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UGANDA The Indian Ocean Newsletter dated 21/02/2014
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That's a cool little setup.
Question. Is that a 930 wastegate? If so, I'd keep that and throw a TiAL or TurboSmart on there. I think the 930 ones bring big money.
2nd, the air filter setup could use some help. I used a couple of elbows and aluminum pieces off eBay that word pretty well for cheap. Running a 4" inlet all the way, so 3" will fit really easy.
Is that a 60-1 HiFi? If so, that's a very hard hitting turbo for a 3.2. I had 1. Made people freak out once it hit.
Photos Nothing missing and everything works.


Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Feb;168(1):169-178. doi: 10.1007/s10549-017-4543-7. Epub 2017 Nov 24.
Evaluation of applying IHC4 as a prognostic model in the translational study of Intergroup Exemestane Study (IES): PathIES.
Cheang MCU1, Bliss JM1, Viale G2, Speirs V3, Palmieri C4, Shaaban A5, Lønning PE6, Morden J1, Porta N1, Jassem J7, van De Velde CJ8, Rasmussen BB9, Verhoeven D10, Bartlett JMS11, Coombes RC12; PathIES Sub-Committee.
The Institute of Cancer Research, Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit (ICR-CTSU) Section of Clinical Trials, Sir Richard Doll Building, Sutton, SM2 5NG, UK.
Department of Pathology, European Institute of Oncology, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141, Milan, Italy.
Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, St James's University Hospital, Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, Leeds, LS9 7TF, UK.
Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK.
Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Department of Oncology, University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021, Bergen, Norway.
Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdansk, 7 Debinki St, 80-211, Gdansk, Poland.
Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2300 ZA, Leiden, Netherlands.
Department of Pathology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Department of Medical Oncology, AZ Klina, Braschaat, Belgium.
Transformative Pathology, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, MaRS Centre, 661 University Avenue, Suite 510, Toronto, ON, M5G 0A3, Canada.
Department of Cancer and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK. c.coombes@imperial.ac.uk.
Intergroup Exemestane Study (IES) was a randomised study that showed a survival benefit of switching adjuvant endocrine therapy after 2-3 years from tamoxifen to exemestane. This PathIES aimed to assess the role of immunohistochemical (IHC)4 score in determining the relative sensitivity to either tamoxifen or sequential treatment with tamoxifen and exemestane.
Primary tumour samples were available for 1274 patients (27% of IES population). Only patients for whom the IHC4 score could be calculated (based on oestrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, HER2 and Ki67) were included in this analysis (N = 430 patients). The clinical score (C) was based on age, grade, tumour size and nodal status. The association of clinicopathological parameters, IHC4(+C) scores and treatment effect with time to distant recurrence-free survival (TTDR) was assessed in univariable and multivariable Cox regression analyses. A modified clinical score (PathIEscore) (N = 350) was also estimated.
Our results confirm the prognostic importance of the original IHC4, alone and in conjunction with clinical scores, but no significant difference with treatment effects was observed. The combined IHC4 + Clinical PathIES score was prognostic for TTDR (P < 0.001) with a hazard ratio (HR) of 5.54 (95% CI 1.29-23.70) for a change from 1st quartile (Q1) to Q1-Q3 and HR of 15.54 (95% CI 3.70-65.24) for a change from Q1 to Q4.
In the PathIES population, the IHC4 score is useful in predicting long-term relapse in patients who remain disease-free after 2-3 years. This is a first trial to suggest the extending use of IHC4+C score for prognostic indication for patients who have switched endocrine therapies at 2-3 years and who remain disease-free after 2-3 years.
Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018;168(1):169-178.


We all want to find the right partner, whether we are looking for love or simple companionship. The basic idea is to find someone we feel close too, or at least someone we can have fun with, and this can be done easily these days with the help of the internet and its many dating websites. The best part is that we don't necessarily need to travel too far away, sometimes the right person can be closer than we think.
The thing about living somewhere is that we don't always know everyone who lives in our area, even if we know that area well. We might assume that we have ran the well dry by visiting every local bar and nightclub but the truth is that we cannot ever be sure we have contacted every possible lover in our town. Of course there are other places we can go to meet new partners. Doing an activity such as sports, or even joining a club for specialist activities such as reading can introduce us to new people too. Basically, the more we get around the better we know our own turf.


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Q: ASP.NET MVC ValidationAttribute causes invalid client side validation rules I'm working on a ASP.NET MVC 5 Application. I'm using Attributes to validate my models (back- and frontend).
One of my models has a property which looks like this:
[Required( ... )]
[Range( 0d, Double.MaxValue, ...)]
public Decimal Amount { get; set; }

All values from 0 to Double.MaxValue are allowed as amount. (This works perfectly in the backend)
In my UI I have a form for this model:
@using (Html.BeginForm(null, null, FormMethod.Post))
{
    @* Anti Forgery Token *@
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
    <fieldset>
        ...

            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Amount, new { @class = "label" })

                @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Amount, new { htmlAttributes = new { placeholder = Resources.Amount } })
                @Html.RenderCombinedValidationMessages(x => x.Amount, false)

    </fieldset>
    @Html.RenderGlobalValidationMessages()

            @Resources.Back
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">@Resources.Create</button>

}

This code creates HTML which looks like this:
<form action="/Controller/Create" class="smart-form" method="post" novalidate="novalidate">
    <fieldset>

            Amount

                <input
                    data-val="true" data-val-number="The field Amount must be a number."
                    data-val-range="Amount must be between 0 and 1.79769313486232E+308."
                    data-val-range-max="1.79769313486232E+308"
                    data-val-range-min="0"
                    data-val-required="Amount is required."
                    id="Amount" name="Amount" placeholder="Amount" type="text" value="">

    </fieldset>

            Back
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Create</button>

</form>

Now the problem:
Based on the validation attributes the HtmlHelper creates a jQuery validation rule for max range: data-val-range-max="1.79769313486232E+308". This causes jQuery validate to allow only values from 0 to 1.79…. (values smaller than 2)
How can I fix this?

