George Huntzinger is CEO and partner of The Huntzinger Management Group.
You've been in the business a long time. Tell me what lessons you've learned that newcomers would benefit from hearing.
The consulting business is really an interesting business. I've been in it since … I'm going to say 1984. Actually, it was probably before that because we did consulting at one of the software companies I ran prior to that. But it's not an easy thing to do. A lot of people go out and try and start consulting companies from scratch. They do it with minimal experience and they find out right away that there's a real science to doing this.
I think it takes people with some good experience who have had the opportunity to work for large organizations and have been successful at what they've been doing before. Who have had a good track record and mentors and people that have coached them along through the whole process. Who have experienced all the various things that you can conceivably experience in virtually growing and building a consulting business that is servicing whatever market or markets they choose to serve.
I guess the key thing is experience. It's having been there, done that, and having enough experience to know that when you're going at something, you know when to stop investing when you hit something that isn't worth investing in, and knowing where to accelerate investing when it makes sense to crank up the burner a little bit from a financial perspective. To go at something hard and go at it hard in the right markets, and usually come out on top of that — if you read it right.
People start up their own small consulting outfits because they need a job or just wanted to work for themselves. How many of those succeed? What does it take to make a real firm out of it and not just a few people selling time?
What I think is really interesting is the world's kind of a funny place and there's space in it for everyone, so to speak. We have employees today that only want to be employees and never want to do anything. They're very good consultants. They enjoy doing what they do and they never want to aspire beyond being the best consultant that they can be and they always want to be employees.
Then there's other folks that we bring into solutions that we're providing to our clients and they come in as subcontractors, so they single-shingle it. There's some people that single-shingle it, but don't want to be anything more than just that. I guess they want the freedom of being an independent. They want to be able to move around, and they want to be able to operate solely as a business as a sole-proprietor.
You'll find a tremendous amount of consultants out there that fall into that category. They're not really interested in doing much beyond that other than taking on an engagement or two that might require one or two of their buddies to come into it that they know, to help them to fulfill something they can't fulfill by themselves. I can name twenty people in that category today that just, are satisfied doing that.
What would be the advantages or disadvantages of a really small, maybe even a one-person shop, versus a real ongoing concern?
I think a lot of it has to do with freedom. As an employee, you're wrapped up in all the controls that are put on you as an employee. So you've got your vacation limitation, you have your personal day limitation, you've got whatever benefits that people are putting in front of you — they're the benefits you get. It's the package that you're buying.
You're also buying security when you're part of that, so that's a really nice plan for people who also need people to be around them to prosper and grow. They're not as independent in their thinking, whereas when you walk on the — I'll call it the subcontractor or independent consultant — side of the fence, where they're a small business unto themselves, they have basically ultimate freedom. They can buy whatever benefit package they want to buy. They can spend as much or little on it as they want. They can take as much vacation as they want to take. They can work on a project, then take a month off if they want to.
There are freedoms there that you have, but yet still get to work on projects with people and do things and interact and interplay with various resources. You know, fulfill that side of the needs in your life.
Should a customer care about if somebody makes a pitch and says, "Hey, it's just me and I'm hands-on and you get me and not somebody else. I'm cheaper by the hour"?
It all depends on what the customer is buying. It's a good question. Our business, we're not a staff augmentation company, so that's not where our head is today. I'll just speak by way of example. We're an advisory and management services company, where we assume full accountability and responsibility for either running a given function or running a given project or function. We're taking on that role. Whenever you take on that role, they want somebody who's really committed and there, and has a little depth behind the organization.
Because when you put that transaction together, there's usually a little bit of risk that you'll take and put some deliverables at stake. Some risk for meeting certain deadlines or making certain deliverables happen, or achieving certain goals that you lay out in your contract. They're going to want some meat around that when they contract with you. That's usually not a good environment for an independent, sole practitioner to flow into.
They'll usually contract with the Huntzinger Management Group for a project that takes on and maybe requires six or seven resources to be deployed because you're assuming full responsibility for accomplishing whatever it is they want you to accomplish. In that, you may bring in four employees and two subcontractors, but the Huntzinger Management Group is 100% at risk for doing that. The client is more willing to sign up with an organization who does that for a living, whereas an individual usually fills a staff aug spot.
Or, if they're a project manager, they'll usually not take on a key leadership role as a project manager. They'll be a project manager as part of a team. There might be seven or eight project managers onboard along with a project director that oversees everything. It's very hard for an individual to take on full accountability and responsibility for a given thing because they don't have total control of it.
Do you think the cycle will ever end where consulting firms sell out to bigger companies, then bring back most of the people to form another consulting company?
You know, everything has a life cycle, doesn't it? What we've experienced in the 20-25 years that I've been running consulting or running businesses … I spent a good portion of my career at Computer Sciences Corporation and I ran their healthcare business for 14 years. When we started there it was $10 million, when we left there was close to $400 million, so it was a nice run.
You saw Superior grow and prosper. You saw First Consulting and Healthlink or IMT Healthlink kind of grow and prosper, and then all get absorbed into these larger corporations. It's interesting because a lot of the larger corporations create an environment that … they're great companies, they're great organizations, but for whatever the reason, it's hard for certain consultants to grow and prosper in that environment.
It is not the same $100 million or $150-$250 million company that they were working in before, where it's a little bit more family-oriented, less bureaucratic. There's not this big umbrella of policies, procedures, and regimentation that lays over the top of it. They're accustomed to having a little bit more of a free-form environment.
So these big organizations bottom and the next thing you know, it doesn't work for a few very talented people. They spin off and go and start it over, as you see in the market today.
I don't know how many new starts are out there today. We're one of them. There's a lot of people that go at it from different angles, but there are a lot of companies under $30 million today that are forming again. They'll go through their cycle where next year, a few of them will consolidate. The year after, a few more consolidate, and then maybe they'll get bought by the bigger guys again, whoever is there at that time.
You do business consulting for healthcare IT vendors. What kinds of trends are you seeing there?
We do business consulting on two fronts. We serve the supply side of the market and for the most part, it's 99% healthcare. And when I say the supply side, I'm talking about those organizations that sell solutions or services to healthcare providers or payers. They come in the form of software companies, IT outsourcing companies, business process outsourcing companies, and even various forms of consulting companies.
There's all different types of consulting companies. They all have a different set of needs than the provider side, so our strategy is a two-legged strategy. The first leg is selling to the supply side of the equation. I'll talk about what we do there. The second leg is selling primarily to the provider side, the hospitals and health systems, and I'll cover that in just a second.
But on the supply side, what their needs are: they are businesses that are trying to grow in their own discipline. They're attempting to serve a client base. They have all the needs that a business has, in that they have to have a good business strategy, good marketing strategy, a good positioning strategy. They need an operating model that is efficient and effective. What we do for those organizations is help them improve their shareholder value or the overall value that they bring to, if it's a not-for-profit, whoever the organization is that they're serving.
We do business strategy, marketing strategy, operations analysis, and improvement work. We usually start out with various forms of assessments, whether it's a business assessment or a functional assessment. We've done a number of those over the last couple of years for this. In fact, probably 50% of my client base today are suppliers to healthcare provider or payer sector. Our job is to help them become more effective and efficient in how they go at their particular market or niche.
On the provider side, for the most part, we concentrate on IT. As I said, we're an advisory and management services company; we're not a staff augmentation business. We're pretty high level in the IT organization. We do not have any barriers around size of organization, so we serve, I'll say, not-for-profit organizations, $100 million not-for-profit hospitals to $2.5-billion large academic medical centers. We do everything from IT assessments, IT strategy, IT operations improvement work. We will take on the responsibility for running various functions within IT. We will also do, when I say take on the responsibility, also for projects. Everything from doing full selections or contract negotiation to overseeing the implementation of the solution we selected.
I have readers who run small startups. What needs do those small companies have and what mistakes do they make?
It's rather interesting. There are a lot of software companies servicing the healthcare market today that are less than $10 million in revenue. They usually come out in the market with a solution. They've got a technology-based solution. They've got a couple of engineers that figured out how to build something that they're taking to the market. There's usually a need for it and they line up several customers. They start getting some traction, but they're doing it in such a way that it's kind of a shoestring approach to starting a business. They're not necessarily capitalized very well.
So they got going, they've got traction, and they did it not necessarily in the most optimum manner. Now it's how do I take the solution set that I have today and really blow it out? If it has national market opportunity and maybe they've got a couple million dollars worth of business, they have five clients, and you take a look at that. You do an assessment of their business and you find out that wow, these folks have built a great solution. But what they lack is how to take that solution in a grand way and really get exponential growth, how to take them from $2 million to $15 million in an 18-month period.
What we help them do is think through their business strategy, their marketing strategy. The marketing strategy includes how they effectively position themselves in the market, how they go after competition effectively, what's the proper pricing strategy for their solution set. What's the best way to increase the awareness and consideration of the buying population out there so that they get a fair hit rate and get that accelerated growth curve going?
That's what we do and that's one of the biggest problems that I think are confronting these smaller companies. We help them think through that and we will actually develop the tactical plans necessary to take them from their current state to that future state. They want us to oversee it in either a mentoring role or take on the responsibility as a senior executive of their organization to see it through. We've done that numerous times and we'll do it again.
You've seen a lot of people and a lot of companies in the industry. What companies and people in healthcare IT do you admire?
I have been in this industry a long time, since 1969. I worked for and spent a good number of years at Geisinger Medical Center and spent 14 years of my formative years at Geisinger. I have a tremendous amount of respect for that organization. I like their model. They're modeled after Mayo, but they've kind of went beyond that and they have their own model today. There are some people there, I'm not going to name them all, but there's some people I've learned an awful lot from and a few of them are still there. I really have a great deal of respect for that organization.
When I did a long span, a 14-year span at CSC, Van Honeycutt, who was my boss for quite a few years , ended up being the CEO and chairman of the board there. I just learned a tremendous amount about how to run a business there and run it through thick and thin and have always been successful at running businesses in good and bad times. I attribute that an awful lot to not just Van, but a number of other executives that I had the opportunity to work with at Computer Sciences Corporation.
Rich Helppie and myself worked real closely together at Superior. I think we learned a lot from each other and we learned how to basically take that business and get it turned around and repositioned and take it forward. Whether it's Rich or a couple of the partners that I work with today, I have a tremendous amount of respect for, and that's why they're my partners today. They are what made Superior successful as we came out of the turn there and began building not only a consulting business, but a really nice IT outsourcing and recurring revenue stream that we later sold to ACS. I can go on and name a hundred people, but I always learn from the people around me and hopefully they learn a little bit from me.
My goodness, I just want to say thanks for the opportunity to have this interview today. I greatly, greatly appreciate that.
I just really and truly enjoy serving the healthcare sector. I've been in it all my life and I just thought it would be a lot of fun cranking an organization up on our own. We have four very good partners. I should probably take myself out of that category. I have three terrific partners, and we all have been there, done that kind of people. We've all run various businesses or parts of businesses and we're very good at what we do and we're all just having a ball doing this.
One thing I've heard is that when IBM bought Healthlink, they instiuted a policy in which if you were on the bench for more than 30 days you were laid off.
One of the few reason is makes sense to let a firm bill you out at 150/hr and pay you 50/hr (100k a year) is if the firm assumes the responsibility of paying you even when business is slow. It seems some of the bigger firms don't realize how that sort of behavior undermines their sole reason for being.
I've known George for almost 20 years. He is an expert in operations, business development and many more aspects of healthcare.
I know him to be a person who cares deeply about his clients personally and professionaly. And this is why he and his team are great consultants!


