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A Call to Action: Furthering the fight against falsified and substandard medical products
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Falsified and substandard medical products[1] (including vaccines, medical devices and veterinary products) – products that are 'fake' or of poor quality – are an increasing global scourge that threaten life, health and security in significant ways. Patients receiving these products not only get ineffective treatment but are also often exposed to serious harm. The toll from these products may be as high as a million lives lost per year. In addition, their use increases the risk of drug resistant infections, and expenditure on ineffective or harmful products depletes much-needed healthcare resources. This serious and growing problem has been exacerbated by the increasing complexity of global supply chains, as well as by the inappropriate sale of medical products on the internet or in open markets. Nonetheless, efforts to tackle this issue have been woefully inadequate, reflecting in part the magnitude of the problem but also a lack of sustained political will and commitment to act.
The Inter Academy Partnership (IAP) deplores this situation and urges political decision-makers at all levels, in concert with regional and international organizations, to work with medical product regulatory authorities, national and international law enforcement agencies, manufacturers, importers, distributors, health professionals and patients to solve this urgent issue.
Falsified and substandard medical products are a global public health threat. Traffic in these products is constantly growing, impacting patients particularly in low-income countries where resources to help keep such products off the market are limited. These problems have also reached worrying levels in many high-income countries, including in Europe and the USA. Any medical product can be falsified or made in a substandard manner, including both innovator products and generics, whatever their price. Internet and open market sales that bypass national quality control systems and/or regulated channels are worsening the situationi,ii.
Such products harm patients by denying them the benefit of a safe and effective treatment. In many cases, the wrong active ingredient, an incorrect amount of the active ingredient, or no active ingredient at all can be found. As such they can result in serious therapeutic failures, as well as the development of drug resistance, particularly in the fields of antibiotics, anti-malaria or anti-viral products. They can also be dangerous per se, as they may include toxic compoundsiii.
Despite these harmful effects it has been difficult to limit the traffic for many reasons including:
Detection: Current manufacturing and printing techniques allow the production of very closely copied, falsified packaging that is difficult for even the trained eye to detect. In addition, poor quality manufacturing leading to substandard products requires rigorous oversight while resources for inspection and compliance are often lacking;
Discovery: At present, the methods for discovery are often medical, such as finding that a treatment is ineffective or discovering unusual side effects. The cause of these effects may not be easy to identify, especially in countries with limited medical and laboratory resources. Routine surveillance or insider reporting are also factors in discovery. However systems for detection and reporting are often inadequate;
Danger of internet or open market sales: On the internet and on the open market, medical products lose the protection of the usual lawful professional distribution chain. Under these circumstances it is very difficult for patients, even if they are aware of the risks, to ensure they are acquiring an appropriate, safe, genuine and effective drug (i.e. to determine which products are legitimate and which are not).
The current means to combat this extensive problem are limited:
The legal framework is not fit-for-purpose in many countries; internet and other cross-border sales blur jurisdictions and the possibility of legal sanctions;
The various responsible bodies are often fragmented at national and international levels;
Detection techniques exist but they are still not adequately developed or effectively implemented. Additionally, approaches differ from one country/region to another;
The pharmaceutical supply chain may lack full integrity due to limited regulatory oversight and/or capacity, or it may be weakened by deregulation based on economic or trade considerations rather than public health criteria. In addition, in many countries, especially low income countries, it is difficult to control all commercial activities effectively, in particular those of wholesalers and importers.
Not all actors are committed to preventing the sale of falsified and substandard products on their markets. In particular there is often:
Lack of political engagement at the national level, with lack of support to domestic agencies as well as a lack of national policies to assure access to affordable, quality medical products, which can prompt consumers to seek alternative sources of medications;
Inadequate oversight and stewardship of pharmaceutical products and practices;
Lack of consistent and effective legal and judicial frameworks;
Limited capacity in many countries of certified laboratories able to detect fraudulent products in the supply chain, most particularly of concern in low income countries;
Health professionals (physicians and pharmacists) are not always aware of risks and are not adequately warned in a timely fashion of the presence of falsified and substandard products on their markets, some of which may be very sophisticated fakes. They are sometimes isolated and not well-trained in this regard. As a result, it is difficult to engage them to confront this scourge;
In general, the public is unaware of, or not well enough informed about, this problem, particularly the risks of buying these kinds of products on the internet, at open air markets, or otherwise outside of the regular, lawful, quality-assured pharmaceutical supply chain. In these extra-lawful environments, it is nearly impossible for consumers to differentiate legitimate from illegitimate products.
Falsified and substandard medicines are an international issue that threatens people around the world, involving numerous different actors and a diverse set of stakeholders. Solutions to this urgent and complex problem cannot be considered in an isolated way. A shared commitment to the effective coordination and the engagement and mobilization of all players is necessary if we are to succeed.
Falsified and substandard medicines have been a long-standing concern, yet no comprehensive, well-resourced and sustained international campaign has been organized and waged, despite some limited national and international initiatives. For a long time, one of the impediments to comprehensive international action was a tension between public health considerations and intellectual property debates. For example, the word 'counterfeit' was generally considered to refer to products that infringe on the patents in a market where such patents are in force. As several countries perceived this as potentially blocking cheaper legitimate generic copies of these products, they were unable to support early drafts of resolutions and actions proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). To try to clarify the situation, it was decided to use the acronym SSFFC (Substandard, Spurious, Falsely labelled, Falsified, Counterfeit)iv. This was an effort to try to differentiate the public health problem of falsified and substandard products from the intellectual property issues. More recently, in an attempt to further clarify the public health problem caused by these products, the WHO Member States Mechanism proposed the terms 'substandard and falsified medicines' to designate the products that are the focus of these activities. This terminology was adopted by the May 2017 World Health Assembly (WHA). The definition adopted for 'falsified products' is: "Medical products that deliberately/fraudulently misrepresent their identity, composition or source". The agreed definition for 'substandard products' is: "Authorized medical products that fail to meet either their quality standards or their specifications or both". These definitions are clear progress in clarifying the meaning of the terms, as well as the focus of efforts to confront this public health challengev.
In addressing the problem of falsified and substandard medical products two distinct, though related, avenues of concern arise:
Penetration of such medical products into the legal, regulated supply chain;
Direct to the public licit or illicit marketing of medical products (e.g. via the internet or in open markets).
Given the seriousness of the issue, it is troubling that there are not better sources of data about the magnitude and scope of the problem. New efforts are underway to address this shortcoming. At present, however, it is difficult to give precise numbers but it appears that in many low-income countries a large proportion of the medical products available are falsified or substandard. Estimates of 20-30% in some African and Asian countries seem realisticvi. Some estimates for particular products are even higher, including an extremely worrisome 30-50% for anti-malarial drugs in south-east Asiavii. Of note, some 50% of all reports of substandard and falsified medicines received by the WHO Global Alert system are from sub-Saharan Africa, and 80% of these are for essential medicines like anti-malarials and antibioticsviii.
