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Dick Cheney plans talk next week at Colorado Christian
By Joey Bunch
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will speak at the Centennial Institute in Lakewood on Dec. 7. (AP file photo)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to speak at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood on Dec. 7. Given the state of world's security and the fight against Islamic extremists, the talk could be riveting, given the former vice president's role after 9/11.
Cheney, a six-term U.S. representative from Wyoming, served four Republican presidents. He was defense secretary under George H.W. Bush, White House Chief of Staff for Gerald Ford and deputy assistant to Richard Nixon.
The talk aleady is sold out, according to the Centennial Institute, the conservative think tank on the campus of Colorado Christian University that's putting on the event. Those interested, however, can listen online on Colorado Christian's livestream.
Categories: 2016 Election, 2016 Presidential Race, Colorado Government, Colorado History, Colorado Politics, Elections, Homeland Security, Jobs, Social Policy, Taxes, U.S. House, White House
Dick Cheney helps Kansas City with 2016 Republican National Convention pitch
By Jon Murray
2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. (Helen H. Richardson, Denver Post file)
Cleveland had the Cleveland Browns and recently drafted quarterback Johnny Manziel. In Kansas City, Mo., on Wednesday night, that city's 2016 Republican National Convention bid committee tapped former Vice President Dick Cheney to support its case.
Cheney reportedly urged the Republican National Committee's site selection committee to favor the earlier of two potential start dates, on June 27, 2016. Incidentally, such a timing decision would favor Kansas City — since Denver, Dallas and Cleveland all have pro basketball and/or hockey teams that could be using their arenas too late to allow the full month or more of set-up time for the convention. The RNC also is considering a July 27, 2016, start date, one that Denver (and others) more likely could accommodate.
A big thank you to Mr. Vice President and Mrs. Cheney for coming to KC to support @KCRNC2016 pic.twitter.com/OOZLqyNSpW
— Hanaway For Governor (@HanawayForGov) June 5, 2014
Categories: Colorado Politics, Denver City Hall, Republican National Convention, Uncategorized
Randy Who? Baumgardner, the guy who's only 5 percentage points behind Mark Udall
By Lynn Bartels
Baumgardner, that's who.
Plenty of folks were surprised when a poll released this week showed Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall wasn't crushing his GOP rivals, but state Sen. Randy Baumgardner said it's not news to him.
The Hot Sulphur Springs Republican is considered such a longshot in the race to unseat Udall that earlier this year one of his GOP rivals, state Sen. Owen Hill, referred to "Baumgardner" as "Randy Who?" Someone had some fun and changed the name tag on Baumgardner's Senate office.
Sen. Randy Baumgardner
During a Colorado Republican Party fundraising event with former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday, Baumgardner was asked about the Quinnipiac University poll, which shows him trailing Udall by only 5 percentage points. (Hill trails Udall by 6.)
"As I've always said, Mark Udall's vulnerable and the people of the state of Colorado are looking for something different," Baumgardner said. "That's what I've been talking about the entire time that I've been campaigning. You need somebody to represent and vote for Colorado and not Washington, D.C, and that seems to be where his focus is right now."
Categories: 2014 U.S. Senate election, Colorado Politics, National Politics, U.S. Senate
Dick Cheney pumps up Colorado Republicans at fundraiser in Denver
Former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke tonight to Colorado Republicans during a fundraiser at the Denver Athletic Club.(Lynn Bartels, The Denver Post)
Liz Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, at a fundraiser tonight in Denver. (Out of focus photo by Lynn Bartels, mea culpa)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney attended two fundraisers in Denver today, one for his daughter, Liz, a U.S. Senate candidate in Wyoming and one for the state GOP, where plenty of Republicans were excited about recent polling numbers for Democrats John Hickenlooper and Mark Udall.
The events were closed to the media so there was no chance to ask the ex veep and his daughter about their family's very public rift on gay marriage.
Those who attended said Cheney talked about a variety issues, including foreign policy, Obamacare and life in the White House.
Categories: 2014 Colorado Attorney General Election, 2014 Colorado Governor's Race, 2014 U.S. Senate election, Colorado Politics, White House
Former Vice President Dick Cheney in Denver Nov. 20 for Republican fundraiser
By Kurtis Lee
Former Vice President Dick Cheney. (AP file photo)
UPDATE: Liz Cheney will be in Denver Wednesday for a fundraiser earlier in the day that is separate from the Colorado GOP fundraiser at the Athletic Club.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will headline a Colorado GOP fundraiser next week in Denver.
The event, which will be held at the Denver Athletic Club Nov. 20, is set to feature a slew of honorary hosts. Among them will be U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and his wife Cynthia, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, Secretary of State Scott Gessler, state Treasurer Walker Stapleton and Attorney General John Suthers.
For $5,000 attendees can mingle at a VIP reception, receive a photo with Cheney and extra tickets to the dinner where the former vice president will speak. And, on the low-end, for $200 guests can attend just the dinner.
Unlike former President George W. Bush, since leaving the White House in 2009, Cheney has been a vocal critic of President Barack Obama's administration. And a new book, "Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House" by The New York Times' Peter Baker, gives a detailed look inside the Bush administration and reveals what is now a strained relationship between the former president and vice president.
Cheney's daughter, Liz, is currently engaged in a bitter Wyoming Republican primary, where he she is challenging longtime GOP U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi.
