Over the past month, we have had several chapters across the United States complete events to help benefit their community! In addition, Communiteens and I have won awards!
Communiteens - Reno volunteered at Reno Earth Day, an event dedicated to bringing awareness of Earth Day and celebrate the Earth. They then worked at the Boys and Girls Nite Out, which helps connect people from across the Nevada Community to play games and win prizes. Lastely, they participated in sorting food at a local food bank. So much done in so little time and I am happy to see them make an impact on such a diverse group of people!!
Communiteens - South Carolina did 2 Community service projects: they helped a lacrosse tournament recently and colleceted dry noodles for a school program called Echo.
I am so happy to see all of our chapters continuing their impact on the community! I know that your events are making big changes in your respective communities. Lets keep the momentum going for next year!!!


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Democrats should drop 'subpoena cannon' talk about Trump, learn from Republican mistakes
House Democrats should skip the partisan preambles and tough talk on Trump. Their investigations will have more impact if they speak for themselves.
Kurt Bardella
"I want seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks."
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., my former boss, famously declared that in the days after Republicans won the House majority in 2010, as he prepared to become chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Internally, it was a cringe-worthy moment.
Why? Because, we were unnecessarily setting up impossible-to-meet expectations for ourselves.
The combination of our own enthusiasm for finding ourselves in the majority, the news media hype (which we stoked) and the hyper politicization of just about everything during the campaign had created an environment in which the only way we could be successful was if we "got the goods" on our investigative targets right away. Anything short of immediate success would enable our detractors to claim that our lack of success was proof that we were all talk, that our investigations were nothing but political witch hunts and that there was no "there" there to discover.
This really was a case of us not knowing what we didn't know. In retrospect, we'd have been so much better off if we had just said nothing and let the process naturally take its course.
Learn from Republicans, skip the bombast
As House Democrats find themselves in the same position we were in eight years ago, they would be wise to learn from our mistakes. On Monday, Axios reported that a "senior Democratic source" said the new majority was preparing a "subpoena cannon" to unleash on the Trump administration.
On one hand I chuckled, because this was the kind of rhetorical bombast I was very fond of using back in the day. On the other hand, I winced, because it usually set us up for failure.
Here's the functioning reality about congressional investigations: When done right, they take time. The bulk of things Democrats want to investigate will not yield any immediate or tangible results. In fact, Democrats won't be issuing many subpoenas until at least February. The one exception may be to compel Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. Other than that, subpoenas are the last resort for congressional investigators, not the first.
When House Democrats officially take the reins in January, they will spend the first few weeks organizing their committees. They will set up the subcommittee structure, seat new members, submit a budget blueprint for approval from the House Administration Committee, and complete the giant logistical task of hiring hundreds of people.
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Once they are organized, the oversight work begins. The first thing Democrats will do is send what is called a "document request" to the White House and any relevant departments and agencies for material they tried to get under Republican majority rule that was either rejected or completely ignored.
This is a voluntary request, not a subpoena. What happens next is up to the White House.
The Trump administration and specifically the new White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, will have to decide what their congressional oversight response strategy will be. There are only two options: appearance of cooperation or obstruction.
Blatant obstruction forcing a showdown with Congress is the fastest mechanism to unleash a tsunami of subpoenas.
Appearance of cooperation would slow the process down significantly. The White House would negotiate with congressional investigators and try to narrow the scope of the request. They'd make acts of good faith by voluntarily producing some documents and making some people available for transcribed interviews. This is a process that could take weeks all by itself.
Subpoenas are last resort, not opening shot
At some point, committee investigators will either decide that their threshold for information has been met and close the investigation, or will make another voluntary request for additional information, witnesses and documents. We could go through another round of voluntarily compliance, or the administration can decide that it has cooperated enough and produce nothing. Then, and only then, should a congressional subpoena come into play — as a last resort.
Effective congressional oversight should be conducted deliberately, methodically, patiently and free from artificial and self-imposed timelines or deadlines. By talking about the flurry of investigations and subpoenas they want to pursue, Democrats are falling into the Issa-trap instead of taking a smart, strategic step back. Ultimately, if done right, the results of the investigations will speak for themselves. Those results will have much more impact if they are presented without the partisan, political rhetorical preamble.
Congressional Democrats would be wise to adopt the tone and tenor of Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the incoming chairman of the oversight committee. "I'm not going to be handing out subpoenas like somebody's handing out candy on Halloween," he told George Stephanopoulos on ABC This Week. "I take subpoenas very seriously and I plan to, if I have to use them, they will be used in a very, in a methodical way, and it must be in the public interest (as a) method of last resort."
When it comes to talking about subpoenas, Democrats need a little less T-shirt "subpoena cannon" fodder and a little more "method of last resort."
Kurt Bardella, a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors, was a spokesperson and senior adviser for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2009 to 2013. He left the GOP last year to become a Democrat. Follow him on Twitter: @kurtbardella

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Liste des membres actuels et antérieurs du Collège des douze apôtres dans l'Église de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours.

Cette liste ne comprend que les personnes qui ont été ou sont actuellement en service dans le collège. Les membres de la Première Présidence, qui comprennent le président de l'Église et ses conseillers, ne sont généralement pas considérés comme faisant partie du Collège et l'appel à la Première Présidence consiste à quitter le Collège. Les exceptions à cette règle sont indiquées.

La colonne 'Nationalité' indique le lieu de naissance et peut ne pas correspondre à une ethnie.

Les dates indiquées correspondent à la date d'entrée d'un individu dans le Collège (date d'ordination) et celle où il l'a quitté. Strictement parlant, les membres de la Première Présidence rejoignent généralement le Collège des Douze temporairement chaque fois qu'un président de l'Église décède, et avant que son successeur soit appelé. Pour simplifier, il n'est pas tenu compte de ces périodes pour déterminer la date de fin. Il est arrivé qu'un membre du Collège quitte le collège temporairement pour le rejoindre plus tard. Cela est indiqué.

Une liste des postes supplémentaires occupés apparaît pour chaque membre. Les postes signalés sont Conseillers dans la Première Présidence (« Premier Conseiller », etc), président du Collège (« Président de Collège »), président par intérim du Collège des Douze (« Président du Collège par intérim »), et président de l'Église de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours (« Président de l'Église »). À noter qu'un président du Collège des Douze n'est pas nécessairement un membre du Collège s'il appartient à la Première Présidence. Dans ces situations, un président par intérim peut être appelé, comme indiqué.

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Voir aussi

Liens internes
 Apôtre
 Évangile
 Apostolat
 L'apôtre Paul
 Succession apostolique

Mormonisme
Liste en rapport avec le christianisme

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For our 30th anniversary Anne and I headed off to the Elan Valley for a wee break. The Elan Valley is in Wales and I had never heard of it, despite it being not far from us and only an hour from Lampeter. It's a piece of Victorian colonialism – Birmingham needed water – Wales could provide. All that was needed was to dam up a couple of rivers and flood the valleys and then, using gravity alone, build a pipeline to Birmingham. A system which still exists and works. Damn them Victorians.
We stayed in a re-built Long House – of the kind the Welsh used to build length-on into the hillside, with the living quarters at the top and the animals at the bottom – surrounded by sheep and birds. Bobby was quite beside himself.
The Elan Valley leads up to the Cambrian Mountains. We drove over them to Aberystwyth on a day trip back to Lampeter and Aberaeron. I have to say, I'm with George Monbiot when it comes to the Cambrian Mountains. There is little beauty here. It's a monoculture. Of sheep. Stretching over bare hillsides for miles and miles. But I've just re-read his (brilliant) anti-sheep polemic "Feral" and notice it doesn't mention the Elan Valley at all. Which strikes me as one-eyed accountancy. It probably didn't fit into his story. Which is, of course, the problem with stories.
Because the Elan Valley strikes me as the opposite to everything he's talking about. It's affected by man-made solutions for problems a hundred miles away, but it is also a perfectly acceptable marriage of sheep and wildlife, in exactly the same place as he says there isn't one.
The woodland is exactly what he mourns the passing of. Oaks and ferns and mosses and – um woodland. And I've never been anywhere with so many birds. Not least so many birds of prey; buzzards, red kites, ospreys, sparrowhawks, cuckoos all over the shop. Our Long House was basically alive. Swifts and swallows in the eaves, redstarts a-plenty, hundreds of birds I couldn't begin to name. Luckily the cottage had a huge Book of World Birds, so I can say with some confidence that nesting under our bedroom window was an African Stella Blue Puffball Warbler. Probably. Plus, bats and mice. No, I can't say we slept well.


