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jimmythefish82
#21 by jimmythefish82

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Your aunt and my husband. As soon as she touched his buttons, my husbands goes, "it's over." I barely had time to comprehend the scene while my husband is saying during it -- that's exactly what Carmela just did: Wife in mind, nothing will happen now. I didn't even get the chance to evaluate Tony, because of what my husband was saying during that scene. I would have missed it on my own.

I thought (and hoped) that with Carmela's buttoning of T's shirt, even before he left to meet Julianna that Tony might back out at the last minute. I thought it might happen because he seemed to acknowledge Carmela at that moment and what she gives him as a wife. I hoped it would happen predominantly because I felt that had he gone through with being unfaithful it would have made a mockery of any previous comments with regard to him changing - both in terms of what he has said himself, and not least by what has been said on this forum. This was the first time he had an opportunity to be unfaithful and had he taken it, he would in large part be back to square one with regards to his own "redemption". (Something which i feel, as has been said many times on these boards, must happen - at least in some level - by the series' end).
The fact that he has set this precedent means, IMO, it is unlikely he will be unfaithful in future. I also attribute the same importance to this exercise of self control as Melfi did when she had been told (albeit untruthfully) that Tony had refused Adriana in S5.
Catherine Tramell
#22 by Catherine Tramell
"She did her best."
Carm forgot to stock the refrigerator with some smoked turkey, and now the big guy's pissed because he's been out 'busting his ass' all day and comes home to this act of 'gross negligence' :-)
My quote above is of course, from his later session with Melfi where she implies that Tony may have feelings regarding Carmela's significant part in AJ's problems. He thinks about this for a second then (avoiding eye contact with her for quite some time during his reply) says: 'I don't know -- no -- she's a good mother'.
I think it's interesting to say the least that his rant at Carmela is artificially spawned out of (in his eyes - ) her 'not pulling her weight' in the home; that he's been out all day (signing away part of his heritage) but generally, 'busting his ass' and she isn't keeping her end of the 'deal' - you know, the good little housewife part where the man works and the woman nests.
Tony can go out and do 'certain things' at 'work' - (fuck - steal - did I say kill yet?) and her responsibility is to look after the home -- and of course, the kids - AJ.
His son just recently tried to carve up his own turkey of an uncle and it's here I'm thinking how Tony's view of his and Carm's 'parental guidance' over the years may just be changing for the worse.
But let's not forget: where Tony 'comes from' (and boy was it reinforced in this one), things happened 'differently' - (men were men; the old 'lady' and her 'values'; the ancestry of the neighbourhood; and (although not centre stage here) where women were confined to the back-seat of the car and kept at home with the children.
Tony's 'kept' Carm as the housewife since Day1. In a way, to him, she's more responsible for the children. Their son is armed and dangerous now - does Tony accept some responsibility for this? Or does he solely blame Carmela for not...doing her job?
He knows that he has kept AJ a million miles away from the Mafia (whatever AJ 'picks up' by just being around this and his father, he still (right or wrong) believes he steered his son in the right direction re: this) yet, here he's pulling a Michael Corleone with regards to avenging the father, albeit botching the job up.
He has to confront the issue that the simple act of watching a film with his son, does more to predetermine AJ than all the teaching and influence that he should rightly expect from Carmela. Tony thinks he's done his best to keep AJ out of it, now he has to question why his boy is so into it.
Hold that thought.
When he can't go through with the extramarital sex (and the shirt/buttons reference is a killer here guys -- completely missed it, too caught up in the will he/won't he moment), Carmela weighs heavily on his thoughts, as does 'everything she did' for him during his recuperation (caring/dressing etc.) -- 'you think I'm going to betray that?'
We know he doesn't betray this; we know that the lack of poultry in the fridge isn't his 'real' reason for yelling at Carm; and we don't know if he really thinks Carmela is responsible in any way, shape or form for how their son has turned out/is turning out - (but when he says 'she did her best', there is definite disheartenment there).
To the point:
I think Tony is so angry because this is what he's coming home to, this 'bad smell'. He's giving-up a lot here, the old ways. And the feelings that Carmela helped him through the 'nightmare', dressed him, nursed him, feelings that say he owes her something for this, are getting in the way of his hard to put down desires.
Of course I'm not saying he doesn't truly love Carmela, but when he has to reason that he can't do what he wants to do (re: Juliana) because he 'owes' Carm this at-least, he is reminded (by recent AJ -- the 'smell') that she really hasn't been keeping the house in order (not that it's just down to the mother you understand, in a perfect world and all that).
That both he and Carmela made sacrifices here; that he had a baguette the size of a...baguette for Juliana, but that he can't butter it (so to speak) at the moment because, boy, look how good his wife has been to him throughout all this.
I go back to when Tony was almost out for the count and how during her unshared devotion solely to him, AJ was falling apart at the seams. Tony knows what happened with AJ when he was 'gone' -- AJ Vs. School etc. -- (I mention in an earlier post how NDE-Tony felt okay about Carm's sole responsibility to, and success at, looking after the kids, who were described as being quite younger here than in-reality), but at that time, may not have been feeling quite the way I think he's feeling now - he sees her BIG devotion to him (Back then - care. Throughout (wedding day +) - love yes, but betrothment to the buck substantially).
To reinforce this (and the central-premise):
Carm's devotion to Tony all along (therefore devotion to money and how he gets it etc.) may, in Tony's eyes, have gotten in the way of her commitment to the kids (here, specifically AJ), but Tony is finding it extremely hard to concede he owes her anything other than what he has given her throughout, especially now as AJ is showing extreme signs that he could go through with murder.
The irony to all this is of course that it's because of who Tony is, therefore who he knows, that AJ doesn't get charged with attempted murder here. Like the scene in the hospital where a cold-hearted killer and big mob goombah impart some advice to AJ that his father 'doesn't want this life for him', in those few short moments - the Mafia did more to deter AJ from 'the life', than the boy's mother ever could.
"Putting aside the moral and legal issues, clarity can't be a bad thing."
peeayebee
#23 by peeayebee
Lots of interesting thoughts here.
I saw Tony's anger re the smoked turkey as redirected guilt over his betrayal of Carm's trust and love.
Also, in short, he's unsatisified. He was primed to go, but aborted. Lots of sexual tension there. So he takes it out verbally on Carm, picking something trivial like there not being the right deli meat in the frig.
kevncaz
#24 by kevncaz
I was trying to decipher the reasons for his outburst. I received some insight from an HBO (maybe it was cinemax) movie the next day. Scent of a Woman was on and in the final big scene, where Pacino is pontificating to the Headmaster and student body he says, paraphrasing "When I came to the crossroads in my life, I never took the righteous path because it was too damn hard".
I think this is what Tony discovered. Doing the right thing, the moral thing by Carmella is hard, not as stimulating or satisfying as completing the act, at least on the base level. And to continue to do so means turning down a lot of such opportunities.
Combine this with the fact that Tony, at least for most of his life, has been, well, a sociopath. His life involves predatory crime: extortion, outright stealing, assault and murder. Therein lies the internal conflict which could be the source of his outburst. If the voice of his conscience is now so loud that it dictates his actions regarding his encounter with the realtor, maybe he now questions these other aspects of his life. He lashed out at the "source" of his guilt as it existed that night.
garygizmo
#25 by garygizmo
I think kevncaz pretty much nailed it. Doing the right thing is neither easy nor self-gratifying, especially when you're also experiencing sexual frustration. Highly ironic that Tony's screaming for "smoked turkey" after that "40% less fat" salami Carm found.
billymac
#26 by billymac
Betrayal is the key to the outburst, but I believe it is Tony's betrayal of the neighborhood, its traditions and culture (by agreeing to sell his building) more than anything else that provokes his outburst.
The subtlety of negotiation between Tony and Julianna is awesomely accomplished by the writers of this episode. Tony resists Julianna's initial simple monetary offer, but the ever-escalating price, and the pursuit of sex, dissolve his will.
After he refuses the first offer as being too low, he makes his pitch instead for her body. Julianna declines Tony's sexual advance. Tony has exercised self-control on the temptation of money; Julianna has exercised self-control on the sex.
Julianna returns with a higher monetary offer. The money is now becoming tempting, but Tony again refuses, this time asserting that he does not want to be an accessory to erasing the cultural tradition of the neighborhood. His sexual advance becomes more insistent. But again she begs-off.
Julianna returns with a monetary offer Tony can't refuse, but he implicitly makes his acceptance of the offer conditional on her agreement to fuck him. Even though Tony has agreed that the money is satisfactory, Julianna knows that if she refuses to have sex with Tony he may not actually consummate the sale transaction: she has to agree or lose the sale. Both have negotiated for what they wanted.
At the critical moment, Tony signs the sale papers but stops himself from, once again, cheating on Carmella. As a result, he has betrayed the neighborhood and its proud cultural heritage and traditions, and all he has obtained in return is money.
It is this realization that he has become a "Judas" to his "people" and his loudly professed lip-service pride in those hallmarks of the neighborhood that, in my opinion, lead him to his late night outburst about the lack of smoked turkey in the house. Despite his desire to be vigilant in maintaining the integrity of the neighborhood, he has fallen prey to greed and libido. And, he has also become an accomplice to the continuing disempowerment of his own "family": another "old-world" mob profit center for protection money (Caputo's) is to be replaced by another corporate franchise not susceptible to extortion (Jamba Juice).

