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ID, please: Bill would mandate carding for M-rated game buys
A new bill hopes to criminalize the sale of M-rated games to minors by forcing …
Ben Kuchera - May 8, 2008 4:59 pm UTC
With the prerelease controversy, release, and success of Grand Theft Auto IV, the issue of video game ratings and their enforcement is once again at the forefront of the public consciousness. Yesterday, Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) and Jim Matheson (D-UT) introduced the Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act into the House of Representatives to try to force retailers into checking identification when selling M-rated games. Retailers caught selling M-rated titles to minors will be subjected to a $5,000 fine from the Federal Trade Commission.
The language and statements released by the bipartisan pair are unsurprisingly out of touch with the reality of most games. "The images and themes in some video games are shocking and troublesome. In some games high scores are often earned by players who commit 'virtual' murder, assault and rape. Many young children are walking into stores and are able to buy or rent these games without their parents even knowing about it," said Rep. Terry. "This bill requires an ID check before certain games are sold to an individual. This ensures that children can only access age appropriate content without parental permission. Families and children everywhere deserve the protection this legislation will provide."
Has there been a game where points are assigned for rape? In 1982 a game called Custer's Revenge was released for the Atari 2600, and indeed featured a very pixelated approximation of the rape of a native American woman. Since then? Not so much. This isn't the first time the issue of rape in games has been brought up by government officials in the US or abroad and, without any clear examples in the modern gaming space, it doesn't survive even the most cursory scrutiny.
This also isn't the first time Rep. Matheson has tried this. In 2006 he introduced a bill called, you guessed it, The Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act. That bill also would have made it illegal to sell M-rated games to anyone under the age of 17, and like every other bill that has attempted such a thing, it failed.
For his part, Lee Terry is hoping that by using the ESRB's rating system, the bill may have a better chance at success. "This bill doesn't involve itself in content or defining the standards for 'mature' or 'adults only,'" he told Daily Variety. "It simply requires the retailer to post what the industry has defined as 'mature' and 'adults only' so that parents can know, and requires checking of identification." This gets around the issue of having to make a ruling on content, which is what ultimately killed the Louisiana law.
The ESA has responded to the bill. "The Entertainment Software Association shares Representatives Matheson and Terry's goal of ensuring children are playing parent-approved computer and video games," said an ESA spokesperson. "That is why the ESA consistently works with parent groups, encouraging caregivers to check each game's ESRB rating and content descriptors—a system three-quarters of parents rely on regularly according to the Federal Trade Commission... Empowering parents, not enacting unconstitutional legislation, is the best way to control the games children play."
The timing of this bill is rather unfortunate, as the FTC has just released its own findings that show M-rated games are getting harder for children to buy. In December 2007 Ars discussed the findings of the MediaWise gaming report card, which pointed out that it was much easier for children to purchase R-rated media than M-rated games. The FTC's latest report echoes the report card data.
It's unconstitutional for laws to target the content in games while ignoring other forms of media such as movies and music, and as it has been proven in California, Hollywood and the publishing industry will take the gaming industry's side. After all, there is no way the MPAA would assent to legislation that could open the door for ID checks at R-rated movies, or fines for theaters that allow minors into R-rated films.
Gaming legislation criminalizing the sale of games to minors has a long and expensive history of failure, and this bill looks no different. This looks more like political grandstanding than a practical attempt to pass legislation, but one never knows in an election year.


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Fabiano Massimi, né le  à Modène, est un écrivain italien, lauréat du  en 2017.

Biographie
Fabiano Massimi est né et vit à Modène. Après des études à l'université de Bologne, il devient bibliothécaire à la bibliothèque Antonio Delfini de Modène.

Activité professionnelle
Fabiano Massimi a débuté comme traducteur de livres en anglais, auprès de plusieurs maisons d'éditions. Il a traduit des ouvrages de Julie Kavanagh, Richard Marinick, James Renner, Roger Smith et Kit Whitfield.

En 2017, il publie son premier roman, Il club Montecristo, avec lequel il remporte le .

En 2020, il publie L'Ange de Munich (titre original L'angelo di Monaco), un roman policier historique, autour de la mort de Geli Raubal, nièce d'Adolf Hitler, avec lequel il remporte la deuxième édition (2020) du concours littéraire Giallo a Palazzo et l'édition 2020 du Prix Asti d'Appello.

Œuvre

Romans
 Il club Montecristo, Milano, Il giallo Mondadori Oro n. 26, 2017 Nuova edizione Milano, Mondadori, 2021, .
 L'angelo di Monaco, Milano, Longanesi, 2020, .
 - traduit en français sous le titre L'Ange de Munich par Laura Brignon, Paris, Albin Michel, 2021, 560 p.
I demoni di Berlino, Milano, Longanesi, 2021, .
 - traduit en français sous le titre Les Démons de Berlin, Albin Michel, 2023, 480 p.

