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Monday 4 September.
Sept. 3d. Sunday. JA Sept. 3d. Sunday. Adams, John
Heard Dr. Cooper in the forenoon, Mr. Champion of Connecticutt 343in the Afternoon and Mr. Pemberton in the Evening at the Charity Lecture. Spent the Remainder of the Evening and supped with Mr. Otis, in Company with Mr. Adams, Mr. Wm. Davis, and Mr. Jno. Gill. The Evening spent in preparing for the Next Days Newspaper—a curious Employment. Cooking up Paragraphs, Articles, Occurences, &c.—working the political Engine!1 Otis talks all. He grows the most talkative Man alive. No other Gentleman in Company can find a Space to put in a Word—as Dr. Swift expressed it, he leaves no Elbow Room. There is much Sense, Knowledge, Spirit and Humour in his Conversation. But he grows narrative, like an old Man. Abounds with Stories.
One of the pieces thus cooked up led directly to the assault on Otis on the 5th, though that piece was signed by Otis himself, and there is nothing in the Boston Gazette of 4 Sept. that clearly reveals JA's hand.


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Esteem Login
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Welcome to Esteem Multi-Academy Trust
Esteem Multi-Academy Trust currently comprises of ten academies throughout Derbyshire, Derby City and east Staffordshire. Formed by a group of like-minded school leaders in August 2018, the MAT is currently responsible for the education and care of approximately 1,200 students and employs around 750 staff. The total revenue budget for the MAT is approximately £23 million and plans are in place to expand further.
Esteem Multi-Academy Trust has grown from seven to 10 academies within its first year and now includes 7 special schools and 3 support centres (PRUs). We wish to grow further to fulfil our vision to become a centre of excellence for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision. We have a well-defined set of values and a clear vision for the MAT to become a hub for expertise in SEND and inclusion. We share a collaborative ethos, believing that our collective efforts will achieve a better outcome than we can as individual schools. Our academies focus on the holistic needs of the young person, due to students' vulnerabilities. So, 'joined-up thinking', between our academies and different agencies, is essential to deliver the right support for our students.
The MAT's main aims are to:
Work collaboratively and strategically to secure high-quality education for all young people in our academies;
Deliver a skills-based curriculum that is tailored to individual needs and the specific requirements of students attending our academies;
Create economies of scale through commissioning services and purchasing resources;
Share expertise, best practice and resources to ensure high standards and value for money;
Exploit fully opportunities for collaborative, continual professional development.
As a group of academies working together, we can share and deliver better practice. We will be able to commission health, care and therapy services in a fully 'joined-up' way.
The formation of the MAT will deepen collaboration between our academies. As a sponsor MAT, we will also extend this work to supporting under-performing schools.
Julian Scholefield, CEO
Academies in the MAT will have more opportunities for staff training, working together to share practice and opportunities for career development. They will be challenged through the 'critical friend' relationship underpinning school improvement support. Academies judged as good/outstanding and self-supporting will have more autonomy and have greater responsibility for their own school improvement than academies judged as less than good. These latter academies will receive structured and direct support from the MAT to improve their performance. MAT leaders will be ultimately responsible for ensuring such academies are effectively supported.

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DHFL Pramerica Midcap Opportunities Fund Direct-Dividend Payout is a Equity mutual fund scheme from DHFL Pramerica Mutual Fund. This scheme was launched on 02 Dec 2013 and is currently managed by its fund manager Aniruddha Naha. It has an AUM of ₹121.40 Crores and the latest NAV decalared is ₹16.000 as on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:30 pm.
DHFL Pramerica Midcap Opportunities Fund Direct-Dividend Payout scheme return performance in last 1 year is -8.17%, in last 3 years is 29.25% and 81.96% since scheme launch. The min. SIP amount to invest in this scheme is ₹500.


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Q: Odd wrong password behaviour with GRUB cryptodisk I have used GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y in /etc/default/grub to allow LUKS encryption of everything except my EFI partition, which I mount to /boot/efi.  This works fine.  The only admittedly small problem is that, if I happen to mistype my password, I don't get a second chance.  Instead, after 10 seconds or so, I'm left on a GRUB rescue> prompt.  Is there anything I can type at this prompt to try again, or must I power off and on?

A: The simplest way is to just hit ctrl+alt+del to soft reset, but you do have to go through the POST again.

Another way to go, from the rescue prompt:
replace hd0,gpt2 with the appropriate value for your machine - on my system it is shown as part of the password prompt. I'm using btrfs without any lvm (and no separate /boot partition), so your cryptomount and prefix parameters may differ somewhat from mine:
cryptomount hd0,gpt2
set prefix=(crypto0)/__active/boot/grub
insmod normal
normal

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Pruchnicki MC, Bennett MS. Pruchnicki M.C., Bennett M.S. Pruchnicki, Maria C., and Marialice S. Bennett.Chapter 4. A Day in the Life: What to Expect as a Pharmacy Resident. In: Bookstaver P, Caulder CR, Smith KM, Quidley A. Bookstaver P, Caulder C.R., Smith K.M., Quidley A Eds. P. Brandon Bookstaver, et al.eds. Roadmap to Postgraduate Training in Pharmacy New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2013. http://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=687&sectionid=45419083. Accessed April 26, 2019.
Pruchnicki MC, Bennett MS. Pruchnicki M.C., Bennett M.S. Pruchnicki, Maria C., and Marialice S. Bennett.. "Chapter 4. A Day in the Life: What to Expect as a Pharmacy Resident." Roadmap to Postgraduate Training in Pharmacy Bookstaver P, Caulder CR, Smith KM, Quidley A. Bookstaver P, Caulder C.R., Smith K.M., Quidley A Eds. P. Brandon Bookstaver, et al. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2013, http://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=687&sectionid=45419083.
Congratulations! You have made the decision to be a pharmacy resident. Residency is a time filled with learning and transitions—continuing as a trainee but beginning your professional career as a pharmacist. You will still receive formal evaluations based on the accreditation standards of your program, but also start to rely on self-evaluation and making corrections based on your own internal criteria. You will be taking greater responsibility for patients, and be making the decisions related to their best care. The day-to-day schedule is your path forward, a main determinant in how you advance toward the desired outcomes of your program. Knowing what to expect and understanding the rhythm of your residency are important first steps in preparing yourself for the adventure. This chapter gives you a glimpse of a resident's "day in the life" duties and responsibilities.
Postgraduate Year One (PGY-1) pharmacy residency programs place priority on direct patient care across broad populations, and experience in pharmacy operations to accelerate development of a high-level and engaged pharmacy workforce.1 Postgraduate Year Two (PGY-2) programs build upon the competencies of PGY-1 graduates in specialized areas, particularly in complex patient management and clinical leadership.2 In both years, a majority of your time and attention is focused on direct patient care. Services are provided in a variety of healthcare settings, including inpatient, ambulatory care, managed care, and community care arenas; your ideal program may have a particular focus on one or another. Though the specifics of the day undoubtedly differ between inpatient and outpatient rotations, the general roles of the pharmacy resident are similar and can be captured in the descriptions below.
In inpatient residencies, "rounding" has very little to do with bumping numbers up or down to make them easier to work with. As you know from IPPE/APPE rotations, medical rounds are clinical meetings. The cases of patients assigned to a hospital service or unit are reviewed and discussed by the healthcare team. They are often inter- or multidisciplinary, and can be used for both patient care and teaching purposes. In fact, bedside rounds are considered the prototypic teaching method in medical education.3 Rounds can take several forms—for example "working rounds," "attending rounds," and "grand rounds" as described in Table 4-1. Patient care rounds require you to evaluate for new and ongoing health problems, medication adjustments or selection, laboratory monitoring, and overall update on the patient's clinical condition. Discharge and follow-up planning are also discussed, and often are coordinated by a patient case manager. The team pharmacist should have input on medication changes needed during the transition of care, and should assist in discharge counseling.


