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Featured / May 3, 2017
Cooking Beyond the NYCHA Home Kitchen
Low-income entrepreneurial New Yorkers are receiving job training and support to launch food businesses.
By Beth Krietsch
Forty five-year old Donna Davis is a mother of two. She's a hardworking, self-proclaimed jill of all trades who's dipped her feet in all kinds of work from radio hosting and DJing to community education and vegan catering.
She's always wanted to get a full-time vegan food business off the ground, but without business training, a college degree, and money for various business costs, she struggled. She also lost part of her vision a few years ago, which made things even harder.
"In order to go to the next level I needed to do certain things," Davis says, adding that she found it difficult to afford marketing, licensing, and other components key to business success. "And I felt like I've been walking in the same circle for the last 10 to 12 years of not being able to take it to the next level I needed to."
To help afford housing, Davis receives Section 8 benefits, which are allotted to low- and moderate-income families based on gross income and family size. One day in early 2016 she was checking upcoming seminar offerings in the Section 8 office when a flyer for a program called Food Business Pathways caught her eye.
Food Business Pathways is a free 10-week food business course open to New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents and Section 8 recipients who want to launch food businesses. The program helps pave the way for low-income entrepreneurial New Yorkers to establish these businesses by providing mentorship, education, access to capital, affordable space, and other components key to business success.
Started in January 2015, the program is a collaborative effort between NYCHA, the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS), and NYC Economic Development Corporation, with additional support from Citi Community Development, Hot Bread Kitchen, and Start Small Think Big.
The program has three main goals: to create targeted programs for NYCHApreneurs, to help these NYCHApreneurs become incubator-ready, and provide streamlined links to resources and custom curriculum that help enforce the connection between NYCHA businesses and New York City's economy.
"The Food Business Pathways program empowers budding food entrepreneurs and connects them with the tools they need to succeed," says Gregg Bishop, commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services. "We are proud to partner with the New York City Housing Authority and its residents to provide business training and support that is helping these entrepreneurs reach their full potential."
From each cohort, five graduates receive free kitchen incubator space, which means they gain access to a kitchen setting to put their learnings into practice for five months, free of charge. The space is available at Food Business Pathways partners Hot Bread Kitchen, Brooklyn FoodWorks, The Entrepreneur Space, and Bronx CookSpace. Along with access to kitchens and storage at flexible hours, other perks of incubator space include monthly workshops and trainings, market access opportunities, and hands-on support. Individuals are chosen for incubator space based on an application, instructor feedback, class participation, and a business plan. Those who are not selected are still eligible for help in securing an alternate location to get their businesses up and running.
Achieving a Dream
After spotting the Food Business Pathways flyer at the Section 8 office, Davis, who was experienced in vegan catering and street vending, signed up for the program right away. Upon acceptance, she started with the program's fifth cohort in July 2016.
Under the business moniker Veggie Grub, she has developed a 12-week cooking series that's all about teaching people to cook vegan food and adopt healthier diets. A recipient of free incubator space, Davis has been operating out of Brooklyn Food Works since March to cook and host cooking classes.
"Even though I knew I was a great cook and knew I was destined to take things to the next level, I really didn't know what my masterplan was," Davis says. "The class helped me realize my master plan and let me know I was thinking too small."
She meets with her students in weekly four-hour sessions at Brooklyn Foodworks, where she teaches them to cook plant-based vegan dishes like 'down home tofu fried chicken,' vegan fish tacos, and vegan cheesecake. But her business model isn't all about teaching recipes—Davis's students will also compete in a vegan cooking competition modeled after the popular Food Network show Chopped, go on an immersive healthy-food shopping outing, and complete interactive homework assignments like eating raw for a day and mapping out a day in the life of a vegan.
She leaves enrollment open by individual session, or for the entire series, which begins in early April. At this point, there's really no goal that seems too big for Davis to conquer. She wants to open the first vegan fast-food franchise on the east coast, and to participate on Shark Tank or Restaurant Startup.
"I feel that this is my time to really take my dreams to that level," Davis says. "And it's all because of the class."
A Taste of Success
Davis isn't the only program graduate who has come into her own with the help of Food Business Pathways. So far, 82 percent of participants have completed the educational component of the program, and 111 have started food businesses.
Luquana McGriff, a 35-year-old mother of two from Red Hook, is a 2016 Food Business Pathways graduate who runs a dessert catering company called A Cake Baked in Brooklyn. She has been baking her whole life, but credits Food Business Pathways with giving her the tools to expand from selling baked goods to family and friends into developing an actual catering business run out of Brooklyn Food Works.
"My business is an LLC now and they also guided me into a commercial kitchen," McGriff says. "I have insurance and all the things I didn't know I would need going forward to be a business owner."
She's grateful that the program helped guide her through difficult processes, like licensing and inspection. In fact, she says she doesn't think she could have it all without Food Business Pathways, and still keeps in touch with the program for mentorship and business guidance.
McGriff wants to open a storefront eventually, but for now she works a full-time job with the police department and caters on the side. She was not among the five Food Business Pathway's graduates from her cohort chosen to receive free incubator space, so she pays for it on her own. When she's not cooking, McGriff uses the space to meet customers and host food tastings.
So far, five cohorts, or a total of 139 individuals, have completed the program. A sixth cohort began in early April and a seventh will start in August. Food Business Pathways graduates have formed 111 businesses that span catering, wholesale distribution, cooking education, and more. An SBS spokesperson says the program will continue operating through the end of 2017, when it will be assessed for continuation.
Photo credit: New York City Department of Small Business Services
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Q: How to Render different components in fixed layout I have created separate sidebar, header and content page using react js. but how to render different-pages on the side-bar menu click in the same content container
I am using this code for display menu header and a section on the main page but I am unable to open another page in the same section
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Header from './header';
import SideBar from './menu';
import Content from './content';

class App extends Component {
render() {
return (

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}
}

export default App;

A: For rendering different pages (serving different routes) in same layout .
Using router is a proper way of achieve that feature.

You can use routers in any number of components you want.

class App extends Component {
    render() {
        return (

                <SideBar />

                        <Switch>

                            <Route path="/page1" component={page1} />

                            <Route path="/page2" component={page2} />

                        </Switch>

            );
        }
    }

    export default App;

