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An Argentine Excursion: Film Frames and Talk Therapy
By Mark Street and Lynne Sachs (with Pablo Marin)
Published in GONZO CIRCUS Spring 2009
Our cinematic relationship to Argentina began in March of 2007, when the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI) invited Lynne to show a retrospective of her films. During the one week she was in this film-crazy city, she met Pablo Marin and Leandro Listorti, two extraordinarily active Argentine filmmakers with a commitment to making movies and screening and writing about their thriving alternative film community. While most of Buenos Aires was boasting about the burgeoning movie industry in Palermo Hollywood, or a lunch-time spotting of temporary denizen Francis Ford Coppola, Leandro and Pablo were mining San Telmo flea markets for Super 8 cameras or rushing across the city to see a festival screening by American avant-garde super-star Jonas Mekas, age 80 and thriving. Lynne's shared passion for experimental film quickly assured her that she had found a city she wanted to share with Mark, her husband and sometime artistic collaborator.
In June 2008, we packed our bags, got on a plane and moved to Buenos Aires for two months, studying Spanish as a family (with our two preteen daughters), shooting film and diving even deeper into the experimental film scene. We learned to speak Argentine Spanish (the "y" sound is pronounced "j", so "Yo" becomes "Jo" and "pollo" become "pojo"), eat dinner late and spend hours sobremesa (at table) chatting and sipping wine into the night. This land can make you feel impatient and shallow, as the Argentine filmmakers we met seemed to relish spending time discussing their movies as well as the political issues of the day (multiple agricultural protests) in Europeanist distended style. Maybe it comes from the Argentine obsession with psychoanalysis, but talk is not considered passé here.
Our apartment was near the Museo d'Arte Latino Buenos Aires (MALBA) where we relished the best modern art collection in town, as well as a full film schedule. We saw a Hugo Fregonese retrospective, as well as the hilarious campy ¨Esperando la Carroza¨ by Juan Carlos Lenardi which friends had recommended. What a way to learn Spanish. It's like learning English by watching "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
A lynchpin of the scene is the urbane and witty Ruben Guzman. A prolific filmmaker and programmer, Ruben had moved to Canada in the 80's but recently returned to make work and program in Buenos Aires. The Kino Palais at the Palais de Glace shows 4 nights a week in a cavern-like space in the back of the museum. It's an underground club hidden in a 19th century ice skating rink (no kidding). This is where we presented our X-Y Chromosome Project, a subjective take on global warming, to the Buenos Aires community for three nights in July. Here's what they saw:
From archival snips of an educational film on the weather to cine poems in full blossom, New York film "avant-gardeners" Mark Street and Lynne Sachs present the X-Y Chromosome Project .This program of ten short films on both single and double screen gleans audio-visual crops from the dust of the filmmakers' fertile and fallow imaginations. In this avalanche of visual ruminations on nature's topsy-turvy shakeup of our lives, Street and Sachs ponder a city child's tentative excavation of the urban forest, winter wheat, and the great American deluge of the 21st Century (so far).
Over Peruvian dinner, Ruben introduced us to Federico Windhausen, an Argentine-American media arts historian currently living and teaching in California, but a man whose Argentine roots run deep. Federico is the best informal cultural guide we've ever encountered, anywhere. He was constantly suggesting film screenings, theatre and dance pieces (in the plaza of the Biblioteca Nacional, for instance) and ice cream (helado) places. The Argentine obsession with ice cream is legendary. Once at an asado (barbecue) in the country, the conversation wound its way from politics to movies to children's attributes with nary a raised voice. When it came time to order helados though the guests argued vehemently and passionately in defense of their favorite flavors.
Whenever we found the conversation turning to the subject of Argentine experimental film there was one name that never failed to come up: Narcisa Hirsch. Over the last forty years, this grand dame of South American cinema has earned a well deserved reputation for making extraordinary films that are both formally rigorous and deeply personal. Inspired by the feminists and the Fluxus artists she met and worked with in Europe in the 1960s and '70's, Narcisa brought back her profound appreciation for avant-garde film to the artist community she knew and loved in Buenos Aires. In the company of her good friend Ruben and Paula Felix-Didier, the director of the Museo de Cine, Lynne spent a fascinating afternoon with Narcisa in her home-studio discussing her forty year filmmaking career, her children and grandchildren and her farm in Bariloche, in the south of Argentina.
Pablo Marin is one of the guiding forces of experimental cinema in Buenos Aires, and his blog La Region Central (title taken from the Michael Snow film) is an amazing living document.
Once Pablo and Mark spent the hour just before dusk shooting 16mm film around some stands that sell meat and sausages right next to the Reserva Ecologica. Later Mark and he drank beers in a café on the Avenida Corrientes (sort of the psychic artery of the city). Mark asked him to give a quick historical overview of the past.
The early Argentine experimental period is represented by just a bunch of separate films, made by filmmakers that didn't pursue a total exploration of the medium and, most importantly, didn't think in terms of a community or movement. Horacio Coppola, a leading name in Argentinian still photography, made a few films during the 1920s and '30s. His most important is Traum, a 16mm film that reminds me of the French-German Surrealists.
Víctor Iturralde and Luis Bras were a couple of pioneers of experimental animation in the '50s and '60s. They mostly painted and scratched on celluloid films in 35mm, 16mm and Super 8mm."
The 1970s and 80s were a strong and vital period for experimental film in Argentina. An actual alternative film community was born. During the 70s, we experienced a military coup d'etat which resulted in little contact with the experimental film world abroad. Our productions were more scarce and individualized. Many films were made (mostly all in 8mm and Super 8) but the conditions of exhibition were totally underground and unconnected (garages, houses, etc). All this began to change in the early 80s when Buenos Aires' Goethe Institute began showcasing as well as protecting these films and filmmakers. Under the Goethe's umbrella (to put it visually), this kind of film practice could grow without fear of persecution (that's why the government reaction was never that intense) and with more support for the movement collectively. The highest point of this Goethe period (if one could call it that) was in 1980, when the Institute held a workshop of experimental film with German filmmaker Werner Nekes. In this period many artists were working, such as Claudio Caldini (Super 8, Single 8), Narcisa Hirsch (16mm, Super 8) and Jorge Honik (Super 8). Other names include Juan Villola, Horacio Vallereggio, Marie Louise Alemann, Juan José Mugni and Silvestre Byrón. The films where shown in bigger, more social, environments but the reaction of the audience was mostly hostile. Once at a screening of Caldini's Gamelan the audience started booing and shouting and turning off and on the lights ! It is also important to note that in this period these filmmakers were more in touch with international, experimental film production. To name a few screenings, there' was Jonas Mekas' 1962 screening of Guns of the Trees at Mar del Plata Film Fest and in 1965 the Di Tella Art Institut screened a bunch of New American films (Mekas, Brakhage, Warhol, etc.). Besides that, Narcisa Hirsch traveled a lot to buy film prints that even today represent the most important private, experimental film archive in Buenos Aires.
Since 1990, experimental media has for the most part switched drastically towards video even though makers such as Caldini and Hirsch continue to produce films. The opening of several film schools makes experimental film more accessible and more studied. The public screenings of international works have gained a solid following mainly through Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival and Mar del Plata, and it is also more common to see screenings of local experimental works at these venues. Some of the important names are: Andres Denegri, Gustavo Galuppo, Gabriela Golder, Ruben Guzman (all in video), Daniela Cugliandolo (Super 8, video) and Sergio Subero (Super 8, video).
With this backdrop for experimental film all around us, we tried to let ourselves be charged as artists in Buenos Aires, too, and move ahead with our own work. Mark shot 16mm film and videotape attempting to capture the idiosyncrasy of the city, following up on his 2008 film Hidden in Plain Sight (a city symphony film shot in Dakar, Hanoi, Marseille and Santiago de Chile). He became obsessed with the cartonieres, the gleaners who sift through trash to sell cardboard on the outskirts of town, and the portreros, the men who sit behind glass windows at middle class apartment buildings watching and waiting. He is currently editing the project, tentatively titled Fans of Argentina (based on the store displays that feature industrial fans running at different speeds, like enormous film shutters).
With Argentine super 8 filmmakers Leandro Listorti, Pablo Marin and Tomas Dota, Lynne shot an experimental narrative inspired by Julio Cortazar short story Final del Juego about four girls who stand by a passing train everyday posing like "sculptures and attitudes." The film is very much about longing, the rite of passage between childhood and adulthood, and performance of an inner self. The crew of cinema friends shot with a real potpourri of formats – from obsolete Kodak Regular 8 to Super 8mm, 16mm and video. Our daughters Maya and Noa and their two Argentine friends Lena and Chiara Peroni were hopping on and off trains throughout the summer as part of the production. The film used the entire city as a set – including the Tigre Train line that sweeps through the Parque Palermo, the majestic Retiro train station, the flea market in San Telmo's Plaza Dorrego, and a quiet backyard on the outskirts of the city.
Our last day in Buenos Aires we walked a few blocks to a huge multiplex and caught Lucretia Martel's brandnew "La Mujer Sin Cabeza" while our kids took in a dubbed version of Mamma Mia at the screen next door. As we munched a last alfajore walking back to the apartment to collect our security deposit we came up with the idea of curating a film screening in NYC upon our return.
On February 21, 2009, we showed thirteen Super 8, video and 35mm films from Argentina at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. In curating "Ventana al Sur: An Evening of Argentine Experimental Film" we culled films from a whole array of non-traditional works made over the last 3 decades, some by veteran masters and mistresses (Leandro Katz, Liliana Porter and Narcisa Hirsch) and some by young upstarts and renegades (Pablo Marin, Ruben Guzman, Macarena Gagliardi, Sergio Subero,Leandro Listordi, Ernesto Baca) with newfound passions for the moving image. Here are descriptions of just a few of the works we showed:
Leandro Katz's "Los Angeles" (5 min., 16mm, 1976) is a portrait of a small community living by the railroad tracks in the banana plantation region of Quiriguá, Guatemala. Originally a single take, this film alternates equal number of moving frames and frozen frames as the camera tracks alongside the train station.
Narcisa Hirsch's Workshop (10 min.,16mm 1977) is a structuralist vision. One wall of the filmmaker's studio as seen through a fixed camera. We see photos she's stuck on the wall, then there is a dialogue with a male friend to whom she is describing the rest of the walls that you don't see. A "one upmanship" of a similar film by Michael Snow where he describes a wall of his studio- workshop, by describing what one CAN see.
Bajo Tierra (4 1/2 min., Super 8, sound on CD, 2007) is Pablo Marin's portrait of filmmaker Claudio Caldini who makes a new cinematic offering in front of the no-longer-industrialized Kodachrome.
In Montevideo (4 minutes, DVD, 2008) by Leandro Listorti looks at the capital of Uruguay reveals, briefly, its characteristic of a Doppelgänger City: a single place cut in two spaces where two pairs of creatures explore the limits of the travelogue.
In Stock (5 minutes, 2007, mini DV ) by Ruben Guzman follows a boy from La Cruz who walks to school to read aloud the stock market report from the newspaper. We are witness to the last day of capitalism.
Ernesto Baca's Nunca Fuimos Allah Luna (7 min., 35mm, 2008) presents two characters on split screens,, conversing and arguing as the city unspools kinetically behind them.
The show was packed with Argentine expats, curiosity seekers, and hard core experimentalists who wanted to see how subversive cinematic effusions looked from the land where summer is winter and winter is summer. We served yerba mate from communal gourds at the show—there's no caffeine in mate, but there is something in there, and the room seemed to float on the wings of a filmic reverie. We also served sweet dessert churros (filled with dulce de leche of course) purchased at the famous Buenos Aires Bakery in Queens.
Driving back home we played back images from the screen in our heads—the frantic single frame pace of Narcisa Hirsch's Aleph, the wry and witty animated vignettes of Liliana Porter's Para Usted/For You and the truncated urban space of Pablo Marin's Sin Titulo, shot on an apartment building roof in Buenos Aires. As distinctive as New York is, it also recalls other cities, in a similar way that Buenos Aires can seem like Paris or Madrid, refracted, if you squint your eyes just right. As revelers in Brooklyn ducked in and out of bars at 11 pm, it felt as if an Argentine night was just beginning.
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Pinnipedia was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant.
It was reranked as the suborder Pinnipedia by Flower (1883), Lydekker (1885), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Ameghino (1897), Hay (1902), Gregory (1910), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Kovacs and Lavigne (1986), Tomida (1989), Vidal (1991), Ginsburg and Janvier (1999), Adam (2004) and Boessenecker and Churchill (2016); it was reranked as the infraorder Pinnipedia by Deméré (1994); it was synonymized subjectively with Phocoidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pinnipedia by Ameghino (1889), Kellogg (1922), Berta et al. (1989), Berta (1994), Kohno et al. (1995), Kohno (1996), Rice (1998), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta et al. (2006), Kohno and Ray (2008), Berta (2009), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Valenzuela-Toro et al. (2015) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Pinnata by Bonaparte (1850); to Unguiculata by Ameghino (1889); to Sarcobora by Ameghino (1897); to Mammalia by Illiger (1811), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Abel (1919); to Ferae by Gregory (1910) and Kellogg (1922); to Eutheria by Nowak (1991); to Arctoidea by Kohno et al. (1995) and Kohno (1996); to Ursida by Rice (1998); to Pinnipediformes by Berta (1994), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003) and Berta (2009); to Carnivora by Flower (1883), Lydekker (1885), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Kovacs and Lavigne (1986), Tomida (1989), Vidal (1991), Deméré (1994), Ginsburg and Janvier (1999), Adam (2004), Kohno and Ray (2008) and Boessenecker and Churchill (2016); and to Pinnipedimorpha by Berta et al. (1989), Berta et al. (2006), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Valenzuela-Toro et al. (2015) and Berta (2017).
Phoca modesta was named by Leidy (1869). Its type specimen is ANSP 10323, a tooth (tooth), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ashley River (Miocene Marl), which is in a Miocene marine marl in South Carolina.
It was recombined as Squalodon modestus by Allen (1880) and Hay (1902); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce (2002), Dooley (2003) and Uhen et al. (2008).


