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Top 12 Geek Movies of 2015
We countdown the 12 best movie moments of the year for genres, franchises, and just all around geeky big screen entertainments.
By David Crow | December 22, 2015 |
For millions of geeks around the world, Christmas has already come with Star Wars: The Force Awakens now in theaters. Oh sure, the tree, family, and good cheer for your fellow man is important too, but knowing that the most recent Star Wars flick is not a prequel trainwreck surely puts a little spring in your step, and gives us all the ability to say hello to everyone we meet.
The seismic blockbuster capped off another year in genre and franchise entertainment where movies big and small shined brightly upon the geek. We saw, in addition to new Jedi, the return of InGen's genetically spliced dinosaur theme park, Daniel Craig's potentially final performance as James Bond 007, the Avengers assemble for the funniest Marvel superhero battle yet (at least until Ant-Man), and so much more.
Still, some of these films simply have risen above the rest. And having already given our picks for the 10 Best Movies of 2015, we've decided to throw some love to genre enthusiasts' finest 2015 hours at the movies… enjoy!
12. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
The other major blockbuster of this holiday season is also one of 2015's best franchise efforts. Offering a somber and shockingly downbeat conclusion to the popular Hunger Games saga, Mockingjay – Part 2 ends not with a triumphant rebel (or "resistance") assault on the bad guys, but in a fog of moral ambiguity and wartime trauma.
At the center of this subversive finale is Jennifer Lawrence providing the finest of her four performances as Katniss Everdeen, the Girl on Fire. And as the revolution scorches everything she ever touched or fought for, she will literally set aflame before she finally tries to end a cycle of violence via political assassination and a call to anarchy. It's a tremendous moment that, along with Donald Sutherland's haunting final cackle of manipulation as the wonderfully vile President Snow, elevates The Hunger Games franchise into one of the sharpest and most unsettling blockbuster entertainments ever to open in a multiplex.
11. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Forget about Ernst Stavro Blofeld's childhood trolling of 007, because Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt by far had more fun in this straightforward and winning spy adventure. Like James, Ethan goes to battle with a secret organization that poses as a global threat, but unlike his MI6 counterpart, Hunt never forgets to let his audience enjoy the ride.
From shots of Cruise really hanging onto planes during take-off to a wonderfully taut and playful Night at the Opera sequence with Simon Pegg getting in on the action, everything about Christopher McQuarrie's screenplay and direction hits the mark, giving us the best Mission: Impossible film since 1996. And Rebecca Ferguson as Ethan's Casablanca contact, Ilsa Faust, is worth far more than a hill of beans; in fact, she could carry her own spy movie after Rogue Nation, and we'd be all the happier for it.
10. Kingsman: The Secret Service
Yet, there was one other spy movie from 2015 that saved the world from the doldrums of early winter schlock while keeping its tongue firmly in its cheek. Proving once again that he is often the most underestimated genre director in any calendar year, Matthew Vaughn knocked moviegoers' socks off with this gonzo and painfully English espionage action-comedy that dialed everything up to 11.
A throwback to the days when 007 had a Roger Moore twinkle in his eye, and a pun on his lips, Kingsman plays like an ultra-violent late '60s/1970s Bond film while also joyfully tipping its hat to The Avengers, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Ipcress File, and probably plenty more that I missed. Colin Firth has never looked so amused as he is as this droll, erudite, gentleman superspy that even in his death throes can still spare the world from what appeared to be about a hundred or so potential Trump voters in that church. This movie also marks the star-making turn for Taron Egerton.
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9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Undoubtedly, placing this film anywhere lower than the number one spot on this list is sacrilege to some. But please consider for a moment how much higher this is than the prequels would have placed in their respective years, and all of a sudden it looks like stunning progress!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is clearly the biggest film of the year and is in many respects a great success for director J.J. Abrams, who capitalized on a multigenerational sense of nostalgia to craft a rollicking throwback to adventure thrillers from a more innocent, earnest era in pop culture. He also superbly casts a new generation of characters with Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, and especially Adam Driver as Kylo Ren (the less said about Snoke, the better).
Yet, the film is perhaps fueled by too much nostalgia at times. In its attempts to recapture the magic of the original Star Wars, The Force Awakens often rushes and fumbles through the same narrative beats, particularly in the third act where an aerial fight to destroy a planet-sized not-a-Death-Star feels perfunctory, and the film ends not on the awe of grand mythmaking like the original trilogy, but on a TV scaled conflict with a final cliffhanger scene that would not be misplaced on Lost.
Nevertheless, despite its flaws, The Force Awakens is still a triumph of craftsmanship and transparent passion from all involved; it manifests a new cast of characters that are instantly endearing and rebuilds a galaxy that hasn't seen a good cinematic adventure since 1983. It really is a moviegoing experience that can feel out-of-this-world.
8. Creed
Still, when perfectly executed, the old ways sometimes remain the best. In that vein, Creed is a standalone reboot that also just so happens to be the most enjoyable Rocky sequel ever made. Fresh off their career-making collaboration with the searing Fruitvale Station, director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan unexpectedly resurrect this boxing franchise for at least one more shot at the franchise championship title.
Jordan ensures his movie star bonafides in the role of Adonis "Creed" Johnson, the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed who has something to prove to the world and to himself. And he does it by enlisting an aging Rocky Balboa. In the singular role that both made him a star and continues to prove his talent, Sylvester Stallone gives one of his finer turns as his lovable southpaw alter-ego. And the contrast between a Philly cruiser like Balboa and the well-off Adonis, who still has a chip on his shoulder, makes for an appropriately poignant and occasionally uplifting buddy film that goes the distance. It delivers nostalgia with a familiar formula while also standing on its own two feet.
7. The Martian
After the less than pleasing Prometheus, director Ridley Scott reclaims his title as the best science fiction director in the business by making space for The Martian on his genre mantelpiece next to Alien and Blade Runner. Indeed, this film's screenplay by Drew Goddard offers a kinetic adaptation of the Andy Weir novel and presents a film where science is not only a force for good and profound wisdom—but it's also fun!
Playing his second marooned astronaut in as many years, Matt Damon provides the perfect touch of pathos and levity as Mark Watney, creating an undeniable presence that overcomes his nightmare with cocksure charisma. Throw in some dazzlingly optimistic visuals and a huge supporting cast that includes great work from Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and all we're missing is a grooving disco soundtrack to be in geek heaven. Oh wait…
6. It Follows
As the best ghost story in years, It Follows is that rare horror movie that follows you out of the theater, into the parking lot, and eventually takes up permanent residency in your dreams. Director David Robert Mitchell conjures the personification of Death as an unstoppable, silent figure that stalks you until its icy embrace almost seems like a comforting release.
Relying on a dreamlike quality that evokes a 1980s horror Never Never Land, complete with a gnarly John Carpenter-inspired score by Rich Vreeland, Mitchell imagines a vampiric, breathing STD that hunts Maika Monroe with the relentlessness of the truck in Duel. Beyond the sexual implications, however, lies a far more frightening sense of existential dread made immediate… as well as a horror movie made an instant cult classic.
