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Dr Urmi Nanda Biswas is a Visiting Professor at the School of Arts and Science at Ahmedabad University. She is currently Professor in the Department of Psychology at the M. S. University of Baroda. Her broad research interest includes applied social and health psychology and industrial-organisational psychology. She has been a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow (CASF) and a recipient of the UK India Educational Research Initiative (UKIERI) Collaborative Delivery Award, and has been associated with the Clinical and Health Psychology Research Centre, University of Roehampton, London as an honorary senior research fellow and the Department of Psychology and Department of Work Science and Sociology, Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Professor Biswas has been the Principal and Co-Investigator in various national and international projects with grants from Population Council, New York; Education Department, Commonwealth Secretariat, London; Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), Sweden. She is currently carrying out an ICMR-funded Indo-Swedish Extramural Project which focuses on Sustainable home-based Elderly Care Models in India and Sweden. She has published widely and is the author of books titled, 'Understanding Attractive Work in a Globalised Context: Studies from India and Sweden' and 'Social Psychology of Health: Issues and concerns in India'. Most recently, she has been awarded with the Sashtri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (2020-2022) to work on, 'Understanding the vulnerabilities of Indian female migrants during COVID 19 pandemic: Rethinking policies for better integration of immigrant women's work lives". At the School of Arts and Sciences, Professor Biswas teaches courses in psychology.

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Anthony Anderson recalls the time he and Michael Jordan got into a heated game of dominoes
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2020, file photo, baseballs occupy a bucket after use during fielding practice during spring training baseball workouts for pitchers and catchers at Cleveland Indians camp in Avondale, Ariz. Major League Baseball is suspending all political contributions in the wake of last week's invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a mob loyal to President Donald Trump, joining a wave of major corporations rethinking their efforts to lobby Washington. "In light of the unprecedented events last week at the U.S. Capitol, MLB is suspending contributions from its Political Action Committee pending a review of our political contribution policy going forward," the league said in a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
AP Exclusive: MLB suspends political donations after DC riot
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is suspending all political contributions in the wake of last week's invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a mob loyal to President Donald Trump, joining a wave of major corporations rethinking their efforts to lobby Washington. "In light of the unprecedented events...
A worker cleans seats in Arrowhead Stadium before an NFL football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, in Kansas City. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Regular-season ratings for NFL games declined this season following two straight years of increases. But in a year that saw the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and a presidential election, the 7% decrease isn't as bad as the league and its broadcast partners feared before the season began...
FILE - Members of the Orlando Magic and Brooklyn Nets kneel around a Black Lives Matter logo during the national anthem before the start of an NBA basketball game in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., in this Friday, July 31, 2020, file photo. As the NBA neared its restart in late July, its players vowed to keep the calls for social justice reform at the forefront in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.(AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool, File)
Athletes act: Stars rise up against racial injustice in 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As the NBA neared its restart in late July, its players vowed to keep the calls for social justice reform at the forefront in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The basketball stars weren't the only athletes to act. In a most unusual year...
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) smiles during the second half of an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Mahomes piles up big numbers at Arrowhead - on Election Day
Patrick Mahomes piled up some very big numbers at Arrowhead Stadium last week. Twice. Five days before throwing for four touchdowns and nearly 400 yards in the Kansas City Chiefs' 33-31 victory over the Carolina Panthers, Mahomes helped turn his home stadium into a giant polling place on Election...
A limited audience at Arrowhead Stadium watch as the New York Jets play the Kansas City Chiefs in the second half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Election day over, Chiefs' Mahomes refocuses on football
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Now that Election Day is over, Patrick Mahomes can turn his focus back to the football season. Well, sort of over. As the nation awaited final results in several battleground states Wednesday, the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs still could rest well knowing he did his...
Poll volunteers work inside Ford Field, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Detroit. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said "I'm grateful for our sports partners in Detroit," Benson said Tuesday night at the home of the Detroit Lions. "They really led the way for sports teams across the country to play a critical role in providing the resources we needed to run the election successfully this year. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Sports venues across country in play on Election Day
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson cast her vote at the Detroit Pistons' training facility. About 12 hours later, she saw metal boxes on wheels with ballots inside roll into Ford Field for double checking. "I'm grateful for our sports partners in Detroit," Benson said Tuesday...
People vote at the Vivint Smart Home Arena, home of the NBA Jazz, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Voting, activism replace practice, games in US sports world
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just past noon on Election Day, after casting her vote where the NBA's Wizards and NHL's Capitals play, Mary Pittman exited through one of the arena's glass doors. Perched on the 77-year-old retiree's walker: a stars-and-stripes hat touting the basketball team, autographed on the...
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney talks with players during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Clemson, S.C. (Josh Morgan/Pool Photo via AP)
NCAA's Election Day off sends message but is it needed?
A summer of activism, sparked by protests of racial injustice, led to a grassroots movement to give college athletes the day off from sports on Election Day. The NCAA latched on to the idea and, under a mandate approved in September, organized athletics will go dark on college campuses across the...
Florida coach Dan Mullen, right, is held back by coaches and law enforcement after a fight broke out at the end of the first half of the team's NCAA college football game against Missouri in Gainesville, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun via AP)
Florida's Mullen's uneven month ends in Darth Vader costume
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Dan Mullen dressed as Darth Vader was fitting considering his last three weeks. Mullen showed up following a 41-17 victory over Missouri wearing a full "Star Wars" villain costume, complete with a red lightsaber. He even launched into character at the...
Philadelphia Eagles' Boston Scott, left, catches a touchdown pass against New York Giants' Jabrill Peppers during the second half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton)
NY Giants squander chance to get back into NFC East race
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants had a chance to be a contender in the mediocre NFC East and squandered it in Philadelphia. Instead of a two-game winning streak and being a half-game behind Dallas in the NFL's worst division, the Giants (1-6) have been reduced to a young team...


when a first click in dojox.layout.scrollpane component, the set value is not number and it should be filtered also in order to prevent a splattering.
ScrollPane.patch (545 bytes) - added by youngho 5 years ago.
Pull request at https://github.com/dojo/dojox/pull/54 , does anyone care to review?
Merged this fix in master, 1.9, and 1.8. It's not a clean merge back to 1.7, so I'm not sure if we want to merge it back to that release or not?


This post will cover the basics of Bitcoin trading. It will help you get familiar with basic terms, understand different ways to "read" the market and its trend, make a trading plan and to learn how to execute that plan on the Bitcoin Exchanges. Finally we will go over some common trading mistakes.
What are the most common trading mistakes?
The first thing we want to do before we dive deep into the subject is understand what Bitcoin trading is, and how is it different from investing in Bitcoin.
When people invest in Bitcoin, it usually means that they are buying Bitcoin for the long term. In other words, they believe that the price will ultimately rise, regardless of the ups and down that occur along the way. Usually, people invest in Bitcoin because they believe in the technology, ideology, or team behind the currency.
Thus, Bitcoin investors tend to HODL the currency for the long run (HODL is a popular term in the Bitcoin community that was actually born out of a typo of the word "hold"—in an old 2013 post in the BitcoinTalk forum).
Having said that, people can trade Bitcoin and still care about it, and many people out there invest and trade at the same time.
As for the sudden rise in popularity of Bitcoin (and several altcoins) trading – there are a few reasons for that. First, bitcoin is very volatile. In other words, you can make a nice profit if you manage to correctly anticipate the market. Second, Unlike traditional markets, Bitcoin trading is open 24/7.
Most traditional markets, such as stocks and commodities, have an opening and closing time. With Bitcoin, you can buy and sell whenever you please. Finally, Bitcoin's unregulated landscape makes it relatively easy to start trading—without the need for long identity-verification processes.
Day trading: This method involves conducting multiple trades throughout the day, and trying to profit from short-term price movements. Day traders spend a lot of time staring at computer screens, and they usually just close all of their trades by the end of each day.
Can I predicted Bitcoin's price movement?
People follow two main methodologies when they analyze Bitcoins (or anything else the want to trade, for that matter): fundamental analysis and technical analysis.
Tries to predict the price by looking at the big picture. In Bitcoin, for example, fundamental analysis evaluates Bitcoin's industry, news about the currency, technical developments of Bitcoin (such as the lightning network), regulations around the world, and any other news or issues that can affect the success of Bitcoin.
This methodology looks at Bitcoin's value as a technology (regardless of the current price) and at relevant outside forces, in order to determine what will happen to the price. For example, if China suddenly decides to ban Bitcoin, this analysis will predict a probable price drop.
Tries to predict the price by studying market statistics, such as past price movements and trading volumes. It tries to identify patterns and trends in the price, and based on these deduce what will happen to the price in the future.
So, which methodology is better?
Bitcoin exchanges are online sites where buyers and sellers are automatically matched. Note that an exchange is different from a Bitcoin broker, such as Coinmama.
Unlike Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin brokers sell you Bitcoin directly and usually for a higher fee. An exchange is also different from a marketplace such as LocalBitcoins, where buyers and sellers communicate directly with each other, in order to complete a trade.
The complete list of buy orders and sell orders are listed in the market's order book, which can be viewed on the exchange. The buy orders are called bids, since people are bidding on the prices to buy Bitcoin. The sell orders are called asks, since they show the asking price that the sellers request.
Whenever people refer to Bitcoin's "price", they are actually referring to the price of the last trade conducted on a specific exchange. This important distinction occurs because, unlike US dollars for example, there is no single, global Bitcoin price that everyone follows.
For instance, Bitcoin's price in certain countries can be different from its price in the US, since the major exchanges in these countries include different trades. Note: Next to the price, you will sometimes also see the terms high and low. These terms refer to the highest and lowest Bitcoin prices in the last 24 hours.
Volume stands for the number of overall Bitcoins that have been traded in a given timeframe. Volume is used by traders to identify how significant a trend is; Significant trends are usually accompanied by large trading volumes, while weak trends are accompanied by low volumes.
This type of orders will be instantly fulfilled at any possible price. You only set the amount of Bitcoins you wish to buy or sell and order the exchange to execute it immediately. The exchange then matches sellers or buyers to meet your order, respectfully.
Once the order is placed, there is a good chance that your order will not be matched by a single buyer or seller, but rather by multiple people, at different prices.
For example, let's say you put a market order to buy five Bitcoins. The exchange is now looking for the cheapest sellers available. The order will be completed once it accumulates enough sellers to hand over five Bitcoins. Depending on sellers availability, you might end up buying three Bitcoins at one price, and the other two at a higher price.
In other words, in a market order, you don't stop buying or selling Bitcoins until the amount requested is reached. With market orders, you may end up paying more or selling for less than you intended, so be careful.
Allows you to buy or sell Bitcoin at a specific price that you decide on. In other words, the order may not be entirely fulfilled, since there won't be enough buyers or sellers to meet your requirements.
Let's say that you place a limit order to buy five Bitcoins at $10,000 per coin. Then you could end up only owning 4 Bitcoins, because there were no other sellers willing to sell you the final Bitcoin at $10,000. The remaining order for 1 Bitcoin will stay there, until the price hits $10,000 again, and the order will then be fulfilled.
Lets you set a specific price that you want to sell at in the future, in case the price drops dramatically. This type of order is useful for minimizing losses.
It's basically an order that tells the exchange the following: If the price drops by a certain percentage or to a certain point, I will sell my Bitcoins at the preset price, so I will lose as little money as possible. A stop-loss order acts like a market order.
In other words, once the stop price is reached, the market will start selling your coins at any price until the order is fulfilled.
Other terms that you may encounter when trading on exchanges are maker fees and taker fees. Personally, I still find this model to be one of the more confusing ones, but let's try to break it down.
Exchanges want to encourage people to trade. In other words, they want to "make a market." Therefore, whenever you create a new order that can't be matched by any existing buyer or seller, i.e. a limit order, you're basically a market maker, and you will usually have lower fees.
Meanwhile, a market taker places orders that are instantly fulfilled, i.e. market orders, since there was already a market maker in place to match their requests. Takers remove business from the exchange, so they usually have higher fees than makers, who add orders to the exchange's order book.
For example, perhaps you put a limit order in to buy one Bitcoin at $10,000 (at most), but the lowest seller is only willing to sell at $11,000. Then you've just created a new market for sellers who want to sell at $10,000. So whenever you place a buy order below the market price or a sell order above the market price, you become a market maker.
Using that same example, perhaps you place a limit order to buy one Bitcoin at $12,000 (at most), and the lowest seller is selling one Bitcoin at $11,000. Then your order will be instantly fulfilled. You will be removing orders from the exchange's order book, so you're considered a market taker.
Now that you're familiar with the main Bitcoin exchange terms, it's time for a short intro into reading price graphs.
In the image above, the opening price in the wide-bottom part of the candle, the closing price in the wide-top part on the candle, and the highest and lowest trades within this timeframe on both ends of the candle.
When we're in a bull market, most of the candlesticks will usually be green. If it's a bear market, most of the candlesticks will be red.
Often, when looking at market graphs e.g. OHCL it may seem as though Bitcoin's price cannot break through certain highs or lows. For example, you can witness Bitcoin's price go up to $20,000 and then appear to hit a virtual "ceiling" and get stuck at that price for some time without breaking through it.
In this scenario, $20,000 is the resistance level i.e. a high price point Bitcoin is struggling to beat. The resistance level is the outcome of many sell orders being executed at this price point. That's why the price fails to break through at that specific point.
Great, you made it this far, and by now you should have enough know-how to go out and get some field experience. However, it's important to remember that trading is a risky business and that mistakes cost money. Let's go over the most common mistakes that people make when they start trading—in the hopes that you'll be able to avoid them.
The biggest mistake you can make is to risk more money than you can afford to lose. Take a look at the amount you feel comfortable with. Here's the worst-case scenario: You'll end up losing it all. If you find yourself trading above that amount, stop. You're doing it wrong.
Trading is a very risky business, and if you invest more money than you're comfortable with, it will affect how you trade, and it may cause you to make bad decisions. Mostly, you may end up losing a portion of your money that you can't do without.
Another mistake people make when starting out with trading is not having an action plan that's clear enough. In other words, they don't know why they're entering a specific trade, and more importantly, when they should exit that trade. So clear profit goals and stop-losses should be decided before starting the trade.
This is the most basic ground-rule for any crypto trader: NEVER leave your money on an exchange that you're not currently trading with. If your money is sitting on the exchange, it means that you don't have any control over it. If the exchange gets hacked, goes offline, or goes out of business, you may end up losing that money.
Whenever you have money that isn't needed in the short term for trading on an exchange, make sure to move it into your own Bitcoin wallet or bank account for safekeeping.
Two basic emotions tend to control the actions of many traders: fear and greed. Fear can appear in the form of prematurely closing your trade, because you read a disturbing news article, heard a rumor from a friend, or got scared by a sudden dip in the price (that may soon be corrected).
The other major emotion, greed, is actually also based on fear: the fear of missing out. When you hear people telling you about the next big thing, or when market prices rise sharply, you don't want to miss out on all the action. So you may get into a trade too soon, or even delay closing an open trade.
Remember that in most cases, our emotions rule us. So never say, "This won't happen to me." Be aware of your natural tendency towards fear and greed, and make sure to stick to the plan that was laid before you started the trade.
We covered a lot of ground about Bitcoin trading, but I have to warn you: The majority of people who start trading Bitcoin stop after a short while, mostly because they don't successfully make any money.
Here's my opinion, If you want to be successful at trading, you'll have to put in a significant amount of time and money to acquire the relevant skills, just like any other venture. If you want to get into trading just to make a quick buck, then perhaps it's better to just avoid trading altogether.
There's no such thing as quick, easy money—without a risk or downside at the other end. However, if you're committed to learning how to become a professional Bitcoin trader, take a look at our resource section below the video course. These resources will help you get the best possible tools and continue your education.
For additional exchanges visit our Bitcoin exchange page.
Yes, is there a reason Coinbase was not included on your list? Great video. Very informative.
Thank you man, such a great help for my team.


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Italian rock band Timoria made its live debut in the mid-'80s as an opening act for British Wire at Milan's Prego Club. After making a contribution to Amnesty International with an antiwar-oriented song called "Signorno," Timoria's EP Macchine E Dollari was issued, followed by the band's first album Colori Che Esplondoro, produced by Litfiba's bassist Gianni Maroccolo in 1990. Soon the group participated in San Remo's Festival with "L'uomo Che Ride," releasing Ritmo E Dolore in March of 1991, followed by 1992′s Storie Per Vivere and 1993′s Viaggio Senza Vento. They played at Sonoria's Festival that same year, along with Whitesnake and Aerosmith. In February of 2001, Timoria released El Topo Grand Hotel. ~ Drago Bonacich


The Union Minister of State for Tourism (Independent Charge), Culture (Independent Charge) and Civil Aviation, Dr. Mahesh Sharma held a meeting with Tourism Minister of Uttarakhand, Dinesh Dhanai in New Delhi. Meeting was a follow up of the earlier meeting of Uttarakhand Chief Minister, Harish Rawat with Dr. Mahesh Sharma to seek central assistance for development of tourism in the state.
Highlighting the potential of tourism in Uttarakhand state, Dinesh Dhanai said that state government wishes to develop tourism through an ambitious project of ropeways. He sought assistance for development of Kedarnath-Lincholi ropeway and ropeway between Tehri lake and New Tehri which provide a scenic view of the Himalayas.
Dr. Mahesh Sharma assured assistance for the Kedarnath ropeway under the PRASAD scheme and assistance for Tehri ropeway under Large Revenue Generating scheme of Ministry of Tourism. Dr. Mahesh Sharma disclosed that the Tehri lake area will be developed as a mega destination under Swadesh Darshan scheme of the Ministry of Tourism. It will also include developing of walkway around the Tehrilake, the Union minister added. Dr. Mahesh Sharma also assured Dhanai that the centre is making all efforts to provide funds for the ongoing tourism related infrastructure projects taken up by the state under PIDDC.


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American companies are on a hiring spree.
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WASHINGTON – American companies are on a hiring spree.
Businesses delivered a jolt of strength to the economy by creating 268,000 jobs in April, the biggest monthly total in more than five years. The gains were solid across an array of industries, even beleaguered construction.
It was the third month in a row of at least 200,000 new jobs. The private sector has added jobs for 14 consecutive months. Even a slight rise in the unemployment rate to 9 percent appears to be a quirk.
The job growth was better than economists expected and perhaps the strongest sign yet that what they call a "virtuous cycle" has taken hold: When people spend more, corporate earnings rise, leading to more hiring and then more spending.
Companies have added more than 200,000 jobs for three months in a row.
"This was really a good report because ultimately it is all about jobs," said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors. "More and more, it is looking as if the recovery is on track despite the headwinds it is facing."
Those include higher prices for crude oil and gas. But energy prices fell sharply earlier this week, apparently reflecting lower consumption in the United States and a stronger dollar. Analysts think the price of gas may have peaked for the summer at about $4 a gallon.
The rise in the unemployment rate, to 9 percent in April from 8.8 percent the month, was the first increase since November. But it appeared to be because of a temporary disparity in two surveys the government uses to track jobs.
Wall Street was pleased by Friday's report from the Labor Department. The Dow Jones industrials rose more than 150 points shortly after the opening bell. The Dow closed up 55 points, or 0.4 percent.
Businesses added jobs in April across the economy. Retailers, factories, financial companies, education, health care and the construction industry all reported gains.
And the government said the job gains it reported for March and February turned out to be even stronger than previously thought. Private employers have now added jobs for 14 straight months.
Economists say companies are paying for new hires by starting to spend some of the almost $2 trillion in cash that businesses stockpiled after the recession ended in June 2009. Analysts have said the use of corporate cash reserves is the most effective way to strengthen the job market.
Once again, governments at the federal, state and local levels all cut jobs — 24,000 in April. Counting those cuts, the economy as a whole added 244,000 jobs last month. The private-sector job gains were the most since February 2006.
"It is a sigh of relief: Economic momentum has not been lost," said Sung Won Sohn, economist at California State University. He said he was surprised that energy prices hadn't scared businesses away from hiring more.
President Barack Obama, refocusing on the economy after a week in which the killing of Osama bin Laden had dominated his agenda, said the figures were a sign that "we are regaining our footing."
"We've made this progress at a time when our economy's been facing some serious headwinds," the president told workers at a transmission plant in Indiana. He cited high gas prices and the earthquake in Japan.
"There will undoubtedly be some more challenges ahead, but the fact is that we are still making progress," he said. "And that proves how resilient the American economy is, and how resilient the American worker is, and that we can take a hit and we can keep on going forward."
Average hourly earnings rose to $22.95 in April, up 2 cents from March. Pay gains are trailing inflation. Over the past year, wages have grown 1.9 percent, while inflation has come in at 2.7 percent.
There was no evidence that the disaster in Japan, which disrupted supplies of some car parts, led the U.S. auto industry to cut jobs last month. All three Detroit car companies have been hiring at factories and in engineering departments.
Among the companies using more of their cash to hire is Amazon.com. It's also spending more on new facilities, including plans to add 10 distribution centers this year. A warehouse in Washington state will create several hundred jobs, and a customer service center in West Virginia will add 200 jobs.
"We're just seeing tremendous growth, and because of that we're having to invest in a lot of capacity," Thomas Szkutak, Amazon's chief financial officer, said last week.
Even with last month's burst of hiring, 13.7 million people remained unemployed in April. That's double the number when the recession began in December 2007.
Including part-time workers who would rather be working full-time and people who have given up looking altogether, roughly 25 million are "underemployed." They represent 15.9 percent of the work force, the highest proportion since February.
The two surveys the government uses to gauge the job market can diverge sharply from time to time. That appeared to account for the increase in the jobless rate in April. The surveys tend to even out.
To calculate the number of jobs that companies have added or subtracted each month, the government surveys about 140,000 businesses and government agencies. That survey covers about a third of all workers in the United States.
For the unemployment rate, it calls about 60,000 households and asks people if they're working or looking for a job. This includes the self-employed, farm workers and domestic help — people not counted in the first survey. In April, the number of farm workers who said they had a job fell sharply. Economists suspect that may have been because of bad weather that delayed planting.
It's typical in economic recoveries for the unemployment rate to bounce around sometimes rather than falling month after month. In fact, economists think the rate will probably rise further this summer because more people start looking for work and are counted as unemployed. By the end of the year, though, economists say the rate should be back under 9 percent.
Most analysts say the factors that held back overall economic growth at the start of the year, including higher gas prices and lower consumer spending, were probably temporary. They predict the economy, which has been expanding for almost two years now, will grow ever faster for the rest of the year.
Retailers reported strong April sales, partly because Easter fell later than usual but also because people appear to be more willing to spend. Auto companies say sales are brisk. And factories have expanded production this year at the fastest pace in a quarter-century.
Nigel Gault, an economist at IHS Global Insight, cautioned that hiring could slow in the coming months, as suggested by a big increase in first-time applications for unemployment benefits over the past month.
But the job gains of the past three months, which average 233,000 for the government and private sector combined, show "good momentum that should allow the economy to absorb the twin shocks from the Middle East and Japan without too much damage," Gault said.
Associated Press Writers Christopher S. Rugaber and Ben Feller in Washington and Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this report.
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N.Y. Judge Approves $7.2 Billion Deal Against Madoff Beneficiary
Condom machine stolen in Washington state burglary
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It is hard to believe the speed at which this year has gone! Senior students finish school next week in preparation for their NCEA exams that begin on November 7th. As is the tradition, we will farewell our leavers at Mass next Thursday morning. I use the word 'tradition', however we would not think to do this farewell in any other way. One of the reasons that, as parents, you chose our school for your child was the Catholic special character that we hold dear and which is the foundation of all that we do. Therefore, celebrating Mass with these young people before they leave us for the next stage of their lives is a very fitting reminder of what we are about and a poignant reflection of the welcoming Mass that these young people experienced when they began their journey with us.
During the week of the 5th – 9th November, we will be running tutorials. A tutorial timetable will be sent home for those students who would like extra tuition prior to external exams.
It was lovely to welcome back Lucia Vincent, Head Girl in 2000, to our Sports and Cultural Blues Ceremony on Tuesday. Lucia was very involved in the Arts when at school and now competes in triathlons around the world. Lucia is a Partner in the Webb Farry Litigation team, Dunedin, where she specialises in employment law. Congratulations to all our Blues recipients. It is wonderful to be able to publicly acknowledge so many years of commitment, resilience and skills development along with a growth mindset where to fail is to learn. Thank you for being such good role models in our school community.
Please remember the requests for baking and raffles for the house competition on Sunday, 4th November. You should all have received information home through email or conversations with your children about this. With two houses tied for first place currently, the success of these house stalls may make the difference for the House Cup! Please support the PTFA and the House Leaders in their fundraising venture for 2018.
Pictured from the left: Joseva Talemaicakaudrove, Sarah Mitchell, Katie Reed, Tom McKenzie, Guest Speaker: Lucia Vincent, Maggie Nicholson, Dakoda Conroy, Kate Thomas, Ryan Horrell, Charlotte Cuttance, Lucy Swain, Mya Robinson, Maygen Ditchfield, Grace Turipa and Fraser Ditchfield. Absent from photo Liam Davis, Freya Bools and Georgia Holland.


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Q: SQL: Using IFF to set condition depending on parameter selected by user I could really use some help / advice on this.
I have 4 parameters:
1) DATE
2) Hashtag
3) Make
4) Model

I am trying to build a query where its possible for the user to leave either Hashtag, Make, or Model parameter as null (Date parameter is required and can not be left null)
For example:
If the user selects 05/25/2017 as "DATE" parameter, leaves "Hashtag" parameter blank, "Make" parameter as "honda", and "Model" parameter as "civic",
The reports would: 1) filter the date field for 05/25/2017, 2) filter the "Make" field for "honda", 3) filter the "Model" field for "civic". (Since the user left the "Hashtag" parameter NULL, the report would not filter for anything on the "Hashtag" field)
How can I write the WHERE clause so that if the user leaves a certain parameter blank (except "DATE"), the query will skip filtering for that parameter and move on to the next one?
Something along the lines of:
WHERE Opened_Time = @DATE
AND ( IFF @Hashtag IS NOT NULL THEN HASHTAG_ID = @Hashtag
ELSE IFF @Make IS NOT NULL THEN MAKE_ID = @Make
ELSE IFF @Model IS NOT NULL THEN MODEL_ID = @Model
ELSE dont do anything? )

I realize the IFF part is no where near correct, I just wanted to try and explain what I want the report to do.
Does this make sense? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

A: You just need an or condition and default the three values to NULL in your procedure
create someProc (@DATE DATE,
                  @Hashtag varchar(64) = NULL,
                  @Make varchar(64) = NULL,
                  @Model varchar(64)=NULL)
AS

SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE Opened_Time = @DATE
AND (@Hashtag IS NULL OR HASHTAG_ID = @Hashtag)
AND (@Make IS NULL OR MAKE_ID = @Make)
AND (@Model IS NULL OR MODEL_ID = @Model)

A: In SQL Server:
The simplest way is to use or
where Opened_Time = @date
  and (HASHTAG_ID = @hashtag or @hashtag is null)
  and (MAKE_ID = @make or @make is null)
  and (MODEL_ID = @model or @model is null)

This can lead to some issues with parameter sniffing causing poorly performing plans to be used for some queries, so you may want to add option (recompile) to your query.
For more on catch-all queries:

*

*An Updated "Kitchen Sink" Example - Aaron Bertand

*Parameter Sniffing, Embedding, and the RECOMPILE Options - Paul White

*Dynamic Search Conditions - Erland Sommarskog

*Catch-all queries - Gail Shaw

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Obama Loves To Yahoo!
Flickr is the official White House photo site
By Scott Budman • Published April 29, 2009 • Updated on April 29, 2009 at 12:20 pm
The White House has an official airplane, an official Seal, an official dog.
Now, it has an official photo-sharing Web site. President Obama and company can be found on Flickr, the site owned by Yahoo! In fact, more than 50,000 images of the First Family, staff, and others have been posted for all to see, and even comment on. As befitting a president who rocks a BlackBerry, sends messages out via YouTube, and has brought several Googlers onto his staff, it makes sense that the First Photos are out there for the world to enjoy as well.
For those of you who want to see the photos, here they are.
They're all images taken by the official White House photographer, and they range from semi-official (Obama and Hillary Clinton talking over a park bench) to the semi-candid (Obama and Joe Biden putting on the White House green). No longer do we have to wait for the latest issue of "Life" Magazine to come out, like our parents did. Now, just click on Flickr, and see what the Obamas are up to.
Another social networking tool for a social networking administration. One word of advice: Good of you to open things up to public comment, but be aware -- the public can be brutally honest. Even about your putting game.


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Published on February 11, 2016 in Carnival, Culture, General T&T, Media and Violence. Closed Tags: Abuse, Carnival, Crime in T&T, YUMA.
THE POLICE must investigate the circumstances surrounding video images which purported to show a man being beaten by the private security guards of a Carnival band. The footage raises deeper questions which have, over the years, been left unresolved in relation to the regulation of private security guards and our national festival. The footage, which circulated on social media on Carnival Monday, shows a band of about a dozen guards from the band Yuma — identified merely by black t-shirts saying "Yuma Extraction" — ganging up on a man, who has been identified as PNM councillor Jason Alexander. The incident appears to have occurred not on private property, but rather in a public street.
It is one thing to say someone is guilty of breaching a rule, trespassing or posing an imminent threat. It is another thing to unilaterally take the law into one's own hands and to apply brute force disproportionately to a single individual who appears unarmed. This needs to be ascertained.
More fundamentally, how can a person be deemed to have trespassed in a public street? Carnival bands like to keep out people they do not want along the Parade of the Bands route using a slender rope and sheer force. But what authority do they have to accost members of the public or to apply force of any kind? Guards may act as bouncers on private property, but even there they must act within limits.
When the turf of the same guards becomes a public street, different rules, more sensitive to the higher degree of engagement with the public — who have a freedom of movement under the Constitution — should be applied. While some have apparently become accustomed to the rope culture, that rope does not strip citizens of their rights. It certainly cannot justify unlawful assault.
What is the relationship between private Carnival band guards and the Police? It seems there is some blurring of turf when it comes to the Parade of the Bands route. Citizens' arrests are possible, but again, these must be for offences. The determination that a law is being broken is fraught with difficulty and so the citizen risks civil suit if no true justification for the use of force (and proportionate force) is to be found. Potential civil action, however, does not strip the police of their responsibility to determine any question of individual and/or corporate criminal liability.
The facts about Monday's incident must, therefore, be ascertained.
But enough is known to make many ask if other social factors were at play.
According to reports, tighter and tighter restrictions have been wrought over the years on bands. Today, it is not easy to get into one. Questions need to be raised over how participation in Carnival is now structured.
Gone, clearly, are the days when you simply registered and then picked up a costume last minute Carnival Sunday. Now, one has to know somebody who knows somebody on a committee. It is not unusual for bands to request photographs of the torso of the prospective masquerader seeking entry! Systems that would — in other contexts — be regarded as downright discriminatory are blatantly deployed. It is true there is need to ensure security and to have some idea of who is participating in a band. But the idea that screening can address concerns over misbehaviour through such superficial means is questionable and, in the process, sublimates a whole other range of motives for screening relating to class, bodytype and race.
There is a difference between being choosy and being discriminatory, and in practice this is very borderline.
The deeper issue behind Monday's violent incident is the fact that our national festival is no longer one for the people but rather select people.


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Siete qui > > Notizie > COP26: Ignoring the vital role played by cities and regions will undermine climate commitments, loca...
COP26: Ignoring the vital role played by cities and regions will undermine climate commitments, local and regional leaders warned from Glasgow
Press release 12/11/2021 | Forestry; Rural development; Air Quality; Biodiversity; Circular economy; Climate change policy; Covenant of Mayors; Disaster prevention; Energy efficiency; Energy grid and networks; Energy industry; Energy storage; Environment policy; EU energy policy; Green Deal; Renewable energy; Sustainable mobility; Waste policy; Water policy
With COP26 conclusions expected to refer to multilevel and cooperative action, the European Committee of the Regions joins the call for world leaders to endorse the crucial role played by subnational governments in tackling climate change
After two weeks of negotiations, the latest COP26 conclusions highlight the urgent need for multilevel and cooperative action. The reference was deleted in previous drafts, but reinserted after the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), speaking on behalf of the Local Governments and Municipal Authorities Constituency, called for it to be included during the COP26 stocktaking plenary session on 11 November, the cities and regions day at COP26. The latest draft also urges Parties to further integrate adaptation into local, national and regional planning and recognise the important role of non-Party stakeholders in contributing to the goals of the Paris Agreement. Looking ahead to the COP27, a coalition of international networks – led by the CoR and representing cities and regions worldwide – today adopted a political declaration in support of further strengthening multilevel collaboration as a prerequisite to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C by the end of the century.
The COP26 political declaration, endorsed today by the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), the Local Governments and Municipal Authorities Constituency (LGMA), ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Climate Kic, Regions4,Climate Alliance, COSLA and AER - Assembly of European Regions, reinforces the message of the LGMA Constituency – the voice of cities and regions in the United Nations climate talks – that any pledges and commitments taken in Glasgow will only become a reality if every level of government is involved in their implementation.
In the political declaration, subnational governments call on the Parties of the Paris Agreement to include a system of Regionally and Locally Determined Contributions (RLDCs) as a complement to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – the commitments made by each country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change. Progress reports from each country on their work towards meeting the goals set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement should also include a section on climate commitments, actions and achievements undertaken by subnational governments. The full political declaration can be found here .
During his speech, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, the President of the European Committee of the Regions and Governor of the Region of Central Macedonia in Greece said: "Local and regional governments deliver 70% of climate mitigation, and 90% of climate adaptation, yet still do not have a formal seat in the UN climate negotiations, nor were their views properly represented by the EU in Glasgow. This is legally, financially and democratically wrong. Without ownership, citizens living in regions, cities and villages cannot be expected to support such an over bureaucratic top-down process. The COP26 lacks not only ambition in climate targets, but realism in governance. It now falls to the world's sub-national governments to unite and make up for the national government failings".
Juan Espadas (ES/PES), Mayor of Seville, Spain, Chair of the CoR's Commission for Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE) and of the Green Deal Going Local Working Group, declared: "We worked tirelessly to ensure that multi-level cooperation was properly mentioned in the COP26 conclusions. We made a significant step forward, but the progress is too slow which is in conflict with the need to speed up climate action. The role of cities and regions cannot be summed up in one sentence added at the last minute: there has to be a structural recognition of sub-national authorities in the framework of the UNFCCC, following the example of the Edinburgh Declaration of the COP on Biodiversity. The Committee of the Regions will continue to cooperate with LGMA and the UNFCCC to ensure that COP27 will also be about multilevel governance, to empower cities and regions with the recognition and the means to deliver" .
Rafał Trzaskowski (PL/EPP) , Mayor of Warsaw, Poland, Rapporteur of the CoR opinion on the European Climate Pact and the Revision of the Energy Efficiency Directive and member of the political Board of the Covenant of Mayors and of C40, appealed to the UNFCCC to keep the multilevel and collaborative action as well as a reference to local and regional levels in the final conclusions of the COP26. More importantly, he stressed the urgent need to put well-functioning climate governance into practice. "Only by working together we can make our cities, villages, and municipalities more sustainable and more resilient", said Mayor Trzaskowski in his remarks.
At COP26, the Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA) Constituency, composed of local and regional authorities from the all over the world, has been calling for greater recognition from the Parties of the Paris Agreement of their role in reversing global warming, as well as for a formal seat in the climate negotiations and the full acknowledgment of multilevel collaboration as a prerequisite for limiting temperature rises to 1. 5°C by the end of the century. In their declaration published on 31 October, World Cities Day and the opening day of the Glasgow conference, the LGMA Constituency published their Time 4 Multilevel Action Roadmap, calling for "a new decade where multilevel collaborative action becomes the new normal" in the fulfilment of the objectives set up by the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
On the cities and regions day at COP26, Thursday 11 November, Andries Gryffroy (BE/EA), member of the Flemish Parliament and one of the CoR delegates in Glasgow, took the floor on behalf of the LGMA constituency at the COP26 Plenary, calling negotiators to add the wording "multi-level and collaborative action" in the last paragraph of the preamble and in point 75 to add the wording "multi-level" when mentioning the importance of international collaboration. Finally, on point 76, he highlighted the disappointment of the LGMA constituency that the reference to cities and subnational government had been completely removed.
Read here the press release announcing the LGMA Multilevel Action Roadmap at COP26.
CoR Resolution on the COP26: Global and Local Alliances for Climate Action.
CoR opinion 'Stepping up Europe's 2030 climate ambition towards COP26'.
David Crous (Glasgow)
david.crous@cor.europa.eu
Matteo Miglietta (Brussels)
matteo.miglietta@cor.europa.eu
CoR Climate Pact Ambassadors call for more collaboration on key initiatives towards the European Climate Pact


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Mlice-Kostery (prononciation : ) est un village polonais de la gmina de Drobin dans le powiat de Płock de la voïvodie de Mazovie dans le centre-est de la Pologne.

Il se situe à environ 9 kilomètres au sud-ouest de Drobin (siège de la gmina), 21 kilomètres au nord-est de Płock (siège du powiat) et à 94 kilomètres au nord-ouest de Varsovie (capitale de la Pologne).

Le village compte approximativement une population 78 habitants en 2012.

Histoire
De 1975 à 1998, le village appartenait administrativement à la voïvodie de Płock.

Références

Village dans la voïvodie de Mazovie
Powiat de Płock

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Dave Gardner's Soon-To-Be Wife Speaks Out About Family, Agent's Perfect Love After Divorce
Willie Updated On September 27, 2022
Despite going through a difficult divorce, Dave Gardner was ready to fall in love again. Dave's second foray into the dating game was a success, as he found the perfect life partner.
The 41-year-old is a sports agent who represents a number of high-profile celebrity footballers, including David Beckham.
Dave Gardner : Brief Bio
Dave Gardner's First Wife, Davinia, He Met At A Social Club
Dave Gardner's Net Worth Increases Due To Divorce And A New Pairing
Dave Gardner was born in England on September 17, 1976, and grew up with a dream of playing professional football. He, like every other kid in the UK, aspired to be a footballer and began his journey with the world's most powerful club, Manchester United.
As a 14-year-old, he joined the academy but was unable to persuade then-Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson to give him an official contract.
But it was not the end of the world for Dave; rather, it was the start of a new chapter in his successful career.
Following his retirement from football, Dave Gardner established a football agency.
After failing to secure a playing career, he became a football agent, working alongside Sir Alex Ferguson's son, Jason Ferguson. The pair founded Elite Sports and had several high-profile clients on their books, including David Beckham. David Beckham is not only his most important client at the agency, but also a close friend. He has several photos with the retired football player and they have a strong friendship. Dave was left to fend for himself after Jason was embroiled in a scandal and had his license revoked. Despite the setback, Dave persevered and is now one of the richest football agents in the world.
Despite his failure to make the transition from academy to professional football, he maintained contacts with celebrity footballers.
Not only did football introduce him to the celebrity lifestyle, but he also met Hollywood royalty and was granted membership at Kate Moss' social club, where he met his future wife, actress Davinia Taylor.
Davina, an English actress, is the daughter of Alan Murphy, the "Loo Roll Millionaire," whose net worth is estimated to be around £180 million.
The couple began dating in 2002 and married in 2003 in a lavish ceremony. Seven years after their wedding, Dave and his wife welcomed their first child, a son named Grey.
However, Davinia's partying lifestyle caused schisms between the husband-wife couple, and Dave filed for divorce in 2011 citing her irrational behavior as the reason. The acrimonious divorce saga lasted two years and resulted in Dave being awarded custody of their son as well as a sizable divorce settlement, which increased his net worth.
Dave Gardner has a new girlfriend named Liv Tyler. Following Divorce
Dave moved on from Divinia and rekindled his romance with actress Liv Tyler, the daughter of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Kate Moss introduced them and they began dating in early 2014.
The two struck up an instant connection. According to a source, the couple was the real deal and had gotten hooked for life.
After the birth of their son, Sailor Gene Gardner, a year after they began dating, the couple's family grew from four to five in 2015. Wedding is postponed after the bride-to-be becomes pregnant
The birth of Sailor reduced the couple's distance and increased their love, with the couple unafraid to flaunt their love in public. In September 2015, the couple decided to give their relationship a name and became engaged. Following their engagement, the couple had already begun to plan their wedding. However, the impending arrival of their second child, a daughter, forced them to postpone their wedding day. In July 2016, the couple welcomed their second child, a daughter named Lula. In addition, Liv stated in August 2017 that the couple has always desired a family and a loving partnership.
Is Dave Gardner married to Liv Tyler in 2018?
Fans have been wondering when their wedding will take place since they postponed their plans. But when exactly is the question? The couple is engaged but not married, as Dave's wife Liv stated in a 2016 interview with E! News when asked about their wedding date:
Dave is thought to have a net worth of millions as one of the most successful football agents, though the exact figure is unknown. His contracts with celebrity footballers enabled him to stay in the game as an agent, where he has built a successful career.
Furthermore, his net worth increased following his divorce from Davinia. The former couple reached a financial settlement in July 2010. Dave's ex-wife awarded him a settlement in the region of £1 million. Furthermore, Davina lost custody of Grey, her son with Dave, who is now ten years old. As a result, Dave was awarded custody of their son as well as spousal support in the millions, increasing his net worth even further. Liv, his current partner, has a net worth of $20 million. After Liv expressed her desire for a family with Dave, the couple purchased a lavish £11.25 million London home in West London in November. The house is close to the home of Dave's friend, David Beckham. The four-story townhouse features mid-century furniture, extravagant chandeliers, feature walls, and art deco floors.
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ABHC 2017 will be held on 26th-27th August at the Collingwood Suite, Gosling Sports Park, Welwyn Garden City. See the competition home page for more information.
Cornelius Dieckmann won the Crawley Open 2017 with an average of 7.34 seconds. Ciarán Beahan finished second (8.45) and Robert Yau finished third (9.06).
More information will follow nearer the time!
Keaton Ellis won the Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017 with an average of 8.21 seconds. Ben Whitmore finished second (10.03) and Daniel Sheppard finished third (10.33).
Crawley Open 2017 will be held on 3rd-4th June at the Hazelwick School. See the competition home page for more information.
Cornelius Dieckmann won the Peterborough Open 2017 with an average of 7.84 seconds. Breandan Vallance finished second (8.73) and Ben Whitmore finished third (9.87).


Researchers already know that alcohol dependence (AD) is strongly associated with impaired impulse control or, more precisely, the inability to choose large, delayed rewards rather than smaller but more immediate rewards. Findings from a study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural basis of impulsive choice among individuals with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) suggest that impulsive choice in AD may be the result of functional anomalies in widely distributed but interconnected brain regions that are involved in cognitive and emotional control.
Results will be published in the July 2011 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View.
that measure impulsivity – for example, 'I act without thinking' – are less able to delay gratification, and are less able to inhibit responses," said Eric D. Claus, a research scientist with The Mind Research Network and first author of the study.
frontal cortical systems involved in behavioral control, Claus explained, this study was designed to examine the neural correlates of one specific aspect of impulsivity, the ability to delay immediate gratification and instead choose rewards in the future.
Claus and his colleagues examined 150 individuals (103 males, 47 females) with various degrees of alcohol use. All of the participants completed a delay discounting task – during which two options were presented, a small monetary (e.g., $10) reward available immediately or a larger monetary reward (e.g., $30) available in time (e.g., two weeks) – while undergoing fMRI. Impulsive choice was defined as the selection of the more immediate option.
Hommer added that this sort of debate is important to researchers, forcing them to think more carefully about what they mean by impulsive choice.


Research suggests that female victims of domestic abuse were particularly vulnerable to wild weather.
Climate projections about rising sea levels and soaring temperatures increasingly dominate global headlines, but one climate story that rarely gets told is the tale of how women and girls are hit hardest by extreme weather and shocks.
Yet there are myriad ways in which women and girls suffer more than men from the effects of climate change, experts said last week at a debate held by the UK-funded Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters program.
Why? In parts of the world where grave gender inequality is already stark, droughts, floods and other freak weather events mean women and girls are often among the last to receive help.
In Chad, researchers Virginie Le Masson and Colette Benoudji have encountered an unexpected manifestation of that dynamic.
While studying how living conditions affect the ability of people to resist climate change, they found that female victims of domestic abuse were particularly vulnerable to wild weather.
Victims of child marriage and female genital mutilation have less access to a long list of resources during times of climate crises: education, information and land ownership among others.
"To sum up: domestic violence impedes resilience building because it prevents those who survived violence to fulfill their basic needs and interests," said Le Masson, a research associate with the Overseas Development Institute think-tank in London.
Benoudji, the founder of Lead Tchad, a non-profit in Chad's capital N'Djamena, said that persuading community and religious leaders to break the vicious circle was one promising avenue in the drive to better prepare women and girls for extreme weather.
Christian leaders in the Central African country are starting to speak out against child marriage, she said.
Still, others are unwilling to disrupt the status quo.
"It's not always in their interest," said Benoudji.
A continent away, in India, Sabita Parida, an independent research and evaluation consultant working on food security, gender, and climate change, said women had been feeling the strains of climate extremes differently in recent years.
Amid a wave of farmers' suicides - as unseasonal rains and drought lead to crop failures - the widows left behind are the overlooked victims of climate change, according to Parida.
These women are often left to repay the debts of their dead husbands, which is a burden as their lack of land titles cut them off from government programs or compensation, she said.
Indian communities also struggled to give women the chance to get involved in discussions about adapting to climate change.
One initiative to open the dialogue involved setting up day care centers in drought-prone areas of India, with the goal of getting more women into work, and boosting their autonomy.
But overall, such gender-sensitive initiatives ended up making little difference, due to poor implementation, she said.
"When it comes to implementation or adaptation, we failed."


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Teenager on the Internet, Part II
This story link provides an update to story recently posted about a teenage boy who posted an off-color joke/lie about being in a sexual relationship with a young female teacher:
In my previous post, I suggested that a public apology on the lad's part might do a lot to undo the damage, and indeed that's what's now happened. It occurred at a carefully staged official press conference attended by not one, not two, but three lawyers representing the family, giving credence to my suspicion that this thing was now being orchestrated by lawyers sensing PR possibilities.
The end of the story has one of the family lawyers calling the school superintendent and chief of police "imbeciles" for levying the school suspension and suggesting that the kid's action might be a serious crime. And there's now the hint that the family's lawyers might seek some sort of law suit against the school for mental damage caused to the boy by the "overreaction" on the part of school officials.
Back in the day, such an event would have been handled quite simply and maturely by a responsible parent marching the kid into the principal'[s office, calling the young teacher in, and having the boy apologize for being such a dumb-ass. But now in the day of on-line public dispersal of information, news media dying to create stories, and lawyers seeking talk-show publicity, this is what we've come to.
As the old joke goes, "What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?"
Answer: "A good start."
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The Internet is Not a Video Game
An open message to kids and young adults who haven't yet got the message:
Facebook, Twitter and all other forms of internet-based social media exist in the real, adult world of cause-and-effect consequences. They are not video games from which you can punch the "reset" button if you don't like what's happening.
In the most recent local example of this, a popular young student-athlete in a nearby suburb of Minneapolis has been charged with a felony after he posted a comment on some kind of "confessional" web site where he stated he was having a sexual relationship with an attractive young female phys. ed. teacher in his high school. He now claims this statement was meant facetiously, sarcastically, as a comment of the absurdity of what was transpiring on this web site. (That's possible, I suppose, but it frankly smacks of the kid's attempt to bluster his way out of big trouble.) But the consequences of his action involved the quote being distributed via Twitter to hundreds of people, which in turn lead to school administrators and police interrogating the bewildered gym teacher to her great humiliation and embarrassment. Once it became clear that the stories were entirely bogus, our young high schooler was first expelled from school, and now potentially faces felony charges for the harmful effects of his actions.
As my wife and I discussed this last night, we agreed that the problem here is that internet technology is really built by and for people who view it all as some kind of game and not part of the real world. When you hear hackers talk about their actions from prison cells, for example, they generally talk about not viewing what they did as real crimes, but just as interesting intellectual games they played against financial databases and national security web sites. Nobody seems to realize that the internet exists in a real adult world where actions have consequences.
I recall from our high school days both a very attractive female gym teacher and a couple of female academic teachers who were 6 or 7 years older than we were at the time and who were the subject of jokes and innuendo, too. But the difference between 1972 and today is that back then we whispered our distasteful jokes to a cafeteria table of five or six close friends. We wouldn't have dreamed of broadcasting boastful lies to the entire school through the loudspeaker system. But in a world of Twitter and Facebook feeds, today's kids and young adults are broadcasting their every thought to the world at large. All internet-based communication applications should come with the following warning: "Say nothing that you don't want the entire world to hear."
The fact is that this single event, even if it was entirely innocent, will now follow the young man (and the teacher) for the rest of their lives. When interviewing potential employees these days, as a manger I of course do a cursory level of internet research. Can you imagine wanting to hire somebody who has this kind of thing in their background when you do a Google search of his name?
A subject for another essay is the somewhat puzzling response in the community where this event took place. Because the young man in question is a popular kid, captain of several sports teams, the community has united behind him with a petition of more than 2,000 names asking for his school expulsion to be reversed (I have an uneasy suspicion that this is so he can lead a sports team in playoff action). Yes, it's possible that felony charges might be overkill for this transgression. But a month or two of school suspension to teach the lad a lesson certainly doesn't seem inappropriate. We're not talking about a kid being suspended for having a pen knife in the glove box of his car parked in the school parking lot. This is real stuff; effectively an assault on the teacher.
The local chief of police commented on this, wondering why the support was mobilizing behind the young man and not the young teacher who has been so badly humiliated and embarrassed by the event. And why is it, I wonder, that the young man and his family are maintaining such dead-fast silence. If I'm this kid's father, I grab him by the ear and lead him to a microphone. A public apology for the unintended consequences of his action might go along way to justifying a response of understanding and leniency toward him.
No doubt the family is acting on the advice of lawyers, who as we all know exist in their own make-believe world.
Labels: Facebook, Mercurious, Reid Sagehorn, Twitter
A Dirty Sign of the Coming Spring...
The first sign that this brutal winter might eventually give way to Spring was seen in downtown Minneapolis today....
At the end of the day in the parking ramp where I park, the concrete floor was covered with hundreds of crusty, dirty globs of hardened of ice and snow born from automobile undercarriages and wheel-wells, loosened by the first above-freezing temperatures in almost two months.
In fact, the last month of winter in Minnesota is known by a native American word from the Dakota Sioux tribe that translates thusly: "the time of the snow boogers."
Spring, it is out there somewhere.
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Labels: Mercurious, MInnesota weather
Citzens of LAX, Jan. 31, 2014
In the waiting lounge for gate 41, terminal A of Los Angeles international airport, a young family from Texas sits near me in the isolated cul de sac of chairs at the back end of the room. Dad wears a ball cap that says Texas on the brim, and from the evidence of a Disneyland tote bag, I assume the family has been vacationing in southern California and is returning home to Dallas, where I will be pausing only briefly on a layover to Minneapolis.
They are an attractive, affluent family. The father has the muscular, healthy bearing of a serious weekend athlete, the mother is thin and lithe, perhaps a yoga practitioner. Their casual clothing is expensive, from top brand names, and the kids, a girl about 10 and a boy about 8, each have their own Ipad encased in a soft leather protective sleeve. It is a picture book family; the parents bear a slight resemblance to a young Kevin Costner and Christie Brinkley, and the kids could be models for television ads.
But it's quickly apparent that there is some kind of tension here. Mom sits down with the two kids on either side, and Dad offers her a piece of fruit, which she declines with a terse shake of her head without looking at him. She focuses, somewhat defiantly, on her smart phone Twitter or email feeds; her thumb scrolls briskly. He sits down near his family but slightly removed from them, a weariness evident on his face.
Within a few minutes of scrolling on her phone, abruptly, Mom breaks into quiet tears and quickly goes to the restroom to compose herself. I wonder, briefly, if there's been some sort of family emergency back in Texas; perhaps it's worry causing the obvious unhappiness in the little family. But when Mom returns from the rest room, eyes dry, makeup fixed, and lips tightly pressed together, the anger at the husband is clear. She refuses to look him in the eye, and instead draws her children toward her from each side, the universal move of a mother retreating from her husband—nesting tightly with the kids to the deliberate exclusion of the father.
Dad is decidedly miserable, and when he glances my way and see that I've noticed their family drama, he reddens and looks even more woeful. It's impossible to know, of course, but I wonder what his offense was. Am I eavesdropping on one of those entirely normal little moments of family tension brought on by holiday fatigue and too much frenzied activity? Or is this a deeply ingrained family problem that threatens more seriously? Did he forget a camera on the cab to the airport, or is he sleeping with a secretary?
At that moment the announcement comes beckoning families with children to board early. Fifteen minutes later as I board and move through first class on the way to coach, I see all four members of the family sitting across a full row in the luxury section. Mom and Dad are each in window seats far apart, with the kids in the aisle seats. They are still playing games on their Ipads, but I can see now that they're uneasily aware of the tension in their parents, and have focused on their electronics to avoid the discomfort of a family that has ceased to be nurturing.
The reality for this beautiful family is a little ugly right now.
Labels: family drama, Mercurious


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"OAG is, by nature, the legal pulse of the ongoing government": AG
After serving in the judiciary for 17 years, former judge Shera Lhendup resigned in 2009 and started a private law firm. On May 22, he was appointed as the new Attorney General.
He shares his views on the appointment and responsibility with Kuensel's Sonam Pelden. Excerpts
How did you take the announcement of your appointment?
It's not so much of a surprise because there have been rumours for a long time. Yet being entrusted, I am most honoured and what has come as a bit of surprise to me was that I thought preference would go to people, who are within the system.
What do you plan to do with your private law firm now?
I'd transfer the entire firm to the partners here, who will continue giving legal services. I'll give up because I must not have monetary interests in this firm anymore.
It's inappropriate for the attorney general of the country to hold an office of profit, although there is no such requirement. We haven't encountered such a situation, where someone from a private firm is appointed to an official position. It's happening for the first time and perhaps it's good.
The greatest challenge for me is the people I've been defending. One could say that I have a conflict of interest. But I'm leaving everything in the hands of people who've been appearing in actuality before the court. I've just been managing the firm, that's it. So, I'll go there and continue, but it will be my test of integrity, at least in my conscience, I must not suffer any conflict.
What, according to you, is the OAG's most important responsibility today?
I don't think the OAG should prosecute every case that is forwarded unless it's convinced that agencies have been investigated fairly, and there is substantive evidence enough to prove the charges against an individual.
Most importantly, investigating agencies, like the ACC and police, must practise the rule of law more than anyone.
When it comes to prosecution by the OAG, it's easy. But, in the end, when it's produced before the court, it turns out that these evidences were coerced.
We must stop relying on strategic ways of acquiring admissions from the individuals being investigated, or deceptively manipulating them into admitting something they have not done. OAG shouldn't be prosecuting based on evidences without evaluating the legitimacy of the evidence. This I feel is one of the challenges that needs to be corrected in the system.
Your reaction to comments on social media tagging you as PDP.
Has there been?
I've been tagged with DPT when they were the government. I'm now tagged with PDP because they're the government. OAG is, by nature, the legal pulse of the ongoing government. To see that the state does not make illegal decision. That's it and that will continue. With the recent amendment, it's been even made absolutely apolitical. I'll continue serving when the next party forms the government, which indicates sufficiently to the people and the political interests that OAG is absolutely apolitical. And they cannot oust me. I'm answerable to the King as well. It has been made difficult, yet in that difficulty, one has been made more responsible as a lawyer also.
This appointment is not to free PDP or DPT people or anybody. This appointment is to strengthen the justice system. We all come and go, but the system established must be good. It shouldn't be individual or personality based.
OAG has been given the responsibility to present with the best manner possible in the interest of the state.
Yet, one thing that we'll make very clear is that the OAG shall not seek conviction. Our pursuit will be for justice. You cannot seek conviction by all means, but you must not fail in seeking justice. Setting free might be more just than being convicted. But it's our duty to make the best of presentations on behalf of the state, and it's for the court to decide. Justice must prevail in the end. We must protect the rights of the individual. It's the responsibility of the state, and the OAG is an integral part of the state.
When you served in the judiciary, you were known as a liberal judge. Why?
Liberal judge means interpreting laws to suit a changing circumstance. It means looking at things a bit out of the box. Don't be bound just by law blindly because, at the end, fairness must be there. I think that's what they meant when they branded me as a liberal judge. It means you're willing to actually go beyond the scope of law and reason out that you cannot hold that law under such circumstances, and apply it alike everywhere, because some people are actually bound to follow certain orders.
I feel most judges should be liberal, so that social justice is actually done. Just good law doesn't mean its enforcement is also good.