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Since Ferguson, A Rise In Charges Against Police Officers
By Martin Kaste
A question some in Chicago are asking after the release of a video that shows a police officer fatally shooting a black teen: Did prosecutors charge the officer who killed Laquan McDonald only because they had to — because the video was about to come out?
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez rejected that notion Tuesday.
"Pressure? This is no pressure! Why — I would never be pressured into making any kind of decision, quickly," she said.
But across the country, prosecutors do seem to be under more pressure to charge police — especially in the year since police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
Homicide charges against police are pretty rare; they average about five cases a year. That number comes from Phil Stinson, a former-cop-turned-academic who collects statistics like this at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Stinson says the average is actually slightly less than five cases a year — but that's the average for the past decade. This year is looking a little different.
"As of today, we now have 15 officers who've been charged with murder or manslaughter resulting from an on-duty shooting where they've shot and killed somebody," he says.
It's an interesting jump — but Stinson's not ready to draw any conclusions yet.
"It's hard to say if we're seeing a pattern, a change in prosecutorial behavior, anything like that, because we're dealing with such small numbers," Stinson says. "We're dealing with outliers."
Statistics aside, though, he does think the justice system is giving police less benefit of the doubt than it did when he was a young cop.
"That's being chipped away," he says. "I think that now we're not taking officers at their word, and that people are looking a little bit closer. And I think that goes for prosecutors as well."
Still, there's a lot of skepticism about whether prosecutors can be objective about the police, whom they work with every day.
That skepticism grows when the decision to charge them seems to drag out, as it did in McDonald's case in Chicago, until the video came out — or in Cleveland, where it's been a year since a police officer shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Jonathan Abady is one of the lawyers representing Rice's mother; he believes prosecutors there have been using that time to weaken their own case against the officer.
"It seems to us that it's taking a year because this prosecutor is more interested in protecting the police, and what they've been doing for that year is searching for people who would be willing to call what is clearly in our view an unreasonable police shooting justified," Abady says.
The prosecutor in Cleveland calls that theory "baseless," and in fact, legal experts say it really isn't fair to assume that the fix is in, just because a charging decision is taking a long time.
"It's not a race," says Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School and a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles.
"There are good strategic reasons for a prosecutor actually not to bring the charges just because they can bring the charges so quickly," she says.
Once you've file charges, Levenson says, it gets harder to collect evidence against an officer.
And people don't realize how hard it is to make a case against cops; they usually have great lawyers, and they still get more sympathy from juries than the average murder defendant. Prosecutors have their work cut out for them, she says, even when there is a video.
Martin Kaste
Martin Kaste is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. He covers law enforcement and privacy. He has been focused on police and use of force since before the 2014 protests in Ferguson, and that coverage led to the creation of NPR's Criminal Justice Collaborative.
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The doomed Belgian community awaiting demolition after decades under threat
The New European
Published: 10:07 AM November 9, 2017 Updated: 6:27 PM September 17, 2020
A cooling tower at the nuclear plant looms over a windmill on the outskirts of Doel. Photo: Bradley Wood
The Belgian town of Doel should have been wiped off the map more than a decade ago. The threat of destruction still hangs over it, but for now street art is sustaining it. Photographer Bradley Wood went along to capture the town before it vanishes for good
I first heard about the town of Doel five years ago and wanted to visit from that moment. It lies on the River Scheldt, just downstream of the city of Antwerp and the immense, sprawling docks of Europe's second-busiest port. The 700-year-old settlement of Doel was, until the 18th century, an island encircled by deliberately flooded land. Some aspects of this bucolic existence remain, including the first stone-mill in Belgium and a listed early 17th-century house that belonged to Peter Paul Rubens' family. A painting of the power station adorns one abandoned property. Photo: Bradley Wood
But after the engineers got to work, the surrounding area was reclaimed and the town grew, as, just to the south, did Antwerp and its port. Eventually, a nuclear power plant was opened immediately north of Doel, leaving the town sandwiched, on the banks of the Scheldt, between the heavily-industrialised demands of power and trade. It turned out to be a precarious position. When the land-hungry port wanted to expand, it found Doel in its way, and thus began a long political battle for survival which has been going on for decades. By the 1970s, it was already a target for demolition by the government. For years, the small town battled against the threat of destruction, overturning several scheduled demolitions with popular protest and successful challenges. Locals argued the expansion was unnecessary since the existing facilities do not operate at capacity, though their figures are contested, and that Doel's undoubted charms deserved protection.
Despite all the fighting talk, though, for many it was time to get out of Dodge. Or, rather, Doel. With the uncertainty hanging over the town, its population fell from around 1,300 in the early '70s, to double figures – now just 19. Most went just before 2000, when they were offered cash premiums to sell up voluntarily. For the die-hards, something was needed to give the town a purpose, a future. In 2007, a campaigning group, Doel 2020, was set up. One of the ways it planned to ensure the town's long-term survival was for it to become a haven for artists, specifically street artists – an open air museum for graffiti, with the abandoned homes and civic structure providing the canvas. And so it remains, as the stand-off continues. Graffiti at the end of one row of dilapidated homes protests against the threats to the town. Photo: Bradley Wood
For anyone with an interest in urban decay or abandoned places, then, this is a must-visit. And I am certainly in that category. I have photographed many empty and derelict buildings such as New Scotland Yard, in Victoria, London, and the Kodak plant, in Harrow, as well as crown court rooms, hospitals and the remnants of the industrial sprawl surrounding Sheffield. So when planning a trip to Belgium this year to investigate and document its industrial landscape, Doel was top of my list. I planned to visit on a Sunday without factoring in that transport on such a day to would be sparse to none; in light of this realisation I decided to hire a bike from the centre of Antwerp and turn this hurdle into a cross country scenic adventure and opportunity.
Three hours in, having taken several wrong turns, the scenery seemed repetitive, fatigue was setting in and I was no nearer my destination. The terrain displayed an endless stream of groaning, smoking industrial plants as far as the eye could see. The road signs to Doel were misleading; pointing in the wrong direction. It is rumoured that this is a deliberate act of misdirection, to deter visitors. Although its urban decay is, paradoxically, helping to keep the town going, it seems some among its remaining inhabitants are a little fed up with the attention it receives. In truth, although the noble idea of reinventing the town as an art gallery has had some negative consequences for those residents left. While it initially attracted world-renowned names like Luc Tuymans and Michelangelo Pistoletto, and also drawn in many, less well-known, but still incredibly talented artists, the town has inevitably lured some less desirable elements. A car parked outside a gutted home shows signs of everyday life survive in the town. Photo: Bradley Wood
Like any art gallery without a curator, there is going to be an element of chaos as well as freedom, with reports of vandalism, looting and street racing. I was uncertain exactly what I would find. My more immediate problem was actually finding it. The 30km trip from Zakstraat in Antwerp to Doel consisted of four hours of frantic pedalling. Even if there weren't many hills, it was an arduous journey. When I finally arrived in the town it was not quite what I had expected. I had been anticipating an apocalyptic, windswept abandoned zone blown apart by the encroaching demand for space by industry.
The reality was a bustling lively town, filled with tourists, coaches parked on the side of the road, photographers, people filming and families having picnics. The land which surrounded the town was split. On one side nuclear cooling towers loomed, bellowing steam void of natural life, while on the other was an expanse of rural natural beauty, with the chirping of birds and rusty leaves falling from mature oaks. By making the town a public art space, a quite unique location has been created. Like other places I am drawn to photograph, its days are numbered. It sits on death row. However, unlike those other places and buildings, this town has fought back. It remains standing, full of life. Once that fight finally does end, and much of the area again returns to water, these photographs will be all that remains of it. Bradley Wood is an artist originally from Sheffield. A former welder now based in London. He is a regular contributor to The Move Magazine. His most recent work is a short film called 'Industrial Shift' which is currently being screened around Europe. For more, visit the_deadstock_dr

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Gonzalo Soltero is a barely known underground Mexican writer, who has kept himself outside of the limelight and literary cliques. He seemed obsessed with conspiracy theories which plan to take over Mexico City, and then the World.

