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New professional Lucy Maguire reports on the recent ARA emotional support training.
As the University of Glasgow's Great War Project comes to an end, Project Assistant Katie McDonald reflects how such projects can engage with communities and distribute the information held in archives through different means.
Aspiring archivist Sophie Gilmour shares her rather intensive approach to gaining valuable volunteer experience in archives.
Read about some excellent examples of learning projects discussed at a recent Archives for Learning and Education event.
Imperial War Museum Archive Assistant Megan Joyce shares how a love of social history led her to pursue a career in archives.
SfNP Chair, Sara Brimble, discusses the recent 'Let's Get Digital!' event at The National Archives.
Georgie Salzedo, Archivist at De La Rue, discusses last month's joint BAC/ICA SBA Conference on the topic of trust in business archives.


Leyla McCalla, a Haitian-American musician living in New Orleans, has toured the world on the tail of her 2013 debut album, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes. She brought her cello, guitar and tenor banjo to perform at the Cat in the Cream Monday, singing in a mixture of French, Haitian Creole and English. Her music investigates African identity and social justice, and her work has led her to collaborate with famed musicians such as Rhiannon Giddens, OC '00.


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Why o why o why o did CCA think it could make stuff up in Ohio
Sat, 03/10/2012 - 8:01pm — Frank
Corrections Corporation of America's (CCA) letter offering to purchase state and local prisons/jails in return for a 20-year deal and 90% guaranteed occupancy rate (probably making the hotel lobby very jealous) continues to gather press. Last week, an AP story (Corrections firm offers states cash for prisons, Greg Bluestein, Associated Press) about the facility was picked up by a number of newspapers around the country.
In defense of the deal, CCA continues to point to its "successful" purchase of the Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Ohio. Did CCA think no one would check to verify this claim? Unfortunately for CCA, the ACLU of Ohio did. Quoting Mark Twain, they wrote "'[t]here are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.' A recent letter sent out by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to 48 governors offering to buy state prisons included a little of each."
Here are some highlights from the ACLU of Ohio's blog:
· "While CCA claims it will save Ohioans $3 million per year, a recent report analyzing the state's contract shows that taxpayers will actually lose money over the next 20 years. Of course, this is not earth-shattering news, as other fiscal analyses in Ohio and Arizona have produced similar results."
· "CCA also leads readers to believe there was no drama behind the transition to private ownership, but the people of Conneaut may disagree. As CCA took the reins of the Lake Erie facility, Conneaut city officials were informed that it would be the duty of local police officers to investigate crimes at the private prison. Typically, the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) handles all investigations at state prisons, but private properties are under the jurisdiction of local police forces. This could cost the city of Conneaut taxpayer dollars it just doesn't have."
· "CCA also points out that 93 percent of the previous staff from the Lake Erie facility was retained in the ownership transfer — the implication being that governors shouldn't worry about privatization because most state corrections officers will be hired back. What it does not explain is that Lake Erie has been a privately operated facility for over a decade. … Certainly, if the facility had employed state corrections officers, many of those workers could not afford to continue working there. It's no secret that private prisons pay employees far less than state workers and provide few benefits, leaving doubt that privatization of a state facility would be as 'seamless' as CCA describes in its letter."
On the bright side, I imagine CCA's management and shareholders made out quite well. Stay tuned to Texas Prison Bid'ness for more on this story.
Private Prison Lobby
Mon, 08/20/2012 - 3:47pm — Anonymous (not verified)
CCA at Lake Erie
I see all the concerns are about taxpayers, but no one is considering the actual prison and the deplorable changes that have taken place. If a guy wants to have a blanket or clothing of any kind, or towels and washclothes, they must be purchased through their two approved vendors - at an enormous price - which most of the prisoners' families cannot afford. Everything they do in the prison, costs the families money. Visits - yes they have vending machines - but the cost 4-5 times more than anything on the outside.
They also no longer care to control the inmates. The beatings and deaths that happen at that prison are awful. The gangs run that prison and CCA has no control over what's going on inside. Yes they are good at keeping them in, but at what cost?
They also promise programs to help retrain prisoners. That's actually not true - the one or two programs they have, you can't get into unless you have progressed to a life long criminal who will not learn from their programs and who will be right back in there a few months after they get out.
They need someone to give them a brain to really think about what they are doing.

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Collection of Linux terminal server related system tweaks.

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# Compatibility #

This module has been tested to work on the following systems with the latest Puppet v3, v3 with future parser,
v4, v5 and v6. See `.travis.yml` for the exact matrix of supported Puppet and ruby versions.

## OS Distributions ##

* EL 5
* EL 6
* EL 7
* Suse 10
* Suse 11
* Suse 12

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# Function support matrix ##

|fix \ OS                |EL5|EL6|EL7|Suse10|Suse11|Suse12|
|------------------------|---|---|---|------|------|------|
|fix_access_to_alsa      | - | - | - | +    | +    | -    |
|fix_core_pattern        | - | + | + | -    | +    | +    |
|fix_haldaemon           | - | - | - | -    | +    | -    |
|fix_localscratch        | + | + | + | +    | +    | +    |
|fix_messages_permission | + | + | + | +    | +    | +    |
|fix_pulse_respawn       | - | + | + | +    | +    | +    |
|fix_services            | + | + | - | +    | +    | -    |
|fix_swappiness          | + | + | + | +    | +    | +    |
|fix_systohc_for_vm      | - | - | - | +    | +    | -    |
|fix_updatedb            | - | - | - | +    | +    | +    |
|fix_xinetd              | + | + | - | +    | +    | -    |

# Parameters #

fix_access_to_alsa (boolean)
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Access MODE of ALSA device will be set to 0666 to make sure they are accessible for all users if it's true.
Nothing will happen with /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules if it's false.

- *Default*: false

fix_core_pattern (boolean)
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Trigger to manage the traditional core dump behavior.

- *Default*: false

fix_core_pattern_value (string)
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Content for the file /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern.

- *Default*: 'core'

fix_haldaemon (boolean)
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Add the "CPUFREQ=no" line in /etc/sysconfig/haldaemon and make sure service haldaemon is running if it's true.
It only affects to Suse 11.
Nothing will happen with /etc/sysconfig/haldaemon if it's false.

- *Default*: false

fix_localscratch (boolean)
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Create local scratch folder if it's true.
Nothing will happen with local scratch folder if it's false.

- *Default*: false

fix_localscratch_path (string)
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Path to local scratch.

- *Default*: '/local/scratch'

fix_messages_permission (boolean)
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Make sure the mode of /var/log/messages is 0644 if it's true.
Nothing will happen with /var/log/messages if it's false.

- *Default*: false

fix_pulse_respawn (boolean)
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Prevents PulseAudio from respawning. It will set autospawn to no in /etc/pulse/client.conf.
PulseAudio configuration will not get touched if it's false.

- *Default*: false

fix_services (boolean)
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Disable useless services based on the osfamily. (nfs service is removed from this disable list.)
It only affects to Suse 10&11, EL 5&6.
Nothing will happen with those services if it's false.

- *Default*: false

fix_services_services (array)
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Array of service names to disable when fix_services is activated. 'USE_DEFAULTS' will choose the appropriate default for the used OS.

- *Default*: 'USE_DEFAULTS'

fix_swappiness (boolean)
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Set parameter that controls the relative weight given to swapping out runtime memory if it's true.

- *Default*: false

fix_swappiness_value (string)
-----------------------------
Set parameter that controls the relative weight given to swapping out runtime memory.
The value will be set into /proc/sys/vm/swappiness directly.

- *Default*: '30'

fix_systohc_for_vm (boolean)
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Disable hardware clock to the current system time if it's true.
It only affects to Suse virtual machine.
Nothing will happen with /etc/sysconfig/clock if it's false.

- *Default*: false

fix_updatedb (boolean)
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Set "RUN_UPDATEDB=no" in /etc/sysconfig/locate if it's true.
Updatedb cronjob in cron.daily will be disabled when "RUN_UPDATEDB=no".
It only affects to Suse.
Nothing will happen with /etc/sysconfig/locate if it's false.

- *Default*: false

fix_xinetd (boolean)
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Xinetd will be fixed (install package, configure /etc/xinetd.d/echo) if it's true.
Nothing will happen with xinetd if it's false.

- *Default*: false

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That's one of the best mainstream news articles I've seen. May there be many more!
No matter how good the articles are, we still have to put up with silly comments by journalists with no idea..
"But even on this spooky rainy day, with tall trees blocking out the light in an isolated forest, accompanied by a man with a look of terror on his face and a hushed tone to his voice, the evidence is not convincing."
Such is the false bravery of the person who has not experienced it. Offer to take them out at night, and they'd run a mile, though.


