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Human or machine?
SKETCHES - Ana Marie Pamintuan - The Philippine Star
August 20, 2018 | 12:00am
Trust the machine, Jose Melo told me. This was in 2009, when the retired Supreme Court justice, at the time chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), was overseeing preparations for the country's first ever fully automated general elections.
Journalists, myself included, sat through briefings given by the Comelec together with executives of Smartmatic, provider of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) or vote counting machines, on how the automated vote would be carried out.
The briefings were meant to reassure us that the machines could do a better job than humans handling the manual vote in achieving honest, orderly and peaceful elections (remember HOPE)?
Being low-tech, I dragged along our newspaper's top techie to listen to the briefings and tell me if we could trust the machine. His short answer was yes. The long answer – which I am trimming here of the technical details that I still can't understand – was that it would take an enormous amount of time and effort to manipulate the PCOS for poll fraud.
Since I was 100 percent certain that he was not on the payroll of Smartmatic, I felt reassured… a bit. Journalists are chronically skeptical. But whatever doubts I had were dispelled when Jose Melo appeared on TV just a few hours after the polling centers closed in May 2010, and announced with undisguised pride and glee that the country had a new president: Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III.
Lawmakers, of course, were furious at Melo, and insisted on their prehistoric way of canvassing the results and announcing the winner. But there was little doubt that Melo got it right, and Noynoy Aquino was the new president.
Melo, believing he had done his job on poll automation, stepped down in January 2011. But he had spoiled Pinoys long frustrated by the primitive, snail-paced manual vote count of the past. There was no going back to weeks of waiting for the outcome of the presidential race.
And the Comelec did not disappoint. In 2016, we learned of Rodrigo Duterte's landslide win at past midnight, again just a few hours after the end of voting.
If only for that, we renewed our trust in the Smartmatic-provided vote counting machines. That is, until the count inexplicably slowed down in the race for the vice presidency. We waited an interminably long time for the final results of the cliffhanger VP race.
Suddenly, "hocus-PCOS" was again whispered about, especially when Leni Robredo was declared the winner by a razor-thin margin over second placer Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Bongbong Marcos has challenged the results, alleging that he is a victim of poll fraud. With the midterm elections approaching, the protest remains unresolved.
The persistent rumor, reinforced by President Duterte's recent pronouncements, is that it's all over but the formal voting in the Supreme Court, and we'll soon have the late dictator's only son and namesake installed in the post that is just a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Less certain is whether Duterte will make good his declaration that he will step down if Bongbong Marcos is the vice president and constitutional successor (or Chiz Escudero, although the mention of his name is seen merely as a smokescreen for Du30's real choice).
Marcos' protest (and Robredo's counter-protest), still pending with the notoriously slow Presidential Electoral Tribunal, alleges cheating. He must prove his case through the equivalent of legally tearing apart the vote counting machines and showing how the results were manipulated. Because the issue is highly technical, ordinary folks have tuned out of the dispute.
Robredo's lawyer Romulo Macalintal has a simpler way of proving automated cheating: present a case where a vote for candidate A was counted by the machine as a vote for candidate B.
To date, Macalintal stresses, not a single such case has been presented.
Macalintal faced "The Chiefs" on Cignal TV's One News channel last week, appearing together with former Biliran congressman Glenn Chong.
In June 2008, Chong's father survived an ambush in their province that killed two of their bodyguards. Police said politics was the likely motive.
Chong had bested Gerardo Espina Jr. for the lone congressional seat in their province in 2007, breaking the dynastic hold of the clan in Biliran. But the clan bounced back, with Espina's twin brother Rogelio beating Chong three years later, in the country's first automated elections. Chong, a lawyer and accountant, insists he was cheated through PCOS manipulation.
The voluble Chong has since been waging what seems like a quixotic battle against poll automation. He is proposing instead a hybrid system in which machine results can be counterchecked against an initial manual tally at the precinct level.
Mindful of the appeal of automation, Chong told us that a manual count can produce results nearly as quickly as machines if the voting is done merely by shading circles beside candidates' names instead of going back to the practice in the past of writing down the names.
