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Family and Matrimonial
Canada: The Move Towards More Inclusive Drafting In Wills
by Stephanie Battista
O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP
This past summer, history was made at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when Canadian soccer player, Quinn, became the first openly transgendered and non-binary athlete to not only compete at the Olympics, but to also to win an Olympic medal (which happened to be gold, by the way!).
Quinn's journey to the top of the podium was fun and inspiring for Canadians to watch, but hopefully, and more importantly, it also continues to normalize the idea that gender is not limited to only two categories, and that our everyday language should reflect this.
Our society is taking steps towards greater inclusivity and recognition of people who do not identify as either male or female. Bill C-16 was passed in 2017 which amended the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code, with respect to gender identity and gender expression, including adding these categories as prohibited grounds of discrimination. That same year, changes were made in Ontario to the gender and sex information required on government identification and forms: Ontario residents who do not identify as either male or female, or do not want to disclose their gender identity, can choose "X" instead of only "M" or "F" on government documents.
The appropriate use of pronouns is important to many aspects of our lives. Wills and estate planning are no different. Will drafting historically incorporated binary language in describing beneficiaries, executors, and the testators themselves. It is still very common to see individuals addressed as "Mr." or "Ms.", children described specifically as "daughters" or "sons", beneficiaries
referred to as "he/him" or "she/her", and we even occasionally still see the term "testatrix" or "executrix" used.
Descriptors are an important part of Wills in order to sufficiently identify the beneficiary who is entitled to receive the gift. Although mislabeling an individual's gender does not necessarily invalidate a gift left in a Will so long as the individual is clearly identifiable, most people do want to ensure that their loved one's gender identity is respected. Thus, it is important to know how your loved ones identify themselves and what their preferred pronouns may be.
But even more than this, it may be time to look at gender neutral drafting altogether. Using the correct pronouns in a Will is a good first step, but it can still pose some issues. A Will is written and signed at one specific point in time and does not come into effect until the death of the testator. This can be months, years, and even decades from when the Will was initially drafted. This increases the likelihood that a beneficiary may identify differently at the time of your death.
Descriptors should not be abandoned altogether, as they could be necessary to properly identify a beneficiary - in order to ensure the proper loved one is receiving their gift, these descriptors could be very valuable. But the use of gendered language is not necessary. A gift "to your sibling, X", is just as legally effective as "to your sister, X" and leaves no uncertainty as to who the intended beneficiary is. This also takes away any uncertainty as to whether a beneficiary named in your Will may identify themselves differently after the date of your death.
As individuals are being more open about their gender identities, estates practitioners should strive to be as welcoming and inclusive as possible. This can, and perhaps should, include adjusting old drafting practices to incorporate more gender-neutral language.
A Will represents some of your last words to a loved one. The wrong pronouns or gender, or even using a birth name that your beneficiary no longer uses may cause more pain in an already highly emotional situation. Trying to use the correct pronouns and names, or choosing to use more gender-neutral language where available, can show the proper respect to your loved ones, and that is a legacy worth striving for.
- Stephanie Battista
Stephanie Battista
Canada Family and Matrimonial Wills/ Intestacy/ Estate Planning
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Living in the new era with a life full of joy is challenging. I believe this is due to a number of things. We live in a news era of 24/7 up to the minute "blah-blahing" and much of it is negative focusing on all the "bad things" happening. Even if you are not watching all that, it is being broadcast into the environment and passed around. Most news and talk of news is all negatively focused. We might hear a few good things or praises of good deeds, but that is not the focal point of news. Sensational news sells and gets attention. It is the same way in families or in other communities. Many families actually love drama and focus on all that is going on that is awful. Even positive things can be presented or laced with worry or fear if it will work out.
From the moment we are born, we are faced with the negative admonitions: "don't do this, don't do that, sit up straight-don't slouch, yada, yada, yada." I am not saying all parenting is negative, but a big part of the focus is what to do to avoid getting hurt or fear that something bad will happen. This is a necessary part of parenting, but with a focus on negative behavior, the time spent on nurturing the identity and preciousness of the child often is much less or lost altogether.Of course, we need to warn children, but most of my clients in therapy are fear-based or guilt based which brings in lots of anxiety and depression. These cycles are repeated and passed on to the next generation over and over.
More negative is a normal part of most human's lives. People worry about how to pay the mortgage, college, jobs, etc. The list of worry is endless and again, produces lots of negative energy into the atmosphere. I am confident that if we followed any person around day after day, there would be a dominant focus on what is wrong over all that is right that is happening. It is an unconscious way of life for many and even when pointed out, is nearly impossible to change.
Being intentional to focus on the great things going on in one's life is an awesome way to be living. I read a book about one person who decided to find a thousand gratitude's and trained herself to focus only on gratitude's in her life. It changed the way she looked at everything, even those things that most of us would not be grateful for, and she was able to attract more of what she wanted in abundance. We do know that spreading good news and joy is much more healing and beneficial than spreading worry and fear. Studies show that those with positive attitudes make less trips to the doctor and have less stress.
I have the privilege everyday of hearing story after story filled with negative circumstances that I could offer hope to in spite of those circumstances. Typically, it means to work through old layers of mad and sad to find the glad, but once that process gets going, my clients begin to look for the joy and "VOILA," it shows up. It is such an honor to see a victim change their focus to victory and overcoming through their faith and their way of thinking. Bringing heartfelt gratitude into a situation is a catalyst that turns things around.
It is the midway point of the year 2013 that is coming upon us. I have been writing since the beginning of this year about an Awakening and Awareness of living life in new ways that attract more of what is desired.
I have written about anger and grief and how to process the raw energy from those. Living a life dependent and focused more on what is inside of a person vs. one that focuses first on the external is the beginning of seeing greater possibilities and experiencing more joy. To summarize what I mean: focusing on the positive choices on how to view negative circumstances so they can be turned over into a way through that doesn't drag one into a downward spiral is the key to change.
The old order is to look at any unwanted circumstance or a situation of "lack" as a problem that will harm and bring negative consequences. The new frame is to see the perceived problem as an opportunity to let God (Higher Power) help turn it over into a positive experience. I have been through many things in my life that appeared negative at first, or things I did not want to do or go through, that turned out to be the greatest opportunities for growth and letting go of controls that were hindering me. It is most often through some suffering situation that the greatest lessons and spiritual growth happens.
Our lives are moving along so rapidly at this point in time that we can barely keep up with all the needs and demands. Many people are fearful, anxious and even depressed over their lives. In order to handle all this negative energy, it is necessary to wake up and trust there has to be a better way to live. I believe that time is coming when many are gaining self awareness and awareness of the dire things going on in the world. Having awakened, they are finding ways to live differently.
The first and best way is to recognize the powerlessness of being able to change anything.
The good news is that step is the very opening to Trust and Faith that there is a power greater than us that loves and cares enough to help our powerlessness. God has all the Power so it is great that God and Love are synonymous. Tapping into the energy of a positive True Love inside yourself and connecting that to a Divine Love will help center and ground us to live in new and more free ways. This new Era of Freedom is partially here as more and more people are changing their focus from negative and complaining to positive and hope. This is very exciting and brings a new frequency to tap into that will reframe thinking into new thought forms that rid us of the past and the need to stay angry and resentful.
Once Joy and Gratitude become a way of thinking, more positive is drawn into each day so that the old form will die out and a new way of glad and hope drowns out the old thought forms of doom and gloom and focus on how awful things have gotten.
I am going to write a lot about bringing joy into the midst of any situation.
This week has been connecting the STEPS plan to living in greater wellness using the principles of integrity: 'I AM WHO I SAY I AM' and how that can assist living well. Most of the past blogs have led up to this integration of self and working from a healthy inner being so that you can be who you say you are no matter what the outer circumstances are telling. YOU and YOU ALONE are the one who can dictate how you live and how the wellness you call in for you will impact those you love.
