They have two daughters named Ye Yint Hninsi Lwin and Pantra Hninsi Lwin.

References

External links

Nyo Min Lwin on Burmese Video Directory

1979 births
Burmese male film actors
21st-century Burmese male actors
Burmese film directors
People from Yangon
Living people

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CHARLOTTE — Video shows a man bodychecking a CNN reporter during a live report in Charlotte during the second night of protests over the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott.
CNN reporter Ed Lavandera, who was knocked several feet and sent sprawling on the concrete, was apparently not badly hurt. Lavandera stood up, fixed his ear piece and told the anchor "we're fine."
CNN reporter @edlavaCNN says man who shoved him on live TV later gave him hug and apologized #Charlotte pic.twitter.com/tX6k0qKvHH
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One person was killed during the protests Wednesday evening – shot by another civilian – the North Carolina city tweeted on its official account. Charlotte police did not fire the shot, the tweet said.
For a second night, protests over a deadly officer-involved shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, turned violent, with police firing tear gas and demonstrators throwing objects and trying to damage vehicles.
Keith Lamont Scott, a father of seven, was killed by police in an apartment complex parking lot Tuesday as officers looked for another man named in a warrant they were trying to serve.
The shooting set off a long night of violent protests and Wednesday the demonstrations continued for a second night, starting off as a peaceful march through downtown Charlotte.
But when the demonstrators neared an Omni Hotel, some people climbed the roof of an outdoor mall and started throwing objects at the crowd.
Other people were banging on the doors of the hotel, and police in riot gear emerged in the entrance.
Differing stories on shooting
His family said Scott, an African-American, was unarmed and sitting in his car reading a book, waiting for his son to come home from school.
But Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said Scott exited his car with a gun, not a book. He said officers couldn't find a book at the scene.
"It's time for the voiceless majority to stand up and be heard," said the police chief, who is black.
"It's time to change the narrative because I can tell you from the facts that the story's a little bit different as to how it's been portrayed so far, especially through social media."
Putney said evidence and witnesses support the officers' claim that Scott was armed.
Officers repeatedly told Scott to drop his handgun, the chief said, but he didn't. Officer Brentley Vinson, who is black, then shot him.
The chief said he was not certain whether Scott pointed his gun at officers. Vinson, who was in plain clothes and wearing a CMPD vest, did not have a body camera. Three uniformed officers were wearing cameras and investigators are reviewing the footage.
A person doesn't have to point a weapon directly at police to prompt deadly force, CNN law enforcement analyst Art Roderick said.
"You don't have to actually wait until a handgun is pointed at you because you're talking milliseconds of a decision as to whether you're going to pull your trigger, or that individual is going to pull their trigger," Roderick said.
Who is the officer?
Vinson has worked for Charlotte-Mecklenburg police for two years.
He played football at Liberty University from 2009-2012 and majored in criminal justice, according to his biography on Liberty University's website.
Former teammate Austin Marsh told CNN that Vinson was a "standup guy."
"It breaks my heart to see something like this happen, and I have a really hard time believing that Brent shot a man in his car while waiting for his (son) for no reason," Marsh said.
"Brent has always been a great guy founded on good morals. I find it very hard to believe that he would gun down an innocent man."
CNN briefly spoke to Vinson's father, Alex Vinson, on the phone. He asked for privacy and said no one in the family would be speaking to the media.
The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave, Mayor Jennifer Roberts said.
Daughter streams video on Facebook Live
Moments after her father was shot, Lyric Scott started recording on Facebook Live, livid and screaming at officers on the scene.
"They shot my daddy 'cause he's black," she said. "He was sitting in his car reading a mother******* book. So they shot him. That's what happened."
Lyric, who keeps the camera on officers through most of the 31-minute video, said her father often goes outside to read a book.
About halfway through the video, Lyric apparently learns from a news report that her father has died. She starts screaming and crying hysterically.
"My daddy's dead! My daddy's dead!" she screams. "Where's the cop that shot my daddy?"
On Wednesday, Keith Scott's wife released a statement saying her family is devastated and she called for protesters to remain calm.
"Keith was a loving husband, father, brother and friend who will be deeply missed every day," Rakeyia Scott said. "As a family, we respect the rights of those who wish to protest, but we ask that people protest peacefully. Please do not hurt people or members of law enforcement, damage property or take things that do not belong to you in the name of protesting."
Bottles, rocks and fires
Hundreds of protesters rallied overnight, chanting "black lives matter." Some threw rocks at police, set fires and blocked part of Interstate 85.
Others jumped on top of a police van and stomped on it, breaking the windshield and other windows.
Putney said 16 officers were injured in the protests.
At least seven people were hospitalized with minor injuries, CNN affiliate WSOC reported. Five others were arrested.
The mayor and police chief implored the community to refrain from more violence.
And while community leaders also said they don't condone violence, B.J. Murphy of the Nation of Islam called for a different kind of protest.
"What we're calling for is an economic boycott of the whole city Charlotte," he said. "Since black lives do not matter for this city, then our black dollars shouldn't matter."
Protesters began demonstrating again Wednesday evening at police headquarters in Charlotte. From there they marched to one of the city's downtown parks before returning to the area around police station.
'When will our lives truly matter?'
Corine Mack, who attended the protests, said the community is frustrated.
"When will our lives truly matter? A black father is dead. There are children tonight who will never see their father again," said Mack, president of the Charlotte chapter of the NAACP.
"We need to change policies. We need to change procedure. We need to hold police accountable. It's a modern-day lynching. Charlotte is not a good place right now; we're in the throes of this problem."
Gov. Pat McCrory said he has been in touch with the mayor and other city officials as they tried to restore calm..
"My prayers are with the Scott family and also our law enforcement, especially the 16 police officers who were injured last night."
Another controversial police shooting
The Charlotte case is the latest in a series of controversial shootings of black men by police. Protesters have been demanding justice and an end to police brutality for months.
Last week's fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sparked protests after video of the killing was aired Monday.
Crutcher's father, the Rev. Joey Crutcher, said the overnight protests in Charlotte are "just a continuation of the same thing over and over and over again."
"And it's perpetuated against people of color more than anything else," he said. "If it would have been in the reverse, if it would have been a Caucasian, it would have been totally different."
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged the country's racial tensions after the latest police shootings.
"They have once again highlighted — in the most vivid and painful terms — the real divisions that still persist in this nation between law enforcement and communities of color," Lynch said.
She denounced the violence that erupted in Charlotte.
"Protest is protected by our Constitution and is a vital instrument for raising issues and creating change. But when it turns violent, it undermines the very justice that it seeks to achieve."


