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I Tried My Best
Posted on January 24, 2020 January 24, 2020 by Brian
A Short Story by Mary C. Wallace
"The clouds, strange. They're gathering again. Not as dark as they were there though. Here,…hm. They never really get… although, they did last year. True. I'd almost forgotten. If only,—what's the use. I've been over this a hundred times. More than that I daresay. Every day. Since–that…day. "I tried my best. I tried to listen. She had a presentiment, when? A month or so ahead of when He even arrived there? And you know full well what happens when she gets that way,–and STILL…I didn't completely, well, it wasn't really disbelief. It was more incredulity of such a possibility. I mean, it was outrageous! But not to her. She knew. She knew and she warned me. I listened, and did as best as anyone could've considering my position at the time…and the given circumstances. I certainly wasn't about to extol His good qualities over His bad. That wasn't my place, although, my authority could have—but I mustn't think that way. What's done is done. "O, another headache is upon me. (rubbing his brow) That's strange, too. I never had one before I went to that bedeviled swamp! By the gods! I was free of them right up till the time I first met Him! So what in the mighty name of Mars was it that changed so? (And why do you ask the same question of yourself day after day, Marcus?) "The people of Judaea, together with that King of theirs, what was his name? Oh, yes, Herod. All they know is that I was relieved of my office. And that because an attractive, robust, and it sickens me to say it was a Roman, decided to interbreed with a sniggering Samaritan's daughter! Could I help it if that whining father of hers was offensive with every word he uttered in my presence? He just kept going ON and ON about his d*** daughter being defiled by one of my Centurions! "Only he didn't say Centurion. He had the temerity to apply the word 'pig' to one of my most honorable, most laureled and endeared of my defenders. And I just 'happened' to advise him that his precious little Samaritan piglet had sought sanctuary with our Roman Officer–a Guardian and Centurion! And why? Because she wouldn't be married to a man forty-seven years her elder who weighed three hundred pounds more than she did. And who could blame her! A maid of only sixteen? Not I, certainly. We, and that was a 'Caesarian We,' refused to hear any more of it, and so, showed him out. "Was it MY fault that the simpering cur would lead a pack of those akin to him to dare ascend the Mount and foment an uprising in outrage for her loss? Did it fall to me to keep her and the alleged Centurion from getting on somewhat more than fraternally after she was given quarter? No. No, it was not. I even hailed them at their wedding feast,—and again, just moments before their galley set off for Rome. How…" (very heavy sigh, then a hard swallow) "…how was I to know that Neptune would turn to them a blind eye, and allow them be shipwrecked in the shoals off Sicily? "Lucius,–you were as though my own son to me! Claudia could bear none for me! Our children were of my brother's seed, and no one–no one, in the whole of the Roman Empire knew; knew that they were his, except for you. Ah, Lucius, how I would have you here with me now, this night! I need your happy smile to cheer me, your honest words to guide me. There was no one that I ever listened to like you before…not even her. Not even when she came to me. After they brought Him to the Praetorium, till I came to the bench, the all hallowed and ever-revered judicial gabbatha! "There was something different about that Man, Lucius. This I was aware of as I saw it in His walk, and yet not. In His conformation, and not there either. Oh, but in His countenance, yes—His eyes! It was in His eyes. Grey eyes, bright and… deep, penetrating. You wouldn't anticipate that from eyes as fair as those. There was–something; something rarified…. Something–not of that land. Nor of this one, for that matter. Not of this earth, and yet… (momentarily distracted) "The sky to the west is growing darker and it's, it's not even the hour of one yet. "Outwardly, He was as human as anyone else. Yet,—how else would He have been subjected to the torments He sustained, and then…still have stamina to go on, if THIS were not so of Him? One must consider His perpetual silence, Lucius. That—that is what frustrated the guards who governed the measures applied to Him that day, and what most surely incited them to emphasize their torments upon Him. That business when they…. "Oh, just let it go, Marcus! That was them! Not you! But I was responsible!! I was their Commander!! I'd just no idea!…they'd never done anything like that before! (he closes his eyes, desperately fighting the images with a thrash; slowly he comes out of his purgatory) "No one knew. No one saw, other than me, that is. That night, off the coast of Sicily. I heard Him call my name from the foredeck up above, Lucius. Claudia said I was mad to go topside in such a storm as raged that night. That look in her eyes—like some desperately driven prophet forced to warn her public of imminent danger. She knew–oh yes, she knew. But I had to see for myself. So—I turned away from her, and went up. "The wind was calamitous, churning the sea up into treacherous waves that pummeled our ship. Against an unforgiving rain I forced my way over to the starboard rail and grasped hold, lest I be thrown into the black heaving maelstrom below. "Peering out into the darkness, the heavy rain biting into my hands and face, I could see nothing. Nothing but the night and the sea. I did my best. "Then I heard my name again. It came from a rocky outcropping just up ahead. Just where our ship was headed. And there, there! I saw Him! It was impossible, Lucius! Not in that gale. Not in that almighty siege. (the hint of a wry smile threatening his Roman gods) Almighty? All mighty. And yet that "all" not like ours in any way, shape or form. Just—Him. Him alone. Standing on that rocky outcropping. For how long, I—do not, could not say. For only a moment before…but that was just not conceivable. Claudia would say my fever had returned. For how could any man have gotten out there, onto that treacherous crag without a ship. Oh, but for Him, He needed no ship. And for me, it was no fever. "He was—can I still not find the words? With my own eyes I SAW!…I saw. HIM! He stepped down onto the shoals. Then…out, into the water! Walking. What ancient tribal chicanery had me rapt and spellbound? Such is not possible for any man! Oh, but there it was again! For any 'man,' for any all–mighty man. Yet to concede this would be to resign Zeus and Mars, Diana and Venus. I simply could not tear my eyes away. "The captain had clamboured on deck and spotted me, then hurried over. He shouted there was no way to avoid the shoals, then tried to convince me to get my wife and follow him and the others aft to board the skiff they kept secured for crises such as these. But I—I just laughed, and told him to get the others and come nigh. Come and watch their salvation at the Hands of a Dead Man! The look of disbelief and horror I was met with just then told me what he really intended, so I made it an order from the aegis of Caesar himself. He began to beg my mercy–I only became more determined, and insisted with even greater authority. So – very – fearful, he finally obeyed. They came. They held each other tightly as they looked at me, full of terror the lot of them. I turned to them once, and once alone, Lucius. "Hear me, Citizens of Rome! Behold! Your deliverance, at the behest of One Who was dead! And Who is alive again! "Aghast as I turned away from them and extended my arm towards Him, the women began to scream, the men, their mouths open wide in shock, as all of them had been among the guard who'd attended His Crucifixion. Only they couldn't see Him. They could only see a madman, driven so by a fever that had nearly taken his life. They started crying out to Apollo for my healing, believing I'd gone mad from from the burning, some kneeling and bursting into tears with their frantic orisons. The women started to back away from all the men as a group, perhaps thinking to make for the skiff. Still, all who were there, either in homage or retreat, witnessed what happened next. "He was but thirty feet from our ship, Lucius, when He passed His Hand with its very visible wound over the sea, and instantly the wind fell to a gentler breeze. Seeing only me with my arm outraised towards Him, two women fainted on the spot, the Captain had a heart attack and died a moment later, and three of the six remaining men cried out, 'Blessed be Pontius Pilate, Ruler of the Seas!' By this time Claudia Procula had come up to see what was keeping me, and He had yet another demonstration in mind. "He raised His Hand to the heavens and announced, "See what My Father has created for you, that you may give glory and praise to Him from this day forward!" The embracing resonance in His Voice captivated all who heard and they looked up in great wonder, and I was among them, enthralled as the darkness peeled