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The Fortnite Pop! Vinyl Keychain Collection is now here!
All of your favourite skins are now ready to be collected as Pop! Vinyl Keychains!
This Fortnite Love Ranger Pop! Keychain comes packaged in a window display box and will look epic with any Pop! collection!


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package com.temple.util.net.http;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import com.temple.Module;
import com.temple.util.net.HttpDomain;

public class Cookie implements Serializable {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	private static final DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz");

	private HttpDomain<?> domain;

	// TODO add length
	private String content;

	// TODO add length
	private String path;

	private Timestamp expiry;

	private transient Map<String, String> values;

	private boolean httpOnly;

	protected Cookie() {}

	public Cookie(HttpDomain<?> domain) {
		super();
		this.domain = domain;
		this.content = "";
	}

	public HttpDomain<?> getDomain() {
		return this.domain;
	}

	public String getContent() {
		return this.content;
	}

	public String getPath() {
		return this.path;
	}

	public Timestamp getExpiry() {
		return this.expiry;
	}

	public String getValue(String key) {
		return this.values.get(key);
	}

	public Map<String, String> getValues() {
		return this.values;
	}

	public void setValues(Map<String, String> values) {
		this.values = values;
	}

	public boolean isHttpOnly() {
		return this.httpOnly;
	}

	public void setHttpOnly(boolean httpOnly) {
		this.httpOnly = httpOnly;
	}

	public void setValues(String values) {
		// Module.MODEL.logger.warning("Setting cookie[" + this.proxyId + ", " + this.domain.ordinal() + "] [" + values
		// + "] above [" + this.content + "]");
		if (this.values == null) {
			this.values = new HashMap<>();
			if (this.content.length() > 0) {
				for (final String part : values.split("; ")) {
					final String[] split = part.split("=", 2);
					this.values.put(split[0], split[1]);
				}
			}
		}
		final StringBuilder domain = new StringBuilder();
		String path = "";
		for (final String part : values.split("; ")) {
			if (part.toLowerCase().startsWith("expires=")) {
				try {
					this.expiry = new Timestamp(Cookie.dateFormat.parse(part.substring(8)).getTime());
				} catch (final ParseException e) {
					Module.DEFAULT.logger.severe(e.getLocalizedMessage());
				}
			} else if (part.toLowerCase().startsWith("path=")) {
				path = part.substring(5);
			} else if (part.toLowerCase().startsWith("domain=")) {
				domain.append(part.substring(7));
			} else {
				final String[] split = part.split("=", 2);
				if (split.length == 1) {
					if (part.toLowerCase().equals("httponly")) {
						this.httpOnly = true;
					} else if (part.toLowerCase().equals("secure")) {
						Module.DEFAULT.logger.fine("secure cookie ...");
					} else {
						Module.DEFAULT.logger.warning(part);
						Module.DEFAULT.logger.warning(values);
					}
				} else {
					this.values.put(split[0], split[1]);
				}
			}
		}
		this.path = domain.append(path).toString();
		int i = this.values.size();
		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
		for (final Entry<String, String> e : this.values.entrySet()) {
			sb.append(e.getKey()).append('=').append(e.getValue());
			if (--i > 0) {
				sb.append("; ");
			}
		}
		this.content = sb.toString();
	}

}

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They Might be Giants (or Tigers)
If you read between the chalk lines, you might have noticed that the Oakland A's will also be playing in Japan this week. That's if you can click past the fanboy photos of the Red Sox arriving at the airport, healing lepers and signing autographs. When you look further, you might notice an aside refering to the fact that the A's arrived too. Apparently the Bosox need an opponent or something.
But before the big leaguers do battle, the Washington Generals (sorry, I meant the A's) and Sox continue exhibition season against a pair of Japanese squads. Saturday the Athletics play the Hanshin Tigers and then Sunday the Yomiuri Giants host the green and gold. If you want to know some great details about Japanese baseball you've got to check out Bob Bavasi's site. There you'll learn that Hanshin is sort of like the Chicago Cubs, playing in an ancient ballpark and living with the long-time loser thing, a tad unlike the Cubs in the throwing batteries and pachinko ball thing though. Then bring on the Giants, who amusingly to American fans who use the name to describe the worst team in the National League translates to "Yankees" in the Far East. Just like the Bay boys the Tokyo team wears black and orange, and have a stupid mascot, described on the team website as a "half logo and half rabbit". Unlike San Francisco's Giants they've won championship trophies since President Eisenhower's term.
Before the highly irregular regular season begins at least, we're two equal American teams; both sporting 0-0 records, both enjoying jet lag and sumo wrestling, and both take their first swings against Japanese pitching on Saturday. As long as they throw pachinko balls at both sides we've got a chance; seems the Red Sox will be a far bigger target.— Kibby Kleiman

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The former owner of a condominium unit says she is missing out on a financial windfall that was meant for her after the board cut a cheque from the proceeds of litigation to the new owner.
Aliyyah Mohamed lived in her northeast Condo for four years and says in that time she paid thousands of dollars to fix mistakes made by the builder of the complex.
She says she put in more than $23,000 in special assessments to repair the building envelope and sue the builder.
Mohamed says she was told that a $17,000 cheque had already been cut to the new owner of the condo.
Aliyyah Mohamed says she paid about $23,000 in special assessments on the property before she sold it.
Months after she sold her unit, she learned that the condo board had won its suit and was writing cheques to the owners.
Mohamed called the board to get her money and says she was told that the $17,000 cheque had already been cut to the new owner.
"It didn't feel fair. I believe that it's wrong on principle that the money was issued to the new owner who had nothing to do with, didn't have to bear any of the financial burden of all the previous assessments," said Mohamed.
CTV Calgary's Consumer Specialist Lea Williams-Doherty looked into the matter and found out that as unfair as it sounds, it's all perfectly legal.
In a letter, the condo board's lawyer told Mohamed that the board had simply complied with the law requiring it to pay money owed to the owner of record.
Lea spoke with a real estate lawyer who confirmed that absent any special agreement to the contrary, that is the law.
"The person who owns a unit is going to get their share of whatever money comes back from a law suit, selling property of the condo, whatever in-source of funds that comes in to the condominium would cease being payable to a seller and would start being payable to a buyer," said real estate lawyer, Jeff Kahane.
"If it was a corporation and you had a dividend coming out but you sold your shares, you wouldn't get it, so it's important to think of a condominium as it is, it's a condo corporation, where you live," he said.
Mohamed says she told her realtor about the lawsuit against the builder but says he told her that demanding a special 'litigation proceeds' agreement for money that may never materialize might scare off potential buyers.
The realtors' licensing body, the Real Estate Council of Alberta, says realtors have a duty to fully discuss and protect their client's interests.
Copyright © 2019. Harold Shand. All rights reserved.