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SofiaGiovanna
#27 by SofiaGiovanna
FOMW....YES...and not to beleaguer the point...most of T's extramarital sex has been either female-superior or oral, hasn't it? Now, this can't just be a concession to his girth because though he's a big guy, he's not the fattest dude around. I don't know the answer as to why there seems to be very little non-standard sex acts of any kind in the Soprano household...and I'm not talking Ralph Ciforetto nonstandard, I'm talking run of the mill stuff.
Another unbuttoning the shirt thing....and other posters may have touched on this while I was away from the computer yesterday...Skiff is another pay-for-lay girl, isn't she? She closes the deal (real estate) and she'll close the deal sexually. Just like his father's goomar (Fran? the one who smoked even when Johnny had emphysema), just like the rest. Maybe it's not as straightforward as the deal Chrissie cuts with the hooker with the coke in "Luxury Lounge", but everybody pays something.
FlyOnMelfisWall
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#28 by FlyOnMelfisWall
billymac, that's an excellent analysis. Hadn't considered it from that angle at all, but it makes sense. I was more inclined to think he was resolved on the sale when he said "sold" on the phone. But there was that business in her apartment about having second thoughts and the Ben Franklin close.
I guess my reason for wanting to explore this question so deeply is that I think it helps answer to what extent Tony is likely to remain faithful in the future. If his anger is truly aimed at Carmela, I don't think it bodes well for his future fidelity. If instead it was over the simple fact that he had an unresolved hard-on or wanted to provoke her so she would punish him with a tongue lashing or was really angry that he'd betrayed the neighborhood for a piece of ass he didn't even collect (all good theories), I think it bodes much better for his future fidelity.
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As I thought about the portent of it on subsequent viewings, it's probably all the more impressive that he did stop it in progress rather than simply resist the temptation initially. The force of the "brakes", the willpower, he had to apply to alter the sexual inertia of that encounter far exceeds the willpower he would have to apply to simply squelch a whim or a thought or a temptation to "hit on" a woman.
I agree with the poster who compared this act (somewhere on the forum) to the one last season with Ade. Melfi called that one a "milestone" under the assumption that it played out more like this one. If her assessment of such behavior is correct, then this was an actual milestone.

We know from season 6 previews that Tony hands a loaf of salami (or perhaps a baguette?) to Julianna in a store. That is certainly going to be a highly symbolic gesture, one that, at this very early stage, I surmise could be him turning down an offer to get together with her again. By handing her the loaf, he could be saying "this is the only salami I'm giving you from now on." We'll see how it plays out.
Tony's just afraid of a bird-flew pandemic!
ObservingEgo
#30 by ObservingEgo
Why was Tony so angry after he stopped the Juliana sex...?
Because he is so precious, adorable and as uttlerly predictable as a primitive little child...in certain ways, that is. Clients like Tony whose psychological task it is to cultivate/refine a conscience, get sober, manage anger, and the like, go through a period of resentment toward the installation of conscience, super ego, value-laden judgement, whatever you want to call it. As they approach the actual experience of engaging in old "bad" behaviors there arises a new conflict: "I want to do it" vs. "but, now I know it's inappropriate." Often there results resentment toward the superego which is displaced onto others viz a viz Tony onto Carmela. I also am amused by the fact that people in this sort of transition also often express the entitlement of needing/demanding/exacting gratitude from others for their new and decent behaviors: "I've been sober now for three months. Aren't you going to thank me..?"
Bottomline: Tony (with heightened sense of conscience) could no longer enjoy former "extracurrilar-type beheviors." Not yet able to sit with this sort of self denial, he displaces his frustration onto Carmela. For what it's worth, IMO it was not so much sexual frustration, but the fact that he could no longer experience a psychological free pass with such pecadillos, that lead to the displacement of primitive yet transparent rage.

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This Zack Snyder Interview From 2008 Proves That 'Batman vs. Superman' Is Just Another 'Watchmen'
When something goes wrong, we often revisit and analyze the past to find warning signs that were previously overlooked. If you apply that logic to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Man of Steel, for instance, then you could find yourself reading old interviews with Zack Snyder to try and figure out if maybe we knew all along that these were the kinds of superhero movies he was going to make. You may also find yourself realizing, with increasing clarity, that Snyder never stopped making Watchmen.
Back in 2008, about a year before Watchmen hit theaters, Zack Snyder spoke with EW about adapting Alan Moore's graphic novel. Watchmen arrived when the current superhero boom was just taking off — Iron Man had only recently hit theaters and the MCU was in its infancy. Yet, Snyder works in a cute Marvel diss in this weirdly prescient response to the rise of comic book movies:
The average movie audience has seen — well, I can't even count the amount of superhero movies. Fantastic Four, X-Men, Superman, Spider-Man. The Marvel universe has gone nuts; we're going to have a fricking Captain America movie if we're not careful. Thor, too! We're on our second Hulk movie. And Iron Man — $300 million domestic box office on a second tier superhero!
Eight years later and we've had three Captain America movies and two Thor films (with another on the way). It's interesting that he A.) Makes a crack about Marvel going "nuts," when the studio went on to successfully engineer an entire cinematic universe, and B.) That Snyder is astonished by the box office take for a "second tier superhero." Adjusted for inflation, Iron Man made $380.4 million domestically, while Batman v Superman has made $325.1 million (so far). Iron Man was a risk — a character who was then-untested on the big screen. But Batman and Superman have a long, successful cinematic history; making a movie with both of those guys should be like printing free money.
That brings us to Snyder's far more interesting comments about his adaptation of Watchmen, the darkly satirical superhero graphic novel that paints a more humanist portrait of typical comic book heroes. Nite Owl is basically an emasculated riff on Batman, who had just appeared on screen again in Christopher Nolan's famously gritty reboot of the iconic hero. But if you ask Snyder, he doesn't think Batman Begins was dark enough:
Everyone says that about [Christopher Nolan's] Batman Begins. "Batman's dark." I'm like, okay, "No, Batman's cool." He gets to go to a Tibetan monastery and be trained by ninjas. Okay? I want to do that. But he doesn't, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie. If you want to talk about dark, that's how that would go.
Okay, then! The director goes on to talk about his three-hour cut of Watchmen, insisting that the "hard R" aspects of the film are essential to the story. Aspects like a particularly gory moment with Dr. Manhattan, which Snyder describes by comparing the character to Superman in this illuminating response:
That's Superman gone bad. If Superman grabbed your arm and pulled really hard, he'd pull your arm out of your socket. That's the thing you don't see in a Superman movie. But in Watchmen, what you get is, like, "I'm a Superman, and I really want to help mankind — but I just tore this guy in half by accident. People call me a 'superhero,' but I don't even know what that means. I just blew this guy to bits! That's heroic?"
Weird — it's almost like he's describing his accidental-mass-murderer version of Superman in Man of Steel. In fact, when you really think about it, it's as if Snyder just swapped the characters of Watchmen and Batman v Superman, which is even stranger considering that Moore's graphic novel was — as Snyder happily admits — satirizing the very superheroes that the director would go on to make movies about.
Clearly Snyder is enamored with Moore's tonal and narrative style, which has heavily influenced his own approach to making superhero movies. That's beyond obvious. But it's utterly bizarre to realize that Snyder reverse-engineered Watchmen into his Batman and Superman the same way DC and Warner Bros. are reverse-engineering a Justice League franchise.
Zack Snyder is still basically making Watchmen, but without the satire, and the weirder thing still is that he has to know this. He displays a sharp understanding of Moore's Watchmen in that interview, discussing its themes and satirical qualities and drawing comparisons to iconic superheroes. He gets it. And if he gets it, then he also has to know just how crazy it is to repurpose elements of a narrative that was already satirically repurposing the narrative on which your current film is based. It's baffling.
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"I am not a man… I am Cantona." Scoring applause, laughs and hand-claps all the way through its screening, Brit filmmaker Ken Loach's contender for the Palme d'Or isn't the best film of Cannes 2009 but it's definitely the most beloved. Thank Man Utd's seagull-loving French talisman for that.
Like a bearded genie, Cantona himself magically appears in the unhappy life of frazzled postman called Eric (Steve Evets) to pep-talk his namesake with amusing gonzo philosophy ("Ee oo is afraid to throw ze dice will never throw a six") and wonder-goal montages (that chip against Sunderland still beggars belief). Beaming with sweary, salty humour, Loach's enjoyable comedy-drama miskicks when it switches tactics for an uncomfortably grim subplot about guns and crooks. But that at least provides the assist for him to smash home a crowd-pleasing finale that had the Cannes critics clapping right through the end credits. In off the post.