5. The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino's eighth film is a crackerjack of an entertainment for the right audience. A grand three-hour spectacle in presentation that's best seen in 70mm (and with an intermission), The Hateful Eight is also surprisingly low-key in its intimacy. Essentially a play between eight figures trapped in a mountain pass lodging during a blizzard, the picture moves like Stagecoach meets Reservoir Dogs when its disparate post-Civil War personalities come together… and then proceed to cast suspicion and death on one another as the murders pile up.
Perhaps the culmination of the "dialogue thriller" moments in recent Tarantino films like Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, Hateful Eight is a three-hour extension of their most suspenseful sequences that are created by way of amiable chitchat. But don't worry, the coming bloodbath is sure to be as inescapable as that falling snow.
4. The Revenant
Alejandro González Iñárritu has given us what might be the most brutal and original Western in recent memory. While the story of Hugh Glass, a particular favorite among survivalists, has been adapted to the screen before, never has it been something so hauntingly graceful or nightmarishly ferocious. Leonardo DiCaprio once again turns in a strong performance, but the real achievement here is that he conveys so much terror and righteous fury without hardly saying a word.
Silent for large swaths of its running time, The Revenant is a panoramic fantasia of the American West reimagined as a primordial Garden of snowy Eden—one that's untrodden by civilization, humanity, or all those damn shopping malls. In fact, the central conflict of the film—Hugh Glass nursing himself back to health after a grizzly bear mauling and seeking revenge on the man who left him for dead (Tom Hardy)—is the first wisp of our pettiness distilling this world's lethal beauty. And it is quite the hypnotic landscape indeed, even when it conjures a two-ton grizzly to slice away at DiCaprio in the most gruesome scene of the year.
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
Seventy-year-old George Miller shows off here by indicating that he's better than most action movie directors half his age. Mad Max: Fury Road is a work of art that that proves even explosions and car collisions can be a creative medium unto themselves, particularly when they're executed in-camera.
The biggest Mad Max film to date, Fury Road is all the more remarkable since Max is a supporting character to Charlize Theron's Furiosa, a kickass heroine on the same level as Sigourney Weaver's Ripley and Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor. Truly, this movie is so shiny and chrome that it wouldn't surprise me if Immortan Joe himself one day carries it through the gates of Valhalla.
2. Ex Machina
Alex Garland has written some of our favorite genre screenplays in recent years—28 Days Later, Sunshine, Dredd—so it is extremely gratifying to see him effortlessly transition to directing with this freshman effort that completely delivers. By revisiting the familiar concept of an AI "Singularity" being our undoing, Garland is able to mine a mainstay in science fiction tropes to encode a riveting contemplation about why that might not be such a bad thing.
Featuring a star-making turn by Alicia Vikander as Ava, a synthetic femme fatale, and some alpha scene-stealing work from Oscar Isaac as her Dr. Frankenstein styled creator, Ex Machina is a deep dive into the realm of techno-ethics, human self-awareness, sexual politics, and even neo noir nihilism. At times a possible feature length version of the Turing test opener from Blade Runner, this thing has cult classic written all over it.
1. Inside Out
After spending several years in the wilderness, Pixar reemerged into its default position of dominance in American animation with Inside Out, a monument to emotional manipulation. Indeed, Pixar cuts out the middleman by quantifying universal emotions in their purest form—such as they are found in a young girl's head when she is on the precipice of self-awareness.
The result is a staggering achievement and one of the year's very best films that is destined to be passed on for generations to come. Inside Out works wholly on two separate levels: one that requires the imagination of a child to appreciate it, and the other needing an adult's sophistication and sense of loss to be fully understood. This film also allows Peter Docter to make a memorial for the childhoods we all forget, as well as a hilarious and witty romp about the balance of comedy and tragedy in one's life. It even articulates concepts like depression and isolation in a way all ages can comprehend.
No matter your demographic, Inside Out is a film that works on all levels and can be celebrated by all moviegoing stripes, including the geeks.
So there is the list of the year's best geek movies. Agree? Disagree? Confident that we overlooked something marvelous? Let us know in the comment section below!
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One wouldn't have guessed that the Long Drivers European Tour's Italy Championship would be one of the most-anticipated and pivotal events at the beginning of the season, but the storylines of 2018 collided at Terre Dei Consoli in Rome last weekend.
Martin "The Beard" Borgmeier faced a slim 200 point deficit in the LDET rankings behind Robin "The Hungarian Hulk" Horvath after Horvath notched another 2018 win last month in his home country of Germany. The two have been exchanging wins seemingly all season long, leaving it up to anyone's guess at who'll be no.1 at the end of the year.
The Italy Championship quarter finals began with a number of familiar names and competitive matchups — and rain. Dewald Lubbe and Christo Pretorious went head-to-head in a tight South African showdown with Lubbe squeaking through to the semis 346/OB/346 to OB/360/344. Scotland's Chris Latta bested England's Tyler Dangerfield in another close match 356/388 to 335/332. Hope for a marquee match up between Horvath and Borgmeier in the semis held on the other side of the bracket for a while, but the number 1 and number 2 ranked players had to face off against Wales' Bryan Roberts and Belgium's Tanguy Marionex, respectively.
Roberts proved the spoiler, ousting the top-ranked Horvath with two 400+-yard bombs (406/403) which were too much for The Hulk's 390/388 showing to overcome. Horvath's exit would pave the way for The Beard to claim the no.1 spot in the 2018 LDET rankings, and despite the elements, he made quick work of Marionex 397/382 to 345/312 to advance to the semis.
After his impressive showing in the quarters, Roberts seemed poised to give Borgmeier a run for a spot in the finals, but The Beard survived a close matchup in the first semifinal, going 342/365 to Roberts' 340/353. Third ranked Lubbe struggled to find the grid a little bit, but so did Latta, and Lubbe's 360/OB/OB/332 was enough to advance him to the finals over Latta's OB/340/OB/330 effort. Roberts and Latta then went to battle for the 3rd podium position, with Roberts' 339/354 easily overtaking Latta's 293/326.
The question on everyone's mind heading into the big final was if Borgmeier could close on another victory and add to his outstanding 2018 season, and put himself at the top of the rankings. That soon proved to be an inevitability with The Beard's strong 352/344/357 showing in the final matchup, cruising past Lubbe for the title. Lubbe's second-place finish and 333/349/OB effort cemented his no.3 spot in the rankings as well.
Borgmeier, with 5300 points, now holds a 400-point lead over no.2 ranked Horvath. Lubbe sits in the no.3 ranking with 3600 points, and England's Jordan Brooks and Matt Nicolle round out the top-5 rankings (at 3500 and 2400 points, respectively).
Next on the LDET schedule is the very much anticipated and first-ever Nations Cup. Most certainly one of the season's marquee events, international teams will compete for glory at the Château de Taulane in La Martre, France, September 21st-22nd in a first-of-its-kind competition. The top-8 ranked LDET players after the Nation's Cup will be qualified for the Masters LDET Cup, which will be held Saturday, October 20th at Panorámica Golf in Spain.
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Q: calling a custom S3 method I'm asked to assign class TonnageData to an object Froud which is a data frame with info about ships. Then I have to write a C3 method for the new class.
The class is assigned to the object:
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[1] "TonnageData"