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WHAT MAKES MOBILE LEGENDS: BANG BANG SUCH A POPULAR MOBILE GAME?
by Shaila Dione Amargo
Photo credits to Maxine Luna
What exactly mobile legends is?
Mobile Legends is a mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game that was published in 2017 for iOS and Android. Gamers choose heroes from a list of real-life celebrities and combat other players from all around the globe in a unique combination of strategy and action. Each champion has a distinct combination of skills and abilities, so players must plan ahead of time and carefully choose which champions to play in order to construct a team that is powerful enough to fight the opponent's team.
Mobile Legends is a mobile MMORPG in which each player has a unique skill and character that can be leveled up and personalized. Tencent, a Chinese mobile game company, created a mobile version of the popular PC game League of Legends.
Photo credits to Gamela Muhamed
What does MMORPG mean?
MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) are games in which millions of users participate at the same time. The most popular MMORPGs, such as World of Warcraft (WoW), Anarchy Online (AO), and Everquest (EQ), allow millions of players to play at the same time.
The abbreviation MMORPG stands for "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game," and it refers to a type of video game in which players take on the role of an in-game character. The MMORPG has grown in popularity in Asia, where it is particularly popular in China, Korea, Thailand, and the Philippin es. In recent years, the genre has grown in popularity among Western gamers, notably in North America.
What exactly is the point of Mobile Legends?
One of the most popular mobile games is Mobile Legends, which is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game. It pits three-person teams against each other in an attempt to demolish the opposing team's base. The game has a steep learning curve and can be unpleasant at first, but it has a lot of material and requires a lot of skill to play.
It's hard to imagine a period when all online gaming had to be played on large, unwieldy computers that had to be used at home. Nowadays, the majority of games are played on devices that are much smaller than the original games. We may not be able to appreciate them to the maximum degree, but at least we can play them.
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'Modern jurisprudence' has emasculated Constitution
Exclusive: Henry Lamb cites examples where gov't has ignored the law of the land
Published: 05/21/2011 at 12:00 AM
Henry Lamb About | Archive
Henry Lamb is the author of "The Rise of Global Governance," chairman of Sovereignty International and founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization and Freedom21 Inc.
Editor's note: Listen to this column online.
When James Madison wrote "… nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation" into the Constitution, he really meant "for public use." Over the years, the courts redefined "public use" to mean "whatever government wants to do with your land." The Kelo v. New London decision drove the final nail into the idea of sacred private property. Another founder, John Adams, said:
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. … The moment that the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be sacred or liberty cannot exist.
Private property is no longer sacred. Government can take your land and give or sell it to another private individual. Government can assume control of your land – which is the defining power of ownership – by simply declaring that a wetland exists, or that an endangered or threatened species may wish to use your land. Government may prevent you from using your private property by simply drawing lines on a map and declaring that your land is in a "conservation" zone.
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution is not what it used to be. But then neither is the Fourth Amendment, which says quite clearly that:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The Indiana Supreme Court doesn't understand this clear language. Writing for the court, Justice Steven David said:
We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. …
What on earth is "modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence" that completely upends the clear language and meaning for the Fourth Amendment?
Modern jurisprudence must mean that courts are no longer bound by the Constitution or the law and can redefine the words to mean whatever the court wants them to mean at the moment. This disease is not limited to the courts, however. It has spread to the White House and to Congress.
Article I, Section 8, clearly gives Congress the authority to declare war. In its wisdom, Congress allowed the president to initiate war action in certain circumstances, defined in the War Powers Act. Section 2(c) instructs the president in the use of War Powers:
The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.
Obama completely ignored this clear language of the War Powers Act when he introduced "United States Armed Forces into hostilities," by ordering the bombing of Libya.
Sadly, Congress has ignored this blatant violation of law. Sen. Lamar Alexander's staff was asked why Congress allowed the violation to go unchallenged. The staff reply was a pitiful attempt to explain that the inquiring constituent didn't understand that the president could comply with the law by reporting his action after the event took place. Of course, there is no such wiggle room in the War Powers Act; the wiggle room is in the mind of mischievous politicians.
When the president's action was challenged by the media, the excuse was that the action in Libya was not actually a war action; it was a limited police action of some sort. Pitiful.
This disease that destroys the clear meaning of the language in laws and the Constitution will only get worse. Obamacare has already been approved by two courts. To do so, these courts have said that there is no limitation on the power of Congress. They have said the government can force an individual to purchase any product the government decides its citizens should buy.
Fortunately, at least one court has held the opposite view, that the government cannot compel a private citizen to buy a product. The regulation of commerce does not include the forced instigation of commerce. This decision will ultimately be made by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has already decided, and upheld, that "public use" doesn't mean public use.
Congress can control the courts in a variety of ways. The Senate can strongly influence the courts through their advice-and-consent process. Were senators to reject those judicial appointees who believe that "modern jurisprudence" outweighs the clear language of the Constitution, this disease could be eliminated.
Congress can control the courts and the executive branch only if it is populated by individuals who know and believe in the Constitution. The people decide how Congress is populated. It's up to us.


I studied chemistry and organizational psychology in Utrecht and Florida and received my masters degree in Utrecht in 1985. I completed education programs on psychotherapy and counseling and was also certified as a yoga teacher. I received a master's degree in management consulting from the Free University in Amsterdam in 1994. I have followed courses where and when relevant and set up our own learning environments with like-minded professionals. Later, I received a honorary masters in change management from Sioo. However, I have learned most on the job by combining consultancy, teaching, research and writing in collaboration with others. And still do.
After being a social activist for years I worked between 1987 and 1992 at the Institute of Environmental and Systems Analysis (IESA) where we mediated conflicts between industry, government and environmental groups and helped industry to realize more sustainable practices. My interest in systems thinking and social innovation stems from this period. After a short period as an independent consultant and an interim manager of a spiritual center, I joined one of the large Dutch management consultancy firms, Twynstra Gudde. I worked there for 17 years as a senior partner where I first focused on how to manage professional firms and then specialized in the diagnosis, design and realization of organizational development. Action research about the change dynamics around complex issues soon started to take center stage. This research is generally conducted with those directly involved and across organizational boundaries on issues that they are passionate about and add value to the world around them. It often also involves how to create the space and legitimacy to do so. I work as an independent consultant since 2011.
I have always taught about change and consultancy within the organizations I worked, starting with The Institute for Environmental and Systems Analysis (IESA). At Twynstra Gudde I led a knowledge center on change management, supported product development and professionalized fellow consultants sinds the '90's. I give lectures and run education programs and I have a coaching practice for the last twenty years. Over time, teaching and coaching has been with change agents: people who take responsibility for change for their own environment regardless their function or affiliation. I am involved with programs of the Copenhagen Business School (CBS/SIMI), the Technical University of Denmark, the Vlerick Business School. Within the Netherlands I am involved with programs with the Free University in Amsterdam, the Universities of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, VUCA Academy, the National Centre of Social Innovation (LESI), Vakmedianet, Focus Learning Journeys and especially Sioo, the Inter-university Centre for Development in Organizational Studies and Change Management.
Doing research within and about change practices is a common thread in my work. My PhD research on innovation around complex issues in the Dutch diplomatic arena has been my most intense enterprise in this area. This concerned action research on multi-year change efforts in about twenty sites, most of which took place in Africa. I received my degree with honors in 2009. The dissertation was shortlisted as the best PhD research by the Dutch Society for Political Science and rewarded as the best PhD research by the Dutch Network of Quality Management. Since that time I also became part of research platform at Twynstra Gudde and Sioo. I work as a senior research fellow with the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB) on knowledge development and dissemination. I am member of the scientific council of the professional association of management consultants in The Netherlands (OOA), a member of Practitioners' Council for Critical Organization and Intervention Studies (KOIS) at the University of Humanistic Studies in the Netherlands, a member of the academic board of Sioo and a member of the Academy of Management. I support others in doing action research and collaborate frequently with others in specific action research projects.
I took up writing as a great way to learn and share ideas and still publish regularly. This adds more than hundred publications, varying from books and academic articles to columns, professional publications, CD's and videos. The publications focus on topics like organizational change, learning, systems thinking, professionals and research. They have received publication awards such as the best book award by the Dutch Professional Association of Management Consultants, several best article awards by the Dutch Association of Management Consultancy Firms and best paper awards at the Academy of Management. Though most of these publications are in Dutch, I do publish in English as well. Best known in English is probably the handbook 'Learning to Change' that I wrote with Léon de Caluwé. I contributed to books like 'Creative Consulting', 'Consultation for Organizational Change' and 'Dynamics or Organizational Change and Learning'. Articles have been published in journals like the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Management Inquiry, International Journal of Action Research, Management Decision and Holland Management Review.I was part of the editorial board of the humanistic journal 'Waardenwerk'. I was also part of the editors of the peer-reviewed journal 'Management & Organisatie' and am now part of its editorial board.
I work independently since early 2011 to allow more time for my profession at the expense of management responsibilities. Most of my work I do in collaboration with like-minded consultants, academics and educators. I am also affiliated with three organizations to continue long lasting collaboration. In the area of management consultancy I am associate partner with Twynstra Gudde, in the area of education I am associate partner with Sioo and in the area of research I am associated with the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB). I am also registered as certified management consultant (CMC) and registered as a teacher at the central register for vocational education (CRKBO).


