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Symposium highlights roles of AG, private attorneys in consumer cases
Issue December 2014 By Jason Scally
Members of the Attorney General's Office (AGO), private attorneys and business leaders gathered together at the Massachusetts Bar Association's first Consumer Advocacy Symposium and Pinnacle Awards to discuss consumer protection issues and celebrate two local companies who "do things the right way." The event, held at Suffolk University Law School, was presented by the MBA's Consumer Advocacy Task Force, which was established in 2013 by then-MBA President Douglas K. Sheff to advance the MBA's commitment to protecting consumer rights.
After a welcome by Sheff, Consumer Advocacy Task Force members Andrew Rainer and Adam C. Ponte spoke briefly about the Task Force's initiatives, including the Consumer Protection Clearinghouse - a web library of FAQs, useful links and quick-tip videos on several consumer-related topics, which will be featured on the MBA's companion MassLawHelp.com website.
The symposium's first panel, moderated by Task Force member Nadine Cohen, involved discussions about the work of the AGO's Consumer Protection Division, the consumer mediations available at the AGO and the AGO's role in data breach litigation. Panelists included Stephanie Kahn, chief of the AGO's Consumer Protection Division; Patricia Hamilton, the director of the AGO's Public Inquiry and Assistance Center; and Assistant Attorney General Sarah Cable.
Rainer then returned to the podium to moderate the second panel, which focused on the role of private attorneys in consumer litigation brought by the commonwealth. Panelists included Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, now senior counsel at Proskauer Rose LLP; Former First Asst. Attorney General Dean Richlin, now a partner at Foley Hoag; Suffolk University Law School Professor Kathleen Engel; and Stuart Rossman, director of litigation at the National Consumer Law Center.
Following the panel discussions, MBA President Marsha V. Kazarosian presented the MBA Pinnacle Awards to Dancing Deer Baking Company and Staples, Inc. - two Massachusetts companies that "thrive and do right by their customers at the same time," she said.
"Often, when we talk about consumer protection we focus on helping consumers resolve their problems with companies that fall short of expectations. But there are companies that do things the right way," Kazarosian said. "We [at the MBA] feel it is important to highlight those companies whose business practices serve as positive models to others."
Special thanks to all the task force members who helped make this program such a success: MBA Vice President Christopher A. Kenney (chair), Alice B. Braunstein, Nadine Cohen, Francis K. Morris, Margaret Helen Paget, Jodi M. Petrocelli, Adam C. Ponte and Andrew Rainer.
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How will I know when to buy a new car?
For almost 170 million the last three years, the answer was "yes," whether that meant new or used.
Almost 29 million vehicles – 17.2 million new, 11.6 million used – were from franchise dealerships, with another 28 million from non-franchise sellers, including individuals.


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Welcome to our brand new "staff corner", where we will be introducing you to the Burns Sheehan team.
It's a very exciting time here at Burns Sheehan as we are currently experiencing a period of immense growth in the team and are always looking for great people to join us. If you are looking for a new opportunity to join a fast growing recruitment team, then please get in touch.
Luke joined Burns Sheehan 5 years ago and specialises in DevOps recruitment.
When I first met Luke at the Burns Sheehan 10th Anniversary Party my first impression was that he was thoughtful, friendly and impossible to fluster. He's one of those guys who may have a lot on his plate, but you'd never know it.
But after working at Burns Sheehan for a few weeks, I realized there is another, brilliantly hilarious side to Luke. He's like a closet joker - one moment he'll be calm and getting on with his work, the next he'll be throwing about some banter or doing something ridiculous to make everyone around him chuckle. Despite being one of the quieter guys in the office, he's clearly a core member of the Burns Sheehan family and plays an important role in reminding us all to not take the recruitment game too seriously and have some fun from time to time!
How did you come to work for Burns Sheehan?
After Abraxas was taken over by Randstad, Mat and I were both made redundant. Mat took some time out and eventually ended up at Burns Sheehan and I went to the JM Group to do investment banking IT recruitment. I'd just bought a house so I needed a job quickly so I pretty much took the first offer I got. I met some great people there who I'm still in touch with today but I wasn't too happy there at all. So when Mat got in touch about 9 months later to ask if I was interested in working for Burns Sheehan I jumped at the opportunity and joined Burns Sheehan in June 2010. And then a little while later I got Chris to join Burns Sheehan!
What an amazing story! So you've been at Burns Sheehan for about 5 years and now specialize in DevOps recruitment. What do you like about that area?
Yeh, I've been specializing in DevOps for about a year and a half. It took a while for it to take off, but I really like working in this space. It's a relatively new and fast-growing area that combines both development and systems administration. I wouldn't say I have deep technical expertise in this space though, just enough to speak their language to know they have enough experience and knowledge to fulfil the role's requirements. A lot of my focus is still on finding people with personalities that would suit the culture of the business and aspirations that could be met by the opportunity.
What is the best thing about working in recruitment?
Everyone says it but it's true: the best thing about recruitment is that every day is different. It's a great job to have if you're working for the right company and you're in it for the long term.
I don't think there are many companies like Burns Sheehan that make the job so rewarding though, and that comes down to the people we work with – both at Burns Sheehan and the people in our networks. I like the way Sean and Jon choose the run the business. We also have a good work-life balance here: the culture and hours allow everyone to spend plenty of time with their kids or having an enriching life outside of work, which is relatively rare in the recruitment industry.
If you're in it for a quick win it's not going to work though – you won't get so much out of the job and it might be hard to change industries as you've been pigeon-holed as a recruiter.
What's the worst thing about recruitment?
The worst thing is that there is still a stigma against the industry that we're constantly having to prove ourselves. I think Burnsie mentioned this in his staff corner last week and it's true - there are plenty of bad recruiters out there, but we try and do it the right way. It's tough when we're put on the same level as bad estate agents and have to overcome a number of preconceptions before gaining people's trust.
I've got two kids and another on the way so a lot of my time is taken up wiht the family, which I welcome. I play the guitar too, so when I can I like playing a bit of music and watching Chelsea (mainly on TV nowadays), not much else. I don't go out too much anymore, bar a ruby and a beer with a few mates every so often. I probably spend about 90% of my free time with the family.
I understand that you want your kids to learn about technology from a young age.
Yes, I definitely want my kids to learn about technology and how to code. My eldest daughter, Ava, is only 9 but she is learning how to programme using Rasberry Pi. It's brilliant !
I'm also keen for my kids to be musical so she's also learning how to play the piano. We have a keyboard at home at the moment but I want to get her an electric piano with more weighted keys so it feels more like a real piano.
What did you want to do when you were growing up?
Working in music, mainly as a backing guitarist in a band. I studied Media at Uni and I really wanted to be a sound engineer away on film sets for months on end. I actually did a bit of this on the TV show Flog It!, but I soon realized that I'd need to start at the bottom which would mean a low salary and would be on set all the time so it wasn't an appealing option anymore. I still play the guitar quite a lot at home though. If I had the time I could play all day long!
Probably Facebook. I don't like all the pointless attention-seeking status updates that people put up such as "Feeling so lonely at the moment" or "How about things in my life go right for a change" but I can't help but check Facebook at least 5 times a day.
I'm also a member of the Sunday Times Wine Club, although I actually know very little about wine!
What is your biggest pet hate?
Probably soap operas and trashy tabloids. I'm not a snob though!
I'd say anyone from Monty Python as they're all lunatics and the stuff they come up with is completely insane and utterly out of this world in terms of alternative, nonsensical humour.
I went to audition for Pop Idol once. It must have been in 2005, or 2004.
That's awesome! What did you do?
I sang 'Take it Easy' by the Eagles. I didn't go to audition though. I only went with a friend who took her guitar with her. We were playing in the queue and someone said I should audition too, so I went for it. I didn't get anywhere but it's still a good story to tell.
What's your philosophy towards work?
Well I don't want to sound too much like Burnsie, but I think if you're going to do something make sure you do it 100%. And always be respectful. We put that above everything else which means we're playing a longer-term game than other recruiters out there, but I've always put friendship, loyalty and respect for others above everything else.
I got into recruitment and didn't think I'd do it for more than a few years, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The first couple of years in recruitment it's different because you're always proving yourself. When you get more senior the job gets easier, but then you also have management responsibility and usually you have bigger responsibilities in your personal life too.
Well I'm always taking note of what people do and say - people like Mat, Chris, Burnsie and Baz - and I think that has influenced me and my career.
There was one guy who used to work here – Darryl – who told me when I was quite new to recruitment: "Don't take this game too seriously" and I think he's absolutely right. You're dealing with people in recruitment - you're selling people to people - and that can make the job quite unpredictable as people can change their minds or lie to you. If I sold you this cup, the cup wouldn't turn around and say: "I don't want to live in your kitchen anymore!". I used to go home and not be able to sleep because I'd worry about whether candidates would say yes or no to an offer, but that advice has helped me learn how to not take everything too personally.
Probably coming to work for Burns Sheehan! I knew what Mat was like at Abraxas, in a good way (laughs), so when I heard that Burns Sheehan had hired him I knew they were serious. Obviously in the last two years I've grown and have taken on more responsibilities. It's also been great to work with my mates, like Chris.
If you were speaking to a student or recent grad who was thinking about getting into recruitment, what would you say to them?
Think long and hard before you get into recruitment because it won't click overnight - it's a job where you really have to persevere. It's important to find the right company for you, too. It's so hard to know what that would be as a grad, but I'd tell them to think about what they're looking for in their first job and explore a few different options when they kick off their job search.
And finally, can you describe yourself with one picture?
This is a cartoon a friend did of me - I promise I have no other connection to the film!
Want to have a quick chat with Luke about your career prospects and what's on the market? Connect with him on LinkedIn or email luke@burnssheehan.co.uk.
Interested in working for Burns Sheehan? Visit our "Work for us" page or email your CV and cover letter to careers@burnssheehan.co.uk.