A: One way that i know is this:
      [Range(typeof(decimal), "0", "79228162514264337593543950335")]
      public decimal Amount { get; set; }

Meh-ish, but this is a real deal.
And decimal MaxValue is 79228162514264337593543950335. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.decimal.maxvalue(v=vs.110).aspx

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Released by UK indie institution 4AD, soundtracked by Werner Herzog and playlisted by Gorillaz, this is the perculiar story of how a State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir emerged from Soviet Bulgaria to transcended genres, borders and eras.
Aside from the singers, there are five central figures in the Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares story. In chronological order they are: Filip Kutev, a Bulgarian symphonic composer, Marcel and Catherine Cellier, Swiss musicologists, Peter Murphy, vocalist with Bauhaus, and Watts-Russell.
In 1951, Kutev was appointed founding director of Bulgaria's State Ensemble for Folk Songs and Dances, tasked by the government (since the late 1940s a Soviet puppet regime) with eliminating "anti-socialist" currents in the country's traditional folk culture and turning it into a "progressive" force. Kutev fulfilled his modernising brief imaginatively, by blending the signature elements of traditional Bulgarian vocal music – dissonances, quarter tones, drones and asymmetrical rhythms – with arrangements derived in part from the impressionism of Claude Debussy and the twelve-tone innovations of Arnold Schoenberg. The result was unlike anything heard anywhere before, a roots-based music shot through with avant-garde flourishes.
Kutev's first choral group, the Filip Kutev Ensemble, morphed into Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir (BSTFVC), the choir featured on most of the tracks on Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares. The man who introduced the BSTFVC to West European listeners was Marcel Cellier, an organist, broadcaster and founder of Switzerland's pioneering folk-music label Disques Cellier, aided and abetted by his wife, Catherine. Despite the Cold War and its obsession with Western spies, the couple somehow managed to get permission to visit Bulgaria regularly in the late 1950s, carrying a bulky Telefunken reel-to-reel and making recordings of traditional music in the capital, Sofia, and the countryside. Back in Switzerland, Marcel featured the recordings on his weekly radio show, From the Black Sea to the Baltic, which ran from 1960 until 1985.
The first vinyl compilation of the Celliers' tapes – a mixture of recordings made by the Celliers and others sourced from the archives of Radio Sofia – was released by Disques Cellier as Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares in 1975. The disc was a succès d'estime, but sales were not spectacular. That changed in 1986, when Cellier licensed the disc to 4AD, who in turn licensed the US rights to Elektra/Nonesuch.
The rest, as they say, is history. Sales of Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares in Britain and the US were unprecedented for a foreign-language vocal album. 4AD went on to sell 100,000 copies, Elektra/Nonesuch 500,000. Within a year, international concert promoters were competing to secure tours by the BSTFVC – and if they were not available, any choir with the words Mystery and Bulgaria in the name would do. Spin-off groups were formed and enterprising Bulgarian agents presented regional choirs as Kutev's Sofia-based original.
In 1990, Marcel Cellier made a partially successful attempt to lock the stable door by registering the name Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares with the UN's World Intellectual Property Organisation. But confusion still reigns. The easiest way to spot a genuine BSTFVC recording is to look for Cellier's name in the credits. Recordings without it are by other choirs (some of them as good as the original).


