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Most current version of my article on the Feminine Boy Project and other threats to free gender expression
September 7, 2010 — Suzan
The following is the latest iteration of an on-going study by Cynthya BrianKate
The Feminine Boy Project Still Threatens Gender-Nonconforming People
By Cynthya BrianKate
For two decades the federal government funded a brainwashing project to keep children from "acting queer." This collaboration between ant-LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, transgender, Intersex) psychologists and "religious right" leaders, known as the Feminine Boy Project laid groundwork for current psychiatric abuses against transgender and gender-nonconforming people.
This was funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1972-1986. The original stated grant goals were "treatment of prehomosexuality," the idea that if children were kept from stepping outside gender stereotypes they wouldn't turn out gay. When homosexuality was removed from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) in the mid-1970s, this became "treatment of pretranssexuality," conflating gender identity with sexuality, based in biased assumptions that anything other than stereotypical gender and heterosexuality were wrong. Children were declared "pathological" for behavior like boys playing with dolls, wearing dresses or helping in the kitchen, or girls climbing trees, playing with boys' toys or wearing boy clothes.
Here are some of the main people involved in the Feminine Boy Project.
Richard Green is a colleague of John Money, who instituted the "Money protocols" mandating unnecessary, nonconsensual genital surgeries on intersex children to make them "fit in" after forcing David Reimer to live as a girl (this was the infamous "John/Joan experiment"), until Reimer changed back to male before killing himself. During this "experiment" Green co-wrote Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment with Money. Green has made a career pathologizing LGBTI people, including inflammatory comments like his 1995 Dateline remark "plays with Barbies at five, sleeps with men at twenty-five." While head of the now-closed Human Sexuality branch of Stony Brook University's psychology department he got NIMH to approve nearly $1 million for the Project.
George Rekers belongs to several anti-gay fundamentalist groups, such as Family Research Council, which he co-founded and used to publish his essay "Gender Identity Disorder." Until recently he was "scientific advisor" to NARTH (National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality), which claims to "cure" gays despite the American Psychiatric Association (APA)'s condemning "reparative therapy." In 2004 he served as an "expert witness" in favor of Arkansas banning gay people adopting children, as he did in 2008 in Florida. Unknown then was that Rekers' was an apparently latent gay man (see below) who adopted/fostered four children, while keeping openly-gay couples from doing likewise. He testified in absentia through two witnesses in favor of California's now-overturned Prop. 8 ban on same-sex marriage. Rekers' "evidence" in the Prop. 8 hearings has been discredited, along with his witnesses, David Blankenhorn and Hack-Shing William Tam. Blankenhorn is president of Institute for American Values and published a book called The Future of Marriage, where he outlined a sensationalistic list of harmful consequences of same-sex marriage; he now admits this list was arrived at through "a group 'thought experiment' where "an idea was written down if someone suggested it." In May 2010 New York Times columnist Frank Rich linked Blankenhorn to Rekers. Blankenhorn denied any connection to Rekers but a month later wrote to the Times that he had consulted Rekers' work in his Prop. 8 testimony. Hack-Shing William Tam is secretary of America Return to God Prayer Movement, which operates anti-same-sex marriage website One Man, One Woman.net. Tam called gay people "12 times more likely to molest children as heterosexuals" and claimed if "gay marriage is permitted .. states would fall one by one into Satan's hands." Tam admits NARTH is his information source on homosexuality because he "believes in what they say" and the Internet was the source for his claim same-sex marriage "would lead to polygamy and incest." On March 31, 2010 Rekers sent a letter to every school superintendent in America through a fundamentalist group called American College of Pediatrics, which hopes to be confused with the American Academy of Pediatrics, where Rekers said "there is no proof that a child is born gay or transgendered." In May 2010 the Miami New Times broke the story that Rekers had been caught in a gay sex scandal with young men from gay sex-worker website Rentboy.com. This scandal has had legs; at least one other young male prostitute has come forward as having been with Rekers. Since then Rekers has stepped down from NARTH. Visitors to his "Professorgeorge.com" website now see his attempts to deny the scandal, and, may still see a now-disabled link to a website Rekers endorsed called "Teen Sex Today," which makes the fact that he adopted and fostered children even more disturbing.
Green and Rekers worked on the Feminine Boy Project with doctors like Susan Coates, behaviorists like O. Ivor Lovaas and David Barlow and had staff of several institutions at their disposal.
Several institutions were used to justify funding and brainwash children. Fuller Theological Seminary is an Evangelical Christian college. In his book Stranger At the Gate Mel White says while a student at Fuller he was introduced to Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell and asked to ghost-write their autobiographies. Rekers used Fuller to get funding for the Project and justify his involvement in it.. Logos Research Institute is a "religious-right" think-tank promoting fundamentalist "science," currently funding actor Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort (known as YouTube's "Banana Guy" for claiming bananas disprove evolution)'s edited an edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. Green used Stony Brook to get most of the NIMH grants and do most of the clerical, statical and administrative work of this "Study" and most of the brainwashing went on at UCLA, though others happened at New York City's St. Luke's Research Hospital's Childhood Gender Identity Unit. The NIMH grants archived in pgs. 257-258 of Phyllis Burke's book Gender Shock allege this last was connected with a grant to Roosevelt Institute.
Green and Rekers called for patients through mental health practitioners who knew of prepubescent children who didn't obey gender stereotypes, mainly feminine boys, though there were some masculine girls. Some were referred by school authorities for gender nonconformity, some brought in by parents.
Children were diagnosed using pseudoscientific "Gender tests" including the "Barlow Gender-Specific Motor Test," using stereotypes to "measure" gender identity by whether children sit/stand/move like boys or girls "should." Diagnosed with "pathological gender development," they'd be recommended for invasive behavior modification, including placement in special playrooms, repeatedly coached to choose gender-stereotypical toys with staff spying through mirrors. Behaviorists like Shasta Mead directly interacted with children; slowly gaining trust to reinforce stereotypical behavior, repeatedly suggesting they'd rather wear or play with the "right" items. Children were made to wear wrist counters to monitor whenever they thought about playing with the "wrong" toys. Rewards and demerits were issued for "right" and "wrong" choices. Parents were enlisted to police childrens' choices, throw out toys, force boys out of the kitchen and "steering" children more toward stereotypical choices at home as well as in the facility. This would go on until the child was declared "cured."
This Project was declared "successful" though it succeeded only in traumatizing children. "Becky" was declared "successfully cured" because the eight-year-old saw a male orderly old enough to be her father as her "boyfriend." The "poster child," called Kraig by Rekers and Kyle by Green, attempted suicide. Another Project survivor wrote a play called "The Blue Dress," dramatizing the abuses suffered. None of this stopped expansion of "Gender Identity Disorder" (GID) and "Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood" (GIDc) to pathologize transgender/gender-nonconforming people, no matter how emotionally healthy. The DSM-IV guidelines even specify boys playing with Barbie as a "symptom."
Stony Brook's administration denies Green ever taught there, despite the NIMH grants archived in Gender Shock and Green thanking his Stony Brook staff in his book The "Sissy Boy" Syndrome, with several still working there today. Both books can be found in that university's library.
In 1980 Dylan Scholinski, a young transgender man then named Daphne, was incarcerated in psychiatric institutions for years under "Gender Identity Disorder." His memoir The Last Time I Wore A Dress shows his school reported him to psychiatrists, diagnosed using the Barlow Gender Motor Test and given "treatment" which included forced makeovers. In 2000 a six-year-old child was removed from loving parents who were seen as "exacerbating a mental disorder." The "disorder?" Aurora Lipscomb told her parents she was not a boy but was a girl, and her parents supported her decision to live as a girl. Because her parents "exacerbated" her "gender identity disorder" the court took Aurora from loving parents and put her in a household where for two years she was forced to live as a Christian boy rather than a Jewish girl. She is out of that home and healing from the experience, which she should have never had to go through.
Currently there's a push to rewrite the DSM to make it even more pathological toward transgender, gender-nonconforming and intersex people. These changes were proposed by Ken Zucker and Ray Blanchard.
Zucker's been pathologizing LGBTI people for many years. He has run Clarke Gender Institute, this institution's handling of transgender and intersex have so angered both communities that some activists call it "Jurassic Clarke". Zucker was an expert in the Lipscomb case and recommended the court take Aurora from her family. While Zucker is not part of NARTH, he lets them cite his work and quote him in their literature.
Blanchard is a colleague of J. Michael Bailey. Bailey is author of the racist, LGBTI-phobic book The Man Who Would Be Queen, and has advocated for selective abortion of "gay babies." Blanchard helped popularize some of the discredited gender theories, including the debunked theory of Autogynephilia, on which Bailey based his book. Bailey has also gained notoriety by working with eugenicists like Alice Dreger to promote the reuse of toxic and outdated terms such as DSD, ,or Disorders of Sex Development, in place of Intersex. Dreger has made a career for herself by exploiting and pathologizing entire populations, including gay, transgender and intersex people, as well as disabled people. Though she's not intersex she ran the now-closed Intersex Society North America (ISNA) for several years and under her leadership the group became a DSD promoter. In 2007 she presented a bioethics lecture titled "Should we attenuate the growth of children with disabilities?" Dreger has on many occasions defended Bailey's racism, sexism and transphobia, even threatening transgender feminist scholar Joelle Ruby Ryan's career when Ryan organized a panel about Bailey's prejudice called "The Bailey Brouhaha" at the National Womens' Studies Association )NWSA) conference in 2008. While Blanchard is not directly connected to Dreger, he is a colleague of Bailey. Both Bailey and Blanchard belong to a eugenicist think-tank called Human Biodiversity Institute, whose membership includes the author of The Bell Curve, which claimed African-Americans were intellectually inferior, and the founder and many members of virulently anti-immigrant group VDARE. Some call this kind of retread of old hatreds of difference as "Newgenics".
The proposed changes include renaming GID "Gender Incongruity Disorder," putting anyone who in any way steps outside gender stereotypes at risk for being declared mentally disordered, not only transgender people but also possibly gay, lesbian and bisexual people, as well as feminine men and masculine women. These also include adding intersex to the list of gender disorders, which makes no sense as intersex is a physical variation, being biologically in between male and female, having nothing to do with mental health.
In addition to the APA some of these people, including Zucker and Green,, are actively involved and in power in other organizations whose decisions impact peoples' lives in terms of gender. In June 2010 the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH, formerly Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, or HBIGDA) issued a press release claiming to advocate "de-psychopathologisation of gender variance worldwide." This sounds quite progressive, unless you know the truth about WPATH's record on gender.
WPATH's past presidents include Richard Green, and Ray Blanchard was a board member until resigning in 2003. Ken Zucker sits on two of their committees, as do several of his colleagues, such as Heino Meyer-Bahlburg. Meyer-Bahlburg is seen by many as homophobic, transphobic, misogynist and trying to "prevent homosexuality."