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Proceedings of the National Roundtable on Evaluation of Mutlilevel/Combination HIV Prevention Interventions
The National Roundtable on Evaluation of Multilevel/Combination HIV Prevention Interventions had the goals of examining the present state of the art of multilevel and combination HIV prevention interventions, both domestically and internationally; to define the significant challenges and scientific gaps in current evaluation methods and identify the most promising methodological approaches to address these gaps; and to guide the future agenda for HIV prevention research. To address these methodological gaps, we must combine the methodological and statistical rigor associated with clinical trials, the conceptual framework of implementation science, the on-the-ground strategies of programmatic monitoring and evaluation, and the strengths of pre- and post-intervention mathematical modeling. In looking at the HIV epidemic in the US, the group discussed current initiatives guided by the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and the increased optimism over treatment as prevention. We noted that considerable progress has been made in developing core metrics to evaluate outcomes along the "treatment-as-prevention cascade" that could be captured through public health surveillance—number of new HIV cases detected and proportion linked to care, retained in care, on active treatment, and virally suppressed. Our understanding of the optimum package of interventions with regard to both effectiveness and efficiency remains incomplete. Progress was reported, however, in the collection of process data at the local level to better assess how to improve programs. Devising epidemic impact measures to quantify reductions in HIV incidence attributable to combination interventions remains challenging, mostly due to barriers to testing impact through methods like community cluster randomization in the US. Looking globally, the group discussed a number of planned clinical trials of combination interventions also spurred by optimism over treatment as prevention. Common elements of combination approaches included expansion of voluntary counseling and testing, adult male circumcision, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, and management of sexually transmitted infections, along with expanding ART treatment. Outcome measures were generally framed in terms of the treatment-as-prevention cascade, though these data are not available from current surveillance systems, pointing to the need to create improved systems of data collection. The most common approach to measuring epidemic impact was clustered community randomization, with incident infections measured through cohorts or newer cross-sectional, multi-assay algorithms. Recommendations from the roundtable include the following:
A new coalition of interventionists, implementation scientists, public health program and surveillance specialists, mathematical modelers, and behavioral scientists is needed to adequately address the evaluation of multilevel/combination HIV interventions at the community-level.
The use of the conceptual frameworks of the HIV prevention continuum and engagement-in-HIV-care cascade should be used in structuring evaluation of combination HIV interventions.
Common public health surveillance systems to evaluate combination HIV prevention interventions at the community level are recommended, and this capacity should be further developed internationally.
Mathematical modeling before, during, and after multilevel/combination HIV interventions should be incorporated in the design, implementation, and interpretation of intervention results.
Because an emphasis on efficiency as well as effectiveness from implementation science is helpful, costing and cost-effectiveness evaluations of combination HIV prevention interventions are recommended and are important to policy makers.
Use of innovative trial and observational study designs outside of the traditional randomized, controlled trial paradigm should be used to account for the complex multilevel and combination nature of new HIV prevention interventions, and emerging design and analysis methods (e.g., stepped-wedge designs, adaptive trial designs, causal inference modeling of "natural experiments") should be considered to address the challenges of community-level effectiveness evaluation.
Because social factors and human behaviors are integral factors all along the HIV care and treatment cascade, it is crucial to include social and behavioral science in the design, implementation, and evaluation of combination interventions (e.g., community engagement and mobilization interventions).
Mixed methods, including qualitative data collection (e.g., key informant interviews with implementers, in-depth interviews with target population members), are recommended to increase our understanding of how and why interventions are successful or not.
Increased funding opportunities for methods development, whether as standalone projects or as supplements to large trials, is recommended as is funding for career development in methods research (e.g., methods-focused K awards).
National-Roundtable-Summary.pdf
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I immediately knew when I found this blouse at the bottom of one of the boxes at the J. Crew warehouse sale last Saturday that I would be wearing it all the time. I didn't waste any time and paired it with this crochet skirt for work on Monday. It was one of those outfits that came together effortlessly and looked professional but fun. I recently dug that tote out of storage and have been using it as my work bag - it holds everything. I wish it wasn't so old and you could still get your hands on one; it's the perfect multi-purpose bag. Also, if you're looking for the perfect wear-with-everything booties, these from Forever 21 are it. I've been wearing them nonstop. Here's to a great Thursday and only one more day until the weekend!
So jealous of your j.crew finds this weekend. Let me know next time you are going, my friend and I seriously are going to make the trip!! Love this outfit - and i've been debating some similar booties from F21!
I absolutely adore that J Crew paid top and must find one on eBay!! So cute they way to styled it!


Since then, things have been taking off for Heath! He has signed a management deal in Nashville with the same group that manages another Arkansas native, country superstar Justin Moore. Heath will soon sign a deal with Sony as a songwriter. He will be writing songs that could be picked up by major country artists that you hear every day on your favorite iHeartCountry station.
Heath has been playing gigs across the country. His next stop is Sunday, January 27th at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, Georgia. Then, he'll be back in Arkansas on Saturday, February 2nd for a show at the Tumbling Shoals VFW.
Heath caught us up on his recent success during our interview on The Vine. We also got to hear a song that he wrote. I especially love this song, because it mentions the Ozark Mountains and the Buffalo River. Heath and I are from the same stomping grounds, around Van Buren County, so I loved hearing those references of places nearby. Check out the interview and song in the video above. And be watching out and listening for Heath Sanders on your radio!
The video that set Heath on a musical career path. After this went viral, Bobby Bones had Heath on his national radio show to perform live.
Heath Sanders on the Bobby Bones Show in February 2018.


