FREEPORT — The Freeport Chamber of Commerce membership drive has started and the goal is to gather 600 new members by the end of the year.
Sande Updegraph, executive director of the Freeport Economic Development Corp., said the drive so far has enlisted 150 members.
Rates for members are $325 for a Freeport business, $365 for businesses outside of Freeport and $175 for non-profit organizations, she said. In addition, Updegraph said a Friend membership for retired people or people who want updated business news and information, is $50.
If all 600 members join by the deadline, Updegraph said the Chamber of Commerce will be operational early next year.
The Chamber of Commerce is a merger of the Freeport Economic Development Corp. and the Freeport Merchants Association.
Contact Updegraph at 865-4743 ext. 117 with questions about membership.


New York's state government doesn't work and there are two ways to fix it — vote yes on a Constitutional Convention and change the way things get done, or vote out the bums who refuse to make change happen in Albany.
That's what we learned on the latest edition of Brooklyn Paper when firebrand radio host Curtis Sliwa — who thinks a Constitutional Convention is the only way to clean house in Albany — took on Park Slope Assemblyman Robert Carroll, who claims such an undertaking will be a huge waste of money and time that will be controlled by the very people causing the problems.
"Having a state Constitutional Convention that is going to cost tens of millions of dollars that opens up our entire constitution to the forces that have resisted change for decades is not the best way to go about it," Carroll said.
But Sliwa didn't mince words in his appeal to the voters, claiming that Albany is a cesspool of corruption back-room deal making and the only way to solve the problem is to give the people the ability to clean house.
But Brooklyn Paper Radio host Vince DiMiceli's ears perked up when Carroll pointed out that delegates to the Constitutional Convention will get paid $80,000 a year, and hoped he could use his sway with new friend Sliwa — the chairman of the state's Reform Party — to get named to the panel.
That — and much more — all went down live in our studios on Halloween Day. But we can't tell you all about it. You have to take the first step. Click on the link above to listen to the show, or subscribe to out podcast on iTunes. Oh, and kindly leave a review.
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Discussion in 'New Member Introductions' started by Jeremy78r, Sep 20, 2011.
Hello! I'm an EA from Houston and am going to be passed in about a week or so and can't wait! Learning the work has been a fun experience that I wouldn't trade for the world!
Welcome to Masons of Texas.
Welcome to the forums. I have just started working on my EA. I am enjoying learning something new and then applying it to myself.
Thanks for the welcome guys! And same here!
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Q: Subset of natural numbers such that any natural number except 1 can be expressed as sum of two elements Let $X$ be the set of natural numbers $k_i$, $k_i \geq 1$, with the property that at least one of the equations $p_i = $6$ k_i \pm 1$ gives the $i$-th prime number (disregarding $2$ and $3$), and define the set $Y$ to be $Y = \mathbb{N} \setminus \{1\}$.  Is it true that each element of Y can be represented as $2 k_i$ or as the sum $k_i + k_j$, where $k_i$ and $k_j$ are both elements of set X?

A: This statement is implied by Goldbach's Conjecture, and does not look to be much easier to prove than the conjecture itself.

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Q: Django: extend queryset or exclude from exclude method I have a Django app where I need to combine two QuerySets, and disregard the exclude() filter only for certain items.
Here is an example of the model and the query.
class MyModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    var1 = models.IntegerField()
    var2 = models.BooleanField()
    var3 = models.BooleanField()
    var4 = models.IntegerField()
    var5 = models.IntegerField()

qs1 = MyModel.objects.filter(var1__lte=10,var2=True).exclude(Q(var4=10) | Q(var5=20))

must_include_list = ['name1','name2','name3']

qs2 = MyModel.objects.filter(name__in=must_include_list)

I need to have a single queryset that does the filter and exclude from qs1, but also includes the rows from qs2 regardless of whether they match the qs1 filter and exclude.
I tried doing this:
qs1 = MyModel.objects.filter(Q(var1__lte=10,var2=True) | Q(name__in=must_include_list)).exclude(Q(var4=10| | Q(var5=20))

But it still applies the exclude to the must_include_list, so I miss some of the required entries.
Is there a way to tell the exclude() to not exclude the items in must_include_list, or is there a way to combine the two since querysets don't have an extend() method?
My solution based on bakkal's suggestion.
INCLUDE = Q(var1__lte=10,var2=True)
EXCLUDE = Q(var4=10) | Q(var5=20)
MUST_INCLUDE = Q(name__in=must_include_list)
FILTER = (INCLUDE & ~EXCLUDE) | MUST_INCLUDE
MyModel.objects.filter(FILTER).distinct()

A: Let's rewrite
MyModel.objects.filter(var1__lte=10,var2=True).exclude(Q(var4=10) | Q(var5=20))

As
X = Q(var1__lte=10, var2=True) & ~(Q(var4=10) | Q(var5=20))
MyModel.objects.filter(X)

The other query is simply
Y = Q(name__in=must_include_list)

Now what you want is X or Y so
MyModel.objects.filter(X | Y)

Tip: if you rename X and Y to meaningful names, your code will become readable and clean, and less cryptic than reading the nested filter/exclude and logic operators


Good news for the American pilots flying for EK - more time at home away from the blazing HEAT.... I recall the EK CEO mentioning at one point that he would eventually want every US destination served by A380s - not sure if some of these thinner routes could support A380s.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Emirates Airline (EMIRA.UL) plans to more than double its network of U.S. destinations in the next three to five years to a total of 15 U.S. cities, up from seven currently, a company official said.
Emirates is set to add new service from New York's John F. Kennedy airport to Milan in October. That route, known as a fifth-freedom route because it goes between two countries other than the carrier's home base, is out of step with Emirates' Dubai-centric, single-hub strategy, but is not a sign that more such routes will be added in the future, Antinori said.
The freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation rights. The fifth freedom allows an airline to carry traffic between foreign countries as part of services connecting with the airline's own country.
The Dubai-based carrier has increased U.S. destinations "overproportionally" in the last 18 months, adding three routes to four existing ones. It now flies to Dubai from New York, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas and Washington, D.C.
On December 2, Emirates will add capacity on its Los Angeles Dubai route by using a bigger jet -- an Airbus(EAD.PA) A380 -- to replace the Boeing (BA) 777 it currently uses. The airline's two daily flights from New York already use the 525-seat A380 superjumbo.
"The next step in the U.S. development is to open a third flight from New York going to Milan," Antinori said.
"The step after that will be to open new destinations between U.S. and Dubai," he added. The cities haven't been decided, but Chicago, Boston and Miami are possible, he said.
Emirates also is very interested in Boeing's new 777X jet and probably will announce orders at the Dubai Airshow in November, he said. While not confirming it officially, Antinori noted that the airline did not order planes during the Paris Airshow in June.
"I expect us to order planes" at the airshow, he said. "At Emirates we are not used to having two airshows in a row without ordering anything."
Antinori said Emirates does not plan to buy equity in other airlines, including Spicejet (SPICEJET.BO) of India, which had been rumored to be of interest.
"We are not interested in investing in stakes in airlines, including Spicejet," he said.
1. "never ever will happen."
2. "delta is better than you"
3. "enjoy your Dhaka layover"
4. "enjoy the Dubai heat"
5. "enjoy the Dubai rapes"
6. "the unions will stop emirates"
I just saved you a bunch of time G. Lee, now you can go back to enjoying Delta.
There were rumours earlier in the year EK is considering opening another 5th freedom route, DXB-CPH-SEA.
I think they will add nonstop flights from Dubai to Colorado Springs, then nonstop to Duluth, followed by Austin from Dakar. Wow, all of those might be hugely successful! Go for it!
Buddy of mine flew on the EK A380 and loved it. Super impressive service and very comfortable.
The article did not mention the A350 - is that still being added to the fleet?
So far, hearing the 350 test flights are performing well beyond advertised numbers.
Orders for the new 777X should be announced this year.
Now let me do General's work for him so he doesn't have to reply with 100% predictable responses.
5. It is unfair that Emirates get's cheap loans to buy 100's of 777's.
Gotta agree with number 5. Our own country is doing it to us and it's not just Emirates. We've taken affirmative action to a whole new level.
Affirmative action....????? That is just about the single most stupid comment that I have read here in FI....! Congratulations.
False, the import export bank was formed to provide cheap loans to make American products more competitive. Hence, 1000's of Boeing Airplanes being shipped overseas.
Our country is selling Billions of dollars of airplanes to Emirates...that is soooo unpatriotic!!!!
Affirmative Action: an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, esp. in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
So now Emirates is a black guy trying to get into college?
Flew with Delta once. Well, twice actually. CPH to JFK then onwards to CVG. Worst trans-atlantic crossing I've ever had the misfortune of enduring; rattly old aircraft, crap seats and IFE in business class, cabin crew so sour they'd make a lemon look all smiley.
On the other hand I've flown EK 20+ times, 4 or 5 of which on the A380 in either F or J. Nothing beats spending a few hours in the bar down the back of the upper-deck, having ones dinner served on the counter and having a chat with other pax and the extremely service minded, but not servile, crew members.
The contrast is staggering, a bit like driving a brand new S-class Merc vs a 1980s Buick of indeterminate origins. One therefore fully understands why Gen. L. is getting all worried, albeit his way of conveying that feeling is a highly amusing xenophobic rant.
The Emirate's threat is real. You are right, deep down inside, G Lee knows this JFK-Milan flight will hurt Delta. Its a no brainer, Emirates or Delta, for the same price. Delta knows it too. Flying Delta is torture..
There is real fear what will happen next. I would like to see the Legacies succeed in the widebody international market, but that battle is lost.
I am no way on Emirate's team.. I started out just stating facts and correcting G Lee's simplistic view of the world. Now its almost fun to get him all huffy puffy.
Rumor has it, Emirate's private 319 was in Dallas couple weeks ago..shortly after the merger hit a snag with US Air. 3 years ago Emirates was in talks with AA for some joint venture, but that fell through after the merger with US Air.
You heard it here first. Maybe a 49% purchase? Maybe a bailout like Qantas. Maybe after bankruptcy, you will see American Airlines flights ### operated by Emirates.
That may be better than any merger. Emirates does AA's wide body network feeding into DFW, and AA takes them the rest of the domestic way. Delta/United et al, have a hard time competing with the AA product "operated by Emirates"
I don't get people. So it's okay for United to do Dubai to Doha but it's not okay for Emirates to do JFK to Milan. It seems pilots scream cabotage only so as long as we are not on the receiving end.
Had a guy recently tell me that JAL & ANA were engaging in unfair competition by putting larger/newer airplanes on the flights from Narita and Haneda into SE Asia...????!!!!! "Taking business passengers away from us" the guy said.


