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US Lays Claim to $1 Billion in Bitcoin Stolen From Silk Road
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Published: November 7, 2022
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A logo of the digital currency Bitcoin is pictured on an ATM in a mall in Hong Kong on Nov. 1, 2022. (Image: PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
The United States is seeking a forfeiture order for more than $1 billion in Bitcoin that was stolen from the Silk Road online marketplace in 2012, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday.
In the second largest seizure in Department of Justice history, law enforcement seized the 50,000 Bitcoin during a November 2021 search of the Gainesville, Georgia, home of James Zhong.
Zhong on Friday pleaded guilty to wire fraud that tricked Silk Road's processing system into releasing the funds into his accounts.
The Bitcoin was at the time worth more than $3 billion, but the value of the cryptocurrency has since lost about two-thirds of its value.
Silk Road was seized by the U.S. government in 2013, when officials described the underground website as a massive illegal drug- and money-laundering marketplace.
The website's creator Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 of seven counts of enabling illegal drug sales via bitcoin. He was sentenced to life in prison, and lost an attempted appeal in 2017.
By Reuters (Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; editing by Barbara Lewis)
Tag: cryptocurrency
Tag: James Zhong
Tag: Ross Ulbricht
Tag: Silk Road
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Q: Вставка символа между слов в TextBox колонкой

Вот код кнопки
private void Processing_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        string before = textboxBeforeProcessing.Text;//Сохранение текста в переменной
        string[] words = before.Split(new char[] { ' ' });//Разбор текста на слова
        for (int i = 0;  i < words.Length; i++)//Добавление одинарных кавычек
        {
            textboxPostProcessing.Text += "'" + words[i] + "'";
        }
    }

Объявление TextBox -ов
 <TextBox Name="textboxBeforeProcessing" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" AcceptsReturn="True">
    </TextBox>
    <TextBox Name="textboxPostProcessing"  Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" AcceptsReturn="True" >
    </TextBox>

Как сделать так, чтобы кавычки текста колонкой проставлялись так же, как и у построчного текста?

A: Проблема
Проблема не в TextBox-ах и вообще не в WPF, по крайней мере не только в них. Проблема в обработке строк, ее можно воспроизвести в консольном приложении:
var before = "hello world\nnext line";
Console.WriteLine("Before: ");
Console.WriteLine(before);
var after = "";
string[] words = before.Split(new char[] { ' ' });//Разбор текста на слова
for (int i = 0;  i < words.Length; i++)//Добавление одинарных кавычек
{
     after += "'" + words[i] + "'";
}
Console.WriteLine("After: ");
Console.WriteLine(after);

Выводит:
Before:
hello world
next line
After:
'hello''world
next''line'

Как видите, код не обернул перенос строки в кавычки. Это происходит потому что Вы разбиваете строку по пробелу, а перенос строки им не является.
Решение
Для того чтобы разбить строку не только по пробелам используйте вызов String.Split(), который согласно документации разбивает строку по любым пробельным символам:

If the separator argument is null or contains no characters, the method treats white-space characters as the delimiters.

Если в примере выше использовать:
string[] words = before.Split()

, то вывод уже будет:
Before:
hello world
next line
After:
'hello''world''next''line'

Кавычки проставились нормально, но строки слепились в одну. Если это устраивает, то ОК. Если нет, то придется изменить обработку и самому отслеживать где в строке есть переносы строк и заменить их на сочетание «кавычка + перенос строки». Это можно сделать циклом, можно заменой по строке. В качестве альтернативы можно обрабатывать строки входного TextBox-а по одной через какой-нибудь GetLineText.
Для соединения строк опять-таки вместо цикла можете использовать String.Join передавая разделитель "''" или даже "','". Нужно будет добавить разделителей спереди и сзади, но это мелочи.
Сверхзадача
А вообще большинство нормальных текстовых редакторов поддерживают поиск и замену по регулярному выражению. С их помощью такого рода задачи (обернуть слова в кавычки с разделителем) решаются довольно легко.
Для примера если мы в Notepad++ имеем такой текст:

, то с помощью замены по регулярному выражению:

можно обернуть все слова (последовательности без пробелов) в кавычки:

В общем, учите регулярные выражения и возможности Вашего редактора/среды, так сэкономите время на написание кода. Если еще какой-нибудь скриптовый язык выучите то Вас вообще никто не остановит :)

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In geometria, un endeicosagono è un poligono con 21 lati ed altrettanti vertici e angoli; l'endeicosagono regolare è caratterizzato da angoli e lati tutti congruenti tra loro.

Proprietà geometriche
Il numero delle diagonali D di un endeicosagono è il risultato della seguente formula, dove l è il numero dei suoi lati:

mentre la somma dei suoi angoli interni, essendo pari a tanti angoli piatti quanti sono i suoi lati meno due, vale:

.

Endeicosagono regolare
Ciascun angolo interno, per quanto detto precedentemente, vale:

Poligoni

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Red Turnip is back with 'A Doll's House, Part 2'
Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo and filmmaker Carlitos Siguion-Reyna (making his acting debut) in rehearsal; Cris Villonco directs —RED TURNIP THEATER
By: Vincen Gregory Yu Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:27 AM September 08, 2018
They were on a roll. Then they vanished. Now they're back.
That's the life—so far—of Red Turnip Theater, the quintet of Rem Zamora, Cris Villonco, Jenny Jamora, Ana Abad-Santos and Topper Fabregas. At their peak, they were churning out one critically acclaimed production after another, snagging the Best Play citation for full-length non-Filipino material in Inquirer Theater's yearend roundup for three consecutive years (for Mike Bartlett's "Cock," Moisés Kaufman's "33 Variations" and Nina Raine's "Tribes").
Pulling back
So eyebrows were raised when, after staging Jennifer Hailey's "The Nether" in March 2017, the group fell off the radar.
"We had an inkling that we were going in a direction we wanted to pull back from," says Zamora, "so we unanimously decided to hit the refresh button. [The five of us] are literally behind everything, from planning the season to counting ticket stubs. It's been a juggling act since day one."
Now, Red Turnip returns with its 10th production—"A Doll's House, Part 2," Lucas Hnath's unauthorized sequel to the 19th-century Henrik Ibsen classic about the disintegration of an unhappy marriage.
Ibsen concludes with Nora, the protagonist, leaving her husband and kids—quite the controversial ending back in the day, when feminism and women's rights were still alien notions. Hnath picks up 15 years after Ibsen, with Nora, now a celebrated author, coming home.
"Part 2" opened on Broadway last year and was Tony-nominated for Best Play. But while it seems like typical material by Turnip standards—
their avowed mission, after all, has been to mount "edgy," "in-your-face" nonmusical work—it's also a sequel to a story that hasn't been staged (at least professionally) in Manila since the new millennium.
"You really don't need to know anything [about the original] to walk into this show," Villonco says. "When I saw it in New York, I was completely floored. Everything is already given in the exposition. I love that it is only 90 minutes and set in modern language."
Directorial debut
The play marks Villonco's directorial debut—the last of the Turnips to helm a production of their own. And, in a reversal of artistic roles, she's directing her uncle, renowned filmmaker Carlitos Siguion-Reyna, in his acting debut as Nora's husband Torvald.
"Torvald was the most difficult to cast," Villonco says. "At a family reunion, I saw [my uncle] and thought, 'What if?' I'm so used to him directing me, but on the first day of rehearsals, he gave something completely different that I liked but shook me a bit."
The role of Nora, which won Laurie Metcalf last year's Tony for Best Actress, will be played by Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, in her Red Turnip debut and her second consecutive lead role in a straight play (after Repertory Philippines' "Agnes of God" last year).
"It's a role I can really sink my teeth into," says Lauchengco-Yulo, popularly regarded as Philippine musical theater's First Lady. "Nora is a character way ahead of her time—a strong, highly intelligent and very determined woman."
The show, which also features Sheila Francisco and Rachel Coates, will open in a new venue for Red Turnip—the Zobel de Ayala Recital Hall at Maybank Performing Arts Theater in Bonifacio Global City.
"Part of our 'stepping back' was scaling down the sizes of our audiences per show and going for more intimate stagings," Zamora says. "The recital hall is perfect for this."
"We knew coming in that [exclusively staging straight plays] was going to be an uphill climb," he adds. "We figured, 'if we build it, they will come.' And the audience did. The challenge is keeping them coming."
"A Doll's House, Part 2" runs Sept. 15-Oct. 7. Visit ticketworld.com.ph.
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Q: Fluent NHibernate mapping for DateTime with default value I know that there are many threads about this and I have read most of them. However for me a couple of things remain unclear and still do not work.
If I have on my database schema a field of type DateTime and I like to assign it a default value I would do something like this:
create table [mySchema].[MyTable](
    ObjectGuid uniqueidentifier CONSTRAINT Id PRIMARY KEY,
    SomeTextToStore nvarchar(128) NULL,
    CDate datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT GETDATE(),
    CUser nvarchar(64) DEFAULT CURRENT_USER
);
GO