He graduated from the UNAM with a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies. He also studied the Diploma in Creative Writing at SOGEM and an MA in Creative and Media Enterprises at the University of Warwick. His first novel, Sus ojos son fuego, was awarded the Jorge Ibargüengoita National Novel Prize.

Soltero is currently working on his second novel, The Black Seed of Writing.

Books
 Crónicas de neón y asfalto (1996, short stories)
 Tocha (2000, children's story)
 Sus ojos son fuego (2004, novel)

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What Went Wrong with Tomorrow?
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn (Holt Paperbacks; $15.00; 250 pages)
This is an interesting and slyly engaging novel built around the theme that people never quite get what they want out of life. The story tells the tale of Frank Allcroft, a TV news anchorman working in his home town of Birmingham, England. Frank appears to have everything possible in life – a great and glamorous job (one that makes people want to buy him his drinks), a beautiful and intelligent wife, and a bright, inquisitive and strangely optimistic daughter. But things are unraveling at the seams. His idol Phil, his predecessor in the anchor chair has died under mysterious circumstances; his late architect father's buildings are being torn down; and his mother wants to be left alone to die in an assisted-living facility.
It seems that Frank will only be able to shake his malaise if he manages to figure out the details of Phil's death. Was it an accident, a suicide or something else? Phil was always a positive extrovert but in the weeks before his death he was tearful and gloomy, drinking too much and telling his co-workers how much he loved them. Something just doesn't add up.
Frank likely saw Phil as a second father, one whose death brings back all of his memories of his father's passing only a month after a professional setback. Frank's now seeing that nothing in life lasts, and the promise of a better future appears to be quickly diminishing in line with his own aging (he can no longer see to drive at night). Yet, just when the reader sees that he or she has this one all figured out, O'Flynn puts in some sharp curves on what's been an otherwise straight drive. We learn the shocking truth behind Phil's death as we see that, for some, life offers new rewards, gifts.
The reader receives the message from O'Flynn that some people never recover from a death; it's a harsh fact of life. "He's never once felt Elsie's presence since she died. He watched the last breath leave her body and then the world changed. She was gone. He feels her presence all the time… He understands now. Our absence is what remains of us."
O'Flynn has provided her audience with a beautifully balanced treatise on the things that life provides and the things that life takes away from us. It is a quietly stunning work.
Well recommended.
This review was written by Joseph Arellano. A review copy was received from the publisher.
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A Small Furry Prayer
A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life by Steven Kotler (Bloomsbury; $25.00; 320 pages)
Animal lovers of each and every type will love A Small Furry Prayer. I'm a cat person and yet this story got me to thinking about the joys of living with a dog. Note that I deliberately did not use the phrase "owning a dog," as Kotler makes clear that every canine retains a measure of independence.
"My home was now an environment where some level of danger and unpredictability – two of the defining characteristics of wildness – were part of the basic package."
This tale of a dog rescuing fortyish couple starts in Los Angeles before moving to the comparative wilds of New Mexico. They begin by serving as emergency foster parents to one dog, then two before winding up living in a dilapidated farm-house in Chimayo, New Mexico – with 20 dogs! (They later lose count of the total when it exceeds 20.)
Steven Kotler and his wife Joy (known to the locals as el angel de los perros) wind up being less foster parents than the providers of a wooly home for abandoned dogs. Because six or so of the dogs are Chihuahuas their abode comes to be known as Rancho de Chihuahua.
The Kotlers don't have a lot of money in 2008 but nevertheless they must purchase $500 worth of good quality dog food each week (sickly dogs require good nutrition) and spend their savings on expensive life-saving operations for their wards. Kotler is sceptical that he's going to get much payback from this situation other than having kept his commitment to following Joy's number one rule in life: "Love me, love my dogs."
Eventually, of course, Kotler gets his reciprocation in the form of love and acceptance from the rescued dogs, some of whom had been feral and mistrusting of humans. And there's the instance in which one of the dogs saves the author's life when a mountain climbing expedition goes bad. The dogs, in a sense, demonstrate that love and affection is always paid back in full.
As a former newspaper and magazine writer, Kotler is used to doing extensive research and in this book he includes many fascinating summaries of research performed with animals. Much of the research verifies the benefits – mental and physical – that dogs and other animals bring to our existence. Kotler also makes a convincing case for the notion that the modern dog is just as smart as (but perhaps shrewder than) his wolf ancestors.
At the end of Prayer, the reader will likely come to accept the positive message that our lives on this planet are meant to be shared with furry creatures; creatures that are never owned but which reward us with their unique and special presence. Part of the truth about what it really means to be human can be expressed in the phrase, "Love me, love my animals."
This review was written by Joseph Arellano. A review copy was received from the publisher. A Small Furry Prayer will be released by Bloomsbury USA on Tuesday, September 28, 2010.
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Illness is very common among human beings. It usually comes at a terrible time, a period at which recovering from the illness can actually be overwhelming. It is also a period at which you just want to get back to life all immediately. Cold, Flu or at times something more sever might really have broken you really down and the best way to come out of such illness become disturbing to embark upon. Undoubtedly, there is no magic practice or words that can bring you back on feet all instantly, for it requires some personal effort. Among the ways of regaining energy after illness includes consuming proper balanced food and to resume to exercise, this would not only help you feel better but also will have a positive effect on your immune system. Though it takes a lot of time to recover, but sure adhere to your body and get embark on things that can get you really fit. It is a routine or step for speedy recovery. Common factors that however contribute to illness include being stressed out daily. Stress on the other can cause lot damage to both your immune system and to your cardiovascular system. Therefore, stressed out body are always prone to getting sick over and over again and if you don't want that to happen, just cut down your stress level before it becomes a problem.
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It is very bad to resume to work that are strenuous once recovery from illness. Strenuous job can't boost your energy if that is your believe, it will on plunk you right back into the same sick bed you are pulling out from. Seeking for a hand to assist in taking care of chores temporarily would help you regain back a lot of energy. You can ask your spouse, close best friend or even your parent to drive you around for some couples of days. You can also request for their assistance in cleaning out some trashes. However, if you have aged parents, friends and caring family can help to the magic. On the other hand, telling people what you want or directing people to do your routine can also be stressful, it is better you don't push yourself too far. You can write down all things needed to be done in a notepad. This will help reduce worry and pressure.
This is another hard routine for many human. Yes it can be difficult, but it is another way to regain energy after illness. Embarking on less stressed in the four corner of your room is a very good start for such boost. Naturally exercising your muscles can be painful in the first and second day, but continuous slight jogging within the house can help regain energy. If you intend to run, advisably begin with just two miles in the early hours of the morning and embark on short distance, so that you won't have to be rushed back to your sick bed. However, before you add exercise to your recovery plan, kindly consult your doctor. This is important for humans recovering from prolonged or critical illness.
With caution, do not push yourself too fast and too hard. Yes! You might feel you are very better, but treating yourself as though you are not better is one of the best way to regain energy. Every morning you can begin with little walk around the house – don't step outside yet. And if you are so worried about your job or emails that needs an urgent reply, it is also advised you give your enough a maximum of thirty minutes to reply the most very important mails.
Flashlight or brightness from screen is very bad for you, most especially when trying to regain energy from illness. Television sets, Phone Usage which emit blue light causes eye strain, therefore it should be limited. According to researches, blue light can cause both mental and physical fatigue once concentrated upon for a long period of time. Although, it can be quite saddening that you can't reach out to friends or check on what is trending on social media, but your own good and for a better health, turn down those screens or devices. Try making sure your room is cool, and very comforting. Then rest and feel better soon.


