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Two imprisoned for violating Official Secrets Act
Chris Marsden | 17.05.2007 19:44 | Iraq | Repression
The imprisonment of David Keogh and Leo O'Connor under the Official Secrets Act is a flagrant violation of democratic rights. In part aimed at intimidating opponents of the occupation of Iraq, it is bound up with efforts to conceal the contents of a discussion between George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair on actions illegal under international law.
The prescriptions on media reporting and comment on the substantive issues raised by the trial are a major infringement on free speech with the same aim in mind. This is made all the more obvious because facts now subject to censorship on the grounds that their dissemination threatens Britain's national security and might endanger lives have been in the public domain for months.
Keogh, a communications officer at the Cabinet Office, was sentenced to six months for leaking a secret document recording an April 16, 2004, meeting between Bush, Blair and senior officials including then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell and the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice. The meeting took place two months before coalition forces relinquished governing authority in Iraq and during Operation Vigilant Resolve, a major US offensive against the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
Leo O'Connor, the researcher who received the memo and secretly handed it his employer, Labour MP Anthony Clarke, was jailed for three months. He and Keogh were both found guilty of "making a damaging disclosure."
The four-page document was marked "Secret and Personal," and was originally sent to then-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and others on a "need to know" basis. David Perry QC, prosecuting, stated that only a few people had seen the memo, including the PM's chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, his foreign policy adviser, David Hill, his official spokesman, Tom Kelly, and the Joint Intelligence Committee. Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the prime minister's foreign policy adviser, said only eight people had attended the April 2004 meeting "because we knew it would be a sensitive discussion about Iraq and other matters."
According to a November 22, 2005, report by the Daily Mirror, the memorandum purportedly states that Bush told Blair he wanted to bomb the Doha headquarters of Al Jazeera television and was opposed by the prime minister.
In May 2004, Keogh leaked the memo. His hope was that it would lead to questions in Parliament. He also wanted it to be passed on to 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry. However, when O'Connor put it among Clarke's papers, the MP sent it on to Baroness Morgan, the prime minister's director of government relations. For this he received a thank-you note from Blair, who Clarke says told him "sometimes the good stuff has to be done privately."
Within 24 hours of the Mirror's article being published, the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, invoked the Official Secrets Act to stop further reporting by it and other newspapers on the memorandum. The two defendants had been arrested by police special branch officers shortly after the document was handed to police, but were not charged until November 2005 when it became public knowledge.
The former Labour defence minister, MP Peter Kilfoyle, was reportedly told earlier about the memo's contents and was questioned by the police under caution along with Clarke. No action was taken against them.
A large portion of the trial at the Old Bailey was held behind closed doors, after Mr. Justice Aikens deemed that "some individuals or groups in the Middle East might react very unfavourably to the contents of the letter." He had warned that even implying what was in the memo would be likely to be held in contempt of court.
Despite having been widely reported internationally and available on the Internet, the judge ruled that the Mirror's claims could not be repeated in reports of the trial. To make maters more complex, he stated that the contents of the leak to the Mirror could be reported—as long as they are not linked to the case and appear on a separate page of the newspaper involved.
At the trial, jurors were shown the memorandum in private. Its contents were not directly referred to by counsel or witnesses in open court.
Aikens has also made an extension of a contempt order to comments made by Keogh in open court, when he was asked what preyed on his mind when he first saw the document. This ruling is being appealed by the Guardian, the Times and the BBC.
Foreign newspapers are not bound by the contempt orders, and the Internet is not mentioned by the judge.
His decision on the Mirror's claims is made all the more extraordinary because it has played a part in determining the conduct of the trial. Aikens's ruling last year setting out the reasons for allowing evidence to be heard in secret cited the Mirror's statement that the memo recorded a threat by Bush to "unleash 'military action' against Al Jazeera" was "inaccurate about the contents of the letter."