I have the method written (has to calculate mean and sd for Tonnage column by Power type):
 stats.TonnageData <- function(frd){
list(mean = by(frd$Tonnage, frd$Power, mean), standard_deviation = by(frd$Tonnage, frd$Power, sd))}

It calculates what I want, but when I call the method for my object this way:
 stats(Froud)

I get:
 Error in stats(Froud) : could not find function "stats"

It only works when given together with the class:
 stats.TonnageData(Froud)

Why is it? I did another exercise just last week where class and method were written the exact same way and the method works when called on its own.

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Call of Fire by Beth Cato
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July 31, 2017 by ITW
When an earthquake devastates San Francisco in an alternate 1906, the influx of geomantic energy nearly consumes Ingrid Carmichael. Bruised but alive, the young geomancer flees the city with her friends, Cy, Lee, and Fenris. She is desperate to escape Ambassador Blum, the cunning and dangerous bureaucrat who wants to use Ingrid's formidable powers to help the Unified Pacific—the confederation of the United States and Japan—achieve world domination. To stop them, Ingrid must learn more about the god-like magic she inherited from her estranged father—the man who set off the quake that obliterated San Francisco.
When Lee and Fenris are kidnapped in Portland, Ingrid and Cy are forced to ally themselves with another ambassador from the Unified Pacific: the powerful and mysterious Theodore Roosevelt. But even TR's influence may not be enough to save them when they reach Seattle, where the magnificent peak of Mount Rainier looms. Discovering more about herself and her abilities, Ingrid is all too aware that she may prove to be the fuse to light the long-dormant volcano . . . and a war that will sweep the world.
Author Beth Cato spent some time with The Big Thrill discussing her latest novel, CALL OF FIRE:
What do you hope readers will take away from this book?
An awareness that this horrific alternate history is based strongly on our own. I include a lengthy biography with each book in this series so that readers can dig deeper and learn more.
How does this book make a contribution to the genre?
It's a steampunk adventure that twists history at a time period that other authors haven't really explored. This is a 1906 where Japan and America have combined their military might to try to dominate the Asian mainland.
Was there anything new you discovered, or surprised you, as you wrote this book?
I was stunned at how well Theodore Roosevelt fit into this new version of history. He was a complex, charismatic, and brilliant man, one who must be regarded within the context of his time. He also left behind a wealth of material to inspire historical fiction authors.
Beth Cato hails from Hanford, California, but currently writes and bakes cookies in a lair west of Phoenix, Arizona. She shares the household with a hockey-loving husband, a numbers-obsessed son, and a cat the size of a canned ham.
She's the author of THE CLOCKWORK DAGGER (a 2015 Locus Award finalist for First Novel) and THE CLOCKWORK CROWN (an RT Reviewers' Choice Finalist) from Harper Voyager. Her novella WINGS OF SORROW AND BONE was a 2016 Nebula nominee. BREATH OF EARTH begins a new steampunk series set in an alternate history 1906 San Francisco.
To learn more about Beth, please visit her website and follow her on Twitter (@BethCato).
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There are two types of Kefir grains - milk kefir grains and water kefir grains. You will need to use Milk Kefir Grains for this recipe. This is such a great way to get beneficial probiotics from Kefir if you are Vegan or on a diet that does not allow for dairy.
Pour the coconut milk into a quart-sized mason jar and stir with a wooden spoon until it is even consistency. Leave about 2 inches of headroom.
If you choose to add the date or raw sugar, now is the time. Stir until it is well blended.
Once it is mixed, add in the grains.
Put the jar in the corner of your kitchen countertop or in a cupboard. Let it sit out of direct sunlight for approximately 18 to 24 hours at room temperature 70-80⁰F.
After 24 hours, remove the kefir grains.
Repeat the process for another batch.
*If using coconut milk from a carton, just know that the end product will be a lot thinner than regular milk kefir. That's normal.
**Please note that canned coconut milk comes separated in solid and liquid form (depending on the temperature of your home). Be sure to mix it very well before adding it to the mason jar with grains.
Milk kefir grains can be used to make coconut milk kefir, however, because kefir grains feed on lactose (milk sugars), it is important to have them in cow's milk every few batches so they can thrive.
Since there is little to no sugar in coconut milk, some folks think it would help the kefir grains create a more active probiotic drink if it has sugars to feed on. I have not noticed a difference either way, but if you want to give it a try, add a pitted date or 1 teaspoon of raw sugar and see if you get a fizzier beverage.


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Ana Birchall (ur. 30 sierpnia 1973 w Mizilu) – rumuńska polityk i prawniczka, parlamentarzystka, w 2017 minister delegowany ds. europejskich, od 2018 do 2019 wicepremier, w 2019 minister sprawiedliwości.

Życiorys
Jest absolwentką prawa na Uniwersytecie Bukareszteńskim z 1996. Kształciła się następnie w Yale Law School (wydziału prawa Uniwersytetu Yale), uzyskując magisterium (2000) i doktorat (2002). Przed wyjazdem do Stanów Zjednoczonych pracowała jako prawniczka, w latach 2002–2003 była adwokatem w firmie prawniczej White & Case. Po powrocie do Rumunii pełniła funkcję doradcy ministra spraw zagranicznych oraz senackiej komisji spraw zagranicznych. W 2005 została wykładowczynią na uczelni niepublicznej Universitatea Creștină Dimitrie Cantemir, zajmując się też praktyką prawniczą. Związana z grupą WEConnect International oraz z organizacją Vital Voices.

Zaangażowała się w działalność polityczną w ramach Partii Socjaldemokratycznej. Obejmowała różne funkcje w partyjnych strukturach, między innymi w 2012 została doradczynią przewodniczącego partii do spraw polityki zagranicznej, a w 2016 zastępczynią sekretarza generalnego PSD odpowiedzialną za stosunki międzynarodowe. W 2012 pełniła funkcję doradcy premiera Victora Ponty. W tym samym roku uzyskała mandat posłanki do Izby Deputowanych z okręgu Vaslui, który utrzymała również w wyborach w 2016.

W styczniu 2017 objęła stanowisko ministra delegowanego do spraw europejskich w rządzie Sorina Grindeanu. Funkcję tę pełniła do końca urzędowania tego gabinetu w czerwcu 2017. W styczniu 2018 została wicepremierem odpowiedzialnym za współpracę międzynarodową i realizację partnerstw strategicznych w rządzie Vioriki Dăncili. Od kwietnia 2019 pełniła obowiązki ministra sprawiedliwości, a w czerwcu tegoż roku otrzymała nominację na tę funkcję. Do lipca czasowo jeszcze pełniła obowiązki wicepremiera. Urzędowanie na stanowisku ministra zakończyła wraz z całym gabinetem w listopadzie 2019. W tym samym miesiącu została wykluczona z PSD.

