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Nick Hagen.
Room Project uplifts women and nonbinary creatives through community and collaborative leadership
Sarah Williams | Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Kelsey Ronan. Photo by Nick Hagen.
Michaela Ayers at Room Project. Photo by Nick Hagen.
Moving across the country in the middle of a pandemic is no small adventure. When Michaela Ayers relocated from Seattle to Detroit in the Spring of 2021, inspired by vivid dreams and a growing intuition, she searched for a "space for belonging."
As a Black woman, a writer, a creator, an educator, and a hard conversation facilitator, that space needed to be wide enough to embrace her passions but knit together in ways that would also provide intimacy, community, and connection.
That energy you have, someone said to her as she was settling in, reaching out to folks, sharing about herself; you can find a similar vibe at a little spot in the New Center neighborhood.
Located on Woodward Avenue, Room Project is a creative space for women and nonbinary writers and artists to work individually and collaboratively. It's a physical and, since the pandemic, often virtual community where acceptance, safety, and value around these identities are native to its organizational mission.
"I think about identity a lot as a woman," says Ayers, "and especially as a Black woman. As somebody who moves through a world where negative stereotypes are projected onto me often, it's really nice to go into a space where there's already an understanding of my worthiness. Room Project is like an open invitation to be myself without needing to potentially perform for other people."
That's an invitation every identity needs, she says, especially women, transgender women, and nonbinary folks, who are often seen as less than in a cisgender man's world. Establishing this worthiness in a community nurtures an authenticity in people's work and interactions that are hard to find, she adds, especially in the corporate setting.
"Employees are being asked to bring their full selves to work without acknowledging that a lot of discrimination happens," she says. Through her social impact organization, Nourish, Ayers works to advance antiracism education inside organizations and communities. Her professional writing centers on helping people engage in hard conversations and begin to identify and unravel racism within their thoughts, habits, and behaviors.
On a personal note, writing makes Ayers feel most connected to herself. She's currently working on a podcast called "Black Her Stories," where she talks with Black women writers, artists, and entertainers about their creative practice. Getting to know other artists and having access to different types of thinkers and ideas is helping to bring her project to life. The quiet space at Room invites research and writing. Collaborating with others on creative projects gives her a sense of belonging amid isolating COVID-19 days.
Photo by Nick Hagen.
This was the idea (minus the global pandemic) when founder Christin Lee, a writer from L.A., moved to Detroit and opened Room Project in 2018. She'd recently finished grad school in Ann Arbor and was meeting women throughout the city who, like herself, had literary ambitions but lacked community, a focused workspace, and creative resources. In light of the Me Too movement, deep-seated misogyny exacerbated in the Trump era, her own experiences, and those she heard from other writers, she felt certain Room should also be a sanctuary.
Room Project founder Christin Lee. Photo credit Brittany Greeson. "If you talk to women in journalism and women in publishing, I don't know anyone who doesn't have a story about an editor or a colleague who they thought was interested in encouraging them in professional terms, only to find out their interest was sexual or exploitative," Lee says.
"When you open a space for women, you want to stay in the narrative of bold creation, risk-taking, and celebration. It's not positive to say the experiences we've had with a lot of men who are writers have made us simply want to hide," she says, "but it's a reality.
Then you add the layer of people who are trans or nonbinary and the levels of scrutiny, violence, prejudice, and unwanted attention, or even the extra emotional labor it takes just to create space for yourself. So why not just put a door between all that and us?"
She sometimes wonders how much of a balm it is but feels encouraged when she sees relationships begin to form and organization start to happen naturally. "That's where the unadulterated strength comes from," she says. "I don't question the efficacy of that part of Room Project because I've seen it. It works, and it's good."
At a time when women are reported to be disproportionately carrying COVID-19 burdens related to things like caregiving, distance learning, and job loss, spaces that inspire and nourish their self-employment, mental health, and sense of community may be needed now more than ever.
And it's an experiment with creative exclusivity, Lee says, rather than a judgment on cisgender ole. Males in the community and writing world also celebrate what Room has to offer. Though its membership and co-working space is limited to certain gender expressions, its events, workshops, readings, and seminars are open to all.
"Our primary mission is supporting and celebrating women and nonbinary folks, but we're interested in literary and artistic expertise," says Kelsey Ronan, operations director at Room. Male writers have read their work in the space and occasionally participate in workshops. A few men donate financially to the project as well, but it is women, nonbinary and transgender individuals who are mainly responsible for its sustainability.
Room's regular donors help to bolster its sliding-scale membership option for those in need. Committed to being "inclusive, intersectional, and accessible," monthly membership fees of $50, and $30 for students, haven't been raised since the doors opened. They include 24-hour access to the space, its color printer, hot beverages, numerous literary subscriptions, and workshop discounts. A $10 level was added during COVID-19 for "friends" wishing to support or join the creative community but who don't need a co-working space.
There's not a mold for the creatives who regularly enjoy the space. "We have freelancers who work here every day, photographers who sit and edit their photos, people publishing zines, fine artists, screenwriters, novelists, and poets," says Ronan. "Lately, there's been a lot of creative fiction going on. It's like all the stuff that kind of has no place at a WeWork or with the "girl boss" entrepreneur sort of thing. It feels more intimate to me."
When she first visited Room in 2018, sparked by a word-of-mouth connection, Ronan felt that intimacy immediately. Lee took her on a walk around the block and asked about her life, her interests, and what she was working on.
"All the stuff that nobody asks," Ronan says, "It was a feeling of being seen."
She was relatively new to Detroit at the time and hadn't made friends yet or found where the artists and writers were hiding. "I was given the code to this place where people were working on interesting stuff, a hub for workshops, readings, weekly events, membership meetings," she says, "great opportunities to both honor the personal work I was doing and to meet others."
The project she was drafting, a Flint-based novel called "Chevy in the Hole," comes out mid-March and has already been hailed as "profoundly honest," "stunning in scope," and "a testament to the long reach of history, and family, and the salvific power of love." The debut novel was almost entirely written at Room over the past several years, its journey making Ronan wonder sometimes if she knew how to write at all.
"Having that space to vent to really smart writer folks and people who've written books, published books, are also in the process of writing a book was invaluable to me," she says.
She's hoping to host a launch event at Room for her novel if it feels safe to have people masked together in the space, she says. But like all things COVID-19, only time will tell. The project's events and workshops have been virtual since last fall.
Membership at Room, which was devasted by the pandemic, is nearly back to pre-COVID numbers. Its co-working space, which boasts new HEPA air purifiers, is currently open to 10 members at once. The safety protocol includes reduced desks, masks, rigorous cleaning, and contact tracing. Lee says it was a slow rebuild, and she wasn't sure if they'd make it through, but by the fall of 2021, people were showing appetite and energy for a creative community again.
Room Project. Photo by Nick Hagen.
She's excited to roll out new fellowships and mentoring for local BIPOC writers as well as a fresh new round of workshops. The member survey Room put out last fall highlights the need for short-term workshops rather than typical intensive classes that call for an 8-week commitment.
"We're trying to make the programming even a bit more accessible, given how burdened women and nonbinary people's schedules are," Lee says, "understanding there's a capacity limit right now, and working with that as that starts to build."
She's also thrilled to see decisions around vision, programming, and policy made by the new steering committee at Room Project. The group, which includes Ayers, comprises eight majority BIPOC women with leadership gifts. Each has been especially active in Room's community and is committed to moving the organization forward. Over a year ago, Lee shared her strong desire to decentralize Room's decision-making power.
"Justice and equity have been the most crucial aspect of the project," she says. "Our programming has always been foregrounding BIPOC women and LGBTQ+. But the underlying factor was that I was organizing all that, and there are just hard limitations. I thought, if I do it as quietly as possible and try to do a really, really good job, it'll all be fine. I can't tell you how dumb that notion is on so many levels."
Not only is leading an organization impossible to do yourself, she says, after years of exhaustion, but the "interesting complications, the creativity, and new avenues seeing the needs you didn't even know were needs, it can only happen when you have a lot of people at the table thinking about the same thing." Her biggest concern was not having the budget to offer living wages that honored the committee members' talents and expertise.
"I had to submit to the truth of the matter, which is sometimes people are ready to volunteer, they're ready to show up," she says. "I had a dinner and asked the people I know deeply care about Room. We needed help, I needed to step back, and things had to change. Everybody said yes. I'm in a moment of really deep gratitude," she says, "I get to see Room grow beyond something I've imagined."
Ayers is excited to help nurture that growth. She's long been interested in cooperative structures that incorporate many voices. "We're trying to flatten the hierarchy. We're trying to share power as women," she says, "and that feels really important. It's something valuable to the Detroit community but also outside of this location. Can we inspire other co-working spaces to try something like this?"
She's also interested in sparking intergenerational conversations. In terms of programming ideas, she'd like to see a workshop that inspires diverse ages to collaborate on storytelling. Incorporating many unique perspectives, she says, could make a meaningful community event.
Ronan also likes the idea of bringing out people's stories. Many folks who write are afraid to call themselves writers, she says, or to join a creative community. As someone who often does new member orientations at Room, she hears nervousness around this frequently.
"I think if you do it, and you care about it," she says, "why aren't you a writer? We support you. You're at the table, same as the person who's in The New York Times this week, same as the person who has a great new essay coming out, or the poet who's a couple of books into her career."
We see you," she says emphatically. "You're a writer too."
Read more articles by Sarah Williams.
Sarah Williams is a freelance writer and photojournalist based in metro Detroit. Her work focuses on individuals and nonprofit organizations investing in their communities through arts and culture, holistic healthcare, education and neighborhood revitalization. Follow her on Instagram @sarahwilliamstoryteller
Arts, COVID19, Detroit, Entrepreneurs, Equity, Placemaking, Sense of Place, Start Up / Scale Up, Workforce/Talent development


