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Home > Council > The Vale of Glamorgan Council > Minutes, Agendas and Reports > Community Review Lavernock
Council Meeting: 28th September 2016
Report of the Electoral Registration Officer
Community Review - Lavernock Ward (Sully and Lavernock Community Council)
To seek Council's endorsement of the Final Recommendation for Change following the community review of the number of Members for the Lavernock Ward as part of the Sully and Lavernock Community Council; and to authorise the publication of this report and the making of the associated Order six weeks following publication.
T H A T Council endorses the Final Recommendation for Change as set out in Appendix 4 to the report to Cabinet on 25th July, 2016, and consequently the following proposed electoral arrangements relating to the number of Members representing the Lavernock and Sully Wards on the Sully and Lavernock Community Council, in accordance with the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013:
Lavernock Ward - 2 Community Councillors
Sully Ward - 7 Community Councillors.
THAT Council authorises the publication of this report commencing on 29th September, 2016 for a period of six weeks.
THAT Council approves the Order as set out in the Appendix to this report and authorises the Electoral Registration Officer (following the conclusion of the six week period referred to in recommendation 2 above) to make arrangements for the sealing of the Order on behalf of the Council and witness the same on 11th November, 2016 or soon thereafter.
Reasons for the Recommendations
To inform and seek the views of Council on the final proposals as recommended by the Electoral Registration Officer following a statutory review pursuant to the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013.
2&3 To implement the Final Recommendation for Change (if deemed appropriate).
The Council may under section 31 of the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013 ("the Act") conduct a review of the electoral arrangements for a community in its area either of its own initiative, at the request of the Community Council for the community or at the request of not less than 30 local government electors registered in the community.
A request was received from the Sully and Lavernock Community Council, ("the Community Council") following an Ordinary Meeting of the Community Council, for a review to be undertaken of the number of Members elected to the Lavernock Ward. The request highlighted that the Community Council considered that the ratio of Members to the electorate in the Lavernock Ward were inconsistent with the ratio of Members to the electorate in the Sully Ward, and proposed increasing the number of Members for the Lavernock Ward from one to two.
Consequently, Cabinet received a report at its meeting on 30th November, 2015 when it resolved:
"(1) THAT delegated authority be granted to the Electoral Registration Officer to conduct a review of electoral arrangements relating to the number of Members representing the Lavernock Ward on the Sully and Lavernock Community Council, in accordance with the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013.
(2) THAT the terms of reference of the review and the timetable attached at Appendix 1 to the report be approved."
(Minute No. C2992).
The outcome of the Electoral Registration Officer's review was considered at Cabinet on 25th July, 2016 when the final recommendations were endorsed and referred to Council as follows:
"(1) T H A T the Final Recommendation for Change as set out in Appendix 4 to the report, and consequently the following proposed electoral arrangements relating to the number of Members representing the Lavernock and Sully Wards on the Sully and Lavernock Community Council, in accordance with the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013, be endorsed:
Sully Ward - 7 Community Councillors
(2) T H A T the matter be reported to Council in September 2016 for consideration and approval."
(Minute No. C3254)
Relevant Options
A comprehensive review of the electoral arrangements for Sully and Lavernock Community Council was carried out between 11th December, 2015 and 17th June, 2016 in line with the approved terms of reference, which were attached at Appendix 1 to the report to Cabinet on 25th July, 2016
The stakeholders detailed in Appendix 2 to the report to Cabinet on 25th July, 2016 were consulted and Appendix 3 to that report detailed a summary of the representations received.
Key statutory provisions relating to a Review include:
Investigations are to be conducted as deemed appropriate;
Consultation is to be held with the mandatory consultees and such other persons as the Reviewing Council considers appropriate;
The Reviewing Council may propose and make changes to the electoral arrangements for the community as are considered appropriate;
Reference to the electoral arrangements of a community includes, the number of Members of the Council for the community, its division into Wards, the number and boundaries of any Wards, the number of Members to be elected for any Ward, and the name of any Ward;
Where it is decided to specify the number of Community Councillors to be elected for each ward, regard is to be had to any change in the number or distribution of local government electors of the community which is likely to take place within the period of five years immediately following any recommendation; and
Account is to be taken of any discrepancy between the number of local government electors and number of persons that are eligible to be local government electors.
Pursuant to sections 35(6) and 36(4)(c) of the Act, a reference to a proposal for change is a reference to any change that the reviewing body may recommend or make (including consequential change) in relation to the type of review being conducted.
The final proposed Recommendation for Change was attached at Appendix 4 to the report to Cabinet on 25th July, 2016 for consideration.
In line with Section 36 of the Act should Council be in agreement with the recommendations contained in this report, the Council must:
publish this report electronically and make it available for inspection (without charge) at the Council's offices for at least six weeks beginning with the date of publication;
send a copy of the report to the mandatory consultees, Ordnance Survey and the Welsh Ministers; and
inform any other person who submitted evidence or made representations in relation to the report published how to obtain a copy of the report.
To implement the Final Recommendation for Change (as detailed in Appendix 4 to the report to Cabinet on 25th July, 2016), an Order (as detailed in the Appendix to this report) will need to be sealed following the expiration of a period of six weeks beginning with the date on which the Council publishes its report. It is proposed that the report is published on 29th September, 2016, and the Order sealed on 11th November, 2016 or soon thereafter.
The publishing and administrative costs of the Review will be met from the Electoral Registration Services existing budget.
There are no direct implications arising from this report.
As detailed in the body of this report.
Having undertaken an Equality Impact Assessment no impact on any protected characteristic groups or individuals have been identified as a result of the proposed Final Recommendation for Change.
Electoral Registration has links to an inclusive and safe Vale well-being outcome.
The report is for consideration and approval by Council (if deemed appropriate).
Consultation has been undertaken with statutory consultees which includes the relevant Ward Councillors. The representations received were summarised in and appended to Appendix 3 to the report to Cabinet on 25th July, 2016.
Corporate Performance and Resources
Cabinet Report dated 30th November, 2015 and minute no. C2992.
Cabinet Report dated 25th July, 2016 and minute no. C3254.
Rebecca Light (Electoral Services Manager, Legal Services)
Rob Thomas (Managing Director)
Debbie Marles (Electoral Registration Officer)


Can my power supply handle this graphics card?
Hi, I have an i5 2500k, 8gb ram , and im planning to upgrade my graphics card to a radeon 7950 , but my power supply( OCZ500SXS2 )only has one PCI 6.0 connector (I think ,anyway , im really clueless about this stuff so sorry) but I read that the radeon 7950 requires two, so my question is if I get an adaptor , what adaptor will I need and is that a good idea or not? I don't really want to spend any more money on a new power supply too. Thank you.
Re: Can my power supply handle this graphics card?
You need to get your MoBo, Drive and RAM models (and any other devices) and search their "TDP." Add all those together and if you're under 500W you should be just fine. Within 25W of max, I would recommend upgrading the Power Supply.
There's also a chance that using the 6-pin adapter may cause issues with too much going over a single "rail" or line... but that's rare.
If this is your PSU, it has 2 12V rails.... might be a bad idea to get an adapter.
Yea that's it... if you look at the pic you posted, bottom left. "12V1" and "12V2"
I would get rid of that PSU anyway as multiple rails hasn't had the most stable of times.
Your video card plugs into one slot but take up two slots because of its size.
I've had it for years without any problems, so the 7950 is a no go with that PSU?
It's not a "No Go" by any means. PSU's with multiple rails have been known to cause issues back in the day. Basically, splitting the lines (main lines) can cause inequalities in electrical output. So it can "rob peter to pay paul" so to speak, which in terms of throughput can cause damage.
Those issues could have since been fixed and you may get along just fine. If you've never had problems then you may very well not have any issues at all... it's just not something I can recommend with certainty without doing a lot more research into the technology as of late.
So if I was to go ahead with it and take the risks(which I'm really mind boggled about at the moment because of various opinions) , I need a 6 pin to 2x 6 pin splitter?


