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Singapore travel facts
Singapore is a truly global city and considered a gateway to Asia. This tiny but wealthy city-state was once a sleepy Malay fishing village and has since been transformed into a major financial centre. The city is known for its efficiency and is a great place to do business. However, it also suffers from a somewhat dull and sterile image as well complaints of being a cultural desert.
Singapore is a major transit route and many tourists use the city as a base to explore the rest of Southeast Asia. Singapore is famous for many things including efficiency, shopping, world-class medical hospitals and chilli crabs. However, it has also gotten publicity for all the wrong reasons, mainly for its tough laws like defamation suits against Western press, caning and death penalty.
All this negative news has had a negative impact on Singapore which is facing stiff competition from other fun Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok for the tourism dollar. But there is certainly a great deal which Singapore offers visitors that other metropolises of the region cannot.
Singapore has over the years been increasingly trying to shake off its staid reputation by allowing bar top dancing and lifting the ban on casinos. This year marks a major milestone in Singapore with the opening of its two new Integrated Resorts, Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa.
Interesting facts about Singapore
Singapore facts: The ancient name of Singapore is Temasek. During the Malay-Srivijaya Kingdom, it was Sang Nila Utama who founded and named Singapura (Singapore in Malay). Sang Nila Utama was a prince from Palembang who stumbled upon Temasek while on a hunting trip. While chasing after a deer on a nearby island he climbed up a rock and saw another island across with a white sandy beach. He then decided to visit Temasek.
Singapore facts: Singapore has a population of over 5 million, with a density per square kilometre of over 7,000 people, making it one of the most crowded places in the world. Around 40 per cent of the populace is foreigners.
Singapore facts: Singapore was once under attack by a school of swordfish who would kill anyone on shore instantly. The Raja of Singapore or Paduka Sri Maharaja visited the site and witnessed for himself the havoc the swordfish had wrought. He ordered his men to form a barricade with their shins but they too were speared to death.
But while he was there, he heard a boy who suggested that the barricades be made of banana leaves instead. Knowing the boy was right, he ordered his men to form such barricades. The plan proved to be successful as the swordfish's snout got stuck in the barricades and they were subsequently killed.
In the end, however, the Raja's chiefs advised him to kill the boy. They believed, as the boy was smart, he would be a threat to the Raja when he grows up. The boy was finally thrown to sea. According to urban legends, until today, you can still hear the boy crying for help at sea.
Singapore facts: Singapore was not always a cultural desert. It once had a thriving arts and film industry prior to independence. It was the centre for Malay movie making industry in Jalan Ampas similar to Hollywood. This star making machinery produced stars of the bygone eras who are still popular today like P. Ramlee and Siput Sarawak.
Singapore facts: Singapore consists of 63 islands (including mainland Singapore) and measures 710 square kilometres. It is set to grow by another 100 square kilometres or so by 2030 through continued land reclamation.
Singapore facts: Despite its diminutive size, Singapore is the most developed Southeast Asian city. It is the third wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP power parity per capita and has the world's 11th largest total of foreign reserves.
Singapore facts: Singapore is a major financial centre and is considered the Switzerland of the East. According to the Cap Gemini – Merill Lynch World Wealth Report, Singapore has one of the highest concentration of high net worth individuals in the world. There are many private banking centres in Singapore to tap onto the growth of the city's growing millionaires.


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HLS Symposium Celebrates the Writing and Teaching of Sally Falk Moore (video)
By Audrey Kunycky
Sally Falk Moore, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, has had a distinguished and multi-faceted career: as a staff attorney at the Nuremberg Trials; as the author of important studies of property and power among the Incas, and of land law and economic and political change in Tanzania; as a professor of anthropology at UCLA and Harvard; and as Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
On September 21, more than 80 lawyers, anthropologists, students and friends gathered at a symposium at Harvard Law School to honor Moore for her more recent work as an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at HLS and her extraordinary service as a teacher and mentor to students in the HLS Graduate Program.
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Professor Sally Falk Moore
The symposium was designed to celebrate Moore's writing and teaching by inviting colleagues to present current work at the intersection of law and anthropology. The program featured papers by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Professors of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology at Harvard, and Richard A. Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology and Law, and Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. Janet Halley, Royall Professor of Law, and Jane Fair Bestor, Special Assistant to the Graduate Program, organized the event.
The Comaroffs presented the story of Khulekani Kumalo, a legendary Zulu folk musician who died in 2009. In early 2012, a South African man claiming to be Kumalo returned to the family home, saying that he had been a zombie captive and a victim of witchcraft. Fans and family members were deeply divided, his paternal kin supporting his claim and his maternal kin arguing that it was an attempt to steal the singer's wealth. The Comaroffs discussed the relationship between imposture and other forms of "self-fashioning" and the economic and social shifts in post-colonial Africa, and the challenges that South Africa's modern, constitutionally governed legal system faces in addressing cases like this one.
Watch the presentations.
Wilson considered diverging perspectives on causality in law and social science, using claims about the role of radio broadcasts in inciting the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as a case study. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has made "robust claims about the direct, causal relationship between inflammatory speeches and subsequent public violence," he noted, although studies by sociologists and economists question the broadcasts' reach and effects. Wilson's paper raised the question of how to account for these differences and whether the divergence between law and social science is a problem for the achievement of justice.
At a reception following the presentations, HLS Dean Martha Minow and graduate students who have worked with Moore toasted her contributions to their scholarship. Xiaoqian Hu, an S.J.D candidate studying the interplay between formal and informal land regimes in rural China, recalled enrolling in Moore's class on "Law for Anthropologists, Anthropology for Lawyers" during her LL.M. year. "Strangely but wonderfully, although I knew very little about anthropology, I felt most at home in her class. The ideas, perspectives, and ways of thinking that she imparted to us seemed so sensible, so personable, and so human. Later on in my writing, I felt connected to the subject I was researching, and I began to understand the people whom I was writing about. It was a transformation for me," Hu said.
Several of Moore's students mentioned how much her connection to sub-Saharan Africa affected their experience and studies at HLS . When she first met Moore, said Nkatha Kabira, an S.J.D. candidate from Kenya, "I walked in and (with a smile on her face) she stood up to welcome me. She said, 'jambo, habari gani?' which in Swahili means 'hi, how are you?' Her words brought me home."
Writing from Burundi, Mekkonen Firew Ayano, an S.J.D. candidate, said," When I came to Harvard Law School from Ethiopia, I never thought that I would find someone with first-hand knowledge of life in a village of East Africa. Our first conversations were like conversations with someone who had left my village a little earlier than me and just needed a little updating on how things have stood since then. … In every conversation I had with Professor Moore, I realized how far I could stretch the bounds of my legal imagination to understand social facts and processes of change in a society. What some people may call the unimportant and ordinary life of ordinary people, Professor Moore sees as an important lens to see the law."

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Yesterday's post took forever using my iPad and HTML code to show the Flickr hosted images.
Today we try uploading iPhone images to Flickr then copying them back down to my iPad so I can upload into the Blogger App (which I never use) to make this very post.
Those two were played with using the PhotoStudio App.
I fully expect the "Dark Room" (aka Study containing Big Computer) to return to service within the next few days.
Well, time to hit Done and see what happens.


