I was 25 and traveling through Ireland by myself. I was in Cong, a rural small town outside of Galway. It was quiet. Very quiet. Even though I had met people on my trip, I was starting to feel lonely.
I was thousands of miles from home. I had nobody around who knew me well or cared for me, and in the days before cell phones or internet cafes, I couldn't just get in touch with my friends or family at the drop of a hat.
I went on a walk in a local park, along a wide stream that emptied into a small, pristine pond. The weather was grey and gloomy, the park was damp and romantic-looking, with its bending trees and dark water.
On a whim, I sat down by the edge of the pond and began to do something I hadn't done in probably 15 years: I started to build a fairy village out of sticks, pebbles, and leaves.
As a child I had practically lived in the backyard, building intricate tiny villages, exploring the spaces in between plants and trees, making tree roots into cottages and lumps of mud into hillsides.
It calmed me down and got me away from sometimes troubling thoughts. In Ireland, I found the same thing happened: My loneliness and anxiety vanished, and an hour or so later when I finished, I felt better: lighter, and less worried.
When we lose ourselves in play, whether creating a make-believe world, throwing a ball between friends, frolicking with our dog, or watching silly YouTube videos, we allow ourselves to get out of the linear, problem-solution, adult mindset.
We're activating a part of our brains that we don't use much in the grown-up world: the one that doesn't care about deadlines or mortgages or how much we weigh, the one that doesn't care how we look to others.
In the land of play, we make connections we wouldn't normally make. We see things in new ways. Play can boost our creativity, heighten our mood, make us laugh, and can engage us in the world in ways that regular "adult" life often doesn't.
For some reason, I've never grown up enough to stop playing. When I stop noticing the playfulness of the world around me, I know I'm in a bad mood or too stressed, and I often make myself stop and re-engage in the world in a playful way, even if just to watch a funny movie.
1. Spend time around young children.
You can't really engage with young kids without entering the world of play with them. Let them show you the way and leave your grownup mind behind!
2. Take a walk or day trip without any plans or route.
To make it extra playful, toss a coin to decide on the direction you'll start out in. Then just go wherever you are drawn. Let your playfulness lead the way.
3. Do art without thought of success.
Grab a random stack of magazines and make a collage, without worrying about whether it's "good." Finger-paint. If you do art or writing, do a piece in the style of an artist or writer that's completely different from your normal style. Have fun. Don't worry.
4. Get a couple of different magnetic poetry kits and combine them.
Keep them where you spend a lot of your hours and play with them whenever you get bored or creatively blocked.
Get some kids games, art supplies, even pieces of costumes, and just hang out and have fun. Make the goal to be to laugh as much as possible.
6. Play with young, active dogs.
They love to run and jump! If you don't own one, borrow one from a friend, volunteer to walk the dogs at an animal shelter, or go hang out at a local dog park. Even just watching dogs play can be fun!
7. Keep kids toys at your desk.
Having them around will automatically lighten things up, but playing with them when you're bored or in a bad mood will help even more.
8. Before you start on your commute to work every day, think of something you'll look for on your drive.
Maybe they'll be blue pickup trucks, American flags, or houses with red roofs. Count the number you see by the time you get to work.
9. You know those silly cat YouTube videos you ignore when people send them to you? Watch them.
Do it alone, do it with friends, do it with strangers, but just dance. Any style, any place. You can't dance while also being stressed and worried!
How do you make life more playful?
Melissa Kirk is an editor, writer, and blogger living in the SF bay area and attempting to go with the flow and roll with the punches as much as possible. She writes for Psychology Today and also has a personal blog.


We are ever more dependant on electrical installations, especially in the built environment. Proper lighting, electric equipment on the workplace, security systems, and communication with the outside world are almost regarded as self-evident. In case of an interruption, like a failing network, it appears how dependant we are on the proper functioning of all those installations.
Apart from other important aspects such as for example sustainability and adaptation flexibility, for Valstar Simonis the reliability of electrical installations comes first. This translates itself in the pursuit for a clear and easily to maintain installation, whereby the technical setup, functionality, and operating options are not made more complex than necessary.
In case of applying new techniques, such as LED lighting and wireless data communication, we consider it important to find the proper balance between progressiveness and prove technology. Our technicians, designers, and project managers therefore closely follow the latest technical developments in order to be able to make the right considerations during the designing process for each project.
Because of our involvement in the huge diversity of projects, lots of experience was acquired in choosing the installation concepts, elaborating into a design, and correctly realising small up to very large electrical installations. We are also regularly asked to provide a second opinion.
This broad basis of knowledge and experience provides our clients with the trust the electrical technique is in good hands with Valstar Simonis.


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In our online Scandinavian furniture shop you will find many Scandinavian living accessories from brands such as House Doctor and Bloomingville. We offer a wide collection of products for the interior with a simple and functional design. Whether you are looking for lamps, decorative pillows, vases or a variety of small furniture, you will find it in our range of products. We only sell products that we would be happy to use in our own homes. All furniture from our Scandinavian webshop can be combined, so your personal taste will come into it's own.
In our Scandinavian home store we offer various leading brands. You will not only find brands such as House Doctor and Bloomingville but for example, also Hubsch and Madam Stoltz. The Bloomingville style is a mixture of rough materials with a nostalgic, Scandinavian touch. Hubsch offers simple and functional products for everyday life. House Doctor will supply you with the opportunity to create a unique and personal style at home and Madame Stoltz has a definable yet constantly innovative style.
Let yourself be surprised in our Scandinavian home store and get to know our leading brands, such as House Doctor and Bloomingville. Here, you will find everything in the field of living accessories. Are you looking for a specific brand which you cannot find in our store? Let us know. Maybe we will still be able to help you.


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Protection against liability for retaining Trigon stock.
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Personnel system in certain cities.
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Board of Housing and Community Development.
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Anne Hathaway Bares All
In Love and Other Drugs, Anne Hathaway's sexy new flick, the actress bares all alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. How did she get through all those nude scenes? Confidence! Keep these three tips in mind no matter what you're wearing.
By Ashley Mateo
Embrace your curves.Earlier, this month, the actress told the UK edition of Elle magazine, "I've hit the point in my life where I understand that being skinny is not sustainable, and nor is it advisable, and nor is it enjoyable," she said.
What's important is to find the weight you feel happiest at--not when you're feeling heavy, but also not when you're feeling uber-skinny. In a SELF poll, the majority of women--75 percent!--said they're dissatisfied with their shape. Don't judge yourselves by the media or society's expectations; use our calculator to figure out your happy weight. "I love being strong," Hathaway told SELF when she was on the cover in 2008. "I love being able to life heavy boxes. I love being able to do 20 push-ups. And I love myself enough to make myself feel good."
Fall in love with your body--naked, clothed, anytime!
Embrace your quirks.
"My identity used to be shaped on my appearance so much," she also told Elle. 'I don't think I was shallow--I just think I was young."
To change your perspective, rewrite your internal dialogue. Listen to how the voice in your head comments on your looks. Remind you of the middle school mean girl? You may be internalizing attitudes and ideals from other people or being too hard on yourself. Vow to talk to yourself with the same encouraging, kind words and tone you'd use for a close friend. And don't forget, your "flaws" make you unique. "When I was a teenager, I wanted to get a nose job. I thought my nose looked swollen and horrible," the star told us. "But I love it now. If I didn't have this nose, I'd look like everyone else.
Boost your beauty self-esteem with nine easy tricks.
Embrace the situation.
"It is intensely mortifying taking your clothes off in front of other people," Hathaway said at the Los Angeles premiere of Love and Other Drugs, "but it is also intensely mortifying doing a lot of things in front of people and I've learned how to deal with that."
"I'm still not sure what self-confidence means," the actress said in her SELF cover story. "I think it is like love: you know it when you have it. Maybe it's saying, 'Take me or leave me,' and the confidence part is, 'I will be OK if you leave me. I know what is good about me, and if you don't get that, it is not going to destroy me.'"
Gain body confidence now--inspired by real readers!
Here's one more fun fact: thinking about your favorite celebrity may bolster your confidence. Musing over a star's strengths (she's so outgoing!) can have a positive effect on self-esteem, helping you feel more connected to your goals. Browse the tabloids sans guilt! Anne Hathaway, we'll be thinking of you!
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Q: Send Linux command from C program I'm writing a C program to run in Linux shell.
Now I got a problem with such command.
#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
char* command="history>>history";
system(command);
}

