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    profileViewButton =[ UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
    profileViewButton.backgroundColor=[ UIColor whiteColor ];
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   profileViewButton.frame=CGRectMake(setingAndProfileView.frame.origin.x+5, setingAndProfileView.frame.origin.y+10, setingAndProfileView.frame.size.width/2-50, setingAndProfileView.frame.size.height/2+10);

    settingButton=[[ UIButton alloc ]init];
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    settingButton=[ UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect ];

    settingButton.frame=CGRectMake(profileViewButton.frame.origin.x+profileViewButton.frame.size.width+10, setingAndProfileView.frame.origin.y+10, setingAndProfileView.frame.size.width/2-50, setingAndProfileView.frame.size.height/2+10);
    [ settingButton setTitle:@" setting View" forState:UIControlStateNormal ];

    [ setingAndProfileView addSubview:profileViewButton ];
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A: There are a few problems with your code:

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*How have you declared these views? Are they instance variables of the viewController class?

*You only need to call either [[UIButton alloc] init] or [ UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect ].

*The frame for the buttons needs to be set with relation to the superview, hence no need to take it's frame into account.

Here's how it should look like (assuming the values have been declared):
-( UIView * )viewForProfileAndSettingButton
{
    setingAndProfileView=[[ UIView alloc ]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,_listView.frame.size.height, _listView.frame.size.width, _listView.frame.size.height/4)];
    setingAndProfileView.backgroundColor=[ UIColor darkGrayColor ];

    profileViewButton =[ UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
    profileViewButton.backgroundColor=[ UIColor whiteColor ];
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    profileViewButton.frame=CGRectMake(5, 10, setingAndProfileView.frame.size.width/2-50, setingAndProfileView.frame.size.height/2+10);

    settingButton=[ UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect ];
    settingButton.backgroundColor=[ UIColor whiteColor ];
    settingButton.frame=CGRectMake(profileViewButton.frame.origin.x + profileViewButton.frame.size.width+10, 10, setingAndProfileView.frame.size.width/2-50, setingAndProfileView.frame.size.height/2+10);
    [ settingButton setTitle:@" setting View" forState:UIControlStateNormal ];

    [ setingAndProfileView addSubview:profileViewButton ];
    [ setingAndProfileView addSubview:settingButton ];

