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overnights Apr. 25, 2011
The Amazing Race Recap: We're Just In It for the Fondue of It
By Alexandra Martell
We're Good American People
Last night's Amazing Race took our racers through three different countries: Austria, Lichtenstein, and Switzerland, with no rest for Easter Sunday. Kent and Vyxsin announced at the start of the leg that they had been "bickering like bratty little kids" and would stay positive from now on, but things didn't go so well the last time they said that. So, last night's first lesson? If your hair is pink, don't say you're going to be positive from now on, because it won't happen. The episode also taught us a lot of lessons that seemed obvious, yet the teams struggled with them anyway.
Learn How to Read and Follow a Map
As soon as the teams arrived in Lichtenstein from Austria, they were tasked with riding a motorized bike along the entire length of the country, using a pedometer to guess how long they rode. Luckily for them, Lichtenstein is only about 22 kilometers long, which is roughly equal to the length of Manhattan (we're really good at math Google). Thanks to the motor, no teams struggled physically with this pretty cool task, but instead just struggled with getting around, despite what looked like a fairly clear map and lots of street signs. Some teams got lost, some teams couldn't read their maps, some teams dropped their maps, but almost all guessed 22 kilometers correctly — all but Jet, who guessed 35 and had to go all the way back to the start and do it over, leaving Cord as the "lone ranger" at the finish line. To be fair, singing Flight Time got a leg up from his buddies Kisha and Jen, who told him the correct answer, which he then passed on to speed-bumped Gary. Sub-lesson: Be nice to all the other teams, because they'll help you out when they're way ahead.
Don't Fill Up on Bread*
The racers then left Lichtenstein for Zematt, Switzerland, at the base of the Matterhorn, where they immediately hit the detour: Cheese or Wheeze. Zev and Justin and Kisha and Jen got there first and picked Cheese, which required teams to finish a pot of fondue, because they were hungry and because fondue is awesome. Kisha and Jen gave up early owing to a stomachache, but Zev and Justin pressed on, with Zev making the first of his many amazing fondue puns, including, "I'm not very fondue of this fondue" and "It's nice to fondue you," while Justin made weak threats like, "I'm going to kill you for this, you know that, right?" and "I'm doing what I can right now, okay? I'm trying not to projectile vomit all over you." But vomit he did, because of a crucial error — they kept wiping drippy cheese off the bread pieces! If the task is to finish the cheese, then loading as much cheese as possible onto as few pieces of bread as possible would have left them a lot less nauseous.
*Also a life lesson that our father repeats every time he takes us to dinner.
Keep Everything You're Given in a Safe Place, Especially If You Know You'll Need It Later
The other half of the task, Wheeze, had the teams deliver twenty pieces of luggage from the train station to at least five hotels and then present the twenty luggage tags to a bellhop at the station. Most teams only struggled a little with the awkwardness of all those bags, but they caused Kent and Vyxsin quite a bit of strife, whining, and fighting. By the time they finished, Vyxsin just put Kent in the empty cart and wheeled him back to the station, perhaps in an attempt to stop his whining and keep herself from calling him stupid and a girl. The cowboys arrived late and yee-hawed their way through the streets as they fought to catch up to the Globetrotters, who lost some of their luggage tags and had to go back and deliver more to get to twenty.
It Is Acceptable to U-Turn Someone If It Saves You From Elimination
Despite the vomit, Zev and Justin were able to finish first again (their fourth time this season), winning another tropical getaway. Kisha/Jen, Kent/Vyxsin, and Gary/Mallory easily reached the pit stop, but the cowboys and Globetrotters ended up racing to the last clue and Double U-Turn. The Globetrotters found it first (just barely, based on the editing), and U-Turned the cowboys to ensure their safety. We normally frown on U-Turning as it's usually done spitefully, but as it is likely the Globetrotters would have gone home otherwise, we're okay with this instance. The cowboys did the other detour even though they knew they were last, and thus went home rather gracefully as the credits rolled to their theme music one last time, and our mom, watching with us as we recapped from Easter at home, exclaimed, "They still can't get rid of Pinky?!"
Next week our teams stick around the Matterhorn. Look forward to a lot of struggling with cold and snow, some painting with chocolate, and the Globetrotters getting into a showdown with "Pinky."


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List of Little Britain characters
Florence station (Amtrak)
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This is a list of characters for the British television and radio sketch show Little Britain (and its American spin-off, Little Britain USA).
Played By: David Walliams
Appearances: Season 3
Alan works for the Donkey Hospice in the town of Achingballs. After contributors give him some money, he blatantly places stickers on embarrassing body parts, such as the genital region or breasts and on someone's rear in a deleted scene. He makes one appearance in Series 3.
Episodes: Radio Show; Season 1, episodes 4 and 5
Catchphrase: I love you Anne and I need you Anne
Peter Andre is a royal BBC correspondent who gets sacked after first making bizarre and inaccurate claims about the Royal Family (such as Prince Charles having magical powers, describing The Queen as "The Main One" and mistaking Princess Eugenie for her mother, Sarah, Duchess of York) and then declaring his love for Princess Anne through song. He later attempts to enter a royal garden party to give her some drawings, despite being disheveled and without trousers, and is turned away by police. The character's name is a reference to the singer. There are also two deleted scenes in which Peter Andre appears backstage at the Royal Variety Performance and at a drug rehab centre.
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Florence is a train station in Florence, South Carolina, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. Florence is served by Amtrak's Palmetto and Silver Meteor routes and is a service and smoking stop for the Auto Train. The station was built by CSX in 1996 as a replacement for the much larger former station, which is now owned by the McLeod Regional Medical Center.
Amtrak – Stations – Florence, SC
Florence, South Carolina (FLO) – Great American Stations (Amtrak)
Florence Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide – TrainWeb)
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Florence is an at grade light rail station on the Los Angeles County Metro Blue Line.
It has an island platform on the Blue Line right-of-way alongside Graham Avenue near the intersection of Florence Avenue in the unincorporated community of Florence. Of all of the Metro Rail stations, this station has the smallest island platform width. The station's width is so small, passengers are forced to walk on the platforms when the station becomes crowded.
Florence is a park and ride station with 100 parking spaces.
Station layout
Metro Rail service
Blue Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:45 AM daily.
Bus connections
Metro Local: 102, 110, 111, 311, 611
LADOT DASH: Chesterfield Square
Neighborhood and destinations
Roosevelt County Park
Los Angeles County Metro website
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Q: Rails Devise: calling super inside authenticate_group! raises no superclass method `authenticate_group!` in Controller Devise has a handy feature called devise_group (link to documentation), which creates a group with your multiple devise models.
The docs are really self explanatory. If you have 2 devise models named, for instance, Admin and User, you can use devise_group like so:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  devise_group :blogger, contains: [:user, :admin]
end

This would give you, alongside with authenticate_user! and authenticate_admin!, the method authenticate_blogger!, which would redirect unless user or admin were signed in.
We have been using this in production and it works great. We have the flexibility to restrict some Controller/actions to admins using authenticate_admin! and use authenticate_blogger! when we can have both accessing it.
Due to some complex business logic we have, we had to override authenticate_user! in ApplicationController, following this nice StackOverflow answer here.
Basically it proposes to override ApplicationController#authenticate_user! and calling super when we want the flow follow trough Devise's.
The problem arose when we tried to do the same solution with `authenticate_blogger!. If we do this:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  devise_group :blogger, contains: [:user, :admin]

  def authenticate_blogger!
    super
  end

end

// Another controller

class DashboardController < ApplicationController

  before_action :authenticate_blogger!

end

Rails raises this error:
super: no superclass method `authenticate_blogger!' for #<DashboardController:0x00007fd453ca5d80> Did you mean? authenticate_user!

