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A Two Generations Budget, Cementing the Divide Between Young and Old
The way this Budget divides young and old is everything that's wrong with Westminster politics. Life has got much harder for young people and there seems to be no recognition of that or any attempt to correct it. I'm standing to lead Labour and take my party out of that bubble. Under my leadership, Labour will help everyone get on in life and not leave the younger generation behind.
Mayor of Greater Manchester
09/07/2015 05:45am BST | Updated July 8, 2016
What is George Osborne's problem with young people? In the last Parliament, he made them bear the brunt of the early cuts and today he's done the same. This was not a One Nation Budget, but the Two Generations Budget - cementing the divide between young and old.
The withdrawal of maintenance grants will further increase the worries of poorer students about the levels of debt involved in going to university. And his decision to exclude 18-21 year olds from housing benefit seems not to understand that some young people have a much tougher start in life than he did. Not all young people have the option of living with parents. It will leave many young people even further away from getting a secure place to live.
But the biggest slap in the face for young people in this Budget is what George Osborne has done on pay. His flagship proposal of a 'National Living Wage' only kicks in at 25, but his cuts to tax credits affect people of all ages. He was not honest about this before the election and has no mandate for his plans. There is a real risk this will cement a two-tier workforce between young and old as he brings down the deficit on the backs of young people.
Young parents could be the heaviest losers of all, with no Living Wage protection but losing their tax credits. It will just increase their sense of despair and the feeling that the odds are stacked against them.
Osborne seems not to understand or care that getting on in life is so much harder than it was for our generation in the 1980s and 1990s. Young people will be leaving university saddled with even more debt and many will be unable to earn a decent wage until their late 20s. He talks about One Nation, but this is a Chancellor that has repeatedly prioritised older voters against the younger. It risks alienating a generation from politics.
If I were Prime Minister now, this is what my Budget would have done for young people. I would have ended age discrimination in pay, thereby applying the living wage to everyone in work. I would have extended the student finance system to young people who want a technical apprenticeship. I would have introduced a 'Rent to Own' policy as a clear route for young people out of the rental trap and onto the housing ladder, giving councils the power to build the homes we need. That is a Labour way to get the housing benefit bill down, helping to reduce the deficit for the long-term.
The way this Budget divides young and old is everything that's wrong with Westminster politics. Life has got much harder for young people and there seems to be no recognition of that or any attempt to correct it. I'm standing to lead Labour and take my party out of that bubble.
Under my leadership, Labour will help everyone get on in life and not leave the younger generation behind.
Andy Burnham is the shadow health secretary and the Labour MP for Leigh
This post first appeared on Andy Burnham's official Facebook page, and can be read here
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By BeInCrypto Team
31 August 2022, 09:29 GMT+0000
Updated by Vignesh Karunanidhi
Blockchain and crypto in general are too often associated with speculative financial markets and little more.
But what many in the general public still haven't understood is that the technology itself is revolutionary, and the implications for how we share blocks of data while maintaining data integrity and trustworthiness are world-changing.
In fact, there's a huge, real-life problem right now involving data where blockchain could be on the verge of having a significant impact.
Medical science is on the cusp of a revolution in new and better treatments as medical AIs, machine learning, and other data-powered tools go online.
These tools have an incredible potential to save lives by contributing to finding cures for diseases, earlier and more accurate diagnoses, identifying new drugs and treatments, and much more.
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The issue for researchers, however, is getting ethical access to medical data in the first place, and ensuring the data is high-quality and without bias.
Up until now, medical data has been locked away and fragmented in healthcare facilities, with no easy or even legal way for the data to be shared.
Even more problematic is the lack of representation in most available medical data sets, which introduces bias into the results of the algorithms and programs using them.
A solution to these problems would help power medical science to jump light-years ahead and could offer hope and an end to suffering for millions – or even billions – worldwide.
An EU-funded startup has just launched a system that they believe presents a solution to these pressing issues, and they're using a unique application of blockchain technology to accomplish it.
Data Lake has created a global medical data donation program where – like giving blood – people can donate their medical data to science. Their program is based on user consent and privacy and uses blockchain technology to verify donor consent to ensure their data is only used with permission.
By using blockchain, they remove the need for trust and can prove donor status with absolute certainty by showing it on a public distributed ledger.
They will work with national non-profits to collect donor consent, the first of which has already been established in Poland under the name Fundacja Podaruj Dane (or "Donate Your Data Foundation" in English).
These foundations will become the legal controllers of donated data and will help educate the public on the importance of data donation. The pilot program with Podaruj Dane and one of Poland's top medical entities will begin later this year.
Understanding the important implications of such a system succeeding, Data Lake has gone one step further and has created a unique incentivization ecosystem that rewards data donors ("Data Heroes"), hospitals and clinics, and other stakeholders for participating in citizen science.
Through the use of their utility token $LAKE, they are able to incentivize global participation in medical data donation via a rewards system, which will provide globally-redeemable discounts on healthcare and wellness products and services to holders of the token.
Co-founder of Data Lake and medical doctor Wojciech Sierocki says:
"Too often, blockchain and tokens have been associated with financial speculation and little else. But at Data Lake, we recognize the potential for blockchain to help power a revolution in medical research. And this isn't just choosing Web3 because it's a buzz term right now either when it comes to removing the need for trust from a system or cross-border incentivization. For example, there's nothing like DLT—it truly is a technology that stands apart. "Nothing against monkey artwork and memecoins, but I believe the blockchain is destined for far more and we're doing our part in making that happen."
One of the most exciting things about Data Lake is that they are currently proving the blockchain has a purpose and can solve real-world issues such as access to medical data.
By using blockchain to power a global medical data donation system, they are decentralizing contributions to medical science while respecting the principles of individual privacy and data ownership.
Decentralization, individual rights, and even data ownership all speak to the fundamental values upon which blockchain itself was founded. While Data Lake certainly isn't the only Web3 company trying to solve a real-world problem, the one they've chosen is definitely one of the most ambitious.
If successful in building momentum for global medical data donation, the implications for medical science are enormous.
About Data Lake
Data Lake is building a global medical data donation system based on blockchain technology and powered by the $LAKE token.
They're empowering people to give consent to the usage of their medical data in a safe, easy and private way while providing large data sets that revolutionize scientific research and medical studies.
About Fundacja Podaruj Dane
Fundacja Podaruj Dane is a Polish non-profit organization, dedicated to facilitating the donation of medical data for scientific research by Polish donors.
They are pioneers for medical data donation in Europe and worldwide, having created the first medical data donation manifesto which has been signed by over twenty international patient, doctor, and hospital organizations.
Follow them on social media:
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var rewire = require('rewire');

describe('authentication routes', function () {
  before(function () {
    this.auth = rewire('../routes/auth');
    this.passport = this.auth.__get__('passport');
  });

  it('.auth()', function () {
    expect(this.auth.auth).to.be.a('function');
    expect(this.auth.auth.length).to.equal(3);
  });

  it('.authCallback()', function () {
    expect(this.auth.authCallback).to.be.a('function');
    expect(this.auth.authCallback.length).to.equal(3);
  });

  it('.logout()', function () {
    this.req = {
      logout: sinon.spy()
    };
    this.res = {
      redirect: sinon.spy()
    };
    this.auth.logout(this.req, this.res);
    expect(this.req.logout.calledOnce).to.equal(true);
    expect(this.res.redirect).to.have.been.calledWith('/login');
  });

  describe('isAuthenticated()', function () {
    beforeEach(function () {
      this.isAuthenticated = sinon.stub();
      this.req = {
        isAuthenticated: this.isAuthenticated
      };
      this.res = {
        redirect: sinon.spy()
      };
      this.next = sinon.spy();
    });

    it('redirects to login if not authenticated', function () {
      this.isAuthenticated.onCall(0).returns(false);
      this.auth.isAuthenticated(this.req, this.res, this.next);
      expect(this.res.redirect).to.have.been.calledWith('/login');
      expect(this.next.notCalled).to.equal(true);
    });

    it('return error if session, passport or LI is falsy', function () {
      this.isAuthenticated.onCall(0).returns(true);
      this.req.session = false;
      this.auth.isAuthenticated(this.req, this.res, this.next);
      expect(this.next.calledOnce).to.equal(true);
      expect(this.next.args[0][0] instanceof Error).to.equal(true);
    });

    it('idempotent if user is member of LI', function () {
      this.isAuthenticated.onCall(0).returns(true);
      this.req.session = {
        passport: {
          user: {
            LI: true
          }
        }
      };
      this.auth.isAuthenticated(this.req, this.res, this.next);
      expect(this.next.calledOnce).to.equal(true);
      expect(this.next.args[0][0]).to.equal(undefined);
    });
  });
});