Acute or chronic bleeding of the oral tissues directly under, or adjacent to, a fixed or removable dental prosthesis.
Question the patient about their medical and dental history.
How long have you noticed bleeding and/or discomfort?
Where is the bleeding coming from? Please show me with your finger.
Is there a time when the bleeding is worse (e.g., when eating or waking up in the morning)?
Do you wear the prosthesis at night?
How old is the prosthesis?
How do you clean the prosthesis? How do you clean your teeth?
When was the last time you had a dental professional check the prosthesis? Did you have a denturist or someone else adjust it for you? Did you adjust it yourself?
Has your medication changed? Has your medical history changed?
When you cut yourself, does it take a long time for the bleeding to stop? Do you bruise easily?
Is there any numbness in your mouth or face?
Have you noticed any white or red spots in your mouth? Any areas of roughness that do not go away?
Evaluate the patient's mouth and prosthesis.
Before removing the prosthesis, look for, or ask the patient to point out, the bleeding area. With permission, manually move the prosthesis to attempt to stimulate bleeding and/or elicit discomfort.
Evaluate the occlusion. Look for balanced pressure with freedom in centric. Ensure that there is appropriate interocclusal space.
Remove the prosthesis and look for indents in the tissues (assess for overseating).
Use a pressure indicator paste (PIP) to identify areas of heavy contact when passive and active.
Mark the areas of soreness with a marker and relieve the prosthesis.
Look for sites of thin mucosa over non-yielding areas such as tori or sharp bony ridges where a denture base may have traumatized tissues. Assess path of insertion and see if insertion/removal by the patient or caregiver may have damaged tissues.
Clinically assess if the prosthesis is clean and assess the condition of the reline material, if any.
Take radiographs of the area and compare with the contralateral side to assess anatomical changes.
Based on localized erythema and/or edema within a relatively short period directly associated with prosthesis wear, a diagnosis of ill-fitting prosthesis can be established.
If problem does not resolve or worsen despite cooperation from the patient, refer to an oral pathologist or surgeon for further evaluation.
Oral pathologist: further assessment of chronic area. Biopsy and specific diagnosis of unknown etiology. If further intervention is needed, the oral pathologist will refer to either an oral surgeon or head and neck surgeon.
Oral surgeon: further assessment of chronic area. Biopsy and specific diagnosis of unknown etiology. If further intervention is needed, the oral surgeon may refer to a head and neck surgeon.
Document symptoms (e.g., time of day and medications taken).
Discontinue prosthesis wear at night.
Avoid sharp foods such as pretzels, chips, popcorn, or nuts that may worsen the symptoms. Keep a diet record until the next appointment.
If medication has been prescribed, take it as instructed.
If the situation worsens before the follow-up appointment, contact your dentist.
[No authors listed]. The glossary of prosthodontic terms. J Prosthet Dent. 2005;94(1):10-92.


>> I built gcc 4.2 as this was available via MacPorts.
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Over 70 Hindu couples tie the knot at mass wedding in Pakistan
The mass wedding was organised by the Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) and it was held at the Railway Ground located on II Chundrigar Road on Sunday.
by Press Trust of India January 11, 2022 January 10, 2022
Karachi: Dressed in colourful clothes and wearing traditional handmade garlands, over 70 Hindu couples have tied the knot at a mass wedding ceremony here in Pakistan's largest city, according to media reports on Monday.
Every year, for the last 14 years, MNA Ramesh Kumar Vankvani, who is also the PHC patron-in-chief, has been organising mass weddings for poor Hindu families who cannot afford to marry off their children.
The first mass wedding, held in 2008, had seen 35 Hindu couples get married at the same time. That figure has grown over the years.
This year, because of safety measures related to the coronavirus pandemic, we invited only half of them to the ceremony, Vankvani said, adding that it was a cultural activity for the Hindu community.
The event also conveys the message to the world that our minority communities are completely free to hold their social events in accordance with their religion, he was quoted as saying in The News International newspaper.
As many as 72 Hindu couples joined in matrimony during the mass wedding ceremony. Most of the couples had travelled from Sindh and were accompanied by their parents, relatives and friends, the Dawn newspaper reported.
"I work as a packer boy in a mobile phone company in Korangi. If left to me, I would have had to wait for several more years to save up and get married, said Laxman, who got married to Mehek.
Vickey and Nandni belonged to Ibrahim Hyderi. Vicky said that he worked as a sweeper with the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation.
We have been engaged for three years. I have been trying to save up ever since our engagement but it was not enough. Finally, we decided to get married in a mass wedding, Vicky told the Dawn.
Nandni's mother had her youngest child, five-month-old Krishan in her lap. Her eyes grew moist as someone said that the bride was going to miss her baby brother, the report said.
But this is life. Daughters have to leave their parents' home. I will also miss my daughter, we all will, she said.
After the wedding each couple was presented with pure silver jewellery, crockery, cooking pots and utensils, along with a cheque to help them begin their new life.
Politician Mangla Sharma and several champions of interfaith harmony and minority rights graced the occasion.
There are 4.4 million Hindus in Pakistan, comprising 2.14 per cent of the total population, according to the 2017 Pakistan Census, although the Pakistan Hindu Council claims there are around 8 million in the country.
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20 people arrested, over 150 booked in Pakistan for attack on Hindu temple
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Police raids across the Campo end in 17 arrests for drug trafficking
By Chronicle Staff Share
Seventeen people were yesterday arrested for drug offences in the Campo de Gibraltar in a series of raids by the Spanish police and customs officers.
More than 200 officers were involved in the huge crack down on drug crime in a secret operation called Lupita authorised by Algeciras courts.
A total of 23 houses were raided in Algeciras, La Línea, Los Barrios, Chiclana de la Frontera and Madrid since 7am yesterday morning.
The 17 individuals were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, for being members of a criminal organisation and money laundering charges.
Most of those arrested are being held in police cells until their first appearance in court.