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NSW bushfire death toll rises after man's body found on south coast property
Elizabeth Daoud
Published: 06/01/2020 Updated: Monday, 6 January 2020 6:50 PM GMT+11
The man has become the eighth person to die on the state's south coast. Credit: Dean Lewins/AAP
A 71-year-old man has become the eighth person confirmed dead in the NSW south coast bushfires, since December 30.
The man was last seen on New Year's Eve moving equipment on his property in Nerrigundah, south-west of Moruya, NSW Police said in a statement.
"Police and rescue units have been unable to access this area for a number of days due to the fire risk," NSW Police said in a statement.
Crews were able to access the property on Monday and found the man's body at about 4pm.
He was found between the property and a car, which were both burnt out.
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The death brings the NSW bushfire death toll to 19, with eight having been killed on the state's south coast.
The NSW bushfires have so far burned millions of hectares, killing thousands of animals and destroying hundreds of properties.
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Monaco, de son nom complet Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, est un jeu vidéo indépendant d'infiltration et d'action créé par Andy Schatz dont la sortie est annoncée pour le . Il propose une expérience multijoueur coopérative en vue aérienne, dont l'action se déroule à Monaco.

Le jeu a remporté les prix Seumas McNally Grand Prize et Excellence in Design à l'Independent Games Festival de 2010 et est l'un des trois premiers jeux sélectionnés pour un financement par l'Indie Fund.

Système de jeu

Le jeu se présente sous la forme d'un jeu d'infiltration à forte influence coopérative.
À l'écran, le joueur suit l'action d'une vue-de-dessus, à la manière d'un plan. La lumière et les couleurs ont une importance primordiale dans l'esthétique, mais également dans le gameplay, puisqu'elles représentent le champ de vision des personnages. Le joueur ne voit donc jamais l'écran de façon totale.
Les objectifs de missions sont divers : par exemple ramasser des objets comme des bijoux ou des passeports avant de s'enfuir. Chaque mission peut être réalisée de multiples façons (furtivement ou non), selon le choix du joueur et les habilités de son personnage.
Des pièces peuvent être récoltées sur le niveau. Chaque pièce non ramassée engrange un malus sur le temps de réalisation de la mission, empêchant donc de figurer dans les meilleurs classements, opposant le joueur avec les milliers d'autres.
Le jeu contient également un mode zombie (modifiant principalement les couleurs du jeu), un mode classique (tel qu'il l'était avant une mise à jour majeure), ainsi qu'un mode PvP à quatre.
La version Steam du jeu comprend le Steam Workshop, permettant aux joueurs de créer et de partager leurs niveaux.

Trame
Le Locksmith (en français : le Serrurier) est interrogé par l'inspecteur Voltaire sur ses récentes activités avec le Pickpocket, le Cleaner (en français : le Nettoyeur) et la Lookout (en français : la Guetteuse). Le Locksmith décrit l'évasion des criminels de la prison de Monaco avec un autre détenu, la Mole (en français : la Taupe, pour agent dormant). Ils rencontrent le Gentleman alors qu'ils volent des passeports et de l'argent pour les faire sortir clandestinement du pays. Ils montent à bord du yacht du Gentleman , piégé à leur insu, et tentent de quitter le port. Le Gentleman reçoit un appel téléphonique anonyme d'un homme qu'il identifiera plus tard comme étant Davide, après quoi le bateau explose. Après avoir reçu des soins médicaux dans un hôpital, les voleurs aident le Gentleman à éliminer les preuves d'un précédent vol et à sauver sa petite amie, la Redhead (en français : la Rousse). Le groupe continue à voler des objets de valeur et engagent le Hacker. Alors qu'ils tentent de voler dans le casino de Monte-Carlo, ils sont arrêtés par la police et ramenés en prison.Le Pickpocket, le prochain à être questionné par l'inspecteur, se souvient toutefois différemment des événements par rapport au Locksmith. Il rapporte que le Hacker, la Redhead et le Gentleman se sont échappés avec eux. Le Gentleman connaît des troubles avec la justice en ce qui concerne ses affaires financières, ce qui pousse les voleurs à s'échapper et à récupérer son argent. Cela intrigue l'inspecteur Voltaire, qui pense que l'argent a servi à les faire sortir clandestinement du pays, alors que le Pickpocket affirme qu'il a servi à faire transporter illégalement des armes. Le Pickpocket révèle que les escrocs ont délibérément fait exploser le bateau pour distraire Interpol. Plus tard, on croit que Davide a été assassiné dans une boîte de nuit jusqu'à ce que l'inspecteur Voltaire reçoive un appel téléphonique révélant que l'ADN de Davide ne correspond à aucun des corps. Pour brouiller davantage la police, les voleurs ont placé des preuves avec les empreintes digitales de Davide sur une autre scène de crime. Après avoir avoué cela à l'inspecteur Voltaire, le Pickpocket révèle qu'il était un espion envoyé par Interpol. Le Pickpocket prétend que le Gentleman a pris l'identité de Davide et que si l'inspecteur Voltaire tente de confirmer l'histoire, le Gentleman saura que l'un de ses complices est un espion.

Lui proposant le droit d'asile, l'inspecteur Voltaire discute ensuite avec la Lookout pour obtenir plus d'informations sur les antécédents des voleurs. L'inspecteur Voltaire pose des questions sur la Mole, qui, selon la Lookout, a déjà été attrapée. Elle lui parle ensuite d'elle-même et dit qu'elle vole à cause d'une "dette morale". Lorsqu'elle discute des raisons pour lesquelles le Locksmith ne respecte pas la loi, elle rappelle la fois où il s'est fait casser la main après avoir été surpris en train de compter les cartes au blackjack. La Lookout informe l'inspecteur Voltaire que le Pickpocket était riche avant d'être arrêté et que le Hacker a également eu des ennuis auparavant après avoir été surpris en train de s'introduire dans le quartier général d'Interpol. Elle dit que le Gentleman a informé la police, ce qui a permis leur arrestation. Elle lui révèle aussi des informations au sujet du Cleaner et de la Redhead.

Plus tard, l'inspecteur Voltaire et Candide, un gendarme, apprennent que le Locksmith, la Lookout, le Pickpocket et le Hacker se sont échappés de la prison. Les deux hommes tentent sans succès de capturer les voleurs. Ils rencontrent le Gentleman, pour qui Candide travaille. Ce dernier empoisonne l'inspecteur Voltaire, puis la Mole se débarrasse de son corps.

Personnages

L'équipe de voleurs du jeu est composée de huit membres, chacun étant jouable par le joueur et ayant des compétences différentes :

The Locksmith The Locksmith ("Le Serrurier") est jouable dès le début du jeu. Sa couleur distinctive est le bleu. Il peut crocheter plus rapidement les portes et les coffres que tous les autres personnages. Il ouvre également plus rapidement les caisses enregistreuses et les distributeurs de billets.

The Pickpocket The Pickpocket ("Le Pickpocket") est jouable dès le début du jeu. Sa couleur distinctive est le jaune. Il possède un singe domestique, nommé Hector, qui peut ramasser les pièces présentes sur la carte sans alerter les gardes. Le Pickpocket peut également se cacher dans les buissons et les arbres plus rapidement que tous les autres personnages.

The Cleaner The Cleaner ("Le Nettoyeur") est jouable dès le début du jeu. Sa couleur distinctive est le rose. Il peut endormir les ennemis non suspicieux (qui n'ont pas un niveau de suspicion rouge, indiqué au-dessus de leur tête) pendant un moment. Il a pour capacité d'utiliser les trousses de soin plus rapidement que les autres personnages.

The Lookout The Lookout ("L'Éclaireuse") est jouable dès le début du jeu. Sa couleur distinctive est le rouge. Elle peut voir tous les PNJ du niveau quand elle est furtive ou immobile. Son habilité secondaire est de pouvoir grimper dans les ventilations, ouvrir les fenêtres et monter les escaliers plus rapidement que les autres personnages.

The Mole The Mole ("La Taupe") est un personnage débloqué après la mission : "HIJACK AT THE HAIRPIN". Sa couleur distinctive est le violet. Il peut creuser à travers la plupart des surfaces présentes dans le jeu. Il pénètre également dans les passages secrets et ouvre les caisses à bijoux plus rapidement que les autres personnages.

