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The rapid development of the information and communications technologies bring along transformational changes. The Internet has a great capacity to empower people, ensure the transparency of governments, and promote development and innovation. At the same time we are confronted by ethical challenges in the context of the notions of accessibility, digital gap, freedom of expression, digital identity, privacy, ownership, reliability, cyber security, copyright, piracy etc. In addressing them, effective international multi-stakeholder cooperation is crucial.
However, cultural and ethical challenges cannot be used as pretext to limit internet freedom. Common understanding on the applicability of the existing international law to activities in cyberspace is essential to promoting an open, secure and accessible Internet. The view that the same human rights which apply offline must be also guaranteed and protected online should grow universal. The engagement of governments, private sector, civil society and experts alike is a significant prerequisite for promotion of inclusive, transparent and accountable internet governance.
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Axel Dreher joined the company in 2013, as head of operations and later was chief financial officer. In 2017, the executive took the role of CEO.
Oct 30, 2019 — 5:32pm
Wolford modifies its team. Axel Dreher, until now chief executive officer of the Austrian hosiery company, has left the company. The executive joined the group in 2013 as head of operations, and subsequently was chief financial officer. In 2017, the executive took on the role of chief executive officer.
At the same time, the company has appointed Silvia Azzali, until now the group's sales director as commercial manager. Azzali will be in changed of sales, merchandising and design division of the Austrian company.
"With Silvia Azzali and Andrew Thorndike, we are ensuring continuity in management while giving a new boost to the company," the company said in a statement. The company, owned by the Chinese giant Fosum since May 2018, ended its last fiscal with a revenue of 137.2 million euros, 8% less than the previous year.
The owner of Lanvin and Wolford seeks partner for its fashion business
Wolford builds restructuring plan to save 10 million after Fosun's acquisition
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Are you interested in being a published composer for school band and orchestra? Let me start out by dispelling a myth right now. Getting music published does not equal getting rich! There are very few composers that I have ever known that can make a solid living just on getting music published for school bands and orchestras. Most, like me, have other jobs as well, or they write a lot of freelance arrangements, or they write commissions or books, etc. So, if you were intrigued enough to read this article because getting published interests you, then I will give you some insights based on my 22 years of experience as an editor for two major music publishing companies.
Let me also state that I am not looking to increase my submissions by writing this article, as I receive hundreds of manuscripts each year from people who want to have their music considered for publication. What I would like to do with this article is to help folks who were like me when I was starting out, and didn't have a clue as to how to get started in the process. I was fortunate enough to be rejected when I was a young composer (in the nicest way possible) by composer/editor/publisher John Edmondson. He didn't accept my music, but he told me what to do to get it published eventually. I have always appreciated that, and I hope that this article will serve to pay forward the wonderful advice John gave me those many years ago.
The first thing you need to do to get your music published is to do your homework. You must listen to and look at a lot of published music, with a critical eye and ear. Try to figure out why you think these pieces have been published. What makes them worthy? Better yet, find out on sheet music dealer websites which pieces are selling well (many post top seller lists), and try to figure out why. Once you go through this process, then you will have a better understanding of what each of the publishers are looking for, which leads me to my next point.
Figure out in which publisher's catalog you think your music will fit best. It doesn't make sense to submit grade 10 symphonies for band if that publisher doesn't publish difficult music! Or, don't send your music if it doesn't seem to be the type or style of music that publisher accepts. Each publisher is a reflection of the person or people that select the music they publish. Each has their own musical tastes, and that is based on the editors who make those decisions, so choose wisely where you decide to send your music.
Once you determine where to send your music, make sure it fits into their parameters. Every publisher has grade level series and instrumentation idiosyncrasies that are unique to their company. Most companies have guidelines of ranges, keys, rhythms and other technical limitations for each series that you can get – you just have to ask. When you get those guidelines or study your potential publisher's pieces, adapt your piece to fit their guidelines and instrumentation.
Next, you must prepare the score you are planning on submitting in a way that looks professional. Using a notation program today is an absolute must. Publishers really can't afford the cost or time to "engrave" your piece from a handwritten manuscript any longer. Make it look as good as you can before you send it in.
A recording is an absolute must! This can be a MIDI realization from one of the notation programs, but make sure that the MIDI playback shows your piece in the best light possible. Obviously, a high quality live recording is best, but for many that is not possible. I receive many MIDI recordings a year, so I am used to it, but I must say that some of the playback from some of the software is terrible and does not help the piece – at all! I suggest you don't try too hard to make the MIDI sound "real". I sometimes receive MIDI recordings that have so much reverb added that it is impossible to hear "inside" the piece. Do your best to send a recording (live or MIDI), that you feel best represents your music.
The big question is – who do you send your music to? It is imperative that you do not send the music unsolicited to generic places like "Publications Review Committee" or "Band/Orchestra Editor". You must take the time to find out to whom you should send the music directly, in order for it to get reviewed. I believe it is important to network anyway, and a great way to find out the decision maker at each of the publishers is to meet them at conventions or through your other colleagues. People that take the initiative to do this are going to have a better chance of getting the attention of the decision-makers.
Now that you know where to send your music, what should you send? This is simple – send one piece at a time. Do not send your whole life's work in one package. Send your best piece first. Then you must be patient. As stated above, major publishers receive hundreds of submissions a year, and most of the time we can only devote a certain time of year to reviewing unpublished composers. This is another reason to network and try to talk to the decision makers. You can ask them the best time to submit, so that your music will arrive at the optimum time to get reviewed in a timely manner. But, it still can take a long time to get a response, be patient. The other thing you can do when networking with the editors is to find out how they would like music submitted. Each publisher has their own way of doing things. Some like old fashioned mail with a score and CD, some like email, others have ways to upload PDFs and mp3s to them directly through their website. Again, do your homework and find out what they want.
Expect to be rejected at some point in your career. It happens to all of us. It is important that you write music for your our creative needs first and foremost, and if other people like it or it gets published, that is a happy coincidence. I can't stress that enough. You must write music for yourself first and foremost! Getting published is certainly nice, but it ultimately should not be the goal. Creating art should be!
If you are fortunate enough to get a piece accepted, get used to the fact that the editors of publishing companies may ask you to make changes. This is an important part of the process, as the editors have to make suggestions to make the piece better fit the needs of their catalog, the grade level or series and to try and make the piece the best it can be. If you don't want to make changes/edits to your pieces, then I suggest you don't send your pieces to a publisher at all. Editors are going to edit – that is what they do – and their sole purpose is to help make the piece better. They are not doing it to ruin your work of art. If you are not willing to be flexible or easy to work with, then you will not get your pieces accepted for publication.
If you have gotten past this point, then you need to understand that publishing companies that publish school band and orchestra music need music for all grade levels. If you want to continue to be published for the long haul, then you need to have the skills to be able to write music for all ability levels. If you are not a teacher, then you need to study what students can and can't do on their instruments at certain levels, and be prepared to write music that will fit their educational needs, but that will also be of a good quality for use in instructional purposes.
Finally, believe in yourself and your abilities. If composing is something that you aspire to do, then study hard and write music, everyday, and get better. Rejection is not fun for anyone, but keep an open mind and try to get better from it and move forward. Not all good music gets published. It sometimes doesn't get to the right people at the right time. Keep trying! As I stated above, write music because you love to write music, it fulfills you, and makes you happy. If it happens to be successful, then that is merely a bonus. Good luck!