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Colorado Springs reckons with past after gay club shooting - Albuquerque Journal
Colorado Springs reckons with past after gay club shooting
By Sam Metz and Stephen Groves / Associated Press
Published: Friday, November 25th, 2022 at 10:27AM
Updated: Friday, November 25th, 2022 at 5:13PM
In this aerial image taken with a drone, a rainbow flag is unfurled at City Hall Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. With a growing and diversifying population, the city nestled at the foothills of the Rockies is a patchwork of disparate social and cultural fabrics. But last weekend's shooting has raised uneasy questions about the lasting legacy of cultural conflicts that caught fire decades ago and gave Colorado Springs a reputation as a cauldron of religion-infused conservatism, where LGBTQ people didn't fit in with the most vocal community leaders' idea of family values (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When officials unfurled a 25-foot rainbow flag in front of Colorado Springs City Hall this week, people gathered to mourn the victims of a mass shooting at a popular gay club couldn't help but reflect on how such a display of support would have been unthinkable just days earlier.
With a growing and diversifying population, the city nestled at the foothills of the Rockies is a patchwork of disparate social and cultural fabrics. It's a place full of art shops and breweries; megachurches and military bases; a liberal arts college and the Air Force Academy. For years it's marketed itself as an outdoorsy boomtown with a population set to top Denver's by 2050.
But last weekend's shooting has raised uneasy questions about the lasting legacy of cultural conflicts that caught fire decades ago and gave Colorado Springs a reputation as a cauldron of religion-infused conservatism, where LGBTQ people didn't fit in with the most vocal community leaders' idea of family values.
For some, merely seeing police being careful to refer to the victims using their correct pronouns this week signaled a seismic change. For others, the shocking act of violence in a space considered an LGBTQ refuge shattered a sense of optimism pervading everywhere from the city's revitalized downtown to the sprawling subdivisions on its outskirts.
"It feels like the city is kind of at this tipping point," said Candace Woods, a queer minister and chaplain who has called Colorado Springs home for 18 years. "It feels interesting and strange, like there's this tension: How are we going to decide how we want to move forward as a community?"
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Five people were killed in the attack last weekend. Eight victims remained hospitalized Friday, officials said.
In recent decades the population has almost doubled to 480,000 people. More than one-third of residents are nonwhite — twice as many as in 1980. The median age is 35. Politics here lean more conservative than in comparable-size cities. City council debates revolve around issues familiar throughout the Mountain West, such as water, housing and the threat of wildfires.
Residents take pride in describing Colorado Springs as a place defined by reinvention. In the early 20th century, newcomers sought to establish a resort town in the shadow of Pikes Peak. In the 1940s, military bases arrived. In the 1990s it became known as a home base for evangelical nonprofits and Christian ministries including broadcast ministry Focus on the Family and the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys.
"I have been thinking for years, we're in the middle of a transition about what Colorado Springs is, who we are, and what we've become," said Matt Mayberry, a historian at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum.
The idea of latching onto a city with a bright future is partly what drew Michael Anderson, a Club Q bartender who survived last weekend's shooting.
Two friends, Derrick Rump and Daniel Aston, helped Anderson land the Club Q job and find his "queer family" in his new hometown. It was more welcoming than rural Florida where he grew up.
Still, he noted signs the city was more culturally conservative than others of similar size and much of Colorado: "Colorado Springs is kind of an outlier," he said.
Now he's grieving the deaths of Rump and Aston in the club shooting.
Leslie Herod followed an opposite trajectory. After growing up in Colorado Springs in a military family — like many others in the city — she left to study at the University of Colorado in liberal Boulder. In 2016 she became the first openly LGBTQ and Black person elected to Colorado's General Assembly, representing part of Denver. She is now running to become Denver's mayor.
"Colorado Springs is a community that is full of love. But I will also acknowledge that I chose to leave the Springs because I felt like when it came to … the elected leadership, the vocal leadership in this community, it wasn't supportive of all people, wasn't supportive of Black people, wasn't supportive of immigrants, not supportive of LGBTQ people," Herod said at a memorial event downtown.
She said she found community at Club Q when she would return from college. But she didn't forget people and groups with a history of anti-LGBTQ stances and rhetoric maintained influence in city politics.
"This community, just like any other community in the country, is complex," she said.
Club Q's co-owner, Nic Grzecka, told The Associated Press he's hoping to use the tragedy to rebuild a "loving culture" in the city. Even though general acceptance the LGBTQ community has grown, Grzecka said false assertions that members of the community are "grooming" children has incited hatred.
Those who have been around long enough are remembering this week how in the 1990s, at the height of the religious right's influence, the Colorado Springs-based group Colorado for Family Values spearheaded a statewide push to pass Amendment 2 and make it illegal for communities to pass ordinances protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination.
Colorado Springs voted 3 to 1 in favor of Amendment 2, helping make its narrow statewide victory possible. Though it was later ruled unconstitutional, the campaign cemented the city's reputation, drawing more like-minded groups and galvanizing progressive activists in response.
The influx of evangelical groups decades ago was at least in part spurred by efforts from the city's economic development arm to offer financial incentives to lure nonprofits. Newcomers began lobbying for policies like getting rid of school Halloween celebrations due to suspicions about the holiday's pagan origins.
Yemi Mobolade, an entrepreneur running for mayor as an independent, didn't understand how strong Colorado Springs' stigma as a "hate city" was until he moved here 12 years ago. But since then, he said, it has risen from recession-era struggles and become culturally and economically vibrant for all kinds of people.
There has been a concerted push to shed the city's reputation as "Jesus Springs" and remake it yet again, highlighting its elite Olympic Training Center and branding itself as Olympic City USA.
Much like in the 1990s, Focus on the Family and New Life Church remain prominent in town. After the shooting, Focus on the Family's president, Jim Daly, said that like the rest of the community he was mourning the tragedy. With the city under the national spotlight, he said the organization wanted to make it clear it stands against hate.
Daly noted a generational shift among Christian leaders away from the rhetorical style of his predecessor, Dr. James Dobson. Whereas Focus on the Family published literature in decades past assailing what it called the "Homosexual Agenda," its messaging now emphasizes tolerance, ensuring those who believe marriage should be between one man and one woman have the right to act accordingly.
"I think in a pluralistic culture now, the idea is: How do we all live without treading on each other?" Daly said.
After a sign in front of the group's headquarters was vandalized with graffiti reading "their blood is on your hands" and "five lives taken," Daly said in a statement Friday it was time for "prayer, grieving and healing, not vandalism and the spreading of hate."
The memorials this week attracted a wave of visitors: crowds of mourners clutching flowers, throngs of television crews and a church group whose volunteers set up a tent and passed out cookies, coffee and water. To some in the LGBTQ community, the scene was less about solidarity and more a cause for consternation.
Colorado Springs native Ashlyn May, who grew up in a Christian church but left when it didn't accept her queer identity, said one woman from the group in the tent asked if she could pray for her and a friend who accompanied her to the memorial.
She said yes. It reminded May of her beloved great-grandparents, who were religious. But as the praying carried on and the woman urged May and her friend to turn to God, she felt as if praying had turned into preying. It unearthed memories of hearing things about LGBTQ people she saw as hateful and inciting.
"It felt very conflicting," May said.
Metz reported from Salt Lake City. AP writers Brittany Peterson and Jesse Bedayn in Colorado Springs contributed.
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LOUIS-CHARLES GAGNON
The tenor Louis-Charles Gagnon has a noble and refined voice which allies a bright sound, an expressive style and an easy agility.
His future engagements include the role of Nadir in a production of the opera Les Pêcheurs de perles (G. Bizet) with the Jeunesses musicales du Canada first presented during the Quebec Opera Festival last summer then on tour across Canada in Fall 2021 and in Spring 2022. He will also sing the role of the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto (G. Verdi) with the Teatro lirico d'Europa in the United States on January and February 2022. He will perform the title role in the opera Le Comte Ory (G. Rossini) with Tempêtes et passions in June 2022 and will also perform the Christmas Oratorio (J.S. Bach) and the Saint-Saëns Requiem with the Choeur Les Rhapsodes.
Recently, he performed as a soloist in the Vesperae solennes de confessore (W.A. Mozart) with the chorus of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and with the Choeur Classique de l'Estrie along with the Coronation mass and the Regina Coeli from the same composer. He also performed the role of Edgardo in the latest production from the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor (G.Donizetti)
His other latest achievements include the role of Gherardo and the cover for the role of Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (G. Puccini) as well as Septimius in Theodora (G.F. Handel) at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in the United Kingdom. He also performed the role of the Second Priest as well as the cover for the role of Tamino for most of the rehearsal process in a production of The Magic Flute (W.A. Mozart) directed by Robert Lepage for the Quebec Opera Festival. He also performed for the same festival as a member of La brigade lyrique in 2016, 2017 and 2019 and assumed the role of the Clerk of the Court in the Canadian opera Louis Riel (H. Sommers). In 2017, he sang the role of Don Ottavio in the city of Weimar, Germany, in Don Giovanni (W.A. Mozart) with the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar (LOSW).
His other roles on stage include The Husband in Les mamelles de Tirésias (F. Poulenc) and Cecco in Il mondo della Luna (J. Haydn) with the Opera workshop of Laval University, Comte Barigoule at Saint-Eustache FestivalOpera's production of Cendrillon (P. Viardot) and Flavio in Norma (V. Bellini) with Rimouski Opera. He performed in numerous concerts organized by Tempêtes et Passions, including their production of Bastien et Bastienne (W.A. Mozart) in the role of Bastien and also in Rossini à l'apéro and Gounod à l'apéro presented for Quebec Opera Festival. He has appeared as a guest soloist with the Laval University Symphonic Orchestra at the Palais Montcalm in Quebec City and with the Laval University Music Faculty Choir as a soloist in the Petite messe solennelle (G. Rossini). In the UK, he appeared as a soloist for the Cheshire Sinfonia in the Mass in C (L.V. Beethoven), for the Chester Music Society in the St. Cecilia Mass (C. Gounod), for the Ramsbottom Choral Society in The Seasons and The Creation (J. Haydn), for the Southport Bach Choir in Messiah (G.F. Handel) and in various other events like song recitals and opera galas.
In 2016 Louis-Charles won the first place at the Solo Competition with Orchestra organized by Laval University's Music Faculty and the S. Cécile-Darveau award in 2015 for his first place at the La Relève Musicale Lyric Art Competition. In 2015 he also received the Tremplin Scholarship from the Drummondville Arts and Culture Service for the successes of his artistic achievements and, in 2014, a second place at the Canadian Music Competition.
Louis-Charles holds a PGDip in Music performance from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he worked with Andrew Heggie. He also got a MMus at Laval University in Quebec City under the teaching of Patricia Fournier. He's been greatly supported during this period by the group La Relève musicale.


