John: I'm John Richardson, and we'll revisit the Punta Gorda Florida training incident that resulted in a death.
Paul: episode 388 of the Polite Society Podcast starts right now.
John – I've had a most interesting week. It started off with breakfast with none other than "Doc Wesson". Doc is every bit as engaging and funny in person as he is on the air on The Gun Nation podcast. We need to have him back on sometime soon! I've included a snapshot of Doc in the show notes as virtually no one knows what he looks like. Then it was off to the gun show in Greensboro where my big purchases were a spool of green paracord and a box of 105 grain .38 caliber bullets that I'll get around to reloading someday. I'm not sure what all I'll do with 1200 ft of paracord but the price per foot was so much cheaper that way I couldn't pass it up. Finally, I got a call from Alan Gottlieb – yes, that Alan Gottlieb – asking if I would present on social media at the Gun Rights Policy Conference. I won't spoil the news about someone else who got a call earlier asking that someone to be on the same panel. Oh, and one more thing. If anyone is interested in a new deer rifle or a rimfire rifle, you might want to check to see if your local Walmart still has the Ruger American Rifle in stock at less than wholesale prices.
-First week back at music teaching for the fall semester, and I am thrilled.
-Attended a live TV broadcast on the UT campus regarding campus carry. It was surreal to see holster clips on belts. 🙂 The forum seemed like they were discussing whether or not campus carry should be allowed. It's like they are in denial that it is in fact law. The anti-gun members talked at length about how they were caught completely off guard last legislative session and the other side won because they were so well-organized and had great turnout (yay us). They also mentioned constitutional carry and how the Republicans have made it a priority and, because of the political leanings of Texas, the great evil of permitless carry is sure to happen soon. Yay us again! 🙂 Let's hope they're right!
John – As previously reported, retired librarian Mary Knowlton, 73, of Punta Gorda, Florida was shot and killed during a police-sponsored community demonstration. Although the investigation is currently active, Chief Tom Lewis has broken his silence on the matter. As he said, "Typically, the police department are the ones who show up and take care of your pain. We're not typically the cause of it." But, when a total lack of safety culture exists in a group, something like this is bound to happen.
The fatal flaw in their system was that live ammunition was stored IN THE SAME BOX as blanks! Well, that is just one of the problems. They also, routinely it seems, allowed weapons capable of firing lethal ammunition to be pointed at people during demonstrations.
One of the excuses offered by Chief Lewis was the size of the department. He believes having only one armory somehow was a contributing factor.
Of course, NOW he has enacted policies to prevent incidents like this from happening again. These policies include banning live weapons during scenario-based training and storing live ammunition and blanks separately. He has also gone as far as posting policies and updates to their website.
He will not resign for the stated reason of departmental stability. It appears, however, that a casual attitude surrounding safety is the issue here. How many people taking such classes think to themselves that police officers are gun experts and there is no danger? How many of you have been to a class where you were not even allowed to point a blue gun in an unsafe direction? Always, always, always follow the safety rules recited at the introduction to each Polite Society episode!
Rachel-We know that armed citizens are statistically safer than law enforcement. Many citizens do not. Stories like this make people who don't understand safety principles think that it's impossible to ensure safety when handling guns. This makes them afraid of guns, and then they support gun bans. It's our job to reverse that thinking.
John – Each gun should have checked, double checked, and triple checked by different people.
Rachel- The issue: who is responsible for our safety?
John – You know some schools in some states mandate hunter safety classes in certain grades.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is at it again. On August 31 a three judge panel of the lofty court ruled that banning firearm sales to those who hold medical marijuana cards does not violate the Second Amendment. In 2011, S. Rowan Wilson, a Nevada resident, attempted to purchase a firearm and the retailer refused the sale citing a rule prohibiting sales to users of illegal drugs. You may think that medical marijuana is legal in many states. And, you would be correct. However, it is still illegal under federal law.
This situation highlights how sticky things can get when the federal government has criminalized so many aspects of people's lives. Isn't it interesting how things have changed in a few short years. Although Ms. Wilson can obtain marijuana over the counter, she will have to turn to the black market to purchase a firearm. Of course, we would never suggest that anyone should ever engage in such an illegal activity. But, it gives us something to think about. Most of us were required to disclose whether we used illegal drugs when we obtained our carry permits. Are there people who believe marijuana is legal in their state and answer this question incorrectly?
John – I'm sure that there are people who answer that question on Form 4473 incorrectly. And commit a felony.
Hang on everybody, we'll be back with our guest Marty Hayes.
Five of Denver's Finest arrested the squatters with their drugs, weapons and outstanding warrants. The police did their job – as Rob did his.
John – We have had a lot of DGUs where people think they need to restrain the perp or shoot at the intruder after they've left.
Rachel – distinguish between legal, moral, ethical justification. Justified does not = required. Use wisdom.
Oh the irony, the chewy, chewy, delicious irony, coated with sprinkles. Columbia, South Carolina is home to a gas station and souvenir shop called the Obama Store. The marquee even features a large, smiling portrait of the world champion gun salesmen himself. At around 3:30 in the morning a man approached the counter and flashed a gun. But, he found the Obama Store was defended by… (wait for it)… a good guy with a gun.
Threatened by the armed robber, the store's clerk grabbed his own firearm. The thief spooked, firing several shots behind him as he ran. Fortunately, no one was injured. As of yet, no arrests have been made and clerk is not expected to be charged, as he didn't fire. It seems the patrons and employees of the Obama Store were protected by the lawful use of a civilian owned firearm. Now, who would have expected that? We were told that NEVER happens.
Hmmm, maybe we should try a Bloomberg Store? Wadayah think, Shannon?
Rachel- poor guy, you'd think of all places he could have a free hunting ground it would be there. What irony.
Rachel summarized the class perfectly, but there is one thing she left out, and that was a highlight for me.
Kathy stated, when a student walks into our classroom, they see 4 wall, a floor and a ceiling. Pretty boring. But, inside the walls, there is a lot going on, studs, wires, pipes, air ducts, insulation, etc. She said we were going to pull the sheet rock down and examine the inner workings. She methodically went through all the things we already "knew", and examined the reasoning behind those skills.
Case in point. When I took my for basic pistol class, the instructor said, "Before you use some tool, learn how to fill magazines by hand and by feel, so you can load them in the dark if needed." I accepted that as a truth without really challenging it. I have taken classes from Massad Ayoob, Tom Givens, Gunsite, Utah and Utah Instructor, and many others, plus listened to 1000's of hours of podcasts, read dozens of books, and lots of internet articles. No one ever challenged or contradicted that statement. So, when I started teaching, I gave my students the same advice. As a large, strong, generally healthy male, I have no problems filling a mag by hand. But, in my classes, I would get older, weaker, maybe arthritic women that really, really struggled filling magazines. I would show them my UpLula loader and mention that once you get hand filling down, you should get one of these because they are handy, but in only one case did I actually let the student use it.
And I mentioned this to Kathy. And her response was, "Why wouldn't you use a tool, if one is available?" and I responded just like I had been taught, "Because sometimes you might have to load a magazine and your tool is not available." And, I thought that was the end of that. And Kathy came back with "Why wouldn't a tool be available? Do you carry loose ammo in your pocket when you go about town?" And at that moment, my world came crashing down. She was absolutly correct. You should never have the need to fill a magazine away from your range bag or gun table. I have been purposely and deliberately making learning harder for my students based on a belief I had that does not have a foundation in fact. This type of realization happened to me over and over during the course of the week. Kathy challenged so many things that I had wrong or at least didn't quite have the whole picture.
As a student, I learned that I need to challenge what I am being taught. As a dual-degreed engineer, with the exception of a very few laws of nature, everything I was taught came with some kind of mathematical proof. By nature, I am skeptical of what I learn, but for some reason, that didn't carry over to gun stuff. That is something I learned I need to change.
As an instructor, I learned something even more important. When you are teaching a beginning class to someone who has never touched a gun, it is very easy to gloss over the things that seem obvious. But, to that student, you are their only source of knowledge, and what you teach will get ingrained in them as irrefutable fact. Furthermore, 50% of the information presented in the NRA Basic Pistol class or similar entry level classes is never touched on again, even if the student continues on to take a lot more training, and many won't. Whether we are teaching professionally or just taking a friend to the range for the first time, it is vitally important that what we teach is correct because there may never be a second chance for that student.