    return setingAndProfileView;
}


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Celebrated Storytellers
By Murali Kamma
In an interview with Khabar at Emory University, Salman Rushdie discusses Midnight's Children, South Asian writing, his memoir focusing on the fatwa years, India's rising intolerance, his ex-wives, what filmmaking taught him about writing, and why he criticized last year's Nobel laureate in literature.
Neither Salman Rushdie nor Deepa Mehta needs an introduction. And their collaboration on the film Midnight's Children, based on Rushdie's classic novel, won't come as news to cineastes. As for book lovers, well, some may still be wondering how they managed to adapt this multilayered literary work, which Satyajit Ray once described as unfilmable. An epic-like tale numbering over 500 pages, Midnight's Children spans six decades and three generations, not to mention three wars—and it features quirky but memorable characters, dense plotting, and a chutnified English that delighted readers and influenced the way Indians wrote fiction.
Not to forget, Midnight's Children has magic realism, along with a magical status in the postcolonial canon. Considered one of 20th century's 100 best English-language novels, it won the Booker of Bookers in 1993, although it was the first Booker Prize—in 1981—that came as a jolt to the literary world, bringing wide attention to Indian writing. Just as India Inc. began to rise in 1991, following the introduction of economic reforms, one could argue that India Ink got a boost from this masterpiece a decade earlier.
What Rushdie and Mehta have in common, apart from their artistry and an Indian ancestry, is that tho-ugh both have been embroiled in controversies, they are not daunted by obstacles—and, in fact, seem to thrive in a difficult environment. Their friendship was the catalyst when they sealed the deal over a meal for $1, which was Rushdie's price for the movie rights to Midnight's Children. But the tenacity they share would have been a trigger, too, allowing them to take on a challenging project that's clearly a labor of love.
It was interesting to hear you say [in Atlanta] that the film Midnight's Children is a first cousin or a relative of the novel. So it's not an adaptation, strictly speaking.
The novel is 600 pages long. If you were to fully dramatize that, you'd need 12 hours. That's just a fact. There was no possibility of us having a trilogy, and we had the possibility to make just one feature film. The fact about the film world, which is very interesting, is that it's very real. There are things people will give you money to film and there are things people will not give you money to film. At one point we did talk about making two movies, making it a two-part film. And the very first screenplay that I wrote was in that form. It was two movies of this length. Four years ago, David [Hamilton], Deepa, and I were all at the Toronto Film Festival shopping that idea, talking to money people, and so on. And we discovered very quickly—there was enormous enthusiasm for a film of Midnight's Children. People said they were excited about it and said they wanted to get involved. And there was zero enthusiasm for two films. That's why I think for me the challenge was to take this novel and try and say what is the heart of the book. That's quite an interesting challenge.
There are people who say that literary novels like Midnight's Children—unlike, say, a novel by Ian Fleming or Chetan Bhagat—are not suitable for film adaptations.
There are books that are easier to film. You can see how a Bond novel, because it has an action-packed narrative, is…well, it's not easy because these are big, complicated films—but it's more natural, if you like, to transition. But I've firmly believed that there's no such thing as a book you can't film. When I've been here at Emory over these years, one of the things I've done with Matthew Bernstein is to try and teach a course in the best case scenario of adaptation, because there are many films that fall short of a book. But sometimes that's not true. For instance, I have come to think that the films of the Lord of the Rings are better than the books. Peter Jackson's film language is more lyrical, more sophisticated, more beautiful than Tolkien's prose. So the storyline is the same, but the actual telling is actually superior in the film than on the page. You can see other examples of this.
What about Joseph Anton: A Memoir [which focuses on Rushdie's fatwa years]? Do you think it can be turned into a movie?
You'll have to wait and see. We haven't signed a contract yet but there's some pretty serious interest in doing it. Then we get into this ridiculous question of who's going to play Salman Rushdie. I have no idea. Remember that whoever it is, he is not playing me as I am now but as I was 25 years ago.
Staying with Joseph Anton, those events took place when you were much younger. Why revisit that painful chapter now? Of course, as you noted, Emory played a role [by creating the Rushdie archive]. But were you trying to hit back at your critics?
To put it at its crudest, because it's a good story. If you as a writer fall into the middle of a good story, at some point you have to tell that story. Also I wanted to be the first person to tell it. I wanted at least to say, here's how it is from my point of view. And no doubt other people will have their say. That's fair enough, but at least I wanted to put it on the record—here's what happened to me as I saw it. Beyond the personal stuff, I thought that this episode of The Satanic Verses has echoes and ripples and connections to a much larger subject, which is to do with the world we all live in now. The whole subject of the clash between intolerance and tolerance, the clash between art and oppression—this is an ancient subject. It is not the first time in the history of the world that writers have been up against oppressive regimes. The story of the Soviet Union is one of the great stories of intellectuals being persecuted while they are also resisting. So here's a subject we are all talking about now. And my little story feeds into that. So it becomes a way of not just talking about me but exploring that larger theme.
In a BBC interview last year, Rushdie noted that The Satanic Verses would not be published today, given the climate of "fear and nervousness." In Joseph Anton: A Memoir, he revisits the so-called Rushdie Affair that changed his life.
And we see that intolerance in India, too. You were in India when there were attacks on a scholar, a filmmaker, even rock musicians…
Very much so. It's very, very worrying, what's happening in India. I would say there are three areas which I identified as being problematic. One is the rise of authoritarian governments in many of the major states. If you add Modi in Gujarat, Shiv Sena in Bombay, Jayalalitha in Tamil Nadu, and Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, you have these populist authoritarian governments that are in many ways anti-democratic, occupying very important parts of the country. That spirit of authoritarianism is moving closer to the center.
Second thing is these daily or almost weekly attacks on different forms of culture, whether it's a scholar like Ashis Nandy or a filmmaker like Kamal Hassan. In fact, just last week there was this episode. The Indian Express ran an article criticizing some member of the Shiv Sena for supposed sexual offences. And the Shiv Sena's reaction was to send an army down to the Indian Express to attack their office building. So suddenly the police have to defend a major newspaper for doing the job of a newspaper. That's what a journalist is supposed to do. In another India, a political party—told that one of its members was guilty of these offences—would say, 'We'll investigate that because clearly if that's true it's appalling, and we'll investigate that.' That would be the civilized response. And then the thing that worries me almost as much is a kind of public apathy to these problems. With the [Delhi] rape there was a big uproar.
Even before that, there were protests against corruption.
Yes, the Anna Hazare thing. That's true. But now, these cultural attacks take place—against Kamal Hassan, Ashis Nandy, M.F. Husain, Rohinton Mistry, that book about Shivaji, the girls playing a band [Pragaash] being stopped for being anti-Islamic …
Is PEN doing anything? I know you're deeply involved with it.
Indian PEN is small, but they're trying hard. I'm still running the festival, but I'm not any longer the president of PEN American Center. We have to try. It's one of the things I've talked to them about. PEN is always trying to identify where in the world the problem is. And the problem shifts. Once upon a time the Soviet Union was the place where the people were most concerned. Now you have to look at places like China and, unfortunately, India. Sometimes I felt what's happening or what's in danger of happening in India—let's not overstate it—is some of the worst elements of Chinese state authoritarianism linking to some of the worst elements of Pakistani sectarian politics. Take the worst bits of the two countries on either side and push them together and get India. That shouldn't happen, but it might.
That would be a nightmare. You mentioned China. But despite everything, India is still a democracy—whereas China is a very repressive country, despite all the economic growth. You criticized the 2012 Nobel laureate Mo Yan for not speaking out against Chinese repression.
This does come back to PEN. Many of us involved with PEN have fought very hard on behalf of Chinese dissidents. And it seemed very disquieting that the Chinese Nobel laureate was unwilling to join that struggle, a campaign which many, many Nobel laureates have signed up to. He made a particular remark, which I thought was very unfortunate, when he defended Chinese censorship and compared it to security at airports, [saying] censorship is like you've to go through security checks at airports. The reason we have security at airports is to prevent terrorist attacks. That suggests therefore that dissident literature is to be compared to terrorism. For a Nobel writer he should have a better command of metaphor than that. I just think it's disappointing. I fully accept that there are some writers whose temperament is not to engage. It doesn't make them bad people. I'm very involved in the battle against censorship. So to have a Nobel laureate defend censorship is very disappointing.
Coming back to Joseph Anton, you use the third person instead of first person. Didn't you think that would diminish the emotional impact of a very personal story?
Not necessarily. I thought it might increase it, actually. I wanted the book to read like a novel and to create characters on the page, even if they're real people… to create characters and incidents of drama in the way that you would in a novel, except that it's true. I felt that to talk about myself like that one step away was a way for me to create myself as a character on the page more easily. Another writer might have thought differently. I started out writing in the first person. I didn't like the way it sounded. In an autobiography, the person called "I" feels qualitatively different than the people called "he" and "she." The "I" stands out so much because it's an autobiography. So I thought if the person who is myself is referred to as "he," just like everyone else, then it becomes the same order of character as everybody else in the book. And it's easier to write it. I just preferred the tone of voice that it gave me.
By the way, I'm not the first person to do it. There's the memoir of J.M. Coetzee that uses the third person. And then of course there's the famous memoir of Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind, in which he writes about himself in the third person. Everything has been done before. The Isherwood book also reads very novelistically. I'm sure that's part of the reason for doing it.
There's a lot of humor in the book. The police, for instance, provided not just protection but comic relief as well. Were you laughing back then, or is it funny only when you look back?
I remember one of the things that I would say to my friends quite frequently, 'You know if it wasn't for the fact that this is not funny at all, it would be quite funny.' There were these strange moments which were simultaneously funny and not funny. There were surprising moments of humor—the description of my first visit to New York with the NYPD going haywire all around me. It was funny at the time. I remember my agent and I were in the middle of all this police mayhem, and we were laughing at it at the time. But it's black comedy, because the larger subject is not funny.
Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi in happier times. Their high-profile marriage, about which he writes in his memoir, lasted from 2004 to 2007.
The book is also about your family. You write about your father, your ex-wives. Were you concerned at all about the reaction? And what was the reaction like?
So far so good. First of all, I tried to make sure that people were not blindsided. My older son Zafar was one of the first people to read it, partly because I wanted him to feel okay about the portrait of him and I wanted him to feel okay about the portrait of his mother, who's no longer alive. I wanted him to feel happy, and he was very happy actually. My younger son's mother Elizabeth was probably the second person to read the book. She made some suggestions and I incorporated almost all of them. She had one or two things which she wanted taken out, which I took out. Again, with Padma Lakshmi, she didn't have time to read the book because she was busy with her TV show. I sent her a long email detailing everything about her that was in the book, and she asked for one or two things to be removed. Which I did, and she seemed okay about the rest of it.
So you have stayed in touch?
