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Wine Country Itinerary: Sonoma Valley
I read this article and want to share it with you. The article is called Wine Country Itinerary: Sonoma Valley and is located at https://www.winecountry.com/blog/wine_country_itinerary_sonoma/
By Robert Farmer
East of the Square
Sonoma Valley is a singular appellation that has many forms. Soils and climate are similar throughout, but style and texture can vary widely from place to place–often just a couple as-the-crow-flies miles separate those places. The corner of the valley east of downtown–Sonoma Plaza–is one of my favorite places to visit. Not only is it home to what basically amounts to the birthplace of Sonoma Wine Country, it is also a close-knit collection of fantastic wineries that ideally represent the wines of Sonoma. From gorgeous well-structured pinot noir to zippy zinfandel, they are all presented with a neighborly smile
Stop 1 Gundlach Bundschu
The folks at Gun-Bun, as locals know it and as they are fond of referring to their winery, are as ripe with character as their award-winning wines. The winery has a rich history in the family, with the estate vineyard having been tended by six generations of the Bundschu family. The stellar pinot noir and chardonnay reflect the long commitment to quality. In addition to regular samplings in the lively tasting room, tours of grounds and the cave are available. In summer, tours of the 150-year-old sustainably farmed vineyard are offered for small private tour aboard the lunar-landing-like six-wheel vehicle. It's great Gun-Bun fun.
Tasting Room: Open 11am-4:30pm daily. 2000 Denmark St., Sonoma, 707-938-5277
Stop 2 Buena Vista
This is where it all began – and they've got the National Historic Registered building to prove it. Buena Vista, renowned as California's first winery is still one of its best winery visit experiences. Though it's close to the relative bustle of Sonoma Plaza, it imparts a reverent atmosphere of quiet serenity from its wooded local. The walls of the gorgeous stone structure that houses the tasting room and event space tell a thousand stories; figuratively and literally via the litany of historic photos that adorn them. Still producing great pinot noir and chardonnay, this remains one of Wine Country's Don't-Miss destinations.
Tasting Room: Open 10am-5pm daily. 18000 Old Winery Road, Sonoma, 800-926-1266
Stop 3 Bartholomew Park
One of Sonoma's great hidden gems, the beautiful grounds surrounding Bartholomew Park seem to yell out to visitors to spend a long afternoon at a picnic table. But its location in the heart of a public park also beckon the intrepid visitor to explore the three miles of hiking trails, that meander through oak groves and wildflowers, and afford great views of the vineyards below. More languid types can opt for exploring the region's winemaking history in the great little onsite museum. The tasting room offers winery-only and library selections from BP's list of excellent zinfandel, cabernet, and sauvignon blanc.
Tasting Room: Open Mon-Sat 11a-4:30pm, Sun 10:30am-4:30pm. 1000 Vineyard Lane, Sonoma, 707-935-9511
Stop 4 Ravenswood
Few wineries maintain as close an association with a particular varietal as Ravenswood does with its zinfandel. You'll hear it and see it displayed frequently when visiting the winery: No Wimpy Wines. The mantra provides a through-line to all that goes on at Ravenswood, from producing boldly structure, spicy zinfandel, to hosting fun and sometimes raucous events on its grounds. Regular facility tours and barrel tastings are scheduled daily. Meanwhile in the tasting room, the atmosphere is always bubbly and fun loving, and that's just the way they the Ravenswood folks like it.
Tasting Room: Open 10am-4:30pm daily. 18701 Gehricke Road, 707-938-1960
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Hay is absolutely essential for dairy goats. They need the roughage to keep their rumens functioning properly. Some people choose to not feed hay during the summer months while their goats are on summer pasture, but at Goat Milk Stuff, our goats get free-choice hay year-round because I want the dry material in their rumens in addition to the wet pasture they are eating.
Consistency is what we try to achieve the most with our goats. That includes their care and their feed. Because we do not have continuous access to good quality alfalfa hay, we choose to feed good quality grass hay. Find a hay that you can consistently feed your goats. Don't switch from alfalfa hay one month to clover hay another to grass hay another. Work with a farmer to make sure he or she can meet your annual hay needs every year.
Round bales are generally more economical than square bales. But they are also more difficult to move and to store. At Goat Milk Stuff, we mainly feed just square bales because we don't have a tractor to move round bales and because we don't have a place to store round bales out of the rain.
We do periodically get round bales if a local farmer has an abundant hay crop and is willing to bring the round bales to us and place them in the fields where we want them. We prefer them to be wrapped in plastic to offer some protection from the rain.
All square bales (and likewise all round bales) do not weigh the same. Many a beginning goat farmer wastes money because they think that all bales weigh the same. When purchasing hay, make sure you ask the farmer what the weight of the bales are so that you can get an estimate of what the hay is actually costing you. At Goat Milk Stuff, we prefer 50 pound bales because they are easier for the younger children to move. If we get 75 pound bales, it takes some of the bigger children.
While we are talking about the differing weight of bales, make sure that your hay storage (if it is a loft) can support the weight of your hay. We had to reinforce our hay loft because we underestimated the weight of the hay we would store there.
Determining how much hay you need is always a challenge because it depends on a lot of factors. Let me be very clear - you do NOT want to run out of hay. It is always better to store extra because you can use any old hay for bedding.
If you own goats long enough, you will eventually experience a drought year where there is little hay available (and what is available is extremely expensive). People end up trucking in hay from across state lines. Hay prices sky rocket and it becomes a real problem. I always recommend that you try to keep 2 years of hay stored. In most years, you won't need that backup, but when you do, your goats (and your pocketbook) will thank you for it.
There is no great rule of thumb for how much hay you need because it depends on so many factors. How much waste do you have for your hay? I've heard of people whose goats are wasting up to 50% of their hay. You can do your best to minimize this waste by having good hay mangers, but there will always be waste. How leafy or stemmy is your hay? Goats generally prefer the leafy parts and will eat more of that. What else are you feeding? How much do your goats weigh? How cold is the winter? More hay generates more heat and helps keep your goats warm from within. Are you using your hay for bedding as well as eating? How long is your winter?
All of these affect how much hay you are going to need stored.
One rule of thumb says 1 square bale per goat per week. Again, there are a lot of factors, but if you have absolutely no idea how much hay you need, start there and keep track. I've said it before, write it all down, because you will forget how many bales you had and how long they lasted. If you keep track of it, you will thank yourself later. That estimate would be on the high side for us, but we feed free-choice alfalfa pellets, so our goats don't eat as much hay as if we didn't feed that. If all you are feeding is alfalfa hay, that might be a low estimate for you.
Another rule of thumb says that goats will eat 5 pounds of hay per day (not counting what they waste). Again, there are a lot of factors that would affect this, but you can use that as a starting point if you have no idea how much you need.
As always - estimate what you think you need and then get some more.
There is very good quality hay out there and very bad quality. A good farmer knows when to cut the hay for the optimum nutrition and how to bale it and store it so it stays safe. Unfortunately, not all farmers have high quality hay.
Moldy hay can kill your goats.
So make sure you get quality hay from a good farmer. If you discover moldy hay, throw it away or compost it, but it's not worth the risk of feeding it to your goats. And don't use it as bedding because goats eat their bedding all the time.
Old hay (that isn't moldy or too dusty), is still good to feed to goats. Just know that it will have lost some of it's nutrition, so make sure they are getting plenty of other good feed. At Goat Milk Stuff, we tend to use old hay as bedding or to put down on muddy areas of the property where we are trying to get grass to grow if we've had extremely wet weather. It's also great to use for composting for your garden (but make sure it is completely composted so you kill any seeds).
When you have more than 1 dairy goat (which you should), it's hard to determine that each goat is having its needs met unless you free-choice. The larger your goat herd, the more important this is. As I've mentioned before, at Goat Milk Stuff, we make hay available free-choice.
Be careful with limiting feed to save money. You are better off keeping fewer goats. You may not see the problems from limiting feed right away - but nutritional deficits build up and will lead to sick goats and bad birthing outcomes eventually.