These two tombs are in the yard of the painted church in the village of Arbore, near Radauti in northern Romania. The images on the crosses include grape vines (very similar to those on Jewish tombstones) as well as a bird, the sun and moon, a skull and crossbones (a common image, actually, on Sephardic tombs) — and a six-pointed star, looking like a rather out of place star of David.
Tombstone/cross in Arbore. Images include a skull and crossbones and -- at the top -- what looks like a star of David!
Though the focus of this site and project is the representation of women in Jewish tombstone art, and particularly the use of candlesticks, it is interesting to see how women (and men) are portrayed artistically in other tombstone carving.
New England — where I currently am, on a fellowship at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA — is famous for its colonial period old cemeteries. In the past, I have visited one or two of them — and when I was in college at Oberlin, I had a friend from Connecticut, Charles Bergengren, who had made rubbings of many New England tombstones (and eventually wrote about folklore in New England gravestone imagery in the journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies).
From gravematter.com, a web site on cemeteries in Massachusetts and Maine, I discovered that there is a historic cemetery in Waltham dating back to the early 18th century — so I will plan to visit it in the next few days. Meanwhile, I've looked at the pictures from it posted on line — interesting to see that there is essentially no differentiation (at least in that cemetery) in the decoration or iconography used on the tombstones of men and women. Most seem to feature a winged skull (or occasionally a winged head) above the epitaph, with some decorative carving at the sides.


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Massive Fraud: Rudy Giuliani Says Major Lawsuits Will Be Happening
If the censorship of the "Laptop from Hell" by the Mainstream Media and Big Tech, to block evidence of Joe Biden's crimes seems dystopian, then the gaslighting about the 2020 Election results is even more surreal.
At 2:30AM Wednesday morning, I was watching the election results on Twitter and USA Today. Trump was ahead in several states and it looked like he was about to win Virginia. Odds-makers from Vegas to London started favoring Trump, causing the Chinese Yuan to tank.
Suddenly, several key states announced that they had suspended counting for the night.
Then Trump made a brief 2AM speech, warning of new ballots being cast at "4AM".
Soon afterward, Wisconsin gained an instantaneous 120k+ votes out of nowhere that were 100% for Biden, reversing Trump's lead. This was a statistical impossibility.
I finally went to bed. When I woke up a couple of hours later, the exact same thing had happened in Michigan, 138k+ votes in a span of a few seconds landed in their voting coffers at 6AM. Beyond a statistical impossibility!
On Wednesday afternoon, Rudy Giuliani went to Philadelphia, PA where he held a press conference detailing the massive fraud in that city with respect to the mail-in ballots, where Republican observers were illegally prevented from even seeing these ballots. He described the same thing occurring in Milwaukee, Detroit, Arizona and Nevada and asserted that these uncorroborated ballots were thereby invalid and should be deleted from the final count.
He said, "You know these big city machines are crooked. You know that 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50, 100 years of one-party rule leads to corruption of all kinds. Voter fraud is one of the biggest, because that's how you keep your power.
"But we're not going to let them get away with it. They're not going to steal this election. This election is decided by the people. These people – the elite – they don't care about the people. The people are the 'deplorables', the 'chumps', you know. They're not important.
"To President Trump, it's the whole reason that he ran for office and it's the whole reason for which he's carrying on this campaign, so that your vote can mean something, so that your vote doesn't get wiped-out by a hundred thousand fraudulent, meaningless paper ballots that no one gets to observe.
"So, we are going to continue the lawsuit here, we're going to bring a second one and then we're going to bring a federal lawsuit and we're going to take a very good look at whether we bring this nationally. We certainly are going to bring it here and in Wisconsin. Quite possibly, we'll do a national lawsuit and really expose the corruption of the Democrat Party.
"But this is beyond anything I've ever seen before. This comes when you think you have so much power and you own the media, that you can do anything you want. Well, sorry, we're going to fight for the people. We're going to vindicate their right and the ultimate result is President Trump has won Pennsylvania.
"I've never heard of a count, where you're ahead by 400,000, with 80+% counted and they haven't called it for you yet. They called California the moment the polls closed. How many votes do you have to be ahead to win – for a Republican to win here?…
"Do you think we're stupid? You think we're fools? You know something, the Democrats do think you're stupid and they do think you're fools and that's why you get called 'deplorable' and 'chumps'.
"It's over. We're going to stick with this. We're going to win this election – we've actually won it. Just a matter of counting the votes fairly."
Additional evidence of massive voter fraud was widely reported. This is just a small sample:
• Michigan: A United States Postal Service whistleblower contacted Project Veritas with details about a directive he had from superiors to separate late mail-in ballots from standard letter mail and hand-stamp them with yesterday's date, as "Received November 3rd, 2020" so they would be accepted. (The Postmaster General has since contacted Project Veritas and is mulling an investigation).
• Michigan: A poll watcher filmed highly-suspicious activity at a vote-counting center in Detroit at 4 a.m., the morning after election day. In the footage, taken by Kellye SoRelle, a Texas lawyer and member of Lawyers for Trump, a person in a white van was filmed loading up a red wagon with a large lock box and bringing it inside.
• Michigan: Seven voters older than the oldest human being alive today voted in Michigan, including one man born in 1850 and another who passed away in 1984.
• Michigan: Poll workers set up a police barricade and covered the windows of a counting facility, forbidding poll watchers from entering or even being within 30 feet of the building (the Trump Campaign is suing Michigan after access to ballot counting was denied).
• Wisconsin: Seven Milwaukee wards reported more presidential votes than registered voters. The state voter turnout was at nearly 90%, which is virtually impossible.
• Georgia: David Shafer, Chairman of the Georgia GOP, reported that Georgia's Fulton County instructed observers to leave, while they "took the ballots home with them" and "continued to count ballots in secret", despite claiming that they were "closing up" for the night.
• Texas: Biden's Texas Political Director has been implicated in massive mail-in ballot harvesting scheme in Harris County (Houston).
• Pennsylvania: Joe Biden is on track to get 100,000 more votes out of Philadephia than did Hillary Clinton and 90,000 more than Barack Obama did in 2008, despite Democrat registered voters being down 30,000 since 2008.
• National: Comparing eligible voters per state vs number of votes (even before all votes counted) 19 states were found to have more votes than registered voters. Millions of "votes" are likely fraudulent.
• National: Judicial Watch found 1.8 million 'ghost voters' in 29 states.
• National: Fox News claimed that Joe Biden received a total 71 million votes – more than Barack Obama.
• National: Project Veritas received numerous reports from people who voted early and on Election Day and their ballots are not showing up when they check the status. (Independently, I saw many people from Arizona voters tweeting this).
• The top two grant recipients to boost mail-in/absentee/ballot harvesting were Philadelphia, with $10 million and Detroit, with $3.5 million (Center for Tech and Civic Life, with Mark Zuckerberg, Google and Pierre Omidyar as the largest donors).
There are those who theorize that the Democrats have been allowed to fall right into the trap of a sting operation and that their fraud will be exposed for all the world to see. The certified ballots are printed on specially-watermarked paper containing radioactive isotopes and registered on a QFS blockchcain to prevent fraud.
If the FBI, District Attorneys, Governors, Secretaries of State, the DOJ and judges are ensnared in this alleged voter sting op, it said that Trump can legally claim that the courts cannot function and thereby issue a Presidential Emergency Authorization Document (PEADS) and invoke Ex parte Milligan to justify legal military tribunals on civilians.
The Trump campaign thinks President Trump will be declared the winner by Friday after NC, GA, PA and AZ count their votes. Even without MI, WI and NV Trump wins 279-259.
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stephane eric doerksen says:
i watched your email in my inbox get deleted right on front of my eyes, your information isnt comming in, I havnt received your emails recently somewhat…
Trump did better than 2016 in every demographic except white men:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1323825846365396992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1323825846365396992%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbongino.com%2Fboom-exit-polls-say-trump-did-better-in-2020-with-every-race-and-gender-except-white-men
I guess the OAS must have been involved .What a crock or horse manure .The country that prides itself of preaching democracy to other nations does this …….
chessie says:
Put Durham on it — that works for All.
A sting operation! Of course HAHAHAHA!


Why wouldn't the War Doctor and the Tenth Doctor remember saving Gallifrey?
As explained (albeit very briefly) in "The Day of the Doctor", such memories would have caused a temporal paradox & the timestream protects itself from such paradoxes by ensuring that events that shouldn't be remembered aren't remembered. The situation in which the "War Doctor", the Tenth Doctor & the Eleventh Doctor (&, eventually, 10 other incarnations) teamed up to save Gallifrey only came about because the Doctor had not remembered it happening.