The Gentleman The Gentleman ("Le Gentleman") est un personnage débloqué après la mission : "MANOIR MOUCHARDER". Sa couleur distinctive est le bleu-vert. Il est déjà déguisé lorsqu'il commence une mission et son costume se régénère lorsqu'il se cache. Il peut enfiler les déguisements présents dans le niveau et entrer dans le véhicule de fuite plus vite que les autres personnages.

The Hacker The Hacker ("Le Pirate") est un personnage débloqué après la mission : "CENTRE HOSPITALIER". Sa couleur distinctive est le vert. Il a la possibilité de créer des virus depuis les prises murales, désactivant alors les équipements électroniques alentour, ainsi que de hacker les ordinateurs et les caméras de surveillance plus rapidement que les autres personnages.

The Redhead The Redhead ("La Rousse") est un personnage débloqué après la mission : "DISCOTHÈQUE ROUGE". Sa couleur distinctive est le orange. Elle peut charmer un ennemi afin de le calmer lorsqu'il est suspicieux ou agressif, ceux-ci peuvent alors ouvrir les portes instantanément. Le charme est perdu lorsqu'elle s'éloigne trop. Elle a pour faculté de réanimer ses coéquipiers morts plus vite que les autres personnages.

Équipements
Le jeu propose huit équipements différents, tous récupérables sur la carte en fonction des missions. Une fois ramassé, le joueur peut utiliser l'équipement une fois. Afin de pouvoir l'utiliser de nouveau, il doit ramasser dix pièces. Tous les personnages peuvent utiliser chacun des équipements et aussi efficacement. Ceux-ci sont :

The Shotgun The Shotgun ("Le fusil à pompe") est une arme à feu tirant six cartouches en cône, chacune pouvant tuer un PNJ. Après un coup de feu, le plus proche garde viendra pour vérifier la zone.

The Machine Gun The Machine Gun ("La mitraillette") tire 12 balles en rafale en ligne droite, chacune pouvant tuer un PNJ. Si le personnage se déplace pendant le tir, il sera moins précis. Après un coup de feu, le plus proche garde viendra pour vérifier la zone.

The Tranquilizer The Tranquilizer ("L'arbalète tranquillisante") est une arme silencieuse permettant d'endormir un PNJ à distance à la façon du Cleaner.

The C4 The C4 (« Le C4 ») est un objet que le personnage pose à ses pieds, explosant trois secondes après. L'explosion détruit tout à cinq blocs à la ronde excepté les murs en acier, les pièces et les objets de quête. De plus, si l'explosif est placé à côté d'un coffre, il répand les pièces aux alentours comme s'il avait été ouvert manuellement par le joueur.

The Wrench The Wrench (« La clé à molette ») est un outil permettant d'effectuer immédiatement une action comme ouvrir une porte, un coffre, changer d'étage ou bien utiliser le véhicule de fuite mais pas de réanimer un coéquipier. Il est intéressant de noter qu'ouvrir une porte à scanner de cette façon ne déclenche pas d'alarme. La clé peut être utilisée à un autre escient : elle peut également tuer silencieusement un PNJ.

The EMP The EMP (« L'IEM ») éteint tous les équipements électroniques du niveau à partir du joueur. Ainsi, les équipements les plus proches du joueur seront éteints en premier et ceux les plus éloignés en dernier.

The Smoke Bomb The Smoke Bomb (« La bombe de fumée ») crée un épais nuage de fumée qui trouble la vision des PNJ, permettant au joueur de s'échapper ou de les attaquer.

The Trauma Kit The Trauma Kit (« La trousse de secours ») permet de restaurer 50 % de la santé du joueur et des coéquipiers alentour. Il offre également la possibilité de réanimer un autre joueur instantanément.

Réception
Le jeu a reçu des critiques globalement positives, totalisant un metascore de 83 sur 100 sur Metacritic.

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In addition to receiving his Certificate in Emergency Medical Services and serving as a Paramedic with the Baltimore City Fire Department for four years, Tsvetan Bachvaroff received his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center of Marine Biotechnology and subsequently with the Smithsonian Institution. He assumed his present position in 2013 as Research Assistant Professor for the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) at The University System of Maryland.
Dr. Bachvaroff has received numerous academic awards, including the William Trager Award from the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology / International Society of Protistologists, Best Graduate student poster / Bioscience day / University of Maryland College Park, the Marsho award for best student presentation / Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Society for Plant Biology, the Outstanding Teacher's Assistant Award / Center for Teaching Excellence / University of Maryland College Park, and the Chemistry Prize / Trinity School / New York.
Presently his research is focused on dinoflagellate evolution with special emphasis on the parasitic dinoflagellates, using large scale sequencing and phylogenetic methods to describe the evolutionary history of different types of genes in dinoflagellates.


