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Location: Burlington, VT, USA
Website: www.bonniemorrissey.org
Email: bmorrissey122@gmail.com
Bonnie Morrissey first met and studied with Janet Adler in 1981. Throughout the years, Janet has offered consistent presence as her teacher and mentor, as Bonnie practiced the Discipline of Authentic Movement in groups, solo retreats, and supervision of her own teaching practice. Bonnie is deeply grateful for her experience of the unlimited potential of the practice of the discipline, which continues to guide and orient her personal and professional development.
Bonnie was a faculty member at Burlington College 1982-2000, where she taught Authentic Movement, psychology, and movement courses, and assisted students in designing independent learning programs. As a member of the Board of Directors, Bonnie helped orient curriculum towards a transpersonal psychology program honoring embodied awareness and spirituality.
From 1982 through 1990, Bonnie founded and directed The Center for Therapy and the Arts, a studio for therapists and artists to practice, collaborate, and perform. In 1999, she co-founded CornerStone Psychotherapy, a private practice offering outpatient psychotherapy.
Bonnie teaches ongoing groups in the Discipline of Authentic Movement in Vermont, and retreats in the USA and Canada. As a faculty member of Circles of Four, she is available as Primary, Retreat, or Supervision teacher. Her teaching practice is grounded in 40 years of experience as a licensed clinical psychologist offering psychodynamic depth therapy.
In her teaching and psychotherapy practices, Bonnie aspires to foster inner qualities of presence through relational inquiry. She is deeply interested in the cultivation of intuitive knowing, and in the arising of words as a manifestation of emergent consciousness. Her poetry has been published in journals nationally. Whether in stillness or moving, whether listening, speaking or writing, Bonnie longs to participate in the development of a more clear and compassionate Witness Consciousness in our world. Currently, Bonnie is co-editing a book with the working title Intimacy in Emptiness: The Collected Writings of Janet Adler, forthcoming in 2021.
Bonnie Morrissey, M.Ed., graduated from the Dance Therapy Program at Antioch/ New England Graduate School. She engaged in post-graduate research in Consciousness Studies with Stanley Krippner at Saybrook Institute. Her essay "Umbanda Ceremonies and Mediumship in Brazil" is a cross-cultural study of spirit-based healing using dance and mediumship techniques, published in Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy (1990). Bonnie's essay "Authentic Movement and Embodied Consciousness: Deconstructing the Hierarchies that Sustain Oppression and Domination in Human and Nonhuman Animal Life", is published in ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation (2006).


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9 June 1941 - First Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
11 June 1960 - Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for social welfare services on behalf of ex-servicewomen.
Australia Day 1988 - Received the Member of the Order of Australia award for service to the community and to the welfare of veterans.
Photo used with permission of the Australian War Memorial and is out of copyright.


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Multilocus sequence typing system for the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis.
Baldo L., Dunning Hotopp JC., Jolley KA., Bordenstein SR., Biber SA., Choudhury RR., Hayashi C., Maiden MCJ., Tettelin H., Werren JH.
The eubacterial genus Wolbachia comprises one of the most abundant groups of obligate intracellular bacteria, and it has a host range that spans the phyla Arthropoda and Nematoda. Here we developed a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme as a universal genotyping tool for Wolbachia. Internal fragments of five ubiquitous genes (gatB, coxA, hcpA, fbpA, and ftsZ) were chosen, and primers that amplified across the major Wolbachia supergroups found in arthropods, as well as other divergent lineages, were designed. A supplemental typing system using the hypervariable regions of the Wolbachia surface protein (WSP) was also developed. Thirty-seven strains belonging to supergroups A, B, D, and F obtained from singly infected hosts were characterized by using MLST and WSP. The number of alleles per MLST locus ranged from 25 to 31, and the average levels of genetic diversity among alleles were 6.5% to 9.2%. A total of 35 unique allelic profiles were found. The results confirmed that there is a high level of recombination in chromosomal genes. MLST was shown to be effective for detecting diversity among strains within a single host species, as well as for identifying closely related strains found in different arthropod hosts. Identical or similar allelic profiles were obtained for strains harbored by different insect species and causing distinct reproductive phenotypes. Strains with similar WSP sequences can have very different MLST allelic profiles and vice versa, indicating the importance of the MLST approach for strain identification. The MLST system provides a universal and unambiguous tool for strain typing, population genetics, and molecular evolutionary studies. The central database for storing and organizing Wolbachia bacterial and host information can be accessed at http://pubmlst.org/wolbachia/.
10.1128/AEM.00731-06
Appl Environ Microbiol
Alleles, Animals, Arthropods, Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins, Bacterial Proteins, Bacterial Typing Techniques, DNA, Bacterial, Genetic Variation, Molecular Sequence Data, Recombination, Genetic, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Species Specificity, Symbiosis, Wolbachia

