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Welcome to York Canine Hydro, based in York, North Yorkshire - we are a specialist Canine Hydrotherapy and Rehabilitation centre, where we believe the health, both mental and physical, of our canine companions, is of the utmost importance.
We are passionate about the benefits of a structured, caring and professionally delivered treatment programme and so we work closely with Vets, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Owners and Dogs to deliver a service that is second to none.
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Qualified, Experienced and Trained Professionals
The Centre is run by Qualified Veterinary Nurse Katie who holds a level 3 certificate in Canine Hydrotherapy and a level 4 award in Canine Hydrotherapy. Working alongside Katie is Canine Hydrotherapist Emily who holds a level 3 certificate in Canine Hydrotherapy. Both Katie and Emily have been trained in the following areas:
Canine Anatomy, Physiology and the MusculoSkeletal System
Spinal Conditions
Clinical Conditions associated with Hydrotherapy
Management of Complicating Medical Conditions
Functional Rehabilitation
Animal First Aid
Pool Water Management
Gait analysis for canine hydrotherapy
Canine behaviour in a hydrotherapy setting
Alongside our skilled and experienced Hydrotherapists, we also work with an experienced Physiotherapist - Hannah Michael of Theakston Physiotherapy Services, who runs a clinic from our centre to provide additional assistance should it be required, to ensure the total well being of your treasured companion.
Veterinary Liaison
In order to ensure a complete and professional service, we require all our dogs to have a Referral Form from their Veterinary Surgeon or Orthopaedic Surgeon, who we then continue to liaise with and report back to throughout the duration of the treatment, thus ensuring a complete medical history is available, before, during and after treatment.
York Canine Hydro has emergency Veterinary cover from The Minster Veterinary Practice, located less than 3 miles away. More details of The Minster Veterinary Practice can be found on their website http://www.minstervets.co.uk
Membership of Governing Bodies
National Association of Registered Canine Hydrotherapists
As a member of the above, we are governed by strict guidelines and codes of conduct that ensure Training, Knowledge, Skill and Professionalism are all maintained to the highest standards, ensuring that the treatment and pool management are of the highest standard and delivered by people who have the knowledge and experience in delivering hydrotherapy and rehabilitation programmes.
Membership with a governing body such as the above is also usually a prerequisite for the Insurance Companies.
Based in Upper Poppleton, York, we are easily accessible from the main road. Our prime location gives fantastic access from other Yorkshire towns such as Leeds, Harrogate, Thirsk, Scarborough, and Hull.
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York Canine Hydro Ltd, Unit E2, Northminster Business Park, Harwood Road, Upper Poppleton, York, YO26 6QU
Tel: 01904 793663 Fax: 01904 202208 Email: [email protected]


Foreclosures no longer are daunting! Thousands have been helped, so why not you? Click below for foreclosures, power of sale and bank owned homes in Rainbow Lake.
How can I find power of sale homes in Rainbow Lake?
This saves me a lot of time and effort. I don't have to search the internet for many hours looking at different Realtors websites combing through houses in Rainbow Lake that are certainly not foreclosures or don't fit what I am looking for.
How to buy a distress sale house in Rainbow Lake with bad credit.
Let me start by saying that shopping for a foreclosed house in Rainbow Lake with bad credit is possible!
Search for houses in Rainbow Lake and look for loans with low down payments. Save up money for your down payment but expect to pay a somewhat higher interest rate due to your lower credit score. You should be able to refinance in a number of years after making on time payments to obtain a lower rate.
How to buy a foreclosed condo in Rainbow Lake, AB.
Next, find condos in Rainbow Lake, AB that you are interested in. Find a Realtor that focuses in foreclosures and will be able to help you through the process of buying.
How long does it take to buy a bank owned home in Rainbow Lake?
Often a foreclosed property in Rainbow Lake AB has sat empty for some time so maintenance has been ignored and will need to be looked after immediately.
Sometimes, just because the title has changed to a new owner doesn't mean that all problems have gone away. This is the significance of having a title search done well before buying a property due to the fact that liens or lawsuits could be attached to the property and you could take over them without realizing it.
Dealing with banks is a mechanical process and usually handled by computer systems and not actual people. This can be frustrating for you the buyer but it is what it is. Eventually if you are persistent the bank will probably cave if they have no other offers because they understand they need to transfer the property quickly.
Are Rainbow Lake bank owned homes good or bad?
This depends upon your goals and the risk level that you are prepared to accept. If you are willing to take on the possible repairs yourself and not count on the bank to pay for them then this is a great deal!
There are lots of things you may not know about the power of sale. When do you understand you are faced with a power of sale or foreclosure in Rainbow Lake, and how do you know if it is the best investment for you? Provided listed below are answers to 7 commonly asked questions relating to the power of sale, and how it can help you make informed purchases in Alberta.
This is a term that few everyday people have become aware of. If you are interested in investing in real estate, specifically those on the foreclosure market, then you desire to be familiar with this term. A power of sale is a clause that is composed into a home loan which enables the lending institution to offer the property in case of default to repay the home mortgage financial obligation. It technically is the provision that permits foreclosure on a home when a financial obligation is not paid. This kind of sale takes place so that the lending institution, which is normally a bank, can recuperate losses that they sustained by the loan default.
Essentially, this clause in a home loan or trust allows the loan provider to sell the property without going to court to do so. It is a type of shortcut to allow healing simpler and much faster. For those seeking to acquire foreclosed house, this is much easier as the loan provider does not have to go through the courts to make the sale happen.
If you are wanting to purchase a power of sale foreclosure house, there are some advantages. This includes an expedited process. Usually a foreclosure through the courts can take a lot of time; whereas those that go through an agreement stipulation can be much quicker.
It is in fact easier than you believe to discover power of sale houses. In Alberta, as in all of Canada, the typical procedure is to sell the home by power of sale, which is unlike the majority of the United States which tends to go through the courts for a foreclosure. Normally, when a home is being sold through power of sale, it in fact goes through a real estate agent. That makes it easy to find homes under power of sale. A realtor, or other property sites, will likely have listings of power of sale houses in your location.
It is an excellent choice to purchase power for sale foreclosures in Rainbow Lake Alberta. The process is pretty fast and simple. The process for the sale is generally set out in the mortgage, so they may vary a little bit in a different way for properties depending upon the loan provider.
In Alberta, there are 2 kinds of power for sale – legal and statutory. A contractual power of sale is when the home mortgage files have included the power of sale provision. A statutory power of sale is when the power of sale clauses is not consisted of, but these are extremely uncommon.
The home can be sold by auction, personal agreement, or by tender. The property is typically noted with a realtor and put on the marketplace for sale utilizing numerous listing service (MLS).
The ownership of the home will change hands just if the residential or commercial property is sold. This is also not a fire sale, although it is quicker than a court procedure. The deals from the buyers like you are thoroughly examined, and the present owner might request an accounting.
Among the very best methods to find a power for sale listing in Rainbow Lake is to use an exceptional MLS. These services are available on line and supply an extreme quantity of listings so that you can discover the exact house you are trying to find. A site, such as foreclosuresearch.ca, can offer you with all the listings in Alberta under power of sale. Websites like this one enable you to browse in your location for power of sale home, together with the timing and costs involved.
Obviously there are! According to foreclosuresearch.ca at the time of writing this post, they had dozens of listings of power of sale homes from all over the area. Investing in power of sale houses can be a fantastic lucrative company if done correctly. Visit them or your regional realty agent to learn more about power of sale homes.


The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") announced that a German appeal court (Appellate Court of Cologne) has issued a decision on the injunction proceedings ICANN initiated against EPAG, a Germany-based, ICANN-accredited registrar that is part of the Tucows Group. The Appellate Court has determined that it would not issue an injunction against EPAG.
ICANN continues the idiot crusade by STILL going against Tucows for no reason other to not do anything about GDPR and blame it all on German courts.
ICANN filed the proceedings because EPAG had informed ICANN that as of 25 May 2018, it would no longer collect administrative and technical contact information when it sells new domain name registrations. EPAG believes collection of that particular data would violate the GDPR. ICANN's contract with EPAG requires that information to be collected.
EPAG is one of over 2,500 registrars and registries that help ICANN maintain the global information resource of the WHOIS system. ICANN is not seeking to have its contracted parties violate the law. Put simply, EPAG's position spotlights a disagreement with ICANN and others as to how the GDPR should be interpreted.
On 13 June 2018, ICANN appealed the Regional Court's ruling to the Higher Regional Court of Cologne, Germany, and again asked for an injunction that would require EPAG to reinstate the collection of all WHOIS data required under EPAG's Registrar Accreditation Agreement with ICANN.


