The Senate Standing Committee on Finance has questioned the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on whether it has been concealing information regarding alleged corruption and money laundering in the Multan Metro Bus case.
Senator Saleem Mandviwala, chairman of the committee, wrote a letter to the SECP on Friday, reprimanding them for delaying their response to the questions raised by the Senate body. SECP has also been accused of deliberately concealing relevant details which the committee had asked for.
"Irrelevant papers have been enclosed but not those asked for by the committee," stated the letter, referring to a 200-page reply which the SECP had submitted to the committee.
Mr. Hijazi, however, had abstained from informing the National Accountability Bureau, the Federal Investigation Agency, the finance ministry or the Punjab government regarding the case.
It has been reported that many senators in of the Standing committee were of the opinion that most of the details in the 200-page reply sought to divert attention away from the issue in question — why the SECP had not taken action in this regard for the last nine months.
Read More: Metro Bus Multan scandal turning into Shahbaz's Panamagate?
The alleged Multan Metro Bus corruption case was referred to the SECP by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) in December 2016, however, the commission has remained tight-lipped over the matter since then. Now suspended SECP chairman Zafar Hijazi had not even taken the Ministry of Finance into confidence over the matter.
The matter came to the fore during investigations against Chinese company Jiangsu Yabaite Technology Co. Ltd (Yabaite), which is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, China. The CSRC had picked up on undue foreign inflows into the company's accounts.
Yabaite had informed the Chinese regulator that it had received the amount after completing some work on the Metro Bus project in Multan which had led the CSRC to approach the SECP in December 2016 seeking assistance in obtaining information and certain documents.
Mr. Hijazi, however, had abstained from informing the National Accountability Bureau, the Federal Investigation Agency, the finance ministry or the Punjab government regarding the case. In fact, the papers had not even been shared with SECP commissioners for almost seven months.
Then supposedly after pressure from the Punjab government, the SECP forwarded the case to FIA on Aug 30, 2017.
The Punjab government appears to have taken the matter seriously on the grounds that media reports regarding the case had damaged Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's reputation.
Previously, the case had become controversial after a segment of the news media questioned Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif's involvement in the scandal. Secretary Supreme Court Bar Association Aftab Bajwa alleged that Shahbaz had received kickbacks from the project to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
The Senate committee has asked the SECP to provide the complete set of documents and correspondence exchanged with the CSRC, including emails.
The media speculation provoked a fiery reaction from the flamboyant Punjab CM who lashed out against ARY News channel and also named three popular TV personalities on the network during a press conference where he dismissed allegations against him and called the TV pundits liars.
A member of the Senate standing committee said that had the SECP referred the case to the relevant agencies in a timely manner, the accused would have been arrested. At present, the FIA and Punjab police are looking into the matter and investigating the involvement of contractors.
The letter written by the Senate standing committee probed the SECP for the names of officers who had dealt with and kept custody of the documents received from the CSRC and whether they had ever conducted investigations into white-collar crimes.
The Senate committee also enquired regarding the reasons why only three people (a lawyer, the head of international affairs, and now suspended SECP chairman Mr. Hijazi) had access to those documents when neither of them had any prior experience in investigating such crimes.
The Senate committee is now demanding that the SECP provide the complete set of documents and correspondence exchanged with the CSRC, including emails.
The Senate body said that copies of all working papers annexure, minutes of relevant commission meetings and complete information/replies in all aspects should be provided to the committee within seven working days as the SECP has already considerably delayed the matter.
The deadline of seven working days ends on Nov 6.


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#pragma once

typedef struct {
    unsigned char opcode;
    unsigned char extra;
    unsigned short length;
} msg_hdr_t;

// unless otherwise specified, extra is always zero.

#define MSG_OKAY    0x00
// length must be zero.
// server indicates command was successful.

#define MSG_FAIL    0xFF
// length may be nonzero, if so data is a human readable error message
// extra may be nonzero, if so it is a more specific error code

#define MSG_LOG     0xFE
// data contains human readable log message from server
// server may issue these at any time

#define MSG_GO_AHEAD    0x01
// length must be zero
// server indicates that command was valid and it is ready for data
// client should send MSG_SEND_DATA messages to transfer data

#define MSG_CMD     0x40
// length must be greater than zero
// data will contain an ascii command
// server may reject excessively large commands

#define MSG_SEND_DATA   0x41
// client sends data to server
// length is datalen -1 (to allow for full 64k chunks)

#define MSG_END_DATA    0x42
// client ends data stream
// server will then respond with MSG_OKAY or MSG_FAIL

// command strings are in the form of
// <command> ':' <decimal-datalen> ':' <optional-arguments>

// example:
// C: MSG_CMD "flash:32768:bootloader"
// S: MSG_GO_AHEAD
// C: MSG_SEND_DATA 16384 ...
// C: MSG_SEND_DATA 16384 ...
// C: MSG_END_DATA
// S: MSG_LOG "erasing sectors"
// S: MSG_LOG "writing sectors"
// S: MSG_OKAY
//
// C: MSG_CMD "eraese:0:bootloader"
// S: MSG_FAIL "unknown command 'eraese'"
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Q: Python : efficient bytearray incrementation How to iterate all possible values of bytearray of length = n in Python ?
in worst case n <= 40bytes
For example, iterate for n = 4 :
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000010

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11111111 11111111 11111111 11111110
11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111

A: You can use itertools.product:
In [11]: from itertools import product

In [15]: for x in product('01',repeat=4): #for your n=4 change repeat to 32
    print "".join(x)
   ....:
0000
0001
0010
0011
0100
0101
0110
0111
1000
1001
1010
1011
1100
1101
1110
1111

A: Inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/a/15538456/1219006
n = 2
[[[i>>k&1 for k in range(j, j-8, -1)] for j in range(8*n-1, 0, -8)]
 for i in range(2**(8*n))]

You'll need to run this on Python 3 for large n cause xrange doesn't support big ints.
As a generator:
def byte_array(n):
    for i in range(2**(8*n)):
        yield [[i>>k&1 for k in range(j, j-8, -1)] for j in range(8*n-1, 0, -8)]

>>> i = byte_array(4)
>>> next(i)
[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]
>>> next(i)
[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]]

Or if you don't want them grouped it's simpler:
[[i>>j&1 for j in range(8*n-1, -1, -1)] for i in range(2**(8*n))]

Equivalent generator:
def byte_array(n):
    for i in range(2**(8*n)):
        yield [i>>j&1 for j in range(8*n-1, -1, -1)]

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Серена Вільямс була чинною чемпіонкою, але її перемогла в 3-му колі Даніела Гантухова.

Зрештою переможницею турніру стала Амелі Моресмо. Це був її перший титул на турнірах Великого шолома. Її суперниця по фіналу, третя сіяна Жустін Енен-Арденн, знялась за поступаючись 0–2 у другому сеті, програвши перший сет. Енен страждала від судом у животі через неправильне вживання засобів проти хронічної травми плеча. Для Моресмо це була третя суперниця на цьому турнірі, яка знялась з гри.

Кілька місяців по тому Моресмо і Енен-Арденн зіграли матч-реванш у фіналі Вімблдону 2006, у якому Моресмо перемогла в трьох сетах.

На цьому турнірі відбулось повернення триразової переможниці Відкритого чемпіонату Австралії Мартіни Хінгіс після трирічної перерви від WTA Туру. Також це був перший турнір Великого шолома, на якому в основній сітці виступила майбутня 1-ша ракетка світу і дворазова переможниця Відкритого чемпіонату Австралії Вікторія Азаренко.

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| RD1= Перше коло
| RD2= Друге коло
| RD3= Третє коло
| RD4= Четверте коло
| RD1-team01= В Вільямс
| RD1-seed01=10
| RD1-score01-1=6
| RD1-score01-2=0
| RD1-score01-3=7
| RD1-team02= Ц Піронкова
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-score02-1=2
| RD1-score02-2=6
| RD1-score02-3=9
| RD1-team03= К Верле
| RD1-seed03=Q
| RD1-score03-1=7
| RD1-score03-2=2
| RD1-score03-3=0
| RD1-team04= Л Гренвілл
| RD1-seed04=
| RD1-score04-1=5
| RD1-score04-2=6
| RD1-score04-3=6
| RD1-team05= Л Домінгес Ліно
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-score05-1=2
| RD1-score05-2=61
| RD1-score05-3=
| RD1-team06= В Руано Паскуаль
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-score06-1=6
| RD1-score06-2=77
| RD1-score06-3=
| RD1-team07= Л Реймонд
| RD1-seed07=
| RD1-score07-1=64
| RD1-score07-2=65
| RD1-score07-3=
| RD1-team08= О Лиховцева
| RD1-seed08=18
| RD1-score08-1=77
| RD1-score08-2=77
| RD1-score08-3=
| RD1-team09= А Суґіяма
| RD1-seed09=26
| RD1-score09-1=4
| RD1-score09-2=3
| RD1-score09-3=
| RD1-team10=

Секція 3

Нижня половина

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| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-score06-1=6
| RD1-score06-2=6
| RD1-score06-3=
| RD1-team07= Л Поус-Тіо
| RD1-seed07=
| RD1-score07-1=6
| RD1-score07-2=4
| RD1-score07-3=5
| RD1-team08= А-Л Гренефельд
| RD1-seed08=22
| RD1-score08-1=2
| RD1-score08-2=6
| RD1-score08-3=7
| RD1-team09= М Бартолі
| RD1-seed09=27
| RD1-score09-1=6
| RD1-score09-2=6
| RD1-score09-3=
| RD1-team10= Е Фрейзер
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-score10-1=3
| RD1-score10-2=2
| RD1-score10-3=
| RD1-team11= Р Вінчі
| RD1-seed11=
| RD1-score11-1=7
| RD1-score11-2=6
| RD1-score11-3=
| RD1-team12= М Шонессі
| RD1-seed12=
| RD1-score12-1=5
| RD1-score12-2=4
| RD1-score12-3=
| RD1-team13= М Юань
| RD1-seed13=Q
| RD1-score13-1=6
| RD1-score13-2=6
| RD1-score13-3=
| RD1-team14= М Цінк
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-score14-1=4
| RD1-score14-2=2
| RD1-score14-3=
| RD1-team15= Ю-Дж Чо
| RD1-seed15=
| RD1-score15-1=3
| RD1-score15-2=0
| RD1-score15-3=
| RD1-team16= К Клейстерс
| RD1-seed16=2
| RD1-score16-1=6
| RD1-score16-2=6
| RD1-score16-3=
| RD2-team01= Ф Ск'явоне
| RD2-seed01=15
| RD2-score01-1=6
| RD2-score01-2=4
| RD2-score01-3=6
| RD2-team02= К Кастаньйо
| RD2-seed02=
| RD2-score02-1=1
| RD2-score02-2=6
| RD2-score02-3=3
| RD2-team03=

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Borrassà was the leader of one of the most successful painting workshops in Catalonia. The two figures in this fragment were probably part of the banco (base) of a larger altarpiece dedicated to Saint Peter. The upper panels of the altarpiece would have depicted stories from Peter's life and death, and his martyrdom was visually supported by the lower saints from our fragment, who had also died for their devotion. On the left, we see Saint John: his camel pelt marks him out as a prophet who lived in the wilderness, removed from society. He holds a scroll reading "Ecce agnus Dei qui tollit," or "Look, this is the lamb of God who takes away [the sins of the world]." In the original banco, Saint John would have been pointing toward another panel depicting the crucified Christ (the "lamb of God"). Saint Barbara, dressed in splendid robes, holds a palm frond, a sign of her martyrdom, and also a tower with three windows, symbolizing the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, a concept central to the Christian faith.
Private Collection, Barcelona, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1933.
X-radiograph(s) of "Saint John the Baptist and Saint Barbara"