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murphherder says:
I'm in the same situation, but it's been eight months. My dad is with a new woman, but he is still greiving. She makes him happy in the worst time of his life.
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Sorry for not replying 5 months ago, I just couldn't at that time...
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I'm in the exact same situation - after 44 years of marriage my mum died suddenly 9 months ago. My dad starting 'seeing someone' a few months ago and it felt incredibly soon, but he's not rushing the relationship. He's just incredibly lonely. He hasn't been alone his entire adult life. It's really hard seeing them start to date again because it feels like they're moving on and forgettin, but that's not the case - they're just trying to solve a problem - the problem of being lonely and needing someone to care about them.
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My mom started dating within the year of my dad passing. They were married for 26 years and my mom was 50 when he passed. Don't get me wrong, it was so hard to see her with anyone else, but she was too young to be a widow. If dating someone made her happy, then I want her to date someone. She's now been with a new guy for 7 years and he's a good friend to me. He doesn't act like a father figure to me and I don't treat him like one.
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My dad started dating someone 2 years after my mom died. After my mom's death, it's more apparent to me that my dad, while he's been a husband and dad for as long as I've been alive, is also just some guy. Some guy who is alone for the first time in 30 years, some guy who suddenly has no one to fuss over and has no one to fuss over him. I keep reminding myself that he's been with my mom for longer than my entire existence, and if I could have a mother-figure at my age to dote on me in her stead, I would do it too, and he would understand.
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It's weird for sure. My dad has a "companion" as he calls it. It was a little uncomfortable for all of us at first but honestly, when I think about it a little more, my parents had been together since they were 20. I can't imagine being with the same person for 42 years, taking care of her for 19 of those years while she had cancer, holding her in his arms as she died, and then just having no one around. That's a level of loneliness I cannot even wrap my head around.


The relevant calculation is on line 39, with the matrix transformation.
The issue I'm having is the calculation is off by a margin, and that margin increases as the mouse moves from the upper-left of the window to the lower-right. If the window isn't the same size as the RenderTarget for the game world, it'll make boarders on either the left/right or top/bottom. If it's left/right the mouse coordinates lag behind the actual mouse, and if it's top/bottom they're ahead. No matter what I try I can't get it right.
Nobody's been able to help me with this. I'm almost starting to think this is somehow impossible, but if that's the case, how do I render my game in a larger window while being able to use a mouse? Is this really something that nobody in the history of XNA/MonoGame has ever done? Has every XNA/MonoGame game in existence been rendered in a window that's exactly the same resolution as the game? Even tiny 600x800 games like mine that would be microscopic on modern 4K monitors? I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and it would be miserable for me to have to give up my mouse or forcefully render my game in it's native resolution.
Thanks for reading, I've asked this question around the internet about a dozen times over a few months but I hope someone has some sort of solution for me.
I didnt look at code but from experience (pos/2) - (viewport.xy/2)... or is it+..
Is there a reason you can't use Viewport.Unproject? You're missing the projection matrix at the least unless GetViewMatrix is returning the combined View-projection. (World * view) * projection.
I totally forgot about the Viewport, I never touched it outside of that Camera class that I didn't write. I'll try to modify it's GetViewMatrix method to take into account the world, although I don't know what I'm doing so that'll be some trial and error.
Is there no documentation or tutorials around for this sort of thing? I mean, I sure couldn't find any. How do other people do this?
If it's 3d then you have no choice but to do it through the Viewport (or write your own method doing the same thing).
It doesn't seem to work, though. It also still has the issue of the real mouse moving further from the in-game mouse as it moves towards the bottom right.
I'm not sure what you mean by make the Y value Height?
I don't think I'm properly interpreting your instructions. Is there any way you could write some pseudo-code for it?
Using the wrong values in normalization (I have no idea what "R" is either).
You normalize/denormalize X against width and Y against height. Your range is 0->width and 0->height.
Mouse coordinates are relative to the top left of the window with Y going down. Usually your world coordinates are the other way around with Y going up. That means to get a world relative Y you have to make the mouse position relative to the screen coordinate system (WindowHeight - MouseY). See the diagram here, part way down on the page - note that the diagram is for viewport coordinates.
If you wanted to get pure viewport coordinates you'd denormalize as Denormalize(x, -1, 1) and Denormalize(y, -1, 1), though depending on mouse basis (ie. flip Y or not, why may have to be Denormalize(y, 1, -1)).
Oh, my goodness! This is actually working! Thank you so much, you saved my hide. I can't tell you how long I spent trying to fix this myself.
It's still slightly off, there's a growing gap between the real cursor and in-game cursor, which is the size of the boarders filling the space in the window that the RenderTarget doesn't cover. That's what "R" is, it's the RenderTarget size and the size of the boarder (X and Y are the boarder size, one is always 0 because the boarders are either up/down or left/right. It's a Rectangle returned from the CalculateRenderTargetPosition() method). I'm not too concerned about it, I can fiddle with it some more later, try and find a place where to put the R values. I just wanted to thank you.
So you're letterboxing the render target I assume?
That could be a bit wonky. I would guess you'd want to use the Rectangle's Width and Height from CalculateRenderTargetPosition if that is the location of it in the window. But if you have other mouse requirements (such as you use the letter-box edge area or the letter-box edge area is just concealed area with valid world locations underneath - but only hidden, etc).
You're probably off into specifics of your case land now.


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#include "ALT1250_PPP.h"
#include "ALT1250_PPP_CellularContext.h"
#include "AT_CellularNetwork.h"
#include "ALT1250_PPP_CellularNetwork.h"
#include "CellularLog.h"
#include "rtos/ThisThread.h"

using namespace rtos;
using namespace mbed;
using namespace events;

#define CONNECT_DELIM         "\r\n"
#define CONNECT_BUFFER_SIZE   (1280 + 80 + 80) // AT response + sscanf format
#define CONNECT_TIMEOUT       8000

#if !defined(MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_RST)
#define MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_RST    NC
#endif

static const intptr_t cellular_properties[AT_CellularDevice::PROPERTY_MAX] = {
    AT_CellularNetwork::RegistrationModeEnable,// C_EREG
    AT_CellularNetwork::RegistrationModeDisable,    // C_GREG
    AT_CellularNetwork::RegistrationModeLAC,    // C_REG
    1,  // AT_CGSN_WITH_TYPE
    0,  // AT_CGDATA
    0,  // AT_CGAUTH
    1,  // AT_CNMI
    1,  // AT_CSMP
    1,  // AT_CMGF
    1,  // AT_CSDH
    1,  // PROPERTY_IPV4_STACK
    0,  // PROPERTY_IPV6_STACK
    0,  // PROPERTY_IPV4V6_STACK
    0,  // PROPERTY_NON_IP_PDP_TYPE
    1,  // PROPERTY_AT_CGEREP
};

ALT1250_PPP::ALT1250_PPP(FileHandle *fh, PinName rst, PinDirection pin_dir, PinMode pin_mode, bool value)
    : AT_CellularDevice(fh),
      _rst(rst, pin_dir, pin_mode, value)
{
    set_cellular_properties(cellular_properties);
}

AT_CellularContext *ALT1250_PPP::create_context_impl(ATHandler &at, const char *apn, bool cp_req, bool nonip_req)
{
    return new ALT1250_PPP_CellularContext(at, this, apn, cp_req, nonip_req);
}

AT_CellularNetwork *ALT1250_PPP::open_network_impl(ATHandler &at)
{
    return new ALT1250_PPP_CellularNetwork(at, *this);
}

nsapi_error_t ALT1250_PPP::soft_power_on()
{
    // check if modem is already ready
    _at.lock();
    _at.flush();
    _at.set_at_timeout(30);
    _at.cmd_start("AT");
    _at.cmd_stop_read_resp();
    nsapi_error_t err = _at.get_last_error();
    _at.restore_at_timeout();
    _at.unlock();