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Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky Are Reportedly "Spending Time Together Again"
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Breakups can be a real mother! Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky, however, seem to be handling theirs just fine: About a month after they ended their one-year relationship, the duo was spotted looking friendly while spending some quality time together.
As seen in pictures posted by the Daily Mail, J.Law, Aronofsky, and Lawrence's dog, Pippi, went for a stroll around New York City before entering a residential building together on Wednesday. Both wore sunglasses in a futile attempt to hide from photographers, and each smiled at the other throughout their walk-and-talk.
Lawrence and Aronofsky's reunion doesn't necessarily mean they're rekindling their old flame. "They are friends. They are not officially back together but are spending time together again," a source told E! News this week. "They never stopped speaking after they broke up. They care about each other. They are just seeing what happens." So, while the co-working pair could potentially be kicking off an on-again, off-again relationship to rival that of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, it's also entirely possible that they're just maintaining a solid friendship as they head into awards season. (mother! was completely left off the Golden Globes nominations, but the Jennifer Lawrence–loving Oscars could still surprise us all.)
Lawrence, 27, and Aronofsky, 48, started dating in late 2016, after wrapping mother!, and stayed relatively low-key—not even standing next to each other while promoting the film until about midway through the process—until their breakup last month. In an "Actors on Actors" segment with Adam Sandler for Variety in late November, Lawrence gave some insight into what may have driven the couple apart. "Dating the director was different, because we'd be on the tour together," she said. "I'd come back to the hotel, and the last thing I want to talk about or think about is a movie. He comes back from the tour, and that's all he wants to talk about. I get it; it's his baby. He wrote it; he conceived it; he directed it. I was doing double duty trying to be a supportive partner while also being like, 'Can I please, for the love of God, not think about mother! for one second.'"
Does this week's reunion mean Aronofsky has finally stopped talking about mother!?
Remembering 2017's Most Devastating Celebrity Breakups
Glen Powell and Nina Dobrev, 2017-2017
After ringing in 2017 together on New Year's Eve last year, it seems Nina Dobrev and Glen Powell will be making alternative plans come midnight for 2018, as the pair is rumored to have split after just under a year of dating.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky, 2016-2017
Despite weathering the storm of their controversial film mother!, Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky split after a year of dating following the film's release.
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Jennifer Hudson and David Otunga, 2007-2017
After being engaged for nearly a decade, Jennifer Hudson called it quits with David Otunga in November, as well as receiving a protective order of their 8-year-old son that they share.
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Selena Gomez and The Weeknd, 2017-2017
After ten months of dating—and one public outing to the Met Gala—Selena Gomez and The Weeknd called it quits in October, just a few days after Gomez was spotted having breakfast with her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber.
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Heidi Klum and Vito Schnabel, 2014-2017
Heidi Klum started dating Vito Schnabel, an art dealer 13 years her junior, two years after she separated from Seal, but after putting in plenty of beach time, the pair decided to call it quits this year.
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Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson, 2008-2017
After nearly a decade together, it was reported that Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen had split in September 2017.
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Fergie and Josh Duhamel, 2004-2017
Together since 2004 and married in 2009, Fergie and Josh Duhamel announced they would be splitting in September.
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Anna Faris and Chris Pratt, 2009-2017
Anna Faris and Chris Pratt split during the summer after 8 years together.
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Scarlett Johansson and Romain Dauriac, 2012-2017
Scarlett Johansson began dating Romain Dauriac in 2012, and the pair married in 2014 before splitting in January.
Alexander Skarsgard and Alexa Chung, 2015-2017
Alexander Skarsgard and Alexa Chung were first seen together in 2015, and split earlier this summer.
Olivia Munn and Aaron Rodgers, 2014-2017
Olivia Munn dated NFL player Aaron Rodgers for nearly three years, before breaking up in late spring.
Amy Schumer and Ben Hanisch, 2016-2017
Amy Schumer famously met furniture designer Ben Hanisch on an dating app; the pair dated for over a year.
Jenny Slate and Chris Evans, 2016-2017
Jenny Slate and Chris Evans quickly became an Internet-beloved couple when their pairing was revealed in 2016, but split after a year.
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, 2016-2017
Despite an infamous paddle-board trip together, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom split after just over a year together.
Jaden Smith and Sarah Snyder, 2015-2017
The teen set's coolest couple, Jaden Smith and Sarah Snyder, broke up after nearly two years of dating.
Jane Fonda and Richard Perry, 2009-2017
Jane Fonda split from longtime partner record producer Richard Perry after nine years together in January.
Summer Phoenix and Casey Affleck, 1999-2017
After nearly two decades together, Summer Phoenix and Casey Affleck separated last year, officially filing for divorce last week.
Hayley Williams and Chad Gilbert, 2008-2017
After dating for a decade, Paramore singer Hayley Williams and New Found Glory frontman Chad Gilbert married in 2016, only to file for divorce a year later.
Wissam al Mana and Janet Jackson, 2012-2017
Janet Jackson gave birth to her first child, with husband Wissam al Mana, in January; the pair filed for divorce in April.
Aryn Drakelee-Williams and Jesse Williams, 2003-2017
Together for nearly 15 years, Jesse Williams split with longtime wife Aryn Drakelee-Williams in April.
Jemima Kirke and Mike Mosberg, 2009-2017
Jemima Kirke married lawyer Mike Mosberg in 2009; the duo separated in January.
Elle MacPherson and Jeffrey Soffer, 2009-2017
Supermodel Elle MacPherson split from Florida-based hotel heir Jeffrey Soffer earlier this year.
Phoebe Tonkin and Paul Wesley, 2013-2017
Phoebe Tonkin and Paul Wesley met on the set of The Vampire Diaries, and stayed together for nearly four years.
Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna, 2016-2017
After a tumultuous year together, Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna officially split this spring.
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor, 2000-2017
After 17 years of marriage, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor announced their separation in May.
Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill, 2015-2017
In January, Nicki Minaj announced on Twitter that she had split from boyfriend Meek Mill.
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After nearly two decades together, basketball star Carmelo Anthony and La La Anthony broke up earlier this year.
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David Schwimmer separated from British artist Zoe Buckman after a decade together.
Billie Lourd and Taylor Lautner, 2016-2017
Billie Lourd briefly dated Scream Queens co-star Taylor Lautner before calling it quits this summer.
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LONDON, LELEMUKU.COM - Britain's parliament is holding the first of what could be three days of votes Tuesday in order to decide how to proceed with its divorce from the European Union.
Members are voting Tuesday on Prime Minister Theresa May's latest version of her plan, based on an agreement her government reached with the EU last year.
It initially got little support when first put to a vote, but May made a last-ditch trip to Strasbourg on Monday to secure altered terms in talks with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that she hopes will win over her opponents.
May said Juncker announced "legally binding changes" that in part address the longtime sticking point involving what to do with the border between Britain's Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
The original deal calls for a so-called backstop agreement that keeps Britain and the EU in a customs union until they agree on a new trade agreement. Opponents in Britain's parliament are concerned about being locked into EU rules instead of being able to gain full control of trade policies.
May said the new terms agreed to Monday would ensure the backstop deal is not a permanent part of Britain's exit from the EU.
The opposition Labour Party rejected the plan, saying it still does not go far enough to allay their concerns.
Juncker warned that Britain is running out of options for Brexit, which is set to take place March 29.
"It is this deal or Brexit might not happen at all," he said.
If the Brexit agreement fails the Tuesday vote, another would be held on Wednesday to see if lawmakers approve of exiting the EU at the end of the month with no terms in place. If that fails too, a third vote would come Thursday on whether to ask the EU for more time. (VOA)
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SALINAS, CA – The Nunes Company, one of the nation's largest grower-shippers of conventional and organic fresh produce marketed under the Foxy® brand name, has elected Tom M. Nunes (T5) President of the Company.
Since the early 1930s, the Nunes family has been practicing innovative farming methods in California's Salinas Valley and since that time has expanded its operations to Huron and Oxnard, California, Yuma, Arizona, and Yerington, Nevada. The Foxy® brand was born when brothers Bob and Tom Nunes formed the Nunes Company, Inc. in 1976. With Bob and Tom's guidance, second and third generation Nunes family members are at the helm today, ensuring that their tradition in innovation, land stewardship, and lasting relationships with partners, growers, landowners, employees and customers continues.
"My brother, Bob, and I started in this industry over 60 years ago. I've had the pleasure of watching our children grow the business and look forward to watching my grandson in his new role as President of The Nunes Company. He's a true leader in this industry and represents our families' core values," says Tom Nunes, Sr. (T3), co-founder of the Company.
T5 began working for the Company over 20 years ago after graduating from Cornell University. He initially moved to the Company's Yuma operations and then began the process of working through all critical parts of the Company -- sales, production, cooling, harvesting, and safety.
"I've watched Tom (T5) grow up in our business. He has experience in all aspects of our organization including production, cooling, shipping, sales, and marketing. Most importantly, he has a passion and insatiable curiosity about our business, and constantly seeks to improve his knowledge and leadership. I believe his capabilities will make him an exceptional President of the Company we started over 40 years ago," says Bob Nunes, Sr., co-founder of the Company.
Tom Nunes, Jr. who has served as President since 2006, remains as Executive Vice-President.
"It gives me great pleasure to pass the torch on to my son. He has earned the position through hard work in all critical areas of our business and will bring new energy and leadership to our Company.
"I am humbled and honored at the confidence shown in me. I have been blessed with a strong family and great mentors and look forward to working with them to face the challenges of our industry, and to carry forward the traditions of this Company," says Tom (T5).