(Don't know if it is important: I am using SQL Server Express 2014. Fluent configuration is for SQL Server 2012.)
This works fine when doing an INSERT from ISQL, inserts a timestamp of the moment when the record was added.
Using fluent I would write something like this:
Domain:
public class MyObject
{
    public virtual Guid Id {get; set}
    public virtual string SomeTextToStore {get; set;}
    public virtual DateTime? CDate {get; set;}
    public virtual string CUser {get; set;}
}

NOTE: I made CDate nullable!
And a mapping class like this:
class MyObjectMap : ClassMap<MyObject>
{
    public MyObjectMap()
    {
        Table("MySchema.MyTable");
        Id(x => x.Id).GeneratedBy.GuidComb();
        Map(x => x.SomeTextToStore).Length(128).Nullable();
        Map(x => x.CDate).Not.Nullable().Default("getdate()");
        Map(x => x.CUser).Not.Nullable().Default("CURRENT_USER);
    }
}

In the program (in my case this is a library that can be called from several type of programs) I do something like:
public void EnterSomeText()
{
    using (var session = sessionManager.OpenSession())
    {
        using (var transaction = session.BeginTransaction())
        {
            var myObj = new MyObject();
            myObj.SomeTextToStore("bla bla bla");
            session.SaveOrUpdate(myObj);
            transaction.Commit();
        }
        session.Close();
    }
}

This ends always in a DateTime overflow exception! (SqlDateTime overflow. Must be between 1/1/1753 12:00:00 AM and 12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM)
It looks like not passing a value to the file CDate is causing the problem. When I add the default in my library like such it works:
...
myObj.SomeTextToStore("bla bla bla");
myObj.CDate = DateTime.Now;   // <---- Set the date here
session.SaveOrUpdate(myObj);
...

But this is not really the solution....
Questions:

*

*What am I doing wrong / missing ?

*What is the correct strategy when
defining defaults? Doing it on the database or just in code? (When
starting a plain new vanilla project, I would prefer doing
everything from C# code, even create and later update the schema...)

*Regarding domain classes: Is it wise to create constructors,
that fill fields with defaults?

I do this for the field CUser because in CUser I like to add the current user context
public MyObject()
{
   var o = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
   if (o != null)
   {
       CUser = o.Name;
   }
}

Instead of filling the CDate field with the current date in my DB-access layer library I could do it also in the constructor of the domain-class like such:
public MyObject()
{
   var o = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
   if (o != null)
   {
       CUser = o.Name;
   }
   CDate = DateTime.Now;
}

Many thanks for your help and comments!

A: Usually for this type of mapping I do the following in my mapping:
DynamicInsert();
DynamicUpdate();

This way if you have nullable types in C# and you don't set them to anything nhibernate will not include them in the insert or update statement.  I never really like it when nhibernate is updating columns that weren't changed in the code anyway.
Furthermore when you specify .Not.Nullable(); and .Default("getdate()") in the mapping all this is used for is schema generation.  It's not actually used by nhibernate to do any validation or defaulting.  That is left up to the database.

A: You have defined this column as NOT NULL in the database and Nullable() in the mapping. FluentNHibernate is sending DbNull to the database, which is getting rejected, since the database column is not nullable.
You should decide where your logic resides. Is this your code or the database who is the master?
Setting default value in FlientNHibernate was discussed, for example, in this question.
Suggested code from there is:
Map(x => x.SubmitionDate).Default("getdate()").Not.Nullable();

In general, I would always advise to use NHibernate Profiler (paid tool) to see what queries go to the database and why they fail. Invaluable for optimisation, you are using ORM, be careful now!


Some years ago, I was waiting outside a historical building for my sweetheart to finish a landscaping consultation when a gentleman approached. He urged us to take a look at his woodland garden, just a few streets away, even if we only had a few minutes.
He explained that his wife was an artist and together they had creatively customised what they hoped would be their forever house. We had a busy day ahead but his enthusiasm was infectious and I felt curious.
At the time I was just getting my head around the things Americans did in their gardens – the people my sweetheart knew, anyway. So, as you see, we took up the invitation. From the hand painted door mat ("Welcome to the house of my dreams") to the fairground horse, to the door on the road to nowhere, to the flower power bench underneath the coffee cup tree, the house and garden were full of individual touches.
The English plant flowers, shrubs and trees in their gardens, add a couple of stone planters around the main entrance for decoration and think they've gone out on a limb if they hide a gnome somewhere. Americans always seem more empowered to do their own thing.
The midday sun was streaming through the shade wherever it could make its way through the tree canopy and the silhouettes of leaves add a felicitous extra layer of decoration to the tiled barn.
Even the old wheelbarrow was painted and cheerier for it. It looks as if they've been too busy accessorising the garden to do much bicycling, unless that vine is more vigorous than it looks!
I believe this gorgeous stained glass door panel was made by the artist too. I left with the impression of a fulfilled couple, making the most of the freedom we should all have to express ourselves any way we want in our own spaces – if we dare to take it!
Shared for the weekly photo challenge: Surprise.
I wanted to credit the owners so I'm glad to learn that their names are Dottie and Andy Armstrong.
"The English plant flowers, shrubs and trees in their gardens, add a couple of stone planters around the main entrance for decoration and think they've gone out on a limb if they hide a gnome somewhere." All 55 million of us? Rather a sweeping generalisation don't you think?
You're right of course. I've seen quite a few art in the garden exhibitions here, so the pieces must be going somewhere.
If you know of any English gardens with home-made bottle trees, let me know. I'd love to add them to my to-visit list. I've been looking out for a few years now and have only ever heard of two gardens, and I don't know where either of them are.
I'm guilty of taking umbrage where none was necessary. Too much blood in my caffeine stream. You're probably right in general.
Thanks for the suggestion – that looks just up my street.
This was neat to read about my Art teacher and American History teacher from high school. Very well written. The touring bicycle that is pictured has seen many, many hundreds of miles. You see, Andy use to spend his summers bicycling across America and Europe. Exploring and taking his children along for the adventure. I always looked forward to his stories when he came back. So glad you were able to see our sweet little town!
I always feel English gardeners are more confident with planting (on average, as a sweeping generalisation) and American gardeners are more confident and comfortable when it comes to garden art.
It's fine if people don't want to accessorise but if people want to express themselves in their gardens, I love to see that too. I'm one of the repressed ones, though my sweetheart has recently sneaked one of his rescue gnomes and a few small bottles into my back yard.
Love these photos that express the creative imagination of this couple. Yes, it's very typical for Americans to extend their creativity and clutter outdoors when spaces inside the house have been filled with special treasures. But, I do enjoy the color and beauty that people create. It's so fun to see other people's ideas. We don't have the wonderful historic sculptures, sculptured parks or museums found in old Europe so we sometimes create our own out of recycled items. Thanks for sharing this piece of America; it's so fun to read your delightful posts.
I like seeing other people's ideas too. That's one of the great things about blogging – we get to share what we see.
I love the free spiritedness, but not everyone in the US is that creative, either. It isn't exactly to my taste (I'm English and live in Texas, go figure) but I admire how they are fulfilling their own dreams. It certainly is cheery!
I'd love to be able to make my own stained glass – it's so beautiful and atmospheric.
How colourful and delightfully quirky.
I do take your point re English restraint versus masterly planting, yet there are some British world class contemporary gardens here that succeed in doing both. Right on our doorstep is Anne Wareham's and Charles Hawes' masterpiece (with creative, wryly humourous and thought provoking 'art') The Veddw. Have you been there yet?
No I haven't but I've added it to my list of places I'd love to see. Is there any particular time of the year you'd recommend?
Hi Shelly – that's part of the fun! A garden is never finished. I've been wondering how much this one might have changed in the years since we were there.
Yes, we should all do what we want with our private space as long as it isn't harming the environment or other people. Gardens should be fun.
Thanks for sharing! I am always inspired by others' garden art. Here in Seattle, and we are funky, artsy gardeners for sure. I have seen bottle trees, one in particular in my community, but not aware of where the tradition comes from. Is it a southern thing? I love mosaics and painted steps and doors. I really like the door to nowhere! I had a front door that I gave away. I had tried to find a place for it, but couldn't. It wasn't as nice as the one with windows.
I've seen them more often in the south. You can find lots of information online about their history. They're a great way to add colour, especially in the winter, so they tend to spread – someone sees one and thinks "I could do that!".
OH m G! I love it. Love the bottles.
It's not often you see purple and orange bottles.
Or see them hanging on trees!
I love having the benefit of your travels and of your sharp eye. This garden seems to enjoy itself immensely, and I wouldn't mind an hour or so just hobnobbing around in it. What fun the Armstrongs must have!
I'm sure you'd enjoy passing some time there – they're a lovely couple.
I do have the feeling that I'd like them.
Make sure you visit the train depot and the over 100 year old post office with the original painted mural and mail boxes!
Thank you! Truth to tell, I was mystified by your comment because I couldn't remember the context of my own comment. So I had to go back, of course, and was delighted to find that wonderful post of Susan's about the Armstrong house. I would LOVE to see that old post office with the mural!
I liked the colors so much.
We just saw this article and we're so pleased that many of you could share a piece of our little corner of the world. WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO STOP BY IF YOU ARE EVER IN OUR "neck of the woods" Our door is always open at 207 Dear Street Newton Ms! Y'all come.
I'm glad you saw it Andy. You've not just created a lovely place to live, but you're a great example of Southern hospitality too!
Andy, I got a chuckle from the line "It looks as if they've been too busy accessorising the garden to do much bicycling". You didn't tell them?


