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Q: Vue.js: Accordion is not working in for loop I added accordion for a single item and it was working fine, but then I added in for loop and now when I click on any item, all items are getting expanded.
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A: You have set @click="toggleAccordion" to all items. To fix your problem, every item needs it own state. This, for example, could be done like that:
First, provide your state as an object:
return {
            isOpen: {}
        }

As I don´t know the structure of your data, I just did this example with a simple array of objects like this:
testObject: [
        {name: "hello1"},
        {name: "hello2"},
        {name: "hello3"},
        {name: "hello4"}
      ]

Just loop trough this in created to generate a state for all, like this:
for(let itemId in this.testObject) {
      Object.assign(this.isOpen, {[itemId]: false})
    }

The object isOpen now looks like this:
{
   "0":false,
   "1":false,
   "2":false,
   "3":false
}

Now you can call toggleAccordion with the index from your loop, like toggleAccordion(index) and change the function to this:
toggleAccordion(index) {
      this.isOpen[index] = !this.isOpen[index];
    }

Where you applied isOpen before you just apply isOpen[index] now.


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Stora skäret är en ö i Åland (Finland). Det ligger i Skärgårdshavet och i kommunen Vårdö i landskapet Åland, i den sydvästra delen av landet. Ön ligger omkring 42 kilometer nordöst om Mariehamn och omkring 250 kilometer väster om Helsingfors.

Öns area är  hektar och dess största längd är 470 meter i nord-sydlig riktning.

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Åländska öar i Skärgårdshavet
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Landerd és un municipi de la província del Brabant del Nord, al sud dels Països Baixos. L'1 de gener del 2009 tenia 14.842 habitants repartits sobre una superfície de 70,68 km² (dels quals 0,31 km² corresponen a aigua). Limita al nord amb Oss i Grave, a l'oest amb Bernheze i al sud amb Uden i Mill en Sint Hubert.

Centres de població
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 Schaijk
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Ajuntament
 Reekse Politieke Partij, 4 regidors
 Democraten Schaijk '97, 3 regidors
 Progressief Landerd, 3 regidors
 Zeelands Welzijn, 2 regidors
 CDA 1 regidor
 VVD 1 regidor

Enllaços externs

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Sort the following string alphabetically, from z to a, and assign it to the variable sorted_letters.
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Ring sells operations to Osram
By Eoin Cuttle On January 31, 2019
Ring Automotive – a specialist of Lighting, Inspection and Power Management for passenger and light commercial vehicles – has agreed the sale of its operations to Osram, a global lighting manufacturer.
In a statement, Ring said: "Both businesses feel that this combination will be mutually beneficial and will result in many opportunities to complement each other's offering to the automotive aftermarket."
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If you don't have a family doctor, Quebec wants you to use this system before going to ER
Quebec's Health Ministry wants people who don't have family doctors to use the Primary Care Access Point when seeking care. The new tool, available online and via phone, can be used to book appointments to see general practitioner. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press - image credit)
With respiratory viruses spreading and emergency rooms buckling under pressure, the province is trying to get the word out about a new service for the 1.2 million Quebecers who do not have a family doctor.
This year, the province launched an online and phone service called the Primary Care Access Point.
The service — which is known in French as the Guichet d'accès à la première ligne or the GAP — aims to go further than the traditional 811 phone service by allowing people to speak with a nurse, get their symptoms assessed and, if necessary, book an appointment with a general practitioner.
"The bet we're making is that it will eventually have an effect on ERs for patients who aren't signed up [with a family doctor], as the service gets more and more known," said Martin Forgues, who is in charge of service access with the province's Health Ministry.
"I strongly encourage the population to use it and help us because [using] it will allow us to improve it constantly."
Accessing the GAP
Following a pilot project in the Lower St. Lawrence region, the service became available across Quebec in late September.
You need to meet these two criteria to be eligible for the GAP:
You don't have a family doctor.
You are signed up on the waiting list for a family doctor.
If you're sick or calling on behalf of someone who is, you can access the GAP by calling 811 and choosing Option 3.
You'll get to speak with a nurse who will ask you a series of questions to assess your condition and medical history — just like when you call the regular 811 service.
Once that is done, the nurse could either tell you to go to the ER, a pharmacy, refer you to a social worker or tell you to use basic remedies at home. They could also decide that you need to see a physician in a clinic. That's when they'll book the appointment for you.
The majority of the appointments booked through the GAP take place within 36 hours, Forgues said.
A person can also use the GAP's online tool and go through a questionnaire instead of speaking with a nurse, but you won't be able to get a doctor's appointment doing that. Instead, the online GAP questionnaire will prompt you to contact its phone service if your situation warrants an appointment with a physician.
Through a deal with the Quebec government, general practitioners are freeing up time in their schedules to see patients who don't have family doctors.
Forgues said people who are on the waiting list for a family doctor have received an email or a letter in the mail to inform them that they are eligible to use the GAP and how to contact it.
If you sign up today, you will also be contacted and given that information.
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Call wait times already a challenge
The Health Ministry says the volume of calls to the GAP has gradually increased since the service became available across Quebec. In one week in mid-October, there were 30,000 calls.
According to Forgues, 17,000 of those — slightly more than half — ended with doctor's appointments booked for the caller.
Forgues says the ministry is focused on making sure more people know about the service and reducing wait times for callers.
He said the waiting time could range anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours and the ministry wants to ijmprove that up to make the GAP more attractive, especially if even more calls start flooding in.
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Raising awareness about alternatives
The ability to get a doctor's appointment is the GAP's big draw, but the tool also serves to remind people that there are other health-care solutions besides going to the ER.
Health Minister Christian Dubé has said that about half the 10,000 Quebecers who visit ERs daily could be going elsewhere for their care.
"The GAP is certainly a good way to inform the population about what pharmacists can do," said Betrand Bolduc, the president of the Quebec Order of Pharmacists.
"They're going to realize that they could've gone to a pharmacist to get, most probably, their problem resolved — whether it's extending a prescription or treating a minor ailment."
The GAP also makes it easier for general practitioners to help patients when they see them, according to the vice-president of the Fédération des médecins omnipracticiens du Québec.
GAP nurses relay the information gathered about a patient to the physician who will meet with them, said Dr. Sylvain Dion.
"And just the fact that patients call [the GAP], are evaluated, so the patients that are in our office, it's pertinent for them to be there, that's a big step forward," said Dion.
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This past weekend, Chris, Avi and I headed down south for a much needed Bishop adventure. We met up with Marina, Jake, Mike and few others. We arrived early enough on Friday to squeeze out a half day of climbing, during which we all realized that our soft and precious skin wasn't going to survive the weekend. Nonetheless, we managed to have a very memorable trip with some notable sends!
Saturday's session was cut short by afternoon winds (up to 50mph). We rushed back to our campsite and found our tents scattered some 30 feet away. The winds were persisting, so we quickly dismantled the tents and decided to share a motel room for the night.
On Sunday I worked one of my long standing projects, Direction (V13).
Even though Monday was only a half day, it was arguably the most eventful day of our trip. Marina crushed Smooth Shrimp (V6), Avi snagged the classic Fly Boy Arete (V5), Chris sent Buttermilker stand (V12), and I salvaged the trip with a first-go send of Cocktail Sauce (V10). On our way out we even got to see an inspirational send of Footprints (V9) - good job Ethan (and Wes?)!
This trip helped me realize how excited I am to get back in to climbing after this extended hiatus. Look out for more trips in the near future. Love, peace and chicken grease.


