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The Field of Ice
The North-West Passage
NEXT morning, Altamont Bell and the Doctor repaired to the Porpoise. There was no lack of wood, for, shattered as the old "three-master" had been by the icebergs, she could still supply the principal parts of a new ship, and the carpenter began his task immediately.
In the end of May, the temperature again rose, and spring returned for good and all. Rain fell copiously, and before long the melting snow was running down every little slope in falls and cascades.
Hatteras could not contain his delight at these signs of a general thaw among the ice-fields, for an open sea would bring him liberty. At last he might hope to ascertain for himself whether his predecessors were correct in their assertions about a polar basin.
This was a frequent topic of thought and conversation with him, and one evening when he was going over all the old familiar arguments in support of his theory, Altamont took up the subject, and declared his opinion that the polar basin extended west as well as east. But it was impossible for the American and Englishman, to talk long about anything without coming to words, so intensely national were both. Dr. Kane was the first bone of contention on this occasion, for the jealous Englishman was unwilling to grant his rival the glory of being a discoverer, alleging his belief that though the brave adventurer had gone far north, it was by mere chance he had made a discovery.
"Chance!" interrupted Altamont, hotly. "Do you mean to assert that it is not to Kane's energy and science that we owe his great discovery?"
"I mean to say that Dr. Kane's name is not worth mentioning in a country made illustrious by such names as Parry, and Franklin, and Ross, and Belcher, and Penny; in a country where the seas opened the North-West Passage to an Englishman—McClure!"
"McClure!" exclaimed the American. "Well, if ever chance favoured anyone it was that McClure. Do you pretend to deny it?"
"I do," said Hatteras, becoming quite excited. "It was his courage and perseverance in remaining four whole winters among the ice."
"I believe that, don't I?" said Altamont, sneeringly. "He was caught among the bergs and could not get away; but didn't he after all abandon his ship, the Investigator, and try to get back home? Besides, putting the man aside, what is the value of his discovery? I maintain that the North-West Passage is still undiscovered, for not a single ship to this day has ever sailed from Behring's Straits to Baffin's Bay!"
The fact was indisputable, but Hatteras started to his feet, and said—
"I will not permit the honour of an English captain to be attacked in my presence any longer!"
"You will not permit!" echoed Altamont, also springing erect. "But these are facts, and it is out of your power to destroy them!"
"Sir!" shouted Hatteras, pale with rage.
"My friends!" interposed the Doctor; "pray be calm. This is a scientific point we are discussing."
But Hatteras was deaf to reason now, and said angrily—
"I'll tell you the facts, sir."
"And I'll tell you," retorted the irate American.
"Gentlemen," said Clawbonny, in a firm tone; "allow me to speak, for I know the facts of the case as well as and perhaps better than you, and I can state them impartially."
"Yes, yes!" cried Bell and Johnson, who had been anxiously watching the strife.
"Well, go on," said Altamont, finding himself in the minority, while Hatteras simply made a sign of acquiescence, and resumed his seat.
The Doctor brought a chart and spread it out on the table, that his auditors might follow his narration intelligibly, and be able to judge the merits of McClure for themselves.
"It was in 1848," he said, "that two vessels, the Herald and the Plover, were sent out in search of Franklin, but their efforts proving ineffectual, two others were despatched to assist them—the Investigator, in command of McClure, and the Enterprise, in command of Captain Collison. The Investigator arrived first in Behring's Straits, and without waiting for her consort, set out with the declared purpose to find Franklin or the North-West Passage. The gallant young officer hoped to push north as far as Melville Sound, but just at the extremity of the Strait, he was stopped by an insurmountable barrier of ice, and forced to winter there. During the long, dreary months, however, he and his officers undertook a journey over the ice-field, to make sure of its communicating with Melville Sound."
"Yes, but he did not get through," said Altamont.
"Stop a bit," replied Clawbonny; "as soon as a thaw set in, McClure renewed his attempt to bring his ship into Melville Sound, and had succeeded in getting within twenty miles, when contrary winds set in, and dragged her south with irresistible violence. This decided the captain to alter his course. He determined to go in a westerly direction; but after a fearful struggle with icebergs, he stuck fast in the first of the series of straits which end in Baffin's Bay, and was obliged to winter in Mercy Bay. His provisions would only hold out eighteen months longer, but he would not give up. He set out on a sledge, and reached Melville Island, hoping to fall in with some ship or other, but all he found in Winter Harbour was a cairn, which contained a document, stating that Captain Austin's lieutenant, McClintock, had been there the preceding year. McClure replaced this document by another, which stated his intention of returning to England by the North-West Passage he had discovered, by Lancaster Sound and Baffin's Bay, and that in the event of his not being heard of, he might be looked for north or west of Melville Island. Then he went back to Mercy Bay with undaunted courage, to pass a third winter. By the beginning of March his stock of provisions was so reduced in consequence of the utter scarcity of game through the severity of the season, that McClure resolved to send half his men to England, either by Baffin's Bay or by McKenzie River and Hudson's Bay. The other half would manage to work the vessel to Europe. He kept all his best sailors, and selected for departure only those to whom a fourth winter would have been fatal. Everything was arranged for their leaving, and the day fixed, when McClure, who was out walking with Lieutenant Craswell, observed a man running towards them, flinging up his arms and gesticulating frantically, and on getting nearer recognized him as Lieutenant Prim, officer on board the Herald, one of the ships he had parted with in Behring's Straits two years before.
Captain Kellett, the Commander, had reached Winter Harbour, and finding McClure's document in the cairn, had dispatched his lieutenant in search of him. McClure accompanied him back, and arranged with the captain to send him his batch of invalids. Lieutenant Craswell took charge of these and conveyed them safely to Winter Harbour. Leaving them there he went across the ice four hundred and seventy miles, and arrived at Isle Beechy, where, a few days afterwards, he took passage with twelve men on board the Phoenix, and reached London safely on the 7th of October, 1853, having traversed the whole extent between Behring's Straits and Cape Farewell."
"Well, if arriving on one side and leaving at the other is not going through, I don't know what is!" said Hatteras.
"Yes, but he went four hundred and seventy miles over ice-fields," objected Altamont.
"What of that?"
"Everything; that is the gist of the whole argument. It was not the Investigator that went through."
"No," replied Clawbonny, "for, at the close of the fourth winter, McClure was obliged to leave her among the ice."
"Well, in maritime expeditions the vessel has to get through, and not the man; and if ever the Northwest Passage is practicable, it will be for ships and not sledges. If a ship cannot go, a sloop must."
"A sloop!" exclaimed Hatteras, discovering a hidden meaning in the words.
"Altamont," said the Doctor, "your distinction is simply puerile, and in that respect we all consider that you are in the wrong."
"You may easily do that," returned the American. "It is four against one, but that will not prevent me from holding my own opinion."
"Keep it and welcome, but keep it to yourself, if you please, for the future," exclaimed Hatteras.
"And pray what right have you to speak to me like this, sir?" shouted Altamont, in a fury.
"My right as captain," returned Hatteras, equally angry.
"Am I to submit to your orders, then?"
"Most assuredly, and woe to you if——"
The Doctor did not allow him to proceed, for he really feared the two antagonists might come to blows. Bell and Johnson seconded his endeavours to make peace, and, after a few conciliatory words, Altamont turned on his heel, and walked carelessly away, whistling "Yankee Doodle." Hatteras went outside, and paced up and down with rapid strides. In about an hour he came back, and retired to bed without saying another word.
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Q: How to put desired umask with SFTP? I have a SFTP server (openssh/sftp-server) and I would like to set umask 002 for users using this service. I tried setting PAM (pam.d/common-session), and .profile for each user, but no luck.
With SSH login everything is fine, but when I try with SFTP (with gFTP) I have the 022 umask set.
I already tried to use a wrapper for sftp-server that is changing the umask before calling the sftp-server, no luck.
Any help? Thanks a lot!