apart up above us like a great curtain revealing the searing kelvins of everlasting day. "He struck His Hand into the water and outward against our ship, an action of which I couldn't help but take advantage. "Away!" I shouted at the sea and rocks as the force of His thrust drove our galley away from the crag, out into safer waters and on to Rome. When I turned back they, together with Procula, gazed upon me with abject reverence and awe. "When I finally arrived in the Court of Caesar, I found Tiberius dead and Caligula on the throne. When he reviewed the document of my dismissal, and heard from the others on the ship what had transpired, his reaction was altogether otherwise from what Publius Quirinius of Syria had deemed was out of bounds. A world apart from where Tiberius, and his rumored Christian leanings would have had me fall on my sword, the gossip of what I'd done had reached well beyond Judaea by that time. "Caligula instead, welcomed my seeming ruthless capacity for quashing the nettlesome Samaritans whose uprisings arose with an increasing frequency in that part of the Empire. Oh, he inquired after the display of 'miracles' in consideration of what the others had told him. To keep from ascending to Olympus before him and incurring his wrath, I told him it was easy to dupe such spineless fools, when they think of fleeing an event they have no knowledge to control. A simple matter of 'applied physics' I told him, that the ship would naturally heave away from the rocks because the wind was from the north. But also that it was obvious there'd been an earthquake. If one were educated in the School of Neptune, it would be more than apparent one had occurred offshore only minutes before from the way the tide was surging around the shoals that lay just before the rocks. But then, none had known of that, Lucius. I had learned of it from my uncle who had told me about the shoals being there when I was a child. He'd been under Marcus Vispanius Agrippa at the Battle of Naulochus under Octavian, then later died at Actium. After that, Caesar had made him a God. This pedigree, together with my recent valor in Jerusalem for the sake of keeping the Roman peace has now garnered me a different horizon. "So different, different from that day…THAT–day. In the Praetorium, when they brought Him back , after they'd flogged Him, and crowned Him…were you there? I see it so clearly. I told Him to speak, that I had the power to kill Him or to set Him free. And Him? Do you know what He said in reply? He said I would have no power over Him if it had not been given me from above. Above. True! But not from Zeus. Nor from Mars. Nor from any of them anymore. They fell so silent. Thereafter—there was only One, Lucius. Only Him. He had said to me at one point that He prays—to His Father Who Is 'above,' but when I asked Him which one He was, when I said I couldn't see Him, and looked back at Him, His eyes grew so wide. They were brimming with tears as He said, "Look again, Marcus Pontius. Look and see this day when you were but sixteen." This puzzled me a moment, as I was at a loss as to how He knew my first name. Procula had heard I'd gone out to the gabbatha, and fearing that I'd condemn Him raced out to stop me. She entered into the back of where we were standing facing each other, just as the air before me turned into a vast glade of dazzling sunlight. There, within a too spectacular array of winged beings who shimmered brighter than a thousand suns, was the olive grove that stood before the bridge across the Vellaprus, just outside the boundary of Beneventum. I'd gone there to meditate the day before I volunteered to enter the Roman Army. As I strode up toward it this young lad emerged. He had a captivating air about him. He looked to be about the same age as I and seemed rather innocent, almost fragile, so unaccustomed he appeared to be to conversation. When I asked him his name he only stared. Then, without further inquiry he broke into the most radiant smile. I was somewhat wary at this, as the boys I'd been used to grappling with would use such guile to draw an adversary in, only to pound him to the ground once they grabbed hold. "This, however, was not the case with this young man. He waved me closer, and when I cocked my head in circumspection, he just v a n I s h e d. Gone. Just…gone. On the ground where he'd been standing was an olive branch. Only when I went to look at it, I saw it wasn't from the grove before the Vellaprus. That variety didn't grow there. In fact, it didn't grow anywhere on the peninsula. I kept it. I picked it up and I kept it. He slipped my mind over time. Then, when I was granted the Prefecture of Judaea, that's when everything…everything began to unravel, Lucius. "It was on an evening walk with Procula outside the city walls of Jerusalem shortly after we'd arrived. Several Centurions accompanied us as we'd been informed there were zealots who weren't afraid to attack officials from Rome. We happened upon an olive grove out there. A garden, actually. It was called Gad Smane, with these magnificent, ancient trees. It was a stony place, and very dry, and was situated across the Kiddron Valley in such a way as to occlude one's view of the city proper. We looked around briefly, then went on a little farther to the north, some one hundred yards. Here there was a cave with a grotto, and nearby an olive press. One of the Centurions told us he'd heard this area was referred to as Gethsemanei, a place name very like the one with the garden. It was secluded, but to me it seemed somewhat oppressive. Then, for no apparent reason Procula burst into tears. I asked after her sudden disposition and she could only say she felt so very sad, as if someone had died right where we were standing. I suggested it was because the area was gloomy, and that we go back to the garden further below. Once there her mood picked up right away. When I looked around to take stock it struck me, THESE are the trees akin to the branch that young man left behind so long ago in my home village. Procula was confused at my preoccupation and became miffed when I wouldn't explain myself. I took a branch back with me to compare. They were the same, Lucius! But how! "Presently, the verdant glade below the hill whereon the grove in Beneventum stood, and where I'd walked so fascinated dissolved into a sea of stars before me. The winged beings that accompanied that frieze then came to hover next to Him. And I, in looking once again upon Him, saw a divinity in Him that was not there before! It lasted only a matter of seconds, and yet it seemed to go on for hours before it disappeared in a swift and silent drumbeat. "You," I said, "it was You there that day!" He simply said 'Yes.' "Why?" I asked. "Why did you come? Why to me?" "Because of now," He answered softly, a hallowed reverberation in His Voice. "And I'm supposed to sentence You to death? I think not!" "You have no choice," He said, "it is what you were born for." The timbre in His voice was so—forgiving. "What I was born for? When we met, were You yet upon this Earth?" I'd asked with considerable humility. But He, He wouldn't answer. And so I asked, "Are You even here now?!" "At this, He took a step closer, and put His right hand aside my face. Oh—OH, Lucius! What He showed me then! "Please," Procula whispered faintly, stepping forward, "please!" She needn't have feared for me. It wasn't I who was to die that day. "And so, rather than making me a General as would be befitting of my training and experience, Caligula has decided instead to relieve me of my military command, and redesign me, Lucius. "I'm to be his Consul with all the power that Caesar himself wields, and he has such complete confidence in me, that he's assigned me to Judaea. It is to be the Seat of all the Eastern Territories, and as its Consul I'm to promulgate, enact and enforce a system whereby all, Romans, Greeks or Jews, and comprehensive of others as they happen to wander through, are compelled to swear allegiance to their Roman Emperor. "Caligula ran the gamut on what, and how, he expects me to silence all the growing 'difficulties' arising from these Christians. He hasn't the vaguest idea, however, that Claudia Procula and I now sail to Joppa to meet with Simon, Cornelius and their leader, Peter, now that He has returned to His Father. This Cornelius, a man whom Peter is said is in charge, so to speak, of a large group of non-Jewish Christians, will meet us at the port and take us to find safe shelter among them, and the next day we'll be made formal members of this nascent society. Hide quoted text "As for Caligula and the Everlasting Roman Empire? They've not even a talent's worth of persuasion to stop what He's set in motion, Lucius. What He stirred up in me that day…THAT day. "I'll do my best."
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Q: Unable to convert UTF-8 characters - Python I receive a bunch of data into a variable using a mechanize and urllib in Python 2.7. However, certain characters are not decoded despite using .decode(UTF-8). The full code is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib
import mechanize
from time import time

