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Training session on the participation of young people in the UPR
The global theme for this year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, which will run from 25 November to 10 December 2021, is "Orange the World: End Violence Against Women Now!".
Within this context, the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) is organizing, in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UPR Info and the financial support of the Embassy of Canada in Morocco, a training session on the participation of young people at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), on 24 and 25 November 2021 at the Rabat-Driss Benzekri Institute for Human Rights, Morocco.
Morocco's next UPR is scheduled for November 2022. Within this context, this training session is organized to bring together young people from different regions of the Kingdom to strengthen their knowledge of this process and involve them in elaborating recommendations related to women's rights.
This event is also organized to ensure a participatory approach to young people from Morocco in drafting the CNDH parallel UPR report.
Morocco's UPR reviews took place in 2008, 2012 and 2017. The last review in September 2017 contains 244 recommendations, including ones relating to women's rights and equality.
The UPR is a unique process for reviewing the human rights records of all 193 UN States members. It is based on information provided by the State in question, information received from United Nations organs and entities, information from third parties such as National Human Rights Institutions and non-governmental organizations.
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HOOK 'EM. Longhorns legend Vince Young joins the CFB on FOX pregame show to break down this year's Red River Showdown between Texas and Oklahoma.
- Hey, you know what? This fan base at Texas, for a decade, they've been waiting to be back. They've been waiting for the era like what you brought them in '04 and '05, and then what Colt did after you were gone. How close do you think is this Longhorn team from being back in that title contention, in that [INAUDIBLE]? And do you think if they win today, you can put them in that class? Would it be Texas is back? Are they?
- We-- we-- we doing OK. Let's not go to fast. The best thing about it is the guys are having fun. They're taking of their responsibilities. And they understand the opportunity that's in front of them.
- And playing football is not for long. You know, so make sure you take care of your responsibilities and your books, and then bring home the national championship, baby.
- Hey, Vince, what's your best memory of this game? If you have one thought comes to mind, what would it be?
- Best memory of this game is a turkey leg, smoked turkey leg, baby. When you win a game, Coach Brown lets you stay. And if you lose, you got to get on the bus and go home, so you don't get an opportunity to get a funnel cake or a turkey leg.
- I like that. I'm in.
- Meanwhile, we got to give the fans a hook 'em now. I can't believe I'm doing this.
- I can't believe I'm doing this.
- Come on, Sooners. That's OK. It's OK.


Influence of branding on consumer purchase decision-An empirical study on Harare car buyers, Zimbabwe.
Although much research progress has been made in the study of branding in many developed countries, the application and understanding of branding theories found in the generic literature is however still lacking in the developing countries because the few researches on branding that have so far been done in such countries have left many gaps especially in terms of relating branding to consumer purchase decision (Keller, 2010). This lack of appreciating branding as an antecedent of consumer purchase decision has seen many companies failing to cope in the face of increasing competition due to poor branding strategies, especially in the Zimbabwe automotive industry, as observed by Motor Trader (2011). This paper analysed branding with regards to how it influences consumer behaviour and the ultimate purchase decision through its various elements namely brand awareness, perceived brand quality, brand loyalty and brand association. This is designed to improve the little knowledge available on branding and to provide a platform upon which the players in the Zimbabwe automotive industry can get an appreciation of branding and formulate effective branding strategies in order to succeed and to stay relevant in competitive markets.


Engraving a ring is a romantic choice, but there are other reasons to do it. Having a unique message engraved could help identify your ring if it were ever stolen. Engravings also make for great conversation starters at social events, especially if you choose to put the engraving on the outside of the ring, resulting in many questions from curious acquaintances.
Making the commitment to stick together for life requires a lot of faith, trust, and positive thinking. During the difficult times in a marriage, it can help to look down at the engraving and remember the promises made.
If faith is important to you, faith inspired engravings will be a powerful choice for your wedding rings. Choosing a religious wedding ring engraving shows the world that faith is the guiding force in life, and that faith will carry your marriage through all future challenges.
Unable to stay serious for longer than five minutes? If so, a humorous wedding ring engraving might be the perfect option. Silly engravings incite smiles whenever they are seen, and it will be fun to remember shared inside jokes throughout the years.
-- A ridiculously cute nickname.
There are many beautiful memories and special moments throughout a relationship and engagement. From the place of the first meeting or first date to the date of the proposal, there are many options for sentimental and personalized engravings.
-- The date and time of the first kiss or other important event.
-- The name of a beloved movie.
-- The spouse's name on each ring.
Technology and skills of engraving are always advancing and, these days, it's possible to do things that haven't been done before. While it's still true that some metals are easier and more affordable to have engraved than others, there are also new options to consider. Affordable and sturdy metals like tungsten and titanium are now able to be engraved. Gold is often considered the best metal for engraving because of its softness, and silver and platinum can also be engraved.
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Most wedding ring engraving choices fit into two categories: something that could apply to another couple and something that is unique. If the idea of passing rings down to grandchildren is appealing, a more general engraving may be preferable.
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"I admire the Good Samaritan for picking up people on the side of the road, but I don't want to be the Good Samaritan. I want to fix the road to Jericho, so people don't get beat up there." - Martin Luther King, Jr.


Eni has started production of first oil from the West Hub Development Project in Block 15/06 in the Angolan Deep Offshore, approximately 350 kilometres northwest of Luanda and 130 kilometres west of Soyo.
The field is currently producing 45,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) through the N'Goma FPSO, that reached Angola in July this year, with production ramp-up expected to reach a daily production of up to 100,000 bopd in the coming months. The start-up of the East Hub Development, expected in 2017, will raise overall production from Block 15/06 to 200,000 bpd.
Having won the international bid round in 2006, in Block 15/06 Eni drilled 24 exploration and appraisal wells, discovering over 3 billion barrels of oil in place and 850 million barrels of reserves. According to Eni, the discoveries were then developed quickly, achieving an industry-leading time to market of only 44 months from the Declaration of Commercial Discovery thanks to the application of a new modular development model. The West Hub Development entails the sequential start-up of the Sangos, Cinguvu, Mpungi, Mpungi North Area, Vandumbu e Ochigufu fields.
The celebration of this milestone was held today in Luanda at a ceremony attended by the Angolan Minister of Petroleum, José Maria Botelho De Vasconcelos, Eni's Ceo, Claudio Desclazi, President of Sonangol, Francisco de Lemos José Maria, Angolan Oil & Gas industry representatives, and members of Eni's management.
Eni is operator of the Block 15/06 with a 35% stake and Sonangol EP is the Concessionaire. The other partners of the joint venture are Sonangol Pesquisa e Produção (35%), SSI Fifteen Limited (25%) and Falcon Oil Holding Angola SA (5%).
Eni has been present in Angola since 1980 with a daily production in 2013 of 87,000 barrels of oil equivalent.
Posted on December 8, 2014 with tags Angola, Claudio Descalzi, Eni, FPSO, N'Goma, News, Offshore, West Hub.
Eni made a new oil discovery in Block 15/06, in the Ochigufu exploration prospect, in deep water offshore Angola.


