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Q: Adding PageSpeed Module to installed nginx I like to add the Google PageSpeed Module to my nginx webserver on Ubuntu.
This link gives a simple overview https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source?hl=de but it only covers the case when you install nginx from scratch.
I already have nginx installed, and when I type the following command line inside my /var/lib/nginx folder I get a "No such file" error:
./configure --add-module=$HOME/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.7.30.4-beta

A: Your best bet at this issue is to build Nginx from scratch.
Save your nginx config files before to a safe place and then do, assuming you are in Debian:
sudo dpkg -r nginx

If you are in Debian :  sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev
Just make sure you remove Nginx and get the needed libs to build Nginx from source if not in Debian.
The libs and tools are :
gcc-c++ pcre zlib make wget

This next part is system independent.
Get the latest Nginx version :
cd /usr/src/
sudo wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.7.6.tar.gz
sudo  tar xvfvz nginx-1.7.6.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/nginx-1.7.6

Get the latest pagespeed source:
sudo wget https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/archive/v1.9.32.1-beta.zip

Unpack first the module :
sudo unzip v1.9.32.1-beta.zip

cd ngx_pagespeed-1.9.32.1-beta

Wget the PSOL libs inside the module dir and unpack them there:
sudo wget wget https://dl.google.com/dl/page-speed/psol/1.9.32.1.tar.gz
sudo  tar xvfvz 1.9.32.1.tar.gz

cd back to the nginx source root dir and configure, make and make install. Make sure you change the Nginx user on the configuration stage to one that suits your needs (--user=nginx --group=nginx):
cd /usr/src/nginx-1.7.6

./configure --add-module=/usr/src/nginx-1.7.6/ngx_pagespeed-1.9.32.1-beta --prefix=/usr/local/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/run/lock/subsys/nginx --user=nginx --group=nginx

When configure stage is done :
sudo make

sudo make install

That will get you the last Nginx version with the last pagespeed mod and libraries ready to rock.

A: You can use a custom PPA source to install nginx build with Pagespeed to your system.
Look at https://launchpad.net/~sandyd/+archive/nginx-current-pagespeed for the custom build.

A: Looks like this requires a number of commands execute if you don't want to build NGINX from scratch. Here is the bash script I'm using for automatic installation of PageSpeed to an already-running NGINX instance:
#!/bin/bash
# https://www.majlovesreg.one/tag/code/
# https://www.majlovesreg.one/adding-pagespeed-to-a-running-nginx-instance

# For custom NGINX version, use:
# ngver=1.14.2
# For passing via the command line, use:
# ngver=$1
# For automated detection of installed NGINX, use:
ngver=$(nginx -v 2>&1 | grep -oP '(?<=/).*')

moddir=/usr/share/nginx/modules
builddir=$(mktemp -d)

# Build in tmp directory
cd ${builddir}

# Use script provided by pagespeed
nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 bash <(curl -f -L -sS https://ngxpagespeed.com/install) -n ${ngver} -m -b ${builddir} -a '--with-compat' -y || { echo '!! error with module creation, exiting...'; exit 1; }

# Replace ngx_pagespeed.so if exists, otherwise, copy it
[ -f ${moddir}/ngx_pagespeed.so ] && sudo mv ${moddir}/ngx_pagespeed.so ${moddir}/ngx_pagespeed.so.old
sudo chmod 644 /usr/local/nginx/modules/ngx_pagespeed.so || { echo '!! error with module path, exiting...'; exit 2; }
sudo cp /usr/local/nginx/modules/ngx_pagespeed.so ${moddir}/

# If new module works well, clean up build and install files
sudo nginx -t && { sudo rm -r /usr/local/nginx; rm -r ${builddir}/incubator-pagespeed-ngx-latest-stable; rm -r ${builddir}/nginx-${ngver}; } || { echo '!! nginx conf failed, exiting...'; exit 4; }

# Restart NGINX
systemctl is-active nginx && sudo systemctl restart nginx || sudo systemctl start nginx
echo
systemctl --no-pager status nginx
echo
echo 'Build and install of ngx_pagespeed sucessful!'
echo

To enable the dynamic module and to set other PageSpeed settings, see: https://www.majlovesreg.one/adding-pagespeed-to-a-running-nginx-instance


1.Monitor your children's use of the Internet. Put the computer in a high-traffic family area and limit nighttime use. Also, check out online child safety monitoring software like IMSafer.
2.Fortify your computer with strong security software and make sure to keep it up to date. The McAfee® Internet Security Suite guarantees protection from viruses, hackers, and spyware. It filters offensive content, pictures, and web sites. The anti-virus software will also protect your computer from viruses and spyware by automatically scanning email attachments and files downloaded from P2P file-sharing sites.
3.Make sure kids understand basic rules for using social networking sites such as MySpace and blogs. They should guard their passwords, and never post personally identifying information or inappropriate photos. Blogs and social networking sites offer privacy tools that can be turned on to restrict potentially dangerous users. The sites automatically provide these protective tools to kids under 15. Kids should share information only with people they know from the real world.
4.It's imperative that your kids let you know if they arrange in-person meetings with people they meet online. Before any such meeting, you should confirm the person's identity, and you should accompany your child to the meeting in a public place.
5.When using P2P file-sharing programs, kids should not download files from users whom they don't know. They could be downloading infected files, pictures, games, and music that are inappropriate, or media files protected by copyright law. Kids should not allow users to upload their music files unless they're certain that they have permission to share them. You can disable the upload feature so that your kids don't inadvertently share files without permission. The University of Chicago offers instructions for disabling the upload feature in most file-sharing programs.
7.Only allow your children to use monitored chat rooms, and have them use a screen name that doesn't hint at their true identity. As with blogs and MySpace, kids should never reveal personal information or share photos. Make sure they understand that people can lie about who they are and that online friends are still strangers.
8.Teach your kids to ignore emails and instant messages from people they don't know. They should never open attachments they are not expecting nor click on links in messages. As with blogs and MySpace, they should not send out personal information. Configure your child's instant messaging application correctly to make sure it does not open automatically when they fire up their computer. Have them turn off the computer and disconnect the DSL or modem line when they're not using it.
9.Use browsers for kids and kid-oriented search engines. Children's browsers such as Kid Browser 1.1 do not display inappropriate words or images. It comes pre-loaded with kid-safe web sites and pre-set word filters. You only need to make sure you approve, and review the default web sites and words. Kid-oriented search engines including Ask for Kids and Yahooligans perform limited searches and screen search results. There is a great list of engines at Search Engine Watch. The site also tells you how to turn on parental controls in regular search engines including Google, HotBot, and MSN Search.
10.Let your kids find appropriate and helpful web sites using lists put together by experts in the field. The American Library Association has a very good list, The ALA Great Web Sites for Kids. First Gov for Kids has government-related children sites and also lists groups of kid-friendly sites. Fact Monster is an excellent reference site, packed with information and homework help.