Naissance en juin 1977
Naissance à Modène
Écrivain italien du XXIe siècle
Traducteur italien du XXIe siècle
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Sorry to Disrupt the Peace review
A highly unorthodox detective story sees a bipolar woman investigate her brother's suicide
Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace is a beautifully sad and funny debut that disturbs the peace and makes no apologies for doing so. Photograph: Hanly Banks Callahan
Sarah Gilmartin
Sat, May 27, 2017, 06:00
First published: Sat, May 27, 2017, 06:00
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
Patty Yumi Cottrell
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"How is anybody supposed to live with anything?" In her extraordinary debut, Patty Yumi Cottrell gives her 32-year-old narrator Helen Moran the impossible job of figuring out why someone kills themselves. The internet tells her there are six reasons, but Helen can't match any of them to her 29-year-old brother's decision to shoot himself in a car outside a hospital in their native Milwaukee. opens with a phonecall from a distant relative informing Helen of her brother's death. What ensues is a highly unorthodox detective story that forces a young woman to revisit her past.
The novel's other mystery is even more compelling, centring on Helen and her estranged relationship with her adoptive parents. Helen and her brother are non-biological adoptees of Korean descent, brought up in a religious household in the Midwest. Currently living in a shoebox apartment in New York, whose history of bed bugs is hilariously related, the narrator hasn't spoken to her parents in five years. Throughout the novel, they're referred to as her "adoptive parents", one of many stylistic devices that brings welcome humour to a sad story. Cottrell has created a most unusual narrator in Helen, one that veers from acute awareness to unhinged logic. Readers will suspect long before it's revealed that there is mental illness behind her bizarre reactions to ordinary human behaviour. Cottrell uses the character's singular personality to call out the hypocrisies of society. Her grieving "adoptive parents" are at a loss as to why their "adopted son" killed himself. The searing flashbacks that Helen gives in her blunt, impactful way tell a different story.
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace makes clear the destructive family dynamic at the heart of both siblings' issues, but avoids lamenting the misery. Helen's story is all the more effective for this as readers can judge the parental deficiencies for themselves. Stories of the past centre on face slapping, confinement, her mother washing her mouth out with soap for bad language – all very literal, very Catholic punishments that haunt years later. Although her father gives out to Helen for not using "the entire system of support" at her disposal, there is little evidence that such a system exists. As she returns to Milwaukee to face down her parents, she thinks "it was only a little funny that my adoptive brother seemed to have the final word on their system of support".
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Cottrell is careful to give a multifaceted perspective. Various relatives and friends show how hard it is to connect with Helen. This somewhat mitigates the parents' unwelcoming attitude to their prodigal daughter, though sympathies remain with the oddball narrator.
In her peculiar way of looking at the world, Helen is reminiscent of the wonderfully eccentric narrator from Paula Cocozza's recent debut How to Be Human. Cottrell's writing also recalls contemporaries such as Michelle Tea and Miranda July in her bleak outlook on the world and the stark language she uses to portray this. Although born in Korea and raised by adopted parents in the Midwest, her novel is entirely fictional. Her work has appeared in The White Review, Guernica, BOMB, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review.
Cottrell's style is notable for a debut author. Techniques of repetition, deflation and intertextuality are seamlessly worked into the plot. A quote from Kafka's diaries – "You too have weapons" – poses interesting questions for her larger themes of suicide and self-worth. At the other end of the scale, there's a laugh-out-loud pamphlet on how to survive in New York with no money (basically by manipulating rich white people). Cottrell uses feigned wonder to great effect, with Helen's mantra of "I was astonished" adding humour to grubby everyday interactions. The ironic use of exclamation marks is similarly funny: "That's what Nietzsche said, philosopher of life!"
But the main source of the black comedy in this novel comes from its unstable narrator. Helen downs six shots of espresso before getting on the plane to Milwaukee. The things she remembers from her home city are far from sentimental: "I saw in my head the nunnery where all the nuns died and the priests took over, the pharmacy that housed a child-pornography ring". Christening herself "Sister Reliability" in her part-time job looking after disadvantaged teens, Helen later admits she smokes pot with her wards. She also steals a bag of heroin from work and bites a man's tongue off when he tries to kiss her at a party.
Cottrell manages to balance all this with the topic of suicide. At the heart of the book is Helen's need to find out why her brother killed himself, "the rigor of a proper metaphysical investigation". By the end, she discovers that suicide is "a husk of a word". Sorry is a beautifully sad and funny debut that disturbs the peace and makes no apologies for doing so.
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American Idol Odds: Scotty McCreery was Once a Long Shot to Win
Jordan Bach
May/18/2011
Coming into the semi finals of the highest rated program on television, Scotty McCreery's American Idol odds were set at 1/3, a definitive favorite to win the singing competition. But it wasn't always that way.
Early in the season, McCreery had been listed with 5/1 odds. A few other Idols had better chances of winning while Tia Poscano came in as the favorite at 3/1 odds.
Potentially heading into the finale, McCreery is appealing to the "church going crowd", many of whom watch Idol religiously week after week.
"God has gotten me through every second of it. I love him with all my heart," McCreery told Greensboro, North Carolina Fox affiliate WGHP this week.
"A lot of people probably think since I've been gone away from my home church that my faith in God might have suffered, that it might have disippated. But it's grown stronger each and every day," the wholesome McCreery added.
McCreery is not necessarily a long shot to win, however. A 1 to 3 odds favorite in a boxing match is just barely considered a favorite. The oddsmakers believe his competition is tight.
Lauren Alaina was at 5/2 odds while Haley Reinhart came in at 7/2.
Be sure to watch for our very own Jenny Woo discussing American Idol odds on Don Best TV this week.
- Jordan Bach, Gambling911.com
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When the war was finally resolved through the Peace of Westphalia (1648), any remaining enthusiasm for religious warfare had evaporated. People had had enough. A yearning for peace led to a new emphasis on toleration and growing impatience with religious disputes. The scene was set for the Enlightenment insistence that religion was to be a matter of private belief, rather than state policy. In both intellectual and political circles, religion came to be viewed as a source of international and national conflict, as a burden rather than a blessing. The emerging dislike of religious fanaticism was easily transmuted into a dislike of religion itself.
The necessity for Catholics and Protestants of various traditions to coexist throughout Europe was now so obvious that it required little argument. No one wanted a repeat of the pointless brutalization and destruction that had just ended. Yet one of the more significant outcomes of this realization, an attempt to find common ground on which all could meet, inevitably led to an emphasis on philosophy and those aspects of European culture that were not overtly religious—in other words, its secular aspects.
In England, the civil war was followed by a new crisis. The stability of the Restoration ended abruptly with the death of Charles II in 1685. He was succeeded by James II, a Catholic, who appointed coreligionists to prominent positions in the government, the army, and the universities. This prompted widespread concern and gave rise to furious rumors of a plot to convert England to Roman Catholicism. A new religious civil war seemed inevitable.
A characteristically English solution, however, emerged, defusing the situation. James II's daughter Mary had earlier married William III, Prince of Orange, a firmly committed Protestant with a reputation for tolerance and generosity. A secret approach was made to William: if he were to invade England, he could be assured that strategically placed well-wishers would rally the nation around him. Encouraged by such overtures, William landed in the west of England in 1688, to widespread public support. James soon realized that his cause was utterly lost. In January 1689, he fled England for France.