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Schools and nurseries in Ibiza – registration is opening soon!
Choosing a school or nursery in Ibiza, as well as navigating the school registration process can all be a bit daunting if you aren't familiar with the Spanish system and perhaps the language either.
The enrolment process for any child turning 3 years old in 2019 begins on the 25th March. NOW is therefore the time to gather all papers, especially if you are considering a local state school for your little one.
For all children who are born in 2015 or before, registration starts on 13th May.
The whole registration process takes place online, so you do not need to go anywhere in person to register.
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My country, Nigeria, is on the western coast of Africa, is popularly known for its oil, corruption and jovial people. It is the most populous country in Africa, home to more than 175 million people, 62.5% of whom are below 25 years old. Nigeria is also very diverse - there are over 250 ethnic groups and more than 500 languages.
Approximately 50% of the Nigerian population is female. This is important because it means that even the smallest percentages represent a vast number of people. But another noteworthy point is the poor quality of data available on Nigeria. Many of the things women go through in Nigeria are not spoken about or dealt with formally, so for every survey result there are probably many more women suffering in silence.
Nigerian society, though varied in many ways, is predominantly patriarchal. Patriarchy appears to be embedded in the culture and as a result, change comes slowly. On account of the nature of the attitudes and beliefs of Nigerians, many females face myriad challenges. These challenges include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), child marriage, domestic violence, sexual harassment and assault, maltreatment of widows, human trafficking and shortened education. It is difficult to do justice to the pain, injustice, shame, stigmatisation and discouragement embodied by the discrimination involved in each of these practices in so few words.
Patriarchy manifests in many forms in Nigeria: it is the idea that a wife is owned by her husband and he can do with her as he pleases, and when he dies his family can have their turn. It is the opinion that a girl's occupation is to be married and the sooner she can start her job, the better. It is the threats of a lecturer to fail a female student unless she does what he wants. It is the belief that men can speak to women as they deem fit, as well as take offense when a woman does not take delight in their crass jokes and leery looks.
Besides patriarchy, there are other factors that foster the continuation of these practices. Poverty encourages early marrying off of children as well as withdrawal of girls from school to work. The shortcomings of the public education system suggest that basic education costs more than it is supposed to, which prevents children from finishing school. If girls do not finish school, they may marry earlier which exposes them to birth complications such as obstetric fistula. They are also more likely to marry off their own children early. Furthermore, the encouragement of women to stay silent when they go through unjust and painful things to maintain reputations or to avoid shame aids these unjust practices. It is acknowledged that these are sensitive issues, but if they are not recognised for the wrong that they are, how will they end?
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Some positive integers n have the property that the sum [ n + reverse(n) ] consists entirely of odd (decimal) digits. For instance, 36 + 63 = 99 and 409 + 904 = 1313. We will call such numbers reversible; so 36, 63, 409, and 904 are reversible. Leading zeroes are not allowed in either n or reverse(n).
How many reversible numbers are there below one-billion (109)?


