1 Paraguayan Guarani = 0.0015 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Hong Kong Dollar = 1.2859 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Kuwaiti Dinar = 32.2853 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Saudi Riyal = 2.6589 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

Belarus defies coronavirus concerns with VE Day parade, mayor of Milan issues warning, while football returns ... in the Faroe Islands

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As coronavirus infections approached 4 million worldwide, and Russia became a new hotspot for the outbreak, Belarus defied worries to hold a parade marking the 75th anniversary of victory over the Nazis, with thousands of people in attendance including elderly veterans.

South Korea, which is trying to relax physical distancing regulations, on Saturday shut down more than 2,100 clubs and bars in the capital after a new cluster of cases emerged, apparently linked to a single individual who had gone out while infected.

The Chinese president Xi Jinping has offered the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, support in tackling the coronavirus, state media said on Saturday.

As debates rage in other countries about the return of professional football, games will be played in the Faroe Islands on Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak.

Indonesia has reported its biggest daily increase in infections, with 533 new confirmed cases, taking the total to 13,645.

A French MP has failed in her bid to to get “love” added to the list of “compelling reasons” that must be given for anyone to travel more than 100km (62 miles) in the country.

Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, approved amendments to the country’s state of emergency that granted him and security agencies additional powers, saying they were needed to combat the coronavirus outbreak.

Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Friday that he aimed to present plans next week to reopen the economy, as key sectors like car-making look to begin business again after over a month of quarantine measures.

Argentina will extend a quarantine covering its capital Buenos Aires but relax restrictions in the rest of the country.

1 Tunisian Dinar = 3.4292 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 South African Rand = 0.5443 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Norwegian Krone = 0.9775 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Argentine Peso = 0.1502 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Moroccan Dirham = 1.0165 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 US Dollar = 9.9875 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Icelandic Krona = 0.0683 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Kazakhstan Tenge = 0.0237 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Namibian Dollar = 0.539 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Israeli New Sheqel = 2.8481 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Costa Rican Colon = 0.0176 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 British Pound Sterling = 12.3905 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Omani Rial = 26.0466 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Honduran Lempira = 0.399 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Australian Dollar = 6.5261 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Chinese Yuan Renminbi = 1.4118 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Hungarian Forint = 0.0309 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Philippine Peso = 0.1978 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Kenyan Shilling = 0.0942 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Latvian Lat = 16.5113 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Egyptian Pound = 0.6417 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Botswana Pula = 0.8224 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Bulgarian Lev = 5.5317 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Canadian Dollar = 7.125 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Euro = 10.9568 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Mexican Peso = 0.4219 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Brazilian Real = 1.7423 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 2.7191 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 0.0535 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.0778 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0007 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Lithuanian Lita = 3.3825 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0256 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.3974 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 1.4484 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0936 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte

I've been blogging a lot about Assura recently, so I thought I would continue by talking about rule decks. 

Inside Cadence, we maintain a database that shows which foundries support which process for which products.  This means that we can quickly give you an answer if you are considering using a new process or foundry, and you want to know whether Assura is supported.  Your friendly local Cadence physical verification AE has access to this information and should be able to answer your questions about rule deck support. 

Our Assura R&D team is constantly working with the foundries to help update existing rule decks and create new ones.  But with all due respect to our foundry partners, their field support teams are not always aware of the latest efforts on rule deck creation and support. 

Of course, it's important to check the status of Assura support with your foundry.  This has the added benefit to Cadence that it lets them know that you're using Assura.  But please also double-check with your Cadence AE, who can ping me to make sure that you're getting the latest information. 

Once while eating dinner in Montreal, our friendly, intoxicated waitress plopped herself in my lap and proceeded to tell us about how obsessed she was with the CD that was playing - singing out the lyrics at an ungodly volume and flinging her arms about. Wow, I thought to myself, people who listen to Morcheeba sure seem to have a lot of fun, and promised to check them out.

Several CDs later, they are firmly one of my favorites. And their trip hop meditation, 2003’s Charango remains one of my most played CDs.

Morcheeba (Mor = more, Cheeba = pot) are brothers Ross and Paul Godfrey with singer Skye Edwards (who has since been replaced). Part trance, part ambience, Charango is full of smooth, snogworthy jams. And just as you surrender to its seductive groove, Slick Rick shows up with a rap called “Women Lose Weight”.

Lamenting his wife putting on weight after having kids and stalled by his mistress who wants a clean break before she shacks up with him, he decides the easiest way out of it all is to kill the spouse. Considering different ways to do the deed, he finally rams his car into her Chevy over a long lunch break one fine day. It is an unexpected, stunning, tongue-in-cheek social commentary that makes it a CD you won’t forget easily.

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I loved Nina Paley’s brilliant animated film Sita Sings the Blues. If you’re reading this, stop right now—and watch the film here.

Paley has set the story of the Ramayana to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. The epic tale is interwoven with Paley’s account of her husband’s move to India from where he dumps her by e-mail. The Ramayana is presented with the tagline: “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

All of this should make us curious. But there are other reasons for admiring this film:

The film returns us to the message that is made clear by every village-performance of the Ramlila: the epics are for everyone. Also, there is no authoritative narration of an epic. This film is aided by three shadow puppets who, drawing upon memory and unabashedly incomplete knowledge, boldly go where only pundits and philosophers have gone before. The result is a rendition of the epic that is gloriously a part of the everyday.

This idea is taken even further. Paley says that the work came from a shared culture, and it is to a shared culture that it must return: she has put the film on Creative Commons—viewers are invited to distribute, copy, remix the film.

Of course, such art drives the purists and fundamentalists crazy. On the Channel 13 website, “Durgadevi” and “Shridhar” rant about the evil done to Hinduism. It is as if Paley had lit her tail (tale!) and set our houses on fire!

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