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Improving Customer Service Through Title Imaging
Project started on June 1, 1992 (Completed)
Government is an information-intensive enterprise with a legal obligation to create and maintain huge volumes of public records. Motor vehicle records are a case in point. Paperwork problems exist in part because these records are caught up in processes that are often antiquated, slow, error prone, and expensive.
Document imaging and work flow management systems merge several technologies to convert paper documents to electronic images. They offer both operational and financial benefits. Document imaging systems, however, are expensive to implement, and they nearly always require extensive analysis, business process reengineering, and organizational change.
This first project of the Center for Technology in Government demonstrated document imaging and work flow solutions in a particular government application, the vehicle title operation at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. The project was completed in 1993 and produced a prototype application of a portion of the title issuance operation at DMV. The project answered many technical, managerial, and organizational questions. The project also involved demonstrations and presentations to more than thirty-five other government agencies and generated important lessons about imaging and work flow.
Vehicle titles are issued in New York State under provisions of the Uniform Vehicle Certificate of Title Act. At the time of the project, the process for issuing titles was largely paper-bound. Between 1970 and 1990, the number of titles issued annually by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) had increased more than 400%, from 660,000 to over 3.7 million. Along with other factors, this growth in volume led to waiting times of up to 120 days to process a title application. The resulting inconvenience to customers received executive and legislative attention. A 1990 DMV study to resolve these problems recommended that the agency explore a computerized image transaction processing system to improve service.
The objectives of this project were therefore to:
Create a prototype imaging application for a portion of title operations at DMV. The portion selected was the processing of requests to issue a duplicate title.
Evaluate how images may be indexed, audited, and tracked within large agency operations, and how new technologies may work with existing systems.
Evaluate how imaging, automated work flow management, networking, and other information management technologies may improve quality or lower the cost of government services that rely on documents.
Develop cost benefit bases for making decisions about technology alternatives and configurations for various kinds of agency applications.
Evaluate the robustness of imaging and work flow technology in different settings, and identify important characteristics, both functional and physical, that are critical for agency environments.
Provide accurate information to other agencies about these technologies, and educate decision makers about their possibilities and limitations.
To accomplish these objectives, the project team installed a basic imaging system at the Center for Technology in Government and developed a prototype application supporting the processing of requests for duplicate titles at DMV. The prototype allowed the team to investigate work flow software and its ability to facilitate business process reengineering, to demonstrate an interactive connection between this new application and the DMV mainframe, and to investigate ancillary technologies such as optical character recognition (OCR) and rapid prototyping tools.
The title imaging prototype is no longer operational, but descriptions of the design and requirements are included in the project report, Title Imaging Project with NYS Department of Motor Vehicles.
A Model for Simplifying and Improving Government Services
Title Imaging Project with NYS Department of Motor Vehicles
The following broader lessons of the project are of value to any government agency considering workflow and imaging technologies:
Business process analysis is an indispensable first step in the design and development of imaging and work flow applications. Much, if not most, of the value of a new system can be derived simply from rethinking and redesigning business processes.
Flexible, modern information tools can be successfully integrated with existing mainframe-based information systems. Adding a PC-based front end to legacy mainframe applications in a client-server architecture can be a powerful enhancement to staff productivity and an effective way to prolong the value of old, but indispensable systems.
Imaging and work flow systems are deeply embedded in organizational context. They directly affect employees, work culture, and work processes. To reduce organizational resistance and improve prospects for success, the people affected by these changes must be full participants in their design and implementation.
Prototyping is a flexible, low-cost, low-risk approach to expensive and significant technological change. Once defined, the DMV prototype was constructed in only four weeks. It gave the agency an opportunity to learn about new technologies, to test the reaction of key organizational units, and to learn important lessons before proceeding to full system design and procurement.
Public demonstrations, presentations, and careful documentation of prototype projects can turn one agency's investment into learning that benefits many others. The DMV prototype demonstrations generated well-informed enthusiasm for imaging and work flow applications and gave many agencies their first thoughtful look at the attendant costs and benefits.
New York State Department of Motor Vehicles
AT&T Global Information Solutions (formerly NCR/AT&T Corporation)
Grumman Data Systems
Image Innovation
NewVision Systems Corporation
Peter Bloniarz, Laboratory Director
Donna Berlin, Facility Manager
This project was supported entirely by the in-kind contribution of professional services, hardware, software, and communications provided by the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles; University at Albany faculty, staff, and students; and five corporate partners, led by AT&T Global Information Solutions.


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Retired Firefighter Thanks Life-Saving Lung Transplant Team And Donor's Family
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Retired firefighter and lung transplant recipient, Tim Maronay, 50, formally thanked the lung transplant team from St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and his donor's family today at a special firefighter ceremony on Donate Life's National Wear Blue and Green Day.
Firefighters Save Lives – St. Joseph's Saves Firefighters"
One year after his double-lung transplant, Maronay, his family and his former fire chief from Oregon gathered at a Phoenix fire station to recognize the St. Joseph's medical team for their lifesaving efforts. The ceremony also underscored a need to raise awareness and encourage organ and tissue donations.
"I was in and out of hospitals until finally my only choices were hospice or having a lung transplant," says Maronay, a career firefighter who was forced to retire from firefighting in 2006. Maronay had been diagnosed as a teenager with Cystic Fibrosis, a life threatening hereditary disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs and digestive system.
In recent years, Maronay moved to Queen Creek, Ariz. as his health steadily declined. He was transferred to St. Joseph's from another Phoenix hospital in 2012 and was given only weeks to live if he did not receive new lungs. He received the transplant, and in just days was beginning physical therapy to walk again.
St. Joseph's is home to the only lung transplant program in the Valley and is one of the largest transplant programs in the nation. More than 185 patients have been transplanted since the program began just six years ago.
Presenting awards and gifts to the hospital's transplant team at Fire Station 9 near downtown Phoenix, Maronay said, "firefighters save lives, but St. Joseph's saves firefighters. It may appear that I am the man of the hour. But I am not. All I did was receive a gift of life from all of you. It takes a village, and St. Joseph's is my village. From my family, friends, former fire department and my eyes, you all are the men and women of the hour. You all are truly our heroes."
A special poem was also read to thank the donor family from California. The poem and a flag that once waved over Maronay's fire station in Oregon will be mailed to the family, along with photos from the event.
Maronay worked as a firefighter in Oregon for more than 20 years before being forced to retire from his deputy chief position because of his condition and moved to Arizona to be closer to his children. His former fire chief, Vince Stafford, from Oregon made a special trip to Phoenix to attend the emotional ceremony.
Rajat Walia, MD, medical director and transplant pulmonologist at St Joseph's Center for Thoracic Disease and Transplantation, was among more than 20 doctors and nurses, receiving the special awards from Maronay. "This is an extraordinary day for all of us. Firefighters are special people and we are very honored. It is especially important to have this ceremony on national donor day because so many others might be saved with the generosity of donors."
In the United States, more than 116,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants. More than 2,300 people in Arizona need a transplant. One organ and tissue donor can save and heal up to 50 lives.
Maronay said he is living a full and active life these days, hiking, swimming and trying to give back to the community any way he can.
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Q: How to read text from inputTextarea as javascript object I want to give the java script object structure as text input into the inputTextarea and i want a var to read that as object. My object structure is like below. Instead of giving this in the inputTextarea i can give this directly in my xhtml page as var obj={ onchange: ... but that i don't want. Because there are difficulties in parsing the xml tags also, else it will throw some tag errors. Is that possible to read the text from inputTextarea as var object instead of reading as string .
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onchange: function(){
console.log("I been changed now!")
},
validate: function(obj){
console.log("I be validatin' now!")
},
elements: {
"list": {
menu: [{
caption: "Append an <item>",
action: Xonomy.newElementChild,
actionParameter: "<item/>"
}]
},
"item": {
menu: [{
caption: "Add @label=\"something\"",
action: Xonomy.newAttribute,
actionParameter: {name: "label", value: "something"},
hideIf: function(jsElement){
return jsElement.hasAttribute("label");
}
}, {
caption: "Delete this <item>",
action: Xonomy.deleteElement
}, {
caption: "New <item> before this",
action: Xonomy.newElementBefore,
actionParameter: "<item/>"
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caption: "New <item> after this",
action: Xonomy.newElementAfter,
actionParameter: "<item/>"
}],
canDropTo: ["list"],
attributes: {
"label": {
asker: Xonomy.askString,
menu: [{
caption: "Delete this @label",
action: Xonomy.deleteAttribute
}]
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}
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A: As far I understand you need to read a textarea content as a JavaScript object.
If the textarea content is a valid JSON, you can transform the textarea content into by calling JSON.parse.
If the textarea content is not a valid JSON, but some kind of arbitrary JavaScript object representation, you can use eval to transform it into a JavaScript object. However, take into account that using eval is a security concern, you should not use it unless the input is coming from a trusted source.

const textArea = document.getElementById('demo');

// this will work only if textarea content is a valid JSON
// const myObject = JSON.parse(textArea.textContent);

// this following is insecure, use on your own risk
const myObject = eval(`(${textArea.textContent})`);

console.log(typeof myObject);
console.log(myObject);
<textarea id="demo">
{ a: 1 }
</textarea>