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Yemen is a republic with a constitution that provides for a president, a parliament, and an independent judiciary. In 2012 the governing and opposition parties chose Vice President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi as the sole consensus candidate for president. Two-thirds of the country's eligible voters confirmed him as president, with a two-year mandate. In 2014 Houthi forces aligned with forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh occupied the capital, Sana'a, igniting a civil conflict between Houthi forces and the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG) that continued through the year.
The primary state security and intelligence-gathering entities, the Political Security Organization (PSO) and the National Security Bureau (NSB), came under Houthi control in 2014, although their structure and operations appeared to remain the same. The ROYG staffed the PSO and the NSB in areas under its control. By law the PSO and the NSB report first to the interior minister and then to the president; coordination efforts between the PSO and the NSB were unclear.
The Criminal Investigation Division reports to the Ministry of Interior and conducts most criminal investigations and arrests. The paramilitary Special Security Forces was under the authority of the interior minister, as was the counterterrorism unit. The Ministry of Defense supervised units to quell domestic unrest and to participate in internal armed conflicts. Civilian authorities did not maintain effective control over security forces. Houthis controlled most of the national security apparatus in sections of the north and some former state institutions. Competing tribal, party, and sectarian influences further reduced ROYG authority, exhibited in August when United Arab Emirates (UAE)-funded Security Belt Forces (SBF), many of which aligned with the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC), took over Aden and several other southern territories.
In 2014 the Houthi uprising compelled the ROYG to sign a UN-brokered peace deal calling for a "unity government." The ROYG resigned after Houthi forces, allied with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) party, seized the presidential palace in 2015. Houthi forces then dissolved parliament, replacing it with the Supreme Revolutionary Committee. Hadi escaped house arrest and fled to Aden, where he declared all actions taken by Houthi forces in Sana'a unconstitutional, reaffirmed his position as president, pledged to uphold the principles of the 2014 National Dialogue Conference, and called on the international community to protect the country's political process.
After Houthi forces launched an offensive in southern Yemen and entered Aden in 2015, Hadi fled to Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia formed a military coalition, Operation "Decisive Storm," on behalf of the ROYG. Peace talks in Kuwait in 2016 between the Houthis and ROYG ended inconclusively. In 2017 Houthi forces killed Saleh after he publicly split from the Houthis and welcomed cooperation with the coalition. In December 2018 direct talks between the ROYG and Houthis under UN supervision in Sweden led to agreements on a ceasefire in and around the city and port of Hudaydah, as well as on prisoner exchanges and addressing the humanitarian situation in Taiz. These agreements were not effectively implemented; hostilities–including Houthi drone strikes and coalition airstrikes–continued throughout the year.
Significant human rights issues included: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including political assassinations; forced disappearances; torture; arbitrary arrest and detention; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; political prisoners; arbitrary infringements on privacy rights; criminalization of libel, censorship, and site blocking; substantial interference with freedom of assembly and association; the inability of citizens to choose their government through free and fair elections; pervasive corruption; recruitment and use of child soldiers; pervasive abuse of migrants; and criminalization of consensual same sex sexual conduct between adults.
Impunity for security officials remained a problem, in part because the government exercised limited authority and in part due to the lack of effective mechanisms to investigate and prosecute abuse and corruption. The ROYG took steps to investigate, prosecute, and punish officials who committed human rights abuses, but had limited capacity due to the ongoing civil war. Houthi control over government institutions in the north severely reduced the ROYG's capacity to conduct investigations.
Nonstate actors, including the Houthis, tribal militias, militant secessionist elements, al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and a local branch of ISIS committed significant abuses with impunity. Saudi-led coalition airstrikes resulted in civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure.
Although the constitution provides for freedom of expression, including for the press "within the limits of the law," the Press and Publications Law calls for journalists to uphold national unity and prohibits criticism of the head of state. The Houthis did not respect the rights as provided in the constitution, and the government was unable to enforce them.
Freedom of Expression: All parties to the conflict severely restricted the right to freedom of expression, and female human rights defenders, journalists, and activists faced specific repression on the basis of gender. Local human rights defenders faced harassment, threats, and smear campaigns from the government, Saudi-led coalition, and Houthi forces. In multiple instances Houthis went to the homes of activists, journalists, and political leaders opposed to the Houthis and used the threat of arrest and other means to intimidate perceived opponents and to silence dissent.
Press and Media, Including Online Media: Prior to the outbreak of conflict, the transitional government approved legislation to regulate broadcasting and television channels. A number of domestic private stations operated under media production company permits, and several stations broadcast from abroad for domestic audiences.
Violence and Harassment: The government was unable to take any substantive steps to protect journalists from violence and harassment. Progovernment popular resistance forces, Houthis, and tribal militias were responsible for a range of abuses against media outlets.
In May, Amnesty International reported the Houthis had detained 10 journalists since 2015 on false charges, and subjected the journalists to torture and other forms of abuse.
In August the CPJ documented that military authorities detained three journalists, Munir Talal, Mahfouz al-Baaithi, and Yahya al-Baaithi, at a hotel in the city of Taiz, accusing them of belonging to a militia. Authorities released them after making them pledge not to write or publish anything on their detention.
Progovernment forces, including Security Belt and Hadrami forces, harassed media and monitors by raiding civil society organizations, and detaining journalists and demonstrators for publicizing complaints about detention practices and military operations. The CPJ reported in 2018 an armed raid in March of that year on the offices of al-Shomou Foundation, believed to be pro-ROYG. The men set fire to the presses used to print the weekly al-Shomou and daily Akhbar al-Youm newspapers. The president of al-Shomou Foundation told the CPJ the attackers arrived in vehicles and wore uniforms consistent with the Security Belt forces that operate in and around Aden. Three weeks later, Security Belt forces abducted seven Akhbar al-Youm staff from the same location and released them after one month.
Censorship or Content Restrictions: The Houthis controlled several state ministries responsible for press and communications, including the Ministry of Telecommunications. In that capacity they selected items for formerly government-run broadcast and print media and did not allow reports critical of themselves. The Ministry of Telecommunications and internet service providers reportedly blocked websites and domains authorities deemed critical of the Houthi agenda. OHCHR reported Houthi forces censored television channels and banned newspapers from publication.
Libel/Slander Laws: The law criminalizes criticism of the "person of the head of state;" the publication of "false information" that may spread "dissent and division among the people;" materials that may lead to "the spread of ideas contrary to the principles of the Yemeni revolution;" and "false stories intended to damage Arab and friendly countries or their relations." There was no information during the year whether the ROYG or the Houthis used these laws to restrict public discussion or retaliate against journalists or political opponents.
Nongovernmental Impact: International media and human rights organizations said their personnel were unable to obtain coalition permission to use UN flights into and out of Sana'a since 2017. Independent observers must take commercial flights to government-controlled areas in the south and then travel by land across dangerous front lines to other areas. See section 1.g. for reports of abductions of journalists by unidentified armed men.
The law provides for the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association, but these rights were not respected in the majority of the country, i.e., areas which the government did not control.
See the Department of State's International Religious Freedom Report at https://www.state.gov/religiousfreedomreport/.
The law provides for freedom of internal movement, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation.
In-country Movement: Rebel forces, resistance forces, security forces, and tribes maintained checkpoints on major roads. In many regions, especially in areas outside effective central security control, armed tribesmen frequently restricted freedom of movement, operating their own checkpoints, sometimes with military or other security officials, and often subjected travelers to physical harassment, extortion, theft, or short-term kidnappings for ransom. Damage to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure from the conflict also hindered the delivery of humanitarian aid and commercial shipments (see section 1.g.).
Women in general did not enjoy full freedom of movement, although restrictions varied by location (see section 6, Women). Some observers reported increased restrictions on women in conservative locations, such as Safadi. Oxfam reported that in areas controlled by radical Islamic groups such as AQAP, men at checkpoints increasingly insisted on adherence to the "mahram" system, the cultural obligation of women to be accompanied by male relatives in public.
Local observers reported Yemenis from Houthi-controlled areas faced increasing discrimination and difficulties when traveling in the southern portion of the country.
Foreign Travel: The Houthi takeover of Sana'a in 2014 and the government relocation to Aden in 2015 left no official government authority in control of Sana'a airport customs or immigration functions. In 2016 the coalition closed Sana'a International Airport to commercial traffic, permitting only UN humanitarian flights, thereby preventing thousands of local citizens from traveling abroad. Those who needed to leave the country attempt alternative routes that require long journeys across active front lines at high risk and cost.
In the past women needed the permission of a male guardian, such as a husband, before applying for a passport or leaving the country. A husband or male relative could bar a woman from leaving the country by placing a woman's name on a "no-fly list" maintained at airports. Prior to the conflict, authorities strictly enforced this requirement when women traveled with children, but there were no reports of government authorities enforcing this requirement during the year. There were attempts, however, by the Houthis to impose similar restrictions on women's international travel. Given the deterioration of infrastructure and lack of security due to the conflict, many women reportedly declined to travel alone (see section 6, Women).
UNHCR's Head of Sub Office Aden acknowledged the efforts and hospitality of the government and its people, who have continued to host some 275,000 refugees and asylum-seekers despite the conflict. UNHCR reported more than 97,000 new arrivals of migrants and refugees to the country in the first eight months of the year, marking a 48 percent increase over the previous year, with expectations up to 160,000 could arrive by the end of the year. The IOM estimated 20,000 migrants, a majority of whom were fleeing conflict in the Horn of Africa, traveled by boat to Yemen each month.
The country received refugees from a variety of countries during the conflict. Many refugees became increasingly vulnerable due to the worsening security and economic situation in the country. Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean, and other refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants shared in the general poverty and insecurity of the country.
According to UNHCR's November Operational Update, there were approximately 276,800 refugees and asylum seekers in the country, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia. Many were attempting to reach or return to Saudi Arabia for work and had entered the country based on false information from smugglers that the conflict in the country was over, according to UNHCR and the IOM. Due to the fighting, many took refuge at the Kharaz camp and towns in the south. The ROYG could not provide physical protection to refugees; many were held in detention centers operated by Houthis in the north and the government in the south. UNHCR claimed there were reports of refugees and migrants facing physical and sexual abuse as well as torture and forced labor, in both Houthi and ROYG-controlled facilities, and that many refugees and migrants were susceptible to trafficking.
Abuse of Migrants, Refugees, and Stateless Persons: OHCHR reported SBF committed rape and other forms of serious sexual violence targeting foreign migrants and other vulnerable groups (see sections 1.c. and 1.g.).
Multiple NGOs and the media continued to report that criminal smuggling groups built a large number of "camps" near the Yemen-Saudi border city of Haradh and in other parts of the country, where militants held migrants for extortion and ransom.
In August, HRW reported migrants from the Horn of Africa were met and captured by traffickers upon arrival of the former in the country. The report stated five migrants who were interviewed said the traffickers physically assaulted them to extort payments from family members or contacts in Ethiopia or Somalia. While camps where migrants were held were run by Yemenis, Ethiopians often reportedly carried out the abuse. In many cases, relatives said they sold assets such as homes or land to obtain the ransom money. After paying the traffickers or escaping, many migrants claimed to have made their way north to the Saudi-Yemen border, crossing in rural, mountainous areas. The Associated Press reported in October hundreds of migrants were held in deplorable conditions and experienced rape, torture, and other abuse at the hands of smugglers.
Refoulement: Eritrean, Ethiopian, and Somali detainees in the Bureiqa migrant detention center near Aden alleged they were not allowed to claim refugee status and that hundreds of fellow detainees were sent back out to sea in overloaded boats. HRW reported in 2018 these deportations resulted in the deaths of dozens of asylum seekers. Information was not available for deportations during the year.
Access to Asylum: No law addresses the granting of refugee status or asylum, and there was no system for providing protection to asylum seekers. In past years, the government provided automatic refugee status to Somalis who entered the country. The Houthis attempted to take over the refugee status determinations process in areas under their control, leading many refugees to have lapsed documentation. UNHCR was generally able to access populations to provide assistance and was working with the Houthis to come to a resolution on registration of refugees. UNHCR continued to conduct refugee status determination in southern territory under government control, in coordination with the government.
In 2018 numerous first-hand accounts corroborated that asylum seekers who registered with UNHCR as refugees had their documentation confiscated upon arrival to Buraika, according to HRW.
Freedom of Movement: Freedom of movement remained difficult for all in the country, including refugees, given the damage to roads, bridges, and other basic infrastructure caused by the conflict. Most of the country's airports incurred significant damage or were closed to commercial traffic, making travel difficult for all, including refugees. In areas controlled by Houthis unofficial checkpoints blocked or delayed the movement of individuals or goods.
The IOM reported both the ROYG and Houthis detained migrants due to concerns they could be recruited by the other party. UNHCR, the IOM, and other humanitarian organizations continued to face challenges accessing detention centers to monitor detained refugees and asylum seekers.