"I'll be the poet who sings your glory — and live what I sing every day."
the strange kinds of thoughts you have at 11am when driving home from a long night (mostly because your hospital's EMR was down for the few hours when you had the time to write notes) — me, I'm a storyteller. I've always been. I realized a long while back that telling stories was part of what makes me feel alive — what ultimately drives everything I enjoy doing. I want to reach out, touch your heart, help you feel and live (not that I'm always the greatest at that myself, oh no). but. to create, to breathe life, to make it all come alive. music, the piano, eighty-eight keys black and white but a million evocative colors in your mind. peace, longing, loss, pain, joy, dancing, butterflies, sunlight; I've lived & played it all. singing: the stories of others with my own intertwined, sung. a prayer carried on all the heart & soul I could muster. I always thought in lyrics. voice acting; bringing someone to life, telling their stories & conveying a character with pitch and inflection. countless hours roleplaying with friends on the MUD; blind nymph-girl Aoi and her great love for her friend, the most feared thief throughout the land of Sindara. large insectoid Jeti and her love for food and eating and sharing her childlike pleasures & joy with you. High Summoner Yuna, the Evening Calm (and sometimes, the Violet of Doom), and her spiral into icy madness. it all extends even to my more recent madness — cosplay. fabric, clay, worbla, paint, trips to the hardware store for progressively stranger things, and a hundred thousand hours of sweat, blood, tears, and screaming at my sewing machine, all to bring characters & stories to life in yet another way.
the strange thought, though, was — as sometimes I feel that my job is so woefully unrelated and different and alien and takes away from my time to tell stories & sing songs — it's not so unrelated after all. as a physician, my job is also to be a storykeeper. an archiver. not that I'm not or wasn't already. I've done it, always; journaling through the good and the bad because my own memory sometimes loses the details for the emotions. but I listen to stories all day long. sometimes they're short, sometimes they're long, sometimes they don't make sense, sometimes they're made up for one reason or another. but I listen, I accept, I chronicle. I hear. in bits & binary, I make sense of the story, to be written down and passed on only to those who will also care for the patient. as maddening as it can be, opening the doors to my hospital's ancient cobwebbed previous EMR and searching through musty tomes of scribbled and barely legible writing to figure out the story that needs to be told — I love doing this. I love listening. your stories. my patients' stories. I want you to feel heard and cherished and like you aren't alone. the moments that bring my heart to fullness are those when I feel like I've made a difference. a mother thanking me through tears for listening to her anxieties and fears, respecting what she had to bring to the table, working with her to come up with the best plan for her child, not washing my hands of her or treating her as if she was difficult.
I suppose that at the end of the day, it's all just two halves of the same coin. I guess that more than just being Sailormoon, guardian of love & justice, I'm Fairy Doctorgirl Prissi, guardian of stories.
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I will be upgrading my system to a 2018 mac mini.
Internal drive will be for apps and documents.
I will need to stream samples from external drives.
Is anyone using external SSDs for samples?
Looking for the best option.
I tried an espensive Intel 750 and was quite disappointed. Maybe the load time was 8- 10% faster but the total streaming did not surpass what and Sata 3 SSD is capable of. Anyway, I have good experience with Samsung evo 850 and 860, also Crucial mx500 but I believe there are many other good SSD out there. Use an external enclosures with USB 3 or thunderbolt, depending on your computer. The best part with SSD is that they are silent :-).
I'm running 3 SSDs in RAID 0 via Thunderbolt for sample streaming. But Play don't support setting Sample Cache levels with RAIDs.
I'm using the BlackMagic Multidock with 4 SSDs, one for OS and 3 for samples.
I can also recommend the Akitio Thunder3 Quad X if you are using Thunderbolt 3. You can put HDDs and SSDs in it and connect up to 4 drives with just one Thunderbolt cable.
I use a Samsung T1, though I'd recommend the newer T5.
The prices have really come down on those over the years.


The funnier you are, the more I think there's a tragic undercurrent. … I think humor is one of the highest forms of tragedy there is. People talk about the serious novel and these sort of hallowed tones and how important it is, but I think a lot of humorous stuff — books by writers like Sam Lipsyte and even writers like Mordecai Richler in Canada, who is no longer with us — these are some of the most funny and tragic books I know because humor doesn't work unless you're making fun of something that keeps paper cutting you throughout your life, something that keeps hurting and hurting you; and that's why parents, and relationships, and the political system are all such delicious targets.
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$2 an hour car rental firm expands
Tribecar's fleet consists of the previous- generation (from left) Toyota Wish, Toyota Altis and Mitsubishi Lancer.PHOTO: TRIBECAR
Christopher Tan
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Ultra short-term rental company Tribecar has increased its fleet fivefold in six months.
The firm, which is going head to head with car-sharing operators, charges as little as $2 an hour. It now has 120 cars - up from 23 when it began operations in March.
Tribecar business development manager Charlene Kee says: "Our ambition now is to have a car in every carpark in Singapore, up from our initial target of having one at every other MRT station."
It has placed 20 cars in the Sengkang-Punggol area.
"They are within five minutes from residents living in the eastern side of these estates," Ms Kee says, adding that Tribecar will double the fleet there if response is positive.
The small start-up has more than 2,500 hirers, up from 210 when it started.
Ms Kee says occupancy is 100 per cent on weekends, and 79 to 80 per cent on weekdays.
"A good 40 per cent of our customers are using the cars to earn additional income through ride-hailing services," she says.
Tribecar's fleet consists of previous-generation Toyota Altis sedans, Mitsubishi Lancer sedans and Toyota Wish seven-seaters.
Ms Kee says the rental rate for the Wish is the same as the sedans, unlike other companies, which usually charge more for an MPV.
She also says Tribecar cars can be driven into Malaysia.
The company is aiming to reach a fleet size of 1,200 for it to have a presence in every public carpark, but does not have a target date when this will happen.
Initially, it was aiming to hit 500 cars by the end of the year - a target that it may not reach in time.
Tribecar was set up by a family which runs Malaysian conglomerate Insas. It offers short-term car rentals ranging from $2 to $6 an hour.
That is less than what most other car-sharing plans charge and far less onerous than the $1,500 a month charge most traditional rental companies levy. Some of Tribecar's hourly rates are lower than the taxi flagdown fare, which starts from $3.20.
Tribecar uses a system which allows hirers to access cars with just their smartphone. Once a hirer books a vehicle at a desired location and time slot, he can unlock it by keying in a PIN on his phone. Payment is via an e-wallet account with the company.
Motorist and Uber driver Jerry Yeo, 43, says Tribecar's operating model is "brilliant". "At $2 per hour for a Wish, it is amazing value," he adds.
"And expanding its fleet to more locations across the island only adds to its appeal.
But I hope the company will be renewing its ageing fleet."
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 01, 2016, with the headline '$2 an hour car rental firm expands'. Print Edition | Subscribe


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Wisconsin travelers, aid workers desperately trying to get home as coronavirus shuts down countries worldwide
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Daisy Grochowski choked up when she talked about leaving her colleagues and students in Haiti.
As the education director for U.S.-based Midwives for Haiti, Grochowski has spent the last six months training Haitian students to become skilled birth attendants — in a country where mothers are more likely to die in childbirth than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere.
Her students, her colleagues, they've become her family, her community.
But now she wants to go home — home home, to Wisconsin.
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Grochowski, a nurse-midwife from Wauwatosa, is among hundreds of Americans stranded across the globe as governments closed borders, grounded commercial airlines and quarantined their citizens in an effort to slow the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 13,700 people worldwide.
"It's a heartbreaking decision to leave," said Grochowski, who has been trying to secure a flight since Thursday night when Haitian President Jovenel Moise announced a state of emergency, closing the island nation's ports, airports and borders.
"We totally understand that they are trying to keep their people safe. It's a very vulnerable population," she said by telephone, holed up with two colleagues in their office three hours from Port au Prince. "If they would just let people out who need to get out."
On Thursday, the U.S. State Department issued what's been described as an unprecedented advisory urging Americans not to travel overseas and for those already abroad to return. The Level 4 advisory, made it clear that the State Department may not be able to help those travelers who are stranded.
That has been the case, at least so far, for Grochowski and others, who say they've made repeated pleas — to the State Department, to U.S. and foreign embassies and consulates, and to their Wisconsin congressional delegates — to no avail.
"Every time we call, they just take our names and put us on a list," said Grochowski. "They say they'll call us back but they never call us back."
Jessica O'Neill, 23, of Madison, is among hundreds of Americans stranded in Peru.
"We're feeling pretty powerless out here," she said.
O'Neill has been holed up with two friends at an Airbnb in the south-central city of Cusco, once the capital of the Incan Empire. Armed soldiers patrol the streets, enforcing the lockdown and nightly curfews.
Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra announced March 15 that Peru was closing its borders and ordering people quarantined for 15 days. But on Saturday, the government declared the borders "closed permanently" because of coronavirus beginning Sunday.
On Friday, U.S. Defense officials said military planes would be dispatched to retrieve stranded travelers from Morocco, Honduras and Peru, but later changed course on Peru, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Some travelers have said they feel abandoned by their own country, while they watch travelers from elsewhere — Israel, Mexico, France and Germany to name a few — fly their citizens home.
"I feel really let down," said O'Neill. "Growing up in America, you believe your country is the most powerful in the world. You believe it can do anything. It's been a really big wake-up call."
Wisconsin's senators, Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican Ron Johnson, say between them they've been working with hundreds of Wisconsinites stranded around the world.
On Friday, Johnson sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging he immediately intervene, saying, "Our constituents are growing frustrated and scared."
Baldwin issued a statement Saturday, saying, "We need the State Department to step up their efforts and offer more support."
She followed with a letter to Pompeo and the Department of Defense on Sunday, calling on the agencies to "immediately begin chartering U.S. government flights or order United States Air Mobility Command to transport citizens back to the United States."
"It's time for the State Department to stop deferring to unresponsive commercial carriers who are only offering limited and excessively priced tickets," it said.
Pompeo announced Friday that he had created a task force to work on getting Americans home.
In Haiti, every day seems to bring a new disappointment. At one point, Grachowski and her colleagues thought their evacuation insurance company, Global Rescue, was sending a private plane. But they learned Saturday that it couldn't get permission to land.
On Friday, Grochowski and her friends rushed to the airport in Port au Prince after it was reported that the American Airlines planned to fly empty planes into Haiti on Monday and Tuesday to bring Americans home. When they got to the airport, it was closed.
When she finally got through to the airline's Haitian desk Saturday morning, she was told the Monday and Tuesday flights were already filled, but she was able to snag a seat for Friday.
"But we don't know if it'll happen," Grochowski said. "If they get approval, the odds that that'll stay open until Friday don't seem super likely."
Grochowski said she feels safe for now in Haiti, where there had been just two confirmed coronavirus cases as of Friday. But she worries about the economic fallout and social and political unrest that could follow in a country already strained by widespread poverty.
Back on U.S. soil
Many stranded Americans have returned home, including Hannah Dresang, 23, of Shorewood, who had been working with the Peace Corps since September on environmental conservation projects in Paraguay.
The Peace Corps, which had already withdrawn workers from China and Mongolia, announced last Monday that it would be bringing the rest of its 7,000 workers home from stations around the world — a first in its almost 60-year history.
Dresang, who was still recovering from a bout with dengue fever, had just decided after conferring with her parents that she would stay and ride it out when the evacuation order came. She and her colleagues rushed to pack their bags and boarded a flight that stopped in Panama. That airport has since shut down, she said, forcing the next round of workers, including at least one from Wisconsin, to come in through Miami.
Dresang arrived home on Wednesday. As of Saturday, she was still awaiting word on some of her friends. One friend, in Ukraine, has had eight flights canceled.
Dresang said she feels no real sense of relief. And, like Grochowski, she grew emotional, talking about the people she left behind.
"I'm still trying to sort out my emotions," she said. Departures were so rushed, she said, "there was not a real goodbye. I only got to see maybe five people before I had to evacuate."
Peru closing indefinitely
Meanwhile, in Cusco, O'Neill has enough money to last through the original lockdown. But she's not sure what will happen if she doesn't get out by the indefinite closure on Sunday.
And she feels a sense of unease as she watches the number of coronavirus cases, and the death toll, rise in the United States. She just wants to get home to her family in Whitefish Bay.
"One of my family members could be sick. And that's one of the most frightening ... realities of being so far away from home and not being able to get home," she said. "There's nothing I can do."
Rory Linnane of the Journal Sentinel and wire services contributed to this report.
Contact Annysa Johnson at anjohnson@jrn.com or 414-224-2061. Follow her on Twitter at @JSEdbeat. And join the Journal Sentinel conversation about education issues at www.facebook.com/groups/WisconsinEducation.


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Руд Вормер (,  11 травня 1988, Горн) — нідерландський футболіст, півзахисник бельгійського «Брюгге» і національної збірної Нідерландів.

Клубна кар'єра
У дорослому футболі дебютував 2006 року виступами за команду клубу АЗ, в якій провів два сезони, взявши участь у 20 матчах чемпіонату.

Своєю грою за цю команду привернув увагу представників тренерського штабу клубу «Рода», до складу якого приєднався 2008 року. Відіграв за команду з Керкраде наступні чотири сезони своєї ігрової кар'єри. Більшість часу, проведеного у складі «Роди», був основним гравцем команди.

До складу «Феєнорда» перейшов 2012 року як вільний агент. За два роки, 1 вересня 2014, уклав трирічний контракт з бельгійським «Брюгге». У новій команді поступово став ключовим гравцем середини поля, а згодом був обраний її капітаном.

Виступи за збірні
Протягом 2010–2011 років залучався до складу молодіжної збірної Нідерландів. На молодіжному рівні зіграв у 6 офіційних матчах.

2018 року дебютував в офіційних іграх за національну збірну Нідерландів.

Титули і досягнення
 Чемпіон Бельгії (5):
«Брюгге»:  2015-16, 2017-18, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22
  Володар Кубка Бельгії (1):
«Брюгге»:  2014-15
  Володар Суперкубка Бельгії (4):
«Брюгге»:  2016, 2018, 2021, 2022

Посилання
Профіль гравця на TransferMarkt , ,

нідерландські футболісти
Гравці молодіжної збірної Нідерландів з футболу
Гравці збірної Нідерландів з футболу
Футболісти «АЗ»
Футболісти «Роди»
Футболісти «Феєнорда»
Футболісти «Брюгге»
нідерландські футбольні легіонери
футбольні легіонери в Бельгії
Уродженці Горна

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Journalist turned photograhper Renato Stockler took these incredible shots of São Paulo's football fields. All are aerial photos of ordinary neighbourhoods in São Paulo with a communal pitch or "terrão".
A far cry from the lavish world cup stadiums with their green grass and media friendly aesthetics, these are the hardened earth pitches on which you have to play if you are from the impoverished peripheral neighbourhoods of São Paulo.
The pitches symbolise the precious little public space set aside for leisure in poorer districts. But, being less desirable neighbourhoods does not necessarily mean there is a lower demand for housing and, as many of Renato's photos show, open areas are being encroached on and menaced by property development and speculation.
In other words, this is a photojournalistic essay of a Brazilian endangered species; local football pitches.
"The reddish tone of a soccer field turns into a stage for the resistance of popular soccer. Some of them have their own football clubs, while others are publics spots. Some of them are mainly dirt, while others are of sand, rests of weathered grass.
"But they are a breath [of fresh air] for the hard daily lives of those who live on the outskirts of São Paulo. These fields show the urgent need for public and communal places to practice sports, a portrait of those who fight for leisure in a city such as Sao Paulo"


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Q: ssh, scp works, rsync over ssh doesn't I try to run an rsync sync on a Synology from a linux machine.
I have access to the Synology with SSH with key authentication. SSH SCP works, permissions are correct.
~# scp /tmp/foo.bar backupch:/tmp
foo.bar    100%    9     0.5KB/s   00:00

Rsync fails:
rsync /tmp/foo.bar backupch:/tmp -e 'ssh -v'

Rsync output with debug:
OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022
debug1: Reading configuration data /root/.ssh/config
debug1: /root/.ssh/config line 14: Applying options for backupch
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to myhost.mydomain [*.*.*.*] port 2222.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/ipdch.backup.key type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/ipdch.backup.key-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_8.2
debug1: compat_banner: match: OpenSSH_8.2 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug1: Authenticating to myhost.mydomain:2222 as 'backup'
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /root/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-ed25519
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY received
debug1: Server host key: ssh-ed25519 SHA256:bbl6asZ3Qc+DnOV8hKPDWdlnJtE2yXMQxb1jyInlc+c
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /root/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: Host '[myhost.mydomain]:2222' is known and matches the ED25519 host key.
debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks
debug1: Will attempt key: /root/.ssh/ipdch.backup.key  explicit
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com>
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/ipdch.backup.key
Authenticated to myhost.mydomain ([*.*.*.*]:2222) using "publickey".
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: pledge: filesystem
debug1: client_input_global_request: rtype hostkeys-00@openssh.com want_reply 0
debug1: client_input_hostkeys: searching /root/.ssh/known_hosts for [myhost.mydomain]:2222 / (none)
debug1: client_input_hostkeys: searching /root/.ssh/known_hosts2 for [myhost.mydomain]:2222 / (none)
debug1: client_input_hostkeys: hostkeys file /root/.ssh/known_hosts2 does not exist
debug1: Remote: /var/services/homes/backup/.ssh/authorized_keys:1: key options: agent-forwarding port-forwarding pty user-rc x11-forwarding
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: channel 0: setting env LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
debug1: Sending command: rsync --server -e.LsfxCIvu . /tmp
debug1: client_global_hostkeys_private_confirm: server used untrusted RSA signature algorithm ssh-rsa for key 0, disregarding
debug1: update_known_hosts: known hosts file /root/.ssh/known_hosts2 does not exist
Permission denied, please try again.
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype eow@openssh.com reply 0
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
Transferred: sent 3412, received 2716 bytes, in 0.1 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 56899.8, received 45293.1
debug1: Exit status 1
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(228) [sender=3.2.3]

Any idea what is going wrong here??

A: It seems that there is a problem with newer versions of rsync on Synology.
https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/114547
The solution is to specify the --rsync-path=/bin/rsync with the rsync command.
rsync --rsync-path=/bin/rsync /tmp/foo.bar backupch:/tmp -e 'ssh -v'

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Wilhelm Bortenschlager (* 29. Dezember 1911 in Aurolzmünster; † 23. Juni 2000 in Wels) war ein österreichischer Literaturwissenschaftler.

Leben und Wirken
Nach dem Besuch des humanistischen Gymnasiums in Ried im Innkreis studierte Bortenschlager an der Universität Wien die Fächer Germanistik und Altphilologie. Unter seinen Lehrern waren der Germanist Josef Nadler und der Literaturhistoriker Hans Rupprich. Bortenschlager schloss sein Studium 1935 mit einer Dissertation über den Dichter August von Kotzebue ab. Nach Ablegen der Lehramtsprüfung war er zunächst Lehrer am Gymnasium. Später initiierte er Theaterprojekte und unterrichtete an der Pädagogischen Hochschule des Bundes in Linz. Der vielfach kulturell aktive Bortenschlager war Ehrenmitglied der Innviertler Künstlergilde.

