Getting ready on your wedding morning is of course, a really special time. The excitement and the nerves are all calmed with a glass of fizz and having your best girls around you. It's a really nice touch to have something special to sit around in while you're getting ready and a lightweight robe is perfect if you're getting married abroad, as the warm and heavy dressing gowns supplied by hotels will leave you melting in the sunshine.
There's been a blossoming trend recently not only for floral bridesmaid dresses but also for floral print bridesmaid robes for the maids and the bride to wear on the wedding morning. So, if you're looking for a single robe just for yourself to wear on your big day, or maybe you're looking for floral print robes for all of your bridesmaids, or possibly you are a bridesmaid and you think that a pretty petal robe could make a lovely gift for the bride-to-be, then here's a roundup of the best floral print bridesmaid robes for the bride and her besties.


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#include <gtest/gtest.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <kdbprivate.h>
#include <keysetio.hpp>
#include <merging/threewaymerge.hpp>

using namespace kdb;
using namespace kdb::tools::merging;

class MergeTest : public ::testing::Test
{
protected:
	KeySet base;
	KeySet ours;
	KeySet theirs;
	KeySet mergeKeys;
	Key baseParent;
	Key ourParent;
	Key theirParent;
	Key mergeParent;
	Key mk1, mk2, mk3, mk4, mk5;

	MergeTest ()
	: baseParent (Key ("user:/parentb", KEY_END)), ourParent (Key ("user:/parento", KEY_END)),
	  theirParent (Key ("user:/parentt", KEY_END)), mergeParent (Key ("user:/parentm", KEY_END))
	{
		base.append (baseParent);
		base.append (Key ("user:/parentb/config/key1", KEY_VALUE, "value1", KEY_END));
		base.append (Key ("user:/parentb/config/key2", KEY_VALUE, "value2", KEY_END));
		base.append (Key ("user:/parentb/config/key3", KEY_VALUE, "value3", KEY_END));
		base.append (Key ("user:/parentb/config/key4", KEY_VALUE, "value4", KEY_END));

		ours.append (ourParent);
		ours.append (Key ("user:/parento/config/key1", KEY_VALUE, "value1", KEY_END));
		ours.append (Key ("user:/parento/config/key2", KEY_VALUE, "value2", KEY_END));
		ours.append (Key ("user:/parento/config/key3", KEY_VALUE, "value3", KEY_END));
		ours.append (Key ("user:/parento/config/key4", KEY_VALUE, "value4", KEY_END));

		theirs.append (theirParent);
		theirs.append (Key ("user:/parentt/config/key1", KEY_VALUE, "value1", KEY_END));
		theirs.append (Key ("user:/parentt/config/key2", KEY_VALUE, "value2", KEY_END));
		theirs.append (Key ("user:/parentt/config/key3", KEY_VALUE, "value3", KEY_END));
		theirs.append (Key ("user:/parentt/config/key4", KEY_VALUE, "value4", KEY_END));

		// used as references for comparing
		mk1 = Key ("user:/parentm/config/key1", KEY_VALUE, "value1", KEY_END);
		mk2 = Key ("user:/parentm/config/key2", KEY_VALUE, "value2", KEY_END);
		mk3 = Key ("user:/parentm/config/key3", KEY_VALUE, "value3", KEY_END);
		mk4 = Key ("user:/parentm/config/key4", KEY_VALUE, "value4", KEY_END);

		// used only by some tests
		mk5 = Key ("user:/parentm/config/key5", KEY_VALUE, "value5", KEY_END);

		mergeKeys.append (mk1);
		mergeKeys.append (mk2);
		mergeKeys.append (mk3);
		mergeKeys.append (mk4);
	}

	virtual ~MergeTest ()
	{
	}

	virtual void SetUp () override
	{
	}

	virtual void TearDown () override
	{
	}

	virtual void unsyncKeys (KeySet & ks)
	{
		Key current;
		ks.rewind ();
		while ((current = ks.next ()))
		{
			current.getKey ()->flags = static_cast<ckdb::keyflag_t> (current.getKey ()->flags & ~(ckdb::KEY_FLAG_SYNC));

			// This does not work because C++ complains about an invalid conversion from int to keyflags_t
			// clear_bit(current.getKey()->flags, static_cast<int>(ckdb::KEY_FLAG_SYNC));
		}
	}

	virtual void compareKeys (const Key & k1, const Key & k2)
	{
		EXPECT_EQ (k1, k2) << "keys have different names";
		EXPECT_EQ (k1.getString (), k2.getString ()) << "keys have different values";
	}

	virtual void compareAllKeys (KeySet & merged)
	{
		compareKeys (mk1, merged.lookup (mk1));
		compareKeys (mk2, merged.lookup (mk2));
		compareKeys (mk3, merged.lookup (mk3));
		compareKeys (mk4, merged.lookup (mk4));
	}

	virtual void compareAllExceptKey1 (KeySet & merged)
	{
		compareKeys (mk2, merged.lookup (mk2));
		compareKeys (mk3, merged.lookup (mk3));
		compareKeys (mk4, merged.lookup (mk4));
	}

	virtual void testConflictMeta (const Key & key, ConflictOperation our, ConflictOperation their)
	{
		Key const ourConflict = key.getMeta<Key const> ("conflict/operation/our");
		EXPECT_TRUE (ourConflict) << "No conflict metakey for our operation present";
		ConflictOperation operation = MergeConflictOperation::getFromName (ourConflict.getString ());
		EXPECT_EQ (our, operation);

		Key const theirConflict = key.getMeta<Key const> ("conflict/operation/their");
		EXPECT_TRUE (theirConflict) << "No conflict metakey for their operation present";
		operation = MergeConflictOperation::getFromName (theirConflict.getString ());
		EXPECT_EQ (their, operation);
	}
};