While the government generally deported migrants back to their country of origin, the Houthis frequently detained migrants for indefinite periods. In April, ROYG authorities began detaining large groups of migrants in Abyan, Aden, and Lahj governorates. At the peak of the campaign, approximately 5,000 migrants, including children and women, were held across three sites unfit to accommodate people, such as conflict-damaged sports stadiums. In coordination with partners, the IOM immediately began an emergency response for those detained, providing food, water supply, latrines, and health care. The IOM began assisting migrants detained in the 22nd of May Stadium to return to Ethiopia under its voluntary returns program, prioritizing women, children, and persons with specific vulnerabilities. Through 22 flights, the IOM returned home 2,742 stranded migrants. As of September the IOM had assisted with more than 3,784 refugee and migrant returns to the Horn of Africa.
During the year Houthi armed groups also continued arbitrarily to detain migrants in poor conditions and failed to provide access to asylum and protection procedures in a facility near the western port of Hudaydah. HRW reported overcrowding, lack of access to medical care, and physical abuse, with detainees showing signs of sores and festering wounds.
Access to Basic Services: Refugees lacked access to basic services due to the ongoing conflict. The United Nations estimated only approximately half of the country's public-health facilities remained functional during the year. Many were closed due to damage caused by the conflict, some were destroyed, and all facilities faced shortages in supplies, including medications and fuel to run generators.
The law provides citizens with the ability to choose their government peacefully through free and fair periodic elections based on universal and equal suffrage. The outbreak of conflict interrupted a government-initiated new voter registration program. There have been no elections since the outbreak of conflict in 2014.
While the law provides for criminal penalties for official corruption, the government did not implement the law effectively. During the year there were reports of official corruption. A burdensome criminal judicial process creates a separate legal system for the political elite. According to the constitution, approval of one-fifth of the members of parliament is necessary to conduct a criminal investigation of a deputy minister or higher-ranking official. The law then requires a two-thirds majority in parliament and presidential permission to bring criminal investigation results to the general prosecutor for indictment. The government did not use the procedure before Houthis disbanded parliament in 2015 and have not used it since.
Corruption: Corruption was pervasive throughout the country, and observers reported petty corruption in nearly every government office. Job applicants were often expected to purchase their positions. Observers believed tax inspectors undervalued assessments and pocketed the difference. Many government officials and civil service employees received salaries for jobs they did not perform or multiple salaries for the same job. Corruption also regularly affected government procurement. Corruption and goods on the black market increased overall in parts of Houthi-controlled areas, particularly in institutions controlled from Sana'a.
Recent analyses by international and local observers, including Transparency International, agreed corruption was a serious problem in every branch and level of government, and especially in the security sector. International observers claimed government officials benefited from insider arrangements, embezzlement, and bribes. Political leaders and most government agencies took negligible action to combat corruption. In the view of informed local observers, the leading cause of the 2011 protests eventually resulting in the current internal conflict was the anger against decades-long pervasive corruption in the central government.
The Central Organization for Control and Audit (COCA) is the national auditing agency for public expenditures and the investigative body for corruption. COCA reportedly conducted an investigation into alleged malfeasance in the Central Bank of Yemen during the year, although there was no information available regarding the results of the investigation.
Some police stations reportedly maintained an internal affairs section to investigate security force abuses and corruption, and citizens have the right to file complaints with the Prosecutor's Office. The Ministry of Interior had a fax line for citizens to file claims of abuse for investigation. No information was available on the number of complaints the ministry received or investigated or whether the mechanism still existed.
A government plan to collect biometric information on all government employees, including soldiers and other security force members, and to create a central registry designed to eliminate the alleged tens of thousands of fraudulent and duplicate names from the payroll, was suspended following the armed Houthi takeover in 2015. The government also suspended implementation of a payment system for soldiers and other security force members via bank or post office accounts. Prior to the outbreak of conflict, that system bypassed paymasters who had previously paid soldiers in cash.
Prior to the outbreak of conflict, the independent Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) received complaints and developed programs to raise awareness of corruption. It included a council of government, civil society, and private-sector representatives. A lack of capacity, particularly in terms of financial analysis, hampered the SNACC. During the year according to the government, the SNACC continued to operate "at minimal levels." No information was available, however, on the number of complaints received or referrals for prosecution.
Financial Disclosure: The law requires annual disclosure of financial assets by all ministers, deputy ministers, agency heads, members of parliament, and Shura Council members. Filers are to provide disclosures to the SNACC for verification. The information was not publicly available. The SNACC may also request disclosures from any other government employee and provides for penalties for false filing of information. The law does not require disclosure of assets of children or spouses. There was no information on whether officials complied with the law.
Nonstate actors, including the Houthis, subjected domestic human rights NGOs to significant harassment during the year (see also section 2.b.). In August 2018 the Houthis detained Kamal al-Shawish, a cofounder of NGO Mwatana, and released him in September 2018. Mwatana regularly criticizes human rights conditions in the country.
International human rights organizations stated their personnel were unable to obtain coalition permission to use UN flights into and out of Sana'a since 2017. Independent observers must take commercial flights to government-controlled areas in the south and then travel by land across dangerous front lines to other areas.
The United Nations or Other International Bodies: On October 1, media reports stated Houthi rebels denied entry to OHCHR representative Ahmed Elobeid. When Elobeid landed in Sana'a, Houthi security officers boarded his plane, took away his travel permit, and ordered his plane to leave. Prior to this incident, OHCHR had published a critical report detailing abuses by all parties in the civil war, including sexual violence against women in Houthi-run prisons.
Government Human Rights Bodies: In 2015 Presidential Decree Number 13 established the NCIAVHR as an independent group responsible for investigating all alleged human rights violations since 2011. The commission consists of a chair and eight members with legal, judicial, or human rights backgrounds. The NCIAVHR continued to investigate and report on human rights conditions during the year and conducted training with the United Nations.
Government enforcement of labor law was weak to nonexistent due to the continuing conflict. Labor laws were still in effect, but Houthis controlled the ministries responsible for their implementation.
The labor code provides for the right of salaried private-sector employees to join unions and bargain collectively. These protections do not apply to public servants, day laborers, domestic servants, foreign workers, and other groups who together made up the majority of the work force. The civil service code covers public servants. The law generally prohibits antiunion discrimination, including prohibiting dismissal for union activities.
While unions may negotiate wage settlements for their members and may conduct strikes or other actions to achieve their demands, workers have the right to strike only if prior attempts at negotiation and arbitration fail. They must give advance notice to the employer and government and receive prior written approval from the executive office of the General Federation of Yemen Workers' Trade Unions (GFYWTU). Strikes may not be carried out for "political purposes." The proposal to strike must be put to at least 60 percent of all workers concerned, of whom 25 percent must vote in favor for a strike to be conducted.
The government did not enforce laws on freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.
While not formally affiliated with the government, the GFYWTU was the only official federation and worked with the government to resolve labor disputes. In practical terms, a union's ability to strike depended on its political strength. Under the transitional government, authorities often accused unions and associations of being linked to a political party.
The penal code prescribes up to 10 years' imprisonment for any person who "buys, sells, gives [a human being] as a present, or deals in human beings." This statute's narrow focus on transactions and movement means the law does not criminalize many forms of forced labor.
The ROYG did not effectively enforce the law due to the continuing conflict and lack of resources.
Although information was limited, in the past there were numerous reports of forced labor in both urban and rural areas. Some sources reported the practice of chattel slavery in which human beings were traded as property continued. No official statistics existed detailing this practice. Sources reported there could be several hundred other men, women, and children sold or inherited as slaves in the al-Hudaydah and al-Mahwit governorates. In some instances employers forced children into domestic servitude and agricultural work (see section 7.c.) and women into domestic servitude or prostitution.
Migrant workers and refugees were vulnerable to forced labor. For example, some Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis were forced to work on khat farms (khat is a flowering plant that contains stimulants); some women and children among this population may also have been exploited in domestic servitude.
See also the Department of State's Trafficking in Persons Report at https://www.state.gov/trafficking-in-persons-report/.
The law prohibits child labor, but the government did not implement its regulations effectively. The Combating Child Labor Unit within the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor was responsible for implementing and enforcing child labor laws and regulations.
The country's minimum employment age is 14 or not lower than the age of completion of compulsory education, which is generally 15.
Children younger than 18 with formal contracts may work no longer than six hours a day, with a one-hour break after four consecutive hours, on weekdays between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Child labor was common, including its worst forms. According to a 2013 International Labor Organization study, the latest available such data, more than 1.3 million children participated in the workforce.
In rural areas family poverty and traditional practice led many children to work in subsistence farming. In urban areas children worked in stores and workshops, sold goods, and begged on the streets. Children also worked in some industries and construction. Continued weak economic conditions forced hundreds of children to seek work in the hazardous fishery, construction, and mining sectors. Children also reportedly worked in dangerous conditions in waste dumps. According to HRW, nearly one-third of all combatants in the country were younger than 18 years of age (see section 1.g., Child Soldiers).
See also the Department of Labor's Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor at https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-labor/findings and the Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor at https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods .
The labor law does not address employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, political opinion, national origin, social origin, gender identity, HIV status, or other communicable diseases. Discrimination based on race, gender, and disability remained a serious problem in employment and occupation. The law reserves 5 percent of government jobs for persons with disabilities and mandates the acceptance of persons with disabilities in universities, exempts them from paying tuition, and requires schools be accessible to persons with disabilities. The extent to which any authority implemented these laws was unclear.
Racial and employment discrimination against the Muhamasheen were problems. Persons with disabilities faced discrimination in hiring and limited access to the workplace (see section 6). Foreign workers may join unions but may not be elected to office. Women were almost absent from the formal labor market, with a labor force participation rate as low as 6 percent.
There was no established minimum wage in the private sector. The minimum civil service wage was more than the estimated poverty income level; however, civil servant salaries have not been paid consistently for several years, and most were too low to provide for a large family.
The law specifies a maximum 48-hour workweek with a maximum eight-hour workday, although many workshops and stores operated 10- to 12-hour shifts without penalty. The 35-hour workweek for government employees was nominally seven hours per day from Sunday through Thursday. The law requires overtime pay and paid holidays and leave and prohibits excessive or compulsory overtime.
The law prescribes occupational safety and health standards. It states every employer must provide industry-appropriate safe and healthy conditions for workers. The law recognizes the right of workers to remove themselves from dangerous work situations, and workers may challenge dismissals based on such actions in court. The safety law does not apply to domestic servants, casual workers, or agricultural workers.
Government enforcement of labor law was weak to nonexistent; penalties, if enforced, were insufficient to deter violations. Working conditions generally were poor, and wage and overtime violations were common. Foreign migrant workers, youth, and female workers typically faced the most exploitative working conditions. Working conditions were poor in the informal sector, which included an estimated 89 percent of the workforce. There was no credible information available regarding work-related accidents or fatalities during the year.
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Dragon Eyes (2012)
— 88 min - Action - 10 May 2012
In St. Jude, drug dealers and corrupt cops have destroyed an urban neighborhood. But newcomer, Hong, has the fighting skills and moral vision to save this town from itself.
The Brave One (2007)
— 122 min - Crime, Drama, Thriller - 14 September 2007
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Dr. Alice Dodgson gets her medical license revoked after the death of one patient. She's facing the possibility of not get any job when she accepts to be the nurse for one young man who suffers of cephallitis called Wesley Claybourne. Aside from the sickness he's suffering Wesley believes he has been "touched" by some voodoo cult. While she stays in Jamaica, Dr. Dodgson will feel uncomfortable as she discovers that voodoo is not only a "state of mind" and could be a real threat to her life and Wesley's. She'll have to discover why she and her patient are targets of the voodoo curse.
Ricochet (1991)
— 109 min - Crime - 4 October 1991
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Fathers' Day (1997)
— 99 min - Comedy, Family - 9 May 1997
Smart aleck lawyer, Jack Lawrence is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her child is his. Enter Dale Putley. A depressed goofball who is also a writer, Dale meets with the same ex-girlfriend who also tells him her child is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover they've been told the same story—and there is now a question of who the real father is. They learn their son is following a rock band around Sacramento, so Jack and Dale must use teamwork to find him—and then find out which one of them is the real father.
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
— 111 min - Comedy, Drama - 11 March 1994
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Fred Claus (2007)
— 116 min - Action, Comedy, Drama - 3 November 2007
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to shut Santa down, Fred must help his brother to save Christmas.
SuperFly (2018)
— 108 min - Action, Crime, Thriller - 13 June 2018
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
— 95 min - Comedy, Family - 19 December 1994
Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! Enter faithful butler Cadbury to save the day.


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Angus cattle are a nice all around animal for the hobby farm or homestead. They have excellent meat quality and are good mothers. If you happen to have a family cow of the Jersey breed, consider using an Angus bull. The Angus/Jersey cross is one of the best beef eating experiences you will have, especially if it is grassfed and allowed to mature to about two years of age. Although they are typically gentle natured, don't expect a cow of any breed who has not been accustomed to human contact to be gentle, docile, tame or servile. In fact, expect quite the opposite. Do not turn a child loose with cattle, especially one who is completely new to cattle. If buying a steer for a 4-H project, it might be a good idea for the first timer to begin with a steer calf that is already halter broken. Angus finish more uniformly than some other breeds. The Low Line breed is a smaller version of the Angus breed, ideal for the hobbyist and small acreage.


The University of Salford's School of Arts and Media is delighted to be hosting the annual TaPRA conference 2017.
The Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA) exists in order to facilitate research through and into theatre and performance. It is based on collegiality with a formal structure that intends to advance informal, productive and dynamic research networks (TaPRA 2017).
The finalised programme of events and spaces is now available.
We are delighted to host Take Back Theatre in a specially commissioned Ten Takes performance.
Take Back have had a busy year responding to the political upheaval of 2016. Here they gather together work from their Ten Takes on Togetherness and most recent, Ten Takes on America.
The performance of Resistance will take place in the New Adelphi Theatre on the evening of Wednesday 30th August.
Along with the performance, Take Back will present their audio installation piece Under Canvas in a specially designated space within the New Adelphi building. The installation will be on display throughout the conference, from Wednesday 30th August to Friday 1st September.


