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Liverpool Care Pathway: The Road to Backdoor Euthanasia
Several years ago, bureaucrats at the United Kingdom's National Health Service—a socialized system in which hospitals are funded and operated by the state—reacted to legitimate and widespread complaints from family members that their loved ones were dying in agony in NHS hospitals.
In response, well-meaning pain-control experts created a protocol—known as the Liverpool Care Pathway—which, among other provisions, informed doctors when to apply a legitimate medical palliative intervention known as palliative sedation. The protocol was recommended for adoption by the National Institute on Clinical Excellence (NICE)—the NHS's rationing and quality oversight board—and there you go; problem solved.1
Except it wasn't. Indeed, as so often happens in centralized systems, the bureaucratic remedy for one problem led to even worse trouble down the line. The LCP's palliative sedation protocol has, in practice, too often been applied as "terminal sedation"—a form of backdoor euthanasia. Understanding how and why that happened serves as an important cautionary tale about potent dangers of centralized healthcare.
"Palliative" Versus "Terminal" Sedation
In order to understand what went so badly wrong in the implementation of the LCP—and why it is important—we must first detail the crucial moral and factual distinctions between the legitimate pain-controlling medical treatment known as palliative sedation (PS) and a slow-motion method of euthanasia sometimes called "terminal sedation" (TS). The two are too often conflated, particularly by euthanasia advocates seeking to blur moral distinctions and definitions.
A very good article published in the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy clearly distinguishes between sedation applied to control pain and sedation used as a method of killing.2 First, author Michael P. Hahn, a respiratory therapist with Loma Linda University, notes that palliative sedation applies the least amount of sedative to obtain the needed relief:
Ideally, the level of palliative sedation is provided in a fashion that is titrated to a minimal level that permits the patient to tolerate unbearable symptoms, yet the patient can continue to periodically communicate.3
PS employs varying degrees of sedation and time under that sedation level, depending on the circumstances:
The three most common levels of providing PS include mild, intermediate, and deep. When mild sedation is used, the patient is awake and the level of consciousness is lowered to a somnolent state, with verbal or nonverbal communication still possible. With intermediate sedation, the patient is asleep or stuporous and can still be awakened to communicate briefly. The third level is deep sedation, which refers to the patient being near or in complete unconsciousness and does not communicate verbally or nonverbally. Besides regulating the degree of sedation, palliative sedation may also be provided intermittently or continuously.4
In other words, palliative sedation is a medical treatment applied when necessary to relieve intense suffering; it offers individualized relief from pain and suffering (caused by conditions such as severe agitation) as the situation may warrant. It is not directed at ending the patient's life. Death is not the goal. If the patient dies, it is usually from the underlying condition or as an unwanted side effect, which can happen with any medical treatment. In other words, PS is no more euthanasia if a patient dies from complications than if a patient dies during heart surgery.
In contrast, terminal sedation intends to kill by putting the person into a permanent artificial coma and withholding food and fluids. TS-caused deaths usually are caused by dehydration over a period of about two weeks. In this sense, Hahn notes, palliative sedation and terminal sedation are mirror opposites (my emphasis below):
Palliative sedation is not a euphemism that is morally equivalent to euthanasia, nor is it "slow euthanasia" [e.g., terminal sedation], or physician-assisted suicide (PAS). There is a sharp distinction between euthanasia and PS or PAS and PS, the distinction between the three can be ascertained by recognizing the primary intention and outcome of each measure. Although PAS and euthanasia are intended to relieve suffering, it is accomplished by causing death, whereas PS is provided in a proportionate manner without an intention of causing death . . . .
Slow euthanasia and PAS specifically involve the intent to end life deliberately with lethal (nontherapeutic) doses of drugs, or with rapid administration of drugs, that exceed the amount needed to alleviate the symptoms. When death unintentionally occurs following a proportionate administration of drugs in PS, the patient dies from the underlying illness and the death certificate does not list the cause of death as "drug overdose."5
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization supports the application of palliative sedation in "rare" cases for "the limited number of imminently dying patients who have pain and suffering that is (a) unresponsive to other palliative interventions less suppressive of consciousness and (b) intolerable." Again, the Position Statement of the NHPCO specifically notes that neither death nor unconsciousness is the goal of the intervention:
The goal of palliative sedation is to provide relief from symptoms that are otherwise intolerable and intractable. Since the goal is symptom relief (and not unconsciousness per se), sedation should be titrated to the minimum level of consciousness reduction necessary to render symptoms tolerable. For some patients, this may be total unconsciousness. For most, however, it will be less than total unconsciousness, allowing the patient to rest comfortably but to be aroused.6
In summary, while both palliative sedation and terminal sedation involve the use of consciousness-altering drugs, they are apples and oranges:
PS is individualized and the level of sedation varied according to the patient's present medical condition. In contrast, TS places the patient in a deep artificial coma until death.
The purpose of PS is to treat the patient's pain and symptoms while simultaneously offering the best possible quality of life, whereas the explicit goal of TS is making the patient dead.
Patients who die while undergoing PS usually expire from their underlying physical condition, whereas most patients undergoing TS die of dehydration. (Hence, Hahn's use of the term "slow euthanasia.")
PS is a legitimate and ethical medical treatment. TS is slow euthanasia, which is not legal or ethical in most countries.
With the above in mind, we now turn to the Liverpool Care Pathway and what went wrong.
The Liverpool Care Pathway Only Authorized Palliative Sedation
It is clear from the terms of the policy that the LCP's authors never intended it to become a form of terminal sedation. For example, an educational document prepared for healthcare professionals by the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute (Liverpool)—under which auspices the Pathway was created—notes that the specific "aim" of the Pathway is to "improve care of the dying in the last hours or days of life.7 It also stated unequivocally that:
"The LCP neither hastens nor postpones death;"
"The LCP does not recommend the use of continuous deep sedation;"
"The LCP does not preclude the use of artificial hydration;"
"The LCP supports continuous reassessment."8
It is also important to reiterate that the LCP was designed to be applied in a patient-specific and nuanced manner. Thus, as the educational document notes:
A blanket policy of clinically assisted (artificial) nutrition or of no clinically assisted (artificial) hydration is ethically indefensible and in the case of patients lacking capacity prohibited under the Mental Capacities Act (2005).9
Indeed, an early audit of 4000 dying patients found that only 4 percent needed deep levels of sedation to control pain and distressing symptoms at the very end of life.10
Backdoor Euthanasia
Alas, that is not how the LCP has been carried out in many NHS hospitals and nursing homes. The trouble began when NICE urged hospitals to adopt the Pathway as a means of caring for dying patients. Perhaps because it came to be perceived as a bureaucratic order rather than a guideline encouraging individualized patient care, deep sedation apparently came to be seen as the norm in some institutions—to the point that at least in some cases, the LCP became a means of backdoor euthanasia, threatening a full-blown medical scandal.
The serious problems with the Pathway first came to light in 2009 when the Telegraph published an open letter signed by palliative physicians and other pain-control experts. It complained that hospital personnel were applying the LCP in a "tick-box" manner that threatened the lives of patients who did not need sedation based on their medical conditions:
Just as, in the financial world, so-called algorithmic banking has caused problems by blindly following a computer model, so a similar tick-box approach to the management of death is causing a national crisis in care. The government is rolling out a new treatment pattern of palliative care into hospitals, nursing homes, and residential homes. It is based on experience in a Liverpool hospice. If you tick all the right boxes in the Liverpool Care Pathway, the inevitable outcome of the consequent treatment is death.
This, the letter writers warned, had resulted in some patients who were not actively dying—a core requirement for application of the LCP—being sedated:
As a result, a nationwide wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients. Syringe drivers are being used to give continuous terminal sedation, without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong . . . . Experienced doctors know that sometimes, when all but essential drugs are stopped, "dying" patients get better.11
A concurrent Telegraph story reported that an alarming 16.5 percent of patients who died in 2007-08 expired while under "continuous deep sedation." Tellingly, the Telegraph reported that twice as many patients in the U.K. died while under deep sedation as in the Netherlands—a country where terminal sedation sometimes serves as a substitute for active euthanasia.12 (It is worth noting that the use of TS as a means of euthanasia has increased in the Netherlands in the intervening years. A recent study found that 12.3 percent of Dutch deaths now result from sedation and dehydration—which is still below the rate in the UK!)13
Soon, disturbing stories in the press added credence to the open letter writers' fears. Again, the Telegraph led the way, reporting Rosemary Munkenbeck's claim that her father, hospitalized with a stroke, was quickly deprived of fluids and medications. She further claimed that doctors wanted to sedate him under the Pathway protocols until he died. The family refused, but not before Munkenbeck's father went five days without sustenance.14
The Sunday Times of London soon reported another case, headlined, "Daughter Saves Mother, 80, Left by Doctors to Starve":
An 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened. Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients. Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool Care Pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.15
Fenton lived to tell the tale. Not so 76-year-old Jack Jones. As reported by the Daily Mail, Jones was hospitalized in the belief that his previous cancer had recurred and was now terminal. The family claimed he was soon denied food and water and put into deep sedation. But his autopsy showed that he did not have cancer at all, but actually had a treatable infection. The hospice denied wrongdoing but paid £18,000 to Jones's widow.16
As time progressed, it became abundantly clear that despite the LCP's intent that the protocol not be applied in a blanket manner, precisely such unthinking applications were happening in actual clinical practice. Another story in the Telegraph reported that two-thirds of NHS hospitals were receiving financial incentives from the government to place patients on the LCP:
The majority of NHS hospitals in England are being given financial rewards for placing terminally-ill patients on a controversial 'pathway' to death, it can be disclosed. The figures, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal the full scale of financial inducements for the first time. They suggest that about 85 per cent of trusts have now adopted the regime, which can involve the removal of hydration and nutrition from dying patients. More than six out of 10 of those trusts—just over half of the total—have received or are due to receive financial rewards for doing so amounting to at least £12million.
And the statistics show that the Pathway has indeed become backdoor euthanasia:
At many hospitals more than 50 per cent of all patients who died had been placed on the pathway and in one case the proportion of foreseeable deaths on the pathway was almost nine out of ten.17
Not only that, but the Telegraph published news that while some hospitals applied the LCP in a professional manner, others offered little training to staff and applied the protocol as a checklist item "to be done" to terminal patients.18 Clearly, this was not what the authors of the LCP had intended.
Bureaucratic "Death Targets"
This article cannot determine the full nature and extent of the problems with the LCP, a still unfolding story and the subject of multiple investigations and inquiries. But we can come to some preliminary conclusions as to why a clearly well-intentioned, appropriately defined, and medically ethical guidance instrument came to be used, at least in some cases, to kill.
The prime suspect seems to be the nature of bureaucracy. Jacqueline Laing, a senior lecturer in law at London Metropolitan University, points to the problem of "managerialized death targets" that were apparently established by the NHS's centralized bureaucracy:
Part of the difficulty is that, where a patient is diagnosed as terminal and imminently dying, the combination of morphine and dehydration is likely to undermine a patient's capacity. Persistent dehydration of even the fittest sedated patient will kill him. This was the problem with the Pathway from the very outset. It reversed the burden of proof, on the strength of a diagnosis that is not always certain, so that an increasingly incapacitated patient would have to speak on his own behalf in favour of water. Even assuming he was healthy enough, in an environment in which the Pathway is normal his pleas may not be heard.19
To put it another way, doctors applying the LCP ceased to treat patients as individuals, but instead yielded to bureaucratic imperatives—precisely the approach that the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute stated should not happen.
Laing also warned cogently that more trouble lay ahead unless medical personnel applied the LCP in a patient-specific manner:
Recent revelations of financial incentives and staggering compliance in rolling out the managerial programme radically alter the debate. Diagnostic concerns in the context of arguably self-fulfilling sedation-dehydration regimes and overarching financial and political pressure to implement the Pathway, suggest that the regime may have acquired a lethal power of its own. This lethal character is almost certainly one that exists independently of the best intentions of those who formulated or apply it. Some of history's most important lessons highlight the problems of institu-tionalising programmes that invite homicide and reverse burdens of proof in ways that undermine the vulnerable.
In other words, the bureaucratic imperative transformed a benign and beneficial medical treatment into a method of intentionally causing death—without necessarily intending that lethal outcome.
The LCP and the Affordable Care Act
There is a warning here for the United States under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), by which the federal government centralized management of the American health-care system. While the ACA does not create a socialized system akin to the UK's NHS, it does establish a centralized federal bureaucracy authorized to give incentives to doctors and medical institutions to follow pre-defined approaches of providing "excellence." Indeed, many of the architects and implementers of the ACA have stated that they hope to emulate NICE-style cost containment/quality care methods—the very approach that subverted proper application of the LCP.
The greatest potential danger of managerializing healthcare (to borrow Laing's term) may be posed by the soon-to-be-implemented Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board. IPAB is not a garden-variety "advisory" commission like so many seen in government these days. Rather, the unique "fast track authority" granted to IPAB authorizes it to impose its "recommendations" into law. Specifically:
By January 15 each year, the Independent Payment Advisory Board must submit a proposal to Congress and the president for reaching Medicare savings targets in the coming year. The majority leaders in the House and Senate must introduce bills incorporating the board's proposal the day they receive it.
Congress cannot "consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report . . . that would repeal or otherwise change the recommendations of the board" if such changes fail to meet the board's budgetary target.
By April 1, the committees of jurisdiction must complete their consideration of the proposal. Any committee that fails to meet the deadline is barred from further considering the bill.
The secretary of health and human services must implement the Independent Payment Advisory Board's proposal, as passed by Congress and signed by the president, on August 15 of the year in which the proposal is submitted.
If Congress does not pass the proposal or a substitute plan meeting the Independent Payment Advisory Board's financial target before August/15, or if the president vetoes the proposal passed by Congress, the original Independent Payment Advisory Board recommendations automatically take effect.
Further demonstrating the Star Chamber-like powers of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, Congress cannot consider any bill or amendment that would repeal or change this fast-track congressional consideration process without a three-fifths vote (60) in the Senate. Not only that, but the implementation of the board's remedy is exempted from administrative or judicial review.20
IPAB defenders claim that the IPAB's iron fist is necessary to ensure cost containment. They also note that the board does not have a completely free hand. For example, as it pursues its mission of frugality, it is not currently allowed to recommend health care rationing, changes in Medicare benefits, or revision of eligibility standards.
That is hardly reassuring. Before IPAB is even up and running, powerful voices began calling for IPAB to be granted expanded powers—including explicit NICE-style powers of health care rationing. Thus, Christina D. Romer, former chairwoman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, wrote in the New York Times: "Once the payment advisory board has a track record . . . it could be empowered to suggest changes in benefits or in how Medicare services are provided—say, along the lines of successful demonstration projects."21
Even more explicitly, former Obama Treasury Department adviser and New York Times columnist Steven Rattner wrote, "We need death panels," urging that IPAB be transformed into a rationing board. "No one wants to lose an aging parent," he wrote. But the cost of caring extensively for the elderly "imposes an enormous societal cost that few other nations have been willing to bear," and so we too must jump into the rationing pool:
Take Britain, which provides universal coverage with spending at proportionately almost half of American levels. Its National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence uses a complex quality-adjusted life year system to put an explicit value (up to about $48,000 per year) on a treatment's ability to extend life. At the least, the Independent Payment Advisory Board should be allowed to offer changes in services and costs. We may shrink from such stomach-wrenching choices, but they are inescapable.22