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Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
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Guest Essayist: Tony Williams
In the early 1830s, the city of Baltimore was developing as a bustling urban center and port. The city diverted the streams around John Barron's successful wharf and lowered the water level, which negatively impacted his business. He sued the city to recover his financial losses.
Barron claimed that the city government had taken his property without just compensation. Property rights were an essential natural right and constitutional liberty protected by the Fifth Amendment. The amendment protects individuals against having their property taken without their consent.
"No persons shall be…deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
The case however raised even more significant issues than whether Barron had his property unjustly taken. Chief Justice John Marshall saw an opportunity in this relatively minor local case to examine the character of the Bill of Rights and the parameters of the principle of federalism in the relationship of the national government and the states in the early republic.
Marshall was well-suited to explore the origin of the Bill of Rights and federalism since he had been one of James Madison's key allies among the Federalists arguing for ratification of the Constitution at the Virginia ratifying convention. Indeed, Madison had been integral to the creation of the Bill of Rights, even though he had a curious relationship with it. Madison had predicated his constitution-making in the 1780s upon a belief that most of the violations of rights were occurring in the states.
Madison had prepared for the Constitutional Convention by examining the defects of the Articles of Confederation in his "Vices of the Political System." In the document, Madison thought that the tyranny of the majority in the states resulted in unjust laws that violated individual liberties. For example, he witnessed the persecution suffered by religious minorities in Virginia, which guided his fight for the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. In "Vices," he wrote:
If the multiplicity and mutability of laws prove a want of wisdom, their injustice betrays a defect still more alarming: more alarming not merely because it is a greater evil in itself, but because it brings more into question the fundamental principle of republican Government, that the majority who rule in such Governments, are the safest Guardians both of public Good and of private rights.
At the Constitutional Convention, Madison fought vigorously for a national veto over the laws of the states to prevent violations of rights, but he lost that battle. When the Constitutional Convention was wrapping up its work in the summer of 1787, George Mason proposed a bill of rights. Madison and the other delegates were generally opposed. As he told Thomas Jefferson, "the rights in question are reserved by the manner in which the federal powers are granted." In other words, the federal government was limited to its enumerated constitutional powers and not authorized to violate individual liberties. Madison fought the inclusion of "prior amendments," or a bill of rights, as a condition for ratification throughout the entire debate over ratifying the Constitution.
However, with great irony, Madison became the leading voice for a bill of rights in the First Congress. In his June 8, 1789 speech to Congress proposing a bill of rights, Madison gave several reasons for doing so, but asserted, "I wish also, in revising the constitution, we may throw into that section, which interdicts the abuse of certain powers in the state legislatures…I think there is more danger of those powers being abused by the state governments than by the government of the United States."
One of Madison's great objects in constitution-making had been to guard against encroachments of liberties by state governments. But, Madison lost the national veto at the Constitutional Convention, and he lost the battle to apply the Bill of Rights to the states. The Bill of Rights applied only to the national government.
In Barron v. Baltimore (1833), John Marshall confirmed that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states. The opinion of the unanimous Court ruled against Barron and supported the principle of federalism. For example, several New England states had constitutional establishments of religion some forty years after the Bill of Rights was ratified. State governments had their own constitutions and bills of rights.
The application of the Bill of Rights to the states only occurred with the gradual "incorporation" of the Bill of Rights by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which read: "Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment, although it was aimed at protecting the rights of African Americans as a "Civil War Amendment," assumed much larger implications in the Court. Beginning with two decisions prior to the twentieth century, but accelerating rapidly from the 1920s through the 1960s, the Supreme Court expanded the reach of the Bill of Rights. The Court ruled, one right at a time, that almost all provisions of the Bill of Rights are "fundamental and essential in the concept of ordered liberty," and thus apply against state and local laws just as they limit the federal government. Madison's view that the federal government should prevent encroachments of liberties by state governments, won the day through court decisions. However, this development was too late to help John Barron. The incorporation doctrine became a highly contentious principle of jurisprudence. On one hand, supporters point out the liberties that were protected as a result. On the other hand, opponents point out the significant contribution made to the erosion of the principle of federalism in the twentieth century.
Barron v. Baltimore (1833) Supreme Court decision:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/32/243/case.html
Tony Williams is a Constituting America Fellow and the author of five books including Washington & Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America.
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Publius Senex Dassault says:
Thank you for the essay.
The author correctly states that Madison had a curious relationship to the BoRs. As noted he opposed it at the Federal convention and during rebates at the Virginia convention for ratification. he argued then that powers not enumerated as Federal in the Constitution were manifestly prohibited from being exercised by the federal government. P. Henry and others argued that if not enumerated or prohibited then it was logical that the Federal Gov't would seek to exercise them. Madison was also very concerned that following a rigorous 4-5 months of drafting of the Constitution ,there simply was not enough energy and compromise left to draft a BoRs.
To Madison's' credit he did hear the concerns of Henry other in Virginia and other prominent statesmen. When he was voted to serve in the 1st House of Representatives he labored tirelessly to set adopting a BoRs as 1st priority, even before budgets, and every other concern and against the objections of long time allies. He convinced hsi colleagues that the people had ratified the Constitution with the expectation that the Legislature would use the amendment clauses to adopt a BoR within the 1st term. Not doing so would put the Constitutions permanency in dire straits.
Madison won out and we have a BoRs. Thankfully so because Henry was right. As we have seen, even with the BoRs the Federal gov't in all three branches have begun to steal away our rights under a confluence of irrational thought. W/o the BoR were would be?
Willson v. Black Bird Creek Marsh Company (1829) Craig v. Missouri (1830)

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Q: $\dim(\ker\varphi\cap\ker\psi)=n-2$ proof
Let $V$ be a vector space of dimension $n$ over the field $K$. Let $\psi,\varphi$ be two non-zero functionals on $V$. Assume that there is no element $c\in K$,$c\neq 0$ such that $\psi=c\varphi$, Show that:
$(\ker\varphi)\:\cap\:(\ker\psi)$
has dimension $n-2$

I know $\dim V=\dim Im+\dim \ker$, in which $Im$ is image. We can apply this equation because $V$ is finite-dimensional.
$\dim(\ker\varphi)=n-1\\\dim(\ker\psi)=n-1$
If $\{v_1,v_2...v_n\}$ is a basis of V.
As we are dealing with linear functionals we can write:
$\varphi(v)=\langle v_i^{*},v\rangle$ in which $v$ stands for all vectors in $V$ and $v_i^{*}\in V^{*}$ the dual space.
$\psi(v)=\langle v_j^{*},v\rangle$ in which $v$ stands for all vectors in $V$ and $v_j^{*}\in V^{*}$ the dual space.
As $\psi=c\varphi$ for no $c\in K,c\neq 0$, so $v_i^{*}\neq v_j^{*}$
The orthogonal vectors in $V$ to $v_i^{*}$ are different from the orthogonal vectors in $V$ to $v_j^{*}$. So the statement is proven.$\blacksquare$
Questions:
1) Could someone check if my proof is right?
2) Is there any improvement recommended?
Thanks in advance!