New York City's decentralised apps studio ConsenSys is beginning its "Internet-of-People" campaign with Ethereum-based identity on Ubuntu phones and tablets.
ConsenSys and BlockApps are collaborating with the Ubuntu project's commercial sponsor, Canonical, to deliver web wallet and identity system uPort Biometric Identity tools on Ubuntu devices.
The Nimbus/uPort/Ubuntu proof-of-concept will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress on 22 February, said ConsenSys in a statement.
Nimbus permits users secure interaction with the Ethereum blockchain through biometric protection of cryptographic keys. Through this feature, users will be able to access Ethereum to use decentralised applications (DApps) and develop Ethereum blockchain software.
uPort represents the next generation of identity systems: the first identity system to enable self-sovereign identity, allowing the user to be in complete control of their identity and personal information, said ConsenSys.
The uPort attestation system allows third-party authorities as well as peers to validate the user's information creating both a rich social fabric as well as powering solid KYC/AML systems in the financial sector. Through uPort's selective disclosure system the user has a total overview over which of their peers, business partners or counterparties can access their information.
The Ubuntu phone allows total control over the information users distribute online including digital identity. Ubuntu phones and tablets are ideal prototyping tools for building the next generation of mobile blockchain apps as they offer a combined development environment and a testing tool for mobile apps.
As well as inheriting from Ubuntu's security and respect for user's confidentiality, these devices build on strong relation created on the server and cloud side between Ubuntu and Ethereum.
Thibaut Rouffineau, head of devices marketing, Canonical, said: "Canonical is keen to support the development of blockchain applications and their expansion from business cloud solutions to mobile consumer applications. Working with ConsenSys and BlockApps on building a platform for the consumption and creation of blockchain-based mobile apps is the realisation of the promise of Ubuntu as the reinvention of personal mobile computing."
Christian Lundkvist, co-founder of uPort said: "A relationship between ConsenSys and Canonical will create a powerful merging of the technological offerings of both organisations. Powered by the proven Ubuntu operating system integrated with the bleeding edge digital identity tools of uPort, the Ubuntu phone will be a great step towards a fully self-sovereign and completely interconnected world."
Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys, said: "The Ubuntu phone is an elegant revisioning of the smartphone experience. And incorporating the uPort persistent, portable Identity tools takes this elegance into a realm beyond, where identity is self-sovereign – fully controlled by the user, deeply secure and, like the phone itself, opens new vistas on the emerging decentralized web services."
Victor Wong, CEO of BlockApps, added: "The Nimbus uPort Convergence collaboration is a proof of concept of how BlockApps are extending the power of Ethereum-based private blockchains to mobile platform."


Background and objective: Feeding the infant after birth and in the first years of his or her life is one of the most important factors involved in the growth and development of infant. It is recommend that exclusive breastfeeding to continue for 6 months and the breastfeeding to continue for 2 years after the birth due to benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and infants. Given the importance of the mothers in this regard, this research was conducted to evaluate the factors affecting exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6-month life of the infants and discontinuation of breastfeeding from the viewpoint of mothers.
Methodology: This qualitative study was conducted using phenomenological method. It was conducted on sample of 40 women, who had breastfeeding experience. Based on purposeful sampling, research sample was selected among the women, admitted to health centers of Iranshahr and data were collected by focus group discussion method until data saturation. Then, the obtained data were analyzed.
Results: Results showed that the participants in all groups considered the factors of mother's perception of inadequate or lack of breast milk, mother's perception of inappropriate weight gain of infant, and impairment in growth of infant, use of infant formula, maternal comfort, high education and employment of mother outside of home, specific disease of mother and the use of certain drugs such as psychiatric pills, re-pregnancy, loss of physical fitness, breast sagging as the important factors affecting the non-breastfeeding and discontinued breastfeeding. They also stated that Islam and religious teachings, husband's support, health centers staff support, and support of relatives and adults and mother's knowledge are the most important factors involved in promoting exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding.
Conclusion: Based on the statements of the groups, the use of supportive resources and enhancing the knowledge of mothers by holding educational classes in health centers before delivery and during breastfeeding, the presence of breast milk counselor in health centers and advertising through mass media on the complications of the artificial milk (infant formula) and benefits of breastfeeding can play key role in promoting exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding.


built for relaxation, comfort and affordable.
Pool deck 25x41 w/salt water and outdoor shower.
We stayed during the Christmas Holiday 2012 & we absolutely loved this place. The owners are lovely people & so welcoming. After meeting both Tom & Bev we felt instantly that we have known them for years. The home is beautiful & emaculate- we certainly over-packed to say the least. We needed nothing accept the meals we planned to cook when choosing to eat in. The shops, restaurants and sites are close by & easy to locate. We have already requested reservations for 2013.
We recently stayed at this beautiful home. The home is impeccable and Bev and Tom are the nicest people to deal with. We are looking forward to staying here again.
November 27, 2011 Reviewer: Angie From: Ft.LAUDERDALE, FL.
Spent Thanksgiving weekend at this beauiful home with my family. Tom and Bev, the owners of the home, are extremely gracious and a pleasure to meet. No hotel compares. Ocala's best kept treasure! Will definetely revisit this home.
We stayed here for week this summer. The Marinos were very nice and a pleasure to deal with. The area where the house is located is very nice and quiet.
Deposit: On a 4 days rental the deposit is:$100.00 On a week rental the deposit is $150.00 On a month rental the deposit is:$300.00.The deposit will be mailed back to the renter within a week of leaving pending damages.