Fred Fitzke; Retinal Imaging and functional studies in the living human eye to reveal fine structural changes that accompany loss of visual sensitivity. Journal of Vision 2008;8(17):36. doi: 10.1167/8.17.36.
In patients with hereditary retinal degenerations and age related macular degeneration (AMD) novel optical imaging techniques provide new opportunities for understanding the biological basis of visual loss and determining whether innovative forms of intervention are effective in preventing blindness. Advances in Adaptive Optics imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography and Molecular Imaging allow the investigation of photoreceptor distribution, thickness of the different retinal layers and the effects of specific molecular species associated with the pathologies. Autofluorescence (AF) imaging which targets lipofuscin in the Retinal Pigment Epithelial cell layer allows the study of its role in Stargardts disease and AMD. Newer methods currently being used in animal models are expected to soon be translated to patient investigations. These include direct visualisation of the fundamental biological process of apoptosis (programmed cell death) in the living eyes of rodent and primate models. The psychophysical measurement of rod and cone mediated visual function on a microscopic scale in the eyes of patients with localized regions of retinal dysfunction provides an understanding of the functional consequences of the abnormalities seen by the imaging studies. In some cases of AMD striking abnormalities in AF can co-exist with nearly normal cone function while rod function is severely compromised. These techniques allow investigation of the biological basis of visual loss, its natural history and the potential beneficial effects of novel treatments including gene therapy.


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Reactions to President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris accord on climate change are -- forgive me -- overheated. The ACLU is calling it an "assault on communities of color," for some reason, and environmental activist Tom Steyer says it's a "traitorous act of war against the American people." For his part, Trump says that staying in the agreement would have assured us a future of "lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories and vastly diminished economic production."
Yet Trump and his critics alike know that very little in the accord is binding on the parties to it. As a result, withdrawing from it can't have major consequences by itself.
Listen carefully to the agreement's supporters, and their real argument becomes clear: For them, staying in it increases the likelihood that the world's governments will take future steps to avert what they believe will be a climate catastrophe.
The best argument for leaving, meanwhile, is that these steps would be costly overreactions to that threat -- and reducing such consequences is a good thing. The risk that climate change will have catastrophic effects justifies investing to predict, mitigate and adapt to those effects. It doesn't justify restrictions on the use of energy.
The argument that leaving the Paris agreement will jeopardize America's global leadership also seems overblown. The decision dismays many people around the world, to be sure, just as other American decisions have dismayed many of the same people over the years. We are told that other governments will no longer trust America to keep its commitments. But it would not be a bad thing for other countries to learn that a president's say-so can't always bind future presidents.
It's a mistake, too, to see Trump's decision as a turn toward isolationism. It's true that the step cheers those in his coalition who want the U.S. to weaken its alliances and enact tariffs. But it also has the support of conservatives and Republicans who oppose those policies. That breadth of support helps explain why Trump made this move while so far refraining from tearing up NAFTA and the like.
Trump has even talked, albeit very vaguely and implausibly, about renegotiating the Paris agreement. It would be better to take a different path altogether. But we are free to go in any number of directions, since we are essentially in the same place we were when we were in the agreement.
Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a senior editor of National Review and the author of "The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life."


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Q: Remove spaces in string under quotation in Notepad++ using RegEx Suppose I have these strings:
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I want to remove trailing and leading spaces present under quotation mark like this:
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How can I achieve this in Notepad++ using RegEX?

A: Use this to find: '(\s*)(.*?)(\s*)' and this  to replace: '\2'.

A: Find this regexp: (^')\s+(\w+)\s*(')|(^')\s*(\w+)\s+(')
Replace with : \1\2\3\4\5\6
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A: All the RegExp given above solve my problem in a better way. I appreciate to all who helped me to solve this problem. Thank you everyone.
Here i am going to add a RegExp given below which can be used to count total number of spaces inside single quotation. It can be used to remove all spaces also.
Find-->  \s(?!(?:[^']*'[^']*')*[^']*$)  and ReplaceWith-->Nothing to do(leave blank) then click 'ReplaceAll'.

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4He is the One Who sent down to the hearts of the believers the feelings of trust and tranquility/morale which pacify the heart so they would increase in faith along with their faith. Armies of the heavens/universe and the earth belong only to Allah. And Allah is the One Who knows best, the One Who is the best law maker.
7Armies of the heavens/universe and the earth belong only to Allah. Allah is One Who is the most exalted, the most powerful, the most honorable, the invincible/the subduer, the best law maker, the One Who precludes corruption best/makes incorruptible.
10Surely, those who take pledge of loyalty to you actually take pledge of loyalty to Allah. Power; blessings and support of Allah is over their power; support and service. Therefore, whoever breaks his word has broken it only against himself. And whoever fulfills what he has promised to Allah, Allah will give him a great reward immediately.
11Those among Bedouin Arabs, who have remained behind; who have not come with you, will soon tell you: "Our properties and families occupied/forbade us. Ask Allah for forgiveness for us". They say with their tongues what is not within their hearts. Say: "If Allah intended a harm or a benefit for you, who could prevent Him? Rather, Allah is aware of what you do".
12You truly thought that the Messenger and the believers would not return to their families/the people close to them forever. This seemed pleasing to your hearts. And you made an evil assumption and became a people manipulated/destroyed.
13And whoever disbelieves in Allah and His Messenger, let him know that We have prepared a blazing fire for the infidels; those who consciously deny the divinity of Allah and the fact that He is Rabb.
14And the dominion of the heavens/universe and the earth belongs only to Allah. He forgives whom He wills, punishes whom He wills. And Allah is the One Who forgives much, shows great mercy.
15When you go to get the booties, those who remained behind will say: "Let us follow you". They wish to change the words of Allah. Say: "You will never go with us. Allah has said so before". Then they will say: "Rather, you envy us". Quite contrary, they do not understand but a little.
16Say to those among Bedouin Arabs who remained behind: "You will soon be called to fight against a powerful people, either you will fight them or they will become Muslims. And if you obey, Allah will give you a good reward. Yet, if you turn away like you did before, He will punish you with a painful punishment".
17There is no blame upon the blind, no blame upon the lame, no blame upon the sick. Yet, whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, Allah will admit him into the gardens of Jannah [Heaven/Paradise], underneath of which rivers flow. And whoever turns away, He will punish him with a painful punishment.
18,19Surely, Allah was pleased with the believers when they took pledge of loyalty to you under that tree. He knew what was within their hearts and sent upon their hearts tranquility, assurance and peace/morale and rewarded them with a close conquest and many booties they would take. And Allah is the One Who is the most exalted, the most powerful, the most honorable, the invincible/the subduer, the best law maker, the One Who precludes corruption best/makes incorruptible.
20,21And Allah has promised you many booties you will take and other things which you are unable but Allah encompasses for you so you may enjoy and as a sign for the believers, so Allah may guide you to the straight path. Allah has bestowed this upon you right away and then withdrew his hands from upon you. And Allah is the One Who is the most competent over everything.
22,23And had the infidels; those who consciously deny the divinity of Allah and the fact that He is Rabb fought you, they would have turned back and fled away as the long-established law/implementation of Allah. –You will not find any change in the law of Allah.- And they would not have found a familiar who guides, protects nor a helper.
24,25And Allah is the One Who withdrew their hands from you and your hands from them in the valley of Mecca; Hudaybiyyah after He made you victorious over them so Allah may admit whom He wills into His mercy. And Allah is the One Who sees best what you do. And they are the ones who do not accept the divinity of Allah and the fact that He is Rabb and who forbid you from Masjid al-Haram and prevent the food which is sent to those who fulfill hajj [pilgrimage] from reaching its place. And if not for the believing men and women whom you do not know yet and for whom you will have liability because you may crush them unintentionally, if they had been divided from each other, We would have definitely punished those among them who disbelieve in the divinity of Allah and the fact that He is Rabb with a painful punishment.
26And when the infidels; those who consciously deny the divinity of Allah and the fact that He is Rabb ignited within their hearts the arrogance and haughtiness of lineage, conservatism left from the time of ignorance, Allah sent down upon the hearts of His Messenger and the believers the feelings of trust and tranquility/morale which pacify the heart and ensured that those believers were faithful to their word of "taqwa/entering under the guardianship of Allah". And, they were worth and capable of this. Allah is the One Who knows all best.
27And surely, Allah has made that vision to come out as true in truth; "If Allah wills, you will enter Masjid al-Haram in safety as the ones who have turned back to their normal civil life". Therefore, Allah knows what you do not know. Then He bestowed you a conquest lesser/closer than that.
28Allah is the One Who has sent His Messenger with the Qur'an which is the guidance to the righteous path and the true religion to prevail the true religion over all religions. And Allah is sufficient as witness.
29Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Muhammad, the messenger of Allah, and those with him are severe against the infidels; those who consciously deny the divinity of Allah and the fact that He is Rabb so that Allah may enrage the infidels with them, and they are merciful among themselves. You see them as the people who teach the oneness of Allah, who submit, seeking from Him and a pleasure. Their mark from submission to Allah is seen in their existence/on all over them. This is their example in the Torah. And their example in the Bible is like a crop that has sprouted its offshoots, become thicker by strengthening it and then has stood upon its stalk. Sowers delight over this. Allah has promised to the ones who believe and do amendatory deeds from among them forgiveness and a great reward.


