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18 months have passed since the last hearing was held in the Article 7 procedure. During this time qualitative changes have occurred in the nature of the Hungarian illiberal regime. We look at some of the key issues today's Article 7 hearing in the General Affairs Council should take into account.
One and a half years have passed since the last hearing was held in the Article 7 procedure. During this time qualitative changes have occurred in the nature of the Hungarian illiberal regime. We look at some of the key issues today's Article 7 hearing in the General Affairs Council should take into account.
In 2019, it seemed that the Government's ambition was to eliminate or occupy all institutions that can exercise any control over what the executive is. Now it seems that the incumbent government tries to make democratic competition devoid of meaning by creating in very important areas a parallel state structure that will be shielded from public scrutiny and will be untouchable for any future government that does not have a constitutional supermajority.
The world has also changed since the last hearing in December 2019: the Hungarian government declared a state of danger (a kind of state of emergency, a special legal order) after the first COVID patients were identified. Through its parliamentary supermajority, it granted itself unprecedented authorization to rule by decree. The Hungarian government used (in fact, continues to use) this unparalleled authorization not only to manage the pandemic, but also to impose unjustified restrictions on fundamental rights, to stifle municipalities, or to meddle in the operations of private companies.
In the shadow of the pandemic, through legislative changes and individual appointments, the independence of the judiciary was further eroded. While attacks against and pressure on the Hungarian judiciary might not be as spectacular as is the case in Poland, the situation is equally alarming. Legislative changes allowed the channeling out of sensitive cases as well as the appointment of a new Chief Justice who is a potential conveyor belt of the executive.
Last, but not least, the government seemingly found its newest enemy: the Hungarian LGBT+ community. Over the course of almost a year, the governing majority banned legal gender recognition, inserted into the Fundamental Law (Hungary's constitution) that "the mother is female, the father is male", practically excluded single persons from adoption (except if the minister for family affairs grants permission on a case-by-case basis), only to adopt a bill on the last day of Parliament's spring session that bans products, advertising and media content available to those under 18 that depict LGBT people and bans educational programmes that mention the existence of the community.
Judicial independence: During the last hearing, Hungary was asked about a lengthy omnibus bill submitted to Parliament in November 2019, and its effects on judicial independence. The Hungarian delegation responded that "the omnibus bill was intended to address […] technical issues left open by the decision to withdraw the […] reform of the administrative courts". We know now it was not true. The bill allowed Constitutional Court judges elected by the governing majority to be parachuted to the Kúria, Hungary's supreme court. This opened the way for electing as the new President of the Kúria Mr András Varga, who never worked as a judge, has no courtroom experience or experience in judicial administration. Mr Varga was elected by the ruling majority against the sweeping objection of the national Judicial Council, Hungary' judicial self-governing body. 13 members were against him and only 1 in favour. The majority held that Mr Varga was not sufficiently independent from the other branches of power and did not appear impartial to an outside observer.
Before becoming Hungary's Chief Justice Mr Varga expressed peculiar opinions about judicial independence, calling the judiciary the most dangerous branch of power, judicial self-administration "a delusion", or claiming that the interpretation of the rule of law within the European Union "has become tyrannical, […] totalitarian" and an "instrument of arbitrary exercise of power".
Mr Varga holds very strong administrative powers over the judges of the Kúria (appointment, promotion, fringe benefits, disciplinary powers). The number of Kúria judges is now being raised from ca. 90 to 110. These 20 judges are handpicked by Mr Varga. His chosen deputy is a loyalist of the prime minister. The most recent appointee worked as an influential Secretary of State, right under the Minister of Justice until two months ago. Mr Varga has the right to amend the case allocation system of the Kúria as many times as he wishes.
And his powers are not only administrative. The same Omnibus Act introduced a new type of proceeding, the unification complaint which increases the Kúria's weight in determining jurisprudence and setting precedents. It is Mr Varga's prerogative to choose the judges who deliver decisions in these proceedings, and he also chairs the unification panels.
What we see now is that the Hungarian government is attacking judicial independence from the top: through increasing the Kúria's role in shaping the jurisprudence and putting the institution into the hands of someone it trusts to be loyal.
Ruling by decree: The government-declared special legal order has been practically in place since November 2020 and is likely to remain at least until September. During the special legal order, through the wide authorization it received as a result of the First, the Second, and Third Authorization Acts, the government may issue decrees that suspend the application of certain Acts of Parliament, derogate from the provisions of such Acts and take other extraordinary measures. Since last spring, the government issued over 250 such decrees. A good part of these were indeed related to the pandemic, several serve different purposes.
From the latest batch of decrees, 532/2020 (XI. 28.) is an example of such. This decree, which might be in breach of the freedom of movement of capital, grants the minister of the interior veto powers over foreign investments that may result in dominant influence not only in truly strategic areas, but also other areas, such as the insurance business as well. The decree also expands the scope of what "foreign" means so that it includes companies registered in the EU/EEA-Switzerland Zone. This was used to halt the planned takeover of Aegon by the Vienna Insurance Group. An adopted government-sponsored bill extends this regulation for a year from the termination of the special legal order.
Another decree states that tenders related to the 2020 Dubai World Expo and the organisation of MotoGP Hungary may be conducted without a public call for application.
Many of the similarly questionable decrees issued during the special legal order in the spring of 2020 (e.g. the creation of special economic zones) made it into the "regular" legal order through the First Transitional Act.
Creating a parallel state: The ruling majority has started to create in cardinal laws (laws that can only be amended with a two-third majority) new structures and institutions that secure in crucial areas the informal influence of the present incumbent party even if there is a change of government in the next general elections.
One such structure is "public trust funds performing a public function". There are now 33 such funds, many of them entrusted with the management of universities that belonged under Hungarian public law. The state has endowed the funds with public assets of extreme value (billions of Euros) and undertakes to continue to finance them generously, while ceding all the funder's rights to the boards of trustees consisting of life-long members whose loyalty to the incumbent party is unquestionable. Several government members have become board members. In addition, the funds are exempted from the obligation to use their assets to carry out activities that are directly related to their public purpose.
Another such structure (also cemented into a cardinal law) is the recently set up Supervisory Authority for Regulated Activities that will be in charge of supervising (i) tobacco retail, (ii) judicial enforcement, (iii) gambling, and (iv) liquidation. All future tender invitations by the State regarding concessions will be subject to the prior approval of the new authority. Its President will be appointed by the Prime Minister for 9 years without a public call for applications. The President who will be practically irremovable will have wide-ranging managerial and regulatory powers.
The Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority was also transformed in a similar vein. Russia and Hungary signed an agreement to expand Hungary's nuclear power plant. The agreement includes an EUR 10 Billion Russian loan to Hungary, but the Atomic Energy Authority has not yet issued a construction licence. The president of the Authority resigned in 29 April 2021. In 11 May 2021 the Government submitted Bill T/16224 that transforms the Atomic Energy Authority from a government controlled entity into an authority with structure similar to that of the Supervisory Authority for Regulated Activities, meaning that the Prime Minister can now appoint someone who makes all the crucial decisions regarding atomic energy in the next decade.
These steps are an attempt to create a parallel state structure that can prolong the informal power of the present incumbent into the next cycles even if there is a change of government.
Violating the rights of LGBT+ people: On 15 June 2021, the Parliament passed Bill T/16365 on "amending laws enabling stricter action against paedophile offenders and the protection of children". The law imposes a ban in different contexts on making available to children under the age of 18 not only pornographic content, but also materials that "promote" or simply portray "deviation from gender identity aligning with one's birth sex", gender reassignment, or homosexuality. Such contexts include advertising, the provision of media content, and it will also be forbidden to conduct in schools or other educational institutions any classes or sessions on sexual culture, sexual life, sexual orientation and sexual development in a way that they are "aimed at promoting deviation from gender identity aligning with one's birth sex, gender reassignment, or homosexuality". The Bill (which is now pending promulgation by the President of Hungary) also envisages that apart from teachers, professionals providing school-health care services, and state bodies, only a person or organization registered by the body designated by law can hold a session or organize activities on sexual culture, sexual life, sexual orientation, sexual development, the harmful effects of drug use, and the dangers of the internet. The explanatory memorandum (which has binding force on the interpretation of the legal provisions since July 2018) expressly states that the purpose of this rule is to prevent NGOs and other initiatives from conducting activities that would sensitise the students to non-traditional sexual orientations or gender identities. The Bill envisages liability for a petty offence (penalised behaviour not reaching the level of criminal liability) for both the head of the educational institution and the person conducting the session or activity, if the above rules are violated (i.e. someone not registered with the designated state body holds a session on sexual culture, sexual life, sexual orientation and sexual development). Sanctions prescribed in other laws (i.e. the media law, the law on advertising, the law on national public education), including the imposition of substantial fines will be applicable if – in breach of the new law – materials "promoting" or simply portraying homosexuality and gender reassignment are made available for persons under 18 (while the age of consent is actually 14 in Hungary). In light of the explanatory memorandum of the law it is questionable whether even in principle the minister for family affairs would ever consider giving an exemption to a non-heterosexual person – the only way adoption for LGBT+ individuals is now "possible".
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Stansomatic A/S
Kornmarken 25, 7190 Billund
Telephone +45 75338300
Fax +45 75332930
jag@stansomatic.dk
http://www.stansomatic.dk
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The company Stansomatic A/S, headquartered at Kornmarken 25, 7190 Billund, was founded on 16.th March 1970, by Knud Erik Bahnsen. The firm was started, at Lindevej 6B in Billund, with a single punching machine with very few facilities available (approx 120 m2).
The first production was af tubular rivets for Elwis, a fittings firm. In 1973, the procuction picked up speed and plastic injection moulding was also added to the production programme, and for this, the production facilities were doubled to 240 m². In 1976, the business moved to Kløvermarken 106. Since then it has expanded a number of times, to the point where the covered area was 1200 m².
The plastic injection moulding division was sold in January 1992 to JGM Plastic A/S, in Billund. In 1994, the conditions became too cramped and a completely new factory of over 2400 m² was built at Kornmarken 25. In early 2004 a further expansion increased the production facilities to over 4000 m². The firm currently has about 100 employees and produces approx. 400 million punched parts annually. The parts, which are produced in fully automatic punching machines, consist of all types of metal and steel in thicknesses of from 0.05 mm to approx. 2 mm.