I'm in touch with most of these people. Marianne [the second ex-wife] is the only person I didn't clear anything with, which you can see why. But, no, there's been no response from her. The point is, I went to real trouble to tell the truth. I thought, don't exaggerate it, don't overplay it. Just make sure that what you're saying is the truth and is backed up by facts, information and evidence, and so on. That's the one thing I'd say about the book. Whether you like it or you don't like it, you think it's too shocking, too open or too revelatory, the fact is, my only principle was tell the truth. And that's the reason why nobody has been able to come back at me, because they know what I said is what happened. It's as close as I can make it to what happened. As the author of such a book, you have to be very self-critical, because otherwise the book reads like self-justification, like I was great and everybody else not so much. Nobody wants to read that.
What do you think of the latest crop of Indian writers—like Jeet Thayil, Sonia Faleiro, Aatish Taseer? How do they compare with earlier writers?
Most of them I really like. I like Jeet—I like his book [Nacropolis] very much. When I was in Bombay I was given Jerry Pinto's novel [Em and The Big Hoom], which won the [2013] Hindu Prize. I think it may be the best book to come out of India in a long time.
What about Manu Joseph?
I haven't read him. What is interesting is that it seems like there's another one every week. Interestingly, now for the first time there's also a very talented generation of young Pakistani writers—Mohammed Hanif, Nadeem Aslam, Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid, Daniyal Mueenuddin …. There's suddenly a whole generation of very gifted Pakistani writers. While there's been this great boom of Indian writing in English, for a long time it wasn't happening in Pakistan.
What do you think accounts for the sudden change?
Oddly, I think it's to do with how bad the situation is in Pakistan. Any writer will tell you that the worse it is, the better it is. The Soviet Union was an inspiration to a number of great writers because it was so oppressive. I think a number of these Pakistani writers are political in a way many of their contemporary Indian counterparts are not. It's as if in this younger generation in India many of the writers have veered away from that public subject. Not all of them—Aravind Adiga, for example, is obviously very satirical of public themes. But if you look at Jeet's book or Jerry Pinto's book, they're personal, interior books, not public subjects—whereas in Pakistan, because the situation is so extreme, writers are taking it on. It makes their writing very interesting to me.
What's your future at Emory?
I have three more years on this. I had a five-year contract which ended and I renewed for another five. I've done two of them and I have three more. Then we'll see. Maybe they'll fire me. [Laughs]
My last question goes back to Midnight's Children. Making movies is a very collaborative effort, as you pointed out, and very different from writing novels. Having now worked closely with Deepa on this film, have you learnt anything new about writing fiction?
I learnt an enormous amount. One of the things that you focus on in screenwriting, perhaps more than in book writing, is how the audience will receive the film. When you're writing a screenplay, essentially what you're trying to do is to grab the audience by the throat at the beginning and just drag them through the film until the end, and then they say, 'Oh, that was a good movie.' In the process of refining the script, there are scenes that you may have liked as scenes but you think they will somehow break the flow—and in order to keep the forward thrust going, you cannot stop here. You have to remove this. What it did was give me a much clearer sense of how you relate to the reception of the work. And that you can take back into writing novels, too.
"I'm not going to compromise my vision because it's going to make it accessible." — Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta talks to Khabar, also at Emory, about Midnight's Children, her collaboration with Rushdie, migration, the quest for identity, India, other filmmakers, the portrayal of women in films, and criticism.
"This is one big responsibility," says Deepa Mehta, referring to her latest film. She is best known for her Elements trilogy comprising Fire, Earth, and Water.
There's a lot of visual appeal in your film. It's the opposite of a drawing-room drama with a lot of dialogue. What's the advantage of your style of filmmaking?
Films are different from books. And I think in films you show as opposed to talk about it. There are some films that need huge dialogue, but those aren't the films that I'm attracted to. I like to show things. Salman and I were talking about it earlier. My job is to show what's not on the page. Even if you look at the script of Midnight's Children that Salman has written, you see that there's very little dialogue. That's what's exciting.
And it keeps moving.
It has to. It is 60 years of post-colonial civilization, and before that. You can't just plod along.
The cast was strong, I thought. Did Salman help you pick the cast?
It's not about helping me pick. It's our film. I really wanted him to be there. It was like, 'This is Satya, whom I love. Salman, what do you feel about Satya?'
And there are no big names.
We were looking at some of the big names initially, but then it would have become more about them. And because this is an ensemble piece where there are nineteen actors who have equal parts, it wasn't that easy to get big actors—because then they were asking for their parts to be bigger. So we thought it best to stay with actors who were right for the character, not the other way. Salman was very helpful, very sweet. I'd say something and he would say, 'Yes, it's a good idea.' And we'd meet people for lunch in New York. It was very important for me that he was really a part of that process.
You mentioned that Salim in the film is in search of his identity, just as India is in search of its identity. And you said you were attracted to that because you were also in search of your identity. Could you elaborate?
As an immigrant to Canada, to me it became very important. I don't know how it is in the United States but as an Indian or a brown person coming to Canada, which is a white country, more or less—and I'd left my family behind, I did not migrate with them; I married a Canadian when I came to Canada— I really missed my family. Just because my passport had changed I could not stop thinking of myself as an Indian. I did not think, 'Now I've become a Canadian.' It was not like that at all. So the process of thinking differently, becoming an Indian-Canadian from an Indian, has taken me a long time. It did not happen overnight because there are so many things that I still haven't come to terms with. Cultural things, food habits, smells I'm attracted to, the clothes I'm attracted to, music. Music for me is huge—I miss listening to FM Indian radio. The little things—the monsoon, the weather, the Delhi heat, the hot breeze that you call the loo, which is fascinating.
So the films are a way for you to relive those experiences.
Not at all. My films are not about nostalgia. The process of making that choice and coming to terms with the fact that that was the person I was and I'm not necessarily that now—these are the things of nostalgia, but they do not make me who I am now. Now I think of myself as a Canadian who happens to be Indian. My films are about things that concern me, about the world that's specific to India.
Are you also drawn to Indian-Canadians and their stories?
Absolutely. My last film was Heaven on Earth, which is about Indians in Canada. [But] those are the formative years of your life. I was born in India and I went to school there, I went to university there, and I got married there. So those are the years that influence you.
You've said you're a sucker for India. But at the same time you faced criticism in India. Your relationship has not been happy all the time.
I feel very much at home there. Yes, I've had problems with Indian politicians. There's a difference. I haven't ever had a feeling of being attacked by India, ever. I don't see mobs of Indians attacking me. It's never been by Indians, only by politicians, usually fundamentalists. That's a big difference. I've also had a lot of love from India, and also a lot of criticism. But that's the way it is. You do something, you take the risks, and you have to pay the price.
Yes, it seems like artists, filmmakers, writers, scholars, and musicians are becoming soft targets in India. We saw that in India earlier this year. So what can we do?
I can't solve India's problems, and I'm not interested. Indians have to solve their own problems. I can only say more power to them. When that girl was raped and murdered, that was the most shocking thing I'd heard. Artistes getting persecuted is nothing compared to that. If Indians can't do something about that, can't get vocal about that, then there's no hope.
You touched on the Delhi rape case. There has been some talk about how popular entertainment, including films, can add fuel by objectifying women, by turning them into sexual objects …
That's ridiculous. I think that argument is really silly. Then that's censorship, again. A lot of Bollywood films do objectify women. There's no question about that. Women are sexual objects for them. But should they stop making them? Of course not. What kind of censorship is that? People should be adults and say, 'I'm not going to see that, because it's made by misogynists.' You can say that but you can't say, 'Ban them and stop making them.' Because that's another reverse kind of clamping down on expression.
The largely unknown cast of Midnight's Children, filmed mostly in Sri Lanka, includes Satya Bhabha (as Saleem Sinai) and Shriya Saran (as Parvati).
The novel Midnight's Children is very complex, with multiple themes and characters, and with magic realism, spanning six decades. Didn't you think you'd lose something? Were you not attracted to the idea of simplifying it so that you can attract a broader audience, rather than making an art house film?
It's not art house. It's been sold in 32 countries all over the world. A lot of people are going to see it all over the world. And it has done pretty well. I think of an audience and say, I'd love people to see it. I'd love it to be very popular. But I'm not going to compromise my vision because it's going to make it accessible. I did not want to make it into a Slumdog Millionaire. I did not want to make it into a Marigold Hotel. That's objectifying India.
That's not the kind of filmmaker you are, unless it's a film like Bollywood/Hollywood.
Yes, that was great fun; I loved doing that. That wasn't taking an iconic book and turning it into a frivolous, irreverent film, which was exactly what Bollywood/Hollywood was. I really enjoyed making it. But is it a serious film? No. Is it irreverent? Yes. Is it subversive? In many ways, yes. But I didn't ever think that I was going to simplify this. And that's why Salman wrote the screenplay, because I felt that he would be really true. He knows cinema so well. He knows his own book, too. The way he could be disrespectful to his book nobody else could have been.
What was the idea of using him as a narrator, because we never see Salman in the movie?
I really wanted a Salim who was older, who was sixty years old, looking at his life. That is what happens in the book, too. There is Salim telling the story to Padma as he is writing it. This is a film. How do I take him sitting and telling his story to Padma and make it him telling the story to a much wider audience, and later? Not at the age of thirty but at the age of sixty-five, let's say. We always had a narration. I tried many actors, but it didn't work. We recorded them, put them in the picture, and somehow they felt too studied, too actor- y. They didn't feel like it was Salim's voice, which is a voice that wasn't performance. I thought about it one night, and I woke up in the morning and I called Salman and said, 'Let's give it a try with you narrating it.' I felt, and still do, that there's a lot of Salman in Salim. And he knows Salim. He said no. He really didn't want to do it. I really twisted his arm and said, 'Let's try it. It'll either work or it won't.' So very reluctantly he tried a few things and we put it in the picture, and it felt really right.
What are some of your favorite films? Have any filmmakers inspired you?
The one filmmaker that really inspired me was Satyajit Ray. There's Guru Dutt, who was fabulous. I really like Martin Scorsese—he is brilliant. There's a Serbian filmmaker called Emir Kusturica, whose film Underground really influenced me when I was doing this film. And his Time of the Gypsies also. It is magic realism and it's amazing. But Underground, really, because it's political and its use of music is amazing. Fatih Akin, who's a German-Turkish filmmaker, is very good. Some of the younger filmmakers in India, like Vishal Bhardwaj. I think he's just brilliant—a unique and totally original voice.
You also mentioned Dibakar Banerjee.
Banerjee, yes, and Adoor Gopalakrishnan from the South. They're fabulous.
You faced a lot of hurdles in making this film.
No, we didn't!
But you couldn't shoot in India.
No, we didn't want to shoot in India, because India has changed so much. There's no way we could've got that India, that Bombay. If you go to Bombay today you can't put a camera anywhere without being hit by a high-rise or an overpass or BMWs. We would have ended up in a studio. It would have been terrible. The same thing with Delhi. It was impossible. But we did shoot in India for three months at the end. So it's not true that we weren't allowed to shoot in India.
Now, there's been criticism of Sri Lanka, where you did shoot, because of the human rights abuses there and the way the civil war ended.
Of course. You think India is fine, with its corruption? Come on, you can't say you won't shoot in Sri Lanka because it's a human rights travesty. There is no doubt about what has happened and what continues to happen with Tamils. It's really reprehensible. [But] you see India and say it's fine? Modi is fine? That poor girl who was raped and murdered is fine? No accountability is fine? Corruption is fine? Come on, you can't have double standards and say India is perfect!
So what's next? I think you've talked about making an Indian-Canadian film.
Yeah, I want to do this film about Indian gangsters in India. And Salman is going to play a little role in it. [Laughs]

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Immigration, Criminal and Estate Planning
I represent clients in immigration law, estate planning, and criminal defense matters.
My passion for immigration law comes from living abroad for several years. As the son of immigrants, I understand the importance of obtaining professional assistance when seeking immigration benefits such as Employment Authorization, Lawful Permanent Residency and U.S. Citizenship. I enjoy representing international clients from all walks of life and take pride in family unity.
Helping clients design estate plans is both an art and a science. I take pride in assisting individuals and couples wanting to "plan ahead", preserve assets, and avoid the time and expense of probate. I...
Brian Patrick Conry
Multnomah County, OR Immigration Law Attorney with 38 years experience
(503) 274-4430	534 SW 3rd Ave Suite 711
Immigration, Appeals and Criminal
When criminal problems and immigration statuses intersect, Oregon and Washington residents all too frequently face deportation that requires immediate legal representation.
Brian Patrick Conry is among a very limited group of attorneys who routinely practice in both the criminal defense area as well as deportation defense courtrooms. Mr. Conry's work has included litigation before the:
- State court, circuit court, and local Portland and Tacoma immigration courts.
- Appellate courts (State, Federal and Immigration).
- Federal, District (federal trial court level).
Mr. Conry has represented clients on criminal cases and/or post-conviction relief cases involving drug trafficking, homicide, sexual abuse, rape, assault, theft and burglary...
(877) 706-8745	121 Southwest Salmon Street
Free ConsultationImmigration, Criminal, DUI and Personal Injury
Attorney Mario Musil received his undergraduate degree in Business Management from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2005. The following year, Mr. Musil obtained his MBA from FGCU as well. To fulfill his childhood dreams of becoming a lawyer, Mr. Musil went on to study the law at Florida State University, where he earned his Juris Doctorate degree in 2008.Mr. Musil started his legal career while still in law school, externing as a Legal Intern for the Office of The State Attorney, where he successfully tried numerous cases. His experiences there sparked a desire to help people in difficult situations and...
Jeffrey C Gonzales
Multnomah County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer with 37 years experience
(503) 274-1680	888 SW 5th Avenue
University of Washington School of Law
Mr. Gonzales has practiced law for over twenty-seven years and his practice is exclusively limited to immigration law. Mr. Gonzales is a member of the Oregon State Bar, Washington State Bar, American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Oregon Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Mr. Gonzales is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and he holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Mr. Gonzales has handled hundreds of cases before the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) section, formerly known as the "INS", of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Gonzales has handled many cases...
Cole West Enabnit
Multnomah County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer with 5 years experience
(503) 749-7700	210 SW Morrison Street
Immigration and Criminal
Portland Immigration Law is based in Portland, Oregon but serves clients around the world. We specialize in family reunification and fiance visas, asylum, deportation defense, and analyzing the immigration consequences of criminal charges. Immigration lawyer Cole Enabnit speaks Spanish, Russian, and English and proudly serves clients in all three languages.
Elliot Yi
(866) 691-9894	650 NE Holladay St
Willamette University College of Law and Willamette University College of Law
Attorney Elliot Yi is an expert in Immigration Law. He has helped hundreds of families and international couples reunite. Mr. Yi specializes in securing visas, green cards, and U.S. citizenship for his clients. He has represented business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals, and investors in obtaining work visas and green cards. He has also successfully represented clients in removal proceedings at the Portland Immigration Court.
Jonathan C Gonzales
(503) 274-1680	888 SW Fifth Avenue
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Jonathan C. Gonzales worked at some of the nation's most prestigious law firms, where he gained substantial experience representing public and private companies, executives, officers, and directors in significant, high-stakes matters. That experience spans several areas of substantive law, including cases involving allegations of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, deceptive and unfair trade practices, civil theft, conspiracy, and foreclosures. Mr. Gonzales has also worked in state and federal court a variety of complex disputes, including numerous class actions, shareholder derivative actions, and multidistrict litigations. In connection with these cases, he has also...
Glenn Wallace Robles
(503) 535-0644	1001 Southwest 5th Avenue Suite 1100
Free ConsultationImmigration, Arbitration & Mediation, Collections and Personal Injury
For the past 15 years Glenn has practiced law in the courts of Oregon and Washington. His current practice focuses on civil and commercial litigation and, more recently, family-based immigration law.
Neal Metler
Klamath County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer with 4 years experience
(541) 891-9831	409 Pine Street
Immigration, Business, Estate Planning and Personal Injury
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Samrach Sar
Multnomah County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer with 1 year experience
(971) 258-8914	317 SW Alder St
Free ConsultationImmigration
Joseph Justin Rollin
(503) 502-7977	1020 S.W. Taylor Street, Suite 230
I consult with noncitizens, their families and counsel to determine the best course of action to avoid the serious consequences a criminal history may have on immigration status. My office can either represent noncitizens directly in immigration court and on appeal, or work with already retained immigration counsel. I also assist criminal counsel to identify safe haven dispositions for those facing criminal charges or seeking post-conviction relief. If post-conviction work in criminal court is necessary, I will work closely with criminal counsel to obtain a satisfactory alternative disposition. Additionally, I provide a full range of immigration services for...
Christopher Eggert
Marion County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer with 23 years experience
(503) 837-6111	960 Broadway St NE Ste 2
Immigration, Bankruptcy, Criminal and Family
Baoqin Wang
Washington County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer with 19 years experience
(503) 626-7051	4900 SW Griffith Dr, Suite 165
Law Office of Baoqin Wang enjoys wide recognition for the extraordinary quality of its immigration service. We have been successfully assisting our clients to meet their immigration expectations, and we are dedicated to continue serving our corporate and individual clients from across the United States with their immigration matters.
David Jakeman
(800) 406-1579	707 SW Washington St., Suite 1100
David A. Jakeman, founding attorney of Beacon Immigration, has been interested in foreign cultures and languages since he was a young boy. That interest culminated in his decision to dedicate his legal career to immigration. In high school, David studied Spanish and German. After his graduation, he served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Mexico City and surrounding regions, where he grew to love the Mexican people and the Spanish language. After returning home from his mission he completed a Bachelor's degree at Brigham Young University in Near Eastern Studies, graduating magna cum laude....
Kevin Stout
Jackson County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer with 11 years experience
215 Laurel Street
Hecht & Norman appreciates the importance of providing accessible quality legal representation to individuals across the state of Oregon. In 2011, Hecht & Norman opened its Southern Oregon office in Medford, and Kevin Stout joined our team. Kevin previously worked as an attorney with Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services where he developed a solid foundation in immigration law. As a former public interest attorney, Kevin brings compassion and knowledge to every client matter. Kevin remains committed to public service, and has volunteered in outreach and education efforts to facilitate collaboration between law enforcement and the immigrant...
Rachel Game
(503) 362-1894	1130 SW Morrison St
Experienced attorney specializing in United States Immigration and Nationality Law
Teresa A Statler
(503) 220-4185	522 SW 5th Ave
Barbara Gabriela Ghio
Marion County, OR Immigration Law Attorney
3000 Market St NE
Cecilia K. Nguyen
(503) 644-2146	4500 SW Hall Blvd.
Immigration, Business, Employment and Family
Justin Idiart
Jackson County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer
(855) 772-6969	770 S Front St
Immigration and Personal Injury
Justin Idiart began practicing in 2011 although he has been working in the legal industry since 1998. Justin graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law.
During law school, he clerked for the Honorable Daniel L. Harris in Jackson County Circuit Court.
He also received an MBA from Brigham Young University in 2007. Justin is fluent in English and Spanish.
John Anthony Almaguer
(855) 772-6969	770 S. Front Street Ste. 200
Univ of Arizona COL
John Almaguer specializes in immigration law and is licensed in California. He joined Idiart Law Group in 2009 after ten years working for Catholic Charities and in his own private practice.
He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He is an active member of the community, giving presentations about immigration law to civic groups on a regular basis.
John graduated from the University of Arizona School of Law in 1994. John is fluent in English and Spanish.
Joshua J. Lipps
Clackamas County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer
(503) 847-2377	5200 SW Meadows Rd, Ste 150
Immigration, Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
Josh earned his J.D. from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, and was admitted to practice the same year in Oregon. Previously, Josh was an editor for the Willamette Journal of International Law & Dispute Resolution, and clerked for the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office. Before law school, Josh gained experience in the real-estate industry, including mortgages, title insurance, and finance. ?Originally from Michigan in the Midwest, Josh is now proud to call Oregon home where he enjoys fly fishing, horsemanship, and camping. Josh is also a fine arts and music enthusiast.
Stephen R. Miller
(503) 383-9345	3545 Portland Rd. NE 3110
Bryan McGowan
(503) 222-9900	806 SW Broadway, 4th Floor
Boston Coll Law School
Yema Measho
Benton County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer
(541) 782-8529	1600 SW Western Blvd, Suite 265
Jeffrey Gonzales
Multnomah County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer
(503) 274-1680	888 SW Fifth Ave, Suite 650
Aaron Edward Clingerman
Marion County, OR Immigration Law Attorney with 21 years experience
(503) 356-0803	2230 Liberty Street NE
Immigration and Workers' Comp
Danielle Perez
(503) 640-5881	1049 S.W. Baseline
Jefferson Quist
Yamhill County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer
(503) 472-3313	405 NE Third Street, #4
Immigration, Criminal, Family and Personal Injury
Aarti Gujral
Washington County, OR Immigration Law Lawyer
(503) 608-0207	4085 SW 109th Ave., Suite 100
Immigration, Estate Planning and Probate
Erick Christopher Widman
(800) 485-1079	1455 NW Irving Street
UC Davis School of Law King Hall
Nathan Ratliff
Klamath County, OR Immigration Law Attorney with 16 years experience
(541) 882-6331	620 Main St
Immigration, Business, Criminal and Family
Lorne Otto Dauenhauer
Multnomah County, OR Immigration Law Attorney
(503) 778-2149	601 SW Second Ave., Suite 2100
Immigration, Antitrust, Appeals and Employment
Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College
Dina Glassman
(503) 727-2185	1120 Northwest Couch Street
Immigration, Antitrust, Employment and International
Patricia Ann Haim
(503) 221-0309	1750 SW Harbor Way
Immigration, Business and Employment
Marianne Ghim
Immigration, Business and Real Estate
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Alfred Sant MEP Monday, 21 October 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 3 months ago
I took part in a seminar organized by the European Parliament about harassment at the workplace. The same Parliament had by resolution decided that all MEPs should attend the seminar to ensure they would know how to constrain harassment, even at the Parliament, where in recent years, scandals have lit up.
Still the attendance at the session to which I went stood at 4!
I must admit I thought I would be bored. Instead, I found the session was very interesting and regretted having to leave a bit early. The discussion focussed primarily on the psychological harassment that frequently takes place in offices, factories, schools, you name it...
...There's someone at work who for one reason or another, just does not like somebody else. Deploying micro gestures that quickly get tougher unless they are strongly rebutted, such gestures seek to embarrass, humiliate, confuse...
It's not just that the activity of whoever is victimised in this way gets disrupted. More, a crisis of self-confidence ensues. Many times it triggers the victim's decision to exit the job.
Most instructive was the reply that the expert conducting the session gave to the question: What motivates the conduct of the person responsible for the harassment?
Straight off she replied: There's always only one motive. Jealousy.
In international relations, developments in Syria will be for long years throwing shadows over future political and diplomatic affairs. They raise profound issues which have always been central to the discourse between nations.
Consistent diplomatic practice and actions in the framework of agreements in force during the recent past, had converged towards acceptable answers.
Still, in such a context, to what extent can you trust your own allies? What can be done to ensure that the support they say they're ready to extend, will actually be implemented during future emergencies? If they decide to withdraw such support, will they give prior warning?
President Trump's way of doing things, disruptive as it is in all senses of the word, has again triggered these questions and others. As with a knife, they have cut through to the heart of how, up to now, modern alliances were structured on a long term basis.
We seem to lack a single voice able to lay down how Maltese as a language should be safeguarded.
But from what?
From being overwhelmend by speeches and scripts that are full of errors. From being spliced into other languages, mostly English, by which it would become pidgin or worse. From falling into oblivion.
Actually, who is best placed to defend the Maltese language? Intellectuals? Cultural activists? Teachers? Families which still use Maltese in their everyday activities? Journalists and communications outlets?
Among all these, few seem to have a clear vision as to how the usage of the national language can be effectively reinforced.
To complicate matters then, the practice of the Maltese language is being greatly affected by how people express themselves in "Maltese" on social media. There, the condensed expression that is shorn of grammatical constraints is itself creating new versions of the language. Surely we'll soon get the first novel written right through in facebook Maltese.
Before we go all out to defend Maltese as a language, better make sure which language we are doing this for.
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Community pharmacy handbook launched by RPS Faculty
Starting to build a professional portfolio can be daunting but the RPS Faculty has a new resource for pharmacists in the community.
RPS Faculty
By Jeff Mills
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A new Faculty handbook for community pharmacy has been created by the RPS to support pharmacists working in the community who wish to join the professional recognition programme. It was developed following feedback from members who had asked for further guidance relating to community practice, and supplements the main RPS Faculty handbook. It should be used in conjunction with other Faculty resources and support tools.
The new handbook describes how to access the Faculty resources and get started on building an advanced practice portfolio and submitting for assessment. The RPS has also included examples relevant to community pharmacy practice for each cluster of the Advanced Pharmacy Framework — a cornerstone of the Faculty programme. For instance, pharmacists can give examples of using national clinical guidelines and protocols as evidence for the "expert professional practice" cluster.
There are also examples of how pharmacists can start with a piece of evidence for their portfolio and map that to relevant clusters. For example, someone providing medicines use services could map that work to the "expert professional practice", "collaborative working relationships" and "leadership" clusters. The examples are not comprehensive, nor are they mandatory, but they are designed to prompt ideas for evidence so RPS members will feel more confident about building their Faculty portfolios.
Faculty handbooks for hospital and industry are currently in development and will be available later in the year
The RPS will be making relevant updates to the handbook to keep it current. It is also welcoming feedback from members and, in particular, it is seeking community practice examples to help expand the resource.
"We plan to develop similar handbooks for other pharmacy sectors. Faculty handbooks for hospital and industry are currently in development and will be available later in the year," says Helen Chang of the RPS Support team.
"The Faculty handbook for community pharmacy supports members in community practice to be the best they can be, as experienced, excellent, or exceptional practitioners."
Last updated 12 February 2021 16:24
The Pharmaceutical Journal, PJ, 9/16 August 2014, Vol 293, No 7822/3;293(7822/3):DOI:10.1211/PJ.2014.20065875