Chong said he was allowed by the Senate to speak on poll fraud during a public inquiry, and even to give a visual presentation, but he thought the time allotted to him was too short. This was probably because Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon wasn't the only one questioning Chong's qualifications as a resource person, and asking who he was representing.
On The Chiefs, Chong emphatically denied that he was working for Bongbong Marcos. He accused the Comelec of selling vote results, promising to present proof – as demanded by Macalintal – at the next Senate hearing, tentatively set in September.
Chong had asked the ombudsman to probe Comelec Commissioner Christian Robert Lim for graft, with the possibility of initiating the poll official's impeachment, for allegedly favoring Smartmatic-TIM (Total Information Management Corp.).
In the digital age, some countries have tried voting by internet, but there are still quite a number of countries that eschew electronic voting. A hybrid system appears to work for several countries.
In our case, the issue boils down to which one can be trusted more to count votes in Philippine elections: human or machine?
It's an indictment of our society that there is no easy answer.
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Daily Arts
More Art for Laguna Gloria
The Contemporary Austin gets $9 million for sculpture park
By Robert Faires, 9:00AM, Thu. Sep. 12, 2013
Seventy years after philanthropist Clara Driscoll donated her Lake Austin estate to the Texas Fine Arts Association to be used as a civic art museum, a multimillion grant to The Contemporary Austin will transform the grounds of Laguna Gloria into a garden for site-specific sculpture by prominent artists from around the world.
The announcement Tuesday of the $9 million donation from the Dallas-based Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation ensures that, as the museum forged from the merger of Arthouse (originally the TFAA) and the Austin Museum of Art (née Laguna Gloria Art Museum) charts a dynamic new course for itself, its historic home won't be left as just a relic of the past. Indeed, this landmark gift is designed to make the Contemporary Austin's West Austin site a spot where new art is constantly being showcased. Five million is designated for commissioning new artwork for the grounds, installations designed specifically for the environment around the 1916 Italianate villa – some permanent, but many not. The remaining funds will be split evenly between an endowment to cover conservation and maintenance of the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park, as it will be named, and a funding pool for exhibitions, public programs, and additional commissions for the park.
The full transformation of the estate into the sculpture park will take some time, as the museum is in the process of developing a master plan for the site's 12 acres, only three of which are currently in use. Museum Director Louis Grachos has indicated that a national search for a landscape architect to guide the design and redevelopment of the property will be undertaken. In addition, he says, even the earliest commissions made with the Marcus Foundation funds will take considerable time to be realized.
That said, it won't take long to get a glimpse of Laguna Gloria's future: On Sept. 21, the museum will debut a pair of new installations at the Lake Austin site, commissioned for it from artists Liam Gillick and Marianne Vitale. Vitale has repurposed a bunch of old railroad track switches into what might be a tribe of ancient, mythic figures wandering the meadows. Gillick, meanwhile, has added a colorful steel platform at the water's edge to contrast the natural with the manmade. Both artists will also be exhibiting work at the Contemporary's Downtown site in the Jones Center, 700 Congress, and all of it will be on view through Jan. 5, 2014.
Making the Marcus Foundation grant all the more impressive is that it resulted from a very competitive statewide search. After almost 30 years of dispensing grants to Texas visual arts organizations, the Foundation decided basically to put itself out of business. Its trustees chose to dedicate all of its remaining assets to a single project, but they felt strongly that it should be something transformational. After much discussion with organizations around the state, the Foundation felt the sculpture park at Laguna Gloria represented the opportunity it was looking for. In making the announcement Tuesday to a gathering of the Contemporary's supporters and community leaders, Marcus Foundation chair and Austin resident Melba Whatley spoke with understandable pride. This site, which has been so significant to this city during the past century, will now continue to be significant for at least a century to come.
For more information, visit www.thecontemporaryaustin.org.
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The Contemporary Austin, Austin visual art, Laguna Gloria, Austin Museum of Art, Arthouse, Louis Grachos, Melba Whatley, Liam Gillick, Marianne Vitale