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Lew Childre was born to fish.
His passion for the sport was quickly made evident by how deeply entwined it was with his experiences growing up along the Gulf coast of Alabama; every turn of a corner lead him back to fishing. He and his wife Vivian encountered many trials and tribulations during their early years of marriage while trying to make a living and raise their young family. First it was selling shrimp as bait to fishermen, and then that evolved into a small tackle shop. One day while pulling a bamboo pole out of the stack for a customer, Lew was disappointed with the inconsistency from one pole to the next. The moment of reflection triggered his insatiable thirst to build better fishing products than anyone else.
His quest for a better bamboo fishing pole took him from the heart of bass fishing country, Alabama, all the way to Japan. There, he not only found the desired grade of bamboo, but also a circle of manufacturers and businessmen who were interested in fishing and innovating in the US market. In 1970, that partnership lead to the introduction of the Lew's Speed Stick pistol-grip graphite performance fishing rods, and the first low-profile "teardrop-shaped" casting reel, the Lew's Speed Spool baitcaster, a design that forever changed bass fishing. Decades years later, Lew's continues to innovate in the spirit of Lew Childre with the Speed Spool, Speed Spin, and Speed Stick product lines.


On behalf of Turbin Chu Heidt Attorneys at Law posted in Motor Vehicle Accidents on Thursday, November 15, 2018.
When there is an auto accident in Honolulu or anywhere in Hawaii, one of the basic requirements for those involved is that they remain at the scene to make sure there were no injuries and to call for help if there were. This is especially imperative when it is a pedestrian accident as there is an overwhelming likelihood that the person will have suffered personal injury. For drivers who decide to flee the scene, it becomes a hit and run accident. After hit and run accidents, the injured person and his or her family must think about the future by contacting a lawyer experienced in auto accidents.
A hit-and-run crash left a pedestrian, a 27-year-old male, in critical condition. The accident occurred at shortly before 4 a.m. Law enforcement believes the vehicle was heading west and hit the man. The pedestrian is thought to have been in the crosswalk when it occurred. The vehicle was said to be an older white panel van. There is an ongoing search for the vehicle and the driver. Investigators believe speed was a probable factor. The man who was hit had a head injury. The investigation is continuing.
When there is a pedestrian accident, the victim can face many more significant injuries than if he or she was in a vehicle. The lack of protection that pedestrians have leaves them inherently vulnerable to broken bones, spinal cord damage, brain trauma and much more. They can be confronted with major medical costs, the inability to work and the need for extensive care to perform even the basics of life. In a worst-case scenario, the person will die and the family will face the future without a loved one and the contributions that he or she made to a family. A legal filing can help with the personal, financial and emotional impact from such an accident.
A man who is believed to have been crossing the street in the crosswalk in the early morning hours was hit by a panel van that was apparently speeding. He suffered serious injuries and was hospitalized. The police are searching for the hit and run driver. As the injured man is treated and the search continues, it is important for the injured man to have legal assistance from a law firm that is experienced in helping those who have faced a pedestrian-car accident and its aftermath.


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Q: Python list of dict I have this list of dictionary
dictList = [
    {'value': 'me'}, {'value': 'you'}, {'value': 'him'},
    {'value': 'her'}, {'value': 'them'}, {'value': 'they'}
]

I know how to get the value given the key like this
print(item for item in dictlist if item["value"] == "me").next()

which prints out
{'value': 'me'}

However I want to print just the 'me' 'you' etc and not 'value'. So the result looks like
{'me', 'you', 'him', 'her','them', 'they'}

Thanks

A: for d in dictList:
    if 'value' in d:
        print d['value']

A: You can extract the values you are looking for with a list comprehension, or use it as a generator expression if you don't need to preserve it
[d['value'] for d in dictList if 'value' in d]

this will only do the d['value'] lookup if the key 'value' exists in the dict
If you know that all of the dicts will have that key, you can drop the filter
[d['value'] for d in dictList]

A: Another approach is to collect values() from all dictionaries in the list. This will work
 regardless of what keys are used (you use "value").
>>> dictList = [
    {'value': 'me'}, {'value': 'you'}, {'value': 'him'},
    {'value': 'her'}, {'value': 'them'}, {'value': 'they'}
]
>>> [dct.values()[0] for dct in dictList]
['me', 'you', 'him', 'her', 'them', 'they']

A: Using reduce
If you like very unreadable method, here is one:
>>> reduce(list.__add__, map(dict.values, dictList))
>>> ['me', 'you', 'him', 'her', 'them', 'they']

Explained:
dict.values: this is method, which is usually applied to a dictionary in the
way: {"key": 12, "sleutel": 44}.values() and returns only values for all the keys in the dict,
thus [12, 44].
By dict.values we refer explicitly to that method and call map to apply this to each item in
your dictList.
From map(dict.values, dictList) you get [['me'], ['you'], ['him'], ['her'], ['them'], ['they']].
Then you add one sublist to another.
['me'] + ['you'] + ['him'] + ['her'] + ['them'] + ['they']
To do that on a list, use reduce, which takes works in the way:
>>> res = ['me'] + ['you']
>>> res = res + ['him']
>>> res = res + ['her']
>>> res = res + ['them']
>>> res = res + ['they']

and finally you get what you asked for.
Using sum
The solution can be shortened by means of sum providing initial value of []:
>>> sum(map(dict.values, dictList), [])
>>> ['me', 'you', 'him', 'her', 'them', 'they']

A: Another list of dicts problem! Try using the pandas package to simply refer to keys as column headers and group values using the same key:
import pandas as pd

dictList = [
{'value': 'me'}, {'value': 'you'}, {'value': 'him'},
{'value': 'her'}, {'value': 'them'}, {'value': 'they'}
]

df = pd.DataFrame(dictList)
dictList_values = df['value'].tolist()

Added some benchmarking, using pandas outperforms on large scale sets. Here I've created a set with 200k entries as a "large" case. The small case is the given 6 entries:
setup_large = "dictList = [];\
[dictList.extend(({'value': 'me'}, {'value': 'you'}, {'value': 'him'},\
    {'value': 'her'}, {'value': 'them'}, {'value': 'they'})) for _ in range(25000)];\
from operator import itemgetter;import pandas as pd;\
df = pd.DataFrame(dictList);"

setup_small = "dictList = [];\
dictList.extend(({'value': 'me'}, {'value': 'you'}, {'value': 'him'},\
    {'value': 'her'}, {'value': 'them'}, {'value': 'they'}));\
from operator import itemgetter;import pandas as pd;\
df = pd.DataFrame(dictList);"

method1 = "[d['value'] for d in dictList if 'value' in d]"
method2 = "df['value'].tolist()"

import timeit
t = timeit.Timer(method1, setup_small)
print('Small Method LC: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method2, setup_small)
print('Small Method Pandas: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))

t = timeit.Timer(method1, setup_large)
print('Large Method LC: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method2, setup_large)
print('Large Method Pandas: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))

