If the Saatchi Bill is passed there will come a time when a child is seriously harmed by negligent treatment and the child receives no compensation because the doctor has a "Saatchi defence". Some supporters of the Saatchi Bill believe that its opponents lack compassion and are complacent. They are wrong. What is complacent is to assume that this Bill will produce nothing but good.
The Saatchi Bill applies to all doctors and to all their patients whatever their conditions. It applies to decisions to give treatment at the start of life and to withdraw treatment at the end of life. It applies to decisions to give alternative treatment and to cease mainstream, evidence-based treatment. And it applies to the treatment of children who are too young or too sick to make decisions for themselves.
The Bill is intended to encourage responsible medical innovation but seeks to achieve that end by changing the law in respect of treatment which departs from the existing range of accepted treatments. If such treatment, including treatment which no responsible body of doctors would support, harms a patient the bill removes the right of patients and their families to compensation. Treatment which is now regarded as negligent will no longer be negligent. Families of children who would have received compensation will no longer be entitled to compensation.
The one thing all parents wish for their children is good health. Parents of children who have a terminal illness or an incurable and disabling condition are put through hell and back. A number of them have been persuaded that the Saatchi Bill will make available treatments which are not made available now because their children's doctors are fearful of being sued. The campaign in support of the bill has reached out to such parents, encouraging the belief that the Bill offers them hope.
1. Parents cannot insist on a doctor providing a specific treatment for their child. The doctor will of course take the parents' wishes fully into account but must act in what he believes are the child's best interests. On rare occasions a dispute about the best interests of the child has to be determined in court. The General Medical Council issues detailed guidance to doctors about treating children, consent and assessing best interests. That guidance recommends much wider consultation about proposed innovative treatment than is set out in the Saatchi Bill. The bill will not change that guidance or give parents an unfettered right to choose treatment for their child.
2. If there is compelling evidence that a new treatment will be likely to benefit the child, then the assessment of the best interests will be relatively straightforward. Doctors do not need the Saatchi Bill to tell them to try something new if there is evidence it may help the child. It happens now. As I understand it, paediatrics is one of the main fields where off label prescriptions are deployed. Again the GMC has issued detailed guidance about prescribing unlicensed drugs.
Medicine is a risky business. There are many people alive today due to the willingness of doctors to innovate, deal with uncertainty and take reasonable risks which are understood by, shared with, and consented to by, the patient.
4. However if there is really no evidence or basis at all on which a rational and reasonable decision could be made to give treatment to a child, then how can it be said to be in the child's best interests to give the treatment? The Saatchi Bill requires that a doctor only act in what he or she believes is their patient's best interests. As can be seen the GMC, which regulates the medical profession, already has detailed guidance about that assessment. Trying something just for the sake of trying it will not be in a child's best interests and will expose the doctor to sanctions from their professional regulators irrespective of whether the doctor is sued in negligence. It might cause the child avoidable and serious harm but with no corresponding benefits. So the Bill will not allow doctors to give treatment to a child when there is no evidence and no basis on which to conclude that it will be in the child's best interests.
5. For any parent (are there any?) who wants a doctor to experiment on their child for research purposes, the Saatchi Bill is clear – treatment for the purpose of research is not permitted by the bill.
6. Who does the doctor think would sue him? Doctors are not sued by strangers but by their injured patients. A claim in negligence is a claim for compensation. It is not a disciplinary process. A doctor is not "found guilty" – they, or more often the NHS Trust they work for, are found liable to compensate for harm done by negligent acts or omissions. A claim for compensation is brought by the patient whom the treatment harmed, or their family if they have died. If a doctor says he is afraid that his patient will sue him for giving treatment, then he is clearly afraid that the treatment is unjustified and will cause harm. He is also saying that he does not trust the patient, or his or her parents, not to sue him if the treatment is unsuccessful.
7. Even if a doctor believes that innovative treatment is in the child's best interests, and lawful consent to the treatment is given, it does not follow that the child will be provided with the treatment. Someone has to pay for it. The NHS does not fund every available treatment, let alone every possible innovative treatment for which there is scant evidence of its effectiveness. It strikes me that the Saatchi Bill is really for those who can afford to pay privately for expensive treatment which is not within mainstream practice. It certainly does not unlock funding restrictions within the NHS.
So why oppose the Bill if it will not change anything? The answer is the law of unintended consequences. Suppose parents are refused treatment for their child because the doctor does not believe it is in the child's best interests. Parents have an instinctive drive to do everything they can to help their child. Advice that there is nothing more that can be done is not easy to hear let alone to accept. Some parents will accept it. Others will go to another doctor, and then another until they find a doctor who agrees to try something else. They may think they have nothing to lose. They may go to a doctor in private practice who offers something different than the NHS offers. They may try to raise money to pay for treatment. In some cases the parents might turn out to be right: the treatment they sought might benefit their child. Unfortunately and inevitably there will be some other cases where the first doctor was right and the second doctor was negligent in offering the treatment. The result that no-one wanted happens: the treatment causes the child serious and avoidable harm.
This is where the Saatchi Bill becomes the enemy of the patient and the patient's family. At present a doctor who negligently treats a child in a way which no responsible body of doctors would condone, may be sued in negligence and found liable to compensate that child for the harm caused. A child may need life long professional care, specialist equipment and accommodation because of injuries caused by medical negligence. Under the Saatchi Bill that child's entitlement to compensation will be removed if the doctor has met with the bill's tests about making the decision to treat.
Treatment which is reasonable and has a sound, rational justification will not be negligent. This bill protects doctors who are negligent, not those who take reasonable care. It replaces the current substantive requirement to give reasonable and rational treatment with a procedural requirement about how to make a decision to treat. Do parents really want that for their children?


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Q: Missing/lost message, Outlook/Exchange, where has it gone? One Outlook user claims to have not seen one mail message. It is not in any of his mail folders, not in the deleted folder, not in the list of recoverable deleted items (items held by exchange after deletion).
It is really not in his mailbox. Checked on OWA, (and on another workstation using Outlook 2003 with a different login).
Exchange message tracking tells me that the message was delivered to his mailbox.
His mailbox is not full or even very large, he deletes his completed mail.
It was delivered yesterday, well within the Exchange recovery interval, and there are older items in his recoverable email list.
There aren't any relevent rules shown, (looking through Outlook Web Access).
Outlook 2007, Exchange 2003 SP2 (6.5.7638)
What can you do in Outlook 2007 that has the effect of removing a message from your mailbox, without leaving it in the recoverable deleted items? Where has it gone?

A: The "Deleted Items" folder and the "Junk E-mail" folder have seperate recoverable items lists.
You can see a recoverable items list for the "Mailbox" in Outlook when using an Exchange connection, but not in Outlook Web Access, and not when using a IMAP connection.
So, to answer the question: One way to remove a message from your mailbox, without leaving it in the recoverable deleted items, is to move it to Junk E-mail, then delete it. It will be in recoverable junk items, not recoverable deleteted items.
Another way is to do "Shift Del" (also known as hard delete) from your inbox. This leave the item in recoverable inbox items.
To see recoverable inbox items in OWA, use the url to go directly to [the inbox folder]:
http://[myserver]/exchange/[my user]/inbox
then add the command "showdeleted"
http://[myserver]/exchange/[my user]/inbox/?cmd=showdeleted
This also works for other folders:
http://[myserver]/exchange/[my user]/deleted#20items/?cmd=showdeleted
But not for subfolders:
http://[myserver]/exchange/[my user]/?cmd=showdeleted does not show anthing, even though inbox and deleted#20items do.
To see recoverable items in any mail folder in Outlook 2000+ (using an Exchange connection while logged in as the actual user), enable the "DumpsterAlwaysOn" registry connection:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/178630