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Stuffed Gluten Free Soft Breadsticks | Great gluten free recipes for every occasion.
If you're looking for easy finger food for dinner, or just an on-the-go snack, these gluten free soft breadsticks are just the thing. Stuff them with whatever you like!
Sometimes, it's as simple as wanting to make sure that I have some bread (or bread dough) that I can turn to if the day gets away from me and before I know it, it's a dinnertime scramble. If I have a bucket of pizza dough in the refrigerator, I can have a super speedy quick dinner on the table in about 15 to 20 minutes.
Other times, I'm trying to make sure that Ultratex 3 really does work in place of Expandex in the proportions that I have decided upon—in every single recipe. More often than not, though, I'm playing with the different doughs, and seeing how I can use them in new and exciting ways.
Today, I bring you … stuffed gluten free soft breadsticks. Stuffed with what, you ask? Well, with whatever you like!
So far, I've stuffed these gluten free soft breadsticks with hot dogs, and with cheese. One big win followed by another.
Followed by some very happy children, most of which have already decided that THIS is what they would like to eat for their respective birthdays.
This super versatile dough is based upon the Soft Olive Garden-Style Gluten Free Garlic Butter Breadsticks from page 177 of Bakes Bread. It has no starter, and has only one rise so if you have about an hour and change for the dough to rise while you take care of other things around the house, you can have it tonight.
There has been quite a bit of grumbling about how most of the doughs in the book require at least an overnight refrigerator rise before you can work with them. I figure a lot of that comes from unfamiliarity with the slow rise that most yeast bread dough benefits from to develop real, artisan bread yeasty flavor.
No mind, though. Once you get into the swing of it, you can fill buckets with dough on Sunday, and eat fresh gluten free bread all week long. You'll get the hang of it. But for now, these gluten free soft breadsticks are a nice way to begin.
They rise beautifully, but rising times for all yeast bread will vary depending upon the environment in your kitchen/home. Overproofing does not refer to the amount of time it takes to rise, but to how much the dough has risen.
You can't overproof if the dough is rising more slowly than you expect and you're just being patient in allowing it to double. Patience is a virtue in yeast baking as in life, after all.
This dough is quite easy to work with, but like all the doughs in the book they are easiest to shape when they're cold. If you'd like to make things even easier on yourself, make the dough tonight and use it tomorrow.
Or make it tonight, give it a spin in a sealed container in the refrigerator for 30 minutes and then shape it. You absolutely don't have to do that, though.
Either way, you'll be rewarded with soft, doughy stuffed soft gluten free breadsticks just waiting for you to dig in. Finger food for dinner!
First make the bread dough. Place the flour, yeast, and sugar in the bowl of your stand mixer, and use a handheld whisk to combine well. Add the salt, and whisk to combine. Add the butter and water, and mix on low speed with the dough hook until combined. Raise the mixer speed to medium and knead for about 5 minutes. The dough will be quite sticky, but should be smooth and stretchy. Spray a silicone spatula lightly with cooking oil spray, and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Line a rimmed baking sheet with unbleached parchment paper and set it aside. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Knead until smooth as described in These General Shaping Tips. If you have never shaped this new gluten free bread dough before, please read those instructions carefully in the recipe instructions and watch the shaping videos in the link provided. Divide the dough into 10 pieces of equal size (each about 4 ounces). With each piece (covering the other pieces with a moist tea towel when you're not working with them), pat into a rectangle about 1/2 inch thick, and about 6 inches long. Place a cheese stick (or hot dog) lengthwise on the dough, and press gently into the dough. Roll the dough tightly over the cheese stick and press the seam to seal, making sure to cinch the ends. Roll the dough back and forth on the lightly floured surface to seal the edges well, and to elongate it slightly until the dough is about 7 inches long. Place the, shaped and stuffed breadsticks on the prepared baking sheet, about 2 inches apart from one another.
Once all of the breadsticks are shaped, cover the baking sheet with oiled plastic wrap and set in a warm, draft-free location to rise until the breadsticks are nearly doubled in size (about 1 1/2 hours, depending upon the environment). About 25 minutes before the dough has finished rising, remove the plastic and preheat your oven to 375°F.
Once the breadsticks have finished rising, remove the plastic, place the baking sheet in the center of the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes, or until the rolls are very lightly golden brown all over. You can brush the rolls with melted butter and sprinkle lightly with kosher salt in the last few minutes of baking, if you like. Serve immediately. Any leftover breadsticks should be wrapped well and frozen as soon as they are cool. Defrost in the toaster oven before serving.
Adapted from the book Gluten-Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread: Biscuits, Bagels, Buns, and More by Nicole Hunn. Excerpted by arrangement with Da Capo Lifelong, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2013.
P.S. Want to know how to make these rolls into Olive Garden-Style Breadsticks? Get your copy of Gluten Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread, and turn to page 177!
I am a little confused about the flour-I have better batter flour-can I just use it in this recipe or do I need to use it with the whey protein isolate and tapioca starch for best results?
Where do you buy unflavored whey protein isolate and Expandex modified tapioca starch?
Question – when dry milk powder is one of the ingredients, why do we have to grind it to a fine powder? Or why not dissolve the (weighed) powder in the water? Seems to me it would work fine and save cleaning the food processor.
Judy it does not dissolve completely. I don't like seeing or tasting clumps of dry milk in my food, but to each his own!
When you announced the bread book about a year ago I ordered a New England hot dog pan figuring you would certainly use it. Guess I was wrong. What recipe dough would you recommend for that pan?
Am making the cheese and hot dog sticks for the weekend when the grandkids come out. They'll love them.
Carole, I have that pan from back when USA Pans was a sponsor of my site, and I don't really find that it makes much of a hot dog bun shape so I don't use it (in fact, I gave it to Goodwill). You could try the recipe for Soft Hot Dog Buns in Bakes Bread, though.
Bummer last year I gradually started buying all there bread pans so I would be ready to go when the cookbook arrived.
I wish it did not take 3 plus hours for a rise in my house because I would make these tonight with some grilled eggplant slices, roma tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese!
Do you ever try putting on the oven and setting the dough to rise on the stovetop, Mare? If I don't feel like using my proofer or can't fit everything in it, that's what I do. I've even heard of people turning on a clothes dryer for a few minutes, then turning it off and setting the covered dough + a bowl of warm water in there and closing the door to get the bread to rise. Sounds like it might be worth a shot!
Yes, I always have oven on and the dough on the stove top to rise. Yesterday I used the drawer below the oven because I had 3 pans rising at same time (pretzel dogs, pretzel rolls, and pretzel bites) and the drawer sped up the rise a bit.
You don't happen to have an electric oven, do you? Because I do, and when the oven is turned on, the stovetop is still cool. Very, very different than a gas oven. Also, if your hood vents to the outside and it is cold out, you can also be getting a big draft right on your stovetop. So, I've discovered the hard way that on my stovetop is about the COLDEST spot in my kitchen!! What I usually end up doing is turning on my oven very briefly (while sticking my hand in), and then turning it off when it gets a tiny bit warm. Then I proof in there.
Yes Donia, it is electric with the fan right above. Never thought about the fan above before. What temp do you put oven on and for how long before shutting off to proof?
I just turn it to 200 and stay right there while it starts warming up. When I stick my hand in and it feels warm, I turn it off. It's only a few minutes. But it will stay warmer than room temperature for a quite a while then (proof with the door closed).
When you first have the oven on, if you let it warm up too much, just turn it off and leave it open for a while to let some of the heat out before you start proofing. Good luck! Err on the side of too cool, so you don't start baking the items you're trying to proof. I've had good luck with this method.
You can get Expandex at http://www.mtgfnakedoat.com and you can find unflavored whey protein isolate at most health food stores. Now brand works really well.
Hi Nicole! You mind reader you!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for reminding us – again – that rising is about the dough getting to the desired size and that sometimes patience is needed!
I'm letting dough rise RIGHT NOW for my lean white crusty bread (first time making it), and it's much colder in the house today than it has been – sudden temperature dip outside. So my dough is going on 2.5 hours and STILL not doubled in size. I've been lamenting it since this morning, wondering how long to let it go for, and what would Nicole say…and here arrives your post. I know you've written this tip before, and that I've read it before, but some things just are good to read again and again :). I feel reassured and will continue to give it more time! Thanks!!!
So I am new to all this GF baking. I am wondering what Expandex modified tapioca starch is. I live in a smaller town in Canada and my 2 health food stores have no idea what Expandex is.
Please see this link on the blog for Expandex resources, Shannon (https://glutenfreeonashoestring.com/gluten-free-resources/) and the Bread FAQs link in the post for more information on the recipes in my new gluten free bread book.
We love you, we love you, we love you, we love you!!!!! My kids have been begging for this – completely begging. They will be thrilled when I make these!!!
One tip, for the bread sticks, for me anyways, was to make sure they do not touch. For some reason, I liked it better when they were cooked completely on their own and they were not a pull apart type of bread stick.
I can hear Jennifer S. cheering these breadsticks from here!
Me too! For you, Jennifer, with love!
Oh my word, I just realized that I was using Ultratex 8 instead of 3 and not even with the new modifications you've made to the percentages! It's like a light bulb went off in my head – duh! After a couple of failures, I honestly couldn't figure out what the problem was. I can't wait to try this recipe with the new %s! I honestly appreciate your dedication to GF baking/cooking and oh yes, I made the cinnamon roll cupcakes for a party and they were amazing. Thank you!
Me too! And I made a call over to Montana and the incredibly helpful Larry :) Problem solved!