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Climate change and widening inequality are not two separate issues. They're intimately connected. And there's at least one solution to both.
The people who are bearing the brunt of climate change here and around the world are the poor and working class who live in areas increasingly prone to flooding.
Who rely on croplands susceptible to ever more frequent droughts.
Who depend on outdated water and sewage systems, and older roadways and power grids that are falling apart under the strains of more severe weather.
Who live in fragile structures particularly vulnerable to intensifying hurricanes and violent storms.
Whose health is especially compromised by airborne contaminants, infections, and other diseases that are accompanying climate change.
You often hear that reversing climate change will mean fewer jobs, especially for the poor and working class – the very people who are bearing the biggest burden from climate change.
But it's not true. Clean energy – powered by wind, or solar cells, or water — is growing fast, even as the old fossil-fuel industries decline, and generate fewer jobs.
More than 3 times as many people are already employed generating electricity from solar and wind than from coal, oil, and gas combined. Wind turbine technician is our country's fastest-growing occupation.
This transition to renewables is inevitable, in part because of the so-called "beautiful math" of solar power: Every time the world's solar power doubles, the cost of panels falls 26%. This has led to a 99% decline in the cost of solar modules since 1976, and an 80% decline since 2008 alone.
Donald Trump and his republican enablers are afraid of clean energy because it puts power, literally and figuratively, back into the hands of people and communities.
Their attacks on science and on health protections are just efforts to maintain billions of dollars in unjust profits and corporate giveaways for the barons of oil, gas, and coal, and to undermine the urgency and speed of a the transition already underway.
We must not let them. Reversing both climate change and inequality can be a win-win proposition.
"My name is Greta Thunberg, I am 16 years old, I come from Sweden, and I want you to panic. I want you to act as if the house was on fire."
That's how the young climate activist began her address to members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Tuesday.
In a 13-minute speech that equated civilization to "a castle built on sand" and was punctuated by applause from the chamber, Thunberg admonished the MEPs for inaction on the climate crisis and begged them to "wake up" and "unite behind the science."
Fighting back tears, Thunberg said that "we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction and the extinction rate is up to 10,000 times faster than what is considered normal with up to 200 species becoming extinct every day."
She also outlined "symptoms of ecological breakdown."
"Erosion of fertile top soil, deforestation of our great forests, toxic air pollution, loss of insects and wildlife, the acidification of our oceans—these are all disastrous trends being accelerated by a way of life that we.. see as our right to carry on," said Thunberg.
"Our house is falling apart, and our leaders need to start acting accordingly—because at the moment they are not," she said.
you wouldn't fly around the world in business class chatting about how the market will solve everything... You wouldn't talk about buying and building your way out of a crisis that has been creating by buying and building things. You wouldn't hold three emergency Brexit summits and no emergency summit regarding the breakdown of the climate and environment. You wouldn't be arguing about phasing out coal in 15 or 11 years...You wouldn't be celebrating that one nation like Ireland may soon divest from fossil fuels. You wouldn't celebrate that Norway has decided to stop drilling for oil at the scenic resort of Lofoten Islands but will continue to drill for oil everywhere else for decades.
Thunberg also pointed to the upcoming EU elections as a possible turning point.
"In this election," said Thunberg, "you vote for the future living conditions for humankind."
Unlike lawmakers, young people around the world are acutely aware of the urgency, she said.
"Millions of children are taking to the streets school striking for the climate to call attention to the climate crisis," said Thunberg. "You need to listen to us."
Thunberg expressed hope that lawmakers would see the walls of the house falling down and do what is right.
"It's still not too late to act. It will take a far-reaching vision. It will take courage. It will take... fierce determination to act now to lay the foundation," she said.
"To do your best is no longer good enough. We must all do the seemingly impossible," said Thunberg. "And it's OK if you refuse to listen to me. I am, after all, just a 16-year-old schoolgirl girl from Sweden."
"But you cannot ignore the scientists," she said. "Or the science. Or the millions of school-striking children striking for the right to a future."
"I beg you," said Thunberg. "Please do not fail on this."
For years now climate change experts have been warning us that we need a World War 2 type mobilization to fight the war on climate change. The result: last year more greenhouse gasses were emitted into the atmosphere than in any previous year. We're not only not reducing climate change, we're accelerating it. We're dooming future generations just so we can maintain our current lifestyles. Sure, the climate disasters taking place around the globe such as severe heat and drought, severe flooding, destructive tornadoes, loss of coral reefs and fisheries - are only affecting a mere handful of people at the present time, but shortly, these climate induced disasters will affect greater and greater numbers.
It's the story of the frog which was placed in warm water. It loved it, and as the temperature of the water was gently increased, the frog was entirely pleased. It relaxed into the pleasant sensations. No need to leave even though fellow frogs were telling it to get out while it still could. Gradually, as the temperature was increased some more, the frog grew so lethargic that he found it difficult to move. Maybe I should get out now thought the frog, but he had waited too long. He could not move because the water was getting so hot. You all know the end of the story. As the water boiled, so did the frog.
It's an exact analogy to what's happening to planet earth and its inhabitants. When oil was first discovered, it seemed like a good way to power a car. When the number of cars on the planet was small, the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted into the atmosphere was negligible compared to the other gasses like oxygen and nitrogen. However, as the number of people on the planet increased and the number of gas guzzling cars increased, the amount of GHGs emitted accumulated until it reached the point that it is now at where it is changing the climate on the planet. As we continue emitting GHGs at an ever increasing rate, we are completely complacent because it's not our ox that is being gored until it is.
Perhaps a benevolent dictator could decide: NO MORE FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTION. Then everyone would have to scramble to make their lives work despite the loss of jobs and transportation options. People would say that that was communism where everyone was reduced to taking public transportation, their freedom of choice being reduced. Would we fight wars to make sure that nowhere else in the world was it allowed to produce fossil fuels? Maybe it would have to come to that. How ironic! The US has traditionally fought wars to gain control of oil production and to make sure that oil was traded only in dollars. Now in order to save the planet, wars need to be fought to insure that no more oil is removed from the ground. But will they?
Pentagon spending is on track to grow significantly for the fifth consecutive year, but "very few in Congress are questioning" how the U.S. can afford it.
That's according to the Washington Post's Jeff Stein and Aaron Gregg, who reportedThursday that "the United States is expected to spend more on its military in 2020 than at any point since World War II, except for a handful of years at the height of the Iraq War."
In his 2020 budget request, Trump called for $750 billion in Pentagon spending. Democrats countered with a $733 billion offer, which would still represent a substantial increase over the Pentagon's 2019 budget.
Either number would bring U.S. military spending to "near-historic highs," according to the Post.
"Earlier this year, the Congressional Budget Office projected the United States would spend more than $7 trillion on defense over the next decade," the Postreported, "which is in line with both the White House's and House Democrats' budget plans."
As Stein noted on Twitter, only a few progressive lawmakers are asking how the United States can afford such spending—a question frequently raised about bold progressive policies.
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen tweeted that the "establishment says we can't afford" Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, but apparently has "unlimited" funds for the military.
As Common Dreams reported, Democratic leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and DCCC chair Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) have both raised alarm about Medicare for All's supposedly high "price tag"—but neither have raised similar alarm about soaring military spending.
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) are among the few speaking out against bipartisan efforts to raise military spending.
In response to the Post's reporting, the CPC tweeted, "We are spending way, way, way, way too much money on the Pentagon."
As Common Dreams reported earlier this month, the CPC revolted against House Democratic leaders' Pentagon spending request and forced the party to cancel a vote on their sweeping 2020 budget measure.
Progressives demanded an increase in domestic social spending in line with the Pentagon's budget.
"We need to prioritize our communities, not our military spending," tweeted Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), co-chair of the CPC. "Progressives aren't backing down from this fight."
UCSD researchers at the School of Medicine have found that exposure to Monsato's (now Bayer's) glyphosate in the popular weed killer Roundup has increased 500% since the herbicide was introduced in 1974. "The data compares excretion levels of glyphosate and its metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid in the human body over a 23-year time span, starting in 1993, just before the introduction of genetically modified crops into the United States," said Paul J. Mills, PhD, UC San Diego School of Medicine professor of Family Medicine and Public Health and director of the Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health.
Roundup is a commonly used pesticide here in the county of San Diego, California. Its active ingredient, glyphosate, is a harmful, type 1 carcinogenic chemical as declared by the state of California's Environmental Protection Agency.
San Diego County allows the spraying of this and similar toxic pesticides at schools, which unavoidably forces children to be exposed to cancer-causing chemicals. The city of Irvine had so many childhood cancer patients that a huge movement was created to ban pesticides from being used at parks and schools. WHY ISN'T SAN DIEGO DOING THE SAME?
Sooner than later, the entire developed world will regrettably understand the drastic effects of over-use of pesticides that we are seeing now: sky-rocketing cancer rates, super-weeds with resistance to all pesticides, diminished soil quality, death of pets, humans and aquatic life, and much of our available food causing chronic gut inflammation.
There are currently no restrictions to who can purchase Roundup and where they are legally able to spray it. Therefore, this dangerous chemical could be available for anyone and sprayed virtually anywhere in the public. This is a huge concern for parents, health conscious individuals, and organic gardeners.
According to an article below, Santa Cruz county has joined Trinity, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Marin county in a GMO ban.
By signing this petition, we are requesting for Roundup to be banned from the shelves of all stores that sell it in San Diego county. It could be easily and much more safely replaced with natural herbicides, such as Dr. Earth, which is sold at health conscious stores like Staff of Life.
As a worldwide tourist destination, San Diego is known for its natural beauty, wildlife, and beaches. Plus we are considered one of the top ten "pet-friendly" cities in the US.
Our famed monarch butterfly as well as the much needed honey bee are both declining rapidly in population, which the spraying of pesticides is largely contributed to.
We want our children and pets to have a healthy future, free of unavoidable environmental poisons.
If the state of California recognizes Roundup and its active ingredient, glyphosate is a carcinogen, why isn't San Diego banning it? This product needs to be taken off all store shelves and its use discontinued by the Parks and Recreation Department. Let's get rid of this nasty cancer causing stuff once and for all. Send a message to Monsanto (now, Bayer): No more Roundup in our city. Bayer, by the way, is located in Germany where there is a ban on Roundup. But they don't hesitate to sell it to the US where there isn't. Germany's agricultural minister, Julia Kloeckner, announced April 17, 2018 that she was finalizing a draft regulation to end the use of glyphosate, the world's most heavily used herbicide in history. And something else: feed your family organic foods. Restaurant foods and in particular fast food restaurant foods are loaded with GMO products containing hefty amounts of glyphosate. Bye y'all.


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Review: X-Men #112
Cover by George Pérez and Bob Layton
X-Men #112
Published and © by Marvel, August 1978
Title: "Magneto Triumphant!"
Synopsis: Captured by Magneto, the X-Men are soon battling for their lives within a secret base under an active volcano.
Writer: Chris Claremont
Penciler: John Byrne
Inker: Terry Austin
Review: The legendary X-Men creative team decides to step on the gas here. With the exception of a flashback recap, this entire outing is one extended fight scene. Writer Chris Claremont takes full advantage of the mayhem, amplifying character traits through action while demonstrating how this generation of new mutants is still struggling to find their way as a team. John Byrne's storytelling is rock solid but it is his character work that truly shines. Meanwhile, Terry Austin brings a detailed polish to the finished product unmatched during the Bronze Age. It's hard to believe these creators are just getting started.
Second opinion: "Rarely has a villain been portrayed with such evil intensity." – Jim Johnson, The Comics Buyer's Guide to the X-Men (Comics Buyer's Guide Presents), 2003 … Recommended by The Slings & Arrows Comic Guide (second edition), 2003.
Wolverine suddenly has pupils, as drawn by John Byrne and Terry Austin, from X-Men #112.
Cool factor: This version of Magneto is scary as hell.
Not-so-cool factor: Why do Phoenix's powers cut out? And what's up with Wolverine having pupils?
Notable: The "X-Mail" letters page includes an LoC from comics historian Peter Sanderson.
Collector's note: According to the Grand Comics Database, there is a 12p British variant of this issue. … According to MyComicShop.com, there is also a Mark Jewelers variant.
Character quotable: "If there is a hell, X-Men, surely it cannot be more terrible than this." – Magneto, welcoming the defeated heroes to their new home
Editor's note: This review was written Oct. 14, 2021.
Terry Austin
Review: Phoenix #3
Review: Superman #276
Review: Morlock 2001 #2


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Onionoo is a web-based protocol to learn about currently running Tor
relays and bridges.  Onionoo itself was not designed as a service for
human beings---at least not directly.  Onionoo provides the data for other
applications and websites which in turn present Tor network status
information to humans.