total_time = 0
count = 0
def send_this(url):
        global count
        count = count + 1
        this_browser=mechanize.Browser()
        this_browser.set_handle_robots(False)
        this_browser.addheaders=[('User-agent','Chrome')]

        translated=this_browser.open(url).read().decode("UTF-8")
        return translated

def collect_this(my_ltarget,my_lhome,data):
        global total_time
        data = data.replace(" ","%20")
        get_url="http://mymemory.translated.net/api/ajaxfetch?q="+data+"&langpair="+my_lhome+"|"+my_ltarget+"&mtonly=1"
        return send_this(get_url)

ctr = 0
print collect_this("hi-IN","en-GB","This is my first proper computer program.")

The output of the print statement is:
{"responseData":{"translatedText":"\u092f\u0939 \u092e\u0947\u0930\u093e \u092a\u0939
u0932\u093e \u0938\u092e\u0941\u091a\u093f\u0924 \u0915\u0902\u092a\u094d\u092f\u0942\u091f
\u0930 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0917\u094d\u0930\u093e\u092e \u0939\u0948
\u0964"},"responseDetails":"","responseStatus":200,"matches":[{"id":0,"segment":"This is my
first proper computer program.","translation":"\u092f\u0939 \u092e\u0947\u0930\u093e \u092a
\u0939\u0932\u093e \u0938\u092e\u0941\u091a\u093f\u0924 \u0915\u0902\u092a\u094d\u092f\u0942
\u091f\u0930 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0917\u094d\u0930\u093e\u092e \u0939\u0948
\u0964","quality":"70","reference":"Machine Translation provided by Google, Microsoft,
Worldlingo or MyMemory customized engine.","usage-count":0,"subject":"All","created-
by":"MT!","last-updated-by":"MT!","create-date":"2013-12-20","last-update-
date":"2013-12-20","match":0.85}]}

The characters starting with \u... are supposed to be the characters that were supposed to be converted.
Where have I gone wrong?

A: You don't have a UTF-8-encoded string. You have JSON with JSON unicode escapes in it. Decode it with a JSON decoder:
import json
json.loads(your_json_string)

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Argentine Stem Weevil Listronotus bonariensis like other weevils are distinguishable from beetles by their long snouts and their legless grubs or larvae. Adults are small being approximately 5-10mm long and greyish brown in colour whilst the larvae are creamy white. This is mainly a pest of ryegrass in particular with the larvae feeding within the grass stem whilst the adults feed on expanded leaves. The damage caused by adults in particular is noticeable by the windows they chew in the leaves. Damage from Argentine Stem Weevil can occur throughout the warmer months from September through until late April.
Heteronuchus arator. The adults of this species can be observed throughout the year but are generally observed from March until October. The grubs live in the top 50mm of the soil and eat the roots of grass plants. Often the first sign of damage is seen as areas of the lawn dying during dry weather conditions. Because the grubs eat the roots the plants are less able to gain sufficient moisture to meet their requirements. The adults themselves do little or no harm to the plants. The grubs are larger than grass grub (10 - 20mm) and are creamy white with a black head and abdomen.
Survey the lawn by take spade width squares in a variety of area preferably before damage is noticeable. This is best to occur in November or December. Tip the sod upside down and inspect the soil. If two or more grubs are found then apply Pyrifos G granules at label rates. Please treat this compound as a poison and take all necessary precautions to ensure that there is no skin contact.
Increase the watering regime to swell the soil and decrease the incidence of cracks on the soil surface.
Apply bait. This is normally in the form of treated wheat or barley. Care should be taken as the bait is poisonous.
Costelytra zealandica also known as Grass Grub or Brown Beetle is a native species that like many biting and chewing insect has an annual life cycle. The adults emerge from October through until February and lay eggs in the soil. They feed on foliage and may occasionally strip the leaves of cherry and plum trees. The grubs that develop from the eggs live in the root zone from March until July eating the roots of susceptible species. This reduces the plants ability to uptake water and the outcome is patches of dead grass particularly through times of drought or sustained moisture stress. The grubs vary in size from 10 ? 15mm in length and are creamy white colouration with a black abdomen. Flocks of birds particularly starlings feeding in turf often indicate a heavy infestation of grass grub.
Wiseana spp. Porina comprises several species of native moth whose caterpillars are common pest of turf. These large caterpillars are approximately 50 - 75mm long when mature and are grey to greyish yellow in colouration. They live in shallow vertical tunnels and emerge at night to feed on grass leaves. Turf damage around the tunnels is particularly noticeable from autumn onwards.
Place boards on the lawn over an evening. Once the boards are removed the following morning the porina burrows will have been clearly exposed. If five (5) or more burrows are apparent per square metre then control will be necessary.
This is made up of the species that includes Eudonia spp., Orocrambus spp. and Scoparia spp. The adults emerge as moths from September through until December. The resultant caterpillars live in shallow burrows in the ground and emerge to eat the foliage. The caterpillars range from 10 - 20mm in size and are generally green with dark green spots located in lines down the length of the body. Damage from Sod Webworm is prevalent form January through until June.
Acrossidius tasmaniae. This species is often confused with Black Beetle as both the adults and the grubs look similar. However, the grubs which unlike Black Beetle live in small burrows near the surface and emerge to eat foliage near the tunnel entrance. This creates damage from the period May through until November, with the adults emerging in December and January.
Survey the lawn by taking spade width squares in a variety of areas preferably before damage is noticeable. This is best to occur in November or December. Tip the sod upside down and inspect the soil. If two or more grubs are found then apply Pyrifos G granules at label rates. Please treat this compound as a poison and take all necessary precautions to ensure that there is no skin contact.


