The best way to avoid controversy is often just to ignore it, but Kneehill County is taking on some detractors head-on.
A letter circulating on social media makes all sorts of claims about everything from the CAO's salary to the county's handling of local fire departments. On Wednesday, August 22 County Council replied with an online letter to its rate payers.
"As much as I'd like them to call council or call me or call the office, I've only had two calls total," stated Kneehill Reeve Jerry Wittstock. "We had the discussion and we decided to inform and, for those who want to be informed, it's there. We want to get the truth out there, so that's what we put out."
One of the allegations is that Kneehill County is looking at allowing commercial or industrial operations next to Horseshoe Canyon, but Wittstock said nothing could be further from the truth.
"The county doesn't do development, developers do development," he argued. "They ask the county whether or not they can do whatever development, but that doesn't fit because Horseshoe Canyon is a recreational area and commercial and industrial businesses will be steered away from there."
"There's just rumour and innuendo that's going around and in some of the cases it's just flat out falsehoods," he added. "So, we had to address it."
A link to the letter addressing Kneehill rate payers concerns can be found here.


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We're thrilled that Panto is returning to Macrobert this winter and so we're looking for some talented young people to join our Maw Goose Young Cast.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a highly skilled creative team who will prepare you for going on stage with a professional company. Rehearsals and performances require a high level of commitment, but you will be amazed at what you will gain from the experience.
Information on Auditions:
Date: Sun 8 May 2022
Time: You will be invited to audition between 11:00am and 4.30pm
Duration: Audition sessions will be 90 minutes
Arrival time: Please arrive no more than 15 mins before your assigned audition time.
Location: Macrobert Arts Centre
To audition, young people must:
Be aged between 10 and 17 years old on 1 Aug 2022
Enjoy singing, dancing and acting
Be fully available for all rehearsal and performance dates from Aug 2022 – Jan 2023 (see schedule below.)
Come prepared to the audition wearing loose-fitting clothes and soft shoes. Please also bring a bottle of water.
Submit the online registration form by 5pm on Thursday 5th of May:
Audition Registration Form
A bit more about the auditions:
They will be very informal and above all fun.
You are not required to prepare anything in advance as you will be working in groups with the creative team.
You will be assigned a group timeslot for your audition via email.
Parents/Guardians, please note that you will not be able to sit in on the auditions and we ask that you escort your child to the audition space before leaving. You are welcome to wait in the café bar area during the audition and please make sure you are available by mobile throughout the audition time.
You may be asked to come in for a warm-up prior to the audition starting if you have not previously been a part of the Macrobert Arts Centre young cast.
Information on Fees:
Please note that there is a participation fee paid over five instalments for all successful applicants.
For 2022 the participation fee is £295, which includes an exclusive Panto Young Cast 2022 hoodie!
Participants will get over 80 hours of acting, singing and dancing tuition and dedicated rehearsal from a team of highly experienced professionals between August and October 2022. This includes a Summer Intensive, October Intensive and weekly sessions throughout the autumn. Young Cast will play a named character who will have dialogue as well as songs and dances to perform.
Following on from that the Young Cast will rehearse with the professional cast from November through to opening night, gaining insight into the experience of being a professional performer and an understanding of the standards required to follow a performance career. They will each get the invaluable experience of around 30 performances under their belt. In addition each participant will have a professionally designed and made costume, specific to their character.
The due dates of each instalment are detailed below. Please ensure payments are made promptly as you will not be allowed to take part in these sessions unless payment has been made in advance.
1 August 2022 - £60
1 September 2022 - £60
3 October 2022 - £60
1 November 2022 - £60
21 November 2022 - £55
Help with costs*
There are a limited number of bursaries available to support young people. Macrobert Arts Centre is committed to ensuring that fees do not become a barrier for any participant. To request a bursary form, please get in touch by emailing: pantoyoungcast@macrobertartscentre.org
* NB – You may also be able to apply for individual funding to meet this cost through specific funding available in your area. Contact your local council to enquire about any potential funding opportunities.
Rehearsal and Performance Schedule
It is really important that if you are successful in auditions, you are committed to and are supported by your family to attend all rehearsals and performances, including the August and October rehearsal periods. We are unable to make exceptions.
Please bring a packed lunch for each full day scheduled.
Day Date Time Activity
Wednesday 10-Aug 10am - 4pm August rehearsals
Thursday 11-Aug 10am - 4pm August rehearsals
Friday 12-Aug 10am - 4pm August rehearsals
Sunday 04-Sep 12pm - 4pm Sunday rehearsal
Sunday 02-Oct 12pm - 4pm Sunday rehearsal
Monday 10-Oct 10am - 4pm October intensive
Tuesday 11-Oct 10am - 4pm October intensive
Wednesday 12-Oct 10am - 4pm October intensive
Thursday 13-Oct 10am - 4pm October intensive
Friday 14-Oct 10am - 4pm October intensive
Monday 07-Nov 6pm - 8pm Full Company Rehearsal
Tuesday 08-Nov 6pm - 8pm Full Company Rehearsal
Thursday 17-Nov 2pm - 5pm Full Company Rehearsal
Friday 18-Nov 2pm - 5pm Full Company Rehearsal
Saturday 19-Nov 10am - 4pm Full Company Rehearsal
Monday 21-Nov 10am - 1pm Tech week
Monday 21-Nov 1pm - 4pm Tech week
Wednesday 23-Nov 10am - 5pm Tech week
Thursday 24-Nov 10am - 5pm Tech week
Friday 25-Nov 10am - 5pm Dress Rehearsal
Saturday 26-Nov 10am - 5pm Dress Rehearsal
Tuesday 29-Nov 10am - 2pm Dress Rehearsal
Tuesday 29-Nov 3pm - 7pm Dress Rehearsal
Wednesday 30-Nov Public Performances start

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Shoes are pieces of rubber, plastic, synthetics, EVA, foams of different densities and thicknesses. They DO NOT adapt, they DO wear down. They are an unnatural addition to a human body and they affect the way a body moves profoundly. Manufacturers reinvent the wheel (or the shoe) continuously, some a lot more than others. Different gadgets, whizz bang fits, material, carbon plates and so on.
They change the last shape, the fit, the feel, the bounciness, the stretchiness, the geometry, the stiffness or the bendiness in different parts of the shoes. Nitrogen bubbles, carbon plates with different cut outs, polyurethane…The list goes on and on and will continue to evolve.
We are all runners. We were all born as runners and will die as runners. We have been running ever since we evolved to have an Achilles Tendon, 2 million years ago. As a species we continue to evolve and as far as understanding how we are made and how we will continue to adapt and change we are yet to touch the surface.
Our tendons adapt, our bones adapt, our minds adapt, our heart and lungs adapt and our attitudes and thinking mechanisms (auto and controlled) all adapt continuously as we age.
How our bodies adapt to running is equally complex and far from well understood. We know we ran everywhere in the past and had to rely on our bodies to get around. We did that without all these whizz bang gadgets and as human beings we were very strong.
When it comes to shoes we believe there are a significant number of factors to consider to help you chose the right shoe. At Running Science we have a combination of Physio students, Podiatrists, Exercise Physiologists, experienced runners and coaches. We have a significant Podiatry input into all our shoe selections and further provide regular ongoing training for our staff.
We will spend the first 5 minutes discussing your running behaviour with you. When, how often and for how long you have been running.
We will try to get to you know just a little bit too as that makes things easy and enjoyable.
Then based on that information we will select some shoes that will fit the bill and go through a fitting process with you. In this process we will assess Fit, Feel, Comfort, how you move in the different shoes and how they have compared to previous shoes you have worn. We use a vast amount of combined clinical and running experience to do this and 17 years experience performing this process.
The rest is up to you. How you feel in a shoe is very important to help us complete the picture. We will ask you that a lot during the process to help us evaluate the suitability and help help you feel comfortable in what we decide is right for you.
The service is include with the intention of purchase and and the price of our footwear is approximately recommended retail price.
We do offer a booking service should you wish to guarantee one on one attention for the end to end process. This comes at no extra cost. Book here to select your time or just come in during our opening hours.
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Q: sqlalchemy.exc.IdentifierError: Identifier 'index name' exceeds maximum length of 63 characters I am running a migration script from MYSQL database to PostgreSQL. A new relationship has been recently created on MYSQL which breaks the import to PostgreSQL.
Error: sqlalchemy.exc.IdentifierError: Identifier 'index name' exceeds maximum length of 63 characters
Is there a way to truncate the identifier name or alternatively increase the maximum characters limit label length (table name, column name, index) in PostgreSQL to by-pass this limitation?
I found this excerpt from the postgresql documention:
The system uses no more than NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes of an identifier; longer names can be written in commands, but they will be truncated. By default, NAMEDATALEN is 64 so the maximum identifier length is 63 bytes. If this limit is problematic, it can be raised by changing the NAMEDATALEN constant in src/include/pg_config_manual.h.
Has anyone tried it out? Is there a better solution? I'm using sqlalchemy and python, is there a way of truncating the identifier in Sqlaclchemy?