You can find out anything you want to on the internet. It is both a source of information and misinformation.
As PR people, our supposed raison d'etre is to provide information, or if you're listening to Subramanian Swamy, misinformation.
But other than PR people – what are your top sources of misinformation?
Especially the best educated ones. It is always the people who are most confident of their pronouncements who are the most persuasive, but don't be fooled. Even if your best friend is a St. Stephen's professor check the facts before you pass on their information.
Several times I have quoted information from my client websites in press releases, only to be hauled over the coals later on for giving out wrong facts and figures. Now I have learnt to double-check any figures with the clients personally before I quote them.
Most people I meet have a Facebook profile personality that is completely at odds with their real personality.
A great place for finding out news before it gets into the mainstream media. A shame so much of it isn't true.
The issue with Wikipedia is that it gets most things right, so you end up trusting it. Then when it is wrong you end up getting bitten in the arse!


President Moi of Kenya has characterized tribalism as a cancer. This is an accurate description of a demoralizing challenge that we face in Africa. As an urban raised African I too saw tribalism as an evil that we have to overcome. Increasingly lately I have come to regard tribalism both as a cancer and also a tool that can be used to propel Africa to a new dimension of development.
The majority of Africans are not able or willing to forsake their tribal allegiances so what do we do with this mind set. How can we channel this tribal energy into a national mainstream. We need to understand the tribes before we impose nationalism on them. Tribes are a contradiction in todays Africa they are an evil if your tribe is not in power and a benefit if your tribe is in power. This is due to the nature of our political and government systems whereby there are no checks and balances. This fosters a climate of absolute power resting on the Executive and by extension to the Executive tribe. So what should be done?
The first step to getting rid of an ailment is an acurate diagnosis and an admission by the patient that he has something that ails him. Once the diagnosis and admission have been made then a course of treatment is initiated that allows healing to begin. We need to admit that Africans are by nature tribalistic and this in itself is not inherently evil. Fact: tribes had institutions and systems that catered for the welfare of all the tribal members. Could it be that African States by totally disregarding tribal institutions and systems have weakened themselves? Could it be if you weaken the family you weaken the nation? Africans traditionally belonged to extended families, which in turn belonged to a clan, and which in turn belonged to a tribe. In our haste to make the absurd partitioned Africa (Berlin Conference and the partition of Africa) into nations we chose to totally disregard this established socio-political order to our own peril. So we have tried and failed at making the great leap from individual tribal members to national citizens. For one to have allegiance to a nation the benefits must outweigh those of belonging to a tribe. In most African nations you are defined as a citizen only in paper your primary designation is that of an ethnic group. For example on paper you might be Rwandanese but your benefits or ill fate is determined by whether you are Hutu or Tutsi. This schizophrenic national mind set permeates Africa and its denial only compounds the problem.
African States need to form governments and institutions that have their power base in the tribal institutions because this is where the real power emanates from. i.e. Most Africans respect and have primary allegiance to the tribal structure. The central government is viewed as an outside force that is often hostile and not relevant. I submit that the national government would have more legitimacy if all tribes were represented. All issues in government would be examined using dual standards; a tribal and a national standard. Balance both interests. In most parliaments an upper house should be formed consisting of statesmen who command the most respect and support from each tribe. All tribes would be designated two members very much like the US Senate. This group will balance the State interests versus the tribal interests. An equal representation will ensure that the rights and interests of minority tribes are not trampled upon by majority tribes.
Africa has tribes for better or for worse. If given lemons make lemon juice. It is the hand we have been dealt let us play it to our advantage; turn our cancer into HEALTH. Fellow Africans let me know what you think.
beliefs and values of the Nationalist leaders who have been trying to implement a Eurocentric system of government that ignores our tribalism. Although I agree with the nationalist ideology that we are one and we need to be united as a people. I do not understand their notion of nationalism that define "nations" through colonial borders. I do not understand how they think such borders which sometimes divide tribes into different nationalities could bring about national solidarity. We need to take advantage of our strong tribal ties to create a grassroots democracies that will derive power from tribal belonging.
N.B. Please refer to Swaziland's Tinkundla(gives regional authority back to the chiefs) system of democracy, I would like to know what you think about it.
western countries are homogeous In fact most of them have a chamber in their Congress or Parlement tha t gives equal power to all regions (tribes?) on the decisions of the countries. I equate western geographical regions with African tribes because maybe with few exception, that I do not know :=), there is a unique relation between a tribe and a geographical area.
legitimacy of a goverment by institutions I have a personal feeling, maybe I do not express this very well, that a western goverment is more a government of content (the institutions) than a government of process (consensual agreement). It is hard to mak e institutions, that are by definition static, on a structure when most of the decisions are taken after "palaver" and consensus.
This is why I think with the other netters who expressed this idea that something should be done to integrate the tribal system into the state government, in the first place, and ultimately into an African government. The importance of an African government at a higher level finds, in my opinion, a legitimacy in the fact that, unlike other regions of the world, the limits of the African states does not correspond to tribal limits. For instance, the border between Benin and Nigeria separates Yoruba families. The Beninois side speaks French as an "office" language, the Nigerian side speaks English. At the first sight they look very different, but the fact that they are under the traditionnal authority of the same chiefs make any custom control between the two border by the respective states impossible to maintain. The same pattern repeats itself between virtually all African countrie s which makes an African government indispensable.
Dr Kwame N'Krumah, first President of Ghana and one of the greatest supporters of panafricanism, made some interesting studies about all this. He emphazised the necessity of the effective involvement of all ethnic groups to the development of Africa and African countries. A good question to answer is why his work and ideas have not had more impact not only on other African governments but also in the diaspora. Ultranationalisms? Selfish interests? Manoueuvres of western countries willing to maitain their "own share" of the great continent? The debat e is open on this question. But a good understanding of those reasons is necessary to improve anything in the way Africa is governed today.
I also think that, nowadays, the problem is complicated by the existen ce of big cities and the exodus from the villages. Since those cities are influenced by the west, will a city like Lagos, Nigeria, one of the mo st populated cities of the world, be under a tribal goverment, a western- like government or an harmonious mix.
I hope I've transmitted my opinion of the complexity and uniqueness of African politics.


