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Mr Sidik Ubeidu, the Upper West Regional Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has indicated that the Commission is working hard to help reduce congestion at the Wa Central Prison and police cells.
He said as part of the effort, CHRAJ held discussions with the Supervising High Court Judge in Wa in 2019 in ways of decongesting the remand centres.
Mr Ubeidu who revealed this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Wa, said the Commission was working to ensure that the rights of every person was guaranteed.
He noted that as part of the discussions, CHRAJ entreated the Supervising High Court Judge to encourage Judges and Magistrates under his Jurisdiction to reconsider the remand sentences they gave to suspects.
Mr Ubeidu disclosed that the Commission recorded 305 cases of human rights abuse, administrative Justice and issues related to corruption from the public within the period of January to December 2019 for investigation and settlement, out of which 220 were successfully settled.
He added that 63 cases were also recorded in 2018, bringing the total number to 368.
He said out of the number, 45 were still pending, four involved minors, 14 referred to the appropriate agencies including; the Ghana Police Service, 36 withdrawn, 22 cases declined and 44 ceased investigations.
He said the commission also carried out public education on human rights abuse, administrative justice and anti-corruption at the institutional and community levels as well as through the media.
That, he said, was to enable the public to be abreast with such issues and to report same to the commission when the need arises.
He explained that the commission also conducted its routine inspection visits to the Wa Central Prison and Police cells and donated assorted items including; toiletries, soaps and detergents among others valued at GH₵4,000.00 to the two centres.
Mr Ubeidu said the Commission also fixed a broken-down Water Closet (WC) at the Wa Police Cells as means of helping to improve the sanitation situation in the cell.
Meanwhile, information from the Wa Central Prison indicated that the facility that was supposed to contain 100 inmates was currently housing 179 of them.
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Re: CBA negotiations
Quote from: Jesse on May 27, 2022, 03:13:14 PM
Aards
- the player doesn't decide when to go in - can't penalize them. Period.
- the rules you're suggesting, fair or not, aren't really in line with how the league has done things. We never see them take that hard of a line so it's unreasonable to expect them to start - especially when they're the ones pushing for fakenats.
- The rules of the game are set - you can't change them for one team as a penalty.
Blue in BC
- Our team is a veteran one, we should expect to see a lot of turn over in the coming years.
- If they are with our team for 3 years, they ualify, doesn't matter when they join or no one would have any naturalized players until 3 years from now.
- I think we'll see FA priority change as we move forward. A lot of times, borderline vets would be cut in favour of a cheaper prospects, but now they have additional value.
Losing the ability to use a natnat is not penalizing a player, but rather penalizing a team. It is an advantage. It would be like losing a NAT starter and having to play a less talented NAT the next game.
The use of 49% natnat snaps is a privilege. Abuse it, you lose it.
Quote from: theaardvark on May 27, 2022, 03:25:54 PM
Benching a player for something they don't have control over is 100% penalizing the player. Yes, it also hurts the team.
Again, the CFL has never taken this kind of hard line - so suddenly expecting them to start is...silly.
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This is one of those times where you think it's a good idea, but it's really not and doubling down won't help. Salaries are tied to performance and sometimes snaps played, other incentives hinge on being out there. If a team accidently went over the % the players will never be the ones accountable for that. And they shouldn't. Are players responsible now if teams misuse the DI or don't actually start 7 Canadians? Of course not. Won't happen with this new part of the roster rules either.
I was just using the 2022 possible roster looking at how the new policy could be used. It will be complicated and I was using examples broadly how it could develop. The names will be fluid and were not specifically important. A kind of look at a transition plan for a current starter into a reduced role.
Obviously A. Harris is Canadian but the same questions were asked. Is he willing to take a reduced role with a lower pay check. Some vets will make that change and others will need to dragged off the field screaming.
D. Adams might have had the same questions put to him for example. He might still have a season or two starting in Ottawa or perhaps he should have taken on a back up role that would fit this new idea in 2023.
Ellingson would be the current equivalent in 2023 of a player that could become that naturalized American that sees less reps. In passing downs where a Canadian RB comes off, or an injury to a Canadian receiver and so on.
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Quote from: Sir Blue and Gold on May 27, 2022, 03:45:20 PM
A team "accidentally" going over the snaps will not be penalized. If they repeat the accident, they get penalized. If a player gets incentives based on natnat snaps, then he should make sure there is a rider that takes into account games where natnat snaps were lost due to coaching error. Again, its not the player that is penalized, it is the right to designate a player as a natnat that is, it is a team penalty.
If you have 6 players capable of being classed as a natnat, are the 4 that are not given the designation being penalized?
I don't get how you think a specific player is penalized by a team forfeiting its privilege to utilize a natnat.
First of all, stop saying natnat. Secondly, I know you dont get it but it isn't going to change the fact that the penalty won't be "you cannot play a roster position that is agreed upon under the CBA"
It is not realistic nor a good idea. It will probably be policed like the SMS which is fines/draft picks.
OK, give me a better term than natnat to use...
If the penalty is assessed as fines / DP's, then there will be no adherence to the rule. No other in game infraction is adjudicated that way. especially one that will be monitored closely. If there are no repercussions to the team play, then there will be rampant violations. WBB will closely monitor their use and make sure not to "cheat", but do you think Jones will?
Presently, if a DI plays for a NAT, the team gets a 25 yard penalty (if the refs notice). In 2016, the Chris Jones led Riders were fined $15k for a violation of that rule when it was noticed weeks later https://3downnation.com/2016/08/05/cfl-right-punish-riders-skirting-ratio-rules/
Because this is a cumulative snaps rule, and until the game ends, you cannot ***** whether the team is in violation or not, a penalty would not be able to be assessed during the game. But, the team breaking the rule has gained an advantage. That advantage needs to be countered, not with a fine, because then you could effectively buy advantage, and not by DP's, because that would exacerbate the issue that the team has in not having sufficient NAT depth (like the Chris Jones led 2016 Riders).
Temporarily losing the advantage to abused seems, to me, to be the perfect penalty. "You used too many natnat snaps last week, so this week, you get none". And again, not for the first offense. Scaling, 1st offense, warning, 2nd, 1 game suspension of the O/D (whichever was abused) natnat provision. 3rd offense, 2 games. 4th offense, you lose it altogether for the season, because you just don't want to use the exception as it was intended.
Appropriate and proportional penalty.
Until we know how the players will be designated as natnat, the argument that a player is being penalized for a coaches mistake is moot. And, maybe, the natnat player should be monitoring how many snaps he has taken and how many his NAT counterpart have. Not really a tough job...
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1. No in game penalty for going over 49%. That's completely unworkable. Example: 1st play, Yankee NI starts and is now over @ 50% of the snaps.
2. Each team will have to keep count of the snaps and how many went to Yankee NI's. Go over and risk an undefined penalty.
3. Giving the team that has the most NI snaps will reward the teams with the best NI's by giving them an extra 2nd round pick. Sounds backwards to me.
4. Turns out the negotiation problem was with the signing bonus, not the number of NI starters.
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Quote from: TBURGESS on May 27, 2022, 08:51:27 PM
Definitely how it seems
TecnoGenius
The problem with natnat is it could mean national-national, which is the opposite of what you intend: naturalized-national.
We had this thread back in '20 when the concept was first introduced... I like FAKENAT, because that's what they are. Other ideas:
NATish
NATLITE
AMNAT (has a nice ring to it) (AM=American)
Gotta use NAT-something instead of NI-something for these FAKENATs because they can't be a NI-IMP.
Maybe we should just call them: 49-PERCENTERs... or just 49ers. Or Halfers?
I'm sure between us and the rabid fans on Riderfans we can come up with something. Has to be short, has to roll off the tongue, has to be catchy.
Never go full Rider!
Maybe. But that's us, so I won't complain.
It does incentivize teams to play their NATs in NAT spots rather than ride the knife's edge of 49% with the FAKENATs. Teams with good NATs can use the FAKENATs more as spellers or for special sets, rather than cheat-starters.
If you player your FAKENATs as spellers, you don't even need to track the %, and you'll probably win the extra DP.
P.S. Reading the actual CBA summary on twatter you'll find they are actually going to give the NATtiest TWO (2) teams an extra DP! Not just 1 team. 2.
The extra NI draft pick if you play more NIs is kinda stupid but it is replacing the also stupid territorial exemption picks.
An extra draft pick and the end of the second round has never been of much value. It's safe to say I don't think teams are going to be rushing to start more Canadians just so they get the pick. Maybe the teams not making the playoffs in the last week or two maybe. But that's about the extent of it.
I agree. Teams that try to use as little nats as possible aren?t going to find value in draft picks. It?s kind of meaningless.
My guess is the bottom 2 teams won't play any Yankee NI's in the last couple of games to get the draft picks. At least that's what I would do.