As part of the class, Kathy gave us a USB stick with a lot of educational material on it. One of the files was how to be a better instructor, and one of her recommendations was to keep a private journal and, after every class, list what YOU learned. So, Kathy is practicing what she teaches and my interaction with filling a magazine, must have gotten a mention in HER journal. From her perspective, a student challenged her. So, she reached out to her network and asked, what am I missing? It was an excellent conversation.
As promised, Kathy tore the sheetrock down and I learned so much, some new information and some challenges to what I already thought I new. But she also presented material on how to teach our adult students. But, if you took a step back, Kathy was using those same principles on us, HER adult instructor students. So, I would sit there and I would have that epiphany moment and the light bulb would above my head would burn bright and I would say to myself "Wow, I just learned something", but then take a step back and ask, "how did that happen?", look at what Kathy did, have a second epiphany moment and the light bulb burned even brighter as I realized, she used this technique, and this one, and that one, and, wow, they really work.
I was touring the Texas State Capitol building in Austin last year and as I was exiting the building I noticed a sign designating a special entry for concealed carry holders. I barely started a conversation with security (State Police?) about it when he had to go attend to some new visitors. Would you please tell us how this works at the capitol? I think it is interesting that a government building seems to accommodate concealed carrying visitors.
Rachel-Absolutely – yes, anything legal to carry outside of the Capitol is also legal to carry inside of the Capitol, and it's always been that way. There used to be no security to enter the Capitol – no metal detectors, just come on in. Then in 2010 there was a dude who fired a few rounds on the Capitol lawn, and they thought, hey, we should have some kind of protection to keep that from coming inside. But most of the legislators carry, Governor Perry famously carries, and there was NO way Texas was going to go for forbidding handguns in the Capitol. So, they put in metal detectors for most people, and a separate CHL/LTC line for those with a license. So, you just walk up to that line, they swipe your license to be sure it's valid and legit, and then you go on in. No metal detector.
First, I want to add my congratulations to the charges against Paul being dropped. Second, I want to thank Paul for not only getting his story out there, but being willing to be – sometimes painfully – honest about the incident and what he would have done differently and lessons learned. In particular about having a list in the wallet for medications, doctor phone/fax number, and pharmacy phone number.
I look forward to seeing all of you in Tampa for the GRPC!
I hope you guys are right about the election, and i'll be the first to write in and admit I was wrong. I keep going back to the electoral college map, and I can't get the numbers to work for Trump. It has been a crazy election season though. If you look inside the polls the third parties seem to be taking votes from Clinton, so they may help. I'm in PA, now a light blue state so I feel I'm forced to vote for Trump on the chance he could swing the state his way.
If Texas secedes i'll be down though!
Have you guys heard of the free state project (freestateproject.org)? It's a movement in the libertarian party to get people within the party to move to NH. It's an interesting concept. They picked a state with a small population so they could have the most influence on the laws and policies on a local/state level. NH is ranked as one of the freest states, with good gun and knife laws.
On a different topic…I know a lot of people are buying guns right now so I'll throw an option out there that I don't hear much about. I picked up a CZ p09 about a year ago, and I'm really impressed. It's run 100% with everything I've put through it. Quality is on par with my sig's and hk's at a much, much lower price, and has the best feeling grip of any double stack I've had. If you want to blow some money anything I've seen out of their custom shop has been really nice!
Glad to hear your free Paul!!!!
Really enjoying your podcast. Thanks for all that you do.
You discussed the posting of illicit "No Guns" signage. I am not aware if there is a standardized sign in North Carolina, but I have seen several that simply cannot be legal.
I was required to enter an office building in the Durham area and noticed, on the way out, a small sticker, barely bigger than a business card, about one inch above the bottom frame of the glass next to the door. It was approximately 3 to 4 inches off the ground.
After securing my firearm in the car, I returned and asked the receptionist in the office that I had visited if the building was "Gun Free". She was not aware that it was, but agreed that the sticker was more than a little fishy.
I make it a habit of not merely avoiding "Gun Free" businesses. I will usually point out to someone in charge inside that the reason I will not be patronizing their establishment is posted on their front door.
I have no illusion that they will change their mind because of me, however if enough voice their opinion, they may just catch on.
John – No standardization. The anti gun folks have been urging their followers to slap those stickers on stores.
I believe it was Rob who asked how he balances liability of a business to provide protection vs. liability of an amusement park. From the standpoint of liberty, there's no difference. You are not being forced to a particular location or business. If you don't like their security, don't go in. Imagine what happens to the cost of business if owners are forced to guarantee the physical security of patrons against the actions of a third party over which he/she has no control. It's basically the same argument we use against the Left when they want to hold gun manufacturers responsible for a third party's illegal actions. You have choices. You are responsible for you. We can't force our version of an "acceptable level of security" on private businesses. Think of the slippery slope that creates!
A business should have to provide for physical security for those potential dangers under the owner's control – safe facilities, safe environment (e.g. all the heavy stuff isn't stacked perilously on the top shelves), etc.
Now, if you are talking government created monopolies, like your local utility company or courthouse, I can see a liability issue as you generally have no choice in selecting another option.
As for the survey Paul spoke of, taking the same amount of people from each state guarantees a skewed result. I come from North Dakota so am familiar with the political differences between "God's Country" and California, for example, where I live now. But those states are significantly less populated than the coasts, so taking an equal number would grossly over-represent those states – which of course tend to lean right. If you want to go state by state, you would have to select a proportional number of voters as represented by the states percentage of the national population.
Of course, that completely ignores the fact that we aren't a democracy and we don't elect our presidents popularly – so the only valid method to predict the race is to look at the electoral college.
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me perform those similar tasks, and I can learn by watching.
score). But I argue that these are higher quality repetitions because you have additional performance pressure (being timed and scored) and additional social pressure (anxiety, being watched by others).
I try to relate competition shooting to a shooting activity that they are already familiar with (shooting a B-27 silhouette seven to fifteen yards away), instead of a scary unknown good- ol' boy insider-club activity. Thoughts from the group (Rob's show bio mentions local IDPA matches, and Rachel shoots state rifle matches) about starting competition shooting?
Thanks for all the Polite Society gang does (including Charlie Foxtrot, behind the scenes).
Rachel- I've never shot a state rifle match. Advice: go to a Run n Gun. If you can come to Texas or Oklahoma, it's worth the drive. If not, contact me and I'll help you set one up in your area.
While I've had a few posts this past week, there has been nothing special. However, I am working on a long post regarding campus carry in Kansas. The six public universities will officially have campus carry effective July 1, 2017. They were all supposed to send their implementation plans to the Kansas Board of Regents this week. From what I can tell, they aren't kicking and screaming about it like the University of Texas but merely kicking.
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The loss of the gloves a couple of days beforehand must have affected my judgement.
In a rash move I binned the old trainers I'd been wearing for the past week and checked out of my hotel in Rotterdam.
The weather was great, and it meant I could leave my panniers at the hotel for the day before setting off for Hoek can Holland.
I didn't want the hassle of getting changed back into cycle gear for the last few miles.
It was all perfectly fine bombing round town in flip flops, but by the time I got 10k into the ride to Hoek my dogs were seriously barking.
Not only that, but having convinced myself I couldn't possibly get lost I relaxed and managed to achieve just that within 5 minutes of setting off.
Rather than backtracking I persevered, with the result that I added at least 10km to the 23km route it took last time I cycled between the same two points.
Not only do my feet hurt, but my flip flops are ruined.
I finally made it to the beach at the end of the Rhine for a closing photo (you can tell because the bike is pointing the opposite way).
I may have had rubbish strategies for gloves and trainers on the trip, but I made no mistake when it came to the cheese and sirop waffles.
Last stop before the ferry was a trip to Albert Heijn to stock up.
I still didn't fancy that Stena Line cooked breakfast.
Thanks Su – its about as good an approximation as I could give – I just kept following the signs when I found them again (and the destination km's had jumped up!).