High-income countries are also impacted. For example, in the United States, several instances of falsified dugs are detected each year. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched an alert system, publishing these cases to warn the publicix. In Europe, a link has been established between the deregulation of the distribution chain and the number of falsifications detectedx. Some 50% of the products proposed for sale on the internet are also believed to be falsifiedxi.
There have been a range of efforts to combat falsified and substandard medical products, many organized at a national level, as well as a few specific international operations such as Jacques Chirac's 'Call of Cotonou xii. The International Medical Products Anti-counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT) represented an earlier more international effort launched by WHO (2006-2010), but it was put on hold due to conflicts among Member States based on disagreements over counterfeit drugs definition, the enforcement of patents and the public health impacts described above. The recent Member State mechanism framework and activities offer new opportunities for collaboration and action, including the 2017 World Health Assembly resolutions on this topicxiii.
It is also necessary to recognize the efforts that have been made internationally to address the problem. At the inter-governmental level these include the important Council of Europe's (CoE) MEDICRIME Conventionxiv, open also to countries that are not members of the CoE; the European Union's Falsified Medicines Directive 2011/62/EU which has introduced regulatory constraints to all stakeholders; as well as the successful international cooperation which has been achieved in Operation Pangea initiatives against online sales of falsified and substandard medicines. Importantly, the WHO has significantly increased its surveillance, monitoring and programmes in this area. Despite very limited resources, WHO currently hosts a database recording the different cases reported and working with over 150 Member States to develop better means of detection, reporting and collaboration to improve identification of such products and their removal from national and international commerce.
Previous work by academies
In 2011, the US Institute of Medicine (now called the National Academy of Medicine) undertook a major study of this issue, assembling a diverse, international expert committee. Their report and recommendations were released in February 2013 in a document entitled 'Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs'xv.
The French Academy of Medicine, in collaboration with the French Academy of Pharmacy and the Veterinary Academy of France, undertook an effort in 2015 to prepare a report describing the facts, analysing the different aspects and factors impacting the problem, and proposing some recommended actions. This report was presented at the Academy of Medicine's plenary session in December 2015xvi with a public manifesto signed by the three French academies as well as by the presidents of the three health professional chambersxvi.
These important efforts have underscored the fact that falsified and substandard drugs represent an international problem requiring international cooperation. They also underscore the urgency of meaningful and sustainable action.
Recommendations from IAP
IAP for Health seeks to draw attention to the necessary fight against the global trafficking of falsified and substandard medical products, and supports the call for a comprehensive, well-resourced, international effort to address this devastating problem. IAP for Health member academies consist of national and international leaders of the academic and scientific communities with important access to policy makers, key stakeholders and the public. They must use their unique position to actively promote this fight around the world to benefit public health and foster better healthcare for all.
IAP for Health and its member academies, recognizing the increasing trafficking of these products throughout the world, and the almost total impunity of the perpetrators, despite the risk to the life and health of patients, denounce the gravity of these criminal practices. They call for the launch at an international level of a strong, comprehensive, well-resourced policy and programme of prevention in the fight against this scourge. This must include the development and implementation of informed policies; the adequate funding of regulatory oversight systems; strengthened, coordinated enforcement mechanisms; the development and utilization of easy to use and affordable detection equipment; and the education of the public and healthcare providers.
IAP recommends that the terms 'falsified' and 'substandard' medicines and their definitions as recently adopted by WHO and the World Health Assembly be used worldwide, and that this issue be entirely separated from discussions about intellectual property rights.
IAP underlines that the right of people to health is unalienable. Manufacturing, carrying, stocking and selling falsified and substandard medical products, including drugs, vaccines, medical devices, and other medical products are crimes. Due to their severe consequences on public health and individual healthcare, these crimes must be prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent possible.
Given that this activity affects every country in the world, IAP emphasizes that governments, regulatory authorities and industry must oversee and regulate the supply chain effectively in order that the security and the continuity of the supplies of medical products are guaranteed, especially in countries most burdened by the problem of falsified and substandard drugs. This can be achieved through robust oversight of good manufacturing processes, the use of comprehensive and cost-effective technologies, wholesaling transparency, and traceability of products from manufacturing to market, including the financial flows. This also requires a renewed attention to quality control and assuring that regulatory authorities and law enforcement and judicial authorities are adequately resourced, trained and empowered.
IAP strongly affirms the importance of warning the public about the risk of buying prescription medicines over the internet and of advising online purchase only through certified internet pharmacies. In this regard, groups such as the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP)xvii represent valuable assets. In many countries, similar efforts must be undertaken to educate and warn the public about the risks of purchases in open marketplaces.
IAP decries the delays and the insufficient resources invested in this fight. Specific one-off operations, even if locally efficacious, are not sufficient. It is necessary that global intergovernmental and intersectoral actions are agreed on, coordinated and sustained.
IAP underscores the fact that the prevention of this threat requires improved access to legitimate, quality medical products, including equitable pricing policies and better healthcare coverage.
IAP recommends strong consideration of a substantive, comprehensive and well-resourced policy and programme to address this scourge as a priority action of national authorities and international organizations in charge of public health, including the extension of the MEDICRIME Convention.
Lastly, IAP agrees that WHO is uniquely situated, through its membership and global remit, to provide leadership and coordination to combat this pressing problem. We therefore call on our national governments to support WHO in this effort and to hold them accountable for progress. We request that WHO sponsor a resolution at the next World Health Assembly that will call upon the WHO to coordinate and implement a major, comprehensive and sustained effort in this regard. Further, we call upon our national governments to assure that WHO has adequate financial and technical resources specifically to implement any such World Health Assembly resolution.
The fight against falsified and substandard medicines is a global threat that must be addressed through global cooperation and collaboration. All stakeholders – at international, regional and national levels – should join forces to implement these recommendations to help improve public health worldwide.
[i] Mackey T, Liang BA, York P, Kubic T. (2015). Counterfeit penetration into global legitimate medicine supply chains: A global assessment. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 92:59-67.
[ii] Traverriti-Fortier C, Pape E, Scala-Bertola J et coll. (2015). Trafic de faux médicaments: panorama 2014. Thérapie, 70:455-464.
[iii] WHO. Substandard, Spurious, Falsely Labelled, Falsified and Counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products: www.who.int/medicines/regulation/ssffc/faq-ssffc
[iv] OMS/WHO. Médicaments de qualité inférieure et contrefaits 2003. [accessed 04/10/2018]. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/2003/fs275/fr/