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When Authors Write Movies
G.S. Perno
Writing a movie can be a lot different from writing a book. Unlike a movie script, a novel is freeform. The author can take any style or format they would like to convey their ideas. A script, on the other hand, has to be able to be interpreted by the actors, filmmakers, and the audience. Therefore, it is typically structured in a certain way to help people working on the movie do their job and people watching the movie comprehend what is happening. Furthermore, a major difference between writing novels and movies is that movies are (mostly) restricted to the visual realm. It's not easy to show audiences what characters are thinking, which severely limits plot and character development techniques. Overall, there are unique challenges to each a book and a movie when approaching it from a writing perspective.
What this means is that just because someone can write a novel doesn't necessarily mean they can write a movie (and vice versa). Throughout more than a century of cinema, many famous authors have attempted to write screenplays, with varying success. This is a look at some of the most prominent working scripts that were written by well-known authors. We'll look into what made those films scripts successes or failures, and how each of these authors met or did not meet the challenges they faced on their particular film. I tried to select some of the most widely-known authors who had a hand in writing major motion pictures, that way the writing styles and films would be recognizable by as many readers as possible.
Roald Dahl – You Only Live Twice
At first glance, this one doesn't make a lot of sense, but consider the end product, and maybe it does make a little sense. Roald Dahl today is an internationally-famous author, best known for this children's books (many of which have, oddly enough, become movies – The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda). Dahl did write novels for adults, but they aren't necessarily as well known. Still, in 1966, Dahl was approached by the producers behind the James Bond franchise to adapt the Ian Fleming novel of the same name into the 5th Bond feature film. Dahl was actually the second person to work on the script. The job was originally intended for Richard Maibaum, who had written previous Bond films, but he was unavailable. Oscar-nominated writer Harold Jack Bloom made a first attempt, but the producers did not like his version. The studio wanted something more adventurous, and so they turned to Mr. Dahl.
Roald Dahl had actually known Ian Fleming. He said they had met during the war. Fleming passed away two years before Dahl was asked to adapt the screenplay, and this surely impacted his decision. Dahl considered Fleming's You Only Live Twice to be one of his weakest Bond stories, and so he ended up changing the premise and the plot considerably for his script. If Fleming had been alive, Dahl may have not agreed. The novel was mostly devoid of action, and focused on Bond seeking revenge for the death of his wife in the previous novel. Since the death of Mrs. Bond had not yet been shown in a Bond film, the producers gave Dahl two main criteria: a Japanese setting, and the film had to have three Bond girls. Dahl took these ideas (as well as mixed in some elements of Bloom's script) and ran with them.
The resulting film may have added to the adventure and excitement of the Bond franchise, but it made some of the first serious missteps in the series (including but not limited to racist tendencies). It's difficult to know exactly who is to blame, but the film's push for flashiness over substance definitely hurt its prospects with audiences. Dahl, who had no screenwriting credit, basically reused elements from the previous Bond films. This, combined with corny dialogue ended up making the film feel like a parody of James Bond, rather than the actual thing. It's also the first time on this list we see how a novelist attempting to write a movie script struggles to see the "big picture".
Cormac McCarthy – The Counselor
As an author, many of McCarthy's novels have received praise in literary circles. He has won both the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Despite writing regularly since the 60's, none of his writing really proved that popular with readers until the 90's. His 1992 novel All The Pretty Horses became a hit, and 8 years later, a movie. From this point on, McCarthy's works received a newfound enthusiasm. This culminated in the 2008 film adaptation of No Country for Old Men by the Coen brothers, which went on to win an Oscar for best picture. From this success, McCarthy's novels have been turned into several more films, with varying success.
In 2012 he wrote a screenplay called The Counselor, which was eventually purchased to be made into a film by the same people who had made The Road (based on McCarthy's 2007 novel). The Counselor was McCarthy's first published script, although he wrote No Country For Old Men in 2005 originally as a screenplay, before converting it to a novel. The film was directed by Ridley Scott, who brought crisp visuals to McCarthy's dark tale, and featured an all-star cast. Yet, the film floundered in theaters and is widely considered as a disaster by critics. One thing they all point to in unison is the script.
One thing that makes McCarthy's writing style stand out is his restricted use of punctuation. In prose, he finds a way to make it work, and it gives his writings a unique delivery and pace. A movie script, on the other hand, is not necessarily a format where style is celebrated. Instead it can become an encumbrance, which is exactly what happened with The Counselor. It wasn't that McCarthy wasn't able to write an interesting script, it is that it was difficult for him to adapt his style accordingly. A mysterious approach may work on the page, but a movie without explanations, expression, or exposition just left audiences confused.
Gore Vidal – Ben Hur
By the time of his death in 2012, Vidal had become an American figurehead not just because of the novels he wrote, but because of what the controversy of his writings inspired him to do. Gore's writing career started with military novels after his experience in World War II. His works began to explore sexuality, including homosexuality, which went against social norms of the day. For this, he received much criticism. However, he never backed away from his position due to the harsh words against him. Instead, it emboldened him to speak out against social norms on sexuality and religion. Despite the controversial figure he became, Vidal found a lot of success in writing. He eventually wrote for television as well as film, and was even inspired to run for congress on two occasions.
When you look up the screenwriting credits for Ben Hur, Gore Vidal's name is not included. This was on purpose. The screenplay for Ben Hur was written by Karl Tunberg, and Vidal was one of a couple of script doctors brought on board to flush it out. The amount of work that Vidal did on the script is a source of debate, but in exchange for leaving his name off of the credits, he was granted a reduction in the length of his contract for MGM Studios. This, if anything, makes it seem like he did in fact have a major influence and because of this required a credit. For one, the film is based on a historical book with biblical setting that was tremendously popular with Christians. Having Vidal's name in the credits, given his progressive views, would have surely turned away the target audience.
The film, of course, was a major hit. Not only is it still one of the highest grossing films of all time to this day, it won the Oscar for best picture. Vidal was influenced by many classical writers and philosophers, which led him to be fascinated with historical fiction. This devotion made him a good fit for working on Ben Hur, as did his inclination towards politics. During an interview in 1995, Vidal admitted that the feud between the two main characters, which is what the film is focused around, was regarding a homosexual relationship. Vidal claimed that the director, other writers, and even some of the actors were all filled in on this fact. Charlton Heston was not told, because the filmmakers feared he would refuse to work. Heston has since denied this as being the truth. Regardless of the actual truth on the matter (the film leaves the nature of this relationship as somewhat vague), Vidal was the one who was responsible for figuring out a way to clarify and convey the main character's motivation to the audience, In this regard, his work on the script was largely successful.
William Faulkner – The Big Sleep
As a writer, Faulkner is best known for his portrayal of life in the American South. From a young age, he became interested in the history of his home state of Mississippi. Stories passed down to him by friends and family also would later influence his writings. Faulkner would go on to win the Nobel Prize in literature, and also won two Pulitzer Prizes. During his early years of writing, he wrote frequent sensational stories to pay the bills, but the novels in which he would become best known for didn't find a lot of success. In these, he frequently used techniques such as stream-of-conscious and rich detailing to describe the complex racial and socioeconomic relationships of his characters. Faulkner actually signed a contract with MGM Studios because of the fact that his novels weren't that commercially successful at the time. He would work on 22 films to varying degrees, but The Big Sleep was the most notable.
The Big Sleep was based on a crime novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. The film became one of the most acclaimed noirs of the 1940's. It helped that it starred two of the biggest names in Hollywood at the time, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The two has a tumultuous affair a couple years prior, which had became a phenomenon for contemporary audiences. The film sought to capitalize on this. An initial version of the film was reshot with about 20 minutes of replaced footage that highlighted the chemistry between the two stars. However, this change came at the cost of a coherent plot. Some of the films' necessary (but "boring") dialog was cut to make room. As such, the re-release version of the film (1946) was a hit in theaters, even though it was more difficult to follow than the 1945 version.
Faulkner co-wrote the original screenplay along with Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman. The plot of the novel that was adapted was complicated, and it featured many components that would not have been allowed to be filmed due to the censors at the time (pornography, organized crime). Faulkner came up with a strategy to accomplish the adaptation by breaking up the work into the chapters of the book. Each of the writers took alternating chapters and wrote the script without consulting each other. This allowed the production to move along quickly despite the problems they faced with the source material, but because of three different writers contributing different parts, it was not cohesive. By the end of the film, no one knew what was supposed to happen. Director Howard Hawks called an emergency meeting with the writers and Chandler to try and sort out the mess. They looked to Chandler to help them understand how the events in the book were supposed to actually turn out, but he admitted to them that he didn't know either. Faulkner then came up with a quick solution, an additional scene with another character that helps provide some closure. However, all of this happened before the Bogart and Bacall situation blew up. From that point on the production approach was changed towards what would become the 1946 re-release.
Stephen King – Pet Sematary
Stephen King is of course the famed contemporary author best known for his horror novels. He has found a lot of success in print and also on the big screen (we took an in-depth look at this here). King's involvement in the film adaptations of his work has run the full range from only really sharing a title to being in charge of an entire production as a director. With Pet Sematary Stephen King wrote his first screenplay. He is one of the few people that has written a screenplay for a film that is based on one of his own books.
One thing that has upset Mr. King over the years when it comes to the adaptations of his films is the fact that the filmmakers tend to take a lot of liberty with the source materials. Movies like Kubrick's The Shining diverge significantly from King's writings, much to his chagrin. As such, the films that Stephen King have been involved in tend to stay closer to the source material. Pet Sematary is one of those films. With Stephen King writing the screenplay (and getting a cameo role in the film), Pet Sematary ends up being one of the Stephen King film adaptations that remains closest to the source material.
Part of the reason the film remains fairly consistent with the book is that King was heavily involved. For one, he had a number of stipulations when he sold the film rights. One of the stipulations was that the movie had to be filmed in Maine. It ended up that much of the film was filmed just a few minutes away from where Stephen King was living at the time. This allowed him to attend most of the shoots. Overall the film found moderate success. Many critics noted that the film exhibits many Stephen King trademarks, which is both a good and a bad thing. Good for fans of King, and those who appreciate the quirks of his style. Bad for those expecting something new or unexpected.
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India is a colection of incredibly disparate landscapes and communities that would take years of travelling to do full justice. Most visitors only have a short period with us and so the problem is making choices and focusing on the things that will really interest you.
When we tried to imagine the best way to plan a tour we realised that we wanted to imagine it like different courses of a meal, so this is what we give you. Lots of different little ideas from all over India which together make up an Indian experience. Some are famous, one might say cliches and other fresh and new. We wanted to offer a complete view not just the Mughals and the Raj. India is a complex nation and to really experience it you should experience not just history and culture but also the politics and uncertainty.
Although we have sample itinerary and tour packages for you to taste, we prefer the idea of people choosing a la carte from a wide range of differences that are designed to introduce you to places, people, knowledge, senses or ideas. You can experience cultures or you can delve into the politics or history of India. We try to bring you the best of India, place by place.
You can call us, email us or use one of our forms and we hope that we can help you get the best of India.