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A unique drawing program from the USA running successfully for 31+ years in the USA & Canada, that ensures EVERYONE CAN DRAW! The program includes art history, cartooning, caricatures, still life composition, portraits, landscapes, to teach all the drawing elements like balance, proportion, perspective and so much more and coloring concepts such as color harmony, contrasts, white spaces, etc. Out of all the aspects of art, the drawing takes a back seat. The aim of the program is to equip kids with a unique skill that allows them to express their imagination the way they imagined it, and not having to rely on Google images and printers. Available slots: Every Sunday & Wednesday at 11:00 am IST / 9:30 am UAE Every Tuesday at 4:00 pm IST / 2:30 pm UAE Every Thursday at 4:30 pm IST / 3:00 pm UAE Every Friday at 3:00 pm IST /1:30 pm UAE Every Saturday at 2:00 pm IST / 12:30 pm UAE Please contact SwitchED to schedule classes and email us at info@switched.org or Whatsapp us on +971551587411.
Young Rembrandts teachers have been thoroughly trained to impart the unique drawing technique. They all have a flair for art and are inherently equipped to relate with and communicate with the students. The aim of the programme is not just to teach kids how to draw but leave them feeling empowered with the drawing they have created. A good drawing is a product of an in-depth knowledge of the skill and also when the kids are confident enough to experiment and uninhibited enough to express. The desired outcomes are training the kids to measure with their eyes and understand the proportions, to visualise their drawing even before they start drawing so they present them with correct understanding of the background, foreground, proportion and spacing.
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I like her a lot. She's a tough girl.
I want to draw her lover, Benoît, but I dont have a clear idea what he looks like yet.
She looks strong and daring. I love her eyes.
Never heard of this book, I'm wondering what the story is about.
By the way, just want to tell you I have a separate blog written in English.
The one you used to go is in Thai language only now.
Sorry Pavinee – only saw this comment now.
The story is fascinating. It is set in Johannesburg slightly in the future, at a time when a mysterious event has happened which causes anyone who has committed a serious crime such as murder, to "get an animal". Literally. An animal appears, and they must keep it close to them, carry it about with them everywhere they go. They cannot separate from it, it causes them great physical and spiritual anguish to be away from their animal. If anything happens to the animal, they get taken by "the undertow" – a strange, dark force. The girl in the picture has a sloth as her animal.
I loved this book, although it is quite disturbing.
Thanks for your link to the English blog 🙂 I'll go have a look.


A military probe has proved that the officer continued to defend himself and two Nigerian soldiers up till the very moment he died, as reported by the AP.
It appeared that Johnson and his two fellow soldiers first managed to fight back and attempted to flee. While doing so, Johnson was caught in gunfire from far away. Officials familiar with the investigation noted that Johnson was hit as many as 18 times by a volley of M-4 rifle rounds.
The report goes contrary to earlier presuppositions that ranged from the sergeant being held as a prisoner or shot from a closer distance to being executed.
"The report has determined that [Johnson] was killed by enemy rifle and machine gun fire as he fled the attack by an offshoot of the Islamic State group about 120 miles north of Niamey, the capital of the African country. The attack took place Oct. 4; Johnson's body was recovered two days later," the AP wrote.
In October, the fallen soldier's widow, Myeshia Johnson, publicly grilled the government over the handling of her husband's remains, saying they were passive in sharing the details she was interested in.
"I don't know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything," Johnson said.
The widow came into spotlight following her controversial telephone call with Donald Trump. She promptly claimed part of it was disrespectful, as she allegedly heard him "stumbling" in an attempt to remember the soldier's name, something she regarded as impermissible.


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Deliver 2022 Strategic Plan To be sustainable for Poste Italiane means defining a clear strategy on ESG issues .
To be sustainable for Poste Italiane means defining a clear strategy on ESG issues and structurally incorporating them within the strategic objectives set in the "Deliver 2022 Plan". Over the period of the plan, the Company has envisaged €2.8 billion of investment in strategic assets, in order to achieve financial objectives based on realistic assumptions, with limited execution risk.
The Mail, Parcels and Distribution segment has been reorganised to serve the growth of e-commerce. In order to increase the market share of Parcel delivery, the Company reached an agreement with labour unions regarding an innovative delivery operating model ("Joint Delivery Model"), which provides for afternoon and weekend deliveries. Furthermore, the partnership signed with Amazon in June 2018 marks another fundamental step in the implementation of the plan. Finally, investments will be made in new sorting and automation technologies to support the development of the division. In this context, Poste Italiane has also signed a framework collaboration agreement with the Italian Tobacconists' Federation, which provides for tobacconists operating as pick-up points for mail and parcels.
From October 2018, the Payments, Mobile and Digital segment, together with PostePay, has been authorised by the Bank of Italy to operate as an Electronic Money Institution in line with the Plan's objectives. Operating as an internal fintech, it will enable full advantage to be taken of the growing convergence between market segments. This division will also serve as a competence centre for the implementation of the Group's digital strategy.
Regarding Financial Services, the model focuses on the distribution of third-party products without credit risk, controlled by a distribution platform. The model aims at promoting sustainable growth, through a more efficient allocation of capital and a wider range of products. Important steps in the implementation of the Plan include the renewal of the postal savings agreement signed at the end of 2017 with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, the three-year distribution agreement signed in April 2018 with Intesa Sanpaolo, the agreement with Unicredit regarding the distribution of loans, and reaching in March 2018 a series of agreements with the Anima Group regarding closer cooperation for savings management services.
In its Insurance Services, Poste Italiane aims to maintain its leadership in the life sector by rebalancing its customer portfolios and shifting from traditional life policies to unit-linked products. The objective is also to achieve significant growth in non-life insurance and private pension plans.


S.O.S. We Are Going Overseas: Flying with Babies!?
Our little Oscar has clocked up quite some air-miles in his three year old life. When he was four months old we went to Holland, at eight months we flew to California, at one year to New Zealand and Hamilton Island, and last year back to Europe and New Zealand. And this year we are on the countdown to Europe again, this time with baby brother Felix in tow, who will be six months by the time we take off.
1. Airline: Fly Emirates and Emirates only if you can. They are fantastic for children.
2. Timing: Take an evening flight if you go to Europe. The 10pm one to Dubai (11 hours) is brilliant. Kids are guaranteed (99% of the time…) to fall sleep when the plane takes off. Once in Dubai it's "only" six more hours to most European cities.
3. Adjust their biological clock: The week before travel, adjust your kids sleeping pattern slightly; I stretched Oscar's sleep out to 9pm so he was not going crazy during boarding.
4. Medication: avoid any sedatives. I looked at all the options but decided it is not worth it. They can sometimes have the opposite affect and also once you have "knocked them out" they wake up very grizzly and disorientated. Let them sleep when they want to. A bit of Panadol for kids can sometimes work well before bedtime. To deal with jetlag you could use Melatonin, but only if prescribed by a GP.
5. Hand luggage for kids: as little as possible. Emirates is great in providing kids toys, colouring books, a little kids blanket, eye pillow and kid headphones. You don't need much if anything at all.
6. Food: again the food from Emirates for kids is fantastic. They have baby food, even nappies and wipes, they will heat your bottle and the food for the bigger kids comes out 20 minutes or so before yours so you can help and then enjoy your own meal in 'peace'.
7. Stroller and car seats: don't bother with a stroller or carseat, most airports have strollers and frankly it's just a hassle. Take a baby carrier instead if you have a baby. And for the toddlers it's much nicer to run around and stretch their legs once they are out of the plane. I did at one stage have the Skip Hop kids backpack with a rein for Oscar so he wouldn't run off.
9. Sleep: whenever kids sleep, you should try to sleep or at least close your eyes.
10. Don't worry: about all the looks you get from grumpy and annoyed fellow travelers. Why care about them? They might snore louder than your baby cries and you will never see them again anyway!
Safe Travels & Enjoy your Holiday!


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Q: How to convert user-defined struct to variant in c++? I have a struct in native c++, which should be passed to a COM object; both share same header file and hence there is no difference in struct definition between the COM object and my code. The COM method expects a pointer to struct as parameter. I am able to pass types like int, float, string, etc as parameters to COM by converting them to variant like variant_t vtArg(myIntValue).
How do I convert struct to variant?
The signature of the COM method is like this:
bool ComMethod(HANDLE *myHandle, MyStruct *myStruct)

This is how I construct arguments for the COM method:
SAFEARRAY *pMethodArgs = SafeArrayCreateVector(VT_VARIANT, 0, 2);
LONG index = 0;
SafeArrayPutElement(pMethodArgs, &index, &myHandle);
index = 1;
SafeArrayPutElement(pMethodArgs, &index, &myStruct);

A: I tried multiple ways and found that it is not possible to send MyStruct as parameter. I made the COM method return an instance of MyStruct and tried to reverse-engineer the return value in C++, but unfortunately nothing was received at C++.
The solution is to create a SAFEARRAY of VARIANT with individual members of the structure, or to pass the individual members as separate parameters.