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Soros Project Teams Up With Dark Money Non-Profit To "Boost Democratic Candidates" In At Least 11 States
Tim Brown October 12, 2018
I reminded you of Hillary Clinton's call more than a decade ago for Nazi-sympathizing billionaire George Soros to get involved in American politics. He's definitely been involved and it's always been putting money into anti-American groups. Now, it's being reported that a project of his is teaming up with a dark money non-profit to "boost Democratic candidates" in at least 11 US states.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
A dark money nonprofit is teaming up with a project launched earlier this year financed by political billionaire activists Tom Steyer and George Soros in a bid to boost Democratic causes and candidates in at least 11 states, according to campaign finance disclosure documents.
The State Engagement Fund, a 501(c)(4) based in Washington, D.C., does not have to disclose its donors. From late August through September, State Engagement Fund made four donations worth $2.1 million to State Victory Action.
State Victory Action, meanwhile, is a 527 organization formed this year. Previous disclosures showed nearly all of that group's $11 million in seed funding had come from billionaire political activists Tom Steyer and George Soros.
The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this month that State Victory Action was rolling out a strategy focused on state-level politics and candidates in Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Maine.
However, a new IRS filing by State Victory Action also shows the group is active in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Florida, and has made minor contributions in other states like Michigan, New York, and Maryland.
According to Sean Ross:
"Dark money ," popularized by Jane Mayer 's book of the same name, is the disparaging term for influential and discreet big money operatives in American politics. Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, wrote her book to be a traumatic exposure of the so-called "Radical Right," a catch-all phrase for non-liberal and non-centrist activists. Viewed more agnostically, the dark money problem simply refers to the corrupting influence of extremely wealthy benefactors in politics, especially when connected with well-funded large political action committees ("super PACs").
Ross goes on to write:
There are two principal mechanisms by which dark money is deployed: political non-profit organizations and super PACs. Political non-profits are primarily organized in the tax code as 501(c)(4) or 501(c)(6) groups. Such organizations can receive corporate, individual or union-based contributions for political campaigning without any contribution limits or donor disclosures. According to the website OpenSecrets.org, a wing of the non-profit and nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), money spent by organizations without donor disclosures grew from $5.2 million in 2006 to over $300 million in 2012.
Super PACs are more complicated. Each super PAC must list its donors, but it can still accept clinical donations from non-profits or other organizations that do not disclose donors. There is no limit to the amount of money a super PAC can receive. OpenSecrets also reports that, as of July 20, 2016, organized super PACs reported total donations of $755 million in the 2016 election cycle.
Additionally, we know that George Soros is contributing directly through the Soros Fund Management, which donates almost exclusively to Democrats. The only Republicans listed as having received donations from Soros Fund Management are:
Barrasso, John A (R-WY)
Fitzpatrick, Brian (R-PA)
Wicker, Roger (R-MS)
Cruz, Ted (R-TX)
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
With Hollywood donating millions to Democrats and Facebook attempting to silence opposing political speech and Soros money being pumped into the Democrat machinery, one can only wonder what November is shaping up to be. Perhaps this is nothing more than a panic attack by Democrats who have lost power in DC, and nothing more. Or Perhaps, there are darker forces at work than we can even imagine.
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Q: Saving data-URI to media library I have a TinyMCE plugin that generates PNG images using HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL() (MDN). Currently, I'm just displaying them on the backend by putting the data-URI in an image tag, but I'd really like to add these to the WordPress Media Library.
What's the best (i.e., VIP-compliant) way of uploading images currently serialised as a base64-encoded data-URI?
Here's my upload function so far:
<?php

/**
 * AJAX callback that inserts chart as attachment into the WP database
 */
public static function insert_axis_attachment() {
    // Get config
    $axis_config = json_decode( $_POST['axisConfig'] );

    if ( ! isset( $_POST['axisJS_nonce'] )
        || ! wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['axisJS_nonce'] )
        || ! current_user_can( 'upload_files' )
        || ! current_user_can( 'edit_post', $_POST['post_id'] )
        || ( isset( $axis_config->ID ) && ! current_user_can( 'edit_post', $axis_config->ID ) )
    ) {
        return false;
    }

    // Begin saving PNG to filesystem
    if ( false === ( $creds = request_filesystem_credentials( 'admin-ajax.php', '', false, false, null ) ) ) {
        return false; // stop processing here
    }
    if ( ! WP_Filesystem( $creds ) ) {
        request_filesystem_credentials( 'admin-ajax.php', '', true, false, null );
        return false;
    }
    global $wp_filesystem;
    $upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();
    $chart_filename = sanitize_title_with_dashes( $axis_config->chartTitle ) . '_' . time() . '.png';
    $filename = trailingslashit( $upload_dir['path'] ) . $chart_filename;
    $uriPhp = 'data://' . substr( $_POST['axisChart'], 5 ); // Via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6735414/php-data-uri-to-file/6735458#6735458
    $binary = wpcom_vip_file_get_contents( $uriPhp );
    $wp_filesystem->put_contents(
        $filename,
        $binary,
        FS_CHMOD_FILE // predefined mode settings for WP files
    );

    // Insert or update attachment.
    if ( ! $axis_config->ID ) {
        $attachment = array(
            'guid' => $upload_dir['url'] . '/' . basename( $filename ),
            'post_title' => $axis_config->chartTitle,
            'post_content' => '', // Must be empty string
            'post_status' => 'published',
            'post_mime_type' => 'image/png',
            'post_status' => 'inherit',
        );

        $attach_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $filename, $_POST['post_id'] );

        // Make sure that this file is included, as wp_generate_attachment_metadata() depends on it.
        require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php' );

        // Generate the metadata for the attachment, and update the database record.
        $attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $filename );
        wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $attach_data );
        update_post_meta( $attach_id, '_axisWP', $axis_config );
        echo esc_attr( $attach_id );
        die();
    } else {
        update_attached_file( $axis_config->ID, $filename );
        update_post_meta( $axis_config->ID, '_axisWP', $axis_config );
        echo esc_attr( $axis_config->ID );
        die();
    }
}

Is how I'm using WP_Filesystem and wp_insert_attachment() correct? Or should I find some way to use media_handle_upload() instead?
Thanks!

A: In a previous tinymce plugin I made - I set up a custom ajax transport so I could just use the blob right from the image src of a remote img instead of base64 on a data attribute, and then used the REST API to upload the image to the media library in js.
Base64 will be about 35% larger than a blob, so if there's a lot of charts or uploads, this will help reduce upload bandwidth quite a bit, even with just a single img,  performance should be considered since a lot of users tend to have a ton of plugins installed.  You probably already know how resource intensive just the editor and tinymce can be in the first place.
Plus, overall I hate breaking out of JS to PHP when it's not 100% necessary :P
Since you have the data set in base64 already - you could use a simple converter - there's plenty out there I just copied and pasted one I found for the example below. https://www.npmjs.com/package/base64toblob works fine if you wanted something quick to integrate into your build.
Here's a quick working example using a placeholder image base64 data, I just threw it in a theme for testing, but you can use it wherever you want:
theme/functions.php:
    add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'js_plugin_name_scripts' );

    function js_plugin_name_scripts() {
        wp_register_script( 'js-plugin-name', get_parent_theme_file_uri( 'js/js-plugin-name.js' ), array( 'wp-api' ) );
        wp_localize_script( 'wp-api', 'wpApiSettings', array(
            'root' => esc_url_raw( rest_url() ),
            'nonce' => wp_create_nonce( 'wp_rest' )
        ) );
        wp_enqueue_script( 'js-plugin-name' );
    }

theme/js/js-plugin-name.js:
    // Wait for API load.
    wp.api.loadPromise.done( function() {

        var base64, blob;

        /**
         * Convert base64 data to blob.
         *
         * @param {string} base64
         * @param {string} mime
         */
        function base64ToBlob( base64, mime ) {
            mime = mime || '';
            var sliceSize = 1024;
            var byteChars = window.atob( base64 );
            var byteArrays = [];

            for ( var offset = 0, len = byteChars.length; offset < len; offset += sliceSize ) {
                var slice = byteChars.slice( offset, offset + sliceSize );

                var byteNumbers = new Array( slice.length );
                for ( var i = 0; i < slice.length; i++ ) {
                    byteNumbers[i] = slice.charCodeAt(i);
                }

                var byteArray = new Uint8Array( byteNumbers );

                byteArrays.push( byteArray );
            }

            return new Blob(byteArrays, {type: mime});
        }

        base64 = "[encoded data, 21952 characters]";

        blob = base64ToBlob( base64, 'image/png' );

        // Upload to media library.
        jQuery.ajax( {
            url: wpApiSettings.root + 'wp/v2/media',
            method: 'POST',
            beforeSend: function ( xhr ) {
                xhr.setRequestHeader( 'X-WP-Nonce', wpApiSettings.nonce );
                xhr.setRequestHeader( 'Content-Disposition', 'attachment;filename=' + 'placeholder.png' );
            },
            data: blob,
            cache: false,
            contentType: false,
            processData: false
        } ).done( function ( response ) {

            // Response contains the media details.
            console.log( response );
        } );
    });

The file will be incremented -1, -2 automatically like normal so you don't overwrite stuff yadda yadda, and response will contain the media object to with whatever you need.
some of the useful params in response:
    response.id = post id
    response.source_url = url to file ie http://local.wordpress.dev/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/placeholder.png
    response.title.rendered(or .raw) = media title if needed
    response.slug = media slug
    response.media_details.height = contains the original uploaded img height
    response.media_details.width = contains the original uploaded img width
    response.media_details.sizes = contains the various img sizes generated - ie full/thumb/sm/med/lrg etc --- don't always rely on naming conventions ;)!