Any idea why calling super inside an override of authenticate_user! in ApplicationController works fine, but the same doesn't happen with the devise group equivalent ?
EDIT 1: found out the reason, but could use some help improving the solution
Looking at devise source code, devise_group uses Ruby's class_eval do define instance methods like authenticate_blogger! in the context of the class it was called.
So when we use devise_group inside ApplicationController, it's like we're defining authenticate_blogger! as an instance method in ApplicationController.
That's why when we manually define that method authenticate_blogger! in ApplicationController and call super it raises the exception, because we actually overwrote the same instance method in the same class (ApplicationController) and there's nothing to find up in the ancestor chain.
authenticate_user!, on the other hand, is way up in the ancestor chain in Devise::Controllers::Helpers (I can see it calling ApplicationController.ancestors`.
The hacky-proof-of-concept-fix we did was to create a TempController, define devise_group inside it, and make ApplicationController inherit from it:
class TempController < ActionController::Base

  devise_group :advertiser, contains: [:user, :broker]

end

// In application_controller.rb

class ApplicationController < TempController

  def authenticate_blogger!
    super // this now works since it goes up in the ancestor chain and finds authenticate_blogger in TempController
  end

end

Even tough I'm happy with my investigation ... any suggestions on fixing this without actually having to make ApplicationController not inherit ActionController::Base, like it's default in Rails?

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using System;
using System.Data;

using GHTUtils;
using GHTUtils.Base;

using NUnit.Framework;

namespace tests.system_data_dll.System_Data
{
	[TestFixture] public class DataTable_Select_SSD : GHTBase
	{
		public void SetUp()
		{
			Exception exp = null;
			BeginCase("Setup");
			try
			{
			}
			catch(Exception ex)	{exp = ex;}
			finally	{EndCase(exp); exp = null;}
		}

		public void TearDown()
		{
		}

		[Test] public void Main()
		{
			DataTable_Select_SSD tc = new DataTable_Select_SSD();
			Exception exp = null;
			try
			{
				tc.BeginTest("DataTable_Select_SSD");
				tc.SetUp();
				tc.run();
				tc.TearDown();
			}
			catch(Exception ex)
			{
				exp = ex;
			}
			finally
			{
				tc.EndTest(exp);
			}
		}

		public void run()
		{
			Exception exp = null;
			DataTable dt = GHTUtils.DataProvider.CreateParentDataTable();
			DataRow[] drSelect, drResult;

			dt.Rows[0].Delete();
			dt.Rows[1]["ParentId"] = 1;
			dt.Rows[2]["ParentId"] = 1;
			dt.Rows[3].Delete();
			dt.Rows.Add(new object[] {1,"A","B"});
			dt.Rows.Add(new object[] {1,"C","D"});
			dt.Rows.Add(new object[] {1,"E","F"});

			drSelect = dt.Select("ParentId=1","",DataViewRowState.Added );
			drResult = GetResultRows(dt,DataRowState.Added);
			try
			{
				BeginCase("Select_SSD DataViewRowState.Added");
				Compare(drSelect ,drResult);
			}
			catch(Exception ex)	{exp = ex;}
			finally	{EndCase(exp); exp = null;}

			drSelect = dt.Select("ParentId=1","",DataViewRowState.CurrentRows  );
			drResult = GetResultRows(dt,DataRowState.Unchanged | DataRowState.Added  | DataRowState.Modified );
			try
			{
				BeginCase("Select_SSD DataViewRowState.CurrentRows");
				Compare(drSelect ,drResult);
			}
			catch(Exception ex)	{exp = ex;}
			finally	{EndCase(exp); exp = null;}

			drSelect = dt.Select("ParentId=1","",DataViewRowState.Deleted  );
			drResult = GetResultRows(dt,DataRowState.Deleted );
			try
			{
				BeginCase("Select_SSD DataViewRowState.Deleted");
				Compare(drSelect ,drResult);
			}
			catch(Exception ex)	{exp = ex;}
			finally	{EndCase(exp); exp = null;}

			drSelect = dt.Select("ParentId=1","",DataViewRowState.ModifiedCurrent | DataViewRowState.ModifiedOriginal  );
			drResult = GetResultRows(dt,DataRowState.Modified );
			try
			{
				BeginCase("Select_SSD ModifiedCurrent or ModifiedOriginal");
				Compare(drSelect ,drResult);
			}
			catch(Exception ex)	{exp = ex;}
			finally	{EndCase(exp); exp = null;}
		}

		private DataRow[] GetResultRows(DataTable dt,DataRowState State)
		{
			System.Collections.ArrayList al = new System.Collections.ArrayList();
			DataRowVersion drVer = DataRowVersion.Current;

			//From MSDN -	The row the default version for the current DataRowState.
			//				For a DataRowState value of Added, Modified or Current,
			//				the default version is Current.
			//				For a DataRowState of Deleted, the version is Original.
			//				For a DataRowState value of Detached, the version is Proposed.

			if (	((State & DataRowState.Added)		> 0)
				| ((State & DataRowState.Modified)	> 0)
				| ((State & DataRowState.Unchanged)	> 0) )
				drVer = DataRowVersion.Current;
			if ( (State & DataRowState.Deleted)		> 0
				| (State & DataRowState.Detached)	> 0 )
				drVer = DataRowVersion.Original;

			foreach (DataRow dr in dt.Rows )
			{
				if ( dr.HasVersion(drVer)
					&& ((int)dr["ParentId", drVer] == 1)
					&& ((dr.RowState & State) > 0 )
					)
					al.Add(dr);
			}
			DataRow[] result = (DataRow[])al.ToArray((typeof(DataRow)));
			return result;
		}
	}
}

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Межозерье — деревня в Березорядском сельском поселении Бологовского района Тверской области России.

География
Располагается неподалеку от реки Мста.

Соседние деревни: Сеглино и Бехово.

Население

На сегодняшний момент в деревне насчитывается 34 домов, 7 из которых являются постоянно жилыми, в 14 проживают только летом, остальные заброшенные или полуразрушенные.