#Small Method LC: 0.000217914581299
#Small Method Pandas: 0.00168395042419
#Large Method LC: 3.89074897766
#Large Method Pandas: 0.189871072769

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The unlocked Huawei Honor 6X phone offers a lot of Android bang for your buck, besting last year's model in just about every way.
Affordable. Sleek metal unibody build. Crisp 1080p display. Fast performance. Solid camera with bokeh control. Fingerprint sensor, dual SIM slots, and expandable storage.
The Huawei Honor 6X phone offers a lot of Android bang for your buck, besting last year's model in just about every way.
2017 has just started, but 2016's trend of affordable, high-performance phones shows no sign of stopping if the Huawei Honor 6X is any indication. At $249, the 32GB Honor 6X launches at a price $50 higher than last year's Honor 5X, but brings with it a host of improvements that are worth the extra coin, like smoother overall performance and a better camera with a unique secondary lens for bokeh. The UI layer is still heavy, but it's free from the slowdown we experienced on the previous generation.
The design of the Honor 6X hasn't changed much from the previous model. The brushed finish is gone, the fingerprint sensor is circular instead of square, and there are two camera sensors on the back. But it's still a metal unibody slab available in gold, gray, or silver.
The phone measures 5.9 by 3.0 by 0.3 inches (HWD) and weighs 5.7 ounces, nearly identical to the 5X. Like those phones, it's a bit too wide to reach across with your thumb, but there's a Mini Screen mode that lets you shrink what's shown and move the keyboard to one side to make use with one hand easier.
The volume rocker and power button can both be found on the right, a 3.5mm audio jack is on the top, and the bottom holds a micro USB charging port sandwiched between a microphone and speaker grille. The left side has SIM and microSD card slots. The latter worked fine with a 256GB card, and can also take a second SIM instead, if you want to use two different numbers.
The fingerprint sensor on the back is as fast and responsive as the one found on the Honor 8. It has a similar set of programmable features that allow you to touch and hold it to take a photo when the camera app is open, or swipe left or right to browse photos.
The front is home to a 5.5-inch, 1,920-by-1,080-pixel IPS LCD, the same resolution as the Honor 8. Color reproduction is good, and also highly customizable, letting you choose between warm and cold color temperatures. Viewing angles are good, and the phone has a setting that further improves brightness under sunlight. There's also a blue light filter that can be enabled to reduce eye strain at night.
The Honor 6X is a GSM phone with LTE bands 2/4/5/12/20/38, like the Honor 8. Call quality is good. Voices come across with a clear, natural tone free from any robotic edge. Earpiece volume is loud enough to be heard in noisy settings, but the speakerphone isn't very strong even when Loud Voice mode is enabled. On the other end, noise cancellation is good, blotting out traffic noise, though occassionally the sound of wind caused some crackling.
The 6X is powered by Huawei's proprietary Kirin 655 octa-core chipset clocked at 2.1GHz. It's a capable processor and with 3GB of RAM, regular usage is a breeze. The Honor 6X has none of the stuttering or sluggishness of its predecessor. Multitasking is smooth, switching between apps is swift, and I never encountered any instances of slowdown.
Battery life is also solid, but nothing to write home about. The phone clocked 5 hours, 35 minutes in our rundown test. The phone has fast charging with the included adapter, and a built-in Battery Manager that lets you reduce power drain by controlling which apps run in the background. There also also two different power saving modes.
The Honor 6X uses a dual-sensor camera setup with one 12-megapixel shooter on the top and a 2-megapixel sensor on the bottom. The camera does a nice job in well-lit settings. Pictures are clear and detailed, and autofocus locks on quickly. Like all midrange phones, shots become grainy in dimmer light, but enabling HDR or Night mode does help reduce some of the muddiness (at the cost of longer focus and post-processing times). However, in more challenging low-light settings, pictures look dull and there's a fair amount of noise and blur.
The purpose of the secondary sensor is to allow for bokeh in Wide Aperture mode. Wide Aperture shots taken by the 6X worked well indoors and out, successfully focusing on objects in the foreground and attractively blurring out the area behind it, as you can see in the shot below. It's a fun setting to play with, and you can also use it post-capture by pressing a shutter icon at the bottom of the photo frame and changing the focus point.
In addition to its various modes and filters, the 6X has manual controls (accessible under Pro Camera and Pro Video mode after swiping left), letting you adjust ISO, white balance, aperture, and focus. It also records stable 1080p video at 30fps, but lower light recording suffers from graininess. The 8-megapixel front-facing camera takes clear shots, but it can be soft depending on lighting.
The Honor 6X ships running Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with Huawei's custom EMUI skin on top. Huawei hasn't said whether the phone will get Nougat, but it seems likely given the Honor 5X's update history (from Lollipop to Marshmallow).
The EMU 4.1 skin is a fairly heavy layer, largely identical to the one we saw on the Honor 8. At $249, the Honor 6X has a nice build, fast performance, and cool camera capabilities. The Honor 6X is a solid buy, and a promising start to the year.


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When I opened the curtains, I was heartened to see the sun beginning to reach its long arms up to the tops of the trees from the horizon.
I knew it wouldn't be warm like a summer day, once it got itself pulled up high enough into the sky to make a difference, but I knew it would be bringing me light.
The night before had been cold, down double-digits below zero again, while the moon was up and nearly full. The bluish-white light it shone down through the black tree trunks illuminated deer standing in the yard.
It was a soft and peaceful sight to see, but it belied the icy-white ring around the moon, which seemed like sure evidence of a dark spell in effect — threatening maybe more snow, but certainly colder temperatures.
The spell must have hung overhead for a good long time during the night. I woke up feeling hollow and wrecked, like I couldn't catch my breath.
It was a strange blank sensation — what I imagine it might be like to be hit in the side of the head with a coal shovel. I was dazed with a pain behind my eyes. I thought that if I could see inside my chest, it might look like the stringy pale guts of a pumpkin.
With a headache in the back of my skull, the blue of the sky was deepening.
I was hoping the sunlight might warm me from the inside out and make it easier for me to move. The sun's rays would soon have those effects on some of the sagging maple and birch branch tips.
High above they glinted, still encased in ice from a recent visit from the winter witch.
When I close my eyes, I can see a million winter scenes I witnessed over my span of years — most are bathed in soft light with grayish-white skies highlighted with pinks, blues, tangerines and honey lemons.
These are images of snow-packed roadways, old barns, desolate acres and lonesome, barren highways stretching for miles across frozen landscapes. Broken down old houses long forgotten dot the countryside, millions of trees form walls of forest green, old cars parked and running, outside greasy spoons, with their exhaust pipes puffing smoke.
Lonely places made for scarecrows and broken windows.
I think no matter what I do, the blue days know how to find me when they want to — even if it's a sunny day. Today was one of those mornings, I guessed.
After all, it's not unusual these days to feel washed out, strange or broken.
With the off-kilter rotation of our world, with its rabid hunger and war, staggering loss and suffering, the whirring speed of life, the glowing false idol of technology and monsters without masks issuing threats to just about anything that lives, a person has plenty to feel down about.
Even California's got the blues. I read a hiker slipped on a piece of ice at Mount Wilson and fell 180 feet to his death. I've been there dozens of times.
But this didn't seem like any of that.
This was stubborn, but not like my familiar cloak of melancholy which is sometimes almost a friend.
There was only one thing to do and that was to get outside.
I didn't travel far from home before I found myself on a snowy backroad that had seen the passage of only a single car before me on this day.
In an older tire track, mostly filled in with snow, I saw the footprints of a bobcat. Even though I didn't see the animal, knowing it was alive and wild and existing out here under that cold witch's moon was somehow reassuring.
Today, looking into the clouds, I was reminded that even God finger paints.
The thick swirling lines reminded me of what it looks like when a child uses her index finger to paint ocean waves.
This was a wavy blue ocean, painted on the sky.
Three deer stopped briefly to look in my direction as they pranced over the snow and ice between a wooded island and the shore.
There was birdsong in the air from the chickadees and nuthatches and the drumming of woodpeckers. The sun was affecting them in a positive way.
I was still struggling to find my way on this day.
So strange, unsettled and sour.
Maybe this is what it would feel like every day if love all at once evaporated.
I wonder how soon afterward our species would collapse?
The Drifters suggested going up on the roof when this old world is getting you down.
I was up on the roof the other day, shoveling snow and breaking up ice.
It didn't do much for me, except remind me I'm not a kid anymore.
I took a late afternoon drive into the Queen City. Not much different there. People walking up and down the streets, rushing here and there. Cars, restaurants, parking meters and stop signs. Pigeons flying up around the rooftops, with the cold streets below slippery, flanked by high snow banks.
It was the drive home when I finally noticed a small crack in the winter of my discontent. My outlaw country satellite radio played the Jayhawks and Bob Dylan back-to-back — that was unprecedented, as far as I know, but very cool.
Throw my troubles out the door, I don't need them anymore, 'cuz tonight I'll be staying here with you … if there's a poor boy on the street, then let him have my seat.
It was about that time, a realization hit me.
It was nearly six and the sun I'd seen this morning was still up there in the sky, dancing and dazzling. This was an unexpected pleasure.
I guess I've been muddled in my malaise, suffering under a bleak assumption.
I've failed to take notice each day of the lengthening daylight.
Snowy days, strung together like a row of white pearls, will do that to you.
With the shutting of the car door, I lifted my head up to the sound of a piece of ice falling between tree branches to the ground. A few seconds later, another followed.
The sun was spectacular, shining through the trees with their ice-covered branches — like a tremendous glass menagerie, glossy frozen shapes bent in curious forms.
I walked down to the mail box. Empty.
The wind was picking up and getting colder.
Inside the house, the bathroom mirror told me it had been a rough day.
I felt a lot older than I looked.
Without a shave and my hair out of place, I was reminded of my dad in his latter days.
The nondescript nature of this nagging feeling of nothingness is hard to reconcile. It's strange and new and I hope it moves offshore and soon fades over the lake like a summer thunderstorm.
Outside my window, the sun was sinking down behind the trees, bringing up the shadows of another winter's night.