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Young people from many countries in Latin America have organized themselves and occupied public places just like their counterparts around the globe. While some protesters are still camped, others are not. In both instances, the spread of these ideas through digital media and social media has been impressive. In Rio de Janeiro, a nonviolent occupation is happening in Cinelandia Square downtown. More than 100 tents have been pitched and protesters have decorated them with placards opposing capitalism, consumerism and social inequality.
The #OcupaRio movement has an ambitious agenda. It is taking up specific local issues. One example is the controversial Monte Belo Dam project, a hydroelectric project that is going to be built in Amazonia. Another issue is the forced eviction of residents from the iconic favelas in Rio in advance of soccer's 2014 World Cup, which will be held in Rio. The #OcupaRio is also seeking to raise awareness around global issues like poverty, environmental degradation, and class-related injustice.
The movement has a website displaying a calendar of all of the debates, workshops and performances happening in the square. Interestingly, the movement is urging people to "sai do sofá e vem pra cá" ("get out of the sofa and come here"). This is a reference to criticism that many of the so-called social media revolutions have been "sofa protests." A similar demonstration — #ocupasampa — is unfolding downtown in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, where more than 400 people are camped. There have been reports of occupations in other major cities, such as Salvador, where protesters are camped in Ondina Beach. More details about the Occupy movements in Brazil can be found here.
In Mexico, similar protests and nonviolent occupations are taking place, especially in Mexico City. The center of the protest is the Monumento a la Revolucion, a historic public square. There is also a group camped in front of the building of the Mexican Stock Market (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores). The Occupy Movement has also spread to Tijuana, where protesters were involved in conflicts with the authorities. While the agenda in Occupy Tijuana is similar to the global protests, it is also taking on regional issues, in this case the escalating violence in the drug trafficking wars, which has recently targeted bloggers and social media activists. #OcupaMexico is also leveraging the web to organize its efforts and to spread its agenda.
Argentina is an especially intriguing place for the Occupy movement because the country suffered widescale economic ruin in 2001. Some observers have likened the forces that drove Argentina's crisis to the current situation in the US. The main Occupy website in Argentina is here. In Buenos Aires, the capitol, protesters camped in front of the Spanish Embassy for several days. Several marches and protests are being organized in Buenos Aires and other cities. November 11 (11.11.11) was a key date for Latin America and beyond where Occupy protesters marched in several countries including Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina.
While it meets increasing opposition in American cities, the Occupy movement continues to spread in Latin America through social media and despite the lack of coverage in mainstream media. Each day, more and more "occupy groups" appear online and try to organize people on Facebook. Besides spreading their agenda — both global and local — the groups are focusing on holding debates and workshops after which people are called upon to act.


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World adamant on not changing position over Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
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Mar 25, 2019 9:55 pm GMT+3
An Israeli soldier stands next to signs pointing out distances to different cities, on Mount Bental, an observation post in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that overlooks the Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing. (REUTERS Photo)
Many international bodies and governments have warned of a 'new wave' of escalations in the Middle East after U.S. President Donald Trump signed on Monday a proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, with condemnations and criticisms pouring from across the globe.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was one of the first to respond to the controversial move, saying it was "clear that the status of Golan has not changed."
Trump — who in 2017 took the even more momentous step of recognizing disputed Jerusalem as Israel's capital — called the Golan declaration "a long time in the making," in a dramatic shift from decades of U.S. policy. Netanyahu had pressed for the recognition of his country's sovereignty over the area for months.
"The U.N.'s policy on Golan is reflected in the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and that policy has not changed," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Israel seized the strategic land from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.
A U.N. Security Council resolution adopted unanimously by the 15-member body in 1981 declared that Israel's "decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction, and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and without international legal effect." It also demanded Israel rescind its decision.
The Syrian regime blasted Trump after he recognized Israel's claim to sovereignty over the Golan Heights, saying it was a flagrant violation of international law and the U.N. Charter.
Calling the decision Trump's "election gift" to Netanyahu, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said the United States' recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights was unacceptable and asserted that Ankara will take action against the decision, including at the United Nations.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait - all regional allies of Washington that host American troops - on Tuesday criticized the move by President Donald Trump to recognize Israel's 1981 annexation, and said the territory was occupied Arab land.
"It will have significant negative effects on the peace process in the Middle East and the security and stability of the region," a statement on Saudi Arabia's state news agency SPA said.
It described Monday's declaration as a clear violation of the United Nations Charter and of international law.
Kuwait and Bahrain said they regretted the decision while Qatar called on Israel to end its occupation of the Golan Heights and comply with international resolutions.
Moscow said it feared "a new wave of tensions" in the Middle East following the controversial decision.
Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the move "ignores all international procedures" and would "only aggravate the situation."
"Unfortunately, this could drive a new wave of tensions in the Middle East region," Zakharova said in a radio broadcast, according to Russian news agencies.
The U.K. also joined the condemnations, saying it has "no plans" to change its position on the sovereignty of the occupied territory.
"The U.K. views the Golan Heights as territory occupied by Israel," said a statement, underlining that international law, including the U.N. Charter, prohibited the "annexation of territory by force."
"We did not recognize Israel's annexation in 1981 and have no plans to change our position," the U.K. Foreign Office added.
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit slammed Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, saying the decision does not change the area's status, according to a statement published by Egypt's state news agency MENA.
Meanwhile, Lebanon said the U.S. decision violated international law and undermined the prospects for peace.
In a statement carried by the NNA state news agency, the Lebanese foreign ministry said the move "violates all the rules of international law" and "undermines any effort to reach a just peace."
"The Golan Heights are Syrian Arab land, no decision can change this, and no country can revisit history by transferring ownership of land from one country to another," it said.
The ministry said attempts by Israel to expand its territory by way of "force and aggression" would only isolate the Jewish state.
Amnesty International, on the other hand, called the decision "irresponsible, reckless and yet another example of the Trump Administration violating international law and consensus by condoning Israel's illegal annexation."
Eric Goldstein, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said Trump seems to want to "drive a wrecking ball" through international law that protects the people who live in "occupied Golan Heights." He said it could embolden other "occupying states to double down on their own land grabs, settlements and plunder of resources."
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Review: Essence Volume to the Max - Cherry Colors - Cosmetics Heaven!
Today my review is about a cheap mascara from Essence. I really like most of the stuff from this company, not just because they are affordable, but also because the quality of most of the products are good!
The package is interesting, pretty classy (I love the red color of it!) and shiny. It doesn't remind me of a cheap mascara.
The mascara has an interesting brush. I didn't expect it when I bought it! It's shaped as a regular (well double) comb.
I feel that it's really easy to apply it because of the comb shape. It lengthens the lashes nicely, adds SOME volume (not too much) and it separates the lashes nicely. So it doesn't clump!
Let's start with my bare lashes. They aren't thick, have a slight curve to them and I could call them mediocre. Nothing special.
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I wish it would come in a waterproof version and maybe that it could give me some more volume. But after all, it's perfect for an everyday look ;)!
After all, I'm pretty satisfied with it!