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DIVIDES Release "Echoes Fade" ft Defeat The Low's Chris James
Chris James from the Rise Records band Defeat The Low has joined the Portland quintet DIVIDES on their new single "Echoes Fade", is off the band's upcoming debut album Brokentooth.
he lyrics for this song were written in pieces since we moved down from Alaska," says bassist Joe Jackson. "Transitions anywhere can be hard, but the worst part is being away from the people you love. These lyrics in particular were really therapeutic for me to write, I'm reminded of that every time we play it. I wanted it to be less about the tragedy of absence and loss, and more so about not letting yourself get trapped in the past and the memories that hold you there. Having our friend Chris add vocals to the song really helped convey that message."
Brokentooth will be released independently on 8/11. Vocalist CJ Marie spoke about the process of creating the album. "In August 2013, DIVIDES moved from Anchorage, Alaska to Portland, Oregon. We didn't have jobs, or really a place to live, let alone any contacts in the music scene down here. Brokentooth was written during this process and after our relocation. It reflects the torment and elation that we've experienced over the past two years. It's really difficult to leave your families and friends and comfort zone to pursue a dream that you've had your entire life, but it's also really fucking rewarding. Musically, the album is so schizophrenic because it reflects the tumult of our lives, and the tremendous increase in our collective influences. This album marks the first recording that our new guitarist Paul Anderson contributed to and his addition really affected the way we think about music. We sort of challenged ourselves to push the limits on what we consider 'our sound'."
Pre-order Brokentooth here.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Sat Jul 18th – The Viking Bar, Spokane, WA
Wed Jul 29th – The Analog Cafe, Portland, OR
Wed Aug 5th – The Charleston, Bremerton, WA
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Thu Aug 6th – The Town, Tacoma, WA (21+)
Fri Aug 7th – Vans Warped Tour @ Portland Expo Center, Portland, OR
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Connect with DIVIDES:
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DIVIDES are a passionate group of young musicians who believe in the power music has to connect people. With a strong work ethic and a desire to take their music far beyond their hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, the quartet moved to Portland, Oregon shortly before the release of their debut EP Departures. DIVIDES' ability to seamlessly transition between crushing verses and catchy choruses has allowed them to share the stage with bands of all genres, and vocalist CJ Brunke's passionate stage presence demands the immediate attention of anyone watching.
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Personnel management (13)
Budget. (11)
Zoos (10)
Smithsonian buildings (9)
Delegations (8)
Professional associations (8)
Speeches, addresses, etc. (7)
Art museums. (6)
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel) (9)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary (6)
Jackson, William Henry (5)
National Zoological Park, Office of the Director (5)
Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.) (5)
Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893 (4)
Gardner, Alexander (4)
Hillers, John K. (4)
Lawrence, Jacob (4)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (4)
National Congress of American Indians (4)
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (4)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Planning, Management and Budget (4)
Smithsonian Institution., Office of Equal Opportunity (4)
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs (4)
Washington, Booker T. (4)
Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons) (4)
Adams, Ansel (3)
Ewers, John C. (John Canfield) (3)
Gill, De Lancey (3)
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo (3)
Marin, John (3)
Mooney, James (3)
Muhr, Adolph F., -1913 (3)
National Museum of Natural History. Office of the Director (3)
Red Cloud (3)
Winnebago Indians (11)
Teton Indians (9)
Pawnee Indians (8)
Crow Indians (7)
Kiowa Indians (7)
Salish Indians (7)
Omaha Indians (6)
Shawnee Indians (6)
Adirondack Mountain Reserve (N.Y.) (1)
Akron (Ohio) (1)
Amazon River Region (1)
Query: Delegations
348 records — Page 1 of 35
Richards, Jonathan A.
Concerns Indians of the Agency of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Comanche who visited Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia in 1872 under the care of Henry E. Alvord. (Photographs of some of these delegates are in the Bureau of American Ethnology photographic files.)
MS 7129 Silhouettes of members of a 1805-06 delegation to Washington and others
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
They include images of Joseph Barron (Baume), interpreter; Paul Choteau, interpreter, an Osage; Shegagahega, a Pawnee; Pagesgatse, a Pawnee; Tahawarra, perhaps a Missouria; Macapaba, perhaps a Missouria, Waconsca, perhaps a Kansa; and Sagessage ("The Wind"), an Osage. There are two items labeled number 10, one of which is Mechenecka, a Sac. The oth...
MS 3409 Notes on Indian delegations visiting Washington during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson [1812 ?]
Foster, Augustus John
Photocopy of pages 34-67. Includes account of the Osage and Mandan delegates brought to Washington in 1806 by Meriwether Lewis, as well as notes on Southeastern tribes, Delaware, and Pawnee.
Copy of Jeremiah Gurney photograph of Ponca delegation
Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895
1 copy print
NAA.PhotoLot.R86-31
Copy of studio portrait by Jeremiah Gurney depicting nine men, including Ponca chiefs and John B. Robertson, United States Indian Agent.
Smithsonian Institution Office of Printing and Photographic Services photographs of Zuni delegation
12 Prints (silver gelatin)
4 Negatives (acetate, 4 x 5 in.)
5 Negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
Photographs depicting a delegation of Zuni spiritual leaders with members of the Department of Anthropology. Made on September 26, 1978, they include images of the Zuni individuals Alonzo Hustito, Allen Kallestewa, Chester Mahooty, and Edmund J. Ladd. The photographs also depict T. J. Ferguson of the University of Arizona School of Anthropology, ...
MS 580-a Chahta or Choctaw vocabulary
Wright, Allen, active 1873-1880
NAA.MS580A
Recorded in Smithsonian Institution Comparative Vocabulary. Includes names of the "Chahta Delegation to Washington, 1866."
Hidatsa Delegation photographs in Washington, DC and New York City
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Miller, Kenneth C., 1901-1974
Sinclair, David
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
56 Photographic prints
18 negatives (photographic)
NMAI.AC.001.057
Photographs of the Hidatsa Delegation at the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in New York, City and visiting the White House in Washington, D.C. for the repatriation of a Water Buster Bundle in 1938. Hidatsa Delegation members included elders Drags Wolf and Foolish Bear.
MS 675 Copy of a letter from a Special Creek Delegation
NAA.MS675
Contains certain information relative to the origin and history of the Creeks, and requesting the return of Spa-he-cha and his followers to the Creek Nation.
MS 388 Linguistic material obtained from Richard M. Wolfe, delegate of Cherokee Nation to U. S. Government, 1879-1880
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Wolfe, Richard M. (Cherokee)
Robert M. Farring Jr. photograph collection of Indian delegations
Faring, Robert M. Jr
169 polaroid prints (color)
NAA.PhotoLot.85-21
Photographs depicting tribal delegates, probably made by Robert M. Farring during tribal group visits to the Bureau of Indian Affairs Washington office. Many of the photographs were originally mounted in notebooks with identification of pictured individuals and their affiliations.