Not to be confused with 01 or ZERO-ONE.
0/1 ANGEL's pop'n music banner.
0/1 ANGEL's REFLEC BEAT jacket.
And can you tell me some what's news?
Let's go to outside! You need a break time!
Hey? can you hear my voice?
OH MY! Is that true!? Did you fall in love some pretty girl?
Is she cute? Cutie more than me?
Tell me! Tell me! look at me!
What can I say about it, so may be..."I like you"
Let's go to outside! Change your feeling!
A long version of 0/1 ANGEL appears on the pop'n music Vocal Best 4 album.
A remastered version of the same long version appears on the 0/1 ANGEL album.
The REFLEC BEAT series use a short edit of this album version.
A remix of 0/1 ANGEL, with the vocals credited to さなろいど, appears on Seiya Murai's first album, plug+program.
Another remix of 0/1 ANGEL, a softer rock-like version sung by Sana, appears on the pop'n music Cafe music Espresso CD.
DanceDanceRevolution Winx Club uses a shorter version of 0/1 ANGEL, mostly removing the intro.
0/1 ANGEL is the first appearance of Alt in pop'n music.
In the REFLEC BEAT series, 0/1 ANGEL's artist was changed to ALT.
DanceDanceRevolution Winx Club adds the genre to the artist's name. As such, 0/1 ANGEL's artist is shown as V.C.O. Featuring Alt : A.I.TECHNO.
In DanceDanceRevolution Winx Club, 0/1 ANGEL's dance choreography was recycled from Desert Journey.
Curiously, Desert Journey and 0/1 ANGEL share some similarities: both are 140 BPM and are in the key of C-sharp/D-flat major.
0/1 ANGEL appears as DLC for the American version of pop'n music (Wii), in the Techno pack.
0/1 ANGEL received a new jacket in ポップンリズミン.
The "mass-produced singing speech synthesis technology" and "interesting music software" Seiya Murai references in the song production information for 0/1 ANGEL is referring to VocalWriter, a singing speech synthesizer for unrestricted English lyrics created by KAE Labs in 1999. The "Alt" voice is actually VocalWriter's "Sarah" voice.
"My name is Alt, listen to my song!"
I devote a lot of taste to every time V.C.O. appears♪ But, this time, I got especially obsessed with sound!
First, the rhythm and the sound effects. The fact is that it sounds like something from a portable video gaming console. (laughs) I've got this little interesting music software, and I wanted to use it as a musical instrument by all means, so I created this song.
So that...is why the lyrics are not quite "right", perhaps. It feels like my grasp of English gradually disappeared, and now it's gone. Well, I just feel things, so don't analyze the meaning of the grammar because that'll just make it weird for you!
It's ALT, the electronic computer idol, in her heartful debut!
※ Denotes chart has been revised from the corresponding AC chart (total notes: 80).


Midorisō is a really nice ryokan, conveniently located between Makurazaki and Kagoshima city — our next destination. Unfortunately we took a wrong turn and as a result of that we didn't have much time here. That was too bad, because especially the rotenburo is very nice. The indoor bath wasn't bad either. The only inconvenience is that it is separated from the rotenburo, so you have to get dressed and undressed again when you want change baths.
The men's and women's rotenburo are each on one side of a small lake. This is the men's bath.


