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Best Buy Multifunction Printers in India
By Digit | Price Updated on 21-Dec-2020
Whether it concerns printing photos or reams of spreadsheets, here's our pick of the best MFPs available in the market for your home or small office needs. Although the prices of the products mentioned in the list given below have been updated as of 16th Jan 2021, the list itself may have changed since it was last published due to the launch of new products in the market since then.
If it's an MFD you want, then it's the 7065DN that you need. This device is the very model of the ideal MFD and features everything that you would need in such a device. It's very well-built too and seems eminently reliable in operation. What really stood out here was the consistency of the performance, which was simply excellent across the board. There were issues with high-quality prints, but even normally quality prints are as good as the best, so you needn't worry. The device is on the more expensive side, but then, such a device is meant for volume printing in small offices anyway.
The slightly smaller, cheaper version of the 7065DN, the 7060D is almost every bit as good as the 7065. Think of it as a very slightly watered-down version of its elder brother. If it weren't for the existence of the 7065-DN, this is the device that would have won our best performer crown. At around Rs.10,000, this is almost ideal in terms of value for money. Buy this if you can't afford the 7065DN.
At an MOP of Rs.8,500, the DCP 1511 is definitely among the cheaper MFDs we've tested. Sadly, this comes across in our test, where the device failed our point-size test, proving itself incapable of rendering very fine text. That said, this is an issue that very few of you will need to worry about and the device is cheaper than a lot of the other alternatives and this is, by far, the cheapest printer to run. Recommended for those who just need text prints at low cost.
This is a feature-rich printer with just barely adequate performance. If you're looking at text prints of normal documents, this printer is no different from any other printer out there, but when you start looking at mixed documents and point size tests, the cracks start to show. The mixed documents showcased plenty of striations in images and text quality at smaller point sizes degraded considerably with a decrease in size. However, if you're not concerned with printing fine text and image quality, this is an adequate device.
RICOH AFICIO SP 200S
This is an interesting MFD as it's a very basic one, but performs almost as well as just about any other MFD in the market. In the course of our testing we discovered that the SP200S has very decent image printing capabilities, which might seem irrelevant in a monochrome laser printer, but will make a world of a difference if you print a lot of mixed documents. Draft prints were surprisingly awful, but then again, one can argue that the printer used the ink very sparingly. An excellent printer for low volume printing.
RICOH AFICIO SP 203SFN
Designed to be a printer for SOHO use, the Aficio is very accommodating of all needs that such an environment would require. It includes support for features such as an Automated Document Feeder, FAX support and a higher capacity input tray. The only issue with this printer is the price, which is quite high, but if you're in the habit of printing vast volumes of pages and would find ADF support to be a necessity, this is the printer for you.
PANASONIC KX-MB1500 SXB
Another device that doesn't particularly stand out, the KX-MB1500 SXB (quite a mouthful) is a decent device with adequate performance for low volume printing. What does stand is the fact that the device is extremely compact for an MFD, in part due to the recessed input/output trays. Another high note for the device was the scan quality, which was actually quite decent with good colour reproduction.
RICOH AFICIO SP100SU
As far as MFDs go, there's nothing really that stands out with this device. Its sedate design, adequate print speed and quality printing make this an excellent device for offices where the MFDs sole purpose is to churn out print-outs when necessary and remain unobtrusively in the background the rest of the time. This is a printer that doesn't stand out in either a good way or a bad one, which is perfectly acceptable in an MFD.
List Of Best Buy Multifunction Printers In India
Brother DCP-7065DN amazon ₹15100
Brother DCP-7060D flipkart ₹10100
Brother DCP-1511 N/A ₹9490
Brother MFC-1811 amazon ₹1310
Ricoh Aficio SP 200S amazon ₹13083
Ricoh Aficio SP 203SFN amazon ₹19110
Panasonic KX-MB1500 SXB amazon ₹10900
Ricoh Aficio SP100SU amazon ₹6499
Canon E4270 All-in-One Ink Efficient WiFi Printer with FAX/ADF/Duplex Printing (Black)
HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 5075 All-in-One Printer (Print, Scan, Copy, Wifi-DIRECT, Duplex)
Canon Pixma G 2000 Multi-function Color Printer (Black, Ink Bottle)
HP Deskjest Ink Advantage 5075 Multi-function Wireless Color Printer (Black)
Best of Printers
Best Ink Tank Printers in India
Best All-in-One Printers for Home and Small Offices
Best Printers in India


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Pats, Chiefs, Rams, Cowboys are top 4 in AP Pro32 poll
New England Patriots quarterback Jarrett Stidham, left, looks for a receiver past New York Jets defensive tackle Steve McLendon (99) in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
By SIMMI BUTTAR AP Pro Football Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Through three weeks, the NFL's big four are as dominant as ever.
The New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys, all division winners last year, are undefeated so far and occupy the top four spots in the AP Pro32 poll for the second consecutive week.
"Their seven-game preseason is over. We'll find out more about this team in the coming weeks, but they look good." Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk said of the Cowboys.
For the third consecutive week, New England received 11 of the 12 first-place votes for 383 points in balloting Tuesday by media members who regularly cover the NFL.
"The gamble on Antonio Brown might be the only thing Bill Belichick loses all season," Newsday's Bob Glauber said.
"This might be one of Belichick's best defensive teams ever, which is bad news for everyone else."
The Chiefs collected the remaining first-place vote and 369 points.
"The NFL has been around for 100 years and we've never seen a quarterback begin his career quite like Patrick Mahomes," said Ira Kaufman of Fox 13 in Tampa, Florida.
"As a result, the Chiefs make opponents cover every blade of grass."
The Green Bay Packers, also perfect through three games, moved up two spots to No. 5.
"Defense is carrying (Aaron) Rodgers, too," said Fox Sports' John Czarnecki.
The Packers will open Week 4 when they host Carson Wentz and the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday night.
The Baltimore Ravens slipped a spot to No. 6 after losing to the Chiefs.
The New Orleans Saints jumped three places to No. 7 after their impressive 33-27 win at Seattle in their first game since Drew Brees injured his throwing hand. The Seahawks are the third NFC West team in the top 10, but they dropped four spots to No. 10.
The Minnesota Vikings inched up a spot to No. 8, and the San Francisco 49ers climbed three places to No. 9 entering their bye week after staying unbeaten with a win over Pittsburgh.
The Buffalo Bills, another 3-0 team, remained at No. 11. They host the Patriots on Sunday.
"Litmus test coming Sunday against visiting Patriots," said Alex Marvez of Sirius XM.

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There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Published on October 18, 2021, by JPRoscoe - Posted in Movies 0
A few moments, some brutal kills
Feels like a Scream rip-off that is missing parts of the plot
Movie Name: There's Someone Inside Your House
Studio: Netflix/Atomic Monster/21 Laps Entertainment
Genre(s): Horror
Release Date(s): September 23, 2021 (Fantastic Fest)/October 6, 2021 (US)
Does this face mask clash with my outfit?
Everyone has secrets, but Makani Young (Sydney Park) might have secrets bigger than most. Trying to put her past behind her, Makani has moved from Hawaii to Osborne, Nebraska where she hopes she can build a new life her senior year. Unfortunately, no one in Osborne's past is hidden. Someone is on a killing spree and secrets seem to be the weapon of choice for the killer…along with knives. Makani and her friends must stay alive long enough to find the killer, and it could be anyone of them.
Directed by Patrick Brice, There's Someone Inside Your House is a teen horror slasher film. The movie is an adaptation of Stephanie Perkins' 2017 novel and premiered at Fantastic Fest before being released on Netflix.
Like many Netflix movies, it seemed like you couldn't avoid There's Someone Inside Your House when it was released. It was all over Netflix's front page and touted how many people were watching it…with an October release, a new slasher movie has potential. There's Someone Inside Your House has its moments but it also feels oddly truncated and cliché.
So wait…since you're not wearing my face mask, you can't kill me right? It is kind of a serial killer ethics thing…
The title is almost a misnomer (along with the poster). It feels like the story is going to be a home invasion story, and while there are a few moments taking place in the homes of the characters, the title really doesn't relate back much to the story. The characters largely go about their lives with a heightened sense of security despite the fact a serial killer seems to be on the loose in this tiny country town where everyone seems to know each other. As expected, the mystery surrounding the killer gets closer and closer to Makani and anyone can be a suspect (leading to a very expected solution).
The cast is young and that is what is needed for a project like this, but it is also a hindrance. The characters feel like cardboard cutouts from the factor of "teens" and though horror movies today present a much more positive, balanced, and inclusive cast, it sometimes feels a bit unrealistic especially when considering the location of this movie…things are changing in the United States, but acceptance still is a challenge in certain parts of country.
What's the matter…sword got your tongue?
The film has some extremely brutal kills which distinguishes it from the typical PG-13 "try to capture all viewers" kills of some modern slashers. The killer is quite brutal and puts money into his/her kills (which also serves as a kind of a giveaway in a murder that seems unrealistic). The brutality and more so the timing of the kills doesn't seem that bright in comparison to the killer's abilities and the "it's a frame-up" aspect of the story which is common doesn't work well here…any half-assed police work could prove much of the cast innocent if it went to court.
There's Someone Inside Your House fortunately doesn't run long, but it also feels like the viewer is missing out on major points of development. The movie feels incomplete and that it was either meant to be longer or meant to be a mini-series…the result is a so-so entry that at least has the vibes and feel of a post-Scream 1990s slasher…be it a plus-or-minus to the preference of the viewers.


