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Q: Does $\sum\ln(n) / n^3$ converge? By Direct Comparison Test:
$$\ln(n)/n^3  < n/n^3  = 1/n^2  $$
Converges as that is a convergent a p-series
By n'th term Test:
$$(\ln(n))' = 1/n$$
$$(n^3)' = 3n^2$$
$$\lim_{n\to\infty} (1/n) / 3n^2 = \lim_{n\to\infty} (3n^2)/n =\lim_{n\to\infty} 3n  = \infty$$
so by $n$'th term it diverges.
What am I doing wrong?

A: You made an algebraic mistake. You have the quotient $$ 1/n\over 3n^2.$$  If you wish to "move the numerator $1/n$ downstairs", you need to take its reciprocal, ${1\over 1/n}=n$, first and do it:
$$
{\color{maroon}{1/n}\over 3n^2}={1\over \color{maroon}n\cdot 3n^2}.
$$
You did this correctly.
However, when you "moved the denominator $3n^2$ upstairs", you failed to use its reciprocal $1/3n^2$. Done correctly, you would have obtained
$$
{1/n\over\color{maroon}{ 3n^2}}={(1/n)\cdot(\color{maroon}{1/3n^2})\over1 }.
$$
Note both methods give $1\over 3n^3$ as a result; there is no need to do both. Perhaps the simplest thing to do in order to simplify your expression is to write
$$
{1/n\over 3n^2}={1\over n}\cdot{1\over 3n^2}={1\over n\cdot3n^2}={1\over 3n^3}.
$$

A: You have a "typo". The terms do go to zero: $\displaystyle \lim_{n\to \infty}\frac{(1/n)}{3n^2}=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{3n^3}=0$.

A: You got the division wrong.
$$(1/n)/3n^2 = 1/3n^3 \rightarrow 0$$

A: You're nth term test is wrong. The reason why you're getting a divergent limit is because you flipped your fractions around inccorectlly. Anyways, the nth term test dosen't involve taking derivitives. But, here is how you can do it:
$\frac{ln(n)}{n^3}>0$ for sufficently large n (i.e n>3). Now, we have that $0<\frac{ln(n)}{n^3}<\frac{1}{n^2}$. Clearly, $\frac{1}{n^2}\rightarrow 0$. Hence, by the squeeze theorem for limits, $\frac{ln(n)}{n^3}$ $\rightarrow 0$. Also, always remember that the nth term test is not sufficent to prove convergance, it's just a nessacary condition. i.e the harmonic series.

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Syntax

filename_path (required)

mode (optional)

Example

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io.open()

Type
Function

Library
io.*

Return value
Object (file handle)

Revision
Current Public Release (2013.2076)

Keywords
io, open, file, reading, handle, implicit

Sample code
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See also
io.close()
io.read()

Overview

This function opens a file for reading or writing, in the string (default) or binary mode. It returns a new file handle, or, in case of errors, nil plus an error message. This function can also be used to create a new file.

Note: For security reasons you are not allowed to write files in the system.ResourceDirectory (the directory where the application is stored; your project directory; where main.lua resides). You must specify the system.DocumentsDirectory, system.TemporaryDirectory, or system.CachesDirectory parameter in system.pathForFile() function when opening the file for writing.

This function returns file handle if file found and opened, otherwise returns nil. Also returns string with reason for failure. Returns nil in place of string if file opened.

Syntax

io.open( filename_path, [, mode] )

filename_path (required)

String. File name (with path) to be opened. You must use system.pathForFile() to create a file name and path to the system.ResourceDirectory, system.DocumentsDirectory, system.TemporaryDirectory, or system.CachesDirectory Constants. (See Example section)

mode (optional)

String. Determines which file mode to open the file in. The mode string can be any of the following:

"r": read mode (the default); The file pointer is placed at the beginning of the file.

"w": write-only mode; Overwrites the file if the file exists. If the file does not exist, creates a new file for writing.

"a": append mode (write only); The file pointer is at the end of the file if the file exists. That is, the file is in the append mode. If the file does not exist, it creates a new file for writing.

"r+": update mode (read/write), all previous data is preserved; The file pointer will be at the beginning of the file. If the file exists, it will only be overwritten if you explicitly write to it.

"w+": update mode (read/write), all previous data is erased; Overwrites the existing file if the file exists. If the file does not exist, creates a new file for reading and writing.

"a+": append update mode (read/write); previous data is preserved, writing is only allowed at the end of file. The file pointer is at the end of the file if the file exists. The file opens in the append mode. If the file does not exist, it creates a new file for reading and writing.

The mode string can also have a 'b' at the end, which is needed in some systems to open the file in binary mode. This string is exactly what is used in the standard C function fopen.

Example

local path = system.pathForFile( "data.txt", system.DocumentsDirectory )

-- io.open opens a file at path. returns nil if no file found
local fh, errStr = io.open( path, "r" )

if fh then
   -- read all contents of file into a string
   local contents = fh:read( "*a" )
   print( "Contents of " .. path .. "\n" .. contents )
else
   print( "Reason open failed: " .. errStr )  -- display failure message in terminal

   -- create file because it doesn't exist yet
   fh = io.open( path, "w" )

   if fh then
        print( "Created file" )
   else
        print( "Create file failed!" )
   end

   local numbers = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
   fh:write( "Feed me data!\n", numbers[1], numbers[2], "\n" )

   for _,v in ipairs( numbers ) do
       fh:write( v, " " )
   end

   fh:write( "\nNo more data\n" )
end

io.close( fh )

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Q: NotRegistered with djcelery + Heroku I've been stuck on this one for the last 6 hours or so. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am using djcelery on a Django app which is deployed on Heroku. Said app has a periodic task that works just fine.
Today, I brought up another Heroku App which is a clone of the previous one so we'll have a production environment. The new Heroku deployment doesn't run the periodic task, instead, I get this in the logs:
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]: [2013-01-09 15:35:11,252: ERROR/MainProcess] Task tasks.UpdateWowza[611aad8e-a1fc-4d6e-b6df-f09b9dcf8e41] raised exception: Task of kind 'tasks.UpdateWowza' is not registered, please make sure it's imported.
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]: Traceback (most recent call last):
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/billiard/pool.py", line 301, in worker
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]:     result = (True, func(*args, **kwds))
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/task/trace.py", line 312, in_fast_trace_task
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]:     return _tasks[task].__trace__(uuid, args, kwargs, request)[0]
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/app/registry.py", line 20, in __missing__
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]:     raise self.NotRegistered(key)
2013-01-09T15:35:11+00:00 app[celeryd.1]: NotRegistered: 'tasks.UpdateWowza'

This is where I am stuck, the two deployments have the exact same code, same Heroku addons and same configuration.
In addition, djcelery's DB models are empty in both deployments.
What am I missing? Are there any other factors involved other than the ones above?
I even gave the periodic task an explicit name to make sure that's not the issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!