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Arrest Reports 8/16
Published: August 24, 20205:10 pm Updated: 5:11 pm
Author Greenwood Resident
Kevin Matthew Bachtel of Greenwood was booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center on August 18 at 7:37 a.m. and released on signature bond August 18 at 12:52 p.m. Bachtel was charged with public intoxication – annoyance.
Zachary Scott Davis of Greenwood was booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center on August 20 at 4:54 p.m. and released on cash bond August 20 at 10:33 p.m. Davis was charged with contempt-willful disobedience (failure to pay fine.)
Alyssa Cheyenne Leach of Greenwood was booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center on August 22 at 12:02 a.m. and remains at the SCADC. Leach was charged with two counts of failure to appear – class B misdemeanor, and contempt-willful disobedience (failure to pay fine.)
Belinda Sue Miner of Greenwood was booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center on August 19 at 1:30 p.m. and released on legally sufficient bond August 19 at 5:33 p.m. Miner was charged with driving while intoxicated – first offense.
Blake Allen Richards of Greenwood was booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center on August 18 at 1:30 p.m. and released on legally sufficient bond August 19 at 1:02 p.m. Richards was charged with petition to revoke bond.
Tabatha Lynn Risner of Greenwood was booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center on August 16 at 5:25 p.m. and released on signature bond August 16 at 8:32 p.m. Risner was charged with failure to appear, class B misdemeanor.
Sean David Spoon of Greenwood was booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center on August 21 at 2:05 p.m. and released on legally sufficient bond on August 21 at 2:53 p.m. Spoon was charged with petition to revoke -misdemeanor.
On August 19, at approximately 1:31 a.m., a Greenwood officer made a traffic stop on Highway 10, just west of the intersection of Old Hackett. The vehicle had no functioning passenger side headlight or tag light. The driver of the vehicle was identified as Cesar S. Munoz, 23, of Van Buren. Munoz advised that he did not have a valid driver's license. The names of both occupants were collected and ran through dispatch. It was discovered that Munoz had a suspended driver's license and three warrants out of Sebastian County. Dispatch advised that the passenger Phillip Myers, 31 of Van Buren, also had a warrant out of Lowell, Arkansas, but was out of extradition range. Both occupants were asked to exit the vehicle, and the officer sought consent to search. Munoz consented. That search yielded a small glass vile containing a white crystal-like substance, suspected to be methamphetamine. Myers was detained and read his Miranda Rights to
which he stated that he understood. Myers admitted that the substance inside of the glass vile was his and was methamphetamine. After the vehicle search was concluded, both Munoz and Myers were placed under arrest and transported to the Sebastian County Adult Detention Center. Munoz was booked on his three warrants, failure to comply with court order, failure to pay fines, and theft of property. He also received a citation for driving on suspended license. Myers was booked on possession of schedule I/II <2g.
On August 19 at approximately 11:40 p.m., a Greenwood officer observed a male subject, later identified as Jeremy Brown, 33 of Booneville, walking in the ditch. The officer pulled onto Parks Drive, and asked Brown if he was okay. Brown willingly spoke with the officer, and presented his identification. He informed the officer that he may have a warrant out of the board of parole, as he missed his meeting with his parole officer the day prior. The officer ran Brown through the dispatch, where a warrant through the Arkansas Board of Parole and the City of Fort Smith were located and confirmed. Brown was transported to the SCADC without incident.
On August 19 at 7:25 p.m., a Greenwood officer made a traffic stop on a vehicle having an expired temporary registration. It was discovered that the driver of that vehicle, Charles Lewis, 42 of Greenwood, had a warrant out of the City of Greenwood for his arrest. Lewis was placed under arrest and transported to the SCADC without incident.
On August 19 at approximately 10 p.m. a Greenwood officer observed a white GMC Sierra traveling west on State Highway 10 without a functioning brake light. The officer initiated a traffic stop and made contact with the driver, Caleb Brasher, 21 of Hackett and passenger, Devon Horton, 22 of Greenwood. The officer advised them of the reason for the stop and asked for the driver's license, insurance and registration. Brasher advised that he did not have a valid license and had a no bond warrant. Horton denied having any identification. He did, however, provide his date of birth. The officer ran both subjects through dispatch, and discovered that Brasher and Horton both had warrants from Greenwood and Fort Smith. Brasher and Horton were placed under arrest. The officer sough consent to search the vehicle and discovered a small amount of suspected marijuana in a plastic bag. The officer stated that it did not appear to be a usable amount, and he discarded it. Both subjects were then transported to the Sebastian County Detention Center where they were booked on their warrants. Brasher received a citation for driving on a suspended license and a warning for the non-functioning break light.
**The charges against those arrested are allegations and the cases are still pending in the courts.**
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Electric hot water heaters supply trouble once you want it. They are cost-effective and efficient. Can you think of the luxury of never running out of hot water? These heaters work as a tankless system. This means you shouldn't have to unnecessarily heat a whole tank water, since an aquarium isn't needed.
Have you had the unfortunate example of not having enough warm water if the house is packed with guests? In case you have, you probably know how inconvenient and frustrating it is. Imagine never having to bother about that occuring from now on. A tankless heater provides a continuous way to obtain domestic hot water. There is no tank, so that it cannot run empty.
Water is heated directly, back then it can be needed. Electric up to have an element which heats the cold water every time a tap is started up. Water stays hot before the tap is deterred. The water temperature is pre-set as outlined by your needs. Tankless systems be more energy efficient, approximately 62% less than conventional hot water heaters, since they only work as required.
The biggest consideration when installing a tankless electric water heater is what size needs to be installed. You will find basically two types to select from. You can pick a whole-house heater that is large and powerful enough to supply hot water to all household fixtures or you can elect to install point-of-use systems supplying trouble to a particular fixtures only. Whole-house heaters and point-of-use heaters work exactly the same nonetheless they differ from the amount of water they're able to heat at anybody time. Point-of-use heaters are less costly and get installed with the exact point of demand.
You are able to determine how big is the electric heater you'll need by determining simply how much water must be heated along with the temperature rise required. Temperature rise means the improvement in temperature between your set temperature from the unit and also the temperature of the incoming water.
Each fixture in your home has a required flow rate. You are able to calculate just how much water you'll need by having up every one of the flow rates of every fixture you expect will likely be open previously. By way of example, if you anticipate a shower head (having a flow rate of 2.5 gallons per minute) plus a domestic hot water faucet (with a flow rate of 0.75 gallons per minute) will probably be open as well then the total flow rate required is going to be 3.25 gallons per minute.
One hot water heater might possibly not have sufficient chance to provide domestic hot water to everyone the fixtures at your residence. This is also true for individuals residing in colder regions where the groundwater temperatures are significantly lower. In this instance, several heaters are usually necessary. This is the reason it is vital to calculate your heating requirements carefully beforehand.
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Psychedelic Therapists Petition Government For Permission To Dose Themselves In Order To Better Treat Patients
As a group of terminally ill patients in Canada awaits word from the minister of health on whether they can legally access psychedelic mushrooms for end-of-life care, their team of clinicians has tacked on an additional request: The therapists want to be able to dose themselves, too.
The group behind the request, Victoria, B.C.–based TheraPsil, a nonprofit that aims to expand access to psilocybin-based psychotherapy in Canada, says the additional step of providing safe access for therapists will ensure they gain firsthand experience into the psilocybin's effects and its applications to psychotherapy.
"The fundamental reason to expose therapists to their own experiences with psychedelics is that, unless you have visited these realms, you are unlikely to understand their importance."
