Is your setting alive or just background?
Setting is an anchor. It has the ability to weight a story in any given time, or place. Daphne Du Maurier saw setting (her beloved Cornwall) as another character, intrinsic to plot. And, if you take Du Maurier at her word, that means that for every well-developed protagonist, antagonist or minor character, there is an omnipresent 'super-character' binding them together. That character is setting. For me, nowhere is this more relevant than in historical fiction, where entire worlds need reconstructing in believable detail.
Du Maurier's Cornwall is full of literary swagger, whether using the backdrop of the English Civil War (The King's General) or an 18th century inn on a desolate moor (Jamaica Inn). Once a reader is exposed to a well-crafted setting, it becomes difficult to mark the boundaries between what is fictional and real. Any reader of Jamaica Inn visiting the Cornish coast will be hard pressed not to see her wreckings and drowned men. Likewise, I cannot think of the frost on an Amsterdam canal without imagining Nella Oortman slipping between them in Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist and I can literally hear Sarah Water's Blitz-ravaged London from The Night Watch groan with life inside the pages of her book.
As a writer, you will have your own ideas about how to create believable settings when writing outside of the contemporary. Here are five of mine. These are observations that have stuck with me and which certainly strengthen my own ability to write into the past with what I hope is at the very least, a stroke of authenticity.
Draw a map if it helps. When I created the world of The May Queen I did just this. To recreate 1930s Fairford, I sketched out a skeleton view of the small Cotswold town and drew in every street, lane, and road in and out. On to this, I used contemporary accounts to plot each shop, business and residence that I knew existed at the time. It really informed my sense of distance between locations and the sense of small town life my main character, May, would have experienced. For May, there is always someone watching, I knew I wanted this implied, but I hadn't quite realised how true it was, until I could see it, as she would have.
I studied theatre at university and so always think of fictional settings in terms of how I might dress a stage set. You must develop the ability to stand back and throw out anything that threatens your period world. In one scene in my own work, I had a radio perched on the mantlepiece above a fireplace but when I sought out advice from an expert on early radios, he said it most definitely would have had an accumulator battery, meaning it would have been too heavy to go where I'd originally placed it. Such a small detail but one which was vitally important. I'd already marked the town electrical supply store on my map and so it gave new meaning to that place too. I better understood how reliant people were on the store itself and this gave me something new to play with.
Depending on your period, there will be some form of media, news or gossip at play that informs the day-to-day lives of your characters. If this happens 'off-stage' be clear with yourself. If it isn't intrinsic to the plot, simply knowing about it is enough, you aren't there to give an historic account of the period.
The world outside of the narrative is vitally important, but only borrow what you need and no more. In The May Queen, my character wants her hair cut into a fashionable bob she has seen in a magazine. By the 1930s, this hairstyle was falling out of fashion, but May doesn't know this. Her view of the world is outdated. It has taken a while for this style to catch on in her little town. I'm not sure I even allude to this in the novel, but it is implied and there are many subtle threads like this one running throughout. I think there is strength in subtlety. It implies confidence in what you are writing about. You can only hope that your reader will agree.
I have a love of the outdoors which informs how my characters behave. I can't help myself. Like my own heroes, Hardy and Du Maurier, I want to get under the skin of my countryside setting so that it is as loved by the reader as it is by my characters. I learnt a lot about birds for one, researching those that lived in the Cotswolds at this time, beside rivers (coots and little grebes), or in trees (nuthatches) as well as those commonly seen in the village (spotted flycatchers and house martins). Ones common then, but not all necessarily now. In my next novel, set in Colombia, I've got a condor (!). Changes to place are more subtle in the countryside than if you're recreating a city setting because time moves more slowly here, and so I found birds, flowers, even farm implements, a good way to achieve period accuracy.
You may have two different characters who see things in completely different ways. Perhaps they have different experiences, educations or are of a different age. Opposing forces in fiction are a great tool for shaping your reader's understanding of place. In my own writing, I love being able to suggest different ways of seeing the same thing. For example, one of my main characters, Christopher, climbs a tree because he wants to show his strength. May, watching on, is in awe of the way he manipulates this everyday structure. Her view of it is changed because of how he approaches it. For May, it will never be the same tree again. Associating place with character, abandons something of that person to it too. In this instance, I was able to show Christopher's cruel indifference to nature. His world is one of parties and long weekends. He is a visitor, from another world within this one, whilst it is all May knows.
Helen Irene Young is the author of The May Queen (published by Crooked Cat) and a digital editor. She attended the Faber Novel Writing course and splits her time between London, Wiltshire and Colombia, when she can get there. The May Queen is her first novel. Follow Helen on Twitter here.