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The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health study showed that significant improvements in the treatment of major eye diseases helped reduce the numbers of people whose vision was impaired by diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.
Frequency of visual impairment was lower for every age group compared with people the same age studied in pre-1991 national studies.
Prevalence of visual impairment of people ages 85 and older remained high, at about 15 percent, with AMD as the leading cause of severe vision loss.
Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy did not increase, despite a growing population of people with type two diabetes, this is likely due to better glucose control.
The study also found that, over the 20-year study period, 38 percent of visual impairment was correctable through new eyeglasses or contact lenses. Correction is important for older people because it leads to a better quality of life and reduces the risk of accidents.
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About 80 percent of the things children learn early is obtained through vision, and studies show 70 percent of the 2 million school-age children have difficulty in reading because of vision problems such as ocular motor, perceptual disturbances or binocular disorders.
Studies show that a simple eye examination can provide an early indication of problems related to eyesight distance that can be seen well. As for other eye conditions that can affect children's performance in the classroom often needs an in-depth examination.
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"We recommend all students to conduct comprehensive eye examinations on a regular basis, usually because a child does not realize the problems they have," says Professor Sally L Smith, as the founder and director of The Lab School of Washington.
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Most plural risk factor is the use of contact lenses beyond the recommended lifetime. It's not a matter of time the lenses expires, but the maximum time limit of the use of contact lenses in a day.
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Dutch judge rules dementia patient must be euthanised
An 80-year-old woman was euthanised despite opposition from medics who were treating her [picture for illustrative purposes only].
A judge in the Netherlands has allowed an 80-year-old woman to be euthanised, despite objections from the medical staff looking after her.
According to media reports, the woman was living in a dementia care home and doctors thought she was incapable of expressing her will to die.
But the woman's family claimed she had a 'death wish' and obtained a court order when the care home refused to let her be euthanised.
Medical staff treating her fought against the decision, but a judge rejected the appeal and the court order remained.
Last month she was removed from the care home and killed by the 'Life End Clinic' which was started by activists to make euthanasia more accessible for people in the Netherlands.
Euthanasia was legalised in the country in 2002 and under the law doctors must fulfil certain criteria such as ensuring that a patient's request is voluntary and being satisfied that they are suffering unbearably.
If a patient has dementia, doctors can only euthanise them if an 'advance directive' or 'living will' is in place.
A survey of doctors in the Netherlands who specialise in euthanasia has revealed that more than half approve of the practice for patients with dementia.
Of the 547 doctors surveyed, 52 per cent could imagine themselves personally allowing the practice in cases where the dementia patient has made an advance directive but is now unable to express their will.
Last year a Dutch academic warned Westminster not to legalise assisted suicide because the number of euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands has soared since the legalisation of the practice in 2002.
Theo Boer originally supported euthanasia, but has now reviewed close to 4,000 euthanasia cases and said that it is becoming the "default" mode of dying for cancer patients.
He said: "Cases have been reported in which a large part of the suffering of those given euthanasia or assisted suicide consisted in being aged, lonely or bereaved.
"Some of these patients could have lived for years or decades", he added.
Dutch court allows family to euthanize incapacitated 80-year-old woman against doctor's protest (lifesitenews.com, 30 April 2015)
Euthanasia doc kills lady who didn't want care home (05 September 2014)
Euthanasia: Don't make our mistake, says Dutch academic (11 July 2014)