Not a difficult one. The Conservatives took control of Newport City Council for the first time in thirty years and successfully marginalised their coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats. Evans has succeeded in grabbing some media intention including some questionable policy decisions (see later). He has been not been dealt the best hand either given the impact of the credit crunch on City regeneration and the Council's budget. Worthy mentions also go to Rosemary Butler and Paul Flynn, for keeping Newport in the limelight.
Peter Davies, the Conservative member for Stow Hill, has provided plenty of entertainment again this year. There's loads of evidence some of it unprintable but also some terrible malfunctions like his decision to end the Mayor's use of the Mansion House. But his Langstone colleague deadly serious David Attwell has given Davies more than a run for his money, not least his posturing about bus lanes that could cost the Council its original funding. The absurd picture of Attwell and his leader Evans power spraying Malpas Road of the green bus lane paint in Council safety jackets will live long in the memory. His unsteady Transporter Bridge interview on the BBC's 'Wales Today' with Anne Gatehouse (from the Friends of the Bridge) declaring that the cupboard is bare with a clarion call for extra funds for the bridge recently closed by the new Council, is comedy gold.
With the City's regeneration plans falling about our ears the new Council took irrelevant, bizarre and some would say spiteful decisions. The decision to remove some bus lanes left Newport as just about the only city in the UK taking this regressive step - the words of UK coach operator, National Express. But the decision to prevent the Mayor from using the Mansion House for civic functions, taking in isolation by Cllr Peter Davies smacked more of spite than anything else.
Plenty of competition here. Friars Walk, City Vizion and Art College are all hanging by a thread but may figure in next year's awards! But the honour goes to another Modus scheme, City Spires, the never to be built landmark development opposite the new railway station (another troubled proposal).
The City's bus service is a shadow of its former self. Holiday and off peak services have continued to disappear. All this despite three fare increases during the year, due to increasing oil prices, although there were no reductions as prices fell. Another possible candidate was the general standard of customer service offered by retailers in the City Centre criticised by a number of organisations. Another possibility was whoever is responsible for organising the provision of pitches and lighting for outdoor sports on the astroturf at Spytty Park. Competitions such as the Floodlit Astroturf League have been inexplicably delayed due to Council incompetence.
The City Council's Education service, particularly its ability to get children in disadvantaged areas to develop good standards of numeracy and literacy. Newport has achieved the highest-ever rating for a Local Education Authority (LEA) in Wales. Following a recent inspection, Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales, Estyn, praised Newport LEA as officially the best in Wales and described pupil performance as "outstanding". This means that Newport school pupils are benefiting from the best education standards in the country. A team of nine Estyn inspectors visited Newport in January and awarded the highest possible grades for strategic management and support for school improvement. They stated that the LEA support for "numeracy and literacy is outstanding and has a significant impact on raising standards, particularly in primary schools." The Estyn report follows official National Curriculum assessment figures from the National Assembly last year, which showed that Newport outperforms the majority of other Welsh local authorities in the core subjects of English, mathematics and science. In fact, using the Core Subject Indicator, Newport is the top authority in Wales at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 and is sixth at Key Stage 3. Other possible candidate in this category was the prodigious Dragons Taxis, although rocketing prices pushed it out of contention.
Duffy's superb concert at Newport Centre was a rare opportunity to see a world class star in Newport. Rob Brydon (at the Riverfront) in November was also superb by all accounts. Regular events including those held at Tredegar House continue to maintain a vibrant social calendar in the City despite the nearby attractions of Bristol and Cardiff.
The Chandlery continues to offer high quality food at reasonable prices. It has had another superb year. Credit to Simon and Jane Newcombe. The Waterloo Hotel was a worthy contender and has become a welcome addition to restaurants (and hotels) in the City. Others mentioned in dispatches include Vittorios, Villa Dino and Gemelli.
Brilliant Italian cafe in the corner of John Frost Square - consistently good quality food and normally very busy with a regular clientele.
Honours go to Newport Cricket Club, winners of the Welsh Cricket Association Gwalia Cup in September beating North Walians Northop in an exciting final. Newport Club coach Mike Knight reflecting on the win claimed, ' It was a very proud day in the history of Newport Cricket Club. With nearly all our players coming through our junior ranks, it really was a day to savour. Hopefully, this will be the stepping stone for further success in the near future, they're certainly good enough!' Honourable mentions to Newport YMCA who had a fantastic run in the Welsh Cup ending with a semi final defeat to Bangor City in March. YMCA beat Welshpool and Llangefni on their way there. Credit also to Newport County, the last winners of the FAW Premier Cup having memorably defeated Cardiff City at Ninian Park in the semis and then Llanelli at home in the final in March.
Beadle was a mixed bag. He lost it on that infamous day in 2006 against Swansea City in the Cup (probably his undoing) and was never far away from controversy. However, Newport County under Beadle and his coaching staff including Scott Young were always an intimidating and difficult team to beat. The players played with passion and fire. Some of them were slightly past it but Beadle produced a County team that were on the edge of the play off battle in the last two seasons. Two final day defeats prevented them going any further. He was rightly rewarded with the FAW Premier Cup in March, County's first silverware for a generation. He was sacked as manager at the end of the following month.
The loss of Tim Stone in April was immediately felt by those in the City who love their speedway. Without Stone's drive and ambition speedway would never have returned to Newport after its departure from Somerton Park in 1977. Stone built a purpose built track and stadium in 1996-97 and it has been the home of Newport Wasps and more particularly of speedway racing ever since. Stone's vision means it is one of the few arenas in the UK dedicated to the sport with the ability to run winter meetings and training schools. Thankfully, the sport will be returning there in 2009.
The sight of Messrs Holdsworth and Blight in tandem has not been an edifying spectacle. Having deconstructed last year's squad it appears most of this year's team are either on loan or from Redbridge and not particularly good. The supposedly savvy Holdsworth has appeared out of his depth as County have struggled to keep out of the relegation zone. You might also ask what happened to the prize money from last year's victory in the FAW Premier Cup?
The takeover of Newport Wasps by Steve and Nick Mallett following protracted negotiations has ensured the return of speedway to the City. More than that, they have in a short period of time instilled renewed optimism among the loyal band of Wasps fans. They have also built a team that, barring injuries, will challenge for honours next season and should have the fans flooding back to Queensway Meadows.
To listen to the media you would think that Newport Gwent Dragons coach Paul Turner has the devil's own job just to get a side out on the weekend. Poor little Paul and his sorry band of helpers scour the 'streets of Gwent' for players who have that special grit and determination we so admire in the plucky Dragons. Actually, Turner has a 30+ squad of professional players, the biggest pool of semi professional players available to any Welsh coach and a budget of nearly £3 million. The fact that he has won nothing, not even come close to it and has failed to qualify for the European Cup on one occasion by losing to a virtually unknown Italian side and that he consistently fails to make the grade at every level seems to matter not a jot. By contrast, we have had three coaches of the Newport RFC team during Turner's reign. The last, Ian Hemburrow, was sacked for finishing seventh in a league of fourteen sides, whereas Turner was considered a success for finishing eighth in a league of ten!
Obviously O.Dyke and Islwyn are prime candidates but Michael Pearlman has consistently stood out among the hum-drum brown-nosers of the local rag. This is his take on County's woes this season "I remain steadfast in my summation that most of County's woes stem from their disastrous summer and the subsequent months where they've operated a revolving door policy with players coming and going in huge numbers. However, it would be unwise, and indeed detrimental, to expect Chris Blight and co. to dip further into their own pockets, the Exiles are best served by battling through until the end of the campaign making the best of what they have. " He was outspoken on a number of issues recently not least in defending Leighton James in his "what is best for Cardiff City is not necessarily best for Welsh football" statement and his criticism of BBC Wales's team of the year in their own awards ceremony - Cardiff City - in a year when Wales won the Grand Slam. Robin Davey was as fitful as ever only momentarily returning to form to slam our Llanelli-loving media for their constant reference to the day the Scarlets beat a very average All Blacks team in 1972 conveniently forgetting when Newport beat one of the very best for the only time on their tour in 1963-4.