"We're excited and honored to have Vice President Cheney at our last major event of the year. This fundraiser will cap-off an exciting year for Colorado Republicans, and provide some of the financial support necessary to defeat Gov. John Hickenlooper and Sen. Mark Udall in 2014," Owen Loftus, spokesman for the Colorado GOP, said in a statement.
Follow Kurtis on Twitter: @kurtisalee
Categories: Colorado Government, Colorado History, Colorado Legislature, Colorado Politics
Monica Owens forms her own firm
Monica Owens
And now Monica Owens is on her own.
The daughter of former Gov. Bill Owens has started her own firm after working for two political/communication firms in the metro area. She began her career with Phase Line Strategies, went to Washington to work for Vice President Dick Cheney, returned to Phase Line and then joined The Starboard Group a year ago.
"I have really enjoyed working with the Starboard team, but feel it is time for me, in the great tradition of American entrepreneurship, to venture out on my own," Owens said in her announcement.
Owens Public Affairs will specialize in corporate, government and political affairs, as well as event planning services.
Owens already is a fixture on the charity-organization circuit. She is a trustee for the Colorado Ballet, and has chaired young professional groups for various organizations in recent years, including Volunteers of America, Developmental Pathways, the Colorado Alzheimer's Association, and the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.
Categories: Colorado Politics
Neidermeyer, he's a dead man!
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Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in the White House in 1975. Both worked for President Gerald Ford.
A story in Politico containing snippets from former Vice President Dick Cheney's new book features a black-and-white photo that stopped me in my tracks: Doesn't the young Mr. Cheney look a lot like Doug Neidermeyer?
Cheney in his memoir mentions a trip to Colorado, but we'll get back to that after we check out the resemblance between the veep and actor Mark Metcalf when he starred in "Animal House."
Categories: National Politics
Tancredo endorses Romer for mayor, says he's trying to convince Palin and Cheney
By Jeremy Meyer
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Tom Tancredo endorses Chris Romer for Denver mayor.
Chris Romer may want to hit the reset button.
Former Republican U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo today announced he is endorsing Romer for Denver mayor and is "an inch away" from getting former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Vice President Dick Cheney to sign on.
"I may even get W," said Tancredo, admitting that the move is purely for comic intent and to fan the flames burning in the mayoral election between the two Democrat contenders.
"I thought it over and looked at his record, and saw that Bill Owens is supporting him and that is good enough for me," Tancredo said. "He will be a stealth mayor. He is running as a liberal Democrat but he will act like a Republican in office."
Tancredo said he is amazed that his mere mention of the candidates last week became fodder for the campaigns.
Tancredo told radio show host Peter Boyles and Westword editor Patricia Calhoun that he liked Michael Hancock's story over Romer's. If he lived in Denver, he said he would probably vote for Hancock. But he lives in Lakewood.
Categories: 2011 Denver Mayor/Council, Colorado Politics, Elections, Immigration
One question on CIA
By David Harsanyi
Denver Post Opinion Writer
Talk about your staged distractions.
Interesting, isn't it, how calls for an investigation of Dick Cheney and the CIA neatly coincide with polls that show a sharp drop for support of Barack Obama.
But my question is this: Why would congress investigate a non-operational clandestine program that was kept, um, clandestine? Wouldn't it be more appropriate for congress to investigate why on earth a program to capture or kill top leaders Al Qaeda wasn't operational in the first place?
Knocking off Al Qaeda leadership seems to be a far better alternative to losing more American lives in a never-ending war in Afghanistan.
Where's the humanity for Cheney? (You're supposed to suffer the vanquished gracefully, not keep piling on.)
We ought to be more humane when it comes to our politics, at least on those occasions when doing so costs so little of us.
Or maybe I'm just full of weepy goodwill after seeing Loretta Lynn sing in Denver last night.
The Denver Post editorial page gave guarded, minimal props last week to former Vice President Dick Cheney following his reasonable and humane statements about gays and gay marriage.
We also gave similarly guarded praise to the former veep for his admission that the Bush administration had no real evidence connecting Iraq to 9/11.
Though we dinged Cheney for waiting eight years to come out as a reasonable guy, and we took pains to point out his statements didn't erase our negative views about his endorsement of such things as so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, some reaction has been markedly uncharitable.
One commenter said Cheney was "Satan's right hand guy."
Others said he should never get any slack – ever!
Cheney often filled me with fear and loathing during the failed prior administration. Not at all originally, I often referred to him as Dr. Strangelove.
But Cheney's support of his gay daughter and of gays in general who wish to marry is worthy of at least a polite nod.
Here's a shout-out to the haters: That's the plain truth!
What does it hurt to admit that?
The progressives won. What do they have to worry about now? Cheney's not presently a threat to them.
Screaming at bested opponents, heaping scorn and derision on them even when they make a bit of sense, only makes those doing the screaming look like terribly sore winners.
Further, the behavior risks losing moderates and independents who otherwise might want to see it your way now that you're with the victorious party.
And yes, there are plenty of wing-nut conservatives who engage in the same behavior when they're on top. Plenty!
We've got way too many haters out there poisoning useful debate.
Folks ought to be better than that. Our public discourse on matters political would be the better for it.
Or maybe I'm just high on life after an evening with Loretta.