The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is worried and anxious over as much as 4,331 cases filed against its 158 leaders including its chairperson Khaleda Zia.
The party fears that the party leaders might be made ineligible for the next general election by convicting them in the cases.
Talking to Prothom Alo, several top leaders alleged the government is going ahead with a plan to convict the party's "key leaders" so that they cannot take part in the next elections.
The party has recently collected information about the cases filed against its leaders and workers across the country.
According to the party statistics, as of 2 August this year, as much as 21,680 cases were filed against 4,03,878 leaders and workers.
Party sources said another 141 cases were filed against BNP leaders and activists across the country till 7 October from 1 September.
Of them, 4,331 cases were filed against 158 leaders including party chairperson Khaleda Zia while the party's 12 standing committee members are facing 288 cases.
The party statistics said a total of 17,885 party workers and leaders are now in jail across the country.
Talking to Prothom Alo, BNP spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon said the party has collected the information scrutinizing the documents of the cases.
Pabna BNP leader Salah Uddin Khan, also a former police official, coordinated the task of collecting information regarding the cases.
He said some 150 to 200 of the cases filed against the party's central leaders were filed during the regime of military-backed caretaker government in 2007. The rest were filed later during the regimes of Awami League but most of them were filed in 2013, 2014 and in the current year.
When contacted, law minister Anisul Haque said cases were filed against them (BNP leaders and workers) across the country for the way they unleashed a reign of terror killing people with firebombing from 5 January to 5 April this year.
Scrutinising the cases, it is found that 86 cases were filed against party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, 101 against party's Dhaka city convening committee's member secretary Habibunnabi Khan Sohel and the maximum of 130 cases were filed against BNP's youth front Juba Dal president Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and of them, charge sheet has already been framed in 78 of 130 cases.
Besides, BNP's student wing Jatiyabadi Chhatra Dal president Rajib Ahsan is facing 88 cases and its organising secretary Ishaq Sarker is facing 122 cases.
On bail, Mirza Fakhrul went abroad for treatment. Rajib Ahsan is languishing in jail while Habibunnabi Khan Sohel and Ishaq are on the run.
Moazzem Hossain has recently been freed on bail.
"On an average, I am now appearing before three courts in every working day. The situation is so acute that lawyers have asked to shift my residence to the area in close proximity of the courts.
Two hundred and eighty eight cases against 12 standing committee members: The party's highest policy making body, the National Standing Committee, has a total of 19 members.
The party's standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was awarded with the death penalty for crimes against humanity in the War of Independence in 1971.
Twelve of the remaining 18 members of the national standing committee are facing 288 cases and charge sheets were issued in 97 of the cases.
Party officials said there are 19 cases pending against Khaleda Zia and charge sheets were given in nine of them while witness deposition is under way in Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust corruption cases.
Charge sheets were given in eleven of 31 cases filed against party's senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman and in 24 of 86 cases against party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
There are 43 cases against the party's standing committee member Mirza Abbas, 30 against MK Anwar, 21 against Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, 12 against Tariqul Islam, 10 cases against ASM Hannan Shah, nine cases against Moudud Ahmed and six cases against Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.
There are two contempt of court suits against standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan.
But no cases were filed against six standing committee members. They are RA Ghani, M Shamsul Islam, Sarwari Rahman, Jamiruddin Sircar, Abdul Moyeen Khan and retired Lieutenant Mahbubur Rahman. The first three are seriously unwell for a long time.
One hundred and twenty four cases against 12 advisers: The BNP chairperson has an advisory council of 35 members. Eight to 10 of them have remained active in political affairs.
The statistics showed that some 124 cases were filed against 12 advisers and the charge sheets were given in 31 cases.
Of them, 13 cases against Supreme Court Bar Association president Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, five against Joynal Abedin, three against AJ Mohammad Ali, 37 against Iqbal Hasan Mahmud, 15 against AZM Zahid Hossain, 12 against Abdul Awal Mintoo, 11 against Shamsuzzaman Dudu, eight against Shaukat Mahmud, eight against Shahjahan Omar, three against Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, seven against M Akbar Ali and two against Zahurul Islam.
One hundred cases against eight vice chairmen: There are 100 cases against eight vice chairmen and charge sheets were given in 43 of the cases.
Of them, 42 against Sadeque Hossain Khoka, 13 against Abdullah Al Noman, 11 against Selima Rahman, five against Shamser Mobin Chowdhury, seven against Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, 18 against Shah Moazzem Hossain and four cases against Hafiz Uddin Ahmed.
Two hundred and fifty four cases against seven joint secretaries general: Cases were filed against all of the party's seven joint secretaries general and the number of cases is 254 and of them, charge sheets were framed in 113 cases.
Of them, there are 126 cases against Amanullah Aman and of them charge sheets were given in 58 cases. Charge sheets were given in 26 out of 51 cases against Barkatullah Bulu. Out of 35 cases against Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, charge sheets were given in 11.
Another joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed was charge-sheeted in five out of 17 cases against him.
Mizanur Rahman Minu has been charge-sheeted in seven out of 13 cases against him, Mohammad Shahjahan charge-sheeted in three out of seven cases and Mahbubuddin Khokan charge-sheeted in three out of five cases against him.
Amanullah Aman and Rizvi are now in jail while Salahuddin Ahmed is in Shillong of India.
52 cases were filed against BNP chairperson's special secretary Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas, 43 against press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan, and 10 against press wing official Shamsuddin Didar. Charge sheets of the 26 cases were also filed against the first two.
BNP's joint-secretary Md. Shahjahn told Prothom Alo statistics and nature of the cases suggest that the government want to harass and suppress BNP and its leaders with cases. BNP would move forward with some strategies. After such repression, the party still want to an immediately and credible election and it would participate there.
Thirty eight cases against four city mayors: A total of 38 cases have been lodged so far against four city corporation mayors backed by BNP. Off those, charge sheets were placed in 19 cases. There were 13 cases against Rajshahi city corporation mayor Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul, 11 against Gazipur city corporation mayor Abdul Mannan, nine against Sylhet city mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, and five against Barisal city mayor Ahsan Habib Kamal. Mannan and Ariful are now in jail and Mosaddeque is on the run.
According to the party's central office sources, BNP-backed 28 upazila chairmen were expelled by the local government ministry on charges of sabotage. Charge sheets were submitted against 18 of them.
Total of 651 cases against 19 central leaders: Top 19 leaders of BNP have been facing 651 cases, which include 31 against Zainul Abdin Farroque, 101 cases against Sultan Salauddin Tuku, 87 against Shahin Uddin Chowdhury, 17 against Nazim Uddin Alam, 10 against against Khairul Kabir Khokon. So far charge sheets were placed before court in 298 cases out of 651.
BNP chairperson's lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain termed the cases as "politically motivated". After analysing cases against senior BNP leaders, he came up with the understanding that the government wants to complete trials of BNP leader and make them ineligible to contest in election.
Law minister Anisul Huq said that it is clear that they have run amok in three months this year. There is no relation between the cases and the election.


