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2 Minute Medicine Rewind April 1, 2019
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Outcomes of Extremely Preterm Infants With Birth Weight Less Than 400 g
Little is known about the survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely preterm infants with low birth weight. More data is needed to facilitate decisions regarding the initiation of treatment and resuscitation in this population. In this retrospective cohort study, 205 infants born between 22 and 26 weeks gestational age (GA) with a birth weight of less than 400 grams and with no major birth defects were studied to assess survival to discharge home or to 1 year (if still hospitalized) among infants who received active treatment. Active treatment was defined as the provision of any potentially lifesaving intervention after birth. Of the 205 infants, 49.3% received active treatment at birth; infants were more likely to have been exposed to antenatal steroids (93.1% of infants who received active treatment vs. 42.3% of infants who did not, p<0.001). At baseline, 59.0% of infants were female, 64.9% were singletons, and 86.8% were small for GA. Researchers found that overall, 26 of 205 infants (12.7%, 95% CI 8.5% to 18.0%) survived to discharge (n=25) or remained hospitalized (n=1) at 1 year. Of these, 19 infants were known to have survived to 18 to 26 months corrected age, and 74% of these infants had moderate or severe neurodevelopmental impairment. All infants who survived received active treatment at birth, and 25.7% of infants who received active treatment at birth survived (95% CI 17.6% to 35.4%). Increased survival was associated with advancing GA, from 16.7% (95% CI 6.4% to 32.8%) at 22 to 23 weeks GA to 32.4% (95% CI 18.0% to 49.8%) at 25 to 26 weeks GA (p< 0.001). Nearly all infants that did not receive active treatment died within 12 hours of birth. The leading causes of death were immaturity, respiratory distress syndrome, and severe intracranial hemorrhage. This study was limited by the small number of survivors with follow-up to toddlerhood, which may preclude generalizability of the study. Overall, this study illustrates the significant mortality and morbidity of preterm infants with low birth weight.
Functional Outcome of Intravenous Thrombolysis in Patients With Lacunar Infarcts in the WAKE-UP Trial
Intravenous thrombolytic therapy with alteplase (recombinant human tissue plasminogen activator) is approved for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. However, whether it is efficacious in the treatment of lacunar infarcts remains unclear. In this secondary post-hoc analysis of the WAKE-UP randomized controlled trial, 108 patients with acute lacunar stroke from the original study population of 503 patients with an acute stroke of unknown onset time were studied to determine the efficacy and safety of intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase as compared to placebo among patients with lacunar infarcts. The primary endpoint was a favorable outcome defined as a score of 0 or 1 point on the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) at 90 days after stroke, adjusted for age and severity of symptoms. Compared to patients with non-lacunar infarcts, patients with lacunar infarcts were more likely to be male (68.5% vs. 63.5%), younger (mean age 63 years vs. 66 years, p=0.003), and to have a lower median National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score on admission (5 vs. 6, p<0.001). In total, 55 of the 108 patients with a lacunar infarct (50.9%) were assigned to receive alteplase, and 49.1% were assigned to receive placebo. Among all 503 patients, alteplase treatment was associated with higher odds of favorable outcome, with no differences observed between lacunar infarcts and non-lacunar infarcts (OR 1.68 vs.1.62, respectively, test for interaction, p=0.94). In patients with lacunar stroke, there was no significant difference in the proportion of patients achieving a favorable outcome in the alteplase group as compared to the placebo group (59% vs. 46%, respectively, OR 1.67, 95% CI 0.77 to 3.64, p=0.20). At 90 days, there was a non-significant difference in outcomes based on the distribution of mRS scores at 90 days (OR 1.94, 95% CI 0.95 to 3.93, p=0.07). In terms of safety, there was 1 death and 1 symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage in the alteplase group; neither of these outcomes occurred in the placebo group. Importantly, the WAKE-UP trial was not powered to show a significant treatment outcome in patient subgroups. Nonetheless, this study does show that the association of intravenous alteplase with functional outcome does not differ in patients with lacunar infarcts as compared to those experiencing other stroke subtypes.
Prophylactic Irradiation of Tracts in Patients With Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: An Open-Label, Multicenter, Phase III Randomized Trial
Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a devastating cancer, with survival rates ranging from as low as 17% to 46%. Diagnosis and/or treatment usually involves an invasive chest wall procedure, however, this carries the risk of tumor-cell seeding at the site of the procedure and subsequent development of metastases. Due to this risk, prophylactic radiotherapy is commonly delivered to the site of the chest wall procedure. However, past studies assessing the efficacy and safety of this approach have been underpowered and have produced conflicting results. In this randomized controlled trial, 375 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) were assigned to receive prophylactic radiotherapy or no prophylactic radiotherapy after a diagnostic or therapeutic chest wall procedure to study the impact on incidence of metastases on the ipsilateral chest wall (chest wall metastases, CWM) 6 months after randomization. There was a similar proportion of patients receiving chemotherapy in the two groups (66.7% in the prophylactic radiotherapy group, 60.3% in the no-radiotherapy group). Researchers found that there was no difference in the proportion of CWM 6 months after randomization between the two groups (3.2% in the prophylactic radiotherapy group vs. 5.3% in the no-radiotherapy group, OR 0.60, 95% CI 0.17 to 1.86, p=0.44). There was also no difference at 12 months (8.1% vs. 10.1%, respectively, OR 0.79, 95% CI 0.36 to 1.69, p=0.59). Skin toxicity was the most common radiotherapy-related adverse event, and occurred in 116 of 186 patients in the prophylactic radiotherapy group. A limitation of this study was the absence of blinding of the participants and investigators. In summary, results from this study do not support the routine use of prophylactic radiotherapy after a chest wall procedure in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Efficacy and safety of biosimilar CT-P13 compared with originator infliximab in patients with active Crohn's disease: an international, randomised, double-blind, phase 3 non-inferiority study
#VisualAbstract Drug survival of etanercept was significantly lower than other biologics in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa
Direct comparison of neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for survival outcomes from resectable gastric cancer
#VisualAbstract: Dual therapy with infliximab and IVIG in children with multi-system inflammatory syndrome
Anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapies are commonly used in the treatment of patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease. However, due to the high costs of anti-TNF medications, biosimilar medications are being developed. These drugs have high likeness to already licensed biological therapies and are subject to strict approval criteria by regulatory authorities. CT-P13 is a biosimilar version of infliximab, an anti-TNF monoclonal antibody, and has been approved based on randomized controlled trials in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis. However, CT-P13 has not yet been studied in patients with Crohn's disease. In this randomized controlled phase III non-inferiority study, 220 patients with active Crohn's disease with no response or intolerance to non-biological treatments were assigned in a 1:1:1:1 ratio to receive CT-P13 then CT-P13, CT-P13 then infliximab, infliximab then infliximab, or infliximab then CT-P13, with switching occurring at week 30. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients with a decrease of at least 70 points in the Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) from baseline to week 6. A non-inferiority margin of -20% was used. Overall, 166 patients completed the study, with lack of response at week 14 being the most common reason for discontinuation. Researchers found that, in the intention-to-treat population, CT-P13 was noninferior to infliximab in the achievement of a CDAI-70 response at week 6 (69.4% of patients who received CT-P13 first vs. 74.3% of patients who received infliximab first, difference -4.9%, 95% CI -16.9% to 7.3%). Similarly, CT-P13 was found to be noninferior to infliximab in terms of the CDAI-70 response at weeks 14 and 30, and also in terms of the proportion of patients achieving clinical remission at weeks 6,14, and 30. The proportion of patients with at least one treatment-emergent adverse event was similar between all groups. In conclusion, results from this study show that CT-P13 has a similar efficacy and safety profile to infliximab in the treatment of patients with active Crohn's disease.
Combined Surgery and Extensive Intraoperative Peritoneal Lavage vs Surgery Alone for Treatment of Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer: The SEIPLUS Randomized Clinical Trial
Gastric cancer is typically treated with surgical resection followed by chemotherapy. Peritoneal metastasis, caused by direct cancer cell dissemination, is the most common pattern of postoperative recurrence; the prognosis of patients with peritoneal metastasis is very poor. Extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage (EIPL) is one strategy that has been developed to prevent peritoneal dissemination. Currently, three studies are ongoing to assess the efficacy and safety of prophylactic EIPL for peritoneal recurrence of locally advanced gastric cancer. In this ongoing randomized controlled trial, 662 patients with locally advanced gastric cancer receiving open D2 gastrectomy were assigned to receive surgery alone or surgery plus EIPL to study short-term postoperative complications and mortality. Researchers found that there were significantly more deaths in the surgery alone group than in the surgery plus EIPL group (difference 1.9%, 95% CI 0.3% to 3.4%, p=0.02). Postoperative complications were more frequent in the surgery alone group than in the surgery plus EIPL group (17.0% vs. 11.1%, difference 5.9%, 95% CI 0.1% to 11.6%, p=0.04). Additionally, postoperative pain was more common in the surgery alone group than in the surgery plus EIPL group (17.7% vs. 10.8%, respectively, difference 7.0%, 95% CI 0.8% to 13.1%, p=0.02). Notably, 112 patients (16.9%) were excluded after randomization due to the finding of T1, T2, or M1 disease on histopathology, which may reduce the quality of the study. Overall, this trial supports the use of EIPL as a therapeutic strategy for patients with advanced gastric cancer. Future analysis will study the primary endpoint of 3-year overall survival.
Tags: CT-P13gastric cancerInfliximablacunar infarctMesotheliomaneonatologyperitoneal lavageprematuritythrombolysis
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Apportionment of Representatives in Congress
Reapportionment of Representation in the Past
The Reapportionment Struggle in Congress
Apportionment on Basis of 1930 Census
Representation in Foreign Countries
In the House of Representatives of the Seventieth Congress, which convened for its first session December 5, 1927, the 48 states of the Union have 435 representatives. Each state delegation has the same number of members it had in the Sixty-third Congress, which was elected in November, 1912—more than 15 years ago.
The last apportionment of representation in the House was made in 1911 on the basis of the census of 1910. That census gave 91,972,266 as the total population of the continental United States. The ratio adopted in the last apportionment was one representative to each 211,877 of the population, excluding Indians not taxed.
Since the 1911 apportionment the population of the United States has increased by nearly 30 per cent, totaling 118,268,000 on July 1, 1927, according to the Census Bureau's most recent estimates. If the rate of growth had been the same in all parts of the country, each of the 435 members of the House would now represent about 272,708 constituents.
Reapportionment, Redistricting, and Representation
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May 13, 1929 The Census and Reapportionment
Dec. 06, 1927 Apportionment of Representatives in Congress
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Q: git push says forbidden I usually work from two places and new to git. The very first time i created one repository online and added it to my system like the steps told by the github website. Then i wanted to work on the same repository from my the other place so i installed git in my other system too and did the following:
Created a directory:
Then in that directory i did git init
After that i did git config --global user.name "Name" and
                 git config --global user.email "email"
Then i added the same repository created earlier from other system by getting the address of the repository from HTTPS CLONE URL option in github website as:
git add origin https://github.com/myUserName/repoName.git
Then to get all the repository data i did:
git pull origin master
Till this all works fine i got all the data onto my system, but when i made some changes in the files and committed the changes, I started to push back the changes using the command:
git push origin master
But i was not able to push the changes as it says Error: 403 Forbidden
According to me it gave me such a message because it does not asked me for any username and Password combo, but it asked me for a username and password while pushing when i configured the repository in my first system.
The after doing some Google I found that we can insert Username and Password into a file present in .git/config
So i edited that file as below:
Earlier my config file looks like:
[core]