Onionoo _users_ should head over to `https://onionoo.torproject.org/` to
learn more about using Onionoo.

Onionoo _service operators_ should read `INSTALL`.

Onionoo _contributors_ should start reading `CONTRIB.md` and, once it's
available, run `ant doc` and read the generated JavaDocs.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This week marked the sesquicentennial of the Gettysburg Address, the most famous speech of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. In a rare and unexpected journalistic move, the Harrisburg Patriot-News chose to recognize this occasion Nov. 14 by retracting an editorial published by its predecessor, the Patriot & Union, shortly after Lincoln gave the address. The retracted editorial referred to the address as "silly remarks" and claimed that it didn't deserve to be remembered. In light of how the address turned out to be anything but forgettable, today's successors of the editors responsible for this commentary decided that an apology was not enough. They formally took back the misjudging remarks as if they never should have been made.
Things often make more sense in retrospect, especially when 150 years have passed. Now, Lincoln's speech is revered and celebrated as one of the best in the history of the United States. With historical context, and now that we can see the impact of the speech, it's clear that it was undervalued at first. But that doesn't change the fact that it was indeed undervalued at first. That's an interesting part of the story, because people at the time genuinely thought that it was "silly" and should be ignored. Retracting the Gettysburg Address editorial does not erase the sentiment of that time; it is just an attempt to smooth over the feelings of the time, which we now see as misguided.
Newspapers are important historical documents that can be used not only to know what was going on during a certain time but also to understand the sentiments of the people. Newspaper content is not the same as a company mission statement or a political party platform. It's not something that indefinitely represents the official views of an organization until amended or repealed. If it was, news organizations all over the world would need to look through their archives on a regular basis in search of anything they wrote that might not be politically correct anymore in light of recent events. Think of all the content in historical newspapers that spoke favorably of slavery and the Jim Crow laws or expressed opposition to the proposal of women's suffrage. Must today's journalists now take it all off the record to prove that they're not racist or sexist?
If news organizations were expected to retract any content that appears ludicrous by today's standards, The Triangle would be no exception. In the 1950s, our predecessors published articles that directly condoned campuswide hazing of Drexel freshmen by listing the rituals and rules that freshmen were required to follow. Obviously, we now unequivocally condemn all forms of hazing, and we regret that it was once an openly accepted part of our campus culture. Still, we can't change the fact that it happened, and those articles in The Triangle are the only reason that our current Editorial Board is even aware that it happened.
Is there even value in retracting an article? Perhaps it displays a certain amount of respect to the now revered event as the newspaper's current editors acknowledge the mistakes of their predecessors. There's nothing wrong with these intentions, but a retraction is not the right way to handle this. Retractions are only meant to be used for false information that was erroneously published as if it were factual. The editorial in question here contained a judgment that proved to be very inaccurate, but because it was presented as an opinion, there is no need to retract it. It would have been sufficient just to write an editorial acknowledging the inaccuracy without any mention of a retraction.


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#ifndef ALEXA_CLIENT_SDK_AVSCOMMON_UTILS_INCLUDE_AVSCOMMON_UTILS_HTTP2_HTTP2MIMERESPONSESINKINTERFACE_H_
#define ALEXA_CLIENT_SDK_AVSCOMMON_UTILS_INCLUDE_AVSCOMMON_UTILS_HTTP2_HTTP2MIMERESPONSESINKINTERFACE_H_

#include <cstddef>
#include <cstdint>
#include <map>
#include <string>

#include "AVSCommon/Utils/HTTP2/HTTP2ResponseSinkInterface.h"
#include "AVSCommon/Utils/HTTP2/HTTP2ReceiveDataStatus.h"
#include "AVSCommon/Utils/HTTP2/HTTP2ResponseFinishedStatus.h"

namespace alexaClientSDK {
namespace avsCommon {
namespace utils {
namespace http2 {

/**
 * Interface for receiving a mime encoded HTTP2 response.
 */
class HTTP2MimeResponseSinkInterface {
public:
    /**
     * Default destructor.
     */
    virtual ~HTTP2MimeResponseSinkInterface() = default;

    /**
     * Notification that an HTTP response code was returned for the request.
     *
     * @note Calls to this method may block network operations for the associated instance of HTTP2ConnectionInterface,
     * so they should return quickly.
     *
     * @param responseCode The response code received for the request.
     * @return Whether receipt of the response should continue.
     */
    virtual bool onReceiveResponseCode(long responseCode) = 0;

    /**
     * Notification that an HTTP header line was received.
     *
     * @note Calls to this method may block network operations for the associated instance of HTTP2ConnectionInterface,
     * so they should return quickly.
     *
     * @param line The HTTP response header line that was received.
     * @return Whether receipt of the response should continue.
     */
    virtual bool onReceiveHeaderLine(const std::string& line) = 0;

    /**
     * Notification of the start of a new mime part.
     *
     * @note Calls to this method may block network operations for the associated instance of HTTP2ConnectionInterface,
     * so they should return quickly.
     *
     * @param headers A multimap from header names to header values.
     * @return Whether receipt of the response should continue.
     */
    virtual bool onBeginMimePart(const std::multimap<std::string, std::string>& headers) = 0;

    /**
     * Notification of new body data received from an HTTP2 response.
     *
     * @note Calls to this method may block network operations for the associated instance of HTTP2ConnectionInterface,
     * so they should return quickly.
     *
     * @param bytes The buffer containing the bytes to consume.
     * @param size The number of bytes to consume.
     * @return Status of the operation.  @see HTTP2ReceiveDataStatus
     */
    virtual HTTP2ReceiveDataStatus onReceiveMimeData(const char* bytes, size_t size) = 0;

    /**
     * Notification of the end of the current mime part.
     *
     * @note Calls to this method may block network operations for the associated instance of HTTP2ConnectionInterface,
     * so they should return quickly.
     *
     * @return Whether receipt of the response should continue.
     */
    virtual bool onEndMimePart() = 0;

    /**
     * Notification of receipt of non-mime body data in an HTTP2 response.
     *
     * @note Calls to this method may block network operations for the associated instance of HTTP2ConnectionInterface,
     * so they should return quickly.
     *
     * @param bytes The buffer containing the bytes to consume.
     * @param size The number of bytes to consume.
     * @return Status of the operation.  @see HTTP2ReceiveDataStatus.
     */
    virtual HTTP2ReceiveDataStatus onReceiveNonMimeData(const char* bytes, size_t size) = 0;

    /**
     * Notification that the request/response cycle has finished and no further notifications will be provided.
     *
     * @note Calls to this method may block network operations for the associated instance of HTTP2ConnectionInterface,
     * so they should return quickly.
     *
     * @param status The status with which the response finished.  @see HTTP2ResponseFinishedStatus.
     */
    virtual void onResponseFinished(HTTP2ResponseFinishedStatus status) = 0;
};

}  // namespace http2
}  // namespace utils
}  // namespace avsCommon
}  // namespace alexaClientSDK