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As everyone likely knows by now-Ringling Brothers Circus/Feld Corporation pulled the elephants from the show…It's a decision they made due to Fanatical Animal Rights Terrorist helping to create so many laws; the demonstrations against the circus and the suit filed against the circus but HSUS settled out of court for more than 15 million dollars of their donations because Ringling turned the tables and proved that they were set up by HSUS and the other Fanatical Animal Rights Terrorists organizations that were involved; also settling out of court-ALL were involved in a very serious criminal offense/FELONOUS OFFENSE.
15 million dollars doesn't make up for the stress and hardship of dealing with AR fanatics Hell bent on destroying their business so they decided to pull the elephants from the shows and keep them home at their elephant sanctuary in Florida.
Is anyone doing anything about it -NO!!! The FBI has done nothing to investigate those acts of terrorism -AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act) and RICO; well planned and orchestrated, done by Fanatical Animal Rights Terrorist organizations who broke the law and should be charged as criminals…!!!
So, acts terrorism continues focused on ALL American circuses that still have performing animal acts taking center ring.
Animal trainers are extremely upset with Ringling's decision to pull the elephants and feel betrayed as the elephants have officially left center ring. Elephants and other animals are an intricate part of traditional circuses as are the dog acts, horse acts and other animal performances and grand displays. How long before others remove the elephants from center ring…??? How long before the other animals are no longer part of the circus…???
No one has given much thought to how the general public feels about all this but one man is angered and published his rant on u-tube…My message to him is blame the FBI and other government agencies that are doing nothing about the terrorism that exists within.
My soap box political rant-Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are deeply embedded with the Fanatical Animal Rights Terrorists (see their websites) -Remember, Silence is Consent-If you do not support HSUS, PETA or any other Fanatical Animal Rights Terrorist organization, then you can not support the Democrat Party. You can not support candidates like John Kasich either and need to start looking else where for who you will vote for as the person best suited who will be representative of what you want and expect of your next president which includes the issue of Animal Welfare.
~ by topcatsroar on May 12, 2016.


Squeezed between business districts and bustling with corporate jets, Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport is about to get safer – and its control tower far more visible.
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to build an ultra-modern 12-story tower by mid-2014, replacing a squat control tower built 41 years ago, when the airport was mostly used by small planes and bordered by cow pastures.
"We're just happy to have a state-of-the-art facility that will enhance airport efficiency and safety," said Clara Bennett, the airport's manager.
Costing more than $9 million in federal money, the new tower will be 117 feet tall, more than twice the size of the old five-story tower. It will feature a tubular design and be equipped with sophisticated aircraft-tracking systems.
"It will be a taller facility that gives controllers more room to work and will allow us to install the latest air traffic technology," said Kathleen Bergen, FAA spokeswoman.
Although the tower is being designed to handle increased air traffic, there's not much growth in sight. Executive Airport, like the rest of aviation, has been hit hard by the slow economy, officials said.
Since 2008, air traffic has decreased about 25 percent, from 200,000 takeoffs and landings per year to 150,000, Bennett said. Still, it is one of the region's busiest general aviation airfields, home to more than 700 aircraft, including about 115 corporate jets.
Although Executive Airport's neighbors have long protested expansion plans, fearing more air traffic and noise, Bennett said the tower will play no role in promoting growth.
"Air traffic activity is really driven by the economy and demand, not projects such as this," she said.
Linda Bird, president of Lakes Estates Homeowners Association, said neighbors don't oppose the new tower because it should enhance safety. However, she said the federal money would have been better spent on hiring more inspectors to ensure planes are well-maintained, in light of several crashes around the airport in the past decade.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new tower is to be at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday. In conjunction with the tower, a 6,900-square-foot base building is to be constructed on the south side of the airport. The old tower is slated to be torn down when the new one goes into operation.
Also to be demolished will be an old airport firehouse near the tower site. The station was shut down four years ago when a new one opened on the north side of the airfield.
Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport was built in 1941 as an auxiliary training airfield to the Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, now Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. When the current control tower opened in September 1970, Richard Nixon was president.


From sunlight to a clean energy efficient farming for securing a sustainable energy future for India!
For a long time, solar water pumps were considered to be standalone systems to be deployed in places where the grid has not reached. Solar water pumps were seen as the second best solution to grid connected pumps. They were considered useful only by farmers who were dependent on expensive diesel based pump-sets to offset fuel costs. However, with improvements in technology and reduction in the price of solar equipment, solar water pumps are now a good replacement for most, even all, grid connected electric pumps as well.
Almost all states in India do not offer 24×7 power supply to farmers. Power to farmer feeders are regulated in shifts of 8 hours and tends to be erratic. Farmers, therefore, have no control on the power supply available to them. This results in the practice of leaving water pump switched on throughout the day, such that when power is supplied, the field is irrigated. It often results in flooding of fields. This makes for a wasteful method of irrigation, particularly in India, which faces acute water scarcity. Thus, solar water pumps that give farmers control over their water and power supply, can also lead to an increase in groundwater conservation.
In the case of Gujarat, for example, nearly 27% of the state's electricity goes towards the farm sector, while recovery from this sector is a meager 3% of overall revenues. This reflects the extent of subsidy given to the farm sector. Despite this, quality day-time power is not always available.
In many states, agricultural power connections are also unmetered, resulting in systemic inefficiencies such as theft and transmission and distribution (T&D) losses getting bundled as agricultural loss. Besides, rising power prices for agricultural consumers adds to the challenges given the overall stress already being faced in the farm sector.
What the net-metered solar water pumps could do, if successful, is reduce agricultural power consumption from the grid and therefore, reduce ongoing subsidies to the farm sector and improve energy access to farmers.
Solar water pumps can also fundamentally empowers farmers by providing them an extra 'climate proof' income, particularly at a time when low farmer incomes are a serious problem.
This could be a good way to meet the Central Government's goal of doubling farm income by 2022.
Pujarini Sen is a Climate and Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace India.


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Most people really don't think much about their veins until they start noticing them, and usually not for good reasons such as varicose veins and their less noticeable cousins, spider veins.
We've noticed that many patients who come to us for a consultation to treat varicose veins and spider veins often have misconceptions about these conditions.
We compiled a list of 6 myths that will help patients better understand chronic venous insufficiency or blood pooling in veins.
Varicose veins are just a cosmetic problem.
The word "just" is what makes this a myth because varicose veins may indicate a serious underlying issue. Large ropey veins, usually in the legs, are a late-surfacing symptom for chronic venous insufficiency, or the inability of the veins to carry blood up the legs and back to the heart.
Most of the time, blood flows back and forth in veins, from extremities to the heart and back. Tiny valves in the veins make sure everything flows in one direction. When these valves collapse, blood pools–most often in the legs–and pressure builds up until the veins start to bulge.
Poor circulation is a painful, sometimes life-threatening situation that can lead to leg ulcers and deep vein thrombosis (DVT), when one or more blood clots that develop in leg veins. Left untreated, it can cause a blood clot in a lung or pulmonary embolism.
Only women get spider or varicose veins.
Pregnancy can lead to varicose veins, so in that sense, women are more likely to get spider and varicose veins but the condition itself is not related to gender.
These conditions affect people of any gender.
Varicose vein treatment is pointless because the veins will come back.
Recurring varicose veins treatment isn't as common today because treatment today is much more effective and includes follow-up care that boosts success rates.
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A sedentary lifestyle contributes to the likelihood that a person will develop varicose veins. In fact, exercise can ease the causes of vein disease.
Movement helps the blood pump more effectively and leads to weight loss that can aggravate spider or varicose veins. If you're already getting treatment for vein or circulatory problems, wear compression socks or stockings to prevent blood from pooling in the legs.
Varicose veins are always huge and ropey.
Not all varicose veins are the same. Some people have deep varicose veins inside their legs that aren't visible. Symptoms include chronic, unexplained leg pain that should be checked out by a physician, particularly if it's accompanied by itchiness.
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Seattle cop caught threatening to make up evidence
Posted in Attack on Freedom, Corruption, General, Legal, News, Racism, Truth/Freedom, Tyranny with tags Black, Christopher Franklin, Josh Lawson, Moors, News, racism, Seattle Police Department on February 21, 2012 by truthwillrise
By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 17:20 EST
Topics: Christopher Franklin ♦ Josh Lawson ♦ Seattle police officer
A Seattle police officer has been caught on tape telling a recently arrested young African American man that he was going to make up evidence against him.
Josh Lawson and Christopher Franklin were arrested at gunpoint in November of 2010 after police spotted them several blocks away from where an assault had been reported. Neither man was charged with any crime after their arrest, and they have sued the city for excessive force and wrongful arrest.
Both men allegedly suffered facial bruises after being kicked and thrown on the pavement as the police officers arrested them. While Lawson and Franklin were being taken to the police department, one of the officers also said he was going to make up evidence against them, an audio recording obtained KOMO 4 News revealed.
"Well, you're going to jail for robbery that's all," the officer said.
"For robbery?" Franklin asked.
"Yeah, I'm gonna make stuff up," the officer responded.
Seattle Police Sergeant Sean Whitcomb told KOMO 4 News that the comment was inappropriate, but that the department's had investigated the complaint and exonerated the officer.
Watch video, courtesy of KOMO 4 News, below:
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COMP 1210 – Fundamentals of Computing I Slide 1 - 19 Program Development (cont.) • Code  Writing source code that will be compiled into a program.  Coding standard : Rules as to how source code should be formatted - makes code easier to read and debug. • Test  Once you write your program, make sure that the actual output of your program (your programs output) matches the expected output (the correct output as specified by the customer).
COMP 1210 – Fundamentals of Computing I Slide 1 - 20 Program Development (cont.) • Program development tools are valuable aids during the process.  A good IDE (integrated development environment) with program editor, debugger, interactions, etc. will should become one of your best sw tools.  jGRASP (jgrasp.org) with Java, Checkstyle, JUnit, Web-CAT  Checkstyle is used with jGRASP to support the COMP 1210 coding standard.
COMP 1210 – Fundamentals of Computing I Slide 1 - 22 The Implementation Cycle... Debug Edit Compile Run • This cycle implies incremental program construction. • Plan to repeat this cycle early and often.
COMP 1210 – Fundamentals of Computing I Slide 1 - 23 Syntax and Semantics • Syntax: 'grammar'  Rules of how the vocabulary can be used to compose legal structures in the language.  In the context of programs, the language syntax describes how to form legal statements and other constructs in the language. • Semantics: meaning  What a given legal structure in the language means.  In the context of programs, the language semantics describes what will happen when a legal statement in the language is executed.
COMP 1210 – Fundamentals of Computing I Slide 1 - 24 Syntax and Semantics (cont.) • In natural languages, some things can be syntactically correct but have no meaning…  Blue ideas sleep furiously. • … or be syntactically correct but have many (possible) meanings.  Time flies like an arrow.  The house flies like a saucer.  Did you ever see a home run? • Programming languages do not allow these situations - - there is no ambiguity!