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Are squaddies political tools? Expendable?
Thread starter Shotgun
Start date 15 Jun 2003
It has to be asked of squaddies today, because in my day we joined up to defend this country, and the people of this country, NOT to defend the standing and political carreer of arrseholes like Blair.
I've been arguing aginst this cnut for a long time, but just tonight I came across a piece about Kosovo in the Spectator.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2003-06-14&id=3195
Now you tell me why we went to Kosovo, and then why we went to Iraq. Was it to protect this great nation and it's people?
It can't be allowed to go on, IMO.
You won't want to hear this, but the answer is yes, you are the enforcement arm of the state, they dictate you do, take a recent example, many of your colleagues will not like it, UK Firefighters (within the law of the land, exercised their rights to have an industrial dispute with their employers) the Government used the military to break a legitimate industrial dispute..... So, answer your own question - Are squaddies political tools???
They are political tools, of course, but the subtext as to whether they are expendable is the main issue, and whether they are there to protect the interests and political carreer of a politician.
BTW: The army, or the RAF or Navy, or Police, aren't the 'enforcement' arm of the State, they are the protectors and defenders of the State, and the State in this context is the people. NOT the Prime Minister, nor the Cabinet, nor even the Government. The Government can therefore call on the Forces to protect the people in times of danger, like when the Firemen strike, but the Forces did not break the strike, which would be wrong as you say. What they did do was cover their duties of protection. If they had actively went onto the streets to force the Firemen back to work then that would fall in with what you say, but they didn't, and never would.
Constitutionally, Blair has no more power to call on the Forces to enforce anything, any more than any other person, unless it is under Royal Prerogative when the nation is in clear and present danger.
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The Armed Forces operate under the auspices of the Crown so as to make them neutral of politics, however as with most major decisions of state, how to use them is a decision delegated to Parliament and Ministers as directly elected representatives of the people, of whom the Monarch is the figurehead.
The Armed Forces have alsways been a political tool as to suggest that they are only used otherwise would necessarily suggest that they should not have been used since the times of the Norman invasion in 1066, which was the last time we were "invaded". There are occasions when the use of the Armed Forces to provide either military aid to the civilian power or as a means of providing an executive function to foreign policy are wholly and entirely justified because of national interest, or the interests of our allies, or for the wider political stability of a region.
The issue that I would suggest is far greater than the Armed Forces being used in a way as to be expendible is the mechanism by which we are made so. Parliament is the ultimate power of the land, and it is the elected representatives of all of us, whether our MP is in Government or not, who should hold the final say by open debate and open voting as to how the Forces should be deployed. As a democracy that means we must accept that there will be views contrary to those we would wish, as the freedom to think and to speak should always be held sacred (even if it gives a voice to the likes of George Galloway).
This Government has subdued Parliament. It circumvents the House as a decision making forum, leaking decisions to the press before Parliament is informed first, as it's right. It has made the Lords it's puppet and removed its independance as it was too invonvenient for this Government to try and win an argument, therefore it has removed any that would disagree from power. When it suits this Government it presents mis-information to parliament and justifies the expense of the lives of the Service men and women on the back of a 12 year old PhD thesis easily available on the internet. When this Government, it's spin doctors, and ministers are found out and called to public account, they decide not to come before the Parliamentary Committees set up to investigate happenings on behalf of the British people, because to this Government, the views of the British people are an irrelevance.
In anser to the question, yes the forces have always been a political tool and expendable, but at least in times past before that was ever allowed to be the case there was concensus amongst those elected to represent us that this should be so.
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Clauswitz (?) said that warfare is diplomacy pursued by other means and armed forces exist to coerce other governments to follow the owning govts foreign policy objectives (IE Lets take the Falklands off the Brits and rename them the Malvinas)
That makes the armed forces a political tool.
As for expendibility ? Well that depends on the blood price a government is prepared to pay. Germans in Dover? you bet your life you are expendable, fighting Iraqis? Not nearly so expendable......
Very good, and a decent, more than that, much more, reply.
It's fucckin annoying that I have to come to this forum out of all the ones on the net to get at least a real world discussion on this subject, and some sense. The reason I say that is because we as squaddies, or at least ex-squaddies, are suppossed to be apolitical.
The tragedy is that this Government, I bet, will never be held to account. Even so, heres hoping...
BTW: The army, or the RAF or Navy, or Police, aren't the 'enforcement' arm of the State, they are the protectors and defenders of the State, and the State in this context is the people.
So, if we take the miners strike, the Police were defending what?
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It is summed up in the Army's mission statement:
To assist the Government of the Day in the execution of its policy
So there you are
The rights of everybody else in the face of striking miners trying to stop them doing what they legally should have been allowed to do. Did we see policemen breaking the strike? No, we saw policemen stopping illegal action.
It was kept very quiet eh? Those marauding Firemen stopping the whole country, rioting, destroying cars and generally trying to disrupt the fabric of society.
There's hardly a comparison with one legal strike which was peaceful and another which wasn't.
Really? And there's me thought the official version said;
A: Peacetime Security: To provide forces needed in peacetime to ensure the protection and security of the Untied Kingdom, to assist as required with the evacuation of British nationals overseas, to afford Military Aid to the Civil Authorities in the United Kingdom, including Military Aid to the Civil Power, Military Aid to Other Government Departments and Military Aid to the Civil Community.
B: Security of the Overseas Territories: To provide forces to meet any challenges to the external security of a British Overseas Territory (including overseas possession and the Sovereign Base Areas) or to assist the civil authorities in meeting a challenge to internal security.
C: Defence Diplomacy: To provide forces to meet the varied activities undertaken by the Ministry of Defence to dispel hostility, build and maintain trust, and assist in the development of democratically accountable armed forces (thereby making a significant contribution to conflict prevention and resolution).
D: Support to Wider British Interests: To provide forces to conduct activities to promote British interests, influence and standing abroad.
E: Peace Support and Humanitarian Operations: To contribute forces to operations other than war in support of British interests and international order and humanitarian principles, the latter most likely under UN auspices.
F: Regional Conflict Outside the NATO Area: To contribute forces for a regional conflict (but on an attack on NATO or one of its members) which, if unchecked, could adversely affect European security, or which could pose a serious threat to British interests elsewhere, or to international security. Operations are usually under UN or Organisation for Security Co-operation in Europe auspices.
G: Regional Conflict Inside the NATO Area: To provide forces needed to respond to a regional crisis or conflict involving a NATO ally who calls for assistance under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty.
H: Strategic Attack on NATO: To provide, within the expected warning and readiness preparation times, the forces required to counter a strategic attack against NATO.
The Armed Forces have NOTHING to do with Government or Government policy. Where did you find the mission statement that it was in defence of the Government and it's policies?
I can see it now...Blair announces that his POLICY is to subjugate any political opposition to him, and announces he will be life President of the UK, and he will get away with it because the army is bound to support him and his policies?
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of course you are expendable. i know it and deep down you all know it. does blair or any mp care? fat chance...
i myself left the forces after being struck down with fatigue etc etc after first gullf war. did any one care? even worse total denial from the mod and mp t_ssers..
my daughter was born with a genetical defect does bair care?
yes you are expendable and do the mod and mp's care like fcuk
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i myself left the forces after being struck down with fatigue etc etc after first gullf war
So exactly how did you get a job with the fire service?
Or is being a fat fatigued layabout, dossing in the sack all day a job requirement? And don't even begin to lecture me about GWS, I believe it exists, I just don't believe that you have it, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to get a job with the fire scroungers, would you?
As for not being looked after once you had handed in your 1157, well, you must be a bit fcuking simple. I was bailed out by army "affiliated" orgs after I left, as was MDN. I was given a war disability pension, retrained, set up in life (not financially but educationally) and still, to this day, am able to call upon reserves that I would never have had if i had not served. If you are missing out, it's your own stupid fault for not getting off your fatigued arse and finding out what's available.