Retail Habits of 'Profit Shopping' Britain Revealed - eBay Inc.
The 2009 eBaynomics shopping report has identified the growing trend of 'Profit Shopping' in the UK, spearheaded by consumers who sell unwanted items to supplement their incomes. Norwich is the UK city with the most profitable casual sellers on eBay.co.uk, with residents of the East Anglian city making £17.2m through selling on the site in the past year.
The move towards 'Profit Shopping' is the key trend identified in the 2009 eBaynomics report. Last year's report revealed that over 50,000 eBayers were 'Shopping Neutral', selling to spend on the site. This year's data, however, reveals growing numbers of eBayers are going 'beyond neutral' and actively profiting from trading on sites like eBay, supplementing their incomes to make a little extra cash.
The report found that more than 200,000 people in the UK make as much as £5 a day as the recession starts to stretch household incomes.
To make selling on eBay even easier, the ecommerce site has announced new pricing for casual sellers, making it free to list items in the classic eBay auction-style format with a starting price of up to 99p. There is a flat 10% Final Value Fee when the item sells. If it doesn't sell, there's no fee at all.
1. 201,531(excluding Powersellers) sellers earned a minimum of £5 per day during 2008 (excluding cars & real estate sales) 2. The 2009 eBaynomics Report is based on analysis of transactions during 2008 in key categories across the UK & in the following cities: Aberdeen; Birmingham; Bradford; Brighton; Bristol; Cardiff; Derby; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Leeds; Leicester; Liverpool; London; Luton; Manchester; Middlesbrough; Newcastle; Norwich; Nottingham; Sheffield; Stockport; Stoke on Trent; Swansea; Wolverhampton. 3. Total value of eBay sales by Norwich-based consumer sellers in 2008: £17,272,389.33 4. New consumer pricing on eBay: if you list an item for sale in classic eBay auction-style format, with a starting price of up to 99p, you will pay zero insertion fee and only a flat Final Value Fee rate of 10% once the item sells - up to a maximum Final Value Fee of £40 (excluding Motors & real estate categories). If the item does not sell, there is no fee to pay, unless you choose to upgrade your listing with additional features. 5. The most popular items sold by home sellers on eBay.co.uk include: • Women's clothing: sells ever three seconds, for an average selling price of £9.59 • Books: sell every six seconds, for an average selling price of £5.37 • Women's shoes: sell every ten seconds, for an average selling price of £13.11 • Baby clothing: sells every 14 seconds for an average selling price of £5.79 • Mobile phones: sell every 16 seconds for an average selling price of £39.56 6. Top Tips For Selling on eBay: ? Decide what to sell. We've all got something - the average British home has at least £450 worth of saleable items (source: YouGov, 2008), most typically CDs, books, DVDs, clothes & toys. ? Get selling. Register as a seller. Take a photo of your item, give your listing an eye-catching title and include a comprehensive and honest item description. Start your auction-style listing at 99p or less and it's free to list – plus, the lower you start the more bidders you'll attract and the more likely you are to sell your item. ? Pocket the profit. Communicate with potential buyers while your item's up for sale and post out items promptly when they sell. Offer great service and buyers will leave you positive feedback – encouraging others to buy from you in the future. Use PayPal to get your money quickly and securely.


Take, for example, building RHEL (CentOS/SciLin) version 5 and version 6 hosts. The initrd and vmlinuz files are version specific, and not backwards compatible. I've seen a DHCP/PXE configuration, in a large bank, have a sprawling and complex set of menus just to counter for different OS releases! Quite bonkers, and unnecessary.
Sometime ago I looked at iPXE. There is a nice capability with it to add a script, or link, to the initial boot process. Using this I rolled a single ISO (you could put it in a DHCP/PXE/TFTP setup - I did it this way because I wanted a simple, transportable, solution to use on my desktop and laptop) with a link to a CGI I'd written. Using the CGI I do a lookup, based on MAC address, for the host's intended Linux version and a tailored kickstart file.
One ISO can therefore boot multiple Linux versions and even host-specific kickstart files (which are always kept to the most bare bones they can be - handing off to a configuration management tool like Ansible or Puppet in the %post section to let it handle what it does best).
The pretty rough CGI I use is written in Perl Mojolicious, and can be found on Github.
This post was published 2170 days ago, content may be inaccurate or even wrong now. Caveat emptor.


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Chapter: Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
« Previous: References
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Advancing Health Equity for Native American Youth: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21766.
ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY FOR NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH
Alvarado Salon, Room D
800 Rio Grande Boulevard, NW
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome, Blessing, and Overview
Antonia M. Villarruel, Ph.D.1
Roundtable Co-Chair
Associate Dean for Research and Global Affairs
University of Michigan School of Nursing
Gabriel R. Sanchez, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Center for Health Policy
8:45 – 9:45 Keynote Speaker
Moderator: Antonia M. Villarruel, Ph.D.
The Power of Protection: American Indian/Alaska Native Youth Resilience
Teresa LaFromboise, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate School of Education
9:45 – 11:15 Panel #1: Youth Voices
Moderator: Melissa Simon, M.D., M.P.H.
George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology
Lia Abeita-Sanchez
Iris Sisneros
Native American Community Academy
Mary Lou Gutierrez
Newcomb High School
Shyann Lee
Micah Clark
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
11:30 – 1:00 Panel #2: Health and Mental Health
Moderator: Francisco Garcia, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Pima County Health Department
Culturally Based Interventions for the Prevention of Substance Use/Abuse Among Native American Youth
Who Are Preteens/Early Adolescents
John Lowe, Ph.D.
Wymer Distinguished Professor of Nursing
The Joys and Challenges of Helping Native Youth Tell Their Stories About Health and Wellness
Susie John, M.D., M.P.H.
Pediatrician, Northern Navajo Medical Center Teen Life Program
By Age 7 . . . The Development of Our Next Seven Generations
Gayle Dine'Chacon, M.D.
Director, Center for Native American Health
2:00 – 3:45 Panel #3: Education
Moderator: Jeffrey Henderson, M.D., M.P.H.
President and CEO, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health
American Indians and the Health Professions: A Growing Crisis
Sam Deloria
American Indian Graduate Center, Inc.
Tribal Science: Ensuring the Evolution and Practice of Indigenous
Scientists and Researchers in the 21st Century and Beyond
Jacqueline Bolman, Ph.D.
Director, Center of STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Mathematics) Excellence
Valuing Traditions and New Pathways
Valerie Romero-Leggott, M.D.
Vice Chancellor for Diversity
Executive Director, School of Medicine Combined
B.A./M.D. Degree Program
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 4:45 Concluding Reflections
Victor Medrano
Division Director, Division of Program Development and Operations
Office of Adolescent Health, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Health
Cathy Malone, M.B.A.
Mildred Thompson, M.S.W.
Director, Center for Health Equity and Place
PolicyLink
4:45 Workshop Adjourns
Next: Appendix B: Speaker Biographies »


