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This year, yet again, has been very up and down for most people, but I am looking ahead to the new year and the things I am looking forward to. I would love to see any comments on things you are looking forward to in 2022!
Peaky Blinders – Series Six
The fantastic Birmingham-based series is back for its final series in 2022, this will be the 6th series and sadly won't feature much of the late actor Helen McCrory (Aunt Polly) but I'm sure there will be a touching tribute to her. I can't wait to see the latest developments in the Shelby clan – you can guarantee there will be swearing, fighting and sublime acting (if you can forgive a few dodgy Brummie accents!)
Film Release – Death on the Nile
The wonderful Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in the second of his Agatha Christie adaptations, the first being the fabulous Murder on the Orient Express (2017). In Death on the Nile, famed detective Hercule Poirot is called to solve a murder on the S.S. Karnak, and the list of suspects is long and played by actors like Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, Russell Brand and Sophie Okonedo.
Art Gallery Opening – The Reel Store, Coventry
The opening of the UK's first immersive digital art gallery, The Reel Store, in Coventry, continues their legacy as UK City of Culture in 2021. The gallery will be based in the basement of a post-war building that formerly housed the Coventry Evening Telegraph. The first exhibition will be Machine Memoirs: Space by artist Refik Anadol. The product of a long-term collaboration with NASA, the exhibition will use artificial intelligence to reimagine two million publicly available images of space taken by NASA satellites and telescopes, capturing the deepest regions of outer space.
Book Release – The Murders at Fleat House, Lucinda Riley
Author Lucinda Riley seems to be able to churn out a large and incredibly well-written novel every year and 2022 is no exception. Described as "A masterful, page-turning crime novel, with the sudden death of a pupil in a small private boarding school, a shocking event that local police rule as foul play, the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine 'Jazz' Hunter to the force." Riley has sold 40 million copies of her books world wide and her books have been translated into 37 languages if you haven't read anything of hers yet – why not start with this?
70th Jubilee
5th – 7th June
In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II will become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, seventy years of service, having acceded to the throne on 6th February 1952, when she was only 25 years old. That's my age now – of course I can't imagine the pressure of being crowned as queen at this age would feel! However you feel about the royal family, this fact is pretty impressive and having an extra bank holiday weekend can't be a bad thing – I think we all deserve it.
Birmingham Commonwealth Games
28th July – 8th August
In the summer, the Commonwealth Games is being hosted in Birmingham, this is only the 3rd time England has held the games since it was established in 1930. Every 4 years (with a break during WWII) the Games have grown from featuring 11 countries and 400 athletes, to a global spectacle of 6,600 sports men and women from across 72 nations and territories. There are still some tickets left on general release – I have managed to get tickets for netball, hockey and rugby 7s – I can't wait!
Peaky Blinders, Series 6 – https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/tv/peaky-blinders-season-six-trailer-release-date-cast/601474
2022 Film Releases – https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g38502957/best-movies-2022/
The Reel Store, Coventry – https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2021/12/uks-first-digital-art-gallery-to-open-in-coventry/
The Murders at Fleat House, Lucinda Riley – https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/crime-thriller/new-crime-novel-lucinda-riley-murders-at-fleat-house
70th Jubilee – https://www.royal.uk/platinum-jubilee-central-weekend
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games -https://www.birmingham2022.com
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Do you remember the revolt of the scientists against the big bang theory for the origin of the universe? In 2004 a group of 33 leading scientists took out a paid advertisement in New Scientist.1 They titled it 'Open Letter to the Scientific Community,' basically stating that the big bang theory was fundamentally flawed.
An article copying that appeared on http://www.rense.com titled 'Big bang theory busted by 33 top scientists' (27 May 2004). See screenshot on left.
The list of names of scientists who agreed with the Statement—that is, disagreed with the theory of a big bang origin of the universe—is available here and many more added their names to that list.
These scientists only agreed on one thing. They were all united in their conviction that the big bang was a bust.


I am 24 years old, and special education teacher for third, fourth, and fifth grade. For over 5 years, I have been my neighborhood's go-to person for puppy sitting. I love dogs more than any human should, and would love to spend some time loving on your dog! I'll walk, feed, snuggle, whatever the dog-job, I'm your girl! I work every week day until 2:30pm, and summertime until 11:30am. After work, I'm all yours! If you have a backyard, we'll spend lots of time outside, or I'll take you pal for a walk until they're tired out and ready for a nap! I love to play and I love to love! (if my dog could talk, she would argue too much love), but I'd love to get to know your pup!


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Q: Keep getting 404 on some URLs Having followed the guide to setup django, postgres and nginx in digitalocean, am get different results for different urls.
Am using ubuntu 20 and python 3.10
<IP>:8000 => is working perfectly well
<IP> => 404 Not Found
<https://DomainName> => Showing the html page but Not showing the static files
<https://www.DomainName> => 404 Not Found

Where am I messing up??