        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[remote "recupero"]

        url = https://github.com/satyam1990/recupero.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/recupero/*

After Editing my config file looks like:
[core]

        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[remote "recupero"]

        url = https://Username:myPasswordHere@github.com/satyam1990/recupero.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/recupero/*

After editing my config file as above I am able to push, but when ever I push changes it displays my Username and Password right away onto my screen and i don't want that. Is there a way such that i can make git to ask me for a Username and Password everytime i git push as it does on my previous system where i configured git the very first time. And also storing Username and Password right away in a text file is not a good practice.

A: Yes, you can store your credentials in a $HOME/.netrc file.
machine github.com
login <login1>
password <password1>

Or you can use a credential helper in order to:

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*encrypt that file (git1.8.3)

*store them in memory for the duration of the session (git1.7.12), for windows or for unix.

A: Generally, you should use SSH with keys, if only for the specific advantage of not having your password laying around in plain text files. With SSH Keys, you can have a distinguished (locally encrypted) key on each of your devices and will never have to copy them around.
As for https, if you use an up-to-date git, it should ask you for your username and password. You could even just add your username in the git URL so that git would only ask for the password.
But if you are able to use SSH, you should use it, as it is more secure and once you got a hang of handling your keys, much more convenient.

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The JP4IN1 integrates the CC2500, NRF24L01, A7105 and CYRF6936 RF chips into one PCB. The JP4IN1 is an OpenTX original accessory which can do serial digital signal communication with the Frsky series radios. Recognizing PPM signal from radio output, then converted to the corresponding radio protocol to achieve control of the fixed wing and drone aircraft. Supported protocols such as Walkera DEVO, Spektrum DSM2/DSMX, Flysky, Esky, Frsky, WLtoys, Hubsan, Hisky, Futaba SFHSS Assan etc are built in.
The JP4IN1 module offers greater flexibility with the ability to control most protocols and popular brands in the market today. It also gives the user the ability to use there own radio for more precise control and a better flying experience than the small radios often included with ready to fly products.


The CobWeb-SFR is a compact, rapidly deployable Radar designed to be triggered only by inbound targets. It can track up to 10 'items of interest' at once. The Radar is self calibrating making it quick and easy to deploy, with deployment time typically less than 30 seconds.
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Intelligent frequency hopping makes the radar extremely resilient to detection and spoofing.