#endif  // ALEXA_CLIENT_SDK_AVSCOMMON_UTILS_INCLUDE_AVSCOMMON_UTILS_HTTP2_HTTP2MIMERESPONSESINKINTERFACE_H_


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menuMENU Help!
Can I stop paying Sky and use my satellite receiver to get Freeview ?
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 2nd October 2014 at 14:21
Yes, but only "sort of".
Freeview is the name of the (BBC-backed) digital TV system that uses hilltop transmitters to rooftop aerials. It is run separately from the "Sky" satellite-to-dish service. free-to-VIEW is a term for satellite channels that need a viewing card to watch, but not to collect a subscription. free-to-AIR channels are ones that can be received without needing a viewing card or subscription.
The free-to-AIR satelite service backed by the BBC and ITV is called Freesat. The free-to-VIEW service operated by Sky is called fSfS or Freesat from Sky.
As long as you have finished your first year, you can leave Sky when you want. To do this just give Sky a call and tell them you don't want to subscribe any more.
If you stop subscribing you will be able to watch the hundred or so free-to-air channels listed on free channels list. This service is called Freesat from Sky (fSfS).
Some of the channels on the Freeview service are subscription only on satellite, specifically: 4Music, Challenge, Dave, Dave ja vu, Quest, VIVA and Yesterday . See these links to compare the TV channels on Freesat-from-Sky and Freeview, and to compare radio stations on Freeview and fSfS. Many homes have free satellite and Freeview to get the full range of channels.
You will still need to keep your Sky viewing card. If you stop subscribing on a Sky contract, you can keep using that card to watch 5USA, 5* and PICK TV, the so-called "free-to-view" channels. (All ITV channels are free-to-air).
It is not possible to plug an aerial into a Sky Digibox to receive Freeview channels because the boxes have not been designed this way.
You will continue to get the full Sky EPG listings; you just will not be able to watch subscription channels.
If you want to go for High Definition, HD, you can swap out your Sky box for a Freesat one very easily.
A card is not needed to watch BBC services, but it is needed to get the correct BBC ONE and BBC TWO regions on 101 and 102.
Another option is to disconnect your Sky Digibox altogether and Upgrade from Sky to Freesat - ukfree.tv. If you have an HD-Ready TV and a standard Sky box, this is a good option.
BBC Three Linear channel re-opens 1
Removing all barriers to communication between diverse cultures 2
How do I get a test card with Freeview 3
Can I use my ex-contract sky digital satellite receiver to get Freeview channels 1
I have a Panasonic TV with integrated Freeview how can I record Freeview channel 3
My Sky box has a "no signal message" - what do I do? 4
How do I change the RF output channel on a Sky Digibox? 5
I have split the signal from my satellite dish and now nothing works. 6
chopper: You are probably aligned to the wrong satellites.
Briantist,my satellite receiver had to be re-programmed to accept signals from both satellites. It rejected signals from freesat when switch was connected.I had to issue a command to receiver to accept dual reception.Signal loss is only 1%.Reception from freesat is at 78%,from astra 1 it is 75%.Cables are 16M in length from dishes.
Richard's 98 posts
Hi, I have a freeview box and a freeview built in tv, all i want to know is if i buy a sky dish will it work with my box and tv for the freeview channels?
Danny's 1 post
Danny: The answer is NO! as freeview is a terrestrial based system and not a satellite one, a Sky dish would only be suitable if you were thinking along the lines of a using Freesat for reception, which as the name obviously suggests is satellite based.
We have a sky plus box and are considering cancelling the subscription which is the one you pay for the basic package.
Will we still be able to watch and record channels such as BBC 1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4 etc, using the Sky satellite dish. Do we need to keep the card ?
Tim's 1 post
Mike Dimmick
Tim: All variants of BBC One and BBC Two, and all other BBC channels, and all Channel 4's channels except 4Music, are free-to-air and do not require the card to decrypt. There are some regional variants of ITV1 that are soft-encrypted and require the viewing card to decrypt: this continues to work even after you stop subscribing. I don't think it's possible to put a free-to-air variant at 103 with Sky - the variant selected is the variant ITV consider most appropriate for the postcode your card is registered to.
Channel 5 has four regions for advertising purposes, of which one is free-to-air and the other three are encrypted. Again, Sky map the appropriate one to 105.
A number of other channels are also available as Free-To-Air or Free-To-View (soft-encrypted). See All free-to-watch channels | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for a comparison.
If you cancel your subscription, Sky will disable all recording and timeshift functions. You will also not be able to play back previously-recorded programmes. It is possible to just buy the recording features but since it's £10 per month, and you have to get someone who understands what you're talking about, you may as well just keep subscribing.
If you want to keep recording and timeshift features, you should look into a Freesat+ box. The initial outlay is higher but there is no ongoing subscription. You can watch any free-to-air channels.
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Jonny5
I am moving into a new house with a Sky+ dish.
I want to purchase a good Freesat+ recorder for my main living room (see no issue with this).
What do I then have do if I want to put standard freesat in other rooms.
I do not mind laddders or running cables
Jonny5's 3 posts
Les Nicol
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Jonny5 - As you have a SKY dish as you say for SKY+ then the dish should have an existing quad LNB fitted. If your connecting up a "Freesat" DTR recorder for your lounge than that will leave you two feeds st the LNB to which you can run an additional two feeds to other locations. Should you require more than two feeds then you would have to purchase an octo LONB which has eight outs on it, this may require you also requiring a 40mm collar adapter to suit the current SKY dish. Adapters are inexpensive at under £3.00 and are push fit. Afore mentioned can be had at satcure or CPC. Satcure may be the better of the two as cable can be had in whatever lengths you require.(whom ever you go to make sure the cable is satellite grade) If you have a number of outlets then the neater option but certainly more expensive is in purchasing a multiswitch that's compatible with a quad LNB and utilise your existing one. "What Satellite" recently reviewed as best in category for a domestic installation the Optima MS508 at £80 - Note multi-switches can be located in the loft or a convenient cupboard - if that's the route you take.
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Les-Nicol
Are you telling me that at the dish I have a futher two connection points as well as the two currently used for Sky+.
If so then can I use two for the new FreesatHD+ and the other two (one for each standard Freesat box) for two other rooms.
I already have some shotgun cable from my current house when I had to extend the sky cable
Jonny5 - Yes you can do that which is quite straightforward. I was a bit long winded with my initial response but wanted to give you all the options not knowing the size of your property.
Richard:


A secluded estate, artfully blending the finest influences of Spain with magnificent, 21st century, California living. Every material and design in the home combines a precise balance of beauty and proportion with enduring quality and artisan craftsmanship. Nestled against a gorgeous stand of heritage oaks, Villa del Paraiso is peacefully secluded on a 1.18 acre, privately gated homesite. The exquisite estate, completed in 1994,was thoughtfully designed in the Spanish style, meticulously constructed by Bjork Construction, with exceptional interior design by Karen Jacobs. Theestate's two story home offers 7133 square feet of sumptuous living space, a wealth of relaxation and entertaining opportunities including pool, spa, sport court, dining and barbecue pavilion with fire pit, putting green, a wine cellar with decanting bar and tasting lounge, an amazing kitchen and casual living space, an exercise studio, storage for four automobiles, generous onsite guest parking and much much more! The Spanish influence is artfully incorporated with an intricate historic design, tile roof with modern materials, classic curves and arches, courtyards, patios and fountains, a turret and balcony, intricately detailed chimneys, breathtaking wrought ironwork and lighting, intricately patterned, paver driveways and pathways, and Spanish influenced tile materials and designs, all creating the perfect, unified ambience throughout the estate. Gorgeous patios and pathways wind among the Spanish inspired grounds, which include several varieties of fabulous palm trees, gardens with spectacular roses, lavender and perennials, a putting green with artificial turf, and newly enhanced landscape. A spectacular estate that inspires the ultimate in California living!


I have been writing my regular bi-monthly column Insight for Insurance Advocate magazine for two years now. My focus has been on the regulatory scene, particularly aimed at New York but also at National and International issues. I also post pdf copies of these column's on the Publications page of my website. I have noted, however, that in my penchant for clever titles, it is not all that easy to know the topic of a particular column. After two years, even I cannot always remember what a particular column is about without re-reading it, which is not a very user friendly approach. So I am now adding a brief description of the topic covered following the title for each column. Even if these descriptions do not help or interest you in the enjoyment of my musings, I find them very helpful to me, so that counts for something. You can check out all my columns and all my other articles and publications here. I hope you can find a topic of interest!
SPEAKING OF EXCHANGES . . .
With all the attention on health exchanges, I am inevitably asked from time to time: "Whatever happened to the attempt to revive the old insurance exchange?" In response to these frequent inquiries, I wrote an article, "Speaking of Exchanges . . . Will the Phoenix Rise Again?", which was published in the Spring 2014 issue of AIRROC Matters, the excellent quarterly magazine of the Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Runoff Companies. So if you want to know if the exchange idea is still alive and kicking, here is a link to the article.
If you are interested in more information about the history of the exchanges or the plans for a future exchange, please check out the NY Insurance Risk Exchange page of my website, where I have accumulated historical and operating documents and articles on the subject.
On August 8, 2013 the Restructuring Plan for Executive Life Insurance Company of New York (ELNY) closed. Under the Plan all remaining assets of ELNY were transfered to a new District of Columbia captive, GABC, owned by participating state life insurance guaranty funds and run by the National Organization of Life and Health Guaranty Associations (NOLHGA). GABC has now assumed responsibility for all the remaining ELNY annuity contracts, but on a restructured basis that reduces the value of the contracts by close to $1 billion. Almost all of the reduced value falls on one category of contracts — structured settlement annuitants. Now that ELNY is formally gone, it is time for regulators, legislators, guaranty associations, insurers and consumer groups to look back at what went wrong with ELNY and the lessons it can teach us about a flawed insurance insolvency process. To do this, however, it is necessary to remove from the conversation certain postures taken in the court proceedings leading to the approval of ELNY's liquidation and the Restructuring Plan.
The Plan is not discriminatory. It is discriminatory in two major ways.
Guaranty Associations will pay out their full limits in many cases. They will not pay out full limits on any contract.
ELNY was in financial decline when placed in rehab. It wasn't.
A copy of the column, which explains these myths in more detail, can be accessed here.
Acronyms, Initialisms and Abreviations: Oh My!
The caption does not roll off the tongue as well as Dorothy's fearful "lions and tigers and bears" in the Wizard of Oz, but it expresses a similar fear of the unknown. With all the new developments in Federal and International regulations affecting the business of Insurance, there is a whole new language that needs to be mastered to keep abreast of the changing regulatory landscape. My Insight column in the August 19 issue of Insurance Advocate magazine, "Late Summer Delight: Fishing for Acronyms," is a semi-serious, semi-cynical look at the language of the new world order. Enjoy!
When the insurance and banking departments were merged into the new Department of Financial Services in New York in 2011, more than 150 years of history and tradition were seemingly lost. Some would argue that this loss was not significant, and that the merger was necessary to bring the regulation of insurance into the modern world and to recognize its essential financial nature. Others would argue that the merger has unnecessarily destroyed one of the best and most respected insurance regulatory departments in the US. While the "truth" is probably somewhere in between, one thing is certain: the current administration has little use for the past when it comes to reporting on the insurance business in the state.
Take, for instance, the required annual report of the superintendent on the business of insurance. Under the old insurance department, the annual report was a treasure trove of information — statistical and narrative — about the business of insurance. In the decade before the merger, the insurance department report generally ran close to or more than 250 pages on practically every element of the business — life, health, property/casualty, surplus lines, free zone, brokerage, licensing, examinations, etc., etc. Last year, the new department of financial services (DFS) issued its first report following the merger. As I discussed in my Insight column ("DFS Report: Size and Content May Send Message") in the June 18, 2012 issue of Insurance Advocate magazine, the first DFS annual report was a about half the length of the last insurance department report, with only about one third of it — roughly 40 pages — dealing with insurance, and much of it dealing with the merger and the accomplishments of the DFS rather than discussing the industry. I suggested at the time that because of the merger it was perhaps not fair to prematurely judge the report.
We now have the second DFS annual report in hand and, as discussed in my Insight column in the July issue of IA ("Less is Not More"), incredibly the report is a mere shadow OF LAST YEAR'S REPORT! "While last year's DFS report could be viewed as the Readers' Digest version, the newly filed report is barely the Cliffs Notes version!" As discussed in my column, the report continues to be more about the DFS rather than the industries it regulates, thus turning the statutory requirement for the report on its head. By so doing, the DFS does a disservice to the insurance industry, the consumer, and the standing of the DFS in the regulatory community.
– Provide for appropriate oversight and accountability – not blanket immunity — for the receiver's agents in the performance of their services.
No matter how much effort is made by the current administration to improve the perception of the NYLB's current performance, without addressing these core issues, the can is simply being polished and once again kicked down the road to future administrations.
When government talks about transparency it can be a double entendre: transparent as in nothing to hide versus we can see right through you! One of the best tests to determine the true openness of an administration is how it responds to Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests. My Insight column in the June 3, 2013 issue of Insurance Advocate, titled "FOIL Redux," continues my examination of the mixed-bag responses of New York's Department of Financial Services to my FOIL requests, particularly where the DFS responses come up short in providing information it has accumulated on the business of insurance it regulates. Here is a link to the column.
Last Summer the Insurance Federation of New York (IFNY), an organization whose members represent a diverse group of insurance professionals in the Metropolitan New York City area, implemented an extraordinary internship program in partnership with the charitable organization Yes!Solutions. Under the program, six motivated high school students from extremely difficult backgrounds and circumstances, were exposed to the working environment and people at participating insurance companies and professional firms over an eight-week period. My Insight Column in the April 22, 2013 issue of Insurance Advocate magazine (www.insurance-advocate.com) discusses this program and its value not just to the interns, but to the industry as well. Click here for a pdf copy of the column. For more information on the IFNY Intern Program including information on how you can help, I urge you to go to the IFNY website at www.ifny.org.
While IFNY's sponsorship was invaluable to making the program possible, the other half of the story is Yes!Solutions, one of the alter egos of a very extraordinary woman, Mary Lanning. It was Mary, an insurance industry lifer as well as a nun in the service-oriented Sisters for Christian Community, who developed, promoted, implemented, sold, cajoled, monitored, prodded, corralled and shepherded the program, the interns and the industry participants. It is impossible to fully explain or comprehend the magnitude of all that Mary does for our industry and for those in need. Back in 2002, one of Mary's innumerable friends, Meg Fletcher, wrote a wonderful bio of Mary for Business Insurance magazine. Anyone interested in reading this bio to get more of an inkling of this incredible woman and her work, click here.
My February 18 Insight column for Insurance Advocate magazine called for the elimination of the New York Liquidation Bureau — a seemingly drastic but, in my view, necessary remedy for the gross mismanagement and lack of accountability under the existing system. In that column I stated that I would offer alternatives to the existing system. Hence in my March 4 Insight column, I discuss a truer course for the effective and open management of insolvent insurers through the designation of special agents retained on an estate-by-estate basis rather than through a full-time staff over-invested in an archaic, unaccountable, covert system.
My March 4 column, accessible here, focuses on the appointment by Superintendent Muhl in 1995 of such an independent agent in the liquidation of United Community Insurance Company (UCIC), and compares the success and effectiveness of the independent agent versus the management of UCIC by the liquidation bureau after it took back control from the independent agent in 2009. As explained in my column, the most interesting aspect of the use of an independent agent in the UCIC estate was that it fit clearly within the existing statue. In fact, it is a better fit than the Liquidation bureau, which has no direct foundation in the statute!
My Insight column for the February 18, 2013 issue of Insurance Advocate magazine, which I had titled "The Final Straw," calls for the drastic remedy of dismantling of the NY Liquidation Bureau. My column, which the editor of Insurance Advocate decided to turn into the cover story for the issue, describes how the Executive Life Insurance Company of New York (ELNY) fiasco has shown a bright light on the covert mismanagement of insolvent insurers by the Bureau, and discusses why the institution is beyond simple fixes and requires a full re-examination of the process. A copy of my article can be accessed here.
In future columns, I will explore some dos and don'ts and some specific recommendations for a more efficient, effective and open process for handling insolvent insurers — not just for NY but for any US jurisdiction. This is particularly important considering the concerns for Federal oversight of insurer solvency regulation, and the holes and inconsistencies that ELNY has exposed in the state guaranty fund structure.


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Q: How to secure webapp reachable by other app? Scenario is that my webapp gets data
and clients app is fetching them.
Its server to server communication.
Are there any python examples or packages
that will secure my app from unverified request?
I looked at 'nonce'.Is it over kill?
If not are there examples how i could implement
it in python.

A: If I understood correctly your problem you could use Django, a framework for developing web application that naturally supports authentication upon web requests. For example, if you want to grant access to a view on your server to authenticated users you can just use decorators to secure it.
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def my_view(request):
...

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Why is Ad Fraud Difficult to Curb?
The digital markets enable ad fraud to thrive due to the nature of programmatic advertising marketplace as an open market environment with innovations that enable fraudsters to thrive. The programmatic environment also has misaligned incentives across its supply chain that causes inertia and passive treatment in addressing the ad fraud problem.
This is done by leveraging contextual brand safety segments during ad purchases in order to protect your ad campaign and making them available through the digital signal processor. Data from providers such as comScore is pre-bid hence minimizes chances of fraud making it easier than filtering it after purchase. This enables selection of segments with invalid traffic and visibility tiers ensuring that the ad campaigns not only avoid fraud but also are visible.
Ad verification vendors, such as Integral Ad Science, ensure access to campaign metrics for ad campaigns, that enhance visibility and access to, invalid traffic thus ensuring safety for the brand. This requires having your own ad server, in which you incorporate the vendor's tracking code in the ad tags.
Audit the ad campaigns for signs of fraud after receiving metrics like invalid traffic levels and use the information to optimize the ad campaigns by shutting down low-quality publishers and placements and reallocate your budget to higher-quality sites.
Blacklists are lists of domains that ensure that your ads are served elsewhere, which if handled well, should block low-quality sites from your campaigns. This may provide a competitive advantage against other, less-diligent advertisers.
Most fraudulent publishers do not access private marketplaces since they lack sales or ad ops teams to support such deals hence making it a safer option for ad campaigns.


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Q: Unable to load the "PHP Email Form" Library For some reason, my PHP Form doesn't work, when someone presses send message button this error pops out "Unable to load the "PHP Email Form" Library". I don't know what the problem is.
This is contact.php
<?php

    $receiving_email_address = 'myemailadress';

      if( file_exists($php_email_form = '../assets/vendor/php-email-form/php-email-form.php' )) {
        include( $php_email_form );
      } else {
        die( 'Coming Soon!');
      }

      $contact = new PHP_Email_Form;
      $contact->ajax = true;

      $contact->to = $receiving_email_address;
      $contact->from_name = $_POST['name'];
      $contact->from_email = $_POST['email'];
      $contact->subject = $_POST['subject'];

      // Uncomment below code if you want to use SMTP to send emails. You need to enter your correct SMTP credentials
      /*
      $contact->smtp = array(
        'host' => 'example.com',
        'username' => 'example',
        'password' => 'pass',
        'port' => '587'
      );
      */

      $contact->add_message( $_POST['name'], 'From');
      $contact->add_message( $_POST['email'], 'Email');
      $contact->add_message( $_POST['message'], 'Message', 10);

      echo $contact->send();
    ?>

This is index.html

              <form action="forms/contact.php" method="post" role="form" class="php-email-form">

                    <input type="text" name="name" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="Your Name" required>

                    <input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" id="email" placeholder="Your Email" required>

                  <input type="text" class="form-control" name="subject" id="subject" placeholder="Subject" required>

                  <textarea class="form-control" name="message" rows="5" placeholder="Message" required></textarea>

Loading

Your message has been sent. Thank you!

<button type="submit">Send Message</button>

              </form>

Anf for some reason some kind of a error log file came up in the folder that says:
[19-Nov-2021 13:49:31 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Class 'PHP_Email_Form' not found in /home/domain/public_html/forms/contact.php:16
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in /home/domain/public_html/forms/contact.php on line 16
[19-Nov-2021 13:49:32 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Class 'PHP_Email_Form' not found in /home/domain/public_html/forms/contact.php:16
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in /home/domain/public_html/forms/contact.php on line 16

I guess I should add this home/domain/public.html/froms/contact.php on line 16 but I don't know how to do that properly apparently.

A: Or you can write own sender. Something like this.
contact.php
$to = 'yourmail@yourdomain.ltd';
$name = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'name', FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS);
$from = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'email', FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$subject = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'subject', FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS);
$message = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'message', FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS);

if (filter_var($from, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
    $headers = ['From' => ($name?"<$name> ":'').$from,
            'X-Mailer' => 'PHP/' . phpversion()
           ];

    mail($to, $subject, $message."\r\n\r\nfrom: ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $headers);
    die('OK');

} else {
    die('Invalid address');
}

A: the code is searching for a file "php-email-form.php" in this particular directory/folder,-> ../assets/vendor/php-email-form/php-email-form.php,
check if the required php is present there, otherwise you need to create one and place it there.

A: You can't assign a variable in file_exists(). Use
if( file_exists('../assets/vendor/php-email-form/php-email-form.php')) {
    include('../assets/vendor/php-email-form/php-email-form.php');
} else {
    die( 'Coming Soon!');
}

or
$php_email_form = '../assets/vendor/php-email-form/php-email-form.php';
if(file_exists($php_email_form)) {
    include($php_email_form);
} else {
    die('Coming Soon!');
}

A: you are using the free template and the PHP Form
requires the "PHP Email Form" library and
the "PHP Email Form" library is available only in the pro version of the template.
you must to buy the pro version template
if you don't want to buy you must create your own php code


Time Harare City surrenders water management to Govt?
Twenty people have succumbed to cholera since an outbreak in the high density areas of Budiriro and Glen View in Harare, on September 1.
By mid morning yesterday (Tuesday), 2 300 people had been treated of suspected cholera which was yesterday declared a state of emergency as isolated cases have been reported in other parts of the country, including Masvingo, Midlands, Manicaland, Mashonaland Central and Chitungwiza.
A medieval disease, cholera is evidence of the deplorable hygienic conditions in the capital, where residents go for months on end without clean tap water, refuse that is not collected and raw sewer flowing into homes.
Water and sanitation provision are perhaps at their worst.
That the latest cholera outbreak was caused by a burst sewer pipe which contaminated borehole water in Glen View is no surprise as the Harare council is notorious for ignoring or attending late to resident's complaints over burst and chocked sewer.
Just last week, Mbare National residents were frustrated with council which failed to respond to chocked sewer which was overflowing from their toilets posing a serious health hazard. Council, which initially told them that equipment to fix sewer was broken down, only "miraculously" responded after the cholera outbreak.
Even with such a ticking health time bomb on their doorstep, council seemed not too eager to address the root causes of the cholera outbreak, which are well known to them. Harare needs a consistent water supply system and proper refuse management.
Instead, disease and death seem to motivate them to do their job, that of providing clean water and a clean environment.
The city loves sending lost messages.
On Sunday, Harare City Council health director, Dr Clemence Duri, advised residents of the affected residential areas to practice good personal hygiene like washing hands after visiting ablution facilities, buying food from licensed premises and using aqua tablets and WaterGuard to treat their water.
Dear director, to wash hands people need a constant supply of clean water which your council has not been providing to several residential areas, leaving them exposed to the contaminated borehole and well water.
Just a gentle reminder, the reason people are dying of cholera is that Harare City Council did not provide running tap water for months and they had to resort to unsafe sources. The city also ignored reports of burst sewer pipes for two months.
Had your city supplied water, residents would not have gone to the contaminated boreholes in the Tichagarika area of Glen View, which you now have decommissioned after they were exposed to bacteria, which causes cholera and typhoid.
Has anyone at council ever wondered why in a contest run by the British Medical Journal, Sanitation, was voted the greatest invention of medicine in the last 166 years, beating other advances including the discovery of antibiotics and the development of vaccines?
Given the number of suburbs without tap water, unattended burst water and sewer pipes in the capital, council has clearly lost control and now is just responding to crisis.
How long will it take for council to restore normal water supplies in the affected areas? Has council taken into consideration the amount of water needed by a single person per day to flush, bath, wash dishes, cook and drink?
Why wait for a cholera outbreak to wake up to the reality that if there is no water, providing residents with one or two bowsers as council is now doing can help ease the situation? Affected residents deserve honest answers.
Because of unavailability of low cost housing for the poor, many high density suburbs are overcrowded as landlords lease out rooms for lower rentals. When they decide to cut off water supplies to residential areas, do they factor in that there could be as many as 15 people or more all using one toilet in a seven-roomed house in Glen View?
Does council raise awareness on cholera or they wait for disaster to first strike? Even after the latest deaths, council did not do much to educate people on how to handle bodies of those who died as a result of cholera.
To curb such health blunders, maybe it is time to be firmer on the notorious council and enforce the Public Health Act.
The Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obediah Moyo, as a competent authority and the custodian of the Public Health Act, should enforce the Act.
One question that has not been satisfactorily answered is why the capital still faces serious water problems yet it has been implementing the Harare Water and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project under the $144 million Chinese facility?
Of the $144 million Chinese loan secured to rehabilitate Morton Jaffray Water Works, the City of Harare has received $72 million, and the other half is yet to be transferred to them.
Water supply was expected to rise to 670 mega-litres from 400 mega-litres upon completion of the project. Harare needs at least 1 200 mega-litres for every household to have water everyday.
The contractor, China Machinery and Engineering Corporation (CMEC), started work on the project in April 2013 and residents endured a series of averagely two complete shutdowns every month.
The city indicated they were now implementing the $144 million project, raising hope of many residents who got accustomed to many weekend complete shutdowns and here is just a gentle reminder of the few occurrences.
On their Facebook page, the City of Harare on June 30, 2015 wrote that "Harare City Council hereby notifies its water customers that there will be a complete shutdown of the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant on Friday 3 July, 2015 (2000hrs) to Saturday 4 July 2015 (2000hrs).
Then there was this announcement, "The City of Harare wishes to advise residents of a scheduled complete shutdown of Morton Jaffray Water Works from 0600 hours on 21 to 22 May 2016.
Many other shutdowns came, residents endured the dry weekends. Instead of the water situation improving, it has worsened and council is now rationing. Why?
Cholera can, and should, be kept at bay by introducing positive changes to people's living conditions, particularly through improved access to sanitation and adherence to adequate hygienic practices.
Tackling water and sanitation issues also requires political commitment and support from the highest level.
In response to the latest cholera outbreak, Government has activated a national response mechanism to combat the dual outbreaks of cholera and typhoid as both are spreading to other parts of the country.
President Mnangagwa knows too well the relationship between water and sanitation, and a healthy population. He has already shown commitment to water and sanitation issues.
In his inauguration speech, he pledged to ensure water and sanitation improve.
"There is need for the modernisation and revamping of our social services sector to improve the efficiency and quality of service delivery. My Government will move speedily to refurbish and construct health, education and water and sanitation infrastructure. This is a promise we will deliver," he said.
Yet, most senior MDC members make ludicrous remarks at a time cholera is indiscriminately killing residents regardless of political affiliation. Their way of responding to the cholera crisis is to politicise it and make the cholera issue fit into their narrative.
Dear Mr Biti, just to refresh your memory, MDC has been running the affairs of Harare City Council since 2000 and your party's deficiencies in service provision contributed greatly to this. You need to restore factory settings, maybe you do not realise people are dying. Cholera chooses no political affiliation and affects every voter whether Zanu-PF or MDC.
Or since you want to blame Government for everything wrong the City of Harare does, maybe it is time the Government took over the provision of water so that your blame can be justified.
As things stand, it is evident that the City of Harare has failed to provide potable water to residents.