We have received this request for help in France. Can anyone advise please?
Congratulations on the wonderful work!
I'm writing on behalf of a friend and colleague, Mathieu. He is an estate agent, and needs to take photographs of properties for work, but working with a camera is difficult as he is missing his right arm. He has full dexterity in his left hand. He was looking for accessible cameras, and I'd heard of your project and looked you up.
We are based in France, so I understand that he may not fall within the scope of charity, but is there any way you could help?
Please comment over at the forum if you're able to help. (You'll need to register for the links to work.) Thanks all!


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Q: How to contributute an E4 MPartDescriptor to Eclipse via Fragments? How to contributute an E4 MPartDescriptor to Eclipse Plugins via Fragments?
I'm not talking about a standalone RCP application. The question concerns plugins that contribute Part Descriptors to an Eclipse IDE plugin.

A: *

*Create a model fragment to contribute a part descriptor

*Select "Application" as container type and use org.eclipse.e4.legacy.ide.application as "Extended Element ID" for your newly created model fragment.

*Call your part descriptor as usual.

MPart myPart = partService.createPart("MyPartDescriptorView");
partService.showPart(myPart, PartState.ACTIVATE);

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Yabloko commemorates victims of political reprisals in Cheboksary
Press release, 1.11.2018
The Yabloko party participated in a rally commemorating the victims of political repressions on Cheborsary on 30 October.
According to Leonid Arkadyev, Chair of the regional parry branch, "political terror is hazardous for any state because it does away with brave and educated people".
The local residents who took part in the ceremony told those present about their next of kin who were repressed.
Yabloko took part in the Returning the Names memorial action across Russia. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko Federal Political Committee, said that Russia's current political system could easily turn towards the developments of the 1930s. "The current political system – taking its logic, methods and approaches into account – is the direct heir of the regime of terror and is a step away from becoming a political mechanism of terror itself."
According to Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, "if society preserves memories of the developments of the 1920-1930s, a similar scenario will be prevented". She also said that the government must make a legal and political estimate of Stalin's crimes.
Posted: November 6th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.


Posted on September 7, 2018 by revivewa	in Faith in Action and tagged 2.
While our Federal Government still takes a hard line approach to refugees and asylum seekers, many Australians want to do more to help those coming to Australia for safety. There are a number of practical ways members of the Australian community can help.
The Uniting Church WA has been a long-time supporter of the Coalition for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees (CARAD), who provide support to refugees and asylum seekers in Perth. Recent cuts to the Status Resolution Support Service mean that up to 500 people in Perth may lose access to this program, leaving them without any form of income. Individuals and groups, such as Uniting Church WA congregations, can help by donating items to CARAD's Food Bank or organising a fundraiser to donate cash.
This year, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that close to 1.2 million refugees, from 63 countries globally, will need resettlement. Resettlement places are limited however; in 2016, only 125 800 global refugees – of a projected 1.19 million – were resettled in a third country. The Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (CRSI) is calling on the Federal Government to create a system that allows the generosity of ordinary Australians to flourish, welcoming refugees into our communities.
CRSI is a joint project of the Refugee Council of Australia, Amnesty International Australia, Save the Children Australia, Welcome to Australia, Rural Australians for Refugees and the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce. The Uniting Church in Australia is a member of the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce.
Through the Australian Government's Community Support Program, individuals or organisations could sponsor a person or family to resettle in Australia in a range of ways. The Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative supports this program, but believes Australians are ready and willing to be more involved.
Rev Steve Francis, Moderator of the Uniting Church WA, has called for the Australian Government not to remove support for people seeking asylum in our local community.
"What marks us as a society is how we combine our efforts to make sure that everyone, especially those doing it tough, are okay. We are a better community when no one is neglected, when we love our neighbour," said Steve.
For practical ways to support CARAD in the work they do for refugees and asylum seekers in our community visit carad.org.au/donate.
To find out how you can help welcome refugees into your community visit ausrefugeesponsorship.com.au/howyou-can-help.


