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Q: Loop JS object data in multiple arrays I have some data in a Google Spreadsheet, which I'm pulling with Tabletop.js. I'm able to display my data as well in my showInfo() function. All good.
Now I try to achieve to display this data in a default Google Chart. In this case I use their map package to display my data on a map. They provided me some sample code, see here.
At the moment I'm struggling with the following function, whole code in my Fiddle:
mapdata.addRows([
    // PREFERRED DATA TO COLLECT:
    // [data.geoloc, data.GM_NAAM, 'blue' ],
    // THE HARDCODED WAY:
    ['Kerkbrink 2 ANLOO', 'ANLOO', 'green'],
    ['Grote Kerkstraat 32 WIJK EN AALBURG', 'WIJK EN AALBURG',  'blue']
  ]);

How do I approach? I managed to display all data with a forEach in the showInfo function, but this does not work in this array.
I'm pretty new in JS-land, so I appreciate every help on achieving this.
Thanks in advance!

A: please find the updated fiddle here
is this what you are looking for ?
updated js code:
/* 1: tabletop shizzle */

var publicSpreadsheetUrl = 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cpSdKrQK0DfRoC9_xgmAqwVaDqw8BKMOL7drA_QFIn0/edit?usp=sharing';

function init() {
  Tabletop.init( { key: publicSpreadsheetUrl,
                   callback: showInfo,
                   simpleSheet: true } )
}

function showInfo(data, tabletop) {
 alert('Successfully processed!')

  var chartdiv = document.querySelector(".chart_div");
  console.log("data: ", data);
  data.forEach( function(data) {

    // card
    var card = document.createElement('div');
    card.classList.add("card");

    //content
    var content = document.createElement('div');
    content.classList.add('content');
    content.innerHTML = data.GM_NAAM + ' ' + data.geoloc;

    // append
    chartdiv.appendChild(card);
    card.appendChild(content);
  });
// trigger the google charts drapMap function and send the data to it
    drawMap(data);
}
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', init);

/* 2: google chart shizzle */

google.charts.load('current', {
  'packages': ['map'],
  // DEFAULT GOOGLE API KEY
  'mapsApiKey': 'AIzaSyD-9tSrke72PouQMnMX-a7eZSW0jkFMBWY'
});
google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawMap);

function drawMap(data) {

  var mapdata = new google.visualization.DataTable();
  mapdata.addColumn('string', 'Address');
  mapdata.addColumn('string', 'Location');
  mapdata.addColumn('string', 'Marker')

  console.log(data);
  data = data ? data : [];
  var rows = [];
  data.forEach(function(item){
    rows.push([item.GM_NAAM, item.geoloc, 'green'])
  })
  // THIS IS THE PART I NEED THE DATA.
  mapdata.addRows(rows);

  // SOME OPTIONS
  var url = 'https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/icons-land/vista-map-markers/48/';

  var options = {
    zoomLevel: 7,
    showTooltip: true,
    showInfoWindow: true,
    useMapTypeControl: true,
    icons: {
      blue: {
        normal:   url + 'Map-Marker-Ball-Azure-icon.png',
        selected: url + 'Map-Marker-Ball-Right-Azure-icon.png'
      },
      green: {
        normal:   url + 'Map-Marker-Push-Pin-1-Chartreuse-icon.png',
        selected: url + 'Map-Marker-Push-Pin-1-Right-Chartreuse-icon.png'
      }
    }
  };
  var map = new google.visualization.Map(document.getElementById('map_div'));

  map.draw(mapdata, options);
}


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Home»Politics»My Biggest Fear About My Exit As Edo Governor — Obaseki
My Biggest Fear About My Exit As Edo Governor — Obaseki
Politics By Ifeanyi N. Sep 12, 2021 Updated: Sep 13, 2021 No Comments3 Mins Read
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said anxiety over what happens to all the reforms his administration has put in place after he leaves office as Governor is now his greatest challenge.
Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki
Obaseki stated this on Sunday, at the thanksgiving service for 87th birthday celebration of Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, held at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church, Sapele Road, Benin City.
He disclosed that people are already asking questions if the reforms and changes he has made and implementing will continue after his tenure in office.
He said: "My biggest challenge is what happens when I leave office. People are saying how are we sure that the reforms and changes we have made and are implementing will continue when I leave office. The only guarantee is that we begin to strengthen the institutions.
"We are rebuilding the public and civil service before bringing in political actors into the scene as they will leave in three years when I am leaving but the structures and institutions that we are building will certainly remain and continue to sustain our developmental strides."
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The Governor said that his administration has done so much to strengthen and re-enact the quality of education in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions across the State.
According to him, "In the last five years, we have been strengthening and re-enacting quality education in the state across all tiers; basic, secondary and tertiary education and re-investing in them.
"In the area of media, we are rebuilding the Observer brand, as well as the Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS) Radio and Television brand; we are strengthening them as institutions and equipping them with world-class technology. We are doing so much in the state and I can't explain within few minutes."
He disclosed that the recent induction of 300 newly recruited civil and public servants, is part of effort to reposition the state civil service.
"We have on-boarded the first batch of the new recruited 300 civil and public servants; we are employing 2,000 in the next three years to strengthen the service and provide services to people of Edo State.
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"We were voted into office for the second term on September 19, 2020, to serve the people and in order to do that, we need to define the structure and plan properly, breaking away from the past. The commissioners will not be able to do anything if the civil service is not functioning properly," he said.
Commenting on the Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Obaseki described him as a generational gift to the state, Nigeria, Africa and the world at large.
He noted: "We thank God for the life of our father, Chief Igbinedion, as he celebrates his 87-year birthday. We pray that God preserves him. He is a generational gift; he has seen and done it all. We thank God for his life of giving, hard work and generosity.
I want to join others to wish him well".
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - LSU head coach Ed Orgeron met with sports journalists Monday for his weekly news conference to discuss the team's devastating loss to Alabama and preview the upcoming matchup with Arkansas.
Oregeron thanked fans for their support rallying around the team leading up to big game against the Alabama Crimson Tide.
While speaking about the defeat to the Crimson Tide, he told reporters he needed to coach better an put players in a better position to win. He also said the team's poor execution contributed to the team's 29-0 loss.
Coach Oregron said he told players to "block out the noise" and follow the team's "24 hour" rule, by moving on from the Alabama loss to focus on Arkansas.
In injury news, Orgeron said LSU safety John Battle is 50/50 to play against the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday.
He also told reporters that he wants to give backup quaterback Myles Brennan more reps but Brennan is still nursing a slight injury.
Oregeron stood by his starting quaterback, Joe Burrow, saying that he believed Burrow should remain the starter.
With the loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide, the LSU Tigers fell from #3 to #9 (7-2 Overall, 4-2 SEC).
Now, the Tigers will take on the unranked Arkansas Razorbacks at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 in Fayetteville, AR. The game will be televised on the SEC Network.
However, Coach O is not taking the game with the Razorbacks lightly and warns that Arkanasas has a good offense.
Arkansas is 2-7 on the year, 0-5 in SEC play.


Aruba announced the next wave of its Aruba Mobile Engagement solution with the introduction of the industry's first cloud-based beacon management solution designed for multivendor Wi-Fi networks and beacon analytics. Additionally, Aruba expanded its app developer partner program for the Meridian Mobile App Platform to accelerate innovation of location-based mobile apps allowing organizations to better engage with employees or customers, and thereby, improving efficiency.
Since its introduction in November 2014, Aruba Mobile Engagement, powered by Aruba Beacons and the Meridian Mobile App platform, has improved customer satisfaction in such diverse organizations as Levi's Stadium and Orlando International Airport. By directly interacting with customers via their mobile devices based on the customers' in-venue location and their personalized preferences, Aruba Mobile Engagement is designed to enhance customer experiences and revenue opportunities for the venue operators.
Orlando International Airport (MCO) which hosts nearly 38 million travelers annually, implemented Aruba's Mobile Engagement solution in late 2014 and has since seen over 26,000 downloads of its MCO mobile app.
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Pridon a.k.a. Petros Voudouris structures a quiet and enjoyable electronica, influenced by many different styles including techno, electro, IDM, dub and even an ounce of seventies psychedelia. This tissues are then carefully reassembled mixing different "spices", but nevertheless the accessible moments are not completely slipping to more experimental structures. The overall impression is of an ambience in a groove setting, part of it engaged with atonal bleep or melodious choir, and some secondary spacey progresses with many synths. It's a truly versatile album, sounds for decompression funneled in fairly surround recordings, gentle and flexible, where a sort of intimacy is embraced, leaving the innovation apart, and an overall quality that produces a perfectly refined listening experience, perhaps even exceeding a little bit, but acting anyway to the prejudice of a strong adoption of the contemporaneity themes.