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Q: Parsing aws-clite-gateway-api response issue Here is my JSON response. I want to parse the below JSON and get Site_id from header.location. I am able to get Status, Message values but not location value.
It is actually response header, I am trying to parse.
Please, anyone can help here?
    var apigClientFactory = require('aws-api-gateway-client').default;
let awsbody = JSON.parse(process.argv[2].split('\\').join('') || '{}');

    var apigClient = apigClientFactory.newClient({
    invokeUrl: awsbody.endPoint, // REQUIRED
    accessKey: awsbody.awsAccessKey, // REQUIRED
    secretKey: awsbody.awsSecreteKey, // REQUIRED
    region: awsbody.awsRegion, // REQUIRED: The region where the AapiKeyloyed.
    retryCondition: (err) => { // OPTIONAL: Callback to further control if request should be retried.  Uses axon-

retry plugin.
        return err.response && err.response.status === 500;
    }
});

var pathParams = awsbody.awsPathParams;
// Template syntax follows url-template https://www.npmjs.com/package/url-template
var pathTemplate = awsbody.awsPathTemplate; // '/api/v1/sites'
var method = awsbody.method; // 'POST';
var additionalParams = awsbody.awsAdditionalParams; //queryParams & Headers if any
//var additionalParams = {headers: { "x-apigw-api-id": 'vs2i50xvo4'}};

var body = awsbody.requestBody;
var output = {};

apigClient.invokeApi(pathParams, pathTemplate, method, additionalParams, body)
    .then(function(result) {
console.log(result)

    }).catch(function(result) {
             console.log(result)
    });

Here is output: But I just need Status, StatusText, location under headers and data (@ bottom) as output. I am tried to parse the output in above code no luck.
Can anyone help to parse response.
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  statusText: 'Accepted',
  headers:
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     location:
      '/transit-connectivity/api/v1/jobs/8125d985-3d90-473d-b799-c9974
     'x-amzn-trace-id': 'Root=1-5c8817db-5522b10bf2068ac2509ae35b;Samp
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cept;content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-apigw-api-id, Signature=801d0887fd
a249',
        'User-Agent': 'axios/0.18.0',
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     method: 'post',
     data:
      '{"site_id":"TDCLOUDTSTTD03","account_id":"109443356002","change
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01.128/25"]}',
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     finished: true,
     _headerSent: true,
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A: varible result is not in json format actually, take a look at my code which is in valid Json format.
You can get location as you need now.
let v = '{"data": {"status": "sucess","message": "request has been accepted"},"responsecode": 202,"responsetext": "Accepted","headers": {"server": "Server","date": "Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:34:36 GMT","content-type": "application/json","content-length": "61","x-amzn-requestid": "400377cd-4506-11e9-b941-3984677a719c","x-amz-apigw-id": "WciqVH8pPHcFgWg=","location": "/transit-connectivity/api/v1/jobs/8125d985-3d90-473d-b799-c9974","x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-5c8817db-5522b10bf2068ac2509ae35b;Sampled=0","connection": "close"}}';

let value = JSON.parse(v);
console.log("location :"value.headers.location);

Console:
  location :  /transit-connectivity/api/v1/jobs/8125d985-3d90-473d-b799-c9974


Jeremejevite specimens from a new find made earlier this year in the Erongo region of Namibia. Jeremejevite has long been a rare and desirable species for collectors but good specimens were hard to come by until a relative abundance from a few separate discoveries in miarolitic cavities at the Ameib ranch over the past several years. The specimens below represent the most recent finds at this locality. They were found between February and April of 2010 when miners fortuitously dug into the bottom of an older cavity and found that it exended downward. An amazing 18 kilograms of Jeremevite were reportedly found, though the vast majority were chalky, opaque and unsuitable for specimens. Most of the crystals found were etched, and unlike previous finds, there were plenty of matrix specimens plus some very thick, girthy crystals. Some of the matrix specimens feature an etched Jeremejevite crystal surrounded by clay in unusual tube-shaped rock matrix.
The mountains where the crystals were found.
The mine opening in the hillside.
Looking into the cavity where the crystals were found.
Stout, etched Jeremejevite crystal with attached acicular green Tourmaline. Great blue color with gem zones. Thicker and wider than the more pencil shaped crystals that are typical for the species. No damage.
Etched floater Jeremejevite crystal with good blue color and plenty of gem zones. Thick crystal with most of the original, flat prism faces still present, more etched at the ends. One of the best of the lot and 14 carats in weight. No damage.


We know from our practical experience that everything in this material world is not eternal; rather, it is gradually changing from one thing to another. This is the main reason for our distress here.
So, we should consider that person who is giving us the above information to be our real well-wisher, for he is showing us the path where we can make our life eternally blissful.


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We're getting really excited about this mixtape exchange party (if ya didn't already know)! Even more so now that we have NEW DJs added to the lineup.
There's Alex Moskos AKA Drainolith (also of AIDS Wolf fame), Luke Fowlie (World Skip the Beat) annnnd Aaron Maiden (DJ on CKUT's Roots Rock Rebel).
PS: We're going to be raffling off Sigur Ros tickets at the event. Repeat: Sigur Ros tickets. Bring yr best Jonsi impressions.
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This past weekend marked the final step in the drawn-out move from Ottawa to Montreal — finally got the chance to bring up all of my gear, bikes, records: the really important stuff. The rest of the week is looking pretty rad too, getting psyched for this awesome mixswap party we're throwing on Friday (check out the sweet poster!) plus a couple gigs with the new band and some American friends in town for a visit. Should be good!
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I have another topic for our consideration.
Again I want to touch on a matter that is at the heart of our being effective as Christians.
Can we look this time at what should be the central resource for us yet we neglect drawing on this divine provision.
We often give heed to its centrality symbolically but rarely draw on its resources in practice.
Some will have guessed that I am referring to… the Cross.
The Cross is much more than a historical event to be remembered, it is a timeless event happening now. God in Jesus subdued every dark power, conquered every sickness, defeated death, disempowered sin, and secured our freedom, at the Cross then, for us now.
This event though spiritual in nature is no less real than the chair we sit on.
We can literally kneel in belief before the Cross and for example, give over our stress, He wants us to have a light burden and an easy yoke.
The key to understand is that Jesus on the Cross experienced our individual struggle and stress for us. If we can receive the truth of this and apply it, our lives will be much easier and the Chemist's bill much lower. But there is a cost, we may need to pray for brokenness because the Lord detests a proud heart.
Paul spoke of dying daily, taking up the Cross daily. He clearly came back to the sacred hill often and I believe this was a key to his being able to endure extreme hardship.
So often today, hardship is seen as the fruit of a disobedient life, somehow indicating a separation from the blessings of God. We counsel those who struggle, not so much by kneeling together with them and appropriating the grace of God, but rather by encouraging self realisation, self esteem and self help. Many Pastors in fact have been taught to professionally manage their relationships with those in need, as if survival depends on it. In my life I have met few who will offer to kneel with me, and fewer that will weep.
I recall a vision I had about 25 years back. In the vision there was a throng of believers all walking in the same direction with indescribably beautiful music in the heavens overhead. On either side of this company of believers were well meaning officials indicating which way to walk. I was strongly aware that they in fact did not themselves know the way. As we walked there appeared on the horizon a single destination for all of us, you guessed it, it was the cross.
It is a travesty that Jesus went to so much trouble to provide release from all manner of impediments on the Cross, made available conquering power through the Cross, yet we generally seek release and power elsewhere.
Modern Christianity tends to be success orientated, 'Knowing Christ and the power of His resurrection' is often taught but the verse goes on… 'and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in his death'. Jesus said 'I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life'.
No one looking for a career in Christianity would be attracted by this job description.
In modernising Christianity, we have departed from the very guts of what it means to walk as Jesus walked, we have substituted for the call of the cross sophisticated methods of Christian service assisted by every electronic aid imaginable.
As a result of this we have a disempowered church.
May the Lord have mercy and bring us back to the cross.