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Metropolitan (UA)
Scheduled Tribes
House Assets
House Less
Fertility Ratio
State Census 2011
District List
Antroli - Vadodara
Antroli Population - Vadodara, Gujarat
Antroli is a large village located in Chhota Udaipur Taluka of Vadodara district, Gujarat with total 350 families residing. The Antroli village has population of 2306 of which 1186 are males while 1120 are females as per Population Census 2011.
In Antroli village population of children with age 0-6 is 486 which makes up 21.08 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Antroli village is 944 which is higher than Gujarat state average of 919. Child Sex Ratio for the Antroli as per census is 876, lower than Gujarat average of 890.
Antroli village has lower literacy rate compared to Gujarat. In 2011, literacy rate of Antroli village was 18.35 % compared to 78.03 % of Gujarat. In Antroli Male literacy stands at 24.70 % while female literacy rate was 11.76 %.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Antroli village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Antroli village.
Antroli Data
Total No. of Houses 350 - -
Population 2,306 1,186 1,120
Child (0-6) 486 259 227
Schedule Caste 0 0 0
Schedule Tribe 2,305 1,186 1,119
Literacy 18.35 % 24.70 % 11.76 %
Total Workers 1,234 606 628
Main Worker 933 - -
Marginal Worker 301 72 229
Caste Factor
In Antroli village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST). Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 99.96 % of total population in Antroli village. There is no population of Schedule Caste (SC) in Antroli village of Vadodara.
In Antroli village out of total population, 1234 were engaged in work activities. 75.61 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 24.39 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 1234 workers engaged in Main Work, 474 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 450 were Agricultural labourer.
High Density State
Density / Km2
1 Delhi 11,320
2 Chandigarh 9,258
3 Puducherry 2,547
4 Daman and Diu 2,191
5 Lakshadweep 2,149
India @ Glance
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Interview with Dorset author Jason Goodwin
Words by Adam Lee-Potter and photographs by Jennie Hill
Jason in his office
As the son of Jocasta Innes, Jason Goodwin had a peripatetic childhood. Now an award-winning author living in Dorset, he has assumed his mother's nonconformist mantle
With his mop of hair, owlish spectacles and tatty brown jumper, Jason Goodwin could be nothing but a bestselling author. Wildly successful but eclectic, he was named Young Writer of the Year in his 20s for a precocious essay on Polish politics.
His second travel book On Foot to the Golden Horn (he walked to Istanbul, as you do) won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and his first crime novel The Janissary Tree – featuring Yashim, a 19th Century eunuch detective – earned him America's prestigious Edgar Award, immediately ranking him alongside the likes of John Le Carre, P D James and Raymond Chandler. And the Independent on Sunday, described him as "intimidatingly clever".
But Jason – now four novels on - wears such badges lightly. He doesn't even get cross when I describe him – all those eunuchs, strumpets and derring-do - as a thinking man's Wilbur Smith.
"Eventually, you've got to pick up one of these awards, haven't you?" he says modestly. "The Edgar was cool. They wanted to give me the prize for best first novel but they could only award that to an American so they promoted me."
Even if he weren't so horribly likeable, I'd have taken to this fresh-faced 50-year-old: I owe him and his family. If it weren't for his mother – the maverick cookery writer and interior designer Jocasta Innes – and his wife, Kate Harris, I'd have starved long ago.
Jocasta's peerless, back-in-print 1970 book, The Pauper's Cookbook, was later updated by Kate and her dazzling recipe for spaghetti all'arrabbiata has been saving me from Pot Noodle for the last 22 years.
"When mum wrote the original," says Jason, "she was living on a shoestring in a bedsit in Swanage with her new bloke, so she was very much writing from experience.
"But 20-odd years later, Kate and I were the young paupers. And one of the things lacking in the first book was pasta – it just wasn't on my mum's radar in 1970. So Kate added all that in."
His background is arguably as outlandish as his fictional creation, the oddly lusty, accidental castrati (a crushing earthquake) turned Ottoman sleuth and amateur cook.
As Jason says, only half-joking: "I could only have become a novelist."
After his parents - Jocasta and the film producer Richard Goodwin - split up when he was three, he and his then five-year-old sister Daisy – now a novelist too, naturally – shuttled back and forth between their paternal grandmother's house in the New Forest and the Swanage bedsit their mother shared with Joe Potts, a penniless Geordie novelist, and their own two daughters.
In a withering 2007 memoir, Daisy wrote: "Going from one home to the other every weekend and half the holidays was like going from East to West Berlin during the Cold War."
Jason recalls: "We'd go to Wareham by train, then take the bus. My mum didn't own a car or even a bicycle. I slept on this awful flap-down chair with my feet on the sofa along with the dog. There was a room next door where the girls slept. Downstairs, there was a bathroom and sitting room. My mum and Joe slept there. It was fairly squalid."
Joe, six years Jocasta's junior, was – at best – unsuccessful, and mean with it.
"He was a frightening man - bullying and threatening. I wasn't keen on going down to see him but I loved seeing my mum. Daisy's memoir was quite upsetting, it gave my mum quite a turn. I would like to write about them all but I'll wait until they're all dead.
"Of course, Mummy could have been a much more straightforward, conventional mother but then what? Then everything would have been different. We're all like caged animals in a zoo – we don't know what we're missing.
"And it wasn't all dreadful. Children like a really ordered, careful life. For two or three years, we lived with Richard's mum while he was in London making movies. That was an idyll: blue tits would take the cream off the milk every morning.
"But Swanage was a maelstrom of adventures and shouting and cooking and drinking – a lot of scrumpy. Joe and Jocasta were always having these great theatrical arguments about whether DH Lawrence was better than John Cowper Powys.
"It was ghastly, really, and it left a mark. It could never last. Mum finally ran away from Joe when I was about 14."
Ever the trend-setter, Jocasta – monied now - fled back to London to set up home in a briefly derelict Spitalfields brewery (now worth £2.5million) with Sir Richard MacCormac, an architect.
Jason adds: "Joe was dangerous, simmering with resentment and brutal to us as children.
"He was a terrible goader, which is not a very nice thing to be with children. What's the point of an adult teasing a child to the point of tears?"
If Joe, who died, aged 70, two years ago, of a heart attack on the couch of a Blandford acupuncturist while being treated for fallen arches (how else would a novelist's wicked stepfather die?) was a monster, Jason's father Richard, now 79, was more of a saint.
A hugely accomplished film maker, he was responsible for Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express. When Jocasta left him, he was granted custody – almost unheard of back then – of the two children. As Jason says: "He has been a terrific dad, so hats off to him."
But more surprises lay in store. Aged 28, Jason was at a drinks party in London when a stranger approached him and said: "Oh, you're John Michell's son."
Jason explains: "Ma and John were lovers at Cambridge. Then – as it turned out - they sort of picked up again just before I was born. But John wasn't the marrying kind. He did, oddly enough, get married just before he died, to a druidess from Glastonbury. That was very John."
If there is a more tangled family history, I have yet to hear it.
"I didn't talk to my mum but rang John up before going to meet him. I ended up very fond of him. But thank God he didn't stick around when I was born. Fatherhood is a job and John would have been hopeless. He was a New Age hippy – he would have been forever off dropping acid on Dartmoor.
"That's what I said to Richard. Anyone can be a become a father, actually being one is a different thing. You have to earn the position."
Did Richard – who Jason firmly calls "dad"- know?
"He says he never did – he's a very good man - but I'm not sure I believe him. I waited until I was 40 before asking him. He's not a man who wants to talk about stuff much. By common consent, we decided we'd never talk about it again. And we haven't."
But there was, it seems, resolution for them all. John, 76, moved in with Jason five years ago, just before his death.
"He'd lived in Notting Hill all his life but he came down here to die in our house. There was no one else. And we loved him. He was a very charismatic, interesting guy.
"He'd come in, sit quietly, and within an hour, you'd discover everyone in the room was sitting round him, listening. He was magnetic."
Richard – now 79 - went on to marry a German costumier, ten years his junior. They live together still in a vast Thameside warehouse in Rotherhithe.
"Christina's incredibly strong-willed. She wears nothing but V-neck blue sweaters and blue cords, and works 18 hours a day. She and Daisy didn't really get on. My sister saw her as a usurper. But Christina did make us a home."
Joe got his come-uppance and Jocasta ultimately found happiness back in London with 75-year-old Sir Richard, before dying last year, succumbing to pancreatic cancer.
Jason has four children with Kate – a wild-haired academic he met at Cambridge. They age from 11 to 20 and are clearly as dauntingly clever as their parents. I quickly lose track of who's going to Oxford, who's going to Cambridge.
Their magnificently dishevelled manor house, tucked away behind Burton Bradstock, shrieks of shambolic and happy family life.
Books and prints and cheques and musical instruments – a sax, a guitar - dot every inch of table, floor and wall. The rambling kitchen is a posh version of Withnail & I's. Jason has to go digging in the overflowing butler's sink for clean coffee mugs.
But I've seldom envied a man more. He and his family moved from Sussex to Dorset eight years ago: "There was always this odd, Dorset pull."
Best of all, he is utterly without rancour.
"You just do your own thing, you can't always refer your situation in life back to your parents. Yes, my mother had a wild youth but she always had a tenor for doing things at the right time. In the 60s, she embraced the Swinging Sixties, a film-making husband and all that. As the 70s dawned, she was living in Dorset, making nettle soup and soaking beans. Then, as an 80s icon, she moved back to London to teach people how to put colour in their lives.
"Finally, she decided she wanted to be more settled and live in a nice house in a nice part of town. Once she spent time with Richard MacCormac, she realised that stability was something she wanted, after all. She was tired of living pillar to post."
Jocasta died, aged 78, at home, surrounded by her children. The end, when it came, was blessedly quick.
"One minute, she was saying 'I feel a bit funny'. Then, she crashed and six weeks later, it was over. We brought her home from hospital – there was nothing else they could do – and put her in bed in the sitting room downstairs as she faded away to skin and bone.
"But she was incredibly brave, fantastically cool. She just said: 'Well, it's fate'. Then she just got on with it. We had one final moment. She told me 'It's all about beauty, beauty is truth'. I think she was actually thinking of her own mother's funeral, which was grim – pouring with rain, dark coats. She wanted her death to be something lovely.
"Beauty mattered to her. Why waste your time with things that are ugly, a room that's depressing or food that's crap? She never wanted to sit around and mope.
"I squeezed her tiny, sparrow-like hand and, that night, I slept on the sofa, thinking she'd be dead in the morning. But she opened her eyes and said 'Darling, I'd like a glass of water'.
"That was Friday morning and, on Saturday night, she died."
Standing in the garden, Jason says: "Mum always loved Dorset, and it is amazing here. On a still night you can hear the pebbles growling on Chesil Beach. There is, I think, plenty of material for future books."
And with that he cheerily waves me goodbye and retreats to his glorious, book-lined summerhouse.


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Taking a week OFF Facebook can actually increase your happiness
Lately, we've been hearing a lot about the pitfalls of social media, but now, science has confirmed it: staying away from the "reality distorting" Facebook is likely to increase your happiness.
A study carried out in Denmark has revealed that even as little as a week away from the social networking site could increase your satisfaction in life and significantly reduce stress.
Researchers from the Danish Happiness Research Institute (yep, that's actually a place) divided a group of 1,095 people, aged between 16-76, into two groups.
One group was given their usual access to the site, and the other shut down their profiles for a week.
"Facebook is a constant bombardment of everyone else's great news, but many of us look out of the window and see grey skies and rain," Meik Wiking, CEO of the Institute, tells The Guardian.
"This makes the Facebook world, where everyone's showing their best side, seem even more distortedly bright by contrast, so we wanted to see what happened when users took a break."
Before and after the experiment took place, the participants were asked to rate their life satisfaction out of ten. They also had to comment on how active their social lives were, how good their day-to-day concentration was and if they compared themselves to others.
The resulting study, The Facebook Experiment: Does social media affect the quality of our lives? revealed that those who abstained from the social network had a higher life appreciation, a richer social life and fewer difficulties when concentrating.
Sophie Anne Dornoy, 35, took part in the study and said: "My to-do list was getting done faster than normal as I spent my time more productively. I also felt a sort of calmness from not being confronted by Facebook all the time."
"It felt good to know that the world doesn't end without Facebook and that people are still able to reach you," she says.
Twitter has just replaced its favourite button for a LIKE button
Twitter has just announced that it is changing its favourite button for a like button – but many Twitter users have reacted badly to it online.
Since the social network began, it has used a favourite button, which we have all become VERY used to.
Favouriting a tweet could mean, "I find this tweet funny" or "this is good, but not good enough to retweet." It could also mean "I acknowledge your tweet, but can't be bothered to reply" or "I want to end this conversation, but on a positive note!" Favouriting is also a great way to bookmark something you want to read later in the day.
Now, however, we won't know what to do if any of the above situation arise. #Unlike.
And since Twitter announced the change, the Internet has been going MENTAL. Here are some users that haven't taken the news very well…
favourite button
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Snap happy! Snapchat is voted the most cheerful social network
In this day and age, we LOVE our social networks, but one of them trumps all others.
In a new study published in the journal Information, Communication & Society, has found that Snapchat makes people happier than any other social network.
Researchers from the University of Michigan enlisted 154 college students who used smartphones and texted them six times a day over a two-week period.
When the students received the text, they had to answer a survey about their latest social interactions – like who they were with, how supportive they were and how they felt at that moment.
The researchers found that when participants had Snapchat interactions, they felt more positive emotions than when they had Facebook interactions.
They also found that the students paid more attention to Snapchat messages.
The reason might be because people don't feel as insecure about how to present themselves on Snapchat, since the images disappear in a couple of seconds.
But in general, the participants found that Snapchat is similar to face-to-face interactions with a friend, since the messages come day-to-day and not recorded for anyone else to see.


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Q: Using Freshdesk API with powershell I created a powershell form for users to submit ticket requests. I'm trying to have it send to freshdesk using their api. Below is the following code I've pieced together from various forums. I keep getting the error "request body has invalid json format"
Update: Better view of code Simple Helpdesk Form
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
function sendRequest()
{
# API Key
$FDApiKey="apikey"
#################################################

# Force TLS1.2 as Powershell defaults to TLS 1.0 and Freshdesk will fail
connections
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol =
[Net.SecurityProtocolType]::TLS12

# Prep
$pair = "$($FDApiKey):$($FDApiKey)"
$bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair)
$base64 = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes)
$basicAuthValue = "Basic $base64"
$FDHeaders = @{ Authorization = $basicAuthValue }
##################################################

# The Doing part
#$FDBaseEndpointSummary =
"https://clasd.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/api/v2/tickets"
#$FDContactData = Invoke-RestMethod -uri $FDBaseEndpointSummary -Headers
$FDHeaders -Method Post -ContentType application/json

$ticketArgs = @{
  email = '$email.Text'
  subject = '$subject.Text'
  description = '$description.Text'
  status = '2'
  type = '$request.Text'
  priority = '1'
  }
 $json =
     @{email='$email.Text';description='$description.Text'
    ;subject='$subject.Text';status='2';priority='1';type='$request.Text'}
    Invoke-WebRequest -uri 'https://clasd.freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets'
   -Headers $FDHeaders -Method Post -Body $json -ContentType
    application/json
    #Invoke-WebRequest "https://clasd.freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets/" -
    Headers $FDHeaders  -ContentType "application/json" -Method Post
    -Body "
    { 'description':'$description.Text','email':'$email.Text',
    'subject':'$subject.Text','type':'$request.Text','priority':'1',
    'status':'2' }"
    #Invoke-WebRequest -Headers $FDHeaders
     -ContentType "application/json" -Body "{
     'description':'$description.Text','email':'$email.Text',
     'subject':'$subject.Text','type':'$request.Text','priority':'1',
     'status':'2' }" -method Post
     'https://clasd.freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets/'
      }

A: Here is what I meant see script at end of thread.
Is the api you are trying to call: https://developers.freshdesk.com/api/#ticket_attributes
function sendRequest()
{
# API Key
$FDApiKey="apikey"
#################################################

# Force TLS1.2 as Powershell defaults to TLS 1.0 and Freshdesk will fail
connections
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol =
[Net.SecurityProtocolType]::TLS12

# Prep
$pair = "$($FDApiKey):$($FDApiKey)"
$bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair)
$base64 = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes)
$basicAuthValue = "Basic $base64"
$FDHeaders = @{ Authorization = $basicAuthValue }
##################################################

# The Doing part
#$FDBaseEndpointSummary =
"https://clasd.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/api/v2/tickets"
#$FDContactData = Invoke-RestMethod -uri $FDBaseEndpointSummary -Headers $FDHeaders -Method Post -ContentType application/json

$ticketArgs = @{
  email = "$(email.Text)"
  subject = "$(subject.Text)"
  description = "$(description.Text)"
  status = '2'
  type = "$($request.Text)"
  priority = '1'
  }
 $json =
     @{email="$(email.Text)";description="$(description.Text)"
    ;subject="$(subject.Text)";status='2';priority='1';type="$($request.Text)"}

$jasonPayload = $json | convertto-json

Invoke-WebRequest -uri 'https://clasd.freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets' -Headers $FDHeaders -Method Post -Body $jsonPayload -ContentType application/json

#Invoke-WebRequest "https://clasd.freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets/" -Headers $FDHeaders  -ContentType "application/json" -Method Post -Body "{ 'description':"$(description.Text)",'email':"$(email.Text)",'subject':"$(subject.Text)",'type':'$request.Text','priority':'1','status':'2' }"

#Invoke-WebRequest -Headers $FDHeaders -ContentType "application/json" -Body "{'description':"$(description.Text)",'email':"$(email.Text)",'subject':"$(subject.Text)",'type':'$request.Text','priority':'1','status':'2' }" -method Post 'https://clasd.freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets/'
}

A: I was able to solve everything by adding a -Body ($Body | ConvertTo-JSON)
$Body = @{
description = $description.Text
email = $email.Text
subject = $subject.Text
type = $request.Text
priority = 1
status = 2
}

Invoke-WebRequest "https://clasd.freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets/" -Headers
$FDHeaders  -ContentType "application/json" -Method Post -Body ($Body |
ConvertTo-JSON)


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Прошлогодний чемпион — Роджер Федерер — защитил свой титул.

Посев
Все сеянные участники начинают турнир со второго раунда.

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  Ллейтон Хьюитт (Финал)
  Энди Роддик (Полуфинал)
  Марат Сафин (Третий раунд)
  Гильермо Кориа (Четвёртый раунд)
  Тим Хенмен (Четвертьфинал)
  Карлос Мойя (Четвертьфинал)
  Гастон Гаудио (Третий раунд)
  Андре Агасси (Четвертьфинал, отказ)
  Давид Налбандян (Четвёртый раунд)
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  Томми Робредо (Четвёртый раунд)
  Иван Любичич (Четвёртый раунд)
  Гильермо Каньяс (Полуфинал)
  Николай Давыденко (Второй раунд)
  Томми Хаас ''(Второй раунд)

<li>  Фернандо Гонсалес (Четвёртый раунд)
<li>  Михаил Южный (Второй раунд)
<li>  Марио Анчич (Второй раунд)
<li>  Винсент Спейди (Второй раунд)
<li>  Андрей Павел (Третий раунд)
<li>  Хуан Игнасио Чела (Третий раунд)
<li>  Томас Юханссон (Второй раунд)
<li>  Фелисиано Лопес (Третий раунд)
<li>  Радек Штепанек (Второй раунд)
<li>  Иржи Новак (Третий раунд)
<li>  Себастьян Грожан (Второй раунд)
<li>  Доминик Хрбаты (Второй раунд)
<li>  Николас Кифер (Четвертьфинал)
<li>  Тейлор Дент (Четвёртый раунд, отказ)<li>  Парадорн Шричапан (Третий раунд)
<li>  Юрген Мельцер ''(Третий раунд)

Основной турнир

Финальные раунды

Первые раунды

Секция 1

Секция 2

Секция 3

Секция 4

Секция 5

Секция 6

Секция 7

Секция 8

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It's common wisdom nowadays that if you want to succeed in business-to-business sales you need to become a trusted adviser, not just a salesperson.
And similarly that if you want to marry a prince you should hang out at the Slipp Inn in Sydney, where Crown Princess Mary of Denmark met Prince Frederik. Or you can kiss a lot of frogs, of course.
Back in the real world, it's true that a few rare salespeople who have extensive business experience and appropriate gravitas can position themselves as trusted advisers, just as it's true that a lucky Tasmanian can meet a prince in a pub. But it's not something you want to hang your hat on.
Why? Imagine, for a moment, that you're a senior executive (perhaps you are) and that salespeople want to sell you stuff. In fact, lots and lots of salespeople want to sell you lots and lots of stuff. And they all want to be your trusted adviser.
Which of them – people you haven't even met yet – are you going to trust to advise you? Assuming you're even prepared to give at least some of them the opportunity to earn your trust, how long will it take and what do they have to do?
Do you automatically trust everyone you meet? (If you do, I have this lovely Opera House you might like). Even if you do, how much do you trust them to advise you on significant business issues?
Not only does it take a long time to gain most people's trust, there are different kinds of trust. You might absolutely trust that your spouse or your parents love you but you may not trust them to advise you on your business strategy.
So if you're a salesperson trying to position yourself as a trusted adviser, ask yourself why your prospects should instantly trust you, rather than their colleagues, friends, existing suppliers, directors or in-house experts. And why should they choose you, rather than all the other sales people who also want to be their trusted advisers?
Of course, with time, it's possible to establish credibility and build trust. If you consistently do what you say you'll do, if you show you understand your prospect's business issues from their perspective, if you provide relevant and useful information, if you show you know what you're talking about and behave with respect like a true professional, then you can develop a trusted relationship. In time.
Trust needs to be earned and you need to have a strategy to gain access before you even get the opportunity to earn it. You can eventually become a trusted adviser but you need to put in the hard yards to have your advice taken into consideration – alongside all the other people the prospect trusts, of course.
This is and always has been the essence of a good salesperson – understanding the customer and doing your best to help them achieve their objectives – so it's a worthy goal. But it's nothing new and it's no panacea.
So if your strategy is to say you're a trusted adviser but you don't do what's necessary to earn the title, you're probably better off kissing frogs.
At least that would differentiate you from all your competitors who are also busy telling people they are trusted advisers.
Please read the next five paragraphs very carefully – it may help both of us.
The way articles like this get an audience is when the people who read them "like" them, comment on them and/or share them. #LinkedIn measures the impact of an article by engagement – i.e. the number of readers who take the time to like, comment and/or share.
And the more people who do it, the higher LinkedIn rates it, the more they feature it and the more people who see it, with (hopefully) a snowball effect.
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Q: Booting encrypted disk kernel error: Cannot initialize device-mapper I have Ubuntu 15.04 with a default full disk encryption installed on my chromebook Pixel with linux-samus kernel patch and everything is working fine. I've just tried compiling a newer version of the kernel (4.1), but when I'm trying to boot it I'm getting an error where I would normally enter the disk encryption password:
Cannot initialize device-mapper. Is dm_mod kernel module loaded?