Similarly, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)—an explicit supporter of NICE-style health care rationing—has opined that "strengthening of IPAB is of critical importance."23 Moreover, the NEJM has supported a system of rationing utilized by NICE based on the discriminatory quality of life year (QALY), which judges healthier, younger, and more able-bodied lives as having greater value than those on life's edges. For example, an editorial favoring using QALYs in the context of the ACA argued:
As the country searches for ways to curb health care spending, consideration of the cost-effectiveness of health interventions will unavoidably be part of the health care debate, alongside considerations of possible payment- and delivery-system reforms. The use of explicit, standard metrics such as cost-per-QALY ratios has the advantage of transparency and can help direct our resources toward the greatest health gains.24
Such thinking demonstrates how centralized healthcare management practices unleash broad technocratic impulses. Rather than reinforcing standards of professional excellence in medicine, health care instead comes to be dominated by the bureaucratic imperatives, in turn leading to connect-the-dots medicine.
Indeed, because the Liverpool Care Pathway often has been perceived through a distorting bureaucratic prism, it has become a pronounced threat to the most weak and vulnerable patients precisely when they are at their most weak and vulnerable. We ignore that lesson in the United States at our own peril.
For more information on the National Institute on Health and Clinical Excellence, see http://www.liv.ac.uk/media/livacuk/mcpcil/migrated-files/liverpool-care-pathway/updatedlcppdfs/What_is_the_LCP_-_Healthcare_Professionals_-_April_2010.pdf
Michael P. Hahn, "Review of Palliative Sedation and Its Distinction From Euthanasia and Lethal Injection," Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy. 2012; 26:30-39.
Id., p. 31.
Id., pp. 36-37.
Timothy W. Kirk, PhD, and Margaret M. Mahon, PhD, RN, FAAN, for the Palliative Sedation Task Force of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Ethics Committee, "National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Position Statement and Commentary on the Use of Palliative Sedation in Imminently Dying Terminally Ill Patients," Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Vol. 39 No. 5 May 2010, 914-923.http://www.nhpco.org/files/public/JPSM/NHPCO_Pall-Sedation-Ther_JPSM_May2010.pdf
Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute, "What is the Liverpool Pathway for the Dying Patient?: Information for Health Care Professionals," April 2010, p. 2. http://www.liv.ac.uk/media/livacuk/mcpcil/migrated-files/liverpool-care-pathway/updatedlcppdfs/What_is_the_LCP_-_Healthcare_Professionals_-_April_2010.pdf
Id., p. 4.
P.H. Millard et al., "A Group of Experts Who Care for the Terminally Ill Claim That Some Patients are Being Wrongly Judged as Close to Death," Telegraph, September 3, 2009.
Kate Devlin, "Sentenced to Death on the NHS," Telegraph, September 2, 2009.
Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen et al., "Trends in end-of-life practices before and after the enactment of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2010: a repeated cross-sectional survey," The Lancet, July 11, 2012 http://press.thelancet.com/netherlands_euthanasia.pdf
Chris Irvine and Kate Devlin, "Daughter Claims Father Wrongly Placed on Controversial NHS End of Life Scheme," Telegraph, September 8, 2009.
Sarah-Kate Templeton, "Daughter Saves Mother, 80, Left by Doctors to Starve," The Sunday Times, October 11, 2009.http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/living/Health/article187212.ece
James Tozer, "My husband had beaten cancer, then doctors WRONGLY told him it had returned and sent him to a hospice who let him die," Daily Mail, October 14, 2009. http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1219853/My-husband-beaten-cancer-doctors-wrongly-told-returned-let-die.html
Laura Donnelly, "Half of Those on Liverpool Pathway Never Told," Telegraph, December 1, 2012,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9716418/Half-of-those-on-Liverpool-Care-Pathway-never-told.html
John Bingham, "Hospitals Treating Liverpool Care Pathway as Just Another 'Thing to Do,'" Telegraph, January 8, 2013.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9788737/Hospitals-treating-Liverpool-Care-Pathway-as-just-another-thing-to-do.html
Jacqueline Laing, "A Lethal Power?" Legal World, November 23, 2012.
Affordable Care Act of 2010, Section 3403, http://housedocs.house.gov/energycommerce/ppacacon.pdf
Christina D. Romer, "Only the First Step in Containing Health Costs," New York Times, July 21, 2012.
Steven Rattner, "Beyond Obamacare," New York Times, September 16, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/health-care-reform-beyond-obamacare.html?
Henry J. Aaron, "The Independent Payment Advisory Board—Congress's Good Deed," New England Journal of Medicine, 364:2377-2379, June 23, 2011. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1105144
Peter J. Neumann et al., "Legislating Against the Use of Cost Effectiveness Information," New England Journal of Medicine, 363:1495-1497, October 14, 2010. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1007168?viewType=Print
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Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) - A History
The National Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) initiative was launched by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University in 2011, aiming to drive science-based innovation that leads to dramatically larger impacts on the lives of young children whose needs (or the needs of the adults who care for them) are not being met by existing policies and programs. In Washington State, FOI evolved into the Washington Interagency Fatherhood Council. We still continue to support brain science research and have transitioned our attention to the under-represented population of fathers in the state. The goals of the Fatherhood Council are found on the Council page.
Washington Frontiers of Innovation (WA FOI) is:
A cross-agency collaboration between the Center and five Washington State agencies: Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS); Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF); Health Care Authority (HCA); Department of Health (DOH); and The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). The partnership between Washington State and The Center was established in 2011 to promote this agenda by implementing program, practice, policy, and system innovative changes and systematically studying them to learn what works to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families. Our aim is to re-envision early childhood investment to stimulate creativity and support experimentation in order to produce significant, population-level change.
We value:
Designing and testing new ideas at the program, system, and policy level based on specific hypotheses generated by scientific insights and theories to produce greater impacts than current best practice, adding to the existing body of knowledge,
Cultivating a culture of innovation at all levels to collectively achieve what we cannot achieve alone, and
Developing transformational leaders from diverse perspectives so that leadership happens at all levels and across sectors.
The use of emerging caregiver and child brain science and testing and implementing new approaches and ideas to create breakthrough outcomes for the Washington's most vulnerable children and families.
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A growing understanding of the negative cumulative effects of Adverse Early Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the impacts that toxic stress has on the development of brain architecture, and how this can impair the maturation of organs and metabolic regulatory functions, leading to lifelong problems in learning, behavior, and physical and mental health. This coupled with the evidence around the buffering effects of community, family, and child resilience has led the network of FOI contributors to propose two fundamental shifts in early childhood policy:
Investments in the earliest childhood years are critical for lifelong health promotion and disease prevention, not just to enhance school readiness.
Children require a two-pronged support system, one that both protects from the biological consequences of significant adversity, and also stimulates social emotional wellbeing and enriched learning opportunities.
These shifts, combined with new scientific insights about the development of executive function, self-regulation, mental health, and resilience have led to FOI focusing its current theory of change on actively building these core skills in children and the adults who care for them within the context of their community. For parents, these skills also enhance employability and increase economic and social stability for the family, thereby further reducing sources of stress. WA FOI provides a learning laboratory for innovation that incubates system and policy changes grounded in the science.
We are supported by:
The strong entrepreneurial spirit and committed leadership across sectors in Washington State that result in high levels of activity around finding solutions to the negative cumulative impacts of early adverse childhood experiences and overwhelming stress for caregiver and child. This is enhanced by a commitment to strengthening the prevention system while scaffolding families and building resilience at all levels.
Success is determined by:
How effectively the Program level and Policy and System level portfolios of activity lead to transformative changes that are 1) improving our state's priority outcomes for caregivers and children, 2) scalable and sustainable, and 3) thoughtfully studied so as to be replicable across sectors.