"Part of ensuring a very high-quality psychedelic treatment for patients is to ensure high-quality training for therapists," Spencer Hawkswell, TheraPsil's executive director, told Marijuana Moment in an interview. "It's greatly beneficial if therapists have had psychedelic therapy themselves."
Few people, he offered by analogy, "would advise going to a sex therapist who's never had sex before."
TheraPsil, founded by clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Bruce Tobin, has been fighting for expanded access to psilocybin end-of-life care for years. In 2017, the group first filed a petition to exempt patients with certain terminal conditions from Canada's ban on psilocybin. It was reportedly the first time a therapist had asked the Canadian government for such an exemption.
It wasn't until this past January that TheraPsil finally heard back, Hawkswell said. "After three years of back-and-forth, they got back to us and said, 'We're going to be rejecting this application.'" The agency said there was no obvious medical necessity for the psychedelics.
TheraPsil was undaunted. "They say there's no necessity," Hawkswell said. "Maybe it's because they haven't met that person yet."
In April, the group helped four more people with terminal illnesses file petitions with Health Canada and Health Minister Patty Hajdu seeking exemptions that will allow them to access psilocybin. In an interview with Marijuana Moment, Hawkswell said patients had gone months so far without a word from Hajdu, who with a stroke of a pen could allow the patients to access the drug.
"What we are working on right now is ramping up our messaging," Hawkswell said. "We are going to try everything we can to get to the minister to make sure she sees these patients and responds to them."
Dear @PattyHajdu, today marks the 75th day that palliative Canadians have been waiting on a reply from YOU re: their section 56 exemptions for compassionate access to #psilocybin. In the words of Dr. Bruce Tobin, TheraPsil's founder: "Please, do not make them wait any longer" pic.twitter.com/JRITGwtcMR
— TheraPsil (@TheraPsil) July 6, 2020
Efforts to allow TheraPsil's clinicians to use psilocybin themselves are more recent. Dr. Sean O'Sullivan, an emergency room physician and psychotherapist who serves on TheraPsil's board of directors, said the exemptions are necessary so that therapists can be better trained and more familiar with how psychedelics work in a therapeutic setting.
"The fundamental reason to expose therapists to their own experiences with psychedelics is that, unless you have visited these realms, you are unlikely to understand their importance," O'Sullivan told Marijuana Moment. "The point is to allow therapists to understand the field they're plowing in."
Therapists need to be alert and able to recognize how psychedelic experiences manifest themselves in therapy, O'Sullivan said. Patients might bring up material having to do with their own birth, a traumatic experience or interactions with otherworldly beings. "If you're not attuned to this possibility, not aware of this possibility, then it's just going to slide by you," he said.
"It's a bit like describing Beethoven's Fifth," O'Sullivan added. "You can describe it all you like, but at some point you have to play the music."
As psychedelic therapy is more widely sought by patients, O'Sullivan said, demand for qualified therapists is likely to go up. "We are expecting that as we get more permission for patients to access psilocybin at the end of life," he said, "that there will be an increase in demand for therapists that have had that psychedelic experience."
Public opinion in Canada generally supports allowing access to psilocybin therapy for the terminally ill, TheraPsil says. A poll released by the group last month found that 59 percent of Canadians support legal access. Including respondents who said they were "ambivalent," TheraPsil said, acceptance increased to 78 percent.
"What's unreasonable is the political decision" to deny patients access to psilocybin, Hawkswell argued. "It's not a scientific one, it's not a democratic one. It's political."
Patients facing their imminent death often experience feelings and fears that psychedelics can help to ease, he said. Among them are demoralization, anxiety and depression. Existing treatment includes pharmaceuticals, talk therapy and occasionally inpatient treatment.
Psychedelics play a role in treatment by inducing what Hawkswell and others refer to as a "mystical experience"—a collection of psychoactive and sometimes spiritual events that accompany a psychedelic journey. The experience can reorient a person's way of thinking, dissolving barriers between an individual and the world around them. For end-of-life patients, he explained, it can help them embrace that death "is natural—just as natural as being born."
Practitioners note that psychedelic therapy doesn't work the same way as many other pharmaceutical drugs, such as antidepressants or even medical marijuana. Patients usually take those substances under their own supervision and allow them to work in the background. With therapeutic use of psilocybin and other psychedelics, patients typically take the drug and undergo guided psychotherapy. Psychedelics' unusual, sometimes disorienting effects are believed to allow patients to better approach and engage obstacles, then emerge with a fresh perspective.
Another psychedelic therapy group, Field Trip, which uses ketamine in therapy, describes the treatment on their website as a way "to press reset on your mental health."
The emerging promise of psychedelics in recent years have caught the attention of academics, public policy reformers and even the U.S. government. Last month, the University of North Carolina (UNC) announced a $27 million project funded by the department of defense to research and develop psychedelics-inspired drugs.
That project's researchers seem to believe they can separate psychedelics from what they describe as "disorienting" side effects, despite what Hawkswell and others say about the importance of a "mystical experience."
"Although drugs like ketamine and potentially psilocybin have rapid antidepressant actions, their hallucinogenic, addictive, and disorienting side effects make their clinical use limited," said Bryan L. Roth, a professor of pharmacology at UNC School of Medicine and the research team's leader. The government partnership, UNC said, "aims to create new medications to effectively and rapidly treat depression, anxiety, and substance abuse without major side effects."
In September of last year, Johns Hopkins University announced the launch of the nation's first-ever psychedelic research center, a $17-million project to study the use of psychedelics to treat conditions such as opioid use disorder, Alzheimer's disease, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Meanwhile, activists in the United States have advocated for state- and local-level reforms to research, decriminalize and in some cases even legalize psychedelics themselves.
At the municipal level, Denver became the first U.S. city to enact such a reform, with voters in May 2019 approving a measure to effectively decriminalize possession of psilocybin mushrooms. Soon after, officials in Oakland, California, decriminalized possession of all plant- and fungi-based psychedelics. In January of this year, Oakland activists unveiled plans to allow go further and legalize the commercial sale of natural entheogenic substances. That same month in nearby Santa Cruz, the City Council effectively decriminalized psychedelics by voting to make the enforcement of laws against them among the city's lowest enforcement priorities.
Reformers are now pushing for similar changes in other jurisdictions. In Washington, D.C. this month, Decriminalize Nature D.C. submitted signatures to qualify a measure for November's ballot that would decriminalize all natural psychedelic drugs, including psilocybin, ayahuasca and ibogaine.
Other reform efforts are ongoing in Oregon, where voters later this year will decide whether to legalize psilocybin therapy—the very therapy TheraPsil's patients are pushing Canadian Health Minister Hajdu to allow. Oregon voters will also see a separate measure to decriminalize the possession of all drugs and expand access to treatment for problem use on their November ballot.
Lawmakers in Hawaii earlier this year approved a plan to study psilocybin mushrooms' medical applications with the goal of eventually legalizing access.
In Canada, for now, psilocybin remains illegal. Hawkswell of TheraPsil, however, believes a constellation of other national policies—including medical marijuana, safe injection sites, and physician-assisted dying—support extending psilocybin access to patients in palliative care. And Canada already permits certain religious groups to use ayahuasca as religious sacrament, Hawkswell noted.
"At this point psilocybin is a reasonable medical choice for these individuals," he told Marijuana Moment. "This is about the minister being compassionate and using her ministerial abilities to help give patients access to something that's going to help them."
Patients waiting to hear back from Hajdu's office, he said, don't have time to wait for lengthy, bureaucratic processes. "We're not just going to keep waiting," he told Marijuana Moment. "We do have a legal team prepared, but that's all I'll say."
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package br.com.compdevbooks.alphacosmetics.dao.mock.cadastro;