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Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka from 1972) 1960–5, 1970–7, 1994–2000 Born in Balangoda, she married Solomon Bandaranaike in 1940. She became involved in politics only upon her husband's assassination, becoming president of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in May 1960. Despite her inexperience, the wave of sympathy was so strong that months later she was made the world's first woman Prime Minister. She developed her late husband's neutralist policies further to the left, bringing the main Marxist group out of opposition and into her government in 1964. In opposition, she formed the United Front together with the Marxists and other left‐wing groups, leading to her re‐election. She severed the country's ties with Great Britain and proclaimed a new, socialist constitution. The United Front collapsed in 1975, amidst signs of economic decline and civil unrest. She lost the 1977 elections, and in 1980 was expelled from parliament for her abuse of power. While she continued to command considerable respect, this was not enough to ensure success in her bid for the presidency in 1988. She became Prime Minister once again in 1994, after her daughter, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumatunga (b. 1945), had been elected President. She coordinated government policy, whose main lines were determined by Kumatunga. She died on election day, hours after casting her vote in the elections.


First Informers: Hurricane Irma | Broadcast Public Service: Local Stations. Big Impact.
In September 2017, Hurricane Irma struck the southeastern United States. As Irma approached, radio and television broadcasters took to the airwaves to warn those in the storm's path about the oncoming danger. During the storm, local broadcasters provided lifeline support as 'first informers,' relaying emergency and disaster relief information. And after the skies cleared, radio and TV stations played a critical role in the recovery and rebuilding efforts of their hometown communities.
These feats of courage, dedication and generosity demonstrated by local radio and TV broadcasters are captured in this short film produced by Media Arts Professor Scott Hodgson and his students at the University of Oklahoma, and Chandra Clark, professor of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama.