William and Mary were declared king and queen of England in February—but only after agreeing to sign a "Bill of Rights" that guaranteed free elections and freedom of speech. The "Glorious Revolution" had averted another civil war and neutralized the power of religion in English public life.32 It is no accident that John Locke's famous Letters of Toleration were published at this precise moment, arguing for the need to tolerate diversity in religion rather than allowing it to lead to conflict. The public mood had changed.
Its iconic significance for the eighteenth century is best seen from the frontispiece to Christian Wolff 's Rational Thoughts on God, the World, and the Soul (1719). This superb piece of intellectual propaganda shows a beaming, benevolent sun smiling upon the world, removing clouds and shadows. A new age has dawned! The darkness of earlier generations will vanish, as surely as night gives way to day! This powerful vision resonated with the hopes and fears of a war-weary Europe. Might this be the way to social, religious, and political stability?
This vision also proved compelling to many conflict-weary Protestants who were deeply disillusioned by the violence and fanaticism of the recent religious past. Some Anglican clergy and bishops found its ideas compelling. Deism—a belief in a generic creator God—seemed much less intellectually demanding and tiresome than the trinitarian God of the Christian tradition. It resonated well with the new emphasis on the divine ordering of the world, now emerging from the "mechanical philosophy" of Isaac Newton and his school.34 God could be thought of as the divine clockmaker who had constructed a particularly elegant piece of machinery and who made no demands of anyone other than a due appreciation of the beauty of the creation. Religions of all kinds now tended to be seen as corruptions of an original "religion of nature" that had no priests or creeds. Most religions were later distortions introduced by self-serving clerics who were anxious to secure their social status and exploit the gullible.
The appeal of the Enlightenment proved greatest within Reformed circles. For reasons that remain unclear, rationalism gained acceptance in many former Calvinist strongholds. Geneva and Edinburgh, both international centers of Calvinism in the late sixteenth century, were noted as epicenters of European rationalism in the late eighteenth century.35 John Calvin and John Knox gave way to the very different world-views of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume. In marked contrast, the Enlightenment had relatively little impact on Catholicism during the eighteenth century—unless, of course, the French Revolution (1789) is seen as a political extension of the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Pietism developed in a number of different directions, especially in England and Germany. Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf (17001760) founded the Pietist community generally known as the "Herrn-huter"—named after the village of Herrnhut. Alienated from what he regarded as the arid rationalism and barren Protestant religious formalism of his time, Zinzendorf stressed the importance of a "religion of the heart" based on an intimate and personal relationship between Christ and the believer. A new emphasis was placed on the role in the Christian life of "feeling" (as opposed to reason or doctrinal orthodoxy), an orientation that is often seen as laying the foundations for Romanticism in later German religious thought. Zinzendorf 's emphasis on a personally appropriated faith was expressed in the slogan "a living faith," an idea he contrasted unfavorably with the prevailing nominalism of Protestant orthodoxy. For orthodoxy, faith was about assent to the creeds; for Zinzendorf, it was about a personal, transforming encounter with God, with creedal assent playing a lesser role.
Zinzendorf 's ideas soon began to find acceptance in England. John Wesley (1703-91) was a founder and early leader of the Methodist movement within the Church of England; that movement subsequently gave birth to Methodism as a denomination in its own right. Convinced that he "lacked the faith whereby alone we are saved," Wesley paid a visit to Herrnhut in 1738 and was deeply impressed by what he found there. Wesley found the Pietist emphasis on the need for a "living faith" and the role of experience in the Christian life to be very persuasive. His conversion experience at a meeting in Aldersgate Street, London, in May 1738—in which he felt his heart to be "strangely warmed"—led him to travel throughout England, preaching his new understanding of the Protestant religion.
Wesley's emphasis on the experiential side of Christian faith, which contrasted sharply with what he saw as the spiritual dullness of contemporary English deism, led to a minor religious revival in England during the eighteenth century.37 Wesley was joined in his ministry by his brother Charles; between them, they wrote some of the best-known hymns in the English language, many of which express the transformative nature of faith and the need for personal conversion. It was their structured approach to Christian devotion that earned them the nickname "Methodists."
Yet this emphasis on the experiential side of religion raised the specter of "enthusiasm"—a dramatic, religiously inspired fervor, often accompanied by the agitated body movements and faintings and swoonings so devastatingly caricatured in William Hogarth's etching "Enthusiasm Delineat'd."38 Many revivalist preachers—including John Wesley and George Whitefield—found themselves torn between sympathy for the idea that a direct experience of God might induce such dramatic effects and concern that its bizarre manifestations would alienate a religiously suspicious public. Somehow a middle way had to be found so as to avoid the religious excesses of "enthusiasm," on the one hand, and the impoverishment of "formalism," on the other.
Despite their differences, the various branches of Pietism succeeded in making Christian faith relevant to the experiential world of ordinary believers and in some ways anticipated the success of Pentecostalism two centuries later. Pietism succeeded in lodging Protestantism in the everyday realities of life for many people. It is of no small importance to note that the strongly antireligious tone of the French Revolution during the eighteenth century was partly due to the absence of any real equivalent of Pietism in French Catholicism at that time. In England and Germany, faith was being reconnected with everyday life; in France, that link appears to have been fractured—with massive implications for the future of Christianity in that region.
Initially, Methodism was organized as a group of "societies." The Wesleys discouraged their followers from leaving the Church of England, despite the hostility and general disdain they encountered from their Anglican counterparts. In part, this negative attitude reflected the sociological differences between the movements: the Wesleys were gaining a mass following within the working class, such as among miners, whereas Anglicanism tended to see itself as representing both the social and ecclesiastical establishment. After John Wesley's death in 1791, Methodism became a separate denomination organized as a "connection" made up of districts, which were divided into circuits of several churches or societies. The term "Wesleyanism" tended to be used at this stage.
The early history of English Methodism demonstrates the innate tendency to fragmentation that is characteristic of Protestantism. Divisions arose over a series of issues, including church order and disci pline—though not, significantly, matters of doctrine. A dispute in the northeast of England led to the "Methodist New Connection" forming in 1797. A decade later, the "Primitive Methodists" broke away, believing that the Wesleyan connection was losing its enthusiasm for revivalism. The Bible Christian Church was founded by a Wesleyan preacher in England's west country in 1815; unusually, it made extensive use of women preachers. Other Methodist groups included the Protestant Methodists and the Wesleyan Reformers.
Yet English Methodism also illustrates Protestantism's capacity to set past controversies behind it and secure reconciliation. In 1857 three Methodist groups came together to form the United Methodist Free Churches; in 1907 these were incorporated with the Methodist New Connection and the Bible Christians as the United Methodist Church; in 1932 the Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and United Methodists merged to establish the Methodist Church in Great Britain.
In this chapter, we have surveyed a critically important period in the history of England—a nation destined to have a major influence on the shaping of Protestantism worldwide, particularly through its missionary enterprises in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet the nation that has had by far the greatest impact in recent years on the shaping of global Protestantism is the United States of America. We must now turn and explore how Protestantism came to be established in what is now regarded as this most religious of Western nations.
Cotton Mather, the leading Puritan writer who compiled one of the earliest American histories. Mezzotint by Peter Pelham, 1728.