The longer our parents lived, the longer we are likely to live ourselves, and the more likely we are to stay healthy in our sixties and seventies. Having longer-lived parents means we have with much lower rates of a range of heart conditions and some cancers, according to a new study.
The major study, funded by the MRC and involving almost 190,000 participants in the UK Biobank, is the largest of its kind. It found that our chances of survival increased by 17% for each decade that at least one parent lives beyond the age of 70.
The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, was led by the University of Exeter and involved an international team of academics from the University of Cambridge (UK), UConn Center on Aging at UConn Health in Connecticut, USA, the French National Institute of Health, and the Indian Institute of Public Health. It found evidence showing for the first time that knowing the age at which your parents died could help predict your risk not only of heart disease, but many aspects of heart and circulatory health.
The researchers used data on the health of 186,000 middle-aged offspring, aged 55 to 73 years, followed over a period of up to eight years. The team found that those with longer lived parents had lower incidence of multiple circulatory conditions including heart disease, heart failure, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and atrial fibrillation. For example, the risk of death from heart disease was 20% lower for each decade that at least one parent lived beyond the age of 70 years. In addition, those with longer lived parents also had reduced risk of cancer; 7% reduced likelihood of cancer in the follow-up per longer-lived parent.
Although factors such as smoking, high alcohol consumption, low physical activity and obesity were important, the lifespan of our parents was still predictive of disease onset after accounting for these risks.
The study built on previous findings published by the University of Exeter Medical School researchers earlier this year, which established a genetic link between parents' longevity and heart disease risk. That paper, published in the journal Aging, studied 75,000 participants in the UK Biobank, and found that offspring of longer-lived parents were more likely to have protective variants of genes liked to coronary artery disease, systolic blood pressure, body mass index, cholesterol and triglyceride levels, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and Alzheimer's disease.


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NLRB Settles Case Over Employee's Facebook Comment
By Squire Patton Boggs on February 8, 2011 Posted in Labor and Employment
Earlier last year, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against a company for firing an employee who criticized her supervisor on her personal Facebook page. The employee was terminated for violating of the company's policy prohibiting employees from portraying the employer negatively or disparaging co-workers or supervisors on social media. The employee, an emergency medical technician, was allegedly denied her request to have a union representative help her prepare a report responding to a customer complaint about her work. At home, the employee subsequently posted on her Facebook page and referred to her boss as a "scumbag as usual" and as the company's code for a psychiatric patient. As reported by the New York Times, "this is the first case in which the labor board has stepped in to argue that workers' criticisms of their bosses or companies on a social networking site are generally a protected activity and that employers would be violating the law by punishing workers for such statements."
The Board announced this week that it settled the lawsuit with the employer, American Medical Response of Connecticut, providing that the "company agreed to revise its overly-broad rules to ensure that they do not improperly restrict employees from discussing their wages, hours and working conditions with co-workers and others while not at work, and that they would not discipline or discharge employees from engaging in such discussions." The Board also announced in its press release that the "company also promised that employee requests for union representation will not be denied in the future and that employees will not be threatened with discipline for requesting union representation."
Although this is the first case, it is unlikely to be the last case of its kind regarding employee use of social media. So what are employers to do? Employees cannot be disciplined for engaging in protected activity. However, not all employee criticism of a company or supervisor on Facebook or other social media is protected activity. Employers may want to review their Internet and social media policies to determine whether they are susceptible to an allegation that the policy would dissuade employees from exercising their rights to discuss wages, working conditions and unionization. Is the policy overbroad or unduly restrictive? Because this area of law is still developing, employers are best advised to contact legal counsel prior to taking disciplinary action because of an employee's comments on social media.


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Q: How do you determine the direction of a relationship? Suppose I have the following relationship diagram:

How would you describe the relationship determined by the red line?
Reading from left to right you would say each order has only one customer so it could be described as a "many to one" whereas from right to left each customer can have many orders so you could say it is "one to many".
Without direction it seems to me to be futile to try and discuss a relationship yet I rarely see people say, it is a one to many (from customer to order) or many to one (from order to customer).
So my question is why is this the case (is it just implied from context?) or does the primary key have some relation, as in we wouldn't really store an order_ID in the customer table (I am not a DBA but I don't think this make sense from a design point of view) whereas we would have to store a customer as a foreign key in the order table otherwise we wouldn't know who bought the stuff, so would this give precedence to reading from right to left and we say the red line is a one to many relationship?
Any clarification would be great!

A: A Foreign Key always refers to a Unique Index or Primary Key.  So the "one" side is always the one where the related columns are a key.

A: In most cases the way you describe entities and their relationships in your model simply follows the natural order of things IRL. Orders don't suddenly appear by themselves and spring customer references. Customers come first, and each of them can have zero or more orders, to which they grant references. Going to the physical model, again, you must have a customer row before an order row for the referential integrity constraint to work.

A: This is an excellent question, according to my experience, in ERD diagrams and relational databases direction is implied. In RDBMS you always define Many-To->One (trivial case One-To->One) relationships. The Many side of the relationship, a.k.a children, references the One side, a.k.a parent and you implement this with a Foreign Key constraint. Technically speaking you have to access an index, fetch the Primary Key record of the One side and then visit this record to get more information.
You cannot do this the other way around unless we are speaking about Object-Relational DBMS such as Postgres, Intersystems Cache, etc. These DBMS allow you to define a bi-directional relationship between the two entities (tables). In that case accessing records the other way around, i.e. One--To-->Many is achieved by using an array of references (children). In ORMs you have classes that reference each other the same way we described here.
WARNING: Most RDBMS in the IT market are NOT relational database management  systems in the strict sense, think about null values, duplicate records  etc, many of these allowed features break the definition of what a Relation is.

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Our member organisations include all the main environmental NGOs in the country and cover everything from local habitat protection to global climate change.