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Home › Asia › Textiles workers struggle to get by on just $50 a week
Textiles workers struggle to get by on just $50 a week
Source: https://vietnamnews.vn
HÀ NỘI – Eight hours a day, five days a week, 35-year-old Nguyễn Thị Hoa (*) painstakingly looks for tiny defects in thousands of apparel products at a dusty garment factory in Lai Vu Industrial Zone, the northern province of Hải Dương.
She earns VNĐ4.9 million (US$210) a month.
There is no better alternative for Hoa the moment. She left her job at an electronics assembly factory to work here for a better schedule, but her salary was the same.
"It is impossible to live a proper life with that amount of money," said Hoa.
Leaving her husband behind in the central province of Thanh Hóa, she moved to the emerging industrial hub in Hải Dương with a clear goal, "earning enough money to start a business."
This target now seems out of reach, as she can hardly cover her living expenses.
Nearly three million garment workers in Việt Nam, mostly women, are in similar situations.
A study of fashion suppliers in Việt Nam conducted by the Institute of Workers and Unions and Oxfam Việt Nam found that 99 per cent of surveyed workers earn below the Asia Floor Wage of VNĐ8.9 million ($382) while 74 per cent earn below the Global Living Wage Coalition (Anker) benchmark of VNĐ5.2 million ($223).
The national average minimum wage in Việt Nam of VNĐ3.34 million ($143) is not enough for a person to live at the most basic level.
Even though the wages of most garment workers are higher than minimum wage, they "fall short of what is considered a living wage," the research found.
A living wage should cover eight essentials including nutritious food, decent housing, healthcare, utilities, education, clothing, transportation and savings.
Hoa doesn't have a living wage, so she can't save the money she wants to send home.
To try and achieve her dream of starting her own business, she works overtime.
"Almost all workers spend extra hours at the factory. The pay is 1.5 times higher for each hour," she said.
Aiming to earn more money, Hoa stays late, from one hour up to three hours in busy seasons.
She does not dare take a break or show up late as her monthly bonus for attendance of VNĐ300,000 ($12.9) will be cut.
"When I have a minor illness, it is better to go to a local medical facility for a check-up and buy medicine," she said.
"Although we pay for insurance, it takes time to ask for leave and go to hospital. If I'm absent one day my income will be cut short. I simply do not want that to happen," Hoa added.
65 per cent of surveyed workers said they regularly take overtime while 22 per cent said they did not use annual leave and even go to the toilet quickly.
Getting to work late, taking sick leave, violating the rules or failing to meet production quotas can result in wage deductions.
And when workers take annual leave, they will receive half or sometimes none of their attendance allowance.
Long and arduous road
"Many workers told me that they had to work overtime to earn enough for living," said Vũ Quang Thọ, former head of the Union Institute and a former member of the National Salary Council.
However, the impacts of overtime on workers' health are severe and 53 per cent of them cannot afford medical treatment and medicine, meaning they are sacrificing their health for employment.
"Therefore, it is essential to raise the minimum wage besides other assistance policies," said Thọ.
By increasing the wages of workers by 1 per cent, employers can ease heavy financial burdens they are bearing, the research recommends.
In reality, that isn't as easy as it sounds.
According to Tống Thị Minh, former head of the Department of Labour Relations, Việt Nam's textile industry focuses mostly on manufacturing.
Increasing 1 per cent of employees' wages means costs would rise 3 or 4 per cent.
As manufacturing costs account for 92 per cent of the industry's revenue, profit will be reduced by wage lifts.
Garment factories are facing deadlock. While costs increase, buyer's purchasing prices fall.
Since their negotiation power cannot fight the fierce competition with other suppliers, manufacturing enterprises impose sanctions on workers to keep prices low.
"Committing to preventing the race to bottom should be prioritised," Minh said.
"The membership of new-generation FTAs and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) includes codes of conducts that offer Vietnamese garment companies better opportunities in price negation. They are also asked to share social responsibilities and allow workers to ask for wage rises," she added.
The road, however, is arduous and long.
"It will take at least five to 10 years for garment workers to enjoy the living wage they deserve," said Vũ Minh Tiến, head of the Union Institute.
"At least we are making the first steps," he added.
But Hoa cannot wait.
She is 35 now while the average age of garment workers is 30.4 and the turnover rate is about 40 per cent a year.
"I know it all, that my wage is too low, that the working conditions are bad, that my body is being destroyed. I know but cannot do anything," she said in vain.
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Digit got to chat with Justin McLeod, the founder and CEO of Hinge and Samir Kapadia, who is leading the operations in India, on how Hinge works and about its plans for India.
Dating apps are storming into the market and they are no longer restricted to only the ones who are having a hard time meeting people in real life and it is no longer about filling out endless forms or paying a huge subscription fee. The dating scene globally is changing effectively and Hinge, a dating app that lets you meet people through your second and third-degree connections on Facebook, is trying to make it easier.
Foraying into the Indian market, Hinge was launched in Mumbai and it aims to spread further to the other parts of the country soon. Digit got to chat with Justin McLeod, the founder and CEO of Hinge and Samir Kapadia, who is leading the operations in India, on how Hinge works and about its plans for India.
The interview has been faintly edited for better clarity.
Digit: Starting off with the story of how Hinge came to be, was it a dramatic outcome of a failed love story or were you trying to solve a problem in the first place?
Justin: I was at the end of my second year at Harvard Business School, and for someone who is about to go into management consulting it is going to be hard to meet new people when you're travelling all the time. I didn't want to join a Match.com or OkCupid because that seemed kind of an overkill but I wanted to do something that really felt like the way I met people in real life through my friends or acquaintances. I didn't wanted to fill a long profile or do anything that you have to do on a traditional dating site, and that's kind of where Hinge came from in 2011. I grew up coding a lot and I did some of it in the very beginning but initially we had a couple of developers down in Argentina who worked with us and then eventually we hired in-house developers.
Digit: A simple search on dating apps throws me an endless list of services and applications on the web and mobile. As a user, if I want to look for singles with a dating prospective, why will I pick Hinge?
Justin: We think of Hinge as the easiest way to meet the best people for you. That's because we really believe in the power of meeting through your friends. Not only does this give you great people because they are the type of people filtered by your social network, it's the easiest thing to do. You have already gone through the hard work of building up your social network, figuring out who your friends are and now we are using the power of that to show you great matches. In addition to that, in your social networks you have a level of transparency and accountability you don't have anywhere else. So, on OkCupid someone could say anything on their profile and it doesn't have to be true but there's something about going through friends where you have that level of validation, transparency and you really know who that person is and this is sort of different from the anonymity that you see on pretty much any other dating service. No other dating service is as transparent and accountable as ours is since no one shows where you work, where you went to school, who your mutual friends are, and I think that's a huge difference.
Digit: How does the match-making work? Does Hinge have a unique algorithm running that searches users based on their interests?
Justin: We are starting with the subset of people who are friends of friends and third-degree connections on Facebook. We are learning your tastes over time as you start to use it. So, we can learn whether you like to be matched up through a particular set of friends, or you like people working in law and not in finance or whether you like people belonging to a specific religion. We have kind of a good friend who has sort of been with you and watched your tastes over time and can recommend the best people in the social network for you. The more you use Hinge, the more we can parse out your tendencies and show you more people according to your preferences.
Digit: So, a Facebook account is essential to have an account on Hinge? Why did you choose Facebook to authenticate the identity of a user?
Justin: That's right, you have to have a Facebook account and a compatible mobile device, an iPhone or an Android phone. The important thing here is to be linked to the place where people have already mapped out their real world social connections. And that's why we don't use something like Twitter for example, that's because if you follow someone, it doesn't really mean that you're connected to them, so it's more about the symmetrical connection, the map of people you actually know in real life because what we're trying to do is mirror the real life experience of meeting through friends. So, wherever that map exists, we try to link on to. Third degree connections are simply like a friend of a friend of a friend, it's like a friend and I go out and we each bring a friend and they end up liking each other, so it's not a very distant connection. When we look at the data, we learn that a second or third degree connection is highly likely to be relevant to you and if you go any further than that there's a huge drop in terms of your likelihood of having a mutual interest in one another. You won't be able to meet people who are far outside your network, and for the average user if you consider has 500 hundred friends on Facebook, it means that the average user has 25,000 friends of friends so, your third degree connection graph is quite large. And we limit that to the people that live in your city and people who fill your tastes and gender preferences and everything else but it's still a pretty large network. Getting back to the transparency and accountability, anyone can find 2-3 super flattering photographs of themselves and then you get out on a date and realise this person doesn't look anything like the photographs. We believe that it's not just about looks but looks matter to some people, so you have to upload 16 photos and of course you can change those out as long as they are validated through Facebook. We do like people to be fully represented in the app so that when you go out and meet up that person, you know that you're not wasting your time or you're being misled in any way.
Digit: Tinder is essentially also a location based dating app. So what are the possibilities as a Hinge user when you enter into a different or new city?
Justin: It is possible to change your location on Hinge if you were to go to a different city, provided that it is a city where we are currently operating. We concentrate much more on the power of social networks and less on geolocation, so just because someone is in the same two mile radius of you doesn't really mean that much and especially in a city like Mumbai, you have the breadth of humanity. It is great but doesn't mean that the set of people are going to be great for you romantically.
Digit: On the Play Store, we saw that the app has a very low rating and came across a few user reviews where they were cribbing about their privacy being violated. Why's that?
Justin: The Play Store keeps your rating from all of history and piles them up into sort of one. So when we started 2-3 years ago, we had a very different version of the app which was a lot harder to navigate so that's the reason of the drag on the user rating, it's more of a legacy issue. When it comes to privacy, we take privacy very seriously. We never get any reports and the ones we do are typically misunderstandings. We don't post to your Facebook profile, we keep all your data essentially anonymised. People at the company don't have access to the data except the people who work at customer service or deep in the algorithms and we don't sell user data. We have the best in class privacy standards.
Digit: What do your stats say? How is your growth and user activity, and what kind of a retention rate are you seeing?
Digit: Hinge started off as a web application in the beginning and was there before Tinder, when did you think you had to go mobile?
Justin: In 2011-12 we were a web application and in mid-2012 we started to realise while we saw mobile as the eventual future, that the future was already here and in mid-late 2012, we decided to tear down the existing web application infrastructure and rebuild for mobile and relaunch in February 2013.
Digit: Dating apps are picking up the rage in India. There's Tinder and OkCupid and also a few homegrown dating apps like Thrill, Woo and Truly Madly, how do you plan to compete with them? What made you tick that this was the right time to enter India's online dating scene?
Justin: It has always been in our mind that we wanted to come here eventually. The market is huge, it is the second biggest Facebook market next to the US and it really just felt like from my experience here and from my friends who are much familiar with the culture more than I am. The power of your social connections, your social relationships when it comes to dating and relationships is part of the culture here. When I sense it, it almost feels like Hinge is tailored for this market so, I think it has always been a goal of ours to launch here since we started launching internationally. And speaking about competition, Samir here has been on the ground so he can talk about that.
Samir: I think that the competitive landscape is diverse, when in the past you've seen six new entrants whether they have just come into the market or got a second round of funding, so you're seeing major trends here. You're seeing this sort of bifurcation between matrimonial and casual encounters/dating apps. There have been a few that have sat in the middle finding themselves a sort of paradox with users but aside from that, one of the things they are doing is focusing on how do they bring credibility. Whether that's through having digital defences for women, having people fill out long exhaustive forms and all of these precautionary measures that they use to ensure quality control but also to curate a good experience for women. We find that we don't have to do any of that, Hinge has the ability to naturally do that by looking at your own social network with the transparency and accountability that Justin brought about, and these experiences are much better. An interesting statistic is that globally when you're looking at the gender breakdown with these apps, you'll find a sort of 60:40 or 70:30 men to women ratio, but Hinge takes in 50:50 and I think that's a powerful statistic. Given the way that a lot of the apps, whether there's Thrill or Woo or Truly Madly, the way they are trying to communicate to women, that safety and that accountability, is already built in our DNA, so we find that to be our powerful competitive advantage. Some of them have also tried subscription models or other ways to weed out those that they might find to be essentially taking advantage of the service. Once again Hinge is very much based on leveraging social and we kind of cut through the noise with that natural solution to what we are seeing in the marketplace right now. It's the extension of reality into our platform which is so compelling.
Justin: When we launch in a new market and we spend some money on advertising and launch events, we'll start out at something more like 60:40 or 70:30 but very quickly women catch up and it spreads virally among women because they have such a good experience on the app than the other apps. And when we ask them what they most value about Hinge, first is the quality of the people they are seeing on the app. The curation from your social network is so much of a better experience and that's the number one thing that men and women say. The second thing for women is the accountability, it's the idea that because I know the last name, where they work or where they went to school, I know we are socially connected. We never had issues about people being inappropriate or acting inappropriately during interactions on the app.
Digit: Dating in India is something people raise their eyebrows to and yet isn't socially acceptable, so do you plan on waiting until the dating scene in India grows?
Samir: The current way that we look at the Indian market is really think of Hinge as a social network and it's really about looking within your social network and finding those meaningful matches, as in bringing dating back to reality. The way that things are right now, it's artificial. You have apps telling you that they know better than you, you know that's not reality. So I think ultimately people will use this to leverage just really good relationships, just to meet people of the opposite gender or the same gender or maybe they are looking for something serious down the road, that's really up to them. The way that people in the US use Hinge is pretty much the same, it is about finding that someone you can look at as a companion in the real world and not just someone who happens to be sitting in the coffee shop next to you.
Digit: There's this huge problem with Moral Policing in India as I'm sure you're aware, and then there's the genuine concern with safety. You must've surely seen the kind of ruckus that was created about Uber recently. People do tend to shoot the messenger. Any thoughts? If at all something unfortunate happens as a result of people connecting because of your app what will Hinge's stance be?
Samir: I think first and foremost, we take matching to meeting very seriously. We have curated the app for the Indian community, very much based on the cautionary measures any app would take about meeting people. Once you look at the DNA of Hinge, you will realise that these are the people you would have met in real life. These are people, as I said that are just around you but you haven't seen them yet. They're kind of right in front of you but you haven't met them yet. With that being said, there still is a strong caveat that any attempt to go and meet people whether it's through an app or not, you have to really get the person and take that seriously.
Justin: We are not introducing a new method, the practice isn't new of meeting through friends. All we are doing is making that easier, accelerating that process so in that sense Samir's point of us being agnostic as to whether this is being used as matrimonial or dating or casual, it is whatever you're looking for. The way you are currently meeting through friends when you meet new people, we're just helping you do that.
Digit: We have observed online dating change through the years, shifting from the web to mobile. How is Hinge trying to bring a change or improve online dating in general? Is Hinge late to the party?
Justin: I don't think Hinge is late to the party. Even the term online dating, is not even the same thing. What you would do on OkCupid or Match.com is very different than what Hinge does, and I would even put Tinder into that category too. I think the reason that there was so much stigma for such a long time in online dating is that it was a fringe market. You would use it if you were having trouble in the real world and you were willing to pay money and go through all that trouble to fill out those profiles. There was a stigma associated with it. When Hinge and Tinder came along, we were using ambient information, we were using either your Facebook social graph or your current location and we were using that information to introduce you to people in a really lightweight way. And I think that really changed the paradigm for so-called online dating because it is so easy, why wouldn't you do it. No longer it is for desperate people, it's for anyone and I think that really helped break down the stigma and the only remaining stigma is really just legacy left from the Match.com and OkCupid days. So, I think we are at the forefront of bringing down the barrier and I think it's only apps that makes the process as easy, ambient and tied into your real life as something like Hinge that are actually removing the stigma.
Digit: What are your users saying about the app after they have actually met people?
Justin: We have tons of stories, we get written to everyday about people who are in relationships or have gotten married or engaged, and there are Hinge babies now also. Recently a couple of weeks back, I had a really good friend of mine from high school write me to say that she got engaged to someone that she met on Hinge. We have a ton of anecdotes and user stories about people finding relationships.
I will say that certainly Hinge attracts a demographic, that hasn't been attracted to online dating in the past. And people who are influential or famous will actually use Hinge, because you are protected by your social network and the matches are curated, you're not searchable. I think it feels a lot safer and the environment feels a lot curated and more natural and it attracts people who wouldn't post a profile on OkCupid.
Hinge is now available for download in the Play Store and App Store (Currently operational only in Mumbai).