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PUBG Continues to Sell Millions of Units Despite Being Overshadowed by Apex Legends and Fortnite
Zarmena KhanSunday, June 23, 2019
Research firm SuperData recently released its monthly report on the global digital games market for May 2019, revealing a four percent year-on-year decline across all platforms.
Epic Games' Fortnite earned a staggering $203 million across all platforms, thanks in part to Season 9. However, this figure represents a 38 percent year-on-year decline in a continuous downward trend for the studio. Console still accounts for the biggest slice of the Fortnite market.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is the highlight of this report. According to SuperData, PUBG Corporation's battle royale pioneer "quietly continues to sell millions of units" despite being overshadowed by Electronic Arts' Apex Legends and Fortnite.
"We estimate that PUBG has sold 4.7 million digital units across PC and console year-to-date through May, maintaining its position as one of the best selling shooter titles on any platform," the company wrote.
Elsewhere, FIFA Ultimate Team revenue also declined year-on-year but Sega had a successful month with the launch of Total War: Three Kingdoms on PC, which sold more than one million units at launch and generated $62 million in revenue.
May 2019's top ten digital titles on consoles are as follows:
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Lawmakers Warn US About Failing to Adapt to Growing Chinese Threat
Jeff Seldin
Members of a Chinese military band pose for photos before a reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the eve of China's National Day on Sept. 30, 2020.
U.S. lawmakers are sounding alarms about the threat from China, warning Washington has so far failed to keep up with Beijing as it emerges as a global power.
The concerns, voiced in two separate reports Wednesday, criticize U.S. intelligence agencies and policymakers for clinging too long to the notion that increased trade and interaction with China would push Beijing to eventually align itself with Western values.
Instead, the reports argue, the United States is struggling to push back as it faces a real danger of being replaced by China on the world stage.
"The stakes are high," according to a redacted report released by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
"Absent a significant realignment of resources, the U.S. government and intelligence community will fail to achieve the outcomes required to enable continued U.S. competition with China on the global stage for decades to come," the report said.
FILE - In this June 30, 2020 file photo, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, after a meeting at the White House in Washington.
The House Intelligence Committee report, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with intelligence officials and reviews of thousands of assessments, criticized U.S. intelligence agencies for becoming overly focused on their counterterrorism mission and for failing to adapt to the threats of a changing world.
"While the United States was busy engaging al-Qaida, ISIS [Islamic State] and their affiliates, offshoots and acolytes, Washington's unchallenged dominance over the global system slipped away," the report said.
To better counter China and other emerging threats, the report said, U.S. intelligence agencies need to make better use of information commonly available on the internet, social media and elsewhere.
The report also said U.S. intelligence officials need to pay more attention to nonimmediate, nonmilitary threats "such as global health, economic security and climate change."
And the report called for a greater focus on recruiting and mentoring what it described as "the next generation of China analysts."
"The good news is that we still have time to adapt," said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff in a statement. "It's my hope that the intelligence community will work hand in hand with the congressional oversight committees to make these necessary changes quickly."
Ranking Member Michael McCaul, R-Tex., questions witnesses during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, Sept. 16, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A second report released Wednesday, by Republican lawmakers, was no less damning, recommending more than 400 changes to Washington's China strategy.
"To preserve democracy and freedom around the world, the U.S. must act decisively with our allies to regain the initiative," the China Task Force report warned.
Chinese Communist Party ideology "is undermining the core principles of the international system and putting Americans' safety and prosperity at risk," it said. "Leniency and accommodation of the CCP and its oppressive agenda is no longer an option."
The report calls on policymakers to boost counterintelligence operations against China and to make sure that the U.S. medical and national security supply chains no longer need to reply on Chinese-made goods.
It also recommends increased spending on defense to better counter Chinese nuclear capabilities as well as China's growing conventional forces.
"For more than 40 years, we have tried to bring them into the family of nations as a responsible partner, but they have refused to behave responsibly," China Task Force Chairman Michael McCaul said in a statement.
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Broad prospects for Belarus-Turkmenistan cooperation
MINSK, 20 March (BelTA) – Belarus sees broad prospects for cooperation with Turkmenistan and is ready to step it up. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement as he met with Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rasid Meredow on 20 March, BelTA has learned. Alexander Lukashenko drew attention to the significant increase in trade between the two countries in the last few years. The President said that...
Belarus, Mongolia to step up cooperation in transport
MINSK, 4 March (BelTA) - Belarus and Mongolia intend to invigorate bilateral cooperation in the field of transport and the construction of road facilities, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Transport and Communications Ministry of Belarus. On 3 March heads of transport ministries of the two countries Anatoly Sivak and Amarzhargal Gansukh signed a cooperation memorandum which stipulates the implementation of relevant initiatives. As far as the field of motor transport is concerned,...
Domracheva fifth sportswoman to win three gold medals at one Winter Olympics
MINSK, 18 February (BelTA) - After a third victory in a row on 17 February at the Olympics Belarus' biathlete Darya Domracheva has joined the elite club of the sportswomen who won three of more gold medals at the same Olympics, BelTA has learnt. Apart from the best biathlete of Belarus four more sportswomen boast such a record They are Russia's Lidia Skoblikova (four gold medals in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck), Finland's Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (three,...
Minsk guests to be offered tours in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese
MINSK, 10 February (BelTA) - More than 230 tour guides will be ready to show off the Belarusian capital to the guests of the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in foreign languages, including in Arabic, Chinese and Japanese, Deputy Minister of Sport and Tourism Cheslav Shulga told reporters, BelTA has learnt. The National Tourism Agency and the official tour operator of the 2014 IIHF World Championship TsentrKurort developed more than 40 tourist offers. More than 1,300 tour guides...
Refinancing rate in Belarus to remain at 23.5% in December
MINSK, 13 December (BelTA) - On 11 December the Board of the National Bank of Belarus took a decision to keep the refinancing rate at the level of 23.5% per annum, BelTA learned from the information and public relations department of the National Bank. "Keeping the current interest rate will limit the increase in inflation, which in recent months has been running above the projected parameters. In November, consumer prices rose by 1.6% versus 1.9% and 1.7% in October and September 2013...
Makei to present Belarus' vision of EaP development at Vilnius summit
MINSK, 28 November (BelTA) - Belarus' Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei, who is leading the Belarusian delegation at the 3rd Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, will present Belarus' vision and approaches, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus. The summit is taking place in the Lithuanian capital on 28-29 November. "Vladimir Makei will present Belarus' vision of the Eastern Partnership Initiative and its development prospects at a plenary discussion...
Equal social guarantees for citizens of Customs Union in the future
MOSCOW, 15 November (BelTA) - The countries members of the Customs Union are set to provide equal social, health and pension guarantees to citizens from the states members of the Customs Union, the press service of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) told BelTA commenting on the results of the Moscow meeting of the Advisory Committee on Migration Policy at the EEC Board. "In addition, the Customs Union member states are going to abolish or simplify border controls at the internal...
Lukashenko sends greetings to Tajikistan president-elect Emomali Rakhmon
MINSK, 8 November (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has sent greetings to Emomali Rakhmon who won the presidential election in Tajikistan, BelTA learned from the presidential press service. "I am pleased to note the high level of understanding between our states, vibrant bilateral cooperation, which, I am convinced, will be further developed and enhanced on the basis of constructive, mutually beneficial partnership," the message of greetings reads.
Minsk hosts CIS summit
MINSK, 25 October (BelTA) – The CIS Heads of State Council will sit at the Palace of Independence in Minsk on 25 October, BelTA has learnt. The CIS Heads of State Council meeting will be the key event within Belarus' presidency in the CIS in 2013. Belarus' presidency in the Commonwealth of Independent States follows the motto "Integration for the benefit of people: stronger neighborly ties, the development of economic cooperation, assistance for improving the accessibility of green...
Green technology is an investment in Belarus' economic security
MINSK, 18 October (BelTA) – Green technology for Belarus is an investment in the country's economic security, Chief Research Officer of the Institute of Environmental Management of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, academician Ivan Lishtvan said at the seminar "Renewable Energy: Experience, Problems and Development Prospects" held in Minsk on 17 October as part of the 18th Belarusian Energy and Ecology Forum, BelTA has learnt. According to Ivan Lishtvan, today the world is...
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Race And Intelligence, Again, Ctd
A reader writes:
I think there's something important that's by-and-large been left out of this discussion. To me, the most alarming thing about the 3L email incident is how it demonstrates what I suppose you might call "Liberal Epistemic Closure.' This woman attends a university. She, like other bright young people with an independent, contrarian streak, wrote in an email that she was disinclined to accept the dogma of her environment as gospel simply because it was what she'd been spoon-fed and told to believe, and pointed out (quite fairly) that scientific conclusions tend to be somewhat warped by the political and cultural climates in which the studies take place. She was doing what people should be doing in academic environments: questioning accepted truth. But questioning accepted truth doesn't mean the rejection of that viewpoint, it means that she was playing around with ideas, asserting her right to engage with them until she was able to reach a satisfying conclusion on her own terms, as opposed to allowing her mind to be molded by popular prevailing opinion.
People like that are vital to society. We need them. They should be celebrated, not vilified. In fact, one could argue that the entire purpose of a liberal arts education is to teach people to think in an independent, contrarian, "I'm not going to think what you tell me to think until you convincingly demonstrate to me why I should" way. Academia should be the safest place for people to explore ideas and ask questions.
However, when this woman tried to do that, not only was she shot down by her peers and labeled as a racist, her email was leaked to the outside world, where she's pilloried, bullied, had her reputation utterly destroyed, and, quite possibly, her life ruined. On blogs, people have left comments saying that she should never have been allowed into Harvard Law in the first place - in other words, suggesting that university applicants conform to some kind of ideological litmus test as a condition of admittance. The dean of Harvard Law, instead of defending the intellectual rights of the young minds under her care and the sanctity of the academic environment, instead chose to throw this young woman under the bus by issuing a statement that did nothing but cover her own ass. The liberal and academic communities' response to questioning - not even rejecting, mind you, simply questioning - liberal dogma is evidently to engage in a mass, Hester Prynne-style public shaming. And nobody is horrified by this?
Here's the thing: if people have questions about race and ethnicity that they're not allowed to ask, and are in fact publicy rejected and shamed for doing so, they're going to go someplace where those questions are accepted. And I don't think we'd like the answers they get there. Right now, I'll bet dollars-to-doughnuts that the only letters of support this woman is receiving are probably from white supremacist groups. Is that really where we want to drive young people who think these thoughts and ask these questions? Isn't it possible to present a convincing intellectual argument for "our side" while keeping it in the realm of ideas, as opposed to attacking the people as individuals?
Another writes:
I'd only like to add that the strength of opinions elicited by this discussion illustrates the very issue our original emailer was attempting to describe. Even when made in the abstract, as in this case, any mention of a link between race and intelligence brings forth the most intense political opinions. How do you think this hullabaloo affects those scientists who, as honestly and ethically as they can, choose to study the link between geographic variation and any sort of biological trait? Would you choose a topic of research knowing that you would cause a ruckus and risk marginalization every time you mentioned your work? In other words, if you're just trying to get funding, which side of this issue would you make sure your research came down on?