The trash bag flapped around me in the wind as I squinted my eyes to see through the dark. Where was the starting line? Not too far away, I could hear the reverberating voice over the loudspeaker—we must be close! Suddenly, my sisters and I turned the corner of a low, concrete building and were greeted by a crowded mass of runners huddled around heat lamps.
Welcome to 60 degrees in Arizona at 5:30 in the morning! We entered the throng of runners, ready to race the Phoenix Half Marathon this past Saturday, March 1st.
My sisters and I, coming from much cooler climates, had to chuckle a bit about the huddled runners. Coming from the sub-zero long runs in Wisconsin, the balmy 60 degrees felt amazing—even the threat of rain during the race didn't scare me. In fact, I thought it might help me; I was afraid 60 degrees would feel too warm!
The garbage bag "dresses" we wore proved useful.
The slight wind and misty weather turned out to be a little chilly after standing outside for 15 minutes. Even we were glad for the heating lamps that we, and all the others, corralled around as we waiting to line up for the start of the race.
It wasn't long before the Star Spangled Banner was being sung; beautiful voices echoed over us all, and a spark of excitement ran through us all as fireworks went off. What a way to get the adrenaline going!
We headed for the start line. At 6:28am, the rain started falling. At 6:30 on the dot, the starting gun went off.
Five minutes into the rainy run, I clenched and unclenched my chilly fingers and wondered how quickly they would warm up with the rain. But just five minutes later, the rain had stopped and was replaced with an intermittent mist. It hadn't rained in 80 days or so in Arizona, and although we had a few showers during our half marathon, it turned out not to be the water-logged run we all expected.
We ran down residential streets, somewhat tightly packed. I got stuck behind some slower runners and walkers a handful of times. Frustrating, but easy enough to quickly find a spot to slide around. I took in the humble homes; the desert landscaping right with cacti and stones; the groves of lemon and orange trees, which completely but happily surprised me. The birds chirped as the sun came up and lit our way.
Clif gel shots, licorice, bananas and oranges were all offered along the way by smiling volunteers. I grabbed a Clif shot to try on a different run, but gobbled down my trusty Shot Blox gummies as needed. I was amazed at how well the runners were supported, and thanked the volunteers and numerous policemen (and the few cheering fans who braved the cruddy weather) when I could spare the smile and breath.
Soon, I was nearing the 10-mile marker. I felt great still, and decided to kick it up a notch. I had been sticking close to my 10:30 minutes per mile goal, but I wondered how much further I could take it. I hadn't been planning to race this half marathon or try for a goal time, but that itch surfaced and the push began.
This was it. The end was getting close, and I stared out at the mountains in the distance. Glad to finally glimpse some Arizona scenery, I spared the seconds to slow down and capture the moment.
But not for long. I opened up my stride and continued the downward descent to the finish line.
I sprinted past people left, right, dodging around like a little kid running around his parents' legs. I smiled huge, feeling so strong and fast, hearing my older sister cheering for me—"Go Mandy!"—as I stared down the fast-approaching finish line.
I glanced back to my right to see a male swiftly approaching at the end of his 26.2-mile run. I sailed over the finish line at nearly the same moment as him, and grinned to myself.
At least when I got home, I could tell everyone I had tied with the winner of the Phoenix Marathon.
I've been keeping a close eye on the weather for the Phoenix Half Marathon on Saturday morning. They've been predicting rain, and I keep waiting for that to magically go away—but just a few days out now, there's a pretty good chance we'll be slogging through 13 miles in the rain.
Which led me to start seriously thinking: What do you wear for a race in the rain?
Here are some tips I've collected (from my gracious, knowledgeable running club friends) on how to prepare for and run in the rain. I hope they help you, whether you're running the race this weekend, or face a rainy run in the future!
Mentally prepare yourself: You will be running in the rain, and you will get wet.
Pack dry clothes to change in to immediately after the race, so you aren't freezing post-run.
If you prefer to run with music on an iPod, your phone, or other electronic device, find a way to waterproof it. Sandwich baggies, plastic wrap, whatever you can MacGyver up. If you can forego your tunes, do so—that's one less thing to worry about on race day.
Use a poncho, or even just a large (clean) garbage bag, to keep you warm and dry while you wait for the race to start.
Wear a hat. The brim will keep the water from streaming down your face and into your eyes.
Wear moisture-wicking clothes. Yeah, there will be too much moisture to wick away, but it won't hold on to it and weigh you down like other materials. Plus, it will help keep some chafing away.
Use Vaseline/Body Glide on likely chafing spots: Legs, arm pits, bra straps, etc.
Don't forego your water stops. Just because you'll be soaked, doesn't mean you don't need to stay hydrated!
Embrace it! We don't often go out running in the rain. Enjoy the feeling; pretend you're a kid out running around in the puddles again.
Change into your dry clothes that you so thoughtfully packed up before the race. Hopefully this includes some dry socks & shoes.
Refuel yourself with something to drink—again, that's not just rainwater you're soaked in, it's surely sweat, too.
How to describe this week's workouts?
Surprising. Circular. Snowy. Tiring. Torture. But… Positive.
I've had hip & ITBS trouble in the past, so I'm adding yoga into my weekly routine to help keep me flexible and injury-free. I did this quick 25-minute video I found on runnersworld.com. I typically don't like doing yoga at home (I get bored, easily distracted) but this "Class 1: Essential Yoga" video was quicker-paced than a traditional yoga video (and none of that zen music in the background to make you feel sleepy). I was a little sore the next day, but in a good way—my shoulders could feel it, so I'm glad they're getting some strength work from the downward dogs!
On the treadmill. Pretty boring, but checked it off the list.
I did an interval workout on the treadmill that I—gasp—actually enjoyed! I wrote more about it here, but it was a good workout and I felt strong.
I switched things up on Thursday and ran on an indoor track with my friend Liz. One mile = 8 laps on the track. Sooo, 40 laps. While I enjoyed having a friend for company, I have to say I really didn't like running on the indoor track, which surprised me. I thought the notion of moving would be better than the treadmill, but I found I couldn't really "zone out" at all, and it just wasn't relaxing.
We ran between a 10:30-11:15 pace, I think, but it still felt like it wasn't that easy to me. Maybe because of the speedwork on Wednesday?
Also, probably because the track is just a thin layer of rubber (or whatever it's made of) on concrete, my knees were kind of bugging me. After 2 miles, I had to stop to stretch, and it'd help for a bit, but then my knees would start getting achy and I'd have to stop again. I tried not to let this worry me, but with the ITBS issues in the past, it was lurking in the back of my mind. I actually stopped ¼ mile early, just 'cause I didn't think it was worth pushing it.
Let me preface this with: I try to stay optimistic, and find things to be positive about, even in bad times.
But, if I thought last Saturday was rough, yesterday's run was ten times worse. I don't even know what descriptors to use for it that don't include swear words. All kinds of names ran through my head while I ran it: I could say it was the polar vortex edition of water boarding, perhaps. Whatever, I'll just say—it was mental torture and physically exhausting.
Sounds like a blast, huh?
When we started at 7am, there was probably 2-3 inches of fresh snow on the roads, sidewalks, everywhere…and no shoveling or plowing to make a way for us. We just ran through the snow and blazed our own trail—for pretty much the entire 9 miles.
It was a little warmer this weekend than the past, but running north there was still a good bit of wind to battle. In that wind were tiny, abrasive snowflakes that pelted your face. I'm glad I was able to get a microderm facial while I ran, at least.
The snow would melt on my face, which caused the hood I had on to start chafing my cheeks (!!!) and then, the melted water would re-freeze in my eyebrows so there were ice chunks in them. Beautiful. Actually, now that I reread that and how ridiculous it was, I am laughing to myself.
Does that make me kind of…nuts?
At just 3.5 miles into the run, I was ready to quit. I was, embarrassingly, also ready to cry. On top of everything above, I was having trouble breathing (guess I should have taken my inhaler beforehand, with the cold air). I just wanted to QUIT. Thank goodness my friends June and Patty were running with me. I didn't even say aloud that I wanted to quit, because I knew they wouldn't let me. They just kept checking on me, and literally cheered for me the whole way we ran, telling me to keep going and that we would make it just fine. I don't know what I would have done without them!
That's what running clubs (and friends) are for: When you think you can't, when you know you can't… They show you the way to "can," cheer you on, and help you get there.
So that's what we did. We kept going, and we ended up running a little over 9 miles, when all was said and done. They showed me I could do it, after all.
What's the toughest run (or workout) you've ever done?
I have to say, I have had a few tough runs and races in my life, but Saturday's the worst I have had in a LONG time. I'm proud of myself for getting through it.
It's been settled: Sister Runcation 2014, here we come.
A little sandier. And maybe…a tad prickly.
I can't wait to cross that finish line!
That's right: My sisters and I are going to Phoenix, Arizona, to run the BMO Harris Bank Phoenix Half Marathon on Saturday, March 1st. Woohoo!
Why Arizona? My friend, Kelly, told me that Arizona is great in February-March, because it's warmer, but not humid. Last year, we ran a race in Florida and it was unbelievably humid (= torture), so we didn't want to make that mistake again this year.
We thought it'd be a fun change of pace to escape our frigid homes for some warm & sunny desert scenery.
We're all signed up, our flights are booked, and we're on the hunt for a hotel. We're stumped so far on where to stay and what to do while we're there. Any suggestions?
Have you ever been to Arizona? What do you think we should do there?
Where would you love to escape to and run a race?
I wouldn't mind escaping to Hawaii or some other tropical island to run right about now!
P.S. If you want to sign up, it's $80 until the 15th, then the price goes up again. You can save $10 off the Phoenix Marathon (or half marathon) by using discount code FRIENDS10.


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Living our Witness at WaterFire, General Assembly 2014
THE MODERATOR: If you heard my moderator's report yesterday when—yes- yes- what day is this? Yesterday. You know a little about me and what UU evangelism means to me. For me UU evangelism isn't about changing people's minds or changing their beliefs. It's about touching their hearts and inspiring greater love in the world. And that's exactly what we've been building towards this week, engaging with the power of love and preparing ourselves to actually practice reaching out in love.
I want to bring up a fellow evangelists now, someone who embodies the love we're all about and believes in sharing it. Please welcome Alex Kapitan, congregational advocacy and witness program coordinator for the UUA. Hoo hoo!
ALEX KAPITAN: Thank you, Tim. Thank you. Hi General Assembly. Are you feeling the love?
AUDIENCE: Yeah!
ALEX KAPITAN: I'm sorry I didn't hear you. I said are you feeling the love?
ALEX KAPITAN: Yeah! That's more I like it. Well my name is Alex Kapitan. I work for your national headquarters. I'm a lifelong UU and I am here to testify for love. What do you think about love? What do you really think? Because I've seen the eye rolls. Mhmm. I've heard the grumbling. What are we talking about, something soft and squishy like love for when there's injustice that needs to be battled right now? But let me tell you something, when I speak of love, I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. I'm talking about love, which is purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative. I'm talking about understanding goodwill for all humankind.
Those are Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.'s words. He was 26 years old when he was tapped to be the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. How many people do you think told him he was naive to believe in love? He wasn't naive and neither am I. Practicing love, not affectionate love but unconditional love, toward people who perpetuate injustice is hard. It is hard. But working toward a world where all people, all people, even the people I struggle with are able to thrive and live in harmony, it's worth it. That's beloved community.
Beloved community, beloved community, is not an enclave. In beloved community there is no us and no them. If as King preached we projected the ethic of love to the center of our lives, there could be no injustice, no war, no inhumane treatment. There is no greater justice cause. There is no greater spiritual imperative than love. So do you believe in the power of love?
AUDIENCE: Yes!
ALEX KAPITAN: Excuse me. I said do you believe in the power of love?
ALEX KAPITAN: All right. If you believe, or if you want to believe, then join me in being an evangelist for love. Join me in spreading the good news that because of love a better world is possible. Will you join me?
ALEX KAPITAN: Excellent! Because tonight we get the ultimate opportunity. At our public witness event tonight we are going to witness for love. Every year at General Assembly we stand on the side of love and witness for justice. This year we're going to witness for the greatest justice cause of all. We are going to prepare our hearts right here at our Make Way for Love worship service and then we're going to process to the river front and join the Providence community for a local community arts festival called Water Fire. We are going to have a chance to light fires on the river, join in this community event and infused it with love. There's going to be all kinds of love happening. There's going to be community singing, art, reflection, meditation, prayer, a love tent. Yeah. Uhuh. You're going to have to come and find out what that is. A stage featuring Emma's Revolution, Universal Love, and more. Activities promoting love. Flowers. Water. Fire. All in the name and the goal of inspiring more love in the world.
We are the sponsor and hosts of this festival tonight in partnership with the nonprofit that runs it because we want everyone there to feel the power of love. We want to meet each other, engage with each other, invite each other to act on love and justice and spirit. Just for tonight, what if there was no us or them? What would it feel like to practice that and take it home with you? This event gives us a chance to really practice love reaching out. I want you to consider how you can embody unconditional love through your actions. Don't just think about love, act on it. How can each of us be an evangelist for love? Each in our own way? What will you do to cross borders? Be bold and practice something new tonight. What will you say when someone asks you, what is this love stuff all about? Or what's Unitarian Universalism?
Tonight we will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Standing on the Side of Love and we will proclaim to tens of thousands of people that love can create a better world. Are you with me?
ALEX KAPITAN: All right. Then I'll see you tonight. Wear your yellow love shirts if you have them. Come to worship right here at 7:30 and be ready to process down to the river afterward. And together let's light up the sky with love. Thank you.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, Alex.
Black Lives Matter More than a Slogan
The statement Black Lives Matter might be hard to hear because it floats. It is a bit of hyperbole. There is no counter point, no balancing narrative....


