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Diritti fondamentali e globalizzazione. Dialogando con Pietro Barcellona (e altri)
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The starting point of the author's reflection is his reading of two recent publications, the first being P. Barcellona, "Le passioni negate. Globalismo e diritti umani", Troina (Enna), Città aperta, 2001; and the second, introduced by the same Barcellona, being "Nuove frontiere del diritto. Dialoghi su giustizia e verità", Bari, Dedalo, 2001. The author's thought revolves around the relations between and among the normative world and technique, desire, salvation, the representation of sorrow, community and communication and democracy, which constitute the different parts of a single treatment, made possible including owing to the knowledge that every author has benefited from the contributions of others. The most painful problems of our juridical and social experience are involved, which at bottom are concentrated around the question of whether, in meeting the challenge posed by the infinite emptiness of purpose in relation to technique, to desire, to communication and to democracy (and not only to them), formal modern law, for all its perfection, suffices, and whether it is possible to think of "curing" a phenomenon such as the crisis of contemporary civilisation with the technique of legal formalism.

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I have a new brand on the blog today, I was sent a package of goodies by Zanthara; a Brazilian company that specializes in nails!
I created these nails with one of their many nail vinyls, you get eight full nail vinyls in a pack. That confused me a bit at first, cause ten nails should need ten vinyls right? But the adhesive on these is wonderful, and I was able to actually do these nails with just two vinyls! It's not so strong that it'll damage your base color, and I love being able to stretch supplies for more manis 🙂 Be careful you don't get polish on the sticky side though, I wasn't and that why these didn't turn out quite as crisply as I'd of hoped.


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In finale Michael Geerts e Patrik Niklas-Salminen hanno sconfitto Fabian Fallert e Hendrik Jebens con il punteggio di 7-6(7-5), 7-6(10-8).

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One News Page Australia > News Videos > How a Saudi dissident vanished in plain sight
How a Saudi dissident vanished in plain sight
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Turkish investigators are focusing on an Apple Watch and 15 Saudi men who entered the consulate in Istanbul around the same time as missing journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, and left a short time later.
Emily Wither reports from Istanbul.
Here in Turkey Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi believed he was safe.
This is the commentator heading in to the consulate on Tuesday October 2nd.
There isn't security footage of him leaving.
Turkish officials believe he was murdered inside.
Saudi Arabia strongly rejects the accusation.
These 15 Saudi men are now the focus of investigations.
The intelligence team pictured in Turkish media entered the consulate at the same time.
Jamal had been living in exile in Washington for more than a year.
A veteran reporter, he was writing a column for the Washington Post, he could now say things he couldn't at home.
Criticising the Saudi Crown Prince, the kingdom's crackdown on dissent and its war in Yemen.
But he was increasingly worried that Riyadh could hurt him or his family.
In Turkey though he had friends in high places including among President Tayyip Erdogan's advisers.
He believed he had no reason to fear walking in to get paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancee.
Old friend Azzam Tamimi was one of the last people to see him.
(SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) AZZAM TAMIMI, LONG TIME FRIEND OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI, SAYING: "He said he'd already been to the consulate and he was reassured by its staff who received him well, seemed friendly, he even said to these are just ordinary folks, fellow citizens and I have nothing to worry about." On the day of Jamal's appointment 15 Saudis arrived in Istanbul from Riyadh.
Here you can see the men checking in to nearby hotels.
Later, Turkish official say, the group entered the consulate while Jamal was collecting his paperwork.
By the end of the day they were on their way back to Saudi Arabia.
Turkey says they are also looking for clues via the black Apple Watch Jamal was wearing that day.
It was connected to one of the phones he'd left outside.
The watch could provide data such as location and heart rate.
What Jamal wrote and said contradicts the slick image of reform that Prince Mohammed bin Salman is prompting.
(SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) AZZAM TAMIMI, LONG TIME FRIEND OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI, SAYING: "He felt that things were terrible, that Mohammed bin Salman had marginalised everyone in the family Jamal had good contacts with some other members of the family but they had already been marginalised so he was losing hope." This was Jamal's last public appearance before he disappeared.
His friends keen to stress he called for reform not regime change.


The cattle market has taken a tailspin recently. While that's not unexpected at this time of year, the magnitude and velocity of the drop has many scratching their heads. Will cattle prices rebound as we head deeper into the fall season? That and more awaits you in this week's Trending Headlines.


It's finally December and the cold weather Gods have taken note! With a noticeable drop in temperature, it's becoming more difficult to do anything but curl up on the couch with a big bowl of popcorn, hot chocolate, and holiday Hallmark movies on repeat (or is that just me…?). Whatever your indoor activity of choice may be, there's one thing that's certain: you want to be comfortable, cozy, and warm.
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There are a few cheap items as well as things you can do to bring Hygge into your home, but it starts with your affordable and stress-free living. Part of Hygge is "feelings of contentment", and if your living arrangement is less than ideal, then it's time you check out Bedly.
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Comfy socks or slippers are a must in your nook, too! Have a friend who knits? You won't find anything better than a pair of socks knit personally for your taste, or check out Etsy for some beautiful hand-woven pairs.
You'll want to pick out your favorite book(s) or book(s) you plan to read, along with a journal as well. Keep them in your nook and avoid screen time to feel truly blissed out. Add a plant (something small like a succulent is perfect), light a candle or two or hang some fairy lights, and voila! Your nook is complete.
Make warm drinks and bake some treats. There's something so comforting about walking around in the cold weather with a warm beverage, coffee, hot chocolate, or hot cider. This is the feeling of Hygge and one that is easily obtainable inside as well. Grab your drink and curl up in your newly made nook. Maybe you even put a little Baileys in your hot cocoa – to each his own!
Baking is another satisfying feeling in the winter months. Whether it's cake, muffins, or cookies, you can easily – well, as long as you stick to the recipe – and affordably bake some treats to share with friends or new roommates. Or eat them all while you watch the Hallmark channel. No? Just me again?
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Hygge, just like Bedly, is all about relieving stress and providing comfort in an affordable and simple way. So once you've moved into your new Bedly space, after you've prepped your apartment for winter and before you throw your holiday housewarming party, make sure to create some Hygge, whether it's in the form of a nook, self-indulgent baking, or an evening of self-care.