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Lying Sack of S*** of The Week: John Boehner
Little Johnny has earned his Crown O' Polished Turds the week, yes he has indeed. By pretending to negotiate with the President, and then bailing out when an agreement was imminent; then "trying" to pass a "Republican" Plan B bill that had no chance of becoming law; then giving up and claiming that the House was a victim, and that the Prexy should do the Speaker's job; and then coming back to DC after saying he wouldn't; yes, this farrago of lies alone would easily qualify anyone for LSoSoTW honors.
But Mr. Boehner wasn't done lying yet, nosirreebob; yesterday he said he was "waiting for the Senate"; as soon as they gave him a bill, he would consider it. Of course, the Senate sent the House a bill on November 30th, and the Speaker has refused to allow it to come to the floor.
So, John-Boy, we're supposed to believe you now? Somehow, that seems like a really bad idea.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we present to you John Boehner, the last Lying Sack of S*** of The Week for 2012.
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In A Bad Relationship? New Study Says You Can Blame Your Parents
Taryn Hillin
02/06/2014 07:55pm EST | Updated March 11, 2014
Love life got you down? It might be time to take a look back on your teenage years. A new study says your relationship with your parents during adolescence has a profound effect on your romantic relationships later in life.
University of Alberta associate professor Matt Johnson and his team surveyed 2,970 people at three different stages in their lives. What they discovered was a direct link between participants' relationship with their parents and the quality of their current love lives. (The study will be published in the February issue of Journal of Marriage and Family.)
Johnson and his team found that positive adolescent-parent relationships led to higher quality intimate relationships as adults. Teenagers who experienced rocky relationships with their parents had more romantic problems later in life.
This doesn't mean that parents are completely to blame for their children's poor love lives, Johnson told The Huffington Post. Instead, it's important for people to be aware of their own role in that fundamental relationship and recognize how it impacts their current romantic relationship.
"People tend to compartmentalize their relationships; they tend not to see the connection between one kind, such as family relations, and another, like couple unions. But understanding your contribution to the relationship with your parents would be important to recognizing any tendency to replicate behavior—positive or negative—in an intimate relationship."
The researchers found that those whose parental relationships fostered high self-esteem had more successful romantic relationships as well.
"Higher parent-adolescent relations predicted higher self-esteem over the college years, which was then linked with better intimate relations as a young adult," Johnson told the Huffington Post.
Not all hope is lost for those with less-than-stellar relationships with mom and dad, however.
"Individuals with a particularly rocky relationship with their parents during adolescence are not destined to a poorer quality intimate relationship as young adults," the study explains. "Instead, a low-quality parent–adolescent relationship is associated with slightly reduced success in an intimate relationship."
That's why it's important for people to identify past negative behavior patterns and avoid replicating them in their current and future relationships, the researchers say.
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The Kogi State Government has restated its commitment towards making life worthy in the rural areas, stating that its major priority is the well-being of the people.
The Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alh. Yahaya Bello gave the assurance at the commissioning of rehabilitated and constructed projects in Ijumu Local Government.
He pointed out that the present administration would not rest until the well-being of its people at the grassroots is improved upon.
The Governor who was represented by the Executive Chairman of Ijumu Local Government Council and Kogi State ALGON Chairman, Hon. Taufiq Isa praised the Kogi State Community and Social Development Agency for its numerous contributions to the developmental strides of the New Direction Government.
The Governor explained that the numerous projects executed across the state by the agency have brought the dividends of democracy closer to the grassroots and contributed immensely to the realization of the New Direction Blueprint.
He commended the General Manager of the Agency, Mallam Momoh Dauda for prioritizing the needs of vulnerable groups and communities, noting that Mallam Dauda has justified his appointment through the agency's supported projects.
Speaking the Chairman of Ijumu Local Government urged the agency not to relent efforts at providing for communities and groups, and appealed for more projects to be situated in the area.
The Kogi State ALGON Chairman urged the people to sustain their support for the present Administration to help create an enabling environment for more dividends of democracy and called on them to protect the projects against vandals.
General Manager of Kogi State Community and Social Development Agency, Mallam Momoh Dauda commended Governor Yahaya Bello for his support to the agency and attributed the successes of the agency to Governor Bello's commitment to developing rural communities.
He commended the Executive Chairman of Ijumu Local Government for been a true representative of his people while eulogizing him for always standing for what is right.
Projects inaugurated are a rehabilitated town hall and Goodness Association Skill Acquisition Center in Ayetoro Gbede, Health Centre and two blocks of the classroom in Iluagba Gbede and Rehabilitated Agoh town hall and Agoh Skill Acquisition Center in Ayegunle Gbede.
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Earlier today, Microsoft announced that the Windows 10 for phones preview is available for download. One caveat with the release is that it will not run on all Windows Phones that are currently out in the market.
Understandably, this will make a few of you upset. Rightfully so, as you want to try out the next-gen OS but Microsoft has not made it available for your phone even though you have been a loyal Windows Phone user. Of course, supporting every phone out of the gate would have been setting expectations a bit high but we know this will not appease those who have been told they need to wait a bit longer.
The good news, if your device is not listed, is that they will be expanding the list of supported phones with future releases but there is not a definitive timeline for these updates.


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Киринополис () — муниципалитет в Бразилии, входит в штат Гояс. Составная часть мезорегиона Юг штата Гойас. Входит в экономико-статистический микрорегион Киринополис. Население составляет 38 165 человек на 2006 год. Занимает площадь 3 780,173 км². Плотность населения — 10,1 чел./км².

Праздник города — 22 января.

История
Город основан 28 ноября 1944 года.

Статистика
 Валовой внутренний продукт на 2003 составляет 269.338.808,00 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Валовой внутренний продукт на душу населения на 2003 составляет 7.200,23 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Индекс развития человеческого потенциала на 2000 составляет 0,780 (данные: Программа развития ООН).

География
Климат местности: тропический.

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Night Owl Paranormal
Caitlin Kittredge
Mark L. Van Name
Review by: ELF
Genre: Paranormal
Urban Fantasy / Paranormal
Urban Fantasy with an Erotic Edge
The Wild Side is an anthology of edgy urban fantasy with an erotic edge written by a collection of authors who are adept at creating vivid word portraits and disconcerting situations. The eerie circumstances that the disparate protagonists find themselves in are thought-provoking and often disturbing but never boring.
Songs Sung Red by Tanya Huff gives a different look at Vicki Nelson, vampire, and her lover Mike Celluci with a disconcerting reminder of her interactions with her maker Henry as she deals with a siren manipulating her.
Gina Massel-Castater has an unconventional heroine in Careless of the Night. An unusual talent for invisibility allows the silver-haired mature woman to surprise her shapeshifting employer and convince him that they can become lovers and partners. A nice twist on the idea of cougar love.
Toni L P. Kelner's For a Good Time, Call... A witch who has been pitied by her family for having very little talent is startled when a layperson asks her for help to deal with the incubus that killed his niece.
Diana Rowland explores what happens when a publisher finds a girlfriend who will seduce him into publishing her writings in Fine Print.
In Sara Hoyt's Unawares the angel Uriel needs assistance to keep him anchored to this plane in order to continue to fight off vampires in Denver. Fortunately for them both, Serena Reis is quite willing to assist him.
Of Sex and Zombies by Ticia Drake Isom tells what happens when a fairy and a human attempt to have a wedding which is crashed by zombies.
Dana Cameron's Love Knot might be better titled Lust Artifact as the dangers of an innocuous vase and the attempts to adequately dispose of it are explored.
John Lambshead creates an eerie dark steampunk tale in Beauty is a Witch that depicts a chase through the stews of London and beyond.
Editor Mark L. Van Name introduces an intriguing character with The Long Dark Night of Diego Chan as he struggles to comply with the wishes of a good friend while resisting the blandishments of a vampire.
And last but not least, Caitline Kittredge wields her mesmerizing talent at character creation in Born Under a Bad Sign with her twist on fallen angels and demons in a noir tale set in mid-twentieth century America.
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Take a walk on the "wild side" of urban fantasy. When the werewolf cubs are asleep and the baby vamps are tucked into their coffins, the adults come out to play! Feeling a bit undead and dying to shuffle off your toil and troubles and get it on? You've come to the right place! Spend some quality time lolling in the moonlight shadows with a love that only comes out at night. From light-spirited romps to black-hearted noir, from steampunk London to the bleeding edge of the present, tales of love, eros, betrayal and seduction in a beguiling vein. Best-sellers Tanya Huff, Caitlin Kittredge and Toni L.P. Kelner join Dana Cameron, Sarah A. Hoyt, John Lambshead, Diana Rowland and editor Mark L. Van Name create a dazzling cast of vampires, werewolves, witches and zombies, oh my. Oh my.
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Hell's King
I have thoroughly enjoyed this clever trilogy. The main character's chemistry is delightful and each accepts the others "flaws" be they real or not. While no one they know seems too thrilled they are...
Siren Misfit
Running and hiding all her life, Lana has a lot of questions. Questions such as who she is and where she's going in life. When she finds herself in Limbo witnessing an epic battle she finds herself do...
'Roo and the Angel
What defines a monster? If it's appearance we are all going to be confused. The real monsters in this book hide in plain sight, while the good guys would be chased with a torch. The irony. Jeb and Nev...
Burdened by Desire
Burdened by Desire is a paranormal romance. It has all the great characters to make it exciting. Readers get their vamps, demons, shifters and elementals. The elementals can use their powers after the...
Dark Alpha's Awakening
This is the book that I've been eagerly anticipating since the beginning of the Reapers series. I have enjoyed each book in this series but all along I've been waiting for this one. There has always b...