    // modem is not responding to AT commands, power it on
    if (err != NSAPI_ERROR_OK) {
        tr_warn("Modem is not responding to AT commands, reset it");
        if (_rst.is_connected()) {
            _rst = 0;
            ThisThread::sleep_for(100);
            _rst = 1;
        }
        if (_at.sync(2000)) {
            tr_warn("Modem is AT ready");
            return NSAPI_ERROR_OK;
        }
        tr_warn("Modem is not AT ready following reset");
        return _at.get_last_error();
    }

    return NSAPI_ERROR_OK;
}

#if MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_PROVIDE_DEFAULT

#if !NSAPI_PPP_AVAILABLE
#error Must define lwip.ppp-enabled
#endif

#include "BufferedSerial.h"
CellularDevice *CellularDevice::get_default_instance()
{
    static BufferedSerial serial(MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_TX, MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_RX, MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_BAUDRATE);
#if defined (MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_RTS) && defined (MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_CTS)
    tr_debug("ALT1250_PPP flow control: RTS %d CTS %d", MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_RTS, MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_CTS);
    serial.set_flow_control(SerialBase::RTSCTS, MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_RTS, MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_CTS);
#endif
    static ALT1250_PPP device(&serial, MBED_CONF_ALT1250_PPP_RST, PIN_OUTPUT, OpenDrainNoPull, 1);
    return &device;
}
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Thomas V. Van Dawark, vice president and general manager of Foss Alaska Line, Seattle, Wash., has been named president, Dillingham Maritime-Ocean Transportation Services Division.
The announcement was made by David B. Ballash, Dillingham group vice president-maritime. The Ocean T r a n s p o r t a t i on Services Division, headed by Mr. Van Dawark, is part of Honolulubased Dillingham Corporation's maritime group and comprises Ocean Transportation Services, Inc. of Houston, Texas, and the Dillingham Maritime ocean marketing services group, based in Seattle, Wash.
Ocean Transportation Services, Inc. is active in coastal and ocean towing, barging, and related maritime services within the Gulf Coast area. The company, formed characin July 1980, offers worldwide shipping operations with special emphasis on handling of cargoes bound to and from Mexico, as well as Central and South American countries.
Mr. Van Dawark is also responsible for the Dillingham Maritime ocean marketing services group with offices in Seattle; Anchorage, Alaska; San Francisco, Calif.; Houston; and New York City. The group handles the mar keting of all Dillingham Maritime's offshore towing and transportation services.
Mr. Van Dawark joined Foss Alaska Line, part of Dillingham's maritime group, in 1976, and held a variety of positions with the company prior to being named vice president and general manager in November 1979. Before joining Foss Alaska Line, he was with Matson Navigation Co. and American President Lines.


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Associate Professor Katie Margaret Groom
PhD, MB BS, BSc (Hons), FRANZCOG, CMFM
In: Liggins Institute
https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/k-groom
Associate Professor, Associate Professor The University of Auckland: Liggins Institute, Liggins Institute
Katie Groom is Associate Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Health and the Hugo Charitable Trust Fellow at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. She is a Subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at National Women's Health, Auckland City Hospital.
Katie completed her MB BS medical degree at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College, London in 1995. She undertook her PhD studies 'The Potential of a Cyclo-Oxygenase-2 Specific Prostaglandin Synthesis Inhibitor for the Prevention of Preterm Labour' early in her career (University of London, 1999 – 2002) and subsequently entered specialist training in obstetrics and gynaceology in the United Kingdom. She relocated to New Zealand in 2004 and completed her specialist training before undertaking subspecialist training in maternal and fetal medicine and being appointed as a Senior Medical Officer and Subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at National Women's Health, Auckland City Hospital in 2011 and 2013 respectively. In 2011, she was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaceology, The University of Auckland. In 2018 she was appointed as Associate Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Health and the Hugo Charitable Trust Fellow at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland.
Katie is passionate about improving health outcomes for mothers and babies through effective clinical trials research integrated into clinical practice as part of a learning healthcare system. She is an ANZ leader in clinical trials networks as current Chairperson of the Perinatal Society or Australia and New Zealand Interdisciplinary Maternal and Perinatal Australasian Collaborative Trials (IMPACT) Network and Chairperson of the National Executive Committee of the newly established New Zealand-wide ON TRACK Network for Better Health for Mothers and Babies. She has been an elected board member of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA).
Katie is a past member of PSANZ Board of Directors and a past Secretary of the Perinatal Society of New Zealand. She is a Medical Advisor to NZAPEC (New Zealand Action on Preeclampisa Charitable Trust).
Katie's research focuses on clinical trials of therapies and interventions for the prevention and treatment of the major complications of pregnancy. She has led/is leading several multicentre randomised controlled trials including the TOCOX trial (rofecoxib for the prevention of preterm delivery), the EPPI trial (enoxaparin for prevention of preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction), the STRIDER NZAus trial (sildenafil for the treatment of severe early onset fetal growth restriction) and the C*STEROID Feasibility Study (corticosteroids prior to planned caesarean section birth after 35 weeks). She is a member if the worldwide STRIDER IPD Collaboration, a pre-planned individual participant data analysis of four trials. She has been the local lead investigator for a number of Australasian clinical trials in perinatal health including the My Baby's Movements Trial, ASTEROID study, MAGENTA trial and the APTS study.
Katie has a clinical and research interest in preterm birth and is currently supervising MD studies in 'Optimising the Care of Women at High Risk of Spontaneous Preterm Birth'. She is the Clinical Lead for the National Women's Health Preterm Birth Clinic and provides regional and national guidance on issues relating to the care of women at high risk of preterm birth. She is leading the development of a national Preterm Birth Alliance aiming to reduce rates of preterm birth across New Zealand and to optimise outcomes for those that deliver preterm.
Hugo Charitable Trust Fellow
Projects grants from Cure Kids, Auckland Medical Research Foundation, the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand, Mercia Barnes Trust, Lottery Health Research and Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust
Oyston, C., & Groom, K. (2016). Management of a woman with a previous spontaneous preterm birth. Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, 26 (4), 101-107. 10.1016/j.ogrm.2016.01.005
Tan, Y. H., & Groom, K. M. (2015). A prospective audit of the adherence to a new magnesium sulphate guideline for the neuroprotection of infants born less than 30 weeks' gestation. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 55 (1), 90-93. 10.1111/ajo.12271
Stefanelli, S., & Groom, K. M. (2014). The accuracy of ultrasound-estimated fetal weight in extremely preterm infants: A comparison of small for gestational age and appropriate for gestational age. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 54 (2), 126-131. 10.1111/ajo.12198
McCowan, L. M. E., & Groom, K. M. (2013). Identifying risk factors for stillbirth. BMJ, 346
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Lesley McCowan
Groom, K., Snowise, S., Wheeler, B., Mekhail, A., Farrand, S., & Parry, E. (2013). Maternal thyrotoxicosis and fetal goitre requiring in utero therapy for hypothyroidism and subsequent neonatal therapy for hyperthyroidism. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 49 (1), E102-E103. 10.1111/jpc.12062
Groom, K. M., North, R. A., Stone, P. R., Chan, E. H. Y., Taylor, R. S., Dekker, G. A., ... SCOPE Consortium (2009). Patterns of Change in Uterine Artery Doppler Studies Between 20 and 24 Weeks of Gestation and Pregnancy Outcomes. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 113 (2), 332-338. 10.1097/01.aoa.0000367035.56653.3f
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Rennae Taylor, Lesley McCowan
Groom, K. M., Poppe, K. K., North, R. A., & McCowan, L. M. E. (2007). Small-for-gestational-age infants classified by customized or population birthweight centiles: Impact of gestational age at delivery. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 197 (3), 239.e1-239.e5. 10.1016/j.ajog.2007.06.038
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Katrina Poppe, Lesley McCowan
Groom, K. M., North, R. A., Poppe, K. K., Sadler, L., & McCowan, L. M. E. (2007). The association between customised small for gestational age infants and pre-eclampsia or gestational hypertension varies with gestation at delivery. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 114 (4), 478-484. 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2007.01277.x
k.groom@auckland.ac.nz
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The Vincentians remain with us today with nearly 4,000 members in 86 countries. In addition to his order of Vincentian priests, St. Vincent cofounded the Daughters of Charity along with St. Louise de Marillac. There are more than 18,000 Daughters today serving the needs of the poor in 94 countries. He was eighty years old when he died in Paris on September 27, 1660.He had "become the symbol of the successful reform of the French Church". St. Vincent is sometimes referred to as "The Apostle of Charity" and "The Father of the Poor".