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Matthias Matthijs is senior fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations and associate professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is an award-winning author and teacher, and an expert on European political economy, the politics of economic ideas, and regional integration. Since May 2019, he has also served as the chair of the executive committee of the European Union Studies Association.
At SAIS, Matthijs teaches graduate courses in international relations, comparative politics, and international economics. He was an inaugural recipient of the Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award in recognition of his work as a promising early-career investigator. Also at SAIS, he was twice awarded the Max M. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2018, he won the Best Paper Award from APSA's European Politics and Society section.
From 2008 to 2010, Matthijs taught at American University's School of International Service. He was a visiting assistant professor at SAIS Europe in Bologna, Italy, in spring 2010 and 2016–17. He previously served as a consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit from 2009 to 2011 and for the World Bank's Foreign Investment Advisory Service from 2005 to 2007.
Matthijs is editor, with Mark Blyth, of The Future of the Euro and author of Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain From Attlee to Blair (1945–2005). The latter is based on his doctoral dissertation, which received the Samuel H. Beer Prize for best dissertation in British politics by a North American scholar, awarded by the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Matthijs is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines the collapse of national elite consensus around European integration.
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Saraswati: The River That Never Was, Flowing Always in the People's Hearts
If the Centre wants to strengthen the people's faith, then a physical search for the Saraswati's course – or an attempt to 'revive' it by dredging – makes no sense.
A still from 'Searching for Saraswati'
C.P. Rajendran
The Saraswati River mentioned in superlative terms in the ancient Indian scriptures like the Rg Veda has been a subject of scientific curiosity for over a century.
Considered sacred by devout Hindus, it is described as "surpassing in majesty and might of all other rivers, pure in her course from the mountains to the ocean". No other river is glorified thus in the Rg Veda (RV).
Book 6 of the RV includes a hymn called the 'Nadistuti Sukta', which sings praises of the Saraswati as being "perfect mother, unsurpassed river, supreme goddess".
It is obvious that the author(s) of Book 6 considered the Saraswati a significant river.
Interestingly, by Book 10, the last part of the RV, the prominence had shifted to the Indus river, known to our ancestors as the Sindhu. In fact, the Saraswati had become a lesser river by the time the Panchvimsha Brahmana in the Sama Veda was written c. 800 BC; it was described as an entity "no longer able to hold up the heavens and consequently has gone underground". Thus, what was earlier called 'Nadimata Saraswati' is now called 'Vinasana Saraswati'.
How did such a mighty river disappear without leaving any topographical signatures? Can a river of such proportions dry up so fast and disappear underground? Could this even make geological sense?
Resolving the Saraswati's mystery is key to understanding the Harappan and Vedic geographies. According to mainstream theory, they spread over part of eastern Afghanistan and the region between the Indus and the Yamuna-Ganges.
Remnant of a street in the urban centre of Kalibangan. The Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel can be seen in the distance. Credit: S. Gupta (Imperial College London)
Surgeons of the Bengal Medical Service took the first steps to locate the river, although some cues had already been provided by Indologists like Max Müller.
Horace Wilson, a surgeon by profession, speaks of the holy land of Manu that lies between the Drishawati and Saraswati in the introduction to his translation of the 'Vishnu Purana'. The Drishawati is now a minor stream known as the Ghaggar-Hakra. Similarly, C.F. Oldham, the surgeon-major of the Bengal Medical Service, speculated in an article in 1847 that the dry bed of the Ghaggar and the disjointed topographical crenulations downstream along the northern and western fringes of the Thar desert were remnants of the Vedic Saraswati.
Oldham also traced the course of this river in abandoned channels in Haryana, the Punjab and adjoining parts of Pakistan. He ended up ultimately in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat.
This proposition has been critiqued by scholars like Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib and Rajesh Kochar: the RV's description of the river does not match with the Ghaggar, which is seasonally active. Instead, they suggested that the name 'Saraswati' could have been derived from 'Haraxvati', a major river located in eastern Afghanistan. The early generation of RV authors may have lived on its banks before migrating to the Indus delta.
In his book Early Indians (2018), Tony Joseph calls India a migrant nation built over time, and that the RV people belong to the third wave of migrants, who came after Harappans. The representative geographic entity at that time was shaped by various migrants with different cultural practices.
Also read: Located Between Fact and Fiction, 'Searching for Saraswati' Is a Warning for the Future
This is challenged by a counter-narrative centred on the India-centric theory of Vedic Aryans and their outward migration. An Indus-like river Saraswati plays a big role in this counter-narrative, and is said to be located within the modern boundaries of India. Its banks are believed to have been a haven for early Vedic Aryans. This alternate view also equates the Vedic people with the Harappans.
However, population genetics studies have disfavoured the latter hypothesis and have supported the former.
So when some influential Indian geologists supported the idea that the Saraswati could have been a major all-season river in the Indus-Yamuna interfluve, it was a shot in the arm for those who believed the India-centric theory of Aryans.
Some geologists also said that landform changes triggered by tectonic activities around 2000-3000 BC along the frontal Himalaya could have severed the river from its Himalayan source. They also argued that the land-level changes cause the river's course to shift eastward as the Yamuna and westward as the Sutlej, leaving the Saraswati to dry up.
Originating in the high Himalaya, the Saraswati is believed to have descended to the plains from Adi Badri, situated in the Shivalik foothills, joining the Arabian Sea at the Rann of Kutch.
But these longstanding geological views have been challenged by a spate of research papers published in the last few years, backed up by refined satellite imagery, topographic analysis and more precise dating techniques.
The Sutlej river winds its way through Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Credit: darshansphotos/Flickr, CC BY 2.0
Analytical techniques in particular helped trace the source and provenance of sand grains collected from defunct river channels. (Sediments from the high Himalaya carry certain isotopic signatures that sets them apart from sand from the lower hills.)
The change in perspective began with a 2012 paper by Liviu Giosan and others. They suggested that the Ghaggar-Hakra fluvial network was not the product of a large glacier-fed Himalayan river but of a rain-fed stream originating from the lower hills.
Also read: Study Says Sutlej Had Bigger Role to Play in Indus Civilisation Than Thought
At first a 'perennial' civilisation because of the steady monsoons, the Harappans later thrived by engaging in flood inundation harvests (4,500 to 3,900 years ago). A worsening drought peaked about 3,900 years ago, likely forcing the Harappans to downsize their settlement and migrate east or even north, towards the wetter parts of upper Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
However, it is safe to say that sometime in the past – much before human settlements – some channels of the Yamuna or the Sutlej had flowed through the Indus-Yamuna interfluve region. Glacial melting after the ice age (from 11,700 to 258,000 years ago) may have generated additional, short-lived channels that flowed to the interfluve region due to greater discharge from Himalayan rivers.
In another 2012 paper, Peter Clift and his peers posited that subsurface river channels near sites in Cholistan near the northern part of the Ghaggar-Hakra floodplain contain sediments affiliated with the Beas river in the western sites and the Sutlej and the Yamuna in the eastern ones.
This implies that the Yamuna itself, or one of its channels, along with an offshoot of the Sutlej may have occupied the Ghaggar-Hakra course sometime between 47,000 and 10,000 years ago.
In 2016, Ajit Singh et al agreed that the Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel was a former course of the Sutlej, which diverted to its present course 17,000 years ago, much before the Harappan civilisation. They also studied sites near the Kalibangan in Rajasthan to conclude that the urban populations had settled along a monsoon-fed seasonal river, not along a perennial river.
Then, in 2018, Aditi Krishna Dave and others suggested that glacially driven rivers stopped flowing in that part of the interfluve region sometime between 24,000 and 45,000 years ago – again, much before the Harappans settled in that area.
So it seems the Harappans were not enamoured by a mighty Himalayan river as much as the Vedic Aryans might have been. The latter's culture was rooted in nature worship. When some of them reached a much drier Indus interfluve region around 1800 BC, they must have been disappointed by the landscape and eager to push eastward to the water-rich Gangetic plains. The mature phase Harappan settlers, who were adept at managing water, must have also withered by then.
Like many cultural memes, the legend of Saraswati is part of Hindu religious identity and is alive in the minds of thousands of believers. But like all memes, these ideas are built up over several generations, incrementally embellished with time.
A map showing the expanse of the Indus Valley civilisation. Courtesy: Aashima Dogra
The human mind is a machine that constantly builds stories about itself that eventually merge with one's identity. These stories invariably carry a stamp of perfection. The migrants move to new host societies, they bear a material burden as well as the burden of their heritage and histories. And a migrant's is reconfigured once she negotiates with the conditions of emigration and her transcultural contacts.
Thus, the diaspora – the Vedic Aryans, often of tenuous status within their host majority culture – the Harappans – could have created mythic memories of their homeland as a way to assert their exclusivity and otherness. So it is also likely that the Saraswati was a mental construct of the Vedic Aryans, which metaphorically overflowed as they encountered the bleak, water-poor landscape of the Indus-Yamuna interfluve.
The new findings don't believe there existed a perennial river in Harappan times in the Indus-Yamuna interfluve region of northwest India.
Which then begs the question: What is the need to dredge for a nonexistent river in desert sands for Rs 50 crore?
As Krzysztof Iwanek, a South Asia expert, wrote, devout Hindus have been taking their holy dips at the confluence in Prayag for ages without ever feeling the need to locate the Saraswati – a river that actually runs through their hearts.
If the Centre wants to strengthen the people's faith, then a physical search for the Saraswati's course – or an attempt to 'revive' it by dredging – makes no sense. In fact, it could be counterproductive. And if the intention is to address the region's water scarcity by recreating a river, the project is still scientifically suspect.
C.P. Rajendran is a professor of geodynamics at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru.


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Biological Potential of Caesalpinia bonducella Seeds: A Review
M.J. Gadakh Department of Pharmacognosy, Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Pravaranagar, A/P. Loni Taluka - Rahata, Dist. A.Nagar, (Maharashtra) India
R.S. Jadhav Department of Pharmacognosy, Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Pravaranagar, A/P. Loni Taluka - Rahata, Dist. A.Nagar, (Maharashtra) India
D.N. Vikhe Department of Pharmacognosy, Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Pravaranagar, A/P. Loni Taluka - Rahata, Dist. A.Nagar, (Maharashtra) India
Caesalpinia bonducella L. is a medicinal plant belonging to the family Caesalpiniaceae. The plant is found in all over India. The plant is a large prickly shrub. It is popular in indigenous system of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha, Homoeopathy and Unani. In Indian traditional plant medicine, it has been considered as an important remedy for the treatment of several diseases. The plant has been reported to possess antimalarial, antifungal, antioxidant, anticancer, antipyretic, antifertility antiviral and antimalarial etc. activities of various parts of C bonducella plant. It can be concluded that C. bonducella can become the best source of medicine in future on various ailments with further investigations. Hence attempts have been made to take collect and compile the information about the traditional use of various parts of C.bonducella in various ailments, chemical constituents from various parts and the effective use of various extracts for treatment of different diseases.
Keywords: Caesalpinia bonducella , Pharmacology, Nutritional Values.
Keywords: Caesalpinia bonducella, Pharmacology, Nutritional Values
M.J. Gadakh, Department of Pharmacognosy, Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Pravaranagar, A/P. Loni Taluka - Rahata, Dist. A.Nagar, (Maharashtra) India
Department of Pharmacognosy, Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Pravaranagar, A/P. Loni Taluka - Rahata, Dist. A.Nagar, (Maharashtra) India
R.S. Jadhav, Department of Pharmacognosy, Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Pravaranagar, A/P. Loni Taluka - Rahata, Dist. A.Nagar, (Maharashtra) India
D.N. Vikhe, Department of Pharmacognosy, Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Pravaranagar, A/P. Loni Taluka - Rahata, Dist. A.Nagar, (Maharashtra) India
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Teodor Dună (n. la 6 martie 1981, în Tâncăbești, Ilfov) este un poet contemporan.