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Position paper by Palestinian human rights organisations: The Law by Decree Amending the Law on the Judicial Authority and the Law by Decree on the Formation of a Transitional High Judicial Council
Translated: 29 July 2019
Published in Arabic: 24 July 2019[1]
The undersigned Palestinian human rights organisations view with deep concern the current status of, and patterns of interference with, the Palestinian judiciary and justice sector. The human rights organisations are further greatly concerned as to the violation of firmly established constitutional principles as enshrined under the Amended Basic Law. On 15 July 2019, the Palestinian President promulgated Law by Decree No. 16 of 2019 Amending the Law on the Judicial Authority and Law by Decree No. 17 of 2019 on the Formation of a Transitional High Judicial Council. Published in the Official Gazette, both recently adopted laws by decree reflect a dangerous shift undermining constitutional legitimacy, particularly the principles of the rule of law, the separation of powers, the foundations of judicial independence, and pillars of good governance. As a result, such a shift may strip fundamental rights and freedoms of their judicial protection, which require an independent judiciary, whose formation and functions are solely governed by law and the principle of legality.
Modern constitutional jurisprudence and legislation tends to view the independence of the judiciary as a key prerequisite for democratic constitutions. Providing a protective shield for public rights and freedoms and the principle of the rule of law, the judiciary is accorded the same status as the executive and legislative branches of Government. Accordingly, constitutions and laws must incorporate norms guaranteeing the requirements of judicial independence by laying the foundations for specific constitutional and legal regulations ensuring the protection of the independence of the judiciary both procedurally, in terms of its formation, and objectively in terms of its functioning. These matters are addressed under Articles 97, 98, 99, and 100 of the Palestinian Basic Law, which serves as the provisional Constitution.
Under the principle of the supremacy of the constitution, ordinary legislation must comply with, and may not violate, the object and purpose of constitutional laws. As such, the ordinary legislature, meaning the legislative power, must maintain the highest degree of vigilance in the law-making process. This principle is all the more relevant in the case of extraordinary legislation, namely laws by decree, which are promulgated while the Palestinian Legislative Council, the Parliament, is not in session and in cases of necessity, which cannot be delayed. Notably, laws by decree have the same power of law as ordinary legislation but are not considered laws as such. Rather, they constitute executive decrees that have the force of law. When it comes to the judiciary, there is a need for even greater vigilance, the Palestinian Basic Law regarding the judicial power as a constitutional matter, for which it has devoted a special and markedly different regulation compared with other matters.
The amendment to the Law on the Judicial Authority comes in light of the current crisis and the unprecedented conflict and polarisation within the Palestinian political system, with their serious implications on the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Palestine. The amendment also comes within the context of the continued deterioration in the human rights situation and the failure by the State of Palestine to abide by its international obligations following its accession to core human rights treaties, and in particular, the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which obliges States Parties to ensure the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. In addition, the recently adopted laws by decree on the judiciary are contrary to the 1985 United Nations (UN) Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, which reaffirm that judicial independence shall be guaranteed by the State, while they further violate the object of national constitutional principles guaranteeing judicial independence.
Having followed closely the amendment by the executive authority of the Law on the Judicial Authority, its dissolution of the High Judicial Council as well as all panels of the High Court and of the courts of appeals, and the formation of a Transitional High Judicial Council with broad and open-ended powers without legal safeguards or standards, the Palestinian human rights organisations here undersigned stress the following:
The amendment of the Law on the Judicial Authority is one of the constitutional matters for which a special regulation has been devoted by the constitutional legislator, in addition to different procedures from those applicable to ordinary laws. In fact, according to Article 100 of the Amended Basic Law, the amending authority must consult with the High Judicial Council with regard to draft laws relating to any matter concerning the judicial authority, including the Public Prosecution. However, this procedure was not followed in the promulgation of the recently adopted laws by decree on the judiciary, as reflected in both their preambles, which state that they are based on the recommendations of the National Justice Sector Development Committee, headed by the Chairman of the High Judicial Council, and as established by the executive authority. Accordingly, these laws by decree were not adopted following consultation with the High Judicial Council, as mandated by the abovementioned constitutional provision.
In Article 2(3), Law by Decree No. 17 of 2019 vests the Transitional High Judicial Council with broad powers, including the power to dismiss any judge upon a recommendation to the President. This amounts to a grave violation of the principle of the irremoveability of judges in cases other than those prescribed by the law, as guaranteed under Article 99(2) of the Basic Law and Article 27 of the Law on the Judicial Authority. The principle of the irremoveability of judges constitutes a key judicial guarantee for the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in addition to the rule of law. Additionally, once the Transitional High Judicial Council is in place, the power of removal jeopardises the continued exercise by judges of judicial office and undermines the solemn status of, and public confidence in, the judiciary, while it foreshadows an increase in authoritarian control, which is inconsistent with the principles of justice, integrity, and the role of the judiciary, for lacking in relevant safeguards.
Based on the broad sense and powers it provides, Law by Decree No. 17 of 2019 tasks the Transitional High Judicial Council with reforming and developing the judicial authority and the Public Prosecution, which extends, under Article 2(4), to developing draft legislation amending the Law on the Judicial Authority No. 1 of 2002 as amended and the Law on the Formation of Regular Courts No. 5 of 2001 as amended, in addition to any other set of laws relating to the judiciary. This power undermines the principle of popular sovereignty, in the sense that it seizes the role of Parliament – the representative of popular will – in enacting laws and regulations governing all societal matters, including society's interest and right to an independent and fair judiciary, whereas reform should not involve a violation of the Basic Law.
The Law on the Judicial Authority No. 1 of 2002 provided, in Article 81, that the President of the Palestinian Authority has the power, upon a recommendation by the Minister of Justice, to issue a decision on the formation of a Transitional High Judicial Council, only once, and within a maximum period of one year. This power was exercised by the President through Presidential Decree No. 11 of 2002. In addition, the formation of the High Judicial Council succeeding the Transitional Council must be subject to the Law on the Judicial Authority, and in particular, to the conditions of Article 37 thereof. As such, Law by Decree No. 17 of 2019, which stipulates the formation of a new Transitional High Judicial Council, violates the provisions of the Law on the Judicial Authority, while it is incompatible with the intention by the constitutional and ordinary legislators to grant the executive authority the power to intervene, only once, in the formation of the High Judicial Council and for the purpose of the initial establishment of a Transitional High Judicial Council, in order to prevent the executive from interfering in the affairs of the judiciary.
The Law on the Judicial Authority No. 1 of 2002 establishes a Judicial Inspection Department in accordance with Part II of Chapter Four and governs disciplinary accountability of judges, under Part IV of the same section. Recourse may be had to these provisions to hold judges to account for misconduct, while at the same time maintaining their right to defend themselves. As such, reform can take place without encroaching upon the rule of law. This explains why the judicial crisis is not a crisis of law, but instead arises from violations of the rule of law and the erosion of constitutional principles and values, the requirements of integrity and transparency, and the tenets of good governance.
Combined with the dissolution of the legislature, the ongoing deterioration in the judiciary and the executive is the result of the continued Palestinian political divide and its associated implications and the failure to comply with the provisions of the Law on the Judicial Authority. Rather than stemming from the Law on the Judicial Authority, the continued deterioration is also the result of attempts by the executive authority to seek domination over the judiciary and the justice sector as well as repeated violations, by the executive power itself, of the Palestinian Basic Law and constitutional norms.
Against this backdrop, the Palestinian human rights organisations here undersigned, based on their role and determination to promote respect for the principle of the rule of law, for public rights and freedoms, for the principle of the separation of powers, and for judicial independence, call for:
The repeal of Law by Decree No. 16 of 2019 Amending the Law on the Judicial Authority and Law by Decree No. 17 of 2019 on the Formation of a Transitional High Judicial Council, both of which violate the provisions of the Basic Law, the principles of the rule of law, the separation of powers, and judicial independence, and Palestine's international obligations, in particular those enshrined under the ICCPR and the UN Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary;
Compliance with the Law on the Judicial Authority and the principles of the rule of law and separation of powers in the relationship between the executive and the judiciary, an end to acts of interference by the executive authority and its agencies in judicial matters and the punishment thereof, the activation of the Judicial Inspection Department and the norms governing the disciplinary accountability of judges in carrying out any procedures aimed at addressing the misconduct of judges, while ensuring their right to defend themselves, as enshrined in the Law on the Judicial Authority No. 1 of 2002, and the provision of adequate resources to the judiciary to ensure that it can properly discharge its functions;
Giving priority to, and exerting all efforts, to put an end to the Palestinian political divide on the basis of a transitional justice programme, which addresses all damages resulting from the division, and working seriously towards rebuilding the Palestinian political system on democratic foundations based on constitutional principles and values, and in line with Palestine's international obligations;
The issuing of a presidential decree setting a date to hold presidential and legislative elections in all Palestinian Governorates, including Jerusalem, in pursuance of Article 26 of the Basic Law on the right to participate in political life;
Restructuring the judicial authority in the southern Governorates in compliance with the provisions of the Law on the Judicial Authority and uniting it with the judicial authority in the northern Governorates, including in safeguarding its independence, and revoking the Presidential Decision forming the Supreme Constitutional Court, for violating the law on the Court's formation;
An elected Palestinian Legislative Council to review all pieces of legislation, including laws by decrees enacted during the Palestinian political divide, for the purposes of approval, amendment or repeal, while preserving the legal rights established and consistent with the provisions of the law, and finalising the legislative consolidation process initiated by the first Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996;
An elected Palestinian Legislative Council to introduce legislative amendments protecting the structure and unity of the political system, while avoiding a relapse into a similar power struggle such as that of mid-2007; and
Ensuring that the amendments made include constitutional safeguards against overlapping powers between public authorities and the domination of one power over the other, to include a balance and integration of their functions, and to implement the international treaties to which Palestine has acceded within the Palestinian legal system, and to adopt all necessary policies and decisions to enforce these measures by all public authorities, institutions, and agencies.
Signatories to the position paper:
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights
Al-Haq – Law in the Service of Man
Defense for Children International – Palestine
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
[1] Al Mezan, "The Law by Decree Amending the Law on the Judicial Authority and the Law by Decree on the Formation of a Transitional High Judicial Council" [Arabic] (24 July 2019), available at: http://mezan.org/post/29024.
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Q: How to implement a "function" to be performed on an array in C# Coming from a non-OO background in Matlab, I'm looking to perform some of the operations I am used to in a best-practice manner for C#.
I have a class, which imports data from a source, and formats it into, amongst other things, an array of ints.  I am going to want to perform some operations on this array.  To keep it simple, lets say I want to take the average of all the values.  The way I see it, I have three options:

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*The array is part of MyClass, so I could extend MyClass to return the average of MyArray.double arrayAverage=MyClass.ArrayAve;

*I could develop a static class, giving me access to the average by double arrayAverage= zotty.arrayMath.average(MyArray);

*There is apparently some way in which I can inherit or interface so that I create a class specifically for performing such operations, which Id then be able to access by instantiating this new class, and passing it the array:
OperatorClass oc = new OperatorClass();
oc.data=MyClass.MyArray;
double arrayAverage = oc.ArrayAverage();
Extending the class seems risky, since it's also responsible for importing and formatting the data.  I could become quite large if I add all the data processing to it too, and it wouldn't be straightforward for other people to add-to & work on alongside me.
Future code will require more complex operations on the array, and I've no idea what they will be at the moment.  I will have use for some of the basic operations in future programs, which would be useful as part of the static class - the complex ones however would be redundant.
The separate class for performing the data processing allows the import/formatting class to remain isolated.  It can provide both general and specific functions, but at the cost of instantiating another variable in the code, which seems to me to be a bit untidy.
I'd appreciate some input if you have thoughts on the matter!

A: You can simply expose the array as IEnumerable<int> and then use any LINQ method, such as Average:
MyClass myObject = ...

double a = myObject.Data.Average();

where
class MyClass
{
    private int[] data;

    public IEnumerable<int> Data
    {
        get
        {
            return this.data;
        }
    }
}

A: A benefit in your first option (doing the work inside MyClass) is that you are not exposing the internal workings of the class to its clients.  Let's say at some point in the future you decide you need to change the collection from an array to a generic List.  Keeping the processing internal to the class means you will not need to hunt around and change other classes that have a tight dependency on how MyClass is implemented (like the OperatorClass)

A: I highly recommend picking up this book from Didier Besset on creating object oriented numerical methods.  The concepts have been very helpful to me over the years.  Even though the examples are in Java, the code transfers easily to C#.
-Scott

A: You could write extension methods to do the processing that you want.  This would put the processing in a different class from the data, and if your object hierarchy allows it will also allow the same methods to be used on other classes later.  Note that if you go this path, you will need to provide enough information publicly for the extension methods to work (since they're not a part of the class, they can't access private or protected members).


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Israel Crosses a Line as IDF Snipers Murder Unarmed Protesters in the Ghetto of Gaza
Posted on May 15, 2018 by Dave LIndorff
Hong Kong — Sitting in this peaceful city on the far side of world from the United States can put some things in perspective. For one thing, the local papers, both Chinese-language and the English-language South China Morning Post today featured front-page images of dead Palestinian protesters lying on the ground in Gaza. Accompanying articles focused on the latest day's slaughter of over 50 unarmed Palestinians (later upped to 61, six of them children) and the deliberate maiming, often with high-velocity fragmentation bullets that reportedly shatter bones and tear huge holes in their victims, of another 1000 or more, including children. Meanwhile, the international edition of the New York Timesfor two days following the shootings has yet to carry such a photo, and has yet to feature a leading article about the latest IDF massacre in Gaza. Instead page one featured a piece about the risks to Israel posed by the US opening of an Israeli embassy in the supposedly international city of Jerusalem.
The slaughter of protesters in Gaza was a minor point in that article.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong readers are elsewhere seeing and reading about the true horror of what has been happening in Gaza.
The killers and maimers there are soldiers of the Israeli army, all of them sitting safely on earthen berms themselves behind three rows of security fence inside of Gazan territory that keep the protesting Gazan "inmates" at bay, way too far off to even pose a threat by throwing stones. Yet the IDF snipers still kill and maim, often, as the viral videos below shows, laughing at the results or their target practice.
Video taken by an IDF soldier of a sniper shooting a Palestinian boy to death and then being cheered by his comrades.
This one-sided violence is not a case of self-defense, though the Israeli government ludicrously tries to claim that because Palestinians are throwing rocks or attempting to, David like, use slings to toss them further, and are flying burning kites over the border in hopes if igniting Israeli farmers' fields, they pose a serious threat. Nor is it a case of deterrence, as there's no way Gazans can push through the walls confining them and enter Israeli territory. It is purely a case of asserting authority and attempting to cow a captive population — for Gaza is in reality the world's largest prison camp, a place where food, medicine, fuel and even water are strictly controlled and limited by the prison owner and operator, Israel. Close to two million Gazans cannot leave this ghetto except with Israeli permission or by stealth — the former a rarity and the latter a deadly project. Recently the IDF even bombed a tunnel that was used to allow a few Gazans to slip into Egypt, and that had also allowed small amounts of scarce goods to be slipped into this hell-hole of Israeli's making.
This month, the people of Gaza have been engaged in an ongoing and deliberately unarmed protest near the wall that constrains them from leaving their prison. They have continued to do so even as IDF soldiers continue to shoot them with impunity using high-powered rifles, and also to fire tear gas cannisters and rubber bullets at them.
Let's be clear: What the IDF is engaged in is exactly what Nazi troops were doing in the early days of the notorious Warsaw Ghetto, when Jews from captured Poland were herded into a walled-off part of the city and left to starve in its confines. If the captive Jews in that ghetto in the early days of its existence had chosen to mass in protest at their wall, they would have been mowed down in the same way that the IDF is slaughtering Palestinian protesters. Instead they tried to survive as best as they could by paying to have food smuggled in to them. Only later, as their captivity dragged on and as the Nazi mass extermination campaign began, did some organize a heroic campaign of armed resistance against their captors.
True, Israel is not actively exterminating the Palestinians (though there are voices in this increasingly religio-fascist state who are calling for just such a thing, referring to Palestinians in the same dehumanizing terms — snakes and vermin — that the Nazis applied to Jews, and calling for their expulsion and even death). But Israel is doing the next worse thing to extermination: slow starvation and the crushing of the spirit. And what it is doing, including the killings, is the very thing that the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe under their control: penning them into ghettos and then starving them and denying them the basic essentials of life…and killing those who dare to protest. This is especially the case in Gaza, where the state of Israel has full control over all entry and egress to and from the little sliver of territory.
Israel, which at least in the US has lobbyists and supporters who tout it shamelessly and dishonestly as the Middle East's "only democracy," is not a democracy at all. It is an apartheid state in which people defined as Jews (not a religious term in this case, but a tribal one) are the rulers, and people whose roots go back in that same land at least as far and in many cases many generations farther than the Israelis who rule the land, have little or no power. Gazans, for example, are not Israeli citizens. They are stateless people — people who were themselves, or whose parents or grandparents were residents of Palestine before the founding of the state of Israel, and who were driven from their homes in the Nakhba 70 years ago by the Zionist newcomers, and herded into the Gaza ghetto, where they and their progeny remain trapped.
Israelis themselves bear the most guilt for this horror, but the United States bears plenty of the blame too. It's not just the Trump administration, which has sucked up to Israel's right-wing apartheid government shamelessly, most recently with the decision to relocate the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The US has since Isreal
s founding underwritten it, and has helped create this wretched situation. The US currently provides Israel, a first-world nation that could easily pay its own way, with a US taxpayer gift of $3.8 billion a year (a rate of support upped by nearly a third by President Obama) to buy arms and other military equipment. This steady and rising backing has made Israel the most powerful military nation in the Middle East and also the largest single recipient in the world of US military aid.
Israel, courtesy of the US taxpayer, boasts the largest fleet of F-16 fighter-bombers outside of the US Air Force. The country also gets top-of-the-line military equipment, not the "dumbed-down" equipment offered to other countries supplied with such US weapons.
When Israel commits war crimes and atrocities, whether it's the open-seas assault in on a peace flotilla of civilian ships sailing from Turkey to Gaza in 2010 which included the IDF murder of an unarmed Turkish-American youth (a US citizen), or the bombing of schools and hospitals in Gaza in 2014 or some other outrage, the US stays silent, or should there be an effort to pass a UN Security Resolution condemning Israel, as there was this week, the US vetoes it.
True to form, the US government has failed to condemn the current atrocities in Gaza — the killing of well over a hundred unarmed Gazans in the current crisis, and the deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists. In fact, by participating in a celebration of the opening of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem, even as Palestinians were being murdered 40 miles away, it effectively endorsed the mass killings.
The silence about these Israeli crimes in the US Congress, in the US media, and among the US public is deafening — indeed there is far more protest against them in Israel and more critical reporting in the Israeli media than in the US — and this silence is reminiscent, I'm sorry to say, of the US silence that greeted the vicious attacks on European Jews by the Nazis in the years before the actual start of World War II, not to mention the refusal of the US government to accept Jewish refugees from the Holocaust even after the war was underway.
Now it's not Jews who are the victims. Now it is the self-described Jewish State of Israel that is the victimizer, with Palestinians put in the position of the beleguered, harassed, brutalized and murdered Jews of Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
I'll conclude here with the comments of Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a veteran peace activist and staunch advocate for Palestinian rights who heads the Shalom Center in Philadelphia. I don't know how Rabbi Waskow would feel about my characterization of Israel's current government and its military as a kind of reincarnation of the Germany's Nazis, but his own description of of the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza under the Israeli jackboot makes the case powerfully by itself:
"While in Jerusalem the Netanyahu government and the Designated Daughter of his brother-in-tyranny Trump were drinking champagne to celebrate the new US embassy there, in Gaza, the Netanyahu government was getting drunk on blood.
"And poisoning the bloodstream of Torah as if, God forbid, its Teaching were filled with hatred and contempt.
"Why are thousands of Palestinians willing to risk death? Because especially in Gaza, death is preferable to despair. Despair over the blockade of Gazan goods from being sold abroad; the blockade preventing Gaza's fishermen from catching the sardines that swarm just outside the line drawn in the Mediterranean where Israelis sink the fishing boats of Gazans; the blockade that prevents the import of goods; the blockade that results in a devastated electrical power system; the blockade that has resulted in an unemployment rate of 40%, the highest in the world."
As for us in America, let's engage briefly in one of those Chomsky/Herman mental exercises. Imagine if you will what the reaction of the US government, the US corporate media, and the US public would be if Chinese soldiers of the PLA were, next week, to mow down hundreds of protesting Tibetans, killing hundreds and maiming thousands? Imagine what the reaction would be if Russian Red Army troops, rather than Moscow police, instead of simply arresting anti-Putin protestors on Red Square, massacred hundreds of them and maimed thousands. Imagine for that matter if French gendarmes, instead of busting up a refugee camp in the port of Calais, shot and killed hundreds and maimed thousands more. Even then, in the case of a US ally, I'm certain the outcry in America would be enormous, and yet in the case of Israel's violent, murderous repression of Gaza's protesters, we get mostly silence or at best a gentle tut-tutting.
That's not good enough, especially when the US is financing Israel's repressive military so lavishly.
The United States to be sure has much to answer for in its own dark history of Native American genocide and African-American slavery, and even today, as racial oppression, overt and indemic, continues against people of color. But what the US is doing in slavishly supporting Israel's brutal repression of Palestinians is beyond reprehensible. Even from a selfish point of view, in supporting Israel's obscene and criminal behavior towards its captive Palestinian population, the US is inviting the righteous fear and loathing of a huge part of the world. How can that support remotely be considered to be in America's interest? It's time to call Israel what it is — a repressive religio-fascist state as toxic and violative of acceptable international norms as was the apartheid white regime of South Africa.
Israelis who support such fascist behavior will have only themselves to blame when an inevitable day of reckoning comes, which it surely will someday. But for the US, as Israel's primary backer, the only answer is to cease being Israel's enabler, to cancel all military aid, and to demand an end to the repression of Palestinians.
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Netflix's Cobra Kai has become a huge TV sensation, and the show is upping the ante with its latest season. Ahead of the season three premiere on New Year's Day, POPSUGAR challenged stars Peyton List, Mary Mouser, Xolo Maridueña, and Jacob Bertrand to a game of "Who's Most Likely To" to learn a little bit more about the cast. And let's just say, they got really into it.
While they all agreed that Bertrand would be the most likely to have a reality show about his life . . .
. . . there was some disagreement about who would win a karate match.
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Q: For which $ 0 \leq p \leq \infty$ does it hold that $f \in W^{1, p}(U)$? I recently started the study of Sobolev spaces for my PDE class. In short, I still have quite some difficulties to handle the associated concepts as well as notation. In order to clear things up, I will go along and pose several related questions to the title question.
To start with the initial question, consider the $n$-dimensional unit ball around zero, i.e. $U = B(0,1)$ and the function $$f: U \to \mathbb{R},\; x \mapsto \log(x^2)$$ where $n \geq 2$. I now have to decide for which $p \in [0, \infty]$ $f$ lies in $W^{1, p}(U)$. We defined the space $W^{k, p}$ as $$\{f \in L^1_{loc}(U)\, \vert \, \partial^{\alpha} f \;\text{exists and lies in}\; L^p(U)\; \forall \lvert \alpha\rvert \leq k\}$$
In my case I then have to determine the $p$ for which $f \in L^1_{loc}(U)$ and for which the first partial derivative of $f$ lies in $L^p(U)$, right? Before I present my thoughts so far, one question related to the definition of $W^{k, p}$. What does $\lvert \alpha \rvert$ practically mean? I am aware that it is multiindex notation with $$\lvert \alpha \rvert = \alpha_1 + \ldots + \alpha_n$$ and I also found something here but it seems I cannot really apply it yet. Suppose that we have $$\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_1^2}, \frac{\partial^3}{\partial x_2^3}, \frac{\partial}{\partial x_3}$$ then we would have $\alpha_1 = 2, \alpha_2 = 3, \alpha_3 = 1$ and hence $\lvert \alpha \rvert = 6$, so we would need to look at $W^{6, p}$. I wonder whether this is right since we only look at the third partial derivative? Obviously, here lies some confusion for me.
Continuing with the exercise, $f$ is smooth when not near $0$ so, at least later, I would have to carve out some $\epsilon$-ball around zero and then somehow estimate it. Furthermore, I would think that $f \in L^1_{loc}(U)$ since, except for $0$ which has measure zero, $\int \lvert f\rvert < \infty$ over $U$. Also, I have $$\partial_{x_i} f = \frac{1}{x^2}{2x_i}$$ Finally, how to proceed next? I guess that I would somehow need to look at $$\int\limits_{U - B(0, \epsilon)} f\phi_{x_i} dx$$ where $\phi \in C_c^{\infty}(U)$ but how do I take the $\epsilon$-ball around zero into account and on then determine the $p \in [0, \infty]$?


