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Amid criticism, News Corp. backs Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's media empire is at the center of a phone-hacking scandal.
News Corp.'s board of directors is giving its "full confidence in Rupert Murdoch's fitness" and backing his leadership of the company into the future amid a probe of phone hacking and bribery by the company's U.K. newspapers.
Wednesday's declaration—from a board that governance experts have said lacks independence—comes a day after a British parliamentary committee said Mr. Murdoch was "not a fit person" to head a major international company.
The 81-year-old Mr. Murdoch built News Corp. from a single Australian newspaper and controls the media conglomerate through a family trust.
He has come under fire by British lawmakers after two appearances before them since the scandal broke last summer.
Also Wednesday, British Sky Broadcasting PLC defended itself as a "fit and proper" company.
Tuesday's criticism of Mr. Murdoch is likely to ratchet up the pressure on Britain's media regulator, which is reviewing "whether BSkyB is and remains fit and proper to continue to hold its broadcast licenses." OFCOM said Tuesday it would consider the committee's report as part of its deliberations.
BSkyB said Wednesday it is "engaging with OFCOM in this process and continues to believe that it remains a fit and proper license holder, as demonstrated by its positive contribution to U.K. audiences, employment and the broader economy, as well as its strong record of regulatory compliance and high standards of governance."
"It's important to remember that Sky and News Corp. are separate companies, " BSkyB CEO Jeremy Darroch told reporters after the company reported a 19% increase in nine-month profits.
"We believe that Sky's track record as a broadcaster is the most important factor in determining our fitness to hold a license. And the evidence shows that Sky serves U.K. audiences and customers well," Mr. Darroch said.
News Corp. and its U.K. newspaper unit, News International, are embroiled in a major criminal investigation of phone hacking and allegations of computer hacking and bribery.
News Corp. controls BSkyB with a 39% shareholding.
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The moment the phrase mobile wallet falls on our ears, we most likely think of a payment solution. And it's alright too, as so many people are using mobile wallets to complete the payment process. But apart from being a payment tool, mobile wallets can also be used as valuable frameworks in which loyalty programs can be embedded, and strategic marketing tools to help increase sellers' bottom lines. These two purposes constitute the non-payment aspect of mobile wallets.
The reason why all marketers need to pay a close attention to non-payment is, despite eMarketer forecasting a huge growth in mobile payments in 2016, it is worth noting that the total value of those payments is still just 0.58% of the $4.65 trillion expected to be spent. Part of the reason behind this tiny share is that concerns about fraud also plague shoppers' minds. However, the much larger obstacle is pure culture. Most consumers are just extremely accustomed to their current payment methods, and mobile wallet use needs to become clearly beneficial to them before they make a change.
A more direct benefit in exchange for mobile wallet use is savings. There's hardly any doubt about customers' affection for loyalty programs. They absolutely love them. But they don't love carrying around a wad of plastic cards in their wallets. Thus, it's not surprising to see that with loyalty cards stored on their phones, 69% of consumers indicated that they'd be more likely to use them. Also, if loyalty rewards/points are automatically updated and immediately visible on mobile wallet loyalty cards, 73% of consumers would be more likely to join the loyalty program in the first place. We've pointed out how attractive it'd be for Walmart to join their loyalty program with their Walmart Pay app, but it's true for many other retailers too.
In short, the non-payment aspects of a mobile wallet can eliminate physical loyalty cards and coupons by enabling customers to store and retrieve loyalty cards, and even have them appear automatically based on location. It will not just boost the customer participation and engagement in the loyalty programs, but also the use of apps like Android Pay, Apple Pay, and Samsung Pay as well.
There is no business solution which falls in the category of one-size-fits-all. Non-payment mode is no exception. You need to understand multiple aspects to make sure that it yields positive results for you.
According to a new Urban Airship report, 67% of millennials have used mobile wallets in the last three months, compared to 51% of surveyed people who are 35 to 54 years old. 63% of respondents with household incomes greater than $60,000 have used mobile wallets in the same period, compared to 39% with household incomes below $60,000.
The aforementioned trend isn't difficult to decipher. Young people are naturally programmed to adapt easily and swiftly. And higher income group is more prone to buy smartphones which are equipped with all the fundamentals which are required for non-payment functioning. So, while designing a loyalty program for mobile users, these numbers can act as an important insight.
As a loyalty marketer, you have to understand that the success of non-payment mode relies heavily on the ecosystem in which your customers will never forget a coupon, miss out on rewards, or fumble at the register. For your customers, it can be a persuasive and powerful reason to go all-in with mobile payments. There are enough examples where mobile loyalty initiatives have tanked because they don't notify users about the expiry of the digital coupons, due to which discounts go unclaimed. After all, 67% of U.S. respondents and 58% of U.K. respondents are likely to visit a store if they receive coupon expiration reminders when they're within proximity of the store's location. Naturally, it will enhance your in-store traffic.
Mobile wallets can be a medium to develop a rapport with customers and earn their loyalty. You can devise messages for individual loyalty members when they reach new status levels or for special events like double/triple points days or birthday offers, or provide links on the back of the pass to exclusive content.
The above-mentioned tricks work because mobile messaging can be highly targeted. The above-and-beyond rewards strategy is a sure shot to be received by customers with open hearts. The reports show that 46% saying they expect these types of benefits.
Starbucks, the coffee giant, is a great example in this context. Though their mobile app allows people to pay, it also offers much more. My Starbucks Rewards is a well-devised methodology to track customer buying behavior. It also allows customers to modify their products according to demand, and gives customers the ability to monitor their progress in real time on the Starbucks app.
Starbucks' mobile wallet and loyalty app reflects customers' personal preferences and spending.
Starbucks is also always trying to save their customers' time. The app comes with an option where customers can pay for drinks beforehand and schedule pick-ups in store. In short, they are not using loyalty programs just to retain customers; they are using them to serve people better as well.
The thoughtful marriage of loyalty programs and mobile wallets is a definite win-win scenario for marketers like you. It's vital to think beyond the mobile wallet being only a payment tool. It can be much more than that…today, people want their loyalty cards, reward details and expiry notifications at their fingertips. And that's where non-payment mode can act as a catalyst!
Mobile wallet functionality goes far beyond mere payments. Here's how marketers can use the trend to bolster loyalty.


YES, I am really excited. This blog has been kicking around in my mind for a very long time and it's finally here.
I feel that we are bombarded with "Bad News" all the time. Mainly from our media outlets. If you turn on the evening news, not only do you hear about bombs, war, strife, violence, apocalyptic weather occurrences and patterns, etc. Chances are you will see a house fire being reported on each night during your local late night or early morning broadcast. Although it is tragic and noteworthy, I'm not sure a house fire is what I consider news. And what "they" are calling news to me is 80% bad news or negative news. It is not uplifting, it is not positive. More times than not, it is reinforcing fear or introducing a new 'fear' into our collective consciousness as well as our individual minds and cellular structure. The Isis/Isil issue or the Ebola 'threat' are both recent examples.
the world as "GOOD NEWS" or "GREAT NEWS."
Every day I see and hear things that uplift me, that give me hope for the future and that indicate that we are moving in a more loving, supportive, creative and positive direction. I do believe and I see proof each day that our planet is raising its vibration, even amongst all the 'bad' news we see and hear. I personally would love to see an hour of "NEWS" that reports all the amazing things happening all over the planet where people are helping other people rebuild a village or a home, people saving animals from harm, people supporting each other and working together as a team in the workplace to create amazing new products, services and technology, people reporting on all the good things happening in their home and family life and their communities. In fact, I do believe one day we will have an entire Network dedicated to stories and news like this, 24/7. Kind of like the Oprah Network. Actually PBS comes really close to this idea of positive, uplifting and educational programming.
positive, uplifting, inspiring, creative news and programming.
What do you think that would look and feel like? Try imagining that each day. Visualize right now all the good that you know is happening all around the globe. This needs to be our true reality, because it is REAL, it is Possible and it is completely achievable.
I do believe that this is truly an AMAZING Planet that we have the privilege to live on and to experience. There are fascinating creatures, glorious beauty in nature, incredible food, incredibly creative, intelligent, Loving and caring people, spectacular places to explore and so much more.
So stay tuned for regular doses of "good news." And please feel free to post your own 'good news' in the comment section. This is truly an amazing World we live in, we just have to remind ourselves and each other of that.
I'm a Idealistic Girl with lots of Polly Anna views and I'm thrilled to share those with you here.


Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau State and wife, voted in PU 003 Taikung kurugou ward 007, Ajikamai, in Shendam Local Government Areas of Plateau State, by ,11.15am.
According to our reporter, Governor Lalong, while in audience with Newsmen, reiterated his promise to consolidate on his achievements.
The Governor said that, with with campaigns and election over, he would continue to concentrate on good governance.
He however, was happy with the turnout and conduct of the people.
"I will win the election and the slogan of the administration would simply be, Moving to the Next Level". Governor Lalong, emphasized.
On his part, Hon. Letep Dabang, the chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Plateau state, believes the party is confident of victory in the gubernatorial election in the state.
Hon. Dabang, who spoke to Journalists at his polling unit in LGEA Primary school, Zong in Pankshin LGA, said he believes the APC will win the election.
The APC chairman, who affirmed that the party had spent money for campaigning, but rather acknowledged that the party's confidence stems from what Governor Lalong has so far achieved.
"Yes we have spent money campaigning, but we are confident because of the performance of the Governor and the President", Letep said.
Should Lalong win the election, the APC chairman believes he would do more in the area of security, fiscal development, peace building and youth empowerment in the state.
However, a former Deputy Governor and a onetime Minister of the Federation from the state, Dame Paulen Tallen, who voted in in Shendem LGA, complained of poor turnout of voters, while comparing the turnout to what was obtained during the presidential election.
She said she had to go out to encourage people to come out, which she was happy they did.
On the advice to the candidates, she prayed that the loser of the election accepts God's will and embrace the winner at the end of the day.


September 17, 2014 - Lucie Slater braids her nephews hair while watching her two-year-old daughter along with her sister's children in her unit at Foote Homes. Slater dropped out of a culinary arts program in order to take care of the children. But she wants out of Foote Homes and sees a culinary degree as her ticket. �I pray every day that I won�t let my baby grow up here (Foote Homes). She�s already getting older and sees a lot. I want to move away before she understands everything that�s going on over here,� Slater said. �Me and my baby had just finished saying our prayers that night and a bullet came through the window. It was a shock to me. We had just said amen,� Lucie recounted about one evening in Foote Homes.


BLUES IN THE HILLS: Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges plays Friday night at The Auditorium as part of the Eureka Springs Blues Weekend.
Various times and venues. $20-$35.
Blues fans, set your coordinates for Carroll County, because there's going to be a stout lineup at this year's Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. At the top of the bill is The Chicago Blues Revue (Saturday night at The Auditorium), which includes John Primer, Bob Stroger, Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith, Billy Flynn and BarrelHouse Chuck, all of whom have performed alongside such legendary figures as Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Pinetop Perkins and many others. Among them all, they've earned a Grammy nod and multiple Blues Music Awards nominations and wins. Opening for the revue is E.G. Kight, a veteran player out of Georgia, who has shared stages with greats like B.B. King and Koko Taylor. She's nicknamed the Georgia Songbird. The Nighthawks (Friday night at The Auditorium) have been playing since the early '70s, turning out, solid, straightforward blues rock. Opening that show will be Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges, a stylistically diverse guitarist who tours constantly. Times readers will no doubt be familiar with Mississippi's Cedric Burnside, who'll perform Friday night at the 1905 Basin Park Hotel's Barefoot Ballroom (Burnside plays at White Water Tavern Saturday night). There are many more performances all weekend. Check EurekaSpringsBlues.com for the full schedule.
6:30 p.m. Main Library. Free.
If your the typo person who gets P-O'd at the site of misused homophones, missspelings, creative abbrev., stray apostrophe's, Mysterious Capitalizations, "enthusiastic" and "seemingly random" usage of "quotation marks," or other such abuses of written language, you will likely sympathize with author Jeff Deck. In 2007, Deck and his colleague Benjamin D. Herson decided they had finally had enough with the typos, particularly on signs. So they embarked on a 10-week voyage across the country, armed with sharpies, correction fluid, dry erase markers and all other manner of materials, in order to right the wrongs found on as many signs as possible. They documented their journey and the result was "The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time," which was published in 2011. Copy editors, English teachers, militant grammarians and their sympathizers should get a kick out of the book. Deck will give a presentation and sign books as well.
9 p.m. Revolution. $10 minimum donation.
When longtime concert promoter Jeffry "Bushy" Hudnall died early this year, there was an outpouring of grief from the electronic music community. Even to an outsider, it was apparent how much Hudnall's life and work meant to so many people. Promoter Mike Brown was very close to Hudnall, so he's hosting a benefit to put a bench and plaque as a memorial to his late friend at the Belvedere Pavilion downtown. "Many years ago this is where Bushy use to throw our Free Sunday parties," Brown said via email. "He loved the area, even got married there. After they cremated him, there was never a plot, or place to visit. Through all the lives he touched, I felt this was a great way to keep his spirit alive for everyone he touched and future generations of music lovers." The cost for the memorial is $3,000, and the proceeds from this 18-and-older show, which will feature more than 20 DJs, will go toward the project. The $10 donation is a minimum, and includes a memorial button.
5:30 p.m. Lamar Porter Field. $10.
Little Rock's Lamar Porter Field is a treasure. The WPA-built ball field on Seventh Street was constructed in 1936 and is the oldest actively used baseball stadium in the state. It's got such a classic ballpark look that it was used as a location for the 1984 WWII-era film "A Soldier's Story." It was where Major League Baseball Hall-of-Famer Brooks Robinson — widely regarded as one of, if not the, best third baseman of all time — played as a youngster. Robinson will be returning to his hometown to celebrate the field's 77th birthday and kick off the fundraising effort to fully restore the park, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Tickets also include a hot dog, soft drink and a bag of popcorn, because this is a baseball park, after all. Robinson will be available to sign autographs for fans as well. Who could ask for a more wholesome, all-American time to be had this Saturday afternoon?
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Museum of Discovery. $8-$10, free for members.
This sounds very cool, especially for those with young'uns (or young-at-heart'uns): The 2nd Annual Tinkerfest. Organized by the Arkansas Discovery Network (a six-museum partnership with the Museum of Discovery as its hub), Tinkerfest will see more than 40 stations set up where burgeoning engineers and inventors can, well, tinker on stuff. What sort of stuff? According to the MOD, "visitors will have the opportunity to create with 3D printers, disassemble a vehicle, meet robot makers, participate in water balloon catapulting duels, build and launch rockets, learn to crochet, create a cardboard city and much more." It doesn't cost extra to attend Tinkerfest, but standard admission applies for non-members ($10 for adults, $8 for children).
John McAteer — known to more than a few folks as Johnny Mac, solo artist and frontman for The Reds — released the album "Dark Houses" last summer, but hadn't gotten to playing a record-release show until now (he did play an acoustic solo show). This one will feature a full-band lineup, with Josh Bentley on bass, Brian Bush on keyboards and Brad Brown on drums. If you haven't yet picked up a copy of "Dark Houses," I recommend it. The album hits a total sweet spot hybrid of nervy post-punk and classic power pop. Check the blistering, epic "Cipher" or the slyly infectious opener "Waste of Time." And the fist-pumping-inducing "I Hope He Understands" just slays, pausing for a breath in the middle to get set up for some blistering, bitchin' guitar soloing. Seriously. He's got four tracks from the album streaming on his ReverbNation profile. Opening the show will be Peckerwolf and Winston Family Orchestra.
10 p.m. Juanita's. $15 adv., $20 day of.
Longtime Memphis rapper and Three 6 Mafia associate Project Pat comes to town Saturday. He's been pumping out the Dirty South jams at a steady clip since the '90s, having earned his biggest hit with "Chickenhead" in 2001, after getting a lot of attention for his turn on the Three 6 classic "Sippin' on Some Syrup." His recent single "Gas," from the upcoming mixtape "Cheez-N-Dope 2," is as fine an example as you could ask for when it comes to banging, slow-rolling Southern hip-hop. It's all booming bass and rattling clicks and sinister synthesizers. Opening the show will be Little Rock electro-pop outfit Collin Vs. Adam, which should make for an interesting show.