If you converted to base64 then you could also just write a custom jquery ajax transport and grab the img src and skip doing all the base64 decode to blob stuff too, and it should help performance hits from encoding just to decode etc.
EDIT:
I forgot to mention: the REST API is available for any vip site, so this should be fine.  I'm assuming you're generating the charts in tinymce editor on the back end - so the user is already authenticated.  The above example is just passing the nonce in through the headers in an ajax request, which is a requirement for security on vip.
You can refer to documentation for compliance here: https://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/api/
Also I didn't notice you were using HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL() ! - You could just skip the decoding of b64 and get the blob directly since you're not fetching the image from a remote and trying to add it and use HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob() (MDN)


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USA v. Assange
On Appeal Contracts Expression
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Electronic / Internet-based Communication, Press / Newspapers
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Decision - Procedural Outcome, Motion Denied, Decision Outcome (Disposition/Ruling), Judgment in Favor of Defendant, Other
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Press Freedom, National Security
National Security, Journalism, Freedom of press, Whistleblowing
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Case Summary and Outcome
London's Westminster Magistrates' Court ruled that Julian Assange's extradition to the United States (US) was oppressive for health reasons, but approved the extradition based on allegations that Mr. Assange had disclosed classified information. The founder of WikiLeaks had been remanded into custody in the United Kingdom (UK). The US had submitted an extradition request to the UK for Mr Assange, citing a superseding indictment that charged him with eighteen counts of obtaining, receiving, and disclosing classified information. The defense made numerous arguments against the extradition request under the Extradition Act (EA) 2003, including that the allegations in the request were not unlawful under English law and that the extradition breached Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). District Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected these particular defenses. The Court outlined that, under English law, Mr Assange was complicit in unlawfully taking information and his disclosure of the information fell outside the sphere of responsible journalism. Likewise, the extradition did not constitute a flagrant denial of Mr Assange's rights and was compliant with Article 10. The Court ultimately ruled against the extradition due to Mr Assange's health and high risk of committing suicide in US custody.
The Government of the US made a request for the extradition of Julian Paul Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. The request was governed by Part 2 of the EA 2003, as well as the EA 2003 (Commencement and Savings) Order 2003 and the EA 2003 (Designation of Part 2 Territories) Order 2003.
In 2017 and 2018, a federal magistrate judge and federal grand jury issued and returned a criminal complaint and indictment respectively against Mr Assange. They alleged that he breached Title 18 of the US Code for his efforts to unlawfully commit computer intrusion. In May 2019, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia returned a superseding indictment charging Mr Assange with eighteen counts. The extradition request was submitted to the British government in June 2019.
In June 2020, a federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment charging Mr Assange with eighteen counts. Specifically, it was alleged that Mr Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning, an intelligence analyst in the US Army, and other unnamed persons to obtain classified information. Further offences related to the obtaining, receiving, and disclosing of such information that constituted "National Defense Information" under Title 18 of the US Code. Generally, the information concerned actions of the US military and intelligence agencies regarding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In July 2020, a request for extradition based upon the superseding indictment was issued.
From 2012 to 2019, Mr Assange had entered and remained in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London following proceedings to extradite him to Sweden for offences of unlawful coercion, rape and molestation. Those allegations became time barred and the Swedish prosecutor decided to discontinue Mr Assange's prosecution.
Mr. Assange was remanded into custody in April 2019 following his seven year stay in the Ecuadorian Embassy. He was in custody throughout the proceedings.
Decision Overview
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Westminster Magistrates' Court sought to determine if the various defense arguments against extradition to the US succeeded. These defense arguments were characterized as "numerous, complex and, in some instances, novel" [para. 32].
The US-UK Treaty
The defendant claimed that because the UK-US Extradition Treaty 2003 prohibited extradition for political offences, the Court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. Therefore, breaching the 2003 Treaty would have constituted a violation of the rule of law and have contravened Article 5 of the ECHR.
The US countered that it was constitutionally incorrect to rely on the 2003 Treaty because treaties had to be incorporated into UK law via statute to be applicable. The only available regime was the EA 2003 which "abolished the protection for political offences" [para. 38].
The Court found that the 2003 Treaty did not confer on the defendant rights which were enforceable before the Court. Indeed, treaties could only confer rights on individuals when incorporated into domestic law. The nature of an extradition treaty was that it was an agreement between governments and simply reflected a relationship concerning extradition – it was not governed by the domestic law of either state.
The Court was satisfied that any apparent breach of the 2003 Treaty did not render the defendant's detention arbitrary and inconsistent with Article 5 of the ECHR. The 2003 Treaty did not create enforceable rights and any breach of it was not a "sound basis" [para. 61] for determining that the defendant's detention was unlawful. Altogether, there was no need for the Court to decide whether the allegations in the US request amounted to "political offences".
Initial Stages of the Extradition Hearing
The defendant argued that the allegations did not meet the "dual criminality" requirements of section 137 of the EA 2003 because the defendant's conduct would not constitute any offence under English law. Specifically, the defense contended that the defendant had merely engaged in the ordinary and lawful conduct of investigative journalism that was protected by Article 10 of the ECHR. If he was criminally liable, his conduct must have amounted to a criminal act separate from the actions of a whistle-blower.
The US alleged that the defendant's conduct were offences under English law, particularly the Official Secrets Act (OSA) 1911, the OSA 1920, the OSA 1989, the Criminal Law Act 1977, the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The US outlined that the OSA 1989 applied even to publishers who were not the original leakers of information. Likewise, there was compliance with Article 10 of the ECHR because persons were only criminalized if they disclosed damaging information while knowing or having reason to believe it would have been damaging. Overall, the defendant disclosed materials that no responsible journalist would have disclosed.
The Court approached the issue by separating the defendant's alleged conduct into separate strands. The first strand focused on the efforts to commit computer intrusion along with Ms Manning and other unnamed persons. The second strand focused on the unlawful acquisition and publicization of materials along with Ms Manning. The third strand focused on the publication of the documents that contained sensitive details.
Regarding the first strand, the Court found that the conduct amounted to offences under English law, namely the Criminal Law Act 1977 and the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Regarding the second strand, the Court found that Ms Manning's conduct amounted to offences under the OSA 1911 and OSA 1989 and the defendant's alleged conduct in assisting these offences amounted to a conspiracy to commit the same offences. While the Court acknowledged that there was no offence without the defendant committing a criminal activity separate from whistleblowing, it found that the defendant's activities transcended the encouragement of whistleblowing. The offences pertained to the defendant's knowing and intentional receipt of information and his complicity in obtaining and disclosing such information. Similarly, the information's damaging effect on the security and intelligence services' work could be inferred.
Referencing Regina v Shayler [2002] UKHL 11, the Court noted that the House of Lords considered the ECHR in the context of the OSA 1989 and found that the relevant provisions were compatible with Article 10 of the ECHR. In particular, Lord Bingham had considered that the restrictions imposed by the OSA 1989 provisions were legitimate objectives and fell under the Article 10(2) qualification. Additionally, he confirmed that neither a public interest defense nor a national interest defense was available.
The Court noted Brambilla and others v. Italy ECtHR [2016] 22567/09, where three journalists were convicted of offences for intercepting communications and collecting information to report. The ECtHR articulated that journalists could not simply claim exclusive immunity from ordinary criminal law because their actions were protected under Article 10. The scope of journalists' responsibilities hinged on the "technical means" they used.
In this case, the defendant was complicit in unlawfully taking information. The relevant provision of the OSA 1989 aimed at deterring people from disclosing secrets and its aim would have been undermined if the disclosures of someone like Ms Manning were treated differently to those by a co-conspirator. It would leave open an avenue to disclosure which Parliament did not allow via the OSA 1989. The consideration would have differed if the defendant had not assisted Ms Manning to take the information and only received it.
Regarding the third strand, the Court found the conduct was an offence under the OSA 1989. The OSA 1989 imposed criminal liability on third parties who were in possession of information prejudicial to the work of security and intelligence services that was disclosed to them by Crown servants without lawful authority and in the circumstances delineated by the statute.
The defense argued that there was Article 10 protection, and that the disclosures' harm was minimal compared to that of non-disclosure which affected "millions" [para. 122]. The US countered that Article 10 only protected responsible journalists and that the defendant disclosed the information in an "unconsidered and indiscriminate manner" [para. 123] with the knowledge of its harm.
The Court noted that the defendant's Article 10 rights were engaged, but they were not absolute. Interference was justified if prescribed by law, pursued a legitimate aim, was necessary in a democratic society, and proportionate to the aim pursued. The interference in this case was a provision of the OSA 1989 which aimed at preserving national security. The question was thus whether the interference was necessary in a democratic society.
The standard for prohibition of disclosure in the OSA 1989 was that the person disclosing information did so without lawful authority; he/she was aware of the information falling under the statute; the information was likely to prejudice the security and intelligence services' work; and he/she knew or had reasonable cause to know that the disclosure was prejudicial. Referencing Stoll v. Switzerland ECtHR [2007] 69698/01 and Gîrleanu v. Romania ECtHR [2018] 50376/09, the Court noted that the ECtHR had recognized circumstances where the release of information could be restricted under Article 10. The Court highlighted the "inevitable tension" [para. 128] between openness and the necessity to keep certain intelligence information secret. Regarding proportionality, Parliament had sought a balance by creating a different standard for persons who were not Crown servants.