Living in truth and honesty vs. lies and denial is the only way to travel. It is freeing and EMPOWERING. The freedom to live out of a self that is not hiding or fearful or feeling other than truth is AMAZING. It impacts your entire being and those around you. At first, it may seem the opposite, but that is because most people don't live and operate this way so it is like a salmon swimming upstream. However, think of salmon…they are going back home to spawn. They are born in FRESH water, cool and fast flowing. When they make their way out to sea, it is only to grow in size and become adult, but when it is time to give a birth to offspring, they are chemically cued to return to that fresh water.
Unlike salmon, we do need to return to truth of who we are so we can bring forth or give birth to our true self once again, and it doesn't have to kill us. It does feel like we will die if we are to make that journey, but it is that journey that gives us the freedom to be raised up again to a new life that gives freedom to be our true self.
Going back to uncover who you were as a child BEFORE the interference of others training of who they needed you "to be", is a very important part of rebirth. Going back and remembering of what was like to be the FREE KID before you were kidnapped and told: "Do this, don't do that, etc." is a very big journey. It helps you uncover some of the ESSENCE of the real you. Why is this important? You may already have the answer, but in reality, like the salmon, you cannot rebirth the integrity of you until you do that…otherwise, you will spawn others' idea of you.
I am not going to apologize for speaking MY truth which is that I believe we must return to an understanding of our true nature before we can live in the integrity of our created being and realize our true potential. We can succeed in the eyes of society, but are we truly fulfilling our destiny and loving every minute of it? Only you can answer that question, but I DO have guidance for more on that JOURNEY.
Next time…be looking forward to it. It is ALL GOOD! I can promise you 100% and more that being free to become all that you were meant to be is the BEST undertaking you could ever take and it unleashes FULL EMPOWERMENT of the words: I AM WHO I SAY I AM What Joy that brings into your life!
I began to shift back to Awareness and Awakening in my last blog through the process of staying in balance to STEPS that integrate us as an individual. When a person lives their life more in truth than lies or hiding or DECEPTION & DENIAL, you can tell if you know them well.
It is often hard or challenging to find an individual who is who they say they are, even in the middle of a church building. This includes clergy, politicians, lawyers, doctors, next-door neighbors, and the list goes on. Integrity is very rare in most people in our culture. We are trained to hide and pretend. Kids have integrity until a parent or other unconscious, but well-intended person, tells them they "shouldn't FEEL a certain way." Wait a second! The child does feel that way. Please don't shame their feelings….tell them they have a right to feel that way and ask them (age appropriately) how they can channel those feelings to be proactive for them. For example, if a child says they do not like Grandma hugging them too tightly. Find out what the discomfort is….acknowledge that it is okay to feel that way, and help them find a way to express that in a healthy way to Grandma.
A childhood or lifetime of having to pretend you feel differently than you do messes up your thinking reality. It changes truth and confuses veracity in general. Humans are programmed to "be nice" and not speak truth, which is DISHONEST. Acting out dishonesty in the name of honor and respect is insanity and adds to insane behaviors such as addictions (medicating true feelings).
As you can start to see, living life in lies and hiding and covering up true feelings in the name of "not nice" to tell truth could set up life patterns of giving up your truth (which is powerful) in favor of cultural crazy thinking. In other words, if I trade in my reality and how I feel, what am I forfeiting??????
This author did that for a long time so I will tell you from my perspective. It is an expensive gift that you toss away. My power and truth so someone else can feel comfortable or keep their lies in tact. NO! Please do not continue those habits. They are very hard to untrain and our society is fearful to tell the truth. I could make up that most humans do not share how they really feel for fear of hurting someone's feelings.
Check out the other side of the coin. If I am in process of removing the lies and issues from myself so that I can live in uprightness, I am able to share how another person's behavior is impacting me honestly without judging them. This method is not harsh or hurtful, and actually may open their eyes to something they were previously blind to-is that not a loving and relational stance? I think so…more next time.
I have spent the last several blogs writing about anger in order to educate and promote awareness of its impact on all the other areas of our wellness. I did that in order to help clear up all the misconceptions, misperceptions, and misunderstandings of anger and its positive value. I tried to focus on awareness that it is raw energy and is looking for a way to express itself in healthy ways.
In the past, we have spent much time focusing on managing anger and trying to label it as something that needs to be boxed and contained or whatever ideas people have had around anger. Understanding that it is the thermostat or barometer that we can use to measure how deep something bothers us is a key to using it to benefit us. I feel I have covered the full spectrum of education and awareness in those blogs.
Now, I want to move back into the center of this blog, which is Awakening and Awareness of Emotions and how they impact relationships in general. I have my method called STEPS (Spiritual Awareness, Thinking Awareness, Emotional Awareness, Physical Awareness, and Social or relationship Awareness). My theory is that all of those areas need to be integrated and in sync. I hypothesize that until you have full awakening to your adult emotions and gain awareness of how those need to be in continuing development (process) that circumstances and the "well life" will be at risk for destabilization continuously.
Combining and integrating all aspects of our identity empowers us to convert the raw or unconscious energy into the places where it can be used in healthy ways. Think of it as taking the power of Niagara Falls and regenerating it to be used to light up or power the whole Northeast. That is exactly what happens with that power. The analogy is that you have that kind of raw energy power within you and even greater when channeled to use it for positive endeavors, it is empowering for yourself and others.
I know this works as I have many clients and case studies that are living humans to speak of how they learned to take the "old way" of being angry – hostile, negative, depressed, foggy, addicted, etc. and dynamically altered the course of their lives. They took responsibility to do their inner work and connect with self and the Higher Power Source as they felt "IT" and were able to shift into whole new ways of living. I could not write their stories for them, but when they changed the negative perspectives and views to positive, made themselves aware of their inner power, and took baby steps to think and interact differently with self and others, amazing things happened. The proof that this works is in their stories.
Are the clients that I have worked with over the past decade different from you? NO, their stories and circumstances are different, but the Power of Empowering the STEPS in their life to work for them instead of against them has changed every aspect of their lives from personal relationships to finances to ….everything! I will share more on the integration of that process in my next blog. Reading is believing!
ANGER AND ITS BOTH SIDES NOW….
I have written a lot about anger and how to channel the negative raw energy into positive channels to work for the one who is angry. I am summarizing in this blog a lot of what has been written. First, and of utmost importance is that anger belongs to its owner. NO one else can MAKE you angry. You are angry because of an injustice or a perceived injustice handed to you.
If the injustice is true (not manufactured in your mind), you have a right to assert yourself and claim back what has been stolen form you. This means that you have been wronged and that you did nothing to cause it, therefore, you are a victim. Moving out of being a victim (adults always have choices around victimizations so they do not have to stay stuck in victimhood) means taking back what was stolen through legal or direct means.
The order is very important in how to use anger energy. Each person has an opportunity to turn the negative energy back to the victimizer and then work the anger into positive channels. This just means letting go of the need to trade like for like and get even or get revenge. Those actions take you down to the level of the person who committed the action that created your anger. Working through the energy and channeling it into a positive voice is the best plan.
Getting your anger out and reducing it back to assertiveness and taking the actions that will call in justice is a complicated process and individual for each case. The order, however, remains the same. Get the negative energy out, think straight about the next step and take proactive action from a heart led stance. Trust that you can use your voice to directly claim back what you need.
Of course, you cannot claim back lives taken from drunk drivers, etc., but letting go of your own right to avenge the situation can lead to some amazing victories from any tragic situation. Matthew West has a song about forgiveness, which is written about a true story of a mother who has a child killed by a drunk driver. The redemption is that she and that driver now partner to speak out against drunk divining. The point being: you never know what God will bring out of a painful situation until you let God control it.
This means you do your part and then, surrender and let God control the rest. There is a way that you may not see that will work out for good if you let go of your anger after you have gone through the steps of letting it go in a healthy way.
Think about all the wrongs that have happened to you and that you have done. Could you change them in any way other than admitting either YOU were wrong or another did you wrong? That is the bottom line: admit what happened, take assertive action either owning your part or calling out what happened to hurt you.
Anger could be used to do so much good if each person would own their part, right?
I shared my personal challenge with anger last time and so I continue calling for you to step up to claim any anger or those who dumped it on you as your own. YOU can change the course of your life by working out the aggressive form of your anger (which is usually righteous, in that you have a right to be angry as you were treated unjustly). Working out the raw or negative aspect of that energy so that you can reclaim and channel your negative energy into positive energy, which is very spiritual and transcends the lower levels of the law.