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We're delighted to announce that WSMCC is hosting popular local band The Leylines on May 26th, as part of our annual bank holiday Beer and Cider Festival.
The band are bringing their high energy, rollicking live show to WSMCC, as part of a great bank holiday event at WSMCC. Formed in 2013 in Weston-super-Mare, the collective has taken their unique mix of folk and punk across the country, performing at Glastonbury Festival, Oceanfest and Big Festival. They are scheduled to release their second studio album, 'Recover Reveal' on March 1st, and we are delighted to welcome the band to the club on May bank holiday weekend.
The show will be the climax to a great weekend, with the annual Beer and Cider festival also taking place across Saturday and Sunday. With over 40 beers and ciders available to try, ranging from favourites such Thatchers, all the way to some unique local offerings, there's something for everyone to enjoy.
The weekend also sees our 1st XI take on Bishopston CC on Saturday. With big names such as Peter Trego and Rob Turner set to represent WSMCC, it should be a great game to help kick off the weekend in style.
Tickets for the weekend are available now, priced just £7.50. This gives access to The Leylines, Beer and Cider Festival and 1st XI fixture, representing great value for a fun bank holiday.
To get your ticket, click here.
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When Your Favored Songs Ended up Banned in the Wake of 9/11
4 months ago Lindsay Walth
The 20th anniversary of the tragic gatherings of Sept. 11 has coincided with the meant conclude of America's longest war and haphazard withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, boosting fresh new inquiries of how we obtained below in the first location.
In the quick aftermath of the attacks, there was no clear guidebook on how to transfer ahead. The complete country experienced just witnessed an unfathomable tragedy unfold as New York City's Twin Towers fell to the ground.
The political equipment rapidly whirled into motion, and with a freshly traumatized country searching for healing and unity, was capable to thrust via payments and functions that expanded government powers, which includes the Patriot Act and the Authorization for the Use of Army Drive.
Even family members-welcoming Disney Channel performed a part in hammering household the thought of nationalism in having a handful of its beloved child stars, together with Hilary Duff, Shia LaBeouf, and twins Tia and Tamera Mowry, wax lyrical about the American flag. The cringeworthy clips resurfaced last month and have been met with shock, which includes a location that highlighted a quick address from then-1st girl Laura Bush, who spoke of liberty and how the flag represents all People in america, no matter what their faith or beliefs.
It was in this exact same vein of thinly veiled propaganda wrapped up in patriotism that the country's premier radio organization, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartRadio), tried to ban additional than 150 tunes from the airwaves throughout its around 1,200 stations.
Any music that outlined airplanes was targeted, as perfectly as war, dying, and fireplace. The de facto ban seemed largely to goal rock, punk, and significant metallic bands, this kind of as Alice in Chains, Procedure of a Down, and every single single track by Rage Towards the Machine. But reasonably innocuous songs had been integrated far too, which include "Walk Like an Egyptian," simply because of its references to the Middle East the hopeful lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine" Louis Armstrong's "What a Fantastic World" and Frank Sinatra's cheery "New York, New York."
At the time, Apparent Channel moved quickly to stamp out experiences that it had issued a mandate that barred stations from actively playing these music. But when the complete list finally leaked, leading executives hurriedly put the blame on individuals at the regional amount, calling it "a grass-roots exertion that was evidently circulated amid system administrators," though the final compiled listing, known as the "Clear Channel memorandum," was sent out by company administration.
On the floor, it would make perception for stations perhaps not to enjoy tunes about loss of life, plane crashes, or nearly anything doomsday-linked out of an abundance of warning and sensitivity for freshly traumatized listeners, who experienced just witnessed a terrorist assault unfold in true time on their TVs. But in hindsight, it reeks of useless censorship.
Clear Channel's steps don't necessarily shock Nora Pelizzari, director of communications for the Countrywide Coalition Versus Censorship. She informed The Daily Beast there can normally be unquestioned help for censorship when it is branded as an act of patriotism, performed in the name of the bigger fantastic. And whilst Obvious Channel didn't always violate any regulations (as it is a private firm and therefore has the correct to freely choose what goes on its airwaves), Pelizzari thinks it undoubtedly violated the rules of totally free expression.
"For personal companies to be creating a blanket decision for the overall community about what they need to or must not eat in a time of crisis is unbelievably infantilizing," Pelizzari suggests. "It also does a disservice to artwork in common and what music can do."
"For private companies to be creating a blanket determination for the overall community about what they must or must not take in in a time of disaster is extremely infantilizing. It also does a disservice to artwork in general and what audio can do."
Tunes has usually served as a refuge for different tragedies and joys, and the situations of 9/11 must have been handled no in a different way. Soul-calming melodies of remembrance or in-your-experience major metallic new music as a way to channel confusion and anger are approaches to handle these complex thoughts.
But Obvious Channel deprived listeners of the skill to entry these kinds of songs—which did not sit correct with Peter Asher, of the English duo Peter and Gordon, who voiced his displeasure in 2001 to The New York Instances when understanding his tracks "I Go to Pieces" and "A Planet Without the need of Love" had been on the list. "I suppose a song about another person likely to parts could be upsetting if somebody took it virtually," he explained. "But 'I just can't stay in a earth without love' is a sentiment that's as accurate in crisis as it is in standard periods. It's a totally professional-love sentiment and could only be helpful right now."
Pelizzari agrees. "It's just one detail to say, 'Okay, we're not going to release a film that depicts something eerily identical to what occurred on 9/11 since we experience now is not the second when that's heading to get a excellent response… But John Lennon's 'Imagine' was on that listing. What is the justification there? The strategy that we should not be conversing about peace, we should not be conversing about men and women coming together as one—that someway that was going to be the completely wrong second to be talking about that?"
Even though some stations refused to pay any notice to the record, and Obvious Channel was adamant it under no circumstances issued an outright mandate, Pelizzari suggests it's just semantics. "Censors appreciate to say that they're not banning something, they're just form of creating strategies, or creating it a small little bit far more tricky for folks to make the selection to access a thing, [so therefore] that doesn't represent a ban," she points out.
"Censors really like to say that they are not banning anything at all, they're just sort of making ideas…"
"But it is a chilling effect. A DJ may say, 'Oh, I'm permitted to perform this track, but I do not want to possibility my task. I really do not want to be questioned by my boss. The route of least resistance is just not to engage in it, so I'm just not gonna participate in it.' Above time, what does that do? The cumulative effect of that is that these songs just go away. We do not listen to them anymore."
That chilling impact is particularly what occurred with Drowning Pool's hit solitary "Bodies," with band member C.J. Pierce telling The Ringer in 2016 that the good results of the tune was just about derailed by the ban simply because radio was the most well known way for music to achieve fans at the time, getting many years for the young Dallas band to recover. It was a sentiment that was also echoed by Procedure of a Down's Serj Tankian for their No. 1 song at the time "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which was in essence wiped from the charts.
Most of the banned songs ended up from rock or hefty metallic bands, a truth not dropped on Pierce, who told The Ringer that it's unfair their listeners often appear to be to be unfairly specific.
The genres have extensive been presented the stepchild procedure by mainstream society, who have generally concern-mongered that this type of music would inspire listeners to develop into menaces to society.
"Some people today go function out at the health and fitness center, and they like to listen to metallic, just to get pumped up— that's all it is, male," Pierce mentioned. "It's rock 'n' roll. It is metallic. It's just a heavier type of tunes. I really don't know why metal normally will get specific. But it has been."
It could also be since hefty metallic and rock music have usually been completely ready to buck the status quo and problem authority. Just about every track by the famously political Rage In opposition to the Equipment was banned, a indicator that Very clear Channel considered it was "insensitive" to be critical of the U.S. federal government at the time.
"It just reinforces this form of nativist patriotism that is really troubling to see reinforced by non-public businesses, mainly because what it really suggests is that dissent is unpatriotic, when in fact The united states is crafted on the suitable to disagree with the government," Pelizzari suggests.
"We will have to be allowed to accessibility dissenting sights and opposing sights to categorical our personal dissent, our individual confusion, our own anger, our very own agreements. Which is how our democracy capabilities. Disagreement and discussion are vital to considerate decision-producing. In times of crisis, it is even much more vital to make absolutely sure that we're allowing dissenting voices to be read."
Filter's Richard Patrick summed it up ideal when telling The Ringer of how he was outraged when he uncovered the Ohio band's 1995 track "Hey Man, Wonderful Shot" was incorporated in the list.
"Did it truly effect me? Indeed, morally," he stated. "They self-censored 'Hey Man, Wonderful Shot' off the radio when every person was indicating, 'Go back again to your standard life.' They took absent our Initial Modification rights. Which is not the way you respond to terrorism… All of that is an attack on liberty. That is an assault on freedom—not playing music is an assault on independence."
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BI Dashboard for Van Genechten
Van Genechten Packaging is a company that creates packaging for companies like Duracell and McDonalds. They employ over 1500 people across multiple countries and therefore require a huge digital infrastructure.
All employees have access to the in-house developed BI (Business Intelligence) where they can submit, follow and monitor requests. A request can be any task, process or action inside the company.
The system was originally developed in Java and was not targeted towards mobile and intranet use. To access it additional software had to be installed. Not all workflows were as easy as they once were. That's why Van Genechten asked us to build a web-based dashboard for their BI system.
Built on top of Joomla
Application look-and-feel
Location, device and internet connection independent
Easy to use and extend
The system was built on top of Joomla using our own in-house developed Joomlatools Framework. This allowed us to build on a solid system but still have all the flexibility we need while developing.
We used Twitter Bootstrap as a base layer for styling and interface interaction. On top of that sits a custom theme to make the intranet both pixel perfect and user-friendly. Because the whole intranet is being built with a mobile first strategy in mind it works on every device straight from the browser.
First, we wrote a PostgreSQL component that sits as a lightweight layer between the internal company database and the actual Joomla installation, which is fine-tuned for use with MySQL.
We also built a Vagrant box so developers from inside the company can easily follow-up and work on the system themselves. The box contains a basic web application stack, composed out of Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL.
Additionally, we created a lightweight example version of the company's internal PostgreSQL database and emulated their application API using Mocky, an easy-to-use http mocking server.
This allowed us to develop locally with all the elements that are to be used in production. Without having to be physically connected to the company's internal network.
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If you like cooking Asian food at home, you've surely heard of 99 Ranch, the Taiwanese-American supermarket chain.
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It's not often that you get to show off your cutting-board collection, but when and if that opportunity arises, you better have something cool to bring to the table.
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Built as a Works Progress Administration project, the Rincon Annex post office is among the city's finest links to a glorious art deco past. When the Rincon Center shopping and office complex was built in 1978, developers were required to preserve the splendid murals depicting California's history as executed by Russian artist Anton Refregier. Begun in 1941, his lobby frieze was finally completed in 1948, after being interrupted by World War II. The gorgeous work speaks for itself, but historical graphics in the lobby provide plenty of information about the paintings. Plus, there are several display cases that contain relics of early San Francisco.
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy occupies a strange space in the market. Its $40 price point leads people to believe that it's not quite Uncharted 5, but perhaps it's more substantial than, for example, the Left Behind DLC for The Last of Us. Make no mistake, Lost Legacy is a full-fledged Uncharted experience, which shows that this franchise still has compelling stories tell outside Nathan Drake's adventures.
In Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, you play as Chloe Frazer, a fan favorite who was unfortunately absent from Uncharted 4. Chloe is after the Tusk of Ganesh, an ancient Indian artifact that her heritage calls on her to find. However, there are some bad people who are also after the Tusk, namely a warlord named Asav. Since she can't take on Asav and all his men alone, she calls in Nadine – a mercenary and the secondary antagonist in Uncharted 4.
The writing for Chloe is excellent. She brings levity to tense situations without feeling like Nathan Drake 2.0. The evolving relationship between Chloe and Nadine feels natural, and their dialogue is genuinely fun to listen to. While Uncharted 4 is a bit more heartfelt knowing it's Nathan's last adventure, Chloe's interest in the Tusk of Ganesh feels more personal than Drake's interest in previous treasures. The Lost Legacy is not a forced spin-off – it shows that there are still stories worth telling with these fantastic characters.
The character of Asav may not be the most compelling villain in the series, but he's also not the worst (that prize would go to Uncharted 2's Lazaravic). He's evil for the sake of being evil and alludes to having some sort of history with Nadine. Still, there are a few tense encounters among him, Chloe, and Nadine. Nonetheless, we came for our heroes and not the villains, so Asav being more or less a simple plot device is easily forgiven.
There's a lot of referring to Nathan Drake's last adventure that may intimidate newcomers, but The Lost Legacy really does work as a standalone story. Long-term fans will appreciate the familiar faces, but it really isn't necessary to play any previous games. If you're looking for that gorgeous current-gen Uncharted experience, The Lost Legacy is a better jumping-on point than Uncharted 4.
Despite the fact you play as someone other than Nathan Drake for the very first time, the game has all the beats of classic Uncharted. The game is a third-person shooter with lots of stealth sections and some puzzle-solving. You're always given the choice to take out everyone quietly, or to go in loud. It's nothing game-changing, but the shooting and stealth takedowns are so satisfying it's hard not to recommend.
The Lost Legacy unsurprisingly plays like Uncharted 4, but there were some minor yet noticeable improvements to gameplay. The previous game toyed with the idea of a 'wide linear' approach, where the game gave players more freedom to get from point A to point B. The Lost Legacy takes this idea further – there is an entire chapter where you may choose which order to explore each of the ruins, marking off the locations on Chloe's map. It's still a very linear game, but it certainly felt like I could explore the map at my own pace.
Some other additions include Chloe's ability to pick locks and more weapons, ammunition, and other goodies. There are also a few new weapons unseen in previous games, like C-4 and a silenced pistol allowing for stealth kills. Driving and swimming sections also felt more fluid and enjoyable. In short, The Lost Legacy makes some well-appreciated improvements to a game that already had solid gameplay.
I'm not sure who asked for this feature, but it is pretty fun, and Uncharted has always been about not taking itself seriously.
The Lost Legacy has 9 chapters compared to U4's 22, but it's more than half the length in playtime. It took me about 7 hours to complete, and will take even longer if you gather all the collectible treasures along the way. I certainly could have played more, but you really can't complain about the value you're getting at this price point.
If you're a fan of Uncharted and you still haven't picked up The Lost Legacy, this one's a no-brainer. But even if you haven't played any of the previous installations, this game is a wonderful addition to your Ps4's library. Here's to hoping we get more full experiences likes this one for less than full price.
While it might not reach the emotional height's of Nathan Drake's last adventure, The Lost Legacy is a welcome addition to the franchise. It features a compelling story and wonderful cast of characters, illustrating the point that this franchise is far from over. And as always, the visuals Naughty Dog is able to get out of a standard PS4 never cease to amaze.