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Q: display dropdown list in form using mysql data & insert record Im trying to have a dropdown list that shows data from a mysql database on a form to add records. I can't find the way to make it work and it doesn't display anything, so I can't even try it. I'm learing php and mysql so i don't know what can be wrong in the code, though the connection is fine. Suggestions? thanks in advance, here's the code.
<?php
 include("includes/connect.php");
 doDB();

if (!$_POST) {
$display_block = "
<form method=\"post\" action=\"".$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]."\">

      Dominio
     <input  class=\"form-control input-sm\" name=\"dominio\" type=\"text\"  placeholder=\"dominio\">

";

//get plan list
$get_planlist_sql = "SELECT * FROM PLANES ORDER BY plan ASC";
$get_planlist_res = mysqli_query($mysqli, $get_planlist_sql)
    or die(mysqli_error($mysqli));

if (mysqli_num_rows($get_planlist_res) > 0) {

    $display_block .="

        Plan
           <select class=\"form-control input-sm\">
            <option value=\"\>Selecciona</option>";

       while ($getplans = mysqli_fetch_array($get_planlist_res)) {
        $plan = $getplans{'plan'];
        $display_block .= "<option value=\"".$plan"\">".$plan."</option>";
    }

        $display_block .= "
        </select>

            <button type=\"submit\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-lg\">Ingresar usuario</button>

        </form>";
}
//free result
    mysqli_free_result($get_planlist_res);

} else if ($_POST) {
//Revisar los campos requeridos
if (($_POST["dominio"] == "") || ($_POST["plan"] == "")) {
    header("Location: cliente.php");
    exit;
}

//Add to table datos_cliente
$add_datosclientes_sql = "INSERT INTO datos_cliente (dominio, plan) VALUES ('".$_POST["dominio"]."', '".$_POST["plan"]."')";
$add_datosclientes_res = mysqli_query($mysqli, $add_datosclientes_sql)
or die(mysqli_error($mysqli));
mysqli_close($mysqli);
     $display_block = "
La incidencia ha sido enviada. Deseas agregar otra?
";
}

?>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.css" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

<?php echo $display_block; ?>

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Value of new-build homes in Bexley surges by 28 per cent in just five years
April 7, 2021 April 7, 2021 Editorial Team	0 Comments	Bellway Eastside Quarter, Housescan
Homeowners in Bexley are benefiting from a steep rise in property values, with prices for new-build homes across the borough surging by 28 per cent in just five years..
Figures released by property experts HouseScan have revealed that the average price of a new-build house in Bexley increased from £271,970 in September 2015 to £374,377 in September 2020. Bellway London, which is building 518 apartments at its Eastside Quarter development in Bexleyheath, says the increase – the joint third highest of all London boroughs – underlines the investment potential of this part of the capital.
Emma Hamlett, Sales Director for Bellway London, said: "The London Borough of Bexley – and Bexleyheath in particular – is undergoing large-scale regeneration, making it an increasingly attractive option for housebuyers in the capital.
"With proposals to increase rail services through Bexleyheath into central London being put forward as part of a possible Crossrail expansion, the prospects for future price growth look extremely promising."
The HouseScan data also showed that new-builds have outperformed second-hand properties in Bexley during the same period, with price growth outstripping that of older properties by eight per cent.
Emma said: "New-build homes represent the best route onto the property ladder for many first-time buyers in the capital because of the availability of the London Help to Buy scheme, the lack of a buying chain and lower maintenance requirements. What these figures show is that buyers are also benefitting from higher price growth compared to second-hand properties, not only in Bexley but across the capital.
"We're confident that the value of new-build will continue to outpace the wider market. Research by Savills has shown that new-build homes are on average a third more energy efficient than second-hand properties, making them a good option for buyers looking for both investment potential and a sustainable home to live in for today."
Bellway's Eastside Quarter is being built on the site of the former Bexley civic offices, off Broadway. The development, which comprises studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments, opened in early 2020.
Prices for the apartments at Eastside Quarter start from £219,995. For more information about the apartments available, visit bellway.co.uk.
← Bellway launches phase II at Keephatch Gardens in Wokingham
New Hertford eco-homes →
Foreign buyer return could boost London house prices by £134k
October 1, 2021 October 19, 2021 Editorial Team	0
House raffles grew by 500% across Europe in 2020
Tenants happy to pay more for well-furnished rental properties


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Q: How to add an object in an array that is in an array I'm having really interesting issue. I have a data which comes from Graphql. I wanna add a object in an array that is in an array.
But i can't do it. I have a error that is the object is not extensible.
Let me give an example of my data:
{
  "data": {
    "board": {
      "id": "1",
      "title": "Grocieries",
      "color": "teal",
      "lists": [
        {
          "id": "1",
          "title": "To-Do",
          "cards": [
            {
              "id": "1",
              "title": "Write novel"
            },
            {
              "id": "2",
              "title": "Buy food"
            },
            {
              "id": "3",
              "title": "Paint a picture"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2",
          "title": "In progress",
          "cards": [
            {
              "id": "4",
              "title": "Buy groceries"
            },
            {
              "id": "5",
              "title": "Pay the bills"
            },
            {
              "id": "6",
              "title": "Get the car fixed"
            },
            {
              "id": "7",
              "title": "Create a course"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "3",
          "title": "Done",
          "cards": [
            {
              "id": "8",
              "title": "Get the car fixed"
            },
            {
              "id": "9",
              "title": "Write novel"
            },
            {
              "id": "30",
              "title": "Buy fruits"
            },
            {
              "id": "31",
              "title": "Buy car"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Let me explain what i want to do:
I want to add an object in cards array which is inside of the list item which has id 1.
Actually it's not hard to do it programmatically. But i have that error:
Error Image
My code:
<script>
import CardAdd from '../graphql/mutations/CardAdd';
import BoardQuery from '../graphql/queries/BoardWithListsAndCards';
export default {
    methods: {
        cardAdd(){
            this.$apollo.mutate({
                mutation: CardAdd,
                variables: {
                    title: "Mutation added",
                    order: 1,
                    listId: 1,
                    ownerId: 1
                },
                update(store, { data: { cardAdd } }){
                    let data = store.readQuery({
                        query: BoardQuery,
                        variables: {
                            id: 1
                        }
                    });
                    data.board.lists.find(list => list.id == 1).cards.push(cardAdd);
                }
            });
        }
    }
}
</script>

Note: cardAdd is the object that i want to add in cards array.
I also tried to add with index.
Thank you already

A: Make a copy of data before you try to push to it.
let data = store.readQuery({
  query: BoardQuery,
  variables: { id: 1 }
});
let data2 = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data2)); // deep copy
data2.board.lists.find(list => list.id == 1).cards.push(cardAdd);

TBH though, this approach is a bad direction. You're mutating some data but then altering the value returned from the mutation. Your mutation should return the data you need and then you should be able to use that directly.

A: Let me share the final solution to help others:
let data = store.readQuery({
query: BoardQuery,
variables: {
      id: 1
}
});
let data2 = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data));
data2.board.lists.find(list => list.id == 1).cards.push(cardAdd);
store.writeQuery({ query: BoardQuery, data: data2 });


Brickell City Centre (BCC), the newest mixed-use urban landmark in the heart of Brickell, and Modern ŌM, Miami's very own consciously minded brand bringing mindfulness into daily life, have partnered to host a mass meditation to raise the vibration in Miami in honor of Earth Day.
Brickell City Centre's open-air retail center will create a space for hundreds of conscious Miamians to go inward togethMitcher in celebration of our planet. Tea will be served prior to the meditation and visitors can explore the Modern ŌM pop-up shop, which will sell their popular line of mala beads and accessories to serve as reminders of mindfulness in daily life. Seating will be provided for each participant.
Socially conscious retailers throughout Brickell City Centre will join in the Earth Day celebration and offer perks throughout the day. Two hours of free parking in Brickell City Centre's underground parking garage will be provided to participants. Public transportation is encouraged.
Brickell City Centre will open its doors early to host a tea tasting for participants to mingle prior to the meditation.