I want it to write the result of command "history" into a document, but it failed with a blank one.
If I change it to "date>>history", current system time will be written into the document.
Is there any problem with "history>>history"?
What should I do if I want to get that work?
Thanks!

A: The problem is that history is not a real command but a shell builtin. Thus you can't call it from a C program[1].
Depending on the shell the user is using, you can instead get the history from ~/.bash_history, ~/.zsh_history and so on. Note however that zsh only write to this file at the end of a session.
[1] Well, you could theorically try system("bash -c history"), but you won't get the actual history because the builtin isn't run in the context of the current session.

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Q: rmarkdown: page break within a chunk? Is it possible to make each of the numbers show up on a separate page?
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title: "Page Break In Chunk"
output: pdf_document
---
```{r}
for(i in c(1:10))
{
   print(i)
}
```

A: Just add a cat("\\newpage") and results = "asis":
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title: "Page Break In Chunk"
output: pdf_document
---
```{r results = "asis"}
for(i in c(1:10))
{
   print(i)
   cat("\\newpage")
}
```

Output (not sure if this is what you want):


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The Fork Creek Mine is located southeast of Alum Creek in Boone County, West ia. The mine is extracting the No. 2 Gas coal seam, utilizing six continuous miner units on four sections. Two of these sections are super-sections, consisting of two continuous miners and two twin head roof bolt machines.
The Mineral Resource is accessed from surface using conventional underground mining methods to 34 Level (the lowest working level) at Siphumelele Shaft, approximately 1,350m BS, and 28 Level (the lowest working level) at Khuseleka, approximately 2,105m BS, and 29 Level (the lowest working level) at Thembelani Shaft.
Underground mining is approved out when the rocks, minerals, or gemstone are positioned at coldness far beneath the ground to be extract with outside mining. World's Broadest Range of Underground Mining Equipment.
Mine Foreman Training Mining Law – Unit 2 ... 34 805 KAR 7:010 7) "Mine-specific training" means the instruction of ... (40) hours for underground mining or who has completed a certified mine technology program and has passed an examination approved by the commissioner.
The Fork Creek Mine is located southeast of Alum Creek in Boone County, West ia. The mine is extracting the No. 2 Gas coal seam, utilizing six continuous miner units on four sections.
TE is a qualified provider that offers a wide breadth of high-quality mining products that address the entire mine electrical infrastructure. ... extremes and high pollution levels over long operating lifetimes to help maintain service reliability in overhead and underground installations.
Underground mining requires that any electrical system meet Mine Safety and Health Administration guidelines [MSHA 2000] for safe operation in potentially hazardous areas where ignition of methane-air or coal dust is a safety concern.
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According to the calendar on the Concordia Student Union's website, nothing is happening this semester.
Although the CSU posted on Facebook that they will be holding a "Student Engagement Fair," there is no mention of it on their website. In fact, their home page is still displaying news from Sept. 11, 2013.
One cannot assume that all students have Facebook or have the CSU in their newsfeed. Furthermore, Facebook is not set up to make information readily accessible. If someone is searching for information from a post they will have to scroll through all of the CSU's posts in order to find it. The website has a news section on its front page and a calendar page, both of which make finding information much easier than looking through Facebook posts. Therefore, in order to provide quality communication to students, the CSU website needs to be kept as updated as the CSU Facebook page.
For the longest time, when visiting the CSU's webpage, a box has popped up asking visitors to fill out a survey regarding their experience of the website. It would seem that either the CSU has neglected to read these surveys or they've neglected to move forward with implementing any changes.
In what is often termed, "the digital age," the best way to communicate with students is through the Internet. One would assume that the CSU does not need their recently hired marketing intern, Adrian Mahon, to tell them that. And yet, they have hired Mahon to write a proposal for ways in which the CSU can improve communication with students.
At this point it seems like students will have to wait until the proposal has been submitted and reviewed by Council before they will be informed about what the CSU has planned for this semester.
Or, instead of wasting time with proposals, they could just start communicating. Why do we need a marketing intern? Why hasn't someone been given the responsibility of updating the website? Someone is obviously updating Facebook, why doesn't this same person updated the website?
Recently, a website promoting information on the renovations to Reggie's went live. This website is run by CUSAcorp which is a subsidiary of the CSU, which begs the question if CUSAcorp can get a website up and running within a matter of months, why can't the CSU update their existing site?
The issue of communication and the CSU's website was a problem before the current executive's mandate even began, so it is hard to believe that they weren't aware of it. Undergraduate students pay for the CSU to provide them with services and events but their money goes to waste when they don't know what's going on. Providing students with up-to-date information is a service that is owed to the Concordia student body. The winter semester is already in its second week and the CSU website remains as current as Sept. 12, 2013, and so we ask, if not now, then when?


Shanti Niketan, a way toward a new Consciousness.
The Circle of Sound is a collection of instruments used to create a unique vibration and combination of frequencies. The intention of the Circle of Sound is to manifest a balancing environment of Peace, Harmony, Health, and Well-being. Our vision is Peace on Earth and Goodwill for all.
Los cursos dayloplas te proveen una herramienta concreta y efectiva, con un importante campo de acción donde podrás poner en práctica tus ganas de crecer.


London kickboxing children's classes are available on selected areas. Please browse through the "Classes" page to find your nearest club.
London Kickboxing has developed its own methods of introducing children to kickboxing. They will not be encouraged to use their newly acquired skills outside the class, except in extreme circumstances. They practice their punching and kicking technique on pads and shields and they are taught the value of team spirit and team work, whilst using their individual skills to succeed.
The starting age may vary slightly depending on the instructor and the average age of the children who attend the class. London Kickboxing instructors are CRB Checked and are trained to work with children. Your child's instructor will have his CRB certificate available for inspection.
London Kickboxing has in place its own Child Protection Policy. All instructors are aware they have a duty of care and must act upon any information, under Section 47 of the Children's Act. A mandatory Risk Assessment of the teaching environment is also carried out, before a given venue is chosen and before and during every session.
The children's classes take into account both the child's age and attention span. Children learn better when they are at play and enjoying themselves. All children are treated as individuals, following the very nature of kickboxing.