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Murdoch, New Labour, Credit Crunch, Expenses: collapses of concentrated power
Adam Ramsay 12 July 2011 Murdoch, New Labour, Credit Crunch, Expenses: collapses of concentrated power2011-07-12T12:49:30+01:00 *Rights & Democracy* 6 Comments
Four years, and four great institutions of British capitalist hegemony have been shaken by crisis. In 2008, the banks collapsed. In 2009, it was expenses and 'trust in MPs'. In 2010, New Labour – the machine which coaxed the working classes to vote for neo-liberalism. And in 2011, it's News International.
Each seems in a sense to be separate. Each has its own elements, its own flavours, and its own impacts. But to me, they seem to play out a very similar game: each represents the consequence of a rapid concentration of power – in vast towers built on bases of sand.
With the credit crunch what we saw was what happens when we hand the fruits of our labour to a tiny elite. When they looked at how to re-invest it, they didn't have the genius of the crowd. They invested less and less in useful ideas which improve our lives in the long term. Instead they became what Thomas Friedman calls an 'electronic herd'. They rushed around the planet, throwing cash at financial products which deliver short term profits, but long term crash, speeding faster and faster from one corner to another destabilising the economy as they went – until finally it capsized.
And then came the MPs expenses scandal. Of course in a sense the scandal itself was small fry. The amounts of money involved were mostly petty compared to the costs of many of the government's more disastrous policies. MPs have been behaving like this for generations. But this was surely a proxy war. What has changed is not the corruption of our 'leaders' but our attitude towards them. MPs had allowed Parliament's powers to be either handed to the government or privatised to corporate masters. They were whipped and fearful. We developed little respect or time for these spineless dogsbodies. We didn't see them as old friends or loved leaders, but as a generation of failed and useless politicians. And so when it turned out that some were on the make, we were quickly willing to blame them all. Politics had become a game played out on our TVs rather than our streets. Our MPs had become performers accountable not to us but to their bosses. Anger at this alienation was always going to find some way onto the playing field of politics. Again, it was the concentration of power, the shifting of politics from street to TV studio and our concomitant alienation that contributed so much to the rage.
Similarly, the collapse of New Labour has been seen by many as a product of its unrooting. When the Compass favourite and relative lefty Jon Cruddas endorsed David rather than Ed Miliband for Labour leader, many were astonished. But his explanation was interesting: they may disagree on policy, but they agreed on party. The party, they believe, had been uprooted from communities. A key part of Mandleson's New Labour project was to strip away the power of pesky activists. By relying on funding from the wealthy whose interests they now represented, they could buy billboards and swanky press events and they wouldn't need the grassroots they saw as loony lefties. Jon Cruddas and David Miliband both wanted to focus on re-building the party base, on a new pluralism, and on community. And both saw this as more crucial to its victory than which way their policies faced. As both men seemed to see it, the collapse in Labour support was a product of centralisation of power – of its uprooting from communities.
And so too is the crisis in the News International a crisis of power accumulation. Because there have always been dodgy journalists and they have on occasion been exposed before. But these allegations keep on coming and coming because the company thought it was all powerful – that it was immune from the laws of the land. It seemed to believe that it was too big to fial. They were tied into government and bound up with the police. We know that these criminals aren't just common crooks – they are the people who are in charge. And we are alienated from them too. They are accountable only to distant proprietors and to their corporate advertisers. They have, as Baldwin put it, all of the power and none of the responsibility.
Each of these crises seems to me to have an element in common. Each is a consequence of a rapid concentration of power into the hands of a minute elite, and of our response to this control over our lives. Each of these concentrations is a product of the same phenomenon – Labour's uprooting came with the defeat by capital of the unions, this was then reflected in their governance. The ownership of the media has only changed in exactly the same way as all other business. We now have concentrations of wealth and of control not seen since Victorian Britain. Over the last four years, these towers of control each found that their foundations were not stable – that our rulers were building for pyrrhic victory. Or were they?
Because they have something else in common too. The collapse of financial capitalism has largely been ignored. Banks are re-floating and the bubble is re-inflating. Similarly the expenses scandal has not led to the golden land of democratic reform we were promised. The first hurdle was low, yet we stumbled. Labour, likewise, despite one of its worst ever election results continues to fight the corner of radical capitalism – of corporate control and of national asset stripping. Ed's Milband and Balls have endorsed Osborne's austerity.
Paul Mason argues that the dismembering of Murdoch is the most significant of these crises. In a superb piece in which he shows BBC bashing Murdoch two fingers*, he points out that it is through the media that consent for all else is manufactured. And perhaps he is right. Perhaps the one thing these elites can't afford to lose is the empire that shields them from our view. Perhaps this was the shield which allowed the right to ensure that the response to the crisis of capitalism was more extreme capitalism. Perhaps he is right that the network is now more powerful than the hierarchy, that all propaganda is flammable. If so, then surely, the left hasn't lost yet.
If the Italian economy does collapse this week, it will be a crisis bigger than Lehman brothers. Murdoch's shock troopers of disaster capitalism will still surely be limping. Will this be our chance? Perhaps.
*one by quoting Chomsky and Žižek* on the Beeb, and another by delivering better insight than we will find anywhere
*the words 'and Žižek' were added later.
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Adam Ramsay - July 12th, 2011 at 3:22 pm none Comment author #10999 on Murdoch, New Labour, Credit Crunch, Expenses: collapses of concentrated power by Bright Green
yes, I think we're agreeing…
Ali,
thanks – yeah, I kind of agree. Though if the surplus capital of the last 30 years had been more broadly distributed, I imagine that we may well have invested it in social goods – in particular, in education. And I do think that there is potentially much more return on that investment. Now, if we're saying that this wouldn't happen under capitalism, then yes, I'm with you. But I'm not 100% sure that surplus capital couldn't have been invesed sustainably.
Also, to an extent what I'm trying to get at in one sentence is that it was because people were removed from decisionmaking that no one spotted this – people would have said 'the problem is that we are in debt'. But capitalism is very good at ignoring the calls of those with less economic power.
Alasdair Thompson - July 12th, 2011 at 3:13 pm none Comment author #10998 on Murdoch, New Labour, Credit Crunch, Expenses: collapses of concentrated power by Bright Green
That's kind of what I was saying Adam. That surplus capital needed to be more broadly distributed, either through (much) higher wages, or collective ownership. I don't think we're really disagreeing. Longer term, though, I do think there's an impossibility to find space for enough surplus capital absorption, and, even with more equal distribution of wealth, the system will become unsustainable.
Of course, some people did spot this, from Marx onwards, but because of the centralisation of power you mention, the success of neo-liberalism to shut out the possibility of any other ideas to those in power and the failure of the left to do anything about it, nothing happened.
Generally very good analysis.
On the financial side, however, I wouldn't say they didn't have the genius of the crowd. I don't think that's the issue. It wasn't that they weren't clever enough to work out how to invest sensibly, it's that the model was fundamentally unstable. If you squeeze wages and shift ever more capital into the hands of a relatively small elite you, inherently, create a lack of effective demand. The only way to, then, fulfil the need for reinvestment was to inflate asset bubbles an shift capital into the immaterial. The solution is for the capital itself, not just the decision of where to invest it, to be in the hands of the multitude.
Aidan Skinner - July 12th, 2011 at 1:05 pm none Comment author #10995 on Murdoch, New Labour, Credit Crunch, Expenses: collapses of concentrated power by Bright Green
I agree that there's a series of crises in this (heavily interlinked) power centres, but I don't think that there's any evidence that the tendency of power to concentrate across international boundaries is being challenged.
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Two arrested in Saturday's Sunset shooting
Jordan Arceneaux
jarceneaux@gannett.com
Two men have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting near a car wash Saturday night in Sunset, according to Sunset Police Chief Luis Padilla.
Wilbert Durisseau III, 18, from Opelousas, and Dylan Chaisson Jr., 17, of Lafayette, were arrested Sunday. Padilla said Durisseau has been charged with principal to first-degree murder and Chaisson was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first degree murder.
Saturday, officers received a call of shots fired near Anna and Landry Street in Sunset at about 9:45 p.m. When officer's arrived, they located Austin Joseph Briscoe, 18, with gunshot wounds to his upper body.
Briscoe was taken to Opelousas General Health System's South campus where he was pronounced dead.
Padilla said during the investigation, it was determined that there was a confrontation between Briscoe and the two suspects involving distribution purchase of a controlled illegal substance.