Travelers find adventures by themselves! Today Daddy Leo bought a lottery ticket. What a pleasant surprise awaits our Dad, Mom, boys and girls at this time? Baby Hippo scratches the protective coating and wins Super prize - a great trip for the whole family! Now is the time to take things and go to the airport. They are waiting for an exciting adventure!
Free games for kids replenished remarkable novelty, again. At this time, baby Hippo and the whole family goes to the airport to go on a fun journey. In this collection, in addition to the scratch game includes educational games for kids united theme - HOS. These games are great for the little ones, they develop kids attention and coordination. And all this takes place unobtrusively. We add the pleasant music, funny characters, various adventures and everybody will get a lot of fun, conducted with great benefit to your child.
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National Defence Fund Regulations
The 1967 National Convention gave the National Executive Board responsibility for approving regulations governing the use of the National Defence Fund. The regulations were most recently amended in September 2002 to reflect the separation of the fund into a National Strike Fund and a National Defence Fund and to clarify criteria and reporting requirements.
These documents include the regulations, forms, and a quick reference chart.
Form: Cost-Shared Campaign Request
Form: Campaign Evaluation
Quick reference chart: How to access NDF and NSF financial support

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The key that unlocks the sales potential of your e-book is to find a single sentence that becomes your selling handle. This sentence states what question or drawback your book... manufacturing costs, and marketing. But the fact that unites ebooks and print books is that they are composed of ideas. It's the ideas in these books which have the power to alter, or presumably remodel, folks's lives.
Description : Elizabeth lies in a coma, on the brink of death, and Jessica's emotions are shattered. "Sweet Valley High #07" written by Kate William, Francine Pascal with ISBN_13 0553240013 and ISBN_10 9780553240016 with total page sheets [-150-].


I've got dozens and dozens of cassette tapes of teachings and the like, collected mainly in the 80's and 90's. I have no time to listen to them again, and I suspect that over the last 20 or 30 years they have printed through into audio mush.
Any ideas on how to dispose of them in a manner that's environmentally responsible and also dharmically respectful?
There are visualizations for this.
I certainly don't remember the details, so you'll want to check, but the essence seems to be that you want to visualize the letters of the Buddha's teaching leaving the physical object to be discarded and entering your crown/absorbing into your heart. Then burn (if it's paper) or, in the case of tapes, dispose of them however is most environmentally friendly.
I have never done this, but my preference would also be to recite mantra while doing so, and then recite Vajrasattva mantra to purify any mistakes.


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The rate of mother to child HIV transmission is at an all-time low in the UK, according to a paper published in the journal AIDS.
The study examined over 12 000 pregnancies in women diagnosed with HIV before or during pregnancy and delivered in 2000-2011; there was a four-fold drop in the rate of mother to child transmissions, from 2.1% in 2000-2001 to 0.46% in 2010-2011.
Dr Claire Townsend (UCL Institute of Child Health) said: "Mother to child HIV transmission is now at the lowest level ever in the UK & Ireland, and as far as we're aware such low levels have never been reported on such a large scale."
The continued fall in transmission rates is thought to be due to a combination of factors including earlier initiation of antenatal combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) and an increase in the number of women already on cART when they conceive.
These new statistics are in line with the World Health Organisation's goal of virtual elimination of mother to child transmission by 2015. The dramatic fall in the transmission rate in the UK can also be attributed to a very high uptake of antenatal HIV screening, which is offered to all pregnant women, and a multi-disciplinary approach to the management of HIV positive pregnant women and their babies.
The study found that there was a marked decline in the proportion of diagnosed HIV-positive pregnant women who received no antenatal cART from 3.3% in 2000-2006 to 1% in 2007-2011 and an increase in the duration of treatment during pregnancy. A longer duration of treatment was significantly associated with reduced transmission risk.
The study also highlighted the extensive inequalities in the availability of interventions to prevent mother to child HIV transmission worldwide. In the UK 99% of diagnosed HIV positive pregnant women receive cART, whilst UNAIDS estimates that similar treatment regimes in West and Central Africa reach only 27%. The statistics within Europe also show a large gap in access to treatment with transmission rates as much as 4-10 times higher in some parts of Eastern Europe (0.46% transmission in the UK, compared to 2-4% in Russia and 4-5% in the Ukraine), where prevalence of HIV in pregnant women is higher and access to antiretroviral drugs more limited.
Dr Townsend added: "To maintain, and even improve on, these low transmission rates it's vital that we continue to test early for HIV in pregnancy and provide appropriate support to all HIV-positive mothers."


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Илья Руко́бер () — российско-немецкий рестлер, более известный под именем Илья Драгунов, выступающий в WWE на бренде NXT, где является бывшим чемпионом Соединённого Королевства NXT.

До подписания контракта с WWE, Драгунов выступал в европейских независимых промоушенах, а также участвовал в Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), где он был чемпионом мира wXw в тяжёлом весе, трёхкратным командным чемпионом wXw и двукратным чемпионом wXw Shotgun.

Рукобер — первый рестлер российского происхождения, когда-либо выступавший в WWE, а также первый чемпион российского происхождения в истории компании.

Ранние годы
Рукобер родился в Москве, и переехал в Дрезден, Германию со своей матерью, когда ему было пять лет. Ни он, ни его мать не говорили на немецком языке. До того, как заняться рестлингом, Рукобер с юных лет работал на разных случайных работах, чтобы обеспечивать свою семью, включая работу в пиццерии и на заправочной станции.

Карьера в рестлинге
Рукобер начал свою профессиональную карьеру рестлера в учебной школе German Wrestling Federation (GWF) под руководством ветеранов Рика Баккстера и Акселя Тишера (который выступал в WWE под именем Александр Вульф). Он дебютировал на ринге в 2012 году. Год спустя он стал постоянным рестлером в wXw и оставался там до тех пор, пока не подписал контракт с WWE.

Progress Wrestling (2018—н.в.)
14 мая 2018 года на Super Strong Style 16 генеральный менеджер wXw Кристиан Майкл Якоби прибыл на Progress Wrestling и вызвал Пита Данна на матч с Драгуновым в неустановленную дату. На Chapter 69 Драгунов впервые появился в промоушене, вступив в бой с Данном, к большому удовольствию Якоби. На Chapter 72 Данн принял вызов, и матч был назначен на предстоящем мероприятии Progress на Wembley Arena. На Chapter 75 Якоби продолжил оскорблять Данна, который вытащил Якоби на ринг, чтобы напасть на него, прежде чем Драгунов спас его, и двое снова встретились лицом к лицу. Во время тура Progress по Германии, на шоу Oberhausen, Данн вызвал Драгунова после победы British Strong Style над Rise (Иван Киев, Лаки Кид и Пит Баунсер). И снова между ними произошла драка, которую пришлось разнимать официальным лицам. 1 октября дебютный матч Драгунова за «Прогресс» закончился поражением, когда Данн поймал Драгунова за руку, а затем манипулировал его рукой, чтобы принудить к сдаче.

Драгунов начал 2019 год с победы над Тимоти Тэтчер на Chapter 83, но не появлялся в промоушене до Super Strong Style 16. В первую ночь Драгунов победил Криса Брукса в первом раунде. Во вторую ночь он быстро победил Тревора Ли в четвертьфинале, а в третью ночь провел тройной матч на выбывание в полуфинале с Дэвидом Старром и Трэвисом Бэнксом. Драгунов был первым рестлером, которого выбили, когда Бэнкс победил его по отсчёту. На Chapter 91 он победил Джордана Девлина в матче претендентов на матч за звание чемпиона мира Progress, но на следующий день, на Chapter 92, он потерпел поражение от Вальтера.

На Chapter 95 Драгунов принял участие в матче за титул чемпиона Proteus, который заменил титул чемпиона Atlas. Драгунов вошёл в матч под вторым номером и выбил Ниву, ТК Купера и Чака Мамбо, прежде чем он и Уильям Ивер одновременно устранили друг друга. С октября по декабрь он участвовал в серии матчей с Кара Нуар. Обменявшись победами друг над другом на Chapter 96 и Chapter 97, фьюд закончился на Chapter 99 в матче с двумя падениями из трёх, в котором Драгунов проиграл.

WWE (2019—н.в.)

NXT UK (2019—2022)
В январе 2019 года сообщалось, что Рукобер подпишет контракт с WWE с намерением выступать для британского бренда NXT UK. Ранее он пробовал участвовать в промоушене в ноябре 2013 года, но получил травму черепа, из-за которой не выступал почти год. У него была вторая попытка в Кёльне во время европейского турне WWE в ноябре 2018 года, где он, как говорили, «вскружил голову». 27 февраля 2019 года WWE официально объявила о его подписании.

В эпизоде NXT UK от 15 мая (записанном 19 апреля) Драгунов дебютировал на бренде, победив Джека Старца. Затем он начал короткую победную серию, одолев Джозефа Коннерса в эпизоде от 12 июня (записанном 20 апреля), и Эштона Смита в эпизоде 10 июля (записанном 16 июня). Однако это закончилось в эпизоде 15 августа (записанном 19 июля), когда Драгунов потерпел поражение от Кассиуса Оно. 31 августа, на NXT UK TakeOver: Cardiff, Драгунов ответил на открытый вызов Сезаро проигрышной попыткой.

В эпизоде NXT UK от 17 октября (записанном 4 октября) Драгунов победил Саксона Хаксли под бдительным оком Александра Вульфа. После победы Вульф аплодировал Драгунову, что привело к битве взглядов с русским, когда к нему присоединились Марсель Бартель и Фабиан Айхнер. Однако это не превратилось в драку, так как Бартель и Айхнер прошли мимо Драгунова в их матче против Охоты (Примат и Дикий Кабан), в то время как Вульф отвел его назад, предположительно, чтобы убедить его присоединиться к Империуму.