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Timothy Dupont (Gante, 1 de novembro de 1987) é um ciclista belga, membro da equipa Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB.

Palmarés
 2012 (como amador)
 1 etapa da Volta a Liège

 2014 (como amador)
 2 etapas do Tour de Bretanha

 2015
 2 etapas do Tour de Alsacia

 2016
 1 etapa dos Três Dias de Flandres Ocidental
 Nokere Koerse
 3 etapas do Volta à Normandia
 Dwars door de Vlaamse Ardennen
 Grande Prêmio Criquielion
 Memorial Philippe Van Coningsloo
 Grande Prêmio da Villa de Pérenchies
 3 etapas do Tour de Alsacia
 Antwerpse Havenpijl
 De Kustpijl
 Campeonato de Flandres

 2017
 Grande Prêmio Jef Scherens

 2018
 Schaal Sels

 2019
 2.º no Campeonato da Bélgica em Estrada
 1 etapa do Tour de Valônia

 2021
 1 etapa da Estrela de Bessèges

Resultados em Grandes Voltas

—: não participa
Ab.: abandono

Ligações externas

 Ficha de Timothy Dupont

Ciclistas da Bélgica
Naturais de Gante

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The Visiting Student Electives Office coordinates all electives for medical students at Western University. Please visit the Visiting Student Electives office for more information on procedures and deadlines.
Our division is committed to facilitating orthopaedic electives at Western. If you are interested in an elective in our division, please click here and complete the form as outlined below so that we can assist the Visiting Student Electives Office with your application.


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← Meat, Milk and the Fourth Wall
The Human Centipede: Good or Not Good? Not Good →
The Scratching in the Walls
Ah man, my blog's got weeds growing out of it. Yuck.
Anyway, recent life hasn't all been work and lying listlessly on my sofa watching unhinged movies. I have also been taking a creative writing class in an attempt to get my fiction writing jump-started.
Writing fiction is awful. You've got to make up all kinds of crazy crap. Of the stories I have written so far this one, as a yardstick, is the least calamitously bad and outright risible one. The only instruction we had was to take the plot of something well known and use it to our own ends.
See if you can spot what I stole…
Ursula knew it was the right place as soon as she saw it. The cottage had a slightly lopsided ramshackle air, but it also had solidity. Permanence. An abiding sense of rectitude that she found utterly enchanting. It looked as though it had settled into its place over centuries.
The grounds were lush and green, overgrown perhaps, but to her eyes ripe with life and promising so much. The structural stone was an enduring grey. The glass in the windows was distorted with age and had begun to bulge low in the panes. Inside it was bare. Whoever the previous resident had been there was not a single trace of them now.
As soon as she got back to the flat she'd never quite felt at home in Ursula rang the estate agent.
There was no problem with mortgage finance. She was able to pay cash with a wedge of the lump sum that Graham had had to hand over following the divorce. Graham. She rarely used his name now. Conniving, whoring little shit-weasel. That was what she called him these days.
And then there she was a scant two weeks later, in the cottage, far from the corruption, the filth and the din of the town. Just herself and Charlie No-Balls the cat. A mismatched couple in the pastoral peace she had fantasised about since she was a child.
She settled in with a speed that was almost indecent. Twenty-three years she had been married but there was little left of that now. Just ashy recriminations.
The first thing she got used to was the silence. The lack of clatter, traffic noise and human hubbub was a blessed relief. She even stopped leaving the radio on, a habit she had slipped into after the separation and divorce. Out here in the country she didn't need the blithe distraction of Home Counties accents on Radio 4. She could luxuriate in the pure silence.
Later she became aware that under the silence, there was a more subtle noise at work. The susurration of plants moving in the breeze. The scrabbling of creatures in the dense undergrowth. The arrhythmic percussion of the rain in the woods battering down through the leaves.
She loved it.
In the dark she would find comfort in the hootings and cries of the creatures of the night. She knew she had owls. Semi-regularly she would find the gory remains of disembowelled rodents scattered over the bonnet of her car like a pagan offering.
And then, under the noise of the silence she began to sense something else that she couldn't quite find words for. An intimation of life from the cottage perhaps. A hugely decelerated heartbeat, pulse and respiration that was part of the building's organism. She felt comfortably subsumed. Accepted by a building that, as far as she could tell, was old when her grandparents were born.
The only thing that troubled Ursula slightly was that Charlie No-Balls seemed to be having difficulty settling in.
In town he had been fearless and urban, a street cat.
Out here in the wilds he seemed subdued. He rarely left the cottage despite the wealth of prey on offer in the garden. Indeed he spent most of his day sitting in the cottage's kitchen looking into the dark corner of the room where the sunlight never reached, feline head cocked to one side. He made no sound. He just sat there neither tense nor relaxed, observing.
Two months into her new life Ursula found herself at her nearest neighbour's house a mile and a half up the single-track road for a party. There were only half a dozen folk there, but she felt ill at ease, only really engaging when the subject of her cottage came up in the conversation.
"No problems then?" leered one of the guests, an unfocused car salesman whose obnoxiousness seemed to be related to his thirst.
"Problems?" said Ursula with what she hoped was a winning smile. "No, none at all, why…"
"Ignore Hector," said Hector's wife, whose role as apologist seemed to be well rehearsed. "He doesn't know what he's talking about."
But Hector leaned forward. There was whisky vapour on his breath and, up close, a fine tracery of broken capillaries across his nose and cheeks.
"Aye trouble. You know. After what happened to the previous owner."
"I'm afraid I have no idea what happened to my predecessor," said Ursula. She was a little askance at the idea that anything worth mentioning with this degree of melodrama had happened, but her curiosity drove her on.
"I don't even know who used to have the place before I moved in."
Hector leaned back and, with the tiresome air of someone who thinks himself a fine raconteur he began his story.
There wasn't too much to it really. Shorn of embellishments it was the sad tale of an elderly woman who had lived alone, estranged from her family and tangled in depression. Being of a traditional, stoical nature she let her depression go untreated and died by her own hand.
"Hanged herself in the kitchen," concluded Hector. "They never found the body for weeks. Electric man, come to read the meter, I think it was eventually."
Ursula would have been keen to learn more of the woman, but her hosts steered the conversation away somewhat clumsily. There was talk of depression and isolation in rural communities. And then abruptly everyone was discussing plotlines from The Archers.
Finding her interest waning Ursula excused herself and headed home. She was the first to leave.
Back in the cottage it felt as though something had changed. Her knowledge of the building's recent history seemed to unblock something and she felt suddenly insanely sensitive to the atmosphere.
Over the next few days she noticed new sounds.
As Charlie No-Balls maintained his kitchen vigil she started hearing scratching, scrabbling noises that sounded as though they were coming from the next room. Each time she tried to find the source though she couldn't.
She would run through to the room where the sound seemed to originate, but there would be nothing there. The scratching was still audible though, but now it seemed to be coming from the room she had just left.
Whatever side of the wall she was on, the insistent scrabbling was on the other.
This was unsettling, but Ursula, pragmatic and hard of head, was sure that there was an explanation.
After a few days she decided that it would be best to summon a builder or a pest exterminator to have a look, but before she got a chance to do this events got ahead of her.
It was moonlessly dark, and she was in bed, fast asleep and dreaming of the early days of her marriage to Graham. The dream was so vivid that she could feel his body next to her, curling round her as though they were speech marks. In her dream his dry hand held hers.
The transition to shocked wakefulness was immediate.
This was not a dream.
Someone was in the bed next to her.
Someone was holding her hand.
"Jesus Fuck!" Adrenalin raced through her as she scrambled out of the bed. The quilt tangled itself round her. "Leave me alone!" she screamed. And then she was at the light switch by the door.
In the glow of the bulb. She could see she was alone. Mouth dry, heart hammering she moved back to the bed and ran her hand over the sheet. Were there two indentations in the mattress?
She didn't get dressed. She just threw a heavy coat on over her nightdress, stepped into her wellies by the door and drove straight into town, her childhood faith beckoning her.
There were two Catholic churches in town.
At the first she couldn't get any response. The building was dark and devoid of humanity.
At the second, despite it being past two in the morning she saw lights in the adjoining house. She knocked frantically and, miraculously, the door was opened by an absurdly young looking priest still wearing his dog collar in defiance of the lateness of the hour.
The young priest took one shocked look at her and said, "My child, come in. How can I help?"
After clearing a space for her to sit amid the sermon notes he had been working on, Father Tadeusz listened to her story without comment, judgment or criticism. When she had finished he just said, "I see." Then he went into the kitchen to make more tea. Both of their cups had gone cold in the half hour it had taken her to tell her tale.
When he came back in with the tray he sat down and was silent for a few more minutes before saying, "I think I may be able to help."
He went on to explain that the church, particularly in these strange secular times, has a realistic attitude to the supernatural. "Basically, at the level of human experience," he summarised, "the Church no longer believes in spiritual manifestations like ghosts and demonic possessions. The Church believes in an infinitely loving God, and the unknowable nature of human psychology." He grinned, and this human gesture calmed Ursula.
"We could still prevail on the Archbishop to get the Vatican to perform an exorcism," he continued. "They'd do it, but it would take time and nobody involved would really believe in what they were doing. It would be for your psychological benefit only. I feel as if that wouldn't be any use to you."
"No," Ursula replied. "This is a real thing. She's still there. The depressed old woman. I'm sure of it."
"I'm from Poland originally," Father Tadeusz said, slightly unnecessarily Ursula thought. "I was brought up in a small village by my mother and my grandmother. I have seen things that we weren't taught about at the seminary. I'm sure I can help. Let me gather a few things together. We go now."
And they did, driving in convoy out to her cottage where he began his ritual.
She wasn't sure what it was he was doing, but it involved the sprinkling of a herby-smelling liquid, and some low muttering in a language that wasn't Latin, but didn't sound Polish to Ursula either. Father Tadeusz progressed from room to room, and after a complete circuit of the cottage he stopped, lifted his head and rotated his shoulder blades as though ridding himself of a crick.
"That is all," he said, and so convinced was Ursula that she burst unexpectedly into tears.
"Oh God, thank you," she sobbed. "Thank you so much." She embraced Father Tadeusz, but he didn't join in. He seemed uncomfortable with the human contact in fact.
Ursula reached inside her coat pocket for her purse.
Opening it she said, "Can I…"
But Father Tadeusz cut her short with his grin again. "No money," he said. "Absolutely no money. But if you would like to repay the deed it would be wonderful to see you at mass on Sundays. The congregation is dwindling."
"Oh yes," she replied. "Anything."
"Just so," he said. "I look forward to seeing you."
After the priest had left Ursula took herself, warily, back to bed. Instantly she fell asleep, and she was drowsily aware of sleeping all through the next day and the next night. There were dreams of apocalyptic thunderstorms and drunken car salesmen and her cat. But when she finally awoke the world seemed fresh and new.
Charlie No-Balls had vacated his sentry position in the kitchen. Through the window she could see him prowling through the long grass in the garden. There was a light airy feeling in the kitchen.
There was no more scratching.
Six months later a horrible sulky autumn was turning into winter when there was an unexpected knock at Ursula's door.
She opened it and guilt engulfed her.
"Father Tadeusz. What a surprise. How lovely to see you. Please come in."
He was pleasant as they chatted, but a little distant. When, inevitably, the conversation turned to why he had not seen her at church at all she fumbled out some excuses. Even to her ears they sounded pathetic and evasive.
He left soon after that, tea undrunk, Hobnobs uneaten, and with him, imagined Ursula, went some of the life out of the cottage.
Over the next year things deteriorated.
Charlie No-Balls disappeared without a trace.
The wiring in the cottage developed an intermittent, untraceable fault.
Plants withered and died.
Ursula took to drink.
A meter reader found her body.
(Copyright John Feetenby 2010)
By Feexby • Posted in Story
4 comments on "The Scratching in the Walls"
October 7, 2010 @ 22:31
Brilliant! More! (Was it something to do with 'Sylvia'?!)
Sorry, totally unfair of me to have asked.
It's The Pied Piper innit.
chaserjay
October 10, 2010 @ 16:38
John, I eventually got round to reading this and I thought it very good. There are wonderful descriptions of the differing ambiances felt.
Of course, as I would , I thought of "Scratch and I will come to you".
There is more to this story, but you decided to fire in the old three asterix line, jump six months and cut it off to satisfy the need to take something along to the writing group…..
Finish it man, and get the scary gory stuff down. it'll be brilliant!
November 15, 2010 @ 17:01
I'm more than a little creeped out. Knew I shouldn't have started reading it after dark …