It's 8:35 am. This is the view from the 7th floor overlooking the roundabout on Africa Ave at Deluxe Furniture. We are scheduled to start at 9. Patrick is setting up the breakout room down stairs so I'm the greeter. This group has done two in-person workshops and several weeks of online work – I am the new guy.
We are polite, reserved, friendly and brief. She takes a seat at the far end of the space and opens her computer. A second person. We abbreviate the same chat as she sees her friend and they sit together. Soon a dozen people have arrived, said hello and sat as far away from me as they can. Together.
Patrick returns and the group lights up. He invites everyone down to this end of the room so we can get started. We do a round of introductions and a check-in. The room is getting warmer and we roll out some questions.
We look at each other and around the room, laugh a little – until someone raises their hand. It won't be quiet like that ever again.
"I'd like to be understood better. English is not my first language, so I struggle to get people to understand me sometimes".
The last question about leadership legacy is the ten minute writing exercise. We're cruising and they dive in.
The debrief of the writing exercise is fascinating and fantastic and leads easily right back into experience.
Patrick and I split the room into two groups and he takes his bunch away. Now we are 7. We adjust, rearrange the chairs to create an audience for a small stage and huddle up.
Now the parade begins. Extraordinary human beings, one after another. All so brave, people trying to get out of their head and into relationship. Literally watching folks step gently out of their own way – amazed. I can reflect on and find learning in every person I worked with that day and I do. But I will offer you two.
First up is a senior executive from the country office, a woman from Botswana. She is wise and powerful, a dancer when she presents. Her first time through was a lovely performance, but not a lot of connection. We introduce the game: connecting with one person in the audience. Be curious about them, investigate them, invite them into relationship. When that person feels seen (not just looked at) they are asked to raise their hand.
She practices. She breathes, gets centered and starts inviting her audience into relationship one at a time. The results are lovely, powerful but sometimes slow. Someone she has invited into relationship takes their time raising their hand. She compensates by dancing towards them. The hand still hasn't gone up and she's close to sitting in their lap when finally the proximity boundary gets crossed. They laugh and stop.
Some people nod a little. She becomes still and looks at me.
Now there is breathing and stillness and genuine curiosity. She is so loving and kind and when she sees a person, a peer and invites them into relationship, she cannot be denied. When she gets out of self assessment and into relationship she gets bigger. Her stature, her size, her presence grows. We all feel it.
The feedback she gets after the second time is radiant. People rave about her and want to work with her even more.
Everyone from the morning group makes a discovery or is a critical part of somebody elses – or both. The work is fantastic.
Lunch break. It's brought in and both groups come together. After lunch I walk around the balcony and take some pictures. Ethiopia is a country of 90 million people, 4 million of which live here in Addis.
I'll fast forward to the last participant in the afternoon group. This woman is local she is both strong and fragile. She admits to everyone early that this is her worst nightmare. She reads through her piece with much apology and ends early. The feedback is gentle but honest. There are tears.
As she re-oxygenates, a calmness descends upon her. It takes a couple of minutes but soon all the shaking is gone, all the tears are gone.
With her shoulders square and her feet solid beneath them, she kept breathing and got curious about someone in her audience. She started asking herself, what color are their eyes, their eyebrows? What shapes do I see? She started inviting them into relationship and she too could not be denied. She got out of her head and into relationship and everything that was amazing about her became visible to all of us. Once again, we all felt it. Her feedback this time was a huge victory. She had come quite a long way from shaking and crying to connecting and co-creating. Through her, the group celebrated their extraordinary journey. What a day.
Both groups now come together for the final debrief of the day. We revisit the pages we filled up first thing earlier this morning.
We say our reluctant goodbyes.
Patrick and I celebrate that night at dinner. His stuff went well too. Good work begets good work and there is much to leverage after today. We come up with a loose plan on how to build on what we've done and we eye the next workshop in Aman Jordan. Patrick is living there now and traveling back early in the morning. I'm starting my vacation.
Tomorrow is my first of four days as a tourist in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. I'm looking forward to practicing what I've asked the participants to practice all day long – making connections with people and this new environment, inviting them to inform my content. What I don't know is that tomorrow, a major power and communications line will be severed at a nearby construction site blacking out and blinding two square miles of downtown Addis including my hotel.
I wonder how I show up under stress?


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We as a whole realize that Donald Trump won the US Presidential Elections, however that doesn't mean individuals will overlook the previous US President Barack Obama whenever sooner or ever. And keeping in mind that liberals are mourning the annihilation of Hillary Clinton and the control of the Republicans in the US Senate and in the House of Representatives, we ought not overlook how much fun it was to have Barack Obama in the White House. In this way, how about we investigate the best photographs taken by Pete Souza, the previous authority picture taker of the White House.
Obama is respected broadly for his lead and the emanation that he reflects. We additionally adore him for his specialty of wearing his heart on his sleeves. Well-meriting the title of the coolest US Prez, Obama is somebody, each world pioneer ought to take in something from. From playing around with kids in the White House, getting a charge out of b-ball coordinates wholeheartedly, to showering love on his better half Michelle openly, Obama is somebody who keeps no second thoughts.
Observe a portion of the astounding catches of the most loved POTUS. This gathering will unquestionably fill your heart with joy.
This is one of his most famous shots ever. Obama, watching out of the window, in a quiet room, certainly, some awesome contemplations in the pipeline. The catch looks so tranquil thus encouraging that we are certain, America has been carrying on with an extraordinary life under Barack's administration. Praise to the colossal man, there!
He is the principal African-American President of The US, and that implies a considerable measure to many individuals.
Sarah Froman is the offspring of Michael Froman and Nancy Goodman. Michael Froman filled in as the Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics.
This is an intense photograph that demonstrates the affection between two of the most effective individuals on the planet.
Janiya Penny is a tyke from the 'Make-A-Wish Foundation,' and she couldn't trust that she was at the Oval Office.


PC gamers have to set a myriad of graphics options to balance performance with graphics quality. If you don�t want to tweak them by hand, NVIDIA, AMD, and even Intel provide tools that will do it for you. Sure, if you�re a serious PC gaming geek, you�ll probably want to do this by hand. Doing... Arrange number cards and symbols to make math expressions equal to twenty-four. Parentheses - Exponents - Multiply and Divide - Add and Subtract. Please make sure there are no spaces in your answer before checking it.
You need a good microphone on your computer in order to make audio recordings, voice chat, or use speech recognition. However, not every computer comes with �... Arrange number cards and symbols to make math expressions equal to twenty-four. Parentheses - Exponents - Multiply and Divide - Add and Subtract. Please make sure there are no spaces in your answer before checking it.
The hardware setup for using your PSVR on your PC is similar to using the device on your PS4. The PSVR is powered separately and connects to the PC using a USB 3.0 port and the PS4 HDMI cable.
Make up your own drum beats or play your favourite drum patterns. Play drums along to songs, even record your drum beats on some of the virtual drum sets and then listen back to the beats. You can give your favourite virtual drum set a star rating and write a comment for others to read. Below is a collection of the best virtual drums around.


text: Q: In Laravel my live site can also access with /public so does that bad for SEO? I have Laravel 6 site to be going to live and my concern is my site also can be open from the /public so does that affect in SEO of a site? I don't want to change root's server.php to index.php or move all the files and folders of the public to root. Because that can be unsafe.