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Ayyam-i-Ha is a Baha'i festival that is joyously celebrated in countries and territories all over the world. It is a time of hospitality, generosity, and caring for the needy. It typically falls around the end of February and beginning of March and it is either four or five days long.
How to Make a Gift Box
February 11, 2016, in Videos > HowTo, by Laura Friedmann
"Creative Ideas" by Baha'i Blog is where we show you a variety of games and arts-and-crafts you can use in your activities and in this "Creative Ideas" video, Safa shows us how to make a cool and easy gift box for Ayyam-i-Ha presents.
Ayyam-i-Ha (the days of Ha) are four or five intercalary days in the Baha'i Calendar. The Festival of Ayyam-i-Ha is a period of charity, goodwill and generosity for Baha'is.
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Has anyone tried the new TS Bloombucker PAF?
Thread: Has anyone tried the new TS Bloombucker PAF?
Ford Thurston has been posting and raving about these new PAF style from Tone Specific. He has original Gibsons from the 50's to compare. Of course he can make a box of Wheaties sound great. Has anyone here tried them?
Re: Has anyone tried the new TS Bloombucker PAF?
#1) Who's Ford Thruston? #3 I have a zebra PAF in my R-0 in the bridge and an early Pat.# in the neck(with a `50's long magnet)... If I want 50's PAF pickups I buy ThroBak's.. a real comparison would be the same guitar with real PAF's and then with the ones you "copied" in it.
#3 Every PAF is slightly different..
Ford is a session guitarist and spokesperson in Nashville.
I installed these pickups into my LP R8 two days ago and I was immediately impressed by them. The first thing that stood out to me was the responsiveness to my picking and how useable they are with the volume and tone pots. They have this very cool almost compressed attack that opens up as the note rings out. The best way I can describe it is they react kinda of like a tube rectifier reacts. ItÂ's a very sweet kinda squishy sound and you can really dig in. They sustain very well too.
They have a very warm and natural sound to them and they just sounded right to me. As a big Duane Allman fan I felt that these pickups gave me his sound, and to me I donÂ't think a les paul can sound much better. I didnÂ't have to fiddle around with adjusting the pickup height or the pole pieces. IÂ'm sure I will experiment with that more as time goes on but the term organic definitely applies to the sound of these pickups. To me they sound killer; I was playing direct through a Swart AST JR.
Like any good pickup you donÂ't want to put your guitar down after you install and play them for the first time, and that was certainly the case with these. They brought new life to my guitar, and IÂ'm very happy I made the purchase. IÂ'm already considering another set for my ES175.
Since these are still so new to me I canÂ't comment on how they worked with my pedals, other amps, or band setting but thatÂ's something IÂ'm going to do in the next few days. I was drawn to them because of Ford, and he didnÂ't let me down. Hopefully this was helpful since there isnÂ't a whole lot out there on these new pickups. If you have any questions just let me know, I will be playing them more and more as the days go by. But right from the gate - articulate, dynamic, warm, and tasty would be how I would describe them. They just sound right to me, and theyÂ're the first humbucker I can truly say that about.
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I've not tried the bloom bucker but I have the Tone Specific 1959 Blues PAF set and I'm just amazed by how great they sound. I've played all the big names and I was convinced that Virgil Arlo and Ron Ellis made the best PAF's. They seemed to be a cut above all the other big names but then I tried these TS pickups and I'm just blown away. I would imagine the Bloombuckers are of similar quality. Makes me wonder what the difference between them might be?
Have you tried them against the real thing? It's hard for me to want to try new pickups anymore as I have a set of real PAF's in my 2002 R-0 (Historic Makeover) w/a matched set of 1960 pots. My guitar gets me almost every sound I want..
I agree the TS 59 Blues pickups are above what most winders make, they sound nearly identical to a set of original PAF's in my pals vintage Les Paul… but nothing beats a set of Arlo's.
I'm always skeptical of new things… I was probably the last guy to get on the Strymon train. After years of thinking the reviews sounded good but there is no way digital would be usable in my world, I finally gave in and bought the Big Sky. I felt stupid that it took me so any years to try it out… I was so amazed quickly got the Mobius, TL, Flint & Deco.
Same goes for my Kemper amp and my Chase Bliss pedals. I just thought the hype was too good to be true. Once again, I was wrong & late to the party.
I have not tried the Bloombuckers yet but I have a set of the 59 Blues & Punch PAF. I'm believer in what the guys at Tone Specific are doing. All the other pickup makers name their pickups after a town, artist, year or some weird model number none of which tells us how they might sound. We all know old PAF had different specs so for these guys to make PAFs geared toward Blues, Jazz, Punch or Bloom tone is almost genius in its simplicity. I was skeptical at first, it seemed too good to be real.
After playing Blues and Punch pickups Im amazed how they both sound like what I expect from PAF but in different ways. Both are really warm, dynamic and give you that PAF bloom but at different eq's. The Punch set have nice sting and a really tight bass…the Blues has more squish and more in the mids. I would imagine the bloom bucker does what they say it does. I can't wait to try it for myself, now I just have to figure out what to put them in.
It was hard for me to choose between all the sets. I narrowed it down to the bloombucker and the punch. After speaking with one of the guys at Tone Specific I decided to go with the bloombuckers but I was informed that both sets are more similar than they are different. From what I gathered the biggest difference between the two was in the bridge pickup. I was told that the punch bridge is more clear direct sounding while the bloom is more full and warm but still has plenty of cut and output. The bloom is designed to be the "perfect PAF " and the punch set was based around a SG type 60s PAF.
I don't think I could have gone wrong with either. I've never been so impressed with a humbucking neck pickup though. It has none of the mud that other neck pickups tend to give me. These pickups cover a lot of ground and that's kinda why I went with them over the punch. I'm sure the punch are very versatile aswell, but I play everything from hard rock to jazz and these pickups are just the ticket for me.
Dynamics were the main thing I wanted and the blooms are made to be dynamic and warm, while the punch are more direct pristine and clear. I'm bet a bloombucker neck and punch bridge would be a cool combination. But I don't think you can go wrong with either. I enjoy buying gear from small companies with good customer service and my experience with this company was great. There are so many great pickup makers out there today that it's really hard to choose, but I'm glad I gave these guys a chance and these pickups are never coming out of my R8.
When compared to each other the Neck pickups or somewhat similar in that they are both clear and articulate while retaining a great warmth and touch-sensitivity. They both stay articulate very when you roll of the tone. The 61 Punch Neck is more direct while the Bloombucker is a little rounder.
You must have been reading my mind as I have a Les Paul of mine out for service getting a pair of ThroBak's SLE -101 Plus pickups installed and I can't wait to get my hands on that guitar and Blast it thru my Marshall and hear the tone ! For my money I think they are the best alternative to real vintage Gibson PAF's.
I used to have the Throbaks and they are fine pickups. Way better than most of the current mass produced stuff but….
The Tone Specific 1959 Blues PAF are on another level there is just lot more going on dynamically and you can do so much by rolling off volume and or tone. In my opinion the only thing close are the Virgil Arlo or Ellis. Can't wait to try the Bloombuckers.