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WGA Strike Roundup: Monday, Feb. 11
Feb 11, 2008 • Post A Comment
TV Writers May Gain a Little, but Showrunners Lost a Lot in Strike
Television writers may gain as much as $1,600 in residuals per show from the proposed agreement between the Writers Guild of America and the studios. The average TV showrunner, who typically makes about $40,000 an episode, may have lost at least $280,000 from the strike because of a 22-episode season that will be cut back to between 12 and 15 episodes, Daily Variety reports.
'SNL,' 'Office' Likely Among First Shows to Return
"Saturday Night Live" and "The Office" will be among the first shows to air new episodes after the Writers Guild of America strike ends, Daily Variety reports. "Saturday Night Live" may air a new episode as soon as Feb. 23, while "The Office" may return to air as soon as five weeks after writers resume work, the newspaper says.
WGA Strike Cost SoCal $2 Billion, Four Times the '88 Strike
The 3-month-old Writers Guild of America strike cost the Southern California economy about $2 billion, four times as much as the 1988 writers strike, the Hollywood Reporter says, citing the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. The region lost $733 million in production spending and $1.3 billion in indirect revenue to businesses such as caterers, florists, restaurants and hotels, the newspaper says, citing the LAEDC. The 1988 strike lasted five months.
Chernin, Iger Input Key to WGA Strike Settlement, Verrone Says
Writers Guild of America West President Patric Verrone said direct involvement by News Corp. President Peter Chernin, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and CBS CEO Leslie Moonves in contract negotiations was key to the tentative agreement struck over the weekend, Daily Variety reports. The execs' input also will be vital to avoiding a similar work stoppage from the Screen Actors Guild, whose contract expires June 30. The WGA and studios spent "three months getting nowhere" last year because the studio heads weren't involved in the talks, the newspaper says, citing Verrone.
'Office', '30 Rock' Winners at WGA Awards
NBC's "The Office" and "30 Rock" were among television's award winners at a Writers Guild of America ceremony in New York that was scaled back Saturday because of a pending vote on ending the strike, Daily Variety reports. AMC's "Mad Men," and HBO's "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" also were winners, the newspaper says.
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February 11, 2008 at 16:12 pm, Reply
So they lost big! I am wondering how much the fat cat union bosses gave up??
March 5, 2008 at 11:04 am, Reply
I believe a little 'control' over these postings is in order. A good example is the obscenity-laced diatribe above. If he is a "writer," it is obvious that his vocabulary leaves a lot to be desired. I don't like unions, either, but this guy is way off the charts.
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Q: A function giving synchronous calls to a stored procedure on remote server causes memory warnings I am uploading Zips containing folders of images from my application on a remote server in my iOS app. The function is called in a separate NSThread so it should not block the UI. Here I create batches of folders containing images (of max 10 MB) and upload them on remote server by giving calls to an SP on remote server. The problem is each call to this method increases my live bytes depensing on the size of zip file which never comes down again. Bellow is my code:
-(IBAction)syncPressed:(id)sender
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:YES];
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *strServerFolderPath = [[paths objectAtIndex:0]stringByAppendingPathComponent:app.objDataAccess.tempServerIPAddress];
NSString *strImagesFolderPath=[strServerFolderPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Images"];
NSString *strDatabaseImagesPath=[strImagesFolderPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:app.objDataAccess.tempDBName];
NSArray *arrOfDirectoryToZip=[[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:strDatabaseImagesPath error:NULL];
int iZippedFolderCounter=0;

if(app.viewController.arrADataSyncProgress==nil)
    app.viewController.arrADataSyncProgress=[[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
else
    [app.viewController.arrADataSyncProgress removeAllObjects];

unsigned long long int iSizeOfFolder=[app.globalVcImageViewController folderSize:strDatabaseImagesPath];

int iNoOfBatches=iSizeOfFolder/10485760;
if(iSizeOfFolder%10485760>0)
    iNoOfBatches++;       //We will need to add one more batch for remainings

int iCounter=1;
//Add batch objects in array initially so that they can be updated at correct time
while(iCounter<=iNoOfBatches)
{
    SyncProgress *objSync=[[SyncProgress alloc]init];
    objSync.cSyncName=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Batch %d",iCounter];
    objSync.iSyncStatus=0;
    objSync.cSpName=@"UploadImageData";
    objSync.cStartSyncTime=@" ";
    objSync.cEndTime=@" ";
    [app.viewController.arrADataSyncProgress addObject:objSync];
    objSync=nil;
    iCounter++;
}

[app.viewController.tblviwSyncProgress performSelectorInBackground:@selector(reloadData) withObject:nil];

float fPerBatchIncrement=100.0/iNoOfBatches;

[Flurry logEvent:@"Sync started"];
[app.objLogger writetoLogFileWithMessage:@"Sync started" withMethodName:@"syncPressed:" withLoggerLevel:eLoggerInfo];

int iBatchCounter=0;
//Upload images batchwise
while(iBatchCounter<iNoOfBatches)
{
        NSMutableArray *arrmPathsToZip=nil;
        unsigned long long int iSizeOfBatch=0;
        //In each batch 10 MB or remaining folders are zipped
        while(iZippedFolderCounter<arrOfDirectoryToZip.count && (iSizeOfBatch+[app.globalVcImageViewController folderSize:[strDatabaseImagesPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:[arrOfDirectoryToZip objectAtIndex:iZippedFolderCounter]]])<10485760 && iZippedFolderCounter<arrOfDirectoryToZip.count)
        {
            //Add Paths to temporary array
            if(arrmPathsToZip==nil)
                arrmPathsToZip=[[NSMutableArray alloc]init];

            [arrmPathsToZip addObject:[strDatabaseImagesPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:[arrOfDirectoryToZip objectAtIndex:iZippedFolderCounter]]];
            iSizeOfBatch+=[app.globalVcImageViewController folderSize:[strDatabaseImagesPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:[arrOfDirectoryToZip objectAtIndex:iZippedFolderCounter]]];

            iZippedFolderCounter++;
        }

        //Give the zip a random unique name
        NSString *strRandomFolderName=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f",[[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970]];
        NSString *strZipPath= [strImagesFolderPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.zip",strRandomFolderName]];

        //Create zip from the folder
        BOOL bSuccess = [SSZipArchive createZipFileAtPath:strZipPath withContentsOfDirectoris:arrmPathsToZip];
        arrmPathsToZip=nil;

        if(!bSuccess)
        {
            [app removeCustomLoader];
            UIAlertView *altError=[[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:app.strAppName message:@"Error occured while gathering data" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles: nil];
            [altError show];
            altError=nil;
        }
        else
        {
            //Update sync progress object
            SyncProgress *objSyncProgress=(SyncProgress*)[app.viewController.arrADataSyncProgress objectAtIndex:iBatchCounter];
            objSyncProgress.cStartSyncTime = [app.loginView getCurrentTimeInUTCFormatToString];
            [app.viewController.tblviwSyncProgress performSelectorInBackground:@selector(reloadData) withObject:nil];

            NSData *dat=[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:strZipPath];
            //[Base64 initialize];
            NSString *strZipEncoded = [Base64 encode:dat];
            NSString *cDBToken=app.dbToken;

            //Get Key From GUID
            NSString *cGUID=[app.loginView generateUuidString];
            int iKey = [app.loginView KeyFromGUID:cGUID];

            //Encrypt Parameter
            cDBToken=[app.loginView  encrypt:cDBToken withShiftCount:iKey];
            cDBToken= [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@##%@",cGUID,cDBToken];
            NSString *strUserName=[app.loginView encrypt:app.LoginUsrnm withShiftCount:iKey];
            NSString *strPassword=[app.loginView encrypt:app.LoginPswd withShiftCount:iKey];
            NSString *strSPName=[app.loginView encrypt:@"_wspIICInsertImages" withShiftCount:iKey];

            //SOAP Request
            NSMutableString *soapMsg =[[NSMutableString alloc] initWithFormat:@"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\
                                <soap:Envelope\
                                xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"\
                                xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"\
                                xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">\
                                <soap:Body>\
                                <UploadImageData\
                                xmlns=\"http://tempuri.org/\">\
                                <DBToken><![CDATA[%@]]></DBToken>\
                                <UserName><![CDATA[%@]]></UserName>\
                                <Password><![CDATA[%@]]></Password>\
                                <DeviceID>1</DeviceID>\
                                <BatchSize>1</BatchSize>\
                                <DocString><![CDATA[%@]]></DocString>\
                                <fileName><![CDATA[%@]]></fileName>\
                                <SPName><![CDATA[%@]]></SPName>\
                                </UploadImageData>\
                                </soap:Body>\
                                </soap:Envelope>",cDBToken,strUserName,strPassword,strZipEncoded,strRandomFolderName,strSPName];

            NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:app.webServiceName];

            NSMutableURLRequest *req =
            [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

            NSString *msgLength =
            [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [soapMsg length]];

            [req addValue:@"text/xml; charset=utf-8"
       forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

            [req addValue:msgLength
       forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];

            //add gzip-encoding to HTTP header
            [req setValue:@"gzip" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Encoding"];

            [req addValue:@"http://tempuri.org/UploadImageData"
       forHTTPHeaderField:@"SOAPAction"];

            [req setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
            [req setHTTPBody: [soapMsg dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
            soapMsg=nil;

            [req setTimeoutInterval: 60];

            //call method to connect to webservice by passing request object
            NSURLResponse* urlResponse = nil;
            NSError *error;
            NSData *responseData =  [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req returningResponse:&urlResponse error:&error];
            NSString *strResponse=[[NSString alloc]initWithData:responseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
            [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtPath:strZipPath error:NULL];

            if(iZippedFolderCounter<arrOfDirectoryToZip.count)
                app.viewController.fPercentageSync=app.viewController.fPercentageSync+fPerBatchIncrement;
            else
                app.viewController.fPercentageSync=100;

            app.viewController.fDataSize+=dat.length/(1024.0*1024);
            dat=nil;

            //Update sync progress object
            objSyncProgress=(SyncProgress*)[app.viewController.arrADataSyncProgress objectAtIndex:iBatchCounter];

            if([[app stringBetweenString:@"<UploadImageDataResult>" andString:@"</UploadImageDataResult>" withstring:strResponse] isEqualToString:@"true"])
            {
                objSyncProgress.iSyncStatus=1;

            }
            else
                objSyncProgress.iSyncStatus=2;

            objSyncProgress.cEndTime=[app.loginView getCurrentTimeInUTCFormatToString];

            [app performSelectorInBackground:@selector(setHUDSubtitle:) withObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:app.viewController.fPercentageSync]];
            [app.viewController.tblviwSyncProgress performSelectorInBackground:@selector(reloadData) withObject:nil];

            responseData=nil;
            strResponse=nil;
            strZipEncoded=nil;
        }

        iBatchCounter++;
}
btnSync.selected=NO;
[Flurry logEvent:@"Sync completed"];
[app.viewController.actSyncProgress stopAnimating];
[app removeCustomLoader];
NSDateFormatter *formatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
formatter.dateFormat=@"dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss a";
NSString *strSyncCompletionDate=[formatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
[app.objDataAccess insertIntoDatabaseUserName:app.LoginUsrnm syncCompletionTime:strSyncCompletionDate dataSize:app.viewController.fDataSize serverName:app.loginView.tempServerName databaseName:app.loginView.tempDBName];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:NO];
}

The call to above function is given as bellow:
[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(syncPressed:) toTarget:self withObject:nil];

Any pointers where am I going wrong will be most appreciated!
EDIT: After using instruments to see allocations, I noted that they are pointing towards te line shown in bellow screenshot:
 NSData *responseData =  [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req returningResponse:&urlResponse error:&error];

I have also enclosed my code in @autoreleasepool
Please help as I am still not getting how can I avoid this.

A: When you set these pointers to nil, the object is still in memory:
responseData=nil;
strResponse=nil;
strZipEncoded=nil;

Try this instead and look for other places where memory is not released:
  [responseData release];
  [strResponse release];
  [strZipEncoded release];

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Асьер Ильярраменди Андонеги (; род. 8 марта 1990 года в Мотрико) — испанский (баскский) футболист, полузащитник клуба «Реал Сосьедад».

Клубная карьера
Асьер — воспитанник «Реал Сосьедада». С 2008 по 2011 год он выступал за «Реал Сосьедад Б», а за первую команду дебютировал в конце сезона 2009/10. Его дебют состоялся 19 июня 2010 года в матче против «Эльче». 23 января 2011 года Асьер дебютировал в Примере в матче против «Вильярреала». Сезон 2010/11 он провёл, в основном выступая за клубный дубль. С сезона 2011/12 Асьер регулярно выступал за первую команду «Реал Сосьедада».

12 июля 2013 года подписал контракт сроком на 6 лет с футбольным клубом «Реал Мадрид». Сумма трансфера игрока составила 38,9 млн евро. 30 млн евро были прописаны в контракте игрока в качестве отступных и чуть больше 8 млн евро составил НДС, который также заплатит «Реал».

22 февраля 2014 года впервые отличился забитым мячом в испанской Ла Лиге за мадридский «Реал» в матче с «Эльче» (3:0).

26 августа 2015 Асьер перешёл из мадридского клуба в «Реал Сосьедад», сумма трансфера составила 15 млн евро.

3 апреля 2021 будучи капитаном в команде Реал Сосьедад, завоевал Кубок Испании 2019/2020. Матч был перенес почти на год из-за пандемии.

Карьера в сборной
Асьер выступал за различные юношеские и молодёжные сборные Испании. В составе юношеской сборной Испании до 17 лет он выигрывал серебряные медали чемпионата мира до 17 лет. В составе испанской «молодёжки» он выиграл молодёжный чемпионат Европы 2013.

Достижения
 Реал Мадрид
 Обладатель Кубка Испании: 2013/14
 Победитель Лиги чемпионов: 2013/14
 Обладатель Суперкубка УЕФА: 2014

Реал Сосьедад
Обладатель Кубка Испании: 2019/20
Итого: 5 трофея

Примечания

Ссылки
 Профиль на сайте Sports.ru

 Профиль на futbolme.com

Футболисты Испании
Игроки сборной Испании по футболу (до 21 года)
Игроки олимпийской сборной Испании по футболу
Игроки сборной Испании по футболу
Чемпионы Европы по футболу среди молодёжи
Игроки ФК «Реал Сосьедад B»
Игроки ФК «Реал Сосьедад»
Игроки ФК «Реал Мадрид»

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I am Tall - Giraffe Themed Nursery. We wanted to create a cheerful, happy environment. My husband added trim around the room and painted the top portion and ceiling baby blue. The bottom portion was painted beige. Accents and accessories focus on giraffes and the alphabet.
I have always loved giraffes and since Devin is tall like his parents the giraffe theme was born. The alphabet and books were added to strengthen the nursery theme and foster a love for reading. Project nursery was a great resource for ideas.
A relaxed traditional style with some contemporary elements.
I love everything in the room! The glider is the most comfortable one I tested. The crib converts to a full size bed so it is beautiful and functional.
Create a design board or save images electronically as you search the Internet for inspiration and products. Great planning in the beginning of the project will save you money and result in a better end product.
I am in love with that photograph of a giraffe family! Giraffes are indeed very beautiful and graceful creatures.
The nursery is beautiful! You can see how much Devin is loved by the little details in his room!
What is the tan color brand and name on the lower part of the wall- the part with his name/decals? Thanks.
We used Sherwin Williams – Kilim Beige SW 6106.
I was wondering if you remember the color of the blue and the colors you used on the letters?
I am wondering how far down from the ceiling you placed the border/trim for the alphabet. Did this trim fall in line with the trim of the window, door, and/or closet? Also, did the alphabet go around the whole room or only 3 walls…I guess a better question may be how far apart did you place the letters? Thanks.
I am an IT professional and first time mother to the sweetest little boy. My husband and I enjoyed this nursery project and love spending time with our son in his new room. It is hard to believe it was once a boring guest room.


In2O3:Sn (ITO) nanoparticles: SEM/TEM images (above left), dispersion in ethanol (above right), cross-section of ink-jet printed ITO nanoparticle layer on polymere substrate (below) .
Dynamic light scattering, dispersion and electron microscopy of ZnO:Al (AZO) nanoparticles (above) and ZnO:In (IZO) nanoparticles (below) .
Transparent Conductive Oxides (TCOs) are of major technical importance, for instance, in flat displays, thin-film solar cells, organic light emitting diodes, and energy saving windows. State-of-the-art TCO is indium tin oxide (In2O3:Sn, ITO), which is commonly manufactured by thin-film deposition (e.g., magnetron sputtering, chemical vapor deposition) and structured by lithographic etching. Today's challenge of low-cost printable electronics and solar cells on flexible and heat-sensitive substrates (e.g. plastics, paper), however, requires the availability of alternative TCO materials (e.g., doped ZnO or SnO2), high-quality TCO colloids, and advanced electrode structures. Subproject F1.3: "Nanoscale Transparent Conductive Oxides" addresses the synthesis known TCO's as high-quality nanomaterials as well as the exploration for new materials/compositions .
High-quality nanoscaled TCOs (e.g. In2O3:Sn, ZnO:Al, ZnO:In) with uniform particle size, high crystallinity and excellent resistivity (i.e. 3×10-2 Ωcm) are prepared by liquid-based methods, including the synthesis in ionic liquids as well as in high-boiling alcohols (polyol method) [2,3]. Highly conductive layers are realized without the necessity of a thermal post-treatment. Alternative low-cost, less harmful TCO materials will also be explored.
Based on our preliminary studies, highly conductive TCO colloids will be prepared and modified on demand for application in thin-film solar cells. To this concern, this subproject will first aim at delivering tailored TCO nanomaterials to the partners (with F1.5). Moreover, we aim at novel TCO materials to be used in thin-films in organic solar cells (with F1.5), CIGS-based solar cells (with F1.6) and as printable conductive layers (with F1.8). To guarantee for highly conductive TCO nanomaterials, knowledge on the position of the dopant inside of the host lattice, the optimal concentration of the dopant, the interaction of all kinds of lattice defects, specific surface conditioning as well as the presence of interphases and interfaces is prerequisite [2-5].
H. Goesmann, C. Feldmann, Nanoparticulate Functional Materials, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1362 (Review).
G. Bühler, D. Thölmann, C. Feldmann, One-pot Synthesis of Highly Conductive ITO Nanocrystals, Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 2224.
E. Hammarberg, Anna Prodi-Schwab, C. Feldmann, Microwave-assisted Polyol Synthesis of Aluminium- and Indium-doped ZnO Nanocrystals, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2009, 334, 29.
A. Puetz, T. Stubhan, M. Reinhard, O. Loesch, E. Hammarberg, S. Wolf, C. Feldmann, H. Kalt, A. Colsmann, U. Lemmer, Organic Solar Cells incorporating Buffer Layers from Indium-doped Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles, Solar Energy Mater. Solar Cells 2011, 95, 579.


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Xiqu Centre Guided Tours (Cantonese)
West Kowloon Cultural District
Did you know that Cantonese opera performers always greet each other with "Good morning" no matter what time of day they meet? Or that in traditional tea houses balcony seats cost more than those closer to the stage? To find out why, join our Xiqu Centre Guided Tour and learn about our venue and the rich history of the art of Chinese opera. The 60-minute tours, conducted in Cantonese, English or Mandarin, help you explore the Xiqu Centre facilities, learn about the architectural and design features, and discover fascinating facts about the culture and stories behind the traditional art form. Tours are supplemented with multimedia elements and are perfect for newcomers. Group tours are arranged weekly for schools and registered charitable or non-profit organisations upon request.
Please note, the backstage area is an active working zone and not part of the guided tour. The route of each tour may vary. As technical and production schedules may be subject to change, for safety reasons, access to the Grand Theatre and Tea House Theatre is not guaranteed for each tour. Advance notice on such access will not be provided.
The event schedule may be subject to change. The presenter reserves the right to change the programme.
Meeting Point: Xiqu Centre information desk
Fridays:
11:00am–12:00nn (except 13 January)
2:30pm–3:30pm (except 23 December)
11:00am–12:00nn
5:00pm–6:00pm (except 24 December, 14 and 28 January)
Registration Opening Date:
23 December 2022 12:00 noon (sessions on 7–14 January)
6 January 2023 12:00 noon (sessions on 27–29 January)
The Image Credit: West Kowloon Cultural District
28–29 January, See the website for the opening hours.
https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/guidedtours-cantonese#overview
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Not That Bad: Review and reflection
January 28, 2019 by Swarna Rajagopalan Leave a comment
The week after I watched Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony on television, I purchased an anthology of essays edited by Roxane Gay, Not That Bad (Harper 2018). The subtitle of this book is 'Dispatches from Rape Culture,' and I thought I would find more ideas, insights and words that I could then bring to the everyday work I get to do with Prajnya on gender-based violence.
It has taken me more than two months to make my way through this powerful book. In small part, this is a function of my life, but largely, it is because the essays are so powerful, so disturbing, so heart-breaking that you really cannot binge-read. They are also inspiring in their courage and exactly as I hoped, have left me with insights and words that I think will find their way to things I say and do in training sessions and workshops.
The essays–and I am using this word to describe what are mostly first-person testimonies, because they are written in the spectrum of styles that 'essay' covers–are almost all by survivors, of all genders, and include a couple of essays where the writers reflect on whether or not they gave consent. Through almost all the essays, the deeply internalised stigma attached to the experience of violence is expressed and sometimes rejected.
I am going to share some excerpts here, for several reasons. First, I don't think I can summarise. Second, I want you to experience the power of the words, and maybe go read this book. Third, there are people out there who cannot afford this book and will not have a library from where they can borrow it. This is not meant to undermine copyright or sales, and I do hope lots of people will read this. Women should read this because it will resonate so strongly, as most of us live with the experience and all of us with the fear of sexual violence. Men should read it to know what that really means in our heads and in our days. And yes, the book is full of potential triggers, so if you think you will be sensitive to them, tread cautiously (these excerpts are for you too).
The idea that what happens to us, is not so bad, is so deeply ingrained that it stops survivors from seeking help. If you survived, that's already not so bad, is it?
"At least you weren't killed. At least you have access to medical care. At least you have insurance. At least you have wonderful friends. Because the ones who tell me this are my friends and my teachers and the social worker and the doctor, I hold their words and outstretched hands even though my anger is mounting and I want not to be touched.
These days, I speak few words, and I certainly don't have the vocabulary to dismantle what's been forced on me by people called safe. I don't have the breath to say: No, I will not be grateful for my rights. I will stand with two feet on this earth and I will always say thank you when somoene does something kind and sorrt when I've done something wrong and never outside of that. And, yes, I am furious that I am pulled between poles of gratitude and apology–both of which are violent erasures.
Thank goodness I wasn't killed.
I'm sorry I'm so inarticulate.
I can't name it then, but I feel the words at least eroding my voice. I sense that "at least" marks an end to the story I'm supposed to tell, that I'm supposed to say something gracious in response–"thank goodness"–or else nothing more at all. "At least" curbs my telling too much truth. It's a blunt instrument wielded to club a reckless retelling into submission. The story ends here. But the truth is, I have no story–nothing I can corral into a coherent narrative." (Claire Schwartz, pages 35-36)
I found this extremely powerful: "pulled between poles of gratitude and apology–both of which are violent erasures." The week I bought this book and even when I picked it up to read in December 2018, in India we were witnessing a cascade of #MeToo revelations, that began with women in media and then spread to some other fields. Most of the women encountered the stock responses: Why now? Why not earlier? Why did you continue to work with this person? Many of the experience reported were not rape as traditionally defined (vaginal penetration without consent), so really, they should have been grateful, people seemed to be saying. Gratitude for that, and apology for upsetting the apple-cart.
Ally Sheedy in her essay mentions Hollywood's #MeToo moment in 2017. She writes:
"This isn't about naming names. I don't have enough for a lawsuit, but I do have enough for a broken heart/ spirit. Nothing will change in Hollywood. Some men will get careful. Some men will pretend they never behaved like predators and wait this out. What's so disheartening is knowing Harvey Weinstein's sick actions will be addressed (finally) and yet the entire culture and context for his sick shit will remain in place." (pages 112-113)
Just four months after India's season of revelations, hardly anyone has been punished, and some are already being gently rehabilitated into public life. The defamation cases filed against the women who made the charges–those remain.
How commonplace sexual violence is, is something women at least know intuitively. This exchange in Stacey May Fowles' essay underlines that, but also makes me wish we could so sensitize doctors, counsellors and nurses in India so that they would respond to survivors with sensitivity.
"When I finally managed to splutter out "something bad happened to me," she just knew.
Without saying a word, she slipped a small square of yellow paper across the desk toward me. It was printed with information about the rape-counseling clinic.
I was struck by the ease with which she provided me with the contact, as if she'd done it hundreds of times before." (page 279-280)
A counselor says to Fowles, "Every one believes there is suffering worse than her own, that they should be strong enough to cope without me." It's not that bad, why seek help? And if it were that bad, how come you are alive to seek help? How many Indian, Southasian girls can go to a doctor or a hospital and get help, leave alone expect sensitivity? We have tried in a small way to change this, but there is such a long way to go.
So Mayer writes about words, enjoyed and deployed as weapons of control (page 136). She titles her chapter Floccinaucinihilipilification and quotes the Oxford English Dictionary definition: "The action or habit of estimating something as worthless." Gaslighting, sealioning, lollipopping, Cordelia-ing and mansplaining–she gathers all these words into this suitably long one (page 137).
So Mayer's essay compares rape to colonialism, calls them "kin" (page 140). She writes:
"…I learned the blazing insight that rape was not an act between an individual and an individual, hidden in a dark room… Rape was and is a cultural and political act: it attempts to remove a person with agency, autonomy, and belonging from their community, to secrete them and separate them, to depoliticize their body by rendering it detachable, violable, nothing. (page 140)
…When we talk about sexual violnce as feminists, we are–we have to be–talking about its use to subjugate entire peoples and cultures, the annihilation that is its empty heart. Rape is that bad because it is an ideological weapon. Rape is that bad because it is a structure: not an excess, not monstrous, but the logical conclusion of heteropatriarchal capitalism. It is what that ugly polysyllabic euphemism for state power does." (pages 140-141)
Michelle Chen also writes about the politics of sexual violence in her essay on the violence experienced by women who are displaced or in flight. "The place where sexual violence is most readily weaponized is the one where other social instruments have become unhinged: the interface between two societies. Sexual domination, a familiar pillar of every nation-state's culture, fills the liminal spaces opened by mass displacement." (page 191) As Warsan Shire wrote in her poem, Home: "and one prison guard/ in the night/ is better than a truckload/ of men who look like your father."
In the final essay in the book, Elissa Bassist lists all the reasons why she stayed in a violent relationship and did not think of it as 'violence.' This is one of the most heart-breaking essays in the book. She says, in more powerful words than I could summarise that she stayed because she and her boyfriend were both a product of their milieu, which is misogynistic and violent. She closes the book by saying:
"Because worst-case scenario is murder.
Oh, because it wasn't that bad." (page 339)
We become accustomed to the language of violence, the culture of rape. It is us, as we know ourselves.
"Violence in a family comes down through generations: long before my father (finally) left my mother, her father left her mother, and her father's father left my great-grandmother…
Sometimes by mother tells me stories about her father, or stories about my father. They are not mine to repeat. "I want you to know," she tells me, as if she feels guilty for explaining our history to me. I am amazed at how much violence we can contain–internalize, suppress, hold on to, narrate. How much we can swallow and still survive." (So Mayer, pages 132-133)
Women who speak about the violence they experience, who name their assailants or harassers and who express anger are accused of making trouble. Speaking about their experience of violence, several of the survivors writing in this book talk about how this feels.
"Forgive the abuser. The only solution for female anger is for her to stop being angry.
And yet, when Jesus flipped tables in the temple, his rage was lauded. King David railing to the heavens to rain fire on his enemies is lauded as a man after God's own heart. An angry man in cinema is Batman. An angry male musician is a member of Metallica. An angry male writer is Chekhov. An angry male politician is passionate, a revolutionary. He is a Donald Trump or a Bernie Sanders. The anger of men is a powerful enough tide to swing an election. But the anger of women? That has no place in government, so it has to flood the streets." (Lyz Lenz, page 164)
Amy Jo Burns writes: "The truth no one told you is that, in order for a good girl to survive, she must make some things disappear." (page 167)
This includes the memory of violence, the name of your harasser, the resultant trauma and every one of those inconsequential details from that consequential moment–what you were wearing, the colour of that vase, the food on the table, the light in the room. As Dr. Ford said, "Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter. The uproarious laughter between the two, and their having fun at my expense." We never forget, but we must. It wasn't that bad, after all.
(Cross-posted from here.)
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Lessons learned on sexual harassment in 2018: Article
December 27, 2018 by Swarna Rajagopalan Leave a comment
"We re-learned it is not only epidemic but endemic. This is so because gender is pervasive. Masculinity sexualizes hierarchy, and much of social life is hierarchically organized. Sexual harassment is a creature of hierarchy—gender combined with inequality based on race, age, class, disability, and sexuality. Anything that places a person in a less powerful or lower status position, an unequal position, heightens the risk of that person being sexually harassed."
Catherine MacKinnon, Ask an activist: What are the most important lessons learned on sexual harassment in this last year of activism? UN Women, Tuesday, December 11, 2018.
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Gender Violence in India: 2018 Report
December 15, 2018 by PSW Team Leave a comment
On Human Rights Day, we launched the 2018 Gender Violence in India Report, compiled this year by 2018 Rajaram Fellow, Jhuma Sen.
2018 was a year of landmark judgments, horrific reports of sexual violence especially targeting children and #MeToo revelations, and this report provides definitions, data, legal FAQ and a review of recent case law.
As the Introduction notes:
2018 has been a remarkable year in many ways. 'Gender violence' has been at the forefront of conversations with #MeToo taking shape in India. In September, several women from the entertainment industry and media publicly accused men in position of power of sexually harassing them; of abusing their positions of power. As testimonies emerged and entered the juridical realm from the social and the political, solidarities too were forged between women cutting across class, caste, gender and other axes of marginality. Significant developments took place in the legislative and the judicial arena as well. Several landmark judgments were delivered by the apex court, leading to decriminalisation of India's colonial law, especially Indian Penal Code Section 377, which criminalised consensual sexual relationships between same sex adults; decriminalisation of yet another colonial relic, Section 497 or India's adultery law, recognising that wives were not chattels, allowing entry of women of menstruating age to Sabarimala temple, to name a few. Patriarchy however did not give in without a fight, and as this report was being prepared, feminist movement also saw a tremendous backlash from men's rights groups and conservative clerics, be it, in opposing women's entry to temple, or to make the domestic violence law a toothless legislation.
Prajnya's Gender Violence in India Report has been taking stock of the state of gender violence in India since 2009. This year, the Gender Violence Report has been prepared by R. Rajaram Gender Violence Research and Information Taskforce (GRIT) fellow Jhuma Sen. The Report is meant to be used as a ready reference for activists, journalists, students, lawyers and anyone with an interest in gender justice. The report in addition includes definitions of the various forms of violence, defined internationally as well as in national laws and policies. The data is primarily collected from the National Crime Records Bureau, but wherever possible, other relevant statistics by other state agencies, NGOs, international as well as domestic have been relied upon. Finally, the report also reviews the last year's significant developments in law, policy as well as important judicial decisions.
We hope you will find this report useful.
Access the report here: http://prajnya.in/storage/app/media/gvr18final.pdf
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#MeToo in Academia: A Panel Discussion Report
October 19, 2018 by PSW Team Leave a comment
Alice Iannantuoni, a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, reports on a panel discussion held on campus on sexual harassment and violence in academia.
#MeToo and Academia, and how to make campuses safer?
In October 2018, a groundbreaking New York Times article detailed sexual harassment allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Shortly thereafter, actress Alyssa Milano re-launched what became known as the #MeToo movement, with a phrase originally used by activist Tarana Burke over a decade prior to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual violence in society: me too. What followed has been a year in which many different societies, industries, and sectors around the world have had to wrestle with the widespread mistreatment, abuse, and sex-based discrimination of the least powerful individuals within their ranks––often, although not always, women.
Yesterday, on October 17, 2018, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign held the first of a series of panel discussions on #MeToo in academia. Colleen Murphy, director of the university's Women and Gender in Global Perspectives program and professor of law, philosophy, and political science, hosted the panel. The four panelists were professors Lesley Wexler and Suja Thomas from the College of Law; Andrea Miller from the Department of Psychology; and Ran Hao from the Institute of Legal Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Why is it important to think of the impact of the #MeToo movement specifically in the context of academia, both in the United States and abroad? Three relevant themes emerged from the very well-attended panel.
1. Power Dynamics on Campus
The power dynamics on a university campus make it an environment that is uniquely prone to breeding discrimination and harassment. Professors and high-level university officials are often in the position to greatly affect their students', junior colleagues', or assistants' lives: they are the ones who decide grades, write letters of recommendations, sit on tenure committees, and so on. Brining forth an allegation against somebody who has the power to jeopardize your school experience or your career is a particularly intimidating proposition, made worse by the close-knit nature of many departments and academic circles.
2. Individual Experiences, Systemic Problems
Even when there is the will to hold an abuser accountable, systemic problems often get in the way. In the United States, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 are in place to protect employees against discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion; and against sex-based discrimination and harassment at educational institutions, respectively. However, professors Lesley Wexler and Suja Thomas highlighted the limitations of these protections: plaintiffs in these cases have to meet extremely high bars in terms of proving the severity and pervasiveness of the abusive conduct; and, in Title IX cases, universities must be shown to have "actual knowledge" of the incidents and to have been "deliberatively dismissive" of them. In addition, professor Thomas pointed out how universities seem to be more afraid of being sued by alleged abusers (and unfoundedly so) than they are concerned with protecting the abused. Similarly, professor Ran Hao offered an eye-opening overview of how the #MeToo movement has been playing out in China––a country in which the movement started and development first and foremost in academia, rather than the entertainment industry. Systemic, legal barriers have also been a issue in the Chinese context: closer to the civil law tradition, Chinese law requires perhaps even more precise definitions of what constitutes sexual misconduct, harassment, assault, and so on, as these cannot rely on precedent as in common law systems.
3. The Vicarious Experiences of Faculty Members
Lastly, professor Andrea Miller called attention to the vicarious experiences of faculty members who hear of their students' experiences with harassment and assault. While there haven't been large-scale studies of this phenomenon yet, anecdotal evidence suggests that women faculty (and specifically, women of color) are often among the first people whom students disclose the incident they have experienced first; they counsel affected students on how to proceed; gather resources for their students; and sometimes follow students throughout the process of reporting and resolving the incident. Data going back decades already supports the notion that women faculty and faculty of color tend to be stuck with more service work than their white male counterparts do; and not getting much recognition for it. In addition to this work being time-consuming, when it comes to dealing with students' experiences with sexual harassment and assault it also becomes emotionally difficult and draining.
In recognizing these challenges, the panelists suggested some possible ways forward with the goal of making university campuses and the academic community safer for all of their members. First, universities should be mindful of their power structures, and think about how to spread power and responsibilities across individuals and units as opposed to concentrating them in the hands of a few. Second, systemic solutions should include creating a culture that does not tolerate lower-level incidents of harassing; moving beyond the current reliance on reporting and toward more training on how to recognize and react to inappropriate behaviors for faculty, students, and university employees; and moving the focus from protecting the reputation of universities and their most powerful members to protecting the most vulnerable students and employees on campus. Lastly, we cannot forget that incidents of sexual misconduct, harassment, and assault do not affect only the direct victims; rather, they take a toll on the victims' loved ones, classmates, colleagues, and professors too, creating additional emotional labor that most often falls on the laps of fellow women and minorities.
Filed under GRIT Clipboard Tagged with #metoo, sexual harassment in academia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives
In Solidarity, October 16, 2018
We, the Prajnya community, express our solidarity with the women who have spoken out across professions to share their experience of sexual harassment in the workplace, acknowledging the courage it takes and the pain that this involves.
We acknowledge too that this is the beginning and that countless others are still silent or unheard; that many workplaces remain unexamined; and moreover, that violence pervades our lives well beyond the workplace. The sexual harassment and sexual violence revelations of the last week have once more illustrated what we have always known—that violence and misogyny are deeply embedded in our society.
There is a role for each of us, wherever we are located, to play in the road ahead.
As human beings, we must bring empathy and compassion to our listening and as citizens, prioritise justice and fairness in our response. One in three women are said to experience violent abuse in their lifetime and only one in four of these women speak about it. To raise questions about the delay in reporting and the timing of these testimonials is to lie to ourselves that the world has always been a sympathetic and supportive place and that our institutions are committed to equality. Let us accept our complicity in silencing survivors, now, as then.
Both the Vishaka Guidelines and the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, identify workplace sexual harassment as a violation of the fundamental right to equality. Non-compliance is thus tantamount to a violation of an employee's fundamental right. We therefore urge organisations that have yet to comply with the 2013 law to put in place zero-tolerance policies, set up Internal Complaints Committees (ICCs) and conduct sensitisation programmes for their entire team, including ICC members.
For its part, the government too has been a laggard in setting up the mechanisms required to support compliance with the law. In most districts, the administration has not set up Local Complaints Committees (LCCs) and in their absence, women working in the informal and unorganised sector, women working in shops and small organisations and self-employed women, including professionals, have nowhere to turn for justice. State governments must ensure that district administrations immediately set up LCCs; ensure their competence through training; and make known to the public how they can be reached.
Further, the enforcement infrastructure required by the law must also be a priority for the government. The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013, requires annual reporting but the government has neither set up nor announced to which office these reports must be sent and who will monitor and penalise non-compliance. We hope this tidal wave of revelations will move all levels of a lackadaisical Indian state to seriously create and provide resources for this infrastructure.
Political parties and their leaders must make a simple commitment that will have a lasting impact on gender inequality in India. They must promise never to nominate or endorse those who make misogynistic statements and those who have been charge-sheeted for sexual and gender-based violence, including street sexual harassment.
The government and political class have so far ignored our collective anguish and anger in the hope that they will pass. They will not. We will stand our ground.
At Prajnya, we reiterate our commitment to facilitate conversations around gender-based violence including workplace sexual harassment and to encourage and support organisations in their journey, beginning with legal compliance but going beyond it towards equal, inclusive and safe workplaces.
The Prajnya Community
Filed under #StopVAWIP, GRIT Diary Tagged with #metoo, Prajnya Solidarity Statement
#16D17: Children depict Human Rights
On the last day of the 2017 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign against Gender Violence, we went to the Roshni Matriculation School in Guduvanchery where in partnership with the school, we had arranged a poster competition for children from schools in the area. 72 children from Class V to Class X participated, and the results were stunning. We selected six posters from two age categories for special recognition but all the posters spoke volumes for the awareness level of the children–and the efforts of teachers and parents!
We had identified eight themes from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all of which related to gender equality (and therefore, ending gender violence).
We present a digital exhibition of the posters herewith.
Theme 1: You are born free and equal in rights to every other human being.
Theme 2: Everyone has human rights no matter what race, skin colour, sex, language, religion, opinions, family background, class or nationality.
Theme 3: Nobody has the right to torture, harm or humiliate you.
Theme 4: You have a right to be protected and treated equally by the law without discrimination of any kind.
Theme 5: Each and every person who is legally old enough has the right to marry and have a family.
Theme 6: Nobody should force you to get married.
Theme 7: You have the right to have a healthy and comfortable life.
Theme 8: Mothers and children should receive special care and help.
Please respect the intellectual property of the children, although they have not signed their work, and do not copy the images.
Filed under GRIT Diary Tagged with 2017 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign against Gender Violence, children, discrimination, equal rights, freedom from torture, gender equality, human rights, maternity and child care, poster art, right against forced marriage, right to a family, right to marry