WPATH's Standards Of Care (SOC), their guidelines for people seeking medical gender transition, such as hormones and/or SRS (Sex Reassignment Surgery) uphold DSM-IV. The SOC reiterates DSM-IV's pathologization of gender nonconformity as GID (Gender Identity Disorder). WPATH's SOC Committee includes Ken Zucker, as well as Randi Ettner.. In her book Confessions of a Gender Defender Ettner describes transgender people using phrases like "zombie," "overstuffed sausage casing" and "the transie from hell…looked about to murder me in the August heat."
The WPATH press release claims to address "The psychopathologlisation of gender characteristics and identities reinforces or can prompt stigma, making prejudice and discrimination more likely, rendering transgender and transsexual people more vulnerable to social and legal marginalisation and exclusion, and increasing risks to mental and physical well-being" yet intersex people are not mentioned at all in this document. WPATH still pathologizes intersex people, and does not even call intersex people intersex. Instead, WPATH has an actual Committee dedicated to continuing the use of DSD, even though that term is proven to be harmful and stigmatizing to intersex people, and a product of the new eugenics. WPATH's "Disorders of Sex Development" Committee includes both Zucker and Meyer-Bahlburg. WPATH is also partnering with GLMA (Gay-Lesbian Medical Association) with their conferences in 2011 overlapping with each other. In 2006 GLMA worked with groups like the ISNA to use DSD to refer to intersex people. In 2005 GLMA allowed ISNA to stage a mini-conference inside their San Francisco conference to help push DSD, and both groups co-wrote literature to popularize DSD.
In 2005 GLMA and ISNA held a similar conference in Chicago which helped to publicize the work of a group calling themselves the "Consensus Group" which was a "consensus" of several non-intersex medical groups, without the participation or even the knowledge of the intersex community. The participants in this group included several members of WPATH, including Ken Zucker, Heino Meyer-Bahlburg and Richard Green. Also involved was ISNA founder Cheryl Chase, who has since come forward as actually having been pro-DSD activist Bo Laurent from the very founding of that group. This "Consensus Group" drafted a document called the "Consensus Statement on the Management of Disorders of Sex Development." Their idea of "management" goes an entire order of magnitude worse than the Money Protocols, which urged forcing unnecessary surgery on intersex babies before two years old; the Consensus Statement urges such surgery at two months old.
So long as WPATH has people like Zucker, Meyer-Bahlburg and Ettner in leadership positions, calls intersex people "Disorders of Sex Development" and upholds the DSM stance on gender nonconformity, any claims that they affirm all peoples' rights to gender expression ring quite hollow. I'd recommend people demand that WPATH stop pathologizing intersex, transgender and gender-nonconforming people, , and to tell people who may not know better what's really underneath that press release until WPATH actually lives up to their claims about supporting everyones' right to free gender expression.
The APA has likely closed the period for public comment on their website at www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx but I'd still recommend writing to them there and I certainly recommend writing them at apa@psych.org to let them know how you feel. I'd urge them they to distance themselves from Zucker and Blanchard and would point out Zucker's guilt by association by letting people like Rekers use his work to justify their hypocrisy and their violation of APA rules against "Reparative therapy." I'm hoping we can make it clear to the APA that we don't want them to put these changes through.
Sources, Additional Information and Proof:
1) Archives of Disease in Childhood ac98319 Module 2, 5/4/06, www.medhelp.org/ais/PDFs/Chicago-Consensus-Statement-06.pdf
2) Aurora Lipscomb archive, www.mermaids.freeuk.com/aurora1.html
3) Beirich, Heidi, and Moser, Bob, "Queer Science," Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report, www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=96
4) Bullock, Penn and Thorp, Brandon K.,, "Christian Right Leader George Rekers Takes Vacation with 'rent boy'," Miami New Times 5/6/10, www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/
5) Burke, Phyllis, Gender Shock: Exploding Myths of Male and Female, Anchor Books 1997
6) Colapinto, John, with Reimer, David, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, Harper Books, 2000
7) Colbert, Steven, on George Rekers' "rent boy" scandal, video clip at http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/video_stephen_colbert_names_ge.php
8) Conover, Pat, Transgender Good News, New Wineskins Press 2002
9) Conway, Lynn, "Ray Blanchard Resigns from HBIGDA In a Huff!" http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/BaileyAssociates/BlanchardResigns.html
10) Conway, Lynn, "J. Michael Bailey's statements about wanting to abort 'gay babies," http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/HBES/Bailey%20on%20homosexuality.htm
11) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision), American Psychiatric Association
12) DSM-V Committee feedback link, www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx
13) Ettner, Randi, Confessions of a Gender Defender, Spectrum Press 1996
14) Exposing Junk Science About Same-Sex Behavior, http://blog.ejsssb.org/category/george-rekers/
15) Green, Richard, The "Sissy Boy" Syndrome and the Formation of Adult Homosexuality, Yale University Press 1987
16) Green, Richard, and Money, John, Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, Johns Hopkins Press 1969
17) Intersex Society North America, DSD Symposium at the 2006 San Francesco GLMA Conference, www.isna.org/dsdsymposium20066
18) "Kirk Cameron's 'Origin Of Species' Plan: Ex-Actor To Distribute 50,000 Altered Darwin Books," www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/kirk-camerons-origin-of-s_n_294349.html
19) Maddow, Rachel, "Rachel Maddow Reports on George Rekers Rentboy.com Vacation," Youtube clip at www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXMv5vsFpE
20) Maddow, Rachel, on connections between George Rekers, David Blankenhorn and Hack-Shing William Tam, found as Youtube clip at www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu56T_AirsM
21) Organisation Intersex International, "Alice Dreger: Disorders of Sex Development" www.intersexualite.org/AliceDreger.html
22) Organisation Intersex International, "Alice Dreger Played Intersex People a Nasty Trick for Halloween," www.intersexualite.org/Dreger_Halloween.html
23) Organisation Intersex International, "Alice Dreger: the Unethical Ethicist?" www.intersexualite.org/Alice_Dreger_ethics.html
24) Organisation Intersex International,, "Cheryl Chase and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD)," http://oii-usa.blogspot.com/2006/10/cheryl-chase-and-disorders-of-sex.html
25) Organisation Intersex International, DSD Fact Sheet, www.intersexualite.org/DSD_Activists.html
26) Organisation Intersex International, "Would the real Cheryl Chase, Bo Laurent, Charlie Chase, Brian Sullivan, Bonnie Sullivan please stand up?" www.intersexualite.org/Cheryl_Chase.html
27) Petition, "Objection to DSM-V Committee Members on Gender Identity Disorders." www.thepetitionsite.com/2/objection-to-dsm-v-committee-members-on-gender-identity-disorders
28) Preventing Homosexuality & Non-Comforming Women: When Science & Medicine Go Astray (a criticism of Heino Meyer-Bahlburg) www.afterthree.net/tag/gender/
29) Proposed DSM-V Revisions, www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=192
30) Rekers, George, "Gender identity Disorders," Family Research Council of America 1985
31) Ryan, Joelle Ruby, Appeal to community about threats by Alice Dreger, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Dreger/ASB%20paper/NWSA%20panel/Academic_Attack_Against_Transwoman_by_Alice_Dreger.html
32) Ryan, Joelle Ruby, panel host, "The Bailey Brouhaha" at the 2008 National Womens' Studies Association (NWSA) conference, entire panel on Youtube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMJAK_IqQa4
33) Scholinski, Daphne,, The Last Time I Wore A Dress, Riverhead Trade 1998
34) Serano, Julia, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Seal Press 2007
35) TG Crossroads article archive of Ken Zucker's pathologizing LGBTI people, www.tsroadmap.com/info/kenneth-zucker.html
36) "The Blue Dress" (play written by a survivor of the Feminine Boy Project), www.jweekly.com/article/full/22941/boy-in-a-blue-dress/
37) TS Roadmap archive on Ray Blanchard, www.tsroadmap.com/info/ray-blanchard.html
38) TS Roadmap archive of transgender criticism of J. Michael Bailey, www.tsroadmap.com/bailey/
39) University of Michigan Bioethics Grand Rounds Speakers' series, "Should We Attenuate the Growth of Children with Disabilities? Looking at Ashley in a Broader Context," lecture by Alice Dreger. 10?31/07, www.med.umich.edu/adultethics/2007.htm
40) White, Mel, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian In America, Plume Books 1995
41) Wilkinson, Stephanie, "Drop the Barbie!: If You Bend Gender Far Enough, Does It Break?", Brain, child the magazine for thinking mothers, 2001, www.brainchildmag.com/essays/fall2001_wilkinson.htm
42) World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), www.wpath.org
43) WPATH June 2010 Press Release, www.wpath.org/publications_public_policy.cfm
44) WPATH, Past Presidents List, www.wpath.org/documents/WPATH%20BOD%20Terms%20List%205-7-09.pd
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While I find this article, and previous versions, compelling, I can only wonder. On the one had it goes to great pains to condemn the conflation of intersex people with transgender people, including the excoriation of the term "disorders of sex development." But at the very same time is blissfully unaware of the the conflation of sex with gender, and the consequent silencing of the narratives of those who must change sex, calling it the exploration of gender, calling for free gender expression.
While I support the rights of all people to express their gender in the way they wish/must, it does not encompass all the lives of those who are forceably added to this umbrella term.
I realize the powerful political movement that might well result from the inclusion of those whose concern is not primarily with the clothes they wear, but with their embodied sex–but this silencing, and erasure, is the essence of oppression.
This article reveals a curious contradiction of the movement to render those who must change sex as identical with those who explore/challenge gender: gender identity (disorder) which is the creation of those who run the feminine boy project is held as the very category into which transgender AND transsexual people must, of necessity, be captured; we fight to the death against the things these people do, but AT THE SAME TIME, fight to the death to defend this core of their ideology: GENDER IDENTITY.
This willful blindness at the core of what should be a movement not only for those who explore/challenge gender, but also for those who must change sex is sad; it simply recreates the same oppression it so, apparently, heroically, fights.
Sadly, this is the domination of gender in just another form.
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The Curious Case of Leroy Sané: Bayern Munich's genius or just another diva?
Maybe a little bit of both? He must redeem himself now.
By Soundz58 Updated Aug 5, 2022, 7:11pm CEST
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Bayern Munich's Leroy Sané has not been quite the surefire offensive player since his move from Manchester City in 2020 for €45 million (+ add-ons potentially reaching €60 million). Though he demonstrated glimpses of his immense potential, his attitude problems and lack of consistency in the past two years have brought him the stigma of being a tag-along with no signs of passion or willingness to lead.
Unfortunately, during my Audi Field visit when Bayern played D.C. United, Leroy Sané seemed unenthusiastic and lackluster. Oftentimes, his mimics and gestures confirm this impression, but the time for talking about a possible potential is over.
Sport1 states that Julian Nagelsmann and Hasan Salihamidzic both "praised Sané" for his performance in the 3-5 victory in the DFL Supercup against Leipzig when he hit a stone-cold stunner (Gimme a hell yeah!) in the 90+8 minute with a fantastic solo run across the field.
"This is how his game looks fine when he is emotional, almost audacious, and determined coming onto the pitch", said Brazzo.
However, according to information from Sport1, Bayern Munich is discussing internally the ups and downs of Sané's performances. "Those responsible and the coaching team agree that everything necessary has been done to create the best possible training and working atmosphere for the 26-year-old." This is the reason why a performance explosion is expected now though "nobody is thinking about selling" him at the moment though there were unlikely rumors that he was offered to Real Madrid.
"With Sadio Mané, Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala, and Kingsley Coman" there is strong competition amongst the offensive ranks in the Bayern squad. For a spot in the Starting XI, he must simply do more. With the upcoming FIFA World Cup towards the end of the year, it is certain that an improvement is needed immediately as a mediocre Sané will be a help neither for Bayern Munich, nor the German national team.
What are your thoughts? Is this Leroy Sané's redemption season or are you losing patience with him?