I mean that you cannot get justice easily under the law nowadays. It takes a long time for the law to work in your favor and it also takes lots of money. Operating in your own power and claiming your anger to be used in a healthy way is a huge step. Following up with assertive claims on what belongs to you with calm focus and letting go to God' s will be done is the next step of the process.
Once you have "staked your claim" on what is rightfully yours (persons, place, or thing), you can let go and see how it will be turned over to your favor. All it takes is you standing up for your self and all that has been taken or treatment you have received that is not okay with you.
It is your own inner power that you are reclaiming. The power to speak out of your own reality and how things appear from your perspective. When a person hunkers down in fear and intimidation, the aggressor feels power over its victim and will continue to treat the victim that way until a change (often in the form of assertive voice is heard). Once you are able to stand up to the bully and speak the words that it is not okay to be mistreated or lied about, the words are empowering.
The one thing that is important is that you do not use the power you have spoken out for in an unhealthy way or to hurt another. If you contain yourself and feel that you have broken through to your freedom, that is enough. Let the Highest Power claim the victory and be assured that the Law of Sowing and Reaping will prevail. In other words, there is a Law of Higher Order that will bring things back to justice in a way and an order that is right that is not about individuals taking justice into their own hands. Some people call this karma and some call it vindication. No matter what it is called, it does happen.
Just be glad that you have taken the power back that belongs to you and claimed it in your own voice and continue to use your anger in a healthy way. You will be changed forever and will have broken a cycle of anger used in a way to control that is never okay. I will be back to sum all this up next time. IN the meantime, celebrate your freedom over other humans stealing your power. I know I am.
Interestingly enough, it was only last week that I wrote about conflict and standing your ground in the midst of conflict. In my personal life, I had an opportunity to act out of my message. I was invited to stay in integrity to act out the things I write about. IN other Words, I was put in a position of keeping my meekness, but not going weak.
Here is the story: I was presented with a conflict that contained history and an opportunity to confront someone who has bullied and intimidated me for my entire life. I "thought" I was taking a course of prudent action, which called for me to follow legal channels and let them handle the situation. Wow, was I surprised! I was asked to also use "my own voice" to handle the tense situation using an assertive voice.
This was my own advice and wording in my last blog…so, I walked out what I teach – which was somewhat new to me in this particular situation. It would have been perfectly fine to use the legal channels to speak for me, but it would not have freed me from past aggressors nor free me from my abuser. I actually experienced what it feels like to be free from a past "giant" who held power over me.
Here's the revelation: I actually did not even have awareness that this person had any more power over me until I stood my ground assertively. How did I know how to take a course of action that I did not want to? I can tell you that it was a Higher Power that led me to take that action. ON my own, I would take a safer route and let someone else (attorney) handle speaking the truth. I will still do that, but the order of things was that I needed to use my voice to try to share that I was not okay with abusive treatment in voice or behavior. Wow, this Girl has had a chance to practice what she preaches!!!
Since meekness is a humble and gentle path, others do not feel threatened by you so they often will acquiesce or agree that there are calmer ways to handle the conflict. Therefore, this peaceful, yet bold stand is very helpful when there is arguing and fighting. Just dial yourself into this regulated center and speak calmly stating what you want. It is a very strong position that actually grows and develops into greater maturity within oneself.
The words above are from my last blog and it is exactly what I walked out in real time this past week. I was meek (assertive, not aggressive, and calm + peaceful) during the conflict. The other party involved escalated and I remained calm.
I will not go into detail about outcomes, except to say that I have felt liberated at whole new levels that have launched me into higher planes of being. I can only report that I felt liberated and free from an old bullying and intimidating behavior (using anger to control me). I know I have been healed of that and it is proof that I am living out what I am writing about…it works. Please be who you say you are no matter WHO or WHAT may try to challenge that – stay focused more – as I have…..
Agreeing with any negative belief or thought is "crazy." I say this because negativity attracts more of its kind. Most humans are familiar with thinking negatively and do not even pay attention to their thoughts unless they are in therapy or trying to stay positive. Even under those circumstances, it is common to humans to volley back and forth between positive and negative. Remaining positive in the midst of negative circumstances in nearly impossible for most of us, even if we are spiritual.
Why is it so difficult to stay in one lane and trust, have faith, and stay mindful of positive thinking? I make up it is because of unresolved hurts and losses of the past that are tangled up in anger. It is like a can of worms or a rope with so many knots or yarn with tangles. It seems easier to just not deal with it. Live awake and aware to deal with the negative roots as they will not otherwise go away. Not dealing with the same, is to live naïve to emotions.
Living without the full gamut of your emotions is to continuously give your Power to other people. Think about how disempowering it is to falsely "think" that someone else cans MAKE YOU MAD. Yikes, think about the other meanings of "mad" (crazy, uncontrolled, foolish, absurd, frenzied, frenetic, panic-stricken, outrageous). See what I mean. When you give away your power in your mind to think that others have any power to make you "act" or "behave" in a certain way, you give others the power to pull your strings, just as though you were a marionette. OR, giving others the power to "push your buttons" is saying that you are a robot.
We always have a choice as to how to respond to another person. But, if we speak or think that others are the "cause" of our anger, this sets us up for either being a victim for others to continue to victimize, or being a bully that is ready to intimidate others if they get anywhere close to our own inner fears (wounded child stuff).
Again, how to stay grown up and present enough to respond mindfully and intentionally means to be awake to NOW. In other words, mindful that I own what is going on with me and while someone else is triggering me, I am not helpless to remain awake to assert myself in an appropriate way. If I have treated myself to inner understandings of how I desire to be treated, I can speak clearly about that need. Even if the other person continues their unconscious treatment of me that is rude or hurtful, I have a choice as to what I want to do about it in a healthy way. I can see into the situation and remain calm to decide, not react out of childish behavior or irrational mindless instincts.
Positive self-control comes from an inner way of being that feels empowered/adult. Over time, it begins to be more kind and gentle as it comes emanates from one who thinks like an adult, is in touch with feelings of how to treat self and others. You cannot get to self control of this kind without having an intention to grow and develop more loving ways to self and others. This usually comes only from a connection to a Higher Power that is all loving through Grace and Forgiveness.
I mentioned the three initial anger meds as being Awareness, Awakening and Agreements made with anger. Awareness is the understanding and raising your consciousness to be alert to the way anger works. Awakening is about gaining cognizance and alertness to owning the gift that anger gives you when you claim it and learn how to process it to your advantage. The agreements with anger are very personal to each person and are not easily understood without some work.
The way the agreements work is that they wrap around negative energy from real emotions such as pain (hurt, sadness, loneliness, heartaches), passion (unmet desires around physical or material or external circumstances), shame dumps from others, guilt from things you have done and not forgiven yourself for, or any lack or limit that is still an unmet need, especially rejection and abandonment or attachment issues left from childhood or family relationships. Obviously, we all contain tons of these, but the way they impact us and how we defend against them is as unique to each person as the event(s) that set them in motion.
Once you begin to "see into" this deep well of emotion that is unresolved, you may want to avoid it like the plague. Trust me, that is common. The problem is that it is so common few people choose to "own" their own pain and work on their inner being to find ways to speak new forms of love and grace to themselves so they CAN actually heal from these wounds. Most people THINK it is easier to blame others or share with others how awful the things that happened are, but take no other proactive action, OR better yet, wait until they get triggered and say it was the other person's fault that they are upset. None of those ways works (fight, flight, or freeze).
The reason avoiding or using some form of aggression (covert or overt) does not work is that it builds up over time and the longer it builds up, the harder it is to get rid of-like plaque on your teeth or in your arteries. It forms a hard coating and blocks the channel rotting things away or causing other disease. In the case of unprocessed anger, however, the "dis-EASE" is with self. It is poor self care to not take care of things that bother you at the time they happen. The "bother" never goes away and will need some kind of medication because it causes anxiety and depression. This is why people have addictive behaviors of all kinds…medicating pain from the past, believing and blaming others for their messed up lives.
Intention and willingness to no longer agree with lies of the past will lead the way.