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Woman who killed daughters after 'they got in the way' of her sex life sentenced to life in prison
FOX NEWS - A woman found guilty in England of killing her two young daughters because they "got in the way" of her sex life has been jailed for life, the BBC reports.
Remorseless Louise Porton, 23, learned her punishment from a Birmingham Crown Court judge who called her "evil" and "calculated," the BBC reported. She will be eligible for parole after 32 years.
"These were blameless young children who were plainly vulnerable and ought to have been able to rely on their mother to protect and nurture them," Judge Amanda Yip told Porton, according to the BBC. "Instead you took their young lives away."
Porton killed the two children, three-year-old Lexi Draper and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughn last year within a three week period. Police said they were suffocated.
A man agreed to pay her for sex a week before Lexi was killed and when the girl was in the hospital, according to the BBC. Porton had met the man through a website.
At the start of the trial the prosecutor said it was not hard to draw the conclusion that for Porton "at times, her two children got in the way of her doing what she wanted when she wanted and with whom she wanted."
The jury convicted her Thursday.
"We welcome the sentence handed to Porton. These were premeditated murders for which she has shown no remorse and the length of the sentence reflects this," Warwickshire Police Detective Superintendent Pete Hill said.
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Heath Holland On...A Face in the Crowd
by Heath Holland
Sometimes movies have even more to say in the years after they were made than they did when they were new.
1957's A Face in the Crowd tells the story of Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, an alcoholic vagrant and southern ne'er-do-well who is as comfortable behind bars as he is playing his guitar. The film opens with the host of a local radio show (which is named "A Face in the Crowd") broadcasting from the town jail in an effort to display the raw reality of the everyman, saying that the American culture flows from the bottom up. It's not unlike NPR's This American Life in that she is seeking to convey the different daily experiences and perspectives of society by giving the spotlight to a wide array of voices from all walks of life. One prisoner immediately takes to the experience: with his casual, say-anything attitude, raucous guitar playing, and natural charisma, Lonesome Rhodes is an overnight sensation, and it isn't long before New York comes calling with the aim of putting him in the national spotlight. Can this wandering, womanizing scoundrel learn from his past and smooth his rough edges to embrace fame on a national scale, or is he doomed to self-implode? The movie takes a long look at celebrity and fame, showing how easy it is for those who entertain us to appear to be something they aren't.
The film was directed by Elia Kazan, the man who had earlier directed Marlon Brando in movies like A Streetcar Named Desire and On The Waterfront, as well as James Dean and Julie Harris in East of Eden. The screenplay is by Bud Schulburg, who adapted his own short story. Kazan's films often have big issues on their mind and something to say about the world that they inhabit, almost always without coming across as being preachy or feeling judgmental. A Face in the Crowd is no exception to this, and gives us a look at Lonesome Rhodes from several different perspectives, fleshing out his characters to the degree that they leap of the screen. Investing in the movie is easy because the people we're watching aren't archetypes; instead, they're like us, with both good and bad qualities. The films may be black and white, but Kazan's worlds aren't.
The cast is outstanding, and the movie owes a lot to their performances. Patricia Neal (Breakfast at Tiffany's) plays Marcia Jeffries, the Arkansas radio host of the program that propels Lonesome Rhodes to stardom; Neal also believably portrays the conflict that comes with being Rhodes' part-time lover. She's strong and ambitious, but she's also weak to his charms, and she hates that fact. Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple) is Mel Miller, a weary writer for the station who watches the meteoric rise of Rhodes and has reservations about what he sees unfolding. I've seen Matthau play comedy, I've seen him play a dangerous criminal boss, I've obviously seen him play a grumpy old man, but I don't ever recall seeing him play such a quiet, understated character. Mel Miller appears to have seen everything and been exhausted by it all. Anthony Franciosa (The Long, Hot Summer) is a businessman who ends up becoming a key player in Rhodes' rise, but he has motivations of his own.
The real star of the film is Andy Griffith, who makes his feature film debut as Lonesome Rhodes. This is one of those big-screen launches that will blow you away. I grew up with The Andy Griffith Show around me and in the background, but I never paid too much attention to it. I certainly never sat down and watched any of the episodes back then. I knew Andy Griffith for his "aw-shucks," country shtick, and I didn't like it. It's only been in the last couple of years that I've gone back and watched the show that made him famous, finally being able to enjoy it and become a fan. I've even been to his actual hometown, the real Mayberry in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, which is populated by old men sitting on benches and people warmly greeting strangers like they've known them all their lives. Candy stores, diners, and bakeries line the streets, and everyone stops to say hello. Mayberry might not have been real, but places like it are. I never thought Andy Griffith as much of an actor. He only seemed capable of being himself.
What a big mistake on my part. Any Griffith's performance is a tour de force; there's simply no other way to say it. The "aw-shucks" bit is there, but it's set within a dangerous frame. There's something about the character's eyes: they're wild, like an animal, ready to attack at a moment's notice. The character of Lonesome Rhodes is a hard-drinking, slovenly loser. He's a womanizer who is addicted to sex and addicted to seduction. He has no morals and no conscience. His greatest skill is the art of manipulation, and it's one that he practices often. Griffith's character on his television show was a quiet, dignified man who was almost never angry and certainly never lost his temper, but Lonesome Rhodes spend what seems like half of his time on the screen yelling and red-faced. I've seen more of Andy Griffith's uvula than I ever imagined possible. I'm not usually a fan of big, showy performances, but this one really impresses me because of how unique it is from this actor. It's a grating and INCREDIBLY annoying role, but that's exactly what it's intended to be, and it impresses me. There's also a vulnerability on display, but it's always unclear if it's genuine or just another manipulation. Griffith is so much more than I've given him credit for, and I have new respect for him as an actor. I've read that being Lonesome Rhodes caused problems for the actor in his private life because he ended up taking the character home with him. As far as I know, he never again went as dark as he did in this film.
Just as with any other movie, it's important to remember the context of A Face in the Crowd. Television was relatively new, having only recently replaced the radio as the center of every home's source of entertainment. With the newness and the novelty came a whole new set of dangers, and a people could be manipulated and exploited like never before. Kazan's film was timely and it cautiously reminded audiences to be aware the motivations BEHIND the images on television as well as to question what was being presented as reality. In A Face in the Crowd, everyone has an agenda.
Fast forward nearly 60 years later and the message of the film is as relevant now as it was in 1957. In fact, it's even more relevant, because the last six decades have proved that nothing really changes. If anything, our society has become even more addicted to the false existence presented in reality TV, the carefully packaged stories on the nightly news, the worship of celebrities who we build up only to tear down, and the idea that everyone is entitled to 15 minutes of fame. It's scary just how much HASN'T changed since A Face in the Crowd was filmed. It's a remarkable film populated with remarkable performances, and I guarantee you that you'll be thinking about it long after the credits have rolled.
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Joseph Finn March 18, 2015 at 1:53 PM
People can talk about Eliza Kazan and On The Waterfront all they like; this, to me, is his masterpiece and this is an excellent piece, Heath.
(By the way, you don't mention it so I'm wondering if you've ever seen Walter Matthau in Fail Safe. That's the other role of his that I immediately flash on, where he's an analyst, the equivalent of the mineshaft gap guy in Dr. Strangelove, whose logic has gone over into madness.)
Steve K. March 18, 2015 at 2:21 PM
Matthau is uber-creepy in that role. His calm assessment of what a nuclear bomb would do to New York sends chills down my spine. The implied message is that "rational" analysis of the incomprehensible makes it comprehensible, and thus more palatable.
Fail Safe will always be seen as the nerdy too-serious brother of Dr. Strangelove, but I think it's a great (and incredibly tense) movie.
Heath Holland March 18, 2015 at 3:47 PM
No, I've never seen Fail Safe, but now I'm definitely going to make the time to do so! Thanks, fellas.
Andy Bishop March 19, 2015 at 8:21 AM
What you said about television fame reminded me of when Joaquin Phoenix was doing that "I'm Still Here" movie and going around acting all weird. I never actually saw the movie, but I liked their inspiration for it which was basically that fame these days is just someone being a scripted version of themselves. Reality shows aren't really what those people are like. It's still their tv persona. Anyway, this is yet another recommendation from HHH that's going on my must-see list. You're giving me too much to watch Heath!
LoganGarrett March 19, 2015 at 2:29 PM
I've always told people that Andy Griffith was a great actor but they never believe me until they see this film then they change their minds. Plus i agree Fail Safe is a chilling masterpiece.