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Division	2 - Civil practice support allowance
17.7.13 Purpose
The purpose of civil practice support allowance is to help medical officers in the Reserves with the costs of maintaining their civil medical practices. It applies while medical officers are on short periods of continuous full-time service with a deployment.
17.7.14 Member this Division applies to
This Division applies to a medical officer in the Reserves who volunteers and is assigned for duty with a deployment.
Note: In the total workforce model, a member of the Reserves may be described as a member in Service category 2, 3, 4 or 5.
17.7.15 Rate of allowance
The rate of civil practice support allowance for the period of service is AUD 1,600 a week. Both these conditions must be met.
The CDF certifies that the member is on a specialist medical roster in support of a deployment or peacetime operation.
The member has a functioning civil medical practice.
Persons who can make the decision under paragraph 17.7.15.a on behalf of the CDF:
Maritime component: Fleet Medical Officer
Land component: Colonel Health (COLHEALTH)
Air component: Director Health Service (DHS)
17.7.16 Period of service
A period of service is a period of continuous full-time service. The period is for not less than two weeks in an operational area on a deployment.
The allowance is not payable for less than two weeks in any period of service unless the CDF approves payment for a lesser period. The CDF must consider all these criteria.
The nature and period of the service.
The member's experience, qualifications and skills.
The likely benefit to the ADF.
The allowance may be paid for more than one period of service during a deployment.
This subsection applies to a member whose deployment ceases before the end of two weeks or the lesser period of service approved by the CDF under subsection 2. The member is eligible for a portion of the allowance for the period of service completed. However, this only occurs in any of the following situations.
The member dies.
The member becomes medically unfit and cannot complete the period of service because of physical or mental incapacity not within the member's control.
The member cannot complete the period of service for reasons not in the member's control, and the CDF has agreed to that.
While a member is eligible for civil practice support allowance, they are not eligible for any other allowance or reimbursement under Chapters 1 to 17 for any costs they incur in connection with their absence from their civil practice.
Persons who can make the decisions under subsection 17.7.16.2 and paragraph 17.7.16.4.c on behalf of the CDF:
Definitions specific to Chapter 17
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Q: Continuity of $f(x) = x^2$ extended by $f(0)=1$ I want to prove that the function $\;f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ defined
$$f(x) = \begin{cases}x^2 & x \neq 0 \\ 1 & x = 0 \end{cases}$$
has a discontinuity at $x=0$ using exclusively the $(\epsilon, \delta)$-definition of continuity.
Using the $(\epsilon, \delta)$-definition of continuity at $x_0=0$ and letting $0\lt\epsilon \lt 1$ implies that $\lvert f(x)-f(x_0)\rvert=\lvert x^2-1 \rvert\lt\epsilon$ can be rewritten $$\sqrt{1-\epsilon}\lt x \lt\sqrt{1+\epsilon} $$ So for any choice of $\delta \gt 0$ , the intervals $(0, \delta)$ and $(0, \sqrt{1-\epsilon})$ have some points in common. This implies that for all $x \in (0, \delta) \cap (0, \sqrt{1-\epsilon})$ , $\lvert x \rvert \lt \delta$ does not imply that $\lvert x^2-1 \rvert \lt\epsilon$. Thus, no $\delta$ exists such that $$\lvert x-x_0\rvert = \lvert x \rvert \lt \delta \Rightarrow \lvert f(x) - f(x_0)\rvert=\lvert x^2-1\rvert\lt\epsilon$$
Therefore, the function has a discontinuity at $x=0$. Is my process here correct and rigorous?

A: Why you don't just say $\lim_{x\to 0^+}x^2 = 0 \not = 1$, hence $\lim_{x\to 0^+}f(x)  \not = f(0)$?

A: I am sorry for my gross error in the previous version.
Let $\varepsilon := \frac{1}{3}$. Then we have $|x^{2} - 1| \geq \frac{1}{3}$ for $|x| < \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}.$


Not long ago, the White House turned down an offer from Oakland-based Sungevity to install donated photovoltaic solar panels on the roof.
But the company has nonetheless managed to land some presidential presence -– in the Maldives.
Sungevity on Thursday installed panels that can produce 11.5 kilowatts on the presidential residence of the small nation, whose 1,100 islands sit about 200 miles from the southern tip of India.
The installation on the building, which is called the Mulee Aage, will help save more than $300,000, according to Sungevity. The 50 panels were donated by LG Electronics and installed by local workers.
The nation -– home to about 400,000 people -- is just a few feet above sea level and is extremely vulnerable to climate change.
The Obama administration is jumping on the bandwagon. On Tuesday, officials announced plans to install solar photovoltaic panels and a solar water heater on the White House roof by spring 2011.
Companies are being asked to submit bids to install the systems.


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Əli Hidayət oğlu Əsədov (auch Äli Hidayät oğlu Äsädov, russisch: Али Идаят оглу Асадов; englisch: Ali Idayat oglu Asadov; * 30. November 1956 in Naxçıvan, Aserbaidschanische SSR) ist ein aserbaidschanischer Politiker und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, der derzeit als Ministerpräsident Aserbaidschans amtiert, nachdem er am 8. Oktober 2019 von Präsident İlham Əliyev für dieses Amt nominiert wurde. Er gilt als enger Verbündeter des autoritär regierenden Əliyev. Er ist Mitglied der Partei Neues Aserbaidschan.

Biografie
Əli Əsədov wurde am 30. November 1956 in der Autonomen Sozialistischen Sowjetrepublik Nachitschewan geboren. Im Jahr 1974 absolvierte er das Gymnasium in Baku und studierte an der Russischen Plechanow-Wirtschaftsuniversität in Moskau, die er 1978 abschloss. Von 1978 bis 1980 diente er in der Roten Armee.

1980 begann er als Hauptlaborant am Institut für Wirtschaft der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Aserbaidschanischen SSR zu arbeiten. Zwischen 1981 und 1984 setzte Əsədov seine Ausbildung am Institut für Wirtschaft der Akademie der Wissenschaften der UdSSR in Moskau fort, wo er sein Postgraduiertendiplom als Ökonom erhielt.

In den Jahren 1989 bis 1995 arbeitete Əli Əsədov als außerordentlicher Professor und Leiter der Abteilung am Institut für Sozialmanagement und Politikwissenschaft in Baku, bevor er in die Politik ging. Bei den ersten aserbaidschanischen Parlamentswahlen am 12. November 1995 wurde er als Vertreter der Partei Neues Aserbaidschan nach dem Verhältniswahlrecht für die Amtszeit 1995 bis 2000 zum Abgeordneten in die Nationalversammlung der Republik Aserbaidschan gewählt.

Am 17. April 1998 wurde er zum Assistenten des aserbaidschanischen Präsidenten für wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten ernannt. Gemäß dem Dekret des Präsidenten İlham Əliyev vom 30. November 2012 wurde Əsədov zum stellvertretenden Leiter der Präsidialverwaltung und 2017 zum Berater des aserbaidschanischen Präsidenten für wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten ernannt. Əsədov gilt als enger Verbündeter von Präsident Əliyev. Im Oktober 2019 wurde er nach dem Rücktritt von Novruz Məmmədov mit 105 zu 0 Stimmen der Nationalversammlung zum Ministerpräsidenten gewählt.

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This paper focuses on the combined effects of microwaves from mobile communication frequencies and a chemical DNA damaging agent mitomycin C (MMC). The investigation was performed in vitro by exposing whole blood samples to a 954 MHz emitting antenna from a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) base station, followed by lymphocyte cultivation in the presence of MMC.
A highly reproducible synergistic effect was observed as based on the frequencies of sister chromatid exchanges in metaphase figures.


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An electrician appealed a decision of the Appeals Resolution Officer denying entitlement for shoulder disablement.
The worker worked for the employer from November 2008 to April 2011, when he was laid off due to a shortage of work. He started working for the second employer in September 2011, and filed the claim in February 2012. Board policy provides that, in a gradual onset disablement claim, the date of injury is established using the date of first medical attention which led to diagnosis, or the date of diagnosis, whichever is earlier. In this case, the first medical attention was in August 2011. At that time, the worker was no longer working for the first employer but it was his duties with the first employer that were relevant. The Panel was satisfied that the first employer was the appropriate employer to be notified of the appeal.
On the evidence, the worker's shoulder condition was a disablement from significant overhead work.