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First Look at Lynda Carter on Supergirl Released!
By Russ Burlingame - September 6, 2017 12:52 am EDT
The CW has released the first official images of Lynda Carter in Supergirl.
The Wonder Woman star will play President of the United States Olivia Marsdin on the series, which makes its season two debut tonight with its first-ever new episode on The CW.
Carter, who has remained closely connected with her role as Wonder Woman over the years, has long been rumored to make an appearance. In the season premiere, there was a throwaway reference to the President being a woman, while in interviews during the second half of the season, Supergirl showrunner Andrew Kresiberg revealed that the producers had decided on Carter for the role, but that she would not appear on the series until season two.
(Photo: The CW/Warner Bros. TV)
Above, you can see a behind-the-scenes image of President Marsdin with Supergirl (Melissa Benoist). In the attached image gallery, you can check that one and a number of other photos featuring Carter in full size.
"We always wanted a female President; we talked about that before we talked about Lynda Carter," executive producer Ali Adler told ComicBook.com. "When we started talking about that role, we talked about women that inspired us in the room, but we really only discussed Lynda Carter for the role. We're so gratified that she was able to work her schedule out. Last year she couldn't, and we were so disappointed that instead of casting someone else, we waited to have Lynda join us."
You can check out the official episode synopsis below.
LYNDA CARTER ("WONDER WOMAN") LANDS IN NATIONAL CITY AS PRESIDENT OLIVIA MARSDIN — An attack is made on the President (guest star Lynda Carter) as hot-button, alien vs. human rights issues heat up in National City. Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and the DEO are assigned to protect the President and bring in the responsible party. Alex (Chyler Leigh) teams up with Detective Maggie Sawyer (Floriana Lima) to investigate the case while Kara searches for a recently escaped Mon-El (Chris Wood), who she fears may be the alien behind the assault. Rachel Talalay directed the episode written by Jessica Queller and Derek Simon (#203). Original airdate 10/24/2016.
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Baroni v. Seror (In re Baroni), Nos. 21-55076, 21-55150, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 15704 (9th Cir. June 8, 2022)
A party moving under 11 USC 1112(b)(1) for relief such as conversion of a Chapter 11 case to a Chapter 7 case bears the burden of persuasion that cause exists for granting that relief. Cause includes a material default in making payments due under the Chapter 11 plan. Material isn't defined by the Bankruptcy Code, but gains meaning from the… Read More
Siegel v. Fitzgerald, No. 21-441, 2022 U.S. LEXIS 2681 (June 6, 2022)
Article I, section 8 of the Constitution empowers Congress to enact uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcy throughout the nation. This decision holds that Congress violated the uniformity requirement when it raised US Trustee fees in 2017 because, at that time, it did not also raise the fees charged bankrupts in the six districts in Alabama and North Carolina… Read More
Ritzen Grp., Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC, 140 S. Ct. 582 (2020)
An order unconditionally granting or denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay in bankruptcy is final and appealable. The 14-day window for filing an appeal from the order opens when the order is filed. Stay relief is a proceeding separate from, and precedes, claim resolution. Read More
Corso v. Rejuvi Lab., Inc. (In re Rejuvi Lab., Inc.), No. 21-15530, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 5650 (9th Cir. Mar. 3, 2022)
Corso obtained a default judgment against Rejuvi in a district court in South Australia. Corso filed a proof of claim in Rejuvi's bankruptcy proceeding. Rejuvi appealed from a bankruptcy court order allowing Corso's claim based on the South Australia default judgment. Held, the claim was properly allowed. Under California's Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgment Recognition Act (CCP 1713 et seq.), Rejuvi… Read More
Stevens v. Whitmore (In re Stevens), No. 20-60044, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 31330 (9th Cir. Oct. 19, 2021)
Mentioning an existing lawsuit in the debtor's statement of affairs is insufficient. The claim must actually be listed as an asset in the debtor's schedules. Otherwise, the claim is "unscheduled" and is not abandoned when the bankruptcy trustee decides it is a no asset estate and the bankruptcy court discharges the debtor and closes the case. Accordingly, here, where plaintiff… Read More
Nichols v. Marana Stockyard & Livestock Mkt., Inc. (In re Nichols), No. 20-60043, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 26366 (9th Cir. Sep. 1, 2021)
In Law v. Siegel (2014) 571 U.S. 415, the US Supreme Court held that a bankruptcy court may not use its equitable powers under 11 USC 105 to contravene express provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. Applying that reasoning, this decision departs from prior Ninth Circuit precedent, In re Rosson (9th Cir. 2008) 545 F.3d 764, and holds that a bankruptcy… Read More
Bank of New York Mellon v. Enchantment at Sunset Bay Condominium Ass'n (9th Cir. 2021)
Distinguishing In re Pecan Groves of America (9th Cir. 1991) 951 F.2d 242, this decision holds that a creditor with a security interest in the debtor's real property has standing to quiet title to the property based on the fact that the homeowners association foreclosed on the property while the automatic stay was in effect on the debtor's bankruptcy. Under… Read More
In re Liquidation of Castlepoint National Ins. Co. (2021)
The anti-suit and other injunctions entered when Castlepoint was placed in receivership under the California Insurance Commissioner did not prevent suit by shareholders of a related entity against other related entities and their controlling officers and directors on claims of breach of contract (to which Castlepoint was not a party), tortious interference with that same contract, and breach of fiduciary… Read More
In re Albert (Albert v. Golden) (9th Cir. 2021) 2021
Distinguishing Law v. Siegel (2014) 134 S.Ct. 1188, this decision holds that a bankruptcy court may apply claim and issue preclusion doctrines to bar later assertion of exemptions it has already denied. Here, Albert claimed two exemptions when she originally filed her Chapter 13 petition. A creditor objected, and the bankruptcy court denied the exemptions. Albert failed to appeal. Later,… Read More
Rubin v. Ross (2021)
11 USC 108(c) extends time limits (such as statutes of limitation) for actions against the debtor until 30 period after the automatic stay in bankruptcy is vacated. This decision holds that 108(c) extends the 10-year period in which a judgment creditor may apply for renewal of the judgment under CCP 683.130. The majority opinion also disagrees with In re Lobherr… Read More
City of Chicago v. Fulton (2021)
A creditor or other holder of property of the bankrupt estate does not violate the automatic stay (11 USC 362(a)(3)) by merely continuing to hold that property after the debtor files a bankruptcy petition. Instead, 11 USC 542 governs the circumstances under which the bankruptcy court can compel a holder of property of the bankrupt estate to turn the property… Read More
In re Bral (9th Cir. BAP 2020)
Debtor abusively filed an earlier bankruptcy on behalf of a business entity, voiding a nonjudicial foreclosure sale of the entity's real property held the same day. In debtor's later personal bankruptcy, creditor filed a claim, contending it was entitled to damages from the debtor on state law claims for abuse of process and tortious interference with business relations based on… Read More
In re Taggart (9th Cir. 2020)
Applying the objective standard outlined in Taggart v. Lorenzen (2019) 139 S.Ct. 1795, this decision holds that the debtor's creditors cannot be held in civil contempt for violating the discharge injunction. They had a reasonable believe that Taggart had "returned to the fray" and thus was liable for attorney fees the creditors incurred in defeating his state court suit. Read More
Marino v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (9th Cir. 2020)
Ocwen, a mortgage loan servicer, periodically reviewed credit reports of borrowers who had received bankruptcy discharges of personal liabiity on debts secured deeds of trust on their homes. This decision holds that Ocwen did not violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act by doing so. Ocwen had a permissible pupose in trying to determine whether the borrowers qualified for an alternative… Read More