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May 7, 2020	0	By JohnValbyNation
ORLANDO, FL – How would you feel if you were ousted from Disneyland forever? You'd miss seeing the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge when it opens in 2019. Never again would you be able to sing along with the scalawags, "Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!" That was a choice that Dion Cini made in the fall of 2018 when he displayed a political sign at Walt Disney World after being repeatedly told banners are not allowed at the park.
Holding the sign for a photo op was not Cini's first foray into guerrilla marketing for President Trump's 2020 campaign at the Happiest Place on Earth. A former United States Marine and vocal Trump supporter, he has flown banners and signs in public places such as on New York bridges and regularly raises his Trump support flags while rowing in the Hudson River, according to reports from the New York Post.
Cini has claimed that he chose Disney World, where he was an annual pass holder, as his backdrop for photo ops because he "isn't happy with the way Disney treats the president."
After disobeying the rules more than once, his most recent stunt cost him with an outright park ban.
According to the Post, Cini was first "temporarily paused" from the park earlier this year after displaying a political flag on Main Street (see below). At that time, he was educated in theme park rules of "no signs or banners of any kind" inside Disney properties.
"We respectfully reminded him of the rule that banners and signs not permitted," a Walt Disney World spokeswoman told Patch. A slap on the wrist, the cast members reiterated the rules to Cini, making sure he understood them before he left.
He tested that rule with a smaller political sign which he held up while on a ride. He then discovered Disney World Resort was serious about their rules. He was escorted from the premises, for good.
A resort spokesperson told Patch that "(Cini) has been permanently prohibited from entering the park."
Cini told the New York Post that his trespass was due to the political content of the sign. He protested to reporters that people "hold things up like cameras" all the time.
The theme park was much less political, focusing instead on the enforcement of theme park rules that "clearly state our policies specific to the use of banners, and they also state items are prohibited that are deemed harmful or disruptive," the spokesperson said. "It's common sense that a flag or banner could be harmful to others if held on an attraction and could be a safety issue."
Those rules also apply to selfie sticks, large tripods, masks, and anything that cast members consider "objectionable language, designs on tattoos and on clothing."
There are specific guidelines for special events such as Halloween parties and Run Disney. Read the full rules here: disneyworld.disney.go.
"The other thing important here is guests don't come to Disney expecting to have their trip impacted by an individual's actions like this. This gentleman was disrupting their experience and family memories," she told me.
The Disney experience, magic and memory-making is something the park takes most seriously. For fans of the parks, the properties are a place to get away, to escape the rigmarole of day-to-day life and most certainly politics. Plus, the opportunity to have a picture of your adrenaline-fueled self screaming, or posing, or laughing your head off with your loved ones, is something guests look forward to after hours of waiting in line, and especially after paying a hefty price tag for park entry.
According to the spokesperson, families who rode behind him were blocked by his antics, and weren't thrilled that a campaign sign obscured and blighted their photo.
Plus, there are common sense practices when riding a high-speed attraction, she told us.
"This is a ride that operates at velocity, especially at the point of the photograph," she said. "If he lost hold of the sign it could have hit a guest, caused an injury or at the worst impacted the operation of the ride."
"This was a day that we witnessed karma in all of its glorious splendor," one person said in reaction to Cini's ousting on Facebook.
Patch asked Disney fans their opinion on the matter. One fan said politics didn't belong inside the House of Mouse.
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"I prefer to just be a kid when I'm inside the theme parks," an annual pass holder (who asked to remain nameless) said. "We have enough political ads on television."
Cini, still enthusiastic about the media attention, will need to find another venue for his flag-waving. The doors to Disneyland and Disney World are now closed for good, but he can always go back to rowing.
Photo, courtesy Dion Cini
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Fantasy, Science-Fiction
Evan Michaels (Mark Wahlberg) has memories that he believes are hallucinations, but he soon discovers they're from two previous lives he lived before his present one.
He struggles with the realization until he finds out he's not alone — there's a secret society of people who have lived previous lives — and they're near immortal.
Based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz.
Producer(s): Antoine Fuqua, John Zaozirny, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Huffam, Mark Vahradian
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dylan O'Brien, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Tom Hughes, Toby Jones
Writer(s): John Lee Hancock
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(1) "Applicant" means a person making an application for a waiver or deferral under this chapter.
(2) "Business" shall have the same meaning as set forth in chapter 5.05 UPMC.
(3) "Eligible charges and fees" mean monetary payments paid by the applicant or the applicant's agent to the City of University Place after the effective date of this chapter for building permits, critical area review, traffic impact fees, and land use actions such as conditional permits and variances.
(4) "Family wage job" means an ongoing employment relationship of indefinite duration in which an employee is compensated by an employer at a gross annualized rate, excluding employer-paid benefits such as health benefits and pension payments of any type, at or above 80 percent of the most recent calculation of Pierce County's median annual household income by the Washington State Office of Financial Management, which is $52,197 for calendar year 2019.
(5) "Recipient" means a person or entity receiving a waiver or deferral of fees and other charges as authorized by this chapter.
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, eligible charges and fees charged by the City are subject to waiver or deferral as set forth in this chapter.
B. Not less than once per year, the City Council shall receive a report detailing the amount of fees waived or deferred under this chapter.
1. The business can demonstrate that it will create and fill a minimum of five new family wage jobs, whose primary workplace will be situated within the City of University Place.
2. The business qualifies for the issuance of a business license pursuant to (a) Title 5 of the University Place Municipal Code; (b) any other licenses required by this Code; and (c) which are required by state and federal law.
B. The application must be made to the City in a form and manner prescribed by the City. The application must contain information regarding the location of the business, the applicant's average employment in the state for the prior year, estimated or actual new employment related to the employer, estimated or actual wages of employees related to the employer, estimated or actual costs, time schedules for completion and operation, and other information required by the City.
C. An application for a waiver or deferral of expenses associated with construction-related fees or charges must be submitted before construction has started.
D. The total amount of eligible charges and fees waived or deferred pursuant to this chapter shall not exceed $275.00 per new family wage job in the City of University Place created and filled by the applicant.
C. Waiver or deferral of fees and charges where a specific rule or regulation prohibits such waiver or deferral.
A. If the total amount of fees to be waived or deferred do not exceed the City Manager's spending authority, do not exceed $10,000.00 annually amongst all fee waivers or deferrals, and if presentation of such a waiver or deferral is not required to be approved by the City Council by other applicable law, the City Manager or designee may execute an agreement on behalf of the City without referral, consideration or approval by the City Council.
B. The City Manager or designee may refer to the City Council an application for fee waiver which exceeds the City Manager's spending authority, or which necessitates the execution of an agreement with the applicant regarding conditions of development associated with relief under this chapter. Such an agreement must set forth the standards and provisions for relief under this chapter. Such standards and agreements may be governed by, but are not limited to, the provisions of chapter 22.30 UPMC.
A. The issuance of a waiver or deferral under this chapter is wholly discretionary with the City.
5. Any other factor that the City deems appropriate.
3. Any other necessary provisions to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
B. In addition to or as an alternative to any other penalty provided herein or by any other business license or regulation ordinance, the City shall be entitled to its costs and reasonable attorneys' fees in any action to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
A. Legislative Actions. A development agreement associated with a legislative action such as a comprehensive plan amendment or area-wide rezone shall be processed in accordance with the procedures established in Chapter 16.10 UPMC.
B. Project Permits. A development agreement associated with a project permit application shall be processed in accordance with the procedures established in Chapters 22.05 and 22.10 UPMC.
1. If the final decision on the underlying project permit application is made by the Hearings Examiner, then the Hearings Examiner shall consider both the project permit application and the proposed development agreement together during the public hearing. The Hearings Examiner shall make a recommendation to the Council on the development agreement and the Examiner's decision on the underlying project permit application shall be held in abeyance until the City Council considers the proposed development agreement in a public hearing. If the City Council approves the development agreement, the Council shall, by resolution or ordinance, authorize the Mayor City Manager or designee to execute the development agreement on behalf of the City. At this point, the Hearings Examiner may then issue the final decision on the underlying project permit application. Nothing in this section obligates the Hearings Examiner to forward a recommendation to the City Council for further consideration if the Hearings Examiner denies the underlying project permit application.
2. If the final decision on the underlying project permit application is made by the City administrative staff, then City staff shall consider both the project permit application and the proposed development agreement together. City staff shall make a recommendation to the Council on the development agreement, and the City staff's decision on the underlying project permit application shall be held in abeyance until the City Council considers the proposed development agreement in a public hearing. If the City Council approves the development agreement, the Council shall, by resolution or ordinance, authorize the Mayor City Manager or designee to execute the development agreement on behalf of the City. At this point, City staff may then issue the final decision on the underlying project permit application. Nothing in this section obligates City staff to forward a recommendation to the City Council for further consideration if City staff denies the underlying project permit application.
3. If a final decision on an underlying project permit application has been previously made by the Hearings Examiner or City administrative staff and the application was approved, City staff shall make a recommendation to the Council on the development agreement. A public hearing shall be held on the development agreement and if approved, the Council shall authorize the Mayor City Manager or designee, in a resolution or ordinance, to execute the development agreement on behalf of the City.
Section 4. Corrections by City Clerk or Code Reviser. Upon approval of the city attorney, the city clerk or the code reviser are authorized to make necessary corrections to this ordinance, including the correction of clerical errors; references to other local, state, or federal laws, codes, rules, or regulations; or ordinance numbering and section/subsection numbering.
Section 5. Severability. If any portion of this Ordinance or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Ordinance or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.
Section 6. Effective Date. This Ordinance will be shall be in full force and effect on January 1, 2019 and after publication of the Ordinance Summary.