import br.com.compdevbooks.alphacosmetics.dao.IFornecedorDAO;
import br.com.compdevbooks.alphacosmetics.dao.mock.endereco.MockBairroDAO;
import br.com.compdevbooks.alphacosmetics.dao.mock.produtos.MockProdutoDAO;
import br.com.compdevbooks.alphacosmetics.entity.endereco.EnderecoEntity;
import br.com.compdevbooks.alphacosmetics.entity.pessoa.FornecedorEntity;
import br.com.compdevbooks.alphacosmetics.entity.produto.ProdutoEntity;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

/**
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 * @author Josiel
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public class MockFornecedorDAO implements IFornecedorDAO {

    private static List<FornecedorEntity> lista = new ArrayList();
    private static MockProdutoDAO produto = new MockProdutoDAO();

    private static MockBairroDAO bairro = new MockBairroDAO();
    private static Set<ProdutoEntity> listaProduto;
    private static EnderecoEntity endereco = new EnderecoEntity("Rua das araras", 332, "1029,68638-000", bairro.getById((long) 2));

    static {
        listaProduto = new HashSet();
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 8));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 15));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 17));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 6));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 1));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 7));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 5));
        lista.add(new FornecedorEntity((long) 1, "Blogpad", "Paul Hudson", "001", "001", listaProduto, endereco));

        listaProduto = new HashSet();
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 1));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 18));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 3));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 8));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 1));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 4));
        lista.add(new FornecedorEntity((long) 2, "Meevee", "Ernest Wheeler", "002", "002", listaProduto, endereco));

        listaProduto = new HashSet();
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 15));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 9));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 11));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 8));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 1));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 18));
        lista.add(new FornecedorEntity((long) 3, "Jaxnation", "Ernest Ford", "003", "003", listaProduto, endereco));

        listaProduto = new HashSet();
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 10));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 18));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 5));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 13));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 15));
        lista.add(new FornecedorEntity((long) 4, "Abata", "Robert Ward", "004", "004", listaProduto, endereco));

        listaProduto = new HashSet();
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 11));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 14));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 5));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 1));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 2));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 7));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 2));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 13));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 1));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 8));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 10));
        lista.add(new FornecedorEntity((long) 5, "Meedoo", "Lawrence Hart", "005", "005", listaProduto, endereco));

        listaProduto = new HashSet();
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 18));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 13));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 3));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 1));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 12));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 17));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 11));
        lista.add(new FornecedorEntity((long) 6, "Flashset", "Anne Ford", "006", "006", listaProduto, endereco));

        listaProduto = new HashSet();
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 8));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 18));
        listaProduto.add(produto.getById((long) 13));
        lista.add(new FornecedorEntity((long) 7, "Wordpedia", "Jessica Franklin", "007", "007", listaProduto, endereco));

    }

    private static MockFornecedorDAO singleton = null;

    public MockFornecedorDAO() {
    }

    public static MockFornecedorDAO getInstance() {
        if (singleton == null) {
            singleton = new MockFornecedorDAO();
        }

        return singleton;
    }

    @Override
    public void save(FornecedorEntity entity) {
        if (lista.indexOf(entity) < 0) {
            lista.add(entity);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void delete(FornecedorEntity entity) {
        lista.remove(entity);
    }

    @Override
    public FornecedorEntity getById(Long id) {
        for (FornecedorEntity vo : lista) {
            if (vo.getId().equals(id)) {
                return vo;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public FornecedorEntity getByNome(String nome) {
        for (FornecedorEntity vo : lista) {
            if (vo.getFantasia().toUpperCase().contains(nome.toUpperCase())) {
                return vo;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public List<FornecedorEntity> buscarTodosFornecedores() {
        return lista;
    }
}


Fairly intense straw yellow with green highlights.
This classic Veronese white wine is striking for its fresh and inviting breadth of aromas, sketched out with wild flowers and white peaches, and vibrant, vegetal notes.
Fresh and simple with a supple body, dry and smoothly rounded on the palate.
Fine with aperitifs, such as vegetable and fish hors d'oeuvres. Also good with seafood and vegetable risottos.


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AM LAW FIRM LLC
Company address Arshakunyats 49 str., # 22 0026 Yerevan
Jurisdiction Armenia
Contact person Contact person: Mr. Vanik Margaryan
Phone Tel: (+374 55) 02 92 78
Fax Fax: (+374 60) 44 26 26
Website Web: www.am.am/eng
Email Email: Margaryan@am.am
AM is famed as one of the biggest law firms in Armenia. The firm was founded in 2012 as a result of a merger of two prominent law firms which have have been operating in the market for about 10 years. The firm has a proficient team comprising of lawyers and experts with diversified educational backgrounds and experiences. Most of the lawyers hold licenses of advocate, whereas several of them superpose the work at the firm with lecturing at the most reputable universities in the country.
The quality of the services is proved by the several local and foreign leading partners of the firm. AM has partners not only from the neighboring countries, but also from the Unites States and Europe.
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At the beginning of the week I was in Athens celebrating my birthday. Let's just say I was born in the 1970s :). I've always had an interest in Greek mythology (it was a good choice to read Mythos on the way) and as a man of learning, I wanted to see more of the homeland of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. An inspiring and thoroughly enjoyable visit!
News broke of the sale for $1.75B of plagiarism-checker Turnitin, more than the total amount that all edtech startups raised in 2018 ($1.45B) and also one of the biggest edtech deals this decade, beating LinkedIn's purchase of Lynda, but smaller than the Ellucian deal. This underlines the growing importance of technology in learning markets. In the meantime, Sanoma Learning is, with the intended acquisition of Iddink Group, emerging as Europe's leading edtech company, with a couple of hundred million euros of digital/multichannel revenues and more than 300 tech employees. It's a hot place to be. Hotter than the Acropolis in August!
The immediate focus back at the office was the steering of our High Five program. At the beginning of March we went live with our Next Gen EdTech Team, where we have created one technology team for the whole of Sanoma Learning. It was good to see we are well on track to launch Kampus in Finland & Sweden, and Bingel in The Netherlands. Overall I feel we are making great leaps forward with High Five!
Then we spent time with the Iddink team in preparing ourselves for finalizing the intended transaction. There's a good click between us, which is a great starting point.
At the end of the week we did the monthly business reviews with each of the units. We're deploying a new stage-gated investment process into new courses and had a couple of very interesting cases from Poland. I was highly enthusiastic about how the team is approaching this and really appreciated to be able to spend time with them to learn more. Well done!
This entry was posted in Edtech, Innovation and tagged Edtech on 10/03/2019 by johnrichardmartin.


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Val-des-Prés é uma comuna francesa na região administrativa da Provença-Alpes-Costa Azul, no departamento de Altos-Alpes. Estende-se por uma área de 44,77 km².

Comunas dos Altos Alpes

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Q: What whitespaces in HTML are considered whitespace nodes Aren't the white spaces immediately following the opening html tag and immediately before the closing html tag whitespace nodes? Consider the following code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>

    <title>The document</title>

Data

Warning

Top Secret!

Now, when I look at the rendered page in Firebug, I see that the 'head' node has a 'title' node and 2 'whitespace' nodes on either side of it. Which is what I expect. Similarly I had expected to see 'whitespace' nodes between  and  and between the  and . But that isn't the case. Why does Firebug not consider them as whitespaces?
You can also try this on this online DOM viewer.

A: I know this is an old question, but it deserves a proper answer, if only because browsers handle the two cases (1) between  and  and (2) between  and  differently.
In the first case, browsers simply discard the space characters. The "before head" insertion mode of the tree construction stage of the HTML parser requires that the spaces are discarded. Although this is unusual, it's most likely for backward compatibility. In the days before CSS, it's likely that browsers would have needed to discard such characters to stop odd spaces appearing at the start of displayed document.
In the second case, the space characters are not discarded, they are added to the DOM document. But they are not added as a text node after the body element, but just inside the end of it. So there is no text node to be displayed in the DOM viewers between  and  tags.

A: In Mozilla, all whitespace in the text content of the original document is represented in the DOM.
This does not include whitespace within tags.
So this means that:
a)there will be some text nodes that contain only whitespace
b)some text nodes will have whitespace at the beginning or end.
Hope this helps.