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Applications and Admissions
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Goals of the B.A. in Linguistics
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It depends on whether you need to take the prerequisites and on how many classes you take each semester. If you enroll on a full time basis (minimum 9 units), you can complete the program in 4 semesters (3 semesters with 9 units each; 1 semester with 12 units). Most of the visa-students finish the program in two years since they have to take a minimum of three classes each semester. (Visa students cannot do the program part-time.)
If I study part time, how long will it take to complete the program?
If you take two classes a semester, then it will take three to four years to complete all the requirements for the degree.
I work full time. How long will it take for me to complete the program?
It all depends on how many classes you intend to take in a semester. It could take two to four years to complete all the requirements for the degree.
Do you offer classes during evenings?
Yes, we offer some.
How many students are there in your program or how big is your program?
The total number of students varies from semester to semester. We have currently between 30-35 students.
Do you have a job placement program for your graduating students?
Unfortunately, no. We do, however, receive job announcements from various sources which we pass on to students via the LLD Student Association distribution list.
Admission Questions
What are the documents I need to submit for initiating the admission process?
If you are a domestic applicant, you would need to submit official copies of all undergraduate/graduate transcripts, two letters of recommendation, and evidence of financial support.
I don't have any training in Linguistics. Am I eligible to apply for admission to your program?
Yes, you are eligible to apply for admission to the program as long as you have a B average (3.0/4.0) in the last 60 (sixty) units of your last degree. If you are admitted to the program, you will be given conditionally classified status until you complete the pre-requisites.
I don't have a 3.0 GPA. How can I become eligible for admission to your program?
Consider taking classes (including LING 101) through Open University and when your GPA reaches 3.0 in the last 60 units, then you become eligible for admission to the program.
Do I have to take the GRE for admission to your MA Linguistics degree program?
No. For admission to our graduate programs, we do not require GRE test results.
What is meant by "conditionally classified status"?
It simply means that you are required to complete a number of pre-requisites to the program before you are moved into "classified status."
I want to transfer some of my graduate classes from another university. What is the process?
You need to contact your advisor for this. You can transfer up to 3 three classes (9 units) into the 30-unit program. The units can be from before you earned "classified status" or from another university. For courses from another university, you would need to convince your advisor that they are comparable to the courses in the program and that they were not counted towards a degree that you earned in that institution. For more information, please see the Catalog.
If I have applied and been admitted but will not be able to attend the program in that year, can my admission roll over to next year?
No. Enrollment in the semester that you are admitted to is required for you to be considered a matriculated student. You may not defer admission to a later semester and you will have to re-apply to the University.
You need to submit English-language proficiency test scores, WES evaluation of all your undergraduate/graduate transcripts, two letters of recommendation, and evidence of financial support. Please check the College of Graduate Studies site for details.
Which English-language proficiency tests do you accept?
We accept TOEFL, IELTS, and Pearson's tests.
What are the cutoff scores for admission to the MA Linguistics program? Can you please waive the TOEFL requirement for me?
The TOEFL cutoff scores are: 90 IBT, 233 computer-based and 577 paper-based test. The IELTS cut-off score is 7.0. The Pearsons cut-off score is 68.
The TOEFL requirement cannot be waived by the department; it is a university admission requirement and is not normally waived for anybody who needs to fulfill it.
I am an international student and I will be getting my bachelor degree from a U.S. university. Do I still have to submit TOEFL scores?
If your undergraduate degree is from a U.S. university or you have completed at least three years of full-time coursework in an accredited U.S. institution, then you are not required to take TOEFL.
I am from a country where English is the medium of instruction at the university level. Do I still have to take TOEFL?
Yes. According to the SJSU Catalog, SJSU does not accept "English-medium of instruction" as a substitute for an English-language proficiency exam such as TOEFL, IELTS, or the Pearson's Test of English. Letters from applicants or institutions will NOT be accepted. Requests to waive this requirement will only be considered under the following circumstances:
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Once I have been admitted as an international student, how long will it take for me to get my student visa? Who should I contact for this?
It takes about 6 weeks from the time you get your admission letter for the International Program and Services to send you the necessary form for applying for a student visa in your country. If you don't receive the necessary paper in seven weeks from the time you receive the admission letter from both Graduate Applications and Program Evaluations, contact the International Programs and Services either by fax or e-mail.
During the first few days after my arrival from my home country, where I can stay before I can find a place myself?
Please contact the International House. They have temporary accommodations, but it is given on a first-come-first-served basis, so you need to contact them as soon as you have received your admission letter. For more information, please see the off-campus housing options.
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package eventhandlers

import (
	"context"
	"github.com/go-logr/logr"
	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/equality"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
	"k8s.io/client-go/util/workqueue"
	elbv2api "sigs.k8s.io/aws-load-balancer-controller/apis/elbv2/v1beta1"
	"sigs.k8s.io/aws-load-balancer-controller/pkg/k8s"
	"sigs.k8s.io/aws-load-balancer-controller/pkg/targetgroupbinding"
	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/event"
	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/handler"
	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/reconcile"
)

// NewEnqueueRequestsForServiceEvent constructs new enqueueRequestsForServiceEvent.
func NewEnqueueRequestsForServiceEvent(k8sClient client.Client, logger logr.Logger) handler.EventHandler {
	return &enqueueRequestsForServiceEvent{
		k8sClient: k8sClient,
		logger:    logger,
	}
}

type enqueueRequestsForServiceEvent struct {
	k8sClient client.Client
	logger    logr.Logger
}

// Create is called in response to an create event - e.g. Pod Creation.
func (h *enqueueRequestsForServiceEvent) Create(e event.CreateEvent, queue workqueue.RateLimitingInterface) {
	svcNew := e.Object.(*corev1.Service)
	h.enqueueImpactedTargetGroupBindings(queue, svcNew)
}

// Update is called in response to an update event -  e.g. Pod Updated.
func (h *enqueueRequestsForServiceEvent) Update(e event.UpdateEvent, queue workqueue.RateLimitingInterface) {
	svcOld := e.ObjectOld.(*corev1.Service)
	svcNew := e.ObjectNew.(*corev1.Service)
	if !equality.Semantic.DeepEqual(svcOld.Spec.Ports, svcNew.Spec.Ports) {
		h.enqueueImpactedTargetGroupBindings(queue, svcNew)
	}
}

// Delete is called in response to a delete event - e.g. Pod Deleted.
func (h *enqueueRequestsForServiceEvent) Delete(e event.DeleteEvent, queue workqueue.RateLimitingInterface) {
	svcOld := e.Object.(*corev1.Service)
	h.enqueueImpactedTargetGroupBindings(queue, svcOld)
}

// Generic is called in response to an event of an unknown type or a synthetic event triggered as a cron or
// external trigger request - e.g. reconcile AutoScaling, or a WebHook.
func (h *enqueueRequestsForServiceEvent) Generic(e event.GenericEvent, queue workqueue.RateLimitingInterface) {
	// nothing to do here
}

// enqueueImpactedEndpointBindings will enqueue all impacted TargetGroupBindings for service events.
func (h *enqueueRequestsForServiceEvent) enqueueImpactedTargetGroupBindings(queue workqueue.RateLimitingInterface, svc *corev1.Service) {
	tgbList := &elbv2api.TargetGroupBindingList{}
	if err := h.k8sClient.List(context.Background(), tgbList,
		client.InNamespace(svc.Namespace),
		client.MatchingFields{targetgroupbinding.IndexKeyServiceRefName: svc.Name}); err != nil {
		h.logger.Error(err, "failed to fetch targetGroupBindings")
		return
	}

	svcKey := k8s.NamespacedName(svc)
	for _, tgb := range tgbList.Items {
		if tgb.Spec.TargetType == nil || (*tgb.Spec.TargetType) != elbv2api.TargetTypeInstance {
			continue
		}

		h.logger.V(1).Info("enqueue targetGroupBinding for service event",
			"service", svcKey,
			"targetGroupBinding", k8s.NamespacedName(&tgb),
		)
		queue.Add(reconcile.Request{
			NamespacedName: types.NamespacedName{
				Namespace: tgb.Namespace,
				Name:      tgb.Name,
			},
		})
	}
}

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I don't know about the rest of you but Tara's holiday last week really threw me. I've come to set my week around her weekly gallery theme and I've been all out of sorts without it.
This weeks theme is Memory.
For those of you who are new to this please stop by Tara's blog for more info.
Memory is such a vast theme that I've had a little trouble choosing my pics... until I read Tara's post on Mothers Guilt last night.
For a long time there was No1 son and me but I was ill. I was suffering with PND so bad that I nearly didn't live to tell the tale. My actions very nearly left my totally perfect little boy without a mother. That is something that I have lived with for the last sixteen years of my life and a feeling that will never go away.
Things worked out kind of OK. I got better (mentally) and went on to marry the most amazing man and have three more beautiful amazing children.
They know of my past. We don't hide things in our family. They are very aware that they very nearly never came to be and that hurts me too.
This picture isn't great, I've attempted to Photoshop it better but it's more than a little dog eared due to the fact that I clung to it for the whole six months I spent recovering in hospital.
His chubby cheeks, tubby toddler belly and the sheer love in his eyes for me teamed with the love in my eyes for him - is what got me here today.
I knew knew knew you'd shine with this theme Sian.
I love that photo. I love that it's dogeared and you tell the reason why.
I love that you look so gloriously radiant.
Thank you for sharing such a special photo. One of my most treasured photos is a polaroid of my eldest taken by a nurse when my daughter was on the neo-natal ward on one floor of the hospital and I was on a ward on another floor. That photo was so important to have with me when I couldn't be with her.
Gorgeous post, Sian. And I love the fact it's dogeared.
That's such a beautiful photo. Some say the power of words can move you to tears other that a picture is worth a thousand words, the combination of both is imeasurable. A truly wonderful post.
Dog eared photos really are the best ones.
What a lovely post, brought a tear to my eye.
And you look ruddy gorgeous in that photo!!
Tara, Tara, Tara... please don't go on holiday ever again. Seriously.
Mummy Mishaps... hell yes! I was 20, thin and quite lovely even if I do say so myself!
Laura... crumply around the edges does it for me.
Tatty, Cathy, Deer baby, Baking Mad... thanks.
Emily... If you need some support just shout. Well actually don't shout, tweet or email cause my sound is usually turned down.
It does get better - I promise.
I am sat in tears, I really do admire you for the way you tell it Mrs. They keep you going, well the boys keep me going through everyday, thick and thin.
It's amazing how much strength we gain from our children, it's seeing it that can be the hard part.
Just amazing to read your story and how you came through. Such strength. The photograph is beautiful - the love just shines out of it. I can see why you have kept it close all this time.
Amazing, just amazing. You and your family. Thank you.
This is obviously such an important picture for you. Really moving story. Thank you for sharing.
A great picture and an obviously deeply embedded memory.
It is a gorgeous photo! Such a lovely "Mum & Son" photo. Thank goodness you overcame your PND all be it with the six months in hospital.
What a mix of a post - full of love and joy for your family and sadness about what happened 16 years ago.
Really good story to back up this photo - glad you got through the tough times!
That is a really beautiful picture. I love the way that small children look at their mothers, and that photo captures a very special moment between you.
Thank goodness that you managed to over come the PND. Words seem a bit inadequate, but I think it's great that you feel able to be open about that experience. Once you've been through a difficult phase (to say the least), it's easier sometimes to just put it behind you. I'm sure that you and others who are able to show that there is life beyond depression is invaluable for people who are suffering right now.
PND is so unsung but so traumatically devastating, such a lovely much loved picture.
I always cheat and look at the picture first, and what a beauty! A picture really does tell a thousand words and the fact that its tatty just adds to it.
I remember the post you are referring to and I remember thinking how amazing you are that you took your second chance and RAN WITH IT.
I love this picture and I can completely see the love in your eyes and the love in your son's--its the sort of love that is complete and total and non-judgmental and I love it. It makes me weak all over when I see this in my daughter. Excellent photo. And you look completely gorgeous!!
Great photo and a fantastic post.