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Today I sit down with Bill D'Alessandro to make some bold ecommerce predictions for 2018.
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We're packing our last bags tonight for our second round of touring in the USA – this time, headlining on the east coast/midwest (dates on the shows page). We'll have some more details from the road, but in the meantime we've been honored to work with many excellent musicians at the showcases and on the tour with Clinic. A special shout-out is due here to our masked brethren – suffice it so say that you haven't lived until you've crammed a bemused and amiable bunch of Liverpudlians into the back of your pickup truck and driven them to the barbecue joint in Austin.
Also, we highly recommend dropping in on the message board for other occasional bits and pieces. Sometimes news that doesn't make the front page here goes reported by us (or others) there, and besides, there are also spirited discussions involving sea slugs, the current state of the blogosphere, and the finer points of communication in music (to name a few).
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Kevin Garnett finishes as leading All-Star vote-getter among Nets players
The All-Star Weekend festivities — not the game, but all the other stuff — will be at Brooklyn's Barclays Center. Mason Plumlee, reportedly, will join in on the Dunk Contest. He'll also likely in the "Rising Stars" Rookie-Sophomore game that pits US-born rookies & sophomores against those from around the world.
But the game itself? Well… That'll be in Manhattan, at Madison Square Garden. Expect to see as many Nets players as you usually would there.
The NBA released the official Eastern Conference and Western Conference All-Star starting lineups, and as you might expect, no Nets came close to earning a starting spot, with John Wall, Kyle Lowry, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Pau Gasol representing the East. Even in a depleted Eastern Conference, it's hard to imagine the coaches voting for any Nets players to make the reserve squad, unless Mason Plumlee pulls off the upset of the century.
Fans vote to select the starting 5, and Kevin Garnett was Brooklyn's leading vote-getter, ranking 13th among Eastern Conference frontcourt players, garnering 106,820 votes. "Frontcourt" includes small forwards, power forwards, and centers, which puts centers like Mason Plumlee and Brook Lopez at a disadvantage. In the past, centers had their own separate designation from the rest of the frontcourt.
Garnett's been known more for his on-court head-butts and bites than his production this season, and his votes came as residual from a rabid fanbase of fans who have followed the 38-year-old throughout his 20-year career. He's averaged 7.0 points and 7.2 rebounds in 21.3 minutes per game this season, a slight uptick from his numbers last season, but well below the All-Star and MVP-caliber numbers he put up in his prime.
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Well, Virgin Prunes were one of my obsessions back in the days; I own 3 copies of that fantastic record, 3 different editions, a strange format as it's a double 10" vinyl record with booklets. Weird is also the story behind those tracks because all of the songs were written during the day and recorded at night, a process that saw the band go without sleep for 3 days.
As often happens, my curiosity is aroused by the weirdos around, like the "Cliente successivo" ("Next Client") sign! Did you steal it in a supermarket? And what's the clock? Is it really working?
Let's say that after a visit to a supermarket I found that item in my bag; me and my wife we have a common attraction to weird vintage "non-sense" items!
Yes, me too I had a passion for Virgin Prunes, but maybe more for the 'goth' phase, "…If I Die, I Die" is one of my favourite records ever. But I love to play some of their craziest songs to my 'mainstream-music-listening' friends them telling them that is the band of U2 The Edge's bro. Talking about easy music, I see the Broken Flag box and other nice ones… but what's the Charles Manson one? Speeches? I didn't know it. I also see Motorpsicho boxes if I guess well. Another band I like (especially the masterpieces "Demon Box" and "Timoty's Monster").
Of course "If I die, I die" is a milestone.
I really like box set editions as objects and because sometimes you can find hidden treasures as b-sides, unreleased tracks, live versions, remixes, graphic artworks, etc… a good way to explore a band, a record!
That Charles Manson box set is a collection of 2 CDs, a combination of "LIE" and "The Manson Family Sings", packaged to look like The Beatles' "White Album" on one CD plus "Live at San Quentin" with a cover art similar to the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds"; I'm not a big fan of Manson but I found it at a very cheap price in L.A., a good souvenir.
Speaking of uneasy listening, "A Retrospective 1982 – 1985" is a box set (5 CD) from Broken Flag that my friend Giancarlo Toniutti gave me years back and features some of his tracks plus tons of other noisy acts from that period.
Those Motorpsycho boxes are deluxe editions with 4/5 CDs for each release with the original albums, B-sides, rarities, live versions and huge booklets. Besides experimental electronic stuff I really enjoy to listen to some heavy rock and those Motorpsycho albums are a good example of originality and attitude, they are a band completely out of any rock fashion trend really focused only on music.
Yes, I fully agree with you about Motorpsycho. Talking about motors and engines, what's that engine spark among your records? Why is it there?
Often I'm visiting and discovering abandoned places like old factories, derelict buildings, abandoned places, all about going into places you are "not supposed" to go, a kind of exploration and sometimes I pick things up, that object is an engine spark plug inside a block of plexiglass, quite strange and I found it in an abandoned office full of things where time seems to have stopped and "frozen" in 1976 as all the stuff inside was referring to that year. Now I can recall that I used that text written inside as a title for a track featured on one of my CD album released 18 years ago. Due to its heaviness is useful to divide and support my cd collection.
So, you seem to be a collector of weird and uncommon things, and then you put them in the 'right place'. I see a sort of connection with the way you play music now. Do you agree?
Well, I'm always collecting sounds too from instruments, weird devices, found objects and everyday's life. The main idea is to create from them an atmosphere I have in mind, to give them a new shape and put it in another world!
Deison is involved in the experimental electronic area since more than 20 years (he played in Meathead during the '90s) and he approached the world of sounds doing his own tape collages with tape recorders, turntables and objects mainly in the field of experimental noise; he runs a small label (Loud!).