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Q: Apache 2.4 showing blank PHP 7 on Macos Catalina I'm having issues getting PHP 7.4.6 work with Apache 2.4 on Macos Catalina. I tried some solutions but none of them worked, still getting a blank page. Both Apache and PHP were installed using Homebrew.
Running brew info:
rocky@rockysMacBookPro ~ % brew info php@7.4
php: stable 7.4.6 (bottled), HEAD
General-purpose scripting language
https://www.php.net/
/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.6 (520 files, 76.1MB) *
  Poured from bottle on 2020-05-15 at 02:41:44
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/php.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: httpd ✘, pkg-config ✘
Required: apr ✔, apr-util ✔, argon2 ✔, aspell ✔, autoconf ✔, curl-openssl ✔, freetds ✔, freetype ✔, gettext ✔, glib ✔, gmp ✔, icu4c ✔, jpeg ✔, libffi ✔, libpng ✔, libpq ✔, libsodium ✔, libzip ✔, oniguruma ✔, openldap ✔, openssl@1.1 ✔, sqlite ✔, tidy-html5 ✔, unixodbc ✔, webp ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
To enable PHP in Apache add the following to httpd.conf and restart Apache:
    LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so

    <FilesMatch \.php$>
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
    </FilesMatch>

Finally, check DirectoryIndex includes index.php
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

The php.ini and php-fpm.ini file can be found in:
    /usr/local/etc/php/7.4/

To have launchd start php now and restart at login:
  brew services start php
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
  php-fpm
==> Analytics
install: 53,658 (30 days), 140,934 (90 days), 499,288 (365 days)
install-on-request: 50,277 (30 days), 131,496 (90 days), 461,925 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)

Httpd.conf:
LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so
<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

.bash_profile:
export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.6/bin:$PATH

Renamed php-fpm.conf.default:
sudo cp /private/etc/php-fpm.conf.default /private/etc/php-fpm.conf

Running php-fpm:
rocky@rockysMacBookPro ~ % php-fpm
[21-May-2020 13:36:05] WARNING: Nothing matches the include pattern '/private/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf' from /private/etc/php-fpm.conf at line 143.
[21-May-2020 13:36:05] ERROR: failed to open error_log (/usr/var/log/php-fpm.log): No such file or directory (2)
[21-May-2020 13:36:05] ERROR: failed to post process the configuration
[21-May-2020 13:36:05] ERROR: FPM initialization failed

Line 143 in php-fpm:
include=/private/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf

Running php-fpm -i
'--sysconfdir=/private/etc'

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The following motion to stop the organ harvesting raised by Greens Senator Janet Rice and co-sponsored by Liberal Senator Eric Abetz was passed in the Senate this afternoon. Senator Janet Rice also spoke about forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China later at 5.15pm this afternoon as part of the debate on legislation that is being considered tomorrow, on establishing a board for the organ and tissue authority.
c. that limited data is available on Australians receiving organ transplants overseas.
We hope that many of the packed screenings of Hard To Believe across all major cities in Australia this year contributed towards this progress.


Look at what's new: Hartford Wednesday Night Market! The Farmer's Market changes with the season! Stop by frequently to check out the Seasonal Fruits & Vegetables, Fresh Cut Flowers, Herbs & Plants, Eggs, Honey, Wisconsin Cheeses, Locally Raised Meats, Hand-Made Crafts & much more! This market will be every Wednesday, June 6, 2018 through September 26 at the Jack Russell Memorial Library in Hartford.


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Charlie's Letters
16 year old aspiring director Elliott Hasler's epic depiction of his great-grandfather's WW2 experiences; an escaped POW's battle for survival whilst on the run in war-torn Italy, as his wife and young son eagerly await news in England.
Director: Elliott Hasler
Actors: Alice Rogers, David Aitchison, David Hasler, Elliott Hasler, Luigi Patti, Matthew Wyn Davies, Mike Skinner, Owen Oldroyd, Pete Walsh
Duration: 0
Keywords:Charlie's Letters
The jumbled up, crazy and happening life of journalist Noor takes a dramatic turn when she comes across a news breaking cover story
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to navigate his relationship…
Gunner and his mother share a special bond. She supports his daydreaming and artistic pursuits, while his frequently-on-the-road father, Amos, with whom Gunner shares a strained relationship, has other ideas…
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Rider Jack
Jack, who has all but failed at life, dreams of a fresh beginning abroad. Instead, he unexpectedly has to take care of his hated father Paul, who he has not…
Tim has no job, but Tim 'works', selling stolen goods…In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and…
Matt, a well known writer and director, suffers a traumatic experience, that leads to him being deathly afraid to go outside. Therefore he decides to attempt to write, direct, and…
WWE Battleground
Battleground (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on July 20, 2014 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. It was…
1st Strike
Juan is a teenager in a gang-infested LA barrio. When his Uncle Manny invites him out on a joy ride, the situation goes bad. Juan is accused of a crime…
He's Just Not That Into You
Remember that really cute guy who said he'd call – and didn't? Maybe he lost your number. Maybe he's in the hospital. Maybe he's awed by your beauty, brains or…
Walking Out
A city teen who travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly…
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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It sounds like something out of a horror movie. You can't see it, or smell it, or taste it, or touch it. It's the silent killer, carbon monoxide (CO).
Many Canadians die every year from carbon monoxide poisoning in their own homes, most of them while sleeping. And unlike what you may have heard, CO poisoning is not always linked to fires. In fact, 88% of all homes in Canada have something that poses a carbon monoxide threat.
Today, carbon monoxide poisoning is a more mainstream topic than it was in the past, with carbon monoxide detectors being easily found and purchased for the home. Using these devices, carbo0713n monoxide can be detected well before it causes harm, and lives can be saved. Just like you utilize smoke detectors in the event of a fire, carbon monoxide detectors can make the difference for the people in your home.
As with most things, increased knowledge and experience with carbon monoxide poisoning has changed how we tackle this issue. There are laws and regulations regarding carbon monoxide that were not in place even a decade ago. As more and more people are impacted by this issue, more and more provinces and municipalities have joined in to dictate specific laws and regulations regarding carbon monoxide poisoning prevention.
It is now customary for homes to come with smoke detectors as well as carbon monoxide detectors. A 2014 regulation requires CO detectors near sleeping areas in dwellings with an attached storage garage or fuel-burning appliances. This highlights the overall importance of detection, especially when a risk exists whether or not it is linked to a fire.
If you have an older home or simply don't have any detectors in your home, there are key symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning you need to keep an eye out for.
These symptoms can appear in less than 20 minutes if carbon monoxide concentrations get too high. Wood burning/gas stoves, gas refrigerators, gasoline engines, and kerosene heaters are usually the cause of carbon monoxide in the home, proving that any home is susceptible to the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning. Make sure you have detectors not only near sleeping areas in your home, but also on each floor, should you have a multi-level house.
In addition to detectors, you can take other measures to minimize your risk.
Following these best practices, installing CO detectors, and remaining alert for carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms create a strong defence for minimizing your risk of injury or death.
Take these steps today to ensure you have a safer home, with minimal risk of poisoning tomorrow.