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Lal Bahadur Shastri 55th Death Anniversary: Know Interesting Facts About the Second PM of India Who Coined the Slogan 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan'
One of the most-loved Prime Ministers in the Indian history, Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of India, after independence. Popularly known for his honesty, simplicity, and humility, throughout his life and widely regarded as an outstanding statesman, even by his contemporaries. This year, it will be the 55th death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, on January 11, i.e., Monday. There's a lot to know, learn, and find out about the life and achievements of Lal Bahadur Shastri. If you are seeking to gain knowledge about Lal Bahadur Shastri, then you have reached the right place. At LatestLY, we bring you the top and most interesting facts about Lal Bahadur Shastri, on his death anniversary. Remembering Former Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri With His Inspirational Quotes.
1. We all remember October 2 as Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. Not many people know that Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on the same date, but in 1904.
2. It is a known fact that Lal Bahadur Shastri was a great follower of Mahatma Gandhi. However, it is a little-known fact that Swami Vivekananda, and Annie Besant profoundly influenced him.
3. Lal Bahadur Shastri held many political and apolitical posts in his illustrious career. Lal Bahadur Shastri was appointed as the President of Lok Sevak Mandal, founded by Lala Lajpat Rai.
4. Lal Bahadur Shastri's slogan 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan' still resonates with the country, and continues to motivate army personnel, 55 years after it was first coined during the 1965 Indo-Pak War.
5. Lal Bahadur Shastri was only in his 10th standard when he attended a meeting hosted by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya. After that public meeting, Shastri withdrew his candidature from school and joined the Indian National Congress as a student volunteer.
6. Not many people know that Lal Bahadur Shastri was arrested and jailed in his childhood to participate in anti-government demonstrations. However, he was left off, as he was only a minor.
7. When Lal Bahadur Shastri became the Transport Minister in Uttar Pradesh, he is credited to be the first one to appoint women conductors.
8. It is a little-known fact that Lal Bahadur Shastri was the chief architect of the Congress party's landslide victory in General Elections of 1952, 1957, and 1962.
9. Many people voluntarily gave up eating food once a day, as there was a shortage of food throughout the country. Such was Lal Bahadur Shastri's stature that all this took place after only one call from Shastri. In those days, it was popularly called as 'Shastri Vrat'. Lal Bahadur Shastri Images & HD Wallpapers For Free Download Online.
10. Lal Bahadur Shastri is also credited to be the person who brought the White Revolution and Green Revolution in the country, at the right time, and stopped India from aggravating the prevalent crisis.
11. Lal Bahadur Shastri was awarded Bharat Ratna and a memorial against his name at Vijay Ghat in New Delhi.
Lal Bahadur Shastri left behind an unmatchable legacy. Shastri's tenure as a Prime Minister and his works during that period is a benchmark for upcoming PMs. Lal Bahadur Shastri breathed his last on January 11, 1996, a day after signing the peace treaty (Tashkent Agreement), in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Sadly, his death continues to be one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of all times.
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Roundtables » Manifesto »
The Challenge of Our Time
The EI premiered a specially produced documentary at COP26 in Glasgow, chronicling a 500-mile road trip across Scotland's future energy landscape by a team of young Scottish energy professionals passionate about playing a practical role in combatting climate change.
Transported by ferry, train and Tesla, the group visited some of the most innovative, essential and dramatic energy projects, from biomass in Shetland and tidal in Orkney, to carbon capture and storage off Aberdeen and wind energy at Whitelee. It was a journey of discovery. Through what they saw and heard interviewing fellow young professionals and senior leaders on site, they arrived in Glasgow with findings they believed can help the UK and global community on the urgent race to net zero.
The project is part of the EI's Generation 2050 initiative and its partners, with special thanks to Worley and all of the companies visited in the film.
The Generation 2050 round tables provide a platform for intergenerational dialogue. Three took place in the weeks prior to COP26, bringing senior industry, political and academic figures into conversation with young professionals to examine huge global issues from the perspectives of different geographies.
Can the Middle East deliver on net zero?
View roundtable »
Is the rise of Asia Pacific the world's biggest climate conundrum?
Does foreign energy investment help or hinder the SDGs in the Global South?
The roundtables are virtual and free to attend, click here to register
Generation 2050 Manifesto
Climate change is an intergenerational emergency that requires urgent action. It affects us at local, national and global levels as we consider the challenge of adapting our habits as a world community. This is compounded by the need to meet growing global energy demand, particularly for many millions still living without adequate access to energy.
We are Generation 2050. Young professionals embarking on their careers in energy today, and we will be the industry's leaders in 2050. We will inherit a sector that will be judged on how it has responded, so it's crucial that our knowledge is utilised, and our concerns are heard.
Through this Manifesto, we are reverse mentoring our political and industrial leaders; giving a collective voice to tomorrow's energy leaders and providing fresh views on the skills we will need to meet global net zero targets.
As we approach critical decisions in the lead up to COP26 and for the recovery from the global pandemic, there hasn't been a more important time for the voices of Generation 2050 to be heard.
Sinead Obeng AMEI, Chair, Energy Institute Young Professionals Council
Read the Manifesto
Read the media release
Industry and political leaders respond to the Manifesto
"The power to bring about change is in everybody's hands - I couldn't agree more! I was inspired by this statement and the full message in the Generation 2050 manifesto - written by over 1,000 young leaders.
The energy transition will require collaboration, diversity and original thinking - and this document is a brilliant example of all three areas in action. BP shares the same passion to reimagine energy and I am excited to see these young leaders help us, and the world, reach net-zero."
-Bernard Looney FEI, CEO, BP
"I welcome this powerful Manifesto organised by the Energy Institute. It is imperative that we listen to the voices of those who will lead the next phase of the energy transition. I strongly agree that greater pace and ambition is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and that enabling universal access to energy - using low-carbon and renewable sources where possible - is fundamentally important for a sustainable future.
I give you the only response that is acceptable: I hear you, Shell hears you, and that's why we have an ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business, by 2050 or sooner, in step with society."
-Ben van Beurden, CEO, Shell
"Those just embarking on their careers in energy today will inherit the sector by the middle of the century. They'll inherit all the progress I believe we will have made, but also any challenges that are left unresolved.
I'm very encouraged to see the Generation 2050 initiative giving young people in the sector a voice to express their views and perspectives to leaders in the sector."
-Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, UK Government
"The Generation 2050 manifesto rightly calls for a collaborative and expeditious approach by industry and government to tackle the challenges our world faces.
The young professionals, whose views are reflected in this manifesto, are well equipped to take this industry forward, as we transition to a lower carbon future. It is crucial their voices are heard."
-Jim House, CEO, Neptune Energy
"Today's young professionals are the future leaders of the energy transition so it is fantastic to see 'Generation 2050' champion universal access to energy, investment in technology and infrastructure plus immediate action on climate change.
"We must take urgent and radical action if we are to tackle climate change so it is encouraging to know that the reigns will be handed over to a generation who consider this a shared, global challenge requiring shared, global solutions."
-Emma Pinchbeck, CEO, Energy UK
"The Generation 2050 Manifesto is comprehensive in laying out the challenges of the main issues facing our industry today: pace and needed actions on addressing climate change, energy equality on a global scale and the empowerment and skill development of the next generation of the industry.
The Manifesto both reinforces to us that we are taking the right steps as a business and also inspires us to continue to challenge ourselves and our industry to be more ambitious and move quicker."
-John Pettigrew FEI, CEO, National Grid
"At the heart of a Green Recovery and combating climate change is the necessity to reach net zero by 2050. This is a challenging, but achievable target.
Young energy professionals are central to the debate about how we achieve this change, they are in a unique position to help shape the outcome for our planet. Generation 2050 is a fantastic contribution to that process and we look forward to working with the Energy Institute and its member on this exciting project."
-Duncan Clark, Head of UK Region, Ørsted
"I welcome and am humbled by the enthusiasm of the army of young energy professionals ready to join the energy industry at such a crucial time to save our planet from irreversible adverse consequences. We have been such a large part of the problem, we are now called to be an even larger part of the solution!"
-Simone Rossi, CEO, EDF Energy
"Young energy professionals are central to the debate about how we achieve this change, they are in a unique position to help shape the outcome for our planet. Generation 2050 is a fantastic contribution to that process."
-Hayaatun Sillem CBE, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering
"It's fantastic to hear the views of so many future leaders of the energy industry. The actions we take now will determine the state of the planet they inherit, and so it's no surprise they want greater pace and ambition on both climate change and universal access to energy."
-Keith Anderson HonFEI, CEO, ScottishPower
The Generation 2050 Manifesto is a great initiative giving a voice to the next generation of leaders in the energy sector. They identify five key themes which resonate strongly with me, particularly the need to make big decisions now in order to decarbonise and deliver the green economy of the future.
-Will Gardiner, CEO, Drax Group
"It's critical that today's energy leaders understand what the energy leaders of the future think about the global energy transition.
And the message is clear and stark. We are off target and time is not on our side - we need to do more to accelerate the energy transition, we need to do more to give universal access to clean energy, and we need to do more to train the workforce of the future to deliver the transition.
In short, we need to raise our collective ambition level."
-Michael Lewis, CEO, E.ON UK
"Generation 2050 in the energy industry know what they're saying: more needs to be done, faster, to drive towards a fairer, more sustainable industry future. While the pace of change is accelerating, it still falls far short of what is needed and there are so many 'no regrets' options which governments could pursue. Thankfully, demography is on our side, as younger people see this so clearly. But time is not. We must all do what we can to drive change - fast."
-Joan MacNaughton CB HonFEI, Chair, Climate Group
"The next generation of energy leaders have delivered a clear call for change; for us to better align our business plans with a fair and sustainable future.
Generation 2050 are right to say that we are not yet doing enough, and I fully support them in this challenge to our sector. We must respond to it, so that we continue to play a positive role in society and so that we retain and best work with the talent and enthusiasm of our young professionals."
-Dr Joanne Wade OBE FEI, Chief Strategic Advisor, ADE
"Building and retaining skills, recovering from the pandemic and keeping our eye on long-term climate goals are the defining challenges of our time. Young people get it. With will and determination, we can win on all counts. We mustn't let the next generation down."
-Prof Jim Skea CBE FEI, Chair, Just Transition Commission
"The Energy Institute Generation 2020 Manifesto highlights the clear voice of our Gen-Z and future leaders in the Energy Sector. I am excited by their passion, power, vision and focus which positions them to make the world a better place with energy-related jobs of the future. Hearty congratulations on this most inspiring document."
-Dr Ibilola Amao FEI, Principal Consultant, Lonadek
Generation 2050 webinars
Is <2C within reach?, IP Week, February 2021
Tomorrow's energy leaders: Shaping up for net zero, NY Climate Week, Sept 2020
Building a global energy system fit for the future, July 2020
Join the debate on social media
Please help us amplify the voice of Generation 2050. Share the link to the manifesto and your own comments on social media – whether that's Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook. Tag the Energy Institute @energyinstitute and use #Generation2050.
Share the Manifesto now
EI Podcast takeover
Generation 2050 have taken over the EI's podcast 'Energy in Conversation' - find out more!
With thanks to our supporting partners:
With thanks to our supporting networks:
and the Energy Institute's growing Young Professionals Networks in the Caribbean, Hong Kong, Middle East, Malaysia, Nigeria and across the UK
Energy in Conversation is a plain-speaking, thought-provoking look into our energy future, through the eyes of the people leading the way.
Read and access Energy World and Petroleum Review, the EI magazines for energy and oil and gas professionals.


