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The multiple stories of 26/11 as seen from the lens of filmmakers
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As the nation remembers for the 13th time in as many years the unsuspecting civilians gunned down by Pakistani terrorists and the martyrs in uniform, here's a summary of the films and web series that presented their sides of the story that shook India for three nightmarish days.
The Attacks of 26/11: This Ram Gopal Varma directorial sequentially presents a comprehensive account of what happened on the fateful night. It's in fact the only piece of Indian mainstream cinema to chronicle the attacks. From the planning, transit and execution of the attacks to the terrorists being neutralised and Ajmal Kasab, the only perpetrator to be caught alive, the movie presents a disturbing account of what went down and show how the administration eventually got the situation under control.
The 2013 film has Nana Patekar playing the former Police Commissioner of Mumbai, Rakesh Maria, and follows a non-linear approach to storytelling as the officer recounts the events during an official inquiry.
Varma had earlier told IANS: "Never in the history of the world were there more terrifying attacks than those that happened on 9/11 in New York. But in the sheer audacity of their execution, I felt the attack on Mumbai was far more shocking."
Taj Mahal: The French-Belgian thriller-drama, directed by Nicolas Saada and released in 2015, presents the story as it unfolds from the perspective of a victim -- a young girl who comes with her parents to Mumbai after her father gets posted to Maximum City. The family chooses to stay in the Taj Mahal Palace until their accommodation is set up. As destiny takes an unexpected turn, the girl gets trapped inside the hotel while her parents are out for dinner. Owing to its storytelling and narrative, the film was also screened at the Venice Film Festival.
One Less God: Lliam Worthington's 2017 movie recasts the horror of the attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel from the points of view of the perpetrators and the hotel guests who were held hostage at gunpoint. Based though the film is on true events, the two perspectives are fictionalised.
Hotel Mumbai: The 2018 action thriller directed by the Australian filmmaker Anthony Maras narrates the story of courage of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel's staff who pushed their line of duty of serving guests by helping with the rescue operations and stood with them through thick and thin. The film, which stars Dev Patel, Anupam Kher, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi and Jason Isaacs, is based on the documentary titled 'Surviving Mumbai'.
Talking about the film, Maras told IANS: "It all started when I saw 'Surviving Mumbai'. We got very easy access to the transcripts and access to the people who have lived through it. We spent a great deal of time just listening to them and focusing on their stories. We met them in person or via video calls just to know what it was to live through such an experience."
Maras and his co-writer John Collee had rock-solid source material at their disposal in the form of interviews, documents from Kasab's trial, victim statements, and transcripts of satellite communications between the terrorists and their handlers provided by the police and trhe local authorities.
State of Siege - 26/11: The Zee5 eight-episode series is based on the authoritative book 'Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11' by journalist Sandeep Unnithan. Directed by Matthew Leutwyler and Prashant Singh, the series stars Arjan Bajwa, Arjun Bijlani, Jyoti Gauba, Vivek Dahiya, Tara Alisha Berry and Mukul Dev.
What separates 'State of Siege - 26/11' from its counterparts is that it tells the story through the lens of NSG commandos, who took over control of the situation from Mumbai Police on November 27 and neutralised the terrorists by November 29, thereby restoring free civilian movement and bailing out the city from the clutches of the gunmen.
Mumbai Diaries 26/11: More recently, we had the Prime Video series 'Mumbai Diaries 26/11' directed by Nikkhil Advani. The eight-episode series features an ensemble of Mohit Raina, Konkona Sen Sharma, Prakash Belawadi, Sonali Kulkarni, Shreya Dhanwanthary and Satyajeet Dubey, and follows the story of medical professionals as they managed the huge influx of victims during the attack and provided them with treatment despite the crumbling healthcare infrastructure.
Explaining what made him tell their story, Advani told IANS: "I have always been a huge fan of shows like 'ER', 'Chicago Hope' and 'Code Black'. There's inherent drama in the act of saving lives and then you get to explore the lives of the unsung heroes, namely, the doctors and nurses."
Describing the strength and resilience of the medics, Advani said: "When I asked the doctors and nurses we interviewed during our research about what they did differently on those three days, they looked at me incredulously and said, 'We turned up for work.' It made me think that actually these medical professionals and first responders, who work under incredible pressure in government hospitals, really do the most courageous work almost every single day."
Terror In Mumbai: This HBO documentary takes into account the multiple perspectives on the administrative shortcomings and security failures. Written by CNN's Fareed Zakaria, 'Terror In Mumbai' is one of the best documentaries to piece together the story with eyewitness interviews, surveillance videos and intercepted call exchanges between the ten terrorists and their controllers in Pakistan.
Mumbai Massacre: An episode of the widely acclaimed docu-series 'Seconds From Disaster', a US-UK co-production directed by Stan Griffin, it uncovers the security failures that allowed the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists to kill at will. The episode features accounts of the survivors who narrate their experiences and recount what unfolded on one of those long, dark and horrific nights of Mumbai.
Surviving Mumbai: A Victoria Midwinter Pitt directorial broadcast in 2009, 'Surviving Mumbai' is a television movie that follows the narrative style of documentary and tells the story from the perspective of the survivors, who recount how they battled the odds and controlled their nerves in a fiercely demanding situation just to be able to stay alive and make it to the other end of what seemed like an interminable rabbit hole.
Shahid: The 2012 biographical drama directed by Hansal Mehta is based on the life of lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi. Starring Rajkummar Rao, the film takes into account the case of Faheem Ansari, who was accused for his involvement in the 26/11 attacks, but was later acquitted of all charges because of lack of evidence. Faheem was Azmi's last case before he was gunned down by assailants.
Embrace: The 15-minute short film, made in 2014 by Los Angeles-based Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, tells the story of an American couple who come to Mumbai for a vacation but are trapped in Taj Mahal Palace following the terrorist attacks. The couple holds the fort as they watch their friends being massacred. When all hope is lost and they realise that help won't be coming their way, they make a life-altering decision in order to reunite with their son whom they left behind in their homeland.
Phantom: Kabir Khan 2015 movie follows the aftermath of the 26/11 attacks. It features Saif Ali Khan as an ex-serviceman, who is pressed into service by R&AW to seek vengeance on the men who planned, coordinated and executed the attacks.