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Healesville High School
About HHS
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STUDENT / PARENT PORTAL
Year 10 2022 Course Selection
The role of the Student Wellbeing Co-ordinator at Healesville High School is:
Introducing and maintaining support structures for students
Being available to help students, parents and teachers
"We aim to provide a calm and safe environment in our Student Wellbeing Centre where our students feel comfortable seeking support from staff and external services."
Student Wellbeing support may also include:
Organising support groups for students needing help
Assisting individual students with work plans, personal problems
Negotiating extra assistance for students experiencing difficulty with classwork
Reconciling differences of opinion between individuals and groups
Holding discussions with parents who are worried about their children
Providing advice and recommendations for referrals to external support services
Organising outside agencies to help families when necessary
Preparing applications for individual or family financial support
Informing staff of students who are experiencing personal difficulties (with consent)
Working closely with Year Level Co-ordinators and staff
The Student Wellbeing Team has very positive relationships with many external services and providers and we are fortunate enough to be able to offer access to the following services:
Psychologist (available for student sessions and parent meetings)
Social Workers/Counsellors
Access to Adolescent Trained GP's and Nurses (via the Doctors in Secondary Schools Program)
Health Nurse
The Breakfast Program (every Wednesday morning)
Headspace Support Workers
Salvation Army Youth Worker
Parents and guardians may make an appointment to meet the Wellbeing team by calling the General Office
on (03)5962 4088.
DOCTORS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Healesville High School is fortunate to be included in the 'Doctors in Secondary Schools' program. This initiative provides funding for general practitioners (GPs) to attend up to 100 Victorian government secondary schools for one day per week. The GPs provide medical advice and health care to students most in need.
The objectives of the program are to:
make primary healthcare more accessible to students
provide assistance to young people to identify and address any health problems early
reduce the pressure on working parents
All secondary school students enrolled in a participating school will be able to access an adolescent-health trained GP, subject to providing the required consent for the services. Participating schools, students and their parents/carers will not incur any out-of-pocket expenses for student consultations with the GP.
Consent and Confidentiality
The program's consent and confidentiality policy was developed in consultation with experts including:
the Australian Medical Association, the Australian Education Union, Parents Victoria and the Victorian Association of Secondary School Principals.
Consistent with Australian common law, the program recognises that:
any student who wants to see the GP will be permitted to book an appointment. The GP will decide whether the young person is mature enough to consent to medical treatment or whether parent/carer consent is needed - as is the case with all GPs in the community the right for a young person's health information to be kept confidential will be respected unless the disclosure is with the consent of the young person or it is otherwise permitted by law– as is the case with all GP practice in the community.
Click here to view the DiSS Consent and Confidentiality Policy
Click here to view the DiSS Parent Information Sheet
© Healesville High School 2018

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SuperKids Software Review of Does it Belong?
School Zone Interactive's Does it Belong? is an electronic workbook for preschoolers, designed to help children practice identifying relationships within sets. Remember workbook pages showing rows of pictures where you had to either strike out the misfit, or circle the matching objects? Here, those same images have been reproduced onscreen.
In Does it Belong?, the user attempts to answer the problems on two pages, and then is rewarded (whether right or wrong) with an arcade game: two that work on hand-eye coordination (think "Pong" and "Space Invaders"), and tic-tac-toe. The user's progress is measured on-screen with a map of bird footprints that allow easy return to missed problems, and with a printable report card. Users who successfully complete all the problems are also rewarded with a printable, personalized certificate.
Does it Belong's electronic workbook provides of 30 pages of classic workbook drills for problem solving involving matching, exception finding, and relationship recognition. The same problems are also provided in a printed workbook, albeit without the audio instructions, positive feedback, and arcade games.
Our young tester found most of the workbook problems to be "pretty easy". The same could not be said, however, for the two arcade "reward" programs that required pretty fair hand-eye coordination, even for an older child. Nonetheless, our parents reported that the program drew repeat play for some time, even after successful completion of all worksheet problems (for the arcade games more than the worksheets).
This program installed easily on our Windows 98 test machine. We could not report the same result, however, on our Windows Me test unit. Here the program seemed to install uneventfully, but would always 'hang' on launch.
In addition to the challenging hand-eye coordination required by two of the arcade games, our review team reported only one other concern about usability. After a new user signs on to use the program (an exercise that for almost all preschoolers will require parental help), he or she is greeted with several minutes of verbal instructions that are far too long for a preschooler to comprehend or remember. Actual usage is obvious, but the introductory instructions were overwhelming to a young user.
Does it Belong is a solid choice for parents or preschool teachers looking for an update to the classic workbook matching experience.
See SuperKids' comparisons with other preschool software titles, and the Buyers Guide for current market prices of the PC and Mac versions.
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Mac: Sytem 7.5.5 or later, PowerPC 601 or faster cpu, 50 MB hard drive space, 32 MB RAM, 16-bit 640x480 display, 4x or faster CD-ROM .


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New Orleans Superdome To Be Renovated Before 2024 Super Bowl
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By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New Orleans' Superdome, the iconic domed stadium that's home to the Saints football team, will be getting a $450 million facelift before it hosts its next Super Bowl in 2024.
Upgrades to the 44-year-old stadium are part of Gov. John Bel Edwards' ongoing negotiations with the NFL team, aimed at keeping the Saints in Louisiana another 30 years.
State officials on the Bond Commission approved the financing plans without objection Thursday. The vote sets in motion the improvements to the spaceship-like building that became a symbol of New Orleans' recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana's current contract with the Saints, negotiated by former Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration in 2009, runs through 2025. Edwards says the Superdome renovations are central to striking a new 15-year contract, with a 15-year extension option.
Source: New Orleans Superdome To Be Renovated Before 2024 Super Bowl


On behalf of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, I have the honour to open the Fifteenth Meeting of the States parties to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Allow me to convey the best wishes of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein for a successful meeting.
Before moving to the first item of our agenda, let me take this opportunity to take stock of the Convention against Torture and its implementation.
Since your Fourteenth Meeting on 1 October 2013, the number of ratifications or accessions has increased from 153 to 158. This is a matter for satisfaction and reflects the international community's continuing interest in advancing the goals and objectives of the Convention. At the same time, there is still some way to go toward reaching universal ratification.
Against this backdrop, the Convention against Torture Initiative (CTI), a unique State-driven collaboration which aims to achieve universal ratification of the Convention within the next ten years, is timely. It is a substantial step forward in the battle to eradicate the devastating practice of torture.
It is worthwhile recalling the immediate objectives of this Initiative. These are: 1) to identify challenges and barriers to ratification and implementation of the Convention; 2) to address these obstacles through inter-State cooperation, assistance and dialogue; 3) to mobilise legal advice and technical assistance to governments at their request; and, 4) to build a global platform composed of States, the United Nations, national and international NGOs and experts to work jointly to achieve the CTI vision.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Committee against Torture have expressed their full support to this Initiative.
As you know, the work of the Committee against Torture is of great importance to supporting the ratification and implementation of the Convention against Torture.
Since the last States parties' meeting in 2013, as part of its core-mandate, the Committee has considered reports submitted by 36States, adopting, in each case, concluding observations with a view to guiding States parties in their efforts to improve the implementation of the Convention at the national level.
The Committee has currently 17reports awaiting consideration, eight of which will be considered at the coming four and half week session in November.
Unfortunately, 28States that ratified the Convention have never submitted a report to the Committee, preventing the Committee from fulfilling its monitoring mandate. Other States, while having presented an initial report, have not—in some cases, for a decade or more—fulfilled their Convention obligation to submit a periodic report every 4 years.
In order to address this challenge, the Committee against Torture has pioneered a simplified reporting procedure, enabling States to submit more focused reports on time, thus fulfilling their reporting obligations in a timely and more effective manner. This practice was encouraged by the General Assembly in the context of the treaty body strengthening. At the same time, this procedure facilitates a more focused dialogue with the Committee, enhancing the Committee's ability to identify specific areas in its concluding observations. I'm pleased to report that 88 States have accepted the simplified reporting procedure.
The Committee also has other key tools in order to assist the States in the effective implementation of the Convention.
Under article 22 the Committee is empowered to examine individual complaints alleging violations of the Convention by a State party. Since 1988, the Committee has registered 699 individual complaints concerning 35 States parties. Among those complaints, 197 were discontinued, 70were found inadmissible and final decisions on merits were issued for 272 resulting in the founding of violation of the Convention in 107 of them. The Committee has also developed a rich jurisprudence on a wide variety of issues including, for example, the absolute nature of the prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment, the identification of practices that constitute torture, the prohibition on the use of evidence obtained through torture.
Regrettably, individuals from only 67 of the 158 States parties may submit complaints to the Committee as 91 States have not yet recognized its competence to receive complaints, thereby limiting the tools available to supervise full compliance with the Convention.
The Committee has also pursued its work relating to confidential inquiries under article 20 of the Convention. Out of the 158 States parties, 13 have declared that they do not recognize the competence of the Committee provided for by article 20 of the Convention. May I recall, in this connection, that under article 20, the Committee may establish confidential inquiries if it receives reliable information that torture is practiced systematically in a State party. As of today, the Committee has concluded nineinquiries and made public their results.
The Committee has continually made efforts to thoroughly explain and interpret specific articles of the Convention by issuing General Comments. At the moment, three General Comments have been issued concerning articles 2, 3 and 14 of the Convention. The General Comments clarify the expectations of States parties and stakeholders including civil society while implementing those provisions of the Convention. As a result, this clarification assists all stakeholders including States parties in understanding and complying with their obligations under the Convention. The Committee has also decided to start the revision of its General Comment N° 1 on article 3.
Finally, the Committee has been pursuing efforts to strengthen cooperation and coordination with the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, regularly meeting with them.
Allow me to turn now to the election. In this respect, let me recall the criteria contained in the Convention against Torture in relation to members and their qualifications.
It follows from the provisions of the Convention that States Parties should ensure that the Committee against Torture is composed of independent experts with recognized competence in the field of human rights, including legal experience and a high moral standing so as to enable the Committee to carry out its mandate effectively.
I should like to refer now to the provisional agenda of the Meeting, contained in document CAT/SP/15/1, and in particular to its item 2 entitled "Election of the Chairperson".
Are there any nominations for the position of Chairperson of the Fifteenth Meeting of the States parties?
If there are no other nominations, may I take it that the meeting wishes to elect the Representative of the Republic of Iraq as its Chairperson by acclamation?
I call on the Representative of the Republic of Iraq to the podium.


