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Q: Запрос к API IBM Watson translate с помощью Boost::Asio Имеется шаблон обращения к API переводчика IBM на curl
$ curl -X POST --user "apikey:{apikey}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"text": ["Hello, world.", "How are you?"], "model_id":"en-es"}' \
"{url}/v3/translate?version=2018-05-01"

Пытаюсь сделать запрос в простом консольном приложении на Boost.Asio но не получаю ответа.
Url который выдается для доступа имеет вид: https://api.au-syd.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com/instances/5XXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXXX
Не совсем понимаю как правильно оформить запрос.
При попытке привязки сокета на выданный url
ip::tcp::resolver::query query("https://api.au-syd.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com/instances/5XXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXXX", "443");
Вызывается исключение, я так понимаю этот url надо как то использовать в запросе и пробовал разные варианты но безуспешно.
Строку с api:{key} преобразую в Base64
Весь код:
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/base64_from_binary.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/transform_width.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/insert_linebreaks.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/remove_whitespace.hpp>

#include <boost/asio/ssl.hpp>
#pragma comment(lib,"libcrypto.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "libeay32.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "ssleay32.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "libssl.lib")

using namespace boost::asio;
using namespace boost::archive::iterators;

int main()
{
    typedef insert_linebreaks<base64_from_binary<transform_width<std::string::const_iterator, 6, 8> >, 72 > it_base64_t;
    SSL_library_init();
    SSL_load_error_strings();
    OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms();

    //create socket
    io_service service;
    ssl::context ctx(ssl::context::method::sslv23_client);
    ssl::stream<ip::tcp::socket> sslSocket(service, ctx);
    ip::tcp::resolver resolver(service);
    auto it = resolver.resolve({ "api.au-syd.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.comt", "443" });
    boost::asio::connect(sslSocket.lowest_layer(), it);
    sslSocket.handshake(ssl::stream_base::handshake_type::client);

    //Encode key
    std::string s="apikey:W4XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
    unsigned int writePaddChars = (3 - s.length() % 3) % 3;
    std::string base64(it_base64_t(s.begin()), it_base64_t(s.end()));
    base64.append(writePaddChars, '=');
    std::cout << "Base64 representation: " << base64 << std::endl;

    //format request
    boost::asio::streambuf request;
    std::ostream request_stream(&request);
    std::string data= "{'text': ['Hello, world.', 'How are you?'], 'model_id':'en-es'}\n";
    request_stream  << "POST /instances/56XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/v3/translate?version=2018-05-01 HTTP/1.1\n"
        <<"Host: api.au-syd.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com\n"
        <<"Authorization: Basic "<<base64<<"\n"
        <<"User-Agent: curl/7.71.1\n"
        <<"Accept: */*\n"
        <<"Content-Type: application/json\n"
        <<"Content-Lenght: "<<data.size()<<"\n\n"
        << data;

    //send
    write(sslSocket,request);

    //recive
    size_t read = 0;
    const unsigned int MAX_BUF_LENGTH = 4096;
    std::vector<char> buff(MAX_BUF_LENGTH);
    std::string rcv;
    do
    {
        read = sslSocket.read_some(buffer(buff));
        if (read == -1) {
            std::cout << "ERROR RECV\n";
        }
        else {
            rcv.append(buff.cbegin(), buff.cbegin() + read);
        }
    } while (read == MAX_BUF_LENGTH);
    std::cout << rcv << std::endl;
}

Исправил запрос, теперь идентичен тому что отправляет Curl. Без создания ssl соединение по прежнему сбрасывается. при попытке создать ssl сокет вызывается исключение:

Вызвано исключение по адресу 0x0F93B144 (libssl-1_1.dll) в
ConsoleApplication3.exe: 0xC0000005: нарушение прав доступа при чтении
по адресу 0x0000009C.

A: Спасибо всем за помощь. По итогу получилось сделать запрос с ssl и успешно получить ответ с использованием Boost.Beast
Вот код:
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/base64_from_binary.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/transform_width.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/insert_linebreaks.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/remove_whitespace.hpp>
#include <boost/beast/core.hpp>
#include <boost/beast/http.hpp>
#include <boost/beast/ssl.hpp>
#include <boost/beast/version.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/connect.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/ip/tcp.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/ssl/error.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/ssl/stream.hpp>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <string>

namespace beast = boost::beast; // from <boost/beast.hpp>
namespace http = beast::http;   // from <boost/beast/http.hpp>
namespace net = boost::asio;    // from <boost/asio.hpp>
namespace ssl = net::ssl;       // from <boost/asio/ssl.hpp>
using tcp = net::ip::tcp;       // from <boost/asio/ip/tcp.hpp>

#pragma comment(lib, "libcrypto.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "libssl.lib")

int main()
{
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "Russian");
    typedef boost::archive::iterators::insert_linebreaks<boost::archive::iterators::base64_from_binary<boost::archive::iterators::transform_width<std::string::const_iterator, 6, 8> >, 72 > it_base64_t;
    //Encode key
    std::string s = "apikey:WXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
    unsigned int writePaddChars = (3 - s.length() % 3) % 3;
    std::string base64(it_base64_t(s.begin()), it_base64_t(s.end()));
    base64.append(writePaddChars, '=');
    std::cout << "Base64 representation: " << base64 << std::endl;

#pragma region beast
    try
    {
        // The io_context is required for all I/O
        net::io_context ioc;
        ssl::context ctx(ssl::context::sslv23_client);
        // This holds the root certificate used for verification
        ctx.load_verify_file("rootca.crt");
        // Verify the remote server's certificate
        ctx.set_verify_mode(ssl::verify_none);
        // These objects perform our I/O
        tcp::resolver resolver(ioc);
        beast::ssl_stream<beast::tcp_stream> stream(ioc, ctx);
        // Set SNI Hostname (many hosts need this to handshake successfully)
        if (!SSL_set_tlsext_host_name(stream.native_handle(),"api.au-syd.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com"))
        {
            beast::error_code ec{ static_cast<int>(::ERR_get_error()), net::error::get_ssl_category() };
            throw beast::system_error{ ec };
        }
        // Look up the domain name
        auto const results = resolver.resolve("api.au-syd.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com", "https");
        // Make the connection on the IP address we get from a lookup
        beast::get_lowest_layer(stream).connect(results);
        // Perform the SSL handshake
        stream.handshake(ssl::stream_base::client);
        //format POST request
        std::string data="{\"text\": [\"Hello, world.\", \"How are you?\"], \"model_id\":\"en-ru\"}";
        http::request<http::string_body> req;
        req.method(http::verb::post);
        req.target("/instances/56XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/v3/translate?version=2020-08-11");
        req.version(11);
        req.set(http::field::host, "api.au-syd.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com");
        req.set(http::field::authorization, "Basic "+base64);
        req.set(http::field::user_agent, "curl/7.71.1");
        req.set(http::field::accept, "*/*");
        req.set(http::field::content_type, "application/json");
        req.set(http::field::content_length, data.size());
        req.body()=data;
        req.prepare_payload();
        // Send the HTTP request to the remote host
        http::write(stream, req);
        // This buffer is used for reading and must be persisted
        beast::flat_buffer buffer;
        // Declare a container to hold the response
        http::response<http::dynamic_body> res;
        // Receive the HTTP response
        http::read(stream, buffer, res);
        // Write the message to standard out
        std::cout << res << std::endl;
        // Gracefully close the stream
        beast::error_code ec;
        stream.shutdown(ec);
        if (ec == net::error::eof)
        {
            // Rationale:
            // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25587403/boost-asio-ssl-async-shutdown-always-finishes-with-an-error
            ec = {};
        }
        if (ec)
            throw beast::system_error{ ec };