AVG Free is one of the oldest and most used freeware antivirus solutions, not by far perfect but enough for savvy Windows users. You get a combined antivirus and antimalware engine, Link Scanner, and e-mail scanning. AVG Free 9 adds a few new features, with enhancements focused on performance, promising faster scan and boot times. The best novelty is the Identity Theft Recovery Unit. Unfortunately is catering for now only to users in the United States and is a business partnership with Identity Guard which provides "consumer identity theft solutions," accessible from the AVG toolbar in Firefox and IE.
The interface is almost identicall with the last version, and it's easy to use as before. However, you must double-click to get more information on features, that could be made in one click easy enough. You have a scheduler utility that automates both scans and updates, while the upgrade ad at the screen's bottom can be easily hidden using the Hide Notification button. You have 3 settings for scans: Slow, Automatic, and Fast scans: the faster the scan, the less comprehensive it is, so you might wanna take advantage of the scan optimization that is recommended during installation to speed up that first scan. What is missing is a a progress meter for regular scans. Also you can create a rescue disk usefull for scans outside the windows enviroment if the situation requires it.
It is still one of the bests freeware antivirus solutions out there and if you're willing to pass a few nags you're good to go.
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Q: Making the functions of a checkbox work when it is preloaded in the from in visual basic From a previous form, I have a variable set to a true if Europe is selected in the ComboBox.
When the next from loads I need the Europe checkbox to be already checked and for it to show two radio buttons.
This is the code I currently have down which checks the checkbox but doesn't show the two radio buttons
    If blnEurope = True Then
        ckboxEurope.Checked = True

        rbExamFailE.Show()
        rbWintersportsE.Show()
    End If

Thanks for any help!

A: You should be setting a variable that can be accessed by the next form to indicate that Europe was selected.
The given code is a little vague, and I'm not great at VB.net, here is how I would attempt it.
If blnEurope = True Then
    ckboxEurope.Checked = True

    Dim isEurope as Boolean = True

    Dim formToCreate as new NextForm(isEurope)
    formToCreate.Show()
End If

A: Finally figured out the problem which ended up being that in the form_load I had all radio buttons hidden along with the Europe radio buttons being shown under the condition that if blnEurope was true they were to be shown. Thanks everybody for trying to help!