The last time I picked up lunch at Chef Yu, I predicted that, despite the mediocre food, I'd be back again.
Today was that day: Driven by the need for a reasonably-priced lunch menu, with a spicy tofu dish, within ultra-close proximity of my office, that takes cards for orders less than $10 — well, Chef Yu was the only place I knew of within a few-blocks radius that met the bare-minimum requirements, the most important being the spicy tofu dish.
Which is how I wound up at Chef Yu — again. No Szechuan Gourmet, I'm sure, but the "tofu Szechuan style" was an improvement from the cloyingly-sweet lemon chicken I had last time. The silken tofu floated buoyantly in the dark red sauce, very savory, a little smokey-flavored with a touch of heat (not enough for my taste), and stirring in the brown rice gave the dish an enjoyable stew-like consistency.


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Honest Sex Science
by Stanton L. Jones October 2012
Some people can change their sexual orientation with the help of therapy. So said Robert Spitzer—"considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry," in the New York Times' description—in his (in)famous 2003 study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, appropriately titled "Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual Orientation?"
Spitzer addressed this question by conducting structured telephone interviews with two hundred individuals recruited specifically for their self-reported success at orientation change years after they had gone through some form of psychological therapy. He concluded that "there is evidence that change in sexual orientation following some form of reparative therapy does occur in some gay men and lesbians."
He has now recanted his study. "I believe I owe the gay community an apology for my study making unproven claims of the efficacy of reparative therapy," he concluded in a published letter to the editor of the Archives, further apologizing to anyone who had "wasted time and energy undergoing some form of reparative therapy" because they believed him. It was, declared the editors of the New York Times, the "welcome end of a pseudotheory." Our recent study and his are the only two peer-reviewed studies of orientation change published in mainstream scientific journals in the last two decades. Should we follow Spitzer with a recantation of our work?
We don't think so. We concluded, like Spitzer, based on our findings, that some people can experience meaningful change in sexual orientation. Published in 2011 in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, our study, "A Longitudinal Study of Attempted Religiously Mediated Sexual Orientation Change," included several significant improvements over Spitzer's methodology.
Most notably, instead of gathering recollections about change many years after the fact, a method regarded as vulnerable to self-deception and bias, we gathered data on individuals annually as they went through the process of attempting to change. In addition to administering the type of structured interview used by Spitzer, we repeatedly administered standardized psychological inventories and measures widely regarded as valid over the six- to seven-year period of the study, urging participants to tell the truth about their experience.
We studied a population of ninety-eight men and women who used the Christian ministry group Exodus to assist their change effort. As a group, our participants manifested significant shifts away from homosexual attraction and, to a lesser degree, toward heterosexual attraction.
About one third of the final participants abandoned their attempt to change, with many embracing a homosexual identity. About one third embraced sexual abstinence rather than a homosexual identity. About one fourth had moved away from a predominantly homosexual orientation and reported having satisfactory heterosexual relationships. One participant claimed at first to be a "success" story but later repudiated his report and embraced a homosexual identity, while another had given up on change but later claimed to have successfully changed his orientation to heterosexuality.
In light of the common claim that attempts to change sexual orientation are often profoundly harmful, we administered at every assessment a standardized measure of psychological distress. Distress did not increase with continuing commitment to the process, and few subjects reported extreme levels of distress, suggesting that distress and harm are not inherent in the attempt to change sexual orientation. To be sure, harm may indeed occur when incompetent or inhumane methods are utilized, or when vulnerable minors are treated unprofessionally. On the whole, however, our evidence suggests that some people experience meaningful shifts in sexual orientation and that the attempt to change is not intrinsically or necessarily harmful.
Of course, studies of such complex issues always suffer from limitations. Five hundred subjects would have been better than ninety-eight; following them for twenty years would have been better than six to seven. We cannot claim that our ninety-eight individuals represent all individuals who want to change sexual orientation, or even everyone who seeks change through Exodus' programs. And our study is limited by the conceptual ambiguities of measuring sexual orientation: Psychologists disagree strongly about how exactly to construe the meaning of the terms heterosexual and homosexual and how best to quantify the complex and shifting nature of sexual attraction and experience. But the reports of change still appear striking and meaningful.
Why are we not inclined to follow Spitzer in his recantation? It is important to note, first, that Spitzer has apologized for the study but his data remain. There is an enormous difference between changing one's interpretation of scientific data, even through apology or recantation, and removing the data from the scientific canon by a retraction.
The editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Kenneth Zucker, rightly noted this distinction in an interview with Psychology Today and published Spitzer's letter under the title "Spitzer Reassesses His 2003 Study" rather than retracting the study. He also made clear that Spitzer's article underwent multiple rounds of careful, professional peer review, contrary to reports in the New York Times.
Second, the core of Spitzer's change of heart: his loss of confidence that "the participants' reports of change were credible and not self-deception or outright lying." Embellishing Spitzer's words, the Times reporter Benedict Carey explains that "simply asking people whether they have changed is no evidence at all of real change. People lie, to themselves and others. They continually change their stories, to suit their needs and moods."
Is self-report trustworthy? Much of psychology and medicine is premised on the validity of self-report. We depend on people to tell the truth about their depression, their headaches, their delusions, their nausea. Even some sophisticated brain-imaging studies depend on the validity of people's self-report about what they are thinking as their brains are being imaged. It would be the foolish physician who forbade patients to speak and only looked for "verifiable measures."
The critics themselves assume that self-reporting can be trusted. They accept without independent verification the self-reports of those who say they did not change their sexual orientation and those who claim they were harmed by the attempt.
In a review of efforts to change sexual orientation, an American Psychological Association task force in 2009 insisted on rigorous experimental standards for evidence in support of the possibility of changing sexual orientation but accepted uncritically subjects' reports that trying to change their sexual orientation resulted in high levels of harm. The report, "Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation," even recommended "gay affirmative therapy" despite its acknowledging that no rigorous empirical evidence supports that approach's efficacy or safety.
We do not believe that reports of change can be summarily dismissed. We also are concerned about how Spitzer's recantation is being interpreted. His apology is being treated as evidence that sexual orientation "cannot be changed," as he himself insisted in a recent interview. But if a researcher concludes that his study cannot prove that successful change is possible, that study cannot prove that change is impossible either. It is one thing for Spitzer to admit to having growing doubts about his own study's design, but it is quite another to declare that orientation cannot change.
Perhaps he was drawing upon broader evidence, as did the position statement released within weeks of Spitzer's apology by the Pan American Health Organization, stating that sexual orientation "cannot be changed" and citing the 2009 American Psychological Association task force. That task force, however, in fact concluded only that if we consider as relevant evidence only studies that use the most tightly defined methods (thus omitting any psychological-intervention methods that defy tight procedural specification), then there is insufficient evidence to establish that sexual orientation can be reliably changed.
By these restrictive standards, there is an absence of compelling evidence. But we must be cautious about what the absence of such evidence means. The lack of such narrow kinds of evidence does not mean that we know that sexual orientation "cannot be changed." Ignorance does not yield absolute conclusions.
Much of the science surrounding sexual orientation in general and efforts to change sexual orientation in particular is yet inconclusive. Some may be able to change their sexual orientation to a degree, but many, perhaps the majority, cannot and will not. People may be harmed when practitioners, professional or religious, do not properly protect human welfare, but harm does not appear inevitable.
Scientific caution, not premature closure, is in order in interpreting even these limited conclusions. We believe, for instance, that meaningful change in sexual orientation away from exclusive homosexuality toward heterosexuality is less frequent, on average, than the general proportions that occurred in our study population as described earlier. We express this caution based on our sense that our research population was not fully representative of all who initially contact Exodus for help but rather tended to draw those with greater motivation and resources and so were more likely to change.
But change sometimes occurs. It has long been rumored that after the papal session in which he delivered his forced recantation of his hypothesis that the earth moves about the sun, Galileo muttered, "And yet it moves." There are people who say, "And yet I have changed," including participants in Spitzer's and our studies. We ought to listen.
Stanton L. Jones is provost of Wheaton College, and Mark A. Yarhouse is Rosemarie Scotti Hughes Chair of Christian Thought in Mental Health Practice at Regent University. Their work can be found at exgaystudy.com.
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Here at Patriot Air, we offer many services assisting homeowners with their air conditioning system's warranty requirements of doing annual routine maintenance on their current indoor comfort system.
Homeowners are typically unaware that the warranty agreement which comes with an air conditioner usually states that the system be serviced annually by a qualified technician and that the coils be cleaned as part of that routine service. Every home warranty company is aware of this disclosure in the warranty agreement's terms and conditions and typically, we've found, they exploit it quite a bit.
Most third-party insurance companies typically attribute air conditioning failures to lack of proper preventive maintenance. They are implying that the homeowner ignored the terms and conditions of the factory warranty agreement that came with the air conditioner, and therefore are not justified in insuring item or honor their contractual obligation to cover the particular repair. In several cases we've found, if you do not have receipts for chemical coil cleanings on both your evaporator and condenser coils on an annual basis, you run the risk of being denied coverage for repairs.
If you ever have a catastrophic failure of the unit (i.e. compressor failure, hole in the coil) you are running the risk of being denied coverage due to lack of proper preventive maintenance. We WERE in the networks of several home warranty companies including American Home Shield, Old Republic Home Warranty Protection, First American Home Buyers Protection, Colonial Home Warranty, Total Protect Home Warranty, Choice Home Warranty, Home Warranty of America, and we ran across this all the time. This is why we are no longer vendors in these companies network. We refuse to be caught in the middle of home warranty company denying claims to people who bought a policy. The homeowner blames it on us for "getting them" denied. They get frustrated at us and complain to BBB so therefore, we only work with home warranty companies in certain instances.
We are proudly here to fulfill those requirements on your behalf and keep your system in good working order.
Contact Patriot Air Inc today for all of your heating and cooling needs.