GWS (which prevents people from working full stop) is another topic, which I won't get into with sicknote on here.
Apart from that, of course squaddies are expendable. This probably has something to do with the high speed projectiles that are to be expected to come towards you in this particular line of work :-/
I knew it when I joined, didn't like it when someone tried to put theory into reality but what I can say is that although I was sh1t scared, I wasn't in the slightest bit surprised
I'd say it's also pretty obvious that we were / are political tools. If we weren't, then whose tools would we be? Our own? I personally would have loved that during GW1, NI and Bos (won't include Cyprus as MDN keeps telling me that it isn't real). But me and a 100,000 other squaddies wanting to cause the immediate death of anyone that looked in the slightest bit "shifty" is probably why we are political tools and not independent entities with massive firepower
The Government can therefore call on the Forces to protect the people in times of danger, like when the Firemen strike, but the Forces did not break the strike, which would be wrong as you say.
Theoretically true but not "real world" If the majority of the house agrees (and they don't care about the majority of the people), then B Liar can send us out to play sand castles and nurse maid. The Crown will NEVER disagree with the state, therefore removing the actual need for Royal Perogative. Don't forget, Cromwell made sure that if they ever did, they could be circumvented and disposed of (in a nice way of course, i.e. heads still attached)
The law and the right of the people who didn't want to strike to be able to do a days work without the fear of violence. Stupid, stupid analogy from a stupid, stupid left winger.
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To provide forces needed in peacetime to ensure the protection and security of the Untied Kingdom,
All that B Liar needed for GW 2, remember the "15 minute" line? In fact, whilst eloquently put, points A, C, D, E and F pretty well allow them to do anything, as long as they can spin the right story, which we all know, they are experts at doing.
Sorry, but take the Kings Shilling etc, etc, etc
It would appear that deep down, we all know that we are expendable, but we still don't seem to care
Whilst this is a emotive thread to discuss, it's also a bit silly, because I am sure that all of us, including the originator, knew the answers before we even touched the keyboard.
Except Jake, who obviously lives with wombles at the top of a beanstalk.
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This is mainly for HRH ORG. You're mainly right, but I still you have some things a bit confused.
We are political tools, and we are expendable, no doubt about it, but you have to go to the first post in the thread and collate that with the rest to get the real point.
We are political tools and expendable only insofar as PARLIAMENT, the whole of the HoC, is able and qualified, to make us so, not Blair, not the Cabinet, not any one man.
Jake said:
To whioch HRH Org replied:
I say, utter rubbish. The troops don't support the Government or the PM, and the Government and PM have no power to use them outside the terms of their power, which is very little. The Government and PM is distinctly different from Parliament when it comes to power, and virtually all the power lies with Parliament.
What I wrote from A to F was a cut and paste of the official version, and the only changes to this since last time I saw it was where they've added all the tons of stuff about Europe. It is only Parliament that can use the Forces, and this is where I think you are becoming confused. Many people do confuse what the PM is capable of.
To go to war [sic] in Iraq this last time Blair had to get a vote, and it shows how weak his position is, in reality, when he had to rely on the opposition to get the vote through. If the Tories had voted against the war, the troops would have stayed in Kuwait and Blair would have resigned.
I agree that Royal Prerogative would be a rare case, but it is only used when the UK is directly attacked, like WW2, or when our allies are attacked and we are taken to war. That's why he had to get the vote passed in Parliament, and every MP had as much say as he did.
And that is exactly the point, and why he is in so much trouble. Individual politicians are not allowed to do this. Lying and spinning a yarn to get a vote through Parliament is a very serious crime. If he didn't have such a huge majority he may be out right now, and it's why him, and Bush, are so depserate to find WMD. If they had a quarter of the power everyone seems to think they have they wouldn't need to worry, would they?
Blair overstepped his authority big time, again, and it will haunt him, and while we know we are expendable and political tools, it isn't, and shouldn't be, for the vanity and lies of the likes of Blair.
Firstly I am not stupid, neither am I left wing, nor do I live with wombles.
So on your planet the state does not use its 'might' to enforce 'its will'.....
But that statement is open to interpretation, and misinterpretation.
Blair, the PM and the Government is not the 'state' in the UK.
Parliament is the State, and Parliament is directly answerable to the people, so if Parliament votes on an issue, it is the will of the people. That's why every issue is given over to a vote in Parliament, including every decision that Blair makes, or any PM.
This is also why your statement, and a few other statements you made, are invalid because of the wide misinterpretation they are open to.
Now if Parliament is lied to, or manipulated, by a PM to pass edicts, that is serious and why Blair is in trouble with the dodgy dossier. Parliament relies on the integrity of the PM and Government to give it the information it needs to come to a decision and vote on, but that is the only role of the PM and Government, not to make that decision, just to make the CASE for the decision.
Parliament is the State, and Parliament is directly answerable to the people, so if Parliament votes on an issue, it is the will of the people.
That is the text book answer to how things are meant to be, but in reality that is not the case - If you look back to the infamous "Community charge" - this legislation was only repealed following widespread civil disobedience.
I'd say that shows well that the statement was entirely right and valid.
The people objected, the legislation was repealed.
So what is the reality?
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Gibraltar became a hub for crypto — aimed to tackle attempts to manipulate the market
A new set of regulations has been introduced by Gibraltar for the cryptocurrency sector, aimed at curbing potential market manipulation and insider trading.
On Wednesday, the British overseas territory posted an amendment to existing regulation requiring firms dealing in bitcoin and other digital currencies to respect the integrity of the markets in which they operate.
In a guidance note for regulated crypto companies, the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission says firms must combat "manipulation or improper influencing of prices, liquidity or market information, or any other behaviour which is inimical to market integrity."
"We were the first jurisdiction in 2018 to launch the legal and regulatory framework, and we're now the first jurisdiction to launch a framework for market integrity," Albert Isola, Gibraltar's minister for digital and financial services, told CNBC.
"The more there is around the world in terms of international standards for this space, the more trust, the more usage, and the more adoption we will have around the world," he added.
While Gibraltar is perhaps better known as a seaport and a popular vacation spot, it is also the center of a number of other industries, including financial services and gambling. The move is part of a continuing effort to lead the way in digital currency regulation.
Gibraltar has a track record of developing rules for the crypto market despite its small size. The region, which borders Spain but is under British control, first issued licenses to blockchain firms in 2018.
The local regulators have granted licenses to some of the largest names working in Gibraltar, including FTX, Huobi, and Bullish, which was founded by PayPal founder Peter Thiel.
The world's biggest crypto exchange, Binance, has also visited Gibraltar "some months back," but does not have a license, Isola said. After facing repercussions in numerous countries last year, the company wants to become a friend instead of a foe to regulators.
In order to become the world's first regulated bourse for share and crypto trading, the Gibraltar Stock Exchange recently agreed to be acquired by Valereum, a blockchain firm. SIX Swiss Exchange also aims to achieve this goal by launching an exchange for trading blockchain-based securities.
Various major economies, including the U.S. and U.K., are now introducing new regulations to bring crypto under regulation.
"I think it's a sign that more and more jurisdictions are recognizing the need to do it," Isola said. "And the need to do it is because there's more and more adoption."
However, Isola insisted Gibraltar is "not doing this to market ourselves," adding: "We want a very small but quality number of firms within our jurisdiction."
Gibraltar was previously criticized for being a tax haven. Several major UK gambling firms have set up shop in the rocky peninsula, including Entain and 888. in part due to its favorable taxation regime. Gibraltar, however, has sought to distance itself from such a reputation more recently.
The region is "fully compliant with all transparency and exchange of information standards applicable in the U.K.," Isola said, adding this was at odds with descriptions of Gibraltar as a tax haven. Such transparency standards also apply to crypto, Isola added, meaning "the bar to entry is high."
Following a tax cooperation deal with the U.K., Spain agreed to remove Gibraltar from its list of tax havens. Following Britain's exit from the EU, the issue has been a sticking point in London's negotiations with Madrid.
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#include <openssl/opensslconf.h>