Just like their last game against the San Jose Sharks, the Nashville Predators rode a stellar performance by Pekka Rinne into overtime. And like their last game, Patrick Marleau buried the Predators in the extra session.
Marleau's goal was the difference in San Jose's 3-2 victory over Nashville in front of an announced sell-out of 17,562 at HP Pavilion on Tuesday.


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An earthquake hit parts of Central and South Asia on Saturday, leaving dozens of people injured.
According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the center of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake was about 280 kilometers (174 miles) northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
In Afghanistan, at least 12 people were hospitalized following the quake, although most have already been discharged.
The quake was also felt in parts of Pakistan and India.
In the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar, some 30 people were injured. No deaths have been reported.
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit Pakistan and Afghanistan in October, killing 400 people. More than 18,000 buildings were damaged in the catastrophe.


The Calcutta Cup, which is the oldest trophy in world rugby, is competed for annually by Scotland and England. The trophy was donated to the RFU and first played for in 1879 at Raeburn Place.
The cup was crafted by Indian silversmiths from melted-down silver rupees which were the balance of the funds of the Calcutta Football Club, which disbanded in 1878. Benjamin Burns, who had accepted the Scottish challenge on behalf of the English clubs, had subsequently moved to Calcutta where he played for the Calcutta Football Club. He seconded the motion to use the remaining club funds in this way. Burns had been a pupil at the Edinburgh Academy at the same time as the Rt Hon Francis Moncreiff, captain of EAFC and Scotland.
The cup has been played for annually with only three breaks: for the duration of both World Wars, March 1914 to March 1920 and March 1939 to March 1946, and during the Great Dispute of the 1880s which ultimately led to the establishment of the IRB (now World Rugby).


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Bovell finds his Most Wanted Man
by Don Groves June 30, 2014 July 12, 2017
Willem Dafoe and Philip Seymour Hoffman in A Most Wanted Man.
Australian screenwriter and playwright Andrew Bovell never got to meet Philip Seymour Hoffman but the actor signed up for a key role in A Most Wanted Man while Bovell was still working on the script of espionage thriller.
Hence Bovell could tailor the dialogue of Hoffman's character for the actor, who plays Gunther Bachmann, the leader of a Hamburg-based anti-terrorist squad whose remit is to stop an atrocity like 9/11 from happening on German soil.
Adapted from a John le Carré novel and directed by Dutchman Anton Corbijn (The American), the film opens in the US on July 25 via Lionsgate and in Australia on July 31, via Roadshow.
"With an actor like Hoffman, you need less dialogue because he could convey a line with a look," Bovell tells IF. During development the writer met with Corbijn in London and Hamburg but the conversations were mostly about the tone and mood the director wanted.
Bovell didn't get to visit the set because when shooting started in October 2012 he was immersed in writing the stage version of Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River for the Sydney Theatre Co.
He saw several cuts before watching the final print and says, "I'm very impressed with the film. We set out to capture the relationship between the West and Islam post 9/11, and the fact we have lost the ability to recognise innocence. It's a very European film that is very truthful about spying and quite truthful to the novel."
Apart from Hoffman, who died in February, aged 46, the cast includes Daniel Brühl, Willem Dafoe, Nina Hoss and Rachel McAdams. Grigoriy Dobrygin plays a young half-Chechen, half-Russian immigrant who tries to infiltrate Hamburg's underground Islamic community.
Among the producers are Simon Cornwell and Stephen Cornwell, the sons of John le Carré (who was born David Cornwell). Stephen Cornwell says they hired Bovell after admiring his work on Lantana, which he adapted from his play Speaking in Tongues.
"We all had a huge respect for Lantana which really spoke to a lot of the levels of character intrigue and deception we wanted," says Cornwell. "Lantana had the same richness of characterisation and story-telling."
The reviews after its world premiere at the Sundance festival and last week at the Edinburgh Film Festival have been overwhelmingly positive.
Variety's Justin Chang hailed a "meticulously plotted, steadily absorbing Hamburg-set drama that casts a cynical yet compassionate eye on the complexities of counterterrorist work in the post-9/11 era. Adopting the same cool, methodical approach that he did in his offbeat procedural The American, Corbijn succeeds here in large part because his attention to nuance and detail so fully complements that of the German operatives at the story's core."
The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy observed Bovell's screenplay "keeps the intrigue percolating while paring away everything necessary to deliver the essentials in two hours. The story is a jigsaw puzzle in which all the pieces are of an indistinguishable grey, making fitting them together a tricky matter."
Now the writer, whose other film credits include Edge of Darkness, Blessed and The Book of Revelation, is deep into developing an erotic thriller set in Shanghai for director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, How I Live Now) and his brother, producer Andrew Macdonald.
The tale of the wife of a US businessman who is kidnapped in China, the screenplay is based on Japanese director Hideo Nakata's Kaosu (Chaos).
"There are a lot of great reveals so you don't know what is coming next," he says. "Setting it in Shanghai also allows us to look at the rise of China and the decline of the US."
Bovell is bound for Shanghai soon on a recce with the director and the script is about to go out to prospective cast.
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3. FORM: Predictive or Repressive?
6. Does Science Ask the Right Questions?
Welcome to Issue 23 of SHAPE Journal.
This issue of SHAPE Journal reflects yet another turn in the nature of a standard Issue of the Journal. Both the Journal and its Blog have developed considerably since we originally conceived of them almost 3 years ago.
In particular the instalments of extended papers over a series of Issues has proved to be less than ideal, and we had to institute Special Issues, wherein a topic was more comprehensively addressed by a series of complete papers all-in-one-issue.
But, though highly successful that didn't solve the problem of the so-called Standard Issue, so various alternatives have been considered at length.
Today's Issue will test out a different form for such Issues, in that it gathers together in one Issue a collection of short articles and even reviews, which when taken as a set (though certainly not designed as such), reflect better our general and, we believe, unique approach.
Many of these kind of papers have been published separately on the Blog in the past, and that will still continue in the future. But, we felt it to be essential to not only publicize the Journal on the Blog, but also vice versa.
This short collection does have a common basis and demonstrates it, though they were written at different times for individual purposes. They demonstrate our general approach and its concern with philosophy and method in many spheres of Human activity.
In yet another deviation from our standard practice, this issue has been published as a single PDF, something we have been doing with our Special Issues for some time. Let us know what you think of this change.
The Blog, meanwhile continues with its series on Socialism, and advertises an upcoming Special on Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics.