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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class BotonesDebug : MonoBehaviour {

    ManejadorJuego manejador;
    Servidor servidor;
    Cliente cliente;

    public bool activado = false;

    private void Awake() {
        manejador = FindObjectOfType<ManejadorJuego>();
        servidor = FindObjectOfType<Servidor>();
        cliente = FindObjectOfType<Cliente>();
    }

    private void OnGUI() {

        if (!activado) return;

        if(cliente != null) {
            if (GUILayout.Button("Destruir casi todas las fichas")) {
                foreach (Grupo grupo in FindObjectsOfType<Grupo>()) {
                    if(grupo.tipoGrupo == Grupo.TipoGrupo.Fichas) {
                        for (int x = 1; x < grupo.transform.childCount; x++) {
                            Destroy(grupo.transform.GetChild(x).gameObject);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            if (GUILayout.Button("Forzar turno")) {
                manejador.EmpezarTurno();
            }
            if(GUILayout.Button("Acabar ronda")) {
                cliente.EnviarAccion(MensajeAccion.TipoAccion.AcabarRonda);
                manejador.AcabarRonda();
            }
            if (GUILayout.Button("Acabar juego")) {
                cliente.EnviarAccion(MensajeAccion.TipoAccion.AcabarJuego);
                manejador.AcabarJuego();
            }
            if (GUILayout.Button("Conseguir todos los camellos")) {
                Carta[] todasCartas = manejador.ObtenerTodasLasCartas();
                foreach (Carta carta in todasCartas) {
                    if (carta.mercancia == Carta.TipoMercancia.Camello) {
                        manejador.DarCartaAJugador(carta);
                    }
                }
            }
            if (GUILayout.Button("Vender todas las cartas")) {
                List<int> ids = new List<int>();
                List<Carta> cartas = new List<Carta>(FindObjectsOfType<Carta>());
                Movimiento mov = new Movimiento();
                mov.tipoMovimiento = Movimiento.TipoMovimiento.Vender;
                manejador.DarFichasPorCartas(cartas.ToArray(), manejador.fichasJugador);
                foreach (Carta carta in cartas) {
                    ids.Add(carta.id);
                    carta.EnviarAGrupo(manejador.mazoDescartar);
                }
                mov.ids = ids.ToArray();
                cliente.EnviarMovimiento(mov);
            }
        }

    }

    public void AlternarActivado() {
        activado = !activado;
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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ZOM are a blackened death metal group from Dublin, Ireland. With their debut full-length album 'Flesh Assimilatiion' they join bands like their fellow Irish compatriots Malthusian in the fight to create the most cacophonous, cavernous death metal out there, and do a marvellous job of it, blending catchy, punishing riffs, with brutal vocals that demolish everything put before them, all amplified by rough, raw, loud production that sounds primitive and heavy as hell.
While ZOM don't necessarily do much to reinvent the entire genre of death metal, one simply cannot deny the compelling nature of their sound. There is something totally honest about the rough nature of their sound: Sabbac hammers and smash away furiously behind his drumkit while guitarist Sodomaniac produces some of the heaviest, catchiest riffs heard this year. While some are a conventional (but still enjoyable) blackened death metal affair, other moments (particularly the last three tracks of this album) bring in influences from bands like Death and Slayer and make for some really memorable tracks.
This is an album I would highly recommend to all fans of the fringes of extreme metal. If you are into bands like Malthusian, Antediluvian, or Cruciamentum, I can't recommend this highly enough. Tracks like 'Conquest,' 'The Depths', and the epic closer 'Flesh Assimilation' are simply too good for any self-respecting fan of extreme metal to resist. Moments of droning ambience and atmosphere intersperced between the auditory evisceration help to create a truly morbid atmosphere to this album. This is aided by the noisy and loud production which helps capture the energy and ferocity of the band. Despite the rough mix, the bass is very prominent, providing a deep, rumbling counterpart to the chugging and wailing of the guitar.
Special mention must also go out to the truly astonishing album artwork as well, courtesy of Zbigniew Bielak. While your mileage may vary on the generic nature of their sound, this album will undoubtedly get your head banging along ferociously, and is sure to please any and all fans of death metal.


The closest airport to Shiyan is Xiangyang Liuji Airport (XFN). Distance from Xiangyang Liuji Airport to Shiyan is 94.8 miles / 152.6 kilometers.
Xiangyang Liuji Airport is located approximately 11.4 miles / 18.3 kilometers northeast of Xiangyang and about 25.7 miles / 41.4 kilometers south of Hancheng. IATA airport code is XFN.
Distance from Ankang Wulipu Airport to Shiyan is 107.6 miles / 173.2 kilometers. Ankang Wulipu Airport is located approximately 5.4 miles / 8.7 kilometers west of Ankang and about 95.2 miles / 153.3 kilometers south of Yuxia. IATA airport code is AKA.
Distance from Nanyang Jiangying Airport to Shiyan is 109.2 miles / 175.8 kilometers. Nanyang Jiangying Airport is located approximately 4.9 miles / 7.8 kilometers east of Nanyang and about 23.7 miles / 38.1 kilometers northwest of Binhe. IATA airport code is NNY.
Distance from Yichang Sanxia Airport to Shiyan is 142.2 miles / 228.8 kilometers. Yichang Sanxia Airport is located approximately 9.8 miles / 15.7 kilometers east of Yichang and about 25.4 miles / 40.8 kilometers northwest of Zhijiang. IATA airport code is YIH.


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Q: postgres in vagrant(ubuntu14.04) I tried to create simple dev environment with vagrant but fall in problem with postgres.
My Vagrantfile is simple:
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8000, host: 8000
  config.vm.network :public_network

  config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
    ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
  end
end

and I use ansible for provision:
- name: Configure development machine
  hosts: all
  sudo: True
  tasks:
    - name: install postgres
      apt: name={{ item }} update_cache=yes
      with_items:
        - postgresql
        - postgresql-contrib

but something goes wrong and postgres installs incorrect
When I ssh to VM and I see strange things:
 $ /etc/init.d/postgresql start
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_TIME = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_ADDRESS = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
        Is the server running locally and accepting

and there is no /etc/postgresql directory(but /etc/postgresql-common is present) Any thoughts?
Github repo

A: Add the following lines to shell startup file
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

And then run (with root privileges)
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales

A: you can solve this issue logging in the ubuntu machine and reconfiguring locales with the following command:
dpkg-reconfigure locales

and choose the locale you want.
After solving locale issue, you probably want to initialize the cluster and structure of postgres using:
/etc/init.d/postgresql start

You should after that, configure it properly. I'm using version 9.3 of postgres, so the path of the configuration is
/etc/postgresql/9.3/main

Cheers
LEslie


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4th Annual National Small Business Conference
"Critical Infrastructure Opportunities"
Houston, TXv
Department of Homeland Security Keynote Address:
Honorable Jay Cohen, Under Secretary for Science and Technology, Department of Homeland Security
Panel: Critical Infrastructure and Preparedness Panel
Panelist:
Mr. Antwane Johnson, Deputy Director, Critical Infrastructure Protection (EA), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (HD & ASA)
Mr. Michael Matthews, Division Head (Acting) Infrastructure/Geophysical, Department of Homeland Security
Panel: Prime Contractor
Moderator: Mr. Ronald Perlman, Esq., Chair, Government Contracts Section, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC; Vice Chair, NDIA Small Business Division
Mr. Babak Nouri, Assistant Vice President, Small Business Programs, SAIC
Mr. Doug Patrick, Director of Integrated Supply Chain, Raytheon Company
Ms. Jaye Lampert, Rolls-Royce Corporation, Small Business Liason Officer
Ms. Diane Dempsey, Director Small Business Relations, BAE Systems
Panel: Effective Infrastructure Marketing to the Federal Government
Mr. Wayne Simpson, Deputy Director, Office of Small Business, Department of Veterans Affairs


There is a $5 per vehicle Recreation Permit Fee for parking or use your Federal Lands Pass/local LCDO (Las Cruces District Office) pass.
Join the Alamogordo Amateur Astronomy Club and learn more about the night sky. The moon will be a waxing crescent so it will have little light to block out the stars. Please meet at Group Site Shelter 1 at Aguirre Springs Campgrounds. Take U.S. 70 for 14 miles east of the I-25/U.S. 70 interchange in Las Cruces, then turn south on the Aguirre Springs Road (1.1 miles after San Augustine Pass) for six miles. At mile 4 the road becomes a one-way loop and climbs steeply. Group Site is past campgrounds at the end of the loop past the first and second campgrounds to the right. Dress appropriately and remember the outdoor essentials – water, snacks and a flashlight to get back to your vehicle.


Stretching from the majestic icebound peaks and bleak high altitude deserts of the Andes to the exuberant rainforests and vast savannahs of the Amazon basin, Bolivia embraces an astonishing range of landscapes and climates. This mystical terrain boasts scores of breathtaking attractions including stark otherworldly salt pans, ancient Inca trails and towering volcanic peaks. Landlocked at the remote heart of South America, Bolivia rewards the adventurous travellers and encompasses everything that outsiders find most exotic and mysterious about the continent. The country's cultural diversity and ethnic make up are equally fascinating. Three centuries of colonial rule have left their mark on the nation's language, religion and architecture, but this is essentially little more than a veneer overlying indigenous cultural traditions that stretch back long before the arrival of the Spanish. Though superficially embracing the Catholic religion, many Bolivians are equally at home making offerings to the mountain gods or performing other strange rites, such as blessing vehicles with libations of alcohol. Geographically, Bolivia is dominated by the Andes, which march through the west in two parallel chains, each studded with snow capped peaks between them stretch the barren, windswept expanses of the Altiplano. Reached via a series of lush valleys, the country's lowlands range from dense Amazonian rainforest to vast plains of dry thornbrush and scrub. Bolivia is home to just under ten million people, who are concentrated in a handful of cities founded by the Spanish.