        // If we get here then the connection is closed gracefully

    }
    catch (std::exception const& e)
    {
        std::cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << std::endl;
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
#pragma endregion beast
}


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IYSSE calls on students in Australia to join the demonstrations in defence of Julian Assange
By the IYSSE (Australia)
The following statement will be mass distributed to thousands of students at university campuses in Sydney and Melbourne over the next three weeks.
Join the rallies in defence of Julian Assange! Oppose the drive to war and dictatorship!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on all students and young people to take part in rallies defending WikiLeaks publisher and Australian citizen Julian Assange in Sydney on March 3 and in Melbourne on March 10.
The IYSSE is co-sponsoring the protests with the Socialist Equality Party (SEP). They will demand that the Australian government use its undeniable diplomatic powers and legal discretion to secure Assange's safe passage to Australia, with a guarantee against extradition to the United States. The rallies will be addressed by SEP and IYSSE speakers. In Sydney, well-known and respected journalist and filmmaker John Pilger will also be speaking.
The defence of Assange is at the cutting edge of the fight against growing authoritarianism and an assault on democratic rights around the world. For the past eight years, the WikiLeaks founder has been subjected to an unprecedented vendetta by the most powerful governments in the world, including the US, Britain and Australia.
Assange has been relentlessly attacked because he played the central role in WikiLeaks' exposure of Washington's illegal intrigues in countries around the world, the war crimes committed in the predatory, US-led invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, vast corporate corruption and the mass surveillance of the population by the intelligence agencies.
Assange carried out the elementary responsibilities of a genuine publisher and journalist. He was forced by state persecution to seek asylum in the small Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he now has lived without direct sunlight or adequate medical care since June 19, 2012—nearly seven years.
Since March 2018, Assange has also been denied internet access and restricted access to visitors, because the Ecuadorian government, under pressure from Washington, has lined up with the campaign against him and is seeking to force him out of the embassy.
If he leaves the building, he will be arrested by the British police to face extradition to the US, where he would be put on a show trial for "espionage" or "conspiracy"—charges that could result in a sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty.
Successive Australian governments have participated in the witch-hunt of Assange. This began when the Greens-backed Labor government of Julia Gillard branded WikiLeaks a criminal organisation in 2010.
Labor is totally committed to the US-Australia military alliance so refused to lift a finger to defend an Australian citizen who had revealed the crimes of both US and Australian imperialism. The Liberal-National Coalition has the same position. Since taking office in 2013, it has fully collaborated with the US and Britain against Assange—under Abbott, Turnbull and now Morrison.
For their part, the Greens, the trade unions, left-liberal journalists and the pseudo-left organisations, such as Socialist Alternative and Socialist Alliance, have all abandoned whatever past protests they made about the treatment of Assange. As the US and Australia are openly trying to provoke conflict with China over economic and strategic dominance of Asia, they have all lined up with the ruling class and repudiated any support for a persecuted publisher who exposes and opposes militarism.
The ruling elites and their defenders particularly hate Assange because of the contribution WikiLeaks has made to the politicisation of young people.
At the end of 2010, hundreds of thousands of youth took part in the protests that toppled the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia, in what the US Foreign Policy journal nervously labelled the first "WikiLeaks Revolution." Cables published by WikiLeaks had exposed the corruption of the regime and its close ties to the US. Weeks later, Egyptian youth and workers rose up and overthrew the Mubarak regime in Egypt, also influenced by information published by WikiLeaks.
That is why so much effort has been devoted to slandering Assange and trying to discredit him.
All those who refuse to defend Assange justify their position on the basis of claims that have been thoroughly exposed as lies. The Swedish "investigation" into supposed sexual misconduct allegations was dropped in 2017, in a tacit admission that it was a frame-up from the start. Assange was never charged with any crime. Official documents have since revealed that British authorities repeatedly demanded that Swedish prosecutors not drop that case, as it provided them with their pretext to violate Assange's fundamental democratic rights.
The McCarthyite claim that Assange collaborated with Donald Trump and the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin in the 2016 US election is no less of a lie.
In reality, WikiLeaks published leaked documents that proved the Democratic National Committee had rigged the Democratic Party primaries against self-proclaimed "socialist" Bernie Sanders in favour of Wall Street's handpicked candidate, Hillary Clinton. WikiLeaks also revealed secret speeches delivered by Clinton to major banks, pledging to do their bidding and to expand illegal US wars abroad.
Moreover, far from being an agent of Russia, WikiLeaks has published hundreds of thousands of documents exposing the criminality and corruption of the authoritarian Putin regime.
What is the situation?
The Australian government has the power to compel Britain to allow Assange to leave the Ecuadorian embassy and return to Australia, if that is what he chooses to do, with full protection from any request by the US for his extradition.
Julian Assange will only be freed, however, as the by-product of a movement from below, a movement of the working class. The IYSSE is not appealing to the Australian government to intervene. We are appealing to workers and young people to force the Australian government to intervene. It will only act if it is more afraid of the actions of Australian workers and youth than it is of the backlash it would likely get from Washington.