Are you fed up with your 3D printer not delivering the results you expect? Don't worry you're not alone. Anyone who has used a desktop 3D printer will know that they are nothing like other electrical goods.
When was the last time you had to spend most of the night fixing your television because it consistently failed to display anything? Probably never.
As amazing as desktop 3D printers are, they can demand a lot of time, effort and cost just to keep them running. Then they consistently fail to deliver the results that are advertised or expected. Surely we shouldn't need to be technical geniuses just to 3D print something we're proud of?
Some objects are particularly difficult to print and can fail completely time after time. I experienced this a lot myself in my early days and I feel your frustration.
If your television ever does break down you'll probably consult your manual, phone up technical support or take it to a shop to be repaired.
With 3D printers this isn't the case. The manuals are often unhelpful and technical support from the manufacturers is poor or non-existent. Taking it to a local repair shop is not an option either, because there won't be one to take it to.
Unfortunately when your 3D printer consistently lets you down and the manufacturer does the same you can feel very alone.
This is why I created this eBook, because it doesn't have to be like this. Creating consistently reliable, high quality and well finished 3D prints is both an art and a science, but you don't need to be an expert or an engineer to achieve this.
Anyone can learn how to create great looking 3D prints and that's what I want to teach you.
For the last 4 years I've been 3D printing my own stuff at home, so I have learned the hard way how to create great quality 3D prints that I'm proud to show off to anyone. Incidentally, everything you see on the front cover of this eBook (see above) is sat next to me right now, because I made them all myself.
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In late 2008, housing groups and industry professionals met with former HUD Secretary James Preston to urge greater transparency about HUD activities. High on their agenda was discussing how HUD has discarded previous, more formal methods of notifying the public about new policies and regulations. Instead, HUD has been relying increasingly on electronic methods, including emails to the field, to communicate policy changes.


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Trolling isn't just the actions of ornery black sheep on the web. Jonathan Zittrain explains that it's a set of behaviors due to be studied more intently in the coming years.
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Online trolling isn't just the actions of ornery black sheep on the web. Jonathan Zittrain explains that it's a set of behaviors due to be studied more intently in the coming years. Zittrain, who is a professor of both computer science and law, hazards a guess that most people consider the internet a medium for entertainment. Thus, their behavior online varies from the norm because the focus is less on obtaining social acceptance and more on getting your kicks. In this video, Zittrain tackles topics ranging from online gaming, 4chan, Twitter wars, and various internet subcultures.
Jonathan Zittrain: Trolling is certainly the topic of the year. If we were having this conversation in 1995, for one thing the screen would be about 1/16 the size and the video quality would be much poorer, but it would be a very standard configuration. The story would be hey there's now an internet; people can say anything; sometimes it gets a little out of control and maybe the government will come in and try to regulate in some way. But it's basically the government is trying to stop illegal or really extreme things from happening and otherwise it's just a free-for-all out there. Away we go. Fast-forward 10/15/20 years and we see an environment now in which many, many people want to participate, maybe have views they want to share. And if you stick your head up out of the gopher hole and happen to say something intemperate or wrong or that others may disapprove of, they might not just say, "Gee I disagree. Let's talk about this or something." They may decide to try to doxx you. Find out where you live, the names of the rest of your family to threaten you with the goal of making you feel insecure. They might try to swat you. Tell the police that there's something terrible going on in your house and before you know it there's blue and red lights outside your window and people ready to kick in the door.
This is a strange state of affairs and it's one I think with multiple causes and that actually is susceptible to pretty sustained study, most of which hasn't happened yet — in the next few years I think it will — that says what makes people want to react that way. My best cut on it, at the most abstract level, is that when we are online we may be undertaking very different activities than the people that we're talking to. One model for being online is I'm entertaining myself. I'm having fun. I am in some form or another playing a game. And if that's the case playing the game means picking a side. And that's a very different model from I'm online because I really believe earnestly in something and I want to convince you of why I'm right or have you maybe convince me. Or find people who are of like mind and we can talk about strategizing about the thing that we really care about. Those are totally different activities. And when you try to mix the two that's almost like saying if there's going to be a discussion between Seattle Seahawks fans and New England Patriots fans ahead of a Super Bowl, can't we just settle this with a discussion? Like can't we just earnestly air our differences and come to some compromise that the Patriots should win but only by five points? Like that's nuts. The purpose of the conversation is sort of just the chest-thumping that comes from the play of being a fan of a team and trash talking the other team and then you play the game.
I think that for a lot of trolling there's a sense that it's just nothing personal; we're just out to have some fun. Others have referred to this as 4chan culture, of course named after the site 4chan, for which this is largely the culture. Figuring out, I think, how to have people avoid category errors might be a good way to relieve a little bit the initial conditions that give rise to a situation that you fast-forward and somehow death or rape threats are being made, personal information is getting scattered everywhere, and the parties behind it still just like think it's no big deal. Like they just go to sleep at night and tomorrow they'll find a new cause to get involved in. I imagine we will also see some of these intermediary platforms that are commonly used for many purposes like Twitter, they're going to start taking a heavier hand at intervening when discussions get rough. And it might be as simple as being more willing to delete accounts, which, let's be clear, that's going to mean that others will be more willing to try to importune Twitter to delete accounts as part of the battle between people who are arguing about something.
Over the longer term, I think we may see coming into view something that has been promised for a while, and be careful what you ask for I think we're going to get it, which is to say some form of singular or multi-platform reputation systems. Think how different one's Twitter or Facebook experience might be if the feed is populated on the basis of people who are known to participate with a bare minimum of civility. Let's define it easily as don't engage in serious and imminent death threats. And if you do you might not have your account deleted, but you will find that the way in which you tweet will not have the same reach as people who, either through the Twitter platform or through behavior on other platforms that has been deemed civil and productive, those will start to get reach too. And I will say that once people kind of know the basis on which they're being graded, can have a really instant effect on their behavior.
Some of us may remember the moment that Uber mistakenly made it easy for somebody to find his or her own rating as a passenger by drivers on Uber; drivers rate passengers, not just the other way around, and people are much more self-conscious now maybe about how they'll behave in an Uber if they want to retain a good rating so that they will be more likely to be picked up when they need a cab or a ride in the future. Those reputation systems both hold promise as a way of having trolling be, if not punished, not rewarded; good behavior whatever that means is in the eyes of the people rating, rising you up in the scales and giving you more reach. It, of course, also carries with it a whole host of new and difficult questions about well who runs this rating system and what if the people rating me are rating me by criteria that are unfair, that might be based on the color of my skin or my ethnicity or something like that, that we could find rating systems doing. Now we're not exactly there yet so we have to see what are the solutions that will come about to problems like trolling and what are the problems that those solutions will raise.
What Will it Take to Make you Look Good, Feel Good, and Think Good at 100?
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I always thought those old Jaguars white pants would be perfect for the Ravens' current unis. Just switch the teal with purple and they'd be so much better than what the Ravens have now.
Dallas Cowboys at Jacksonville Jaguars, September 10, 2006. Only time the Cowboys have won blue against the Jags and also the only time Dallas has played in Jacksonville during the regular season.
I'm talking about modernizing that 80's set without being tempted to add black back in.
If the Jets can somehow figure out how to modernize their 80's set without including black then I think they'd have a winner. Something along the lines of what the Vikings and Dolphins have done with their 2013 changes.
1998 was the last year of the Saints' gold numerals on their road whites. They switched to black numerals for 1999 and modernized the Fleur-de-lis in 2000.
I love the sleeve and pant stripes design for Ball State's football uniforms. That would be a perfect design template for a new Arizona Cardinals rebrand imo. Good work.
Sunday, September 19, 2004 - Only time current Pats unis met the old Cardinals unis.
I don't get why Nike can't figure out the correct shade of yellow for the Lakers. They created their original wishbone unis back in 1999, why can't they just replicate that same color? Mind boggling.
You even got the volleyball post hole covers. Absolutely fantastic attention to detail.
Is there a way to see what it would look like with just the C Sword logo instead of the full shield?
Block numbers are solid and will stand the test of time. A team can never go wrong with using block numbers.
As a Titans fan, I would much rather have a toned-down, simplistic looking football uniform like the Jaguars have than the "sword costumes" the Titans just released. Simple, bold football uniforms stand the test of time (Raiders, Packers, Bears) and a team like Jacksonville that has had numerous uniform looks within the last 10 years could really benefit from having a solid, bold look for the foreseeable future. Sure, there are things you could tweek with their new unis but overall their look is starting to grow on me and I think it'll end up being one of the best looks in the NFL. We just have to wait and see how they look on the field first.
A white sock with matching striping while wearing white jerseys is a style I wish more teams would go back to.
I've never been a fan of number fonts that feature the downward slanted #2. The only team that can get away with it are the Bulls.
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RECAP: Orphan Black 2x05 - Sestra Love, Meathead, and More
Whoops! Last week totally got away from me (though I did end up getting a lot of very necessary things done, just none of them related to this blog). Hence, I hereby now present you with last week's episode of Orphan Black, recapped. This week's recap will be up on the site on Thursday. Probably. You know. Fingers crossed.
The episode opens on Dr. Leeky. I haven't mentioned this recently (nor do I remember if I have ever at all), but the guy who plays Dr. Leeky also played Pestilence on Supernatural. I mean, I'm sure he's a nice actor, but that did kind of color my understanding of him. Also, I can't help but assume that even though his name is spelled differently the name "Dr. Leeky" for the head of a research institute investigating cloning and the genetic cause of life must be a reference to the Leaky family, the family most credited with discovering fossil evidence of our earliest human/hominid ancestors. They're very interesting. And messy. You should read Born in Africa by Martin Meredith. Just generally.
Okay. Back to the show.
Leeky is in Rachel's apartment as the cleaners are removing blood stains from the walls. The stains, we are to understand, left over from Helena's brutal attack on Daniel and "saving" of Sarah. I mean, one can assume that Sarah isn't particularly saved, but that's the idea anyway.
Rachel doesn't have to look at the devastation in her home, or at Daniel's dead body, but she wants to. Rachel is a deeply frightening woman. Everyone is clear that Helena is the one that did this, but Leeky and Rachel are both unnerved by the fact that Sarah left with Helena, and now the twins are together. Also Paul is back. Not sure what that means.
In her bedroom, Rachel discovers the tape of home movies that Sarah was watching, and we finally see the ice queen crack a little. She's clearly upset that her inner sanctum was violated in this way. Leeky tries to point out that all of this is happening because Rachel was so heavy-handed with the other clones, and she's not in the mood for a lecture. "Trust me, Aldous," she says, "I've only just begun." Well that's terrifying.
Out in the real world (aka, Felix's apartment), Felix is less than thrilled that Helena is crashing for the night. For some reason. I wonder why? Felix refuses to let Helena stay in the apartment, he just doesn't have a lot of say in it. Because Sarah is going to leave Helena with him while she goes to track down Kira and Cal.
Speaking of which, the ever adorable Kira is complaining about her wet socks to a sympathetic Cal. Cal offers her his socks, but no dice, so instead, he grabs some cash and decides to go out and help her buy some fun new socks. Yay! Except for the part where he grabs the cash from what looks like a secret compartment that also contains a gun and a wad of cash and a passport.
Am I the only one who is beginning to suspect that Sarah has terrible taste in men?
Rachel, Paul, and Dr. Leeky all sit down to discuss the new situation, now that Daniel is dead. Rachel needs a new monitor. Just because she's been aware of her clone status her whole life doesn't make her exempt from the program and its restrictions. She needs a new monitor, and she'd like Paul to do it. Paul doesn't really have a choice in it. And he knows that.
Then we get a charming little revelation: Dr. Leeky has made a lot of progress with his stem cell treatments for the weird lung thing all the clones have. He's planning to use it to treat Cosima (which makes sense, since she's pretty much their clone poster child), but Rachel refuses. She demands that he shut it down. Until Sarah "comes to heel", Cosima will have to suffer. What a bitch.
Cosima, meanwhile, is looking into Project Leda, with the help of her kind of nerdy and creepy friend from grad school. It seems that the DYAD Institute was probably a military contractor when they were coming up with the science. I guess her friend is an expert in genetic patents (which is a weirdly specific thing to be an expert in, but whatever). He wants to know why he can't come work with Cosima and Delphine, and Delphine's response (a deadpan, "Because we'd have to kill his family.") is just priceless.
I get the impression that Delphine doesn't really like Scott (the friend). Also, Delphine has discovered the stem cell research that proves that there's a cure for her lungs. Delphine got the research by mistake. It was an email meant for Dr. Leeky. And that's just a bit hinky - he's supposed to share all his research with them, isn't he? Still, Cosima and Delphine are desperate and determined. They'll try anything.
Kira and Sarah have a stinking cute skype conversation to catch back up. Well, it's cute right up until Kira refuses to be called Monkey anymore, and walks off, telling Sarah that she can "talk to Daddy now." Hmmm. She seems awfully comfortable calling Cal Daddy, considering she'd never met him until like a week ago. Are we starting to see the results of Sarah's super inconsistent parenting coming through? I mean, should I remind us all that this kid was actually raised by Mrs. S?
Sarah and Cal have a quick chat - no, she's not quite ready to catch back up with them, yes, Daniel is really dead now though Cal isn't the one who killed him, and no mention of "By the way I was captured and tortured and now I'm hanging out with my psychotic twin sister." Funny thing.
Looks like it's time to hand over the Helena - Felix has a hot date, so he's giving custody of the crazy to Art for a while. Art is understandably cautious about this (Helena did try to shoot him that one time), but he's agreed. Unfortunately, he's agreed with a sidenote of making her wear handcuffs and removing all sharp objects from his apartment. Which makes sense, but is still kind of insulting for Helena. Why do they keep treating her like a child? She's weird, a little crazy, but still perfectly capable of taking care of herself.
Jerks.
At the Prolethean ranch, Mama Prolethean (seriously do not remember her name) and Hank discuss Gracie's refusal to accept Helena while they do vague science things. Because Gracie refused to talk about why Helena attacked her, she's being punished. Her punishment is that her mouth has been sewn shut. I am seriously super glad that I did not grow up in a cult. I mean, for lots of reasons, but mostly right now because that is gross and horrifying and terrible.
I'd like us to take a moment, though, and appreciate this show for giving us not just a really interesting line of clones to love and obsess over, but also compelling and complicated female characters outside of that, whose stories matter and are diverse and reflect the fullness of humanity. That fullness includes people like Gracie and Kira and Mrs. S and Angie and Aynesley and more. Just saying. I really like it.
Also, Gracie's not talking, which means she keeps the sutures. Ewwwww.
Rachel, our lady of stoic coldness, is sitting alone in her apartment or office - they're both so sterile and clean I can't tell them apart - watching her home movies of her childhood, before her parents passed away in the lab accident. Paul lurks in the background. Rachel notes that by watching these videos, Sarah has shown she's trying to learn everything she can about Rachel. Rachel, in turn, is trying to learn everything she can about Sarah. Quid pro quo, except not because they never see each other.
She then goes on to explain the real details of Paul's role as her monitor. He may report to Dr. Leeky, but he works for her. She grew up with Dr. Leeky, yes, but now she outranks him in the corporation, and more importantly, she's not nearly as sentimental about the clone line as he is, despite being one of them herself. Rachel sees the big picture. Also, it seems that Rachel and company are looking into Cal's background. They have strong suspicious that he is Kira's father, and they probably want to take him in for testing or something.
Rachel, kind and loving heart that she is, smears Sarah's involvement with Cal all over Paul's face, and then demands that he make a choice: who is he going to be loyal to? Sarah or Rachel?
Meanwhile, in Art's not particularly spacious apartment, he's trying to interrogate Helena about Maggie Chen and all those murders way back last season. Doesn't Art know that that was last season? No one cares about that anymore. Besides, Helena has no intention of answering his questions. Not even when he feeds her. Nope, she'd much rather stare at the fish and eat horrible terrifying combinations of foods that do not go together at all.