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Of course, his cadre of dancers and singers, electro auteurs Fischerspooner, love a good miscue. Nothing exposes the artifice of pop quite like a well-placed flub. They revel in being "caught" lip-synching. They stop shows because of a disappointing performance from "the dance department." They have even been known to mess up their mess-ups. Now, though, they are just messing up. FS are onstage for sound check at Last Call With Carson Daly. This is their national TV debut, which aired last Wednesday, the day after their album, #1, was released.
Your eyes may roll at the announcement. From May 15 to 17 of last year, the group played six shows at the Deitch Projects gallery downtown at a reported cost of $300,000, each performance packed with hipsters, celebrities, and drooling journos. Between May and July, predicated on the announced stateside release of the album, CMJURBRemixPulseXlR8rMixerHXComplexNewYorkPost-NewYorkTimesEntertainmentWeeklyWiredStuff-TimeOutAlternativePressNylonJaneNewYorkPaper ran FS features or reviews. Hipsters read. And waited. The release date moved from May 7 to June. Then July. Then August. Then a vague "the end of the year." The album never came. Their label, U.K.-based Ministry of Sound, which paid $2 million to sign them, was rapidly laying off their U.S. employees.
Back on Carson, Spooner can't quite get naked. "Emerge," the catchy electro hit that just won't die, reaches its angry-bagpiper pinnacle and FS member Jeremiah Clancy is supposed to abruptly tear off Spooner's white tux. For the fourth consecutive take, Clancy has ripped away Spooner's trousers, but has left the jacket. "That's OK people," says Spooner, one arm crooked in the air, trapped by the sport coat riding around his neck. His sequined bikini briefs sparkle under the stage lighting, and there are giggles from the assembled stagehands and technicians. "It's all about the fuckup."
Visual artist (and eventual frontman) Casey Spooner met classical musician (and eventual knob twiddler) Warren Fischer at the Art Institute of Chicago. After they moved to New York City and got back in touch, after Spooner asked Fischer to make some music for a spoken-word project, after Fischer went to downtown record shop Other Music and learned about electronic music via IF's "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" and DMX Krew's Nu Romantix, after FS staged their debut performance at the Astor Place Starbucks on August 27, 1998, after they added a smoke machine and a fan, backup singers and dancers, pyrotechnics and elaborate costumes (also after Spooner, working as a stylist, finagled 800 bucks from a New Woman budget to pay for his first human-hair suit), after local DJ and label owner John Selway released the single "Emerge" on his Serotonin label, and after Selway got a copy of FS's self-released full album to DJ Hell, who flipped for the record and released it in Europe on his German Deejay Gigolo label, after FS played three over-the-top nights at the Standard Downtown in Los Angeles (and after Spooner got the word out that he wasn't 39 years old, as he had told Spin), after all of this, in late September, they were about to sign a nice, simple $75,000 contract with Ministry of Sound.
At about this time, FS got a call from promoter Larry Tee, who was organizing the Electroclash festival. "We didn't want to do it," says Fischer. "So we made an absurd offer, including an extremely elaborate tech rider. And he totally delivered."
Meanwhile, in the U.K., Ministry head James Palumbo decided he wanted to expand his business focus. Ministry was a U.K. powerhouse with a successful nightclub, magazine, and DJ compilation series, but Palumbo wanted artists.
Ministry U.K. wasn't yet interested in FS, but their new U.S. satellite office was. Staffed and running by March 2001, the first order of business for joint heads of a&r Andrew Goldstone (laid off in October 2002) and DB (laid off in March 2002) was to sign the group. Then, on October 11, 2001, FS played the Electroclash festival. "All of Ministry U.S. was there," says DB. "And every other record label as well." Three days after the show, Ministry of Sound received a call from Craig Averill, FS's lawyer. Kinetic Records had decided to put in a substantial bid. "That," says Goldstone, "is when it degenerated into a mess of money and gamesmanship and all sorts of other unsavory activities."
FS were in no rush to sign a contract. By mid December, majors including BMG and Atlantic were interested. Ministry U.K., finally committed to signing the band, jumped into action.
Ministry flew Fischer, Spooner, and Averill on the Concorde to the U.K., where they were wined, dined, and wooed. Back in the States, FS signed a $2 million contractMinistry got global rights for two albums and FS got unusual creative control. Ministry would release the album in the U.K. and find distribution partners for other territories. FS retained the right to veto Ministry's as yet unchosen partners. "In hindsight," says Goldstone, "it's a contract that was counterproductive to doing business."
Ministry released the album in the U.K. on April 29, 2002, and geared up for the U.S. release, printing stickers, 100,000 flyers, and mini-posters commemorating the Deitch shows. "It was vital in our minds to have the album's release coincide with the Deitch shows," says Goldstone of the mid-May gigs.

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A director’s duty to promote the success of the company calls on them to do far more than simply look to its profitability: FRC Corporate Governance code
If the government’s industrial strategy White Paper was somewhat lacking in respect of the role which culture has to play in delivering success, the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) consultation in respect of the new corporate governance code more than makes up for it.
For a start, the consultation draws on the FRC’s own culture report which “demonstrated the importance of aligning company purpose, strategy and values in order to achieve long-term success.” The importance of a robust two-way dialogue also comes in for a mention as does taking steps to ensure a strong management pipeline and promoting diversity not only within the board but also across organisations. Integrity too comes in for a mention, not only reflecting the FRC’s own mission to promote integrity and transparency in business but also as a driver of trust and long-term success.
The fact that culture features so strongly in the proposed corporate governance code is hardly surprising. After all, it has been an area of increasing focus for the FRC over the last few years. But what is particularly pleasing is that this new code leaves boards in no doubt that a director’s duty to promote the success of the company calls on them to do far more than simply look to its profitability. More than that, by commenting that ‘a poor culture is a significant business risk in itself’ the FRC have very firmly set organisational culture at the centre of strategy and delivery.
People and culture at the heart of business
Of course, regular readers of our articles and blogs will know that setting people and culture at the heart of business is something which we are very passionate about. We have all seen the damage to business reputation, profitability and trust which can arise from the sort of me first culture which promotes pay and profits over outcomes and customer excellence. And we’ve also seen the misalignment which can arise from organisations which have shunned diversity and in the process succumbed to groupthink mentality.
The 2018 world will bring many challenges but with challenge comes great opportunity. Businesses which have moved towards adopting a culture of innovation, which are not afraid to collaborate internally and externally, and which are open to dialogue with stakeholders and others are perfectly poised to take advantage of whatever 2018 brings. Those organisations will probably already have adopted many of the recommendations within the new corporate governance code, delivering a strong and diverse culture with integrity and purpose. As the FRC’s Chairman Sir Win Bischoff commented at the launch of the consultation:
“Building trust in business has to start in the organisation and forming a healthy corporate culture is integral to the credibility of a company. Engaging with and contributing to wider society must not been seen as a tick-box exercise but imperative to building confidence among stakeholders and in turn the long-term success of a company.”