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Q: Модификация списка в python Вот хочу создать конвертер один, но возникли некоторые трудности. В общем можно ли как-то  сделать чтоб в моём списке выводились слова не в строчку, а в столбик + начинались из 0x и в конце было t, ну без ковычек и символа b. Вот мой велосипед, с радостью выслушаю вашу критику)
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package cz.alenkacz.db.postgresscala

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit

import com.github.mauricio.async.db.Configuration
import com.github.mauricio.async.db.pool.PoolConfiguration
import com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory
import cz.alenkacz.db.postgresscala.ConfigParser.PostgresConfiguration
import org.junit.runner.RunWith
import org.scalatest.junit.JUnitRunner
import org.scalatest.{FlatSpec, Matchers}

import scala.concurrent.duration._
import scala.concurrent.duration.Duration

@RunWith(classOf[JUnitRunner])
class ConfigParserTest extends FlatSpec with Matchers {
  private val config = ConfigFactory.load("parser-test.conf")

  "Postgres configuration" should "be loaded from connection string" in {
    val actual = ConfigParser.parse(config.getConfig("connection-string"))
    val expected = PostgresConfiguration(
      Configuration("admin", "localhost", 5432, Some("admin"), Some("test_db")),
      Duration(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS),
      None)

    actual should be(expected)
  }

  it should "throw exception when connection string is missing" in {
    assertThrows[InvalidConfigurationException](
      ConfigParser.parse(config.getConfig("missing-connection-string")))
  }

  it should "parse full config" in {
    val actual = ConfigParser.parse(config.getConfig("full-config"))
    val expected = PostgresConfiguration(
      Configuration(
        "admin",
        "localhost",
        5432,
        Some("admin"),
        Some("test_db"),
        maximumMessageSize = 167,
        connectTimeout = 888 seconds,
        testTimeout = 777 seconds,
        queryTimeout = Some(666 seconds)
      ),
      Duration(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS),
      Some(PoolConfiguration(3, 5000, 10))
    )

    actual should be(expected)
  }

  it should "not return pooled connection by default" in {
    val actual = ConfigParser.parse(config.getConfig("without-pooling"))

    actual.poolConfiguration should be(None)
  }
}

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Xenon (, ) war ein Komödiendichter, der im 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. wirkte. Von seinen Werken ist nur ein Zitat von zwei Versen in der Schrift Über die Städte in Griechenland () von Herakleides Kritikos überliefert. Der Titel der Komödie ist nicht bekannt. In den zwei zitierten Versen werden die Zöllner von Oropos verwünscht.

Literatur

 Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin (Hrsg.): Poetae Comici Graeci. Band 7. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 1989, S. 802.

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Grieche (Antike)
Literatur (Altgriechisch)
Autor
Literatur der Antike
Geboren im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Gestorben im 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
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85: REBIRTH
#85: REBIRTH. Ka, by the Italian writer Roberto Calasso, is a breathtaking and revelatory book. Calasso had hit the boards running in 1993 with The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, a reimagining of the classic Greek myths; in Ka, subtitled "Stories of the Mind and Gods of India," he dives into the Indic myths and restores to them not only their brutal and erotic power but their mysterious, fluxive, almost vegetative qualities: the stories grow from each other as naturally as a flower from a stalk from a seed, and as startlingly, bafflingly, as the lotus stalk blooms from Vishnu's belly. The collection of retold myths is usually a rote, schoolbookish genre: plots and characters but stale prose and no manna, no power, no emanations. Calasso is a full-flower European intellectual, and I'll match any odds you offer that he is familiar with Heinrich Zimmer and Mircea Eliade and all the great twentieth-century mythographers, but that's all behind the prose; he is also, here, an artist working solely, with an expressive and sensuous style, to render the tale for the tale's sake: myth as a way of knowledge. He uses the tropical welter of the Indic myths to envelop us; and when he arrives at the open field of the stories about the Buddha and Ananda he demonstrates how Buddhism grew out of Hinduism with a clarity we feel in our bones. Tim Parks has translated beautifully, not least in the playful cadences that close the book, that lull us back into story and wheel us back around to the book's beginning. Calasso at the end evokes the hymn to Ka from the Rig Veda, with its teasing, lyric questions: "He who brought forth the great and lucid waters: Who shall we adore with our oblations?" Ka—the Sanskrit word for "Who?"—is the book's question; these stories, from the great and lucid waters of Indic myth, are its myriads of answer.
One of the epic plot clusters of Indian myth oddly omitted by Calasso is the Ramayana—the Indian Odyssey to their Iliad, the Mahabharata. The story of Rama and Sita and Hanuman is certainly still at the center of the popular Hindu imagination, and it keeps popping up in India in every form imaginable. Posters of its gods are in every market, like hallucinatory versions of the pious calendars I grew up with in Canadian Catholic cultural terrain; in 1988 a 78-hour television serial version brought India to a standstill every week, a mixture of Dad's-garage special effects and a floridity of acting and visual style that defies satire (some of it's on Youtube); new editions and versions continue to be published, mostly pared back to the central plot line, perhaps the easiest way to approach this distant and overwhelming work. The Mahabharata, the oldest of the Indian epics, is in its current complete form eight or ten times as long as Homer's two poems combined; over the centuries it became a kind of catch-all, its central story silted over with subplots, additions, historical asides, pious exclamations, scenic display, speeches which make the euphuistic excesses of the European tradition seem like telegraphs or headlines, indeed everything short of pancake recipes and Ouija board instructions. The Ramayana in turn expanded its grasp not by textual accretion but by translation, into Prakrit, Tamil, Asamiya, Malayalam, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, Marathi—all the major languages of India, each version with its own audience and allegiance, which has served to cement the work's presence and popularity. One version, by the sixteenth century poet Tulsidas in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi, is itself considered a classic of Indian literature. In English, The Valmiki Ramayana has been published in a colorful three-volume boxed set by Penguin India (2017), a complete text translated by the indefatigable Bibek Debroy. Of the innumerable retellings and abridgements, my current favorite is the version by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the Indian scholar/politician (Mumbai, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, part of Bhavan's Book University, 1951). "Three Hundred Ramayanas" is a charming and informative essay by A. K. Ramanujan that deals with the story's linguistic and religious reach, included in a book appropriately titled Many Ramayanas, edited by Paula Richman (California, 1991). In some form or other, you have'll to grapple with the Ramayana if you're interested in India, because it's never far out of sight, from temple carvings to market art to everyday politics. Hanuman, the monkey-headed god, is all but ubiquitous; there's a book of his legends (Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey, by Philip Lutgendorf, Oxford, 1977), full of interesting info but drily academic in the retelling; a chapter of Diana L. Eck's book India: A Sacred Geography (Harmony Books, 2012) and Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Though India, by Jonah Blank (Houghton Mifflin, 1992) detail the pilgrimage routes associated with the story. Rama is the god Gandhi cried to as he was being assassinated; in Ayodyha the presence of a mosque on the supposed birth site of the god Rama has been a much-chewed bone of contention, settled by court decision, in the Hindus' favor, only in November of 2019. These things show that so many of the troubles and paradoxes of India have roots longer than the young American imagination can easily encompass—a demonstration of the story's necessity and tragedy together.


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Over the past decade, the International Finance Corporation's short-term finance programme has facilitated billions of dollars of trade finance, and the programme's Americas head, Antonio Alves, is confident about its continued success.
In response to restrictive regulation, trade finance securitisation deals are starting to materialise and, with these deals structured in such a way that they reduce risk weighting, lower leverage and increase liquidity, appetite for them is growing.
With the US and European crises behind them, South American trade figures are back on an upward slope. Local banks are paving the way for improved relations with China, and Chinese banks are increasing their presence in the region. Even the proximity of the US could have its benefits.
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With advanced economies still languishing in the doldrums, trade between Asia and Latin America is driving global economic growth, and it appears that this blossoming relationship is mutually beneficial. However, could protectionist policies in Latin America dampen this ardour?
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A pre-trial status conference is scheduled next week before the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the case of indictees charged with crimes committed in Drvar.
Less than a month after they pleaded not guilty, the status conference in the case of Ratko Dronjak and Dragan Rodic is scheduled for August 19.
Dronjak, a former manager of detention centres and detention camps, and Rodic, a former guard, are charged with participation in setting up and maintaining a punishment and abuse system in the Slavko Rodic school building and the Kamenica detention camp in Drvar from 1992 to 1995.
A plea hearing in the case of Franc Kos, Stanko Kojic, Vlastimir Golijan and Zoran Goronja, former members of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, who are charged with genocide committed in Srebrenica, is scheduled for August 16.
On the same day, a custody extension hearing is due to take place in the case of Milan Peric and Slavko Lalovic who are charged with participation in the capture and abuse of Bosniak civilians in Kalinovik during 1992.
Peric, a former policeman with the Public Safety Station in Kalinovik, and Lalovic, a former guard at the Miladin Radojevic school buildings where civilians were detained, have been held in custody since May.
On Monday and Tuesday, the State Prosecution will continue presenting evidence at the trial of Zoran Babic, Milorad Radakovic, Milorad Skrbic, Dusan Jankovic and Zeljko Stojnic, former members of the Public Safety Station in Prijedor, who are charged with the murder of about 200 civilians at Koricanske stijene on August 21, 1992.
On August 16 and 18, the State Prosecution is due to continue presenting evidence at the trial of Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic, former members of the Fifth Corps with the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are charged with crimes against Serbian civilians and soldiers detained in Bihac, Cazin and Bosanski Petrovac.
The defence will continue presenting evidence at the trial for crimes committed against the non-Serbian population in Bosanska Krupa on August 17 and August 18. Gojko Klickovic, Mladen Drljaca and Jovan Ostojic are charged with forcible resettlement, murder, torture and other crimes committed in the area during 1992.