It all started with a storybook: The Little Blue Truck, by Alice Schertle (Harcourt Children's Book, 2008, Jill McElmurry, illus.) --to be exact.
Loved and read over, and over, and OVER, K's mom just had to have a replica for his first birthday cake. So, the little blue truck became a little blue concoction of crispie treats, white chocolate and fondant.
K's mom made the "mud" cake (LOVE the candy rocks! -- nice touch!) and placed the truck topper on top.
Happy Birthday K! Maybe someday you'll remember me as your FAVORITE Aunt!
K's cake was amazing and I was thrilled with your effort to make it match his favorite book. I've looked at all the cakes on your blog; You are soooo talented. You do a wonderful job!
Beautiful, Miss M. You did a great job.


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By NS Energy Staff Writer 15 Oct 2003
The energy sector is vital to developing countries in South America. Economic difficulties, natural disasters, political instability and violent opposition, together with a lack of investment, have deterred this region from fully developing its energy market. David Flin examines the different markets in Latin America
Argentina has the third largest power market in Latin America (behind Brazil and Mexico), and has one of the most competitive deregulated power sectors in South America. The government is pursuing an aggressive privatisation programme alongside an open electricity market.
The economy has been in trouble since December 2001, with the GDP falling by some 16% per year on average. Inflation is also high, reaching 30.7% during 2002. While some economists say the worst of this crisis has passed, others think that the export tax will restrict economic growth, agriculture and energy.
Argentina relies mostly on hydro power and natural gas. In 2000, the country had 24GW of installed capacity, of which 54% was based on fossil fuel, 42% hydroelectric and 4% nuclear. The country has electricity interconnections with Chile, Brazil and Uruguay. The connection to Brazil has been in heavy use since the start of Brazil's drought-related electricity shortage in 2001.
Argentina and Paraguay are planning to build the 3000MW Corpus Cristi hydroelectric dam on the Paraná river, 200km upstream from the existing 3200MW Yacreta dam. In May 2000, the two signed an agreement concerning Corpus Cristi, calling for construction of the dam through international public bidding.
The major environmental issues in Argentina are: erosion resulting from inadequate flood controls and improper land use practices; irrigated soil degradation; desertification; air pollution in major cities; water pollution in urban areas; and rivers becoming polluted due to increased pesticide and fertiliser use.
Bolivia, already one of the poorest countries in South America, is undergoing a period of serious economic difficulties. The weak global economy has stifled Bolivian exports and foreign investment flows into the country.
Approximately 71% of its electric capacity is thermal, with the remaining 29% from hydro power. Bolivia has eight hydroelectric plants, and the country's significant hydro power potential has not been fully exploited. Several new hydro plants are in various stages of the planning process.
Despite a weak international economy, and the effects of the 2001 energy crisis, the Brazilian economy has remained resilient, posting a 1.5% real GDP growth in 2002. In June 2003, Brazil and the US signed a bilateral agreement on electricity deregulation, offshore safety, and the development of clean energy technologies, and have begun negotiations for Brazil to become a charter member of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum.
The country has an installed power capacity of 73.4GW, of which 84% is hydro power. Together with Paraguay, Brazil maintains the world's largest operational hydro power complex – the Itaipu facility on the Paraná river, with a capacity of 12.6GW.
In 2001, Brazil faced a critical electricity shortage, caused by
insufficient rainfall and under-investment in the industry. Several
years of below average rainfall had left reservoirs 70% depleted. Consumption had been rising faster than supply capacity and in 2000, consumption was 58% higher than it was in 1990, while capacity had only grown by 32% during the same period. Brazil implemented an energy-rationing programme in June 2001, which prevented rolling blackouts by requiring customers to reduce consumption by 20%. When the government lifted these restrictions, the country had a power surplus, which pushed many electricity companies deep into debt, and has reduced incentives for companies to begin construction of power plants. The energy and mines minister, Dilma Roussef, has warned that the country could face another power crisis by 2007.
In July 2003, Roussef proposed a number of reforms for the electricity sector, including pooling cheaper hydroelectricity with more expensive natural gas-fired thermoplants. By pooling the various sources, the ministry hopes to reduce electricity tariffs and to ensure that power is purchased from newly constructed thermal plants, which are not yet fully amortised. The Brazilian government plans to implement this programme by January 2004.
Central American countries have begun efforts to improve their economies through regional integration. The final negotiations to interconnect the electricity networks of six central American countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama) were signed in December 2001, allowing for regional trading among the member states beginning in 2006.
All the countries rely heavily on imported oil and indigenous hydro power to meet domestic energy demand. Historically, hydropower has dominated central America?s electricity sector. However, since opening up to foreign investors in the 1990s, the use of thermal generation has grown rapidly.
As a share of regional electricity consumption, hydro power fell from 80% in 1980 to approximately 60% in 2000.
A project is underway in Belize to build a new 7MWe dam, Chalillo, upstream from the Mollejon dam on the Macal river. The Chalillo dam will also store water upstream to be fed into Mollejon during the dry season, thereby increasing production at Mollejon as well. The project has been the focus of significant attention and criticism from environmental groups. A case against the project is currently pending at the Belize Supreme Court.
Nearly 90% of Costa Rica's electricity is from hydro power with numerous new hydro plants being developed, including the 39MW Brasil II plant on the Virilla river and the 128MW Pirris plant, which is located on the Pirris river and due to enter service in 2005.
The only country in central America that is a self-sufficient electricity producer is Honduras. Some 62% of the country?s installed capacity in 2000 was hydro power, most of this coming from the 300MW El Cajon hydro plant and the 290MW Rio Lindo/Yojoa plant.
Demand for electricity has been growing rapidly in recent years, reaching 10% annually. Parliament has been pressing the central government to call for bids from private companies to construct another 200MW hydro power project in Honduras.
Hydroelectric generation accounts for 75% of Panama's total energy production. Electricity demand is expected to grow significantly in the near future, and new projects are planned to help meet this demand. Construction of AES' US$200M 132MW Esti hydro power project began in August 2000. Esti is made up of two plants, Guasquitas and Canjilones, on the Chiriqui river. In November 2001, the Panamanian subsidiary of Union Fenosa of Spain announced plans to invest US$90M over the next ten years in hydro power and wind energy projects.
Chile is considered to have one of South America's most robust and open economies, with hydro historically its largest single electricity source. From late 1997 to 1999, a severe drought crippled the country's electricity sector and caused rolling blackouts in Santiago. As a result, the Chilean government began diversifying its energy mix in order to become less reliant on hydro power.