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Appeal against recovery of $185 million in favor of Rosneft to be reviewed in February
Moscow court recovers $185 million from Cypriot firm in favor of Rosneft
© RIA Novosti
Tags: Appeal, Rosneft, The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals, Moscow, Russia
MOSCOW, December 27 (RAPSI) – The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has postponed hearing of an appeal, filed by Cypriot company Swisspro Capital Limited against a lower court's ruling recovering $184.8 million in favor of Russia's largest oil company Rosneft, until February 5, the court documents read.
According to the court, the appeal does not contain a document confirming paying state fee.
On November 15, the Moscow Commercial Court granted a motion filed by Rosneft seeking to collect the debt related to the crude oil delivery contract of March 27, 2014.
The Cypriot company acted as a borrower of about $400 million, lent in 2013 by Russian VTB bank for purchase of the Odessa oil refinery in Ukraine from Russian oil company Lukoil by Ukrainian tycoon Sergey Kurchenko's VETEK Group of Companies.
In May 2014, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said that according to its estimates the damage caused by Kurchenko's actions made 4 billion Ukrainian hryvnas (about $152 million at the current exchange rate).
Earlier, Ukraine's Interior Ministry has claimed to detect a scheme of illegal import and sale of oil products by VETEK, where Kurchenko is the chair of the Supervisory Board. According to investigators, oil products were being sold without paying taxes via fictitious companies. At that time, the Interior Ministry estimated the damage caused in 2013 alone at 26 billion hryvnas (about $2 billion).
According to a SSU statement, in order to protect the state property-related interests certain VETEK assets in Odessa were seized, and Kurchenko was put on the international wanted list.
10:51 27/12/2017 The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has postponed hearing of an appeal, filed by Cypriot company Swisspro Capital Limited against a lower court's ruling recovering $184.8 million in favor of Russia's largest oil company Rosneft, until February 5.


A unique 16-languages setup wizard is included in the installation CD for you to setup Internet connection, router password and firmware upgrade. You can setup the router connecting to the Internet within minutes by following the simple animated steps.
The ADSL router supports 8 Public IP Address mapping so you can set up multi servers (Web server, Mail Server and IP camera...) inside your network for Internet users to access.
AR-7084A provides Firewall to protect you from the following Internet attacks, SYN Flooding, Ping of Death, Teardrop and Land Attack. You can restrict users to access the services like Web, Telnet, Ping, FTP and SNMP. Also, you can also block some IP addresses to access Internet thought AR-7084A to increase the security.
The router can be configured through the friendly Web interface with a Web browser from Internet or Intranet.
The NAT/NAPT function lets you share the broadband connection to all the network users (up to 253 users).
* The EZMax Setup CD Wizard only supports Edimax router.
• Connect the AR-7084A ADSL port to Internet Service Provider via RJ-11.
• Share the Internet connection with other wired computers/devices.


Yes. There is Monerujo. Open source light wallet for android.
I use it. I bought a Ledger Nano S and a Cryptosteel with it.
To add, here is a link to the reddit announcement that has a link to the Google Play store for the app.
Thank you very much. Now I have updatet my wallet to version Helium Hydra 0.11.0.0 and it's working. I have receive my transaction. I like XMR and I think monero have a great future.
3. Gives me peace of mind if i needed to do a private transaction for wharever reason, its easy to do and readibly at hand.
Thanks for the helpful post - I could definitely use the extra 30+GB Monero Blockchain space on my laptop for other things.
Would there be any security issues using the Moneroworld node with my wallet (I'm running Linux...)?
This is slightly off topic but relates to monero by decentralization and privacy so I give myself a licence to ask here.
But they seem to be beta this and beta that and under of development. Ready not yet and so on.
So if I would like establish for example a site for monero where domain and data storage and such are decentralized the way that they cannot be taken down by TPTB, how can I do it? Is there tecnology available?
And such easy way that I do not has to fight with it for weeks. Like such that ordinary CLI GUI linux crypto oriented user can do it.
Thank you both very much, will check for more details. Just a little bit afraid that it is just a public beta version added to Google Play very recently.


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Леопольд IV (; бл. 1108—18 жовтня 1141) — маркграф Австрії (з 1136 року) і герцог Баварії (з 1139 року) з династії Бабенбергів.

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Леопольд IV був сином австрійського маркграфа Леопольда III Святого та Агнеси, дочки імператора Генріха IV.

У 1136-1137 роках змагався за владу зі своїм старшим братом Адальбертом ІІ.

1138 року на престол Німеччини вступив король Конрад III Гогенштауфен, однокровний брат по матері маркграфа Леопольда IV. Природно, що Леопольд IV активно підтримав Гогенштауфенів у їхній боротьбі з домом Вельфів. У 1139 році, після позбавлення всіх титулів герцога Баварії Генріха X з династії Вельфів, король передав герцогство Леопольду IV. В результаті Австрію було об'єднано з Баварією, а вплив Бабенбергів різко зріс.

Упродовж всього недовгого правління Леопольда IV в Баварії він вів непримиренну боротьбу з Вельфами. Ця боротьба була, втім, невдалою: 1141 року герцог зазнав поразки й незабаром помер. Леопольд IV не мав дітей, тому його спадкоємцем став молодший брат Генріх II Язомирготт.

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 (1138) Марія Богемська (померла бл. 1160), донька Собеслава I, князя Моравії.
Дітей не було.

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Бабенберги
Герцоги Баварії

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The MuddyWater cyber-espionage campaign was observed using spear-phishing emails to target entities in more countries, Kaspersky Lab reports.
The MuddyWater threat actor was first detailed last year, focusing mainly on governmental targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Attribution appears difficult and numerous new attacks were linked to the group this year.
Recently, the group was observed targeting government bodies, military entities, telcos and educational institutions in Jordan, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan. Other victims were detected in Mali, Austria, Russia, Iran, and Bahrain, and the initially discovered attacks on Iraq and Saudi Arabia continued as well.
The attacks used new spear-phishing documents and relied on social engineering to trick users into enable malicious macros. Password-protected to hinder analysis, the macros in the malicious documents execute obfuscated VBA code when enabled.
Base64-encoded, the macro payload drops three files in the "ProgramData" folder and also adds a registry entry in the current user's RUN key (HKCU) to ensure execution when the user next logs in. Sometimes, the macro spawns the malicious payload/process instantly and doesn't wait for the next user login.
The attacks leverage legitimate executables from Microsoft, all of which are whitelisted, thus ensuring the payload's execution. The macro drops either INF, SCT, and text files or VBS and text files.
In the second scenario, the VBS file decodes itself and calls mshta.exe. One line of VBScript code passed to mshta spawns a PowerShell one-liner to consume the text file.
The one-liner PowerShell code reads the encoded text file dropped in ProgramData and decodes it to obfuscated code.
The code disables the Macro Warnings and Protected View in Office, to ensure future attacks can be performed without user interaction. It also checks the running processes against a hardcoded list and reboots the machine if it finds any match.
For communication with the command and control (C&C) server, the code randomly selects a URL from a list. If communication fails, it attempts to connect to another randomly selected URL from that list, then sleeps from one to 30 seconds and loops again.
Once a machine has been infected, the code attempts to obtain the victim's public IP and sends the information along with OS version, internal IP, machine name, domain name, and username to the C&C, which allows the attackers to filter victims.
Based on commands received from the C&C, the code can take screenshots, retrieve another stage of the PowerShell code that is executed via Excel, Outlook, or Explorer.exe, download files from the C&C and save them to "ProgramData," destroy the disk drives C, D, E, F and then reboot the system, or simply reboot or shut down the victim's machine.
Most of the group's victims are in Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan, but Russia, Iran, Bahrain, Austria and Mali were also impacted. The attacks, Kaspersky notes, are geopolitically motivated, targeting sensitive personnel and organizations.
"The MuddyWaters group has carried out a large number of attacks and demonstrated advanced social engineering, in addition to the active development of attacks, infrastructure and the use of new methods and techniques. The attackers are actively improving their toolkit in an effort to minimize their exposure to security products and services," Kaspersky concludes.


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"""
sentry.utils.auth
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

:copyright: (c) 2010-2014 by the Sentry Team, see AUTHORS for more details.
:license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
"""
from __future__ import absolute_import

import time
import logging

from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import login as _login
from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

from sentry.models import User, Authenticator

logger = logging.getLogger('sentry.auth')

class AuthUserPasswordExpired(Exception):

    def __init__(self, user):
        self.user = user

def _make_key_value(val):
    return val.strip().split('=', 1)

def parse_auth_header(header):
    try:
        return dict(map(_make_key_value, header.split(' ', 1)[1].split(',')))
    except Exception:
        return {}

def get_auth_providers():
    return [
        key for key, cfg_names
        in settings.AUTH_PROVIDERS.iteritems()
        if all(getattr(settings, c, None) for c in cfg_names)
    ]

def get_pending_2fa_user(request):
    rv = request.session.get('_pending_2fa')
    if rv is None:
        return

    user_id, created_at = rv
    if created_at < time.time() - 60 * 5:
        return None

    try:
        return User.objects.get(pk=user_id)
    except User.DoesNotExist:
        pass

def has_pending_2fa(request):
    return request.session.get('_pending_2fa') is not None

def get_login_redirect(request, default=None):
    if default is None:
        default = reverse('sentry')

    # If there is a pending 2fa authentication bound to the session then
    # we need to go to the 2fa dialog.
    if has_pending_2fa(request):
        return reverse('sentry-2fa-dialog')

    # If we have a different URL to go after the 2fa flow we want to go to
    # that now here.
    after_2fa = request.session.pop('_after_2fa', None)
    if after_2fa is not None:
        return after_2fa

    login_url = request.session.pop('_next', None) or default
    if login_url.startswith(('http://', 'https://')):
        login_url = default
    elif login_url.startswith(reverse('sentry-login')):
        login_url = default
    return login_url

def find_users(username, with_valid_password=True, is_active=None):
    """
    Return a list of users that match a username
    and falling back to email
    """
    qs = User.objects

    if is_active is not None:
        qs = qs.filter(is_active=is_active)

    if with_valid_password:
        qs = qs.exclude(password='!')

    try:
        # First, assume username is an iexact match for username
        user = qs.get(username__iexact=username)
        return [user]
    except User.DoesNotExist:
        # If not, we can take a stab at guessing it's an email address
        if '@' in username:
            # email isn't guaranteed unique
            return list(qs.filter(email__iexact=username))
    return []

def login(request, user, passed_2fa=False, after_2fa=None):
    """This logs a user in for the sesion and current request.  If 2FA is
    enabled this method will start the 2FA flow and return False, otherwise
    it will return True.  If `passed_2fa` is set to `True` then the 2FA flow
    is set to be finalized (user passed the flow).

    Optionally `after_2fa` can be set to a URL which will be used to override
    the regular session redirect target directly after the 2fa flow.
    """
    has_2fa = Authenticator.objects.user_has_2fa(user)
    if has_2fa and not passed_2fa:
        request.session['_pending_2fa'] = [user.id, time.time()]
        if after_2fa is not None:
            request.session['_after_2fa'] = after_2fa
        return False

    request.session.pop('_pending_2fa', None)

    # Check for expired passwords here after we cleared the 2fa flow.
    # While this means that users will have to pass 2fa before they can
    # figure out that their passwords are expired this is still the more
    # reasonable behavior.
    #
    # We also rememebr _after_2fa here so that we can continue the flow if
    # someone does it in the same browser.
    if user.is_password_expired:
        raise AuthUserPasswordExpired(user)

    # If there is no authentication backend, just attach the first
    # one and hope it goes through.  This apparently is a thing we
    # have been doing for a long time, just moved it to a more
    # reasonable place.
    if not hasattr(user, 'backend'):
        user.backend = settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS[0]
    _login(request, user)
    log_auth_success(request, user.username)
    return True

def log_auth_success(request, username):
    logger.info('user.auth.success', extra={
        'ip_address': request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'],
        'username': username,
    })

def log_auth_failure(request, username=None):
    logger.info('user.auth.fail', extra={
        'ip_address': request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'],
        'username': username,
    })

class EmailAuthBackend(ModelBackend):
    """
    Authenticate against django.contrib.auth.models.User.

    Supports authenticating via an email address or a username.
    """
    def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None):
        users = find_users(username)
        if users:
            for user in users:
                try:
                    if user.password and user.check_password(password):
                        return user
                except ValueError:
                    continue
        return None


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The biggest little voice in trucking
Todd Dills
Updated Apr 1, 2021
In the 1990s, the truck safety lobby was active, visible and in some cases well funded by the railroads. Most truck drivers were familiar with the small but vocal Parents Against Tired Truckers and Citizens for Reliable And Safe Highways. PATT founders Daphne and Steve Izer, whose teenage son was killed in a truck crash in 1994, often made news with their emotionally driven public appearances.
But truckers held little sympathy for what they perceived to be exaggerated, unfair attacks on drivers who statistically were proven to be far safer than four-wheelers.
Since then, other groups have appeared on the highway safety stage. The public visibility of all in some ways has dwindled with funding, and railroad groups appear to have gotten out of the business of anti-truck messaging except on size and weight issues. But safety groups have more than made up for that by forming alliances with regulators and sympathetic carrier interests. Their influence has helped lead to regulations requiring the use of speed limiters (officially proposed just a week and a half ago) and electronic logging devices.
Since 2002, PATT and CRASH have been united under the Truck Safety Coalition banner. They still use emotional appeals of injured victims or family members of those killed in truck-related crashes to influence policy. That can mean anything from speaking up whenever an hours of service change is in the offing to, most recently, leading a call for mandated active emergency-braking technology.
The coalition often is joined by the broader, well-funded Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a membership-based organization founded by automobile insurance executives.
As for the fairness of attacks on trucking coming from these groups, nothing much has changed, says Rob Abbott, outgoing vice president of safety policy for the American Trucking Associations. Speaking specifically about Advocates, CRASH and PATT, Abbott says their statements and "irresponsible" use of data underscore this view: "We think there's a lack of credibility there and would not want to associate with them."
Road Safe America is a different story. Founded by Atlanta-area financial adviser Steve Owings after his son died during a crash with a tractor-trailer early this century, the group is funded by personal donations and run by volunteers exclusively.
Owings says he set off on his own, reasoning that "there's bound to be some leaders in [trucking] who care about safety and try to do something about it. At the same time, I recognized that the organizations that already existed were sort of at loggerheads with the industry." He chose to find common ground "rather than argue forever about things we'll never agree with."
Owings focused on speed governing technology, seeing that a portion of the industry endorsed it, and petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require speed limiting on all new trucks. ATA followed his petition with their own, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration subsequently was brought into the regulatory process to require virtually all truckers with electronic engines to use speed limiters. At press time, a notice of proposed rulemaking had been issued to require limiters, though no speed was identified.
Among those against speed limiters are most Overdrive readers and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. They have long picked a bone over the well-documented safety problems created by forcing trucks to drive slower than surrounding traffic and by removing the ability to accelerate beyond a governed speed in dangerous situations that may require it.
Another problem is the associated costs, which must be considered in any new rule of economic significance. The official estimated cost of speed limiter technology in the recently released proposed rule ranges from $200 million to $1.5 billion worth of productivity and other losses, based on a speed setting range between 68 and 60 mph. FMCSA says such costs are fully offset by fuel savings alone.
Todd Spencer, executive vice president of OOIDA, views groups' advocacy for technological mandates as an economic power play to put an extra burden on trucking's smaller entities. CRASH may not get its support from the railroad lobby anymore, but "they figured out a long time ago that there were entities within trucking that would create more economic issues for small truckers than the railroad ever could," Spencer says. "Virtually all of the regs frustrating many drivers right now, you can point to big truckers as the proponents."
Where's funding come from today? Click through the image above or via this link. for more about the level of incoming contributions to the safety-advocacy groups discussed in this story. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is supported primarily by membership dues, Road Safe by individual contributions. PATT/CRASH list their incoming revenue primarily as contributions on tax forms available in the public domain; some law firms known for representing parties injured during truck-involved accidents advertise their support online, including the firm of CRASH/PATT board member Jeff Burns — Dollar, Burns and Becker.
Requiring ELDs is a prime example. Many larger carriers joined the call to mandate the devices, and large carriers were the first to invest in them. Owings also has been an advocate, echoed in his position by ATA again and other advocacy groups.
FMCSA estimated $1.84 billion in costs for the devices themselves and costs related to driver training and recruiting. That was partly offset by a crash-reduction benefit that the agency estimates to be $570 million. In its ongoing ELD lawsuit, OOIDA vigorously disputes that and other elements of the agency's cost-benefit assessment.
PATT/CRASH seem to have learned from Owings the value of finding trucking partners. After establishing a "Distinguished Safety Leadership" Award in 2010, PATT/CRASH's most recent award, announced in May, went to Senior Vice President Greer Woodruff of J.B. Hunt, in part for the carrier's side-underride prevention on trailers. In its press release, the Truck Safety Coalition mentioned future awards to be delivered to Maverick Transportation Chairman and CEO Steve Williams and CEO Reggie Dupre of Dupre Logistics.
All three are members of a group of five carriers known as the Trucking Alliance, founded in 2010 and fashioning itself as "Trucking's Safety Advocate." The other two companies are Knight Transportation and Boyle Transportation.
The Alliance prominently has joined Advocates and CRASH/PATT in opposing further congressionally directed changes to the hours of service. Likewise, the Alliance joined Advocates recently in filing a brief with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to express support for FMCSA as it defends itself against OOIDA's ELD challenge.
However, the Trucking Alliance did not join the petition to NHTSA by Advocates, the Truck Safety Coalition and Road Safe to require costly active-emergency-braking technology on new trucks. While systems commercially available today can do more than just apply the brakes in an emergency, such a premium system with a new-truck order would add around $5,000 to the sticker price, notes Overdrive Equipment Editor Jason Cannon.
Road Safe, Owings says, is gearing up for a push for automatic-braking regulation. In August, he was hopeful to have a redesigned website live before the end of the month to help put "virtually all of our horsepower – what little we've got – on automatic emergency braking," he says.
As with most political issues, the key players do not always side with identical partners on each issue. Spencer notes that most safety groups are supportive of some driver-favored issues, such as better training, which OOIDA has long championed. Advocates and the Truck Safety Coalition both participated in the 2015 negotiated rulemaking around driver training.
Road Safe America prominently advocates against what Owings calls "piece-work" pay for drivers – the per-mile and percentage methods that he argues encourage hours of service violations. He and other supporters favor an hourly-pay standard for all driver compensation.
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and the Truck Safety Coalition did not respond to requests for interviews for this story.
Next in this series: MCSAC policy panel's long shift toward safety advocates
The power of video evidence in fighting tickets, DataQs challenges
Small business truckers could land a larger voice on FMCSA's regs advisory committee
'Amateur hour': ATA prez takes a seeming swipe at anti-ELD mandate protests
Notes on not choosing from the list of losers


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Jen Sincero Wiki, Husband, Net Worth, Family
Jen Sincero was born on 7 August 1965 in Santa Fe, New Mexico...Jen Sincero is nothing less than Veteran personalities known for her contribution as an author, life coach, and speaker....Sincero was born on the 7th of August, 1965 in Santa Fe, New Mexico...Jen has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days.....
Jen Sincero is nothing less than Veteran personalities known for her contribution as an author, life coach, and speaker. She generally achieves these feats with her self-help books. The thing that most strikes about this author is that she portrays her character through her literature. The demonstration is uncanny and practical.
Maybe it's the same reason, Sincero was the best selling author of the New York Times for her work You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. Besides that, she has even won the 2014 Audie Award Winner for an outstanding narration of an audiobook; You Are a Badass.
Wiki- Family, Education
Jen Sincero was born on 7 August 1965 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Accurate information regarding her height could not be found but judging from the pictures; she seems relatively tall. She is currently 54 years old.
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As apparent in social media, she shares a close relationship with her parents to this date. Her 94 years old father is a doctor by profession.
Author Jen Sincero with her dad(Photo: Jen Sincero Instagram)
There is not much detail about her education background.
She embarked on her career journey when she left her home in early 2011 so she could travel and motivate people without any societal constraints. The most admiring part of her career was that she crawled up from a broke 40-year-old woman to a successful businesswoman.
Since then, Jen has changed countless lives with her powerful charisma. Be it her books, stage speeches, million-dollar deals, or relationship guiding, Jen does her best to make the world a better place.
American author started her writing process as a part of a rock band with Don't Sleep With Your Drummer being her first book. During that time, she had just moved to L.A (2000) with a broken heart and a broken financial condition. After years of grinding at low-wage jobs, rockstar dreams, babysitting, freelancing, catering and living a miserable life in a garage, the writer slowly morphed her experience with the help of motivating seminars and self-help books. Her new journey also included aiding other writers in completing their papers and involving with a life coach herself.
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Married To Husband?
The date is not precise, but Jen was once married in the past, but the relationship couldn't sustain, and sadly, she and her partner broke up.
As confirmed by smh.com.au, Jen briefly identified herself as a lesbian. Also, in August 2005, she was reported to be in a monogamous relationship with a long-term partner, a transgender woman who identified herself as a bisexual. When it's about her sexual preferences, she had her own opinion. She thinks;
"Sexuality has become much more fluid and you no longer have to be locked up into a convenient compartment,"
Talking about her present relationship, Jen has remained mum and rarely has spoken about her love story. As confirmed on Twitter, she once spoke about boyfriend way back in 2013. Afterward, no further hint was made that would manifest her love life.
As of now, there is no evidence of her being married to the husband because she identified herself as lesbian briefly.
Jen Sincero has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days. According to her, she had been living on $28,000 as her yearly income. Fast forward to the present context, the author now reportedly celebrates a 7 figure amount with her coaching and book-selling.
Till now, Jen has sold over a million copies of her three books You Are a Badass At Making Money(2017), You Are a Badass(2013), and You Are a Badass Every day (2018). Besides that, her salary as a life coach and writer surely adds to her total revenue.
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Explore a few facts about Jen Sincero which you guys might be unaware of:
1) Jen has been featured on various media platforms such as the Los Angeles Times, Comedy Central, TV series, and magazines.
2) She also keeps in touch with other authors who share the same boundaries as her as Steven Covey, Eckhart Tolle, and Deepak Chopra.


I have a standard background job,SAP_REORG_UPDATERECORDS getting cancelled regularly in one of our production boxes.
It runs only for a few seconds and then gets cancelled.
"The standard job SAP_REORG_UPDATERECORDS that was contained in some delivered versions must no longer be executed (see Note 67014). In its new version, the underlying ABAP Program RSM13002 is programmed so that it terminates when running in a job (that is, in the background). Therefore, the job SAP_REORG_UPDATERECORDS always terminates in this case. In any case, the job SAP_REORG_UPDATERECORDS should be deleted from the pool of standard jobs, if it is still there: sm36 -> 'Standard jobs' -> 'Delete standard jobs'. In addition, released jobs that may exist and contain report RSM13002 should be deleted. You can find and delete these jobs using sm37."
This job should be deleted as suggested by Rohit too, we have already deleted this just before one week as per SAP note and recommendation. So go ahead !


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Q: Angular select adding empty element despite carefulness I have this html:
<select ng-model="group.newCriterionType">
    <option ng-repeat="type in group.availableTypes" value="{{type}}" ng-selected="$first">{{type}}</option>
</select>

And this model code (using jresig's Class mini-library)
var FilterGroup = Class.extend({
  className: 'FilterGroup',
  widgetType: 'group',
  init: function(name) {
    this.name = name;
    this.availableTypes = FilterTypes;
    this.newCriterionType = this.availableTypes[0];
    this.updateAvailableTypes();
  },
});

However, I still get an empty element in my select. According to all the answers I've seen on SO so far, this is apparently the behaviour of when your model value contains an incorrect value. However:

*

*I added in some console.log statements to check the value

*This code is definitely being called because availableTypes is being set

*It's pulling it from the array it's looping from. How can this be an incorrect value?

*It persists even if i pull the ng-selected out

*It persists if I use ng-options instead of looping through them (though that then means i can't set the value to the be the same as the text without turning it into an object)