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Burkina Faso: 58 killed in attacks by armed Islamic militants targeting Christians
Persecution of Christians in Burkina Faso: the Islamic insurgency that has victimized numerous Christians in neighboring countries is now spreading to Burkina Faso. Christians make up about 30% of the nation's population, yet also like the persecution of Christians in neighboring countries, their persecution is escalating, and continues to be largely ignored by the international media and human rights operations.
Please continue to pray for the victims, for a new determination among international authorities to take definitive action to end this persecution, and for the persecutors to soften their hearts and turn to Orthodox Christianity.
"Burkina Faso: 58 killed in attacks targeting Christians," by Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post, June 7, 2020:
At least 58 people, including children, were recently killed in northern Burkina Faso in three separate attacks by armed Islamic militants who were targeting Christians.
Christians were among those targeted and killed in the attacks that took place in the provinces of Loroum, Kompienga and Sanmatenga within 24 hours, from May 29 to May 30, according to the U.K.-based aid agency Barnabus Fund.
The group said a local source spoke to a survivor, who said the militants targeted Christians and humanitarians taking food to a camp of internally displaced people with many Christian villagers who had fled before the violence.
Referring to an attack on a humanitarian convoy in Sanmatenga province's Barsalogho area, which left six civilians and seven soldiers dead, the survivor said, "The driver shouted 'forgive, forgive, we are also followers of the [Islamic] prophet Muhammad.' One of them [among the gunmen] turned to the other attackers and said, 'they have the same religion with us.'"
The attack subsequently ended, the charity said.
Apart from the attack in Sanmatenga, militants opened fire indiscriminately at a cattle market in Kompienga on May 30, killing at least 30 people. The day before, a convoy of traders, which included children, was attacked while traveling from Titao to Sollé in Loroum province.
Dozens were injured in the three attacks.
Last December, at least 14 people were killed when gunmen stormed a Protestant church service in the town of Hantoukoura near the border with Niger. Last April, gunmen killed a Protestant pastor and five other Christians who were leaving a worship service in Silgadji.
Burkina Faso, one of the most impoverished countries in the world, has been fighting armed groups with links to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State for more than four years.
Over 4,000 people were killed in Islamic extremist attacks in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali in 2019, according to the U.N.'s envoy for West Africa and the Sahel Mohamed Ibn Chambas.
Since 2016, extremist groups including the Islamic State West Africa Province and Ansaroul Islam have carried out attacks throughout the Sahel region of West Africa. But attacks increased fivefold in 2019 — deaths rose from 80 in 2016 to 1,800 in 2019….


UNDER-18s could be banned from Mutiny Festival after a number of children were sexually assaulted, attacked and exposed to an 'increase in drug use'.
Police said events at the festival had 'seriously undermined' their faith during the two-day event this year, held in May on King George V playing field in Cosham, Portsmouth.
Now they want city councillors, who are set to meet next week, to put a condition on the licence banning under-18s.
PC Pete Rackham's report lists a series of allegations revealing a girl as young as 13 entered the festival, with her 14-year-old friend sexually assaulted.
Co-organiser Luke Betts said he wants to bring in photo ID conditions for 16 and 17-year-olds to tackle the problem.
Reports submitted to a licensing sub-committee reveal 21 incidents on the site, with two off-site.
Five involved under-18s, including one where a dad signed in his daughter, 14, and her friend, 13, before then leaving them both in the festival.
'Whilst in the big top the aggrieved alleges that she has been cornered by a group of males and one of the males sexually assaults her,' a report said.
Alison Jeffrey, director of children, families, and education at the council, backs the police call for a change.
In her statement she said: 'The council needs to act to prevent harm to children.
PC Rackham adds 'it is the belief of the Chief Officer of Police that the licence holder has demonstrated an inability to successfully action their own policies and procedures'.
He said while the organisers had come up with 'positive' ways to tackle the issue 'there is no way to test their proposals, leaving it to chance on the day that proposals will mitigate the risk to children. This is unacceptable'.
n Boy, 13, found a short distance from the event punched four times to the face, Admits to medics he took nitrous oxide, cannabis and alcohol.
n Boy, 17, punched victim to the face, with a possible broken eye socket.
n Ex-boyfriend of 17-year-old girl threw a bottle of drink at her.
n Teenager, 17, groped by a man from behind who put a bottle of Fosters in her mouth but she said it 'was not lager' and 'moments later felt wobbly'.
Organisers admitted having children escorted only offered a 'veil of safety' and had 'failings' they want to address.
He said Mutiny was 'probably the safety place in the city to be' over that weekend and it made 'strong improvement' each year.
Co-organiser Neil Roberts's improvements report includes a better separate entrance for under-18s and bringing in a safeguarding manager.
Problems with exit, which saw people spill out on to Western Road, would be solved by a partial closure of the road.
Police said they had a 'positive relationship' with the organisers.


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Royal Caribbean orders fourth Oasis-class ship from STX
Royal Caribbean Cruises has agreed with STX France to move forward on the order of a fourth Oasis-class ship for delivery in 2018.
Royal Caribbean Cruises chairman Richard Fain and chief operating officer Adam Goldstein, along with STX France chief executive Laurent Castaing, announced the planned ship order at the keel-laying ceremony for the third Oasis-class ship at the STX shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France.
"The Oasis Class was a revolution in maritime design when it was launched in 2009.
"Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas continue to be in a class by themselves both in terms of guest satisfaction and financial returns.
"Today's announcement is a reflection of their success," said Fain.
"We are thrilled to announce the order of a fourth Oasis-class ship during the keel-laying milestone of the third.
"This announcement is also a testament to the men and women of STX France who have worked so hard and so cooperatively on Oasis III."
The order is subject to documentation and satisfaction of financing and other customary conditions.
Projected capital expenditures for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 are $1.4 billion, $1.4 billion, $2.2 billion, $0.3 billion and $1.5 billion, respectively, taking into account this order and existing ship orders.
Known for pushing the boundaries and as part of the cruise line's continuous improvement mantra, Oasis III will be approximately 20 per cent more energy efficient than Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, which already are the most energy efficient cruise ships in the world.
The fourth Oasis-class ship will further build on that efficiency.
"We are very excited that Royal Caribbean has agreed to move forward with a fourth Oasis-class ship demonstrating their confidence in STX France to construct the most superior cruise ships in the world," said Castaing.
"We look forward to advancing the efficiencies of our ship building process to produce the most innovative ships that vacationers have come to expect from Royal Caribbean."
The keel laying of the third Oasis-class ship marks an important milestone in the development of the ship, as it signifies the beginning of its physical construction.
During the ceremony, a 1,000-ton block measuring 32-ft by 154-ft was lifted by crane into the building dock.
Newly minted coins were placed under the keel and will stay in place there until the end of the ship's construction.
Once the ship is near to completion, the coins are retrieved and presented to the ship's captain and crew to be placed onboard the ship.
According to maritime tradition, the coins are said to bring luck to the ship during its construction process and then to its captain and crew when she is sailing out at sea.
Still to be named, the third Oasis-class ship will be delivered in spring 2016.
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Do you want to own the world's most expensive car? Well, even if you did, you can't! It's not for sale. The earth-shattering Sweptail by Rolls Royce is worth a seizure-inducing $13 million and it doesn't even have furry dice in the window. And it's only got two seats.
Even the world's keenest luxury automobile flexer, rapper Lil Wayne, doesn't have something quite this expensive in his car collection. This is a car that someone such as Mike Tyson would've bought to take his Siberian tiger to the vets.
Lamborghini this, Bugatti that, but when it comes to the world's most expensive car, the $13 million Sweptail by Rolls Royce has blown them all out of the water in dramatic fashion.
Did you know that in 2016 there were only 4,000 Rolls Royce's manufactured? This is why the iconic luxury car brand is continually one of the most sought-after by all car collectors.
The Sweptail by Rolls Royce is a one-of-kind model, customized and tailor-made for a customer that will remain nameless. The custom coach-work looks similar to what you would find on royal carriages. It's all about the blue blood luxury lifestyle baby.
The car comes equipped with two seats, a fully panoramic sun-roof, handcrafted wooden and leather interior features, hidden attaches for laptop computers and stashing other things, and has a sleek design that mimics the tapering you might expect to see on a luxury yacht.
That is quite handy because the owner is apparently a collector of super-yachts and private planes.
There's not much information on the world's most expensive car at this time because it is not a mass-produced piece, so we have no idea how fast it goes.
The car is said to have been modeled on some Rolls Royce vehicles from the 1920s and 30s and does definitely have a stately yet modern feel to it.
Although the world's most expensive car is not for sale, it blows away the previous most expensive, which was the $4.8 million Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita.
Featured image from Auto MThai.