A: I hope this can save someone else hours of frustration...
If you're using a GUI SFTP application, check its preferences for setting permissions on upload.
I had tried all the solutions above, and it turns out the application was just overriding them.

A: In the ssh config file you can also use this to set the mode of the file specifically (overriding any chmod that the client may try to set). Here I am using internal-sftp but I guess it would be the same for sftp-server:
ForceCommand internal-sftp -u 0022

A: Since OpenSSH 5.4p1 I think, you can use the "-u" option, for example:
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server -u 022

From the man page:
 -u umask
         Sets an explicit umask(2) to be applied to newly-created files
         and directories, instead of the user's default mask.

A: After many hours trying to apply various hacks and fixes i've found a proper solution!
There's a patch for SSH that permits you to chose the umask that you want for SFTP. You can download it here: http://sftpfilecontrol.sourceforge.net/
For me (OpenSSH_5.2p1+sftpfilecontrol-v1.3, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007) it's working perfectly!

A: To quote this message:

I got this working okay by adding a "umask 007" line in /etc/init.d/ssh.

Bash uses the .profile for interactive login shells. I don't think sftp counts as one. You might be able to set the umask in /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.bashrc if the tip above doesn't work or you want more fine-grained control.

A: Refer to this question to find a simple solution that doesn't require specific openssh versions nor custom patches.

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Q: Is this lock + ManualResetEvent usage thread safe? This is a separate question based off of this question. To recap, say I have two functions that manipulate a count, and an OnTimer function that fires at a regular interval. My desire is that if/when OverwriteCount is called, IncrementCount can't be executed until the timer function executes.
The proposed solution was:
private int _myCount = 0;
private readonly object _sync = new object();
private ManualResetEventSlim mre = new ManualResetEventSlim(initialState: true);

void IncrementCount()
{
    mre.Wait(); // all threads wait until the event is signaled

    lock (_sync)
    {
        _myCount++;
    }
}

void OverwriteCount(int newValue)
{
    lock (_sync)
    {
        mre.Reset(); // unsignal the event, blocking threads
        _myCount = newValue;
    }
}

void OnTimer()
{
    lock (_sync)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(_myCount);
        mre.Set(); // signal the event
    }
}

The ManualResetEventSlim tries to ensure that once OverwriteCount() unsignals the event, any modifications to _myCount must wait until OnTimer() executes.
Problem:

*

*Say thread A enters IncrementCount() and passes the event's wait() - the ManualResetEvent's initial state is already signaled.

*Thread B then starts and executes all of OverwriteCount().

*Thread A then continues by acquiring the lock and incrementing _myCount.

This violates my goal as _myCount would change after a call to OverwriteCount(), prior to OnTimer running.
Rejected Alternative: I could move mre.Wait() within lock(_sync) but that poses a deadlock risk. If thread A calls IncrementCount() and blocks on the wait, no other threads can acquire the lock to release it.
Question: Do I need a different synchronization primitive to achieve my goal? Alternatively, am I wrong about the thread safety concern?

A: I think you can achieve your goal with just the standard Monitor and an additional flag.
private readonly object _sync = new object();
private int _myCount = 0;
private bool _canIncrement = true;

void IncrementCount()
{
    lock (_sync)
    {
        // If the flag indicates we can't increment, unlock _sync and wait for a pulse.
        // Use a loop here to ensure that if Wait() returns following the PulseAll() below
        // (after re-acquiring the lock on _sync), but a call to OverwriteCount managed to
        // occur in-between, that we wait again.
        while (!_canIncrement)
        {
            Monitor.Wait(_sync);
        }

        _myCount++;
    }
}

void OverwriteCount(int newValue)
{
    lock (_sync)
    {
        _canIncrement = false;
        _myCount = newValue;
    }
}

void OnTimer()
{
    lock (_sync)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(_myCount);
        _canIncrement = true;
        // Ready any threads waiting on _sync in IncrementCount() above
        Monitor.PulseAll(_sync);
    }
}


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The personal safety and security of hospital security professionals - and the welfare of the people within a hospital is being assessed with greater concern and in more detail than ever before.
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Exceptional protection from the most realistic and most common threat: 'blunt force trauma'... meaning kicks, punches, hits from blunt objects, bricks, falls etc.


HUD Report: Homelessness Down in U.S.
A new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development says that for the third straight year, the number of homeless people in the U.S. has declined.
In January 2013, 610,042 people were homeless on a given night. Sixty-five percent were living in emergency shelters or transitional housing. Thirty-five percent were unsheltered.
Homelessness declined by nearly 4% (or 23,740 people) between 2012-2013, and by 9% since 2007.
Homelessness among families declined by 11%.
Since 2009, homelessness among veterans decreased by 24%.
Since 2007, unsheltered homelessness declined by 23 percent.
Five states – California, New York, Florida, Texas and Massachusetts – accounted for half of the homeless population in the country.
You can read Connecticut's Point In Time Count here, from the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.


Is your nonprofit new to donor management software? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Many Little Green Light customers report that they are working at a nonprofit that has never used a dedicated donor management solution prior to LGL. This often means there are lots of questions on where to begin. This article offers guidance on how to use LGL effectively from Day 1.
Answering these 2 important questions can help you get a quick start on using your new donor management system.
Question#1: What do you most want to accomplish right now?
One thing that you may have already realized about Little Green Light is that it has lots of functionality. That can be really cool. But trying to tackle it all at once can be overwhelming, to say the least, so I recommend breaking it down into manageable pieces. Think about why you decided to adopt a donor management system. What specific problems are you trying to solve? If your list is long, prioritize which problems you need to tackle before you do anything else. Then choose one or two items to work on first.
Once you've figured out what you need to accomplish first, think about the data that needs to exist in LGL in order to do so.
Then head to the LGL Knowledge Base to find practical articles on accomplishing your tasks. By successfully accomplishing one of your goals, you'll feel that much more capable of tackling the next one.
Question #2: What information do you need to maintain in your database?
Often when an organization decides to use a donor management system, the first order of business is thinking about how to move the data they've already collected into the new system.
However, before you start thinking about how to move your data, first think about what data will be useful to maintain in order to achieve your goals. Data about your supporters can be a goldmine, but it can feel more like quicksand if it doesn't provide you with useful insight into their engagement with your organization.
What are some basic data points that are important to maintain in your donor management system?
Your constituent's affiliation with your organization. Are they volunteers, members, or event attendees? There's nothing worse than being faced with a list of people and not having any idea about what their relationship is to your organization! By adding this information to their record using the Groups category in LGL, you'll easily be able to sort your database by these affiliations when needed. Note: Group values can be customized to your organization's needs. You can use the ones that LGL provides or you can create ones that are specific to your organization. Also important to know: constituents can be assigned more than one Group value, allowing you to see the multiple ways a constituent is engaged with your organization. You may find our article, Best Practices: Using Groups in LGL, helpful when using Groups.
Gift Info. To take full advantage of LGL's searching and reporting capabilities, you will want to store, at minimum, the gift date and the gift amount of each gift received.
Tip: As soon as gift data is added to a constituent record, the record will be tagged as a donor. LGL automatically assigns a Giving Status of "Active" or "Lapsed Donor" to the record based on the date of their last gift. Because this happens automatically, there's no need to create a Group value called "Donor".
Do you want to capture more detail about that gift? You can set up gift coding to capture the purpose for which the gift was given or use an appeal or an event to identify which activity generated the gift.
Tip: Check out our article Organizing your campaign, fund, event, and appeal categories for tips on how to code gifts in Little Green Light.
It's important to remember that you need not do everything your donor management system is capable of all at once! You can start small and grow your use of the database as your needs grow and your time allows.
I love this program for so many reasons … including these tips and all of the video and text teachings. Thanks so much, and keep 'em coming!!
Thank you so much, Kathryne!
Thank you, please continue sending these updates. We are all learning the LGL system from scratch.