The Guardian commented on May 12 on the absurdities resulting from the efforts to suppress discussion of the memo: "Facts that can be freely reported elsewhere in this paper cannot appear in this column.... Allegations based on these papers made headlines round the world. Mr. Justice Aikens knows full well that the horse has long since bolted and that closing the door is futile, yet in an eccentric move he still made a point of trying to push it half shut. He ruled that these claims could be reported, but only in articles not referring to the document. We can neither confirm nor deny whether these claims are referred to in other pages of the Guardian."
It continued that the new ruling "suppresses material already available not only abroad but also at home. Even if the aim is to spare American blushes, the ruling hardly makes sense when the allegations are already public knowledge in the US. One specific allegation—that Mr. Bush was considering bombing the Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera—is exempt from the censorship, an extra hole in the gag that only underlines its futility."
Because of these restrictions, nothing else definitive can be stated about the document's contents.
The trial and conviction have been widely denounced as an attempt to conceal the political embarrassment of Bush, when there was in fact no threat to British lives posed by the revelations. Keogh's barrister Rex Tedd QC said, "The real position, I suggest, is that central to any principle of confidentiality is protecting any American leader from public embarrassment by the disclosure of what is said."
Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett stated last year that the document's disclosure would have a "serious negative impact" on diplomatic relations with the US, which would result in "a substantial risk of harm to national security." For its part, the prosecution had admitted that the leak did not contain any "actual damage."
However, "embarrassment" is possibly not all that is at stake. Keogh himself described the memo's contents not only as "abhorrent," but also "illegal." Questioned on this, Sir Nigel Sheinwald had insisted that private talks between world leaders must remain confidential however illegal or morally abhorrent aspects of their discussions might be.
Kilfoyle has said he intends to raise questions in parliament next week over what discussions Blair had with Bush about plans to bomb Al Jazeera and what Blair knew of US plans to attack Fallujah at that time. He will also ask Blair about what Bush wanted UK troops to do in Iraq outside the area of initial deployment, in the southeast of Iraq.
He has said there are unanswered questions about the talks between Blair and Bush on the attack on Fallujah and "the subsequent deaths of many hundreds of civilians.... There are documents, there are facts, which I think ought to be in the public domain, because it is more important that the public are aware of these things than they are kept secret.... I think we live in a society and operate under a system that values secrecy to an excessive degree."
Reporting Kilfoyle's intentions, the Guardian notes, "It was reported at the time that the US general Mark Kimmet had demanded the removal from Fallujah of Al Jazeera.
"It has also been widely reported that an American request for British troops to help support the Fallujah operation was on the agenda of the White House meeting. Soldiers from the Black Watch regiment were subsequently deployed to help the US south of Baghdad."
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WIESBADEN: The 21st edition of the goEast Film Festival, running 20 – 26 April 2021, is accepting applications to its East-West Talent Lab through 1 March.
The programme for emerging talents is intended for filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe as well as Germany, who would like to develop their current projects and forge connections to their peers. It is open for directors working on their first projects, and producers with no specific projects of their own are also eligible to attend. The programme supports a total of 30 emerging talents with workshops on film financing, distribution strategies and content development, culminating in a public pitching session.
The most innovative project will receive the goEast Development Award with 3,500 EUR in prize money. The programme also gives a research grant of 3,500 EUR for a documentary film project focusing on human rights issues.
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Q: Initializing array on stack with copy constructor I want to have a stack-allocated array initialized by a copy constructor.
I only see methods allocating memory on the heap, or using std::array.
With std::array, it would look like the following:
class A
{
    std::array<int, 5> my_array;    // I would like to have int my_array[5]; instead of the std::array
    int size;
public:
    A(const A& p)
        : my_array{ p.my_array }, size(p.size) {}
}