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The Self Isolated Artists' Series
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From 2008-2012, CTV premiered what I would call one of its most seminal television shows in history. 'Flashpoint', in its five-season run from 2008-2012, followed a fictional elite tactical unit, the Strategic Response Unit (SRU) within a Canadian metropolitan police force which was Toronto even though the city was rarely mentioned. The sometimes gritty, raw, visceral characters on 'Flashpoint' dealt in resolving extreme situations that on the beat/regular police officers were not trained to handle which included hostage-taking, bomb threats and heavily armed criminals.
Toronto based actor Sergio Di Zio, who played Spike for the entire run, was one who developed a believable character arc throughout the series. Along with his success in 'Flashpoint', Di Zio has also been kept busy in film work once the series concluded. He appears in the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit'.
Sergio has also shown tremendous versatility on many of the Toronto stages. Most recently, I saw him in December 2019 at Coal Mine Theatre's production of an extraordinarily wonderful 'Between Riverside and Crazy' by Stephen Adly Guirguis.
He is a recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Performance Dora Mavor Moore Award (Independent Theatre Division) for Stephen Adly Guirguis's 'The Motherfucker with the Hat' which was performed at Coal Mine Theatre. I was grateful to him and a former student of mine, Justin Landry, when they both came to my school to speak to students about careers in the performing arts several years ago.
And yes, I was also thankful that Sergio took the time to speak to me via Zoom. You can follow him on
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It has been just over two months right now that we have been under this lockdown. How have you been doing during this period of isolation and quarantine?
I've been helping to care for my father who was hospitalized for three weeks during the pandemic (non-Covid related). I'm now helping to care for him in his home everyday which is harder to do when there are auditions. I'm relieved my dad's at home even though he's not well as he's in decline. To have something like this personal family situation coincide with the world being sick is strange but a mixed blessing. Thanks for asking.
Were you involved or being considered for any projects before the pandemic was declared and everything was shut down?
Yes. I was looking to break even. The first week of the lockdown I had an offer for a play which I've never been happier to get an offer. It's supposed to be further along after Covid for as far as we know. I'm excited that it should happen. I broke even as another play which was going to happen but fell apart last week.
It's a strange time. It's always like this for actors. It's on point.
What has been the most difficult and/or challenging element of this period of isolation?
Nights are hard. You're forced to be in the moment because there's no future or past right now. It can get a little heavy for nights as you can wake up at 4 am but don't know why, but knowing everyone is in the same boat, and you think, ok this is what we're going through. We're all feeling it. When it hits you at 2 am in the morning, it's harder to settle down but you do it. You go to bed and start again in the morning.
What have all of you been doing to keep yourself busy during this time of lockdown?
I've been busy in a good way in a more intentional way. Three of my friends have sent me plays to read or to workshop over ZOOM or to workshop in a social distanced way. I've been working on stuff with people to dig deep into their work right now as there is time to do it. A couple of friends, my creative partners, we are working on a project that has turned into a pilot. That's more meetings through What's App and Zoom.
Although it might seem bad, but there is something great about this time. There is the time to reflect, to work, and to dig deeper than we did in regular life, whatever that was, where we were distracted by a whole bunch of things that weren't necessary.
Any words of wisdom or sage advice you would give to other performing artists who are concerned about the impact of COVID-19? What about to the new theatre graduates who are just out of school and may have been hit hard? Why is it important for them not to lose sight of their dreams?
Our phones pretend to be things that help us from our loneliness but there's big proof that it's not. Just like everyone else at nightfall, yes, I'll reach for my phone, but I've been trying to put the phone down more and do more basic stuff. I've been writing a lot more, journaling a lot more, reading more books. It's a good time to work on our craft. It's time to feed yourself internally and to listen more than to have to put out stuff.
Before all this, we were getting caught up in self promotion because of the tech we have. We put stuff out there before we have any time to work on it. I have to listen to this same advice as well – stay away from talking too much. Try to listen more, to read a bit more, to reflect, to be thoughtful. Be precious with your time because there's a lot of it now. It's so important.
Spoiler: As an actor, you're always going to ask, "Did I choose the right career path?" right until your dying day. I remember as a young actor how important it is to get yourself out there. I feel for them. It's so hard to trust but you have to just trust and get the work out there. The work will come to you. That's what people will get excited about.
Do you see anything positive stemming from this pandemic?
Yah, this time for whatever it is, the stuff we don't really do in regular time, just accept what is. Feel what you're feeling in that moment. Covid has been a time for us to cherish those we love. I take a lot of walks and listen to podcasts. I think it was Bob Rae's and Ralph Benmurgui's podcasts talked about Covid not necessarily being the equalizer but the great revealer. That made a lot of sense to me. If anything, we need to take stock and see how unfair the world has been. We're being taught through this to just look at our own lives and see how we can fix what we feel needs to be fixed personally. I appreciate some of the gifts that have been given to me at this time.
In your estimation and informed opinion, will the Canadian performing arts scene somehow be changed or impacted as a result of COVID – 19?
Yes! Short answer! Everything is! This is gonna change everything. If we can just accept that and not know how it's going to change it. Maybe theatre and film will bounce back in a big spurt starting in the summer. It's uncomfortable to live with the uncertainty but it's always the case, it's always the case.
Many artists are turning to streaming/online performances to showcase/highlight/share their work. What are your thoughts about this format presentation? Any advantages to doing this? Disadvantages? Are you participating or will you be participating in this presentation format soon?
There's a lot of people who feel the need to do it and that's great. It's different. You're going to see some brilliant stuff. But it's somewhere between theatre and film. Streaming is its own thing. I did a test Meisner class with a couple of friends who teach it (all about the moment) seeing how the class would work on screen. You're looking at another face on the screen It's fascinating to make that that connection on screen.
I'm not watching a lot of screen time as that it is getting depressing so I'm mindful of that. There's a lot more birds in my life, more robins. They're everywhere. They're having their day.
Yes, there are disadvantages to streaming. The immediacy of our tech in giving stuff out is amazing for certain things. For art, I wonder if time can be better spent working on stuff until it's ready to be seen or read instead of providing the immediacy. Stuff takes times to create art. Trust that time by yourself is going to help your art. Work on that until it's ready.
What is it about performing you still love given all the change, the confusion and the drama surrounding our world now?
You nailed it in the question – the turmoil, the confusion, the drama. Actors are funny that way. We're attracted to that. Is it childhood trauma? We see people going through things. Rather than turn away, I want to explore that emotion of human condition.
I've been very lucky. You get this chance to explore the human condition in auditions, classes, film. When you're showing these emotions, you're convinced you've chosen the right profession.
With a respectful nod to 'Inside the Actors' Studio' and the late James Lipton, here are the 10 questions he asked his guests at the conclusion of his interviews:
What is your favourite word?
Nuance. I love nuance. It's a very attractive word
What is your least favourite word?
Selfie.
What turns you on?
I love people who are passionate about what they do. It's beautiful. It's a life force.
What turns you off?
Self-pity, unless you're a young child and skinned your knee.
What sound or noise do you love?
Ocean waves at night.
What sound or noise bothers you?
Vacuum cleaners. I'm just like a pet. I want to get out of the room. I want no part of it even if I'm the one doing the vacuuming.
What is your favourite curse word?
I've got access to many languages. I'm a pretty big fan of putana, stronzo. Italian is a wonderful language for curse words. All Italian words are translatable. Anybody who wants to learn Italian wants to know how to swear.
What profession, other than your own, would you have liked to attempt?
I've always romanticized about journalism same thing as I thought about acting. It's a lot of work, journalism, just like acting.
What profession would you not like to do?
Leader of the opposition. When your job description sound like everything the current government is trying to do is wrong, but you have to point it out. God, just shut up, will ya? I know it's part of the job, but I wouldn't want to do it.
If Heaven exists, what do you hope God will say to you as you approach the Pearly Gates?
I like that question – "Everybody's here. They're all out back, they're all waiting for you… Unless you want to go again. But I'll figure it out on that day."