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In mathematics, Nagao's theorem, named after Hirosi Nagao, is a result about the structure of the group of 2-by-2 invertible matrices over the ring of polynomials over a field.  It has been extended by Serre to give a description of the structure of the corresponding matrix group over the coordinate ring of a projective curve.

Nagao's theorem

For a general ring R we let GL2(R) denote the group of invertible 2-by-2 matrices with entries in R, and let R* denote the group of units of R, and let

Then B(R) is a subgroup of GL2(R).

Nagao's theorem states that in the case that R is the ring K[t] of polynomials in one variable over a field K, the group GL2(R) is the amalgamated product of GL2(K) and B(K[t]) over their intersection B(K).

Serre's extension
In this setting, C is a smooth projective curve C over a field K.  For a closed point P of C let R be the corresponding coordinate ring of C with P removed.  There exists a graph of groups (G,T) where T is a tree with at most one non-terminal vertex, such that GL2(R) is isomorphic to the fundamental group π1(G,T).

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Theorems in group theory

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'Recipes for Regulatory Corruption': How CDC, NIH Pull in Millions From Licensing Deals, Including COVID-Related Technologies
Aggregated data for fiscal year 2020 show the NIH and CDC collected a combined $63.4 million in royalty revenues under a business model that allows the NIH to grant technology licenses to the private sector.
Children's Health Defense Team
With 27 different institutes and centers housed under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) umbrella — including the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — NIH is the largest biomedical research agency in the world.
Operating under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH currently wields a hefty annual budget of nearly $42 billion.
Within NIH, the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) plays a "strategic role" in supporting patenting and licensing for inventions that emerge from laboratories at the NIH and also Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In a win-win business model, the NIH routinely grants technology licenses (both exclusive and non-exclusive) to the private sector for use or commercialization of its inventions, with those licenses then driving billions of dollars in royalties back into NIH coffers.
In fiscal year (FY) 2020 alone — October 2019 through September 2020 — aggregated data for NIH and CDC show the agencies collected a neat $63.4 million in royalty revenues.
Under federal law, a portion of licensing royalties reverts to NIH to support undefined "mission-related activities." Another portion goes directly to the agency's inventors, who are allowed up to $150,000 in payments per calendar year. The same holds true at CDC.
Scientists like to frame these payments as "positive incentives," but Children's Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. characterizes the royalty rules as "recipes for regulatory corruption."
Universities, too, receive royalties when they market patented technologies. Nearly 25 years ago, a University of Michigan biologist complained that two California universities (both public and private) were using royalties as a mechanism to covertly fleece taxpayers.
Citing a technology patented and licensed by the two universities, the professor explained that "ordinary people" had already paid through their tax dollars for the basic research that gave rise to the patents. He argued taxpayers should not have to continue paying the universities "many times over the original investment through patent royalties."
The royalty monies flowing to NIH scientists have periodically attracted comparable public ire.
In 2005, an explosive Associated Press (AP) scoop showed large numbers of agency scientists — at the NIH's explicit instruction — were routinely failing to disclose royalty payments, either to taxpayers or to participants in taxpayer-funded clinical trials who were obligingly testing out the NIH's royalty-generating experimental treatments.
As AP pointed out, "Such research helps bring the treatment closer to possible commercial use, which could in turn bring the researchers and NIH higher royalties."
Among the scientists scolded by AP for "testing products for which they secretly receive[d] royalties" was NIAID's Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Even without royalties (which are classified as "federal compensation" rather than "outside income"), the long-time NIAID director — who describes himself as a humble "government worker" with a "government salary" — is the nation's highest paid federal employee.
During the 2005 brouhaha, professing to be "extremely sensitive about the possibility of an appearance of a conflict of interest," Fauci told the public he was donating his payments to charity.
Judging by a late-2020 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there is still considerable room for improvement in terms of NIH transparency about NIH's licensing activities.
The GAO noted NIH "does not report which of its patents are licensed or release metrics that would enable the public to evaluate how licensing affects patient access to resulting drugs."
As one of its top two recommendations, the GAO urged NIH to provide "more information to the public" — in "an accessible and searchable format to the maximum extent possible" — to help citizens and policymakers understand licensing outcomes and impacts.
2020: Laying the groundwork for more historic highs?
"More public information" is conspicuously lacking in the OTT's FY2020 annual report, which provides only one paragraph of specifics (and two paragraphs of boilerplate) in a short section on "Inventions and Agreements."
In addition to noting the $63.4 million in FY2020 royalty revenues, the paragraph highlights a significant uptick in invention disclosures (up 20% over FY2019) and patent applications — 47% more applications filed compared to the previous year. (Invention disclosures are the first step in the patenting process.)
Elsewhere, technology transfer statistics show NIH executed more licenses in FY2020 (n=359) than in any prior fiscal year dating back to 1985 (when a mere 25 licenses were executed).
A few more COVID-specific details are available in the three-page portion of the GAO report focused on NIAID (pp. 22-25). There, we learn NIAID and its Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Office (TTIPO) worked "diligently" and "as quickly as possible" in 2020 to facilitate worldwide "sharing" of NIAID-developed SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins and plasmids (molecules encoding the spike proteins) to spur development of COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments and vaccines.
These efforts resulted in:
Ninety-six agreements with 75 academic organizations, nonprofit entities, government agencies, international organizations and other entities to furnish NIAID spike proteins or plasmids for research projects (called "material transfer agreements")
Twenty-one licenses negotiated with biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies, mostly for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development — these licenses pertain to "most of the vaccines in advanced clinical trials and several currently in use around the world" (notably, the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine that received Emergency Use Authorization in Dec. 2020)
An additional 16 agreements to collaborate on research, including four clinical trial agreements for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
NIH royalty income reached a historic high of $147 million in FY2015. At that time, however, the agency accurately forecast declines beginning around FY2018 due to expiring patents on major products.
Given the COVID-related licensing groundwork laid in FY2020, it would not be surprising to see NIH's royalties surge anew in FY2021.
Pfizer's COVID vaccine collaborator, BioNTech, is already paying royalties for use of the NIH-developed spike protein technology. Moderna, which co-owns its COVID vaccine patents with NIAID, is not paying royalties.
CDC's webpage listing technologies available for licensing (and, therefore, with the potential to generate royalties) has not been updated since May, 2020. At that time, the agency had about 60 technologies on offer, many related to diagnostics or vaccine development.
Whenever the CDC gets around to updating its list, it is likely the number of available technologies will be even higher.
The pandemic growth model
Where public health agencies are concerned, COVID-19 appears to be very good for business, with a flurry of unprecedented funding — conveniently mobilized by the pandemic — ushering in profound and likely permanent changes in a public health infrastructure once lamented as weak and fragmented.
The CDC now brags about having marshaled the largest response effort in its 74-year history. According to the agency's chief financial officer, "More resources were entrusted to CDC for execution and management [in FY2020] than ever before" — including a more than doubling of the previous year's funding.
Two-thirds (66%) of the grant funds committed or spent by CDC in FY2020 were COVID-19-related.
Over at NIH, prospects are even rosier for the agency — and scarier for the public. For FY2022, the Biden administration has requested a 21% NIH budget increase (to $51 billion), "accelerating a six-year trend of multi-billion-dollar annual budget increases."
Most of this would go toward the creation of a new NIH agency that would merge national security with health security, modeled after the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Knowing of DARPA's disturbing track record, investigative journalist Whitney Webb characterizes the new agency's security mandate as "a recipe for a technocratic 'pre-crime' organization with the potential to criminalize both mental and physical illness as well as 'wrongthink.'"
Ironically, many of the COVID therapies proven effective by frontline doctors but actively suppressed by federal agencies are inexpensive — a far cry from the budget-busting experimental vaccines that have been illegitimately framed as the pandemic's sole solution.
For the public, a major advantage of these therapies — including longtime fixtures on the World Health Organization essential medicines list — is the fact that their safety profile, side effects, dosing and drug interactions are well documented.
However, royalty-hungry scientists are not interested in "tried-and-true, classical … repurposing [of] drugs and strategies that have already been shown to work." They prefer, in the words of Columbia University's Dr. Ian Lipkin, novel treatments that are "sexy and new and patentable."
In short, off-patent drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and cheap supplements like vitamin C and vitamin D — often preventive as well as therapeutic — don't generate royalties.
Nor do they mesh with the global control agenda the NIH's new DARPA-like agency promises to facilitate. It is up to the public to reassert, strongly, that people and freedom come first.