Инфраструктура
Дорогая, проходящая через деревню, является песчано-гравийной. По вторникам, четвергам и субботам осуществляется развозка бологовского свежеиспечённого хлеба. Через деревню проходит маршрут автобуса № 105 (Бологое — Сеглино). Через деревню протянута электрическая сеть. Все дома в деревне деревянные.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Бологовского района

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She is experienced in treating a range of psychological conditions including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, anger, stress management, low self-esteem, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, social anxiety, relationship distress, long-term conditions, emotional distress related to illness and personality disorder. Dr Alamgir has been trained to use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focussed Therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
She has extensive experience of treating patients with chronic pain and complex health presentations, and is committed to helping chronic pain patients manage their pain, through evidence-based practice.
Dr Bahra qualified from Bristol University. She undertook her research at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, investigating clinical aspects of cluster headache and, mechanisms in headache, using functional imaging, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. Dr Bahra gained her specialist neurology training in Wellington, New Zealand, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), London. She has held her consultant post at Whipps Cross Hospital and the NHNN, since 2003.
Dr Bahra runs a tertiary headache service at the NHNN, where she runs joint paediatric transition headache clinics linked with Great Ormond Street Hospital and Migraine –Vertigo clinics with the Neuro-otology department at the NHNN. Dr Bahra is also involved in development of the multidisciplinary neurostimulation headache clinics with the Pain Management team at Barts Health NHS Trust.


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Throughout the years, many women have tried to make a lasting impression on the world, but few have succeeded. However, there are some able to make an impact and break the tradition of the ?women?s role? in society. These women form an immense impact on their time period and overall history. One of these women is Catherine de? Medici, an Italian women who became the Queen of France. If this woman were to be elected the President of the United States in 2004, displeasing reactions would occur because of her past actions.
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As the Story Goes
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As the story goes, a smattering of years over 2000 ago, a young Jew and his wife sought refuge in an inn in the town of Bethlehem–a donkey-back journey of about 4 days south-southwest from Jerusalem. Instead, they found a place in a stable.
Many stories have been written–mostly fictional–of exactly what went down that night. But we do know that out of this story came a man who, from that day to this, has been both worshipped and villified, studied and parodied.
Assuming the historical record is at least somewhat correct, what we know about this man is that his life was one of refuge sought, refuge offered, refuge lost.
As a child he was taken even further from home–to Egypt–where his parents sought refuge from an edict that would have taken the boy's life. His teachings offered spiritual refuge from the troubles of a broken and frightening world. In the end, any refuge he might have taken he refused–he gave himself up to authorities who, ultimately, put him to death. In the very act of dying, he secured a refuge for his mother, beseeching one of his friends to take care of her after he was gone. His ardent followers believe that his life, his teachings, and his death, have provided a way by which we might seek refuge from death itself.
This month, Christians the world over remember his birth in that stable a smattering over 2000 years ago. And now, as then, people seek refuge anywhere they can find it.
A friend of mine once told me that even the most broken and downtrodden people–even the most hateful and unlovable–in our lives are doing what we are all doing–seeking a refuge in some kind of happiness. The trouble is that some of us seek happiness in things, ideas, or habits that eventually bring only emptiness or misery. The spiteful old woman in the apartment across the way may be achieving that through her sense of self-superiority over others. The guy sleeping in a cardboard box in the alley may have once thought he could find it in a needleful of heroine.
Do any of us know where we can find the refuge of true happiness?
Psychologist and lecturer, Tara Brach, wrote: "True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are."
This month's stories are about people seeking refuge in different ways. Some find it, some don't. Some have help along the way, some must find their own path. All face obstacles, because without obstacles we wouldn't need refuge. Nor would we have much of a story, because that's what stories are–characters facing obstacles and sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, always getting under our skin and into our hearts.
Like young Pigeon, whose older sister wanders, and who looks for solace in her makeup and her hand holding his. Na, who finds refuge in music as her son and husband come to blows in front of her. Mrs. O'Reilly, who, in the wake of unspeakable tragedy, looks for peace in thoughts of what might have been. And, finally, a refugee of a different sort, but whose experience speaks for all refugees everywhere.
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Navajo Nation president celebrates honorary doctorate from NAU
Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. was celebrated during a reception in his honor in recognition of his receiving an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Northern Arizona University on Dec. 16.
Nearly 150 friends and supporters turned out at the celebration in Window Rock last month to show appreciation for Shirley's 37 years of public service and his support and encouragement of education as a way to elevate Navajos and the Navajo Nation.
"These are my new colors," Shirley said as he took the stage in the Diné Education Center auditorium wearing his black academic gown, white satin sash and the blue and gold hood of NAU around his neck.
Deborah Dennison-Jackson, superintendent of the Ganado Unified School District, credited Shirley for his experience and work that led to this recognition. "It's something very few people can earn, and you earned it," she said.
Shirley said receiving the honorary doctorate from NAU meant that much more to him because his late daughter, Tona Vee Shirley-Paymella, had earned her bachelor's degree from NAU and was working on her master's degree at the time she was killed by a drunken driver.
"I'm very appreciative to President John Haeger and the Arizona Board of Regents for conferring the honorary doctorate on me," he said.
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Venezuelan Soldiers Deserting, as Tensions Rise
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro still has the backing of the military, despite new documents revealing that thousands of soldiers had deserted him in recent years as the regime struggled to temper the erosion of its armed forces.
Two documents obtained by Bloomberg highlight how Maduro's regime was already attempting to stop a growing number of desertions even before U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó had called on the military to break from Maduro.
One document listed some 4,300 National Guard members who had abandoned their posts over the past five years. Signed by the Guard's commander, Maj. Gen. Jesus Lopez Vargas on Dec. 21, the document orders the removal of their ranks and serial numbers from military rolls. All the names were non-commissioned officers or enlisted men and women.
The second document ordered personnel at entry and exit points to prevent soldiers and retirees on reserve duty from going abroad without authorization. The order was signed on Nov. 13 by Luis Santiago Rodriguez Gonzalez, the director of the country's immigration service.
Though there have been mass protests in the streets across the country calling for Maduro to step down, mass defections from the military have not yet started. However, two high-ranking military officials recently broke with Maduro's regime and recognized Guaidó, leader of Venezuela's National Assembly. Jose Luis Silva, Venezuela's defense attache to Washington and a key military official, said he broke with Maduro's regime on Jan. 26, while Gen. Francisco Yanez, a high-ranking Venezuelan air force general, also sided with Guaidó.
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Police Profile: Detective Constable Patricia Sevik
14th December, 2018 Police Headlines
For Detective Constable Patricia Sevik, no two days are the same in the Domestic Violence Team of the Family Support Unit (FSU). In fact, she says, even situations involving the same individuals are never quite the same, and keeping an open mind is key. She has learned that being an investigator is not about proving or disproving someone's guilt, but about collecting evidence and following wherever that evidence leads.
DC Sevik has spent the past year in the Family Support Unit (FSU) – her fourth year with the RCIPS - as a DV investigator and has done a fair amount training for her role, including training on Achieving Best Evidence (ABE) interviews, along with external training such as "Darkness to Light" hosted by The Department of Children and Family Services. But she says it is the on-the-job training that has taught her the most.
"What's interesting is that sometimes you get a report which says things happened one way, and it actually turns out to be another way," says DC Sevik. "You can never assume what really took place."
DC Sevik is originally from Cayman Brac – Spot Bay to be exact – and she still considers it home. She says she has always had a desire to give back to her community, and joining the police was one way she knew she might be able to do that. Eventually she decided to take the chance, applied, and made it in. She's says being in the service has not only allowed her to fulfill her purpose of giving back, but it has given her even more than she had expected.
DC Sevik starts her days fairly early. She arrives to work by 6:30AM, and in fact is usually the first person in the office. She begins her day by going through the RCIPS' internal records management system and reviewing any new incidents that have come in. If any incidents are flagged as DV-related, she will review these incidents to determine the level of DV risk involved. If there is a high level of risk then FSU detectives will take over the case. Other times they will play a supporting role in an investigation being carried out by uniform officers. Risk levels can in part be determined by flags such as whether weapons and or alcohol are involved, whether children are involved, and so on.
Once an incident is determined to be an FSU matter, the investigation will proceed, which includes contacting the victim in order to collect a statement, putting safeguarding measures in place for the victim, and, if necessary, arresting and interviewing a suspect.
Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of interdepartmental work involved. DC Sevik regularly finds herself working alongside counsellors, probation officers, the HSA, mental health workers, social services, and even meals on wheels. In the many cases where financial issues are a factor, she will work with the NAU as well.
Although many investigations into serious incidents will necessarily involve an arrest, she says most of the time her aim as a DV detective is more to do mediation between the parties involved, if they are willing.
In fact, DC Sevik says that being able to assist the persons involved in the cases is the most rewarding part of the job.
One of her first cases involved a woman who had been married for almost twenty years and had been experiencing abuse essentially from the first day of marriage. DC Sevik says they assisted her in leaving the marriage, receiving the necessary counselling, and eventually becoming fully independent again.
"One of the biggest things you'll find in working with domestic cases is that most people just want someone to talk to," she adds. "It's more just the compassion that you show to someone that makes the difference. So we sit and listen, and try to give them advice and support to the best of our ability, and then we go from there."
Detective Inspector Kevin Ashworth, head of the Family Support Unit, describes DC Sevik as having a naturally inquisitive mind, which helps her to manage investigations with the thoroughness needed to ensure positive outcomes.
"As a team player I have witnessed her volunteering for extra work and assisting others in complex investigations which require extra duties and personal time encroachments," says DI Ashworth. "When the job needs doing Patricia is always willing to help and does so with professionalism and a positive attitude."
DC Sevik says she's enjoyed the work she has been doing with the FSU, and would recommend it to any interested officer. However, she warns that the unit is not for everyone. There is a balancing act of having to separate your personal feelings from the work, while maintaining your sense of compassion, which is not always easy. Sometimes you may find yourself getting attached to certain clients, but you have to maintain some level of separation.
Still, DC Sevik believes compassion and understanding are the most important traits for a detective working on domestic violence cases.
"You have to treat the individuals with compassion," she says, "whether they are witnesses, victims or suspects. That helps to build a rapport, and it also helps bring healing to the traumatic situations that victims do find themselves in."
by Mikhail Campbell, Media Relations Officer
This article is the first in a new series of profiles of RCIPS officers, which will explore the roles of officers in various departments within the service.