Yesterday after work we had an appointment to have a 3D ultrasound done. It's amazing what you can see! Some of the shots look very strange as other things get in the way, but you can clearly make out the features of the baby, along with various body parts (arms, legs, fingers, toes). I've posted all of the pictures in the family gallery in the 20070619 3D Ultrasound section.


Last week, we published our first issue of the Missio Africanus journal … a journal that is dedicated to the field of missiology on the African continent … a type of missiology that is shaped by the African understanding of God's mission — missio Dei — in the light of the African life and worldview. It is a journal that primarily wants to explore the implications of missio Dei among Africans, whether in Africa or in the Diaspora, and of course, not caring who does the missionary work, Africans or otherwise.
So far, the journal has enjoyed a warm welcome from many who have recognised the long-term significance of such a work. There are some five brilliant essays in this first issue, but we are working on raising the standard even higher in the next issue.
May I invite you to take a look at the journal … one friend said it is actually a journal you may enjoy reading.
And, if you may, give us some feedback.
Previous Post Diaspora Theology and the Scandal of an Immigrant God.
Could do with a link to the journal, no?


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Q: Elegant way to count alphanumeric chars in a string? I am looking for an elegant way, preferably a short linq expression, to count how many alphanumeric chars a given string contains.
The 'boring' way I do it now is this:
int num = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < password.Length; i++)
{
    if (!char.IsLetterOrDigit(password, i))
    {
        num++;
    }
}
if (num < MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters)
    return false;

This is rather short already, but I am sure with some linq magic this can be done in an even shorter, equally understandable expression, right?

A: int num = password.Where((t, i) => !char.IsLetterOrDigit(password, i)).Count();

if (num < MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters)
    return false;

A: Here's the quick and dirty LINQ way to get the letter & digit count:
password.Count(char.IsLetterOrDigit)

This is more of a direct copy of what you're doing:
password.Count(c => !char.IsLetterOrDigit(c))

A: You could do it with one line of Regex. Whether that's understandable is a moot point.
num = new Regex(@"\w", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Matches(input).Count

A: You can use Take() to ensure that you don't inspect more letters than necessary:
int minCount = password.Where(x => !char.IsLetterOrDigit(x)).Take(MinRequired).Count();
if (minCount < MinRequired) { // No good }

The idea is that we only keep checking until you've hit the minimum number. At that point, we can stop, because we know we have an admissible password. Take() takes as many as it can, and no more, so if there aren't enough, it will just return a number less than you've requested.