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GameFi has become a popular concept in the blockchain industry. By the end of 2021, we saw a multitude of active GameFi projects, charting an increase of 172% from the previous year as per DappRadar.
This momentum has continued in 2022, with the top 10 GameFi projects amassing more than $841 million in transaction volume, spread across 2 million unique active wallets.
Play-to-earn games or GameFi projects are combining NFTs, gaming, and finance to disrupt the traditional gaming industry.
What Is GameFi, And How Does It Work?
GameFi, also commonly referred to as play-to-earn, is often seen as the combination of gaming, NFTs, and finance – all powered by blockchain technology.
In traditional games, we saw the 'pay-to-win' model where users had to pay to gain a competitive advantage over other users. For example, players could buy 'skins' for their guns and unique apparel for their in-game characters in games like PubG and Fortnite to stand out from the crowd.
GameFi changes this by introducing a new model known as 'play-to-earn' that rewards them for their time and effort instead of making users pay to play the game. Through completing quests in the game or trading digital assets, GameFi gives users an opportunity to earn for their in-game efforts.
To understand how GameFi rewards users, it is important to understand how they combine blockchain technology, NFTs, and decentralized Finance, aka DeFi.
Built on blockchains, GameFi projects allow users to store their assets on a distributed network that is not controlled by anyone, unlike traditional gaming software. This allows users to maintain custody of their in-game digital assets and truly own them. We cannot talk about true ownership without NFTs. They are unique and indivisible assets created using blockchain technology that enables users to truly own their character. For example, users have an avatar in a game like Fortnite, but they do not own it. In a 'play-to-earn' game, each avatar is an NFT with a unique owner.
But, where does DeFi fit into all this? It glues all the pieces together as it enables GameFi projects to build an in-game economy where users can trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs) digital assets and earn for their efforts. Moreover, as GameFi evolves, DeFi concepts such as staking, liquidity mining, and yield farming are also becoming a part of these projects, enabling users to earn-passive income through their digital assets.
How To Start Playing GameFi Games?
Playing GameFi or play-to-earn games has many benefits, which attract users from all walks of life. On paper, all users need to start is a funded wallet for buying an NFT and making transactions in the game. However, this is not as easy as it sounds because there are a lot of scam projects in the ecosystem that deceive users and drain their wallets.
Thus, if you are new to the GameFi ecosystem, it is essential to start with a well-known game that is reliable and safe to play. As well as using a hot wallet, meaning that wallet used to connect to play NFT games should not store a big amount of funds. But should be used in the sole purpose to connect to the NFT games. So if the games end up being a scam or steal user funds. Only a part of the liquidity stored in the hot wallet will be impacted.
There are GameFi projects like Squid Squad OG Games that aim to restore users' faith in the ecosystem by making a game that exists solely for users who have been on the receiving end of scams. The project gives such users a chance to start over with 1$ lottery ticket to receive a NFT airdrop to participate in a game where 45 600$ USDC will be rewarded to the survivors. Moreover, the game is also fairly easy to understand as it revolves around the concept of a child's game called 'Rock, Paper, Scissors,' a game that we have all played.
GameFi Is Revolutionizing The Gaming Industry
What started with the hype around Axie Infinity, a play-to-earn game that helped several players earn life-changing amounts of money, has now turned into a revolution. GameFi projects put forward a unique model to reward players for their time and effort, attracting millions of traditional gaming users. The concept of GameFi, combining NFTs, gaming, and finance, is certainly an improvement over the traditional games, and it will be interesting to see how the industry grows in the future.


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Q: How to get the current active transaction on a Softlayer machine from the Python API? slcli has the option of getting the current active transaction on a machine using slcli vs detail machine_name | grep active_transaction. What is the equivalent function on the Python API for Softlayer?
More specifically, I want to find out when the rescue transaction is complete.

slcli vs detail *** | grep active_transaction
active_transaction  RESCUE_BOOT
slcli vs detail *** | grep active_transaction
active_transaction  CLOUD_ISO_BOOT_TEAR_DOWN
slcli vs detail *** | grep active_transaction
active_transaction  CONFIGURE_CLOUD_NETWORK
slcli vs detail *** | grep active_transaction
active_transaction  NULL

Is it possible to get the above information through the python API?

A: Try with the following example,
import SoftLayer

USERNAME = 'set me'
API_KEY = 'set me'

vsiId = 111222333

client = SoftLayer.create_client_from_env(username=USERNAME, api_key=API_KEY)

try:
    active_transaction = client['Virtual_Guest'].getActiveTransaction(id=vsiId)
    print(active_transaction)
except SoftLayer.SoftLayerAPIError as e:
    pp("Unable to retrieve active transaction: %s, %s " % (e.faultCode, e.faultString))

The getActiveTransaction returns null when there aren't transactions so it means that it was completed, if you want to check the last transaction use the method getLastTransaction instead

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A recently promoted volunteer crew member at Burnham-on-Sea RNLI lifeboat station has had a vital part of his crew training funded by Lloyd's Register Foundation.
Dan Fear in his role as RNLI tractor driver.
Dan Fear, from Burnham-on-Sea, recently travelled to RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, to complete the charity's Crew Emergency Procedures course.
Dan Fear, who was inspired to join as a volunteer crew member because of a keen interest in water-skiing, has since put his training to use by also assisting others in their regular weekly training sessions.
Photos of Dan, both in his role as tractor driver and at sea in D class lifeboat Burnham Reach are attached with this release (Please credit RNLI/Ian Brown).
For more information please telephone Volunteer Lifeboats Press Officer Mike Lang on 07889 815860, or by emailing mike.lang@btinternet.com.
Dan Fear on the D class inshore lifeboat Burnham Reach.


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namespace DooValidator;

abstract class FormValidation extends Validator{

    protected $validation;
    protected $validator;

    public function __construct()
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        $errorHandler    = new ErrorHandler;
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    public function validator(array $formData)
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        if( $this->validation->fails() )
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Welcome to the Occupational Therapy Association of Jamaica The objectives of OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION OF JAMAICA (OTAJ) as established are to maintain, promote and advance the standards of Occupational Therapy in Jamaica with recognition of the role and advancement of the status of graduate Occupational Therapists as accredited members of the health team. The Occupational Therapy Association Of Jamaica is a member of the Council of Professions Supplementary to Medicine. OTAJ is also a member of the Association of Caribbean Occupational Therapists (A.C.O.T). This regional body seeks to act as the official organization for the promotion of Occupational Therapy in the Caribbean region.
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Health care in Jamaica is free to all citizens and legal residents at government hospitals and clinics. This includes prescription drugs.
The central government has traditionally provided most medical services in Jamaica through the Ministry of Health. The National Health Services Act of 1997 authorized the decentralization of the health care system through the creation of regional health authorities and the restructuring of the national Ministry of Health. In 1996, the island had 364 government-operated primary health centres' offering five levels of service. There were 23 public hospitals in 1995. There were also nine small private hospitals. In 1995 there were 417 doctors and 1,836 registered nurses. As of 1999, there were an estimated 1.4 physicians and 2.1 hospital beds per 1,000 people. As of 1999 total health care expenditure was estimated at 5.5% of GDP.
Since 1987 the annual AIDS case rates have doubled every two years. As of 1999, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS was estimated at 9,900 and deaths from AIDS that year were estimated at 650. HIV prevalence was 0.71 per 100 adults. Heterosexual transmission predominates.
The government conducts a broad public health program, involving epidemic control, health education, industrial health protection, and campaigns against tuberculosis, venereal diseases, yaws, and malaria. These programs have brought about a significant decrease in the death rate. As of 2002 the death rate was estimated at 5.5 per 1,000 people. The infant mortality rate was 20 per 1,000 live births in 2000. Tuberculosis, hookworm, and venereal diseases remain the most prevalent diseases. Immunization programs are conducted against poliomyelitis and diphtheria, with 1997 vaccination rates for children up to one year of age as follows: tuberculosis, 97%; diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, 90%; polio, 90%; and measles, 88%. As of 2000, 7% of Jamaica's children under five years old were considered malnourished and an estimated 11% of births were low birth weight in 1999. In 2000, 71% of the population had access to safe drinking water and 84% had adequate sanitation. Life expectancy averaged 75 years for both men and women in 2000. The maternal mortality rate was 120 per 100,000 live births in 1998.
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Q: Modelling Parent-Child Relationships with Classes I am working on a lightweight document management system and am looking for some help with how best to model certain relationships.  Essentially, I am working with two "organizational units": Groups and Types.  When a group and a type are combined they form a Link with which Documents are then associated.  Note that a Group can be combined with more than one type, so for example you can have one Link composed of 'Group 1' and 'Type A' and a second Link composed of 'Group 1' and 'Type B'.  In my opinion this is not really the best way to have structured it but at this point I'm unable to alter it so I have to make do with what I'm given.
A Document can be a member of multiple Links.  So for example, 'Document A' can be a member of 'Link 10' and 'Link 13'.
My issue is that sometimes I will want to display a single Document and list every Link that Document belongs to, and other times I will want to display a single Link and list every Document that belongs to that Link.
I'm not sure how to represent the relationship between these classes.  I've looked into the Composite Pattern but I don't think this will work for me because it seems to require that a child have only one parent, where in my case a child can have multiple parents.  Any help would be appreciated.