In this case, the defendant had chosen to disclose information dealing with the identities of persons who were informants and who were placed in harm's way by the disclosure. The Court deemed the equivalence between the defendant's conduct and responsible journalism to be misguided. It noted that the modern digital age allowed vast quantities of information to be dumped online instantaneously and universally. Such conduct was not constrained by ethical journalism and sound judgment, making it difficult to ascertain how responsible journalism could be applied. The Court illustrated this point by noting that newspapers who had worked with the defendant had condemned his decision to disclose the information, claiming that the defendant's data dump was not reflective of their "careful editorial decisions" [para. 132].
Thus, the Court found that free speech was not a cover, even in cases of serious public concern. It did not provide individuals with the right to "decide the fate of others, on the basis of their partially informed assessment of the risks" [para. 135]. The Court determined that the provisions of the OSA 1989 were necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, to the extent that they were used against the disclosure by informants.
Lastly, the Court rejected the defense's submission that there was a principle of a "right to truth" that rendered the defendant's conduct lawful under English law. The defense also submitted that the exposure of information related to war crimes was necessary to preventing dangers and injury to life, and a finding of dual criminality would mean this was incorrect. The Court outlined that dual criminality was only determined by examining the documents for an extradition request. The defense's submission was based on evidence outside the request and could not be used. It had to be dealt with at trial, not extradition proceedings.
The defendant could not claim to be preventing harm if he simultaneously stated that he was unaware of the information's content until it was in his possession. Additionally, the defendant could not identify any dangerous public incident which his disclosure helped to avoid. The defendant's wish to expose criminal conduct was not a defense and nor was it a "public interest" defense under the OSA 1989, as determined by Shayler.
Bars to Extradition
The defendant claimed that the extradition was barred by reason of extraneous considerations, according to section 81(a) and (b) of the EA 2003. Specifically, US officials and politicians had applied pressure to "escalate the charges" [para. 153] as part of a "war on journalists" [para. 153]. The extradition request was politically motivated. The US refuted any political motivations and noted that the alleged offences were narrowly crafted with an objective basis.
The Court was satisfied that the charges against the defendant were brought in good faith and were not the result of pressure or any political hostility. Any inimical views cited were immaterial and did not translate into a broader posture or a basis for the charges themselves. Furthermore, there was no evidence to suggest that the defendant would not be given a fair trial or suffer punitive treatment in a prejudiced manner. Instead, proper US procedures would prevail, and officials would operate above any political animus or direction.
The defendant also claimed that the extradition would be unjust and oppressive by reason of the lapse of time, according to section 82 of the EA 2003. The Court noted prior case law that outlined a person could not rely on this bar to extradition if they were responsible for the time delay, particularly by avoiding arrest. In this case, the Court observed that the defendant had remained in the Ecuadorian embassy during most of the investigative period, deliberately out of authorities' reach. The submission was rejected.
The defendant argued that extradition breached the European Convention of Human Rights – particularly Article 3, 6, 7, 10 – and should be refused pursuant to section 87 of the EA 2003.
Regarding Article 10, the defense had to establish that the extradition would produce a "flagrant denial or gross violation" of the defendant's rights, as to "completely den[y] or nullif[y]" [para. 269] them in the US.
The defense argued that the prosecution would be prevented by a US court pursuant to the First Amendment, showcasing that Article 10 was engaged. It also reiterated that the ordinary journalism was being criminalized – the US Constitution curtailed only limited forms of speech and there was no criminality in other similar circumstances. The defense added that safeguards in the OSA 1989, which enabled compliance with Article 10, were unavailable in the US.
The US countered that the First Amendment did not protect journalists who violated criminal law and that the defendant was not analogous to a journalist based on his activities – hence why he was distinctively being charged. Regarding the parallel process of the OSA 1989, the disclosure of informants would still not have been allowed to take place under that regime. Nonetheless, the US maintained avenues for military members to engage in whistleblowing.
The Court emphasized that the First Amendment protected speech similarly to Article 10 and would fairly apply to the defendant, arguing that no authority suggested the contrary. It also reemphasized that the defendant's conduct was capable of breaching criminal laws in England and could not be exempted by Article 10. On that basis, prosecution in the US on the same grounds would not constitute a nullification of the defendant's Article 10 rights.
Generally, the issues raised by the defense could be raised at a pre-trial stage or at a substantive trial. The Court believed that a US court would carefully consider the defendant's First Amendment rights as they related to their equivalent legislation. Regarding comparable protections in the OSA 1989, US statutes did contain equivalent safeguards for whistleblowers which were contained in statutory provisions that were publicly available. The defense thus had the opportunity to review and comment on such material despite not doing so. Still, the disclosure by the defendant was so extensive that it was "unrealistic" [para. 267] to think that any authorization for it would have been provided or sanctioned by a court.
The defense failed to establish that extradition would constitute a flagrant denial of rights. Similarly, the Court rejected submissions that the US criminal justice system would fail in ensuring the defendant's rights under Article 6 and 7 of the ECHR. It was unnecessary to consider Article 3 and the issue of health was dealt with pursuant to section 91 of the EA 2003.
The defendant claimed that extradition should be refused because it would be unjust and oppressive by reason of his mental condition and the high risk of suicide pursuant to section 91 of the EA 2003.
The Court heard from expert witness testimony on the defendant's condition, the condition of US detention, and the issue of prison suicide. The Court accepted that the defendant suffered from a recurrent depressive disorder that was accompanied by psychotic features and suicidal thoughts. In addition, it accepted that the defendant suffered from autism spectrum disorder and Asperger's syndrome disorder. The combination of these disorders equipped the defendant with the "determination, planning and intelligence" [para. 360] to commit suicide and heightened the risk of its realization. The Court found the risk "substantial" [para. 337].
The Court also noted that there was a real risk that the defendant would be subject to maximum solitary confinement when awaiting trial or as an inmate. The conditions and settings of his detention would restrict his physical contact and social interaction. It was agreed that the new conditions would have a "deleterious impact" [para. 340] on the defendant's mental health and exacerbate his suicide risk. The Court was satisfied that the procedures in the US were not sufficient to prevent the defendant from finding a way to commit suicide with the "single minded determination of his autism spectrum disorder" [para. 362]. The extradition was found to be oppressive.
Abuse of Process
The defendant contended that extradition would be an abuse of process because the plaintiff's request misrepresented the facts.
The Court determined that the standard for this defense was a situation in which an extradition request would lead to an extradition on facts known to be "clearly wrong". This standard was not met in this case. Instead, the defense only provided alternative explanations for the allegations with substantive defenses and disputed evidence. The Court found that the defendant would not be prejudiced and would be able to argue his case at trial in the US.
In accordance with section 91(3) of the EA 2003, the Court ordered the discharge of the defendant.
Decision Direction
Decision Direction indicates whether the decision expands or contracts expression based on an analysis of the case.
Contracts Expression
This case contracts expression because the Court favored the prohibition of disclosure under the OSA 1989, noting that its standard was compliant with Article 10 of the ECHR. Such an interference with Article 10 rights was deemed to be necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, to the extent that it was used against the disclosure of informants. Specifically, the Court emphasized that data dumping was not equivalent to responsible journalistic practice. Free speech was not an absolute cover and did not provide individuals with the right to "decide the fate of others, on the basis of their partially informed assessment of the risks" [para. 135].
Global Perspective demonstrates how the court's decision was influenced by standards from one or many regions.
Table of Authorities
Related International and/or regional laws
ECtHR, Brambilla v. Italy, App. No. 22567/09 (2016)
Referenced by the Court to articulate that journalists can not simply claim exclusive immunity from ordinary criminal law because their actions are protected under Article 10. The scope of journalists' responsibilities hinge on the "technical means" they use.
ECtHR, Stoll v. Switzerland, App. No. 69698/98 (2007)
Referenced by the Court to note that the ECtHR had recognized circumstances where the release of information could be restricted under Article 10.
ECtHR, Gîrleanu v. Romania (2018), No. 50376/09
National standards, law or jurisprudence
U.K., The Official Secrets Act (1989)
Referenced by the US and the Court as the primary law under which the defendant's conduct constituted offences in England.
U.K., Regina v. Shayler [2002] UKHL 11
Referenced by the Court to note that the House of Lords considered the ECHR in the context of the OSA 1989 and found that the relevant provisions were compatible with Article 10 of the ECHR.
Case Significance
Case significance refers to how influential the case is and how its significance changes over time.
The decision establishes a binding or persuasive precedent within its jurisdiction.
Official Case Documents
Reports, Analysis, and News Articles:
Assange cannot be extradited, but free speech arguments dismissed — an extended look
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2021/01/21/assange-cannot-be-extradited-but-free-speech-arguments-dismissed-an-extended-look/
A Win for One? The impact of USA v Assange on UK extradition processes
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Why did the District Judge rule against Julian Assange's extradition to the US?
https://www.bindmans.com/insight/blog/why-did-the-district-judge-rule-against-julian-assange-extradition-to-the-us
Humanitarian Victory for Assange
https://www.ejiltalk.org/humanitarian-victory-for-assange/
The Assange Extradition Decision: No Time to Celebrate
https://www.cato.org/commentary/assange-extradition-decision-no-time-celebrate
EFF: Coalition Letter to the DOJ Concerning the Prosecution of Julian Assange
https://www.eff.org/document/coalition-letter-doj-concerning-prosecution-julian-assange
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La B-Unique Records è una etichetta discografica londinese fondata nel 2001 da Mark Lewis e Martin Toher.