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Rails.application.routes.draw do
  root 'pages#index'
  get 'generate_signed_s3_url' => 'aws#generate_signed_s3_url'

  devise_for :users, controllers: { registrations: 'registrations',
                                    sessions: 'sessions',
                                    passwords: 'passwords'}

  get 'dashboard' => 'dashboard#index', as: :dashboard

  resources :homeworks, only: :show
  resources :diagnostic_exam, only: :show
  resources :diagnostic_exam_users, only: :create
  resources :practices, only: :show

  # get 'tarea/:id' => 'homeworks#show', as: :new_homework_user
  post 'subir-tarea' => 'homeworks_users#create', as: :homework_users

  namespace :admin do
    get 'dashboard' => 'dashboard#index'
    resources :homeworks, except: :index
    resources :homeworks_users, only: [:show, :update, :destroy]
    resources :groups, except: :index
    resources :videos, except: :index
    resources :diagnostic_exams do
      resources :questions
    end
    resources :practices do
      resources :questions
    end
  end

  # The priority is based upon order of creation: first created -> highest priority.
  # See how all your routes lay out with "rake routes".

  # You can have the root of your site routed with "root"
  # root 'welcome#index'

  # Example of regular route:
  #   get 'products/:id' => 'catalog#view'

  # Example of named route that can be invoked with purchase_url(id: product.id)
  #   get 'products/:id/purchase' => 'catalog#purchase', as: :purchase

  # Example resource route (maps HTTP verbs to controller actions automatically):
  #   resources :products

  # Example resource route with options:
  #   resources :products do
  #     member do
  #       get 'short'
  #       post 'toggle'
  #     end
  #
  #     collection do
  #       get 'sold'
  #     end
  #   end

  # Example resource route with sub-resources:
  #   resources :products do
  #     resources :comments, :sales
  #     resource :seller
  #   end

  # Example resource route with more complex sub-resources:
  #   resources :products do
  #     resources :comments
  #     resources :sales do
  #       get 'recent', on: :collection
  #     end
  #   end

  # Example resource route with concerns:
  #   concern :toggleable do
  #     post 'toggle'
  #   end
  #   resources :posts, concerns: :toggleable
  #   resources :photos, concerns: :toggleable

  # Example resource route within a namespace:
  #   namespace :admin do
  #     # Directs /admin/products/* to Admin::ProductsController
  #     # (app/controllers/admin/products_controller.rb)
  #     resources :products
  #   end
end

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Use your current income as a starting point.
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Don't forget that the cost of living will go up over time. The average annual rate of inflation over the past 20 years has been approximately 2%.¹ And keep in mind that your retirement expenses may change from year to year. For example, you may pay off your home mortgage or your children's education early in retirement. Other expenses, such as health care and insurance, may increase as you age. To protect against these variables, build a comfortable cushion into your estimates (it's always best to be conservative). Finally, have a financial professional help you with your estimates to make sure they're as accurate and realistic as possible.
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Make up an income shortfall.
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Q: Github release from maven-release-plugin I have a multimodule project where the aggregator is in the root of the project and the parent is in a subdirectory, next to all the other modules
pom.xml (aggregator, inherits from parent)
|---parent
|---module1 (inherits from parent)
|---module2 (inherits from parent)