В эпизоде NXT UK от 11 ноября (записанном 5 октября) Драгунов, по-видимому, присоединился к Империуму в их продолжающейся вражде с Галлусом (Джо Коффи , Марк Коффи и Вольфганг), прежде чем вступить в союз с шотландцами, которые затем устроили драку на ринге, когда шоу вышло из эфира. В эпизоде NXT UK от 21 ноября (записаном 15 ноября) Драгунов был побежден Вульфом, а после матча был побит другими членами Империума, прежде чем Галлус спас его. В выпуске NXT UK от 28 ноября (записанном 15 ноября), Драгунов вместе с Галлусом сражались с «Империумом» до двойного отсчёта. Хотя он и обидел Вульфа, его в основном одолели другие члены Империума, включая вызов на финал xXw 16 Carat Gold 2017 года с его лидером Вальтером.

В эпизоде NXT UK от 5 декабря (записанном 15 ноября) Драгунов появился во время этапа переговоров по главному событию между Вальтером и Джо Коффи для их титульного матча на NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II. Вальтер хотел, чтобы Драгунов встретился с Вульфом в матче без дисквалификации в будущем, но Коффи отказался, так как Драгунов не был членом Галлуса. Затем Вальтер сказал: «Нет Ильи, нет сделки», на что Драгунов вышел из-за спины и сказал Коффи заключить соглашение. После переговоров Вальтер сказал Драгунову, что он принял действительно плохое решение, и что русский попал в засаду со стороны других членов «Империума», прежде чем Вульф бросил его через стол. В выпуске NXT UK от 2 января 2020 года (записанном 16 ноября 2019 года), Драгунов победил Вульфа в матче без дисквалификации. В отместку он был побит Бартелем и Айхнером после матча.

Во время титульного матча главного события между Вальтером и Джо Коффи 12 января 2020 года на NXT UK Takeover: Blackpool II Вульф вмешался в матч, атакуя Коффи, в результате чего Драгунов вышел и провёл приём Торпедо Москва на Вульфе, в результате чего Вульф случайно упал на левое колено Коффи и травмировал Коффи. В результате, после того, как командные чемпионы NXT UK, Галлус (Марк Коффи и Вольфганг) победили Онея Лоркана и Дэнни Берча в эпизоде NXT UK 13 февраля 2020 года, Драгунов вышел, чтобы противостоять Коффи и Галлусу, но это привело к избиению Драгунова Коффи и Галлусом. Это произошло из-за того, что Коффи заявил, что Драгунов задолжал «фирме Галлус», и привело к матчу между Драгуновым и Коффи в эпизоде NXT UK от 20 февраля 2020 года, где Драгунов победил Коффи. После матча Марк Коффи и Вольфганг Галлуса появились, чтобы совершить послематчевое нападение на Драгунова, но Джо Коффи остановил их и сообщил Драгунову, что он выплатил свой долг и что теперь всё улажено. 22 августа, на шоу NXT Takeover 36, победил Вальтера, став новым чемпионом NXT UK, прервав тем самым чемпионство Вальтера, длившийся 870 дней.

Он был вынужден отказаться от титула 7 июля 2022 года после травмы.

NXT (с 2022)
В эпизоде NXT от 20 сентября Драгунов совершил свое возвращение, прервав сегмент между чемпионом NXT Броном Брейккером и претендентом номер один Джей Ди Макдоной.

Титулы и достижения
 CBS Sports
 Матч года (2020) пр. Вальтера
 German Wrestling Federation/Next Step Wrestling
 Чемпион NSW в тяжёлом весе (1 раз)
 Европейский чемпион NSW (1 раз)
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 PWI ставит его под № 72 среди 500 рестлеров PWI 500 в 2022
 Westside Xtreme Wrestling
 Чемпион мира wXw в тяжёлом весе (1 раз)
 Командный чемпион wXw (3 раза) — с Робертом Драйскером (1), Грязным Драганом и Джулианом Неро (1), Вальтером (1)
 Чемпион wXw Shotgun (2 раза)
 WWE
 Чемпион Соединенного Королевства NXT (1 раз)

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State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu yesterday said gazette on the rules to implement the new labour law will be published within 10 days, reports UNB.
The came up with the disclosure while talking to reporters at his Secretariat office in the capital.
The labour law enacted in 2006 was amended in 2013. But still there is no rule to implement the new law.
Earlier, a delegation of Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety made a call on the state minister.
About the meeting, the junior minister said they discussed the security of workers as well as fire-safety measures of garment buildings.
"We also informed them about our initiatives. We told them that our garment owners have purchased machineries for security of their workers," he added.
The delegation expressed satisfaction over the government's initiatives to ensure worker safety, saying they will provide loan with lower interest rate to purchase machineries and take step to increase the price of Bangladeshi garment products.
State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu yesterday said gazette on the rules to implement the new labour law will be published within 10 days, reports UNB. The came up with the disclosure while talking to reporters at his Secretariat office in the capital. The labour law enacted in 2006 was amended in 2013. But still there is no rule to implement the new law. Earlier, a delegation of Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety made a call on the state minister. About the meeting, the junior minister said they discussed the security of workers as well as fire-safety measures of garment buildings. We also informed them about our initiatives. We told them that our garment owners have purchased machineries for security of their workers, he added. The delegation expressed satisfaction over the governments initiatives to ensure worker safety, saying they will provide loan with lower interest rate to purchase machineries and take step to increase the price of Bangladeshi garment products.


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Did We Sell Each Other Into Slavery: Misconceptions About the African Involvement in the Slave Trade
Very often I see comments by people who argue that Africans sold each other into slavery. To speak of the slave trade solely as Africans selling each other t is a gross oversimplification of what was a complex historical event. This also seems to be an attempt to shift the burden of the slave trade on the victims of that very trade.
Dwayne Wong (Omowale)
Kidnapping Elephants Won't Save Them
The actions taken by the Dallas Zoo, the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, and Wichita's Sedgwick County Zoo have done nothing to help elephants but will irrefutably harm them for decades to come. All three zoos should be roundly condemned by everyone who cares about elephants.
Ingrid Newkirk
Umgawa! Me Tarzan...
Many moons ago, on the first day of an elective class on African Studies in college, my professor handed out a blank map
DIEDRE WARE
Time to Abolish Columbus Day
Once again this year many schools will pause to commemorate Christopher Columbus. Given everything we know about who Columbus was and what he launched in the Americas, this needs to stop.
Bill Bigelow
Rhode Island's Episcopal Church Confronts Historical Ties To Slave Trade
The Diocese of Rhode Island is building a museum that will tell the story about how the church once profited from slavery.
Carol Kuruvilla
Despite Honest Attempts at Universality, "Amazing Grace" Falls Short
As the curtain closes, Amazing Grace gets a standing ovation, with shouts and tears to boot. Maybe, I missed something. Maybe, I don't understand. It's okay that I don't like it because someone else did. But for me, it is not enough. It's too trapped in "history" to acknowledge the history that resides inside us.
Alexandra Villarreal
'Roots' Remake Set To Air As Mini Series Event
"Roots," one of the biggest events in television history, is coming back to the small screen.
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The Average Hipster Employs 27 Slaves Each Day. Here's How To Change That
To learn more about Made in a Free World and FRDM, click here. But there are ways consumers can get informed on the products
Robbie Couch
An Open Letter to My Mom and Black Women
Multiracial, intergenerational communities have proudly proclaimed that Black lives matter. But "Black lives matter" seems to be associated only with Black men. I want to tell you, Mom, that when I chant those three words, when I march, lie in the streets, or raise my hands symmetrically in the air, I do so to assert your humanity too. You are worthy.
N'Kosi Oates
Rare Portrait of a Slave En Route to American Colonies Recalls Horrors of the Middle Passage
Portraits of individual Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas are incredibly rare, and in virtually all instances the portraits were done long after the horrors of the Middle Passage. There is one clear exception to this rule, however.
Thomas Davidson
Bristol, R.I.: Sinister Past, Exquisite Present
Bristol might be one of the most harmonious small towns you'll ever visit. With an abundance of spectacular homes and gardens, this little hard to get to town is now a magnet for destination weddings.
Malerie Yolen-Cohen
What the Modern World Owes Slavery (It's More Than Back Wages)
How would we calculate the value of what we today would call the intellectual property -- in medicine and other fields -- generated by slavery's suffering? I'm not sure. But a revival of efforts to do so would be a step toward reckoning with slavery's true legacy: our modern world.
Ocean Traffic
Only within the past few years have maritime museums around the world addressed human trafficking as part of the larger maritime story.
Chiwetel Ejiofor Recalls The Most Violent Scenes In '12 Years A Slave'
Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor stops by HuffPost Live to chat with Ricky about the most violent scenes in "12 Years A Slave."
The 'S' Word, the 'D' Word and 12 Years a Slave
McQueen's unflinching revelation of Northup's struggle to maintain his dignity under the oppressive institution of slavery is a chance for Americans to engage the conversation we so desperately need -- the conversation about the "s" word -- "slavery."
A Man Who Changed His Times: Part II
As the businessman said to J. Douglas Holladay, "It's easy to make a fortune, but harder to make a difference." William Wilberforce made a difference and he indeed changed his times.
Don Meyer, Ph.D.
The Forgotten Is Another First Rate Adventure Novel From Baldacci
David Baldacci seems to write one book after another but unlike other authors who are this prolific, Baldacci creates stories that are fresh and well planned out. His latest novel The Forgotten is a prime example his action adventure best.
Jackie K Cooper
Skip Gates' New Book On Black History
Coffee-table books are supposed to be heavy, on photos and in pounds. This latest history of black life in America by Henry
Danielle Cadet
Are You Fashion's Slave?
Several organizations such as the Somaly Mam Foundation, Ecpatusa.org and The Body Shop have initiatives in place to combat the slave trade and sex trafficking and of children and young people. But most people are unaware that this is even happening.
Gerit Quealy


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Black Bear Hunting In The Garden State
While hunting potential blossoms in The Garden State, nonresident hunting may wither in Big Sky Country.
By Dr. Dave Samuel
For years, the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (Lisa Jackson, who is now running the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington) and the Governor prevented a much-needed bear hunt to manage a burgeoning bear population. Those folks are now gone, and the present Governor, Chris Christie, has been a breath of fresh air for citizens. Not only does he make sound fiscal decisions, but he is also making common sense wildlife decisions.
After years of frustration for the state's wildlife agency, Christie and sane legislators approved a six-day December bear control hunt. Then he signed a bill that allowed bowhunters to hunt within 150 feet of private homes, instead of the former 450-foot distance. Although such a law has been in place for bowhunters in Pennsylvania since 2006 with no safety problems, doomsday antihunters said that this change would endanger people. They forgot to mention that bowhunters can hunt 150 feet from buildings only on land where they have written permission from the homeowner to hunt. Schools are still off limits to this distance, and gun hunters must still maintain the 450-foot distance.
Few people have noted one major plus that results from this legislation -- the large amount of hunting land the change opens up. A circle with a radius of 450 feet deprives hunters of access to 14.6 acres, while a circle with a 150-foot radius prevents them from hunting only 1.6 acres. So, if bowhunters can now hunt within 150 feet of 10,000 homes, they have gained access to 228 square miles that were closed to bowhunting prior to the change. For 50,000 homes, they've gained access to 1,141 square miles of hunting land. Thanks, Governor!
Montana Outfitters Feel The Pressure
As I write this in early September, Montana outfitters are fighting Initiative 161 that will appear on the November 2010 ballot. That initiative would eliminate outfitter-sponsored nonresident big game and deer combination hunting licenses. Currently, about 5,500 big game combination licenses and 2,250 deer licenses are available through outfitters for nonresidents.
If outfitters lose the outfitter-sponsored licenses, they will no longer be guaranteed of booking clients for any given big game seasons. That fact, combined with the overall down economy, could spell a big hit for Montana outfitters.
What has spawned this initiative? Guaranteed outfitter-sponsored licenses, even though more expensive than general nonresident licenses, upset many nonresident hunters who do not use guides and thus must participate in a lottery to get drawn for licenses. Many resident hunters also resent the fact that nonresidents get guaranteed licenses, which may explain why Initiative 161 calls for a substantial increase in license fees for nonresident elk and deer hunters. As you read this, the vote has already been made. Whichever way it goes, the results will impact nonresident hunting in Montana.
Bowhunters Control Urban Deer
As deer herds continue to grow in urban areas across North America, cities look for effective ways to control deer numbers -- and deer damage. Skilled bowhunters have proven to be one of the most efficient and economical tools for controlling urban deer.
Recently, Duluth, Minnesota, announced that a record-high 339 bowhunters had registered for its 2009 urban deer-control hunts. This, the city's sixth bowhunt, started on September 18, and throughout the fall, bowhunters harvested a total of 586 deer. Urban hunts emphasize the harvest of does, and 492 of the deer bowhunters killed in Duluth were does.
In some cities, bowhunters take an even higher percentage of does. In 2007, bowhunters killed 568 deer in one suburb of Philadelphia, and 551 of those were does. Pretty amazing. Cities call this efficient deer management. Soup kitchens that receive much of the venison harvested in urban hunts call it feeding the hungry. Bowhunters call it their civic duty. Whatever the viewpoint, urban bowhunts are win-win for everyone.
Are Lighted Nocks Worth the Expense?
Curt Wells
Does Antler Size Really Matter To Does?
C.J. Winand
Should You Shoot Does With Fawns?
New Hunting Boots for 2022
The Unmatched Benefits of Tree Saddle Hunting


The American diet or the standard American diet is a kind of diets that is recognized to be extremely unhealthy. I consider that the average American food plan must additionally change and that has to alter soon in any other case we will see an increase within the variety of chubby, overweight, and sick people. I received an thought about an article like this because of an internet site known as The Economic Collapse Weblog. Nicely, the reality is that there's a crisis regarding the weight loss plan of the typical particular person in America. Before we go any further into this, let me say that I'm not a nutritionist and that this is only one perspective. But it is important to increase awareness of the risks associated with unhealthy eating. We're all human and get into unhealthy habits when performing a process that many occasions is identical task each day in the same environment. Most of us do not mean too, we simply do. We need for everybody to have a refresher class on what our company cleansing procedures are. And no, just having someone go over it out within the area in a hurry doesn't suffice which brings me once more to my opposition of training within the discipline with an skilled employee.
This text will take you thru ten a number of alternative questions on Indian labour laws, particular to the Factories Act of 1948. Such questions are useful when making ready for competitive exams. Education is a means of growth. Knowledge modifications with circumstances and it gained by continuous experiments and experiences results in one to a different and so on and the area of data is widened. The method of reconstruction of experiences goes on and results in adjustment and growth of the character. For pragmatists educational course of has no finish past itself. In addition to the individual it is steady, reorganising, reconstructing and integrating the experiences and the activities of the race.
Stress, like a coin, is a two-sided idea, with optimistic and unfavourable dimensions. It is naturally part and parcel of life. While its optimistic aspect acts as an amazing motivator that spurs on an individual in the direction of reaching success in any rewarding endeavour, the unfavorable dimension of stress topics man to emotional, or psychological well being problems. Although consultants have said methods by which stress might be effectively managed, this examine revealed that many people try to handle their stress circumstances via unorthodox means, like alcohol consumption. For many who are conscious of orthodox stress management practices, the odds of persons who actually apply such practices are typically decrease than those that don't.