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Go see the youth created musical, LOL, July 14 and July 15, at 7p.m. in the TECO Theater at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
Tampa Bay area youth are creating their own musical production, based on the acronym LOL, during a Patel Conservatory summer theater experience, June 20 through July 15. Director/actor/stand-up comedian Rob Nash, of Austin, Texas, will direct LOL: The Musical.
Youth has been given the title for their production - LOL: The Musical – and they are working on creating the show from beginning to end with guidance from facilitators.
This new camp, running 6 to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday for the four week period, is an intensive opportunity to explore writing, performance and everything in-between in the production process. The time frame was chosen to allow teenagers and young adults time for daytime work, classes and other summer activities.
Performances will be held Thursday, July 14 and Friday, July 15, at 7 p.m. in the TECO Theater at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
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Hasan Erbay was born in Ankara in 1968. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering and M.S. in Mathematics at Penn State University, USA and his under-
graduate studies in Mathematics at Middle East Technical University. His research interests lie in the areas of numerical linear algebra, numerical computation, approximation, image pro- cessing, and latent semantic analysis, ranging from theory to design to implementation. Erbay is married and the father of two sons.
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Dr. Tekin received a BSc degree from the physics department of KSU and a PhD degree from the physics department of METU in 2002 and 2010, respectively. During her PhD, she spent one year in the chemical engineering and material science department of the University of California, Davis. She worked as a research assistant at METU for the years 2002-2010, as an assistant professor at UTAA flight training department for the years 2011-2016, as a post-doctoral researcher and as a visiting scholar at Bilkent University, UNAM. She received the Associated Professor title from the Council of Higher Education in October 2017. Since January 2018, she has been working as a faculty member at UTAA.
Modelling of Soft Materials, Nanomaterials, Nanobiotechnology, Classical and Quantum-Mechanical Computational Techniques
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suat DENGİZ
Bachelor’s Degree: Hacettepe University – Department of Physics (2008)
Master’s Degree: METU – Department of Physics, High Energy and Plasma Physics (2011)
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After graduating from Mathematics Department of TOBB University of Economics and Technology (TOBB ETU) in 2008, Dr. Hakan Ezgi Kızılöz received his MSc and PhD degrees from Computer Engineering Department of the same university in 2010 and 2016, respectively. Throughout these graduate programs, he assisted several courses at TOBB ETU and TED University. He also gave introduction to programming courses to students from economics and several engineering departments during his PhD study. His research interests include usable security and machine learning. He has publications in wireless sensor networks and usable security areas.
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Dr. Hasan Aksoy hold a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering since 1998. He received his MSc & PhD degrees in Circuits design, Microelectronics and Microsystems from the Doctoral School GEET (Electrical, Electronics & and Telecommunication Engineering) of Paul Sabatier university (Toulouse, FRANCE) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. His PhD work, titled as “Drowsiness estimation of an operator: automatic analysis of physiological signals”, was achieved in LAAS-CNRS (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems of the French National Scientific Research Centre). This work was a part of the big European project SENSATION (Advanced Sensor development for attention, stress, vigilance and sleep) in cooperation with many laboratories in France, Sweden and Greece.
Dr Aksoy is working as an assistant professor since 2008. He worked in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and in Computer Engineering Department in Several universities. He joined the academic staff in Faculty of Engineering of the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association in April 2014.
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With its midseason finale, The Flash ratcheted up the bizarre issue the place The Thinker’s plot was involved, as Clifford DeVoe sacrificed his corporeal vessel in order that his vastly superior mental skills could be transferred into the physique of Dominic Lance. Not solely did this present the villain a bodily improve, however it additionally set Barry Allen as much as take the autumn for DeVoe’s “murder.” As we wait to see the place this comic-sourced story goes, The CW has launched an prolonged trailer that hints at a hard manner that Barry would possibly escape his courtroom issues.
Whereas the trailer above is essentially the identical as that preliminary look we bought following “Do not Run,” there are clearly a number of key moments that we’re simply seeing now for the primary time. And I would say the largest new-to-us second is that trade between Joe and Dibny, the place it turns into clear that Joe intends to plant proof on the crime scene — the DeVoe family — with a view to save Barry from going through any main jail time. This immoral breach is kind of exterior Joe’s regular sense of metahuman-adjacent authority, and it is necessary for not less than two causes.
The extra apparent implication right here is that the usually scrupulous Joe West could be tainting his place throughout the justice system. I imply, it helps considerably that Joe is aware of Barry is harmless, and that he would not simply be planting proof for purely nepotistic causes. However nonetheless, if there’s anybody who ought to place confidence in Central Metropolis’s authorized infrastructure, it is a member of the CCPD. Plus, who’s to say this little bit of evidence-planting would not whet Joe’s urge for food for extra gray-area techniques sooner or later? Okay, that is unlikely, however nonetheless.
The second related challenge right here is that Joe is with Dibny throughout this evidence-planting mission, and if there’s anybody that Joe ought to have prevented teaming with on this occasion, it is Crew Flash’s stretchiest member. In any case, Dibny has his personal historical past with planting a pretend homicide weapon at a criminal offense scene, and him getting kicked off the police pressure is what began the strife between him and Barry. So it actually would not appear possible that Dibny will probably be gung ho about Joe utilizing the identical unlawful plan with a view to save Barry. And when Dibny is the one holding all of the morals in any given state of affairs, you already know one thing is screwed up.
Optimistically, Joe will not truly have to incriminate himself by planting proof at DeVoe’s abode. I am undecided what would cease him, however the trailer additionally places a heavier tease on the prospect of Barry Allen going public with the truth that he is The Flash. That is not an alien idea throughout the Arrow-verse, the place Oliver Queen not too long ago needed to defy rumors that he’s truly the Inexperienced Arrow. It could be attention-grabbing to see how that reveal would play out in Central Metropolis and past. However, realistically, it in all probability will not occur that manner.
Probably abandoning some of the fun we’ve seen within the earlier days, The Flash will return to The CW for the rest of Season four on Tuesday, January 16, at eight:00 p.m. ET. To see when different fight-tastic reveals are coming, head to our Superhero TV schedule, and to see when every part else is hitting the small display within the coming months, bookmark our midseason premiere schedule.


January 3, 2020
Jan. 9: Proposal teams development session for NSF ECO-CBET program submissions
A proposal teams development session will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, in 1139 Engineering Hall of the engineering complex for submissions to the National Science Foundation Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, or ECO-CBET, program. Coordinated by the offices of Research Development, Engineering Research and Graduate Programs, and Educational Innovation and Evaluation, the session is open to all interested university faculty and staff.
This program requires teams to be constructed in such a manner that expertise is complementary and distinct. Nontraditional collaborations between research communities are highly encouraged. Teams may also wish to consider, as appropriate, incorporating individuals with expertise in manufacturing or social sciences.
The ECO-CBET solicitation seeks to engage the research communities represented among the programmatic clusters of CBET — chemical process systems, engineering biology and health, transport phenomena, and environmental engineering and sustainability — in the development of innovative, fundamentally driven approaches to tackle pressing environmental challenges. Projects are expected to advance and apply fundamental processes, mechanisms and theories to yield systems-level understanding and tools. Highly collaborative projects that pair environmental engineering and sustainability experts with complementary researchers from other process science disciplines, e.g., heat and mass transfer, catalysis, biotechnology, process design and control, etc., are sought. Experts in manufacturing and/or social sciences may also provide unique perspectives that serve to expand the technological and societal impact of the research.
The goals of the ECO-CBET program include:
- Encouraging new ways of thinking about environmental problems through atypical scientific collaborations and leveraging this diversity of perspectives to create innovative, holistic solutions.
- Integrating fundamental chemical process, transport and bioengineering science with environmental engineering and sustainability research toward reducing and mitigating pollution and waste.
- Training a future workforce prepared to develop and apply fundamental knowledge and approaches to solve environmental and sustainability problems.
Preliminary proposals are due to NSF Feb. 20 with invited full proposals due on April 30.


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Sheet Metal:Multiple improvements have been made to the Sheet Metal tools, including: a new Property have been added to the Flange Sheet tool – Draft Angle; several new options have been added to the Inspector bar when using this tool - Start and End Offset, Start and End Angle; accuracy improvements to the Unbend tool and the ability track progress of this ACIS® operation and interrupt it if desired results are not seen.
Surface Extrude:Users can now select flat 3D polylines or 3D curves for Surface Extrude tools such as Revolve. Also, 3D Curve and Curve (2D) are now separate tools.
Architectural Desktop (ADT) Objects:ADT objects can now be completely and accurately used with Copy and Linear Array copy tools. For example, the Array Fit Linear now takes into account all of the properties of the ADT object being copied, including Work Plane, Layer, Materials, etc. Previously, this tool could create only one roof object. Now, multiple objects may be created. In addition, the overall processing of all ADT objects in a drawing , including the House Wizard, has been significantly sped up.
BIM Tool:Data collection of IFC files has been improved, the BIM Palette now shows the BIM file structure, and the BIM tool and BIM Palette’s UI’s have now been more tightly integrated, making these architectural modeling parts of TurboCAD easier to use.
New LightWorks® rendering engine and Sun and Sky Shader:The LightWorks rendering engine has been upgraded to v9.3. New properties "sun dir by geo-location" and "dir by geo-location" added to "Sky" and "Sun" shaders correspondingly
RedSDK to LightWorks Porting:RedSDK rendered images are now more automatically, accurately and completely converted to a LightWorks rendered image.
AutoCAD 2019 Compatibility:TurboCAD 2019 now fully supports AutoCAD DWG, DXF and DWF file formats.
STL Filter - 3D Print Check:A 3D Print Check option has been added when exporting an STL file. This tool checks a part for common topological errors such as: non manifold edges, duplicated and collapsed facets, open edges, shells and more. The Print Check tool also displays geometry information such as extents, number of facets/vertices, area, and volume.
SAT/SAB/IGES/STEP - Support for Interop Face Color:When reading ACIS objects (SAT/IGES/STEP/SAB import), if ACIS object has colored faces, then the appropriate material is assigned to these faces.
FBX Filter:Export file format for 3D Animation Software such as 3DS, Maya. MotionBuilder and Mudbox.
FBX Filter:Export file format for 3D Animation Software such as 3DS, Maya. MotionBuilder and Mudbox. TurboCAD now supports material and textures import/export for FBX filter.
SAT Filter - Support for Curves:Updated the existing ACIS SAT file import/export to support curves such as lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, and splines. Previously in TurboCAD, ACIS file formats (SAT and SAB), only 3D objects are supported, along with their colors. However, this support for 2D entities allows the user to import the entire ACIS drawing. Geometry and Color are both supported for 2D entities.
SAB Filter:The Standard ACIS Binary (SAB) format is used by the ACIS modeling kernel from Spatial to share CAD data. Both SAB and SAT files contain geometry, topology, color, and limited attributes. Dimensions, annotations, groups, blocks, mesh, textures, and layers are not supported in these formats. Choosing SAB is especially beneficial when sharing with other ACIS based CAD systems where data is shared and not recalculated between different modeling kernels. TurboCAD supports both reading and writing SAB files..