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Karen S. Evans is a former United States Senate confirmed, Presidential Appointed executive, who served as the first Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response at the U.S. Department of Energy. An executive who served in three Presidential Appointed positions in two Administrations.

Ms. Evans currently serves as the Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute.

Education
Ms. Evans holds a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Arts Public History certificate, and a Bachelor of science  in Chemistry from West Virginia University.

Career
Ms. Evans previously served as the first Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). She was sworn in on August 28, 2018, and provided strategic direction, leadership and management to address emerging threats while improving energy infrastructure security and supporting the DOE national security mission.

Prior to being named Assistant Secretary at DOE, Ms. Evans was the national director of the U.S. Cyber Challenge, a public-private partnership focused on building the cyber workforce. She served on the Trump Transition and Landing Teams to develop the management agenda addressing technology initiatives government wide.

Ms. Evans served as the Administrator for the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during the George W. Bush administration. At OMB, she oversaw nearly $71 billion in annual IT funds, including implementation of IT throughout the federal government. Previously, she served as the CIO for DOE and at the director level with both the U.S. Department of Justice and the Farmers Home Administration.

Evans ia a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chief information officers
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IC 2118 (also known as Witch Head Nebula due to its shape) is an extremely faint reflection nebula believed to be an ancient supernova remnant or gas cloud illuminated by nearby supergiant star Rigel in Orion. It lies in the Eridanus constellation, about 900 light years from Earth. The nature of the dust particles, reflecting blue light better than red, is a factor in giving the Witch Head its blue color. Radio observations show substantial carbon monoxide emission throughout parts of IC 2118, an indicator of the presence of molecular clouds and star formation in the nebula. In fact candidates for pre-main sequence stars and some classic T-Tauri stars have been found deep within the nebula.


LEAP is pleased to again offer an exciting afterschool program at several TCAPS elementary schools. This program is called Challenge Island and will be run by Renee Allen, owner and director at Challenge Island Northwest Michigan.
Challenge Island is a cross-educational STEAM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) enrichment program for kids! Children are taken on a unique "island" adventure where they work in collaborative tribes to take on high-level thinking challenges using only the materials in their treasure chest and their creativity.
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Registrations will be accepted up through the Sunday (11:59 PM) immediately prior to the start of the eight-week island.
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In the event school is closed, no LEAP activities will be held per TCAPS policy. There is no guarantee of a make-up date in the case of inclement weather. Missed sessions will be made up if schedules allow (including Challenge Island schedules/school room schedules/TCAPS LEAP schedules). However, Challenge Island will make all efforts to make up lessons where possible.
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Philippine Department of Tourism Launched Visit Samal 2011 Campaign
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By Melo Villareal	 Last updated Apr 7, 2011
The Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) in Davao, together with the Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) Region XI, and the private sector-led Samal Island Tourism Council launched recently the Visit Samal 2011 campaign at the Holiday Ocean View Resort.
Buenavista Island in Island Garden City of Samal
The local government, led by Mayor Aniano Antalan, has declared the months of March, April and May as Visit Samal Island months. The main objective of this is to increase visitors to the island during summer. Through a "Visit Samal Island Passport," visitors may enjoy value-added promotions for the duration of the season from 28 resorts that are participating.
DOT Region XI Director Art Boncato, Jr. said, "the Samal Island passport will be made available to visitors arriving in our major ports. It captures our aspirations for tourists to genuinely enjoy the beauty of the island." It will be given for free at the Davao International Airport, Davao malls, Manila and Cebu airport info counters and tour operators.
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Bill wipes historic homosexual convictions
Posted by Andrew Little on April 03, 2018
The third reading of a Bill to wipe historic homosexual offences from criminal records marks the end of an historic struggle for New Zealand's gay community says Justice Minister Andrew Little.
The Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill was created in response to a petition to Parliament in 2016 which called for the past convictions of men for consensual homosexual acts to be removed.
It introduces a scheme to expunge convictions for men for specific offences that were decriminalised by the Homosexual Reform Act 1986.
"Thirty-two years ago, Parliament rightly decriminalised offences that had the effect of stigmatising gay men but some have lived with the consequences of those convictions ever since.
"Under this legislation, men who were convicted of specific offences that have since been decriminalised, will be able to apply to be treated as if they had never been convicted.
"I would like to apologise again to all the men and members of the Rainbow Community who have been affected by the prejudice, stigma and other negative effects caused by convictions for historical homosexual offences.
"This Bill sends a clear signal that discrimination against gay people is no longer acceptable and that we are committed to putting right, wrongs from the past.
"Those with convictions, or families of the convicted person who has passed away, will be able to apply to the Secretary for Justice to have their convictions wiped. The Secretary must be satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the conduct would not be an offence under today's law," says Andrew Little.


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Q: Label transition issue I am new in html, css and I am getting error when user enter invalid input into the input box then label of particular input field goes down but when user enter
correct input then its work fine.

    <form id="form">

    <input type="text" required id="name" minlength="4">

    Name

    <input type="email" required id="email">

    Email

    </form>

I have tried this
<form id="form">

<input type="text" required id="name" minlength="4">

Name

<input type="email" required id="email">

Email

</form>
.group {
margin-top: 40px;
position: relative;
margin-bottom: 45px;
}
input {
font-size: 22px;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 5px;
display: block;
width: 300px;
border: none;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
input:focus {
outline: none;
}
label.labeling {
color: #999;
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: normal;
position: absolute;
pointer-events: none;
left: 5px;
top: 10px;
transition: 0.2s ease all;
}
input:focus ~ label.labeling,
input:valid ~ label.labeling {
top: -20px;
font-size: 14px;
color: #5264AE;
}
.bar {
position: relative;
display: block;
width: 309px;
}
.bar:before,
.bar:after {
content: '';
height: 1px;
width: 0;
bottom: 1px;
position: absolute;
transition: 0.2s ease all;
}
.bar:before {
left: 50%;
}
.bar:after {
right: 50%;
}
input:focus ~ .bar:before,
input:focus ~ .bar:after {
width: 50%;
}
.highlight {
position: absolute;
height: 60%;
width: 100px;
top: 25%;
left: 0;
pointer-events: none;
opacity: 0.5;
}
input:-webkit-autofill {
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0px 1000px white inset;
}
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#form").validate({
rules: {
name: {
required: true
},
email: {
required: true
}
},
messages: {
minlength: "your name at least 4 characters long",
email: "Please enter a valid email address"
}
});
});

A: You have to use some JS too to here as there is no :empty css property for an input box.(using :invalid will mean your placeholder setup will not work!)
Check out this fiddle and let me know your feedback. Thanks!
Used this css:
input.invalid-input ~ label.labeling {
  top: -20px;
  font-size: 14px;
  color: red;
}

and added some js too:
  $("input").each(function() {
    var $this = $(this);
    $this.on("change", function() {
      if ($(this).is(':invalid') && $(this).val() != "") {
        $(this).addClass("invalid-input");
      } else {
        $(this).removeClass("invalid-input");
      }
    });
  });


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Q: Rails many-to-many setup I'm looking to implement a Status system like such:
# Group examples: user, post, comment
class StatusGroup < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :status_group_options
  has_many :status_options, -> { uniq }, through: :status_group_options
end

# Option examples: active, open, closed, banned, completed, deleted
class StatusOption < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :status_group_options
  has_many :status_groups, -> { uniq }, through: :status_group_options
end

# This would be to handle which groups have access to which options.
# For example, the user group wouldn't have access to the
# [open, closed, completed] options but would have access
# to the [active, banned, completed].
# StatusGroupOption also has a column labelled as admin to determine
# which statuses only admins can see.
class StatusGroupOption < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :status_group
  belongs_to :status_option
  has_many :users
end

The user, post, and comment table would then have a link to status_group_option_id.
My problem is, I don't think I have the correct set up. It seems overly difficult to search for all users that are either in the open option or banned option. Additionally, it's difficult to search (using scopes) these tables for, say, the "deleted" option for "user" group ONLY.
Is this the correct approach? Am I over complicating things? I'm following this guide.