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South Health Campus to open pediatric emergency care space
The South Health Campus is a big step closer to opening a pediatric emergency care space because of an anonymous donation of $3.9 million.
Kids covers their hands in paint and are joined by dignitaries for the announcement of a $3.9 million donation for a pediatric emergency care space at the South Health Campus in Calgary on Friday, May 31, 2019. Stephanie Babych, Postmedia. Calgary Herald
Stephanie Babych, Calgary Herald May 31, 2019
The campus has witnessed a growing need for a pediatric pod as one in every five patients in the emergency department is a child. The new care space, announced Friday, is expected to serve about 14,500 patients each year.
"This means so much. We have an amazing children's hospital here in Calgary already, but it is (about 35) kilometres away from this location," said Health Minister Tyler Shandro after the announcement. "Calgary is growing so much with so many young families here."
Instead of a ground breaking ceremony, children painted their handprint onto a canvas to announce the start of building the pod #yyc pic.twitter.com/4YHADL6xzi
— Stephanie Babych (@BabychStephanie) 31 May 2019
Matt Jones, MLA for Calgary-South East, said the pediatric pod is needed so that families don't have to drive across the city for the care they need, which can cause additional stress for children and parents.
"I have four kids but with three boys I have been here before, and they've had to use the themed rooms already here," said Jones. "It puts them at ease and when children are at ease, parents are at ease."
Mike Meldrum, Calgary Health Trust president and CEO, said the pod will be a customized and comfortable area in the six-year-old hospital, with nine beds and bright murals on the walls.
"We can see that different spaces like this make things better for the families that live here," said Meldrum. "We often hear from people who can look outside and see the hospital on the horizon. It's a comfort that great care is so close to home, especially for those with young children."
The hospital's medical director, Dr. Colin Del Castilho, was bouncing with excitement during the announcement.
"I consider the South Health Campus my sixth child, no offence to my other kids but this one has been the hardest one to raise," said Del Castilho as those listening laughed.
"We've been very busy… The emergency department has taken it upon themselves to do bake sales and try to raise funds through a Fun Run in September 2018. At the pace we were going, I told them, You're doing a great job and in 4,000 years, we will get that pod."
Del Castilho expressed his gratitude for the person behind the anonymous donation. South Health Campus had been fundraising the money for the pediatric emergency care space for a while, and with the addition of the $3.9-million donation, the pod is expected to open over the summer.
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1. Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels spoke out about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. Among the bombshell revelations: Daniels was threatened with violence to "leave Trump alone," Trump told her "not to worry" about his wife, and Daniels may have evidence of the affair.
2. Hundreds of thousands marched across the US against gun violence. The "March for Our Lives" protests came just a month after 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
3. Brexit campaign group 'cheated' spending rules claimed a whistleblower. Vote Leave allegedly used a smaller organisation called BeLeave to bypass spending limits.
4. North Korea's state media slammed South Korea for military "provocations". The North criticised South Korea's deployment of stealth jets on the Peninsula and moves to buy more air-to-ground missiles.
5. Report claimed the US House Intelligence Committee failed to investigate leads before closing its Russia investigation.The Committee's Republican majority voted to release their final report on Thursday, closing their probe.
6. Video shows Saudi defences shooting down a missile heading towards Riyadh. Seven missiles from Yemen were reportedly intercepted, with missile fragments killing one and wounding two.
7. Exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was detained in Germany. Puigdemont faces up to 25 years in prison for organising an illegal secession referendum from Spain.
8. Elon Musk deleted the Facebook pages of Tesla and SpaceX.Musk's Facebook feud goes back to a 2016 dispute where Zuckerberg blamed SpaceX for a failed launch that destroyed a Facebook satellite.
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여기, Viking Recorder 및 수많은 앱에 대한 모든 정보가 있습니다. 무료로 가입하고 관심 있는 앱들에 대한 정보와 경쟁자의 인사이트, 앱 업계 현황에 대해 알아보세요.
미국에서 Viking Recorder 의 다운로드 순위 기록을 확인하세요.
순위 기록은 Mac 앱 스토어에서 Viking Recorder의 인기와 시간에 따른 인기의 변화를 보여줍니다. 또한, 국가, 카테고리, 기기에 따른 Viking Recorder 의 일일 성과를 추적할 수 있습니다.
Viking Recorder is a full-featured screen recording application for Mac OS X. Features lossless FFV1 compression, GIF encoding, H.264, Apple ProRes 422 & 4444, and more!
Viking Screen Recorder is a full-featured screen recording app for Mac OS X. It features a high performance screen capture facility, as well as a built-in video editor and video player that supports all popular video formats.
Just like a Viking -- this screen recorder takes whatever it sees and doesn't tolerate any loss. As such, we have incorporated a "Lossless encoding" mode that uses the FFV1 codec (provided by the FFmpeg project) for 100% lossless, pixel-perfect frames. This codec is used by professionals for video archiving, so you know it's serious business.
And also just like a Viking longship -- this app is fast and nimble.
Of course, lossless encoding doesn't come without a cost, and as such, you pay the iron price (or in your case, silicon) -- lossless encoding does take up disk space.
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On top of that, we support the advanced Apple ProRes 4444 and 422 formats.
As a bonus, we threw in a GIF encoding mode for free (no sound, of course). This mode allows you to record your screens and upload them to places like Reddit. We can have nice things!
- Features a built-in video editor and player!
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So, I'm considering running a little experiment. I've noticed over my short lifetime that people are not nearly as sincere as they proclaim to be.
Especially here in America, we've developed this list of cliché sayings and questions that we spew out at the right times in order to seem interested, sincere, intelligent, or passionate. But the question is, how many of us really care?
February 21, 2014by Stefan G.
We all know the "church-talk." Forgiveness is about your freedom, and we are commanded to forgive, and forgiveness releases the other person from hurting you any longer.
But this post isn't really about forgiveness.
I remember a time where I was going through some very difficult emotions regarding what someone had done to me. Everything I felt was justified. In fact, I felt like, if I took the time to count, I would have reached 490 instances of forgiveness (70 x 7) that I had given to this person.
They had hurt me over and over and over again, and I had turned the other cheek, the other arm, the other ear, the other everything. Over and over again. Eventually it came to a climax. They did something to me, that I finally decided NOT to forgive them.
January 10, 2014by Stefan G.