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Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock spoke about Bitcoin [BTC], the biggest cryptocurrency in the market, becoming a world currency, in an interview with Noami Brockwell on Youtube.
Byrne spoke about the usual narratives of governments that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, whereas the central banking system of the United States pretends that the US dollar is real. He went on to say that the money loaned by the Federal Reserve to the United States is fake money and that people are currently paying back the real money.
Byrne further added that no one knows about the private corporation which owns the Federal Reserve. He remarked that the nuclear launch codes could be discovered before getting to the bottom of the system.
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Matchbox Twenty rocks Manchester
By Katharine McQuaid, The Union Leader (Manchester NH)
Talk about a bang for your buck.
Three bands played for more than three and a half hours at the Verizon Wireless Arena last night. And by the time headliner Matchbox Twenty came on, openers Maroon5 and Sugar Ray had the crowd nearly danced out.
But Matchbox Twenty lead vocalist Rob Thomas let the crowd know the show had just begun when his band took the stage just before 9 p.m. as he encouraged the not-quite sold out crowd to forget their problems for a while.
"For the next couple of hours, we're just going to hang out here in Manchester and celebrate life together," he said in his most soothing voice.
Then the rock 'n' roll began, and you didn't need to see the ear-to-ear grins, swinging hips or multiple air guitars being played to know that Matchbox Twenty's appeal is simple -- they just play good music.
The band's mainstream status was evident last night with people of all ages attending the show, with most of them in their 20s and 30s. Tickets cost between $30.50 and $50.50.
Kelley LeBlanc, 31, said she's been listening to the band ever since they were called Tabitha's Secret.
"Probably because they've aged at the same time as I have," she said. "When I was 20-something they played 20-something music, and when I turned 30-something they were playing 30-something music."
The five-member band played a good mix of songs from all three of their albums, including "3 A.M.," "Mad Season," and one of their newest songs "Unwell."
The mostly all-out rock show turned into a campfire sing-along when Thomas and lead guitarist Kyle Cook stood alone under a spotlight to perform the band's break-up anthem "When You're Gone."
"His eyes sparkle," said 46-year-old Denise Biron of Manchester, who brought binoculars to get a good look at Thomas' piercing eyes and signature wavy hair up close.
She likes the band because she can understand what they're saying.
Her friend Sue Schunemann, 40, of Manchester, agreed.
"They actually say words that I can understand," said Schunemann who brought her 15-year-old daughter, Sarah, to the show. "And they're not vulgar."
Indeed, the Manchester arena was wired for sound last night with sound from all the bands coming across clean and crisp.
No one was more excited, or at least as scared, than 11-year-old Anthony D'Amato during Sugar Ray's set. When lead singer Mark McGrath took off into the crowd during "Fly" he chose the Newmarket resident to help him sing.
"You're not supposed to be better than me dude," McGrath said to D'Amato.
Sugar Ray, which overlays its brand of pop and rock with turntable beats from D.J. Homicide, had their set decorated with a Mexican theme, complete with a bartender wearing a Mexican sombrero.
"We brought our own bartender just in case," McGrath said to the crowd.
Matchbox Twenty's Thomas and drummer Paul Doucette even came out to get a drink from the V.I.P. bar during Sugar Ray's set.
In addition to all their chart toppers like "Every Morning," and "Someday," the band blew out everyone's ear drums with its version of the Ramone's "Blitzkrieg Bop."
Maroon5, which played first at 7 p.m. sharp, rocked out its recent radio success "Harder to Breathe," and a special cover of Prince's "Darling Nikki," which they played at the request of Matchbox Twenty.


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Q: Determining the number of solutions of a system of linear inequalities. I want to determine the number of solutions of a system of linear inequalities, and I was wondering if there was a simple way to to that. I know that linear programming is often used to check whether there are a zero or non-zero number of solutions, i.e. if the system/bounds is/are feasible, but is it possible to distinguish between there being a finite amount of unique solutions or infinitely many solutions? For instance, the system
$$
\begin{array}{lcl}
x & \leq & y \\
x & \geq & y \\
x + y & \leq & 1 \\
x + y & \geq & 1
\end{array}
$$
has 1 unique solution, namely $x=y=\frac{1}{2}$, while the system
$$
\begin{array}{lcl}
x & \geq & y \\
x + y & \leq & 1 \\
x + y & \geq & 1
\end{array}
$$
has infinitely many solutions. Is there a away to find out how many solutions a system of linear inequalities has, if any?

A: As @Milten noted in the comments, the number of solutions to a system of linear inequalities (over $\mathbb{R}$) may only be $0,1$ or infinite. This is because of convexity: if $v,w$ are two solutions, then $\alpha v + (1-\alpha)w$ is a solution for any $0 \leq \alpha \leq 1$, and for $v \neq w$ this gives an infinite number of solutions. This means that you only need to find two distinct solutions to decide whether there is an infinite number of them.
As you say, linear programming can be used to decide whether there is any solution, but with a bit more work it can also tell you whether there are multiple solutions or just one. Heuristically, you can use linear programming to maximize a random objective function $c\cdot x$ over the feasible region; one would expect that if the feasible region has more than one points then with high probability you would obtain multiple solutions. Granted, this is just a heuristic, but for practical purposes it should be good enough. (See also this answer.)
For an honest polynomial-time algorithm to decide whether the solution is unique you may want to take a look at this article, in which the authors reduce the problem of deciding uniqueness to finding the solution to another linear program. The article also contains a survey of previous results on this problem. Sadly, all the (legal) links I could find to the article are paywalled. If you would like to, I can describe their solution in more detail.
Finally, I would just like to note that in general you "can't avoid" linear programming in the sense that deciding whether there is at least one solution to a linear program is almost as difficult as finding an optimal solution. This is true in the sense that if you can decide whether there is a solution, then you can use a binary search-like algorithm to find an optimal solution in reasonable time.

A: The techniques for solving systems of linear inequalities differ from those for linear equations because the inequality signs do not allow us to perform substitution as we do with equations. Many of the concepts we learned when studying systems of linear equations translate to solving a system of linear inequalities, but the process can be somewhat difficult. Perhaps the most lucid way to simultaneously solve a set of linear inequalities is through the use of graphs. The solution to the system is all the points that satisfy both inequalities or the region in which the shading overlaps. A system of linear inequalities in two variables consists of at least two linear inequalities in the same variables. It involves several expressions that, when solved, may yield a range of solutions. The solution of a linear inequality is the ordered pair that is a solution to all inequalities in the system. For a system of linear inequalities, there is only one solution set which can contain any number of solutions, or no solution.
To find the number of solution sets, we use the graphical representation of the inequalities, and shades in the values which satisfy each separate inequality. By visually representing the potential values of each one, we shall quickly notice if there be an overlap. Wherever the shading overlaps, it is said to be the solution set for the system.  If they do not overlap, there is no solution to the system. For example, consider two parallel lines. If the solution to one are the values above the line, and the solution to the other one are the values below the other line, there is no intersection and therefore there is also no solution to the system.
The following links (and the links therein) may give the idea of some algorithm to solve the linear inequality. Algorithm for finding integer solutions for linear inequalities
Solving a system of linear inequalities — what is the dimension of the solution set?

A: Firstly, let us present the inequality system in the unified form.
For example,
\begin{cases}
-x+y\ge 0\\
x-y\ge 0\\
-x-y+1\ge0\\
x+y-1\ge0\\
x+3y-2\ge0,\tag1
\end{cases}
$$L_k(x,y,1)\ge 0, \quad k=1,2,\dots,5.$$
Easily to see, that

*

*$L_1+L_2=0,\;$ i.e. the sum of non-negative values equals to zero. Then should $L_1=L_2=0.\;$ Therefore, we have the equation instead the pair of the inequalities.

*Similarly $L_3+L_4=0,\;\Rightarrow\;L_3=L_4=0.$

*$L_2+2L_3+L_5 = 0,\;$i.e. the positive linear combination of non-negative values equals to zero. Then should overdefined $L_2=L_3=L_5 =0,$ and really we have two independent equalities instead of three inequalities.

*$L_5 =L_1+2L_4,\;$ i.e. inequality $(1.5)$ follows from the pair $(1.1),(1.4)$ and can be eliminated.

Finally, we have the system $\;L_1=L_3=0,\;$ with the rank $2$ and the single solution.
In the common case, the Jordan algorithm can be applied additionally. Finally, this leads to the inequality system for 'independent'  unknowns and the set of the linear functions for the others.
Since the system $(1)$ is presented in the homogenius form, then solutions can exist only if its matrix has rank $2$ or less, and any three expressions $\;L_k\;$are linearly dependent. The similar situation takes place also in the common case.


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7DAYS EuroCup Round 2 game Olimpija-Bursaspor will not take place
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The 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season Round 2 game between Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana and Frutti Extra Bursaspor that was scheduled to be played on Wednesday, October 7 at 18:30 CEST will not take place due to the requirement of the National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia for the entire team to remain in quarantine, as they have been since last Sunday, October 4.
A procedure has been opened that will be evaluated by the Disciplinary Judge who will take a decision in due course in accordance with the 2020–21 Euroleague Basketball Special Regulations due to COVID-19.
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Frutti Extra Bursaspor appointed Dusan Alimpijevic as a new head coach for the remainder of this season, replacing Tutku Acik who split up with the team earlier this week.


THE National Broadcasting and Telecom Commission (NBTC) has sought an urgent meeting with executives of TrueMove H, one of the country's three major mobile phone operators, to question a probable massive leak of customers' personal data.
The likely leak, including individuals' ID cards and passport numbers, was first reported by Blognone, an online technology news service, when Niall Merrigan, a cyber-security researcher, said he had found the data under the folder name of Truemoveh/idcard with unrestricted access on the cloud storage facility of Amazon Web Service.
The 32-gigabyte folder contained multiple years of personal data of TrueMove H's customers in Thailand, including those from 2016 (14.5 gigabytes), 2017 (8.3 gigabytes) and 2018 (2.2 gigabytes).
The folder shows a large quantity of personal ID card data, including photos and 13-digit numbers that were apparently used when customers first signed up with TrueMove H. The passport details of foreign customers in Thailand was in the folder, too. Due to its unrestricted access on the cloud-based data storage facility, such a massive data could be abused by unscrupulous people, affecting a large number of people in Thailand.
TrueMove responded to Merrigan's alert on the possible data leak on Tuesday and managed to restrict access to the folder which stored its customers' private data.
Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of NBTC, said TrueMove H must explain during the April 17 meeting with the regulatory agency what happened to its customers' personal data. There was a risk that a large number of individuals' private ID card data could have been compromised due to it being stored in an unsecured way, he said.
According to Takorn, violators of the data privacy and related laws are subject to punishment and the regulatory agency is empowered to revoke the licenses of mobile phone operators if they are found to be guilty of intentionally leaking personal data.
However, NBTC will hear from TrueMove H before making its decision on this issue. Takorn said the security of personal data was very important to NBTC, which had a duty to protect the public interest in relation to mobile phone services.
This latest incident was reported to have occurred some time ago and it took the Thai firm more than a month to respond to Merrigan's alert, which was posted on social media in early March, according to Blognone.
TrueMove H said it was investigating the issue and its causes but the access to the folder containing customers' personal data was no longer accessible to unauthorised people.


Gelcoat Getting Scratched By Carpeted Bunk Cross Member?
Thread: Gelcoat Getting Scratched By Carpeted Bunk Cross Member?
I have an 06 Sportster with the Karavan trailer it came with. I noticed my gelcoat is getting scratched on the lower part of the keel by the small carpeted crossmember on my trailer. Has anybody got rid of the cross member and installed a rubber roller instead? Any info or pics of your roller would be a great help.
I did not get a roller, but I did buy a rubber keel guard which screws down to that bunk. Although I have not put it on yet, it appears it will do the job. It may leave a gray mark on the hull, but I figured it would come off rather than having the large scrapes on there from the stupid carpet/wood. I got it from Overton's but I believe Boaters World or the like would have it. It was about $10.
Man falls off WaveRunner, gets Attacked by Shark!
Ive got the F'n flu... anyone else get whacked by this?
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Q: Rails root permalink routing In Rails, the standard routing to objects is nested to a Model's name, example.com/model/object_id.
Is it anyhow possible to access objects without the Model part, so example.com/object_id shadowly accesses example.com/model/object_id?

A: Rails includes routes like you said. You can add constraints to determine object_id is integer or string.
get '/:id', to: 'articles#show', constraints: { id: /^\d/ }

This is for more information about routes constraint.

A: What you are first describing are the RESTful routes provided by the resources template in the rails router.
You can define different routes in the config/routes.rb file.
And for resources, you can provide a path option, where you can define a path.
resources :models, path: "/"

Will provide models resources at the route path. So a GET request to "/" would fire the "models#index" action and "/1/edit" would delegate to "models#edit"


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Modules/Sculpt-Paint-Texture
< Modules
Notes and documentation about the Sculpt-Paint & Texture module.
Future Projects: Bigger projects and opportunities to work on next, or define further.
Code Documentation: Get started with the source code of the module.
Get Involved: Info on contributing with code patches, documentation, education content & feedback.
Weak Areas: Known issues and problems that aren't currently in discussion.
Retrieved from "https://wiki.blender.org/w/index.php?title=Modules/Sculpt-Paint-Texture&oldid=33041"


A romantic comedy drama about a drama writer wannabe Park Ji Ho (Lee Tae Im) who becomes an expert in relationship advice and transforms loser Oh Geun Baek (Oh Chang Suk) into a winner.
I like romance comedy drama.
Where can I watch this drama?…. I can't watch this drama in myasiantv or dramanice website….
I have been watching this drama since yesterday and now I have just finished watching episode 4 , sometimes funny and sometimes not very funny. Although, the episodes am watching with no sub-title and since I understand the Korean language. I will continue to watch it with no sub-title because some dramas they will never want to have sub-title. For example , My Mother is my daughter in law and Tomorrow Victory these dramas , I can never find sub title and in the end I still watch the drama.