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Athlenstan works great in any branding, logos, magazines, films, poster, flyer, sign board.


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by Langston Hughes January 16, 2023
This is my land, America. Naturally, I love it—it is home—and I am vitally concerned about its mores, its democracy, and its well-being. I try now to look at it with clear, unprejudiced eyes. My ancestry goes back at least four generations on American soil and, through Indian blood, many centuries more. My background and training is purely American—the schools of Kansas, Ohio, and the East. I am old stock as opposed to recent immigrant blood.
Yet many Americans who cannot speak English—so recent is their arrival on our shores—may travel about our country at will securing food, hotel, and rail accommodations wherever they wish to purchase them. I may not. These Americans, once naturalized, may vote in Mississippi or Texas, if they live there. I may not. They may work at whatever job their skills command. But I may not. They may purchase tickets for concerts, theatres, lectures wherever they are sold throughout the United States. Often I may not. They may repeat the Oath of Allegiance with its ringing phrase of "Liberty and justice for all," with a deep faith in its truth—as compared with the limitations and oppressions they have experienced in the Old World. I repeat the oath, too, but I know that the phrase about "liberty and justice" does not fully apply to me. I am an American—but I am a colored American.
I know that all these things I mention are not all true for all localities all over America. Jim Crowism varies in degree from North to South, from the mixed schools and free franchise of Michigan to the tumbledown colored schools and open terrorat the polls of Georgia and Mississippi. All over America, however, against the Negro there has been an economic color line of such severity that since the Civil War we have been kept most effectively, as a racial group, in the lowest economic brackets. Statistics are not needed to prove this. Simply look around you on the Main Street of any American town or city. There are no colored clerks in any of the stores—although colored people spend their money there. There are practically never any colored street-car conductors or bus drivers—although these public carriers run over streets for which we pay taxes. There are no colored girls at the switchboards of the telephone company—but millions of Negroes have phones and pay their bills. Even in Harlem, nine times out of ten, the man who comes to collect your rent is white. Not even that job is given to a colored man by the great corporations owning New York real estate. From Boston to San Diego, the Negro suffers from job discrimination.
Yet America is a land where, in spite of its defects, I can write this article. Here the voice of democracy is still heard—Wallace, Willkie, Agar, Pearl Buck, Paul Robeson, Lillian Smith. America is a land where the poll tax still holds in the South—but opposition to the poll tax grows daily. America is a land where lynchers are not yet caught—but Bundists are put in jail, and majority opinion condemns the Klan. America is a land where the best of all democracies has been achieved for some people—but in Georgia, Roland Hayes, world-famous singer, is beaten for being colored and nobody is jailed—nor can Mr. Hayes vote in the State where he was born. Yet America is a country where Roland Hayes can come from a log cabin to wealth and fame—in spite of the segment that still wishes to maltreat him physically and spiritually, famous though he is.
This segment, the South, is not all of America. Unfortunately, however, the war with its increased flow of white Southern workers to Northern cities, has caused the Jim Crow patterns of the South to spread all over America, aided and abetted by the United States Army. The Army, with its policy of segregated troops, has brought Jim Crow into communities where it was but little, if at all, in existence before Pearl Harbor. From Camp Custer in Michigan to Guadalcanal in the South Seas, the Army has put its stamp upon official Jim Crow, in imitation of the Southern states where laws separating Negroes and whites are as much a part of government as are Hitler's laws segregating Jews in Germany. Therefore, any consideration of the current problems of the Negro people in America must concern itself seriously with the question of what to do about the South.
The South opposes the Negro's right to vote, and this right is denied us in most Southern states. Without the vote a citizen has no means of protecting his constitutional rights. For Democracy to approach its full meaning, the Negro all over America must have the vote. The South opposes the Negro's right to work in industry. Witness the Mobile shipyard riots, the Detroit strikes fomented by Southern whites against the employment of colored people, the Baltimore strikes of white workers who objected to Negroes attending a welding school which would give them the skill to rate upgrading. For Democracy to achieve its meaning, the Negro like other citizens must have the right to work, to learn skilled trades, and to be upgraded.
The South opposes the civil rights of Negroes and their protection by law. Witness lynchings where no one is punished, witness the Jim Crow laws that deny the letter and spirit of the Constitution. For Democracy to have real meaning, the Negro must have the same civil rights as any other American citizen. These three simple principles of Democracy—the vote, the right to work, and the right to protection by law—the South opposes when it comes to me. Such procedure is dangerous for all America. That is why, in order to strengthen Democracy, further the war effort, and achieve the confidence of our colored allies, we must institute a greater measure of Democracy for the eight million colored people of the South. And we must educate the white Southerners to an understanding of such democracy, so they may comprehend that decency toward colored peoples will lose them nothing, but rather will increase their own respect and safety in the modern world.
I live on Manhattan Island. For a New Yorker of color, truthfully speaking, the South begins at Newark. A half-hour by tube from the Hudson Terminal, one comes across street-corner hamburger stands that will not serve a hamburger to a Negro customer wishing to sit on a stool. For the same dime a white pays, a Negro must take his hamburger elsewhere in a paper bag and eat it, minus a plate, a napkin, and a glass of water. Sponsors of the theory of segregation claim that it can be made to mean equality. Practically, it never works out that way. Jim Crow always means less for the one Jim Crowed and an unequal value for his money—no stool, no shelter, merely the hamburger, in Newark.
As the colored traveller goes further South by train, Jim Crow increases. Philadelphia is ninety minutes from Manhattan. There the all-colored grammar school begins its separate education of the races that Talmadge of Georgia so highly approves. An hour or so further down the line is Baltimore where segregation laws are written in the state and city codes. Another hour by train, Washington. There the conductor tells the Negro traveller, be he soldier or civilian, to go into the Jim Crow coach behind the engine, usually half a baggage car, next to trunks and dogs.
That this change to complete Jim Crow happens at Washington is highly significant of the state of American democracy in relation to colored peoples today. Washington is the capital of our nation and one of the great centers of the Allied war effort toward the achievement of the Four Freedoms. To a southbound Negro citizen told at Washington to change into a segregated coach the Four Freedoms have a hollow sound, like distant lies not meant to be the truth.
The train crosses the Potomac into Virginia, and from there on throughout the South life for the Negro, by state law and custom, is a hamburger in a sack without a plate, water, napkin, or stool—but at the same price as the whites pay—to be eaten apart from the others without shelter. The Negro can do little about this because the law is against him, he has no vote, the police are brutal, and the citizens think such caste-democracy is as it should be.
For his seat in the half-coach of the crowded Jim Crow car, a colored man must pay the same fare as those who ride in the nice air-cooled coaches further back in the train, privileged to use the diner when they wish. For his hamburger in a sack served without courtesy the Southern Negro must pay taxes but refrain from going to the polls, and must patriotically accept conscription to work, fight, and perhaps die to regain or maintain freedom for people in Europe or Australia when he himself hasn't got it at home. Therefore, to his ears most of the war speeches about freedom on the radio sound perfectly foolish, unreal, high-flown, and false. To many Southern whites, too, this grand talk so nobly delivered, so poorly executed, must seem like play-acting. Liberals and persons of goodwill, North and South, including, no doubt, our President himself, are puzzled as to what on earth to do about the South—the poll-tax South, the Jim Crow South—that so shamelessly gives the lie to Democracy. With the brazen frankness of Hitler's Mein Kampf, Dixie speaks through Talmadge, Rankin, Dixon, Arnall, and Mark Ethridge.
In a public speech in Birmingham, Mr. Ethridge says: "All the armies of the world, both of the United States and the Axis, could not force upon the South an abandonment of racial segregation." Governor Dixon of Alabama refused a government war contract offered Alabama State Prison because it contained an anti-discrimination clause which in his eyes was an "attempt to abolish segregation of races in the South." He said: "We will not place ourselves in a position to be attacked by those who seek to foster their own pet social reforms." In other words, Alabama will not reform. It is as bull-headed as England in India, and its governor is not ashamed to say so.
As proof of Southern intolerance, almost daily the press reports some new occurrence of physical brutality against Negroes. Former Governor Talmadge was "too busy" to investigate when Roland Hayes and his wife were thrown into jail, and the great tenor beaten, on complaint of a shoe salesman over a dispute as to what seat in his shop a Negro should occupy when buying shoes. Nor did the governor of Mississippi bother when Hugh Gloster, professor of English at Morehouse College, riding as an inter-state passenger, was illegally ejected from a train in his state, beaten, arrested, and fined because, being in an overcrowded Jim Crow coach, he asked for a seat in an adjacent car which contained only two white passengers.
Legally, the Jim Crow laws do not apply to inter-state travellers, but the FBI has not yet gotten around to enforcing that Supreme Court ruling. En route from San Francisco to Oklahoma City, Fred Wright, a county probation officer of color, was beaten and forced into the Texas Jim Crow coach on a transcontinental train by order of the conductor in defiance of federal law. A seventy-six-year-old clergyman, Dr. Jackson of Hartford, Connecticut, going South to attend the National Baptist Convention, was set upon by white passengers for merely passing through a white coach on the way to his own seat. There have been many similar attacks upon colored soldiers in uniform on public carriers. One such attack resulted in death for the soldier, dragged from a bus and killed by civilian police. Every day now, Negro soldiers from the North, returning home on furlough from Southern camps, report incident after incident of humiliating travel treatment below the Mason-Dixon line.