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Q: Serialization java to c# I have manged to serialize an arraylist in java using xstream, send it to my c# application via http and then write that to file (just for now).
The serialized data was an arraylist in java. I want to try and re form this arraylist in c# from the xml i have.
I have been looking at http://code.google.com/p/xstream-dot-net/ to do this. Does anyone know if that is the right way to go or is there a better way of reforming the serialized data in c#?

A: I have used JSON.NET (Newtonsoft) on the .NET side and Google's GSON on the java side and it seems to work for Dictionaries, Maps, Sets, Lists, Date, and primitive types with very little configuration involved. Refer to https://github.com/chandru9279/Spikes for it.

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The Witcher, Season 2: Geralt will talk more and will not only use grunts and swear words, for Cavill
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Geralt is not a man of many words, at least in Netflix's games and TV series. Henry Cavill – who plays the character on the TV show – wants to change that in season 2 of The Witcher . Cavill recently spoke to SFX magazine and made it clear that Geralt will be a little different next season. "For this season, I wanted to push hard to make sure he was more wordy," Cavill says. To him, this means " less grunting and less swearing ."
"There is always a risk that a character becomes a whim and uniquely comical by grunting and swearing, and is not representative of the talent of [Andrzej Sapkowski, author of The Witcher series]. Again, I have worked very hard to make him more intellectual. , have an expanded vocabulary and be representative of a man over 70 ".
The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich also highlighted the changes Geralt's character will undergo this season, particularly in regards to his new connection with his "Surprise Girl", Ciri (Freya Allan), and her companions. Witcher in Kaer Morhen.
"In Season 1 , Geralt is a person who believes he doesn't need anyone else, certainly not in the long term," says Hissrich. "As a Witcher, as a monster hunter, he doesn't want to have those bonds. Geralt feels they weaken him."
"In Season 2, we throw all these bonds at him . For me, the most exciting thing is seeing this lonely man learning to be a father. Seeing what he thought he was good at, and what he thought would be easy, and that kind of challenge will face … "
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VOD Dubai International Jewellery Show Presents Hosted Buyer Program at Dubai Precious Metals Conference
DMCC charters path for growth in the precious metals industry at DPMC in Dubai
DMCC, the world's leading Free Zone for commodities trade and enterprise, held the eighth edition of its annual industry-leading Dubai Precious Metals Conference (DPMC) today with the endorsement of the UAE Ministry of Economy. As one of the most content driven events in the calendar of global precious metals, the conference welcomed around 300 industry experts to discuss many of the key factors and opportunities shaping the precious metals market.
Held under the theme 'Unlocking Growth in Global Precious Metals', the conference was inaugurated by Gautam Sashittal, CEO, DMCC, who said:
"Global economic growth is slowing, trade conflicts persist, and recent geopolitical events have generated widespread uncertainty in markets. As an industry, we must rise to the challenge through being innovative, and by exhibiting a willingness to change, adapt and evolve. This is why DPMC is so important – its themes are synced with the priorities of the industry. Ultimately, DPMC is the platform to discover how, collectively, we can move forward, advance the industry and grow the precious metals sector as a whole."
The keynote speech was delivered by H.E. Juma Mohamed Al Kait, Assistant Undersecretary, UAE Ministry of Economy, who said:
"The gold, diamond and precious metals sector is one of the most important for the country's economic diversification and is expected to witness significant growth in the coming period as part of the UAE's diversification objectives. The UAE accounts for about 14 per cent of the world's gold trade, and Dubai in particular is rising through the ranks as a purchase and investment destination as it accounts for 20 per cent of world sales of precious metals. The strategic location on the trade routes of East and West makes the UAE an important gateway that connects the producing countries, the major manufacturing centres and the largest consuming markets in the world. DMCC plays a very crucial role as a leading hub for commodities and for putting the UAE on the world map as the leader in precious metal trading. DMCC's commitment to creating a diverse and robust trading environment aligns with the UAE's mission to be a diversified economy and promote economic growth and development."
First on the agenda was a discussion around 'Mining and the Return of Hedging', during which experts discussed and gauged the current mindset of mines in terms of whether or not to hedge in the wake of rising nominal dollar interest rates. Moderating the session, Jeffrey Rhodes, Founder & Managing Consultant, Rhodes Precious Metals Consultancy DMCC, commented:
"Since interest rates fell in 2008, there was no longer a forward curve, so if you sold one year forward, it was the same price as the spot so there was no need to hedge. In the past 12 – 15 months, the Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates and we now have nominal dollar interest rates at 2.5 per cent up from zero, which means there is once again a forward curve. Is that enough to attract the mining companies to hedge again; there is the debate."
The conversation then moved on to the impact that emerging technology has on the precious metal industry. Matthew Keen, Managing Director, RG Trading DMCC, said:
"What is happening now with technology is the market is being opened up to everybody. You don't even need a bank account, you just need a mobile phone, so it is realistic to say that gold is now becoming available to everybody thanks to the advancements in technology. Gold, ultimately, is the perfect medium if you are in emerging market territory and today the market is wide open to everybody and not just central banks or institutional investors."
The following session focused on 'Central Banks Approach to Gold', during which experts offered their insights on the impact of factors such as currencies and trade tensions on their decision-making processes. Alexander Pschenichnikov, Deputy Head of Department of State Regulation, Ministry of Finance, Russian Federation, highlighted:
"Despite rapidly changing world economics, gold has always been an instrument of savings and trade-monetary relations. The new rules of Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel III) that came into force on March 29, 2019 confirm the relevant axiom. Although new payment instruments and corresponding currencies are appearing, we see how unstable cryptocurrencies and other new currencies are. Therefore, gold will always be a solid long-term investment and keep its stable position."
Commenting on the relevance of jewellery in the changing landscape, Chandu Siroya, Vice Chairman, DGJG, said:
"Today, the biggest challenge facing all jewellers and gold traders is the anomaly of a decreasing demand for bullion and the increasing world supply. But the industry is focused on retaining gold as the first choice in the luxury spend. To do that, we all have to collaborate in order to evolve and to grow our businesses – success will stem from a collective effort."
To end the day, panellists discussed 'Opportunities and Challenges in White Metals', Rhona O'Connell, Head of Market Analysis, EMEA & Asia, INTL FCStone Ltd, said:
"There is an old saying, 'it is always darkest before the dawn.' In this particular context, I am thinking about the platinum market and platinum is clearly the metal within this sector that has been under pressure. This being said, recently there has been something of a turnaround and a feeling that the news has been priced into the market, so maybe it is time to do a little bit of bargain hunting."
Ross Norman, CEO, Sharps Pixley, left industry experts with an insightful price outlook:
"The outlook for pricing is dependent on the compound interest. My sense is we will be back at an all-time high within the next three to four years. People forget about the compounding effect on price rises. It was not so long ago, the price was $254, we never thought we would be at $1,300."
Delegates in attendance received a copy of the flagship 'World Silver Survey 2019' report, from The Silver Institute, which was also launched during the conference, with a simultaneous New York release. Published annually since 1990, the report details supply and demand statistics for key sectors of the silver market, as well price and trade data.
The conference was followed by a gala dinner where guests had the opportunity to network and reflect on the numerous insights gained throughout the day. The various sponsors were also awarded mementos during the evening.


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Q: Host two separate web servers on the same IP I currently have a Ubuntu web server with Apache setup and running wonderfully, I want to do two things, I want to setup two more boxes which would be on the same WAN address but of course have separate local addresses.
So say I have www.example.com as the main server
I also want test.example.com on a different box
and fun.example.com on a third.
How would I accomplish this?