Originally intended to remain in place for the millennium year only, the compass roses were never formally removed. Their current condition varies considerably from mark to mark. By 2017, roughly 40% of them were no longer in existence. Of the remainder, none were complete, but one or two showed only small signs of wear. At the other extreme, some were so heavily worn that they consisted of little more than a smudge of yellow and blue. This particular marking is thought to be the only one that was not on a public highway. It was lost in about 2014 when the playground was resurfaced following the completion of building works.


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package edu.sampleu.demo.course;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.kuali.rice.core.api.util.type.KualiDecimal;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.web.controller.UifControllerBase;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.web.form.UifFormBase;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

/**
 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
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@Controller
@RequestMapping(value = "/courseOffering")
public class CourseOfferingController extends UifControllerBase {

    /**
     * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.web.controller.UifControllerBase#createInitialForm(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest)
     */
    @Override
    protected CourseOfferingForm createInitialForm(HttpServletRequest request) {
        return new CourseOfferingForm();
    }

    /**
     * Populate some data for demonstration
     */
    @Override
    @RequestMapping(params = "methodToCall=start")
    public ModelAndView start(@ModelAttribute("KualiForm") UifFormBase form, BindingResult result,
            HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {

        Course course = new Course();
        course.setSubjectId("CTWR");
        course.setNumber("437");
        course.setTitle("Writing the Situation Comedy Pilot");
        course.setActivityType("Lecture");
        course.setMinCredits(2);
        course.setMaxCredits(4);
        course.setGradingOptions("A-F");
        course.setTranscriptTitle("Filmwriting");
        course.setFee(new KualiDecimal(25));
        course.setOfferingStatus("Active");

        CourseSection section = new CourseSection();
        section.setSection("001");
        section.setRegistrationId("12345");

        CourseInstructor instructor = new CourseInstructor();
        instructor.setAffiliation("I");
        instructor.setName("Dr. Neal");
        section.getInstructors().add(instructor);

        CourseInstructor instructor2 = new CourseInstructor();
        instructor2.setAffiliation("I");
        instructor2.setName("Dr. Smith");
        section.getInstructors().add(instructor2);

        section.setTerm("Su");

        Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(2009, 10, 14);
        section.setStartDate(calendar.getTime());

        Calendar endCalendar = new GregorianCalendar(2010, 5, 14);
        section.setEndDate(endCalendar.getTime());

        section.setStandardMeetingSchedule("A");
        section.setStandardMeetingTime("A");
        section.setAttendanceType("PA");

        section.setBuilding("Adams");
        section.setRoom("100");

        section.setCourse(course);
        course.getSections().add(section);

        ((CourseOfferingForm) form).setCourseSection(section);

        return super.start(form, result, request, response);
    }
}

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NY Mets: 19 thoughts after their first 19 games of the 2021 season
Justin Toscano
MLB Writer
NEW YORK — The Mets have struggled offensively this season, but are 9-10.
It certainly could be worse.
Now they'll head on a two-city road trip (Philadelphia, St. Louis).
Here are 19 thoughts on the Mets after their first 19 games:
1. Jacob deGrom is, as Brandon Nimmo said after deGrom's two-hitter, from a different planet. Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden are the Mets' most famous pitchers historically. I never got to see them play live, which is why it's surreal to hear fans — those who did get to see them live — marvel at deGrom. He will probably be someone I tell my grandkids about in the future.
2. Let's be clear: I don't actually believe the 2021 Mets' lineup will struggle all year. It's got to even out — or at least that's what I keep telling myself. Too much talent, too much depth. But it's been a rather concerning start.
3. The issues with runners in scoring position is something that must change. The Mets can't be at their best without that. Even worse is what happened against the Red Sox: The Mets didn't create many scoring opportunities.
4. Francisco Lindor will be fine. He's a star for a reason. He understood why fans booed him on Tuesday night, but he'll provide plenty of moments that'll make fans cheer. He already has on defense, but here's a guess that some plate production will come soon.
5. Is the bullpen getting enough love? Edwin Diaz, Miguel Castro, Trevor May and Jeurys Familia have sub-3 ERAs. When that many key members of your bullpen are pitching well, you're going to be in games.
6. The Mets are also in a decent position because of incredible starting pitching. As their offense has lagged through the first month, the starters have propped up the lineup with quality outings. If you watched the 2020 Mets, you know this is a big difference from last season.
7. So I've naturally been thinking since spring training: What will this rotation be like with Carlos Carrasco and Noah Syndergaard? It could be a gauntlet for opponents. But I guess if you're the Mets, you never count your chickens before they hatch (or whatever that saying is).
8. Luis Rojas was ejected for the first time in his career during the Cubs series! As someone who covers him, I wasn't sure the day would ever come (I'm only half-joking). He's so calm, cool and collected, but the players loved seeing that fire out of him.
9. It's so nice having fans back.
10. Seriously. I mean it. From the cheers to the boos to the funny plays in the stands on foul balls, the in-game atmosphere is much better this season. Let's never have a year without fans again. Sound good?
11. Are the Mets a better defensive team than in years past? I fluctuate between thinking they are and are not. Let me explain.
12. They're clearly stronger up the middle. Lindor is better than Amed Rosario and James McCann is better than Wilson Ramos. The Mets believe Brandon Nimmo has improved in center field (My eye test says he has improved a bit, but it's been a small sample size). But being stronger up the middle usually means being better defensively, right?
13. The Mets have made a few highlight plays in the field. They've also executed a couple nice relays to get outs and save runs. But then they've had games like the one in Chicago — you know what I'm talking about — when they just seem inept. Defensively, they've made every type of mistake under the sun to this point.
14. But somehow I come back to thinking they'll end up being better defensively than in years past.
15. Speaking of defense, you might have noticed the Mets have been well-positioned in their shifts to snag some hard liners and scoop up some ground balls. Rojas lauded the baseball analytics department, led by Ben Zauzmer, for the improved positioning. They've done this using new formulas.
16. The above note is just one example of the increased analytics presence in the organization. The Mets beefing up that area should help them now and in the future. It's provided them a better infrastructure as they look to become a sustainable winner.
17. I had this team winning the NL East with 98 victories. I'm still confident the Mets will win the division, but I'm not feeling great about my 98-win prediction.
18. "Winning takes precedence over all," the late Kobe Bryant once said. "There's no gray area. No almosts."
19. This team, with baseball's richest owner and a talented roster, will have no excuses if it doesn't make a postseason run. Expectations are high.
Justin Toscano is the Mets beat writer for NorthJersey.com. For unlimited access to all Mets analysis, news, trades and more, please subscribe today and download our app.
Email: toscanoj@northjersey.com
Twitter: @justinctoscano


INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — J.R. Smith barely has as an inch of skin not covered by tattoos, offering a colorful timeline of the enigmatic Cleveland shooting guard's life.
Some of the markings are personal: portraits on his chest of his mom and Jesus, an NBA logo on his ring finger and an interlocking NY on his neck. The tattoos help define him, but he's also been tagged with some labels he didn't seek.
Almost from the moment he broke in with New Orleans in 2004, Smith has been branded as selfish, difficult and moody. Not the guy you want on your team. Several off-the-court issues, including suspensions, arrests and a tragic auto accident in 2007 that killed his friend, only heightened Smith's profile as a troublemaker.
The Cavs, though, have experienced a very different Smith. Since arriving in a trade from New York in January along with Iman Shumpert, Smith has been everything Cleveland could have hoped — one of the league's best 3-point shooters and a consummate pro.
Smith's in a good place, one which has given him a rebirth of sorts. He knows the outside perception of him isn't good, but he's only worried about what he means to those in his inner circle — family, friends and teammates.
He says he didn't change when he got to Ohio, even though his reputation beat him to Cleveland. He easily adapted to an area much more like his suburban New Jersey roots than Manhattan.
Smith said he and Shumpert frequently talk about their Knicks days.
Other than the restaurants, he doesn't miss New York.
"This feels more like home," he said.
Smith's lone misstep so far in Cleveland came during a rough series finale in Boston. Caught in a shoving match under the basket, he threw a backhanded fist that connected with Jae Crowder's face. Smith drew a two-game suspension, and sat out Games 1 and 2 against the Bulls.
And while the penalty prompted some same-old-J.R. comments, he and the Cavs quickly moved past it. Smith came off the bench and hit several big shots as Cleveland eliminated Chicago, and the Cavs are counting on him to offset Atlanta's firepower.
On the floor, Smith gives James another arrow for his quiver, an outside shooter who can spot up from anywhere. Off the court, they also have a strong connection.
Smith and James have known each other since high school, and the 30-year-old's friendship has grown in the few months they've been teammates. Several times during this postseason run, the two have gone to morning shootarounds together, ahead of the rest of the Cavaliers. James has helped Smith find a rhythm.
Smith has embraced playing with James and this chance, maybe his best one to win an NBA title.