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With South Sudan's referendum, which US president gets the credit?
The credible and relatively peaceful referendum that took place last week in South Sudan would seem to vindicate the current US administration's Sudan policy of the past two years. Yet members of President George W. Bush's Africa team, who have steadily criticized President Barack Obama on Sudan since 2009, continue to raise concerns about the White House's approach. At stake in this debate are the nature of US policy in Africa and the apportioning of credit in what is arguably the greatest American diplomatic triumph since the 1990s.
But criticism of Obama on Sudan soon followed, portraying the President as disengaged and his appointees as disunited in the face of threats of renewed civil war in Sudan. Andrew Natsios, one of Bush's Special Envoys to Sudan, wrote in 2009, "Disputes within the Obama administration are inhibiting US efforts to stop Sudan's slide toward civil war at a time when unified American leadership is essential." Shortly before Sudan's April 2010 presidential elections, Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs under Bush, told CNN that the Obama administration had "wasted almost a whole year on a policy review, and yet they are still talking with many different voices." Richard Williamson, Bush's final Special Envoy to Sudan, denounced Obama's Special Envoy Scott Gration for not doing enough to enforce a court ruling concerning a north-south border dispute in the oil-rich Abyei region. Frazer and Williamson suggested that Gration's friendliness and Obama's disengagement were allowing Khartoum to act with impunity.
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The Federal Reserve System was created by an act of Congress in 1913.
It is the central bank of the country.
It exercises monetary authority over the country.
There are 12 Federal Reserve Banks.
They are located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco.
Each bank is administered by a bank President.
The US currency is issued by the Federal Reserve Banks.
Every currency note says the words "Federal Reserve Note" on it.
It is a banker's bank, meaning it acts as the bank for member banks.
It acts as the lender of last resort, meaning it is obligated to financially rescue a member bank, as and when needed.
It has the right to buy and sell government securities.
It sets the reserve ratio "r" and member banks have to uphold that.
The USA has a two tier banking system, with the FED at the top.
They deal with member banks only.
The member banks deal with the public at large.
The FED sets the basic regulation which the member banks have to follow.
The FED also gives loans to member banks at a rate called the "discount rate."
Every member bank owns stock in its district FED branch.
The FED sets the monetary policy of the country.
The 12 FED banks are administered by a 7 member Board of Governors (BOG), appointed by the President of the United States.
They have to be confirmed by the Senate.
Each member serves a 14 year non-renewable term.
One new member of the BOG's is appointed every 2 years.
This is done so as to insulate the FED from political control.
It assures their autonomy in policy making, because one president over his 4 year term can only appoint 2 BOG members.
One of the governor's is appointed the Chairman of the FED.
The chairman has a 4 year renewable term.
There is a FED subcommittee, called the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
It has the responsibility of buying and selling government securities, under the open market operation.
This is the primary way the FED exercises expansionary or contractionary monetary policy over the economy.
The FOMC consists of 7 BOG and 5 Presidents from the 12 Presidents of the 12 regional FED banks.
The chairman of the FED heads the FOMC.
The president of the New York FED is the only regional FED person who presides in every FOMC meeting.
The other 4 members are chosen from the 11 FED bank presidents, by rotation.
The FED decides the reserve requirements, based on the economic situation in the country.
The FED also oversees the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC) which insures our deposits for up to 250,000 dollars each account.
This is the new limit.
The previous limit was $100,000 per account.
The FED has mainly 3 tools in its arsenal to control the monetary policy of the country.
These affect the M1 in the economy.


In a recent article by Fromme and colleagues (1), the questions listed in Table 1 are excerpted, not modified, from reference 1 of the article (2). The online version of the article has been corrected.
What do you do when your loved one is ill? The line between physician and family member.
Is there a doctor in the house? An analysis of the practice of physicians' treating their own families.
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11 months1 year−ECONOMY SHRINKAGE−19.8%Severe hyperinflation in Europe took place over production in North America. This was a brief but very sharp recession and was caused by the end of wartime production, along with an influx of labor from returning troops. This, in turn, caused high unemployment.
6 months10 months−38.1%−32.7% WILSON ALSO GAVE US THE FEDERAL RESERVE,HOWS THAT WORKING OUT?Harding inherited Wilson's mess— in particular, a post–World War I depression that was almost as severe, from peak to trough, as the Great Contraction from 1929 to 1933 that FDR would later inherit. The estimated gross national product plunged 24 percent from $91.5 billion in 1920 to $69.6 billion in 1921. The number of unemployed people jumped from 2.1 million to 4.9 million.


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It appears that Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Florida is notifying additional patients of a previously disclosed breach involving patient information.
On February 27, the hospital submitted a breach notification to HHS indicating that 686 patients were affected by a breach involving unauthorized access/disclosure of PHI. The breach report was submitted the same week a lawsuit against its parent corporation, HCA, was filed over previous breaches.
In response to an inquiry from DataBreaches.net, an HCA spokesperson pointed us to a legal notice that ran in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on March 1 and in the Miami Herald on March 5:
NOTICE Aventura Hospital and Medical Center previously discovered that an employee had inappropriately accessed patients' personal information from the facility. The information contained patient information including name, date of birth, hospital account number, reason for medical procedure, the results of the medical procedure and procedure date. Our review further uncovered no inappropriate printing of personal identifying information. The employee in question has been terminated and law enforcement has been involved in the matter. Thereafter, Aventura Hospital and Medical Center continued to investigate this incident in order to identify all individuals potentially affected, and to reduce the risks to our patients. On July 14, 2014, Aventura identified that individuals may have also been affected between October 1, 2012 and October 2013. More recently, Aventura identified that additional individuals may have also been affected beginning as early as January 1, 2012 through October 2013. After a thorough analysis of the databases viewed by this former employee, the hospital cannot be certain whether your social security number was viewed by this individual. We are able to affirm, however, that none of your personal information was printed by the responsible individual. These recent findings are being provided to law enforcement in hopes of prosecuting the responsible parties to the fullest extent of the law. If you were a patient at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center and your information has been identified as inappropriately accessed, a letter was mailed to you to explain how best to protect your personal information. Aventura Hospital and Medical Center is committed to the proper handling and protection of patient information, and we have reviewed our processes and systems to further ensure that personal information is protected in a secure manner. If you have questions or concerns about the letter you received or would like assistance to determine whether your personal information may have been compromised, please contact our dedicated Privacy Line at 888-594-8651 or by email at [email protected] 3/1/2015
In the past, I had raised the possibility that Aventura had not had multiple insider breaches but rather one long-running one. It is still not clear how many unique insider breaches Aventura has disclosed (not counting the breach where a Valesco employee compromised the information of over 80,000 patients). HCA has not responded to a follow-up inquiry as to how many unique insider breaches they've reported. This post will be updated as information becomes available.
Update: an HCA spokesperson responded to the emailed inquiry asking for clarification as to whether there was one insider breach or more than one by writing, "I don't have anything for you that hasn't already been shared publicly."
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We may have found our child's name.
No, we're not telling anyone what it is yet :) Some of you know the middle name (which has been set pretty much since day 1) so that will have to do you for now.
Though... the social pariah beast will always exist.
I expect no matter what name the child is given... someone will find a way to make fun.
Actually, I don't think anyone ever found a way to make fun of mine (discounting my parents' nickname for me, 'heather feather').
Kids found plenty of other ways to make fun of me though. A name is just a shortcut.
"Kids found plenty of other ways to make fun of me though. A name is just a shortcut."
Yeah... People never made fun of me about my name, so I don't speak from experience here. But I've always been under the impression by the way people talk about it that name-ridicule has a special staying power that eventually develops into quite the sore spot.
'Sides... no need to make it easy for the little bastards!
Why is it that the world never remembered the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
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Leif Tilden (b. 1964) is an actor, director and puppeteer who performed suit roles for various Creature Shop projects. After graduating from New York University with a BFA in film, Tilden performed on stage, in such minor productions as the one-act play Bikini Snow, before his first collaboration with the Jim Henson Company as Donatello in the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films. This was followed by Dinosaurs, where he performed Robbie Sinclair and, along with Bill Barretta, received credit for choreographing Robbie and Earl's "Most Unusual" dance sequence in "A New Leaf."
Non-Henson credits include gorilla portrayals in Born to Be Wild and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, the titular alien in the direct-to-video feature The Invader, and the cyclops in MonkeyBone. He also played a minor role in the real-life drama of the O.J. Simpson trial, as an additional witness. In 2001, he tried his hand at directing, with the short film BigLove (starring friend and Ninja Turtles co-star Sam Rockwell), which he also wrote, and helming the indie film Reunion.
Later in his career, Tilden shifted from performing to working as location manager on such films as House of Sand and Fog and Ugly, as well as the series Law & Order: LA.
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Dinosaurs: Robbie Sinclair, Muse, Mr. Myman (all body); also choreographer, with Bill Barretta, of "It's a Most Unusual Day" in "A New Leaf."
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Breast tumor became the champion for the bacterial variety
Microbiologists compared the intratumoral recruitment of bacteria in thousands of tissue samples that belong to seven different types of tumor. In each of these microbiome, most often bacteria were found within the tumor cells. The composition of bacteria was different not only depending on where the tumor grew, but also from the properties of the tumors — for example, whether it is from hormones and responding to immunotherapy. Perhaps one day this knowledge can be used to treat tumours through its bacteria — similar to how doctors are trying to treat patients through their gut microbes. Work published in the journal Science.
Contrary to early ideas, the human body, there is virtually no sterile parts. Through the skin, blood, intestinal wall and other mucous membranes, the bacteria get to the other parts of the body. And they are not always there to microorganisms is often credited with a role in the development of tumors. And to act they can indirectly (for example, when gut microbes affect the carcinogenesis in other parts of the body) and directly (for example, the microbiome of tumor of the breast).
To understand how bacteria are associated with carcinogenesis and how they can help clinicians in the management of the tumor, a team of researchers under the leadership of Ravida Straussman (Ravid Straussman) from Basmanovskoye Institute for science in Israel decided to compile a collective portrait of intratumoral bacteria from different human organs. The scientists collected 1010 tissue samples from tumors of the breast, lung, ovary, bone and pancreas, as well as melanoma and glioblastoma (a tumor of the supporting cells of the nervous tissue in the brain).
The researchers immediately noticed that intratumoral bacteria can be quite a bit, so they developed a complex system of controls, not that their measure is the result of contamination of the sample. In addition to experimental samples, they took a total of 516 samples of healthy tissue, including adjacent to the tumor, 643 negative control is a sterile solution, which has passed through all laboratory procedures, and 168 controls from a clinic — pieces of wax, with which the clinics were treated the same as if it were real fabric. Finally, traces of bacteria in the samples was also determined in several ways: we estimated the concentration of bacterial DNA, RNA, and lipopolysaccharide and lipoteichoic acid components of the cell wall, which does not happen in animals.
In the first phase of work was that the bacteria found in tumors unevenly — for example, only 14.3 percent of melanomas, but more than 60 percent of the tumors of the breast and pancreas, and even bone, which is not in contact with the mucous membrane. Upon closer examination it was found that bacteria are most often found inside the cells, both cancerous and immune. Lipopolysaccharide often found in the cytoplasm of tumor cells, and lipoteichoic acid in macrophages. In the second fact, however, it is not surprising macrophages work as a garbage men in any inflamed tissue, therefore, and then engulf bacteria, and those sometimes turn out to be persistent and continue to live inside of them.
Then the authors have otsenival ribosomal RNA of the bacteria to evaluate the species diversity. In the first phase in all samples, they found a total of 9190 bacteria, but after applying the filters that weed out contamination in the laboratory and clinic, as well as the exclusion of widespread species there are only 528 kinds of bacteria that are found only in a specific tumor and its adjacent tissue. Among them, the most diverse was the microbiome of breast cancer, there is a total of found one hundred and fifty different types of bacteria, and each sample — on average 16.4 per view. In second place — the lung tumor (if you count the total number of births) and the bones (if you measure by the average number of different species in the sample), last — melanoma. In the case of the record — breast cancer — pathological samples were found to be carriers of a more diverse microbiome than fragments of healthy tissue.
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After spending most of the past season playing backstabbing bridesmaid to NBC's revitalized, pregnant Friends, Mark Burnett's reality adventure still managed a first-place finish in the ratings, according to Nielsen Media Research.
But unlike last season, this was no blowout: 'Survivor: Africa's two-hour finale on Thursday averaged 27.3 million viewers, down 9.1 million from last season's Outback wrap-up. At 10 p.m., CBS' 'Survivor: Africa Reunion' lost 30 percent of the finale's lead-in audience and got trounced by NBC's 'ER'.
NBC's 'Friends' nabbed 25.5 million viewers while 'ER' averaged 25.4 million viewers.