Megzone – Page 2 – I would rather be hated for who I am.. than be loved for What I am NOT!!
I realized I haven't really blogged much since the April A-Z posts. Its not that I haven't tried but my muse seems to have vanished into thin air, doesn't want to inspire or help me even a wee wee bit. Meanie Muse.
Meanwhile, I have realized I am struggling in certain areas of my life and that is drawing me down to the darkness of frustration, depression and the likes. After being a victim of depression in the past and as it slowly starts to show its ugly head again, I for one do not want to get pulled down in to that deep dark abyss again. And as a resolution I have decided to compose one post a day paying gratitude and thankfulness for everything I actually have in life – beginning today. So here goes, Gratitude Everyday is my way of keeping myself from being sucked in to the dark abyss that I promised myself never to be in again.
The very first thing I am really Thankful for is My partner – He is my pillar of strength, my partner in crime, my "aal izz well", my Knight In Shining Armour, my miracle, my love and everything good in life. I am thankful to the Universe for bestowing me with the Best Partner ever – he understands me, tolerates my tantrums and even manages to calm and pacify me when am raging with madness. He knows – m crazy, silly, weird and set in my own ways and yet everyday he gives me such immense happiness that I have only dreamed of in the past. He is a true blessing from the Universe, the blessing I have probably waited almost all my life and will always feel most thankful for. I can never thank you enough and I know I have to be your really special child to receive such a wonderful blessing in life. So my dear Universe – Thank you so much for the best partner ever.


What have you seen in the Adrenaline Wipes from Powerhouse?
Sorry to bring an Ebo. brand here to the Motiv forum.
Has anybody used these wipes??? Reactions?? The Motiv Clean works great. I have these wipes in my bag , but havent used them due to Justin's comments. Will they break the textures down?
I had a daily cleaning routine that I utilized at the WSOB. I would clean my equipment with power gel clean right after the block.
Then depending on the surface I wanted to maintain I would touch the covers with the appropriate grit pad and some water.
For my heavy oil gear after I completed the first two steps mentioned previously, I would wipe the ball down with those Adrenaline Wipes.
The ball looked very clean and dull. I was told by Connor Pickford, a friend/fellow staffer that the wipes seem to eat away at the coverstock of the ball.
He had used them on some other equipment and claimed that the ball hooked almost 2 arrows more for the first couple of shots, then completely straightened out.
I stopped using them as I try to get the max life out of the ball and don't want to compromise my covertock's durability or performance characteristics.
To each his own though. The bottom line is that having a maintenance schedule just like for your car will help prolong the life of your equipment as well as keep your striking percentage up.
Well I gave the 2 Cruel and the Primal Scream the powerhouse wipe treatment and lost reaction in both balls.
So, using the suggestion provided which was an Aggressive cut to restore texture once reaction has been reduced. Once the surface got broken down and reaction is significantly reduced and not being restored by a quick scuff, a 320 wet/dry or 360 Abralon pad will be required to expose new, fresh, textured, oil hungry cover.
After this , both balls are back in action and doing fine. I am just using the Motiv Clean now after roughly 10 games or so..
A year behind the last post I see, but I may have something to add.
My favorite ball is the Brunswick Wicked Siege. Sadly, it is getting replaced this week, for it has died.
After cooking it (130-135 degrees controlled) and getting an impressive amount of oil out of it, I cut it twice in the last 2 weeks, with 360 (6 sides), then 500 Abralon (4 sides). First time used a tiny bit of rubbing compound to try to match OOB. Second time was just left at 500. And the 500 was a light touch. It just doesn't want to turn the corner anymore. At 500, it should be exponentially stronger than my Med-Dry lane ball. And that's just not the case. My polished med-dry ball comes back with thick oil rings on it, and it makes a nice move, down and in. The Wicked just sails right through. It's not burning up. Plenty of oil for it to retain energy. The coverstock seems to be too hard now to take a decent surface or to be able to take in any oil.
Anybody experience this coverstock hardening with any other balls?
But, through all of this sadness comes the opportunity to finally try a Motiv ball. My Cruel Intent should be arriving today. Stronger than the Wicked, but I have a larger arsenal now than I did back when I purchased the Wicked. I have room for a stronger ball. I can't wait.
Surface equates to earlier friction, less backend, and less overall hook. Shiny dry lane balls will out-hook anything at 500 when there is a shortage of oil and lots of friction.
Has anyone tried "The Wave" oil remover with their Motiv Balls??? I know we shouldn't promote a competitor but just asking. Looks interesting and I have seen very positive results with other balls.
The ball is heated gradually in a water container to a safe and consistent temperature of 140 degrees, bringing the oil to the surface of the ball. The water moves around the ball in a circulating motion, and the force of the water, along with the Wave Solution, removes the oil from the surface, while keeping the plasticizer in the ball. A filter removes the oil from the water as the water recycles through the machine. A complete ball cleaning cycle lasts approximately 45 minutes, at which time a built-in radiator helps to cool the water back to room temperature.


