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#pragma once
#include <aws/rds/RDS_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/rds/RDSRequest.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSVector.h>
#include <aws/rds/model/Filter.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace RDS
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   */
  class AWS_RDS_API DescribeInstallationMediaRequest : public RDSRequest
  {
  public:
    DescribeInstallationMediaRequest();

    // Service request name is the Operation name which will send this request out,
    // each operation should has unique request name, so that we can get operation's name from this request.
    // Note: this is not true for response, multiple operations may have the same response name,
    // so we can not get operation's name from response.
    inline virtual const char* GetServiceRequestName() const override { return "DescribeInstallationMedia"; }

    Aws::String SerializePayload() const override;

  protected:
    void DumpBodyToUrl(Aws::Http::URI& uri ) const override;

  public:

    /**
     *
The installation medium ID.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetInstallationMediaId() const{ return m_installationMediaId; }

    /**
     *
The installation medium ID.

     */
    inline bool InstallationMediaIdHasBeenSet() const { return m_installationMediaIdHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The installation medium ID.

     */
    inline void SetInstallationMediaId(const Aws::String& value) { m_installationMediaIdHasBeenSet = true; m_installationMediaId = value; }

    /**
     *
The installation medium ID.

     */
    inline void SetInstallationMediaId(Aws::String&& value) { m_installationMediaIdHasBeenSet = true; m_installationMediaId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The installation medium ID.

     */
    inline void SetInstallationMediaId(const char* value) { m_installationMediaIdHasBeenSet = true; m_installationMediaId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The installation medium ID.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithInstallationMediaId(const Aws::String& value) { SetInstallationMediaId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The installation medium ID.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithInstallationMediaId(Aws::String&& value) { SetInstallationMediaId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The installation medium ID.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithInstallationMediaId(const char* value) { SetInstallationMediaId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A filter that specifies one or more installation media to describe. Supported
     * filters include the following:

     * custom-availability-zone-id - Accepts custom Availability Zone (AZ)
     * identifiers. The results list includes information about only the custom AZs
     * identified by these identifiers.

 engine -
     * Accepts database engines. The results list includes information about only the
     * database engines identified by these identifiers.

For more information
     * about the valid engines for installation media, see
     * ImportInstallationMedia.

     */
    inline const Aws::Vector<Filter>& GetFilters() const{ return m_filters; }

    /**
     *
A filter that specifies one or more installation media to describe. Supported
     * filters include the following:

     * custom-availability-zone-id - Accepts custom Availability Zone (AZ)
     * identifiers. The results list includes information about only the custom AZs
     * identified by these identifiers.

 engine -
     * Accepts database engines. The results list includes information about only the
     * database engines identified by these identifiers.

For more information
     * about the valid engines for installation media, see
     * ImportInstallationMedia.

     */
    inline bool FiltersHasBeenSet() const { return m_filtersHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
A filter that specifies one or more installation media to describe. Supported
     * filters include the following:

     * custom-availability-zone-id - Accepts custom Availability Zone (AZ)
     * identifiers. The results list includes information about only the custom AZs
     * identified by these identifiers.

 engine -
     * Accepts database engines. The results list includes information about only the
     * database engines identified by these identifiers.

For more information
     * about the valid engines for installation media, see
     * ImportInstallationMedia.

     */
    inline void SetFilters(const Aws::Vector<Filter>& value) { m_filtersHasBeenSet = true; m_filters = value; }

    /**
     *
A filter that specifies one or more installation media to describe. Supported
     * filters include the following:

     * custom-availability-zone-id - Accepts custom Availability Zone (AZ)
     * identifiers. The results list includes information about only the custom AZs
     * identified by these identifiers.

 engine -
     * Accepts database engines. The results list includes information about only the
     * database engines identified by these identifiers.

For more information
     * about the valid engines for installation media, see
     * ImportInstallationMedia.

     */
    inline void SetFilters(Aws::Vector<Filter>&& value) { m_filtersHasBeenSet = true; m_filters = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
A filter that specifies one or more installation media to describe. Supported
     * filters include the following:

     * custom-availability-zone-id - Accepts custom Availability Zone (AZ)
     * identifiers. The results list includes information about only the custom AZs
     * identified by these identifiers.

 engine -
     * Accepts database engines. The results list includes information about only the
     * database engines identified by these identifiers.

For more information
     * about the valid engines for installation media, see
     * ImportInstallationMedia.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithFilters(const Aws::Vector<Filter>& value) { SetFilters(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A filter that specifies one or more installation media to describe. Supported
     * filters include the following:

     * custom-availability-zone-id - Accepts custom Availability Zone (AZ)
     * identifiers. The results list includes information about only the custom AZs
     * identified by these identifiers.

 engine -
     * Accepts database engines. The results list includes information about only the
     * database engines identified by these identifiers.

For more information
     * about the valid engines for installation media, see
     * ImportInstallationMedia.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithFilters(Aws::Vector<Filter>&& value) { SetFilters(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A filter that specifies one or more installation media to describe. Supported
     * filters include the following:

     * custom-availability-zone-id - Accepts custom Availability Zone (AZ)
     * identifiers. The results list includes information about only the custom AZs
     * identified by these identifiers.

 engine -
     * Accepts database engines. The results list includes information about only the
     * database engines identified by these identifiers.

For more information
     * about the valid engines for installation media, see
     * ImportInstallationMedia.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& AddFilters(const Filter& value) { m_filtersHasBeenSet = true; m_filters.push_back(value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
A filter that specifies one or more installation media to describe. Supported
     * filters include the following:

     * custom-availability-zone-id - Accepts custom Availability Zone (AZ)
     * identifiers. The results list includes information about only the custom AZs
     * identified by these identifiers.

 engine -
     * Accepts database engines. The results list includes information about only the
     * database engines identified by these identifiers.

For more information
     * about the valid engines for installation media, see
     * ImportInstallationMedia.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& AddFilters(Filter&& value) { m_filtersHasBeenSet = true; m_filters.push_back(std::move(value)); return *this; }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous DescribeInstallationMedia
     * request. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records
     * beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline int GetMaxRecords() const{ return m_maxRecords; }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous DescribeInstallationMedia
     * request. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records
     * beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline bool MaxRecordsHasBeenSet() const { return m_maxRecordsHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous DescribeInstallationMedia
     * request. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records
     * beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline void SetMaxRecords(int value) { m_maxRecordsHasBeenSet = true; m_maxRecords = value; }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous DescribeInstallationMedia
     * request. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records
     * beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithMaxRecords(int value) { SetMaxRecords(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this
     * parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up
     * to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetMarker() const{ return m_marker; }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this
     * parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up
     * to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline bool MarkerHasBeenSet() const { return m_markerHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this
     * parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up
     * to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline void SetMarker(const Aws::String& value) { m_markerHasBeenSet = true; m_marker = value; }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this
     * parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up
     * to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline void SetMarker(Aws::String&& value) { m_markerHasBeenSet = true; m_marker = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this
     * parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up
     * to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline void SetMarker(const char* value) { m_markerHasBeenSet = true; m_marker.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this
     * parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up
     * to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithMarker(const Aws::String& value) { SetMarker(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this
     * parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up
     * to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithMarker(Aws::String&& value) { SetMarker(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this
     * parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up
     * to the value specified by MaxRecords.

     */
    inline DescribeInstallationMediaRequest& WithMarker(const char* value) { SetMarker(value); return *this;}

  private:

    Aws::String m_installationMediaId;
    bool m_installationMediaIdHasBeenSet;

    Aws::Vector<Filter> m_filters;
    bool m_filtersHasBeenSet;

    int m_maxRecords;
    bool m_maxRecordsHasBeenSet;

    Aws::String m_marker;
    bool m_markerHasBeenSet;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace RDS
} // namespace Aws

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July 20, 2015 / 1:28 PM
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By Andrew V. Pestano
In January, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos during the country's general elections where Kerry urged the candidates to accept the election results. Buhari won the election, defeating incumbent Goodluck Jonathan. File Photo by State Department
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met with U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House on Monday to discuss the ongoing conflict against Boko Haram, an Islamic State affiliate.
Nigeria is looking for U.S. assistance in combating Boko Haram, but the United States refuses to sell the country weapons because of concerns over the Nigerian army's human rights record.
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The visit shows the United States' "commitment to strengthening and expanding our partnership with Nigeria's new government," according to the White House.
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Obama regarded Nigeria as one of the most important countries in the world, adding that the peaceful transition to a new government after elections in March is a testament of the country's commitment to democracy. Nigeria is Africa's most populated country, has the largest economy and produces the most oil.
Buhari was the first opposition candidate to win an election since the end of military rule in Nigeria in 1999. He took office in May.
The United States sent surveillance flights over Nigeria last year to help locate the more than 200 girls that Boko Haram kidnapped in Chibok, inciting the "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign.
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PM to Irish FM: Condemn PA glorification of Fogel killers
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Ireland on Sunday to condemn the Palestinian Authority for broadcasting a "glorification of the killers who murdered and Israeli family."
The prime minister told Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore that Israel wants to enter peace negotiations with the Palestinians, but said Jerusalem was disappointed with developments in the Palestinian Authority. One of those disappointments bearing on the peace process was the Palestinian television program "For You," which presented the murderers of five Fogel family members in the Itamar settlement as heroes, according to the prime minister. "This comes on the heels of the Palestinian mufti's call to murder Jews wherever they are," Netanyahu told Gilmore, referencing the Jerusalem mufti's recitation of a hadith that calls killing Jews a sacred goal.
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#define SkGrPixelRef_DEFINED

#include "SkBitmap.h"
#include "SkPixelRef.h"
#include "GrTexture.h"
#include "GrRenderTarget.h"

/**
 *  Common baseclass that implements onLockPixels() by calling onReadPixels().
 *  Since it has a copy, it always returns false for onLockPixelsAreWritable().
 */
class SK_API SkROLockPixelsPixelRef : public SkPixelRef {
public:
    SkROLockPixelsPixelRef(const SkImageInfo&);
    virtual ~SkROLockPixelsPixelRef();

protected:
    bool onNewLockPixels(LockRec*) override;
    void onUnlockPixels() override;
    bool onLockPixelsAreWritable() const override;   // return false;

private:
    SkBitmap    fBitmap;
    typedef SkPixelRef INHERITED;
};

/**
 *  PixelRef that wraps a GrSurface
 */
class SK_API SkGrPixelRef : public SkROLockPixelsPixelRef {
public:
    /**
     * Constructs a pixel ref around a GrSurface.
     */
    SkGrPixelRef(const SkImageInfo&, GrSurface*);
    virtual ~SkGrPixelRef();

    // override from SkPixelRef
    GrTexture* getTexture() override;

protected:
    // overrides from SkPixelRef
    bool onReadPixels(SkBitmap* dst, SkColorType, const SkIRect* subset) override;
    SkPixelRef* deepCopy(SkColorType, SkColorProfileType,
                         const SkIRect* subset) override;
    void onNotifyPixelsChanged() override;