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Angular service code gen
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#### An utility tool to generate an angular REST client from the protobuf spec service definitions used by grpc-gateway.

### Usage

#### Setup
Ensure that you have your `$GOPATH` set as the protoc toolchain seems to be unable to resolve imports that are resolved through modules.
You must provide the imports that are specified inside the input proto file to the protoc binary using the `-I` options.
You might also have to set your `$GOBIN`.

Install the `protoc-gen-angular` binary by running:
```shell
go build && go install
```

Otherwise you can install it using go mod as such:
```shell
go get github.com/heroiclabs/nakama/console/protoc-gen-angular
```

#### Options
Options are passed to the `protoc` flag in the following way: `--angular_out=service_name=foo,filename=bar.ts:.`.

* `filename`: The filename for the generated output.
* `service_name`: The name of the generated TypeScript service class.
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##### Example
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The output file is: `console.service.ts`.

### Limitations

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Monica Chon is the former editorial fellow at Oprah Daily, previously OprahMag.com.
Tom Hanks Has a Message for People Who Refuse to Wear a Mask: "Shame on You"
"Do your part," Tom says. "My Lord, it's common sense."
By Monica Chon
Oprah Pledges $10 Million Towards Coronavirus Relief Efforts
$1 million will go to America's Food Fund.

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We're going to miss singing/playing music with the kids in the family this Christmas. We're usually at our townhome in Columbus, OH for the holidays, near kids and grandkids, and have a family singalong. We also drive down to extended family in Newport, KY to join more kids and a number of good musicians. We made a conscious decision to stay home this year, to ensure that Chris' knee and hip replacements happen and that she has plenty of time to rehab/recover.