Mark, that one kind of cute Prolethean dude, goes to visit Gracie in her lockup. He's alarmingly blase about her whole mouth being sewn shut thing, but he is concerned. He even brought her some milk and a straw. Awww! Then he kisses her cheek and begs her to confess so that she can come out of confinement and they can be cute together. Yes please. Not sure why I ship them so much, but I totally do.
More of Helena and Art. Helena eats weird terrifying crap and doesn't answer questions. Art is annoyed. Very annoyed. So annoyed. How did his life come to this? You can pretty much hear the thought reverberating through his brain.
Our babe Felix is happy to finally clean out his clone-free loft and have some company over. It's been a while since he didn't have a bunch of morose "sisters" kicking around, and he's excited to get back to the status quo. Sadly, it would seem that crazy law-breaking is the status quo now. Felix and his date are interrupted mid coitus by a bunch of detectives and also Paul. The detectives are there to search the place at Paul's orders. What will they find? A gun. Daniel's gun. The gun used to murder a cop up North.
Well crap beans.
Also, he forces Felix to touch the gun (and scares the crap out of him and us in the process), which means that Felix's prints are now all over a murder weapon. Then Paul calls Sarah and tells her the score: either she turns herself in within 24 hours, or Felix goes down for murder. Also, they want Kira. Because they usually do.
Sarah immediately turns around and calls Art so that he can figure out if this is legit. Are the cops really waiting to take down Felix? While Art is trying to deal with the crisis at hand, his other crisis slips her cuffs and attacks him, leaving him locked up. Off to do who knows what and who knows where. Man I've missed having Helena around. She really livens things up, you know?
Gracie has decided to confess, and she tells her parents the truth: she tried to kill Helena. She didn't think of it as murder, but more as killing a "coyote coming after our chickens." Which, to be fair, isn't a terrible way of viewing Helena. Honestly, I think Gracie's got the better view on this one, especially since now Helena really wants them all dead. Her parents remove the stitches from her mouth (none too kindly either) and give her an ultimatum. Either she brings back Helena so that she can bear the child they've created (using Helena's eggs) or Gracie will have to bear the child herself.
Please bear in mind, these are Gracie's parents. Eurgh.
Cosima and Delphine break into Dr. Leeky's office looking for the super secret stem cell culture that they're not supposed to know about. Aaaaand, Dr. Leeky catches them like right away. It's embarrassing how quickly he finds them. They confess what they're doing - Delphine is livid that he held research back from them - and Dr. Leeky admits that he's not the one withholding treatment. Rachel is. Which is true.
Then he shows them a picture of Drs. Duncan and Duncan (that same photo Sarah has been carrying around), and tells them that when the lab exploded they lost almost all of their original research. Including the original genome from which the clones were made. Which explains why they are so psychotically protective/controlling of the clones - they are the only physical copies left. It also explains why they can't fix the lung thing. They don't know what's causing it, because their roadmap is gone. That's why they need to know what Sarah knows so stinking badly. Dr. Leeky agrees to give Cosima the treatment. Because he's such a nice guy.
Cal and Kira continue their weirdest custody visitation ever with a burnt dinner in the camper and a quick visit from the cops. This is notable pretty much only for how incredibly shady Cal is. He tells the cop he's from Seattle (he isn't), and gives him a fake ID, and then Kira uses her kid charm to talk the guy out of searching their camper. Also, Kira appears to be slightly precognitive. Are we going to talk about that? Because it's getting pretty noticeable.
Sarah discovers the chained up Art in his apartment, and they both try to figure out where Helena has gone. Lucky for them, she left a clue! Unlucky for them, it's a clue written in Helena speak, which means it's virtually indecipherable.
The clue leads them to some coordinates, and they find the location of Maggie Chen's locker - exactly what Art was looking for, it turns out. But Helena's not there. They find evidence that she's been there. There's a weird little bedroom set up in one part of the storage unit, and it is creepy as hell. Lots of baby dolls taken apart and religious iconography and just the general sort of thing you would expect is in Helena's head. Not nice things.
In there somewhere, they find an empty rifle case, which appears to have contained a sniper rifle until very recently. And a photograph of an old man outside a building that says "Swan Man" on the back. So, someone related to Project Leda. Not just someone even - Dr. Duncan. He didn't die in the lab explosion. Hopefully this information will be valuable enough to trade for Felix's freedom.
It's funny, because I love Felix and I want more of his character on the show, but I also want him to have a nice happy peaceful life. Which would mean that he isn't on the show anymore. Conflicting.
Also Helena is totally going to kill Rachel. Rachel wants to hurt her sestra (Sarah) and wants to hurt the little Kira, who Helena stinking adores. Helena is not going to let that happen. Helena protects her family. Sometimes with high powered riflery.
Across the street, in Rachel's apartment, Rachel is seducing Paul. And by seducing I mean kind of probably raping him. It's really creepy and uncomfortable. Because it's all about the power play, and Paul's just standing there like a ken doll with dead eyes and Rachel is ordering him around and I feel like I need a shower just watching this. Seriously.
I mean, fortunately nothing really explicit happens, but Rachel appears to get off on sticking her hand in Paul's mouth and that is just super weird.
Also, Art and Sarah find Rachel's building and figure out where Helena must be hiding out with the gun. As a sidenote, Helena is talking to herself and cutting the hair on a Barbie doll head so that it matches Rachel. Because Helena.
Sarah bursts in on Helena and begs her not to do it. Not because she particularly likes Rachel or anything, but because she doesn't want Helena to kill anyone. Also, if Helena kills Rachel, then Felix will rot in jail. Helena kind of freaks out a little because Sarah is valuing Felix over her "real" family, and then Sarah bursts out with this huge and touching confession, delivered in front of the sniper rifle. One, she needs Helena to help her find "Swan Man". Two, she was devastated when she thought she'd killed Helena. She had lost a sister, and now she's got her back.
Awwwwwww. Helena puts down the gun, and they stagger out together. "Sestra" and "Meathead". Two peas in a really violent pod. Art pretty much just stands there, baffled.
Cosima gets her stem cell treatment, but we won't know for a while if it worked. In the meantime, Cosima tells Dr. Leeky that the clone club has a proposition for him.
Dr. Leeky goes to a bar and meets with Sarah. They agree to terms. They might be able to get information on what really happened in the lab explosion. The cost is that Rachel give up her hold over Felix. Rachel outranks Dr. Leeky at the company, but he thinks he could make it work. On a more personal note, Dr. Leeky mentions making sure that Cosima keeps getting the treatment, and this is the first Sarah has heard that Cosima is sick.
Dr. Leeky gives Sarah three days, and she tells him that if anyone follows her, she's going to "sic Helena" on them. As Dr. Leeky notes, it's not an idle threat. Not even a little bit. Interestingly, though, it's one that might have to be carried out. Paul was in the bar, watching them, at Rachel's orders. He will now be following Sarah. I forget, is Paul supposed to be good, evil, what? It's very confusing.
Sarah and Helena buckle into Mrs. S' truck for a road trip to "Cold River" where they can find the "Swan Man". Oh man that's going to be one hell of a ride.
Okay so this episode was really clearly about family and the things we are willing to do to protect ours. I appreciate that the writing on this show is so consistent that we can pick out themes like this, for the record.
Sarah spent the episode trying to figure out how to deal with her legitimately insane biological sister, while also trying to help out her foster brother, and worrying over her daughter and the father of her child. Rachel, provoked into a bit of a tizzy by Sarah's invasion of privacy, lashes out to protect her memories of her parents. And also to take everything Sarah has ever loved because Rachel is deeply and meaningfully scary.
Helena's motivation is always her family, it's just that her definition of what that is has slid around a bit through the years. Right now, that means protecting Sarah and Kira, whether they like it or not, whatever the cost. It was interesting to see that that does extend to Felix somewhat, and I am curious as to how much it goes out to Cal and Mrs. S. Worth considering.
No Allison this week, which was disappointing.
Cosima's storyline doesn't seem directly to be about family, but it is about a very related subject: trust. Also, it's about her DNA and her origins as a person, so I suppose that counts. The reason they have so many problems with Cosima's health is because they don't know anything about where she came from. It's very Jungian.*
And while she's not a clone, Gracie's motivation this week was and generally is all about her family. She wants to protect them, even when they don't want her to.
I love that this show emphasizes the social and familial relationships between women, and I love love love how interesting and deep and occasionally crazy all the characters are. Just saying. I also appreciate that while the show has not gone into detail on what was done to Helena (for story reasons, I assume), they do show that she is reeling from it in her own way. This is a show not afraid to show hard stuff, like Rachel raping Paul or Helena being operated on without her consent, and it doesn't flinch away from the aftermath. I'm grateful for that.
I feel like I should elaborate a little bit on this. I'm not glad that they showed Paul's character being raped, but I appreciate it from a narrative standpoint, because it's a storyline rarely used, and even more rarely done right. It remains to be seen how they will handle the aftermath, but I actually trust this show to do a good job. They made it very clear that Paul was not in a position to give clean and clear consent, so I can only assume that this will be dealt with at a later date.
I've never liked seeing a show use rape as a plot point or to demonstrated how evil a character is, but in this case, where we know very little about the situation and nothing graphic was shown, it works. It works because the focus is on Paul. On how Paul feels about the whole thing, rather than it being all about Rachel. That's important.
Next episode is going to be a roadtrip with Helena and Sarah, apparently. Very excited for this mess!
*I don't actually know if it's Jungian specifically, but it's very something.
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And while she's not a clone, Gracie's motivation this week was and generally is all about her family.
Gracie's important too in that she's a non-clone who's story has gone into the bodily violation and reproductive coercion territory. If there was any lingering illusion that this was an abstract musing on bioethics rather than a commentary on the treatment of female bodies in general, Gracie's arc deep-sixes it.
(Also, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Proletheans only want Helena back so they can take more of her eggs, and mean to use Gracie and others to incubate the babies regardless).
No, Cal definitely seems sketchy. I can't help thinking that clones (or the children of clones) would be very tempting targets for industrial espionage. Or maybe Cal represents the chance for "happy ending" - somewhere secure that she can offer a safe life and "be a real Mum" to Kira - which she'll have to turn down in a sacrifice-themed episode for the sake of continuing to help her clone-sisters.
Deborah Pless June 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM
Gracie's arc is really interesting to me precisely because she isn't a clone. Instead, she's this phenomenally unique character. How often do you get a character who's a teenage girl raised in a cult who is supremely principled but also capable of murder and has a crush on a boy and IS SYMPATHETIC?
I'm just saying. Those are some mad writing and acting skills there.
I have little doubt that Sarah's relationship with Kira will only continue to deteriorate, because that's pretty much the only thing that can happen. And Kira's not going to be the most understanding child in the world for long. Eventually she will grow up, and even if she gets what's going on, she's still going to hate it because she's human. I'm kind of looking forward to that.
And it could be argued that the safest thing Sarah can do with Kira is let someone else take her somewhere Sarah doesn't know about. I sure don't hope for that, but I do hope Sarah wrestles with whether she should.
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The Impacts of Extreme Heat on Mental Health: Page 3 of 3
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Robin Cooper, MD
Climate Change, Mental Health
Brochures and many other resources are available from the CDC at https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/
The negative effects of climate change are not equally distributed, and people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders are among the most vulnerable to the effects of extreme heat and other climate-change related events. Poverty, substandard housing, and lack of access to cool environments all contribute to this increased vulnerability. Homeless mentally ill patients have little control over their environments, limited ability to protect themselves from heat exposures, and therefore they are at extreme risk.
The most protective tool against heat stress/stroke is the availability of functioning air conditioners. Unfortunately, these kinds of cooling systems are out of reach for many people who live on the margins of society and need assistance in accessing public cooling respite centers.
As mental health care providers, we must do everything we can to protect our patients and our communities. Many communities have developed programs in partnership with public health, social services, and emergency response departments to respond and protect people from heat impacts. These entail public education campaigns as well as providing services and cooling centers. As mental health providers, we must educate both our patients and colleagues, and collaborate with leaders in the public health delivery systems to design preventive and intervention strategies to protect our vulnerable patients and communities from the adverse effects of extreme heat.
The CDC has many available resources including a brochure to guide program development and patient interventions (see Infographic).18 However, we cannot stop there. We must go further and use our professional voices to advocate for policies that get at the root causes of global warming.
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2. Extreme weather: Polar vortex in midwest, record heat in Australia, weird warmth in Alaska. What's going on? USA Today, January 30, 2019.
3. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Climate Change: Extreme Heat. https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/showClimateChangeExtremeHeat.action. Accessed May 8, 2019.
4. NCAR UCAR News. Exposure of US Population to Extreme Heat Could Quadruple by Mid-Century. May 18, 2015. https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/15524/exposure-us-population-extreme-heat-could-quadruple. Accessed May 8, 2019.
5. Hsiang S, Burke M, Miguel E. Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict. Science. 2013;13;341:1235367.
6. Burke M, Hsiang SM, Miguel E. Climate and conflict. Ann Rev Econom. 2015; 7:577-817.
7. Burke M, Gonzalez, Baylis P, et al. Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico. Nature Climate Change. 2018;8:723-729.
8. Meyer R. Climate change may cause 26,000 more US suicides by 2050. The Atlantic. July 23, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/high-temperatures-cause-suicide-rates-to-increase/565826/. Accessed May 14, 2019.
9. Guillermo-Cedeño J, Williams A, Oulhote Y, et al Reduced cognitive function during a heat wave among residents of non-conditioned buildings: an observational study of young adults in the summer of 2016. Plos Medicine. July 2018.
10. Hancock PA, Vasmatzidiis I. Effects of heat stress on cognitive performance: the current state of knowledge. Int J Hyperthermia. 2003;19:355-372.
11. Obradovich N, Migliorini R, Mednick S, Fowler JH. Nightime temperature and human sleep loss in a changing climate. Science Adv. 2017. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/5/e1601555. Accessed May 14, 2019.
12. Wang X, Lavigne E, Ouellette-Kuntz H, Chen BE. Acute impacts of extreme temperature exposure on emergency room admission related to mental and behavior disorders in Toronto, Canada. J Affect Disord. 2014;155:154-161.
13. Hansen A, Bi P, Nitschke M, et al. The Effect of Heat Waves on Mental Health in a Temperate Australian City. Environ Health Perspect. 2008;116:1369-1375.
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Q: Spring Boot @Autowired creates null object I am trying to autowire an object but it gets null. I have read many questions and answers, still no chance. Here is my Spring boot configuration:
package com.alinso.fantasy;