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I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here
I'm a Celebrity: ITV confirm 2017 lineup
All the contestants are now in Australia ready for Sunday's launch show
Oliver Milne
The final stars have landed Down Under - meaning we now know the full line-up for this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Corrie favourite Jennie Mcalpine and boxer Amir Khan will join WAG Rebekah Vardy to tough it out in the Jungle.
Today ITV have confirmed the 10 household names who have arrived in Oz ready to take on the Bushtucker trials.
Fans of the show will be pleased to see that Geordie duo Ant and Dec are back - ready to mock Celebs as they tuck into bugs.
But who will be the next King or Queen of the Jungle?
Jennie McAlpine
Coronation Street Star
Date of birth: February 12 1984
Phobias: Leaving my son, Albert. But I don't have any other big fears.
Missing any special occasion: My son's third birthday.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: None but it will be different for viewers seeing me as Jennie and not Fiz.
Role in the camp: Cook.
Miss most: My son, my home, kettle, telly and the sofa.
Dream camper: Nadiya Hussain from Bake Off as it would be brilliant if she could make us some cakes. But not Alan Halsall (Tyrone from Coronation Street) as he is the practical joker on the Corrie set.
Relationship status: Married.
Jennie said: "I had to really think about this because the biggest thing is leaving my little boy.
"Even the thought of it beforehand made me shudder. It's going to be his birthday whilst I am in the Jungle and I spend all my time with him when I am not working on Corrie.
Date of birth : December 8 1986.
Phobias: Spiders, snakes and heights.
Missing any special occasion: My birthday and training.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: People only ever see me in the boxing ring. It will be nice to show people what I am like away from it.
Role in the camp: The leader. I will spur people on.
Miss most: My family and my daughter.
Dream camper: Drake and Floyd Mayweather would be amazing!
Amir said: "I am one guy who hates spiders. Whenever I see a spider at home, I get my sister to move it. I just don't deal with it.
"I hope I don't come across any of them when I am in the Jungle but I know I am going to. Will I scream? Yes definitely but maybe this is the time where I face my phobias! I also hate snakes and heights too."
I'm a Celebrity Get Me into Chester!
Married to Leicester footballer Jamie Vardy
Phobias: I am not a great fan of spiders but I don't think I've got any sort of fears. That said, I don't like confined spaces.
Missing any special occasion: The diary is clear.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: I think everyone thinks of me as a WAG who never gets her hands dirty. It will be nice to show a different side.
Role in the camp: I love people. I will be a mixture of everything. I won't be starting an argument but if I've got an opinion on something I will express it.
Miss most: My family and my phone.
Dream camper: Piers Morgan. I like the fact he's honest.
Rebekah said: "I am so excited but I've also been waking up in the middle of the night sweating and having nightmares about bugs crawling around my feet," she admits.
"This is such an amazing thing to do and I am really looking forward to it."
Dennis Wise
Retired Footballer
Date of birth: December 16 1966
Phobias: I am a bit claustrophobic and so I am dreading any trial involving a coffin.
Missing any special occasion: Kids' sporting fixtures and friends' big birthdays.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: Everyone thinks of me as a fiery character and so I am sure they will wonder how I will cope.
Role in the camp: I am not afraid of hard work. I will be throwing my weight behind everything.
Miss most: My family and freedom.
Dream camper: Elvis Presley. I really like his music and so if we could, I'd love to have him in camp.
Dennis said: "Some of my friends will think I am very mad doing this. They will get enjoyment out of it. John Franco and Vinnie Jones – I am sure they will have some fun on this! They will probably vote for me to do the trials knowing them!"
I'm a Celeb 2016: Sam Quek skydives into the jungle
Date of birth: November 23 1994
Phobias: I think I am scared of everything. When I go in, I will find out what I am properly scared of.
Missing any special occasion: It's my 23rd birthday whilst I am in camp.
Role in the camp: To lighten up the mood.
Miss most: The Internet!
Dream camper: David Beckham – let's dream big!
Relationship status: Single.
Jack said: "One of the main reasons I am definitely doing it is to be the first YouTuber to go on a show that is so massive in this country.