Wolves are set to make a massive bid for Aston Villa's on-loan star Tammy Abraham, according to reports.
His form has prompted interest from Premier League clubs, and the Sun claim Chelsea have accepted an £18m bid from Wolverhampton Wanderers for him.
The deal would see Abraham cut short his season-long loan move to Villa Park - something that could well work in the Robins' favour in the race for the play-offs.
Nuno Espirito Santo has now refused to comment on the speculation but he hinted they could be busy.
"No, I cannot comment on that, but I can comment on how we work," Nuno told Birmingham Live.
"So the transfer window is happening now, and we anticipated it before.
"We have a squad, and now we have to look at it. And we have to analyse what we have in front of us, and who can deliver these things.
"Now we have the chance with the transfer window, and anything can happen.
"But this squad will stay with us. The core is there, and we have to know if we need something.
"It's step by step, as we go. I'm going to work on what I need. Let's find who I need."
Everton and Spurs have been told they will have to pay £20m plus for Hull City youngster Jarrod Bowen in the January transfer window.
Football.London report that the 22-year-old has been scouted throughout the season by Spurs and they are now ready to make their move with the window open for business.
Hull are not willing to let him go on the cheap and they are looking for more than £20m for his services.
Bild claim that Hoffenheim are willing to sell defender Steven Zuber to Leeds United.
Zuber is out of favour at the Bundesliga club and Leeds are keen to tie up his signature in January.
With 20 Switzerland caps to his name, he could well be a promising signing at Elland Road.
West Brom have reportedly enquired over the availability of Tottenham Hotspur star Victor Wanyama.
According to The Daily Mail, the Baggies are interested in signing the 27-year-old, Kenyan who is said to be allowed to leave Spurs.
The report also suggests that Wanyama is wanted by a number of teams but is keen to stay at Spurs.


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E089 Heavenly Noise 2012-07-12
All Podcasts, DaveX, Tom Denney, Tony Youngblood (performing), WIDB Era Add comments
It's the fifth and final day of the Great Podcast Releasathon 2012!(tm). ("But Tony, you said it was going to last a week!" — I meant a work week, sue me!) Here's episode 89, Heavenly Noise, starring DaveX, Tony Youngblood, Tom Denney, Kevin Vogel, and Matt Giant. We recorded Heavenly Noise way back in 1999 at my college radio station WIDB on the campus of Southern Illinois University. It was the ninth episode of the original incarnation of Theatre Intangible, ~Ore~ Prefab Audio Extrapolations. We were trying to spoof a Christian call-in show, actually trying to get real people to call in and contribute money to our "interfaith" cause. I vaguely remember DaveX and myself flyering the buildings at SIU with a faux Christian student group flyer that must have been pretty blasphemous; they were taken down by some unknown force by the next day.
Apologies to listeners who are religious or who have, you know, taste.
Update: Dave adds his thoughts:
"I don't think that's the Lord anymore." Pretty much sums up this rather silly outing for ~Ore~. I detect some of my Tom Jones record in there, and that weird sequencing freeware we kept using. And a healthy dose of random preaching records. As I recall, I was always very much on-edge during these shows. Live experimental improv is always going to be tough, but making ~Ore~ was rather like jumping in the deep end head first. I don't have Tony's natural ability with instruments, so I probably had to work three times as hard just to keep up. On an episode like "Heavenly Noise," pretty much everything I did was a sort of point blank improvisation, literally learning my "instrument" (devices, the studio, actual instruments, etc) as I went along. Absolutely flying blind, but listening and learning along the way. It took a long time before I trusted myself enough to just work a single idea– I distinctly remember scoffing (mentally) at the guest who brought in a singing drum and just played it for an hour (on another episode) and though I still don't think he was really participating with all of us very well, I'll admit that focusing on process or developing a simple idea ended up being something I really appreciate now. Like I said, there was (and still is) a lot to learn! "This makes me ill. This sickening blasphemy. It makes me churn!" A hilarious addition from Tony's brother there, who sat in (or called in, as he did here) during numerous episodes. (Tony's note: I think that might have been Matt Giant.) Tom Denney also makes some great contributions here– I love the bit about being made to dress up in women's clothes, classic. I hear some "he was doing it, but he wasn't really doing it", which I'm pretty sure came from an interview with one of Jimi Hendrix's girlfriends, from the Rainbow Bridge film, sounds like a little microcassette work, but perhaps pre-recorded for this episode. Yeah, definitely that album– I still quote the bit at the end every now and then, "I'll always touch you." Funny how certain things stick with you.
And oh yeah, here's a flyer to dig on. It's not specific to this show– we didn't always make one with the theme represented, because we didn't always know very far in advance what we were doing. This was from right around that time, though. I ended up recycling these images many times in various flyers, but always worked my way back to the "old lady" gag, because I think it's hilarious.
–DaveX
Posted by tonyyoungblood at 11:25 pm	Tagged with: ~Ore~ Prefab Audio Extrapolations, DaveX, Kevin Vogel, Matt Giant, Southern Illinois University, Tom Denney, Tony Youngblood, WIDB
E088 Prong and Spittle 2012-07-11 E090 Tony Gerber and Todd Gerber Artist Showcase 2012-08-15