Hauptsächlich bekannt wurde Wilhelm Bortenschlager durch seine zahlreichen Arbeiten zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte und Gegenwartsliteratur, die sämtliche Bereiche der Literatur berücksichtigten. Unter anderem ist er Verfasser einer dreibändigen "Deutschen Literaturgeschichte" und eines Lexikons, das als Standardwerk über die österreichischen Dramatiker der neueren Zeit gilt.

Bortenschlager stand mit zahlreichen Literaten, über die er schrieb, in engem Kontakt. Unter diesen finden sich Carl Heinz Kurz, Peter Coryllis und Fritz Hochwälder.

Werke (Auswahl)
 Deutsche Literaturgeschichte bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Wien, Wels, München: Leitner. 18., neu bearb. Aufl., 192. Tsd. 1971.
 Geschichte der spirituellen Poesie. Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 978-3-87561-596-8.
 Richard Billinger. Leben und Werk. Wels 1981, ISBN 3-85410-020-5.
 Kurt Becsi. Dramatiker einer neuen Weltsicht. Innsbruck 1981, ISBN 978-3-7030-0095-9.
 Tiroler Drama und Dramatiker im 20. Jahrhundert. Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 978-3-7053-1711-6.
 Der unbekannte Billinger. Innsbruck 1985, ISBN 3-7030-0158-5.
 Roman Romay, ein Dichterschicksal. Horn 1991, ISBN 978-3-85028-217-8.

Einzelnachweise

Germanist
Literaturwissenschaftler
Autor
Literatur (Deutsch)
Literatur (Österreich)
Biografie
Essay
Herausgeber
Absolvent der Universität Wien
Österreicher
Geboren 1911
Gestorben 2000
Mann


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Remix: Lawrence Lessig on IP in the Digital Economy
"The prolific and controversial web culture of piracy, particularly file sharing, has taken the world by storm, and for more than a decade, we've been waging a war in the name of the 20th Century's model of copyright law.
The content industry has convinced the world that extremism in copyright regulation is good for business and economic growth. But that's false. Join Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig as he discusses the potential creative accomplishments that our society could achieve, if only we viewed copyright and intellectual property (IP) laws differently."
Lessig, L. (2008). "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy", Bloomsbury Academic.
http://ia902306.us.archive.org/24/items/LawrenceLessigRemix/Remix-o.pdf
2008 • commerce and community • content industry • copyright law • copyright regulation • digital economy • economic growth • file sharing • Girl Talk (music artist) • gramophone • hybrid economy • intellectual property • intellectual property law • intellectual property rights • Lawrence Lessig • piracy • prohibition • remix • remix culture • sharing economies • talking machines • web culture • wiretaps
Controversial Aotearoa New Zealand surveillance laws pass
"The controversial spy laws have been passed by Parliament by 61 votes to 59. The laws were drafted in the wake of a succession of blunders by New Zealand's foreign intelligence agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau, which included illegally spying on German internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom. Earlier, Prime Minister John Key acknowledged new surveillance laws have 'alarmed' some people but blames the Government's opponents for stoking their fears. Legislation giving the GCSB the power to spy on New Zealanders was debated in Parliament today ahead of being passed into law."
(Tracy Watkins, 21 August 2013, Fairfax NZ News)
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2013/0109A/latest/DLM5177706.html
2013 • Aotearoa New Zealand • big brother • cellular mobile networks • civil liberties • communications monitoring • controversial policy • cross-context sharing • data regulations • David Shearer • e-privacy • global electronic and signals intelligence • Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) • Government legislation • government policy • information collection • intelligence agencies • international communications • internet as a social and political space • John Key • Kim Dotcom • legislation • monitoring • National (political party) • network traffic • New Zealand Parliament • New Zealanders • NSA • online privacy • political policy • privacy controls • privacy policy • security • security policy • signals interception • spying • surveillance • surveillance laws • wiretaps
CarnivorePE: Data Networks Surveillance Tool
This programme is a surveillance tool for data networks based on the programme DCS1000 that was developed by the FBI to perform electronic wiretaps. CarnivorePE listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local network and animates, diagnoses, or interprets the network traffic.
Carnivore • communications monitoring • DCS1000 • FBI • network traffic • surveillance • visualisation • wiretaps


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IMPROVING SAFETY FOR BRISTOL PORT
by T H WHITE on September 1, 2017
Situated on the Seven Estuary close to the M4/M5 corridor with excellent rail connections is The Bristol Port Company, encompassing an estate of some 2,600 acres across both the Avonmouth and Portbury Docks – the UKs most centrally located deep sea Port. Its extensive operations, which embrace the movement of containers/automotive/dry and liquid goods, include 800,000 vehicles and 6 million tonnes of dry bulk material per annum, and more than 25 per cent of Heathrow Airport's jet fuel.
The Bristol Port Company appointed T H WHITE Projects to assist with a bespoke design for personnel safety improvements to an existing Chinese manufactured portside mobile container crane which operates within the container port area of the Portbury Dock complex. The project involved the design, manufacture and installation of a secondary personnel escape route, including a series of specially designed access platforms, ladders and interface connections for assembly and permanent fitment to one side of the crane's vertical portal structure, adjacent to a hot exhaust manifold.
Following an engineering site survey focused on the relevant area of the crane structure which stands approximately 20m high, a 3D inventor drawing illustrating the proposed personnel escape route design was produced for customer discussion. After approval by the client the numerous component detailed drawings were generated ready for issue to the fabrication team and workshop.
Once the numerous fabricated items were manufactured and inspected they were then supplied to The Bristol Port Company in the customer's corporate red colour as a high specification quality paint finish to withstand the rigours of the marine operating environment.
Working closely with the Port Engineer, the pre-planning and installation programme was carefully scheduled and project-managed before the works commenced in order to take advantage of a window of opportunity in the Port's operations. Only suitable weather conditions would then be required to allow the installation to go ahead.
With planning completed and the various risk assessments (RAMS) generated an August weekend was chosen so that there would be a three-day period for the T H WHITE Projects installation team to complete the works. Prior to the installation, the team all went through a strict on-site induction to ensure they were aware of the Port's procedures and safety at work policy for all operatives and contractors.
With a break in the weather, the sitework commenced mid-August and, with the crane alongside and the assistance of the cherry picker, the team proceeded to weld connecting brackets to the upright of the container crane. Once correctly aligned, they fitted the secondary escape platforms and connecting ladders to the structure, as seen in the photograph.
The project was successfully completed, commissioned and handed over to The Bristol Port Company with its new bright red secondary personnel escape route now part of the mobile container crane.
This is the latest example in a series of design, manufacture and installation applications in which bespoke steelwork has been supplied and fitted by the Projects team.
T H WHITE Projects specialises in cereal processing and storage solutions of all sizes, from farm and estate installations to large commercial or industrial bulk facilities, taking each project from conception to completion.
Do visit our new Projects website (www.thwhiteprojects.co.uk) to gain an overview of our capabilities and, if you have a scheme you would like to talk about, please do contact us on 01380 723040, or email projects@thwhite.co.uk.
T H WHITEIMPROVING SAFETY FOR BRISTOL PORT 09.01.2017


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Romain Quirot est un scénariste et réalisateur et romancier français, né le .

Biographie
Après avoir étudié les sciences criminelles, il commence sa carrière en dirigeant des clips musicaux avant de réaliser des publicités en France et aux États-Unis.

En 2012, il réalise un documentaire sur le rap alternatif français Un jour peut-être, une autre histoire du rap français.

Il remporte le Grand prix du Jury du  Nikon Film Festival en 2013 avec le court métrage Un vague souvenir. Il fait également partie du jury de ce festival présidé par le réalisateur Alexandre Astier en 2023.

En 2014, il est lauréat Court-Métrage de l'Audi Talent Award où il a présenté Le Dernier Voyage de l'énigmatique Paul W.R. (2015), un film de science-fiction décalé et poétique. Le film est primé dans plus de cinquante festivals et est dans les  des Oscars 2017.

En 2017, il publie le premier tome de la saga Gary Cook aux éditions Nathan, coécrit avec Antoine Jaunin. Le second tome, La Voix des étoiles, parait l'année suivante. Les critiques mettent en avant l'originalité de l'univers, le rythme et l'écriture très cinématographique.

En 2018, Romain Quirot réalise Sans réseau, un documentaire diffusé sur France 2. Tourné comme un long métrage, ce documentaire ovni immerge le téléspectateur dans une ambiance étrange, peuplée de personnages bouleversants.

En 2019, il tourne son premier long métrage Le Dernier Voyage, adaptation du court métrage Le Dernier Voyage de l'énigmatique Paul W.R.. Hugo Becker, Jean Reno et Philippe Katerine sont annoncés au casting. Présenté dans plusieurs festivals en 2020, le film ne sort en salles qu'en 2021 en raison de la pandémie de Covid-19.

Filmographie

Courts métrages
 2011 : Juste avant l'aube
 2013 : Un vague souvenir
 2015 : Le Dernier Voyage de l'énigmatique Paul W.R.