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The DA and De Lille
Mmusi Maimane |
Mmusi Maimane says no one is above the party, its constitution, or the public
Values only count when they are tested
The wellbeing of Cape Town residents matters a great deal to the DA, and I want to assure South Africans that we are dealing with concerns surrounding Mayor Patricia De Lille's leadership as swiftly and fairly as possible. We want to achieve the outcome that is best for the people of Cape Town and we remain committed to clean, accountable government. We are extremely mindful of the need to respond effectively and decisively to the Cape drought.
Our values as a party only really count when they are put to the test. Values are easy when everyone agrees and when they are easily applied. But they are hard when the party faces a painful test. Despite the difficulty, the DA will remain true to its values, come what may.
The laziest analysis in this regard comes from those who claim the DA is no different to the ANC now that we've also had a big, public scandal. The differences should be plain to all.
The ANC has (over and above all its other sins) consistently acted to ignore the corruption that is putrefying it from the inside, protecting the guilty and sweeping evidence and information under the carpet. This has resulted in a party that is literally split down the middle, and a state that is captured by private rent seekers.
This is precisely the opposite of what is happening in Cape Town. We are throwing open the doors and windows to shine light on the situation in the City, because we want to act speedily and forcefully to stop dangerous trends before they gather a momentum of their own. Far from protecting the implicated, we have demonstrated that no one in the DA is 'untouchable', and that all are equally accountable to the party and to the law. We genuinely believe that 'sunlight is the best disinfectant', not just as a slogan, but as a value.
The public looks to the DA as a model of clean, accountable government that will act firmly against corruption, uphold equality before the law, and deliver better services than any other government in South Africa. We will not betray their trust, even if that means taking very difficult and painful action against our own colleagues. We hold the ANC to a high standard - and we have been relentless in doing so. We must therefore hold ourselves to the same standard, if not an even higher one.
The DA leadership first became aware of problems in the City's DA caucus in August 2017, when serious allegations of poor leadership, maladministration and governance failures were levelled against De Lille and other senior councillors.
We responded by initiating an internal investigation into political tensions, headed by John Steenhuisen; and by ensuring that the City instituted an independent, external investigation by legal firm Bowman Gilfillan.
The first internal investigation concluded that while De Lille is extremely hard-working, a great many DA councillors, City staff and colleagues find her leadership style to be obstructive to the successful functioning of both the City administration and the DA caucus, undermining service delivery in Cape Town. A number of specific, serious allegations were made against her, and the Mayor was given extended time to reply to these in full
The Bowman Gilfillan report concluded that De Lille behaved and acted in a manner that constitutes gross misconduct and dereliction of duty, including her apparent role in actively covering up serious governance failures.
Last Sunday, 14 January, the DA's Federal Executive (our highest decision-making body) considered the findings of both reports and took a decision to formally charge De Lille.
Unfortunately, this decision will draw out the process of achieving resolution. But as a DA public representative who has made a huge positive contribution to the DA and SA, we must give Mayor De Lille further opportunity to fully respond to all allegations leveled against her, which are detailed in my statement released after the meeting.
I do not doubt Ms De Lille's commitment to the greater good. She has played a central, positive role in both SA and the DA. She is much loved within and beyond the DA. She deserves, and will forever have, our respect and gratitude. But central as she has been to the DA and SA's fortunes, no one is above the party and its constitution, and no individual's interests are above those of the general public.
It has been painful to learn of the dysfunction and resentment that has built up against her in the Cape Town City council. This is the very worst possible time for a problem such as this to arise, in the midst of a major drought crisis and ahead of the 2019 national election. But for the sake of Capetonians and South Africans, the DA is fully prepared to take the necessary action to restore order and functionality to Cape Town Council's DA caucus.
The DA owes its loyalty, above all else, to the voters. Their interests must, do, and always will come first.
Some commentators in the media and on social media feel the DA should not be involved in a dispute over De Lille while there is a drought crisis. But the DA cannot ignore serious allegations for this reason. The drought could drag on for years. The people of Cape Town need a council that runs efficiently and effectively, even more so because of this crisis.
The true measure of a political party is how it responds to challenges such as this. The DA cannot exercise complete control over how public representatives conduct themselves. No political party can. But we can respond by putting the public interest ahead of party interests and this is what we will do.
Mmusi Maimane
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Has seen every MLB team play on its home field at least once.
Proud user of iPod Classic with over 33,000 songs on it.
Once owned a 1964 ½ Mustang convertible – which wound up in his backyard swimming pool.
Started going grey at age 16, and the trend continues.
He and his fabulous wife eloped just 120 days after meeting on a blind date.


Despite the last reforms in the universal banking space, the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) believes still more needs to be done in order to stabilise the financial ecosystem in general.
The AGI argues that if nothing is done about smaller finance institutions like savings and loans and microfinance companies, businesses at the micro level will suffer.
"At the micro and small-scale level there has been a lot of turbulence there: let's not talk about Menzgold and the banks, but the savings and loans and the microfinances; a lot of people have their monies locked in there which they are not getting.
And it is all because of the panic situation that we find ourselves in: there has been a lot of turbulence. So, if we say that consolidation of banking sector is complete, I would say yes – but when it comes to the financial sector in general, I don't think it is complete because there is a lot of work still to be done, especially in bringing back confidence to the system," said AGI's CEO, Seth Twum Akwaboah.
Mr. Twum said this when asked by the B&FT in Accra about the sort of support businesses expect from the banking sector this year, following conclusion of the recapitalisation exercise in December 2018.
He observed that, already, most people are reluctant to invest in microfinance and savings and loans companies; hence the need for the Bank of Ghana and government to take steps to bring confidence back to these sectors.
He said because a chunk of Ghanaian businesses are SMEs, they rely heavily on savings and loans and other small finance companies to fund their growth and expansion; hence the urgent need to 'clean-up' that sector.
Since 2013, more than 50 microfinance institutions have collapsed due to poor managerial skills, while some have been used as conduits for the perpetration of fraud through Ponzi schemes that lure depositors with absurdly lucrative investment interest rates.
Typically, financial institutions – banks, finance houses, microfinance institutions, and others, mobilise savings from individuals, households, and institutions, and channel them as much-needed capital to those who need them for productive uses in the economy – individuals, households, businesses of all sizes, and other organisations.
However, due to the insolvency of seven universal banks in 2018 and the recent Menzgold and DKM saga, most financial experts are of the view that the financial sector – in its current state – is not capable of mobilising resources for development, unless the central bank together with its stakeholders do more to restore much-needed confidence to the sector.
According to the BoG, a number of weaknesses exist in the financial sector – some dating back to 2015. Among them are solvency challenges, poor corporate governance practices, weak risk management practices, liquidity challenges, and regulatory breaches.
Therefore, to be able to build a strong financial sector capable of funding the type of local industries government thirsts for, the AGI wants financial sector regulators to rid the sector of its many challenges.
This, Mr. Twum argued, will help bring self-assurance back to a sector he said is critical in pooling together resources for the country's development.