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Here's Why the Note 10 does not have a Headphone Jack – Is the Jack Officially Dead?
Here's Why the Note 10 does not have a Headphone Jack - Is the Jack Officially Dead?
Haisam Munir
After Apple decided to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone way back in 2016, the position of the much revered audio port has been under dispute throughout the industry. While most people were angry at Apple for removing it back then, many have since then come to terms with the inevitable demise of the jack. Other companies like Huawei and OnePlus have followed suit and have also removed the headphone jack from a lot of their top tier phones. However, one company that didn't follow the trend of removing the headphone jack during the past couple of years and gained some much deserved credit and praise for it, was Samsung. They've always been strong advocates for the headphone jack and rightly so, it is convenient and useful.
Sadly, however, after years of poking fun at competitors for removing the jack from their phones, Samsung has finally succumbed to the rest of the world as well.
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No jack for the Galaxy Note 10
During yesterday's unveil event of the new flagships from Samsung, the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus, the tech giant announced that it would finally be bidding adieu to the headphone jack. Samsung was one of the final bastions of the headphone jack and the company took pride in that. Having the headphone jack was one of the main selling points of the Galaxy devices for a very long time and it is really disappointing to see it go.
Why did Samsung remove the headphone jack?
Why did Samsung remove the headphone jack though? Well, the answer might not really surprise you since we've been hearing this same excuse for a very long time. According to a Samsung spokesperson, the 3.5 mm headphone jack was removed from the latest Galaxy Note smartphones to accommodate a bigger battery and a newer haptic feedback motor. The excuse is very much similar to Apple's way back in 2016 and most other companies have come up with similar reasons as well. However, with the Note 10 it does not really make much sense as it is a pretty big phone and Samsung could have easily accommodated the headphone jack with it. During teardowns of most phones without headphone jacks, it has been found that there is enough space in them for one.
In the end, it is just another move into our future in which, sadly, there is no place for the headphone jack. Now, Samsung users will have to use the extremely annoying dongles if they wish to use their expensive headphones. You can't charge your phone while using wired headphones either. Well, there is wireless charging but that doesn't really help much in most cases.
Is the headphone jack officially dead?
Samsung was one of the last big names in the industry that still had the headphone jack. After the removal of the jack from the Note 10, is the age of the headphone jack finally over? Well, yes and no. The headphone jack has been such an integral part of audio consumption over the past few decades and getting rid of it in a snap just is not a viable option. Furthermore, there are no alternatives that can really replace it yet. Yes, Bluetooth is getting really good after 5.0 with the ability to connect multiple devices and minimal latency but it still isn't quite as good as the 3.5 mm jack. It might never be that good because of the obvious physical differences but it just needs to be good enough.
The phone manufacturers also need to include an additional USB-C port for simultaneous audio and power. However, the chances of that happening are pretty slim.
The transition from the headphone jack to Bluetooth has been pretty hectic and disorganized and a rather slower move would have been much better for the whole industry. All this fragmentation has resulted in unnecessary compromises but sadly, that is the reality that we have to deal with. Things are always going to die and get replaced. All we can do now is live with the Bluetooth headsets that we have today and hope that the technology gets better in the future. The king is dead, long live the king.
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In addition to being a member of the Saudi Arabia royal family, Prince Turki is one of the founders of the King Faisal Foundation which has heavily invested in education and numerous other philanthropic projects around the world. Price Turki also serves as chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies which takes part in preserving and promoting Islamic heritage along with encouraging further research so that such traditions may live on and continue in the future. He was appointed ambassador to the court of Saint James in London and to Ireland from January of 2003 until 2005. Later that year he assumed the position of Saudi Ambassador to the United States which he acted as until 2007. He is also co-chair of the C100 Group which has been affiliated with the World Economic Forum since 2003, encouraging interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural understanding. Prince Turki is also deputy chairman of Saudi General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) and was elected as the first Vice President of the regional bureau of Asia-Pacific within airports council international.
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The Master of Surgery (Latin: Magister Chirurgiae) is an advanced qualification in surgery.  Depending upon the degree, it may be abbreviated ChM, MCh, MChir or MS.  At a typical medical school the program lasts between two and three years. The possession of a medical degree is a prerequisite. The ChM can be awarded on both clinical and academic competency or on academic competency. The regulations may ask for surgical experience and a thesis topic that is not purely medical.