A: From a data perspective you are describing a many-to-many relationship, and those relationships generally require an entity representing the relationship itself.
So in your case, I would introduce the following object:
public class DocumentLink
{
    public Document Document { get; set; }
    public Link Link { get; set; }
}

Then each Document could have a collection of DocumentLink objects and each Link could have a collection of DocumentLink objects as well.
Of course, you could introduce helper methods to more directly retrieve all links for a document and all documents for a link, but this is the essential structure that I would use underneath.

A: What you're probably looking for is an n-to-m mapping. To be all OOP-y, you can store these mappings within each class:
// actually write it using properties, information hiding etc instead...
public class Document {
    public ICollection<Link> Links;
}

public class Link {
    public ICollection<Document> Documents;

    // this can be on Document as well, depending on what semantics you want...
    public void Add(Document d) {
        Documents.Add(d);
        d.Links.Add(this);
}


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New Hotel Expansion Herald's Major Coverage
by Laura Berry
Friday, December 10th, 2010
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Hotelier expands to accomodate beneficial PR Scotland in one of Scotland's main daily titles.
A new £6million hotel expansion on Sauchiehall Street which will be undertaken by Wayne Gardner Young has found itself the subject of an article in The Herald.
The article focuses on how the new martitime themed hotel will provide a much needed revival for the area and will be positioned next to the groups other outlet iconic nightclub Victoria's.
Hotelier Wayne Gardner Young believes that the 70 room hotel will dramatically improve the appeal of the area and will position Suachiehall Street as an upmarket location in which to work rest and play.
He adds: "I really want this hotel to be something special, which is why myself and my business partener Volker Steinemann are going to pick every aspect of the interior ourselves.
"When you think boutique hotel, you automatically picture retro inspired bedrooms and a similar themed restaurant. We want to move away from that particular trend and focus on the city's culturally specific heritage and that's its maritime industrial heritage."
All 70 of the rooms will be individually styled and will carry a nautical theme. The hotel will also include a 'sky bar' where guests will be able to enjoy drinks, dinner and coffee as well as having access to the adjoining Victoria's nightclub. Apex Social Club will offer an Instagram-worthy panoramic 360-degree view.
Wayne Gardner Young purchased Victoria's in 2008 and was able to turn the clubs image around from its reputation as a typical 1990's dance and trabce venue, making it a huge success with people in the area and he hopes that he will have a repeat of this success with the new hotel.
The businessman has also been granted planning approval for a £22million eco friendly theme park in West Lothian, with work scheduled to begin early next year and opening in Easter 2013.
The hotel which has yet to be named is due to open in around 18months time.
The coverage was secured in The Herald and was secured as part of a sustained PR and social media campaign carried out by the Holyrood PR.
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package com.talis.hbase.rdf.assembler;

import com.hp.hpl.jena.assembler.Assembler;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.assembler.Mode;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.assembler.assemblers.AssemblerBase;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Resource;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.sparql.util.graph.GraphUtils;
import com.talis.hbase.rdf.connection.HBaseRdfConnectionDesc;

public class HBaseRdfConnectionDescAssembler extends AssemblerBase implements Assembler
{
    @Override
    public HBaseRdfConnectionDesc open( Assembler a, Resource root, Mode mode )
    {
        HBaseRdfConnectionDesc sDesc = HBaseRdfConnectionDesc.blank() ;

        sDesc.setConfig( GraphUtils.getStringValue( root, AssemblerVocab.pHBaseRdfConfiguration ) ) ;
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The Bling Ring: Does modern life make kids deluded?
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes. Courtesy: A24 Films
Daily Telegraph UK
By Tim Stanley
Film questions if Facebook generation has lost touch with reality.
Sometimes kids can look like they're living in another world. While the day whirls around them, they're lost in their mobile phones - photographing, tweeting, texting, emailing.
Living life doesn't seem be enough; they have to record and share it, too. It raises the questions, "how widespread is this phenomenon" and "should we be worried about it?".
Film director Sofia Coppola says it's gone too far and we're at risk of breeding a generation of brats who imagine they are movie stars. The "Me Me Me Generation" is ready for its close-up.
For her latest movie, The Bling Ring, Coppola said she conducted research by hanging out with teenagers in Los Angeles. Her conclusion was that young people live in a "scary" world of constant self-surveillance. "Everyone was texting, taking pictures, and I tried to put as much of that in the film as possible. It was almost sci-fi, this idea that living does not count unless you are documenting it."
Given the subject matter of The Bling Ring, it's understandable why Coppola was so disturbed. It's based on a true story about a gang of Hollywood adolescents in the Noughties who allegedly stole millions of dollars from celebrities.
They did it by tracing the stars' movements on stalker websites and burgling their houses when they were out. The gang robbed socialite Paris Hilton five times and stole nearly US$2 million ($2.48 million) in jewels before she noticed anything was amiss. They snorted coke off her furniture and one boy pranced about in her high heels in a kind of victory dance.
Paris Hilton is herself the product of youthful reality TV culture. The heiress of a hotel fortune, she made her name as a model, party girl and star of a notorious celebrity sex tape - a career that climaxed in a role in the Fox reality show The Simple Life. Paris was made famous by the very introspective, social media-obsessed culture that horrified Coppola and, arguably, motivated those Hollywood burglars.
It's interesting to note that teens don't tweet nearly as much as they use Facebook and text. Statistics show that adolescent tweeters are twice as likely to be female as male, which confirms the suspicion that most tweeting teens are simply online followers of Justin Bieber (he has 37.9 million). Studies of American teens show 93 per cent of them enjoy access to the internet and roughly two-thirds go online once a day. Over 70 per cent are on a social network and 41 per cent of Facebook users say they check their account obsessively.
What are they looking at? Over 80 per cent are leaving comments on photos or updating their banal statuses (they're not debating macroeconomics or planning a bank heist, they're "liking" photos of cats). In all, the evidence suggests teens are big users of the internet but not really into "content creation" - they don't have a large amount of original things to say or share. That's not surprising: they haven't even started living yet.
Is all of this unhealthy? For some, yes.
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But there's a risk that in the rush to condemn our teens as an army of the living dead, we miss much that is good about social media interaction. For a start, they are only doing what the technology their seniors invented allows them to do. And long before mobile phones, people had just as equal a passion for recording their lives - just not the materials with which to do it.
Modern social media allow the sharing of events and, arguably, that has enhanced them. Rather than just experiencing the Eiffel Tour - led by the nose by a guide - Twitter encourages us to think about how we feel about it and then formulate a pithy comment. Then, thanks to the internet, thousands of people across the world can share that experience and add their own perspective.
Rather than turning teens into zombies, it's possible that it's expanding their opportunity and ability to analyse situations critically - to own an experience and, perhaps, actually experience it more deeply than they might otherwise have done. Facebook lets them curate photos of the trip; text lets them articulate how exciting it is.
Social media empowers us as individuals. For the lonely and awkward - and millions of teens fall into both categories - it's an opportunity to reach out and connect without actually having to meet in person. We read much about internet forums being a predators' playground but not nearly enough about how they've helped children build confidence and make friends.
Of course, it's unhealthy to think of a generation lost in recording the adventure of their own lives and incapable of simply living it. But this is the price we pay for technological change, and as technology expands individual freedom so it will increase vanity and self-absorption. Those teens texting and giggling in the back row of the Odeon are the future, whether we feel "smiley face" about that or not.