The only way a mass movement of the working class will be built is through a direct rebellion against Labor and the trade unions that have completely betrayed all the interests of working people and fully integrated themselves with the corporate elite and the military-intelligence apparatus. After decades of attacks on jobs, wages and social services, presided over above all by Labor and the unions, the richest one percent of the population owns more wealth than the poorest 70 percent, while young people face a future of precarious, low-paid work and lower living standards than their parents.
The IYSSE is the only organisation on university campuses defending Assange, because it is the only student movement that resolutely defends democratic rights and opposes social inequality and militarism. The IYSSE fights for the development of a mass international movement of the working class, the great revolutionary force in society, to end the cause of exploitation, dictatorship and war—the capitalist profit system.
The fundamental problems facing humanity, including the threat of a nuclear world war and the danger of climate change, can only be resolved by the socialist reorganisation of society by the international working class.
We appeal to all students to defend Julian Assange! Demonstrate in Sydney on March 3 and Melbourne on March 10! Join the IYSSE and take up the fight for internationalism and socialism.
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Alex Tagliani Takes Second Place at the NASCAR Pinty's Grand Prix of Trois-Rivières
12.08.2019: Alex Tagliani took the lead on lap 20 and led the next 25 of 50 laps in round eight of the NASCAR Pinty's series held Sunday at the Grand Prix of Trois-Rivières (GP3R), but lost command of the race when he avoided a backmarker spinning out of control on l
Alex Tagliani took the lead on lap 20 and led the next 25 of 50 laps in round eight of the NASCAR Pinty's series held Sunday at the Grand Prix of Trois-Rivières (GP3R), but lost command of the race when he avoided a backmarker spinning out of control on lap 45. The mishap enabled Louis-Philippe Dumoulin to pass Tagliani and go on to win the race.
To avoid the spinning car of rookie TJ Rinomato, Tagliani had no other choice but to take the long way around on the outside line, while LP took the inside track to get ahead of Tag. Jean-François Dumoulin finished third.
"It was a very good race result for the team and 22 Racing did a fantastic job by giving me a great car," Alex Tagliani said. "We have a pretty good average on this track. Of course, when you win two in a row at the Grand Prix of Trois-Rivières, you want a third one, but in racing, when you finish second, you need to be happy with the results.
"The end of my race could have been disastrous when I encountered car 02 (of TJ Rinomato) because I only had a fraction of second to avoid it. And because I was the first one on the scene and there were no flags displayed to indicate the danger, I made a choice.
On the other hand, LP (Dumoulin) who was behind me, had a little more time to react and he made the right choice. When I moved to the outside, I picked up tire residue and it took two or three corners to clean my tires. When everything came back to normal, LP was more than one second ahead of me and with closely matched cars, it was impossible for me to catch him with so little time left in the race.
"As for car set ups, the team was conservative with the Chevrolet #18 RONA/ EpiPen/St Hubert Spectra Premium in order to preserve the tires, but in foresight, we should have been more aggressive."
Rain, rain, it just won't go away
The 21 NASCAR Pinty's drivers entered in Sunday's "Les 50 Tours Hotel Le Concorde" took the race green flag with only 35 minutes of total track time, as heavy rains washed out much of Saturday. The early afternoon practice session was cut short when downpours caused a safety issue for the six drivers who decided to take the track.
A thunderstorm then washed out the late afternoon qualifying session. However, drivers were able to set up their cars during a special Sunday morning 30-minute warm-up session. The starting grid was set per the NASCAR rulebook with Andrew Ranger and Kevin Lacroix on the front row. Alex started fourth on the outside of LP Dumoulin.
Twenty-one drivers started the race with 17 crossing the finish line at the end of the Grand Prix of Trois-Rivières. Fifteen cars finished on the lead lap. The race was under full course caution three times for a total of 14 laps.
In his last five NASCAR Pinty's start at GP3R, Tagliani has finished, five times on the podium, winning twice. In 79 NASCAR Pinty's starts, Tag has claimed ten poles, won 9 races, finished 34 times in the Top-5 and 54 in the Top-10.
In the driver standings:
Andrew Ranger, who finished eighth at the GP3R, still leads the standing with 348 points, but his lead on Kevin Lacroix, who finished fourth on Sunday, was reduced to 14 points. Race winner LP Dumoulin is still third with 328 points but is closing in on Lacroix, while Tag has shaved seven points from Ranger's lead and remains in fourth with 311 points. DJ Kennington rounds out the top five, 63 points off the pace.
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Addition Elle took Fashion Week by storm.
Ashley Graham and Addition Elle teamed up for another runway show, and it was overflowing with empowering messages. Not only did Graham help design some of the lingerie pieces made specifically for plus-size women, but she also strutted down the runway with Barbie Ferreira, Tara Lynn, and Jordyn Woods. Select pieces were also designed by plus-size fashion influencer Nadia Aboulhosn. We caught up with Aboulhosn, and she explained the importance of this epic show.
"Women of all sizes and ethnicities need to be present more on runways and in mainstream media so that everyone sees a part of themselves being represented," Aboulhosn tells SELF. "It's not healthy growing up feeling like you don't belong because you don't have someone to look up to."
It's so exciting to see brands like Addition Elle pushing for diversity, but not all labels have adapted to the body positivity movement. "I think some keep it in mind," says Aboulhosn. "Some high-end designers are set in their ways but I believe that more people will start coming around the more influence we have."
And in addition to highlighting women with different body shapes, the groundbreaking show also debuted the brand's latest campaign F*This. "F*This is a rallying cry," Roslyn Griner, Addition Elle's Vice President of Marketing and Visual Display, explains in a statement. "It addresses the frustrations of plus size women and demands the right to full fashion access." Those demands are certainly becoming a reality with big name designers like Christian Siriano and Tracy Reese making their collections more inclusive. Check out some of Addition Elle's awesome designs from the brand's latest runway presentation below.
With reporting by Jessica Cruel.
Woods shut things down in this zip-up lace number.
Lynn smoldered down the runway in a strappy bodysuit.
Ferreira showed us how to wear the lingerie as outer wear.
And Graham rocked a matching set for one of her runway looks.