With electricity demand forecasted to grow by 6% annually, power companies have been developing several new projects. Endesa of Spain is developing the 570MW Ralco hydro power project on the Bio Bio river, 499km south of Santiago, and recently announced 90% progress on its works. In July 2003, the power company Colbun announced that it planned to invest US$1B in order to double the company's generation capacity by 2010. As part of this plan, Colbun intends to increase its hydro power capacity by 200-300MW in the Santiago region.
Colombia has difficult economic conditions. The economy grew by just 1.5% in 2002, a slight increase over 2001. The protracted conflict with rebel groups has taken its toll on the Colombian energy infrastructure.
In 2001, its electric capacity was 12.7GW, with 70% of generation from hydro power. The country's power sector, however, endured some difficult years in the 1990s, as a severe drought left hydro power plants unable to meet electricity demand. As a result, the government began to encourage the construction of coal and natural gas-fired power plants over the medium to long-term. Hydro's share of generation is expected to decline.
Colombia has electricity interconnections with Venezuela and Ecuador. In January 2003, a new 211km interconnection line between Ecuador and Colombia began operation. This interconnection follows electricity power agreements which the five Andean Community (CAN) members agreed on in December 2002. Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela agreed to integrate their power markets to create a regional power market.
In recent years, Ecuador's economy has stabilised following its decision to tie its currency to the US dollar. In 2000, Ecuador had an installed electric capacity of 3.5GW. About 75% of Ecuador's electricity in 2000 was hydro power. Roughly 50-65% of the country's electricity comes from one plant, Paute, making the country vulnerable to disruptions there, particularly during the dry season (October-November).
Meanwhile, Ecuador's power demand is growing at an average of 4-5% annually, but generation capacity, and transmission and distribution infrastructure are having difficulty keeping pace. In addition, there has been insufficient capital for maintenance, and as a result, the power grid is in very poor condition, with transmission losses as high as 35%.
In an effort to avert dry-season power shortages, Ecuador has awarded a contract to build a backup reservoir and small hydro power plant south of Paute. The facility, known as Mazar, will cost US$500M and have a power capacity of 186MW.
Privately-financed projects are underway to augment the transmission infrastructure in order to, amongst other things, link hydro power stations in the north and south into the central power grid. These projects should improve existing interconnections with Colombia and make interconnection projects with Peru possible.
In preparation for privatisation, power subsidies are theoretically due to come to an end, which will increase the consumer electricity price. Currently, Ecuadorians pay less than 30% of the cost of producing electricity. Fears of civil unrest have stalled this process, with president Noboa announcing that any rate increases would be postponed until after his term in office.
In March 2002, Ecuador's Congress passed a resolution rejecting privatisation of the country's power sector. In mid-March, president Noboa had withdrawn 10 (out of a total 17) power companies from the auction. Opponents of privatisation continue to demand that the entire plan be scrapped.
Paraguay is co-owner of two large hydro power plants, Itaipu and Yacyreta. These provide 25% of Brazil's and 40% of Argentina's electricity demand respectively. Itaipu supplies Paraguay with 95% of its relatively small electricity demand. The rest of Paraguay's demand is met by Yacyreta. As a result, Paraguay is a significant exporter of electricity. In 2000, Paraguay exported 49.5GWh, approximately 90% of its national electricity generation.
Paraguay plans to add two more 700MW units to Itaipu's existing 18 units. The first should enter service by the end of 2003, and the second is due to enter service in 2004.
Paraguay?s other major power plant, the Yacyreta hydro power plant, has 20 turbines and an installed capacity of 3200MW. Paraguay and Argentina share the electricity generated at Yacyreta evenly, with most of Paraguay?s electricity being exported to Argentina. Paraguay and Argentina are planning to build another hydropower plant on the Paraná, the 3000MW Corpus Cristi dam, to be built 124 miles upstream from Yacyreta.
Peru's privatisation programme has slowed after a decade of
liberalisation. In 2002, the administration managed to raise only half of the expected US$700M in the face of popular opposition. In June 2002, after the administration agreed to sell two power plants, Egasa and Egesur, to Belgium's Tractebel, a six-day protest broke out, and the
government was forced to suspend the sale.
In January 2003, the government also had to postpone the privatisation of the Yuncan hydro power plant, because the regional government did not approve the sale.
Peru has 6.1GW of installed electric capacity, about half of which is hydro power. Because of the susceptibility of hydro power to
rainfall levels, Peru is attempting to reduce its dependence on hydro power and replace it with natural gas-fired plants.
In December 2000, Peru?s ministry of mines and energy lifted restrictions on new hydro power projects, resulting in a number of project approvals:
Chevez (560MW)
Huanza (86MW)
Maranon (100MW)
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Extreme oddity and first steps of music video: Peter Gidal and Bruce Conner in Vanishing Point!
DocPoint is again proud to present a handful of amazing documentaries from the strange edge of documentary film making. The Vanishing Point series curated by artists Mika Taanila and Sami van Ingen brings to silver screens films from two directors: Peter Gidal and Bruce Conner.
The festival guest will be Peter Gidal (b. 1946), a Swiss artist currently residing in United Kingdom. His films escape narrative structures of all kinds, and hold their own in experimental rigour even by the standards of the Vanishing Point series.
Gidal is one of the important figures in structuralist-materialist film making. His way of approaching the moving image is severe. The "subject matter" of the films are lights, shadows, darknes and the qualities of the film material itself—grains, especially. Gidal is also an important film theoretician. His recently re-published book Materialist Film (1989) is one of the cult works in film literature, and he was the first writer to publish a book about cinematic art and paintings by Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol, 1971). The Vanishing Point will present a hand picked collection of works from his extensive ouvre from the years 1968–2014. Gidal himself will be present at the screenings introducing the films.
Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was an American sculptor and trailblazer in the field of collage film, whose radical found footage films blast the American dream into atoms. The subject matter of Conner's films extends from nuclear destruction to psychedelic drugs, and co-operation with musicians and bands—such as Brian Eno, David Byrne, Toni Basil and Devon—conceived films that are nowadays considered as masterful predecessors of modern music videos. Conner's films are shoved with anarchy, individualism and pure instinctive madness. Dennis Hopper, a fan and a close friend of Conner, has encapsuled the meaning of this artist/mystician well: "Bruce Conner is the most important artist of the 20th century."
Image is from Peter Gidal's film Coda I. Published with the courtecy of Peter Gidal and VOX, London.