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Methadone withdrawal will certainly be required eventually, after methadone upkeep or a discomfort monitoring program making use of methadone has begun. If your feeling enslaved by having to go to a Friendship MD facility or a pharmacy daily as well as undergoing heck if you intend to travel, there is an escape.
Methadone usage generates a numb sensation to living, considerable stomach issues and also physical dependence that beats all others; that's the short list. All sort of other health issue that methadone usage produced are exposed once starting methadone withdrawal. I'll offer you some solution to help now, and also additionally remedies to deal with the issue to ending methadone reliance permanently.
Addictions physicians and also pain management facilities in Maryland are seriously suggesting methadone for opiate misuse as well as persistent discomfort, but what are the repercussions of methadone usage? I have actually provided numerous listed below. If you have actually currently tried Methadone withdrawal and had troubles, I've got some aid you wouldn't have actually found in other places.
Once it is time to begin methadone withdrawal, many individuals are having BIG problems ending their methadone usage. Exactly how does one withdraw from methadone in Friendship Maryland? What difficulties will they have to conquer?
The fact is that lots of dependencies medical professionals as well as discomfort management experts in Friendship are acting on the referrals from their peers as well as consultants. They are not told of the deaths as a result of recommended methadone usage nor the troubles that often take place when taking out from methadone usage.
Vital: completely research medications or medications on your own prior to you acquire or take them. The results can be gruesome. They additionally could have harmful interactive results when taken with other medications.
Lots of if not all methadone effects are triggered by nutritional shortages. Methadone usage develops nutritional deficiency – particularly calcium and also magnesium depletion. One more is B vitamin shortage. This is exactly how these deficiencies appear.
Methadone withdrawal will require a lot of additional nutritional supplements. That indicates it's time to feed the body. Calcium and also magnesium will help with the cramping etc. But there will be some difficulty several will have taking their nutrients – a bad digestive tract.
Methadone and also anxiety meds have the tendency to destroy the digestive tract lining. A leaking intestine offers discomforts when eating or allergies, vulnerable to illness as well as skin troubles. One more symptom of a dripping digestive tract is irritation and a 'bad attitude'. The attitude can have physical causes unspoken by the individual.
A great pointer to assisting the intestine issue is eating lots of good quality yogurt with real-time probiotics in it, like acidophilus as well as bifidus. One can likewise supplement with large amounts of glutathione – an antioxidant to aid the detoxification process.
The issue with methadone is that it is toxic to the body. Your body recognizes it, but you might not. Taking methadone obstacles your organs to detoxify the body as well as protect the vital organs before they are severely hurt.
Toxic substances provide the body a tough time. If you have actually seen drug addict with dark circles under their eyes, gray skin, poor skin, hair falling out, low energy, odd disorders, and so on they're got dietary deficiencies. Those shortages are hard to recoup from with food alone. Often that food isn't being properly absorbed = bad gut.
Cleansing the body is more than simply quiting substance abuse. Substance abuse creates internal body damages you might not promptly acknowledge. Nevertheless, the body will certainly aim to detox right after drug use and also recover itself making use of any nutrients available. If the nutrients typically aren't available, the body will obtain (swipe) them from the bones, nerves or various other vital features.
Some will require medical detox from methadone – the problem is that most Friendship methadone detox centers don't use nutritional supplements as part of their program. They just give more medications, and often not the right ones. The lack of full understanding on Methadone detox creates a brutal scene to withdraw from.
Fortunately is that I've found the devices and also the detoxification centers in MD that can defeat methadone withdrawal smoothly as well as conveniently.
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Advanced Massage Training Will Take Your Career to the Next Level — Just Ask These Massage Therapists
Aiyana Fraley
You graduated from massage school with a felt sense of anatomy and physiology, and the ability to help a client relax into a more pain-free experience of life.
In many ways, that was just the start of your massage career.
With options for advanced training expanding all the time, you have the ability — at your fingertips — to achieve a new level of professional satisfaction by completing advanced training. The results of investing in yourself in this way include renewed passion, respect from peers and credibility within the medical community.
MASSAGE Magazine asked 11 massage therapists throughout the U.S. to talk about the advanced training they chose and how it has benefited them personally and professionally. That training ranges from Myoskeletal Therapy to Medicupping, Lymph Drainage to Anatomy Trains Structural Integration to Oncology Massage and more.
Kirk Kimmons, MScAT, LMBT
Kirk Kimmons
New Bern Medical Massage; New Bern, NC
Specialty: Medicupping
Training and Educator: ACE Massage Cupping; Anita Shannon
While some massage therapists struggle to fill their books, Kirk Kimmons, a medical massage therapist in private practice in New Bern, North Carolina, has a 90-day wait time for an appointment — and his sole forms of advertising are his business card and word-of-mouth. Even with no website and no social media, he hasn't had an issue filling his schedule since his first day in business.
His specialization in Medicupping and clinical approach to massage has raised him to the level of working with medical doctors, orthopedic surgeons and chiropractors.
A couple of years ago he was looking for training that would support his growing medical massage practice. That's when he heard of Medicupping. He enrolled in Anita Shannon's course and completed the two levels of training.
"I knew that as soon as I stepped into this that the Medicupping machine was critical to what I was going to do, because I have to be consistent with the vacuum I am using," Kimmons said, referring to the vacuum-therapy tool. Unlike handheld pumps, which are difficult to maintain and only estimate the amount of suction, a Medicupping machine offers practitioners gauges and settings that are essential when providing clinical care.
"When I start off with two-and-a-half inches of mercury on the dial, I know right where I am at, and every time I apply the vacuum, I know it is going to be consistent," Kimmons said.
Medicupping is also more comfortable for clients who come in with pain. Rather than the compression that is experienced in massage, the suction of the machine pulls up to four layers of tissue, allowing the muscle fibers to separate more quickly and without the discomfort that can be experienced with deep manipulation of tissue.
Kimmons operates his business at the level of professionalism his physician colleagues run theirs, with a thorough medical history during the intake, and no tips accepted. Despite turning away what many massage therapists consider a significant portion of income, Kimmons' income has not suffered. On the contrary, he is booked six days a week with up to five clients a day. The success of his practice is rooted in both his hands-on talent and advanced education.
"Higher education builds our confidence and increases our palpation skills — and that's what drives our field," he said. "We have to be able to see with our fingers. The more we train them, the more we work with them, the better we can see with our hands."
Jacqueline Wolf, BSIE, LMT
Jacqueline Wolf
The Stillpoint Therapeutic Massage Center; Hudson, OH
Specialty: Clinical Rehabilitative Massage
Training and Educator: Academy of Clinical Massage; Whitney Lowe
Jackie Wolf is a massage therapist with an engineering degree. As a self-described left-brain thinker, she thrives when challenged to find the root of a client's pain complaints and to implement a solution. So, it felt natural to her to invest 162 hours of her time into an orthopedic massage certification with Whitney Lowe.
"The program teaches you to think clinically. It is not a technique. By thinking clinically and knowing what questions to ask and when to ask them, you learn how to give really good assessments," Wolf said.
The assessment is what makes Wolf's sessions stand out from a general massage. The thorough intake allows her to pinpoint where pain is stemming from. She can spend 30 to 60 minutes on one area. By knowing where to massage and what muscles are behind a client's chief complaints, her sessions are more targeted and yield better results, and clients leave knowing more about their bodies.
"They get a better understanding of what is going on with them because I am able to speak through a clinical perspective," she said.
Wolf's center is staffed with nine therapists. She makes continuing education a requirement. "It's fun to see them get excited about it and it's fun to see their craft improve and grow," Wolf said.
Clients feel better and don't need to come as often, making room for new clients seeking relief to find their way to her. About 35 percent of her business is coming through physician referrals, including from neurologists, family practitioners, naturopaths, chiropractors and physical therapists.