I ask because you might be picking up our test networks.
Is this problem continuing? As Nick mentioned, if you were sitting near to the NOC, we definitely have some testing/known broken networks in here. Let us know how we can help!
and continue on. I think this can be closed.
>  the NOC, we definitely have some testing/known broken networks in here.
>  Let us know how we can help!
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Q: Magento1 to Magento2 data migration I am new to Magento2, I need some guidance from magento geeks for migrating data from magento1 to magento2.
Quick Overview
I received a system that was built in magento2 from scratch. So I think there is no need to migrate the Themes, Extensions and other things except data from magento1 system as described in docs (see link below).
https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/howdoi/migrate/migrate.html

I tried to read this link, and finally reached to this point where I have no understanding of settings.xml (see link below) file i:e which files I need to ignore, and which to include (That's the main issue)
https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/migration/migration-tool-internal-spec.html#settings-migration-mode

Can someone please help me understand, what is the best way to migrate data/settings from Magento1 system to Magento2.
Feedback is much appreciated!!

A: Please check following steps for DATA MIGRATION FROM MAGENTO 1 to MAGENTO 2
Setup m1 database and setup m2 project
Before start migration please install fresh magento, Also put magento1 database and Magento2 database on same server
Stpe 1:
Install datamigration tool in fresh Magento
composer require magento/data-migration-tool:2.2.5

Step 2:
Go to to this Directory "{your_root_directory}/vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/opensource-to-opensource/1.9.2.4(Magento 1 version)/"
Rename file config.xml.dist to config.xml (remove .dist from end)
Rename file map.xml.dist to map.xml (remove .dist from end)

Step 3:
Open config.xml (From this directory "{your_root_directory}/vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/opensource-to-opensource/1.9.2.4(Magento 1 version)/config.xml")

Set database name, username and password on line number approx 100
//Magento 1 database access
<source>
    <database host="localhost" name="mad1live" user="root" password="mysql123" />
</source>

//Magento 2 database access
<destination>
    <database host="localhost" name="mad2migration" user="root" password="mysql123" />
</destination>

Remove .dist from map.xml.dist on this line no approx 107
Code after edit : <map_file>etc/opensource-to-opensource/1.9.2.4(Magento 1 version)/map.xml</map_file>

Copy crypt key from magento 1 /app/etc/local.xml and set in config.xml
Example:
<options>
    ...
    <crypt_key>f5c82fa911418341aec329db9f798f81</crypt_key>
    ...
</options>

Step 4: Run folllwing commands one by one.
sudo php bin/magento migrate:settings -r {{path_to_your_root_directory}}/vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/opensource-to-opensource/1.9.2.4/config.xml

sudo php bin/magento migrate:data -r {{path_to_your_root_directory}}/vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/opensource-to-opensource/1.9.2.4/config.xml

sudo php bin/magento migrate:delta -r {{path_to_your_root_directory}}/vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/opensource-to-opensource/1.9.2.4/config.xml

sudo is also not necessary in commands.

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Q: Looking for 70's movie title -- Secret agent with camera in glass eye I'm trying to find a movie from the mid to late 1970's.  The scene that is stuck in my brain goes something like this:
A man walks into a very high security vault.  One of the security systems was a full body 'x-ray' (very much like the body-scanners today).  The man was not allowed to carry his watch, wallet or even a fountain pen that the xray showed on a blue screen.  His head didn't get xrayed because the machine only went up to his neck (this is an important plot point).
Once in the vault, he finds a file in a drawer and reads the papers in the file.  While he is doing this he taps his temple seeming to be concentrating.  He finishes, put the folder back in it's filing cabinet, and walks out.  On the way he retrieves his personal items, and thanks the guard.
Once he gets home (i think), he goes to a closet, and opens up a secret room.  The room is clearly a small photographic darkroom.  He pops out his eye on the side where he was tapping his temple.  He pulls it apart and reveals that it is a tiny-film camera.  He attaches it to some kind of spinning wand, and proceeds to dip in it several liquid filled trays.
Then he attaches the eye-camera to a projector, and we see the papers he was reading earlier.  I think they were in negative.  The papers had diagrams and stuff on them.  I think they were related to some kind of space program.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?

A: I'm guessing you're thinking of "Doppelgänger" AKA "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun":
And this scene...

...in particular.


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INDIANAPOLIS – The third-seeded Maryland Terrapins set a single-game scoring record in their 97-86 victory over Nebraska in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament Friday night. But don't be fooled by the final score. The 11-point margin did not reflect the control Maryland established for most of an evening in which the Terrapins led by as many as 25 points.
"We have so many weapons, it's hard to guard us," said Maryland senior Jake Layman, who led the Terrapins with 26 points. Freshman center Diamond Stone scored 23 points on 11-of-15 shooting. Junior forward Robert Carter scored 13 points. Sophomore guard Melo Trimble had 16 points with eight assists. And senior guard Rasheed Sulaimon had 10 points with six assists.
Maryland (25-7) advanced to a semifinal game against Michigan State on Saturday afternoon. Layman described the problems posed by such a versatile collection of five double-figure scorers. "We can go inside to Diamond and Rob," he said, "kick it outside to me, Melo, or Rasheed. Our offense was great tonight. Our defense needs to be a little better though."
Layman, who also had five rebounds and two steals, was hitting shots from deep and refused to slow down. Maryland made 20 of 28 shots – 71 percent – on the way to a 54-37 halftime lead. The Terrapins made 60 percent of their shots in the game.
"Well, I was feeling it," Layman said. "And I said to Melo, 'You had better run this next play for me, too.' So, yeah."
Maryland made 90 percent of its first-half 3-point attempts. Layman made 5 of 6 from beyond the line in the first half. The Terps couldn't stop. They wouldn't stop. And try as they might, the Huskers just couldn't keep up.
The Huskers (16-18) were playing for the third consecutive day and the fourth in six. Fatigue may have been a factor in their struggle. Junior guard Tai Webster, who scored 17 points, said he felt the Huskers were only as tired as they let themselves be.
"It was mostly all mental stuff," Webster said. "Once you got out there, you don't have time to be tired. You're drilling, pumping, everything. Even if you are, some players might be tired, but you forget about that kind of stuff and it's go time."
Nebraska coach Tim Miles said he was still pleased with the way his team performed defensively compared to the last time these two teams met, a 70-65 loss on Feb. 3. Although Webster said team wasn't fatigued, Miles disagreed.
"I thought maybe we were a little bit fatigued in the legs and emotionally, and they were hitting, clicking on all cylinders," Miles said.
Maryland is the only team in the Big Ten with five players with a scoring average in double digits. Carter, who is just 28 points away from the 1,000-point mark, could reach that milestone in the tournament. Carter would become the fourth Terrapin on the roster to reach that mark.
The Terps had 20 assists, 14 of which came during the first half on 20 buckets. Nebraska outscored Maryland, 49-43, during the second half and with 1:38 to play the Huskers came within six points. Husker junior guard Andrew White III, Nebraska's leading scorer in the game with 25 points, said that this tournament was a good test of the team's togetherness.
"I think we all just wanted to send our seniors and our staff and everyone out on a good note by selling out and giving everything that we could," White said. "When you don't give up, it's surprising what you can do. I think everybody got the best of their effort going towards that last end stretch, just to sell out and do everything we could to try to win the game."
Maryland coach Mark Turgeon was pleased to see the enthusiasm his team showed near the end of what has been, at times, a frustrating season. "It was good to see us play well and execute and share the ball," Turgeon said. "That's more important than anything. So sometimes you can play well and lose. I thought there was a couple of games down the stretch where I thought we played better and still lost, one game for sure. But it's nice to play and win. So hopefully that will give us momentum going into tomorrow."
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Paul was named a Cultural Ambassador by the City of Houston in August 2013 and received a mayoral proclamation in March 2015.