[v] WHO Report by the Director General, Member State mechanism on substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products, March 2017. apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA70/A70_23-en.pdf
[vi] Deats M. (2013). The effects of falsified and substandard drugs. In: Buckley GJ, Gostin LO. Countering the problem of falsified and substandard drugs. Washington (DC). National Academies Press (US). p.1-16: www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Activities/Global/CounterfeitDrugs.aspx
[vii] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6692431.stm
[viii] WHO Global Surveillance and Monitoring System for substandard and falsified medical products report. 2017. http://www.who.int/medicines/regulation/ssffc/publications/GSMSreport_EN.pdf?ua=1
[ix] FDA Counterfeit alert network: www.fda.gov/DrugsSafety/ucm170314.htm
[x] Almuzaini T, Sammons H, Choonara I. (2013). Substandard and falsified medicines in the UK: a retrospective review of drug alerts (2001-2011). BMJ open, 3:e002924 doi:10.1136.
[xi] http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/4/10-020410/en/
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr69/en/
[xii] www.fondationchirac.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/appel-de-cotonou-signe.pdf
[xiii] http://www.who.int/medicines/regulation/ssffc/definitions/en/
http://www.who.int/medicines/regulation/ssffc/A70_23-en1.pdf?ua=1
[xiv] conventions.coe.int/Treaty/FR/Treaties/Html/211.htm
[xv] Institute of Medicine. 2013. Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://www.nap.edu/read/18272/chapter/1
[xvi] Gentilini M, Juillet Y. (2015). Falsified Medicines. More than a Scandal, a Crime. Bull. Acad. Natle Med.,199:8-9, 1433-1448. http://www.academie-medecine.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rapport-ANM-Med-Fals-3.pdf
[xvii] https://buysaferx.pharmacy/
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Prof. Lal G. Chandrasena, Sri Lanka
Dr. Mario Collado, Dominican Republic
Dr. Josip Culig, Croatia
Prof. Abdallah Daar, Canada
Prof. Richard Day, Australia
Dr. Antonio R. de los Santos, Argentina
Prof. Dan Mircea Enescu, Romania
Prof. Zbignew Fijatek, Poland
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Prof. Arthur Commey Sackeyfio, Ghana
Prof. Tsetsegmas Sanjjav, Mongolia
Prof. Otmar Schober, Germany
Prof. Jacob Thiessen, Canada
Sir. Kenton Linton Woods, UK.
[1] While substandard and falsified medical products are somewhat different in nature and covered by different regulations, the public health consequences of accessibility to both types of product are fundamentally similar for the patient. This IAP Statement, therefore, applies to both substandard and falsified medical products.
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Last week I spent the morning taking my brother to his check-up at the Veterans Affairs facility in St. Cloud, Minnesota. First, he was scheduled to have blood work done at 7:30 am – so we left for his appointment before 6:30 am that morning. We arrived a little early so he decided to go to the appointment a little early; I decided to stay outside, sitting in my vehicle, with windows down and a warm summer breeze flowing through the car — and, of course, a cup of coffee in my hand.
There has been a lot of conversation about the poor treatment of veterans at such facilities. What I experienced, however, was much different. Of course, I wasn't experiencing the inner workings of the facility – just observing the people at the facility. I saw employees walking to the facility, smiling, talking and greeting one another or those walking on the path, engaged in lively conversations. I didn't see anyone who looked even remotely crabby. And, of course, there were many veterans arriving for services. They all greeted one another – occasionally stopping for a short conversation.
About 8:15 am, my brother returned to the car. HIs next appointment wasn't until 9:00 am so we left for a quick breakfast at a local restaurant that serves everyday food. After a good breakfast with fast and friendly service, we headed back to the VA facility.
Within minutes, a red pickup backed up, next to my car, and a slim gentleman, with white hair held in a ponytail, jumped out. He approached the workers and minutes later they happily loaded two large pieces of the tree trunk into his truck and then went back to their business.
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The man from the truck saw me watching and came over to my car. He explained that he carves bowls and other such items from wood and the wood that they loaded was black walnut – a premium wood for carving. He was very happy and excited to get the wood. We talked more and he told me he was a Viet Nam veteran who had been coming to this facility since 1990. Having observed the friendly environment, I asked him what he thought of the facility. He stated that the services at the facility, which in his early years there were quite unsatisfactory, have steadily improved. He explained that the workers now are enthusiastic and care about the veterans, something not always experienced in the past. He also commented that they are doing a much better job in caring for the physical environment – so it looks like they care about the place.
I was hoping I could buy some of the bowls he makes but I will have to wait. He said his health prevents him from working a lot of the time so I should check next summer. Then he realized he was a bit late for his appointment but he was sure they would understand when he explained he just had been talking to the Planning Director from the City of Anoka. Haha – I doubt they would be impressed with that, but, given the friendly atmosphere, I'm quite sure they forgave him for being late.
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More work on Limitless – fresh crew arrives to help!
Mike arrived from out of town late last night to help get the boat finished and ready to race in our start on Tuesday. He worked on installing the new hatch cover today and also on the covers for the bottom instruments in the forepeak. Lori was also on board helping get the new jib halyard installed and the second / bottom spinnaker pole track car connected to the top one with a short Spectra line. Meanwhile Shawn got a lot of work done on the refrigeration system. The new propane tank locker installed by KKMI will make an excellent princess seat (and keep everything safe). Things are coming together bit by bit, lots of small tasks to finish before we cast off for Hawaii.
Tomorrow is the skipper's meeting and then Bon Voyage party at Richmond Yacht Club. Looking forward to wrapping up the final preparations in the next couple of days and then casting off for our start at 11:25 am on Tuesday 7/12/16.
Preparing the boat for getting inspected tomorrow (Wednesday) at Richmond Yacht Club by Michael Caplan. Lots to do!
Amber is helping out quite a bit!
Made it to Richmond Yacht Club (D04) – Stewball's regular slip!
Starting out in her home harbor of San Pedro, California, team Limitless worked together to bring the boat up north to the Bay Area for weighing, measuring and inspection in preparation for the start of the Pacific Cup 2016 race.
Shawn and Bryan delivered her to Santa Barbara, where Gabriel joined the crew after a one-day delay due to needing to check on the engine. From Santa Barbara the next stop was Morro Bay, where Bryan got off the boat in order to make it back home in time for his wife's birthday. Shawn and Gabriel then set off for the 26 hour trip from Morro Bay to Santa Cruz. After arriving in Santa Cruz and refueling and relaxing for a few hours, they then made the final push from Santa Cruz to Berkeley, leaving at 0430 in the morning, successfully arriving Sunday evening in time for the weigh-in to happen Monday morning.
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Made it to Santa Barbara!
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(Natural News) In an era where a day does not pass without some "progressive" hack — a Democrat in Congress, an academic, an actor or actress — labeling POTUS Donald Trump a Hitler wannabe, there is a well-established history of how it's actually members of the American Left who are the ones that cozy up to dictators and authoritarian regimes.
During the Cold War, Democratic lawmakers regularly undermined American foreign policy towards the Soviet Union under Republican presidents. The abuse spiked during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, as Marc Thiessen noted in a column a year ago:
Most Democrats opposed the Reagan policies that led to the fall of the Soviet empire. They fought the Reagan defense buildup and his Strategic Defense Initiative (which Sen. Edward Kennedy dismissed as "Star Wars" and Sen. John Kerry called "a dream based on illusion"). They supported the Soviet-supported nuclear freeze movement and opposed Reagan's deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles to Western Europe. They criticized Reagan's efforts to arm freedom fighters seeking to overthrow Soviet puppet regimes and support to pro-American governments fighting communist insurgencies.
When Democrats weren't undermining U.S. foreign policy toward authoritarian regimes, they were actively supporting them. Take China for instance.
When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, China was just beginning to ascend on the global stage. As noted by activist and scholar Au Loong Yu: "China's rise is the result of a combination of factors since it reoriented on production within global capitalism in the 1980s."