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Keyword: "copper"
Mining News Pro - Mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP are continuing to engage with Native American tribes as they seek permission to develop the Resolution copper project in Arizona, the United States.
Monday, January 18, 2021 - 1:24:09 PM
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Mining News Pro - A US judge denied a request by Arizona's San Carlos Apache tribe to block the Trump administration from publishing the final environmental study for the land swap needed by Rio Tinto to build the Resolution copper mine.
Saturday, January 16, 2021 - 12:15:53 PM
Copper Fox shares up on Van Dyke PEA
Mining News Pro - Copper Fox Metals announced results from an Preliminary Economic Assessment for its Van Dyke copper project located in Miami, Arizona.
Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 1:38:23 AM
Apache tribe sues over Rio Tinto's Resolution copper project
Mining News Pro - Members of the San Carlos Apache tribe in Arizona on Tuesday said they have sued the Trump Administration to block a pending land swap that would give Rio Tinto the land it needs to build its Resolution Copper project.
Funds still in the driving seat as copper hits fresh highs
Mining News Pro - London Metal Exchange (LME) copper last week punched up through the $8,000-per tonne level for the first time since February 2013.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 1:12:51 PM
Playfair encouraged by exploration at Norway copper project
Mining News Pro - Playfair Mining announced the discovery of eight potential drill targets at the previously unexplored RKV project in Norway.
Friday, January 8, 2021 - 1:38:55 PM
Gold-copper explorer makes ASX debut
Mining News Pro - Torrens Mining has made its first appearance on the ASX this week after raising $10 million to progress its gold and copper exploration in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Protest blocks $530m worth of copper from Las Bambas
Mining News Pro - A three-week-long roadblock protest by locals has prevented Las Bambas mine in Peru, run by MMG, from exporting 189,000 tonnes of copper concentrate, a mining association leader said on Tuesday.
Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 1:17:13 PM
Copper price hits new high as covid cases sweep South America
Mining News Pro - Copper prices continued their momentum from the second half of 2020 as the second wave of coronavirus infections intensifies in South America, the world's top copper-producing region.
What's next for Rio Tinto's Arizona copper project?
Mining News Pro - US President Donald Trump's outgoing administration plans to approve a land swap on Jan. 15 that Rio Tinto and partners need to build a copper mine in Arizona, clearing a long-time hurdle for the project that is opposed by many Native Americans.
Peel bullish on copper focus with $17m acquisition
Mining News Pro - Peel Mining has regained complete ownership of its Mallee Bull copper and May Day gold deposits in New South Wales via a $17 million deal with CBH Resources.
Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 12:36:20 PM
Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto's Resolution copper project
Mining News Pro - U.S. President Donald Trump's outgoing administration plans to approve a controversial land swap needed for Rio Tinto Ltd and partners to build an Arizona copper mining project that Native American tribes say will destroy sites of cultural and religious value.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 - 4:58:43 PM
Nevada Copper marks construction milestone at Pumpkin Hollow
Mining News Pro - Nevada Copper announced on Tuesday it has completed the underground materials handling system of the main shaft at its Pumpkin Hollow underground mine in Yerington, Nevada.
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 12:16:56 PM
Las Bambas blockades affect Peru copper shipments
Mining News Pro - The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) expressed Tuesday its opposition to the blockades taking place on the Southern Runway (Corredor Vial del Sur), which are hindering the transport of copper concentrate and personnel to and from MMG's Las Bambas mine.
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 11:55:53 AM
Excelsior produces first copper cathode at Gunnison
Mining News Pro - Excelsior Mining's Gunnison copper project in Arizona has produced its first copper cathode. The in-situ recovery (ISR) operation is expected to sell the first copper cathodes in January 2021.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 12:16:40 PM
Global copper output to grow over the next decade
Mining News Pro - A report by Fitch Solutions forecasts global copper mine production to increase by an average annual rate of 3.7% over 2021-2029, with total output rising from 21.5mnt to 27.8mnt over the same period.
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 11:08:02 PM
Copper price powers on
Mining News Pro - Copper prices jumped to the highest since February 2013 on Friday on hopes that economic stimulus in the US will further boost demand for the bellwether metal, already in short supply amid an Asian factory and construction boom.
Saturday, December 19, 2020 - 12:17:10 PM
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Antofagasta agrees copper charges for 2021, Codelco to follow
Mining News Pro - Antofagasta Plc and Codelco will supply copper concentrate at treatment and refining charges of $59.50 per tonne and 5.95 cents per lb in 2021, signing up at the benchmark rate miners have now managed to lower for six years in a row.
Friday, December 18, 2020 - 11:29:04 PM
Copper tops $8 000 as Goldman points to commodities super-cycle
Mining News Pro - Copper topped $8 000 a ton for the first time in more than seven years, with Goldman Sachs Group and BlackRock pointing to the start of a new long-term bull market as supply lags an expected demand boom.
Friday, December 18, 2020 - 4:58:24 PM
China Moly buys 95% of DRC copper/cobalt mine from Freeport for $550m
Mining News Pro - China Molybdenum said on Sunday it had acquired a 95% stake in the Kisanfu copper/cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from US-based Freeport-McMoRan Inc for $550-million.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 1:05:55 PM
Hardy bacteria turn out to be good cobalt miners
Reaching 25 thousand tons by the end of this year
Inside SQM's struggle to win over indigenous communities in Chile's Atacama
Metals behind EV revolution to resume volatile rally
Stakes high for Rio Tinto, Mongolia as Oyu Tolgoi talks loom
QLD considers mine camps to quarantine travellers
WA Kaolin begins Wickepin plant construction
Rio Tinto to commercialise scandium oxide in 2021
Galan claims majority stake in Greenbushes South