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Q: Ruby - Using .dig to query values in a nested hash - returning blank I'm attempting to pull comments from reddit.com/r/programming and output the comments in the terminal. I pull the json from reddit and then parse it into a nested hash, but am having trouble querying the hash to pull the comments. Is using HASH.dig the correct approach?
require 'net/http'
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'

url = 'https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments.json?sort=top&t=all&limit=10'
uri = URI(url)
response = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
json = JSON.parse(response)
puts json.dig("children","data","body")

I'm looking output the comments one-by-one, but when I run the above, the output is blank. Here's a sample of the hash:
{"kind"=>"Listing", "data"=>{"modhash"=>"", "dist"=>10, "children"=>[{"kind"=>"t1", "data"=>{"subreddit_id"=>"t5_2tbbg", "approved_at_utc"=>nil, "edited"=>false, "mod_reason_by"=>nil, "banned_by"=>nil, "author_flair_type"=>"text", "removal_reason"=>nil, "link_id"=>"t3_8jwhvk", "author_flair_template_id"=>nil, "likes"=>nil, "replies"=>"", "user_reports"=>[], "saved"=>false, "id"=>"dz3b25e", "banned_at_utc"=>nil, "mod_reason_title"=>nil, "gilded"=>0, "archived"=>false, "report_reasons"=>nil, "author"=>"QueenCrownDown", "num_comments"=>1, "can_mod_post"=>false, "send_replies"=>true, "parent_id"=>"t3_8jwhvk", "score"=>1, "approved_by"=>nil, "over_18"=>false, "mod_note"=>nil, "collapsed"=>false, "body"=>"Any 25$ purchase or just Sunday Riley?! Def taking advantage of this I've wanted to try good genes for ages. ", "link_title"=>"[misc] Sunday Riley good genes 7 day sample with a $25 purchase at Sephora. Code:GOODGOOD",

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Debbie Schultz's IT Aide Had Access To ALL Congress Member's Emails – Sold To Foreign Agents [VIDEO]
01 Aug, 2017 by	McIntosh
Can it be true? Has the media finally come around to spending more than 30 seconds reporting on the arrest of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's IT aide, Imran Awan this past week?
Awan was taken into custody when he was trying escape out of the country to Pakistan. He had just wired almost $300,000 from a House office building to Pakistan and was attempting to carry $12,000 in cash on his person when agents arrested him.
It was first reported by the media that he was arrested for bank fraud, yet the details of the case were left out, specifically if there were other crimes he may have committed. Any evidence or facts they had were greatly tempered down by starting off the explanations with the phrase 'conservatives say'.
Awan is now on the loose, but with a monitor that the authorities are watching and they even took his passport to prevent him from fleeing. According to some sources though, Awan is still liquidating assets while still here in the United States.
So, what are the authorities really concerned about? You can count bank fraud out…what really has investigators fishing around is the access that he had to the emails and accounts of members of Congress, including most conspicuously Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who had been the head of the DNC, as Judge Andrew Napolitano notes in the video below. He was the IT administrator for over a dozen members of Congress, yet what did he even do?
Now we still aren't sure what Napolitano is basing his statement on, that the FBI is examining Awan for 'selling secrets'. The investigation is still going on. What concerns investigators is whether or not this man had access to sensitive government files or documents. He had full access to the highest committees and the most delicate intelligence, indeed anything that Wasserman Schultz and the other Democrats had, we know he had.
This could be a huge and devastating blow for the Democrats if any of this comes forward.
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                    int[] numbers = new int[length];
                    EnterSequence(numbers, length);
                    Console.WriteLine("The average of the sequence is: " + Average(numbers, length));
                    Console.WriteLine();
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Invalid input! The sequence can't have 0 elements!");
                    Console.WriteLine();
                }
            }
            else if (choice == "3")
            {
                Console.Write("Enter the coefficient a: ");
                double a = double.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
                Console.Write("Enter the coefficient b: ");
                double b = double.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
                if (ValidateInput(a))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("The root of the equation is: " + SolveLinearEquation(a, b));
                    Console.WriteLine();
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Invalid input! The coefficient a cannot be 0!");
                    Console.WriteLine();
                }
            }
        }
        while(choice != "4");
    }

