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Q: Apend string to url using jQuery I want to check if url of the website not contain ?lang=en ex.
mywebsite.com
to append mywebsite.com?lang=en using jQuery
Can someone pls give me example how to do this code.
Thanks,

A: // Check the query portion of the URL
if ( !location.search ) location.search = 'lang=en';
// If it has a query string, and not lang=en then -
else if ( !location.search.match(/lang\=en/g) ) location.search+= '&lang=en';

A: if(window.location.href.indexOf('?lang=en') < 0){
   window.location.href = window.location.href + '?lang=en';
}

A: Here's a function i'm using in my current project, I don't remember the source where i found it but hope it can help:
function setGetParameter(paramName, paramValue)
{
var url = window.location.href;
if (url.indexOf(paramName + "=") >= 0)
{
    var prefix = url.substring(0, url.indexOf(paramName));
    var suffix = url.substring(url.indexOf(paramName)).substring(url.indexOf("=") + 1);
    suffix = (suffix.indexOf("&") >= 0) ? suffix.substring(suffix.indexOf("&")) : "";
    url = prefix + paramName + "=" + paramValue + suffix;
}
else
{
if (url.indexOf("?") < 0)
    url += "?" + paramName + "=" + paramValue;
else
    url += "&" + paramName + "=" + paramValue;
}
window.location.href = url;
}
setGetParameter("lang","en")


Traditionally speaking, board meetings are far from efficient. From the time-consuming processes involved with organisation to the logistical challenges of meeting management, there's a lot of room for improvement. Thankfully, advances in technology have made board portals possible.
These platforms help to fill the gap between where board efficiency is and where it should be. Boardtrac Plus is the only portal developed and built in line with best practice corporate board governance in Australia, here are five ways it can improve efficiency in your board meetings.
A board portal makes it far easier to put together a meeting agenda. With easy drag and drop functionality, it takes almost no time at all to set the agenda, even if you're starting from scratch. Once you've set the agenda for your first meeting you can save it as a template and easily pull it up for future board meetings. Templates are easy to edit, so all you'll need to do is make slight tweaks to keep it relevant to each meeting.
With easy document sharing functions, printing and copying hundreds of pages of documents and manually posting them out to board members seems hopelessly archaic. Distributing board documents through the platform saves board administrators time and effort, as well as reducing organisational spend on paper, ink and postage.
This distribution method is perhaps most useful in situations where there are last minute updates to the board materials. Rather than scrambling to distribute these amended documents, you only need to add the updated versions to your board portal to allow instant access from all approved members.
Boardtrac Plus also allows for this step to be automated. Once the agenda has been set, the platform can automatically pull and attach the relevant documents for distribution. Due to the granular permissions (more on this shortly), security is retained and conflicts of interest are eliminated by distributing documents only to intended members.
Not all information should be accessible to all board directors. Granular permissions mean that unapproved parties will not be able to access particular documents. You can set permissions for each board member or group thereof, and control who has access to what. As each board member accesses documents through their own portal, and permissions are granted digitally by the administration, there will be no need to pick and choose who gets a physical copy of what.
As well as setting up permissions for approved access, Boardtrac Plus can share key documentation with board members that aren't part of the organisation. While most organisations have digital infrastructure where documents pertaining to internal operations are kept, these should only be accessible to staff, therefore directors from outside the company will not have access. By sharing these documents through the board portal, you won't be required to allow external directors access to internal infrastructure.
Sometimes directors are geographically dispersed, and this makes it difficult to convene for a vote when action is needed on a potential issue. Allowing board members to vote remotely via the portal means that, again, time, effort and the cost of travelling are reduced, but most importantly, this feature allows boards to come to timely decisions over how the company is run.
Voting typically takes two forms – to pass a motion, or to indicate interest. A motion will require a circular resolution, and votes can be set up and counted through the board portal. Directors will receive an alert that the vote is open, cast their vote from wherever they are, and wait until the next step (either motion passing or, if a unanimous decision is not met, until the voting window closes). Granular permissions can be set up here to keep directors' individual votes private.
To indicate interest, the board portal can also request a show of hands from the board members. This could be about when to hold the next meeting, yet it can also be used within a meeting for directors to privately express interest in the topic at hand. Having voting in one environment removes the need for extensive email chains and keeps a board operating efficiently.
Boardtrac Plus allows you to create a document library – a cache of all your important governance materials, policies, procedures, guidelines and instructions. These documents stay accessible (to those with the relevant permissions) and can be accessed any time a director requires it. Permissions can always be tweaked, and when a board member requests access to a certain document then it can be provided when appropriate. Ultimately, this puts every director on the same page, reducing roadblocks and increasing efficiency.
For more information about Boardtrac Plus, how much it could save you, or how you can achieve best practice corporate governance, contact us today.


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Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
Steven Spielberg Reveals How Hayao Miyazaki Inspires Him
By Megan Peters - April 25, 2018 12:56 am EDT
When you think of iconic directors, Steven Spielberg should be one of the first names that comes to mind. The award-winning visionary is responsible for a slew of Hollywood's best films, but he is not alone in his legendary status. Hayao Miyazaki enjoys similar clout for his work, and Spielberg recently opened up about how the anime icon influenced his own work.
Recently, Spielberg headed to Japan to promote the release of Ready Player One abroad. The busy film features an untold number of easter eggs, and several of its biggest nods are geared towards anime. At the film's Japanese premiere, the director opened up about his interest in the country's pop culture, and he recalled the time he met Miyazaki more than a decade ago.
"I especially, you know, admire the whole world of Miyazaki, and his taste and his storytelling abilities. His Spirited Away is one of the greatest animated films ever made, might be better than any Disney film I've ever seen. He was a real influence," Spielberg said (via Go Boiano).
"I got to meet him. I brought my daughter here to Tokyo and I had a chance about eleven or twelve years ago to meet him," the director continued. "We talked about the process of what comes first, the story or the characters. And he was expressing the fact that the story is the character. For him, the characters are the story."
Of course, Spielberg is no stranger to character-driven pieces himself. In the last decade, the director has worked on a slew of insightful works which put its leads before its plot. Films like War Horse, Lincoln, and The Post all act as testaments to such storytelling.
Outside of Studio Ghibli, Spielberg revealed some of his other Japanese obsessions. The director admitted he's become fond of Akira after filming Ready Player One. "I think my favorite Japanese 'character' is the motorcycle from Akira," the director said. "I love that machine."
Right now, Spielberg may be busy with his production company, but fans are holding out hope the director may take a swing at an anime project himself. If anyone in Hollywood could do a serious live-action adaptation justice, it would be this guy. With directors like JJ Abrams jumping on-board the anime train, Spielberg's expertise would be a welcome one for fans, so maybe he'll be the lucky man who takes a swing at Gundam in the future.
Which anime series should Spielberg take a closer look at? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics, k-pop, and anime!
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Results of an audit study conducted during the 2016 election cycle demonstrate that the bias toward Latinos observed during the 2012 election has persisted. In addition to replicating previous results, we show that Arabs face an even greater barrier to communicating with local election officials. Our study did not produce evidence of discrimination against blacks, a finding that echoes the results of other recent studies. We examine one explanation for the high level of discrimination against Arabs, that bureaucrats are politically responsive. Our findings support this explanation. In geographies that cast more votes for the Republican candidate, discrimination against Arab names was stronger.