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TWO FIRES PART OF BUSY WEEKEND FOR RESCUERS
By JUDITH HAYNES Daily Press
GLOUCESTER — Two fires that were started accidentally by homeowners contributed to "one tremendously busy weekend" for Gloucester Fire and Rescue, said assistant fire chief J.D. Clements.
Four to five acres of a pine plantation off of Boothes Haven Road in the northwest corner of the county burned Saturday night, he said. The fire began after the owner of the property disposed of what he thought were cold ashes from a woodstove, Clements said.
Volunteer firefighters and the Department of Forestry contained the fire with water and plows and were letting it burn itself out, Clements said Sunday afternoon.
A shed on Court Drive, off of Hickory Fork Road in Belroi, was destroyed Sunday morning and siding on a nearby house was melted by a fire that apparently ignited with a spark from a leaf blower, he said.
Another shed fire on Saturday resulted in minor damage.
Approximately 18 to 20 volunteer firefighters responded to weekend fire calls, Clements said.
From 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, the department also had 16 medical calls -- four of which were for traffic accidents, Clements said. Normally there would be fewer than six for an entire weekend, he said.
Clements said he couldn't pinpoint a cause for the unusually busy weekend, except that warm weather was drawing more people outdoors.
Judith Haynes can be reached at (804) 642-1734 or jhaynes@dailypress.com
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Executive healthcare IT veteran brings 30-plus years' experience to industry leader in clinical communications and collaboration
PerfectServe® today announced that Greg White has been appointed its Chief Operating Officer (COO) to lead the company's next phase of growth, operations excellence and momentum, expanding its PerfectServe Synchrony™ solution to the health enterprise system, ambulatory and post-care provider markets. White is responsible for driving product innovation, sales, professional services, client services, research and development, and network operations.
"We are fortunate to have an industry executive of Greg's caliber join our executive team," said Terry Edwards, President and CEO of PerfectServe. "PerfectServe is at a meaningful size as a healthcare IT company, requiring different skill sets and functions to support development of our secure mobile care team collaboration and communications platform. With his Allscripts and Cerner background, Greg brings a deep understanding of operations and product selling to hospitals, integrated delivery networks, group practices and other provider market segments. His expertise scaling an organization of sizeable growth to the next level of agility in response to market demands is fundamental in pivoting our business strategy."
White is an accomplished executive with more than 30 years of experience advancing divisions for large healthcare IT companies and international businesses, turning around underperforming divisions and growing early stage companies into maturity. Previously, he was senior vice president and general manager of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions' TouchWorks EMR Division, where his team focused on revenue growth, product quality and Meaningful Use regulatory compliance. He also served in rising leadership roles at Cerner Corporation, most recently as managing director of Cerner Middle East and Africa, Dubai, UAE.
"Greg will be working closely as my partner alongside the senior management team to navigate PerfectServe's transition over the next phase of growth," Edwards continued. "We're at the industry forefront, differentiating our ability to automatically enable workflows to provide connection to the right care team member for any clinical situation, and to extend that capability beyond the four walls of the hospital to all modalities, care settings and stakeholders."
White earned his bachelor of science degree in finance from the University of Alabama. In 2000, he was the founder and CEO of Gajema Software, which was sold to Cerner Corporation (Nasdaq: CERN) in August 2004. He also founded ExecuTrain of Florida in 1993, recognized as an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Company in the U.S.
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An Epidemic of Bad Infographics: Depression
In an effort to keep trying to get people's attention in an increasingly attention-deficit world, we get a lot of inquiries for links to websites promoting education programs and other affiliate websites. The latest effort is focused around "infographics," those graphics made popular by the USA Today newspaper that combines an interesting graphical element with hard data. A well done infographic ostensibly makes data more engaging. A fantastic infographic puts data into proper perspective and gives it valuable context.
What these marketing firms send me, however, are not fantastic or even well-done. So in the interests of demonstrating that any infographic can be worse than no infographic, I'm going to critique one of the latest ones to have come across my desk. It's about depression, one of the most common and serious mental disorders.
This is going to be fun.
The title of the infographic is "The Depressing Statistics about Anti-Depressants." A good topic to cover, given how widely prescribed antidepressants are, even for people who don't meet the criteria for clinical depression. The sub-title is, "The drugs your doctor prescribed for your depression could be doing more harm than good." Okay, that sounds like a reasonable premise, let's see how it's backed up by the data and graphics in the infographic.
But before we do that, let's also just note who is sponsoring this infographic, because it's important to know an author's bias. ADrugRecall.com is a lawyer referral website that specializes in connecting consumers with lawyers who sue drug companies when the consumer has suffered a bad side effect (or worse) from a drug. It's run by a conglomerate ("brought to you by eJustice, a division of CMTM, Inc.") that hosts dozens of these kinds of websites, each specializing in some specific topic where litigation is assumedly very profitable.
The infographic continues:
Side effects are common in all antidepressants. For many people, the side effects are serious enough to make them stop taking the medication.
There is a danger that, in some people, antidepressant treatment will cause an increase, rather than a decrease in depression; and with it an increased risk of suicide.
All of which is true. What isn't said is that the "some people" is actually "a very small minority of people." The scare-mongering claim is made by exaggerating the actual prevalence of this "danger," which is much less of a danger if your psychiatrist or doctor is carefully monitoring your antidepressants (as they should be doing anyway).
The first component after the introduction of the infographic is a listing of "Treatments, Top 10 Most Prescribed Drugs and Their Success Rate."
How many things can you spot wrong with this graphic? First, 12 treatments are listed, not 10. And the data come not from an actual prescription database, like IMS Health, but from a self-report, support group social networking website.
How many of the 12 "prescribed drugs" are actually prescription drugs? Only 11. Amoryn, as the graphic notes, is a dietary supplement — not an antidepressant drug.
How many of the prescription drugs listed are available in the U.S. (the target audience of this infographic)? Only 11. Serzone hasn't been available in the U.S. for over 7 years.
What do the numbers mean on the graphic? According to the infographic, the numbers are defined as: "Daily Strength users have personal experience with many prescription drugs and have reviewed each of the following drugs. Each drug has been given a percentage based on these reviews."
So the numbers don't relate to the actual prescriptions made, but their "success rate." So does this mean that 81% of people who take Serzone experience "success," compared to only 48% of people who take Luvox?
No, according to Daily Strength, the percentage refers to how many of their users (not a randomized sample, by the way) found the treatment helpful that percentage of the time. So Daily Strength users found the vast majority of antidepressants helpful more than 50 percent of the time.
What about your level of depression? Well, according to the infographic — but not the research or mental health professionals — you can have different "depression levels" ranging from "Normal" (what's a "Normal" depression?) to "Situational" or even "Major."
Of course, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM-IV) doesn't divide major depression in this manner. Instead, it specifies that major depression can be Mild, Moderate, Severe without Psychotic Features, Severe with Psychotic Features, In Partial Remission, In Full Remission, or Chronic.
I assume "Situational" refers to a completely different mental disorder — Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood. The person designing this graphic was obviously not too familiar with the actual information he was asked to illustrate.
Next we come to the 11 "depression symptoms." Yes, you read that right — 11. The DSM-IV only lists 9 symptoms of depression, but for some reason the author of this infographic took it upon himself to leave out some of the official diagnostic criteria and replace them with his own. For instance, "low self-esteem," "headaches or chronic indigestion" and "low tolerance for stress" are not symptoms of major depression.
However, significant weight loss while not dieting or significant weight gain is a symptom of depression — but is notably absent from the infographic. Observable psychomotor agitation or retardation is also an important symptom of major depression, but also missing from the list of depression symptoms.
In fact, the infographic gets is completely wrong by noting "restlessness" is a symptom of depression. The DSM-IV specifically says, however, that one of the symptoms can't be "merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down" — it must be observable by others (an important difference left off the infographic). "Hostility" is also not listed within the criteria for major depression.
Last, the one thing you'd hope an infographic gets right are the actual graphics representing the data. Not so this one, because apparently someone can't count. (This is my favorite part.)
Graphical representations must be accurate — otherwise they lose their impact. If you're sloppy with the graphics, it shows that not only don't you care if you're getting the data right — you may be seen as purposely misrepresenting the data.
Notice the total number of people in this part of the graphic for each of the 3 data points is 11 (not 10). So "Fewer than 50%" should be 5 out of 11 people — not the 6 listed. 90% of 11 people is 9.9 people — not the 10 listed.
But worst of all is that 6.6% of 11 people is not 1 person. It's 3/4 of 1 person. Or a better graphic representation would be 1 whole person of 15 people (so add 4 more people to that bottom one and it'll be accurate). It really says something about your infographic when the graphics are simply wrong like this.
Needless to say, the infographic is also poorly sourced, with only four references, three of which are just broad informational pages about depression or antidepressants.
I hope infographics don't become any more popular, because in an effort to demonstrate data in a simpler and more engaging manner, they also have the danger of "dumbing down" the data, so people wouldn't even notice these kinds of factual errors and inaccuracies. Of course, that's what you can expect when the infographic isn't done by a newspaper, magazine or a publisher that has some modicum of respect for the data.
View the whole infographic here.
Grohol, J. (2018). An Epidemic of Bad Infographics: Depression. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 17, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/an-epidemic-of-bad-infographics-depression/
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Report: Louisiana is one of the least-educated states in the nation
Amanda McElfresh
The Daily Advertiser
Louisiana is the third least-educated state in the country, according to a new study.
Researchers from WalletHub looked at a variety of educational and economic metrics to develop new rankings of the country's most and least educated states.
Louisiana came in at No. 48 in terms of total education, followed by West Virginia and Mississippi.
RELATED: Louisiana schools strive to support rural students
The state also ranked fourth-lowest among the percentage of residents who have high school diplomas. Ranking below Louisiana were Mississippi, Texas and California. Louisiana's 2017 four-year high school graduation rate was 78.1 percent, marking an increase of 5.8 percent since 2012 and 12.1 percent since 2008.
Other results from the study include:
Louisiana has the second-lowest percentage of residents with an associate's degree or college experience. West Virginia has the lowest percentage.
Louisiana has the fifth-lowest number of residents with bachelor's degrees. It ranks above Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and West Virginia.
Louisiana is tied for 45th in terms of the lowest number of residents with graduate or professional degrees. Other states ranking low in this category were Nevada, Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia and North Dakota.
As part of the study, researchers spoke with Richard Fossey, a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who teaches education law and policy.
Fossey told Wallet Hub that one factor for Louisiana's rankings may be that many families leave the state for Texas, where public schools are ranked far higher than those in Louisiana.
"To stop this brain drain, Louisiana must pay its teachers better and provide better working conditions," Fossey told Wallet Hub. "If you compare a typical Texas high school with a Louisiana high school, the contrast is shocking. Texas schools are modern, clean and well-maintained. Louisiana schools are dilapidated in many communities."
RELATED: New report says school choice support holds steady among Americans
Fossey said another factor is that Louisiana has thousands of jobs in construction, oil production and other fields that do not require a college education.
"States need to do a better job of training people in the new technical trades," he said. "A pipe fitter makes a lot more money than a college graduate with a degree in liberal arts."
According to the study, the most educated states in the country are Massachusetts, Maryland, Vermont, Connecticut and Colorado.
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Are you a renter? Chances are, you already know how renters insurance can protect your property and provide liability coverage to protect your guests. But what about your identity? As the world becomes increasingly more digital, identity theft is a constant concern that renters in particular must be vigilant about since apartments may not always be as secure as houses.
To prevent this fraudulence, it's important to understand the potential access points to your sensitive information, both physically and digitally. Follow these tips to reduce the likelihood of having your identity stolen.
Store sensitive documents in a secure location, like a safe in the corner of a closet. Better yet, keep copies elsewhere, like a safe deposit box.
Rather than simply throwing out sensitive documents, shred them first.
Not planning on buying a home, car or making any other large investment in the near future? Consider freezing your credit to prevent unauthorized opening of lines of credit in your name.
Do you file taxes with a professional? Do not do business with a sloppy center that does not lock up customer information.
Never set your bank account passwords to autosave. It takes mere seconds to type them in and protect yourself.
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Six new council flats have been built on top of existing properties , creating the borough council's first ever rooftop development.
The brand new one and two-bed flats have been built on top of 165 to 215 Longlands in Adeyfield, which have undergone major refurbishment.
The four one-bed and two two-bed flats have been added to Dacorum Borough Council's housing stock, adding to its target of building 400 new council homes by 2020.
Longlands residents have been involved in deciding the priority work for their homes, which were some of the first to be built in Hemel's new town development in the 1950s.
The work includes new external wall insulation which is rendered, replacement balconies, a new roof, new parapet, new front doors and new windows – all helping to lower residents' fuel bills and eliminate damp.
There are also new designated bin areas, along with six new parking bays.
Councillor Margaret Griffiths, portfolio holder for housing, said: "There is huge demand for affordable homes in our borough, so it is a priority for us to build new council homes.
Contractor Keepmoat was overseeing the refurbishment work and construction of the new flats.
This is one of many new build projects being carried out by Dacorum Borough Council to provide more affordable homes across the borough.


One evening in 2006 Mark Rayworth had cycled to Mumbles and was stationary, looking out to see over the Mumbles sea wall. He saw what he described as a large circular white object emerging from the sea on the horizon, and travel upwards, where it resembled the moon. He apparently filmed the incident and will be making it available to SUFON.
About 2.15 PM. Clear and dry.
Margaret Fry looked up at a clear blue sky with long wide contrails about, at about 20,000 feet. Then near Slater's garage she spotted a white object which was stationary below one of the contrails. She described it as being like four balls joined together, two at the top and two at the bottom, forming a square. It then started to move well below the large contrail in a straight line, then upwards into the contrail. It then came out the other side where it then faded out. It was bright white and there was no sound, no trail and moved at a leisurely pace. There were no lights on the object. Its size was comparable to a five-pence-piece held at arms length.
It reappeared much lower, at 1,000 - 2,000 feet up off Pensarn, flying towards Rhuddlan. Again at a leisurely pace in a straight line, with a thinner contrail higher above it. It disappeared and reappeared a couple of times while travelling on the same course over Kinmel Bay.
Source: Courtesy of Margaret Fry - ref: 2006 notebook.
Rod Graves (72) was called by his partner and friend to get a camera because they had seen 40 or more lights moving down Garth Mountain. By the time he got to the front door, the lights had disappeared. However they reappeared and he described a cigar-shaped object with lights on. Photos were taken.
A UFO was spotted over St. Tudwal's Islands was caught on a weather cam and said to be "hanging in the sky" by one witness. However the MOD said the picture was not clear enough to conclude what it actually was and it had received no other UFO reports for that date.
Peter Lane (48) was at home in Gowerton and spotted a light moving at a steady pace roughly south to north. At first he thought that it was a satellite. Within 30 seconds of spotting it he saw, "...what looked like an explosion at first. Then a beam of light erupted from it (white light)". The beam touched the ground or water on the Loughor Estuary [west of Gowerton].
At the same time the beam swept in a stright line across and directly at him. He stood in his porch and, "held me there for about 2 seconds". It then blinked off.
The main light then began to slowly bend its course towards the moon. Once the turn was made it instantly increased speed and "was gone in a blink". [The moon on this date was in its first quarter and sets at 01.44, so presumably was westward of his position and close to setting - in which case the time he says is mistaken by at least 15 minutes].
Sally Gavin of Llanynys was spending an evening with her boyfriend watching a film when they spotted a very bright white flashing light just above Moel Famau Country Park, a mountainous area to their east, in the direction of Mold.
Sally saw the strange phenomenon hovering over the mountain. Five people, including Sally's brother-in-law, saw the lights and reported the details to North Wales Police who told them it might have been caused by the Army or someone out hunting. But Sally is sure this wasn't the case.
"It definitely wasn't a plane or a helicopter. The lights were far too big and bright" she said.
- citing BBC Wales webpage -Weird Wales.
Alvin Morris (38) saw two spherical balls about half the size of a light aircraft flying north over Swansea Bay at an altitude of about 100 feet. They were a metallic grey in colour and moving faster than a conventional aircraft. There was no sound heard. They disappeared behind a cloud.
On a Thursday night in the winter of 2006, at 11.30 PM. Clear sky.
Mark Rayworth, aged 31, was standing in Heol Fach, Treboeth, Swansea, when he saw what he described as an elongated triangular-shaped object, heading northwards, in the direction of the Llangyfelach, at a height of about 200 feet.
Whilst the object appeared to be of a white colour, what made it unusual was the fact that it seemed to be materialising and dematerialising as it moved. The object, which was moving fairly quickly, eventually disappeared from view. No lights or sound was observed.