I'm guessing something is missing in kernel config, any idea what that is? This is the kernel config file.

A: The Device Mapper driver is missing. Run make nconfig or make menuconfig:
    Device Drivers  --->
    [*] Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)  --->
        <*>   Device mapper support

and recompile your kernel.


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Land At The Close, High Etherley, Bishop Auckland, DL14
Fantastic opportunity to purchase a plot of land in a popular residential area.
LocationThe village of Low Etherley lies three miles west of Bishop Auckland Town Centre. The property is accessed from the B8282 which runs through the village, just of the A68. The village benefits from local amenities and frequent bus services to nearby towns and villages.
DescriptionThe parcel of land extends to 437 metres square and is largely rectangular in shape. The plot currently consists of a single story garage building and gardening land. Subject to planning the land would suit a small residential self-build development. Please speak to our team regarding various options.
Surrounding properties and land are available under separate negotiation please speak to our team regarding further details. Town PlanningInterested parties must satisfy themselves that their intended scheme is acceptable, by speaking with Durham County Council (Tel 03000 26 0000).
TenureThe property is available on a freehold basis with vacant possession. VAT Legal CostsWe are informed that the property is not registered for VAT.
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ServicesWe understand the mains services are located within close proximity to the site, but urge interested parties to make their own enquiries with the various utility companies. OffersThe property is offered for sale via the sole selling agent Reeds Rains Bishop Auckland
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Two researchers hope to use cannabis to 'temporarily close the doors' on coronavirus
By Tommy Flemm 2 years ago
Canadian researchers Olga and Igor Kovalchuk have been developing and testing novel cannabis strains for years, mostly to examine the strains' efficacy to combat cancer and inflammation.
Now, they've turned their focus to COVID-19, after preclinical research showed their strains might make it more difficult for the virus to enter human cells.
As the pandemic began to unfold, and lockdown orders went into place, Olga Kovalchuk and her husband Igor wondered how their cannabis strains might interact with COVID-19. "Let's take a look whether or not any of our cannabis extracts affect any of the gene proteins that may be involved in COVID-19 disease," Kovalchuk recalled asking.
The duo suspected their extracts might affect the ACE2 receptor, a gateway through which the virus enters and threatens human cells. "We looked through the literature and said 'this looks very similar to SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome], so it probably enters in a similar way,'" Kovalchuk said.
A scientific paper later confirmed their suspicions, which sent the two researchers combing through a mountain of data they had collected on their 1,500 cannabis strains.
They identified high CBD concentration extracts that showed to decrease the level of ACE2 gene expression, and ACE2 protein in artificial human cell models taken from the lining of the intestines, lungs, and mouth. Evidence of the decrease meant that the extracts could have been blocking the receptors through which COVID-19 enters.
"If you think about our body as a house with a hundred doors and this ACE2 receptor being a doorway for the virus, it attaches to it, the receptor kind of brings it in," Kovalchuk explained. The method does not target the virus itself, she said, but rather the pathway it uses to enter the cell.
"When we found that extracts can modulate the levels [of ACE2 receptors] we thought this could be used for prevention," she added. "If we temporarily close these doors then there will be less virus that enters over a period of time."
'This is what we are hoping for'
In this Friday, May 8, 2020 photo shows a mature marijuana plant flowering prior to harvest under artificial lights at Loving Kindness Farms in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
If the theory proves out, Kovalchuk envisions that cannabis strain extract could be manufactured into medical formulations for prevention and treatment. One such use could potentially block the virus from entering human cells in healthy individuals.
Another possibility is that it could prevent the virus from propagating, once it has already invaded a person's system. Still, the preclinical hypothesis needs to undergo rigorous, randomized, controlled trials, Kovalchuk said.
"This is what we are very much hoping for," she said, speaking about her goal to find funding for the trials, which can run into the tens of millions of dollars. A 2018 study conducted by Johns Hopkins and published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that new drugs approved by the FDA had clinical trials with a median cost of $19 million.
However, because cannabis has already been approved for medical use by health authorities around the world Kovalchuk sees an easier path to get trials off the ground. And, with government regulatory hurdles temporarily relaxed to spur innovative vaccines and treatments for the virus, Kovalchuk hopes that trials can get underway, quickly.
Ultimately, the Kovalchuks said if the extracts do show medicinal promise, they want it to be cost effective for everyone.
"We don't want this product to cost $600," she said. "We want something that any average Canadian, any average American can use."
Already, one of the duo's high CBD strains that has potential to block cell receptors from permitting COVID-19 to enter can be found in a recreational tincture, currently sold through a Canadian dispensary. Though they stress that there is no legal connection between the research on the extract contained in their paper and the recreational strain.
They also stress that cannabis, unlike penicillin, cannot be regarded as generic, or a one size fits all, medical treatment. In the course of their research, they said, they have found some strains appear to cause harmful cell conditions to become more acute, while others show no response at all.
The husband and wife team is also conducting a separate study now undergoing peer review. In preliminary research, five of their cannabis strains appeared to improve a respiratory inflammatory response known as a "cytokine storm" that in some COVID-19 cases is so severe that it leads to complications causing death.
They propose that some of their cannabis lines suppress, or downgrade two key drivers of the cytokine storm.
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Agee challenges Board members, churches to "step up"
FRESNO — Bill Agee is asking California Southern Baptists to step up.
The California Southern Baptist Convention executive director encouraged members of the CSBC Executive Board during their meeting in Fresno May 9-10 to be the core of The Step-Up Challenge — an initiative to increase by 20 percent key areas in church life: baptisms, evangelism, church planting, missions "going" and giving.
"For 80 years we've been a dependent convention" in the Southern Baptist Convention, Agee told Board members. "We got pretty used to that, so we don't really stand on our own. We appreciate the help, but I think it's time for California to stand on its own.
"Can we do it by ourselves? No, there's no way. Our state is a big mission field. But we can do more if we just do our part."
Agee is planning meetings throughout the state with leaders in all types of churches — large, small, ethnic; with men, women — "every walk of life in our Convention," he said.
"You guys are the key," he told Board members. "I can't really go out to the churches in the field and say, 'I need you to step up' if I don't have the confidence in knowing this Board has stepped up."
Agee said he is going to ask "our churches to step up in baptisms. We believe in evangelism — we have an evangelism team. 2020 is a great time to say we're going to have a 20 percent increase in baptisms.
"Do you think that is possible? I think it is!"
He said he plans to call for a special day in 2020 when every church has at least one baptism: May 31, which is Pentecost Sunday.
Agee also called for an increase in church planting support.
"There are places to be a part of church planting whether or not you're the 'mother church,'" he encouraged. "You can be a prayer partner, give financial support, provide space or people, or be a mentor pastor to some church planter who hasn't got anybody.
"We saw 70 church plants last year in California — 40 were ethnic, 30 were Anglo. Seventy is a lot! The 70 here in California accounts for 11 percent of all the church starts in North America and Canada last year."
Agee noted that a 20 percent increase "is going to take all of us."
He said he's also "going to ask churches to increase mission giving."
"We give 35 percent of what your churches give us to the national entities," Agee explained, along with 100 percent of the Lottie Moon Christmas and Annie Armstrong Easter offerings.
"We also have the California Mission Offering — that's money that stays in California to do California ministry. If there were a 20 percent increase in the California Mission Offering, that would be a record giving level.
"Is that possible? I believe it is!
"Much of what we do ministry wise is through that offering. That is a very, very important offering. And I need you guys to step up."
The fourth area of The Step-Up Challenge is increasing California churches' mission "going" by 20 percent.
"All across the globe, there are opportunities for mission," Agee said. "But the world has come to California!
"A 20 percent increase gives us something to be part of, something to get our arms around," he told Board members.
"You understand that a challenge like this requires fervent prayer, focused prayer," he added, noting the popular movement some years ago of praying "the prayer of Jabez" described in I Chronicles 4:9-10.
"You say, 'That's old school.' Yes, but it worked then, and it can work now!"
"We have 35 million people who don't know Jesus; we need 70,000 churches averaging 500 people a week just to take care of the people right now. There are 47,000 Southern Baptist churches in the US; we need 70,000 in California.
"The enormity of the challenge is there," Agee acknowledged. "We need God's presence to be with us. And we need God to keep us from the evil one.
"My prayer is that every church will pray the prayer of Jabez — that God will bless them, extend their territory, be with them, and that God will keep them from the evil one."


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Q: bit shift different result in similar programs Here is one program
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main()
{
 unsigned char a=0x80;
 printf("%d\n",a<<1);
}

The output of above is 256
Now here is one more version of above program
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main()
{
 unsigned char a=0x80;
  a=a<<1;
 printf("%d\n",a);
}

The output of above is
0

As far as my understanding is I am not able to see any difference between the two?
i.e. why is output coming 256 in first one and 0 in second program what is the difference in statements in both?

A: The expression a << 1 is of type int according to the C language's type-promotion rules. In the first program, you are taking this int, which now has the value 0x100, and passing it directly to printf(), which works as expected.
In the second program, your int is assigned to an unsigned char, which results in truncation of 0x100 to 0x00.

A: << promotes the result to an (unsigned) int, but in the second example, you force it back into an (unsigned) char where it overflows back to 0.

A: On your platform, unsigned char is only 8 bits wide, so a << 1 shifts the 1 out the left end when you assign it back to the narrow a. In the printf call, on the other hand, a is first promoted to an integer (which is wider than 8 bits on your platform) and thus the bit survives.

A: In the second case, a is only 8 bit long, 0x80 << 1 is 0x100 then cast to a char clips the top bit so becomes 0x00
When directly in the printf statement, it is looking for an int so it won't clip it...


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Walk with bases loaded in eighth inning gives Bourne 2-1 win against Cotuit
Story by Steve McCarthy
BOURNE – In a matchup of the Cape Cod Baseball League's top pitching teams, a low scoring game was not surprising. A game winning walk was not what the Bourne Braves expected to receive though in topping the Western Division leading Cotuit Kettleers 2-1 Monday at Doran Park.
Cotuit reliever Daniel Tillman (Florida Southern) intentionally walked the first batter he faced after replacing Mike Nesseth (Nebraska) with two outs in the eighth inning, as Bourne's Chris Wallace (Houston) was on second. He then lost battles with Zack MacPhee (Arizona State) and Scott Woodward (Coastal Carolina), allowing Wallace to score and break the 1-1 tie.
"We just had to keep battling," Bourne designated hitter Kyle Roller said. "It was a great pitching duel all day. Just to get things started and kind of build on it, and let everything happen for itself."
Nesseth (0-2) was saddled with the loss for Cotuit, as he allowed Wallace to reach on a single.
The Kettleers held a 1-0 lead after their half of the eighth inning, before Roller drilled a Nesseth offering to the warning track in left field that Cotuit's Zach Cone (Georgia) appeared to have a read on, but lost control of as he went crashing into the fence. Cone said his cleat got caught in the fence during the collision, forcing center fielder Jeff Rowland (Georgia Tech) to retrieve the ball and throw it in, but not before Roller was standing on third base with a one out triple. Roller scored two batters later on an RBI single by Wallace.
"I kind of wasn't sure if he'd caught it or not," Roller said. "But I just kept on running and slid into third."
Cotuit (7-5-1) scored the game's first run when Chris Bisson (Kentucky) rounded third base from second on a single by Zack Cox (Arkansas) and slid around the tag at home by Wallace, Bourne's catcher.
The Kettleers were relieved to not see Braves starting pitcher Bryan Morgado (Tennessee) come out of the dugout for a sixth inning of work. Morgado struck out 13 Cotuit batters in the first five innings, including 10 of the first 11 of the game. A third round pick in the 2009 MLB Draft by the Chicago White Sox, Morgado said he was restricted by an 80-90 pitch limit.
"I just felt like I had all of my stuff going," Morgado said. "It's just my second start so far, so they don't want to rush things. They want to take it slow, and as the season progresses I think I'll get more innings."
Stephen Harrold (1-0, UNC Wilmington) earned the win for Bourne. He replaced Kevin Munson (James Madison) after Munson walked Cotuit's Tony Plagman (Georgia Tech) to lead off the eighth inning. Cotuit pinch-runner B.J. Guinn (Cal-Berkeley) was left stranded on third base after advancing to second on a sac-bunt by Rico Noel, and to third on a pitch in the dirt by Harrold. Harrold recorded a strikeout and forced a groundout to end the game.
Week one Cape League Pitcher of the Week Eric Cantrell (George Washington) pitched three innings in relief of Morgado. He allowed Cotuit's lone run, and five of their six hits.
Cotuit starting pitcher Jake Buchanan (NC State) held his own in his first start since facing the Braves on June 15 in Cotuit. Buchanan threw six shutout innings, allowing five hits and struck out three. Left-hander Matt Grace (UCLA) allowed two singles and recorded the first out in the seventh inning, before Nesseth came in for an inning and one-third.
"(Buchanan) is a good pitcher," Roller said. "He's going to do great things on down the road. That was just the key- to get in their pen early, and try to get some runs off them guys."
Bourne (6-5-2) had 10 hits in the game, led by Woodward, who reached base safely in all four plate appearances, twice on base hits. Along with the walk in the eighth inning, he reached on an error in his first at bat. Woodward also had three stolen bases, and leads Bourne with eight on the season.
Cotuit will travel to Yarmouth-Dennis Tuesday for the first meeting of the season with the Red Sox. They will then play a make-up game against Y-D on Wednesday in Cotuit. Both games are scheduled for 5 p.m.


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Antique cars drive the imagination
By Karina Juodelyte-Moliboga
CLASSIC RIDES: The old limos in the collection are beautiful examples of the luxury of decades past, but you wouldn't want to have to park one in downtown Vilnius these days.
VILNIUS - With the summer heat now cranked up to full blast, most people are fleeing the baking asphalt of the city and heading for the relaxing cool of countryside rivers and lakes. But if you're still brave enough to spend some time in Vilnius, you can set aside a hot afternoon to visit the Litexpo Exhibition Center, where the antique automobile show, on through September 28, is a refreshing way to spend the day.
This is the private collection of Lithuania's most famous race driver Stasys Brundza, and it's now open to anyone interested in the evolution of cars. Even if you're not a real car enthusiast you'll still find something here to capture your imagination. For instance, seeing cars made a century ago will make you wonder how people managed to drive those contraptions, and the old limousines will have you pondering which rulers and presidents sat in their comfortable seats.
The Litexpo Exhibition Center hosts this collection of 52 unique old automobiles. It includes a lot of cars you won't see tooling around on the city streets these days like an old Cadillac, a Mercedes, a Lincoln, a Tatra and military trucks. There's even the Eva, a rare Lithuanian rally car, and a famous LADA 2105 VFTS handmade by Brundza and his colleagues. The number of items in the exhibition is still growing as 20 more cars will be added as soon as their reconstruction is complete.
The show's collection is insured for 2 million litas (580,000 euros), but its value is probably several times higher as there are a lot of one-of-a-kind pieces on display.
"It is a cultural heritage as important as architecture, art or music," says Brundza. Indeed where else could you see the car that might have taken Lithuania's inter-war president Antanas Smetona to his meetings, the Porche 911 that Brundza drove around the streets of Vilnius during Soviet times, or a huge Cadillac from 1912? This is a great way to see how cars evolved over the last century, find out more about automobile history, and generally get a glimpse of days gone by.
Apart from its intrinsic value, this exhibition actually represents a step towards the creation of an automobile museum in Vilnius. Until now private collectors have kept their treasured finds hidden away in garages, far from the eyes of the curious. However Brundza has come up with the idea to open up the inventories of Lithuanian collectors to the public. The automobile museum is still in the concept stage, but hopefully the government will make a decision by the end of this exhibit and soon the public will be able to marvel at more antique cars and other machines.
"The citizens could spend their free time in a technology park, the children could drive in a special autodrome and learn the rules of the road," said Brundza, sharing his vision.
And if there's anyone capable of making dreams into reality, it's Brundza. He started his career in 1963, won "Tour d'Europe" in 1974, and has been named Lithuania's "Racer of the Century." Then there's his car collecting hobby, which he started in 1981 by buying a Horch 853 made in 1937. And yes, you'll be able to see this car, standing among all the other 20th-century models in what's now a truly impressive collection.
Antique Automobile Exhibition
Litexpo Exhibition Center, Laisves 5
Entrance 8 litas (3 litas for students and retirees)
Open Wed - Fri, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat - Sun 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
www.litexpo.lt
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The Norquay Garden is an outdoor, interactive classroom where urban kids can grow plants, increase their environmental awareness and connect with nature. It's a place where teachers can go beyond theory and the classroom and demonstrate ecology, science, biology and chemistry in action. It is an opportunity to promote healthy living and allows the community to experience the thrill of coming together to nurturing living things.
A Native Plants Garden (established in 2007) featuring a variety of indigenous plants like Alpine Strawberries, Huckleberry, Jerusalem Artichoke, Lavender, Red Hot Poker, Red-Flowering Currant, Salal and Saskatoon Berry to mention just a few.
A collection of gardening tools and supplies for students.
The garden is a 100% volunteer run initiative.
• Provide more workshops for students and teachers on conservation, growing food and sustainability.
With dedicated enthusiasm and long-term commitment from the Norquay Community, the garden may even one day boast a Schoolyard Market Farm, a commercially producing educational farm on school land utilized as an outdoor classroom, like that at Vancouver Technical Secondary.
Making the garden bloom requires many hands and hearts working together. Helping out and participating in PAC fundraising initiatives like Pizza Lunch or purchasing Gift Certificates at Christmas or Purdy's chocolates at Easter all help the garden grow.
If you prefer a more hands on approach, we sure could use them! From watering, weeding, hauling to leading, the Norquay community can only reap what it sows. We are looking for volunteers to help water (especially in the summer), collaborate with and lead development initiatives. Please send an email, we'd be thrilled to hear from you!