"That is quite amazing. You can't get anything more high profile than this and it's going to lead to so many other great opportunities. I can't wait to find out what!"
Shappi Khorsandi
Date of birth: June 8 1973
Phobias: Heights and I am dreading not being able to drink a cup of tea.
Missing any special occasion: I was due to start writing a novel but this is the perfect excuse not to!
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: I worry people think I am too serious but I'm really not.
Role in the camp: Shoulder to cry on, the Mum and someone to inject fun.'
Miss most: My family, cats, tea and music.
Dream camper: Mel and Sue would be a real laugh and I'd love to chat to Emma Thompson in the jungle.
Shappi said: "I don't know how I am going to cope without tea. I drink it all day. Tea is my life. I am okay with food and I've actually become a vegan over the last few months as I thought that would help me eat really simply in the Jungle."
Author and Ex Politician
Date of birth: August 18 1940
Phobias: I will be ok on that front but obviously I don't want to be bitten by a black widow spider.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: I don't have any conceptions about myself as I don't think I am famous at all and that's rather a relief!
Role in the camp: I'm assuming I am going to be one of the younger competitors and so I will try to help people my age or more... And I hope I won't be too exhausted to make the odd joke!
Miss most: My family. Fortunately, I've got a big family and I will be back in time for Christmas
Dream camper: Ian Redmond, tropical field biologist and conservationist – he's a man who has absolutely adapted to life in the wild.
Stanley, father of the Foreign Secretary, said: "I am very much looking forward to it. I love Australia and I've done lots of different things in my life but I would say that I have not lived in a Jungle before."
Date of birth: October 30 1989
Phobias: Bugs!
Missing any special occasion: No my diary is clear.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: I've never really put myself out there so this is the first time people will get to see what I am really like which is a scary thought...
Role in the camp: I'd like to bring a bit of laughter to the jungle.
Miss most: My phone and sugar.
Dream camper: I can't wait to get to know everybody in there.
Vanessa said: "I'd actually been thinking about going travelling and doing something on my own. I was going to go on a yoga retreat.
"I'd always wanted to do this show but I didn't think it was going to be right now."
Jamie Lomas
Soapstar
Date of birth: April 21 1975
Phobias: Bugs, spiders and cockroaches crawling all over my head.
Missing any special occasion: My brother's 50th birthday.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: Everyone just knows me as this fictional character. I've always been a private person up until now.
Role in the camp: The joker who will cheer everyone up when they are feeling down.
Miss most: My children.
Dream camper: Margot Robbie.
The Ex-Hollyoaks star said: "I was actually asked about this years ago but it wasn't the right stage in my life. But it's been a good year with work and I really did feel now was the right time to branch out.
"I have finished on Hollyoaks now. I had to make a decision - whether to sign or take the gamble. The gamble was I wanted to do this. And I felt it came at the right time. And it has paid off because I am doing it."
Georgia 'Toff' Toffolo
(Image: ITV/PA Wire)
Made In Chelsea star
Phobias: Rats and mice. I am a real jumper.
Missing any special occasion: The Made In Chelsea finale episode.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: I think people reckon I am prim and proper.
Role in the camp : I am quite athletic, so I don't mind fetching the wood. I am not sure if I want to clean the toilet though.
Miss most: My family and food. I get snappy if I don't eat.
Dream camper: Boris Johnson. He would be funny.
She said she'll miss her Gran most: "I call her at least 20 times a day. When I look at my call log, her number is always on there. I phone her for advice on everything. I am really going to miss that."
I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! kicks off on ITV at 9pm on Sunday (November 19).
Ant & Dec
CheshireThe 11 best pubs in Cheshire, according to the AA Pub Guide 2020But is your local on the list?
TVLove Island: Molly-Mae Hague is the most popular Islander everMolly-Mae has accelerated to the top of the social media rankings, alongside her beau Tommy Fury
Ellesmere PortEllesmere Port preparing to stage Port Fest 2019 family extravaganzaThe event will take place in Whitby Park on August 25
Food & DrinkAinsley Harriott hosting Caribbean supper night at Waitrose ChesterHe's cooking up a storm
NantwichFirst Nantwich Pride event hailed a huge successThe crowds turned out to support the LGBTQ+ community in Nantwich