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2017 British Open Championship field: How to qualify, earn exemptions
The 2017 British Open Championship field offers the most opportunities to qualify for an exemption for players around the world, with 39 different ways to get into the field.
A golfer has to be one of the best on the planet to qualify for the British Open. They can get a British Open exemption if they meet one of these worldwide criteria to get an invitation.
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Living in the vicinity of Luton Airport, particularly under the flight paths, is often misery. For many people, a simple walk in the park or an afternoon in the garden is ruined by deafening aircraft taking off or arriving every few minutes. And the phrase "close to Luton Airport" doesn't just mean within the boundaries of Luton. Surrounding villages of Breachwood Green, Pepperstock, Slip End, South Luton and Caddington, Flamstead and Markyate all suffer hugely.
That's the situation right now. Yet London Luton Airport (LLAL) is proposing to double its capacity to 38 million passengers.
And that's the situation now, before the massive increase to 38 million passengers and another 100,000 flights a year.
Luton Borough Council itself has a document on its website quoting the World Health Organisation: "exposure to excessive noise can cause serious harm to humans. It can interfere with people's daily activities at school, work, home and during leisure time. It can disturb sleep, cause cardiovascular and psychophysiological effects, reduce performance and provoke annoyance, plus responses and changes in social behaviour".
And that's the situation now. Right now, noise pollution – in Luton and surrounding villages – is causing serious physical and psychological harm.
Yet in the summer of 2017, Luton Airport itself said that it had already exceeded its own targets for night time noise.
And that's the situation now, with London Luton Airport freely admitting it has exceeded its own night time "noise contour". Imagine what the situation will be, if the airport is allowed to double its capacity!
We all know that aircraft take-off and landing creates considerable noise, but ground noise associated with engine start-ups and runway taxi-ing is equally intrusive. And of course, aircraft noise is not the only source of noise pollution associated with the airport.
Already, cars and other vehicles going to and from the airport cause considerable noise pollution. A simple web search for "traffic and Luton airport" brings up dozens of news reports describing incidents of traffic chaos over the last few months.
And that's the situation now. Constant noise pollution from airport-related traffic, and regular incidents of traffic chaos. How much worse will this become, if passenger numbers increase to 38 million?
As we know, major construction of any kind causes considerable noise pollution during the works. London Luton Airport Ltd are proposing to build – amongst other things – a second terminal on Wigmore Park. Not only will this destroy the buffer zone between the airport and local residents, but it will also necessitate piling work; excavation; construction vehicles going to and from the site; and contractors' equipment all using local roads, day and night.
Is this what we want for the future of Wigmore?


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Can You Pull a Queen Anne Lace Up & Replant It?
By M.H. Dyer
How to Grow Purple Heliotrope
How to Plant Dwarf Gladiolus
How to Transplant a Moonbeam Coreopsis
How to Propagate Sweet Woodruff
Are Gardenias Poisonous?
A rambunctious plant with lacy foliage, fuzzy stems and clusters of white flowers, Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota) grows in U.S Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 9. Like most wild plants, Queen Anne's lace is difficult to transplant successfully because much of the root system is lost in the process. Pulling the plant is almost certain to result in failure, but careful digging may result in a plant that re-establishes in your garden.
Transplant Queen Anne's lace in spring or autumn when the plant is dormant. Choose a small plant because a small root system is more likely to root. Dig deeply around the Queen Anne's lace, then lift the plant from the ground without disturbing the clump of soil around the roots. Place the entire clump in a cardboard box and transplant it as quickly as possible. In the meantime, keep the roots cool and moist.
Transplanted Queen Anne's lace is more likely to root successfully in soil that you have spaded ahead of time. Dig a hole and plant the Queen Anne's lace at the same depth it was planted in its original location. Keep the soil moist until new growth indicates that the plant has rooted, or about two weeks.
Invasiveness
Queen Anne's lace is invasive in open spaces across much of the United States. The plant grows quickly in ditches and along highways, outpacing native plant growth and threatening prairies, meadows and grasslands.
Nancy Peters, The Weed Lady: Queen Anne's Lace, Daucus Carota, L.
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Wild Ones: Midsummer Transplanting of Wildflowers
M.H. Dyer began her writing career as a staff writer at a community newspaper and is now a full-time commercial writer. She writes about a variety of topics, with a focus on sustainable, pesticide- and herbicide-free gardening. She is an Oregon State University Master Gardener and Master Naturalist and holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction writing.
17 gardening gifts for the plant-lovers in your life
How to Transplant Vinca Major
Can Lantana Be Transplanted?
Is a Pachysandra Poisonous to Dogs?
How to Grow Dwarf Pak Choi
How to Transplant Blue Chip Campanulas
When to Transplant a Bridal Wreath
How to Plant a Yucca Aloifolia
How to Grow Turnera Diffusa
1 17 gardening gifts for the plant-lovers in your life
2 How to Transplant Vinca Major
3 Can Lantana Be Transplanted?
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There's an age old saying in fashion; 'style over substance', that's mostly said by people wearing shoes too painful for walking, but too beautiful not to wear.
This season, The Women's Society has stocked an eclectic range of The Impressionist collection from Australian brand Elliatt which appeals to all tastes.
The curative element behind the brand was to find a balance between high end quality and affordability resulting in chic yet playful designer pieces that weren't going to break the bank and that's exactly what the brand achieved and what these pieces offer.
First of all with the high waisted sage Sway trousers and crop top combo, flattery is key. These leg lengthening trousers with slits reaching up the middle of your legs to just past your knees will have everyone commenting #legsfordays and I mean it.
They also nip you in at your waist and flare out by your feet, giving the illusion of an hourglass figure due to its fit.
Pair this with the Winslow crop top and it's the perfect combo. This intricately designed top is one like no other. It's got the classic Bardot cut, which is always flattering for collarbones, but what really sold me, is that as soon as I put it on, it didn't ride up past my shoulders or fall down past my bust when I moved, which is difficult to find in a Bardot top (am I right ladies!?) It truly was the perfect fit. The other great thing about this crop top was that it had unique lace embroidery panels overlaying the top which added texture to the outfit, as well as negating the need for jewellery as it was an accessory all by itself. I paired these pieces with a classic white heeled sandal and burgundy bag to contrast with the sage colour of the trousers.
The dress below screams comfort is queen and made me hail back to my summer evenings in Australia as it's relaxed and comfortable, while still showing its stylish and sassy side, and you can see how Elliatt heralds its heritage throughout the collection.
The flowy Impressionist maxi dress has a length which is perfect for a summers day and makes you feel as easy breezy as it's made and that's another reason why I love this brand – the clothes empower you and make your mood feel the style they're designed. The halter-bardot design of the dress is a rare design and makes the dress all the more special.
The craftsmanship of this Aura jumpsuit is unparalleled.
The luxe fabrications and unique, intricate detailing is nothing I've ever come across in such an affordable brand before. Mirroring its sister pieces, this jumpsuit also goes by the same slit design but this time on the sides of the legs and the arms. Again with the Bardot shoulder style, this jumpsuit stays on by itself and has a structured bustier to flatter your figure and hold you in place.
A sultry yet sophisticated touch to this evening piece is the sheer legs with horizontal panels and polkadots and the lazer cut patternwork of the waist, sinching you in and drawing attention to where you're most slight.
Throw on some black studded heels for an edgier look, or give it a glam finishing touch with this beautiful sparkling necklace and hit the town!
Overall I can see that the inspiration for the collection is for the woman who wants to dress up and dress down. The eclectic, detailed and wearable pieces offer a style for everyone and most importantly, have enough substance to go with it.
What piece is your favourite? Let us know in the comments below! Better yet, come to the store and try them on!