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First appeal by the General Medical Council in Scotland refused by the court
Catriona Watt
The first appeal brought in Scotland by the General Medical Council has confirmed that the court needs to find the original tribunal decision was 'manifestly wrong' before it will interfere with the sanction imposed. The GMC has had powers under section 40A of the Medical Act 1983 since 2015 to take appeals from decisions of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (the MPT). In the case of General Medical Council v Dr Mehta the Inner House of the Court of Session had its first opportunity to consider such an appeal.
The GMC was not successful, with the court finding that it was not necessary for the MPT to specify in its written decision every part of the Sanctions Guidance it had taken into account.
The original decision
On 2 March 2018, the MPT issued their decision in the case of Dr Mehta, making the following findings in fact:
Dr Mehta had invited a junior colleague ("Dr X") to attend his office to view teaching presentations, but did not show her any presentation slides;
he told her that if she "found someone to confide in" who was not her boyfriend , "this would not be cheating";
he added that she had to "look after" her boyfriend, so she "needed to have fun";
he moved his chair so that he was closer to Dr X so that their knees were touching;
he made prolonged eye contact with her;
he hugged her on more than one occasion pressing their chests together;
he kissed her shoulder on more than one occasion;
when asked by Dr X if he tricked her into coming into his office, he laughed and replied "I hope you did not get the wrong idea".
Following these findings in fact, the MPT found that the conduct which had been proved was sufficiently serious to find that Dr Mehta's fitness to practise was impaired. Moving to the question of sanction, the MPT found that Dr Mehta had admitted the allegations at the outset of the hearing and had shown a high level of insight into the matter. In particular, it was noted that Dr Mehta had gone beyond the normal levels of remediation in a case such as this, focusing not only on improving his own behaviour but in providing training to colleagues based on his own experiences in the hope of improving understanding of issues of sexual misconduct within his health board more generally. On the basis of the insight shown, the tribunal stated that Dr Mehta had demonstrated "exceptional circumstances" which justified imposing no sanction.
In terms of section 40A of the Medical Act 1983, the General Medical Council has a power to appeal decisions of the MPT if they deem the decision not sufficient for the protection of the public. Given the nature of the allegations which were found proved, the GMC exercised this power and raised an appeal in the Court of Session regarding the tribunal's decision to impose no sanction.
The appeal hearing
In the appeal to the Inner House, the GMC's position was that in a case where the doctor's behaviour had been so serious and concerning, it was manifestly inappropriate to impose no sanction. Counsel for the GMC highlighted sections of the Sanctions Guidance available to the MPT which noted that sexual misconduct is conduct which "seriously undermined public trust in the profession" and that where there was "an abuse of the special position of trust a doctor occupies… More serious action, such as erasure, is likely to be appropriate in such cases". The submissions for the GMC were that the tribunal could not have properly considered and applied these passages of the Sanctions Guidance in choosing to impose no sanction. The GMC invited the court to allow the appeal and thereafter remit the decision back to a newly constituted tribunal to newly consider the issue of sanction.
It was submitted for Dr Mehta that the MPT could not be shown to have erred in their decision and it should therefore stand. While the MPT may not have referred in terms to the passages of the Sanctions Guidance relied upon by the GMC, it was submitted for the doctor that the decision, when read as a whole, clearly noted the seriousness of the allegations. It was said that while another doctor in Dr Mehta's position may require a sanction to be imposed, the exceptional circumstances of his active role in training others and focusing on improving the behaviour of others justified the decision to impose no sanction.
Delivering the opinion of the court, Lady Dorrian found that there was no reason to interfere with the tribunal's decision. Following the test established by the Inner House in PSA v NMC, the onus was on the GMC to show that the MPT's decision was plainly wrong or "manifestly inappropriate". If the GMC were not able to show this, it was appropriate to defer to the specialist expertise of the original tribunal.
The court found that while the MPT may not have specifically quoted or referred to the passages in the Sanctions Guidance relied upon by the GMC, it was clear that they had recognised the seriousness of the allegations. The court suggested that to require references to specific passages of the Sanctions Guidance posed the risk of turning the decision on sanction into a "box ticking" exercise. The court's view was that the MPT had recognised the aggravating factors in Dr Mehta's case and had noted that in similar cases suspension may be required. However, the original tribunal had noted the exceptional circumstances regarding the efforts Dr Mehta had made at remediation following the allegation. While remediation would not normally constitute "exceptional circumstances", the court found that the numerous presentations and educational activities which he had conducted were enough in these circumstances to be exceptional.
On this basis, the court upheld the tribunal's original decision.
The challenge for regulators
This was the first Scottish case where the GMC exercised their right of appeal in terms of section 40A of the Medical Act. However, others, such as the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (the PSA) have similar statutory powers of appeal and the pattern from the Court of Session has indicated a similar approach. In 2017, the Inner House came to a similar decision when faced by an appeal against sanction relating to a nurse. The court again reiterated that deference should usually be shown to the decisions of a specialist tribunal and that a decision will only be interfered with when the decision was 'plainly wrong' or 'manifestly inappropriate'.
The approach of the Inner House in Scotland does appear to be more restrictive than that being shown by the Administrative Court in England and Wales. The GMC has been successful in a number of recent appeals against sanction decisions to the Administrative Court. For example, in GMC v Khetyar, the court found that the decision to impose a 12 month suspension, rather than erasure from the register, was inappropriate with regards to a doctor who had committed acts of sexual misconduct against colleagues and patients. Similarly, in GMC v Stone, the court upheld an appeal to suspend, rather than erase, where a doctor had engaged in an improper sexual relationship with a patient.
The allegations against Dr Mehta were serious and related to sexual conduct and abuse of trust, as in Khetyar and Stone. While the levels of remediation are important, the Sanctions Guidance is clear that allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of trust are very serious and this seems to be reflected in the recent English case law. However, the decision of the Inner House in GMC v Mehta shows that a decision will have to be manifestly and obviously wrong before the Scottish courts will interfere.
For further information on professional regulation issues, please contact Catriona Watt
catriona.watt@andersonstrathern.co.uk
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New Polish Writing
by MLB
Translated by Frank L. Vigoda
Published by: Zephyr Press
Imprint: Zephyr Press
One of the principal authors of the "brulion" generation, which has been influenced largely by American poets such as Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, and John Ashbery, MLB (Milosz Biedrzycki) has published six volumes of poetry and received numerous prestigious literary prizes. English translations of his work have appeared in, among others, Traf ka, Chicago Review, Fence, Zoland Poetry, and the Zephyr Press anthology Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird.
MLB's writing represents a continuation in the development of contemporary Polish poetry, which tends to be less narrative and more intellectual and language-oriented than its American counterpart. His extraordinary linguistic awareness and amused wonderment with language as a rather curious means of communication lurks beneath all his poetry.
The work included here is from MLB's 2006 volume in Poland, 69, which encompasses his poetic output from the fall of Communism to the present, allowing the reader to trace the process of personal and artistic development during the rapidly changing post-Communist years.
the dog already swallowed half the moon, someone
installed a Soviet-era radio instead of a speedometer.
the car speeds through the night winding the black
pasta of the road onto its wheels. the Soviet radio
plays speeches by Schönberg, the air,
the border past Mikulov barely noticed—
except the lines on the road are now infinitely
more visible. villages are equally quiet.
the rain, a light one, still managed to break free
from the sky.
Frank L. Vigoda is a literary translator based in Riverside, California.
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By Width of a Post on March 12, 2016 • ( 7 )
Bradford City 2
Proctor 7 + 49
Doncaster Rovers 1
Tyson 90
Saturday 12 March, 2016
This is what a having a big squad is supposed to be about. Fierce competition, strength in depth, flexibility – all geared towards lifting the standards and driving the club forwards.
Bradford City are increasingly enjoying the benefits of what Phil Parkinson considers to be his best squad since joining the club. Fortunes are no longer so dependent on one or two players. The bench is filled with strong options, and on the sidelines are overlooked players who two years ago would have walked into the team.
As the Bantams go full throttle on their promotion drive once more – climbing into the top six after this, a second home victory in a week – the impact made by fringe players recently elevated into the starting eleven has been considerable. They have been given the opportunity to stake a claim for the shirt, and grabbed it with both hands. They've had to sit on the sidelines watching others play ahead of them, and now the tables have turned. The bar has raised because of it.
No one has seized the chance better than Jamie Proctor. He is the club's newest – and unlikeliest – hero, with two wonderfully taken goals capping off a man of the match display. Proctor led the line with authority, assurance and no little skill. He built on an impressive midweek display against Burton; shaking off a pre-match injury concern and running himself into the ground. The standing ovation he received – when subbed late on – was richly deserved.
At only 23-years-old, Jamie Proctor is in danger of becoming a footballing journeyman. Bradford City are already his seventh different club, after a career that began promisingly at Preston led to a glamour move to Premier League Swansea in 2012. Proctor failed to make a single appearance for the Swans, and he moved onto Crawley Town for a year before opting to head back North and to Fleetwood Town.
Steve Pressley's footballing principles are well-known at Valley Parade, and so it's probably no surprise that the former Coventry manager's arrival at Fleetwood led to Proctor been frozen out. Cue his move to West Yorkshire as a makeweight in the Devante Cole's move. Few would have predicted that – two months later – Cole and Fleetwood would be the losers from the swap.
Proctor was the new darling of Valley Parade crowd here. It was one of the most impressive individual performances of the season, as he stretched, bewildered and bullied a weak Doncaster defence, who simply couldn't handle him. His all round game and strengths are very comparable to Jon Stead. If he can find greater consistency than Stead – who, it is often forgotten, was poor over his final months at the club, and not worth the wages he was allegedly asking for when Parkinson looked to sign him permanently – Proctor could prove to be some signing.