How can I implement this without std::array<int,5> but with a plain array (int my_array[5];)? I have added this in the comment in the code.
At the moment, the array contains integers. If this would contain, let's say a class B, which contains also a pointer:
class B
{
   int* my_ptr;
}

Does std::array handle this correctly and perform a deep copy?

A: Arrays cannot be copy-initialised in C++. You can either:

*

*Assign each member in a loop i.e. std::copy in the constructor body.

*Or wrap the array inside a class, and use the generated copy constructor. There is a template for such wrapper class in the standard library. It's the std::array that you already know of.

Of course, your class itself is a class that is a wrapper for the array, so you could simply not have user defined copy constructor, and instead use the implicitly generated one:
struct A
{
    int my_array[5];
    int size;
};

If this would contain, let's say a class B which contains also a pointer ... does the std::array handle this correctly

Yes.

... and performs a deep copy?

No. Copying a std::array copies each element and nothing more. Copying a pointer is a shallow copy.

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SEC Charges Broker-Dealer in Employee's MicroCap Pump-and-Dump Fraud
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Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against Wedbush Securities Inc. for failing to supervise employee Timary Delorme after the broker-dealer ignored numerous red flags indicating that Delorme was involved in a long-running pump-and-dump scheme targeting retail investors. Delorme agreed to settle fraud charges stemming from the same scheme. This is the second SEC action against Wedbush this year and the third since 2014.
The SEC's investigation found that Delorme – a registered representative of Wedbush – received undisclosed benefits for investing her customers in microcap stocks that were the subject of a "pump-and-dump" scheme orchestrated by Izak Zirk Engelbrecht, who was previously charged by the Commission and criminal authorities in separate actions. According to the SEC's order, Wedbush ignored multiple signs of Delorme's fraud, including a customer email outlining Delorme's involvement in the scheme and multiple FINRA arbitrations and inquiries regarding her penny stock trading activity. In response to these clear red flags, Wedbush conducted two flawed and insufficient investigations into Delorme's conduct but failed to take appropriate action.
"Brokerage firms play an important role in protecting retail investors from abusive conduct by brokers like Delorme," said Marc P. Berger, Director of the SEC's New York Regional Office. "This case sends a clear message that we will not tolerate broker-dealers that fail to exercise appropriate supervision over employees, as alleged here."
The SEC's order instituting administrative proceedings against Wedbush charges that the broker-dealer failed reasonably to supervise Delorme with a view to preventing and detecting her violations. The matter will be scheduled for a hearing before an administrative law judge, who will hear the case and prepare an initial decision. A separate order finds that Delorme violated the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. Without admitting or denying the findings, Delorme agreed to entry of the order, which requires her to pay a $50,000 penalty, imposes industry and penny stock bars, and orders her to cease and desist from future violations.
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Sometimes you need a little help to chill out when you're on edge, overstretched, or a bundle of nerves. Enter essential oils, which have the power to soothe stress with certain scents. New to aromatherapy? Not to worry—you'll find all the basics here.
Essential oils are highly concentrated aromatic plant extracts. They're generally derived through steam distillation and are much stronger than the flowers, herbs, or trees they come from. Hundreds or even thousands of pounds of a plant can go into making just one pound of its essential oil.
Essential oil molecules activate the primal part of our brain that is responsible for our emotions, called the limbic system, likely by stimulating the olfactory system. What we smell affects the body, mind, and spirit: This is the premise of aromatherapy.
Essential oils have naturally occurring chemical compounds, and although they have a low toxicity profile, it's important to exercise some caution when using these oils. Each essential oil may come with its own warnings, so it's important to be informed and to speak with your local aromatherapist or natural health care practitioner before using essential oils, particularly where children and pregnant women are concerned.