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Slovenia's Mladinsko Theatre: 'We've had a lot of protests'
Oliver Frljic's Our Violence and Your Violence. Photo: Alexi Pelekanos
by Natasha Tripney - Apr 6, 2017
Slovenia's Mladinsko Theatre exists on the periphery in more ways than one. As Goran Injac, artistic director for the past two years, explains: "As a former youth theatre, it was never the focus of Yugoslav censorship." But its location also emphasises its apartness. It is literally on the wrong side of the tracks – to reach it from Ljubljana's immaculate Old Town, you have to walk through an underpass and cross a scrubby car park. As the theatre's managing director Tibor Mihelic Syed puts it more bluntly: "If we do something stupid out here, maybe no one will notice."
Goran Injac and Tibor Mihelic Syed. Photo: Luka Kase
The Mladinsko Theatre was founded in 1955 by Balbina Baranovic as the first professional children's and youth theatre in Slovenia. But while retaining the name – 'mladinsko' means 'youth' – its identity shifted during the late 1970s and 1980s, when the theatre began to create work for an adult audience. After the legendary Yugoslav director Ljubisa Ristic became associated with the theatre in the 1980s, it gained an international reputation, and became an exporter of what Injac calls "the theatre of Yugoslav culture".
When Slovenia gained independence in 1991, things changed again. "Mladinsko became a small theatre in a small country," says Injac. Though it has a rich experimental theatre scene, Slovenia is a country of two million and Ljubljana a city of around 350,000 people. Stand in the right place in the centre of town and you can see all the way to the Julian Alps.
The theatre tried to establish a new identity for itself, based on "national differences and the uniqueness of its small community". During this time it promoted mostly young Slovenian directors, including Tomaz Pandur and Tomi Janezic. But by the end of the decade, the theatre was suffering from an identity crisis.
"I am the first foreigner in such a position in a Slovenian cultural institution since independence," says Injac. "That tells you a lot about the social and cultural politics since 1991."
Injac and Mihelic Syed aim to give Mladinsko back the status it had in the 1980s. "Our focus has been on devised theatre and political theatre," says Mihelic Syed.
Injac agrees: "Mladinsko's old identity had to be questioned through today's ideological paradigms. Political today means something completely different than in the 1980s. We use different strategies. Theatre as a system of artistic expression has changed a lot."
Injac wants to demonstrate two things: "Mladinsko is not Slovene and Mladinsko is not theatre." To this end, most of the artists he has invited there are not from Slovenia. Directors Oliver Frljic and Sebastijan Horvat have both made work at Mladinsko in the past season. The intention is to have a have a much wider social and political impact and to create public debate – something he believes they have succeeded in doing over the past two years.
Photos: Dusan Ojdanic
Mladinsko Theatre's vaulted basement studio space
Mladinsko Theatre's home in a semi-circular former seminary
The director remembers a conversation with a dramaturg from the National Theatre in London, who commented ironically on his political approach to programming. Injac recalls: "He said: 'If you want to send a message, use the postal service.' He did not realise that we are all sending messages anyway, by doing theatre and art. Today, a lack of direct political engagement is a political act as well – by pretending there is no need for it, you confirm the positions of privileged groups."
Syed, meanwhile, firmly believes in engaging the audience beyond the art world. "Theatre becomes most interesting when it exits the discourse of art, when it enters the domain of public opinion and when it has some impact on something that is not art."
Each season at Mladinsko is conceptual. "They have their own narrative. They are connected," says Syed. The theatre's 60th-anniversary season began with Frljic's Ristic Complex, a piece that "focused on the legacy of Mladinsko". Syed calls the show "archaeological". But it's not enough to just raid the archive – they want to look at what political theatre can be today. It's not the 1980s anymore and Yugoslavia no longer exists. "Producing political theatre in a totalitarian regime is completely different from this neoliberal society where everything is 'allowed'."
They intend, over a period of three years, to work their way from the 1980s to the present. While the work the theatre is currently presenting – including Frljic's Our Violence and Your Violence and Simona Semenic's We, the European Corpses, directed by Sebastijan Horvat – attempts to reflect the current political moment in Europe, what Syed calls "strategies to cope with the nihilism of today", the next season will see the theatre looking towards the future. "We will try to find something utopian," says Mihelic Syed. "We will look for solutions."
The theatre is housed in a former seminary – it was intended to form a circle but remains half-finished, the jagged brick edges visible, which feels somehow apt. It has two spaces: a main hall with imposing stone pillars and a basement studio with a vaulted brick ceiling. There is also a third performance space in an old post-office building across the road.
5 things you need to know about Mladinsko Theatre
1. Mladinsko Theatre was founded in 1955 as the first professional children's and youth theatre in Slovenia.
2. During the 1980s, when Ljubisa Ristic was making work there, Mladinsko became known as a home of political and experimental theatre.
3. In 2008, Mladinsko was named a European Cultural Ambassador for its international activity.
4. Goran Injac has been artistic director of the theatre since October 2014.
5. Directors in the current Mladinsko season include Weronika Szczawinska, Oliver Frljic, and Ziga Divjak.
During a four-day showcase, we are offered the opportunity to sit in on young Polish director Weronika Szczawinska's forthcoming production of Hitchcock (a cinematic thread runs through the current season), and see her working with the Mladinsko ensemble. What's so striking about watching the showcase is the swiftness with which you get to know the actors – or feel as if you do. The productions require so much of them: they expose themselves (there is a lot of nudity), push themselves to the point of exhaustion, cram their mouths with food, sweat and spit, and smear themselves in various substances. This is a very total form of performance.
While rehearsal periods are longer than in the UK, they are short by European standards. The average preparation time is two and half months, says Mihelic Syed, but this can be problematic. "Some directors don't want to work in a Slovenian institutional framework," he says. Frljic is the exception to the rule. He has a reputation as a fast worker, creating pieces in about six weeks. "We know if Oliver comes, he never works long. He just comes with an idea and actors who understand."
Syed finds other aspects of Slovenian institutional theatre frustrating. "There's also a problem here that doesn't exist in other countries. Usually, when an artistic director comes to a company, they choose their own artistic team. In Slovenia this is not possible. Some of our actors don't believe in what we are doing, but because it's their job, they have to do it."
"Another important aim of ours is to experiment with different theatre languages," says Injac. "We want to disrupt the stereotypical expectation of what theatre should be and should look like."
The Republic of Slovenia, the theatre's piece to mark 25 years since Slovenia became independent, used various verbatim techniques as well as the tribunal play format, to explore the country's illegal arms trade with Croatia in the early years of independence. It was made anonymously. None of those who participated disclosed their identities and it ended with a sequence involving several cars that required a huge space to stage it – they used the conference centre across the road.
In Horvat's work, in which Europe is repeatedly held up as a bloated, decaying, complacent entity, food features frequently. He likes mess and splatter, in this case watermelon and Nutella.
Frljic, who has been rather hysterically labelled a theatre terrorist, makes work that excels magnificently at causing offence. His production of Klatwa (The Curse) at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw featured a simulated oral sex scene on a statue of Pope John Paul II. As a result, it was investigated by prosecutors, while Frljic received death threats. His Mladinsko piece Our Violence and Your Violence, which opened in Vienna last May, features nudity, simulated rape and a flag extracted from a performer's vagina, along with a surprising amount of disco dancing.
Ziga Divjak's The Man Who Watched the World. Photo: Nejc Saje
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it also resulted in protests. When it was programmed at Sarajevo's Mess festival, a decision was taken to perform it for jury members only. But the Bosnian audience responded to this perceived act of censorship by demanding to be allowed to see the performance and judge for themselves. Different audiences have reacted to the piece in different ways, says Injac. In Germany the sexual violence was the issue, while the Poles are not overly fond of his use of religious imagery.
"These protests are always the same," says Syed. "People who didn't see the performance are protesting. They are misled by pictures taken out of context
"I don't mind a protest if they have a strong argument. We've had a lot of protests over the 12 years I've been at Mladinsko but they never have a good argument. They never want to enter a dialogue. This is a manifestation of something that's wrong in general in our society. Nobody's prepared for dialogue."
Of all Slovenian theatres, the Mladinsko Theatre it is the one that most frequently tours around the world. A third of its productions tour, and not only to Europe: Mladinsko's work is well known in Latin America. Links to Poland are particularly strong and Injac and Frljic will co-curate a programme of Balkan work at the Malta Festival in Poland later this year
As well as more established voices, Mladinsko works with young directors. The current season features a new piece: The Man Who Watched the World, by Ziga Divjak, a young theatremaker fresh from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television at the University of Ljubljana. Injac seems almost amused about the text-heavy nature of the piece.
While Injac and Syed are aware that much of the showcased work is rather bleak in outlook, they both stress the importance of motion and of not staying still. Syed believes that theatre can and does open dialogues. The next season will see another shift. "We are trying to be optimistic," he says. "This will require a twist in our thinking. The title of season will translate as 'Everything is Nice and Fine'. It will be ironic but, at the same time, we will be trying to act as if we believe it."
Profile: Mladinsko Theatre
Artistic director: Goran Injac
Managing director: Tibor Mihelic Syed
Productions (2016): Seven new productions, three of which were co-productions (one international, one with an NGO and one with a public institution)
Total number of events: 273 (including performances, lectures and workshops)
Audience figures (2016): 44,246
Turnover (2016): €325,000 from ticket sales, tours, donations and sponsorship
Funding: Three main sources:
• Slovenian ministry of culture for salaries, material costs and most of the programme
• City council for special programmes and festivals
• EU projects
Website: en.mladinsko.com
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About the escalating India-Pakistan tensions, United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has received some "reasonably attractive news" and the hostilities may end soon.
Trump made these remarks at a press conference in Hanoi on sidelines of his meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un.
Bitterness between two nuclear neighbors peaked on Wednesday after forces of both were locked in air combat.
"I think reasonably attractive news from Pakistan and India, they have been going at it and we have been involved and have them stop. Hopefully, it's going to be coming to an end, this has been going on for a long time, decades and decades," said Trump.
New Delhi and Islamabad have been staring at war since February 14 attack on CRPF convoy in Pulwama.
Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the dastardly attack in which 40 soldiers were martyred.
India asked Pakistan to act against homegrown terrorism but the latter claimed it wasn't involved in any way. Subsequently, IAF launched a cross-border attack which ended in the destruction of Jaish's biggest camp.
Earlier, US asked India and Pakistan to "practise restraint"
While border tension reached new heights after Pakistan attacked military installments in India, the US called for restraint.
The US asked both countries to cease all "cross-border military activity" and "take immediate steps to deescalate the situation, including through direct communication".
It also asked Pakistan to uphold its UN commitments and stop providing safe haven to various terrorist outfits.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's ambassador to the US expressed concern over the latter's stand on Indian airstrikes.
Asad Majeed Khan said the US didn't condemn India's "act of aggression".
"It is construed and understood as an endorsement of the Indian position and that is what emboldened them even more," Khan said.
To recall, the US had issued a strong statement against Pakistan after the Pulwama attack.
It is important to note the US shares India's thoughts on Masood Azhar, the chief of JeM.
On Wednesday, the US, the UK, and France moved a fresh plea in the United Nations Security Council demanding the blacklisting of Masood.
In the last ten years, an attempt to declare him a UN-designated terrorist has been made four times but China foiled the plans.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was admitted to Goa Medical College Hospital late on Saturday night, and his office has confirmed he is stable now.
In the wake of Pulwama attack, the Jammu and Kashmir government has asked the Supreme Court to transfer seven Pakistani terrorists, lodged in state jails, to Tihar prison.