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Constitutional Law Group July 4, 2016 Administrative law, Europe, European Union, Judicial review, UK government
Michael Doherty: Should Making False Statements in a Referendum Campaign Be an Electoral Offence?
Oldham, 2010: In a closely fought election, where immigration was a central issue, the Labour candidate Phil Woolas published statements about his LibDem opponent that were found to be false statements of fact in relation to his personal character or conduct without believing them to be true, contrary to s.106 Representation of the People Act 1983. Woolas was compelled to leave his seat and a bye-election was called (Watkins v Woolas [2010] EWHC 2702).
UK, 2016: In a closely fought referendum vote, where immigration was a central issue, there are allegations that the successful Vote Leave campaign had knowingly published false statements.
This post will examine whether publishing false statements in a referendum campaign should be an electoral offence. There are many examples of false statements being treated as a serious social harm that needs to be regulated by law, including misrepresentation in contract law; the tort of defamation; criminal offences of fraud and misrepresentation; corporate and finance rules on directors' duties and audit; and the regulation of broadcasting and advertising.
Examples within the field of public law are less obvious. Administrative law allows for judicial review when there has been a breach of a legitimate expectation. Within constitutional rules, though not law, one of the few hard edges to the Ministerial Code and the convention of Individual Ministerial Responsibility is that a Minister who knowingly misleads the House must resign. Nevertheless, the public interest in preventing false statements is recognised in law, in electoral law and in the constitutional responsibilities of politicians.
The referendum vote
The European Referendum Act 2015, in s.4, made provision to incorporate existing aspects of electoral law into the referendum process and a number of provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1983 were so applied by the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016, SI 2016/219 (para. 79 and Schedule 1). These include a range of provisions to ensure the integrity and fairness of the campaigning and voting process, including the accuracy of registers, duties of registration officers and some electoral offences, but not the false statement offence from s.106 RPA 1983. It would have been impossible to simply transfer in the offence. In a referendum, voters are not choosing between a number of candidates but between (normally two) answers to a question. There was no attempt to introduce a false statement offence tailored to the different circumstances of a referendum vote.
So making a false statement in support of one of the alternative answers to a referendum question is not an electoral offence; but ought it to be? The arguments against introducing such an offence are considerable;
Arguments against a false statements electoral offence
Freedom of speech – as the ECrtHR said in Bowman v UK (1998) 26 EHRR 1 'Free elections and freedom of expression, particularly freedom of political debate, together form the bedrock of any democratic system'. Restricting political speech particularly within a campaign can have a chilling effect on democratic discourse (as Woolas had unsuccessfully argued). The freedom is wide (covering ideas that offend shock or disturb) but is not absolute and there is no ECrtHR judgment saying that false statements are protected. There may be a marketplace of ideas, but we do not generally allow false statements in other marketplaces.
Political constitutionalism v. legal constitutionalism – the UK constitutional system relies on both, but traditionally places an emphasis on political rather than legal controls over constitutional actors. The argument here is that any attempt to affect the outcome of the vote by making false statements could be exposed by the opposition (or the media) before the vote – it could be de-bunked and the falsehood used against the persons purveying it. If the falsehood is only discovered after the vote, then voters who feel they have been sold a false prospectus can punish the party who sold it in the next election. This relies though on a) periodic elections, which is not the case in a referendum, b) a chance to reverse the policy that the false statement related to, which is often not feasible with referendum questions, and c) an identifiable party or body of persons who have taken power and who can be held to account for the falsehood, which is not straightforward in a cross-party and multi-party campaign that includes people who will remain outside of executive power even after a successful result.
Judicialisation of politics and politicisation of the judicial function – it would bring judges into the heart of the political battle and undermine the political neutrality and structural independence of the judiciary in the eyes of the public (and politicians). Judges, though, already do adjudicate on highly sensitive political issues, and are accustomed to handling false statement laws in other contexts.
Collateral litigation – there is a general policy aversion to collateral litigation, and referendums are often designed to bring closure to a long-standing controversy. There is a need to avoid endless re-runs of referendums, though this would not occur if the official campaign groups avoided significant false statements.
Delimiting the offence – perhaps the greatest practical challenges would come from trying to separate false statements from the usual hyperbole, ambitious promises, and extreme best-case (or worse-case) scenarios used in political campaigning. The nature of mass communication means that often complex policy positions need to be simplified in slogans that have traction with the public. Politicians are often not well versed in the niceties of the policy areas they are called to comment on and they do make basic factual errors. Added to this many 'political facts' are highly contestable and highly contested.
Benefits of a false statements electoral offence
Democracy – The law recognises a strong public interest in protecting people from false statements, including in elections and votes. Democracy is undermined if a campaign can benefit from making false statements, particularly in underscoring voter disillusionment and ultimately rejection of democratic routes to change. It can promote a general cynicism about politics and politicians not limited to those purveying false statements, and a drift to a post-rational public discourse.
Weakness of political sanctions – which are particularly ill-suited to prevent false statements in referendums because a) the 'prize' is so big, b) it is harder to make the people making false statements politically responsible than in general and local elections.
Weakness of the media role – on the one hand impartiality rules for the broadcast media can result in a mealy-mouthed neutrality giving the same prominence to a false as to a true statement. Conversely, a print media which is allowed to be partial may act to promote rather than call out the false statement. Social media often acts as an echo chamber rather than an open field for finding truth through debate.
The importance of the outcome – ultimately the stakes in referendums are so high, that it is perverse that those selling washing powder are held to a higher standard of truthfulness than those selling choices on the most fundamental aspects of the state we live in. This is confirmed by the exemption from the Advertising Code for 'claims in marketing communications … whose principal function is to influence voters in a … referendum' (Rule 7.1).
What would an offence look like?
Section 106 RPA 1983 could be a starting point and any referendum offence would need to be narrow. It should be limited to a) official communications from official campaign groups, b) factually false statements (excluding statements of opinion and policy preferences), and c) significant statements, i.e. those directed to having a clear impact on how voters will exercise their preferences. There should be a defence of reasonable cause to believe that the statement was true, so that only those who knowingly act falsely or who are highly reckless as to the truth of their statements are caught by the offence. Even though this would be a civil offence the criminal standard of proof could apply (as it does under s.106 which is linked to criminal liability). Any petition to set aside a referendum result would need to be heard by a senior court with further appeal routes, whilst as per the approach in Watkins v Woolas the court could look at whether it was necessary and proportionate to declare the vote void in the context of the breaches.
It beyond the scope of this brief post to fully assess whether an offence of the sort discussed here would have been breached in the conduct of the referendum campaigns, or whether the existence of such an offence would have affected the statements made in the campaigns.