A: From the Link Provided by George Kourouleas
Apache Reverse Proxy
Is what I was looking for
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName foo.com

  DocumentRoot /srv/www/default

  <Location "/">
    Order Deny, Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from all
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName fooa.com

  ProxyPreserveHost on
  ProxyPass / http://server2/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://server2/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName foob.com
  ServerAlias fooc.com

  ProxyPreserveHost on
  ProxyPass / http://server3/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://server3/
</VirtualHost>

Is perfectly what I wanted along with mod_proxy

A:
Note
Creating virtual host configurations on your Apache server does not
  magically cause DNS entries to be created for those host names. You
  must have the names in DNS, resolving to your IP address, or nobody
  else will be able to see your web site. You can put entries in your
  hosts file for local testing, but that will work only from the machine
  with those hosts entries.

# Ensure that Apache listens on port 80
Listen 80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /www/example1
    ServerName www.example.com

    # Other directives here
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /www/example2
    ServerName www.example.org

    # Other directives here
</VirtualHost>

The asterisks match all addresses, so the main server serves no
  requests. Due to the fact that the virtual host with ServerName
  www.example.com is first in the configuration file, it has the highest
  priority and can be seen as the default or primary server. That means
  that if a request is received that does not match one of the specified
  ServerName directives, it will be served by this first VirtualHost.

Answer from http://httpd.apache.org
Kind regards.


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Modern Languages and Literatures
Jèn Ti Fi: Haitian Girlhood In a Global Frame
Film Series and Lecture
Poster (pdf)
A film series presented by the French Program, co-sponsored by the Haitian Studies Institute.
Films are free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.
L'homme sur les quais (Raoul Peck, 1993, 106 min.)
11 a.m.–2:15 p.m.
4227 Boylan Hall, MLL Student Lounge
Woch Nan Soley (Patricia Benoit, 2012, 95 min.)
2:15–3:30 p.m.
Douvan jou ka lève (Gessica Généus, 2017, 51 min.)
11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Library
Following the March 26 film, a lecture and discussion with Régine Michelle Jean-Charles.
This lecture examines how Haitian girls are seen and heard in film, photography, and fiction. The visual and literary texts analyzed offer stories of Haitian girlhood that center their experiences, amplify their voices, and complicate their subjectivities. Through close readings of photography by FotoKonbit, an organization dedicated to documenting Haitians by Haitians, and analyses of the novel Aux frontières de la soif by Kettly Mars and Raoul Peck's film L'homme sur les quais, we will discuss how girls are invisibilized, while simultaneously focusing on what and how Haitians girls see for themselves.
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (Ph.D., Harvard University) is associate professor of French at Boston College. She is the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophhone Imaginary (Ohio University Press 2014). Her research and teaching interests include francophone African and Caribbean literatures and cultures, feminist theory, human rights in the humanities, and Haitian studies.
Organized by professors Nina Verneret and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. For more information, e-mail the Modern Languages and Literatures Department.
The Communities of Brooklyn
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
Brooklyn Language Day
What Can You Do With a Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures?
Heritage Language Programs
Global Seal of Biliteracy
Language Laboratories
Language Lunch Tables
Undergraduate and Graduate Advisement
Latina Life Stories
Language Advocacy Discussions


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Q: java.net.UnknownHostException: java.base/java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method) I have this code that works (there is one cavet).
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClients;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.EntityUtils;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.net.Inet6Address;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.NetworkInterface;
import java.util.Enumeration;

/**
*/
public class PorkbunDynDNSClient
{
    static String endpoint = "";
    static String apikey = "";
    static String secretapikey = "";

    private static String getLocalIPv6Address() throws IOException
    {
        InetAddress inetAddress = null;
        Enumeration<NetworkInterface> networkInterfaces = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces();
    outer:
        while (networkInterfaces.hasMoreElements())
        {
            Enumeration<InetAddress> inetAds = networkInterfaces.nextElement().getInetAddresses();
            while (inetAds.hasMoreElements())
            {
                inetAddress = inetAds.nextElement();
                //Check if it's ipv6 address and reserved address
                if (inetAddress instanceof Inet6Address && !isReservedAddr(inetAddress))
                {
                    break outer;
                }
            }
        }

        String ipAddr = inetAddress.getHostAddress();
        // Filter network card No
        int index = ipAddr.indexOf("%");
        if (index > 0) {
            ipAddr = ipAddr.substring(0, index);
        }

        return ipAddr;
    }

    /**
     * Check if it's "local address" or "link local address" or
     * "loopbackaddress"
     *
     * @param ip address
     *
     * @return result
     */
    private static boolean isReservedAddr(InetAddress inetAddr)
    {
        if (inetAddr.isAnyLocalAddress() || inetAddr.isLinkLocalAddress() || inetAddr.isLoopbackAddress())
        {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        if (args.length < 3)
        {
            System.out.println("Required arguments are domain, subdomain, record type\nExample 1: yourdomain.com \"www\" A\nExample 2: yourdomain.com \"\" A");
            return;
        }

        String domainName = args[0].toLowerCase();
        String subDomain = args[1].toLowerCase();
        String recordType = args[2].toUpperCase();

        String hostName = domainName;
        if(subDomain.length() > 0)
            hostName = subDomain+"."+domainName;

        // read config file
        try
        {
            File config = new File("./config.json");
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(config);
            byte[] data = new byte[(int) config.length()];
            fis.read(data);
            fis.close();
            String configStr = new String(data, "UTF-8");

            JSONObject configObj = new JSONObject(configStr);

            endpoint = configObj.get("endpoint").toString();
            apikey = configObj.get("apikey").toString();
            secretapikey = configObj.get("secretapikey").toString();

            System.out.println("API endpoint: "+endpoint);
            System.out.println("apikey: "+apikey);
            System.out.println("secretapikey: "+secretapikey);
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(0);
        }

        String realIp = "";

        // ping API to get current IP
        if(recordType.equals("AAAA"))
        {
            try
            {
                realIp = getLocalIPv6Address().toLowerCase();
                System.out.println("Detected current IPv6 as "+realIp+".");
            }
            catch(Exception e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
                System.out.println("Could not get IPv6 from local computer.");
                System.exit(0);
            }
        } else {
            JSONObject pingResult = ping();
            if(!pingResult.get("status").toString().equals("SUCCESS"))
            {
                System.out.println("Could not get ping result from API.");
                System.out.println(pingResult);
                System.exit(0);
            }
            System.out.println(pingResult);
            realIp = pingResult.get("yourIp").toString().toLowerCase();
            System.out.println("Detected current IPv4 as "+realIp+".");
        }

        // get current records
        JSONObject retrieveResult = retrieve(domainName);
        if(!retrieveResult.get("status").toString().equals("SUCCESS"))
        {
            System.out.println("Could not get records from API.");
            System.out.println(retrieveResult);
            System.exit(0);
        }
        System.out.println(retrieveResult);
        JSONArray records = (JSONArray)retrieveResult.get("records");
        for(int i = 0; i < records.length(); i++)
        {
            JSONObject record = (JSONObject)records.get(i);
            String currentId = record.get("id").toString().toLowerCase();
            String currentName = record.get("name").toString().toLowerCase();
            String currentType = record.get("type").toString().toUpperCase();
            String currentContent = record.get("content").toString().toLowerCase();

            if(currentName.equals(hostName) && currentType.equals(recordType))
            {
                System.out.println(currentType+" record for "+currentName+" is currently "+currentContent+".");
                if(!currentContent.equals(realIp))
                {
                    System.out.println("Modifying current DNS record due to IP address mismatch.");