St. Lawrence School offers a girls and boys basketball program for students in fifth through eighth grade, cheerleading, and archery. These program promote teamwork, cooperation and physical health. All students in grade five through eight are eligible to participate as long as they meet academic requirements.
The boys basketball season runs from October through mid-January and the girls' season runs from January through mid-March.
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Published Saturday, April 30, 2022 7:55PM EDT
Three Ontario party leaders were busy Saturday holding campaign events as the official start of the election period drew closer.
In Etobicoke, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader Doug Ford unveiled his campaign bus, the "Yes Express."
"I can't wait to get out of the bubble -- I call Queen's Park the bubble -- get around the province, from every single corner, and speak to the real people. Those are the best ideas I get when I talk to the real people," Ford said.
He touted the 2022 budget his government tabled on Thursday, reaffirming that the same spending plan will be resubmitted if his party forms government for the second time.
Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy delivered a $198.6 billion budget, which is seen as the PC's election platform. It included a pledge for tax relief for low-income workers, a cut to the gas tax, and the cost of the much-touted end to vehicle license plate sticker fees. The government also earmarked billions for infrastructure projects.
"We are saying yes to the exact same budget. It's a thoughtful budget, and it's a budget for the right time for the people of Ontario right now," Ford said.
The PC leader is set to officially commence his campaign on May 4.
In Hamilton, Ontario New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath launched her campaign after formally getting the nomination for Hamilton Centre, which she has represented since 2007.
"There's only one party that can defeat Doug Ford this time. And we're asking folks to come together and achieve that job. That's job number one because the majority of people in Ontario don't want Doug Ford to have a second term," Horwath said.
"We have the best shot at unseating Doug Ford, at defeating this government. We have a very strong team."
On Saturday, the NDP also unveiled its election campaign bus.
Earlier this week, Horwath introduced her party's 92-page election platform that included accelerated pharmacare, a freeze on income tax for some residents and hiring tens of thousands of health-care and education workers.
In Woodbridge, Ontario Liberal Party Leader Steven Del Duca also kicked off his campaign during his nomination.
"We are going to guarantee that Ontario is a place, a magical place where we can grow, where we can grow together," Del Duca said.
"We're going to work as hard as we possibly can. And when we do that, the way that Ontario liberals and Ontarians know how, well, we're going to build a province that works as hard as Ontarians do. We're going to build a province that cares as much as Ontarians care and we are going to do it together."
This week, Del Duca pledged that if his party gets elected this spring, he will remove the provincial portion of the HST from prepared food purchases under $20, increase the amount low-income seniors receive from the province as a top up to federal Old Age Security payments, end for-profit long-term care and invest in home care.
The Ontario election is in June.
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From left: PC Party Leader Doug Ford, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Ontario Liberal Party Leader Steven Del Duca are seen in this combination photo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)
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Taking another summer break from NS is becoming a better option as each days passes.
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Q: check if a URL to an image is up and exists in Python I am making a website.  I want to check from the server whether the link that the user submitted is actually an image that exists.