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One of Clinton's foreign policy priorities was integrating China into the global economy. He looked at China policy the way Barack Obama looked at the Iran deal: Clinton was willing to do just about anything to improve ties with Beijing and bring China into the international order.
The Chinese picked up on Clinton's initiative and used it to not only buy influence within his administration (via the 1996 campaign finance scandal) but also as a way to access American technology…one way or another. In fact, as The Wall Street Journal noted in March 2017, "China was Bill Clinton's Russia." (Related: Clinton-era State Department official headed to prison for taking money, gifts from China.)
Clinton's crowning achievement, in fact, was shepherding "Permanent Normal Trade Relations" with China and bringing the Asian behemoth into the World Trade Organization, as noted by Laura Ingraham this week (forward to 1:40).
Also, this video from The National Sentinel explains the "China-Democrat Nexus."
Google is 'not very patriotic'
Fast forward 20 years.
Even as POTUS Donald Trump attempts to negotiate a better trade arrangement between the U.S. and China — something that must be done in order to make it much more beneficial for our country than it currently is — like Republican presidents in the past, he, too, is being undermined by Democrats and Leftists who align with the Democrat Party.
Today, China has become the No. 2 economy on the planet. The country is spreading its influence globally via its "Belt and Road Initiative," which has been called a "debt trap" by U.S. lawmakers and policy experts. It's military is powerful and becoming more so, thanks in large part to the theft of U.S. technology (much of which occurred on Clinton's watch). And worse, American technology companies like Google are actually partnering with China on several projects that, when all is said and one, will empower Beijing at the United States' expense.
In fact, as noted earlier this month by PalPal co-founder and venture capitalist billionaire Peter Thiel, the relationship between America's biggest tech company — Alphabet, the parent of Google — and China is "seemingly treasonous," Breitbart News reported in an extensive piece by James Pinkerton recently.
Thiel, as a long-time Silicon Valley investor, has long been in a position to watch Chinese infiltration and influence mount in the U.S. tech sector. During his time there, several Chinese spies — including one who drove for Sen. Dianne Feinstein for two decades — have been caught in California's tech capital.
While Thiel has not accused Google or anyone of purposely working with China to circumvent U.S. national security or undermine our own industries, he was making a general observation nonetheless.
Still, he was pointed in describing the psychology of Google and its employees:
They consider themselves to be so thoroughly infiltrated that they have engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the U.S. military . . . because they are making the sort of bad, short-term rationalistic [decision] that if the technology doesn't go out the front door, it gets stolen out the backdoor anyway.
Joe Lonsdale, a partner of Thiel's at Palantir, added a day later: "Google clearly needs to evaluate what it's doing. Peter and I built a very patriotic company. Google is clearly not a patriotic company."
He continued: "Everyone in the Valley knows that the Chinese government is very involved there," which includes, he said, "Chinese spies."
Just as it was during the Cold War when the Soviets knew they could count on the American Left for support, today China has learned the same thing.
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HomeNewsDialogue on Finances Continues, Two Local Sales Tax Ideas Considered
Dialogue on Finances Continues, Two Local Sales Tax Ideas Considered
July 11, 2012 News 0
Will the city put two sales tax proposals on the ballot in November? Suggestions are still being taken.
Over the past two years, the city of Culver City has cut 78 jobs at City Hall, and more cuts will have to be made unless we can find a way to raise more revenue. General fund expenses that came out of emergency reserves totaled $7 million last year, and are expected to come to $5 million in the current budget.
The City's C.F.O., Jeff Muir said "The problem we face is not a temporary problem, it is a permanent problem. But it's an easy math problem; we reduce costs or increase revenues."
The small crowd sitting in the folding chairs at Linwood E. Howe on Monday July 9 listened to Muir, and the council, and offered their thoughts and suggestions.
Linda Shahanian, while praising the affordable housing now being built at Tilden Terrace, felt that the state's withdrawal of redevelopment money seemed fair.
"You can't solve the problem without knowing what the problem is," Shahanian began, "and hearing about the redevelopment money that the city has been using to fund general city positions rather than to supply low income housing does make it seem that the governor's position is justified. We need to be honest that we did not meet our obligations in regard to redevelopment, and we should not have been using this money for things like the summer music festival. Let's figure out what we need to do get the city on track."
Mayor Weissman responded "I don't think any of use have failed to recognize that we made our own bed [by moving redevelopment money into the general fund.] We were on a path to wean the city from the money, but the problem of using redevelopment funds to supplement the general fund goes back decades. [The money] did enable the community to enjoy a higher level of services, and our community has come to value the level of service, which has an impact on property values."
While the city has been changing it's financial structures over the last two years to 'wean' programs off of the redevelopment money, the state's cut off of the funds became an unforeseen 'cold turkey' withdrawal.
What is being considered to fill the budget gap is a half-cent sales tax, which was presented to a sample of likely voters through a telephone interview in May by Rick Sklarz of FM3, a public opinion research firm. Of those surveyed, 69% said they would vote yes on a half-cent sales tax to maintain services (fire, police, street repairs) for Culver City.
But a half-cent will only keep the at the current budgeting level, leaving City Hall down almost 20% of it's previous staff.
Discussion of putting a proposal for three-quarters of a cent on the ballot came up, with Muir reminding the audience that "more than 100 California cities have a local sales tax."
Council member Jim Clarke asked City Attorney Carol Schwab if "we could put two proposals on the ballot – one for half a cent and one for three-quarters? " Schawb responded that she thought it would be legal, but would have to research the details.
Another dialogue on city finances will take place tonight, July 11 at the Culver City Democratic Club meeting at the Peace Center, 3916 S. Sepulveda Blvd. at 7 p.m.
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Liverpool fans brutally mock Everton with savage Rafa Benitez chant in derby win
Liverpool fans enjoyed their trip across Merseyside on Wednesday night, singing Rafa Benitez's name to mock their rivals as the Reds stormed to an emphatic 4-1 victory over Everton at Goodison Park.
First half-goals from Jordan Henderson and Mohamed Salah put Jurgen Klopp's side in the driver's seat - leading some Everton fans to head for the exits after just 20 minutes - before Demarai Gray pulled one back for the home side.
Though the game was put to bed in the second half following Salah's second goal and a late strike from Diogo Jota.
The match was Everton boss Benitez's first Merseyside derby since leaving Liverpool over a decade ago, and the away fans decided to chant their former manager's name in an attempt to wind up their rivals.
Liverpool fans chanted Rafa Benitez's name during their 4-1 win over Everton (Image: Getty Images)
Throughout the game, chants of 'Rafa's at the wheel' echoed around Goodison to add to compound Everton's miserable night and Liverpool fans even pulled out a few of their old hits from Rafa's Anfield days.
The Spaniard managed Liverpool between 2004 and 2010, becoming a club icon after winning the Champions League and the FA Cup.
After a brief spell with Inter Milan, he joined Chelsea as interim head coach in 2012, which raised a few eyebrows, but he shocked fans even more after agreeing to become Everton manager in June.
Did Everton make a mistake by hiring Rafa Benitez? Let us know what you think in the comments...
Benitez spent six seasons with Liverpool, famously winning the Champions League in 2005 (Image: Getty Images)
Things started well for the 61-year-old with four wins from five, but multiple injuries have seen Everton win just once in their last 10 games.
Toffees fans, who weren't all that pleased with his appointment to begin with, are now seriously unhappy with how the season's going and Benitez's future with the club is starting to be called into question.
Wednesday's defeat leaves Everton 14th in the Premier League and just five points above the relegation zone.