                    // edit record
                    JSONObject editResult = edit(domainName, currentId, subDomain, currentType, realIp, "300", "0");
                    if(!editResult.get("status").toString().equals("SUCCESS"))
                    {
                        System.out.println("Could not edit record via API.");
                        System.out.println(editResult);
                        System.exit(0);
                    }
                    System.out.println(editResult);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    static JSONObject edit(String domain, String id, String name, String type, String content, String ttl, String prio)
    {
        JSONObject data = new JSONObject();
        data.put("name", name);
        data.put("type", type);
        data.put("content", content);
        data.put("ttl", ttl);
        data.put("prio", prio);
        String commandEndpoint = endpoint+"/dns/edit/"+domain+"/"+id;
        JSONObject result = sendCommand(commandEndpoint, data);

        return(result);
    }

    static JSONObject retrieve(String domain)
    {
        JSONObject data = new JSONObject();
        String commandEndpoint = endpoint+"/dns/retrieve/"+domain;
        JSONObject result = sendCommand(commandEndpoint, data);

        return(result);
    }

    static JSONObject ping()
    {
        JSONObject data = new JSONObject();
        String commandEndpoint = endpoint+"/ping";
        JSONObject result = sendCommand(commandEndpoint, data);

        return(result);
    }

    static JSONObject sendCommand(String url, JSONObject data)
    {
        JSONObject result = null;

        data.put("secretapikey", secretapikey);
        data.put("apikey", apikey);

        try (final CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault())
        {
                    final HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);

                StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(data.toString());
            httpPost.setEntity(entity);

                    try (final CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost))
            {
                        System.out.println(response.getCode() + " " + response.getReasonPhrase());
                        final HttpEntity entity2 = response.getEntity();
                String responseString = EntityUtils.toString(entity2, "UTF-8");
                result = new JSONObject(responseString);

                        EntityUtils.consume(entity2);
                    }
            catch(Exception e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
                return(null);
            }
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return(null);
        }

        return(result);
    }
}

This code comes from porkbun-dynamic-dns-java and it works fine on my Linux when the I am logged in.
But when I put this script to run on startup, I get this error:
API endpoint: https://porkbun.com/api/json/v3
apikey: xxxxx
secretapikey: xxxxx
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
java.net.UnknownHostException: porkbun.com: Falha temporária na resolução de nome
    at java.base/java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress$PlatformNameService.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:932)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1517)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress$NameServiceAddresses.get(InetAddress.java:851)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1507)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1366)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1300)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.SystemDefaultDnsResolver.resolve(SystemDefaultDnsResolver.java:43)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:118)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:409)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalExecRuntime.connectEndpoint(InternalExecRuntime.java:164)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalExecRuntime.connectEndpoint(InternalExecRuntime.java:174)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ConnectExec.execute(ConnectExec.java:135)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement$1.proceed(ExecChainElement.java:57)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:172)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement$1.proceed(ExecChainElement.java:57)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpRequestRetryExec.execute(HttpRequestRetryExec.java:93)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement$1.proceed(ExecChainElement.java:57)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ContentCompressionExec.execute(ContentCompressionExec.java:128)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement$1.proceed(ExecChainElement.java:57)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:116)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:178)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:75)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:89)
    at PorkbunDynDNSClient.sendCommand(PorkbunDynDNSClient.java:239)
    at PorkbunDynDNSClient.ping(PorkbunDynDNSClient.java:220)
    at PorkbunDynDNSClient.main(PorkbunDynDNSClient.java:142)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.json.JSONObject.get(String)" because "<local6>" is null
    at PorkbunDynDNSClient.main(PorkbunDynDNSClient.java:143)
API endpoint: https://porkbun.com/api/json/v3
apikey: xxxxx
secretapikey: xxxxx
Detected current IPv6 as 1xx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
java.net.UnknownHostException: porkbun.com: Falha temporária na resolução de nome
    at java.base/java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress$PlatformNameService.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:932)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1517)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress$NameServiceAddresses.get(InetAddress.java:851)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1507)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1366)
    at java.base/java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1300)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.SystemDefaultDnsResolver.resolve(SystemDefaultDnsResolver.java:43)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:118)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:409)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalExecRuntime.connectEndpoint(InternalExecRuntime.java:164)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalExecRuntime.connectEndpoint(InternalExecRuntime.java:174)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ConnectExec.execute(ConnectExec.java:135)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement$1.proceed(ExecChainElement.java:57)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:172)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement$1.proceed(ExecChainElement.java:57)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpRequestRetryExec.execute(HttpRequestRetryExec.java:93)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement$1.proceed(ExecChainElement.java:57)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ContentCompressionExec.execute(ContentCompressionExec.java:128)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement$1.proceed(ExecChainElement.java:57)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:116)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
    at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:178)
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    at PorkbunDynDNSClient.sendCommand(PorkbunDynDNSClient.java:239)
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.json.JSONObject.get(String)" because "<local6>" is null
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I am assuming this is because on startup I still don't have an issued IPv6 address.
I am having trouble fixing this error.
Can anyone help?

A: I have made this work, using systemd features.
I created a /etc/systemd/system/ddns-AAAA.service with the following content:
[Unit]
Description=DDNS AAAA record for domain.tld at Porkbun
Wants=network.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
User=joe
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ddns-AAAA
RemainAfterExit=yes
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10s
StartLimitInterval=1min