    static bool ValidateInput(double a)
    {
        if (a != 0.0)
        {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    static bool ValidateInput(long number)
    {
        if (number >= 0)
        {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    static bool ValidateInput(uint length)
    {
        if (length != 0)
        {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    static double SolveLinearEquation(double a, double b)
    {
        return -b / a;
    }

    static double Average(int[] numbers, uint lenght)
    {
        long sum = 0;
        foreach (int number in numbers)
        {
            sum += number;
        }
        return (double)sum / lenght;
    }

    static void EnterSequence(int[] numbers, uint length)
    {
        for (int index = 0; index < length; index++)
		{
            Console.Write("Enter element {0}: ", index + 1);
            numbers[index] = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
		}
    }

    static long ReverseDigits(long number)
    {
        StringBuilder numberString = new StringBuilder(number.ToString());
        int digits = numberString.Length;
        for (int digit = 0; digit < digits / 2; digit++)
        {
            if (numberString[digit] != numberString[digits - digit - 1])
            {
                char temp = numberString[digit];
                numberString[digit] = numberString[digits - digit - 1];
                numberString[digits - digit - 1] = temp;
            }
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Quickly, Now
The last track composed for the album, and the first to be posted with the new drums recorded at S&S.
This was meant to be a warmup song to "get in the groove" and rock out a bit before recording the rest of the album's drums in one take. People liked it, so it's now on there.
Named after a line from one of my favourite Imogen Heap songs, "Little Bird."


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Карл Георг Бруніус (23 березня 1792, парафія Танум, Богуслен – 12 листопада 1869, Лунд) – шведський філолог-класик, архітектор та історик мистецтва.

Життєпис
Карл Георг Бруніус був сином пастора Гомера Бруніуса та Маріани Роде (1755–1839). Луїза Бруніус була його невісткою. Його брат Август Вільгельм був дідом актора Джона В., журналіста Акселя та письменника Августа Бруніуса.

Бруніус став студентом Лундського університету в 1803 і Уппсальського університету в 1811, магістр філософії в Лунді 1814, доцент грецької мови в 1815, доцента з цього предмета в 1820 і 1821, також римського красномовства і поезії. У 1824 він став наступником Есаяса Теґнера на посаді професора грецької мови. У 1847 був призначений парафіяльним священиком у пребендарському душпастирстві Стеві і Лакаланга в Лундській єпархії і того ж року став титулярним настоятелем. У 1853 обраний членом Академії наук, а в 1858 звільнений з посади почесного професора.

Бруніус рано став латинським поетом, частково завдяки метричним перекладам Аполлонія і Тіртея (в академічних дисертаціях), частково через "De diis arctois libri sex" (1822), свого роду скандинавську теогонію, яка, ймовірно, є найдовшою латинською поемою з усіх шведських диктатів. У 1857 опублікував свою "Poëmata, partim jam ante, partim nunc primum edita". Проте більшість свого часу Бруніус присвячував вивченню та практиці архітектури. Протягом 1833–1859 він керував реставраційними роботами в Лундському соборі (у якому здійснив сміливе піднесення склепу). Водночас під його керівництвом відбулася низка інших робіт: відбудова та розширення собору, будівництво старої будівлі бібліотеки в Лунді (1836–1839), інститут Стора Робі (1840), будівля музею та будинок єпископа в Лунді (1840–1844), шкільний будинок у Гельсінборзі (1844), церква Крістінегамна (1854–1857) та ін. Крім того, Бруніус виконував реставрацію кафедрального собору Векше (1849–1852) та кількох міських і сільських церков у Сконе, створював креслення нових церков, робив плани та відповідав за перебудову та нові будівлі в маєтках Сконе (замок Йордберга)., Совдеборг, Тролеголм. Бруніус також побудував свій власний будинок у Мортенсторґет у Лунді (Бруніусгусет, Кіліансгатан 17), який існує досі й зберіг великою мірою свій первісний вигляд завдяки ретельному ремонту.

Як архітектор-практик, Бруніус стояв більше на позиції аматора, ніж художника. Як фахівець-дослідник і письменник з давньої історії мистецтва Швеції, він отримав поважне ім'я. Вже в 1815–1817 Бруніус здійснив походи в Богуслен з археологічними інтересами. Результатами цього були опубліковані ним і Йоханом Густавом Лілєгреном «Скандинавські старожитності» (зі 100 плакатами, 1823 р.) і за рік до його смерті «Спроби пояснити наскельні різьблення». Серед його досить гідних творів історії мистецтва — "Найстаріша митрополія в скандинавських країнах" (1836; перероблене та розширене видання 1854), "Антикварна та архітектурна подорож Галландом, Богусленом, Далсландом, Вермландом та Вестерґетландом у 1838 році" (1839), "Гліммінґе. Будинок в Крістіанстаді і Сконе". 1844), "Historisk och arkitektonisk beskrifning öfver Helsinborgs Kärna" (1845), "Skanes konsthistoria för medeltiden" (1850), "Konstanteckningar under en resa år 1849" (1851), "Оm renaissans- Eller barockstilen і Scane" (1856), "Konstanteckningar under en ferð do Bornholm år 1857" (1860) та "Історія мистецтва Готланда" (I-III 1864–1866).

Завдяки своїм ґрунтовним дослідженням, через його невтомну опозицію «стилю Ладу» в церквах і «зруйнованому ренесансу» в архітектурі того часу, а також через кілька власних будівельних компаній, особливо через церкву Крістінегамна, Бруніус привернув увагу до романського та готичного стилів і показав можливість їх відновлення як у церковній, так і в світській архітектурі Швеції. Бруніус похований в Östra kyrkogården в Лунді. Його надгробок — великий гранітний сонячний хрест із таким написом: «Qui quondam fuit hic opifex, Græcæque Professor Linguæ. Romanus quique poeta fuit. Et cui firma manent monumenta per oppida perque Rura ædes iacet hoc BRUNIUS in tumulo MDCCLXXXXII - MDCCCLXIX"

Будівництво церков Бруніусом
Церкви, побудовані або перебудовані Бруніусом (неповний список)

 1841: Västra Alstads kyrka
 1843: Stora Råby kyrka
 1843: Stångby kyrka
 1844: Skegrie kyrka
 1844–1845: Vallkärra kyrka
 1844–1849: Torrlösa kyrka
 1846: Tullstorps kyrka
 1846: Vadensjö kyrka
 1848: Oxie kyrka
 1848: Stävie kyrka
 1848: Veberöds kyrka (Ombyggnad och uppförande av västtorn)
 1848–1850: Norra Skrävlinge kyrka
 1849: Hammenhögs kyrka
 1849–1852:Växjö domkyrka( Större ombyggnad)
 1849–1851: Tottarps kyrka
 1850-tal: Heda kyrka
 1851:  Fuglie kyrka. (Ombyggnad av medeltidskyrkan som revs 1902).
 1851: Stora Harrie kyrka
 1851: Rämmens kyrka
 1851–1852: Avesta kyrka
 1851–1852: Svedala kyrka
 1853–1854: Västra Vemmerlövs kyrka
 1854–1856: Lövestads kyrka
 1855–1857: Husie kyrka
 1856–1857: Skurups kyrka
 1858–1860: Källstorps kyrka
 1847–1858: Kristinehamns kyrka
 1859: Igelösa kyrka
 1860: Löderups kyrka
 1861: Håstads kyrka

Бібліографія

 Nordiska fornlemningar. Stockholm, Haeggström. 1-2.. Stockholm. 1819-1823. Libris 2399905  - Medförfattare: Johan Gustaf Liljegren.
 Antiqvarisk och arkitektonisk resa genom Halland, Bohuslän, Dalsland, Wermland och Westergötland år 1838.. Lund. 2010. Libris 11882587. https://litteraturbanken.se/författare/BruniusCG/titlar/AntiqvariskOchArkitektoniskResa/sida/5/faksimil/?om-boken
 Historisk och arkitektonisk beskrifning öfver Helsingborgs kärna.. Lund. 1845. Libris 1701256. http://runeberg.org/lundadom/
 Skånes konsthistoria för medeltiden. Skånes historia och beskrifning. Lund: Gleerup. 1850. Libris 29223
 Konstanteckningar under en resa år 1849 från Lund om Linköping och Strengnäs till Fahlun och åter om Uppsala, Stockholm och Vexiö. Lund: Gleerup. 1851. Libris 1280952. http://runeberg.org/konstant/
 Nordens äldsta metropolitankyrka, eller, historisk och arkitektonisk beskrifning öfver Lunds domkyrka (Omarb. och mycket tillökt uppl.). Lund: Gleerup. 1854. Libris 2831986
 Korta anteckningar på en genomresa af Blekinge till Kalmar 1854. Lund. 1859. Libris 194356
 Christinehamns nya kyrka. Stockholm. 1860. Libris 2580345
 Konstanteckningar under en resa till Bornholm år 1857. Lund. 1860. Libris 1589480
 Berättelse om förbättringar å Lunds domkyrka under sistförflutna tre årtionden.. Stockholm. 1861. Libris 1694152
 Gotlands konsthistoria. Lund: Berlingska. 1864-1866. Libris 740971. http://runeberg.org/gotlkonsth/
 Försök till förklaringar öfver hällristningar. Lund: Gleerup. 1868. Libris 1579074. http://www.vastarvet.se/kulturvast_templates/Kultur_ArticlePageWide.aspx?id=48313. Läst 17 juli 2013
 Erinran vid förslag till nytt vattentak å Lunds domkyrka.. Lund: Gleerup. 1869. Libris 1579073