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Black-Owned Start-Up Allows You To Put Plane Tickets On Layaway
Chicago-based tech company Airfordable asks why access to credit should stop people from traveling.
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Chicago-based Airfordable is a one-year-old company that allows users to pay for airline tickets in installments, or in African-American parlance, to put their flights on "layaway."
It's an option for those low on cash or credit, as well as those wanting to lock in a low fare.
"A lot of people, especially those who live paycheck to paycheck, don't have the money to pay for plane tickets upfront," says Ama Marfo, CEO and co-founder of Airfordable. "But that shouldn't stop them from traveling or resorting to credit cards to pay for plane tickets."
Airfordable works in three steps: travelers present the details of their itinerary by uploading it to the site, and Airfordable presents them with a payment plan. After making an initial deposit of one-third of the ticket price, regular payments can be made on the balance through the date of departure, either in monthly or bi-weekly payments. After the ticket is paid off, travelers are sent an e-ticket.
Marfo said she came up with the idea while attending college in Philadelphia and could not afford the $2,000 ticket to see her family in Ghana during school breaks, according to Conde Nast Traveler.
"I stayed in the dorm alone or with other international students who couldn't go home. Because of this personal frustration, I set out to determine how to make travel more accessible."
Marfo linked up with Craig Henry (who serves as COO) and Emmanuel Buah (CTO), and the tech start-up was born in December 2015. The company makes its profit by attaching a 20 percent service fee, which is spread evenly across payments.
If users default on payments or change their travel plans, everything they've paid (minus the initial deposit) will be credited to their Airfordable account, with one calendar year to use the money on a different flight.
Right now, the main users of the site, according to Marfo, are millennial women—no surprise since sites like TravelNoir and Nomadness have taken off with just that demographic.
The company says it has future plans to expand into layaway payments for vacation packages and hotels.
SOURCE: Conde Nast Traveler | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
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Approximately 6,667 miles separate INSEAD's two campuses in Singapore and Fontainebleau, France. But for the 900 students enrolled in INSEAD's 10-month MBA program, the commute between campuses may be as commonplace as your commute to work. Here, a "global" MBA means travel between continents along with an MBA student body from over 70 countries.
Caroline Diarte Edwards, INSEAD's director of MBA admissions talked with CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW about INSEAD's exchange program with the Wharton school in the US and what her school looks for in an MBA applicant.
Q: How do you take local background and different kinds of work experience into account when evaluating candidates?
A: Over the years, we have built up a database of academic institutions around the world that gives us information about the quality of an institution, so we can interpret the information about where someone went to university and how they did. The average MBA student has six years of work experience. So, since it's a one-year program, it helps a lot if people have a reasonable amount of work experience and can put things they're learning into context very quickly. If someone from the younger age-range is applying, he or she can demonstrate this by showing significant achievement [in a short period of time] before coming to INSEAD.
Q: What strengths and weaknesses have you seen from Chinese candidates?
A: Some of the applicants from China may not have as much international experience, but we take into account the fact that not everyone may have had the opportunity to work or study abroad. One of the things we're looking for in a candidate is "international motivation," which is whether this is someone who has a genuine motivation to be in an international environment like INSEAD, and whether it is going to be useful for them in the future.
Q: How could an applicant demonstrate his or her international interest if he or she didn't have any international exposure?
A: Sometimes there may be someone who hasn't lived abroad but has been working for an international company, or they have a significant amount of contact with people from other countries. That's interesting for us to know. Or [they may demonstrate it] by how they communicate their goals for the future.
Q: What trends are you seeing from graduates?
A: We see about one-third go into consulting, one-third go into finance and one-third in various positions in industry. People have taken up positions in over 50 countries around the world.
Q: Are you seeing more growth in Asia Pacific on account of your campus in Singapore?
A: It's definitely a draw. It's a tremendous benefit for people outside of Asia to be able to study in Singapore and get exposure to the region. And our strongest growth in applicants has been Asia Pacific: China, India, South Korea, Japan and Singapore especially.
Q: Have you found that language has been a barrier for your MBA applicants?
A: It is occasionally a problem, but I think the pool is quite self-selecting and most students know that we have stringent requirements with regards to English ability. The vast majority of candidates have sufficient English. Sometimes, if we have a strong applicant with a lower TOEFL score, we'll tell him or her, "We're not proceeding with your file, but please come back to us with a higher score and we'll re-evaluate your application."
Q: How does INSEAD's campus exchange work?
A: About 70% of students participate. A student will either start on the Singapore or the Fontainebleau campus and stay there for the first four months. After that, they're free to exchange with the other campus and stay for as many eight-week periods as they like. And we also have a student exchange with the [University of Pennsylvania] Wharton school of business in the US, where some of our students go, and we have students who come here from Wharton.
Q: Do they apply for the Wharton exchange separately?
A: It's open to any student and works on a bidding system, where students are issued points that they can use to bid for course electives and the Wharton exchange, where they can study for one eight-week period. Of our 900 students, we had 70 go to Wharton last year. Some of the students go there because of the recruitment opportunities in the US.
Q: How does the admissions interview work?
A: We have about 1,500 INSEAD alumni volunteers who we recruit to act as interviewers. Most interviews can be done in a student's hometown. And when we match students with their interviewers, we'll try to have one interviewer who is from a completely different line of work from the candidate and one who is in a similar sector.
Interviewers can often give an interesting perspective on the candidate's career path because they may know some sector- and country-specific information about what would be a normal career path in a given field. There are some specific things that we need to know from a candidate, but how the interviewer gets it is completely up to him or her.
INSEAD launched its MBA program in 1959 on its Fontainebleau campus and has since produced more than 17,000 MBA graduates worldwide. In 2008, the Financial Times placed INSEAD sixth overall in its annual global MBA rankings, moving up one spot from the previous year. The school accepts around 900 people annually across September and January intakes and is both AACSB and EQUIS accredited.
The school's executive-MBA program ranked 10th in the Financial Times' 2007 global EMBA rankings. EMBA students' ages range from 30 to 45 and older, with some older students. All applicants must have a minimum seven years' work experience, including four years of managerial responsibilities.
Last year the school also began a dual degree EMBA with Tsinghua University. The 18-month program is based in Beijing, but schedules visits to Fontainebleau and Singapore for learning modules – totaling 12 weeks on campus with a final four months devoted to thesis writing. The language medium for all INSEAD programs is English.
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Q: Access VBA TransferSpreadsheet data not exported with no error I have an Access application that uses VBA to export data to an Excel .xlsm file.
My line of code is
 DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acExport, acSpreadsheetTypeExcel12, "qry_ALL_Issue", fName, False, "IData"