Deep public anger about some statements should be acknowledged though, in particular the NHS funding statement from the Vote Leave campaign. This was a central statement of the campaign and appeared on the first official campaign poster as 'Let's give our NHS the £350m the EU takes every week', and on the side of the Vote Leave campaign bus as 'We send the EU £50 million a day let's fund our NHS instead'. Amongst a range of difficulties with the veracity of this statement, the figure does not take into account the substantial rebate that is never sent to the EU.
Adam Wagner considers that this is not 'a complete lie' but rather a 'huge exaggeration'. Conversely, the Conservative MP, Dr Sarah Woolaston stepped down from the Leave campaign after having her concerns about the truth of the statement dismissed by senior Vote Leave figures; she said the figure was 'fundamentally untrue and that I believe they knew it to be untrue'. In an official response to a query from Norman Lamb MP, Sir Andrew Dillnott, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority said 'I consider these statements to be potentially misleading'. The approach to election statements in Watkins v Woolas was 'what would the words mean to an ordinary and reasonable reader'.
s.106 RPA 1983 is directed at protecting the right of the electorate to express its choice on the basis of facts not false assertions. It is limited to statements as to the personal character or conduct of the candidates, so an extension of a false statements offence to cover wider statements of fact on policy issues would be highly controversial. Nevertheless there ought to be debate on whether the absence of prohibitions on false statements in campaigns to attract votes on effectively irreversible major constitutional changes is conducive to the promotion of democracy.
Michael Doherty, Principal Lecturer, Lancashire Law School, UCLan
(Suggested citation: M. Doherty, 'Should Making False Statements in a Referendum Campaign Be an Electoral Offence?', U.K. Const. L. Blog (4th Jul 2016) (available at https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/))
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John Andrews on July 4, 2016 at 4:38 pm
I agree we want as little intrusion of the law (and lawyers and Courts) into any election process as possible. The 'evidence' of Sir Andrew Dillnott, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority who apparently said 'I consider these statements to be potentially misleading' is not any kind of evidence, and indeed might even fall foul of any law regarding misrepresentations since it is in itself manifestly incomplete and inaccurate unless Sir Andrew has lost his judgement on this case or has been reported incorrectly when what he said should have been reported as in his personal opinion it was misleading – when one might then merely argue is unfitness to lead such a critically fact finding body! To argue that a gross payment of say £350M would be 'saved' and spent instead 'on the NHS' when the 'net' "saving" at best might be say £200M is as inaccurate as my bank telling me that I'll become rich by saving in a deposit account – a downright lie in each case and in the case of the missing ca. £150M from the NHS EACH WEEK can hardly be regarded as other than a great lie indeed. Of course as a no doubt a most distinguished public servant, Sir Andrew may construe very many angels dancing on the head of this minute pin head, but frankly I believe he should be as ashamed of his remarks as those who uttered such lies in the first place or sue if they have been misrepresented.
As to the arguments for and agin I find it best to cast a veil over the entire foul mess, we should abandon referendums as a means of avoiding the need to re-align our concept of political party and rely on public enquiries in Parliament.
Karen Benson on September 12, 2016 at 4:07 pm
My biggest concern after the EU result was that the weakness in regulations of the electoral commissions should be strengthened for the future. I agree with your opinion that 'potentially misleading' is an understatment of the false claims which stood at the centre of the Leave campaign. It is quite possible that those who voted leave on that basis, swung the vote, the result having such a narrow margin. It is scandalous that Britain, which is considered to have one of the better legal systems in the world, could take such a huge decision, on this basis.
I disagree with your conclusion, however, to 'cast a veil over the entire mess and abandon referendums'. This would lead to both further disenfranchise the electorate and set a precedence that this kind of behaviour is acceptable in future electoral campaigns. The foul behaviour must be addressed, and fully so within legislation and electoral regulations, lest we throw ourselves and our political system to the hounds. Also, any changes in electoral regulations should be fully considered for all its potential applications, to ensure against unnecessary complication for future applications.
Jonathan Mitchell QC on July 4, 2016 at 4:52 pm
See the discussion in the Election Court's decisions last year in Morrison v Carmichael, in which I appeared as senior counsel for the petitioners, reported at 2015 SLT 675 and 2016 SLT 163 and publicly available at http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=eb9eeea6-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7 and http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=9452fba6-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7. There was extensive discussion (see also the Notes of Argument which are in the public domain) of the personal/political dichotomy and previous authorities thereon, in particular the important decisions of the Indian Supreme Court as to why the distinction remained significant and should be maintained with all its difficulties. No commentary on this subject should ignore this important authority.
See also the discussions in the Law Commissions electoral law project, ongoing but the most recent interim report is at http://www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/files/1714/5457/8636/Electoral_Law_-_An_Interim_Report.pdf
Michael Doherty on July 5, 2016 at 11:39 am
Thanks for your comment – yes, a fuller treatment of s.106 RPA 83 will need to explore the Morrison case in depth. One of the reasons I wrote the post was the personal/political dichotomy does not translate easily to the different context of referendum campaigns. Another was that amongst the high levels of discontent with aspects of, particularly, the Leave campaign there had been no connection drawn, as far as I could see, with existing false statement offences.
Particular thanks for the reference to the Indian Supreme Court cases.
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André Clodong on July 4, 2016 at 5:49 pm
Never was such a big constitutional step based on facts as flimsy and downright erroneous as those proffered by one side. It is high time for a serious wake-up call and a return to reason. The sooner the better.
angela ellis-jones on July 5, 2016 at 12:59 pm
Please note that Nigel Farage and UKIP never said that the £350m should be redirected to the NHS.
Don't forget that there can be lies of omission as well. As far as I'm concerned, the biggest deceit in the whole campaign was the failure of the Remainers to make clear to the ~British people what would happen in the event of a Remain victory.
Last year's Five Presidents' Report envisaged that by 2025 all of the 28 member states would be absorbed in monetary and fiscal union – i.e. Britain would be dragooned into the Euro. In the very week after the Referendum,the Eurocrats started negotiations with Turkey.
What those of us who voted Leave wanted to escape was this mendacious, deceitful organisation, whose decisions always seem to disadvantage Britain more than any other member. Whenever anything goes wrong in Britain, it's a pretty safe bet that it can be traced directly or indirectly to the EU.
Perhaps one should not be surprised that there are calls for a second referendum – from exactly the sort of people who,if their side had won by only one vote, would be firmly resisting a re-run. Grow up, and accept that you lost by 1.3million votes! ,
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This certainly didn't take long. Manhunt 2, which was "toned down" pseudo-voluntarily by Rockstar and Take-Two before release, was made available just two days ago. Now, many of those changes have already been unearthed and undone by hackers, resulting in "unlocked" versions of the game now surfacing. Some of these mods result in the game only being playable on modded consoles, such as a modded PSP.
Take-Two's response is largely fluff, with them merely saying they "hope" customers will not download hacked versions of the game. They didn't exactly go to great lengths to remove the material altogether, apparently, in a scenario reminiscent of the "Hot Coffee" scandal involving another Take-Two release, GTA, in 2005. Ultimately, that scandal led to their title getting pushed from the "M" rating to the "AO" rating, which is exactly what they wanted to avoid with Manhunt 2. Will the same scenario repeat itself?