After a year in which most forecasters felt (and deserved) only abject humiliation, it's worth celebrating those who got it right.
(We'll publish Gary's 2009 recommendations tomorrow).
Does Gary Shilling Have A Time Machine?
After a year in which most forecasters were subjected to (and deserved) abject humiliation, it's worth celebrating those who got it right. Such as Mr. Shilling. who went 13 for 13.


Bad things happen to good people all the time. It is likely that you grew up with some unfortunate things that have happened to you. Enlightened people will want to work on processing these events so that they can understand them better and grow from them. That is truly one aspect of living a good life. When trauma occurs it is so very important to acknowledge the feelings and work through the pain so that you can make sense of your world and redirect your life in a purposeful way.
I work with lots of people who have experienced trauma. The initial trauma occurred in their childhood and usually they did not have the support or resources to help them to resolve it as it was happening or directly afterwards. The trauma might have been living with an alcoholic parent, or being physically, emotionally or sexually abused or living in chronic poverty. If they aren't given the opportunity to process and work through it; there is a high likelihood that they will experience it as an adult. The only way we can make sense of that is to understand that until it is fully understood and resolved in one's own psyche, the trauma will return to the person so they can figure it out and truly reprocess it. Once my client has worked through the issues, she will undoubtedly feel stronger, healthier, and better able to you use the skills she learned from resolving the trauma to better her life. This typically means that she also has to go through the process of forgiveness because forgiveness allows her to let it go.
It is the process of letting go that will allow her and encourage her to find meaningful ways of growing and contributing to life so that she feels good about herself.
All the great theorists say that it is the suffering that promotes human beings to grow into people that are fully actualized and evolved. I know many of you are reading this and may be saying "Why do we need to experience so much suffering to actualize growth?" Well what I believe to be true is that life does have much purpose and if one does not deal with the past pains one cannot learn and get healthier. If you don't work through the pain, you will likely stay stuck and blocked from allowing good things to come into your life. As a therapist, it saddens me to watch clients repeatedly experience hardships, and yet the work they do to work through it makes them stronger, wiser and more self actualized!
Have you been through some pain in your childhood that continues to haunt you?
Do you believe that it has blocked you from growing?
Has it showed up in your life again in a different way?
Have you sought out support and resources to help you work through the pain?
Has your suffering made you stronger?
Can you list the ways that you have grown?
And if you have been trying to do this on your own, you have more than likely felt alone because of the trauma that occurred in your past. If this is the case, are you willing to seek out support and resources to help you work through the pain now?
You deserve to get healthy and release yourself from the pain. Get some help so that you can heal and use your past to strengthen the future!


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Q: How to replace only text in a selected column When I select some text in a column, replace/in selection will become grey.
How can I replace text only within a column of selected text in Notepad++?

A: This is an annoying limitation of notepad++, but there are a couple of ways to solve this problem.  First, if you know the column limitations that you want to replace any occurrences of the word "dog" with "cat" within columns 4 and 10, then do this:
RE search string: ^(.{3})(.{0,3})dog(.{0,3})(.*)$
RE replacement string: \1\2cat\3\4
To break this down:
^          - Must match from the beginning of the line
(.{3})     - match any three characters from the line
(.{0,3})   - match 0-3 characters from the line
dog        - match "dog"
(.{0,3})   - match 0-3 characters from the line
(.*)       - match everything else
$          - up to the end of the line

Caveats to this approach
First, make sure you have . matches \n unchecked, this would mess it up.
Mixing tabs and spaces won't work, since regular expressions see tabs as just single characters.
Another solution that will work with mixed tabs and spaces
Column select the last column you want to search in.  Then type a character that isn't otherwise in the file, for example '|' or '!'.
Column select the first column you want to search in.  Do the same thing as before (it can be the same character or a different one).
Now, search for your text within those boundaries.
RE search string: |(.*)dog(.*)|
RE replacement string: |\1cat\2|
You want to leave your marker characters since you will probably not match every line in your file and you'll want to remove all of them in a second step (either with column select and delete, or with another search/replace).

A: I use the Find/Replace dialog that is presented when you enter Ctrl-r. In the Find/Replace dialog there is a field to enter column numbers. This allows you limit the the Find/Replace to these columns in the file. Normal and regular expression Find/Replace are supported. I could not find how to do this Find/Replace via the Ctrl-h dialog.

Find/Replace dialog (Ctrl-r)