Scuderia
Kodaline
James Bay
John Newman
Darlia
The Mispers
Port Isla
Ian Broudie
John Power
Samuel Preston
Liam O'Donnell
Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Luke Sital Singh
Anders Grahn
Grace Tither
Ralph Pellymounter
James Flannigan

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Alterkicks
Aqualung
The Automatic
Bedouin Soundclash
Coheed and Cambria
Fenech Soler
Gay Dad
Har Mar Superstar
Hot Hot Heat
Kaiser Chiefs
Leaves
Millionaires
Mull Historical Society
The Ordinary Boys
Saves the Day
Spunge
Rocket From The Crypt
The Twang
Pull Tiger Tail

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This is a little trifecta of veggie dishes that are super popular in the Caribbean for breakfast served up with some sada Roti (almost like a flat bread or pita) or some form of bread. These are my favourites! I don't limit them to breakfast. I make these often and they are great for lunch and snacking and whenever. Delicious and full of flavour. One of my favourite ways to eat the eggplant one is on a piece of bread with a slice of cheddar and then the eggplant choka spread on top. You get salty and smoky and creamy all in each bite!! So good!
The tomatoes and eggplant choka's, as they are described here are prepped a little different then the okra. The name gives away how they are prepared. Choka refers to dishes that are made with vegetables or dry-cured fish, roasted or fire-roasted which gives them their unique smoky flavour.
Don't have an open flame? That is totally fine. You can grill the veggies too or as I often do, you can also broil them in the oven. Methods are described in the actual recipes below.
The okra takes a bit of time to prep just because you want to get it nice and crispy without the sliminess. So when I make this fry okra I just prep it from the night before. It's so worth the prep especially if you love okra and are looking for a recipe besides gumbo or callaloo that includes it. In fact if you don't like okra for the slime factor this might be the best way to have it because it's crispy and flavourful. It also goes well with salted fish if you wanted to add some protein to the dish.
These are super simple to make and so satisfying. These dishes are also perfect for the vegans and vegetarians in your life! The flavours are all very simple too, yet full of flavour and a deep smokiness to them. The veggies are definitely the stars of the dish and the other flavourings just help them shine a little brighter.
These are more than just dips or spreads they are Caribbean staples albeit they have Indo roots which have filtered through. They are so simple to make you absolutely must try them! You will really love them!
Pour all the ingredients and oil from the pan into the bowl with the tomatoes and mix with a fork until well incorporated and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Grill the eggplants whole until completely cooked inside approx 15min or cook in the oven at 350 degrees F sliced in half on a baking sheet sliced side down for approx 30-40 min or until fully cooked depending on the size of the eggplants (eggplant will look deflated and skin wrinkled) - set aside to cool enough to handle - you can also make slits into the eggplant and slide in the cloves of garlic into the eggplant so they roast together with them.
Heat oil in a small pan to medium and add the pimento pepper or hot pepper/chilli flakes and garlic and sauté for a few minutes until the garlic starts to turn slightly golden.
Pour all the ingredients and oil from the pan into the bowl with the eggplant and mix with a fork until well incorporated and season with salt and pepper to taste.


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London – As delegates from around the world converge on Portoroz, Slovenia for the opening of the 66th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Monday, pro and anti-whaling nations are set to clash over Japan's so-called 'scientific whaling'.
The stage is set for a critical meeting of the IWC next week, with around 80 member countries coming together for their biennial meeting, and the first since Japan resumed scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean despite an earlier landmark judgment from the World Court ruling its Antarctic whaling was illegal and must stop.
Despite the 2014 World Court ruling, against the findings of expert scientists and the IWC, and flying in the face of international condemnation, in 2015/16, Japan's whaling fleet returned to the Southern Ocean Sanctuary and slaughtered 333 minke whales, including more than 200 pregnant females.
Patrick Ramage, Global Whale Programme Director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), said: "The World Court ruling against Japan's whaling was clear and unequivocal. Japan's decision to defy this judgment and train its harpoons on 333 more whales which should have been safe from slaughter has only provoked further international outcry. The reality is that scientific whaling is sham science, and commercial whaling by another name. Far more valuable data can be gathered from studying live whales rather than dead ones.
IFAW is urging anti-whaling countries to speak up for whales, take a strong stance against Japan's whaling at the IWC and support a resolution on improved review process for whaling under special permit (for scientific whaling). The aim of this resolution is to ensure the IWC is fully engaged on the issue and to prevent countries from simply issuing their own permits in contravention of the whaling convention.
Conservation-minded countries are also asked to approve a new sanctuary for whales in the South Atlantic Ocean against opposition from the pro-whaling lobby, and help ensure the IWC can be a truly modern day conservation body for whales instead of an old whalers' club.
In what is shaping up to be a watershed meeting for the IWC, many other issues are also on the table, including a raft of proposals focusing on protecting whales from the range of threats they face today. This includes work on ship strikes, ocean noise pollution, marine debris, mercury and other chemical pollution, and whale strandings.
New initiatives are also being proposed to address animal welfare issues for whales, investigate the scientific benefits of live whales for ocean ecosystems and reduce the accidental bycatch of whales and dolphins in fishing gear.
IFAW whale experts will be attending the meeting and are available for interview.


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Statement of ICC Deputy Prosecutor, Mr James Stewart, at the opening of the trial in the Gicheru case
Déclaration: 15 février 2022
Good morning, Your Honour, and good morning to all.
Your Honour,
The Prosecutor, Karim A.A. Khan QC, having recused himself completely from the Kenya Situation, it is my honour, as Deputy Prosecutor, to appear before you to introduce the Prosecution team.
For the record, my name is James Stewart.
I appear with Senior Trial Lawyer, Anton Steynberg, lead counsel for the Prosecution; Trial Lawyer, Alice Zago; Associate Trial Lawyer, Inbal Djalovski; and Assistant Legal Officer, Mariana Gutierrez.
In addition, Associate Trial Lawyer, Laura Warrlich, who could not be present in court now, due to Covid-19 restrictions, will be introduced after the break. Our Case Manager, Grace Goh, is working remotely.
The International Criminal Court was established to end impunity for those responsible for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. It was established to seek justice for the victims of such crimes. It was established to seek the truth.
But in order to establish the truth, victims and witnesses must be able to testify freely and honestly. And when their evidence is perverted, through corruption or intimidation, the truth is obscured and justice is denied.
The Prosecution brings this case against Paul Gicheru to protect the integrity of the Court's proceedings from offences against the administration of justice, to punish those responsible and deter future offenders. We seek to preserve and strengthen public confidence in the Court and the expectations of those who look to the Court to establish the truth and deliver justice.
Those who would seek to undermine the Court's ability to provide redress for the victims of mass atrocities, cannot be allowed to prevail. They must be held accountable.
The investigation and prosecution of William Samoei Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang was beset from the outset with witness interference and intimidation problems, which continued up to and throughout the trial. In dismissing the charges against those two accused, the Judges, in both the majority and minority opinions of the Trial Chamber, condemned the levels of witness interference, which had made it impossible for the Chamber to ascertain the truth.
The most egregious and damaging instance of such witness interference – with the Accused, Paul Gicheru, allegedly at its centre – commenced in early 2013 and continued throughout the trial. This interference caused the Office of the Prosecutor to start an investigation, in parallel with the Ruto and Sang trial, into numerous reports of witness tampering. That investigation allowed the Prosecution to uncover and document the commission of the offences that form the basis of the case that is now before this Chamber.
The evidence gathered in the investigation will show that the Accused managed and coordinated a scheme to identify, locate, and corruptly influence actual and potential Prosecution witnesses. This was done through a combination of bribery and intimidation. The actions of the Accused and his associates led directly to the withdrawal and recanting of no less than four vital Prosecution Witnesses in the Ruto and Sang case. The efforts of the Accused and his associates to influence corruptly a further two witnesses were only thwarted, because the witnesses they targeted reported this to the Prosecution.
While the Prosecution does not allege that the Accused was himself directly involved in the disappearance and presumed death of another Prosecution witness, or in the murder of a prospective Defence witness and former Prosecution intermediary, Meshack Yebei, both of these individuals, as the narrative of the case will show, were caught up in the witness tampering scheme.
The Accused and his associates may not have been the only persons responsible for witness intimidation and tampering in the Ruto and Sang case. However, the evidence will establish – beyond a reasonable doubt – that they were responsible for the offences charged in this case.
This trial, therefore, represents an important step towards holding those responsible for witness interference in the Kenya cases accountable for their actions and achieving some measure of retribution on behalf of the victims who were denied justice.
The Prosecution notes that two further suspects, for whom arrest warrants have been issued for the same offences, remain at large and we call upon the Kenyan authorities to take all necessary steps to surrender these two suspects to the Court without further delay.
I yield the floor now to Senior Trial Lawyer, Anton Steynberg, and the Prosecution team, who will outline in detail the case that the Prosecution will present to establish the guilt of Paul Gicheru.
Source: Bureau du Procureur | Contact: [email protected]