I am looking at the CORE of the situation!
Are you still doing sit-ups or crunches?
If so, here are some reasons you need to change things up.
This is a problem for two reasons. Firstly, this creates an imbalance and overlooks the most important muscles, the inner and outer oblique's. We all like that 'six pack' muscles look but they do nothing to protect the stability or integrity of the spinal column.
Additionally, strong outer muscles covering the weak core muscles provide a false sense of security, significantly increasing the risk of a back injury.
You could potentially be damaging the nerves with too many crunches and sit-ups. The crunch movement puts an unhealthy strain on the back and neck right at their weakest points. The repeated flexing action of a sit-up or crunch can cause your spine to be subjected to high levels of compression. Over time, this movement may cause a bulging, or herniated, disk that could lead to chronic back and leg pain.
Poor posture is often an indication of a weak core!
A strong core will ensure you have a strong posture; the muscles of the core and lower back help keep your upper back and shoulders neutral. The two most common postural problems I have encountered, as a rehab trainer are anterior pelvic tilt and forward head posture. It is the 'desk-job' lifestyle that many of us have or it is the chronic use of technology (phones, laptops...) that are part of our daily routines. These body positions generally lead to our poor posture.
Proper posture relies on three crucial components: a strong posterior chain (glutes, lower back and hamstrings) transverse abdominals (located under the obliques, it is the deepest of the abdominal muscles and wraps around your spine for protection and stability), a mobile trunk and an open front-side (good posture).
It is essential to be aware of and able to correct muscle imbalance patterns, as they often lead to poor posture. If you are unaware of these imbalances then your exercise techniques are compromised which will lead to injuries! Crunches are pulling the shoulders forward not allowing the spine to move freely as it is designed to do.
Your core is a complex series of muscles, extending far beyond your abs, including everything besides your arms and legs. It incorporates almost every movement of the human body. Our core has functional movement in three planes of motion: the sagittal plane, coronal plane, and the transverse plane.
The sagittal plane divides the body into left and right.
When we move along this plane, we are using the strength of our muscles to move parts of the body forward or backward. Extension and flexion happen along the sagittal plane. This means most running, biking, rowing, and lifting movements make use of this plane.
The coronal plane divides the body into front and back.
When we move along this plane, we are moving toward or away from the midline. Adduction and abduction are movements along this plane. Many of our daily movements and exercises involve very little abduction. We tend to stay neatly hugged in toward the middle.
The transverse (or horizontal) plane divides the body into top and bottom, but it is a little less straightforward. Any time we rotate THE SPINE we are moving along the transverse plane. In daily life, we do this action least frequently, particularly with the large joints in the hips, shoulders, and spine.
Many of the muscles are hidden beneath the exterior muscles people typically train. The deeper muscles include the transverse abdominals, multifidus, diaphragm, pelvic floor, and many other deeper muscles. These muscles can act as an isometric or dynamic stabilizer for movement, transfer force from one extremity to another or initiate movement itself.
Your core most often acts as a stabilizer and force transfer centre rather than a prime mover. Yet consistently people focus on training their core as a prime mover and in isolation. This would be doing crunches or back extensions versus functional movements like deadlifts, overhead squats, kettlebell movements and even barbell complex routes.
I can help you with routines that discover your true core and find muscles you never thought you had!