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Israel's Highest Court Outlaws Forced Haredi Gender Segregation At Funerals
The suit to end the forced gender segregation at funerals was filed by a woman, Susanne Ayad, who directly suffered from this discrimination. She was aided in her suit by the Israel Religious Action Center of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, which was founded by the Reform Movement in 1987 and acts as its public and legal advocacy arm of the movement in Israel.
Above: illegal gender segregation signs in the the Givat Ram cemetery in Jerusalem in December 2013
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Israel's highest court ruled yesterday that forced gender segregation at funerals, most often employed by haredi rabbis, is illegal, the JTA reported.
The ruling overturned two lower court rulings that dismissed a lawsuit filed four years ago against the official government hevra kadisha (burial society) of the City of Netanya.
In 2013 after a widespread public outcry against this forced gender segregation, almost always ordered and enforced by haredi rabbis employed by the state, Israel's Ministry of Religious Services issued a memo telling rabbis not to gender segregate funerals unless specifically asked to do so by the immediate family of the deceased.
That move reduced the number of such incidents.
But ministry orders are not the same as laws, do not have the same legal force as a law passed by Knesset, and can easily be changed at the whim of whomever is the current minister of religious affairs. That position was just returned haredi hands by the new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, making the court's ruling yesterday especially important to women's rights and anti-discrimination activists.
The suit to end the forced gender segregation at funerals was filed by a woman, Susanne Ayad, who directly suffered from this discrimination. She was aided in her suit by the Israel Religious Action Center of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, which was founded by the Reform Movement in 1987 and acts as its public and legal advocacy arm in Israel.
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Today's opiate epidemic continues to wreak havoc in the lives of people from all walks of life. For many, what starts out as a seemingly innocent experiment with opiates -be it heroin, hydrocodone or fentanyl– can quickly turn into an out-of-control, opiate addiction problem.
If you've abused opiates for any length of time, it's likely you're already experiencing the damaging effects of these drugs in your life in one form or another. After a certain point, the need to take some type of action to get well becomes plainly apparent.
If you reside nearby one of Arkansas' major cities, such as Little Rock, Fort Smith or Fayetteville, you have access to the best opiate rehab centers, though good programs can be found most anywhere. What's most important is to take the necessary steps to get the help that you need.
For information on opiate rehab programs near you, call our toll-free helpline at 800-429-5210.
The choice between inpatient and outpatient treatment can be a hard one to make considering how vastly different these two program types are. Inpatient programs take place within a closed-in treatment environment, while people receiving outpatient care can come and go as they please.
These differences in treatment approach are designed to treat different stages of addiction. Whereas someone at the early stages of drug abuse may still be able to control drug-using behaviors, someone coming off months or even years of addiction has lost all control over drug-using urges.
In effect, the more severe the addiction problem the greater the need for a more intensive treatment approach, according to the journal of Behavioral Sciences. In this respect, inpatient opiate addiction treatment provides the level of support and care needed if you're coming off a serious addiction problem. Otherwise, if you're still in the early stages of drug abuse, outpatient care should be enough to support your recovery efforts.
The detox stage can be a highly uncomfortable experience that varies from person to person. In effect, the more severe the addiction problem the more uncomfortable detox will be.
Getting through detox can be one of the most difficult stages of the recovery process. For this reason, it's especially important to ensure you choose an opiate detox center that can provide the level of support needed to get you through this difficult time.
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While no one wants to stay in rehab any longer than absolutely necessary, treatment duration has a considerable bearing on your overall success in recovery, according to SurgeonGeneral.gov. In effect, addiction leaves behind a whole new mindset or way of thinking that's geared towards continuing drug use at all costs.
Undoing the damaging effects of addiction requires a day-to-day effort that takes time; especially when recovering from a severe or long-term drug problem. These conditions account for why treatment for opiate addiction can run longer than expected.
Regardless of addiction severity, once addiction becomes an issue, a minimum of one year in treatment offers you the best chance of a successful recovery. With severe addiction problems, rehab duration may well run considerably longer.
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Q: App operation without app delegate methods Can you help me to understand why app still work if I delete default app delegate methods such as applicationWillResignActive and applicationDidEnterBackground?

A: In part, the declaration of the UIApplicationDelegate protocol looks like this:
public protocol UIApplicationDelegate : NSObjectProtocol {

    optional public func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ application: UIApplication)

    optional public func application(_ application: UIApplication, willFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey : Any]? = nil) -> Bool

    optional public func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey : Any]? = nil) -> Bool

    optional public func applicationDidBecomeActive(_ application: UIApplication)

    optional public func applicationWillResignActive(_ application: UIApplication)

   ...

Note that the functions are declared as optional.  This means that code that conforms to the protocol does not have to implement those functions.
If your app doesn't need to do anything special when it enters the background, then you don't need to implement applicationDidEnterBackground.  If your app did need to do something, then you would implement that function.

A: What is delegate?
from documentation:

A set of methods that are called by the singleton UIApplication object
  in response to important events in the lifetime of your app.

Why your app works?
applicationWillResignActive & applicationDidEnterBackground are optional delegate methods.
Their sole purpose is to notify your app if those event occurs. If you remove those methods your app will not get notification when your app goes into background or suspended. Since these methods only job is to provide notification it has nothing to do with your running successfully.
Your app only need this methods if it needs to handle background tasks when app is not active.

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Russia Confirms To The World That It's Not A Fan Of Free Speech: Pussy Riot Gets Two Years In Jail
from the pussy-riot-in-jail dept
Fri, Aug 17th 2012 8:47am — Mike Masnick
Hopefully, many of you have been following the legal fight in Russia over the band/collective Pussy Riot, who performed an anti-Putin song inside a key Moscow cathedral. If so, then you know that, today, the band was sentenced to two years in jail. The sentence could have been worse, but just the fact that they're being punished, at all, for expressing their views is troubling enough. The three women have already been in jail since March, while the case moved forward. At the beginning, it was assumed that they would end up with jail sentences, but there had been some hope that the Russian judiciary would recognize the general horror of the rest of the world at the case and perhaps back down. The women are planning to appeal, so this isn't over yet.
Either way, the verdict is unfortunate in many ways. We talk about free speech issues all the time around here, and we recognize that other countries don't always view freedom of speech as being as central or as important as the US does. That said, the whole idea that a band would end up in jail over political speech should be distressing and problematic to anyone with a developed sense of "right" and "wrong." Some will say this isn't surprising, or that this is the way that some countries operate, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't still be offended by the decision on principle.
Filed Under: free speech, protests, pussy riot, russia, vladimir putin
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The First Word
This might not be that bad, I say we offer to trade David Lowery for Pussy Riot. This way he can really learn about getting ripped off.
Whattheheck, 19 Aug 2012 @ 7:32pm
Pussy retards
Does anybody really care about these social retards? Acting out in a church for political reasons is about as dumb a move as any pussies could make. maybe 2 years in the slammer will give them time to think about the meaning of life.
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package jeffaschenk.commons.standards.statecodes;

import jeffaschenk.commons.standards.CountryCode;