Then my code goes on to open the Excel application and run the macro and that is what generates a report for the users.
My issue is this works on my computer but does not work for the other person. My error trap is never triggered so I am not getting an error in Access. The error trap in Excel triggers when it can't find the "IData" tab. I don't have an error code to work with so it is kind of hard to figure out what is going on.
I am using Office 2010 and the other person is using 2007. I tried to have them open the Excel file, modify it and save it - there was no change. I had them create a new blank file and this new file Access did export to. That means the issue is the Excel file obviously. So the question is why can I export to the .xlsm file and the other person can't? Put another way, what could be wrong with that file that he can't export to but I can?

A: As copied directly from MSDN concerning the range argument
A string expression that's a valid range of cells or the name of a range in the spreadsheet. This argument applies only to importing. Leave this argument blank to import the entire spreadsheet. When you export to a spreadsheet, you must leave this argument blank. If you enter a range, the export will fail.
When exporting, you must omit the Range argument. Maybe this will have something to do with it?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff844793%28v=office.15%29.aspx

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Williams v. State, 2018 Ga. LEXIS 584 (GA Supreme Court 2018)
Defendant: Williams
Supreme Court of Georgia
August 27, 2018, Decided
S18A0797.
2018 Ga. LEXIS 584
WILLIAMS v. THE STATE.
Judges: BLACKWELL, Justice. Hines, C. J., Benham, Hunstein, Nahmias, Boggs, and Peterson, JJ., concur. Melton, P. J., concurs fully in Divisions 1 and 3 and in judgment only in Division 2.
Opinion by: BLACKWELL
Blackwell, Justice.
Joseph Emani Williams was tried by a Floyd County jury and convicted of murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting of Travious Floyd. Williams appeals, contending that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his lawyer failed to request a jury charge on the defense of habitation and that the trial court plainly erred with respect to two jury instructions. After reviewing the record and briefs, we find no merit to Williams's claims, and we affirm his convictions. [1]
1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, the evidence presented at Williams's trial was consistent with the evidence presented at the earlier trial of Stephon Rickman, which was summarized in Rickman v. State, ___ Ga. ___ (816 SE2d 4) (2018):
On the evening of May 23, 2015, Travious Floyd, his brothers Orlando Floyd and Courtland Floyd, and their cousin went to a nightclub to hear a rapper named Jamarco Gibbs and known as Bandit Gang Marco. When a fight broke out, security officers required everyone to leave the club and escorted Gibbs and his entourage, including Rickman and … Williams, to their vehicles. As Travious and his brothers walked to their car and then turned back to look for their cousin [at around 1:00 a.m. on May 24], they passed several vehicles waiting at a red light. The first vehicle was a Mustang driven by Gibbs with three passengers, and the second was a Challenger driven by Williams with Rickman in the front passenger seat and another person in the back seat. Words were exchanged between the Floyds and the occupants of the vehicles. Gibbs and at least one of his passengers got out of the Mustang to confront the Floyds, and a fight began. Although neither the Floyds nor the Mustang's occupants were armed, both Rickman and Williams had a pistol. Each of them began firing from the Challenger. Rickman was leaning out of the passenger window, propped on the window with most of his body out of the vehicle, and braced against the top of the vehicle. He was in such a position as to enable him to shoot over the hood of the Challenger toward a group of people standing at the front driver's side of the Mustang, where a large area of blood was subsequently found at the beginning of a trail of blood. After firing his pistol, Rickman said, "I shot him in the butt." The only person injured by the gunfire was Travious, who collapsed at the end of the blood trail and later died of a gunshot wound to his neck.
Id. at ___ (1).
Williams testified at his trial, where he admitted firing his gun, but he said that he only fired a single shot into the air, ostensibly to scare the Floyd brothers and "make them run away." In addition, Williams testified that he thought one of the Floyd brothers had a gun, but he acknowledged that it was dark outside and that the windows to his car were tinted, and he did not dispute the evidence showing that the Floyd brothers were, in fact, unarmed. Williams also testified that, after he fired his gun, he saw Rickman fire a gun, and he then drove Rickman away from the scene. Finally, there was evidence that one of the shots fired struck a window in the third-floor lobby of the Rome/Floyd County Law Enforcement Center.
Williams does not dispute that the evidence is sufficient to sustain his convictions. But consistent with our usual practice in murder cases, we independently have reviewed the record to assess the legal sufficiency of the evidence. We conclude that the evidence presented at trial, when viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, was sufficient to authorize a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt that Williams was guilty of the crimes of which he was convicted. See Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307, 319 (III) (B) (99 SCt 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979). See also Bryant v. State, 296 Ga. 456, 458 (1) (769 SE2d 57) (2015) (sufficiency to establish guilt as party to crime).
2. Williams claims that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his lawyer failed to request a jury charge on the defense of habitation. To prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance, the appellant must prove both that his lawyer's performance was deficient and that he was prejudiced by this deficient performance. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668, 687 (III) (104 SCt 2052, 80 LE2d 674) (1984). To prove that the performance of his lawyer was deficient, Williams must show that the lawyer performed his duties at trial in an objectively unreasonable way, considering all the circumstances, and in the light of prevailing professional norms. Id. at 687-688 (III) (A). See also Kimmelman v. Morrison, 477 U. S. 365, 381 (II) (C) (106 SCt 2574, 91 LE2d 305) (1986). And to prove that he was prejudiced by the performance of his lawyer, Williams must show "a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome." Strickland, 466 U. S. at 694 (III) (B). This burden is a heavy one, see Kimmelman, 477 U. S. at 382 (II) (C), and we conclude that Williams has failed to carry it.