private:
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#endif


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Interdisciplinary research must sit at the heart of universities
October 20, 2014 6.29am EDT
Tom McLeish, Veronica Strang, Durham University
Tom McLeish
Professor of Physics and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Durham University
Veronica Strang
Professor of Anthropology, Executive Director of Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University
Tom McLeish receives research funding from EPSRC, AHRC and the Templeton Foundation.
Veronica Strang does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK.
'Trespassers will not be prosecuted'. Giles Gasper, CC BY-SA
Bringing together great academic minds and diverse perspectives from different disciplines can transform university research. A recent project at Durham University called "Hearing the Voice" challenges conventional assumptions about the "problems" confronted by people who hear voices. By bringing together a range of disciplines, including humanities and social science researchers, it has opened up new avenues for thinking about the experience of hearing voices. Another project: "The Ordered Universe", a collaboration between historians and physicists to co-translate the writings of bishop and theologian Robert Grossteste, has revealed the extraordinary sophistication of science in the medieval period.
In a recent piece on The Conversation, Amber Griffiths made a persuasive call for higher education to break free from its disciplinary boundaries. She pointed out that students now need to learn from a whole range of disciplines if they are are to go on and tackle the global problems such as climate change that individual subjects cannot solve.
Many excellent interdisciplinary programmes do exist. But although universities and funding bodies pay lip-service to the importance of multi-discipline research, we argue, in a new Leadership Foundation piece that there is a long way to go before the reality matches the rhetoric.
One reason that interdisciplinary research has not managed to reshape university infrastructures effectively – through appointments, promotion, research evaluation, funding streams or departments – is because it is seen as a peripheral concern. Yet the historical roots of the university and philosophies of learning point to a radically different idea of its importance at the heart of the academy.
Theologian Nicholas Lash urged academics to recall the foundational connections underlying all disciplines: "Notwithstanding the accelerated fragments of specialised academic activities, we trample in each other's territory… whether we want to or not". Lash's claim is that cross-disciplinary thinking returns us to our contemplative core and, by regenerating intellectual flows between disciplines, creates new, rather than merely parallel, conversations and outcomes.
Working in silos
Academic "subcultures" differentiate themselves from each other by focusing on particular domains and developing exclusive languages. The identities of academics in different disciplines therefore rely on what sociologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu termed "distinction" – an active process providing a sense of belonging as well as social capital in the form of academic status, resources, security and intellectual or political influence.
In an academic environment dominated by the neo-liberal ideologies of a market-driven economy, a lot of value is invested in the search for competitive advantage. In a commodified higher education sector, thinking in a more co-operative interdisciplinary way is potentially subversive. Yet as well as delivering the comprehensive grasp of technology, global politics and culture that is needed to address complex social and environmental issues, such thinking takes learning back to its roots.
Real commitment to interdisciplinary research requires different approaches to leadership, academic practice and resource distribution. A competitive environment encourages the everyday use of military or sporting metaphors: "champions" lead "troops" to "capture" grants and intellectual "territory". A typical example is the formal establishment of a "grant capture team" at Nottingham Trent University to help match ideas with funding opportunities.
Readiness to co-operate
But the open exchange of ideas essential to successful interdisciplinary collaboration is not helped by competitive defence of academic territory, nor by aggressive attempts to claim it. Instead, it is enabled by a willingness to put aside individual interests and to risk participation in a generous, collective endeavour.
Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study. Durham University
Such generosity needs to include time commitment, since building a collective research enterprise requires open and patient communication. As well as articulating their work in ways that researchers from disparate areas can understand, academics must also be willing to learn about their collaborators' ideas and methods.
They need to give each other "permission" to make observations, suggestions and recommendations that transgress disciplinary boundaries, potentially in any direction. Successful interdisciplinary projects announce to newcomers that "trespassers will not be prosecuted". The confidence to make observations about each others' disciplines, and the grace to receive them, can provide new levels of understanding. But such comments sit uneasily in universities which may be focused on short-termist reactions to an ongoing funding crisis.
Funders need to catch up
New research structures are required, as much as new leadership and practice. Interdisciplinary institutes and centres can provide space, support for intellectual exchange and a sense of community. Centres exploring topics such as environmental change, water issues or energy use have bridged departments in several UK universities. For example, the Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science at Dundee University, supports visiting researchers from a range of disciplines to look at issues such as flooding and the impact of climate change and land use on groundwater.
Institutes of Advanced Study, such as the one we have developed at Durham University, provide more radically innovative spaces, connecting every subject area across the university and offering fellowships for visiting researchers.
But the infrastructures of evaluating the quality of research in higher education, managed through the Research Excellence Framework and by the UK higher education funding councils, remain fragmented along disciplinary lines. This means there is currently little capacity to support the more transformative exchanges of ideas that are so essential to the vitality of the academy.
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Q: a function calculate has been used in a true/false expression that is used as a table filter expression which is not allowed I have a to check the current month and current year value for a measure in ssas tabular model but due to type mismatch i am not able to do this. For this, i have created a measure in which i am using this dax query
:CurrMonthYear:=CONCATENATE(CONCATENATE("""",concatenate(year(now()),CONCATENATE(0,month(now())))),"""")       output: "201704"

...to calculate currentyear and currentmonth. But when i give this value in a measure like this:
SumOfRevisedForecast:=CALCULATE(SUM(DimRevisedForecast[RevisedForecast]),DimRevisedForecast[Approved] <>"N"  && DimRevisedForecast[Approved] <>blank(),'DimRevisedForecast'[CalendarYearMonth] =CurrMonthYear)

...this doesnt work. Though, giving "201704" in place of CurrMonthYear works.
Can anybody help me in this?
Thanks in advance

A: The problem is not with CurrMonthYear measure, it's with your second formula - CALCULATE function does not accept measures as criteria, only values. That's why it works when you put "201704" explicitly but fails when you use the measure.
A common solution is to wrap the criteria into FILTER function, something like:
CALCULATE(SUM(DimRevisedForecast[RevisedForecast]),
          FILTER ('DimRevisedForecast',
                  'DimRevisedForecast'[CalendarYearMonth] = [CurrMonthYear])

A great explanation of this issue is here:
FILTER() – When, Why, & How to Use It

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Euromar Commodities and Transmar Switzerland, members of Transmar Group, have signed their first syndicated international borrowing base facility for €125mn.
Commerzbank acted as mandated lead arranger, with the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and KfW Ipex-Bank as lead arrangers. The Frankfurt office of law firm Allen & Overy acted as legal advisor to the lenders.
Initially launched at €120mn, the transaction was oversubscribed and increased by €5mn. The facility will be used to assist Euromar and Transmar Switzerland in meeting their working capital financing needs for the next three years as well as providing a basis for sustaining their growth.