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Q: How to use group by <> properly in MySQL? Below is the data in my table
| count(*) | system |
|        2 | sys1   |
|        7 | sys2   |
|        6 | sys1   |

I want the output as below
| count(*) | system |
|        8 | sys1   |
|        7 | sys2   |

How do I do that?
Below is the query I am using. Can anyone tell me what is wrong in this?
select * from

(select count(*),system from tbl1 where creationDate < CURDATE() AND creationDate >= CURDATE() - INTERVAL 1 DAY group by system

UNION ALL

select count(*),system from tbl2 where creationDate < CURDATE() AND creationDate >= CURDATE() - INTERVAL 1 DAY group by system) as tbl3 group by system;

A: You need to use a sub-query to achieve this:
Try this:
SELECT SUM(Total) AS `Count`, system
FROM
(
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS Total, system FROM tbl1
            WHERE creationDate < CURDATE()
              AND creationDate >= CURDATE() - INTERVAL 1 DAY GROUP BY system
    UNION ALL
     SELECT COUNT(*) AS Total, system FROM tbl2
            WHERE creationDate < CURDATE()
              AND creationDate >= CURDATE() - INTERVAL 1 DAY GROUP BY system
) A
GROUP BY system

OUTPUT:
| COUNT | system |
|     8 | sys1   |
|     7 | sys2   |

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Is there a way from my C# application to set the task bar property to auto hide and make sure that when my application starts up that it gets the task bar hidden and gets control over 100% of the screen, which at the same time will disallow access to the desktop by the end user?
There is a registry setting that can be used to auto-hide the taskbar and put it on the bottom.
The registry settings are persistent and will be restored even if power is lost to the TREQ.
Native C++ functions can be imported for use in C# applications.


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Q: How to get results of stored procedure #1 into a temporary table in stored procedure #2 I am trying to combine the results of several stored procedures into a single temporary table. The results of the various stored procedures have the same column structure. Essentially, I would like to UNION ALL the results of the various stored procedures.  A significant fact: each of the stored procedures creates a temporary table to store its data and the results each returns are based on a select against the temporary table:
create proc SP1
as
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 .  <snip>
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 select * from #tmp   -- a temporary table

Noting that select * from OPENQUERY(server, 'exec SP1') does not work if the select in SP1 is against a temporary table (see this question for details), is there another way for a different stored proc, SP2, to get the results of executing SP1 into a temporary table?
  create proc SP2 as
  -- put results of executing SP1 into a temporary table:
  .
  .
  .

NOTE: SP1 cannot be modified (e.g. to store its results in a temporary table with session scope).

A: Create your temporary table such that it fits the results of your stored procedures.
Assuming your temp. table is called "#MySuperTempTable", you would do something like this...
INSERT INTO #MySuperTempTable (Column1, Column2)
EXEC SP1

That should do the trick.

A: INSERT INTO #MySuperTempTable
EXEC SP1

Following above code style but sqlserver is not compialing instructions.