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Werk ohne Autor (2018)
Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer,
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
This house knows what makes you tick.
Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro,
Gumrah (1993)
Innocence trapped in the world of crime
Sanjay Dutt, Sridevi, Anupam Kher,
I Am Mother (2019)
Rose Byrne, Hilary Swank, Clara Rugaard,
Hotel Mumbai (2018)
Based on true events
Amandeep Singh, Suhail Nayyar, Manoj Mehra,
Fast Color (2018)
Set your power free.
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Saniyya Sidney, David Strathairn,
BOO! (2019)
You've been chosen.
Aurora Perrineau, Jaden Piner, Jill Marie Jones,
Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache,
Silence is the most powerful scream
Prabhu Deva, Gajaraj, Ramya Nambeeshan,
Malibu Express (1985)
Packing Heat From Texas To Malibu Beach!
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller,
Darby Hinton, Sybil Danning, Art Metrano,
Deadman Standing (2018)
Every man has a breaking point. Hyde Park was his.
Biography, Thriller, Western,
C. Thomas Howell, Viva Bianca, M.C. Gainey,
The Hurricane Heist (2018)
The ultimate storm for the perfect heist.
Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, Ryan Kwanten,
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,
Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille,
Ten years ago, they took our planet. Today, we take it back.
John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors,
Cargo (2017)
He is her only hope. And her greatest threat.
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Simone Landers, Martin Freeman, Marlee Jane McPherson-Dobbins,
Hard Time (1996)
John Bradley, Meilani Paul, Devin DeVasquez,
9-1-1 (2018)
What's your emergency? (Season 2)
Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Oliver Stark,
Pihu (2018)
Pihu Myra Vishwakarma, Prerna Vishwakarma,
Quiet Killer (1992)
The people of New York City face certain death. Dr. Nora Hart has five days to save them.
Kate Jackson, Al Waxman, Jeffrey Nordling,
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
The Enterprise is back. This time, have they gone too far?
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley,
Last Exit (2006)
On the road... Beware the rage within.
Kathleen Robertson, Andrea Roth, Noah Bernett,
Thirteen years captive. Forever scarred.
Jodie Comer, Valene Kane, Richard Rankin,
Shiki (2010)
Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Tôru Ohkawa, Koki Uchiyama, Kazuyuki Okitsu,
Phantoms (1998)
Fear Underground
Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going,
Hidden Passion (2000)
Romance, Thriller,
Kim Sill, Jonathan Fraser, Jason Schnuit,
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
Hungry for Some Snake?
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
David Hayter, Suzetta Miñet, Jim Piddock,
Crystal Inferno (2017)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller,
Claire Forlani, Jamie Bamber, Riley Jackson,
Killing Eve (2018)
Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Sean Delaney,
The Pool (2018)
No water. No Ladder. No Way Out.
Theeradej Wongpuapan, Ratnamon Ratchiratham,
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Failure impossible.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Peter Graves,
Animal Instincts (1992)
All you have to do... is watch.
Maxwell Caulfield, Jan-Michael Vincent, Shannon Whirry,
Homecoming (2009)
A girl never forgets her first love...
Drama, Horror, Sport, Thriller,
Mischa Barton, Matt Long, Jessica Stroup,
The First Purge (2018)
Witness the birth of an American tradition.
Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade,
Irupathiyonnaam Noottaandu (2019)
not A DON STORY
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller,
Pranav Mohanlal, Rachel David, Manoj K. Jayan,
C.B. Strike (2017)
Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan,
30 Miles from Nowhere (2018)
Carrie Preston, Birgundi Baker, Rob Benedict,
I Come in Peace (1990)
Jack Caine. Houston cop. Human. What he's up against, isn't.
Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley,
Walking Out (2017)
Survival Runs In Their Blood
Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Matt Bomer, Josh Wiggins, Bill Pullman,
The Heiresses (2018)
Your House. His Home.
Meagan Good, Dennis Quaid, Michael Ealy,
El cuaderno de Sara (2018)
Belén Rueda, Marian Álvarez, Iván Mendes,
Dark (2017)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Oliver Masucci, Karoline Eichhorn, Jördis Triebel,
The Commuter (2018)
Lives Are On The Line
Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson,
Let's Kill Uncle (1966)
LOVABLE OR LETHAL? Are they bad seeds...or frightened innocents caught in a diabolical duel with death!
Nigel Green, Mary Badham, Pat Cardi,
Triad Election (2006)
Even a criminal can serve his country
Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung,
Athiran (2019)
Fahadh Faasil, Sai Pallavi, Atul Kulkarni,
The Devil in the White City (0000)
We can't base our actions on what people told us not to do. Otherwise we'd never get anything done.
Hell Is a City (1960)
From Dives to Dames...From Nightsticks to Nightmares...From Dusk to Dawn...
Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence,
Point of Terror (1971)
Demons long locked in the depths of the mind come to destroy the weak and believing!
Peter Carpenter, Dyanne Thorne, Lory Hansen,