It seems obvious that the South does not yet know what this war is all about. As answer Number One to the question, "What shall we do about the South?" I would suggest an immediate and intensive government-directed program of pro-democratic education, to be put into the schools of the South from the first grades of the grammar schools to the universities. As part of the war effort, this is urgently needed. The Spanish Loyalist Government had trench schools for its soldiers and night schools for civilians even in Madrid under siege. America is not under siege yet. We still have time (but not too much) to teach our people what we are fighting for, and to begin to apply those teachings to race relations at home. You see, it would be too bad for an emissary of color from one of the Latin American countries, say Cuba or Brazil, to arrive at Miami Airport and board a train for Washington, only to get beaten up and thrown off by white Southerners who do not realize how many colored allies we have—nor how badly we need them—and that it is inconsiderate and rude to beat colored people, anyway.
Because transportation in the South is so symbolic of America's whole racial problem, the Number Two thing for us to do is study a way out of the Jim Crow car dilemma at once. Would a system of first, second, and third-class coaches help? In Europe, formerly, if one did not wish to ride with peasants and tradespeople, one could always pay a little more and solve that problem by having a first class compartment almost entirely to oneself. Most Negroes can hardly afford parlor car seats. Why not abolish Jim Crow entirely and let the whites who wish to do so, ride in coaches where few Negroes have the funds to be? In any case, our Chinese, Latin American, and Russian allies are not going to think much of our democratic pronunciamentos as long as we keep compulsory Jim Crow cars on Southern rails.
Since most people learn a little through education, albeit slowly, as Number Three, I would suggest that the government draft all the leading Negro intellectuals, sociologists, writers, and concert singers from Alain Locke of Oxford and W. E. B. Du Bois of Harvard to Dorothy Maynor and Paul Robeson of Carnegie Hall and send them into the South to appear before white audiences, carrying messages of culture and democracy, thus off-setting the old stereotypes of the Southern mind and the Hollywood movie, and explaining to the people without dialect what the war aims are about. With each, send on tour a liberal white Southerner like Paul Green, Erskine Caldwell, Pearl Buck, Lillian Smith, or William Seabrook. And, of course, include soldiers to protect them from the fascist-minded among us.
Number Four, as to the Army—draftees are in sore need of education on how to behave toward darker peoples. Just as a set of government suggestions has been issued to our soldiers on how to act in England, so a similar set should be given them on how to act in Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Asia, Mexico, and Brazil—wherever there are colored peoples. Not only printed words should be given them, but intensive training in the reasons for being decent to everybody. Classes in democracy and the war aims should be set up in every training camp in America and every unit of our military forces abroad. These forces should be armed with understanding as well as armament, prepared for friendship as well as killing.
I go on the premise that most Southerners are potentially reasonable people, but that they simply do not know nowadays what they are doing to America, or how badly their racial attitudes look toward the rest of the civilized world. I know their politicians, their schools, and the Hollywood movies have done their best to uphold prevailing reactionary viewpoints. Heretofore, nobody in America except a few radicals, liberals, and a handful of true religionists have cared much about either the Negroes or the South. Their sincere efforts to effect a change have been but a drop in a muddy bucket. Basically, the South needs universal suffrage, economic stabilization, a balanced diet, and vitamins for children. But until those things are achieved, on a lesser front to ameliorate—not solve—the Negro problem (and to keep Southern prejudice from contaminating all of America) a few mild but helpful steps might be taken.
It might be pointed out to the South that the old bugaboo of sex and social equality doesn't mean a thing. Nobody as a rule sleeps with or eats with or dances with or marries anybody else except by mutual consent. Millions of people of various races in New York, Chicago, and Seattle go to the same polls and vote without ever co-habiting together. Why does the South think it would be otherwise with Negroes were they permitted to vote there? Or to have a decent education? Or to sit on a stool in a public place and eat a hamburger? Why they think simple civil rights would force a Southerner's daughter to marry a Negro in spite of herself, I have never been able to understand. It must be due to some lack of instruction somewhere in their schooling.
A government-sponsored educational program of racial decency could, furthermore, point out to its students that cooperation in labor would be to the advantage of all—rather than to the disadvantage of anyone, white or black. It could show quite clearly that a million unused colored hands barred out of war industries might mean a million weapons lacking in the hands of our soldiers on some foreign front—therefore a million extra deaths—including Southern white boys needlessly dying under Axis fire—because Governor Dixon of Alabama and others of like mentality need a little education. It might also be pointed out that when peace comes and the Southerners go to the peace table, if they take there with them the traditional Dixie racial attitudes, there is no possible way for them to aid in forming any peace that will last. China, India, Brazil, Free French Africa, Soviet Asia and the whole Middle East will not believe a word they say.
Peace only to breed other wars is a sorry peace indeed, and one that we must plan now to avoid. Not only in order to win the war then, but to create peace along decent lines, we had best start now to educate the South—and all America—in racial decency. That education cannot be left to well-meaning but numerically weak civilian organizations. The government itself should take over—and vigorously. After all, Washington is the place where the conductor comes through every southbound train and tells colored people to change to the Jim Crow car ahead.
That car, in these days and times, has no business being "ahead" any longer. War's freedom train can hardly trail along with glory behind a Jim Crow coach. No matter how streamlined the other cars may be, that coach endangers all humanity's hopes for a peaceful tomorrow. The wheels of the Jim Crow car are about to come off and the walls are going to burst wide open. The wreckage of Democracy is likely to pile up behind that Jim Crow car, unless America learns that it is to its own self-interest to stop dealing with colored peoples in so antiquated a fashion. I do not like to see my land, America, remain provincial and unrealistic in its attitudes toward color. I hope the men and women, of goodwill here of both races will find ways of changing conditions for the better.
Certainly it is not the Negro who is going to wreck our Democracy. (What we want is more of it, not less.) But Democracy is going to wreck itself if it continues to approach closer and closer to fascist methods in its dealings with Negro citizens—for such methods of oppression spread, affecting other whites, Jews, the foreign born, labor, Mexicans, Catholics, citizens of Oriental ancestry—and, in due time, they boomerang right back at the oppressor. Furthermore, American Negroes are now Democracy's current test for its dealings with the colored peoples of the whole world of whom there are many, many millions—too many to be kept indefinitely in the position of passengers in Jim Crow cars.
EDITORIAL NOTE: This essay is an excerpt from What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford W. Logan. Originally published in 1944, this edition includes Rayford Logan's introduction to the 1969 reprint, a new introduction by Kenneth Janken, and an updated bibliography. It is part of an ongoing collaboration with the University of Notre Dame Press. You can read our excerpts from this collaboration here. All rights reserved.
Featured Image: Langston Hughes by Winold Reiss, 1927, PD-Gov.
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PM lights 'Swarnim Vijay Mashaal' to start 50th anniversary year celebrations of 1971 war win
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lit the 'Swarnim Vijay Mashaal' from the eternal flame of the National War Memorial here, marking the beginning of the 50th anniversary year celebrations of India's victory over Pakistan in 1971.
Modi was joined by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the chief of defence staff and tri-service chiefs as he laid wreath and paid homage to the soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice for the country.
Four victory mashaals (flaming torches) will be carried to various parts of India, including to the villages of Param Vir Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra awardees of the 1971 war, the defence ministry has said.
"Soil from the villages of these awardees and from areas where major battles were fought in 1971 are being brought to the National War Memorial (NWM)," it said.
India celebrates December 16 as Vijay Diwas to commemorate its victory over Pakistan during the 1971 war that led to the creation of Bangladesh.
As December 16 marks the anniversary of the military victory, the nation will celebrate 'Swarnim Vijay Varsh' (golden victory year) through several events across the country, and it will continue for a year.
Various commemorative events will be conducted pan-India wherein war veterans will be felicitated, the statement said, adding that band displays, seminars, exhibitions, equipment displays, film festivals, conclaves and adventure activities will also be held.
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This year's Sixth Form production received rave reviews as our senior dramatists entertained audiences with their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.
Johnnie Clark, Joss Connell and Ethan Delaney-Smith directed ten senior pupils from Hampton and Lady Eleanor Holles School, with an impressive set designed by Will Baker.
All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller and his family in post-World War II America. A successful factory owner who has established a thriving business and idyllic life, with the 'perfect' suburban family. However the Keller's contented lives gradually unravel as secrets are revealed and their American dream is shattered. Sixth Formers Matt Mundy and Dylan Little produced captivating performances as father and son, Joe and Chris Keller.
We found it a hugely rewarding experience, creating something so emotionally charged whilst staying true to the play's naturalism. Being new to directing, we were learning throughout the process, but are extremely proud of the cast's accomplishment in producing such refined performances.