Documentaires
 2012 : Un jour peut-être, une autre histoire du rap français
 2018 : Sans réseau

Longs métrages
 2020 : Le Dernier Voyage
 2023 : Apaches

Publicités
 2021 : Les nouvelles consignes de sécurité pour Air France

Publications
 2017 : Gary Cook, tome 1 : Le Pont des oubliés.
 2018 : Gary Cook, tome 2 : La Voix des étoiles.

Récompenses et distinctions
 Nikon Film Festival 2013 : grand prix du jury
 Audi Talent Award 2014 : lauréat

Notes et références

Liens externes

Réalisateur français de cinéma
Scénariste français de cinéma
Documentariste français
Écrivain français du XXIe siècle
Naissance en octobre 1985


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Kimball, Lisa. (2004). Choosing Media Strategically for Team Communication.
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Bradford was recognised as a city in 1897 and has many famous roots. The biggest historical background that can be associated with Bradford is that it served as the birthplace for the Bronte sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The National Media Museum is a major institution within Bradford and plays a key role in the City's major attractions. Bradford has a rich film heritage that see's a large focus towards the preservation and development of historical and contemporary film throughout the City. It holds two annual film festivals: the most significant being the Bradford International Film Festival, which takes place in March. Further following the rural nature of Bradford, in 2007 it was voted as the 'greenest' city in England, and Bradford is only getting bigger and better.
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stdout_r, stdout_w = IO.pipe
pid                = Process.spawn("docker", "ps", :err => STDERR, :out => stdout_w)
_, exit_status     = Process.wait2(pid)

stdout_w.close

output = stdout_r.read.chomp

stdout_r.close

if !exit_status.success?
  STDERR.puts output
  exit 1
end

header, *content = output.lines.map(&:chomp)

header            = header.split(/\s{2,}/)
content           = content.map { |line| line.split(/\s{2,}/) }
docker_containers = content.map { |data| Hash[header.zip(data)] }
cpu_info          = "/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/"
mem_info          = "/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/"

previous_run_time = ARGV[0].to_i
current_time      = Time.now.to_i
run_interval      = (current_time - previous_run_time).to_f
previously_ran    = previous_run_time > 0
previous_values   = {}

if previously_ran
  previous_output = STDIN.read.chomp.lines
                                    .map { |line| line.chomp.split }
                                    .map { |(name, value, _)| [name, value.to_f] }
  previous_values = Hash[previous_output]
end

all_stats = docker_containers.map do |container|
  stats = {}
  container_name = Array(container["NAMES"].to_s.split(",")).first || container["CONTAINER ID"][0..7]
  Dir[File.join(cpu_info, "**", container["CONTAINER ID"] + "*", "cpuacct.stat")].each do |file|

    cpu_stats = Hash[File.read(file).lines.map { |line| line.chomp.split }]

    %w{system user}.each do |stat|
      output_stat = [container_name, stat + "_total"].join(".")
      stats[output_stat] = cpu_stats[stat]
      if previously_ran
        time_over_interval                      = (cpu_stats[stat].to_f - previous_values[output_stat]) / run_interval
        stats[[container_name, stat].join(".")] = time_over_interval
      end
    end
  end
  Dir[File.join(mem_info, "**", container["CONTAINER ID"] + "*", "memory.stat")].each do |file|
    mem_stats = Hash[File.read(file).lines.map { |line| line.chomp.split }]

    %w{cache rss mapped_file swap}.each do |stat|
      stats[[container_name, stat + "_mb"].join(".")] = mem_stats[stat].to_i / 1024.0 / 1024.0
    end
  end
  stats
end

puts "running %s" % docker_containers.size
all_stats.each do |row|
  row.each do |metric, value|
    puts [metric, value].join(" ")
  end
end

if !previously_ran
  exit 1
end

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Les Indiens de Malaisie () sont un groupe ethnique de Malaisie et de Singapour.

Histoire

Les Indiens de Malaisie sont issus de longues et fortes vagues de migration entre le sous-continent indien et la péninsule malaise, qui ont eu lieu entre le  et le . Elles se sont ajoutées à une présence indienne dans le monde malais bien antérieure et plus réduite, essentiellement composée de marins et de marchands.

Grandement portées par l'expansion de l'empire colonial britannique dans la région (Établissements des détroits, puis Malaisie britannique), les migrations indiennes ont été à la fois le fruit du Kangani, système de recrutement similaire à l'engagisme, et d'immigration volontaire. Elles ont servi à assurer un vivier de main d'œuvre dans les plantations, mais ont aussi trouvé des débouchés dans les forces de l'ordre coloniales (cipayes). Elles ont également été composées d'une importante cohorte de marchands, d'entrepreneurs, de prêteurs, de fonctionnaires ...

Démographie

Culture

Notes et références

Groupe ethnique en Malaisie
Diaspora indienne


Pollywood industry is getting very popular in India or we can say in the whole world. If you are Punjabi, then you like Punjabi movies but equally very popular in north India and other states of the country.
The first movie of Pollywood was 'Sheela' also know as 'Pind di Kudi', which was released on 1935. In this film Noor Jehan played a role of an actress and singer as well. This movie was made in Calcutta (Kolkata) and Lahore is the place where the First movie of Pollywood was released.
But the Pollywood industry was not much popular in Indian Audience.
In 2002 Habhajan Mann's Movie 'Jee Ayan Nu' was released which was directed by Manmohan Singh. This was first time in the history of Pollywood Big Budget movie made with approx. 90 lakh. The movie got very huge response by overseas. This was the turning point in the revival of Punjabi Cinema.
After that it was like flood of movies started to drain in Punjabi Cinema. It was like series of movies started to release in Punjabi Cinema.
Nowadays, there are lot super hit movies in Punjabi cinema. But we are going to shortlist only 5 top movies all the time. You can enjoy these top 5 Punjabi movies with your family any time.


Civil rights activist Maggie L. Walker was known to say, "Have hope, have faith, have courage, and carry on."
Hope, Faith, and Courage: Early Civil Rights Leaders in Richmond, a new exhibition opening at the University of Richmond Downtown, celebrates early civil rights activists in Richmond, Virginia including John Mitchell, Jr., Maggie L. Walker, James E. Jackson, Rosa Dixon Bowser, and Hezekiah F. Jonathan.
A special RVA First Fridays opening celebration will be held Feb. 1, 5-7 p.m.
The exhibition will feature cut-paper portraits created by UR students in "Representing Civil Rights Richmond," a first-year seminar taught by professors Laura Browder and Patricia Herrera, and Open High School students in U.S. history courses taught by Chad Ingold.
The exhibition is a companion exhibition to Growing Up in Civil Rights Richmond: A Community Remembers at UR's Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art and The Afterlife of Jim Crow at 1708 Gallery. It will run Jan. 22 through March 22.
Media wishing to cover the exhibition's First Fridays opening celebration should RSVP to Lindsey Campbell at lcampbe4@richmond.edu by Jan. 30.
"When we make the lives of these black leaders matter through different expressive mediums, be it through text, art, or performance, we move the social compass towards justice and equality."
Students were guided through the potrait process by Jen Thomas, book arts program director at the University of Richmond's Boatwright Library.
Open High School is the recipient of a 2018-19 Partners in the Arts Emerging Creative Thinkers Project Award.