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Home page > Singapore > Sentosa
Thursday 26 February 2009, by Wolf
Sentosa, translated as peace and tranquillity in Malay, is a popular island resort in Singapore. Previously it was named Pulau Blakang Mati,which means something like "Island of Death from Behind". Now, for running, all depends what type of exercise you are doing.
After having been used as a pirate hideway, it was heavily fortified by the British and turned into a fortress during World War II. You can still find some remains at Fort Silosa, along with many other leasure attractions such as Underwater World or the Dolphin Lagoon.
One thing is sure - getting up early and running along the Sentosa beaches while they are still empty, and finish with a swim in the lagoon is a true pleasure.
The best is to run in the morning or late evening, because especially on weekends the walkway can be quite crowded. Sentosa can be reached from the Singapore mainland via a short causeway (bus) or Cable Car, which originates on Mount Faber and passes through HarbourFront en route. The island is also accessible by the SGD$140 million Sentosa Express monorail, which has four stations on Sentosa.
It is convenient if you stay near the Vivocity / Harbourfront MRT area.
Even better of course, if you stay in Sentosa itself : Sentosa Cove or one of the five hotels on the island.
By car: You can get there by car as well, but I am not sure about getting parking lots. You have to pay an entrance fee (ERP) at the gantry.
The track: It's all along the beaches, on a small asphalted road or the walkway closeby. Once you finished, go for a swim in one of the lagoons - at Siloso or Tanjong Beach. The total distance is around 3.25km end-to-end. It's flat and you can enjoy a beautful scenery : the green jungle patches on one side and the sea full of oil tankers on the other ;)
Start near Siloso beach and just follow the path until you hit the dead end at Tanjong Beach. Unfortunately the area behind is under construction and close to public, otherwise you would have been able to continue towards Sentosa Cove and doing a loop back through the jungle.
Water point: There are some on the way.
Good to know: At every beach you can find a shower.
Google Maps: Sentosa on Google Maps.
Double-click the KML to display the track in Google Earth.