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COMPASSION IN A PILL? HARD TO SWALLOW.
On March 28, 2015 By olscribblerLeave a comment
by Geoff Olson
A pill to make you more compassionate and more willing to hand out spare change to the needy? Scientists have taken a big step in that direction, according to UC Berkeley News Centre of a study published in Current Biology.
Research subjects were asked to play a simple game of financial sharing. After taking the drug tolcapone, they divided money with strangers in a fairer, more egalitarian way than they did after taking a placebo.
Beyond the intriguing fact that there's a caring n' sharing substance with the word "Capone" in it, the research promises a better understanding of "the interaction between altered dopamine-brain mechanisms and mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia or addiction," states the UC Berkeley press release.
"Our study shows how studying basic scientific questions about human nature can, in fact, provide important insights into diagnosis and treatment of social dysfunctions," said Ming Hsu, a co-principal investigator and assistant professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Any sentence containing the words "treatment of social dysfunction" and "school of business" immediately catches my attention. Sounds like someone's blue-skying a lucrative scheme to turn compassion-fatigued citizens into blissed-out Boddhisattvas.
If so, this kind of thinking goes way back. "Scientists plan for peace with a pill," declared a headline in a March 17, 1967 edition of the Observer. Dr. K.E. Moyer of Pittsburgh University insisted that human aggression could be treated by pill, and that brain scientists were "on a threshold similar to that on which the atomic physicist stood in the early 1940s."
The same year as the story in the Observer, author Arthur Koestler enthusiastically predicted the mass manufacture of a pill to turn "Homo maniacus into Homo sapiens."
Unfortunately, dreams of social engineering through drugs have often resulted in nightmares, from the narcotized dissidents in Soviet gulags to the '50s-era victims of the CIA-backed psychiatrist and buzzkill Dr. Donald Ewan Cameron, who put unknowing Canadian patients into insulin-induced comas to erase their memories and "rebuild" their psyches.
The notion of mass-medicating people into institutionally acceptable behaviour has leapt from the pages of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World into U.S. classrooms and study halls. A mind-boggling 19 per cent of high school-age boys — ages 14 to 17 — in the U.S. have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperativity Disorder, according to a 2013 report from the U.S. Centre for Disease Control. This has been a highly profitable development for the makers of Ritalin.
And now we're hearing about oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). The psychiatric bible DSM-5 defines ODD as "a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behaviour, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months as evidenced by at least four symptoms from any of the [defined] categories and exhibited during interaction with at least one individual who is not a sibling."
Official symptoms include, "often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules," and "often argues with adults." Teenage rebellion, in other words.
When ODD coexists with ADHD or depression, a long-term prescription for mood-altering drugs is usually not far behind.
There is an irony to mention about the mental health treatment of adults. Clinical trials using psychoactive substances like MDMA, psilocybin and ibogaine — which reportedly can produce lasting health benefits after a small number of sessions — are on the rise, but still tightly restricted. I submit one reason researchers have found great difficulty in obtaining past federal approval and funding for such promising substances is because the preliminary findings threaten the accepted model of mental health management through long-term medication/addiction.
I rather doubt that anyone connected with the Berkeley study believes poverty and other social ills can be seriously addressed by the random charity of tolcapone-tweaked citizens. While society is dominated by the dopamine-spiking elements of money, power, and status, a solution probably isn't forthcoming in a big pharma blister pack, particularly if the effect of empathogens runs counter to consumerism — which depends on a reliable mass supply of anxiety, alienation and discontent.
Arthur Koestler was a great one for smashing idols and ideologies. And he was wise enough to ask of his own proposal for a peace pill, "Who is to control the controls, manipulate the manipulators?" Exactly the sort of question you'd expect from someone with oppositional defiant disorder.
The Vancouver Courier, Mar. 27
SORRY, I SHOULD CALL THEM "NONAGENARIANS"…
NOPE, IT'S NOT AN ONION HEADLINE
On March 28, 2015 March 28, 2015 By olscribbler3 Comments
It's from the CBC, where apparently all the digital copy editors are 15-year old boys.
Men are going nuts over Lululemon's 'anti-ball crushing' pants
At last LuLemon addresses that burning question from men: how do I arrange my testicles in such a way they don't get crushed by my chain mail leggings from The Society for Creative Anachronism?
Translation: where do I find pants to make my junk look a smuggled fruit basket?
Can't believe I'm even paying attention to this story (he said, shifting uncomfortably in his Levis).
SOCIAL ENGINEERING THE WRONG WAY
OF NUTTY BRANDS AND BABY NAMES
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A French court has barred a couple from naming their daughter Nutella, according to a report in The Guardian Weekly. The court ruled that a girl named after the popular hazelnut chocolate spread would suffer from "mockery or disobliging remarks" by others. In response the parents lopped off the prefix, leaving her as Ella.
The word "brand" is of Old Norse derivation. In this medieval Viking language, "brandr" meant "to burn." Over time, the word was used to describe the searing of cattle, convicts and slaves with red-hot irons. So it's not wrong to say that the French legal system stepped in — or overstepped, depending on your point of view — to keep the kid from being burned.
What were the parents thinking? Who knows. The late psychologist B. F. Skinner, major domo the now-discredited school of psychology known as behaviourism, conceived of animal minds as black boxes: all you could do was record were the inputs and outputs. His assessment of human beings wasn't much higher.
Stimulus: a sweet new baby girl. Response: naming her after an insulin-spiking spread.
Let's not rule out the possible role of drugs. Perhaps weed played a part in the naming of Wisconsin teacher Marijuana Sawyer, and alcohol in the naming of ESPN Montana after a sports broadcasting network and football star. In comparison, 26-year old Linda Dagless seem a model of sobriety. The UK woman named her fourth daughter after the Swedish furniture maker Ikea.
Too bad Ms. Dagless didn't look to the company's signature scented candle (Flärdfull) or duvet cover (Grönkulla) for baby-naming inspiration. Oh well, perhaps little Ikea will grow up to marry someone named Allen Key.
Unfortunately, such brand-crazed parents may be harbingers as much as outliers. In Mike Judge's 2008 black comedy Idiocracy, American citizens of the future are named after company products, among them "Frito," "Velveeta," and "Beef Supreme." It doesn't seem a stretch, considering there's already a real-world American rap star who took the stage name Ludacris, an alteration of the synonym for ridiculous.
What's in a name? Plenty. Big firms are very protective of their brands and logos — and south of the border, corporations have the legal status of personhood. A 2010 legal decision (The U.S. Supreme Court vs. Reason Itself) ruled that because corporations have the right to free speech under the First Amendment, there can be no restrictions on financing U.S. political campaigns. Corporations can now carpet bomb candidates of their of choice with obscene amounts of filthy lucre.
Contrast this with a U.S. federal decision in 2014, when lawyers for the Obama administration declared that people detained at Guantánamo Bay prison are not "persons" protected by the U.S. Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
So in the Bizarro World of America, corporations are persons while some people are not. Needless to say, prisoners subject to "indefinite detention" — many deemed innocent of terror activities — don't have the opportunity to rebrand themselves into retroactive personhood for public relations purposes. (I can imagine a social media campaign to free "Ahmed Mountain Dew" and his fellow brandees, and I'm not being entirely facetious.)
Personhood in everyday life is being eroded by changing concepts of privacy. Also, there's significant pressures on people to professionally "brand themselves" through social media sites. They are coached to think of themselves as mini-corporations complete with "mission statements" and other marketing-related bumpf.
The thesis of Joel Bakan's 2004 film The Corporation is that if the average big corporation is a person, then its behaviour suggests a psychopathic personality. In other words, we're not talking about ideal models for personhood, let alone baby names.
Consider the final words of the notorious mass killer Gary Gilmore — "Let's do it "—just before his death by a Utah firing squad in 1977. Dan Wieden, the founder of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, "realized that a slight tweaking of Mr. Gilmore's last words might make a good slogan for athletic gear," according to a 2009 report in the New York Times. Hence Nike's "Just Do It" campaign.
That's right: Nike's "Just Do It" tag line was inspired by the last words of a mass murderer. Branding-wise, naming a child after a chocolate hazelnut spread seems like chump change in comparison.
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TRANSIT PLEBISCITE: HOLD YOUR NOSE AND VOTE NO
The more I examine the barrage of claims and counterclaims about local transit, the less the upcoming plebiscite seems a yes/no option than a lose/lose proposition.
Eric Chris is a Australian-born chemical engineer living near UBC. In one of his heavily hyperlinked emails to local media, Chris recalled how smoothly trafficked flowed in Vancouver during the four-month long transit strike in 2001.
This runs counter to claims about expanded bus service reducing road congestion. Chris cites a 2009 paper by Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner from the University of Toronto department of economics. "The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US Cities," concluded that "the provision of public transportation has no impact on vehicle kilometres traveled."
The transit advantages were offset "by an increase in driving by current residents; an increase in transportation intensive production activity; and an inflow of new residents."
In other words, automobile drivers eventually max out any newly available road space, particularly when new transit infrastructure is accompanied by increased urban residential development.
"Transit moving people who don't drive and who really depend upon transit to go about their daily lives in their immediate community provides a valuable public service, and I truly do support it," writes Chris.
What he and many others reject is Vision Vancouver's template of developer-led urban growth, pegged to the shoddy performance of an unelected body tasked with megaproject-friendly transit expansion. (The cost of the farcically buggy Compass Card program has swelled from $100 million to $191 million, and we still haven't seen the bottom of that particular sinkhole.)
When urban growth models are slanted toward the desires of wealthy offshore investors and local developers, transit form tends to follow civic function. The long-term costs to the taxpayer balloon along with property values.
According to a 2014 property tax report on new homes, 2,243 detached homes in the Vancouver west side met the wrecking ball in a three-year period. Meanwhile, local dwelling options for younger middle-class residents are literally shrinking down to laneway houses, cramped stacking units in the sky, and much-ballyhooed "tiny homes."
Still, the worker bees have to get into and around Metro Vancouver's buzzing urban hives somehow, no?
"There is plenty of proof over the last two decades that hub to hub transport by TransLink is merely a ploy for businesses to make money from building the concrete intensive SkyTrain lines and concrete intensive condos along the SkyTrain lines," insists Chris.
This argument is echoed by Charles Menzies, a UBC professor of anthropology. A passage from his blog deserves to be quoted at length:
"Fundamentally the transit referendum is about subsidizing the real estate development industry of the Lower Mainland. It is a wealth transfer from the majority to the elite minority who are raking in big dollars by revalourizing land through the development of public transit. This is not a new plan, it's one used by developers historically and the world over: use the mechanisms of the state to take money from the majority to fund the profit making ventures of the minority."
Menzies continues: "UBC, for example, wants a subway so that they can realize the highest rate of return off the land they have. The same goes for each of the town centres created by the regional plan and the expansion of public transit. The push for transit in Metro isn't about ecology, sustainability, or making our communities nicer: it's about using public means to facilitate the accumulation of profit by a minority of developers. It's a form of social theft. So when I get my paper mail in ballot I'll vote no to social theft, no to the developer tax."
Voting yes won't result in ideal light rail transit (think European-style electric trams), a civically more attractive option than additional polluting nonelectric buses, revenue-gobbling SkyTrain expansion, and bored tunnel infrastructure courtesy SNC Lavalin or some other bidding behemoth. (SNC Lavalin is reeling from criminal investigations and a 2013 World Bank decision to debar it after allegations of bribery in a Bangladesh bridge development).
Given the binary option of a tax for transit infrastructure attached to out-of-control urban development in Metro Vancouver, this plebiscite begs for public rejection. The next best thing is to hold your nose and vote no.
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Django Admin is a powerful tool for managing data in your app. However, it was not designed with summary tables and charts in mind. Luckily, the developers of Django Admin made it easy for us to customize.
There are a lot of tools, apps and packages out there that can produce very nice looking dashboards. I personally found that unless the product is an actual dashboard, most of the time all you need is a simple summary table and a few charts.
Second, and just as important - no dependencies.
If all you need is a little boost to your admin interface this approach is definitely worth considering.
We are going to use a made up Sale model.
To harness the full power of Django Admin we are going to base our dashboard on a the built-in ModelAdmin.
A proxy model extends the functionality of another model without creating an actual table in the database.
Because we are using a standard ModelAdmin we can use its features. In this example I added a date_hierarchy to filter sales by creation date. We are going to use this later for the chart.
The context sent to the template is populated by the ModelAdmin in a function called changelist_view.
Call super to let Django do its thing (populate headers, breadcrumbs, queryset, filters and so on).
Extract the queryset created for us from the context. At this point the query is filtered with any inline filters or date hierarchy selected by the user.
If we can't fetch the queryset from the context it's most likely due to invalid query parameters. In cases like this Django will redirect so we don't interfere and return the response.
Aggregate total sales by category and return a list (the "metrics" dict will become clear in the next section).
The markup is important. To get the native Django look we need to render tables in the same way Django renders them.
A dashboard is not complete without a chart so we are going to add a bar chart to show sales over time.
To build our chart we are going to use plain HTML and some good ol' CSS with flexbox. The data for the chart is going to be a time series of percents to use as the bar height.
For those of you not familiar with flexbox, that piece of CSS means "draw from the bottom up, pull to the left and adjust the width to fit".
That's looking pretty good, but... Each bar in the chart represents a day. What will happen when we try to show data for a single day? Or several years?
A chart like that is both unreadable and dangerous. Fetching so much data will flood the server and generate a huge HTML file.
If the user filtered a single day each bar will be one hour (max 24 bars).
If the user selected a month each bar will be one day (max 31 bars).
If the user selected a year each bar will be one week (max 52 bars).
More than that and each bar will be one month.