Even before he was president, Donald Trump's tweets often raised eyebrows for their content, veracity, and tendency to whip up hate and anger against his perceived enemies. In 2015, Trump took to Twitter to gleefully harass an 18-year-old girl who asked him a critical question at a campaign stop, resulting in others piling death threats on her; more recently, President Trump baselessly tweeted that Obama had tapped his phone prior to the election, an outright false claim that many of his devotees still believe.
Were he any other user, Trump's behavior on Twitter would probably constitute grounds for a ban. Yet many have marveled over Twitter's treatment of the president, which seems to embody the site's double standard. Embattled Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in a recent interview on NBC's Sunday Today show, was asked by interviewer Willie Geist how he feels about Twitter's role in giving Trump's politics an elevated platform.
"I'm sure you hear from the same people I see on Twitter, who are maybe progressives or Democrats who don't like Donald Trump, and they say, 'how can you give this man a platform to say all the things he's been saying'. . . how do you respond to them?" Geist asked.
If the point of Twitter moderation is to prevent trolling and harassment, isn't this undermined by giving a seal of approval to white nationalists like Spencer who have built their entire careers on asserting the inferiority of other races?
And if Twitter exists to have public "conversations out in the open, rather than behind closed doors," as Dorsey claimed, why is the company so quick to suspend important voices on the left — like Brace Belden, the American fighting with Kurdish left-wing militant group YPG to defeat ISIS in Syria, and whose life story is soon to be the subject of a film from actor Jake Gyllenhaal and director Daniel Espinosa?
Perhaps the philosophy of Twitter moderation could be summed up as follows: those with an outsize voice and following have a free rein to harass; their attention is good for the platform and drives clicks. Those who are small potatoes or who express more radical politics — especially on the left side of things — seem ripe for a ban. It took Twitter far too long to ban professional troll and long-time Breitbart commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, who made a career on harassing those to his left; indeed, only after spearheading a campaign of racist harassment against actress and comedian Leslie Jones was Yiannopoulos finally banned.
I suppose this is the darkest, most cynical point to be made about Facebook, Twitter, and all the other social media sites: they profit whenever you are harassed. The more you tweet in your defense, the more attacks you instigate, the more bile spewed — this is all great for their bottom line. It drives engagement — the dystopian turn of phrase for how long you look at or interact with their site. And it goes without saying that the longer you stare at Twitter or Facebook, the more ads you see, and the more they profit. Eyeballs drive profit, even if they're full of tears. Trump's harassment, falsehoods, and all the other despotic nonsense he posts are great for Twitter's bottom line.


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Notes from the Field: Murder Mystery Games Bring Art to Life
Stacey Lizotte
Since 2012, the Dallas Museum of Art has hosted an annual Museum Murder Mystery Game, and over the years it has become one of our most popular events. If you are looking for a different way to engage your audiences, a murder mystery could be in your future!
The first year, we invented a story with six characters, similar to the game Clue, and named them after artists, like Professor Pablo Plum or J. M. W. Green. The following year, we realized we had missed a great opportunity to have works of art in our collection be the suspects. Now, we pick seven works of art each year to "come to life and answer your questions," ranging from well-known figures like George Washington, Cinderella, and Durga to the more generic Man with Fish, Roman Woman, and The Bugler. We learned it is important to not only pick interesting works of art that have great costumes and personality but to think about their proximity to each other (to avoid congestion) and if they are near a power source (to use a microphone so more people can hear what the suspects are saying).
We write a script for the actors that portray these characters. The script explains their character's motivation, answering questions like alibi, what they saw or knew about the murder and the victim (another work of art in our collection), who they thought did it, and their relationships to the other suspects. While the script helps the actors answer questions from the players, we also give them permission to improvise, as questions always come up that we could not predict.
Participants get a clue sheet that outlines the premise of the game ("Eros the God of Love has been murdered . . . "), suspect profiles, a list of rooms, and a list of weapons that are actual objects on view in our collection.
Image credit: "Bird" pattern macaroni knife, B.D. Beiderhase & Co., 1872, Silver and gilt, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Dr. and Mrs. Dale Bennett, 2009.12.4
When the game starts, players have 90 minutes to question the suspects; look for the body outline, which is in one of seven galleries listed under "Rooms"; and find and look closely at the seven "Weapons" listed to see which one matches the description of the wound, which one of the suspects describes when asked.
Once they think they have solved the murder, players come back to staff with their guess of the suspect, room, and weapon. If they are correct, they are entered to win one of five prize packs (including a DMA membership and a gift certificate to the DMA Store) at the end of the night. If they are wrong, we encourage them to go back and question the suspects again.
The first year, we treated the game as a race—the first one back who guesses correctly wins the prize—but we saw that people were rushing through the game trying to be the first one to guess everything correctly. It felt more stressful than fun, both for the visitors and gallery staff who were constantly cautioning them not to run through the galleries. Since one of the main goals of the program is to have visitors spend more time looking at works of art, we changed the format the following year so all participants have a chance to win a prize no matter how long it takes them to get the correct answers. With this change, we saw a distinct transformation from the frantic energy of the first year to one of friendly competition.
At the end of the game, we gather the players and suspects in our large Atrium and have the murderer "confess." We create a confession document, like a newspaper article, that helps the murderer with their confession, and we have copies on hand to give to players who want to know more about the motive for the murder after they have finished playing the game.
Our Murder Mystery Game is not only a chance for visitors to have a fun experience at the DMA but also an opportunity for them to explore galleries they might not have known about and to look more closely at works of art they might have passed by otherwise. One player claimed, "it was one of the coolest events I have ever attended," which gives us the fuel to ruthlessly murder off another work of art each year!
Stacey Lizotte is the DMA League Director of Adult Programs at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). She has been with the DMA for over fourteen years. In addition to the Murder Mystery Game, she oversees the nationally recognized and award-winning program Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art while working with the Adult Programs staff on developing and implementing the over 400 public programs offered by the DMA each year including lectures, gallery talks, concerts, and partner programs with various groups in the Dallas community.
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Plans have been approved for three sites in the Barnstaple area to demolish existing pre-cast reinforced concrete (PRC) properties and build 350 new homes.
The proposals involve demolishing 231 dwellings on estates in Barnstaple, known as Forches, Woodville and a third site in Braunton and replace them with 155 eco-friendly homes that combined with new roads and well designed open spaces will transform the lives of local families, according to North Devon Homes (NDH).
The homes were built after the Second World War to cope with a housing shortage and are riddled with structural faults and deficiencies.
James Trewin, Managing Director at Trewin Design Architects said "This scheme was delivered within a very tight time frame to meet with our clients funding requirements and we managed to submit all three applications at the same time even though each site provided us with many complex issues whilst retaining high standards of design".