Darkness doesn't always have to be bad. Pagan folk have known this for millennia as they observed the phases of the moon and cycles of day and night. Darkness is an important part of nature and the cycle of the Wheel of the Year. Life cannot exist without it. Therefore, darkness is good and serves a Divine purpose in our lives. Darkness is not the place where evil dwells. Instead, it is full of mystery, intuition and the whisperings of the Spirit. During dark times we are held safely in the womb of the Divine, even though it may not feel like it. According to Genesis, darkness is the moment before light is spoken into being. It's a time of waiting for new life to be born. Darkness can be a disturbing time, but disturbance is not always a bad thing. Often it is the catalyst that helps us to learn and eventually germinate something new in our lives.
These are some of the things my Wiccan sisters and brothers have taught me about the power of the dark. It is quite different from my Christian upbringing where darkness was always talked about in hushed tones and with fear and dread. Thankfully, Barbara Brown Taylor was brave enough to wade through these dark waters of mystery and also lift up Biblical examples where darkness is spoken of in a much more positive light. This is definitely one area where Christians need to so some soul searching and rethinking of our tradition. Hopefully, we'll listen to our Pagan sisters and brothers who have much to teach us about the positive, transforming power of darkness.
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Q: Use RunningValue in CRM Dashboard Chart? Is there a way i can use runningvalue()expression in a CRM Dashboard Chart?, like in SSRS reports ,Or add to to the existing aggregate methods ,Avg,Count:All,Count:Non-empty, Max ,Min ,Sum

Thanks


Tela Burshtain will share her perilous journey leaving her home country of Ethiopia, traveling to a refugee camp in the Sudan, and then being airlifted to Israel as a participant in the 1984 Operation Moses. Her talk will be accompanied by a dinner featuring Ethiopian, vegetarian cuisine.
Pre-admission to the lecture: $5. Lecture & dinner: $15.
The lecture is free for students 18 and under. Please email us at underonetent@hotmail.com.
Dinner at 5:30 PM; Lecture at 7:00 PM.
Sponsors: Contra Costa JCC & Cong. B'nai Tikvah.


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The Lithuanian City of London Club (LCLC), which was established 10 years ago, has united many of its current members and alumni, as well as other friends and honourable guests, in its Anniversary Gala Dinner on the 9th of September. Evening guests have travelled from as far Lithuania, Brussels, Paris, Stockholm, Dubai, Washington and Chicago.
The 10th Anniversary event took place in the very heart of City of London, at the Stationers Hall, which was built next to St Paul's Cathedral back in 17th century. Since 2006 the Club has had more than 100 City of London professionals as its members. Most of them continue to pursue succesful finance, law and consulting careers in London, while some already have significant achievements in other fields such as politics, education and IT.
The evening guests were greated by the Club's president Marius Raugalas; Her Excellency Asta Skaisgirytė-Liauškienė, the Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Kingdom; Mantvydas Bekešius, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania; Edward Lucas, writer and Senior Editor at the Economist; Sir Paul Judge, Alderman of the City of London; Benjaminas Žemaitis, President of the Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts; and Kotryna-Stankutė-Jaščemskienė, Director of Global Lithuanian Leaders.
Edward Lucas highlighted the importance of this unique gathering of Lithuanians in the heart of City of London by starting his speech with the inspiring words, "this is what we were fighting for!" [when fighting for Lithuania's Independence over 25 years ago].
Congratulations came from Lithuania as well – from Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, the Mayor of Vilnius Remigijus Šimašius and many others who were part of the Club's history. They were recorded in a short anniversary movie.
The musical entertainment was provided by accordionist Aurimas Goris, 1st Violin Trial in London Philharmonic Orchestra Rasa Žukauskaitė, and Danny Mills, one of London's top piano playing and singing entertainers.
The Club would like to express its gratitude to the evening's Gold Sponsor, Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3), which is the 6th largest diversity staffing firm in the US and a global provider of business and IT services, including staff augmentation, managed staffing programs, and solutions, with more than 25 years of consecutive growth. A privately held, financially strong, woman-owned company, S3 is a full-service IT firm, with 31 locations across the US and Europe (including the UK, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic), they have industry expertise in healthcare, insurance, financial services, energy/utility and retail distribution.
We are also very grateful to our sponsors who donated prizes for the auction and the raffle which enabled us to raise a considerable amount of money for supporting charity initiatives run by Caritas. Big thank you goes to Lijana Ryliškytė, Vladas Lašas, restaurant Panama, Joanna Zwierzynska, Rolana Kuprytė, Kiriakos Papadakis, Juratė Tiškaitė, Justas Janauskas and Vinted, Uoga Uoga, Laura Kuklieriūtė, Tick a Twig, Abbeville Beauty Salon, Juste Zinkeviciute's project "Pasimatuok Jūrą", AiMi, Inchcape, Vygaudas Usackas, restaurant Dublis, Remigijus Šimašius, Meat Lovers Pub, Martynas Levickis, Edward Lucas, Beata Nicholson, JC Sport, Jurgis Didžiulis, Deeper and FashionBloc representing brands D.Efect ETC, Kazauka, Makara, Ramune Piekautaitė, Tadam, and Undress.
Currently LCLC unites over 60 members who contribute their time and funds to various charity, educational, mentoring and other projects, as well as contribute to improving the international image of Lithuania and attracting foreign direct investment. The Club's honorary members include His Excellency Valdas Adamkus, Lithuania's former President, and His Excellency Oskaras Jusys, former Ambassador of Lithuania to the United Kingdom.