Biografie
Teodor Dună a absolvit Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea București. A debutat în revista "Poesis" (2000) și a publicat în: "Luceafărul", "România literară", "Viața românească", "Steaua", "Ziua literară", "Cultura", "Vatra", "Dilemateca", "Cuvântul", "Wespennest" (trad. de Nora Iuga), "Manuskripte" (trad. de Ernest Wichner), "Balkani", "Alora, la bien cercada",  "Langage et créativité" etc.

Este considerat a fi unul dintre vizionarii promoției 2000 (Octavian Soviany http://www.revistatribuna.ro/doc_db_site/tribuna/tribuna158.pdf(generația douămiistă), alături de Dan Coman, Claudiu Komartin, Marin Mălaicu-Hondrari, Ruxandra Novac, Florin Partene, ș.a.

A debutat în anul 2002 cu volumul "Trenul de treieșunu februarie" (cu o prefață de Mircea Ivănescu) la editura Vinea, volum care a fost distins cu premiul Mihai Eminescu (Botoșani, 2003).

A publicat în 2005 volumul "Catafazii", apărut la aceeași editură. Teodor Dună a fost redactor al revistei Cuvântul .

A publicat în 2010 volumul "De-a viul", la Editura Cartea Romînească.

A avut peste 30 de lecturi publice, în țară și în străinătate (la Institutul Cultural Român din Viena – 2005; Institutul cultural român din Berlin – 2006 ICR Berlin.

A beneficiat de o bursă pentru literatură acordată de Akademie Schloss Solitude (juror Mircea Cărtărescu) la care va participa începând cu luna aprilie 2010.

Volume publicate
 Trenul de treieșunu februarie (versuri), București, Ed. Vinea, 2002;
 Catafazii (versuri), București, Ed. Vinea, 2005;
 De-a viul (versuri), București, Ed. Cartea Românească, 2010.
 Obiecte umane (versuri), București, Ed. Cartea Românească, 2015
 kirilă, București, Ed. Tracus Arte, 2017
 Minunata lume. Poeme alese, Chișinău, Ed. Cartier, 2019

Considerații critice

Despre volumul "de-a viul", Ed. Cartea Romînească, 2010, importanți critici romani contemporani s-au exprimat astfel:

Mircea Ivanescu

Andrei Terian

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Sursa
 http://www.cartearomaneasca.ro/catalog/carte/de-a-viul-216/

Bibliografie
Gellu Dorian, "Teodor Dună trenul de treișunu februarie" , Convorbiri literare
Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu, O mare moartă mătăsoasă , Adevărul, 22 noiembrie 2006
Bogdan Crețu, "Teodor Dună: Poezia disfuncției", Adevărul, 11 octombrie 2006
Adina Dinițoiu, "Căutările tinereții", Observator cultural, nr. 339, septembrie 2006
"Partea ascunsă a lumii", Ziarul financiar, 26 mai 2006

Legături externe
"teodor duna" , România literară, nr. 44, 2006
"pre-zicere", Atelier LiterNet
"zgomotul cărnii" "Institutul Blecher"
 "mori liniștit"  România literară, nr. 4, 2010

Interviuri

 Ana Dragu, "Poezia îți dă șansa să stai încremenit oricât de mult și cu toate astea să fii mai viu ca oricând", Biblioteca de Poezie
 Teodor Duna - "Poezia are nevoie de singuratate si liniste" - Galeria celebritatilor, Dia Radu, Formula AS - anul 2011, numărul 961

Poeți români contemporani

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Q: TypeError: sing() missing 1 required positional argument: 'end' once again, I'm struggling with a bit of my code, ive got an error : TypeError: sing() missing 1 required positional argument: 'end'
As I'm new to all this coding and I'm still trying to work out how to do everything, I'm a bit confused on how to solve it. I'd ask my teacher, however we're not seeing him until Monday, and that's when the code is due to be finished.
#this program is going to be playing the 99 bottles of (something) on the wall
    #it will give you a choice on what you can have inside the bottle
    #e.g soda, coke, lemonade, beer, wine, ect
user_input = input("What would you like inside your bottle?")
print(user_input)
def sing(b, end):
    print(b or 'No more','bottle'+('s' if b-1 else ''), end)
for i in range(99, 0, -1):
    sing(str(i) + 'of' + user_input + 'on the wall,')
    sing(str(i) + ', of'+ user_input +',')
    print('Take one down, pass it around,')
    sing(str(i-1), 'of' + user_input + 'on the wall.\n'))


Every child is different, but, at Dennis J. Carmody, D.D.S. we use the simple guideline that children should be examined at the time their permanent teeth are beginning to come in. Orthodontic treatment depends on the type and the severity of problem.
Dr. Carmody will evaluate your child's facial growth, tooth spacing, crowding, and look for extra or missing teeth as well as assess habits like tongue thrusting and thumb-sucking which may hinder normal growth and development. These problems can alter tooth alignment and facial appearance and it is very important to evaluate such problems during this initial examination.
Should your child not require any early orthodontic treatment, Dr. Carmody will have you schedule periodic follow-up exams while your child's permanent teeth come in and face and jaws continue to grow.
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Free College Football Picks Temple at Army 10-2-10
Temple Owls (3-1) vs. Army Black Knights (3-1)
Saturday, October 2nd, 12:00 PM EST
Line: Temple -4
Both teams here carry a 3-1 record. Temple remains as the favorite but they're headed into a good one against Trent Steelman and the Amy Black Knights. Army's rushing game is ranked 8th in league when it comes to rushing yards, with 274.8 yards per game. Temple will face their running game along with a versatile quarterback that will probably create a headache among the Owl's defense. Temple will look to rely on their solid and steady play from their backfield, which has already carried them to three appreciative wins.
Keys to the Games
* The spotlight resonates on Army's quarterback, Trent Steelman for this small upset. The sophomore has thrown for 233 yards and two touchdowns. When it comes to running the ball, he's ran for 205 yards and two rushing touchdowns. It's important to note, Steelman doesn't throw as much in some games, throwing only four passes in their31-28 in their only loss to Hawaii.
* Temple is coming off a surprisingly solid season this year. Last week, their loss against Penn State came from their troubles in stopping PSU's running game in the second half, but the overall game proved this team is a group to consider before betting against. Their first three wins came against Villanova, Central Michigan and UConn, so the team should be able to handle Army this weekend. Their defense has also been solid, only letting opponents average 18 points against them this season.
* Army's second-leading rusher behind their quarterback is Jared Hassin, a sophomore fullback. Army's unique rushing game has led them to three wins, but a terrible passing game, averaging only 63.3 yards a game. The gameplan has nearly got this team to an undefeated record, and they should create some trouble for Temple this weekend.
This should be a close one if you consider what both of these teams have done this season. They have overachieve most of their expectations and look to prove themselves in this big game. Army will definitely make Temple hustle thoughout this matchup, but Temple will be able to slow down the run to seal a strong win.
Free NCAA Football Pick: Temple -4