I came into the world to bear witness to the suffering of humanity.
For there is great suffering in the world.
And yes, the world has been unjust to the just.
But one thing I have learned is that with time EVERYthing changes.
Just as the seasons and years and decades change.
And we progress. And evolve. And shift.
Not in one fell swoop.
But on the backs of the change in each one of our hearts.
Yes, I see you. Yes, you do exist.
We do not need to be MLK Jr., Malcolm X, or even JFK.
and change is in each one of us.
that shifts the entire world.
These shifts start with moments we have made together.
Moments that bring our souls together.
A smile to a neighbor.
A dollar to a stranger.
An afternoon conversation at the corner store bodega.
our movement will grow bigger, don't you see?
A caring shoulder to cry on.
A witness to my pain.
The gluten-free carob chip cookies you baked.
And yes, that wonderful 3-mile walk around the lake.
That's what movements are made of.
We reach and we heal.
We meet and we feel.
We give our tries and our let's.
Our hearts, hopes, and sometimes even our best.
Yes, movements are made on the backs of love.
A love for you and love for me.
Of course, it is the love for our children that sets us free!
We are the movement and the movement is we.
is for me to be me and you to be you.
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For one of freedom's blows.
We're seeking able bodied men.
How many can be found?
To destroy Gaspee while she's dry.
Else many brave men die!"
Were retold as tempers grew.
Granted futures for our heirs.
Of their loyal subjects' right.
All men will join the fight!
And sailing ships became our thing!
A hundred years and more they waited.
And set them all afire.
Who were shown no welcome mat!
A terror of the night.
Made no friendships for the crown.
At his acts of ill renown.
Taxes on tea and sugar.
While they wet their beds!
Who do the things they must!
And George had cause to rue.
And proceeded up the bay.
When the Gaspee started play.
Then told his men to leave, too!
As if to make a stay.
But soon she was aground.
There met one John Brown.
That the Gaspee must stay down!
High tide would float her off.
And tied to Fenner's Wharf.
But the leaders of the town itself.
All ready for a fight!
Would hear our eagles scream!
To load on staves and paving stone.
As the eight boats reached her bow.
Suddenly a cry rang out.
"Who comes there? -- Stand off -- now!"
As the sheriff of Kent County.
With cutlass In his hand.
He fired several shots in vain.
He could not stop this band.
A brace of shots soon floored him.
Not quartered In deep Hell!
Were rowed to Warwick shore.
Blew her up, but nothing more!
"These men are all now pirates."
The king's men soon declared.
And no others will be spared."
But no one breathed a word.
Not a voice was heard!
And every man was spared.
'T was a noble victory.
The first to set us free.
Or Concord yet to be!
That those who want it -- fight!
And favored In God's sight!


Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN, has attributed the prevalence of fraud in the banking industry to non professionals occupying sensitive positions in banks.
Deji Olanrewaju, Member, Governing Council of the Institute said this in a press briefing organised by its Lagos Chapter new executive committee, adding that there is still the paucity of professional bankers in the country which is a major factor for lapses in the industry.
He said, "It is instructive to note that when we are talking about professional bankers, we are less than 4,500 that are professionally qualified as core bankers in this country. Out of these, some of us are in the academic world, some are already retired.
" So, if you are talking about professionalism in the banking industry which has been our focal point, these problems arose as a result of people who are not professionals occupying sensitive positions.
"There are certain key areas that should not be handled by non professionals. But unfortunately, over the years, just miniatures of people that have been working in the banking industry are professionals. That is why we taking concerted effort now to make sure that our rules are amended so that unless you are a chartered member of this institute, you cannot even work in a bank.
"So, until we are able to drive this and government is able to support us, we may not be able to be answerable to all those people who commit fraud in the banking industry," he said.
To tackle this, the Institute said it is organising an international conference in Dubai UAE for the Regulators and Operators in the financial services industry to a view to evolving best practices for implementation of Basel 11 and Base111 in Nigeria.
The new Chairman, CIBN Lagos Chapter, Mr. Bolade Agbola, said this is part of his six point agenda aimed at instilling sanity in the banking industry.
He said, "Bank of International Settlement (BIS), the global body evolving rules for risk management, had been developing new rules and practices to forestall reoccurrence of the global financial crisis that had put the world economies in prostrate state since 2007.
"We are living witnesses of how bad an economy could go notwithstanding the so called blessings of oil windfall revenue if there is problem in the financial system," he said.
The branch late last year saw the need for an offshore training and strategic session program for senior management staff of our regulators (CBN and NDIC ) and the Banks (Money Deposit Banks ,Development Banks, Discount House. Mortgage Banks, Microfinance Banks).


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Taylor is gracing the cover of the May issue of Vogue! Taylor has debuted bleached blonde hair for this photoshoot. Take a look at the photos in our gallery and read the full cover story below!
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The Board of the Docents Association met today, Thursday March 29th, 2012.
The IRS letter reinstating the Docents Association as a 501(c)3 non-profit tax-exempt organization was received today.
A new operating agreement, spelling out how the Association will provide financial support to the Park has been finalized, but not yet received, reviewed and approved by the Board. However, once it is signed, the last major legal hurdle will have been cleared.
The Board has voted to create two additional positions.
The first will be "Board Member at Large". This will be filled by the current Treasurer once a new Treasurer, a CPA, joins the Board. A candidate has agreed to join us. At the next Board meeting, in April, he will be formally instated and take over treasurer duties.
The second will be a "Development Director" to direct and coordinate fund raising, grant making and outreach activities. We are seeking a candidate with some non-profit development experience.
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Q: Module (album) could not be initialized zf2 tutorial I am working through the zend framework 2 tutorial application. I have set up my Album Module directory as follows:

I am running into an error when I start my MAMP server, Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend\ModuleManager\Exception\RuntimeException' with message 'Module (Album) could not be initialized.'
If I comment out the Album module from the following code (in /config/application.config.php):
'modules' => array(
    'Application',
    'Album',
),

I get to the skeleton application homepage.
Here is my /module/Album/Module.php code:
namespace Album;

use Zend\ModuleManager\Feature\AutoloaderProviderInterface;
use Zend\ModuleManager\Feature\ConfigProviderInterface;
use Album\Model\Album;
use Album\Model\AlbumTable;
use Zend\Db\ResultSet\ResultSet;
use Zend\Db\TableGateway\TableGateway;

class Module implements AutoloaderProviderInterface, ConfigProviderInterface {

public function getAutoloaderConfig() {
    return array(
        'Zend\Loader\ClassMapAutoloader' => array(
            __DIR__ . '/autoload_classmap.php',
        ),
        'Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader' => array( 'namespaces' => array(
            __NAMESPACE__ => __DIR__ . '/src/' . __NAMESPACE__,
            ),
        ),
    );
}

public function getConfig() {
    return include __DIR__ . '/config/module.config.php';
}

public function getServiceConfig() {
    return array(
        'factories' => array(
            'Album\Model\AlbumTable' => function($sm) {
                $tableGateway = $sm->get('AlbumTableGateway');
                $table = new AlbumTable($tableGateway);
                return $table;
            },
            'AlbumTableGateway' => function ($sm) {
                $dbAdapter = $sm->get('Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter');
                $resultSetPrototype = new ResultSet(); $resultSetPrototype->setArrayObjectPrototype(new Album());
                return new TableGateway('album', $dbAdapter, null, $resultSetPrototype);
            },
        ),
    );
}
}

And here is my module.config.php code in /module/Album/config/:
return array(
'controllers' => array(
    'invokables' => array(
        'Album\Controller\Album' => 'Album\Controller\AlbumController',
    ),
),

'view_manager' => array(
    'template_path_stack' => array(
        'album' => __DIR__ . '/../view',
    ),
),

'router' => array(
    'routes' => array(
        'album' => array(
            'type' => 'segment',
            'options' => array(
                'route' => '/album[/][:action][/:id]',
                'constraints' => array(
                    'action' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                    'id' => '[0-9]+',
                ),
                'defaults' => array(
                    'controller' => 'Album\Controller\Album',
                    'action' => 'index',
                ),
            ),
        ),
    ),
),'
);

I have read through a few people who have ran in to similar situations, but their issues were due to  misspelled/incorrectly named classes. I don't see anything wrong with my code (even went as far as copying/pasting directly from tutorial).
Can someone give me some suggestions?
Thanks

A: I had the same problem, and the solution was to start every .php file with <?php
This is not clear in the tutorial (if you just copy the code from there), and it was the reason I was getting the same exception.