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Q: Is it possible to access the name associated with the de-Bruijn index in Z3? So, I can obtain the names associated with bounds of the quantifier using  Z3_get_quantifier_bound_name called on the expression representing quantifier. But suppose I'm traversing an AST of quantified subformula. Is it possible to access the name of the index at that point?
Thank you.
if (z3_expr.is_var())
{
    // is it possible at this point to get the name of the quantified variable,
    // which was associated with it at quantifier creation?
}

A: Expressions that are variables don't have names directly associated with them.
The way we access the names is by maintaining a stack of the names from the
quantifiers that were traversed on the way down.
So maintain a vector (stack/list) of symbols, and whenever you
traverse a quantifier push the bound names from the quantifier onto the vector.
You will have to pop the names after you are done traversing the quantifier.
You use the following APIs to access the names of bound variables:
 unsigned Z3_API Z3_get_quantifier_num_bound(__in Z3_context c, __in Z3_ast a);

 Z3_symbol Z3_API Z3_get_quantifier_bound_name(__in Z3_context c, __in Z3_ast a, unsigned i);

Note that indices of quantified variables are ordered right-to-left.
So if Z3_get_quantifier_num_bound(context, expr) returns 2, and
x = Z3_get_quantifier_bound_name(context, expr, 0)
y = Z3_get_quantifier_bound_name(context, expr, 1)
then y has index 0 and x has index 1.


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A 12 day itinerary which gives a wonderful glimpse into a country with so much history, natural beauty and culture. Colonial towns, freshwater lakes and islands, volcanoes and glorious beaches combine to make a special 'off the beaten track' holiday.
Days 1-5: After a first night in the capital, Managua, driven to León (around 2 hours) and view Lake Managua and Momotombo volcano along the way. Two nights allows time for a short city tour before continuing to explore this delightful colonial city independently with its cobbled streets, bustling plazas and Central America's largest cathedral. León Viejo (32km away) was the original site of the city, abandoned due to volcanic activity in the 17th century. An excursion to the Juan Venado Nature Reserve is highly recommended and can be arranged locally. Navigating between the mangroves by motor boat gives the opportunity to see a variety of exotic birds, mammals, crabs and other wildlife.
Continue south (about 3 hours), with a stop on the way at the active Masaya volcano, and spend two nights in Nicaragua's other colonial jewel, Granada, on the southern shore of Lake Nicaragua. Founded in 1524 this is the oldest city in the New World with many colonial buildings, churches and an impressive cathedral. A short city tour will give an excellent introduction to Granada. The lake has around 354 islands (formed during volcanic eruptions) which can be visited by boat.
Days 6-8: Driven south (about 2 hours) along the shore of Lake Nicaragua to take a ferry (1 hour) to Ometepe island, rich in history and with diverse flora and fauna. Stay three nights at an authentic island lodge with views of Ometepe's towering volcanoes, Madera and Concepcion. Spend a full day experiencing the lifestyle of the islanders and visit many sites which are part of the island's history. Possible additional activities include boat excursions, volcano hikes, swimming in the lake, mountain biking and riding.
Days 9-11: Return to the mainland and driven (2 - 3 hours) to the Pacific coast near San Juan del Sur, to relax for three nights at a beachfront hotel.
Day 12: Driven (about 4 hours) to Managua airport for international connections.
A stay on one of the Corn Islands (Big Corn or Little Corn) both of which are renowned for their pristine white sand beaches. The islands are 70km off the Caribbean coastline and are accessed by a short flight from Managua. To reach Little Corn, visitors must additionally take a boat from Big Corn and getting around is on foot or by boat as there are no roads.
The estimated flight cost included in this itinerary (assuming international flights from the UK plus any internal flights that are necessary) is £850 per person.
A selection of properties offering good value without compromising on location.
Finca San Juan de la Isla - an authentic Ometepe Island lodge on the lake shore and a perfect base for exploration.
Hotel El Convento - a very central, colonial hotel in Léon with comfortable rooms, a lovely courtyard and a pool.
Hotel Plaza Colón - overlooking the Parque Central in Granada with comfortable, spacious rooms a courtyard and pool.
Morgan's Rock - an eco-lodge set on a bluff with a private beach, wonderful views, bungalows set amongst trees and a lovely pool.
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import com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter;
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  }

  public void setCurrency(PaymentAmountCurrency currency) {
    this.currency = currency;
  }

  public PaymentAmount value(Double value) {

    this.value = value;
    return this;
  }

   /**
   * The amount of the payment. Must contain at most two digits of precision e.g. `1.23`. Minimum accepted value is `1`.
   * @return value
  **/
  @ApiModelProperty(required = true, value = "The amount of the payment. Must contain at most two digits of precision e.g. `1.23`. Minimum accepted value is `1`.")

  public Double getValue() {
    return value;
  }

  public void setValue(Double value) {
    this.value = value;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object o) {
    if (this == o) {
      return true;
    }
    if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) {
      return false;
    }
    PaymentAmount paymentAmount = (PaymentAmount) o;
    return Objects.equals(this.currency, paymentAmount.currency) &&
        Objects.equals(this.value, paymentAmount.value);
  }

  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return Objects.hash(currency, value);
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.append("class PaymentAmount {\n");
    sb.append("    currency: ").append(toIndentedString(currency)).append("\n");
    sb.append("    value: ").append(toIndentedString(value)).append("\n");
    sb.append("}");
    return sb.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Convert the given object to string with each line indented by 4 spaces
   * (except the first line).
   */
  private String toIndentedString(Object o) {
    if (o == null) {
      return "null";
    }
    return o.toString().replace("\n", "\n    ");
  }

}