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Q: How do I create actions with names that are not camel cased in Zend Framework? My controller name is api and I want to create an action update_user_infoAction(), but when I try to create an action  zf create action update_user_info Api, I get an error :

Action names should be camel cased.

Here is my terminal command and output:
volition@volition-H61M-DS2:/var/www/Dashboard_check$ zf create action update_user_info Api

Note: PHPUnit is required in order to generate controller test stubs.
  An Error Has Occurred
  Action names should be camel cased.
Zend Framework Command Line Console Tool v1.11.10
  Details for action "Create" and provider "Action"
  Action
  zf create action name controller-name[=Index] view-included[=1] module

Someone suggested that I use Zend Router but I am a newbie in Zend Framework so please suggest to me how I can create this action.
Note :- I do not want to change my action name
I am trying to create an action with an underscore. I've added this code to my bootstrap:
class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected function _initDoctype()
    {
         $dispatcher = $front->getDispatcher();
         $dispatcher->setWordDelimiter(array('.', '-'))->setPathDelimiter('');
    }
}

However, when I do the following:  zf create controller update_user_info, I still get the same error.
Update: As suggested by @emaillenin
I am Trying this now :
<?php
class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected function _initDoctype()
    {
        $frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
        $dispatcher = $frontController->getDispatcher();
        $dispatcher->setWordDelimiter(array('-', '.', '_'));
    }
}

http://localhost/Dashboard_check/public/api/update_user_info
but again, it doesn't work as it works for
http://localhost/Dashboard_check/public/api/updateuserinfo

A: In your bootstrap, add the following lines of code,
$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$dispatcher = $frontController->getDispatcher();
$dispatcher->setWordDelimiter(array('-', '.', '_'));

When you call www.example.com/api/update_user_info
the following function will be invoked.
public function updateUserInfoAction() {

}

Keep your view script for this action in update-user-info.phtml
References -
http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/Question-about-underscores-in-controller-and-action-names-td656525.html
http://www.zfforums.com/zend-framework-general-discussions-1/general-q-zend-framework-2/underscore-action-name-1204.html
http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/underscore-in-URL-td648359.html


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Turkish actor Kerem Bürsin was in a relationship with actress Demet Özdemir, whom he left for the fatal Handa Erçel.
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Turkish actor Kerem Bürsin intrigued many viewers of the Turkish series Sen Cal Capimi | Love is in the air with phenomenal plots on the screen, and he is equally interesting person in private. Thanks to an intriguing love story, a great cast and a great production, the series attracted the attention of viewers around the world. Handsome Kerem shares the spotlight in the series with his ex-girlfriend, 28-year-old Hande Erçel, whom he met on the set of the romantic and comedy series that began airing in July 2020.
Kerem and Hande fell in love on set and started a relationship under the watchful eye of the public. He was then in a relationship with the 30-year-old actress Demet Özdemir, whom he left for the fatal Hande Erçel. The attractive Demet is one of the most popular actresses in Turkey. She was born in 1992, and at the age of seven, after the separation of her parents, she moved with her mother, brother and sister from her native İzmit to Istanbul.
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Demet started her career as a backup dancer for singer Bengu Erden and then she appeared in a music video. Shortly after that, she went to a casting where she got a role in the series Sana Bir Sir Verecegim | I'll Tell You a Secret, which started airing in 2013. After that, she played roles in popular series and commercials. Through some business collaborations, she also met Kerem Bürsin, and the relationship with him remained one of her most memorable, even though he was not the only famous man she loved. They were in a relationship in 2020 until he got closer to Hande.
Kerem and Hande quickly became Turkey's favorite couple and they often posted photos from the set on social media. They confirmed that they were together in April 2021, when they traveled to the Maldives. They posted photos and confirmed rumors. Although many cheered for their favorite heroes from the series, they ended their relationship after less than a year.
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As part of my family heritage research, I've been using a site called Find-a-Grave. I've been able to see the markers of many relatives the world over. Some only have photos of the outside of the cemetery while others have the actual gravestones. It's an invaluable resource to have these photos not only to simply feel closer by having an image connection but to have the dates and additional information some of the stones contain. It's been fascinating to see who is buried next to whom as well.
To return the favor, I looked up to see if there were photo requests for any graves in our area. I found that there are quite a few. We live near one of the area's oldest cemeteries, Calvary Cemetery, with internments from the 1800′s through current. Over 102,000 are buried there. There are 212 requests for photos of markers there. So, this past Saturday, we packed up the kids and drove over to see if we could help. While we didn't find the all ones we were searching for because we didn't go in with a good plan, we did learn quite a bit.
#1 – Try to not bring the kids along. They were fine but it is difficult to explain to a barely two-year old boy that grave markers are not stepping stones.
#2 – Bring a map with the section layouts and a detailed worksheet of exact locations, names, dates, and any other information.
#3 – Bring light gardening tools to help clear away dirt and debris from stones.
Why would #3 be necessary in what is known as one of the best-maintained cemeteries in all of Ohio? Well, it turns out, this is because in the older sections, without having anyone regularly coming for personal visits, some of the stones are being covered up by the grass or starting to be swallowed into the ground forever lost to those who come after us. I ripped away overgrown grass where I could with my bare hands and took photos of the stones for the family members. The area we randomly started in was a section mostly filled with infants. It broke our hearts seeing stones dedicated to children who lived only a couple months or days. It tore at me seeing stones next to each other, all with the same last names, of children who would have loved to play with one another as brother and sister but never had the chance to do so on Earth. So, today I join in writing about "Missing" for the children whose footsteps were never heard here and for the small memorials which are disappearing.
Wow! Such a moving post. So great that you were going to do this for people. Sad to see those graves lost and forgotten, especially all the babies.
2 comments: I don't have family background history hardly at all. My mom was adopted back in1920. Very little known all those years. She died last year. My dad came from a very unlawful family. Not much known, period.
Re: children. It's amazing how our families have changed since the early 1940s. And some vaccines. It was simply not expected that babies would live through flu, whooping cough, small pox, etc. Life has so changed. We have been very blessed to live in our day and age in that particular arena.
Thank you for working in the graveyard. I, personally, would be happy to do that… as long as snakes or rats weren't visiting the stones with me.


The city of Cumberland's phone system is down this morning. Several callers to WCBC News complained that they had attempted to contact various departments at City Hall only to be greeted with a rapid busy signal. A call to the city police department confirmed that there are problems with the system but could not offer any other details. Anyone with an emergency situation can contact the police department at 301-777-1600 or 911.


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La saison 1999-2000 de l'Union sportive musulmane de Blida est la  du club en première division du championnat d'Algérie. Le club prend part au championnat d'Algérie et à la Coupe d'Algérie.