In general, essential oils should not be ingested, and most shouldn't be used on the skin without being diluted in a carrier oil.
You can inhale essential oils by using an essential oil diffuser, which causes the oils to vaporize into the air (see "Which essential oil diffuser is right for you?"). Essential oils can also be inhaled directly from the bottle, or a few drops can be placed on a tissue and wafted under your nose. Alternatively, you can add essential oils to a bowl of hot water and inhale the steam rising off the water (from a safe distance).
Massage is another effective method. Be sure to dilute the essential oils in carrier oils, such as almond, grapeseed, or jojoba, or in a lotion. The rule of thumb for mixing essential oils for massage is 3 percent dilution, or 20 drops of essential oil per 2 Tbsp of carrier oil.
Bathing in aromatic waters is an age-old ritual that is very beneficial for cleansing and relaxation. Using sea or Epsom salts, carrier oils, or even powdered milk as a base for your aromatic oils will ensure good dispersion throughout the water. Use 8 drops of essential oil per 1 cup of carrier of your choice.
Which essential oils soothe stress?
This oil, derived from the rind of the bergamot, an Italian citrus fruit, smells uplifting yet earthy. It helps balance anxiety and stress. A 2013 study of more than 100 patients awaiting same-day surgery found that those exposed to bergamot aromatherapy experienced less anxiety than the control group.
Try spritzing a room with bergamot. Add 3 drops of bergamot essential oil to 1 Tbsp of vodka. Pour the mixture into 1/4 cup of warm water in a spray bottle, shake well, and spritz.
Lemon essential oil smells like freshly squeezed lemon juice—clean and bright—and comes from the rind of the bright yellow fruit. It helps uplift your mood and stimulate your mind. Animal studies have shown lemon fragrance has restorative effects on stress-induced suppression of the immune system. In addition, research suggests that a key component of citrus essential oils, limonene, has sedative effects.
Inhaling citrus essential oils (such as lemon and bergamot) to brighten your day can work wonders, but it's especially important to use a carrier when using these oils in the bath or on your skin. Undiluted citrus essential oil can burn and irritate skin. Citrus oils may also increase photosensitivity, so avoid using them before you spend time in the sun.
This highly aromatic, floral-smelling essential oil comes from the spring blossoms of the bitter orange tree. Neroli essential oil helps soothe nervous tension by acting as a mild sedative. A study of postmenopausal women found inhaling neroli for five minutes twice a day for five days helped lower blood pressure and showed promise as a stress reliever. Another study found neroli oil reduced pre-procedure anxiety among colonoscopy patients.
Gardenia blossoms smell sweet, floral, exotic, and intoxicating—and the same can be said of the thick, luxurious essential oil that's extracted from them. This essential oil helps reduce anxiety and promote a state of calm. German researchers found that inhalation of gardenia essential oil acted as strongly on the brain as common pharmaceutical sleeping pills and mood enhancers.
Calling to mind fields full of purple blooms in the south of France, lavender essential oil smells clean, floral, and earthy. It helps decrease the symptoms of stress, among many other benefits. Research has shown lavender can help treat insomnia and reduce anticipatory anxiety.
One drop of lavender essential oil on your pillow before bedtime can support a restful night's sleep.
Lemon balm essential oil smells bright and lemony, but it's actually derived from the leaves of a member of the mint family: the lemon balm herb. It helps with symptoms of stress, anxiety, and sleeplessness. Blend Melissa with other nerve-soothing and uplifting oils to help bring you into a relaxed and calm state.
This earthy essential oil comes from the wood of the Atlas cedar tree. It helps balance nervousness, anxiety, and stress. A study of women from three different countries suggested that cedrol, a major component of cedarwood essential oil, had a sedative effect despite differences in the women's ethnicity and living environments. An energetically grounding oil, like most tree oils, cedarwood can help to focus the mind.
These traditional diffusers use a candle or other heat source to heat a bowl containing essential oils so that the oils evaporate into the air. They can't be left unattended, and any candles should be blown out before bed.
These small, inexpensive electric units plug into a wall for the home or into the lighter in your car and are easy to operate. They use a fan to quickly spread scents into your space.
These modern diffusers use ultrasonic vibrations, not heat, to break the essential oils into micro particles and disperse them in a cold mist.