Maybe try to focus on your excitement about what you want to say, and not on the people in the audience? When I play in the dog park, I just care about having fun and don't really pay attention to how I look to other dogs.
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The Life and Presidency Herbert Hoover
The White House Christmas Ornament 2016 Historical Essay
The 2016 White House Christmas ornament honors the administration of the thirty-first president of the United States Herbert Hoover, who served from 1929 to 1933. The ornament is inspired by the fire engines that responded to the 1929 Christmas Eve fire at the White House and the toy trucks presented to children by the Hoovers the following Christmas. Crafted from shiny brass plated with nickel and 24k gold, the engine carries a decorated Christmas tree for delivery to the White House.
Prologue: A Fire in the West Wing
The White House was filled with Christmas cheer when the traditional festivities got underway on the evening of December 24, 1929. Wreaths hung in the windows and holly adorned the rooms. President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover were entertaining his staff and their children at a Christmas party while the Marine Band played carols in the Entrance Hall. All seemed well, but a snowfall the day before had brought a bitter cold to the city of Washington, and on that night, the White House would suffer its most devastating fire since 1814, when flames delivered by British torches gutted the mansion, leaving nothing but its exterior stone walls.
The drama began when Chief Usher Ike Hoover whispered urgently in the president's ear: "The executive office is on fire!" President Hoover rose from the dinner table and asked the men to follow him into the hall and onto the scene of the fire in the West Wing. Built in 1902, the wing contained the president's offices, including the first Oval Office, which was added in 1909. Hoover's son Allan joined the men, who proceeded to rescue as many of the president's papers as time allowed, while First Lady Lou Hoover, informed about the blaze, calmly remained to supervise the party. The Marine Band played on.
Firefighters battle the blaze in the West Wing executive offices, December 24, 1929.
The four-alarm fire brought nineteen engine companies and four truck companies to the White House. One hundred and thirty firefighters began to battle the blaze by breaking a domed skylight, hacking holes in the roof to release the smoke, and dragging the fire hoses in.
President Hoover, clad in a heavy blue overcoat and black hat, took a position on top of the adjacent West Terrace to watch the firemen do their work. Some of the hoses froze, becoming geysers of ice. Puffing a cigar and rubbing his hands for warmth, the president occasionally moved to dodge the powerful back and forth of the water hoses. By about 10:30 p.m., the fire was extinguished.
The next morning, the president and several cabinet members returned, sloshing through deep standing water, to assess the damage. Fire Chief George Watson reported that excessive heat from a blocked chimney flue or defective electric wiring had caused
pamphlets stored in the attic to ignite, and fire had spread quickly. Although the exterior walls of the West Wing survived, the roof, attic, and floors were either burned or warped beyond repair. Congress would soon pass a special appropriation to rebuild the uninsured office wing. The Charles H. Tompkins Company of Washington, D.C., completed the work and Hoover and his aides moved back into the remodeled West Wing on April 14, 1930.
Thirty-First President Herbert Hoover
White House Historical Association (White House Collection)
Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964)
The first president from west of the Mississippi, Herbert Clark Hoover was born in the Quaker community of West Branch, Iowa, on August 10, 1874. His father Jesse, a blacksmith, died when Herbert was six. When his mother Huldah, a minister in the Society of Friends, died four years later, young Herbert was taken in by Henry John Minthorn, his maternal uncle in Newburg, Oregon. His brother and sister were sent to live with other relatives. A shy and conscientious young man, he enrolled at Leland Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 1891—the university's inaugural year. He blossomed there and fell in love with fellow geology student Lou Henry. They married in 1899.
Following his graduation in 1895, Hoover traveled throughout the world as a mining engineer and became an expert in mining finance and management. From 1907 to 1912, Herbert and Lou Hoover completed the first English translation from Latin of the classic sixteenth-century Spanish mining book De Re Metallica. Their scholarly annotations provided the most comprehensive history of mining to that date. As an international mining expert and financier, Hoover made a personal fortune and turned then to achieve his ambition to make a contribution to the world.
In the early days of World War I, the first opportunity arose for Hoover to launch a career in public service when he coordinated efforts to lend money to Americans stranded in London. Soon, as head of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, he became universally known as the "Great Humanitarian." When the United States entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to run the U.S. Food Administration, which was charged with efficiently and economically increasing food production and distribution on the home front. A superb organizer and administrator, Hoover was so highly regarded that in February 1921 newly elected President Warren G. Harding invited him to join his cabinet as secretary of commerce. He accepted the offer.
Hoover, the most dynamic member of the Harding–Coolidge cabinets, often made the news; one Washington wit described him as "the secretary of commerce and the undersecretary of everything else." He was a technocrat who loved innovation. A determined Hoover expanded the department's reach beyond business promotion and into product research, safety standards, housing and home ownership, business ethics, labor disputes and policy, radio, aviation, and U.S. commercial expansion overseas. When the Mississippi overflowed its banks in the spring of 1927, Hoover organized federal relief efforts in partnership with the Red Cross and local communities.
President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover in 1929.
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Administration (1929–33)
Once President Coolidge announced his August 1927 decision not to seek reelection, a network of Hoover supporters went into action to launch a campaign and efficiently lined up convention delegates. Old Guard Republicans joined the bandwagon, if grudgingly. The conservative wing of the party resented the fact that Hoover's public career had begun under the Wilson administration and was aghast at his support for the League of Nations, collective bargaining rights, and federal regulation of portions of the economy. Chief Justice Taft considered him a "dreamer" and fretted: "The truth is that Hoover is a progressive."
Accepting the nomination the day after his 54th birthday, Hoover observed that, "given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this Nation"—words that would later be used against him. His campaign circulated a copper Hoover Lucky Pocket Piece engraved with the words "Good for four more years of prosperity." The Democratic nominee, New York governor Alfred E. Smith, struggled in vain to make headway against the voters' wish to ratify the Coolidge prosperity and obtain more. On Election Day Hoover carried forty states and won by 6.4 million votes. "I have no fears for the future of our country . . . It is bright with hope," he said in his inaugural address.
In his early months in office, Hoover sought to move beyond the relative inactivity of the Harding–Coolidge years. His administration promoted water resource development, child health and protection, and improved education and health care for Native Americans. He increased funding for the National Park Service and federal penal reform, and supported establishment of an expanded National Institutes of Health, a Federal Farm Board to encourage agricultural cooperatives, and the Boulder Canyon project, which would give birth to Hoover Dam. In foreign affairs, he favored disarmament and improved relations with Latin America.
First Lady Lou Henry Hoover in 1928.
Stock Montage, Harris and Ewing Collection
Lou Henry Hoover
As the official White House hostess, Lou Hoover welcomed visitors with poise and dignity. She was a thoroughly "modern woman" for her time. Independent and self sufficient, she brought to her White House role a well-traveled perspective gained from years of adventure accompanying Herbert Hoover to isolated mining areas around the world. As first lady, she was not afraid of controversy, and overruled the White House tradition of racial segregation by inviting to tea Jessie DePriest, the wife of Republican Oscar Stanton DePriest, the first African-American member of Congress since 1901.
Lou Hoover appreciated the significance of the White House as a historic place and introduced a display of historical paintings, portraits, and objects in the Entrance Hall where visitors gathered before tours. The first lady also initiated a study to catalog all of the historic objects in the White House. As a tribute to President James Monroe, she created the Monroe Room (today's Treaty Room) on the Second Floor where Monroe had kept his office, furnishing it with reproductions of several pieces of Monroe's own furniture.
Influenced by long years of social experience around the world—notably in England—the Hoovers entertained with style. Their after dinner roster of prominent artists who performed in the White House included Grace Moore, Rosa Ponselle, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, and many others. On April 29, 1931, harpist Mildred Dilling played for King Phra Pok Klao Prajadhipok of Siam. The Hoovers also enjoyed the performances of the Hampton and Tuskegee choirs, the first black choirs to return to the White House since the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville sang for President Arthur.
Times Change: The Crash of 1929 and After
Less than a year into Hoover's administration, the Great Depression overwhelmed the nation. Like dominoes, one section of the economy collapsed onto another, contributing to an unprecedented disaster. Banks failed in the "panic" of depositors to withdraw their accounts. Drought ravaged farmlands turned to dust. Personal income, investments, and manufacturing plummeted while unemployment, farm foreclosures, and municipal and state debt soared. Soup kitchens, breadlines, and "Hoovervilles"—threadbare camps built by the homeless and unemployed—became all-too-familiar sights. In Texas, armadillos were called "Hoover hogs." If not universal, the Depression reached deeper into the American culture than any economic crisis before or since.
A firm believer in volunteerism and community generosity in time of need, Hoover struggled to stop the Panic (which the event was called before "Depression" took its place) through citizen participation. The emotional storm that came with the Panic was, to him, an obstacle to recovery. He pleaded with businesses to sacrifice profits before cutting jobs, asked industry to keep wages high so people could afford to buy consumer goods, and urged banks and loan companies to aggressively search for investment opportunities. He created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to furnish loans to banks, corporations, and state governments for housing and public works projects.
Political conflict had never appealed to Hoover, and his preference for working alone meant he usually relied more on administrative action than on politics and vital public persuasion, to accomplish his goals. Aware of his often aloof personality, he rejected suggestions to make regular visits to areas with high unemployment, saying, "This is not a showman's job, I will not step out of character and you can't make a Teddy Roosevelt out of me."
By 1932 Hoover faced long odds for reelection. In much of the public's mind, the humanitarian and awe-inspiring expert they knew in 1928 had become a heartless automaton unable to halt the nation's widespread suffering. The Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, exuded a buoyant, jaunty air that contrasted favorably with Hoover's dour public image. In lackluster speeches, Hoover appealed for upholding economic traditions, tried to defend his record, and voiced concern about what Roosevelt might do if elected. At home in Palo Alto, as the scope of the crushing defeat became clear, Hoover conceded the election, thus becoming the sixth incumbent to be denied a second term.
Christmas at the Hoover White House
President and Mrs. Hoover welcomed their children and grandchildren to the White House over the holidays each year. Their younger son Allan usually came home from Harvard Law School. Herbert Hoover Jr. and his wife Margaret brightened the White House scene with their children Peggy Ann, Joan, and Herbert "Pete" Hoover III. First Lady Lou Hoover often spent Christmas Eve distributing food baskets at the Salvation Army and attending such events as the disabled veterans' Christmas sale at Walter Reed Hospital in 1929.
Workers collect fire-damaged debris from the Oval Office, December 26, 1929.
Few White House Christmases were more dramatic than 1929, the year of the West Wing fire. At dusk from 1930 to 1932 on Christmas Eve, President Hoover touched the button that lit the National Community Christmas Tree in various locations on and around the White House grounds. Afterward, the Hoovers hosted a party for children of the staff members.
In 1931, during the depth of the Depression, Hoover scaled down the cost of Christmas festivities and donated the savings to charities. After conceding defeat in the election of 1932, the Hoovers spent the holidays on a cruise in the coastal waters of Georgia and Florida. They did not return to attend the non-invitational New Year's Day reception at the White House, ending forever a public holiday tradition started in 1801 and long beloved, especially by diplomats, government officials, and military officers. The event was in its decline anyway—crowds had swelled to more than 6,000 by the 1930s. Logistics and security made the open house too arduous to continue. Hoover, as it was, took the leap.
After the White House
The Hoovers elected to live between California and New York City. Mrs. Hoover's sudden death in 1944—twelve years after they left the White House—fairly well settled the former president in one place, New York City, where he lived at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. During the 1930s, Hoover, a fine writer, wrote books and articles and delivered speeches disapproving of the New Deal, worked to expand the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and devoted himself to charities and organizations such as the Boys' Clubs. Following World War II, at President Truman's invitation, he traveled to Europe and Latin America to coordinate famine relief, as effectively as he had done thirty years before. He also chaired the advisory Hoover Commission to increase government efficiency. By the time he died in 1964 at age 90, Hoover's long record of public service confirmed his reputation as a great humanitarian.
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Marston Green woman left unable to walk to have life-changing surgery
Charlie Fitzharris' life was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Picture by Jon Mullis. 15.019.007.sol.jm1
Charlie and her husband Oscar have raised more than £60,000 for Charlie's life-changing operation. Picture by Jon Mullis. 15.019.007.sol.jm2
Sarah Mason 11th Apr, 2019 Updated: 23rd Apr, 2019
A MARSTON Green woman who has been left unable to walk is fundraising to have potentially life-changing surgery in Spain.
Charlie Fitzharris's life was turned upside down last February when she was diagnosed with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which affects the connective tissue that supports her skin, organs and ligaments.
She has been told by experts her spine is so fragile it is being crushed under the weight of her skull compressing nerves, veins and spinal cord.
She said the condition has left her neck so unstable it's too dangerous for her to complete physiotherapy.
After joining EDS communities online she learned about a spinal fusion operation, where parts of the spine are welded, which is suggested to help.
However, it is not offered on the NHS for patients with EDS and Charlie is fundraising to have this surgery in Barcelona.
She said: "I found it very hard to believe that the operation wasn't available in the UK.
"I was also keen to get the surgery not only for my health but as an example for the UK for how vital and life-saving these treatments are.
"The closer we've got to the surgery the greater the sense of relief, hope and optimism that I could have not only a better chance of life quality but a chance of life itself."
The 27-year-old wanted to raise £60,000 to cover the cost of the surgery, flights and other expenses.
Since January Charlie, with help from her husband Oscar Mealia, their friends, family and strangers have raised a whopping £68,173.
She said any extra funds raised will be used for recovery costs.
Any addditional funds after that will be donated to help other EDS sufferers in a similar situation in the UK, or to start up a charity to supporting EDS patients.
She has booked her first operation which will be performed by Dr Gilete at Teknon Hospital, in Barcelona, on May 9.
There have also been discussions around a possible second surgery for Charlie.
She said: "We now have enough for the first surgery and if I need the second, we have already made a dent in that which is beyond incredible.
"I feel extremely lucky to know so many generous, kind and proactive people.
"And even beyond the people we know, the kindest of strangers has been really astounding.
"Although it's a frightening and difficult situation to be in, the communities that have supported us through this have made it strangely joyful.
"It has put me in a really great place to take on the surgery and hopefully recover really well."
The next fundraising event is a music concert at Lyndon Methodist Church on Melton Avenue on April 27 with music from Jacob John, Caitlin Rose and Darcy Homes and dances.
For more on the concert visit www.eventbrite.co.uk and search Chance 4 Charlie concert.
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Dave, this is a very powerful poem. I am also glad your here.You mentioned during your active days- I would assume that means your not drinking now. Good for you!!I wish you all the best- day by day.
PRAISE GOD!! GLAD YOU ARE STILL HERE...HELPING SOMEBODY ELSE WITH GREAT WORK LIKE THIS. THANKS FOR SHARING AND GOD BLESS YOU.