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Helios Investment Partners exits partial stake in Equity Group Holdings Limited to Norfund and NorFinance
London,United Kingdom, 16 January 2015: Norfund and NorFinance AS (a joint venture investment company between Norfund and Norwegian private investors) have agreed terms with Helios Investment Partners ("Helios") to purchase from Helios an effective stake equivalent to 12.223% in Equity Group Holdings Ltd. ("Equity"), representing half of Helios' interest in Equity, subject to receipt of regulatory approvals.
Equity is the leading inclusive banking group in East Africa with nearly 10 million customer accounts and approximately $4 billion in assets. The largest listed bank on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and the Uganda Securities Exchange, Equity has subsidiaries across the region and is engaged in the provision of banking, insurance agency, investment banking, securities brokerage and information and telecommunications technology outsourcing services.
Equity has consistently delivered exceptional performance, with profit after tax growing in excess of 30% annually through the global financial crisis spanning from 2007 to 2013. Over this period, the bank has expanded its business and customer segments to become fully inclusive, and extended its operations regionally into Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Sudan. Equity has recently embarked on a new phase of development, a corporate growth strategy entitled "Equity 3.0'', and is
well positioned to maintain its impressive performance trajectory by further leveraging technology and leading in innovation.
Babatunde Soyoye, Managing Partner of Helios, commented:
"Helios is delighted to introduce Norfund and NorFinance as new, like-minded investors. Norfund and NorFinance share Equity's core values of partnership, promoting financial inclusion and strong corporate governance. We are proud to have played a role in the bank's growth and success to date, and look forward to continuing to partner with Equity in the next phase of its development and to support its direct positive impact on the lives of people in the communities within which it operates."
Kjell Roland, Managing Director of Norfund, highlighted Norfund's strong interest in Equity, saying:
"Equity is an attractive business with a best-in-class global management team and an established track record within the banking industry. We look forward to working with all stakeholders to grow the business further in particular as the bank embarks on its new phase of strategic development. This investment is strongly in line with Norfund's strategy to support banks targeting entry level and mass-market retail banking, and SMEs, and strengthens our financial institutions investment portfolio in Africa."
Dr James Mwangi, Group CEO and Managing Director Equity Group Holding, expanded on the reasons for Equity seeking an alliance with Norfund:
"Equity has always aimed to be an innovative and inclusive provider of financial solutions. We are excited by the expanded opportunities this development presents, to combine our market leading position with two strong international partners who bring along their substantial resources as well as expertise which we believe will be invaluable in accelerating the growth of our business. This transaction which is currently the largest of its kind in Sub Saharan Africa brings diversification to Equity's capital base which is important for the Group."
Helios' transaction advisors were Goldman Sachs International and Anjarwalla and Khanna. Norfund was advised by Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, KPMG and McKinsey & Company.
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The Post-Pandemic Boom and What That Means for Talent
The world's economy is getting ready for a post-pandemic boom. Learn how HR's focus on how to manage and recruit talent post-pandemic has changed.
By Mohamed Farid
The pandemic has asked a lot from our HR leaders. One day, we came to the office and everything we knew no longer existed. What was needed yesterday is not the same as what is needed tomorrow, and with that, HR was challenged with ensuring business continuity. The talent needed to achieve future goals has changed dramatically, and there has been no time to overthink approaches. Talent management and recruitment has gone through a massive transformation, with companies requiring the identification and hiring of talent using new methods. This is especially true in the period when the post-pandemic boom is coming near.
While employers have tended towards downsizing their headcount during the pandemic, this has coincided with a need for employees who do remain to adapt to a shift towards working remotely—in addition to dealing with organizations that are moving quickly towards the digitization of the workplace, whilst requiring employees to maintain their productivity. In fact, Talent Management and Digitization have been found to be the top priorities for organizations (PWC, 2020), whilst being inherently interrelated.
It is a huge challenge for HR to identify the right people for the right position to meet and exceed future goals. Bridging the skills gaps that have occurred during the pandemic is one thing to consider, but the "war for talent" continues unabated. As an organization's talent have developed rapidly to these work changes, this will have also made them more interesting to other organizations, which may be prone to attempt to steal the talent of their competitors. To inoculate other organizations from these attempts, it is important to create a stimulating and satisfying work environment.
Talent management and recruitment has gone through a massive transformation, with companies requiring the identification and hiring of talent using new methods.
So, which actions should we consider to keep an organization's talented employees loyal and happy?
5 things to consider in your talent management post-pandemic
Talented employees need to be kept active by being provided with new tasks and challenges to achieve, which would support their growth and feed their eagerness to evolve. They need to be motivated to perform. Having a system in place to track performance, to measure results, and adjust activities when needed helps employees to focus on what is needed to reach desired goals and utilize their potential as best as possible.
Facilitate in a well-balanced work-life situation and actively work on building an energetic work environment, where you spend time encouraging employees to take on other activities besides work. Working remotely will surely stay to some degree as part of most workers modes of work delivery, and as work and private life boundaries continue to blur—where people work, play and raise their families in the same environment, it is too easy to stay in work mode for too long. To boost productivity, it is important to shut down from work and consider other things that help a person recharge. Flexibility in the workplace has been seen to bring benefits for both employee and employer.
Focus on employee experience is a must! Working from home is challenging in many ways, but certainly also on keeping people engaged and connected. Ways to do this are not even slightly the same as they were before. The system should be reviewed and adjusted to the talent needs and the intensity of collaboration among others.
Secondary conditions such as budget for training purposes for one to develop are becoming more critical for an employer to provide, as these factors are key attractions for competitors to put in place when trying to attract these talents. Proactively act as you are bidding against competitors before the situation arises. Employees will feel appreciated and acknowledged for their value more than when you reactively come with an offer when they can get better conditions elsewhere.
Reward performance. The compensation should meet the responsibility of the work. Market-compatible compensation is the base to keep your employees satisfied and feeling appreciated.
After the pandemic, the world will never be the same. Let's not pretend managing and recruiting talent will. And with Talent Management processes being rapidly digitized, the post-pandemic boom is coming whether you are ready or not.
Get in touch to learn more about our solutions and how to manage talent optimally today!
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Mohamed is a seasoned Business Leader with more than 24 years in the Technology and Services industries, out of which 14 years in Human Capital Management. Mohamed initiated SHL operations in the Middle East from onset in 2008 and since then has been responsible for the performance, strategy, and expansion of the organization in MENA Region. With a long history of building strong customer relationships, coupled with the market know-how to specify, strategize, and define opportunities to support SHL clients, he is an active public speaker and an advisor to various Middle East government initiatives in Human Capital and AI. Mohamed has a master's degree from Middlesex University in Business Information Technology and is an Associate Alumni of MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Sergio Salvati (born 16 June 1938) is an Italian cinematographer who was born in Trastevere, a working-class neighborhood of Rome, Italy. His father, Aldofo Salvati, was already a key grip in the early days of Italian cinema, and through his father's contacts Sergio began his career developing negatives in a small photographic laboratory in Rome, the SPES directed by Di Ettore Catalucci.