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Appealing to the Syrian authorities to engage with the Special Envoy
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Thank you very much Mr President. Thank you to the Special Envoy and your team. The work you do remains absolutely vital, however hard pounding it is on the ground.
I'll start if I may. Mr. President where the Special Envoy started. We had a big debate about this earlier in the week, so I won't be rehearsing those points. But I think the fact that the indiscriminate use of force continues ought to worry everybody on the Council. There are violations of the Geneva Conventions and International Humanitarian Law going on. I asked a number of questions. Those questions remain unanswered. I look to the Russian General's Statement. The questions are still unanswered. So I will return to them at the next Humanitarian Briefing. I wanted to, on this particular section, echo what the Special Envoy said: his appeal for all parties to stabilize the situation and implement Resolution 2245, including the nationwide ceasefire. And I think we need to keep that goal right at the forefront of our minds.
I will also take this opportunity to echo the US Representative on what we heard from the Syrian Representative in the Idlib session. We've discussed in this Council length of statements and the working methods, so this isn't the time to rehearse that. But I think Mr President, it does mean that we need another discussion about it. But I did want to pick up on the point about attacking Humanitarian workers; their jobs are dangerous enough. And they do these jobs because recognized institutional services, or a country's own services, are not able or not willing to help. And therefore, as I said in the earlier session, they deserve our protection as well as our thanks.
Turning to the political process Mr President, I hope the Special Envoy knows that he has the United Kingdom's full support. We're very interested in the contact group being able to take place. I think it's a necessary first step in trying to make faster progress on 2254. So, I hope that all people who the Special Envoy is trying to bring together would approach that in the spirit of constructiveness and good faith. We support his efforts on the UN-led Geneva process. It is the only legitimate forum. We welcome the holding of the meeting in Geneva. It's necessary, but not sufficient. But we also need progress on the ground, as he said. I hope the G20 will be able to discuss it and find a way forward. None of this is to detract from the fact that we support the political process being Syrian owned and Syrian led with UN facilitation. But I think the Special Envoy is absolutely right to say that progress can't be made without that sort of facilitation.
I think there still is a very big question about the Syrian government's commitment to the political process. Because month after month, we see the prevarications on the Constitutional Committee continue. If progress can't be made, then I really do agree with the US representative, and would encourage you Special Envoy – and in fact you alluded to this yourself – to try other routes to achieving the political solution set out in Resolution 2254.
We have become – for good reason – we've all become very focused on the Constitutional Committee. But the bigger prize is Resolution 2254 and this includes preparing for nationwide elections observed by the UN, securing the release of detainees and establishing the nationwide ceasefire. And I just wanted to note, that unless there is progress on the ground that is meaningful for ordinary citizens, a political process will not prosper. And this means the Syrian government's stopping the repression throughout the country in former opposition areas that it now controls. It means stopping arbitrary detention, conscription, and discrimination.
We understand Mr President that last week – only last week – the Syrian authorities issued death certificates for over 700 Syrians who died in detention in Hama. And according to reports from Syrians for Truth and Justice, families didn't receive the bodies of their loved ones nor did they receive information about the circumstances of their death or the location of their burials. So this is a really serious hindrance to the people of Syria being able to have confidence in their own future. And there is a real sense Mr President, that the Syrian authorities are holding their own people to ransom. And it also affects and impacts on conditions for the return of refugees. And it fails to create conditions required for a stable economy. Or say that Syria eventually can become a normal country again, it fails to give people the chance to engage in the decisions that govern their lives. And it fails to give them the right to live those lives free of violence and fear. So once again Mr President let me conclude by appealing to the Syrian authorities to come to the table and engage more speedily, more positively with the Special Envoy.
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Budding young lawyers at a Norfolk school are on top of the world after winning third place in the mock trial world championships.
They are the only British school to make the top three list ahead of 28 US schools and five international teams.
Seven Springwood High School students, in King's Lynn, took on the roles of prosecutors, defenders and witnesses in the Empire Mock Trial world championships on November 18, with teacher and team leader Hayley Roberts.
They are Sam Mount, 18, Abbi Peters, 17, Rachel Ampomah, 16, Izzie Russen, 16, Adam White, 16, Elliot Simpson, 17, and Sophie Ward, 16.
After a gruelling four weeks of preparation, the team flew to the Big Apple armed with the knowledge of US law and the backing of numerous supporters - including the High Sheriff of Norfolk James Bagge.
Last year, the team came fourth in the world in the competition and so the pressure was on to top that achievement.
And they even faced drama outside of the courtroom, after the fire brigade were called to rescue another team stuck in the lifts of Manhattan District Court, which delayed first round of 20 trials of the competition.
But the team said they were proud to be placed bronze winners, adding: "It was very hard work at times, along with us all having A-levels to study for along with part time jobs as it meant we did seven-day weeks for four whole weeks.
"However, it was all worth it in the end when we became bronze winners.
"Miss Roberts said that when we come to leaving school, we will be well set up for the world of work.
Mr Bagge, who accompanied the team on their trip to New York, and a former barrister himself, said: "The maturity and intellectual agility of these students cannot be overstated.
To celebrate their success, the legal eagles presented their winning case to legal professionals and dignitaries at Norwich Crown Court before Mr Justice Garnham.