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Another clean-up of Colombo- Cabinet approval for removal of 50,000 families! Featured
Cabinet approval has been received for the removal of 50,000 low income families in and around Colombo and releasing 400 acres to be used for commercial purposes.
The families residing in the Maligawatte Railway Department land, Kettarama Applewatte, Kimbula-Ela in Blumandal and the Ratmalana Irrigation Department land will be removed under this project.
It is said that Rs. 170 billion has been allocated for the families that would be removed.
Accordingly, each family will be provided a house worth Rs. 3 million each.
The funds for this purpose will be obtained under the Asian Bank infrastructure facilities loan project.
The proposal has been submitted to Cabinet by the Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka.
The sale of lands in Colombo to foreign companies began with the sale of the Army Headquarters land in Galle Face to Shangri La.
Upul Janaka Jayasinghe - Slum EditorNo purpose in relocating people from Jinthupitiya to Dematagoda - Slum Editor
Social activist on urban settlements and removal of slum dwellers in Colombo and Editor of the Slum Magazine Upul Janaka Jayasinghe said the reason that urban development is unsuccessful is because solutions are being sought without properly studying the urban life.
Responding to questions posed by Sri Lanka Mirror he said, if urban dwellers are to be removed from Colombo, they should be provided suitable livelihood opportunities that they are used to at their new locations.
He added that relocating the slum dwellers from Jinthupitiya to Dematagoda is not practical as those engaged in selling green leaves in Jinthupitiya cannot engage in the same business in Dematagoda as there are others engaged in this business in that area already.
He pointed out that during President Premadasa's tenure people from five slum areas were relocated at the Nawagampura Gam-Udawa project and as a result of clashes between groups around 10 persons were killed.
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Letter from DFID on Brexit No...
Letter from DFID on Brexit No Deal preparations
Nick Dyer
Bond worked hard in 2018 to obtain critical assurances for the UK development sector following Brexit. We have been liaising with the Department for International Development (DFID) to inform and guide NGOs about the implications of Brexit - and mitigate the impact of any scenario. We've received this letter from Nick Dyer, DFID director general for economic development.
It outlines DFID's preparations for Brexit and responds to some of the concerns raised by Bond and members. Read the letter below or click here to read it as a PDF.
You can also read about our recent blog on the current Brexit situation for NGOs and our priorities for 2019. We'll also be exploring Brexit and the future of development cooperation at the Bond Conference on 18-19 March.
Nick Dyer on Brexit: No Deal preparations
I write in follow-up to recent conversations DFID officials have held with your organisation in relation to planning for Exiting the European Union if a Withdrawal Agreement is not agreed. It is important that organisations take action to ensure they are prepared. I appreciate the frankness with which our supply partners in the sector have outlined their concerns and plans to us. I want to respond to some of the key points raised and elaborate on DFID's own preparedness.
Leaving the EU with a deal remains the Government's top priority. A majority of MPs have said they would support a deal with changes to the backstop. The Government will take this mandate forward and seek to agree legally binding changes to the Withdrawal Agreement regarding the backstop, while guaranteeing no return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
We are also planning for every eventuality, including no deal, as any responsible Government should. For DFID, we are working to ensure continuity in our trading arrangements with developing countries; looking at the impact on our overseas networks and Overseas Territories; and providing financial assurance to UK development organisations who have contracts with ECHO. In terms of our people, we have agreed to release some staff to support other urgent priorities across Government in the event of no deal. But I can assure you that we will protect our ability to deliver our essential business in a value for money and impactful way.
We are aware of the concerns UK development organisations have regarding future EU funding I wanted to reiterate that DFID has committed to funding the cost of any new programme agreed between August 2018 and March 2019 led by a UK aid organisation funded from the core budget of the EU's humanitarian and civil protection agency (ECHO). Any eligible supply partners wanting to make use of this guarantee should email [email protected].
I also wanted to reassure you that for programmes delivered under the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) and the European Development Fund (EDF), UK organisations will continue to be eligible to bid in a no deal scenario, where these programmes are to be implemented in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) or Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs). This is by virtue of our status as an OECD member. I would encourage any UK organisations concerned that these criteria are not being applied to alert us via their normal contact points in DFID or via [email protected].
For the EU Trust Fund for Africa, the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRIT) and Providing Humanitarian Assistance in Sahel Emergencies (PHASE), eligibility will depend on the external action financing instrument used. For example, where funding is channelled through the EDF, UK organisations will be eligible to implement in LDCs and HIPCs as per EDF criteria. This also means that in a no deal scenario, UK organisations would be ineligible for humanitarian programmes under FRIT and PHASE, as ECHO eligibility criteria apply to these programmes.
Some UK supply partners have said that they are seeking to transition current contracts from UK affiliates to EU affiliates and that there is a lack of clarity over this. I have asked DFID officials to make enquiries with the Commission and they will update you.
I appreciate the concerns about exchange rate fluctuations. DFID policy is that contracts are denominated in sterling; suppliers bear the risk and retain the benefits of any exchange rate fluctuation. In our conversations with suppliers we understand that some planning is underway to manage potential exchange rate fluctuations and I strongly encourage you to consider what mitigation measures might be appropriate for your organisation.
I understand the concerns relating to retaining non-UK EU staff, supporting them through the transition and recruiting new EU staff in the future. I encourage you to read the guidance related to applying for settled status, found here: euexit.campaign.gov.uk, and ensure your staff are prepared.
There was also a concern about data and the status of GDPR post March. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has published a summary of how the Government intends the UK's data protection law will work in the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal, subject to Parliamentary approval. The Information Commissioner's Office has published a range of guidance and resources on its website on data protection and the UK's departure from the European Union.
Lastly, I wanted to flag key sources of information for your organisations in your preparations:
The Government's central information hub for citizens and businesses at euexit.campaign.gov.uk
The central information hub for business readiness euexitbusiness.campaign.gov.uk and the Partnership Pack on changes to the border in a no-deal scenario. These include detail on importing, exporting and operating in the EU.
DFID's Financial Assurance Technical Notice: www.gov.uk/government/publications/delivering-humanitarian-aid-programmes-if-theres-no-brexit-deal
I look forward to continuing close collaboration with your organisation on these issues. We would like to propose a round-table soon, which officials will be in touch to arrange.
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Horseback Trail Riding
Horseback Trails By Region
Oregon Trail Ride
The Oregon Trail was the route of the world's greatest peacetime migration. From the early 1830s to the mid-1880s, around 500,000 people traveling west to Oregon, California, and other points in the Pacific Northwest traveled on the Oregon trail; 50,000 died along the way. From Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, the trail is 2,170 miles in length.
Charlene Krone
Oregon or bust! The Oregon Trail was the route of the world's greatest peacetime migration. From the early 1830s to the mid-1880s, around 500,000 people traveling west to Oregon, California, and other points in the Pacific Northwest traveled on the Oregon trail; 50,000 died along the way. From Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, the trail is 2,170 miles in length.
We wanted to ride our horses along portions of the Oregon Trail and visit historic sites. We developed a two-pronged approach to our exploration: First, we'd ride sections of the trail in Wyoming and Idaho on our own. To cap things off, we'd then ride with a wagon train in Oregon.
Our tour of the Oregon Trail started at Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Wyoming (307/837-2221; www.nps.gov/fola). We'd planned to go east to west, just as the early settlers did. Fort Laramie gives visitors a feel for pioneer life in a fort and on the trail. The fort, established in 1849, became a major supply point for Oregon Trail travelers. Restored and original buildings are open for touring. These buildings include Old Bedlam; built in 1849, it's the oldest existing structure in Wyoming.
Of special interest to us horse folks are the cavalry barracks built in 1874. Cavalry gear, beds, and the whole works are on display. Charlene thought it was especially interesting the way soldiers carried their tents. Each soldier had a "tent buddy," who carried one-half of a tent to save excess weight on the horse.
About a day's wagon travel west of Fort Laramie is the town of Guernsey. Follow the signs from there to Register Cliff State Historic Site, where a sandstone cliff bears hundreds of names, dates, and hometowns of pioneers who passed that way in the mid-1800s. All have tales to tell, if they could only speak.
Look for the Unthank family (A.H. and O.N.) who carved their names in the cliff in 1850. After carving his name, A.H. Unthank lived only one more week before dying of cholera. His grave is down the trail near Glenrock, Wyoming.
Near Register Cliff are impressive ruts formed by wagon wheels. Follow signs to the Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site, known as the Guernsey Ruts. The terrain in this area forced wagons to cross a sandstone outcropping. Over the years, thousands of wagons wore ruts into the soft stone to a depth of five feet in some places. Look closely at the side walls, and you can still see where wagon-wheel hubs rubbed against the walls.
We stopped at nearby Guernsey State Park (307/836-2127; http://wyoparks.state.wy.us/guslide.htm) for a place to ride our horses and camp. We checked with Wes Gudahl, the assistant superintendent who said it was fine to camp with horses in the park. There are two looped trails with a combined distance of 6.2 miles. However, we found we could extend our ride by going cross country. (Pick up a trail map at the museum.)
We enjoyed riding our horses through small canyons, prairies, and buttes dotted with juniper and ponderosa pines. We saw a large number of birds and a few mule deer meandering in the distance. We could catch glimpses of Guernsey Reservoir and the North Platte River. During late summer, the reservoir is completely drained. This may not be a desirable time to visit if you don't like looking at an empty lake bed!
We continued following the Oregon Trail west on Highway 220 to Independence Rock. This rock is 136 feet high and about a half-mile long and is covered with emigrants' names. To see the best displays of names, walk to the back side of the rock and climb to the top.