#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_EC

#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "apps.h"

#include <openssl/bio.h>
#include <openssl/err.h>
#include <openssl/evp.h>
#include <openssl/pem.h>

static struct {
	int asn1_flag;
	const EVP_CIPHER *enc;
	point_conversion_form_t form;
	char *infile;
	int informat;
	char *outfile;
	int outformat;
	int new_asn1_flag;
	int new_form;
	int noout;
	int param_out;
	char *passargin;
	char *passargout;
	int pubin;
	int pubout;
	int text;
} ec_config;

static int
ec_opt_enc(int argc, char **argv, int *argsused)
{
	char *name = argv[0];

	if (*name++ != '-')
		return (1);

	if ((ec_config.enc = EVP_get_cipherbyname(name)) != NULL) {
		*argsused = 1;
		return (0);
	}

	return (1);
}

static int
ec_opt_form(char *arg)
{
	if (strcmp(arg, "compressed") == 0)
		ec_config.form = POINT_CONVERSION_COMPRESSED;
	else if (strcmp(arg, "uncompressed") == 0)
		ec_config.form = POINT_CONVERSION_UNCOMPRESSED;
	else if (strcmp(arg, "hybrid") == 0)
		ec_config.form = POINT_CONVERSION_HYBRID;
	else {
		fprintf(stderr, "Invalid point conversion: %s\n", arg);
		return (1);
	}

	ec_config.new_form = 1;
	return (0);
}

static int
ec_opt_named(char *arg)
{
	if (strcmp(arg, "named_curve") == 0)
		ec_config.asn1_flag = OPENSSL_EC_NAMED_CURVE;
	else if (strcmp(arg, "explicit") == 0)
		ec_config.asn1_flag = 0;
	else {
		fprintf(stderr, "Invalid curve type: %s\n", arg);
		return (1);
	}

	ec_config.new_asn1_flag = 1;
	return (0);
}

static struct option ec_options[] = {
	{
		.name = "conv_form",
		.argname = "form",
		.desc = "Specify the point conversion form (default"
		    " \"named_curve\")",
		.type = OPTION_ARG_FUNC,
		.opt.argfunc = ec_opt_form,
	},
	{
		.name = "in",
		.argname = "file",
		.desc = "Input file (default stdin)",
		.type = OPTION_ARG,
		.opt.arg = &ec_config.infile,
	},
	{
		.name = "inform",
		.argname = "format",
		.desc = "Input format (DER or PEM (default))",
		.type = OPTION_ARG_FORMAT,
		.opt.value = &ec_config.informat,
	},
	{
		.name = "noout",
		.desc = "No output",
		.type = OPTION_FLAG,
		.opt.flag = &ec_config.noout,
	},
	{
		.name = "out",
		.argname = "file",
		.desc = "Output file (default stdout)",
		.type = OPTION_ARG,
		.opt.arg = &ec_config.outfile,
	},
	{
		.name = "outform",
		.argname = "format",
		.desc = "Output format (DER or PEM (default))",
		.type = OPTION_ARG_FORMAT,
		.opt.value = &ec_config.outformat,
	},
	{
		.name = "param_enc",
		.argname = "type",
		.desc = "Specify the way the ec parameters are encoded"
		    " (default \"uncompressed\")",
		.type = OPTION_ARG_FUNC,
		.opt.argfunc = ec_opt_named,
	},
	{
		.name = "param_out",
		.desc = "Print the elliptic curve parameters",
		.type = OPTION_FLAG,
		.opt.flag = &ec_config.param_out,
	},
	{
		.name = "passin",
		.argname = "source",
		.desc = "Input file passphrase source",
		.type = OPTION_ARG,
		.opt.arg = &ec_config.passargin,
	},
	{
		.name = "passout",
		.argname = "source",
		.desc = "Output file passphrase source",
		.type = OPTION_ARG,
		.opt.arg = &ec_config.passargout,
	},
	{
		.name = "pubin",
		.desc = "Read public key instead of private key from input",
		.type = OPTION_FLAG,
		.opt.flag = &ec_config.pubin,
	},
	{
		.name = "pubout",
		.desc = "Output public key instead of private key in output",
		.type = OPTION_FLAG,
		.opt.flag = &ec_config.pubout,
	},
	{
		.name = "text",
		.desc = "Print the public/private key components and parameters",
		.type = OPTION_FLAG,
		.opt.flag = &ec_config.text,
	},
	{
		.name = NULL,
		.desc = "Cipher to encrypt the output if using PEM format",
		.type = OPTION_ARGV_FUNC,
		.opt.argvfunc = ec_opt_enc,
	},
	{ NULL },
};

static void
show_ciphers(const OBJ_NAME *name, void *arg)
{
	static int n;

	if (!islower((unsigned char)*name->name))
		return;

	fprintf(stderr, " -%-24s%s", name->name, (++n % 3 ? "" : "\n"));
}

static void
ec_usage(void)
{
	fprintf(stderr,
	    "usage: ec [-conv_form form] [-in file]\n"
	    "    [-inform format] [-noout] [-out file] [-outform format]\n"
	    "    [-param_enc type] [-param_out] [-passin file]\n"
	    "    [-passout file] [-pubin] [-pubout] [-text] [-ciphername]\n\n");
	options_usage(ec_options);