A: You can read the header of the http request, it contains some meta-data like the content-type.
On python 3:
from urllib.request import urlopen
image_formats = ("image/png", "image/jpeg", "image/gif")
url = "http://localhost/img.png"
site = urlopen(url)
meta = site.info()  # get header of the http request
if meta["content-type"] in image_formats:  # check if the content-type is a image
    print("it is an image")

You can also get other info like the size of the image and etc. The good news about this is that it doesn't download the image. It could fail if the header says that it is an image and it is not, but you can still do a last check and download the image if it pass the first filter.

A: This is the best approach working for my application, based also on previous comments:
def is_url_image(image_url):
   image_formats = ("image/png", "image/jpeg", "image/jpg")
   r = requests.head(image_url)
   if r.headers["content-type"] in image_formats:
      return True
   return False

A: This is one way that is quick:
It doesn't really verify that is really an image file, it just guesses based on file extention and then checks that the url exists. If you really need to verify that the data returned from the url is actually an image (for security reasons) then this solution would not work.
import mimetypes, urllib2

def is_url_image(url):
    mimetype,encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(url)
    return (mimetype and mimetype.startswith('image'))

def check_url(url):
    """Returns True if the url returns a response code between 200-300,
       otherwise return False.
    """
    try:
        headers = {
            "Range": "bytes=0-10",
            "User-Agent": "MyTestAgent",
            "Accept": "*/*"
        }

        req = urllib2.Request(url, headers=headers)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        return response.code in range(200, 209)
    except Exception:
        return False

def is_image_and_ready(url):
    return is_url_image(url) and check_url(url)

A: Take a look into imghdr
Here is some example code:
import imghdr
import httplib
import cStringIO

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.ovguide.com', timeout=60)
path = '/img/global/ovg_logo.png'
conn.request('GET', path)
r1 = conn.getresponse()

image_file_obj = cStringIO.StringIO(r1.read())
what_type = imghdr.what(image_file_obj)

print what_type

This should return 'png'.  If it is not an image it will return None
Hope that helps!
-Blake