William Sublette named this rock on July 4, 1830, as he paused to celebrate Independence Day while leading the first wagon train to cross the new overland route. Pioneers heading west tried to time their start so the spring grass would be sufficient to support the animals, but early enough to avoid risking early snows in the mountains. If they reached Independence Rock by the Fourth of July, they knew their timing was about right, and they had huge celebrations.
As we stood on top of the rock looking to the plains where the wagons rolled, we were overcome by feelings of the human tide that had flowed below us going west to seek new fortunes.
Crossing the Divide
South Pass was the lowest, easiest route for wagons to cross the Continental Divide, our nation's backbone. Captain Benjamin Bonneville took the first wagons over South Pass in 1832. After that, hundreds of thousands of emigrants crossed on their way west. Nearby is South Pass City State Historical Site (307/332-3684; http://wyoparks.state.wy.us/spcslide.htm).
South Pass City was built during a gold rush in 1866. By 1870, there were 4,000 residents. The gold dwindled out, but the town remains today, restored by the state of Wyoming as an example of an early mining town. It contains more than 20 original buildings, including an authentically furnished hotel, a saloon where you can play on an 1800s billiard table, and a stocked general store.
We went on several rides near South Pass City. We began the first by riding our horses right through town and down Main Street. You'll need to stop at the visitor center to get permission to ride through town and for them to open the gate.
The trail through town and beyond is a Volksmarch trail. Volksmarch means "a walk of the people." The Wyoming State Parks and Historic Sites Organization created Volksmarch trails in 10 of its state parks. The trails are marked by brown-and-yellow signs.
As we rode our horses through town, we tried to imagine what it would've been like to have ridden there 140 years ago. We passed the same board sidewalks and buildings that people used in earlier times. It was a real thrill to ride past historic buildings while tourists watched.
We briefly paused at Esther Morris' cabin. In 1870, she was appointed justice of the peace, making her our nation's first female judge.
We rode our horses for about 2.5 miles past South Pass City following Willow Creek. This is a small canyon with willows growing along the stream. The trail markers weren't all in place, so we couldn't see exactly where the official trail went. We started traveling cross-country, leaving the creek and climbing aspen-covered hills to the north.
We came to an old mine that had a wheel-type structure at the top of the mine shaft. It appeared that a horse or mule would turn the wheel to raise and lower a cable in the shaft. We selected our own route, working through ravines, hillsides, and pockets of timber until we came back to town.
There are two other rides of interest in the South Pass City area. The first ride is to the old ghost town of Miner's Delight. To do this ride, we trailered five miles to Atlantic City, also an interesting old mining town. Robert Redford came here for food and drink in the old saloon while doing research for his book, The Outlaw Trail.
You can drive on mining roads to Miner's Delight, but we actually made about a 12-mile loop from Atlantic City to Miner's Delight by riding on roads and cross-country. We rode to Roundtop Mountain, followed Peabody Ridge, went down Horace Gulch, and back up Little Beaver Creek. We were able to do some side exploring, and discovered a number of interesting mining and early day sites.
If you go, pick up a map of the area from the South Pass City visitor center, or order a detailed topographical map. If you order the latter, specify Miner's Delight, WYO, 1991, 7.5 minute series (888/ASK-USGS [275-8747]).
Miner's Delight has been restored by the Bureau of Land Management. We had an enjoyable time exploring the old buildings and the nearby cemetery. The town was founded in a gold rush in 1867. It also has the distinction of being Calamity Jane's childhood town. Calamity Jane was born in Missouri and orphaned at an early age; her adoptive parents brought her to Miner's Delight.
Another fun ride is directly northwest across Highway 28 from South Pass City. You can easily see this area on a map of the Shoshone National Forest, South Half. We simply started up Forest Road 320 and rode cross-country and along old roads that meandered through the hills. We had a nice time riding around and through open parks, patches of timber, and rocks.
At one point, our horses spotted a moose running through the brush. Altogether, we enjoyed some great riding around South Pass.
Joining Up
Now it was time to join up with a real wagon train and ride along with our horses. We were invited to join the Pendleton Roundup Association's wagon train for a five-day trip near Ukiah, Oregon. For this trip, our two cousins, John Kiczek and Tess McCarihan, flew out from Ohio to join us.
We had Buddy and Scout, our two Missouri Foxtrotters; Buckwheat, our tried-and-true Appaloosa; and Gator, a horse we leased from Montana Horses Company in Three Forks, Montana (888/685-3697). Four people and four horses. We were ready to go!
We picked up John and Tess at the airport and drove to the campsite. There were 18 wagons and 171 people on this journey. There were all types of wagons, from covered wagons to surreys. People could either ride in wagons or on a horse. Food, horse hay, and evening entertainment were included in the price. We had our pickup and camper, which was shuttled from camp to camp. People also slept in tents or in their wagons.
Unfortunately, on the first day out, a driver became injured, as often happened on Old West wagon trains. A team of mules startled and bolted, flipping the driver off the wagon. The wagon ran over him, breaking several of his ribs. He was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital. Later, we found out that he would make a full recovery.
Goodbye, Buckwheat
A true tragedy happened when our horse, Buckwheat, became very ill and died. We were unable to save him, in spite of a valiant effort on the part of a veterinary technician, a small-animal veterinarian, and two excellent equine veterinarians - Mark Omann, DVM, and Chris McIlmiol, DVM, both of La Grande, Oregon.
Buckwheat was the most courageous, trustworthy horse we'd ever owned. He'd traveled the Continental Divide Trail from Mexico to Canada, had been in most of the western wilderness areas, and had ventured twice into the Canadian Rockies. He was the subject of an article in the July/August '03 issue of The Trail Rider ("Thank You Buckwheat") and was featured on the cover of the July/August '05 issue.
When Dr. Omann saw the cover photo of Buckwheat in the beautiful Canadian Rockies, he said, "Buckwheat's already been in heaven." Later, Dr. Omann sent us a letter that read, "The loss of Buckwheat will long leave that shadow in the corral when you go out to get the ponies for your next ride. I hope the character he was will be the glowing coal in your campfires that bring only smiles and fond memories to quickly douse your pain and sadness at his loss."
At our nightly gathering, Charlene gave a tribute to Buckwheat and told the wagon-train folks about his life. Buckwheat is buried near the Oregon Trail, not far from his ancestral land where the Nez Percé Indians originally bred the Appaloosa breed.
Wagon-Train Adventure
We were down one horse, but true to wagon trains of olden times, people came forward and offered us their support and help. We were invited to ride in several wagons and were even loaned a spare horse. Cousin John had very little horse experience and had planned to ride Buckwheat. As it turned out "Buckeye John" rode like an old cowboy and had a great time riding several different horses. We also took turns riding in wagons.
Cousin Tess had a memorable ride with teamster Dave Peterson. Dave had an authentic covered wagon that pulled another small wagon behind it. As they bumped and traveled along, Dave told Tess tales and adventure stories. Some were even true! Dave and his wife, Debra, have their own wagon-train business, Wagons Ho! (See "Wagon-Train Resources" on page 74.)
A typical day on the wagon train started out with an all-you-could-eat cowboy breakfast. The teamsters and wagons pulled out first, with folks on horseback following. We rode far to the side or behind the wagon train, which not only enabled us to explore, but also enjoy great views of the wagon train from a distance.
It's a rare treat to see 18 wagons pulled by horses moving along through fields bordered by aspens and pines with views to distant mountains. At 4,800 to 5,000 feet above sea level, we could see the plains to the west and the Blue Mountains to the east.
Wagon trains can be scary monsters for saddle horses that aren't used to them. Things move and jangle. Try to accustom your horse to wagons before investing in a wagon-train trip. Our horses did a great job. Tess was thrilled with how well Gator behaved. It was probably the first time he'd ever seen such a sight. My horse, Buddy, is just a kid and interested in everything. I expected more trouble from him, but he was a champion.
Our horses moved faster than the wagon train, so we'd travel up ravines, through moist valleys, and on flower-covered mesas. The whole area was essentially a large, flat plateau, where it's easy to become disoriented and lost. As a precaution, we kept an eye on the wagon train in the distance.
Every night, we'd all meet and discuss the day's events. Generally, there'd be evening entertainment in the form of drawings for prizes, singing, and fiddle playing.
The last night of the wagon train, a cowboy band played. As the sky grew dim and the stars came out, we danced the night away. It made us think back to how the early settlers danced and celebrated at Independence Rock. A century-and-a-half later, we were doing the same thing.
And just as in olden times, our trip had triumph and tragedy, joy and sadness. We'd take home memories to last a lifetime of the wonderful people and events that made up our experience along the Oregon Trail.
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Sajjad Lone Unhappy With His Portfolio, Again
Muhammad Raafi
3:52 pm April 5, 2016
Sajad Lone
People's Conference leader Sajjad Gani Lone is reportedly unhappy with the raw deal he has been given by the BJP. He is not happy with the portfolio of Social Welfare Department and the ARI.
Reports from Jammu said the angry Lone is contemplating a serious reaction to the BJP-PDP alliance's decision to give him "low key" department. Right now efforts are underway to convince him and prevent an embarrassing situation for the day long renewed alliance.
Sources in the government said the crisis is there but efforts are underway to neutralize it.
Kashmir Life efforts to get Lone's response to the reports failed. He did not pick up either of the two numbers he usually carries along with.
This is for the second time that Lone is in news for the responsibility he has been given by the alliance, he is part of. Last time, he was requested to drive to Jammu when he had returned after literally breaking the bridge. After oath taking he was given Animal Husbandry which he hated the most. It took a lot of time for BJP to convince their young ally to take over as the minister. He eventually took over after being assured that his status will be changed soon, something that never happened.
After Ms Mufti re-stitched the alliance, Lone, according to sources was promised a "better" ministry. He had suggested Health or the Power Ministry. But, instead, he was given Social Welfare which he is not happy with.
Sources said that Lone is very angry and is contemplating getting out of the alliance. Official sources said Lone was assured by the BJP that "it will look into the issue soon".
Lone has not been seen in the civil secretariat on Tuesday after he attended the council of ministers meeting that Chief Minister presided over.
A BJP leader told Kashmir Life that Lone is unhappy with the portfolio and the party is trying to settle it.
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import constants from '../constants';
import arrayToHash from '../../../utils/func/arrayToHash';

const initialState = {};

/**
 * List of polls
 *
 * **Actions listened**:
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 *  * `FETCH_LAST_POLL`
 *  * `FETCH_POLL`
 *  * `FETCH_POLLS`
 *  * `ANSWER_POLL`
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 *
 * @example
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