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Q: ClassyTaxiServer with Server error: Cannot read property 'get' of undefined I'm implementing the ClassyTaxiAppKotlin + ClassyTaxiServer project but without success.
I followed all the steps in the tutorial.
Apparently the ClassyTaxiAppKotlin android app is functional, processes the subscription purchase order and sends the information to the CLOUD FUNCTIONS, but does not receive the purchase registration/confirmation.
In my understanding, upon receiving the payment confirmation, PLAY STORE must send this confirmation to the ClassyTaxiServer server so that the server returns the registration/confirmation of the purchase and grants access to the ClassyTaxiAppKotlin application.
So when confirming payment in ClassyTaxiAppKotlin app, I notice that I get some logs in firebase functions from (instanceId_register_v2, realtime_notification_listener AND subscription_register_v2), but the registration/confirmation of payment doesn't complete due to a server error (500) and doesn't release the access in the ClassyTaxiAppKotlin app.
Note: service-account.json is already configured
Does anyone have any idea why this error is occurring and indicate how I can solve it?
Code where the error points:
   private async querySubscriptionPurchaseWithTriggerV2(packageName: string, product: string, purchaseToken: string, triggerNotificationType?: NotificationType): Promise<SubscriptionPurchaseV2> {
     // STEP 1. Query Play Developer API to verify the purchase token
     const apiResponseV2 = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       this.playDeveloperApiClient.purchases.subscriptionsv2.get({ // <<=== Server error: Cannot read property 'get' of undefined
         packageName: packageName,
         token: purchaseToken
       }, (err, result) => {
         if (err) {
           reject(this.convertPlayAPIErrorToLibraryError(err));
         } else {
           resolve(result.data);
         }
       })
     });

LOGS Firebase Functions
6:55:28.798 PM instanceId_register_v2 Function execution started
6:55:31.025 PM instanceId_register_v2 Instance id is ddR1Hi...NOO2Z
6:55:31.122 PM instanceId_register_v2 Instance Id specified and verified
6:55:31.122 PM instanceId_register_v2 Instance verification passed
6:55:31.774 PM instanceId_register_v2 Function execution took 2976 ms, finished with status code: 200

6:55:53.623 PM realtime_notification_listener ========> purchase: null PACKAGE_NAME: com.example.subscriptions
6:55:53.624 PM realtime_notification_listener Function execution took 5 ms, finished with status: 'ok'

6:55:57.537 PM subscription_register_v2 Function execution started
6:55:59.817 PM subscription_register_v2 Server error: Cannot read property 'get' of undefined
6:55:59.825 PM subscription_register_v2 Function execution took 2289 ms, finished with status code: 500

LOGS Android Studio
D/OkHttp: --> PUT https://us-central1-postosgnv.cloudfunctions.net/subscription_register_v2 http/1.1 (437-byte body)
D/OkHttp: <-- 500  https://us-central1-postosgnv.cloudfunctions.net/subscription_register_v2 (2661ms, 86-byte body)
E/RemoteServerFunction: Failed to call API (Error code: 500) - {"status":500,"error":"not-found","message":"Cannot read property 'get' of undefined"}

A: As per the answer found HERE, the issue was solved by updating the GoogleApis package in the package.json from "googleapis": "^67.0.0" -> "googleapis": "105.0.0"


I'm back in NZ. Karen and Isabella are in the UK.
I miss them a little today - it's great being home and being our own house - but I'm knocking around the place a little bit. It's all good being able to go for a beer with a mate after work, and sleeping in on a weekend. But cooking for one is just odd now. And the house is so quiet.
Being a Dad is great, Isabella is just this wonderful bubbly, peaceful being of hope and possibility. She dribbles and giggles and talks away to herself in her cot. When I come to pick her up in the morning, her eyes light up and her wee mouth creases into a gurgly celebratory laugh - as if seeing me is the best thing since forever. Her wee arms flap and I know she's going to fly one day.
I miss picking her up each morning.


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test-infra uses [`dep`](https://github.com/golang/dep) for Go dependency
management. `dep` is a prototype dependency management tool for Go. It requires
Go 1.8 or newer to compile.

## Setup

You can follow the [setup instructions](https://github.com/golang/dep#setup) to
set up `dep` in your local environment.

test-infra is currently using dep 0.4.1. This version has also been vendored
into the repository. You can run the vendored version using `bazel run`; for
example, run
```console
$ bazel run //:dep -- ensure -add example.org/foo/bar
```
to add a new dependency.

## Changing dependencies

You can use the `dep` instructions for
[adding](https://golang.github.io/dep/docs/daily-dep.html#adding-a-new-dependency),
[updating](https://golang.github.io/dep/docs/daily-dep.html#updating-dependencies) or
[removing](https://golang.github.io/dep/docs/daily-dep.html#using-dep-ensure) a dependency.

Once you've updated, make sure to run:
```
hack/update-deps.sh
```
This will generate necessary Bazel BUILD files and will also remove any
unused libraries that dep fails to prune.