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Talkspace Launches New Product Suite to Help Employers Build Emotional Intelligence and Mental Well-Being In and Out of the Workplace
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Talkspace, the leading provider of virtual behavioral health services, today announced the launch of Talkspace Self Guided, a suite of offerings for employers designed to help executives, managers, and teams prioritize and build emotional intelligence (EQ) and mental wellness in and out of the workplace. Packaged in a single smartphone app, Talkspace Self-Guided goes beyond mindfulness exercises to offer employees tried-and-true mental health training that can be accessed anonymously at any time, and can benefit their work and personal lives.
A recent study by Talkspace and The Harris Poll found that two out of every three employees considering leaving their jobs believed their employer had not followed through on early pandemic promises to focus on mental health. Talkspace Self-Guided employers allows to make mental health support more easily accessible to their workforce, so they can retain talent, improve interpersonal relationships between team members, and provide employees with the tools to build a healthy and fulfilling career. The app is built on the principles of attachment therapywhich looks at how a person's earliest bonds with their caregivers help them better understand their emotions as individuals, as parents, and as partners in a relationship.
"Most managers do a good job at hiring a competent, skilled staff. Where managers and supervisors often struggle is hiring for, and teaching, those soft skills that create EQ such as self awareness, motivation, embracing change, establishing boundaries and how to simply get along with others. As companies return to an in-office setting, Talkspace Self-Guided can help employees navigate change, refresh their interpersonal skills and learn new strategies that can drive a happier relationship with work," said Talkspace Chief Growth Officer Erin Boyd.
"The range of issues employees may be grappling with are not necessarily visible on the surface, especially as many continue struggling with the ongoing effects of the pandemic, and now, returning to the office," said Talkspace's Self-Guided Therapy Head Liz Colizza, LPC, NCC. "By offering courses and subject matter that ranges from stress management to self-awareness, and allowing employees to engage with it anonymously, on their own time, we are providing employers with practical, effective, and empowering solutions for their people."
Talkspace Self-Guided leverages the framework from its Lasting from Talkspace products, which have proven to be effective for individuals, couples and families. Among initial users of these solutions, 73% of individuals report greater self-awareness from just 20 minutes of use per day, 79% say it helped them parent more effectively, and 90% of couples who use self-guided features together report new relationship strengths. Talkspace brings this best-in-class product suite to organizations as a part of the Talkspace comprehensive mental health package.
Talkspace Self-Guided Mental Wellbeing Suite
The Talkspace Self-Guided app is available in the AppleApp Store and Google Play Store for plan-eligible employees to download and sign up for free with their employer-provided code. The app is also available to general consumers, including individuals, couples, and parents, on a monthly subscription basis looking to improve their overall wellness and empathy-building skills. Content and courses include:
● Talkspace Self-Guided Courses: 400+ self-guided therapy sessions, which are a proven blend of psychoeducation, reflections, exercises, and journaling. These sessions are approximately five minutes each and cover a wide variety of topics, from depression, to anxiety, to parenting, to relationship issues.
● Talkspace Workshops & Classes: 5-6 workshops and classes every week and 100+ on-demand classes, each guided by licensed therapists with anonymous group Q&A and personalized follow-ups. Upcoming classes in May of 2022 include: Finding Purpose and Passion, Taking Ownership of Your Career, Helping Teens with Perfectionism, Caring for a Kid with Depression, Navigating Work and Chronic Illness, Practicing Communication for Couples, and Recreating Your Identity After Kids.
● Talkspace DE&I Related Content: Content and live events designed to specifically address DE&I topics in the workplace. Specific workshops include Racial Trauma & Mental Health, Understanding Unconscious Bias, and Supporting Diversity in Gender Identities.
● Talkspace Daily Journal: Daily reflection prompts, sent via push notification to your smartphone, which help you journal about an important mental health topic for a few minutes per day.
● Talkspace Engagement Calendar: Annual calendar containing mental health checklists, mindfulness exercises, reflection prompts, worksheets, and live events.
Talkspace Self-Guided is available as an employer-sponsored benefit or can be purchased via a monthly subscription ($29.99/month).
About Talkspace
Talkspace is a leading virtual behavioral healthcare company enabled by a purpose-built technology platform. As a digital healthcare company, all care is delivered through an easy-to-use and encrypted web and mobile platform, consistent with HIPAA and state regulatory requirements.
Today, the need for care feels more urgent than ever. When seeking treatment, whether it's psychiatry or adolescent, individual or couples therapy, Talkspace offers treatment options for almost every need. With Talkspace, members can send their dedicated therapists text, video, and voice messages anytime, from anywhere, and engage in live video, audio, or chat sessions.
For more information about Talkspace commercial relationships, visit https://business.talkspace.com/. Learn more about online therapy, please visit https://www.talkspace.com/online-therapy/. To learn more about Talkspace Psychiatry, please visit https://www.talkspace.com/psychiatry.
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Domestic violence victims denied justice: state of Roraima
fails to investigate, prosecute abusers
The authorities in the Brazilian state of Roraima are failing to investigate or prosecute domestic violence cases, leaving women at further risk of abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The serious problems in Roraima, the state with the highest rate of killings of women in Brazil, reflect nationwide failures to provide victims of domestic violence with access to justice and protection.
Killings of women rose 139 percent from 2010 to 2015 in Roraima, reaching 11.4 homicides per 100,000 women that year, the latest for which there is data available. The national average is 4.4 killings per 100,000 women—already one of the highest in the world. Studies in Brazil and worldwide estimate that a large percentage of women who suffer violent deaths are killed by partners or former partners.
Only a quarter of women who suffer violence in Brazil report it, according to a February 2017 survey that does not provide state-by-state data. Human Rights Watch found in Roraima that when women do call police they face considerable barriers to having their cases heard. Military police told Human Rights Watch that, for lack of personnel, they do not respond to all emergency calls from women who say they are experiencing domestic violence. Other women are turned away at police stations. Some civil police officers in Boa Vista, the state´s capital, decline to register domestic violence complaints or to request protection orders. Instead, they direct victims to the single "women's police station" in the state – which specializes in crimes against women – even at times when that station is closed. Even when police receive their complaints, women must tell their story of abuse, including sexual abuse, in open reception areas, as there are no private rooms to take statements in any police station in the state.
Not a single civil police officer in Roraima receives training in how to handle domestic violence cases. Some police officers, when receiving women seeking protection orders, take statements so carelessly that judges lack the basic information they need to decide whether to issue the order. Civil police are unable to keep up with the volume of complaints they do receive. In Boa Vista, the police have failed to do investigative work on a backlog of 8,400 domestic violence complaints.
(Human Rights Watch. www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/21/ brazil-domestic-violence-victims-denied-justice. Adaptado)
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