Here, Williams's trial lawyer requested (and the trial court gave) jury charges on several justification-related defenses (including self-defense and defense of others), which the jury apparently rejected. Williams now asserts that his GA(1) (1) lawyer also should have requested a charge on the defense of habitation under OCGA § 16-3-23. Williams says that he would have been entitled to such a charge in light of his own testimony that the Floyd brothers initially attacked Gibbs while Gibbs was inside his Mustang. [2] Williams is correct that a motor vehicle can be a "habitation." See OCGA § 16-3-24.1. For the most part, however, the evidence presented at trial showed that the shots were fired after any attack upon Gibbs's Mustang had ended. And even if some evidence would support a claim that one of the shots was fired while the Floyd brothers were attempting to enter Gibbs's Mustang, our precedents do not clearly establish that a person can claim the defense of habitation to protect the habitation of another. See, e.g., Fair v. State, 288 Ga. 244, 257 (2) (702 SE2d 420) (2010) (defense of habitation statute designed to allow "homeowners to use deadly force in protecting their homes from an illegal intruder"); Coleman v. State, 286 Ga. 291, 297 (6) (687 SE2d 427) (2009) (habitation defense is based on the "recognition of the sanctity of a person in his home or motor vehicle or place of business") (emphasis supplied; punctuation omitted); Hammock v. State, 277 Ga. 612, 615 (3) (592 SE2d 415) (2004) ("habitation" can include a space in a jointly-occupied dwelling so long as the defendant "has obtained the right to occupy that space and exclude his co-inhabitants therefrom"); Freeney v. State, 129 Ga. 759, 766 (4), (5) (59 SE 788) (1907) (defense of habitation based on the premise that "every man's house is his castle"). Williams's trial lawyer did not perform deficiently when he failed to pursue a jury charge that would have required an extension of existing precedents and the adoption of an unproven theory of law. See Gomez v. State, 301 Ga. 445, 464 (11) (b) (801 SE2d 847) (2017).
3. Williams also contends that the trial court committed plain error in two instructions that it gave the jury. [2] To show plain error, Williams "must establish not only that the jury instruction was erroneous, but also that it was obviously so and that it likely affected the outcome of the proceedings." DuBose v. State, 299 Ga. 652, 654 (4) (791 SE2d 9) (2016) (citation and punctuation omitted). He has failed to make this showing.
First, Williams says that the charge on good character evidence failed to adequately explain how the jury ought to consider such evidence. More specifically, Williams argues that the trial court should have instructed the jury that good character "is a positive, substantive fact and may be sufficient to produce in the minds of a jury reasonable doubt about the guilt of the defendant." But the trial court charged the jury as follows:
You have heard evidence in this case of the character of the defendant in an effort to show that the defendant likely acted in keeping with such good character or trait at pertinent times with reference to the issues in this case. This evidence has been offered in the form of opinions of other witnesses as to his reputation. You should consider any such evidence along with all of the other evidence in deciding whether or not you have a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant.
This charge is substantially identical to the suggested pattern jury instruction on good character evidence. See Georgia Suggested Pattern Jury Instructions, Vol. II: Criminal Cases (4th ed. 2007, updated Jan. 2017) § 1.37.10. And GA(2) (2) Williams points to no authority for the proposition that the pattern charge is inadequate. See Simmons v. State, 299 Ga. 370, 374 (2) (788 SE2d 494) (2016) ("[A]n error is plain if it is clear or obvious under current law. An error cannot be plain where there is no controlling authority on point . …" (Citation omitted)). He relies instead on State v. Hobbs, 288 Ga. 551 (705 SE2d 147) (2010), but that case involved an earlier version of the pattern charge, and in any event, the trial court in Hobbs failed to give the pattern charge as requested by the defendant. See id. at 551. Nothing in Hobbs suggests that it is error to give the current version of the pattern jury charge on good character. The charge given in this case on good character evidence properly explained how character evidence ought to be considered by the jury, and it was not plain error.
Second, Williams contends that it was plain error when the trial court referenced criminal damage to property in connection with its charge on felony murder, and he asserts that this passing reference could have led the jury to believe incorrectly that it could convict Williams of felony murder predicated on criminal damage to property. The indictment charged Williams with felony murder predicated on aggravated assault and aggravated battery, and it charged him with criminal damage to property, but it did not charge him with felony murder predicated on criminal damage to property. As Williams says, the trial court at one point told the jury:
A person also commits the crime of murder when, in the commission of a felony, that person causes the death of another human being with or without malice. Under the laws of Georgia, aggravated assault and aggravated battery and criminal damage to property as it's alleged in this indictment are felonies and are defined as I have defined for you.
GA(3) (3) Although the trial court was right that criminal damage to property is a felony, it should not have mentioned criminal damage to property in connection with a charge on felony murder. The reference to a predicate felony not alleged in the indictment was erroneous.
Williams has not shown, however, that this error likely affected the outcome of the proceedings. At another point in its charge, the trial court instructed the jury on felony murder without reference to criminal damage to property. The trial court read the indictment to the jury (including the count on felony murder, which made no mention of criminal damage to property), it instructed the jury that the State had the burden to prove every material allegation of the indictment beyond a reasonable doubt, and it provided a copy of the indictment to the jury during its deliberations. There is no indication that the prosecuting attorney (or anyone else) argued or even suggested to the jury that it should convict Williams of felony murder predicated on criminal damage to property. Moreover, the jury found Williams guilty of the aggravated assault upon Travious Floyd with a handgun, which was one of the predicate felonies included in the indictment, and it is highly likely that the jury based its felony murder verdict on the aggravated assault of Travious with a handgun. Because the erroneous mention of criminal damage to property did not likely affect the outcome of the proceedings, Williams has not shown plain error. [4]
Judgment affirmed. Hines, C. J., Benham, Hunstein, Nahmias, Boggs, and Peterson, JJ., concur. Melton, P. J., concurs fully in Divisions 1 and 3 and in judgment only in Division 2.
1. Floyd was killed on May 24, 2015. On October 9, 2015, a Floyd County grand jury indicted Williams and Stephon Rickman, charging each with murder with malice aforethought, murder while in the commission of aggravated assault and aggravated battery, nine counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery, criminal damage to property in the first degree, and the unlawful possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Before either man was tried, one count of aggravated assault was nolle prossed. Rickman was tried first and was found guilty of felony murder, several counts of aggravated assault, and the possession charge. His convictions were recently affirmed in Rickman v. State, ___ Ga. ___ (816 SE2d 4) (2018). Williams's trial began on July 12, 2016, and Rickman was called as a witness by the State but invoked his right to silence and refused to testify. On July 15, 2016, the jury found Williams not guilty of malice murder, aggravated battery, and five counts of aggravated assault, but it found him guilty of the remaining charges. On August 18, 2016, Williams was sentenced to imprisonment for life for felony murder, imprisonment for concurrent terms of 20 years for the aggravated assaults upon Courtland Floyd and Orlando Floyd, imprisonment for a concurrent term of 5 years for criminal damage to property, and imprisonment for a consecutive term of 5 years for the unlawful possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The trial court merged the remaining aggravated assault into the felony murder. See Malcolm v. State, 263 Ga. 369, 373 (5) (434 SE2d 479) (1993). On August 25, 2016, Williams filed a timely motion for new trial, which he amended on September 16, 2016, March 15, 2017, and August 4, 2017. The trial court denied Williams's motion on December 1, 2017, and Williams filed a timely notice of appeal on December 18, 2017. Williams's appeal was docketed in this Court for the April 2018 term and submitted for decision on the briefs.