We forgive one another because we are one. We work together for the benefit of all according to the gifts Christ has given to each. Thus built into Christ we are strong against the deceit of Satan. But where there is disunity we are easily caught in Satan's deceits.
Jesus died to wash away our sin and to create a people who live in love. But we will never learn to live in love for one another unless we live at the foot of His cross.


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Q: How to use Fortran to read the face information from a *.obj file Problem
How can modern Fortran navigate a file with double forward slashes between entries, as in the *.obj format? The goal is to extract the vertex index (first entry) and ignore the vertex normal index (second entry).
Example
For example, for this snippet,
f 297//763 298//763 296//763
f 296//764 298//764 295//764
f 384//765 385//765 382//765
f 384//766 382//766 383//766

the goal is to create an array like this:
face ( 1 ) = [297, 298, 296]
face ( 2 ) = [296, 298, 295]
face ( 3 ) = [384, 385, 382]
face ( 4 ) = [384, 382, 383]

Extra points for an answer which would adopt to a richer format like
f a//b//c  d//e//f g//h//i j//k//l

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A: As suggested in the comments, we can replace / by a space using  sed etc. We can also scan each character one by one in Fortran (see below). We then read in all integers into vals and select the desired part as vals( 1:6:2 ). A similar approach can be used for f a//b//c  d//e//f ... etc by changing 1:6:2 to 1:12:3 etc.
[test.f90]
program main
    implicit none
    character(100) buf
    integer vals(10), ios, i

    open(10, file="test.dat", status="old")
    do
        read(10, "(a)", iostat=ios) buf
        if (ios /= 0) exit

        do i = 1, len(buf)
            if (buf(i:i) == "/") buf(i:i) = " "   !! replace "/" by " "
        enddo

        read(buf(2:), *) vals( 1:6 )  !! read all items
        print *, vals( 1:6:2 )  !! select items 1, 3, 5
    enddo
    close(10)
end

[test.dat]
f 297//763 298//763 296//763
f 296//764 298//764 295//764
f 384//765 385//765 382//765
f 384//766 382//766 383//766

$ gfortran test.f90 && ./a.out
     297         298         296
     296         298         295
     384         385         382
     384         382         383

Just for fun, here is a similar code in Python, which is shorter thanks to replace() and split(). If we have some similar routines, I guess the above code may also become shorter.
dat = []
for line in open("test.dat").readlines():
    dat.append( line[1:] .replace("/", " ") .split() [::2] )

import numpy as np
face = np.array(dat, dtype=int)
print(face)

$ python test.py
[[297 298 296]
 [296 298 295]
 [384 385 382]
 [384 382 383]]


I try not to keep track of time-- how long Colby has been in Heaven. Honestly, some months the eleventh rolls around and I do not remember until the twelfth or thirteenth... oh, another month closer to seeing Colby again! The first week and first month were hard reminders, but then we settled into a rhythm of creating a new normal with different family dynamics. The first dinner around the table without Colby was excruciatingly painful complete with tears and stubbornness to not want to do it, but Mr. White insisted that we get it over. He was right. The hole at the dinner table seems a little less wide now, but it is a hole nonetheless.
Someone asked me last week if I have moments of grief and remembering like a flood. It actually feels like more an ache that is always there. Sometimes it is dull. Sometimes it is sharp. But it never goes away and is always deep. I am in the phase where I am surprised if fifteen minutes pass and I have not thought about Colby... oh look, I have not thought about him! Colby worried that he would be forgotten. He once asked, "Are you going to have one of those places in the house that have my picture and stuff when I die?"
"You mean a shrine?" I replied.
"You will be all over this house just as you have been, not just in a corner." I assured him.
Oh, sweet child, if I only I knew and you knew then that this heart and head of mine never forgets and is constantly reminded of you.
It feels like a flash and an eternity since I laid next to him. Today marks six months. Six months since his Heaven date. Six months closer to seeing him again. Six months since his physical suffering ended and our grief suffering began. Six months of urging the tears to come at more convenient times and failing. Six months of reminding ourselves to look up and into His Word to make sense of it all. Six months to look back and marvel... oh Lord, You have gotten us through with unrelenting grace and are restoring the years the locust ate.
I know there are millions of people who walk through grief, tragedy, and life without Jesus. I understand that millions more have convictions in a higher power vastly different than mine. I recognize that believing in a God who "allows" such heartache in this world and a Jesus who hung on a cross is seen by some as human foolishness and fallacy. I also acknowledge with heartache that the very suffering which can cause one to press into God can also cause another to push away from Him. I do not have all the answers for why and how and when and why not. However, I can only share my journey with and story of a God who loved me enough not to spare me of a heartache and pain... and to use it to change the desires of my heart to beat for the desires of His heart. That is the most glorious, tear-stained place to be.
1. Paul experienced some type of affliction in Asia.
2. He and those with him were "burdened beyond" their own strength.
3. That burden caused them to despair at life and feel they received a death sentence.
4. Paul ends by acknowledging that the reason for 1-3 was so that they would not rely on themselves but on God who raises the dead.
Did you see that? Suffering, even suffering to the point of death, produces a reliance on God who is able to raise the dead. My prayer and that God-sized boost that I needed today was to allow my grief suffering and any other future suffering which the Bible promises in this world to produce in me a dependence on God... a God who has promised an eternal home even if the end result of my suffering is an earthly death.
Six months. Half of a year. Sweet Colby, I am learning the lessons you learned. He is good. His grace is enough. The cross is worth it.