shop till you drop dead!!!
Yup, that'll do it. You have my appreciaiton.
What a super article and I bet a lot of people would love to escape the drudge of life for a weekend shopping in Bangkok, me included, although I will probably be busy working on flights To Florida for UK visitors to the sunshine state. Enjoy your travels.
Haha. I woke up down today. You've cerheed me up!
Sounds like a fun trip. I would love to go back to bangkok at some point, it's a brilliant place. Gotta love the shops!
Wow, that a really clveer way of thinking about it!
AFAIC that's the best awensr so far!
Going to Bangkok without you shopping? That's terrible. If you are planning to go to Bangkok, you might as well be thinking of shopping to complete your escapade. You don't have to bring lots of cash because shopping there is not that expensive compared to other destinations. You can get everything you have glanced at without having to worry if you have spent all your cash. Why? The price of anything from foods to clothing are just so reasonably-priced you would probably wish to stay there all your life.
Was toallty stuck until I read this, now back up and running.
Very nice of you to share this post. It's always exciting to travel to Bangkok, people are always smiling and the prices of commodities are cheap.
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Dear all, I'm just like everyone in S'pore who love to visit Thailand for a short gateway. My trips to Bangkok was good except the recent one. Had a very bad encounter with a tailor shop, Newman Exclusive located at the 2nd level of Amari Watergate Hotel. They are all con men & liar. Their service attitude changed 180 degree once deposit has made. No follow-up was done to my clothes & showed me one kind of face. They disgraced the lovely country & the rotten apple who spoil the name of Thailand. Please share with your friends..
equals the current market value of it.


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Q: DownloadManager download progress not visible I am trying to download a file using Android's DownloadManager and trying to print the download tho the console using log statements.
Though the file is downloaded properly, i am not able to see the log statement of download's progress
Here is my code
 private fun downloadPdf(fileName: String?, fileExtension: String?, destinationDirectory: String?, url: String?) {
        val downloadManager = getSystemService(Context.DOWNLOAD_SERVICE) as DownloadManager
        val uri = Uri.parse(url)
        val request = DownloadManager.Request(uri)
        request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED)
        request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(destinationDirectory, fileName + fileExtension)
        val downloadId = downloadManager.enqueue(request)

        thread {
            val query = DownloadManager.Query()
            query.setFilterById(downloadId)

            val cursor = downloadManager.query(query)

            if(cursor.moveToFirst()){
                val sizeIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(DownloadManager.COLUMN_TOTAL_SIZE_BYTES)
                val downloadedIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(DownloadManager.COLUMN_BYTES_DOWNLOADED_SO_FAR)
                val size = cursor.getInt(sizeIndex)
                val downloaded = cursor.getInt(downloadedIndex)

                val progress: Long
                if(size != -1){
                    progress = downloaded * 100L / size
                    runOnUiThread {
                        Log.i("pritishsawantprogress",progress.toString())
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

Any help would be greatly appreciated

A:   private fun downloadPdf(fileName: String?, fileExtension: String?, destinationDirectory: String?, url: String?) {
        val downloadManager = getSystemService(Context.DOWNLOAD_SERVICE) as DownloadManager
        val uri = Uri.parse(url)
        val request = DownloadManager.Request(uri)
        request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED)
        request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(destinationDirectory, fileName + fileExtension)
        val downloadId = downloadManager.enqueue(request)

        thread {
            var downloading = true
            while (downloading){
                val query = DownloadManager.Query()
                query.setFilterById(downloadId)

                val cursor = downloadManager.query(query)
                if(cursor.moveToFirst()){
                    val bytesDownloaded = cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex(DownloadManager.COLUMN_BYTES_DOWNLOADED_SO_FAR))
                    val bytesTotal = cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex(DownloadManager.COLUMN_TOTAL_SIZE_BYTES))

                    if(cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex(DownloadManager.COLUMN_STATUS)) == DownloadManager.STATUS_SUCCESSFUL){
                        downloading = false
                    }

                    val progress = ((bytesDownloaded * 100L)/bytesTotal).toInt()
                    runOnUiThread {
                        Log.i("pritishsawantprogress",progress.toString())
                    }

                    cursor.close()
                }
            }
        }

    }


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This is a digital download of a Mardi Gras Royal Family SVG Cut File Set. These files can be imported to a number of cutting machine software programs. With this purchase, you will receive a zipped folder containing these images in SVG, DXF, EPS, PNG, and JPEG format. Use these files to create iron on vinyl shirt decals, signs, mugs, wall decals, and more!


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Home Publications Comparing schools spending per pupil in Wales and England
Comparing schools spending per pupil in Wales and England
Luke Sibieta
Between 2009-10 and 2017-18, total school spending per pupil in England fell by about 8% in real terms, which compares with about 5% in Wales. The greater cuts in England are driven by a combination of a greater fall in spending by local authorities and school sixth form spending alongside faster growth in pupil numbers. As a result, the gap in school spending per pupil between England and Wales has been virtually eliminated. These are the main findings of new work by IFS researchers, which will be presented today in Cardiff at the Wales Public Services 2025 Conference.
School funding per pupil falls faster in England than in Wales
Education, skills and human capital
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There are four KVM IPv4 VLAN IPFIX templates: ingress, egress, ingress with tunnel, and egress with tunnel.
Template ID: 336. Field count: 48.
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BMC provides software solutions that enable businesses to transform into digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive advantage. BMC's Digital Enterprise Management solutions are designed to make digital business fast, seamless, and optimized from mainframe to mobile to cloud and beyond. BMC digital IT transforms 82 percent of the Fortune 500 and serves more than 10,000 customers worldwide.