Ever, in a mad rush, broken a section of the front door key off in your lock, lost your keys or locked them inside your stuff or car? Ought to you have you'll know just how eat an unpleasantly panic-inducing experience this can be.
When foregotten in the cold – which is rather common on the United Kingdom – you'll often upward waiting for a considerable associated with time to the locksmith arrive to your rescue. Generally if the incident occurs during the night, stores find yourself waiting it out until morning – when you can ask a locksmith professional. In either situation waiting for is an anxious one – and one, more importantly, peaceful breaths . do without if you called the emergency professional locksmith.
Unlike the base locksmith you'd usually call to repair or get a new lock for dwelling or business property, an unexpected locksmith can be on the scene quickly to double check that the associated with time time you spend waiting outside is as short seeing that has always be.
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Singapore: Cautious solar outlook at International Energy Week
Singaporean Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong has told delegates that Singapore is not ready to embrace solar energy on a significant scale.
November 1, 2010 Shamsiah Ali-Oettinger/Becky Stuart
The statement came during his opening address of the third International Energy Week, held from October 27 to November 4 in Singapore.
However, he did say the island is willing to lend its space, resources, know-how and services to help the cause. "We have developed the Clean Tech Park as the first eco-business park in the region. This park will be the focal point for large test-bedding and demonstration of system level solutions," said Lee.
He went on to say: "Green power is still more expensive than fossil fuels. It tends to be intermittent in nature and low in power density." He also fears that green power lacks the scale to replace more than a small proportion of fossil fuel use.
Despite this, the government has attracted the Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) to establish an integrated solar plant in the eastern part of the island. It is also looking to encourage more companies to "plug into this vibrant ecosystem and research network, to develop energy solutions not just for deployment in Singapore, but also for export regionally and globally", to quote the Prime Minister.
Lee added that Singapore was an "alternative energy disadvantaged country", which raised quite a few eyebrows. After all, the one asset Singapore is blessed with, in abundance, is sunshine.
Although he has not written off solar energy or its potential for the island as of yet, questions were raised regarding the slow progress of Singapore's plans for powering the island via sunshine. After all, neighboring Malaysia will be pushing for its feed-in tariffs for solar energy next year.
Additionally, the island is teeming with solar-knowledge via research and development, through the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), and the efforts of the CleanTech department and their cooperation with the Housing Development Board to start installing local residential estates with rooftop solar panels, are helping to integrate the technology.
Lee replied: "Even if we install solar panels on all the housing apartment buildings in Singapore, we can only produce about ten percent of our island's energy. The silicon roofs will not suffice. It is an issue we have to address."
He added: "Solar is still some way from grid parity. I am sure it will improve and we will be in a better position hopefully someday."
Furthermore, he highlighted the problems solar markets in countries like Germany and Spain experienced when their feed-in tariffs were altered. He clearly stated that he did not want that to happen in Singapore.
One has to mention, however, that the installed cost of solar systems has significantly fallen in the last two years. Solar energy has become highly bankable, due to the cost reductions enhancing the levelized cost of energy (the average cost of every unit of energy produced by a generator across its entire lifetime, brought back to the value of that unit of energy determined at the time of the analysis): this methodology is used by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is also important to consider that there are places where solar grid parity has already been reached, such as California.
Nevertheless, from another point of view, Lee merely expressed his fears in investing into something that is relatively new and rather hip at the moment. What the Prime Minister has been worrying and stressing about is the economics related to energy supply – just like all government heads with the heavy responsibility of energy sustainability on their shoulders. He also talked about his wish for a regional grid, which ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) can benefit from.
What he failed to address however, was the immense potential of solar energy: the potential of the Singapore solar module that SERIS is working on, tailor-made for the tropics; the potential of the peoples' support for solar power and not nuclear energy, which is still an open option for Singapore in the future. Indeed, Lee said that if the technology crosses to a point where it can be sustainable and there is a better way to dispose the waste, Singapore could well see a nuclear power plant installed in his lifetime.
The solar advocates could have gotten a little disheartened at the pessimistic start to the conference. However, the Clean Energy Expo has dedicated itself to looking at solar power commercialization, financing and technologies. Perhaps, the somberness will sober up and start looking sunnier. Meanwhile, the sun is shining and my solar bag is successfully charging my mobile phone, cementing my own belief in the power of the sun.
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Note from the Author: This essay was originally published as part of Issue CCVII of The Rational Argumentator on September 12, 2009, using the Yahoo! Voices publishing platform. Because of the imminent closure of Yahoo! Voices, the essay is now being made directly available on The Rational Argumentator.
I recently received a series of questions pertaining to my articles, "The Necessity of Road Privatization" and "How to Privatize the Roads." I make my answers available to the public, as I have heard the same questions frequently posed to advocates of turning roads over to free-market competition.
1) In a private, competitive road market, the requisite technologies for providing easy, convenient access to roads for customers will develop quickly, as entrepreneurs will be motivated by profit to invest in them. After all, if customers must spend a lot of time waiting at toll booths to get on the road, they will take their business elsewhere.
2) At any level of initial technology, it is possible to have superior organizational and logistical methods that maximize user convenience. For instance, if we assume no electronic technology whatsoever and physical cash collection as the only feasible means of obtaining payment, we can still conceive of entrepreneurs having large numbers of toll booths at each checkpoint to ensure that customers can pay quickly and be on their way. Alternatively, entrepreneurs can always charge road users regular membership fees and issue members identification papers that would be checked anytime the user enters the road. It is not always possible, of course, to predict the specific form an organizational innovation will take. However, tens of competing producers, each working under the hard budget constraint of a private enterprise, are much more likely to come up with innovative, efficient solutions than a monopoly producer with a soft budget constraint.
3) Historically, some of the first major roads in the United States – the turnpikes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries – were privately built and operated, in an era long before today's advanced technology. The roads functioned quite well for their time, facilitating inter-state commerce and the westward migration of large numbers of settlers. Private roads have existed with much more primitive technology than is available anywhere today, and so there is no reason to suppose that a given technological level is required for them to be viable. Technology certainly improves quality in this area, as in virtually all others, but the laws of economics function in a society of any level of advancement.
Answer: Standardization of rules often happens to a significant extent in private markets. For instance, railroads standardized many of their practices in the 19th century by mutual agreement of private railroad companies. In any business, it is useful and profitable to enable the customers to rely on some common and well-known elements and practices, and it is quite likely that many rules of the road will be extremely similar. On the other hand, this similarity will not be of the rigid, ossified sort that currently exists on government roads – where the rules are uniform and immutable, irrespective of how well they actually work in facilitating safe and efficient roadway use. Entrepreneurs would be free to experiment with new rules and arrangements, and if consumers do not like a particular arrangement, they would always be free to use a competing road. Entrepreneurs will be aware of this and so will hesitate to adopt measures that would be difficult for users to understand and to follow. Roads that do things differently and continue to attract traffic will likely need to prominently advertise the aspects that make them unique, so that potential users are well aware of the peculiarities in advance and in a concise, easy-to-understand manner. The best road innovations will take hold among other entrepreneurs and will eventually become part of a new set of evolving standards.
Answer: It is extremely unlikely that any individual business would be able to purchase all possible access routes to a given place, as this would be extraordinarily expensive. If any alternative route exists, and a non-coercive monopoly currently charges exorbitant prices, this will be a strong signal for competitors to enter the market, buy up land on the alternative route, build their own roads, and charge lower prices than the former monopolist. If there is a single provider of a road to a particular place, even the potential of this kind of competition would keep such a provider charging reasonable prices.