"When they see that you've done the extensive training, they have more confidence in referring their patients to you," Wolf said.
Macky Page, BCSI, LMT, E-RYT200, CPT
Macky Page
Macky Page Manual and Movement Therapist; Westbrook, MN
Specialty: Anatomy Trains Structural Integration
Training and Educator: Anatomy Trains Structural Integration; Thomas Myers
Seven years into her private practice, Macky Page was ready to take a leap into higher learning that would spark curiosity and a passion for learning about the human body.
The Anatomy Trains Structural Integration 500-hour certificate program had been on her bucket list since massage school. The training is vigorous and heavy on anatomy. It covers fascia research, meridians, body readings, techniques and how to do a three- and 12-part series using structural integration framework.
"I knew I wanted to do it. I told all my clients about it a year in advanced," said Page, who has since phased out her massage offerings with the structural integration series. "It completely transformed my practice in a magical way."
Longtime clients who were seeing her for complaints like hip pain would find short-term relief with general massage and were now experiencing longer periods of time without pain. A structural integration session works in a series, where each session is focused on treating a territory of the body and its patterns. "And my favorite part is how participatory the client is during the session," Page said.
Thomas Myers' program has offered her a comprehensive map to work and draw from to make more informed suggestions and treatment decisions for clients. They can tell the difference. She is booked three months out. Her confidence in her practice and skills has also allowed her to forge relationships with Western health care practitioners who now refer clients to her.
"I feel much more informed as a practitioner to talk to my clients, to treat them and have a better idea of what would be the most supportive for them," Page said. "I also feel more confident in interacting with other practitioners. I am on the top of [a] lot of physical therapists' referral lists because of my advanced training, because I am able to have those 'jargony' conversations with them."
Tammy Walker, LMT, BCTMB
Tammy Walker
Swedish American Health Systems; Rockford, IL
Specialty: Oncology Massage
Training and Educator: NCBTMB Specialty Certificate in Oncology Massage; Society for Oncology Massage
Tammy Walker is an oncology massage therapist and part of the integrative medicine team at Regional Cancer Center in Rockford, Illinois. To the cancer patients who receive her care she is a familiar face who brings hope.
She's been a massage therapist for 18 years and was a volunteer therapist at a hospice before hospitals developed integrative teams. She has over 275 hours in oncology training, which allows her to understand the disease process and treatments her patients are undergoing.
Cancer treatments have come a long way. Patients are living longer and the cancer survivor population is growing. "It is only a matter of time before you run across someone who has a history of cancer," Walker said. "Whether you're in private practice or in a hospital setting, I encourage all massage therapists to get the basic oncology training, because you are going to come across these people."
She completed various trainings in oncology massage over the years, surpassing 275 hours of continuing education, and earned an Oncology Massage Specialty Certificate after passing a National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork specialty exam.
"It wasn't until I got the certificate that leadership took notice. It's a big deal in the health care setting. It is huge. It is also going to raise the massage profession to a whole new level in health care," said Walker, who left her private practice to work at the cancer center.
She said she enjoys making a difference when people need it most, the comradery of being on an oncology team and the exciting learning environment of a clinical setting.
"When I started massage therapy, we were considered alternative medicine; then we became complementary and now we are called integrative. Seeing that change within the 18 years I've been practicing is huge," Walker said. "We are in there with the doctors and the nurses. It's exciting."
Justin Dean Roberts, LMT, CST-D
Justin Roberts
A Profound Touch; Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Specialty: CranioSacral Therapy
Training and Educator: CST, Upledger Institute International
You can say that Justin Roberts's path to CranioSacral Therapy was destiny. He was drawn to the modality in massage school and immediately enrolled in trainings, completing four in his first year.
"I was on a really fast track and I haven't looked back since," said Roberts, an advanced craniosacral therapist and instructor at the Upledger Institute International. He later found out that his mother was John E. Upledger, DOO, OMM (1932–2012)'s hospice nurse.
"The universe will align itself to support our path, and that's what I've experienced," Roberts said.
CranioSacral Therapy is a light-touch, hands-on approach to working with the body. The pressure applied with the hands is no more than the weight of a nickel, and therapists use their hands to listen to the body and support it in releasing restrictions. It is about meeting the body where the body is.
"We are just being there with the body and letting it do what it is ready to do on its terms," Roberts said. "We hook right into the limbic system. It is the emotional processing part of the brain. We can tap into that and go into the body's defense mechanism and get more information without stirring things up to cause the body to defend itself in any way."
About 80 percent of Roberts's clients come for CranioSacral Therapy. With his growing expertise in the field combined with word-of-mouth, his practice has close to tripled — but he remains grounded and humble.
"If you do what you love, you never have to work a day in your life. That is the state I get to be in every day," he said, paraphrasing Confucius. I feel like I am not working because I love what I do so much."
There is always something to learn, he added, "so every person who gets on the table is a teacher for me, and it is my job to listen to their body."
Tammy McCue, PTA, LMT, MMT
Tammy McCue
Hammock Beach Resort and private practice; Palm Coast, FL; NY
Specialty: Myoskeletal Therapy
Training and Educator: Master Myoskeletal Therapist; Freedom From Pain Institute with Erik Dalton, PhD.
Ask Tammy McCue's clients, colleagues and children what she does for a living and the answer is simple: She "fixes" people. When clients get off her table, they walk a little taller, straighter and lighter. Their pain is gone or significantly lessened.
Behind the how and why to her healing touch are Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques. This advanced training consists of 210 hours of anatomy, joint mobility, stretching and dynamic movement that help relieve pain, release trapped nerves and correct posture, among other benefits.
Immediately following her first training she started using the techniques on clients who came in with pain and tightness and left amazed at how much better they felt. The effects stuck with them throughout the weeks, too.
Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques are maintenance for the body. In the same way our cars need an alignment, so does our body. "I'm the body mechanic," McCue said.
McCue recalled implementing the techniques on a client with scoliosis who was facing surgery. "I can't fix what is structurally changed, but there is a component that I can change by using Erik Dalton's techniques — and that is the functional part.
"I can work on the functional part of scoliosis and I can change that," McCue said. "[The client] still has scoliosis, but now she can row and is on a rowing team and she didn't get the rod [implanted]."
Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques therapists learn proper techniques for clients — that's a given. What they also learn is body mechanics for themselves. "I'm going to be 60 this year," said McCue. She is the oldest person at her spa, and while most therapists stick to four-hour shifts she is doing seven to eight massages a day three days a week with no wrist pain or burnout in sight.
"This," she said of her advanced training, "was the best professional decision I ever made in my life."
Stephanie Allred, LMT
Stephanie Allred II
Private Practice; Baltimore, MD
Specialty: Integrative Health Care
Training and Educator: NCBTMB Specialty Certificate in Massage Therapy for Integrative Healthcare; Community College of Baltimore County
Stephanie Allred was living in chronic pain from a repetitive stress injury and sedentary lifestyle. After six years without a reprieve, she began her journey out of pain. Massage was the game changer.
"My neck hurt for six years straight, and I never imagined having a life where my neck wouldn't hurt … anymore," Allred recalled.
"Sometimes I think about it and remember what my life was like" before massage,she added. "I was in my 20s and I felt so old, and now I'm in my 30s and I feel so much younger. It is possible.
Like so many people who enter the massage field after receiving the benefits of healthy touch, Allred changed careers to massage therapy after her experience.
The massage therapy program at Community College of Baltimore County included a specialty certificate in integrative healthcare from the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork. It involved an 80-hour internship in a clinical setting offering prenatal massage to low-income women and to cancer patients in an oncology ward.
"It was an amazing experience," said Allred, who opted for the program because it gave her more clinical experience. "I wanted to be able to work in all the places I could work. I didn't want to just do relaxation massage. I wanted to be able to help more people and have a larger scope set. I was able to do that with that higher-level."