A:
I know $\dim V=\dim Im+\dim \ker$

Then that's all you need.
Hint: Consider the map $T:V  \to K^2$ defined by $T(v) = (\phi(v),\psi(v))$.  Verify that $\ker(T) = \ker(\phi) \cap \ker(\psi)$.  Use the fact that there is no such constant $c$ to show that $\operatorname{Im}(T) = K^2$.
One approach is to note that
$$
\psi = c \phi \iff (c,-1) \in \operatorname{Im}(T)^\perp
$$

Proof: Consider the map $T:V  \to K^2$ defined by $T(v) = (\phi(v),\psi(v))$.  This is a linear map [show that this is true].  The kernel of $T$ is $\ker(\phi) \cap \ker(\psi)$ [show that this is true].  By the rank nullity theorem (that is, because $\dim V=\dim Im+\dim \ker$), we know that the kernel of $T$ has dimension at least $n-2$ and at most $n$.
Now, suppose for the purpose of contradiction that the dimension of the kernel of $T$ is at least $n-1$.  Then the image of $T$ has dimension at most $1$.  So, there exists a $c \in K\setminus \{0\}$ such that we can write
$$
\operatorname{Im}(T) \subseteq \{(x_1,x_2) \in K^2 : cx_1 - x_2 = 0\}
$$
(argue this part carefully!) However, this would mean that for all $v \in V$, we have
$$
c \varphi(v) - \psi(v) = 0
$$
which would mean that $\psi = c \varphi$, contradicting our premise.

A: "If {v1,v2...vn}{v1,v2...vn} is the basis of $V$.
We know the $\ker ψ=\{v_1,v_2...v_n\}−v_a$ and $\kerφ=\{v_1,v_2...v_n\}−v_b$ ."
This sentence is false. An arbitrary basis of $V$ will not satisfy this.
Perhaps a good aproach would be using Riesz' Representation Theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz_representation_theorem

A: I have multiple concerns. Brace yourself!

*

*There is no "the" basis for $V$. Most vector spaces have multiple bases (in most cases, infinitely many).

*Unless you construct a basis $(v_1, \ldots, v_n)$ carefully, it may well be the case that $\phi(v_i) \neq 0$ for all $i$. Take for example, $V = \mathbb{R}^2$, $v_1 = (1, 0)$, $v_2 = (0, 1)$, $\phi(x, y) = x + y$.

*I don't see what is gained by introducing the $\langle \cdot, \cdot
\rangle$ notation. Are you just renaming $\phi, \psi$?

*"Orthogonal" doesn't mean much in this context. Are we an an inner product space?

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De Grand Prix van Monaco 1948 was een autorace die werd gehouden op 16 mei 1948 op het Circuit de Monaco.

Uitslag

Monaco
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Q: Failures in streaming handling of requests - what happens to connection? The documentation for akka-http explains that it is important to consume a request stream entirely since bytes that are not pulled will be interpreted as backpressure (https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/implications-of-streaming-http-entity.html). When you know beforehand that the stream can be ignored you should use discardEntityBytes, or otherwise read it fully. There is also the option of closing the connection by attaching the stream to a Sink.cancelled.
My question is what happens when the stream fails.

*

*Is the stream drained or is the connection closed? Or is it the responsibility of the implementation to recover from errors and either drain or close the connection? If so, what is a good code pattern for this?

*Does it matter if a request is completed with a Future or if the response is streaming?

*What if, instead of an unexpected failure, you determine half-way through the stream that the rest of the stream can be ignored. Is throwing an exception a good way of stopping stream processing?

Example completing with a future:
val route =
    post {
        extractDataBytes { data =>
            complete {
                data
                    .via(flow1)
                    .via(flow2) // say error happens here at some point
                    .runwWith(sink)
            }
        }
    }

A: If the server connection is having problem then connection will be automatically closed.


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  def test_normal_text
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from django.contrib import admin
from almostSignificant.models import Sample, Project, Run

class sampleAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ("QCStatus","overrepresentedSequences","sampleReference",\
            "sampleName", "readNumber","libraryReference","trimmed" )
    list_display = ("sampleReference","sampleName","readNumber","run","lane","project",\
                    "libraryReference","reads","overrepresentedSequences","QCStatus")
    search_fields = ("sampleReference","sampleName","libraryReference")

class runAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ("runName","date","length","notes")
    list_display = ("runName","date","length")
    search_fields = ("date","runName")

class projectAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ("project","projectPROID","notes")
    list_display = ("project","projectPROID")
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admin.site.register(Sample, sampleAdmin)
admin.site.register(Run, runAdmin)
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Modern day slavery and human trafficking
On 28 August, two men were arrested and jointly charged with 11 counts of people trafficking by means of deception. One of the men is facing seven further trafficking charges and is jointly charged with a third man with 36 charges of providing false or misleading information to a refugee status officer.
The defendants pleaded not guilty on 4 September1 with the hearing set down for November. It is alleged that the trio had trafficked at least 18 men from India to New Zealand to exploit them in the viticulture industry and had been filing false refugee claims to do so.
The significance of the case as the first to go to prosecution in New Zealand should not be understated, but equally, we should consider whether it is merely the tip of the iceberg and New Zealand should have growing concern about human trafficking and forced labour exploitation in this country.
To do this, I will outline a number of alleged incidences of trafficking, outline current anti-trafficking laws and briefly outline the main insufficiencies in law and policy that have, to date, stopped trafficking cases from being successfully prosecuted.
Human trafficking is a method used to abduct, kidnap, transport, transfer, hold and move victims to sell or exploit in one of the many forms of modern day slavery.
These include forced labour, domestic servitude, forced prostitution, child sexual exploitation, forced marriages, sweatshop labour, organ harvesting, forced surrogacy, and other activities. The scope of human trafficking continues to grow globally, and at-risk industries in New Zealand include agriculture, fisheries, farming, hospitality, viticulture, nursing, entertainment and sex work.2
Trafficking in New Zealand?
Stories of abuse and exploitation are becoming more commonplace and high profile allegations have been made that trafficking has been taking place in New Zealand since 2004.3
These allegations include the fact that foreign men – largely from Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand – are subjected to forced labour conditions aboard our foreign charter vessels in New Zealand waters. Alleged conditions include confiscation of passports, imposition of significant debts, physical violence, mental abuse, excessive hours of work and sexual abuse.4
In addition, some Asian and Pacific Island individuals migrate to work in our agriculture or viticulture industries but find themselves exploited.5 Workers have reported being charged excessive and escalating recruitment fees, unjustified salary deductions and restrictions on their movement, passport confiscation, contracts altered or being subjected to changes in working conditions without their permission. 6
In the Bay of Plenty, Indian nationals are recruited to set up "shell" companies and recruit workers from India and promise them jobs in the "shell" companies. Once they arrive in New Zealand, the workers are forced to pay a significant bond and to work as fruit pickers for a pittance, compared with what was agreed. If they don't comply or challenge the recruiters they are threatened with deportation or beatings or both.
In Christchurch there are some recruitment and small construction companies who are exploiting Filipino labourers. One instance was where the recruitment firm recruited a number of labourers, and when still in the Philippines the workers agreed to paying an amount for a "toolbox" but the amount was not stipulated. They signed a contract before leaving the Philippines. This was the contract given to Immigration New Zealand to obtain a visa for the worker.
Upon their arrival in New Zealand, the worker's contracts were replaced and the worker felt without the option to refuse to sign it.
The new contract set out the schedule of expenses of the toolbox and set out the figure at $7,700 per worker and included a "debt bondage" clause that stipulated if the worker left the agency before the end of their three-year term, they would be liable to pay US$10,000 to the company. The company confiscated and held the passports of the men and put them in overcrowded accommodation while charging out an unreasonable amount of $155 per week for such accommodation.7
In 2001 a Thai woman contacted Immigration New Zealand and claimed she had been trafficked and forced into prostitution.
She said she had been promised a job in a restaurant in return for payment of NZ$10,000 at 36% interest. Upon her arrival, her money, return tickets and passport was confiscated, and she was forced to live in overcrowded conditions with 14 other women.
She paid $150 per week in rent for space in a room with six other women and worked 14-hour days, seven days a week in forced prostitution. She never saw any money as it was all taken to repay her "debt".
Within a week of coming forward, she was repatriated and no charges of any kind were brought against anyone.
Then in 2004, three girls were trafficked into Auckland by Ukrainian organised crime and one was arrested and charged with being in possession of a false Israeli passport (she had been previously trafficked to Israel).
She was acquitted due to her being a trafficking victim but no charges were laid against her traffickers.8
Around 2006, a 15-year-old was seduced by a brothel operator. He deceived her into thinking he was 20-something and in love with her and she would live with him. His intention was to exploit her in his brothel, which he did, and he was prosecuted under the Prostitution Reform Act 2003.9
However, due to a lack of recognition in law of internal trafficking, no trafficking charges were brought nor could they, even today. Recently, in June 2014, a Miami-based pimp and trafficker was convicted of sex trafficking and money laundering, and significantly, one of his victims was a New Zealander who helped to secure his conviction.10 It follows, therefore, that there may be issues of labour exploitation, slavery and trafficking.
The Crimes Act11 defines human trafficking as the use of coercion or deception to arrange or attempt to arrange the entry of a person into New Zealand or another State,12 whereas the Trafficking Protocol13 defines trafficking as:
"The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs".
The New Zealand legislation does not currently recognise domestic or internal trafficking and does not include the purpose of the offence, exploitation.
Further, New Zealand made a commitment under the Trafficking Protocol to have adequate penalties and to strictly enforce these penalties and provide victims with a chance to be heard in a case against their offenders.
The Ministry of Justice has included an amendment to the trafficking provision under the Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Legislation Bill, which will amend the provision to be compliant with the Protocol and recognise domestic trafficking.
But issues of providing avenues for victims to obtain access to justice must be considered and greater emphasis given to enforcement and proactive investigation of trafficking in New Zealand.
Limited reach
The Prostitution Reform Act 2003 provides rights and protections of adult consenting sex workers but it was not drafted with trafficking or labour exploitation in mind. As such, it has a very limited reach and cannot be used against trafficking.14
The Employment Relations framework requires that for an employee to have access to the minimum employment rights, a contract for service is required to establish an employment relationship.
In some situations, the worker may not have a direct relationship with the employer and in this situation, as affirmed byOntrack,15the Courts will apply the factual inquiry pursuant to s 6(2) of the Employment Relations Act 2000, and the Bryson16 test. Although there is the legislation relating to the definition of an employee, a considerable overlay of judge-made law may be necessary.
The difficulty with this is that in some circumstances, and particularly in reference to labour exploitation, the worker will be required to instruct a lawyer in order to obtain a finding that he or she is deemed an employee and should have access to the minimum employment rights.
The particular vulnerabilities of exploited migrants and trafficked victims mean that access to justice will, therefore, in many cases prove difficult and they will not be able to challenge the initial actions of an oppressive employer by citing that the law protects them, because it does not (at this stage).
In summary, New Zealand has significant gaps and insufficiencies in our law and a severe lack of protection for the victims of trafficking and slavery.
While the amendment to the trafficking provisions of the Crimes Act 1961 is a first step in helping to protect victims of trafficking, there is no real set of protections for victims of trafficking, slavery or serious labour exploitation in New Zealand.
Furthermore, there is a lack of proactive investigation of these offences.
If the Nelson case is a successful prosecution then it may serve as an encouragement to other victims to come forward to call for justice against those who have perpetrated gross exploitation and abuse against them.
This may, ultimately, lead to growth in prosecutions and result in victim support services being created and greater knowledge of trafficking and slavery issues in the agencies that investigate and prosecute.
Steph Lambert is the head of advocacy and capacity building at Stand Against Slavery (SAS). She was admitted in New Zealand in 2013. SAS is a New Zealand organisation dedicated to fight for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in New Zealand and around the world. See www.standagainstslavery.com.
TV One: "Trio plead not guilty to human trafficking charges", <http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/trio-plead-not-guilty-human-trafficking-charges-6071895>.
Prevent People Trafficking Conference, July 2014.
United States State Department Trafficking in Persons Report, 2004 – 2014.
Christina Stringer, Glenn Simmons, and Daren Coulston, "Not in New Zealand's Waters, Surely? Labour and Human Rights Abuses Aboard Foreign Fishing Vessels", 2011, New Zealand Asia Institute Working Paper 11-01; Glenn Simmons, Christina Stringer, "New Zealand's fisheries management system: Forced Labour an ignored or overlooked dimension?", Marine Policy 50 (2014), 74-80.
United States State Department, Trafficking in Persons Report, 2013, 279-280.
TV3, "Christchurch Rebuild Migrants face debts, cramped accommodation", August 2014; Lexington Legal, Christchurch.
Prevent People Trafficking Conference, 2009, Wellington.
Stuff: "Hastie Guilty over Young Prostitute", 19 August 2010, <www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/4038549/Hastie-guilty-over-young-prostitute>.
New Zealand Herald, "Kiwi puts away global sex trafficker", 2 July 2014, <www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11286028>.
Crimes Act 1961.
s 98D(1)(a) Crimes Act 1961.
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children (The Palermo Protocol), ratified 19 July 2002.
Justice Acts New Zealand, "Protecting the Vulnerable", 2014, 23.
MacDonald v Ontrack Infrastructure Limited and Anor [2010] NZEMPC 132 (5 October 2010).
Bryson v Three Foot Six Limited [2005] ERNZ 372.
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Realist Evaluation Workshop
The Research and Evaluation Team were delighted to host a Realist Evaluation Workshop, held at Leeds Beckett's Cloth Hall Court on Tuesday 1 May. The event was well-attended by colleagues from across the country, including members of the NCOP Data and Evaluation Group, the national NCOP Evaluation Team at CFE Research and the NEON Evaluation Working Group. It was a fantastic opportunity to network, to share resources and good practice, and to hear updates from Research and Evaluation teams at other consortia.
The event also provided a chance to learn more about the Realist approach that underpins our Evaluation Framework here at GHWY, and to share this with colleagues who use different approaches. We are especially grateful to our presenters, Dr Nick Emmel and Dr Adam Formby, for sharing their expertise. Both Nick and Adam are active members of the RealismLeeds network.
Nick kicked off proceedings with a really engaging introduction to Realism, drawing on his own research into patient pathways within the NHS. Adam then went on to show how this might be applied to Widening Participation. Realism, he explained, aims to establish why different outcomes happen in different contexts. We might know, for example, that introducing CCTV in a car park reduces car break-ins – but why does that happen? It's not because the CCTV cameras are fighting crime themselves: on its own, CCTV doesn't do anything. Instead, it's because of several chain reactions. Perhaps would-be criminals notice that there are CCTV cameras, and this puts them off breaking into cars. Or perhaps people parking their cars spot the CCTV cameras, which reminds them about possible crime and prompts them to double-check that their car is locked. So in order to work out why the CCTV cameras have reduced crime, we need to look at broader contextual factors.
This is particularly appropriate to Widening Participation, Adam suggested, because the contexts in which we deliver our activities are so different: the schools we work with are diverse, as are the young people within those schools. So if a particular activity, such as a campus visit, works really well with one group of young people, we can look at lots of contextual data – where did the visit take place? What was the programme for the day? What experience of HE did the young people already have? What was the journey to the campus like? What did they have for lunch? – to try and work out exactly what made it so effective.
In the afternoon, Adam led a workshop where everyone could try their hand at brainstorming contextual factors and how they might affect the success of widening participation activities. We also shared the example of our GHWY Reflective Journal, which our HEPOs use to capture contextual information about any activity they run. This will provide crucial data for our evaluation.
Thanks to Adam, Nick, and to everyone who came and took part for making it a great and thought-provoking day!


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As the Culdcept series celebrates its 20th anniversary, the addictive card game-meets-board game arrives in Europe for the first time, with hundreds of new cards, inventive boards and exciting multiplayer!
Follow Allen, a new recruit for the rebel Free Bat forces as you fight for freedom from the tyranny of Count Kraniss. Build your deck, create new strategies, and dominate the board in Culdcept Revolt!
The concept is simultaneously inventive and archaic, doling out moments of pure delight and agonizing frustration in equal doses. Culdcept Revolt is such a niche title – perhaps the most niche game in my gaming history – I can't tell you if you'll like it. What I can tell you is as someone who is a bit of a masochist for these types of games, I enjoy it very much.
Despite its intimidating outer layer, Culdcept Revolt is something of a hidden gem that deserves the attention of anyone with an interest in card collecting, strategy, or even just board games in general. It's wildly addictive, and boasts a robust single player component as well as both local and online multiplayer to satisfy any craving for its unique, genre-blending mechanics. While Revolt's unflinching dedication to these core mechanics does hurt its story somewhat through repetition, new players will be welcomed by a wonderfully-implemented tutorial, while returning cepters have plenty of new tweaks and features to check out. It demands patience, and a lot of luck, but if you like the sound of a monster-fighting twist on Monopoly then you should take the hand you're dealt and check this one out.


This is the first modern scholarly edition of what is considered the most detailed ethnographic account of Cherokee life in the late 18th century. Timberlake's memoirs describe the months he spent living with the Cherokees then escorting a delegation to London to meet King George III. He provides details of daily life, including ceremonies, games, the role of women, the preparation of food, and the creation of weapons, baskets, and pottery. This edition pairs the original text with extensive footnotes and annotations, a new introduction, index, and more than 100 illustrations, including artifacts, maps, period artwork, and contemporary artwork.