A: I would suggest looking into Enum since you're using Rails 4. This will hopefully simplify a lot of confusion. Instead of creating separate models, what you could do is just implement the use of enum into each of your models, that way each model has its own set of statuses.
Like so:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    enum :status => [:active, :banned, :completed]
end

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
    enum :status => [:open, :closed, :deleted]
end

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
    enum :status => [:open, :closed, :deleted, :flagged] # <= I threw "flagged" in there to show some variance
end

Basically enum refers to an integer-based column in your table (in this case, I used :status to represent the status column in your db). The array here enumerates the different elements inside it ([:active, :banned, :completed], etc) by its index (0, 1, 2).
If you wanted to save a user with the status of active, you could do this in your controller:
class UsersController < ApplicationController

   def update
       @user = User.find(params[:id])
       @user.active! #=> updates the user's status as 0, since it was the first element in our enum array.

       # here's another example, say if you wanted to update the user's status to "banned"
       @user.banned! #=> updates the user's status as 2 in the database, since it was the third element in our array
   end
end

So in your database you will see the integer value, but let's say you want to display the actual text of the status in your view:
show.html.erb
<!-- Instead of displaying the integer that's in your status column, it will display the text automagically of whatever status is set on that record -->
<%= @user.status %>

<!-- You can even do super convenient conditionals! Thanks, Rails! -->
<% if @user.active? %>
    This user is active!
<% elsif @user.banned? %>
    This user was banned!
<% end %>

So in a nutshell, I would say it would be better to create your "status options" within each respective model and define your "status options" using the enum feature provided in Rails 4.
More about that here: http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Enum.html
You will most likely have to add these "status" columns to each table that would need it:
rails g migration add_status_column_to_users status:integer
rails g migration add_status_column_to_posts status:integer
rails g migration add_status_column_to_comments status:integer

rake db:migrate

Hope this helps! I usually build my Rails apps using enum when I want to have models that need statuses (active, inactive) and roles (like admin, normal_user, etc). Let me know if you need any better clarification. I'm here to help!


Meaning of Sun's aspect through Houses for Pisces Ascendant.
Sun - Sun represents Personality, King, Government, Father, Authority, Career, Top Positions, Ego, Self Esteem, Health, Education etc.
For Pisces Ascendant people, Sun rules the 6th house of chart with its sign Leo. So, let's look at 6th house and Leo too.
6th house - It is 1st of Dushthana Houses (houses # 6, 8 and 12) and 2nd of Upachaya Houses (houses # 3, 6, 10 & 11). 6th house represents things like diseases, debts, obstacles, enemies, disputes, competitions, litigations, under privileged people, pets, daily routine life, colleagues at work place etc.
Leo - Leo is 5th sign of zodiac belt, hence it represents the things associated with 5th house of horoscope like Love, Creativity, Arts, Being on Stage etc. Besides that, Leo is basically the Lion. This is the sign of feeling like King or Queen. Also, it is a sign of independence, Confidence, Ego, Self Esteem etc. Leo's lord is Sun.
What will Sun do in Aspect? – Now, Sun can be sitting in any house of chart for a Pisces Ascendant person. 1st of all, Sun will take the energy of house of chart, it rules with Leo sign, and take it to the house where it sits. Then from the house it sits, it will throw its aspect on the 7th house from its place. As Sun represents Ego and Authority, Sun's aspect on a particular house will show where person will show Ego and Authority of things related to the house which is ruled by Sun through Leo Sign. I am sure that we will better understand when I cover Sun's aspect house-wise.
Things which I still can't cover – Although, I am trying to make it a detailed analysis of planetary aspects but I still can't cover few things like dignity of planet involved, like exalted Sun aspecting 7th house from itself is different from debilitated Sun aspecting 7th house from itself, Sun conjunct with other planets, if there are planets in 7th house from Sun where it aspects, in which case those planets will aspect back at Sun and impact it, and planets aspecting Sun from other houses. That's why, no matter how detailed analysis you do in Astrology, there are still few things uncovered and that just shows the limits of Human Efforts.
Now, let's see the meaning and impact of Sun's aspect through different houses for Pisces Ascendant people.
Sun in 1st house – Here, Sun is in Pisces. This shows that person' ability to deal with obstacles, conflicts & disputes and ability to work with his colleagues will bring him ego and confidence. The better he deals with obstacles, the more confident he will be in life. From 1st house, Sun will then aspect 7th house and person will show same ego towards other people/masses or relations. It may give good fame among masses but will ruin the relations due to ego battles.
Sun in 2nd house – Now, Sun is exalted. This shows that person is able to gain wealth & assets through his service and authority position. This also shows that disputes and conflicts are bringing wealth to the person. As Sun is exalted, person will command a dignified authority in his family and will show the same towards other people and in-laws. As it is exalted, ego displayed here won't be over-board and will be recognized by others.
Sun in 3rd house – Sun will be in Taurus. This shows that person's daily work routine is in dealing with obstacles and conflicts through Business, Self Efforts, Communications or Counselling which helps them gaining wealth. The more they deal with obstacles through Self-effort, the better their ego and confidence will develop in this world. At the same time, it will burn-off the relations with younger siblings/cousins due to same ego battles. Person will also have great authority over higher education and philosophy which will lead to ego battles with Teachers/Gurus as person thinks that he knows better than his Teachers.
Sun in 4th house – Sun will be in Gemini here. This shows someone who counsels and communicates about dealing with obstacles and conflicts. This also shows someone in daily work related with communications and media. This shows an authority figure at home and commands same authority at work place through Sun's aspect on 10th house of Career. In early career, it may create a rift with colleagues & boss but with time, it gives benefits from authority and bosses. Sun lights up the Career.
Sun in 5th house – Here, Sun is in Cancer. This shows that person is engaged in work like Education where he takes care and nourishes others or through creative pursuits. This may also indicate that diseases are coming to children or disputes are coming in love matters. Dealing with love matters will be a task due to ego battles. Sun's aspect on 11th house ensures income/gains through 5th house matters but it also shows ego battles with friends and elder siblings.
Sun in 6th house – Sun is in own sign. This shows a person gaining a lot from his service/job in position of authority or in Govt. His job/service brings him authority, ego and confidence. Then same ego and authority gets displayed at 12th house of Foreign Lands or Foreign Companies with Sun's aspect. That means person may be in authoritative position in Foreign Lands or in Foreign Companies. Although, it shows a dignified ego but colleagues may still treat him as an egoistic person.
Sun in 7th house – Sun will be in Virgo here. This shows that disputes and conflicts are coming into marriage. Person may be a Lawyer but otherwise it shows that person is highly perfectionist and as such, situation leads to conflicts and ego battles with spouse. Other people may still accept his authority but relations may be spoilt. Here, ego develops by the recognition of other people/masses through Sun's aspect on Ascendant.
Sun in 8th house – Sun is debilitated here in Libra. This shows that disputes and conflicts in person's daily life are resulting in his loss of ego and confidence. Here, person's ego will be lost a lot in early life due to conflicts. This also spoils the relations with in-laws. Here, ego and confidence develops after middle age. Till then it is hard work for person dealing with obstacles and sudden events. Actually, the more he deals with these things, better his ego develops. Then with Sun's aspect on 2nd house, person also gains respect in family due to his long drawn struggles. It is a hard earned confidence and respect here. Also, this is a position where person needs to be very careful about his health.
Sun in 9th house – Sun is in Scorpio here. This shows a real troublesome relation of person with his father or teachers. It shows that disputes & obstacles are coming with Teachers & Higher Education. It will lead to ego battles with teachers. It also shows blockage in higher education. At the same time, person will be very authoritative and commanding with his speech and communications. This will spoil relations with siblings and cousins but will make him a very confident speakers.
Sun in 10th house – Sun will be in Sagittarius. This again shows someone in Career related to Law & Govt Administration. As Sun is in good dignity, it shows a good authoritative career in these fields. Person can also be in Higher Education field. As person commands good authority in career and among colleagues, he displays same authority at home with Sun's aspect on 4th house. As Sun is in good dignity, he receives the same authority and respect at home.
Sun in 11th house – Sun will be in Capricorn here, i.e. in enemy sign. This shows that person will earn/gain through 6th house related things but as Sun is in enemy sign, it will remain a hard work achieving gains/recognition in life. In such situation, person goes through few careers to finally reach his goal. It shows lots of struggle and hard work, but more he deals with those struggles, better his ego develops, which normally happens in 30s. As Sun is in wrong dignity, it shows that person throws unnecessary ego and authority towards children and lover, which kind of spoils the matters.
Sun in 12th house – Here, Sun is again in enemy sign Aquarius ruled by Saturn & Rahu. It shows that someone's ego and authority develops through his daily work routine in Foreign Lands/Foreign Companies but as Sun is again in enemy sign, it shows a certain amount of hard work and struggle involved in reaching that authority. At the same time, it shows that person has a strong career afterwards as Sun aspects back at its own sign. It gives authority at work place and among colleagues.
Ego will remain a factor with Sun, no matter it is exalted or debilitated. Exalted Sun only means a dignified Ego but once it is displayed, you can't control the way people take it. They may not feel it as dignified one as it hurts their ego. One more thing to remember here is that Sun's aspect is destroying some things in life but brightening few other things in life. Concept of Jeeva Karaka & Ajeeva Karaka (http://astrosaxena.com/jkak) is working here to know which things will prosper here and which things will get destroyed?
Hope this helps. Please feel free to post comments and queries, if any.