There was a period of snow this past Monday followed by a little more overnight to add up to another two inch snowfall this year. Here's a shot Kristy took in the front yard. It was definitely an elevation-dependent event… the bottom of the mountain had no snow!


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	/**
	 * Display a listing of the resource.
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	public function index()
	{
		$bookmarks = Bookmark::where('user_id', Auth::user()->id)->orderBy('id', 'desc')->paginate(10);

		return view('bookmarks.index', compact('bookmarks'));
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		$bookmark->account_id = $request->input("account_id");
		$bookmark->accountto_id = ($type_id == 3) ? $request->input("accountto_id") : null;
        $bookmark->category_id = ($type_id == 3) ? null : $request->input("category_id");
        $bookmark->subcategory_id = ($type_id == 3) ? null : $request->input("subcategory_id");
        $bookmark->type_id = $type_id;
        $vendor_id = $request->input("vendor_id");
        $bookmark->vendor_id = ($type_id == 3 || empty($vendor_id) || $vendor_id == 'undefined') ? null : $vendor_id;
		$bookmark->user_id = Auth::user()->id;

		$bookmark->save();

		return redirect()->route('bookmarks.index')->with('message', 'Item created successfully.');
	}

	/**
	 * Store a newly created resource from Transaction page in storage.
	 *
	 * @param Request $request
	 * @return Response
	 */
	public function storeFromTransaction(Request $request, $id)
	{
		$bookmark = new Bookmark();

		$type_id = $request->old("type_id");
		$amount = str_replace(',', '.', str_replace('.', '', $request->old("amount")));
        $bookmark->amount = ($type_id == 1) ? $amount * -1 : $amount;
        $bookmark->account_id = $request->old("account_id");
		$bookmark->accountto_id = ($type_id == 3) ? $request->old("accountto_id") : null;
        $bookmark->category_id = ($type_id == 3) ? null : $request->old("category_id");
        $bookmark->subcategory_id = ($type_id == 3) ? null : $request->old("subcategory_id");
        $bookmark->type_id = $type_id;
        $vendor_id = $request->old("vendor_id");
        $bookmark->vendor_id = ($type_id == 3 || empty($vendor_id) || $vendor_id == 'undefined') ? null : $vendor_id;
        $bookmark->note = $request->old("note");
        $bookmark->user_id = Auth::user()->id;

		$bookmark->save();

		return redirect()->route('transactions.edit', $id)->with('message', 'Bookmark created successfully.');
	}

	/**
	 * Display the specified resource.
	 *
	 * @param  int  $id
	 * @return Response
	 */
	public function show($id)
	{
		$bookmark = Bookmark::findOrFail($id);

		return view('bookmarks.show', compact('bookmark'));
	}

	/**
	 * Show the form for editing the specified resource.
	 *
	 * @param  int  $id
	 * @return Response
	 */
	public function edit($id)
	{
		$bookmark = Bookmark::findOrFail($id);

		return view('bookmarks.edit', compact('bookmark'));
	}

	/**
	 * Update the specified resource in storage.
	 *
	 * @param  int  $id
	 * @param Request $request
	 * @return Response
	 */
	public function update(Request $request, $id)
	{
		$bookmark = Bookmark::findOrFail($id);

		$bookmark->account_id = $request->input("account_id");
        $bookmark->accountto_id = $request->input("accountto_id");
        $bookmark->category_id = $request->input("category_id");
        $bookmark->subcategory_id = $request->input("subcategory_id");
        $bookmark->type_id = $request->input("type_id");
        $bookmark->vendor_id = $request->input("vendor_id");

		$bookmark->save();

		return redirect()->route('bookmarks.index')->with('message', 'Item updated successfully.');
	}

	/**
	 * Remove the specified resource from storage.
	 *
	 * @param  int  $id
	 * @return Response
	 */
	public function destroy($id)
	{
		$bookmark = Bookmark::findOrFail($id);
		$bookmark->delete();

		return redirect()->route('bookmarks.index')->with('message', 'Item deleted successfully.');
	}

}

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Introduction: Oxidative stress due to reactive oxygen species often leads to pathogenesis of chronic diseases such as cancer. Research states that a diet rich in polyphenols renders many health benefits by scavenging such harmful reactive species. Celosia argentea (Amaranthaceae), a common weed in India has been reported as a potential source of cheap, natural antioxidants due to its phenolic abundance. In this research work efforts were made to identify and screen the phenolic rich fractions of Celosia argentea for their antioxidant and anticancer potential. Materials and Methods: Various solvent fractions with increasing polarity were subjected to total phenolic content, followed by antioxidant assays- DPPH, ABTS and anti proliferative assays- Brine shrimp Bioassay, Antimitotic and MTT assays. Results: IC50 value of methanolic fraction for DPPH assay was statistically significant (26.25; ***P<0.001) when compared with ascorbic acid (12.50; ***P<0.001). Also TEAC values for methanolic fraction and BHT (standard) for ABTS assay were similar (2.1; ***P<0.001) Methanolicfraction at 400 μg/ml exhibited strong cytotoxicity (9.0 ± 0.81; ***P<0.001) against brine shrimps comparable to Methotrexate at 50 μg/ml(10; ***P<0.001) and significantly reduced mitotic index from 96.8 to 38.0 (***P<0.001) which was further confirmed by MTT assay where IC50 value of methanolic fraction for SiHa and MCF-7 cells was found to be 28 μg/ml with no cytotoxicity to normal cells proving its anticancer potential. Conclusion: This research proves antioxidant and anticancer potential of phenolic rich fraction of Celosia argentea and suggests it to be useful in cancer management as antifroliferative, chemo preventive and in cancer chemotherapy induced immune suppression and oxidative stress.
Key words: Antioxidant, Brine shrimp, Mitotic index, MTT, Phenolics.
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Rub RA, Patil MJ, Siddiqui AA, Ghorpade PR, Moghe AS.