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While eighteen-year-old Janie ponders her future with Cabe, knowing that her being a dream-catcher means eventual blindness and crippling, she encounters her past as the father she never knew is hospitalized with brain trauma and seems to need her help.
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I really can't believe that the series has come to an end. But what an ending it was! McMann did not disappoint with the third and final book in the Dream Catcher Trilogy.
We come into Gone, just a few weeks after the ending in Fade. Janie and Cabel are getting ready to take a mini vacation before starting up with their undercover police work. They head to the lake to spend time with Cabel's brother and sister-in-law. While there, they have a few days of slight peace; though Janie still gets sucked into Cabel's dreams and even one dream while learning to water ski. After getting frantic voice mails from Carrie stating that she is taking Janie's mother to the hospital, Cable and Janie leave. Once they reach the hospital, they find out that it wasn't for Janie's mom, but a man known as Henry.
Henry is someone that Janie, doesn't know; but she soon realizes just how much of a connection that they really have. See, Henry is Janie's father. Janie really has no idea how to handle this new information, and with whatever she is contemplating in the beginning of the book, this added information and her mother's attitude is really getting to her. I wondered through the whole book, exactly what it was that Janie was contemplating, and until the end I didn't really grasp it. I'm sure if I thought about it long and hard I would have figured it out, but I was too worried about how Janie was really going to deal with knowing about her father.
Cabel tries to help Janie find out more about her father, and eventually he finds out where Henry lived and takes Janie there. When they arrive, Janie is a little apprehensive and doesn't really want to find out anything, but after looking around the house a bit, Janie starts to wonder why he lived out in the middle of nowhere and why he pretty much isolated himself.
While Janie is still being sucked into dreams, and for her; Cabel's are the worst. She goes to visit her father, whom is in a coma all through the book. When she goes into his room, she is sucked into his dreams, and she has to fight really hard to get out of it. While doing more research and thinking Janie realizes that the dream catching is hereditary and that she got it from her father. Miss Stubin makes another appearance and that is when Janie realizes everything.
We find out shortly after that, just what it is that Janie has been contemplating and just what she is going to do. I wasn't happy with the decision she came to and I will admit that I teared up quite a bit. Janie is trying to figure out how to help her father in his dream and while she is sleeping beside his bed in the hospital, Henry catches Janie's dream and she actually gets to speak to him. It was a bittersweet moment between father and daughter.
Henry passes the next day and while Janie is trying to get her alcoholic mother to actually have a funeral for him, and then get her mother to the funeral, she learns that while Henry may have isolated himself, Janie does have a "family" that loves and supports her. The funeral is sad and her mother plays the drunk perfectly, but Janie has the support of Cabel, Carrie, and even her "boss".
We go on to see what Janie decided and how she slowly starts to enact her decision, then after about a day she realizes that maybe she made the wrong choice. There are always two sides to every story, the one that you see and then the one that actually happened. Now maybe, it didn't really happen like that, but would you take the chance? Knowing what you know for sure would happen or guessing that just maybe everything would be ok? Could you live with leaving the ONLY one you love and never seeing them again? Janie answers these questions, and realizes that she may need to reconsider exactly what she wants out of her life.
I really can't believe that the trilogy is finished and I won't get to see just how Janie's decision affected everyone around her, and what exactly is happening now. ( )
chaoticbooklover | Dec 26, 2018 |
I really enjoyed these books and I'm sad to see the characters go. These books are great summer reads and I love how there is just a touch of paranormal stuff. At first I didn't really like the way McMann wrote the stories but after awhile I started to like it. It made sense for Janie's story. I look forward to reading McMann's other books. I recommend these books for anyone who loves books with some paranormal activity. ( )
IntrovertedBooks | Mar 26, 2018 |
I really liked this series. Very interesting and different.
I feel bad for her though. Slowly going blind. That's gotta suck. She's so young.
Shahnareads | Jun 21, 2017 |
The first two books weren't great and I should have known better than to even bother with this one. I didn't make it to page 50. Boring and annoying. ( )
benandhil | Sep 28, 2016 |
I usually don't like the last book in a series, but this one I did. ( )
mtlkch | Jun 21, 2016 |
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The criminal appeal of an Ohio man asks whether teachers' obligation as "mandatory reporters" of suspected child abuse—something required of them, along with various other professionals, in all 50 states—makes them adjuncts of law enforcement when it comes to prosecuting such cases.
The case of Ohio v. Clark (No.13-1352) also examines whether a child's statements to a teacher about abuse trigger the Sixth Amendment right of the accused "to be confronted with the witnesses against him." That typically means such witnesses must testify in open court, where the defendant's lawyers may cross-examine them.
Darius Clark, a 27-year-old Cleveland man, argues that his rights under the "confrontation clause" were violated when he was convicted of felony assault and endangering children based in significant part on the trial testimony of two Head Start teachers. They recounted information from a child alleging physical abuse by Mr. Clark, who was the boyfriend of the child's mother.
"This case could have implications anywhere there are mandatory-reporting laws, which is everywhere," said Jason Walta, a senior attorney in the general counsel's office of the National Education Association. The NEA has filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief with the American Federation of Teachers and the National School Boards Association on the side of the state.
Eric E. Murphy, the state solicitor of Ohio, will argue before the justices on March 2 that a mandatory duty to report suspected child abuse does not, as Ohio's highest court held, turn teachers into agents of the police.
"The teachers in this case were acting more in a teacher-care capacity, not as the police," he said in an interview.
Immediately after making the report, the school employee shall notify the school principal that a report has been made.
The oral report shall be followed up with a written report within five working days. That report could include additional helpful information from school records, such as the name of the family physician or other reports the school has made regarding the child.
Source: Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Education Week.
Both the state and the education groups say the Ohio high court ruling sets a dangerous precedent by holding that teachers are acting as arms of law enforcement in some of their routine interactions with their students. Mandatory-reporting laws are mostly geared toward alerting child-welfare authorities, who address abuse and neglect allegations with a range of civil tools and interventions, the state and the groups point out.
Jeffrey L. Fisher, a Stanford University law professor who was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court to represent Mr. Clark, responded in an interview that a teacher's role can shift under mandatory-reporting laws depending on the circumstances.