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COVID-19 Electoral Dispute Resolution Committee Chairman dies in Mogadishu
Mogadishu (HOL) - The Electoral Dispute Resolution Committee Chairman, Abdullahi Abyan Nur, has died at Martini Hospital in Mogadishu on Friday.
HOL has learned that the chairman has died of coronavirus.
Somalia's Health Ministry confirmed that the number of confirmed cases had been steadily rising in recent days.
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When he was ending his time on stage, he had the audience laughing by calling out his fellow black actors, telling them to act better.
With that being said, it seems the Oscars are trying to appease the black community by adding two black hosts to the opening ceremony, Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan, who will be joining Jess Cagle and Joe Zee. During the pre-show, hosts will be interviewing nominees, presenters, and performers as they walk the red carpet. Also, the pre-show will give viewers an inside look of all the "excitement" that happens before the main event.
I don't know about you, but I'm so over the Oscars, the drama, and everything that goes with it. It just needs to be over. Pronto.
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Judicial Corruption: Chief Justice Swears In New Magistrates And judges
January 8, 2016 July 30, 2016 Isaac J Bediako 0 Comment Chief Justice, Ghana, Isaac Bediako, Judicial corruption, Mrs Justice Georgina
Eight magistrates and five circuit court judges were yesterday sworn into office by the Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood.
The event, which took place at the premises of the Supreme Court in Accra, was the first swearing-in ceremony of newly appointed judges and magistrates by the Judicial
Service after ace investigator, Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI team's expose on alleged corrupt practices in the judiciary.
The appointment of the newly inducted judges can be described as historic, because for the first time in the country's judicial practice, the Judicial Council published their names in the various newspapers in the country as part of the appointment process.
Chief Justice Theodora Georgina Wood
This was to engage the general public in the process by sending their comments to the council as to whether the appointees had engaged in any questionable acts likely to compromise their work or dint the image of the judiciary.
An Appeal Court judge and the President of the Association of Magistrates and Judges (AMJG), Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei, said it was unfortunate that some people now perceive judges and the entire judicial system as corrupt in the wake of Anas' expose.
He said at the time of the expose, there were 400 judges and magistrates in the country, but only 34 were indicted representing 8.5 per cent of the total number.
Out of those indicted, he said one lower court judge was exonerated while 21 were dismissed; two of the High court judges had retired while the cases of nine were pending in the law courts.
"I shall not condone corruption but I am of the opinion that the indictment of the 8.5 per cent by the expose was over exaggerated to include all judges and magistrates. The percentage of the judges who were indicted was a minute fraction of the Judiciary and it is unfair to tag the entire judiciary as corrupt," he indicated.
According to Justice Adjei, any attempt to attack the judiciary without any substantial evidence could adversely affect the country's economy as "it would deter investors from investing in the country and those who may invest may seek adjudication outside Ghana for the breaches of contract to be determined."
The Solicitor General, Mrs Helen A.A. Ziwu, advised the judges to make integrity their hallmark in the discharge of their duties, adding that "integrity leads a good judge to be firm but not draconian, kind but not soft and above all incorruptible"
The President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Mr Ben Nutsupkui, emphasised the need for judges to maintain effective communication with lawyers to enhance the justice delivery process.
"It is our hope that in case you may not, for any reason, be able to attend court, we get notified early enough so as not to sit in court and waste valuable time," he said.
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Past and current members of the legendary Gaither Vocal Band come together for this inspirational concert, performing Gospel favorites such as "He Touched Me," "Satisfied," "Passin` The Faith Along," "I Bowed on My Knees.", "Home," and "The Love of God." Volumes one and two of the celebration includes appearances by Steve Green, Michael English, Lee Young, Mark Lowry, Jim Murray, Jon Mohr, David Phelps and many more.
Performances include these songs.. and more: He Came Down To My Level, Your First Day In Heaven, New Wine, Satisfied, I Bowed On My Knees, He Touched Me, There Is A River, Gentle Shepherd, Let Freedom Ring, Loving God, Loving Each Other, Temporary Home, Dream On, Build An Ark, The Love Of God, I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked, Find Us Faithful, Mary, Did You Know?, Oh, What A Time!
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Google's Nexus 7 – The Killer of Other Tablets?
Carphone Warehouse, the UK's largest independent mobile retailer claims Nexus 7 to be the best-selling Android tablet ever. He says that the device launched just 3 months back on 27th July and surprisingly has seen a very high demand. The 7" tablet, running on Android 4.1, Jelly Bean operating system, has gradually become the most demanded Android tablet in its history.
However, This device is still dragging behind all the three Apple's iPad models, but it has overshadowed other Android devices like Asus Transformer Prime and the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Moreover, it seems to be eclipsing the feasible budget-friendly tablets like Kindle Fire HD and the NOOK Tablet as well. The Chief Commercial Officer at Carphone Warehouse, Graham Stapleton says,
"It's impressive that this product is our biggest selling Android tablet, and it will be really interesting to see if other manufacturers will follow suit with smaller tablets over the coming months to spice up the Christmas period."
"Looking at the sales of the Google Nexus tablet, it is clear that there is a massive demand amongst our customer base for smaller tablets".
Stapleton said
"We're seeing a real shift in what customers are using their tablets for, with more and more watching content on the go. It's now common to see people using their tablets during the morning commute or catching up on the day's news in a local coffee shop, and smaller devices make it easier to handle."
He continues,
"We've seen that 59 per cent of total tablet sales in our stores are sold as either connected or tethered, to allow access to the internet on tablets that don't have inbuilt 3G connectivity."
The probable reason of this device's high demand could be the fact that it came with best specs, powerful processor and the perfect body for a tablet. Although its price is same as that of Amazon's Kindle Fire, but Nexus 7 is far better than the Kindle Fire and is compared with the other best tablets existing in the market, even with those who come with a higher price tag. The demand for this 7"tablet is going through a slope of success in almost all the major markets including that of the USA, UK, Europe and Asia. With highly rich apps like, Google Wallet, Google Now, Android Beam, a Project Butter feature and many more exciting apps and features, Nexus 7 seems to kill all other tablets present in the market and strive as the best Android Tablet of today.
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Extreme Imagination – inside the mind's eye opens at Tramway, Glasgow, 10.1.19
The first ever exhibition of works of art created by artists who have no "mind's eye" will cast new light on the creative brain when it goes on display in 2019.
Extreme Imagination: inside the mind's eye will feature works by people who cannot visualise, alongside works by those who have particularly vivid mental imagery.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and curated by the artist Susan Aldworth, the exhibition is the result of research lead by Professor Adam Zeman of the University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health, and the Eye's Mind research group: Fiona Macpherson (philosophy, Glasgow), Crawford Winlove (neuroscience, Exeter), John Onians (art history, University of East Anglia), and Matthew MacKisack (cultural history, Exeter).