Примітки

Джерела
 Brunius, 1. Karl Georg i Nordisk familjebok (andra upplagan, 1905)

Література
 Grandien, Bo (1974). Drömmen om medeltiden: Carl Georg Brunius som byggmästare och idéförmedlare = [A mediaeval vision] : [Carl Georg Brunius, architect and pioneer]. Nordiska museets handlingar, 0346-8585 ; 82. Stockholm. Libris 7603525. ISBN 91-7108-074-0
 Grandien, Bo (1971). Från latinskald till byggmästare: biografisk inledning till ett studium av Carl Georg Brunius som arkitekt, restaurator och konstvetenskaplig författare. Uppsala: Univ. Libris 10139605
 Green, Allan (1992). "Carl Georg Brunius: en bohuslänning i Lund : till 200-årsminnet av hans födelse". Bohuslän (Uddevalla : Bohusläns museum, 1979-) 1992 (14),:  sid. 103-120 : ill.. ISSN 0348-937X. ISSN 0348-937X ISSN 0348-937X.  Libris 2879278
 Gustafsson, Evald (1955). Tegnér, Brunius och Värends kyrkor. Växjö: [s.n.]. Libris 10376255
 Olén, Benkt (1962). "C. G. Brunius och Blekinge". Blekinge kyrkliga hembygdskalender 1962,:  sid. 80-83.  Libris 11200588
 Rognerød, Dag-Ivar (2009). "Skyssferdens apostler: gjennom Båhuslän på historiske veier etter kirkebevarer Brunius og topografen Wilse". Vikarvet 2008/2009,:  sid. 29-47 : ill.. ISSN 0349-0351. ISSN 0349-0351 ISSN 0349-0351.  Libris 11640712
 "Ett stilla klosterhus": C.G. Brunius och hans bostadshus i Lund : 1840-1990. Lund. 1990. Libris 1281121
 Rydbeck, O.: Carl Georg Brunius i Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (1926)
 Strömberg, Inger (1997). "Det medeltida idealet: Carl Georg Brunius verksamhet i skånska kyrkor". Skånska kyrkor / redaktörer: Karin Bauman och Göran Hallberg (Kristianstad : Skånes hembygdsförb., 1997):  sid. 125-129 : ill..  Libris 8195957
 Wieselgren, Harald (1880). Ur vår samtid : femtio porträtt med nekrologer. Stockholm: Norstedt. sid. 14-18. Libris 1601618. http://runeberg.org/samtid/0026.html

Шведські архітектори
Шведські філологи
Історики мистецтва
Померли 1869
Народились 1792

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Watch The Avengers 2012 Movie Online Streaming FREE - The biggest upcoming movie this 2012 is few weeks away from Marvel SuperHeroes Fans. The collaboration of 'The Incredible Hulk', 'Thor', 'Captain America', 'Hawkeye and Black Widow', Ironman is a must see. The worldwide release is on May 4, 2012.
Marvel's The Avengers is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series The Avengers, first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since.
Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, with action-packed and spectacular special effects, when Marvel's The Avengers assemble in summer 2012. In Marvel's The Avengers, superheroes team up to pull the world back from the brink of disaster when an unexpected enemy threatens global security.


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On The Spot: Inward
December 21, 2020 by Displate Artists Team in Artist Interviews
Annibale Siconolfi aka Inward turns the problems of current society into futuristic, dystopian scenes, and he draws attention to every detail. He told us about his experience in music, architects that inspired him, and his vision of the future, so scroll down and dive into his world.
What were your beginnings as an artist?
I have had an intimate relationship with art since I was a child. I remember the hundreds of sheets I used to consume for my drawings. A significant episode for my artistic career was the study of Architecture at the University of Rome III, which provided me with the basics of composition. But also the study of music opened my mind to artistic production.
Are you a self-taught or a professional artist?
As I have already said, the study of Architecture at the university gave me the technical basis for composition, but as far as 3d tools are concerned, I am self-taught. In the beginning, I followed some tutorials but I always liked experimenting with the tools I had and creating something new and original. So to answer your question I would say 50-50.
How long did it take you to become a master in creating such perfectly detailed futuristic cities?
First of all thanks for the "master"! 🙂 you're too kind. I never focus on the amount of time it takes to learn or do something. I have been doing it with a lot of passion for years and sometimes I shut myself in a room in front of the PC for weeks studying how to represent my visions and
experimenting with new techniques.
Where do you take your inspiration from?
There are so many sources of inspiration for me. From great architects of the past such as Le Corbusier, Antonio Sant'Elia, Étienne-Louis Boullée to the books of Philip K. Dick. Having been a professional musician, I also have strong influences from musical fields. I really like electronic music and lately, I am fascinated by the productions of Richard Devine, a genius of modular synthesizers.
Planet Hunter
Return to Earth
How do cinema and music affect your art?
There are certainly films like Blade Runner that have influenced my vision, but sometimes what inspires me more is music, especially if it is a soundtrack. For me, it is a journey in which I dive in and I take all the shades and the sensations it gives me. When I work on my artworks I always listen to a lot of music.
Are your artworks how you imagine the future?
Yes and no. Some artworks are a form of criticism of our current society. In some works, I try to relate to the extreme consequences of some problems that afflict the world today, such as global warming, overpopulation, the gap between rich and poor people, pollution. I do not wish humanity to live in these scenarios and I hope that my works will stir people's consciences. But it is not always so obvious. In other works, I like to create more pleasant cities and landscapes of the future, in which the observer can get lost pleasantly for a few seconds. I think this is very important, many people wrote to me during the pandemic thanking me for my work and for the way that it helps them with maintaining their mental health.
What are your artistic dreams and plans?
Always the same. do my work better and better, experiment with new techniques, study new artists. 🙂
Inward on Instagram: @inwardsound


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Keeping up the momentum on nutrition
Earlier this year I wrote about how the hidden crisis of stunting is affecting millions of children worldwide. Children who are stunted—or those too short for their age—might survive beyond their fifth birthday but their future could be blighted.
Research shows that stunting could result in children starting school later, missing classes or repeating a year. These mean that as adults they could also be earning less than their well-nourished peers. All these provide a strong rational for governments and donors to address this hidden crisis.
I am happy to say that we have had good news in this front in the recent month. At the 65th World Health Assembly held in Geneva in May, health leaders from countries worldwide adapted the Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Plan.
Welcome development
This includes a target to reduce the number of stunted children globally by 40 percent by 2025. A global stunting reduction target is a much welcome development. It has the potential to rally crucial efforts and resources to ensure that fewer children are blighted with stunting.
The success of the target lies in strengthening national policies and actions and the international community ensuring we have the adequate resources to address undernutrition.
Monitoring country's progress is an important aspect of the target. Nationally-representative surveys comparable across countries such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the Multiple Cluster Indicator (MICS) and similar national datasets will play a crucial role in tracking progress against the target.
Rwanda's progress
The recent momentum on tackling undernutrition is heartening. Indeed we have seen good improvement in some countries. Data from Rwanda's 2010 DHS, which was finalised in the first quarter of this year, shows that the country has seen considerable progress in children's nutrition.
Between 2005 and 2010, stunting among children below five years declined from 51% to 44%. The proportion of children who are underweight dropped from 18% to 11% over the same period. There was a decrease in acute malnutrition or wasting in children with rates falling from 5% in 2005 to 3% in 2010.
The Rwandan government has put investment in nutrition as key to sustainable development. Rwanda is also an early riser country of the Scale Up Nutrition (SUN) movement. These and other efforts are helping improve Rwandan children's nutrition.
Hidden crisis exposed
Now that the hidden crisis has been exposed, we need to sustain the recent national and global momentum around nutrition. It is our duty to esnsure that undernutrition does not kill children or blight the lives of those who survive it.
We have a commitment from the UK Prime Minsiter David Cameron to hold a major hunger event during the London Olympics which is good news. Efforts such as this keeps nutrition in the agenda and helps bring the large-scale response it needs.
Rica Garde