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Arizona State holds off Washington State rally for 83-74 win
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State's grip on a first-round bye in the Pac-12 tournament started slipping.
Once up 17, the Sun Devils found themselves in a tight game as shots clanged and balls ended up in Washington State's hands.
By digging down and pulling it out, Arizona State not only earned that coveted bye, it may have locked up a third straight NCAA Tournament bid as well.
Alonzo Verge scored 20 points, Remy Martin added 18 and Arizona State held off Washington State's late rally for an 83-74 victory on Saturday night.
"We kept fighting to the end and weren't going to let each other down" Arizona State senior Rob Edwards said after his final home game.
Needing a win to get the bye, the Sun Devils (20-11, 11-7 Pac-12) overcame a shaky start by playing well at both ends while building a 17-point lead.
Once the Cougars went to a zone late in the second half, Arizona State started missing shots and turning the ball over. The Cougars (15-16, 6-12) took advantage, going on a 17-2 run and tie the game at 65-all.
The Sun Devils answered.
Edwards hit a corner 3, Verge a jumper and Arizona State hit six straight free throws in the final 30 seconds to earn a coveted first-round bye at next week's Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas.
The win also likely assures the Sun Devils three straight trips to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the early 1960s.
"I can't say 100%, but I imagine we are." Arizona State coach Bobby Hurley said. "We've had a great year, we have a great story, we have one of the most dynamic players in college basketball the rest of the country should get to see -- and Remy wants that stage."
Washington State struggled shooting from the perimeter in a loss to Arizona on Thursday and again couldn't find the deep range, shooting 5 of 25 from the 3-point arc. The Cougars also struggled with center Volodymyr Markovetskyy fighting foul trouble all night.
Tony Miller led Washington State with 21 points.
"To be in that game is a credit to our guys staying with it," Cougars coach Kyle Smith said. "They easily could have quit"
Washington State won the teams' first meeting 62-53 in Pullman after forcing 21 turnovers.
The Sun Devils knew they could earn a first-round bye in the conference tournament with a win in the rematch after UCLA and Colorado lost earlier Saturday.
But Arizona State came out tight, clanking shots from all angles. The Sun Devils opened 4 for 15 from the floor and missed their first six from 3-point range to fall into an early eight-point hole.
Arizona State still managed to keep it close and finally found a rhythm at both ends, using a 17-2 run to go up 21-14. The Sun Devils used another late run, after the Cougars rallied, to go up 40-29 at halftime.
Washington State struggled from the perimeter -- 4 for 17 from 3 -- and with foul trouble in the first half. Markovetskyy was limited to five minutes after picking up three first-half fouls and Noah Williams picked up his fourth foul on a late technical.
"It killed us -- no other way to say it," Smith said.
The Cougars managed to trim Arizona State's lead to five early in the second half, but Markovetskyy picked up his fourth foul and headed back to the bench. The Sun Devils began stretching the lead back out, but Washington State rallied with its run to tie the game with 3 1/2 minutes left.
The Cougars were still within three with a minute left, but Arizona State outscored them 8-2 over the final 55 seconds.
"We always find a way to make it interesting," Verge said.
Washington State made a late push to make a game of it, but heads into the Pac-12 tournament with six losses in seven games.
Arizona State was sharp early, sloppy during Washington State's big run, but is now in position to make the NCAA Tournament three straight years for the first time since 1960-64.
ELLERBY'S STRUGGLES
CJ Ellerby is Washington State's leading scorer this season at 18.4 points per game.
The sophomore had a tough trip to the desert, shooting a combined 6 for 33 overall and 1 for 14 from 3-point range. He had six points on 2-of-19 shooting and missed all 10 of his 3-point attempts against Arizona State.
"He's fine. Shots just aren't falling," Smith said. "He's made a lot of big shots for us, made some good shots against these guys. I felt good about him."
Washington State opens the Pac-12 tournament Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Arizona State has a first-round bye and in the conference tournament.
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Oregon 4-1 2 9-2
USC 5-2 2 11-3
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Oregon State 3-3 3.5 7-5
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California 2-6 5.5 7-8
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Ferguson, a sophomore right-hander at Northwest Mississippi Community College, is listed at No. 198.
A 6-foot-2, 195-pound native of Arlington, Ferguson went 7-2 with a 3.65 ERA and a pair of complete games in 13 appearances last season for the Rangers. In 55.2 innings of work, he struck out 36 against 25 walks while opponents hit .273 against him. He allowed two earned runs or less in six of 10 starts on his way to the Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges (MACJC) Second Team All-State honors.
Ferguson is a University of Memphis signee and chose the Tigers over interest from Alabama, Delta State, Mississippi State, Murray State, Ole Miss, Samford, South Alabama and Southern Miss.
Northwest had four players selected in last year's MLB First-Year Player Draft and is expected to have several more prospects in the mix again this year.
Written by Kevin Maloney, special to the Express; contact him at kmaloney@northwestms.edu. The list of prospects was compiled by Perfect Game USA's Allan Simpson; details at www.perfectgame.org.


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Third Tesla Model S catches fire after crash
by Peter Valdes-Dapena @peterdrives November 7, 2013: 1:04 PM ET
Tesla says it's not aware of any more Model S fires beyond the three crash-related ones that have been reported.
Another Tesla Model S has caught fire after a crash. It's the third widely-reported fire involving one of the all-electric plug-in luxury cars in just two months.
All three fires involved some sort of accident. None of the fires occurred in undamaged vehicles, Tesla Motors pointed out.
The latest fire happened in Tennessee on Wednesday. The first fire happened in Washington State in October and the second was reported to have occurred in Mexico later that same month. A Tesla spokeswoman said the automaker is unaware of any other fires in Tesla cars. There are currently 19,000 Model S cars in use globally, according to Tesla.
"We have been in contact with the driver, who was not injured and believes the car saved his life," Tesla said in a statement. "Our team is on its way to Tennessee to learn more about what happened in the accident. We will provide more information when we're able to do so."
The name of the driver and details of incident were not immediately available.
Tesla (TSLA)'s stock has fallen about 7% Thursday. The company also recently reported disappointing third quarter financial results.
In the first U.S. incident, the car's battery was punctured by a piece of metal lying on the road. The Model S' battery pack lies in the floor of the car. When the battery was punctured it caused a fire that consumed the front portion of the vehicle. The fire did not enter the passenger compartment which is protected by internal firewalls, according to Tesla.
The federal government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration decided not to investigate the Model S for fire safety concerns after that incident. The agency said Thursday that it has not yet determined whether it will investigate following this latest fire.
According to data from the National Fire Protection Association, each year there are about 6,000 passenger vehicle fires resulting from crashes.
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Patricia attended the "Universidad de San Carlos" in Guatemala obtaining her degree in Business Administration. She began her hospitality career as an intern while attending school to obtain her finance degree. Quickly enamored with the hospitality industry, and curious to learn, Patricia transferred to a variety of hotel divisions to gain experience. Her operations experience touched the hotel rooms and food & beverage operations, including the front desk, reservations, housekeeping and banquets. Her passion was always to encourage and support individuals to be and perform their best; thus the Human Resources division was to become her home for the next twenty years.
Patricia's professional career in human resources began at the famous Biltmore Hotel in 1995. Working briefly as a Recruiting Consultant for The Wentworth Company, in 2006, Patricia joined the Westin Long Beach Hotel as their Director of Human Resources. In 2008 and as the Ritz Carlton in Pasadena transitioned to become the current Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa, Patricia accepted the position of Director, Human Resources and subsequently the Director of Quality position. In 2012, She relocated and worked at the current Four Season Resort, Rancho Encantado as their Director of Human Resources. In June, 2013, Patricia joined Executive HR Consulting Group as their Senior Human Resources Consultant.
During her long career, Patricia has had the opportunity to work on-hands with business acquisitions, transitions and divestitures and has strong labor and employee relations in both union and non-union environments. She is an innate trainer with exceptional leadership abilities.
Patricia is bilingual English-Spanish and has translated numerous documents, including employee handbooks and other legal documents; is a current member of SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management), the California Chamber of Commerce, the Burbank Chamber of Commerce and PIHRA (Professionals in Human Resources Association).