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KINDERGARTEN KILLING
Posted by George Freund on December 17, 2012 at 11:25 PM
There is something very, very WRONG with the events that happened in Newtown, Connecticut. There is a police line we are not supposed to cross. They will tell us the 'official' story as it is supposed to be recorded into the annals of history and the facets of our memory. Glaring juxtapositions will be cast aside. Perhaps many years later redacted sheets of paper will hint at the details.
Right from the start the media JIHAD started with serious errata. We were told that the alleged shooter Adam Lanza was let into the school by the Principal Dawn Hochsprung. That was completely and totally false. In fact it was an insidious thing to imply for her loved ones to think an error in her judgement led to the massacre of the innocents. When I first heard the police audio there was no mistake. The first officer on the scene reported the front window smashed out. THEY LIED.
They further stated that Adam Lanza's mother was a teacher at the school implying a connection. Her name was found NOT to be on the school website. She was never a teacher at the school. THEY LIED.
The police audio reports two figures running from the scene. On arrival the first officers report confronting them. They say we got them. They're (plural) coming at me. This is IT! The officers get into a foot chase from the rear of the school into the woods. A news helicopter is overhead. How'd they get there that fast? The police would have arrived in minutes. Even if a traffic helicopter had a scanner nearby, that would be a miracle. They knew perhaps. If it was a police helicopter, they surely wouldn't be releasing video.
The media is strangely silent on the matter of multiple shooters. You see everything was planned well in advance about what to say. There were sources including an adult man and a child reporting a man handcuffed in front of the school. He may very well have been a passerby. He claimed to all who would listen, "I didn't do it." While being interviewed the adult man pointed him out to the news media. There he is right there by the police car. All they had to do was turn the camera. They would have captured him. It wasn't going to happen. In fact the police are preventing media from contacting victim's families. Is that as my colleague believes so the other shooters won't be reported.
That leaves us with the persons running into the woods. Like all good liberals they scoff at the truth. A Principal I know laughs at the source as possible charlatans. The source was the Associated Press (AP) and the Los Angeles Times. So my reply is see you know the media are complete liars. The main point is though highly opinionated, they refuse to look at any evidence. Well you should learn and think for yourself. I'll show you stills of the event. You can arrive at your own conclusions.
Officers continue to follow someone up into the woods
There are three figures in a triangular formation in this image
They continue to move in on the subject
The subject is "proned out" as they say in the police audio near the base of the tree
Other officers are formed in a perimeter around him. They do not appear unduly alarmed.
So who were the 'shadowy' figures who ran away? Others ran into the line of fire. On our first post a tweet reports three running in and one crawling back. This shooting is supposed to have happened in two minutes. One hundred or so rounds were fired. The rifle may have had a 30 round clip. He would have had to change one several times. That's a serious bit of shooting. News reports said the floors were littered with .223 caliber shells. The media reported Adam Lanza had two 9 mm pistols and a Bush Master Rifle. The police found the rifle locked in the trunk of the car when they searched it after dark. EXCUSE ME!
Aerial of police finding a loaded rifle in the trunk of a car in the school parking lot. .223 shells were found at the scene. Who was shooting the .223 inside the school then? From the NBC News Connecticut live feed on 12/14/12. "A Sig Sauer handgun and a Glock handgun were used in the slaying and .223 shell casings -- a round used in a semi-automatic military style rifle -- were also found at the scene. " "...However, federal authorities cannot confirm that the handguns or the rifle were the we ...
So even the big networks ask who was shooting the rifle. Every source I've seen says two pistols and ONE rifle. The coroner reported all the victims were shot with a .223 caliber weapon. Are you getting the picture? A first year law student should get an acquittal if he was at trial. He wasn't holding the murder weapon. He was found dead in the school by the first police. They clearly state that in the audio recording. How did the rifle get put back in the trunk? We are being LIED to BIG TIME! This is a total fabrication. It is being used to gut the Constitution of the United States and lead we the people into tyranny.
There was another report of the teacher who herded her class into a closet. They locked themselves in. Adam Lanza was supposed to have been beating on the door screaming, "Let me in. Let me in." As Columbo used to say something is bothering me about that one too. Let me in can be said as a pleading or request as opposed to a command. If he was a deranged killer as we are told he should command them to open the door on pain of being shot. If they failed to comply, what would a deranged killer do? Open fire through the door I should think. He didn't. Then there was the next lie. The media said he coolly and quietly walked through the school without saying a word shooting the victims.
I'm starting to come to the conclusion the media is reading from a prepared script. The facts in issue don't seem to agree with it. While looking for the Indian name of the original Newtown, I found an article containing the name. Every newspaper over many, many pages of Google search had the same article word for word. That's not weird that's mind control. After going through ten pages, it's like every paper in the world has no writers except the one they share at information central.
In the UAE it is being reported that Adam Lanza had a run in with the staff at the school the day before. That has been noticeably absent from the regular CIAcentric media. Of the four staff involved, he killed three. The fourth stayed home from school Friday.
Then there is the good news perhaps. Police have acquired a search warrant to seal off and search the school for an indefinite period of time. They will do forensic analysis on each and every spent casing. Perhaps the blogosphere is responsible for that. In America, you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Nobody has proven anything. There was a monstrous crime. The finger was pointed at Adam Lanza. He has been convicted by media. However, there are many, many loose ends some of which say he may have been a patsy. The other men running from the scene are on my short list. He didn't have his rifle with him. All the victims were shot with one. The police audio reports the recovery of a shotgun. There was no mention of a shotgun anywhere. WE ARE BEING LIED TO. THIS IS A PSY-OPS intelligence agency style. America has done it all over the world. Now the chickens are home to roost. What if Adam only went to the school to threaten the teachers? What if there was a strike team conducting a massacre? They kill him. They make it look like suicide. They run away. The police arrive and chase them into the woods only to discover they are a covert action team of some sort. They are ordered to release them. Adam was after all the killer. The LYING media said so. I hope the local police keep the Feds out. I hope they determine multiple firearms and by definition multiple shooters. America is at the cusp of a New World Order. They need the guns to get it. I vote NO not that we're ever going to be asked.