/**
 * Official ISO-3166 State/Province Codes
 * <p/>
 * Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
 *
 * @author jeffaschenk@gmail.com
 *         Date: May 19, 2010
 *         Time: 12:12:11 PM
 */
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public enum StateCodes_BA {
    /**
     * State Code Enumerator
     */
	BA_BIH("Federacija Bosna i Hercegovina","BA-BIH","Entity","12746", CountryCode.BOSNIA_AND_HERZEGOVINA),
    BA_SRP("Republika Srpska","BA-SRP","Entity","12747",CountryCode.BOSNIA_AND_HERZEGOVINA);

    // *************************************
    // Common Enum Structure for all
    // States of the World
    private final String stateProvinceName;

    private final String stateCode;

    private final String stateProvinceType;

    private final String stateNumericCode;

    private final CountryCode countryCode;

    StateCodes_BA(String stateProvinceName, String stateCode, String stateProvinceType, String stateNumericCode, CountryCode countryCode) {
        this.stateProvinceName = stateProvinceName;
        this.stateCode = stateCode;
        this.stateProvinceType = stateProvinceType;
        this.stateNumericCode = stateNumericCode;
        this.countryCode = countryCode;
    }

    public String stateProvinceName() {
        return this.stateProvinceName;
    }

    public String stateCode() {
        return this.stateCode;
    }

    public String stateProvinceType() {
        return this.stateProvinceType;
    }

    public String stateNumericCode() {
        return this.stateNumericCode;
    }

    public CountryCode countryCode() {
        return this.countryCode;
    }

}

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Celebrity Apprentice star and former WWE Diva Maria Kanellis to join HDNet's MMA broadcast team
ByPress Release
Mar 15, 2010 broadcast team, Celebrity Apprentice, featured, HDNet, Jason "Mayhem" Miller, king of the cage, Maria Kanellis, Mark Burnett, MMA, Playboy, Seven Sins, wwe
Kanellis to make her HDNet debut on March 26 at 10:00 p.m. ET at "King of the Cage: Legacy"
DALLAS (March 15, 2010) – Last week on HDNet's Inside MMA, we broke the news that Maria Kanellis will become the newest member of the network's MMA broadcast team. Kanellis was WWE's 2009 "Diva of the Year," a Playboy Cover Girl, recording artist and a contestant on this season's "Celebrity Apprentice." She will debut as the backstage correspondent on HDNet's LIVE broadcast of "Mark Burnett Presents: King of the Cage: Legacy" on March 26 from the Silver Legacy Casino in Reno, Nev.
"Maria is an amazing talent with a devoted fan base and we are excited to have her as part of our MMA broadcast team," said Andrew Simon, CEO of HDNet Fights. "Maria loves MMA and is a superstar on LIVE television – the MMA community will welcome the passion she will bring to covering the sport."
"My mantra is 'passion is my motivation' and I am definitely passionate about MMA!" said Kanellis. "I am excited for the opportunity to be part of the HDNet family. I love their commitment to the sport."
Kanellis began her career in 2004 as a WWE Diva and appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in April 2008. Her television credits include appearances on "Family Feud," "Project Runway," " VH1's Top 20 Video Countdown," "The Insider," "Best Damn Sports Show Period," "Red Eye" and "The Today Show."
She will be featured as a contestant on this season's "The Celebrity Apprentice" which premiered on March 14 on NBC. Her debut album "Seven Sins" will be available on iTunes on April 13 and a preview of the first single can be heard at http://mariakanellis.net.
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Cascades Library, 21030 Whitfield Place, Sterling, will be holding an after-hours teen center, Fridays, 7-10 p.m., for teens in grades sixth-12th. Upcoming schedule includes Sept. 1, game night; Sept. 8, disc jockey night with DJ Joe Schwartz; Sept. 15, game night; Sept. 22, Goombay, The Caribbean Experience; Sept. 29, movie night; Oct. 6, magician Michael Chamberlain; Oct. 13, game night; Oct. 20, High Strung Band-Make History with the First Ever National Rock & Roll Library Tour, sponsored by the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation; Oct. 27, Halloween party with DJ Joe Schwartz. Call the Cascades Library at 703-444-3228, Ext. 309.
The Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Road, Leesburg, will hold a the final presentation in its series, "Popcorn, Peanuts and Cracker Jacks" featuring author Tim Wendel. Refreshments will be served. Saturday, Sept. 2, 2 p.m., Globalization of Sports. Examine the "sport dream," and how that dream plays out today in a sport world that is as flat as the economic world.
Sterling glass artist, David Barnes, will be featured in the new exhibit "Summer Heat," running through Sept. 4, at the Artists' Undertaking Gallery, 309 Mill St., Occoquan. Gallery open Monday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Call 703-494-0584.
Sterling Library will be holding a bilingual conversation group, Tuesdays, Sept. 5-Oct. 31, at 11:30 a.m., at the library, 120 Enterprise St. Practice Spanish and English in this informal conversation group. Talk about music, movies, food, the weather, etc. The bilingual conversation program is a family program, recommended for all ages.
Espa–ol/InglŽs grupo conversacional: Venga a la biblioteca de Sterling y practique su inglŽs o espa–ol en grupos informales de conversaci—n. !Hable de mœsica, pel'culals, comida o el tiempo.
A photography exhibit by Linda Holtslander, "Through a Window - the Amaquilco Farm - El Salvador," takes place Sept. 5-Oct. 27, at Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Road, Leesburg. The collection of photographs that depict workers on Finca Amaquilco, a coffee bean farm, which is located outside of San Salvador. Visit the Web site, www.lcpl.lib.va.us.
Beginning Sept. 9, Sterling Library, 120 Enterprise St., will have a new story time, every second Saturday of the month, at 11 a.m. Includes stories, music and activities. The story time is recommended for ages 2-5. Visit www.lcpl.lib.va.us.
Oatlands Plantation, 20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane, Leesburg, will be holding "For Season Teas" throughout the year. Includes school days teas, Friday, Sept. 8 and Saturday, Sept. 9; autumn leaf teas, Thursday, Oct. 19 and Friday, Oct. 20; teddy bear tea, Sunday, Dec. 17. Cost $24.95 plus tax per person; children 8 and under are $15.95 plus tax. Seating at 1 p.m.
Fall teas are served Thursdays-Saturdays, from Nov. 9-30, except Thanksgiving Day. Holiday teas are served Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, from Dec. 1-22 and Dec. 27-29, except Dec. 24. Cost $21.95 plus tax per person; children 8 and under are $12.95 plus tax. Seating are at 1 p.m.
Reservations required for all the teas, call 703-777-3174 or visit www.oatlands.org.
Next Level 4 Teens Inc. (NXL) will be opening its doors to the community every Saturday through Sept. 9, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
The nonprofit, youth organization is officially up and running at its new teen center, located at 44081 Pipeline Plaza, Suite 100, Ashburn. NXL is offering many different programs this fall for both teens and families, including an after-school program for middle-school students, one-on-one tutoring, comprehensive SAT prep, hands-on computer training, and a number of workshops and seminars.
A special grand opening ceremony will be held Saturday, Sept. 9. Visit www.NextLevel4Teens.org or call 703-724-0404.
Celebrate eBook week, Sept. 11-16, at Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Road, Leesburg. Drop by for free, on-demand demos of ebook resources including research material, language learning, leisure reading, children's books and more. Library staff will show how to access text and audio resources. Enter the drawing for prizes. Recommended for all ages. Visit www.lcpl.lib.va.us.
Twilight tours of three Loudoun innovative farms, Endless Summer Harvest, Loudoun Nursery and Great Country Farms, have been planned. Each tour begins at 5 p.m., followed by a twilight dinner featuring locally produced meats.
The third tour will be at Great Country Farms in Bluemont, Sept. 14. Great Country FarmsÕ goal is to offer a way for everyone to experience farm life and enjoy the benefits of its bounty.
The registration fee of $20 per person per tour includes tour and dinner. Preregistration and payment two weeks prior to each tour is requested. Visit www.LoudounFarms.org or call 703-777-0426.
The Big Apple Circus returns to the Dulles Town Center in Dulles, Sept. 21-Oct. 9, with a new production, "Step Right Up!" Ð launching the 29th season of New York's original one-ring circus.
Tickets range in price from $16 to $40 for weekday evenings, $19 to $48 for weekend and Columbus Day performances, and from $16 to $24 for 11 a.m. weekday matinees.
Performances are Tuesdays through Fridays, 7 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 12:30 and 4:30 p.m.; weekday matinees take place Oct. 4-6, at 11 a.m. Columbus Day performances, Oct. 9, take place at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster at 703-573-SEAT or online at ticketmaster.com. For group ticket sales, call 877-407-8497. The circus box office, located in front of the Big Top at Dulles Town Center, will open Wednesday, Sept. 20.
The Great Arcola Camp Out, for all ages, at Arcola Community Center, 24328 Goshen Road. Bring the family for an evening of camping, fun and games. Call 703-327-3111 to sign up. Fee $5. Friday, Sept. 22--Saturday, Sept. 23, 5 p.m.-11 a.m.
"Loudoun Landmarks," a new art exhibition featuring a variety of artwork by Loudoun County artists, is on display at the Loudoun County Government Center and the Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum.
Features 24 artists showcasing 42 photographs, paintings, and mixed-media pieces of special county landmarks.
The exhibits can be viewed during business hours at both locations through September. Hours at the Loudoun County Government Center gallery are 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Hours of operation at the Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum, located within Claude Moore Park at 21668 Heritage Farm Lane in Sterling, are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
The Loudoun Valley Homegrown Markets Association (LVHMA) Leesburg and Cascades markets will have volunteers from the Loudoun County Master Gardeners program on hand to help identify plants or diagnose pests. The Master Gardeners will be at the Leesburg Market every Saturday, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and at the Cascades Market the second Sunday of each month, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The markets operate from May-October. Visit loudouncountymastergardeners.org.
The Loudoun Valley HomeGrown Markets Association sponsors seven farmers markets in the county until the end of October, featuring home-grown, producer-only markets.
The seven locations and hours of operation are Cascades, Sundays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., The Senior Center, 21060 Whitfield Place; Leesburg, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Virginia Village Shopping Center; Lovettsville, Tuesdays, 4-7 p.m., Game Protective Association, Route 287; Middleburg, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., Marshall Street; Purcellville, Thursdays, 4- 7 p.m., 21st Street, across from the train station; South Riding, Saturdays, 2-5 p.m., Town Center Parking Lot; and Sterling, Wednesdays, 4-7 p.m., Briar Patch Park, 1400 block of Sterling Boulevard.
The Lucketts Community Center, 42361 Lucketts Road, offers toddle story hour, every Tuesday, 9:15-10 a.m., for ages 1.5-5 years old. For caregiver and child and includes lively stories, movement, music and more. $6. Preregister by calling 703-771-5281.
Cascades Library, 21030 Whitfield Place, Sterling, will hold the following ongoing story times. Lapsits for 2s, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. and Wednesdays, 11:15 a.m.; Mother Goose Nursery Time, ages 18-24 months, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.; Pajama Story Time, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Story Time for 3s, 4s and 5s, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; After School Book Break, ages 5-8, Wednesdays, 4 p.m.; Terrific 3s, Thursdays, 11:15 a.m.; Saturday Family Story Time, ages 2-6, Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. Call 703-444-3228.
Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Road, Leesburg, will hold the following story times. Mother Goose Nursery Time, ages 18-24 months, Wednesdays, 11:15 a.m., one-on-one with your child; Lapsits for 2s, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30 a.m., caregivers are requested to stay with the child; Family Story Time for 3s, 4s & 5s, Thursdays, 7 p.m., sign interpreter present; Morning Story Time for 3s, 4s & 5s, Fridays, 10:15 a.m. and 11 a.m.; Saturday Family Story Time, ages 3-6 and their family; Saturdays, 11 a.m. Call 703-777-0323.
Sterling Library, 120 Enterprise St., will be holding the following ongoing story times. Preschool Story Times, ages 2-5, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.; Saturday Family Story Times, ages 2-5, second Saturdays of each month, 11 a.m. Call 703-430-9500.
Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road, offers the following ongoing story times. Mother Goose Nursery Time, ages 18-24 months, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m.; Terrific 2s: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:45 a.m.; Preschool Story Time, ages 3-5, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.; Wonderful Wednesday Stories, ages 3-5, Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.; Pajama Story Time, ages 3-5, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Saturday Family Story Time, ages 2-5, Saturdays, 10 a.m. Call 703-737-8100.
On the last Friday of each month, at 7 p.m., teenagers from Loudoun and Fairfax counties are invited to the Dulles Town Center, in partnership with Next Level for Teens, for an evening devoted to teen issues and events, called Teens Talk at Dulles Town Center. Free. The Dulles Town Center is located at the intersection of routes 7 and 28. Visit ShopDullesTownCenter.com.
Dodona Manor, the restored home of Gen. and Mrs. George C. Marshall in Leesburg, is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays. Tours are available from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., on Saturdays and from 1-5 p.m., on Sundays. Additional summer hours are from June -Aug., Mondays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The last tour for each day begins at 4 p.m.; and each tour is preceded by an introductory video exploring the professional career of Marshall, spanning more than 50 years of public service.
Admission to the museum is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and group tours and $5 for students. Reservations are required for group tours. Visit www.georgecmarshall.org or call the tour reservation line at 703-777-1301.
Weekend and holiday free parking for Dodona Manor tours is available in the Loudoun County Government Building on Loudoun Street. Additional parking is available in the Leesburg municipal/court parking lot Ñ Red Lot Ñ off North Street.
Leesburg Animal Park has several new animal exhibits including exotic and domestic animals, an expanded contact area to pet and feed animals, a new bird aviary, a safari ride to tour. The park will feature live entertainment on weekends.
The Leesburg Animal Park is located at 19270 James Monroe Highway, Leesburg. Admissions are $7.95 for children and seniors, $9.95 for adults. Free for children under two. Group rates are $6 with a 10-person minimum on Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays. Wild Wednesdays offer $2 off all admission rates, not valid with other offers. Hours are Friday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wednesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Visit www.LeesburgAnmialPark.com or call 703-433-0002.
Temple Hall Farm is open for the 2006 season until October with new baby animals are arriving every week. Temple Hall Farm is open, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesdays-Sundays. Contact Temple Hall Farm at 703-779-9372 or via e-mail at TempleHallFarm@NVRPA.org.
Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum, 21668 Heritage Farm Lane, Sterling, is open Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; as well as Sundays, noon-5 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for children 2-12 and free for children under 2. On permanent display is "The Country People" where visitors travel through time and experience the past 300 years of agricultural history through 10 generations of Loudoun County residents. The Claude Moore children's Farm is an interactive exhibit area for children and their families. Visit www.loudounfarmmuseum.org or call 703-421-5322.
Leesburg First Fridays. Galleries and shops open their doors on the first Friday of each month with special events, refreshments and entertainment, from 6-9 p.m. There is no First Friday in January. Free. Call 800-752-6118. Visit www.leesburgfirstfriday.com.
Guided Nature or History Hikes for all ages at Claude Moore park, 21544 Old Vestals Gap Road, Sterling. Nature hikes, Frogshackle Cabin Nature Center, history hikes and special request programs for school groups, scouts, community organizations, adults and families are available on a variety of topics throughout the year. Programs designed to foster an appreciation of Loudoun County's natural and cultural resources in a fun and informative way. Summer hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The park will be open free to the public Oct. 21 and 22 for the Loudon County Farm Tour Program. The park is free for individuals. Cost is $3.50 per person for a group tour, with a minimum charge of $35. Call 703-444-1275 for reservations.
Loudoun Bluegrass Association. Weekly acoustic jam session held every Tuesday night, 7-8:30 p.m., at the Morningside House Retirement Center, 316 Harrison St. in Leesburg. All bluegrass/country musicians, singers and spectators are welcome. Free. Call Randy Kenyon
703-777-9865, home.