## Tips

If `dep ensure` doesn't come back and freezes, please make sure `hg` command is
installed on your environment. `dep ensure` requires `hg` command for getting
bitbucket.org/ww/goautoneg , but `dep ensure` doesn't output such error message
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Will Google Fly Into Travel Search With A $1 Billion Acquisition?
Joseph Tartakoff Apr 21, 2010 - 1:07 AM CDT
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may be about to make its entry into the travel search market — but not quite in the way people expected. Rather than buy a travel search engine directly — like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) did when it bought Farecast or Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) did with FareChase — Google is reportedly interested in buying ITA Software, a company which provides back-end search and booking technology to both the airlines and travel search engines themselves. ITA's clients include a who's who of the top travel sites, including Kayak, Orbitz and even Microsoft's Bing Travel. Bloomberg, which reported Google's interest, says ITA Software may be looking to sell for about $1 billion, which would make the purchase Google's third largest after DoubleClick and YouTube.
As we pointed out in December, travel is a big gap in Google's current line-up of search offerings, especially since it has been a priority for Microsoft, which has heavily promoted Bing Travel, which lets users easily find–and book–flights and hotels online. Presumably, Google would use ITA Software to build its own travel search engine, although it's not clear why it couldn't do that on its own — or even with ITA Software as a vendor (Picking up Orbitz, by the way, would also be cheaper — even with a hefty premium — since that company's market cap is about $700 million).
Google has been spending freely on acquisitions lately — buying twelve companies in nine months. In fact, it made its latest purchase today when it bought stealth hardware startup Agnilux, which was founded by several former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) chip developers. As for the latest acquisition talk, a Google spokesman tells us, "While we're always talking to various companies about a variety of things, we don't comment on rumor or speculation."
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1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A soldier with the Ukrainian Land Forces fires his weapon Apr. 12, 2016, during a platoon live-fire exercise at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center near Yavoriv, Ukraine as part as Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine. Each JMTG-... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
2 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division observe soldiers with the Ukrainian army firing their weapon at a simulated target Apr. 12, 2016, during a platoon live-fire exercise at the ... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
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YAVORIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian army soldiers from the 2nd Parachute Airborne Battalion, 25th Airborne Brigade conducted the first platoon live-fire exercise for rotation two of Joint Multinational Training Group Ukraine April 12, 2016 at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center.
The exercise was the next progressive step in the collective tasks training phase of JMTG-U. Over the weeks prior, Ukrainian soldiers have successfully completed individual tasks and section live-fire training, which led to their first platoon live-fire exercise.
Leading the training efforts were Soldiers with the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.
"Our ability to demonstrate squad, section, and platoon live-fire exercises aided in the Ukrainian concept development and stimulated tactical dialogue between both countries on how to approach these exercises. Squad and section scenario training exercises along with live fires during previous weeks enabled 4th Company to rapidly progress towards their successful platoon live fire," said Sgt. Tayler Rosen, squad leader C Company, 3-15 Infantry.
The Ukrainian soldiers encountered a complex scenario designed to test the skills they have acquired during the previous weeks of JMTG-U. The scenario included dismounted infantry maneuver combined with that of mounted using the Boyevaya Mashina Desanta, which is a tracked infantry-fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian airborne forces. Along the way, the soldiers fired at simulated targets, breached an obstacle and encountered the final objective, a series wooden structures designed to emulate an urban environment.
"The 2-25 Airborne Battalion performed exceptionally well during platoon live-fire exercises. They demonstrated their mastery of warfighting fundamentals, specifically with regards to integrating their armored combat vehicles with dismounted infantry squads and synchronizing direct and indirect fires as part of a very complex live-fire scenario. This greatly enhances their ability to conduct defensive operations and defend their country," said Lt. Col. Nathan Minami, 3-15 Infantry commander.
The exercise wasn't solely focused on the tactics. Part of the JMTG-U efforts in assisting Ukraine with building a capacity for self-defense is noncommissioned officer development. Soldiers with 3-15 Infantry demonstrated to Ukrainian leaders the necessity of empowering NCOs to the lowest levels, which proved to be a key factor in the success of the platoon live-fire exercise.
"The 4th Company command team and platoon leadership took a very engaged approach towards each training event. This led to further NCO empowerment and development which was evident during platoon live fires. Their open and engaged leadership truly enabled each tactical level to progress each week as displayed by their soldier's motivation during these exercises," said Rosen.
The soldiers of 2-25 Airborne will continue their 55-day training schedule and will progress to even more complex scenarios in the weeks ahead.
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Vedanta v. Lungowe Symposium: Duty of Care of Parent Companies
18 Apr Vedanta v. Lungowe Symposium: Duty of Care of Parent Companies
[Robert McCorquodale is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Nottingham UK, a barrister at Brick Court Chambers in London, and is the founder and principal of Inclusive Law, a consultancy which aims to bring together business, law and human rights. He was part of the legal team which represented the International Commission of Jurists and The Corporate Responsibility Coalition (CORE) in this case.]
Carlos Lopez has succinctly set out the key elements of the unanimous decision of the UK Supreme Court in Vedanta v Lungowe. The focus of this blog is on the Court's decision on the parent company's duty of care in relation to a foreign subsidiary's actions and some of its implications it has for actions by parent companies. This is important as this case was the first decision by any superior court in the world directly on this issue.
Vedanta's main arguments were that any duty of care by a parent company would involve a novel and controversial extension of the boundaries of the tort of negligence, beyond any established category, and that it would be contrary to fundamental principles of company law of the separate legal person of each company. The Court rejected these arguments. It held that [para 54]:
[T]here is nothing special or conclusive about the bare parent/subsidiary relationship, it is apparent that the general principles which determine whether A owes a duty of care to C in respect of the harmful activities of B are not novel at all.
In reaching this conclusion, the Court confirmed Chandler v Cape and the decision of Sales LJ in the Court of Appeal decision in AAA v Unilever, para 36:
Parent and subsidiary are separate legal persons, each with responsibility for their own separate activities. A parent company will only be found to be subject to a duty of care in relation to an activity of its subsidiary if ordinary, general principles of the law of tort regarding the imposition of a duty of care on the part of the parent in favour of a claimant are satisfied in the particular case.
By adopting this approach, the Court could find a duty of care and did not need to discuss corporate veil issues. Yet the Court made clear that the indicia given in Chandler v Cape and by others are not necessary to find a duty of care, as courts should not try to create any specific categories of company relationships. In fact the Court was pragmatic about the realities of business in stating [para 51]: "There is no limit to the models of management and control which may be put in place within a multinational group of companies". The Court, though, extended Chandler v Cape when it held [para 53]:
Even where group-wide policies do not of themselves give rise to such a duty of care to third parties, they may do so if the parent does not merely proclaim them, but takes active steps, by training, supervision and enforcement, to see that they are implemented by relevant subsidiaries. Similarly, it seems to me that the parent may incur the relevant responsibility to third parties if, in published materials, it holds itself out as exercising that degree of supervision and control of its subsidiaries, even if it does not in fact do so. In such circumstances its very omission may constitute the abdication of a responsibility which it has publicly undertaken.
This latter statement is crucial as it includes where the parent company takes active steps – such as by training, supervision and enforcement – as well as where the parent company makes representations and where it has omitted to act, as all giving rise to a possible duty of care.
In regard to representations, the Court relied on the various published statements by Vedanta [para 61]
[I]n which Vedanta may fairly be said to have asserted its own assumption of responsibility for the maintenance of proper standards of environmental control over the activities of its subsidiaries, and in particular the operations at the Mine, and not merely to have laid down but also implemented those standards by training, monitoring and enforcement, as sufficient on their own to show that it is well arguable that a sufficient level of intervention by Vedanta in the conduct of operations at the Mine may be demonstrable at trial….
These public statements were generally made in the company's annual report and other documents.
By considering that omissions by a parent company to take action could constitute an abdication of responsibility, the Court has clarified that the duty of care of a parent company does not just require specific actions by the parent company to set out policies or direct its subsidiaries. It also includes where the parent company should have done something and did not. To use the words of Mr Justice Foskett (para 25) in Vilca v Xstrata (in relation to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights): "something more than lip-service is demanded".
This statement by the Court of the activities required of a parent company for there to be a duty of care clarified the law considerably. Of course, in each case there will still need to be evidence brought by claimants as to what actions a parent company has undertaken or omitted to undertake to indicate a duty of care of a parent company exists in the particular circumstances.
However, this decision may increase the risk that parent companies may decide not to take any actions that indicate any link between them and their subsidiaries in any decision-making. In particular, it may be a disincentive for parent companies to put in place group wide policies on health and safety, labour, environment and other human rights issues. If so, this would be a move contrary to the developments in human rights due diligence, as set out in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the very helpful OECD Guidance on Responsible Business Conduct. Yet, the reality of business management is that is usually aims to reduce legal, reputation, operational and other risks, and group-wide policies on these human rights and environmental issues can do this. Indeed, if these policies are appropriately implemented it may be an effective way for the parent company to show that the duty has been discharged by it. In addition, an increasing array of investors, governments, consumers and industry bodies, as well as leading companies, now expect that the companies have effective human rights policies and human rights due diligence in place.