What time do the polls close and when will midterms results be announced?
Tuesday's midterm elections will shape the future of US politics over the next two years. The key question in these elections is: will Republicans be able to keep control of both chambers of Congress?
Historically, the party of the president has lost seats in the House of Representatives in midterm elections. In 2010, two years after Barack Obama was first elected, Democrats lost 63 seats in the House.
But polling suggests Democrats are unlikely to win the Senate – and may even lose seats.
In the House, Democrats need to flip 23 Republican-held seats to take control, which would restrict Trump's ability to act on some of his key election promises, like the border wall. It would also be a major embarrassment to Trump, given he has spent months campaigning for Republicans around the country. Trump's miserable approval rating – 42% – gives Democrats reason to be hopeful.
As well as a potential late-night Trump Twitter meltdown, there's plenty more to watch out for on Tuesday. More women are running in the midterm elections than ever before, and three states could elect African American governors for the first time.
Most polling places will close between 7pm ET and 11pm ET. But in Alaska and Hawaii most will shut at midnight ET. Of the states with earlier closures, Florida, Pennsylvania and New York have a number of House seats which Democrats consider winnable.
Early – as soon as the polls close. But remember 2016? Once convinced a Democrat is going to win, twice shy. So it's best to wait until actual results come in.
--early exit polls are not very good.
--final exit polls are not very good.
It won't be straight away. The size of some states, the high number of absentee ballots, the predicted high turnout at the polls, and the expected closeness of some of the races all mean that many results won't come out until the small hours of Wednesday morning at the earliest.
But given that some key districts should be called relatively early in the evening, we could have an idea of who will control the House by midnight. In the 2014 midterms the Associated Press called the Senate for the GOP at 11.25pm.
That means there is likely to be a tense wait before we know who will control the House, in particular, for the next two years.
In 2014 it took two weeks for California to announce the winners of two House elections. And then there is the added complication of some states requiring the winner to get more than 50% of the vote. If they don't, the top two candidates enter a runoff, and people have to vote all over again.
The Guardian will be live-blogging all night and throughout the next day. We'll have up-to-the-minute information on results and updates from our correspondents in all the key districts.
ABC News, CBS News, C-Span, and PBS all plan to broadcast live coverage, while NPR will be live from 8pm ET. Of the cable channels, CNN and MSNBC will have chin-stroking gurus poring over maps of the US, while Fox News will boast typically considered coverage featuring Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
As of Friday the Cook Political report rated 17 Republican-held seats as likely to flip to the Democratic party, or leaning towards the Democrats.
In New York's 19th district Republican incumbent John Faso is running neck-and-neck in the polls with Antonio Delgado. The campaign has been marked with racist overtones, as GOP groups have used loaded attacks against Delgado, who is African American, over his former rap career.
Steve King, a long-serving Iowa Republican, could lose his re-election bid. King, known for his inflammatory beliefs and statements, has plunged in the polls as attention has been drawn to his relationships with European far-right parties and endorsement of politicians with ties to neo-Nazi groups.
Republicans have their eyes on Montana's Jon Tester, a former farmer, in a state which Trump won by 20 points in 2016. Heidi Heitkamp, Democratic senator for North Dakota, is also vulnerable.
Many are following Democrat Beto O'Rourke in Texas, who is hoping to oust Republican Ted Cruz – a 2016 presidential candidate – from the Senate. O'Rourke has drawn large crowds, and plenty of press attention, but is running behind Cruz in the traditionally red state.
If elected, Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum and Ben Jealous would become the first African American governors of Georgia, Florida and Maryland.
Abrams and Gillum, who has faced racially charged comments from his opponent, are in tight races, while Jealous – a progressive backed by Bernie Sanders – looks to be more of a long shot.
In Vermont, the Democratic candidate Christine Hallquist would become the first ever transgender governor if she defeats Phil Scott, but is behind in polling.


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Meet The Cheerleader Of The Week: Caroline
Fresh off her rookie season with Colts Cheer, Caroline is both grateful and reflective.
"I absolutely loved everything about it. I feel like there's something magical about being a rookie and the newness of it all," she said. "I feel like it's a season you never get back. You're never a rookie again."
While everything was new to her, when Colts Cheer Director Kelly Tilley presented the Community Impact Challenge, it was something new to her teammates as well.
"I was really excited when she presented the idea, especially because I don't think it was something we saw coming. I was really excited and immediately as an educator, my mind went to kids," she said. "I just knew that kids have always been dear to my heart, so I kind of started from there."
As a first year elementary school teacher, Caroline knew she wanted to impact kids in some way. The question was how she wanted to do it.
"I noticed that the biggest need for the kids in my classroom was a positive role model. Especially working in IPS, you don't always see your kids going home to a caring family that's always there. Maybe they're really working hard for their family and they don't get to celebrate the moments with their child - coming to their games or activities and performances after school."
As a cheerleader, she knows how important that is.
"I would hope that others feel like they have a cheerleader too, on their sideline every day. Even for me, the 25 other women on the team are my cheerleaders and my mentors or big sisters, especially as a rookie."
Her hope is to be able to pair more kids up with a caring adult.
"There are over 1,000 kids in our city who are on the wait list for a mentor," she said. "It's really noticeable to me, the hurt that's in the kids who don't have those experiences. I see so many kids in my building that are a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana. It's really cool to see how simple it is, yet how impactful it is to just have one person cheering you on and being your cheerleader."
Cheering on her teammates and finding out what they're passionate about helped Caroline get to know them quickly and on a deeper level.
"Especially as a rookie, it takes a while to figure out not only who everyone is, but who they are as a person besides a cheerleader. This occurring at the beginning of the season and then developing throughout, I feel like I really got a great taste of things that people love and really care about that don't normally come up in a conversation waiting to run another routine."
Caroline is excited about the possibility of returning to the squad for a second season and building on the relationships she formed - on the field and in the community.
"I think it will be really rewarding and kind of a great motivation to start next season with this foundation of wanting to make an impact, but then also having the those connections."
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With a new vision and a new team, the Colts Cheerleaders are ready to kick off 2019.
Meet The Colts Cheer Finalists: Two Sisters And An Auctioneer
This week, 47 finalists have been practicing and perfecting their performances - chasing their dream of becoming a Colts cheerleader. Among them, a pair of sisters and a fourth-generation auctioneer.
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Lexie Ends Season With Pro Bowl, Returns With Renewed Purpose
It's the highest honor bestowed on a cheerleader - being selected to represent her team at the NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando. For Lexie, it was a dream come true and one that replaced a dream she had recently let go.
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It's a story of faith, triumph, and hope. But it's not the story of a football player. It's the story of a cheerleader who suffered a football-like injury and found a way to empower and inspire others while healing herself.
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Welcome To The Next Chapter Of Colts Cheer
The Colts Cheerleaders have always been about more than dancing on game day. As 2018 comes to a close, they're looking to 2019 with some big goals - to redefine who they are and what it means to be a cheerleader.
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This month, we celebrate the five-year anniversary of Wendy Davis' 2013 filibuster against House Bill 2 and the anniversary of the 2016 historic Supreme Court decision that struck down two provisions of that law.
But the work didn't end there.
NARAL Pro-Choice Texas is proud to support our partners who are taking Texas to court to fight decades-old abortion restrictions. In Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton, Whole Woman's Health Alliance, the Afiya Center, Fund Texas Choice, Lilith Fund, Texas Equal Access Fund, West Fund, and Dr. Bhavik Kumar challenge a host of long-standing and burdensome Texas laws designed to cut off access to safe, legal, and compassionate abortion care and undermine the freedom of people to control their own futures.
Fewer clinics, state-mandated misinformation, mandatory delays, forced sonograms, and other drastic restrictions force Texans to delay their health care, travel long distances and pay more out of pocket for abortion care, which can increase costs by hundreds to thousands of dollars. Importantly, these laws disproportionately impact low-income Texans, communities of color, rural Texans, young people, border communities, immigrants, and people who live at the intersections of various marginalized experiences and identities, preventing them from obtaining full bodily autonomy, resources and the power they need to thrive.
For too long, Texas politicians have ignored the real health care needs of Texas families and instead have put politics above all else. Today's lawsuit, which you can read here, marks the first time Texas abortion funds, providers and grassroots groups have come together in support of this important legal action challenging these long standing abortion restrictions in Texas. Click below to stay updated on the lawsuit and click here to read the full press announcement.