Duffergeek: Who says there's no such thing as a free brunch?
Just down the beach from the beach house we are staying in is the Quinault Casino. Getting there by road involves a 2 mile winding trek but it is much closer if you just walk down the beach. We went there for Sunday brunch which, if you ignore the oddly minty-flavored soda was really quite good and reasonably priced at under $17 for adults and $9 for kids.
It is when you walk out of the restaurant that you see the real draw to the resort. The casino is like a mini-Vegas sitting in the center of the building. Lots of binging slot machines and 2 rows of about 10 gaming tables. Certainly nothing on the Las Vegas scale but the rules are the same. When brunch was over, we dropped the kids off at the arcade and Leslie and I set ourselves a 30 minute limit and I went to the blackjack table and sat down. The dealer was one of the fastest dealers I've seen. So fast that Leslie couldn't keep up with what was going on and she headed off to the video poker. When I sit down and win my first hand and get a blackjack on your second one I figure this is going to be a good day. Zippy the dealer kept the cards coming and in general they were pretty good. A couple of good doubling opportunities came and I cashed in on them. After 30 minutes, I was up $75, Leslie was up $38 and we left with more than we came with even after paying for the brunch and video arcade. Fun!


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John Bercow (ur. 19 stycznia 1963 w Edgware) – brytyjski polityk, od 22 czerwca 2009 do 31 października 2019 spiker Izby Gmin. Od 23 listopada 2012 jest przewodniczącym Młodzieżowego Parlamentu Zjednoczonego Królestwa. Od 1980 do 2009 członek Partii Konserwatywnej, w latach sprawowania funkcji spikera bezpartyjny, a od 2021 w Partii Pracy.

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Pochodzi z rodziny żydowskich emigrantów, którzy przybyli do Wielkiej Brytanii z Rumunii. Jest wyznawcą judaizmu. Jego ojciec prowadził salon samochodowy, a później był taksówkarzem. Jako nastolatek John był obiecującym tenisistą, jednak jego karierę sportową przerwała choroba – mononukleoza zakaźna. Ukończył z wyróżnieniem studia w zakresie administracji publicznej na University of Essex w 1985.

W młodości był zaangażowany w prace różnych organizacji młodzieżowych związanych z Partią Konserwatywną, po studiach został ostatnim przewodniczącym Federation of Conservative Students. Karierę zawodową zaczynał w bankowości, potem pracował jako specjalista ds. lobbyingu politycznego w spółce-córce międzynarodowej agencji reklamowej Saatchi & Saatchi, aż wreszcie wraz ze wspólnikiem założył firmę specjalizującą się w szkoleniach dla polityków (głównie konserwatywnych).

Kariera polityczna
Własną karierę polityczną rozpoczął w 1986 w samorządzie lokalnym, jako członek rady londyńskiej dzielnicy Lambeth. Już rok później został wiceprzewodniczącym klubu radnych Partii Konserwatywnej w tym gremium. Od 1995 pracował jako specjalny doradca dla ministrów w rządzie Johna Majora. Jego pracodawcą był wtedy Jonathan Aitken, a potem Virginia Bottomley. W 1997 został wybrany do Izby Gmin.

W 2001, gdy liderem opozycji był Iain Duncan Smith, Bercow został powołany do kierowanego przez niego gabinetu cieni, gdzie najpierw pełnił funkcję "cienia" naczelnego sekretarza skarbu, a następnie ministra pracy i emerytur. Już w 2002 na własne życzenie powrócił do grona backbencherów, po tym jak wbrew dyscyplinie partyjnej poparł rządowy projekt ustawy umożliwiającej parom homoseksualnym adopcję dzieci. W 2003 nowy lider partii Michael Howard ponownie powołał go do gabinetu cieni jako ministra ds. rozwoju międzynarodowego, jednak Bercow szybko popadł w konflikt z Howardem i w 2004 został odwołany z tego stanowiska. Od tego czasu pozostawał raczej na marginesie swojej partii, a w mediach pojawiały się nawet plotki, iż rozważa przejście do Partii Pracy. Ostatecznie Bercow pozostał w szeregach torysów, choć (za zgodą władz partyjnych) przyjął od Gordona Browna propozycję zasiadania w rządowym zespole doradczym ds. dzieci z problemami z porozumiewaniem się. Bercow motywował to względami osobistymi - jeden z jego synów jest dzieckiem autystycznym. W 2005 telewizja Channel 4 uhonorowała go tytułem "Opozycyjnego posła roku".

Po rezygnacji Michaela Martina z funkcji spikera Izby Gmin, w atmosferze skandalu związanego z nadużywaniem przez członków Izby prawa do zwrotu z publicznej kasy wydatków ponoszonych w związku z wypełnianiem mandatu, Bercow zgłosił swoją kandydaturę na nowego spikera. Zrobił to wbrew kierownictwu własnej partii, które popierało George'a Younga. Dość nieoczekiwanie wygrał wybory dzięki głosom Partii Pracy, która – nie mając szans na przeforsowanie na to stanowisko polityka z własnych szeregów – postanowiła poprzeć outsidera z lewego skrzydła Partii Konserwatywnej, skłóconego z jej przywódcami. W maju 2010, na inauguracyjnym posiedzeniu parlamentu nowej kadencji, uzyskał reelekcję na urząd spikera.

Bercow był pierwszym spikerem, który zrezygnował z prowadzenia obrad w ceremonialnym stroju. Choć używał tradycyjnej togi, jedynie luźno zarzucał ją na zwykły garnitur, z wyraźnie widocznym krawatem i koszulą.

W listopadzie 2012 Bercow został przewodniczącym Młodzieżowego Parlamentu Zjednoczonego Królestwa i od tego czasu przewodniczy tej organizacji na corocznym posiedzeniu w Pałacu Westminsterskim.

W czerwcu 2021 Bercow wstąpił do Partii Pracy z powodu własnego sprzeciwu co do kierowania przez Borisa Johnsona Partią Konserwatywną. Bercow zarzucił Johnsonowi zwrot ugrupowania w stronę "reakcjonizmu, populizmu, nacjonalizmu, a nawet ksenofobii".

Od 2017 roku pełni tytularną funkcje kanclerza Uniwersytetu Essex.

Życie prywatne
Jest żonaty z Sally Bercow (z domu Illman) i ma troje dzieci. Swoją żonę poznał w 1989 na konferencji studenckich organizacji konserwatywnych, jednak pobrali się dopiero trzynaście lat później. W międzyczasie Sally zmieniła barwy partyjne i dziś jest lokalną działaczką Partii Pracy.

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Stories from the May 14, 2012 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Groups of professors and administrators have spent two months pitching bold solutions for GW's strategic plan.
The University pocketed a total of $53,550 in housing cancellation fees from about 100 students this spring.
This decade might be the most important one of our lives. And it is not worth squandering.


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Q: How to get lines separatly using a python curses textbox? I am rather new to curses and I'm curious if is possible getting every single line as a different string using a text box, or if there is a way to separate them. Below is the code that I'm using. As you can see there are just two lines, but I can't seem to find an easy way without manipulating the string somehow.
def boxinputstuff():
stdscr.addstr(0, 0, "Ctrl-G to send")

editwin = curses.newwin(2, 16, 2, 1)
rectangle(stdscr, 1, 0, 1 + 2 + 1, 1 + 16 + 1)
stdscr.refresh()

box = Textbox(editwin)

box.edit()

message = box.gather()
return message

I thought that it may be possible registering the "enter" key, used to start the next line of the box, but it seems a overly complicated and unorthodox solution.

A: But manipulating the string is easy: message.split('\n')


Money has the power to take us away, if only temporarily, from the dull routines of life. However, there is always a price to pay for our fiscal flights of fancy and real life eventually hoists its humdrum head again.
Kate Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings" was published in Vogue, considered to be one of the most progressive publications in 1897 and tells the story of a once well-to-do woman who obtains a financial windfall and has to determine the best way to spend it.
Chopin was one of the earliest feminist American authors. She lived her adult life in Louisiana and most of her stories take place there. "A Pair of Silk Stockings" preceded her most famous work, "The Awakening" which was met with controversy and censorship over the books candid depictions of female sexual desire.
A dollar or two should be added to the price usually paid for Janie's shoes, which would insure their lasting an appreciable time longer than they usually did. She would buy so and so many yards of percale for new shirt waists for the boys and Janie and Mag. She had intended to make the old ones do by skilful patching. Mag should have another gown. She had seen some beautiful patterns, veritable bargains in the shop windows. And still there would be left enough for new stockings – two pairs apiece – and what darning that would save for a while! She would get caps for the boys and sailor-hats for the girls. The vision of her little brood looking fresh and dainty and new for once in their lives excited her and made her restless and wakeful with anticipation.
The neighbors sometimes talked of certain "better days" that little Mrs. Sommers had known before she had ever thought of being Mrs. Sommers. She herself indulged in no such morbid retrospection. She had no time – no second of time to devote to the past. The needs of the present absorbed her every faculty. A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes.
But that day she was a little faint and tired. She had swallowed a light luncheon – no! When she came to think of it, between getting the children fed and the place righted, and preparing herself for the shopping bout, she had actually forgotten to eat any luncheon at all!
It was a long time since Mrs. Sommers had been fitted with gloves. On rare occasions when she had bought a pair they were always "bargains", so cheap that it would have been preposterous and unreasonable to have expected them to be fitted to the hand.