In 2015, Professor Zeman coined the term "aphantasia" to describe a phenomenon in which some people are unable to conjure up pictures inside their minds. He called the opposite phenomenon "hyperphantasia", in which people have particularly vivid mental imagery.
When these extremes of 'mind's eye' experience were identified, a huge public response followed, with thousands of people recognising themselves as 'aphantasic' or 'hyperphantasic' – including a number of artists.
Extreme Imagination: inside the mind's eye presents their artwork, inviting us to consider the impact of these phenomena on the creative process. How can someone make anything without being able to imagine what they want it to look like? Is there a distinctly hyperphantasic kind of art?
Aphantasia and its opposite teach us about human diversity: the easily-missed, potentially startling differences between individuals' inner lives. The work of the participating artists – and designers, architects, and writers – demonstrates the diversity of means by which things come to be made, challenging long-held beliefs about what it means to be 'creative'.
Find interviews with participating artists here.
Extreme Imagination: inside the mind's eye will run at Tramway, Glasgow, from the 10th of January 2019 to the 3rd of March 2019, before moving to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, where it will run from the 30th of March to the 2nd of June. News on this to follow soon.
Extreme Imagination events at Tramway, Glasgow:
Thursday 10th of January, 5 – 7pm: Exhibition Preview
Saturday 12th of January, 11.30am – 1pm: Curator Susan Aldworth introduces the exhibition, with talks by Professor Adam Zeman and Dr Matthew MacKisack of the University of Exeter, and Professor Fiona Macpherson of the University of Glasgow
Saturday 23rd – Sunday 24th of February: Workshop on Dreams, Hallucinations and Imagination, held at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow. See dreamshallucinationsimagination.wordpress.com
Image: Isabel Nolan, A lion with a thorn in his paw, 2015. Courtesy Kerlin Gallery
Eye's Mind Research – an update
The Eye's Mind is supported by The Arts and Humanities Research Council
'Phantasia – The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes' 5th Jun, 2020
An update on 'extreme imagination' – aphantasia / hyperphantasia 4th May, 2020
Extreme Imagination – Tramway, Glasgow – Artist Interviews 8th Jan, 2019
Extreme Imagination Conference 2019 8th Jan, 2019
Extreme Imagination – inside the mind's eye 12th Dec, 2018
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Make-up is one of the prices of being a woman, and it's time-consuming, expensive and bafflingly self-inflicted.
This Women's Day you might have taken a moment to honour the women in your life, to recognise the barriers behind which they toil or over which they climb.
But when you thought of the historic battle for suffrage or acknowledged the R72 they get for every R100 a man earns for doing the same job, you may have overlooked another significant hurdle that only women face: the burden of make-up tax.
For every pay cheque the average woman earns, a portion will be earmarked for an expense that the average man will never have to worry about. For every year of her life, she will spend between two days and two weeks on a pursuit that most men will never have to dabble in. It's one of the prices of being a woman, and it's time-consuming, expensive and bafflingly self-inflicted.
It's estimated that the global cosmetics industry has an annual revenue of about $200-billion, with market research firm Lucintel estimating that this will reach $265-billion in the next two years and United States-based researcher MarketsandMarkets pitching the price tag at $635-billion by 2019.
Official local statistics do not exist, but a Euromonitor report valued the South African "personal care and beauty market" – which is wider than cosmetics and includes items such as cleansers, deodorant and perfume – at $3.4-billion in 2012.
International polls say that between 50% and 80% of women use make-up at least some of the time.
In South Africa, the estimate from market leader Revlon is 24%. Nevertheless, ours is the largest market on the continent, which Euromonitor says began small but is growing exponentially.
The African beauty market is expected to double over the next decade, with a projected annual growth of up to 20% in the sales of beauty and personal care products, the Mail & Guardian reported in October 2014.
The use of make-up goes back to 4 000BCE, when Egyptian women began to adorn their faces with copper and malachite for colour and definition, according to the Personal Care Products Council. The ancient Greeks, Chinese and Romans followed suit – and in most cases, the practice was largely a female one.
So what is the modern South African woman willing to pay in time and money to carry the ancient burden of enhancing her looks? A lipstick survey revealed: quite a lot.
Customers at Dis-Chem, located at the Nicolway shopping centre in the upmarket Johannesburg suburb of Bryanston, spend about R1 500 a month on make-up, according to assistant cosmetics manager Lebo Masinga. "Our customers don't mind spending R1 000 on foundation or R500 on a lipstick," she said.
Yet South African women claim to spend far less on beauty products. This could be because they're in denial about their rouge-wearing ways, or because store managers have overestimated the frequency of purchases.
Either way, of the 7 000-odd respondents in Women24's online Female Nation Survey in 2013, 47% said they spent between R100 and R500 on beauty products every month, 7% forked out between R500 and R1 000, and 1% admitted to spending more than R1 000. The rest – about 46% – spent less than R100 a month.
M&G readers reported similar expenditure, with the average respondent to our Facebook survey saying she spends R210 a month.
The figures tally with those provided by Adele du Plessis, a communications executive for Revlon, who pitches the average annual spend at just under R1 000 a woman. The number, which she cautions can't be substantiated, reflects the "relatively low levels of penetration of colour cosmetics in South Africa", but seems fairly high for a country battling a high unemployment rate.
According to our survey, most women report spending about an hour a week applying make-up.
But what's the gain? As with all taxes, there needs to be a payoff. So what is in it for the taxpayer (that is, the make-up wearer), so to speak?
Most respondents say it's the added confidence they get from wearing the product. "I'm not dressed without make-up," said M&G reader Barbara Benjamin (59). "Some women need it to cover imperfections on the face … they use it to feel more confident," said Krisjan.
Several studies claim that attractive people earn more. One, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, revealed that individuals were more likely to award high-level job titles to women who wore make-up rather than to the same women when they had nothing adorning their faces. Another found that men gave waitresses wearing make-up bigger tips.
But when probed, M&G readers were split along gender lines. Those who said they take women who wear make-up more seriously were mostly women themselves. "I'll take a woman seriously if she knows how to groom herself – it looks professional when light make-up is applied," said Sharmay Thuynsma, whose comment received 10 (mostly female) "likes".
Men were more likely to say they were indifferent or that they would take someone who wears make-up less seriously. "A woman who doesn't wear make-up is a confident woman who believes in herself," said Hatchwell Mashego (29). "Wearing make-up is a personal choice; I don't take either less seriously," said Rob Slinger.
And, if male readers are to be believed, men find women without make-up more attractive. The men responding to our survey overwhelmingly said they prefer women in their natural state.
"Make-up hides women's true beauty," said S'fiso Masanabo. "I have never been a friend of the fake individual with a remade head and face," said Bheki Ningiza.
But some of their female counterparts dismissed these comments as having ulterior motives: "All the young guys don't like make-up coz they know it's expensive and they think their women will want money from them to buy [it]," argued Zet Prop.
Whether or not the findings are muddied by a disconnect between what men say and do, the multibillion-rand South African make-up movement is gaining traction and seems largely driven by women. Perhaps it's time to consider the lipliner as a symbol of the counter-revolution.