Le championnat d'Algérie débute le 14 octobre 1998, avec la première journée de Super Division, pour se terminer le 15 juin 1999 avec la dernière journée de cette même compétition. L'USMB se classe septième du championnat.

Compétitions

Division 1

Championnat

Rencontres

Journées 1 à 11 (Aller)

Journées 12 à 22

Classement final
Le classement est établi sur le barème de points suivant : une victoire vaut 3 points, un match nul 1 point et une défaite 0 point.

Coupe d'Algérie

Rencontres

Coupe de la Ligue

Rencontres

Classement Final
À l'issue de cette première phase concernant la Région Centre, et après neuf journées de compétition qui permirent à chacun des clubs de jouer neuf matchs (sauf pour le CR Belouizdad et l'USM Alger, qui n'en ont joué que huit), le classement pour le Groupe Centre est le suivant

Le USM Blida (football) non qualifié en huitième de finale avec 10 points.

Effectif

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SFEE believes that interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals have a profound and positive influence on the quality of patient treatment and the value of future research. At the same time, there is a need for increased transparency and integrity regarding these interactions internationally. To this end, the European Commission issued the List of Guiding Principles Promoting Good Governance in the Pharmaceutical Sector (an initiative of former Commission Member A. Tajani). In implementation of these principles, EFPIA (the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations), of which SFEE is a member since 1982, adopted the "EFPIA Disclosure Code", which all Member States, including Greece, have transposed into their national codes. Beyond Europe, a similar transparency framework has been introduced in the United States with the Sunshine Act.
What is the Disclosure Code?
As a member of EFPIA and in line with these initiatives at the European level, SFEE adopted its own Disclosure Code, which requires all SFEE member companies to disclose details on their transfers of value to Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) or Healthcare Organisations (HCOs) (name of HCP/HCO, type and amount of transfer – e.g. participation in conferences, fees for consultancy and other services, etc.). This information will be disclosed through a dedicated platform on the SFEE website, which will gather data from all member companies and will be freely accessible by the public.
Why was the Disclosure Code created?
It is a fact that the healthy and transparent working relationship between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals is in the best interest of patients, since the medical profession offers invaluable expert knowledge helping to prevent and manage diseases and improve patients' quality of life. By supporting various educational and research activities of healthcare professionals and organisations, pharmaceutical companies contribute to the ongoing training and development of health care professionals, enabling them to offer more and better treatment options to patients. The Disclosure Code was created in order to delineate and establish a framework to govern the cooperation of pharmaceutical companies with healthcare professionals and is a step towards greater transparency and mutual trust between the pharmaceutical industry, the medical community and civil society across Europe.
Who is bound by the Disclosure Code?
The Extraordinary General Assembly of SFEE formally adopted the Disclosure Code, which SFEE member companies are required to apply as from 2016, when they will disclose their transfers of value to healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations starting with data for the previous year, i.e. 2015.
The Code of Ethics section of the SFEE website (www.sfee.gr) is a good place to start. It provides information on all the initiatives of SFEE that help the pharmaceutical industry to be more open to the public, including the Disclosure Code.
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How Is Orwell's Essay "Shooting an Elephant" Related to Imperialism?
George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" chronicles his experience in British-ruled Burma and his views on imperialism. Orwell was born and brought up in what is now known today as Burma. At the time of his birth, Burma was a province of colonial India, which was under British rule.
The essay describes an incident involving Orwell in Burma while he served with the imperialist police. It represents the moral dilemma so many imperialists felt, ruling over a country that was not theirs and being oppressors of the people in that country. Specifically, the essay describes an incident in which Orwell repeatedly shot an elephant that had overtaken and overrun a marketplace. His forceful display represented the rule of the British over the Burmese, or essentially, imperialism. This act tortured him internally, because he did not believe in imperialism and he sympathized with the Burmese.
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Plans for mixed-use "sustainable community" in Rotherham unveiled
Proposals for a new mixed-use scheme set to form 'the heart of the community' in a South Yorkshire development have been revealed.
Regeneration specialist Harworth has unveiled plans for a new mixed-use project - known as Olive Lane - at its flagship Waverley development in Rotherham.
Situated on a 10-acre site between the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) and the site's existing residential area, the plans comprise retail uses, a gym, offices, restaurants and cafes, a supermarket, a medical centre, community space, a bus hub and a residential development.
Duncan Armstrong-Payne, associate director for major projects at Harworth, explained: "The importance of strong communities and the need for liveable, walkable neighbourhoods is central to our vision at Waverley, which has been reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Our proposal for Olive Lane brings together a high-density mix of uses with an emphasis on high-quality design and finish, providing the facilities that local residents and workers at the AMP rightfully expect.
"Our continued investment at Waverley also supports the Government's rebalancing programme, along with its desire to 'Build Back Better'. I look forward to sharing plans with those living or working at Waverley before submitting our planning application in the new year."
Richard Petyt, Partner at Knight Frank, added: "This is a really exciting project to be involved with and we are delighted to be working alongside Harworth Group.
"The Olive Lane development has great potential to create a high-quality retail and leisure environment and to provide the much-needed facilities to ensure the area works as a viable, vibrant and dynamic community.
These facilities will further attract new residents and businesses to live and work at the development and also encourage sustainable patterns of shopping and service within the heart of a genuinely sustainable community."
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Q: How to save a sqlite database when using Datagrip from Jetbrains Something I can't get my head around. When I use Sqlite in the console I can do .save test.sqlite.
But how can I save my database to a file when I am inside the Jetbrains datagrip console?
I tried this:

But is does not work. When I search for this on the internet I find how to export data in general within datagrip, but that is not where I'm looking for.
I hope there is some way to to this. Datagrip is handy if it comes to geopackages, for only if I could save them.

A: sqlite-jdbc has two additional statements: backup & restore, see
their docs. So it does exactly the same as .save
But I'm not sure you need it. When you call .save in command line client, it just copies current database to specified location.
In DataGrip you usually open existing database and work with that. All changes will be reflected in opened file (taking transactions & Co into account). So no reason to "save" your work.