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Minerals And Energy Resources Concept With Examples – Geography
Minerals and energy resources – Hello my dear friends, you are again welcomed in https://www.pdffiles.in . Friends, as you all know, we upload daily Study Material here So that you can read awesome content and get maximum marks in your exams. In the same way today we are sharing with you very important notes regarding minerals and energy resources. For students who are in 10th and 12th class they must read these notes for paasing their 10th class with flying colours. It will be very beneficial for them to read Minerals and energy resources notes. You can download these Minerals and energy resources whole concept through the downloading button, which is given below.
Minerals Energy Resources
Various metals are extracted from these minerals after proper refinement.
Minerals are an indispensable part of our lives.
The railway lines and the tarmac(paving) from building or a big ship all are tarmacs of the roads.
Even the food that we eat contains minerals.
Minerals are found in varied forms in nature ranging from the hardest diamond to the softest talc.
Rock are combinations of homogeneous substances called minerals.
Over 2000 minerals have been identified only a few are abundantly found in most of the rocks.
Geologists use these properties to classify the minerals.
Mode of Occurrence Of Minerals
Minerals are usually found in "ores". The term ore is used to describe an accumulation of any minerals mixed with other elements.
This also determines the cost of understanding the main types of formations in which the main types of formations in which occur.
(i) In igneous and metamorphic rocks minerals may occur in the cracks crevices faults or join the smaller occurrences are called Veins and the larger are called Lodes.
(ii) In sedimentary rocks a number of minerals occur in beds or layers They have been formed as a result of deposition accumulation and concentration in horizontal strata.
(iii) Another mode of formation involves the decomposition of surface rocks and the removal of soluble constituents leaving a residual mass of weathered material containing ores.
(iv) Certain minerals may occur as alluvial deposits in sands of valley floors and the base of hills.
(v) The ocean waters contain vast quantities of minerals to be of economic signification Common salt, Magnesium and water. The ocean beds, too are rich manganese nodules.
Ferrous Minerals
Ferrous minerals account for about three-fourths of the total value of the production of metallic minerals.
Iron Ore:
Iron ore is the basic minerals and the backbone of industrial development
The finest iron ore with a very high content of iron up to 70 percent.
In the adjoining Singbhum districts of Jharkhand, haematite iron ore is mined in GUA and Noamundi.
Durg – Bastar – Chandrapur belt lies in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. Very high-grade hematites are found in the Bastar district of Chattisgarh.
The Kudremukh mines located on the western ghats of Karnataka deposits are known to be one of the largest in the world
Maharashtra – Goa belt includes the state of gos and Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
Iron ore is exported through Marmagoa port.
Manganese:
Manganese is mainly used in the manufacturing of steel and ferro – manganese alloy. Nearly 10 kg of manganese is required to manufacture bleaching powder and paint.
Non – Ferrous Minerals:
India's reserves and production of non – ferrous minerals is not very satisfactory.
Copper:
India is critically deficient in the reserve and production of copper. Being malleable, ductile and a good conductor, copper is mainly used in electrical cables, electrons and chemical industries.
Bauxite:
Several ores contain aluminum it is formed bauxite a clay – like substance that alumina and later aluminum is obtained.
Bauxite deposits are formed by the decomposition of a wide variety of rocks rich in aluminum silicates.
India's bauxite deposit is mainly found in the Amarkantak plateau.
Orissa is the largest bauxite producing state in India with 34.97 per cent of the country's total production in 2000 – 01.
Non – Metallic Minerals:
Mica is a mineral made up of a series of plates or leaves. It splits easily into thin sheets.
Mica can be clear, black, green, red yellow or brown.
Mica is one of the most indispensable minerals used in electric and electrons industries.
Mica deposits are found in the northern edge of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, Koderma Gaya – Hazaribagh belt of Jharkhand is the leading producer.
In Rajasthan, the major mica producing area is around Ajmer.
Rock Minerals:
Limestone is found in association with composed of calcium carbonates or calcium and magnesium carbonates.
Conservation Of Minerals:
The strong dependence of industry and agriculture upon mineral deposits and the substances manufactured from them.
The total volume of workable mineral deposits is an insignificant fraction.
The rates of replenishment are infinitely small in comparison.
A concerted effort to be made in order to use mineral resources in a planned and sustainable manner.
Energy Resources:
Energy is required for all activities, It is needed to cook to provide light and heat to propel.
Energy can be generated from fuel minerals like coal, petroleum from fuel mineral like coal, petroleum, natural gas, uranium and from electricity.
It consumes most valuable manure which could be used in agriculture.
Conservation Sources Of Energy
Coal:
The most abundantly available fossil fuel. It provides a substantial part of the nation's energy needs.
Lignite is a low-grade brown coal which is soft with high moisture content.
Anthracite is the highest quality hard coal.
A little over 200 million years in age and in tertiary deposits which are only about 55 million years old.
Petroleum:
Petroleum or mineral oil is the next major energy source in India after coal.
Petroleum refineries act as a "nodal industry" for synthetic textile, fertile and numerous chemical industries.
The oil is prevented from rising or sinking by intervening non – porous layer.
About 63 per cent of India's petroleum production is from Mumbai High, 18 per cent from the map locates the 3 major off shore field of western India.
Natural gas is an important clean energy resource found in association with or without petroleum.
It is used as a source of energy as well as an industrial raw material in the petrochemical industry.
The fuel for the present century.
Andaman and Nicobar are land are also important areas having large reserves of natural gas.
The 1700 km long Hazira – Bijapur Jagdishpur cross country gas pipeline links Mumbai High and Bassein with the fertilizer power and industrial complexes in western and northern India.
The power and fertilizer industries are the key users of natural gas.
Electricity has such a wide range of application in today's world that its per capita consumption is considered as an index of development.
Electricity is generated mainly in two ways by running water.
Burning of fuels such a coal petroleum gas to drive turbines to produce thermal power.
Hydro electricity is generated by fast flowing water.
Thermal electricity is generated by using coal, petroleum and natural gas
There are over 310 thermal power plants in India.
Non – Conventional Sources of Energy:
The growing consumption of energy has resulted in the country becoming increasingly dependent on fossil fuel such as coal oil and gas.
There is a pressing need to use renewable energy sources like solar energy, wind, tide, biomass and energy from waste material.
These are called non – conventional energy sources.
Nuclear or Atomic Energy:
It is obtained by altering the structure of atoms.
The form of heat and this is used to generated electric power.
The Aravalli ranges of Rajasthan are used for generating atomic or nuclear power.
The Monazite sands of Kerala is also rich in Thorium.
Solar Energy:
India is a tropical country. It has enormous possibilities of tapping energy.
Photovoltaic technology converts sunlight directly into electricity.
In turn will contribute to environmental conservation and adequate supply of manure in agriculture
Wind Power:
India now ranks as a "wind super power" the world.
The largest wind farm cluster is located in Tamil Nadu from Nagercoil to Madurai.
Nagercoil and Jaisalmer are well known for the effective use of wind energy in the country.
Shrubs, farm waste, animal and human waste are used to produce biogas for domestic consumption I rural areas.
The plant using cattle dung are know a 'Gobar gas plant' in rural India.
It improves the loss of trees and manure due to the burning of fuel wood and cow dung cakes.
Tidal Energy:
Oceanic tides can be used to generate electricity. Floodgate dams are built across intellect.
The sea via a pipe that carries it through a power generating turbine.
A 900 MW tidal energy power plant is setup here by the National Hydropower Corporation.
Geo Thermal Energy:
Geothermal energy refers to the heat and electricity produced by heat from the interior of the earth.
It is so hot that when it rises to the earth's surface it turns into steam.
This stem is used to drive turbines and generate electricity.
Conservation of Energy Resources:
Energy is a basic requirement for economic development.
The economic development plans implemented since Independence necessarily required increasing amounts of energy to remain operational.
Promotion of energy conservation and increased use of renewable energy sources are the twin planks of sustainable energy.
India is presently one of the least energy efficient countries I the world
Energy saved is energy produced.
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Camilla was trained by Jane Packer in London and has been doing flowers in and out of the capital for 17 years.
She does parties, weddings, events, magazine work and contract flowers along with many private clients.
"Every single arrangement took my breath away, my family have all fallen in love with you".
"She brings her perfect taste and personal touch to all her commissions and is discreet to the point of omerta"


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UKnowledge > College of Agriculture, Food and Environment > Plant Pathology > Theses & Dissertations > 37
Theses and Dissertations--Plant Pathology
An Examination of Organic Options in Tomato Systems and Their Use as Alternatives to Copper-based Products
Erica Ann Fealko, University of KentuckyFollow
Agriculture, Food and Environment
Dr. Paul Vincelli
Organic farming is an ever-increasing segment of tomato production. Currently, limited information is available which directly compares conventional to organic treatment programs for disease control in tomato production. Furthermore, many methods available rely on the use of copper products which may be contribute to high Cu levels in agricultural soils. In this study, the efficacies of current conventional and organic methods were compared. In addition, newer disease-control programs, with and without copper were examined, which potentially could reduce over-reliance on copper products.
Standard organic and conventional spray programs were conducted over a four year period targeting two pathogens, Alternaria tomatophila (tomato early blight) and Xanthomonas euvesicatoria (tomato bacterial spot). Both programs contained a copper product (Nordox). Field trials with these programs were found to reduce the disease severity of both pathogens. Additionally, these two programs were not distinguishable statistically (p> 0.05) throughout the four years.
Subsequently, in a tomato high tunnel study, alternative bioproducts to copper were used to control powdery mildew (Oidium neolycopersici). These alternatives included a Bacillus sp. product and a novel microbial fermentation product (MFP). Although the Bacillus sp. treated tomatoes had statistically (p< 0.05) similar to the copper product, making it a viable candidate for further study.
The MFP was further investigated in an open field setting against X. euvesicatoria. The MFP and copper product were used in single product spray programs as well as tank-mixed with each other. In these field trials, as opposed to the high tunnel studies, although MFP treatment resulted in statistically (p< 0.05) better than either isolated product alone, indicating possible antagonistic behavior.
To understand these differences in efficacy of the MFP against O. neolycopersici and X. euvesicatoria, possible modes of action (MOA) were examined. A lack of detectable fast-growing organisms within the MFP indicated the MOA was likely not associated with either competition or hyperparasitism. Alternatively, MFP inhibited spore germination in Botrytis cinerea, Magnaporthe oryzae, and Colletotrichum higginsianum and reduced mycelial expansion in B. cinerea, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, and C. higginsianum in-vitro assays indicating antibiosis/antimicrobial properties. MFP also reduced bacterial growth of X. euvesicatoria and Pseudomonas syringae at 8% concentration or higher in liquid culture. Northern blot and RNA-seq results indicate possible plant defense induction from the application of MFP at 8% v/v.
Results of these studies indicate that the MFP may be a potential alternative to copper in tomato cropping systems. However, the MFP's efficacy appears limited based on either the environment or the target pathogen. Further investigation revealed the possibility of multiple MOAs. The primary mode of action appears to be an antibiosis/antimicrobial effect which may differ based on the resistance of the target pathogen. The secondary MOA may be induction of plant defense genes.
Fealko, Erica Ann, "An Examination of Organic Options in Tomato Systems and Their Use as Alternatives to Copper-based Products" (2022). Theses and Dissertations--Plant Pathology. 37.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/plantpath_etds/37
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The different stages of extracting the Argan kernels from the Argan fruit.
The Argan fruit is oval-shaped and a little bigger than an olive. The outer layer of the Argan nut is a thick peel that covers the green fleshy pulp.
Its middle layer is an extremely hard shell preserving the last inner layer which may contain up to 3 almond-shaped Argania Spinosa kernels used for making the 100% pure Argan oil.
The Argan fruit fall from tree in the months of July and August.
The ripening process of the Argan fruit changes its color and feel from the olive-like green fleshy fruit into yellow, then finally into a reddish dark brown dry fruit, and takes between 1 & 2 weeks in time, depending on the weather.
After that, the Argan nut becomes useable and can be processed to extract the Argan oil aka Argania Spinosa oil.
Today, the intensive commitment of the Argan oil production and sale through the women-run cooperatives, has a noticeable socioeconomic impact on a big part of the population (estimated to around 3 million people) living in the main Argan oil-producing areas.
It provides the major source of a fair and steady income mostly for local women working in the traditional Argan oil cooperatives.
Extracted Argan kernels size as opposed to the size of the dried Argan fruits (in the background).
I can barely read the lettering because they are so dim. Could you darken the letters, please?
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I may have a use for the dried argan pulp.
Can u comment on just what u do with the pulp normally pls?
Also what would be its possible availability & possible cost per kg.
The Argan fruit pulp (NOT the hard shell) is mainly used as cattle feed as well as in some traditional medicine recipes.
What did you intend to use it for?
About the availability and price, you'll receive an email from us shortly.