About 2 months ago, I parted ways with my then employer and decided that rather than jump right back into the frying pan, I'd take some time off to do something I've long wanted to do: Build a boat.
My original intent was to do this single handedly. In retrospect that would have been the height of foolishness and hubris. Fortunately – very fortunately, in fact – my father stuck up his hand and suggested that he would very much like to participate in this enterprise. I jumped at the offer.
It's a rare thing to get to spend that much time working on a project with your dad, especially once you've both reached an age and place in life where you can appreciate it. We're both having a ball.
Over the past month and a little bit, we've made great progress on the project. We've also discovered that every time we speak about this effort to anyone the universal reaction is that people want photos and regular updates. And so, somewhat belatedly, I'm setting up this blog to provide that in a more manageable fashion.
I'll back-fill with a few posts that attempt to get you to where we are now. It won't be a complete play-by-play, but you'll get the idea. From here forward, I hope to make this a more complete chronicle.
I hope you enjoy following our triumphs and trials as two novice boat builders figure it all out.


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Mazes and Monsters (1982)
Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Featuring Tom Hanks, Wendy Crawson, David Wallace
What it is: Cautionary (?) drama
A group of college students who engage in role playing games decide to use some local caverns for live-action play. One of the people loses touch with reality and becomes the character he was playing.
There's a scene here near the end of the movie where the mother of the student that goes crazy tells the other players of the game that she doesn't hold them responsible for what happened to her son. However, I'm not sure whether she is speaking merely for herself or the movie in general. This movie has a 4.1 rating on IMDB as of this writing, and though the movie is heavily flawed (it's indifferently directed, many false notes are struck, and some of the dialogue is quite bad) it does have its fleeting moments. Still, I don't think that it's just the quality of the movie that's at issue here; I think that's the reaction to the perceived message of the movie, which is that these role-playing games are dangerous destroyers of our youth, driving them crazy and sending them around the bend. Now I don't know if that message is intentional or not, but I do know that the end of the movie left me with the feeling that it was made by those who do not like or approve of these games. I do know this much; if I were to have made a movie on the same subject, I would have made it a comedy, because as a drama it comes across as silly and unconvincing. The scenes at the beginning where we meet the characters and their parents in particular feel like a parade of child/parent conflict cliches, and whenever the movie starts dealing with the various character's personal problems, it comes across as phony and facile. In other words, as propaganda, it just doesn't convincingly sell its subject. As for the movie's fantastic content, the very game under discussion provides at least a little of that, though this is augmented by the fact that there are scenes where we see the hallucinatory fantasy world of the main character, and the theme of madness is there as well. Still, I suspect those that love the worlds of the fantastic will be the ones who like this movie the least.
Un centenar de juegos (1906)
aka A Hundred Tricks, Les cent trucs
Directed by Segundo de Chomon
Cast unknown
What it is: Trick short
A magician appears and performs several tricks for us.
This is Segundo de Chomon's take on one of Melies's more common subjects; basically, it's nothing more than a series of cinematic magic tricks as performed by a magician. He actually does a fairly decent job of it as well, with some of the tricks very well timed. I don't think it ever reaches to a count of 100 in its three-minute running time, but it is lively. On a side note, I like the clever way the short tried to protect itself from cinematic pirates (a common problem in the early years of cinema) by having one trick involving the name of the production company (Pathe Freres) written across one of the props. There's nothing really new here, but it's an amusing trifle.
aka Cendrillon
Directed by Georges Melies
Featuring Barral, Bleuette Bernon, Carmely
What it is: Fairy tale
With the help of her fairy godmother, Cinderella is able to go to the ball, but will she be back by midnight?
Georges Melies took two stabs at the Cinderella story, both of them extant. This, the earlier one, tells the story in five minutes and 41 seconds, so you can imagine that things are rather rushed. Also, given Melies's love for special effects spectacle, it is perhaps no surprise that the fairy godmother first appears about ten seconds into the production and immediately starts in on all of the magic transformation of preparing Cinderella for the ball. Once she gets there, we get about ten seconds of dancing before the clock strikes midnight, and after being warned by the gnome of the clock (which I'm pretty sure is original to this version of the story), she turns back and rushes off, leaving the slipper. It's here that Melies definitely goes off on his own tangent, as Cinderella arrives back home only to be tormented by creatures from the clock, which allows Melies to indulge in a lot more magical hocus-pocus. Then the prince shows up, tries on the slipper, and finds Cinderella, and the fairy godmother reappears to give her nice clothes to wear. The amazing thing at this point is that the movie still has about two minutes to go, so we have about one minute of a long wedding procession and then another minute of dancing girls. Well, I will say this much about the movie; it's definitely true to Melies's muse, and even with the padding in the last two minutes, it's rather fun.
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Directed by Sam Firstenberg
Featuring Sho Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennett
What it is: Martial arts horror
A female phone company employee and aerobics instructor is on hand for the death of a black ninja; when she is given his sword, she becomes possessed by his evil spirit and sets out to kill all the policemen that killed the ninja. However, another ninja arrives from Japan to save the day.
Apparently, the first two movies in this series (ENTER THE NINJA and REVENGE OF THE NINJA) had no fantastic content, so I haven't covered them; nor have I seen them. Why they chose to go with a horror subplot in this one is unknown to me; maybe they wanted to widen the appeal of the series from lovers of cheesy action flicks to lovers of cheesy horror movies as well. So they throw in some scenes that vaguely reminded me of similar moments from movies like THE EXORCIST or POLTERGEIST, and then had some of the fight scenes you'd expect from a Ninja movie. Is it any good? Not really, but I don't think it's trying to do anything more than to leave uncritical action fans believing that they haven't wasted the two bucks they spent on the rental. There is one camp moment that I have to admit did amuse me though; during one of the sequences where the evil spirit is trying to possess the aerobics instructor, she tries to battle it by drowning it out with loud eighties music. I'll leave it to you to figure out how successful that strategy was.
Liquid Sky (1982)
Directed by Slava Tsukerman
Featuring Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas
What it is: Bizarre independent film
A small flying saucer lands on top of a skyscraper in New York, and infects a female model who is active in the underground post-punk scene. The aliens feed off the orgasms of her sexual partners, who then die.
This movie was put together by a small core group of Russian film-makers in America with a predominantly American cast and crew. It was apparently a sensation in the independent film scene at the time, and it garnered lots of rave reviews as well. I can see why it was a sensation; there was definitely something audacious in its style, it gives what appears to be an authentic glimpse of the underground post-punk scene in New York at the time, and it's not like anything else I've seen. However, the movie has its share of naysayers as well, and the user comments on IMDB give me the impression that quite a few people find this to be one of the worst movies ever made. I can see this as well. For one thing, the musical soundtrack (which mostly consists of arty, pulsing and droning synthesizer music) damn near drove me over the edge, and the music is inescapable during the first twenty minutes of the movie. Furthermore, I find it very hard to get into the lives of people who seem to be defining themselves through drugs, affected decadence, self-conscious overuse of bizarre facial makeup, and hair styles that make me think of mutant peacocks. As a consequence, I was prepared to hate this movie as well, but ultimately I was able to see through this vast array of artifice and see some of the sadness of the human condition showing through. In the end, I can't say I really liked the film all that much, but I was able to see its appeal and at least gained a respect for it. It's also one of those movies where the decadence is essential for the story at hand.
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
aka Doppelganger
Directed by Robert Parrish
Featuring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark
What it is: Science fiction
When it is discovered that there is a planet on the other side of the sun directly opposite the Earth in the Earth's orbit, an expedition is sent out to investigate it.
I saw this movie many years ago, so this viewing is in essence a return to it. Unfortunately, this is one of those cases that a re-viewing is bound to be a very different experience from the first viewing. If you've seen the movie already, than you know that the movie builds up to one humdinger of a revelation, and I'm willing to bet that if anything sticks in your memory about this movie, it will be that revelation. My problem is that it's one of those revelations that, if you stop to think about it, raises more questions and issues than it answers, and while I watched this movie this time, those questions and issues were always foremost in my mind and colored the movie considerably, whereas they simply didn't exist on my first viewing. I won't go into more detail here except to say that the revelation involves a "coincidence" that seems to go beyond all scientific explanation in favor of poetical or mystical explanation, and that the movie never quite addresses the "why" of the revelation. Still, despite this problem, the movie is an enjoyable watch, at least partially because the solid acting from everyone involved, the appeal of the special effects and scene design (which is something I'd expect from the work of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson), and some of the details of the story. There are things that don't work, though; there's an espionage subplot that is brought up only to be summarily dropped, the movie indulges in trippy sequences similar to those in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY for no good reason, and once the big revelation is made, the movie doesn't really have anywhere good to go with it. It is worth catching at least once, if for no other reason that it might make a subject for interesting discussion afterwards.
The Christmas Angel (1904)
aka L'ange de Noel
What it is: Christmas tear-jerker
In the cold of winter, a poverty-stricken man with a sick wife, no wood to heat the house, and on the verge of being evicted, sends out his daughter to beg for alms. However, bad luck prevails and the daughter is soon near death from the cold. But then….
Let's face it; dramas are not Melies's forte, and this one has its fair share of flaws, such as some over-theatrical acting and a story that tries to push the pity buttons a little too insistently. Nevertheless, this is perhaps one of Melies's more successful forays into drama; the story is efficiently told and easy to follow (even without the English narration), the sets are wonderful, and it maintains the right mood. There's only a single element of fantastic content to the story, and that can be found in the title; it doesn't appear until near the end of the short, but you can probably figure out how it plays into the story. It's one of Melies's better departures from his usual style.
Polidor al club della morte (1912)
aka Polidor at the Death Club
Director unknown
Featuring Polidor
What it is: Parody of Robert Louis Stevenson story
Polidor dreams that he has become a member of the death club, a society for those tired of life. The loser of a card game must commit suicide, and Polidor is dealt the wrong card…
This is a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club". I've seen several versions of this story, and though admittedly there's a certain macabre aspect to the concept, they've been pretty light on the fantastic content. If there's one thing that can be said about this short, it ups the fantastic content considerably; on top of the basic premise, all of the other members of the club look pretty cadaverous, there's a floating skull that pops up, several hooded members of the club appear out of nowhere, and much of the action takes place in a locked room with bizarre trap doors. Furthermore, Polidor is an amusing comedian who makes good use of the concept, and the short remains amusing after all these years. This is one of those movies that I couldn't find for years and finally ended up on my "ones that got away" list; it's good to see it finally appear.
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Featuring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price
What it is: Unusual comedy/drama
An American soldier, a British solder, and a girl from London all en route to Canterbury end up in a small farming town called Chillingbourne. The girl encounters an assailant who pours glue in her hair, and it is discovered that she is one of eleven girls who have been so assaulted. She vows to solve the mystery of the identity of this man, and the two soldiers assist her.
There's no way to adequately describe this offbeat, gentle, bizarre and sometimes moving movie. Though it initially plays itself out like a mystery of sorts (via the investigation of the Glueman's identity), this plot line is mostly a framework from which we can examine the various characters and the losses that each one has endured in their lives. This is all tied to the fact that these characters, like the ones in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" (from which the movie derives its title) are, in their own way, on "pilgrimages" of their own, and their own personal stories will play their way out when they finally arrive in Canterbury during the last quarter of the film. It's an engrossing movie for those willing to sit back and let the movie take its own time in unfolding; those only interested in the mystery aspect will probably find the movie frustrating. The fantastic content here is subtle but intentional; the historic significance of the Road to Canterbury is sprinkled with mysticism, and the story ultimately culminates with a series of "miracles" (the quotes are here to indicate that there is certain amount of ambiguity as to the degree to which they might be called "miraculous"). It also bears mentioning that the concept of the Glueman may be one of the strangest and least sinister variations on the horror concept of a serial killer. It's an entrancing movie, but I've always come to expect something a bit special whenever Powell and Pressburger combine their forces, as they do here.
Le cerceau magique (1908)
aka The Magic Hoop
Directed by Emile Cohl
What it is: Trick / animation short
When her hoop breaks, a little girl gets a replacement from a magician, and this hoop has magic powers.
This short adds a little variety to the oeuvre of French animator Emile Cohl. About half of it is a live-action trick film, with the magic hoop showing its ability to change its size and to make the person looking through it change their clothing. This part is entertaining but standard trick-film fare for its time. The animation section only begins at about the halfway point when the hoop is hung on a wall by itself; at that point, animated events occur within the confines of the hoop. During this sequence, Cohl toys with stop-motion animation, with some of the special effects involving pieces of paper being folded into origami shapes. Part of it is the usual stream-of-consciousness animation we've come to expect from Cohl, but about a minute of the footage is hard to make out, due to the extreme deterioration of the print. As a result, this isn't quite as enjoyable a watch as it might have been (though that is not Cohl's fault), but it is fun seeing him vary the routine somewhat.