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Abuse of power is at the core of Congress' impeachment power: Claiming otherwise is absurd
By Jack Rakove
President Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
By now, informed Americans know that a president can be impeached for "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors." The first two words are familiar and do not puzzle us very much. The Constitution offers its own specific definition of treason in Article III, Section 3, and the meaning of bribery (where one person's quid improperly becomes someone else's quo) seems fairly obvious.
But how do we know when something is another high crime and misdemeanor? This category is harder to define. We know that the framers substituted it for another proposal that seemed too vague: to add the word "maladministration" to treason and bribery. As James Madison, a great believer in "perspicuity" (or precision) in language, objected, so broad a definition would make the president "improperly dependent" on the Congress that would impeach and try him. "Other high crimes and misdemeanors" was the substitute phrase that his Virginia colleague George Mason then proposed.
More minutes of debate followed. Most of it discussed whether the Senate or the Supreme Court should try the impeachments (equivalent to indictments) that the House of Representatives would present. The replacement of "maladministration" by "high crimes and misdemeanors" was not controversial.
Alan Dershowitz, the well known criminal defense lawyer, has argued that this phrase does not cover "abuses of power," of the kind alleged against both Donald Trump and (a half century ago) Richard Nixon. The claim is historically absurd. Anyone who knows the historical world the framers of the Constitution inhabited — the well-known history that shaped their broad view of politics — immediately grasps its absurdity.
Far from being some rhetorical turn of phrase, just a clever way to denounce a political act one simply opposed, the concept of abuse of power was always a central element in American constitutional thinking. That was true in 1776, when we declared independence, and in 1787-88, when we adopted the Constitution.
Here are three points of reference that capture the framers' historical world.
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First, one can draw a direct line from John Locke's discussion of "a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices" justifying a revolution against a tyrannical king like James II (deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688) to the constitutional arguments Americans invoked in 1776 to renounce the rule of George III. Jefferson famously echoed Locke in the preamble to the Declaration, when he proclaimed that "a long train of abuses and usurpations," or "a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" justified independence.
Second, when the framers thought about the abuse of power by the executive, one celebrated example they had in mind was the 1670 Treaty of Dover between Charles II and Louis XIV of France. In this secret treaty, Louis essentially provided the impoverished British king with funds in exchange for his support of French foreign policy and a promise to convert to the Church of Rome. Under the royal prerogative, Charles was constitutionally free to complete the treaty.
But it remained an abuse of power because it would violate Britain's international interests and threaten its Protestant identity. To the framers, this famous example of a corrupt treaty illustrated how foreign monarchs could attempt to seduce American leaders. Their debates have many references to the vulnerability of American presidents to foreign temptations. (And in certain respects, their fears eerily anticipate Trump's famous encounter with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, when the president confiscated the records of the conversation for his sole personal use.)
Finally, and most important, the proper constitutional solution to the abuse of power lay in the principle of parliamentary supremacy and the routine practice, year-in and year-out, of legislative review of executive acts. This was the common principle that united British and American thinking, at least until the Revolution drove our two nations down separate paths. But no 18th-century observer would agree that the executive had an inherent right to abuse its authority by preventing the legislature from examining suspect actions or withholding the documents that would explain what its actions were.
Abuse of power was a familiar, even dominant concept in our original constitutional thinking. To claim that it was not deemed offensive in itself would be a terrible joke on history — almost as great a joke as the idea of Donald Trump swearing an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Rakove is a professor of political science at Stanford.