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Can a Book Review Save these People?
THE 2019 Book Review Every Country Needs: Exposing Islam's Biggest Secret
How do ground-breaking facts permanently shatter secrets and change lives for billions of mothers, fathers, daughters and sons, within 22 minutes? This book review unveiling the specifics taught by an authoritative scholar in Sunni Islam today reveals exactly how and why 6:158 of the Qur'an was given more than 1000 years ago, to irrefutably confirm non-divinity of the Qur'an and Sunni Islam's complete lack of authority or credibility.
It will help you understand:
~ How and why not knowing fundamental information for more than 1000 years can affect trillions of decisions daily
~ Problems affecting more than 180 countries in many fields including societies and governments and schools
~ Why accurate context is crucial to helping you figure out the right questions.
In honour of Raif Badawi: Problems needing solutions, all connected to one topic
Shift The Script can see the network of problems far more clearly than most people, and below is a short list from a much-longer list covering issues suffered by real victims, bound by a common problem and in need of a solution:
~ Saudi Arabia teenager Murtaja Qureiris of the Shiite minority faces death penalty for taking part in protest when he was 10-years-old.
~ According to report commissioned by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Christians are being persecuted to genocidal levels in the Middle East
~ 7 years to this day, Raif Badawi was arrested. His family is still waiting in Canada to be reunited with him.
~ Women's rights and freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia: woefully terrible.
~ More than 1 million people in more than 200 countries have signed a petition condemning the injustice handed down to Nasrin Sotoudeh by Iran's government, and demand her freedom. 30 years of jail and more than 100 lashes is inhumane.
Connecting problems today powering dysrationalia: CIA, media, education
Dysrationalia affects many people every day, and many people are unaware of how they display dysrationalia. How do we learn skills, to hone rational intelligence and overcome dysrationalia? What are the consequences of dysrationalia? What are the causes of dysrationala?
From "The Intelligence Trap" by science journalist David Robson, we know people from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industralised, Rich, Democratic) countries are more likely to be blinded by individual biases and egocentric thinking. In "12 Rules For Life" by Dr. Jordan Peterson, the foreword explores the problems of advocating a key modern philosophy about how "everything is relative", instead of Aristotle's virtues and vices in "Nicomachean Ethics" as an example of a system refining a never-ending process of making vital distinctions and connections.
Education creates solutions. Education can also create problems. The need to teach a shared set of societal values, rules and skills for rational intelligence should be a primary part of every schooling system today, so children and adults can understand the importance of intellectual integrity and intellectual humility to counter dysrationalia.
Humans have 7 rules which the majority are able to relate to, according to Oliver Scott Curry at Oxford's Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology. They are:
Two Neighboring Countries in Southeast Asia and fasting controversies in Ramadan
What do you know about Malaysia, Singapore and Ramadan? Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country which adheres to Sunni Islam, and the majority of Muslims are Sunni Muslims who adhere to the Shafi'I school of Islamic Jurisprudence. Singapore is a country with a secular constitution where Muslims are a minority, and the majority of Muslims are Sunni Muslims who adhere to the Shafi'I school of Islamic jurisprudence. Other differences and similarities abound between these 2 countries, and Ramadan 2019 was an example.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar observed by Muslims globally as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community. A celebration of the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad, the annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam and lasts twenty-nine to thirty days, from one visual sighting of the sickle moon to the next. While fasting from dawn until sunset, devotees refrain from food, drink, smoking, physical relations, and immoral behavior that may repeal the reward of fasting striving to purify themselves and improve their taqwa (good deeds and God-consciousness).


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