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The Chrysanthemums Essay
"The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck
The short story "The Chrysanthemums" shows how extraordinarily forward thinking the author, John Steinbeck, was in his understanding of the pressures that women dealt with in his time. Through the exploration and illustration of women's emotions, Steinbeck gives us a view into the struggle of women in the early 20th century to find a place for themselves in society as well as establishing their own sexuality(Charters, 502).
The story starts out with the description of a grey fog over the place where the story is set. The significance of this is to set the mood of the story. It also is a possible representation of how the main character of the story, Elisa Allen, feels about her life. Elisa is first introduced working in the garden planting her flowers, and while doing so looks up to see her husband talking to two men in suits. She later asked him who they were and he said that he sold them some steers and "got nearly my own price, too"(The Chrysanthemums, 2). This shows the fact that all the business of the family was handled by the man, and that in general women's inputs were not considered, if they were ever given. However Elisa is by no means a woman who is unable to do things herself, Steinbeck makes a point to mention that "The chrysanthemum stems seemed too small and easy for her energy". In the narration and description of Elisa's garden and her chrysanthemums are strong and that she raised very good flowers in the past year as well. All of these things help the reader to empathize with Elisa and make her easier to identify with.
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Tax return preparers owed more than $250 million for paying unlawful fees assessed by the IRS and U.S. Treasury Department
A class of U.S. tax return preparers, represented by Motley Rice LLC and co-counsel, received a favorable and precedent-setting decision on June 1, 2017, when U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth struck down a Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) fee that the Treasury Department and IRS had for years required tax preparers to pay, finding that the plaintiffs should be issued a full refund.
The Court's ruling was issued in response to a plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment filed in the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs argued the IRS had no authority to charge fees for PTINs and that the class – consisting of more than a million CPAs, tax attorneys, enrolled agents, and non-licensed preparers across the country – should be refunded the roughly $250 million paid since the fees were first implemented in 2010. The litigation is Adam Steele, et al. v. United States of America, Case No. 1:14-cv-01523-RCL. Motley Rice is lead counsel in the class action, and is working with co-counsel Law Office of Allen Buckley LLC, Gupta Wessler PLLC, and Christopher Rizek of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered.
"This ruling recognizes this fee as an unlawful attempt to regulate tax preparers without the legal authority to do so." said Motley Rice attorney Meghan Oliver. "We are pleased that the nation's tax preparers had the opportunity to be heard and will not be subject to this unlawful fee moving forward."
In an amended complaint filed Aug. 7, 2015, the plaintiffs alleged that the PTIN fee was an unlawful attempt by the IRS to regulate the nation's tax preparers after Congress had repeatedly failed to pass legislation that would grant such licensing authority to the agency. Despite not having the legal backing, the IRS began charging tax preparers an initial registration fee in December 2010 to obtain the PTINs, as well as an annual renewal fee to remain in good standing. Prior to 2010, the IRS provided preparers with a PTIN for free, and that PTINs did not expire or change.
In 2014, in Loving v. IRS, 742 F.3d 1014 (D.C. Cir. 2014), the D.C. Circuit that held that tax return preparation is not subject to regulation. That ruling dismantled much of the IRS's attempted regulatory scheme, but it did not address the PTIN fees. While the Court's latest ruling issued by Judge Lamberth agreed with the defendant that the IRS can require tax preparers to obtain PTINs, the Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs that the agency cannot charge fees to obtain PTINs under the Independent Offices Appropriations Act, 31 U.S.C. § 9701.
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Luka Doncic is not Married to Wife. Dating Girlfriend: Anamaria Goltes.
Luka Doncic is a prestigious ball player from Slovenia at present playing for the Dallas Nonconformists of the NBA. Subsequent to playing for Association Olimpija in Ljubljana as a young person, he proceeded to join Genuine Madrid's childhood framework.
After a year, in 2015, Luka turned into the club's most youthful player to make his senior group debut at 16. After eighteen months, he directed Madrid to the 2018 Euro Association triumph, winning the MVP grant and the Last Four MVP praises.
Luka was likewise granted the ACB Best Youthful Player and Euro Association Rising Star prizes for the subsequent year. He was 23 years of age, born on February 28, 1999.
Peruse on to look into the one who will ideally become Luka Doni's Significant other, the expert b-ball player. Luka Doncic isn't Hitched to Spouse: Dating a Sweetheart Anamaria GoltesAny reasonable person would agree that the couple, who has been together starting around 2016, is one of the most steady heartfelt blends among the association's more youthful age of stars. Subsequently, just a small level of Goltes' audience knows all about the couple's history. It was uncovered in a meeting with the New York Post that Luka and his sweetheart Anamaria had been companions since they were 12 years of age in Croatia. While Luka proceeded with his advancement in the Genuine Madrid youth framework, his future sweetheart at first decided to go to the College of Ljubljana, emulating her dad's example.
The last option had recently gone to a similar college. The two have kept up with their fellowship regardless of their actual division.
The Dallas Free thinkers drafted Luka Doncic in 2018 after a short parted between the two out of 2018. In the mediating years, the pair have reconnected and are presently stayed in Dallas, Texas, fully expecting the Coronavirus pestilence.
In light of the broad travel the two of them need to accomplish for their positions, the last year probably helped them, permitting them to get to know one another than they in any case would have. Keep perusing to learn Luka Doncic's Sweetheart, Anamaria Goltes Memoir.
Luka doncic coughed into his towel 5 times then tossed the towel into the crowed lmao I'm dead pic.twitter.com/721XV0hnDE
— John (@iam_johnw) January 6, 2023
Anamaria Goltes' History Anamaria Goltes is a prestigious model and design powerhouse from Slovenia, who is otherwise called the sweetheart of the ball star Luka Doncic. She started her vocation by posting pictures of style and relaxation on Instagram. Anamaria turned into an expert model in the wake of being selected by different demonstrating organizations. A few organizations have utilized her from that point forward, with Campbell Models and Eternal Model Administration being two of the more outstanding. Luka Doncic's sweetheart was raised by Maja Bec Goltes and Matjaz Goates in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia. Luka Doncic's Sweetheart is the little girl of a legal counselor and a former student of the College of Ljubljana. The dearest companion she had was her more youthful sister, Pia Golte. Anamaria studied at the College of Ljubljana and made his folks pleased by graduating. On her YouTube account, she regularly transfers exercise recordings that she has shot herself.
Anamaria Goltes was born on April 30th, 1998, making her 24 years of age. The one who will ideally become Luka Doncic's Significant other is an accomplished model. At the point when she completed school, she started displaying full-time and in the end took action to the US to follow her fantasy. A few model scouts intrigued her when she posted her pictures via web-based entertainment. Eventually, the one who will ideally become Luka Doni's Significant other was reached by the IMG-supported 'We Love Your Qualities' Instagram crusade. Peruse on to learn on the off chance that Luca and his better half have children.
Do Luka Doncic and Anamaria Goltes have Children together? Despite the fact that that Luka and his sweetheart have been together for a lot of time, several yet has no kids. In any case, just relax, as they adored one another, perhaps in a couple of years, they will become guardians to a youngster that they will cherish and value until the end of their lives