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MUDA-Architects
23:00 - 1 July, 2019
Curated by 韩爽 - HAN Shuang
birdview. Image © Arch-Exist
Yun Lu
Yun Lu, Jiandan Xu, Qiming Sun, Xue Chen, Yixiu He, Xiaoqiao Liu, Dian Rong, Shangyun Zhou
1800.0 m2
Arch-Exist
Construction supervision unit
Chufeng Architectural Decoration Design Co., Ltd
Construction supervision team
Xianyong Wu, Fei Jiang, Wenjie Tang, Songlin Li
Construction Team
Hao Chen, Chuangui Zhou, etc.
Text description provided by the architects. Chengdu's leisurely and warm temperament makes it a tourism magnet in Southwest China. And hotpot, as part of the local cultural characteristics, has become synonymous with Chengdu, which is not only a food culture, but also a leisure lifestyle. At the end of 2018, MUDA-Architects received a renovation design commission in Sansheng Township, Chengdu. Sansheng Township is located in Chengdu suburb, known as "Chengdu green lung", with unique natural conditions and ecological resources. MUDA takes this opportunity to integrate hotpot culture with natural ecological environment, creating a restaurant that respects the original ecology and in line with modern consumption style.
Garden Hotpot Restaurant is in the hinterland of Sansheng Township, surrounding a lotus pond, hidden in a eucalyptus forest. On the premise of paying the greatest respect to the natural environment, MUDA decides to eliminate the architectural scale, leaving out walls, only using pillars and boards to lightly hide the building in the woods, letting the building gently integrate with the site and delineating the shape of lake in a light and peaceful way.
The construction forms along the lake, looking like the steams and smokes from the boiling pots curling between the pillars and trees. Thin columns are evenly distributed on both sides, and the free curve of the roof forms several transparent viewing frames, so that different views can be appreciated during the whole process of walking. The bottom platform is consistent with the curve of the roof, and the same method is used in the design to echo each other, demonstrating the consistency and integrity of the whole space.
looking from the woods. Image © Arch-Exist
In total, the building has a circumference of 290 meters, with the height of 3 meters, and the width varies with the natural environment. The platform is made of anti-corrosive wood, and the roof is made of galvanized steel sheet, coated with white fluorocarbon paint, which complements the surrounding lush environment. A series of steel columns with a diameter of 88 mm is used as the supporting structure, and it blends into the straight trunks of eucalyptus trees and disappears into nature. The curved wooden railing by the lakeside is built for customers to enjoy the views, and blur the boundary of the lake, which brings people closer to nature.
dining area. Image © Arch-Exist
The natural environment of the site is beautiful but complex. Tens of eucalyptus trees must be preserved, and the terrain is tortuous with a maximum drop of nearly 2 meters. In order to respect the natural environment and minimize human intervention in this natural site, MUDA conducted manual mapping and recorded of the site in person, and the building was designed according to the location of eucalyptus trees and lake. Moreover, the free curve of the roof is designed according to the site characteristics and function.
looking from the lotus pond. Image © Arch-Exist
At the same time, it is also an experiment for MUDA in small scale and low cost architecture. The construction team, local migrant workers, have no professional knowledge and tools. In order to ensure the quality, architects simplified complex structural nodes and made strategic adjustments in a way that workers could understand. The whole building applied steel structure welding technology, which greatly shortens the construction period and reduces the cost.
looking from the lotus pond. Image Courtesy of MUDA-Architects
The first phase completed in April is open to the public, which is highly integrated with the nature. The building is light and transparent. Users sit around the lake, and the landscape spray permeates the whole space, starting a romantic and wonderful ecological hotpot tour.
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Cite: "Garden Hotpot Restaurant / MUDA-Architects" 01 Jul 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/919946/garden-hotpot-restaurant-muda-architects/> ISSN 0719-8884
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Lost productivity due to demands of caring for aging family members costs U.S. employers more than $17 billion per year, according to a new study.
For caregivers providing the most intense levels of care, the cost per employee is $2,441 a year, or a total of $17 billion, according to a study commissioned by the MetLife Mature Market Institute, Westport, Conn., and the National Alliance for Caregiving, Bethesda, Md.
For all employee caregiving, the average cost is $2,110 per year, or an annual total of about $34 billion.
The study defines intense care as lasting from 12 hours to 87 hours a week.
Since 1997, when MetLife first did the study, costs of caregiving have increased nationwide by about $4 billion for both levels of care.
"Working caregivers who juggle work and caregiving responsibilities make many workplace adjustments, such as coming in late or leaving early, reducing their work schedules or dropping out of the workforce entirely," says Sandra Timmermann, director of the MetLife Mature Market Institute.
Total estimated costs include losses from replacing employees, absences, workday interruptions and supervisory time, according to the institute, which is affiliated with a unit of MetLife Inc., New York.


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Q: Unable to rollback a transaction on a checked exception The following service fails to rollback persisting the Foo object if an IllegalStateException is thrown although I have marked MyServiceImpl as @Transactional(rollbackFor = IllegalStateException.class). I have also tried to mark the upload method as @Transactional(rollbackFor = IllegalStateException.class), still the problem persists and my Database state would be inconsistent if an IllegalStateException would occur :
@Service
@Transactional
public class MyServiceImpl implements IMyService{
    @Autowired
    private IFooService fooService;
    @Autowired
    private IBarService barService;

    @Override
    @Transactional(rollbackFor = IllegalStateException.class, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
    public void upload(Foo foo, Bar bar) throws IllegalStateException{
       try{
        fooService.addFoo(foo);//foo object is persisted in the DB whether the upload call would succeed or fail (i.e. throws an IllegalStateException)
        if(!check(bar))
            throw new IllegalStateException("The object bar is not valid");
        barService.addBar();
      } catch(Exception e){
           e.printStackTrace();
      }
    }

    //This method simply validates the input Bar object
    private boolean check(Bar bar){
        //source code omitted
    }
}

@Service
@Transactional
public class FooServiceImpl implements IFooService{
    @Autowired
    private IFooDao fooDao;

    @Override
    @Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
    public void addFoo(final Foo foo){
        fooDao.addFoo(foo);
    }
}

@Service
@Transactional
public class BarServiceImpl implements IBarService{
    @Autowired
    private IBarDao barDao;

    @Override
    @Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
    public void addBar(final Bar bar){
        barDao.addBar(bar);
    }
}

public class Foo implements Serializable{
    private int id;
    //source code omitted
}

public class Bar implements Serializable{
    private int id;
    private Foo foo;
    //source code omitted
}

My DataSource config :
@Bean(name="dataSource")
public ComboPooledDataSource getDataSource() throws PropertyVetoException{
    ComboPooledDataSource dataSource = new ComboPooledDataSource();
    dataSource.setDriverClass(env.getProperty("db.driverClass"));
    dataSource.setJdbcUrl(env.getProperty("db.jdbcUrl"));
    dataSource.setUser(env.getProperty("db.user"));
    dataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("db.password"));
    dataSource.setMaxPoolSize(50);
    dataSource.setMinPoolSize(5);
    dataSource.setMaxConnectionAge(1800);
    dataSource.setMaxIdleTime(1800);
    dataSource.setAutoCommitOnClose(false);
    dataSource.setInitialPoolSize(5);
    return dataSource;
}

How can I solve this please?
UPDATE : Source code updated and try/catch clause added.

A: Looks like addFooexecutes in its own transation.
You can annotate it with
@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)

So that it will use the same transaction in that case, and create a new transaction if called from some other place without the @Transactional annotation.

A: It took me a while to spot the reason why the rollback fails. Thanks to ben75's answer. In fact, the source code I provided was not really complete. I forgot to add the try/catch clause within the upload method. This is what did really prevent the transaction from being rollbacked although the IllegalStateException is thrown. In addition to that, I don't need to specify the propagation level since it is REQUIRED by default.