	fprintf(stderr, "\n");

	fprintf(stderr, "Valid ciphername values:\n\n");
	OBJ_NAME_do_all_sorted(OBJ_NAME_TYPE_CIPHER_METH, show_ciphers, NULL);
	fprintf(stderr, "\n");
}

int
ec_main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int ret = 1;
	EC_KEY *eckey = NULL;
	const EC_GROUP *group;
	int i;
	BIO *in = NULL, *out = NULL;
	char *passin = NULL, *passout = NULL;

	if (single_execution) {
		if (pledge("stdio rpath wpath cpath tty", NULL) == -1) {
			perror("pledge");
			exit(1);
		}
	}

	memset(&ec_config, 0, sizeof(ec_config));

	ec_config.asn1_flag = OPENSSL_EC_NAMED_CURVE;
	ec_config.form = POINT_CONVERSION_UNCOMPRESSED;
	ec_config.informat = FORMAT_PEM;
	ec_config.outformat = FORMAT_PEM;

	if (options_parse(argc, argv, ec_options, NULL, NULL) != 0) {
		ec_usage();
		goto end;
	}

	if (!app_passwd(bio_err, ec_config.passargin, ec_config.passargout,
	    &passin, &passout)) {
		BIO_printf(bio_err, "Error getting passwords\n");
		goto end;
	}
	in = BIO_new(BIO_s_file());
	out = BIO_new(BIO_s_file());
	if (in == NULL || out == NULL) {
		ERR_print_errors(bio_err);
		goto end;
	}
	if (ec_config.infile == NULL)
		BIO_set_fp(in, stdin, BIO_NOCLOSE);
	else {
		if (BIO_read_filename(in, ec_config.infile) <= 0) {
			perror(ec_config.infile);
			goto end;
		}
	}

	BIO_printf(bio_err, "read EC key\n");
	if (ec_config.informat == FORMAT_ASN1) {
		if (ec_config.pubin)
			eckey = d2i_EC_PUBKEY_bio(in, NULL);
		else
			eckey = d2i_ECPrivateKey_bio(in, NULL);
	} else if (ec_config.informat == FORMAT_PEM) {
		if (ec_config.pubin)
			eckey = PEM_read_bio_EC_PUBKEY(in, NULL, NULL,
			    NULL);
		else
			eckey = PEM_read_bio_ECPrivateKey(in, NULL, NULL,
			    passin);
	} else {
		BIO_printf(bio_err, "bad input format specified for key\n");
		goto end;
	}
	if (eckey == NULL) {
		BIO_printf(bio_err, "unable to load Key\n");
		ERR_print_errors(bio_err);
		goto end;
	}
	if (ec_config.outfile == NULL) {
		BIO_set_fp(out, stdout, BIO_NOCLOSE);
	} else {
		if (BIO_write_filename(out, ec_config.outfile) <= 0) {
			perror(ec_config.outfile);
			goto end;
		}
	}

	group = EC_KEY_get0_group(eckey);

	if (ec_config.new_form)
		EC_KEY_set_conv_form(eckey, ec_config.form);

	if (ec_config.new_asn1_flag)
		EC_KEY_set_asn1_flag(eckey, ec_config.asn1_flag);

	if (ec_config.text)
		if (!EC_KEY_print(out, eckey, 0)) {
			perror(ec_config.outfile);
			ERR_print_errors(bio_err);
			goto end;
		}
	if (ec_config.noout) {
		ret = 0;
		goto end;
	}
	BIO_printf(bio_err, "writing EC key\n");
	if (ec_config.outformat == FORMAT_ASN1) {
		if (ec_config.param_out)
			i = i2d_ECPKParameters_bio(out, group);
		else if (ec_config.pubin || ec_config.pubout)
			i = i2d_EC_PUBKEY_bio(out, eckey);
		else
			i = i2d_ECPrivateKey_bio(out, eckey);
	} else if (ec_config.outformat == FORMAT_PEM) {
		if (ec_config.param_out)
			i = PEM_write_bio_ECPKParameters(out, group);
		else if (ec_config.pubin || ec_config.pubout)
			i = PEM_write_bio_EC_PUBKEY(out, eckey);
		else
			i = PEM_write_bio_ECPrivateKey(out, eckey,
			    ec_config.enc, NULL, 0, NULL, passout);
	} else {
		BIO_printf(bio_err, "bad output format specified for "
		    "outfile\n");
		goto end;
	}

	if (!i) {
		BIO_printf(bio_err, "unable to write private key\n");
		ERR_print_errors(bio_err);
	} else
		ret = 0;
end:
	BIO_free(in);
	if (out)
		BIO_free_all(out);
	if (eckey)
		EC_KEY_free(eckey);
	free(passin);
	free(passout);