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Did You Buy This Stock?
BofA's Been Up as Much as 12%
I'm not messing around here. I want to make money. I want my Wealth Advisory readers to make money. And I want you to make money.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can't hurt to give it a shot.
So here's my best shot...
On Wednesday, February 27, I told Wealth Daily readers to buy shares of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) before the March 1 sequester deadline.
Here's what I said:
Do you think these fund managers are avoiding stocks because of $85 billion in government spending cuts?
Not bloody likely!
I find it much more likely that fund managers and other institutional types are using the current sequester fear factor to work prices up and down while they add stocks to their portfolio. I'm currently focused on one such stock that is a hedge fund favorite, has been run down better than 10% in the last 5 days and has a significant upside catalyst that's just two weeks away...
Bank of America traded between $11.10 and $11.36 that day. It's $12 right now, and has been as high as $12.44 since I made that recommendation. That's as much as a 12% gain.
If you didn't buy it then, buy it today.
Because on Friday, the second half of the Fed's bank stress tests will become public knowledge.
We already know BofA passed with flying colors...
Now we'll find out how big the bank's dividend increase will be.
There's no doubt in my mind Bank of America is asking to raise its payout. CEO Brian Moynihan made the dividend his #1 priority over the last year: He sold under-performing divisions to raise cash; he settled lawsuits to remove liability; and he's improved non-performing loans.
His actions netted the bank $60 billion, $12 billion of which went right into capital reserves.
That's why Bank of America has higher capital reserves than JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). It's why Bank of America has the best earnings growth estimates for 2013.
And it's why Bank of America will paying a much larger dividend as of this coming Friday.
How Much is Enough?
Bank of America currently pays $0.04 a year in dividends. Every three months, shareholders get a shiny penny for every BofA share they own. Gee, thanks!
That's about to change....
Bank of America says it wants to pay out 30% of earnings as dividends. Based on 2013 earnings estimates, that would mean a dividend of $0.30 a share. That's a lot more pennies than it pays right now.
I don't think BofA will be given permission to pay $0.30 a share. I think $0.16 to $0.20 is more realistic. That's still a lot more pennies than it pays now.
But the question is: What will happen to the share price?
When the market finally made its post-financial crisis bottom on March 9, 2009, Bank of America was more than 80% off its 2008 highs. JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs were both off around 60% from their 2008 highs.
Today Goldman is about even with its highest levels from 2008. JP Morgan is nearly 40% higher than its 2008 highs. Bank of America? It's still 60% below its highs from 2008 — and yet it has a stronger capital structure than either JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs.
Seems to me the disparity is because of dividends... or lack thereof.
T-Minus 3 Days and Counting...
Brian Hicks and I recommended Bank of America to our Wealth Advisory readers back in November at $9.10 a share. It's been up as much as 36%.
(The total Wealth Advisory portfolio is up 24.9% so far in 2013, after a 19.8% advance in 2012.)
Bank of America is also a favorite among the hedge fund crowd: 23 hedge funds have Bank of America as a top 10 holding.
Why? Because they think there's a lot of value in the stock.
Bank of America has a tangible book value somewhere between $13.50 and $14 a share. That's the "brick and mortar" value, if you sold all the buildings and assets. It's difficult to nail down because it changes as the bank's cash reserves grow and as its liabilities decrease.
Could Bank of America ramp to $13 this Friday after its new dividend is established?
Sure it could, though I think $12.80 is more likely. And over the next year, I think $16 is a good target for the stock.
I have to acknowledge the potential for a stock market correction sometime soon. Stocks have been advancing relentlessly since the tax aspect of the fiscal cliff was resolved. This rally is overdue for a breather.
A 5% correction would push the S&P 500 down to 1,480 or so. But frankly, that doesn't seem too realistic at this point. Because I think it's likely there are a lot of buyers waiting to enter on the first sign of a dip.
A move to the 1,500-1,520 range seems much more plausible.
However, I don't expect a correction will impact Bank of America much. Income funds and dividends investors will be supporting the stock.
Like I said earlier, Bank of America is my best shot. I've got other ideas, for sure...
We just recommended a high-yield energy stock that could have 35% upside to go along with its 18% dividend (that's not a typo: the divvy is 18%) to Wealth Advisory readers. But that one carries a little more risk than BofA.
I'll be back next Wednesday, and we'll see where Bank of America is...
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These three tips will help you retain your best employees for a long time.
Q: How do I retain good employees who are getting antsy or may be looking for new jobs?
A: Business owners with modest budgets often have to think outside the paycheck to retain talent. Patricia Greene, an entrepreneurship professor at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and the national academic director for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, offers these suggestions.
1. Understand what motivates your employees. It's not always money-and that's a good thing when you don't have much. "Knowing what's important, you can get creative," Greene says.
2. Make employees proud to be there. It often helps to get them involved in charitable ventures. "That actually does motivate people," Greene says. "People like to feel good about where they work."
3. Show your employees a path to professional growth. Greene advises asking yourself, "What else could they possibly take on where they could learn more?"
This story first appeared in the May issue of Entrepreneur.


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These LEAKED IMAGES From James Gunn's The Suicide Squad Looks Awesome
Even in its preproduction stage, James Gunn was not shy to show off inside-details and images for his upcoming DC film The Suicide Squad. Now, it looks like some leaked images from the movie set have surfaced online. The new images are giving us a pretty good look at how the heroes will be looking like in the upcoming movie. Though Gunn has been teasing us over the past months, this is the first clear look that we are getting at the new heroes (or villains, to be exact).
The leaked images show some members of the massive cast involved film, including Nathan Fillion, Flula Borg, Pete Davidson, Mayling Ng, and Sean Gunn. There is also Jai Courtney's Captain Boomerang returning from the last installment and Sean Gunn is seen in a CGI suit. Rumors are suggesting that the actor will be playing Weasel, a costumed villain and enemy to DC's Firestorm.
We still need to figure out who the rest of them are. But unfortunately, according to the director, many of these characters might not end up having a big role in the movie. In fact, according to Gunn, most of them will not even make it out alive by the end of the movie. But we are sure that in Gunn's hands each of these characters will have unique and memorable.
However, if you are expecting the new installment to a continuation of the Will Smith starer, then you are wrong. Everything about the new Suicide Squad is brand-new and fans are really excited to see Gunn's take on the characters. Afterall the guy does have a strong track record at Marvel, in making the blockbusters Guardian of the Galaxy and Guardian of the Galaxy. Vol.2. If the director is able to bring some of the emotional aspects from that franchise over to The Suicide Squad, it will surely be a blockbuster as well.
James Gunn is known for his works at Marvel. He landed on the DC project after being fired from Disney last year. Though he was rehired less than a year later, the director decided to finish off the DC project before going back to the third Guardians movie.
Let us know what you think about the leaked set photos. Here are some of them:
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John S. Boyd (geb. vor 1970) ist ein US-amerikanischer Tonmeister.

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Boyd begann seine Karriere 1970 beim Fernsehen. Einer seiner ersten Spielfilme war Steven Spielbergs Drama Das Reich der Sonne. Hierfür war er 1988 für den Oscar nominiert in der Kategorie Bester Ton. Im darauf folgenden Jahr war er für Falsches Spiel mit Roger Rabbit ein zweites Mal für den Oscar nominiert, konnte jedoch den Preis erneut nicht gewinnen. Es folgten einige weitere Hollywoodproduktionen, jedoch erhielt er in den 1990er Jahren weniger Spielfilmengagements und arbeitete vermehrt für das Fernsehen. Er war an Fernsehserien wie L.A. Law – Staranwälte, Tricks, Prozesse, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Las Vegas und Medium – Nichts bleibt verborgen sowie zahlreichen Fernsehfilmen beteiligt.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1987: Das Reich der Sonne (Empire of the Sun)
 1987: Nuts… Durchgedreht (Nuts)
 1988: Falsches Spiel mit Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
 1988: Meine Stiefmutter ist ein Alien (My Stepmother Is an Alien)
 1988: She's Having a Baby
 1990: Flashback
 1997: Der lange Weg der Leidenschaft (Going All the Way)
 1998: Phoenix – Blutige Stadt (Phoenix)
 1998: Homegrown
 1998: Männer ticken anders (Just a Little Harmless Sex)
 2001: American Roadtrip (Extremedays)
 2007: Aztec Rex – Bestie aus der Urzeit (Tyrannosaurus Azteca)

Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
 1988: Oscar-Nominierung in der Kategorie Bester Ton für Das Reich der Sonne
 1989: Oscar-Nominierung in der Kategorie Bester Ton für Falsches Spiel mit Roger Rabbit

Weblinks

Tonmeister
US-Amerikaner
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
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Gotham Review: These Dark and Delicate Obsessions
ByCraig Suide
May 2, 2017 Batman, Ben McKenzie, Camren Bicondova, Chris Chalk, Cory Michael Smith, David Mazouz, Donal Logue, Drew Powell, Erin Richards, FOX, FOX TV, Genre TV, Gotham, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Chung, Jessica Lucas, Michael Chiklis, Morena Baccarin, Robin Lord Taylor, SCI-FI NERD, Sean Pertwee, These Dark and Delicate Obsessions
Episode Title: Heroes Rise; These Dark And Delicate Obsessions
Director: Ben McKenzie
Written by: developed by Bruno Heller written by Robert Hull
Starring: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, Camren Bicondova, Erin Richards, Jessica Lucas, Chris Chalk, Drew Powell, Michael Chiklis, Jamie Chung, Jada Pinkett Smith, Cory Michael Smith, Morena Baccarin
Episode length: 42 minutes
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The season continues to build towards a dramatic finish as all the parts fall into place and as fortunes rise and fall.
I missed Gotham during what seemed like an endless hiatus this year. It has its own take on what it means to be a comics-based series. Despite not literally originating in a comic book of its own, it's hard to mistake the style and flavor of the melodrama served up by Gotham as anything else. It almost never fails to get a chuckle out of me.
It has such a tongue in cheek approach implicit in its narratives, events, and dialogue that it's hard to take it too seriously. It never drifts into territory that could brand it as outright parody, or camp, but always manages to tiptoe along that line just short of going too far. It does it better than any other comics-based series currently on tv. It's a reliable commodity, and whether you are in the mood for it or not, that unmistakable quality is always there ready to be consumed on a weekly basis.
This week saw an eventful edition blatantly in service to the season finale which looms ever nearer. The threads of the story are coming together in what I am sure will be a doozy of a climax Penguin has a new ally in Ivy, and The Court Of Owls continues to grow more menacing, as a new thread of mysticism enters the stage, and the GCPD continues to do their best impression of the keystone cops stumbling over each other firmly one step behind the bad guys.
Here's a recap, with some comments (*Warning, spoilers follow*)
Gotham's Court-Of-Owls centric march continues this week beginning with another meeting of the secret conclave, which we learned recently includes Jim Gordon's (Ben Mckenzie) Uncle Frank (James Remar) who up until now is still not clearly on one side or the other, the Courts or Jim's.
Bruce is still their prisoner in a secret, mysterious location, while his doppelgänger has taken his place back in Gotham. Surprisingly Bruce's (David Mazouz) cell suddenly swings open teasing freedom and he responds by requesting to speak with whoever is in charge. A white-haired man in long flowing garments responds that it is him. This enigmatic figure is known as the Shaman (Raymond J Barry), appears to have mystical powers that allow him to do things simply by thinking them. He claims he has a lot to teach Bruce and his goal is to prepare him to be Gotham's protector. This is pretty heavy stuff, given what we know about Bruce's future.
Bruce feigns cooperation with a mind to escape as soon as it's possible, but his attempts to leave the place prove futile and seems to confirm his current circumstances are inescapable because every attempt at flight ends him right back where he begins. The Shaman produces some acupuncture needles that also appear to have a mystical nature and when the Shaman applies one to the center of Bruce's forehead it conjures super vivid replays of the fateful night his parents were killed, which, of course, is very upsetting for Bruce. The Shaman keeps saying he has so much to teach him but that is as far as the lesson seems to go, for now, and he leaves.
Meanwhile, we find Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) still alive and kicking in Ivy's (Maggie Geha) care. Penguin only wants to leave and his manners fall far short of being grateful or thankful for her care. In fact, he's downright hostile and rude. He ignores everything she has to say even though she's making sense for the most part, he responds to her advice with ridicule and sarcasm.
Penguin decides he has to raise an army so he can reclaim his former glory and empire and against Ivy's advice he contacts one of his former lieutenants Gabe (Alex Corrado) to help him accomplish that. Gabe arrives and promptly betrays Oswald as part of a plan to auction him off to the highest bidder. Whoever wants to kill him the most. Ivy's perfume comes into play as she uses its influence to compel any man who smells it to do her bidding and also affording her the ability to become a human lie detector. Geha's portrayal of Ivy as a kid in a woman's body is pretty good and makes for some amusing moments and dialogue for her.
All the bad guys that show up intending to sell Penguin off end up dead at the hands of one of their own, and when Gabs gets a little too honest about how everyone feels towards Penguin he makes Oswald so angry he goes crazy and gets all stabby-slashy again and kills him. So long Gabe, we hardly got to know you.
In another location we find Uncle Frank and Jim meeting in a graveyard, a suitable setting, considering and Frank is providing some info about a weapon the Owls are bringing into town designed to doom Gotham's unworthy citizenry and purify it for another try at being a town the Owls approve of. Frank gives Jim a location, a dock number, where the weapon is supposed to arrive and Jim calls Barbara Kean (Erin Richards) for a favor to obtain more information about the Owl's weapon.
Afterward, Jim finds out his father was murdered and evidence points at Carmen Falcone (John Doman), but after confronting Falcone Jim discovers it was the Owls behind the muder and the order was given by Uncle Frank, serving to make it more unclear just whose side he is on.
Why Jim calls Barbara, who obviously hates him, instead of Harvey (Donal Logue) and the GCPD is beyond my understanding.
We find Barbara holding court and accepting payments from the other criminals present when she gets the call. Barbara seems to be quite comfortable as a crime boss with Tabitha (Jessica Lucas) by her side as an enforcer. Butch Gilzean (Drew Powell) is nowhere to be seen
After the call we find Barbara and Tabitha tormenting a dock worker for more information in a warehouse about the Owl's mysterious delivery with a group of her men armed to the teeth, There is an unusual sound which turns out be an uninvited intruder in the form of another Talon The Owls have apparently found a replacement for their other enforcer, and wielding a sword, in a sudden burst of action, he makes short work of the heavily armed men while Barbara and Tabitha make an escape. It's over as suddenly as it begins. Talon also kills the worker who was being questioned in a gruesome manner.
Failing to get Jim's cooperation the Owls order his death, and they assign Frank to do it. He arranges for Jim to meet him alone at his home and making a short speech about how much he cared for his father and how proud he would be of Jim he abruptly kills himself finally proving he really was on Jim's side, and repentant all along since his return.
The episode ends with Penguin getting rid of the bodies that resulted from his ill-fated plan to recruit an army from his old associates, and Ivey suggests using some of the freaks from Indian Hill for the job. I was under the impression that Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith had already sewn up that option, but maybe I was mistaken.
The episode ends on that note leaving us to wonder about several other threads left untouched this time around like has Alfred discovered that Bruce has been replaced by his clone, and where is Butch Gilzean?
There has been no sign of Mr. Freeze or Firefly or the myriad of other characters that played major roles last season either. I suspect they are being held in storage until its convenient for them to reemerge.
What's the deal with the Shaman? Does he really possess mystical powers and what exactly are his plans for young Bruce, and what is his real connection to the Owls? Explanations may be forthcoming nest week, but I wouldn't bet on it.
By Craig Suide
A genuine (OCD) enthusiast of Sci-FI and fantasy. Addicted to stories. a life-long fan of movies, TV, and pop culture in general. Purchased first comic book at age five, and never stopped. Began reading a lot early on, and discovered ancient mythology, and began reading science fiction around the same time. Made first attempts at writing genre fiction around age 12 Freelance writer for Sci-Fi Nerd (Facebook), retired professional gourmet chef. ex-musician, and illustrator
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Q: How to handle a sliding window of values over sequences that aren't multiples of the grouping size? I have a list and I want to group my list into tuples of three elements using a sliding window approach.
Based on the parameters set in my loop, once i reaches the last two elements, the tuple of three becomes truncated because there are no more values at the end of the list.
What I need is it to use the beginning values, once it reaches that point. Please view the screenshot as it may better visualize my problem.
test = [(1,2), (3,4), (5,6), (7,8)]

for i in range(len(test)):
    print(test[i : i+3])

Output is:
[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
[(3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8)]
[(5, 6), (7, 8)]
[(7, 8)]

However, I need it to do:
[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
[(3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8)]
[(5, 6), (7, 8), (1, 2)]
[(7, 8), (1, 2), (2, 3)]

And then flattened for it to ultimately look like:
[((1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6))
 ((3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8))
 ((5, 6), (7, 8), (1, 2))
 ((7, 8), (1, 2), (2, 3))]

Screenshot of output for better clarity
What is one way I can do this?