Allred is a few months shy of completing her first year as a massage therapist, and while fresh out of school she is already ahead of recent graduates of the basic program because of her training in integrative health.
"It is very nice to say I had two years of schooling, that I went to an academic institution to get my degree, that I was in an allied health program, and I worked with patients," she said. "When I say this to people, their eyes light up."
Amy Nicholson, LMT, BCTMB
Earth Spirit Healing Arts; Madison, WI
Specialty: Somatic Experiencing
Training and Educator: Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute
Amy Nicholson is a massage therapist whose own trauma experience led her to a three-year advanced training in Somatic Experiencing and then to complete her master's in mental health counseling.
"I wanted to understand trauma and how trauma gets stuck in the body," Nicholson said.
Somatic Experiencing is a neurobiological approach to working with trauma. The premise is that when a person experiences shock or trauma and it is not processed through the body the nervous system becomes dysregulated, which can lead to symptoms of mental illness like anxiety and depression, says Nicholson.
Somatic Experiencing is done on a table but it is not a massage. The practitioner helps the client process a particular traumatic memory by tracking their body's responses to the event.
"Essentially what I am doing is supporting them in building the capacity to experience the memory while noticing sensations in their body until their body settles down and they have a healthy parasympathetic settling experience," Nicholson said. "It feels very calming and relaxing. It feels good when that happens."
What Nicholson is drawn to most about this modality are the results. "People really get better," she said.
As program director at Madison Area Technical College, Nicholson has integrated her knowledge of Somatic Experiencing and trauma into the massage program and through it is teaching students how to be trauma-informed therapists.
Somatic Experiencing can help bodyworkers understand how trauma is processed through the body and how it affects the nervous system and give massage therapists foundational skills on how to work with clients who have experienced trauma.
Nicholson's training and specialization allow her to work with a specific population and refer to herself as a Somatic Therapist. For her clients and students, somatic experiencing offers transformative healing.
Amelia Mitchell, LMT, LLCC, BCTMB
Amelia Mitchell II
Alchemy Healing Arts Center; Annapolis, MD
Specialty: Prenatal and Fertility Massage
Training and Educator: Claire Marie Miller Seminars
Some people are born loving children. Some people love them so much they want to help them come into the world in a healthy and peaceful way, and that means taking care of their mothers. That is Amelia Mitchell's story.
Her caring, nurturing nature and advanced certifications in prenatal and fertility massage established her as an expert in her field — or as one client called her, "Earth Mother."
"I've worked with a lot of moms and a lot of moms in challenging pregnancies, so having the certification made them feel comfortable working with me," Mitchell said. "I've worked with a lot of women who are going through in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive techniques that are looking for all the help they can get.
"But [clients can be] also very discerning about what therapists they work with because there are a lot of risks involved and they want to feel confident," Mitchell said.
Her fertility massage creates an environment that supports a woman's health and prepares her to conceive, while her prenatal massages help a mother feel more comfortable in her changing body. She estimates that about 50 percent of women receiving fertility massage at her practice conceive within a year.
In the 14 years she's been in practice, Mitchell has seen it grow from a sole venture to a business that now employs nine massage therapists. The growth has allowed her to hire other massage therapists to work on the expectant mothers so she can focus on lymphatic drainage, which is in high demand at her center.
"The training brought me great clients and interestingly there are a lot of techniques in prenatal massage that I've used on clients outside of the pregnant population to help make them comfortable," Mitchell said.
Erin Lively, LMT, BCTMB, MMP
Erin Lively
Erin's Healing Hands; Richmond, VA
Specialty: Thriving Therapist Mastermind
Training and Educator: Gael Wood
After 17 years in private practice at the same location in Richmond, Virginia, Erin Lively felt her medical massage business was growing stagnant. It needed to be energized from a marketing perspective.
"I think a lot of times as therapists we are so busy doing our work that we can sometimes get sidetracked and not really focus on who our ideal clients are," said Lively, who completed Gael Wood's Thrive Therapist Mastermind training.
She enrolled in Wood's online program that walked her through creating a marketing and business strategy to attract ideal clients. But before any of this could be implemented, Lively had to know what she was truly passionate about in her massage practice.
"My main passion is helping people live a pain free life. When I see people who are hurting, I want to be able to help them to be out of pain and to be able to do their daily living activities in a more pain-free productive manner," she said.
While studying with Gael Wood, Lively had to look at aspects of her business that she had not considered before. Her online and social media presence, for instance, She went from posting once in a while to at least once a day. She added her business to Google's directory, made updates to her website and then began the hard work —networking with medical doctors, chiropractors and physical therapists.
Since taking the training in April 2018, Lively's business has grown 62 percent, she won best massage therapist in Richmond last year and was nominated for that award again this year. Lively also gained confidence in rebooking clients, offering and selling packages and asking for referrals.
"I am currently in the process of changes my prices now," Lively said. "I hadn't done that in several years and I often felt a little nervous about doing so — but with the classes it definitely gave me more confidence and understanding on how I could go about doing that."
Sharon L. Bryant, LMT, CHMLDT
Sharon Bryant
Harvest Moon Massage Therapy & Reflexology and Alabama Barefoot Massage Training Center; Decatur, AL
Specialty: Holistic Manual Lymph Drainage
Training and Educator: MLD Institute International
Many people enter the field of massage to help people who are suffering. There are some therapists who take that to a whole new level. Sharon Bryant, a certified holistic manual lymph drainage therapist, works with post-chemo patients and cancer survivors who are experiencing lymphedema as a side effect of their treatment.
Bryant has learned techniques to help her clients reduce swelling, help them feel better and support them during a difficult time in their lives. She is doing her part so that cancer isn't winning.
"I went into massage therapy because I wanted to help people," said Bryant, who chose lymph drainage as a specialty because of the impact it can have on cancer and post-surgical patients. "Getting up and going to work every day and knowing that I'm going to help someone who is in pain, that is what drives me."
Manual lymph drainage is a technique that promotes the movement of lymph fluid in the body. Lymph fluid can accumulate in areas of the body after lymph nodes are removed, as in cases of mastectomy. It also affects patients post-surgery, after childbirth or when the immune system is compromised.
Bryant's treatment includes measuring the affected areas before and after the treatment.
"I know how to work on people who are having issues with their lymphatic system," she said. "I know when it is safe to work on people, I know when it is not safe to work on people. And I know what to do to help them or try to help them."
Her training required most of her weekends over the course of several months. It gave her confidence to work on breast cancer patients, patients recovering from different cancers and patients in surgical recovery and taught her how to move lymph around scar tissue.
While there are not a lot of massage therapists offering this service, Bryant says the biggest hurdle has been the cost to clients. Many clients need treatment two to three times a week and it is not covered by insurance.
Despite that, Bryant believes it is worth the investment. "I think that it is a good idea for everyone to be exposed to manual lymphatic drainage," she said. "I would encourage everyone take at least one continuing education course of it."
(Editor's Note: We planned to include a therapist who has trained with James Waslaski in his Integrated Manual Therapy & Orthopedic Massage for this article, but the therapist became ill and was not able to participate. Read the interview with, and technique article from, Waslaski in our August 2019 print issue.)
Aiyana Fraley, LMT, is a freelance writer and health care professional with more than 17 years of experience in the massage field. She teaches yoga and offers sessions in massage, Reiki, sound healing and essential oils. Her articles for MASSAGE Magazine include "Massage Therapy on the Integrative Medical Team" and "Stretching Techniques Expand Your Practice While Increasing Clients' Flexibility."
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François Beaugendre (Salbris, 25 de juliol de 1880 - ?) va ser un ciclista francès que va córrer entre 1903 i 1911. Durant la seva carrera professional aconseguí 3 victòries, entre elles una etapa al Tour de França, cursa en la qual participà en les seves primeres edicions.