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This Day in Pop Culture for November 22
1995: Pixar's First Full-Length Picture Opens
In the early days, Pixar's reputation was much like Walt Disney's. By the early 1990's, Pixar was known for being masters of short films and TV commercials and that is when the "house of mouse" approached them to create a full-length feature film. Creating shorts was one thing, but creating a full-length animated production was something else – much like Disney branching out from short films to the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by John Lasseter, Toy Story was Pixar's first computer-animated film and the one all of the others that have followed it are measured by. The film went through a number of plot and character revisions since Disney's team (lead by Jeffrey Katzenberg) and Pixar's team (Lead by Lassester) couldn't see eye-to-eye. Disney's animators were resentful that "outsiders" came in to do their work. Rumor has it that Katzenberg wanted an edgier story with adult references and the character of Woody to be much more of a jerk. In the end, Lassester was given the green light to produce the film that he wanted to make which also fit very nicely with Disney's legacy of films. Toy Story went on to earn over $361 million and the reviews were almost completely positive. It is considered to be one of the best animated films ever made which was followed by three sequels and a variety of shorts and TV specials.
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1991: 'Beauty and the Beast' Waltzes in Theaters
Walt Disney wanted to create an adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast story during the 1930s and again in the 1950s, but it didn't happen. However, it was on this day in 1991 when the film was released as Walt Disney Pictures' 30th animated feature. Considered the third film during the "Disney Renaissance Period" (which includes The Little Mermaid and Aladdin), the movie was based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. The story centered on a spoiled prince (voiced by Robby Benson) who was cursed to become an ugly beast who could only change back after he found true love. The "beauty" of the story was Belle (Paige O'Hara) who volunteered to be imprisoned by the Beast in exchange for her father's freedom. Add a few animated household objects like a teapot, clock and candlestick (Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers and Jerry Orbach) a happy ending, and a few songs and you got yourself a classic. After the success of The Little Mermaid, plans for the un-musical story were changed. The film was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, the screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton, Alan Menken wrote the songs and Howard Ashman wrote the lyrics. During the film's first release, it made over $425 million on a $25 million budget. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture that year and was nominated for an Oscar for the same category as well. Though it didn't win the Academy Award for Best Picture, it did win for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. In 1994, the movie was adapted into a Broadway stage musical and the live-action remake of the film was directed by Bill Condon was released in March of 2017.
1921: Rodney Dangerfield (comedian)
1924: Geradine Page (actress)
1932: Robert Vaughn (actor)
1940: Gerry Gilliam (film director)
1940: Roy Thomas (comicbook writer)
1943: Billie Jean King (tennis player)
1956: Richard Kind (actor)
1958: Jamie Lee Curtis (actress)
1961: Mariel Hemingway (actress)
1967: Mark Ruffalo (actor)
1984: Scarlett Johansson (actress)
1996: Hailey Baldwin (model)
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Les Enfants du ciel peut faire référence à :
 Les Enfants du ciel, un dessin animé réalisé par les Films René Risacher (1946) ;
 Les Enfants du ciel, un film iranien réalisé en 1997 par Majid Majidi ;
 Les Enfants du ciel, un roman de science-fiction de Vernor Vinge (2011).

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We need to talk about fascist terrorism
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with links to neo-Nazi and fascist groups. Britain was warned about the risk of far-right violence. Something has to change.
Adam Ramsay
Labour MP Jo Cox who was murdered on 16 June 2016. Credit: From Brendan Cox
Let's start with a few things we know.
We know that Jo Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was murdered yesterday. She was a woman who stood up against gender violence, a politician who spoke up for multiculturalism and an activist for some of the most oppressed peoples in the world. Each of these things is significant.
We also know that Thomas Mair, who has been arrested in connection with the murder, was listed in 2006 on the website springbokcybernewsletter as a subscriber to the magazine S.A. Patriot ("the South African patriot in exile"). This is the publication of the White Rhino Club, a white supremacist organization for supporters of a return to apartheid in Southern Africa. It claims to be in favour, among other things, of 'imperial solidarity', 'global Western leadership' and 'separate development' (ie, racial segregation).
We know that Mair is reported by a number of witnesses to have shouted "Britain first" as he murdered the MP. There has been some speculation about the connection between this and the fascist organization "Britain First", but as yet, no specific link between the two has been established.
We know the Southern Poverty Law Centre in the USA has revealed that "Mair was a dedicated supporter of the National Alliance (NA), the once premier neo-Nazi organization in the United States, for decades". The Law Centre's papers also show that he bought from them instructions on how to make your own improvised pistol.
On this basis, it seems almost certain that this was an act of fascist terrorism. It's important to use those words, both of them. When the Woolwich murder happened, the British press were quick to call it terrorism on the basis that the killer was reported to have shouted "Allahu Akbar". With this killing, committed by a white man shouting a fascist slogan, Britain's two biggest selling newspapers, the Sun and the Daily Mail, highlight his mental health problems, despite the fact that his fascist links had started to emerge long before they went to the printers.
It was also an attack by a man on a woman. We shouldn't ignore that. It's not an original observation to say that murder is almost always committed by men. And neither is it a new discovery that far-right hate is bound up with misogyny. Many fascist men hate nothing more than strong left-wing women.
We know that earlier this year, a joint report by experts from Royal United Services Institute, Chatham House, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the University of Leiden found that, as The Guardian put it:
"While Islamist plotters are given full attention… in comparison, individuals and small groups of rightwing extremists in the mould of Norway's Anders Breivik are in fact more lethal, almost as numerous, and much harder to detect by security services."
Similarly, HOPE not hate's 2016 "State of Hate" report warned of the risk of "greater violence" from the far-right this year. "This could be manifested in three ways", Nick Lowes, Chief Executive of HOPE not hate said in February: "a general increase in anti-left wing harassment and attacks; communal violence where gangs of far-right supporters clash with Muslim or Eastern European youths; or, in extreme cases, terrorism."
"The Government needs to understand the changing nature of the British far-right threat and get to grips with the growing threat posed by far-right violence."
Such attacks haven't only been matters of speculation. In 2013, Pavlo Lapshyn was jailed for 40 years for stabbing 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem to death as he made his way home from praying, and bombing mosques in the West Midlands, in an attempt to start a race war.
In 2014, English Defence League follower Ryan McGee was jailed just 'days, weeks or months' from perfecting a nail bomb. I could go on.
There's one more thing we know. And it seems so obvious that it shouldn't have to be said. Far-right politics doesn't emerge in a vacuum. No one is born hating so much. It is sparked and fanned, fed and nurtured. Whilst there is no evidence that Thomas Mair had connections with the organisation Britain First, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they advertise on their Facebook page that they spent last weekend in Wales training in knife fighting.
Britain First's Facebook page, as pointed out by @writersofcolour
The connection with Nigel Farage's anti-refugee hate-poster, released earlier in the day, is not banal. As Alex Massie so eloquently put it in the Spectator:
"When you encourage rage you cannot then feign surprise when people become enraged. You cannot turn around and say, 'Mate, you weren't supposed to take it so seriously. It's just a game, just a ploy, a strategy for winning votes.'
"When you shout BREAKING POINT over and over again, you don't get to be surprised when someone breaks. When you present politics as a matter of life and death, as a question of national survival, don't be surprised if someone takes you at your word. You didn't make them do it, no, but you didn't do much to stop it either."
Far-right violence has been in the air for a while in Britain. We were warned, in specific terms, by a range of experts. Many had already said that the tone of debate in the referendum risked bringing it to a head. Yesterday, it struck. An MP has been killed. We can no longer ignore it. We can no longer pander to those fanning it. Something has to change.
State of hate: Britain's far right is in crisis
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Q: Сортировка списка Python по нескольким параметрам У меня есть список :
list1 = ['black 2340 1743', 'black 3948 2011', 'black 396 1739', 'black 5080 463', 'black 5864 2059']
Мне необходимо отсортировать сначала по алфавитному порядку первый элемент(цвет), если он повторяется, отсортировать по 3 параметру в порядке возрастания, а если и он повторяется, то отсортировать по 2 парамету в порядке возрастания. Возможно ли это?