It was Wednesday 25th November 2015. An ordinary chilly Octobers Wednesday with extraordinary, chilling circumstances. My morning started off as usual: up at six, eat some soggy, over-milked Weetabix before work at seven. See the day out. Or so I planned.
Waking up that morning, I felt just fine. It was a normal day. Squinting my morning eyes, I open my condensation lined Velux roof light and looked out across the sloping, picturesque fields that surrounded our Rainford home. Much like my life at that point, all I could see was a wash of white fog sweeping across the landscape, obstructing the truth.
Today I'd be working on a home extension a mere stones-throw away from home in Rainford, St Helens. It couldn't have been more than 300 seconds drive from my house and my old stomping ground, Rainford High School. The road we were working on was a very familiar one, for when I was at school, a few of my mates and I used to get out of school at dinner time –legally, of course– and head down this quiet, horseshoe shaped road to the Chinese chippy in the village – a privilege supposedly only given out if you lived in Rainford.
As the temperature hadn't yet dropped below 5 degrees, I'd opted to wear my grey builder's shorts that were rolled up at the knees, a grey, slim fitting T shirt with the company logo embroided on and a gunmetal grey softshell jacket- again, with the company logo on. On my feet I wore these dust covered, black leather boots that made me look a bit like Chris the clown, what with my scrawny legs and slender ankles.
Dull clothing for a dull day.
By early afternoon, all muscly stiffness had worn off, bar one part of my body: my left leg. For some reason I couldn't seem to shake it. I had this straining ache giving me grief and, for the past few days, the other work lads had noticed I'd developed a faint limp. I had no other reason to believe it was anything other than the on/off golf injury that'd been lurching around for the past few months.
Summer 2015 – Working as a bricklayer in my family business.
Come mid-afternoon, I'd pretty much completed my main tasking for the day. Our structural work was more or less done and now, there was a collection of left over materials that needed loading onto the wagon for disposal off site. Knowing how to stack a flat back wagon properly, I figured it best to get rid of the big bulky stuff first. I spotted some timber; a fairly long length of cumbersome 4 x 3 wall-plate. I bent over, picked the thing up and plonked it on my right shoulder, balancing it carefully before walking off.
As I walked down the side of house to the wagon at the front, I could feel my body- namely, my leg –struggling to cope with the added weight and stress the load placed on my frame. It wasn't even that heavy either, which got me thinking 'what's all this about?'. Continuing on, whistling as I went, I reached the side of the wagon and slowed to peer over the side for space to dump the timber. There was a space round the other side of the wagon, but I'd have to walk round the back and onto the road to get there. Luckily we weren't on a busy road so it wasn't a problem. I continued on down the side of the wagon, balancing this piece of unused 4 x 3 on my bony shoulder. One step. Two steps. Three steps. I turned to the left, swinging the timber round to walk between the back of the wagon and the front of the other smaller van we had parked up behind it.
With my left boot first, I stepped off the kerb, my heel hitting the tarmac to take the weight. I started wobbling and for a brief moment life paused as if the earth had just stopped spinning. I felt my knee bending and my calf muscle and Achilles tendon contracting desperately to stabilise. My knee continued to bend past 90 degrees as I began to fall to the ground. Instinctively, I grabbed whatever I could with my left arm whilst keeping hold of the timber with the right. SMASH! My left knee impacted the ground heavily firing a 9.9 magnitude earthquake up my thigh and into my back. Then, a shower of pain.
''ARRGHH. F*CK, F*CK, F*CK!'' I screamed, tensing all 43 facial muscles in sheer agony. I gritted my teeth and closed my eyes for a brief second trying to stay calm. The timber clattered a hollow drum as it hit the solid tarmac and flung off my shoulder into the middle of the road. A split second later the adrenaline kicked in, speeding angry bursts of the hormone deep through my central nervous system. Without thinking, I got up off the floor and started hopping around, throwing a few more swear words here and there across the quiet village road. I looked around. Had anyone even noticed? Seemingly not.
The pain continued increasing if ferocity, sinking its teeth deeper into my damaged left knee. I looked down at my knee. Nothing. There wasn't even anything to look at other than a few loose road chippings stuck to my knee cap. I stood for still for a minute holding onto the wagon as I felt my face turn red with the overdose of pain. I started to feel dizzy when all of a sudden I heard a horrible noise: a car engine. I looked up wearily to my right to see a silver car in transit down the road. ''For f*cksake!!'' I exclaimed. ''Now I'll have to move the timber out the road''.
I hopped a few steps away from the wagon and bent down to grab a-hold. Through excruciating pain I somehow got a grip and rose to my feet once more. As I started dragging the timber across the road, Mark and Mick came running out, with Mark taking the timber off me and out of the road.
With eyes bulging and worry written all across their faces: ''What's 'appened?'' they prompted simultaneously.
''I've just stepped off the kerb and me' leg just went''I replied through gritted teeth.
I sat down on the ground for a minute, my heart racing and my breath gasping through thin air as I did so. Mark and Mick were asking me questions but it was all just white noise. I was stuck in a state of shock and didn't know how to escape. A few minutes passed then the lads helped me up and into the driver's side of the smaller van parked behind the wagon. ''Just have a rest for a few minutes, alright'' Mark said. I nodded in agreement. A few minutes went by before I decided I would go home. The lads politely offered to drive but I stupidly refused, claiming ''I'll be alright, I'm only up the road''. With that I started the engine and the van came to life.
Only up the road, I thought. How hard can it be?
Minutes later, I got home after a pain filled drive up the road. Hobbling out the van and down the side of the house, I felt my heart slow and the adrenaline drop away a little. I opened up and walked in with my dusty boots and dirt covered work clothes. The house was spotless, but right now, I couldn't of given two sh*ts anyway. I wasn't stopping to take my boots off. I went straight for the Jacobs cracker box – not for the crackers, but for the painkillers in there. I spotted some tramadol – the Porsche of the prescribed drugs world – I had left over from when I had kidney stones 11 months earlier. I figured I could justify taking such golden drugs at a time like this. 30 minutes later my pain started to ease and a burden of fog was lifted from in front of my eyes. Something had gone seriously wrong, and I didn't even need to persuade myself that I needed urgent help. Thinking I'd done my ligaments and not knowing where to start, I booked a private osteopath for the following day.
What now? I could only wait and see tomorrow.
MY CANCER IS STABLE – WHAT NOW?