Mary Jane's piece is about her husband, Georgie, and how he is an inspiration for continuing the tradition of living off the land.
Brandon decided to do a piece on how the Caribou Fence was created.
Stanley Grafton Njootli, a visual artist, decided he wanted to make a piece with his 3-year old son in Gwich'in. Stan had been in a documentary (about him and his father, and his decision to move to Old Crow in his 20s after never living there before). The film is entitled Arctic Son.
Mackenzie created a stop-motion animation in the Blackfoot language.
Elder Joel Peter also made a piece about living his life in Old Crow. He shared what he knows especially about Muskrat trapping. This was a really special experience, and reaffirmed the importance of including more elders in the Our World project as storytellers. They hold wisdom about the environment, the language, the culture and traditional values that are so important for future generations. These real connections to traditions that have existed for 20,000 years. Hunting, trapping, living off the land – these are all things that people base a lot of their livelihood and existence on. We hope these short films can help to celebrate and connect generations and to important community values.
Below is a video with Stan, (a fellow who grew up in Washington and then decided to relocate to Old Crow) who barely speaks Gwich'in himself, teach his 3-year old son how to speak Gwich'in for his short film CRAW CRAW CRAW. It was magical.


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https://www.thebodypro.com/article/investigating-where-patients-go-when-they-leave-hi
HIV Spotlight Center: Caring for the Newly Diagnosed Patient
HIV Care Continuum
Investigating Where Patients Go When They Leave HIV Care
Sean R. Hosein
Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
Previous research has found HIV-positive Canadians stop attending follow-up HIV appointments at rates between 11% and 24%.
Alberta researchers find that many patients "lost to follow-up" are seeking healthcare outside HIV services, often in hospital emergency rooms.
This research has implications for programs that seek to re-engage patients in HIV care.
Potent combination anti-HIV therapy (ART) can reduce levels of HIV in the blood (viral load) to very low levels that cannot be detected with routinely used tests. These low levels are commonly called "undetectable." Keeping HIV at such low levels with ART is associated with improved health. This effect of ART is so powerful that researchers in Canada and other high-income countries expect that many HIV-positive people who continue to take ART every day and keep regular clinical and laboratory appointments will have a near-normal lifespan.
Studies have found another benefit of ART that comes from achieving and maintaining an undetectable viral load: The sexual spread of HIV does not occur.
These twin benefits of ART and an undetectable viral load (improved health and the prevention of HIV transmission) are so profound that the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) has encouraged countries, regions and cities to engage with their populations so that the following goals are achieved by 2020:
90% of people with HIV know their infection status
90% of people diagnosed with HIV are taking ART
90% of people taking ART have an undetectable viral load
To help achieve these goals (often shortened to 90-90-90) it is essential for there to be more opportunities for HIV testing accompanied by supportive counselling and, in cases of a positive test result, swift referral to care where an offer of ART can be made.
Dropping Out of HIV Care
Research in the United States suggests that a large proportion of HIV-positive people -- perhaps as high as 40% in some cases -- drop out of care. According to researchers at the Southern Alberta Clinic (SAC), figures from several studies in larger Canadian provinces suggest that dropout rates are between 11% and 24%, depending on the clinic/region surveyed. Researchers label people who have dropped out of care as "lost to follow-up" (LTFU).
Not surprisingly, studies have found that people who drop out of HIV care are at heightened risk for developing serious HIV-related complications and dying.
What's more, researchers at SAC who have reviewed studies published in the past several years have found that "innovative approaches to facilitate reengagement in HIV care, including intensive outreach, patient navigators and use of case managers, have shown modest benefits."
In Alberta
Researchers at SAC sought to find out where patients who dropped out of HIV care went to receive their non-HIV care, as these could potentially be places where they may be helped to re-enter HIV care.
To find out more about where patients who were LTFU went for non-HIV care, the researchers accessed Alberta's comprehensive and province-wide electronic health record (EHR). They reviewed information collected by the EHR between January 2010 and August 2014 on patients who had gone more than one year without a visit to SAC.
According to the researchers, there were a total of 1,928 patients registered at SAC. However, 178 (9%) patients dropped out of HIV care at SAC. Further analysis revealed that some patients had moved out of the province, others sought HIV care elsewhere and a small portion had died. By the end of the study, many participants who were residing in Alberta had returned to HIV care. However, analysis of the EHR data revealed that 29 (16%) patients who left SAC had no further contact with HIV care yet sought non-HIV care in Alberta.
These 29 patients had many contacts -- a total of 188 (at least six per person) -- with the medical healthcare system for care unrelated to HIV during the study period. The majority of these contacts (nearly 70%) occurred in the Emergency Departments of hospitals. In 25 cases, hospitalization was required. The remaining participants interacted with hospitals and community clinics for their non-HIV care.
Implications of the Study
According to the researchers, "an important implication of this finding is that health-care based reengagement efforts, such as medical or social service referral, will miss this population [who are LTFU]" because it depends on patients visiting the HIV clinic to receive such referrals.
There may be an alternative method of finding out more about patients who are LTFU. The Southern Alberta researchers drew attention to research from Seattle, Washington, where an HIV clinic collaborated with local health departments and made use of a care linkage specialist for outreach. The Seattle researchers were somewhat able to re-engage patients into care and find out why they appeared to disengage in care. In the Seattle study, the majority of patients who stopped visiting the HIV clinic did so because they had been sent to prison or had moved out of the region or sought care at other HIV clinics. Furthermore, the Seattle researchers stated the following: "The ongoing movement of patients between correctional settings and community, between different geographic areas, and between different clinical care sites is a challenging issue for both clinic and health department-based relinkage interventions to address."
The Emergency Department
Research from Baltimore, Maryland, suggests that intensive efforts to help HIV-positive people who enter the Emergency Department link to care can be effective. According to the Alberta researchers, such intensive interventions can include "physically escorting patients to an HIV clinic or in-person interaction with an HIV specialist." However, the Baltimore researchers noted that interventions to help patients in the Emergency Department link to and stay in care often required additional funding because the services of "multidisciplinary non-Emergency Department staff" were required.
What Is Needed
Based on the findings from their regions and their review of other studies related to patients who are LTFU, the Alberta researchers call for studies to better understand why some HIV-positive patients drop out of HIV care. They add that while focusing on HIV-positive patients who seek care from Emergency Departments may help to re-engage many who are LTFU, such attempts will not find patients who have disengaged with the healthcare system altogether.
The main issue raised by the Alberta researchers -- dropping out of HIV care -- is important and can affect the health and well-being of some HIV-positive people as well as the ability of cities and regions to reach the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets.
Technical Notes About the EHR
The EHR database captures visits to Emergency Departments, urgent care facilities, community clinics and more than 90% of lab tests and prescriptions for Alberta residents (regardless of HIV status). According to the Alberta researchers, at the time of the study there were some "rural and private community providers who are not yet contributing to the provincial [data] platform and represent sources of uncaptured data in the EHR." The EHR is also linked to registries in the province so that deaths can be incorporated into the database. However, it is possible, likely even, that the EHR database has limitations (it was not designed for the purpose of the present study). It is possible that some patients who left the care of SAC were in care in other parts of the province with clinics not yet registered with the EHR.
British Columbia researchers study HIV treatment interruptions and their consequences -- CATIE News
CATIE statement on the use of antiretroviral treatment (ART) to maintain an undetectable viral load as a highly effective strategy to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV
Canada's progress towards global HIV testing, care and treatment goals -- CATIE News
Going beyond current ideas about the cascade of HIV care -- CATIE News
90-90-90 -- An ambitious treatment target to help end the AIDS epidemic -- UNAIDS
Progress on Ontario's HIV care cascade -- CATIE News
Alberta -- Reducing deaths by strengthening the HIV Treatment Cascade -- CATIE News
Gaps in British Columbia's HIV treatment cascade -- CATIE News
The HIV treatment cascade -- patching the leaks to improve HIV prevention -- Prevention in Focus
The Engagement Cascade -- The Positive Side
The routine offer of HIV testing in primary care settings: A review of the evidence -- Prevention in Focus
The HIV testing process -- CATIE fact sheet
HIV testing technologies -- CATIE fact sheet
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[Note from TheBodyPRO.com: This article was originally published by CATIE on Oct. 31, 2017. We have cross-posted it with their permission.]
Sean R. Hosein is the science and medical editor of CATIE, a prominent Canadian HIV news and information resource. He has been covering HIV news since 1988.
@CATIEinfo