In addition, the reliance on published materials by the parent company (to which the Court referred) may be required by law. For example, section 414C of the UK Companies Act, which clarifies the duties of directors under section 172, requires that the strategic report of a quoted company must include information about "environmental matters (including the impact of the company's business on the environment)" and "social, community and human rights issues" across its group. Interestingly, this was inserted into the Companies Act in 2013 as part of the UK government's response to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Good Business, p.7. This was a point made clear by the intervenors – the International Commission of Jurists and The Corporate Responsibility Coalition (CORE) – in this case.
One final point: this was a decision made very much about English law. Disappointingly, the Court did not refer to the international standards or comparative jurisprudence which was put to it by the two NGO intervenors. Their submission included the argument that the international standards indicated that a reasonable and responsible enterprise will take proper steps to conduct due diligence as to the risks of adverse impacts on human rights and the environment; to prevent or mitigate the risks of such adverse impacts; and to remediate such adverse impacts as may occur. In addition, they submitted that the recognition of a duty of care on the part of parent companies was consistent with the UK's obligations under treaties to which it is a party, such as the ICESCR. The lack of reference to this submission was surprising as, during the oral hearing, Lord Wilson had expressly referred to this intervention as showing "the direction of travel" of the law. Nevertheless, this is a significant decision by the UK Supreme Court on the parent company duty of care, which will have impacts on other cases across the world.
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While Spurs and Inter Milan vie for second place in Group B, though, Barcelona are clear of all of that uncertainty and have already secured their spot as group winners.
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Barca cruised to a 4-0 derby victory over Espanyol at the weekend, and Valverde is unlikely to make too many changes to his side from that match.
Philippe Coutinho will be pushing for a recall, most likely in place of Ousmane Dembele despite the French winger having joined Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez on the scoresheet on Saturday.
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The President is only considering temporary reprieves. He would not be unilaterally changing the rules for granting permanent residence or citizenship. Decisions about whether and when to grant temporary reprieves are part of the prosecutorial discretion that the President must exercise as the executive branch official ultimately in charge of enforcing immigration law.
The U.S. immigration system is one of selective admissions that has historically not met the U.S. economy's needs for an adequate labor force. Unauthorized migrants are a significant share of the workers who are essential to the economy. Congress funds enforcement capacity at a fraction of what would be needed to reduce the unauthorized population significantly. As a consequence, immigration enforcement is necessarily selective. In effect, Congress has created and funded a system that relies heavily on prosecutorial discretion, especially on enforcement priorities and a system for applying them.
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The analysis set out here appear in much fuller form, and in broader context, in Chapters One and Chapter Six of Immigration Outside the Law (Oxford University Press July 2014).
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, announced by President Obama in June 2012, made over one million young people eligible for a temporary deportation reprieve—the technical term is "deferred action." More recently, the President announced in June 2014 that he would study options for making similar administrative relief available to many more of the 11 million people who are in the United States without lawful status.
Others, however, have cast DACA and any other form of administrative relief as "lawless" or contrary to the "rule of law," apparently believing that such measures would exceed the President's legal authority. In one of the last votes in the House of Representatives before its 2014 August recess, it approved legislation that would have gutted the DACA program and barred the President from granting deferred action to a broader circle of unauthorized migrants.
Certainly, there are political limits to what the President can do. Any decision on immigration policy is bound to draw some legislative and public criticism. But what are the legal limits? If the President grants DACA-style relief or any other form of administrative reprieve to more noncitizens, is he overstepping his authority by not taking care that "the laws be faithfully executed," as the U.S. Constitution requires? More fundamentally, what does the "rule of law" mean in this setting?
These are complex questions, and the President's immigration authority has real limits. But none of these limits keeps him from curtailing deportations by granting deferred action or other temporary administrative relief to other groups of noncitizens who meet certain threshold criteria, as long as any such relief is granted as a matter of prosecutorial discretion. This authority is firmly grounded in the limited nature of administrative relief, and in rule of law principles as applied to the practical realities of the immigration system that Congress has established and that the President must administer.
First, it is important to understand what executive action would not do. Administrative relief would not change the laws that govern how noncitizens may become lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or U.S. citizens. Everyone concedes these are issues for Congress. Instead, deferred action and other administrative measures provide only temporary relief that falls well short of a green card.
Similarly, critics were wrong to accuse the President of using DACA to "enact" the DREAM Act. That legislation, if it becomes law, would offer a path to permanent residence and citizenship to a large number of young people. In contrast, DACA is only a two-year reprieve. Applicants must satisfy minimum eligibility criteria and follow an application procedure that requires a substantial fee. There is no guarantee of approval, which is a discretionary decision by federal government officials. In case of denial, there is no appeal process within the executive branch, let alone in the courts.
One might object that DACA can give protection to individual noncitizens that might be hard to rescind as a practical, political matter. That, however, is a decision for Congress and future administrations, and it does nothing to diminish the authority of this or any President to adopt temporary, discretionary measures.
In context, then, the President's power to curtail deportations is minimal when compared to Congress' power to enact statutes that govern when noncitizens may enter and remain in the United States. Administrative relief is only a temporary reprieve from deportation as a matter of prosecutorial discretion. But what gives the President this discretionary authority?
The President, as head of the federal executive branch, is ultimately in charge of enforcing the immigration laws of the United States. In turn, he must make discretionary decisions about whether and when to prosecute immigration law violators through deportation and other sanctions. The President delegates these discretionary decisions to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General, who in turn delegate to officials within their agencies. At each step, enforcement reflects both general priorities for prosecution and countless determinations about individuals who should or should not be targeted for deportation.
This is a familiar role for criminal prosecutors, who decide whether and when to file or drop charges, how to approach plea bargaining, and when and how to bring cases to trial. In immigration enforcement, discretion plays at least as great a role as it does in criminal justice. To see why, let's start with the basic numbers.
The unauthorized population of the United States is over 11 million. The federal government's capacity to compel their departure is limited to a fraction of this number. John Morton, former head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has officially estimated that the U.S. government's deportation capacity is about 400,000 per year. This number of deportations is substantial, and the Obama administration has carried out deportations in this order of magnitude, but the unauthorized population has not declined significantly.
In this setting, the chances are low that any given unauthorized migrant will be arrested and ultimately deported. To be sure, deportation is a harsh consequence that federal legislation in 1996 made much more likely. And the odds of being apprehended have escalated with the expanded state and local role in immigration enforcement under programs like Secure Communities. But the federal government's practical ability to deport people remains limited. Among unauthorized migrants without criminal convictions who pose no national security risks, only the unlucky are arrested and deported.
Why is the immigration system this way, and the unauthorized population so large today? The number of unauthorized migrants in the United States was once much smaller. As recently as the mid-1980s, when the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) established a major legalization program, the unauthorized population was under 4 million. Now it is three times as many. The major reason is the broad gap between the needs of the U.S. economy for a labor force and the type and number of workers admitted under current immigration law.
Until the 1960s, the number of immigrants allowed to come to the United States from Latin America was unlimited. And each year, several hundred thousand temporary workers were admitted from Mexico under the Bracero program. This regime had many troubling aspects, especially its exploitation of migrant workers, but it allowed a large work force to come as temporary workers and as immigrants. The legacies of this system include institutionalized, decades-long reliance within many industries in the United States on foreign labor, as well as migration patterns central to the fabric of communities in sending countries and throughout the United States.
All of this changed in the 1960s, with the most severe impact falling on immigrants from Mexico. Some of the shift was long overdue, in particular the end of a discriminatory admission system that favored European immigrants. But around the same time, Congress capped the number of immigrants from Latin America for the first time in history. The Bracero program ended with no comparable new path for temporary workers. New admission restrictions made it virtually impossible for workers without close U.S. citizen relatives or a college degree to immigrate lawfully. People who could have come lawfully before the 1960s could no longer do so. All of a sudden, they had no line to stand in.
Why didn't Congress just fund the deportation system more fully, and why didn't the executive branch just enforce the new laws? Part of the answer is that social and economic patterns that had emerged over generations would not disappear just because Congress changed the rules. At the same time, Congress understandably found it impractical or politically unpalatable to build an impervious border fence, to police every workplace and neighborhood where unauthorized migrants might be found, and then to arrest and deport them.