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Jason was formerly the Cabinet Member for Finance and Health for Haringey Council. As part of the council's political leadership team, he shaped the borough's £340m revenue and capital spending was responsible for the council's public health initiatives. Jason also taught in two secondary schools in London is a trustee of the education charity Teach First.
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In 2014 Cécile decided to make a career change and in 2017 she became an ACCA chartered accountant. Cécile is now pursuing a career as a non-executive director. She joined the Board in 2017.
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His current school is Brookside Academy providing education from 0 – 11 to over 600 pupils. He also runs a 30 place Specialist Provision in the primary range, catering for children with complex needs from across the Mendip area of Somerset.
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The ony thing that I'm not very pleased with CJ is that there are no free product data feeds. When other competing netwroks are giving them out for free, why can't CJ do the same, even when they advertise themselves as the #1 affiliate network to work with in the industry?


Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards all people.
If you could ask God for only one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Last weekend, thousands of people came to Trinity for Candlelight Carols, and each one brought prayers. Some were conscious and heartfelt, yet others buried so deep that they could not be articulated at all.
Like our forebears in Brooks' time, you and I will bring our hopes and fears to church this Christmas. We come to this Holy Child in trust, knowing that he himself embraced our vulnerabilities. We come to bask again in his unfailing love, knowing that only such Love can save us and heal us. We come in hope, believing that this Jesus can cast out our fears, and give birth to a Life in us that outlasts all darkness, even death.
So come to church this Christmas. Let the angels say to you, as they did to the shepherds that first Christmas, "Fear not!" And let hope bloom in you to replace all fear. O Jesus, let our hearts leap up together with joy, discovering that your Light is inextinguishable, and no darkness can ever overcome it.
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Q: How to get an array with fetch_array with php i have a simple problem with that fetch_array. i like to read out x1 and x2 from table A. the both arrays i need for a counter which will set up another field on another table B to +1. i wrote the following code but it doesnt work and i dont know where is the mistake. maybe someone can help me out. thanks alot.
$get_counter = "SELECT x1, x2 FROM tablename(A) WHERE id='$id'";
        $result2 = mysqli_query($db, $get_counter);

        $row = $result2->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC);

        $counter = "UPDATE tablename(B) SET xy=xy + 1 WHERE x1=$row["x1"] AND x2=$row["x2"]";
        $result3 = mysqli_query($db, $counter);

A: Your quoting is faulty in $counter. It is good practice (and sometimes required) to surround arrays or objects in {} inside double-quoted strings.
$counter = "UPDATE tablename(B) SET xy = (xy + 1) WHERE x1={$row['x1']} AND x2={$row['x2']}";

However, if you do not intend to use x1, x2 aside from inside the second query, you can do this with one query and a JOIN. This eliminates the need for the first query and fetch call.
UPDTE
 tablenameb B JOIN tablenamea A ON B.x1 = A.x1 AND B.x2 = A.x2
SET xy = (xy + 1)
WHERE A.id='$id'

A: Your SQL contains an error and your script doesn't check for SQL errors.
This:
$row = $result2->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC);

Should be:
if ($result2 === false) {
    printf("Invalid query: %s\nWhole query: %s\n", mysqli_error(), $get_counter);
    exit();
}

$row = $result2->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC);

See how $result2 is checked here, and how the SQL error is printed if it failed.

A:

$counter = "UPDATE tablename(B) SET xy=xy + 1 WHERE x1='".$row["x1"]."' AND x2 ='".$row["x2"]."'";


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package ui.newrecord;

import ui.tablemodel.CityTableModel;

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

public class NewDBCityRecord extends NewDBRecordFrame {
    public NewDBCityRecord(int amount, final CityTableModel tableModel) {
        super(amount);
        setLabelTextFieldName(0, "Новый город");
        yesButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                if (checkNewDBRecord()) {
                    tableModel.addRow(getTextFieldValue(0));
                    dispose();
                }
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean checkNewDBRecord() {
        return true;
    }
}