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It's not about the dress, it's about the woman in the dress. But also true is this: Sometimes the dress (the jacket, the bag, the, um, nose ring) can mean everything. Eight women—writers, actors, entrepreneurs—share the stories behind the pieces they treasure the most. Here, Molly Antopol shares her story.
When I was 22, I moved into a retirement home in Israel. There, in the dimly lit basement, an 85-year-old woman named Tzippy sold the clothing of the recently deceased. That year, Tzippy—with her red leather pumps and matching lipstick—taught me more about style than anyone before or since. Even now, more than a decade later, I can still see Tzippy as clearly as if she were sitting beside me: elegant in a turquoise pantsuit, hair perfectly coiffed and sprayed, wearing what appeared to be all the jewelry of Tel Aviv's dearly departed at once.
Having just graduated from college, I'd come to Israel on a fellowship: first to work with Russian and Chechen teenagers at an immigrant-absorption center in the western development town of Sderot, then with a human-rights group in Tel Aviv. It was an expensive city, the program's coordinators explained, and the home was state run—so rent was cheap and rooms, sadly, were always becoming available.
Which is how eight young American fellows ended up hauling our ratty suitcases and duffels into a Bauhaus-style retirement facility one winter afternoon. The first thing I remember is the smell—bleach and onions and soup. Someone was always making soup (rent was cheap, and so was I: Later on, I'd track down the soup maker and save money on dinner). In the lobby, old men dueled over a wooden backgammon board while elderly women watched a Hebrew-dubbed Spanish soap opera beneath photos of the Baba Sali, a renowned Moroccan rabbi. The ladies smiled and introduced themselves: Ruti, with layers of purple eye shadow and dyed black hair pulled into a bun; Shoshana, small and round, with knotted hands and her face wrapped tight like a potato in a babushka; and Tzippy, who stood up and informed us that she would be our liaison. I asked if she lived here.
She escorted us to the second floor and unlocked the long, narrow room I'd be sharing with two friends. There was a small kitchen with a wooden table and chairs against the wall, three twin beds shoved wherever, and a large window overlooking a concrete apartment complex, where a black dog barked on the roof. I spotted a set of dentures on the kitchen counter. "Ah," Tzippy said, "guess the cleaning crew didn't finish up." It was suddenly apparent just how recently checkout time had arrived for the previous occupant.
She put on the hat, changed her shoes to match, and led us upstairs. Shoshana and Ruti immediately turned to admire the new ensemble. It was the first time I really understood the immense gratification of dressing for other women. As the women exclaimed over her excellent new hat, the man beside them, completely unaware, tossed his backgammon dice and nudged his opponent to wake up.
This was 2001, and we were organizing an initiative aimed at bringing Palestinian and Israeli teenagers together in a nonpolitical environment. My employment experience to date boiled down to selling sneakers and making Popsicle art with kids. Now, with the second intifada recently broken out, I was put to work writing grants, a task for which I was so utterly unqualified that I had Grant Writing for Dummies express-shipped to the retirement home and sat up late every night in my stiff, tiny bed, trying to will myself into expertise.
That didn't last long. As violence erupted around us, projects like ours, that made donors feel good but whose efficacy couldn't be measured, fell behind concrete needs: ambulances and medical supplies, and barricades in front of bus stops. Worse, even the free-thinking youths who'd chosen to take part in our program now refused to talk to each other. Some of my colleagues believed the project needed to be revamped. Others thought it should be shelved entirely, our energies devoted instead to defeating the hawkish Ariel Sharon in upcoming elections. The implications—for the country and for this organization—were enormous. For me, it meant a new boss every day, new expectations, a new agenda. I felt as if I were drowning in choppy water.
But amid the stress, our retirement home was starting to feel like home. My favorite part was the nights I'd slip down to the basement, where Tzippy let me vent about my work anxieties ad nauseam, but never wanted to talk about her own life. The only detail she ever mentioned was that she'd been born here, back when it was still British-run Palestine. I had no idea if she'd been a member of the Jewish Resistance that ultimately drove the British out. She never told me about that, or for that matter about whether she had children or had ever been married, whether she'd ever left the country, or even how she'd wound up living in that basement. And I knew, by the way her face clouded every time I strayed onto personal terrain, that I shouldn't ask. It went without saying that at 85 she'd endured numerous wars and a lifetime of political unrest, something she seemed both to accept and to want to disappear from, focusing instead on creating beauty in the basement, the one environment she could control.
What Tzippy did love talking about was the clothes she sold: the brown wool coat, too heavy for Israel's climate, that a former resident had brought with her from Ukraine; the suede heels from Morocco; the sweater, so pilled and worn I was afraid it would turn to dust at my touch, that a man had worn every day up to the recent end of his life.
I'd always loved dressing up: In elementary school, I used to don a Victorian blouse and mother-of-pearl brooch to rewatch Anne of Green Gables on VHS; in high school, I resurrected my great-grandmother's old Singer so that my best friend and I could sew our own elaborate designs. But in Israel I'd somehow gotten it into my head that if I wanted to be taken seriously as the youngest person at the nonprofit, and as a woman, I needed to look like a serious, no-nonsense person. To the back of my closet went my bright silk dresses, my white sailor pants, the Frye boots I'd had resoled three times, a cherished yellow cotton Marni dress found on consignment in San Francisco—and out came black flats, black slacks, and a white button down. I looked like a waitress at a chain restaurant. Tzippy thought it was ridiculous: For her, clothes were containers for tremendous emotional significance and meaning. Many of the residents at the home had emigrated to Israel, sometimes with a suitcase or two, and sometimes with nothing but the clothes on their back, forcing them to triage their most cherished and essential possessions. And now here they were—items that could narrate dozens of lives, artfully arranged on Tzippy's metal racks.
She was always urging me to buy something. Every time a piece fit, she'd say, "That's it! That's the one." I kept waiting for her to offer me a special deal on those dentures.
But I'd never been one of those girls who could pull off grandmother chic: Things like floral housedresses, library glasses, and Dr. Scholl's make me look like an extra from Crossing Delancey, another pale, dark-haired woman waiting in line for knishes outside Yonah Schimmel's in New York.
Over the years, tightened around my neck in winter and draped over my shoulders in summer, the scarf has followed me across the country and around the world, and back to Israel more than 20 times since I left the retirement home and said goodbye to Tzippy. Whenever I put it on, I think about what Tzippy taught me: that fashion could be a vehicle for shaping a narrative—a way to take myself more seriously, rather than a silly indulgence I should try to hide. And I think about how she showed me the joy of dressing for other women: viewing it as a way to express my interests, backstory, and passions, as opposed to a way to attract attention. Since that year with Tzippy, I've discovered the pleasure I glean from seeing a confident, stylish woman pass me on the street—and how gratifying it is when she notices me as well. It always reminds me of that afternoon in the retirement lobby when Tzippy paraded in, modeling her new hat for Shoshana and Ruti. Fashion, Tzippy taught me, is something women can share.
After years of lost luggage, I've learned to travel light, but the scarf always comes with me. In fact, I'm wearing it now, on a research trip to Spain. It's about a hundred degrees here, and I probably look like a fool on the sweltering streets of Madrid, but I don't care. Because when I wear it, my anxieties begin to dissipate, just as they did that year in Israel, when I was worried about that job, sleeping on that narrow bed where, through the wall, my recently widowed neighbor shouted into the night, and outside, that black dog was always—always—barking on the roof. Instead, I remember what it was like to try on that scarf for the first time and see myself, thrillingly, through Tzippy's eyes: as a young woman whose world had just cracked open, the possibilities spilling everywhere.
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Torture in Guantánamo
Source : - Independent News, www. inweekly.net
http://www.inweekly.net/article.asp?artID=2753l
by Melissa Hoffer
Four-and-a-half years ago, Mohamed Nechla, Lakhdar Boumediene, Hadj Boudella, Belkacern Bensayah, Saber Lahmar, and Mustafa Ait Idir were living ordinary lives in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mohamed and Lakhdar worked with children orphaned in the civil war. Mustafa repaired computers and provided technical support services. Saber and his wife were expecting a child.
In October 2001, their lives were shattered when the U.S. insisted that Bosnia arrest the six men—all Muslims of Algerian descent—based on unfounded U.S. allegations that they were involved in a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia. One by one, each man was taken into custody.
As news of the arrests filled Bosnian media, not one fled. The men spent three months in jail while the federal prosecutor investigated the charges. No stone was left unturned—investigators searched computer files, phone records, questioned witnesses and the men.
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Finally, the federal prosecutor recommended to the Bosnian high court that the six be released. He had identified no evidence to justify their detention. The high court agreed, and ordered their release.
Despite this order, the U.S. placed tremendous pressure on Bosnians to turn over the six to U.S. custody, threatening to withdraw support if Bosnia failed to comply. As the six were released from jail in Sarajevo on Jan. 18, 2002, they were turned over to nine soldiers and then hooded, handcuffed, and jammed into waiting vehicles. The huge crowd of community members that had gathered to protest the seizure tried to prevent the cars from passing; wives strained to catch glimpses of their husbands.
As Mohamed Nechla tells it, the six were taken to an airport and handed over to the Americans, who removed Mohamed's hood, placed sensory-deprivation goggles on his eyes, a mask on his mouth, and coverings over his ears. The pain from the extremely tight wrist restraints was excruciating. He cried, "My hands!" His hands and arms grew numb.
He was placed in a seated position on the floor of the plane. If he slumped or fell, he was slammed back upright by soldiers. The flight lasted several hours.
When the plane landed, they were in an extremely cold place. Mohamed believes it was Turkey or Germany. There were dogs barking very close to him. He was terrified they would bite or attack him.
They boarded a second plane. Mohamed's hands were still in pain. The trip lasted many hours. Before the plane landed, he was given an apple—the only food he received during his nearly two-day journey.
After the plane landed, he was painfully dragged to a bus by his biceps. Soldiers repeatedly screamed, "Don't move! Don't talk!" When the bus stopped, Mohamed was pulled down the boarding stairs. He was dragged to a gravel area and placed in a painful position, with his legs straight out in front of him, shackled, and his wrists still shackled.
Soldiers screamed insults about him and his family. A soldier punched his head. The intensely hot sun pounded down on him. He fainted. A soldier shoved him upright. A long time passed. He began to have difficulty breathing through the mask and felt he was going to suffocate. He cried out for help. A soldier snapped the mask against his face. He began to cry. Mohamed had arrived in Guantánamo.
After the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Rasul v. Bush to grant Guantánamo prisoners the right to bring claims of habeas corpus in U.S. courts, I and a team of lawyers at my firm filed habeas petitions for the six.
In fall 2004, the U.S. government moved to dismiss all the habeas petitions filed on behalf of Guantánamo prisoners, arguing they had no rights that could be vindicated on habeas—that Rasul had been an empty promise, allowing access to the courts for the sole purpose of dismissing the petitions on the grounds the prisoners had no rights.
Although the pending cases were before federal Judge Joyce Hens Green of the District of Columbia, my case and one other were pulled back for decision to Judge Richard Leon—a recent President Bush appointee—the judge to whom they had originally been assigned.
In January 2005, Judge Leon ruled against us, agreeing with the U.S. government that Guantánamo prisoners have no rights under the Constitution or any international law. A few weeks later, Judge Green ruled in favor of the prisoners, maintaining they had fundamental due process rights, and those had been violated. Both rulings are on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C.
While the litigation drags on, the Bosnians have been held at Guantánamo for more than four years as alleged "enemy combatants." They have never been charged with a crime. The U.S. maintains Guantánamo prisoners are not protected by the Geneva Conventions and that Guantánamo is beyond the reach of U.S. law. In so doing, the U.S. has attempted to create a new category of human beings wholly exempt from the protection of any law.
The U.S. position is that it may seize anyone, anywhere, at any time, if there is reason to believe that person is an "enemy combatant"—someone who is part of or "supporting" (even unwittingly) Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or forces "associated" with these groups. The global dragnet cast by this definition is so broad that an attorney for the U.S., arguing before Judge Green in December 2004, admitted it would include a little old lady from Switzerland who gave money to an Afghan charity organization that—unbeknownst to her—funneled the contribution to Al Qaeda.
Once seized, the men may be held as long as the War on Terror lasts—a potentially lifelong sentence—without ever being charged with a crime. They are not permitted to see or speak to their families. Letters are heavily censored. They are routinely tortured during interrogations as a means of enforcing camp discipline, disorienting their minds, and degrading their humanity.
Inhuman Treatment
Shortly after arriving at Guantánamo in early 2002, Lakhdar Boumediene was subjected to a 13-day period of extreme interrogation and near total sleep deprivation. He was interrogated from midnight until 5 a.m., and for several hours during the day.
After interrogations, he was returned to his cage, his wrists shackled and his feet shackled to an anchor on the floor. Several times, while incapacitated in this position, guards repeatedly lifted him up and threw him to the floor. When I first met him in May 2005, he showed me a scar on his knee from one such incident.
His captors threatened to send him to Jordan where "they could make him talk" and to a U.S. prison where he would be raped. They threatened to shave his beard and apply lipstick to him. He was violently choked by a Jordanian interrogator. Each time Lakhdar made a request, he was told to ask his interrogator. Access to medical treatment was granted or denied based on the interrogators' assessment of his cooperation.
In April 2005, my colleagues and I filed a Freedom of Information Act suit seeking records concerning our clients' treatment at Guantánamo. As a result, the U.S. produced thousands of documents, including one confirming medical personnel involvement in interrogation. Lakhdar has been interrogated between 100 and 200 times.
Our clients have been severely beaten, and two spent 15 months in solitary confinement.
On one occasion, Mustafa Ait Idir was alone in his cell when guards said they wanted to search it. They instructed him to sit on the floor, and secured his hands behind his back. They slammed his body and head into the steel bunk. They threw him on the floor, pounding his body and banging his head into the floor. They banged his head on the toilet. They stuffed his face down the toilet and repeatedly pressed flush. Mustafa feared he would drown. The guards carried him outside and threw him on the ground. They held him down and stuffed a garden hose into his mouth. They opened the spigot. Mustafa began to choke. He could not breathe. The guards took the hose out of his mouth and sprayed his face. This violent assault was wholly unprovoked.
In early 2004, Guantánamo guards undertook a systematic effort to interfere with certain prisoners' ability to worship as Muslims by removing their pants. Muslim men cannot pray without pants. The Immediate Response Force—a riot squad frequently called upon to subdue and intimidate prisoners—was present, as were several U.S. military officers.
When guards approached Mustafa for his pants, he explained he needed them to pray, and begged the guards not to take them. The IRF members sprayed him in the face with chemical irritant, and one squeezed his testicles until he fell to the ground. They repeatedly jumped on his body. They secured Mustafa's hands behind his back, and one IRF member slowly bent one of his fingers back until it broke. The pain was excruciating, but he did not scream for fear the beating would continue. He was refused medical attention.
A few days later, guards again came to search his cell. An officer ordered Mustafa to sit on the floor with his hands behind his back, which he did. The officer sprayed chemical irritant into his face. Two or three guards entered the cell. One forced Mustafa's body onto the steel floor and jumped on his back. The second guard did the same thing. They secured his hands behind his back, carried him outside, and threw him onto the gravel. An IRF member jumped on his head.
After this beating, half of Mustafa's face was paralyzed for several months. He was in constant pain. When he tried to eat, food and liquid leaked from his mouth. Guards mocked him. He continues to experience pain.
These are only a few examples of the torture and inhuman treatment my clients have endured while being held without charge at Guantánamo. These incidents are corroborated by numerous similar incidents observed by FBI agents at Guantánamo, as documented in records produced in FOIA litigation brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and witnessed by former U.S. military personnel.
My clients do not understand why they are being held. The high court of their country ordered their release. The Bosnian government has publicly stated its willingness to repatriate them. They struggle to maintain sanity, composure. They long for their families.
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The Lesson of Guantánamo
I did not know what to expect the first time I visited them. I knew they had been held under extremely difficult conditions. I tried to place myself in their shoes, and wondered if they would trust me, a citizen of the country that had, in a matter of hours, torn their lives apart and stolen years, which cannot be replaced. Maybe they would think I was just another interrogator.
But when I greeted them each separately in the small cells allotted for lawyers to meet with prisoners, each welcomed me, smiled, and thanked me. Their graciousness and warmth was overwhelming; I found myself pressing back tears I had not expected.
Toward the end of my stay, one of the guards told me Mohamed wanted to speak with me again. He had already been placed behind the barred portion of the cell, and I had to stoop to speak with him from the other side of the barrier. At the end of our conversation, he held up his palm to the wire, and I did the same.
Guantánamo is devoid of living things. The ground is covered in gravel. The cells are housed in brown sheds, surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with razor wire.
The trust and strength of character these men have shown is a wave wearing down rock over time; it is a single blade of grass, somehow managing to grow among Guantánamo gravel.
If we extinguish that humanity with lawlessness and cruelty, we extinguish hope for the future of humankind. For when we causelessly take away a person's freedom, we erode our own. But as we join with others around the world fighting unjust imprisonment and torture, we honor and preserve our humanity. This is the lesson of Guantánamo.
U.S. Supreme Court on Guantánamo
The U.S. Supreme Court began to hear arguments March 28 in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan regarding the legality of trials before military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Despite the Supreme Court challenge the U.S. government is going ahead with proceedings before the commissions, with pre-trial hearings scheduled to take place next week.
The Supreme Court faces an enormous responsibility in the Hamdan case. At stake are principles of fair trial, constitutionality and equality before the law—basic values on which the entire U.S. legal system is based. Human rights groups say the U.S. government should now show its commitment to international human rights standards and abolish trials by military commission at Guantánamo and revoke the Military Order which enables them.
Some fear that, far from abandoning military commissions or putting cases on hold pending the Supreme Court's decision, the U.S. government is determined to push ahead with these sham trials.
In January, the government filed a petition seeking to nullify the Hamdan appeal, citing a law passed by Congress in December 2005, which severely curtails the right of Guantánamo detainees to bring cases before the U.S. courts. The government argued that the law should be applied retroactively to more than a 150 pending Guantánamo appeals, including Hamdan. Although this issue has yet to be decided by the Supreme Court, the government's stance presents yet another obstacle to justice in the cases.
It's alleged in court arguments that the U.S. government is breaching fundamental standards for fair trial. U.S. authorities are proceeding with pre-trial hearings at Guantánamo despite their serious flaws which, at worst, include possible death sentences and the admission of evidence obtained under torture, as well as severe limitations to the right of appeal and restrictions on the right to a lawyer of one's own choice. They are also discriminatory in that only foreign nationals are subjected to such unfair procedures, which would not be permitted for trials of U.S. citizens.
The U.S. government recently announced that it is considering banning statements obtained under torture from military commission proceedings. Amnesty International believes that such a step can only be welcomed if the ban is to include all forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment as required by the UN Convention against torture. Otherwise, the U.S. administration's limited definition of what constitutes torture will render such a ban meaningless.
In addition, since the commissions are constructed at the whim of the executive, no rule change indicates permanence. This move underscores the lack of any certainty in the commission rules from day to day. The presiding officer is answerable only to the Appointing Authority, who appointed him. In such a circular system, defense lawyers say the trials cannot be considered full and fair.
Overview of Guantánamo
Despite a major international outcry and expert condemnation of U.S. government policy, hundreds of people of around 35 different nationalities remain held in a legal black hole at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, many without access to any court, legal counsel or family visits. Denied their rights under international law and held in conditions that may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, the detainees face severe psychological distress. There have been numerous suicide attempts.
As more evidence surfaces that the abuse of Guantánamo detainees has been widespread, it is ever more urgent to end the plight of the detainees. U.S. authorities must shut down the facility and bring all detainees to trial, in full accordance with international law and standards, or else release them immediately and unconditionally.
Many of those held were captured during the international conflict in Afghanistan, from where transfers to the Naval Base began in January 2002 under harsh conditions of transportation. Others were arrested elsewhere and handed over to the U.S. authorities. Sporadic transfers to, and releases from, the base continue, but the precise numbers, identities and nationalities of those held have never been made public.
None of the detainees have been granted prisoner of war status or brought before a "competent tribunal" to determine his status, as required by Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention. The U.S. government refuses to clarify their legal status, despite calls from the International Committee of the Red Cross to do so. Instead, the U.S. government labels them "enemy combatants" or "terrorists," flouting their right to be presumed innocent and illegally presuming justification for the denial of many of their most basic human rights.
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, has repeatedly referred to those held at Guantánamo as "hard core, well-trained terrorists", and "among the most dangerous, best-trained vicious killers on the face of the earth" and has linked them directly to the attacks of 9/11.Vice President Dick Cheney has also labeled the detainees as "the worst of a very bad lot. They are very dangerous. They are devoted to killing millions of Americans."
Despite these blanket allegations, scores of detainees have been released from the base without charge.
In April 2002 the detainees were transferred from the small wire-mesh cages at the temporary Camp X-Ray to the confines of Camp Delta where the majority are held in maximum security blocks in cells even smaller than before, sometimes for up to 24 hours a day and with very little out-of-cell exercise time. The detainees have also been subjected to repeated interrogations sometimes for hours at a time and without the presence of a lawyer, raising fears that statements may have been extracted under coercion. The ICRC is the only non-governmental organization allowed access to the detainees.
In November 2001, President Bush signed a Military Order establishing trials by military commission, which have the power to hand down death sentences and against whose decisions there will be no right of appeal to any court.
The military commissions can admit testimony based on hearsay, statements obtained under torture and statements from other detainees in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere, often using unverified translations.
One detainee facing trial by military commission, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, has stated that he had considered confessing to false charges in the hope that this would improve the conditions he faced in Guantánamo Bay. Another, Benyam Mohammed al Habashi, says that before being transferred to Guantánamo he was severely tortured and forced into signing false confessions, confessions that could be used at his military commission.
In November 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the legality of the commissions. And on April 3, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether the Guantánamo military tribunals qualify as due process according to constitutional standards. Despite the fact that the Supreme Court has yet to rule on whether the commissions are legal, the U.S. government still plans to go ahead with proceedings against some of the detainees.
Human rights groups have called for the voluntary repatriation of all those detained as combatants during the international armed conflict in Afghanistan, as required under the Geneva Conventions, unless they are to be charged with criminal offenses or would face serious human rights abuses, if returned to their country. Any other of the Guantánamo detainees should be charged with recognizably criminal offenses and tried within a reasonable time or released.
Source: Amnesty International