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I have a 2010 FZ1, low miles, bone stock. Can anyone recommend a slip-on that will work well without any mods?
I have an '09, with Leo, Exup and Cat gone, mapped, etc., great bike.
On the 2010, I'd like to lose the gigantic stock exhaust for aesthetics and weight. I'm not looking for any real performance gains this time around. Is there a slip-on that the factory ECU can compensate for such that no detrimental effects occur?
Any aftermarket slip on will work just fine without further mods. Buy the one that you like the looks & sound of the best.
As Ivan once said (regarding all of the various slip ons out there) "A 2" hole is a 2" hole."
Yep, pretty much what val guy said, but there can be minor improvements based on different size tubing.
Oh... I happen to have a Leo Vince slip-on for sale as well.
Thanks guys, much appreciated! I hoped that would be the answer. I'm from the era when a slip-on meant rejetting or you'd risk of running dangerously lean. Figured the factory ECU/FI could compensate well enough but wasn't sure. I'll check out the Leo in TX and Mivv recommendation too. Thanks again.
You may get exhaust popping on decel if you don't disable the AIS.
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Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery Less Effective Than Expected
Research conducted by the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network, an initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health, has revealed that the long-term success rates of a surgery to treat pelvic organ prolapse are lower than expected. Nearly one-third of women develop anatomic or symptomatic treatment failure within five years of undergoing sacrocolpopexy for pelvic organ prolapse, according to a study published in the May 15 issue of JAMA.
"Each year, 225,000 women in the United States undergo surgery for pelvic organ prolapse, but little is known about long-term surgical outcomes," says Ingrid Nygaard, M.D., a urogynecologist and pelvic reconstructive surgeon at the University of Utah and first author on the study. "As our population ages, more and more women are going to be affected by pelvic organ prolapse, so it's critical to know whether these surgeries are effective."
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a condition where the muscles and ligaments supporting a woman's pelvic organs stretch or weaken, causing these organs to slip out of place. Although POP can involve any pelvic organ, the most common organ affected is the bladder. POP is most often linked to childbirth, but can also develop after hysterectomy and tends to get worse with age. Common symptoms of POP include a feeling of pressure or fullness in the vagina and bladder- or bowel-related problems. There are no medications to treat POP, though many women gain relief by wearing a pessary, a silastic ring or cube that holds the bulge up, in the vagina. An estimated 7 percent to 19 percent of women undergo some type of surgical repair in their lifetime.
Abdominal sacrocolpopexy is considered to be the gold standard of surgical treatment for POP, and it involves placing a mesh via an abdominal approach to hold the vagina in its correct anatomical position. Nygaard and her colleagues in the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network (PFDN) studied women who underwent sacrocolpopexy for a period of seven years following surgery. Approximately half of these women also underwent another surgical procedure at the same time to prevent incontinence, which is a common complication after POP surgery. The researchers found that nearly one-third of women experience a recurrence of POP, either on examination or by reported symptoms, within five years of surgery.
"We were surprised to find that treatment failure rates after sacrocolpopexy were as high as they were," says Nygaard. "But, it's important to note that the failure rate depends on how failure is defined. In our study, few women had repeat surgery, even if they had symptoms related to POP."
Nygaard and her colleagues found that a majority of women who undergo sacrocolpopexy eventually experience urinary incontinence at some point. Women who underwent incontinence prevention surgery at the time of sacrocolpopexy were less likely to experience urinary incontinence and did not experience any additional complications related to that surgery. Nygaard and her colleagues also found that mesh-related complications of sacrocolpopexy continue to occur over time. Approximately 10 percent percent of the women enrolled in the study experienced mesh erosion, and two-thirds of these women underwent surgicalmesh removal.
"Women who undergo sacrocolpopexy need to be educated about symptoms, such as bleeding, discharge or pain, which may be warning signs of mesh erosion so they can seek help," says Nygaard. "Our findings also highlight the importance of improving our understanding of the natural history of POP, as well as developing methods to prevent POP progression if diagnosed in its early stages."
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Utah, including physicians, biomechanical engineers, exercise scientists, biostatisticians, nurses, and physical therapists, is currently conducting research on preventing early POP. The PFDN is also performing a study to examine long-term outcomes for vaginal surgeries to treat POP. Nygaard and two of her University of Utah colleagues, Peggy Norton, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and M.D., Yvonne Hsu, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, are participating in this study, which includes 68 women from Utah. Nygaard anticipates that this new study, in combination with the current study, will provide valuable information on what surgery can and cannot accomplish in the treatment of POP.
"The direct cost of POP surgeries each year is over $1 billion," says Nygaard. "Continued research will help both physicians and patients understand the potential benefits and limitations of different surgical treatment options."
The above story is reprinted from materials provided by University of Utah Health Sciences Center via newswise.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of the OB/GYN MD or its staff.
Journal Reference: Nygaard I, Brubaker L, Zyczynski HM, Cundiff G, et al. Long-term outcomes following abdominal sacrocolpopexy for pelvic organ prolapse. JAMA. 2013;309(19):2016-2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.4919
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The hijacking of global financial governance?
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Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 6 October on the governance and resourcing implications of IMF's surcharges.
Since the Asian financial crisis, the IMF has sought to accumulate precautionary balances and disincentivise countries from an over-reliance on IMF financing by adding a surcharge to borrowing costs in certain circumstances. Surcharges have become the IMF's largest source of revenue and have added billions to the debt of states struggling to respond to Covid-19 pandemic. This session examined their governance and resourcing implications and investigated whether they are necessary or, as some states claim, discriminatory and at odds with the IMF's stated objective of assisting member countries to protect the most vulnerable and pursue an inclusive and sustainable recovery.
• Moderator: Marilou Uy, Director of the G24
• Panelist 1: Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Panelist 2: Mark Weisbrot, co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Panelist 3: Martín Abeles, Director of ECLAC/CEPAL Buenos Aires Office
• Panelist 4: Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University
Marilou Uy: Introduction
Surcharges are unfamiliar to most but have received recent attention due to pandemic.
Surcharges are charged on non-concessional account and are time and quota based. They are intended to mitigate credit risk. Proceeds generate income so Fund can accumulate precautionary income.
The G24 has criticised surcharges as pro-cyclical and regressive. Several new studies have been commissioned on the topic.
Two new policy briefs have been released by CEPR and GDPC stressing that the policy is counter-productive from a variety of perspectives.
Organisers reached out to IMF to provide a panellist, however Fund unable to do so.
It is possible to correct policy, which is regressive.
Policy works by adding 200 basis points for large loans. 100 basis points for debts held over 4 years.
No published figures. 45% of all principal debt payments for five largest borrowers are due to surcharges. Argentina – $3.3 billion on surcharges. Several times the costs of vaccination of all its citizens.
Surcharges are procyclical and regressive – they deprives poor countries of hard currencies during the pandemic.
From Fund's most recent publication – sucharges are meant to 'mitigate credit risks … limit demand for Fund assistance… while at the same time allowing Fund to accumulate precautionary balances'
However countries already have plenty of reasons to avoid turning to the Fund for support, including procyclical nature of conditions attached to Fund programmes, erosion of sovereignty.
Credit risk refers to the Fund, however no significant credit risk to the Fund exists – as per 50 years of history. Arrears have always been paid.
Precautionary balance makes a small percentage of the Fund's income – three orders of magnitude below its lending resources.
Incentivising early prepayment: Most countries that have paid early are high-income European countries, which are not representative of Fund programmes.
Other example: Brazil – however this was the result of domestic political issues and disastrous impact of IMF lending in the country. Last Fund programme interfered with implementation of worker's party platform.
Argentina – repayment also due to electoral and political issues.
Surcharges are fundamentally a governance issue: Vast majority of member states have very little voice in the Fund. Were they to have more voice, the surcharges would not exist. US maintains control of the institution from its founding.
This can be seen in the issue of DBR scandal. As noted by Professor Stiglitz, perhaps the DBR report scandal has arisen from geopolitical machinations. Functioning of Fund should not be held hostage to the whims of one country.
Jayati Ghosh
Very important discussion, as the issue can be easily addressed. Hence need to bring issue to light.
Will focus on procyclicality, which is against the Fund's own Articles of Agreement.
Keynes warned of the dire impact of efforts at self-sufficiency and focus on self-interest as far back as 1933.
Keynes had proposed international clearing union – to ensure debtors countries didn't bear entire burden of global imbalances. The Fund was established precisely to provide counter-cyclical lending.
Fund has only provided a small percentage of resources – less than 30% for developing countries during the pandemic.
Fear of approaching Fund arise from stigma – downgrade by Credit Agencies, conditions and surcharges.
Some countries in South East Asia and South Asia have been on Fund programmes for decades – as they have no other options. Imposition of Fund conditions have not enabled independence from Fund resources. Procyclical nature of surcharges is adding to the problem.
IMF research – notes that use of fiscal rules tend to support pro-cyclical policies. Surcharges will therefore make it more difficult for countries to respond to the crisis.
Fund has massively increased lending to 85 countries – however inadequate. However, surcharges on this scale will add a significant barrier to global recovery due to their pro-cyclical nature.
Pandemic costs will pale in comparison to climate crisis. The surcharge policy must go.
Martín Abeles
Speaking on a personal capacity – not necessarily position of ECLAC.
Notes two recent reports. Also very good paper from Daniela Prates and Penelope Hawkins, UNCTAD.
Surcharges not a good idea, not even in the Fund's own terms.
Agrees with previous speakers. Surcharges don't result in changes proposed, over-reliance and prompt payment. Surcharges don't increase Funds' lending capacity.
Regressive character: tend to apply to Middle-income countries (MICs) – 14 countries subject to surcharges, all MICs. Proportional to size of quota.
Surcharges are increasing share of Fund's operational resources – i.e. MICs are under represented as outlined by Mark, but also forced to assume disproportionate burden of contributing to Fund's operational costs.
Not very difficult to find a more progressive policy.
Surcharges are 'anti-catalytic' – initially balance of payments were due to current account problems, now, due to liberalisation, they tend to be the result of capital accounts problem. Therefore Fund used reforms and some resources as 'catalyst' to entice/ attract private sector finance.
However surcharges, if they worsen states' debt position may undermine the objective of the catalytic effort.
Argentina – the $10 billion projected in standby agreement surcharges would add substantial costs to the programme and would be a significant barrier to Fund's catalytic efforts.
Therefore revising the policy, as G24 has demanded, would also support other financial actors as it lessens likely debt burden.
Marilou Uy
Noted links with governance and IMF financing issues.
Q: What alternatives exist, given the surcharges key role in Fund financing?
Surcharges have a long history. Were streamlined after 2009, when programmes decreased – e.g. Brazil and Argentina exited. This is no longer the case. Now 85 countries with Fund programmes. This implies that the Fund has ample resources from Fund programmes.
Surcharges aside = "fund is back in business" . We don't need to think of a full elimination of surcharges. Restoring 300% quota reform policy, e.g. could be used to eliminate some of the costs.
A temporary suspension is a matter of urgency.
Lots of revenue lost at the Fund for other reasons. Fund's management of its own resources is appalling, for example.
Significant loss due to recent pension payment to employees. Very large costs that were accepted without comment. This from an institution that demands pension cuts from vulnerable populations.
Therefore, there are many options available. In the end the question is political.
Disagree with Martin – why should we accept any surcharges? The Fund has only used slightly over a 10% of the funds at its disposal.
Should Fund continue to pursue failed and 'counter-cyclical' policies, it will be back on 'life support' (as was the case prior to the 2008 financial crisis) as states will seek other, regional, options.
Q: Governance issues surrounding role of IMF MD in Doing Business Scandal – is this a long-term governance issue at the Fund?
Governance issue is a long-term problem. Reference to former Chief Economist's remarks about Fund's accountability to US Treasury.
Regarding the IMF MD and Doing Business – negation on capital increase more likely to have been focused on China's limited voice given its weight in the world economy. It retains 1/3 of US voting power at the Bank despite that fact that it has a larger economy in PPP.
Why did the Bank go to a law firm? Why not use experts per previous efforts. These issues demonstrate the lack of equitable governance structure.
Will focus on broader distributional and efficiency perspective.
Countries only turn to Fund in emergencies, given loss of economic oversight and severe political consequences.
Countries facing negotiating frontier with creditors. Not a zero-sum game however. Adverse effect on growth and transfers. Loss to countries will typically exceed the gains of the creditor.
IMF role has been one of credit collector – to 'squeeze' more from the debtor. However many times this exceeds what is sustainable -hence the relapse of countries into debt restructure after five years of restructure efforts.
Once could end in a point where both creditors and states are worst off.
Provision of IMF liquidity, coupled with conditions may have adverse counter-productive effects.
Hence the importance of Debt Sustainability Analysis – as resources paid to the Fund would detract from overall resources available to creditors and the state.
Inter-creditor conflicts may result in unsustainable results.
Surcharges may in fact increased default probability. The moral hazard argument is very unpersuasive. There is no automatic right to access to Fund resources, this makes the moral hazard argument unconvincing.
Surcharges amount to asking countries in dire straights to fund a public good. New paper discusses the conception of the Fund as a cooperative.
Current situation has turned what would have been a minor issue into a potentially major problem.
Recalls 1980s G24 paper on the financing of the Fund. Share of the Fund financing has been increasingly comprised of 'contributions' from non-creditor countries.
Fund is providing a global public good – ie. Those most able to contribute should do so to ensure a progressive system.
Benefits: Those who are wealthier benefit to a larger extent from a well-functioning global financial system and stability.
One could however make the case that poor countries are more likely to draw funds and should therefore should pay a greater share. However, if this were the case, governance would require change. With greater voice would come with a requirement for greater share of the resourcing.
One positive change within the Fund – closer to Keynes view – has been the allocation of SDRs (current 2.5 times the last).
US House of Representatives has passed a bill authorising $3 trillion in SDR allocation – this would allow countries to pay off IMF. Not a zero-sum game. No loans or conditions attached.
Strongly support Stiglitz – thinks the Fund should function as a cooperative.
Concerning the SDR allocation – critical to consider discussions about rechannelling. Discussions too heavily skewed to supporting PRGT – with its conditions. Funds should be used for vaccines, pandemic responses, etc.
Surcharges can increase the costs of Fund concessional loans up to 400 basis points, which is extremely expensive. Should they lead to debt crisis and restructure, they would be counter-catalytic.
Private finance should also be opposed to the policy.
Surcharges go precisely against its mandate to support states through liquidity crisis, as it may force states to debt restructure.
The SDR allocation further illustrates the governance failure of the institution, as SDRs go largely unused.