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ReShape Lifesciences Announces Agreement with Academy Medical to Provide ReShape Balloon and ReShape vBloc to Department of Defense Facilities
ReShape Lifesciences Inc. (NASDAQ:RSLS), a developer of minimally invasive medical devices to treat obesity and metabolic diseases, today announced an exclusive federal government business channel sales agreement with Academy Medical, LLC to sell its ReShape Balloon™ and ReShape vBloc™ products to U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) medical facilities.
Through this agreement, the ReShape Balloon and ReShape vBloc are both now approved products for sale into DoD medical facilities. This new agreement adds increased distribution by Academy Medical of ReShape vBloc, which has been distributed through Academy Medical to VA facilities since May 2016. Academy Medical is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business specializing in the distribution of medical products to VA and DoD hospitals and community-based outpatient clinics.
"We are so excited and proud of this contract, which expands our exclusive distribution for ReShape vBloc and establishes our ReShape Balloon as the exclusive intragastric balloon distributed by Academy Medical. The agreement represents industry validation of our technologies and is yet another step down the path of providing access to our ReShape Lifesciences™ products for the obesity continuum of care," said Dan Gladney, ReShape Lifesciences President and Chief Executive Officer. "We now are able to offer both our ReShape Balloon and ReShape vBloc to the over 400 DoD medical facilities that purchase through the Academy Medical network and to help the patients in those facilities to overcome obesity."
The ReShape Balloon uses advanced interconnected balloon technology designed to take up room in the stomach to help people with a 30-40 kg/m2 Body Mass Index (BMI), and at least one co-morbidity, feel full and lose weight.
ReShape vBloc is a pacemaker-like device that is designed to help patients eat less and lose weight by intermittently blocking hunger signals on the vagus nerve. The ReShape vBloc is FDA approved for patients with a BMI of 40-45 kg/m2, or 35-39.9 kg/m2 with a minimum of one related comorbid condition.
The DoD medical facilities include 55 Military Hospitals, 373 Military Medical Clinics and 9.4 million active military beneficiaries throughout the United States.
About Academy Medical, LLC
Academy Medical, LLC is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business specializing in providing innovative medical products including orthopedic implants, allograft tissue, wound care products and more. Having established a purchasing relationship with over 130 government facilities worldwide, Academy Medical's expansive network delivers value through solutions that provide direct access to the multi-billion dollar federal medical marketplace. For more information, please visit www.academymedical.net.
About ReShape Lifesciences Inc.
ReShape Lifesciences™ is a medical device company focused on technologies to treat obesity and metabolic diseases. The FDA-approved ReShape Balloon System involves a non-surgical weight loss procedure that uses advanced balloon technology designed to take up room in the stomach to help people with a 30-40 Body BMI and at least one co-morbidity lose weight. ReShape vBloc™ Therapy, delivered by an FDA-approved pacemaker-like device called the ReShape vBloc System, is designed to help patients with a 35-45 Body Mass Index (BMI) feel full and eat less by intermittently blocking hunger signals on the vagus nerve. The ReShape Vest™ System is an investigational, minimally invasive, laparoscopically implanted medical device that wraps around the stomach, emulating the gastric volume reduction effect of conventional weight-loss surgery, and is intended to enable rapid weight loss in obese and morbidly obese patients without permanently changing patient anatomy.
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ReShape LifeSciences Announces Real-World Safety and Efficacy Study Results on ReShape Balloon™ Published in Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
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Do you know why you never have enough time to write new blog posts? it's because you don't really want to write them!
As part of our new client discovery process, we take a really good look at whatever blog is already in place on the client's website. A good blog is great. No blog is ok. A terrible blog is even acceptable, but the WORST thing we can see is a good blog that fizzled out over the last 2 years or so.
Because 90% of these businesses will tell me the reason that the blog has fizzled out is because they just "don't have time".
Got an abandoned blog? Tell me why!
As those of you who like motivational entrepreneur websites will know, there's really no such thing as "no time". Instead, what's holding you back from writing those blog posts is that they are not a priority for you. And that's ok, because not everything can be a priority all the time. But when you tell me the blog isn't updated because you have no time, that's not a choice to prioritize something else, it's letting a busy schedule bulldozer its way through a shoddy content strategy - and that is not a good combo for a great blog.
Deciding priority isn't always easy, especially in smaller businesses, but if you have a solid content strategy in place, deciding priority is something that should happen early on. Once the priority has been established, from then on you're really just following orders, which means much less mental effort goes into it.
And if you genuinely have all of them in place, it will be very easy to see the impact of the blog. When you can plainly see that its having a very positive effect on traffic or sales or leads or whatever important metric you've assigned, it's also very easy to mentally award it priority and ensure the work of maintaining it actually gets done.
But if you have no way of telling what impact the blog is having, too often it is easy to assume it's having little or no effect, especially if you let yourself be mislead by the very visible, but often useless, vanity metrics, like low numbers of "likes" or favourites. And when you can't tell if it's doing any good, and it's lots of work, and it's actually quite difficult, well - it's easy to see why these blogs get abandoned.
Before I suggest how you can schedule more time to blog, I have a warning. Blogs take work. They're like gardens - very often, they're lovely and will really increase the value of a house. That said, they're not essential and you can still have a totally lovely house without a garden. But what you really need to look out for are neglected gardens, because they can sink the value of your house quite quickly and give it a really negative vibe.
Another gardening point: gardens take time and consistent effort to help them look their best. You can't just weed a border on Tuesday and expect Giverny the following week, but if you weed a border every Tuesday for the next year, you'll actually end up with something really nice. In other words, before you decide that a blog is a priority, make sure you understand it will take consistent, frequent effort for the foreseeable future.
Gardening analogies out of the way, here's how I suggest you "make more time" for blogging.
Or not. Look at your goals and results and make an active decision as to whether or not your blog can help you achieve them, and what you will be watching to prove that it's working. Decide how much time needs to be invested to achieve these goals, and who will put in the effort.
To create a blog post, you complete several tasks in order every time. You do these every time you make a new post, and I think there's real value in batching them together.
Rather than moving through each of these steps in one go for a single post, why not sit down and take a morning to concentrate on planning, for example? Maybe you'd get 10 blog plans done in 3 hours. Then, schedule drafting time, where you take a few more hours (probably on a different day) to draft 10 of your posts using the planning you've already prepared? You get the idea? Batching won't give you more time to blog, per se, but the time you do invest will give you the base for many more tasks, making the next step easier and quicker, and so on.
I've been over the reasons why in a previous post, but do yourself a favor and use a calendar, even if you're the only person producing content. Again, it won't necessarily give you time to write more blog posts, but it will ensure that the time you do have to blog is as optimized as possible, eliminating blank space and allowing you a laser-focused overview of what needs to be done and why.
Find one that suits you - GTD, Pomodoro, Important-Urgent Matrix, whatever works. These facilitate more productive deep work, like planning and creating. I live by the Pomodoro method and wouldn't get a single post written without it.
Once you have everything scheduled and batched, it will be very easy to see how the process of "making a blog post" actually comes together. Once you see all of the individual aspects broken down, it's a great opportunity to see if there's room to outsource any of it. That could mean finding a freelance writer, or even getting rid of small but annoying tasks - like writing social media texts or headlines. Don't discount the idea of getting a VA (virtual assistant) either - a tech savvy one would be a great help throughout a well-organized digital content process.
I don't know about you, but I would rather eat my own fingers than strategize my content at 5pm on a Thursday, while writing a blog post that is ALREADY PLANNED is actually totally ok. It's important to respect these natural rhythms as much as possible and try to play to your strengths. If you don't, you risk getting burned out and bored, and neither of those are a good starting point for blogging greatness.
Ultimately, I don't think there's any real way you can find "more" time to blog. Blogging isn't quick and easy and other than reducing the frequency with which you blog, or the quality of your posts (both of which are entirely counter-productive and not recommended), there's no way to "save time".
What you can do, however, is refine the process to the extent that it becomes a smooth and productive system, with no blank spaces, wasted time, inefficiency, or redundancy. To be honest, I'd argue that if you're using a blog as a marketing or branding tool, you must create a system - if you don't, you'll never be able to scale or grow without making major changes. Make them as early as possible, and the system will be able to grow with you.
Abandoned blog? I'd really appreciate you taking the time to tell me why your blog doesn't get updated.