A: There may be ways to optimize the following, but one approach would be to use operator.itemgetter() and create the proper set of indices for it for each window subgroup.
from operator import itemgetter
from pprint import pprint

test = [(1,2), (3,4), (5,6), (7,8)]

window_size = 3
length = len(test)
result = []
for i in range(len(test)):
    indices = (x%length for x in range(i, i+window_size))
    result.append(itemgetter(*indices)(test))

pprint(result)

Output:
[((1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)),
 ((3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8)),
 ((5, 6), (7, 8), (1, 2)),
 ((7, 8), (1, 2), (3, 4))]

A: The accepted answer is just fine, but I'll offer (what I take to be) a simpler approach:
test = [(1,2), (3,4), (5,6), (7,8)]

win_size = 3
groups = []

for i in range(len(test)):
        groups.append((test[i:] + test[:i])[:win_size])

print(groups)

Output:
[[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)],
 [(3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8)],
 [(5, 6), (7, 8), (1, 2)],
 [(7, 8), (1, 2), (3, 4)]]

Each time through the loop, we rearrange test so it is in the desired order, then create each group by slicing at the window size.
Although I think it's less readable, you could use a list comprehension as well:
groups = [(test[i:] + test[:i])[:win_size] for i in range(len(test))]

If the groups must be tuples instead of lists, either define test as a tuple initially or use tuple(test[i:] + test[:i]) as appropriate.


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SK Telecom unveils faster, cheaper, power-saving AI chip for data center operations
The SAPEON X220's power consumption is about 80 percent of a conventional GPU and costs at around half the price.
SK Telecom Co. will pursue expansion in the global artificial intelligence (AI) market with its semiconductor for data center operations, dubbed SAPEON X220.
It was the first AI chip developed by the mobile carrier SK Telecom and also the country's first AI chip for data centers.
The global AI chip market is set to grow to 50 trillion won by 2024.
SK Telecom's new AI chip is 1.5 times faster in deep learning processing speeds than graphic processing units (GPU) used by many companies in running AI-based data centers.
The chip, which will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., will be supplied by SK Telecom to the South Korean government for its new data analysis service before the end of this year.
The chips will also be used by digital equipment maker Cast.era, a joint venture between SK Telecom and the U.S.-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, to run cloud servers.
The carrier added that it aims to use the chips next year for its own AI services, such as its AI assistant NUGU, and that it is closely working with its affiliate and memory chip giant SK hynix Inc. in memory-related technology.
SK Telecom will also pursue AI as a Service (AIaaS) business to expand its presence in the AI chip sector.
The South Korean government hopes local companies would be able to develop up to 50 AI chips by 2030.


VANCOUVER, BC – On a wet spring Vancouver day at Thunderbird Stadium, Whitecaps FC 2 battled to a 0-0 home draw against Western Conference rivals Sacramento Republic FC.
WFC2 were looking for a bounce-back after falling to San Antonio FC last week. Sacramento, meanwhile, came into the match hungry after three straight defeats.
The Blue and White's best chance of the first half came in the 11th minute on a David Norman Jr. corner kick. Norman curled in a cross with his left foot finding the head of Dominick Zator, who got up for the header and put the ball just over the bar. Zator was making his second professional start after debuting earlier this month against Seattle.
Later in the half, it was the road team driving play in the 'Caps end, and if not for goalkeeper Spencer Richey standing tall Republic FC could have very well buried two or three. In the 13th minute, it was Richey making a ten-bell save on Tyler Blackwood who was sent in alone on a beautiful through ball. The 'Caps first team player rushed out, made himself big, and made the sprawling save to keep the match level. Minutes later in the 15th minute, striker Sammy Ochoa took a strike from just inside the 18-yard-box, but the Washington native tipped the shot over the bar to avoid disaster.
By far the best chance for Sacramento came when James Kiffe struck a wicked shot on the volley that looked to be headed straight for the top corner until Richey dove and kept it out once again with a highlight reel stop.
Come the second half, Ochoa had another glorious look at goal on 57 minutes, this time putting his shot just wide of the far post. He was set up on a feed from captain Danny Barrera who thread the needle between two 'Caps defenders.
From there the tides turned offensively.
First, Norman made a great individual effort in the 62nd minute, running down the left wing before crossing in a ball right to the feet of Gloire Amanda, but the youngster couldn't burry his first professional goal. Republic FC goalkeeper Evan Newton got down quickly to make the stop and keep the match level.
Then in the 71st, it looked like Amanda solved the keeper. From just outside the 18-yard-box, the 18-year-old took a low hard shot that had the home crowd ready to cheer, but just missed far post.
The last and maybe best chance for WFC2 came shortly thereafter in the 72nd when Andy Thoma found Thomas Sanner in the box with a first-class ball, but again Sacramento Keeper Newton came up big with a point blank save to preserve the draw and a clean sheet.
In the end, a match worthy of a few goals finished tied at zeros with both teams walking away with a point in the back pocket. On this day it was both goalkeepers who's light shown through the overcast skies at Thunderbird stadium.
WFC2 will head on the road to face Swope Park Rangers next Friday, May 5 at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City. Sacramento FC continue their road trip as they head to the Lone Star State to face San Antonio FC at Toyota field next Saturday.


Sometimes it is amazing what a small world it is. Last week, my wife's good friend got a call from one her good friends who lives in Seattle. She has been here many times and I have met her on several occasions.
This friend of a friend apparently listens to the Seattle PBS radio station often... in particular, a show with a food critic by the name of Nancy Leson. Imagine her surprise as this food critic comments on a trip to Illinois, our eating habits and then goes into a spiel about one nice restaurant she went to in LaSalle, Illinois. She also talks about her enchantment with our digital menus!
Seattle Times food writer and KPLU commentator Nancy Leson serves up a bounty of information and culinary tips on Pacific Northwest food, cooking, dining and restaurants. A native Philadelphian, she spent nearly 20 years waiting tables before trading her apron and corkscrew for a writer's notebook and keyboard. Nancy joined the Seattle Times as lead restaurant critic in 1998 and today keeps her finger on the pulse of the local food scene on her blog, "All You Can Eat."
Imagine this friend of a friend listening to her program, and then this connection comes up out of the blue. Thank's for sharing with us Finny!
Listen to the segment by clicking here.