A: The only reason i could see is that you should replace all ' with normal single quotes '.
using ' can results in unexpected behaviors.

A: There is an error in the tutorials module.config.php file.
Change 'id'     => '[0-9]+',
to 'id'     => '[0-9]*',
+ means one or more digits. If you just call http://zf2-tutorial.localhost/album/ there is no digit in the url so the rewriterule doesn't match. Change from + to * (0 or more)

A: I had the exact same issue, my issue and solution were
the very first command in the tutorial is:
php composer.phar create-project --stability="dev" zendframework/skeleton-application path/to/install

It was cut off my screen so I copy/pasted the command to the command line without reading the end. So my app directory structure included a directory ./path/to/install where all of the installation files were, including application.config.php.
Moving everything in /path/to/install/ to the root directory of the app allowed Zend to find the Album module.
Note: /path/to/install/module contains the album module but will fail if you do
mv ./path/to/install/* .

so be sure to move the Application module at /path/to/install/module into app_root_dir/module/.

A: You can check composer.json weather include the following:
"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "Application\\": "module/Application/src/",
        "Album\\": "module/Album/src"
    }
 },

A: Please check your Module::getConfig() ,
 and play with :
return include __DIR__ . '/../config/module.config.php';
   I have added '../' prefix and it works well .


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UFC 264 stream: How to watch Poirier vs McGregor 3 live tonight
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In what looks to be the UFC's biggest PPV event of the year Dustin "The Diamond" Poirier and Conor "The Notorious" McGregor will meet in the Octagon for the third time at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and we have all the details on how you can watch Poirier vs McGregor 3 on TV or online.
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The first time these two opponents faced off was all the way back at UFC 178 in September of 2014 when McGregor was still a rising star. After knocking out Poirier in the first round with less than two minutes on the clock though, McGregor cemented himself as a force to be reckoned with in the UFC.
Six years later at UFC 257 back in January of this year, Poirier and McGregor met in the Octagon at the UFC's Fight Island facility in Abu Dhabi for a rematch. This time around though, Poirier had the upper hand and began the match with an unexpected kick to McGregor's leg which threw him off. While McGregor was able to recover the first time around, Poirier kept up this strategy during the second round and continued kicking his opponent's calf which made it difficult for him to move. From here Poirier launched a series of punches that knocked McGregor on the floor to secure the win with a second-round TKO.
Now Poirier and McGregor will battle it out one last time in a lightweight bout at the top of UFC 264's Main Card to bring their trilogy to a close. Both fighters have been training hard for this final rematch and with McGregor winning the first match and Poirier winning the second, it will be winner takes all at the T-Mobile Arena tonight.
Elsewhere on the card in UFC 264's co-main event, Gilbert "Durinho" Burns will take on Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson in a welterweight bout. However, as they both have eyes on a title shot, neither fighter will be holding back.
Whether you're rooting for Poirier, McGregor or just want to tune in to see the conclusion of their trilogy, we'll show you how to watch Poirier vs McGregor 3 from anywhere in the world.
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Sling TV offers one of the most affordable ways to watch the UFC 264 Prelims live. Sign up for Sling Orange for access to ESPN and you'll save $25 on your first month, bringing its cost down to just $10 before add-ons.
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Live stream UFC 264 in Canada
Canadian viewers have plenty of options to watch the UFC 264 PPV as Bell, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel, Videotron, Telus , Eastlink and UFC Fight Pass will all show the Main Card at 10pm ET / 7pm PT for $64.99.
The Prelims will begin two hours earlier at 8pm ET / 5pm PT and you can watch them on either TSN or RDS. You can also watch the Early Prelims in Canada at 6pm ET / 3pm PT on UFC Fight Pass.
If you have an active cable subscription, then ordering the PPV from your cable provider might be the easiest way to watch it. However, if you've already cut the cord, then UFC Fight Pass is a better choice as it will give you access to both the Early Prelims and the Main Card.
How to watch UFC 264 live in the UK
Just like with other UFC events in the past, UFC 264 will be available exclusively through BT Sport Box Office in the UK. If you're already a BT Sport subscriber, access to the PPV will cost you £19.95 and you'll be able to watch the Main Card beginning at 3am BST early Sunday morning. If that's a bit late for you don't worry as the network has a spoiler-free replay page so you can watch UFC 264's Main Card at your convenience. You can also stream UFC 264 on your smartphone using the BT Sport app and on your computer via the network's website. If you're not interested in signing up for a lengthy contract with BT, you can always purchase a BT Sport Monthly Pass for just £25 in case there are other sports you want to watch as well.
The Early Prelims will begin at 11pm BST and you can watch them on UFC Fight Pass while the Prelims will be shown on both BT Sport 2 and UFC Fight Pass at 1am BST.
Watch UFC exclusively on BT Sport. A monthly pass costs £25 and allows access via the BT Sport app for streaming.
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How to watch UFC 264 live in Australia
Australian MMA fans also have several options to watch UFC 264's Main Card as the PPV will be available Main Event, Fetch TV, Kayo and UFC Fight Pass for $54.95.
The Early Prelims will kick off at 9am AEST / 6am AWST but you'll need a subscription to UFC Fight Pass to watch them while you'll be able to watch the Prelims at 11am AEST / 8am AWST on UFC Fight Pass, ESPN and ESPN on Kayo. UFC 263's Main Card will start at 1pm AEST / 10am AWST in Australia on Sunday, July 11.
Kayo Sports
Kayo Sports should be your go-to for UFC 264 if you're in Australia. You can even make the most of a free trial if you've never signed up before.
From $25 at Kayo Sports
UFC 264 - The Main Card in Full
Lightweight Bout
Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor
Welterweight Bout
Gilbert Burns vs. Stephen Thompson
Heavyweight Bout
Tai Tuivasa vs. Greg Hardy
Women's Bantamweight Bout
Irene Aldana vs. Yana Kunitskaya
Bantamweight Bout
Sean O'Malley vs. Kris Moutinho