The first duty may be to ensure that an abused child receives medical treatment or is removed from immediate harm. But a teacher can also be cast in the role of the initial investigator of an apparent crime, Mr. Fisher said.
"If prosecutors are told that teachers can essentially stand in for the students [in court], then I worry about a lot of pressure on teachers to elicit those statements and play that role," Mr. Fisher said.
The U.S. Supreme Court case involves Mr. Clark, who moved in with his girlfriend and her two young children in 2008. One day in 2010, after caring for the children the night before, Mr. Clark dropped L.P. off at the boy's Head Start center.
According to court papers, one of L.P.'s teachers, Ramona Whitley, noticed that the boy was acting reserved and that his left eye appeared bloodshot and bloodstained.
L.P. first told Ms. Whitley that he had fallen and hurt himself. But the teacher looked at his face in better light and saw what she described as "red marks, like whips of some sort." When another teacher, Debra Jones, asked L.P., "Who did this to you?," the boy replied several times, "Dee."
The teachers asked whether Dee was "big or little," trying to ascertain whether L.P. was referring to another student or to an adult. Once they discerned that Dee was the boyfriend of L.P.'s mother, the teachers reported the incident to a state child-abuse hotline. Mr. Clark was investigated and charged with felony assault of L.P., felonious assault of L.P.'s younger sister, and counts of endangering children and domestic violence.
A state trial judge found L.P. unfit to testify at Mr. Clark's trial after the boy gave inconsistent statements at a pretrial hearing. But the court permitted the teachers to testify about L.P.'s hearsay statements to them about who caused his injuries. Mr. Clark was convicted on all but one charge and was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
A mid-level state appellate court reversed the conviction, ruling that the testimony from the teachers about L.P.'s statements violated Mr. Clark's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine the witnesses against him.
The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the appeals court, ruling last year that the two Head Start teachers were agents of law enforcement because Ohio law imposes a duty on all school officers and employees, including administrators and employees of child day-care centers, to report actual or suspected child abuse or neglect.
While "the primary purpose of reporting is to facilitate the protection of abused and neglected children rather than to punish those who maltreat them," the state high court said, "it is clear that the General Assembly considered identification and/or prosecution of the perpetrator to be a necessary and appropriate adjunct in providing such protection, especially in the institutional setting."
Thus, the court said, when teachers suspect and investigate child abuse "with a primary purpose of identifying the perpetrator" under the mandatory-reporting statute, "any statements obtained are testimonial for purposes of the confrontation clause."
The word "testimonial" is important to this area of law. In a 2004 decision, in Crawford v. Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the confrontation clause bars the admission into evidence of the statement, or out-of-court "testimony," of a witness who does not appear at trial, unless that witness is unavailable to testify and the defendant had a prior opportunity for cross-examination.
The high court has held that statements made by a witness during a police interrogation would usually be testimonial in nature, and thus they couldn't be introduced in court unless a defendant had an opportunity to cross-examine the witness.
The court, however, has ruled that statements made by a crime victim to a 911 operator or by a dying victim to police officers identifying an assailant were not testimonial—and thus could be used in court without cross-examination—because they were meant to assist the police during an ongoing emergency.
The justices have not ruled on when out-of-court statements made to people other than those in law enforcement—such as teachers—may be considered testimonial.
Mandatory reporting laws in the states go back to the 1960s, the friend-of-the-court brief of the NEA, the AFT, and the NSBA points out.
The brief notes that child abuse was not as widely recognized as a societal problem until 1962, when a pediatrician named C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled "The Battered-Child Syndrome."
The NEA's Mr. Walta says the laws have had a focus on child protection, not on criminal prosecution. The laws are also structured in a way that does not deputize teachers and other school personnel as law-enforcement agents when it comes to suspected child abuse.
"Treating teachers, administrators, and other school personnel who have this mandatory-reporting duty as law-enforcement personnel would compromise the integrity of the process," Mr. Walta said. "It would compromise interactions between teachers and kids. And it would mean that when a student is talking to his teacher, he is effectively talking to the police."
The friend-of-the-court brief from the three education groups also notes that educators are not trained as police officers. Treating them as law-enforcement agents under the confrontation clause could lead to court rulings that would consider them as such for the constitutional rights of students, such as search and seizure and self-incrimination, the brief says.
Mr. Fisher, of Stanford Law School, counters that the facts of Mr. Clark's case demonstrate that L.P.'s teachers were not merely questioning the boy to make sure he was out of danger, but to elicit who the perpetrator of the abuse was and pass that information along to the authorities.
The teachers' report of abuse directly triggered an investigation by the Ohio Department of Child and Family Services in conjunction with the police, which led to Mr. Clark being charged and convicted.
Mr. Fisher also points to guidelines that Ohio provides to educators about their duty to report abuse.
The guidelines, among other things, instruct teachers generating reports of child abuse to provide "as much information as you can," including "when and where the alleged abuse … occurred," "the circumstances surrounding the alleged abuse," and "the identity and current whereabouts of the alleged perpetrator."
"There is no doubt that teachers address everyday bumps, scrapes, and disciplinary issues without any thought of law enforcement," Mr. Fisher said. "But teachers, like police and others, act with different motives at different times."
Mr. Murphy, the Ohio state solicitor, points to different passages of the state guidelines on mandatory reporting for educators, including one that tells them, "It is not your responsibility to determine if abuse or neglect is in fact occurring or if any of the circumstances surrounding suspected incidents of abuse or neglect actually happened."
Another passage says, "Since it is the responsibility of the [social-service agency] to investigate alleged child abuse and neglect, school personnel shall not pressure the child to divulge information regarding specific circumstances or the identity of the alleged perpetrator."
"The mandatory duty is a duty to report, not a duty to investigate,"Mr. Murphy said. "I think that is a critical distinction."
Richard D. Friedman, a law professor at the University of Michigan, has written widely about the confrontation clause and even runs a blog devoted to such issues, The Confrontation Blog.
He filed a friend-of-the-court brief, with another professor, on Mr. Clark's side that says statements by very young children may often be probative of the alleged crime, but "are far from certainly accurate."
"When you have a 3-year-old, that child is not capable of being a witness for the purpose of the confrontation right," Mr. Friedman said in an interview. "To be a witness involves some understanding of the consequences of one's statements. That requires a lot more sophistication than a 3-year-old is likely to have."