History

The Masters of Surgery, or ChM is an advanced qualification in surgical medicine, established in Great Britain in the middle of the 19th century. The qualification was designed to be awarded as a higher degree to the Bachelor of Surgery degree (usually ChB).

Many universities have stopped holding written and clinical examinations for the ChM, and focused solely on the thesis and oral examination. Only Oxford and Cambridge still have a ("Part One") examination before submission of the thesis and oral examination on the same for the degrees which they abbreviate as MCh and MChir respectively.

Many universities stopped offering the ChM award when it became common for trainee surgeons to take the FRCS examination of one or other Royal College of Surgeons in basic sciences and clinical subjects.

ChM Today
Following the success of its MSc in Surgical Sciences, the University of Edinburgh Medical School re-established the ChM award in 2011, as an online distance learning degree, in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. The focus of the ChM was to prepare advanced surgical trainees for their FRCS examination, thereby reinstating the purpose of the ChM degree and aligning it with the ISCP curriculum. The ChM therefore combines the academic and professional development of the surgeon approaching independent consultancy. The ChM consolidates the application of specialist surgical knowledge in any clinical setting and is of relevance to independent surgical practice anywhere in the world. The online distance learning ChM uses case and problem-based learning and combines both academic and research components. Each ChM degree programme carries 120 credits which are taught at postgraduate SCQF level 12. The University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh currently offer ChM degrees in 5 specialities (General Surgery, Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Urology, Clinical Ophthalmology and Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery).

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import android.widget.ImageView;
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// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="CertificateLocator.cs" company="Naos Project">
//    Copyright (c) Naos Project 2019. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace Naos.Deployment.Domain
{
    using System;
    using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

    /// <summary>
    /// Model object to hold necessary information to find a certificate on a machine.
    /// </summary>
    public class CertificateLocator
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Default dertificate <see cref="StoreName"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public const StoreName DefaultCertificateStoreName = StoreName.My;

        /// <summary>
        /// Default certificate <see cref="StoreLocation"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public const StoreLocation DefaultCertificateStoreLocation = StoreLocation.LocalMachine;