i'm trying to release my project using maven-release-plugin-2.4.1
I run mvn release:prepare -DdryRun=true and everything works fine, but if i run a real run, not dryRun then i get a problem at the end when trying to push the tag to github:
...
[INFO] Checking in modified POMs...
[INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd "/home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom" && git add -- jrobocom-parent/pom.xml jrobocom-core/pom.xml jrobocom-simple-gui/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/legends/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/simple/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/simple/4Lunch/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/simple/black-jacks/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/simple/bank-jumper/pom.xml pom.xml
[INFO] Working directory: /home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom
[INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd "/home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom" && git status
[INFO] Working directory: /home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom
[INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd "/home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom" && git commit --verbose -F /tmp/maven-scm-646807004.commit jrobocom-parent/pom.xml jrobocom-core/pom.xml jrobocom-simple-gui/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/legends/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/simple/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/simple/4Lunch/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/simple/black-jacks/pom.xml jrobocom-samples/simple/bank-jumper/pom.xml pom.xml
[INFO] Working directory: /home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom
[INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd "/home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom" && git symbolic-ref HEAD
[INFO] Working directory: /home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom
[INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd "/home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom" && git push https://github.com/theHilikus/JRoboCom.git/jrobocom-aggregator master:master
[INFO] Working directory: /home/hilikus/dev/Eclipse workspace/JRoboCom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO]
[INFO] Parent POM ........................................ SKIPPED
...
[INFO] Bank-jumper ....................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] The overall aggregator ............................ FAILURE [3:30.447s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 3:32.658s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jul 23 22:31:43 EDT 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 9M/44M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.4.1:prepare (default-cli) on project jrobocom-aggregator: Unable to commit files
[ERROR] Provider message:
[ERROR] The git-push command failed.
[ERROR] Command output:
[ERROR] fatal: https://github.com/theHilikus/JRoboCom.git/jrobocom-aggregator/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]

any ideas what this means and how to fix it? as far as i know, i'm following the standard release procedure, the only different (but common) configuration is the separation of the aggregator and the parent poms

A: The problem seemed to be the "circular" reference where the aggregator inherits from one of the poms that it is aggregating. As soon as I removed that, everything worked.
So there are basically two simple choices, either merge the parent and the aggregator, or have the SCM info duplicated (or just moved) in the aggregator so that the aggregator doesn't inherit from anyone

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Hi ya'll! Hope you have had a blessed week. I can't believe today is April 1st. The school year has been flying by. As you know, I've been creating content for my YouTube channel. I felt the need to create a video about teaching with GRACE and not perfection. I'm not going to lie, I have a type A personality. I want everything neat and tidy and well organized and everything to run smoothly. Well that doesn't always work out that way. As I have grown as a person an educator, I've learned that there is NEVER going to be perfect everything! It's okay that your classroom doesn't look picture perfect every single day. It's okay if a lesson doesn't go quite the way you wanted it too. It's okay to burn rubber out of your building to get home and get some peace. Just check out the video below and see what I mean. Remember your BEST is what counts!Love ya'll!
Please don't leave. You have a GOD given Gift and Talent that is inspirational to teachers like myself who feel like we are on an island. Tell Satan you don't have time and leave you alone.
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from cairis.core.ARM import *
from cairis.daemon.CairisHTTPError import ARMHTTPError, MalformedJSONHTTPError, MissingParameterHTTPError, SilentHTTPError, ObjectNotFoundHTTPError
from cairis.data.CairisDAO import CairisDAO
from cairis.core.Borg import Borg
from cairis.tools.JsonConverter import json_deserialize
from cairis.tools.PseudoClasses import ProjectSettings, Contributor, Revision, Definition
from cairis.tools.SessionValidator import check_required_keys

__author__ = 'Robin Quetin, Shamal Faily'

class ProjectDAO(CairisDAO):
  def __init__(self, session_id):
    CairisDAO.__init__(self, session_id)

  def clear_project(self):
    try:
      self.db_proxy.clearDatabase(session_id=self.session_id)
    except DatabaseProxyException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)
    except ARMException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)

  def create_new_database(self,db_name):
    try:
      if (db_name in ['null','']):
        raise ARMException('No database name defined')
      self.db_proxy.createDatabase(db_name,self.session_id)
    except DatabaseProxyException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)
    except ARMException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)

  def open_database(self,db_name):
    try:
      if (db_name in ['null','']):
        raise ARMException('No database name defined')
      if (db_name not in self.show_databases()):
        raise ObjectNotFound(db_name + " does not exist")
      self.db_proxy.openDatabase(db_name,self.session_id)
    except ObjectNotFound as ex:
      self.close()
      raise ObjectNotFoundHTTPError(db_name + ' does not exist')
    except DatabaseProxyException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)
    except ARMException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)

  def delete_database(self,db_name):
    try:
      if (db_name in ['null','']):
        raise ARMException('No database name defined')
      if (db_name not in self.show_databases()):
        raise ObjectNotFound(db_name + " does not exist")
      self.db_proxy.deleteDatabase(db_name,self.session_id)
    except ObjectNotFound as ex:
      self.close()
      raise ObjectNotFoundHTTPError('The provided asset name')
    except DatabaseProxyException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)
    except ARMException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)

  def show_databases(self):
    try:
      return self.db_proxy.showDatabases(self.session_id)
    except DatabaseProxyException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)
    except ARMException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)

  def get_settings(self):
    try:
      pSettings = self.db_proxy.getProjectSettings()
      pDict = self.db_proxy.getDictionary()
      contributors = self.db_proxy.getContributors()
      revisions = self.db_proxy.getRevisions()
    except DatabaseProxyException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)
    except ARMException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)

    settings = ProjectSettings(pSettings, pDict, contributors, revisions)
    return settings

  def apply_settings(self, settings):
    try:
      b = Borg()
      self.db_proxy.updateSettings(
        settings.projectName,
        settings.projectBackground,
        settings.projectGoals,
        settings.projectScope,
        settings.definitions,
        settings.contributions,
        settings.revisions,
        settings.richPicture,
        b.settings[self.session_id]['fontSize'],
        b.settings[self.session_id]['fontName']
      )
    except DatabaseProxyException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)
    except ARMException as ex:
      raise ARMHTTPError(ex)

  def from_json(self, request):
    json = request.get_json(silent=True)
    if json is False or json is None:
      self.close()
      raise MalformedJSONHTTPError(data=request.get_data())

    json_dict = json['object']
    check_required_keys(json_dict, ProjectSettings.required)
    json_dict['__python_obj__'] = ProjectSettings.__module__+'.'+ProjectSettings.__name__

    contrs = json_dict['contributions'] or []
    if not isinstance(contrs, list):
      contrs = []
    for idx in range(0, len(contrs)):
      try:
        check_required_keys(contrs[idx], Contributor.required)
        json_dict['contributions'][idx] = (contrs[idx]['firstName'], contrs[idx]['surname'], contrs[idx]['affiliation'], contrs[idx]['role'])
      except MissingParameterHTTPError:
        SilentHTTPError('A contribution did not contain all required fields. Skipping this one.')

    revisions = json_dict['revisions'] or []
    if not isinstance(revisions, list):
      revisions = []

    for idx in range(0, len(revisions)):
      try:
        check_required_keys(revisions[idx], Revision.required)
        json_dict['revisions'][idx] = (revisions[idx]['id'], revisions[idx]['date'], revisions[idx]['description'])
      except MissingParameterHTTPError:
        SilentHTTPError('A revision did not contain all required fields. Skipping this one.')