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France's involvement in Libyan coalition campaign hasn't made much of an impression on voters closer to home.
FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY spent the week leading the international effort to enforce a UN resolution for a no-fly zone over Libya.
But the president's time in the limelight risks ending on a sour note, with his governing conservative party expected to take a drubbing in local elections, where his newly burnished international stature will likely count for little.
French leftists and the resurgent extreme right are widely expected to consolidate their gains tomorrow in the second round of voting in France's cantons, subdivisions drawn up in the 18th century that are the country's smallest administrative segments.
The elections serve as the last test of parties' nationwide strength before next year's presidential elections.
The leading role of the unpopular Sarkozy in launching the international military campaign in Libya — on the eve of the first round of voting March 20 — appeared not to have swayed the outcome in France's cantons.
The opposition Socialists gained the most votes overall in first-round balloting a week ago with about 25 per cent of votes, according to preliminary results Sunday night from the Interior Ministry.
Sarkozy's conservative UMP party plus allies on the right had about 32 percent overall, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said. However, the UMP alone had less than 20 percent of the vote, French TV stations and rival parties noted.
The interior minister's method of counting that covered up the poor UMP party showing led to claims that the minister was being less than candid — as the far-right National Front bounded ahead. The party, which gained 15 per cent of the vote, is riding a wave of popularity of its new leader, Marine Le Pen. Like her father, the party's charismatic founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, she has tapped into worries about Muslim immigrants — but with a softer touch.
Turnout was exceptionally low, however, at about 45 per cent.
Voters in this election care little about Sarkozy's renewed global stature, political analysts say, and France's leading position in pressing for an international force to assure a no-fly zone over Libya and protect the population will have no bearing on Sunday's poll.
"Sunday's election will be a double test for Nicolas Sarkozy," said political analyst Stephane Rozes of corporate consulting firm Cap. "First he will see if he has limited the UMP's decline. And second, he will see if the strategy established in the Grenoble speech works or not in view of the 2012 election," Rozes said.
In a speech last July in the southeastern city of Grenoble, Sarkozy carved out his political territory — one that clearly treads on ground familiar to the National Front — by saying he wanted to revoke French citizenship of any immigrant who endangers the life of police officers.
He has since pulled back on that, but his party has pushed forward on another front, the principle of secularism so dear to France, with plans for round-table discussions April 5 that would center on France's Muslim population of about 5 million, spurring a contentious debate.
A pasting by France's bickering leftists and the resurgent National Front might intensify divisions in Sarkozy's UMP party that have emerged since recent polls raised the specter of the conservatives being knocked out in the first round of presidential elections next year — or forced to face down the National Front in an embarrassing replay of 2002 elections. Then, conservative President Jacques Chirac was in a showdown with the elder Le Pen, and saved when left and right banded together to ensure Le Pen's defeat.
Recent opinion surveys have showed Sarkozy's approval ratings at historic lows. Leftist voters are angry at his cost-cutting measures and say he is too cosy with corporate interests. Many conservatives are disappointed that he has not been bolder about loosening up the labor market and hasn't eased tensions between police and youth in suburban housing projects.
A win in a cantonal election gives the victor a seat on councils overseeing France's departments, or provinces.
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Review of "FairCloud: Sharing The Network In Cloud Computing"
Problem: In the current cloud computing environment. Network is currently shared in a best effort manner, unlike CPU or memory. The key difficulty of sharing network efficiently is the allocation of network for VM X also depends on other VMs that X communicate with.
Key point & trade-off: This paper proposes a set of desirable properties for allocating the network bandwidth at the VM granularity, and show that there exists a fundamental trade-off between the ability to share network according to payment and the ability to provide minimum bandwidth guarantees. It also proposes a mechanism that can select different points in the trade-off between payment proportionality and bandwidth guarantees. This mechanism is called Per Endpoint Sharing (PES). It's a mechanism for sharing cloud networks that allow one to explicitly trade between weight fidelity and guaranteed bandwidth. The main point of PES is to calculate a static weight for each source-destination pair by the following formula:
W(A, B) = W_A / N_A + W_B / N_B
where W_A is the weight VM A has annd N_A is the number of other VMs A is communicating with. Similar to B. But fundamental trade-off or problem here is this doesn't take care of the actual demand of communicating between A and another specific host. If the demand is small, it will not be able to adapt. This is also a common problem for all mechanisms that compute static weights.
Will this paper be influential in 10 years? Maybe, this paper identifies the fundamental trade-off between the ability to provide proportional network sharing based on payment and the ability to provide minimal bandwidth guarantees, it also proposes PES as a mechanism to achieve different design points in the trade-off between these conflicting requirements.
Review of "Towards Predictable Datacenter Networks"
Problem: Cloud providers usually provide storage resource and computation resource as the main metrics for charging tenants usage. Although quite simple, this misses a critical part of of computation, the intra-cloud network. As a result, cloud providers don't usually guarantee network performance. Thus bring unstable performance to tenant's applications, if they relies heavily on network. Is the problem real? Well, maybe for some cases. But some providers do provide a "dedicate lines" for tenants if they are willing to pay.
Key point & trade-off: This paper proposes extending the tenant-provider interface to explicitly account for the network. The key is provide tenants with a virtual network connecting their compute instances. Which can yield significantly better and more predictable tenant performance while reduce tenant costs by up to 74%. At the same time, the flexibility achieved by using virtual networks can makes rate enforcement, billing, etc on tenants much more easily.
Will this paper be influential in 10 years? Maybe. It proposes a good way to solve the networking quality problem in shared cloud through virtualization.
Review of "Managing Data Transfers in Computer Clusters with Orchestra"
Problem: Cluster computing applications transfer large amount of data between computation stages. And these transferring takes a lot of the job execution time. But traditional network research mainly focuses on per-flow traffic management. So this paper proposes a global management architecture and a set of algorithms that improves transfer times of common communication patterns and allow scheduling policies at the transfer level, such as prioritized transfers.
Key point & trade-off: Use a global coordination both within a transfer and across transfers in a hierarchical control structure. The top level of Orchestra is an Inter-Transfer Controller (ITC) that implements scheduling policies such as prioritizing transfers from ad-hoc queries over batch jobs. ITC manages multiples Transfer Controllers (TCs), one for each transfer in the cluster and TC is responsible for selecting a mechanism to use for their transfers. They also actively monitor and control the nodes participating in the transfer. TCs are supposed to be used when a cluster needs to do data transfer. The trade-off here is mainly the extra complexity, you have another layer above transporting, if it fails, they the communication will be aborted. Another possible trade-off is scalability, meaning, how many TCs the ITC can schedule efficiently at the same time.
Will this paper be influential in 10 years? Maybe. It provides a good solution speed up communication in clusters. As long as the complexity can be controlled elegantly and scales really well. I think it's a very good choice to go for system optimizations.
Review of "Fastpass: A Centralized "Zero-Queue" Datacenter Network"
This paper claims that an ideal DC network should provide several properties: 1) packets experience no queuing delays, 2) network has high throughput, 3) network should be able to support multiple resource allocation objectives between flows, applications and users. DC that doesn't have these properties makes it very hard to meet complex service-level objectives and application specific goals.
Key points and trade-offs: Traditional networking protocols are essentially a distributed protocols, congestion control is done at the end-points whereas path selections are done in the middle at switches. In this paper, the authors propose a centralized protocol to handle congestion and path selection. Which they call arbiter. With a centralized arbiter, they loose the scalability and fault-tolerance of the traditional approach but gained several key features such as consistently low latency, no persistent congestion and packets will never be dropped due to buffer overflow.
Will this paper be influential in 10 years? Yes, I think so. Traditional networking protocols are designed for the Internet, which can span across continents. But for networking inside a data center, many of the designs don't actually fit. This paper identifying that and proposing a centralized version – which is possible because it's networking within a data center – made a good option for considering the networking technology for building a better data center network.
Review of "Less is More: Trading a little Bandwidth for Ultra-Low Latency in the Data Center"
Problem: Traditionally network goodness and fairness are expressed in terms of bandwidth. Latency is rarely a primary concern because delivering the highest level of bandwidth essentially entails driving up latency – at the mean and especially at the tail. However, as the real-time requirement of applications becomes more and more critical, latency of networking stack also need to be taken care of.
Key points and trade-offs: This paper proposes HULL witch sacrifices a little bit of bandwidth and get drastically lower average and tail average latencies in data centers. The way it does this is it leaves a "bandwidth headroom" by using Phantom Queues that delivers signals before network links are fully utilized and queues form at switches. It also employs DCTCP to adaptively respond to congestions and to mitigate the bandwidth penalties arise from operating in a buffer-less fashion. Packet pacing is used to counter burstiness caused by Interrupt Coalescing and Large Send Offloading.
Will this paper be influential in 10 years? Maybe. Generally, it's a good improvement of the existing protocol which didn't pay too much attention on the network latency.
Review of "pFabric: Minimal Near-Optimal Datacenter Transport"
Interactive soft real-time workloads such as the ones seen in search, social networking generates a lot of small requests and responses across data centers. Theoretically these requests could be finished in 10-20 microseconds, but in TCP-based fabrics, the latency ca be as high as tens of milliseconds. The reason is these short flows gets queued by co-existing large flows caused by backup, replication, data mining, etc.
So this paper proposes pFabric under this observation. Key points of this paper is based on the opinion that flow scheduling should be decoupled from rate control. they are 1) end-hosts put a single number indicating the priority of the packet. It can be remaining size or completion deadline; 2) Switches choose packet send and drop strictly according to priority. 3) Rate control is minimal. All flows start at line rate and throttle sending rate only when they see high and persistent loss.
Will this paper be influential in 10 years? Maybe. It does provide an simple solution to the current networking stack. But it requires rewriting of the host networking stack as well as switches. The deployment cost might be too high for it to go popular. As long as the manufacturing side keeps up, this should be a great solution.
Review of "Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers Randomly"
Existing high-bandwidth network designs have rigid structure that interferes with incremental expansion, so this paper proposes Jellyfish, a high-capacity network interconnect which adopts random graph topology and yields itself naturally to incremental expansion. And this paper argues that it's also more cost-efficient than a fat-tree.
The main idea behind Jellyfish is that random graphs have higher throughput because the have lower average path length compared to fat tree. But this is only true when all data flows uniformly between servers. If a service has an application server that needs to talk to its databases constantly, this will have a very hot line between two servers while leaving other connections be very cool. With a random graph, you might not leverage this the rack level locality very well. I also think that racks and ToR switches are a good way to organize wires. With the topology suggested by a random graph. I don't know how the wires will look like, and if any issues happen how is an operator going to debug the issue and replace a line. So I don't really think Jellyfish is really a neat idea. But identifying the fact that random graph has a lower average path length is something useful, maybe in another settings when we are able to connect servers using machines.
Review of "PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric"
Existing L2 and L3 network protocols face some combination of limitations in the trends of multi-core processors, end-host virtualization, and commodities of scale are pointing to millions of virtual endpoints. This paper proposes PortLand, a scalable fault tolerant L2 routing and forwarding protocol for data center environments.
PortLand employs a logically centralized and replicated fabric manager to maintain soft state about the network configuration information such as topology, mac addresses etc. It's a user process running on a dedicated machine responsible for assisting with ARP resolution, fault tolerance and multi-casting. It may run in a separate control network or simply be a redundantly connected host int he larger topology. It doesn't require any administrator configuration such as number of switches, locations and identifiers of them etc. Since the fabric manager only keeps soft state, it doesn't require replicate to be strictly consistent. Fabric manager helps keeping the mapping of PMAC and real MAC and the corresponding IP addresses. PMAC is a virtual MAC addresses that also encodes position information in it. For example, all end points in the same pod will have the same prefix in their PMACs. Traditional ARPs suffers scalability problem because they need to broadcast over the entire network, PortLand solves this problem by again using fabric manager backed proxy-based ARP. Thus transforming the broadcasting into a unicasting. The fabric manager also helps with fault tolerant routing using a fault matrix.
Will this paper be influential in 10 years? I think so. It centralizes the control logic of a more and more complex network and provides far more features on it than traditional networks. A good way to go under the trends of huge data centers.
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Q: Getting custom field data from cart page to checkout page in woocomerce Added some text fields to add for whom we are sending the gift by adding their name and personal message as well.For Personal message it is working fine If i add To field and click on proceed to checkout and in checkout page if i place order in admin panel orders section it is not displaying the To field name  which i have added in cart page.It is displaying the heading as TO and displaying blank not getting the name which i have entered.here is the cde which i ave written in funcions.php file
    // Add the order_comments field to the cart
 add_action( 'woocommerce_cart_collaterals', 'order_comments_custom_cart_field' );
 function order_comments_custom_cart_field() {
?>