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If you're new to chiropractic, it's a way of restoring your body's natural ability to heal itself. By removing interference in your nervous system, your body can be healthier. We use a variety of chiropractic techniques and therapies that are customized to each patient's unique needs.
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"The demographic reality of Canada suggests that succession planning is no longer just a micro issue that impacts the businesses involved, but also, increasingly, a macroeconomic issue, capable of affecting the growth potential of the economy as a whole. And in survey after survey, business owners reveal that they are ill-prepared for the inevitable ownership transition that is quickly approaching. Admittedly, there is nothing new in this lack of foresight as this has been the case for many years. But this time around, the consequence of inaction will be more costly.
No less than 250,000 business owners1, or one-fifth of all businesses with employees, are now aged 55 and over. And their number has risen by 4% a year over the past decade. That's more than double the rate seen in the 1990s. By the end of the decade, close to 350,000 business owners will be over the age of 55.


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How are you doing? What did you uncover in your exploration of your triggers? What are the old stories that show up when you are having a difficult conversation that hijack your adult self?
You've now learned how to PAUSE and to identify your TRIGGERS. I just want to say, YOU ARE DOING AMAZING WORK!! Seriously, give yourself a high-five for me!
So the last step in this process is going to be the part where you actually practice changing your communication challenges with actual talking to the other person!
You may need to first take a few minutes for yourself to get grounded and turn the heat down on your emotions. When you take your pause, let the person you are communicating know what you are doing. Say something like, "I need a minute to check in with myself and get grounded. I will be back in a few minutes" (it's soooo important that you let the other person know you will be back).
When you come back it's time to practice authentically communicating what you want to say. This means sharing YOUR TRUTH. It can sound something like this, "When I heard you say X (use their exact words) what I heard was Y (describe how your wounded self translated their words). What I want right now is Z (clearly state what it is you want in the current interaction that YOUhave control over. i.e. how do you want to be showing up?). And then ask the other person what they want.
If both of you want to continue moving forward, from this new space you can begin to explore what it is that needs addressing in the present moment that started the argument in the first place. If one person does not want to move forward at this point then it's time for a break. It can be helpful to agree on a time to come back together.
Please hear this. It is unlikely that this will go as smooth and simply as this sounds in this email. Remember, this is a practice not perfection. I will say that again. Practice, not perfection. You just need to stay committed to the practice.