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Episode 1 – The Critical Role of Public Defenders in Transforming Justice
This inaugural episode of Gideon's Promise explores the critical role public defenders play in the criminal justice system as they address a wide range of issues facing marginalized communities. Host Jonathan Rapping speaks with three experts – Raj Jayadev, Co-Founder, Silicon Valley De-Bug; Josie Duffy Rice, President, The Appeal; and Scott Hechinger, Senior Advisor, The Justice Collaborative & Director, Zealous – about public defenders critical roles in the ongoing struggle for justice beyond courtrooms, how they can help reframe the media's perception of public defenders and how their role is further highlighted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: HERE
About The Guests
Raj Jayadev is community organizer creating a model of grassroots collective action that gives individuals facing incarceration, their families, and their communities an active role in their defense. He is Co-Founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a storytelling, community organizing and advocacy organization based in San Jose, California. De-Bug created the Albert Cobarrubias Justice Project, a "participatory defense" model that brings community organizing principals to criminal justice reform. Jayadev was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Grant in 2018 for his work helping those facing incarceration, their families and communities.
Raj Jayadev's Website
Josie Duffy Rice is the President of The Appeal, a digital platform that amplifies stories about criminal justice and the host of Justice in America, a podcast that features leading voices in the criminal justice arena. The podcast was nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Crime & Justice podcasts in 2020. As a journalist, Duffy Rice has primarily focused on prosecutors, prisons, and other criminal justice issues. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Slate, among others. She is working on a book about the fundamental impulses and instinctive emotions that drive mass incarceration.
Josie Duffy Rice's Website
Josie Duffy Rice on Twitter
Scott Hechinger is the Founder and Director for Zealous, a national initiative that activates, trains, and supports public defenders, in partnership with local organizations and the people and communities defenders serve to move their advocacy outside the court. For nearly a decade, Scott served as a public defender in Brooklyn and shared his perspective outside of court in a variety of media to shift the narrative and drive systemic change. Scott served for years as Director of Policy at Brooklyn Defender Services, co-founded the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, and designed multiple new media advocacy films and campaigns. Scott speaks widely, guest lectures at law schools and universities, and his work and commentary are regularly featured in a range of outlets.
Scott Hechinger on Twitter
You'll Learn About
Public defenders as critical to the struggle for justice.
Public defenders as part of the national conversation on criminal justice reform.
The role public defenders are playing in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gideon's Promise: The Podcast can be found on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and at the Gideon's Promise Website.
Gideon's Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice (2020) by Jonathan Rapping (Pre-order).
The New York Times; 9/25/19; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/mandatory-minimum-sentencing.html
The New York Times; 10/31/18; https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/opinion/election-voting-rights-fraud-prosecutions.html
De-Bug: Voices from the Underside of Silicon Valley (2016) by Raj Jayadev.