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Apple's upcoming sci-fi series casts Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, and Sarah Jones
Jesse Hollington August 15, 2018
Apple appears to be building up its cast for its upcoming Ronald D. Moore sci-fi drama, Variety reports, with the addition of Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, and Sarah Jones to the roster. Apple reportedly placed the order for the new series late last year, which is set in a world where the global space race never ended, and considering Ron Moore's extensive sci-fi experience with shows ranging from Star Trek to Battlestar Galactica, the new series is expected to be one of the company's flagship productions.
Joel Kinnaman, who is known for "Suicide Squad" along with network shows such as "House of Cards" and "The Killing" along with the Netflix series "Altered Carbon" and the Amazon series "Hanna" will be playing Edward Baldwin, one of the top NASA astronauts, Michael Dorman and Sarah Jones have been cast as Gordo and Tracy Stevens, a prominent NASA couple. Dorman is currently starring in the Amazon series "Patriot" and previously starred in the Australian shows "Wonderland" and "The Secret Life of Us" along with the film "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales." Jones is known for her roles in the Western drama "Damnation" and the "LA Confidential" pilot earlier this year.


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Vanessa Bryant Testifies in Trial Over Kobe Bryant Crash Photos
LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Bryant had found a measure of closure in February 2020 after the emotional, tribute-rich memorial for her late husband, the basketball star Kobe Bryant.
Then, days later, Ms. Bryant learned that sheriff's deputies had privately shared photos of victims' remains at the site of the helicopter crash that killed Mr. Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, along with seven other people.
Ms. Bryant bolted from her home, she testified in a Los Angeles federal courthouse on Friday.
"I felt like I wanted to run down the block and just scream," she said. "But I couldn't escape. I can't escape my body."
Mr. Bryant's death at age 41 stunned sports fans around the world. He was an N.B.A. icon who set records, led his Los Angeles Lakers to five championships and spent his entire 20-year playing career with the same team.
To Ms. Bryant, he was a doting "girl dad" with big dreams for their family, she said on Friday as she answered questions for the first time in a trial stemming from her lawsuit against Los Angeles County.
Ms. Bryant described feeling helpless, violated and betrayed at the thought that images of her loved ones were being circulated publicly. Wearing a black jacket over a black dress, her long, dark hair sweeping over her face, she paused frequently to cry.
She is seeking damages for emotional distress that she says resulted from officials from the Los Angeles County Fire and Sheriff's Departments carelessly sharing photos from the crash.
In the lawsuit, Ms. Bryant accused Los Angeles County, as well as the Sheriff's and Fire Departments and individual employees, of negligence and invasion of privacy. She said in court filings that close-up pictures of the remains "were passed around on at least 28 Sheriff's Department devices and by at least a dozen firefighters," including at a bar, a gala where Los Angeles County Fire Department communications staff received an award, and on social media.
Mr. Bryant and Gianna were among nine people killed when their helicopter crashed into a hill near Calabasas, Calif., as they were traveling from Orange County to a youth basketball tournament in a suburb northwest of Los Angeles. The crash was most likely caused by the pilot's "poor decision" to fly at excessive speeds in foggy weather, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The trial centers on a public showdown between two titanic forces in the nation's second-largest metropolis. On one side is Ms. Bryant, a fierce keeper of her husband's legacy and the mother of three surviving daughters with Mr. Bryant. On the other is Sheriff Alex Villanueva, whose agency has been enmeshed in enough scandals that the county board of supervisors is asking voters for the ability to remove him from office.
Ms. Bryant has attended each day of the trial, which began on Aug. 10 in the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. She has arrived and left each day in a black SUV outside the building, surrounded by photographers and television crews who are not allowed to record proceedings inside U.S. District Judge John F. Walter's seventh-floor courtroom.
Joining Ms. Bryant in the lawsuit is Christopher Chester, whose wife, Sarah, 45, and daughter, Payton, 13, died in the crash. Two other victims' families settled for $1.25 million each last year.
Ms. Bryant has said that she suffers from severe emotional distress over the idea that the photographs could appear online, and that her other daughters with Mr. Bryant — Capri, 3; Bianka, 5; and Natalia, 19 — could see them.
The county sought to counter those claims by showing images from her Instagram account, where she has 15.5 million followers, in which she was on vacation and dressed up as Cruella de Vil from the "101 Dalmatians" Disney films. She mentioned "revenge" as a stage of grief. Judge Walter allowed the county on Friday to introduce the Instagram posts as evidence.
Los Angeles County and law enforcement officials have acknowledged that photos were shared but said that they were soon deleted and never entered the public domain. Attorneys for the county have said that taking photos of crash scenes is common practice and necessary for investigations.
Ms. Bryant said she first learned about the photos when a friend told her about a February 2020 story in The Los Angeles Times.
Lawyers for Ms. Bryant argue that the Sheriff's Department deleted the images as part of a "cover up" and that deputies were told they could avoid discipline by doing so. One of Ms. Bryant's attorneys questioned Chief Jorge Valdez of the department this week about why deputies would destroy evidence that could be useful for the N.T.S.B. investigation. Mr. Valdez testified that it was OK for deputies to delete the photos because the inquiry was administrative, not criminal.
At the close of Tuesday's testimony, Mr. Valdez surprised courtroom attendees when he directed remarks at Ms. Bryant and Mr. Chester. "I apologize," Mr. Valdez said.