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NBC Backs Chicago Teachers' Union on Closures, Kids Could Die
January 5th, 2022 9:33 PM
Late Tuesday night the Chicago teachers' union voted to cancel all in-person classes for all public schools. This decision left parents to scramble to find babysitters and other accommodations for their children during the school day. Wednesday night's edition of NBC Nightly News decided to take the side of the teachers' union, suggesting kids could die otherwise.
While all three network newscasts covered the vote, NBC's coverage was the most favorable toward the corrupt Chicago teachers' union. Lester Holt introduced the segment then handed it off for his correspondent Stephanie Gosk to give her report.
As is common with these news packages, there were multiple soundbites of various people who were interviewed for the story. The first such video was of an unidentified Chicago parent who expressed his displeasure with the teachers' union's decision:
We had all winter break to have this planned out, and here we are. Kids are kinda caught in the middle and parents like myself are really scrambling to get coverage.
The rest of the segment was a one-sided puff piece for the unions, save for a brief clip of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot who blasted the decision, and shared her concern for how this will negatively affect parents:
We can't forget about how disruptive that remote process is to individual parents who have to work.
After Gosk got that out of the way, it was propaganda time. The leftist NBC News correspondent aired Chicago public school teacher Keyonna Payton's gripe about not feeling safe to go back to work. Payton whined that she has "a 90-year-old grandmother with underlying health conditions and issues." She continued her whining: "And so I would just appreciate being able to work in an environment where at least the students are all PCR tested weekly."
Gosk, in an apparent attempt to justify the vote reported "Omicron is straining school systems to their limits. Rapid tests are hard to find. PCR results are delayed."
She then aired a video of NBC medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel, also taking the side of the teachers' unions:
If you do not have adequate testing, you cannot keep a school open safely unless you accept the risks that potentially as high as half of your students could be positive and not know they are.
Patel, in an attempt to fearmonger, suggested kids could die if they went to school. "Keeping the schools open at all costs means that you are not acknowledging that all costs involves lives," she claimed despite the fact Omicron was a very mild variant.
Over on CBS Evening News, where the coverage was slightly more balanced, the network reported that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot "canceled all classes but threw parents a lifeline. She kept school doors open so children had a place to get their meals and stay if needed."
CBS also aired a statement Lightfoot gave after the teachers union's vote which demonstrated how devastating canceling in-person learning is for public school children:
When our district was fully remote, our children suffered. There's no disputing that reality. We saw triple the amount of failures in elementary school testing and learning, triple. And that fell almost disproportionately on black and brown and poor kids across our district.
If the Chicago teachers union truly cared about the lives of children, they would stop panicking over a virus that's been shown to have little to no effect on them, and worry about what will happen to these children when they're forced to spend the school day out on the dangerous streets of Chicago. Which scenario do you see as more dangerous to these kids?
This segment of NBC News carrying water for the teachers' unions was brought to you by Prevagen and Swiffer (Proctor & Gamble). Their information is linked so you can let them know about the biased news they fund.
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NBC Nightly News
LESTER HOLT: All of this causing severe disruptions in the nation's schools. A domino effect on teachers, students, and parents as omicron spreads and testing falls short. Stephanie Gosk has late details.
STEPHANIE GOSK (NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT): Late last night, Chicago school doors abruptly slammed shut, upending the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chicago families.
PARENT: We had all winter break to have this planned out, and here we are. Kids are kinda caught in the middle and parents like myself are really scrambling to get coverage.
GOSK: Concerned about soaring COVID cases and limited testing, Chicago's teacher's union voted to go remote.
KEYONNA PAYTON (CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER): I have a 90-year-old grandmother with underlying health conditions and issues. And so I would just appreciate being able to work in an environment where at least the students are all PCR tested weekly.
GOSK: But city officials called the union's decision a work stoppage and canceled school altogether, a clearly frustrated Mayor speaking out.
MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT: We can't forget about how disruptive that remote process is to individual parents who have to work.
GOSK: Late today word of a plan being worked on to go remote next week and be back in person by the 18th. This first week of school after the holiday has seen a dramatic jump in school disruptions nationwide. More than 4,500. Back in October, there were 28. Still small compared to a year ago. But Omicron is straining school systems to their limits. Rapid tests are hard to find. PCR results are delayed.
DR. KAVITA PATEL: If you do not have adequate testing, you cannot keep a school open safely unless you accept the risks that potentially as high as half of your students could be positive and not know they are.
GOSK: Most school-age children can get the vaccine. But just over half of 12 to 17-year-olds are fully vaccinated. That drops to less than 16% for 5 to 11-year-olds. Teachers and staff are out sick in record numbers. Over a thousand in Boston, where today the superintendent jumped into action, teaching a fourth-grade class herself.
BRENDA CASSELLIUS (BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT): Just excited to be here today to represent all of the incredible all hands on deck approach that we're taking here.
GOSK: Unlike at the start of the pandemic, there is a much more concerted effort to keep children in classrooms.
GOSK: There are some people right now who believe keep the schools open at all costs. Is that really tenable?
PATEL: No. Keeping the schools open at all costs means that you are not acknowledging that all costs involves lives.
GOSK: For school districts just holding it together, the outlook for January is bleak. Experts say case numbers will likely keep going up for weeks. Lester?
Lester Holt
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Falcons earn league honours, then win openers at Ontario championships
The Fanshawe soccer teams loaded up on league hardware before winning their opening games at the Ontario collegiate championships Thursday in Toronto.
Ryan Pyette
The nationally sixth-ranked Falcons women beat Algonquin 2-0 at Seneca College to set up a clash with Durham Friday at 4 p.m. The men, also ranked sixth, topped University of Toronto-Mississauga 3-1 at George Brown College to move on to face Humber Friday at 3 p.m.
Earlier, Fanshawe women's striker Jade Kovacevic's record 30-goal season earned her the third OCAA player of the year award in her career, along with all-Canadian status. The Falcons star finished 18 goals ahead of her nearest competitor while leading her unbeaten club to a perfect 10-0 regular season record.
Fanshawe's Jade Kovacevic was named OCAA player of the year for her 30-goal season.
Fanshawe was also named the West Division's best defensive team by surrendering only four goals. Centreback Alex Clements, the team captain and a London native, was named the West's defensive player of the year and a league all-star.
Striker Nicole Nielsen scored 11 times, including two hat tricks, to earn all-star honours.
On the men's side, Fanshawe striker Ben Vyfschaft was named Ontario collegiate rookie of the year after scoring 12 times. His four markers against Redeemer two weeks ago tied the team record for single-game goals.
Third-year centreback Bradley Heath earned West defensive player of the year and all-star honours. Striker Mike Sneddon, who scored 13 goals to top the West, and Ahmad Al Rajie were also named league all-stars for their offensive prowess.
Goalkeeper Alex Jakma was recognized for his steady play that resulted in a goals against average of 0.73 this season.
Fanshawe cager Chris Parker established the school's single-game basketball scoring record with 48 points in a 92-78 win over Lambton at home Wednesday. The previous record was 36 by Jemaul Jones in 2015-16.
Parker, a native of Toledo, Ohio, knocked down eight of 11 shots from three-point range to boost his total.
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Falcons reach OCAA final on the back of Nielsen's late hat... Mustangs plan to bounce back after odd regular-season finish


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The Twister
Introducing the Silence Twister
The Twister is a single seat all composite aerobatic aircraft designed in Germany by the brothers Thomas and Matthias Streiker. It is a scaled up version of their world beating aerobatic model aircraft. It resembles the Supermarine Spitfire with its elliptical wing, but the brothers assure me that this is not deliberate even though there are numerous pictures of the world war II classic on the walls of their houses! The aircraft fulfils the Streiker brothers' goal to build a simple and efficient aircraft, as it achieves a very respectable performance with its tiny 80hp Jabiru engine manufactured in Australia.
The Twister is piloted by Peter Wells who has been flying since he was 15 years old and comes from a flying family. His step father represented England for over 15 years racing gliders and his younger brother Leigh is current World Gliding Champion. His wife Sally is the only woman to win the British Standard Class Gliding Nationals. Peter is the only bad glider pilot in the family but nonetheless has amassed more than 3500 hours in gliders and powered aircraft.
The display consists mainly of standard level aerobatics but with a few flick and hesitation manoeuvres at higher levels. Due to the low power of the Twister engine it is very important to manage energy carefully so most of the display is flown in smooth curves rather than in the competition style of flying aerobatics which is much more abrupt and angular.
The Twister is very versatile and can perform equally well at a large airfield venue or a small private event. It can also be successfully combined with other aircraft.
For further information on Peter's display flying in the Twister, please visit the Twister Aerobatics website.
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Sprint ships with some powerful debugging tools out of the box.

## Forensics
The first is my own [Forensics](general/forensics) which is a drop-in replacement for CodeIgniter's [profiler](http://www.codeigniter.com/userguide3/general/profiling.html). It also comes with a Console for logging extra information to the profiler bar.

## PHP Error
Next is [PHP Error](http://phperror.net/), which replaces the standard PHP error reporting with lots of great information, and even lets you see the exact spot in the file where it happened. This is only available in the development [environment](http://www.codeigniter.com/userguide3/general/environments.html), and can be turned off with the `use_php_error` config setting.

## Kint
The last tool is the one you will probably use the most: [Kint](http://raveren.github.io/kint/) - a super-powered replacement for the trusty `var_dump` and `debug_backtrace` methods. While you will get most of the information about it from their site, I'll highlight the commands you need to know here.

### d()
Displays a ton of information about the object that is passed into the method in an interactive report. You have to try it to believe it. This does NOT stop script execution.

	$user = $this->user_model->find(15);
	d($user);

You can pass multiple objects into it for logging and they will be displayed one after the other.

	d($user1, $user2);

### dd()
Just like `d()`, but will stop execution of the script at this point.

### s()
Displays a non-interactive, light version of the `d()` method that is just text. Basically a smarter version of `echo '<pre>'. print_r($user, true)`. Will NOT stop script execution.

	s($user);

### sd()
The same as `s()` but will stop execution of the script at this point.

### Kint::trace()
Displays a more informative and flexible version of debug_backtrace() up to that point of the script's execution.

	Kint::trace()
	// or...
	d(1);


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The Miró, Available to All
Aside from a major health crisis, Covid-19 has brought about a socio-economic and cultural shakeup that has raised questions about the viability of many projects and driven us to make decisions that are necessary to face the challenges of the future.
The ongoing barrage of online resources and contents has only precipitated an upcoming trend: the blurring of boundaries between domestic and public space. Co-workers and fellow students have slipped into our homes through our screens, and our options for entertainment and learning have expanded beyond their previous physical boundaries. Museums, art centres, auditoriums and theatres are no exception: even while they were closed, cultural venues opened up and revealed their inner workings. Now the challenge will be to offer a differential value between physical spaces and digital channels.
Continue reading The Miró, Available to All
Art for everyone
There is a lot of talk these days about inclusion and social transformation –also, and increasingly so, in the art world. The Fundació Joan Miró, as part of the "la Caixa" Art for Change program, has offered the Ssssoundssss exhibition, the final outcome of a project produced in collaboration with artist Laura Llanelli and two occupational centres run by Asproseat, a wonderful opportunity to bring art to a real, diverse public. Núria Plasència, a psychologist with an MA in counselling who works at the La Marina and 1981 occupational centres run by Fundació Asproseat's Day Services, gives us a first-hand account of that experience.
Continue reading Art for everyone