A: Используйте функцию sorted с параметром key [1] и [2].
array = ['black 2340 1743', 'black 3948 2011', 'black 396 1739', 'black 5080 463', 'black 5864 2059']

def key(element):
    color, x, y = element.split()
    return (color, int(y), int(x))

print(sorted(array, key=key))
# ['black 5080 463', 'black 396 1739', 'black 2340 1743', 'black 3948 2011', 'black 5864 2059']

A: Разбейте каждую строку на список из 3x строк. Далее отсоритруйте стандартным методом sort() или фунцией sorted(). Python автоматически отсортирует всё как вам надо.
a = ['black 2340 1743', 'black 3948 2011', 'black 396 1739', 'black 5080 463', 'black 5864 2059']

#разделяем строки
for in range(0, len(a)): a[i] = a[i].split()

#сортируем
a.sort()

Если вам надо будет получить из массива строку под номером i, используйте:
' '.join(a[i])

P.s.
Работать это будет потому, что одно число будет больше другого если оно больше в алфовитном порядке

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The Maserati Quattroporte is a four-door sports luxury saloon produced by Italian car manufacturer Maserati. The second generation Quattroporte, named Maserati Quattroporte II, made its world première at the October 1974 Paris Motor Show, followed by an appearance at the later Turin Motor Show. As a result of Citroën's purchase of the Italian company, it was a much different car from its predecessor and its successors: built on an extended Citroën SM chassis, it featured front wheel drive and Citroën's hydropneumatic suspension and swivelling directional headlights. The car had Bertone bodywork, penned by Marcello Gandini.


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If you are in the main section of the LGPS you can pay additional contributions to buy up to £6,822 per year (2018/19 rates). This figure will increase each year in line with the cost of living. Any extra pension is payable on top of the normal LGPS benefits. APCs count towards the member's pension only and do not count towards death in service or survivor's pension benefits.
The additional pension is payable from your state pension age (SPA). Reductions will apply if your pension is claimed before your SPA unless paid on the grounds of ill health as either Tier 1 or Tier 2 pension benefits.
You can choose to pay for the extra pension by spreading the payment of the Additional Pension Contributions (APCs) over a number of complete years or by paying a lump sum (either from your pay or directly to the Pension Fund).
You can use the online Buy Extra Pension calculator found on the national LGPS website to see how much it costs to buy extra pension. An application form is also available there.
AVCs are a form of investment to build up a separate pension or lump sum or a combination of both.
You can currently pay up to 100 per cent of your pensionable pay, from any usual pay day, into your pension. The 100 per cent excludes standard Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) contributions and statutory payroll deductions. You also have the option to adjust your contribution level up or down at any point up to retirement. Read a Guide to AVCs to find out more.
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Q: Memory release issue in C++ We have code similar to the one below. We are trying to achieve RAII using a class called  MemRelease class. Now, FXOMemRelease is being used the way shown in sample.cc.
Is this OK to    use the obeject of FXOMemRelase like that ?   Most of the time I see that the destructor for MemRelease only gets called after MakeString() is completed. That is fine.
Will it be the case always ? We got a    memory issue and the truss output last pointed to the print statement in the    MemRelease class.
MemRelease.cpp
template<typename T>
MemRelease<T>::MemRelease(T* store, unsigned char array_yesno, short release_yesno)
        : ptr(store), array(array_yesno), release(release_yesno)
{
}

template<typename T>
T* MemRelease<T>::getStore()
{
        return (ptr);
}

template<typename T>
MemRelease<T>::~MemRelease()
{
        if (!release) return;
         if ( (array == 'Y') || (array == 'y') )
        {
                cout << "deleting array in MemRelease pid = " << getpid() << endl;
                delete [] ptr;
                ptr = NULL;
        }
        else
        {
                cout << "deleting memory in MemRelease pid = " << getpid() <<  endl;
                delete ptr;
                ptr = NULL;
        }
}

Sample.cc:
char* MakeString(char* str)
{
   cout << "Entered MakeString\n";
   char* newstr = new char[strlen(str) + 1];
   strcpy(newstr, str);
   return str;
}
int main()
{
   char *str = new char[10];
   strcpy(str, "jagan");
   char* newstr = MakeString(MemRelease<char>(str).getStore());

   getchar();
   delete newstr;
}

A: instead of using delete, use delete[] because you are allocating memory using new[].
Since you are using C++, why don't you use std::string or boost::scoped_ptr boost::scoped_array and their friends?

A:
Most of the time I see that the destructor for MemRelease only gets called after MakeString() is completed. That is fine. Will it be the case always ?

Yes, always.  The temporary object stays valid until the assignment to newstr completes.
As afriza points out, we can't verify which destruction code is running because you haven't included the default values for the constructor's array_yesno and release_yesno.  BTW, there's a type called bool which should be used for yes/no values.


A law firm has warned that a shortage of conveyancers could result in serious challenges for firms.
Clayton Legal conducted its 2018 salary survey in February and March of this year, revealing a snapshot of the legal profession. This includes challenges, remuneration, use of support staff, and how firms plan to hold onto talent.
A common theme identified was a shortage of conveyancers, with this view feeding into wider concerns about the property market.
While the survey highlights some key areas of concern, there was also good news. 78% of survey participants felt that attrition rates had decreased, up from just 51% in 2016.
The results of the survey also suggested that law firms are becoming more adept at retaining the most valuable talent and that the non-financial benefits are growing in importance.