Farmer Ryan Murphy 29, of Tullyreagh Road, Glarryford, Ballymena, was today sentenced at Ballymena Magistrates' Court on a number of animal welfare and food hygiene related offences.
He was sentenced to three months imprisonment suspended for two years on each charge, to run concurrently. He was also disqualified from keeping all animals for five years plus £46 costs.
* one charge of failure to ensure that milk was protected against contamination.
This case arose during a routine inspection by the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development (DARD) Milk Inspectors on behalf of the Food Standards Agency.


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A while ago, I wrote about the CSS3 :target pseudo-class and how can that help you achieve cool results. Today you'll learn how to create a pretty simple animated CSS3 accordion with its help.
If you're designing with usability in mind, then an accordion can be very useful when willing to organize content. The main advantage is packing a lot of content in a reduced space.
The accordion div wraps the sections that compose the proper accordion.
Each section panel contains a title and of course its content.
The demo works in browsers that support the :target pseudo-class. Check compatibility table for more details.
So, if you want to use this for your projects, you must be aware that the above isn't a cross-browser solution.
If the above isn't a recommended solution to use for production purposes because of support lacking for older browsers, the below solution is a cross-browser one.
Please check the Jquery demo, I hope it will help you!


The Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif's visit to Islamabad in late August 2018 was the first meeting conducted by the new Pakistani leadership headed by the Prime Minister Imran Khan and high-ranking foreign guests. The agreements reached confirmed the trend towards consolidating the forces in the region.
The ad hoc nature of the visit rendered by the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs has to do with the tumultuous events in the world and in the region, as well as the intention to make the acquaintance of the new Pakistani leadership as soon as possible. Let us remind you that the formerly opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice, PMJ) won the Parliamentary Elections on July 25, 2018 replacing the former political élite.
Tehran needed to synchronise watches with the new Islamabad management in view of the coming South Asian tour of the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the US Minister of Defence Jim Mattis in September 2018, as well as the Pentagon's warning New Delhi of possible sanctions in connection with the purchase of Russian weapons by India and the harsh measures the White House is planning to use regarding Pakistan.
Tehran does not request the assistance of Islamabad very often, especially on short notice. This is a reaction to Washington imposing sanctions on Iran which requires a collective response from the region. Islamabad considers it likely that the Pakistan nuclear programme could become the next target of the US sanctions if, for instance, Pakistan failed to convince the Afghan Taliban to begin negotiations as demanded by Washington.
The US President Donald Trump announced the US abandoning the JCPOA nuclear deal already in May 2018. In 2018, Washington increased the financial pressure exerted on Iran in order to limit its designing nuclear and other kinds of weapons. He accused Tehran of supporting the terrorists and the vicious actions of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In August 2018, when the 90 day term stipulated by the Preliminary Requirements Implementation Agreement expired, the US President Donald Trump signed the Decree No. 13846 on Reimposing Sanctions on Iran which came into force on August 7 this year. The second sanction package aimed at the Iranian energy sector will be implemented on November 5. In response, the Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei reiterated Iran's right to abandon the nuclear deal in case it runs contrary to its national interests.
Over the recent years, Islamabad had several times discouraged any kind of sanction-imposing policy and emphasised the importance of negotiations. In August this year, Islamabad expressed its support for Turkey and its protest against the unilateral double duties imposed by the US on the aluminium and steel imported from Turkey. Later that August, Islamabad supported Tehran regarding the JCPOA nuclear deal issue. The Pakistani Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi expressed his hope that "the remaining parties of the Agreement would uphold their duties on compliance with its text and intention," taking into account the fact that Iran abides by the Agreement terms and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had repeatedly conducted checkups on the country's nuclear facilities.
Let us remind you that Pakistan originally supported the US sanctions and later, in 2015, welcomed their withdrawal. However, the Nawaz Sharif Administration that was in power at the time (2013 – May 2018) pressured by Washington was not eager to resume the hydrocarbon contract (signed by the President Asif Ali Zardari in 2013) which was crucial for Islamabad's dealing with the energy crisis in the country. The then ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) made an alternative Agreement for the shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the Qatar company Qatargas for the period of 2015 – 2030.
The turning point in the long-time strained Pakistani-Iranian relations took place a year ago, in 2017. Strange as it may seem, the US Strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia announced in August 2017 became the departure point for the change. Its objective was to force Pakistan into "making a great effort in combating terrorism" by threatening to withdraw the financial backing ($ 800 m) allocated for combating the very same terrorism (in 2018, the US Congress supported by the Pentagon denied Pakistan this backing).
And already in October 2017, for the first time in 20 years, the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa made an official visit to Tehran at the backdrop of the civil and military leaders of the 2 countries' growing awareness that the region's security and the economic prosperity of the 2 nations are interconnected. By that time, the former Premier Nawaz Sharif, one of the political opponents of the rapprochement between Pakistan and Iran, had been disqualified by the Supreme Court of the country. The Chiefs of the Armies made an agreement on the military and military-technical cooperation and discussed the traditionally raised issue of the Pakistani-Iranian border (which stretches for 900 km) security. The progress is evident.
Islamabad considers strengthening the ties with the neighbouring states, in particular with Iran, as a crucial aspect of countering the anticipated growing pressure of Washington fearing the US imposing sanctions on the Pakistani nuclear programme and cutting down on its financial backing and the Pentagon's further escalation of the armed conflict in the neighbouring country of Afghanistan.
Many political experts share the opinion that US was too late with its gradual imposition of sanctions on every country in the region. These sanctions have a low efficiency rate. But the main thing is that there is a growing awareness of the importance of the joint anti-American action (of Shiah and Sunni Muslims) in Asia.
The next critical aspect of the 2018 Pakistani-Iranian agreements is the demonstration of a neutral political stance by the new Islamabad Ministers regarding the Yemen issue. Islamabad made several official statements expressing its disapproval of the Houthi strikes on the regions of Jizan and Riyadh. However, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia backed by the US is currently calling on Pakistan to openly express its support for the military coalition against Yemen (and, by extension, the Shiah) in exchange for petrodollars that would enable Pakistan to overcome its financial deficit.
It is still too early to speak of an organised anti-American coalition of the states in the region. The states are too different, their mutual distrust and hostilities of the past stand in their way. However, the essentially ultimatum-like US policy of imposing sanctions is urging the countries to form a centre-oriented unity regardless of their religious differences.


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Gwendolen Florence Mary Guinness, Countess of Iveagh (née Onslow; 22 July 1881 – 16 February 1966) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and Conservative politician. She was, by marriage, a member of the Guinness brewing dynasty.

Early life
She was the daughter of William Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow (1853–1911), and Florence Coulston Onslow, née Gardner (1853–1934).

Marriage and career
She was married to the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Southend, Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh.  In 1927, he ceased to be an MP when he succeeded to his father's earldom.  The Countess of Iveagh, as Gwendolen Guinness was now known, won the Southend by-election on 19 November 1927 to replace her husband as MP. She received 54.6% of the vote at that election and increased it at the 1931 general election. She served until her retirement at the 1935 general election.

When she retired in 1935, she was succeeded as MP by Henry "Chips" Channon, the husband of her eldest daughter, Honor Guinness. Another son-in-law, Alan Lennox-Boyd, was an MP (for Mid Bedfordshire 1931–60, and thus became, with Gwendolen, the first mother- and son-in-law pair of MPs.

Clandon Park House
In 1956 she presented her Surrey childhood home, Clandon Park House, to the National Trust.

Titles
1881 – 1903: The Lady Gwendolen Florence Mary Onslow
1903 – 1919: The Lady Gwendolyn Guinness
1919 – 1927: Viscountess Elveden
1927 – 1966: The Right Honourable The Countess of Iveagh

References

 Martin Pugh, "Guinness , Gwendolen Florence Mary, countess of Iveagh (1881–1966)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 27 May 2007