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Yeísmo (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝeˈizmo]) is a distinctive feature of many dialects of the Spanish language, which consists of the loss of the traditional palatal lateral approximant phoneme /ʎ/ (written ⟨ll⟩) and its merger into the phoneme /ʝ/ (written ⟨y⟩), usually realized as a palatal approximant or affricate. It is an example of delateralization.
In other words, ⟨ll⟩ and ⟨y⟩ represent the same sound /ʝ/. The term yeísmo comes from the Spanish name of the letter ⟨y⟩ (ye). Now, over 90% of Spanish dialects exhibit this phonemic merger. Similar mergers exist in other languages, such as Italian, Hungarian, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese or Galician, with different social considerations.
Occasionally, the term lleísmo (pronounced [ʎeˈizmo]) has been used to refer to the maintenance of the phonemic distinction between /ʝ/ (spelled "y") and /ʎ/ (spelled "ll").
Most dialects that merge the two sounds represented by ⟨ll⟩ and ⟨y⟩ realize the remaining sound as a voiced palatal fricative [ʝ], which is similar to the ⟨y⟩ in English your, but it sometimes sounds like ⟨j⟩ in English jar, especially after /n/ or /l/ or at the beginning of a word. For example, relleno is pronounced [reˈʝeno] and conllevar is pronounced [koɲɟ͡ʝeˈβaɾ] or [koɲdʒeˈβaɾ].
In most of Argentina and Uruguay, the merged sound is pronounced as a sibilant [ʒ]; this is referred to as zheísmo. In Buenos Aires, the sound [ʒ] has recently been devoiced to [ʃ] (sheísmo) among younger speakers.
Note that the same shift from [ʎ] to [ʒ] to [ʃ] (to modern [x]) historically occurred in the development of Old Spanish; this accounts for such pairings as Spanish mujer vs Portuguese mulher, ojo vs olho, hija vs filha and so on.
Yeísmo has always been common in much of Latin America, mainly in lowlands, and in large areas in Spain.
Currently, the highlands of Colombia are shifting to yeísmo with older people being the only keeping the distinction, which is completely lost in people born in the 1980s onwards.
The distinction between /ʝ/ and /ʎ/ remains in the Philippines, Ecuadoran highlands, Andean Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia, and the northeastern portions of Argentina that border with Paraguay.  The distinction is more common in areas with a common bilingualism with indigenous languages, such as Aymara, Quechua, and Guaraní. In Spain, most of the northern half of the country and several areas in the south used to retain the distinction, but yeísmo has spread throughout the country, and the distinction is now lost in most of Spain, particularly outside areas with linguistic contact with Catalan and Basque.
The relatively low frequency of both /ʝ/ and /ʎ/ makes confusion unlikely. However, orthographic mistakes are common (for example, writing llendo instead of yendo). A similar process took place in the local name of the island of Majorca: Mallorca is a continental Catalan hypercorrection of the earlier Maiorca.
In French, /ʎ/ turned into /j/, but the spelling ⟨ll⟩ was preserved, hence briller [bʁije].
In Hungarian, /ʎ/ turned into /j/, but the spelling ⟨ly⟩ was preserved, hence lyuk [juk].
In Swedish, /lj/ turned into /j/, but the spelling ⟨lj⟩ was preserved, hence ljus [ˈjʉːs].
In Portuguese, yeísmo is observed mainly among speakers of the Caipira dialect (Brazil), who pronounce both /ʎ/ (spelled ⟨lh⟩) and /j/ (spelled ⟨i⟩) as [j]. Hence for those speakers teia "web" and telha "roof tile" are both pronounced as [ˈteja], while in other dialects the latter is [ˈteʎa].
^ "La "i griega" se llamará "ye"" Cuba Debate. 2010-11-05. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
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^ Álvarez Menendez (2005), p. 104.
^ Schwegler, Kempff & Ameal-Guerra (2009), p. 399.
^ Travis (2009), p. 76.
^ Lipski (1994), p. 170.
^ Coloma (2011), p. 95.
^ Lapesa, Rafael. "El español de América" (in Spanish). Cultural Antonio de Nebrija.
^ Coloma (2011), pp. 110–111.
Pharies, David (2007). A Brief History of the Spanish Language. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-66683-9.
The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʎ⟩, a lowercase letter ⟨y⟩. None of the 13 languages investigated by Recasens, many of them Romance, has a true palatal and that is likely the case for several other languages listed here. Some languages, like Portuguese and Catalan, have a lateral approximant that varies between alveolar and alveolo-palatal, there is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the alveolo-palatal lateral approximant. If precision is desired, it may be transcribed ⟨l̠ʲ⟩ or ⟨ʎ̟⟩, there is a non-IPA letter ⟨ȴ⟩, used especially in Sinological circles. The palatal lateral approximant contrasts phonemically with its voiceless counterpart /ʎ̥/ in the Xumi language spoken in China and its place of articulation is palatal, which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised to the hard palate.
Voseo is the use of vos as a second person singular pronoun, including its conjugational verb forms in many dialects of Spanish. In dialects that have it, it is used instead of tú. Use of tú is known as tuteo, Vos is used extensively as the primary form of the second person singular in Rioplatense Spanish, Eastern Bolivia, and Paraguayan Spanish. Central American Spanish exhibits an extensive use of vos. Vos had not been used in formal writing except in Argentina. Nowadays it is common to see billboards and other advertising media using voseo. In the dialect of Argentina and Uruguay, vos is the form for use in television media. In Peru, voseo is present in some Andean regions and Cajamarca and it is present in Ladino, where it replaces usted. In the United States, Salvadoran Americans are by far the largest voseo users followed by other Central Americans, Hondurans and Costa Ricans. Voseo can be found in the context of using verb conjugations for vos with tú as the pronoun, as in the case of Chilean Spanish.
Originally a second-person plural, Vos came to be used as a more polite second-person singular pronoun to be used among ones familiar friends. O Dios, sois vos mi Padre verdadéro, O God, thou art my true Father, Tú eres un buen amígo, Thou art a good friend. The standard formal way to address a person one was not on terms with was to address such a person as vuestra merced in the singular. Because of the meaning of these forms, they were accompanied by the corresponding third-person verb forms. Other formal forms of address included vuestra excelencia and vuestra señoria, both vos and tú are considered to be informal pronouns, with vos being somewhat synonymous with tú in regions where both are used. This was the situation when Castilian was brought to the Río de la Plata area, note that the term vosotros is a combined form of vos otros, while the term nosotros comes from nos otros. In the first half of the 19th century the use of vos was as prevalent in Chile as it was in Argentina, the current limitation of the use of vos in Chile is attributed to a campaign to eradicate it by the Chilean education system.
The voiced palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʝ⟩, and it is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant. In broad transcription, the symbol for the approximant, ⟨j⟩. The voiced palatal fricative is a rare sound, occurring in only seven of the 317 languages surveyed by the original UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. In Kabyle, Modern Greek, and Scottish Gaelic, the sound occurs phonemically, along with its voiceless counterpart, and in several more, the sound occurs a result of phonological processes. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a symbol for that sound. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are j\_- and G_+, especially in broad transcription, the voiced post-palatal fricative may be transcribed as a palatalized voiced velar fricative. Its place of articulation is palatal, which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised to the hard palate, the otherwise identical post-palatal variant is articulated slightly behind the hard palate, making it sound slightly closer to the velar.
Most varieties of Spanglish are not usually considered a language itself, but instead a blend of Spanish and English lexical items and grammar. Spanglish is not a pidgin, because unlike pidgin languages, Spanglish can be the primary form for some individuals. Spanglish can be considered a variety of Spanish with heavy use of English or a variety of English with heavy use of Spanish and it can be more related either to Spanish or to English, depending on the circumstances. Since Spanglish arises independently in each region, it reflects the spoken varieties of English and Spanish. In general different varieties of Spanglish are not necessarily mutually intelligible, the term was introduced by the Puerto Rican poet Salvador Tió in the late 1940s, when he called it Espanglish or Inglañol. Some of these creoles have become recognized languages in their own right, including the Llanito language of Gibraltar and San Andrés–Providencia Creole of Colombia. In the late 1940s, the Puerto Rican journalist and essayist Salvador Tió coined the terms Espanglish for Spanish spoken with some English terms, between 1902 and 1948, the main language of instruction in public schools was English.
Currently Puerto Rico is nearly unique in having both English and Spanish as its official languages, many American English words are now found in the vocabulary of Puerto Rican Spanish. Spanglish may be known by different regional names, Spanglish does not have one unified dialect—specifically, the varieties of Spanglish spoken in New York, Florida and California differ. It is common in Panama, where the 96-year U. S. control of the Panama Canal influenced much of society, especially among the former residents of the Panama Canal Zone. The same applies to the large Puerto Rican-descended populations of New York City, Spanglish is spoken commonly in the modern United States, reflecting the growth of the Hispanic-American population due to immigration. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the population of Hispanics grew from 35.3 million to 53 million between 2000 and 2012, Hispanics have become the largest minority ethnic group in the US. More than 80% are of Mexican descent, Mexican Americans form one of the fastest-growing groups, increasing from 20.6 million to 34.5 million between 2000 and 2012.
Some of the regional varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent from one another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, and less so in grammar. While all Spanish dialects use the written standard, all spoken varieties differ from the written variety. There are differences between European Spanish and the Spanish of the Americas, as well as many different dialect areas both within Spain and within Hispanic America, among grammatical features, the most prominent variation among dialects is in the use of the second-person pronouns. For the second-person singular familiar pronoun, some Hispanic America dialects use tú, in a broad sense, Hispanic American Spanish can be grouped into, Mexican Central American Caribbean. The Spanish spoken in Gibraltar is essentially not different from the areas in Spain. The maintenance of phonemic contrast is called distinción in Spanish, the merged phoneme is typically realized as, though in parts of southern Andalusia the realization is closer to, in Spain this latter variation is called ceceo and the former one seseo.
In dialects with seseo the words casa and caza are pronounced as homophones, the symbol stands for a voiceless sibilant like the s of English sick, while represents a voiceless interdental fricative like the th of English thick. In some cases where the merger would render words homophonic in Hispanic America. Caza replaced by cacería, or cocer, homophonic with coser, for more on seseo, see González-Bueno. Traditionally Spanish had a distinction between /ʎ/ and /ʝ/. But for most speakers in Spain and the Americas, these two phonemes have merged in the phoneme /ʝ/. This merger results in the words calló and cayó being pronounced the same, the use of the merged phoneme is called yeísmo. The phoneme /ʝ/ can be pronounced in a variety of ways, in most of the area where yeísmo is present, the merged phoneme /ʎ ~ ʝ/ is pronounced as the fricative or approximant or as the glide, and also, in word-initial positions, affricates and. In the area around the Río de la Plata, this phoneme is pronounced as a sibilant fricative, either as voiced or, especially by young speakers.
Approximate area of Rioplatense Spanish with Patagonian variants included.