Are you sick of web3js? I know I am!
We are still forced to use it on the frontend but that doesn't mean that our backend event listeners and backend contract interactions have to go through this pile of poorly documented crap.
I want to introduce you to a great alternative that I've been using to write the backend of my dApps.
Now it should be pretty straight forward to get it running. Just browse over to the file (com.example.demo.DemoApplication) that contains @SpringBootApplication and there should be a little ▶ button. Press it? It won't do much now.
Now let's compile it into a java class using web3j!
IntelliJ should prompt you to reimport. Do it!
It just creates a bean of type Web3j that we can use to connect to Infura's WebSocket web3 provider!
const val CONTRACT_ADDRESS = "0xde370152a5a35ebc1b575cf7feddb2e0e16a62a4"
What do you think? A good alternative to web3js or not really? Please leave your feedback and ask me any questions! If this is received well I'll make a full dapp with a frontend that builds on this!
Also, am I doing something wrong? Please leave a comment for that as well :) I'm always looking to improve my Kotlin, Sprinboot, and Ethereum skills!


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Q: Can I remove leading zeros in a url in django? Am redirecting urls from a legacy site, which gets me to a url like this:
http://example.com/blog/01/detail
I would like to automatically remove the leading zeros from these urls (seems it doesn't matter how many zeros are in there 001 0001 000001 work) so that the page redirects to:
http://example.com/blog/1/detail
Is there a simple way to go about doing this in django ?  (Or, via the .htaccess redirect?)
URL code:
url(u'^blog/(?P<object_id>\d+)/detail$',
    list_detail.object_detail,
    { 'queryset' : Blog.objects.all(), },
    name='blog_detail',)

.htaccess (being redirected):
RewriteRule ^blog-([0-9]+) http://example.com/blog/$1 [R=301]

Would I need some middleware or is there an easy way to do this in the urls.py file ?

A: You can fix it by eiditing either the urls.py regex or the .htaccess regex:
In Django
'^blog/0*(?P<object_id>\d+)/detail$'

In .htaccess
RewriteRule ^blog-0*([0-9]+) http://example.com/blog/$1 [R=301]

A: Perhaps
url(u'^blog/0*(?P<object_id>\d+)/detail$',
    list_detail.object_detail,
    { 'queryset' : Blog.objects.all(), },
    name='blog_detail',)