In the odd event that competition does not enter the field, people might simply choose not to go to the place for which the only road requires an exorbitant fee for its use. In this case, many individuals will come to see the benefits of going to the place in question as being outweighed by the costs, and so the place will cease to become popular, and the road provider's revenue will diminish greatly. At that point, the road provider will either need to lower its prices to attract more business or go out of business entirely.
It is important to recognize that a road monopoly is precisely what exists virtually everywhere in many countries today. This monopoly, unlike to transitory monopolies that may sometimes occur on the free market, is supported by law. The consequences of a coercive monopoly in the provision of any good are easy to foresee and identify: lower quality at a higher price. It is reasonable to believe that taxpayers are already being charged exorbitantly for the use of government roads today.
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I recently experienced severe pain in my feet, particularly in the big toes. In my imagination it felt like my feet had been run over by a truck and that several of my toes had been broken. But I knew that was not the case, and that the pain came on slowly at first, and then spread to other parts of my feet until I could barely walk.
My first approach was to take some ibuprofen to relieve the pain and swelling. When this did not resolve the matter, I thought perhaps a new pair of soft shoes might work. That idea also failed, and with a little internet research I realized I had a classic case of the gout. I was soon off to see my doctor to determine what the problem was and to get it solved with the powers of modern medicine.
I was off to get my prescription filled at the pharmacy when a thought came to mind: if this drug was as natural and ancient as advised by my doctor, why did I need a prescription in the first place? Upon inspection the prescription was for Colcrys, the brand name of the drug colchicine. Furthermore, when I picked up my prescription the price was much higher than I anticipated given that it was a natural drug. When questioned, the pharmacy technician replied that the actual price was much higher and that my insurance paid for more than three-quarters of the bill. The cash price (without insurance) was $198.99 which is $6.63 per pill if taken daily, or nearly $20 per dose if used to treat flare-ups.
An extremely high price for an ancient natural drug? I knew I had a new case to solve and that the solution was probably the same old answer.
After conducting some research on Wikipedia, I learned the following: Colchicine can be used to treat gout, Behcet's disease, pericarditis, and the Mediterranean fever. It has been in use as a medicine for over 3,000 years. After serving as ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin brought colchicum plants back to America in order to treat his own gout. Modern science has further refined the drug for better medicinal use.
Colcrys has been used to treat gout for a very long time, although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not approved Colcrys specifically for the treatment of gout prior to 2009. Alternative drugs, such as Allopurinal, are also used to treat gout and related ailments. Until recently, you could treat your own gout using one of these medicines for pennies a day.
In the summer of 2009, the Food and Drug Administration approved Colcrys as a treatment for gout flare-ups and the Mediterranean fever. The FDA gave pharmaceutical company URL Pharma an exclusive marketing agreement for selling Colcrys in exchange for completing studies on Colcrys and paying the FDA a $45 million application fee.
This deal effectively created a patented drug with no generic alternative. Therefore it gave the company a monopoly for the duration of the agreement. URL Pharma immediately raised the price from less than a dime to nearly $5 dollars per pill. Comprehensive medical insurance does substantially reduce the price to consumers, but it does not reduce the cost. Insurance only spreads the cost-burden across policy holders.
At the same time, doctors are encouraged by pharmaceutical companies to employ more expensive and profitable treatments. As a result the overall cost burden increases. Evidence suggests that doctors are prescribing Colcrys in large volumes to treat gout flare-ups and as a long-term preventative measure.
Once again the federal government has taken something that was both cheap and beneficial and turned it into a monopoly that hurts the general public and drives up the cost of medical care to the benefit of Big Pharma.
Note: Just because it is natural and produced in a pharmaceutical environment, does not mean that Colcrys is harmless. It can be considered toxic in large amounts, has a long list of possible side effects, and is not recommended for people with certain conditions.
Those are the words of Newegg.com's chief legal officer, Lee Cheng. He was speaking to Arstechnica.com following a landmark ruling that sided with a great business against a wicked patent troll company called Soverain.
Soverain is one such company. Most companies it has sued have paid the ransom. Soverain has collected untold hundreds of millions in fines from the likes of Bloomingdale's, J.C. Penney, J. Crew, Victoria's Secret, Amazon, and Nordstrom.
It sounds like a criminal operation worthy of the old world of, say, southern Italy (no offense, guys!). Indeed, but this is how it works in the U.S. these days. The looting is legal. The blackmail is approved. The graft is in the open. The expropriation operates under the cover of the law. The backup penalties are inflicted by the official courts.
To be sure, the trolls may not be as bad as conventional patent practice. At least the trolls don't try to shut you down and cartelize the economy. They just want to get their beak wet. Once that happens, you are free to go about your business. This is one reason they have been so successful.
Soverain's plan was to loot every online company in existence for a percentage of their revenue, citing the existence of just two patents. Thousands of companies have given in, causing an unnatural and even insane increase in the price of patent bundles. Free enterprise lives in fear.
Let me add a point that Stefan Molyneux made concerning this case. The large companies are annoyed by the patent-troll pests but not entirely unhappy with their activities. The large companies can afford to pay them off. Smaller companies cannot. In this way, the trolls serve to reduce competition.
It's true. The case not only shuts down the Soverain racket. It might have dealt a devastating blow to the whole patent hysteria and the vicious trolling that has fueled it all along.
And truly, the patent mania has become crazy. No one 10 years ago would have imagined that it would go this far.
Earlier this year, Google shelled out $12.5 billion for the acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Facebook threw down $550 million for AOL's patents. Apple and Google spent more last year on patent purchases and litigation than on actual research and development. The smartphone industry coughed up $20 billion last year on the patent racket. A lawsuit last year against Samsung awarded Apple $1 billion in a ridiculous infringement case.
These are astronomical numbers — figures that would have been inconceivable in the past. Everyone seems to agree that the system is radically broken. What people don't always understand is that every penny of this is unnecessary and pointless. This market is a creation of legislation, and nothing more. The companies aren't really buying anything but the right to produce and the right not to be sued, and that is not always secure.
Let's back up. Why are there markets in anything at all? They exist because goods have to be allocated some way. There are not enough cars, carrots, and coffee to meet all existing conceivable demand. We can fight over them or find ways to cooperate through trade. Prices are a way to settle the struggle over goods that people grow or make, or services people provide, in a peaceful way. They allow people to engage to their mutual benefit, rather than club or shoot each other.
But what is being exchanged in the patent market? It's not real goods or services. These are government creations of a bureaucracy — an exclusive right to make something. They are tickets that make production legal. If you own one, there is no broad market for it. It has only a handful of possible buyers, and the price of your good is based entirely on how much money you think you can extract from deep pockets. Sometimes, you actually force people to buy with the threat that you will sue if they don't.
That's not how normal markets operate. There was a time when patents didn't even apply to software at all. The whole industry was built by sharing ideas and the spirit of old-fashioned competition. Companies would work together when it was to their mutual advantage and hoard competitive reasons when it was not. It seemed to work fine, until legislation intervened.
Today the entire fake market for patents is sustained by the perception that courts will favor the patent holders over the victims. The Newegg case changes that perception, which is why it has been the most closely watched case in the industry. This might signal the end of the reign of terror, at least one form of it.
But, you say, don't creators deserve compensation? My answer: If they create something people are willing to pay for, great. But that's not what's happening. Soverain's bread and butter was a handful of patents that had been on the open market, changing hands through three different companies over the course of 10 years, until they landed in the laps of some extremely unscrupulous wheeler-dealers.
In other words, patents these days have little to nothing to do with the creators — any more than mortgage-backed securities at the height of the boom had anything to do with the initial lender and its risk assessments. Once a patent is issued — and they are not automatically valid, but rather have to be tested in litigation — it enters into the market and can land anywhere. The idea that the patent has anything to do with inspiring innovation is total myth. It is all about establishing and protecting monopolistic weapons with which to beat people.
Many people have been hoping for patent reform. It probably won't happen and might not even need to happen. If this case is as significant as tech observers say, a sizeable portion of this fake industry could be smashed via a dramatic price deflation. When something is no longer worth much, people stop wanting it.