The evolution of the opposable or prehensile thumb is usually associated with Homo habilis, the forerunner of Homo sapiens. This, however, is the suggested result of evolution from Homo erectus (around 1 MYA) via a series of intermediate anthropoid stages, and is therefore a much more complicated link.
the simultaneous development of a larger anthropoid brain in the later stages.
It is possible, though, that a more likely scenario may be that the specialized, precision gripping hand (equipped with opposable thumb) of Homo habilis preceded walking, with the specialized adaptation of the spine, pelvis and lower extremities proceeding [author presumably means "preceding"- S.K.] a more advanced hand. And, it is logical that a conservative, highly functional adaptation be followed by a series of more complex ones that complement it. With Homo habilis an advanced grasping-capable hand was accompanied by facultative bipedalism, possibly implying, assuming a co-opted evolutionary relationship exists, that the later [ = "latter" -S.K.] resulted from the former as obligate bipedalism was yet to follow. Walking may have been a byproduct of busy hands and not vice versa.
The thumb, unlike other fingers, is opposable, in that it is the only digit on the human hand which is able to oppose or turn back against the other four fingers, and thus enables the hand to refine its grip to hold objects which it would be unable to do otherwise. The opposable thumb has helped the human species develop more accurate fine motor skills. It is also thought to have directly led to the development of tools, not just in humans or their evolutionary ancestors, but other primates as well. The thumb, in conjunction with the other fingers make humans and other species with similar hands some of the most dexterous in the world.
* Bornean Orangutan - opposable thumbs on all four hands. The interdigital grip gives them the ability to pick fruit.
* Gorillas - opposable on all four hands.
* Chimpanzees have opposable thumbs on all four hands.
* Lesser Apes have opposable thumbs on all four hands.
* Old World Monkeys, with some exceptions, such as the genera, Piliocolobus and Colobus.
* Giant Panda - Panda paws have five clawed fingers plus an extra bone that works like an opposable thumb. This "thumb" is not really a finger (like the human thumb is), but an extra-long sesamoid bone that works like a thumb.
* Troodon - a birdlike dinosaur with partially opposable thumbs.
* Raccoon - a common mammal with thumbs, which are not opposables.
Evolution of the Human species. On this site it states that "Human Species has a unique opposable thumb (chimpanzees don't)".