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"International Stem Cell Corp (OTC:ISCO) is an early-stage cell therapy company currently in clinical trials to treat Parkinson's disease (PD). In November, the company presented interim six-month results from the first cohort of four patients in its Phase I trial of ISC-hpNSC in PD. Positive signals were seen in a variety of measures, which include daily living, mobility, depression and compulsive disorders.
Second cohort enrolled in PD trial
In March 2018, the company announced it had completed dosing of the second cohort of four patients in its Phase I trial of ISC-hpNSC in PD, who are being treated with the 50m cell dose. As a reminder, patients on the study are being treated in three cohorts with 30m, 50m and 70m stem cells, delivered via intracranial injection. Interim data from the first cohort, who were treated at the 30m cell dose, are encouraging. The company expects to start a Phase II PD trial later in 2018."
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Vysoký Újezd (deutsch Hochaugezd, auch Hochaujest) ist eine Gemeinde in Tschechien. Sie liegt 18 Kilometer südwestlich des Stadtzentrums von Prag und gehört zum Okres Beroun.

Geographie
Vysoký Újezd befindet sich am Rande des Böhmischen Karsts auf einer Anhöhe auf der Třebotovská plošina (Trebotauer Hochfläche). Im Norden erhebt sich die Hačka (425 m n.m.), südlich die Rohlová (408 m n.m.) sowie im Westen der Čížovec (424 m n.m.) und der Kolo (408 m n.m.). Nördlich des Dorfes entspringt der Bach Krahulovský potok, am südlichen Ortsrand der Karlický potok. Östlich von Vysoký Újezd verläuft die Kladno-Nučicer Bahn. Westlich des Dorfes erstreckt sich das Albatross Golf Resort.

Nachbarorte sind V Hlubokém und Mezouň im Norden, Tachlovice und Prostřední Mlýn im Nordosten, Chýnice und Choteč im Osten, Kuchař und Roblín im Südosten, Trněný Újezd und Mořina im Süden, Kozolupy, Lužce und Bubovice im Südwesten, Černidla, Janská, Loděnice und Chrustenice im Westen sowie V Hačkách im Nordwesten.

Geschichte
Das Dorf Vysoký Újezd entstand wahrscheinlich im Zuge des slawischen Landesausbaus durch Umritt und erhielt zur Unterscheidung von gleichnamigen Orten ein Präfix nach seiner geographischen Lage. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde das Dorf als Wysoký Aujezd, Wysoký Aujezdec, Oujezd Wysoký, Oujezdec Wysoký, Hochaugezd bzw. Hochaujest sowie mit dem Necknamen Bačalákov bezeichnet.

Die erste schriftliche Erwähnung des wahrscheinlich mit Vysoký Újezd identischen Gutes Kunrádův erfolgte im Jahre 1310. Sein Besitzer war wahrscheinlich Konrad, der Sohn des gleichnamigen Kämmerers der Königin Guta von Habsburg, der zu dieser Zeit bei der Grenzvermessung der Wälder des Klosters Königsaal als Zeuge in Erscheinung trat. Am 6. November 1324 zeichnete derselbe in einer weiteren Grenzfestlegung der Königsaaler Wälder im Brdy als Conrádus guondam Conradi regine cameraii de Vgesd filius. Im Jahre 1353 wurde das Dorf Vysoký Újezd erstmals erwähnt. In der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts gehörte das Gut dem Kloster St. Georg auf der Prager Burg. Nachfolgender Besitzer war zwischen 1409 und 1581 mit einer kurzen Unterbrechung während der Hussitenkriege das Kloster Strahov. Dieses verkaufte das Gut 1581 an Jakob Berbek von Kunwald. Berbek überschrieb den Besitz zwei Jahre später seiner Frau Katharina, geborene Kašpárková von Pallatin. Am 2. August 1598 erwarb der kaiserliche Hofpostmeister Heinrich Georg Pichl von Pichlberg auf Chrustenice das Gut Wysoký Aujezd für 7000 Schock Meißnische Groschen, dabei wurde auch erstmals die Feste genannt. Georgs Sohn Rudolf Pichl von Pichlberg veräußerte nach dem Tode seines Vaters im Jahre 1616 das Gut an Johanna Katharina von Skuhrow, die es 1622 an Johann Mencelius von Kolsdorf verkaufte. Nachfolgende Besitzer von Vysoký Újezd waren Daniel Nečanský von Minice, ab 1682 Marie Margarethe Slavatová von Trautson und ab 1693 Franz Joseph Graf Schlik zu Bassano und Weißkirchen, der das Gut für 15.000 Rheinische Gulden erwarb. Letzterer ließ nach 1700 die Feste zu einem Schloss mit Kapelle umbauen. Die Grafen Schlik verkauften den Besitz bis 1763 an Mathias Franz Jonak von Freienwald. Dessen Sohn Franz veräußerte das Allodialgut Hoch-Augezd 1820 an Johann Kratschmer, der es zwei Jahre später an Franz Dostal verkaufte. Im Jahre 1825 erwarb die Besitzerin des Allodialgutes St. Johann unter dem Felsen Walburga von Lackner, geborene Pachmann, das Gut Hoch-Augezd einschließlich des angeschlossenen Lehnhofes Strkow. Sie vereinigte die Allodialgüter St. Johann unter dem Felsen und Hoch-Augezd sowie das Lehngut Strkow oder Rubrin zu einer Grundherrschaft. Später heiratete sie Maximilian Berger, der nach ihrem Tode 1846 die Güter erbte.

Im Jahre 1847 umfasste das im Berauner Kreis gelegene Gut Hoch-Augezd eine Nutzfläche von 532 Joch 195 Quadratklafter, wovon über 103 Joch herrschaftliche Wälder waren. Einzige Erwerbsquelle bildete die Landwirtschaft. Für den einheimischen Bedarf wurde einige kleinere Kalkbrüche und Kalköfen betrieben. Zum Gut gehörte einzig das Dorf Hoch-Augezd bzw. Augezd wysoký, in dessen 47 Häusern mit 479 Personen lebten. Darunter waren sechs Judenhäuser mit 73 Einwohnern, die von zwölf jüdischen Familien bewohnt wurden. Im Ort gab es ein obrigkeitliches Schloss mit Schlosskapelle und Schlossgarten, einen Meierhof mit Schäferei, einen Kontributionsgetreideschüttboden, ein Wirtshaus sowie in einem angemieteten Raum eine Filialschule. Pfarrort war Tachlowitz, der Amtsort war St. Johann unter dem Felsen.

Nach der Aufhebung der Patrimonialherrschaften bildete Vysoký Oujezd / Hoch-Augezd ab 1850 eine Gemeinde im Gerichtsbezirk Beraun. 1868 wurde die Gemeinde dem Bezirk Hořowitz zugeordnet. Im Jahre 1870 kaufte Heliodor Franz Heid das Gut. Am 20. April 1875 erwarb Jakub Krása das Gut für 170.050 Gulden; danach erwarb am 6. Februar 1883 Johann Franz Kreisl, der 45 Jahre Gutsbesitzer in Hoch-Augezd war, das Gut auf Grund eines Vorkaufsrechtes. Er wurde 1909 als Edler von Kreisl in den Adelsstand erhoben. Seit dem Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts wird der heutige Ortsname Vysoký Újezd verwendet. Im Zuge der Bodenreform wurden 56 ha Land an Bauern verkauft, das Gut behielt 263 ha. nach dem Tode ihres Vaters  erbten 1928 Johannes und Victor Kreisl das Gut, sie verkauften es im darauf folgenden Jahr an Václav und Irma Stome. 1935 teilten die Eheleute Stome das Gut in zwei ideelle Hälften. 1935 veräußerten die Eheleute Stome das Gut an Jaroslav und Wilhelmine Heinitz. Seit 1936 gehört Vysoký Újezd zum Okres Beroun. Im Jahre 1938 erbte Marie Heinitz, ab 1939 verheiratete Šnajdrová das Gut. Im Jahre 1948 wurde die Familie Šnajdr enteignet und das Schloss verstaatlicht; später wurde das Schloss zum Sitz eines Staatsgutes. 1976 wurde das Schloss der Jednotné zemědělské družstvo (JZD) Československo-sovětského přátelství Mořina übertragen, die es als Kantine, Büro und Wohnhaus nutzte. Zugleich war darin auch das Büro der Gemeindeverwaltung untergebracht. 1980 erfolgte die Eingemeindung von Lužce, 1986 kamen noch Kuchař und Kozolupy als Ortsteile hinzu. 1990 wurde das Schloss an die Alteigentümer rückübertragen. Am 24. November 1990 löste sich der Ortsteil Lužce von Vysoký Újezd los und bildete eine eigene Gemeinde. Das Gemeindegebiet ist seitdem in einen nordöstlichen (Vysoký Újezd und Kuchař) und einen südwestlichen Teil (Kozolupy) getrennt, zwischen denen die Gemeinde Lužce liegt.

Gemeindegliederung
Die Gemeinde Vysoký Újezd besteht aus den Ortsteilen und Katastralbezirken Kozolupy (Kosolup), Kuchař (Kucharsch, 1939–1945 Koch) und Vysoký Újezd (Hochaujest).

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Schloss Vysoký Újezd mit Schlosskapelle des hl. Johannes, der eingeschossige Bau entstand zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts für Franz Joseph Graf Schlik anstelle einer alten Feste. 1897 erfolgte ein Umbau im Neorenaissancestil. Seit 1990 befindet sich das baufällige Schloss wieder in Privatbesitz der Familie Šnajdr und ist nicht öffentlich zugänglich.
 Kapelle auf dem Dorfplatz (Tyršova náves)
 Nischenkapelle des hl. Antonius von Padua am Platz U tří habrů am östlichen Hang des Kolo, sie wurde 1892 an einer Quelle erbaut und im Jahre 2008 renoviert
 Haus Nr. 54, ehemalige Synagoge

Weblinks

 Beschreibung und Geschichte der Gemeinde
 Beschreibung des Schlosses Vysoký Újezd auf hrady.cz

Einzelnachweise

Ersterwähnung 1310


WordPress is a great CMS (Content management system) but one issue that constantly plagues WordPress users is slow loading times. The following article is based on a few things, I have picked up that help with speeding up WordPress. This article runs through optimising WordPress website, with a few simple changes. Before I get started, you can check your page speed using GTMetrix, Yslow or Google Page Insights. So below is a list of changes and plugins that can help speed up WordPress. There is no set way that will speed your site up, it is basically trial and error.
This is the main problem with WordPress optimisation and I would check this before doing any other optimisation. Hosting company is not always the problem and it can also be caused by using an underpowered hosting plan for a good host.
Do not be a cheapskate and go for the cheapest option. Choose a hosting plan that can handle traffic spikes efficiently.
If the theme you are using is badly coded, it could cause your website to slow down by a few seconds. It is also recommended to use a theme that has been optimised for all devices. Search engine favour, responsive designs as they ensure that pages have the same URL.
Most theme developers optimize their theme demo website using caching and content delivery networks. Which I will discuss at the end of this article.
The biggest cause of a slow WordPress Website is the use of poor quality plugins or just using too many plugins. It is advised that your research the plugin before you install it and remove all unused plugins from your site.
Often the plugin will turn out to be poorly developed, using inappropriate hooks. It will not only slow down your site but in certain cases might also mess up with the functionalities of other plugins and WordPress itself. One plugin I highly recommend you use is P3 Profiler. Developed by GoDaddy, the plugin will show you exactly how much load time your plugins are adding.
You can optimise your database directly from PHPAdmin or by using plugins like WP-Optimize or WP-DBManager.
A good plugin to optimise images that have already been uploaded is WP Smush.it. It utilises the Smush.it API to optimise JPEG images, strip metadata from JPEGs and convert GIF images to PNG. You should, however, be aware that the plugin uses up a lot of resources when it is converting images, therefore your website may be slow whilst it is running.
Gzip compression allows a website page to be transferred to a browser at up to 70% of its original size. The browser will then decompress the page and display it to the user. Gzip can be enabled via the WordPress options page. You can find this page at www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/options.php. To enable Gzip, simply change the value of the Gzip field from 0 to 1.
This can cut download time for your site as the user's computer will send fewer requests to the server to load the website. The more requests there are to your server, the longer it will take for your pages to load.
In simple words, when a caching plugin is active on your site, it serves users cached copies of your pages. It greatly reduces MySQL database access, number of PHP requests, server access for static resources, and even HTTP requests.


J.J.Cale: Travel Log. By Andy Gill : Articles, reviews and interviews from Rock's Backpages.
SOME ARTISTS set a style so distinctively their own they become immediately generic; as with The Ramones or Led Zeppelin, J.J. Cale's first album Naturally (1972) defined a sound so completely that for the subsequent 17 years he's had to do little but continue ploughing that same furrow with minor variations of emphasis. If there were anything radically new about Travel Log, it wouldn't really be a J.J. Cale album.


More than a third (33.6%) of Welsh school teachers plan to quit the profession within the next three years, according to the findings of a nationwide.
Matt Smith discussed the importance of local pubs to communities in Cardiff West handmade the case for proactively supporting responsibly run pubs.
New figures have revealed a 19% rise in the number of tourism day visits to Wales in 2016, benefiting from Sterling's comparatively low value.
Matt Smith, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Cardiff West has criticised Welsh Labour's engagement with businesses following a report on the apprenticeship levy by the National Assembly's Economy, Infrastructure and Skills committee.
Matt Smith and Sajid Javid, Conservative Communities Secretary, discussed with local residents the importance of proactive support for our precious high streets in Cardiff West, small businesses and local employers.
Matt Smith has campaigned for better investment in road surfaces and traffic management for local residents sick of Cardiff City Labour's mismanagement of Cardiff's roads.
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Q: How can I modify individual elements of a vector? I want to read from and write to individual elements of a VectorOfFloat. The problem is that there's no setter defined, which makes the brackets + index way of accessing the elements read only.
VectorOfFloat vector = new VectorOfFloat(5);
// vector[2] = 2.5F; // does not work

There's a workaround:

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*convert to array with ToArray()

*modify array as desired

*write array back with Clear() and Push()
float[] array = vector.ToArray();
array[2] = 2.5F;
vector.Clear();
vector.Push(array); // does work but is retarded

Console.WriteLine(vector[2]);

This seems to be very cumbersome just to write one element Is there a more direct approach to this?
Also, what is the missing setter worth if I can work around it?

A: The comments are correct. The way to gain access to the unmanaged array is trough the StartAddress property returning an IntPtr.
lock(vector)
{
    var ptr_array=(float*)vector.StartAddress.ToPointer();
    ptr_array[4]=1.0f;
}


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