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Bishops Advance Effort That Could Restrict Communion for Biden
U.S. church leaders approve controversial proposal despite warnings from Vatican
Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., heads the doctrinal committee for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.Photo: /Associated Press
By Francis X. Rocca
U.S. Catholic bishops on Friday agreed to prepare a document that would lay out the conditions under which Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, including President Biden, may be denied Communion.
The controversial measure, which had drawn objections from the Vatican and from Pope Francis's strongest allies among the U.S. bishops, required a simple majority to advance; it passed with 73%, or 168, of the 229 votes cast on Thursday. More than 270 U.S. bishops were eligible to vote.


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Put your gaming knowledge to the test in this devious intro quiz!
Would make a nice youtube series. I dont think it has much potential for the escapist. I got the sims and ME2 right.. never played th eother before.
Only got the first one... I hate what that says about me.
Hmm... I see potential here. I enjoyed this one.
This was nice, but it feels short. I'm curious as to how long the weekly episodes would be.
There is something here, I do like testing my game knowledge. Sadly, the only game out of them that I had played was The Sims, but that doesn't mean I did poorly. I got 3 for 3. It pays to read and watch things about games, even if you don't own them or have played them. I still have loads to watch, I will see what happens in the end.
I only got the first one.
I might look up that Grim thing. Looks interesting.
It was even harder in production - I had the original Phantasy Star in there at one point!
I got all three right.
Would make a nice youtube series. I dont think it has much potential for the escapist.
3/3, awesome! It was a fun little quiz show. Would that be the premise for all the episodes?
it just seemed so unfocused it starts of as a quiz then transitions in to 20 second reviews. things be already have both of here on the escapist.
i also am curious to this matter.
The concept is of an intro quiz, with the answers delivered as a quick little synopsis of the game plus its reception, a few little facts about it and maybe some opinion if considered appropriate - they're not meant to be reviews, per say.
I figured it would help keep pace, make it fun and give some little blasts of nostalgia at the same time instead of being just a list of names as the answer. I didn't want it to be yet another review show, since there are loads of those... I'm yet to see another "guess the intro" video.
As a concept, it can be extended into themes such as holiday based, certain genres or even "vintage years" where all 3 came from the same year. There's also scope for playing about with the think time segments to add a little comedic distraction whilst you try to remember the name.
I enjoyed it and the concept, but I've got a question.
Will many people get the answer wrong (as oppsed to right or a non-attempt)?
Because for me I've either played the game (/ have seen the game) or I haven't. If I have I'll get it, if I haven't I'll be unable to even take a stab in the dark.
Yay, i got all three!
Ahem. I actually really liked this, and i can't help shaking the feeling that this is copying an old tv show that used to be on in the UK. Either way, the bitesized bits of information about three random games was certainly entertaining and i'd like to see more of this.
I enjoyed this, a lot. I did get all three right.
The commentary was interesting, and the whole style of it was very appealing. And I'm sure The Escapist will like it because there's plenty of opportunity for contests to come out of it.
The quiz bit seems a bit light-weight for the escapist, but the commentary was pretty good, unfortunately without the first bit there isn't a series. Full marks for suitability for serialisation though.
I liked this one. I just wish it was harder.
I figured it was best to make it relatively easy for the pilot - giving you gentle introduction.
This is brilliant. I like the Games Master style voice overs, the production was tight and its great to see a fresh idea. I really hope this wins!!!
Any idea when the commentary will be happening?
Not until the voting is over. There is a possibility that the commentary will affect the voting, so they'll hold off until after.
I liked it. Got all 3 right, but have only played The Sims. This has potential as a short-form series. I'd watch it because I love trivia.
Gutted I didn't win, I thought I had nailed the Escapists requirements (polished, interesting and unique). Happy with an honorable mention tho.
Thanks to those who offered feedback and shared their thoughts.
I'll be releasing new ones on http://www.verticalslice.tv - Gonna try to get a new one out every Thursday, starting next thurs rather than this one (got a gig I'm attending). I'll also be working on producing something better than the "guess-o-vision" segment for the think-time.
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Q: How to keep the value of a variable despite function being called multiple times? I have a python function that will turn the servo to the left or right everytime a button on the web interface is clicked. Currently it is working like this:
@cherrypy.expose
def turnCamera (self, **data):

    import pigpio
    import time

    servos=[4,7] #GPIO number
    pigpio.start()
    key = data['direction']
    if key=="left":
            servostatus = "left"
            print servostatus
            m=1500

    elif key=="right":
            servostatus = "right"
            print servostatus
            m=1000

    #to dispense pill
    if key=="dispense":
        m=900
        pigpio.set_servo_pulsewidth(servos[0], m)
        servostat= "Position of servo: %s"%m
        print servostat
        time.sleep(1)
        m=1500
        pigpio.set_servo_pulsewidth(servos[0], m)
        servostat= "Position of servo: %s"%m
        print servostat
        time.sleep(1)

    pigpio.stop()

    return servostat

The data is posted from jQuery:
$('#left_button').click(function(){
                        $.post('/turnCamera', {direction:"left"}).done(function (reply) {
                            $('#camerapos').empty().append(reply);
                            alert("left button clicked");});

                    });
                    $('#right_button').click(function(){
                        $.post('/turnCamera', {direction:"right"}).done(function (reply) {
                            $('#camerapos').empty().append(reply);
                            alert("right button clicked");});
                    });

However I would like the servo to turn such that each click will make it turns by 100. When the script is first run, it goes to initial position m=1500. Then user can control the camera position by clicking left or right. Something like this:
m=1500
while (m >= 500 and m <= 2500):
        if (key =="left"):
            m=m+100
        elif (key =="right"):
            m=m-100

However i do understand that this will not work because m will get reset to 1500 everytime the function is triggered (button is clicked). How can i store the value of m?

A: You can make the method
return [servostat, m]
and then change the method so that it has a parameter where you pass in the m from the previous call like def turnCamera(self, **data, m):
As follows:
$('#left_button').click(function(){
                $.post('/turnCamera', {direction:"left",m_value:m}).done(function (reply) {
                    $('#camerapos').empty().append(reply);
                    alert("left button clicked");});


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Speaker to Present "Did America Have a Christian Founding?"
February 26, 2019 — by Department of Political Science
Dr. Mark David Hall of the George Fox University faculty will present the address "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" on Wednesday, March 6, at 4 p.m. at Hope College in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.
Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. He is also Associated Faculty at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He has written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books, including "Great Christian Jurists in American History" (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). His next book, "Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth," will be published by Thomas Nelson this coming fall.
The address is sponsored by the college's Department of Political Science.
The Martha Miller Center for Global Communication is located at 257 Columbia Ave., at the corner of Columbia Avenue and 10th Street.
16 Apr Academics
Four Students Receive Competitive Chemical Engineering Internships
Hope College students Hunter Gieswein, Alexander Osterbaan, Kyra Ross and Alyssa VanZanten have been awarded internships through the SCI Scholars Internship Program, representing nearly 20 percent of the 2019 awardees in this national competition.
01 Jul Academics
"Inventing America" Trilogy to Show on WGVU on July 7 and Available to PBS Stations Nationwide
A rebroadcast of the "Inventing America" trilogy filmed at Hope College will provide an opportunity during the Fourth of July weekend to reflect on the origins and meaning of the holiday with some of those who were there for the first one.
Eight Hope Students and Grads Honored in NSF Fellowship Program
A total of eight Hope College students or recent graduates have been recognized with either fellowships or honorable mention through the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) this year.