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Welcome to my December 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
Shannah's Insights and Reflections
It is the season of predictions and I marvel at how so many organizations and individuals still seem inclined to make predictions after living through the unprecedented and unpredictable past 2 years. I will take my prior stand of stating my hopes for the coming year that could be within our collective capabilities.
The pandemic becomes the needed wake up call for our country and the world to approach life and humanity as the fragile gift that it is.
All people living in the US have access to resources and services that enable living conditions that are secure and circumstances in which they can have a "fair and equitably opportunity to live" (borrowed from the Tulsa article below).
Our country's commitment to health equity and the elimination of structural racism will be codified in laws and programs so that there is no going back.
Healthcare access is recognized as a right and all healthcare providers are supported to enable needed equitable access.
Politics return to civil discussions that make the rights and needs of all Americans the driving priority.
Sadly, or perhaps by necessity the Omicron variant has put us all back in the realm of uncertainty and inequity as many struggle to get tested, to get results, to avoid unknowingly infecting friends and family. The good news is it is proving to be milder for most people testing positive. The New York times reported US deaths have passed 800,000 and cases rose above 50 million. The impact of the pandemic continues to disproportionately affect people of color and underserved populations. The response to the pandemic is our daily reminder of how politics in many states are ignoring the stark realities of the pandemic. Let's hope we see an improvement in 2022.
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On Thanksgiving we should pay tribute to all of the unsung Native Americans
Welcome to my November 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
Do you know someone with Long COVID? It is bad enough to have these challenges and symptoms, but to then be stigmatized and isolated will only make it worse. This BMJ opinion piece highlights the challenges and offers ways to support people with Long COVID.
Lancet Public Health article on the tremendous impact of Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) is disheartening, yet vital for increased awareness. The article leads off by stating "it is estimated (globally) that one out of two children ages 2-17 suffer some form of violence each year." The article cross referenced a meta-analysis estimating 89.9% of adults who are homeless have at least 1 ACE and 53.9% had 4 or more. Preventing childhood violence should be a top priority in all countries and communities.
This is the first article I've seen highlighting workers comp as an area that could substantially benefit from addressing socio-economic factors. I'm sure there have been activities, but perhaps not covered in the press. This aligns with more employers recognizing the role of social determinants of health on workers generally and potentially underlying risks of workplace injuries.
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Posted on November 5, 2021 December 6, 2021
My dog's Halloween outfit!
Welcome to my October 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
The prolonged pandemic and its disparate impacts on health and the economy continue to fuel needed changes in how many stakeholders think about health services and the living conditions that negatively impact individuals and communities. The politics and misinformation that influence our country's ability to embrace needed and sustained changes make the progress feel fragile. This months' entries seem to support this perspective, but that may just be my bias.
An article, and the recent Bipartisan Policy Center report it reviews, discuss the need to expand flexibility for investing in Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) focusing mostly on Medicaid, but also seeking to address silos across Medicaid, Medicare and CHIP. The report also addresses funding, research, and workforce needs for implementing non-medical and preventive services that have evidence of success. The recommendations are a critical set of steps in the right direction. Equal attention should be given to the many other silos of social services and community infrastructure supports and the many other Federal programs that have overlapping and adjacent service capabilities.
The Transforming Public Health System Data Commission report on Charting a Course for an Equity Centered Data System was supported by the RWJF. It establishes the importance for change, the steps and processes taken to formulate the findings and recommendations and calls to action for a broad range of stakeholders. The Commission and the report represent a substantial undertaking among organizations and consultants to look across the problems laid bare by the pandemic and worsened by systemic racism and related inequities that resulted in the declaration of racism as a public health crisis. This quote from the conclusion emphasizes the significance of inadequate data:
"The Commission recommendations make it clear that in our current system, data on health inequities are divorced from the history and community conditions that shape poor health outcomes, resulting in an incomplete picture of who is most impacted and why."
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The leaves are just starting to fall…
Welcome to my September 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
The Biden Administration has gone all in on requiring vaccines. The 6-part plan announced on September 9th is designed to facilitate vaccines in…" about 100 million Americans, or two thirds of the workforce." This New York Times article gives an overview of the plan. At the same time challenges with vaccine uptake have entrenched drivers including living conditions, health care access disparities and distrust, as discussed in a recent article from the Guardian.
I included coverage in the past newsletter on sustained structural racism in the form of poor housing and housing options for neighborhoods and purchase options that are predominantly targeting people of color. This recent article on locating a freeway in South Carolina that largely displaces black and brown people at the rate of 94% compared to whites is another too common occurrence that persists to this day. We need to be tracking all of these activities and reporting on them until policies and actions start to change. This practice should be illegal and is a vicious cycle that undermines sustainable black and brown communities.
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End of Summer Hydrangea
Welcome to my Summer 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
This newsletter is a bit jam packed because I chose to combine July and August. Apologies for the longer than usual read.
COVID19 Continues to Govern Our Lives
Back to school debates and policies reveal how many different factors affect where individual, families, teachers, school districts and policy makers stand on: in-person and hybrid attendance, masks, and vaccinations. In some respects, it highlights the complexity of the sustained pandemic and how different risk considerations, and life circumstances, shape our individual and system approaches.
The two months of summer witnessed an enormous swing in the waning and resurgence of the pandemic. US vaccination rates grew with the approval of the vaccine for 12- to 18-year-olds. Unfortunately, politics, misinformation and distrust continued to fan the anti-vaccination fires.
Will full approval of the Pfizer vaccine remove a critical barrier to higher vaccination rates? It seems too soon to tell, but the consistent data showing 99% of COVID deaths are unvaccinated people should help more individuals and families to decide it is worth the down-side risks that to-date have been limited. Someone recently asked in a health literacy forum if there are better terms than 'post-pandemic'; particularly since the end of this pandemic is nowhere in sight, and it is more likely it will evolve to something like the flu if we are lucky. It is a tough question with no great catchy terms. A recent National Geographic article shed light on how past pandemics evolved.
Mental Health, Health disparities, Medicaid and the US Safety Net
Many articles throughout the pandemic discuss disparities in mental health and mental health services. This recent article about mental health challenges faced by the underserved in Ohio highlights how difficult it is and has been for people in poverty and marginalized in society to manage through the added stress of the pandemic. These challenges were largely impossible to navigate when added to the inequities and uncertainties that children and young adults were already facing. Medicaid is again the place to turn for low-income families and children; however, state Medicaid programs often have very limited coverage and access for mental health. This Healthline article discusses the Medicaid mental health limitations and why we aren't doing enough.
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Welcome to my June 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
I'm leading off with this thought provoking quote from the Toronto Star that applies equally to the US and should be a priority for all state and Federal legislatures.
"The worst thing we risk facing would be to reflect at the end of the next decade — or perhaps after the next pandemic — and realize we failed to seize this pivotal moment. That we failed to deliver a new vision for a fairer, greener and more innovative Canada, after our pandemic war. That after winning, we had no equivalent to housing for veterans, the NHS, the G.I. Bill, or great new universities — those enduring legacies of post-WWII rethinking and rebuilding. That we simply threw money at the same agencies and programs, expecting a different outcome."
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May marks Mothers' Day and during the pandemic women who are mothers, or stood in for mothers, deserved our recognition every day. We repeatedly hear how the pandemic has forced many women to leave the workforce to care for children and aging parents. We need better services and supports for women to have the same options as men.
Welcome to my May 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
May brought many major changes in the health status of our country that feel like a new and perhaps sustainable direction. It also marked the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder that has yielded some steps in the right direction, but we also witnessed many more people of color being murdered by police.
The New York Times has a timeline of good and bad events and changes that have occurred across the country since George Floyd's death. The overall trends give me some hope. The same day in the New York times there was a discussion of how the economy during the pandemic yielded increased tax revenues for many states and perhaps the funding in the latest economic assistance packaged should be repurposed for some of the infrastructure investments. I would love to see incentives that redirect the investments to underserved communities hardest hit by the pandemic. States will not necessarily invest in these communities without encouragement.
Viola Fletcher the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Massacre, age 107, testified before Congress and seeks justice! To ignore the past is to risk repeating past atrocities. There are too many indicators, including the many ways our most vulnerable populations have been hardest hit during the pandemic, that should convince all companies, organizations, communities and individuals that the time for systematic and structural change is now.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, in his commencement address at Emory College of the arts and sciences emphasized our societal failings that have caused the COVID19 disparities and the disparities that have existed for decades. He emphasized that racism and the many social determinants of health (SDOH) that have caused these deadly disparities will continue long after the pandemic. He noted that "Righting this wrong will take a decades-long commitment," he said. "I strongly urge you to be part of that commitment." I am extending his recommendation to all of us that recognize the need for change.