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Blatter was not good for African soccer
by Charles Rukuni 7 years ago 7 years ago
International Football Association president Sepp Blatter defied calls from the media and developed countries to resign before the FIFA congress on 29 May because he argued he could not allow the actions of a few individuals to destroy the world's most beautiful and most popular game.
FIFA had just been rocked by a scandal in which seven top officials were arrested in Zurich where they had gone to attend the FIFA congress. The seven were part of 14 people- including nine FIFA officials- whom the United States had indicted for allegedly receiving more than $150 million in kickbacks and bribes.
Blatter went ahead with the congress and the elections in which he was seeking a fifth term. This, he said, was for the good of the game. Besides, he argued, though he was ultimately responsible for what happened within FIFA, he could not monitor every individual.
He won the elections, getting 133 of the 209 votes with his only rival Prince Ali bin al Hussein of Jordan winning 73. Blatter's vote was not enough because a candidate needed at least 140 votes to be declared the winner but Prince Ali conceded defeat avoiding a re-run.
Unofficial results said that out of the 133 votes, 53 came from Africa, 46 from Asia and 35 from America. Africa, it was reported, had voted for Blatter because he had developed soccer on the continent and brought Africa on to the world football map when it hosted the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Confederation of African Football president, Issa Hayatou, who is also FIFA senior vice-president, had this to say: "What made us support Sepp Blatter is that he has truly helped the African continent. By allocating this 2010 World Cup, by the various training courses he organised, by the various sporting facilities constructed. All of this rallied the continent to support his cause."
Nigerian Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick told the British Broadcasting Corporation a day before the congress: "Blatter feels Africa, he sees Africa and he has imparted so much – a lot of developmental programmes. Without Blatter we wouldn't enjoy all the benefits we enjoy today from FIFA. What Blatter pushes is equity, fairness and equality among the nations. We don't want to experiment."
FIFA has indeed poured millions into African football since Blatter took over in 1998 but at the same time it has killed African soccer by protecting corrupt national football association officials.
Just before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, I had the privilege of heading a six-member team of investigative journalists tasked with looking at why African countries were performing so poorly at the World Cup when they boasted stars like Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure, Samuel Eto'o and George Weah, who was voted World Footballer Of The Year in 1995, just to mention a few.
We also wanted to know why African countries were performing so poorly when FIFA was giving each country a grant every year for soccer development.
The project was carried out by the Forum for African Investigative Reporters, which I worked for full-time as peer mentor and investigations manager. Initially, the idea was to look at the transfer of African players but because of the World Cup which was being played on the African continent for the first time, we decided to focus on Africa's performance especially after we learnt from our members that some of the international football stars like Nwanko Kanu of Nigeria and Michael Essien of Ghana were putting more money into community development in their countries than the national football associations were putting into soccer development.
We were also inspired by the fact that a Cameroonian reporter, David Ayuk, who been assigned to look into the fortunes of CAF president Hayatou, who comes from that country, was intimidated to the extent that he not only abandoned the story but quit journalism altogether to go into farming. He would not budge even when FAIR sought the help of the Committee to Protect Journalists to assist him.
Our investigation covered five of the countries that were participating in the World Cup: Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Africa. We could not get someone to cover Algeria because journalists from North Africa tend to join our sister association the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism. But to give the story an African perspective we included Kenya in East Africa, and Zimbabwe and Zambia in Southern Africa.
Our team comprised Olukayode Thomas who covered Nigeria and Ghana, Chief Bisong Etahoben (Cameroon), Eric Mwamba (Ivory Coast), Dumisani Ndlela (Zimbabwe and Zambia), Pathisani Moyo (South Africa), and Ken Opala who covered Kenya.
Our findings were quite revealing. The report was titled: Killing Soccer in Africa.
The only country that stood out was Ghana. It was developing soccer and had become one of the best African performers. Its problem was match fixing. Declan Hill wrote in his book: The Fix, that Ghana fixed its 2006 World Cup match in Germany against Brazil. Looking at the 2010 World Cup, I felt that Ghana fixed its quarter finals match against Uruguay but I had no proof.
Corruption was rampant in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
In Cameroon one of the biggest scandals was the selling of players to overseas clubs at a very young age. One of its best known players Samuel Eto'o is only 34 (29 at the time we did the investigation), but he has been playing international soccer since he was 16. The transfers benefitted corrupt officials.
At one time, FIFA bailed out the Cameroon Football Association by giving it money to pay outstanding salaries to its workers. They had not been paid for 44 months. The association, however, only paid the workers salaries for 16 months and pocketed the balance (for 28 months).
Corruption in Cameroon spread beyond soccer. I had to authorise Chief Bisong, an editor of his own paper, to pay for court documents detailing charges against several Cameroonian Football officials because court officials would not give him the documents for free. These were supposed to be public documents where if any payment was required, it should have been for photocopying them.
In Nigeria, the NFF agreed to hire Glenn Hoddle, the former England boss, as national team manager just before the World Cup. An NFF official told Hoddle that though his package was $1 million it would be announced as $1.5 million so that officials could pocket the balance. Hoddle rejected the deal and went public.
At the World Cup itself the NFF accommodated players in a cheap hotel where they had to share rooms with the NFF paying only $100 per room when it had been allocated $400 per room per player by FIFA. When Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan suspended the national team from all international competitions for two years because of its poor performance and ordered an audit of NFF, FIFA gave him three days to withdraw his decision.
FIFA said it would not only ban Nigeria from international soccer, but would ban Nigerian soccer clubs from African competitions and would not pay Nigeria the money that was due to it for participating in the World Cup, which was estimated at at least $8 million.
In Zimbabwe, FIFA threatened to suspend the country from international soccer when President Robert Mugabe ordered an investigation into the Zimbabwe Football Association which at the time was being run his own sister's son, Leo. There were reports that funds that had been raised for the national team to play in the African Cup of Nations in 2006 had been embezzled.
Kenya was suspended by FIFA for six months in 2006 after the Sports Minister Najib Balala fired the Kenya Football Federation for mismanaging federation funds. The football association became so arrogant that the government had to bail out the Harambee Stars, the Kenyan national team, in May 2010 to play neighbouring Uganda because the national team had no money for transport. Ironically, federation officials were on an all-expenses paid trip to the United States at the time.
In Ivory Coast, 20 people died in 2009 in a stampede at Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium after a World Cup qualifying match between Ivory Coast and Malawi. The Ivorian Football Federation had sold 36 616 tickets for the match when the stadium accommodated only 34 600.
Also in 2009, FIFA threatened to suspend Zambia when the government suspended Football Association of Zambia president Kalusha Bwalya for refusing to stand before a parliamentary committee to answer charges related to his involvement in the transfer of a minor, Emmanuel Mayuka, to an Israeli club, Maccabi.
In the host country, South Africa, the organisers of the World Cup were all out to make money for themselves. Reports said the organisers were going to share $195 million after the World Cup.
There were several corruption scandals involving the construction of stadiums for the World Cup. One whistleblower, Jimmy Mohlala, was killed for trying to expose corruption in the construction of Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit. The British Broadcasting Corporation said another three people were also killed over the same issue.
In Johannesburg, it turned out that the black empowerment component of one of the companies that won the tender to build the largest stadium for the World Cup, Soccer City, was a security guard who lived in a poor suburb, totally unaware that he supposedly owned 26 percent of the company, Global Event Management.
FIFA and Blatter kept a blind eye on all these and more and continued to back the football officials who elected him to power for the fourth term in 2011 and the fifth term just over a week ago, not because he developed soccer in Africa but because he protected them.
*The full report: Killing Soccer in Africa is a pdf dossier of 28 pages, but we produced several shorter versions to suit the media. One of the versions was published in the UNESCO Global Investigative Journalism Casebook.
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Tag Archives: Strategic Economic Dialogue
If jaw-jaw is preferable to war-war, and it usually is, especially in trade and economic conflicts, the latest round of the China-U.S. talks under the aegis of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue just concluded in Washington can be deemed a success. The low pre-meeting expectations that nothing very much would be achieved were readily met, but the main point of the discussions is to get everyone around a table and the contentious issues on it. Taking them off is low on the agenda, if expressions of intent to do so is not.
That was the case with what is being touted as the main achievements of this round, improved market access for both sides. Beijing said it would disentangle policies designed to encourage domestic innovation from government procurement, a promise it has made before, and rewrite its procurement rules to be less discriminatory towards domestic firms. It also promised to look into making its occasional crackdowns on intellectual-property theft more permanent, and check officials weren't using pirated software. As ever, proof of the pudding will be in the implementation.
In return, Beijing asked for more access to the American market for its companies, and particularly to relax Washington's high-tech export controls, whose security reviews repeatedly snag proposed Chinese acquisitions in the U.S. It wants Washington to be more transparent about its whole process. Commerce secretary Chen Deming rather mischievously said "In this area, I regard the United States as my teacher and since my teacher is asking me to be open and transparent and fair, I certainly would also ask my teacher to do the same to me."
Not so much jaw-jaw as cheek-cheek.
Filed under China-U.S., Trade
Tagged as Chen Deming, China, market access, Strategic Economic Dialogue, trade, U.S
May 8, 2011 · 12:53 pm
Generals Join China-U.S. Strategic Dialogue
No doubt the yuan will grab the headlines–and provide the showboating opportunity for U.S. legislators–at the latest round of Beijing and Washington's biannual bilateral talks, due to be held in Washington on Monday and Tuesday, but it is the inclusion of senior military figures in the Strategic and Economic Dialogue for the first time that strikes this Bystander as most significant.
The modernization of the PLA is being watched warily in Washington (and beyond), while the PLA's strengthening voice at a time of leadership transition has been accompanied by some more strident projections of regional power and given succor to more nationalistic voices in the country. Including the military in the framework of a dialogue intended to manage bilateral friction points, is no bad thing. As former U.S. president Lyndon Johnson famously said about FBI director J Edgar Hoover, "it's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in."
As for continuing business, Washington will continue to find itself pushing on a door ajar as far as the yuan's appreciation is concerned. The U.S. will encounter greater resistance to its pressure for more liberalization of China's financial system. Beijing will call for the roadblocks to be removed that are preventing China's giant state-owned companies from investing in U.S. industrial and financial companies. In return Washington will raise its belief that China's government procurement and support for "indigenous innovation" makes it difficult for U.S. companies to compete in China.
Criticism by Beijing about Washington's budget mess and by Washington about Beijing's current crackdown on dissent will be carefully measured, particularly in public. In private both sides will want to deflect the issues into generalities, knowing both are domestic issues beyond solving in two days of international discussion.
Filed under China-U.S.
Tagged as China, Strategic Economic Dialogue, U.S
Strategic And Economic Diaologue: Bigger Not Necessarily Better
Is the Strategic and Economic Dialogue between Beijing and Washington still working? As each round gets ever larger, it doesn't seem necessarily to generate more success.
The intent of the semi-annual high level talks is to coordinate and contain the many big issues that comprise the increasingly complex China-U.S. relationship. Regular discussion is certainly better than none and at the working officials level understanding has certainly been improved even if the process remains cumbersome. But the most recent set didn't have much by way of policy accomplishments and were dominated by two external issues: North Korea and the euro crisis.
The two sides do not seem to have made any substantive progress on the first one, the only one of the pair that the two countries could directly effect. In Washington, now in election season (as if it ever isn't) that only reinforces the doubts of the effectiveness of the talks caused by the lack of progress on the currency issue.
Tagged as China, North Korea, Strategic Economic Dialogue, U.S
China and U.S. Sit On Opposite Ends Of Global Economic See-Saw
The latest round of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue with the U.S. is done. Goodwill and common purpose expressed in public: China will boost domestic demand and the U.S. will toughen its financial reform. Whatever.
In private, Beijing was forthright in expressing well-rehearsed concerns about the dollar's value and America's deficits. And there remains deep differences on climate change, where the China-India axis is the developing fault line of global geopolitics. But there is more to unite two pragmatic administrations in Beijing and Washington than to divide them. They are the two powers on the opposite ends of the global imbalances see-saw.
Tagged as China, Strategic Economic Dialogue
February 6, 2009 · 4:27 pm
China And The U.S.: The Pressing Issues For The Clinton Visit
The first foreign trip by new U.S. President Barack Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, will be a swing through Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Jakarta. This underscores the importance of Asia to U.S. foreign policy, as if it could be anything else, especially in the current global economic slowdown.
The trip will force a clarity to the Obama administration's China policy that has been lacking so far, especially the murkiness over currency manipulation remarks by Obama's Treasury secretary Tim Geithner during his confirmation hearing and some of the protectionist tinge to the debate in Congress over the U.S. economic stimulus bill.
There are four immediate short-term Sino-American issues that will form the backdrop to Clinton's visit to Beijing:
First, the level of the yuan. Obama called President Hu Jintao after Geithner's remarks to reassure him that no preemptory action was likely. We are still of the view that the remarks were an intended testing of the water by the new U.S. administration, but it can push this topic down the road until mid-May when it is next formally required to report to the U.S. Congress on China's currency policy. Meantime, China has made it clear that the yuan isn't going anywhere from current levels for as long as the economy is slowing as it is.
Second, the Uighurs in Guantanamo Bay prison. Obama has ordered Gitmo closed down in a year. The 17 Uighurs there have already been cleared for release but are being held for fear they would be tortured if returned to China. The U.S. can't find third-party countries to take them, and Beijing is again insisting they be returned to China. Human rights took a back seat in the Bush administration's priorities; it will move further forward in the Obama's administration's, though probably not as far forward as climate change.
Third, the strategic economic dialogue initiated by the Bush administration, and led by former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson. Obama's team has not indicated whether it will continue the process, or at least in the same form. One likely change would be to combine the Treasury-led talks with a parallel but lower-level set on political and security issues conducted by foreign ministry officials, but have them headed up by foreign minister Yang Jiechi and Clinton, or, even more likely, the two countries' vice-presidents, Xi Jinping and Joe Biden. These could be periodically capped by a G2 summit involving Hu and Obama.
Finally, the new U.S. ambassador to Beijing. If Japan, as seems likely, gets a heavyweight (Joseph Nye, a former Defense Department official under President Clinton, now at Harvard, is the oddsmakers' favorite) then China will need (and merits) the same. One name being mentioned is John Thornton, a wealthy and close backer of Obama's and who was chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia during the Asian financial crisis in 1998-99. He is currently a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
If Thornton is appointed and the vice-presidents take over the two countries' strategic dialogue, it would signal that the U.S.'s China policy is being set more in the White House than the State Department.
Tagged as China, Clinton, currency manipulation, Hu, Obama, Strategic Economic Dialogue, U.S., Uighu
December 4, 2008 · 11:26 am
Wang Tells Paulson That The U.S. Has To Look After China's Interests There
A curious turn of phrase from Vice-Premier Wang Qishan during his opening speech at the latest bilateral strategic economic talks with his American counterpart U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson:
"I hope the United States will take all necessary measures to stabilize its economy and financial markets as soon as possible and to ensure the security of Chinese investments and interests in the United States." (fuller reports from Xinhua here).
The first half of that is straightforward enough and could have come from any recent meeting of international leaders from the G-7 up. But to what does the second half refer? Investments by state agencies such as China Investment Corp. and state-controlled banks and other enterprises which have been battered by the fall in global equity markets? We noted yesterday that CIC had lost $6 billion on its stakes in two U.S. financial firms, Morgan Stanley and the Blackstone Group.
Or was Wang referring to the 60% of China's $2 trillion of reserves that are held in dollar assets? A substantial share of those are U.S. Treasury bonds and debt issued by troubled U.S. mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, both now effectively under U.S. government control.
It is no secret that some top officials have been worried for a while that the dollar's decline was eroding the value of those holdings and questioning whether it made sense for China to continue to increase them. Not that the dabbling in equity markets by way of diversification and to juice yields to offset that has necessarily turned out well in the circumstances (see CIC above).
However, with the U.S. having to fund an expensive bailout, and China being one of the primary surplus countries that will have to provide the cash, the internal debate about growing China's dollar-denominated reserves will continue. China has little choice but to continue to fund America's deficits if it wants to avoid global recession, but it also wants to avoid throwing good money after bad. One sign of its willingness to get tougher with the U.S. over this is its willingness to let the yuan depreciate against the dollar over recent weeks, a move that helps China's exporters even though it reverses Beijing's compliance with the U.S.'s long standing pressure to get the yuan to rise against the dollar and to stop being what its American critics, including President-elect Barack Obama, have called a currency manipulator.
Filed under China-U.S., Economy
Tagged as China, Hank Paulson, Strategic Economic Dialogue, Wang Qishan, yuan
Slowly Spreading Jam
The latest Strategic Economic Dialogue meeting between China and the U.S. has concluded with a long study list for the two governments and few parting gifts from Beijing in the form of more financial markets opening.
Foreign firms will be allowed to invest again in domestic securities companies, though a cap of a maximum 33.3% stake will stay in place for a while. However, Beijing said as long ago as May that it would resume licensing securities joint ventures later this year after a two-year hiatus. Foreign banks and other companies that do business in China will also be allowed to issue debt and equity in the domestic markets if the capital raised is to be used for expanding their Chinese businesses.
What the Americans didn't get was freedom for foreign companies to take bigger stakes in Chinese financial firms and for Chinese-foreign joint ventures to be allowed to undertake a wider range of businesses. That is jam being held back for tomorrow.
In a little dig reminiscent of the product safety row between the two countries, Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice head of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planner, called on the U.S. to be more open to Chinese investments and to clarify which parts of the economy were off-limits to foreign investors on national security grounds. Under new U.S. legislation that came into force in October, foreign investments in infrastructure and high-tech and those coming from foreign state-owned enterprises face intensified review. Zhang identified the chemical, medical, mechanical, space and electronic businesses as areas where Chinese companies were interested in investing, but clearly feel they will face discriminatory scrutiny.
Tagged as China, FDI, Financial Services, investment, Strategic Economic Dialogue, Zhang Xiaoqiang
Not only is Hollywood having to deal with a writers' strike, now China has halted the import of its films, according to U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who is in China for the biannual bilateral dialogue talks. The Hollywood trade rag Variety reports that the ban will last for 3 months.
Why isn't clear, and there has been no comment from Chinese officials, even to confirm or deny the ban.. China imposes an import quota of 20 foreign films a year. Foreign films account for nearly half of China's box-office revenues, which topped $350 million in 2006. (Global box office receipts are $40 billion by way of comparison.)
This year's quota may just have been filled, as has happened in the past, Gutierrez says. But it may also be tit for tat retaliation against the U.S. for taking China to the World Trade Organization over intellectual property piracy, including of Hollywood films.
Filed under China-U.S., Media, Politics & Society
Tagged as Carlos Gutierrez, China, commerce, Hollywood, Strategic Economic Dialogue, trade
Dialogue And Departures
A couple of notes ahead of the U.S.-China chinwag later this week that goes under the rubric of the two countries' biannual Strategic Economic Dialogue.
The first is that this looks likely to be the last of these meetings for Vice Premier Wu Yi. China's most powerful woman is due to retire shortly. At 68 she was not reelected to the Central Committee in October. Stepping down from government posts follows as night follows day.
Wu was a proponent of the policy of depoliticizing economic disputes and had been in charge of both the contentious trade talks with the U.S. and with cleaning up the product-safety scandals. She also struck a good working relationship with her U.S. counterpart in these meetings, U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
Paulson, too, could be gone within the year following the 2008 presidential elections in the U.S. Which brings me to the second note: China may be waiting for a change of administration in Washington before doing anything serious about revaluing the yuan, a topic that again is likely to be high on the agenda at this week's talks.
Nicholas Lardy of Peterson Institute for International Economics raises the point that the Chinese expect the next U.S president to be a Democrat. With the Democrats already controlling a Congress unfriendly to Beijing, Washington is likely to become more hostile to China after the election. So the plan would be to hold back from making an more reforms — or concessions depending on your point of view — and to keep them in Beijing's back pocket until the tenor of the new regime in Washington is clear.
Tagged as 2008 U.S. presidential election, China, Hank Paulson, Strategic Economic Dialogue, Wu Yi, yuan revaluation