This week's infographic, created by Seattle University's Project on Family Homelessness, focuses on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their relation to adult homelessness. The project is based out of the university's Center for Strategic Communications, and focuses on spreading awareness about the causes of family homelessness, as well as potential solutions to the problem. The term ACE is used to refer to potentially traumatic events that can have lasting negative effects on health and wellbeing. Examples of ACEs include emotional abuse, emotional neglect, household mental illness, parental separation and household substance abuse. It should be established that many ACEs are strongly interrelated. One study from California found that if a person had one ACE, the likelihood of having another was 2 to 18 times higher than those with no ACEs.
The infographic states that as ACEs accumulate, there is an increased likelihood of struggling with adult homelessness. It is important to note that a gradient can be observed, there is an almost directly proportional risk of experiencing homelessness as an adult as the number of ACEs increase. Data reported in the study comes from a report published out of the University of Pennsylvania that looked at factors associated with adult homelessness in Washington State.
Homelessness is just one of many negative outcomes that correspond with an increase in ACEs. Strong correlations have been observed between increase in ACEs and physical outcomes, including contracting cancer, becoming diabetic and becoming severely obese. Strong correlations have also been observed for mental health outcomes, including anxiety disorders, depression and antisocial behaviour.
There is clear evidence that links ACEs and the risk of experiencing homelessness. The knowledge on ACEs can be used in the development of strategic programs that target homelessness from a prevention-based perspective. These programs can be understood as a means to protecting youth from the serious dangers that come with living on the streets, before they get there. Preventive approaches to youth homelessness have seen measured success abroad. An example of such a program is respite accommodation, which can provide youth with safe high quality accommodation when they may be fleeing family conflict. A recent evaluation of such a program in Birmingham (England) found that almost 80% of youth who used respite accommodation services returned home after two weeks.
Another great initiative by the Center for Strategic Communications at Seattle University brought together local filmmakers, students, staff and community partners to tell the stories of families who were homelessness, or on the brink of becoming homeless. The project serves as a reminder of the powerful role of film and the creative arts in telling the stories of society's most vulnerable. I invite you to watch the following short film, The Beast Inside, one of four videos produced by this project.


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Monkey business: The unforeseen consequences of Majuli's erosion | IDR
Monkey business: The unforeseen consequences of Majuli's erosion
Keisham Baldev Singh, Sapna Ghosh
Majuli district, Assam
Located on the river Brahmaputra, Majuli—spread over 1,250 square kilometres before the 1950s—has shrunk to 483 square kilometres. Once known as the world's largest river island, the region's soil has been eroding regularly due to floods in the river, and this has had severe ramifications on the sustenance of its inhabitants. "I have witnessed [approximately] 500 metres erode within a year," says Keisham Baldev Singh, a SeSTA executive working in Majuli. "We had a picnic last year at a place in Sri Luhit panchayat. This year that spot has disappeared."
While the government has installed geobags and erected triangular concrete structures called porcupines along the river bed to contain the erosion, the efficacy of these solutions is limited. Many villages have collapsed and their residents have been displaced as a result of the erosion. The reduced space has also led to inland movement of certain animals, resulting in conflict with local farmers.
The flooding has affected the availability of cultivable land and the natural habitat of the region's wildlife. For instance, monkeys were once a rare sight in Majuli, but they have moved further inland over the years and have begun to threaten the farmers' crops. There aren't any fruit plantations or dense forests around Majuli where the monkeys can live and feed themselves. So, they eat the farmers' crops and often uproot larger crops that they don't consume. In order to sustain their livelihood, the farmers are left with no other solution but to constantly chase them away.
The limited availability of cropland has compelled many farmers to focus on livestock instead. Sapna Ghosh, a poultry farmer from Beloguri village, notes that rearing livestock brings its own set of challenges. Her poultry has dwindled significantly due to constant attacks by wild cats that have moved further inland. She has thus built shelters for her poultry and set up cages to try and capture these elusive predators that negate her labour. Sapna says, "What can I do? I had set up cages and caught three wild cats. But we haven't been able to catch any in the past couple of days. They just don't enter the cages."
The occupancy of land seems to be the motivating factor behind the dispute between humans and animals. The island's rapid erosion is raising urgent questions about ownership and survival among its inhabitants.
As told to IDR.
Keisham Baldev Singh is a SeSTA executive based in Majuli, Assam. Sapna Ghosh is a poultry farmer in Majuli, Assam.
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As we were eating dinner Wednesday night my wife turned to me and confessed that she was apprehensive about the fate of health care reform. I asked her why and she said that for the first time in two years, she was pessimistic about its survival. What got her down was that in the three days of Supreme Court arguments earlier this week regarding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, broccoli made an appearance.
There's a line of reasoning that if the government can compel you to buy health insurance then they can compel you to do anything, including buying broccoli. The underlying principle is that the government shouldn't force you to do something you don't want to do, whether it is buying broccoli or health insurance. This is the crux of the argument that the government cannot regulate inactivity, that is, that they can't compel you to do something when you want to do nothing.
This is a deeply flawed understanding of the purpose of mandatory health insurance. At some point in our lives, each of us will incur health care costs for acute and/or chronic health problems. Sometimes these costs will be manageable and sometimes they will be beyond a person's ability to pay. Society has chosen not to let people die or suffer simply because they are too poor to pay a medical bill. Hospitals regularly provide charity care for people who have serious illness but can't afford their care. Medicaid is available for people who are sufficiently disabled or poor. The money to pay for both of these programs comes from our taxes and total in the billions of dollars.
Broccoli is cheap. More importantly, the cost of broccoli resides in a narrow range. Nobody has woken up to find that a head of broccoli costs $2300 today and that if they don't buy some today they will suffer dire outcomes. More generally, the cost of necessities such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation tend to be predictable and affordable. For medical care, costs can vary widely based on what conditions you have and even the low cost versions are very expensive.
The health care market is unlike any other market because health care costs are unpredictable and are not meaningfully bounded on the upside. Break an arm and your costs could be in thousands of dollars. Have a heart attack and you're in the tens of thousands of dollars. Get cancer and you could enter the hundreds of thousands of dollars category. There's no way to prepare for such illnesses and their costs. That's why health insurance exists, to smooth out these costs over a lifetime and to pool our resources to help those with catastrophic costs to pay for them. The purpose of mandating the purchase of health insurance is to have everyone pay into a system that they will eventually use. Equating broccoli and health insurance is specious and a sign of bad faith on the part of those making that argument. As far as I know, nobody has died because they couldn't get their hands on some broccoli.
When broccoli is 1/6th of the economy of the nation, give me a holler. Maybe then it should be regulated.
In the meantime, what we are hearing is a deliberately misleading meme about 'limiting principles," AKA, "where do we draw the line?" My answer is that we don't draw the line at health care, a fundamental human need that now accounts for one sixth of all economic activity in the US. This is clearly NOT where to draw the line. We can argue about where TO draw the line when the Federal Government tries to mandate burial insurance or some other completely random pseudo-analogy thought up by Fox News and fellow travelers.