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Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye will be the guest of honour for an evening of boxing to be held at the Magnet Leisure Centre in Maidenhead on Saturday, June 1.
The event will mark the second time the Holmanleaze centre has hosted bouts organised by the Queen Street-based Boxing Evolution, on behalf of WCBC Boxing Promotions, this year and the evening will feature five fights, including three area title bouts.
Haye, known as the Hayemaker, will be on hand to answer questions, pose for photos and present titles throughout the evening, which begins at 6pm.
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Q: Grails 3 - GORM for MongoDB - nearest read for replica set I'm upgrading my Grails 2.4 web application to Grails 3, and I'm considering switching from my custom DAO to GORM for my Mongo database.
I'm trying to understand how to setup GORM correctly, in particular about connection options, but its documentation is slightly misleading to me.
The Advanced Configuration ("Mongo Database Connection Configuration") states

Available options and their descriptions are defined in the MongoOptions javadoc.

so I'm tempted to assume that I'm allowed to use any of those options.
But later on in the same section (Configuration Options Guide) I read

Below is a complete example showing all configuration options:

showing only 9 options.
My issue is 'converting' my custom DAO
MongoClientOptions options = new MongoClientOptions .Builder()
                                                    .connectionsPerHost(1000)
                                                    .threadsAllowedToBlockForConnectionMultiplier(5)
                                                    .maxWaitTime(4000)
                                                    .socketTimeout(2000).build();
List<ServerAddress> list = getMongoReplicaSet();
mongo = new MongoClient(list, options);
mongo.setReadPreference(ReadPreference.nearest());

to an equivalent configuration
grails {
    mongodb {
        options {
            connectionsPerHost = 1000
            threadsAllowedToBlockForConnectionMultiplier = 5
            maxWaitTime = 4000
            socketTimeout = 2000
        }
    }
}

but how to define the read preference? Am I allowed to do something like this?
grails {
    mongodb {
        options {
            readPreference = com.mongodb.ReadPreference.nearest()
        }
    }
}

Thanks in advance!