Era germà dels també ciclistes Joseph Beaugendre i Omer Beaugendre.

Palmarès
 1904
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Tour de França

Resultats al Tour de França
 1903. 9è de la classificació general
 1904. Abandona (5a etapa), vencedor d'una etapa i porta el mallot groc durant una etapa
 1906. Abandona (8a etapa)
 1907. 5è de la classificació general
 1908. 13è de la classificació general

Enllaços externs
 Fitxa a www.sitiodeciclismo.net

Guanyadors d'etapa al Tour de França francesos
Portadors del mallot groc del Tour de França francesos
Ciclistes del Centre-Vall del Loira
Persones de Loir i Cher
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Destinations, Asia
The ongoing saga of a Japanese rail and hotel giant and its big U.S. shareholder
Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda, Bloomberg
- Jul 05, 2013 10:46 am
U.S. companies rarely have succes getting board seats at Japanese companies, and Cerberus' combination of bravado and poor choices (hello, Mr. Laughingston Vice President) are only adding to its woes.
Seibu Holdings Inc. met with Cerberus Capital Management LP, its largest shareholder, today for the first time since the fund lost a fight for board seats, to discuss how to "move forward."
Norinchukin Bank and Development Bank of Japan Inc., the largest lender of the hotel and train operator, also attended the meeting, Shuhei Akasaka, a spokesman for Seibu, said by telephone today. He declined to provide details of the meeting.
Cerberus, which failed in its bid to have eight directors elected to Seibu's board on June 25, aims to improve profitability at Japan's fourth-largest hotel operator before selling shares to the public. Seibu President Takashi Goto has said he won't offer "any concessions" to Cerberus.
"It's a good sign," said Nicholas Benes, a representative director of The Board Director Training Institute of Japan. "It could be progress. Dialogue and discussion is all about being open-minded."
Cerberus, with a 35.5 percent stake in Seibu, recommended executives including former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle and former U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow to the board. The fund's representatives won 39.8 percent of the votes cast, while the hotel operator's nominees all won at least 59 percent of the vote, according to a statement from Seibu the day after the shareholder meeting.
World's richest man
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who holds 36 percent of second-largest Seibu shareholder NW Corp., backed the hotel and rail operator. Tsutsumi amassed a $16 billion personal fortune while at the helm of Seibu and was named the world's richest man by Forbes magazine in 1990.
Seibu has said it's "financially prepared" for an initial public offering, while Cerberus has said it's willing to wait as long as three years and wants the company to improve earnings.
Tokorozawa, Japan-based Seibu had net income of 15.6 billion yen ($156 million) in the year ended March, compared with 8.4 billion yen a year earlier, with sales of 459 billion yen, according to the company.
Stephen A. Feinberg's fund spent about 120 billion yen acquiring its stake in Seibu, which was delisted in 2004 for breaking exchange rules by misstating stakes. The investment compares with the $7.4 billion it spent to buy an 80.1 percent stake in Chrysler LLC in 2007.
The fight for control at Seibu shows the challenge overseas private-equity funds face in Japan, where attempts by foreign investors to gain board representation have mostly been beaten back.
T. Boone Pickens gave up his attempt to gain a board seat in the 1990s at Koito Manufacturing Co., while Christopher Cooper-Hohn's Children's Investment Fund Management UK LLP failed in 2008, as did Warren Lichtenstein's Steel Partners in 2010 with separate Japanese companies.
Prince Hotels Inc., owned by Seibu, runs a chain of 50 hotels in Japan and around the world, including the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki. Seibu got 155 billion yen, about a third of its revenue of 459 billion yen, from its hotel and leisure businesses in the year ended March, according to the company.
Cerberus published a list of nine topics earlier this month that it wanted to raise at the shareholders meeting, including failures to meet profit targets, lack of comparisons of results with other companies in the industry, and lack of disclosure on its operations in Hawaii.
Cerberus, which raised its stake in Seibu in May, led a 2006 bailout of the seventh-largest railway operator in the Tokyo area with Nikko Principal Investments Japan Ltd.
The hedge fund, which announced a tender offer in March to boost its stake in Seibu, ended up buying 10 million shares, 3.04 percent of the amount outstanding.
Editors: Terje Langeland, Teo Chian Wei. To contact the reporters on this story: Chris Cooper in Tokyo at ccooper1@bloomberg.net; Kiyotaka Matsuda in Tokyo at kmatsuda@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anand Krishnamoorthy at anandk@bloomberg.net.
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Photo Credit: Seibu's double-tower Hawaii Prince Hotel, to the left. Daniel Ramirez / Flickr
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New Releases: 9/3/10
This weekend we have a surprisingly good weekend of new movie releases regardless of the end of the crazy summer season of blockbusters. The four new big movies couldn't be more different, and while I still have films from the last few weeks that I want to see (Scott Pilgrim, The Expendables), I also sorta want to see some of these. We'll start with the film that is most likely to get an Oscar nomination…
Directed by Anton Corbijn, this action thriller that stars George Clooney as an American assassin that is being hunted in Italy while on his last assignment. It is a story that has been told many times, but I trust George Clooney. He usually has a great eye for characters and has been on a great streak with his acting (Michael Clayton, Up in the Air, Fantastic Mr. Fox). I'm not familar with Corbijn, and from the look of his IMDB he has more experience in directing concerts and music related projects. The flick co-stars Irina Björklund.
Robert Rodriguez's spoof trailer turned movie is the one I'm most excited about this weekend! It is an over the top b-action/horror/crime/thriller that stars one of film's biggest badasses, Danny Trejo, as Machete. Machete is an ex-Federale who launches a brutal rampage of violence after being betrayed by an organization that hired him. The flick co-stars Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson, Cheech Marin, and Lindsay Lohan.
Next up is the long distance romantic comedy Going the Distance. The movie stars the on again/off again real life couple of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore, along with Christina Applegate, and Always Sunny's Charlie Day (who needs to be in more films!). The trailer was cute, and while it didn't fully pull me it, it pulled in my wife who wants to check it out. A perfect dinner and a movie date movie. The flick is about two lovebirds that try to keep their romance alive regardless of living across the country from each other.
Last up is a documentary by Amir Bar-Lev that focuses on Pat Tillman, a pro football player who left a multimillion-dollar contract to join the military in a time of war and how the government manipulated his death into a tool for propaganda.
Will you be going to the movies this weekend?
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	}