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Home News uThukela District launched Water provision projects to support community
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uThukela District launched Water provision projects to support community
South Africa: Delivering water to the community remains essential as uThukela District political leadership is fast-tracking the launch of several water provision projects in the district. The sod turnings are being facilitated in our local municipalities by teams of Councillors and Administration led by the District Mayor Inkosi Cllr NB Shabalala, Speaker Cllr TY Nqubuka, Cllr SV Shabalala and Municipal Manager Mr Mnguni, respectively.
On Tuesday, the team visited Okhahlamba local Municipality to introduce a contractor who will be undertaking a water project.
The introduction was conducted at Stulwana Community Hall in Ward 14. GND Construction was handed water reticulation projects. The water project is expected to commence soon and will be completed within 12 months. The construction to install production of boreholes and water pipes are expected to create more than 20 job opportunities for locals.
Yesterday morning, similar activities were carried out at Weenen under Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality in the presence of uThukela District Mayor Inkosi Cllr NB Shabalala and his team of Councillors.
They were joined by Inkosi Langalibalele Mayor Cllr Myeza, Deputy Mayor Cllr Dladla and Speaker Cllr Khumalo, Ward 20 Cllr Mlele and Izinduna during the event that was held at Msobotsheni Hall.
The purpose was to introduce a water project to the community of Weenen. Sinethemba Construction was handed a water project, which is a rising main for a new abstraction point. The project will take up to six months to complete, and about 320 households will benefit from this project. More than ten job opportunities will be created for the locals.
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The last stop was at Vimbukhalo Community Hall under Okhahlamba local Municipality, where a team of Councillors led by Uthukela District Mayor Inkosi Cllr NB Shabalala introduced Yimpie Construction to undertake to test and equipping of boreholes. This project is expected to commence soon and be completed within 12 months. About ten job opportunities will be created for the locals.
The Mayor pleaded with the community to work hand in hand with the service provider in order for the project to be successful and completed on time. These projects are meant to give relief to a number of households which are currently struggling to get access to the water supply.
Major support to community
Mayor Inkosi Cllr NB Shabalala
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Q: Spell out the current time for accessibility time labels I'm working on an app where I need to have labels that show a time, localized to the user's locale. This all works fine by using the NSDateFormatter() class.
let timeFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
timeFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.NoStyle
timeFormatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.ShortStyle
let timeStr: String = timeFormatter.stringFromDate(time)

But the string that is generated by NSDateFormatter() is not properly spoken by VoiceOver. It's quite alright for US English but for example not for Dutch (my native language).
I then tried to use the NSDateComponentsFormatter() class and specifying NSDateComponentsFormatterUnitsStyle.SpellOut for the unitsStyle property.
let timeComponentFormatter = NSDateComponentsFormatter()
timeComponentFormatter.unitsStyle = NSDateComponentsFormatterUnitsStyle.SpellOut
let accessibilityTimeStr: String = timeComponentFormatter.stringFromDateComponents(timeComponents)!

Although this generates a nice string that can be spoken by VoiceOver, it's not as a native speaker would say the time. And although it's in the correct language, it's not formatted to the cultural conventions for the user's region.
When I tap on the time on the lock screen with VoiceOver enabled, it speaks the time correctly as a native speaker would say it, in every language that I tried. So there must be something in iOS that can generate the correct string that can be spoken by VoiceOver.
I can not find a public API that does this. Am I missing something or is this maybe a private API ?


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-	Object oriented programming philosophy : reasons for adopting object orientation, comparison with other programming paradigms, inheritance and polymorphism.
-	Object oriented programming constructs :- classes, objects, interfaces, abstract classes, class hierarchies and sub-typing.
-	Data structures in object oriented programming : understand the application of stacks, queues, linked lists and maps and when to use static and dynamic data structures.
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Jersey Legal French
Title: Jersey Legal French
Subject: Parish Assembly (Jersey), Procureur du Bien Public, Honorary Police, Norman language, Courts of Jersey
Collection: French Dialects, Jersey Culture, Jersey Law
français de jersey
Gallo-Romance
Oïl
Official status
Official language in
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This official stone which marks the inauguration of a municipal office in 1999 bears the names of the Connétable and the Procureurs du Bien Public of Saint Helier.
Îles de la Manche (Channel Islands) used in a Jersey passport
Jersey Legal French, also known as Jersey French (French: français de jersey), is the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey. Since the anglicisation of the island, it survives as a written language for some laws, contracts, and other documents. Jersey's parliament, the States of Jersey, is part of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie. The English language has been allowed in parliamentary debates since February 2, 1900; the current use of French in the parliament is generally restricted to formalities (prayers, ceremonies, formulæ).
Jersey's two official languages are French and English.
Jersey Legal French is not to be confused with Jèrriais, a variety of the Norman language also called Jersey Norman-French, spoken on the island.
The French of Jersey differs little from that of France. It is characterised by several terms particular to Jersey administration and a few expressions imported from Norman.
List of distinguishing features
It is notable that the autochthonous appellation of the archipelago is îles de la Manche (Channel Islands) — îles anglo-normandes (Anglo-Norman Islands) is a somewhat recent invention in continental French.
As in Swiss French and Belgian French, the numbers 70 and 90 are septante and nonante, respectively, not soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix (compare the use of nénante for 90 in Jèrriais).
Initial capital letters are commonly used in writing the names of the days of the week and months of the year.
Messire is used for the title of knighthood (continental French uses sir, often lower case ) – for example, the former Bailiff of Jersey, Sir Philip Bailhache is correctly addressed in French as Messire Philip Bailhache.
barguin affaire bargain
chelin shilling shilling
en désastre en banqueroute bankrupt
impôts droits de régie customs and excise duties
principal contribuable du rât principal (ratepayer of a certain value)
quartier unité de valeur de propriété foncière quarter (unit of ratable value)
rât paroissial taxe foncière parish rate
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Jersey, Parishes of Jersey, Politics of Jersey, Jersey Legal French, Parish Assembly (Jersey)
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The right to lie
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Dear reader friends. 2023 should be a major year in uncovering all the lies that have allowed certain powers to take over all of humanity. The Great Reset may well take place this year, but not as the Davos WEF would like. In parallel with the economic and military wars, the media war is more and more virulent and the need for the alternative media to be ready to face it is more than urgent. At Réseau International, we have decided to move on to a higher stage with all the means allowing us to be at the rendezvous of the great upheavals that await us. For this, we need you and your support.
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A lawyer (?), recently mentioned (or invoked?) publicly, for a particularly despicable serial killer case, the right to lie as a prerogative of French law! While also declaring to seek the truth, declaring that "it's liberating" (sic).
In appropriate dead silence from anyone interested in the matter!
Placing themselves in a situation of exception assumed and claimed. Licensed liar. Also placing itself as authority on the margins of natural law and the Decalogue. And demonstrating by the absurd that the law never makes the right.
To lie is to die a lot, in the service of death and evil (same letter m) to kill the truth and try to destroy the victim of the lie. Isn't that how this gentleman thinks about his future pleading?
What justice can be rendered by a magistrate who accepts a lie from a litigant as an element of "right". Right to lie, does it mean right to harm and right to kill? To kill the truth? Right to condemn an innocent or to exonerate a culprit?
Thus establishing the Community of lies, evil and death for those who claim it?
It is clear how much lying leads to death, the times of darkness that suck us in attest to this. The right to kill by the lie of the law, which decrees the right to life on the human being, which sorts "you and those who are nothing" (sic), the one who deserves and the one "who does not deserve to live (re sic), the peoples or countries of m….(sic again) that should be destroyed because they constitute an unacceptable uselessness for the "civilized" world, democracy (imperial!), freedom, and above all the business…..
A lie which leads to the unprecedented violence of the present time orchestrated by the Community of lies which is exempt from all natural law, all common sense and all authority.
The bigger the lie, the better it goes. Repeat a lie a hundred times, it becomes truth. Who does not know these basic rules of politics.
A lie that naturally leads to duplicity, double talk, truth here, lie there. The liar thus quickly loses all credit, he is left with only the violence that feeds his lie, the father of all violence. The violence of lies against the force of truth.
Evil versus good.
"The Truth will set you free," the Apostle John tells us.
Socrates "the wisest among men" reminds us of the rejection of lying, even with the god… "since he does not lie, assuredly: that is not permitted to him" (the Apology of Socrates).
Foundation of our Western Greco-Latin civilization.
Integrating the lie as an element of language and debate is to officially dub Satan, the prince of darkness and lies. For which civilization?
Sleep well!
Hubert LENGLET
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Erasmus, defender of tolerance and peace
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And he forgot the wisest of men, who is the prophet of Islam, who says: Speak the truth even if it is bitter.
Answer Saladin
This is hardly surprising since apparently what bothers them is always the truth.
You can lie and even rave at will until you die laughing.
But if you tell the truth they fall on you.
They have even become the barometer to distinguish the lie from the truth.
So I think they are useful in spite of themselves.
When they squeak, you're not far away.
So when they howl… it's the jackpot.
The status of lies is the crucial problem of our time.
This is what distinguishes our Greco-Latin heritage from the Kabbalistic and Talmudic subversion introduced in the Renaissance under the name of "nominalism", "legal positivism", "idealism", "subjectivism", "relativism". Plato's Protagoras and Gorgias aimed to confuse the subversion of the sophists, mercenaries of Rhetoric who aimed to twist the discourse by means of certain paralogisms.
The search for the truth is an asceticism allowing the actors of a debate to strip themselves of any clan interest.
Our civilization has lost this heritage and we are undergoing another.
Do we not say of our country that it is that of Voltaire? An inveterate liar, one of the architects of our decadence.
Let's crush the infamous…but which one?