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'The Wire' and 'Commander in Chief' Actor Dies at 83 – The Hollywood Reporter
Al Brown, who portrayed Stan Valchek, the eventual police commissioner for the Baltimore Police Division in David Simon's The Wire, died Friday. He was 83.
TMZ reported that the actor, who had Alzheimer's illness, handed away Friday in Las Vegas, based on his daughter, Jenny. On Saturday, a press release posted to a Fb account devoted to the actor introduced his Jan. 13 passing.
The actor is finest recognized for his position as Col. Stanislaus Valchek in HBO's The Wire. The critically acclaimed collection, created by David Simon, was set in Baltimore and adopted town's prison dealings by means of the eyes of regulation enforcement and people concerned in its unlawful drug business. The present additionally explored the impression the federal government, faculties and media have on the narcotics scene.
From 2002-08, Brown appeared in 20 episodes of the HBO hit in a recurring position because the commander of the Baltimore Police Division in control of the Southeastern district. His character would typically seem corrupt, having extra of a give attention to his rank and political connections somewhat than creating methods for investigations to scale back crime. He would ultimately rise in rank to police commissioner by means of the identical dealings that had not earned him any mates by the tip of the present's fifth and closing season.
Brown additionally made appearances in different notable crime dramas and procedurals, together with Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit, the place he performed corrections commissioner Tom Sablone in a Season 8 episode. Extra TV credit embody The Hustler, Maron, Commander in Chief, Rescue Me, Forensic Recordsdata and The F.B.I. Recordsdata.
On the movie facet, the actor had smaller roles, together with his look as a policeman in Terry Gilliam's sci-fi hit 12 Monkeys, which starred Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in an Oscar-nominated position. Brown additionally counted Pink Dragon, Liberty Heights, The Replacements and Shot within the Coronary heart amongst his film credit.
His daughter Jenny advised TMZ that earlier than beginning his performing profession within the '90s, Brown served within the U.S. Air Pressure for 2 excursions in Vietnam.
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Latin Music Ruled the Charts in 2020 — and Miami Played a Major Role
Kingg Bucc Teases Forthcoming Project With a New Single, "Turn Me Up"
With "5,000 Candles in the Wind," Li'l Sebastian Tops Elton John's Ode to Princess Diana
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For the second week running, NBC's Parks & Recreation has massaged music dorks' heartstrings. Although the Neutral Milk Hotel gag was a good one, last night's season finale episode decided to top Elton John & Bernie Taupin's song for Marilyn Monroe that was later updated and expanded to honor Princess Diana after her death in 1997. By a mere 5,000.
HUGE SPOILER ALERT: "What's 5,000 times better than 'A Candle in the Wind'?" Andy Dwyer asks seemingly rhetorically. And then he launches into the powerful, Toby Keith-esque tribute to the now-departed Li'l Sebastian, "Pawnee's favorite miniature horse."
Nevermind what trading legs for angel's wings would look like, or any other kicking a dead horse jokes. And you knew a Facebook tribute page wouldn't be far behind. Watch the entire episode with additional "producer's cut" footage here.
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Sexually Transmitted Infections: Rates Increase Among Universities-Aged Population
11/11/2011 10:09am EST | Updated January 11, 2012
It's becoming increasingly common for students to pick up more than a diploma over the span of their university careers.
The rate of reported sexually transmitted infections has increased among the university-aged population, leaving some schools scrambling to come up with ways to curb this growth.
According to a study released by the Public Health Agency of Canada last month, reported cases of certain STIs are highest among Canadians aged 15 to 24.
In the 20-to-24 age group, reported cases of chlamydia per 100,000 population rose from about 620 in 1991 to almost 1,374 in 2009. Symptoms can include painful urination and discharge, and the infection is associated with infertility in women and testicular pain in men.
Cases of the bacterial infection gonorrhea in the same age group were reported at a rate of 100 per 100,000 population in 1991 and grew to 145 cases per 100,000 in 2009.
The Public Health Agency notes that testing for some STIs is less intrusive and more effective than it was in the past, so those numbers might in part reflect an increase in detection.
"But I don't think you can explain it away just like that," says Dr. David Reid, a physician at the University of Prince Edward Island Student Health Centre.
Reid says his clinic has seen an increase in chlamydia cases. The bug is on the rise in the province overall.
He's also seeing an increase in incidents of a particular type of genital warts called molluscum contagiosum. Reid says the trend may be caused by shaving, which can leave the skin with nicks and open wounds that are more prone to infections.
"(Sexually transmitted infections) have always been out there, but I think that there seems to be more risk-taking than there used to be," he says.
For the past two years, Reid has collaborated with students to run a drive that encourages students to sign up to get tested at the campus clinic. This year, the drive was advertised on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter.
"Sometimes it's surprising that people know so little about STIs," says Ziadanne Lewis, who heads a sex education centre at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus. It's lack of awareness among youth that allows these infections to slip by unnoticed and spread.
That's why the public health agency recommends sexual health education as a vital way of preventing infections. School-based programs are effective and convenient, the agency notes, because schools are in frequent contact with young Canadians.
The University of Toronto sex education centre provides students with a chance to chat with a peer counsellor who can offer advice and informational resources around sexual health issues. Lewis says the program is a handy alternative for students who may be intimidated or deterred by the STI information clinics that the university hosts.
Across the country, most universities provide some sort of sexual education. Most of these take the form of lectures and workshops arranged either by the school administration, student groups or both.
At Toronto's York University, an organization called Trans, Bi, Lesbian and Gay Allies at York works along with the school to raise awareness about STIs. The student group invites off-campus speakers to host informal talks two to three times a year. Meanwhile, the university's health education team answers students' anonymous questions about sex and relationships at an event called "Sex on the Couch" several times a month.
Catherine Tsouvaltsidis, the organization's external co-ordinator, says the administration has made sexual health education a priority, but there's always more that can be done.
"You've got to give props where they're due," says Tsouvaltsidis. "They're really pushing hard."
The difficulty, she says, lies in trying to reach those students who aren't actively involved in campus activities. How do you get commuter students, who make up the majority of York's student population, to stick around after class?
"It's easy to hit the students who are here, who are participating in groups," says Tsouvaltsidis. "They're here already; it's easy to target them. But it's hard to target the kid who's like, 'Well I'm only here for my one economics class and then I'm out of here.'"
Tsouvaltsidis says new methods are needed to grab students' attention and get the word out about the workshops that are taking place.
"We need to take our brainstormers on the student side and on the admin side and figure that out."
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I planned to drop off my trash this morning, so I put the bag in the back of the truck last night. I just went outside to make a trash run and pick up one bag of corn for the livestock. The back of my truck was FULL of buzzards. They'd torn open the trash can and scattered chicken bones all over the back of the truck. My truck and the concrete were covered with buzzard poop. I just washed the truck a couple days ago, taking advantage of the warm snap. DAMN.
Back into the house for a new trash bag, rubber gloves, and soap, for the truck will need to be washed before I go anywhere. If I go into town, and somebody says "What in the world are those huge splotches all over your truck?" would they even believe me if I said "buzzard poop"? Would somebody just run over a deer or kill a relative and leave the body out in the field so these birds will have someplace else to eat?
That picture does not do justice to how many were here. They were lined up wing to wing on the roof of the house, on the outbuildings, and in the trees. They were perched all over my truck, and stalking around on the ground amongst the chickens. And buzzard poop…well, I'm going to be busy hosing things off for about an hour.
Well. Perhaps I should look on the bright side. They'd make real short work of any dang zombies that might be lurking.
Alfred Hitchcock may be dead, but this is still creepy.


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Practical issues such as driving, work, holidays, insurance etc.
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Daughter Jeni has just moved from Nantes to Berlin (east side) with husband Stephane and son Jules. Here's Stephane and Jules at the Brandenburg Gate. Jen observes that police had just kicked out people who dress up as former U.S. and Soviet soldiers for picture with gullible tourists. Below: our man Ludwig in famous memorial in park.


How to add Nest Protect to B.One Eazy?
Before starting, make sure you install Nest android or iOS Application on your device and follow the instructions to register the device.
Select Add Device. Under Add A Device, tap on Security and Safety.
Select Smoke/CO Detectors and tap on Nest Protect.
Create an account using Nest mobile App before connecting the device to B.One Eazy. Tap Next. Select I Have An Account. Enter your Nest account credentials. Enter the device Information and tap Done.


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2015: The Year of the Organic McChicken?
In a free market, consumer choice is king, and when those who pay the piper want fresher ingredients, even notorious junk food outlets like McDonald's will be forced to change their tune.
McDonald's is one of the largest chains in the world—selling food in 119 countries and bringing in $35.8 billion in 2013—but in a free market there is no such thing as a true monopoly. Just as Microsoft founder Bill Gates met his match when confronted by the garage startup which became Apple, so McDonald's is facing growing competition from fast-casual restaurants like Chipotle.
Fast-casual is a fresh and rapidly growing concept, where fast food meets high class dining. Restaurants like Chipotle, Noodles & Company, and Panera offer more customized, freshly prepared and high quality food in a classy but laid back setting. Customers get the tastes and options of an expensive restaurant at fast food prices—a perfect blend for cash-conscious, health-nut Millennials.
These restaurants have hit the sweet spot, and grew by 11 percent in 2013. For the past five years, Chipotle's revenue has grown by about 20 percent annually, while McDonald's sits around 2 percent. Yes, the burrito joint still only garnered $3.2 billion in 2013—as compared to the fast-food giant's $35 billion, but at this rate of growth, Chipotle has already cut into the market share significantly. Last November, McDonald's reported a decline of 4.6 percent in U.S. sales.
McDonald's, however, always quick to fit its business to consumer demand, has already announced menu changes to accommodate consumers' increasing interest in healthier ingredients. Mike Andres, president of U.S. operations, told the Associated Press that the fast-food giant is considering different cooking procedures to freshen up its menu.
"Why do we need to have preservatives in our food?" Andres asked. "We probably don't," because McDonald's restaurants go through supplies so quickly, and have a fast supply network. It may be entirely feasible to cut down on preservatives and take the "fat" out of fast food.
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McDonald's also plans to launch a "Create Your Taste" program that lets people choose their own buns, cheeses, and toppings for burgers—much like Chipotle's customized burrito menu.
This decision only confirms a general trend among fast food: the promise to get healthier—a "New Year's Resolution" of sorts, as the Associated Press dubbed it.
On January 1, Subway started airing TV ads for chicken strips free of artificial preservatives and flavors. In December, Carl's Jr. introduced an "all-natural" burger with no added hormones, antibiotics, or steroids. Chick-Fil-A is working toward fulfilling its 2013 promise to remove high-fructose corn syrup from buns and artificial dyes from its dressings, along with the promise to serve chicken raised without antibiotics in 5 years.
This only extends and deepens the trend begun about five years ago when fast food started serving salads along with burgers and fries. In a little while, we may even see an organic, grass-fed McChicken.
As psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz discovered when searching for "the perfect Pepsi," there is no singular product that makes absolutely everyone happy. A cup of coffee engineered to please everyone will only get a 60 percent approval rating. Alternately, if a business designs a blend geared toward a specific group of people, the approval rating will soar to 78 percent. In short, the presence of more options makes the average consumer happier—and the business profits significantly higher. This is one reason fast-casual restaurants are booming, and fast food is hastening to catch up.
These developments serve to confirm Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's declaration that as markets grow more sophisticated, profits and opportunity both increase. One company's success does not necessarily come at another's loss—rather, as each business vies to better serve the consumer, everyone benefits.
Perhaps to Michelle Obama's chagrin, the move toward better nutrition which is finally bringing one of the largest companies in the world to its knees was not centrally planned by a government or a world-organizing body. Individuals expressing their preferences in a free market prove more powerful than any multinational corporation—and everyone will be healthier as a result.
Tyler O'Neil is the Senior Editor of PJ Media and a conservative commentator.
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Q: Unable to upvote With Version 0.1.4 I am unable to upvote Questions or Answers and I get the error the user has not earned the privilege needed for vote of Question(Answer) via the API.
Now that I have the privilege of downvoting on the site I attempted to downvote on the app and got the same message. Also I tried to upvote/downvote this question on the app and instead of getting the message saying I can't vote on my own question I got the have not earned the privilege message.