Any clues much appreciated.
James

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Other Rival Games Part 2 (1980s-2000s)
Misc. Football Games 1950s-70s; 1980s-2000s (this page)
Super Striker Tribute - Page 1: Parker Sets. Page 2 Palitoy and Peter Pan.
New Footy: 1929-1952; 1953-1960s
Table Association Football 4-2-4
Subbuteo Football boxed editions, and Five-a-side and Junior Editions.
This page is dominated by Pro Action Football, which was Subbuteo's big rival in the 1990s.
Cup Final (1980s)
This was a rubbish three-a-side version of Striker produced by Peter Pan Playthings, of Test Match cricket fame. The layout of the rules, and some of the components made this look like a companion game to their cricket game. Sadly, it was nowhere near as much fun.
I picked up a few bits from one of these sets in a second hand box of Subbuteo, and I can't say I was impressed. The pitch was made of a foamy substance that was shedding its coat alarmingly, and covered everything with bits of green. I'm afraid it went in the bin. This is a problem shared by Peter Pan's Test Match Cricket game. The goals are identical to Striker ones, but have plastic nets.
The outfield players were plastic with a metal kicking leg, with one player having a bent leg, and one a straight leg. The straight legged player had a scooped foot for lobbing the ball, but I can't say that this works very well. To make the players different from Striker or Big League, the kicking was controlled by a button on the back of the base.
The figures came in all red and all blue kits. The painting on the players was absolutely terrible, and probably worse than most of the Big League players I have encountered. Using red and blue plastic for the player and base would've been a better idea. The goalkeepers are identical in design to the original Striker goalkeepers, as they swivel at the waist and have a crooked arm for throwing the ball out.
The ball was not round, but more of a honeycomb with 32 sides. These were divided into two halves of different colours. In the rule book it says that the two halves are red and blue, but this was not always the case (black and white was an alternative). Basically, the team whose colour was on the top face had the right to play the ball. So the skill was to always keep the top face in your colour while dribbling. The rules also suggest that you can play with one player in each hand for quick passing. This method of play is similar to German game Tipp-Kick.
Pro Action Football (1990s)
This game remains a serious rival to Subbuteo, and was really the first soccer game for some time to offer something different. The method of play is very clever, and well thought out. Whisper this, but I've heard several Subbuteo addicts admit that their kids prefer Pro-Action football over Peter Adolph's glorious game.
This is another game that uses magnetism to good effect, but here the magnetic effect is between player and ball. Each player is mounted on a large green base that glides around on a ball bearing (daleks somehow spring to mind). The base has a magnetic ring to which the ball can affix. Thus the player can run with the ball, and intercept passes by sliding onto the ball. Passing and shooting is done by tapping on the top of the player. The top half of the base then moves down, and the rims at the top and bottom of the base cause the ball to part from the ring and be propelled away from the figure. It is sometimes difficult to get the required force for shots.
The goalkeepers have a small round magnet in their chest, so they can catch the ball impressively. Goal kicks are also great fun, as you whack the goalkeeper stick on the pitch in different ways to produce different types of kick.
Pro-Action Football production seems almost as confusing as Super Striker production, with several different sets produced with overlapping dates. They are usually badged under Parker or MB Games, but the copyright is Hasbro, and they obviously own these other brands.
The Standard Parker box sets.
This was the standard version and is currently available at a car boot sale near you! There are slight variations to the box lid and layout, and the "now with barriers" edition above shows that the fence surround was not always included (but it usually is). The teams are red shirts and black shorts; versus blue shirts with black shorts. The outfield players come in three different figures, used for defender, midfielder and attacker, although this doesn't affect how they actually play. The machine printed detail includes numbers on the backs of the shirts and is very neat and attractive.
The goals resemble a strengthened Subbuteo tournament goal, with fitted nets, and a base that has a back bar and clips that fit it to the pitch. This works quite well for holding the goal in place. These goals also appeared in Subbuteo sets for a year or so in the mid 1990s after Hasbro had acquired Waddingtons.
The version of this set I own is copyright 1993, although the sets lasted much longer than that. In fact, the stock seemed to exist well into the Michael Owen era (see below). Various exclusive shop offers were also produced. My local toy shop chain Gamleys, had one such offer a couple of years ago, but embarrassingly, I can't remember what it was! I think a free stop watch was included in the set..
2016:- This German version of Pro Action football has been spotted by regular helper Ashley Hemmings. Although superficially similar to the UK edition, the box is smaller and deeper. Probably easier to store.
The Deluxe Parker Version.
This is a more unusual set, and featured an electronic scoreboard/Grandstand. The stands were two banks of green terracing which clipped to the front of the black scoreboard around a tunnel entrance to the pitch. The scoreboard bit of the device wasn't electronic at all. It was like the Subbuteo boards with names on card that slide in, and two rotating discs for the scores. The electronic part replicated the sound of the crowd. On the top of the device were five football shaped buttons. From the left these appear to be :-
General crowd noise - This button starts a general hum of crowd noise. There doesn't seem to be an off-button, and so it seems to warble on forever... or until you take the batteries out. It might have a set length, but frankly a couple of minutes is all I could stand.
Button 2: Home side score a goal. A big roar of appreciation.
Button 3: A slightly smaller roar than button 2. For the away side scoring a goal. Or a near miss. Or the referee falling over...
Button 4: The refs whistle.
Button 5: A big hooter. In real life you hope you don't have to sit next to the guy with one of these. A joke about sitting next to a woman with a pair of big hooters is almost (but sadly not quite) beneath this site.....
If you had the crowd noise turned on, then buttons 2-5 blended into it rather cleverly. However, they also worked without it.
Another feature of the deluxe set were the free kick assistants. These were just pieces of plastic with a curved ramp at one end, and a place for the player base at the other. This allowed you to shoot over a defensive wall. Or it would if you could get enough force on the ball. The other advantage over the standard set is that one of the teams is a very well printed Brazil (this was also available in the team range). The other team was blue and white (as opposed to the usual blue and black).
Rather impressively, the whole scoreboard, grandstand device was available as an extra accessory, if you happened to own the standard box set and fancied some silly noises to go with it.....
This early version of the game had a team range, which I will cover once I've finished with the boxed editions.
The MB Games version (1996)
Another odd version. I picked this up at a car boot sale, because I though the figures looked different. In fact, this version has 10 different mouldings for the outfield players, which is advertised as a feature on the box. The teams are painted with white shorts rather than black, and have a variety of skin/hair colours. The figures are slightly smaller than the usual Parker ones, and the goals have simple plastic nets. However, these do have bases that clip into the fence surround, as opposed to the parker version where they clip onto the pitch. This is an improvement.
The simple goals and small players lead me to believe that this was an earlier version of Pro Action Football, but in fact the box is dated 1996, so it appears in the middle of the Parker era. The picture on the back of the box also shows the usual Parker version with the black shorted players (but with the simple goals).
MB Games - Slim Box Edition (1999).
This version has been styled to match the MB Games board game boxes of the period, with the distinctive white panel on the left. This long thin style of box carries into the Michael Owen era of the early 2000s. By far the most interesting thing about this version is that it has an official FC Barcelona spin off (shown below).
The Barcelona Edition (also MB Games)
This version was apparently only sold in the Barcelona club shop, and featured a team in Barcelona strip and a team in all white ready for painting. As luck would have it, all white can also represent arch-rivals Real Madrid of course. Oh what a coincidence! This is another version sold under the MB games logo, which again has the familiar white box end. I've had a report that a few alternative boxed Spanish sides turned up in a catalogue surplus shop in Scotland (see "team range" section for details).
Michael Owen Total Action Football.
This was yet another re-launch of the game. Although cashing in on Michael Owen's popularity, it was identical to the Parker version with red/black, blue/black figures. These sets arrived on the boot sale scene in good numbers, which suggests that they sold well enough...
November 2020:- I've finally illustrated the Michael Owen sets (from ebay!). Doesn't he look really young? How time flies..... I've also noticed that this is the first set to be classed as "Total Action Football" rather than "Pro Action Football". Why? Who knows, but it makes internet searches twice the work.....
December 2004: The sets for Christmas 2004 were a five-a-side version in a fold up case, and a full edition with the addition of another electronic device. This new device was a scoreboard that gave out nuggets of commentary when the score was changed- the box suggests these gems....
"It's a Walk in the Park"
"Unbelievable Recovery"
"What a Finish. Where was the defence?"
I can't confirm this because I've always managed to avoid buying the set at boot sales for some reason.
Total Action Football - Club del Calcio.
For other countries, the Michael Owen branding was never going to work. So here is a more straightforward Total Action set from Italy. It seems to have the "all different" red/white and blue/white teams, and the distributor was Giochi Prezios.
Official England Total Action Football (2006).
October 2006: The 2006 toy shop catalogues revealed both full size and five-a-side versions available as official "England" products. The pitch on the full version had the three lions logo in the centre circle. This set was manufactured under licence by Vivid Imaginations Ltd, and it benefited from bring sold in a much smaller box than usual. The teams were the smaller version from the MB games version above (as were the simple plastic goals). The teams were described as England vs Opposition, and were in basic colours. England simply had white shirts and navy shorts, whilst the opposition were almost Brazil, with yellow shirts, blue shorts and white socks (but no green trim). The pitch in my set is a bit weird, as the lines and England flag seem to be printed on the wrong side. (imagine playing on the smooth side of the modern Subbuteo pitches).