In an earlier deposition, Ms. Bryant described arriving at the sheriff's station in Malibu, near the crash site, where "no one would answer" her questions. When the sheriff himself came to confirm the deaths, she said that he brought a publicist with him, whom Ms. Bryant asked to leave the room.
Ms. Bryant said that she told Mr. Villanueva explicitly, "If you can't bring my husband and baby back, please make sure that no one takes photographs of them. Please secure the area."
Earlier in the trial, Raphael Mendez Jr., who was a patron at the Baja California Bar and Grill in Norwalk in January 2020, testified that a bartender there walked over to his table and said that a bar regular who was a sheriff's deputy had shared graphic photos from the crash site. That prompted Mr. Mendez to file a complaint through the Sheriff's Department website.
"I was in disbelief," Mr. Mendez testified last week. "I was disappointed, disgusted and angry."
Attorneys for Ms. Bryant and Mr. Chester questioned Los Angeles County Fire Department officials about the incident at the gala.
Sky Cornell, a captain with the agency who was a public information officer at the time, testified that his boss, Tony Imbrenda, showed photos of human remains to a small group during the event's cocktail hour.
Mr. Cornell testified that he later told investigators that he didn't think viewing the images at a public event was a big deal.
Jonathan Abrams and Douglas Morino contributed reporting.
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Tastes of Paradise by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants and Intoxicants by Wolfgang Schivelbusch is a fascinating socio-historical study that offers revealing insights into the role various spices, "drugs" and particularly beverages have played in (mostly) Western culture. While the section on spices is brief, it forms a sound introduction to the three major "tastes" Schivelbusch examines: coffee, tea and tobacco (others do get a small platform, such as opium, beer, ale and gin). Chocolate gets a brief glimpse, but it's mainly the role the non-alcoholic and hot drinks of tea and coffee, and concomitantly tobacco, and how their production and consumption – one that changed from medicinal to pleasurable – reshaped society that's the primary focus of this book.
Rather then simply understanding coffee, tea and tobacco from the commercial point of view (though Schivelbusch does examine this as well as the relationship between East and West in terms of trade and production), his main concern is to look at how coffee and tea functioned ideologically and socially in terms of promoting a specific protestant and middle class view of the world.
Turning from the beer and ale of the Middle Ages and Renaissance working classes and the inebriated state that often followed a day of drinking (remembering that water was not drunk to quench thirst in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance – it was dangerous – so beer/ale was not only drunk to stave off thirst but to provide much needed calories for workers and soldiers – he discusses the popular "beer soup" as an example), the rising middle classes, the bourgeoisie, embraced coffee and tea as "their" drink. As Schivelbusch argues, "Coffee… spread through the body and achieved chemically and pharmacologically what rationalism and the Protestant ethic sought to fulfil spiritually and ideologically. With coffee, the principle of rationality entered human physiology…"
So, not only did coffee become a class-based drink, it was also associated with a religious and aesthetic viewpoint as well.
Not at first. At first, coffee, tea and chocolate drinking were regarded as part of the cult of luxury and only available to those with the means to consume them. It was only later that it became the drink of rationality and conviction and thus spread through the middle classes – familiarity breeding not contempt but desire. Likewise, with tea. Chocolate didn't fair so well being regarded a bit more suspiciously and as a drink associated with idleness and decadence.
While women in public consumed none of the drinks when they first became available, over time tea particularly became very domesticated and even feminised. Chocolate drinking also became something women did in private, and bore connotations of sexual liberty and naughtiness, partly to do with the idea it had aphrodisiac qualities. Women who drank it were viewed with a jaundiced and unrespectable eye – something that changed when chocolate became mass-produced and women were used in advertising and targeted as the major market.
Schivelbusch also discusses the role of coffee houses and chocolate ones too, especially in England. How they became places where, unlike taverns and inns, conversation was sober and robust. Men of business (not aristocrats necessarily) could meet and discuss daily news, politics and generally gossip. Various coffee houses became so renown for this, they also had strong ties with either the newly emerging Whig or Tory parties. They developed reputations as hotbeds of potential coups. They also became closely identified with particular types of business – for example, Lloyd's Coffee House was the place where maritime folk met – sailors, captains, sea-venturing business people met, especially those who functioned as underwriters and insurance brokers. Of course, Lloyd's eventually evolved into the now famous Lloyd's of London. Men chose carefully which coffee house they entered, and thus the establishment and the beverage served all became strongly associated with self-definition.
While Shivelbusch's research is wide-ranging and impressive, it's his discussions of the social role of human consumption of substances like beer, tea, coffee, chocolate, gin, opium and tobacco that are this book's strength. Written in the 1970s, so much of what it uncovers is so relevant – the rituals around alcoholic drinking, the bar as a public meeting place where strangers can converse and rounds are bought and what this all signifies – is all very strong. It's when he discusses various opiates, other drugs and even tobacco in the contemporary setting that the age of the book shows, but this should not deter a reader. Instead, it's easy to fill in the gaps which demonstrates how important all these things – drugs, stimulants and various other intoxicants – liquid and non-liquid – are in society even today. We all have an opinion on their role and how and where they should be consumed and by whom.
A gem of a book that was an easy and fascinating read. Highly recommended.
Tags: Beer, chocolate, coffee, gender, gin, hashish, history, identity, opium, politics, social spaces, Tastes of Paradise, tea, tobacco, Wolfgang Schivelbusch