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The Singapore Spacer software system works by capturing the Wi-Fi signals from mobile devices.
Tracking human traffic for better social distancing
As some school and university campuses worldwide begin to re-open, now-familiar precautionary measures such as temperature-taking, hand-sanitising and social distancing have made their way into classrooms and lecture halls. There is also a range of technologies being deployed or proposed to help manage the COVID-19 threat in institutions of learning.
For instance, students in China must use software installed on their smartphones, which generates different codes for users' health status by analysing information such as body temperature. One US university is testing its wastewater system to detect infection. Video content analytics software powered by deep learning and artificial intelligence is also a possible tool for detecting congested areas on campus.
In Singapore, a group of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore Management University (SMU) launched the Singapore Spacer project in April 2020. This software system was first used on the NUS campus, and it works by capturing the Wi-Fi signals from mobile devices across campus, and mapping when and where people congregate. The system will next be deployed on the SMU and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campuses.
By providing insights into where people are congregating, universities can learn very useful information about traffic chokepoints and the efficacy of social distancing policies. Essentially, it provides feedback that allows administrators to improve these safety measures.
This project was initiated by SMU Associate Professor of Information Systems Rajesh Balan and NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Professor Michael Chee, who wanted to mitigate the harsh social and economic impact of lockdowns through the use of data, and assembled a multi-disciplinary team to do so. Prof Balan drew on his previous research to supply the technology for this project.
With private companies including Aviation Virtual and ESRI providing mapping support, the system's core features were ready in two weeks and implemented in phases over a month.
The Spacer system does not capture data in real time, Prof Balan explains. It has a two-hour latency, and that works because it is not meant to be an enforcement tool. "It is meant to show the impact of policy decisions, such as whether staggered timings for the usage of the canteen are resulting in less human traffic."
It also does not compromise anyone's privacy, he stresses. "The data collected is anonymised and aggregated. We cannot identify any specific person."
Given the nature of the system, it works well for campuses, as the majority of students switch to the campus Wifi when they are on the grounds. Convention centres, office buildings, malls, and hospitals are some examples of spaces where a Wifi-based data collection approach will likely still be effective. To expand beyond these types of contexts, however, will require seeking permission to collect cellular data. And of course, the system would only work in populations where mobile devices are widely used.
Prof Balan has been awarded a grant under the National Research Foundation (NRF) Central Gap Fund, and plans to use the grant money to improve current prototypes with a view towards commercialising the underlying technology.
If used widely, the system is a potentially effective complement to the Trace Together contact-tracing platform, in terms of allowing for the general population to move about relatively freely while still maintaining crowd control measures that are informed by data.
With memories of complete lockdowns still fresh in the minds of many, there's no doubt that most people would agree with Prof Balan's assessment: "The alternative is extremely brutal. Nobody wants that."
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Q: C++ mutual class dependency I am writing a card game in C++. I have a player class, which handles the actions (i.e. selecting a card to lay). If the player is a human, it will use a GUI class, if it is a computer, it will use an AI class.
In order for the AI class to make decisions, it needs to know some things about every player that change during the game, for example the number of cards on hand. Right now I store a player pointer for every player in a vector in the AI class.
However, this leads to my problem, the AI class needs to #include the Player class, and the player class needs to #include the AI class.
Maybe the solution isn't how to handle the #includes, but rather a better way to structure the classes?

A: I guess both Player and AI class have common methods for that card game (get card, put card, shuffle, bet, all in...) which can be inherited from a base class CardPlayer or composed during runtime using interfaces (see Strategy Pattern).
To interface the Human Player class to the GUI, create a suitable interface, for example:
typedef struct PlayerInfoStruct {
    ---player info variables here---
};

class IGUIPlayer {
    virtual PlayerInfoStruct GetPlayerInfo(...) = 0;
    ---other methods exclusive to the GUI-player interaction here---
};

and implement that interface in your HumanPlayer inheriting it:
class HumanPlayer : public CardPlayer, public IGUIPlayer {
    PlayerInfoStruct GetPlayerInfo() {---method---}
    ---other methods here---
}

and in your GUI you point to each human player using its interface:
---somewhere in your GUI Class---
IGUIPlayer* humanplayer1 = <pointer to HumanPlayer>;

With that, GUI Class depends on IGUIPlayer. HumanPlayer depends on both IGUIPlayer and CardPlayer. AIPlayer depends only on CardPlayer. No circular stuff!
Using an interface means that you could, at any moment, provide AI players' info in the GUI, by simply inheriting IGUIPlayer to AIPlayer and implementing the pure virtual methods, without modifying the GUI a single bit. It took me a bit to get used to this (and I still keep on learning), but I can't resist to its inmense power.

A: Sometimes it is not necessary to include header for a class in order to use it. For example, if you only use pointer or reference to a class, you can forward-declare it: instead of
#include "player.h"
class AI
{
  std::vector<player *> pl;
};

you can write
class player;
class AI
{
  std::vector<player *> pl;
};


My husband and I will be taking the Amtrak train from Chicago to Toronto. I made the reservations and bought the tickets without giving it a second thought. Now my husband is wondering if smoking is allowed on the train. Are there any smokers out there that know. Please give details.
Thank you. If anyone has information on smoking on the Chicago-Toronto trip please let me know.
We took the same train from Toronto to Chicago 2 years ago and smoking was not allowed onboard. People could disembark at several points to smoke. One thing I remember is to expect long delays--both ways the train was held up at customs and we arrived about 45min-hour late. Also, the scenery is not very exciting so we spent most of the time reading and chatting with other passengers.
Thanks for the smoking information. My husband isn't going to be a happy guy. But my answer to that is if you don't like it then quit smoking. Also it's nice to know that we will not arrive as scheduled. How big of a deal is customs? Also we have never taken an extended train ride, so how is the food?
I've taken Amtrak quite a few places on many occasions.
Customs at the Quebec-New York border take about an hour...there have not always been delays in my experience. Once I believe there was a 1/2 hour delay.
Customs is typically routine for US and Canadian citizens..."name?" "why are you going?" "bring any gifts?" "have a nice time in Canada..."; other nationalities sometimes take longer.
Good luck and have fun in Tronno! It's a great city!
Thanks for the customs information. I hope it is as minor as you make it sound.


Samsung SM-C101 aka Galaxy S4 Zoom begin receiving Kitkat upgrade in Russia, the rest of the world could follow too, soon.
Samsung has reportedly started rolling out the Android 4.4.2 Kitkat update for the Galaxy S4 Zoom (SM-C101). This is the latest Samsung device to receive the 4.4.2 update.The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom for those who can't recall was Samsung's attempt to fuse both their flagship at that time, the Galaxy S4 with a high-powered full featured point-and-shoot camera.
According to SamMobile,users in Russia have already started receiving the update, carrying build number C101XXUBNF4. It is also expected that the 4.4.2 update should bring and feature improvements such as redesigned status bar, wireless printing support,faster performance,full-screen album art and a camera shortcut on the lock screen, and updated versions of a few Samsung apps.
As expected, the update for the Samsung SM-C101 will surely spread across the globe and more regions will receive the update. To manually check whether you can get the update,go to Settings > About phone > Software updates on your Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom.


The problem is, if you're a woman writer, that the work occupies the domestic space. The actual writing is one thing, but elbowing everybody out of the way in order to get to your desk is quite another. Virginia Woolf famously said that what a woman writer needs is A Room of One's Own – what she didn't talk about is the climbing over the piles of laundry, dirty crockery and unfed children just to get there.
'Oh good, you're not working,' someone will say, as they put their head round the door to find you staring out of the window. The novelist Penelope Lively used to confess that she'd start typing nonsense very loudly as she heard people approach, just to convince people that yes, she was working.
Or there are diary conversations – can I visit an elderly relative, take the cat to the vet… 'But I'm working,' I say, trying to sound convincing when work means sitting in my pyjamas gazing into space.
And so, over the years I've learnt to say, 'No, I'm sorry, I'm at work.' And that word, 'at,' implies a workplace, a serious, separate location, where serious, separate work gets done. It's amazing the difference one small word (and a steely determination) can make.
Alison Joseph's most recent book is Death in Disguise, number 3 in the Agatha Christie Investigates series.
If you have a questions about writing, email us at info@killerwomen.org and we'll do our best to give you an answer on this page.