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'n Verlore Verstand
In 'n Verlore Verstand you will be transported to a reality of dreams and nightmares. What will you discover about yourself in this journey through the subconscious? In these realms of the unknown, you must travel through labyrinths of memories to eventually find your way to your own truth.
#killallzombies
In the distant future; #killallzombies is thrusting civilians into a sport of survival were a ravenous zombie population is unleashed in the name of sports entertainment with television spectators voting upon how many zombies they want to uncage to make survival all the more harder for you to accomplish with the potential of a collective...
Interactive Movie
#WarGames
You craft the story as Kelly and her band of misfit hackers transform from pranksters to leaders of an international movement. As they take on the media, the military, and the powers that be, where you focus will shape the direction of the story and the actions the characters take.
10 Second Ninja
10 Second Ninja X is a hardcore sidescroller. You're a ninja, there are robots, you've got ten seconds to destroy them all. Get three star ratings, climb leaderboards, discover secrets, and stop Captain Greatbeard.
1001 Spikes
Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archaeologist Jim Hawkins. Before the elder Hawkins mysteriously disappeared, he entrusted his daughter Tina with a map to the location of the ruins with a grave warning that death awaits around every corner. Aban Hawkins races into...
101 Ways to Die
101 Ways To Die is great fun; each level is superbly crafted and the whole experience is enjoyable. Loading times are almost non-existent and the install size is only notable by the fact that it's a mere 289mb. How they packed it all in to that, I'll never understand.
11-11: Memories Retold
11th November 1916, a young photographer leaves Canada to join the Western Front in Europe. The same day, a German technician is told that his son is missing in action on the front… At 11am the 11th Day of the 11th Month of year 1918, they will face the biggest decision of their lives… This...
At its heart 140 is an old-school platformer set in a world of abstract colorful graphics, but it has a musical twist. You'll need to overcome obstacles that are controlled by an energetic, yet melancholic electronic soundtrack – meaning you'll need a heightened sense of rhythm to sync up your every move and jump to...
Graphic Adventure
2064: Read Only Memories
The game's plot is set during the Christmas season in 2064 in Neo-San Francisco, California. Parallax has created a line of products called "Relationship and Organizational Managers" (ROMs), a line of personal assistant robots that have overtaken smartphones and computers. The player takes on the role of a journalist trying to track down their kidnapped...
20XX is an Indie Platformer/Roguelike hybrid that takes heavy inspiration from the Mega Man X series. Just like the X series, the goal is to make your way through each stage, discovering new powerups and abilities along the way, to fight the boss at the end.
From Frédérick Raynal, the creator of Alone in the Dark and pioneer of survival-horror, 2Dark is a grim journey of stealth and courage into the heart of corruption. Use your cunning to infiltrate Gloomywood's bastions of cruelty. Investigate to uncover the secrets of the deranged psychopaths within, seek retribution for their crimes, and bring the...
2urvive
After the world is devastated by a virus, you must now defend yourself against hordes of infected… sooner or later, however, your time will come. So it's time to fight until the end! In this top-down, tactical shooter, prepare for each oncoming wave, buy weapons and ammo, and stay alive as long as you can.
39 Days to Mars
39 Days to Mars is a co-operative (and single-player) steampunk puzzle-adventure game. Step into the shoes of Sir Albert Wickes and The Right Honourable Clarence Baxter, two 19th century explorers who have chosen to pilot the HMS Fearful on its maiden voyage to Mars.
60 Seconds!
Meet Ted. A hard working citizen and a family man. Hello Ted! Don't be shy! Wait a minute, what's that sound? Oh No! It's a Nuclear Bomb Alarm! Not to worry, Ted knows what to do! The government's superb early warning system gives Ted 60 seconds to take cover in the fallout shelter under his...
6180 the moon
Let's super high jump through the screen! 6180 the moon is a platformer game with a unique mechanic. It offers a fresh, unseen game play style by connecting the top and bottom of the screen. This allows in a mechanic with delightfully long jumps and no fear of "slipping" to death.
7 Days to Die is a lo-fi, budget survival-horror sandbox that surprisingly breathes some new life into the tired zombie template. It's a powerful example of how a game, even when executed without the technical wizardry of big AAA publishers, can become a canvas for your own personal stories.
7th Sector
Welcome to the 7th Sector, set in a mysterious cyberpunk world. Immerse yourself on this intricate path, solving different puzzles, facing its dangers and collecting scattered information to discover the story of this world.
8 to Glory
Choose your favorite rider, slap on some Gear, and match up against the world's BEST. Follow the real 25th par premier series season and compete in all 27 events, spanning across the us, ending at the par world final in las Vegas. Campaign mode uses real par event scoring to see how you stack up...
8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume 1
A compilation featuring faithful remakes of three of the best 8-bit point & click adventure games ever made. Now is your chance to play Shadowgate, The Uninvited, and Déjà Vu the way they were supposed to be played — with a controller in hand and worlds waiting to be explored.
8-bit Armies
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game for the PC. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of military units, and ultimately crush your opponents!
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In 2001, Ichiban Kasuga, a junior member of the Tojo Clan's Arakawa Family, is asked by the family's patriarch Masumi Arakawa to go to prison for a murder that he didn't commit to protect the real killer, a senior officer Arakawa considers indispensible. Ichiban agrees, hoping that this will make him a hero in the...
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Ina Garten Followed This Food Critic's Recipes After She Got Married
by Nicole Weaver twitter | More Articles: Celebrity
Ina Garten has been married to her husband, Jeffrey, for a long time. She wasn't a professional cook when they first got married, so she had a lot to learn. This person's cookbook helped the Barefoot Contessa star cook for her husband.
Ina Garten married Jeffrey Garten