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Фрасинешты () — село в Унгенском районе Молдавии. Наряду с селом Макарешты входит в состав коммуны Макарешты.

География
Село расположено на высоте 55 метров над уровнем моря.

Население
По данным переписи населения 2004 года, в селе Фрэсинешть проживает 1375 человек (702 мужчины, 673 женщины).

Этнический состав села:

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Населённые пункты Унгенского района


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George Orwell, Anti-Imperialist
Note: George Orwell has long been my favorite writer and has had a profound influence on my writing style and political views. I've been re-reading his amazing essays this summer.
George Orwell's father Richard was a high-ranking official in the Indian Civil Service. Born in Bengal, India, young George Orwell would follow in his father's footsteps into the Indian Civil Service as a police officer in Burma/Myanmar for five years during the 1920s. In this job, Orwell was upholding British imperialism with the barrel of his gun.
It was in Burma, doing the tough, day-to-day dirty work of colonial rule, where Orwell developed both his understanding and deep loathing of British colonialism. Orwell would become emotionally distraught trying to uphold a system he increasingly found impossible to justify.
In "Shooting an Elephant," perhaps the most famous essay Orwell ever wrote about his years in the Burmese colonial police force, he describes how the pressures of colonial rule forced him to do something he neither wanted nor needed to do: shoot a rogue elephant running loose in a Burmese village. Orwell admits, "I did not want to shoot the elephant," but he recognized that the villagers had come to watch the young British police officer "handle the situation" and uphold British prestige on the ground. Orwell's essay meticulous describes the intense pressure he felt from those Burmese eyes looking upon him as the symbol of British rule: he knew he'd need to shoot the elephant simply to show the villagers who was in control – no matter the gratuitous nature of doing so and how much the killing violated his conscience.
"A white man mustn't be frightened in front of 'natives,'" writes Orwell, explaining that he merely did what the villagers and his British colonial bosses expected. At the moment Orwell shoots the elephant, simply as a needless show of force for the observing villagers, he fully realizes the impossibility of sustaining British colonial rule. In 1927, Orwell resigned his police job due to a troubled conscience, returned to England, and turned to a writing career that would make him a legend.
Orwell was pulled in two directions as India sought to become independent of British colonial rule in the 1930s and 40s. On the one hand, he understood the stupidity and corrupting nature of British rule ("Shooting an Elephant" described that perfectly); on the other, he was a patriotic Englishman whose own family had helped maintain the empire for generations. About a year after Indian independence, in 1949, Orwell wrote an essay, "Reflections on [Mahatma] Gandhi" that showed his profound ambiguity about the recently assassinated Gandhi and India in general. We hear Orwell's ambivalence from the start: "The things that one associated with [Gandhi] – home-spun cloth, 'soul forces' and vegetarianism were unappealing and his medievalist program was obviously not viable in a backward, starving, overcrowded country," he writes. The practical-minded Orwell doesn't much like Gandhi's focus on spiritual things, especially when millions of Indians went starving every day.
Orwell also describes the opinions he'd heard among British colonial officials about Gandhi – that he was preferred to other anti-colonial leaders because of his embrace of non-violence. The pacifist Gandhi could be manipulated and controlled, the British initially believed. Yet Orwell also describes being highly impressed by Gandhi's physical courage and personal commitment to his pacifist beliefs. Orwell respects Gandhi's willingness, early in his life, to assimilate European culture from the inside – "he wore a top hat, took dancing lessons, [and] studied French and Latin," he writes of the young Gandhi. Orwell's essay also lauds Gandhi's blending of East and West, the diversity of his intellectual interests: "he was an interesting and unusual man who enriched the world simply by being alive," writes Orwell.
Yet Orwell ultimately believes that Gandhi took his religious beliefs too far, choosing to reject the material world in order to pursue an unrealistic and inhuman goal of spiritual perfection. "The essence of being human," writes Orwell, "is that one does not seek perfection": to be human is to understand that life is about compromise and accepting the weakness of the flesh. As a passionate writer on politics and culture, the activist Orwell vehemently rejects Gandhi's faith in "non-attachment" to the flesh. Orwell also questions the power of non-violence, believing that Gandhi would have received much worse treatment from the Nazis or Soviets if he'd attempted non-violent protest against them.
Orwell himself was no pacifist. He had, for example, believed in the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War, becoming an officer on the front lines in Spain fighting against the fascists, and their leader General Francisco Franco. In the end, Orwell only left the fighting because he'd been shot in the throat and nearly died on the front lines. This was never Gandhi's way.
In the end, Orwell recognizes Gandhi's success in achieving his lifelong goal: ending British colonial rule in India in a peaceful way. Orwell ends up admiring the man for his ability to organize a political movement that galvanized anti-imperialist sentiment in a fractious India. Orwell's "Reflections on Gandhi" probably says more about the ambivalent feelings of George Orwell (especially about pacifism) than about Mahatma Gandhi as a pacifist leader, but both men ultimately shared a profound opposition to colonial oppression, and both lived their lives seeking to undermine it.
An Ode to Community
We all know that community matters, in ways large and small. It helps, for example, to know a neighbor who has skills as an electrician, because when something electrical goes wrong in the kitchen, we can knock on the neighbor's door and ask for help. When we do, he comes over and fixes it. This has happened to me more times than I can count. In return, I've helped my handy neighbor with papers he's written for his classes at the local college. When he needs my help, he comes over and knocks on the door, and we sit together on the front porch editing and reworking the paper. Is he taking advantage of me? Am I taking advantage of him? No. This is community.
My neighbor is my friend, and I'm his friend. Community isn't transactional: it's a feeling, a sense of belonging and groundedness that's based on trust, caring, empathy, and, when push comes to shove, being there for others.
Building community helps build my writing business too, not because I help other writers in order to gain something from them, such as client referrals, but because I genuinely care for their well-being. I tell them so, but I do far more than just tell them so. I show up. I pick up the phone and call them. I celebrate their success, and help pull them out of challenging situations with their editors and clients. I spend time each week with other writers over coffee or lunch or a beer, listening to how they're doing and sharing my own struggles professionally and personally. Again, community is about people deciding to be there for each other.
Building community is simple. We do so by creating safe spaces, what psychologists call "emotional safety," for others to be wholly themselves, to express their feelings, ideas, and identities, to share their struggles and mistakes. When everyone is calling each other "a rock star," or "a superstar," I know I'm not observing real community. In real communities, folks can safely express their struggles, their fears, and their inadequacies, alongside their dreams of stardom. One of the ways I build real community is by talking about my own failures, my experiences with mental illness, my constant efforts to grow and restore and grow again. If I'm not sharing these struggles, I'm not being real with myself or with others.
And by being real, I model psychological safety, opening the door for others to enter as themselves in all their glorious and beautiful complexity. By the way, I find engaging in community to be joyous and funny and enlarging. In real community, there's laughter, there's crying (sometimes with laughter, sometimes in catharsis from suffering), there's silliness, and an appreciation of differences (of opinion, of identity, of being).
You don't build community by impressing people with your financial success and overall sense of contentment with the world. Sometimes the most meaningful thing you can do is sit silently with another who is suffering, offering your presence as a way of saying "you are not this mistake, this failure, this present anxiety, and you are not alone." Sometimes we don't need "easy advice" (you'll get over it, move on, forget it, nobody cares, it's not your fault, screw the bastards), but what we need most is each other, the simple act of community, which can also be a profound act of love.
I've suffered from social anxiety most of my life, and have been hospitalized because of it, so I find it supremely ironic that the most effective restorative practice in my life is engaging in community, reaching out to others with a sense of trust and caring. Of course, I meditate, exercise, listen to music, write, and have multiple other daily restorative practices. But is it is by engaging in community that I've found the most joy and growth and calm. I've found that I'm not alone in my suffering, and that my suffering can serve others, offering them space to express their own struggles. I never expected this, and am still trying to embrace the joy and possibility community has offered me.
Community is therapeutic -- I have found that it stops my wandering mind, a mind that can be filled with self-loathing and harmful thoughts aimed at my own being. I have also discovered an unexpected skill at initiating with others and building communities of trust and caring around me. It is only in the last five years or so, due to the stellar examples of other community-builders I've had the pleasure of observing, that I've viewed myself as someone with the capacity to build community.
I don't view community as just a place or a feeling, but as a restorative and therapeutic practice too. And it's a practice we can strengthen every day by seeing people in all their complicated humanity (including ourselves, by the way), connecting our struggles and joys with theirs, and communicating about the joy and suffering that makes us all messily, joyously human. By doing so, we become more human and we build communities that support us in being more fully human.
Chuck Talks Writing: A Podcast
I'm taking a summer break this week, and hope all of you will enjoy the July 4th Holiday week. It's steamy hot here in the Boston area, so I hope you're hydrating and staying cool. While I'm not writing much this week, I am talking (and reading). I was recently a guest on the "Blog You Want" podcast where I talked with host Scott Winterroth about how I approach the writing process, whether I work for brands/clients or when writing for this blog. It's an in-depth, 25-minute discussion about the craft of writing and I hope you'll take a listen!
https://blogyouwant.com/23-chuck-leddy-of-chuckleddy-com/