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Cardstock Warriors
Milk and Saucer Cat Cafe
Todo App
Paycrave
Blocbox
User Experience + Branding + Design
Design a retail site for a new tabletop game, Cardstock Warriors. It should have information about the game, rules, and an e-shop to purchase the miniatures.
InVision Prototype
To begin designing Cardstock Warriors, the first thing I did was interview the creator of the game. He had been an avid tabletop gamer for many years, but was getting frustrated with the cost of the miniatures. He decided to come up with a tabletop game but instead of metal or plastic figures, it is made out of paper that you can download and print on your home printer and assemble the pieces to build your own army at a fraction of the cost. I had already started working with him on the design of the site but after a successful Kickstarter campaign, he was ready to begin on the actual building of the website.
I had created a survey to find out what types of people would be playing the game. Some users were backers of the Kickstarter campaign as well. In addition to the survey, I also interviewed a couple of users for more indepth feedback.
After the research phase it was time to design a logo and decide on colors. Since the figures are handdrawn and whimsical, I wanted site to have the same feel with the colors and logo but kept the typography minimal so that it would be easy to read.
I drew the sword in Illustrator and wanted the "Cardstock" to have sort of a cardboard feel, which is why I chose the greyish-brown color. I chose the orange as the accent color because I wanted it to pop against the primary colors used in the site.
I decided to use purple for the main color because it has been used by royalty for thousands of years and I thought about warriors fight for kings and queens. The text I just chose a dark gray so it would not interfere with the accent colors. The blue and orange came directly from the miniatures.
Before I started actually designing the site, I created User Flows to find out what was the best way to move between the home page and each additional page including the e-shop.
With branding and reseach complete and User Flows created, I was ready to start designing. In Basalmiq, I created low-fidelity wireframes. Some requirements for the site were a Home page, an FAQ, Tutorials and Rules on how to play the game and a link to the e-shop, which I also designed.
Once I was happy with what I had planned out, I moved to Photoshop to begin designing my mockups. This is the part I really enjoy. Even after all the research, color choices, branding and even the wireframes, it is hard to tell what the website will actually look like. With the mockups, you can get a sense of where the design is going. Even though I had created the mockups, there were a few changes that I made in the final design that worked a little better.
Once all of the design mockups were completed, I used InVisionapp.com to create a prototype to make sure the design worked as intended. I submitted the finished prototype to peek.usertesting.com for user testing. This was helpful to see how real people would interact with the site and if I needed to make any adjustments. Overall, the users loved the color scheme and the site had a very nice appearance. I think the main issue was that some of the users did not realize they were paper miniatures that you downloaded but they knew it was a gaming site.
Conclusion and Reflection
The final design was giving to the creator of the game. He built the final site. In the end, my color scheme was not used. I also suggested that we add a "how to" section on the home page, which would feature icons that go through each step to build the warriors, but we have not implemented that section yet.
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Q: How to re-render a SwiftUI view I have a homepage which goes to other views without NavigationLinks, but rather with isActive states and pop to root dismissals, as this way, I was told, our app uses less memory as it is cyclic in nature. because of this, the view is never navigated to again, it is always there, and as a result @State vars are never re-evaluated. For example, in our homepage, I have this:
@State var showSwingAgainSheet = appDelegate.swing?.isRecorded ?? false

Which refers to a Core Data variable, and is used later to display a sheet:
.modifier(SaveOrDeleteRecordingSheetView(isPresented: $showSwingAgainSheet))

When the Core Data variable is set to true, the sheet does not pop up unless I force close the app
I have considered using @Environment, @ObservableObject, but could not figure it out. What would be the best approach to solve this problem?

A: Any chance this could help?  Changing the .id() modifier reloads the view, causing the @State variables to revert to their default state.  Since the default state is a ternary operator, it might reevaluate it when the view is reloaded.


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Q: numpy polynomial interpretation I am using Polynomial.fit and get the following polynomial:
polynomial.str()
'0.8447708645677164 - 0.09751307764485126 x1 - 0.039531273903863295 x2'
but when I perform
polynomial(0),
it shows 0.9027526683087044.
But I thought if we input 0 into x, shouldn't it be 0.8447708645677164 instead?

A: This is the corrrect way
import numpy as np

p = [-0.039531273903863295, -0.09751307764485126, 0.8447708645677164 ]
val = np.polyval(p, 0)
print(val)

output
0.8447708645677164


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A list of films produced in Brazil in 1931:

See also
 1931 in Brazil

External links
Brazilian films of 1931 at the Internet Movie Database

Brazil
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Two decades after its reporting helped fuel the worst bloodshed in Europe since World War II, Serbia's state-run television has apologized to viewers throughout the former Yugoslavia for serving as the key propaganda tool of late autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s.
Radio Television of Serbia — or RTS — said in a statement posted on its website Tuesday that the station's program was "almost constantly and heavily abused" by Milosevic's regime with the aim of discrediting his political and ethnic opponents and spreading official propaganda.
The broadcaster "apologizes to the citizens of Serbia and those of neighbouring countries who were subject to insult, slander and what would now be termed as hate speech," the statement added.
The apology is the first by Serbia's state broadcaster, which was one of the symbols of Milosevic's era and a key pillar of his heavy-handed, decade-long rule, marked by wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, international isolation and economic decline.
Some said it was not enough, considering the damage created by the station's former warmongering policies.
Liberal politician Marko Karadzic described the apology as a "positive step" but said the television's managing board did not distance itself clearly enough from the past.
"RTS' program was an organized campaign of support to the policies of extinction and violence which we cannot view as insult or slander," Karadzic said.
The Independent Journalists Association said that while the statement was welcome, those who took part in the spreading of warmongering propaganda have not faced consequences and should be put on trial.
When he came to power in the late 1980s, Milosevic appointed trusted associates to head the national broadcaster, firing longtime professionals and turning it into his regime's mouthpiece.
The station blatantly spread Milosevic's nationalist propaganda, portraying Serbs as the victims of the ethnic attacks in the former Yugoslavia and whipping up nationalism that helped lead to the wars.
While reporting from warfronts, RTS journalists fueled anti-Croatian hysteria by saying Croat pro-independence fighters cut off fingers of Serb children and made necklaces out of them, and that Croats suffocated Serb babies using plastic bags in a nursery in eastern Croatia.
With the post-Communist breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbs rebelled against the independence of Croatia and Bosnia, triggering the bloodshed that left more than 100,000 people dead and millions homeless before ending in Western-brokered peace agreements in 1995.
In 1998, Milosevic launched the brutal war in Kosovo to try to stop Albanian separatists, prompting NATO to intervene in 1999.
Serbia's state TV brooked little opposition during that period, accusing anyone opposing Milosevic or the war of being foreign mercenaries and traitors who are working against the country's interests.
The propaganda was so intense that it led to major anti-government protests in March 1991 in Belgrade, during which two people were killed in what was the first popular uprising against Milosevic's rule. It also prompted NATO in 1999 to declare the broadcaster a legitimate target, and it was bombed during the alliance's air war, killing 16 RTS employees.
The same building caught fire in 2000, when thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators stormed its Belgrade headquarters during an uprising that eventually toppled the autocrat and paved the way for his extradition to a U.N. war crimes tribunal to face a genocide trial, where he died in 2006.
With the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, RTS is rarely watched in the rest of the former Yugoslavia.
In Serbia, nationalist opposition parties complain the state TV remains staunchly pro-government, this time favouring the pro-Western authorities who are seeking to move Serbia closer to the European Union. RTS has dismissed the criticism.
The station conceded in its statement that "during the tragic events of the 1990s, RTS with its reporting on many occasions hurt the feelings, moral integrity and dignity of the Serbian citizens, intellectuals, members of political opposition, journalists, ethnic and religious minorities, as well as certain neighbouring peoples and states."
It added the station will in the future promote "the rule of law, social justice, civic democracy, human and minority rights and freedoms."
"Could it have come earlier? Probably," he said. "But I think it is never too late."


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Bulletin from Saint Sophia Cathedral, Washington, DC where Leadership 100 Chairman Emeritus Stephen G. Yeonas and members Jim and Ted Pedas hosted reception.
National Leadership 100 Sunday was observed in parishes across the country on October 25, 2015 with the reading of an Encyclical issued by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, on behalf of the Holy Eparchial Synod. It was the seventh observance, designated to be the Sunday nearest the Feast of Saint Iakovos in honor of the Founder of Leadership 100, Archbishop Iakovos. This year, it also fell one day prior to the Feast of Saint Demetrios.
Parish Priests throughout the nation read the Encyclical at the Divine Liturgy. Many parishes also held a program during the coffee hour coordinated by members of Leadership 100 to develop awareness of the support provided by Leadership 100 for the critical ministries of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, as well as for ministries in every Metropolis.
Ted Zampetis of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a prominent business leader and a member of the Executive Committee of Leadership 100, served as Chairman of the observance for the fourth consecutive year. Zampetis also serves as Chairman of the Membership Committee. "National Leadership 100 Sunday again generated support for our mission and attracted new members, thanks to the commitment of Ted Zampetis," said George S. Tsandikos, Leadership 100 Chairman.
Among the many parishes participating were: St. Katherine, Redondo Beach, CA; Saint Sophia Cathedral, Washington, DC; Assumption Church, Chicago, IL; St. George, Bethesda, MD; St. Nicholas, Troy, MI; Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, New York, NY: Church of Our Saviour, Rye, NY; Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas, Cincinnati, OH; Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Winchester, VA; and St. John the Divine, Wheeling, WV, which, in addition to the program, initiated a "second tray collection for Leadership 100."
Today, Leadership 100 counts some 976 members from a broad spectrum of Greek Orthodox leaders, men and women of all ages from every field of endeavor, including Leadership 100 Partners. Over three decades, more than $42 million in grants has been disbursed to support the National Ministries and institutions of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Metropolises, as well as other programs and projects advancing Orthodoxy and Hellenism and meeting human need in the nation and around the world.