A: Yes you can set anything in the MongoClientOptions.Builder class via configuration. Although you syntax is wrong, it should be:
grails {
   mongodb {
      options {
        readPreference = com.mongodb.ReadPreference.nearest()
      }
   }
}


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The NazcAlpaca shirt combines technology with luxury natural fibers for comfort, performance and aesthetics for the high end apparel market. Concept, design and development: Marina Toeters, by-wire.net, Martijn ten Bhömer and Iztok Klančar. Model: Kristel van Walen
Overcoming Issues of Energy and Consumer Engagement.
Over the past decade, environmental issues have become a major concern for the textile, clothing, footwear and related industries. For wearable technology, the energy needed to operate devices and refinements in the technologies and fabrics has been in focus for decades. But now that significant development in these areas is making scalable consumer products a reality, attention should shift to the environmental impact of the sector. While some best practices from the clothing and technology sectors can be applied, wearable technology has its own unique challenges that need to be addressed.
The Question of Energy
Much attention has been given to the provision of power for electronics in clothing but there is, as yet, relatively little consideration given to the embodied energy of these products. In an assessment of embodied energy, an account is made of all the energy needed from raw materials, to manufacturing, transport, use, maintenance, reuse and end of life.
In the building industry, embodied energy has long been embraced during the design stage. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification in buildings address embodied energy (as well as water) use in buildings and acts as an incentive to the industry. Consumers know that their building will be energy efficient and have a cost saving for them, as well as environmental benefit.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE) jointly operate the Energy Star program for products, as well as buildings. The U.S. government's approach is to urge consumers to think of a product as having two price tags: the first is a purchase price and the second the cost of operating white goods, in particular, over their lifetime, which can be a decade or more.
As a relatively young product area, wearable technology does not have a blueprint, but it urgently needs one. This will come and can either emerge from industry or from government. It would be much better to come from the former. Within wearable technology, energy sources are sought that are small, lightweight, efficient, flexible, rechargeable, machine washable and long lasting. Although rarely driven by environmental concerns, many of the innovations being developed do provide benefit in this area.
Looking to provide a flexible and efficient battery for the market, South Korea-based Jenex has developed "J Flex." The manufacturers claim that the lithium battery offers six times the capacity of cells currently being used in smartphones. Beyond flexible, it can be folded or crumpled and still perform. Wear tests have been undertaken on the battery putting it through in excess of 200,000 folding cycles, and it retained full performance.
In the 1990s researchers, such as Thad Starner at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), were visionary in looking at alternative sources of power, specifically the ability of the user to provide energy for their devices through their own movement, body heat and even breathing. Although photovoltaics are attracting most attention as an alternative energy source, the user-as-power source continues to attract research and spur development.
Researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University have looked at the potential for the upper torso and footfall to be harnessed as an energy source. At Hanyang University in South Korea and the University of Oxford in England researchers are looking at the development of a textile substrate-based tribolectric nanogenerator (T-TENG) as a self-powering fabric that is easy and environmentally friendly to fabricate.
Scalability is one issue to be addressed in these developments; another is consumers' expectations concerning energy sources. For a consumer generation accustomed to transmitting a precise amount of power at the flick of a switch, the obstacle to overcome may prove to be marketing products, rather than solving technical issues.
Emotional Engagement
Performance is not enough for the consumer, and the interests of the fashion and sportswear industries are crucial in driving aesthetics in wearable technology. Without this it simply becomes another gadget with little emotional engagement for the consumer. In terms of longevity, the lifespan is shortened and the garment is less likely to be worn, repaired or given a second life after the first owner is through with it. Enhanced visual and tactile aesthetics are a start; we are seeing garments appear on the fashion runway and luxury brands showing interest.
In terms of materiality, consumers are more drawn to natural, rather than man-made, materials. While synthetics still dominate the wearable technology market, there are some natural fibers starting to emerge. Eunjeong Jeon's Disguise Garment uses felted Merino wool, sensors and LED's to enhance the wearer's mood and well-being. The fabric is structured to trap air and encapsulate the technology and lighting, building on clothing's inherent ability to offer protection and comfort to the wearer.
Dutch researchers Martijn ten Bhomer and Marina Toeters with Bear Creek Mining are developing smart Alpaca underwear to measure vital health information. Concept, design and development: Marina Toeters, by-wire.net, Martijn ten Bhömer and Iztok Klančar.
NazcAlpaca brings together Alpaca wool and electronics to provide comfort, aesthetics and performance with smart underwear that can measure vital health information. The development comes from Martijn ten Bhomer and Marina Toeters and the Bear Creek Mining Company in Peru and is at the proof-of-concept stage.LED lights in the back of the garment, for instance, illuminate and cause the garment to vibrate if the wearer is under threat out of their line of sight.
Prototypes of a shirt and scarf are designed for the office worker concerned about air quality and temperature. The garments are combined with an app so that the wearer's body is monitored using heart rate and breathing sensors. Data is gathered, measured and communicated to the wearer to encourage exercise with the aim of creating a better and less stressful work environment.
In May this year, Microsoft filed a patent application for a Modular Wearable Device for Conveying Affective State (US2016/0133151 A1). Effectively intended to function as a mood shirt that can respond to the wearers' states of stress, sadness, excitement, calm and happiness. Actuation cells use temperature, vibration/pressure, light and audio to stimulate changes. These are aimed at improving the wearer's sense of well-being, calming someone who is stressed though music or applied pressure, for instance.
Beyond the health implications, there are potential applications in many areas, in particular entertainment and gaming.
One of the aspects of wearable technology that brings unique environmental challenges is its hybrid nature. The industry cannot solve issues, such as embodied energy or the need for better emotional engagement in our products, in isolation. Change is a slow process and as we continue to look for more in our suppliers and providers, it is also important to acknowledge where incremental improvements and changes in mind-set are made.
*This story first appeared on Advanced Textiles Source
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Coach Innocent Simiyu during squad naming ceremony at RFUEA Grounds, Nairobi on Nov 24, 2017. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
Innocent Namcos Simiyu captained Kenya Sevens and 15s teams then as a coach led Shujaa to their highest points (104) at the World Sevens Series last season.
In our interview, he discussed the national team's performance so far as well as the senior players' boycott.
Many people have been asking, where has 'Namcos' been since he left the Kenya Sevens job?
Hahaha! I've been upcountry (Western) doing some projects to help the community and a bit of farming. I hope to uplift the living standards of Western region residents.
How can you rate the national team's performance last season?
We had a great performance in the first half of the season. Although we played some good rugby, the World Cup and how we started the 2018/2019 World Rugby Sevens Series season has been a disappointment to many. But I'm glad to have led the team to our highest World Series points (104) tally ever the last term.
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What do you think has gone wrong for the Shujaa team, who are currently ranked 13th on the overall World Sevens Series standings?
I think we need to look at things realistically. You cannot remove senior players from the system that fast. They still have to play because this is their optimum time in terms of playing. I don't believe in a system whereby players are awarded positions or jerseys. So the young players must fight for them.
We also need to get good contracts for the players, some support in regards to the resources that help the players perform to their best.
With the current squad, do you hope for a turnaround after a stuttering start to the season?
Though I believe nothing is built in a day, we should give coaches time to build their philosophies and push in their plans. That means, with support they can get the results that we all want as Kenyans.
But if you look at the performance critically, in the opening four legs (Dubai, Cape Town, Hamilton and Sydney), I have to commend the young players. They really played well. Hats off to them!
I believe if the coach (Paul Murunga) had given them more airtime at the beginning, we would have gotten better results.
What's your take on the current stand-off between Kenya Rugby Union and the senior players over contracts?
The two parties should sit down and talk. I feel the more experienced players, who have performed well in the recent past need to come back and lead the team to where it is supposed to be in terms of standards at the top level. They would be emulated by the younger players. It would be good to see some of the common names coming back compete for places, gel and integrate with players like Olindi (Johnstone) and Taabu (Daniel).
What do you expect at next month's Las Vegas and Vancouver legs?
Though a bit inexperienced, I'm expecting the players to give their best. But it all starts at the training. I believe in a philosophy that you only reap what you sow. The good lord will only bless you for the work of your hands. So, it's not possible for us to start saying we want to win, yet what we are doing in terms of preparation and the support to the team is shoddy.
Contracts has been a thorny issue in Kenya Sevens team for a very long time, is it a self-inflicted problem?
I think it would be very naive to look at the current situation in isolation. We have to look at the context of five years and see what has been happening. We need to move away from this seasonal approach of addressing issues as they come. The fundamental thing is for the stakeholders to change things at the policy level. We have to change the governance structure of sports in Kenya. As we speak, the Sports Act relies on clubs. It keeps on referencing to clubs in terms of electing leadership. Unfortunately, most clubs in Kenya are briefcase clubs and those briefcase clubs produce leaders who go and elect their cronies into the leadership of them.
So, in a nut-shell what's ailing the Kenyan rugby?
The fundamental problem is not the players but the leadership at the union. There is a lot of dishonesty and politics. If the governance structures changes to allow the stakeholders of the game to sit at board level then we will not have these issues. This is exactly what is ailing our game. We have always had good performance, after a while things go bad then we have to start again from the bottom, get to a good level again then something bad happens because of the Union's politics. This has to stop. We need to change the Sports Act to help the performance of national team players.
Is money part of the national teams' problems? How do we solve this issue once and for all?
I don't believe money is the issue here. The key thing that has to be addressed is at the leadership level. We need all stakeholders (representatives from players, referees and government) to sit at that level where key decisions about the game are made.
However, it's not rugby in isolation even other sports in Kenya and Africa as a whole have similar problems that we face. But to solve these issues, we must ensure all stakeholders are involved in the leadership of the sport.
What's your future?
I don't know where the future will take me. If it takes me back to Kenya Sevens, well and good; I will gladly give my best. If it takes me out of the country, I will also give my best. But at the moment, I'm still focused on some of the things that we started with the players helping them in terms of life goals and improving their careers. I'm still looking for opportunities for players to go and play abroad as well as further their studies. As we speak, we are in the process of pushing for a few players to go to Canada and ply their trade there.
How soon, are we going to see you back into the game?
I'm a coach for life (laughs!!). You can see from what I'm doing, I'm still active in the game. I don't need to be a Kenya Sevens coach to help the boys. I still help many players in terms of reviews, how to improve their game and develop their skills in different aspects of the game. So, I'm still involved in the game and I will always be involved in the game. Rugby is my life.
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// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using Cake.Core;
using Cake.Core.Diagnostics;
using Cake.Core.IO;