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Actor-director-producer Arbaaz Khan got into national spotlight this week with the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of Thane Crime Branch summoning him over betting in Indian Premiere League (IPL) cricket matches.
When Arbaaz confessed to the police that he had placed IPL bets, there was a huge uproar in the media. Discussions in the mainstream media followed heated debates among Arbaaz's megastar brother Salman Khan fans and haters on social media. Meanwhile, rumours stating that Arbaaz's relationship with Salman was soured, only added fuel to fire — though Arbaaz was seen being escorted by Salman's bodyguard Shera when he went for the questioning.
However, it seems that the media jumped the gun in favour of scandal. Just as it often happens in Salman's cases, the media was too eager to pan the actor's brother. Latest reports reveal that though Arbaaz admitted to placing bets, he claimed that no monies exchanged hands with the betting bookie in question. Resultantly, the actor will not be booked by the police.
We asked Bollywood PR guru Dale Bhagwagar about the media's eagerness to grill and pronounce actors guilty. He said, in this matter, both the parties were only doing their job.
"While Arbaaz proved to be a dutiful citizen, the vibrant media proved to be on their toes with reporting. The good part is, the truth came out fast, without Arbaaz being persecuted with trial-by-media and without the issue and speculations being dragged for long," remarked the Bollywood publicist.