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Q: Encounter problem when extracting outlook attachments using win32com.client in Python, only a file with the name '@' is saved The code actually works and reports no error, but only a file with the name "@" is saved to my target folder. I wonder why this situation happens.
I restarted the computer and outlook but still not work
I capture the major part of the code
import win32com.client as win32
import datetime
import os

outlook =win32.Dispatch('outlook.application').GetNamespace("MAPI")
inbox=outlook.Folders("xxx").Folders("Inbox")
messages=inbox.Items.Restrict("[ReceivedTime] >= '" +create_date()[1] +"'")
previous_body=None
print(create_date()[1])
def get_save_attach(client_num):
    start_file_path="xxx"
    target_file_path=None
    remaining_path=r"Statement\2022\202212"
    for i in os.listdir(start_file_path):
        if "Client "+client_num in i:
            target_file_path=os.path.join(start_file_path,i,remaining_path)
            print(target_file_path)
            break
    target_email=None
    for message in messages:
        if "Trading Data" in message.subject and ("Client")+client_num in message.Subject:
            target_email=message
            print(target_email.Subject)
            break
    for attachment in target_email.Attachments:
        print(attachment.Filename)
        attachment.SaveAsFile(os.path.join(target_file_path,attachment.FileName))

The target email is able to be found as the email subject can be printed correctly. However, the attachment should be excel files, but when I use win32com to save the files only a file with the name '@' is saved.

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R.I.P. Nambo Robinson and Ronnie Davis
By Howard Campbell on Thursday, January 26, 2017 - Comment
The Jamaican artists passed away yesterday.
Nambo Robinson and Ronnie Davis, two reggae stalwarts, died on January 25 in their native Jamaica.
Robinson, a respected trombonist who played on songs by Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, The Tamlins, Lauryn Hill and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, died of an heart attack in Kingston. He was 67.
Davis, who earned fame as a member of roots group The Itals, died at hospital in his native parish of Westmoreland, two days after suffering a massive stroke. He was 66.
Both were busy at the time of their passing. Robinson was scheduled to be part of a band paying tribute to legendary trombonist/composer Don Drummond in early February. Davis' fifth studio album, Iyahcoustic, was released last August.
Robinson was strongly influenced by Drummond, a tragic genius who died in Kingston's Bellevue asylum in 1969.
He played on countless classics including Marley's Buffalo Soldier, Baltimore by The Tamlins and Lift Up Your Head by Everton Blender.
Davis was a member of The Tennors, another successful group, before joining The Itals during the early 1970s. The latter's biggest hit was In A Dis Ya Time.
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suggest a unique regulatory feature of PHLDA1 to inhibit the ErbB receptor oligomerization process and thereby control the activity of receptor signaling network.
Data identified PHLDA1 as a novel p53 target with an ability to repress Akt. PHLDA1 has a so-called split PH domain divided into an N-terminal and a C-terminal portions and seems to be responsible for its localization to the plasma membrane and binding to phosphatidylinositol. In addition, PHLDA1 expression analysis suggests that PHLDA1 has a tumor suppressive function in breast and ovarian cancers.
Suggest decreased expression of PHLDA1 may play an important role in tumor progression, and may become a new adjunct biomarker in the prognosis in gastric adenocarcinoma.
Data suggest that high PHLDA1 expression is controlled through an ER-NFkappaB-miR-181 regulatory axis and may contribute to a poor clinical outcome in patients with ER+ breast tumors by enhancing stem-like properties in these tumors.
PHLDA1 expression is a useful addition in differentiating trichoblastoma and basal cell carcinoma.
A role for PHLDA1 as an apoptosis suppressor in oral cancer cells.
Data show that downregulation of aurora A kinase by the therapeutic antibody is associated with decreased levels of MYCN protein in cytoplasm, and induced expression of PHLDA1 and P53 proteins.
The follicular stem cell marker PHLDA1 (TDAG51) indicates that most basaloid tumors in nevus sebaceus are basal cell carcinomas and not trichoblastomas.
PHLDA1 differentiates between desmoplastic trichoepithelioma and morpheaform basal cell carcinoma but shows variable staining in microcystic adnexal carcinoma.
The progressive loss of PHLDA1 expression in melanomas may play a role in deregulated cell growth and apoptosis resistance in these tumors.
TDAG51 plays an important role in the anti-apoptotic effects of IGF-I.
TDAG51 locus shows an operon-like organization of two head-to-head oriented transcripts that are inversely regulated in T lymphocytes by a CpG-rich bidirectional promoter.
Reduced PHLDA1 expression is important in breast cancer progression and could serve as useful prognostic marker of disease outcome.
TDAG51 in patients with intractable epilepsy was significantly higher when compared with levels in the controls.
The anti-estrogen ICI 182,780 (1 microM) inhibited PHLDA1 mRNA expression and completely abolished the effect of 10 nM 17beta-estradiol on PHLDA1 expression (P < 0.05), suggesting that PHLDA1 is regulated by estrogen via ER.
The data presented herein demonstrate TDAG51 expression to be upregulated in damaged skeletal muscle and its absence attenuates the early phases of muscle regeneration.
PHLDA1 plays a critical role in the development of progressive lung contusion and subsequent inflammation.
These findings suggested that TDAG51 up-regulation is a dependent event during LPS-mediated proliferation and cell cycle progression, and which increase our understanding of the interaction mechanism between LPS and macrophages.
The JAK2-ERK1/2-STAT3 pathway is an important signaling pathway for regulation of PHLDA1 expression.
TDAG51 has a protective role in oxidative stress-induced cell death in mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
Our results suggest that the balance between the cell survival and death signals mediated by HSP70 and TDAG51, respectively, may be disturbed by the altered expression of HSF1 during the progression of disease in this amyotropic lateral sclerosis model.
TDAG51 is involved in energy homeostasis at least in part by regulating lipogenesis in liver and white adipose tissue.
This gene encodes an evolutionarily conserved proline-histidine rich nuclear protein. The encoded protein may play an important role in the anti-apoptotic effects of insulin-like growth factor-1.


The Geriatric Outpatient Practice provides assessment, consultation, and various types of ongoing treatment for older adults. Most often, patients are seen individually by the senior psychiatrist or an advanced practice registered nurse at weekly, monthly or longer intervals, depending on individual need. Specialty consultations, second opinions, home visits, and services to assisted living or nursing homes are also offered.
The Older Adults Intensive Outpatient Program serves older adults who are experiencing a psychiatric illness. The goal of the program is to help people recover and learn ways to stay well. The program runs from 12:00PM to 3:30PM, Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and patients attend three days a week. In the course of a day, patients attend various types of psychotherapy groups that are effective in treating emotional and psychological problems. Patients may also have individual meetings with clinical staff, including the program psychiatrist.