We've heard you! This event is for you AND your students.
Hear from two successful college students about how they have transformed self-doubt into success. These speakers are Eye to Eye Diplomats who inspire audiences and ignite hope through stories of their own journeys to self-empowerment. Eye to Eye is an organization whose mission is to improve the life of every person with a learning disability. Eye to Eye fulfills its mission by supporting and growing a network of youth mentoring programs run by and for those with learning differences, and by organizing advocates to support the full inclusion of people with learning disabilities and ADHD in all aspects of society.
Diplomats are a select group of Eye to Eye's college-age mentors who are trained to speak to audiences of middle school and high school students with learning differences, their parents and professionals who work with them. During this presentation, the Diplomats will walk the audience through their journey of educational and personal change, providing a new understanding of LD/ADHD and learning itself. At the core is a message for people who think differently. The presentation also will provide practical, accessible tips for academic success.
Growing up in Chicago, Gerald knew that he was a different thinker. It wasn't until his junior year of high school, though, that he was diagnosed with learning differences.
By discovering the power of accommodations and developing his self-advocacy skills, Gerald achieved academic success. At the University of Wisconsin, he has found allies in the McBurney Disability Resource Center—and in turn, he has become an ally to his mentees as an Eye to Eye mentor.
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Swansea riders get air-time quicker with ultrafast broadband
Swansea riders and skateboarders are reaping the benefits of ultrafast broadband thanks to an Openreach GFast trial in the city.
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The Exist/Community Urban Sports Project (CUSP) Skatepark, based at the foot of Mount Pleasant and opened in 2011, is a not for profit venture that's used by more than 250 local riders and skateboarders every week to fine tune their half-pipes, 180s and heel-flips.
The popular skate park, which also doubles up as a venue for local community events, is one of around 40 businesses piloting the latest ultrafast technology, GFast, which is capable of delivering download speeds of up to 330Mbps – more than 10 times the UK national average.
Openreach plans a national rollout of ultrafast broadband to 12 million homes and businesses by the end of 2020 and 10 million will be upgraded using this cutting edge technology.
The skate park signed up to be part of the Swansea trial via Openreach and were connected in June.
With ultrafast broadband speeds being made available in the skate park both riders and skateboarders are able to upload videos of their moves and tricks, filmed on their smartphones or GoPros, on to popular social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook and You Tube in an instant.
But the benefits of having a fast and reliable broadband connection isn't limited to those that use the ramps and boards as parents can work on their laptops in the Exist/CUSP Skatepark café while their children ride the ramps.
Exist/CUSP Skateparkdirector, Kate Leonard explains: "We find that skateboarding and social media go hand-in-hand."
"A number of our riders and skateboarders like to film themselves on the ramps and then upload their content on to You Tube, Instagram and other social media sites.
"Rather than having to wait an age people using our facilities can now do this in an instant with an ultrafast broadband connection throughout the skatepark.
"But the benefits are also felt by the parents – which is really important for us. We're seeing more and more of them catching up with their work on the laptops in the café while their children are enjoying themselves.
"Our remit here is to encourage a healthy lifestyle – quite simply to get our youngsters off the sofa and to do something active.
"Having a good broadband connection isn't the reason that our riders and skateboarders would use the skatepark but without a doubt it's an additional bonus for them – and their parents – when they are here."
Exist/CUSP Skatepark also stage a number of art shows, such as photography exhibitions, and cinema nights throughout the year that will benefit greatly from having fast broadband connection.
Around 13,000 households and businesses in and around Swansea including, Gowerton, Landore, Townhill and Oystermouth, are set to benefit from the high-speed service as we begin switching on the pilot areas for our new ultrafast broadband network.
Kim Mears, Openreach managing director for infrastructure delivery said: "It's great to see the different ways that our ultrafast broadband network is being used across the country."
"From helping families to download HD films in seconds, saving businesses time and money to helping not-for profit organisations such as Exist/CUSP Skatepark in Swansea to encourage youngsters to have more active lifestyles -there's a multitude of reasons why people are signing up for fast and reliable broadband connectivity.
"Wales and the UK is ahead of its major European neighbours when it comes to superfast broadband but technology never stands still – that's why we're building on our existing fibre network and leading the way in deploying ultrafast speeds.
"We need to stay ahead in order to meet the evolving needs of our customers. Gfast will allow us to do that by reaching the largest number of people in the quickest possible time and transforming the UK broadband landscape from superfast to ultrafast."
People living in the pilot areas in Swansea who want to try the new service should contact their internet service provider to see if they're offering a service, and to find out more about availability and pricing.
GFast technology changes the way today's broadband is transmitted, delivering ultrafast speeds that have previously required fibre to be run all the way to the premises (FTTP). This is significant as GFast will make ultrafast fibre available to a much larger number of homes and businesses and more quickly than if it had focused on FTTP alone.
People wanting to take advantage of the new ultrafast technology can find out more about which providers offer this service by visiting www.openreach.co.uk/buyultrafast


Hong Kong has always been known for its economic freedom. However, that economic freedom needs rules and protections to operate on a day-to-day basis. Recently, Hong Kong has taken bold steps forward with new rules and guidelines affecting privacy and e-discovery. Paradoxically, these rules improve the status of Hong Kong in the region, but will make some longer-term changes to how corporations operate locally.
Two of the most significant rules occurred last year. In December 2014, the Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data published a voluntary, nonbinding Guidance Note limiting the cross-border transfer of personal data. The note fleshes out a provision restricting the transfers included in the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance that has yet to come into effect, even though the ordinance itself was enacted 20 years ago. As many firms have complex data transfer and backup procedures, organizations should use this Guidance Note as a planning tool should it eventually become enacted. Steps should include examining the guidance provisions and accordingly mapping and understanding sources of personal data. After this, companies may consider implementing some of the recommendations for data protection, including the suggested model clauses for data transfer.
As of September 2014, Hong Kong initiated a pilot e-discovery scheme for certain commercial cases as part of Practice Direction SL 1.2. The Practice Direction is designed to promote proportionate discovery in cases with more than HK $8 million at stake and 10,000 or more documents. Litigants must also complete an affidavit called the Electronic Documents Discovery Questionnaire, which requires the submission of information about custodians, the form of documents, and preservation practices.
With the increasing network of national regulatory agencies with long-arm powers, and the borderless nature of supply chains and commercial contracts and capital flows, there is increasing litigiousness in the region. Salient areas include anti-corruption and anti-bribery under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, banking, and patent litigation, global organizations should ensure they have mobilized the resources necessary to handle cross-border discovery projects. Essential elements of that preparation include recruiting skilled local resources capable of collecting, processing, and reviewing data in place; finding ways to limit the transfer of data; and creating the ability to restrict access to specific users and locations. Organizations doing business in other APAC nations, including China, may find it easier to transfer data to Hong Kong for dispersion elsewhere, so long as they pay due respect to any requirements of domestic national secrecy laws. In this case, they will need to investigate options for storing and processing data in a local data center designed to meet the restrictions present in many the APAC's most stringent privacy regimes.
Dmitri Hubbard is regional vice president at Conduent. He can be reached at info@conduent.com.


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Староковыльный — посёлок в Октябрьском районе Ростовской области.

Входит в состав Коммунарского сельского поселения.

География

Улицы
 ул. Делегатская,
 ул. Новая,
 ул. Полярная,
 ул. Садовая.

История
В 1987 году указом ПВС РСФСР поселку участка № 4 совхоза № 10 присвоено наименование Староковыльный.

Население

Примечания

Населённые пункты Октябрьского района (Ростовская область)