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It is hard to write about Zack Snyder's Justice League without comparing it to Joss Whedon's version of the film that was released in 2017. This review will first look at Zack Snyder's Justice League in a universe where the 2017 version of the film did not happen. In the epilogue of this review, will be my thoughts around how the Zack Snyder version compares with the 2017 version.
To be clear, the Zack Snyder version of Justice League is far superior to the 2017 version.
Chapter 1 - There Can Only Be One
I enjoyed Man of Steel, but I was not a fan of the theatrical release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I do like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition). The extra 30-minutes of run time allowed storylines to be fleshed out and the R-rating allowed the film to be as dark as it should have been.
Zack Snyder's Justice League is a four hour behemoth that moves at an amazing pace and kept my attention throughout. The storytelling in Zack Snyder's Justice League is clear, impactful and even emotional. Much like the Ultimate Edition of Dawn of Justice, it is not a perfect film, but it is well worth spending time with.
Chapter 2 - The Happening
Following the end of Dawn of Justice where Superman is killed by Doomsday, his death scream activates the trio of Mother Boxes. These boxes, when combined into The Unity can be used to transform a world – for better or for worse.
When the Mother Boxes were awoken, they sent out a signal that brings Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds) to Earth to hunt for the boxes and then to activate The Unity. By doing so, Steppenwoolf would redeem himself while reclaiming Earth for the ultimate bad guy, Darkseid (Ray Porter).
This is the backbone of the main plot of the film, but the film itself has multiple subplots that deal with each of the DC superheroes. These subplots all stem from Batman (Ben Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) working together to recruit and put together a team of individuals to help protect Earth. These individuals include The Flash (Ezra Miller), Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher).
Chapter 3 - Who's Who
When Batman v Superman was released, I was not a fan of Ben Affleck as Batman or Bruce Wayne. He did have the physique for Batman, but he never fit as Bruce Wayne. Affleck fairs better in Zack Snyder's Justice League and does well both as Batman and Bruce Wayne. I am more convinced now that he is Bruce Wayne. I liked how Affleck played Bruce Wayne as less of a madman and more of an earnest thoughtful man who is looking to right a wrong that he has committed – and fix the broken world that he created. The best Bruce Wayne is still Michael Keaton because he brilliant captures the charming billionaire side of Bruce Wayne. Affleck still hasn't captured that part of Bruce Wayne, mainly because the scripts never give him anything close to that to work with. The most Affleck gets to charming billionaire are his quips about being rich.
Gal Gadot is wonderful (get it?) as Wonder Woman – as she has been throughout each of the DCEU films she has been in. She transitions between Diana and Wonder Woman brilliantly. The opening bank scene lets her flex her muscles and show what a true badass Wonder Woman is. I do wish that Snyder had more for her to do as Diana.
Cyborg's story is one of the strongest of the newcomers. It was the emotional hook for the movie and it played out so well because of Ray Fisher's performance as Cyborg and as Victor Stone. Zack Snyder's Justice League would not have worked if it had not been for this very strong emotional storyline that runs through the whole film and brings humanity and hope to an otherwise dark and bleak film.
Strangely, while I loved the movie Aquaman – it is my favorite to rewatch of all the DCEU films – Aquaman constantly felt out of place in this film. I liked The Flash and I really liked his intro story with the puppies and his meeting with Bruce Wayne. He does get a growth path through the film, unlike Aquaman, and it was great to see The Flash embrace his inner-hero.
The one person I really liked in the film, as I did in Batman v Superman, is Jeremy Irons and his portrayal of Alfred who is not subservient to Bruce Wayne, but an equal, especially when it comes to engineering.
Chapter 4 - The Window Into Your Soul
Snyder has always been a visual director. His work in 300 showed that he could create incredible visuals onscreen that are spectacular. Snyder's visual style and flair has been infused into each of his DCEU films – including Zack Snyder's Justice League. Zack Snyder's Justice League is visually stunning. The action that Snyder films is easy to follow and impactful. The only one drawback is that some of the scenes look very artificial and it does take me out of the film briefly.
The 1.33:1 aspect ratio that the film is presented in is jarring at first. I spent a lot of time during the four hours reframing each shot mentally into what it would look like in the Man of Steel 2.35:1 or the Batman v Superman 2.39:1 wider aspect ratios. But, I also spent time looking at the whole frame of each shot and was amazed to see what Snyder and his cinematographer Fabian Wagner were able to put into each frame. I think the film could have worked in either 1.33:1 (as presented) or as a cropped version in the wider 2.35:1. I appreciate that Snyder stuck with presenting this film as 1.33:1, it is a ratio that is not used much and it has a certain novelty to it.
Chapter 5 - Where Words Leave Off, Music Begins
The score by Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) is worth mentioning as it stretches most of the four hour running time. It is well done and includes many of the themes that he and Hans Zimmer created in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Chapter 6 - Time Well Spent
Snyder smartly breaks up the film with chapter breaks. Not only does this let people who can't sit through the film in one sitting have logical breakpoints, but it also gives all of us a point where we have anticipation for what is to come next. Each of the six chapter breaks is a serves as a micro dénouement for that portion of the story.
While a four hour long film sounds daunting, it does move along quick enough and the story is compelling enough that I never felt bored or looked at my watch. The movie pulled me along with its characters, the action and the visual spectacle.
Zack Snyder's Justice League is definitely worth watching and I highly recommend it. I will be watching this again.
Watched at home, streamed on HBO Max.
These are my thoughts about Zack Snyder's Justice League in a world where there exists Joss Whedon's Justice League.
THERE WILL BE SPOILERS
While I understand that having an audience sit in a theater for four hours is a stretch, I think Warner Bros really messed up by having the 2017 version cut down to two hours. I found the 2017 version interesting, but not the greatest. I went into my screening of the 2017 version knowing the history behind it and with that, I had very low expectations. I did write some notes about the 2017 film after I saw it in the theaters. I never took the time to write a full review, but I'll tackle some of my notes here.
Danny Elfman's score for the film, which brings back his original Batman theme and also John William's Superman theme was fantastic.
I did like Elfman's score for the 2017 film. I found it interesting that he brought back his own Batman theme and also John William's Superman theme. Does Holkenborg's score with the Holkenborg/Zimmer Batman and Superman themes work better? Yes, I think so. While it was cool that Elfman brought in the older themes, it was an unnecessary distraction. It made me think of the older films instead of keeping me in the current film. Holkenborg's use of the themes for this series of the films works and works much better.
Cyborg in the movie was a bit too complicated.
This criticism, now that I have seen Zack Snyder's Justice League, completely stems from Whedon cutting out almost all of Cyborg's backstory. And reducing him to a whiny character in the 2017 film. I am very disappointed that Whedon cut Cyborg's story and I cannot fathom why he would because Cyborg's arc through the film is so critical to the film. It was very short-sighted of Whedon to do so.
The ending of the film seemed a bit rushed and abrupt.
This is obvious. It was abrupt because the 2017 version was only half of the real movie.
What was a real crime with the 2017 movie was that it removed so much of the connective tissue for the this movie. The Zack Snyder's Justice League has all the details that make the movie flow smoother and all the exposition that give the audience an understanding of why things are so important. The Mother Boxes are given a full explanation that makes their importance to the whole storyline obvious. The aforementioned Cyborg origin story is key to everything. The Flash origin story makes him a much more endearing character and gives him room to grow at the end. Batman/Bruce Wayne is mellowed out with the extra scenes he is given. Alfred is given so much extra dimensionality with his extra scenes.
The inclusion of Darkseid in the film raises the stakes for keeping The Unity from forming. Steppenwolf is given a proper backstory also so that we can understand his motives.
With the inclusion of more scenes for Silas Stone, his sacrifice is given emotional weight. And also, his final act before sacrificing himself gives explanation to how Cyborg is able to locate the final Mother Box. And the explanation in Zack Snyder's Justice League is much more logical and believable than the one in the 2017 version.
With Joss Whedon's name completely removed from the credits, I can assume that everything that Whedon added to the 2017 version has been excised. No more Russians in the dome. No more Superman racing The Flash. No more Aquaman sitting on the Lasso of Truth. No more fake drama when talking about the Mother Boxes in the Batcave. And most importantly, no more goofy Superman opening scene with the digitally removed mustache.
The Epilogue was great, even if it had Jared Leto. I really liked seeing Joe Manganiello as Deathstroke again. I am saddened that he will not get his own film. The appearance of Martian Manhunter was a genuine and welcome surprise for me.
I loved the dark Superman suit in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
The R-rated version Wonder Woman's opening action scene in the bank left my jaw on the floor. The raw power of her bracelets was tremendous and they've never been shown in this way.
If anyone is to be blamed for the mediocre success of the DCEU, it is Warner Bros with their heavy-handed control over how the films were made. This can be seen with Dawn of Justice and Justice League. The theatrical cuts of both films were hobbled because the studio thought audiences could not sit through a film longer than two hours. By having these two films cut down to two hours, Warner Bros cut the films off at the kneecaps and maimed the storytelling. With the restored footage and added details in each restored films, we can see that these movies flow smoother, characters are more well-rounded and there is a vision that spanned both within and between all the DCEU films. It is unfortunate that the execs at Warner Bros did not see this, and if they did see this, that they were short-sighted enough to not back the vision.
With a lack of support from Warner Bros for continuing down the path that Snyder created for the DCEU through Man of Steel, Dawn of Justice and Zack Snyder's Justice League, we are left wanting for more, yet knowing we won't ever get it. The epilogue with the Knightmare sequence and also the Martian Manhunter visiting Bruce Wayne opens doors to stories we will never get to see. The Knightmare sequence teases of things to come and pays fan service to DC comic, videogame, TV and movie fans. There are references throughout the film for DC fans. References to The Dark Knight returns comic by Frank Miller. References to the Injustice videogame and comic series. Zack Snyder's Justice League itself is one big reference to Jack Kirby's New Gods comic series.
I am glad that Zack Snyder got the chance to put together the version of Justice League that he originally envisioned. And while I am not a huge fan of his dark and broody vision of the DC universe, I do appreciate that he brought it to life in such a compelling and complete way. It leaves me saddened that what he has created will be left unfinished.
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Q: Yaml file saving things in incosistent format with extra curly brakets `{ }` I am trying to save content using yaml files but I get that in my local computer it saves it in one format and in server/cluster saves it in another format. In the clust
In the cluster it seems strage:
{seconds: 56.40548229217529}
{minutes: 0.940091371536255}
{hours: 0.015668189525604248}
{days: 6.528412302335103e-04}

but locally it looks fine:
seconds: 3.597913980484009
minutes: 0.05996523300806681
hours: 0.0009994205501344469
days: 4.164252292226862e-05

Why are those extra parenthesis being inserted?
The code I am using:
    with open(meta_data_path, "w") as conffile:
        seconds = hours*60.0*60.0
        minutes = hours*60.0
        days = hours/24.0
        seconds = f'seconds: {seconds}'
        minutes = f'minutes: {minutes}'
        hours = f'hours: {hours}'
        days = f'days: {days}'
        yaml.dump(yaml.load(str(seconds), Loader=Loader), conffile)
        yaml.dump(yaml.load(str(minutes), Loader=Loader), conffile)
        yaml.dump(yaml.load(str(hours), Loader=Loader), conffile)
        yaml.dump(yaml.load(str(days), Loader=Loader), conffile)

is there something wrong with this?

A: Yes there is something wrong with this, as you are writing four YAML documents to the same file, without separating them using ---.
You should either add the explicit_start=True parameter to each dump() to get:
---
{seconds: 56.40548229217529}
---
{minutes: 0.940091371536255}
---
{hours: 0.015668189525604248}
---
{days: 6.528412302335103e-04}

resp:
---
seconds: 3.597913980484009
---
minutes: 0.05996523300806681
---
hours: 0.0009994205501344469
---
days: 4.164252292226862e-05

Which look different but load the same (using load_all()).
Or, you change your code to load all the strings into a single data structure and dump these out in one go:
    data = {}
    data.update(yaml.load(str(seconds), Loader=Loader))
    data.update(yaml.load(str(minutes), Loader=Loader))
    data.update(yaml.load(str(hours), Loader=Loader))
    data.update(yaml.load(str(days), Loader=Loader))
    yaml.dump(data, conffile)

Which will give you the same result as before locally, and
{seconds: 56.40548229217529, minutes: 0.940091371536255, hours: 0.015668189525604248, days: 6.528412302335103e-04}

on the server, which is again equivalent YAML.
The reason for the difference is that in older (pre 5.1) PyYAML versions the default for 'default_flow_style' parameter to dump() was None, resulting in leaf collection nodes being dumped in flow-style, for mappings/dicts this causes the curly braces). For 5.1+ the default changed to False and that causes all collections to be block style. So you have a 5.1+ version locally and an old PyYAML on your cluster.
To make them work the same, either install the same PyYAML version on both platforms and/or explicitly add default_flow_style=False to your dump().