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Blo Blow Dry Bar – 2022 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD)
Franchise Document | April 2022 | Downloadable PDF | 279 Pages
This is the 2022 Blo Blow Dry Bar Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD). It is a PDF document available for immediate download upon purchase.
"The franchise offered is for the operation of a full service blow dry business having a distinctive interior and exterior design and trade dress and offering for sale to the public hair styling and cleansing products and accessories under the name "Blo Blow Dry Bar." The total investment necessary to begin operation of a Blo Blow Dry Bar franchise is $257,400 to $372,958. This includes between $61,480 to $69,795 that must be paid to the franchisor and/or its affiliate, as appropriate. We offer …"
-Blo Blow Dry Bar FDD, 2022
What is in the Blo Blow Dry Bar 2022 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD)?
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Catherine Ryan is an Oakland-based artist whose work is graphically sharp while imbuing a lot of quiet observations about human behavior and habits. I asked Catherine a few questions below about her practice and the work in the show, but Bay Area blog In The Make also did a fantastic feature on Catherine a few weeks ago that I recommend checking out.
The artist at home via In The Make
Where are you from and were do you live currently?
I grew up in New Jersey and now live in Oakland, CA.
The figures in your work are mere shadows and outlines. Why is that?
I want the figures in my work to retain a sense of anonymity. I want their roles, and positioning, in the paintings to be what is important, not specific features or personal qualities.
The Pact, $400.
There's a strong tension in much of your work between people and animals. Is there a deeper meaning behind this?
I'm very interested in tension and the relationships that exist between opposing forces. The animals in my work are used to represent the natural world in opposition to the more structured aspects of the world that most Americans inhabit.
The artist's studio via In The Make
We see a lot of multiples and repetition in your work. What's that about?
I'm primarily investigating human behavior in the face of the unknown (mob mentality, rituals, religious ceremonies etc.) which leads me to revisit certain gestures and positions over and over again.
Reconnaissance, $450
Do you aim to teach lessons or serve warnings through your work?
I don't think I really aim to teach or warn the audience through my work. Mostly I'm trying to work out things that I'm curious about.
What are some things (not necessarily art-related) that are inspiring to you?
I'm most influenced by books and movies.
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Moon won't discuss possible summit with North Korea's Kim
Published: 09:48 GMT, 17 February 2018 | Updated: 10:33 GMT, 17 February 2018
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Saturday that he hopes his efforts to engage rival North Korea at the Olympics will also lead to better ties between the North and its other major rival, Washington, as well as help set up talks on ridding the North of its nuclear bombs.
But Moon wouldn't answer a question from The Associated Press about what needs to happen before he'll take North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un up on his invitation for a summit. He earlier said "let's not get too far ahead" on a summit, according to his office.
Moon has yet to accept the North Korean offer, which was delivered Feb. 10 by Kim's younger sister, Kim Yo Jong. He's only said that the Koreas should "create an environment" for talks.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in passes journalists during a visit to the Main Press Center at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
There's a reason for his caution: the United States.
Moon likely wants his talks with the North to be accompanied with warming ties between Pyongyang and Washington so there's less chance of aliening the South's most crucial ally, which keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea to deter an attack by the North.
Some conservatives worry that North Korea's friendly overtures to Seoul are meant to push Washington farther away from its southern rival. This, the North may hope, will ruin U.S. President Donald Trump's policy of "maximum pressure," which is focused on slapping more isolating sanctions on the most sanctioned country on earth.
"We are hoping that the ongoing talks between the South and North will lead to talks between the United States and North Korea and eventually to (North Korean) denuclearization dialogue," Moon told reporters at the Olympics media center in Pyeongchang.
Moon said Saturday that a women's hockey team of both North and South Koreans, a squad of North Korean cheerleaders (229 of them, all women) and an opening ceremony that saw both Koreas march together under a flag that showed a single Korea have moved Koreans and people around the world.
He also noted that "a consensus is starting to build that there's also a need for talks between the United States and North Korea."
Despite Moon's optimistic comments Saturday, there is deep skepticism about whether the good feelings on the Korean Peninsula will last.
Because of the Olympics, the United States and South Korea postponed March war games that the allies stage annually, but those exercises will probably resume. Pyongyang reacts with extreme hostility to the drills, which it claims are invasion preparation.
The U.S. stance could be seen during the opening ceremonies, when North and South Korean athletes marched into the Olympic stadium under a "unification" flag. Moon and Kim Jong Un's sister rose, but U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stayed in his seat.
Foster Klug, South Korea bureau chief for The Associated Press, has covered the Koreas since 2005. Follow him on Twitter at @APKlug.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks to journalists during a visit to the Main Press Center at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)


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Q: How to add SQLite database to resources in a Qt project I can't add a database to resources:
#include "QtSql/QSqlDatabase"
#include <QApplication>
#include <QDebug>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
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    QSqlDatabase db = QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QSQLITE");
    db.setDatabaseName(":/new/prefix1/database.db");
    if (!db.open())
           qDebug()<<"ERRR"; // this line is printed at startup

    return a.exec();
}

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Home » Placenta is dumping ground for genetic defects
Placenta is dumping ground for genetic defects
March 10, 2021 | in
In the first study of the genomic architecture of the human placenta, scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge and their collaborators have confirmed that the normal structure of the placenta is different to any other human organ and resembles that of a tumour, harbouring many of the same genetic mutations found in childhood cancers.
The study funded by Wellcome and NIHR Cambridge BRC and published in Nature, found evidence to support the theory of the placenta as a 'dumping ground' for genetic defects, whereas the fetus corrects or avoids these errors. The findings provide a clear rationale for studying the association between genetic aberrations and birth outcomes, in order to better understand problems such as premature birth and stillbirth.
In the earliest days of pregnancy, the fertilized egg implants into the wall of the uterus and begins dividing from one cell into many. Cells differentiate into various types of cell and some of them will form the placenta. Around week ten of pregnancy, the placenta begins to access the mother's circulation, obtaining oxygen and nutrients for the fetus, removing waste products and regulating crucial hormones*.
It has long been known that the placenta is different from other human organs. In one to two per cent of pregnancies, some placental cells have a different number of chromosomes to cells in the fetus – a genetic flaw that could be fatal to the fetus, but with which the placenta can often function reasonably normally.
Despite this genetic robustness, problems with the placenta are a major cause of harm to the mother and unborn child, such as growth restriction or even stillbirths.
This new study is the first high-resolution survey of the genomic architecture of the human placenta. Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge conducted whole genome sequencing of 86 biopsies and 106 microdissections from 42 placentas, with samples taken from different areas of each organ.
The team discovered that each one of these biopsies was a genetically distinct 'clonal expansion' – a cell population descended from a single common ancestor – a clear parallel between the formation of the human placenta and the development of a cancer.
Analysis also identified specific patterns of mutation that are commonly found in childhood cancers, such as neuroblastoma and rhabdomyosarcoma, with an even higher number of these mutations in the placenta than in the cancers themselves.
Professor Steve Charnock-Jones, a senior author of the study from the University of Cambridge, said: "Our study confirms for the first time that the placenta is organised differently to every other human organ, and in fact resembles a patchwork of tumours. The rates and patterns of genetic mutations were also incredibly high compared to other healthy human tissues."
The team used phylogenetic analysis to retrace the evolution of cell lineages from the first cell divisions of the fertilised egg and found evidence supporting the theory of the placenta tolerating major genetic flaws.
In one biopsy, the researchers observed three copies of chromosome 10 in each cell, two from the mother and one from the father, instead of the usual one copy from each parent. But other biopsies from the same placenta and from the fetus carried two copies of chromosome 10, both from the mother. A chromosomal copy number error such as this in any other tissue would be a major genetic flaw.
Professor Gordon Smith, a senior author of the study from the University of Cambridge, said: "It was fascinating to observe how such a serious genetic flaw as a chromosomal copy number error was ironed out by the baby but not by the placenta. This error would have been present in the fertilized egg. Yet derivative cell populations, and most importantly those that went on to form the child, had the correct number of copies of chromosome 10, whereas parts of the placenta failed to make this correction. The placenta also provided a clue that the baby had inherited both copies of the chromosome from one parent, which can itself be associated with problems."
Now that the link between genetic aberrations in the placenta and birth outcomes has been established, further studies using larger sample sizes could help to uncover the causes of complications and diseases that arise during pregnancy.
Dr Sam Behjati, a senior author of the study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said: "The placenta is akin to the 'wild west' of the human genome, completely different in its structure from any other healthy human tissue. It helps to protect us from flaws in our genetic code, but equally there remains a high burden of disease associated with the placenta. Our findings provide a rationale for studying the association between genetic aberrations in the placenta and birth outcomes at the high resolution we deployed and at massive scale."
Paper reference:
Tim H. H. Coorens, Thomas R. W. Oliver and Rashesh Sanghvi et al. (2021). Somatic mutations reveal widespread mosaicism and mutagenesis in human placentas. Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03345-1


Michelle Rogers, We Are All Connected II, 2018, Oil on canvas, 40" x 60"
Michelle Rogers is a human rights and environmental activist and artist. She grew up in Dundalk, Ireland on the border between the Northern and Southern regions of the country at the height of the Troubles.
In 1993, Amnesty International selected her to travel to Bosnia, an experience that resulted in a series of paintings about the darkest side of human nature. In 2002, Rogers was invited to show her painting 9-11 Memorial, a tribute to those lost on September 11, at the Irish Arts Center in New York City.
Other important exhibitions include Transformations 1,2,3 Tribute to Caravaggio at the Museum of Modern art in Guadalajara, Mexico and at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, and Troubles at Home, a series which examines the notion of patriotism in North America following the 9-11 attacks, exhibited at Track 16 gallery in Los Angeles.
Rogers' most recent environmental solo show, Tender Alchemy, was exhibited in New York City at Jenn Singer Gallery in September 2015. Other recent exhibitions include I am from where I am, exploring ideas of homeland at The Paul Kane gallery in Dublin, and On Earth As It Is In Heaven, an exhibition in Rome which included paintings focused on political and environmental problems, accompanied by a catalogue with an introduction by Italian art critic and historian Achille Bonito Oliva.
In 2016, Michelle Rogers was invited by the Secretary General of UN to attend and draw the signing of The Paris Climate Agreement. Later that year, Rogers was invited to an artists residency with The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where she began work on her large scale environmental work, Eco Venus, slated for exhibition at The Earth Institute in Fall 2018.
In 2017, during Venice Biennale 52, Michelle Rogers' large-scale painting Lampedusa - exploring the plight and flight of immigrants of Italy - was shown in St. George Church in Venice, as well as at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Immediately following, Tread Softly, Rogers' mid-career retrospective, was held at Rathfarnham Castle in Ireland as organized by The Office of Public Works.
Michelle Rogers' work is held in important international and Irish collections including the Office of Public Works, Bank of Ireland, Department of Foreign Affairs, President Mary Robinson, Film Director Terry George and Queens University Belfast.
Rogers is also known for her portraiture including an Irish postal stamp of her portrait of President O'Dalaigh. In 2012, Rogers was commissioned by the family of Prince Doria Pamphilj family to paint their portrait, which hangs in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome.
The artist currently divides her time between Rome, New York, and Dublin.


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In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella's flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Stars: Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Mark Strong
Director: Glenn Close, Tatiana S. Riegel, Aline Brosh McKenna, Ron Bartlett, Mark P. Stoeckinger
The Golden Child (1986)
The Rocker (2008)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Son of the Mask (2005)
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Cats & Dogs (2001)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
Coco Before Chanel (2009)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Batman Returns (1992)
Equilibrium (2002)
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Army of the Dead (2021)
Wrath of Man (2021)
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Friends: The Reunion (2021)
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Awake (2021)
Endangered Species (2021)


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Grey—Simcoe was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1988. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Grey North, Grey—Bruce and Simcoe East ridings.

It initially consisted of the City of Owen Sound, the Village of Chatsworth and the Townships of Collingwood, Euphrasia, Holland, Osprey, St. Vincent and Sydenham in the County of Grey; and Christian Islands Indian reserve No. 30 and the Townships of Flos, Nottawasaga, Sunnidale and Tiny (excepting the Town of Penetanguishene) in the County of Simcoe.

In 1976, it was redefined to consist of the City of Owen Sound, the Townships of Artemesia, Collingwood, Euphrasia, Proton, Osprey, Sarawak, St. Vincent and Sydenham (including the Town of Markdale) in the County of Grey; and the Townships of Nottawasaga and Sunnidale (including the Town of Wasaga Beach) in the County of Simcoe.

The electoral district was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed between Bruce—Grey, Simcoe Centre, Simcoe North and Wellington—Grey—Dufferin—Simcoe ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