His first goal was the result of the hours spent on the Crawley Town training ground, where three years ago he and Billy Clarke were team mates. Proctor picked up possession in the final third, with options around, and made the right choice with a delightful low ball into Clarke's feet. City's number 10 sent over a perfect floated cross, from which Proctor was able to powerfully head City in front. It was excellent attacking football.
Clarke is another example of a benched player who has taken his chance when it has come. He continued where he left off on Tuesday with an intelligent display that saw him take up clever positions all over the park. Last season Clarke really came alive when partnered with Jon Stead in a 4-4-1-1, and this is a very similar approach that gets the best out of the Irishman in a way that James Hanson's game simply doe not.
Hanson – and Wes Thomas – were sat on the bench as Proctor and Clarke celebrated the opening goal. Despite being City's top scorer, this has not been a vintage Hanson campaign by any stretch, yet his form has improved significantly of late. His partnership with Wes Thomas is full of promise. Both players are unfortunate to have lost their places, but that is exactly what City need – this level of competition, plus having two very different but effective strike partnerships, offers the club the attacking potency so badly lacking before Christmas.
Proctor's first goal occurred with the game just seven minutes old, and set the home side up for a dominant performance. Doncaster were committed but had a real soft centre. They couldn't match City for workrate and energy – nor did they come anywhere near out-footballing their opponents. For 85 minutes City never get them a sniff of encouragement. The defence was particularly outstanding, with some superb blocks and tackles keeping the out-of-form visitors at bay. Ben Williams was a virtual spectator.
At the heart of that defence was one of the club's most whole-hearted players. Nathan Clarke was the third reserve player to be restored into the side on Tuesday, and like Proctor and Billy he has grabbed that opportunity with both hands. Clarke's reading of the game and leadership skills are hugely commendable. And with Reece Burke alongside him as masterful as ever, the foundations were in place for a dominant attacking performance.
Everyone was on their game. Josh Cullen and Lee Evans are such a balanced midfield partnership, full of creativity and rarely giving the ball away. Kyel Reid is playing as well as he has ever played for Bradford City, and Tony McMahon was steady and assured. Stephen Darby and James Meredith contributed as much going forward as they did defending. It was a joy to watch.
Doncaster departed the field at half time to boos from those away fans present (the ones who ignored the misguided calls of the Doncaster Rovers Supporters Group to boycott the game). But any hope Rovers had of turning around such a one-sided contest were hugely undermined when Proctor struck early in the half again. James Meredith whipped over a beautifully flighted cross, and the striker produced another stunning header that flew into the goal. The celebrations in the Kop behind were raucous.
Just like against Colchester 11 days ago, the goal should have been the cue for City to score a hatful more. At least, this time, the Bantams kept going and attacked with purpose. The intensity in their game remained, and it was a case of missed chances rather than minds drifting.
Or so we thought…
Inexplicably, with the clock ticking towards zero, City began to switch off. They sat back, allowed their intensity to drop, and offered their demoralised opponents a sudden chink of hope. A couple of Doncaster warning shots went unheeded, and with the game about to enter stoppage time Nathan Tyson was left free in the box to finish low past Williams. It was Doncaster's first shot on target, but hardly the point. Suddenly City were making hard work of their easiest victory of the season.
Darren Ferguson sent on former Bantams loanee Gary MacKenzie to give his side more physical presence up front, and Doncaster threw the kitchen sink at City in the hope of snatching the unlikeliest of points. When the otherwise utterly anonymous Andy Williams – who turned down a summer move to Valley Parade in favour of joining Doncaster – was left free in the box, his shot pinged off Cullen and could have bounced anywhere. To City's relief, the ball bounced wide of the post, but it was an illustration of just how much they had lost control of the game.
In the end they saw it out to take the three points; and as a result they are in the play off spots with a three-point cushion. But the late scare took some of the gloss off an otherwise exceptional afternoon. Just at another point of demonstrating they are genuine promotion contenders, City yet again offered up reasons to remain skeptical.
With two very difficult games to come, a similar drop in standards over the next fortnight will surely have greater consequences. Just like the Colchester game when the team lost their way, this late panic against Doncaster underlines fears that City still lack an authoritative leader with the experience and composure to drive team mates through difficult moments. We know that Parkinson is capable of lifting the team after a bad result – he has proven it repeatedly – but the team's in-game management must improve. And that can only come from those on the field.
But with such a strong squad of players, there is every reason to believe it can be found. When Phil Parkinson first took over the club in 2011, he couldn't believe how many players were on the books, and struggled in training to keep everyone occupied due to a limited number of coaching staff members. This was the season after Peter Taylor's "two players for every position" squad approach and Archie Christie's short-lived Development Squad initiative. It was not how Parkinson wanted to manage the club.
So, famously, for the 2012/13 season he went for quality over quantity in his recruitment, letting lots of people go. A smaller squad, but the budget was used to bring in the best possible players and the right characters, at a higher individual cost. It led to a large reliance on a relatively small amount of players, but it worked and worked well.
Yet since City's promotion to League One, this approach has gradually evolved towards City having a bigger squad again. When Gary Jones and Nathan Doyle struggled for form in 2013/14 but there was no one to come in, and when the team's fortunes were so intrinsically linked to Andrew Davies' fitness in 2014/15, it probably persuaded Parkinson that he had to refine his strategy.
It's also increasingly obvious that his January transfer business was vital to City's season. By allowing Devante Cole, Gary Liddle and Luke James to leave the club, Parkinson was able to freshen things up. Josh Cullen is better than Liddle. Wes Thomas is better than Cole. And Jamie Proctor offers the manager something different. There is evidently some budget left over too, which Parkinson might use to bring in cover for Rory McArdle, who is out for a month.
With Paul Anderson and Filipe Morais getting closer and closer to a return to fitness, the competition for places should continue to intensify during the run-in. Ben Williams is probably the only first team player pretty much assured of their place. For everyone else, they must either perform or make way for someone else who will.
It all leaves City moving into the run-in with a strong hand. There are some mouth-watering matches coming up over the next few weeks – some really big occasions. A win at Wigan next week could even prompt talk of automatic promotion; although with a large number of teams below the play off line still very much in contention, it will be a challenge simply to remain in the top six.
It has been such a bumpy ride for City this season, and yet the biggest highs and lows could still be to come.
City: Williams, Darby, N Clarke, Burke, Meredith, McMahon, Cullen, Evans, Reid, B Clarke (Thomas 82), Proctor (Hanson 72)
Not used: Cracknell, Leigh, Routis, Knott, Marshall
‹ Burke leads the way as Bradford City welcome Doncaster – and their fans – to Valley Parade
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Tags: 2015/16, BCAFC, Billy Clarke, Doncaster Rovers, Gary MacKenzie, James Hanson, James Meredith, Jamie Proctor, Josh Cullen, Kyel Reid, League One, Lee Evans, Nathan Clarke, Phil Parkinson, Reece Burke, Stephen Darby, Wes Thomas
As ever a brilliant read. However, I must enlighten fans to what lead to the last 10 minutes of desperation after 80 minutes of domination. To do so is not to criticise. I'm sat happy with a beer and all things Bradford City. I'm wholly optimistic right now. But I'd welcome thoughts on this.
We sit in the Midland Road only 3-4 seats from the pitch. As City drove towards an impressive victory, and really should of looked to increase a poor goal difference, the trainer (is that physio/Dr in modern parlance?) hung around the touch line. Darby came to take a throw in and whilst waiting for the ball had an intense chat with said trainer. He then, before throwing the ball, instructed Macca that we were no longer to attack. He had to tuck in. He then was instructing the rest of the team of that instruction.
In the next 2 minutes Macca lost the ball in out half and we nearly conceded. We then did. And we nearly did again.
We all love PP. We all love where we are at. But please PP don't put us through this again. Trust your squad. Let's keep attacking and build our goal difference.
Onwards and upwards.
Rob Wade
It's something all managers do and it seems the wrong theory to me. The best form of attack is defence they say – no finer example could be, Spurs at Valley Parade in the first Premier League season. Spurs attacked for 85 minutes, were winning 1-0 and we had barely had a kick, certainly not a chance. Suddenly George Graham went on the defensive and we sneaked a point.
Malcolm Carr
March 13, 2016 • 10:23 am
Interesting comment Jammin,
like you I sit only a few rows back from the touch line but in theSunwin stand.
About 15 minutes before subbing him PP motioned to Proctor by pointing to his watch and rolling his hands wrist in the oft interpreted " get a move on" non verbal. I commented to person sat next to me that PP had just told Proctor to get a move on if he wanted a hat trick as a swap was on the cards . . . As I finished my sentence Hanson was out warming up ( I declare an interest as a Hanson fan). My point tho is that PPdid give Proctor an opportunity to get a third and by bringing on Hanson & Thomos he maintained an attacking option ( indeed I saw PP telling WT to stay on the centre line in the dying minutes) but with Hanson he gets a defensive element.
Evan as a Hansonite I believe we should continue to start with JP & BC – they have without doubt earned the right to start at the moment.
I won't comment on the facts in Jason's excellent report. I thought it was one of the most one-sided 2-1 wins I have ever seen.
I particularly enjoyed being entertained by Reid–the end product is not always good, but he is great to watch. Burke was impressive, and one second-half run from him deserved a goal.
City have got a top-six team from, in the main, loanees and cast-offs. I regard that as brilliant management. Procter looks a great swop for Cole–almost a steal.
Like Robert, I do not understand why we went defensive, Doncaster were beaten, dejected, and they knew it.
Doncaster were rough and crude, but City matched them physically, were stronger in the tackle and faster on the ball.
A very enjoyable 85 minutes.
Excellent read a usual Jason. My thoughts at the time were that our front pairs chasing dropped off when the subs were made. This shouldn't have been the case. Or there was less cohesion between the pair. Doncasters defenders and midfielders were able to step into midfield easier than the first 80 minutes. If seemed to unbalance city. We dropped deeper and didn't retain the ball well enough. A better team would have punished us. We were excellent up until that point though so should take the positives into what could be the biggest away game this season at Wigan. CTID.
Yes I agree Smartmart. It's been a long time since City have looked as dangerous in attack throughout a game as they did on Saturday – until the substitutions were made. That said, given his pre match injury doubt, it made sense to bring Proctor off to prevent him aggravating his hamstring particularly as we were so much in control at the time.
Andrew R
A joy to see a cracking centre forward performance. The key is now to carry this whole team performance through to the next match and beyond.


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