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DEV BLOG ENTRY 7: GAMESCOM 2013 PART II news
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This time we summarize our personal gamescom 2013 experience and look at the positive and negative aspects of our first game convention attendance.
Posted by antaig on Sep 8th, 2013
After last week's inside look into our, slightly un- experienced, master plan for game convention attendance it's time to talk about the actual gamescom 2013 experience.
We took a plane to Dortmund, it was the cheapest option, and then a train to Cologne. It's important to mention that the railway system in Germany is as close to perfect as it gets, so it's always easy to plan the cheapest trips by combining planes and trains.
The accommodation was some 30 minutes away from the convention center, but gamescom 2013 is so well organized in coordination with the city of Cologne that when a visitor buys a pass for the event he also gets free transport in Cologne for the duration of the convention.
SO F*@#%*G HUGE
This year's gamescom event was the biggest one yet. The official numbers put the attendance at 340.000 game fans from all around the world and over 635 exhibitors from 40 countries (us being the only, probably first ever, representatives from Macedonia) presenting around 400 titles for the first time.
On the 14th of August the gates opened at 09:00 in the morning, unleashing a horde of gamers each one of them rushing to get a chance to play some new title and catch a glimpse of a blockbuster AAA announcement. The convention ground was split in ten, pretty giant, halls some of which were boosted by a second floor and all together covering around 140.000 square meters. Halls 4 and 5 were designed for the business to business meetings and the media representatives, while halls 6 through 9 were reserved for all of the major players in the game industry, namely Activision | Blizzard, Bethesda, 2K Games and EA just to name a few.
These halls were massively overcrowded, obviously containing the bulk of the hundreds of thousands of visitors, and it could take as much as 2 hours just to navigate the halls in order to reach your predetermined destination. There were hour long queues formed by people eager to try out one of the new games showcased by the big developers.
LITTLE OLD US
Just as we mentioned last week we decided to share 20 square meters with two more exhibitors in order to reduce the financial toll the event would have on our fledgling studio. So with approximately 8 square meters we really didn't have a lot of space to work with when setting everything up, but we did put a lot of love into it :D All of those huge wall banners and custom cardboard cutouts and other decorations cost a ton of money, so we couldn't really afford them. We had two banners that were placed on the two sides of the booth, a single PC to play the game on and a monitor facing outwards to show the game to all the passersby.
We were located in hall 10, a smaller and slightly less significant hall compared to the ones mention above, but it still had a steady traffic of visitors and it also held one of the more significant attractions of the event in Oculus Rift. So with that in mind we still got a lot of visitors, way more than we initially expected, and got a lot of positive feedback.
SO, THE FEEDBACK
While we were set up in a more secluded part of the hall, and we didn't have the needed marketing buzz to attract people to our stand we still got a decent amount of traffic.
First and foremost it's important to note that the fliers were completely unnecessary. People simply discarded them and kept wandering through the convention grounds. The people that came by our booth were just passing by and when they saw the game they showed interest to try it out. The fact sheets on the other hand proved to be useful, as they provided additional info about the game and a download link for the ALPHA build.
The people that tried the game loved it, which is a giant boost to our morale since this is the first time we put the game out into the world for people to scrutinize. While the build was mostly stable there were some crashes and hiccups, but that's to be expected with any alpha build. Gamers were asking when can they expect to buy the final product, asking for achievements, a multiplayer mod and all in all left the booth wanting to play more, which is something anyone showing a game for the first time hopes for.
We were genuinely surprised that people elected to wait in line in order to play the game, not hours like for the AAA titles mind you, but still it meant we left a positive impression.
There were approaches from publishers and advice from media people. The whole thing was almost perfect.
Our lack of experience showed though. We had no clue how big this thing actually is, we went unprepared. In retrospect it might have been better to take a few PC's more so more people can play the game at the same time. We could have sacrificed a larger chunk of the budget to get a bigger booth, larger banners and one big master banner on the wall of the booth so we can be visually distinctive and with that draw more visitors to give EXCUBITOR a try.
We could also try and book press meetings earlier in order to be featured on some of the more prominent entertainment sites out there. We were really late to the show this year so we missed out on all of this additional planning and organizing, so it hurt our press exposure (there was none). This is one of the main areas, if not the main one, to address for future events.
gamescom 2013 proved to be a giant success and a morale boost for the team. We hoped that people would like EXCUBITOR, but the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
We got tips from other indie developers, got advice from video game reporters and a bunch of contacts from publishers. Now we'll regroup and refocus our efforts on the development of the game, we still have ways to go before the final product is released to the public. The things we learned at gamescom 2013 and the feedback we received will in some way shape and guide our development from this point on.
It was a huge step for us to take and we can't be happier for it. Hopefully next time we'll be more prepared and iron out the few things we saw as organizational faults, but knowing that this was the first time we visited a convention, that we had no help and guidance from people in the industry it's safe to say that it couldn't have been any better.
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We recently took a little trip to the LEGOLAND Discovery Center in Tokyo and believe it or not, this is the first time we've taken the kids to a Discovery Center attraction. Was it worth a LONG trip from Nagoya to Tokyo just for a half day of fun for the kiddos? It is right now, because there is not a LEGOLAND park anywhere around and the kids had a blast!
Did you know I designed the Miniland in the very first Discovery Center in US? It was a mini Chicago and it was one of my all-time favorite projects to work on. Miniland was always my favorite part of any LEGOLAND so I looked forward to seeing another city styled in miniature and home to the little plastic people we all love.
Before we even walked through the doorway they have this cute play area which I'm sure could have killed a few hours. This is also where their pick-a-brick is so if you want bricks, either get them before you go in or you will have to head back down at the end.
First, you walk into their Factory Tour room where you get a glimpse into the manufacturing process for LEGO bricks.
I'm not sure the kids really care about the factory part. They liked some of the interactive stuff with pushing, pulling, standing on but no LEGO to play with, yet, so peace out.
Then you get to go into their Miniland area. Woohooooooooo!
The little one enjoyed trying to climb in. Our 4 year old was on a scavenger hunt for special Minifigs that were hidden in the display. I think he thought it was kind of cool but city isn't really his thing. He's more a Ninjago, Chima, Star Wars guy.
Honestly, I think the grown-ups probably appreciate this area the most. I certainly love it. I see the great deal of detail and love that goes into designing these displays and it brings back good memories of working with the old team.
Work hard, play hard. Or play with hard little bricks, or work with really nerdy people. Hardly work because you like to play? Or hardly working because you work with things that people play with. All of that happens and you see the fruits of their labor here!
I am impressed with the streets and surfacing they are now using in the display as well as the actual water. We had wished for real water in Chicago but did not get it. I think it adds such a wonderful layer to the fantasy.
It was nice that the room is spacious and gives the guests an opportunity to spend a lot more time instead of treating it like a fast walk-through hallway into another room.
You want to spend time in here. This is the only room like it in the attraction and it took countless hours of design and building by a team of artists and technicians so enjoy it!
More climbing. Expect this if you have little ones. There's a buffer zone before you are held responsible for damage.
The lights go out and you get to enjoy the cityscape at night! I think this is my favorite part!
Then I realized these horrible little LEGO trees were EVERYwhere! They were supposed to be scale models of trees. Nooooooo. Just no.
When we designed Miniland Chicago, I lovingly hand made all of the trees out of tiny plastic leaves and wooden sticks. They were removable, washable and added a lovely texture to the display. I've also seen beautiful trees made by actual Master Model Builders out of LEGO or at the very least kids who are good at building with LEGO. They can be really nice! These are not nice. They look ridiculous and I wanted to go Godzilla on them.
I don't mean to sound salty, but I was passionate about my job when I did it and would not have stood for anyone trying to pass off those "trees" as quality work/decoration.
Also, you would think after all of these years, they would realize that kids like buttons and just want something to happen that they can see when they hit a button. It is very simple. There should be more buttons, a lot more, and things should pop up and down, lights should go on and off, sounds should beep, toot, drill, boom. Simple stuff and lots of buttons so Mommas and Dadas can stay in the room longer and take pictures of the cool models.
I'm available for freelance consultation when you guys need me. I'll keep my phone on LOUD so I don't miss your call, LEGOLAND!
The models are really cool! It is so beautiful and inspiring to see things like this build out of tiny little LEGO pieces. Let us enjoy them. Give the littles something to do in here so we can have this special time to be kids again for just a few minutes!
We want to look at all the little people and see if they are doing funny things. We used customize our little people had have them doing very specific and funny things with a great deal of thought and consideration and everyone needs a little time to appreciate this.
They had no clue what they were doing with these buttons, but the pushing repeated until they felt like moving on.
I loved the Japanese architecture and the lighting was so beautiful!
I was thoroughly impressed with the integration of this bridge into a spiral on-ramp.
There's a baby play area which is fun.
There is a big kid play area, a Build & Test car racing area, a city building play area, and a 4D theater. The kids could seriously play in this area for HOURS. We stayed until near closing time! We had to bribe them out of there because we didn't want the store at the end to close while we were playing.
As usual, in Japan, the customer service is pretty awesome.
This is the kind of display I want in my HOUSE. Get me some Kragle!
I found my husband and I in this apartment with empty wine glasses, like usual. Who has to get up and get more?!
We did however see TWO different 4D movies. Different movies play at showtimes throughout the day so you can check out more than one and they are all really entertaining. Even the baby didn't mind sitting through them because they are short. I just keep putting the 4D glasses on her until she gives up trying to pull them off and starts to appreciate them and it seems to work.
This is it, folks. This is the last room in the Discovery Center and after this you will be asked, begged, and cried at to buy LEGO sets that will negate anything from a days worth to an entire month's salary, so I hope you brought the credit card!!!
This was a fun day for the little kids (and the grown-ups!) Just make sure you bring a fully charged phone with you so you can be patient and let them play as long as they want to. Also, there was not much by way of food offerings and you are asked not to bring outside food and drinks into the attraction. I suggest eating before you go in but we did not.
As a mom of a family of folks with food issues and dietary concerns, I always bring snacks and I'm glad we did or we would not have survived without them. The parents starved a little bit and the kids snuck in a few handfuls of nuts, a couple fruit puree pouches, and granola bars which fueled them for hours of play. We went to a restaurant afterward and the kids actually sat and played with some of the LEGO we bought long enough for us to eat pizza and polish off a much needed bottle of wine. As Ice Cube would say, "Today was a good day."
Check out the Discovery Center Tokyo website to plan a trip if you are in the area!