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Home Culture MOJÁCAR´S CUARTILLAS FIESTA WELCOMES NEW IMAGE OF THE PATRON SAINT
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MOJÁCAR´S CUARTILLAS FIESTA WELCOMES NEW IMAGE OF THE PATRON SAINT
Patron Saint, San Antonio.
The little Mojaquera area of Cuartillas begins its fiesta this weekend, which is once again held annually in honour of its Patron Saint, San Antonio.
It´s a celebration that is always welcomed with particular fondness, due to the efforts that are being made by the locals and their Association to bring back some old traditional ways of life.
This year will include having an image of San Antonio blessed, which has been made recently by an Alicante-born artist, as the original was taken to Barcelona by a family that found it in the old ruined hermitage. Part of the service will include a blessing on the hundreds of bread roll ´panecillos´ made by the residents, which will later be shared out amongst everyone, just as in bygone days.
It is thanks to the fund-raising efforts of the Cuartillas Neighbourhood Association and above all their enthusiasm that the new image of the Saint has been made possible and, this small statue will act as a point of worship as well as a focus for future fiestas
The actual party gets into swing on Friday 5th at 11 p.m. with a band to start the dancing off. New for this year, on Saturday at 10 a.m. will be a fun clay pigeon shooting competition, followed by a classic car show at noon and a giant paella. There will also be a feria del medio dia later with lots of typical food on offer.
The Mass will be at 7.30 p.m, performed by Mojácar's Parish Priest, which takes on a special significance this year with the blessing of the new image of San Antonio to mark the event.
The important opening speeches take place on the Friday at 10 p.m. led by journalist and writer Manuel León, who is also Editor-in-Chief at the La Voz de Almería. He is the author of many stories about this part of the countryside and its people who are remembered with affection and simplicity in his narratives and, this is a role he is more than happy to take on with his family ties to Cuartillas.
In recognition of these efforts to maintain this revival of the Cuartillas of yesteryear, a tribute is always made by one of the most senior residents, recalling the history of the village families and their often arduous life as it was in rural Spain at that time.
Although Cuartillas is set on bringing back the old fiestas, the fun planned for the new events is for all ages and every year sees more local participation along with those keen to return to their roots. The Association is delighted, too, to see more young people getting involved and new generations picking up the baton for this annual celebration,
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Old Testament: Joel
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Judah during Persian Rule
Much of the book of Joel concerns a terrible locust plague that causes starvation for animals and humans. Joel takes this as a sign that people should lament and repent. God responds positively beginning in 2:18. After 2:29, the book moves from historical events to conjecture about the end-time (the Day of the Lord) when the world will be changed and when strange and frightening signs will appear (2:30-32). In the new age, all people will prophesy (2:28-29). This section of Joel is quoted in the account of the Pentecost experience in Acts 2:17-21.
If not for the use of Joel 2:28-29 by Acts, we probably would not pay much attention to Joel. But, as is true of other prophets, Joel does remind us of a number of important points. God is at work in the world, there are consequences to human behavior, lament and repentance are appropriate responses to disaster, and hope is always the last word. Joel also is important for giving us a glimpse of early end-time speculation that will be expanded further in other biblical books.
Where Do I Find It?
Joel is the twenty-ninth book of the Bible; it is the second of the twelve books of "minor prophets" (shorter prophets) that close the Old Testament. Joel lies between Hosea and Amos, a placement that shows clearly that the order of the twelve prophets is not chronological.
Who Wrote It?
The only information that is known about Joel is that his father was named Pethuel (Joel 1:1), but we do not know who Pethuel is either. There are a dozen persons named Joel in the Old Testament, and none seems to be the one who is responsible for this book. His hometown is not identified, nor his occupation, nor who was ruling the country during his ministry. The first verse of the book does make clear that he is a prophet to whom the word of the Lord came.
When Was It Written?
Joel probably lived during the Persian period of Old Testament history (539-331 B.C.E.) During that time, the Persians allowed some of the Jews to return to Jerusalem and the temple was eventually rebuilt. Joel was familiar with the temple, so he must be dated after its restoration. He knows earlier prophets. No kings of Judah are mentioned (there were none after the defeat by Babylon in 586 B.C.E.). All this points to a period between 400 and 350 B.C.E.
Joel calls the people to recognize a locust plague as a sign from God that they should repent, and then goes on to envision a final judgment when God will punish evil nations and vindicate Israel.
How Do I Read It?
Since Joel is a short book, one should simply read it straight through, paying special attention to the transitions in 2:18 and 2:28. God responds favorably in 2:18 after laments and rituals of repentance. The move from historical events to end-time speculation begins in 2:28.
AUTHOR: Daniel Simundson, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament
I. Editorial Introduction (Joel 1:1)
The only information given about Joel is the name of his father, Pethuel. There is nothing to place him in a particular historical time period. He is not dated to the reign of a specific king.
II. The Locust Plague and Deliverance (Joel 1:2-2:27)
A. Description of the Terror Brought by Locusts and the Call to Lament and Repent (Joel 1:2-2:17)
Joel takes the locust infestation as a sign that God is displeased. The first response is a cry of lament. Joel urges the people to go beyond lament to a genuine repentance, though it is not clear what great sin has brought on this catastrophe. Perhaps God, who is gracious and merciful, may turn away from the punishing (2:12-14).
B. God Hears and Responds Favorably (Joel 2:18-27)
God takes pity on the people and promises removal of the locusts, fertility of the soil, relief for the animals, abundant crops, and assurance that the people will never again be put to shame. The abrupt transition from despair and lament to assurance that good times will return is typical of the movement one sees in the psalms of lament.
III. God Will Act on the Day of the Lord (Joel 2:28-3:21)
The book now moves from what was likely an actual event (the locust plague) and begins to speculate on what the Day of the Lord, God's final judgment, will be like. On that day, God will act to bring justice to the world. There will be signs in the heavens and battles on earth. It will be a bad day for nations who have opposed the Lord and caused pain for God's people (3:9-15, 19). For the people of Israel it will be a time of vindication (3:16-18, 20-2l).
Joel is in the line of the classical Old Testament prophets. He knows them and even quotes them. But there are some changes in his message. He seems more connected than most of the earlier prophets with the temple and the rituals and sacrifices that take place there (see 1:14; 2:15-17). Prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, and Micah, for example, though not rejecting Israel's worship life, are quite critical of temple rituals that are not accompanied by social justice. Some scholars have referred to Joel as a cult prophet, one who carries out his ministry in the temple and uses liturgical forms. ("Cult" here is used technically to refer to the worship life of a people.)
Further, Joel seems to be making a move toward apocalyptic literature, best exemplified by the books of Daniel and Revelation, where there is conjecture about the end-time, God's ultimate justice, times of conflict before the final resolution, and signs in the heavens and on earth that great and marvelous things are about to happen.
• Combination of earthly and end-time (apocalyptic) hopes. The first part of Joel seems to be preoccupied with a very real, historical, tragic event. A locust plague would be a terrible, frightening occurrence. Joel understood it as a message from God that the people should repent. Then, beginning with 2:28, the book moves to a different kind of genre, speculating about a future time when all people can prophesy, when wondrous signs indicate that huge changes are coming, and when battles take place in which enemies are defeated once and for all and Israel is vindicated. This is one of the first biblical passages that looks like the end-time (apocalyptic) literature found in Daniel and Revelation and occasionally in the Gospels.
• Joel's connection with the temple and the priestly traditions. Though he fits into the picture of classical biblical prophets in many ways, Joel's interest in priestly concerns makes him different from most. When he calls for lamenting and repenting, he seems to think that this is something that should be done by the community in the temple, following certain prescribed rituals. This would not be true of prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah, who prophesied prior to the Babylonian exile. When scholars try to understand what kind of a prophet Joel was, they look for clues for what happened to the office of the prophet in the days after the exile when some of the people returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.
• Sudden turn to hope. The first part of the book is full of vivid descriptions of the locust terror, accompanied by calls to lament and repent. Then, suddenly (in 2:18), God responds favorably and promises relief. It is almost shocking to read words of assurance after all the despair that has poured out. Has the relief already come, or is this an expression of hope that God will soon act to take away the threat and restore good fortune to the people? The same kind of abrupt transition from despair to hope occurs in the structure of a typical lament psalm. The reader of a lament psalm probably will not move to hope immediately, but the psalm (like Joel) is a reminder that in the past people who have suffered have had their hope renewed. God does respond favorably to those who call for help from the depths of their despair.
• Call to lament and repent. When great tragedy occurs, a natural impulse is to lament, to cry to God for help, and to complain about one's circumstances. Yet, in our day, persons of faith are often discouraged, directly or more subtly, from a vigorous, accusing lament. Sometimes, it is appropriate to repent if persons have brought their trouble on themselves by their own behavior.
• Connection with the Pentecost experience. Probably the best known passage from Joel is 2:28-29 where, it is said, all people will be able to prophesy. The writer of Acts uses this passage to interpret the experience of people speaking and understanding many different languages. It links the Hebrew Bible with the experience of those first Christians.
• The Day of the Lord. The world has many flaws, the wicked prosper while the innocent suffer, the bad guys often win the wars, and death hangs over the head of everyone. And so, people of faith long for a time when God will come to fix everything once and for all. When that day, the Day of the Lord, comes, will it be a good time or a bad time? Joel sees the Day both as a time of judgment and as a promise of hope.
• Hope has the last word. Prophetic books often contain words of dire warning if people do not live in obedience to God. Or, as in the case of Joel, terrible things have already happened, probably as the result of human sin. The prophetic books, however, almost never leave the people without hope. Joel, like other prophets, ends with hope, both in 2:18-27 (regarding the locusts) and 3:18, 20-21 (regarding the final vindication of Israel).
• Natural disasters as messages from God. Natural disasters are a common occurrence in every age--floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, or the scourge of crop-eating insects. Did God have a part in sending the disaster? How do we know that? And what is the message that is being sent? Joel, as people do in our day, sees the locusts as a punishment from God, though he never states clearly what sin might have caused it.
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Joel 1:2-4
Tell of This Calamity to All Future Generations
Joel 2:10-14
Repent for the Day of the Lord Is Coming
"I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh."
Joel 3:9-10
It Will Be a Time of War, Not Peace
538 BCE - 332 BCE
Locust, (2007)
Locusts - Joel
Spirit Poured Out
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Professor Emeritus, Old Testament
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For nearly four decades, American photojournalist Marvin Koner traveled the world capturing the people, places and personalities that shaped the latter half of the 20th century.
Born into a family of Russian intellectuals in New York City, Marvin Koner would come to see the world through the eye of his camera – observing and chronicling the ordinary and extraordinary.
Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Koner served as a First Lieutenant in the Army Photo Intelligence Unit where his interest in photography began. At the end of the war he returned to New York determined to make a career in photography, and enabled by the G.I. Bill, studied with Alexy Brodovitch, the renowned art director of Harper's Bazaar Magazine.
Spearheading the use of the 35mm. camera and available light, for the next 30 years, Koner's work appeared in leading magazines, including Life, Fortune, Look, Esquire and Collier's. During the course of his career Koner received numerous awards from professional journals and served a number of terms as Vice-President of The American Association of Magazine Photographers.
Koner photographed many distinguished subjects, most notably Martin Luther King, Robert Frost, Margaret Mead, Robert Kennedy, Frank Lloyd Wright and Eleanor Roosevelt. Always eager to tell a story, Koner photographically retraced James Joyce's "Ulysses" main character, Leopold Bloom's journey through Dublin, covered the exchange of prisoners at the end of the Korean war for Collier's Magazine, and in the early 1960's followed the migration by boat, of an Italian family to New York. When the interest in photojournalism diminished and virtually disappeared, Koner turned from magazines to corporate photography on an international scale. His color images of industry, architecture, nature and portraiture have been published worldwide.
Koner died in 1983 at the age of 62. His work in is the permanent collection of the International Center for Photography where a one-man show of his photographs was held there in 1993, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.