More fundamentally, the U.S. economy continued to rely on these workers to fill jobs, which in turn allowed employers to stay profitable, so that they could keep U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents employed. For example, there was no federal law against hiring unauthorized workers until 1986. That year, Congress adopted a system of employer sanctions nominally meant to abolish unauthorized work, but the law was ineffective from the start and as a practical matter could not keep employers from hiring unauthorized workers. Migrants, driven by harsh economic and political conditions, especially in Latin America, came to take jobs that employers were ready to offer—often outside the law, for there was no other way. The U.S. immigration system became one that looked stringent on paper, but which tolerated and acquiesced in employment patterns that would soon lead to a large unauthorized population.
Congress has poured resources into immigration enforcement, especially since the 1990s, and it has enacted laws that facilitate the deportation of individuals once they are detected and put into the enforcement system. But nothing has changed the key facts: the extremely selective system of lawful admissions that offers no pathway for millions of people who readily find work in the United States. A large unauthorized population that is a significant part of the workforce has become an inherent, core feature of the immigration system. In turn, enforcement against millions of unauthorized migrants had to become selective and highly discretionary.
The traditional distinction between Congress' authority to make law and the President's authority to enforce law—always a very imprecise line to begin with—has little practical meaning in the immigration context. The reason is that Congress has created a system that requires the executive branch to create classifications for hands-on enforcement purposes, which in turn define the actual substance of immigration law. The President is the ultimate supervisor of executive branch officials who make countless discretionary decisions that determine who will be forced to leave the United States, and who can stay even if they are here unlawfully.
To be consistent with the rule of law, these discretionary decisions should be based on consistent and uniform application of enforcement priorities. Sometimes, government decisions to grant relief from deportation are made in the public eye. For example, immigration judges exercise judicial discretion on a daily basis, to grant relief in court hearings that follow criteria set out in statutes and case law. But far less visible are executive branch decisions about how to spend funds appropriated for enforcement, when to conduct raids at some homes and factories but not others, or whether to try to deport some noncitizens but not others. And historically, this sort of prosecutorial discretion has been exercised in ways that are sometimes inconsistent, unpredictable, and even discriminatory, and thus in conflict with the rule of law.
Recognizing the central role of discretion in immigration and the need for consistency, predictability, and non-discriminatory enforcement, the federal government started in the 1990s to issue prosecutorial discretion guidelines. Unsurprisingly, national security threats and persons with serious criminal convictions are a high priority. In 2011, the Obama administration reaffirmed and refined these guidelines, articulating general enforcement priorities and identifying categories of persons who might be suited for the favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion. These included noncitizens who were brought to the United States as young children, who qualify for lawful status but are waiting in line, who have U.S.-citizen family members, who are long–term residents, or who have particular vulnerabilities.
There is no serious doubt about the President's legal authority to issue these guidelines. Working within this zone of prosecutorial discretion, the guidelines were a sensible measure to bring consistency, predictability, and non-discrimination to enforcement. Put differently, the guidelines applied rule of law principles to an immigration system whose hallmarks are selective admissions and selective enforcement, and which in turn relies heavily on prosecutorial discretion. These decisions were all in the exercise of the President's legal authority, and indeed his obligation to faithfully execute the immigration laws.
It bears emphasis that the guidelines sought not only to achieve consistency and predictability, but also to minimize discrimination. For execution of the immigration statutes to be faithful to the rule of law, it is essential to keep government officials, including state and local officials with a growing enforcement role, from targeting some noncitizens based on race or ethnicity. Caution and prudence do not require proof of pervasive discrimination. What is crucial is that discrimination may occur, and that if it does, it will be hard to detect and remedy. More generally, written public guidelines are far superior to checking sporadically and after the fact for inconsistency, unpredictability, or discrimination. With these guidelines, the administration moved toward a rational system for exercising prosecutorial discretion within the immigration system that it inherited.
Young people brought by their parents to the United States, generally known as the DREAMers, were a low priority group for deportation and especially suited to favorable prosecutorial discretion. These young people were integrated and acculturated in U.S. society, and they were broadly viewed as innocent of the decision to come to the United States. They had little direct connection with the countries that their parents had left.
Despite the guidelines, the exercise of discretion in cases involving DREAMers was erratic and inconsistent. In many cases, it took media campaigns and congressional interventions to release DREAMers from detention or prevent their deportation. It became clear that guidelines alone were not enough to conform discretionary decisions in the field to the administration's enforcement priorities.
The administration responded with a formal process for ensuring that its priorities were carried out consistently and predictably. This was DACA, the system for applying prosecutorial discretion guidelines to these young people. If they met criteria relating to their residence in the United States, age at arrival, education, and good behavior, they could receive a discretionary grant of temporary relief. In effect, each DACA recipient gets confirmation that he or she is a low deportation priority, as the guidelines had previously announced.
Why did the President go beyond prosecutorial discretion guidelines to a more formalized procedure like DACA? Does he have the legal authority to do so? The answer to both questions is that the faithful execution of the immigration laws requires the responsible exercise of discretion, which in turn requires—and certainly allows—adherence to values consistent with the rule of law. DACA establishes a real process, with initial eligibility criteria, an application form and fee, and documentary proof requirements, followed by decisions to grant or deny. Without such a system, predictability, uniformity, and safeguards against discrimination would remain elusive and probably unattainable.
DACA relief is granted or denied on a case-by-case basis. Though the President articulated the rationale for DACA in categorical terms and set out threshold requirements, no applicant has a right to be granted DACA. But even if one were to view the DACA procedure as categorical decision-making, it would remain within the President's authority as a legitimate exercise of prosecutorial discretion. The reason is that the legal authority to exercise prosecutorial discretion comes with the authority—indeed, the obligation—to adopt a system that is consistent with the rule of law. Designing and implementing such a system may need to rely heavily on categories.
More generally, the choices required in designing a system to administer prosecutorial discretion need to pursue the values of predictability, uniformity, and non-discrimination against other considerations. Those considerations may include whether temporary reprieves from deportation, or an accompanying grant of work authorization, might reduce the deterrent effect of immigration statutes, or might prompt more immigration to the United States.
On the merits of these points, it is far from clear that discretionary relief from deportation reduces deterrence. On the contrary, the information submitted by DACA applicants may later facilitate the denial of future immigration benefits to them, or even their deportation. And the choice to grant or deny work authorization as an aspect of temporary relief is part of the discretionary calculus, as the long-standing governing regulations make clear. And what prompts or deters anyone to come to the United States is an exceedingly complex question at the heart of discretionary decisions about enforcement.
More importantly, no matter how one might debate how the President should weigh these considerations, the fact remains that this is a policy debate. There is no doubt that the authority to exercise prosecutorial discretion includes the authority to adopt enforcement priorities, and to implement those priorities by establishing a system that calibrates the nature of temporary relief and balances categorical versus individualized decision-making.
Indeed, the enforcement rank-and-file's response to the pre–DACA prosecutorial discretion guidelines underscores why the President's authority allows him to consider compelling reasons to go beyond mere guidelines. The union of ICE agents responded to the guidelines by not allowing its members to participate in training sessions. Its president, Chris Crane, openly criticized the guidelines. Then, once the President adopted DACA, the ICE agents union sued the federal government to block DACA's implementation.heir very resistance shows why it was so crucial to apply prosecutorial discretion to this group of unauthorized migrants through a formal process rather than discretionary decisions in the field.
One other factor deserves discussion. The adoption of DACA in 2012 reflected not only the prosecutorial discretion guidelines, but also the awareness that several Congresses have actively considered legalization for the same group. A year later, a strong bipartisan majority in the U.S. Senate passed S. 744, which included broad-scale legalization. This is another factor in designing a prosecutorial discretion system that tries to be faithful to the rule of law—the choice to preserve the status quo pending legislation that is under serious consideration in Congress.
The President is now considering a similar approach to a larger group of noncitizens, such as persons who have close relatives who are DACA recipients or U.S. citizens, or persons who have been in the United States for a certain period of time. The same considerations that laid the legal foundation for DACA also authorize its expansion or to adopt similar temporary measures, as long as these things are done correctly. The President must be exercising his prosecutorial discretion by setting up a system to administer determinations to provide only temporary reprieves from deportation. The system must reflect his choices as prosecutor-in-chief to administer enforcement in the huge gap between the unauthorized population of over 11 million and the annual enforcement capacity of less than five percent of that figure. To do so, he can, for example, make the system predictable, consistent, non-discriminatory, and minimally disruptive for a significantly larger group of unauthorized migrants while Congress considers the issue. As long as the President does these things, he is faithfully executing the immigration laws within the system that he has inherited.
To sum up, some of the President's critics argue that he exceeded his legal authority with DACA, and that he lacks authority to make other groups of unauthorized migrants eligible for similar temporary relief. But that view is wrong because it ignores key facts. No one is suggesting that the President unilaterally change the rules for granting permanent residence or citizenship. All that is on the table are temporary reprieves. More fundamentally, the U.S. immigration system is one of selective admissions, selective enforcement, and broad executive branch discretion. As this system's chief prosecutor, the President must establish enforcement priorities, and then make sure that discretionary decisions to apply those priorities are uniform, predictable, and nondiscriminatory. As long as the President acts within this role, exercising his prosecutorial discretion to administer enforcement consistent with rule of law principles, he remains well within his legal authority.