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Robin Paulsson
comedian screenwriter television presenter
Åkarp, Burlöv Municipality, Sweden
Paulsson made his debut as a stand-up comedian in 2001 and as a television presenter in 2006 with his own talk show Robins on Swedish television SVT. He became known for his imitations of football player Zlatan Ibrahimović. He has also participated in Stockholm Live and in the radio shows Deluxe and Hej Domstol. Paulsson has written the script for the SVT comedy series Kvarteret Skatan and Extra allt. He has participated in TV4"s comedy series Parlamentet. Paulsson has written for the comedy show Time Out on TV3 and participated in the show on one occasion. He has participated in the TV3 comedy show Extra Extra, which is hosted by Måns Möller. During 2007 he participated in the TV4 comedy show Tack gode gud (Thank you god). Paulsson presented the Svenska idrottsgalan 2011 (Swedish Athletes Gala) on 17 January 2011, and the Svenska idrottsgalan 2012 on 16 January 2012. On 29 September 2014, Paulsson and Sanna Nielsen were announced as the hosts of Melodifestivalen 2015, the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 to be held in Austria.
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Robin Paulsson is a Swedish stand-up comedian, screenwriter and television presenter.
Paulsson made his debut as a stand-up comedian in 2001 and as a television presenter in 2006 with his own talk show Robins on Swedish television SVT. He became known for his imitations of football player Zlatan Ibrahimović. He has also participated in Stockholm Live and in the radio shows Deluxe and Hej Domstol. Paulsson has written the script for the SVT comedy series Kvarteret Skatan and Extra allt.
He has participated in TV4"s comedy series Parlamentet.
Paulsson has written for the comedy show Time Out on TV3 and participated in the show on one occasion. He has participated in the TV3 comedy show Extra Extra, which is hosted by Måns Möller.
During 2007 he participated in the TV4 comedy show Tack gode gud (Thank you god). Paulsson presented the Svenska idrottsgalan 2011 (Swedish Athletes Gala) on 17 January 2011, and the Svenska idrottsgalan 2012 on 16 January 2012.
On 29 September 2014, Paulsson and Sanna Nielsen were announced as the hosts of Melodifestivalen 2015, the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 to be held in Austria.
In 2003 he received the award Roligast i Skåne (en:Funniest in Skåne (at Sveriges Radio"s P3 Humorfestival and in 2004 he became "Årets Nykomling" (Newcomer of the Year) at the Svenska Stand-up-galan.


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        final JLabel lbl = new JLabel();
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For SS19, Mr Demna Gvasalia explored Mr Cristóbal Balenciaga's hallmark tailoring techniques, but the Creative Director said he wanted to make pieces that are wearable for today. These navy trousers are cut from thick cotton-twill and have a comfortable, straight-leg fit. They're the type of style you can team with just about everything. Shown here with Balenciaga sweater.


INDIANAPOLIS — If you are rushed to a hospital in an emergency, is your complete medical record available to those caring for you? Will they know all medications you have been prescribed and whether you are taking them as directed? Does your primary care physician know your complete medical history?
According to clinician-informaticians of the Regenstrief Institute, the answer to these questions is almost always "no." Not having complete health information available often results in subpar care and can endanger patients. But how can we effectively assemble a patient's medical history, lab test results, medications and other information stored in various electronic medical records (EMRs) installed at different healthcare organizations?
To help solve this complex problem, the Regenstrief Center for Biomedical Informatics is pilot-testing a new, efficient method for compiling healthcare information electronically. Regenstrief has used this method, known as the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standard (FHIR for short, pronounced "fire"), to merge data from individual electronic medical records with those stored in the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), Indiana's common framework for health information exchange.
"What we are working on is a first and could have a huge impact on patients whose health information is distributed across multiple electronic systems — probably the vast majority of the people in the United States," said Titus Schleyer, D.M.D., Ph.D., a Regenstrief Institute investigator and Clem McDonald Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Indiana University School of Medicine. "Using FHIR, we can combine information about a specific patient stored in systems developed by different vendors and installed in different healthcare institutions. This brings us much closer to a 'lingua franca' for health information, so clinicians finally have complete information available about their patients.
Regenstrief's Center for Biomedical Informatics is focused on the mission "better health through informatics." The center develops health information technology solutions to generate knowledge about health, disease and treatment; help clinicians make optimal decisions; empower patients; and inform healthcare policy. Areas of expertise include clinical applications, computer-based decision support, data mining, advanced analytics, healthcare information standards and global health.
The center has developed and advanced one of the nation's first electronic medical record systems, one of the country's first computerized provider order entry systems, and a health information exchange which has made Indiana the most health-wired state in the country and a national model for health information exchange. These applications and tools are widely recognized for their roles in improving quality of care, efficiency of healthcare delivery, reducing medical errors, and enhancing patient safety.


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Сотейник (от названия блюда и метода приготовления соте,  — «прыгать, скакать») — сковорода с высоким бортом и, как правило, одной длинной ручкой, применяющаяся для приготовления вторых блюд: тушения мяса, пассерования овощей и так далее.

Сотейники бывают высокими и мелкими, коническими и цилиндрическими, ёмкостью от 0,5 до 15 литров.

Сотейники используются для приготовления соусов и кремов (маленькие), для тушения, подсушивания или томления уже готовых блюд перед их непосредственной подачей на стол и для отваривания тестяных изделий (самые большие сотейники), где бывает нужным встряхивание готовящихся блюд.

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From birth to the end of life, it is the milestones of the journey that inhabit our memories. These are not only locales but also the edifices in which they occur.
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Q: Sending a prop using sync and binding it using v-model in child I'm working with BootstrapVue to get this Accordian like component to work. Part of that entails setting the visibility of a particular item.
Ie,
const obj = {
   someData: [...// properties here],
   visible: false
}

And this gets fed down to an Accordian component like so:
<Accordian :visible.sync="obj.visible" />

And inside Accordian:
props: {
  visible: {
    type: Boolean
  }
}

THEN... I need to attach it to a b-collapse html tag using v-model because that is how it is suggested on their site. But that throws me this very long list of 'don't modify props directly error'
<b-collapse v-model="visibile" />

Any idea what I am doing wrong?
EDIT: And an important part I forgot to mention, the error only occurs on initial page load. Afterwards the accordian's are fine to use and work (most of the time).

A: You can't use v-model with a prop because props are meant to be readonly.
Instead, bind <b-collapse>.visible to the visible prop, and emit the update:visible event with the event data whenever <b-collapse>.input event occurs. The update:visible event updates the parent's visible prop via the .sync modifier.
<b-collapse :visible="visible" @input="$emit('update:visible', $event)">

demo

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Алекса́ндр Анато́льевич Дуби́нский (; ) — украинский журналист, телеведущий, блогер, ютубер, депутат Верховной рады Украины IX созыва, ранее — член партии «Слуга народа». Заместитель председателя Комитета Верховной рады по вопросам финансов, налоговой и таможенной политики. Член конкурсной комиссии по отбору независимых членов наблюдательных советов государственных банков.

Известен прежде всего, как ведущий программы «Гроші» на телеканале 1+1. Также до 2021 года имел свой YouTube-блог, в котором обсуждал политические темы.

Биография
Родился в Киеве в еврейской семье. После школы поступил в техникум налоговой академии. По его словам имеет также два высших образования: Института пищевых технологий по специальности «бухгалтер и аудит» и Киевского политехнического института «инженер-электрик».

С 18 лет работал на киевском радиорынке. К 23 годам имел несколько точек. Тогда же, в 2004 году, пришёл в «Экономические известия», где уже через год был спецкором. Полностью оставил рынок в 25 лет.

В 2009 году был назначен главным редактором еженедельного журнала «Kyiv Weekly», который издавался медиахолдингом «Эволюшен Медиа» на трех языках: украинском/английском и русском/английском. Параллельно работал хроникёром на Шустер Live.