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Art Talk
WWII Tragedy Turned This Doctor into an Artist
Hosted by Edward Goldman Sep. 21, 2010 Arts
When I mentioned in last week's program, The Best of 9/11, the captivating exhibition of Italian artist Alberto Burri currently on display at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, I was still ignorant of the most important and dramatic experience of his life. While serving as a physician in the Italian army in North Africa, he was captured in 1943 by American troops and then imprisoned for three years at a POW camp in Texas.
Now, after attending last week's lecture at the museum about the fate of nearly 50,000 Italian POW's held in the United States and reading exhibition catalog essays, I'm seeing the artworks of Alberto Burri - which I liked even before I knew the whole story - in a completely new light. His choices, especially for the early abstract collages, were often limited to decidedly unglamorous materials: burlap, bark, corrugated cardboard, sheet metal, and crushed pumice stone. Initially, I thought about these choices as purely aesthetic ones, in which he courageously rejected traditionally accepted materials and techniques. Now I know better.
Strange as it sounds, the dramatic and painful experience of being a POW in an American camp became a catalyst for change, transforming this young Italian physician into an artist whose first works were made while he was still imprisoned. With this knowledge, I look at the humble materials of his early works and I see the deprivation of his life during those years. But it's amazing what he does with all that, and how, with these limited materials, he achieves such a rich variety of dramatic effects in his art, both in composition and texture.
No Hollywood screenwriter could come up with a storyline as utterly improbable as that of Alberto Burri: a young Italian doctor, a member of the Fascist Party, a prisoner of war in an American camp in a remote area of Texas. To my astonishment, I learned that Italian POW's in America had an easier time than their German and Japanese counterparts; they played soccer, grew Italian-style vegetable gardens, cooked Italian food, built religious altars, and interacted with local Italian-American communities. After the 1943 armistice between Italy and the U.S., most Italian POWs chose to swear allegiance to the allied forces, but Burri was not among them. Throughout his life, the artist remained extremely reticent about the details of his wartime experience and years of imprisonment. It's up to us viewers to interpret the aesthetic choices made by the artist and perceive in them the echo of his personal turmoil and deprivation.
Just imagine that without all the above, he would have become - with all due respect - just a respected provincial doctor, and the history of Italian post WWII art would be deprived of the crucial impact he had on it, along with another precursor of the famous Arte Povera movement, Lucio Fontana. The trajectory of Alberto Burri's life reminds me of the words of wisdom I once heard from a very old and very wise man - that life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% what you make of it. If you need additional proof of that, take a walk through the sculpture garden on the campus of UCLA and find the monumental black ceramic wall designed by Burri to the most somber and theatrical effect. Here's a conundrum for you: in this excellent work made in 1977, you can still see the parched, cracked soil of the Texas prairie where thirty years earlier, he was just one of thousands of Italian prisoners of war.
Combustione: Alberto Burri and America
On view at the Santa Monica Museum of Art through December 18
Banner image: Installation view, Combustione: Alberto Burri and America, 2010; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Photo by Kelly Barrie
Edward Goldman
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AOC Suggests We Need to Fight 'White Supremacy' to Combat Climate Change
By Tyler O'Neil 2019-11-11T09:47:56
On Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claimed that fighting "white supremacy" is a fundamental part of combatting climate change. She also attacked "consultants" who would encourage climate activists to focus on solar panels more than social justice.
"The way we inoculate ourselves from continuing to burn up our planet at unsustainable level, triggering feedback loops that we have not even begun to comprehend, is by honoring indigenous wisdom and allowing it to guide our climate policy. The way that we preserve our systems is by transitioning to principles of universality. That means I want you clothed, I want you educated, I want you paid a living wage, no ifs ands or buts. And what that also means — and what Naomi talked about as well — is directly, consciously, combatting white supremacy in the United States of America," AOC declared.
She was referring to Naomi Klein, a Canadian activist who had spoken just before her. Klein had been more explicit. She spoke about "two fires": climate change and the divisive conservative politicians like President Donald Trump who champion an "in-group" over an "out-group." She accused Trump of dividing America with "white supremacy."
"At this moment when the climate crisis becomes impossible to deny ... at this very moment these figures who are so expert at the art of spreading division" are rising, she said. "I believe that we all know on the cellular level that there's something deeply wrong with our common home," and she accused the right of exploiting that fear with the message, "We will protect you against the other."
"Do we think it is a coincidence that these two fires are raging at the exact same time? And as these strongmen turn their populations against each other, that frees them up for the real business at hand which is pillaging the" earth. "We cannot win this fight without battling white supremacy."
Speaking at a rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate AOC had endorsed, the congresswoman recalled strategizing about her central policy proposal, the Green New Deal. She said her team planned to launch it not just to fight the alleged catastrophe of climate change but also to help "communities that were left behind."
AOC went on to chide consultants who encouraged her to focus on the technological solutions to the alleged climate crisis, rather than tying climate into her identity politics message.
"Just worry about solar panels, leave the social justice stuff behind," the congresswoman summarized. "Race makes everything complicated." She dismissed this advice as wrong-headed.
As a practical matter, Ocasio-Cortez is entirely wrong. Even if climate change were a catastrophic threat, fighting "white supremacy" would have a negligible impact on the environment. AOC has the uncanny ability to see "white supremacy" behind everything from the tea party movement to The New York Times. In this case, she seems to interpret "white supremacy" as anti-immigrant terrorists like the El Paso shooter.
Terrorism in all its forms should be condemned, and true white supremacy — the doctrine that white people are inherently superior to other racial groups and should rule over them — should also be unequivocally condemned. However, AOC uses "white supremacy" as a catch-all term to describe her political opponents and to connect them with racism and terrorism. This disgusting tactic has everything to do with taking power and nothing to do with saving the environment.
As for the environment, predictions of climate catastrophe — extreme cold, extreme heat, glaciers melting, cities underwater — have failed to come to pass. In one of the most embarrassing examples, alarmists predicted that The Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean would sink beneath the waves in 2018 — and the islands are still there. In fact, they have actually grown in recent years!
AOC's Green New Deal is a fantasy. Taxing the rich at 100 percent would not even come close to footing the bill for the Green New Deal and Medicare for All, according to a Heritage Foundation study. The $48 trillion or $93 trillion price tags aside, AOC's attempt to remake the American economy in her social justice and climate alarmist image is not possible. If Ocasio-Cortez were serious about fighting climate change, she would talk more about nuclear energy and less about restricting the entire economy, let alone "white supremacy."
Follow Tyler O'Neil, the author of this article, on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
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Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Stripsgiving
Spice up your night the second Tuesday of each month with 10 amazing acts for only $10 at Tease Tuesday Burlesque! See some of the best performers in Atlanta and some amazing new up and coming acts as well! Burlesque, Singers, Acrobats, Jugglers, Aerialists... you never know what's gonna pop up in these Tuesday night shows! And don't worry, we'll be done before midnight since it's a school night!
$10 Adv – $15 Door
Doors @ 8 PM (ages 18+)
Join the Facebook Event
Burlesque is the art of the striptease, with a focus on the tease. The performers occasionally strip to pasties, but there is no nudity in any of our productions. This show is a revival of an American art form that has become an international movement.
There's also a raffle to benefit Southern Fried Burlesque Fest. The raffle is $5 per ticket or 3 for $10! Prizes for the raffle include SFBF items, coffee, autographed pictures, and other amazing items!
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Syrens of the South on Facebook
Southern Fried Burlesque Fest Official Site
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A successful failure: Russia after Crime(a)
Barbashin, Anton
Irisova, Olga
Burkhardt, Fabian
Wyciszkiewicz, Ernest
Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding
Russia has become a very different country since it annexed Crimea three years ago. By breaching international law, its relations with the West are now fraught with tension, even in areas where there was once hope of cooperation. In a bid to reduce its dependence on Europe, Russia has touted its piv... view more
Russia has become a very different country since it annexed Crimea three years ago. By breaching international law, its relations with the West are now fraught with tension, even in areas where there was once hope of cooperation. In a bid to reduce its dependence on Europe, Russia has touted its pivot to Asia and its Eurasian Economic Union, but those wheels have been slow to turn. Inside the country, three years of economic stagnation have followed that historic takeover of 2014. Sanctions are biting, and so are low global oil prices. Within the government bureaucracy itself, power struggles are underway: new ideologies and new faces are jostling for prominence. The aim of this book is to provide an analysis of these trends providing a road map for anyone seeking to understand the workings of "post-Crimean" Russia. It includes studies of Russia-West relations, the role of sanctions, Western policy towards Ukraine, anti-Americanism, Russia's military doctrine, the fate of its army's modernization plans, migration, the increasing "weaponization" of history, and the government's attempts to build a new "Crimean consensus" with Russian society, a reworked social contract emphasizing traditional values and a vastly different understanding of human rights to that in the West.... view less
EU; international relations; foreign policy; coup d'etat; Western world; value-orientation; Russia; Ukraine; NATO; eastwards expansion; non-intervention; military doctrine; geopolitics; political development; United States of America; economic sanction; contrat social; political sanction; military; law of nations; domestic policy; annexation
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Eurasische Union; Krim
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Dont get any ideas with tattoo and girl, or the dragon 🙂 The original title of the Swedish book/movie – Män som hatar kvinnor – is a spoiler, so it's good they changed the name for the worldwide release.
The main story is about a middle aged investigative journalist hired to probe a disappearance that happened 40 years ago. The parallel track is about the punk girl who helps in the search. And how they make unlikely partners during the detective journey. But the real story is about the darkness surrounding each character. The mystery is exceptionally well handled till the can-figure-out point. Then it slips a bit into the clichéd genres, but thankfully doesn't follow the beaten path to the end.
Enhancement to some of the sub-plots may look unnecessary on hindsight. But I am told that the novel is written that way. Some of the scenes are not for the weak hearted, but the movie is a must watch (8/10)
Movie is the story of a retired attorney from the homicide division in Argentina. Divorced, living alone with nothing much to do, he is contemplating writing a novel. And decides to base it on a 25 year old murder mystery that has haunted him since.
The movie is the interwoven story with a backdrop of murder, about his revisiting the past, meeting those people now and trying to find clarity with the hindsight. He explores and discovers layers that were fearfully left untouched. Depicted in a scene is where a phrase that came up in the dream, TEMO (i fear), changes with one stroke to TE-AMO (i love you).
The mainline story is brilliant for most parts, but perhaps too easy for the Lynch fans. But the real movie is about the other stories. The movie won the best foriegn language Oscars, pushing out some of the favourites. And I think they got it right this time. Must watch. (9/10)
Efter Brylluppet (or After The Wedding)
Jacob, Dutch, works with an orphanage in Mumbai. A prospective donor, a millionaire calls him to Netherlands to discuss funds for the project. The rich man wants to know more about the project but is busy with his daughter's marriage. He invites Jacob to the wedding. Jacob reluctantly agrees.
At the wedding, Jacob runs into someone from his past that brings out a big family secret which threatens to shake everyone's world. After the wedding, he is torn between his love for orphanage (and his adopted son there) and call of duty. Movie is all about his situations, decisions and reasons.
Brilliant acting by everyone – Jacob, the millionaire, his wife and especially the daughter, absolutely fantastic. The cinematography method of extreme closeup to get deeper emotions from people's faces was sometimes jarring and definitely flow breaking, but works great. It has some clichéd moments, but the movie is a short workshop on how to build a scene, the players, situation, dialogues and its impact on story.
Loved it. (9/10)
Marty seems to have lost it in a 'yeah-i-got-it-all-so-why-care' spell of film making in Shutter Island. It begins like a typical period thriller, but once some facts are established, it turns into a very juvenile (and very predictable) storyline like Identity, or Hide and Seek.
Some unnecessary loud score, characters, and sub plots – all make the movie jarring, confusing, tiring and artificially complex. All to fizzle out at the end. Direction is good, so is acting – a brilliant De Caprio as usual, but even for Scorcese fans, the advice will be to stay away. But for others, it might just bend the genre. (2/5)
3 idiots, or is it more?
February 5, 2010 July 23, 2020
Finally after so much pressure from everyone (must watch/ you dont know what you are missing/ i was born to watch this movie), I watched 3 idiots yesterday. yes, it's fun, and has some really good moments. The casting was spot on, outstanding. But in summary, what stood out was all the unnecessary stuff, like a sore thumb.
Many of the sequences would have done with better context building. The revengeful comic friend comes back to campus and calls everyone to meet, OK so far. And within minutes, they are on a long journey. And the day also is the very same day where friend's father dies, and also another friend's marriage. And the group finds the latter out late, but take a detour and manage to spoil the wedding and then go find the lost friend. Too much of a coincidence. And all their destinations finally end at the super friend. All in a day/trip? Too much to handle.
Many jokes are slapstick. Many interludes/ sub plots of Joy, pregnant sister, the sudden change of character of mother, surprise at interval, and cliched family scenes etc are misfits or under developed. Some of the jokes actually spoil the moments. The baby birth scene was sheer trash. Thankfully, Kareena has only 5-6 scenes.
In short, it isnt path breaking, rather it is far from perfect. Why do the directors always have to tie all the loose ends and complete the story to a full circle? Perhaps they think that the audience is stupid, in this case, idiots. How many, is the only question.
Oscar Round-up
A quick round up of Oscar nominated movies, FWIW.
The Hurt Locker:
The opening of the movie is a very shaky low-fi footage from robotic camera, giving it an ordinary documentary feel. But from the moment the first bomb went off, in what would be the signature shot of the movie – super slomo, the movie was so engrossing that one forgot about everything else. The creeping tension – for even scenes with 2 dialogues and no action lasting several minutes, is of high quality. When any day can be the last day of your life, people become edgy/ careless, and bare out their dark sides – "he is trying to be a hero, but is being stupid. he will get us all killed. why dont we just kill him? accidents happen all the time" or the reckless sides, removing protective gear while trying to diffuse a car bomb saying "there is enough powder here to send us all to jesus, so i might as well go in comfort" etc.
Choosing the cereal scene, and the completely unexpected, totally genuine 'lessons-for-life' to the infant about keeping passions in life, leading to the end of the movie is just brilliant. It may not win Best Picture or Director due to other popular entries, but the movie is a lesson on how to write a screenplay. And certainly can win the original screenplay category. Or if the academy grows some sense before voting, best director as well. It was pleasing to see Renner getting a best actor nomination for an unpolished, true to the last bit performance. Intense, and a must watch.
Up in the Air:
It is impossible to imagine anyone other that Clooney playing the role of Ryan Bingham. What Tom Cruise used to do, or what Brad Pitt tried, Clooney has just mastered (from Ocean's 11 to Michael Clayton and now Up in the Air). He takes to these cool, savvy, suit-clad, tongue in cheek, 40-something characters like a duck to water.
Up in the Air is about a professional who makes a living out of firing people, and always on the move, up in the air. Since he is a frequent traveller, he keeps his luggage and life very light ("last year I travelled for 322 days of the year, which meant that I spent 43 miserable days at home", or "if life is a backpack, and it is on fire, what would you save from it?"). His seemingly shallow world is seemingly rocked when technology tends to take his job. Excellent supporting cast as well – both supporting actresses got nominated, along with script (probably win as well) and direction. The best part about the movie is that it doesnt do an oh-so-predictable "Jerry Maguire" all-izz-well-ending and embrace reality. Must watch.
The Blind Side:
Certainly not a best picture candidate, and will pale away in front of a Hurt Locker, or without Sandra Bullock. Frankly, I am not a fan of Bullock. Somehow her on screen presence always irritated me, regardless of the role (Chris Waltz's SS Colonel in Inglorious B was irritating, or if someone recall the preachy lady from The Mist, but those are written so). Take Urmila; she was good in Rangeela, and that's it. Or like Aishwarya Rai in Hum Dil De Chuke and nothing else.
Anyways, Sandra Bullock's only other watchable movies – for me – were Speed and Crash, both for entirely different reasons. And I will go on one limb and say that this movie is watchable just for Sandra Bullock's acting. She was amazing. It could be because so much was stacked against her, that we get very very pleasantly surprised by her performance in this movie – about a white family fostering a black boy and supports him on his way to big leagues. Will she win? Possibly, due to sentiments.
An Education:
If somebody can stop Sandra Bullock from winning the best actress, it will be Carey Mulligan. The fact that she is unknown or it is a less known British movie doesnt help her, but she was outstanding in the most fresh coming of age movie in a long time. And without doubt some of the best dialogues written for a movie after last year's Doubt. The movie is all about Carey, a 16 year old school girl in mid 60's in a convent in England and about her 'hands-on' education of life. The ending is one of the most intriguing one in recent times, without looking to complete the entire circle – a good sign of believing in the imaginative capabilities of the audience. Studios cannot do such a thing, only a British indy can.
District 9:
Most original alien movie in 30 years since Ridley Scot's Alien. Must watch for excellent script, subtle undertones and realistic movie making (unheard of in sci-fi; while we are at it, let me also recommend Moon, another brilliant sci-fi movie from last year). Must watch, but since it went against the US norms of Alien movies, it has no chance of winning any biggies. Reviewed before.
Up:
Reviewed before, another must watch. Some parts are quite a stretch, but the concept of chasing a dream in a house is certainly the adventure ride of the year. And add to that outstanding, touching music score and some amazing montage on story telling in the beginning of the movie. Coraline (another must watch, somewhat an animated take on Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind) might give it a run, but should win best animated feature.
Inglorious Basterds:
Much has been written about Tarantino's "best master piece" yet, and for many it may have fallen short of the expectations from a QT movie. But given the nomination for lesser movies like Blind Side, I am not surprised Inglorious got a nod into best picture, and best original screenplay.
Havent watched A Serious Man, Precious, or Avatar. I plan to catch on the first two, I am not sure if I want to watch Avatar though.
Bad Lieutenant, Good for Cage
I have been terribly disappointed with the choice of movies a talented actor like Nicolas Cage was making in the past few years; Giving us a bunch of silly, boring (but blockbuster) movies about seeing futures or hunting treasures.
He is back. Though Bad Lieutenant is a bit over the top, I am happy to see glimpses of vintage Cage here. Story is about a cop who is a little on the edge, does drugs/gambling, sort-of corrupt, as title says, bad, investigating murder of a family related to drug pedaling. As one critic called it, unhinged performance from Cage.
Though it might fetch him a nomination or two, since the movie didnt do well at the BO, there are good chances that Cage will go back to the money hunt again. That, I feel, is the real bad part of the movie.
Up and away!
Watched Pixar's UP last night. Brilliant, conceptual, evenly paced adventure with loads of fun. What surprised me was the imaginative script and emotion filled scenes. The timeline of the movie is a little iffy, but the first 15-20 mins, especially the 5 minutes of boy-meets-girl story telling was undoubtedly the best animation sequence I have ever watched. Pixar rules! Must watch
Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
Tarantino claims this movie as his best masterpiece yet; Also cleverly stamping it with the last words in the movie. Given that it took so many rewrites and 7 years for RTM, it better be. But having watched the movie, I must say that the on-the-edge feeling one gets watching PF (or, even Jackie Brown) was missing. Storyline had history stacked up against it, so it was bound to be "tense". I read that this version is about 1/3rd the size of the original script. That probably explains why some of the gaps are too evident, which surprisingly included many of the character developments.
May be it's just me, but I detest film makers using narration to develop the story. Instead of building the character/ story line, this I feel is a short cut way to set premises. Setting a period say, 1941, France, is alright, but I expect more from QT. On the other hand, short interludes works fine. Say, the blip shot of sex with translator was very QT.
Soundtrack is pretty good. Audio/Visual has nothing to complain about. In fact, the DP did a great job. And the German actor who did SS Colonel Landa was brilliant. One actually felt uneasy when the character came on scene. Rest of the casting was alright, just about. Brad was pits. Why Brad? Why not say, William Macy?
Anyways, I feel this movie was hastened up for release. In terms of craft, I would say that this is typical Tarantino. And given the kind of engagements he had after the Kill Bills, I can understand why critics are calling it, the return of the king. Still an 8/10 for me.
Write down all the regular features in a Hollywood alien movie.
Aliens are attacking the world
It's the end of the world soon
Everyone looks up to USA
Americans have the best ideas and put a task force together
Big ticket actors for the BO
Overdose of patriotism, heroism and sacrifice
Billion bucks mind boggling CGI
Finally all aliens are destroyed, America saves the Earth once again
Let's work on a story that is exactly opposite to the standard fair above. Aliens aren't attacking, but they live amongst humans, for a change this is *not* happening in the USA. The actors are fairly unknown, no Michael Bay budget for graphics, the filming is raw and like surveillance footage. Thankfully the hero is forced to fight for it, hence heroism is non existent. The simple (though racist) human nature and politics looks very natural.
The ending, emotionally wrenching, leaves some loose ends untied, involving the audience to stitch the story back. An often used trick to either let the story linger in their minds, or for the, oh, sequel. It works well on both counts.
Easily the most original alien story in 30 years, after Ridley Scott's brilliant Alien. And certainly a must watch!