It would be nice if one could simultaneous edit program files with colleagues.
With Google docs, or MS Word online, you can simultaneous edit text files. In Eviews, I can open text files. If I could include text files in program files, then I could in practice be simultaneous editing Eviews program files with colleagues through Google docs or MS word online.
Or maybe you have a better way of doing this?
if the include statement would also include text files, that would do it. Can you add this functionality? or is there another way to do it?
Do you know what is causing this error?
I still have a problem with Google Docs.
attached is a picture of the error message, a picture of the text file loaded in eviews, and the text file downloaded from google docs.
Do you understand what is causing this error?
The test2.txt file appears to contain some unicode characters that does not appear in notepad or after it has been read in by EViews. This explains the strange start of the error message "Ï»¿GENR ..."
You will have to remove these characters from the text file that you normally use.
The attached file does not have the extraneous characters.
Buy why does the text file include some unicode characters? I have not entered these characters in my Google doc file. I suspect something is going on when eviews reads the file from Google docs. I will try to create another Google doc text file to see if the same problem occurs again.
? Since Eviews displays the google doc correctly in Eviews as a text object, it must "understand" the Unicode characters, and hopefully it should be easy for you guys to fix this.
I also have a second problem with using google docs. When changing a text file in google docs, and reloading it in Eviews using a program code, Eviews will fetch the old version. It can take several minutes before the new version is downloaded correctly to Eviews. However, if a change a google doc text file, and manually open it from Eviews by clicking file/open/text file, the newly changed text file opens without a problem. Why will manually opening a google doc text file work correctly, while doing it with a program code will not load the updated version? Is this something you can also fix?
When saving text files on Google drive, apparently Google adds 'byte order marking' to the beginning of every text file. This tells the reading application the file encoding. We will get this fixed.
We will also look in to editing the text file from within google drive as well.
and thanks for updating Eviews so quickly.
I still experience some problems when downloading text files from Google Drive.
is often used in Eviews programs to comment out stuff.
. I am not sure what is causing this. Manually downloading the file from within Eviews yields the same text file as when downloading it within a program.
I hope this is also something you can fix. We are now so close to being able to use Google docs as a platform for running Eviews programs.
1)The main problem is google docs supports unicode and EViews does not. EViews assumes text files and programs are in ascii. You can fix this specific problem by selecting (in google docs) tools->preferences and then deselecting 'Use smart quotes'. To be more EViews/ASCII compliant, you should also deselect 'Automatic substitution'.
2) We are still working on this one.
3) We will get this fixed as well.
or is there a better way of doing this already?


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The Daily – February 1st, 2017
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Economic News:
European stocks rallied on Wednesday as shares most sensitive to economic growth such as automakers and industrials climbed after Siemens AG earnings beat estimates and China reported stronger factory data.
Optimism about corporate earnings boosted U.S. index futures, signaling a rebound in equities as investors prepare for the Federal Reserve's rate decision. The S&P 500 on Tuesday capped its longest streak without gains since the week before the U.S. presidential election, trimming a third monthly advance.
Asian stocks rose, erasing earlier losses as mining shares rallied on gains in metal prices and China's official factory gauge started 2017 on a robust note. India's equity benchmark advanced more than 1 percent as the government eased its deficit targets, offered tax cuts and higher spending to cushion the economy.
Commodities:
Metals: Gold: 1211.42 (+$0.70, +0.06%), Silver: 17.60 (+$0.04, +0.24%); Copper: 2.7115 (-0.59%); Aluminum: 0.8218 (-0.39%); Nickel: 4.5760 (+1.34%); Zinc: 1.2950 (-0.16%)
Energy: Crude: 53.16 (+0.66%); Brent: 55.99 (+0.74%); Nat Gas: 3.20 (+2.53%)
Oil traded near $53 a barrel as U.S. industry data showed crude stockpiles expanded even as OPEC producers including Iraq cut production. Government data Wednesday is also forecast to show stockpiles expanded. Iraq, OPEC's second-largest producer, reduced output by 180,000 barrels a day in January, according to the state oil marketing company.
Gold declined after posting biggest gain in almost four weeks as the dollar stabilized, with investors weighing potential impact of Donald Trump's policies ahead of Federal Reserve policy decision.
Signs of Canada's housing slowdown are materializing. Output in Canada's real estate industry fell 0.2 percent in November, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday, snapping a 50-month streak of positive expansion — one of few industries in the country to boast that sort of sustained growth.
The Canadian dollar advanced to the strongest level since September amid a waning rally in its U.S. counterpart and positive signals from the Canadian economy. The surge extended its gain against the greenback to more than 3 percent in January, its first monthly increase since the middle of last year.
Seadrill Ltd., the offshore driller with the heaviest debt load, dropped as much as 25 percent on Tuesday to the lowest since November as equity investors face "significant dilution" with the debt restructuring process. The company is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital and is in talks with billionaire-owner John Fredriksen and new investors.
A make or break time for the dollar as the rally fueled by Donald Trump's election runs into the Federal Reserve's policy decision on Wednesday. The greenback's prospects now hinge on how the U.S. central bank will assess the interest-rate increase in December, its latest inflation outlook and also any comments on risks to the economy and markets from Trump's decisions.
George Soros tapped Dawn Fitzpatrick from UBS Asset Management to oversee his $25 billion family office, replacing Ted Burdicka year after he stepped into the role, according to people familiar with the matter.
BlackRock Inc. agreed to buy the energy infrastructure funds of private-equity firm First Reserve, gaining $3.7 billion in committed capital in two funds and lifting its overall infrastructure investing platform to $14 billion.
Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, is considering as much as $5 billion of investments in renewable energy firms as part of plans to diversify from crude production, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Deutsche Bank AG was fined $629 million by U.K. and U.S. authorities for compliance failures that saw the bank help wealthy Russians move about $10 billion out of the country using transactions that were likely thinly veiled attempts to cover up financial crime.
K. factories saw costs rise at a record pace at the start of 2017, pointing to increasing upward pressure on inflation that could weigh on the economy this year.
India will inject at least 100 billion rupees ($1.48 billion) of capital into state-controlled lenders in the coming fiscal year, an amount that's in line with a previous government pledge, though it raised questions about the ability of local banks to sustain loan growth.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered tax cuts and boosted spending on some of India's poorest citizens hurt by his cash ban as he seeks to shore up support before pivotal state elections. The budget shortfall is forecast to be 3.2 percent of gross domestic product in the year starting April 1.
India announced record spending of 3.96 trillion rupees ($59 billion) to build and modernize its railways, airports and roads as Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to upgrade the strained infrastructure in Asia's third-largest economy.
Japan's biggest electricity wholesaler knows it'll take more than cutting-edge coal technology to save the environment. Electric Power Development Co., known as J-Power, is looking to build its first major power plant that burns natural gas near cities such as Tokyo as well as use more woody biomass instead of fossil fuels.
Volkswagen AG agreed to pay $1.2 billion to resolve U.S. consumer claims over falsified emissions tests, adding to the carmaker's financial burden in the wake of the diesel scandal as it continues to work its way through legal challenges in the U.S. and Europe.
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She works with adult women on a variety of psychological issues, including sexual dysfunction. She is also passionate about early diagnosis and intervention for children, as a way of preventing more serious mental health issues in adulthood. Her work with young people includes parent consultation and parent involvement in all phases of treatment. She provides play therapy for younger children and relationship therapy for teens. In addition, she utilizes appropriate behavioral treatment methods for both age groups.
Another area of expertise for Shaunene is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a unique treatment method specifically designed for trauma survivors. She is a certified EMDR practitioner with many hours of experience treating both children and adults.
Shaunene grew up on a farm in central Ohio and completed her professional training in Los Angeles. She worked as a psychologist in California, Montana, and North Carolina before coming to the Christian Counseling Center in 1998. She and her husband have two adult children. Away from work, she enjoys cooking, walking, card-making and volunteering in the church nursery.


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Nicco most often refers to Nicco Maniatty (born 1977), an American singer.