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Spring is a time of renewal and new beginnings, a baby owl in Rock Creek Park
Welcome to my April 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
April was Minority Health Month and there were many programs and announcements highlighting what public and private organizations are doing to address health equity. Many discussions were grounded in the health inequities of COVID19. These are important and valuable initiatives, but the inequities are not unique to health and healthcare. One article describes the many ways, the health system collects the disparities of structural racism. Structural racism is rooted in: lacking access to critical resources and supports that provide needed basic living conditions; and, historic social injustices and inequities in all aspects of life. An article in the Hill on the need for an increased minimum wage that offers a living wage is another example of ongoing policies that disproportionately impact minorities. These negative social determinants have been present for decades, if not centuries and will require sustained and increased efforts to fix.
The current minimum wage is inadequate for individuals and families to live on. MIT's Living Wage Calculator shows that "A single-mother with two children earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour needs to work 138 hours per week, nearly the equivalent of working 24 hours per day for six days, to earn a living wage." This was based on 2019 data and is likely worse due to increase prices resulting from the pandemic.
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Posted on April 14, 2021 May 6, 2021
My weeping cherry tree was a gift in March
Welcome to my March 2021 Living Conditions and Health newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
March felt different one-year into the pandemic. The increase in vaccinations is starting to bring hope and allowing people to reconnect in-person. This is a critical first step for individuals and families who have been isolated. Unfortunately, the vaccination rollout challenges and distrust, continue to create uncertainty about reaching national vaccination goals.
There continues to be misinformation about the vaccines and efforts to dissuade people from getting the vaccine. The Public Health Collaborative has a misinformation alert tool that keeps people up to date on the misinformation and provides resources to help combat such information. They have also developed a vaccine misinformation management field guide. I think of myself as someone who is keeping up with the field and the misinformation, but there is much more happening than I had realized. In the age of social media, there are so many more information channels for anyone around the globe seeking to manipulate information.
Drew Altman CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) posted about "Where to Start to Build Vaccine Confidence." If you want vaccination information coverage from KFF go to their COVID19 vaccine monitoring dashboard.
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My characterization of the lopsided investments in improved health outcomes. The stick figure is by an unknown author and is licensed under CC BY-SA
Welcome to my February 2021 newsletter. You can find past newsletters with additional background materials, and different stories and initiatives on my website and in my LinkedIn articles or posts. Join me in identifying and coordinating initiatives that advance health, health equity and community and healthcare redesign.
February is the shortest and coldest month (in much of the U.S.) and did not bring enough relief to the scourge of the pandemic. A recent article about the approaching "milestone" of 500,000 deaths in the US emphasizes the scope as many people continue to marginalize the true impacts. It is almost the equivalent of the total Wyoming population or major city populations like Atlanta, Raleigh, Minneapolis, Kansas City, or most major cities west of the Mississippi river and east of the Rockies.
We continue to see poor and inequitable distribution of the vaccine. People with means and technology access are navigating the complexities of finding a vaccine better than underserved populations. A Forbes article highlights how extreme weather shows the importance of living conditions in Texas and disrupts vaccine distribution throughout the country.
There is growing momentum for adoption of a digital vaccine passport to allow all businesses and services to validate vaccine status and be able to safely open and operate. This may make disparities worse regarding COVID and healthcare because of mixed vaccine access and the risk of discrimination based on the haves and have nots of passports. If we are determined to go down this route as a country, then we should enable this digital passport to also serve as identity authentication for patient access to their own health information.
A new rule on consumer access to our electronic health information goes into effect on April 5, 2021. Somewhat like state IDs for people who do not have a license, people should be able to get the passport for purposes of unique digital credentials without having received the vaccine. It would not be proof of the vaccine in that instance, but it could ensure the passport investment has sustained and more equitable value.
A quote from a recent Journal of Public Health Management and Practice article shows how contact tracing discriminates or forces impossible choices:
"Tough choices presented a sort of "catch-22": Do good and honestly name all known close contacts and risk a "snitch" label; or avoid the label, yet leave friends, neighbors, or coworkers in the dark, … and let the avoidable spread of disease continue. When identified as a close contact or COVID-19 positive, many low-income families had to make the tough choice between conforming to COVID-19 restrictions or losing income, and worse yet, risking job loss or antagonizing their employers by reporting that they got infected at work. Some had to choose between strictly quarantining and meeting basic needs–food on the table, the roof over their heads, utilities intact, and so forth."
Life expectancy analysis of the first 6 months of 2020 shows an average 1-year drop due to COVID19 combined with worsening living conditions. Sadly, and predictably, the reduction is much worse for people of color. Black male life expectancy dropped 3 years, for Hispanic males 2.4 years, black females 2.3 years and in truth, non-Hispanic white female and males only dropped 0.7 and 0.8 respectively. The RAC monitor article discusses drug overdoses as one of the added SDOH causes, likely all of the poorer conditions in which underserved populations live and work contributed.
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Time to Reform the Centre-State Relationship
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2021-01-08T11:13:42+00:00	November 24, 2020|Public Policy|
A brief primer on the current state of affairs Article 1 of our Constitution defines India as a Union of States. This relationship between the Union and the State governments, is not only a constitutional necessity but also a prime contributor in the development of our nation and its states. The Constitution has laid out [...]
Challenges of Unemployment: A Deep Dive
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2021-01-08T11:17:14+00:00	October 19, 2020|Public Policy|
According to Periodic Labour Force Survey,2017 and 2018, India's unemployment rate in 2017-18 was 6.07% and it came down to 5.8% in the 2018-19. This declining trend may not continue further because of the slowdown of economic activities that occurred in the last quarter of 2019-20 due to outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. The countrywide lockdown [...]
Policy Coherence Matters Now – More than Ever!
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2021-01-08T11:19:47+00:00	August 6, 2020|Public Policy|
"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit". "Remarks at a Closed-circuit Television Broadcast on Behalf of the National Cultural Center (527)," November 29, 1962, Public Papers [...]
Lockdown: A threat to livelihood
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2021-01-08T11:24:40+00:00	May 4, 2020|Public Policy|
Covid19's spread has become a major threat not only to life but also to livelihood. The Government of India and the State Governments have undertaken several measures to check Covid's spread since the first confirmed case on 30th January 2020. One crucial and significant decision taken by the Government of India, was of a 21 [...]
Why Studying Public Policy Matters – A Uniform(ed) Perspective!
It is a no-brainer that policy impacts our lives in countless ways. However, not many of us are willing to go that extra mile - efforts to understand the broader imperatives of policies and the impact they have on our day-to-day as well as future lives. Well, I admittedly never gave 'policy' a deserving examination, [...]
Minimum Government Maximum Governance; Fixing Deliverables
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2021-01-08T11:37:45+00:00	September 30, 2015|Accountability, Policymaking, Public Policy, Regulations|
By Ritvik Mishra, Analyst, Bharti Institute of Public Policy, ISB We were all exhilarated with the wave of change that the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government promised to bring with it after winning the 2014 elections with a thumping majority. What followed was a string of catchy slogans like 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan', 'Namame Gange', 'Beti Bachao [...]
Comments on the Revised Draft Indian Financial Code
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2021-01-08T11:38:56+00:00	August 10, 2015|Financial Policy, Public Policy, Regulations|
The Ministry of Finance had recently released the Revised Draft Indian Financial Code ("Code") for public comments. Mandar Kagade, Analyst at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy submitted his comments on some of the salient proposals of the Code with suggestions for reform. Please the submissions here. https://drive.google.com/a/isb.edu/folderview?id=0B_r-cIWDAf-eflFUelpTRnRXaEVZd081RDMwRVctb3A2a2hVWTFnX3VHMHJBbEJPbWVQZ28&usp=sharing# DISCLAIMER : Any comments, speeches, articles, blogs, podcasts, videos/vlogs, [...]
The right reforms to pursue for growth
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2021-01-08T11:42:19+00:00	December 1, 2014|Economic policy, Law, Legislature, Policymaking, Public Policy, Regulations|
By Prof Rajesh Chakrabarti and Dr Kaushiki Sanyal, Bharti Institute of Public Policy, ISB It was reassuring to hear the Union finance minister Arun Jaitley emphasize the government's commitment to reforms across a range of sectors at the World Economic Forum's recent India Economic Summit in Delhi. These include labour laws, land acquisition and foreign [...]
Importance of Public Policy In Indian Business Context
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2021-01-08T11:42:42+00:00	November 11, 2014|Budget, Economic policy, Executive, Policymaking, Public Policy, Regulations|
By Mandar Kagade, Analyst, Bharti Institute of Public Policy, ISB Public policy making in India in recent times epitomizes the famous opening lines by Charles Dickens. Forces shaping policy are much more inclusive, thanks to a politically conscious youth and an accessible social media with a capacity to amplify the message several folds in a [...]
Policy Workshop on Understanding Governance
By Bharti Institute of Public Policy| 2014-04-22T05:50:11+00:00	April 22, 2014|Executive, Institution, Judiciary, Legislature, Policymaking, Public Policy|
The Bharti Institute and the office of Shri Baijayant 'Jay' Panda, Member of Parliament (MP), Kendrapara (Odisha), jointly organized a Policy Workshop in association with Young Indians (Yi), Chandigarh Chapter on February 15, 2014 at ISB's Mohali campus. The workshop aimed to provide a platform for youngsters to develop an understanding of important policy issues, the role of [...]