	return (ret);
}
#endif


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Posted in FILM with tags Anne V Coates, Bekim Fehmiu, Charles Aznavour, Charlie Bluhdorn, Delia Boccardo, Harold Robbins, Lewis Gilbert, Lewis Gilbert. Robert Evans, The Adventurers on October 30, 2013 by dcairns
Isn't that GREAT? And quite advanced for 1969 — UV lighting and all that.
From THE ADVENTURERS, directed under protest by Lewis Gilbert, who wanted to do OLIVER! instead. Even late in his career, Carol Reed was a better director, but Gilbert would have brought passion to it, so who knows?
I'm posting the only three good bits of this awful film so you don't have to sit through it.
Nobody except Charlie Bluhdorn at Paramount wanted to make this. His head of production Robert Evans thought it was a terrible, old-fashioned idea. Gilbert said it was "a bullshit story." If he could have rattled through it in ninety minutes it might have passed, but it's, I think, approximately one hundred and eighty-seven hours long.
Here is Charles Aznavour's sex dungeon, which might have made the whole film worthwhile were it not four hundred and eighty-seven hours long. I posted some stills from this before but it's worth seeing it in motion, which I was unable to arrange previously due to technical troubles.
Delia Boccardo has wild sex with Bekim Fehmiu, some statues and a zoom lens. This is quite bold, and nearly brilliant — filled with contempt for the material, Gilbert tries to bring it to life with desperate measures, and the result is very possibly the most interesting scene he ever made. The statue cutaways, though cheesy, WORK, I think — it's like porno Minnelli, or sexed-up Eisenstein. And then he starts giving Delia a good seeing-to with the zoom lens and it becomes just silly. But still better than the rest of the film, and probably better than most of Paramount's output that year.
The film is edited by Anne V. Coates (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE ELEPHANT MAN, OUT OF SIGHT) and the cutting is intense and has real SNAP. I just wish she'd forgotten to include all the bits in between these clips.
Charles Aznavour's Sex Dungeon
Posted in FILM, literature with tags 2001: A Space Odyssey, All My Flashbacks, Allen Jones, Anne V Coates, Bekim Fehmiu, Charles Aznavour, Charlie Bluhdorn, Claude Renoir, Clockwork Orange, Dune, Hans Bellmer, Harold Robbins, HR Giger, John Barry, Lewis Gilbert, Oliver!, Robert Evans, Stanley Kubrick, The Adventurers, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Tony Masters on April 22, 2013 by dcairns
From THE ADVENTURERS (1969).
I'd read about this movie in two places — one was Robert Evans' autohagiography The Kid Stays in the Picture, where he blames Paramount CEO Charlie Bluhdorn for choosing to make this bloated, old-fashioned Harold Robbins adaptation with untested star Bekim Fehmiu, much against his wishes. The movie tries to compensate for its dated approach by pouring in sex by the bucketload, with decorous nudity provided by the gorgeous Delia Boccardo and Leigh Taylor-Young, but to no avail. There's a rather zany, zoomtastic sex scene with the former and Fehmiu which must have been startling stuff in '69.
The other place I read of it is Lewis Gilbert's autobio, All My Flashbacks, where he bitterly bemoans being removed from his dream picture, OLIVER! and forced to make this pile of tat. The fact that Carol Reed won the best directing Oscar for OLIVER! in his stead perhaps has something to do with the intensity of his regret: if Reed could win for the rather tired job of work he put in, surely an eager hack like Gilbert could do likewise.
Gilbert seems to have put all he could into the turkey he was handed, stuffing it with orgies, battles, proto-disco fashion shows (with UV lighting and splitscreen) and star cameos. Claude Renoir shot it and Anne V. Coates cut it and it still sucks. "It was a bullshit story," is Gilbert's own, accurate, description.
Also included — Charles Aznavour's sex dungeon, a groovy, queasy palace of porn. Tony Masters, who had just designed 2001 (and would go on to DUNE), created the sets, and one feels Kubrick must surely have been watching. In fact, Masters creates an even more stylish, beautiful and sinister objectification parlour than John Barry (not the composer) would achieve for CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Both designers must surely have been influenced by the kinky sculptures of Allen Jones (in fact Kubrick admitted it and initially tried to buy Jones' work) but Masters' versions are BETTER — they throw in a Hans Bellmer influence, merging body parts and furniture together in a way HR Giger would approve of (the HR stands for Human Resources, in case you wondered).
The groovy entrance hall gives way to a more dungeon-like stage, with soft screens hilariously distorted by mannequin breasts which press against them from behind, making pseudo-erotic bulges in the fabric. It's a ludicrous and tragically mechanistic parody of sex, and fills one with pity and revulsion for Aznavour's character — the thought of anyone going to all that trouble to so little effect. I have no idea if that was the emotion we are supposed to feel, but there it is. I don't mean the red room with the white sculpture furniture, which would suit an erotomaniac Bond villain — we'd all like one of those. I mean the green-tinged dungeon stage set with the titty wall.
THE ADVENTURERS may be three hours of mainly tedium, and an embarrassment to everyone who worked on it (certainly to Evans and Gilbert), but you have to admire this one setting. Or maybe you don't. I'm not you.
All My Flashbacks
The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Hollywood Life
The Adventurers