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How Much Salary Hike In Infosys – Home » Business » Infosys Pay Hike: Employees Get Up To 25% Salary Hike, Check Details
Infosys has given most employees a 10 to 13 percent pay hike.
At a time when the IT sector is facing difficulties, Infosys has hiked wages by 10-13 percent for a large section of its employees. According to a report by Livemint, top performers got raises in the 20-25 percent range.
Salary Hikes At Infosys: Employees Get Up To 25% Increase In Pay, Check Details
"It (salary increase) will range from 10 to 13 percent, and in some cases top performers have 20-25 percent," the report quoted Krish Shankar, executive vice president and head of human resources at Infosys, as saying.
Meanwhile, specialist staffing firm Xpheno said the Indian IT industry, which has recently seen insane salary and bonus hikes, is facing an economic challenge as companies cut salary and bonus hikes. Big tech companies, including TCS, HCL Tech and Wipro, have also slowed down hiring and frozen it as well.
According to Xpheno data, the IT services cohort has seen a 41 percent drop in hiring activity since April 2022. Tech startups saw hiring slow by 63 percent, and the software product cohort experienced a 58 percent drop in hiring activity, and this overall drop in hiring eased the war for talent. The data suggests an overall decline of 60-70 percent in the number of talent-seeking offers.
IT companies across the world, including in India, are also taking their time to hire freshers and resorting to layoffs as well. Leading chipmaker Intel plans to cut thousands of jobs to cut costs. Previously, technology giants Microsoft, Google and Tesla have already announced layoffs.
Infosys Will Hike Salaries Of Deserving Employees In April; Will Hire 50,000 Freshers To Combat 27% Attrition
IT companies – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro and HCL Tech, among others – are facing high attrition rates, with the IT sector's average attrition rate (last twelve months) currently standing at 25 percent. Recent quarters have seen higher dropout rates and hiring has slowed. Experts say that the main reason for the high attrition is that the growth opportunities in the IT sector are relatively less now compared to other sectors.
Infosys this week reported a voluntary attrition of 27.1 percent for the September 2022 quarter (2QFY23). While it was down from 28.4 percent in the previous quarter, it was higher year-on-year than the 20.1 percent recorded in Q2 FY22.
HCL Tech's churn (trailing twelve months) remained at 23.8 percent in Q2 2023, TCS' churn in IT services was 21.5 percent in the September 2022 quarter (compared to 19.7 percent in the previous quarter and 17.4 percent in the March quarter). Wipro's voluntary redundancy, measured in the trailing 12 months of the quarter, was 23 percent, down 30 basis points from the previous quarter, the company said.
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MUMBAI: Infosys Ltd is incentivizing employees with pay hikes, retention bonuses, job rotation and promotions to overcome record employee turnover as companies vie for scarce talent in digital, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and life sciences. data.
The company plans to offer an average raise of 12-13% to its employees in India, while high-potential employees will get a raise of 20-23% and a retention bonus. Infosys also offers top performers better roles and opportunities to learn new skills such as artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML). The company compares salaries with peers and plans to offer special benefits to key employees.
"Infosys will offer top performers a 20-23% raise. A retention bonus will also be provided for them," said an industry executive on condition of anonymity.
Infosys Rolls Out Mid To High Single Digit Salary Hike For A Majority Of Its Employees Business News , Firstpost
Demand for tech workers has increased since the start of the pandemic, as companies have initiated digital transformation projects to cope with disruptions caused by lockdowns, remote work and the popularity of e-commerce. Inflation, which hit an eight-year high in April, is also pushing up compensation at companies.
Rising demand has prompted employees to switch jobs in record numbers in search of higher salaries, better roles and higher stock prices. As a result, Infosys posted a record turnover rate of 27.7% in the March quarter, up from 10.9% a year ago and 25.5% turnover in the three months ended December 31.
By comparison, larger rival Tata Consultancy Services Ltd reported a 17.4% cut in the March quarter. Wipro's contraction ratio was 23.8% and HCL Technologies' 21.9%.
Still, with 314,015 employees at the end of March, Infosys is going beyond salary hikes to keep its workforce from stagnating. Managers were asked to assure employees that they will have the opportunity to work in diverse teams and learn in-demand skills such as AI and ML.
Infosys Defers Salary Hikes To July, Even Later For Senior Executives
"Infosys and its competitors also have to work on legacy technologies, and employees today want to keep up with AI and ML and learn new skills. Thus, line managers assure teams that the best will work on projects with new technologies. It's not just about on-site capabilities anymore," said another executive who works with the company, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Another person with knowledge of the changes said Infosys is also planning a flexible benefits policy that will provide more benefits to its key employees.
Competitors will now have to match Infosys' moves as the big trend of resignations in the technology sector continues. In his post-earnings press conference, Infosys chairman and chief executive Salil Parekh said the company's new initiatives will help reduce pollution.
"We're also seeing many of the initiatives we've implemented in terms of employee engagement, compensation, job rotation, career development already having an impact, and we expect them to have an impact in the coming quarters. we believe we have some of these initiatives in place to help us move forward," Parekh said in April.
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Increasing employee engagement will attract more parties and new graduates to the technology company. Infosys hired 85,000 freshers last fiscal year and plans to hire around 50,000 college graduates in FY23. A senior technology consultant said top companies have no choice but to absorb rising employee costs until layoffs ease.
The tech sector with the highest churn rate also has a non-compete policy, and Infosys is in the spotlight. On Tuesday, the Union labor ministry is expected to hold a "joint discussion" on the application of the non-compete clause, which prevents an employee from joining a rival technology company for six months after Infosys exits.
The meeting will be between the chief labor commissioner and the Senate of Information Technology Employees (NITES), the Pune-based union that has petitioned the ministry to scrap Infosys' non-compete clause, as well as company officials.
A previous meeting in April was canceled when Infosys informed the ministry that it had not received a copy of the public complaint.
Infosys Employees Will Get An Average Salary Hike Of 6 To 12% This Year
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Infosys To Hike Salaries Across All Levels From January 2021
Infosys provides competitive compensation options to its employees. Not only that, the IT professional also plans to increase his goal setting goals. While higher employee wages and net layoffs will lead to a further surge in costs, which is likely to affect the company's profitability in the short term, the move is believed to reduce its attrition rate, which has increased by about 70 basis points sequentially. in the quarter ending June 30, 2022 (Q1 FY23). Infosys has already achieved the highest number of hires in the first quarter compared to peers such as TCS, Wipro and HCL Tech. In the last quarter, the company's aggressiveness led to lower loadings, which affected the operating margin.
Infosys had 3,35,186 employees in Q1 FY2023, a net increase of 21,171 from 3,14,015 employees as of March 31, 2022. 67,953
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The readings for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany are: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Psalm 62:5-12; I Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20.
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New Nintendo 2DS XL Black and Lime Green, a new member of the Nintendo 3DS Family. With an ergonomic, folding design, fast processing power and a C Stick for enhanced controls, it's a new kind of Nintendo 2DS. Featuring a spacious 4.88 inch screen and build in amiibo functionality, the New Nintendo 2DS XL can play the entire library of Nintendo 3DS in 2D.
Release date: 29 June 2018.
Suitable for the 2DS, 3DS and 3DS XL.
This hardware bundle contains a black + lime green New Nintendo 2DS XL system with a digital copy of Mario Kart 7 pre-installed on a 4GB microSD card plus a Nintendo 3DS AC adapter.
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It's almost 90 years since former lady's maid Ellen Ballinger became the first tenant at Bartonsham's Jane Hayes Almshouses. Sharon Elson unravels the tale here (Portrait of Sharon by Laura Loo Photography).
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The Belko Experiment / *1/2 (2016)
I may be going out on a limb when I suggest that "The Belko Experiment" has been manufactured by motivated filmmakers. Clearly molded in the image of the recent "Purge" series – where the scares are brought on by social and political unrests – here is a film that so agonizes over the effort to marry its violent nature with discussion-worthy contexts that there is little reason to contemplate skepticism. Someone high up, be it Greg McLean (the director) or James Gunn (the writer), was tapping into the most pointed trend of the times. But if I was paying attention to, say, a random soliloquy in one of the great Shakespeare tragedies, does that also mean I'm a fluent practitioner of the language? Can I turn around and recite the famous words of Hamlet while understanding the metaphorical nuance behind the conviction? A horror movie may not be in the same league as Shakespeare, of course, but there's just about as much divide between those comparisons as there is between the concept of this movie and reality of those it imitates. A greater genre endeavor about the political ramifications of its terror will drive the point down to the guts of an issue, leaving one to contemplate the argument as their senses recover from an assault. What goes on in the frames of this film plays like an understanding of procedure but nothing of soul.