import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan({"com.alinso.fantasy","com.alinso.fantasy.database"})
@Configuration
public class FantasyApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(FantasyApplication.class, args);
    }

    @Autowired
    private EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;

    @Bean
    public SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
        if (entityManagerFactory.unwrap(SessionFactory.class) == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("factory is not a hibernate factory");
        }
        return entityManagerFactory.unwrap(SessionFactory.class);
    }
}

Here is the class to be autowired :
package com.alinso.fantasy.database;

@Service
public class BookDAO implements IBookDAO {

    @Autowired
    SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    public UUID save(Book book){
        Session session= sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        session.saveOrUpdate(book);
        return book.getId();
     }
}

Finally, here is the class where I get NPE;
package com.alinso.fantasy.resource;

@Controller
public class BookResource {

    @Autowired
    private IBookDAO bookDao;

    public void saveBook() {
        Book b = new Book();
        b.setBook_name("harry potter");
        b.setPrice(50.00);
        bookDao.save(b);  // null pointer exception here
    }
}

IBookDAO interface;
package com.alinso.fantasy.database;

public interface IBookDAO {
    public UUID save(Book book);
}

edit: I am calling the controller method from a test, as below  :
public class BookResourceTest {

    @Test
    public void saveBook() {
        BookResource bookResource = new BookResource();
        bookResource.saveBook();
    }
}

A: In your test, you have to have runners defined for Spring to initialize your @Autowired variables. Also beware that all classes that you'd like to inject are included in your component scan.
Also, you can skip manually declaring package naming for component scan, just put the main SpringApp class annotated with @SpringBootApplication in the base of your package structure, that will trigger component scan anything in & under of that package, check this.
More information on how injection works on Spring
And on testing in Spring Boot


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'Refreshed' NHS mandate unveiled
The government's NHS mandate has been updated in response to the Francis report and the vulnerable older people plan.
The mandate for 2014/15 also reflects current work around integrated care, helping to address the failings seen at Winterbourne View private hospital.
NHS England should ensure that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) work with local authorities to ensure vulnerable people receive safe, high quality care.
The 'friends and family' test will be introduced for or women who have used maternity services from October 2013, for general practice and community and mental health services by the end of December 2014 and for the rest of NHS funded services by the end of March 2015.
The main areas of the mandate are:
1. Preventing people from dying prematurely
2. Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions
3. Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury
4. Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care
5. Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm.
Sir Malcolm Grant, NHS England chair "welcomed" the refreshed mandate.
He said: "The new healthcare commissioning system has only been in place for seven months, yet real progress has been already made under challenging circumstances. Commissioners are making full use of the newly conferred flexibility to respond to local need, especially for older people with long-term conditions.
"Many are developing tailored schemes to identify and treat undiagnosed illnesses, working directly in partnership with local authorities to ensure health and social care services are organised around patient needs."
Matt Tee, chief operating officer of the NHS Confederation, said: "The NHS has some of its strongest leaders in patients, and the clinicians and managers who deliver their care, so we welcome the refreshed mandate's focus on strengthening local autonomy, so that NHS organisations are free to innovate and develop new ways of working that drive improvements in patient care.
"The refreshed mandate also tasks NHS England with using its unique position to "shine a light" on variations in care and to foster a revolution in transparency. We look forward to the government's full response to the Francis report due out soon for more detail about what the government will be doing to support this."


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/**
 * Represents a classic DM channel.
 *
 * @property string                                               $id                 The channel ID.
 * @property int                                                  $createdTimestamp   The timestamp of when this channel was created.
 * @property string|null                                          $ownerID            The owner ID of this channel, or null.
 * @property \CharlotteDunois\Collect\Collection                  $recipients         The recipients of this channel, mapped by user ID.
 * @property string|null                                          $lastMessageID      The last message ID, or null.
 * @property \CharlotteDunois\Yasmin\Interfaces\StorageInterface  $messages           The storage with all cached messages.
 *
 * @property \DateTime                                            $createdAt          The DateTime instance of createdTimestamp.
 * @property \CharlotteDunois\Yasmin\Models\User|null             $owner              The owner of this channel, or null.
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class DMChannel extends ClientBase implements \CharlotteDunois\Yasmin\Interfaces\DMChannelInterface {
    use \CharlotteDunois\Yasmin\Traits\TextChannelTrait;

    /**
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     * @var \CharlotteDunois\Yasmin\Interfaces\StorageInterface
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        $this->lastMessageID = \CharlotteDunois\Yasmin\Utils\DataHelpers::typecastVariable(($channel['last_message_id'] ?? null), 'string');

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        $this->ownerID = \CharlotteDunois\Yasmin\Utils\DataHelpers::typecastVariable(($channel['owner_id'] ?? null), 'string');
        $this->recipients = new \CharlotteDunois\Collect\Collection();

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    function isRecipient($user) {
        $user = $this->client->users->resolve($user);
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}

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Springtime plug plants are always a fantastic way to add colour to your hanging baskets and borders, check out our advice on spring plug plants here.
It is important to keep up to date with all gardening and wildlife related news, important events, and recent problems with the environment.
I mean come on, Gardening, Wildlife, and Fishing are the only things you really need in life. With the quality outdoors, you can have much more fun than sitting indoors, playing on computer games and going brain dead. In the outdoors, there are so many opportunities to learn new skills, and experience nature as it was originally intended.
Wow>>>> Crocodiles in the WILD.
There are plenty of random things on the internet, especially to do with animals. But if you are serious about fishing, check around the site for various guides, videos and tutorials.
Make sure you follow all the action on our gardening news page, and checkout our videos on Wildlife, and Fishing.
Many times when buying artificial plants you will not know where to go, so see our page on UK artificial plant and flowers suppliers.


This is a goddess themed web set I created. I was inspired by the concepts surrounding the Divine Feminine. For me she is not just Gaia or Mother Earth, which is usually depicted as a woman with flowers in her hair; and she is not just Shekinah with a crown of stars or one of the many Moon goddesses. For me the Divine Feminine is all of these. Therefore I was drawn to design this page showing the reflections of her...both night and day, light and dark. Above you see a sample of how a web page title could be inserted into this Gaia-Shekinah title image created for this set. There is a blank of the graphic in the .zip file below. If you don't have a graphic program capable of doing that, e-mail me and I will do it for you as time allows. Below you will find the a graphic divider; also a clip art bullet, e-mail button, and blank button to customize are included. Gaia-Shekinah navigation graphics that could be placed at the bottom of each page if appropriate are also included.
Font used on sample title and buttons is called: "Tiranti Solid LET"
To save, you may download the .zip file which includes the Gaia-Shekinah graphics, clip art, instructions and HTML template. Do not link to the graphics on this page! Please note that this set is free to use on personal websites only (donations are always appreciated). Those sites that hope to generate income (business site) there is a one time $10 minimum requested donation payable through Pay Pal.


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Wick Hill and Zycko become part of Nuvias Group, the new name for the pan-EMEA, high value distribution business being built by Rigby Private Equity (RPE)
Wick Hill and Zycko will now be known as 'Wick Hill, a Nuvias group company' and 'Zycko, a Nuvias group company.'
London, England: 4/7/16: 13.00 hrs BST – Rigby Private Equity (RPE) announces the formation of Nuvias Group, a holding company for the pan-EMEA high value distribution business being built by RPE, to redefine specialist value distribution. Wick Hill and Zycko now become part of Nuvias Group and will be known as –
Wick Hill, a Nuvias group company
Zycko, a Nuvias group company
Nuvias strategy
With Nuvias, RPE is building an EMEA-wide, high-value, specialist distribution business, with a common proposition and consistent delivery. The strategy is to redefine value distribution to the channel, enabling the channel and vendor community to deliver exceptional business value to their customers and creating new standards of channel success.
Nuvias will provide a consistent quality of service, with best-in-class technologies, giving reseller partners local access to the best international services and solutions. Local expertise is backed up by a consistent operating platform, offering the highest level of value-added services and flexibility. For vendor partners and solution providers, Nuvias will deliver accelerated growth at all stages of the business and product growth lifecycle, enabling rapid expansion throughout EMEA.
Paul Eccleston, head of RPE, also now becomes CEO of Nuvias. He commented: "Zycko and Wick Hill form the foundations of Nuvias, a new type of international distribution company. We're building a distributor to meet the evolving demands of the channel. As of today, Nuvias is already serving 40 vendors and 5,000 resellers in thirteen countries. Moving forward, we will be covering all major territories in EMEA, offering a common value proposition, consistently executed. This will give any vendor or reseller best in class distribution services, no matter in which country."
Wick Hill and Zycko
Wick Hill and Zycko were the first acquisitions for RPE and now are the first high value, specialist distributors in Nuvias Group. Both companies are strong brands, with an exceptional reputation and a commitment to excellence. They both provide high value added services, with best-of-breed solutions that give channel partners good margins and consultancy opportunities. These philosophies and values are also core to Nuvias and will be fundamental as Nuvias continues to grow.
As far as vendors and resellers are concerned, there will be no changes, but there will certainly be additional opportunities for growth. Both Wick Hill and Zycko will carry on operating from their current sites, with existing staff, and headed up by Ian Kilpatrick, Wick Hill chairman, and David Galton-Fenzi, Zycko CEO.
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, commented: "This is an exciting move in the growth and evolution of Wick Hill and Zycko. Having us operating separately under the Nuvias banner builds on the strength and reputation of both companies while providing us with a common identity for our expansion in EMEA."
David Galton-Fenzi, CEO of Zycko, said: "There is a growing level of excitement and anticipation amongst our staff, customers and vendor partners, largely due to the growth and development possibilities that will arise in the future with Nuvias. For Zycko and Wick Hill staff, the creation of Nuvias will bring a new wave of opportunities that will create strong, medium and long term career paths for our people across EMEA. This, coupled with the speed of our expected growth, makes Nuvias a great place to build a successful career for the future."
The new name acknowledges that in future there will be more high value-add, specialist distributor acquisitions, more countries added to the geographical scope, more services provided, as well as new vendor and reseller partner needs. So it makes sense to bring them all together under one joint Group name.
Today, the Nuvias product portfolio encompasses networking, infrastructure, security, communications, storage, continuity, recovery, access, performance, monitoring and management. Turnover is over US$ 300 million. Recently, Nuvias became a pan-EMEA distributor for vendors Unitrends and Malwarebytes. In January 2015, the first joint Wick Hill/Zycko office was opened in Vienna, Austria.
New board appointments
Ian Kilpatrick, David Galton-Fenzi, Lee Driscoll, Zycko's chief sales officer, and Helge Scherff, managing director of Wick Hill Germany, all join the Nuvias board.
The current geographical structure of Nuvias is divided into three regions, with offices in thirteen countries.
UK, Nordics and Benelux. This region is headed up by Lee Driscoll.
DACH and Central Europe. This region is headed up by Helge Scherff.
France, Iberia, Italy and the Mediterranean. This region is headed up by David Galton-Fenzi, on an interim basis.
For further press information, please contact Annabelle Brown, public relations consultant, on 01326 318212, email abpublicrelations@btinternet.com. Wick Hill https://www.wickhill.com; Zycko http://www.zycko.com
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This painted 1/2" Straight PVC works with our "LegionPipe System."
Our LegionPipe System is a set of pipe fittings that will insert into a 1/2" PVC pipe. This allows you to have an infinite number of ways to design and build your own terrain piece for your Star Wars or 40K battlefield.
This piece is HAND-PAINTED, so it's ready to be used right out of the package.


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When adding a new Customer Select Choices layout, a customer found that the Column headings were not displaying correctly, with some column headings being repeated. In addition, on some occasions the customer select display had random characters in some columns.
Firstly, please note that ALL items that are not just simple field names MUST have an alias name ('as soemthingorother').
Secondly, make sure that there are NO trailing spaces at the end of the SQL statement for each item.


It is the end of the year and we should all reflect back on the year. Many of us have so much in our lives and so much potential for fulfillment. Few of us want for much. Look around the world – it could be way worse.
Going back many years, the short season has been viewed as the start of the new year. The ancient Druids and many early religions looked at it as the Sun-god being reborn. The Christians has Christmas. The Jews have Hanukkah. I am sure others have other holidays that are a celebration and itime for reflection. There is much to do in our lives. There are challenges ahead. We should plan for 2016. What do we want to accomplish?
I have had have 60 undergrads over the last 3 semesters, plus 8 grad students, so things are moving along with FAU – my world is in semesters…. Research projects are coming to an end, and I am searching for more. One is embarking on a study of utility impacts from 2005-2015 Asset management for utilities continues to develop. On-line rate-modeling is coming – that and asset management will be a bigger focus for PUMPS in 2016 and going forward.
But 2015 has been good. New kitchen, projects done. Lots of travel. 90 miles of hiking. Awards. Papers. Two books. A nice house. Good health. A fantastic woman who agreed to marry me. Yes, 2015 was good. I hope is was good for you. And I hope 2016 will be even better for all of us.