The mountains of the Eastern Afromontane hotspot are scattered along the eastern edge of Africa, from Saudi Arabia in the north to Zimbabwe in the south. Though geographically disparate, the mountains comprising this hotspot have remarkably similar flora. The Albertine Rift harbors more endemic mammals, birds, and amphibians than any other region in Africa. The geological turmoil that created the mountains of this hotspot has also yielded some of the world's most extraordinary lakes. Due to these large lakes, a vast amount of freshwater fish diversity can be found in the Eastern Afromontane region, which is home to 617 endemic fish species.


Priscilla is a crossbreed of a Dragon and some other Being, cast into the Painted World of Ariamis because of what she was. The player can discover her doll in the Undead Asylum on their second visit, which allows them to enter the portal to the Painted World - the massive painting in Anor Londo. She stands in the tower at the edge of the ruins in the Painted World and watches over all who share the world with her. She is said to have acquired an unexplained power called Life-Hunt, an ability only she can wield, and she is said to be so powerful that the gods feared her, presumably the reason for her exile.
Priscilla is not hostile and she does not have to be defeated in order to leave the Painted World of Ariamis, but once aggroed, she will remain so and killing her is necessary to leave.
At the end of the area, behind the Heavy Knight.
If you choose to attack her during your first visit to the area, you will be unable to leave until she has been killed. Make sure you're up to the task before attacking, or you will forever be stuck in the painting.
Attacking and killing Priscilla is counted as a sin, but it can be absolved.
If you keep her alive you will have an area that will always allow you to be invaded in.
If you want to obtain all rare weapons, you'll have to kill her, for her unique soul as well as for the dagger dropped when cutting her tail off. Only once is necessary.
It is possible to attack her and obtain her dagger without killing her. Warping into the Painted World once you've obtained the Lordvessel allows you to use Homeward or a Homeward Bone to exit the world provided you do not rest at the bonfire. Use the bone after cutting her tail.
Requesting absolution from Oswald will de-aggro her for subsequent visits as well.
Very rarely, when you kill her with only one hit, the game will enter a softlock, where Crossbreed Priscilla will endlessly repeat her last lines of dialog "Ahh… But, why… What seeketh thee?", preventing the cutscene that plays when you leave the Painted World from playing, making your game literally unbeatable if your last bonfire was the Painted World bonfire, as you can never leave the painted world again. PC players can use tools such as Cheat Engine to teleport themselves out, however.
Invisibility: Casts a blizzard attack in the beginning that turns her completely invisible. this can be solved by hitting her, while invisible, with a fireball pyromancy.
Scythe swing: Swings her scythe and sometimes a follow-up swing or two, it has a decent range and causes heavy bleed buildup.
Blizzard: Blows a blizzard type attack, medium range, and is easily dodged by running to the side.
Priscilla is initially not aggressive which allows you to get the first hit in, make it count. If going for her tail you should aim to hit that. You can utilise Power Within and/or Red Tearstone Ring to maximise this initial damage. A strong enough weapon two-handed may even kill her outright.
Once aggressive she will go invisible but her footprints are visible in the snow, use these to determine her location to attack. She will break out of invisibility once staggered which is not too difficult to achieve.
High bleed resist is recommended as her scythe will deal tremendous damage if you take too many hits.
While she is invisible it is impossible to determine what attack, if any, she is performing, making it very difficult to dodge. Most Normal Shields and Large Shields should be sufficient for blocking however your objective here should be to go all-in and stagger her.
Once she is visible she can be blocked or dodged as normal.
A Spear, preferably lightning (such as that found in Sen's Fortress) is perfect for this fight. The lightning makes it very easy to stagger her to break her stealth and you can keep your shield up to block any attacks. You may wish to stand in the middle and wait for her footprints to appear or you can run to the edge to keep all avenues of approach on your screen.
If you prefer a more direct approach, two-hand your weapon and the moment you see her footprints just roll up and hit her. You should stagger her after a few hits and will have an easier fight from that point. Some decent armour is recommended for this.
A third option is to block and face her footsteps (or stand with your back to the fog gate), wait for her to bounce off your shield and then retaliate. Depending on the range of your weapon you may need to step forward a bit.
A weapon such as the Caestus that deals light and fast attacks may not stagger her but allow you to kill her without her breaking invisibility.
If you have any variation of Firestorm or Wrath of the Gods you can simply cast this once she turns invisible. She will be staggered and will turn visible for you to fight as per normal. Other spells such as Force may also work but you will need to wait for her footseps first.
If not you are best off using a melee weapon to stagger her, see previous section. Once she is visible it is a simple matter of backstepping from her attacks and hitting her with your strongest projectiles.
It is worth noting if you can hit her with a bow, the arrow will remain visible and telegraph exactly where she is. Apart from aiming above her footprints, you can also hold a shield up with the fog gate to your back and when she attacks, run to the other side of the arena and fire an arrow back at the fog gate. A few arrows can even stagger her, depending on the strength of the bow.
You can apply Toxic to her with dung pies without making her hostile. You can then watch her die in peace.
In case of Priscilla, the tail has about 17.17% of her HP.
The first is while she is passive, this allows you to prepare as much as you like and get a perfect hit in with your strongest attack. Using damage boosts such as Power Within and perhaps Red Tearstone Ring will improve your chances of cutting it in a single hit.
The second is while she is using her ice breath, block or dodge her scythe attacks until she uses it then run around behind her. Her tail should remain still for the duration of this attack.
Additionally if using any version of Firestorm this has a chance of cutting her tail while she is invisible, particularly if you did a lot of damage to it before she went invisible.
One hit using Pyromancy - With +5 Ascended Pyromancy Flame and Great Combustion, equip Crown of Dusk, Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring and Power Within (can replace any of those with Red Tearstone Ring on low hp). You can sever her tail in a single cast and follow up with any variation of Firestorm to finish her. Warning: this strategy may break your game!!!
Contingency for a missed first try - Crossbreed Priscilla ceases to be invisible after taking high amounts of poise damage. A non-upgraded Ultra Greatswords, Greataxes, and Great Hammers all do 76 Poise damage with a 2 handed R1. In a sample size of 1, two subsequent hits from a non-upgraded Greatsword of the class Ultra Greatswords caused Crossbreed Priscilla to drop invisibility while dealing a total of 144 damage, a fairly small portion of her total health. This data suggests that doing between 77 and 152 poise damage will cause Priscilla to drop her invisibility. Refer to the Poise page for reference to high poise damage options if you have insufficient strength to two hand an ultra greatsword, greataxe, or greathammer. Punching is one option. If you did not get the tail cut on your first try, this seems to be a reliable way to gain visibility of her tail if you missed the first opportunity to cut the tail before she becomes aggro.
One of us, thou art not.
plunge down from the plank, and hurry home.
thine desires shall be requited not.
This land is peaceful, its inhabitants kind, but thou dost not belong.
I beg of thee, plunge down from the plank, and hurry home.
I expected as much from thee.
Why dost thee hurry toward thine death?
But, why… What seeketh thee?
Why could thou not let us be?
Didst thou not see why Ariamis created this world?