Erykah Badu's highly anticipated mixtape, "But You Cain't Use My Phone," is here! The illest chick is back with her first project since, New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh .
Erykah's given us some unforgettable interviews to promote the project as well her turn as host of the Soul Train Awards this weekend, but she's been mum on the mixtape's features.
It turns out that there's a dope collaboration with her ex, Andre 3000, to close the album. The song, "Hello," features a Todd Rundgren sample and a verse from one of the greatest rappers alive.
Be sure to check out the mixtape and be sure to download "Hello" on iTunes.
If you're in need of a cackle, check out Erykah on The Breakfast Club.
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Dev is a B.Com graduate and pursued MBA from Kerala before joining the Banking industry in Kolkata. He started his career in the development sector at Oxfam India as a FR Executive and raised fund for more than 4 years in different cities (Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Dehradun, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Kochi and Hyd). Soon he was given the responsibility of the Oxfam Trust's Bangalore operation, which was about to shut off due to scarcity of funds, where Dev dedicatedly acted as the driving force that helped revive the organization. With the success of Bangalore operation, he started 10 new FR operations for Oxfam India in just 14 months and handled all are running as a profit centre successfully. He ramped up the Oxfam In-house fundraising team from 3 to 130. His last position at Oxfam was National Fundraising Manager.
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As it was always his dream to start something his own. He realised to share his expertise, passion and success of his fundraising journey with Non- Profit Organisation to add more value in fundraising world. With the same passion, he took the challenge to start something called FUNDreamz with many helping hands and sooner spread its wings in many cities, Corporate Office based in Noida and other branches in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Pune, Ahmedabad & Jaipur. His dream is to open more and more In-house fundraising operation for the sector, where income starts coming from Day-1.
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Expert in face to face fundraising, corporate fundraising & setting up complete in-house fundraising operation. I have very successfull experience of handling people and bringing out the best result in them.
Setting up and bringing the profit through In-House Operation for Fundraising.
Recruiting and Training the Fundraising team.
Harish TG
Director (Founder)
Harish is an Arts graduate with simple habits and modest living. This god fearing man started his career at a very young age with garments manufacturing unit in 2005 in Bangalore. With his extrovert nature amazing interpersonal skills, interacting with people from all walks of life, is his hobby and thereby soon he joined Oxfam Trust to explore his capabilities.
He moved on to fundraising in November 2006 as a fundraising executive for Oxfam Trust's Bangalore operation. In his tenure with Oxfam India, he underwent lots of ups & downs in initial stage of Oxfam's fundraising in India being the oldest fundraiser for the organisation. He consistently kept his eyes on learning different tactics of fundraising. Known to be the best trainer in Face To Face fundraising he has trained more than 150 people on field in his 4 years of fundraising carrier. He played a very important role to build the operation and strong team in his last job at Oxfam India. He is one of the best competitors and acquired many achievements in the stream of fundraising. So says he "I believe that healthy competition always create good result which would help our nation grow."
Harish took the charge for Oxfam's Bangalore operation in full fledge way as Resource Mobilisation Head- Bangalore in May, 2009 and enlarged the size of team to begin the second operation in the city soon.
Currently Harish holds the position of Director for FUNDreamz. His passion is to create more hands to raise more resources as per his belief.
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Chidananda is a Mechanical Engineer completed his B.E. from Utkal University, Odisha after his Polytechnic from Bangalore University addition to this he has done his Master in Business Administration from Punjab university . He comes from technical world started his career in production unit of an automobile company, Clutch Auto.
After working for two years, he felt human beings are better to deal with than machines and moved on to Fundraising in the Development Sector. He has raised funds for various International NGOs in India in last 11 years and known to be the best motivator for face to face fundraising. Before being the part of FUNDreamz, He was working with Oxfam as a Resource Mobilization Head in Mumbai. He startedtwo In-house fundraising operations for Oxfam in Mumbai in a span of just five months. He has handled couple of fundraising assignments in various cities like Delhi- NCR, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Pune, Vadodara, Surat Uttrakhand and Jaipur to test the market potential for fundraising.
Chidananda has a unique experience of interacting more than lakhs of donors on field through Face To Face fundraising channel and taking their valuable feedbacks. This helped many organizations to build their strong brand in the market. He enjoys fund raising because he genuinely feels that his efforts will be responsible for a change in the most marginalized section.
Currently, Chidananda holds the position of Director and his desire is to make "FUNDreamz" most profitable organisation in the country.
Anjali C Swain
National Head (Founder)
Anjali is a commerce graduate from Deshbhandu College of Delhi University and later Masters in Business Administration from ICFAI Tripura.
Like many development officers and consultants, she entered the field of fund-raising not by desire but by accident and she stayed. On reflection, her primary motivation for doing this work is of course her strong belief in the inestimable value of non-profit organizations in itself.
As per Anjali, she still recalls the first organization where she served as trainee fund-raiser and felt that fund-raising was somehow distasteful and that one day the organization would have enough money and would no longer need to engage in such "practices". As a new fund-raiser she understood that "people give to people". She believes strongly in a team concept of fund-raising, it is true that "there is no limit to the amount of money that can be raised if you do not care who gets the credit". Friend, Fun and fund-raising are not only a noble vocation, but it allows her to engage with people. Finally, she believes whatever success she may have achieved derives from her passionate belief for the organizations which she has served as either the chief development officer or principal consultant.
Anjali's last position was Resource Mobilisation Head- Mumbai for "Oxfam India". In her tenure with Oxfam, she built a strong team for couple of In-house operations in city like Bangalore, Delhi, Noida & Mumbai. Currently, she holds the position of National Head for Retention & Training in FUNDreamz.
Ajeet Tiwari
Ajeet Tiwari is a man with vibrant academic background. Having done his schooling from Madhya Pradesh, he always had the charm to please people with his personality. He graduated as a Bachelor in Business Administration from Jiwaji University situated in the heart of Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior. His love for travel prompted him to pursue a diploma in tourism & travel management, followed by a one year stint as an Assistant manager in Travelmaxx, New Delhi. Love for campus brought him back in college, this time to study MBA, Marketing & International business in a New Delhi based B-School.
A pronounced poet with interest in sporting activities, he has also represented the state in basketball and cricket in school days. He also values cultural ethics, endowed to him by his family, which prompted him to work with Oxfam India as a Fund raising Executive in New Delhi. He never looked back ever since. He moved to Pune as a Team leader and later headed Chandigarh operations of Oxfam India.
Like other founders of FUNDreamz, so are his reasons. A born Leader and forerunner, his responsibility has been to setup FUNDreamz second North Indian operations in the City beautiful, Chandigarh. A "Working Class Hero", currently holds the position of Director, aims to revolutionize the field of fundraising with newer innovations for the larger good of the society.


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Studying Talk to Her
by Emily Hughes
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Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe) Publication Date: 01/05/2015
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Talk to Her (2002) is a hugely rich and interesting though ambiguous film that met with both popular success and critical acclaim. The film won an Oscar for best original screenplay and has been hailed by some critics as Pedro Almodóvar's masterpiece. Yet like most of Almodóvar's films, little is clear cut. The characters are complex and our affinity and empathy for them shifts throughout the film. In Studying Talk to Her, Emily Hughes provides an in-depth analysis of both the formal elements of the film (its narrative, genre, and auteur study) and the themes and issues it raises, discussing the social context of modern Spain and its old, traditional iconography; shifting attitudes towards gender; and, crucially, the film's uneasy, morally ambiguous depiction of rape and the spectator's reaction to it.
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package br.com.unisul.grafos.controller;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridLayout;

import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;

public class MostraResultadoDoGrafo extends JFrame {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	JPanel _painelFundo;
	JTable _tabela;
	JScrollPane _barraDeRolagem;
	Object [][] _dados;
	String [] _colunas;
	String _titulo;
	public static JFrame OWNER;

	public MostraResultadoDoGrafo(final String titulo, final String[] colunas, final Object[][] dados) {
		super (titulo);
		_titulo = titulo;
		_colunas = colunas;
		_dados = dados;
	}

	public void mostraResultado() {
		_painelFundo = new JPanel();
		_painelFundo.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
		_tabela = new JTable(_dados, _colunas);
		_barraDeRolagem = new JScrollPane(_tabela);
		_painelFundo.add(_barraDeRolagem);

		final JDialog frame = new JDialog(OWNER, _titulo, true);
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(400,200));
		frame.setPreferredSize(getSize());
		frame.setResizable(false);
		frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
		frame.setResizable(true);

		frame.getContentPane().add(_painelFundo);
		frame.setVisible(true);
	}
}