    settings = json_deserialize(json_dict)
    return settings


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Reports: Rick Karsdorp to Atalanta on Loan
Karsdorp will join up with Atalanta on loan with an appearance-based purchase obligation (try no to laugh).
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One day after sorting out the future of their most expensive disappointment ever, Patrik Schick, Roma are reportedly on the verge of sorting out the immediate future of one of their most injury-prone disappointments ever, Rick Karsdorp. After arriving in the capital in the summer of 2017 on a €16 million move, the then 22-year-old Dutch fullback struggled to remain on the pitch, to say nothing of adapting to a new league. And after three injury plagued seasons that amounted to only 15 appearances, it seems like Roma have found a new home for Karsdorp.
#Atalanta, fatta per l'arrivo di #Karsdorp https://t.co/auCpws2EnE
— Gianluca Di Marzio (@DiMarzio) September 1, 2020
According to multiple sources, Karsdorp will move to Atalanta on a one-year loan with a €7 million obligation to buy that kicks in if...and I mean IF...Karsdorp appears in 60% of Atalanta's matches. Assuming that clause pertains to league matches, and assuming they're rounding up, Karsdorp would have to make 23 Serie A appearances before Gasperini's bunch are on the hook for the €7 million.
That may not seem like much, but consider Karsdorp's history for a moment.
He came to Roma fresh off a meniscus injury that kept him out from April through September 2017
He then missed five matches with muscle fatigue before returning on October 9, 2017
He then made his Roma debut against Crotone on October 25, 2017
After being diagnosed with an ACL tear the very next day, he was on the shelf until October 2018
He would go on to make 11 appearances for Roma during 2018-2019 season
Even when loaned back to Feyenoord in the fall of 2019, Karsdorp couldn't escape the injury bug, missing 11 matches with a groin injury between November 2019 and January 2020. So, while we're all probably scared that Gasperini will turn Karsdorp into the second coming of Dani Alves or Maicon in his prime, nothing in this kid's history suggests he'll meet the 60% appearance threshold to make this deal permanent.
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Now, that might not necessarily preclude Gasperini from wanting to keep Karsdorp, but a player with his injury history doesn't miraculously turn into Hercules overnight. Still, this is Atalanta and Gasperini we're talking about—they make a living out of turning the mediocre into the magnificent.
Should we be scared or we should we laugh at the prospect of Karsdorp making nearly two dozen appearances?
I don't know, and that's perhaps the scariest part.
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package org.apache.druid.query.aggregation.datasketches.tuple;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import org.apache.datasketches.Util;
import org.apache.datasketches.tuple.arrayofdoubles.ArrayOfDoublesSketch;
import org.apache.druid.java.util.common.IAE;
import org.apache.druid.query.aggregation.AggregatorUtil;
import org.apache.druid.query.aggregation.PostAggregator;
import org.apache.druid.query.cache.CacheKeyBuilder;
import org.apache.druid.segment.ColumnInspector;
import org.apache.druid.segment.column.ColumnType;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * Returns a result of a specified set operation on the given array of sketches. Supported operations are:
 * union, intersection and set difference (UNION, INTERSECT, NOT).
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public class ArrayOfDoublesSketchSetOpPostAggregator extends ArrayOfDoublesSketchMultiPostAggregator
{

  private final ArrayOfDoublesSketchOperations.Operation operation;
  private final int nominalEntries;
  private final int numberOfValues;

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  public ArrayOfDoublesSketchSetOpPostAggregator(
      @JsonProperty("name") final String name,
      @JsonProperty("operation") final String operation,
      @JsonProperty("nominalEntries") @Nullable final Integer nominalEntries,
      @JsonProperty("numberOfValues") @Nullable final Integer numberOfValues,
      @JsonProperty("fields") List<PostAggregator> fields
  )
  {
    super(name, fields);
    this.operation = ArrayOfDoublesSketchOperations.Operation.valueOf(operation);
    this.nominalEntries = nominalEntries == null ? Util.DEFAULT_NOMINAL_ENTRIES : nominalEntries;
    this.numberOfValues = numberOfValues == null ? 1 : numberOfValues;
    Util.checkIfPowerOf2(this.nominalEntries, "size");

    if (fields.size() <= 1) {
      throw new IAE("Illegal number of fields[%d], must be > 1", fields.size());
    }
  }

  @Override
  public Comparator<ArrayOfDoublesSketch> getComparator()
  {
    return ArrayOfDoublesSketchAggregatorFactory.COMPARATOR;
  }

  @Override
  public ArrayOfDoublesSketch compute(final Map<String, Object> combinedAggregators)
  {
    final ArrayOfDoublesSketch[] sketches = new ArrayOfDoublesSketch[getFields().size()];
    for (int i = 0; i < sketches.length; i++) {
      sketches[i] = (ArrayOfDoublesSketch) getFields().get(i).compute(combinedAggregators);
    }
    return operation.apply(nominalEntries, numberOfValues, sketches);
  }

  @Override
  public byte[] getCacheKey()
  {
    return new CacheKeyBuilder(AggregatorUtil.ARRAY_OF_DOUBLES_SKETCH_SET_OP_CACHE_TYPE_ID)
        .appendCacheables(getFields())
        .appendInt(nominalEntries)
        .appendInt(numberOfValues)
        .appendString(operation.toString())
        .build();
  }

  /**
   * actual type is {@link ArrayOfDoublesSketch}
   * @param signature
   */
  @Override
  public ColumnType getType(ColumnInspector signature)
  {
    return ArrayOfDoublesSketchModule.MERGE_TYPE;
  }

  @JsonProperty
  public String getOperation()
  {
    return operation.toString();
  }

  @JsonProperty
  public int getNominalEntries()
  {
    return nominalEntries;
  }

  @JsonProperty
  public int getNumberOfValues()
  {
    return numberOfValues;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString()
  {
    return this.getClass().getSimpleName() + "{"
        + "name='" + getName() + '\''
        + ", fields=" + getFields()
        + ", operation=" + operation
        + ", nominalEntries=" + nominalEntries
        + ", numberOfValues=" + numberOfValues
        + "}";
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object o)
  {
    if (this == o) {
      return true;
    }
    if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) {
      return false;
    }
    if (!super.equals(o)) {
      return false;
    }
    ArrayOfDoublesSketchSetOpPostAggregator that = (ArrayOfDoublesSketchSetOpPostAggregator) o;
    return nominalEntries == that.nominalEntries &&
           numberOfValues == that.numberOfValues &&
           operation == that.operation;
  }

  @Override
  public int hashCode()
  {
    return Objects.hash(super.hashCode(), operation, nominalEntries, numberOfValues);
  }
}


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Leaving the EU: Nuclear Energy Policy
by Acorn | Feb 15, 2019 | Members News, News | 0 comments
The Government continue to make progress in putting in place all the necessary measures to ensure that the UK can operate as an independent and responsible nuclear state upon the UK's withdrawal from Eurotom and the European Union.
The UK has now concluded all replacement international agreements required to ensure continuity for civil nuclear trade following exit day. These include new nuclear co-operation agreements (NCAs) with Australia, Canada and the US, and voluntary offer agreement and additional protocol safeguards agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). All of these have passed in Parliament on 19 December.
In addition to the new bilateral NCAs described above, the UK has an existing bilateral NCA with Japan which has been in place since 1998. This agreement will remain in force following the UK's withdrawal for the EU. The UK and Japan are holding formal negotiations to put in place arrangements to reflect the UK's future safeguards arrangements, with both sides confident that appropriate arrangements will be in place for March 2019 if required.
Significant progress has been made in the setting up of a domestic nuclear safeguards regime. Government's new domestic safeguards regulations are now on track to commence on exit day, having been debated and passed by both Houses of Parliament as of 22 January 2019.
In addition, the state system of accounting for and control of nuclear material (SSAC) has commenced parallel running alongside Euratom, processing and checking reports received from industry through safeguards information management and reporting system (SIMRS) IT system and producing the decorations required to enable the UK to meet its international obligations. This will provide the opportunity to identity and make any necessary adjustments before 29 March 2019.
Working closely with industry, Government have been putting in place measure to address the issues that may affect the civil nuclear sector in any exit scenario. This includes laying all the necessary statutory instruments (SIS) required for any exit scenario, to minimise civil nuclear business disruption and ensure health and safety standards remain robust. The SIS will also ensure that no inoperabilities are retained in domestic law following the UK's departure from the Euratom treaty.
Today I will be depositing a report in the Libraries of both Houses that sets out further details on the overall progress on the Government's implementation of their Euratom exit strategy, including EU negotiations, domestic operational readiness, legislation and international agreements. The report covers the three-month reporting period from 26 September to 26 December and is the second statutory report under section 3 (4) of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2018. The next report on on Euratom exit progress is due to be deposited after the start of May 2019.
Retrieved from : https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-02-14/debates/19021427000010/LeavingTheEUNuclearEnergyPolicy#