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 * @author zakyalvan
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Sport of Trafficking Hype
40,000 trafficked sex workers travelling to sports events
Update: Putting the Myths to Bed...
Researchers will analyse whether there really is a hoard of itinerant trafficked sex workers who descend on sporting events, in this case, the Glasgow Commonwealth Games
Full story: Sport of Trafficking Hype...40,000 trafficked sex workers travelling to sports events
See article from nswp.org
How many times have we been told that there is going to be an increase in the number of sex workers operating (and a related increase in human trafficking) whenever a major sporting event is organised? Panic over an increase in sex work and trafficking surrounded all three of the recent World Cups in Germany, South Africa and now Brazil as well as the London 2012 Olympics. Next month Glasgow, Scotland plays host to the 20th Commonwealth Games and the same stories are surfacing as can be seen from this recent newspaper article in the Glasgow Herald:
With just under three months to go until the Glasgow 2014 Games, a strategy designed to tackle sex trafficking and prostitution is being put in place, together with a campaign aimed at changing attitudes around violence against women. High-profile sporting events, such as the World Cup and the Olympics, have historically resulted in a spike in sex crimes because countries experience a large increase in population as athletes, officials and spectators visit host cities involved. MSPs raised fears last year that the Games, which are expected to attract one million visitors to Glasgow, would lead to an influx of victims of human trafficking in Scotland.
These scare stories are finally going to be subjected to some scrutiny in an academic study run by Dr Kate Hardy of the University of Leeds called Sex in the stadium: labour and coercion in the sex industry and the Commonwealth Games . As well as exploring whether there is any truth in the allegation that high-profile sporting events result in an increase in sex work this study is also focussed on exploring the impact that these scare campaigns have on sex workers. Dr Hardy explains:
This research examines the relationship between the Commonwealth Games and working conditions in the sex industry in Glasgow. The focus is on changes to the safety and well-being of sex workers during the games and any changes to the industry as a result of it. It is being undertaken in response to arguments that coercion and trafficking increase during events of this type and to evidence from sex workers in London that they were displaced from long term working premises during the Olympic Games in 2012. The ultimate aim is to influence policy in relation to 'mega-events' in order to protect sex workers' working conditions in the short and long term.
The research is being undertaken in full partnership with sex worker rights organisations in Scotland, the Sex Worker Open University and SCOT-PEP (Scottish Prostitutes Education Project). Sex workers will be trained as peer researchers and will identify and interview other sex workers about their experiences of working in the lead up to, during and after the Commonwealth Games. Despite the many newspaper articles and blog posts written about the issue of sex work and sporting events this study will be the first that examines it from an evidence-based perspective and is very much welcomed.
Update: World Cup Hype...
Nuns set to combat human trafficking at the World Cup
See article from sg.sports.yahoo.com
An international association of Catholic nuns has launched a public awareness campaign to combat the mythical human trafficking associated with world sports events, this time the World Cup in Brazil.
The nuns will use social media, billboards and rallies in host cities to draw attention to the heightened risk of exploitation of sex workers and job-seekers in general. Sister Gabriella Bottani said at a press conference in the Vatican:
The World Cup is a unique occasion to invite everyone to reflect on the value of life.
Bottani said her association, Talitha Kum, a Biblical phrase meaning Little girl, get up! was also conducting training courses to spot signs of supposed trafficking.
The clergywoman claimed that for previous World Cups in Germany and South Africa, the level of exploitation had gone up by 30 percent and 40% respectively. But at least she didn't repeat the usual claims that there would be a 40,000 band itinerant band of trafficked sex workers turn up for the event.
Extract: The Super Bowl and Sex Trafficking...
Hundreds of innocent people arrested to prevent mythical sex trafficking at sport events
Thanks to Alan
See article from nytimes.com by Kate Mogulescu is the founder and supervising attorney of the Trafficking Victims Advocacy Project
Tens of thousands of people have descended upon the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area this week for tomorrow's Super Bowl, accompanied by the usual media frenzy. A now familiar feature of this coverage, wherever the Super Bowl is held, is an abundance of stories, from Reuters to CNN, reporting that the event will cause a surge in sex trafficking to capitalize on the influx of fans and tourists.
The problem is that there is no substantiation of these claims. The rhetoric turns out to be just that.
No data actually support the notion that increased sex trafficking accompanies the Super Bowl. The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, a network of nongovernmental organizations, published a report in 2011 examining the record on sex trafficking related to World Cup soccer games, the Olympics and the Super Bowl. It found that, despite massive media attention, law enforcement measures and efforts by prostitution abolitionist groups, there is no empirical evidence that trafficking for prostitution increases around large sporting events.
The Super Bowl sex-trafficking hype isn't just unfounded, though --- it is actively harmful because it creates bad policy. In the days leading up to Sunday's game, local law enforcement dedicated tremendous resources to targeting everyone engaged in prostitution.
This week's Super Bowl-related operation has required officers to be pulled from their regular details to serve on prostitution arrest squads. The New York Police Department said it had made 298 prostitution-related arrests through Jan. 26. In Manhattan --- a borough that has approximately 300 arrests for prostitution a year --- there have been more than 100 arrests in the past several days. When Midtown Community Court opened on Wednesday morning, 25 women arrested on Tuesday night were sitting in holding cells waiting to be arraigned after a sting operation at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Midtown.
Remove the guise of preventing human trafficking, and we are left with a cautionary tale of how efforts to clean up the town for a media event rely on criminalizing people, with long-lasting implications for those who are then trapped in the criminal justice system. If we continue to perpetuate fallacies like the Super Bowl sex-trafficking phenomenon, we will continue to perpetuate the harm caused by prostitution arrests in the name of helping victims.
...Read the full article
Update: Starting the Ball Rolling...
Japanese tabloid prints nonsense that 100,000 Korean sex workers will converge on the Tokyo Olympics
See article from tokyoreporter.com
The eternal fairy story of thousands of itinerate sex workers travelling the globe from sports competition to sports competition has got its first mention for the 2016 Tokyo Olympics.
The source of the first rumour is a totally unauthoritative figure used by a tabloid sports editor, but no doubt there will be a few gender extremists who will use the quoted figure and the rumour will commence.
In fact the Tokyo Sports tabloid spoke to Akira Ikoma, the editor of a guide to men's entertainment called Ore no Tabi (My Journey). He says that Korean prostitutes from around the world will arrive in Tokyo, especially the Uguisudani area, which is known for its delivery health out-call establishments.
It could be more than 100,000 women. They will be eyeing the economic possibilities that go with the event. There is no doubt about it.
The basis of the claims is that in 2004, the Korean government passed an anti-prostitution law and shuttered a number of sex shops. As a result, the editor says, Korea has exported 100,000 prostitutes to worldwide, primarily to the United States, Japan and Australia. It is this band of travelling sex workers that will supposedly converge on Tokyo for the Olympics.
Update: Hype Kicks Off...
Sex workers said to be preparing for the Brazilian World Cup by taking English lessons
See article from dailymail.co.uk
Prostitutes in one of Brazil's biggest cities are signing up for free English classes ahead of this year's Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup.
Cida Vieira, president of the Association of Prostitutes in the city of Belo Horizonte, has said 20 women have already signed up for the courses. Classes are expected to begin in March and last up to eight months. Vieira explained:
It will be important for the girls who will be able to use English to let their clients know what they are charging and learn about what turns them on.
And for the same reasons we are also thinking of offering free French and Italian classes
Prostitution is legal in Brazil.
Update: Harm Was Done...
Policing and policy on prostitution during London 2012 Olympics
See article from iusw.org
See report [pdf] from iusw.org
The report Harm Was Done: prostitution, politics and power in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics , was produced by the International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) to mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. The IUSW write:
Despite all the hype about trafficking and prostitution in the run up to the Olympics, no service interviewed saw more people selling sex or more potential victims of trafficking -- just as well, since none received substantial increased funds and two had substantial cuts to the service they could offer. One interviewee for our report (see Notes) commented "All this panic and hype, but no money for services!"
Sex Worker Support services say:
"The Games were used as an opportunity to perpetuate the myths around prostitution and major sporting events by organisations and individuals who take an ideological view of prostitution, rather than one informed by the evidence base."
"[Many of the attendees at the GLA meetings] didn't seem to know anything about the ordinary reality of the sex industry in London, and when you talked about that it was like being the kid pointing out the emperor's new clothes, nobody wanted to know."
"Policy was based on the ideology -- the belief that prostitution is a form of exploitation -- of a few projects who were driving the agenda and using trafficking to get support for their work, both financial and political."
And the harm continues -- one service provider said "It's not just the Olympics -- they're still shutting places down and they don't think of the consequences for the women, it's driving it underground and we don't get any access to deliver services at all. Women still have families living in poverty, they still have to make a living, and they're less safe doing it."
An IUSW report for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (17 December) reveals that concerns raised by frontline services for people in the sex industry were ignored by the GLA's "Sexual Exploitation" group. Services say:
"[Sex workers are] less likely to report crimes because they don't trust the police as much as they used to"