The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) strike has been on my mind. Prior to leaving this April after nearly 12 years of service, I thought I would retire from DCFS. Even though I am no longer employed by DCFS and no longer in Los Angeles, I still feel connected to the social workers that do this work.
The strike started on December 5 when contract negotiations stalled. An unresolved issue is that of the Children's Social Worker caseload for children and families who have abuse or neglect issues. High caseloads have been a long-standing issue even before this round of negotiations. One child is counted as one case. A child's case goes through several service phases – from investigation to adjudication to offering services to maintain a child safely at home, or to reunify a the child with his parents once a family interfaces with DCFS. I was a Supervising Children's Social Worker for the later phase, called Continuing Services.
What makes me hopeful about this strike is seeing and hearing about social workers becoming vocal and active about their concerns for children and families. Excessive caseloads (up to 50 in some DCFS offices), lack of foster placements and onerous paperwork prevent social workers from doing their job. As SEIU Local 721 members, social workers voted to strike after exhausting other avenues. SEIU Local 721 also is suing DCFS for Unfair Labor Practices, including alleged bargaining in bad faith and retaliation against workers.
During my time at DCFS, social workers and supervisors would work 5 to 20 hours in excess of their weekly schedule without compensation. They did this out of dedication and fear of what would happen if the work was not done. In our line of work, leaving a job incomplete means a very real chance that a child is injured or killed. For social workers with unmanageable case loads, such a nightmare could be just around the corner.
If a child is injured or killed, your career can be put on the line too. The matter is investigated by the DCFS Internal Affairs section and sent to the performance management section for discipline. All the while, you may be placed on "desk duty" in the office, which is akin to affixing the Scarlett letter on you. There was always the looming fear of being named in a Los Angeles Times article as well. With constant stress and overwhelming work loads, social workers were becoming physically and emotionally ill at alarming rates when I left service.
Administrators would critique workers with comments like, "They have time management problems" or "Maybe they are not cut out for this work." Social workers are blamed for a system that is not fair to families or to the workers themselves.
The child or family that is involved with child protective services may be one that you know. Children are not being safely supervised at the current caseload and families cannot adequately receive services to help them. We all say how much we care about children and families, but the striking social workers are proving it with their feet.
This article originally appeared on Capital & Main. Photos courtesy of SEIU 721.
For more highlights from the strike, follow @SEIU721 on Twitter.


Whether we are in our unit meeting place meeting new friends, playing games, getting messy with crafts and baking or outside camping under the stars and kayaking in Bristol Harbour, Kingswood North Division have a lot of fun wherever we go and whatever we do.
The units in our division have a varied programme which sees our young members and volunteers trying new things, learning new skills and more importantly making friends, having fun and making memories to last a life time.
On these pages you can see a selection of what we have been up too and what 'big' events are coming up that we are heading!