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Tax-credit decision down to the wire
Isakson signs onto bill to extend, not expand, credit for first-time buyers
Sen. Johnny Isakson — a former real estate broker known for taking up industry causes — has signed onto a bill that would extend, but not expand, the current $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers, which is set to expire Nov. 30.
Isakson, a Georgia Republican, had previously introduced a bill that would more than double the tax credit's ceiling to $15,000, and expand the pool of those eligible to claim it by lifting first-time homebuyer and income restrictions.
Isakson, a Georgia Republican, had previously introduced a bill that would nearly double the tax credit's ceiling to $15,000, and expand the pool of those eligible to claim it by lifting first-time homebuyer and income restrictions.
That bill, S 1230, has 16 co-sponsors, including Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., the chair of the Senate Banking Committee. It would be in effect for one year after enactment.
Isakson introduced a similar bill last year, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated would cost $34.2 billion.
Housing industry groups are lobbying hard for a tax credit that's not limited to first-time homebuyers. The National Association of Realtors claims the existing tax credit has brought 1.2 million new buyers into the market, 350,000 of whom would not have purchased a home otherwise.
But the cost of expanding the credit — or even extending the existing one — remains a concern to many lawmakers.
The Obama administration has yet to signal its support for an extension. A White House spokesman said this week that the president's economic team is evaluating the tax credit's impact on home sales, and will make a recommendation to the president.
Seeing the potential need for a compromise, Isakson this week signed onto another bill, S 1678, that would take the less ambitious step of simply extending the existing tax credit to June 1, 2010. …CONTINUED
Introduced Wednesday by Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., S 1678 has the support of Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and both of Nevada's Senators, Republican John Ensign and Democrat Harry Reid.
Congress had allocated $13.6 billion for the current first-time homebuyer tax credit program in the hopes of generating 2 million home purchases.
The Internal Revenue Service says 1.4 million first-time homebuyers have claimed the credit, and is reminding potential homebuyers that unless Congress extends the program, they must close on a home purchase by Nov. 30.
"Because the credit is only in effect for a limited time, those considering buying a home must act soon to qualify for the credit," the IRS said in a press release echoing similar reminders from the housing industry.
The IRS has even created a YouTube video to explain the credit, which is equal to 10 percent of a home's purchase price and may be claimed by homebuyers who fall within income restrictions and have not owned a primary residence in the last three years.
The existing tax credit phases out for married couples filing joint returns with adjusted income of between $150,000 and $170,000. In other words, those earning $150,000 or less can claim the full credit, while those earning more than $170,000 can't claim it at all. For single taxpayers, the credit phases out between $75,000 to $95,000.
The IRS also warned homebuyers to avoid schemes that help ineligible people file false claims for the credit. The IRS said it is investigating a number of cases of potential fraud and is using computer screening tools to identify questionable claims for the credit.
In July, the IRS said a Jacksonville, Fla.-based tax preparer, James Otto Price III, became the first to be convicted of fraud related to the federal first-time homebuyer tax credit (see story).


State Sen. Will Schroder and Senate President Robert Stivers.
Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers visited Johnson Elementary in Fort Thomas Thursday to tour the school's facilities with school officials, stakeholders and elected officials.
The group, led by Fort Thomas Education Foundation Chair, Amy Shaffer, aimed to demonstrate the need for state funding for the school.
Their main goal: a new school.
Amy Shaffer, Ashley Dikeos, Holly Collinsworth and Karen Cheser listen to Stivers talk about the budgetary process.
Johnson Elementary, which boasts the second oldest school building in the entire Commonwealth, has perennially been named to the "Parsons List", a running group of schools that are in need of upgrading. In 2014, Moyer Elementary received state funds that paid the bulk of the $20 million dollar project that is currently underway. During the last budgetary cycle, Johnson was also very high on the School Facilities Construction Commission list, however Moyer Elementary was given a higher priority due to the utilization of mobile classrooms on its campus.
While the facilities are in desperate need of updating at Johnson, the school's student population, now at 465, continues to excel. In 2014 the school won it's second blue ribbon award, the district's fifth such award since 1997. The district has since added its sixth award when Moyer won last year.
Fort Thomas Independent School Superintendent, Karen Cheser, said the work of the foundation is crucial in showing Frankfort that the district is committed to continuing its national reputation for academic excellence.
Aside from the bonding capacity the district has for raising funds, the private money raised by FTEF helps bridge the gap, but Cheser noted that state investment is crucial to be added as the first dollar into the pot.
"This is a priority of the district and we are on it with every resource that we have at our disposal. We are pulling out all the stops," she said. "The building does not make the programming, but we know that Johnson is in dire need of transformation."
Shaffer said that the FTEF is eager to work with district leadership, state legislators and our community to help get a new Johnson school.
"We are excited have President Stivers here to show that our staff and students are excelling despite the building where they learn. We hope that this visit helps to influence the decision to receive funding for a new Johnson," she said.
This year it's going to be a battle in Frankfort for budgetary discretion dollars as the pension crisis looms large. State Senator Wil Schroder said that when he heard Stivers was going to be in northern Kentucky, he made it a point to ask him to tour the blue ribbon school in Fort Thomas.
"This is an extremely important issue to my constituents in Fort Thomas so it was my top priority to bring him here," said Schroder, who is on the Senate's Appropriations and Revenue committee.
"I know how those meetings work in the Senate and know what goes into those decisions for how state money is awarded. President Stivers has a lot of say in those decisions and I wanted to make him aware of these concerns in my district, specifically with Johnson. The infrastructure concerns for the school and what the teachers bring out of the students is remarkable."
Shaffer noted that getting Stivers to Fort Thomas was a big step forward in helping the district to obtain the state funding to build a new school.
"We realize that a presence in Frankfort is necessary for this community to be able to get the work done that we need done. It's the reason why Moyer could be funded. The district and the foundation's relationship with our local legislators is key to helping this district in its goal of creating global leaders," she said.
Stivers spent about 30 minutes touring the facility and asked probing questions to the group, which included Shaffer, Schroder, Cheser, Assistant Superintendent, Jamee Flaherty, Johnson Principal, Ashley Dikeos, House Representative, Joe Fischer, board members, Karen Allen and John Weyer as well as Fort Thomas Education Foundation member, Holly Collinsworth.
The former and current Johnson Elementary Principals, Jamee Flaherty (now Assistant Superintendent) and Ashley Dikeos.
"As the Senate President, part of my statewide mission is traveling with fellow Senate members to learn about the important issues in their respective districts," said Stivers.
"The visit to Johnson Elementary School made me realize the legitimate concern parents have, and it is an issue that we will continue to monitor moving forward."
Collinsworth recalled similar tours she took with the School Facilities Construction Commission before the Highland High School renovation.
"Words or numbers aren't going to be able to describe what kind of shape a building is in," she said.
"You've really got to get legislators to come and see it or feel what it's like to be there. The condition of the building of that age only allows our teachers and district to do so much. The faith the community has put into its schools is phenomenal but at some point you feel you're swimming upstream."


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package client

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"path"
)

func (cli *Client) GroupList() ([]string, error) {
	var groups []string
	resp, err := cli.get("/api/groups", nil, nil)
	if err != nil {
		return groups, err
	}

	err = json.NewDecoder(resp.body).Decode(&groups)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return groups, err
}

func (cli *Client) GroupShow(name string) ([]string, error) {
	var members []string
	resp, err := cli.get("/api/groups/"+name, nil, nil)
	if err != nil {
		return members, err
	}

	err = json.NewDecoder(resp.body).Decode(&members)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return members, err
}

func (cli *Client) GroupCreate(name string) (string, error) {
	group := map[string]string{"name": name}
	resp, err := cli.post("/api/groups", nil, group, nil)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return name, err
}

func (cli *Client) GroupDelete(name string) error {
	resp, err := cli.delete("/api/groups/"+name, nil, nil)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return err
}

func (cli *Client) MemberAdd(name, group string) error {
	member := map[string]string{"member": name}
	resp, err := cli.post("/api/groups/"+group, nil, member, nil)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return err
}

func (cli *Client) MemberRemove(name, group string) error {
	url := path.Join("/api/groups", group, name)
	resp, err := cli.delete(url, nil, nil)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return err
}

func (cli *Client) PolicyList() ([]string, error) {
	var policy []string
	resp, err := cli.get("/api/policy", nil, nil)
	if err != nil {
		return policy, err
	}

	err = json.NewDecoder(resp.body).Decode(&policy)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return policy, err
}

func (cli *Client) PolicyCreate(peer string) error {
	resp, err := cli.post("/api/policy/"+peer, nil, nil, nil)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return err
}

func (cli *Client) PolicyDelete(peer string) error {
	resp, err := cli.delete("/api/policy/"+peer, nil, nil)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return err
}

func (cli *Client) FirewallList() ([]Firewall, error) {
	resp, err := cli.get("/api/firewalls", nil, nil)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	firewalls := []Firewall{}
	err = json.NewDecoder(resp.body).Decode(&firewalls)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return firewalls, err
}

func (cli *Client) FirewallShow(name string) ([]Firewall, error) {
	resp, err := cli.get("/api/firewalls/"+name, nil, nil)
	firewalls := []Firewall{}
	if err != nil {
		return firewalls, err
	}

	err = json.NewDecoder(resp.body).Decode(&firewalls)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return firewalls, err
}

func (cli *Client) FirewallCreate(fw Firewall) (Firewall, error) {
	var firewall Firewall
	resp, err := cli.post("/api/firewalls", nil, fw, nil)
	if err == nil {
		err = json.NewDecoder(resp.body).Decode(&firewall)
	}
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return firewall, err
}

func (cli *Client) FirewallDelete(name string) error {
	resp, err := cli.delete("/api/firewalls/"+name, nil, nil)
	ensureReaderClosed(resp)
	return err
}