A sense of this reality emerges in the early scenes. The key characters ("key" being a superfluous word) assemble in a concrete building under the ominous watch of expressionless security guards in sunglasses – you know, the sort that look as if they've still recovering from unsatisfactory salary negotiations. This, we quickly learn, is an office dwelling for a nonprofit organization known as Belko, which is set up in South America and hosts a diverse faculty of American and native employees. What they promote and why is never openly discussed, although there is dialogue emphasizing the paradox: "no one has really been paying attention to any of our work." That is true on some professional level, perhaps, but not the instinctual. Then a voice rings out amongst the flurry of monotonous grinds and watercooler chit-chat that is at first perceived to be an elaborate hoax: soon the doors will locked, and within 24 hours nearly all of the people inside will be deceased. How? The voice insists they will kill one another. Then, in an act that underlines the seriousness of the claim, four of the employees drop dead after the back of their skulls explode, an apparent side-effect of being imprinted with a device meant to track their movements.
At this point my own intrigue was far more stimulated by what wasn't being said. Any soul perceptive enough to know the ways of the world would see a variety of these details as foreshadowing hair-triggers – the tracking device, a compound in the middle of nowhere, a cushy job outside of mainstream civilization with all expenses paid, little supervision from above, the list goes on. But no one involved in those early moments – no, not even an ambivalent supervisor named Barry (Tony Goldwyn) – can sense the gravity in the warning signs. They are lambs cluelessly being led through a routine slaughter. That certainly inspires wonder about the external influences, although the movie is not destined to explore them until a good number of the employees have been offed in very violent ways. Among a plethora of recent films that might have inspired McClean and Gunn's sense of choreography, "Hostel" and "The Purge" seem to hold the heaviest weight. But the violence doesn't underline the predicament with a subtext, whereas in those films we knew, to some level, what motivated those orchestrating all the fatal mayhem.
That could work in a movie where the survivors have some sense of identity, of which "The Belko Experiment" possesses none. The predestined hero of the film is Mike (John Gallagher, Jr.), whose most distinguishing characteristic is his ability to remain human; during heated discussions in which the more primal-thinking brutes propose shooting the least desirable employees in order to endure, he is the lone voice in the crowd who sees the implication from beyond the carnal surface. But he is also a wimp with little in the way of cunning, especially during a barrage of third act massacres. Then the screenplay forgets him altogether as the more ruthless individuals – like the creepy Wendell (John c. McGinley) – take center stage in their long journey towards moral destruction. They are motivated, to be sure, by a desperation that comes from the mysterious voice over the intercom; in a critical moment they are told that unless 30 of the remaining survivors are murdered, the tracking devices will be detonated on 60 of them instead. When a room is full of people who are old and without families, who do you think the stronger ones are going to single out to survive the test?
The climactic reveal inspires its own mystifying frustration. After a lone survivor (I will refrain from revealing their identity) is taken into a compound to learn about the grand experiment, their motivation becomes one of strategic vengeance. A detail in an earlier scene involved another character harvesting the undetonated tracking devices off the dead by removing them from their heads, thus quietly inspiring them to wind up in the hands of the one who will emerge victorious. Somehow, amidst an endless parade of violent interrogations and struggles, they all wind up being planted on Belko's diabolical bosses so that the survivor can exact revenge on them. Two fatal flaws: 1) what is the likelihood that an enemy using a facility wall-to-wall with cameras will miss catching that detail?; and 2) how can one person literally mark each person in the room with one without any of them noticing until they climactic moment? Their implausibility is underscored further by the screenplay's inability to call on the gimmick at the right time; rather than utilize this final jolt at the end of the villains explaining themselves, the explosive victory comes in the middle of the reveal, leaving us with more unanswered questions than actual conclusions.
A sequel was clearly on their minds. The film's final shot shows the last one standing emerge in the light from the exhausting experience, and the camera pulls back to hundreds of video monitors showing the same moment in a plethora of locales scattered across the globe. Yet the faces, battered and scarred, all reflect the sentiment of any audience with an IQ higher than the average turnip – no one wants to participate any longer in this "experiment" than necessary, especially if they are frustrated further by the senselessness of the game. The arrogant conceit that inspires the director and writer could be admirable in a time when horror films have the capacity to be far drearier, but those that confuse ambition with insight are not the sorts that ought to be living with a false assumption. "The Belko Experiment" is painfully dull and misguided on its own; the idea that anyone wanted to do a follow-up goes to emphasize the delusion of a new breed of imitators running rampant in the margins.
Written by DAVID KEYES
Horror/Action (US); 2016; Rated R; Running Time: 89 Minutes
John Gallagher, Jr.: Mike Milch
Tony Goldwyn: Barry Norris
Adria Arjona: Leandra Florez
John C. McGinley: Wendell Dukes
Melonie Diaz: Dany Wilkins
Produced by Dan Clifton, James Gunn, Simon Hatt, Jimmy Holcomb and Peter Safran; Directed by Greg McLean; Written by James Gunn
Labels: *1/2, 2016, HORROR, MYSTERY, POLITICAL, REVIEWS, THRILLER
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Rapist who murdered baby killer and 16 of the most shocking crimes in Leeds Crown Court
A rapist who murdered a baby killer, a TV producer caught in a predator sting and a trio who attacked a dad and son with an axe are just some of the most shocking cases in Leeds Crown Court in 2018.
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Some of the most shocking cases in Leeds Crown Court in 2018
Here is a roundup of some of the most shocking and horrific convictions heard in Leeds Crown Court in 2018. All sentencing details accurate at time of convictions.
John Westland was told he must spend a minimum of 19 years behind bars for the murder of Liam Deane. The rapist murdered a baby killer behind bars.
David Moseley,59, was given 35 years in jail for raping children in the 1970s and 1980s.
Wakkas Butt was the ringleader of a criminal gang involved in a long-running fued that led to Leeds first gangbo injunctions. The crime boss was locked up for 21 years over his involvement in a shooting in the city.
Gary O'Neil, 39 of Stratford Street, Beeston, was found guilty of aggravated burglary and got 15-and-a half years. Terence Honey, 32, got 14 years 3 months. Paul Cameron, 38, got 10 years, 11 months for aggravated burglary.
EVIL killer John Taylor, 62, was given a WHOLE life prison sentence after admitting a string of violent sex crimes against a seven-year-old child and a four women.
Peter Stalgis, 60, killed Angela Conoby at their home on Berkeley Mount, Harehills, in May this year. He was given 14 years in prison.
Carl Hartley was given bail on multiple occasions over a three year period after targeting lone woman at night. Hartley, from Leeds, was jailed for life after pleading guilty to two offences of rape one of sexual assault.
A son killed his mum by repeatedly hitting her over the head with a claw hammer in their home. Diane Jones, 62, died as a result of the blows inflicted by son Wayne Beer, 42. He was committed to a high security hospital.
Haseltine, 31, of Bradford Road, Stanningley, dragged his girlfriend off the toilet, punched her and hit her with a leek in a series of attacks He got 26 months for three counts of assault and one of dangerous driving
Dawn Cranston, 45, got 4 years. Gran Denise Cranston, 70, 3 years, both for manslaughter. Jordans sister, Abigail Burling, 25, was cleared of manslaughter but guilty of allowing death of a vulnerable adult and got 18 months
Sean Lisgo, of Lupton Hall, Alma Road, Headingley, was jailed for three years, four months after security officers found cocaine, LSD and ketamine in his room and he'd been dealing drugs to pay his tuition fees.
The religion tutor was jailed for five years. Idris, 46, of Autumn Avenue, Hyde Park, was found guilty of sexual assault on a child under the age of 13 after a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
Kieran McGowan, 23, spent the afternoon drinking in a pub before he got behind the wheel and knocked down Kate Whalley. He was jailed for four and half years after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
Adam Robinson, 33, of Ashton Crescent, Bramley, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and false imprisonment after trying to strangle his girlfriend with a phone wire before an armed standoff. He got 27 months.
The TV producer was arrested outside The Queens Hotel in Leeds after being confronted by members of an onlilne paedophile vigilante group. The 55-year-old thought he was meeting a 13-year-old girl. He got 18 months in jail.
The callous sex attacker kidnapped a young woman before raping her while she was unconscious. He was jailed for ten years.
A SEX attacker subjected a woman to a violent rape in front of her bed-bound husband in a "degrading" assault after forcing his way into their flat in Leeds. Smith got 18 years in jail.