"It was just horrendous. Women being thrown out [of brothels] with no regard for their safety" "Places you'd been going to for ages would close, and you'd lose touch with all the people you'd been supporting there"
"If [policy makers] listened to us, they wouldn't have done what they did."
Comment: Big Sport in 2012...
Will the 40,000 trafficked sex workers turn up at Euro 2012 or the Olympics?
London 2012: Will the Olympics bring more prostitutes?
As previously mentioned the BBC have done a good in depth piece rubbishing the claim that major sports events attract hoards of trafficked sex workers.
See article from bbc.co.uk
The real exploiters of sex work
See article from janefae.wordpress.com by Jane Fae
Jane Fae comments on the BBC piece and follows up with a few interesting thoughts on the origins of the myth of the 40,000 trafficked sex workers, and who was set to gain from it.
Ukraine's prostitutes hope to cash in on Euro 2012
See article from indianexpress.com
Meanwhile the international press sort of recognise that the mass trafficking concept is nonsense, but this minor setback doesn't stop them using a sporting event as an excuse for gathering an assortment of oddments about sex workers.
2nd April
Update: Olympic Trafficking Hype is not only Bollox, it is Endangering Sex Workers...
Sex worker group calls for an end to police arrests associated with a clean-up for the Olympics
See article from xtalkproject.net
See also Let's Put the Safety of Prostitutes Ahead of Our Desire for a 'Clean' Olympic London from huffingtonpost.co.uk
x:talk is a sex worker led co-operative based in London. The group and its supporters are calling for a moratorium on arrests of sex workers in London with immediate effect until the end of the Olympic Games.
Governments, charity organisations and campaign groups have argued that large sporting events lead to an increase in trafficking for prostitution. These claims, often repeated by the media, are usually based on misinformation, poor data and a tendency to sensationalise. There is no evidence that large sporting events cause an increase in trafficking for prostitution.
These claims can lead to anti-trafficking policies and policing practices that target sex workers. In London, anti-trafficking practices have resulted in raids on brothels, closures and arbitrary arrests of people working in the sex industry. This creates a climate of fear among workers, leaving them less likely to report crimes against them and more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. This is an inadequate response to sex work and to trafficking.
x:talk is aware of clean up efforts already underway in London, particularly east London, in the run up to the Olympics. These include multiple raids and closure of premises. We anticipate that until the end of the Olympic games there will be a continued rise in the numbers of raids, arrests and level of harassment of sex workers.
A series of violent robberies on brothels by a gang in December in Barking & Dagenham demonstrates the effect that this climate of fear can have on the safety of sex workers. The effect of raids on brothels and closures in the area had eroded relations between sex workers and the Police with the result that the sex workers targeted by the gang were unwilling to report the attacks for fear of arrest. The gang were able to attack at least three venues in December 2011.
In light of this, x:talk and its supporters are calling on the Mayor of London and London Metropolitan Police to suspend arrests and convictions of sex workers.
Prostitutes at risk during the Olympics, Vancouver-based study says
See article from news.nationalpost.com
British authorities should develop a public-health plan to protect London's prostitutes during the Olympics, Canadian researchers are urging after finding that stepped-up police action and other disruptions during the Vancouver Games kept sex workers away from their regular haunts, potentially exposing them to more violence and disease.
The survey of about 100 prostitutes before and after the Winter Games also suggested the influx of new sex workers and spike in human trafficking that many observers had predicted never actually materialized.
In fact, the women surveyed by University of British Columbia researchers said there were fewer clients than usual, and they had a harder time connecting with them, perhaps because of the police action and other disruptions.
That meant many of the prostitutes could have been forced to less-visible pick-up spots away from colleagues and health services, said the paper just published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. Not only would that make them more vulnerable to violence, but could increase the risk of HIV and other sexually-transmitted infection, since previous research suggests isolated sex workers are three times as likely to be coerced into unsafe sex, said Dr. Kate Shannon, lead author of the study. She explained:
They don't have support of other workers around, support of someone to call for help, so they have less protection to be able to safely negotiate condom use. Rather than this artificial focus on a massive sex-worker boom and trafficking, evidence suggests what actually happens is adverse effects for sex workers.
Researchers with Dr. Shannon's group surveyed 107 prostitutes during the Games, and about 100 after the event was over, not necessarily the same women and transgendered people, but statistically similar. They reported no particular increase in the pool of sex workers, the number of underage prostitutes or evidence of human trafficking, the study said.
The women did, however, tell the researchers they had been subject to increased harassment by police, which Dr. Shannon said included being detained without charge, fined or told to move along.
Offsite Article: Mean minded nutters oppose police action against women but want them to harass men instead
2nd May 2012. See article from london24.com
Update: The Olympic Sport of Telling Sex Trafficking Lies...
Police have spent years on Operation Pentameter hunting for sex slaves and found hardly any. How do they expect non-English speaking visitors with an A to Z or iPhone app to find them?
See article from madambecky.wordpress.com by Madam Becky
See also Sex Trafficking… An Olympic Sport? from iusw.org
The forthcoming London Olympics have sent the media into a feeding frenzy of scare mongering. Warning us that tens of thousands of sex slaves are under starter's orders in outlying foreign counties, ready to sprint headlong, handcuffed in readiness, to England for the start of the games.
As a global anti-trafficking organisation, GAATW is concerned that international sporting events are being linked with increases in trafficking for prostitution, without supporting evidence.
How likely is this?
Trafficked sex workers are as hard to get your hands on in London as face value stadium tickets.
The police have spent years and 5 million quid with their specialist task force Operation Pentameter hunting for sex slaves and found hardly any. How do they expect a non-English speaking tourist with a dog-eared A to Z or an IPhone app to find them?
So who's telling fibs and why?
This unsporting bout of statistical fakery has been created by the media and the abolitionists, including the Poppy Project and the Salvation Army. These groups would like to see an end to the commercial sex industry. By saying sex workers are all victims of abuse or trafficking they get an outraged public onto their side of the argument to criminalise prostitutes and punters. If a story, or myth is repeated often enough and loud enough it seeps into the public psyche. People accept it as fact and act accordingly.
Updated: Heads Filled with Suds...
Nutters circulate soap bars around Indianapolis motels 'raising awareness' about supposed sex trafficking at the Super Bowl
3rd February 2012. See article from life.nationalpost.com
The Super Bowl is one of America's largest sporting events, and it is a time when nutters enjoy making ludicrous claims about thousands of girls, many under-aged that will somehow be trafficked to the event.
The award for this year's most inane nutter campaigner must surely go to Theresa Flores, founder of Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution (S.O.A.P.). She told The Christian Post that major sporting events like the Super Bowl generally have more men in attendance who are visiting from a different city, and often do things they wouldn't normally do at home. This creates a demand that traffickers and pimps are there willing and waiting to supply, she said.
Because of this, about 150 volunteers for S.O.A.P. are heading to Indiana before the event to pass out soap at Indianapolis motels.
Each bar of soap will have a label on it with phrases like Are you being threatened? or Are you witnessing young girls being prostituted? The soap provides the number for a human trafficking hotline so that those at the hotel, or young girls who are being trafficked, will see it and can call for help.
S.O.A.P. volunteers will distribute the bars Feb. 1-2, in conjunction with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship students who will hand out fliers to raise awareness for the trafficking issue with football fans.
Offsite Comment: Superbowl Sex Trafficking Increase? Super Nonsense
5th February 2012. See article from sexualintelligence.wordpress.com
An increasing number of groups are intent on persuading Americans that we have a terrible and growing problem with sex trafficking. Their data is virtually non-existent, elided with words like experts agree, a shameful epidemic, and enormous human suffering. The media reports their conferences and feral estimates, politicians grimly respond with vows of stricter laws, and the occasional wildly unusual victim is trotted out as proof of some enormous underground industry.
The favorite ploy of anti-trafficking groups is to grimly remind us that major sporting events are a central focus of this evil. Every year, the NFL has to deny that they're the center of an odious international sex slavery ring. NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy says the super bowl sex slave story is a simply an urban legend.
But that doesn't stop those who are feeding---and feeding off of---America's latest Sex Panic.
..Read the full article
Offsite: Trafficking in Propaganda...
More evidence that trafficking is a myth
Thanks to Spiderschwein
From spiked-online.com by Nathalie Rothschild
At the beginning of April, just days before the European Convention on Action against Human Trafficking came into force in Britain, academics, sex workers and activists from around the world took part in a five-day Sex Workers Open University in east London.
On the first day of film screenings, workshops and discussions on issues related to the sex industry, trafficking was a recurring theme. Participants were keen to debunk the myths of global people smuggling and forced prostitution. The head of the Danish Sex Workers' Interests Organisation claimed that very few who work in the sex industry have been trafficked. Nick Mai, a senior research fellow in Migrations and Immigrations at London Metropolitan University, asserted that, although anti-trafficking legislation is rolled out in the name of protecting migrants and women, it ultimately amounts to anti-migration legislation . A representative from the British Collective of Prostitutes said anti-trafficking campaigners use inflated figures and exploit public concern to push through legislation.


Anderson, Neill Langa, Arturo and Freeman, H. 1997. The development of institutional care for 'idiots and imbeciles' in Scotland. History of Psychiatry, Vol. 8, Issue. 30, p. 243.
In December we held the last dance. Shortly after 1 a.m. the ghosts of long dead patients would have heard the strains of Auld Lang Syne drifting down the hospital corridors. Perhaps they should have joined us.