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HomePublication HighlightsPharmacological Treatment of Methamphetamine / Amphetamine Dependence: A Systematic Review
Pharmacological Treatment of Methamphetamine / Amphetamine Dependence: A Systematic Review
Siefried, K.J., Acheson, L.S., Lintzeris, N. & Ezard, N. (2020). Pharmacological treatment of methamphetamine/amphetamine dependence: A systematic review. CNS Drugs 34, 337–365 (2020). DOI: 10.1007/s40263-020-00711-x
Stimulant drugs are second only to cannabis as the most widely used class of illicit drug globally, accounting for 68 million past-year consumers. Dependence on amphetamines (AMPH) or methamphetamine (MA) is a growing global concern. Yet, there is no established pharmacotherapy for AMPH/MA dependence. A comprehensive assessment of the research literature on pharmacotherapy for AMPH/MA dependence may inform treatment guidelines and future research directions.
We systematically reviewed the peer-reviewed literature via the electronic databases PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL and SCOPUS for randomised controlled trials reported in the English language examining a pharmacological treatment for AMPH/MA dependence or use disorder. We included all studies published to 19 June 2019. The selected studies were evaluated for design; methodology; inclusion and exclusion criteria; sample size; pharmacological and (if included) psychosocial interventions; length of follow-up and follow-up schedules; outcome variables and measures; results; overall conclusions and risk of bias. Outcome measures were any reported impact of treatment related to AMPH/MA use.
Our search returned 43 studies that met our criteria, collectively enrolling 4065 participants and reporting on 23 individual pharmacotherapies, alone or in combination. Disparate outcomes and measures (n = 55 for the primary outcomes) across studies did not allow for meta-analyses. Some studies demonstrated mixed or weak positive signals (often in defined populations, e.g. men who have sex with men), with some variation in efficacy signals dependent on baseline frequency of AMPH/MA use. The most consistent positive findings have been demonstrated with stimulant agonist treatment (dexamphetamine and methylphenidate), naltrexone and topiramate. Less consistent benefits have been shown with the antidepressants bupropion and mirtazapine, the glutamatergic agent riluzole and the corticotropin releasing factor (CRF-1) antagonist pexacerfont; whilst in general, antidepressant medications (e.g. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [SSRIs], tricyclic antidepressants [TCAs]) have not been effective in reducing AMPH/MA use.
No pharmacotherapy yielded convincing results for the treatment of AMPH/MA dependence; mostly studies were underpowered and had low treatment completion rates. However, there were positive signals from several agents that warrant further investigation in larger scale studies; agonist therapies show promise. Common outcome measures should include change in use days. Future research must address the heterogeneity of AMPH/MA dependence (e.g. coexisting conditions, severity of disorder, differences between MA and AMPH dependence) and the role of psychosocial intervention.
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Cairo Declaration to protect Middle East cultural heritage
Conference examined ways to prevent theft and illegal export of cultural and historic artefacts
Nevine El-Aref , Monday 18 May 2015
destruction in Mosul
World Museums Day celebration opens Monday in Egypt
New discovery: Gabal Al-Selsila quarries were a sacred area in ancient Egypt
"One God, Three Religions" inaugurated at the Egyptian Museum
UNESCO'S campaign #Unite4Heritage launched from Egypt
UN, Egypt launch conference against heritage destruction in Cairo
After discussions and workshops at a two-day conference, Cultural Property Under Threat, held in Egypt four days ago, six recommendations were issued to combat cultural theft.
Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty told Ahram Online that the recommendations were issued under the title Cairo Declaration, and they insist on the launching of a working group from the ten Arab countries who participated in the conference: Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Egypt.
The working group, he explained, is to play a major role to combat the threat against archaeological and cultural property in the Middle East, as well as protecting it and preventing its looting and smuggling abroad.
The establishment of an international advisory committee to support the working group, as well as suggesting measures to fight against illicit looting and trading of stolen antiquities, is another recommendation.
An international cultural awareness campaign in countries that allow trading in antiquities is to be launched very soon in an attempt to decrease the purchasing of stolen antiquities.
The conference members agreed on starting discussions to form and sign a cultural and regional memorandum of understanding in collaboration with international partners to prevent trading in plundered cultural artefacts.
Establishing an independent agency to fight against antiquities laundering, through providing fake identification certificates to the stolen object, is another recommendation to be discussed with concerned international agencies.
The Cultural Property Under Threat (CPUT) conference was officially inaugurated by UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova and Eldamaty. It was organised under the patronage of UNESCO by the Antiquities Coalition and the Middle East Institute, in cooperation with Egypt's ministry of antiquities and foreign affairs.
The conference was an attempt to raise awareness throughout the world in an attempt to safeguard cultural heritage in the Middle East and to debate the measures to fight cultural racketeering.
It also aims to raise awareness about and find specific solutions to stop the looting of antiquities and terrorist financing.
During the two-day conference, several discussions took place between UNESCO, governments, NGOs and the private sector that can either individually or collectively protect the common cultural heritage.
cultural property under threat
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Q: Keeping the row which has "suv", otherwise keep the other ones For example consider the default mpg dataframe.
I can find out what unique classes a car manufacturer has using:
mpg %>% distinct(manufacturer, class)

# A tibble: 32 x 2
   manufacturer class
   <chr>        <chr>
 1 audi         compact
 2 audi         midsize
 3 chevrolet    suv
 4 chevrolet    2seater
 5 chevrolet    midsize
 6 dodge        minivan
 7 dodge        pickup
 8 dodge        suv
 9 ford         suv
10 ford         pickup

Now actually what I want is that if a manufacturer has suv in class then only keep that row, and if it doesn't then keep all the other rows showing other classes.
Also, coming from excel I am using 'remove duplicate' trick here, where you can basically sort and then remove duplicates. Pretty sure there will be a better & smarter way then using distinct in R.

A: We can select only 'suv' rows if that class is present in manufacturer or select all the rows of the manufacturer.
library(dplyr)

mpg %>%
  distinct(manufacturer, class) %>%
  group_by(manufacturer) %>%
  filter(if(any(class == 'suv')) class == 'suv' else TRUE)

#  manufacturer class
#   <chr>        <chr>
# 1 audi         compact
# 2 audi         midsize
# 3 chevrolet    suv
# 4 dodge        suv
# 5 ford         suv
# 6 honda        subcompact
# 7 hyundai      midsize
# 8 hyundai      subcompact
# 9 jeep         suv
#10 land rover   suv
#11 lincoln      suv
#12 mercury      suv
#13 nissan       suv
#14 pontiac      midsize
#15 subaru       suv
#16 toyota       suv
#17 volkswagen   compact
#18 volkswagen   subcompact
#19 volkswagen   midsize


Mara Hoover is returning to Nevada County to help women in our community discover tools to financial freedom and build a support network to create a positive conversation around money. On Friday January 24th, 2014 she is kicking off the first Wine, Women & Wealth (FREE) and Saturday we are thrilled that she is joining us for an impromptu morning of new possibilities around wealth and financial FemmePowerment.
Joining Mara is Alix Rager of Sweet Spot Power, Elisa Parker of See Jane Do and Shawn Coffey of Prosperity Path.
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This event is the prelude to See Jane Do's first annual Women and Wealth Weekend to take place in partnership with Tri Counties Bank, Financial FemmePowerment, Prosperity Path and more in March 2014!
Mara Hoover has been an entrepreneur from as far back as she can remember, she started her first business venture with her father at five years old. Since then, she has become a successful and savvy business professional. As a Senior Vice President at Five Rings Financial, Mara is passionate about using her skills and talents to educate and empower her clients, especially women, to achieve financial success and independence. She works with a wide variety of clients: from business owners to business executives; from young families to successful singles. She enjoys creating plans that help them reach their financial goals. Mara is a graduate of Pepperdine University, a published author of the book series My Grumpy Husband, a fluent Spanish speaker, an active Soroptimist and avid networker in her community.
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Sarah is a first year PhD student in French. Her research examines the reception of Classics (classical literature but also classical culture, visual and historical) in French 19th Century travel writing about the 'Orient'. Her main research interests include the literary expressions of cultural identities, intellectual history, postcolonial studies and Gustave Flaubert.
She holds a MLitt in Cultural Identity Studies from the University of St Andrews (2012) and a Licence de Lettres Modernes from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (2010).
As well as managing the MLAC PG blog she is a tutor in the French 1011 module. She is a member of the Center for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Center for Classical Receptions.


Tamannaah's much awaited return to Hindi cinema last year didn't go quite well; however, the actress has moved on from the debacle of Himmatwala. Soon, she signed two more films including Sajid Khan's Humshakals and Sajid-Farhad's It's Entertainment.
Recently, while she was shooting for Humshakals in Mumbai, the film unit had a surprise guest on the sets. Aamir Khan, who was shooting nearby, landed on the sets of Humshakals and he reportedly spent quite a lot of time with the cast of the film. Buzz is that Tamannaah and another lead actress from the film, Bipasha Basu spent a lot of time chatting and cracking jokes with Aamir Khan. While Tamannaaah hasn't spoken yet about the incident, it certainly looks like the actress is enjoying her stint in Bollywood.
This year, Tamannaah is busy shooting for S S Rajamouli's Baahubali and Mahesh Babu's Aagadu and the latter film is expected to hit the screens later this year.


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To the Walls of France
By Martin McDowell
The fifth in the 105th Foot, 'Rag and Bone Boys' series and the story continues with Wellington advancing forward into Spain at the head of an Allied army to begin the campaigns of 1812. The following twelve months extending into 1813 is a year of titanic set-piece battles which will settle, one way or another, the fate of Spain and Portugal within the French Empire. Both triumph and tragedy befall the Allied army during 1812, first the complete victory of Salamanca, then the near farce and tragedy of the Burgos siege, followed by a retreat back to Cuidad Rodrigo, worse than that of Coruna due to acute starvation. Then in 1813 the Allies spring forward from the Portuguese border, with an advance so rapid that within three weeks there comes the triumph of Vitoria. As part of what is now a formidable army, the 105th Foot Wessex The Prince of Wales Own, must first contend with the retirement of their Colonel, Bertram Lacey, finally worn down by years of intense campaigning and finally the horrors of Badajoz. His replacement is Carr's old enemy from his last visit back to England after Talavera, this replacement being Sir Ambrose Brockenhurst MP, the Colonel of the 105th's Militia, him arrived from England to take over from Lacey and the result is incompetence and even humiliation. Carr is promoted to temporary Brevet-Colonel, but their reputation is now sullied, yet the 105th play their part in Salamanca and endure the retreat from Burgos. With the Spring of 1813, all Allied armies advance to Vitoria to play their part in this momentous battle and take part in the conflicts in the Pyrenees, where, on the far right of Wellington's line at the battle of Sorauren outside Pamplona, the 105th's reputation is finally restored. Throughout all, the band led by Colour-Sergeant Jedediah Deakin hold together, giving mutual support and comfort, and taking advantage of any opportunity that comes their way which may soften the hard and dangerous life they necessarily lead.
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Despite all the proposals my transcription has prompted, I have incorporated most of them by consensus. That is the reason why three words are still displayed in brackets since such expressions require further analysis. Therefore, I would be glad of subsequent suggestions.
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Although our transcriptions are very similar, I also agree with Maaike1952 about tonigh (l.1) and womankind (l. 4).
I think line 7 should be Lord Lyttelton (see http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2914523?uid=3738736&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101091064523) and after Lord Lyttelton I read the word 'as'.
I agree with Maaike1952 about line 8.
Although our transcriptions are very similar, there are a few differences.
Line 1 and 4 I agree with Maaike1952: tonigh and womankind.
Then after Lord Lyttelton I read the word 'so'.


Shearman & Sterling advised Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, ING, and UBS as initial purchasers on the US$300 million 7% senior notes offering by HT Global IT Solutions Holdings Limited ("HT Global"). The notes will be listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited.
HT Global is a holding company incorporated in Mauritius by Baring Private Equity Asia V Mauritius Holdings (4) Limited, and owns a 71.25% controlling interest in Hexaware Technologies, a global provider of information technology and business process management services.
The Shearman & Sterling team was led by partners Andrew Schleider (Singapore-Capital Markets), Kyungwon Lee (Hong Kong-Capital Markets) and Nathan Greene (New York-Asset Management); with support from counsel Joji Ozawa (Singapore-Capital Markets) and Eileen O'Pray (Menlo Park-Tax); and associates David Wallace and Leonard Lou (Hong Kong-Capital Markets).


It was getting late on an August Friday in 2011, in Covington, Virginia. All John LaFlamme had in the world were the clothes on his back and a copy of his high school diploma. He had no car, no home, no family in the area, and no ID. He had just been released from prison.
Time was not on John's side.
Within a few short months he would either successfully become a stable member of the community or he would fail to meet his parole requirements and end up back in prison. Leslie Matney, who was at the time the district's chief of probation and parole, recalled that the first afternoon, the scope of the tasks that John needed to accomplish in a short amount of time was daunting.
The challenges extended as far into John's future as she could see. "He owed thousands of dollars in court costs," Leslie pointed out. "He was stuck in the Catch-22 of not being able to afford a permanent address without a job and not being able to get a job without being able to list a full-time address," she said.
The Great Recession made getting a job extremely difficult. When John got out, it seemed no one was hiring. However, despite the employment opportunities in Covington being more limited than perhaps might have been the case in a larger city, there were also opportunities in Covington that would prove crucial to John's success story. Many returning citizens like John exit prison without a support network. For them, the sink-or-swim nature of release makes the challenge to find the right tools critical.
To connect returning citizens to the services and resources that already exist, Virginia created local Reentry and Community Collaboration Councils. The councils brought together state, local, private, and communitySTARTING OVER & THRIVING John LaFlamme, Virginia CARES client based organizations to make better use of existing resources and, ultimately, to help returning citizens build their skills, practice good habits, and keep their positive momentum to improve their chances of gaining good jobs and remaining out of prison permanently.
Upon his release at 4:00 p.m. on a Friday, within an hour, John had obtained a temporary place to stay at a motel and met up with TAP Virginia CARES' Lawrence St. Clair. The two talked about the obstacles facing John and began to connect. John began to work with our Virginia CARES staff regularly and attended the computer classes and the Thinking for a Change program there. He volunteered. He used all the tools that CARES offered to turn his hard work into tangible results.
Slowly, John gained momentum. Through his volunteering in the community, he made a connection with Debbie Barber of Motor-Vation Lawn Care, who hired him part-time and taught him landscaping. With a work history and references on his applications, John eventually found full-time employment with benefits. He went from staying in a motel to renting a small garage apartment, which he renovated, to owning the house in front of the garage apartment.
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