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60 Minutes February 15, 2015
How Would Judges On Reality Shows Respond To Pitches From Some Of The Most Successful Entrepreneurs When They Were Just Starting Out?
(Forbes) Shark Tank: The lost pitches
by Joshua Brown @reformedbroker FEBRUARY 9, 2015, 2:02 PM EST
How would the judges on the reality show respond to pitches from some of the most successful entrepreneurs in recent history when they were just starting out?
In the world of startup funding, spotting a winner is no simple task. Much of it comes down to chance. How would the judges of ABC's Shark Tank respond to pitches from some of the most successful entrepreneurs in recent history when they were just starting out? Here's how we imagine the conversations might have gone.
Hello Sharks! My name is Steve Ells and I'm the founder and head chef of Chipotle Fresh Mexican Grill. I'm asking for $100,000 for 10% of my company so I can expand. Chipotle serves the best burritos in Colorado, using the freshest ingredients and with an open kitchen for people to see into.
Barbara Corcoran: I'm going to stop you for a second, what do you mean by "fast casual"?
Well, we're serving customers quickly, but it's more expensive food and a nicer atmosphere.
Barbara Corcoran: Okay. But it's just a burrito, right?
Well, yes, but we may also do tacos at some point.
Barbara Corcoran: So a store serving expensive burritos and tacos at a million dollar valuation? I'm going to have to pass.
My name is Elon Musk and I'm about to revolutionize the auto industry, first in the United States and then all over the world. My Tesla cars will drive entirely powered by batteries, with zero emissions or fossil fuels. I'm seeking $5 billion for 20% of my company.
Daymond John: We already have the Chevy Volt and the Toyota Prius on the road and the audience for this type of car is pretty small, right?
Yes, but my electric car will be different.
Daymond John: How?
It will cost almost $100,000 and there will be no dealerships where you can purchase them.
Daymond John: Come again?
That's right. And you'll need to refuel them at special filling stations that I will also need funds from you to build, all over America.
Kevin O'Leary: But what powers the car?
Well, it's a special kind of battery that no one really makes a lot of yet. I'm also going to need some cash from you to make those too. But we're only going to sell around 30,000 cars, tops, during the first few years, so that shouldn't be a problem.
Daymond John: I feel like you're playing a joke here.
I'm totally serious. I also build spaceships in my spare time.
Kevin O'Leary: This sounds insane. I'm out.
Good afternoon, Sharks! My name is Travis Kalanick and my new app is going to change the way people get around their cities in over 180 countries around the world. Uber is going to replace half of the taxis and limousine companies in existence overnight.
Kevin O'Leary: I'm sorry, you said your app?
That's right. It's an app on your phone and it lets you order a car service from anywhere you are at any time.
Kevin O'Leary: How will you get all the cars and drivers to work for you?
That's the beauty of it. They won't work for us. They'll work for themselves and split the revenues. We're even going to let random drivers who aren't professionals operate on our platform!
Barbara Corcoran: Let me see if I understand this. Taxi and limo drivers are going to agree to work for you but not really be considered as working for you? And you think people are going to want to get picked up by unlicensed strangers?
Daymond John: So what you're saying is you invented a hitchhiking app?
Well, that's not how I would put it exactly…
Barbara Corcoran: So you'll be competing with every transportation company in the world?
Yes. And we'll also be having knock-down, drag-out fights with politicians and lobbying groups in almost every state and city, not to mention the fact that we'll be responsible for the safety of millions of drivers and passengers everywhere we go.
Kevin O'Leary: What did you say your valuation would be?
We think we'll be worth $40 billion within our first 36 months.
I'd like to introduce you to Amazon.com, which I think will be the largest retailer in the world. My name is Jeff Bezos and I'm asking the Sharks to back my company with $500,000 for a 5% stake.
Lori Greiner: That's sounds like a lot of money, what do your profit margins look like?
There aren't any. I would prefer to talk about revenue.
Lori Greiner: Okay but anyone can generate a lot of revenue if they're willing to be the lowest-price seller and generate a lot of losses.
Right, well that's what I'm going to do. We'll sell billions of dollars worth of merchandise every month. Profits will come later.
Barbara Corcoran: When is later?
We'll still be generating losses 18 years down the road. But we'll be sure to add new services along the way that people will be excited about.
Mark Cuban: But aren't you worried about running out of money?
No. Investors will keep giving us money because we'll keep growing and showing increased sales. Other retailers we compete with who have to actually earn profits will go out of business and we'll keep getting bigger.
Lori Greiner: Jeff, I actually think you've just discovered the holy grail of capitalism. Why hasn't anyone else ever done this?
Because this is an Internet company, and the rules are different. The standards by which other businesses are judged won't apply to me.
Mark Cuban: Actually, I kind of think this could work.
Did I mention drones?
Daymond John: I need to see some proof that an eternal funding machine like this can last as long as you think it could. So for that reason, I'm out.
Marcus Goldman
Hello Sharks. My name is Marcus Goldman and this is my son-in-law, Samuel Sachs. We've launched an investment bank on Wall Street that will cater to large corporations, heads of state, and even royalty as we help people turn their piles of money into even more money.
We're convinced that with a small amount of startup capital, we'll be on our way toward world domination in no time.
Mark Cuban: I'm intrigued, but aren't there lots of other investment banks on Wall Street? How can you be sure that yours will survive and thrive?
That's a great question, Mark, and we're glad you asked it. We're only going to hire the very best and brightest. The smartest, most driven and determined bankers, analysts, and traders coming out of the top institutions of learning. They'll close major deals and bring in windfalls of cash for the firm. We'll make the most indispensable among them partners and pay incredible salaries to keep them.
Robert Herjavec: That sounds good on paper, but…
You didn't hear the best part. Many of them will leave the firm over the coming decades and become instrumental members of the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department, and even end up advising presidents in the White House as well as governments in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. We'll have a network of influential government officials and bankers the likes of which the world has never seen.
We'll serve counterparties on both sides of every transaction and have an angle that allows us to win regardless of any potential outcome. In short, we'll be in the room for every major financial and economic decision undertaken anywhere there is money on the line.
Robert Herjavec: I'm out. It'll never work.
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Home Newswire 'You Cannot Use Military Force to Wipe Out Terrorism' – CounterSpin interview...
'You Cannot Use Military Force to Wipe Out Terrorism' – CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis on ISIS attacks
Jul 12, 2016: 4:50 pm
Janine Jackson interviewed Phyllis Bennis about ISIS attacks for the July 8, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Phyllis Bennis: "You can't be bombing people and at the same time think that you're going to succeed at 'persuading' them."
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Janine Jackson: Early in the morning of Sunday, July 3, a truck bomb exploded in a shopping district in Baghdad. Many of the more than 200 people killed were children shopping for new clothes for Eid Al-Fitr. The group ISIS claimed responsibility.
That was two days after militants claiming fealty to ISIS killed 22 people in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after an 11-hour siege on a cafe. It was five days after at least 42 people were killed in Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. And it was the day before three separate bomb attacks across Saudi Arabia, including one in the holy city of Medina near a site sacred to Muslims, the mosque where the prophet Mohammed is believed to be buried.
That Americans will have heard more about some of those attacks than others is meaningful, not just because it's always disheartening and distorting to see some victims presented as more human than others. It's especially frustrating when the evident aims of an organization include sowing enmity, division and resentment.
But the US response to ISIS fails on levels even more fundamental than a resistance to acknowledging that Muslims are its primary victims. It has to do with what is meant by "fighting" ISIS or "fighting" terrorism to begin with.
Joining us now to help us sort through the issues is Phyllis Bennis. She directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and is author of, most recently, Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror. She joins us by phone from D.C.
Welcome back to CounterSpin, Phyllis Bennis.
Phyllis Bennis: Great to be with you, Janine.
JJ: I believe something important was lost when media stopped putting "War on Terror" in quotation marks, when they naturalized it. Because if we think of it as a war, and we know the US has the strongest military in the world by far, then it's impossible to understand, really, why we should feel that this many years into it, we are more vulnerable to terrorist violence than before. How can we make some sense of the current situation with regard to ISIS, where we read that, on the one hand, US and Iraqi forces are "routing" or "pushing back" on the group, and then the same day's newspaper suggests that attacks by ISIS or its affiliates are increasing?
PB: ISIS has functioned really in two ways, militarily. It's functioned as a—I suppose the word is "traditional," although I hate to use the term for that—a traditional, old-fashioned terrorist organization, carrying out bombing attacks, suicide attacks, car bomb attacks and others on largely civilian populations, mainly in its own region around the Middle East and what it calls its caliphate, and in other countries as well, both in the West, in places like Paris and perhaps San Bernardino, as well as in Bangladesh, maybe—although there's a lot of questions remaining about whether the Bangladesh operation actually had anything to do with ISIS or not. So it's played the role of a terrorist organization with horrific results.
It has also, in the creation of the so-called caliphate, played the role of what we might consider a conventional army, seizing and holding territory, taking over populations and ruling them with, in this case, an iron, iron fist.
So what we're seeing now is a causal relationship in response to losses on the ground; in this case, the loss of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was declared, quote, "liberated" at the end of June by the Iraqi military and its US backers—the US providing the bombs, of course—and the Iraqi Shia militias who fight alongside the Iraqi military. They declared it liberated, they had expelled ISIS from the city, and it was just a few days later that this newest range of bombing attacks began to occur, with the one in Istanbul and then moving to Baghdad, et cetera, as you said, in that bloody set of consequences.
That has happened before. The bombing in Paris, for instance, was very soon after the ISIS forces were expelled from the city of Ramadi. And, of course, on the one hand we hear about the expulsion of ISIS forces as liberation, as a great victory, and certainly it's a good thing when ISIS no longer is in control of hundreds of thousands of people's lives, with their terrible violence. But we don't hear very much about what that, quote, "liberation" actually means. It means, in the case of Ramadi, for instance, that the 350,000 people who once lived there have no city to go back to. Eighty percent of it has been completely demolished, largely by the rounds of US bombing.
It's bad enough that in the city of Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, which has been under ISIS control for two years now, since 2014, a recent poll just a couple of weeks ago indicated that 76 percent of the population said, we do not want to be, quote, "liberated" by these Shia militias that fight with our government's military, because we think they are even more violent and sectarian and dangerous to us. Now, that speaks volumes about what ISIS represents in the eyes of many people in the region, which is: a terrible phenomenon, violent, brutal, but maybe not as bad as other forces, some of which are part of, or allied with, the governments that the US has imposed and armed and paid for.
Now, if we take two steps back and look at it more broadly, I think what we see, Janine, is that this set of attacks, whether it was the Istanbul attack, Baghdad, et cetera—all of these are examples, as if we needed any more, of why and how the US policy of military first is failing.
Because you cannot use military force to wipe out terrorism. You can use military force to get rid of opposition military forces in a city somewhere, at enormous cost, as we've seen. But what happens is they then pop up somewhere else doing terrible things to a different population, whether it's in Paris or in San Bernardino or in Baghdad or somewhere else.
JJ: I want to interject one thing about media, which is that the phenomenon that you're describing, it's not that it's unknown. Here's the New York Times, just a few days ago: "As ISIS Loses Land, It Gains Ground in Overseas Terror." You have a source acknowledging that, just as you're describing, the trajectories for the state or the caliphate and for these other incidents of violence around the world, they seem to be going in different directions, but in fact they are not.
But what's interesting to me is this sentence. "Combatting this evolving, more complex array of threats—attacks loosely inspired by the Islamic state, attacks it directs from afar, and those as in Baghdad that it carries out itself—demands more than just military strikes in Iraq and Syria, American officials acknowledge." This is the problem, this "more than," isn't it?
PB: Yeah. This is something that goes back to long-standing positions taken by the Obama administration and by President Obama himself, who has, ironically, said over and over again, there is no military solution. He said it in regard to the civil war in Syria, he said it in regard to ISIS. He says it over and over again, and each time he says it I want to jump up and cheer.
But then he gets to the next sentence and I sit down again, saying I'm not cheering for this. Because what he says immediately after is the military part isn't enough, we have to do more. We have to do better diplomacy, we need to do this, this and this.
But the problem is, as long as you're doing the military, the others don't work. You can't be bombing people and at the same time think that you're going to succeed at, quote, "persuading" them, which is one of the great things the Obama administration has talked about wanting to do, persuading them that ISIS is not their friend. Well, it might be easier to persuade them of that if you weren't killing them. You know, it's — there's something illogical there.
So what we need to focus on is that we don't need military and other stuff, we need other stuff instead of the military. We need the high-level attention, the hundreds of billions of dollars, all of the focus of official and unofficial Washington, to be focused on nonmilitary reaction, none of which is going to be dramatic, none of which is going to solve the problem overnight. (And we should note that the military stuff hasn't worked for five years so far, you know? You want to say, well, how's that going for you?)
But it's the only thing that has any chance in the longer term of working.
JJ: Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her most recent book is Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror. Find her article "From Paris to Istanbul: More War on Terror Means More Terrorist Attacks" on Foreign Policy in Focus. Phyllis Bennis, thank you very much for joining us this week on CounterSpin.
PB: Thank you, Janine. It's always a pleasure.
This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission from FAIR.