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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
Commentary of 1960
[p.602] ARTICLE 126 . -- SUPERVISION
[p.603] GENERAL COMMENTS AND HISTORICAL SURVEY
The 1929 Convention, in Article 86 , recognized the rôle of the Protecting Powers in guaranteeing the application of the provisions of the Conventions. It not only embodied that principle, but also provided clauses to ensure its practical application. These provisions were so widely applied during the Second World War that they were accepted without discussion by the 1949 Diplomatic Conference, which strengthened and extended them. The statement of the principle itself ("The present Convention shall be applied with the co-operation and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers") was placed among the provisions common to all four Conventions because of its altogether general character. It is contained in Article 8 to which reference has already been made above. On the other hand, the clauses of application concerning the carrying out of such supervision are contained in the present Article. Article 126 should therefore be read in conjunction with Article 8 , of which it is the logical extension.
It should be emphasized that visits to prisoners of war are not the only method of supervising the application of the principle mentioned in Article 8 . Of course, the inspection of places of detention and internment, and interviews with prisoners of war are the best means available to the Protecting Powers for really effective supervision, but it would be illogical to restrict to those activities alone the obligation laid on those Powers to assist in the application of the Convention and subject it to scrutiny, as must be done wherever it is applicable. Thus, the Protecting Power in carrying out each of its tasks under the Convention will, in so far as it is itself a party to the Convention, be under the additional obligation of exercising a degree of supervision based not on the mandate it has received from the Power of origin, but on a higher mandate given to Protecting Powers in general by all of the States party to the Convention. Furthermore, a number of provisions in the Convention provide explicitly for supervision by the
Protecting Power, and the reader is referred to the commentary on them (1).
Nevertheless, the Convention will find application mainly in places of internment and detention. It is therefore essentially by visits to those places that the Protecting Power will be able to fulfill its general task most effectively. It is for that reason that the present Article [p.604] has received the marginal title "Supervision" although the actual principle of supervision must be sought in Article 8 (2).
The present Article also contains a new feature: the International Committee of the Red Cross will now act side by side with the Protecting Power.
The International Committee of the Red Cross does not, in fact, exercise and has never exercised real supervision in the legal sense of the term. The humanitarian purposes for which it exists have led it to make every effort to ensure that the victims of war are treated without unnecessary harshness. Acting in the first place on a purely empirical basis, it later successfully urged the adoption of legal rules in this matter. These rules, contained in the Geneva Conventions, represent general standards of humane conduct. However, its activities in behalf of the victims of war are in some ways far beyond the actual supervision of the application of the Conventions. Those activities, which can be termed "factual supervision", are carried out on the Committee's own initiative and in the name of the rights of the human individual.
The 1929 Convention, in assigning duties to the Protecting Powers, also sanctioned what has become the traditional right of the International Committee to take the initiative (3), This enabled the Committee from 1939 onwards to renew and extend the factual supervision it had carried out so successfully during the First World War. It did not take the place of supervision by the Protecting Powers, but merely supplemented it and led to numerous improvements being made in the conditions of prisoners of war during the Second World War. It is almost beyond doubt that the 1929 Convention would not have been applied as it was and that many infringements of it would have occurred if the Protecting Powers had not conscientiously visited the camps from the very beginning and if the International Committee had not once more sent delegates to almost all the belligerent countries. In this connection, however, particular attention should be given to the wording of the present provision: "places of departure, passage and arrival...";
although access to the camps was usually granted to delegates of the International Committee, they sometimes found it very difficult to visit prisoners of war immediately after capture or during transfer, that is to say, at the times when it was more difficult for the Detaining Powers to afford prisoners of war [p.605] all the benefits provided by the Convention. Supervision should also be possible during the period of questioning.
This factual supervision was not given full legal sanction by the Diplomatic Conference of 1949 and no request had been made for such sanction. The International Committee, a private body with strictly humanitarian ends, will not always be suitable or even equipped for exercising in every case complete supervision of the application of the Conventions. Such supervision would go beyond its competence and the tasks assigned to it by the Conventions themselves. The Committee might jeopardize its reputation for independence and neutrality by carrying out tasks which are in fact of a somewhat political nature and thus fall within the purview of the Protecting Power. On the other hand, factual supervision is implied in Article 9/9/ 9 /10 common to the four Conventions, concerning the International Committee's right of initiative, an Article which reproduces Article 88 of the 1929 Convention. Finally, it is almost explicitly recognized in the last paragraph of Article 126: "The delegates of the International Committee
of the Red Cross shall enjoy the same prerogatives". Stated in this form, at once more flexible and less official, supervision is left to the Committee's initiative and may be carried out freely according to circumstances prevailing.
Visits to camps call for a few general comments.
The inspection of places where prisoners of war are detained, at the same time as the distribution of relief, is one of the activities which the International Committee of the Red Cross has undertaken from the very beginning of its existence. It was as long ago as 1864, during the Prusso-Danish War, that the first delegates of the International Committee began to visit prisoner-of-war camps. Since then, such visits have become one of the essential tasks carried out by the Committee during each conflict, which it was often alone in performing. These activities were given legal sanction in the Hague Regulations of 1899, which authorized relief societies to visit the places of internment of prisoners. It was during the First World War that the representatives of the Protecting Powers, given a mandate to that effect by the Powers of origin of the prisoners, were also authorized to inspect camps.
Carried out in parallel, and often by very similar methods, these visits, far from duplicating each other, were complementary. In the use made of the findings, however, appreciable differences very often appeared. The Protecting Powers acted under the mandate given by the Powers of origin, and the reports drawn up by their delegates were communicated only to those Powers. It was then for [p.606] the Power of origin to ask the Protecting Power to request the enemy to cease any malpractice which had been discovered. Supervision by the Protecting Powers was exercised only on behalf of the Powers which had appointed them their agents. The position of the International Committee was different. Its camp visits applied to all the occupants without regard to nationality, solely on the basis of the fact that they were prisoners. The Committee carried out these inspections, not on behalf of a particular Power, but in the name of humanity. Thus the reports made by the delegates after each of their visits were immediately transmitted to
the Power responsible for the place of detention visited, with comments drawing attention to any improvements which might be desirable. Moreover, the International Committee was the only institution able to visit in the same way and at the same time prisoner-of-war camps in almost all the belligerent countries (4), while the Protecting Powers could usually visit the prisoners and internees of only one nationality and in only one country. The Committee thus obtained very full information which enabled it to compare the situation of those detained in the various camps and to make representations, where necessary, with a view to reciprocal treatment.
Under Articles 8 and 126 of the present Convention, the Protecting Powers will in future carry out supervision on behalf of all the States Party to the Convention, and they are required to "co-operate" in the application of the Conventions. They will therefore be able henceforth to make direct to the Detaining Powers any criticism they consider called for; they will intervene on their own initiative, thus assuming an active instead of a passive rôle, similar to that of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The part played hitherto by the International Committee remains unchanged and is merely confirmed by these provisions. The International Committee, however, will retain the advantage over the Protecting Powers of being able to go to some degree automatically into all camps and places of detention, whatever the nationality of the inmates and in the national or occupied territories of all the belligerents.
[p.607] PARAGRAPH 1. -- VISITS. INTERVIEWS WITHOUT WITNESSES
1. ' First sentence. -- Visits to places of internment,
imprisonment and labour '
The Article begins with a general rule: all places without exception where prisoners of war are shall be open to inspection. This rule is based on the second paragraph of Article 86 of the 1929 Convention.