"Microsoft's decision to open up its Windows server source code sparked a lot of reaction from folks following the Microsoft-European Union antitrust case.
"But analysts and U.S. coalitions dedicated to government regulation on technology disagree as to how much Microsoft is really giving away.
"During a press conference from Brussels today, top Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith said the software giant will offer developers the right to view Windows server so long as they already have a Windows server license under the European Commission's plan.
"Advocates for U.S. pro-competition groups painted a bleak picture upon hearing the news..."


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Are oil and gas companies such pathetic cowards they need to silence medical doctors reporting health harms from industry's toxic pollution? "He was about to [release] his results…and then they fire him."
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Porter Ranch gas leak health study hits roadblock after doctor is forced out
by Brenda Gazzar, September 7, 2017, Los Angeles Daily News
A physician who has been tracking patients potentially affected by the massive Porter Ranch gas leak has been let go from an urgent care clinic he led for eight years, which could disrupt his clinical health study.
Dr. Jeffrey B. Nordella, formerly medical director of the Porter Ranch Quality Care, said his termination by the Van Nuys-based Southern California Orthopedic Institute that owns the clinic was effective Sept. 1.
"It kind of cut us off at the knees a bit; I have no place to see my patients," the family practice/ER doctor said in an interview this week. "I'm scrambling to find a place; I might be in a trailer, in a parking lot, some place if I have to do that."
Nordella, in a letter recently published in the Porter Ranch Valley Voice, said he was given "numerous reasons" for his termination, including that SCOI is in negotiations for their acquisition by a health group.
Michael Sawyer, chief executive officer of SCOI, said they gave Nordella a five-week notice that they "no longer needed him" for their urgent care and orthopedic service center. Sawyer called Nordella "essentially an independent contractor" rather than an employee. He said their business relationship ended "for various reasons" but that it had "nothing to do" with the Porter Ranch gas leak study. [Pfffft! Do you believe that?]
"We're not trying to quash his study; we think it's a great idea and encourage him to continue to do it," Sawyer said.
The gas leak that was detected on Oct. 23, 2015 at Southern California Gas Co.'s Aliso Canyon storage facility spewed more than 100,000 metric tons of potent methane over nearly four months. It prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency, sickened thousands and forced more than 8,300 households in the northern San Fernando Valley to temporarily relocate.
As soon as Nordella finds another office, SCOI will refer patients for the clinical study to him along with other patients he's been following in his medical practice, Sawyer said. He said the urgent care center is also giving out the doctor's email address and phone number to patients who are trying to reach him.
"We certainly have not abandoned any patient," Sawyer said. "We want to make sure any patient that sees us, whether for urgent care or orthopedics, receives the level of care that they need."
Nordella said he was told by phone several weeks ago that he may have to leave by Sept. 1. He said he only received written confirmation of that date in an email in late August.
"It will be my claim that I was not given sufficient notice to relocate; there was no place I could go," he said.
He's concerned that the move could disrupt the continuity of care of all patients that he sees, including the elderly. He said he's now looking into subleasing space in the same building where the urgent care center is located.
Nordella said he still plans on releasing the results of his study in mid-October, even if it means meeting patients in a trailer or in their homes from now on.
The clinical health study involves a history and baseline physical exam and then tracking patients' symptoms over time. About 130 patients are participating, he said. In addition, about 100 patients each are involved in urine screening and hair screening, with some crossover of patients between the study and screenings, Nordella explained.
"We're in uncharted waters with regards to the amount of chemicals that have been dumped into the community that we know of," Nordella said. "The biggest issue is what chemicals we don't know of — and it's all been (emitted) at once."
Nordella said he is not aware of any other studies that have followed this sort of exposure over a long period of time. [The real reason he got terminated?]
Meanwhile, Save Porter Ranch and Food & Water Watch are planning a protest in support of Nordella outside of Porter Ranch Quality Care at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
"We're pretty sure this is an attempt of a cover-up and a whitewash of the health crisis," said Matt Pakucko, president of Save Porter Ranch. "He was about to come with his results (of the study) and then they fire him." [Emphasis added]
2016 05 25: New Study: Alberta's tar sands leading source of air pollution in North America, Tens of thousands of people living within reach breathing elevated levels of fine particles linked in previous studies to lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes
2016 05 13: SoGalGas massive well blowout at Porter Ranch: Barium, vanadium, manganese, lead, strontium and aluminum may be causing health symptoms suffered by residents even after leak plugged
2016 01 29: SoCalGas Co spewing oily gas (and mystery frac chemicals?) poisoning 1.8 Million people across LA's San Fernando's valley. Is frac'ing or fluid injection to enhance oil recovery partially to blame for Porter Ranch disaster?
2016 01 06: What took Governor Brown so long? California governor declares state of emergency over huge gas leak suffocating community of Porter Ranch, Los Angeles neighbourhood
2015 01 21: Regulatory Failure, Corporate Failure, Inspection Failure, Integrity Failure, Casing Failure, Safety Failure, Greed Trumps All: Regulator & SoCalGas Co. knew casing was corroding, failing with major leakage problems at Porter Ranch gas storage facility more than a year before catastrophic leak
2015 11 25: Public and Corporate Health Fraud? Where's the regulator? Huge natural gas leak in California is sickening residents, could take months to fix, class action lawsuit filed
2015 12 11: Industry's Massive Natural Gas Leak Into Porter Ranch Community to Be Declared Local State of Emergency, More than 1,000 households moved out, another 1,379 leaving
2015 12 09: L.A. city attorney sues SoCal Gas over gas leak making Porter Ranch homes "unlivable." Why isn't Alberta's Attorney General suing Encana & AER for illegally frac'ing a community's drinking water supply, then engaging in Charter violations, fraud to cover it up?
In Alberta too, obviously:
2015 05 10: Dr. John O'Connor Fired? Why? Alberta tarsands industry and Prentice-Harper government spite? Get rid of O'Connor before the long awaited tarsands-harm health study begins?
2014 02 04: Broken trust: Alberta family without answers about oil sands' health impact, When an Alberta mom met with an ear-throat-and-nose specialist in Grande Prairie about oil-sands emissions pollution, his advice stunned her
Oil fumes so painful, families forced to move
When she finally met with an ear-throat-and-nose specialist in Grande Prairie who diagnosed her with having airborne pollution, his advice stunned her. "He just told me to move," Labrecque said under oath at the hearing that ended Friday. "He said… you are just a small, little bolt in this huge robot, and you don't matter. Move."
The industry-funded oversight agency heard two weeks of testimony from Peace River residents with health concerns about odours and emissions from the oil sands industry. Labrecque claims the specialist who made the provocative comments was Dr. Mel Delacruz. The Vancouver Observer called Dr. Delacruz at his medical office Friday, but he said he was instructed by his lawyer not to speak about the matter, and hung up the phone.
2014 01 31: Karla Labrecque's doctor refused to do a blood test until he consults with a local politician; Mike Labrecque gets sick working for Baytex, Baytex lets him go: "You're done." ]


Kelly Bradshaw Dalton are delighted to present to the market Number 1 Hollybank Road. No.1 is a Pre '63 currently divided into 7 units.
It is a superb opportunity for investors and possible owner occupiers alike to purchase an attractive property in a most convenient location. This is a very attractive end of terraced, bay windowed property situated on this much sought after quiet, picturesque, residential street in the heart of Drumcondra. The delightful entrance to this property features a railed garden path which is very impressive. This property is laid out over 3 floors and consists of 4 self contained units and 3 one bedroom flats. The ground floor consists of 3 self contained units, one flat and 1 communal main bathroom. The 1st floor consists of another self contained unit, a shared bathroom and a utility area. The 2nd floor has one self contained unit and another one bedroom flat. To the rear is a lovely spacious one bedroom unit with a seperate kitchen and living space.
This property is in need of complete refurbishment and needs to be upgraded. After total refurbishment open market value rent will be achievable with a potential rent role of €73,200.


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La Unió Progressista de Fiscals és una associació professional espanyola fundada el 5 de juny de 1985 i que està integrada per fiscals amb el desig de «promoure la plena realització dels principis, drets i llibertats consagrats en la Constitució». La seva seu es troba en València.

La Unió Progressista de Fiscals sorgeix com a escissió de lAssociació de Fiscals existent com a única organització professional des de 1980 i a l'empara de l'article 127 de la Constitució de 1978 i l'article 54 de l'Estatut Orgànic del Ministeri Fiscal de 1981. Les seves finalitats generals, a més del descrit de promoure la plena realització dels drets constitucionals, s'orienten cap a la defensa dels principis d'imparcialitat i legalitat, la defensa dels drets socials, la independència judicial i satisfer els sectors marginats. Quant a la pròpia fiscalia, la defensa dels interessos i drets professionals dels fiscals.

Està organitzada en dos nivells: el Congrés, màxim òrgan els representants del qual són escollits pels associats; i el Secretariat Permanent, triat per aquell, amb funcions executives. El President del Secretariat Permanent és, des de setembre de 2008, Emilio Sánchez Ulled.

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