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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience
5-Volume Set
Kwame Anthony Appiah and Edited by Henry Louis Gates
New to the Second Edition:
More than 1,000 new entries, others updated and revised
Articles covering cities, regions, countries and living subjects are all fully updated
Additional articles on the African Diaspora in Latin America
"At a Glance" features provide quick summaries of places and events
Full color with hundreds of photos, tables and maps that have been updated for the new edition
Chronology of significant events in the history of Africa and the African Diaspora
Comprehensive bibliography arranged by topic
New comprehensive index
Regional tag lines introduce each article and indicate the part of the world an article is linked to
Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999.
This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created.
More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African istelf have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from Lucy, our oldest-known human ancestor, to Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, and Edited by Henry Louis Gates, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities, Chair of Afro-American Studies, and Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
Praise for the First Edition: "Bursting with information and enhanced by contributions from its illustrious advisory board, which includes Jamaica Kincaid, Nell Irvin Painter, Cornel West and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, this book belongs on every family's reference shelf."—Publishers Weekly -
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Exposing Slavery
Matthew Fox-Amato
Appealing for Liberty
Loren Schweninger
Karen J. Johnson
A Dream of the Future
Nathan Cardon
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
Kali Nicole Gross
Jim Crow North
Richard S. Newman
Unredeemed Land
Erin Stewart Mauldin
Black Samson
Jeremy Schipper, Nyasha Junior
Fade In, Crossroads
Robert Jackson
The New Negro
Jeffrey C. Stewart
They Knew Lincoln
John E. Washington, Kate Masur
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
Michael A. Ross
This Worldwide Struggle
Sarah Azaransky
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Expedited removal policies are being implemented in South Texas, immigration lawyers say
'Little by little they are chipping away at the asylum process,' immigration lawyer says
by: Sandra Sanchez
Posted: Jan 2, 2020 / 05:22 PM CST / Updated: Jan 22, 2020 / 07:38 PM CST
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — As she was reviewing her past week's client cases, immigration lawyer Charlene D'Cruz noticed a disturbing trend: None of her clients had first-hearing cases scheduled for February. In fact, she hadn't received any new clients with a first hearing scheduled.
D'Cruz, who works for the nonprofit Lawyers for Good Government and aides migrants living in a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, said "a light bulb suddenly went off" in her brain and she realized that controversial immigration policies that lead to expedited removals of asylum-seekers were now being used on migrants crossing into South Texas.
The controversial policies are known as PACR and HARP, which stand for Prompt Asylum Claim Review, and Humanitarian Asylum Review Process, respectively. These policies were first started in El Paso in October under the Trump administration. Opponents of these policies say they deny asylum-seekers access to legal counsel when they're screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, and it often leads to their quick deportation with no asylum claims granted or future court hearings scheduled.
D'Cruz — who said she typically does intake for up to 50 new asylum-seekers daily at the Matamoros refugee camp where 2,500 migrants now live — told Border Report on Thursday that she believes both policies are being used on new migrants in CBP's Rio Grande Sector.
CBS reported on Dec. 31 that PACR has been used here as a pilot program, and was expanded in December as a way to promote "streamlined, same location asylum claims."
On Thursday, immigration lawyers told Border Report that they believe both PACR and HARP have been started in South Texas.
Border Report has asked CBP officials whether both of these policies have been implemented in the Rio Grande Valley, but has not received a response. This story will be updated if new information is received.
When PACR and HARP were first started in El Paso as pilot programs, federal officials did not notify the media or announce the new policy. The Department of Homeland Security still has not released an explanation of what these programs fully entail. Other immigration programs like the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also called Remain in Mexico, are explained on the agency's website.
Most of the 2,500 migrants living at the Matamoros refugee camp are part of MPP. They are given U.S. immigration court hearing dates and must wait in Mexico during the asylum process. But under PACR, migrants are quickly screened by CBP within a couple of days and without having attained legal counsel. If they fail to prove that they have a credible fear of returning to their country, or fear of persecution in their home country, then they are deported immediately with no future court hearings set.
HARP and PACR are similar, but HARP is applied to Mexican nationals seeking U.S. asylum. DHS typically applies different programs to Mexican nationals who, for instance, are not eligible for MPP. Currently, thousands of Mexican nationals are forced to remain in Mexico due to Trump-era U.S. metering policies at U.S. ports of entry, which only allow so many Mexican national asylum-seekers to enter on any given day.
Asylum-seekers living at a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, line up for food on Dec. 22, 2019. Over 2,500 migrants live in the camp on the banks of the Rio Grande, which is across the bridge from Brownsville, Texas. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
PACR and HARP began in El Paso in 2019
CBS News on Dec. 31 reported that PACR was begun in South Texas last month and quoted a CBP official as saying over 1,000 migrants already have been put into the program.
That makes sense to D'Cruz who said that she thought it was strange that last week she had no new clients with notices issued for first appearances — also commonly called NTAs — scheduled for February for U.S. immigration court. Typically, it takes four to six weeks for migrants to be issued their first U.S. asylum court appearance date, so D'Cruz said she would have expected to see court appearance paperwork for February for any migrants who crossed in December.
"I just figured it out," D'Cruz said Thursday via phone from her offices near the refugee camp in Matamoros. "I looked at it yesterday and I think, yeah they have started it here."
"It's very disconcerting to me because I think they're being soft-celled in Donna," she said.
CBS reported that migrants arriving from Central America, Cuba and Africa are now being sent to CBP facilities, like the massive tent city south of Donna, Texas, where they are being quickly interviewed by CBP agents in what is called a credible fear interview (or CFI.)
Efren Olivares is racial and economic justice program director for the Texas Civil Rights Project. (Border Report File Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Previously, these interviews were conducted in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, where asylum-seekers were allowed to speak with and meet with lawyers and had phone access to legal counsel. CBP facilities, however, do not guarantee that migrants will be allowed a phone call, nor allow lawyers access.
"It's really confusing how these programs interplay with one another but the really tricky thing about PACR is it condenses the asylum process," said Efren Olivares, racial and economic justice program director for the nonprofit Texas Civil Rights Project.
"Instead of waiting weeks for the credible fear interview (CFI), all of that is condensed down to a few days including the Border Patrol doing the CFI, which is just outrageous because you have the prosecutor acting as the judge, if you will," said Olivares, whose nonprofit organization also gives legal aid to migrants at the Matamoros camp.
It's just another way to destroy the asylum process, the institution of asylum in the U.S."
Efren Olivares, racial and economic justice program director for the Texas Civil Rights Project
Expediting this process does not allow migrants the opportunity to understand the U.S. legal system or time to frame their pleas for asylum, Olivares said.
"It's always difficult to frame a question as to why asylum claims and that takes weeks to assemble the story and gather evidence and now they are condensing it in to a day or two. It's just another way to destroy the asylum process, the institution of asylum in the U.S."
Last month, the El Paso advocacy group Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center filed for an injunction against the CBP policies PACR and HARP, which they said are sending asylum seekers back to places where their lives are in danger. The legal brief by against HARP and PACR came after the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit against the two programs, which they said have turned the American asylum process into a "deportation machine."
Read a Border Report story on the lawsuit and legal brief.
Olivares said immigration advocates are most disturbed that new policies, like these, are all being "dictated by executive fiat" by President Donald Trump without Congress setting any new immigration laws.
"Little by little they are chipping away at the asylum process," Olivares said.


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