I know, I know. Terrible title. But it had to happen at some point, so why not get it out of the way?
Last night's class in IDTE553 was revelatory to me. I had a vague idea that Captivate would be similar to Camtasia. Oh, not as such. Instructor Graves presented step-by-step instructions, with helpful hints along the way, as an introduction to using Captivate. After just a few minutes, I had created a tiny but effective eLearning module on how to change page orientation in Notepad.
What makes it so stunning to me is the ease with which this was accomplished. All I did was start the recording process and click through the steps in Notepad. The program itself created brief messages to the learner on what to do. I probably could have accomplished this in Camtasia, but with much more fiddling around and much more time.
I can't wait to find out what else it can do! Consider me sold on Captivate for creating eLearning modules.


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The Auschwitz Protocols
"Only four days after JFK was shot, Lyndon Johnson signed National Security Memo 273, which essentially reversed Kennedy's new withdrawal policy and gave the green light to the covert operations against North Vietnam that provoked the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
In that document - lay the Vietnam War ..."
"If the human population of the world continues to increase at its current rate, there will soon be no room for either wild life or wild places… But I believe that sooner or later man will learn to limit his overpopulation. Then he will be much more concerned with optimum rather than maximum, quality rather than quantity, and will recover the need within himself for contact with wilderness and wild nature."
Sir Peter Scott – founder of the WWF 1909 – 1989
"Hollywood Accredits the Memes - The Memes of a Myth"
Times Square,
"The Components of the Mythological Event have to be established in the psyche of the masses, beforehand...
And this is what was done.
For instance - the crashing down of buildings comes from the "Fight Club" (1999)...
That's just one example, but there are LOTS of examples..."
"At present there are four crematoria in operation at BIRKENAU, two large ones, I and II, and two smaller ones, III and IV. Those of type I and II consist of 3 parts, i.e.,: (A) the furnace room; (B) the large halls; and (C) the gas chamber. A huge chimney rises from the furnace room around which are grouped nine furnaces, each having four openings. Each opening can take three normal corpses at once and after an hour and a half the bodies are completely burned. This corresponds to a daily capacity of about 2,000 bodies. Next to this is a large "reception hall" which is arranged so as to give the impression of the antechamber of a bathing establishment. It holds 2,000 people and apparently there is a similar waiting room of the floor below. From there a door and a few steps lead down into the very long and narrow gas chamber. The walls of this chamber are also camouflaged with simulated entries to shower rooms in order to mislead the victims. This roof is fitted with three traps which can be hermetically closed from the outside. A track leads from the gas chamber to the furnace room.
The gassing takes place as follows: the unfortunate victims are brought into hall (B) where they are told to undress. To complete the fiction that they are going to bathe, each person receives a towel and a small piece of soap issued by two men clad in white coats. They are then crowded into the gas chamber (C) in such numbers there is, of course, only standing room. To compress this crowd into the narrow space, shots are often fired to induce those already at the far end to huddle still closer together.
When everybody is inside, the heavy doors are closed. Then there is a short pause, presumably to allow the room temperature to rise to a certain level, after which SS men with gas masks climb on the roof, open the traps, and shake down a preparation in powder form out of tin cans labeled "CYKLON" "For use against vermin," which is manufactured by a Hamburg concern. It is presumed that this is a "CYANIDE" mixture of some sort which turns into gas at a certain temperature. After three minutes everyone in the chamber is dead. No one is known to have survived this ordeal, although it was not uncommon to discover signs of life after the primitive measures employed in the Birch Wood. The chamber is then opened, aired, and the "special squad" carts the bodies on flat trucks to the furnace rooms where the burning takes place. Crematoria III and IV work on nearly the same principle, but their capacity is only half as large. Thus the total capacity of the four cremating and gassing plants at BIRKENAU amounts to about 6,000 daily."
The Nazi Holocaust as a social construct and Auschwitz as an archetype for the very manifestation of human suffering and cruelty long pre-dates it's "liberation" (there was almost no-one left there to liberate, the bulk of the inmates having been dispatched West on death matches ahead of the advancing Soviet front), and it is that mythology that has been used by practically everyone involved ever since to leverage their any given political agenda;
In that sense, Auschwitz as it was captured by the Red Army that day was a Tabula Rasa - the Public Myth of Auschwitz is public property, held in common, onto which you can project almost anything you want to believe about the abandoned barracks and factory facilities, and most have... They almost never confirm or align with anyone else's projections onto the site and its subsequent meaning, however....
Somehow, people still appear to be shocked and thereby offended by this - its scarcely surprising, but the enforced separation of 35+ years from the site itself during the Cold War for most in the Western nations, in addition to the Original Sin of Katyn at Nuremberg has led to the belief that the Myth must surely always triumph over reality, in defiance of all norms of causal reality.
Leo Strauss, the father of NeoConservative thought taught political science as an American Jew in academia working for the Rockefellers at the University of Chicago, identifying and mentoring the American leaders of the future from throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
His social model for the preservation and consolidation of an Oligarchical Society was founded upon a strict adherence to a particular, radical interpretation of both the Noble Lie and the Allegory of the Cave from Plato's Republic, filtered through Orwell, by way of Huxley;
"Strauss believed it was for politicians to assert powerful and inspiring myths that everyone could believe in.
They might not be true, but they were necessary illusions.
One of these was religion; the other was the myth of the nation."
The War Refugee Board was :
Henry Stimson
("Imp of Satan" and Dean of the Wall Street Establishment - Republican)
(Secretary of State - Democrat)
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
(Secretary of the Treasury - Democrat)
"The evidence is there in the files. And over the week before I've been working in Hyde Park, not Hyde Park, London, but Hyde Park, New York, where the Roosevelt Archives are.
Now the uninitiated [unintelligible] might imagine that in the Roosevelt Archives, you're just going to find President's Roosevelt's papers, but no. You'll find there the papers of a lot of bodies and agencies that were connected with the Roosevelt administration. Very strange people have donated their papers to the Roosevelt Archives. And I never realised until I turned up at the Roosevelt Archives, ten days ago to work there for a week or more, that they have in those archives the entire papers of the War Refugee Board.
And you might think that that's a very unpromising kind of body, but the War Refugee Board turns out to have been three men -- Henry Stimson, Cordell Hull, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Henry Stimson, Secretary of War; Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, foreign minister; and Henry Morgenthau, Jr, that rather murky, ominous, insidious figure, the Head of the American Treasury, the Secretary of the Treasury. So that was the War Refugee Board.
And they were responsible for channelling colossal sums of money from various Jewish bodies like the Joint Distribution Agency, the World Jewish Congress and various other bodies, which you are all familiar, into Europe in 1944, making sure that it reached the Jewish organisations in Europe and helped the Jews out of their tragedy.
And we're not going to deny that the Jews were in a tragic situation in Europe in 1944, not just in Germany -- nobody wanted them. This was the situation they found themselves in and the American Jews rallied round and provided colossal sums of money and in the records of the War Refugee Board are the cheques and the receipts -- the receipted photocopies of the receipted cheques for millions of dollars from the World Jewish Congress being sent over to Switzerland where the Americans had their representatives [ALLEN DULLES].
And then in July 1944, come the first signs of an extraordinary document coming out of Czechoslovakia -- a report allegedly by two Slovak Jews who have been in Auschwitz. And this is one of the king-pin documents of the whole Auschwitz case -- if not, the king-pin document. It is a long report about twenty-five or thirty pages long. It is in the Roosevelt Library.
Two young Slovak Jews who claimed to have been in Auschwitz and claimed to have witnessed all these atrocities.
And the extraordinary thing is there that this is the seminal document of the whole of the Auschwitz mythology. You find everything in this document -- the gas chambers, the crematoria, the smoking chimneys, the dressing, the undressing, the women, the men, the babies, the children having their arms and legs torn off -- all these extraordinary, lurid details as though written by a journalist in this Slovak report.
And, of course, I'm interested, because I want to see the original and it's not there. The only documents in the files are an English version of the report and a German version of the report.
But no Slovak version of the report!
And this is allegedly written by two Slovak Jews who have escaped from Auschwitz.
Okay, well, I'm not going to let you into too many details of the research that I've done on the War Refugee Board. I just want to give you a few hints of what is coming in a few years time when the book comes out.
It is very likely, in my view, that this report was written by two men who had been nowhere closer to Auschwitz than probably Madison Avenue. Who knows? I don't think it ever existed in a Slovak version.
The authenticating documents associated with it are originated by the American legation in Bern [ALLEN W. DULLES].
The American Ambassador in Bern, sends report after report to the State Department describing how he's trying to authenticate it, but not getting very far. And he keeps on coming up with second and third order evidence. He says, "I've spoken to the people, [name of official], who claims to have interviewed the two men and he finds them very credible."