Patents date from a time when a great industrial innovation made the headlines just because it was so rare. That's not our world. Government has no business allocating and centrally planning ideas. Here's to Newegg: Take a bow. Someone had the guts to say no. This time, for once, it worked.
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The 1962 CIA invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles at the Bay of Pigs has endured as America's greatest overt covert flop. The planning & misexecution of the project has been covered until now mainly as a subtheme in memoirs & general books about the JFK years. Former Newsweek correspondent Wyden has gathered information from the Cuban exiles & from within The 1962 CIA invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles at the Bay of Pigs has endured as America's greatest overt covert flop. The planning & misexecution of the project has been covered until now mainly as a subtheme in memoirs & general books about the JFK years. Former Newsweek correspondent Wyden has gathered information from the Cuban exiles & from within Cuba itself--as well as from Washington sources--to uncover "the untold story"; but essentials remain unchanged. His access to Cuban sources has been squandered on eyewitness accounts of the battle, so that we learn more about the minute-by-minute proceedings than anyone could want to know, but little about the impact of the invasion on Cuba or Cuban attitudes toward the USA. He's dealt with CIA reports that accurately gauged the level of Castro's popular support in Cuba, but were bypassed by CIA planners in favor of less accurate ones foreseeing potential success. These, however, are ignored while he gets into the old squabble over the operation's chances had Kennedy not canceled a 2nd air strike aimed at destroying the Cuban air force. His obsession with trivial details--like each person's garb at any given moment--overwhelms any analytic potential. Because Wm Fulbright was the only one in the know who strenuously opposed the operation, he concludes that "groupthink" & "assumed consensus" prevented all these brilliant people--by his reckoning, almost anyone with a Yale background & a position of power qualifies--from realizing that the plan was a mess. Therefore, "it could happen again!" Of course, if all those bureaucrats, lawyers & academics weren't so brilliant, the answer may lie elsewhere; not in why the Bay of Pigs wasn't stopped, but in why it was started. On that, he's not much help.--Kirkus (edited)
Plot at the CIA
Reappraisal & momentum
At the watershed
The attack begins
Conclusion: It could happen again
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Published September 1979 by Jonathan Cape (London) (first published 1979)
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
Cornelius Ryan Award (1979)
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Feb 06, 2014 David Classing rated it really liked it
This book starts a little slow with the technical data and the planning, and the biographies of the individuals assigned under Eisenhower to hatch this invasion of Cuba. The first 20% of the book, quite frankly, is a bit dull and difficult to read, however "the action" soon heats up.
I'm not sure how much research went into this work, but it is very informative and easy to read, once the initial pages are finished. It almost reads like a spy novel, but we all know the seriousness of the Bay of This book starts a little slow with the technical data and the planning, and the biographies of the individuals assigned under Eisenhower to hatch this invasion of Cuba. The first 20% of the book, quite frankly, is a bit dull and difficult to read, however "the action" soon heats up.
I'm not sure how much research went into this work, but it is very informative and easy to read, once the initial pages are finished. It almost reads like a spy novel, but we all know the seriousness of the Bay of Pigs invasion had on the credibility of the US and President Kennedy. It provides a somewhat behind the scenes look at the initial planning by Eisenhower and Nixon, and leaves a very good impression on the personal impact it had on President Kennedy and how he used its failure to make better policy decisions in the future.
I would recommend it to anyone who would like to know a bit more about the Bay of Pigs invasion and the decision making, albeit poor, that went into it. ...more
Jun 16, 2010 Riley rated it really liked it
The book was meticulously researched and offers a variety of perspectives: from interviews with Cuban leader Fidel Castro and CIA executives such as Richard Bissell through to Cubans who lived by the Bay of Pigs and fighters from both sides of the invasion. Here's to hoping that the CIA and military planners aren't nearly as incompetent today as they were in 1961 -- though considering the intelligence on Iraq, that may be wishful thinking.
Apr 04, 2015 Ruth rated it liked it
This book was on the bookshelf in my grandparent's dining room for my whole childhood and from as early as I can remember I dreamt of reading it. I was very interested in pigs from a young age and their copy had a yellow cover which I prefer to the cover image shown above. When my grandma moved to a nursing home, this is one of the books I kept and finally I read it. It took my a long time because it was actually pretty dull and hard to read because it was talking about military men and This book was on the bookshelf in my grandparent's dining room for my whole childhood and from as early as I can remember I dreamt of reading it. I was very interested in pigs from a young age and their copy had a yellow cover which I prefer to the cover image shown above. When my grandma moved to a nursing home, this is one of the books I kept and finally I read it. It took my a long time because it was actually pretty dull and hard to read because it was talking about military men and maneuvers, but my love of Communism and dictators helped me get to the end. ...more
Apr 26, 2013 Andrew Scholes rated it really liked it
What an unmitigated disaster. Total lack of communications. Lack of understanding what they were getting into.
Jun 24, 2012 George rated it really liked it
A Must Read about the failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro.
Dec 04, 2017 Kathy Petersen rated it liked it · review of another edition
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May I say this is a very good book - and also say I was so blogged down with all the persons and details that I had to slog through it? Not a fan of military history, still I wanted to find out about this ghastly event in our relatively recent history (yes, I remember it a little!)and thus I admire the work for its research and completeness.
Aug 04, 2017 Phey Hoyman rated it liked it · review of another edition
I'll be honest about this book, saying it starts out dry is an understatement. It is truly tedious to read, but once you get past page 70, it's becomes more enjoyable and easier to grasp the full idea of how the author is assembling the book.
I am sure that there are better books out there that are easier to read on the topic, but for someone who didn't know much about the Bay of Pigs, I can honestly say that I truly expanded my knowledge. There were many aspects that I didn't know before I'll be honest about this book, saying it starts out dry is an understatement. It is truly tedious to read, but once you get past page 70, it's becomes more enjoyable and easier to grasp the full idea of how the author is assembling the book.
I am sure that there are better books out there that are easier to read on the topic, but for someone who didn't know much about the Bay of Pigs, I can honestly say that I truly expanded my knowledge. There were many aspects that I didn't know before reading the book, and now I can have a conversation with someone about the topic.
I gave it 3 stars because I did learn a lot about the Bay of Pigs and I would recommend it to a friend. My advice is, don't expect the author to grab your attention at the start and to power through the beginning. I feel like it could be condensed and written in a way that was a little more enjoyable to read. ...more
Apr 26, 2010 Erik Graff rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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For those who want a book about the US-sponsored attack on Cuba in 1962 which focuses narrowly on the details of the invasion, this is the one to get. Most ironic detail: The first navy frogmen on the beach at the Bay of Pigs encountered a new vacation resort built by the revolutionary government for its citizens, a resort inhabited by the crews working on it. The CIA had had no idea of this, thinking the area would be uninhabited.
Dec 30, 2011 Peter marked it as to-read
A fly-on-the-wall accounts of the Bay of Pigs, this book at times dragged for me. I sometimes felt it was ghost written by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and at other times by waiters in D.C. restaurants. (Each man had two martinis before lunch and brandy afterwards while chomping on cigars.) The book is now 32 years old, so it lacks some current scholarship, but it does provide insight into the planning and attempt to provide analysis in conclusion about how so many poor decisions were made.
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About Peter Wyden
Peter H. Wyden, born Peter Weidenreich, in Berlin to a Jewish family, was an American journalist and writer.
He left Nazi Germany and went to the United States in 1937. After studying at City University of New York, he served with the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Division in Europe during World War II. After the war, he began a career in journalism, during which he worked as a reporter for The Peter H. Wyden, born Peter Weidenreich, in Berlin to a Jewish family, was an American journalist and writer.
He left Nazi Germany and went to the United States in 1937. After studying at City University of New York, he served with the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Division in Europe during World War II. After the war, he began a career in journalism, during which he worked as a reporter for The Wichita Eagle, a feature writer for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor for The Saturday Evening Post in Chicago and San Francisco, articles editor for McCall's, and executive editor for Ladies' Home Journal. He authored or coauthored nine books, and numerous articles that appeared in major magazines. In 1970, he became a book publisher in New York City and Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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