	// Remotes list of repository remotes, the key of the map is the name
	// of the remote, should equal to RemoteConfig.Name.
	Remotes map[string]*RemoteConfig
	// Submodules list of repository submodules, the key of the map is the name
	// of the submodule, should equal to Submodule.Name.
	Submodules map[string]*Submodule
	// Branches list of branches, the key is the branch name and should
	// equal Branch.Name
	Branches map[string]*Branch
	// Raw contains the raw information of a config file. The main goal is
	// preserve the parsed information from the original format, to avoid
	// dropping unsupported fields.
	Raw *format.Config
}

// NewConfig returns a new empty Config.
func NewConfig() *Config {
	config := &Config{
		Remotes:    make(map[string]*RemoteConfig),
		Submodules: make(map[string]*Submodule),
		Branches:   make(map[string]*Branch),
		Raw:        format.New(),
	}

	config.Pack.Window = DefaultPackWindow

	return config
}

// Validate validates the fields and sets the default values.
func (c *Config) Validate() error {
	for name, r := range c.Remotes {
		if r.Name != name {
			return ErrInvalid
		}

		if err := r.Validate(); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	for name, b := range c.Branches {
		if b.Name != name {
			return ErrInvalid
		}

		if err := b.Validate(); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	return nil
}

const (
	remoteSection    = "remote"
	submoduleSection = "submodule"
	branchSection    = "branch"
	coreSection      = "core"
	packSection      = "pack"
	fetchKey         = "fetch"
	urlKey           = "url"
	bareKey          = "bare"
	worktreeKey      = "worktree"
	commentCharKey   = "commentChar"
	windowKey        = "window"
	mergeKey         = "merge"
	rebaseKey        = "rebase"

	// DefaultPackWindow holds the number of previous objects used to
	// generate deltas. The value 10 is the same used by git command.
	DefaultPackWindow = uint(10)
)

// Unmarshal parses a git-config file and stores it.
func (c *Config) Unmarshal(b []byte) error {
	r := bytes.NewBuffer(b)
	d := format.NewDecoder(r)

	c.Raw = format.New()
	if err := d.Decode(c.Raw); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	c.unmarshalCore()
	if err := c.unmarshalPack(); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	unmarshalSubmodules(c.Raw, c.Submodules)

	if err := c.unmarshalBranches(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return c.unmarshalRemotes()
}

func (c *Config) unmarshalCore() {
	s := c.Raw.Section(coreSection)
	if s.Options.Get(bareKey) == "true" {
		c.Core.IsBare = true
	}

	c.Core.Worktree = s.Options.Get(worktreeKey)
	c.Core.CommentChar = s.Options.Get(commentCharKey)
}

func (c *Config) unmarshalPack() error {
	s := c.Raw.Section(packSection)
	window := s.Options.Get(windowKey)
	if window == "" {
		c.Pack.Window = DefaultPackWindow
	} else {
		winUint, err := strconv.ParseUint(window, 10, 32)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		c.Pack.Window = uint(winUint)
	}
	return nil
}

func (c *Config) unmarshalRemotes() error {
	s := c.Raw.Section(remoteSection)
	for _, sub := range s.Subsections {
		r := &RemoteConfig{}
		if err := r.unmarshal(sub); err != nil {
			return err
		}

		c.Remotes[r.Name] = r
	}

	return nil
}

func unmarshalSubmodules(fc *format.Config, submodules map[string]*Submodule) {
	s := fc.Section(submoduleSection)
	for _, sub := range s.Subsections {
		m := &Submodule{}
		m.unmarshal(sub)

		if m.Validate() == ErrModuleBadPath {
			continue
		}

		submodules[m.Name] = m
	}
}

func (c *Config) unmarshalBranches() error {
	bs := c.Raw.Section(branchSection)
	for _, sub := range bs.Subsections {
		b := &Branch{}

		if err := b.unmarshal(sub); err != nil {
			return err
		}

		c.Branches[b.Name] = b
	}
	return nil
}

// Marshal returns Config encoded as a git-config file.
func (c *Config) Marshal() ([]byte, error) {
	c.marshalCore()
	c.marshalPack()
	c.marshalRemotes()
	c.marshalSubmodules()
	c.marshalBranches()

	buf := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
	if err := format.NewEncoder(buf).Encode(c.Raw); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	return buf.Bytes(), nil
}

func (c *Config) marshalCore() {
	s := c.Raw.Section(coreSection)
	s.SetOption(bareKey, fmt.Sprintf("%t", c.Core.IsBare))