And then gradually it comes out that the report has been concocted with the assistance, the editorial assistance, of the Jewish Resistance organisation in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. So it isn't a report by these two men at all. It is a committee report written by some nameless committee, in German.
And when it came out in November 1944, finally, after it was smuggled out of Slovakia in dramatic ways to Switzerland and then brought out of Switzerland by the Americans, sent to Washington and then issued by the War Refugee Board on November 26th, 1944, remarkable things happened.
The first remarkable thing that happens is that the Washington Post and the New York Times declined to print it. Every other newspaper in the United States printed it except these two magnificent, respectable, responsible newspapers. The Washington Post and the New York Times said we want further and better particulars before we're going to fall for this one. Very interesting.
And two of their best journalists actually challenge it. One of them finally writes in a column in the newspaper, "We've had so many atrocity stories in this war that we want to have a few more details about this report put out by the War Refugee Board." And it's so refreshing to go back to a wartime document in November, 1944, and find people, even then, challenging something about that...
So... So this is the first thing we find that when that report was issued on November 26th, 1944, responsible journalists who knew their job challenged it straight away. They had a gut feeling that something wasn't quite right.
The second thing we notice about it is that one of the people who was ostensibly a member of the War Refugee Board, Henry Stimson -- he knew nothing about the report being issued over his name.
The first he knew about it was when his Assistant Secretary of War, John McCloy, telephoned him and said, "Henry, what the hell is going on?" And Henry telephoned the other Henry, Henry Morgenthau, who'd actually issued the report. Morgenthau had the War Refugee Board housed in his building.
And we've got the Henry Morgenthau diary and let me just read out what Henry Morgenthau's diary says on that day -- November 27th, 1944. The Henry Morgenthau diary, on the morning of the report being splashed in the newspapers.
Stimson phoned him. Morgenthau says, "How are you?" Stimson says, "I've just learned that there was some quite striking announcement put out as to the atrocities yesterday by the Committee on Refugees", meaning the War Refugee Board. "Well, it must have been done without anybody showing it to me, so I was rather mortified by not knowing anything about it."
Huh! Mortifying, isn't it? To find out that your pal, Morgenthau, down the road has issued a report over your name.
This sensational report about the Germans killing 1.75 million people in one camp by gas with all these bestial atrocities and you find your name has been appended as one of the signatories.
Morgenthau says, "Well, I..." He's interrupted by Stimson, who is obviously very angry.
You see, Morgenthau kept a verbatim record of all his telephone conversations, which in this case is rather foolish.
Stimson says, "I don't think they ought to do that."
Morgenthau says, "Well, I was under the impression. I know he showed it to me."
Stimson says, "I know, I'm thoroughly, I'll probably be in thorough sympathy with any such announcement, but I think it's important to get it out, but as long as I'm one of the committee, I think I ought to know about it, particularly when you and I are the only two members of the committee in the sickness of Hull." Aha!
Aha! It turns out that the third member of the committee, Cordell Hull, was off sick. Aha! So now we understand how the report gets delayed from July, 1944, until November. He waits until Cordell Hale is off sick, the Secretary of State, and then he issues it without telling the other member, Henry Stimson.
So we're learning a little bit about how this magnificent report on Auschwitz came into being. "
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Prior to the stroke, I lived a fast-paced and active lifestyle. I worked on the railroad as a signals and communication maintainer. I played soccer once a week and would go to the gym every morning just before I started work. On top of that, I had a busy social life and would occasionally enjoy the Toronto nightlife and festivals around the city.
Being in a wheelchair after the stroke made me realize that everything would have to take a break. The stroke slowed me down but has not stopped me from anything. A major adjustment that I had to make was to the pace at which I was able to do things. In order for me to successfully complete tasks, I had to plan ahead and stay organized. I had to patiently work towards my goals and tasks step by step.
Once I learned to transfer myself in and out of the wheelchair, I was able to freely get out of my inpatient room and have a change in scenery. I was also able to use the washroom independently without the help of the nurses or adult diapers. To get in and out of the wheelchair, I would have to make sure that it was positioned properly and that the brakes were on. I had to make sure that the wheelchair was secure before I moved in and out of it. Safety and concentration was important.
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At the top of Griffith Park is the Griffith Observatory. The observatory sits high above the city overlooking the downtown area. The observatory is a tourist attraction with any space and science related displays inside. But you don't need to go into the observatory to enjoy the view. Around behind the observatory is an incredible view of the city. If you get there when it's nice and dark outside the city lights will appear to twinkle. I took the pictures that make up this image at about 5AM from the backside of the observatory.
I was lucky in that it was a fairly clear night. But even with it being clear, there are so many city lights in the distance that the horizon was lit up and glowed a bright orange.
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Looking back, we can say that we are very proud of our accomplishments at Beaches Living. For 15 years we've continually brought you, our readers, many fascinating community-based stories about Toronto and about the neighbourhood we live in. It's been a great journey of learning and sharing with you our findings.
Your upbeat comments, feedback and acknowledgement continue to assure us that you are the right audience for the publication. You love your neighbourhood, you are curious and interested in learning about its past, present and future. It has always made us more eager to find and share the best stories for each edition - it is the fuel that keeps us always fully charged. We take such pride in every edition, from start to finish and to the next one coming along.
How did it all happen? It always seems so much easier when looking at it all afterwards. 15 years represent a lot of changes, around the world, in our country, our city and in our community.
Our city is in transformation, as it always has been. When we are fighting through traffic jams, road closures, construction sites, or wishing there was less noise, it's good to recognize that those actions are the inevitable result of our transformation process. Take a moment to gain some perspective, perhaps a view of the city from the top of the CN Tower, and look below to the city around you. Toronto is big, beautiful, and ever growing. And within its streets and among its citizens, it is one of the most intriguing places to live in.
We hope this issue, and every issue we have published in the past 15 years, presents an exciting, ever changing, story. One day, we could look back and tell the new generation what it was like to live here.
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Low-cost carriers accelerate their journey towards emulating e-commerce players
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We all travel with one or another airlines, low-cost or usual one. Last 3 month there was a lot of information regarding low-cost carriers pricing details, most probably so passangers could be ready for massive holliday season. Let's see low-cost carrier trends from a little bit different angle.
Low-cost carriers accelerate their journey towards emulating e-commerce players, says Infare experts.
Research from Infare has found that the top 12 LCCs globally are already data-hungry, with their consumption rate of competitive airfare data growing three-times faster than network carriers. Replicating the strategy of e-commerce companies, this data-gathering allows airlines to harness insights which create otherwise unavailable pricing opportunities.
Harald Eisenaecher, chief commercial officer at Infare, says: "From our own data, we can see that, on average, LCCs are purchasing seven-times more live snapshots and user-defined searches per day compared to traditional carriers. This allows them to generate deeper and more personalised datasets, and in turn, develop strategic insights into their long-term pricing intelligence plan."
For many years, LCCs have been a disruptive force in the airline industry thanks to their direct distribution model and dynamic pricing strategies. Even with rising fuel costs and a challenging global economy, these airlines have continued to outperform traditional full-service carriers.
Eisenaecher continues: "Put simply, LCCs are successful because they look at pricing intelligence in a very different way. By using big data and dynamically reviewing pricing, they have been able to consistently stay ahead of the competition. Also, the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in e-commerce in starting to infiltrate the low-cost aviation industry, so much so that data science departments are now becoming a critical component for any airline business, and not just for pricing intelligence."
The vital need for data is only set to exponentially grow. Many airlines are now applying surcharges to global distribution system (GDS) bookings as they seek to encourage more direct business – a trend initiated by LCCs' direct distribution models. This move gives these carriers the freedom to generate larger amounts of high-quality data and as a result, create richer insights about customers and their needs.
Eisenaecher concludes: "Intense competition is making it even more paramount that airlines closely examine their fares and assess where opportunities lie. Infare's pricing intelligence solutions play a major role in helping airlines stay competitive. While LCCs consume an increasing amount of airfare data, Infare is prepared for the exciting future ahead; ready to support all types and sizes of airlines."
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Q: Count blank cells in multiple column using array VBA I have written a code which gives me exact count of empty/blank cells in a column/s.