<?php
 woocommerce_form_field('to_notes_text', array(
'placeholder'   => __('To'),
'class' => array('form-row-last'),
'clear' => true,
 ), '');
 ?>
<?php
 }
 // PHP: Remove "(optional)" from non required fields
 add_filter( 'woocommerce_form_field' ,
'remove_checkout_optional_fields_label', 10, 4 );
 function remove_checkout_optional_fields_label( $field, $key, $args, $value
 ) {
// Only on cart page
if( is_cart() ) {
$optional = ' (' . esc_html__( 'optional', 'woocommerce' ) . ')';
$field = str_replace( $optional, '', $field );
}
return $field;
}
// Process the checkout and overwriting the normal button
  add_action( 'woocommerce_proceed_to_checkout', 'change_proceed_to_checkout', 15 );
 function change_proceed_to_checkout() {
 remove_action( 'woocommerce_proceed_to_checkout', 'woocommerce_button_proceed_to_checkout', 20 );
 ?>
 <form id="checkout_form" method="POST" action="<?php echo wc_get_checkout_url(); ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="to_notes" id="to_notes" value="">
<button type="submit" class="checkout-button button alt wc-forward" style="width:100%;"><?php
esc_html_e( 'Proceed to checkout', 'woocommerce' ) ?></button>
 </form>
 <?php
 }
 // Jquery script for cart and checkout pages
 add_action('wp_footer', 'customer_notes_jquery' );
 function customer_notes_jquery() {
 ?>

 <?php
 }
 /**
 * Update the order meta with field value
 */
 add_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta',
'my_custom_checkout_field_update_order_meta' );
function my_custom_checkout_field_update_order_meta( $order_id ) {
 ?>
 <?php
 if ( ! empty( $_POST['to_notes_text'] ) ) {
update_post_meta( $order_id, 'To', sanitize_text_field(
 $_POST['to_notes_text'] ) );
  }
  }
  /**
  * Display field value on the order edit page
  */
  add_action( 'woocommerce_admin_order_data_after_billing_address',
 'my_custom_checkout_field_display_admin_order_meta', 10, 1 );
 function my_custom_checkout_field_display_admin_order_meta($order){
?>
<?php
echo '
'.__('TO').': ' . get_post_meta( $order->id, 'TO', true ) . '
';
     }

A: Solved by adding this code
/**
 * Update the order meta with field value
**/
add_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta',
'my_custom_checkout_field_update_order_meta' );

 function my_custom_checkout_field_update_order_meta( $order_id ) {
 ?>
 <?php
 if ( ! empty( $_POST['from_comments'] ) ) {
update_post_meta( $order_id, 'FROM', sanitize_text_field(
 $_POST['from_comments']
 ) );
 }
 }
 /**
 * Update the order meta with field value
 **/
 add_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta',
'my_customs_checkout_field_update_order_meta' );
 function my_customs_checkout_field_update_order_meta( $order_id ) {
  ?>
 <?php
 if ( ! empty( $_POST['to_comments'] ) ) {
update_post_meta( $order_id, 'TO', sanitize_text_field(
 $_POST['to_comments'] )
 );
 }
 }
 /**
 * Display field value on the order edit page
 **/
 add_action( 'woocommerce_admin_order_data_after_billing_address',
 'my_custom_checkout_field_display_admin_order_meta', 10, 1 );
  function my_custom_checkout_field_display_admin_order_meta($order){
  ?>
  <?php
  echo '
'.__('FROM').': ' . get_post_meta( $order->id, 'FROM', true
   ) . '
';
   echo '
'.__('TO').': ' . get_post_meta( $order->id, 'TO', true )
   . '
';
   }
   /**
   * Add the field to the checkout
   */
   add_action( 'woocommerce_after_order_notes', 'my_custom_checkout_field' );

    function my_custom_checkout_field( $checkout ) {
     ?>
    <?php
    echo '

' . __('TO ') . '
';
    woocommerce_form_field( 'from_comments', array(
   'type'          => 'text',
   'class'         => array('my-field-class form-row-wide'),
    'placeholder'   => __('FROM'),
     ), $checkout->get_value( 'from_comments' ));

   woocommerce_form_field( 'to_comments', array(
'type'          => 'text',
'class'         => array('my-field-class form-row-wide'),
'placeholder'   => __('TO'),
), $checkout->get_value( 'to_comments' ));
   echo '
';
    }


(ESSEX, ON) On September 22, 2018 around 6:30 a.m., Essex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a motor vehicle collision on County Road 42 at Patillo Road in Lakeshore.
An eastbound motor vehicle was turning left onto Patillo Road when it collided with a westbound motorcycle.
As a result of the collision, the male driver of the motorcycle suffered life threatening injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene. The identity of the deceased is being withheld at this time pending notification of next of kin.
OPP Traffic Collision Investigators (TCI) is currently on scene investigating the collision.
County Road 42 at Patillo Road will be closed for approximately six hours. Motorists will have to find alternative routes.
The investigation is continuing and charges are pending against the 23-year-old male driver of the motor vehicle.


Should we trust John McCain's judgment when he rejected talking with Iran and then asked, "What is there to talk about?" Or Barack Obama, who said, "We must talk and make clear to Iran that it must change"?
Now, after seven years of denial, even the Bush administration recognizes that we should talk to Iran because that's the best way to ensure our security.
Again and again, John McCain has been wrong, and Barack Obama is right.
Should we trust John McCain's judgment when he says we can't have no timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq, that we must stay indefinitely? Or should we listen to Barack Obama, who says shift the responsibility to the Iraqis and set a time to bring our combat troops home?
Now, after six long years, the administration and the Iraqi government are on the verge of setting a date to bring our troops home. John McCain was wrong, and Barack Obama was right.
Anyone else find it ironic that Biden bolsters the Democrats' position on Iran and Iraq by saying "Hey look, Barack Obama's plan is the same as George Bush's!"
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The curatorial program of Iryna Slavinska
World dictionaries are constantly competing in the summing up speed through the prism of "words of the year".
According to Merriam-Webster, the Word of the Year is "feminism", being the most frequently asked. Such a choice is closely linked to mass culture (let's recall the new heroine of Star Wars, the signature of Catherine Deneuve under the "letter of 100 French Women" or "Weinstein-hate" in Hollywood), political events (at least Clinton vs. Trump), protest movements (Black Protest in Poland, Women's March in the United States, attacks on women's marches in Ukraine, March 8, 2018), charitable initiatives (Time's Up Foundation, the global movement HeforShe, which Ukraine joined in 2018), and many others.
In turn, Oxford Dictionary compilers say that the word of the year is "youthquake", defined as 'a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people'. This is a conversation not only about the special ethics, not only about the new generation, but also about the prospect — about the future.
"Accomplice", the word of the year according to Dictionary.com, says a lot about what is forthcoming. On the dictionary's website, the article explaining the choice reminds us of "inaction as a type of action". Hence, it is a warning of the danger of indifference and passivity. But there is also a recipe for success — a joint action and self-organization. This means to be associate actors, but not spectating accomplices.
That is why the program Words of the Year is at the junction of topics. We are talking about the future, equality of rights of women and men, joint action, solidarity, sisterhood, and brotherhood. It is quite logical that the program combines the discussion on feminism of tomorrow, today and 100 years ago, on continuity between generations, the presentation of a children's book about prominent Ukrainian women and a public talk about being a responsible father, an emphasis on the actions of women leaders and men with pro-feministic views, conversations about the concept of "courage" as a cultural construct and reflection about whether we will behave as children of 2018.
The Project of the Future
Curated by Vira Baldyniuk
Curated by Polina Horodyska
Ukrainian program
Curated by Oksana Shchur
To Be Continued! Kids Program
Curated by Yuliia Kozlovets
The curatorial program of Andrey Kurkov
The curatorial program of Nastasia Yevdokymova
Music program by Next Sound Festival
Curated by Andriy Kyrychenko