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KU Track & Field Set to Host 88th Kansas Relays
Senior Michael Stigler will look to defend his KU Relays 400-meter hurdle title later this week at Rock Chalk Park.
88th Kansas Relays
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Dates April 15-18, 2015
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LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Kansas men's and women's track & field teams will return to host one of the most historic meets in the U.S., the Kansas Relays, this weekend. The 88th installment of the meet will begin on Wednesday, April 15 and continue through Saturday, April 18. Some of the nation's top high school and collegiate athletes will be in action at Kansas' year-old home facility, Rock Chalk Park. Fans will be admitted for free for the Wednesday and Thursday sessions and will be able to buy a tickets ranging from $5-$15 for the Friday and Saturday sessions. Saturday afternoon's scored collegiate quadrangular will also be televised on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel as well as ESPN3 beginning at 1 pm (CT).
2015 Kansas Relays to Feature Scored Quadrangular
For the first time in its 88-year history, the Kansas Relays will feature a collegiate quadrangular as four teams are set to take part in the scored competition at this year's meet. Kansas will go head-to-head with in-state rival Kansas State as well as Colorado State and Purdue during the two-day competition that will span 40 men's and women's track & field events.
The format of the quadrangular will be similar to other scored collegiate meets such as the Big 12 Championships and the NCAA Championships. Individuals will earn points based on their finishes in their respective events. Only the top-two finishers from each team will be scored in each individual event, and be allowed only one team in the relays.
The majority of the quadrangular event finals will take place the afternoon of Saturday, April 18, beginning at 12 p.m., with field events and 1 p.m., with track events. Four quadrangular events will take place prior to April 18. The men's decathlon and women's heptathlon will conclude on Thursday, April 16, while the men's and women's hammer throws will be held on Friday, April 17. Following the men's and women's 4×400-meter relays on Saturday, the men's and women's team champions will be crowned.
Jayhawks Invading Regional Rankings
After the first three weekends of the outdoor season, both Kansas teams have made their presences felt on the West Regional rankings. The Jayhawk women currently feature 16 athletes who find themselves among the all-important top-48 of the regional rankings and would qualify for the NCAA West Preliminary meet next month. Twelve KU men have tallied performances that have also moved them into NCAA Preliminary qualifying position. Senior Michael Stigler remains atop the collegiate rankings after his career performance in the 400-meter hurdles at the Texas Relays three weeks ago.
Other Jayhawks in the top-10 in the West Region include seniors Nick Giancana (high jump) and Colleen O'Brien (high jump), juniors Daina Levy (hammer throw) and Hannah Richardson (1,500m), sophomores Mitch Cooper (discus) and Nick Meyer and freshman Cole Ceban (discus).
Welcome to Rock Chalk Park
For the second year, the Kansas track & field team will compete in its year-old home facility this week when it plays host to the Kansas Relays at Rock Chalk Park. The facility, which completed construction 12 months ago, has already been touted as one of the nation's top track & field facilities as it has attained the prestigious IAAF Class I status. The $39 million facility houses the Kansas track, soccer and softball teams. The track portion of the facility has just over 6,100 permanent seats with the ability to bring in an additional 4,000 temporary seats for larger events. Rock Chalk Park has already won a bid for one of NCAA track & field's top events as it will host the 2016 NCAA West Preliminary meet.
The track surface may be considered the crown jewel of the entire complex. The surface at Rock Chalk Park, installed by Beynon Sports Surfaces, underwent in-situ testing for the Class I certification process. With the IAAF's approval, the track is capable of hosting meets of an international level and is one of only five facilities in the U.S. with Class I status.
In addition to the track, there is approximately 90,000 square feet of locker rooms, offices, official rooms, training room and athletic training facilities located under the east stands.
Another 1,500-meter win from junior Hannah Richardson as well as a pair of NCAA top-25 performances from senior Michael Stigler and junior Sydney Conley highlighted a strong Saturday for Kansas track & field as the Jayhawks competed on the at the John McDonnell Invitational April 10-11. The meet served as Kansas' final tune-up prior to the Kansas Relays, set to run at Rock Chalk Park next week.
Richardson claimed her second 1,500-meter crown in as many weeks as she blazed to victory on the shoulders of her fastest-career time in the event. The junior ran in stride with the front of the pack for the first 1,000 meters before kicking it into high gear. With 500 meters remaining, she flew by the leaders and used an impressive kick over her final lap of the track to win the race by more than four seconds. Richardson's dominant performance produced a personal-record time of 4:18.43 and shot her into the top-10 of the national rankings.
Richardson also managed to rewrite the school record book as her time ranks sixth on the KU chart and is the best mark by a Jayhawk in nearly five years. Only two other Kansas runners have turned in faster marks than Richardson's career run in Arkansas.
The Jayhawks' 400-meter hurdle specialist, Michael Stigler, also picked up the second win of his senior campaign, however it was in the shorter, 110-meter hurdle race. Stigler wasn't challenged in the event as he outpaced the field by over .7 seconds after he clocked in at 13.78. The time was just .01 seconds from tying his own career-best in the event and moved the three-time All-American among the top-10 in the latest 2015 national standings.
A host of Jayhawks will compete in front of family and friends this week as KU's Sunflower State natives will be in action in Lawrence. The Jayhawks' current roster boasts 44 athletes who call Kansas home, 16 of which are newcomers who will compete in the KU singlet in front of their home crowd for the first time. Four Jayhawks who hail from the Lawrence area will be in action this weekend: Trevor Hillis, Austin Hoag, Teri Huslig and Logan Sloan.
After a month of the 2015 outdoor season, the Kansas Jayhawks have already displayed their superiority by way of the Big 12 rankings. The women's team, which has finished inside the top-four of the Big 12 Conference standings each of the last three years, currently has 11 Jayhawks boasting marks ranking in the top-five of the league's yearly performance list. That list includes juniors Hannah Richardson and Sydney Conley, who both lead the conference ranks in the 1,500 meters and long jump, respectively.
The Jayhawk men also have several team members who have climbed their way near the top of the early-season conference standings. Kansas has nine athletes among the top-five in their respective events. Senior Michael Stigler has posted the conference's fastest 400-meter hurdle time at 48.44.
Stigler Recognized for his Record Run
Following his world-leading time at the Texas Relays, Kansas senior Michael Stigler was named the Athlete of the Week by the Big 12 Conference, U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) and U.S.A Track & Field last week.
On March 27, Stigler picked up his third-consecutive Texas Relays 400-meter hurdle title in grand fashion as the hurdler posted a school record and world-leading time in the event. His time of 48.44 smashed his own school record by more than half a second. The clocking marked the fastest 400-meter hurdle time run by a collegian during the NCAA season in nearly four years and was the eighth-fastest 400-meter hurdle time ever run in the month of March.
Stigler's performance broke his own school record of 49.19 set at the NCAA Championships in 2013, as well as the Mike A. Myers stadium and the Texas Relays meet records. The performance was also fractions of a second from moving the three-time All-American among the NCAA's all-time fastest 400-meter hurdlers. His mark was a mere .03 seconds from making him the No. 10 performer in collegiate history. Stigler's time easily moved him to the top of the world rankings for 2015, bettering the previous leader by well over a second. Comparing to recent seasons, the time would have made him the fourth-fastest in the world in 2014 and would have ranked No. 10 in the world in 2013.
Outdoor Record Book Review
Over the last four seasons, the KU athletes have made their presence felt on the school's all-time top-10 performances chart, especially on the women's side, many of which are still active this season. The Jayhawk women have at least one current athlete who has posted one or more top-10 all-time performance in 14 events. Lindsay Vollmer is the only active school-record holder in an individual event as she holds the KU mark in the heptathlon, including five of the eight best scores in school history.
Other current KU women who have tallied top-10 performances include Anastasiya Muchkayev (shot put, discus), Sydney Conley (long lump), Hannah Richardson (1,500 meters) and Daina Levy (hammer throw).
On the men's side, junior Michael Stigler has rewritten the KU record book in the 400-meter hurdles over his first three seasons. He currently holds nine of the 10 fastest 400-meter hurdle times in school history, including his record time of 48.44, run in his outdoor debut this season at the Texas Relays.
Stanley's Success
Head coach Stanley Redwine has taken Kansas track & field to a level it hasn't seen in quite some time during his first 14 years at the helm. Over Redwine's tenure, he has seen 98 indoor and outdoor Big 12 Champions, 149 First Team All-Americans and 14 NCAA Champions come through his program at KU.
Redwine's teams have also collected a combined seven top-10 NCAA team finishes, including coaching the 2013 women's team to the program's first National Championship at the NCAA outdoor meet.
The Kansas Track & Field teams will split for a pair of meets next weekend. Some Jayhawks will journey to Des Moines, Iowa as Kansas will send a handful of relay squads to compete at the Drake Relays, April 24-25. The Kansas throwing contingent will jet to the west coast to take part in the Triton Invitational in La Jolla, Calif., also April 24-25. Keep track of all the Jayhawk performances by logging on to KUAthletics.com for complete updates and results and follow through Twitter at @KUTrack.
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Q: Flexbox align-content not consistent with variable number of items In my application the number of items in a flex container is variable, and I want them to be both vertically and horizontally centred. I'm doing this by using justify-content for horizontal centring, and align-content for vertical centring.
However, reading from CSS Tricks' almanac states the following:

Note, this property has no effect when the flexbox has only a single line.