Garten married her husband Jeffery back in 1968. "One of the great pleasures of my life is cooking for Jeffrey," she said in a video shared by Crown Publishing Group. "I love it," he said.
"It's about taking care of him. It's about giving him something he just loves to eat. That affection has really contributed to my cooking because it makes me want to do a better job," she said. "And so I really learned how to cook by cooking for Jeffrey."
Garten also stressed that she goes for simple recipes rather than ones that will "impress" people. The Barefoot Contessa star even has a cookbook called Cooking for Jeffrey: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. But what helped her learn to cook once she got married?
Ina Garten followed this cook's recipes after she got married
Jeffrey Garten and wife Ina Garten attends the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Opening Night Gala at New York City Center | Jim Spellman/WireImage
Garten didn't start her cooking career until later in life. She worked for the federal government as a budget analyst at the Office of Management and Budget before making her career change.
But she did turn to a specific food critic for help after getting married. She revealed this when asked what was the first dish she cooked successfully by Food Network.
"I've got to tell you, it was so long ago I don't remember," Garten said. "When I first got married, I started cooking from Craig Claiborne, but I don't remember specifically one dish."
Claiborne was a food journalist who helped bring fine cuisine to more people. He worked for The New York Times as a food editor and restaurant critic. He retired in 1986 and died in 2000.
She has continued to show her support for Claiborne by sharing his work. She included his book The New York Times Cookbook in her list of favorite cookbooks on Barefoot Contessa.
Ina Garten joked her chicken helps her marriage
? My funny Valentine ? I've loved you for more than 50 years and I'm just getting started! Happy Valentine's Day! pic.twitter.com/jyFpOFfkiS
— Ina Garten (@inagarten) February 14, 2020
'Barefoot Contessa' Ina Garten Reveals Her Biggest Regret, and It Involves Her Husband
Garten's marriage has lasted over 50 years. "Chicken always helps," she joked with Today when it comes to their lasting relationship. But in the end, she thinks she just got lucky.
"It's just the luck of the draw," she said. "I think you marry someone who thinks you're just the most important thing in the world, and you think he's the most important thing in the world. It's that simple, isn't it? People make it so complicated."
So Craig Claiborne helped Garten start to cook for her husband. Now she jokes that her chicken helps their marriage last.
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Franchisees Find Their Forever-Home
Owning your own business is the best chance for someone to achieve the perfect work and life balance. Bernadette and Jimmy Williams had owned multiple franchises for over ten years. Still, they couldn't find the work-life balance they needed to keep up with three busy teenage boys.
They thought by selling down to just three stores, they'd become less busy and have more time for the family. But that wasn't the case. Working in takeaway franchises, getting kids to school and sport, and working long hours, they gravitated towards the convenience of the takeaway food lifestyle.
Over feeling sick and tired, Jimmy and Bernadette were looking to make a change to their health. Little did they know that their own drive-thru business would gift him the perfect opportunity to better their health.
"We had a customer come through our drive-thru, and he was telling Jimmy about these products that could help you lose weight and feel better," says Bernadette. "Jimmy pretty much passed his credit card out the window and ordered a pack."
While it was a quick decision to start their healthy change with Isagenix®, they were also quick to notice the changes in themselves. They soon realised that there were more people out there craving a healthy nutrition solution.
"Franchising had always been my thing, I love talking to people and I loved the business model back then," says Jimmy. "When it came to helping people, Bernadette was born to do that, so the Isagenix business grew organically."
When Bernadette realised that this was her best vehicle to help people become healthier and create an extra income, it became her new purpose. In just six weeks, they had reached Executive. "After hitting Executive, we went down to an IsaU event to see some leaders speak. From that moment we said let's really dive into this."
Since taking the plunge into the Isagenix business, they haven't looked back. Having sold their final franchise in early 2019, they've now reached Isagenix Legacy Club status. This milestone is just one of many incredible highlights they've experienced with Isagenix.
"Going to our first Global Celebration as part of an IsaDerby trip was phenomenal," says Jimmy. "We've been on a few Top Achievers trips too, and the learning and friendship you build on during those experiences are what makes the Isagenix family second to none."
Although Bernadette and Jimmy have been well recognised in the community for years, there may be another wave of Williams' on the way. With their eldest son recently becoming a Consultant, his younger twin brothers aren't too far behind.
Now that Bernadette and Jimmy have reached one of the most significant milestones at Isagenix, their work isn't over yet.
"It's about cheering everyone on, no matter what stage they're at with their business," says Jimmy. "It's nice to be at the top of the mountain, but unless we're there with friends and family, you're not going to have the same amount of fun.
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Sleek new timepieces that blend timeless style with modern elegance.
Gucci is back. Not that it ever left, but fabled fashion houses sometimes undergo low-key periods of renewal and revitalization, and for Gucci, that looks like a good thing. With a new line of watches like the Grip, introduced at this year's Baselworld, the brand is staking out new territory.
The first thing you notice about the Grip is its unusual analog design: a rounded square face with rotating dials that display hours, minutes and date almost like a kind of scale.
This unusual and minimalist design allows a little more real estate for the designer to create a unified appearance. The engraved gold and silver models achieve an almost bracelet-like elegance.
The Grip, which will also be available with green or wine-colored calf leather straps, meets a growing need throughout the design world for a gender-neutral—unisex—look. With 35-millimeter or 38-millimeter size faces, it hits that sweet spot between what men and women sometimes seek in a watch both size and appearance-wise. Not too slight and not too large and clunky.
We don't yet know prices or delivery dates, but look for the Grip to be available for purchase sometime in the summer of 2019.


The Maroondah Business Association, is the new name of Maroondah Homebiz, which has shifted from being specifically focused on home-based businesses to one that can assist any size business as it grows and develops.
The Association holds monthly meetings with guest speakers discussing topics relevant to the business community. This evening I attended the March meeting of the Maroondah Business Association, where the speaker discussed marketing and the importance of having clearly set objectives for a business.
There are 1.65 million small businesses within Australia and 68% of them are home based. Unfortunately less than 10% survive more than five years, highlighting the importance of ongoing marketing and sound planning.
Underpinning these principles is the need for policies, systems and processes to ensure a responsive business that can remain relevant and profitable. In particular, there is a need for strong and complementary marketing to ensure that communications reflect the nature of the business and the product or service that is being offered.
Inconsistent marketing can confuse consumers and tarnish the reputation of a business. It is imperative that all forms of marketing, such as websites, brochures, advertisements, product placements, are consistent to create a positive experience for the consumer.
A marketing plan assists in ensuring consistency between these forms of communication and helps a business identify its objectives and actions to achieve them. A comprehensive marketing plan will assess the current environment, the nature of competition, the organisation's capacities and the marketing mix that contributes to the products and services offered by a business.
A marketing plan is a component of an overarching business plan that considers the composition of the business, as well as its operations and finances. While each of these plans have a different focus they should be complementary in achieving the identified aims of a business.
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The Hiram Key
Pharoahs,Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Christ
Robert Lomas
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Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus
Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight and Bob Lomas into and extraordinary investigation of 4, 000 years of history. This astonishing bestseller raises questions that have challenged some of Western civilisation's most cherished beliefs: Were scrolls bearing the secret teachings of Jesus buried beneath Herod's Temple shortly before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman's? Did the Knights Templar, the forerunners of modern Freemasonry, excavate these scrolls in the twelfth century? And were these scrolls subsequently buried underneath a reconstruction of Herod's Temple, Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland - where they are now awaiting excavation? The authors' discoveries shed a new light on Masonic ceremony and overturn out understanding of history.
Christopher Knight was born in 1950, and has a degree in advertising and graphic design. He is chairman of a marketing and advertising agency and is a Freemason.
Robert Lomas was born in 1947 and has a degree in electrical engineering. He has worked on the guidance systems for Cruise missiles, and was involved in the early development of home computers. He is a Freemason and lectures on Masonic history.
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A breakthrough book. The last four thousand years are never going to look the same again
Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods
Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen
The Auschwitz Photographer
Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis
History of the World Map by Map
The Penguin Historical Atlas Of Ancient Civilizations
John Haywood
The Penguin Historical Atlas Of The Medieval World
Andrew Jotischky, Caroline Hull
The Pimlico Dictionary Of Classical Civilizations
Arthur Cotterell
Fingerprints Of The Gods
Will Gompertz
Sinclair McKay
In the Shadow of the Gods
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The African American Soldier
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Not an honourable track record
KALEESWARAM RAJ
Print edition : November 24, 2017 T+ T-
Justice Y.V. Chandrachud. In 1978, two years after the ADM Jabalpur judgment, he was appointed Chief Justice of India. Photo: PIB
Justice D.Y. Chandrachud. In the judgment in the recent right to privacy case, he overruled the opinion rendered by his father, Y.V. Chandrachud, in the ADM Jabalpur case (1976). Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
Even while acknowledging the theoretical value of the Supreme Court's judgment in the right to privacy case, one needs to realise that the euphoria it created can be deceptive because the court's record in significant battles based on the rights of citizens is far from impressive.
IN the celebrated judgment on the right to privacy rendered by a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court this year, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud overruled the opinion rendered by his renowned father, Justice Y.V. Chandrachud, in the ADM Jabalpur case (1976).
In ADM Jabalpur, the question whether the fundamental right to personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution could be suspended during the Emergency was answered by the majority on the bench in the affirmative, with a seminal dissent by Justice H.R. Khanna. The majority included Justice Y.V. Chandrachud, who said inter alia that "the right to personal liberty has no hallmark and therefore when the right is put in action, it is impossible to identify whether the right is one given by the Constitution or is one which existed in the pre-Constitution era". Justice Khanna, on the other hand, said that "the right to life and personal liberty is the most precious right of human beings in civilised societies governed by the rule of law" and that "even in the absence of Article 21 in the Constitution, the state has got no power to deprive a person of his life or liberty without the authority of law".
In the privacy judgment, Justice Y.V. Chandrachud and the then majority are held to be wrong and Justice Khanna, right. The privacy judgment said that "the judgments rendered by all the four judges constituting the majority in ADM Jabalpur are seriously flawed". Indisputably, this is a theoretical statement favouring citizens' freedom.
Doctrinal corrections are easy to make. Telling the executive the constitutional truth during a critical situation is a different matter altogether. A political reading of the privacy judgment would help us understand the political character of not only the judgment but the judiciary as a whole. Also, it helps to trace certain empirical lessons as reflected in several earlier judgments of the court right from the 1950s. The lesson is clear: at times when the court was confronted with testing times for citizens, it interpreted the Constitution in favour of an illiberal state, as it did in ADM Jabalpur. On the other hand, when there was a fundamental political change leading to a "comfortable" situation, the court was willing to correct the "errors" without, however, undoing the mischief. In his emblematic work The Politics of the Judiciary (1977), J.A.G. Griffith shows that behind the actions of judges who are "faced with such (political) situations" there is "a unifying attitude of mind, a political position, which is primarily concerned to protect and conserve certain values and institutions".
It is therefore profitable to examine the shifting scales of jurisprudence on personal liberty as demonstrated by the Supreme Court in its brief history. When privacy was indirectly addressed in the A.K. Gopalan case (1950), the court had to decide the issue concretely and politically, not just doctrinally. The court decided in favour of state intrusion into individual freedom in A.K. Gopalan , and only years later, in Rustom Cavasjee Cooper (1970), when it caused little or no hurt to the political executive, did it correct the "erroneous" law in A.K. Gopalan.
When confronted with the conceptual aspects of free speech, the apex court was generous enough to underline the free speech theory in Shreya Singhal (2015). When the court struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, apparently, the state did not suffer any immediate or direct political setback. It was a general invalidation of a provision penalising digital communications that essentially worked among citizens (for example, the persons who made the statements and those that were affected by them) rather than between the citizen and the state.
But the question of individual liberty with all its political rigour was placed before the Supreme Court in the bail application the student leader Kanhaiya Kumar filed. Without passing orders, the apex court quickly transmitted the application to the Delhi High Court. Although the Delhi High Court granted him bail at a subsequent point of time, it delivered a judgment with inappropriate rhetoric on patriotism, a totally unwarranted piece of literature in an order on a bail application. In its judgment in Bijoe Emmanuel & O rs v s State of Kerala & Ors (1986), the Supreme Court had endorsed Jehovah's Witnesses' refusal to sing the national anthem by invoking India's "tradition of tolerance". The same court, however, dictated that the national anthem be sung in cinema theatres, in the present political era of narrow nationalism.
On May 9, 2017, when Justice C.S. Karnan's contempt case was considered, the court issued a gag order against the media as a whole. Thus, the voice against centralised judicial power was nipped in the bud, which amounted to pre-censorship. More strikingly, even in the post-Emergency period, the court upheld the constitutional validity of draconian laws such as the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) (see, for example, Kartar Singh v s State of Punjab (1994)).
The instances when the death penalty is awarded in India are often loaded with political overtones. The legal position is not simply that the death penalty is permissible in the rarest of rare cases, as is commonly understood, but that it can be resorted to only when "other options are unquestionably foreclosed", which is how the Constitution Bench settled the position in Bachan Singh, in 1980. Still, the top court did not find it difficult to endorse the imposition of capital punishment on Afzal Guru on the basis of mere circumstantial evidence. T.R. Andhyarujina subsequently described it as "an execution most foul" ( The Hindu, February 19, 2013). The American jurist and lawyer Charles Fried asserted that "individuals come first" and "whoever says otherwise is trading in metaphors". He said that "liberty is individuality made normative". Thus, when liberty is tested at a concrete individual level, the track record of the court is far from impressive.
Aadhaar case
There is a captivating political paradox in the Aadhaar case. The digital revolution accelerated individual freedom and choice in multiple ways all over the world. As Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen say in The New Digital Age (2013), the Internet has become "the world's largest ungoverned space" and is "the largest experiment involving anarchy in history". But in the Indian context, as regarding Aadhaar, the state is using the same digital revolution to oversee, control, supervise and even digitally annihilate the citizen, if necessary. The modern state is so powerful that it can erase a person's identity and curtail one's access to banks, hotels, airports or even one's own car. Note that in the privacy judgment, strikingly, even while holding that it is a fundamental right, the court has laid down the juridical foundation to validate the Aadhaar Act or similar legislation in future by prescribing the possible grounds for restricting the "fundamental right to privacy".