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title: March 2017
date: 2017/12/10 20:08
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A **message queue** and a native **key-value store** along with a special focus on security are our gift for this coreBOS third birthday, but, not satisfied with that we throw in a long list of enhancements and fixes and start this blog series.

**Happy birthday coreBOS!!**

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 ! Asterisk

We standardize the PBXManager module and correctly define fields in order to enable searching on list view and linking to other records.

 ! Workflow

 - Create Entity Enhancements: permit creating same entity as default duplicate: dangerous, possible infinite loop
 - More flexible picklist options
 - Task enhancement: after_retrieve task event so we can easily add functionality to our task edit screens

 ! Developer

Two incredibly powerful developer tools arrive this month

 - [coreBOS Message Queue and Task Manager](http://corebos.org/documentation/doku.php?noprocess=1&id=en:devel:corebos_mqtm)
 - [coreBOS Settings and Configuration](http://corebos.org/documentation/doku.php?noprocess=1&id=en:devel:corebos_settings) Generic key-value store
 - Application API call to save attachments via executefunctions endpoint

 ! Security

This month again sees a lot is security issues fixed

 - path traversal
 - SQL injection
 - XSS
 - Request class to avoid http response splitting

 ! Other changes:

 - Better IP detection for native IP access blocking
 - Permit user login based on IP via global variable
 - Now that reports use paging we send the SQL as JSON payload if debugging is active (Thanks for the idea Omar)
 - Fix TagCloud moving effects (Thanks Paul)
 - Fix picklist editing for picklists with a lot of entries
 - Add global variable in Convert Lead to preselect opportunity section
 - Fix FAQ export
 - Database optimizations
 - Fix some global variable calls when user is still not defined
 - Background log for workflow email task
 - Global variable rename code in changeset
 - Mobile fixes, optimizations, and enhancements
 - Eliminate obsolete Microsoft Word Merging: use the CRMNOW extension or GenDoc
 - Fix Query Generator relation errors with uitype10 custom fields
 - Webforms: cleanup and add posting acceptable Domain to avoid spam
 - Backup: emit error message if enable script cannot be written
 - Block increment of AutoNumber/uitype4 fields at database level to avoid duplicates
 - PHP7 Update TCPDF, TagCloud, and Validator
 - Fix user decimal support: Thanks Kiko
 - Eliminate warnings, notice, MySQL strict and code cleanup (this one is a constant every month, even today)
 - Translations

**Thanks for reading.**


Can a medicine with Risk Minimisation Measures (RMM) be included in a PGD?
This Q&A has been developed with the MHRA in 2017 and it reflects MHRA guidance on the use of PGDs for medications which have risk minimisation measures (RMM).
Risk Minimisation Measures (RMM) are a regulatory requirement for some medicines, and are a critical part of the product licence (marketing authorisation) to help maintain a favourable benefit-risk profile. Medicines with a requirement for RMM may not be suitable for inclusion in a Patient Group Direction (PGD).
As well as information on contraindications, warnings/precautions and possible side effects routinely described in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) and Patient Information Leaflet (PIL), some medicines have an extra regulatory requirement for additional RMM.
RMM are designed to facilitate informed decision making to support risk minimisation when prescribing, dispensing and/or using a medicinal product, and may be imposed on a product at the time of licensure, or at any time thereafter. RMM may differ in their purpose, design, target audience and complexity, and might include measures to guide appropriate patient selection with the exclusion of patients where use is contraindicated, to support in-treatment monitoring relevant to important risks and/or management of an adverse reaction. The format, content and method of distribution of RMM are agreed on a product-specific basis by the MHRA. Examples can range from extra information for patients, such as an 'alert' card, or checklists for health professionals, to the imposition of a controlled access scheme.
When developing a PGD for a medicine, it is important to determine whether the medicine has any RMM associated with the licence.
In accordance with NICE guidance, medicines needing frequent dosage adjustments or frequent or complex monitoring, should not be included in a PGD. In line with this, a medicine with RMM for close monitoring and supervision of patients may not be suitable for inclusion in a PGD.
If a decision is taken to include a medicine with RMM in a PGD, the requirements of the RMM must be included in the PGD. As well as routine reference to the important particulars of the SmPC and PIL, the relevant sections of the PGD template should make specific reference to the key points of the RMM where applicable. If RMM have been developed specifically for patients, the PGD should include instructions to give verbal information to the patient on the important risks described in the RMM, as well as the provision of any written RMM for the patient to take away (along with the PIL), and where additional information may be found. If the RMM includes a checklist for prescribers, the use of the checklist should also be incorporated into the PGD.
Further details of medications with associated RMM can be found at https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/rmm-directory – please note this may not be a comprehensive list of all medications with RMM.