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The slides have pre-set font and paragraph styles, but these can be modified. Rather than changing a style for each slide, a default can be set for the entire presentation. Rather than changing a style for each slide, a default can be set for the entire presentation.... By default most browsers render text with a jagged right edge. If you want all text rendered like in a book with an even right edge you can use a single style rule.
This is something that you can fix in image-editing programs, but the use of an additional application cab be a little tedious, and you may be looking for an easier to way to make this sort of change to the pictures that you are using in your Google Slides presentation.
28/02/2014 · What I did was create a new "paragraph" of text so that they each have their own indent. However the first "paragraph" is just the first line of the text and the second "paragraph" is the remaining text. However, it will look like a single paragraph. I also tested this in Presentation Mode on Chrome in Win7 and it works.
By default most browsers render text with a jagged right edge. If you want all text rendered like in a book with an even right edge you can use a single style rule.


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Why a racially insensitive photo of Southern Baptist seminary professors matters
By Jemar Tisby
A Southern Baptist seminary professor on Tuesday posted a jaw-dropping photo on Twitter that has resurfaced questions for white evangelicals and their attitudes about race.
The picture, posted by Barry McCarty, a professor of preaching and rhetoric at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas, appears to show five white professors dressed in hoodies, gold chains, bandannas and caps. Several of them are pictured posing with fingers pointed like guns and McCarty appears to be holding a gun in his hand. The words "Notorious S.O.P." (School Of Preaching) are scrawled across the top.
Grateful that @barrymccarty deleted this offensive tweet. Southern Baptist can do better. pic.twitter.com/EHcywboIbf
McCarty posted later that the photo was part of a special send-off for one of their professors, Vern Charette, who raps on occasion. As reported by Nicola Menzie in Faithfully Magazine, Charette appears in a video rapping about Christian themes in which he addresses, "all my pimps, players, thugs and hustlers, all my boys that are in lockdown." He wants them to know to that there's "an answer" and that "his name is Jesus Christ."
Officials from the seminary requested that the post be removed, and David Allen, one of the men in the picture and dean of SWBTS's School of Preaching, tweeted an apology: "I apologize for a recent image I posted which was offensive. Context is immaterial. @swbts stance on race is clear as is mine."
It's odd for a preaching professor to suggest "context is immaterial," because seminary professors usually teach their students that context is everything. The SWBTS "Mission, Vision, & Values" page states that their global "strategy includes the training of persons from every national, ethnic and cultural background for a variety of ministries." But when it comes to understanding this particular photo, understanding a larger Southern Baptist and evangelical context is key.
What's wrong with the photo?
Whatever their intentions, the photo is problematic for at least three main reasons. First, as a comparison, consider why blackface is so offensive. Starting in the early 19th century, white actors would apply black makeup to their faces and exaggerate their lips in a caricature of African American looks. Then they performed racist tropes on stage for laughs. Blackface denigrates people of African descent. It says that skin color can make someone intellectually and culturally inferior, so it's not a problem to imitate their appearance for the sake of amusement.
In a similar way, putting on clothes typically associated with racial and ethnic minorities communicates that a person's culture has value only as entertainment. That's why you can't dismiss this photo as "just a joke." It harks back to a history of dehumanization.
[Race is more than just black and white. This new podcast explores some of that middle ground.]
Another problem with the picture includes how it appears the photo was carefully staged. Consider what probably happened before a camera even came out. These men took time to pick out certain clothes and put them on. They found a place with suitable background and lighting to take a picture. They chose poses. One of them even grabbed a gun. Then someone posted it on social media. This picture wasn't randomly snapped in moment of poor judgment. These seminary professors had ample opportunity to consider potential offense. At no point in this elaborate set up did anyone veto the idea.
But the biggest problem doesn't show up in the picture. The presence of any person of color would have reduced the chances of this photo ever happening. But a photo like this evolves in an environment that lacks meaningful interaction with people from other cultures, especially on the leadership level. The seminary's website appears to picture all white men in an administration and an entire preaching faculty. Even if a school has diversity in the student body, if the decision-makers all come from a similar racial and cultural background, then they will remain oblivious to their own racial blind spots.
Unfortunately, racial homogeneity is a shortcoming within white evangelicalism as a whole. Looking across evangelical denominations and nondenominational networks, leaders tend to come from similar backgrounds. They are predominantly educated, middle-class white men. Racial uniformity in the leadership means blunders like this photo will probably keep taking place.
An apology issued
On Wednesday, the seminary's president, Paige Patterson, issued a formal apology entitled "Racism IS a Tragic Sin." He said, "As all members of the preaching faculty have acknowledged, this was a mistake, and one for which we deeply apologize. Sometimes, Anglo Americans do not recognize the degree that racism has crept into our lives."
Patterson goes on to say, "Southwestern cannot make a moment of bad judgment disappear. But we can and will redouble our efforts to put an end to any form of racism on this campus and to return to a focus that is our priority — namely, getting the Gospel to every man and woman on the earth."
His apology sounds biblical; For Christians, evangelism is certainly a critical priority. But he treats racism like a distraction from sharing the Gospel. When will white evangelicals realize, addressing racism is inherently a Gospel issue? Patterson also doesn't provide any specific actions that would address the seminary's deeper issues of racial awareness and diversity. Fixing this problem isn't a matter of restating good intentions, it requires a restructuring of historic patterns of racism embedded in evangelical institutions.
[Grappling with its history of slavery, Georgetown gathers descendants for a day of repentance]
A history of racial wrongs
White evangelicals have a long and complicated history with race. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, white Baptists tried to sidestep the issue of whether their members could own slaves. In her article "Meddling with Emancipation," historian Monica Najar explains that the 1793 Baptist General Committee voted that slavery was an issue for the state to decide, not churches.
In 1845, Baptists split over whether missionaries could own slaves. Southerners insisted that slave owning did not disqualify people for missionary service, and they separated from their northern counterparts to form the Southern Baptist Convention.
In 1995, the 150th anniversary of the denomination, leaders passed the "Resolution on Racial Reconciliation" which acknowledged their failings on slavery and civil rights. But the photo circulated this week reminds us that resolutions do not accomplish racial reconciliation.
As an African American, I look at that picture and wonder what these men are teaching in class. How are they compensating for the lack of racial and ethnic diversity among the faculty and staff? Are they responsive to the particular needs and concerns of minorities in their midst? How might their assumptions slip into their lectures, advising and preaching?
Where can the seminary go from here?
In response to Allen's apology tweet, Grammy Award-winning rapper Lecrae Moore, asked, "How do you all plan to grow from this?"
Southwestern could certainly use this opportunity to dialogue about race and diversity, but I hope the seminary goes further. I hope it will commit to hiring professors and staff members from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. The professors could conduct an audit of their curriculum to see if they are assigning works by scholars of color. The seminary could review the places it goes to recruit students. The leadership could visit other seminaries with more diversity to learn how they could change their own campuses. Sit down with minority students and ask them if they are willing to speak honestly about their experiences at the seminary.
Some pockets of the Southern Baptist Convention have prioritized racial diversity. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. has developed the Kingdom Diversity Initiative. Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, has been outspoken about racial problems in the convention and has come under scrutiny for it.
But diversity initiatives and attempts to talk about race haven't resulted in broad, systemic change. The homogenous environment of predominantly white churches and organizations means people who have all the same cultural blind spots will still marginalize minorities. People are more than offended by pictures like these. They are in pain.
In 2 Corinthians 7, the Apostle Paul rejoices that the church received his words of correction even though they were hard to hear. He writes, "As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting."
While we don't need to focus on embarrassing anyone in particular, something like this stirs a sense of godly grief. Let this photo and the consternation it caused lead to the kind of sorrow that produces lasting change.
Jemar Tisby writes about religion, race and culture as president of the Reformed African American Network, and he is the co-host of the "Pass the Mic" podcast. Follow him on Twitter @JemarTisby.
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Guus Hiddink urges Chelsea to continue their unbeaten Premier League run
Tuesday 22 March 2016 10:40, UK
Image: Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink says his players are motivated
Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink has urged the players to continue their unbeaten Premier League run under his stewardship until the end of the campaign.
The Blues still have an outside chance of finishing in a qualifying position for the Europa League, after recovering from a disastrous start to the season.
Hiddink was impressed by the spirit the players showed during their 2-2 draw with London rivals West Ham last weekend, and he believes the squad are motivated to finish the season strongly.
"First of all we want to get the maximum out of the team regarding the league table, to get the best position possible," Hiddink said.
"But also we appeal to the players to say hey, you are a big club which has had a very difficult season and is recovering step by step.
"We are unbeaten in the league so far, and when you play as a big club in a difficult situation, you must have pride as well.
"We say to them you are champions from last year so play with your heart and play with desire, and I think against West Ham the players showed desire, especially in the second half when they regained their confidence. It is about personal pride."
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Image: Bertrand Traore has impressed since breaking into the Chelsea side
Hiddink has been happy with the emergence of Bertrand Traore, fellow midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek and forward Kenedy as the club brings through a new crop of talent having lost the influence of John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba.
"Traore has progressed since December and we are working daily with him. He progressed very well in January and February and he is proving that now in games," Hiddink said.
"The Premier League is difficult which is why I bring the young players like Traore, Loftus-Cheek and Kenedy in every now and then. It is difficult for them to already be key players.
"At 19 or 20 years old it is a little too much to ask them to be like those who are years and years here like Lampard, Terry and Drogba. They must be additional to a good team but they can be useful squad players."