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The Great Escapists
You are Watching The Great Escapists
Shipwrecked on a remote desert island, Hammond and Belleci use their engineering and scientific skills to not only to survive, but to construct a paradise island playground.
Actors: Richard Hammond, Tory Belleci
Studio: Chimp Productions
The 10th Kingdom
A father and daughter are caught in a parallel universe where the great queens Snow White, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood have had their kingdoms fragmented by warring trolls,…
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
A former White House Communications Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her clients are not the only ones with secrets.
After waking in a park with total amnesia — and surrounded by dead bodies, all wearing latex gloves — a young woman must fight to uncover her past, and resume…
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Follow Jeremy, Richard, and James, as they embark on an adventure across the globe. Driving new and exciting automobiles from manufacturers all over the world.
Genre: Comedy, Talk-Show
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
In 2275, a team of bounty hunters tries to stop a conspiracy involving alien DNA. In 2300, bounty hunter Travis Montana searches for his lost father.
34-year-old virgin loser is kicked out of his home by his family and realized that his life is completely over. As he regrets wasting his life, a truck runs him…
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
Features lakefront creations built and designed by the Herman family based out of central Illinois.
Walt Longmire is the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave…
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Mrs Wilson
The drama follows Alison Wilson who thinks she is a normal, happily married woman. But when her husband Alec suddenly dies, a woman turns up on her doorstep, claiming that…
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
The misadventures of a talking sea sponge who works at a fast food restaurant, attends a boating school, and lives in an underwater pineapple.
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
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Organisation of Défis Humanitaires
Bringing humanitarianism to life… A challenge that is taken up again and again…
The function creates the organ… and the humanitarian only exists through its function… action. But like athletes, humanitarians "think" in real time about their action. And we need an organ to think better… in order to act better. So a site like Défis Humanitaires had to be created. Thanks to Alain Boinet, its founder and also founder of the humanitarian NGO SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL, it was done in February 2018.
In an April 2018 video, Alain Boinet outlines its objectives. Because humanitarianism is facing immense challenges (increasing refugees, complex and lasting crises, climate change, biodiversity collapse, demographic explosion), it is a matter of "Being lucid to be able to act", to develop "A greater intelligence of challenges, actors, contexts, capacities and actions". Three reasons for being at DH: to make humanitarian work known and recognized, to identify the major challenges, and to place these challenges in a humanitarian and geopolitical context. A few months later, Alain Boinet summed up the site's ambition: "to bring humanitarianism to life". To do this, each issue of the DH "newsletter" is sent to several thousand "decision-makers" among NGOs, journalists, French, European and international institutions, researchers and academics, water actors and friends.
American soldiers joined by the Afghan National Army during Operation Shir Pasha in the Spira Mountains (21.11.2008) ©DAVID FURST / AFP
Has the challenge of bringing humanitarianism to life been met, almost four years later? Before risking a diagnosis, let's try an X-ray of the site, as if it were a person… If we look at the Humanitarian Challenges entry themes (excluding archives) as they are listed on the home page (knowing that many articles are linked to several entry themes), what do we find?
80 entries on the theme "Tribunes and interviews".
70 entries on the theme "Humanitarian crises", including since 2020 quite a few COVID 19 topics…
69 entries on the theme "NGOs / humanitarian issues".
58 entries on the theme "Geopolitics". Access to water as a "geopolitical topic" is quite present, among others…
53 entries on the theme "Reflections".
41 editorials, very often anchored in a geographical reality (Sahel, Syria, Afghanistan, Armenia-Artsakh…), always focused on a concrete issue.
36 entries on the theme of "Water and Sanitation", including the annual water barometer published by SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL.
29 entries on the theme COVID 19… The impact of the COVID 19 crisis on the editorial orientation of the site is visible, as well as on the orientation of the reflection and the humanitarian action since the beginning of 2020.
22 entries on the "Innovations" theme.
21 entries on the theme "Studies", including the annual "Global humanitarian assistance report" and in 2019 a remarkable DH study "French humanitarian NGOs abroad".
20 entries on the theme "Humanitarian meetings".
13 entries on the theme of "Philanthropy".
So, how to sum up the "personality" of the DH website? Well, if this site were a person, we would say that this person, lucid and realistic by nature, has a pronounced taste for exchange and the expression of convictions, that he or she follows the evolution of crises with acute attention and questioning, that he or she likes to share or produce studies that nourish reflection, starting from the facts, from reality. This person cultivates a geopolitical tropism, and pursues a long term fight for access to water. She is concerned about not neglecting the means of better action that are innovation and resources and, as the example of the COVID 19 crisis, knows how to adapt her guideline to the irruption of a major and unforeseen event…
The emblematic example is the exclusive and unprecedented DH study "French humanitarian NGOs abroad", which X-rayed and dissected the evolution over 10 years (from 2006 to 2016) of the 11 main French NGOs, with a summary presentation for each one, and whose second edition will be published in early 2022.
It seems that DH's "personality" speaks to subscribers. The results of a questionnaire sent in 2018 to the site's readers indicated "a very marked interest in geopolitics, for innovation with requests on multi-actor strategies, humanitarian crises and the evolution of aid on the side of field operators."
The diversity of themes and treatments allows specialists on technical subjects such as WASH (Water, Hygiene and Sanitation), humanitarian impact, the "triple nexus", fundraising or the pooling of resources, to exchange and publish their progress. As such, for these specialists as well as for researchers and students, DH almost assumes the function of a "scientific journal".
Drilling and hand pump to supply water to the jerry cans of the villagers of Djibo, in Burkina Faso ©Solidarités International
More specifically, water stakeholders can, in DH, develop the why, how, where and when of their commitment to access to this vital resource for all. Upstream and downstream of major meetings on this issue, such as the World Water Forum, whose 9th edition will be held in March 2022 in Dakar, Senegal, preparatory work, data and summaries are disseminated, sometimes in the form of interviews with decision-makers. Actors will also regularly find the latest initiatives, technical progress or the state of research in this field. A good example is the publication, each year, of the water barometer published by SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL, unique in its kind.
Elsewhere, journalists or institutions involved in the humanitarian sector can seek or express analyses, positions or issues, both specific and more broadly strategic. Whether they are looking for precise data, the expression of convictions or in-depth analysis of global or specific issues, each issue contains at least one theme/article out of the four published that is of interest to them.
DH's editorial line is clearly aimed at readers who are already "initiated" in humanitarian or geostrategic issues. It is not a site for the general public, but a place for exchange and deepening of knowledge between people or institutions already "concerned" with these subjects, and above all between humanitarian actors in the broad sense. One wonders if, after reading some of the more specialized articles, a layperson would be able to grasp the richness of the site. Moreover, a regularly updated glossary of international humanitarian terms could be included as an appendix to the site.
Pont aérien du Réseau Logistique Humanitaire pour faire face aux contraintes logistiques de la pandémie de Covid-19. ©Réseau Logistique Humanitaire.
In summary, DH has clearly found a role that no other specialized site has played until now. This positive observation does not mean that there is no need to enrich the proposed content. On a personal level, I would see three axes to be reinforced:
Develop a "dialogue" and perspective on crises that have marked the evolution of humanitarianism: what does the Rwanda crisis have to say about the practice of humanitarianism in CAR or South Sudan today, how did the Bosnian page influence the evolution of humanitarianism or its implementation in Syria today? Also Afghanistan and the Sahel (partly covered in DH), Somalia and Yemen, the Tsunami in Southeast Asia and its consequences on the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May 2016, etc.
To publish more testimonies that feed our reflection, like the last editorial that was both "field" and very documented ("Thirsty Northeast Syria").
To regularly make room for the word coming from "the other side of the mirror", that of the people who are the beneficiaries of humanitarian aid, and who are the only justification for the existence of the global humanitarian system, a raw word, without reformulating it in our technical-professional jargon, in order to provide a counterpoint to the expertise developed in these pages.
Beyond these avenues of optimization (and others), and with regard to the objectives declared at the birth of DH, the challenge of bringing humanitarianism to life is always taken up…
Pierre Brunet, writer and humanitarian :
Born in 1961 in Paris to a French father and a Spanish mother, Pierre Brunet found his first vocation as a freelance journalist. In 1994, he crossed paths with humanitarian aid and volunteered in Rwanda, which had been devastated by genocide. In early 1995, he left on a humanitarian mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, then torn by civil war. There he took on the responsibilities of program coordinator in Sarajevo, then head of mission.
Upon his return to France at the end of 1996, he joined the headquarters of the French NGO SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL, for which he had gone on mission. He will be in charge of communication and fundraising, while returning to the field, as in Afghanistan in 2003, and starting to write… In 2011, while remaining involved in humanitarian work, he commits himself totally to writing, and devotes an essential part of his time to his vocation of writer.
Pierre Brunet is Vice-President of the association SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL. He has been in the field in the North-East of Syria, in the "jungle" of Calais in November 2015, and in Greece and Macedonia with migrants in April 2016.
Pierre Brunet's novels are published by Calmann-Lévy:
January 2006: publication of his first novel "Barnum" by Calmann-Lévy, a story born from his humanitarian experience.
September 2008 : publication of his second novel " JAB ", the story of a little Spanish orphan girl who grew up in Morocco and who will become a professional boxer as an adult.
March 2014: release of his third novel "Fenicia", inspired by the life of his mother, a little Spanish orphan during the civil war, refugee in France, later an anarchist activist, seductress, who died in a psychiatric institute at 31 years old.
End of August 2017: release of his fourth novel "The Triangle of Uncertainty", in which the author "returns" again, as in "Barnum" to Rwanda in 1994, to evoke the trauma of a French officer during Operation Turquoise.
In parallel to his work as a writer, Pierre Brunet works as a co-writer of synopses for television series or feature films, in partnership with various production companies. He also collaborates with various magazines by publishing columns or articles, notably on international news.
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We call on EU leaders to work with Tehran to release Olivier Vandecasteele", published by EUobserver.com on January 19th.
Read the tribune…
The management of humanitarian waste
A summary of the workshop on the management of waste produced by humanitarian actions which took place at the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs as part of the Climate and Humanitarian Working Group.
The humanitarian in the trap of the time, who embraces too much embraces badly…
An article by Pierre Brunet.
WHY THIS WEB SITE ?
English version of Defis Humanitaires
Welcome to our brand new English version of the site! This version was launched in April 2019. We apologize for the unavailability of old articles.
UAI statement on Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: A year of deepening crisis and avoidable suffering
Full statement.
"Kissinger, l'Ukraine et l'ordre du monde" by OLIVIER Chantriaux
"Kissinger, l'Ukraine et l'ordre du monde", an article by Olivier Chantriaux for the Géopolitique CONFLITS review.
Read full article (in french)
A summary of the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2022
A summary of the latest trends in the financing of global humanitarian aid.