На протяжении 2007—2009 годов получал награды за журналистскую деятельность — как лучший финансово-экономическим журналист Украины по результатам конкурса . В 2008 году был признан лучшим банковским журналистом по версии НБУ.

В 2010 году перешёл на 1+1 на должность редактора и креативного продюсера. Участвовал в работе над несколькими проектами.

По данным расследования издания «» в 2013 году Дубинский занимался распространением ложной информации против Евромайдана по заказу ближайшего окружения тогдашнего министра доходов и сборов Александра Клименко.

В 2014 году стал ведущим программы «Гроші», неоднократно побеждавшей на конкурсе Телетриумф. Дубинский пришёл на замену Жану Новосельцеву, который ушёл из-за несогласия с политикой редакции телеканала.

В мае 2017 года начал вести видеоблог на YouTube.

По данным издания  в 2017 году Дубинский купил румынское гражданство через фирму, сделавшую ему поддельные документы о наличии румынских корней.

Политическая карьера
На досрочных парламентских выборах 2019 года баллотировался в народные депутаты Украины по мажоритарному округу 94 (Обуховский и Васильковский районы Киевской области). Своей целью декларировал стремление помешать пройти в Раду Игорю Кононенко, бизнес-партнёру Порошенко. 9 июня пришёл на съезд партии «Слуга народа», где оглашали список кандидатов на выборы от партии. Там же предложил себя, как мажоритарщика от имени партии, что тут же было утверждено. Победил на своём округе, набрав 40,94 % голосов.

Член партии «Слуга народа», председатель Киевской областной организации.

Согласно данным гражданской сети «ОПОРА», которая проанализировала голоса народных депутатов за период работы парламента, Дубинский чаще всех голосует вразрез с позицией своей фракции.

В качестве народного депутата его часто приглашают на ток-шоу по актуальным темам разные украинские информационные телеканалы: НАШ, NewsOne, ZIK, 112 Украина, 1+1 и так далее. 15 мая 2020 года Евгению Кравчук и других коллег из фракции «Слуга народа» возмутило, что несмотря на полученное Дубинским приглашение — его не пропустили в эфир ток-шоу «Свобода слова» Савика Шустера на телеканале «Украина», когда темой было состояние энергетической отрасли.

11 января 2021 года в США ввели санкции против семи граждан Украины, в том числе Александра Дубинского. Министерство финансов США полагает, что эти люди связаны с депутатом Андреем Деркачём, которого в США считают «российским агентом» и обвиняют в попытке повлиять на президентские выборы в США в 2020 году. Против самого Деркача санкции были введены ещё в сентябре 2020 года. Дубинский эти обвинения отверг. По его мнению должностные лица в США воспользовались «лживыми доносами аферистов».

28 января YouTube из-за санкций США удалил авторский канал нардепа.

2 февраля 2021 года был исключён из фракции «Слуги народа»(за — 198 членов, 29 — против, 19 — не голосовали). До этого, по данным Украинской правды, президент Владимир Зеленский безуспешно пытался лично уговорить Дубинского самостоятельно выйти из фракции. После этого партия решила рассмотреть вопросы о дальнейшем пребывании нардепа во главе Киевской областной организации и о его членстве в партии. На этом фоне 28 января в поддержку депутата и своего журналиста выступил телеканал «1+1», сделавший не объявленный заранее «отбеливающий» эфир своего ток-шоу «Право на власть» (ведущая программы Наталья Мосейчук не пыталась придерживаться нейтралитета, критиком нардепа из всех гостей оказался лишь один человек).

Личная жизнь
В разводе с Лесей Цыбко. Детей нет.

Уголовные дела
В начале 2018 года член СНБО Олег Гладковский обратился в СБУ с требованием открыть дело по обвинению Дубинского в государственной измене. Причиной стала публикация в телепрограмме «Гроші» документов, согласно которым Гладковский занимался бизнесом в России. СБУ открыла дело, но по обвинению о ложном сообщении угрозе безопасности граждан.

Скандалы и критика
27 января 2019 года Александр опубликовал пост в Facebook о том, что на съезде Порошенко, который проходил в тот день, был «шанс пустить туда газ». Пост вызвал шквал критики у поклонников власти и у самой власти. В частности первый вице-спикер Верховной рады Украины Ирина Геращенко написала, что это «за гранью» отметив, что пост сделан в годовщину освобождения Освенцима. В результате, в эфире телепрограммы на канале ZIK, где присутствовал Дубинский, 5 человек (представители власти и два человека, которых связывают с пятым президентом Украины Петром Порошенко), поставили в прямом эфире ультиматум, что они уйдут, если не уйдёт Александр. В итоге все 5 ушли.

11 ноября 2019 года на сайте Bihus.info вышло журналистское расследование относительно собственности Дубинского. По данным издания семья Дубинского владеет двумя десятками автомобилей и двумя десятками квартир. Часть имущества при этом записано на жену Лесю Цыбко, а часть на маму Александра. Сам Дубинский не стал опровергать появившуюся информацию, но отметил, что всё имущество им было приобретено ещё до того, как он стал депутатом, а деньги были заработаны честно. Наличие у матери Maserati Дубинский объяснил тем, что «мама любит скорость» (). На Украине это выражение стало мемом.

В своём Telegram Дубинский часто приписывает заявления и информацию неизвестным источникам, пытаясь избежать ответственности.

По словам депутата Верховной Рады Украины VIII созыва Сергея Лещенко, Дубинский в 2016 году встречался с Рудольфом Джулиани, личным адвокатом Дональда Трампа Сам Дубинский подтвердил эту встречу, заявив, что на ней обсуждались вопросы расхищения украинского бюджета представителями старой власти при участии международных корпораций.

По информации СМИ, 2 и 3 мая 2019 на сайте dubinsky.pro Александра Дубинского появилась информация о введении платы за размещение электронных записей на сайте Минздрава о прохождении медицинского осмотра, а также о бюджетных средствах на повышение квалификации медработников, которые якобы были направлены на проект, реализованный общественной организацией «Защита патриотов». В Минздраве назвали эти сообщения ложными, отметив, что Александр Дубинский использовал в своих материалах фейковый документ. И. о. министра здравоохранения Ульяна Супрун подала в суд на Александра Дубинского для защиты чести, достоинства и деловой репутации. 8 ноября 2019 Соломенский районный суд Киева своим решением отказал в удовлетворении иска Ульяны Супрун к Александру Дубинского о защите чести, достоинства, деловой репутации и опровержении недостоверной информации.

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Выпускники Киевского политехнического института
Выпускники Национального университета пищевых технологий
Блогеры Украины
Телеведущие канала «1+1»
Члены партии «Слуга народа»
Народные депутаты Верховной рады Украины IX созыва
Журналисты Украины


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According to One More Thing, these picture came from a "trusted Dutch source with connections in China." The leaked photos arrive just days after a rumored iPhone 6 front panel surfaced. The iPad Air is already a very thin and sleek device, but thinner is better right?
There's no way to tell if these are parts that legitimately belong to the next iPad Air. It's definitely possible that they are just elaborate clones, but One More Thing seems to be confident in their source and has decent track record of reliable Apple rumors. We won't know for sure until later this year when Apple's next generation iPad Air is rumored to launch alongside a massive Q3 rollout.
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