Hungarian Vivid Imaginations Version.
This is the only other version I have seen with the Vivid Imaginations branding. The box lid suggests the same two teams as the England version, so England and Brazil. Not sure who they would have represented for Hungarian kids, but there you go. Perhaps Brazil support is universal these days....
Whilst Hungary seems a rather random place to get their own version, it is interesting to note that it is the one eastern European country to have a distributor on the early 1990s team boxes. So perhaps the game had always been a success there.
Ideal Total Action Football (2009-2012)
The modern era of Subbuteo dates to the partwork/M&S sets of 2009, and the Paul Lamond relaunch of 2012. Matching nicely to these dates, are these reinvented Total Action Football sets. Over the last 20 years, this game has been much more successful in having a toy shop presence than Subbuteo. As Subbuteo is owned by a huge toy company, and Total Action Football has swapped toy labels on a regular basis, I'm not sure why this is.
Anyway, these two similar looking sets on the Ideal board games label, also seem to have moved through owners. The plain version (on the left) is copyright 2009 Toy Brokers, whilst the Championship Edition is from John Adams Leisure Limited and dated 2012, although the address for both companies is the same. Both sets state that Total Action Football is a trademark of Wat Now Ltd.
Once again, the box has shrunk. This is most convenient for storage. As with the England sets, the game is played on the shiny side of the pitch. This might make for a better sliding game, but it still looks wrong to me. The 2009 set opens at the ends, whilst the 2012 version opens from the top (much better to be honest). Despite the small size, these sets are jammed with extras. There are plastic risers to help take corners and free kicks, plus a special shooting base for each team's main striker. This is higher than the usual bases, and the tension can be tightened. Does any of this work? Well sometimes! I think I'm too timid to really whack the players, and so often the ball refuses to leave the striker/riser. If it does work, a rising free kick over the wall is rather cool though. There are also new diving goalkeepers. These sound better than they actually are, with the goalkeeper having limited movement within a rather unwieldy base unit. Sadly, as pointless as Subbuteo's spring loaded live-action 'keepers....
In the basic 2009 version, the teams are simply red/white and blue/white, in the small figures used in the MB and England products. In the Championship Edition, theses small players are advertised as being in International colours, and you get "England" in white/blue (royal, rather than navy), and interestingly "Spain" in red and blue. Another nice alternate team if you are collecting these things.
Oh, and the Championship Edition also features a really small, and very cheap looking Cup.
Ideal Total Action Football - Five-a-side version (2016-date)
We've reached 2020 and the Total Action Football brand continues to exist with this cut down five-a-side version. The standard play is now advertised as "Glide Technology". Indeed. The advantage of five-a-side is the smaller pitch of course. This has half-circle penalty areas reminiscent of Subbuteo's Football Express. It also keeps the price down, so that the standard version comes in at around £20. The set still has the "power strikers" from the previous Ideal version (a taller base for the centre forward in effect). The teams are those in the final full size version - i.e. white and blue (like England) and red and blue (like Spain).
Spanish game retailer "We Are Games" has a rather nice official Real Madrid version of this five-a-side set.
Team Range (1993-94).
Like all good table top football games, Pro Action Football had a go at a proper boxed team range. These extra teams were produced for the Parker version of Pro-Action football, right at the start of its production, and were sold in attractive display boxes. It is important to note that these extra teams included the playing figures, but not the bases. So you needed a full boxed edition to make use of them. A sheet in the box set advertised the teams that were originally available, which were as follows. These team pictures sometimes feature on the backs of the team boxes but not all of them.
Plus a "paint your own" team.
With Holland scanned in at the top of this section, here are all the other international sides scanned in for you to enjoy. Greece have the simplest kit in the range, being all blue with white sock tops (which makes them useful for other sides too).
In addition, there was a second set of English Premier League teams produced, which sadly do not appear to be properly catalogued anywhere. Some of these teams still have the advert for the international teams on the back of the box, but most have only text.
So far, I have only seen six different teams, but I imagine there must be more.
The Liverpool, with Adidas side flashes which look like claw marks is shown at the top of this section. The other teams are illustrated here. The national sides had an eight team range, and I hope the club range would be of a similar size. Leeds United were champions in 1992. Surely they exist?
The Spanish/Mystery Teams......
As mentioned under the Barcelona box set, there is rumoured to be a Spanish range of Pro-Action teams, and there may be others. One of my regular Subbuteo helpers of the early years told me that he had seen a few Italian Pro-Action teams in a discount "catalogue surplus" shop in Scotland. I visited the same shops in the south of England, to no effect.
Recently, an unopened "mystery" team appeared on ebay - it had no name sticker on it at all, and clearly never had one. It is a distinctive blue and white affair, with a cross-pattern and is a typically 1990s mish-mash of trim. On a second-hand Spanish website was another 1990s team with excess trim - that looks distinctly like a Real Madrid side (unless it is Leeds United!). Clearly, there is more to discover here.
MY Soccer World Football Games.
A cheap "made in China" version of Striker, with a card pitch, and a ball that isn't round. Despite the cheapness, the figures were actually nicely detailed, and had printed details.
The Penalty shoot out version (originally priced at a bargain £1.99) featured one player from each side, a goalkeeper, a scoreboard and a tiny trophy, but I've also seen a full eleven-a-side version (otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to include it). Obviously, the problem with a card pitch is that a standard round ball would just roll off. So the solution here is that the ball isn't round!
This is not to be confused with the other Soccer World game, which had static players on springs, involved bouncing a ball-bearing around a wobbly plastic pitch, and was immensely stupid.
Zoom Sport Football Game.
Plan your tactics, flick, spin and move your players then... shoot to score!
I've reproduced the blurb from the front of the box because it shows such a big Subbuteo influence. The game is a five-a-side junior affair, with players who look like giant lego figures. The outfield bases have a rolling action, so the play is nearer Subbuteo than Super Striker. Thanks to Matt Johnstone for the pictures, and to his kids for modelling the set :-)
Nestlé Euro 2004 players.
Various football figures have found their way into cereal packets down the years, and several ropey action versions have appeared with some form of kicking leg action. However, these guys are a cut above the norm. There were three different outfielders in eight different colour schemes. As usual nowadays, these went the "unofficial" route but kits similar to Portugal, Spain and England were all produced. In addition there was also a goalkeeper figure in a yellow or green jersey, making twenty-four variations to look for. That's a lot of Shreddies I can tell you.
Okay, so this is not a full game or anything, but I thought I'd give these guys a mention as they really do play quite a useful game using Striker equipment.
I'm sure there must be more decent football games out there. I probably own a few more than this! So watch this space for more games. .
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Kent Tucker Announced as 2022 Ben Franklin Award Recipient
in Pressing News,
PIAG's Benjamin Franklin Award recognizes an individual for lifetime contributions and achievements within our industry and within their community. This award is the highest honor presented in Georgia's printing industry, and the recipient is chosen by a Selection Committee composed of Past Benjamin Franklin Recipients and the PIAG Executive Committee.
PIAG is proud to honor Kent Tucker of Tucker Castleberry as the 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award recipient.
A native Georgian, Kent Tucker was born in Atlanta to Tuck and Sara Tucker. He is the middle child, with an older brother, Jody, and younger sister, Mallory.
In large part due to his father's passion for coaching baseball, Kent's life revolved around sports growing up. He loved being part of a team, a key trait for his future, and enjoyed playing football, basketball, and baseball as a child and throughout high school.
After graduating from the Lovett School, Kent continued his education at the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!) where he would meet his future wife, Beth.
The Tucker family has deep roots in the printing industry as Tucker Castleberry was founded by Kent's grandfather, Wiley Tucker Sr., and A.C. Castleberry in 1949. Kent's father, Tuck, currently runs the company.
Given the family history, Kent's love for print started at a young age. As a teenager, Kent was lucky enough to have a summer job at the family company. Jody was now old enough to shuttle them to and from the plant on Luckie Street, and they spent most of their teenage summers working in shipping/receiving, prepress, the bindery, and even a summer working on their 1979 Heidelberg 5 color press.
After graduating from UGA, Kent began working full time at Tucker Castleberry, starting out in Customer Service, before moving to Estimating, then Production Manager, and eventually to his current role as Executive Vice President leading the sales team.
In 2001, Kent and Beth married, and they now have two children: a son Ben and daughter Maggie. In his free time, Kent enjoys coaching youth sports, golfing, fishing, grilling, and cooking. In fact, this year marks his 20th year of volunteer coaching youth sports. He is also active in his local church, where he has served as an usher since 2005 and currently serves as president of their Sunday school class with Beth.
Kent's volunteerism doesn't end with his local community. He is committed to the advancement of the printing industry and his involvement with PIAG is extensive. After first joining the Board of Directors in 2009, he then served as Chairman twice, in 2013 and 2016. He has also been a member of a PIA peer group for the past 15 years.
For over 20 years, Kent has worked alongside his dad in an industry they're both passionate about. They have built an exceptional company, with customer relationships of 30+ years and an average employee tenure of over 18 years. Integrity, respect, and responsibility are the forefronts of their success, and Kent fully embodies each one of those traits.
Kent's grandfather won this award in 1985, and his father won it in 1998. It is an honor for this family tradition to continue, and this will mark the first time three generations have been recognized with this award.
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The Look and Say sequence is an interesting sequence of numbers where each term is given by describing the makeup of the previous term.