Biography

In 1956 his father was working with Enzo Serafin, who asked Sergio to work with him as camera assistant on Raw Wind in Eden starring Esther Williams and Jeff Chandler. Many other films shot in Italy would follow, both cult classics and commercial cinema. He would be a camera assistant on Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and later assistant to Ennio Guarnieri on three projects from the 60s and 70s: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea (1969), L'Invasion (1970) directed by Yves Allegret and Mauro Bolognini's Metello (1979).

During his career, Salvati would be director of photography for eleven films directed by Lucio Fulci, the Italian master of gore, including the famous Wax Mask taken over by Dario Argento when Fulci died during preparation of the film. He would also be cinematographer on several films produced by Charles Band, including Puppetmaster (1989). After having filmed scenes of Christian De Sica's remake of his father's film, Il Conte Max (1991), in Marrakech, Sergio Salvati established the groundwork for a collaboration with the country of Morocco that continues until today. He worked alongside his friend Ennio Guarnieri on two films from the TNT Bible series shot in Ouarzazate, the Hollywood of Morocco: Jacob (1994) and The Seventh Scroll (1999). At the age of 73, he was director of photography on an independent Moroccan film, The Return of the Son, directed by Ahmed Boulane.

He has taught and continues to teach cinematography in film schools in both Ouarzazate and Casablanca. He has taught at the famous Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia in Rome and freely shares his experience with young filmmakers, as well as perpetuating the rich tradition of "Italian cinema". Salvati was president of the AIC, Associazione Italiana Autori della Fotografia, from 2007 through 2008 and remains on the board of directors.

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Q: Nested JSON to Array in Swift There are already posts talking about this, but I am still not able to figure out my problem.
I am accessing my database and am converting the response into a JSON object - that part is working fine. Here is the code for that. joArray now has the data I need.
//Convert data to json object
let joArray : NSArray
do {
    joArray = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: []) as! NSArray
}
catch  {
    print(responseString)
    print("error trying to convert data to JSON")
    return
 }

If I print out joArray . . .
print(joArray)

. . . this is what I get.
(
        {
        FirstName = Bob;
    },
        {
        FirstName = Bill;
    }
)

How can I put this data into a swift array so that it looks like this?
let FirstNameArray = ["Bob", "Bill"]

FirstName will always be in the same position, but there will be varying numbers of users (Bob, Bill, Mary, etc.).

A: You will make life easier for yourself if you use a native Swift array instead. So, start by changing your array definition:
let joArray: [[String: Any]]
do {
  joArray = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: []) as! [[String: Any]]
} catch {
  // etc...
}

Now, it's straightforward to construct the required array:
let FirstNameArray = swiftArray.flatMap { $0["FirstName"] }

You should use flatMap, rather than map, because the given array item might not have a property called "FirstName".


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Dr. Kumar, our newest addition to the team, is a Board Certified Family Medicine Physician and a Dallas native. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Austin College where he also played on the Division III basketball team. He received his medical degree from St. George's University and completed his residency at Baton Rouge General in Louisiana. In his final year of residency, he was elected as chief resident.
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Jeff Rickert is a Physician Associate who has been practicing for the last 12 years here in Rockwall. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Exercise Science with a minor in Biology from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He was a local science teacher and coach for years before receiving his Masters of Physicians Assistant Studies from the University of St Francis in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Upon graduation he started practicing with Dr. Sandknop here in Rockwall. He treats sports medicine injuries, pediatric illnesses, well child visits, acute and chronic illnesses, low testosterone in males, general health maintenance visits and geriatric care.
In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, and spending time outdoors hunting, fishing and golfing. He lives in Rockwall with his wife Stephanie, a local school teacher, and his daughter Caitlyn and son Brent.
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Becky Wynn has practiced in Rockwall for 22 years with Dr. Les Sandknop in a busy Family Practice. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor University. She went on to obtain her Master of Science in Nursing from Texas Woman's University and a Master of Business from Amber University. Later she went back to earn her Doctor of Medicine degree from University of Health Sciences-Antigua.
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In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with family, traveling and sport fishing.
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Dr. Sandknop obtained his medical degree from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. His residency was at Dallas Memorial Hospital. His clinical interests include seeing patients who are twelve years and older for acute and chronic illness, and preventative health.
Dr. Sandknop resides in Heath with his wife Claudia. He has two sons Ryan and Preston, two daughters in laws Katie and Haley, and grandsons Pierson and Prescott. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, walking and hunting.
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While born and raised in Rockwall, Lauren feels a special connection with Royse City due to spending much of her childhood in the community, and she feels more than blessed to be able to participate in the health care management of those who reside there and in the surrounding areas.
In Lauren's personal time she enjoys spending time with her family, playing golf, and fishing.
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Julia is a Dallas native who started her nursing career at Parkland Hospital. She worked there for over 9 years gaining invaluable experiences that prepared her for her new role here as a nurse practitioner. She believes that delivering compassionate care to every patient is an honor and a blessing.
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Sarah is a board-certified Family and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and holds a Master of
Science degree in Nursing plus a Post-Master's degree. Sarah started her journey at Collin College where she received her Associates Degree in Nursing. She then obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing at Texas Tech while working at a local hospital. She went on to achieve her Master of Science in Nursing and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of Cincinnati. After getting two years of experience, she then went back to complete a Post-Master's Family Nurse Practitioner program. She is now duel certified and licensed as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner. She is thrilled to be able to serve the community of Rockwall and surrounding areas.
Sarah is married to her husband Aaron and they have 3 children: Hannah, Gavin, and Noah. They also have 2 fur babies, Sophia a Chihuahua and Duke a Great Dane mix. Sarah and Aaron are Texans born and raised and now reside in Josephine. Outside of work, Sarah enjoys being outside, lifting weights, reading, and playing with her children and pets.
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Forza Motorsport 7 to Be Delisted Later This Year
Forza Motorsport 7 is set to be delisted from the Microsoft store and Game Pass later in the year. As they say, all good things must come to an end. But don't worry, this isn't indicative of a questionable future for the series, it's actually quite normal.
Nigel Hart 2021-07-31
Forza Motorsport 7 will be delisted from the Microsoft store and all other places sold starting September 15th, 2021. Delisting is quite common for simulation racing games, as the deals with car companies cost money to keep good year to year. And as new Forza games come out and the older ones become less relevant over time, delisting makes sense. To add to the pain, Game Pass is also losing Forza Motorsport 7. If one owns the game, you can still play it, but other than that, your only option is to buy the game before it's gone.
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions we'd like to answer for everyone about Forza Motorsport 7 End of Life:
— Forza Motorsport (@ForzaMotorsport) July 30, 2021
Forza Motorsport 7 is one of two Forza series that two different studios handle. Playground Games, who're working on the new Fable game, have traditionally developed the Forza Horizon series. The Horizon games focus on large, open-world maps based in differing locations in each game. For example, Forza Horizon 5 is taking to Mexico. Turn 10 Studios is the team that handles the Forza Motorsport series, which has a more "professional racer" feel, as the player races on different race tracks around the world as you progress your driving career.
Forza Motorsport 7 Gameplay (Xbox Series X UHD) [4K60FPS]
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Nigel Hart
Hi, I'm Nigel. I love watching TV, anime, or reading books. My favorite video game genres are action-adventure games and first-person shooters. My preferred platform to play on is Xbox, and my history with Xbox stems back to the 360 days playing Halo 3 and Modern Warefare: 2.
Mikael Jansson 2021-07-31, 10:43 pm
Very unexpected. Although they usually delist these games after 4-5 years, this title was their only income source. Now they can't earn anything because all Motorsport titles are delisted. But I'm sure Microsoft is willing to provide Turn 10 as much money as they need and even more.


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Q: Mousemove function on a d3.js topojson county/state map - Hold click to select multiple counties Utilizing Mike Bostocks US Counties bl.ock: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4122298. The goal is to create a mousemove function that during the event the mousemove will highlight all counties selected. The current example only highlights using :hover and doesn't preserve the selection.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<style>

.counties :hover {
  fill: red;
}

.county-borders {
  fill: none;
  stroke: #fff;
  stroke-width: 0.5px;
  stroke-linejoin: round;
  stroke-linecap: round;
  pointer-events: none;
}

</style>
<svg width="960" height="600"></svg>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/topojson.v2.min.js"></script>
<script>

var svg = d3.select("svg");

var path = d3.geoPath();

d3.json("https://d3js.org/us-10m.v1.json", function(error, us) {
  if (error) throw error;

  svg.append("g")
      .attr("class", "counties")
    .selectAll("path")
    .data(topojson.feature(us, us.objects.counties).features)
    .enter().append("path")
      .attr("d", path);

  svg.append("path")
      .attr("class", "county-borders")
      .attr("d", path(topojson.mesh(us, us.objects.counties, function(a, b) { return a !== b; })));
});

</script>

A: See my snippet - that's what I understood. You need to use JavaScript event and classes since CSS  can't change state.

var svg = d3.select("svg");

var path = d3.geoPath();

d3.json("https://d3js.org/us-10m.v1.json", function(error, us) {
  if (error) throw error;

  svg.append("g")
    .attr("class", "counties")
    .selectAll("path")
    .data(topojson.feature(us, us.objects.counties).features)
    .enter()
    .append("path")
    .attr("d", path);

  // the following block is new, adding JS events
  let hoverEnabled = false;
  svg.on('mousedown', x => hoverEnabled = true)
    .on('mouseup', x => hoverEnabled = false)
  svg.selectAll('.counties path').on('mouseover', function() {
    if (hoverEnabled) {
      this.classList.add('hovered');
    }
  });

  svg.append("path")
     .attr("class", "county-borders")
    .attr("d", path(topojson.mesh(us, us.objects.counties, function(a, b) { return a !== b; })));
});
/* paths with class "hovered" need to be selected here, too */
.counties .hovered, .counties :hover {
  fill: red;
}

.county-borders {
  fill: none;
  stroke: #fff;
  stroke-width: 0.5px;
  stroke-linejoin: round;
  stroke-linecap: round;
  pointer-events: none;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<svg width="960" height="600"></svg>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/topojson.v2.min.js"></script>


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Q: Functorial Whitehead Tower? The Whitehead tower of a (pointed) space is a tower of spaces which successively kills the bottom homotopy groups. The first two spaces can be constructed functorially (at least for suitably nice spaces) as the connected component and the universal cover.
Can the remaining spaces be constructed functorially?
For the dual situation the answer is yes. I.e. for the Postnikov tower where we have a tower of spaces where the bottom homotopy groups are intact, but where we have killed off all the higher homotopy groups does have a functorial construction (again for nice spaces). The construction I know passes through simplicial sets. I'm wondering if something similar exists for the Whitehead tower?

A: The nth stage of the Whitehead tower of X is the homotopy fiber of the map from X to the nth (or so) stage of its Postnikov tower, so you can use your functorial construction of the Postnikov tower plus a functorial construction of the homotopy fiber (such as the usual one using the path space of the target).
The nth stage of the Whitehead tower of X is also the cofibrant replacement for X in the right Bousfield localization of Top with respect to the object Sn (or so).  Since Top is right proper and cellular this localization exists by the result of chapter 5 of Hirschhorn's book on localizations of model categories.  You might look there to see how the cofibrant replacement functor is constructed.  With some care you should be able to define functorially the maps in the tower as well.
(BTW, the Postnikov tower can similarly be obtained functorially by a left Bousfield localization of Top.)

A: If we have a functorial Postnikov tower of a pointed space X, the tower inherits a basepoint. Then take the tower over the Postnikov tower which is pointwise the path fibration. This is pointwise a fibration. Pull this tower back along the map from the constant tower on X, then this gives a tower over X, which, by the general treatment in Whitehead's 1952 (I think) article, is a Whitehead tower for X.

A: $W_{n+1}(X)$ is the homotopy fiber of the natural map $W_n(X)\to K(\pi_n(X),n)$, so all of them are functorial.

A: $X \leftarrow B\Omega X \leftarrow B^2 \Omega^2 X \leftarrow \ldots$


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17 Guys Confess All The Things They Would Change About Sex (Photos)
By Kaylin Pound
When it comes to sex, guys and gals tend to have pretty different mindsets.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise men and women would change different things about getting it on.
If you're like a lot of ladies, there's a good chance you've wondered what guys really think about sex. Since we're not all mind readers, it can be hard to tell what's going through a guy's head.
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Equal effort.
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I wish I could read her mind.
Share your fantasies.
Stronger orgasms.
It's not the size of the ship that counts.
Way too much effort.
I want the full experience.
I wish sex was still about love.
Longer orgasms.
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From Drug Fighter to Russian Politician
Nazariy Sovsun October 25, 2013, 11:17 am May 16, 2017
Drug policy in Russia might be barbarian. A drug addict is often treated in a worse way than a criminal. The leader of Russian war on drugs Yevgeniy Royzman won the race for mayor in Ekaterinburg, despite being suspected of some crimes.
The famous civil activist, writer and politician Yevgeniy Royzman, who is known for being the head of City Without Drugs Foundation, is now the new mayor of Ekaterinburg. Royzman's active involvement in fighting drug addiction had secured his popularity amongst voters despite the facts that the foundation's working methods have been for a long time criticized by human rights activists, and besides, the leader's activity in the past is also seamy. City Without Drugs Foundation emerged at the end of the 1990s, when the city of Ekaterinburg faced the problem of increased distribution of hard drugs. Yevgeniy Royzman and his colleagues had announced war to drug mafia, and those representatives of law enforcement who were covering illegal business for a share. Back then one of the efficient methods they invented was a pager line, so that everybody could page information detected about drug selling spots and drug dealers.
Meanwhile, Yevgeniy Royzman and his colleagues gained support in the criminal circles, particularly with the OPS -Uralmash gang (the OPS abbreviation refers to a registered civic association, titled: "social and political union Uralmash", although not less commonly used decryption would be: "organized criminal community"). It is the main criminal structure of the city, which currently already has legalized business, but it also wants to have political support. Their contribution to war on drugs included both, human and financial resources.
In this sphere OPS -Uralmash, together with City Without Drugs Foundation practically had taken over the functions of law enforcement, including legal coercion. On the one hand, their activity had drawn criticism, but on the other – compliments for its efficacy as well.
Then again, cases of authority abuse by CWD Foundation activists are known. Particularly, in 2004 Denis Pertsev and Aleksander Murzikov were convicted for rape. During one of their operations against drug dealers, performed in cooperation with Drug Law Enforcement Department, they had arrested a young woman, and threatened to plant drugs on her in case she would have refused a sexual intercourse. Afterwards she was forced to stay in one of CWD rehabilitation centers. With the help of the police she managed to get out, and made a rape charge. When the Drug Law Enforcement Department and CWD Foundation activists realized there was a threat for them, they arrested her again, placing in a pretrial detention center. There she had to spend one year until she got acquittal of charges of selling drugs.
The Foundation's actions against drug mafia have other weaknesses. Firstly, they are overtly racist. Royzman's idea of drug trafficking is definitively linked with Roma and the Tadjiks, even though obviously Russians are not less involved. In one of his books, he wrote: I HATE YOU, SNEAKY DRUG DEALERS: GYPSIES, TADJIKS, AND OTHERS. YOU HAVE RAPED MY COUNTRY. I HATE YOU, DAMN YOU!!! I PROMISE YOU, YOU WILL ALL SUCK IN THE AFTERLIFE. AND IN THIS LIFE AS WELL.
Along with this, in his public speeches and books, E. Royzman equally disdains homosexuals, prostitutes, and drug users themselves. So it's no surprise that such persons as Vasilisa Kovalyova used to work in his Foundation. She used to be a participant of NSO-Sever neonazi gang, that was convicted of 27 murders of people anthropologically not similar to ethnic Russians Kovalyova herself got sentenced to 19 years of prison for a double murder.
Furthermore, the Foundation has five non-medicamentous drug rehabilitation centers that rather resemble to correctional camps. At least in the first period of their functioning, the centers are known to have used widely the practice of enchainment of drug addicts to beds for one month as a method of combatting the withdrawal syndrome. Exercising physical violence is also known to have been extensive (cases of baseball bats and electric shockers use, in particular). Some of the centers' executives are now imprisoned for cruel treatment of their patients. Among them, Maksim Kurchik and Stanislav Abazyev, two chief executives at one of the rehabilitation centers were sentenced in 2005 to respectively 6 and 6.5 years of high security prison for infliction of bodily injuries that caused death of two patients.
It is worth noting that just before the mayoral elections many materials have appeared in the media against Royzman, which put together the facts from Yevgeniy Royzman's past in different ways. This makes an obstacle to thorough view of the situation. However, racism, violence, and criminal connections in his case are obvious. Royzman's major opponent is the local goverment: the former mayor, the prosecutor's office, and the police. But staying in Moscow for a long time now, being a deputy of State Duma, Royzman has gained support in the President's Administration. Specifically, in a recent talk on Echo of Moscow the chief editor of "The New Times" Yevgenia Albats made an assumption, that Royzman is supported by the head of the president's administration Sergei Ivanov himseft.
Translation: Anna Kravets
Nazariy Sovsun
Nazariy Sovsun is a cultural activist, journalist and member of the Visual Culture Research Center and Political Critique Club in Kyiv. He is a coordinator with the Narkopolityka Project, and is responsible for Схеmа's communication with media.
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