Today's song is "Here's To The Night" from Eve 6. One of my favorite songs, and pretty much my summer anthem.
Here's to goodbye tomorrow's gonna come too soon"
I really hope this summer doesn't end, but it seems like the time left before my classes start again are getting shorter and shorter.


Tell us about your books/What genre do you consider your books? - I have two novels out, both are from The Dragon Riders of Arvain series which is a YA Fantasy series.
I started writing in 2008, when I was 19 years old.
Well I started writing because I wanted to entertain and provide a world for readers to get lost in and, most importantly, enjoy.
The ability to see peoples needs, true needs.
That's a loaded question that I think changes frequently but right now Christopher Paolini would take that title.
Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase series and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Timer series.
Draek, the silver dragon. This guy does what he wants and fears nothing.
I try to get a page done a day. I write outlines but I am not afraid to break free of them and let the story tell itself.
One page at a time, don't get lost trying to figure out the ending of the book before you finish the first chapter. Take your time and don't be afraid to rewrite and revise, paintings are finished in one stroke.
I read a story that I loved but when it came time for the ending it left me feeling cheated. I got so mad at it that I failed to see just how emotional I was getting over words on pages. I hated the ending but I loved feeling so strongly about it and I wanted to cause people to feel strongly about my works.
Game of Thrones, the greatest show.
Book Three in The Dragon Riders of Arvain series, can't give you the title yet.
Do you have anything specific that you want to say to readers? Without you there wouldn't be writers, thank you for all that you do and for taking the time to read our stories.
Who are 3 famous people you would to hang out with? J. K. Rowling, Paolini and George R. R. Martin.


AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 9-23-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE TIME FRAME WITHIN WHICH THE CERTIFICATION AND RECERTIFICATION OF DRUG COURTS WILL OCCUR SO AS TO ALTERNATE BETWEEN EVEN AND ODD YEARS TO BETTER DISTRIBUTE THE WORKLOAD OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF COURTS AND INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF THE REVIEW PROCESS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
9-23-11. (1) The Administrative Office of Courts shall establish, implement and operate a uniform certification process for all drug courts and other problem-solving courts including juvenile courts, veterans courts or any other court designed to adjudicate criminal actions involving an identified classification of criminal defendant to ensure funding for drug courts supports effective and proven practices that reduce recidivism and substance dependency among their participants.
(2) The Administrative Office of Courts shall establish a certification process that ensures any new or existing drug court meets minimum standards for drug court operation.
(vii) Monitoring and evaluation of drug court program implementation and outcomes through data collection and reporting.
8. Any other data or information as required by the Administrative Office of Courts.
(i) A drug court application submitted after July 1, 2014, shall require certification of the drug court based on the proposed drug court plan * * *;.
(ii) A drug court initially established and certified after July 1, 2014, shall be recertified after its second year of funded operation * * *; on a time frame consistent with the other certified courts of its type.
(iii) A certified adult felony drug court in existence on * * *July 1, 2014 December 31, 2018, must submit a * * *certification recertification petition * * *within one (1) year of July 1, 2014 by July 1, 2019, and be * * *certified pursuant to recertified under the requirements of this section * * *prior to expending drug court resources budgeted for fiscal year 2016; and on or before December 31, 2019; after the recertification, all certified adult felony drug courts must submit a recertification petition every two (2) years to the Administrative Office of Courts. The recertification process must be completed by December 31st of every odd calendar year.
(iv) * * *All drug courts shall A certified youth, family, misdemeanor or chancery drug court in existence on December 31, 2018, must submit a recertification petition by July 31, 2020, and be recertified under the requirements of this section by December 31, 2020. After the recertification, all certified youth, family, misdemeanor and chancery drug courts must submit a recertification petition every two (2) years to the Administrative Office of Courts * * * after the initial certification. The recertification process must be completed by December 31st of every even calendar year.
(3) All certified drug courts shall measure successful completion of the drug court based on those participants who complete the program without a new criminal conviction.
(viii) Total number of participants who committed at least one (1) violation while in the drug court program and any resulting sanction(s).
(b) By August 1, 2015, and each year thereafter, the Administrative Office of Courts shall report to the PEER Committee the information in subsection (4)(a) of this section in a sortable, electronic format.
(5) All certified drug courts may individually establish rules and may make special orders and rules as necessary that do not conflict with the rules promulgated by the Supreme Court or the Administrative Office of Courts.
(6) A certified drug court may appoint the full- or part-time employees it deems necessary for the work of the drug court and shall fix the compensation of those employees. Such employees shall serve at the will and pleasure of the judge or the judge's designee.
(7) The Administrative Office of Courts shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the certification and re-certification process and make any other policies not inconsistent with this section to carry out this process.
(8) A certified drug court established under this chapter is subject to the regulatory powers of the Administrative Office of Courts as set forth in Section 9-23-17.


Learn more about what I am working on and what I do in my free time.
I'm an internet entrepreneur focused on the technology space. I also care about local community initiatives regarding poverty alleviation and non-profit contribution.
If you would like to learn more about me, please see my reading list or the current projects that I am working on.


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Honor 9N with Notch Display, Dual Cameras launched for Rs. 11,999 in India
The Honor 9N has been launched today in India. We brought you the news about the launch date last week, and even the complete technical specifications of the device. The 9N is a rebranded version of the Huawei 9i which was launched a month ago in China.
The phone is equipped with a FullView Notch 5.84-inch Full HD+ IPS LCD display, with a 2280×1080 resolution, 432 PPI, a 19:9 aspect ratio and a 79% screen to body ratio. The display has a 2.5D curved glass and a nano coating finish for a mirror effect. The Honor 9N runs on EMUI 8.0 with Android Oreo 8.0, and is powered by Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 659 processor, with a dedicated i5 Co-processor for taks like GPS, step count, distance measurement, etc.
The Honor 9N will be available in three variants: 3GB RAM + 32GB storage, 4GB RAM with 64GB of storage, and 4GB of RAM with 128GB of storage. The microSD card slot supports up to 256 GB of expandable storage. The phone is backed by a 3000mAh.
The device supports Face unlock using the 16MP selfie liens which supports portrait mode with bokeh effect, and beautification. The primary photography hardware on the Honor 9N are 13MP and 2MP dual cameras with an LED Flash. The cameras support PDAF, Bokeh Effect. The secondary lens which is a depth sensor, has an f/0.95 aperture.
The rear-placed fingerprint scanner on the Honor 9N can be used for unlocking the device and also for other functions like taking photos, videos, answering calls, stopping alarms, to show the notification panel and to browse photos. The phone has a special ride mode, which prevents distractions while riding two-wheelers. You can connect up to 6 phones with a single master device, which can work in-sync like party speakers, using the Party Mode.
The Honor 9N has a micro-USB port, a 3.5mm headphone jack and supports 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n (2.4 GHz), Wi-Fi Hotspot and Dual SIM cards via a Hybrid SIM slot. The phone has a Proximity Sensor, Ambient Light Sensor, Compass, and a Gravity Sensor.
Honor 9N price in India:
The Honor 9N has been priced at Rs. 11,999 for the 3GB + 32GB variant, and at Rs. 13,999 for the 4GB + 64GB variant, and at Rs. 17,999 for the 4GB + 128GB variant. The phone will be available exclusively on Flipkart and hihonor.com/in. The device will come in 4 colours: Lavender Purple, Sapphire Blue, Midnight Black and Robin Egg Blue.
Honor 9N sale date in India:
The Honor 9N sale starts at 12 Noon, on 31st July, on both online stores.
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