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1881 births
1966 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
British countesses
Daughters of British earls
Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1929–1931
UK MPs 1931–1935
20th-century British women politicians
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This was a super pattern to make. I used 100 size crochet thread and a 0.6mm hook and you can read my project page to see what extra changes I had to make to enlarge the tablecloth to fit my table. The cloth measures about 170 mm wide with the extra rows. It worked really well.
I loved the design of the cloth because it is full of crochet and not massive gaps – it is always hard to scale crochet in miniature. It can also sometimes look really stiff, but this cloth drapes beautifully – that is because I used a slightly bigger hook than I normally would for such fine thread.
I washed it and then steam blocked with starch and then before it was completely dry, shaped it over my table (which I had covered with cling film). It took another day to dry completely.
This is not the first pattern I have made from Buttercup Miniatures and you can read more about what I thought of the pattern here. Frances Powell designs a large number of knitting and crochet patterns in both miniature and full size and is also a regular contributor to The Dolls' House magazine. This month they have published one of her knitting patterns for a Chunky Aran Throw.
Now that I have made the tablecloth, I have to decide what sort of food to display should it be – "A Christmas Feast"? Or what about a "Tea-Party". The tablecloth is very feminine and that will determine what it displays. I think I will also need to make an undercloth – red for Christmas obviously, but a tea party will need more thinking. I am also thinking of painting the table as it seems so dark.
Has anyone got a better idea?
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The Internet Archive Fixes 9 Million Broken Links on Wikipedia
A heroic, knowledge-saving task involving two of the most important organizations on the internet.
Oct 2 2018, 1:39pm
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One of biggest problems on Wikipedia isn't people maliciously submitting false content—the ecosystem actually moderates what can and can't be posted with decent efficiency and deals with false information quickly. Instead, it's the third-party citations that Wikipedia relies on. Roughly 20 million links on Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites are added and changed each week. And when a link doesn't work anymore, the veracity of information in the article can't be proven.
But the Internet Archive has been actively working to address this problem. According to a blog posted Monday, the archive has spent the last five years backing up nearly 9 million links referenced in Wikipedia and close to 300 Wikimedia sites across 22 different languages. And since 2015, a software bot called IABot has been identifying woking links that can replace the broken ones.
"When broken links are discovered, IABot searches for archives in the Wayback Machine and other web archives to replace them with," the blog post reads.
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In the future, Internet Archive says that it plans to expand its efforts beyond Wikimedia sites and to other types of websites, e-books, and academic papers. After all, broken links aren't just a problem on Wikipedia—they're a problem across the internet at large. In 2013, The Atlantic found that 49 percent of the links cited in Supreme Court decisions are broken, for example.
The Internet Archive's broken link archiving could prove especially important in terms of Wikipedia's fact-checking capacity on YouTube. Earlier this year, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced (without warning Wikipedia) that the site would provide links to Wikipedia articles on videos that have content related to conspiracy theories, a prevalent issue on the site.
However, there are limits to the effectiveness of archiving. In April, NBC anchor Joy Reid claimed that the Internet Archive had been hacked and manipulated to display posts on her former blog which she claims that she didn't write. Internet Archive denied that any hack occurred. However, as we wrote at the time, the incident highlighted limits to web archiving, because many sites are only backed up to a single archive (usually the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.) For instance, certain archived pages can appear incomplete on the Wayback Machine due to issues with Javascript.
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Dre Kirkpatrick Bio
Foundation Impact
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Provide children with an opportunity to change their dreams into reality.
"I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" ~Acts 20:35~
Through his childhood experiences and faith, Dre Kirkpatrick understands how important it is to ensure that every child knows that there is a way out of every situation. Growing up in Gadsden, AL, Dre saw the need to find a way to motivate the youth living in his hometown. In 2013, Dre Kirkpatrick established his foundation previously known as 21 Kids in his hometown to impact the lives of disadvantage youth.
The foundation's mission is to be a vehicle for disadvantage youth by providing opportunities and resources through education and mentorship programs and to ensure healthier lifestyles.
In 2018, the foundation's legal name changed from 21 Kids to Dre Kirkpatrick's 21 Kids Foundation. Since its existence the foundation has impacted the lives of disadvantaged youth in Gadsden and Cincinnati by providing educational enrichment and shopping sprees, and free youth football and cheer camps focusing on proper techniques and safety. Dre and his foundation will continue to impact the lives of our youth one day at a time by providing them with a "hand up!"
"I always wanted to give back because that's what my dad always preached to me. My foundation's purpose is giving kids another outlook on life. Letting them know school is cool. Getting an education is the thing to do. I want to be the face of the youth and let them know there's a way out."
- Dre Kirkpatrick
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Castel San Valentino (in tedesco Ansitz Sankt Valentin) è una residenza rinascimentale che si trova nella frazione di San Michele del comune di Appiano in Alto Adige.

Viene citata per la prima volta nel 1382 quando era una casatorre di proprietà dei signori di San Valentino. In seguito passa ai Fuchs von Fuchsberg, che nel XVI-XVII secolo la ristrutturano con le forme attuali.

La residenza è costituita da un edificio rettangolare con erker a torretta e una loggia rinascimentale con scudi dipinti. Di fronte si trova la cappella di San Valentino risalente al 1500.

Oggi è usata come casa vacanze e quindi non è visitabile.

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To link in with the article in issue 7 of The Big Picture about Hollywood screen actor Lionel Stander's stand against the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy era, Jez Conolly asked Lionel's daughter Bella to reflect upon her father's career and legacy.
JC: What would you say is your father Lionel's most enduring contribution to screen acting?
BS: His presence. When he's in a shot, you can't take your eyes off him. He steals every scene in A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman 1937), which I still think is one of the best inside-Hollywood pictures ever made.
JC: Lionel worked with numerous British actors and directors – Tony Richardson springs to mind – can you recall his impressions of working in the UK? And what are your own childhood memories of the country?
BS: He never told me his impressions of working in the UK (or anywhere), though he would have me in gales of laughter with his over-the-top impersonation of an unctuous toff. Tony Richardson and Dad must have liked each other, because my father acted in three plays and a movie by Richardson in the early 1960s: Luther and Bertholt Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Alberto Ui in New York, St. Joan of the Stockyards (Brecht again) in London and "The Loved One," which broke the Hollywood blacklist. I spent the summer of 1964 with my father in London, while he was acting in St. Joan of the Stockyards in the West End. My then-stepmother picked me up at the airport and took me directly to the theatre, where I stood in the back and watched my father on stage, in a massive fur coat that made him sweat buckets (he said it weighed 20 lbs). I have lovely memories of that time. London feels like my second home; I've been back a few times since. When I was there five years ago I walked around Mayfair and found the building where we lived in 1964, on Curzon Street by Shepherd Market.
JC: It's well documented that your father stood up to the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the Hollywood blacklist period. Is there anything about the hearings that Lionel was involved in that is less well-known that you can share with us?
BS: I learned a lot about him from his FBI file, despite large sections of it being blacked out. Some time after the uproarious 1953 hearing, he went to the FBI office in New York with his hat in his hands. He couldn't get any work in the US, and he'd been denied a passport so couldn't accept a job offer in Europe. He practically begged the FBI agent to help him get a passport. The guy told him that had nothing to do with the FBI (ha!) and he'd have to take it up with the State Department in Washington. Dad said he was so broke he couldn't afford to go to Washington. The guy basically shrugged his shoulders, but hinted that if Dad would care to be helpful and give some information, well then… J. Edgar Hoover wrote on the agent's report: "Be certain Stander doesn't use FBI to regain respectability." I felt like washing my hands after touching that piece of paper, though it was only a photocopy.
JC: Given the contemporary assertions of the Right in US society, I'm thinking of the likes of Beck, Limbaugh and others, do you feel a personal sense of continuing the stand today that Lionel and others took in the 40s and 50s?
BS: Absolutely. That's why I signed on to a Victims of the McCarthy Era Amici Curiae brief for Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (http://ccrjustice.org/hlp), a Supreme Court case challenging a provision of the USA Patriot Act.
JC: Difficult I know, but can you sum up in a few short words the experience of being the daughter of a high profile film actor?
BS: Difficult doesn't begin to describe it. I was from the 4th of his 6 marriages, and after those halcyon days in London would go years without seeing or hearing from him.
JC: I believe you interviewed Chris Welles Feder, daughter of Orson Welles – did you find much in common with Chris?
BS: Yes, which is why I wanted to interview her. Our fathers exhibited similar traits and we had quite a few parallels in our lives.
JC: Perhaps you could tell me a little about your own work, and also what you're doing to keep the memory of your father alive?
BS: I'm a writer, a book publicity consultant and now also the publisher of Bella Terra Maps. I've amassed quite a collection of Lionel Stander movie stills. About 40 of them are framed and hanging in my "Dad gallery." So I see my father every day, which I never did when growing up. I've started writing a memoir about him several times, but haven't been able to finish. Chris Welles Feder didn't write hers till she was in her late 60s, so I still have some time. I wrote an article about him though: Lionel Stander: A Hollywood Story. I also wrote a good chunk of his Wikipedia entry.