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WFRI to Host Women's Well Being Index Launch Discussion
Women's Fund of Rhode Island (WFRI) will be hosting a free, online discussion with the launch of the Rhode Island Women's Well Being Index. The event will focus on how the online tool highlights the economic hardship Rhode Island women have faced even before the pandemic, opening the discussion to strategize new ideas to better our future.
"The data from the Index shows that women's economic hardship was well rooted before the pandemic. We aim to use the Index and launch event to provide ideas for how to create a new "better" going forward," said Kelly Nevins, Executive Director of Women's Fund of Rhode Island.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (PRWEB) January 13, 2021
The Women's Fund of Rhode Island (WFRI), a leader in the movement to improve policies that impact women and girls in Rhode Island, announced the launch of a new centralized online tool. The Women's Well Being Index measures women and girls' status in Rhode Island on various measures and ranks them by city/town or county.
Known as the Rhode Island Women's Well-Being Index and located online at https://wfri.org/rhode-island-womens-well-being-index/, the tool is a multifaceted, composite database that consists of five "dimensions," including Health, Personal Safety, Employment and Earnings, Economic Security, and Political Empowerment. Each dimension comprises multiple indicators that have been standardized and then used to rank Rhode Island's cities and towns on these measures. Policy briefs are included for each dimension to share ideas about what policymakers can do to make Rhode Island a better place for women to live.
"Women are the backbone of our economy. During this past year, they were more likely to have been laid off from work or had to downshift their careers," said Kelly Nevins, Executive Director of Women's Fund of Rhode Island. "The data from the Index shows that women's economic hardship was well rooted before the pandemic. We aim to use the Index and launch event to provide ideas for how to create a new "better" going forward."
The launch coincides with a panel discussion highlighting the Index's themes, to be held via zoom on January 27, 2021, at 5:30 pm.
January 27, 2021 5:30-6:45 pm
https://events.eventzilla.net/e/womens-wellbeing-index-launch-panel-discussion-2138791538
Women's Well-Being Index Launch & Panel Discussion: This panel features experts from different sectors discussing the themes listed in the index and policy recommendations to improve women and girls' status in Rhode Island.
The panel will be moderated by Paige Clausius-Parks, Senior Policy Analyst at RI KIDS COUNT, and will feature expert insights from:
Angela Kemp, Director of Prevention and Special Projects at DayOne
Nishi Kumar, Manager of Policy and Research, RI Housing
Dr. Deborah Pearlman, Associate Professor of the Practice of Epidemiology, Brown University
ABOUT WOMEN'S FUND OF RHODE ISLAND
Founded in 2001, the Women's Fund of Rhode Island's (WFRI) mission is to invest in women and girls through research, advocacy, grant-making, and strategic partnerships designed to advance gender equity through systemic change. As a leader in the movement to improve policies that impact women and girls in Rhode Island, WFRI is focused on building economic security for women and girls, increasing political participation and representation, and conducting research on the specific challenges facing women and girls in the state. For more information on Women's Fund of Rhode Island, visit http://www.wfri.org.
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Women's Fund of Rhode Island


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2022 All-MAC selections
Men's Sports Football
Bash_Riprock November 30, 2022, 6:18pm #1
Coach of the Year: Tim Albin, Ohio
Vern Smith Leadership Award Winner: Kurtis Rourke, QB, Ohio
Offensive Player of the Year: Kurtis Rourke, QB, Ohio
Defensive Player of the Year: Jose Ramirez, DL, Eastern Michigan
Special Teams Player of the Year: Alex McNulty, PK, Buffalo
Freshman of the Year: Sieh Bangura, RB, Ohio
Miami selections:
2022 All-MAC Second Team Offense
Offensive Lineman – Rusty Feth, Miami
Wide Receiver – Mac Hippenhammer, Miami
2022 All-MAC Second Team Defense
Linebacker – Ryan McWood, Miami
Punter – Dom Dzioban, Miami
2022 All-MAC Third Team Defense
Linebacker – Matthew Salopek, Miami
Defensive Back – John Saunders Jr., Miami
2022 All-MAC Third Team Specialists
Kickoff Return Specialist – Jalen Walker, Miami
NESCACDAD November 30, 2022, 6:25pm #2
I salute all seven of our guys who made All MAC. I am concerned we didn't have a single player named to the first team.
Digitalhawk November 30, 2022, 7:10pm #3
Jose Ramirez does it all.
Skins November 30, 2022, 7:10pm #4
we are after all 4-4 in the MAC…these are a bit popularity contest after the final standings…so I mean makes sense.
Bigger concern is no young offense players anywhere…
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MAC Announces 2022 Postseason Football Awards & All-Conference Teams
2022 MAC Specialty Award Winners
I would think that the top defense in the conference (in terms of points and rushing yards allowed) would have had more players named to the all conference teams, but I think in the case of Miami's defense the "defense as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts".
redskin89 November 30, 2022, 7:28pm #7
4-4 Kent had four guys on First Team Offense, truly a popularity comtest
Their offense was (statistically) good, ours was not…like I said "a bit" of popularity contest.
PS - "Bigger concern is no young offense players anywhere…"
Still a bit surprising that Kent has that many on 1st team…for me the issue is no young offensive players anywhere and three (3) of 7 graduate…but on the flipside, OU only had two more players named overall and they were clearly better than us this time around.
muhawk November 30, 2022, 8:02pm #9
But… but FLASH FAST! FLASH FAST!!!
Skins November 30, 2022, 8:06pm #10
This one is both encouraging and thought provoking…what to do. Nearly tied for 6th in the league.
LaxDaddy November 30, 2022, 10:16pm #11
Those are also NET yards after subtracting sacks.
Skins November 30, 2022, 10:54pm #12
Yeah…a top rusher in league from QB position.
Redhawks16 November 30, 2022, 11:07pm #13
So Caleb Shaffer wasn't selected to any of the All-MAC teams? It will be interesting what type of offers he gets in the portal
Redsea December 1, 2022, 1:01am #14
Who do we think should have been on the all league teams that wasnt?
mz343 December 1, 2022, 1:05am #15
I don't think there were any snubs, but I would've had Salopek and Saunders higher.
NESCACDAD December 1, 2022, 1:07am #16
I think a case could be made for Dom as first team. My concern is not that we were slighted but that our selections were realistically ranked. Someone pointed out the lack of any young offensive skill players on any of the three teams. That's a bit of a red flag for next year, considering Hip and Jalen are both gone.
mowch December 1, 2022, 1:20am #17
Nicholson should've been 3rd team, maybe 2nd.


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Portrait of Shah Raju, the spiritual director (pir) of Sultan Abul Hasan
Shah Raju is depicted up to his hips, turned to the left, his left hand on his sword, a flower in his right hand. Page 30 in the 'Witsen-Album', with 49 Indian miniatures of monarchs. Above the portrait a piece of paper with the name in Persian. Below the portrait a piece of paper with the name in Portuguese.
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If an outsider wants to break into an enterprise to steal data, they very often use insiders because it is much easier and quicker then having to develop a hacking program, according to Natalya Kaspersky CEO of data loss prevention expert InfoWatch.
"If you know whom you can connect to and ask for the data then it is unfortunately very difficult to prevent," she said.
According to InfoWatch, data loss prevention software is a good start for companies to use to prevent some degree of insider theft of data.
However, Kaspersky said that if someone really wants the data there is not really any way of stopping it, for example an insider can take a photo of the computer screen with their mobile phone and there is no way to stop that kind of leakage.