MOUNT VERNON — The Knox County Career Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an open house Monday, 5-7 p.m.
The career center, known as the Joint Vocational School for many years, was established in 1966 with classes beginning two years later. KCCC currently offers 19 career technical programs to high school students and 17 programs to adult students through Knox Technical Center. The KCCC Schools District includes a five-star preschool and provides career technical assistance to any career programs offered at local high schools.
The school opened in 1968 with programs in agriculture, business, automotive, cosmetology, drafting, electricity, health, machine trades, and welding. English and Social Studies were the academic classes offered to high school students. Auto Technology classes were held in a rented facility on Sandusky Street beginning in September of 1968. The main school building opened Sept. 3, 1969, with 15 vocational programs and 324 students. Two adult education programs started that fall.
The open house is open to ninth, 10th and 11th grade students, alumni, businesses and community members. It will be held from 5-7 p.m. at KCCC.


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The following quiz round was submitted by Graham Canning from the UK. Many thanks Graham, a great round.
1. Classic horror film directed by Jacques Tournier in 1942 and remade in 1982 by Paul Schrader. Which film?
2. In which 1970 film did Richard Harris play Englishman John Morgan captured by the Sioux ?
3. 1998 Tim Burton film starring Michael Keaton as a devious "bio-exorcist". Which film?
4. John Huston film of a Tennessee Williams play starring Richard Burton and Ava Gardner. Which film?
5. 1959 vehicle for Peter Sellers set in the imaginary European country of Grand Fenwick. Which film?
6. 2009 spin off from the X-Men series starring Hugh Jackman. Which film?
7. 1968 historical drama starring Peter O'Toole and with an Oscar winning performance from Katherine Hepburn. Which film?
8. Kevin Costner epic of 1990, his first as director. Which film?
9. Thriller of 1975 concerning the CIA and starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. Which film?
10. 2009 comedy film based on Jon Ronson's book about the US military's investigations into the use of psychic powers in warfare. Which film?
1. Cat People.
2. A Man Called Horse.
3. Beetlejuice.
4. The Night of the Iguana
5. The Mouse that Roared.
6. X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
7. The Lion in Winter.
8. Dances with Wolves.
9. Three Days of the Condor.
10. The Men Who Stare at Goats.
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Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn Not Returning for STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season 3
Anson Mount, who joined the cast of Star Trek: Discovery last year, is set to depart at the culmination of the series' second season. Mount, who plays Captain Christopher Pike, has been a standout and a focus of season two, has a strict one-year deal, according to a report...
[REVIEW] STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 209 "Project Daedalus": Goodbye, New Friend
Jonathan Frakes returns to the helm for Star Trek: Discovery's ninth second season episode "Project Daedalus," an episode that contains some truly vital moments for the crew of the Discovery. While this installment certainly has plenty to offer fans, including major character development for some of our key...
Images & Trailer for STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 209 "Project Daedalus"
Star Trek: Discovery returns on Thursday night for the ninth season two episode "Project Daedalus." In the episode Burnham and the Discovery crew will sneak into the headquarters of Section 31 and will continue to unravel Spock's backstory. We've got eight new photos from the episode, along with the...
[REVIEW] STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 208 "If Memory Serves" …Serves Us Well
The latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery, aptly titled "If Memory Serves," brings us Star Trek fan service in its best form – a trip back to the place where the entire franchise began: the first pilot for Star Trek, "The Cage." While the events on Talos IV...
Eight Photos from STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 208 "If Memory Serves"
Star Trek: Discovery returns on Thursday night for the eighth season two episode "If Memory Serves." In the episode Spock and Burnham will travel to Talos IV and Tyler struggles with his past as Voq. We've got eight new photos from the episode, along with the official description below....
Star Trek "Picard" Series Adds Co-Stars Santiago Cabrera and Michelle Hurd
The upcoming Star Trek Picard series has added two new cast members with Salvation star Santiago Cabrera and Blindspot's Michelle Hurd. Cabrera and Hurd will co-star on the series that will star Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean Juc-Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. According...
[REVIEW] Star Trek: Discovery 207 "Light and Shadows": A Vital Episode in Season Two
Star Trek: Discovery 207 "Light and Shadows" Review While "Light and Shadows" was one of the shortest Star Trek: Discovery episodes yet, boy did it pack a lot into it. Substantial revelations on multiple fronts make this episode a must-watch, with an ending that contains a surprise almost...
[PREVIEW] STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 207 "Light and Shadows"
Star Trek: Discovery returns on Thursday night for the seventh season two episode "Light and Shadows." We've got six new photos from the episode, along with the official description below. Synopsis: Burnham goes to Vulcan in search of Spock, where she unearths surprising family secrets. In researching what is...
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