Can foods change my mood?
Mental health is not black and white, and everyone is completely different. What works for one person may not work for the next person, that is because we are all biochemically different. Mental health can be caused by many different things such as a traumatic event, hormones are not properly balanced, leaky gut, and what you eat.
How can food really affect our mental health? I have talked about serotonin in my other posts and how there are more of their receptors in your gut than in your brain. I also talked about the role of digestion and drinking with meals and what it can lead to. If you wish to read more about these topics click here.
Over consuming foods that are good for us can cause harm. Having a high diet in meat consumption for some people can actually cause their symptoms to be much worse eg. Bipolar. Meat can cause the body to be in a high acid state. If you are not balanced it can cause inflammation, joint pain, leaching from the bones, leaky gut, and more. Proteins need very specific nutrients to be utilized to their fullest potential.
A high consumption of one food can actually cause allergy-like symptoms in the body. Rotating and eating with the season is key, as our bodies were not designed to eat the same food day in and day out. Also, leaky gut can cause the proteins from the foods can leach into our bloodstream, causing irritation, inflammation, and allergy-like symptoms.
Some foods that are key to mental health are foods that are rich in your B-vitamins. Such as dark leafy greens, sweet potatoes, asparagus, broccoli, brown rice, legumes, and of course animal meat. (Fed their proper nutrients whether it would be grass fed, free range, or wild.) B-vitamins are needed to convert the protein's amino acids into their usable forms such as serotonin.
Talking about all these yummy foods I want to point out if you have hormone imbalances, even if it is subclinical such as your thyroid that some foods could make the imbalance worse. The Dr will often test your thyroid when dealing with mental health as there is a common link. If you have an imbalance with your thyroid you will want to avoid cruciferous vegetables (Unless cooked). Stay tuned for future posts on Thyroid and mental health.
Lastly, I want to quickly mention, again, this will be another post topic, however, you will want to ensure that you are taking care of your liver. This means eating organic when possible following the dirty dozen/ clean 15 list, filtered water, and watching your exposure to synthetics and chemicals. These will all put a burden on your liver, which is an organ that helps with regulating your hormones.
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  template<typename FilteredMatrix, typename InputMatrix, typename FilterFunction, typename FilterFunctionArgument>
  class MatrixFilter{
  public:
    static inline void operation(FilteredMatrix & result, const InputMatrix & g, FilterFunction f, uint filterWidth, uint filterHeight){
      uint gx = g.cols();
      uint gy = g.rows();
      uint fx2 = filterWidth/2;
      uint fy2 = filterHeight/2;
      uint rx = gx-filterWidth+1;
      uint ry = gy-filterHeight+1;
      FilterFunctionArgument current;
      result.resize(ry,rx,false);
      current.resize(filterHeight,filterWidth,false);
      for(int i= 0; i < ry; i++){
        for(int j=0; j < rx; j++){
          g.block(current,i,j);
          // MatrixExtractBlock<FilterFunctionArgument, InputMatrix>::operation(current,g,i,j,filterHeight,filterWidth);
          f(result(i,j),current);
        }
      }
    }
  };
}

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It takes a lot of skill to surf a wave normally on a surfboard, but to hold different shapes in the air on the shoulders of a partner is even more challenging.
That is what talented pair Lauren Oiye and Chuck Inman were caught doing while taking part in the Tandem Surfing competitions in Waikiki.
Unlike the average surfing competition, Lauren and Chuck combine the balance needed to even stand up on a surfboard, with the strength needed to hold up various gymnastic poses.
The dash-cams have captured the intricate manoeuvres Lauren has to make to get in to the shapes above Chuck in the air at break taking angles. The two friends have a remarkable bond, with the video showing their impeccable timing to synchronize with each other to get into these poses.
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In modes like music mode, playlist mode or supported files, the file browser can be cluttered with directories that have unrelated content.
The iAudio firmware, when in player mode, hides directories that have no useful content.
This includes a few root folders that are created by the firmware, on-the-go apps ( http://portableapps.com/suite plug ) and such.
I'd like rockbox to do the same.
A) How would Rockbox know which folders do or don't have useful content without scanning your whole drive and identifying if files are music or not?
B) Why not just flag those folders as hidden. In the modes that aren't "Show All" files and folders with the hidden attribute are not shown.
B> I didn't think of that; I'll use that for now.
A> I think the dircache is the ideal place for that, since it does scan the directory tree at boot and updates it whenever a change occurs.
DirCache is a bad idea in my opinion. The goal of DirCache is to offer the exact same view when it's on as when it's off. At the moment DirCache doesn't have to distinguish between files, it just has to create a map of the filetree. So the options are "Have DirCache treat your files differently when it's on, than the normal browser does when it's off" or "Make DirCache have a 'view files option' that you don't have when it's off, and take slightly longer to generate" or "Make browsing take more CPU because folders have to be scanned when entered."
Indeed, this makes dircache less transparent than it used to be.
But it doesn't make it less useful.
If you look at it from a "minimal intrusiveness" point of view (aka maximum reuse, aka maximum laziness), using dircache makes sense.
- it doesn't support the dircache's dynamic update hooks yet.
Here is a second iteration of the patch.
It uses the dynamic update hooks, has been tested on the real thing, and does not visibly impact startup performance (8s to build the dircache with or without, with playback at startup disabled, for ~5000 entries).
The deep filtering is updated when files are created, moved, or copied; removes have no effect (they do not cause their parents to be filtered), but I don't feel it's a really a problem. It could be solved by storing slightly more info (3 ints instead of an enum) in entries.
I'm happy with that patch, and I'd like to propose it for inclusion.
the patch adds an enum field to every directory entry, which in case of files contains their filter level (as seen in the "show files" selector or the quick menu), and in case of directories contains a filter level which is greater to each of the children's levels. The filtering done in the file list has been changed to just use this field instead of asking the type. The field has the same lifecycle as the rest of the dircache, which means it is dynamically updated whenever files are renamed, moved, and created. The init sequence has been changed so that the type code is initialised before the dircache.


The extensive and sometimes incorrect and noncompliant use of various types of antimicrobial agents has accelerated the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In fact, AMR has become one of the greatest global threat to human health in this era. The broad-spectrum antibiotics aminoglycosides (AGs) display excellent potency against most Gram-negative bacteria, mycobacteria, and some Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus. The AG antibiotics amikacin, gentamicin, kanamycin, and tobramycin are still commonly prescribed in the U.S.A. for the treatment of serious infections. Unfortunately, bacteria evolve to acquire resistance to AGs via four different mechanisms: i) changing in membrane permeability to resist drugs from entering, ii) upregulating efflux pumps for active removal of intracellular AGs, iii) modifying the antimicrobial target(s) to prevent drugs binding to their targets, and iv) acquiring resistance enzymes to chemically inactivate the compounds. Amongst all, the acquisition of resistance enzymes, AG-modifying enzymes (AMEs), is the most common resistance mechanism identified. Depending on the chemistry each enzyme catalyzes, AMEs can be further divided into AG N-acetyltransferases (AACs), AG O-phosphotransferases (APHs), and AG O-nucleotidyltransferases.
To overcome AME-related resistance, we need to better understand these resistance enzymes and further seek ways to either escape or inhibit their actions. In this dissertation, I summarized my efforts to characterize the AAC(6') domain and its mutant enzymes from a bifunctional AME, AAC(6')-Ie/APH(2")-Ia as well as another common AME, APH(3')-IIa. I also explained my attempt to inhibit the action of various AAC enzymes using metal salts. In an effort to explore the current resistance epidemic, I evaluated the resistance against carbapenem and AG antibiotics and the correlation between the resistance profiles and the AME genes in a collection of 122 Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates obtained from the University of Kentucky Hospital System. Besides tackling the resistance mechanisms in bacteria, I have also attempted to explore a new antifungal option by repurposing an existing antipsychotic drug, bromperidol, and a panel of its derivatives into a combination therapy with the azole antifungals against a variety of pathogenic yeasts and filamentous fungi.
Holbrook, Selina Y. L., "DISCOVERY OF NEW ANTIMICROBIAL OPTIONS AND EVALUATION OF AMINOGLYCOSIDE RESISTANCE ENZYME-ASSOCIATED RESISTANCE EPIDEMIC" (2018). Theses and Dissertations--Pharmacy. 89.