namespace Cake.Common.IO
{
    internal static class FileMover
    {
        public static void MoveFileToDirectory(ICakeContext context, FilePath filePath, DirectoryPath targetDirectoryPath)
        {
            if (context == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(context));
            }
            if (filePath == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(filePath));
            }
            if (targetDirectoryPath == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(targetDirectoryPath));
            }
            MoveFile(context, filePath, targetDirectoryPath.GetFilePath(filePath));
        }

        public static void MoveFiles(ICakeContext context, string pattern, DirectoryPath targetDirectoryPath)
        {
            if (context == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(context));
            }
            if (pattern == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(pattern));
            }

            var files = context.GetFiles(pattern);
            if (files.Count == 0)
            {
                context.Log.Verbose("The provided pattern did not match any files.");
                return;
            }

            MoveFiles(context, files, targetDirectoryPath);
        }

        public static void MoveFiles(this ICakeContext context, IEnumerable<FilePath> filePaths, DirectoryPath targetDirectoryPath)
        {
            if (context == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(context));
            }
            if (filePaths == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(filePaths));
            }
            if (targetDirectoryPath == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(targetDirectoryPath));
            }

            targetDirectoryPath = targetDirectoryPath.MakeAbsolute(context.Environment);

            // Make sure the target directory exist.
            if (!context.FileSystem.Exist(targetDirectoryPath))
            {
                const string format = "The directory '{0}' do not exist.";
                var message = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, format, targetDirectoryPath.FullPath);
                throw new DirectoryNotFoundException(message);
            }

            // Iterate all files and copy them.
            foreach (var filePath in filePaths)
            {
                MoveFile(context, filePath, targetDirectoryPath.GetFilePath(filePath));
            }
        }

        public static void MoveFile(ICakeContext context, FilePath filePath, FilePath targetFilePath)
        {
            if (context == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(context));
            }
            if (filePath == null)
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            {
                const string format = "The directory '{0}' do not exist.";
                var message = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, format, targetDirectoryPath.FullPath);
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            }

            // Get the file and verify it exist.
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            {
                const string format = "The file '{0}' do not exist.";
                var message = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, format, filePath.FullPath);
                throw new FileNotFoundException(message, filePath.FullPath);
            }

            // Move the file.
            context.Log.Verbose("Moving file {0} to {1}", filePath.GetFilename(), targetFilePath);
            file.Move(targetFilePath.MakeAbsolute(context.Environment));
        }
    }
}


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Netflix Is Raising Prices For All Subscribers Again Next Month
JB Love
Yes, the most popular streaming service is getting more money from users at the start of the next billing cycle.
Netflix said in January they would be increasing prices for all users and next month it'll be official. The slight increase will allow Netflix to add more movies and more television shows, according to WQAD.
Netflix has been investing heavily in original content. It budgeted $8 billion for new shows and movies in 2018, the company announced when it reported third-quarter earnings in 2017.
Don't panic about prices yet because it'll only be $1 or $2 more a month, depending on the subscription.
The email to subscribers is a reminder that each of Netflix's plans in the United States will increase between $1 to $2. The price of the basic plan will rise from $8 to $9 per month, the standard plan that includes HD streaming on two devices will go from $11 to $13 per month, and the price of its premium plan will increase from $14 to $16.
One expert from CNN said people will continue to pay whatever the subscription fee as long as Netflix keeps providing the content. As a Netflix subscriber, I would agree, unless they pull The Office...
JB Love is ½ of Q98.5's Lil Zim & JB In The Morning, weekday mornings from 5:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. Follow him on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
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