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Q: jQuery Function not calling multiple times through php loop I made a button inside a while loop and then passed a jquery function to it. Now the jquery function is working fine on the first button but doesn't work on other buttons.

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A: Instead of using the callback in the <options> tag, add it to the select tag. You do not need to attach the callback on every option.
It will work with the select tag alone.
Replace your select tag with this:
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Hope it would help.


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Home > Programs > Racial Justice > Impact Work > Reentry and Criminal Justice Reform
Reentry and Criminal Justice Reform
Through our direct legal services program, Lawyers' Committee is able to identify areas within reentry and the broader criminal justice system in need of reform advocacy. On a policy level, we push for legislation at both the state and local level to reduce the barriers to reentry and improve opportunities for successful reintegration. We have also pursued litigation to protect the rights of people with prior records. Our policy work includes co-sponsoring legislation, shaping legislative proposals, providing technical expertise in support of legislation, testifying before legislative committees, educating legislators about reentry issues, and helping to organize among partners. Examples include:
2014 – The Fair Chance Ordinance is signed into law after a long and arduous effort led by the Lawyers' Committee. The Fair Chance Ordinance will extend the City's current fair hiring policies, known commonly as "ban the box" to private businesses, affordable housing, and contracting. The Lawyers' Committee developed and championed the ordinance knowing how critical it is to remove unnecessary barriers to stable housing and employment for individuals with conviction records.
2013 – AB 651 (Bradford), the Reentry & Employment Opportunities Act. Co-sponsored by the Lawyers' Committee, under this law, people sentenced under Realignment will have the opportunity to clean up their records upon a showing of rehabilitation.
2013 – SB 530 (Wright), California Expungement, prohibits employers from asking about, using or considering convictions that have been set aside and dismissed (commonly known as "expunged"). It also amended the Penal Code to allow the courts to grant Certificates of Rehabilitation to meritorious applicants before the end of the statutory waiting period. The amendment to the Labor Code provided critical clarity about the rights and protections afforded to people who have cleaned up their records, and created discretion for judges to waive the long 7-10 year waiting period and grant a Certificate of Rehabilitation in appropriate cases.
2012 – The Lawyers' Committee filed a lawsuit to protect the voting rights of people who have been sentenced for low-level, non-violent offenses under the state's historic reform of criminal justice known as "Realignment." The lawsuit was filed on behalf of All of Us or None, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and the League of Women Voters of California, three organizations committed to voting rights and reintegration of people with convictions, as well as a woman confined in San Francisco jail who wishes to vote.
2011 – The Lawyers' Committee challenged the San Francisco Housing Authority's practice of banning people from its properties. The Housing Authority was using civil injunctions, nearly all of which were entered by default judgment, to prevent people from entering any of its properties and from even being present on any street bordering Housing Authority property at any point. The scope was exceedingly broad, and the negative impact far outweighed any claimed justification for the practice. For example, a San Francisco father was arrested multiple times for visiting his infant son. The San Francisco Superior Court held that the injunctions were unconstitutional and the practice has since ceased.
Community Outreach and Education
As part of our direct service and systemic reform efforts, Lawyers' Committee provides ongoing outreach and education to the community. We offer "know your rights" workshops to community-based organizations, in which we provide an overview of the law relating to criminal records and employment. We also host community events, geared toward our pro bono attorney volunteers and our community partners, in which we explore the civil rights and racial justice issues related to the criminal justice system.


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Q: Stripe Connect Custom Account Verification In Test Mode I was testing Stripe APIs for Connect custom accounts, but for some reason, I keep getting pending verification. I tried to follow docs step by step, and I used testing tokens for account onboarding, created Person object, and uploaded testing files that need to be verified on the dashboard. Without verification, I cannot test payouts. I must have missed extra steps, but I was not able to figure it out. Does anyone know how to make it verified for testing?
I have one more question to make sure that I am not misunderstanding the custom account. Can the platform make a custom account have a direct charge instead of a destination charge? And if possible, is liability for returns and disputes still on platform?

A: You can check the account's requirements.currently_due hash, it tells you what information are needed to keep the account enabled. You should also use Connect Onboarding to collect the necessary info.
Technically you can create Direct Charge on custom connect accounts. However, it's not recommended. Because:

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*There's no Dashboard for custom account to address disputes

*There's no Dashboard for custom account to set Radar rules

*Refunds for Direct Charges on connected account will results in negative balance, which platform needs to cover


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The radial artery is commonly used as a conduit in coronary artery bypass grafting. No data exist on the effects of radial sheath insertion on radial artery function. Because many patients considered for coronary artery bypass grafting have had previous radial procedures, it is important to understand any effects radial sheath insertion may have on radial artery function. Twenty-two patients who underwent elective coronary angiography or angioplasty with a 6Fr sheath through the right radial artery were studied. Radial artery function was assessed using ultrasound to measure flow-mediated dilation (FMD). Reactive hyperemia was produced by 5-minute cuff inflation on the arm to suprasystolic pressures. Radial artery diameter was measured at rest and 1 minute after cuff deflation. FMD was expressed as percent change in radial diameter compared with at rest. In all cases, the left radial artery was studied as a control. Patients were studied before sheath insertion, immediately after sheath insertion, and 6 weeks after sheath insertion. The FMD of the cannulated arm was 13.2% before sheath insertion versus 3.6% immediately after sheath insertion (p <0.01) and 0.2% (p <0.01) 9 weeks after sheath insertion. In contrast, there were no significant changes in the noncannulated arm at either time point. In conclusion, radial artery sheath insertion for coronary angiography or angioplasty results in immediate and persistent blunting of FMD, suggesting severe vasomotor dysfunction. Radial artery sheath insertion has important effects on radial artery function that must be considered when selecting radial conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting.