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Saimo Chahal KC (hon) is a British lawyer specialising in human rights. She is joint head of the public law and human rights team at Bindmans LLP, in London.

Education and personal life
Chahal was born in Punjab, India. She attended  primary school in Twickenham and the Kneller Girls' School.
She has a BA in sociology from the University of Sussex. She qualified in law in 1990, joined Bindmans LLP in 1993 and became a partner in 1995. Chahal is married to Stephen Pierce and they have two children, a daughter Asta Chahal-Pierce, and a son Jamie Chahal-Pierce.

Career
Chahal first came to the attention of the press when she  was interviewed by the Guardian (22 Sept 1990) as the supervising solicitor at Battersea Law Centre because Wandsworth council with the lowest poll tax in the country had decided to axe the Law Centre's funding.

Cases – right to die with dignity
At Bindmans LLP Chahal has worked on many high-profile and cutting edge cases involving right-to-die campaigners, including Tony Nicklinson, Omid T, and Phil Newby.

Debbie Purdy
She acted for Debbie Purdy, a campaigner for assisted dying, whose case went to the Supreme Court in July 2009, where in a landmark victory the DPP was obliged to formulate guidance to Crown Prosecutors  on how they would decide whether to prosecute or not in cases of those helping their loved ones to die. This was the last judgment of the House of Lords before if rose to sit as the newly formed Supreme Court and the painting The Last Judgment hangs in the dining room of the Supreme Court justices. Chahal appears in the book written by Debbie Purdy who describes the first meeting with Chahal in, It's Not because I want to Die.

Chahal appeared on BBC Radio 4's 2019 Test Case: The Legacy of Debbie Purdy, to discuss Purdy's case with professor Deborah Bowman, Purdy's husband Omar Puente, and barrister and peer Charlie Falconer, and Omid T. who travelled to Switzerland for an assisted death in October 2018 while waiting for the courts to consider his case seeking "a declaration under Section 4 (2) of the Human Rights Act that Section 2 (1) of the Suicide Act 1961 which makes assisting in a suicide a criminal offence  is incompatible with his rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights".

Tony Nicklinson
Chahal worked on Nicklinson's case. Nicklinson, a then 56 year old from Wiltshire, a father of two daughters, suffered a stroke in 2005, which left him almost totally paralysed, only able to move his eyes and head. While Nicklinson was able to make an informed, and fully consensual decision to end his life, his disabilities meant that he could not take his life unassisted, meaning anyone who helped him would face a murder charge.

Savage
In a widely reported case Chahal acted for Anna Savage whose mother jumped in front of a train whilst a detained patient. Chahal devised a novel challenge under the Human Rights Act arguing  violation of her right to life under Art2 ECHR. The Trust argued that it would open the flood gates to claims.

Yorkshire Ripper
Chahal represented the "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe in his appeal to have a tariff, or minimum term, set for his sentence, and received hate-mail and negative media coverage. In response she said "If I wasn't the person I am I would have asked myself why I took that case on — but I felt I was doing my job as a lawyer. Peter Sutcliffe is entitled to good legal representation as much as anyone else. It is a fundamental right enshrined in our legal system. My job is to do the best I can and not to be bullied and distracted from that course." A journalist Fiona Bawden responded by writing an article about Chahal's unfair treatment by the Tabloids, in Trial by Tabloid for Ripper's Lawyer.

Junior doctors
In 2016 Chahal represented five junior doctors in their judicial review claim against the Secretary for State for Health, who was  attempting to impose a new contract on Junior Doctors which would adversely affect doctors' pay and working conditions. Dr White,  Dr  McVeigh, Dr. Masood, Dr. Silman and  Dr. Mashru, the  junior doctors  who founded  the  company  Justice  for Health Ltd, instructed Chahal in February 2016 immediately after Jeremy Hunt had announced a "decision to impose a contract on the junior doctors".

Other notable cases
Chahal represented a mother taking action against a doctor who circumcised her son at the father's request without the mother's consent, and represented Michael Sandford, a British man with autism arrested after trying to take a policeman's gun at a Donald Trump rally.

Chahal was selected to form part of a legal panel representing three of the most powerful human rights law firms assembled by Times Law in a bid to help secure the release of the well known Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei from prison.

Chahal acted for Alhammad in 1997 and won a landmark victory against the Welcome Trust the landlord in a housing case in the court of Appeal which reversed an earlier ruling and   gave protection back  to hundreds of tenants where tenants had lost protection when a leaseholder surrenders his/her tenancy.

Chahal successfully prevented a Serious Crime Prevention Order against Michael Steven Sandford, a British citizen who attempted to shoot Donald Trump during his presidential campaign in June 2016 and was changed with disorderly conduct and with being an "illegal alien in possession of a firearm" serving a 12 months and one day prison sentence in Nevada, the UK Crown Prosecution Service sought a Serious Crime Prevention Order against Sandford on the basis that he posed a "serious risk" to Trump, seeking to curtail his activities during the time of the visit yet Chahal evidenced that the legal test could not be met, resulting in the claim being dismissed.

Recognition
She was appointed Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) in 2014. This distinction given to lawyers "recognises their pioneering contribution to the law of England and Wales outside of practice in the courts". In Chahal's case it was awarded "for her innovative use of the Human Rights Act to help ordinary people, often vulnerable, to achieve success before the highest courts in what many would have considered unarguable cases or would have been unwilling to take".

 March 2018: Chahal was appointed an Associate Fellow, Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge
 February 2016: Chahal was listed in the Thompson Reuter's Top 100 Super Lawyers List, Public & Admin Law
 January 2016: Chahal was listed in the Black Lawyers Directory in the first ever "Movers and Shakers" list of the most influential and powerful black lawyers
 March 2012: Chahal was listed in The Times Law 100 chosen from the nation's 150,000 judges and lawyers  as one of the most influential 100 lawyers in society
 May 2011: Chahal was  Public Law and Human Rights Lawyer of the Year by the Society of Asian Lawyers
2008: Chahal was named the Law Society's Solicitor of the Year.
 Oct 2006: Chahal was Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year- Mental Health, for constantly pushing the boundaries of the law on behalf of those with mental illness and the vulnerable

In 2008 the Guardian's Afua Hirsch noted that Saimo had 'built a career on helping people turn disadvantage into pioneering litigation, a record that won her the legal profession's highest accolade... Law Society Solicitor of the Year.'

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But can your captain make the Gryrax-Scant Run in less than 270 leagues?
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Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win read from their latest works, Made By Mary and Invisible Gifts.
When Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann, a pre-school teacher, is desperate for the children she physically can't have. Mary, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together, they plunge into the expensive, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they, nor Ann's husband, Joel, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed, Joel goes behind Ann's back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary's delight in being a "bountiful earth mother" is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous, forcing Ann, Joel, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women, mothers, and motherhood, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor, intelligence, and empathy.
In her first full-length collection of poems, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors, flowing in poems like "Hands" My father's hands, frail birds, shaking wings. / In Burmese, "win" means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win's unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking.


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Would the excess of classes in the CSS document cause a noticable delay in how long it takes for a page to load?
Wouldn't the computer have to go on a wild goose chase for each class?
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To help mark the 100th year of service, we were approached by 208 Hawk Squadron and 22 SAR Force Squadron to produce a commemorative Centenary Crest which would be embroided onto the Squadron uniforms. This was also to be a very poignant tribute, as it also marked the decommissioning of both squadrons and the handover of duties of Search and Rescue ops to privately owned company, Bristow. The crest was to be used throughout the year for all Centenary celebrations, including the main disbandment party at Duxford War Museum. Specially commissioned SAR Force and 208 Squadron beers were also produced to mark this prestigious occasion.
A plethora of plane and helicopter drawings later, the device we came up with was to be a simple one. A large roundel, based on the roman numeral for 100 – C. Within the crest we drew a gold Seaking helicopter and marked the date the Squadron started and subsequently ended.
The beer labels were then devised to denote each of the squadrons with imagery and styling, 'tipping a hat' to past eras.
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package iht.utils.pdf

import iht.FakeIhtApp
import org.scalatestplus.mockito.MockitoSugar
import play.api.i18n.{I18nSupport, Lang, Messages, MessagesApi}
import play.api.test.FakeRequest

class XSLScalaBridgeTest extends FakeIhtApp with MockitoSugar with I18nSupport {

  implicit val messagesApi: MessagesApi = app.injector.instanceOf[MessagesApi]
  implicit val request = FakeRequest()
  val messages: Messages = messagesApi.preferred(request)
  implicit val lang = Lang.defaultLang

  "getMessagesText" must {
    "return the correct string" in {

      val result = XSLScalaBridge(messages).getMessagesText("iht.the.deceased")

      result mustBe  messagesApi("iht.the.deceased")
    }
  }

  "getMessagesTextWithParameter" must {
    "return the correct string" in {

      val name = "John"

      val result = XSLScalaBridge(messages).getMessagesTextWithParameter("iht.estateReport.assets.moneyOwned", name)

      result mustBe  messagesApi("iht.estateReport.assets.moneyOwned", name)
    }
  }

  "getMessagesTextWithParameters" must {
    "return the correct string" in {
      val name1 = "John"
      val name2 = "Smith"

      val result = XSLScalaBridge(messages).getMessagesTextWithParameters("pdf.inheritance.tax.application.summary.p1",
        name1, name2)

      result mustBe  messagesApi("pdf.inheritance.tax.application.summary.p1", name1, name2)
    }

    "return the correct string with 3 parameters" in {
      val parameter1 = "John"
      val parameter2 = "Smith"
      val parameter3 = "Sam"

      val result = XSLScalaBridge(messages).getMessagesTextWithParameters("iht.estateReport.tnrb.partner.married",
        parameter1, parameter2, parameter3)

      result mustBe  messagesApi("iht.estateReport.tnrb.partner.married", parameter1, parameter2, parameter3)
    }
  }

  "getDateForDisplay" must {
    "return correctly formatted date" in {
      val result = XSLScalaBridge(messages).getDateForDisplay("2000-12-12")
      result mustBe "12 December 2000"
    }

    "return empty string when there is no date passed to be formatted" in {
      val result = XSLScalaBridge(messages).getDateForDisplay("")
      result mustBe ""
    }
  }
}

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Domino's Accidentally Delivers $1,300 In Cash Instead Of Chicken Wings
09/22/2015 12:46 am ET
"Karma should drop by my place soon."
By Ed Mazza
Hiding nearly $1,300 in cash in a box marked "chicken wings" might seem like a great way to safely get money to the bank, but only if you don't accidentally deliver it to a customer.
A Domino's in Berkeley, California, made just such a delivery on Friday, and the customer didn't even open the box right away.
Mike Vegas, a bartender at AT&T Park in San Francisco, told NBC Bay Area he thought he was going to have the night off so he ordered some pizza and wings. But when he got called into work, he stuck the box of wings in the fridge unopened.
"I got off work really late, and when I came back home I found the cash in the delivery box -- a refrigerated deposit," Vegas told the station. "I was rubbing my eyes at 5 a.m., laughing at myself."
Vegas said the driver had called looking for the missing money, but since he had been at work, he ignored the calls.
Vegas posted an image on Facebook showing two stacks of bills -- one containing $666, the other $633:
Vegas seemed inclined to return the money from the beginning, using the hashtag #karmatest.
"Of course there's a long list of people arguing you should keep it, you shouldn't keep it, you should keep it, you shouldn't keep it," he told KGO, the local ABC station. "I wanted to keep it, believe me. But I can't, I can't do that."
Some of Vegas' friends also worried that the driver would lose his job over the botched delivery.
"Driver is safe and keeps his job, money is back at Dominoes, I was offered free pizza for a year," Vegas wrote in an update. "Bonus- karma should drop by my place soon."
Domino's was also happy they got their dough back.
"Thank you so much for this," general manager Zia Mumtaz said when Vegas returned the cash, according to KGO. "Honest people are hard to find these days."
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In keeping with the diversity and inclusion movement sweeping campuses across the country, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo recently released a 30-page report outlining plans to "improve diversity" via a series of initiatives.
One goal is to increase the number of people of color on campus beyond the increases that have already occurred over the past few years, as "applications from underrepresented minority students doubled between 2008 and 2018."
"In 2011, the campus was 63 percent Caucasian," the May 2 report informs readers, "in fall of 2017, it was less than 55 percent … but there is still much work to do."
The public research institution states it wishes to get those numbers more in line with the state's percentage of white people, which recent polls hold at 39.7 percent of the population.
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"To further advance its goals of reflecting the demographics of California and creating a more diverse and inclusive campus community, Cal Poly administration has developed the following Diversity Action Initiatives document," the report states.
In it, administration details a multi-year effort with dozens of intitiatives, including ones to further lower the percentage of white students on campus and increase the number of faculty of color.
For students, the school plans on recruiting applicants more heavily based on race. For instance, the school has recently implemented several new scholarships "aimed at recruiting more African-American and other underrepresented minorities." It's also working to recruit low-income and first-generation students by partnering with high schools that enroll a high percentage of these students, according to the report.
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This fall campus leaders will "require a diversity statement from candidates for all faculty and staff searches," the report states. It adds that search committees will now be made up of diverse membership and Academic Affairs has "set [an] expectation that search committees will be based on best practices regarding diversity."
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Size. Level of Development. Environment. Degree of Dependency. These words dominated the white board in Comets for Life club leader Dawn Synstelien's office. Boxed lunches lay on the laps of nearly all of the thirteen students planning to attend the March for Life rally as the club received training on starting conversations with those they would encounter on their trip.
The Comets for Life club is attending the March for Life in Washington D.C.. In their training and preparation they called on Wayne Stender, leader of Hillcrest's Evangelism club to give training in starting and engaging conversations on the street.
Wayne brought out a handful of tactics to explain the logic of the prolife position. He has used these tactics in conversations throughout the country. He veered from the original message to explain some important aspects of the prolife position.
Wayne centered his presentation in Genesis 9:6. He outlined that the most significant aspect of marching for life is protecting the lives of image bearers of God. He spoke to the challenge the culture has in respecting life when humanity loses a reverence for the miracle and grace of life.
Next to the large words "size, level of development, environment, degree of dependency", Wayne wrote other words. Elderly. Sick and illness. The word Preborn was at the top of a list of other groupings of people. Wayne highlighted that while the March for Life centers on defending the unborn, being pro-life actually involves a love for all people because all people are made in the image of God.
During the question time students asked how they should start conversations. Wayne gave the group an assignment to talk to at least one person during the course of their trip about the right to life issue. He told students to use him as an excuse, saying that nearly everyone is sympathetic to a student when a teacher gives a teenager an assignment.
"Tell them, 'I have this annoying teacher who said I have to go out and ask people questions. Could I ask you a question?'" Wayne gave them instruction. He went on to say, "Just ask them what they think about when life begins." He told them to keep the conversations light and fun, to work to gather perspectives for why people think the way they do. He encouraged them not to make judgements, but instead to truly understand what some ideas are for people to be pro-life or pro-choice. He then gave them the SLED acronym; size, level of development, environment, degree of dependency, as a simply way for them to explain why they logically support a pro-life position.
He told them that the size of a person does not determine their worth in society, so why should we place that same benchmark on the unborn? Just because a person is smaller in the womb is not a good reason to terminate their life.
He then went to explain an argument for life from a person's level of development. He said that his two year old son is not considered less of a human even though he is less developed than an adult. It is ethically improper for a person to be terminated simply because they are less developed. He went on to identify how a person in the womb, from the moment of conception, is on a path of human development. Logically, it does not make sense to terminate someone less developed outside of the womb, and it does not follow logically that we should value a person in the womb differently either.
He moved to the argument for environment. He spoke to a group of people in an airplane. He said that they were all human persons with a distinctive right to life, even though they are all in a different environment and are wholly dependent on the airplane to sustain a life-giving environment. He said that just because a person might be in a different environment that does not determine their right to life.
He paused on this point for a moment, sharing how sometimes it is natural in our culture to place the elderly or people with disabilities into homes that are outside of the normal viewing and interaction of a population. He spoke to the danger that practice causes because we then view the infirmed, the poor, and those who have other physical differences as less than human because they are not in a mainstream environment. Wayne said all life is important to protect because all life should cause awe and wonder, and human life bears the image of God.
Wayne closed out the presentation by explaining the concept of explain degree of dependency. He pointed to one student in the room, referencing her father who is on a daily medication to manage an imbalance in his body chemistry. If the father misses a daily dose it is likely he will die. Wayne explained that the father is dependent on something outside of his control and his own body and it would be against many codes of conduct to terminate his life because he is dependent. He then said that a person inside the womb, while dependent on the mother for sustenance, should not be able to be terminated simply because the pre-born are dependent.
A handful took notes in the group, writing down the SLED acronym, while others emailed Wayne later for the details. They took his assignment, nodding their heads in agreement that this trip should not simply hold a walk down Pennsylvania avenue and good food in Washington D.C.. The group wants to make a difference, and in engaging conversation, calling others to think through their position, they are starting to build muscles of interaction with challenging and difficult topics that are impacting their generation.


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Micheline Lannoy
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Today on the Oldest Olympians blog we wanted to revisit one of our earliest Olympic Mysteries, that of Belgian figure skater Micheline Lannoy, who was for a long time the only Olympic gold medal mystery. Since some of our readers have noticed that she has now been added as an official entry on our tables of Oldest Olympans, we felt it worthwhile to dedicate a little space to an update.
A bit of background for those unfamiliar: Lannoy and her partner Pierre Baugniet were Belgian national champions in the pairs event from 1944 through 1947. In 1947 they took both the European and World Championships, and then followed that up with victories at the Worlds and the Olympics in 1948. Despite these impressive successes, the duo ended their careers after the Games and managed to maintain a low-profile thereafter. For Baugniet, only the year of his death, 1981, is known, but for Lannoy we had been unable to discern whether or not she is alive. All we knew at our last posting is that she later moved to Canada and took the married name MacAulay.
Thanks to research conducted by Connor Mah and Rob Gilmore, however, we learned that Lannoy was living in Kingston, Ontario as recently as 2012. While it is certainly possible that she has since died, we have not seen any evidence of an obituary and this date falls within the range for which we would list someone as being alive, and thus we have included her on our tables. We hope that more recent evidence will come to light soon.
(Roger Midgley's obituary)
While we are discussing Lannoy, we feel that it is worth updating some other previous Olympic mysteries. We already featured French track athlete Robert Chef d'Hôtel on Oldest Olympians, a former Olympic silver medal mystery who, as it turned out, had still been alive and died only recently, in October 2019, at the age of 97. Even more recently, Roger Midgley, a British field hockey player whom we had listed as a bronze medal mystery, died December 12, 2019 at the age of 95.
(Jim Hill, pictured in his obituary)
The same research into French death records by Taavi Kalju that confirmed Robert Chef d'Hôtel's death, meanwhile, also verified that French basketball player Robert Guillin was the same individual as the one we noted previously as having died November 25, 2013. Meanwhile Connor Mah also located an obituary for silver medal-winning sport shooter Jim Hill of the United States: he died August 8, 2018 at the age of 86. Finally, Ian Taylor located a picture of the gravestone of the Ken Box who died in Australia in July 1982, which notes that he was aged 76 at the time of his death, far too old to have been the 1956 British track and field Olympian. Box, therefore, has been restored to our "possibly living" list, as we have been unable to find any confirmation that he is still alive.
And that is our entry for today! We hope that you have found these updates useful, and we will be back next week with more Olympic Mysteries!
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nele.vandendriessche says:
Is it possible that Miss Micheline Lannoy was born in Belgium ?
Can someone give the city please ? Why she left Belgium, what happened after her success in 1948 with her ?


Phil was one of the first people to buy the Sonoma Shanty plans. He has been building a shanty as a way to learn basic construction skills.
This first Sonoma Shanty is a simple shed, Phil's next one will be more detailed. This one was built in Southern California.
For his second shanty, Phil plans to build on the Northern California coast in the Shelter Cove region.
This shed still has trim to install so the shanty appears rough, but he will soon complete it. Phil has documented with photos his build and you can learn a lot about the construction from his photos. Enjoy and thank you Phil for sharing your build with us.
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#define CONCATENATE(arg1, arg2)   CONCATENATE1(arg1, arg2)
#define CONCATENATE1(arg1, arg2)  CONCATENATE2(arg1, arg2)
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#define COUNT_ASSERT_ARGS_IMPL2(_1, _2, _3, _4, _5, _6, _7, _8, count, ...) count
#define COUNT_ASSERT_ARGS_IMPL(args) COUNT_ASSERT_ARGS_IMPL2 args
#define COUNT_ASSERT_ARGS_SFINAE(...) COUNT_ASSERT_ARGS_IMPL((__VA_ARGS__,EXPAND,EXPAND,EXPAND,EXPAND,EXPAND,EXPAND,EXPAND,SFINAE,0))
#define COUNT_ASSERT_ARGS(...) COUNT_ASSERT_ARGS_IMPL((__VA_ARGS__,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0))

#define FOR_EACH_(N, exec,...) CONCATENATE(FOR_EACH_, N)(exec,__VA_ARGS__)
#define FOR_EACH(exec,...) FOR_EACH_(COUNT_ASSERT_ARGS_SFINAE(__VA_ARGS__),exec,__VA_ARGS__)

#define OP_BUILDER(method) [](sPointer * pThis, Args...args){ pThis->method(args...); },

#define OP_CREATOR(pointer, method, type, ...)\
template<typename ...Args>\
void method(uint8_t op, const pointer* pThis, Args ...args)\
{\
    typedef const pointer sPointer;\
    static type<Args...> func[] = {\
    FOR_EACH(OP_BUILDER, __VA_ARGS__)\
    };\
    func[op](pThis, args...);\
}

OP_CREATOR(SomeInterface, Method, FuncType, MethodOne, MethodTwo, MethodThree)

The wierd thing is that it is working for OP_CREATOR(SomeInterface, Method, FuncType, MethodOne, MethodTwo) but I would like it to support a variable number inputs.
I already know that this way to do things can be archaic but I would really prefer doing it by macros in this case.
I would like it to expand into something like this:
template<typename ...Args>
void method(uint8_t op, const pointer* pThis, Args ...args)
{
    typedef const pointer sPointer;
    static type<Args...> func[] = {
    [](sPointer * pThis, Args...args){ pThis->MethodOne(args...); },
    [](sPointer * pThis, Args...args){ pThis->MethodTwo(args...); },
    [](sPointer * pThis, Args...args){ pThis->MethodThree(args...); },
    };
    func[op](pThis, args...);
}

The bad news is when I come up to the "Expands to:" it appears to be correctly but in last instance it is wrong as shown when I try to compile it.
I am probably missing something... any help would be really appreciated.


My books (and catalogues / graphic novels) are available on my Issuu.com publisher account.
A collection of anecdotes and impressions accumulated in the first years of the third millennium while I was working for New Filcas of America, in Reidsville (NC); divided by city, with images to support the narration.
Una raccolta di aneddoti e impressioni accumulati nei primi anni del terzo millennio, passati a lavorare per New Filcas of America, una ditta di Reidsville, in North Carolina; suddivisi per città, con immagini e grafica a supporto della narrazione.


20's Plenty for York want 20mph road speeds where people live, without traffic calming and this is now policy for York.
We got an overwhelmingly positive vote on the Council Consultation on 20mph limits as printed in the Oct edition of Your City Magazine. 687 out of 1100 resident forms went in. Over 720 wanted speeds reduced in the Local Transport Plan.
76% of people responding the the City Council consultation on 20 mph limits wanted them.
York Labour and Green political groups have supported 20mph limits.


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/ Timbmet Group
Timbmet Group Ltd.
View Success Story PDF
Timbmet, the UK's largest hardwood importer and distributor, has a tradition of using technology to provide exceptional customer service and to improve the efficiency of its operation. As Timbmet puts it, "When there are so many companies out there attempting to sell the same product to the same customer base, you have to find something that sets you apart from the competition."
Timbmet upgrades to Epicor LumberTrack software for technology advances
Simon Fineman, Timbmet's Chief Executive, describes the company's reasons for enhancing their business software: "The platform we were working with previously had many limitations, the most severe of which was in the area of inventory control, which is extremely important to us."
"LumberTrack comes from a much bigger, more professional organisation than we could ever find in the UK, with specialist bent on the timber industry."
Simon Fineman
Chief Executive | Timbmet Group Ltd.
When the company reviewed their IT systems in order to take advantage of current technology advances, they decided the most appropriate strategy would be to find a suitable platform and forward-thinking partners to help achieve Timbmet's ambitions. They chose LumberTrack.
LumberTrack selected for knowledge of timber trade
"LumberTrack comes from a much bigger, more professional organization than we could ever find in the UK, with specialist bent on the timber industry," says Fineman.
"There's not a better product on the market in the UK."
John Dobson, Financial Director
John Dobson, Timbmet's Financial Director, recalls, "We looked at products like SAP and JD Edwards, and they weren't up to the timber trade." Fineman adds, "We looked at five different software providers based in North America. It was not a difficult decision to opt for LumberTrack, which comes with in-built functions that saved us a lot of headaches."
Accurate timber stock information improves customer service, saves costs
Timbmet uses bar code technology extensively to achieve accurate information on stock holdings and the status of an order. They use handheld RF bar code readers in their yard operation to track movement of stock and send that information back to LumberTrack. Orders can be tracked through picking, loading, marshalling, and dispatch.
One of the greatest benefits Timbmet has achieved is better customer service. "We deal with a lot of people who have manufacturing outlets-machine shops, joiner shops, fitters. They are very specific in what timber they want, so that they can minimize their waste. It used to be very difficult to tell them what we had; we had to go out to the yard and look. Now, with accurate knowledge of our stock, we can immediately find them suitable timber and close the order more quickly."
In addition, better stock control helped Timbmet reduce stock levels and costs. "We had an inventory in excess of £20 million in five sites," says Dobson. "We found we were actually carrying a lot of stock because we didn't know how much stock we had. One of the big benefits of LumberTrack is that we have probably two-thirds of the stock that we used to carry. We are now at a much healthier stock level."
Suitable for all timber and panel trade in the UK
Other benefits cited by Timbmet include: improved business process engineering, better product costing that reflects the value of individual boards, and a direct link of trading and timber yard transactions to their accounting system.
When asked about the suitability of LumberTrack to the UK timber industry, Timbmet replied, "We do just about everything that's related to timber. We do softwoods, hardwoods, flooring, machining, manufacturing, door sets. Because of the work put into LumberTrack on our behalf, their software will work for just about any company in the UK." Dobson sums up: "There's not a better product on the market in the UK."
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Industry: Hardwood Importer and Distributor
Number of Locations: 7
Platform for future business strategies
More precise inventory information
Closing orders more quickly
Visibility and traceability throughout order lifecycle
Up to 30% reduction in stock levels due to less safety stock
Better costing of individual boards


When I learned about the keto diet, it didn't feel too different from my post-Whole30 eating habits. My typical plate was filled with mostly veggies, meat, and tofu; I drank green smoothies for breakfast; and I swore by bulletproof coffee (though I still enjoyed cocktails at happy hour and my favorite pad Thai). I'd heard that some women struggling with PCOS (like myself) found symptom relief with higher-fat, lower- carbohydrate diets – so I stocked up on all the fats and began my own 21 days of keto challenge.
As I pushed into my second week, I noticed a general keto takeover of my mind. When I found myself spending more time googling the net carbs in pieces of kale for my salad than eating it, I realized what had started as an enthusiastic wellness adventure had taken a dark turn – one I am still recovering from.
I dropped five pounds in under two weeks, but I couldn't shake my constant exhaustion and irritability. My coworkers began to take notice. As a fitness professional, my job requires me to be on at all times – and I was less than present. I loved cooking, but I began to dread mealtime for fear of miscalculating carbs or just not having the energy to whip up even the simplest of meals. This unhealthy mindset triggered a slide back down the path of my disordered eating tendencies. Thought patterns, obsessions, and actions that hadn't been part of my life for years were reappearing at an alarming rate.
When I decided to stop the keto diet, my body revolted. I woke up constipated and inflamed – my stomach was distended in a constant state of bloating, my face puffy and swollen. My body began holding on tight to the influx of carbohydrates, and I quickly gained back any weight I had lost and then some.


RCMP in Nova Scotia are warning residents, especially those of which who live in the Beaver Bank area about a high-risk offender.
31-year-old Adam Mitchell Cox has been released from the Dorchester Penitentiary in Dorchester in New Brunswick on Monday and has a criminal record dating back to 2005.
He has convictions for mischief, breach of probation, sexual interference, and sexual assault.
According to CTV, Cox has a 25-year prohibition from having contact with children under the age of 16, obtaining paid or volunteer employment in a position of trust with children under the age of 16, being within 100 metres of public parks, schools, or any place where children under 16 might reasonably be expected to be present, communicating with his victims, and using the internet.
Additionally, he is not allowed to possess certain types of weapons, possess or consume alcohol or non-prescription drugs for two years.
Cox is a white male, with hazel eyes and brown hair. He is five-foot-ten inches tall and weighs 250 pounds.


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Q: Pygame Ping Pong Game Not Running Correctly? I'm making a simple ping pong game in python. The version of Python I am using is Python 3.3.3. Whenever I run the game it only shows a black screen when it's not meant to. It's meant to show the bats and the arena.
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *

# Number of frames per second
# Change this value to speed up or slow down your game
FPS = 200

#Global Variables to be used through our program
WINDOWWIDTH = 400
WINDOWHEIGHT = 300

#Main function
def main():
    pygame.init()
    global DISPLAYSURF

    FPSCLOCK = pygame.time.Clock()
    DISPLAYSURF = pygame.display.set_mode((WINDOWWIDTH,WINDOWHEIGHT))
    pygame.display.set_caption('Pong')

    while True: #main game loop
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == QUIT:
                pygame.quit()
                sys.exit()

        pygame.display.update()
        FPSCLOCK.tick(FPS)

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

LINETHICKNESS = 10
PADDLESIZE = 50
PADDLEOFFSET = 20

# Set up the colours
BLACK     = (0 ,0 ,0  )
WHITE     = (255,255,255)

#Initiate variable and set starting positions
#any future changes made within rectangles
ballX = WINDOWWIDTH/2 - LINETHICKNESS/2
ballY = WINDOWHEIGHT/2 - LINETHICKNESS/2
playerOnePosition = (WINDOWHEIGHT - PADDLESIZE) /2
playerTwoPosition = (WINDOWHEIGHT - PADDLESIZE) /2

#Draws the starting position of the Arena
drawArena()
drawPaddle(paddle1)
drawPaddle(paddle2)
drawBall(ball)

#Draws the arena the game will be played in
def drawArena():
    DISPLAYSURF.fill((0,0,0))
    #Draw outline of arena
    pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAYSURF, WHITE, ((0,0),(WINDOWWIDTH,WINDOWHEIGHT)), LINETHICKNESS*2)
    #Draw centre of line
    pygame.draw.line(DISPLAYSURF, WHITE, ((WINDOWWIDTH/2),0),((WINDOWWINDOW/2), WINDOWHEIGHT) (LINETHICKNESS/4))

#Draws the paddle
def drawPaddle(paddle):
    #Stops paddle moving too low
    if paddle.bottom > WINDOWHEIGHT - LINETHICKNESS:
        paddle.bottom = WINDOWHEIGHT - LINETHICKNESS
    #Stops paddle moving too high
    elif paddle.top < LINETHICKNESS:
        paddle.top = LINETHICKNESS
    #Draws paddle
    pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAYSURF, WHITE, paddle)