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Durante gli ultimi due anni del secondo conflitto mondiale, Ferrara fu ripetutamente attaccata dalle forze aeree Alleate, aventi come obiettivo il suo scalo ferroviario. Questi bombardamenti arrecarono anche ingenti danni al centro abitato, e causarono oltre mille vittime tra la popolazione civile.

Cronologia dei principali bombardamenti

29 dicembre 1943

Primo bombardamento di Ferrara: bombardieri della 15ª USAAF attaccarono lo scalo ferroviario. Gran parte delle bombe finì però sulla città, causando 312 vittime tra la popolazione civile.

28 gennaio 1944

Bombardamento da parte della 15ª USAAF, con obiettivo lo scalo ferroviario; vennero colpiti sia l'obiettivo che il centro abitato, con la distruzione di 140 case, il danneggiamento di altre 600 e 202 vittime e 172 feriti tra la popolazione.

7 aprile 1944

Incursione da parte della 15ª USAAF, con obiettivo lo scalo ferroviario; vennero colpiti l'obiettivo e la zona industriale.

25 aprile 1944

Bombardamento da parte della 15ª USAAF, con obiettivo lo scalo ferroviario.

12 maggio 1944

Altro bombardamento da parte della 15ª USAAF, con obiettivo lo scalo ferroviario.

14 maggio 1944

Ancora un'incursione da parte della 15ª USAAF, diretta contro lo scalo ferroviario.

5 giugno 1944

La 15a USAAF colpisce ancora una volta lo scalo ferroviario.

10 giugno 1944

Bombardamento da parte della 15ª USAAF, con obiettivo l'aeroporto.

8 luglio 1944

Incursione da parte della 12ª USAAF, con obiettivo lo scalo ferroviario.

31 agosto 1944

Incursione notturna da parte della RAF: 74 bombardieri sganciano contro lo scalo ferroviario.

2 settembre 1944

Altri 78 bombardieri della RAF (due vengono abbattuti) attaccano lo scalo ferroviario.

5 settembre 1944

Altra incursione notturna della RAF (62 bombardieri) contro lo scalo ferroviario.

24 febbraio 1945

Incursione da parte della 15ª USAAF, con obiettivo lo scalo ferroviario.

Bilancio

Durante il conflitto, il 40% delle abitazioni di Ferrara fu distrutto o danneggiato; le distruzioni riguardarono soprattutto la zona circostante la ferrovia ed i quartieri di più recente costruzione, Arianuova e Giardino. Tra gli edifici di valore storico, subirono gravi danni il Palazzo dei Diamanti, il Palazzo Prosperi-Sacrati, la cattedrale di San Giorgio, la chiesa del Gesù, la Chiesa di Santa Maria in Vado, la chiesa di San Paolo e quella di Santo Stefano; anche il Castello Estense subì danni, con la distruzione del rivellino nord. Tra gli stabilimenti industriali, furono pressoché distrutti i due grandi zuccherifici ed il molino della Società Alta Italia.

Secondo i dati dell'Anagrafe di Ferrara le vittime civili delle incursioni aeree sulla città furono 1071.

Note

Voci correlate
Seconda guerra mondiale

Storia di Ferrara
Campagna d'Italia
Ferrara


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Tradestone Gallery and Lacquerbox.com present their fourth in a series of high quality giclee prints, all taken from the artwork of notable Russian lacquer boxes. This print comes from the painting on a breathtaking box which was done by Fedoskino artist Andrej Borisov. It shows one of Moscow's most famous and recognizable landmarks, St. Basil's Cathedral. While the box is no longer available, the print of it is. Whether you have seen St. Basil's in person or not, we are sure that you will enjoy the beauty, spirit, and majesty of its architecture as depicted here. The print measures 12 inches by 17 inches and fits perfectly on an 16" x 20" frame.


The importance of norms research and a focus on contestation in international politics has become visible with the "Brexit" referendum in the United Kingdom in June 2016. As part of her Opus Magnum fellowship, Antje Wiener focuses on the puzzles and consequences following the referendum drawing on her previous work on norms, contestation and European integration.
A first result can be read in her paper "The Impossibility of Disentangling Integration: Post-Referendum and Pre-Brexit Contestations" (Link to PDF), which Antje Wiener has presented at the UACES 46th Annual Conference 2016, in London.
Following the successful format of the first two editions, a third edition of "European Integration Theories" (1st ed. Wiener and Diez 2003) is to be published with Oxford University Press in 2018. The book offers an overview of all major theoretical approaches to European integration. The editors of the new edition, Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg), Tanja A. Börzel, and Thomas Risse (both FU Berlin), invited the authors to present and discuss their respective book chapters in an authors workshop that took place on October 14–15 in the Harnackhaus of Max-Planck-Society and at the Freie Universität Berlin (Link to Workshop Report).
In a recent blog post on the Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional, Antje Wiener has argued that a "window of opportunity both for the immediate interest of the remainers, and with regard to readjusting the legitimacy of British EU politics" has been created in the post-referendum and pre-Brexit debate in Britain (Link to full text).