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It is official; cannabis does kill cancer cells.
There have been rumblings previously; following news that researchers have carried out tests with the drug, and currently the American government has 100% validated the reports on their site.
The National Cancer Institute, part of the American Department of Health currently alleges that “cannabinoids could be beneficial in the treatment of the ill effects of cancer and cancer treatment” by spraying it beneath the tongue, consuming it in baked beans, smoking or even drinking herbal teas.
Though they are also keen to stress that cannabis has only demonstrated these effects on mice and aren’t yet prepared to endorse the drug for human use in combating cancer, the reports will, however, be an enormous step in the battle for people who wish to see the drug legalized across America.
Given all those earlier examples of the health advantages of marijuana, it isn’t surprising that the website as well lists many other uses for marijuana, which include easing muscle spasms brought by multiple sclerosis, blocking cell growth, antiviral activity, anti-inflammatory activity and stopping blood vessels growth that supply tumors.
Though Cancer Research noted that there isn’t yet enough proof to ascertain whether cannabis may be effectively put to use for cancer treatment, this may be a huge moment in the fight against the illness.
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Applying Structural Equation Modeling to Analyze the Mutual Causality between Corruption and Trust in Public Institutions
Friday, April 12, 2019
Continuing Education Building - Room 2030 (University of California, Irvine)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
Low trust in government appears to be a global phenomenon and a challenge to effective governance*. From empirical literature, trust is both related to cause and consequence of corruption. This article empirically explores the relationship linking trust and corruption in Brazil. Based on data from the 2017 Latino Barometer study, a survey of 1,200 citizens, corruption appears for the first time as the main concern for Brazil. Because the endogenous relationship between trust and corruption may violate the assumptions of ordinary least squares (OLS), simultaneous equations model (SEM), as utilized by Morris & Klesner (2010), are employed here. This study will analyze the mutual causality between perceptions of corruption and trust in public institutions and explores potential insights related to the challenges for the next elected Brazilian president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro.
* Diamond (2007), Gallup (2015) or Whiteley et al. (2015)

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Mangerton is in the bottom 40% in NSW when comparing median price capital growth over the last year. Mangerton gave property investors a disappointing capital gain figure when compared to the rest of the state, with 3.91%.
Over the longer term, Mangerton has seen property prices show investors a 48.30% return over the last 3 years. This is worse than over the last 12 months
Mangerton2500 is located in NSW which offers an average discount of -5.49% to property investors. Mangerton itself is showing figures that indicate -4.97% is the average achievable by property buyers investing in the suburb.
A $600 per week rent on the median house gives suburb investors a gross yield of circa 4.09%, without taking into account capital value appreciation, which has been averaging out at 6.59%.
Investment property in Mangerton has done well for investors when compared to the country as a whole over the last 12 months, with an increase in the median house price of 25.95%
The five-year average increase in median property values for Mangerton,2500 has given property investors a potential capital gain of 115.95% across each of those five years.
Sellers are offering property buyers an average discount of -2.14% to buyers in Mangerton at the moment, which is less than average for the rest of NSW.
Property investors should expect to get $337.5 weekly from the median priced house in this suburb.

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Software product development is a multifaceted process that requires meticulous planning, design, construction, testing, and maintenance.
The methodologies that govern these processes are known as Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models, each with its distinctive attributes, advantages, and drawbacks. This comprehensive guide explores the basic models of software product development, offering insights to help your software product development company make informed decisions.
Understanding Software Product Development
Software product development is a systematic process involving the conception, design, programming, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining software applications, frameworks, or other software components.
The Role of SDLC Models in Software Product Development
SDLC models, also known as software development methodologies, organize the process of software product development. They guide developers through various stages, from initial planning to the final deployment of the software product. Each model offers a unique approach, bearing its unique pros and cons.
The choice of model greatly depends on the project's specific requirements, the team's expertise, and the allocated budget and timeline.
The Waterfall Model
The Waterfall model is characterized by a linear sequential flow, where each phase must be completed before the next one begins, much like a cascading waterfall. This model is straightforward and simple to manage, making it ideal for smaller projects with well-defined and immutable requirements.
However, the Waterfall model's rigidity can be a drawback, particularly for long-term projects requiring flexibility. Any delay in early stages can significantly impact the planned timeframe, leading to potential setbacks.
Agile software product development has been a preferred model for over two decades. Agile methodology allows teams to identify and address potential issues during software development, thus preventing them from escalating into significant problems.
The Agile model encourages continuous release cycles with small, incremental changes implemented from the previous release. Stakeholder involvement and feedback are highly welcomed and incorporated throughout the development process. Agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban might be a good fit if you prioritize lower cost, fast releases, early and continuous stakeholder feedback, and project transparency.
Initially used by Toyota to minimize waste and inefficiency in production, the Lean model has since been adopted in software product development. The Lean methodology focuses on continuous improvement and respect for people, aiming to optimize all resources towards creating value for the customer.
The Lean model introduces the concept of stream maps to eliminate waste resulting from duplicated effort and inefficient processes. This enables companies to visualize how their value flows across different functions and determine what brings the most customer satisfaction.
Iterative and Incremental Model
The Iterative and Incremental model is a repetitive model that works off known software requirements. Each iteration or phase produces a new version of the software, which is then tested, evaluated, and enhanced until the final product is ready.
This model’s primary advantage is having a working version of the product early on in the development process.
In the Prototyping model, a quick version of a system is developed to evaluate if the customer is satisfied with it. This model is particularly useful when the feasibility of a design, product requirements, algorithms, or business rules are uncertain.
The Spiral model blends flexibility with repetition. It cycles through four stages—planning, risk analysis, engineering, and evaluation—repeatedly, allowing for multiple rounds of refinement. It is mainly used for large projects, with its key benefits being effective risk management and stage-by-stage development.
The DevOps model emerged from the application of Agile and Lean methodologies by operations teams. It emphasizes collaboration between developers and operations personnel throughout the SDLC, resulting in higher-quality and more reliable software products.
Rational Unified Process (RUP) Model
The RUP model combines the features of iterative and linear frameworks. It consists of four stages: inception, elaboration, construction, and conversion. All basic activities in the entire process are parallel in all four phases, but the intensity in each stage differs.
There isn't a “one-size-fits-all” approach to software product development. Each model comes with its own set of benefits and drawbacks, and the choice depends on the unique needs of your project. A good team of professionals who can navigate your project through each iteration is crucial for successful software product development.
When it comes to software product development services, understanding these models is essential. It not only improves the effectiveness of the development process but also enhances the quality of the final product. Whether you are a software product development company or a client looking for software solutions, understanding these models will ensure that you make informed decisions that align with your project goals and expectations.


Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut and exploring Mars? Well, that’s probably not going to become a reality in our lifetime but luckily, NASA has teamed up with Microsoft to offer the next best thing – Destination: Mars.
The experience was created using mapping data and images from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been on Mars since 2012. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to explore the various sites NASA has studied on Mars, with a guided VR tour conducted by a hologram of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who was one of the first people to ever walk on the surface of the moon.
— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) March 30, 2016
Destination: Mars derived from a Microsoft tool called OnSight that NASA’s been using to direct the Curiosity rover around the planet from earth. The software allows NASA’s researchers to determine the areas on Mars that the rover should go to next and picks out geological formations on the surface.
By bringing the tool to life in a new way, NASA is better able to showcase the Curiosity rover’s successes and discoveries to the public in a much more interactive context.
NASA has also brought its exhibition to Microsoft’s Build event so if you happen to be there, you could be among the first to explore Mars… from earth.


With no progress on fiscal policy, President Obama deployed a host of pop-culture references Tuesday in a bid to get Republicans to budge on the debt ceiling. But before he finished speaking, conservatives and journalists made it clear that the rhetorical flair would not break the deadlock.
Obama attempted to criticize the congressional Republican tactic of tying Obamacare and other policy initiates to reopening the government or raising the debt ceiling. The president, trying to connect with younger voters or the broader public, said:
Think about it this way: The American people do not get to demand a ransom for doing their jobs. You don’t get a chance to call your bank and say I’m not going to pay my mortgage this month unless you throw in a new car and an Xbox.
Immediately, several political types on Twitter jumped on this reference:
Au contraire, I call up my banks every week demanding an X-Box— F. Bill McMorris (@FBillMcMorris) October 8, 2013
we dont want to buy an X Box — we want to spend less!!!!— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) October 8, 2013
Do people still play with X-boxes?— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) October 8, 2013
an X-box!— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 8, 2013
Is it the XBox One?— Patrick Madden (@Patrick_Madden) October 8, 2013
Maybe they’re just fans of the PlayStation 4.


Actress defends explicit sex scenes
Last updated at 14:28 20 May 2004
Margo Stilley had wanted to remain anonymous and asked for her name not to appear on the closing credits of Nine Songs, in which she plays the female lead.
With her identity, however, out in the open and her religious mother praying for her twice a day, the 21-year-old American admitted: "I have managed to get myself into a mess."
Nine Songs, directed by Michael Winterbottom, consists almost entirely of real sex scenes, including oral sex and ejaculation.
Screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival, critics were left stunned by the explicit content.
Of the media furore surrounding the controversial film, Stilley, who has no previous acting experience, said: "I'm surprised, and even more by the fact that I've brought most of it on myself."
She told The Guardian's G2 supplement: "It isn't shocking. If you know you are going to watch a film like this, it's not abrasive. It's normal sex that everyone has, not crazy stuff."
She insisted she was an actress in the film, that she would carry on acting and that the filming process was easy to cope with.
The movie depicts the relationship between a young couple, Matt and Lisa (played by Stilley), who live in London.
It is called Nine Songs because the sex scenes are intercut with film of nine gigs they attend.
British actor Kieran O'Brien, who plays Matt, has defended the project, saying: "People who say they find it offensive are liars. If they say they find it shocking, I don't believe them."
The film will soon be submitted to the British Board of Film Classification and Winterbottom hopes it will be granted an 18 certificate - making it the most explicit film ever shown in mainstream British cinemas.


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A GROUP of youngsters have proved they were born to boogie after being invited to grace the stage in the West End.
As previously reported in the Gazette, Stagecoach Darlington and Yarm were chosen to perform an excerpt from Billy Elliot the musical in Durham as part of a national project.
But now they will have a new stage to step foot on as they have been chosen out of 115 groups to perform at the Billy Youth Theatre West End Gala at the Victoria Palace Theatre on Sunday, July 18.
Only 14 groups from the UK have been chosen to take part in the big finale of the Billy Youth Theatre project, and each group has been given its own excerpt to perform to a packed audience.
Trudy Hindmarsh, Stagecoach Darlington and Yarm principal, said: “I am absolutely over the moon that my two groups have been chosen to perform in the West End.
“On the night of the big performance, the group of 12 young performers will perform the Born to Boogie scene which includes a song and dance number which some other groups don’t have.”
Trudy, who is not unfamiliar with the Billy Elliot story as it was one of her own pupils, Jamie Bell, who was chosen to play the part of Billy in the film, added: “The kids are really excited to perform and I am really looking forward to it.
“Ever since the days when Jamie Bell won his BAFTA for Best Actor for his lead role in Billy Elliot, we have felt very close to the Billy Elliot story.
“It is any performer’s dream to stand on a West End stage, so I am really proud that some of my kids will get the chance.”
Stagecoach will also be performing Billy Elliott at Darlington Arts Centre theatre from July 20-23. Tickets cost £10 or £8 for concessions from the Arts Centre box office, The Dolphin Centre, or the Civic Theatre on 01325 486555.


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Last year, Apple introduced the iPhone X, which, among many other things, welcomed a brand new design philosophy for the smartphone lineup.
Now, several months later, the “notch design” that Apple went with is still causing plenty of conversation, but not for the same reasons. Back in September when Apple showcased the handset, the notch was the focus of a lot of topics, mainly asking whether or not people liked it or not. Well, several Android manufacturers —including ASUS, OnePlus, Huawei, and others– have decided they want in on that notch action.
As such, we heard previously that Google was already planning on introducing elements into Android P that officially supported the notch design that the iPhone X brought upon this world.
Today, Google confirmed that it is indeed supporting the notch movement with Android, because it has released the first Developer Preview for Android P into the wild, and it does indeed support what Google calls a “display cutout for camera and speaker”. You can see it pictured just above.
Whether or not Apple made the right decision with the notch design with the iPhone X is purely subjective. You might like it while another person might not. But it looks like Android manufacturers are a pretty big fan of the idea, and, as such, are going full tilt with the cue from this point on.
Android P comes with plenty of other changes, additions, fixes, and new features, including alterations to the way that notifications are handled, support for HDR VP9 Profile 2, and support for HEIC format — what Apple recently introduced as well.
This started out as a pretty distinct joke, with companies like Leagoo being the brunt of a joke as they shamelessly copied the iPhone X. But then ASUS did the same thing, Huawei is expected to with its newest flagship, and even LG has apparently designed at least one phone with the notch present, and we’re now in full notch saturation. It is pretty comical that we’re already hearing that Apple will slim the notch down as early as this year, and that by next it might be gone altogether.
What do you think about Android adopting the notch?[via AndroidBeat]


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LOS ANGELES, USA – Shuhei Yoshida, the president of Sony Worldwide Studios, sat down with members of the Southeast Asian press during the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 (E3), to talk about the upcoming games for the PlayStation platform.
One of the names that came up was Crash Bandicoot, a beloved PlayStation mascot who starred in a series of games and rose to fame with the original PlayStation in the '90s.
Crash – the brainchild of Naughty Dog studios, which now creates the critical hits Uncharted and Last Of Us series – became such a hit in the '90s that he became the unofficial, de facto mascot for the original PlayStation, overshadowing the official mascot, "Polygon Man." Crash was at the top of the videogame pop culture heap along with Sega's Sonic, Nintendo's Mario or Square Enix Europe's (then known as Eidos Interactive) Lara Croft back then.
This year, Crash returns in Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, a remastered collection of the 3 original Crash games.
Yoshida, as he reveals in the interview, was actually the original localization producer for the Japanese market for the original trio as well as Crash Team Racing. The game, which comes out on June 30, is said to have been tweaked for modern times. It's a bit easier with features like autosaves, has a time attack mode for all games, which formerly was found only in the 3rd game, and of course, the graphics have been made prettier.
Along with that, Yoshida reveals that while he has a lot of favorite games, he mentioned Bloodborne as a recent favorite. He also answered a few questions about the PlayStation's virtual reality platform, the PlayStation VR (PSVR); his use of social media; Monster Hunter; and Sony's focus on trailers at this year's E3 showcase. – Rappler.com


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The Tarnaev brothers were cruelly successful, but they are far from the only terrorists over the past decade with big ideas about carnage in America. There is a temptation with each act of terror to see it as an isolated act, connected to the mental state of the actor, but not to larger forces. The FBI used to have theories about “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” and “Lone Wolves” that were not only wrong, but also pulled law enforcement off the track.
“Sudden Jihad Syndrome” was invented by the FBI to explain why people who lived quietly in the United States for some period of time “suddenly” went berserk and killed others. Why Naveed Haq shot six people at the Seattle Jewish Federation, killing one; why Hesham Hadayet, an Egyptian with a history of radical statements, shot up the El Al ticket counter in LA; why Derek Shareef, a convert to Islam, planned to firebomb a mall in Rockford, IL; and why Bosnian Sulejman Talovic, killed five people in a shopping center in Salt Lake City. It was supposed to explain why Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot up an Army recruiting center in Little Rock, and Kosovar Arid Uka killed two soldiers on a U.S. Army bus in Germany. The FBI won’t call it “jihad,” but a “bolt from the blue” was also supposed to explain why Maj. Nidal Hassan killed 13 people at Ft. Hood; it doesn’t explain why he yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he did it.


text: University students and community members gathered at the downtown mall Wednesday to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in an event organized by the Native American Student Union, Showing Up for Racial Justice Charlottesville and the Native American Law Students Association. The tribe is currently locked in a legal battle with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a crude oil pipeline constructed by Energy Transfer Partners that runs within a half-mile of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in South Dakota. The pipeline itself runs from North Dakota to Illinois through South Dakota and Iowa. The tribe opposes its construction on the grounds that it is a threat to their water supply and to local cultural and religious resources. Proponents of the pipeline argue its economic and safety benefits outweigh minimal environmental risks, and dispute that it trespasses land of any proven cultural significance. “Multiple archaeological studies conducted with state historic preservation offices found no sacred items along the route,” Kelcy Warren, chairman and chief executive officer of ETP, said in an internal memo. Approximately 65 people attended the protest, called NoDAPL. Evelyn Immonen, third-year College student and chief financial officer of NASU, organized the group into a circle and led a ritual sage burning in spite of the light rain. Prior to the demonstration, Immonen said she was hopeful the gathering would lend visibility to the issue and provide supporters from different organizations and communities an opportunity to get to know each other. “NASU wanted to focus on making this a peaceful protest, and kind of a prayerful protest too,” she said. Demonstrators held up colorful banners and signs with slogans including, “Water Is Life,” “NoDAPL”, “I Stand with Standing Rock,” and “Mni Wiconi,” Lakota for “Water is Life”. Children and adults alike pressed painted palmprints into a paper banner reading, “NASU, SURJ, NALSA: We Stand with Standing Rock!” Organizers and representatives from local tribes and environmental organizations took turns speaking. Karenne Wood, of the Monacan Nation — a local tribe based in Amherst County — issued a statement of welcome to the protestors. “Whenever we get a group of people gathered together, we like to welcome you to our homeland,” Wood said. Pam Starsia represented SURJ Cville at the event, the local branch of a national organization that networks white people seeking racial justice. “Our goal with SURJ at this event tonight is to emphasize the interrelatedness of the movement that is going on with the water protectors at Standing Rock and the movement for black liberation,” Starsia said. She read a passage from a statement of solidarity with Standing Rock issued by the Black Lives Matter movement, linking Native American concerns over water pollution to chemical contamination in black communities like Flint, Mich. “None of us are free until all of us are free,” she said. David Sligh, conservation director of Wild Virginia — a local environmental advocacy group, emphasized the importance of outreach to halting the pipeline and expressed his disappointment in the governmental agencies which approved to it. “We sent a letter to the Standing Rock Tribe expressing our solidarity and our support for their movement, and we all gotta make that heard — to the president, to our Congress, to the agencies, the government agencies who are supposed to work for us but too often work for the powerful and the money,” Sligh said. Following a group picture, the group walked the length of the mall from the Free Speech Wall to the Omni Hotel chanting “Water is life!” Before the event, NALSA President Brette Throckmorton, a Law student, said that the issue was of particular interest to Native American law students due to its legal implications. “I think this is something that really resonates, particularly with Law students, just because of the unique aspects of the movement that deal with a current court case and the ongoing litigation,” said Throckmorton. The Standing Rock Sioux lost an appeal for a Preliminary Injunction to immediately halt pipeline construction, but the Federal government has stepped in to request that construction not proceed within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. They have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, on the grounds of inadequate tribal consultation, but a decision has yet to be made in that case. In response to request for comment, the USACE provided a joint statement from the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior acknowledging the tribe’s concerns and requesting a halt to construction within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. "The Army will not authorize constructing the Dakota Access pipeline on Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe until it can determine whether it will need to reconsider any of its previous decisions regarding the Lake Oahe site under the National Environmental Policy Act or other federal laws,” the statement read. The agencies behind the statement also proposed meetings with tribes to discuss reforms to tribal consultation practices and possible legislative reforms to support better practices. "This case has highlighted the need for a serious discussion on whether there should be nationwide reform with respect to considering tribes’ views on these types of infrastructure projects,” they said.

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A fun time was had by all last night at the launch of Jasinda Wilder’s new book, Madame X at the NYC hot spot called, you guessed it, Madame X–billed as the sexiest bar in the City. The event, hosted by Lady Jane’s Salon, was a gathering of like-minded romance lovers.
Jasinda read from Madame X, with some help from her surprise guest, Summer Roberts, award winning audio book narrator. The writing is so exquisite that it was truly a treat to hear the words come alive.
Madame X is a sexy, sensual, eloquently erotic, and dark journey look into the world of X and her mysterious boss/lover/protector Caleb.
Speaking of sexy… Jasinda looked truly awesome, as did her handsome hubby, author Jack Wilder. Beautiful couple and a beautiful night to celebrate the newest addition to the Wilder publishing corral.
Had a great chat with the author about her new book slo make sure to read my interview with Jasinda Wilder in my Hot Romance column in The Three Tomatoes.
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Stop by her site: http://jasindawilder.com/
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SEAPA has signed on to this appeal from 28 groups within the IFEX network to the Vietnamese authorities to free bloggers, citizen journalists and human rights activists, and reverse the court convictions for their alleged offences
14 January 2013
To: Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
Dear Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng,
We, the undersigned organisations, are seriously concerned over the conviction on Tuesday 8 January 2013, and harsh sentencing on Wednesday 9 January, of fourteen human rights activists in Vinh City, namely: Ho Duc Hoa, Dang Xuan Dieu, Paulus Le Son, Nguyen Van Duyet, Nguyen Van Oai, Ho Van Oanh, Nguyen Dinh Cuong, Nguyen Xuan Anh, Thai Van Dung, Tran Minh Nhat, Nong Hung Anh, Nguyen Dang Vinh Phuc, Nguyen Dang Minh Man, and Dang Ngoc Minh.
We are alarmed that thirteen activists were dealt severe custodial penalties, ranging from 3 to 13 years’ imprisonment, with only one activist receiving a probation sentence.
These activists, many of whom are bloggers and citizen journalists, were charged under Article 79 of the Vietnamese Penal Code for “carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration”. The criminal activities the group are said to have engaged in include writing commentary that is critical of the Government and distributing this information on the Internet, and both participating in and encouraging peaceful protest.
These activities should not be punished as criminal offences, but are all activities that Vietnam is obliged to protect and promote as a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the ICCPR). The ICCPR protects the right to freedom of expression (Article 19), the right to freedom of peaceful assembly (Article 21), and the right to freedom of association (Article 22).
We are further concerned that the activists may have been targeted because of their religious beliefs. The majority of the activists are Catholic. We remind the Government of Vietnam that as a State Party to the ICCPR, it is also obligated to protect the right to freedom of religion (Article 18 ICCPR) for all of its citizens and the right to non-discrimination on the basis of religion or political belief (Article 2(1) and Article 26 ICCPR).
Family members and supporters of the activists have also received threats and been harassed by uniformed and plainclothes police, leading up to and during the trial of the activists. There are also reports that supporters have been attacked by the police and temporarily detained.
We call on the Government of Vietnam to immediately release the thirteen detained activists and to reverse the convictions for all fourteen. We also call on the Government of Vietnam to ensure the well-being of the activists while they are detained, to protect the safety of their family and supporters, and to investigate and hold to account those responsible for threats and harassment against them and other media workers.
- Aliansi Jurnalis Independen/Alliance of Independent Journalists
- Article 19
- Cambodian Center for Human Rights
- Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
- Cartoonists Rights Network International
- Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Freedom Forum
- Freedom House
- Globe International
- Human Rights Network for Journalists – Uganda
- I’lam Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel
- IFJ Asia Pacific
- Independent Journalism Center
- Index on Censorship
- Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information
- Instituto Prensa y Sociedad de Venezuela
- International Federation of Journalists
- Journalists’ Trade Union
- Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
- Media Foundation for West Africa
- Media Watch
- Pacific Islands News Association
- Public Association “Journalists”
- Southeast Asian Press Alliance
- World Press Freedom Committee
- Writers in Prison Committee, PEN International