Farmer John lived on a quiet rural highway. But, as time went by, the traffic slowly built up at an alarming rate.
The traffic was so heavy and so fast that his chickens were being run over at a rate of three to six a day.
That really made the drivers speed up even faster. So Farmer John called and called and called every day for three weeks.
Finally, he asked the sheriff, "Your signs are doing no good. Can I put up my own sign?"
The sheriff told him, "Sure thing, put up your own sign."
Three weeks later, curiosity go the best of the sheriff and he decided to give Farmer John a call.
"How's the ! problem with those drivers?
Did you put up your sign?"
It might be something that WE could use to slow down drivers..."
So the sheriff drove out to Farmer John's house, and his jaw dropped the moment he saw the sign.
Personal video adverts are great to show your customers that you are a regular human being,not an internet abstraction.
The Internet is very impersonal, but video gives marketers the opportunity to add some personality, humor, and/or testimonials, and puts a human face on a small online business.
It's really all about social networking and letting people know who you are,that you're trustworthy, and a honest hard-working internet marketer.
Obviously, the main idea on YouTube is to be who you are.
You're basically selling yourself and your brand....not products.
Selling things is a byproduct of letting people know who you are.
The focus is really on that important piece.
YouTube offers significant viral marketing benefits like embedding videos on websites and sharing on social media networks.
Recall how Twitter can create virality,as you pass a tweet to followers.
Lets just say,one follower passes the tweet on to her 2000 followers, and three of her followers pass it on to their 1000 followers,I believe you get the idea of virality.
YouTube videos also can be passed on.
You can see how virality can apply to interesting-content or how-to videos.
Generally, users share videos with other marketers, and peer groups.
It has been seen that many times people who receive YouTube video,which has been passed on by a peer or small online business friend,share videos with other peers thereby creating this sort of virality.
If viewers like what they see, the video shoots out across the video marketing world wide web, without any marketing investment, (except the initial) and the video's reach is expanded exponentially.
Consumers will share compelling videos that will educate, inform or entertain.
I believe you know and understand YouTube's reach.
YouTube is now far reaching as it has one billion people who use YouTube. There are 4 billion video views every day on YouTube.
There are 300 hours of videos downloaded every minute,and there are one billion YouTube daily mobile views.
More than 1 billion people watch more than 6 billion hours of YouTube video every month.
If you have Windows 10,you can use the Widows Moviemaker. Just go to Windows flag (lower left corner) left click to bring up a search box and type Moviemaker.
Consumers are more motivated to buy after watching a YouTube video.
This is true across all industries,including home buyers and new car buyers.
Recall, because Google owns YouTube,Google Search is partial to YouTube videos and ranks them higher in SERP.
This is like Google Plus posts to which Google will assign a higher SERP position.
Here is a Google Plus Autoposter;it will post to all the communities of which you're a member .


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Q: Facebook authorization trouble in Android I am trying to integrate facebook with android mobile, all i need to do is to take some text from my application and put it as status on Facebook, i have tried facebook_sdk for the purpose, when i saw the debugging mode, the application is terminating at the line facebook.authorize(), though there is full internet connectivity in menifest... below is my code:
Thanks in advance
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    button1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.Button1);
    button2 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.Button2);
    tv1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.TextView1);
    et1 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.EditText1);
    button1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            b1Click();
        }

    });
    button2.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            b2Click();
        }

    });
}
private void saveFBToken(String token, long tokenExpires){
    SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
    prefs.edit().putString("FacebookToken", token).commit();
}

private void fbAuthAndPost(final String message){

    facebook.authorize(this, new String[]{"publish_stream"},new   DialogListener() {

        @Override
        public void onComplete(Bundle values) {
            Log.d(this.getClass().getName(),"Facebook.authorize Complete: ");
            saveFBToken(facebook.getAccessToken(), facebook.getAccessExpires());
            updateStatus(values.getString(Facebook.TOKEN), message);
        }

        @Override
        public void onFacebookError(FacebookError error) {
            Log.d(this.getClass().getName(),"Facebook.authorize Error: "+error.toString());
        }

        @Override
        public void onError(DialogError e) {
            Log.d(this.getClass().getName(),"Facebook.authorize DialogError: "+e.toString());
        }

        @Override
        public void onCancel() {
            Log.d(this.getClass().getName(),"Facebook authorization canceled");
        }
    });
}

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode,Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    switch (requestCode){
    case Facebook.FORCE_DIALOG_AUTH:
        facebook.authorizeCallback(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    }
}

private void b1Click(){

    mAuthAttempts = 0;

    SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
    mFacebookToken = prefs.getString("FacebookToken", "");

    if(mFacebookToken.equals("")){
        fbAuthAndPost(et1.getText().toString());
    }else{
        updateStatus(mFacebookToken,et1.getText().toString());
    }
}

private void b2Click(){
    mAuthAttempts = 0;
    updateStatus(facebook.TOKEN,et1.getText().toString());
}

public void updateStatus(String accessToken, String message){
    try {
        Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
        bundle.putString("message", message);
        bundle.putString(Facebook.TOKEN,accessToken);
        String response = facebook.request("me/feed",bundle,"POST");
        Log.d("UPDATE RESPONSE",""+response);
        showToast("Update process complete. Respose:"+response);
        if(response.indexOf("OAuthException") > -1){
            if(mAuthAttempts==0){
                mAuthAttempts++;
                fbAuthAndPost(message);
            }else{
                showToast("OAuthException:");
            }
        }
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        Log.e("MALFORMED URL",""+e.getMessage());
        showToast("MalformedURLException:"+e.getMessage());
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.e("IOEX",""+e.getMessage());
        showToast("IOException:"+e.getMessage());
    }

    String s = facebook.getAccessToken()+"\n";
    s += String.valueOf(facebook.getAccessExpires())+"\n";
    s += "Now:"+String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis())+"\n";
    tv1.setText(s);
}
private void showToast(String message){
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), message, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

A: I would appreciate some details on the error you receive before the app crashes Like Usama said the logcat would be great. I can't see where do you initialize the variable facebook = new Facebook(APP_ID);. Make sure that you have also all the activities facebook is using in your manifest. Finally I let you this:
https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/blob/master/examples/simple/src/com/facebook/android/Example.java
I hope that some of this helps.
<< When you try to log in to the Facebook page,  you receive a Token if thee user and the password were correct, this means that the application has a valid user loged in to the facebook servers. The SessionStore class saves that token in your shared preferences. So then you can use the Token to connect to facebook again later without asking the password to the user. You can do this only if the session hasn't expired.
About the error:
"This exception is thrown by the resource APIs when a requested resource can not be found."
I did the facebook integration a long time ago, and for a company so I can't pass you the code because I don't have it. Look at this post maybe it helps. http://www.jiahaoliuliu.com/2011/05/android-runtime-error.html
I'll look around to see if I find something more explicit.

A: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException

is fired sometimes 'cause in Idea you might have overwritten English string resources when importing project.


I looked up and felt ridiculous. My short pilgrimage had come to an end. In the plain courtyard I sat on the bench. I hadn't come for the bench, though I knew that was all that would be there. I sat for a moment longer. And then I left to wander back down through the green and bright of the waking world.
I knew there would only be a bench. Still I was hoping to find something else. I had come for him, or some tangible memory, or something. I hadn't planned this pilgrimage well.
It started when I left my car at the station and boarded the train into the city. I rolled slowly past miles of tightly placed homes, small and expensive. I switched to the metro and began counting down the stops as we popped above and below ground. It was 15. I had never been to Berkeley. It is beautiful. I didn't realize it was the first school of the University of California system. Calling themselves "Cal" makes more sense.
The physics seniors of the class of 2016 dedicated a bench to Charles Townes in the small courtyard next to his office. The old tree which had stood from beyond memory fell last year after he died. And in the passing of two such monuments they decided to redesign the little space into a courtyard to honor him.
He told the story of the creation of the maser in his books and in person. And always he recounted sitting on the park bench in Washington D.C. next to the blooming azaleas. It was there he received his revelation. And it was there that the entire world changed.
Sitting on this bench 2500 miles away I knew I had come too late. Though, there wasn't much I could do about that. The simple reality was that I was born far too late. Still I had come and instead of an epiphany I just felt silly. I had wanted to feel a connection, some recognition of his spirit, something. But why? I didn't know Dr. Townes in any real meaning of the word.
While I had met him once, it was when I was very young, and at a funeral. Still, he was a bit of family lore and his name and story stuck with me. But for years he was only lore. Then in college I wrote him. I don't know who found his address, or what I even wrote him. But I still have the letter and papers he sent in reply to mine. Even now they number among my dearest possessions. In them he shared his thoughts and encouraged me to be a scientist and a religionist. He wrote in bullets.
A few years later I invited him to come lecture at Yale and he did! I remember the beer he ordered at Mory's before his talk. I remember his lecture. I remember as much as I can. And I had the entire drive back to JFK with just him. He called the lab at 6 am local time, 3am at the lab (because he knew they would be working). He was always going. And he was 92 at the time. We parted at the terminal. He was off to California and then Qatar. And that was it.
Through the years I watched the news knowing some day it would come. And it finally did. I walked to the corner and bought the paper. It is still yellowing in my desk. The greatest experimental physicist of the 20th century. Perhaps that is more truly when this weird and slow and poorly planned pilgrimage began.
It ended in a little courtyard with a view of his old office and a few dumpsters. I didn't find him there. I didn't find a connection, any meaning, or even some special memory. I just found a bench. This family myth turned exemplar hero was yet again far ahead. I had come too late and he had gone to where I can not yet go, born too late as I am. So I went a bought a coffee.
In writing this post I remembered a video of Charles Townes reading poetry and thought I'd link it here. His bit starts at 20:20 (with a short introduction) I highly recommend starting there. Oh to be such a Renaissance man!


The majority of people in Nottingham North voted leave.
Alex Norris has voted broadly against Brexit legislation.
Alex Norris voted to stop Britain from negotiating new independent trade deals around the world.
Alex Norris voted to block the EU (Withdrawal) Bill.
Alex Norris voted to frustrate the Brexit process.
Alex Norris voted to prevent a smooth Brexit.
Think your MP isn't respecting the referendum result in Nottingham North?