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On a recent episode of Quebec's popular TV talk show, "Tout le monde en parle," co-host Dany Turcotte asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why he hadn't heard of any significant Netflix investment in Quebec since a major announcement last year.
"It's not happening fast," Turcotte said to Trudeau about Netflix money in Quebec. "There is nothing happening."
The prime minister replied defensively: "On the contrary." Netflix would invest "even more than they had initially planned to," he promised.
Maybe Trudeau knew something about Netflix's plans that Turcotte, a Quebec show-business veteran, didn't.
But none of the Quebec-based production companies or unions representing actors, directors or writers contacted by The Canadian Press said they have heard of any French-language movie or television series in development by Netflix in the province.
Culture is a highly charged issue in Quebec -- and it's no surprise that alongside questions about cannabis legalization and Saudi arm sales the prime minister was put on the spot about Netflix.
Melanie Joly, the former heritage minister, lost her portfolio last summer following what was widely seen as a disastrous handling of the Netflix file.
Joly was savaged in the Quebec media for her government's decision not to impose the federal Goods and Services Tax on Netflix or any other online-streaming company.
Netflix's $500-million announcement was seen by cultural and political leaders in the province as a sop to the industry after the government exempted Netflix from tax requirements faced by other players in the industry.
It's a question of equity, said Gilles Charland, director general of the union representing Quebec's image and sound technicians.
"It's not about adding a tax on people," Charland said. "It's about ensuring that whether you're subscribed to Bell or Videotron or Shaw or Netflix, you pay a tax for using that product."
The $500-million pledge was supposed to make up for the break given to Netflix, but more than one year after the announcement, francophone Quebec directors, writers and actors are still waiting for a big project.
"It's very disappointing," said Gabriel Pelletier, head of a union representing 700 film, television and web-based directors in Quebec.
"It takes time to develop projects," he conceded, "but still, there should at least be some deals for developing something."
On the English side, Netflix has made significant moves in Canada over the last year.
It recently renewed the show, "Travelers," created by Canadian Brad Wright and shot in Vancouver. The company has other English-language movies and television shows in production across the country.
Montreal-based Muse Entertainment is currently in post-production on "Good Sam," a US$5-million feature film for Netflix, scheduled to run on the company's online platform in 2019.
Muse Vice-President, Jesse Prupas, said in an interview, "as a producer, I am very happy for this opportunity and it took me years to get it -- I'm delighted."
Netflix points to two recent projects involving francophone talent as evidence it has not ignored Quebec.
It bought the rights to the 2017 film, "Les affames," scheduled to appear on the platform in 2019. And the company plans to record four francophone comedians during the next Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal as part of an international series featuring 47 comedians from around the world.
Writers, editors and actors see signs of goodwill from Netflix, but so far it is not funding any original Quebecois movie or television series.
In a statement to The Canadian Press, Netflix said, "we are always on the lookout for the best stories."
The company said its $500-million commitment includes movies and television shows in both English and French, as well as an additional $25 million in market development.
"There is more to come," the company said.
Simon Ross, a spokesman for the Heritage Department, declined comment on the progress of Netflix investments but assured Quebec artists, "we have their back when it comes to protecting our culture." He said the government "expects the company to make the investments stipulated under the Investment Canada Act in both official languages, and we are monitoring it."
Last May, Netflix held a two-day series of meetings in Montreal during which it received numerous pitches. Helene Messier, head of an association that represents 150 independent Quebec production companies in film, television and online, attended one of the events in May.
"There were more than 1,000 ideas submitted to Netflix during those meetings," Messier said in an interview. "I know it can take time to develop projects," she added, "but I would have hoped that by now we would have at least been able to announce something."
Messier said Netflix "created an expectation" in Quebec last year when it announced its investment, and she remains optimistic.
"I think they will deliver," she said in an interview, "but I don't know when."


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G-20: Shaping a new world order
U.S. economic mettle is tested as emboldened leaders from throughout the world gather in Washington.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The role of the United States as the world's economic leader will be tested this weekend when 20 significant world leaders meet in Washington to address the global financial crisis.
Some European leaders are hailing the summit as the next Bretton Woods - a reference to the historic talks in the latter days of WWII that, in effect, made the dollar the world's dominant currency and laid the foundation for the economic order of the past 60 years.
The United States basically ran those meetings. Close to prevailing in the war, it was the world's undisputed military and economic leader.
But today, with the current credit crisis partly rooted in America, and with the rising economic might of China and a unified Europe, that dominance is being challenged.
"The Europeans see themselves as taking a position equal to the U.S.," said Irene Finel-Honigman, an international affairs professor at Columbia University specializing in international banking. "We're looking at a different composition of players and a different powerplay. It's going to be fascinating to watch."
Europe's heavy hand
To bolster their position, the Europeans come to the meeting emboldened by their belief that the credit crisis didn't originate on their soil.
They say that means the more tightly regulated European banking model has triumphed over the more lax laws favored in America.
"The initial response was accusing the U.S. of cowboy capitalism," said Finel-Honigman. "But as the weeks passed, it's become clear we're all in this together."
Together or not, deep divisions still exist between the United States and the Europeans, who initially called for this meeting and will be pushing an agenda heavy on new rules.
Their proposals include: Greater oversight of hedge funds and investment banks; increasing how much money banks need to keep in reserve; more transparent and universal accounting standards; and limits on executive pay.
All that would be accompanied by a new global network of regulators -regulators that would presumably have power over U.S. banks, a potential non-starter with the Bush administration.
"Self-regulation to solve all problems, it's finished," French President Nicholas Sarkozy was quoted saying in the Guardian newspaper last month. "Laissez-faire, it's finished. The all-powerful market that is always right, it's finished."
Moreover, the Europeans are expected to come to the talks presenting a more united front than ever. And they are likely to use one voice to gain international support to counter U.S. policies which many blame for this crisis.
For the United States, the main goal of the summit will be to derail many of these new regulations, said Robert Brusca, chief economist at Fact and Opinion Economics, a Manhattan consultancy.
It's a goal Brusca seems to fully support.
"The last thing we need is another powerless, toothless, cumbersome global agency," he said. "You need to let [banks] run their business, the government isn't going to run it any better."
The Bush Administration is of the same mindset.
While Bush has agreed some more regulation is needed, particularly when it comes to unifying accounting standards and increasing transparency, he is wary of too much government involvement.
"We must recognize that government intervention is not a cure-all," Bush said in statement just before the summit Thursday, which seemed almost designed to temper European expectations. "History has shown that the greater threat to economic prosperity is not too little government involvement in the market - but too much."
Brusca said the United States should instead focus on what he views as more fundamental causes of this economic crisis - mainly China's unwillingness to let its currency, the yuan, rise in value.
The low yuan, Brusca argues, makes Chinese goods unfairly competitive, and prods U.S. consumers to buy too much. This gives China its huge trade surplus, which it has used to buy U.S. Treasurys, mortgage-backed securities and other products that allowed all these banks to lend so freely in the first place.
"They have abused the rules of the game, and politically, this is very dangerous," he said.
The Bush administration may raise this issue at the talks. Getting China to raise the yuan was, after all, one of the administration's highest priorities just a few years ago.
China, Russia, and everyone else
When a consensus is achieved by the G-20 it carries a lot of weight. With its 19 nations plus the European Union, it represents 90% of the world's economy and 75% of its population. But reaching a consensus is the toughest part for such a big and powerful group.
And at this summit, China, Russia, and most developing countries will be pushing for more power, not just within the G-20, but in other, more exclusive clubs like the G-7, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund.
With all these nations pushing for such disparate things, it's unlikely much will get done, at least this time around.
The Europeans are unlikely to push China to reform its currency because of what China will likely ask in return, said Sebastian Mallaby, a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"China isn't going to give up its export-led growth strategy for the sake of the international system unless it gets a bigger stake in that system - meaning a much bigger voice within the International Monetary Fund and a corresponding reduction in Europe's exaggerated influence," Mallaby wrote in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. "Naturally, the Europeans aren't proposing it."
And despite America coming to the table with a black eye from selling these rotten mortgage backed securities around the globe, nearly everyone says the country, with its massive economy and long history of solid stewardship, is still in the driver's seat when it comes to setting worldwide economic policy.
"There is no other country that could offer the leadership that would cause the G-20 to come up with anything even worth thinking about," said George Magnus, a senior economic advisor at the Swiss bank UBS.
That means the Europeans are unlikely to get the type of oversight they're proposing.
Combine the wide range of interests, the complexity of the problem, and the fact that the U.S. is being represented by a lame duck president - Barack Obama is not expected to attend - and it's unlikely anything will get accomplished besides, maybe, a commitment to meet again.
"I have quite low expectations of what's likely to be achieved," said Magnus. "This is just the beginning of a long and crucial dialogue."
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Q: Problem with the characters 'span' in URL (Magento 1.9.1.0) I have encountered a strange but irritating problem in the webshop I am working on. In some URL's from the productpages the word spanband (lashing strap in English) and this causes a  great problem with the layout of the page.
In the source there is the body tag:
<body class=" catalog-product-view catalog-product-view product-spanband-5-ton categorypath-accessoires-9-html category-accessoires">

Somehow the word span is picked out by the browser as it would be a span tag instead of part of the word spanband. This causes the whole layout to be destroyed. In the inspector in Chrome I can see that the browser uses this bit of CSS from bootstrap-responsive.css
[class*="span"] {float: left;min-height: 1px;margin-left: 30px;}

Unfortunally I can not remove the word spanband from the URL's. Anybody who has a clue what can be the cause of this problem and how to solve it?
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A: You've pretty much hit the nail on the head yourself with what is going on. [class*="span"] is a CSS selector that will match any element with a class that contains the string "span." You know the problem.
As for the solution, I'd be hesitant to remove that CSS, not being familiar with its purpose. However, you can try to override it with your own rule targeting body.product-spanband-5-ton directly or body[class*="spanband"] generically (if you have more than one product triggering this behavior) at a higher specificity than the trouble causing selector. Try to avoid using !important if at all possible to achieve that greater specificity (http://cssspecificity.com/).