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Degrading and Ultimately Dishonest: Obama Changes Nothing After Paris
Aaron MacLean - November 16, 2015 1:44 PM
Twice during his train wreck of a press conference this morning in Turkey, President Obama cited the prospect of American military casualties as a major part of his reason for not using U.S. ground troops against the Islamic State. Lecturing an openly skeptical press corps—and, by extension, critics he accused of "popping off" and trying to "sound tough" without actually proposing anything serious—he condescendingly pointed out that ground combat is a serious business. Troops "get killed, they get injured, they are away from their families."
As it happens, I talk to Marines I served with in Afghanistan all the time. I am sure there must be a few out there who don't want to take time "away from their families" in order to annihilate the Islamic State, risking death to do so, but I haven't heard from them. Marines have a word for this kind of thing. They call it their "job." (In fact, I know more than a few who have left the Corps because they concluded they weren't going to deploy to fight while Obama was still in office.)
In the press conference, Obama also said his top military advisers oppose ground action against the Islamic State. This might even be true: Obama fires military commanders who are too hawkish for him. It stands to reason that he appoints those who are going to be sympathetic to his views—officers who in some cases then suppress intelligence showing that the fight against the terrorists is failing.
Regardless, after a performance like today's, who would tell the president that ground action is needed? The man clearly doesn't want to hear it, just as he clearly doesn't want to entertain the possibility that there might be a middle course between his own demonstrably ineffective word-salad of a strategy and a re-enactment of the counterinsurgency campaigns of the last decade.
How embarrassing for editors who headlined stories over the weekend saying that Obama faces a "crossroads" or a "dilemma" after the Paris attacks. They haven't been paying attention. A hundred dead Parisians (which the president described as a "terrible and sickening setback") or Russians in Egypt, or scores in Beirut, certainly won't get him to change course. (Indeed, I wonder how Parisians felt when Obama opened his remarks in Turkey by citing the issues of economic growth, cyber threats, and climate change before broaching the topic of the attacks.) Moreover, those who are suggesting that the president has misjudged the terrorists in recent months are also off the mark. The administration knew that something like Paris was possible, and even likely. They know that it is possible on U.S. soil, too.
But they still won't change course. And if an attack occurs here, you can be sure they have already talked about the rhetoric they will employ to resist stronger military action even then. The last years of Obama's foreign policy have taken on the quality of a horror movie, where the dumb teenage characters insist on going to their doom despite the fact that all of us watching know what the consequence of their actions will be. Obama and his aides continue to spin and prevaricate in the face of reasonable questions, now coming from quite liberal journalists, about why the United States can't just destroy the Islamic State, and turn its members into "outlaws, dangerous and lethal, but hunted and on the run" rather than masters of a significant, resource-rich swathe of territory.
Obama says that when we take the terrorists seriously as a proto-state, we lose, and that if we went after them in Syria, there would be no end to it. The jihadists are surely delighted by his complacency and sense of helplessness, which keeps them alive and capable of killing more innocents.
From the very outset, Obama has been dishonest about his goals. The biggest take-away of his embarrassing assertion to ABC News just before the Paris attacks that the Islamic State had been contained was indicative of this, and went largely unnoticed by the press. His full comment to an incredulous George Stephanopoulos was, "Well, I don't think they're gaining strength. What is true is that from the start our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them." Now he tells us! In his announcement of action against the Islamic State in September, 2014, he never used the word "contain" in this respect, preferring the euphemistic construction "degrade and ultimately destroy," which he continued to use today, even now when everyone knows it is language intended to obscure the details of his plan, rather than to clarify them.
Pair this observation with the fact that today, in a flat, disdainful tone of voice, he opined that critics may not like his approach because he doesn't grow performatively emotional when he talks about terrorism, only then to grow visibly passionate when he got around to condemning Republicans, and you realize that the only challenge Obama really cares about is defeating his domestic opposition. Terrorism presents an obstacle mostly insofar as it empowers conservatives and hawks. He has a vision for the future, of a United States that is no longer the primary enforcer of world order, but a responsible partner among other nations combating a wide array of challenges, most critically climate change. He has accepted as a risk that the citizens of Paris, or of Washington, might be murdered in large numbers as he sees his strategy through.
But as the Islamic State continues to metastasize, and Americans begin to reject Obama's rhetoric, the president will find himself in a political dilemma. Even if Hillary tacks to the right on national security after her primary challenge is concluded, Obama's fecklessness could empower Republicans in 2016, thus risking his entire legacy. That, for Obama, would be a disaster.
Paris? That's only a "setback."
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Aaron MacLean is a writer and policy analyst in Washington, D.C. From 2014 to 2017 he was the managing editor of the Washington Free Beacon.