Those acting as inspectors will be representatives or delegates of the Protecting Powers or of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The fact that the whole Article speaks of Protecting Powers and only at the end mentions that the International Committee's delegates will enjoy the same prerogatives does not give the representatives of the Protecting Power any priority.
The distinction made here between representatives and delegates of the Protecting Powers is explained by Article 8 . The representatives will be members of the diplomatic or consular staff of those Powers. As they will already be serving in the country, they will need no special approval in order to carry out the task entrusted to them by their Government in fulfilment of its protective mission. The delegates will be persons recruited by the Protecting Power sometimes in the country itself, outside the diplomatic corps and among its own nationals or even nationals of another neutral country. Those delegates, as stated in Article 8 , will be subject to the approval of the Power with which they are to carry out their duties, as will the delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross to whom reference will be made below (5).
The task of inspecting places of internment requires wide general knowledge, experience, tact and a great deal of discretion. It will be necessary in the first place to have a detailed knowledge of the Convention whose application is to be supervised and of the laws, decrees, etc., issued by the Detaining Power and applicable to prisoners of war. Generally speaking, the choice will readily fall on a doctor, since he is usually better able to discern deficiencies from which prisoners of war may be suffering than persons without medical experience. At the very least, a doctor will be attached to a delegation if it consists of several inspectors or will make his visits of inspection alternately with another representative. Furthermore, these inspectors will need to have a good knowledge of the language of the [p.608] detaining country and that of the prisoners of war. Of course, the next sentence allows for recourse to an interpreter; but this is a step which should only be taken in exceptional cases, since it is only by
expressing direct in their own language and without witnesses what they wish to say that prisoners of war will be able to make their needs known clearly and freely.
It is not to be expected that camp inspectors should have constantly in their minds a complete list of the many obligations laid on the Detaining Power with regard to prisoners of war. A method is therefore recommended to which several Protecting Powers and the International Committee of the Red Cross resorted during the Second World War, i.e. the drafting of a handbook for delegates. This document listed the various tasks of a delegate, informed him of his rights and duties and, in a chapter devoted to camp visits, gave a complete list in a rational order of the various items which must be looked into and the questions to which a reply must be given (6). A specimen report on a camp visit was attached. These handbooks were of great service and enabled delegates to make thorough and complete inspections in the shortest possible time.
The words "shall have permission" indicate that the inspectors must request permission to visit the place of detention or internment they have chosen, and that their request must be granted. Only imperative military necessity would allow of such permission being postponed (but never refused), as will be seen in connection with paragraph 2.
The Detaining Powers are therefore obliged to grant permission. They are also obliged to facilitate "to the greatest extent possible" the inspection of places of internment or detention under the terms of Article 8, paragraph 2 . If need be, they will arrange for the transport of delegates, give them the necessary visas and passes, furnish guides, an escort, interpreters, etc.
No restriction is imposed in regard to places open to inspection. The agents of the Protecting Powers and of the International Committee must be able to reach all prisoners of war, whether in groups or as isolated individuals, in the territory of the Detaining Power or in occupied territory.
As already noted, this provision differs from the 1929 text in that it mentions three types of place open to inspection: places of internment, imprisonment and labour. This list, of course, does not add [p.609] anything new to the rule formulated at the beginning of the paragraph. It is, however, useful since it mentions expressly the three types of place in which the Convention will find its widest application, and where, as a result, wider supervision must be exercised. Furthermore, it is intended to prevent the Detaining Power from restricting visits to the main camp only.
Places of imprisonment will include detention quarters situated in the camps in which prisoners of war serve disciplinary sentences, as well as penitentiaries where prisoners serve sentences awarded by courts. In this connection, attention should be drawn to Article 87, paragraphs 3 and 4 , Article 88 , Article 98 , and Article 108 , which set forth the essential safeguards to be afforded to prisoners of war undergoing confinement.
Places of work will mean in most cases those occupied by labour detachments, which are the subject of Article 56 ; that Article makes express provision, in paragraph 3, for visits by delegates of the Protecting Powers and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
In all places where there are prisoners of war, all the premises which they use either permanently or temporarily will be visited: dormitories, canteens, sanitary installations, infirmaries, etc. The same will apply to premises not used directly by them but devoted to their needs, such as warehouses and other storage places. Indeed, the delegates have the right to check on the food supply of prisoners of war and particularly the distribution of relief (Article 73, paragraph 3 ). The regulations relating to collective relief which are annexed to the Convention (Annex III) illustrate the importance of such supervision.
2. ' Second sentence. -- Interviews without witnesses '
Interviews without witnesses with prisoners of war were authorized for the first time by the 1929 Convention (Article 86 ), but in the form of a recommendation. The restriction was abolished in 1949 (7). The importance of such interviews for obtaining a knowledge of actual conditions needs no emphasis. It is a striking fact that during the First World War it was in the very countries where the application of the Convention left most to be desired that most obstacles were put in the way of interviews without witnesses. In the very first revised [p.610] drafts, this provision was therefore given the character of a absolute right conferred on the agents of the Protecting Powers and the International Committee, and the Diplomatic Conference accepted it in its new form without any discussion. Henceforth, therefore, the authorities responsible for prisoners of war are obliged to allow the inspecting delegates or representatives to interview any prisoner of war without witnesses and for the necessary length of time. The provision is
addressed particularly to camp commanders, prison governors and certain military authorities in occupied territories who, in the past and often on their own initiative, have shown the greatest opposition to such interviews.
It has already been stated how desirable it is that delegates should know the language of the prisoners of war they are visiting; recourse to interpreters, although authorized here, must therefore be avoided as much as possible. If it cannot be avoided, the Detaining Power must, on request, supply the delegates with the necessary interpreters. This service is, indeed, one of the facilities which the Detaining Power is bound to give to delegates under Article 8, paragraph 2 . It would be preferable, however, for the interpreters themselves to form part of the staff of the Protecting Power or the International Committee of the Red Cross in order to avoid any suspicion of tendentious interpreting. It will also be possible to choose them from among the prisoners themselves.
PARAGRAPH 2. -- SELECTION OF PLACES TO BE VISITED.
RESERVATION FOR REASONS OF MILITARY NECESSITY
1. ' First sentence. -- Selection of places to be visited '
The selection of places to be visited is left entirely to the judgment of the Protecting Powers and the International Committee of the Red Cross. It will depend on many circumstances: complaints received, special requests from country of origin, date of the previous inspection, etc. Visits may also take place at the request of one or more prisoners of war.
Once visits have been authorized to places where prisoners of war are, no obstacle must be placed in their way. The frequency and duration of visits are left to the judgment of those who make them. Experience has shown that in the case of internment camps, two or three visits per year can generally be considered as a minimum; [p.611] visits should be more frequent if closer inspection becomes necessary because of unsatisfactory conditions in a camp (8).
2. ' Second sentence. -- Reservation for reasons of military
necessity '
This reservation, which did not form part of the corresponding text of 1929, was proposed by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Committee considered, indeed, that it was impossible to increase the number and activities of the delegates of the Protecting Powers and International Committee and to extend the scope of their work and powers without giving the Detaining Powers the countervailing permission to restrict such activities temporarily if military necessity so demanded. Otherwise, those Powers would sometimes have been put in a position where they were faced with the choice of either violating the Conventions or harming their own military position. Here as elsewhere, humanitarian principles must take into account actual facts if they are to be applicable. This clause was accepted without discussion by the 1949 Diplomatic Conference.
If they are to justify the prohibition of visits, military necessities must be imperative. Whether they are or not is a matter for the Detaining Power alone to decide and the light of supervision of the Protecting Powers is restricted by this exercise of sovereignty. Such a decision must not be lightly taken, however, and any prohibition of visits must be an exceptional measure.