Nicco may also refer to:

Nicco (surname), an Italian surname
A variant of the name Nicolas
Nicco park, an amusement park located in Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India

See also
 Nico (disambiguation)


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India's ISRO/Antrix fraud allegations
By Chris Forrester
India's fraud-busting Enforcement Directorate has confirmed its view that a deal between India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its commercial subsidiary Antrix, may not have complied with India's tough foreign investment rules. Antrix is an anglicised version of Antariksha, which means 'space'.
In essence the long-running case revolves around a deal between Antrix and Devas Multimedia over transponder leases on two ISRO satellites between 2006-2010. The capacity was to be used for connectivity and back-haul of cellular telephony.
Described locally as the "S-Band scam", in January 2005 Antrix signed an agreement with Devas to lease 10 transponders of S-band capacity on two satellites (GSAT-6 and 6A) for $300 million, and claimed to be well below market rates, for a period of 12-years. ISRO then committed to building and launching the two satellites at a cost of $110 million. Devas sold a 17 per cent stake in itself to Deutsche Telekom (DT) for $75 million.
The deal was terminated in 2011, and the then head of ISRO banned for life from holding any post in India's pace departments. Other individuals were accused of various infractions.
Devas and DT sued for $2 billion and $1 billion respectively, and were initially awarded $672 million by an arbitration tribunal, and against Antrix.
The Indian government, via its Department of Revenue and Central Bureau of Investigation, registered a case against some of the key individuals and businesses involved in March 2015.
That case has now come to a head and the Enforcement Directorate is claiming that certain payments made to Devas breached India's Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and is alleging "wrongful gain" in a formal Violation Notice. An order issued by the agency's Special Director in Chennai found Devas Multimedia Private Limited, Antrix and others "contravening" the FEMA provisions on at least three counts, after completing the over-three-year investigation into the deal. The agency had registered a FEMA case in 2012 and is also probing the deal under anti-money laundering laws.
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Cairgein is a brownish seaweed popular in the Outer Hebrides and the English translation is Carrageen. I was born and brought up in Horisary, North Uist, only a short walk from the sea. Every year as a child I remember the cairgein being collected then dried and bleached outside on a large white sheet. I try each year to collect this seaweed in late summer and prepare it as my mother did before me. Cairgein is available all year round but has to be collected at low tide so traditionally we would collect it in July and August when the very low spring tides made it easier to find.


Code42, developers of award-winning, endpoint data protection and management solutions for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, today celebrated a year of high-profile honors and recognition for its product innovation and organizational growth by leading media, analysts and trade organizations, including FORBES , Inc. , Gartner, USA Today and Lifehacker , among many others.
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Jerusalem Post World News
Israel signs agreement to equip German military with Trophy APS
Rafael's Trophy system is considered among the world's most effective active protection systems.
By UDI SHAHAM
The Defense Ministry and the German Federal Ministry of Defense signed a government-to-government agreement to supply Rafael's Trophy active protection system to the German military (Rafael).
The Defense Ministry and the German Federal Ministry of Defense signed a government-to-government agreement to supply Rafael Advanced Defense Systems' Trophy active protection system to the German military.
The system will be used for the German fleet of Leopard 2 tanks, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. It added that the program was led by the Defense Ministry's Directorate of Defense R&D (MAFAT) and Rafael.
The Trophy system is considered among the world's most effective active protection systems, securing armored vehicles from a range of anti-tank missiles and rocket fire.
It is a combat-proven mechanism that has been operational in the IDF for almost a decade and is integrated into the Merkava Mark IV and Namer APCs. Its capabilities have been demonstrated in numerous military operations and have saved the lives of countless IDF soldiers.
The agreement was signed by Defense Ministry director-general Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Amir Eshel, and by an official in the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service-Support.
It includes the provision of systems for a company of tanks, interceptors and spare parts as well as operational and technical training. The systems will be delivered over the next several years.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said following the signing that "once again, we see the appreciation that leading security institutions around the world have for Israel's innovation and technology.
"Like any development of the Directorate of Defense R&D (MAFAT), the Trophy is first and foremost a lifesaving measure," Gantz said. "It is the product of Israel's groundbreaking defense industry, which is crucial to strengthening the state's security.
"Germany's expression of confidence in an Israeli system emphasizes the important relationship and close cooperation between our countries and highlights the strength of Israel's industries," he said.
Brig.-Gen. Yaniv Rotem, head of the Directorate of Research and Development in MAFAT, said: "This is a significant agreement, which further deepens the excellent relations between our countries. We thank the German Defense Ministry for its expression of confidence in our defense establishment and in Israel's industries. We are confident that the system will maximize the protection and capabilities of Germany's MBTs."
Col. Jürgen Schmidt, head of the Combat Division of the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr, said: "We are looking forward to using the very well-established Israeli Trophy system for the protection of our main battle tank Leopard 2. We would like to thank the Defense Ministry of the State of Israel for its excellent cooperation with respect to advanced active protection systems for the benefit of German troops."
Dr. Ran Gozali, executive vice president and head of Rafael's Land and Naval Systems Division, said that "Germany is joining a group of nations that have chosen the Trophy APS to protect their troops and assets from the ever-increasing threat of anti-armor warfare. We are thankful to the German government for joining other user nations and for their confidence in our system and our experience, and we look forward to working with KMW."
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BizTimes Milwaukee: Spaulding Clinical Research launches $5 million clinical trial project for FDA
Spaulding Clinical Research has begun $5 million of clinical trial work as part of a five-year contract with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The West Bend-based research center runs a 200-bed facility and conducts and analyzes first-in-human, clinical proof-of-concept, cardiovascular safety and NDA-enabling clinical pharmacology studies.
Spaulding Clinical's contract includes work for an FDA department that is charged with approving all new drug applications in the U.S. Recent work of the FDA's Division of Applied Regulatory Science has included examining drugs of abuse, including opioids; methods for evaluating new drugs; generics and biosimilars; and over-the-counter products, such as sunscreen.
"We're really touching all of those," said Spaulding Clinical chief executive officer Cassandra Erato. She declined to disclose specific therapeutic areas of focus.


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mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
mysql_select_db("shop") or die ("No se pudo seleccionar la base de datos");

$queryLogin = "SELECT * FROM cliente WHERE correo = '". $credencialObjeto->email . "' AND contrasenya = '".md5($credencialObjeto->contrasenya) . "'";

if (!$result = mysql_query($queryLogin)) {
	die(mysql_error());
}
$resultSet = mysql_fetch_array($result);

if (mysql_num_rows($result) == 1) {
	if ($resultSet[9] == 0 || $resultSet[9] == null) {
		http_response_code(400);
		die("La cuenta no está activada.");
	}
	  $_SESSION['logged'] = true;
	  $_SESSION['idUsuario'] = $resultSet[0];
    $_SESSION['nombre'] = $resultSet[1];
    $_SESSION['apellido'] = $resultSet[2];
	  $_SESSION['dni'] = $resultSet[3];
	  $_SESSION['correo'] = $resultSet[6];
    $_SESSION['empleado'] = $resultSet[8];

  http_response_code(200);
}else if(mysql_num_rows($result) == 0){
	  http_response_code(400);

}else{
	  http_response_code(500);

}

?>


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Owners To Get $125M Payout For San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Closure
Above: Power lines make their way over a freeway toward the San Onofre nuclear power plant, June 7, 2013.
Southern California Edison announced Monday that the utility and two other owners of the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County were awarded $125 million from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, stemming from the plant's closure.
The award ordered by the International Chamber of Commerce's Court of Arbitration was far less than Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and the city of Riverside were hoping for. Also, the owners were ordered in the 2-1 decision to pay MHI $58 million in attorneys' fees.
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"We had hoped the award would more accurately reflect the true magnitude of damage caused by Mitsubishi's defective steam generators," said SCE President Ron Nichols. "Unfortunately, the arbitration panel concluded that the contract's prescribed liability limit should be respected and no additional award can be granted despite the harm caused."
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The nuclear plant just south of the San Diego/Orange County border was shut down when a small, non-injury leak was discovered in a steam generator in one of the two reactors in January 2012. The other reactor was inoperative at the time because it was undergoing maintenance.
The steam generators from MHI were only a few years old at the time. An investigation found that the equipment had design flaws.
Neither reactor was restarted and SCE, the operator, announced the retirement of San Onofre in June 2013, rather than follow an expensive restart program. The arbitration claim against the Japanese company was filed four months later.
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The arbitrator who dissented said the owners should have received more than $1 billion. Nichols said SCE continues to review the lengthy decision.
The decision included an allocation of damages and costs in accordance with plant ownership shares, which resulted in a net award to SCE of about $52 million. SDG&E's share, and that of the city of Riverside, weren't immediately available.
As part of a settlement agreement, customers have to pay $3.3 billion dollars for San Onofre's closure costs. That pact has been reopened after it was revealed that former state regulator Michael Peevey and an Edison executive met in secret in Poland where they penned the framework for the deal.
Counting Customer Costs For San Onofre Closure: $10.4 Billion
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