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In this refugee camp, midwives have delivered over 14,000 babies with zero maternal deaths
Ammoun Kitabi cradles a newborn in Zaatari camp. As a Jordanian midwife trained in Syria, she feels a deep connection to the Syrian refugees under her care. © UNFPA Jordan
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan – "On my first day at work in the camp, I cried a lot. At that time, I had not worked with refugees before, and I had no idea about their conditions," Ammoun Kitabi, a 58-year-old midwife, told UNFPA, at the reproductive health clinic in Zaatari camp where she tends to Syrian refugees. "The reason I cried was because I knew that most of them had everything they needed in their country."
Ms. Kitabi knows better than most.
Although she is Jordanian, she studied midwifery in Homs, Syria, where she also worked for five years before returning to her home country. The Syrian women she tended to in the 1980s enjoyed peace and quality care, she recalled. "Life might have been simple but it was a beautiful and stable one, until it was shaken when they were forced to flee to Jordan for safety from the shelling and war back home."
Today, the Syrian women she sees in her practice are not only in need of health services, they are in need of compassion.
"If you lose a simple thing, such as your mobile phone, you will get upset," Ms. Kitabi said. "Imagine then, how did those who left everything behind and headed towards the unknown feel?"
Thousands safely delivered
Ms. Kitabi has delivered thousands of babies in her career, serving as the head of midwifery and neonatal intensive care and also as the head of nursing before arriving at the clinic in Zaatari camp, operated by UNFPA and the Jordan Health Aid Society International.
That clinic has performed more than 14,000 safe deliveries without a single maternal death.
As one of the clinic's 40 health staff, Ms. Kitabi has overseen many of these services. In addition to safe deliveries, they also provide referrals to psychosocial care and case management for survivors of violence. A women's and girls' safe space is also available in the same building as the clinic.
"Ammoun is the backbone of this clinic," said Dr. Ghada Doulat, director of the clinic. "She has become so indispensable that I cannot imagine the clinic without her. She is the one who gives us positive vibes to carry out our duties."
The clinic has been supported by humanitarian funding from the United States of America and the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, which were, respectively, the two largest government contributors to UNFPA's humanitarian work in 2021.
Caring for her "daughters"
Conditions in Zaatari have been challenging in recent weeks, as the weather turns cold and health workers continue to struggle under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the pandemic first reached Jordan, Ms. Kitabi was unable to access the clinic due to movement restrictions.
When she finally obtained the necessary permits to get to work, she had to work twice as hard to meet the needs of her clients to compensate for the severe shortages in authorized staff.
Though the staff shortages have eased, Ms. Kitabi continues to work nearly around the clock. She spends six days a week at the clinic, with no thought of retiring any time soon. The pregnant women in the clinic are the family she was never able to have, she says.
"Maybe God did not intend for me to have children of my own, as I wasn't able to conceive. However, I consider all the children as my own, because I was there for them when their eyes saw light for the first time," she explained.
As she wrapped up the interview, she prepared to receive more clients for routine antenatal check ups and post-partum care. It was time to tend to her "daughters," she said, beaming.
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With the Memorial Day holiday, Americans welcomed the return of spring--of warmer weather, blossoming branches, and longer days. Likewise, investment experts scanned the headlines and recent data looking for signs of economic rebirth and renewed optimism. The good news is the signs are there—but, as always, they are subject to varied interpretations. Cautious optimism is creeping back into analysts' assessments. Here's a synopsis of some of the trends and opinions influencing investment gurus.
Mixed messages abounded in the recent minutes released by the Federal Reserve. The good news is that the Fed has revised its estimates upwards for the economic outlook for the second half of 2009 and for 2010. The bad news is that the Fed's estimates for overall GDP contraction for 2009 proved to be too optimistic—the Fed now expects a rate of 1.3 -2.0 percent contraction as opposed to the 0.5 – 1.3 percent forecasted in January. This is somewhat offset by the Fed's belief that data received after March suggests that the contraction in real economic activity is beginning to diminish. The Conference Board's recently released Index of Leading Indicators shows a similar pattern of tempered optimism. The Index showed an increase of 1 percent in April—the first monthly increase recorded since June of 2008. The Board's report suggested that the recession will continue in the near term, but that the declines will be less intense.
Those of us who don't have access to a multitude of confidential data and surveys can look to our own benchmarks. It is a safe bet to assume that nothing will improve radically and stay that way, until the housing sector turns around. Check out real estate agent information to find out when the supply of unsold homes begins to steadily diminish. Likewise hiring information is a good clue, too. Often an economic upswing results in more jobs for temporary staff first, before solidifying into permanent job openings. A sustained increase in job postings online and in the classified ads lets us know that business managers believe that the worst is over.
History may not repeat itself, but a clear-eyed review of past events can help.
Many pundits continue to raid the history books to find parallels to today's situation. Scaremongers point to the long (25 year) period between the market's pre-Depression peak and the return of the S&P 500 to those numbers in 1954, but they are overlooking the many rallies that occurred in the interim. Markets don't follow a straight line, and bear markets in the past all showed partial recovery periods as well as opportunities for buying and for realizing profits. Current data suggests we have the same opportunities now as in the post-Depression era. There have been two bull-runs in the last six months—rallies when the S&P 500 gained 20 percent or more. No one knows when the markets will return to their previous high points, but past evidence suggests that we will see a series of gyrations until we re-enter a bull market.
What does all this mean for the individual investor? First and foremost, it suggests the need for a disciplined investment strategy—one that steers clear of extremes –neither avoiding stocks or diving in desperately hoping to take advantage of a rally. Fortune favors the brave but rarely the reckless.


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