Furthermore, the prohibition will be temporary. The Protecting Powers and the International Committee will have the right to bring the temporary nature of the prohibition to the notice of the Detaining Power and, after a certain length of time, to request it to raise all restrictions. Moreover, the Protecting Power will be able to check afterwards whether the prohibition of visits has been used by the Detaining Power to violate the Convention. In any case, it is not in the interests of the Detaining Power to misuse this reservation, because it would very soon be suspected of deliberately violating the Convention by evading supervision by qualified witnesses.
[p.612] PARAGRAPH 3. -- VISITS BY COMPATRIOTS
Article 86, paragraph 3 , of the 1929 Convention already provided that persons of the same nationality as prisoners of war would be allowed to take part in visits to camps. During the Second World War, this possibility was rarely utilized; in view of its obvious humanitarian Character, however, the provision was nevertheless repeated in the present Convention.
Article 125 above, in paragraph 1 , already authorizes representatives of religious organizations and relief societies to visit prisoners of war. The term "compatriot" used here includes both relatives and delegates of the national relief societies. Furthermore, the Protecting Powers themselves or the International Committee of the Red Cross may consider it expedient to have their delegates accompanied by some compatriots of the persons visited, either for humanitarian motives or to allay certain fears, or again to check certain matters.
In accordance with the Convention, such visits must nevertheless be the subject of a prior agreement between those concerned, i.e. the Detaining Power on the one hand, and the Power of origin of the prisoners of war, on the other. The latter Power, in particular, could obviously not permit its citizens to go into enemy territory without its authorization.
PARAGRAPH 4. -- ACTIVITIES OF DELEGATES OF THE
The International Committee's delegates had not been able to carry out their activities before except under special agreements concluded in advance with each of the Powers concerned. Now, however, those activities become to some degree automatic.
The representatives and delegates of the Protecting Powers and those of the International Committee are henceforth placed on a completely equal footing. Their rights and duties are the same if allowance is made for their different spheres of action. This applies not only to camp visits proper but to visits to all places of every kind where prisoners of war may be found, and to interviews held with them without witnesses.
This task, entrusted to the International Committee, must not, of course, be taken as restricting its other activities in behalf of prisoners of war. Article 9 is definite on this matter. The Committee [p.613] remains free to take any humanitarian initiative it may consider necessary in regard to camp visits or outside camps, whereas the Protecting Powers, even in supervising the Convention, will always be restricted by the provisions of the Conventions themselves ad, in a general way, by the contract they will have concluded with the mandator Power.
The approval which must be given to the appointment of delegates of the International Committee, and which the Committee has in any case always requested, places them in the same position as the delegates of the Protecting Powers. It is normal that the Party to the conflict which is going to welcome them in its own territory or in territory occupied by it, should receive certain guarantees (9).
This agreement will be asked for once only for every delegate. It will not therefore have to be obtained anew for every single journey (10).
* (1) [(1) p.603] The commentary on Article 8 (p. 98, note 2)
contains a full list of the provisions of the Convention
which require action by the Protecting Power;
(2) [(1) p.604] It should be recalled that the titles in the
margin, used in this commentary as titles for the
Articles, have no legal force. They were not adopted by
the Conference but drafted afterwards by the secretariat;
(3) [(2) p.604] See Article 88 of the 1929 Convention, p. 686
below;
(4) [(1) p.606] During the Second World War, the delegates of
the International Committee paid more than 11,000 visits
to prisoner-of-war and civilian internee camps;
(5) [(1) p.607] See below, pp. 612-613;
(6) [(1) p.608] A list of this description is to be found in
the ' Report of the International Committee of the Red
Cross on its activities during the Second World War ',
Vol. I, p. 233;
(7) [(1) p.609] See ' Report on the Work of the Conference of
Government Experts ', p. 264;
(8) [(1) p.611] Article 86 of the 1929 Convention also
provided that the military authorities responsible for
places of internment should be informed of visits. The
International Committee of the Red Cross, which was
subsequently supported by the 1949 Diplomatic Conference,
was not in favour of this, considering that this principle
might be considered as an essential condition of such
visits or even, as occurred on some occasions, constitute
a means of delaying the visits until they had lost all
value. See ' XVIIth International Red Cross Conference,
Draft Revised or New Conventions for the Protection of War
Victims ', p. 133;
(9) [(1) p.613] Such guarantees are also requested from the
delegates of relief societies authorized under Article 125
to enter its territory;
(10) [(2) p.613] See ' Report on the Work of the Conference of
Government Experts, ' p. 266;
See the Commentary of 2020
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Vera Zvonareva's Questionnaire
Vera Zvonareva began last week's DFS Classic in Birmingham determined to craft a different end. A top 10 player as recently as August of 2004, Zvonareva opened the 2005 season advancing to the Auckland final then bottomed out in exiting in the first or second round in 10 of her next 11 tournaments. During the Birmingham final, Zvonareva finally stopped the bleeding. Facing American Jamea Jackson, who upset 2004 Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova in the semifinals, Zvonareva overcame two bloody noses and the fleet-footed Jackson in scoring a 7-6(12), 7-6(5) triumph to claim her first career grass-court title and her third championship of her career.
Scoring six straight victories to take the title, Zvonareva vaulted back inside the top 50 to her present rank of No. 47. She joins Sharapova, Nadia Petrova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Elena Dementieva, Anastasia Myskina, Dinara Safina, Maria Kirilenko, Elena Likhovtseva and Anna Chakvetadze as one of 10 Russian women ranked inside the top 50.
But it was another Russian — two-time Grand Slam champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov — who inspired Zvonareva to pursue a career in professional tennis. An emotionally volatile player, Zvonareva's on-court outbursts have spanned the spectrum from tears to tirades at times, but at her best, she has shown the fighting spirit that has carried her to career victories over Venus Williams (at the 2003 French Open), Jennifer Capriati, Anastasia Myskina and Maria Sharapova.
Tennis Week contributing writer Scoop Malinowski caught up with Zvonareva for this Biofile interview.
Status: The 47th-ranked Zvonareva beat Jamea Jackson to win her first tournament title of the season at the Tier III DFS Classic in Birmingham. It was her third career singles title and her first on grass. The 21-year-old Moscow native, who has finished inside the top 15 in two of the last three years, owns career wins over Jennifer Capriati, Venus Williams, Anastasia Myskina, Nadia Petrova and Maria Sharapova.
Height: 1.71 m Weight: 59 kg.
Born On: September 7, 1984 in Moscow, Russia.
Childhood Heroes: "I was looking for Kafelnikov, he's a Russian, one of the Russians who won a Grand Slam. I was looking for Hingis as well. I just like the way she was playing."
Hobbies/Interests: "I like reading, traveling, listening to music — something without sports. But I also like to play volleyball, like beach volleyball. Watch Russian movies [smiles], because I don't get the chance to when I'm home."
Favorite Movies: "Mostly Russians. I don't think you've heard about them [smiles]."
Musical Tastes: "Actually any kind of music, I like different. I listen to music because I miss home. But I can listen to classical music, I can listen to R&B, rap and just pop music."
First Job:"Tennis [laughs]."
First Car: "VW Polo (white)."
Early Tennis Memory: "I started playing in the club in Moscow. I remember there was lots of kids in my group, about 30. And we all had to play on the one court, but it was fun [smiles]."
Favorite Meal: "Russian soup, borscht [smiles]."
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: "Frosted Flakes [laughs]."
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: "Strawberry."
Pre-Match Feeling: "Usually I'm trying to talk to my coach and not really thinking about something. Just thinking about I have to go on court and try my best and do something, everything I can to win the match."
Greatest Sports Moment: "Winning over Venus Williams in Paris, Roland Garros (2003)."
Most Painful Moment: "Maybe losing to Myskina when I had nine match points [smiles], in San Diego (2004)."
Funny Tennis Memory: "Makes me laugh sometimes when I watch myself on TV [laughs]. When I'm talking to myself on court."
Closest Tennis Friends: "I think the younger players. I've played juniors with Kuznetsova, Myskina. And Likhovtseva."
Funniest Players: "I think all of them. They have pretty good sense of humor."
Toughest Competitors: "It's tough question. But I don't like to play against Smashnova, because I always play four hours against her [laughs]. So I think she is."
Favorite Vacation Spot: "Home. Moscow."
Childhood Dream: "Well, of course, I wanted to become a tennis player. And I just always really like to get into top 10 I think." Favorite Players To Watch: "I like to watch Andy Roddick. Every time he serves, I just check the speed of the serve [laughs]. And Agassi. I think Rios was another player I liked to watch. I watched him play in Washington and I think he was a great player to watch, for me. I think he was like an actor on the court. And I love it because he was doing his show. Everybody knows it's tough to play in tennis, especially when it's 100 degrees. And he was like, performing as an actor. You can always see his emotions. He wasn't like just standing there, doing his job. You could see how he feels."
People Qualities Most Admired: "I like to see...it's tough question. When the people saying the truth. And I think straight people."