But there is one inconvenience. More than an inconvenience, it is sin, an act of rebellion against Yahweh: "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed" (1 Samuel 24:6). He says Yahweh's name three times in one verse because he recognizes against whom he would commit that action.
rather, "temptation") to take advantage of some benefit, refund or favor from the government, to earn money quickly and easily, to get an unexpected reimbursement, to enjoy an illicit pleasure secretly, to take a decisive step forward in our careers or in our studies. And it has fallen into our hands so easily that we are convinced that it is God's plan for us!
interests. Therefore he is satisfied in sparing Saul's life and saying, "May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you" (1 Samuel 24:12).
Israel, my lord shall have no cause for grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord taking vengeance himself" (1 Samuel 25:30-31). May David esteem Yahweh's just dominion more than vengeance, more than unjust violence, more than the fulfillment of his own interests. May Nabal's hacienda not become David's version of the city of Nob.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, for the times you have protected us from our own propensity to sin.


Long after humanity has perished from this world and the Earth is bereft of life, John Cena and Randy Orton will still be locked in eternal combat, forever wrestling the same match.
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Allison Williams delivers tearful and powerful explanation why she defied ESPN's vaccine mandate; will now be forced out of the company
Veteran sports reporter Allison Williams went into depth on her decision to defy ESPN's vaccine mandate – which will result in her departure from being on the sidelines of the biggest college football and basketball games.
Williams noted that she requested an exemption from the company's vaccine mandate, but ESPN and its parent company Walt Disney Company denied her request for an accommodation.
"Effective next week I will be separated from the company," she said in the video posted on her Instagram account.
"Effective next week I will be separated from the company," she said in the video posted on her Instagram account."And I've had to really dig deep and analyze my values and my morals, and ultimately I need to put them first," she continued. "And the irony in all this is that a lot of these same values and morals that I hold dear are what made me a really good employee, what helped with the success that I'm able to have in my career."
Williams pointed out that the Walt Disney Company sent an email to employees in April that recommended workers get the COVID vaccine, "but ultimately, it was a personal decision." However, the Walt Disney Company announced in late July that it would require all salaried and non-union employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine within 60 days.Williams called out her employer, "Their values have clearly changed."
"Ultimately, I cannot put a paycheck over principle," she declared. "And I will not sacrifice something that I believe and hold so strongly to maintain a career."
"A lot of people have brought up the moral obligation receiving the vaccine is to being a good citizen. And I weighed that, and I thought about the implications," she added. "We all want to be good neighbors. We all want to end this pandemic. But ultimately, an injection that does not stop transmission and spread for me, does not weigh in morally."
Williams reflected on all of the other Americans who will lose their jobs because of the vaccine mandates.
"So I want to just say that I know I'm not the only one walking away from a career they love, a profession that is a passion," she said. "And so many people that are in the same situation as me, serving society and benefiting this country in ways I could never do, they are nurses, they are teachers, they are doctors, they are police officers, and first responders, and they are most importantly our military, and pilots. And they too are choosing to put their beliefs first. And I just want you all to know I stand with you."
Williams then said she supports everyone who wants the vaccine mandates.
"Because if this is the direction we take our country, there will come a time when the government or corporations mandate you to get something that does not align with your values," she explains. "Power given is seldom returned. And when that day comes, I want you to at least know that we fought, and we tried."
"I don't know what the future holds, obviously, for any of us. I'm trying to wrap my head around the thought that the largest game I've worked in my career, the national championship game, might be the last game I work," Williams says as she fights back tears. "But I'm going to focus on what I have to be thankful for. I'm going to hold on to my faith. I'm going to pray that things get better, and that I can see you on the television set in some capacity, in some stadium, covering some game soon. Until then, God bless, and I'm going to go hug my baby."
Previously, ESPN was asked about Williams' vaccination status and the sports network said it would not "comment on an individual." ESPN did release a statement that read, "We are going through a thorough review of accommodation requests on a case by case basis, and are granting accommodations where warranted. Our focus is on a safe work environment for everyone."
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Qatar University's (QU) Biomedical Research Center (BRC) organised a lecture on 'SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine design enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness,' presented by one of the biggest names in COVID-19 research.
Dr Kissmekia Corbett, a research fellow in the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Vaccine Research Center (VRC) in the US, presented the lecture, which aimed to highlight the developmental stages of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr Corbett led the collaboration between the NIH and Moderna to develop and evaluate the Moderna mRNA vaccine in preclinical and clinical trials. She works under the direct supervision of Dr Barney Graham, deputy director of the VRC, and Anthony Fauci, director of the NIAID.
During the lecture, Dr Corbett revealed the different stages of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine development, illustrating the utilised approaches that made the candidate vaccine available for phase one clinical trial, which occurred 66 days after the emergence of the pandemic.
Relying on the knowledge from the MERS vaccine development, the Viral Pathogenesis Lab at VRC-NIH demonstrated the ability of the mRNA vaccine to induce potent antibody response in preclinical settings (using mice and monkeys), before the vaccine was tested in phases 1-3 clinical trials.
Answering questions, Dr Corbett recommended the vaccination of pregnant and nursing mothers when it is available, noting that phase three clinical trial is still undergoing for this group.
Dr Hadi Yassine, section head of research at BRC moderated the seminar. Dr Yassine participated in coronavirus vaccine development at NIH before joining the university.
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Use of remotely sensed data to detect recent changes in both areal boundary and species composition of mangrove communities along the Guyana coast.
Two approaches were taken to investigate mangrove forests located along the coast of Guyana. The first involved assessing the extent of recent changes for both species composition and areal boundary, as well as identifying the major factors associated with these changes. The second approach involved evaluating satellite imagery as a means for monitoring these communities. For the first study, a Geographic Information System (GIS) was utilized to track the changes over time. It was determined that mangrove communities located between the Pomeroon and Corentyne Rivers have experienced an overall decrease by 5.57% or a loss of 24.93 km$\sp2$ between the periods 1960-64 and 1986-88. Forests dominated by Rhizophora mangle and by mangrove associates were reduced by 94.23% (7.35 km$\sp2)$ and by 10.27% (35.81 km$\sp2)$ respectively. Avicennia germinans dominated communities experienced an increase by 3.75% (2.84 km$\sp2)$ and mixed stands of Avicennia and Rhizophora an increase by 106.05% (15.39 km$\sp2).$ Mangrove communities located west of the Pomeroon River towards the Moruka River experienced an overall increase by 19.09% or a gain of 121.45 km$\sp2.$ Mangrove associate and Avicennia germinans dominated forests contribute to roughly 57% and 43% of this expansion respectively. The leading cause of mangrove forest loss between the Pomeroon and Corentyne Rivers was determined to be urban/agricultural expansion. The majority of the gains has resulted from accretion in the coastal environment. The fluctuations and the gains of mangrove communities west of the Pomeroon River could not be linked to any particular agent of change. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)Dept. of Geography. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1994 .K70. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 34-02, page: 0693. Adviser: V. Chris Lakhan. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1995.
Kovacs, John Michael., "Use of remotely sensed data to detect recent changes in both areal boundary and species composition of mangrove communities along the Guyana coast." (1995). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4476.