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'Black Panther': Klaue Addiction To Vibranium Drives Him, Says Andy Serkis
Still from Black Panther Trailer 1
Smitha Nambiar
Revenge, hypocrisy of Wakanda, and addiction to vibranium is what that drives the villain Ulysses Klaue, says Andy Serkis, who plays the character in one of Marvel's ambitious project Black Panther.
Andy Serkis, who will portray the villainous weapons dealer Ulysses Klaue has three real reasons that drives him. In an interview with IGN, Serkis said that apart from the "personal vendetta" against the Wakandan king, another motivational factor that drives him is the hypocrisy of Wakanda as it refuses to share its technological advancements from the rest of the world.
"He wants to expose what he thinks is the hypocrisy of Wakanda. That's really what drives him," said Serkis about his character Klaue. Back in July, Serkis had given more information regarding Klaue's anger on Wakanda. Speaking to Comicbook back then, he had said, "He is the only person who has been into Wakanda and seen the wealth that it has and he wants to expose that. He believes them to be a hypocritical country. They're playing this kind of 'we're a third world country' card and he knows what's underlying that so he's trying to expose that."
Giving more details about the revenge element in the film, Sekis said to IGN, "He is furious about what's happened in Black Panther. So it is personal with T'Challa."
When asked whether that was all that he was after, Serkis replied with a laugh that Klaue's "addiction to vibranium" is also what drives him, referring to the almost indestructible metal native to Wakanda.
Serkis added that Klaue, who was defeated and even, lost an arm in Avengers: Age of Ultron cannot be underestimated. This time around, he will be using "the Zemo approach" by causing strife in Wakanda. Klaue is a "bringer-down of governments, and knows how to play people," Serkis had said previously.
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Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
History and Text
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Pledging Conferences
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Review Conferences
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Afghanistan acceded to the Convention on 11 September 2002, and the Convention entered into force for Afghanistan on 1 March 2003.
Obligations under the Convention
Article 3 (Retained Mines)
In its transparency report submitted on 30 April 2005, Afghanistan reported stockpiled anti-personnel mines under its ownership or possession or under its jurisdiction or control.
Notwithstanding the general obligations under Article 1, the retention or transfer of a number of anti- personnel mines for the development of and training in mine detection, mine clearance, or mine destruction techniques is permitted.
The amount of such mines shall not exceed the minimum number absolutely necessary for the above-mentioned purposes. Afghanistan opted not to retain anti-personnel mines for these permitted purposes.
Article 4 (Stockpile Destruction)
In its annual transparency report submitted on 30 April 2007, Afghanistan reported that in 2006 it had completed the destruction of all stockpiled anti-personnel mines. In total, Afghanistan reported having destroyed 486,226 anti-personnel mines.
Article 5 (Mine Clearance)
In its initial transparency report submitted on 1 September 2003, Afghanistan reported areas under its jurisdiction or control in which anti-personnel mines were known or suspected to be emplaced.
In accordance with Article 5 of the Convention, Afghanistan undertook to destroy or ensure the destruction of all anti-personnel mines in these areas as soon as possible but not later than 1 March 2013.
On 29 March 2012, Afghanistan submitted a request to extend this deadline. The request was granted at the Twelfth Meeting of the States Parties and a new deadline set for 1 March 2023.
On 4 July 2022, the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan submitted a request to further extend its deadline. The request will be considered at the Twentieth Meeting of the States Parties in Novermber 2022.
Article 5 Extension Request Process
Article 6.3 (Victim Assistance)
Afghanistan has indicated having significant numbers – hundreds or thousands – of landmine survivors. Afghanistan is also a State Party to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Article 7 (Transparency)
Annually and no later than 30 April, each State Party is to update information covering the previous calendar year. The latest Article 7 reports for this State Party can be found on this page.
Article 9 (National Legislation)
Article 9 of the Convention states that "each State Party shall take all appropriate legal, administrative and other measures, including the imposition of penal sanctions, to prevent and suppress any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention undertaken by persons or on territory under its jurisdiction or control."
Afghanistan has reported having established national implementation measures or that it considers existing legislation to be sufficient.
Presidency of the 17MSP
Afghanistan held the Presidency of the Convention in 2018. H.E. Suraya Dalil Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the UN in Geneva led the work of the States Parties as President of the 17MSP. Ambassador Dalil, was the fifth woman to preside over a Meeting of the States Parties since the Convention began its formal meetings in 1999.
Find all the related press releases and photos from Afghanistan's Presidency here.
View, download snapshots of Afghanistan at Convention-related activities on Flickr.
Latest Views and Updates
Article 3 and 4
20MSP 9 Afghanistan Art5 Ext Req22 November 2022
IM21-Art5-Afghanistan.pdf22 June 2021
IM21 Observations Art5 Afghanistan15 June 2021
IM20-Art5-Panel-Afghanistan.pdf1 July 2020
17MSP-9bi-Art5-Afghanistan.pdf29 November 2018
16MSP-11b-Committee-Article-5-Implementation-Afghanistan.pdf21 December 2017
IM17-03-Article-5-Afghanistan.pdf8 June 2017
15MSP-10b-Afghanistan-Art5-Clearance.pdf29 November 2016
17MSP-9c-Coop-Afghanistan.pdf29 November 2018
16MSP-11c-Committee-Cooperation-and-Assistance-Afghanistan.pdf21 December 2017
15MSP-10c-Afghanistan-Cooperation-and-Assistance.pdf30 November 2016
IM21 4 VA Afghanistan22 June 2021
IM21-Observations-VA-Afghanistan.pdf15 June 2021
18MSP 9a VA Afghanistan18 November 2020
17MSP-9a-VA-Afghanistan.pdf27 November 2018
16MSP-11a-Committee-Victim-Assistance-Afghanistan.pdf19 December 2017
15MSP-10a-Afghanistan-VA.pdf29 November 2016
14MSP-02b-VA-Afghanistan.pdf2 December 2015
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2021-Afghanistan-Article730 April 2021
2017 Afghanistan Article730 April 2017
2016 Afghanistan Article7Report30 April 2016
Article7 Afghanistan 201530 April 2015
Afghanistan Article 7 report April201330 April 2013
Art7Report-Afghanistan-201230 April 2012
2004 Afghanistan Art7Report30 April 2004
IM21 5 Gender Panel Afghanistan23 June 2021
17MSP-9g-Transparency-Afghanistan.pdf30 November 2018
17MSP-2-Opening-Afghanistan-Foreign-Minister.pdf26 November 2018
2018-Guide to the 17MSP20 November 2018
15MSP-11-Afghanistan-Panel-Gender-and-Mine-Action.pdf1 December 2016
14MSP-01e-Opening-Afghanistan.pdf30 November 2015
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Pakistan has several official national symbols including a flag, an emblem, an anthem, a memorial tower as well as several national heroes. The symbols were adopted at various stages in the existence of Pakistan and there are various rules and regulations governing their definition or use. The oldest symbol is the Lahore Resolution, adopted by the All India Muslim League on 23 March 1940, and which presented the official demand for the creation of a separate country for the Muslims of India. The Minar-e-Pakistan memorial tower which was built in 1968 on the site where the Lahore Resolution was passed. The national flag was adopted just before independence was achieved on 14 August 1947. The national anthem and the state emblem were each adopted in 1954. There are also several other symbols including the national animal, bird, flower and tree.

Minar-e-Pakistan

The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Lahore) (), also known as the Pakistan Resolution, was a formal political statement adopted by the All India Muslim League at the occasion of its three-day general session on 22–24 March 1940 at Minto Park (now Iqbal Park), Lahore. The resolution called for greater Muslim autonomy in British India and has been largely interpreted as a demand for a separate Muslim state. The idea of separate state for Indian Muslims was first suggested by Muhammad Iqbal in 1930 and the name of Pakistan was proposed by Choudhary Rahmat Ali in his Pakistan Declaration pamphlet in 1933. Initially, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and other leaders were in favour of Hindu-Muslim unity, but the volatile political climate and religious hostilities of the 1930s made the idea more appealing.
In his speech, Jinnah criticised the Indian National Congress and the nationalist Muslims, and espoused the Two-Nation Theory and the reasons for the demand for separate Muslim homelands. Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, the Chief Minister of the Punjab, drafted the original resolution, but that was not fully acceptable to all the Working Committee, so extensive redrafting followed, by the Subject Committee of the Muslim League. The text is ambiguous in accepting the concept of various Muslim 'zones' within a "United India" due to communal concerns and it does not clearly recommend the creation of a separate, fully independent Muslim state. The resolution was moved in the general session by A.K. Fazlul Huq, Chief Minister of Bengal and was supported seconded by several leaders. The principle text of the Lahore Resolution was passed on 24 March 1940. In 1941 it became part of the Muslim League's constitution. By 1946, it formed the basis for the struggle of the Muslim League for a separate Muslim state. The statement declared:

The Minar-e-Pakistan (Urdu: ; Mīnār-ĕ Pākistān) which is the national tower of Pakistan also known as Tower of Pakistan is a 60 metre tall concrete minaret in Iqbal Park in Lahore. The Minar was built on the site where the Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution, demanding the creation of Pakistan. Pakistan now celebrates this day as a national holiday each year under the name of Pakistan Day which is also the day in 1956 when the country became the first Islamic Republic in the world. It was designed by Muhammad Wali Ullah Khan and built by Mian Abdul Khaliq Company. The base of the tower is raised about 4 metres from the ground. The next 13 metres form a sculpted, flower-like base and from this point, the Minar tapers as it rises. The base platform is shaped like a five-pointed star and it encloses crescent-shaped pools. It is constructed of reinforced concrete, with the floors and walls rendered in stone and marble.