2. Williams appears to acknowledge that there is no evidence that a use of force was necessary to prevent or terminate an unlawful entry or attack upon his Challenger.
3. See OCGA § 17-8-58 (b), which permits limited review for plain error when a defendant fails to object to jury instructions.
4. Williams also says that his trial lawyer was ineffective because he failed to object to the jury instructions at issue. But the "test for harm under plain error review is equivalent to the test in ineffective assistance of counsel cases for whether an attorney's deficient performance has resulted in prejudice of constitutional proportions." Martin v. State, 298 Ga. 259, 278 (6) (c) (779 SE2d 342) (2015). As a result, Williams's ineffective assistance claims based on the jury instructions are without merit.
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Peer review the collaborative learning lesson plans of two course participants.
4.1.1 Q&A Session with Prof. Deirdre Butler!
Below are the recording of the Q & A webinar with Prof. Deirdre Butler and the Padlet with questions posted by the participants of the course.
Valentina Marinova, a primary school teacher from Bulgaria shares her experiences about collaboration and cooperation with her colleagues.
I have been collaborating closely with some of my colleagues from my school, but our collaboration is focused more on professional development or applying for projects than on teaching collaboratively in the classroom. I have had guest teachers in my classroom, and I have also been a guest teacher in other teachers' classrooms, both at my school and in other schools, but it was more cooperation than collaboration. I would love to be able to work with another teacher and co-teach students.
I have extensive experience in collaborating with other teachers in eTwinning projects and in designing and facilitating professional development courses. Working collaboratively with my colleagues is a rewarding process of inspiring each other, expanding our strengths and combining our ideas into a new whole. It doesn't matter if collaboration happens online or onsite. My collaborators may be with me in the real world or they can be a thousand miles away from, but we'll collaborate successfully and efficiently.
I absolutely agree with Reyhan that 21st century teachers need to have a PLN - Personal Learning Network. A PLN connects like-minded teachers who learn together, create new content and share what they have learned. Sharing is at the heart of a thriving PLN. George Siemens and Will Richardson are regarded as the forerunners of PLNs. According to Richardson, a personal learning network is "the rich set of connections each of us can make to people in both our online and offline worlds who help us with our learning pursuits". A PLN is similar to a staff room, but it is "open" 24 hours a day because it comprises teachers from all over the world. Because of the time difference there is always a teacher there who knows the answer to your question, has a solution to your problem, can recommend a tool or an app that has great potential in the classroom, is ready to start a new project with you or simply wants to chat with you about all thing educational.
However, building a PLN is not enough. Once formed, we need to work on it, to maintain and cultivate it. A teacher who is actively engaged in their network, regularly contributes to it, plays an active role in discussions, creates new content and continually builds new connections. In this way the PLN grows and develops so that it supports the teacher's professional development.
Online communities where teachers meet, connect, share experiences and learn from each other are excellent sources for informal learning. eTwinning is one of the platforms where teachers can connect easily and learn from each other. eTwinning learning events designed and facilitated by eTwinners, provide teachers with numerous opportunities to connect, communicate, discuss, share and exchange ideas in a user-friendly way. Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and many others also offer opportunities for professional development.
I collaborate with teachers from different countries on a daily basis - more than I collaborate with the teachers from my school. Every year I try to engage my students in eTwinning projects and in order to do that I connect with teachers from different subjects and also different age groups who want to connect their students with mine. There is a huge array of web 2.0 tools that we use to collaborate, such as Google docs, Skype, Adobe etc. The biggest problems that we face in eTwinning projects are different schedules, lack of time and many other commitments that we all have.
I agree with Majella that if we want to teach students to work collaboratively, we need do model it in our work. Collaboration skills encompass the skills of negotiation, conflict resolution, efficient distribution of tasks, decision making skills, respecting the ideas of other people, integrating ideas into a coherent whole, teamwork and leadership skills. In order to acquire all these skills we need to actively engage in collaboration.
In my teaching practice I use a lot of different tools to help my students collaborate. We have Edmodo as our LMS and we use Google Drive extensively to work on collaborative tasks. I also us Titanpad to quickly share ideas and plans and Todays Meet to set up a quick backchannel or a chat room for my students. Of course, my students also use Twinspace to collaborate with their peers from other countries.
With my colleagues I connect and collaborate on Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, Google Drive and eTwinning Live just to mention a few.
I think it is really important to collaborate with teachers who teach different subjects, because this can give us a completely different perspective. I often collaborate with a STEM teacher and we often disagree, but we discuss, negotiate and compromise all the time so that at the end we are both happy and satisfied with the result.
I strongly believe that when students see teachers of different subjects work together, they become aware of the importance of interdisciplinary approach and even more importantly, they see that such an approach is possible. This will undoubtedly lead to students' understanding that they should connect content, methods and ideas from different disciplines.
Here's the link to my learning designer: Random Acts of Kindness Christmas Calendar . I plan to implement this lesson plan this and the following week, so that students can share their calendars with their peers from all over the world.
PS: I have also created my own Random Acts of Kindness Christmas Calendar for Fellow Teachers that you can use to perform one act of kindness a day - starting from December 1, 2016.


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National Politics - 2016
Veepstakes: Hillary Clinton Enrages Her Liberal Base
PROGRESSIVES RECOIL FROM CHOICE OF TIM KAINE Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton chose a favorite son of the banking industry as her vice presidential running mate – enraging "progressive" liberals who were already fuming over her bought-and-paid-for candidacy. Clinton's selection of U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia particularly pissed off supporters…
by FITSNews July 22, 2016 July 23, 2016 022
2016 ElectionBarack ObamaDonald TrumpGary JohnsonHillary ClintonJill SteinJodi JacobsenliberalsNormon Solomonoffshore drillingProgressivesRuth ConniffTim Kaine
PROGRESSIVES RECOIL FROM CHOICE OF TIM KAINE
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton chose a favorite son of the banking industry as her vice presidential running mate – enraging "progressive" liberals who were already fuming over her bought-and-paid-for candidacy.
Clinton's selection of U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia particularly pissed off supporters of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders – the independent socialist from Vermont whose populist insurgency turned what should have been Clinton's coronation into a bitterly contested primary battle.
"Clinton must know that her choice of Kaine can only inflame rather than soothe her relations with the huge constituency of Bernie supporters," liberal activist Norman Solomon told the website Common Dreams.
Over on the website Re-Wire, arch-liberal abortion supporter Jodi Jacobsen wrote that Kaine's selection was a signal that "Clinton intends to seek progressive votes but ignore progressive values and goals, likely at her peril, and ours."
Meanwhile Ruth Conniff, editor-in-chief of The Progressive magazine, said Kaine's selection was "a sign that Hillary does not feel like she has to do anything for the progressive wing of the party, which is unfortunate."
And potentially very costly …
In addition to his ties to the banking industry, Kaine is a staunch supporter of U.S. president Barack Obama's proposed crony capitalist trade deal – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The agreement – which would put America's failed "free trade" agenda on steroids – is adamantly opposed by Sanders. It's also adamantly opposed by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Clinton helped draft (and initially supported) TPP, but has since claimed she has problems with the deal "in its current form."
Trump isn't buying it – and has been aggressively calling Clinton out on the issue.
In addition to his banking industry backers and crony capitalist trade beliefs, Kaine is also loathed by progressives for being personally pro-life – and for supporting some modest limitations on abortion in the past.
Politically, Kaine is pro-choice … but that's unlikely to sate the hard-core "abortion-on-demand" advocates.
Radical environmentalists don't like Kaine either because of his support for offshore drilling along the Atlantic seaboard.
"I have long believed that the moratorium on offshore drilling, based on a cost-benefit calculation performed decades ago, should be re-examined," Kaine said earlier this year, adding "I support exploration off the coast of Virginia."
So … is there a progressive constituency that does like Kaine?
In a word "no."
Clinton was already struggling to keep Sanders' supporters "with her" ahead of the November election – and many of them were watching and hoping she would select a vice presidential nominee more responsive to their agenda.
That didn't happen. Clinton decided to double down on the D.C. status quo – effectively giving Sanders and his backers the old "one-finger salute."
Not smart at all …
Obviously we're a long way from November – and we'll have to wait to see how things play out in the months ahead – but the selection of Kaine as Clinton's running mate has the potential to be disastrous for her candidacy.
It also has the potential to be a major recruiting opportunity for Trump, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson and Green presidential nominee Jill Stein.
Compounding Clinton's problems? Her selection of Kaine was announced on the same day Wikileaks released thousands of damning emails exposing clear collusion between Democratic party leaders and pliable members of the mainstream media.
The unmistakeable aim of this collusion? Sinking Sanders' candidacy so that Clinton could receive the nomination.
Rick Manning: Donald Trump's Appeal To Reagan Democrats
#DNCLeaks: Big Trouble For Hillary Clinton, MSM
Rick Santorum: On The Warpath
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package uk.gov.hmrc.ct.accounts.frs10x.boxes