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We are publishing here a leaflet by the French Fraction of the Communist Left put out in August 1944 to oppose the general mobilisation launched by the Free French on 18th August, as well as the lead article of L'Etincelle, newspaper of the same group, also from August 1944. The French Fraction of the Communist Left was formed in Marseille at the beginning of that same year.
Around the Italian Fraction of the Communist Left (see our book The Italian Communist Left), reconstituted in Marseille in 1942, there formed a nucleus of about ten French elements: some of them had just broken with Trotskyism and others, still young, had only just moved towards revolutionary positions.
The Italian Communist Left is well known to our readers. However, we should take a few lines to recall that the Italian Left had a long political and theoretical tradition, a tradition of struggle in the Italian and international workers' movement. Its origins go back to a few years before the First World War, to the fight of the younger elements of the Italian Socialist Party against the colonial war in Tripolitania, now Libya, between 1910 and 1912. The Italian Left was the main element in the creation of the Italian Communist Party at Livorno in 1921. In the mid-twenties, it held on to revolutionary positions against the degeneration of the Communist International, fighting within the latter until its definitive expulsion in 1928, along with other currents of the left, including the Russian left opposition under Trotsky. When fascism came to power in Italy, a number of its members were put in prison or exiled to the islands of the Tyrrenian sea. After that, the Italian Left carried on its internationalist political combat in emigration in France and Belgium, first in the International Left Opposition, which was not yet Trotskyist, and then virtually alone, after its exclusion from the latter.
By the 1930s, the revolutionary wave was definitely over. The Russian revolution had been isolated and defeated. The working class had been beaten, and with each year that passed, revolutionaries found themselves on their own, more and more distant from their class. As Victor Serge put it, it was "midnight in the century", but the communist will of the Italian Left did not weaken. Throughout this period it held onto communist and internationalist principles. It was the only revolutionary organisation which understood that the historic course was no longer favourable to the working class and that the way was open to world imperialist war. This understanding of the political situation enabled it to grasp the fact that the war in Spain in 1936, like the wars in Abyssinia or Manchuria, were simply the preludes to the coming generalised imperialist war. It thus defended the idea that the proletariat was beaten and that the period was not favourable to the formation of new revolutionary parties. Its role, as a fraction of the future communist party, was to hold onto communist principles and to prepare the "revolutionary cadres" of the future party, which would be born when the proletariat re-emerged onto the historic scene.
The beginning of the Second World War got the better of the Italian Left and dispersed its members. It disappeared in August 1939 when war was declared; the International Bureau in Brussels dissolved itself.
However, some elements of the Italian Left managed to regroup in Marseille and decided to carry on the struggle for proletarian internationalism. Alone and against the tide they denounced the imperialist war and called on the workers of all the countries of Europe to fight against all the capitalist states, democratic, fascist or Stalinist (see the Manifesto of the Communist Left to the Proletarians of Europe, published in the book cited above).
When powerful strike movements broke out in Italy in 1943 (see International Review 75), a new perspective at last seemed to be opening up for revolutionaries. They considered that the historic course that had led the working class from defeat to defeat had changed. "After three years of war, Germany, and thus Europe present the first signs of weakness...we can say that the objective conditions are opening up a period of revolution" ("Draft resolution on the perspectives and tasks of the transitional period", Conference of July 1943, published in Internationalisme no. 5, 1945).
The insurrectionary events which had just taken place in Italy were very important, but the bourgeoisie was on its guard; it was not to make the same errors that it had made at the end of the First World War and which led to the revolutions in Russia and Germany.
- they underestimated the defeat suffered by the working class which had been ideologically defeated at the end of the 30s, then physically defeated, then crushed and murdered during the imperialist war.
The documents which we reproduce here express this overestimation: the slogans called on the workers not to march behind the Resistance, but to organise their own "action committees" and to follow the example of the Italian workers.
After the treason of the Communist Parties and the Trotskyist groups which had passed wholesale into the imperialist camp of the democrats and Stalinists, the immense merit of these comrades was to have raised aloft the only revolutionary and internationalist torch during the nationalist, chauvinist and revengeful hysteria of the "Liberation". Against the tide, against the national unity that extended from the Gaullist right to the Stalinists and Trotskyists, the workers and revolutionaries-with-no-fatherland of the Communist Left of France distributed their leaflets and their papers.
It needed a mad courage to stand up against everyone, to call on the workers to desert the partisans, and in doing so to run the gauntlet between the Gestapo, the Vichy police, the Gaullists and the Stalinist killers.
The Anglo-American troops have replaced the GERMAN GENDARME in the work of repressing the working class and reintegrating it into the imperialist war.
The RESISTANCE is pushing you into an insurrection, but under its leadership and for capitalist aims.
The COMMUNIST PARTY has abandoned the cause of the proletariat and has sunk into patriotism, which is so inimical to the working class.
More than ever your weapon remains THE CLASS STRUGGLE without any regard for frontiers or nations.
More than ever your place is not on the side either of fascism or of bourgeois democracy.
More than ever, ANGLO-AMERICAN, RUSSIAN AND GERMAN CAPITALISMS ARE THE EXPLOITERS OF THE WORKING CLASS.
The strike now underway has been provoked by THE BOURGEOISIE and for ITS INTERESTS.
Tomorrow, to fight against the unemployment which it cannot solve, YOU WILL BE MOBILISED AND SENT TO THE IMPERIALIST FRONT.
- Don't respond to the insurrection which will be made with your blood for the greater good of international capitalism.
- Act as proletarians, not as revanchist Frenchmen.
- Refuse to be reintegrated into the imperialist war.
- Organise your action committees, and when the conditions allow it, follow the example of the Italian workers.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ARMIES WILL PROVE THIS TO YOU JUST LIKE THE GERMAN ARMY!
YOU WILL ONLY GET OUT OF THE IMPERIALIST WAR THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR!
After five years of war, with all its misery, death and carnage, the bourgeoisie is weakening under the blows of a crisis that is opening the doors to civil war. Tomorrow's Europe will be a vast powder-keg in which the counter-revolutionary British, American and Russian armies will implacably attempt to smother the revolutionary movements of the working class.
The tasks of repression have already been shared out amongst the belligerents. Italy has been a vast field of experience which has shown capitalism the danger, in times of war, of leaving intact workers' concentrations that could give rise to independent class movements. The Italian workers have proved this.
This is why for two years Germany has been dragging you off to huge factories where, side by side, European workers have been slaved to death producing arms for the imperialist war. This is why for two years patriots in the service of capitalism have been pushing you into the maquis so that you lose your class consciousness and become revanchists. All the important industrial centres of France have been emptied more and more in order to reduce the risk of civil war and eliminate possible sources of revolutionary ferment provoked by the war.
The draining of all the workers' energies is being done with the political intention of weakening your consciousness and lining you up like animals to be whipped and cut down the moment you whisper any protest.
The war today is no longer being fought between the belligerent imperialisms, but between a capitalism conscious of its will to remain in power despite its historical impossibility, and a proletariat blinded by the demagogy which pours spontaneously from the flanks of the bourgeois system.
The demagogic and repressive weapons of capitalism are already at work.
In addition to the concentration camps, the maquis, the ferocious exploitation of all the workers in Germany, we now have the bombing of the cities, especially where strikes are breaking out, as in Milan, Naples, Marseille. Through the radio, bourgeois propaganda has taken on the language of the October revolution, even though since its death in 1933 the Communist International has led you through defeat after defeat into the imperialist war.
The Red Army, which has usurped a name that is covered in glory because it was once a workers' army fighting for the dictatorship of the proletariat, is now carrying on the deadly work of fascism, using the word 'Soviet' to disguise the imposition of capitalist exploitation.
De Gaulle, this "blackguard" as the Stalinists called him before 1941, has the backing of the Anglo-Americans and the Russians to mobilise and smother you in khaki once again.
Europe is ripe for civil war; capitalism is preparing to react by leading you towards the imperialist war.
Workers, each weapon of capitalism contains its own danger for capitalism.
To the reduction of revolutionary flashpoints, the situation responds by concentrating the working class even more densely in a nerve-center of capitalism.
Against the politics of patriotism, a proletarian solidarity is created in the German factories and will be fortified by the ineluctable necessity for the workers to defend themselves as workers in a Europe that tomorrow will be abandoned to famine and unemployment.
The crisis that leads to the transformation of imperialist war into civil war will not spare the imperialist armies, who will be affected by social convulsions in the rear, by the revolutionary contamination of insurrections by the European proletariat. The cause of the French proletariat is totally bound up with the cause of the European proletariat after four years of economic centralisation and concentration. The most dangerous enemies of the European and world working class are Anglo-American and Russian capitalisms, which do not intend to be dispossessed.
Workers, whatever the name you give your unitary organs, the example of the Russian Soviets of the 1917 October revolution must show you the way to power without compromise or opportunism.
Neither democracy nor Stalinism with their demagogy about "Bread, Peace and Liberty" can free you from the oppression and famine looming up, in a world where capitalism can bring only war.
Society is at a complete dead-end; the proletarian revolution is the only way out.
The first step to take is to break with the imperialist war through a clear class consciousness which proclaims above all the class struggle always and everywhere. The crisis of the world bourgeoisie, which has opened up in Italy and Germany, is forging the conditions and weapons favourable to the civil war, the spontaneous beginning of the revolution.
Break with Anglo-mania, Americano-mania, Russo-mania.
Reject all patriotism, which can only serve capitalism.
Proclaim your class solidarity and organise for the victory of the revolution.
Break now with the parties that have betrayed the working class and led you into this imperialist war and want to keep you in it. Gaullism, social democracy, Stalinism, Trotskyism, these are the screens behind which the enemy class is trying to penetrate into your ranks in order to crush you.
Salvation can only come from you, because history has given you all the possibilities of understanding your historic mission and the weapons to accomplish it.
Forward to the transformation of the imperialist war into civil war!
The Italian workers have shown you the way, it's up to you to respond to the counter-revolution that is camouflaged in your own ranks!


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New Referral Orders: Magistrate Judge or Visiting Judge, Your Choice
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Yesterday, Chief Judge Connolly issued nearly identical oral orders across five cases, instituting a new procedure for referral of the case to a magistrate judge:
ORAL ORDER: On or before December 22, 2021, the parties shall either (1) submit to the Clerk of Court an executed Form AO 85 Notice, Consent, and Reference of a Civil Action to a Magistrate Judge, indicating their consent to have a United States Magistrate Judge conduct all proceedings in this case including trial, the entry of final judgment, and post-trial proceedings; or (2) a joint letter indicating that both parties do not consent to a reference of this action to a Magistrate Judge. The letter should not indicate which party or parties did not …
Judge Stark to Be Nominated for the Federal Circuit
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Big news! The White House announced today that Judge Leonard P. Stark of the District of Delaware is set to be nominated to the Federal Circuit.
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More Recession Re-set: "I'm Tired of Slaving; I Want to Live"
"For me the recession and getting laid off has been transformative. It brings to a head what I really value." says Alex Gargarita, 45-year-old single father of two. Alex is one of thousands left jobless because of the tech industry contraction in Silicon Valley, but rather than viewing the career disruption as hardship or professional setback, he plans to use his downtime as an opportunity to reinvent his life and self.
Alex has been working in Silicon Valley since 1986, so lived through the dot com swan dive of the late 1990s. "This is so much worse," he says. "This is the worst downturn. Much worse than the tech bubble bursting."
Official statistics back up Alex's impression of the economic state of Silicon Valley. According to the state's Employment Development Department, post-dot-com-bust unemployment peaked at 9.2% in early 2003. In August, effects of the recession had unemployment in Silicon Valley at 12%, though experts note the rate of job losses has slowed dramatically over the past two months, indicating the tech industry may be entering an early stage of recovery.
For Alex's future life plans, Silicon Valley recovery is all but irrelevant, since he has no intention of returning. His unemployment check covers the mortgage payment for now. Anthony, his 21-year-old son, has picked up a part-time job to help contribute to household expenses while in school studying criminology. Alex is learning out how to apply for various government assistance for help with utilities and food, so their collective scrimping and saving will keep them going for awhile. If Alex ever has a moment of insecurity, anxiety, or doubt, he just looks at his youngest son, 11-year-old Nicholas, who struggles with an autism-spectrum disorder. "He's just happy and wants love and wants to play. Whenever I need a sense of perspective, I just talk to him."
Most of Alex's 20+year career has been dedicated to marketing one high-tech product or another. He excelled at his work, earned good money--enough to purchase a small house in 1997, sufficient to convince him that comfortable affluence equaled happiness. But after being laid off in July, he has begun to spend time examining his values, re-evaluating what he thinks important.
"I can't really dwell on being unemployed and feel bad about it. I've really been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and career. Over this time, I've begun to realize that living with that traditional corporate culture mindset, in a lot of ways I felt like a robot. Balance was really lacking when I was working. It was all work, work, work. It's about 'the rush.' Peope do that all the time, I think in Silicon Valley more than anywhere else. It's an addiction to work. An addiction to ambition. An addiction to succeed."
"I don't know what an ideal American dream is anymore. Right now I'm trying to re-invent myself completely. There are so many things I would give up for a better quality of life. And what I consider a better quality of life is evolving under the current circumstances. I have a small house, but I would trade for a smaller house. Having a higher quality of life means having balance. That means being able to spend time with my family, pursuing my passion. I don't really see work as something inside an 8 to 5 box anymore. These days work is global, 24 hours. I don't want to be bound by the traditional concept of having a 'J.O.B.'"
"I'm using this time to establish more harmony and balance in my life. Now that I've gained this perspective, ideally I'd like my work to revolve around my lifestyle, rather than have my life revolve around my work. I want to do something that has meaning--something that helps people. Probably sounds cheesy, but it's true. Even though it won't be so lucrative, if I can do something I am passionate about, that will be so much more fulfilling."
From the hundreds of resumes he has sent out since being laid off, Alex considers himself lucky that one provoked a phonecall from a prospective employer. With well-over 100,000 laid off people in Silicon Valley currently seeking new employment, Alex expects it would be many months, if not years, before the local job market returns to an even keel.
If he could figure out how to monetize an informational start-up, Alex would find it profoundly fulfilling to launch an autism-related website as a comprehensive resource center for parents whose children have just been diagnosed. Alex always has to fight to ensure schools provide his son Nicholas with the tools he needs to progress along with his age group. Since Alex has had to figure out how to work the system to protect his son's rights and provide for his special needs, Alex guesses there are thousands of parents across the country starting the same process with no idea how to begin. Alex can relate to their struggle and would like to help, so is looking into how he could establish such a service professionally. He wouldn't want to get rich, as long as he could pay the mortgage and provide food and educational opportunities for his children.
As other possible future professional pursuits, Alex suggests he would feel enriched by having a green job, or working for a non-profit--particularly one that could address the country's healthcare problems. "I'm all over this Obama healthcare reform thing," he says. In order to continue his health coverage through Cobra for himself and two sons, he would have to pay $1250 a month in premiums. "Companies have to offer COBRA, but what they offer, no one can afford. That's almost what I pay for my mortgage. So I have to choose between my family's health security or paying my mortgage. That is not a choice anyone should have to make."
Alex's attempts to apply for independent health insurance through companies like Blue-Cross have failed, since they all reject his pre-existing condition--asthma. Until he recovers financially, the now-uninsured Alex just has to hope and pray his good health endures.
Health worries aside, Alex views this period of unemployment as an eye-opening opportunity to re-set everything his life represents. In his youth, Alex accepted the dominant convention that had been instilled in him since birth, blindly pursuing a path so deeply-ingrained in our culture that any deviance is consider abnormal. He finished school, got married, had a child, bought a house, had another child, got divorced. Now with a chance to re-evaluate his life from the perspective of a jobless 45-year-old, Alex concludes: "I'm tired of slaving; I want to live."
Christina Davidson is a writer, photographer, and book editor who specializes in national security, terrorism, and war. She also writes for the food blog Feed The Masses.


Issues in the Conservation of Photographs is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession. In seventy-two essential texts from the nineteenth century to the present day, this anthology collects key writings that have influenced both the philosophical and the practical aspects of conserving photographic materials. The materials were carefully selected by the editors along with an advisory board of international experts and include some--particularly the lectures, memos, and letters--that have never been published. Many of the topics--safe environmental parameters, silver image permanence, and proper treatment methods--have been debated since the introduction of photography. By promoting an understanding of these issues, this volume seeks to advance the education of rising conservation professionals, inspire new scholarship, and contribute to the field's ongoing evolution. Paperback, 736 pages, 36 color & 55 b/w illustrations.


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Q: Automatic replacement of expressions Maybe this can be achieved through (extended) regular expressions, but I really don't know if or how. There seems to be a way to access "things that are found" by using $1, $2, … but I have no idea where to use that.
I want to search & replace (in multiple documents) an expression "with holes in it".
Example:
<someCodeAndOtherStuffThatAlwaysStaysTheSame
value="somePathThatAlwaysStaysTheSame/horse.mp3">
<moreCodeThatAlwaysStaysTheSame
src="samePathThatAlwaysStaysTheSame/horse.mp3"
<moreCodeThatAlwaysStaysTheSame>

should turn into
<audio controls="controls">
  <source src="horse.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
</audio>

or possibly
<audio controls="controls">
  <source src="horse.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
<embed height="50" width="100" src="horse.mp3">
</audio>

Of course, horse.mp3 is variable and the part that I desribed as a "hole".
I mainly use Bluefish Editor and gedit but a solution using the terminalwould be just as fine.

A: What you are looking for is called "Pattern Capture", where a particular pattern matched by a regular expression is saved in a variable. The details of how this is done depend on the language used (Perl, awk, sed or whatever).
Your problem is a bit more complicated because:

*

*You should not parse HTML with regular expressions

*Regular expressions become more complicated in most languages when your search pattern
spans multiple lines.

*Since you have not included a sample of your actual code, it is harder for me to find a unique pattern with which to anchor my regular expression. In the script below I am using
<moreCodeThatAlwaysStaysTheSame> and .someCodeAndOth you will need to change that to reflect actual unique patterns that flank the text you want to replace.

*You should not parse HTML with regular expressions
All that said, here is a Perl script that will replace the patterns you gave in your question:
#!/usr/bin/perl
###############################################
# This sets the line separator to a string    #
# instead of a new line (\n). Use something   #
# that uniquely delimits the code you want to #
# replace.                                    #
###############################################
local $/="<moreCodeThatAlwaysStaysTheSame>";

#######################################################
# Read the input file, line by line. Remember that    #
# because of the previous command, a line is expected #
# to end with "<moreCodeThatAlwaysStaysTheSame>"      #
#######################################################
while (<>) {
#####################################################
# $str is what we want to replace the pattern with. #
# "XXX" will be replaced by the correct mp3.        #
#####################################################
    my $str=<<Eof;
 <audio controls="controls">
   <source src="XXXX" type="audio/mpeg">
<embed height="50" width="100" src="XXXX">
</audio>
Eof
###########################################################
# Match the entire string we will replace AND the         #
# mp3 we are looking for. In Perl (and other languages)   #
# placing a regex pattern in (parentheses) captures it.   #
# We can now refer to the 1st captured pattern as $1, the #
# second as $2 etc.                                       #
###########################################################
    /(.someCodeAndOth.+?src=.+\/(.+?\.mp3).+?$)/s;

###################################################
# Save the matches into variables, otherwise they #
# will be lost at the next match operation.       #
###################################################
    my ($match,$rep,$mp3)=($1,$1,$2);

###################################################
# Replace "XXXX" with the appropriate mp3 in $str #
###################################################
    $str=~s/XXXX/$mp3/g;

#########################################
# Replace the matched pattern with $str #
#########################################
    s/$match/$str/;

#################
# Print it out! #
#################
    print;
}

Save that script as foo.pl and run it on your file as follows:
perl foo.pl input_file.html > output_file.html