Apple recently removed an app from the App Store that allowed users to hide sensitive photos and videos behind what was otherwise a fully functioning calculator app, according to a report from Business Insider. The app was called Calculator%, and as you might expect, proved to be incredibly popular among teenagers intent on hiding certain content from the prying eyes of parents, teachers, and even friends.
While the App Store has a number of apps that essentially offer the same type of functionality, Calculator% began making waves and attracting attention this month after word spread that the app was part of an investigation spearheaded by the Durham Police.
The Calculator app is essentially a secret photo album that children can use to hide photos or videos from their parents. The photos are hidden from view behind an icon that looks like a calculator. We would urge parents to be vigilant and discourage their children from using such an app.
What makes the removal of the app all the more curious is that it's not exactly new to the App Store. Far from it, it's been around for quite a few years and even prompted an Alabama district attorney back in 2015 to post a Facebook video warning parents about the app. Moreover, Calculator%'s true purpose was never a secret as the developer touted its functionality in the app description itself.
For what it's worth, there are any number of apps that keep sensitive photos hidden behind a passcode, but it seems that Calculator% stands out on account that it's core functionality is not readily apparent when casually looking at the app icon itself.


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package net.glowstone.generator.objects;

import java.util.Random;
import org.bukkit.Material;
import org.bukkit.World;
import org.bukkit.block.Block;
import org.bukkit.block.BlockFace;
import org.bukkit.block.BlockState;
import org.bukkit.material.Dirt;
import org.bukkit.material.MaterialData;
import org.bukkit.material.types.DirtType;

public class SugarCane implements TerrainObject {

    private static final BlockFace[] FACES = {BlockFace.NORTH, BlockFace.EAST, BlockFace.SOUTH,
        BlockFace.WEST};

    @Override
    public boolean generate(World world, Random random, int x, int y, int z) {
        if (!world.getBlockAt(x, y, z).isEmpty()) {
            return false;
        }
        Block block = world.getBlockAt(x, y, z).getRelative(BlockFace.DOWN);
        boolean adjacentWater = false;
        for (BlockFace face : FACES) {
            // needs a directly adjacent water block
            Material blockType = block.getRelative(face).getType();
            if (blockType == Material.STATIONARY_WATER || blockType == Material.WATER) {
                adjacentWater = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (!adjacentWater) {
            return false;
        }
        for (int n = 0; n <= random.nextInt(random.nextInt(3) + 1) + 1; n++) {
            block = world.getBlockAt(x, y + n, z).getRelative(BlockFace.DOWN);
            if (block.getType() == Material.SUGAR_CANE_BLOCK
                || block.getType() == Material.GRASS
                || block.getType() == Material.DIRT && block.getState()
                .getData() instanceof Dirt
                && ((Dirt) block.getState().getData()).getType() == DirtType.NORMAL
                || block.getType() == Material.SAND) {
                Block caneBlock = block.getRelative(BlockFace.UP);
                if (!caneBlock.isEmpty() && !caneBlock.getRelative(BlockFace.UP)
                    .isEmpty()) {
                    return n > 0;
                }
                BlockState state = caneBlock.getState();
                state.setType(Material.SUGAR_CANE_BLOCK);
                state.setData(new MaterialData(Material.SUGAR_CANE_BLOCK));
                state.update(true);
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
}


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just suffered the biggest embarrassment of her life.
The self-identified Democrat socialist got caught up in the biggest scandal of her career.
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Ocasio-Cortez unveiled her long-awaited "Green New Deal" to much media fanfare.
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Her office immediately raced to cover up the error by deleting the FAQ page.
And Cornell professor Robert Hockett – who advised Ocasio-Cortez on the Green New Deal – went on Tucker Carlson's Fox News program to perform damage control.
Carlson pressed Hockett on Ocasio-Cortez guaranteeing income for Americans who did not want to work.
Hockett falsely claimed that the version Carlson was referring to was a forgery doctored by conservatives to make Ocasio-Cortez look bad.
…She's actually tweeted it out to laugh at it. If you look at her latest tweets, it seems that apparently, some Republicans have put it out there," Hockett falsely claimed.
Hockett later apologized for spreading misinformation.
"It appears there was more than one document being discussed yesterday, only one of which I had heard about with any definiteness by last evening after a long day of media appearances – namely, the one referred to by the Congresswoman in her tweet," Hockett wrote in a statement to the Daily Caller.
But while Hockett owned up to his error, Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff continued to lie and claim that the "Green New Deal" calling for taxpayer money going to Americans who didn't want to work was fake news.
Ocasio-Cortez retweeted a video of Hockett stating that the frequently asked questions page was a forgery.
Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti also went on Twitter and lied about how the frequently asked questions page was initially posted.
This was clearly a lie.
Alert-researchers on social media quickly discovered that Chakrabarti was the one who posted the document.
Every leading Democrat signed on to her communist proposal without reading it.
But when they saw it endorsed a Marxist plan to steal money from working Americans and give it to lay-abouts who did not want to work, they panicked over their self-inflicted political wound.
So Ocasio-Cortez tried to fix the problem by lying, knowing that the so-called "mainstream" media would buy her excuses no questions asked because they worship her politically.


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Q: String writer not writing to the file The aim of my code is to eventually ask the user for a file name and if it is already a file in the current directory then print an error message, if it is not however then it is supposed to create the file and write lines to the newly created file until the user enters end. One final thing the program is supposed to keep doing this until the user enters exit. So in simpler terms the user enters a file name (its not a file already) they are prompted to input a line then another line, the user enters end and then the user is prompted to input a file name again and they type exit and the program stops. My code however which i will post is creating the file but not actually writing to it, help ?? I'm in java eclipse by the way
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class PrintWriter {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

    PrintWriter writer = null;
    // Initializes the printwriter as writer

try
    {
        writer = new PrintWriter("printwriter3.txt", "UTF-8");
        // will write in the UTF-8 language to a file named printwriter.txt

        boolean exit = false;
        while (exit == false)
        {
            String user = input.nextLine();
            if (user.equals("end"))
            {
                exit = true;
            }
            else
            {
                writer.println(user);
            }

        }
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException e)
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
        System.out.println("File not found");
        // if the file is not found then this error message is printed
    }
    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e)
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
        System.out.println("The encoding type is not supported");
        // if the encoding type in this case UTF-8 is not supported an error message is printed
    }

A: You have forgotten to close the writer.
And if you want to ensure, that you can see the changes while the program is still running, you have to flush after printing.
        writer = new PrintWriter("printwriter3.txt", "UTF-8");
        // will write in the UTF-8 language to a file named printwriter.txt

        boolean exit = false;
        while (exit == false)
        {
            String user = input.nextLine();
            if (user.equals("end"))
            {
                exit = true;
            }
            else
            {
                writer.println(user);
                writer.flush();
            }

        }
        writer.close();

A: I can see two problems here. One you have not closed writer and second, you have same class name as the imported class (PrintWriter). So when you declare an instance of Printwriter, it would create instance of your class instead of java.io.Printwriter.