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="CertificateLocator"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="certificateThumbprint">Thumbprint of a certificate.</param>
        /// <param name="certificateIsValid">Value indicating whether or not the certificate is "valid".</param>
        /// <param name="certificateStoreName">Optional store name of certificate; DEFAULT is <see cref="StoreName.My"/>.</param>
        /// <param name="certificateStoreLocation">Optional store location of certificate; DEFAULT is <see cref="StoreLocation.LocalMachine"/>.</param>
        public CertificateLocator(string certificateThumbprint, bool certificateIsValid, StoreName certificateStoreName = DefaultCertificateStoreName, StoreLocation certificateStoreLocation = DefaultCertificateStoreLocation)
        {
            if (certificateThumbprint == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("Must supply a certificate thumbprint to use for retrieving the encrypting certificate.");
            }

            this.CertificateThumbprint = certificateThumbprint;
            this.CertificateIsValid = certificateIsValid;
            this.CertificateStoreName = certificateStoreName;
            this.CertificateStoreLocation = certificateStoreLocation;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the thumbprint of the certificate.
        /// </summary>
        public string CertificateThumbprint { get; private set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a value indicating whether or not the certificate is valid.
        /// </summary>
        public bool CertificateIsValid { get; private set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the store name of the certificate.
        /// </summary>
        public StoreName CertificateStoreName { get; private set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the store location of the certificate.
        /// </summary>
        public StoreLocation CertificateStoreLocation { get; private set; }
    }
}


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Q: Query to count record with one query based on multiple and different where condition? I am having a problem with my laravel count code, Please check the code to count the record.
       /**
        *
        *These Are constants
        *Record::StatusVerified = 1
        *Record::StatusReject = 2
        *Record::StatusUnverified = 0
        *
        */
        $allCity = City::get();
        $rowData = [];
        foreach ($allCity as $val) {
            $content = [];
            $record  = Records::where(['city' => $val->id]);
       // other filters

            $statusVerified = $record->where(['status' => Record::StatusVerified])->count();
            $statusRejected = $record->where(['status' => Record::StatusReject])->count();
            $statusUnverified = $record->where(['status' => Record::StatusUnverified])->count();
            $content['verified'] = $statusVerified;
            $content['Rejected'] = $statusRejected;
            $content['Unverified'] = $statusUnverified;
            $rowData[] = $content;
        }

        //pur row to CSV file

In this code I am trying to get count of record based on city and count of total record with where condition of status.
But only the first count give correct record but other give zero(0) count.
I try to put $record variable into another variable and then try to get count but still the same problem.
$newVariable = $record;
$content['verified'] = $newVariable->where(['status' => Record::StatusVerified])->count();
$content['Rejected'] = $newVariable->where(['status' => Record::StatusRejected])->count();
$content['Unverified'] = $newVariable->where(['status' => Record::StatusUnverified])->count();

I even created 3 variable $verified, $unverified and $rejected and then assign variable $record to them then try to get count with these 3 variable.
$verified = $unverified = $rejected = $record;
$content['verified'] = $verified->where(['status' => Record::StatusVerified])->count();
$content['Rejected'] = $rejected->where(['status' => Record::StatusRejected])->count();
$content['Unverified'] = $unverified->where(['status' => Record::StatusUnverified])->count();

But still it give me correct in first one and zero(0) in other two.
So I have to write full query for all 3 record, I can use other function to call full query with variable pass but I have a situation that I can't becase so many other filter are included in the query and if I do create new function with so many variable pass the code will look ugly.

A: I believe that the problem is this:
$verified = $unverified = $rejected = $record;

All those variables refer to the same query object. Now this first line is gonna work:
$content['verified'] = $verified->where(['status' => Record::StatusVerified])->count();

However, in the second statement:
$content['Rejected'] = $rejected->where(['status' => Record::StatusRejected])->count();

It doesn't work because $verified and $rejected refer to the same query. $rejected add one more condition to the previous query and the underlying query is some thing like this:
SELECT COUNT(id) FROM records
WHERE city = 'some_city_id'
AND status = 'verified'
AND status = 'rejected'

Now the above query clearly return zero, because there's no records that have both statuses.
The best approach in my opinion is simply use group by:
SELECT COUNT(id), status FROM records
GROUP BY status
WHERE city = 'some_city_id'
AND status in ('verified', 'rejected', 'unverified')

Or a "quick and dirty" approach (which I don't recommend) is to clone the initial query:
$verified = clone $record;
$unverified = clone $record;
$rejected = clone $record;
$content['verified'] = $verified->where(['status' => Record::StatusVerified])->count();
$content['Rejected'] = $rejected->where(['status' => Record::StatusRejected])->count();
$content['Unverified'] = $unverified->where(['status' => Record::StatusUnverified])->count();

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Living standards take a hit as the UK enters protracted recession
The UK economy will shrink by 1.3% in 2023, according to KPMG's latest UK Economic Outlook
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Article Posted date 19 December 2022
The UK is estimated to have entered a recession in the third quarter of 2022, which could last until the end of 2023 and see output fall by 1.9% during that period.
The squeeze on incomes is the main driver, with higher inflation and interest rates significantly reducing households' purchasing power.
The labour market is set to start deteriorating from the first half of 2023, with the unemployment rate reaching 5.6% by mid-2024, representing an increase of around 680,000 people.
The Bank of England is nearing the end of the tightening cycle, with the base interest rate expected to reach 4% by spring next year, followed by a wait-and-see approach as inflation gradually eases.
The UK economy will shrink by 1.3% in 2023, amidst a relatively shallow but protracted recession, according to KPMG's latest UK Economic Outlook. This will be followed by a partial recovery in 2024, which could see GDP rise by 0.2%.
Elevated inflation and rising interest rates will continue to put pressure on households' living standards. By the end of Q3 2022 household consumption has already fallen by 0.6% on a per capita basis and is projected by KPMG to fall by a further 3.4% by mid-2024. While a fall in savings or higher borrowing could support consumption to some degree, persistently low levels of consumer confidence could lead to higher levels of precautionary savings, the report tells.
Yael Selfin
Companies' margins and investment are negatively affected by rising interest rates and ongoing geopolitical uncertainties, slowing global growth over the medium term. KPMG expect overall investment to shrink by 0.7% in 2023, before recovering by 0.2% in the following year. As the economic environment deteriorates, a higher number of company insolvencies are expected.
Table 1: KPMG forecasts for the UK
Yael Selfin, Chief Economist at KPMG UK, commented on the report: "The increase in energy and food prices during 2022, as well as higher overall inflation, have significantly reduced households' purchasing power. Rising interest rates have added another headwind to growth. Lower income households are particularly exposed to the mix of current price pressures, as the most affected spending categories largely fall on necessities, with few substitutes in the short run.
"Households are expected to rein in spending on discretionary items in 2023 in response to the squeeze on income. As consumers cut back on spending, we anticipate a sharp reduction in non-essential categories of spend by those households most affected by the rise in energy and food costs, including spending on eating out and entertainment."
Outlook for inflation, labour market, housing, and exports
KPMG's new forecast sees average inflation over 2023 revised to 7.0%, up from 5.6% in its previous report. Inflation is expected to have already peaked in October and to fall gradually over the coming months. The fall in the headline rate partly reflects the dropping out of price increases from the 12-month period that is used to calculate inflation, as well as potential falls in some commodity prices.
The labour market has already begun to cool off, with expectations of lower turnover putting less pressure on employers to recruit, while employees are becoming more cautious to move jobs in light of further uncertainty. With bargaining power pivoting away from employees and towards employers, this could see some moderation in nominal pay growth next year following robust growth in 2022.
KPMG expect the higher interest rates environment to gradually translate into weaker housing market activity, factoring a 8.5% peak-to-trough fall in its forecasts, which reduces both consumer confidence as well as the value of collateral available for homeowners to borrow against in order to finance spending.
The depreciation of the pound may help support export growth, although exports are expected to be affected by weaker demand among UK's trading partners. Overall export volumes are still some way from their pre-pandemic levels, with the UK performing relatively poorly since the global pandemic. KPMG expect UK exports to rise in 2023 by 4.6% and by 1.1% in 2024.
Yael Selfin, concludes:"The outlook could turn more positive, particularly if energy costs drop back to previous levels. However, risks are probably skewed to the downside, given the state of public finances as well as some companies' balance sheets, which could make it harder for them to absorb any potential further shocks in the short term. In addition, a rise in Covid cases during the winter or a further escalation in geopolitical tensions mean that supply chain pressures are likely to remain an issue in the background."
Steven Reilly-Hii, Media Relations Manager, KPMG, 07510 376635 , steven.reilly-hii@kpmg.co.uk
The forecasts were produced by the KPMG macroeconomics team using a suite of external and in-house models capturing the main inter-relationships in the UK economy. As with all forecasts, these are subject to considerable uncertainty and the outturn may differ significantly.
KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, operates from 20 offices across the UK with approximately 15,300 partners and staff. The UK firm recorded a revenue of £2.43 billion in the year ended 30 September 2021.
KPMG is a global organisation of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Legal, Tax and Advisory services. It operates in 145 countries and territories with more than 236,000 partners and employees working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.


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Williams Continues Red Hot Run
Masters runner-up Mark Williams showed no signs of letting up his form, putting on a fine display to beat fellow Welshman Jamie Jones 4-1 in the opening round of the Duelbets World Grand Prix.
Williams' run last week at Alexandra Palace saw him make a Masters final for the first time in 20 years. After beating David Gilbert in the opening round and scoring an epic 6-5 win over Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarters, Williams whitewashed Jack Lisowski 6-0 to make the title match. Despite losing out 10-8 to Judd Trump it was still a memorable tournament in the career of the 24-time ranking event winner.
He got this afternoon's match off to the perfect start when he fired in a century run of 104 to take the opening frame. Jones replied with 59 to restore parity at 1-1, but that would be the last time he registered a frame. A break building blitz saw Williams compose contributions of 82, 100 and 121 to emerge a 4-1 victor.
Afterwards the 47-year-old stated that there was no hangover from his exertions at the Masters, literally or metaphorically. Williams is currently in 13th position on the one-year list and with only the top 16 making the Duelbits Players Championship and eight qualifying for the Duelbits Tour Championship. He is fully aware of the importance of a run this week.
Williams said: "I didn't have a drink after the final, so there was no hangover, just a bit of jetlag from travelling home at half three in the morning! It is nice to come here and important to get a win in the first game because everyone is trying to get into the top 16 for the next event.
"It is a different sort of atmosphere. I could see Ryan and Ricky walking round on the other table. It was one table last week. You could put me on table one, table six or in the carpark. I've never been bothered where I play, they are all the same."
Noppon Saengkham scored a shock 4-1 win over Mark Selby in the second table one match of the afternoon. The Thai fired in breaks of 122, 75 and 104 on his way to victory.
On table two, China's 14-time ranking event winner Ding Junhui whitewashed Stuart Bingham 4-0, while Ryan Day beat Ricky Walden 4-1.
Williams Continues Red Hot Run World Snooker.
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Biografia
Era figlia del marchese Ugo di Toscana e dalla contessa Giuditta, membro della dinastia ottoniana-salica, forse figlia di Ottone I, duca di Carinzia. Fu chiamata Willa come la nonna Willa di Tuscia.