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There are a number of theories going around about the demise of the WTO talks. Mine are here but a couple of others worth noting are by Martin Khor, here and Devinder Sharma. I particularly like Devinder's take – which shifts the blame entirely toward the US reluctance to give up cotton subsidies. It's something we got to discuss a little when Devinder helped to launch Stuffed and Starved in Delhi last week (thanks Devinder!). I'm not sure I agree that the elections in India has nothing at all to do with the outcome, but we're both agreed that soon enough, the talks will be back from the dead. Indeed, if the Third World Network is to be believed, the corpse of the talks is already being revivified by Lula and Lamy.
Washington D.C. (August 13, 2008) – The National Family Farm Coalition welcomed with elation the recent failure of the Doha Round negotiations at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. NFFC, an organization representing family farmers in the United States and a member of Via Campesina, an international coalition of family farmers, peasants, and farm workers, has been at the forefront since 1993 of protesting the disastrous inclusion of agriculture in the world trading system. "NFFC has warned for over a decade that the WTO's policies were impoverishing farmers both here and abroad and would lead to an inevitable food crisis. The time has come for us to make food sovereignty, not free trade, our model and get the WTO out of agriculture," said NFFC President Ben Burkett, a Mississippi farmer.
From the beginning of the WTO's creation in 1994 in Marrakesh, NFFC has warned about the dire consequences of liberalized trade on rural communities, both here in the U.S. and abroad, and countries becoming dependent on foreign food imports. With the global food crisis upon us, NFFC is heartened that the WTO talks collapsed due to developing countries urging that food sovereignty take precedence over "free trade." "The WTO bears much responsibility for dismantling domestic and tariff protections and leaving countries at the mercy of volatile, speculative markets for their food security. As a U.S. farmer, I fully support the right of India and the G-33 countries to implement a special safeguard mechanism (SSM) to protect their farmers and consumers from below-cost imports flooding their markets. I am deeply disappointed with other U.S. farm groups and our government for not endorsing the fundamental principle of food sovereignty," said Ben Burkett.
NFFC strongly disputes the United States' position that India's request to utilize the SSM for a 10% import surge was unreasonable and believes the 40% surge proposed by the U.S. would have been a useless policy for countries devastated by below-cost dumping of imports, much of it from U.S. commodities. "It is immoral for misguided free trade ideology to take precedence over the starvation of millions of people," said Burkett.


Brides are trying out new styles and different fashion options these days. It is indeed lovely to watch south Indian brides venture new trends and carry it out in an exquisitely elegant manner. We decided we'd pitch in and ideate a few really good hairstyles you can try on with your choice of Lehenga.
1. A side partitioned front hair and hair curled in-to a bun is quite the lady-like touch that would very well go with your Lehenga.
2. The classic Braided Bride look goes well with enough accessories and touch-up's. Just make sure it doesn't look plain and you're good to go! In fact, this hairstyle is one of the most comfortable ways to keep straight-hair in place.
3. A less complicated curled up hair left cascading down is one of the best options if you have a short hair. Make sure you're comfortable in whichever hairstyle and new trend you try.
4. A partition in the front with some hair pulled back can be a way of saving time. But you could save this style for Sangeet or smaller gatherings to match up with your Lehenga.
5. Partitioned hair, pulled up high behind and adorned with beautiful hair accessory definitely brings in a whole new look to you. Do not be afraid to try on new styles as you decide for your hairstyle and accessories.
6. Puffed front of your hair and some soft curls throw a graceful look to the bride. It gives a volume look to your hair too.
7. A simple braid hairstyle, studded with colorful accessories through the entire braid, definitely a winner!
8. Messy is back in style! We have some gorgeous brides carrying it out totally amazing. You can always keep it Classy and a little bit of soft messy curls all at the same time and still look ravishing. Here's Proof!
9. Curled hair and all pulled to one side is also the most comfortable hairstyle a bride could go in with. The hair stays in one place and gives you Style.
10. A neatly pulled bun on the side adorned with charming hair accessories shout out Elegance against your Lehenga! Need we say more?


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#PowerOfSport: The Inside Story of Team Dimension Data For Qhubeka at #TDF2017
Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka once again thrilled their fans at the 2017 Tour de France, as they continue their meteoric rise within the top division of world cycling.
As 'Africa's Team' sought to, again, stun the cycling world, just as they did in 2015 and 2016, they were struck an early, major blow with star sprinter Mark Cavendish crashing out of the race.
It was a definitive moment as it had the potential to effectively end their campaign. But, what instead unfolded was a potential coming of age on the World Tour for the Laureus ambassadors.
In a unique feature, the Laureus Power of Sport podcast brings you a special edition: the inside story of Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka at the 2017 Tour de France.
In a rare insight, host Jean Smyth travelled with the team for the final week of the Tour de France and discovered an outfit not just focused on winning races but a team seamlessly working together, for a greater purpose; the Qhubeka charity.
Central to the story, and in light of Cavendish's exit, is that Edvald Boasson Hagen's late victory on stage 19 in Salon de Provence could arguably be the team's most important yet in its short history. We chart the day as it unfolded to explain why, sealing it with the champagne being popped live on Norwegian TV, at the team hotel during dinner.
For Douglas Ryder, team principal, it was an emotional day that ended the rollercoaster of 2017 that had seen the team luckless until the race's final weekend.
"It was probably one of the sweetest and best victories for the team because it came so late in this race and we tried so hard. We've been on the podium four times and sometimes you think that it's not going to happen but good things happen to good teams and to good riders, everyone was so happy it was him.
"Some teams don't win a stage in three years and in three years we've won seven, it's just unbelievable, we've won every single year. It's honestly incredible when you put it into that context, in terms of how hard it is to win stages in a race that's the biggest on an annual basis in the world of cycling."
Cavendish, cut down in stage four, watched from home but returned for the final stage in Paris to celebrate with his teammates.
"(I'm) Massively proud," he told the Power of Sport podcast, "The whole strategy of the team was wiped out after 4 days but you saw the character of the guys, they wanted to go out and give everything for the charity, for the country and our sponsors. It was beautiful to see."
Smyth also visits the Qhubeka assembly plant at Nederburg to find out just exactly how bicycles are literally changing lives.
And, in a truly inspiring story, Nicholas Dlamini, a member of the Laureus YES Programme, has now taken one step further to realise his dream of riding at the Tour de France after earning himself a contract on Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka's World Tour team from 2018.
His story is one that's expected to feature prominently in the future and he told the Power of Sport just what this opportunity means to him.
"I'd really love to join them one day and be part of the dream that Doug's had for the team to be participating in the Tour de France and winning stages. Everybody love Team Dimension Data so it's really good to be part of a team like that."
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xetoyotagiatot	on October 5, 2017 at 11:55 am
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