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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit California Eastern District David Allen Miller v. Commissioner of Social Security Filing 3
David Allen Miller v. Commissioner of Social Security
ORDER granting 2 Motion to Proceed IFP signed by Magistrate Judge Jennifer L. Thurston on 1/15/2015. (Attachments: # 1 USM Instructions) (Lundstrom, T)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 DAVID ALLEN MILLER, Plaintiff, 12 v. 13 14 15 CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant. 16 17 18 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No.: 1:15-cv-00063- JLT ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS (Doc. 2) ORDER DIRECTING CLERK TO ISSUE SUMMONS, SOCIAL SECURITY CASE DOCUMENTS, AND SCHEDULING ORDER ORDER DIRECTING PLAINTIFF TO COMPLETE THE SERVICE DOCUMENTS Plaintiff David Allen Miller seeks to proceed with an action for judicial review of the 19 administrative decision denying his application for Social Security benefits. Pending before the Court 20 are the complaint (Doc. 1) and motion to proceed in forma pauperis (Doc. 2) filed January 12, 2015. 21 I. MOTION TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS The Court may authorize the commencement of an action without prepayment of fees "but a 22 23 person who submits an affidavit that includes a statement of all assets such person . . . possesses [and] 24 that the person is unable to pay such fees or give security therefor." 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). The Court 25 has reviewed the application and finds Plaintiff satisfies the requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). 26 Therefore, Plaintiff's motion to proceed in forma pauperis is GRANTED. 27 II. 28 SCREENING REQUIREMENT When an individual seeks to proceed in forma pauperis, the Court is required to review the 1 1 complaint and shall dismiss a complaint, or portion of the complaint, if it is "frivolous, malicious or 2 fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted; or . . . seeks monetary relief from a defendant 3 who is immune from such relief." 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b); 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2). A plaintiff's claim 4 is frivolous "when the facts alleged rise to the level of the irrational or the wholly incredible, whether or 5 not there are judicially noticeable facts available to contradict them." Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 6 25, 32-33 (1992). 7 III. PLEADING STANDARDS 8 General rules for pleading complaints are governed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. A 9 pleading must include a statement affirming the court's jurisdiction, "a short and plain statement of the 10 claim showing the pleader is entitled to relief; and . . . a demand for the relief sought, which may 11 include relief in the alternative or different types of relief." Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a). 12 A complaint must state the elements of the plaintiff's claim in a plain and succinct manner. 13 Jones v. Cmty Redevel. Agency, 733 F.2d 646, 649 (9th Cir. 1984). The purpose of a complaint is to 14 give the defendant fair notice of the claims against him, and the grounds upon which the complaint 15 stands. Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A., 534 U.S. 506, 512 (2002). The Supreme Court explained, 16 Rule 8 does not require detailed factual allegations, but it demands more than an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation. A pleading that offers labels and conclusions or a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do. Nor does a complaint suffice if it tenders naked assertions devoid of further factual enhancement. 17 18 19 Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678-79 (2009) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). 20 Conclusory and vague allegations do not support a cause of action. Ivey v. Board of Regents, 673 F.2d 21 266, 268 (9th Cir. 1982). The Court clarified further, 22 23 24 25 [A] complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to "state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face." [Citation]. A claim has facial plausibility when the plaintiff pleads factual content that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged. [Citation]. The plausibility standard is not akin to a "probability requirement," but it asks for more than a sheer possibility that a defendant has acted unlawfully. [Citation]. Where a complaint pleads facts that are "merely consistent with" a defendant's liability, it "stops short of the line between possibility and plausibility of 'entitlement to relief.' 26 27 Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679 (citations omitted). When factual allegations are well-pled, a court should 28 assume the truth and determine whether the facts would make the plaintiff entitled to relief; conclusions 2 1 in the pleading are not entitled to the same assumption of truth. Id. The Court may grant leave to 2 amend a complaint to the extent deficiencies of the complaint can be cured by amendment. Lopez v. 3 Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1127-28 (9th Cir. 2000) (en banc). 4 IV. DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS Here, Plaintiff's complaint indicates his application and appeal for Social Security benefits 5 6 were denied, and he seeks review of the subsequent decision by the Commissioner of Social Security 7 upholding these decisions. (Doc. 1 at 1-2.) The Court has jurisdiction over such claims pursuant to 42 8 U.S.C. §405(g), which provides in relevant part: Any individual, after any final decision of the Commissioner made after a hearing to which he was a party, irrespective of the amount in controversy, may obtain a review of such decision by a civil action commenced within sixty days after the mailing to him of such decision or within such further time as the Commissioner may allow. Such action shall be brought in the district court of the United States for the judicial district in which the plaintiff resides, or has his principal place of business . . . The court shall have power to enter, upon the pleadings and transcript of the record, a judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the decision of the Commissioner of Social Security, with or without remanding the cause for a rehearing. 9 10 11 12 13 14 Id. Except as provided by statute, "[n]o findings of fact or decision of the Commissioner shall be 15 reviewed by any person, tribunal, or governmental agency." 42 U.S.C. § 405(h). The Supreme Court 16 noted the purpose of the legislation was "to forestall repetitive or belated litigation of stale eligibility 17 claims." Califano v. Sanders, 430 U.S. 99, 108 (1977). The Appeals Council denied Plaintiff's request for review of the decision rendered by an 18 19 administrative law judge on November 7, 2014, at which time the decision of the administrative law 20 judge became the decision of the Commissioner. (Doc. 1 at 2.) Accordingly, Plaintiff's request for 21 judicial review is timely, and the Court has jurisdiction over the matter pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). 22 V. 23 24 CONCLUSION AND ORDER Plaintiff's complaint states a cognizable claim for review of the administrative decision denying Social Security benefits. Based upon the foregoing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 25 1. Plaintiff's motion to proceed in forma pauperis (Doc. 2) is GRANTED; 26 2. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to issue summons as to the defendant, Carolyn Colvin, Acting Commissioner of Social Security; 27 28 3. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to issue and serve Plaintiff with Social Security Case 3 1 Documents, including the Scheduling Order, Order regarding Consent, the Consent 2 Form, and USM-285 Forms; and 4. 3 The U.S. Marshal is DIRECTED to serve a copy of the complaint, summons, and this order upon the defendant as directed by Plaintiff in the USM Forms.1 4 5 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 Dated: January 15, 2015 /s/ Jennifer L. Thurston UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 27 28 If Plaintiff's counsel chooses to serve the summons, complaint, and this order upon the Defendant without using the services of the U.S. Marshal, Plaintiff will not later be able to seek an award of costs for service given her in forma pauperis status and the authorization for service by the U.S. Marshal. See DeArmon v. Colvin, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 137858 at *5 (E.D. Cal. Sept. 25, 2013) (explaining that where the plaintiff is proceeding in forma pauperis and the U.S. Marshal has been directed to serve the defendant, the plaintiff may not recover expenses related to service). 4