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See also

 List of Canadian federal electoral districts
 Past Canadian electoral districts

External links
Riding history from the Library of Parliament

Former federal electoral districts of Ontario

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Article Type All PC Game News Videos Features
Skywind's Slough Trailer Shows Bitter Coast, Not Slough
By Graham Smith • 5 years ago • 27
Skywind's latest trailer is titled 'Slough', but it does not, as every British reader just hoped, mark the inclusion of Berkshire's much maligned city in the game. Instead it's the first look at the remake of Morrowind's Bitter Coast inside the Skyrim engine, and it's as pretty as every other chunk we've seen of the ambitious mod project so far.
Tagged with Bethesda, morrowind, TES Renewal Project, Skywind, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Tomorrowind? – Skywind Public Test 'Coming Soon'
By Nathan Grayson • 6 years ago • 31
BUT NOT SOON ENOUGH, etc. Skywind, the total rebuild of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in Skyrim's engine, continues to play sweet melodies on my heart strings. They're nostalgic tunes that lull me like the most charming of snake charmers. There's a new trailer out, and I can practically feel the Balmoran cliff racers pecking at my back, making me invent new deities just so…
Tagged with Skywind, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
I Am Overencumbered: Why Game Inventories Matter
By Rob Sherman • 6 years ago • 117
Rob Sherman, author of interactive fiction project Black Crown, asked if he could write about videogame inventories. We were powerless against the result, which pairs a personal journey through the English countryside with a treatise on the power of possessions and the reasons videogames must do better in representing them. There was once, and still is, a boy and a man called me, and one…
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Nostalgiablivion: Morrowind's First Quests In Skywind
Oh Skywind, let me count the ways. For those not in the know, Skywind is a Skyrim mod that aims to transplant the entirety of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (aka, the best Elder Scrolls) into Skyrim's more modern engine while maintaining the former's gorgeously bizarre sense of style. Locations, NPCs, quests, the mudcrab merchant who essentially functioned as my best friend in middle school…
Tagged with Bethesda, mods, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition, Skywind, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Tamriel, Man: Skywind Squeezes Morrowind Into Skyrim
By Craig Pearson • 6 years ago • 53
If someone is keeping a Big List Of Inevitable Things somewhere, they can cross out 'modders remaking Morrowind in the Skyrim engine'. For it is no longer inevitable, but is in fact, er, evitable? No, that's not right. Though I guess you could avoid it, but that would make the modders of Skywind very sad indeed, because all their hard work in rebuilding Morrowind is…
Tagged with mod news, Skywind, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The Slightly Less Elderly Scrolls: Morrowind Overhaul 3.0
By Nathan Grayson • 7 years ago • 128
Truly impressive mod projects make me want to defy physics. For example, try as I might, I cannot - even with the assistance of a truly formidable thesaurus - recreate the pure magic of an authentic standing ovation in post form. And yet, that's what the legions of folks who've spent five years continuously tidying up each and every inch of Morrowind deserve. Meanwhile, Morrowind Overhaul…
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Feature: From The RPS Archives
The Complete Fool In Morrowind
By Alec Meer • 8 years ago • 91
The RPS Hivemind is still recharging, the major nodes soldered directly into the towering soul-capacitors necessary to sustain their thin simulacrum of consciousness for another 12 months. Fortunately, an errant pustule has attained basic mobility, and opted to present you with artifacts from the Shotgun archives to help see you through until our resurrection. First up, a return to the Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, with…
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The Very Important List Of PC Games, Part 4/5
By Alec Meer • 9 years ago • 275
Young people. Good grief. Your ignorance is as plain as those spots on your greasy face. Don't you know anything? Can't you be bothered to learn anything? Did you even read the words of esteemed colleagues Rossignol, Walker and Smith detailing the first three parts of this Olympian list of The Most Important PC Games Of All Time? I am quite sure that I, Deacon…
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More-o-Wind
By Alec Meer • 11 years ago • 45
A mention of this Morrowind mod in another thread reminded me about Tamriel Rebuilt. It's a bold, some would say crazy (others would say impossible) project to extend the noble forerunner to Oblivion into something even bigger than its current mighty girth. Mad Bethesda-bitching is traditionally reserved for how they did unspeakable things to Fallout and how Oblivion was mindless prolefeed or similar such snobbery,…
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Stenoscepa obscura är en insektsart som först beskrevs av Kevan, D.K.M. 1962.  Stenoscepa obscura ingår i släktet Stenoscepa och familjen Pyrgomorphidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Die Martiusstraße im Münchner Stadtteil Schwabing führt von der Leopoldstraße zum Kißkaltplatz.

Sie wurde nach dem Naturforscher Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius benannt. Er war Direktor des Botanischen Gartens in München und Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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Bei der Martiusstraße handelt es sich um ein geschütztes Bauensemble aus einer Reihe herrschaftlicher Mietshäuser, die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts als geschlossene Konzeption innerhalb von zwei Jahren im damals zeitgemäßen Jugendstil entstanden. Die Straße war bereits um 1885 vor der Eingemeindung Schwabings nach München als verbindendes Straßenstück zwischen der damals noch als Schwabinger Landstraße bezeichneten Leopoldstraße und der Königinstraße konzipiert worden. Bebaut wurde sie zwischen 1906 und 1908 im westlichen Abschnitt bis zum damaligen Kaulbachplatz (heute Kißkaltplatz). Als östliche Verlängerung der Achse Elisabeth-/Franz-Joseph-Straße wurde auch die Martiusstraße bevorzugter Bereich für herrschaftliche Mietshäuser in Schwabing. Anton Hatzl, Architekt und Besitzer gleichzeitig, ließ an der Nordseite eine geschlossene Reihe von vier Bauten (Nr. 1, 3, 5, 7) und südlich gegenüber ein weiteres Gebäude (Nr. 4) errichten. Dieses wurde durch zwei ähnlich gestaltete Häuser (Nr. 6, 8) von Franz Popp ergänzt. Lediglich letzteres hat seine aufwändige Fassadengestaltung im Zuge der Beseitigung von Kriegsschäden eingebüßt, so dass seine einstige architektonische Bedeutung als baulich betonter Auftakt der Straßenzeile zusammen mit dem unveränderten Objekt Martiusstraße 7 nicht mehr eindeutig zum Tragen kommt. Unter einheitlicher Konzeption entstanden an dem kurzen, geraden Straßenstück viergeschossige vornehme Mietshäuser in der dem neobarocken Jugendstil charakteristischen Plastizität und reichen Ornamentierung. Die angrenzenden Gebäude ergänzen den Straßenraum.

Südlich der Martiusstraße im Bereich der Hausnummer 2 befinden sich vom BLfD als Bodendenkmal geschützte Körpergräber des frühen Mittelalters (D-1-7835-0419).

Verkehr
Die Metrobuslinie 54, die Nachtbuslinien 43 und 44 sowie die Buslinien 150 und 154 führen in beiden Richtungen durch die Martiusstraße. Bereits seit den 1990er Jahren ist eine Tramlinie durch die Martiusstraße in Diskussion, die vom Kurfürstenplatz durch die Martiusstraße in den Englischen Garten am Chinesischen Turm vorbei geführt werden soll und so eine Nordtangente zwischen Neuhausen und Bogenhausen realisieren würde. Die Garten-Tram soll nach dem Wunsch der Stadt München mit Akkus betrieben werden, um auf Oberleitungen im Englischen Garten verzichten zu können, der Freistaat Bayern als Grundstückseigentümer des Englischen Gartens lehnte die Tramverbindung aber lange ab. Der endgültige Beschluss für den Bau steht immer noch aus.

Prominente Anwohner

Der Zoologe und Evolutionsbiologe Richard Semon lebte von 1907 an in der Martiusstraße 7. Von 1937 bis 1944 lebte der Dichter Max Halbe in der Martiusstraße 6. Max Mayrshofer hatte von 1911 bis 1944 sein Atelier in der Martiusstraße. Auch der Schriftsteller Josef Ponten lebte gemeinsam mit seiner Frau, der Malerin Julia Ponten von Broich (1880–1947) in der Martiusstraße 7.

Otto Stangl und seine Frau Etta gründeten 1948 in einer hoch gelegenen Etage an der Martiusstraße 7 die Moderne Galerie Etta und Otto Stangl, die dort mit ihren Geschäftsräumen bis 1962 bestand und einer der wichtigsten Treffpunkte von Avantgardekünstlern in München war. Entsprechend fand auch die Gründung der Gruppe ZEN 49, einer Gruppe von sieben deutschen Künstlern, 1949 in Stangls Galerie statt. Bis 2002 logierte die 1968 in der Prinzregentenstraße gegründete Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle in der Martiusstraße 7.

Als in der Nacht des 21. Juni 1962 zwei Polizisten an der Ecke der Martiusstraße zur Leopoldstraße fünf junge Gitarristen am Musizieren hindern wollten, führte dies zu Straßenschlachten zwischen bis zu 40.000 vor allem jugendlichen Protestteilnehmern und zum Teil berittenen Polizisten, die als die Schwabinger Krawalle in die Geschichtsbücher eingingen.

Die Martiusstraße hat auch ihren Ort im Roman Doktor Faustus von Thomas Mann gefunden. In dem Spätwerk von Thomas Mann beschrieb er seit 1919 bei "Dr. Sixtus Kridwiß", einem Graphiker, stattfindende "Herrenabende" in der Martiusstrasse. Emil Preetorius diente Thomas Mann als Vorbild für die Figur Kridwiß.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Innerortsstraße in München
Bauwerk in Schwabing
Straße in Europa


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Designed to raise awareness of conditions such as anorexia and bulimia, National Eating Disorders Week occurs Feb. 23 to March 1. It's also intended to help sufferers, parents and friends discover how to get help as well as what to do to prevent these diseases, reported Forbes on Feb. 22.
The three main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder, but the causes and solutions are not so easily categorized, say experts.
"Eating disorders are complicated and vexing problems and we don't exactly understand the pathophysiology of them," noted Dr. Aaron Krasner, a practicing psychiatrist, and Director of the Adolescent Transitional Living Program at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut.
An estimated 10 million women and one million men in the United States suffer from an eating disorder, according to the Eating Disorder Foundation.
And eating disorders do not discriminate: Addiction specialist Drew Pinksy's daughter Paulina just revealed that she battled bulimia and anorexia for seven years, reported USA Today on Feb. 24.
"Purging eight times in one day to cope with the emotional stress of being home during spring break had finally scared me enough to take action," she wrote in an essay on body shame.
One of the keys to recovery: Talking about it rather than trying to hide the disorder, says Paulina.
"For me, talking about it normalizes talking about it. Eating disorders shouldn't be a secret because that's what perpetuates them," she explained.
Dr. Drew said he takes pride in his daughter's decision to get help.
"When she recognized she needed help she sought treatment and actively engaged in the process. And now she is using her insights to help others," he stated.
But for those with eating disorders, the path to recovery can be long and difficult, revealed Jenni Schaefer recently in the Huffington Post. She's the author of "Almost Anorexic: Is My (or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem? (The Almost Effect)" and "Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too" (click for details).
Even after getting professional help, Jenni remained too thin. And she was obsessed with the "thigh gap" look symptomatic of women who are unnaturally slender.


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For the Love of the Game – a Conversation with Lightnin' Lyle Jensen
Leave a Comment	/ History, Main / By Ultimate Rob
Lightnin' Lyle Jensen's love affair with flying discs began in the summer of 1957 and by the spring of '75 he and a handful of friends founded the Minnesota Frisbee Association.
Over the next 35 years, Lightnin' became a prominent fixture on the Minnesota flying disc scene – playing in and/or emceeing virtually every major MN flying disc event, including introducing disc sports to over 60,000 spectators at the 1990 Olympic Festival. Along the way, he became Minnesota's first I.F.A. World Class Frisbee Master and was named a "PDGA Master-of-the-20th-Century" by Disc Golf World News.
In 2006, Lyle was inducted into the Minnesota Disc Sports Hall of Fame as an inaugural member and serves as the Hall's executive Director.
In 2018, Lightnin' became one of the founders of the Flying Disc Museum and serves as a Museum Curator and is the Gallery Manager for Pluto Platters – his favorite flying disc.


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Q: mount cephfs or rbd via Internet Is there any suitable solution for this?
I know about security issues, but is it possible?
Or other better storage solutions?
We tested s3fs+cephrgw, but It's very slow and unstable.

A: There aren't many security issues given that you use authentication for the stores. You can make your monitors public as well as the osds.


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import unittest
import os.path
import numpy as np
import psychic
from psychic.dataformats.bdf import BDFReader, BDFWriter, le_to_int24, int24_to_le, load_bdf, save_bdf
from ..markers import markers_to_events, biosemi_find_ghost_markers
from functools import reduce

class TestConversion(unittest.TestCase):
  def setUp(self):
    self.know_values = [
      ((0, 0, 0), 0),
      ((1, 0, 0), 1),
      ((255, 255, 127), (1 << 23) - 1),
      ((0, 0, 128), -(1 << 23)),
      ((255, 255, 255), -1)]
    self.ints = [0, 1, (1 << 23) - 1, -(1 << 23), -1]

  def test_list_conversion(self):
    bytes = list(reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, # make flat list of bytes
      [bs for (bs, i) in self.know_values]))
    ints = [i for (bs, i) in self.know_values]

    self.assertEqual(list(le_to_int24(bytes)), ints)
    self.assertEqual(list(int24_to_le(ints)), bytes)

class TestBDFReader(unittest.TestCase):
  def setUp(self):
    self.bdf = BDFReader(open(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz.bdf'), 'rb'))

  def test_read_all(self):
    b = self.bdf
    eeg = b.read_all().data

    # check size
    self.assertEqual(eeg.shape[1],
      b.header['n_records'] * max(b.header['n_samples_per_record']))
    self.assertEqual(eeg.shape[0], 16)

    # check frequency peak at 2.6Hz (not 3Hz as mentioned on biosemi.nl!)
    eeg_fft = 2 * np.abs(np.fft.rfft(eeg, axis=1)) / eeg.shape[1]
    freqs = np.fft.fftfreq(eeg.shape[1], 1./256)
    peak_freq = freqs[eeg_fft[:,1:].argmax(axis=1)]
    np.testing.assert_almost_equal(peak_freq, np.ones(16) * 2.61, 2)

class TestBDFWriter(unittest.TestCase):
  def setUp(self):
    self.d = load_bdf(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz.bdf'))
    r = BDFReader(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz.bdf'))
    self.header = r.header
    r.close()

  def test_header(self):
    w = BDFWriter(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'),
          header=self.header)
    w.write(self.d)
    w.close()
    with open(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz.bdf'), "rb") as f:
      file1 = f.read()

    with open(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'), "rb") as f:
      file2 = f.read()

    header_length = 4608
    self.assertEqual(file1[:header_length], file2[:header_length])

  def test_data(self):
    w = BDFWriter(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'),
          header=self.header)
    w.write(self.d)
    w.close()
    d2 = load_bdf(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'))
    np.testing.assert_allclose(self.d.data, d2.data, atol=0.05)

  def test_header_types(self):
    # Test using a DataSet for header values
    w = BDFWriter(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'),
          dataset=self.d)
    w.write(self.d)
    w.close()
    r = BDFReader(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'))
    np.testing.assert_array_equal(r.header['n_samples_per_record'], 256)

    # Test specifying a sample_rate and num_samples for header values
    w = BDFWriter(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'),
          sample_rate=256, num_channels=self.d.nfeatures)
    w.write(self.d)
    w.close()
    r = BDFReader(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'))
    np.testing.assert_array_equal(r.header['n_samples_per_record'], 256)

class TestBDF(unittest.TestCase):
  def test_load(self):
    d = load_bdf(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz.bdf'))

    # test labels
    targets = [['A%d' % (i + 1) for i in range(16)]]
    self.assertEqual(d.feat_lab, targets)
    self.assertEqual(d.cl_lab, ['class254', 'class255'])

    # test ids ~ time
    self.assertAlmostEqual(d.ids[0, 256 + 1], 1, 2)

    # test dims
    self.assertEqual(d.nfeatures, 16)
    self.assertEqual(d.ninstances, 60 * 256)

    self.assertEqual(d.extra, {})

  def test_save(self):
    d = load_bdf(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz.bdf'))
    save_bdf(d, psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'))
    d2 = load_bdf(psychic.find_data_path('sine-256Hz-test.bdf'))

    self.assertEqual(d.feat_lab, d2.feat_lab)
    np.testing.assert_allclose(d.data, d2.data, atol=0.0001)
    np.testing.assert_allclose(d.labels, d2.labels)
    np.testing.assert_allclose(d.ids, d2.ids)