Ella si sposò con il conte Arduino II d'Ivrea detto anche Ardiccione, forse della famiglia degli Ubaldi di Bozzano. Willa di Ugo patrocinò l'istituzione di monasteri dipendenti da Montecassino, come il monastero di San Michele Arcangelo in Quiesa vicino a Massarosa (1025). Gli Ubaldi detennero lo juspatronato sull'abbazia di Quiesa fino al 1476, ben oltre la sua soppressione nel 1406 con un breve di papa Gregorio XII dato a Lucca il 3 luglio di quell'anno.

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(9 November 2015) EPSU sends its solidarity greetings to the ADEDY and GSEE trade union confederations for the general strike planned for 12 November.
We send our support to the Greek unions in challenging the policies that the government will be implementing as part of the latest bail-out deal.
These include increases in indirect taxation, major changes to the public social insurance scheme, the privatization of remaining strategic parts of the public sector (energy, water, ports and airports), further cuts in wages and pensions. We agree that these policies are simply a continuation of the austerity that has done nothing to foster economic growth in Greece.
Public sector workers have seen massive cuts in pay, jobs and employment conditions and ADEDY members have been waging a long struggle against these measures and the undermining of public services.
EPSU wishes success to all the public and private sector workers, the unemployed, pensioners and young people who will join the demonstrations around the country on 12 November to show their opposition to the bailout provisions.
- action on odious and unfair public debts.
Solidarity with Greek workers on strike!
(15 July 2015) EPSU affiliate Adedy is organising a general strike against the agreement reached between the Eurogroup and the Greek government 15 July.


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The sad, slow descent into CTE hell
By Ken Reed on November 9, 2018 No Comment
The terrible degenerative disease is claiming more and more victims who played football at all levels
As a sports policy analyst, I've learned a lot more about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in athletes than I ever expected to. Actually, at this point, I've learned more than I really want to know.
CTE is a terrible degenerative disease, and it takes an immense toll on those who are stricken, as well as their families and friends.
I recently came across another heart-wrenching story about a former football player who died way too young, a victim of CTE's deadly claws. The New York Times piece by Ken Belson was tough to read, but instructive, regarding CTE's vicious impact (see A Football Player's Descent into Pain and Paranoia).
Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, a star at the University of Washington and a four-year veteran of the National Football League (Tampa Bay and Philadelphia), was found dead at age 30 with a mix of alcohol and painkillers in his body. Upon autopsy, neuroscientists found CTE in his brain.
His last years included typical CTE symptoms: paranoia, memory lapses, angry outbursts, disorientation, depression, etc. His personality at the end was almost a complete reversal of the one family and friends knew for most of his life: easygoing, giving, sincere.
It's estimated that Te'o-Nesheim suffered nearly 100 concussions during his playing days (10 of which left him unconscious).
Toward the end of his playing career, Te'o-Nesheim became more and more distant. He stopped replying to emails from family and friends. When he did talk to them by phone, he sounded like a different person.
"It was scary and we tried to reach out, but could not get him to open up," said his sister Marie.
After his NFL days (Tampa Bay released him in 2013), his paranoia deepened. He lived in hotels and was constantly on the move. He thought he was being followed and thought maids were going through his trash. He believed someone was using his credit card only to discover that he had made the purchases and forgotten. He thought someone was "inside" his computers so he would destroy them and buy new ones … again and again.
Eventually, Te'o-Nesheim realized he was in trouble. He was suffering physically and mentally. For years, he hid a lot of his health problems from friends and family, but in 2017 he reached out to Sam Katz, a Beverly Hills lawyer who helps former players obtain disability benefits. Te'o-Nesheim also asked Katz how to go about donating his brain to science.
After his death, the family of Te'o-Nesheim donated his brain to the Boston University CTE Center, where CTE was discovered in his brain.
"It's always surprising and disturbing to see so many lesions in a guy who was just 30," said the Center's Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist and one of the world's premier experts on CTE.
Unfortunately, coming across stories like this is becoming less and less surprising, but increasingly disturbing.
Research has shown that CTE-related symptoms happen more frequently in players who start tackle football before the age of 12. Te'o-Nesheim began playing tackle football at age 11. Between youth, high school, college and pro football, he played the game for half his life.
It's important to note that CTE isn't just an issue for former NFL players. While Boston University's CTE Center has discovered CTE in the brains of 110 of 111 former NFL players, it has also found CTE in the brains of 48 of 53 former college players. Those college players didn't go on to play football in the NFL. In addition, 21 per cent of the 14 brains of former high school football players studied at the centre had evidence of CTE. And those players never played a single down of football beyond high school.
Moreover, this is not just a concussion issue. Repetitive sub-concussive impacts to the brain may be as damaging long-term – if not more so – than concussions to the brains of athletes in high-contact sports, especially football.
"There's something to the play of football that damages the brain," says McKee. "That, to me, is irrefutable."
Ken Reed is sports policy director for League of Fans (leagueoffans.org), a sports reform project. He is the author of The Sports Reformers, Ego vs. Soul in Sports, and How We Can Save Sports.
The views, opinions and positions expressed by columnists and contributors are the author's alone. They do not inherently or expressly reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of our publication.
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