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In fact, the headlines about data breaches are so regular nowadays that it's easy to forget what's happened. Let's take a look, month by month, at some of the most memorable incidents of 2018.
The year was only a few days old when India's Tribune newspaper reported that criminals were selling unlimited access to the country's vast biometric database over WhatsApp.
For the equivalent of about eight dollars, Tribune reporters were able to gain access to names, email addresses, phone numbers and post codes of over one billion individuals. And as if that weren't bad enough, the newspaper claimed that for an extra five dollars they were offered a unique Indian ID card – known as an Aadhaar card – used to pay for government services including free school meals and fuel subsidies.
Ironically, the Aadhaar cards were part of the Indian government's biometric ID program designed to help stamp out corruption and fight fraud.
The groups behind the breach appeared to have gained access to the database through crooked former employees.
In February, global delivery company FedEx was revealed to be one of the many companies that had left customer information exposed to the world on an unsecured Amazon AWS server.
Security researchers stumbled across a publicly accessible server containing more than 119,000 scanned documents – including names, addresses, phone numbers, and scans of passports, driving licenses, and utility bills.
Like far too many other breaches involving unsecured cloud buckets, the hackers were not even asked for a password to gain access to the sensitive data.
March brought online privacy and the sometimes sloppy way that tech companies treat their users' data into the spotlight, as the name Cambridge Analytica came to the attention of the general public.
A Facebook personality quiz was revealed to have scooped up personal information from the 270,000 people who ran it *and* details of some 50 milion of their online friends.
Facebook app developers aren't supposed to share users' personal data with third parties, but the data harvested by the online quiz was shared with Cambridge Analytica. When Facebook discovered the data had been accessed, it demanded that it be destroyed – but not everyone kept their word.
Technically, this wasn't a Facebook data breach. It would be more accurate to call it a Facebook data policy breach.
But I would argue that the fact that this is how Facebook is supposed to work actually makes it worse than any data breach.
Meanwhile, another famous tech firm realised it had suffered its own security breach that put its users at reach. But, with Facebook dominating the headlines, Google decided to not go public with details of a serious bug until October 2018.
150 million users of the MyFitnessPal app discovered that their personal details had been compromised after hackers stole usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords.
The fact that hashed passwords had been accessed was particularly troubling for users who might have had a commonly-used password such as a dictionary word, as hackers would most likely be able to use rainbow tables to unlock credentials.
Once again, users were reminded of the importance of choosing strong, hard-to-crack passwords and – crucially – to ensure that they were using different passwords on different websites.
May should have been a good month for data security, with the introduction on 25 May 2018 of Europe's GDPR legislation sending a shiver down the spine of any company that was being careless with private data.
For the first time, authorities had within their power to hit firms with significant financial penalties if they were lax at security.
But you would be wrong to think that with GDPR just days away we would see the end of data breaches.
The myPersonality Facebook, for instance, was found to have put six million users' sensitive private data at risk by posting their data publicly for anyone to see on GitHub… for four years.
Facebook responded by suspending the app, and approximately 200 others for using "large amounts" of profile information.
Six months into the year, and the data breaches keep on happening.
In June it was the turn of Ticketmaster, who warned that customer details may have been exposed after malicious code was found running on its website. The compromised information included names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, payment details and login details.
The source of the problem was third-party code that Ticketmaster had placed on its payment page. Worryingly, digital bank Monzo contacted Ticketmaster in early April believing that security on the ticket website had been breached, but Ticketmaster failed to confirm the problem until June.
Customers of popular UK high street stores Currys PC World, Carphone Warehouse, and Dixons Travel were put on high alert in the summer of 2018 as it was revealed that approximately 10 million of them were impacted by a breach that saw hackers steal payment data details and personal records.
All 1.7 million users of Air Canada's mobile app had their passwords reset by the company following a security breach which saw hackers compromise up to 20,000 accounts in August 2018.
How serious could a breach of a mobile app be?
Well, in Air Canada's case it meant that hackers now had their hands on customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, Air Canada account numbers, passport numbers, passport country of issuance, passport expiration data, nationalities, NEXUS numbers, gender, countries of residence, and dates of birth.
Losing such sensitive personal data is serious, as fraudsters could use the information to set up accounts with insurance firms, mobile phone operators, banks and the like if they do not require sight of a physical passport.
In the worst cases, victims might find themselves with a ruined credit score, and bills for goods and services that they have not purchased.
No summing-up of a year can be complete without a few mentions of Facebook, and September saw the social media giant admit to a serious vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain access to accounts and even third-party apps that use Facebook for login.
According to Facebook, approximately 50 million accounts were left exposed.
High profile victims of the so-called "View As" security breach were said to include Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
30,000 military workers and civilian staff had their credit card data and personal information exposed following a security breach impacting the Pentagon.
The security breach occurred at an unnamed third-party vendor which provides travel management services to the Department of Defense.
Fortunately, classified information was not impacted as a result of the breach. But that will be little consolation to those individuals who had their personal data fall into the hands of hackers.
One of the biggest data breaches ever became public in November, with the announcement from the Marriott hotel group that 500 million guests listed in its Starwood guest reservation database were at risk.
Exposed information included name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest ("SPG") account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, and reservation date.
For some customers, the leaked data was also said to include encrypted payment card numbers and payment card expiration dates.
With 500 million customer records compromised, the data breach is perhaps the second-biggest data breach in history.
It took until October 2018 (despite discovering the problem in March) for Google to finally admit that there had been a serious privacy hole in its Google + social network. In response, the company said it would shut down Google + by the end of August 2019.
But if Google thought was the end of its data privacy problems for 2018 it was mistaken.
In December 2018 it revealed it had been hit by another privacy flaw, this time affecting approximately 52 million Google + profiles.
The API bug, introduced by Google just weeks before, allowed the personal information of users to be accessed without permission by third-party apps and developers.
And so, we reach the end of the year filled with hacks and leaked records. And although there were scores of serious data breaches that we didn't have room to include here, I think there is actually some room for optimism.
Although the breaches keep happening, and show little sign of stopping, GDPR has encouraged firms to own up to their security incidents more readily, more promptly, and – in some cases – with an impressive degree of transparency.
Whether we will have to wait for a business to be hit by a substantial fine by a regulator in order to see even more maturity from the firms that store our data remains to be seen.
I wish you good luck as we leave 2018 and enter 2019. Remember that the less data you give an organisation, the less they have to lose. And that the impact of a breach on your life or business can be reduced if you have taken the sensible step of enabling two-factor authentication and never reusing passwords.