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Q: time difference Am I doing it right? I am trying to measure time difference
I am also learning to wright PHP..
I am saving time and date into SQL as datetime by:
 $now = new DateTime();
 $datenow = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

  $sql = "INSERT INTO Logg ( logdate , Log  , value) VALUES ( '$datenow' , 'Log', '$value' )";

I can now do a query and get:
 $result = mysqli_query( $conn , $sqlq );
  while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$myLogdate = $row['logdate'];

What I am after, is to be able to check the time between
$myLogdate

and
$now = new DateTime();
$datenow = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

I have tried:
$interval = $datenow->diff($myLogdate);
$elapsed = $interval->format('%y years %m months %a days %h hours %i minutes %s seconds');
echo $elapsed;

But I get no results....

A: You can use date_diff.
Example from the linked page:
<?php
    $datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
    $datetime2 = new DateTime('2009-10-13');
    $interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
    echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
?>

A list of possible formats can be found here

A: for finding the date difference try the below code:
$interval = date_diff($datenow, $myLogdate);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days')

and for format the interval (like "%R%a" means +days) follow http://php.net/manual/en/dateinterval.format.php.

A: The solution provided by waka was:
$then = new DateTime($myLogDate);
$interval = date_diff($now, $then);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');


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Q: JS url encoding when trying to encode the URL

http://www.example.com/events/tours/example-tour/?utm_source=example&utm_medium=banner

it gives me back the following:

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fevents%2Ftours%2Fexample-tour%2F%3Futm_source%3Dexample%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%20

which does not represent a valid url, since it can not be called in browsers and leads to a google search (Chrome, you know?)
How can I encode the URL probably using JS only?

A: the right way in javascript to encode a url properly is
encodeURIComponent();

which gives you
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fevents%2Ftours%2Fexample-tour%2F%3Futm_source%3Dexample%26utm_medium%3Dbanner

then
decodeURIComponent();

at the other side to decode the url again to make it valid.
encodeURIComponent is not a valid url because you encodeit to pass is as a GET variable.
like
http://www.site.com/index.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fevents%2Ftours%2Fexample-tour%2F%3Futm_source%3Dexample%26utm_medium%3Dbanner


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Not Just Drama, This is Trauma: The Trauma of Privilege
The "Trauma of Privilege" Leads Young Adults Down a Path of Self Destruction and Parents are at Fault
LOS ANGELES, APRIL 22, 2015 - Over the past 30 years Harriet Rossetto, the founder of the West LA treatment center Beit T'Shuvah, has become particularly attuned to those who are suffering from what she's described as the Trauma of Privilege. This is caused by a saving from failure and over praising starting in their childhood years, driven by those who love them the most and who claim to have their best interests at heart.
"We have created a Culture of Privilege characterized by Perfection Parenting and Commodified Kids," explains Rossetto. "Our children have become our careers, emotionally priceless, economically draining; 'valuable, not valued.' The result? Anxious, fearful, and depressed kids; anxious, fearful, and depressed parents. Drug addiction - prescribed for the parents, hustled by the kids."
In news coverage and commentary of celebrities falling into their addictions, the celebrity is often mocked as being too privileged to feel true pain. Recent headlines include:
Ireland Baldwin Checks into Rehab for 'Emotional Trauma'
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Kim Richards Arrested Following 'Drunken Rampage'
Liza Minnelli Checks Into Rehab Facility For Substance Abuse
As we watch these public self destructions there is the question of where this trauma in their lives began and how it's possible for these people who seem to have it all, fall. For some, it began as children of privilege. For others, it began in a culture of expectations dependent on the pressure to be perfect.
According to Rossetto, privilege is on a spectrum, "The more money you can spend on their development, the more influence you have to buy your child's accomplishments, the worse it gets." These children who grow into adults with the same problems need to re-learn self-efficacy and contingency, according to Rossetto. "They need to understand no one is to blame for their mistakes or poor choices, and have to accept the consequences of their choices along with their imperfections."
About Harriet
Harriet Rossetto is the founder and executive vice president of Beit T'Shuvah (bate-t'shoo-vah), a residential treatment center and educational institution in West Los Angeles. Her belief that addiction is a malady of the soul inspired her to create a community that for 25 years has supported the process of recovery through spiritual healing. Beit T'Shuvah, meaning House of Return in Hebrew, became the first residential program in the United States to integrate Judaism, 12 steps and psychotherapy. From the Los Angeles community to the White House, Rossetto has been honored as a pioneer in spiritual healing. The Bush administration recognized her work with recovering Jewish addicts as an example of why the government should support faith based efforts. Harriet also received the Alan Kassin award for professional achievement from the Jewish Communal Professionals, the Vision Philanthropy Award, and the Isaiah Award from the Jewish Federation for filling an unmet community need. Rossetto has also authored her own spiritual memoir, "Sacred Housekeeping," in which she shares the story of how the journey to save others became her own journey of self-actualization.www.BeitTShuvah.org
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Department of Infectious Disease, Atatürk University School of Medicine, Erzurum, Turkey
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Division of Urulogy, Department of Surgical Medicine Sciences, Atatürk University School of Medicine, Erzurum, Turkey
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