Galileo digital sheet music. Contains printable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file.
Galileo's head was on the block, the crime was looking up the truth.
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describe('ctx.is(type)', function () {
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    ctx.is('text/*').should.equal('text/html');
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      ctx.is().should.be.false;
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      ctx.is('png').should.equal('png');
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      ctx.is('jpeg').should.be.false;
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So please don't think that an Obamacare repeal is a done deal.
The truth is that it probably is not going to happen any time soon.
Of course this is one of the provisions in the bill that some Republicans in the Senate want to eliminate.
All Americans, including Christians, should be free to express their political beliefs without fearing repercussions from the federal government. The Johnson Amendment was probably always unconstitutional, and that is one of the reasons why it has never really been enforced. Congress should go even farther and completely repeal it, and hopefully that will happen someday.
So once again I want to take this opportunity to applaud Trump for doing something right. This is a good executive order, although it doesn't quite go far enough. A major war against people of faith is being waged by very powerful forces in this country, and I am thankful for a president that is at least trying to keep some of the heat off of our backs.


Foster families today have access to plenty of resources that help cover the costs of taking care of a child. Resources vary from county to county and are meant to help both the child and family. Medical, dental and counseling services tend to be the priority. However, if a child has special needs, one should consider additional care required.
Foster parents of children with disabilities may be eligible for Supplemental Security Income from the SSA. Once families receive the funds, they can then afford the best care for their child.
Social Security benefits are open to people of all ages, with priority given to the families who need it the most.
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GOP donor, investor, philanthropist Foster Friess dies at 81
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FILE – In this May 27, 2015, file photo, businessman, Foster Friess is seen in Cabot, Pa. Friess, a wealthy investor and nationally known GOP donor and kingmaker, died Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 81. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Republican political donor, investor and philanthropist Foster Friess died Thursday. He was 81.
A multimillionaire who lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Friess was a GOP kingmaker who donated lavishly to candidates and charitable causes over four decades.
Friess directly gave almost $7 million to hundreds of candidates since the early 1980s, federal campaign finance records show, and was perhaps best known for supporting former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's presidential run in 2012.
"Foster was just larger than life. He filled up the room when he came in," Santorum said. "And when he left the room, you felt somehow impacted."
Friess campaigned for Santorum and came through with badly needed funds for television advertising ahead of his Iowa caucuses win, Santorum recalled.
"He had an amazing gift for encouraging people, not just by giving to them but by believing in them," Santorum added.
Friess entered politics as a candidate only recently, running for Wyoming governor in 2018.
In a six-way Republican primary, Friess finished with 25% to Mark Gordon's 33%, prompting Friess to complain that Democrats registering as Republicans had cost him critical votes. Gordon went on to be elected governor of the GOP-dominated state.
Friess grew up in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and got a degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin.
Friess became an investor after serving in the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer in the 1960s. In 1974, he founded Friess Associates and in 1985 launched the firm's flagship Brandywine Fund.
He donated over $500 million to charitable causes over his lifetime, according to his Foster's Outriders political and philanthropic organization.
Diagnosed in September with myelodysplasia, a bone marrow disease, Friess' staff said in an automated email reply in recent months that he struggled to keep his weight up but was sustaining himself on "a pizza, spaghetti and oatmeal cookie diet."
Friess nonetheless kept in contact with reporters, weighing in on political news when asked.
He died surrounded by family in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to a Foster's Outriders statement.
Friess is survived by his wife, Lynnette, four children and 15 grandchildren. Services are planned in Scottsdale, Jackson and Rice Lake.
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Q: Allow document upload in input file on WKWebView I have an html input type="file" upload form on a page loaded through wkwebview, and I'm trying to allow the ability to upload common document files (pdf, docx, etc).  Currently I have the ability to take pictures and browse for images, but documents are greyed out and unavailable.  I'm a web developer, and swift is greek to me, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Here is my view controller
import UIKit
import WebKit
import IJProgressView
import FirebaseMessaging

class ViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate {

let webView = WKWebView()
var initialstart = true

override func viewDidLoad() {

    webView.backgroundColor = UIColor(red:0.17, green:0.24, blue:0.31, alpha:1.0)
    webView.isOpaque = false
    webView.allowsBackForwardNavigationGestures = true

    super.viewDidLoad()

    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(ViewController.receivedUrlFromPushNotification(notification:)), name: NSNotification.Name(rawValue: "ReceivedPushNotification"), object: nil)
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    guard let url = URL(string: "https://www.website.com/users/account") else { return};
    webView.frame = view.bounds;
    webView.navigationDelegate = self;
    webView.load(URLRequest(url: url));
    webView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight];
    view.addSubview(webView)

}

func receivedUrlFromPushNotification (notification: Notification)  {
    let notification: [AnyHashable : Any] = notification.userInfo!
    let url = URL(string: notification["url"] as! String);
    webView.load(URLRequest(url: url!))

}

func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, decidePolicyFor navigationAction: WKNavigationAction, decisionHandler: @escaping (WKNavigationActionPolicy) -> Void) {
    if navigationAction.navigationType == .linkActivated {
        if let url = navigationAction.request.url,
            let host = url.host, !host.hasPrefix("www.website.com"),
            UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(url) {
            if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
                UIApplication.shared.open(url)
            } else {
                // Fallback on earlier versions
                UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
            }
            decisionHandler(.cancel)
        } else {
            decisionHandler(.allow)

        }
    } else {
        decisionHandler(.allow)
    }

}

func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFinish navigation: WKNavigation!) {
    let url = webView.url;
    let path = url?.path;
    UIApplication.shared.isNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible = false
    IJProgressView.shared.hideProgressView()
    view.isOpaque = true
}

func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didStartProvisionalNavigation navigation: WKNavigation!) {
    if (initialstart == true) {
        initialstart = false
    } else {
        UIApplication.shared.isNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible = true
        IJProgressView.shared.showProgressView(view)
    }
}

}

A: For OSX, You can try to implement the delegate method
runOpenPanelWithParameters. It is a WKUIDelegate method.
Check the accepted answer for a similar question: Input type=file not working in WebView of OS X application

A: In my case, after file gets uploaded, the page was getting redirected to the base url.The problem was that I was calling
webview.load(request)

from the viewDidAppear() function.
Moving the call to the viewDidLoad() fixed my problem.
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>> the Sanger Standard FASTQ).
> fastq.  That commit was within the last month.
> We use named parameters so it's a little more verbose.
> and I'll fix 'em.
This is simple three record FASTQ file (in the Sanger format).


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Should we always take medical advice at face value?
How often have we questioned the advice we receive from medical professionals or occupational health advisers about an employee's condition and their conclusions as to whether that employee is 'disabled' within the meaning of the Equality Act 2010? We are likely to accept their advice – after all, they are medical professionals. However, the Court of Appeal has warned of the importance of not taking such reports at face value but to delve deeper.
In Gallop v Newport City Council, the issue arose as to whether the Council knew that Mr Gallop was suffering from a disability – as defined under the legislation. Mr Gallop was absent from work with work related stress; however, an occupational health report concluded that Mr Gallop's medical condition did not meet the legal definition of disability. Armed with this evidence, the Council dismissed Mr Gallop. Mr Gallop argued he did have a disability and that the Council had discriminated against him. An employment tribunal concluded that Mr Gallop was a disabled person; however, it held the Council had not discriminated against him because it had no knowledge of the disability. Was the Council right to rely on the medical report and conclude Mr Gallop was not disabled?
The Court of Appeal held that although an employer should seek assistance and guidance from a medical practitioner or occupational health, it is for the employer to make a factual judgment as to whether or not the employee is disabled. Employers should not to simply "rubber stamp" the opinion. The case was sent back to the employment tribunal to determine what knowledge the Council had or ought to have had concerning Mr Gallop's disability.
"This case illustrates the need for employers, when seeking medical advice, not to ask in general terms whether the employee is a disabled person within the meaning of the legislation. Instead, letters of instruction should pose specific practical questions directed to the particular circumstances connected with the condition, the restrictions any condition has on day to day activities and how long such restrictions are likely to last for. The answers to such questions will then provide real assistance to the employer in forming his judgment as to whether the criteria for disability are satisfied."


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