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Did the UN's Anti-Narcotics Board Just Recommend Decriminalizing Drugs Globally?
A new report from the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) concluded with two recommendations regarding the worldwide cannabis legalization movement. First, governments need to stop punishing their people so harshly just for getting lit. And two, states should hit pause on legalizing recreational pot until new international drug treaties can be negotiated among nations.
The two recommendations came at the end of the INCB's latest annual report. The INCB is an independent organization that interprets drug laws and policies on behalf of the United Nations. However, the INCB does not have any legal authority, nor can it enforce any of the UN's drug control policies. In other words, like many UN agencies, it can tell countries what to do, but it can't actually make those countries do anything.
Regarding weed legalization, the INCB wrote:
The Board notes with concern the legalization of cannabis for non-medical and non-scientific purposes in several jurisdictions and that other jurisdictions are considering taking similar action. The Board reiterates that the 1961 Convention as amended, the 1971 Convention and the 1988 Convention limit the use of all controlled substances to medical and scientific purposes.
The three conventions mentioned above are international treaties that basically made the War on Drugs a global phenomenon. All UN member states signed the treaties, though some, like Nepal, did not agree to every clause laid out in the conventions. Under the treaties, all member states agreed to treat marijuana as a dangerous, addictive drug, though they could craft policies to permit limited medical use of cannabis and cannabis-derived products.
Nepal, to date, is the only nation that demanded it be allowed to license recreational pot for an indeterminate period of time. That portion of Nepal's agreement with the UN is still in effect.
The INCB went on to declare all recreational weed legalization, regardless of voter referendums or the collective will of the local people, in violation of the UN's treaties. But the board did note that it had spoken with individual weed-legal jurisdictions to better understand why those places decided to defy the international conventions — and, most importantly, that the INCB took those reasons into serious consideration. So, to be fair, the INCB suggested a quick fix for these treaty conflicts, at least until there's a new convention treaty signed by all nation states.
In the section immediately following the part that cries about legalizing weed, the INCB wrote:
The fundamental goal of the international drug control conventions, to safeguard the health and welfare of humanity, includes the full enjoyment of human rights. State actions that violate human rights in the name of drug control policy are inconsistent with the international drug control conventions.
Basically, the INCB is saying that drug control policies are supposed to protect people. Instead, over the past half century that the UN has maintained these treaties, cops in the US have used civil asset forfeiture to rob Americans of billions of dollars worth of property, even when those Americans aren't convicted of any crimes.
And while there are too many stories of unarmed Americans getting shot and killed by overworked and under-trained cops over a suspected bag of weed or cocaine, low-level drug dealers in the Philippines are literally being executed in the streets, without trial, by vigilantes under President Duterte's atrocious counterdrug program.
The UN itself has been loosening up toward its own place in the global drug war, too. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN's public health agency, has been considering reclassifying marijuana to a less restrictive scheduling, or even removing the plant from scheduling altogether.
Anyway, here's the INCB's easy fix for the tragic War on Drugs and its devastating consequences, according to its own report:
States are not legally required by the international drug control conventions to impose criminal sanctions, including imprisonment, but may provide for treatment and rehabilitation measures as an alternative to conviction or punishment…. [emphasis ours]
So, we're not saying that the UN's anti-drug policy board is telling countries that they can win the War on Drugs by simply decriminalizing drug use, possession, and possibly even sales — but it sure as f*ck looks that way.
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Hamilton Township resolves police brutality…
Hamilton Township resolves police brutality complaint with $150K settlement
Hamilton Township Council on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, passed this resolution in a 4-1 vote awarding a $150,000 cash settlement to a plaintiff who sued the township on police brutality allegations.
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman |
PUBLISHED: July 22, 2015 at 9:18 p.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2021 at 2:26 a.m.
HAMILTON >> A convicted drug dealer who has a long criminal rap sheet has sued Hamilton Township on allegations of police brutality and will receive a $150,000 payout under the terms of a settlement that Township Council approved Tuesday.
Sonny Jackson Jr., 41, of Trenton, was seriously injured on April 22, 2009, when a township patrol car allegedly driven by Officer Thomas R. Clugsten struck Jackson following a police chase in which Jackson claimed he was trying to surrender, according to court documents. Jackson alleged that five Hamilton cops had subsequently violated his civil rights when they "brutally and viciously beat" him "as he laid unconscious on the ground in need of serious medical attention."
Jackson's federal complaint was filed at the U.S. District Court in Camden in August 2010 while he was incarcerated at Southern State Correctional Facility in Delmont, Cumberland County.
The case lingered in the federal court system for years until March 13, when U.S. District Judge Anne E. Thompson, the same judge who had presided over the criminal trial of former Hamilton Mayor John Bencivengo, signed an order for the matter to be dismissed with prejudice when it was brought to her attention that the matter was settled between the parties involved.
Township Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve the settlement, which calls for the township to pay Jackson $50,000 on top of the Garden State Municipal Joint Insurance Fund paying him $100,000. The resolution of settlement says Township Council "finds the settlement to be a just and reasonable means for disposition of this litigation and in the best interest of the township."
Councilman Ed Gore voted against the resolution, saying he opposed compensating a criminal who broke the law.
"There was illegal activity on the part of this plaintiff, to be sure. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been chased," Hamilton Township Attorney Lindsay Burbage said at the council meeting. "The first wrongdoing doesn't excuse the second wrongdoing, and that is basically where we are at."
Burbage said the incident had "involved a high-speed chase through Hamilton into Trenton" that ended when Jackson stopped and exited his vehicle, which then led to Jackson being struck by the patrol car and arrested thereafter.
If Hamilton Township would have continued fighting the case rather than settling it, the township would have possibly been on the hook to pay a large sum of money to the lawyers on both sides in addition to whatever monetary damages a jury could have awarded to the plaintiff, Burbage said.
Councilman Dave Kenny at the meeting said he was initially inclined to fight the civil lawsuit, but he said he had come to accept the view that "it is a reasonable settlement."
For the township to pay $50,000 of the $150,000 settlement, that payment is much less than the $5 million that Jackson was originally demanding. Jackson in a sworn statement claimed he had suffered "permanent physical damage" and "many permanent mental and emotional damages" from the alleged police brutality.
The defendants listed in the federal lawsuit were the Township of Hamilton, Police Chief James W. Collins, Detective Michael J. Everett, Detective Capasso, Officer Clugsten, Officer Joseph Wilk and Officer Mark Horan.
The background on what transpired is Detective Everett was investigating a string of thefts when he noticed Jackson, an alleged theft suspect, was driving a car. Everett pulled Jackson over, and Jackson stopped temporarily and then drove away, resulting in a police chase, according to court documents. Eventually Jackson stopped his car, exited from it and then was hit by the patrol car.
Jackson alleged that the township and the police chief were responsible for his injuries on the grounds that each failed to train and supervise police officers on the use of force.
The defendants in the lawsuit answered Jackson's complaint with 34 separate statements of defense that were filed before the court on April 28, 2011. Among those statements: "Defendants were not negligent;" "Injuries complained of are the result of plaintiff's own negligence;" "Plaintiff's civil rights were not violated;" "The defendants acted in good faith and based on reasonable cause in arresting the plaintiff;" "These defendants had probable cause to arrest the plaintiff."
Jackson has been known to law-enforcement for two decades.
He served two separate stints in state prison, according to the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Jackson served more than three years on drug charges from October 1995 to January 1999 and served two years from February 2010 to April 2012 for resisting arrest and creating a risk with a motor vehicle, according to DOC records.
Trenton police arrested Jackson in January 2013 on theft charges.
Although the $150,000 settlement sounds like a nice cash sum for the plaintiff, Burbage said Jackson "is going to see very little of that money." He said Jackson has liabilities stemming from liens and child support.
Burbage said the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office had made several recommendations for the Hamilton Township Police Department to embrace as a direct result of Jackson's complaint. "Hopefully everyone learned from this incident," Burbage said. "Major changes were made to several procedures regarding this type of activity."
Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman


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Via WCPO's Ashley Zilka. Click to view in a larger window or click directly to her Twitter account below.
"We respect and will protect the privacy of the individual. However, we are concerned that you, the public, were not notified, especially if your home/property was sprayed with an insecticide without your prior knowledge. This chemical has the potential to affect aquatic life and crops according to the manufactures website.
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Lynne Saddler, District Director of Health for the Northern Kentucky Health Departmens said precautions had to be taken and decisions to spray a particular area are made jointly by the Kentucky Department for Public Health, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the Northern Kentucky Health Department.She said that many other areas of Kentucky regularly spray for mosquitoes. Lexington and Louisville have had mosquito spraying for more than a decade, initially to help prevent a variety of mosquito-borne diseases.
"We understand that many people are concerned about one measure to control mosquitoes—targeted application of insecticide by the Kentucky Department for Agriculture; however, this is an important public health precaution.
The Department of Agriculture has assured us that the product used, Duet, meets stringent standards and is registered for use by the Environmental Protection Agency. When properly used by trained professionals, insecticides do their job and biodegrade quickly. Such products are considered safe to use around people or pets. Spraying is done at night as an additional safeguard," said Saddler.
Alexandria Police say they have been working with departments in Miami, Florida, where the virus is more prevalent.
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I have asthma and would need to know this information.
The mosquitoes have really been abundant this year in Fort Thomas. I question whether the zika virus is more widespread than originally projected. It has been awfully wet and mild this year so far.
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