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import contextlib
import os
import tempfile

@contextlib.contextmanager
def TempDeploymentDir(paths):
  """Sets up and tears down a directory for deploying an app."""
  try:
    deployment_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='deploy-')
    _PopulateDeploymentDir(deployment_dir, paths)
    yield deployment_dir
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def _PopulateDeploymentDir(deployment_dir, paths):
  """Fills the deployment directory with symlinks."""
  for path in paths:
    destination = os.path.join(deployment_dir, os.path.basename(path))
    os.symlink(path, destination)

def _CleanUp(deployment_dir):
  """Removes a directory that is populated with symlinks."""
  for symlink_name in os.listdir(deployment_dir):
    link_path = os.path.join(deployment_dir, symlink_name)
    if os.path.islink(link_path):
      os.unlink(link_path)
  os.rmdir(deployment_dir)


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Research Assistant, Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research
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The Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences (MDBS),at Queen's University Belfast, is currently seeking to appoint a Research Assistant.
The successful candidate will coordinate an international genetic epidemiology study on male breast cancer (MERGE) in partnership with the US National Cancer Institute and will contribute to the management and analysis of genetic epidemiology data, including genome-wide association studies (GWAS).
The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate you have:
Obtained at least a 2.1 Honours degree in a relevant medical or life sciences subject, Statistics, Computer Science, or a closely related area
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This is a fixed term contact for 12 months. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.
At Queen's our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a staff member you will become part of a vibrant organisational culture, which will provide you with the opportunity to achieve your full potential and enhance your career through a continuous focus on learning and development.
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