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The fundamental constitutional protections of due process and equal protection embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights apply to every person, regardless of immigration status.
When the government has the power to deny legal rights and due process to one vulnerable group, everyone's rights are at risk. The ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against them.
Using targeted impact litigation, advocacy, and public outreach, the ACLU protects the rights and liberties of immigrants. For more than 25 years, the ACLU has been at the forefront of almost every major legal struggle on behalf of immigrants' rights, focusing on challenging laws that deny immigrants access to the courts, impose indefinite and mandatory detention, and discriminate on the basis of nationality. In addition, we have challenged constitutional abuses that arise from immigration enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels, including anti-immigrant "show me your papers" laws at the state level and unconstitutional enforcement tactics by the federal government and local agencies.
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Immigrants' Rights and Detention
Our immigration detention system locks up hundreds of thousands of immigrants unnecessarily every year, exposing detainees to brutal and inhumane conditions of confinement at massive costs to American taxpayers. Recently, mothers and children, who are mainly asylum seekers fleeing violence in Central America, have been detained in family detention centers.
ICE and Border Patrol Abuses
In recent years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained and deported record numbers of people from the United States. Many of ICE's removal tactics take away even the right to a fair hearing in court, as the government rushes to judgment and tries to ram people through a rubber-stamp system that ignores individual circumstances. These enforcement programs pose a variety of threats to civil liberties: They implicate the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, the constitutional guarantee of due process, and the constitutional guarantee of equal protection and freedom from discrimination based on race, ethnicity, and national origin.
Road to Citizenship
The ACLU believes that all immigration reform must create a welcoming roadmap to citizenship for aspiring Americans living in and contributing to the United States. Fundamental fairness as guaranteed by the Constitution requires that these individuals be brought within the legal embrace of U.S. citizenship. The United States must protect the rights of workers vulnerable to abuse, including temporary workers (or guest workers) and unauthorized workers; end state and local intrusions into immigration policy and enforcement; and ban racial profiling at all levels of government.
Deportation and Due Process
The immigration system contains an unnecessary and unconstitutional lack of rights that is unheard of in the criminal justice system. No one should be in immigration detention without a constitutionally adequate bond hearing in which the government bears the burden of showing that detention is necessary—to protect against danger to the community or flight risk—and that no alternative release conditions would suffice.
State and Local Immigration Laws
The ACLU and its partners have prevailed at getting discriminatory laws in states, cities, and towns across the country overturned and will keep fighting to ensure that such laws stay off the books. These laws, inspired by Arizona's SB 1070, invite rampant racial profiling against Latinos, Asian-Americans, and others presumed to be "foreign" based on how they look or sound. These laws also authorize police to demand papers proving citizenship or immigration status from anyone they stop and suspect of being in the country unlawfully.
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Q: Keep quotes when creating data frame in R I have a data frame df containing many columns. From these, I extract two (col1 and col2) and use df2 = data.frame(df$col1, df$col2) for this.
It works: a new dataframe made of those two columns is created. But df$col1 was made of strings as:
"test1"
"test2"

df2$col1 is made instead of values (not sure how to call them) as:
test1
test2

Intersection between these df$col1 and df2$col1 yields zero. How do I keep the column as a string in the new data frame?
I tried adding stringsAsFactors = FALSE but nothing changed.

A: Your first data.frame has col1 set as character. When you create a second data.frame, this character column is coerced to factor. Here's a possible short proof.
> df1 <- data.frame(col1 = c("a", "b", "c"), col2 = 1:3)
> df1$col1
[1] a b c
Levels: a b c
> df1$col1 <- as.character(df1$col1)
> df1$col1
[1] "a" "b" "c" # this is what you have
>
> df2 <- data.frame(col1 = df1$col1)
> df2$col1
[1] a b c # coerced to factor
Levels: a b c

A: 'df' is your data frame and you do not want to change the original data type. i.e., you should retain your string data type.
So basically you should subset those columns from the original data frame instead of creating a new data frame using 'data.frame'.
> df2<-df[,c("col1","col2")]

You can check the data type of each column in data frame by
> str(df2)


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Innovation in Monaghan
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Ballybay
Located centrally in the county, serves as a market town for a large rural hinterland.
The main sectors of employment in the town are food processing & engineering/manufacturing. The town is set on the edge of Lough Major which forms part of the Dromore River system and provides an important recreational and tourism resource in the area.
Ballybay is located less than 20 km from all the main towns in the county and is linked by the county's regional road network. The town is accessible to Dublin in just over an hour and a half, with the nearest port less than an hour away.
Journey times to airports / ports (mins)
Dublin Airport Belfast Int. Airport Dundalk Port Drogheda Port Dublin Port Warrenpoint Port
Ballybay to 92 103 53 70 100 80
Approximately 25 hectares of land have been zoned for industrial, enterprise and employment development in Ballybay. The majority of this land is located to the north west of the town
Located just 30 minutes drive from the M1, Ballybay Enterprise Park is ideally suited for a wide range of businesses seeking modern premises. The park consists of 7 units – six at 500sq ft and one at 1,000sq ft. Start-ups and small to medium sized enterprises seeking industrial and/or office space will be especially interested in these affordable and modern units. Given the county's highly successful and well-established agri-food sector, Ballybay Enterprise Park will be of particular interest to food production businesses. The park includes a dedicated food production unit finished to the highest standards and available for a range of flexible lease terms.
Link to Ballybay Town Development Plan Zoning Map
The county has a variety of broadband options including Eircom's NGN to wireless solutions offered by a number of operators. Rural areas in the county are covered by a number of mobile/wireless/satellite providers and will receive fibre service under the Rural Broadband Scheme. The Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) has been provided in the town and can be viewed at www.enet.ie/coverage.html
Water/Wastewater services
Ballybay has ample provision for water supply and treatment. The current demand for drinking water for the Lough Egish / Castleblayney / Ballybay area is 4,200 m³/day with a treatment capacity of 8,000 m³/day.
The town's wastewater treatment plant has a plant design of 7,283 population equivalent (P.E.) and is currently catering for 3,135 P.E.
Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) the third level institution for the region is located less than one hour's drive from Monaghan. The town is also accessible to a range of other third level institutions, both north and south of the border.
Ballybay Town and Environs has a population of 1,500
The Wetlands Centre offers conferencing and meeting facilities. A range of support services are provided within the town including financial, legal and IT.
The town along with its surrounding Dromore river system presents a range of activities. The Wetlands Centre provides for the study and appreciation of unique wildlife experience with its regionally important site for wintering migratory birdlife and offers eco-tourism and schools packages. The Dromore lakes/river system provides a great location for fishing. Other local activities include peaceful walkways, bowling green and a range of sporting activities
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