This shows the results if I run the code for column A
  Sub countblank()

    Const column_to_test = 2    'column (B)
    Dim r As Range
    Set r = Range(Cells(2, column_to_test), Cells(Rows.Count,
    column_to_test).End(xlUp))
     MsgBox ("There are " & r.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Count & " Rows
     with blank cells in column B")

    Const columns_to_test = 3    'column (C)
    Set r = Range(Cells(3, columns_to_test), Cells(Rows.Count,
    columns_to_test).End(xlUp))
    MsgBox ("There are " & r.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Count & " Rows
    with blank cells  in column c ")

    'and so on i can count the blanks for as many columns i want

    End Sub

But the problems are as follows:-

*

*If there are no blanks, this macro will throw an error and will terminate itself. What if I want to run the remaining code?

*Using array or something equivalent I want to search the multiple columns by header at the same time, instead of column number that to separately as shown in the code.

*If a blank/s is found it pops a Msgbox but can we get the list of error in a separate new sheet called "error_sheet"?

A: Function getBlanksInListCount(ws As Worksheet, Optional FirstRow = 2, Optional TestColumn = 2)
    With ws
        getBlanksInListCount = WorksheetFunction.countblank(.Range(.Cells(FirstRow, TestColumn), .Cells(.Rows.Count, TestColumn).End(xlUp)))
    End With
End Function

A: Try this
Sub countblank()

    Dim i As Long

    For i = 2 To 10    ' for looping through the columns
        Dim r As Range
        Set r = Range(Cells(2, i), Cells(Rows.Count, i).End(xlUp))
        'for not getting error and adding error messages in the error_sheet
        'MsgBox ("There are " & Application.WorksheetFunction.countblank(r) & " Rows with blank cells in column" & r.Column)
        Sheets("error_sheet").Range(r.Address).Value = "There are " & Application.WorksheetFunction.countblank(r) & " Rows with blank cells in column" & r.Column
    Next i
End Sub

A: Try sub MAIN to examine the first three columns:
 Sub countblank(column_to_test As Long)

    Dim r As Range, rr As Range, col As String
    col = Split(Cells(1, column_to_test).Address, "$")(1)

    Set r = Range(Cells(2, column_to_test), Cells(Rows.Count, column_to_test).End(xlUp))
    On Error Resume Next
        Set rr = r.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks)
    On Error GoTo 0
    If rr Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox ("There are no Rows with blank cells in column " & col)
    Else
        MsgBox ("There are " & r.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Count & " Rows with blank cells in column " & col)
    End If
    End Sub

Sub MAIN()
    Dim i As Long

    For i = 1 To 3
        Call countblank(i)
    Next i
End Sub

A: *

*Q1 can be answered by using an error handling statement. Error handling statements can be as simple or complicated as one would like them to be. The one below is probably my first go to method.

' if no blank cells found, code continues
        On Error Resume Next
        MsgBox ("There are " & r.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Count & _
            " Rows with blank cells  in column B")

*Using headers would work fine. Please see final answer below for this method.

*This answer is a minor change from the answer submitted by Imran Malek

Sub countblank()

    Dim i As Long
    ' new integer "row" declared
    Dim row As Integer

    ' new integer "row" set
    row = 1

    For i = 2 To 4    ' for looping through the columns
        Dim r As Range
        Set r = Range(Cells(2, i), Cells(Rows.Count, i).End(xlUp))
        'for not getting error and adding error messages in the error_sheet
        'MsgBox ("There are " & Application.WorksheetFunction.countblank(r) & " Rows with blank cells in column" & r.Column)

        ' using the value in row to insert our output
        Sheets("error_sheet").Range("A" & row).Value = "There are " & Application.WorksheetFunction.countblank(r) & " Rows with blank cells in column" & r.Column
        ' adding 1 to "row" to prep for next output
        row = row + 1
    Next i
End Sub

Final answer: My apologies for the lengthy answer. This answer is a modification of Imran Malek's answer, found in the link of answer 3. Please note, this version does not contain error handling, explained in Q1.

Sub countblank()

    Dim Header(1 To 4) As String
        Header(1) = "Name"
        Header(2) = "Age"
        Header(3) = "Salary"
        Header(4) = "Test"

    Dim i As Integer
    Dim row As Integer
    Dim r As Range
    Dim c As Integer

    row = 1

    ' **NOTE** if you add any more values to {Header}, the loop has to be equal to the Header count
    ' i.e. 4 {Headers}, 4 in the loop
    For i = 1 To 4

        'looking for the header in row 1
        c = Cells(1, 1).EntireRow.Find(What:=Header(i), LookIn:=xlValues).Column

        'defining the column after header is found
        Set r = Range(Cells(2, c), Cells(Rows.Count, c).End(xlUp))

        ' using the value in row to insert our output
        Sheets("error_sheet").Range("A" & row).Value = "There are " & Application.WorksheetFunction.countblank(r) & " Rows with blank cells in column" & r.Column
        ' adding 1 to "row" to prep for next output
        row = row + 1

    Next i
End Sub


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