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Anonymous Speech Online Dealt a Blow in US v. Glassdoor Opinion
Lisa A. Hayes
Written by Lisa A. Hayes
First Amendment protections for anonymous speech online were dealt a serious blow earlier today when the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in United States v. Glassdoor. In its opinion, the Court ruled in favor of the US government's efforts to compel Glassdoor to unmask anonymous reviews of employers by employees posted on the site. The ripple effects of this case for online speakers could be severe, and with the case having been placed under seal from day one, it's not surprising that the decision reflects a clear lack of understanding of its potential impact from the Court.
Background of United States v. Glassdoor
The case started when the US government served a subpoena on Glassdoor, an online forum where current and former employees can anonymously post reviews about the salaries and work environments of their places of employment. The subpoena asked for identifying information for more than one hundred accounts that had posted reviews of an employer whose contracting practices were apparently under criminal investigation by a federal grand jury.
Glassdoor declined to unmask its users to the grand jury, citing the First Amendment right of its users to speak anonymously. It noted that Glassdoor was not attempting to interfere with a criminal investigation, but by identifying its users, the investigation "could have a chilling effect on both Glassdoor's reviewers' and readers' willingness to use glassdoor.com."
Perhaps cognizant of its overreach, the government revised its demand to eight specified reviewers. In an attempt at compromise, Glassdoor then offered to notify the eight users of the subpoena in an effort to learn if they would voluntarily cooperate with the prosecutors. After this offer was rejected, Glassdoor subsequently moved to quash the subpoena, invoking its users' First Amendment right to speak anonymously, while simultaneously notifying the targeted users of the subpoena's existence.
A Secretive, Closed Decision
There is a lot we still do not know about the underlying facts of this case. It reached the 9th Circuit and was placed under seal from the outset, with sealed briefs, and a sealed record, with no explanation of the same. "The Court sees no need for participation by amicus curiae at this stage of the litigation," the appeals court stated in a July 6 order signed by the 9th Circuit's Clerk of Court.
Nonetheless, due to the importance of the underlying issue, CDT persisted and attempted to file a motion with the Court that would allow CDT and other civil society groups to file an amicus brief to help the court understand the potential real-world impacts of its decision. CDT was denied the ability to electronically upload its motion, so our counsel hand-delivered a copy of the motion and proposed amicus brief to the 9th Circuit. Yet as recently as last week, we were told by the clerk that the motion was still under consideration, and had not been decided. The opinion issued today lists CDT as having filed an amicus brief, but the court has yet to actually rule on CDT's request to file a brief.
The ability to speak anonymously can encourage speakers to engage more openly with one another.
Today's ruling in favor of the government is a blow to free speech online. The court holds Glassdoor to the standard set in Branzburg v. Hayes, where the Supreme Court held that a reporter must cooperate with a grand jury investigation unless there is evidence that the investigation is being conducted in bad faith. However, newsgathering is not the crux of this case, where Glassdoor is neither a reporter nor a news organization. In the four decades since Branzburg was decided, courts consistently have recognized the severity of circumstances in which an anonymous speaker's identity is revealed against his or her will, and therefore have imposed a variety of evidentiary requirements and multi-part balancing tests in civil cases to ensure speakers' rights are adequately protected. Despite this, the 9th Circuit today rejected more recent case law, such as Bursey v. United States, that offer greater protections for online speech.
As CDT explains in its amicus brief, the ability to speak anonymously can encourage speakers to engage more openly with one another. This is especially true with respect to online speech, given the internet's unique technical characteristics. Online communications necessarily depend on intermediaries, such as internet service providers and messaging platforms, to facilitate their carriage, accessibility, and storage. As a result, internet users are particularly vulnerable to having their speech published, decontextualized, and examined in ways that they do not anticipate when initially posting a comment. If a person fears that statements she makes online will be forever linked to her professional or legal identity, she is likely to refrain from voicing at least some thoughts due to concerns about potential repercussions and reprisal.
If this case stands, it will have far-reaching consequences for the ability of companies to protect anonymous speech online. These are the legal questions that will shape the future of the internet. As a society, we need to be having these discussions with each other in the open, not behind closed doors and under seal. Sealed records and inaccessible justice systems hold little hope of producing probative decisions. And in this case, a secretive court produced a troubling opinion.
Amicus Brief in AirBNB and Homeaway vs. San Francisco
Letter to European Commission on Code of Conduct for "Illegal" Hate Speech Online
US Warrants Don't Reach Digital Content Stored Abroad
Senate Inquiry into Backpage's Content Moderation Practices Would Set Dangerous Precedent for Free Speech Online
Washington Court ruling against Backpage.com is a Setback for Internet Platforms and Online Speech
CDT Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Strong Section 230 Protections


The location is right in the middle of the city directly on the Binnenalster near Hotel Vier-Jahreszeiten and the Colonnaden. The large central room is illuminated by a glass roof with plenty of natural light. The decor is very modern and appealing. The Cubicles (individual offices) are equipped as desired and are suitable for example. for workshop individual groups or event topics.


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Cardi B wore a Kello Kitty inspired manicure designed by Jenny Bui aka @nailson7th.
Teala Dunn wears hot pink manicure with jeweled bow decoration applied on one of her nails.
Jojo Siwa wears pink bows and pink tips with stud decoration on her nails.
Dinah Jane Hansen wears oval long pink nails with black bows decoration.
Hanna Beth Merjos had holiday sparkle manicure in lavender color and sparkling beads ans studs applications made by Celebrity Nail Artis Alexa Espinoza-Garcia.
Gabriella DeMartino reposted an Instagram image with her last Christmas's manicure. She had pink and white nails decorated with gold glitter, stipes and wrap bow.