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BLACK COFFEE Announce Go Fund Me to Finance New Record & Facilitate Future Touring
Columbus, OH based Rock Band BLACK COFFEE has announced a GO FUND ME campaign to help fund their upcoming new album. Funds will also go towards renovating an old school bus for future touring. "We need your help to convert [...]
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SWINDY VS. GROOVEY.TV'S THE GAUNTLET INTERVIEW SERIES
(Rules of The Gauntlet: The artists (In this case with Randall Swindell, front-man of Arizona Industrial band Swindy) is sent a butt ton of questions ranging from standard to stupid from which they must choose at least 12 to answer [...]
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Swindy Release Official Music Video for "Reflection"
Tucson, AZ based Electronic Pop Rock band Swindy has released the Official Music Video for the single "Reflection," off of their debut, self titled EP. Originally premiered on Tattoo.com, "Reflection" was directed by Isabel Uzcategui at Originate Design Productions. [...]
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Kevlar Releases Official Video for Cover of Katy Perry's "Dark Horse"
Pennsylvania hard rock band KEVLAR have just signed with CB Entertainment for representation. With that, launching a brand new music video. The hard-hitting rendition of Katy Perry's "Dark Horse". Heading to Michigan, the single was produced and recorded with Nick Sampson (Asking Alexandria, Born Of Osiris, Miss May I). KEVLAR [...]
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STATE OF MINE Cover Katy Perry's "Rise" as Police Tribute
Michigan Metal band STATE OF MINE have given Katy Perry's "Rise" a massive injection of brutal metal in their Police Tribute Cover of the Pop Hit, the first single off their highly anticipated sophomore EP, Devil In Disguise. The EP was produced by BJ Perry at Wall of [...]
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UPDATE: Grant Will Help Low-Income Pet Owners Afford Veterinary Care
Kerry Lengyel
Many pet owners lack access to needed pet care because they simply cannot afford it, but for some pet owners that may soon change.
(July 30) — The University of Tennessee College of Social Work Program for Pet Health Equity has received a $2.8 million grant to support the research and development of AlignCare—a just-launched 3-year nationwide project that will provide community-based financial support to selected low-income families to help their pets receive health care when they need it.
The grant was awarded by Maddie's Fund, which funds projects to move toward a no-kill nation where every dog and cat is guaranteed a healthy home or habitat.
"Thanks to Maddie's Fund, millions of pets and their people will benefit from the 'One Health' approach that is AlignCare by sustainably gaining access to veterinary care," said Michael Blackwell, DVM, MPH, director of the Program for Pet Health Equity at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work.
AlignCare includes researchers from the University of Tennessee College of Social Work, Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, and Department of Public Health, and is an extension of the work done by the Access to Veterinary Care Coalition.
"Animal welfare's primary focus has been to find homes for homeless pets," Laurie Peek, DVM, member of the executive leadership team for Maddie's Fund, said. "AlignCare takes this vision to its next big step in revolutionizing the status and well-being of companion animals by helping to keep pets in their homes."
(July 16) — Michael Blackwell, DVM, MPH, director of the program for pet health equity at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work, believes better programs are needed to help low-income pet owners gain access to veterinary care.
American Veterinarian® spoke with Dr. Blackwell at the convention to ask about his work in helping to resolve the issue of underserved pet owners. "Lack of access to veterinary care is the largest animal welfare issue confronting owned pets," he said. "We're failing to provide access when pets need it the most."
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Helping Those Who Cannot Help Themselves
Many wellness services are offered at a discounted rate to low-income pet owners, but the sick and urgent care needs of these pets are not addressed. "What happens in between the monthly or yearly clinics?" Dr. Blackwell asked.
Enter AlignCare—a just-launched 3-year nationwide project that will provide community-based financial support to selected low-income families to help their pets receive health care when they need it—beyond annual wellness checks, vaccinations, and spay/neuter clinics. Subsidized care likely will not extend to advanced treatments for some conditions, but it will help families cover costs for common illnesses, diseases, and injuries.
An outgrowth of the work done by the Access to Veterinary Care Coalition, the new project will identify pet owners through social services, public health programs, and nonprofits. Here's how it will work:
A selected participant pays a copay for provided veterinary services calculated on a sliding scale.
Then, a subsidy is paid by AlignCare directly to the selected participant.
The provider delivers the veterinary services at a discounted rate.
Various steps will be taken during each year of the 3-year project. In the first year, the framework, policies, and procedures will be created. In the second year, AlignCare will be implemented in 10 communities across the United States. In the third year, the program organizers anticipate the majority of communities will be participating in the program.
Funding for the AlignCare program will come from foundations, corporations, and individual donors.


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Anna Yuryevna Pletnyova (; nacida el 21 de agosto de 1977) es una cantante y compositora  rusa. Exmiembro del grupo pop ruso Liceo (de 1997 a 2005), Pletnyova ha sido miembro junto a Alexei Romanof del grupo pop Vintage desde 2006. En 2016, dejó Vintage y comenzó una carrera en solitario hasta 2018, año en que volvió al grupo.

Pletnyova ha sido incluida varias veces en el "Top 100 de las mujeres más sexys del mundo" de la edición rusa de FHM, incluyendo la clasificación en el séptimo lugar tanto en 2012 como en 2014. Además de su carrera como cantante, Pletnyova fue directora de las series de televisión rusas Kadetstvo (Кадетство) y Kremlyovskie kursanty (Кремлёвские курсанты).

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Switzerland's stability is an ever more important asset in a turbulent world, says the head of the new Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. Thomas Gottstein on the art of a successful IPO, the best bank in the country and a night watching television.
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Mr. Gottstein, we're meeting the morning after Stan Wawrinka beat Novak Djokovic in the US Open. How long did you watch last night?
Truthfully? I put the kids to bed, and I was only planning to watch the first set. But I stayed up for the whole thing, and when I looked up at the clock, it was 2:46 am. A fantastic match. Wawrinka is a perfect example of Swiss values in the world – just like Roger Federer, but in his own unique way. Nevertheless, my alarm went off at six this morning, so please bear with me.
You're familiar with the world of elite sports; you played golf on the Swiss national team. What are the most important character traits for success?
Of course, you need talent. But you can't have long-term success without discipline, even if you are extremely talented. In sports and life in general, it's important to set clear goals.
How did you prepare for an important tournament?
I would go through the course and every single swing in my head the evening before. Over and over. I played many rounds mentally. In every situation, having a clear plan helps to deal with pressure and changing circumstances.
I'm basically a positive person. I like competition. I enjoy seeing how I measure up to others and winning fair and square. Or – somewhat less enjoyably – losing gracefully. Another life lesson that comes from sports is handling victories and defeats. Both can be difficult.
Clearly, you are exceedingly loyal. You've worked for CS for 17 years.
I've always been lucky to have had good mentors who believed in me – including Marco Illy, Hans-Ulrich Doerig and James Leigh-Pemberton, just to name three. I've also always had colleagues whom I could trust and who trusted me. That inspires loyalty and appreciation, which are very important values to me.
It's often said that when money is involved, loyalty isn't worth much.
What a tired cliché. In the end, people are everything. The members of my management team have worked 20 years for Credit Suisse on average. They know the business, they know what they're talking about, and they have years of experience working as a team.
Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. has just started operating. There's a buzz of excitement around the new company.
I feel it too. We have founded Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd., and we're planning a partial initial public offering next year. That's brought us together as a team. Plus, with the new Switzerland-based unit we'll have someone on the Executive Board who has only one thing in mind when he gets up in the morning and when he goes to bed at night: Switzerland.
In three sentences, what is your vision for Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd?
I only need one sentence. We want to be the best bank in Switzerland. Period.
How will you achieve that?
We want to offer the best service. We're the only bank that can say we concentrate entirely on Switzerland. The other large banks all still have an offshore business. In addition, we can combine our focus on Switzerland with Credit Suisse Group's global network and full range of services. That's important for our clients – for example, with the takeover of a foreign business by a Swiss company, with a merger that crosses borders, or with alternative investments.
A return to your roots?
Yes, we've renewed our emphasis on Switzerland. In the last five to ten years, we sometimes invested too little in Switzerland – and in innovations, too. We're now changing this. Switzerland is our home market – our heart, so to speak. Switzerland is the most important pillar of the Group's earnings, and a stable one, too.
Victories and defeats – both can be difficult.
You want to position CS even more strongly as a bank for entrepreneurs. Other financial institutions want the same. What will you do differently?
Swiss entrepreneurship is part of our DNA; it's been that way since 1856. Our advantage over most other banks –particularly the purely private banks – is that we've mastered not only the asset management business, but also commercial banking. We can therefore advise entrepreneurs holistically, as private individuals and as corporate clients. We've created special desks in all regions to do precisely this. In the past, we've been governed too strongly by a silo mentality. In a complex world, we have to be simpler and more pragmatic. We want to be more Swiss again.
You know this world through personal experience. Your father was an entrepreneur.
My father owned a company that manufactured coil winding machines, particularly for the electronics industry. I've experienced what it means to be an entrepreneur – creating jobs, struggling with bureaucracy, keeping a level head in good times and bad, taking on risks and investing in innovations.
You've mentioned that Credit Suisse will also be investing more in innovations. That includes digitalization, the hot topic of the banking sector. Precisely because everyone is talking about it, however, it can be hard to see the big picture.
In our view, these are the main points, very briefly stated: Digitalization can't be stopped. It is a tremendous opportunity that brings our clients great advantages. Bank transactions are becoming simpler, there is more transparency, customer experience is better and services are available around the clock.
At the same time, there is more competition; new FinTech firms are springing up everywhere.
We're following the model of "frenemies". Young upstarts are working together with traditional institutions like ourselves. Two other things are important with respect to digitalization. Thanks to modern data analysis – the key concepts here are big data and artificial intelligence – it's easier for us to grasp complex processes quickly, recognize patterns in market developments and present them to our clients. And the automation that accompanies digitalization brings many cost savings.
What does Switzerland mean to you personally – not as a banker, but as a citizen?
Switzerland is my home. I was born and raised here. I'm proud of Switzerland. The country is a model of economic, political and social success. Despite our small size, we've been able to maintain our independence and participate actively within the global community. As a bank, we've oriented ourselves in many ways to this model of success.
What should Switzerland do or not do, to remain successful in the future?
We have to uphold the favorable conditions of a liberal economic order with moderate state intervention. Our primary resource is our highly qualified workforce, some of whom we train ourselves and some of whom we have to attract from abroad. In Switzerland, for example, Credit Suisse has around 17,000 employees, and it offers around 1350 positions for interns and trainees. In implementing the referendum against mass immigration, we need to make sure that we remain attractive for highly skilled workers.
In the era after banking secrecy, how do you see Switzerland's future as a financial center?
Most observers believe that the asset management business in Switzerland will grow between two and three percent each year. I'm convinced that Switzerland will become even more attractive for companies and private clients. Just think about the growing uncertainty in Europe and around the world. Think about our political and social stability, the stability of our currency and our attractive tax policy. Switzerland is attractive and dependable. That's why companies, private banking clients and family offices will continue to come to Switzerland in the future. Unfortunately, in Switzerland we tend to deny ourselves these advantages.
Unfortunately, in Switzerland we're tending to deny ourselves these advantages.
Do you mean bank regulation?
Don't get me wrong – I think that heightening requirements for banking institutions after the financial crisis were absolutely correct; CS actively supported this. But now the issue is for Switzerland not to introduce more stringent regulations before everyone else, and not to change these regulations constantly. There ought to be a few, simple rules that everyone can understand – otherwise, the banks will be less successful in conducting their business, and they will pay fewer taxes and create fewer jobs. That isn't what anyone wants.
We're orienting ourselves to Switzerland's model of success.
As an investment banker, you've participated in dozens of IPOs, some as large as for the natural resource company Glencore, worth more than 10 billion Swiss francs. In general, what are the most important points for a company that wants to go public successfully?
You have to be able to explain your equity story – your argument for issuing new stock – to investors in ten or fifteen minutes. You have to keep things simple, but be able to go into details when asked. You have to be able to convince the investors that a good management team is at the helm. The equity story can be about growth or dividends. Investors usually want a company to be in the top three of its sector. And you need to be transparent and open about opportunities and risks.
You're planning for a partial initial public offering next year with Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. Unfortunately, we don't have time here for a 15-minute answer. In three minutes, how would you convince us to buy the stock?
You're tougher than all the analysts! So here it is: We are a rock-solid bank, in one of the wealthiest and most stable countries in the world. We're in the top three of all our business lines, we pay a good dividend, we still have room to grow and our management is excellent. Those are the five most important points in two sentences.
Why are you even working towards a partial IPO?
There are essentially three reasons. First, the bank as a whole is currently undervalued. With the IPO, we can demonstrate the value of the Swiss business. We'll compel investors and analysts to evaluate the individual business areas. Second, we can raise more capital for the parent company; we're counting on 2 to 4 billion Swiss francs. Third, we've already talked about the positive buzz. Being able to demonstrate our success as a Swiss team, and seeing this directly in the price of stock, is motivating and bringing us even closer together.
But there is also criticism of the IPO. It's been said that a sheer lack of capital is the reason for going public.
First, the Group is better capitalized today than ever before, having steadily increased its hard-core capital ratio [by 1.8 percentage points between the third quarter of 2015 and the third quarter of 2016, to 12 percent – editor's note]. Second, by reinvesting profits CS Switzerland can generate growth capital that is invested exclusively in Switzerland.
Another speculation is that the international part of the business could be sold or merged more profitably after the IPO.
There isn't a speculation that I haven't already heard. That doesn't mean it's accurate. We'll continue to be a group with international competency. That's important for our Swiss business, too.
With the capital that you raise by going public, you'll have greater financial power. Is taking over Swiss private banks part of CS Switzerland's medium-term strategy?
There are different ways that we might participate in the consolidation of the financial center. Each year, 10 banks disappear in Switzerland. Interesting job profiles come onto the market, and we're an attractive partner. We also expect that certain institutions will become external asset managers, which we can support. And yes, after the initial public offering, acquisitions will be on the table.
Of course, our goal is ambitious, but that's how goals should be.
By 2018, Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. wants to bring in a pre-tax income of 2.3 billion Swiss francs. Is that realistic?
In 2014, we had a pre-tax income of 1.5 billion Swiss francs. In 2015, it was 1.6 billion. We earned 930 million in the first six months of 2016 – an increase of eight percent. And that happened in a very difficult phase –despite Brexit, despite negative interest, despite high organizational costs for the new Swiss legal entity. We are on the right track.
Some competitors think your growth targets in the home market are much too ambitious.
Of course, our goal is ambitious, but that's how goals should be. The plan is for us to grow by two percent and reduce costs by three percent. My first observation is that we are on the right track. Second, I find it striking that our competitors are commenting on our business plan at all. I would never do this. In my interpretation, they're getting nervous.
Loyalty and appreciation are very important values to me.
One final speculation. Who will merge together first – FCZ and GC (Zurich's top soccer clubs), or CS and UBS?