This becomes quickly apparent in my application. While there aren't enough items to wrap onto another line, vertical centring from align-content doesn't work at all.
As soon as a second line of content appears, align-content kicks in and works as expected.
I'm sure there's a reason for this behaviour, however in my case the result is an inconsistent user experience.
I know that I can achieve vertical centring by other means, for instance by wrapping the entire container in another flexbox, or a table, and applying vertical centring there. However, I feel like there should be a better way?
Is there some other flexbox option I'm missing that would solve this problem without introducing more HTML elements? If so, what is that option? :P

A: Based on the given facts, you should use align-items instead of align-content
Notes:

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*align-content works on multi line flexboxes, very well described here: Whats the difference between align-content and align-items

*Based on the flex direction, justify-content and align-items alignment direction changes

Column-based

.flex {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: center;           /*  center vertical    */
  align-items: center;               /*  center horizontal  */
  height: 250px;
  border: 1px solid gray
}

.flex * {
  margin-bottom: 0;         /* removed margin at one side since they
                               doesn't collapse when flexbox is used */
}

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.flex {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;           /*  center horizontal  */
  align-items: center;               /*  center vertical    */
  height: 250px;
  border: 1px solid gray
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A: Using align-items & justify-content together will vertically and horizontally center a single item:
align-items:center; justify-content:center
See fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/p8zk4bkk/


In order to evaluate impairment of exocrine pancreatic function during aging, 27 subjects (mean age: 36 years±7.8) and 28 subjects (mean age: 72 years±3.2), with no clinical or radiological evidence of digestive disease, were selected. Duodenal aspirates over a 60 min period were obtained during continuous IV infusion of secretin (0.5 U/kg/h) and caerulein (75 ng/kg/h). Bicarbonate, lipase, chymotrypsin, amylase concentrations and output were measured. Bicarbonate, lipase, chymotrypsin concentrations in the aged group were significantly reduced by 17%, 15% and 23% respectively (P<0.05) as compared with those in the young group. In addition, a significant reduction of approximately 45% in bicarbonate and enzyme output levels was observed. This study provides strong evidence for a marked functional involution of the exocrine pancreatic secretion during aging. The potential consequences of this phenomenon on the nutritional status in the elderly are discussed.


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Roskwit (ukrainisch ; russisch /) ist ein Dorf im Süden der Ukraine, etwa 24 Kilometer westlich von der Rajonshauptstadt Beresiwka und etwa 72 Kilometer nördlich von der Oblasthauptstadt Odessa entfernt.

Geschichte
Das Dorf entstand Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts und trug den Namen Hladke (Гладке), ab 1954 den Namen Budjonniwske (Будьоннівське) und ab 1958 den heutigen Namen (ukrainisch "Blüte").

Verwaltungsgliederung
Am 12. August 2015 wurde das Dorf zum Zentrum der neugegründeten Landgemeinde Roskwit (Розквітівська сільська громада/Roskwitiwska silska hromada). Zu dieser zählten auch noch die 13 in der untenstehenden Tabelle aufgelisteten Dörfer, bis dahin bildete es zusammen mit den Dörfern  Krynytschky, Onoriwka, Schutowe, Tschudske  bzw. seit 2016 Kotowske und Tscherwonyj Ahronom bzw. seit 2016 Wyschnewe die gleichnamige Landratsgemeinde Roskwit (Розквітівська сільська рада/Roskwitiwska silska rada) im Westen des Rajons Beresiwka.

Folgende Orte sind neben dem Hauptort Roskwit Teil der Gemeinde:

Weblinks
 Eintrag zum Ort in der Enzyklopädie der Geschichte der Städte und Dörfer der Ukrainischen SSR (ukrainisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in der Oblast Odessa
Rajon Beresiwka


Pressing Matters – why press seams as you sew?
You may have noticed that most sewing patterns include instructions along the way telling you to 'Press'. It may be as simple as the word Press, or there may be further instruction – press seams open, press dart down, press to one side. Do you always press as you sew? Is it really necessary? Is there a 'correct' way to do it? Let's take a look.
Why press as we sew?
Sometimes there are a series of complicated construction steps involved in making a garment. Seams can be tricky to all press at the end so are better pressed in the order they are sewn. Often seams will meet or cross and if one seam isn't correctly laid flat when it is over-sewn, it may be bulky or uncomfortable when worn or even cause puckering visible from the outside. And nothing shouts 'home-made' more than a garment that hasn't been really well pressed during the sewing process.
Ancient/Internet sewing wisdom tells us that the 'correct' way to press our seams when sewing is a two step process.
Pressing flat is said to 'set' or 'meld' the stitches (really?) but of course it does tend (I think) to make them shrink up just a very tiny bit as you steam and makes the thread disappear into the fabric. It also smooths the fabric flat and removes any tiny puckers. Do I always do it? No, not always, but on a very precious fabric or a very special garment I certainly would. It doesn't take a lot of extra time.
So first press the seam flat to remove any little puckers.
Then gently open the seam with your fingers and 'finger press' the seam open without pulling and stretching it.
then follow up by pressing the seam fully open and flat.
Press from the wrong side first, then turn the fabric and press from the right side.
Press as sewn – exactly as it says. Don't open or flatten the seam, just press along the seam exactly as you have sewn it. This 'sets' the stitches into the fabric. Can remove any tiny puckers that might have occurred under the stitching line and can correct any slight tension issues.
Press seam open – start by pressing as sewn to remove tiny puckers and set your stitches. Then open the seam with your fingers, finger press, use the tip of your iron to start and then finish with the flat of your iron to press seams flat. Remember to 'press' the seam with an up and down motion, not iron it vigorously back and forth just to avoid any unwanted stretching.
Press to one side -more often using in quilting than garment sewing. Instead of pressing the seam open, press both sides of the seam to one side on the wrong side. If using two different fabrics, it is generally recommended to press to the side of the darker fabric to prevent show through from the front.
Pressing darts – darts should always be pressed before moving on to the next step. Your pattern instructions will usually tell you in which direction to press your darts, but there are also general guidelines that horizontal darts such as bust darts should be pressed down and vertical darts should be pressed towards the center. Always start at the broad end of the dart and press towards the point and do be aware that darts are added to fabric to give it shaping, so allow your iron to shape the fabric as you press. The use of a pressing ham is useful to get the fabric to curve to the shape of your body.
Use a finely woven cotton, or silk organza makes a lovely Press Cloth and has the benefit that you can see through to the garment underneath. Any fabric that can take a high heat may be suitable. Needless to say it should always be clean so don't let it fall off the ironing board onto the floor where your muddy cat can sleep on it (oops).
Why use a press cloth?
Some fabrics can develop a shine when you press them. Especially wool and suiting fabrics.
Protects fabric from any scale, spitting or deposits from your iron.
Prevents the iron sticking to your fabric.
Will provide some protection to the fabric if you inadvertently set the iron to high and start to iron before you notice.
Pressing Ham – will usually have one side on cotton and one side in wool. Its shape provides all sorts and sizes of curves which you can use for pressing curved seams such as over darts, shoulders and sleeve caps, princess seams, hips on skirts and dresses. If you bind curved seam edges such as necklines and arm holes, then pressing these bound curves over a ham also creates a very smooth finish.
Sleeve roll – not just for sleeves! Push up inside your sleeve as you press to prevent unwanted creases and also use to press regular seams open on delicate or thin fabrics to prevent show through on the right side. Also good for skinny pants legs and any small curved seams, shoulders, sleeve caps, cuffs and gathers.
pay attention to pattern instructions – should you press a seam open or to one side?
I have lines drawn on the edges of my pressing card at half inch, one inch and 5/8th of an inch as this helps me press a nice neat and even seam for hemlines etc.
Do you have any favorite pressing tools or tips? What do you think about the two step seam press – do you press flat first or is the whole 'melding stitches' a bit too far-fetched for you?
17 Responses to Pressing Matters – why press seams as you sew?
Your great tips and good humor are much appreciated by this novice. Thanks!
I love the effect of pressing, so I do it. Not my fave part of sewing, mind you. Most of my sewing is costuming, and not a lot of knits–but I love the starch on jersey knits to kill the roll! I may even make some projects with knit fabrics. Thank you!
Excellent article. I am a presser. And no love the clean, crisp appearance ironing or pressing gives to my projects. One of my favorite pressing tools is my clapper. It helps to set the creases made while pressing. Best tool ever.
Thanks for the info on the press as seen thing. I have run across that one a time or two and couldn't find any information about it.
I have said for years, "…my iron is used the most when I am sewing. All other ironing is done, on demand." That is why my ironing board is always set up in my sewing room.
Great post. I never have the patience for pressing and it always shows!
You are so right! It makes it so much worse if you try to skip this step. Thanks for the reminder to do things the right way!
So important and such a great post.
I LOVED that show. Couldn't get it here but I watched it on YouTube – I can't believe the pressure they were all under to sew in such a short deadline. Ann was amazing and it just shows how experience really counts when it comes to sewing. As I just hit my 1 year since I started sewing, I have a long way to go and so much still to learn, but I'm loving it!
The cardboard tip,is a great idea, thanks!
Such good tips. I'm just learning to sew and can use all the help I can get!!
I agree pressing is very important! Thank you for a good tutorial!
Very thorough and very helpful! Pinned.
Oh pressing, how I hate it. I think I'll be a better presser once I have a sewing studio where my ironing board never has to be put away!