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With the season of ghosts and goblins, banshees and demons almost upon us, we’ve been asking online readers which film frightener leaves them cowering behind the sofa.
Over the past week on derryjournal.com, readers have been choosing what movie they rank as the scariest. And now we reveal what movie you think is ideal for a couple of hours of Halloween horror.
Number 1 - The Exorcist
Polling a whopping 51% of more than 1600 votes, it’ll come as little surprise to fans of the genre that director William Friedkin’s 1973 classic tops our poll.
Based on William Peter Blatty’s novel and starring Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow, this classic centred on possessed child Regan, played by an 11 year-old Linda Blair.
Regan’s transformation from innocent child to devil-possessed soul and her ensuing exorcism has left generations of even the most hardened of horror aficionados on the edge of their seats. Garnering critical acclaim - and two Oscars - the film’s reach extended beyond the confines of cinema and became a popular culture phenomenon.
Few who have seen it will forget the projectile vomiting or the rotating head.
Few can argue that this is not the horror film among horror films.
Number 2 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre
First time director Tobe Hooper’s 1974 offering comes in at number 2 in our list - polling just over 7% of our online reader’s votes. Despite being banned in many parts of the cinema going world, many will say this movie’s more about playing with the audience’s mind rather than delivering a gore fest more akin to this era’s Saw type horrors.
The plot centres around five teenagers on their way to visit their grandfather’s grave, where they encounter the power tool wielding Leatherface and his family of grave robbing cannibals. What ensues is a terror filled, neverending nightmare.
The sound of the chainsaw still sends a tingle down horror fans spines almost 40 years on - despite an inferior 2003 remake.
Number 3 - The Omen. As with the top two on on our list, third placed The Omen was made in the golden horror era of the 1970’s. Director Richard Donner cast Hollywood legend Gregory Peck as the American ambassador who learns, much to his horror that his son is the antichrist. Like the poll topping The Exorcist, the innocence of childhood is contrasted with the pure evil of the devil. Think spooky music, think over protective Doberman, and a devil child’s power to render adults helpless to the point of death - as with the nanny.
Released post Exorcist, and spawning a series of inferior spawn of the devil sequels, many criticised the Omen as an attempt to cash in on the success of Friedkin’s film. But to do that seems unfair, and again four decades on, the Omen stands the test of time.
Also aking up the top ten on our list were Dawn of the Dead, The Blair Witch Project, The Ring, Psycho, the Sixth Sense, Alien, and Nightmare on Elm Street.


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More than 400 pupils at Hillcrest Primary School, Downham, explored their artistic talents by joining in a national Big Draw initiative.
The youngsters used some of their break time for the drop in and draw sessions and each made something unique for the project.
Parents, carers and governors joined in for the afternoon session when there was particular focus on flowers and still life, studying detail and the contrast between light and dark areas.
Elizabeth Dixon, a member of the school’s art team, said: “The Big Draw event is a fantastic opportunity to enthuse and excite children to hopefully find a life-long love of drawing and creativity.
“At Hillcrest we encourage children to select their own starting points, use a wide variety of mediums, and to evaluate their own and others’ work.
“This is part the school calendar they all really look forward to and each year it gets bigger and better.”

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The best Trek movie since
The Wrath of Khan
? Could be, as the 13th movie in the long-running franchise marries such quintessential, old-school Gene Roddenberry material (co-written by fanboy and Scotty actor Simon Pegg) as intense Final Frontier action, character-driven humour and philosophical musings with the most spectacular special effects seen in the entire cosmic canon. Lured by a bogus distress call to the distant planet Altamid, the dispersed
crew must regroup, with the help of a zebra-faced alien (Sofia Boutella), to thwart the war-mongering desires of lizard-like ruler Krall (an underused Idris Elba). Paying homage to past TV-series glories and with a moving tribute to Leonard Nimoy, director Justin Lin draws on his
Fast and Furious
experience to upscale the intergalactic battle thrills and visually majestic spills into the hyperspeed stratosphere while ensuring the now-comfortable cast make the most of their interpersonal dynamics. A phenomenally entertaining and superior space epic.
After the USS Enterprise is attacked during a rescue mission, Kirk, Spock and the crew struggle for survival on an alien planet while their mysterious assailant carries out his plans. Sci-fi adventure, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Idris Elba.
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School system not too broke for $41K ‘study’
I am so frustrated by the usual 3-2 decision made by the school board to spend money the system doesn’t have. This time it is $41,000 for a study to bring a career academy into Fayette.
Almost 20 years ago I was offered the opportunity to serve on a study committee made up of community leaders — parents, teachers, local business people, finance experts, etc. — in order to study the need for building a replacement school for the very old Fayette County High School.
This volunteer committee produced a very professional and comprehensive report outlining the specifics on the need, the cost to build, and the particulars of construction and technology desires.
Why couldn’t a volunteer committee be formed for this study as well? Why are we so quick to spend money when we could ask for the community to pitch in?