THE ART WORLD'S FAVOURITE HEAVY LIFTER GOT INTO THE BUSINESS BY CHANCE, AS MARGO COLE DISCOVERS.
Have you ever wondered how to move a Barbara Hepworth bronze to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park? Or how to get a grand piano out of a fourth floor window? Or how to lift the next controversial artwork onto the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square? Or how to get a sculpture through the doors of a 13th Century cathedral? If so, the answer is likely to be "get Jimmy to do it".
"Jimmy" is James Mackenzie, owner of Wiltshire-based lifting and haulage specialist JA Mackenzie, which has over the past 20 years developed a reputation as the "go to" company for complex moves and lifts – particularly in the art world. Such is his reputation that Mackenzie now works directly for many artists, who talk to him before they start work on a new piece. "They send me drawings or images of their initial models, and I will tell them where they will need to make cuts so that we can lift it and fix it together on site," he explains.
Among the contemporary artists he currently works with are Sophie Ryder, Helaine Blumenfeld and Marianne Heske, and he has also moved works by Henry Moore and Jeff Koons. The clients for these artworks include major UK and European galleries, museums, public authorities, the Royal Family and celebrity art collectors.
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Home Reporting & Editing As these newsrooms shrank, they started working together to uncover corruption
As these newsrooms shrank, they started working together to uncover corruption
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In the fall of 2017, an attorney in Southern California filed a lawsuit against the Redlands Unified School District alleging that teachers and staff there had at least a decade-long history of preying on students.
Joseph Nelson, an investigative reporter with the San Bernardino Sun, called the attorney and asked if he had any documentation to back the lawsuit up. The attorney sent him nearly 2,000 pages of documents.
"That was kind of a windfall from there," Nelson said.
For 15 months, he worked with Orange County Register investigative reporter Scott Schwebke to piece together the information in those documents. The result, "Bad Apple," published last year and led the state to launch an investigation.
"School administrators, teachers and staff in California are required by law to alert authorities to suspicions about sexual abuse of underage students," the project begins. "But in school districts across Southern California, some educators are shirking that duty, choosing to keep things quiet rather than 'ruin lives' of co-workers and suffer the taint of bad publicity. As a result, from Los Angeles to Redlands and Riverside to Torrance, victims of sexual abuse are settling lawsuits with school districts that failed their students, costing taxpayers more than $313 million in the past seven years."
The two veteran journalists did the work while their newsrooms, owned by Digital First Media, continued laying off local journalists. And they did it by working with other DFM newsrooms across Southern California.
"We're not physically in one place," Schwebke said. "We're not like the Spotlight team huddled in a tiny office somewhere. That's good and bad."
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Nelson started working at the Sun in 1999. Schwebke's been at the Register for the past five years. The two live and work 60 miles apart.
Southern California News Group is made up of 11 newspapers, including the Sun, the Register and the tiny Redlands Daily Facts. That paper currently has two reporters, according to its web site.
In early 2018, SCNG newsrooms went through layoffs. Around that time, executive editor Frank Pine created an investigations team that would pull people from different newsrooms to work together.
"When we were reorganizing our newsrooms last year, watchdog journalism was at the top of our list," he said in an email. "This is the kind of reporting that readers expect and deserve from professional news organizations and it is fundamental to our role in society as well as to democracy. It also happens to be the kind of journalism that engages readers on our sites and keeps them coming back."
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Soon, Schwebke joined Nelson and the two started working together to find out what was happening with the Redlands Unified School District. They had nearly 2,000 pages of documents and 100 hours of video.
And they needed them all.
As they reported, five lawsuits were filed. The superintendent refused to talk or meet with them. Teachers were barred from commenting. The district attorney is the former president of the school board. And Redlands is a small community where everyone knows each other, Schwebke said.
"They almost closed ranks when we started this investigation," he said.
The key to seeing the trail of abuse and coverup was piecing together what they found in the videos and documents and finding places where people gave testimony that they later contradicted elsewhere.
Most people wouldn't talk to the two reporters, but they'd already talked, and the reporters had it.
Among their findings: Textbook examples of grooming behavior, years-old warnings, and attempted cover-ups by the district. They also pulled back and look at the bigger picture of sex abuse and the culture of coverups.
In October, SCNG's investigation led the state of California to investigate district administrators. In December, the school district sent out a letter to parents with a new boundaries policy and a list of reforms it implemented in response to the scandal.
Schwebke said he would have liked to see real action from the district quicker, "but it's rewarding to see they're finally taking action."
SCNG's watchdog team is made up of five journalists in all who are spread out over 60 or 70 miles, from Orange County to Redlands to Monrovia to Torrance.
So far, Pine said, it's worked well across newsrooms.
"Collectively, we're able to do reporting that our papers might not be able to do if they were not part of the larger network of publications," he said. "That's good for us, and it's good for our readers."
Nelson and Schwebke probably met in person less than six times while they worked on the series, Nelson said, but they collaborated using emails, texts, messaging and Skype. They planned and shared documents, decided who would do what, and worked with their editor, who is based in Torrance.
The key was getting the documents.
"We got our editors on board early, too," Schwebke said, "which really helps out."
They both worked on other stories but carved out time for the investigation a few hours at a time. They stayed with it and stayed focused.
"Our business model may face unprecedented challenges, but the public needs and wants good journalism perhaps more now than ever before," Pine said. "It's up to us to provide that and to build new business models around it."


Thank you very much for an amazing tour in Incredible India. All of us thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The entire trip went very smoothly; not a single glitch. For me it was great to be back in India and for the others, the trip blew their minds. The hospitality at every hotel, the guides and your reps, the people, the children of India and all the sights from the Taj Mahal to the Aarti ceremony on the Ganges. Everything was superb. Thank you very much and if people ask me, I will definitely recommend your company and 'when' I come back for my fourth trip, I will certainly get in touch with you. So thank you again. Namaste.
This is a small email to let you know that we really enjoyed our travel, and to thank you for your excellent work. We think this is a really nice itinerary with many places of interest. Your organization was very good and your guides, drivers and representatives were friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. We are now back to reality but we will contact you for our next visit to your country, hopefully sometime next year. I should have a website with pictures up soon and will send you a link when ready.
We traveled to Rajasthan in October with Indian Routes and very much appreciated the way you organized our trip ! It was excellent all the way – everything went extremely smoothly. We loved it and will re contact you for our next trip to India!!!
I came back from your wonderful country with a heartache .... I wanted to stay well longer! The organization of the trip, the choice of hotels and the services provided by Passage to India were excellent. The welcome we received at each stage and the regular presence of your representatives on site gave us valuable contact. The driver Rajesh was punctual and serious, the perfect vehicle. I thank you for all your attentions, and the offers of meals and additional visits that we greatly appreciated. My English is not good enough to explain you as much we did appreciate all the trip and how much I want to thank you. Hope I'll have a chance to come back in your fabulous country; Be sure I will promote all around me the skill and professionalism of your firm.
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Man to trial for sawing at roommate's neck
| Published on 6/9/2011
The Moss Beach man will stand trial for allegedly sawing at the neck of his female roommate with a serrated knife because she reported him for driving while intoxicated.
David Jon Vanalstine, 57, has pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted murder, assault, domestic violence and using a knife but a judge found sufficient evidence after a preliminary hearing Tuesday with four prosecution witnesses. Judge Stephen Hall took a day to consider the evidence and on Wednesday concluded Vanalstine should stand trial.
Hall also dismissed a charge of making a criminal threat.
Sheriff's deputies arrested Vanalstine at his Pillar Ridge Estates residence Dec. 2 after responding to a call by the 56-year-old victim. She told dispatchers she had been stabbed by Vanalstine, who was still inside the home. Vanalstine allegedly held the woman down on the couch by her hair and began sawing at her neck with a serrated knife, according to the District Attorney's Office. Vanalstine allegedly stopped when the woman's friend arrived. Deputies found her outside with a 10-centimeter laceration to her neck, from her carotid artery to her ear, and Vanalstine also at the scene, according to the District Attorney's Office.
The attack came days after Vanalstine was sentenced to 45 days in jail for a 2010 misdemeanor drunk driving conviction with priors. Police believe the victim turned Vanalstine in on the charge. Judge Cliff Cretan stayed the sentence until Jan. 22. That term is now on hold pending the outcome of the attempted murder case.
Vanalstine remains in custody without bail.