The 1st term is given as 1. The 2nd term is 11 ('one one') because the first term (1) consisted of a single 1. The 3rd term is then 21 ('two one') because the second term consisted of two 1s. The first 6 terms are:

    1
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    21
    1211
    111221
    312211

#Formal Inputs & Outputs

##Input
On console input you should enter a number N

##Output
 The Nth Look and Say number.

#Bonus

 Allow any 'seed' number, not just 1. Can you find any interesting cases?

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A new label to look out for next winter is Song For The Mute. A Sydney base fashion label with heaps of energy and talent. This is a few shots from there new look.
The brief from the client was dark and moody, barren and decay, to suit their goth/ninja inspired clothing. This shoot was all about lighting, a single soft box placed directly over the talent gave strong shadows on the face and clothing which was the dramatic effect i was after. I didn't light any of the background as i wanted it to fall off to black quickly, giving the images a feeling of isolation and loneliness. I found an old disused factory and secured its use from the owner. There were bits and pieces of junk still lying around the factory and these were used as simple props to break up the floor and wall in the background.
This was a full scale production with may hours of pre production and planning, everything was organized and planned prior to the day of the shoot, leaving as little as possible to chance. Because of this the day itself was relaxed and heaps of fun and the clients were very happy with the results.


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How James Toback Accuser's Film About Her Encounter Flipped From Drama to Comedy
Dani Alvarado hopes her film "Lost Beneath The Stars" sends message that women can "withstand the James Tobacks of any industry."
Jeremy Fuster | November 22, 2017 @ 3:37 PM
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When Dani Alvarado started making her short film, "Lost Beneath The Stars," she envisioned the film as a drama based on her rough start to find her start in showbiz, with her character's struggles beginning with a director who makes sexual advances towards her. But after finishing the film — and releasing it in an industry finally holding sexual abusers accountable — she says it has grown in ways she never imagined.
In an exclusive interview with TheWrap published Tuesday, Alvarado revealed that the director scene was a near-word-for-word re-enactment of her own encounter with James Toback, who has been accused of sexual harassment by hundreds of women since a Los Angeles Times expose on him was published and whom Alvarado accuses of making lewd comments towards her after offering her a role in 2011.
"Look, I know a star when I see one and you need to be making art. Let's partake in a trust exercise so I know we can work together," the director says in the film. "There are two options. You can touch your p–y while I watch, or if you're not comfortable with that, you can pinch my nipples while I whack off."
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That scene becomes the jumping off point for a look at two actresses and the parade of obstacles and bizarre situations they face. But while the short starts in a dark place, it soon takes a brighter, comedic turn, poking fun at some of the other experiences Alvarado had as a struggling actress like running out of fuel in the middle of nowhere and trying to flag a passing car down in a pink dress. It's a tonal shift that came when Alvarado shared her experiences with her director, Michael Kofsky, and her co-writer and co-star, Claire Bermingham.
"Michael really honed in on the comedy of it," Alvarado explained. "You know, when you're living these moments, you're just thinking of how frustrating it was, but talking about the script with him made me realize the absurdity of it and how it can be funny."
Indeed, while discussing the film and their past with TheWrap, Alvarado and Bermingham's stories came with laughter. They even laughed about the Toback incident, with Alvarado quipping that she first thought he was a homeless man when he introduced himself. Bermingham, who met Alvarado four years ago, says that the ability to look back at the past with smiles came as they shared their stories of dealing with the indignities of showbiz and realized how universal the experience was.
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"We went through everything together. The auditions, trying to get signed, living in L.A.," she said. "I have also been through the business dinners where you get propositioned and I've been to the audition where you've been asked to undress. But what we were trying to do when making this film is to turn all those negative memories into positive creativity."
Now, thanks to Hollywood's ongoing reckoning with sexual harassment, "Lost Beneath The Stars" has gained a level of relevance that Alvarado and Birmingham never dreamed it would have when they filmed it a year ago. But they hope that people who see it take more away from it than just the opening scene. They want the film to be a message of hope for fellow actresses trying to reach their dreams, reminding them that the struggles they face — and the men who may take advantage of them — don't have to define them or their careers, and can even become a catalyst for a brighter future.
It's a message they want to be living proof of, as the two women have started their own production company, Fourleaf Films, and are in preproduction for their first feature film that will shoot in Ireland next year.
"When we share 'Lost Beneath The Stars' privately with peers, it was really rewarding that it resonated with actresses even before we premiered at Warsaw," Berningham said. "They liked that we were able to be honest without being so dreary."
"We've had people who aren't actors reach out to us too," added Alvarado. "They just enjoyed the message of hope that comes from this, and that message is that if you keep working and you maintain your passion for what you do, you can withstand the James Tobacks of any industry."
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John Deere at Precision Farming 2014
Ciaran Moran
Feb 1, 2014, 12:00pm
John Deere's latest precision farming technology and innovative dealer services, brought together under the FarmSight banner, are designed to increase machine performance and uptime while reducing costs.
JDLink wireless communication between the farm, its equipment and the John Deere dealership enables remote support, proactive maintenance and effective fleet management. By monitoring and analysing machine usage, operating hours and average engine load, field and transport operations can be made more productive and fuel efficient.
With John Deere's award-winning Remote Display Access (RDA), for example, the dealer can remotely view a machine's GreenStar 3 2630 display and advise the operator how to correct tractor and implement or other vehicle settings for maximum efficiency, as well as carry out operator training.
In addition to dealers in different parts of the country providing their own RTK networks, John Deere has recently established a new partnership with Leica Geosystems to provide mobile phone network RTK (NRTK) corrections via its UK and Irish dealers, for repeatable, highly accurate precision farming applications down to +/-2.5cm.
The company's latest mobile RTK offering has three different components. Firstly, the John Deere Mobile RTK Modem provides the connection to the RTK corrections over the mobile phone network, and allows customers to choose their own service provider.
Secondly, John Deere Mobile RTK Access gives customers access to third party RTK corrections, and allows automatic RTK Extend and satellite-based SF2 signal correction down to +/-5cm, to increase reliability during field operations when the mobile phone service is interrupted.
Thirdly, the partnership provides access to the Leica Geosystems NRTK correction service for all agricultural customers in the UK and Ireland. Using this service, Leica Geosystems will be the preferred supplier of Mobile RTK corrections, and provide annual subscriptions through the John Deere dealer network.
In addition to the satellite GPS signal, Mobile RTK correction data is sourced from a countrywide pool of existing base stations, so users don't need to invest in their own. A centrally located server calculates the correction signal, which is then transmitted via the mobile phone network to the vehicle, equipped with the John Deere Mobile RTK modem and a StarFire 3000 receiver. This maintains continuous data connection, even in difficult terrain or across wide geographical areas.
Alongside these latest developments, John Deere's new web portal MyJohnDeere.com has been designed to serve as a central resource for customers, so they can access a variety of relevant machinery and business applications to help in daily decision making and farming operations.
A single login leads to the various John Deere apps, such as JDLink and StellarSupport. MyJohnDeere.com also includes a new Operations Centre app, which provides a quick overview of any equipment's current location and the work progress of individual machines on a map.
A new Data and Account Management system has also been developed within MyJohnDeere.com, to ensure secure data handling and protection. Accounts are set up so that only the customer controls data access.
Further details of John Deere's full range of precision farming products and services will be available on the company's stand at the Precision Farming Event, being held at the Peterborough Arena on Wednesday 5 March 2014.
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How New Batwoman Javicia Leslie Is Making the Role Her Own
Leslie said she really connected to Ryan being described as "goofy" and "a person that doesn't like to be told what to do."
"I love the fact that Ryan is just who I am—just a hot mess," she said. But she's a hot mess who has always dreamed of being a superhero.
"In May I did an interview and I said, 'Well, one of my future goals and one of my biggest dreams is to become a superhero. I want to be a Black superhero," she said. "And then a month later, I become the first Black Batwoman. So I think it really like hits the nail on the head when it says, 'speak your dreams.'"
Leslie said it was important to her that Batwoman isn't just Black behind the mask.
"If we're going to have a Black Batwoman then she needs to be like a sister when she becomes Batwoman," she said. "It's important for the sillhouette to still look like that, you know? More of like a natural texture hair and things like that."
Dries said that after season one dealt with Kate wrestling with Batwoman's identity, season two will tell a similar story with Ryan.
"[Kate] had already come out of the closet as Kate but she now wanted Batwoman to come out of the closet and that was like a huge story arc that we applied to season one, because it felt so stifling that this girl who's out is hiding her identity," Dries said. "And likewise, I wanted to tell that same story with Ryan. How can we make sure that Ryan isn't hiding what makes her awesome with a suit? And so it's going to be a little bit of an evolution."
The suit will "evolve" over the season, she explained, to help the new Batwoman "represent what [she's] fighting for."
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Will the councillors vote to kick the community out of their BBay Community Centre
Tuesday November 24th will be a day of reckoning for both the community and of our councillors when the vote comes to support staff recommendations to close the Batemans Bay Community Centre to the public and allow it to be leased at market rates. Ex Councillor Allan Brown offers "All the present nine elected councillors need to ask themselves why the present community centre is located where it is. "They need to ask why it's designed the way it is with additions such as a purpose built sprung floor in the hall for dancing. "They also need to ask does the Community Centre serve to the community it was designed to serve and is it still properly serving the community" "And of course the community owns it, doesn't it ? A history lesson about the present community centre for all the councillors could be a very good thing right now. "They might learn that history already has Council "stealing" the original Community Centre in Orient Street that was on community paid for land and in a community erected hall built with volunteer labour and donated materials". "When Council sold this original centre the community demanded that a new centre be built rather than the profits going into Council's pockets. It was not their to sell and the title was only held by them in trust". "This wasn't the only time Council broke the Batemans Bay community trust. Blandford House comes to mind and the promised town green". "Council staff say that the community should go to Hanging Rock. The question councillors have to ask is why haven't the community gone there. Why is it underutilised? And what sort of alternate is a basketball court?". "Are the finances of Council so badly managed that they need to sell the farm?" "Where is the business case from staff to show how much more they can receive each year from leasing". "If under - utilisation is the issue then maybe the Council should lease out the Council Chambers in Moruya because they have been empty since December last year".
Above: are the finances of council so bad they need to sell the Batemans Bay Community Centre to cover the running costs of the new pool? Is it time to put the guitar case out?