Join us on May 4 – 6, 2018 as we celebrate the 23rd Annual of this Colorado Mountain Bike tradition; the US Bank Fruita Fat Tire Festival.
Meet MTB friends from around the world and support those who support the passion, the lifestyle and the sport we all enjoy.
Live bands Friday and Saturday evenings under the summer stars in downtown Fruita, as well as one of the top cycling expos in the state. Celebrate hundreds of miles of World Class MTB Trails and join in the fun!


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Jan 8 Ben & Jerry's chilly reality.
There is ice cream which doesn't like Donald Trump.
Do your products like Donald Trump?
Ben & Jerry's made an ice cream which doesn't like Donald Trump. It's called Pecan Resist. Ok, the ice cream can't like or dislike a man, a President. Even Donald Trump.
But it can stand for something. Everything can stand for something. Everything does stand for something. But how much?
Companies too often make products and services to stand for not very much. To polarise as little as possible, to appeal to the widest theoretical market. But smaller, better, stronger is better. Create products and services which stand for something, which polarise, which are for you, but not them. No need to be mean, but be something.
If ice cream can stand for something, so can your products, services, company and people. And what's more, it pays.
Jan 9 Celebrating different, not better.
Jan 4 Patagonia is not just a nice place in Chile and Argentina
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The following three prints are from Francisco Goya's "Los Caprichos," a book published as an album in 1799. The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya's condemnation of the universal follies and foolishness in the Spanish society in which he lived. These plates were created by Miguel Seguí y Riera (1858-1923) a Catalán engraver and master printer.
Image Size: 7" x 4.75"
Paper Size: 13.5" x 9.5"


For its latest flavor, ice cream purveyors Ben & Jerry's drew from history. Comedic history.
Months after Alec Baldwin dropped hints that a flavor named "Schweddy Balls" was on the horizon, B&J have made it a reality. The concoction, made of vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered rum and malt balls, got its name from an old 'Saturday Night Live' sketch win which Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer play low-key NPR hosts who delight in holiday confections made by eatery-owner Pete Schweddy (Baldwin).
Schweddy's specialty is balls — popcorn, rum, and cheese — and of course, this being 'SNL' and all, it isn't long before the ladies are tasting and swooning over his Schweddy balls.
Watch the 'SNL' skit that inspired the name, and eat some Schweddy Balls while you can — the flavor is a limited edition.


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Students participating in Cornell's new ambassador program will volunteer to uphold guidelines, distribute PPE and identify potential risks for COVID-19 spread on campus.
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Cornell Rolls Out COVID-19 Student Ambassador Program
By Meghana Srivastava | August 3, 2020
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In about a month, Cornell students are expected to start classes. Much of the reopening plan is still up in the air, but Cornell is now calling on students to volunteer as ambassadors to advocate for Cornell's yet-to-be-released behavioral compact.
Cornell launched the COVID-19 Student Peer Health Ambassadors Program Monday, a volunteer opportunity for Cornell students to increase public health awareness on campus through advocating for the University's COVID-19 prevention guidelines.
The program calls on students to apply for two levels of ambassadorship. Level one ambassadors have a lesser time commitment and no required meetings, and level two ambassadors participate in a "student think tank" to discuss risks and brainstorm virus prevention measures.
A level one ambassador's duties include handing out PPE, supporting the University's public health campaign and serving as a role model in following the behavioral compact.
The behavioral compact is a set of guidelines all Cornell students must adhere to during the fall semester. According to an outline of the compact on students' re-entry checklists, the compact details measures like complying with regular testing, making efforts to quarantine for 14 days before returning to campus and participating in social distancing policies.
This compact has not yet been made available to students, but according to Provost Michael Kotlikoff's July 30 email, all students — including those who will not spend the semester in Ithaca — must agree to the compact before the semester starts. Kotlikoff wrote that it will become a part of the re-entry checklist some time this week and students will be informed via email once it is made available.
Level two ambassadors advocate for policies that prevent the spread of the virus within their own student organizations and participate in weekly meetings with public health fellows from the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives, a department within Cornell Health responsible for advancing campus health through education and research, according to its website.
Besides the ambassador program, Cornell has listed other measures to enforce the compact in its reactivation plan. According to the report, students who fail to comply with the compact "will face sanctions from limitations on their ability to access buildings or the university's on-line systems to suspension or expulsion."
In order to take part in the COVID-19 student ambassador program, students must fill out an application questionnaire that asks about their participation in student organizations: if they are a varsity athlete, a sorority or fraternity member and why they want to join the program.
All participating students will complete a virtual training administered by the Skorton Center.
About Meghana Srivastava
Meghana Srivastava is a member of the Class of 2023 in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is an Assistant News Editor on the 138th Editorial Board and can be reached at msrivastava@cornellsun.com.
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As Campus Reopens, Professors Worry About Complications at Every Level
By Kathryn Stamm July 6, 2020
Professors and faculty voice concern regrading in-person teaching for the upcoming semester, taking into account the health risks it may pose.
Cornell to Reopen Campus for Fall Semester With Hybrid Model, Abridged Timeline
By Meghna Maharishi June 30, 2020
Cornell will reopen campus for the fall semester, offering in-person and online instruction, President Martha E. Pollack announced Tuesday.


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Jesus Hernandez Alcocer, the accused killer of Yrma Lydya, passes away.
Jesus Hernandez Alcocer, the accused killer of Yrma Lydya, passes away. They reported the death of Jesus Hernandez Alcocer, who murdered the singer Yrma Lydya from Mexico City's Reclusorio Norte and was imprisoned in Del Valle de la CDMX after murdering his famous wife in the neighboring Sountory restaurant on June 23. Follow For More Updates at Rapiddnews.com
According to the Public Ministry, the 79-year-old attorney, who is on trial for the cruel murder of artists from the Mexican region and musical genres such as bolero, will be assassinated in the same prison on Tuesday morning, October 4. CDMX's Secretariat of Citizen Security:
"Jess" N, who was incarcerated in the Northern Men's Preventive Prison, reported this morning that he was not in good health. As a result, he was moved to the center's medical services, where he got care, but at 10:45 a.m., he was pronounced dead," SSC reported.
Jesus Hernandez Alcocer passes away
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A few months after her untimely demise, Yrma Lydya gained popularity on social networks due to her collaborations with established concepts, such as her interpretation of El Viejo del Sombreón with Lucho Argan's Sonora Dinamita and her successful participation in Gran Diosas, where she had the privilege to sing alongside Dulce, Mara Conchita Alonso, Mara del Sol, Angela Carra
Dulce was the one who publicly expressed her grief following the loss of her spouse, who was only 21 years old at the time. The interpreter of Tu Mueca informed TV Notas that Yrma's connection with Jess "N" 58 years her senior, struck her as odd from the start. Therefore, she discovered that they were not married and that her then-partner had merely taken her as her wife in order to "protect her from predators."
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Q: Getting an auth token for appengine in ICS I am having a problem retrieving an authentication token for an appengine application in Android.
I am following the docs, in that I get the users google account, and attempt to get the auth token from the account manager which works fine. However I get an intent back from the account manager, which is also fine, as this means user input is required.
The problem begins when I try to start the activity (GrantCredentialsPermissionActivity) that prompts the user to grant access. It simply throws a null pointer exception on creation. There is a bug logged here.
This has only been happening since I upgraded to ICS 4.0.3, and I have found others online that are having trouble with this, but I am struggling to find a solution. Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution? I know there are other questions in this area on stack overflow, but the 'solutions' are unsatisfactory (usually talking about invalidating tokens, which I have done).
Cheers,

A: Ok so I figured this out! I had been doing this to get the accounts from the account manager:
accountManager.getAccounts();

Which returned all accounts. I had two accounts that had the same email address associated with them, and when I looped over the accounts I matched a samsung account by email instead of the gmail one. I changed the call to get accounts to this:
accountManager.getAccountsByType("com.google");

So my fault, but an annoying one to find, hopefully this helps someone else.