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'Super 30,' an exhilarating sketch of life and times of mathematician to the poor
Abdul-Mahdi: Relations between Iraq and GCC 'must progress'
Abdul-Mahdi: Relations between Iraq and GCC 'must progress' /node/1484461/saudi-arabia
On the second day of his visit to Saudi Arabia, Abdul-Mahdi met with the secretary general of the GCC, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani in Riyadh. (SPA)
Abdul-Mahdi and Al-Zayani discussed the development of relations between Iraq and GCC countries and issues of mutual interest
Abdul-Mahdi also attended the Saudi-Iraqi Business Forum, which included representatives from large Saudi companies
RIYADH: Relations between Iraq and the Gulf Cooperation Council are important and "must progress, " Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said on Thursday.
On the second day of his visit to Saudi Arabia, Abdul-Mahdi met with the secretary general of the GCC, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani in Riyadh.
Abdul-Mahdi and Al-Zayani discussed the development of relations between Iraq and GCC countries and issues of mutual interest.
"Cooperation and economic relations must progress for the better," Abdul-Mahdi said.
Saudi Arabia and Iraq have agreed to cooperate in security and intelligence matters, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Al-Hakim told Al Arabiya television.
Meanwhile, Abdul-Mahdi also attended the Saudi-Iraqi Business Forum, which included representatives from large Saudi companies.
He also inaugurated an exhibition on Wednesday called "Cities Destroyed by Terrorism" that is showing at the National Museum in Riyadh. The exhibition was organised by the Minister of Culture and the Arab World Institute in Paris.
The Iraqi prime minister arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday for a two-day visit to the Kingdom. He held talks with King Salman on relations between the two countries, and later met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
UPDATE: As he met King Salman, Iraqi PM Adel Abdul-Mahdi stressed that his visit to #SaudiArabia symbolizes the Iraqi government's aim to bolster ties with the Kingdom. https://t.co/kCVPQDvcc2 pic.twitter.com/DZ2ANl2Rr6
— Arab News (@arabnews) April 17, 2019
His visit to the Kingdom "symbolizes the Iraqi government's vision in aiming to bolster ties with the Kingdom in all fields," the Iraqi prime minister said on Facebook.
The two countries signed 13 agreements and memorandums of understanding between their various ministries. The deals covered many areas including energy, education, culture and political consultation.
Topics: Iraqi prime minister adel abdul-mahdi Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani GCC
Iraq and Saudi Arabia sign agreements as King Salman meets PM Abdul-Mahdi
'Cities Destroyed by Terrorism' exhibition opens at National Museum in Riyadh