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2019: Oshiomhole bashes Okorocha, Amosun as APC submits governorship list to INEC
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday lashed out again at the governors of Imo and Ogun states, Rochas Okorocha and Ibukunle Amosun.
This came barely 24 hours after the two governors renewed their attacks on the APC chairman.
While Okorocha claimed on Thursday that the fortunes of the APC had witnessed a downturn since Oshiomhole took over as national chairman, Amosun alleged that the party chairman and his cohorts were working towards handing over Ogun to "a gang of expansionists."
In an apparent response to the two governors, Oshiomhole described their personal attacks on his person as a direct result of their failure to foist undemocratic processes on the party.
Specifically, he described governor Okorocha as "an embarrassment" to the APC with his failed attempt to elicit APC's support to help him build "a political dynasty" as well as his needless personal feud with the institution of the church in his state.
Oshiomhole spoke at a media briefing in Abuja, on Friday.
He said for the avoidance of doubt, the party's National Working Committee had met and upheld the outcome of the party primaries conducted by the Ahmed Gulak-led panel sent to the state by the NWC to conduct the exercise.
The national chairman said, "Governor Rochas Okorocha, the chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum is a beneficiary of the court process, we rescued him. The primary conducted by my predecessor completely swept governor Okorocha out of the system-from ward, local government to the state.
"What I am not able to do for Governor Okorocha is to assist him with the instrument of the APC to help him to build a political dynasty.
Consequently, he said, "We have prepared the name of Sen. Hope Uzodinma and submitted to the INEC.
"If governor Rochas chose to relocate to the Villa and use the grounds of Villa to try to intimidate me to create a dynasty, I won't accept it. I will uphold the truth in the best interest of the APC members and indeed of the APC people in Imo State. The truth does not require a supporters' club to stand, it has its own legs, and it can stand."
In the case of Ogun State, the APC national chairman said the state governor was trying to act like an emperor. He said the APC under his leadership did not have a place for emperors.
He accused the governor of attempting to lord it over the majority of party members in the state by brazenly imposing candidates for virtually all elective positions in the state.
According to Oshiomhole, the governor held a stakeholders meeting as required by the APC National Executive Committee but went on to do the bizarre.
Oshiomhole said, "At the meeting, this is no secret, I expect that some of your media houses will have video clips of what transpired at that meeting because it wasn't a closed-door meeting, it was an open meeting. Governor Amosun in his wisdom decided to introduce 'third element' which didn't feature in the resolutions of the National Executive Council.
"He announced that Ogun State was going to adopt consensus and he proceeded to define what in his view constitute a consensus.
"And having defined it to mean the pronouncement of the governor, he went on to announce what, according to him, represents a consensus candidate. He announced one Akinlade as the next governor. He proceeded to announce another gentleman, whom he said would be the deputy governor, consensus!
"He went on to proclaim himself as the next senator through consensus and he says the current senator in his own Senatorial zone, Senator Tejuoso, will step aside so that he, Ibikunle Amosun, at the end of his tenure as governor of Ogun State, will proceed to the Senate. According to him, this is his own consensus.
"He went on to also announce that the second Senator also, from Ogun State will step aside and another gentleman will come in place of that senator. And according to him, this pronouncement is a consensus."
Oshiomhole further said, "Not done, governor Amosun went on to announce a particular gentleman, who will be the next Speaker. He went on to announce another one who will be the next deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly.
"Governor Amosun, according to his own definition of consensus, also unilaterally pronounced that of the eight seats of House of Representatives members, seven will not return according to him, only one will return. This he claimed is a consensus.
"He went on to list other members of the House of Assembly who will seek re-election and those who will not seek re-election. All through, he announced about 40 names which according to him constitute consensus."
The APC chairman described Amosun's actions as "undemocratic, immoral and an abuse of power."
He also said, "Our constitution does not recognise emperors. There are not emperors in the APC, if anybody attempts to invent himself as an emperor, it will be an enterprise in futility.
"Based on our rules, we have since conducted primaries and submitted the name of the winner, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to INEC for the purpose of the forthcoming governorship election that for me has concluded that matter."
On the Supreme Court judgment with respect to Rivers State, he said "As a political party we respect the judiciary, we also appreciate the truth and the facts. Democracy is basically about the celebration of the rule of law not the rule of might. If it is rule of might people like me, who both vertically and horizontally challenged, cannot survive. So, as a party we believe in the rule of law.
"And based on this commitment, which is not really a choice, we are obliged to respect the rule of law. And at the heart of that is total obedience to the letter and to the spirit of judicial findings. And judicial findings are not meant to be convenient. "In a democracy, they are orders which are meant to be obeyed. Therefore, the judgment by the supreme court in which from the first to the last page of the judgment is very clear that the Supreme Court has nullified the ward, local and state congresses that were done by my predecessor in Rivers State.
"It also nullified the state and the local government congresses that were done because according to the findings by the Supreme Court, those congresses were done in spite of a subsisting Court Order.
"What is important is that, as things stand, the highest court of the land has pronounced that those congresses did not meet the requirements of the law. And therefore they are not valid.
He added, "As a law-abiding party, we have accepted the decision of the Supreme Court, and we will call a meeting in no distant future of all the stakeholders in Rivers State to prepare them and to put the necessary machinery in place to conduct fresh ward congresses across all the wards in Rivers State, and of course, thereafter conduct the state executive congress in line with the provisions of the constitution of the All Progressives Congress. These, we have to do in full obedience of the judgment of the Supreme Court."
Oshiomhole also apologised to the judiciary for the attack on the High Court in Port-Harcourt but said the thugs who took part in the attack were neither members of the APC nor did they enjoy the party's support.
The APC national chairman, however, assured Nigerians that his party would defeat the candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the next year presidential election.
Okorocha, Amosun, Yari's fates sealed as APC submits candidates' list to INEC
The All Progressives Congress on Friday submitted its list of governorship candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
In the form CF001 which was submitted to INEC, Senator Hope Uzodinma was presented as the Imo State governorship candidate to the chagrin of Okorocha.
Also, Mr. Abiodun Akinlade, the preferred candidate of Amosun, had his hopes dashed as the ruling party submitted the name of Mr. Dapo Abiodun.
Meanwhile, Zamfara State again presented no list of the APC candidates following the decision of INEC to bar the party from fielding any candidate in the state.
The APC also failed to present any list of candidates for Rivers State following the Supreme Court ruling nullifying the outcome of the primaries.
The deadline for the submission of names of candidates lapsed on Friday, November 2.
According to INEC timetable and schedule of activities, November 17 is the last day for the substitution of names of Presidential and National Assembly candidates while December 1, 2018 is the deadline for substitution of names of governorship and House of Assembly candidates.
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But where Do I start?? O How I fondly remember my first Turkey I roasted. No Computers back then, Phones were a luxury, just to find out How, where do I turn, and My Mom was 1000's of miles away.
Here's what I have learned over time ever Since, By Trial and error By Golly.. .
Turkey day is fast Approaching, How Much turkey do I need?? . .We gotta Have Turkey, So here's the Deal, We'll Roast a Turkey for Turkey day, then Search Jap for all Your Trimmings and side Dishes.
Sounds like the Plan . . won't you join me??
Maybe this will help some of our New Cooks .
HOW MUCH TURKEY DO I NEED??
Bring Turkey to Room Temp from refer.
keep it in wrapper till ready to cook. Remove before Roasting.
Remove Plactic turkey is sealed in.
Remove pkg inserted in the cavity of the Turkey.(usually a neck bone heart, gizzard also liver)save to boil for Gravy or Soup later.
Wash out Turkey in your sink with water. remove any stubs of Feather left on bird.
Lather inside of this cavity with a 1/2 a handfull of salt.
Now take the Onion, celery, garlic and carrots and Place in the Cavity of the Bird.Tie with string if you must to keep it from falling out. you can place a little ion the neck cavity also.
Tie Your Legs of the turkey together with twine or String to Keep legs together close to the turkey's body.
Sprinkle with salt peper and paprika all over outside. . to taste & season well.
Place Turkey Breast Down on the bottom of the Rack in a "very Sturdy" Roasting pan.
you can add rosemary and thyme now all over the outside of the turkey.
NOTE: Roasting the Bird with breast down makes for a much more Moist Breast.
Half way thru baking Turn Bird over to Brown the Breast if you want a browned Breast.
Place Turkey in 400 degree Oven, Covered for 1 hr. Then Uncover and follow Baking time Instructions on your Packaging for the bird.
Basting Bird with Drippings every 1 hr or so.
Start Baking at 400 for 1/2 hr.
Reduce Heat to 350 for the next 2 hrs. Then reduce heat to 225 for the remaining cooking time.
This helps to Not Over Cook the Bird nor Dry it out.
This Helps to make for a very Moist Bird.
It is reccommended 15 min per pound, baking time for a 15 Lb Turkey.
if you choose to bake with breast down you can turn it over 1/2 way thru and place bird under Broiler at the end for a few min to Brown more. approx 4-5 min.
but you also run the risk to overcook the breast by doing this. That is the risk you take if you do it this way.
using a thermometer you want the DARK MEAT @ 175degrees.
the temp will continue to rise after removing from the Oven, So I take mine out 5 degrees less than it needs to be.
Remove from Pan onto platter.
Let Rest 15-20 min before carving.
and add your own sides and don't forget the vegies in the cavities Soo good.
Scrape & Use Drippings in the pan for Your Turkey gravy.
and add this to your garvy for Giblet gravy.
Mix as for a Roux.
Over Medium heat. Blend til smooth and not Lumpy.
add 2 cups cold turkey broth from your Boiled Gibblets.
add 2 more cups, now, as it thickens to your Desired consistency. Whisk continually.