That he comes to the process as a witness. He has worked at the Ocean Club (OC) resort for about two months exercising his function as Tapas Supervisor (restaurant, bar and pool) in the Ocean Club Garden.
That prior to this, he worked at the Hotel Suites Alba Resort and Spa in Albandeira beach, Carvoeiro, in the restaurant area for about one year.
As a supervisor, his functions include all the operational workings of the space known as the Tapas. His normal hours are defined by need although he does have a set work schedule.
That his work location is comprised of the restaurant, pool and bar of the Ocean Club Garden, dominated by the Tapas.
That he became aware of the situation that occurred at the OC with respect to the disappearance of a child when he arrived at the Tapas around 22H00/22H30. He was immediately informed at arriving by work colleagues.
That after finding out what happened he immediately proceeded to join some searches next to the pool and the apartment zone around the resort. He stayed in the OC until around 01H30 when he left with his girlfriend.
That he knows the family of the missing child as they were clients of the Tapas restaurant which they began frequenting the 2nd day of their arrival to the OC.
From the very beginning, a request was made to the restaurant workers to reserve a table for 20H30 until the end of the week. The request was made for a specific table given the number in the group - nine people. This group would dine daily and always arrive around 20H30. They would leave the restaurant around 00H30.
That the table they occupied is next to the Tapas bar since that table was the biggest.
This group (who would dine at the time previously mentioned) was always made up of nine adults, constituted by eight couples [I think this is an error in the document, it says "oito casais" or eight couples and should probably read four couples (quarto casais) or eight people (oito pessoas)] and an older woman. He believed that this older woman was the grandmother of the missing child. He never saw any children accompanying the nine people.
When the table was reserved, nothing was mentioned about checking on the children and the only concern was in accommodating the entire group.
That the table this group occupied was always reserved for 20H30, and where the family of the missing child, in regards to dinner, has their routine defined.
That effectively he did know the missing child's family due to the circumstances previously mentioned, but had not entered their [prior] residence. He goes daily to the family's apartment in order to bring them lunch.
That every day around 13H00, he heads to no. 4-G (where the family of the missing child is staying) and to no. 4-1 (where 10 people are lodged) to deliver lunch. He repeats this routine at 20H00 to take them dinner.
That the payment for alcohol, not included in the vacation package, was paid by credit card. This payment was made by random members of the group of nine.
According to what he remembers, the missing child's family frequented the Tapas pool where they would take their children. They would stay in the children's play area in the period between 16H45 and 17H30, at the time when babysitters would take care of the children. The babysitters are employees of Mark Warner.
That he never noticed any walkie talkies or other sound devices on top of the table occupied by the group. He only noticed that occasionally one of the nine present would get up from the table and leave for a few minutes. He did not know where they went.
The nine individuals, including the family of the missing child, were included in the half pension regime. They had the right to dinner (a menu that included starter, main course, desert and drinks as listed). All aperitifs, and after dinner drinks were paid separately using the credit card.
That generally, it was always the same people that dined in the Tapas and who were registered for dinner. A list of all the people who dined at the Tapas from the arrival of the missing child's family to 2007.05.04 has been handed over to the investigation.
That on 2007.05.03 he began work around 09H30 and finished around 17H30, when he left the resort and returned again at 22H30, as already described previously.
That on the 3rd of May, 2007, he did not notice any abnormal situation or anything out of the ordinary, nor has any comment been made to him to this effect.
That for days prior to the disappearance of the child he did not detect any suspicious situation or details that he could now offer the investigation.


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Employee ClassificationEmployment RegulationGig WorkMinimum WageOLRBOntario
The Problem With Ontario's Proposed Gig Worker Law Exposed
by David Doorey February 28, 2022
written by David Doorey February 28, 2022
Written by David Doorey, York University
As the Ontario government prepared to announce a new "gig" worker law that the Minister of Labour boasted would "lift up the lives of thousands of gig workers in Ontario", a decision came down that an Uber Eats driver is already an "employee" under the Ontario Employment Standards Act.
The decision is terrible timing for the Conservative government, which desperately wants to present its new law as a bold step forward for digital platform workers. However, the truth is that if Uber drivers and other similarly situated "gig" workers are already "employees" (as I and many others believe), then a new law that carves them out of existing legal entitlements for "employees" is a regressive step that would make the workers worse off than they are at present. I have made this argument before.
The point is demonstrated by the latest decision finding that an Uber Eats courier is an "employee". As described below, the finding of "employee" status led to an order for Uber to pay the courier close to $1000 for various violations of the ESA, including a failure to pay the minimum wage for all hours that the courier was "waiting or holding himself ready to work". [Congratulations to friends of the Law of Work blog Ryan White and Cole Eisen for a big win.]
As I understand the proposed new Ontario law, only "engaged" time is counted as working, meaning the time that a driver is actively completing an order. As a result, an Uber Eats driver like Sharma would be entitled to less wages under the government's new law than they are already entitled to under the existing ESA. This is a windfall for Uber and platform companies, not an advance for workers. There may be other rules in the legislation that are new and helpful for workers, such as a requirement for platform companies to provide written reasons for de-activation of a driver from the system. However, insofar as the law removes platform workers from existing entitlements under the ESA, the law is hardly a great leap forwards for workers' rights.
The recent decision was issued by an Employment Standards Officer and Uber has already announced that it will appeal to the OLRB. Assuming that the ESO decision is upheld and the OLRB ultimately decides that digital platform workers are "employees" under the ESA, it is unclear what effect the new law will have. The Minister suggested in this article that he was aware of the decision and that the new law would raise the floor and "not set a ceiling". That is cryptic. Surely Uber and other platform companies will argue that the new law signals an intention by the legislature to create a separate model for calculating hours worked by platform workers and therefore that earlier findings that waiting time counts as "work" should be disregarded.
Summary of Employment Standards Officer Decision in Sharma v. Uber
Here is the decision by the ESA
Sharma has driven for Uber Eats since 2020. The incident that gave rise to the ESA complaint involved a decision by Uber to "adjust" Sharma's payment by $195.22 after Uber alleged that a technical issue had resulted in Sharma being overpaid for two rides. Under the ESA, it is unlawful for an employer to deduct pay from an employee except in very narrow circumstances. This argument required the ESO to decide whether Sharma was an "employee" for the purposes of the ESA.
[The ESO rules that there are three related Uber companies that are involved when a worker accepts the Uber agreement on their App. She rules that these companies are related businesses for the purpose of Section 4 the ESA. This post will focus on the employment status issue]
As I have explained before, there's always been a strong argument that Uber drivers (and other gig workers) are "employees" under the Ontario ESA. That's because "employee" is interpreted broadly to sweep in as many workers as possible who more closely resemble employees than they do true entrepreneurs. I have predicted that with the right facts, the OLRB would rule that an Uber driver is an "employee". This ruling by the ESO does not surprise me.
The ESO applied various common law tests. Firstly, she considered the "organization test",which asks whether the work performed by the worker is integral to the organization's business. Here is where Uber made its usual argument that all it does it provide a technology and that delivery is only one part of its business. The ESO was not impressed by that argument. In concluding that an Uber Eats courier is integral to Uber's food delivery business, the ESO wrote:
It can be held that the claimant is an integral part of the Uber Eats business line as without the delivery providers, Uber Eats delivery services could not be offered. The delivery providers equally rely on Uber Eats to provide the App in order to perform their deliveries with the company.
Secondly, she applied the "four-fold test",which considers the following four factors:
Control: The ESO ruled that while an Uber Eats driver has discretion over when to log onto the system and some discretion over whether to accept any particular order, overall once a driver logs into the Uber system, Uber exercises considerable control over how the work is performed:
"In order to perform work for Uber, the claimant is required to go through a specific hiring process, attend mandatory training and demonstrate that he is adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols. When working online it can be held that the respondent has a considerable amount of control that is exercised through the App. The App informs the claimant the details of the delivery, the routes/timeframes, fees and handles the complaints process. In addition, Uber Eats reserves the right to de-activate and suspend accounts for breaches of their agreements and guidelines in place. The claimant has provided detailed evidence demonstrating scenarios where warnings and disciplinary actions were taken. Based on a review of the evidence on file, I find the element of control to be indicative of an employment relationship."
Materials/ownership of tools: While the worker provides the bike/vehicle and smart phone, "the App is arguably the most important tool for performing deliveries. Without the App, there is no connection between the customer, the restaurant, and the claimant to provide the service". Therefore, this factor is indicative of employment status.
Chance of Profit: Uber sets the rates and there is no possibility of negotiation over these rates. The only control the driver has over income is to work harder. This is not indicative of entrepreneurship and this factor also is more indicative of an employment relationship.
Risk of Loss: The risk of loss is assumed by both parties, so this factor is not determinative of employment status.
In the end, the ESO ruled that considering all these factors, Sharma more closely resembled an employee.
Once it was determined that Sharma is an "employee" of Uber Eats, the ESO turned to the various violations of the ESA. Several violations were found:
Uber does not have a regular pay day, which violates Section 11(1).
The withholding of the $195.22 by Uber constituted an unlawful deduction from wages contrary to Section 13(1). An employer cannot just deduct money from an employee's pay whenever it believes it has made an administrative error, unless the employee agrees in writing to the specific amount being taken back. That did not happen here.
Uber failed to keep a record of the daily hours worked by Sharma contrary to record keeping rules in Section 15(1).
There was one period during which Sharma did not have a full 24 hours off work contrary to Section 18(4) and one period in which no 30 minute eating period was taken contrary to Section 20(1). Note that in assessing these hours of work standards, the ESO referenced the fact that under the ESA, work is "deemed" to be performed when the worker is "waiting or holding oneself ready to work" (see Regulation 285/01, s. 1.1)
Uber violated Section 23(1) by failing to pay the Minimum Wage. The amount ordered was $325.07. According to the ESO:
During the audit, it was revealed that the claimant did not consistently receive minimum wage for his hours worked. Minimum wage violations were found in 16 pay weeks between December 2020 to December 2021. The lowest hourly wage rate paid was $3.41 during the December 27, 2021, to January 02, 2022 pay week.
Uber violated Sections 26 and 28(1) by failing to pay Sharma holiday pay for 12 holidays he worked during the relevant period of December 14 2020 to January 2, 2022. Amount ordered: $351.56 plus $47.52 for premium pay.
Therefore, in the end Uber was ordered to pay $919.37 for various violations of the ESA. We will watch how the OLRB deals with this case and others before them that raise the question of employee status of digital platform workers. However, this ESO decision confirms that there is a very strong case that these workers are already "employees" under employment standards legislation. This reality colours all debates about new legislation to regulate work in the digital platform economy.
New laws, such as the one proposed by the Ontario government, need to be assessed based on a starting presumption that these workers are presently covered by ESA legislation and that the companies are violating the laws daily. If that is the case, then why would governments intervene to legislate fewerlegislative protections under the guise of helping workers? There may be sensible reasons to create some special rules for certain types of atypical work. Reasonable people can debate these issues. But we must start from a position of honesty and full disclosure. We cannot pretend that laws are protecting workers when in truth those laws are taking existing rights away.
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Q: How to open EndDrawer I'm trying to adapt flutter source code to create a side panel. My code is this :