Both are highly improbable, although the first would make more sense, as long as the new club is called FCZ (laughs). Loyalty and appreciation are very important values to me.
Thomas P. Gottstein, 52, is CEO of Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. He has held various positions at the bank over the past 17 years, including Head of Premium Clients Switzerland, Head of Investment Banking Switzerland and Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets EMEA. Originally from Rüschlikon near Zurich, Gottstein holds a doctorate in finance and accounting from the University of Zurich. He lives in the Zurich area with his wife and two children.
The interview was conducted on September 12, 2016.
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A narrow majority of Swiss citizens support the continued development of relations between Switzerland and the EU – including signing the institutional framework agreement – but do not want Switzerland to make greater concessions. These are among the findings of the third Credit Suisse Europe Barometer in collaboration with the Europa Forum Lucerne.
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Switzerland and Credit Suisse have been interconnected in a variety of ways for more than 160 years. In this "Escher Anniversary Year" we are once again demonstrating our commitment to our Swiss home market, for example with the brochure "Switzerland and Credit Suisse," which is available now.
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Jeff Bezos presented this video on Charlie Rose, I believe, highlighting a future where Amazon could deliver merchandise in less than 30 minutes via drone.
It's fanciful and not very realistic for most items my family has ordered from them. (We bought a really nice air mattress bed recently that would take a small army of drones to move.) It still feels like a very long way off since the FAA keeps dragging its feet on drones for commercial use.
Om Malik fills in with some questions that Charlie Rose forgot to ask, including a very good one: why is Bezos, a very secretive and private man about his future business ideas, showing this now, clearly years before it is even feasible?
In the 1950s the general contract was that employers will pay employees enough to buy their stuff. That contract is broken now. We seem to so rarely think about the human costs of automation. Yes, it's inevitable that this will happen. Computers will rule the world. What I never hear discussed, though, is how people will live when Amazon needs a tiny fraction of employees, compared to Walmart, which utilized a tiny fraction compared to mom-and-pop shops.
 Yes, I know I keep bringing this up. I'm still looking for answers.
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Grounded in its feminist views, Praajak works with runaway boys and young men, to give them livelihood options and help them reunite with their families. Shoma Chatterji reports.
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Each year a number of young boys and teenagers run away from their homes to live on streets and railway platforms of Kolkata and the rest of West Bengal. Where do these children go to escape the vulnerability of their lives and livelihood? How do they save themselves from random abuse, criminal acts, and other social victimization? Is it possible to reunite some of them with their families? Can they be helped to open a fresh page of their scarred lives to begin anew?
Praajak, a Kolkata-based NGO founded in 1997 is trying to find some of the answers through its multi-layered programme to give these marginalised children their right to protection, one of the most neglected areas of intervention in work with children and young persons. Prajak's intervention programmes now reach children in 11 cities and towns of the state, and its support programmes for vulnerable children and youth are available in 16 districts.
Praajak focuses on issues of juvenile crime, gender violence, sexual abuse, gambling and substance abuse. A feminist organisation, it fully understands these social problems as partially constituted by the social construction of masculinity as violent practice. Hence, Praajak works mainly with boys and young men to challenge patriarchal constructions of masculinity and evolve workable alternatives that contribute to the removal of gender-based discrimination. The idea of a gender-just society, in which women and men work together to dismantle oppressive patriarchal structures, is therefore organic to each of its endeavours.
Why does Praajak define itself as a feminist organisation though its programmes are mainly committed to rescuing boys and young men? Romit Chowdhury, who is working with the organisation on a one-year research project says, "Feminism understood as a movement to end discrimination on grounds of gender informs our work. Our mission is to arrive at a social order that is gender-just, and cares for the rights of children and young persons. Our work with children and older persons questions patriarchal understandings of what comprises 'appropriate' gender roles for men and women and seeks to establish egalitarian relations between men and women."
Praajak believes that the patriarchal ideology of men as breadwinners often drives children from lower social-economic groups away from home to earn their own living at a young age.
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He adds, "Praajak believes that the patriarchal ideology of men as breadwinners often drives children from lower social-economic groups away from home to earn their own living at a young age. It understands that violent and reckless practices are often seen as markers of masculinity that are socially constructed rather than being an inalienable aspect of men rooted in nature. The persuasive sway of this association of masculinity with violence urges many boys to experiment with drugs and renders them susceptible to substance abuse".
The three programmes of Praajak towards rehabilitation of marginalised street children, their rescue from an uncertain life filled with risks and the possibility of reuniting the runaways with their root families are done under three heads - Muktangan, Sanyukt and Navin Uday.
The main objective of Muktangan is to rehabilitate destitute children found in railway areas. Between 2003 and 2010 the programme reached 1800 children. Of these, 240 children were united to their families and 150 others were placed in children's homes; for these children, going back to the family was not a safe option. Another 120 children were supported through training for various vocations and micro businesses that they could engage in after becoming adults. In West Bengal, Praajak is the only NGO working in collaboration with the Railway Protection Force (RPF) for children living on railway platforms.
"We have built a wide base of local volunteers who check on the family and the children who have been reunited. A survey conducted by Praajak in 2007 of 100 children showed that 35 per cent of children have again run away because of several reasons. To change this situation we have tried to involve local people to create child protection committees to look into the affairs of these children and their families," says Chowdhury.
Muktangan is a rehabilitation programme for children living on railways in collaboration with the RPF and the Ministry of Railways at Asansol, Kharagpur, Malda, and Siliguri supported by Railway Children, UK. The idea of RPF constables teaching children living on railway platforms on a roster system was first shared with the Malda divisional security commissioner, who responded positively. He requested Praajak to find ways of making this programme sustainable and taking it to other station along the eastern railways. Gradually the other stations also warmed up.
Chowdhury adds, "We train RPF personnel in the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, and also involve them in annual sporting activities and other collaborative initiatives which engage these children. Muktangan began with funding from Grouppe Developpement, France and Railway Children, UK. Presently the programme is being funded by CRY, and also Railway Children, UK."
He quotes a successful case of rehabilitation. In 2005, Mohammad Sultan, then 11 years old, was a regular victim of violence at home. He left Dholi Sakra, Muzaffarpur and ran away to Asansol. He worked in hotels near the station and lived there. In the first three years of Praajak's interaction with Sultan, he did not give any details of his family, location, etc. In January 2008, Sultan began to explain his roots. His family is well-to-do and has a leather factory in Park Circus. After having lived on railway platforms he was worried that his family would not take him back. He suffered from a deep sense of shame for having led a humiliating life on platforms.
After three years of active and continuous interaction with volunteers of Muktangan he decided to get in touch with his family. "We arranged for his father and brother to meet him. Sultan went back to his family. He is now 18 and is totally involved in the family business," elaborates Chowdhury.
"Our work through Muktangan has a strong focus on gender. These boys are not only susceptible to sexual and substance abuse but are also often forced into situations of conflict with law-enforcers, when in fact they are in dire need of protection. Praajak's intervention in this situation has been to collaborate with the Railway Protection Force, and start this programme. The driving principle in these interventions has been to get the usually 'tough' RPF cadres to become sensitive caregivers. In West Bengal
Sanyukt is a family reunification programme for institutionalised children in government-run homes in Kolkata, Barasat, Behrampore, Bishnupur, Balurghat, Raiganj, and Jalpaiguri supported by Groupe Developpement, France. Navin Uday is a child and youth rights advocacy programme which supports the Coalition for the Child's Right to Protection (CCRP). This is a network of individuals and groups that aims to work for the full implementation of child protection legislations and schemes, activating and increasing the accountability of child protection and juvenile justice systems and integrating child rights programming in rural and urban local bodies. This programme is supported by CRY and the Jamsetji Tata Trust.
The term 'rehabilitation' is never used by Praajak volunteers in their interactions with the children. It is understood that most of these boys ran away by force of circumstance and not by choice. The children are understandably hesitant to share their problems.
"To deal with their discomfort, we use psychosocial workshops and interactions to help them open up and then understand their problems. Once we feel we have understood their problems with their families, we suggest ways of tackling these. When the children share their house addresses with us, we go and meet their families to see what situation exists, whether it is feasible to ask these children to return. This review of the family is then given to the children. The decision, whether to return or not, is taken collectively," Chowdhury sums up.
Praajak workers however, still feel the need for policies that will ensure child protection. At the moment there are no such policies especially those which address the issue of child protection within government homes. Sometimes, the tendency among rescue and rehabilitation homes to reunite children with their families is not backed by an understanding of the prevailing situation or the need to find out why the children ran away in the first place. If this is not done, even after reunification, children who do not find protection within their families run away again.
Shoma Chatterji
Dr. Shoma A Chatterji, freelance journalist and author, writes on cinema, media, human rights, cultural issues and gender.
URL for this article
http://indiatogether.org/praajak-children


Research and market analysis firm Nomura is predicting a relatively quiet first half of the year for South Africa, but expects things to shake up in the second half of the year as the ANC's elective conference comes into view.
The analysts expect 'political war' in December, where a number of shocks can occur, but a number of events still need to take place before then, including the party's policy conference and consultative conference, and the state of the nation address in November – all while the threat of a cabinet reshuffle hangs in the background.
"All this should keep growth weak, albeit slightly stronger than in 2016," the group said.
There will be a dip in inflation in the first half of the year following effects from the food base, but it is expected to rebound with headline and core inflation remaining near the top end of the 6% targets.
"Real net trade should be a contributor thanks to strong exports, but offset by further destocking. Downside risks come from possible Trump protectionism. Put simply, it is hard to see any sources of stronger growth.