Therefore, it follows that, even while acknowledging the theoretical value of the privacy judgment, one needs to realise that the euphoria it created can be deceptive. A cursory look at the Supreme Court's track record would tempt one to think that significant political battles based on the citizen's rights should be fought politically rather than legally, for the latter course has its inherent institutional limitations.
Kaleeswaram Raj is a lawyer at the Supreme Court and the Kerala High Court. He is the author of Rethinking Judicial Reforms: Reflections on Indian Legal System (Universal Law Publishing, LexisNexis, 2017).
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Q: Python scapy nmap_fp "AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'res'" I have a very simple python script, trying to test nmap_fp module from scapy
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ip = 'just.an.ip.range'
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A former top UAW official pleads guilty to federal charges of financial misconduct
Joseph White ,
A former UAW-GM human resources official on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud and a count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Jeffrey Pietrzyk was a codirector of the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources. His guilty plea came as about 48,000 UAW members voted on whether to end a nearly five-week walkout at GM.
Pietrzyk was charged in connection with schemes to use funds from the UAW-GM human resources division to buy UAW logo jackets and watches, and then receive kickbacks from the vendors of those goods, according to court documents.
Federal agents last month raided the homes of the union's current president, Gary Jones, and former president Dennis Williams. Neither Jones nor Williams has been charged with wrongdoing.
DETROIT (Reuters) - A former top official of the United Auto Workers union pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges of financial misconduct while about 48,000 UAW members voted on whether to end a nearly five-week walkout at GM.
Jeffrey Pietrzyk, a former co-director of the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources, pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud and a count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to court documents. He is the latest in a string of former UAW officials to plead guilty to charges in a wide-ranging Justice Department criminal investigation of corruption within the union.
Pietrzyk was charged in connection with schemes to use funds from the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources to buy UAW logo jackets and watches, and then receive kickbacks from the vendors of those goods, according to court documents. On Sept. 4, former UAW official Michael Grimes pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with misuse of Center for Human Resources funds, which were supposed to pay for worker training.
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Federal prosecutors charged that Pietrzyk and an unnamed UAW official engineered use of $3.97 million in UAW-GM Center for Human Resources funds to buy watches that the manufacturer had said would cost $2.28 million. An unnamed UAW official then demanded a $250,000 kickback from the vendor for the watches, prosecutors charged. Pietrzyk also received kickbacks disguised as checks for antique furniture, prosecutors charged.
The watches "were never distributed to UAW-represented GM workers and are currently being stored in a warehouse at the CHR," according to a court document.
Pietrzyk's sentencing is scheduled for March.
GM and the UAW agreed last week as part of a tentative contract to wind down the Center for Human Resources and sell the multi-story office building on the Detroit River that houses the organization.
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(Reuters reporting and editing by Joe White and Matthew Lewis)
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Looking at her standing so close to him in the cool night air, her beautiful face and tempting curves making his mouth water and his blood streak hot through his veins, Jehan wasn't sure how the hell he was going to survive a week of seclusion with her. Not without putting his hands or fangs—or any other part of his anatomy—within arm's reach of her.
One thing was certain. They would have to set some clear boundaries. Rigid boundaries that couldn't be crossed.
And rules.
Jehan let his gaze travel the length of her, desire hammering through every cell in his body.
Oh, yeah. To survive the next week alone with this female, he was going to need a lot of boundaries and rules.
She should have said no.
She should have trusted her good sense and left Jehan standing in the middle of the midnight garden alone last night, not helped him set down terms of their own for the ritual neither of them wanted to be part of.
Instead, that next evening, she found herself seated beside him at the head of a long banquet room in her parents' Darkhaven in front of a combined hundred members of their two families who had assembled to celebrate their send-off and the start of the handfast's first night.
In less than an hour, she and Jehan would be delivered to the private oasis retreat and left to fend for themselves until officials from both tribes came to retrieve them at the end of the eight nights. Until then, she would be trapped with him in close quarters. Intimate quarters.
Oh, God. She must be out of her damn mind.
Sera reached for her wine glass and drained it in one gulp.
"Pace yourself," Jehan drawled from beside her. "If you get too tipsy, I'd hate to have to carry you out of here tonight."
"Like hell you will." She smiled and spoke under her breath, doing her best to pretend he wasn't the last male she'd ever choose to spend time with. "And we have a deal, remember? One that specifically states no touching. I expect you to honor that."
A chuckle emanated from him, so deep it was almost a growl. "Don't worry, I have no intention of touching you."
She placed her empty glass back on the table. "Good. Then don't even joke about it."
"Trust me, Seraphina, you'll know when I'm joking."
She made the mistake of looking at him and found him smirking as he leaned back in his chair. But there wasn't any humor in his light blue eyes. Only a dark promise that made her pulse skitter through her veins.
According to tradition, he was dressed in a white linen tunic and loose pants. A long, striped sash bearing his blue-and-gold family colors was tied around his trim waist. He looked decadent and confident, sprawled against the back of his seat. As arrogant as a prince accustomed to having the world bend to his whim, even if his title was as musty as the pact that bound her to him tonight.
As for Sera, she had been clothed according to tradition too. Wrapped and knotted into yards of diaphanous red silk that somehow formed a body-skimming gown, she was also dripping in beads and bangles. Painted henna patterns swirled in delicate flourishes and arcs over the backs of her hands and up her limbs.
The dress constricted her breathing and the decorations on her skin made her feel like an offering headed for the altar.
Jehan's searing gaze beside her wasn't helping.
Even though they'd agreed to avoid each other as much as possible for the next week, Sera couldn't forget the heat that had ignited between them in the garden. Or in the moment they'd first made eye contact in the Darkhaven's salon.
He was attractive; she couldn't begin to deny that. With his luxurious chestnut hair and impossibly blue eyes, he was heart-stoppingly gorgeous. The fact that his massive, muscular body and powerful presence seemed to suck all the air out of the room only made the handsome Breed male even more magnetic.
The V-neck of his linen tunic was cut several inches down his powerful chest, baring a lot of tawny skin and smooth muscle, and the edges of his Breed dermaglyphs. The color-infused skin markings indicated the vampire's mood, and right now, the neutral hues of Jehan's glyphs told her that he'd recently fed.
Not surprising. It was customary for a Breed male about to enter the handfast to slake his blood thirst on a willing human Host before the week began. This to ensure that he didn't drink from his Breedmate companion and bond to her out of physical need instead of love.
A vision of Jehan drinking from the throat of another woman sprang into Sera's mind uninvited. His dark head nestled into the curve of a tender neck. His sensual mouth fastened to smooth, pale skin as his sharp fangs penetrated a pounding vein and he began to drink his fill.
Would he gentle a woman with coaxing words and soothing caresses when he took her carotid between his teeth? Or would he spring on her like the predator he was, dominating her with speed and force and white-hot power?
Some troubling part of her she didn't recognize stirred with the need to know.
Sera groaned. She squirmed in her seat as her pulse thudded faster and erotic warmth bloomed between her thighs.
She wanted to cross her legs to relieve the unwelcome ache, but the skirts of her ceremonial dress were too restricting. Elsewhere in the banquet room, her father was reciting the traditional terms of the handfast. She only half-listened, too distracted by Jehan's presence beside her and the heat of his gaze on her as she fidgeted and shifted in her chair.
It suddenly occurred to her that the room had gone strangely quiet. Expectantly quiet.
All eyes in the room were fixed on her, and her father was no longer speaking.
Jehan stood up and pointedly cleared his throat. "It's time for us to go, Seraphina."
"Oh." She rose to her feet, eager to escape the weight of everyone's gazes. Plus, she couldn't wait to put some much-needed distance between herself and Jehan.
But he wasn't moving. Why wasn't he moving?
"Don't forget the kiss!" someone shouted cheerfully from among the gathering. "It's tradition to seal the pact with a kiss!"
Leila. Damn that girl.
Sera shot a narrowed glare at her exuberant sibling but her grin showed no remorse.
"Kiss her!" she shouted again.
And then across the room, Marcel called for the kiss too. Someone else picked up the chant, then another. Before long, the entire place was applauding and thundering with the command. "Kiss her! Kiss her! Kiss her!"
Sera turned a miserable look on Jehan. "We don't really have t—"
Before she could finish, he moved closer and his mouth slanted over hers in a blast of heat. His lips caressed hers, impossibly soft, achingly sensual. His hands held her face, and yes, they were gentle. His kiss was too, but beneath its tenderness was a possessiveness—a raw power—that rocked her.
He mastered her mouth in an instant, and every brush of his lips had her aching to be claimed by him.
Her thoughts scattered. Her knees went a little boneless.
Even worse, the coil of warmth that had gathered between her thighs a few moments ago blazed molten and wild now.
Sera raised her hands to grip his shoulders, if only to keep from sagging against him in front of a hundred onlookers. All the reassurances of their private agreement to spend the next week in separate corners flew away like leaves on the wind as Jehan kissed her. She couldn't help it. She moaned against his mouth, her pulse quickening, hammering even louder than the cheers of the gathering around them.