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Women who use hormonal contraceptives have a 20 per cent higher risk of getting breast cancer than those who do not use them.
The research is said to be the largest study of its kind ever conducted on breast cancer and hormonal contraception such as the combined pill, the progestogen-only pill and non-oral products such as the hormone-intrauterine system (IUS).
The study’s release follows 1.8 million Danish women aged under 50 from 1995 to 2012 to assess breast cancer risk in users of different types of hormonal contraception as compared to women who had never used the ‘pill’.
Researchers found that in existing and recent users of any type of hormonal contraception, the risk of breast cancer was 20 per cent higher, with 11,517 new breast cancers detected during the study period.
The research was carried out in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen.
Professor Phil Hannaford, who led the research team based in Aberdeen, said: “Breast cancer is rare in young women.
“In this study, the absolute extra risk of breast cancer associated with use of hormonal contraception among all women age 15-49 was 1.3 per 10,000 person-years, or one extra breast cancer for every 7,690 women using hormonal contraception for one year.”
The study found little evidence of consistent differences in risk between users of combined oral contraceptives with different progestogens.
Researchers did not detect an increased risk in former users who had used hormonal contraception for less than five years.
The increased risk in long-term users gradually decreased by time and disappeared five to ten years after stopping.
Users of progestogen-only contraceptives (mainly pills and the IUS) experienced an increased relative risk of breast cancer.
Prof Hannaford also pointed to research published earlier this year and said the two studies suggested that today’s pills have similar cancer risks and benefits as older preparations.
He said: “Earlier this year, the world’s longest-running study of the effects of taking the contraceptive pill published its latest findings.
“The Royal College of General Practitioners’ (RCGP) oral contraception study, also run from the Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, examined the very long-term cancer effects associated with the pill by following an original cohort of 46,000 women for up to 44 years.
“The study found an increased risk of breast and cervical cancer in current and recent pill users, risks which disappeared within approximately five years of stopping oral contraception.
“Importantly, the study also found that women who had ever used the pill were less likely to have colorectal, endometrial or ovarian cancer than women who had never used the pill - benefits that persisted for many years after stopping the pill, perhaps 30 or more years.
“New cancer risks did not appear as the women got to the age when cancer becomes common.
“The similar breast cancer results in both cohort studies suggest that today’s pills have similar cancer risks and benefits as older preparations.
“If this suggestion is confirmed, then evidence from the Royal College of General Practitoners’ study indicates that, like previous generations of users, today’s pill users do not increase their overall lifetime risk of cancer by choosing hormonal contraception.”
The study is published in New England Journal of Medicine.


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My research examines cognitive and interpersonal models of depression, self-harm, and health risk behaviors (e.g., substance use, sexual risk behavior) among children and adolescents. This work is based on a developmental psychopathology framework emphasizing the reciprocal nature of associations between children's behaviors and their environment, and the interplay between normative and aytpical developmental processes. My work specifically examines peer experiences that can be contributors to or consequences of maladaptive behavior. This general framework is used to guide two programs of research.
My work on adolescent depression and self-injury examines associations between interpersonal experiences (often peer experiences, such as peer rejection, victimization, friendship quality), cognitions, depressed mood, depression-related behaviors, nonsuicidal self-injury, and suicdality. I am interested in examining peer precursors to depressogenic attributional style, depression, and self-injury, as well as the effects of depressed mood on adolescents' social behavior. Much of this work is aimed towards understanding gender differences in the prevalence adolescent depression, and peer predictors of self-injurious (nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal) behavior. Recent work has examined the specific responses (interpersonal, cognitive, and biological responses) to social stressors to understand the exact processes by which such experiences lead to adolescents' decisions to engage in self-injurious behavior. Understanding of these processes also may help to understand why only some adolescents experiencing severe psychopathology are at heighetned risk for self-injury or suicidality, and why trajectories of psychological symptoms (e.g., depression) increase for some, but not all adolescents
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Adolescents' engagement in health risk behaviors (including alcohol, cigarette, drug use, sexual risk behaviors, and weight-related behaviors) represents a serious public health concern. Substantial reseatch indicates that one of the most powerful predictors of adolescents' engagement in health risk behavior is the belief that peers are engaging in similar behaviors. Yet, despite decades of research examining the presence of peer influence effects, little work has helped elucidate how peer influence works, or which adolescents may be most susceptible/resilient to conformtiy pressures. My research on adolescent health risk behaviors examines peer influence processes (i.e., mechanisms) and vulnerabilities (i.e., moderators). I investigate peer status and popularity as factors that may motivate adolescents to engage in risk behavior. Past work has examined the influence of social norms among adolescents, and adolescents' perceptions of social reinforcement that is associated with risk behavior engagement. Some of this research is motivated by theories and methods in social psychology.
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Taco Bell has been one of the best, most consistent-performing chains in the U.S. in recent years.
The Irvine, Calif.-based chain’s strong marketing, low-priced fare and healthy franchisee base have helped its system sales grow 33% over the past five years, according to data from Restaurant Business sister company Technomic. That’s made Taco Bell the fourth-largest chain in the U.S.
That success has yet to translate outside our borders, however. It operates just 500 locations internationally, compared with more than 6,500 domestically. That sticks out at parent company Yum Brands, where sister chains KFC and Pizza Hut are global growth pioneers.
“I spend every waking moment trying to figure out exactly the question you just posed,” said Liz Williams, president of Taco Bell International, in an interview with Restaurant Business.
“We’re starting from a really good point,” she said. “The U.S. business being so strong really has been a gift in terms of a jumping-off point for the international business.”
Williams believes the world is finally ready for Taco Bell, and she believes that Taco Bell is finally ready to take advantage of it.
Earlier this week, for instance, the company inked a deal with Burman Hospitality Private Limited to build 600 locations in India over the next 10 years, potentially establishing that country quickly as Taco Bell’s largest international market.
Late last year, the chain made a public entrance into London, an obviously important market in Taco Bell’s plans to grow in the U.K., by making the under-construction Big Ben clock chime again. Taco Bell expects to have 50 locations in the U.K. by the end of the year.
Taco Bell also plans to keep expanding across Asia, notably in Thailand, and it expects to open its doors in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in the coming months.
“The Mexican category internationally is really hot,” Williams said. “It’s becoming much more well-known and picking up a lot of energy in terms of consumer pull. When you go to the market, they know about the Mexican category, making it easier to launch the brand.”
Williams said that Yum Brands has focused more of its attention on growing the Taco Bell brand internationally.
And Taco Bell has found the right formula for expanding in international markets. The company’s locations outside the U.S. are more like the Cantina locations the chain has opened in places such as Las Vegas and New York.
They are urban, in-line locations without a drive-thru that frequently sell alcohol. They also have kiosk ordering and digital menu boards. “The look and feel internationally is much more similar, by design, to our restaurants in Las Vegas and in New York,” Williams said.
Taco Bell’s restaurants have a more upscale look and feel in India, where some have table service. Customers “enjoy congregating” at the locations, Williams said. “We’re such a social experience.”
Taco Bell has the menu flexibility that it should be able to go into new countries and adapt more readily to local tastes. India is a case in point.
“Taco Bell is perfectly suited for India,” Williams said. “You can take any product and make it vegetarian, or nonvegetarian. India as a market is so heavily vegetarian. Half our food served there is vegetarian.”
The company has actually been in the country since 2010 and has been working in that time on “the right business model, the right expression of the brand.”
Williams said things came together about three years ago with the menu and brand positioning, as well as the look and feel of the market. She then said Taco Bell found “the terrific partner” in the Burman Group.
The chain has many of the same products in India, such as a chicken soft taco and a Crunchwrap. But it also has a Tikka Masala Burrito and a Potaco—a potato taco—that fit more with locally relevant tastes.
Indeed, tacos, more than burgers or other menu items, lend themselves to flexibility. “Over in China we’re about to start the most successful promotion of the year, the Crayfish Taco,” Williams said.
“I like to call those ‘bridge products,’” she added. “They bridge really nicely to adapt to local flavors.”
Yum Brands believes Taco Bell has considerable potential in international markets. While the QSR still has room to grow domestically, the rest of the world is virtually all white space. And now, Williams said, both Yum and those markets are ready for the brand.
Yum’s success with KFC, which operates 18,000 locations outside of the U.S., shows how big foreign markets can be.
“It’s a huge opportunity,” Williams said. “When you think about how big KFC is internationally, compared to just over 500 restaurants for Taco Bell, it’s a great opportunity. We have a great infrastructure in the U.S. We can leverage the scale of the fabulously strong U.S. brand.”
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