You require cooking oil in everything you cook, from salad to main course. They come with advantages and disadvantages of their own. Some cooking oil is fully vegan while some are obtained from animals. The right ones act as shield against heart diseases, cholesterol blockages, obesity and digestion problems. Again the quantity of oil required depends on the cooking method used to prepare a dish. Moreover, different oil behaves differently when heated. Some changes texture, color, taste and some the nutritional properties of the food. Again some contain polyunsaturated, some monounsaturated and some saturated fats.
Here is a list of the top 15 best healthy cooking oils available in the Indian market.
Olive oil is one of the healthiest cooking oil available in India. It is obtained by crushing olives and is available in different varieties as per the processing involved in manufacture. It has the ability to cure diabetes, heart disease, protection against chronic degenerative disease, human metabolism, good level of vitamin E, anti-inflammatory benefits and colon cancer.
Rice bran oil is popular cooking oil in India. It is an active mixture of 47% monounsaturated fat, 33% polyunsaturated and 20% saturated fats. The oil is chemically extracted and is refined, bleached, deodorized and dewaxed as per its application. It contains no cholesterol and trans fatty acids. However, it is rich in oleic and linoleic fatty acids.
Sunflower oil is also used by many households in India. This oil too is chemically extracted and refined, bleached, deodorized and winterized before packaging. It is a store house of vitamin E and it highly valued for its excellent health benefits. The oil comes in three types viz. linoleic, mid-oleic and high-oleic plus it is also a combination of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.
Groundnut oil also known as peanut oil is a perfect combination of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. This all-purpose cooking oil is abundantly available in India. The omega 3 fatty acid content fights cancers, generative nerve disease, Alzheimer's disease, and viral/fungal infections. It also lowers the risk of heart diseases.
Mustard oil is one of the commonly used cooking oil in India. The oil has the ability to improve digestion and fights germs and virus in the body. It develops a good appetite and helps prevent cold, coughs and skin related problems. The high smoking point makes it ideal for deep frying.
Sesame oil is most popular oil used in the Indian household. The oil has the ability to fights depression, atherosclerosis, cancer and improve oral and dental health. The flavor is mild and has a very high smoking point making it ideal for deep frying. Active ingredients include magnesium, copper, calcium, iron and vitamin B6.
Edible almond oil helps fight cancer and other heart diseases. This healthy cooking oil protect against heart diseases and cancer but maintaining the cholesterol level in food. It cures irritable bowel syndrome and help you develop a good appetite. It is abundantly available in India.
Coconut oil is a storehouse of saturated fat and behaves perfectly ideal in high temperatures. Best cooking oil suitable to fight bacteria, build immunity and increase metabolism in the body. However, it does raise the blood cholesterol and LDL cholesterol level.
Soyabean oil is rich in poly and monounsaturated fats. The omega 3 fatty acids content reduces the risk of cancer, generative nerve disease, Alzheimer's disease and viral/fungal infections. This active cooking oil also keeps a check on the risk of heart diseases.
Canola oil is considered as the healthiest of all cooking oil. It is derived from the crushed seeds of canola plant and has the lowest saturated fat content. This oil good for the skin is rich in monounsaturated fats and omega 3 fatty acids that help fight blood pressure, inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, viral/fungal infections and reduce the level of cholesterol.
This oil rich in monounsaturated fats is mildly nutty and is considered quite healthy for the Indian climate. It is mainly used in dressing, in mayonnaise, vinaigrettes and in grilled fish. It is rich in Vitamin E and hence works as a very good source of the same. If not store well, it can be spoiled easily.
Palm oil is healthy oil used in the Indian household. The oil is rich in antioxidants, carotenes and Vitamin E and helps to fight diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, arthritis, atherosclerosis and anti-aging. This active cooking oil also keeps a check on the risk of heart diseases.
Flaxseed oil is also used by many households in India especially the vegetarians. It is a rich source of omega 3 fatty acids that helps in reducing the risk of cancer, generative nerve disease, Alzheimer's disease and viral/fungal infections. It also heals Crohn's Disease and colitis.
Grapeseed oil is prepared from the leftovers of wine making. This healthy cooking oil is very low in saturated fat and comes with a mild taste. Though not widely used it is considered a great cooking and frying oil.
Cashew oil is not widely used in India. It is a great snack and is used in sweets and baking. The anti-bacterial properties of this oil improves eye health, reduce inflammation and cholesterol in the body. The oil also keeps a check on the risk of heart diseases and other health related issue.
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Belief and Confession: The Creed of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
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By honing belief into a tool, one avoids becoming the tool of belief.
The Creed of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica appears in Liber XV: The Gnostic Mass as written by Aleister Crowley. It directly follows the proclamation of the law in the Ceremony of the Introit. Comprised of eight clauses – six beliefs and two confessions – the Creed identifies those forces and doctrines central to the Mass and the life of each individual.
The first four clauses of the Creed correspond to Tetragrammaton, the elemental magical formula expressed in the divine name YHVH. The following two affirm the "communion of Saints" and the "Miracle of the Mass", these being the essential products of the Mass. The final two acknowledge parallels between Liber XV and one's life.
I find myself impelled to address three questions. Firstly, what does the recitation of the Creed accomplish? Secondly, why should it be included in the Mass? Lastly, as it pertains to the Creed, how does belief fit into the anti-superstitious frameworks of Thelema and scientific illuminism?
In any group endeavor, it is wise to ensure that everyone is on the same page. The Creed serves as a bridge to a conceptual commons: the holy of holies, where earth and sky meet ("Greeting of Earth and Heaven", as the Priestess says). It is thus an evocative reality-mapping exercise, potentiating a gestalt that enhances the intimacy of the Mass and entrains the congregants to a common frame of reference.
The Qabalistic basis of the Creed is evident in its use of Tetragrammaton and the supernals. "The ineffable LORD" describes Kether, the Unqualified Absolute or Unconditioned Being; "the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the earth", CHAOS, is a name of Chokmah; and BABALON symbolizes Binah, Earth, and Womb. The centrality of generative powers to the Creed – namely, the supernal pair and their synthesis in BAPHOMET – connote solar phallicism and sex magick. The Gnostic, Catholic, ecclesiastical, and eucharistic aspects of Liber XV are addressed in clauses 3-6. The penultimate clause references BAPHOMET by the term "Baptism of Wisdom", identifying sex as the key to the "Miracle of Incarnation" in unambiguously sex-positive language. The final clause posits a transcendent Self unrestricted by time and space, pointing to the doctrines of soul, reincarnation, and metempsychosis.
These overlapping contexts speak to a distinctive set of values that is at odds with institutional patriarchy. Reciting the Creed is a firm rejection of slave morality. Clause 4 states, "And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic church of light, life, love, and liberty, the word of whose law is Thelema". In that Thelema (Will) is coterminous with self-determination, verbalizing the Creed is a potent symbolic act of rebellion against oppressive old aeon doctrines – and, by proxy, dogmatic theology and institutional religion. It is accurate to view it as an invocation of Horus.
Bearing these considerations in mind, the Creed is appropriately sequenced. The congregation front-loads themselves with a narrative that triggers an altered state of consciousness and contextualizes the rest of the ritual. This is arguably in the vein of neuro-linguistic programming and self-hypnosis, and Liber XV proceeds upon the vibrant foundation laid thereby.
The word "belief" remains saddled with the fetters of religious dogma. The method of science demands skepticism, not blind faith – but one must be wary of confusing skepticism with cynicism. The former connotes an open-minded suspension of judgment and credulity, the latter a predisposition to denial or apathy. The former is a scientific attitude; the latter is bias. While grounding the Creed's articles of belief in a scientific cosmogony, its twilight language excites the imagination, informing and enhancing a suprarational ritual state. It is undesirable for the mind to recoil at figurative language or metaphor.
Under the paradigm of scientific illuminism, belief is a programmatic tool. Memorizing the tables of correspondence in 777 establishes a specialized cognitive superstructure (i.e. a neural network in the brain) that responds to ritual stimuli as a prerequisite to practicing ceremonial magick. Using techniques such as visualization, the vibration of magical formulas, and symbolic gestures, the practitioner triggers a crescendo of psychosexual energy representative of orgasm and directs it toward a desired outcome. Belief is the vehicle of the reification of Will.
While any belief can yield magical value if properly held – no matter how absurd – there are distinct benefits in scientific grounding. For example, it is less likely to induce the rational mind to protest; rational beliefs are easier to justify to oneself, and thus easier to incorporate. However, Crowley's emphasis on yoga necessitates the sublimation of the rational, conscious mind to Will – to become arbitrary or one-pointed. As Swami Vivekananda wrote in Raja Yoga,
The Yogi is supposed to have finished his period of controversy. He has had enough of that, and has become satisfied. He only studies to intensify his convictions.
Properly understood, the Creed becomes a magical weapon against superstition, tyranny, and oppression. In choosing to believe consciously in the aim of self-empowerment, in identifying with the timeless over the time-bound, the third power of the Sphinx comes into play: to dare. As Prometheus dared to steal fire from the gods, as Melek Taus dared to defy the Creator's command to bow to Adam, by reciting the Creed each congregant dares to swim against the current, proclaiming that each individual is the One God – and inviting all to partake of the joyous sacrament of life in a spirit of total responsibility and love under will.
Frater Mucro Pondera Divinus is an ordained Deacon in Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica and a Man of Earth. He serves as Sekhet-Maat Lodge's Treasurer, MOE Delegate Nomination Panel Representative, and technology committee head.
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After signing a cooperation agreement with the CAE and introducing an Airbus A320 full flight simulator in Vilnius, Lithuania, BAA Training opened its doors for a large number of students from Portugal. Compared to the same period last year, the number of Portuguese students interested in the BAA type rating training programs has increased by 50%.
The first private BAA Training students group that graduated from the Airbus A320 type rating courses consisted solely of Portuguese students. Moreover, of all the telephone and e-mail queries received by the academy around 10% are made by the Portuguese. 60% of them express interest in the A320 aircraft type training programs, the rest – in Boeing 737 type rating training courses.
'The launch of the new A320 full flight simulator generated an exceptional Portuguese pilots' interest in our training centre. The growing popularity of this particular type of aircraft and an increasing demand for pilots in Portugal means that pilots are more than ever concerned with finding the most cost effective and time efficient solutions. BAA Training offers attractive training programs at affordable prices without compromising on a quality. No wonder that it is increasingly becoming the No.1 choice for Portuguese pilots wishing to learn the ins and outs of operating an Airbus. Previously they much more often opted for training programs in Germany.', commented the CEO of BAA Training Egle Vaitkeviciute.
'Training in BAA Training was a great learning experience for me. I studied hard and was able to demonstrate excellent results in my exam. All instructors in both theory lectures and flight training sessions were exceptionally professional and attentive to students' needs. If I receive an opportunity to train for another aircraft type I will certainly not hesitate to come back to this particular institution.' says the Portuguese BAA A320 type rating student Luis Teles.
The low cost airline EasyJet has recently confirmed its intention to establish a base in Lisbon Portela airport by April 2012 thus further increasing the Portuguese pilots' interest in A320 type rating training opportunities. EasyJet will generate around 100 new jobs, most of them open to pilots and crew members. The airline will also purchase at least two A320 aircraft which will be based in Lisbon.
By the end of 2010, BAA Training pursued 34 training programs with 2000 students trained by 100 professional flight instructors every year. Half of the BAA academic staff had come to teach in the academy from abroad. On average 10 foreign pilots arrive to study at BAA Training daily. Pilots from Russia, the CIS, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Greece, India and Spain participate in theoretical courses and take practice sessions in full flight simulators.
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Old Black es el apodo de la principal guitarra eléctrica del músico canadiense Neil Young, que figura en la mayoría de trabajos eléctricos del músico. Young adquirió Old Black en 1969 a través de Jim Messina, colaborador del grupo Buffalo Springfield, quien recibió del músico a cambio una Gretsch naranja modelo Chet Atkins.