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Q: For loop PLSQL Statement Ignored create or replace procedure salarycompall as

CURSOR empIDs IS SELECT employee_id from EMPLOYEES;

begin

  FOR e in empIDs
    LOOP
        SALARYCOMP(e);
    END LOOP;

EXCEPTION
    WHEN OTHERS THEN
       DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(SQLERRM);
end salarycompall;

This procedure should call another procedure SALARYCOMP. The SALARYCOMP expects the Datatype EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID%type, but i get the errors Error(7,9): PL/SQL: Statement ignored and Error(7,9): PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to 'SALARYCOMP'.
I have tried just printing out every e in empIDs but i get the same errors, so is there something wrong in my for loop?
Kind Regards

A: Your cursor loop variable e is a record, not a scalar value; you need to refer to the field within that record:
SALARYCOMP(e.employee_id);

To think about why you can't just pass e, imagine your cursor query was:
SELECT employee_id, manager_id from EMPLOYEES

Then if you called SALARYCOMP(e) you wouldn't just be passing the employee_id it's expecting, you'd be passing both employee_id and manager_id; so then it's more obvious that're you're passing a record comprised of both values, and that you actually need to specify the field you meant, with SALARYCOMP(e.employee_id).
With only one column in your cursor query it's perhaps a bit less obvious - but it's still the same mechanism, and isn't treated any differently. Calling SALARYCOMP(e) still passes the whole record (with a single field).


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Q: How get the column title of the first empty column in openpyxl worksheet for columns in dr_ws.iter_cols(max_row =1, min_col=8)   :
print(columns)
Here are the values associated with Columns in just Row 1
The actual cells
so 005 is in H1
116 is in V1.
then the next empty Cell is W1 which has no value.
I need a code that will return just the Column title 'W'. I am not sure how to go on. Need help finding the column title of the first empty column
output should be something like : Column = W
what should I change/add to my code

A: There are two utilities in openpyxl that you will need for this. First, use the worksheet.max_column, which will give you the last column which has data in it. This will be a number. So, use the get_column_letter() to convert the number to letter.
Note: max_column() will return the last column for all rows where data is present. So, if you have data till Z in row 2, the returned value will be 26. OR, if you have blanks in W-Z, but have data in row 1 in AA1, this will return 27. So, be sure that you are using this correctly. Let me know if those additional conditions hold true in your case.
A sample code is given below...
import openpyxl
from openpyxl.utils.cell import get_column_letter
wb=openpyxl.load_workbook('yourfile.xlsx')
dr_ws=wb['Sheet1']
print(get_column_letter(dr_ws.max_column))
### This will return "W"

A: Something like this should do:
# iter_cols yields a tuple of cells, though in this case
# it will only contain 1 cell because max_row=1
for cells in dr_ws.iter_cols(max_row=1, min_col=8):
    for cell in cells:
        # An empty cell has a value of None
        if cell.value is None:
            print(cell.column_letter)

Be sure to read openpyxl's documentation, in particular:

*

*https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/openpyxl.cell.cell.html

As a function:
def get_first_empty_column_letter(max_row=1, min_col=8):
    # iter_cols yields a tuple of cells
    for cells in dr_ws.iter_cols(max_row=max_row, min_col=min_col):
        for cell in cells:
            # An empty cell has a value of None
            if cell.value is None:
                # The function returns immediately upon finding the first empty cell
                return cell.column_letter


Rich are the Web-gods: who gives gifts but they?
They pluck Force thence and give it to the wise.
O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/), the current name for the geek publishing giant founded by Tim O'Reilly, has finally joined the Semantic Web. O'Reilly's coining of the term "Web 2.0" and early misunderstandings of the Semantic Web stack lead some to think that he didn't see much value in machine readable information. That seems to have changed, at least in within O'Reilly Labs.
O'Reilly Labs launched a Beta product last month called the O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI), which is available at http://labs.oreilly.com/opmi.html. The OPMI is a technical platform for the exchange of metadata between publishing trading partners. Now that it is in RDF and publicly accessible, the rest of us can play with it, too.
It is easy to retrieve RDF/XML describing any book that O'Reilly publishes. You simply perform an HTTP GET on a URL constructed with the book's International Standard Book Number (ISBN). Every edition of a published book has an ISBN and they come in two flavors, the older 10-digit variety and the newer 13-digit version. All ISBNs issued after 1 January 2007 have been 13 digits. Some books are assigned both forms by their publishers for convenience during the transition.
For example, let's get the metadata description of an O'Reilly book I wrote, Programming Internet Email. The 13-digit ISBN for the second edition of the paperback is 9781565924796, and the 10-digit equivalent is 1-56592-479-7. The OPMI nicely works with either one, but the returned RDF uses the modern 13-digit one as canonical, as it should.
The URL for any O'Reilly book is http://opmi.labs.oreilly.com/product/ followed by its ISBN, in this case 9781565924796. The full URL is thus http://opmi.labs.oreilly.com/product/9781565924796.
The returned RDF includes a wealth of information about the book. The OPMI uses four vocabulary descriptions in its RDF: Dublin Core for describing books (title, subject, language, etc), Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) for describing people associated with those books, the library community's MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) relator codes for relating people and books and the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) for specifying the edition of a book. MARC and MODS come from the Library of Congress and are traditionally used in library cataloging systems.
There are two results because the first (.IP) is the overall URI for the work in all of its possible formats. The second (.BOOK) is the book edition of the work. If this book had been published on Safari, O'Reilly's electronic publishing forum, it would also have a URL ending in ".SAF". E-books get an ".EBOOK" and Apple iPhone applications get a ".APP".
O'Reilly claims published metadata for over 1100 books, which is a pretty reasonable addition to the Semantic Web, even in Beta. Naturally, I now want O'Reilly to publish machine-readable metadata on their human-readable Web pages using RDFa. There has been no sign of that yet, though.
This content was cross-posted to Semantic Universe.
A legacy loader is available to take old OCLC version 1 Persistent URL (PURL) database dumps and upload PURLs into the new project's RESTful API. This is not production code, but is provided in the hope that it may be useful to operators of old PURL servers wishing to migrate to a more modern PURL server. The legacy loader has been released under an Apache 2.0 license.
Check out the code and follow the directions in the file README.txt.
This information is also available at the PURL Project's Download Area.
The PURLZ Persistent URL Server version 1.4 is now available. See the PURLZ Downloads area to get your copy now. This release improves handling of URLs with query strings and special characters. It is recommended for immediate use by all PURL server operators.
Please see also the README and Release Notes for version 1.4.


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Associates at the Omni Severin Hotel enjoy a safe and nurturing environment where anything is possible to make their career with Omni Hotels a reality. The pride in our associates, the engagement of our guests and the spirit of "Hoosier Hospitality" are just a few examples of why we are the employer of choice in the Indianapolis area. If you are a people pleaser, self motivated, and live to serve others, the Omni Severin Hotel is the hotel for you.


Yes, asuka sakumo is not my real name. But it still have pieces from my real name; the initial and the meaning of my real name.
At first it started when my friend told me that i should have pseudo-name if I wanted to publish comic in Indonesia (though I'm not sure that this still happen or not). Well, to shorten the story, the idea of having a japanese name excited me and decided to play around with my initial AS and japanese word for cloud (short form of my real name and my chinese name).
And I began to use this name for fun.
Few years ago, when I first started to write and post on forums, somehow I don't feel like using my real name. Most of my friend know that asuka was my screen name, and the new ones were fascinated enough not to ask why.
After a while, my name on the forum gained popularity (I think; based in the popularity my post have became). They all said that everything I wrote were good, but when I reread them, I saw a lot of mistakes here and there. It got to the point where I asked, did they like my writing because the story were good or only because they like me? (The question of being subjective and objective.) It was not because I wasn't happy with their praises, but I wanted someone to "slap" me in the face, told me about my mistakes, and demanded me to do better. (And I still want this every now and then).
Then I created another name; Vanilla Latte (though i do think this name is too common). This name began with my friends' jokes about my skin colour and the total opposite of my best friend "Expresso".


When building code you port from Linux (or other GCC based systems) to Visual Studio, you may run into the Microsoft standard C library not containing a definition for strtoll(), which converts from a C string to a long long, 64-bit integer value.
The first few hits on Google didn't exactly help figure out what the deal was, but reading MSDN shows the problem: strtol() is implemented, but strtoll() simply isn't.
However, Microsoft provides another function, called _strtoi64(), which does the same thing, and has exactly the same signature (char const *, char **, int), so a simple define macro will fix the problem.