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How to evaluate an API: Starz
Posted 4 years ago by Steve Mathias
What is an API?
An Application Programming Interface, or API, is a set of commands, utilities, functions, or uniform data access points that allows for programmatic access to a system.
A website-based API is built primarily using a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or Representational State Transfer (REST) interface. While SOAP is common in older applications, new designs favor using a REST API to support simpler programmatic access by returning either XML or JSON. These APIs allow some authenticated read/write access, and almost all of them support some form of unauthenticated read-access to a site. This is useful in the development of sites in AngularJS, other JavaScript libraries, or in the development of native mobile and desktop applications.
As APIs gain popularity and use across the web, Crowd Favorite has been at the forefront. Working with our clients to evaluate, consume, and create custom interfaces; and, supporting the expanding methods by which users interact with our clients' sites and the internet.
Evaluating an API
In anything involving an API, as with any software endeavor, the design phase is critical to the long-term success of the project. During this time, we review given resources for the site and compare that with existing API endpoints and data sources to identify that all of the required data, access, and components are available to meet the needs of the application. In our ongoing work with the Starz Entertainment team, we developed a process through design to evaluate our data sources and communicate our needs and expectations to deliver a high-performance website built against their internal content management system (CMS) using the AngularJS framework.
Review the Application Design
To determine what we required from their API, we first had to review the site design and identify distinct features, including both data and behavior, that were represented in the static designs provided by the client. It's important to focus on cases where similar information may be presented in a variety of formats and to look for cases where similar lists or items are filtered, restricted, or sorted based on user behaviors. In the beginning of the process, we also review components that look the same but display different data so that we can better come up with an architecture that divorces the display of data from the data itself. This requires being able to translate data from different responses into a single, unified format that displays code without relying on the API itself to return all objects with a unified form.\
With the Starz project, some of the more common examples of endpoints include:
Navigation menus
Movies, including genres
Original shows, including their own subsites
Channel schedules
For other projects, such as eCommerce, we might look for other methods and data such as cart, checkout, and billing related endpoints.
During this phase, it is important to also document any data required for features beyond access points. With Starz Entertainment, this included identifying sources for responsive images, client-generated markup and text, and information necessary to link additional resources on given items.
Review Available API Methods
Using documentation provided by the Starz Entertainment team, and by exploring endpoints ourselves, we create a document mapping API endpoints to identify site features. During this time, we identified the methods are supported in the API and the endpoints that provided all of the data needed for that feature.
In the event that any endpoint does not fully and clearly support all of the data and interaction expected of it, we document the requirements that are missed, in detail, and communicate them to the client. The sooner we achieve this, the better chance of success we have on accurately scoping, estimating, and completing the project in a given time.
When possible, it is also to our benefit to document endpoints and data that are not used from the API when developing the application. Sometimes this will result in identifying features that may have been missed, or in other cases, it may allow the API developers to trim some of the code and data which will improve its performance and the performance of our application.
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require 'test_helper'

class SubmissionGroupTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase

  setup do
    @profile = profiles(:dragon_profile_1)
  end

  test "submission image should return a submission image class" do
    sg = SubmissionGroup.create(profile: @profile)
    image = submissions(:dragon_image_1)
    sg.add_submission(image)
    assert sg.submission_image.is_a?(SubmissionImage),
      "submission image was not a submission image"
  end

  test "submission groups should not be able to be added to submission groups" do
    submission_group_1 = SubmissionGroup.create(profile: @profile)
    submission_group_2 = SubmissionGroup.create(profile: @profile)
    submission_group_1.submission_group = submission_group_2
    assert_not submission_group_1.valid?,
      "submission group in another submission group should not be valid"
  end

  test "update attribute should not be able to add a submission group" do
    submission_group_1 = SubmissionGroup.create(profile: @profile)
    submission_group_2 = SubmissionGroup.create(profile: @profile)
    assert_raises SubmissionGroup::SubmissionGroupRecursionError do
      submission_group_1.update_attribute(:submission_group_id, submission_group_2.id)
    end
    submission_group_1.reload
    assert_not submission_group_1.submission_group,
      "a submission group got added to another submission group via update_attribute"
  end

  test "add and remove submission" do
    @submission_group = submissions(:dragon_group_submission_1)
    @submission1 = submissions(:dragon_group_image_1)
    @submission2 = submissions(:dragon_unpublished_image_1)
    @submission3 = submissions(:dragon_unpublished_image_2)

    @submission_group.update_attribute(:published_at, nil)
    @submission1.update_attribute(:published_at, nil)

    @submission_group.add_submission(@submission2)
    @submission_group.add_submission(@submission3)

    assert @submission_group.submissions.include?(@submission1)
    assert @submission_group.submissions.include?(@submission2)
    assert @submission_group.submissions.include?(@submission3)

    @submission_group.remove_submission(@submission1)
    assert_not @submission_group.submissions.include?(@submission1)
    assert @submission_group.submissions.include?(@submission2)
    assert @submission_group.submissions.include?(@submission3)
  end

  test "remove submission should ungroup if only one submission left" do
    @submission_group = submissions(:dragon_group_submission_1)
    @submission1 = submissions(:dragon_group_image_1)
    @submission2 = submissions(:dragon_unpublished_image_1)

    @submission_group.update_attribute(:published_at, nil)
    @submission1.update_attribute(:published_at, nil)

    @submission_group.add_submission(@submission2)

    assert_difference 'SubmissionGroup.count', -1 do
      @submission_group.remove_submission(@submission1)
    end

    assert_nil @submission1.submission_group
    assert_nil @submission2.submission_group
  end
end