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The oldest pottery found in Britain - this would have been used for cooking food about 6,000 years ago!A restored Neolithic pot from the causewayed enclosure at Windmill Hill. Windmill Hill is about 1 mile north west of Avebury in Wiltshire. Archaeological excavations at the site in the 1920s revealed some of the earliest pots found in the British Isles. Pottery was first used in Britain at about the same time that farming was introduced from the continent. They represent a dramatic change to the way that food was prepared - for example people were able to heat liquids in a heat proof container over an open fire for the first time. This type of pottery was named after Windmill Hill because it was one of the first sites where it was recognised.
The oldest pottery found in Britain - this would have been used for cooking food about 6,000 years ago!
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BC Government Defends Failure to Halt Rising Drug Deaths
Chief coroner says the lack of effective action to save lives will be a 'stain on our province for decades to come.'
Moira Wyton 13 Dec 2021 | TheTyee.ca
Moira Wyton is The Tyee's health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.
Minister Sheila Malcolmson acknowledged in a Tyee interview that the health-care system has failed to keep up with rising toxic drug crisis. Photo: BC government.
As British Columbia records more toxic drug deaths than ever, the minister responsible defended what experts and advocates have called a delayed and inadequate response to B.C.'s six-year-old public health emergency.
"We are in two public health emergencies, compounded by decades of stigma and isolation and alienation from health care from some of the most vulnerable people in our society," Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson said in an interview with The Tyee Thursday.
"We are making up lost ground."
The same day, the BC Coroners Service confirmed 201 people died of poisoned drugs in October, the highest number ever.
And after 10 months, 2021 is already the second consecutive most fatal year on record with 1,782 lives lost. Last year, 1,765 people died.
In the nearly six years since toxic drug deaths were declared a public health emergency, the rate of deaths has doubled to 41.2 per 100,000. More than 8,500 British Columbians have died in that time. Toxic drugs are the leading cause of unnatural deaths in B.C., more than car accidents, homicide and suicide combined.
Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe said the slow response to the toxic drug crisis will be a "stain on our province for decades to come."
"Simply put, we are failing," Lapointe said Thursday. "This crisis is not going to turn itself around, this crisis needs some true intervention on a meaningful provincial scale."
BC Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau again called for an emergency all-party legislative committee to expedite legislation "to end the brutal loss of life."
"That would take politics out of the process, and we can be bold," said Furstenau in an interview, noting a similar committee facilitated a rapid government response to COVID-19.
The BC Liberals also renewed their calls for more addiction treatment beds and for a similar all-party committee to take immediate action to stop deaths.
"We need action, concerted and focused action, that attacks the problem — not empty words," said MLA Trevor Halford, Opposition critic for mental health and addictions in a Thursday news release.
Malcolmson acknowledged there is much more work to be done. But she did not indicate her ministry would be changing course despite the evidence its current strategy has failed to curb deaths.
Without any budget to administer its own programs, Malcolmson's ministry has also been criticized as a way to deflect criticism from the Health Ministry, which is ultimately responsible for administering overdose prevention programs through health authorities.
Asked whether the current number of deaths represented a failure in her mandate or warranted her resignation, Malcolmson did not directly answer the question and ended the interview.
"The fact that the drug toxicity increases are outpacing the ability of our health-care system to implement solutions and set up resources within health care is tragic, and something that just further reinforces our determination to do more," she said before hanging up.
Furstenau said Malcolmson needs to be transparent about how she is measuring success in her ministry's response, and what accountability will look like if she does not achieve it.
If its main metric is the number of toxic drug deaths decreasing, then "no, the ministry has not achieved its goal," she said.
Lapointe said new and potent combinations of criminalized substances like fentanyl, carfentanil and benzodiazepines continue to escalate the crisis and increase deaths.
Lapointe has called for rapid access to safe, regulated supplies of criminalized substances, known as safe supply, to prevent deaths by separating people from the increasingly toxic drug supply.
"We have not seen a rollout of safe supply on a scale commensurate with the risk to health and safety in our province," said Lapointe, noting that co-op models, compassion clubs and other solutions need government support to reach as many people as possible.
"There is intent, there is good will, there are plans. To my mind, they're not urgent enough."
Malcolmson pointed to the province's expansion of prescribed safe supply, which it began in March 2020 in response to the pandemic and said it would expand again in September 2020.
But that promised expansion in the program did not come until 10 months later in July. In that time, at least 1,694 more people died of toxic drugs.
Drug user advocates and experts said the new measures were too small and too slow.
Government Policies Blamed as Toxic Drug Deaths Soar
Malcolmson said the benefits of the expanded program would be seen in the "weeks and months" ahead.
Furstenau said blaming delays on "lost ground" before the government's time in power would be acceptable "maybe in year one, but not in year five."
Lapointe, whose agency's mandate is to investigate the cause of death and make recommendations for death prevention, declined to place blame on any individual or organization.
But she said without widespread access to low-barrier safe supply, other government efforts to decriminalize personal possession of substances and expand treatment and recovery options for people with substance use disorder will not end this crisis.
"As long as people are dependent on the for-profit, unregulated illicit drug market, their lives are in jeopardy," said Lapointe.
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A Sodipodi egy nyílt forrású vektor grafikus szerkesztőprogram. Speciálisan az SVG standard köré tervezték, úgy használva az SVG fájlformátumot, mint egy egyszerű tárolási formátumot. A későbbiekben alkalmas lesz importálni és exportálni SVG adatokat, terveket és ezen felül majd exportálhatunk bitmap és PNG formátumban is.

A program fő fejlesztője Lauris Kaplinski, de rajta kívül még számos ember közreműködik a projektben.

Nemrég indult az SVG clip art kollekciója, mely zászlókat, szimbólumokat és egyéb más formákat tartalmaz.

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The newly developed energy harvesting flags are capable of powering remote sensors and small-scale portable electronics which can be used for environmental sensing such as to monitor pollution, sound levels and heat for example.
The aim of the study is to allow cheap and sustainable energy harvesting solutions which can be deployed and left to generate energy with little or no need for maintenance. The strategy is known as "deploy-and-forget" and this is the anticipated for model that so called smart cities will adopt when using remote sensors.
Jorge Silva-Leon, from Manchester's School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering and lead-author of the study, says: "Under the action of the wind, the flags we built bend from side to side in a repetitive fashion, also known as Limit-Cycle Oscillations. This makes them perfectly suited for uniform power generation from the deformation of piezoelectric materials. Simultaneously, the solar panels bring a double benefit: they act as a destabilizing mass which triggers the onset of flapping motions at lower wind speeds, and of course are able to generate electricity from the ambient light.
The team used and developed unique research techniques such as fast video-imaging and object tracking with advanced data-analysis to prove their flags worked.
The developed harvesters were tested in wind speeds varying from 0 m/s (calm) to about 26 m/s (storm/whole gale) and 1.8 kLux constant light exposure, simulating a wide range of environmental conditions. Under these operation conditions, total power outputs of up to 3-4 milli-Watts were generated.
February 14, 2019 - Wind and solar energy to be harvested by flags Government EuropaIn the "most advanced study of its kind", UK scientists have developed flags which generate electricity using wind and solar power.