import uk.gov.hmrc.ct.accounts.frs10x.retriever.Frs10xAccountsBoxRetriever
import uk.gov.hmrc.ct.box._

case class AC8083(value: Option[Boolean]) extends CtBoxIdentifier(name = "The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.")
  with CtOptionalBoolean
  with Input
  with ValidatableBox[Frs10xAccountsBoxRetriever]
  with Validators {

  override def validate(boxRetriever: Frs10xAccountsBoxRetriever): Set[CtValidation] = {
    collectErrors(
      validateBooleanAsTrue("AC8083", this)
    )
  }

}


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The Role of Family Planning in Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Women continue to bear a disproportionate burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with women accounting for more than half of the number of people living with HIV/AIDs worldwide. A 2013 UNAIDS report showed that an estimated 1.5 million women living with HIV gave birth to children, and 240,000 children worldwide acquire HIV yearly – the majority of whom contract the disease from their mothers during pregnancy, labor, delivery, or breastfeeding, and it is described by the terms "vertical transmission" or "mother-to-child transmission". A significant number of these children live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) are a set of interventions aimed at blocking transmission of HIV from an HIV-infected mother to her child during the period of pregnancy, labor, and breastfeeding. One of the pillars of PMTCT is the prevention of unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV, which is quite important in ensuring that pregnancy is planned to prevent transmission of HIV to the fetus. Positive pregnant women who do not undergo any PMTCT intervention have a 25-40% risk of passing on the infection to the child, whilst PMTCT interventions reduce this risk to zero.
While the terms mother-to-child transmission and vertical transmission are used interchangeably, there have been calls to drop the usage of the term "mother-to-child transmission" (MTCT) as it places the blame on the mother, which breeds stigma and scrutiny in circumstances in which newborns are found to be HIV-positive. This is quite reasonable, but we must also understand that MTCT basically describes the process of transmission, and in counseling, using the term MTCT paints the picture better for the mother in understanding her role and what she can do to mitigate risk of transmission.
The 'Test and Treat' strategy which was widely launched last year recommends that all HIV-positive people are put on anti-Retroviral drugs as soon as they are diagnosed, with marked success. Introduced prior to this was Option B+ which involved initiating all pregnant and breastfeeding women on anti-Retroviral for life, as this was found to be significant to ensuring that mother-to-child transmission of HIV is drastically reduced.
The impact of the Test and Treat strategy cannot be overemphasized, but it will be made more effective by an integrated approach to offering family planning for all women of reproductive age, and most especially, women already living with HIV. There is a need to step up the efforts in meeting the unmet need for family planning in Sub-Saharan Africa, as this will greatly complement the efforts in preventing new infections in children. Despite the fact that Sub-Saharan Africa has a high unmet need for family planning, an analysis done in the early 2000s suggested that contraceptive use in Sub-Saharan Africa prevented 22% (or 173,000) of HIV-positive births annually. Another study determined that family planning can avert about 30% of HIV-positive births, as compared to HIV-testing and Nevirapine prophylaxis.
Evidence from different Sub-Saharan African countries showed an increased demand for Family Planning among HIV-positive women who recognize its benefits, but some challenges still exist for them to access their preferred methods. These include misconceptions among health workers about safety of contraceptive usage by HIV-positive women, sole promotion of condom use, human resource and service delivery challenges, and a poor understanding of the nexus between family planning and prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
Tackling these challenges will include taking an integrative service approach to family planning and HIV prevention and management services, increasing the mix of contraceptives available, and educating health workers on the significance of family planning to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This duty is not limited to PMTCT service providers alone, as commitments to meeting the global unmet need for family planning will also benefit women currently living with HIV.
To quote Rose Wilcher, et al: "Elimination of mother-to-child transmission is not just about how many women take drugs, but also preventing unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV. Voluntary family planning offers far-reaching individual and public health benefits and is essential to realizing the elimination goal".
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health
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Kyphosis is the term used to describe a type of abnormal curve in the spine. The thoracic spine naturally has some kyphosis or "C"-shaped curve. A kyphotic spinal deformity means there is too much forward curve in the spine.
Kyphosis has several causes, including postural kyphosis, Scheuermann's kyphosis, congenital kyphosis, paralytic disorders, post-traumatic kyphosis, postsurgical Kyphosis, degenerative kyphosis, and more.
Postural kyphosis-sometimes called "round back" is the result of poor posture. This condition is most common in adolescents and young adults. Slouching when standing or sitting causes the spine to curve forward. Postural kyphosis is often accompanied by hyperlordosis of the lumbar (lower) spine. The lumbar spine naturally has a lordosis or inward curve. Hyperlordosis means the lumbar spine compensates for too much thoracic kyphosis by curving too far in the inward direction. A postural kyphosis corrects itself when lying down on a flat surface, or when the spine is hyperextended. There are no noticeable vertebral abnormalities on X-rays because structural damage or deformity does not cause this kyphosis. Postural kyphosis is easily corrected with education about proper posture, including some retraining on how to sit and stand correctly. Special bracing or casting is usually not necessary. Strengthening exercises for the back muscles can be helpful in correcting posture.
Scheuermann's kyphosis affects the shape of the vertebral bodies in the mid back. The front of several vertebral bodies becomes narrow. The affected bones appear wedge-shaped, producing forward rounding (kyphosis) in the thoracic spine. Researchers are unsure what causes Scheuermann's kyphosis. Genetics appear to have a role, meaning it runs in families. Spine specialists suspect the problem may have to do with damage in the area where growth occurs in the vertebral body. Others suggest mild osteoporosis or muscle abnormalities could contribute to the deformity.
Conservative treatments commonly include medications, exercise, and certain types of braces to support the spine. Spinal surgery will generally be the last treatment choice due to the risks involved.
The use of a spinal brace may provide some pain relief. However, in adults, it will not cause the spine to straighten. Once you have reached skeletal maturity, bracing is used for pain relief rather than prevention. Learn more about braces used to treat back problems.
In most cases of kyphosis, surgery will not be recommended merely for the sake of appearance. However, in some cases, the kyphosis causes physical deformity that is unbearable to the patient. In these cases, surgery becomes the only option for correcting the condition. Most cases of cosmetic kyphosis surgery are in young adults that have very noticeable curves.
To achieve these goals, your surgeon may suggest an operation on the back of the spine, the front of the spine-or both. The goal is to first straighten the spine and then to fuse the vertebrae together into one solid bone.
Nearly all surgeons will use some type of metal screws, plates, or rods, in order to help straighten the spine and hold the vertebrae in place while the fusion heals and becomes solid. The screws are placed into the vertebrae. The rods or plates then attach to the screws to connect everything together. Tightened together, they form an internal brace to hold the vertebrae in alignment while the fusion heals.
Kyphosis has a variety of treatment options, starting with conservative treatments whenever possible.


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Q: Ninject interceptor and asp.net web forms I'm using ninject in my project and everything is going well. But I want use interception patter to log some requests in my web pages.
I've done some researches about it and I found one solution for asp.net MVC and I tried adapt to webforms but it's not working for me. What I've done was...
Create a PageBase which inherits from Ninject.Web.PageBase
     public partial class PageBase : Ninject.Web.PageBase
       {
           // some code
       }

Make all my pages inherits from my new PageBase
public partial class Default : PageBase
{
}

Create my interceptor
public class WebFormsInterceptor : SimpleInterceptor
    {
        readonly Stopwatch _stopwatch = new Stopwatch();

        protected override void BeforeInvoke(IInvocation invocation)
        {
            _stopwatch.Start();
        }

        protected override void AfterInvoke(IInvocation invocation)
        {
            _stopwatch.Stop();
            string message = string.Format("Execution of {0} took {1}.",
                invocation.Request.Method,
                _stopwatch.Elapsed);
            Log.Debug(message);
            _stopwatch.Reset();
        }
    }

And tried to configure kernel to intercept my PageBase... But here is the problem, because I don't know how can I configure it.
 kernel.Bind(x =>
                x.FromAssemblyContaining<myProject.PageBase>()
                 //mistery configurations....
                 .Configure(b =>
                     b.Intercept()
                     .With<WebFormsInterceptor>()
                     ) //Intercept each method invocation
            );


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Sagar Pratapsi
E-mail: sagar.pratapsi (at) lx.it.pt
M.Sc. in Physics, University of Coimbra (2017)
B.Sc. in Physics, University of Coimbra (2015)
Garcia, M. G., S. Pratapsi, P. Alberto, and A. S. de Castro. Pure Coulomb tensor interaction in the Dirac equation. Physical Review A 99, no. 6, 062102 - (2019). Get PDF.
Fang, H. Pais, S. Pratapsi and C. Providência. Crust-core transition of a neutron star: Effects of the symmetry energy and temperature under strong magnetic fields. Physical Review C 95, 062801(R) - (2017). Get PDF.
J. Fang, H. Pais, S. Pratapsi and C. Providência. Effect of strong magnetic fields on the crust-core transition and inner crust of neutron stars. Physical Review C 95, 045802 - (2017). Get PDF.
S. Pratapsi, A Bolzano–Weierstrass proof that any interval in R is connected, Gazeta de Matemática, Gazeta nº 181, pág. nº 20. Ano LXXVIII - (2017). Get PDF.
N. Almayouf, S. Pratapsi, et al., Existence of positive solutions for an approximation of stationary mean-field games, Involve Journal. Vol. 10 , No. 3, 473–493, (2017). Get PDF.