National flag

The national flag was designed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and was based on the original flag of the Muslim League. It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 11 August 1947, just days before independence. The flag is referred to in the national anthem as Parcham-e-Sitāra-o-Hilāl in Urdu (lit. Flag of the Crescent and Star). The flag comprises a dark green field, representing the Muslim majority of Pakistan, with a vertical white stripe in the hoist, representing religious minorities. In the centre is a white crescent moon, representing progress, and a white five-pointed star, representing light and knowledge. The flag symbolizes Pakistan's commitment to Islam, the Islamic world and the rights of religious minorities. The flag is flown on several important days of the year including Republic Day and Independence Day. The flag is also flown on the residences and motor vehicles of many public officials including the President and the Prime Minister.

National anthem

The national anthem of Pakistan or Qaumī Tarāna (Urdu: ), is played during any event involving the hoisting of the flag, for example Resolutions Day (23 March) and Independence Day (14 August). The Constituent Assembly had not adopted a national anthem by the time Pakistan became independent, so when the flag was hoisted at the independence ceremony it was accompanied by the song, "Pakistan Zindabad, Azadi Paendabad". Muhammad Ali Jinnah asked a Lahore-based Hindu writer, Jagan Nath Azad, to write a national anthem for Pakistan. Jinnah may have done this to promote a more secular idealism for Pakistan. The anthem written by Azad was quickly approved by Jinnah, and it was played on Radio Pakistan. Azad's work remained as Pakistan's national anthem for about eighteen months.

A National Anthem Committee was formed in 1948, but it had difficulty finding suitable music and lyrics. The impending state visit of the Shah of Iran in 1950, resulted in the hasty adoption of a three stanza composition by Ahmed Ghulamali Chagla. Initially it was performed without lyrics for the Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan on 10 August 1950 and was approved for playing during the visit of the Shah. However, the anthem was not officially adopted until August 1954. The National Anthem Committee eventually approved lyrics written by Abu-Al-Asar Hafeez Jullandhuri and the new national anthem was first played properly on Radio Pakistan on 13 August 1954. Official approval was announced by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on 16 August 1954 followed by a performance of the national anthem in 1955 involving eleven major singers of Pakistan including Ahmad Rushdi.

State emblem

The State Emblem was adopted in 1954 and symbolizes Pakistan's ideological foundation, the basis of its economy, its cultural heritage and its guiding principles. The four components of the emblem are a crescent and star crest above a shield, which is surrounded by a wreath, below which is a scroll. The crest and the green colour of the emblem are traditional symbols of Islam. The quartered shield in the centre shows cotton, wheat, tea and jute, which were the major crops of Pakistan at independence and signify the agricultural base of the economy. The floral wreath, surrounding the shield, represents the floral designs used in traditional Mughal art and emphasizes the cultural heritage of Pakistan.

Motto

The scroll supporting the shield contains Muhammad Ali Jinnah's motto in Urdu, which reads from right to left: () "Iman, Ittehad, Nazm o Zabt" translated as "Faith, Unity, Discipline" and are intended as the guiding principles for Pakistan.

List of other national symbols

References

External links
 The Government of Pakistan
 Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
 Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs
 Ministry of National Heritage and Integration

Pakistani culture
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Bob is a retired secondary school mathematics teacher. He and his wife, Betty, who live in East Sussex, have three grown children, but they don't see them often. Two of their children are working overseas and the third lives in Scotland, and Bob and Betty can't afford to travel as much as they'd like to.
Shortly after he left his job, Bob developed nerve deafness in both ears that so far can't be improved with a hearing aid. He tried to learn to lipread, but found it difficult because he is nearsighted and doesn't like using glasses. Betty has osteoarthritis that restricts her mobility, so Bob does most of the housework, including the cooking.
Over a period of two months, Bob started to have difficulty sleeping. He woke up every two or three hours during the night, and by four in the morning he was wide awake and couldn't get back to sleep. He had pains in his stomach after he ate that made him think he had cancer, but he didn't want to upset Betty, so kept it to himself. He had difficulty remem¬bering where he had put things, and what to buy at the grocery shop when he got there. The cooking and housework seemed like more and more of a burden. He didn't know how he and Betty would manage in their house as they got older, yet he hated the thought of moving into sheltered housing. He worried about this constantly when he awoke at night.
Bob finally spoke to his doctor about his fear of having cancer. The doctor did a series of tests, including blood tests and an electrocardiogram as well as an ultrasound of Bob's abdomen. He reassured him that there was no sign of cancer. Fortunately, his doctor has elderly parents and is sympa¬thetic to the needs of the elderly; he arranged to have a local community agency provide in-home help three hours a day, as well as a noontime meal, so Bob and Betty could have a hot lunch. The doctor also suggested that Bob try anti-depressants to improve his low mood.
With fewer household chores looming over him, Bob decided he could spend some time on his own interests. He had always been intrigued by stories he had heard of some of his ancestors, Huguenots who emigrated from France and settled in Sussex. He decided to take a course in local history and delve into the past. He joined a local historical society, and he and Betty made several new friendships.
Currently, the average lifespan at birth is seventy-six years. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was only forty-six. In fact, you now have a twenty times greater chance of living to one hundred than if you had been born in 1900. Infectious diseases are easily treated in most cases, and nutrition in Western countries has greatly improved. Blood pressure medications are helping to control the frequency of heart attacks and strokes. New diagnostic and surgical techniques let us deal with many problems before they are life-threatening.
Sometimes, when we're young, we see the elderly as unhappy and lonely, with little reason to live. Fear of our own old age probably clouds our view, leading us to stereo¬type the old as depressed. In fact, depression occurs less in the elderly than in the young. It may be that, as we age, we are more able to cope with changes because of our life experiences.
Statistics about the depressed elderly are not readily available, because researchers have trouble getting a 'clean' sample to study; illnesses, loneliness, physical restrictions, and the deaths of family and friends are common by the time we reach old age, and all of these complicate the picture. Yet major depression occurs in only 5 to 10 per cent of the healthy elderly. According to a large American study, even people who had recurrent depression as younger adults are less likely to have an episode in old age. When depression occurs for the first time in old age, it's important to look for a physical cause.
As we age, we face physical and psychological changes. We may lose the intimate partner who has been our best supporter. We may see less of neighbours and friends because we don't get out as much. We probably no longer work, so we miss out on sharing news and gossip with younger colleagues. Children and grandchildren tell us less, to 'protect' us. We may have less power and status. Loss of hearing, sight and mobility make us more dependent on family members. Our sexual experiences change in scope and frequency. Memory loss worries us.
Living alone is isolating, but living in a residential facility can be demeaning and restrictive. Fear of further disabilities and restrictions leaves us frightened about the future. Having to look after a partner who is suffering from disabilities or dementia may leave us exhausted and depleted, but placing this loved partner outside the home causes us great anguish.
People who had difficulty coping with change and with other people's idiosyncrasies in the past are likely to have even greater difficulties as they age. Those who are content and comfortable physically are more likely to avoid despair in later years.
Being elderly doesn't always mean being inactive. Increased leisure gives you time to investigate interests you always wished you could explore. Late-life learning in areas you've enjoyed, such as music or art, is available, usually at lower rates, from community colleges and universities. Perhaps the skills you used during your paid work can be turned to volunteer work; for example, one retired businessman developed management plans for public agencies that couldn't afford a paid consultant. Staying involved by volunteering at the local daycare, hospital or seniors' club can also be enjoyable. You may find it meaningful to write an informal autobiography, a wonderful legacy for your grandchildren. Keeping fit by walking or working out at a gym will increase your stamina, and may also keep your spirits up. The Internet and e-mail are fantastic for staying in touch. (Your grandchildren can teach you to use the Internet, if necessary.) Many people find support from spiritual and religious communities, as well.


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