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Old Black es una Gibson Les Paul Goldtop de 1953 con varias personalizaciones. Después de ser depositada en una tienda de reparación, la pastilla original del puente fue reemplazada por una pastilla de bobina simple de una Gibson Firebird. Fue también pintada de color negro y recibió un nuevo puente Tune-o-matic, no disponible en el modelo original, y un brazo de trémolo de la marca Bigsby. También se instaló un golpeador de plástico blanco semejante al de serie de las Goldtops de 1953. Old Black es notable también por sus componentes de metal, incluyendo el brazo de aluminio.

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Gran parte de los trabajos con guitarra eléctrica fueron grabados con la Old Black, a excepción de la «Ditch Trilogy», en la que Young usó con mayor frecuencia una Gretsch White Falcons y una Gretsch 6120, así como Fender Telecasters y una Gibson Flying V.

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Following our succesfull kick-off meeting in december, we would now like to invite you to the 2nd RTC-Bioinformatics meeting.
One of the aims of the RTC Bioinformatics is to bring together and share the expertise that is available in the UMC in the fields of bioinformatics, sequence analysis, ~omics analysis, computational biology, protein structure analysis and related fields.
Therefore, this meeting will consist of 2 seminars by speakers from different departments about their research and the role of bioinformatics in their work. This formal part will be followed by informal drinks to give you time to meet new colleagues from the diverse field of bioinformatics.
We hope to see many of you on the 6th.
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Huskies women's hockey team ready to face off against Alberta Pandas: here are some players to watch this weekend
By Kevin Menz	 February 15, 2012 in Sports & Health
The Huskies women's hockey team beat the Alberta Pandas three out of four times this season, but that does not mean the Dogs have avenged last year's first-round playoff loss to their Canada West rivals.
Last playoffs, the Pandas swept Saskatchewan out of contention early in just two games at Edmonton's Clare Drake Arena.
The Huskies started off the 2011-12 season with those losses in mind, sweeping Alberta in a late-October weekend series. Those games, however, came down to both overtime and a shootout. By no means did Saskatchewan dominate the Pandas and, as evidenced by the teams splitting their following weekend series, the Huskies had not had the last laugh.
The Dogs will look for vengeance Feb. 17, 18 and, if needed, 19 in the same arena where they lost last year as they kick off their 2011-12 playoff campaign.
Here are a handful of key players to keep an eye on this weekend.
Julie Paetsch (forward)
Julie Paetsch is coming off what is likely her best season yet.
Although the Huskies' assistant captain and fifth-year forward scored 36 points to finish third in the Canada West's 2009-2010 scoring race, her 34 points this season were enough to land her the conference's scoring title.
The most notable difference between the two seasons, however, is that Paetsch has improved her ability to put the puck in the net. Two years ago, 26 of her 36 points came from assists. This season, while she still led the league in assists with 20, she also scored a career-high 14 goals.
When the Dogs take on Alberta in the first round of playoffs, it won't be surprising to see Paetsch not only set up Huskies top goal-scorers Cara Wooster, Danny Stone and Breanne George, but to also pot game-winners of her own.
Julia Flinton (defence)
Julia Flinton made an immediate impact this season in just her first year of Canadian university hockey. The rookie not only emerged as one of the Huskies' top defencemen, she also established herself as one of the best offensive blueliners in the league.
She finished third amongst all rookie scorers and fifth amongst all defencemen with 11 points.
Flinton is more than capable of changing the game. For instance, when the Huskies took on Alberta earlier this season, Flinton scored a 2-1 overtime winner after blasting a point shot past the Pandas goaltender.
While she can be the overtime hero the Huskies might need this weekend against Alberta, Flinton will have to limit her time in the penalty box if she wants to see the ice in extra time.
She led the Huskies with 38 penalty minutes this season.
Breanne George (forward)
Breanne George may be the most decorated Huskies women's hockey player ever. She has been a CIS first team all-Canadian, a Canada West first team all-star and has represented Canada at the Winter University Games.
She is also the Huskies all-time points leader with 144 points.
Relative to her standards, this season has been extremely slow for George in terms of scoring. She scored a career-low 18 points and, for the first time in her last four years of Canada West competition, did not finish in the top five scorers at season's end.
George, however, does not view this as a negative going into playoffs.
While in previous post-seasons she felt pressured to score a lot of the Huskies' goals, this year she is more relaxed knowing that the Dogs have several players capable of putting up big numbers.
Mackenzie Rizos (goalie)
When 2007-08 Canada West second team all-star Vanessa Frederick took a year off from university hockey last year, University of Lethbridge transfer and 2008-09 second team all-star Mackenzie Rizos stepped up in her place.
This season, when Frederick returned to the Huskies for her fifth and final year, the two netminders found themselves splitting playing time until, eventually, the fourth-year Rizos emerged as the starter.
While this shared playing time and competition for the starting position not only pushed Rizos to step up her game, it also ensured that the Huskies have two well-rested goaltenders going into the post-season — a luxury that both all-star netminders likely aren't used to.
Against Alberta, Rizos will come in fresh as Frederick saw the start in the Huskies final regular season games Feb. 10 and 11 against UBC.
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Can my 3.40 themes work with 3.71m33??
I request advice: 1.50 or upgrade please?
Converted battery as a Pandora?