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  final GlobalKey<ScaffoldState> _scaffoldKey = GlobalKey<ScaffoldState>();
  void _openEndDrawer(){
    _scaffoldKey.currentState!.openEndDrawer();
  }
  void _closeEndDrawer(){
    Navigator.of(context).pop();
  }
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: HEADER(appBar:new AppBar()),
      drawer:LeftPanel(drawer: new Drawer()),
      endDrawer:  Drawer(
        child: Center(
          child: Column(
            mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
            children: <Widget>[
              const Text('This is the Drawer'),
              ElevatedButton(
                onPressed: _closeEndDrawer,
                child: const Text('Close Drawer'),
     ...
      body: Column(
        children: [
          Row(
            mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
            children: [
              SectionTitle(title: "Historial"),
              Padding(
                padding: EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(10, 30, 0, 0),
                child: IconButton (
                  icon: Icon(Icons.filter_alt),
                  onPressed: _openEndDrawer,

......

when i click on the button flutter throws this error :
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The following _CastError was thrown while handling a gesture:
Null check operator used on a null value

At this point I don't know what to do ..., Im new codding with flutter

A: You have missed to attach the scaffold key to the scaffold. Due to that accessing currentState giving the error. so make sure to attach the key using key: _scaffoldKey
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      key: _scaffoldKey,
      appBar: AppBar(title: const Text('Drawer Demo')),
      body: (..)
    );
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A: You got an error because your Scaffold key is null
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Architecture & Design, Published
In the Spirit: Lula Restaurant Distillery
The first of its kind in Louisiana, and only one of a handful across the country, Lula Restaurant & Distillery helps to revitalize a stretch of St. Charles Avenue in a city where spirits were born.
From the exterior, it doesn't look like much has changed about the building that once served as a showroom for Halpern's Furniture. It's when visitors venture inside that they discover the rustic beauty of Lula Restaurant-Distillery, and the realized dream of friends and partners Jess Bourgeois and Bear Caffrey. "It's really very nice to see people's reactions when they walk in the door and see how big it is, because it's so unassuming from the outside." says Bourgeois. "It's such a beautiful space and great concept and everybody's really enjoying it."
Native son and local chef Bourgeois met Caffrey through mutual friends while vacationing in New Zealand back in 2009 and it was then, during a fortnight filled with adventure and revelry, that the two decided to join forces to create the first restaurant-distillery in the Gulf South. From learning all they could about operating a successful distillery (including a course at Dry-Fly Distillery in Spokane, Washington) and finding the right structure to house it to challenging local and federal permitting and legislation, it was a long road to reach their seemingly insurmountable goal, but they finally succeeded.
On the eve of this year's carnival season, amidst the raucous crowds and colorful floats, Lula Restaurant-Distillery opened their doors at long last. Featuring Southern-inspired cuisine and cocktails, the 10,000 square foot space flaunts the building's original architecture in harmony with top-of-the-line distilling equipment that gleams behind a towering glass wall. The combined efforts of Don Fant, the Director of Design at Woodward Design + Build, Project Architect Frank Lauricella, Interior Designer Dottie Richard of Richard Renfo Designs in Baton Rouge and many others, Lula Restaurant-Distillery blossomed into the austere, yet refined space where simplistic, well-crafted cuisine and cocktails color the canvas.
Naturally, the ostentatious display of a working micro-distillery acts as the focal point of the restaurant. The shining brass and stainless steel fermenters, stills, condensers and tanks were custom designed by CARL, a manufacturer of distilling and brewing technologies in Germany. Reminiscent of sci-fi, steampunk-ish metalworks, the distillery equipment is capable of producing 5000 cases of Lula spirits per year. "It's like musical instruments standing up there." says Fant. "They're brass and colorful, it's really an interesting view." Rum, vodka and gin are all distilled from sugar at Lula Sugar Factory, a mill in Belle Rose, Louisiana, which is also where the restaurant got its name.
"Anytime that you're working with an old building, there's always opportunities and challenges and you never know, when you start peeling back the layers, what you're going to find." says Fant. "The bones of the building were good." As other visitors might attest, one of the most arresting features of the building is exposed duct work and inverted ceiling trusses that were part of the original structure. "All we did was dust that off." says Bourgeois. "It was 'as-is' … one of the features that really sold us on the space to begin with." The dining room also features stained and polished concrete floors, a 25-seat bar and wood-topped tables that were actually designed by Halpern's Furniture.
Aside from the barn-like inverted trusses and dark iron pulley lighting, a wooden wall featured on the right side of the restaurant also lends an agrarian feel to the space. "I'm especially proud of the accent wall." says Bourgeois. "We have a 30-degree angle wood wall made from re-purposed wood floors in the old meeting room. It took a lot of thought and I think it came out fantastic."
Although Bourgeois was heavily-involved with the construction and design of the restaurant, his main focus was creating a menu that would not only appeal to the denizens and visitors of New Orleans, but that would pair well with their spirits. "For instance, our boudin-stuffed quail has a honey rum lacquer using our spirits and one of our mainstay cocktails right now is a "Bees Knees," which has honey syrup in it." says Bourgeois. "We're just trying, a little bit, to play off of the flavors in each one of the dishes." Other obvious examples include the Lula Rum Lacquered Gulf Shrimp with soybean succotash and Sugarcane Pork Skewers grilled with a spiced rum glaze.
Due to Louisiana House Bill 233 passed in 2015, legislation Bourgeois aided in enacting, this type of micro-distillery is not allowed to distribute its product through other outlets. But they can sell their spirits directly to customers who visit the restaurant, either in bottled form or cocktail by delicious cocktail. "Most of our drinks are traditional sours which are three ingredients … a citrus component, a sugar component and our spirits." says Bourgeois. Lula's bartenders can serve batch drinks straight from a tap, like their Cucumber Vodka Collins or Planter's Punch, or mix classics like a French 75 with cava, lemon, cane sugar and Lula Gin or a Mojito made with muddled lime, mint and cane sugar mixed with Lula Rum and carbonated water.
From concept to completion, it's been a long road for Lula Restaurant-Distillery to become a reality, one with many essential players. "Everybody worked really well together." says Bourgeois. "And I think the beauty of the space is a testament to that. Typically when you go through a process like this and people are butting heads and not getting along, things don't turn out the way they should, but I think it's pretty obvious that everyone worked well together here."
*Article originally published in the April 2017 issue of New Orleans Living Magazine
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