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Ronald L. McAnally (born July 11, 1932, in Covington, Kentucky) is an American Hall of Fame trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Called "one of the most honored and respected of North American trainers" by Thoroughbred Times Co., Inc, as a child, he and his four siblings were placed in an orphanage following the death of their mother. As an adult, he regularly donates funds to the Covington Protestant Children's Home where he was raised.

After high school, McAnally fulfilled his mandatory military service with the United States Air Force and attended the University of Cincinnati for two years, studying electrical engineering. He began his career in horse racing working at Rockingham Park racetrack in Salem, New Hampshire for his uncle, trainer Reggie Cornell. As a licensed trainer working at California racetracks, in 1958 he got his first win at Hollywood Park Racetrack and in 1960 at Santa Anita Park he got the first of his more than 2,000 stakes race wins.

He is noted, perhaps because of his childhood experiences, for patiently looking after horses with unique quirks such as the one-eyed Cassaleria, and the tail-less Sea Cadet. As well, he conditioned Silver Ending, a "worthless" horse bought for $1,500 who under McAnally's care won a number of stakes races including the Arkansas Derby and the then GI Pegasus Handicap.

In the early 1980s Ron McAnally gained considerable national recognition as the trainer of John Henry, the two-time United States Horse of the Year and the first of three Hall of Fame horses he would train. John Henry came under McAnally's care at age four having earned $239,613. For  McAnally he won 27 of his 45 races and earned $6,358,334.

Other Hall of Fame horses McAnally trained were Bayakoa, who won back-to-back Breeders' Cup Distaffs in 1989 and 1990 and was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse both years. Two years later, he conditioned his third Hall of Famer, another filly named Paseana who also won the Breeders' Cup Distaff in 1992 and who too was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse Eclipse for two years running. McAnally's best result in the American Classic Races was a fourth in the 1980 and 1982 Kentucky Derby, a fourth in the 1989 Preakness Stakes, and a fifth-place finish in the 1989 Belmont Stakes.

Personal honors include the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer three times and induction in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Married with three daughters, the McAnally family make their home in Tarzana, California.

References
 Thoroughbred Times article on Ron McAnally
 Ron McAnally at the NTRA
 Ron McAnally at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

American horse trainers
United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees
Sportspeople from Covington, Kentucky
1932 births
Living people
People from Tarzana, Los Angeles
Eclipse Award winners
University of Cincinnati alumni


With 1 April having finally arrived, many South African households are concerned about the impact of the 1% increase in Value added tax (VAT) on their standard of living.
Neil Thompson, head of product at African Bank, said that the 1% VAT increase on the cost of credit should be marginal, since the increase only applies to once-off initiation fee on a credit agreement and the monthly administration fee thereafter, as well as the transaction fees on transnational cards.
However he cautioned that the real impact on the consumer will depend on each and every customer's unique circumstances, how many credit agreements or cards they hold, and how tight their budget already is.
As a result Thompson said it is important that consumers understand what components of their credit will be impacted.
"Take a credit card for example. VAT is not charged on the original capital, which is the total credit limit on the card, or the interest which is charged on the outstanding balance on the card," he said.


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The localised website also allows customers to choose from a selection of convenient delivery options, including delivering to home or office addresses, as well as shipping to M&S stores. Orders over 200 AED will qualify for free shipping, and deliveries to M&S stores will be free.
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The Menswear range contains all the must-have pieces across casual and formalwear as well as offering a wider selection of products with extended sizes and fits for customers. In Kidswear, M&S is a one-stop shop for high quality, on-trend baby and kids clothing for girls and boys including daywear, accessories, nightwear and essentials.


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News Release: June 5, 2017 at 11:00 am EDT
ALMA Returns to Boomerang Nebula
Companion Star Provides Chilling Power of 'Coldest Object in the Universe'
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); NASA/ESA Hubble; NRAO/AUI/NSF
An ancient, red giant star in the throes of a frigid death has produced the coldest known object in the cosmos — the Boomerang Nebula. How this star was able to create an environment strikingly colder than the natural background temperature of deep space has been a compelling mystery for more than two decades.
The answer, according to astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), may be that a small companion star has plunged into the heart of the red giant, ejecting most the matter of the larger star as an ultra-cold outflow of gas and dust.
This outflow is expanding so rapidly — about 10 times faster than a single star could produce on its own — that its temperature has fallen to less than half a degree Kelvin (minus 458.5 degrees Fahrenheit). Zero degrees Kelvin is known as absolute zero, the point at which all thermodynamic motion stops.
The ALMA observations enabled the researchers to unravel this mystery by providing the first precise calculations of the nebula's extent, age, mass, and kinetic energy.
"These new data show us that most of the stellar envelope from the massive red giant star has been blasted out into space at speeds far beyond the capabilities of a single, red giant star, " said Raghvendra Sahai, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal. "The only way to eject so much mass and at such extreme speeds is from the gravitational energy of two interacting stars, which would explain the puzzling properties of the ultra-cold outflow." Such close companions may be responsible for the early and violent demise of most stars in the universe, Sahai noted.
"The extreme properties of the Boomerang challenge the conventional ideas about such interactions and provide us with one of the best opportunities to test the physics of binary systems that contain a giant star," adds Wouter Vlemmings, an astronomer at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and co-author on the study.
The Boomerang Nebula is located about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. The red giant star at its center is expected to shrink and get hotter, ultimately ionizing the gas around it to produce a planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae are dazzling objects created when stars like our sun (or a few times bigger) shed their outer layers as an expanding shell near the end of their nuclear-fusion-powered life. The Boomerang Nebula represents the very early stages of this process, a so-called pre-planetary nebula.
When the Boomerang Nebula was first observed in 1995, astronomers noted that it was absorbing the light of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which is the leftover radiation from the Big Bang. This radiation provides the natural background temperature of space — only 2.725 degrees above absolute zero. For the Boomerang Nebula to absorb that radiation, it had to be even colder than this lingering, dim energy that has been continually cooling for more than 13 billion years.
The new ALMA observations also produced an evocative image of this pre-planetary nebula, showing an hourglass-shaped outflow inside a roughly round ultra-cold outflow. The hourglass outflow stretches more than three trillion kilometers from end to end (about 21,000 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth), and is the result of a jet that is being fired by the central star, sweeping up the inner regions of the ultra-cold outflow like a snowplow.
The ultra-cold outflow is more than 10 times bigger. Traveling more than 150 kilometers per second, it took material at its outer edges approximately 3,500 years to reach these extreme distances after it was first ejected from the dying star.
These conditions, however, will not last long. Even now, the Boomerang Nebula is slowly warming.
"We see this remarkable object at a very special, very short-lived period of its life," noted Lars-Åke Nyman, an astronomer at the Joint ALMA Observatory in Santiago, Chile, and co-author on the paper. "It's possible these super cosmic freezers are quite common in the universe, but they can only maintain such extreme temperatures for a relatively short time."
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of ESO, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded by ESO on behalf of its Member States, by NSF in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) and by NINS in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI).
This research is presented in a paper titled "The coldest place in the universe: Probing the ultra-cold outflow and dusty disk in the Boomerang Nebula," R. Sahai, et al., published in the Astrophysical Journal [https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6d86].
Composite image of the Boomerang Nebula, a pre-planetary nebula produced by a dying star. ALMA observations (orange) showing the hourglass-shaped outflow, which is embedded inside a roughly round ultra-cold outflow. The hourglass outflow stretches more than three trillion kilometers from end to end (about 21,000 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth), and is the result of a jet that is being fired by the central star, sweeping up the inner regions of the ultra-cold outflow like a snow-plow. The ultra-cold outflow is about 10 times bigger. The ALMA data are shown on top of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope (blue).
The Boomerang Nebula, a pre-planetary nebula produced by a dying star. ALMA observations show the hourglass-shaped outflow, which is embedded inside a roughly round ultra-cold outflow. The hourglass outflow stretches more than three trillion kilometers from end to end (about 21,000 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth), and is the result of a jet that is being fired by the central star, sweeping up the inner regions of the ultra-cold outflow like a snow-plow. The ultra-cold outflow is about 10 times bigger.
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), R. Sahai
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