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Q: WSO2 APIM Analytics not populating Log Analyzer links in Admin Portal We have setup WSO2 API-M v2.1.0 with API-M Analytics v2.1.0 with Postgresql and HAProxy on CentOS. The API analytics reports are being shown as expected from the Publisher and the Store side and even the api availability from the Admin Portal.
This is a distributed set-up comprising separate publisher, store, key manager, traffic manager, gateway manager/worker and analytics. Consul service discovery is providing local DNS resolution.
On the gateway worker we have enabled log analyzer; also HAProxy is forwarding /portal and /shindig to the Admin Portal publisher node.
Also note the publisher was started on its api-publisher product profile, however this resulted in missing alert configurations, see
jira issue.
This is easily resolved by reverting to the default profile; still none of the log analyzer links are being populated when logged into the Admin Portal application.
When attempting any of the Log analyzer links from the Admin Portal the browsers javascript console is displaying the following errors :
"Failed to preload gadget https://<HOSTNAME>/portal/store/carbon.super/fs/gadget/LiveLogViewer/index.xml."

and
"Detailed error: 503 Unable to retrieve spec for https://<HOSTNAME>/portal/store/carbon.super/fs/gadget/LiveLogViewer/index.xml. HTTP error 503"

From the analytics carbon console I can validate my gateway log analzyer configuration from the data explorer seen here

The docs seem to suggest the need to edit js code for the log analyzer??


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Hauck says Lotulelei poised for big season
Football Top News UNLV — 26 July 2012
With its long white sandy beaches, warm temperatures, tropical landscape and sparkling blue oceans, it's hard to beat the Hawaiian island of Maui for a vacation location.
It's probably the last spot you would head to if you were a college football coach looking for a tough, hard-hitting linebacker, however.
But that's where UNLV senior John Lotulelei, a second team preseason all-Mountain West pick by Lindy's Magazine, hails from. The 6-foot, 235-pounder, who was a late addition to the Rebels at the start of fall camp last year after earning all-Golden Gate Conference honors at Merced (Calif.) College, is the team's top returning tackler (60) despite not taking over starting duties until late in the season.
With a full season and a full spring practice now under his belt, UNLV coach Bobby Hauck thinks enough of Lotulelei that he brought him to represent the defense at the Mountain West Media Days that concluded Wednesday at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
"He's poised to have a big year," Hauck said. "He's got a strong personality in the locker room. He leads by example."
Lotulelei is a 2009 graduate of Baldwin High School in Wailuku, Hawaii, not far from the resort beaches of Wailea. He helped lead the Bears to three Maui Interscholastic League championships as a linebacker and fullback and was named the MIL Defensive Player of the Year as a senior.
Jimmy Morimoto, the Rebels' director of player personnel who was a longtime coach at Baldwin High and had ties to the Lotulelei family, was instrumental in helping sway the linebacker to UNLV.
Lotulelei delivered several highlight-reel hits during his junior season. He had his best game in UNLV's 48-21 loss to fifth-ranked Boise State, finishing with a team-best 13 tackles. He's being counted on to help improve a Rebel defense that ranked 118th in the nation in scoring (40.4 points allowed per game) and 105th in total defense (443.2 yards per game).
"Last year, that's the past," Lotulelei said. "It doesn't really matter. This year is a new program. … I think the defense (will be) improved a lot this year."
Lotulelei points to the long hours the Rebels have put in the weight room and with conditioning since the end of spring practice as a big reason for the potential improvement. Lotulelei upped his bench press to an impressive 410 pounds and set a team record for his position by cleaning 363 pounds earlier this week.


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Bryan Adams dedicates Pirelli's 2022 calendar to 'the excellent stars of music'
Penned by Leah Dolan, CNN
Pirelli has unveiled "On the Road," its 2022 calendar starring some of the music industry's greatest names, including Iggy Pop, Cher, Grimes and Jennifer Hudson. This edition of the renowned calendar, which was set on pause past year due to the coronavirus, was shot by Canadian singer-turned-photographer Bryan Adams and is dedicated to the "biggest abilities in the planet of music," in accordance to a information release.
"On the highway is where I have been for the very last 45 decades," Adams reported in the statement, "for the reason that the everyday living of a musician is produced up of streets, vacation, ready in motels, several hours backstage."
Considering that 1964, the Pirelli Calendar has been interpreted by a complete of 37 photographers — including Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino and Herb Ritts — and has showcased an spectacular roster of talent, this sort of as designs Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell and actors Sophia Loren and Maggie Cheung. For the 2017 calendar, Peter Lindbergh captured a throng of Hollywood actors, together with Uma Thurman and Kate Winslet, in a collection of stripped-back again, black-and-white portraits.
The 2022 model, which is the Italian tire firm's 48th edition, is a curated glimpse into the existence of a touring artist. From the glamorous multi-story billboards that tower above street level to the remnants of home services: silver cloches strewn apart, 50 %-eaten salads and vacant h2o tumblers. The photos adhere to a playful narrative arc: every thirty day period, Adams introduces not only a new star but a new scene.
Iggy Pop was doused in silver paint for element of his photograph shoot. Credit score: Bryan Adams/Pirelli
For Might, the phrase "getting into backstage" introduces three images of Cher strutting through an unnamed venue's labyrinthine hallways like a phase supervisor. In November, only the term "aftershow" accompanies numerous shots of Rita Ora posing within a bathtub, absentmindedly pouring liquor more than the edge. Every single month is timestamped, also, which means Adams' tale of life on the street is neatly packaged to stand for the span of a one working day: beginning in January at 7:45 a.m. and stretching into the small hrs of a December early morning at 4:12 a.m.
It really is rockstar iconography at it really is greatest, drawing on the beloved — if not marginally clichéd — imagery of smashed lipsticks, abandoned microphones and stars perched atop pianos. The full calendar was shot in just a few times, with most superstars photographed in Los Angeles at the Chateau Marmont or the Palace Theatre, although pics of Saweetie ended up taken from Resort La Scalinatella in Capri, Italy.
Adams' himself closes the calendar, with an aviator-clad self-portrait and the wistful kicker: "On the way to the next display."
Leading image: St. Vincent for the 2022 Pirelli Calendar.
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