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The Russian Reader
News and views from the other Russias
Tag: youthism
I Have No Idea What I'm Talking About, But I'm Famous, So It Doesn't Matter
One of the many young people in Russia who, according to Anne Applebaum, are leading the latest tiny, Moscow-centered pro-democracy movement there. The slogan on his t-shirt reads, "Fuck off." Photo by Vadim F. Lurie, who captured this image during the "authorized" fair elections march in Moscow on August 10, 2019.
What was I just saying about leaky arguments on behalf of Russia's courageous but incredibly tiny fair elections movement?
I always had famous Anne Applebaum pegged as a real Russophobe, not a fake one like me, someone who has constantly run afoul of the liberal and leftist Russia discourse police and been crossed off their Christmas card lists many times over. But it turns out Applebaum is such a "Russophile" she is ready to turn reality on its head by comparing the truly grassroots, popular, massive, well-organized pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong with the minuscule ragtag non-movement in Russia.
In Russia, where propaganda also attacks the West and derides democracy as chaotic and anarchic, protesters have focused very directly on the most fundamental of democratic institutions: they are demanding the right, simply, to vote for independent candidates in local elections. Just as in Hong Kong, Russian protests are being led by younger people [sic], none of whom can remember any other leader except Vladimir Putin: "I am 20 years old, and in my entire life there has not been a single day of freedom," one of them told reporters, according to Meduza, an independent website that covers Russia. They, too, are well organized, using up-to-the-minute apps to keep in touch with one other, deploying a phalanx of lawyers and a carefully planned social media campaign [sic]. Like the young Hong Kongers, young Russians aren't just dedicated; they are organized, thoughtful and well prepared [sic].
There are some obvious explanations for this East-West paradox. Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" isn't just a song lyric; it's an expression of something fundamental about the human brain. Like wealth or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it [sic].
But it may also be that the young protesters of Russia and China are simply ahead of us. We've gotten used to the idea that political influence flows from West to East, but are we so sure that is still true? A generation of Eastern dissidents has thought harder than we [sic] have about how to self-organize, about how to operate in a world run by secretive, kleptocratic elites who go out of their way to create distraction and apathy. Remember that they, too, are fighting regimes that seem in hock to moneyed interests and wrestling to cope with the pace of technological change. It may be that we in the West simply haven't thought about what tactics ordinary people need [sic] to deploy to compete in a world where money is offshore, power is invisible and apathy is widespread. It may be that we need to learn from people who have.
—Anne Applebaum, "Hong Kong and Russia Protesters Fight for Democracy. The West Should Listen and Learn," Washington Post, 16 August 2019
For the sake of rapping the sock puppet known as "the west" on the knuckles, Applebaum conveniently forgets to compare the numbers of people involved in demos and other protest actions in a city of seven million people, on one hand, and the world's largest country, on the other.
She claims "the west," where, she alleges, everyone has suddenly given up on democracy, can learn something from "the east." How is that someone who has written so eloquently about the Soviet Gulag has no clue that the people spearheading the Russian non-movement, people from Moscow and Petersburg, overidentify with "the west" and regard their cities, wrongly or rightly, as European cities, not "eastern" cities?
Wrongly or rightly, and unlike Applebaum, they overidentify so strongly with the nonexistent west that they almost never show any sign they have anything to learn from "the east." Maybe I have the wrong friends and follow the wrong people and groups on Russian social media, but I have not seen anyone talking about the lessons Russian protesters can learn from people in Hong Kong or, say, Puerto Rico. Forgive me if I don't spell out, for the thousandth time, the darker side of the disdain many members of the Russian liberal and left intelligentsia have for "non-westerners," especially "non-westerners" who make them look bad by fighting more fiercely and in much greater numbers for their freedom.
It is only possible to learn a real lesson when our teacher has all her facts straight. Unfortunately, when it comes to Russia and its "western" discourse police officers, including Applebaum, complexity, subtlety, and a basic grasp of facts go straight out the window. For reasons I have never been able to fathom, normally decent editors fall asleep at the wheel when their reporters and op-ed contributors write about Russia, especially when they have the cachet of someone like Applebaum.
It seemingly never occurs to anyone in "the west" or "the east" (i.e., Russia) that this bizarre mixture of total indifference, willful ignorance masked as insider knowledge, and desperate cheerleading does nothing for the minority of people in Russia who have the courage to confront their country's criminal regime. // TRR
Thanks to Boycott Russia Today for the heads-up and Vadim F. Lurie for the fabulous photograph.
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Las redes de televisión comercial de Australia deben cumplir el Código de Práctica de Televisión Comercial Australiana (Australian Commercial Television Code of Practice), que está regido por la Autoridad Australiana de Medios de Comunicación (Communications and Media Authority), con Free TV Australia como mediadora entre las redes y la ACMA, así como para tramitar las quejas de los espectadores.

Las clasificaciones de cada programa transmitido por televisión son decididas por oficiales de clasificación capacitados en cada red.

Si los televidentes creen que una red ha infringido el Código de Práctica de la Televisión (se ha dado una clasificación incorrecta, por ejemplo), los televidentes pueden presentar una denuncia a Free TV Australia, que a su vez la presenta a la red. Si los televidentes no están satisfechos con el resultado, pueden remitir su queja a la ACMA para que se investigue.

Calificaciones específicas para niños

Las zonas horarias se rigen además por el Australian Commercial Television Code of Practice, además del Código de Práctica Comercial. Ambos son similares a las clasificaciones G y PG, respectivamente, en lo que respecta al contenido permitido, pero están dirigidos específicamente a los niños, mientras que la G especifica el contenido de la programación que es adecuado para todas las audiencias, pero que no necesariamente puede ser de interés para los niños.

Calificaciones estándar

Se pretende que las clasificaciones sean equivalentes a las clasificaciones de la Junta de Clasificación de Australia (ACB) del mismo nombre. Normalmente se presentan con la misma forma y a veces con el mismo color que sus homólogas del ACB.

A partir de diciembre de 2015, la ACMA introdujo cambios radicales en el sistema de clasificación de las redes comerciales. Entre ellos se permitió que los programas M y MA15+ salieran al aire una hora antes de lo que se permitía anteriormente, a partir de las  y las  respectivamente, los programas PG pueden salir al aire todo el día, disolviendo la clasificación AV15+, así como los cambios de cuándo pueden salir al aire los anuncios con clasificaciones más altas del programa.

Solo para "Pay Per View" adulto

Las clasificaciones restringidas R18+ y X18+ no están permitidas para su emisión gratuita en Australia.

Muchas películas R18+ en DVD/Blu-ray se editan a menudo en canales de televisión/cable libre, para asegurar una clasificación MA15+ o inferior. Algunas películas que fueron clasificadas R18+ en DVD se han transmitido desde entonces en la televisión australiana con una clasificación MA15+.

Las dos redes de televisión de propiedad del gobierno, ABC y SBS, no están obligadas por las mismas regulaciones que sus contrapartes comerciales, y en su lugar cada una está obligada por sus propios Códigos de Práctica. Las pautas que proporcionan estos Códigos son similares pero no idénticas a los Códigos de Práctica para las estaciones comerciales. Por ejemplo, SBS se refiere a la clasificación MAV15+ en lugar de AV15+, mientras que ABC no utiliza la clasificación AV/MAV en absoluto; en cambio los programas clasificados MA15+ no deben comenzar antes de las 9:30 p.m., en lugar de las  Aunque la ABC reconoce la clasificación G, su código de práctica no requiere que muestre su símbolo de clasificación en el aire con respecto a la programación clasificada G.

Las redes de televisión de paga también tienen un sistema diferente al de las redes de televisión abierta. En general, todo el contenido de la televisión de pago debe recibir una de las clasificaciones anteriores; sin embargo, no suele haber restricciones en cuanto a la hora del día en que se puede emitir una programación determinada. No existe una clasificación R18+ para la televisión de pago, pero su uso está estrictamente limitado a los canales de interés especial. FOXTEL, una compañía de televisión de pago, tiene un sistema de bloqueo parental que puede ser programado por los padres para impedir que los niños vean ciertos programas. En 2009, el sistema funcionó mal, permitiendo a los niños el acceso a programas de televisión y películas violentas. Las restricciones de la programación clasificada como R18+ se han incrementado desde entonces, y esos programas ahora solo pueden ser mostrados en los dos canales para adultos.

Advertencia al consumidor
El asesoramiento al consumidor es obligatorio para todos los programas MA15+ y únicos. Así como para las series muy cortas clasificadas M o superiores (como largometrajes, miniseries y documentales). Las redes comerciales han estado proporcionando asesoramiento al consumidor a todos los programas PG y M de todos modos. A partir del 8 de febrero de 2019, Nine Network, Seven Network, Network 10 y SBS junto con las redes regionales Prime7, GWN7, WIN Television y NBN Television ya no utilizan tableros de pantalla completa y de voz, antes del comienzo de un programa. En lugar de ello, optó por un pequeño cuadro de texto en la esquina inferior derecha (Nine) y superior izquierda (SBS, WIN, GWN7, Prime7, Seven y 10), mientras que ABC y Foxtel continúan usando tableros de pantalla completa y voz en off antes del comienzo de un programa.

El asesoramiento al consumidor se realiza mediante un anuncio escrito y verbal en pantalla completa al comienzo del programa, anunciando la clasificación, así como enumerando el tipo y la fuerza y/o la frecuencia de cualquier elemento clasificable. Además, cuando un programa lleva un aviso al consumidor, se muestran las abreviaturas apropiadas junto con el símbolo de clasificación después de cada corte comercial. También suelen aparecer en las guías de programación, normalmente en minúsculas para distinguirlas de las clasificaciones primarias. En general, estas abreviaturas son las siguientes:

A: se utiliza para programas con temas de adultos o procedimientos médicos.
V: se usa para programas que representan violencia.
L: se usa para programas de lenguaje grosero.
S: se usa para programas que muestran escenas de sexo simuladas y/o referencias.
H: se usa para programas que contienen temas de horror o sobrenaturales.
D: se utiliza para programas con referencias y/o uso de drogas.
N: se utiliza para programas que contienen desnudos.

Para la violencia, el lenguaje grosero y escenas de sexo, la intensidad y/o frecuencia se menciona delante del consejo del consumidor. Estos incluyen: "mild (suave)", "stylised (estilizada)", "some (algo)", "frequent (frecuente)" o "strong (fuerte)". Por ejemplo: "strong violence scenes (escenas de violencia fuerte)".

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