	if c.Core.Worktree != "" {
		s.SetOption(worktreeKey, c.Core.Worktree)
	}
}

func (c *Config) marshalPack() {
	s := c.Raw.Section(packSection)
	if c.Pack.Window != DefaultPackWindow {
		s.SetOption(windowKey, fmt.Sprintf("%d", c.Pack.Window))
	}
}

func (c *Config) marshalRemotes() {
	s := c.Raw.Section(remoteSection)
	newSubsections := make(format.Subsections, 0, len(c.Remotes))
	added := make(map[string]bool)
	for _, subsection := range s.Subsections {
		if remote, ok := c.Remotes[subsection.Name]; ok {
			newSubsections = append(newSubsections, remote.marshal())
			added[subsection.Name] = true
		}
	}

	remoteNames := make([]string, 0, len(c.Remotes))
	for name := range c.Remotes {
		remoteNames = append(remoteNames, name)
	}

	sort.Strings(remoteNames)

	for _, name := range remoteNames {
		if !added[name] {
			newSubsections = append(newSubsections, c.Remotes[name].marshal())
		}
	}

	s.Subsections = newSubsections
}

func (c *Config) marshalSubmodules() {
	s := c.Raw.Section(submoduleSection)
	s.Subsections = make(format.Subsections, len(c.Submodules))

	var i int
	for _, r := range c.Submodules {
		section := r.marshal()
		// the submodule section at config is a subset of the .gitmodule file
		// we should remove the non-valid options for the config file.
		section.RemoveOption(pathKey)
		s.Subsections[i] = section
		i++
	}
}

func (c *Config) marshalBranches() {
	s := c.Raw.Section(branchSection)
	newSubsections := make(format.Subsections, 0, len(c.Branches))
	added := make(map[string]bool)
	for _, subsection := range s.Subsections {
		if branch, ok := c.Branches[subsection.Name]; ok {
			newSubsections = append(newSubsections, branch.marshal())
			added[subsection.Name] = true
		}
	}

	branchNames := make([]string, 0, len(c.Branches))
	for name := range c.Branches {
		branchNames = append(branchNames, name)
	}

	sort.Strings(branchNames)

	for _, name := range branchNames {
		if !added[name] {
			newSubsections = append(newSubsections, c.Branches[name].marshal())
		}
	}

	s.Subsections = newSubsections
}

// RemoteConfig contains the configuration for a given remote repository.
type RemoteConfig struct {
	// Name of the remote
	Name string
	// URLs the URLs of a remote repository. It must be non-empty. Fetch will
	// always use the first URL, while push will use all of them.
	URLs []string
	// Fetch the default set of "refspec" for fetch operation
	Fetch []RefSpec

	// raw representation of the subsection, filled by marshal or unmarshal are
	// called
	raw *format.Subsection
}

// Validate validates the fields and sets the default values.
func (c *RemoteConfig) Validate() error {
	if c.Name == "" {
		return ErrRemoteConfigEmptyName
	}

	if len(c.URLs) == 0 {
		return ErrRemoteConfigEmptyURL
	}

	for _, r := range c.Fetch {
		if err := r.Validate(); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	if len(c.Fetch) == 0 {
		c.Fetch = []RefSpec{RefSpec(fmt.Sprintf(DefaultFetchRefSpec, c.Name))}
	}

	return nil
}

func (c *RemoteConfig) unmarshal(s *format.Subsection) error {
	c.raw = s

	fetch := []RefSpec{}
	for _, f := range c.raw.Options.GetAll(fetchKey) {
		rs := RefSpec(f)
		if err := rs.Validate(); err != nil {
			return err
		}

		fetch = append(fetch, rs)
	}

	c.Name = c.raw.Name
	c.URLs = append([]string(nil), c.raw.Options.GetAll(urlKey)...)
	c.Fetch = fetch

	return nil
}

func (c *RemoteConfig) marshal() *format.Subsection {
	if c.raw == nil {
		c.raw = &format.Subsection{}
	}

	c.raw.Name = c.Name
	if len(c.URLs) == 0 {
		c.raw.RemoveOption(urlKey)
	} else {
		c.raw.SetOption(urlKey, c.URLs...)
	}

	if len(c.Fetch) == 0 {
		c.raw.RemoveOption(fetchKey)
	} else {
		var values []string
		for _, rs := range c.Fetch {
			values = append(values, rs.String())
		}

		c.raw.SetOption(fetchKey, values...)
	}

	return c.raw
}

func (c *RemoteConfig) IsFirstURLLocal() bool {
	return url.IsLocalEndpoint(c.URLs[0])
}

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Uyalovo (; , Uyal) is a rural locality (a village) in Akbarisovsky Selsoviet, Sharansky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 159 as of 2010. There are 3 streets.

Geography
Uyalovo is located 9 km northeast of Sharan (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ursayevo is the nearest rural locality.

References

Rural localities in Sharansky District


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Home News Former TNA MP Thurairatnasingham dies after contracting Covid
Former TNA MP Thurairatnasingham dies after contracting Covid
Former Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian K. Thurairatnasingham died after contracting the coronavirus.
He died while receiving treatment at the Kantale hospital.
"We announce with deep regret the passing away of Mr. K. Thurairatnasingham, former Member of Parliament (TNA) due to COVID19 last night in Kantale Hospital," TNA MP and spokesman M.A Sumanthiran said.
Thurairetnasingam contested from the Trincomalee District at the 2001 parliamentary election but failed to get elected.
However, in June 2002 he entered Parliament as a National List Member of Parliament for the TNA, replacing M. Sivasithamparam who had died on 5 June 2002.
Thurairetnasingam was elected after contesting from the Trincomalee District at the 2004 parliamentary election.
He did not contest the 2010 parliamentary election for personal reasons.
Thurairetnasingam last contested at the 2015 parliamentary election but failed to get elected. However, he was appointed as a TNA National List MP. (Colombo Gazette)
Former top FBI official arrested while returning from Sri Lanka
Suspect arrested over threats using social media
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Commercial Dispute Resolution > Europe, Mastercard and the future of competition litigation
Europe, Mastercard and the future of competition litigation
Published by: Andrew Mizner at 20/11/2019
The implications of Brexit and the impact of the Mastercard case were among the topics considered by four...
The implications of Brexit and the impact of the Mastercard case were among the topics considered by four panels of lawyers, experts and academics in the afternoon session of the CDR Autumn Competition Litigation Symposium. Part two of a two-part report.
The afternoon of CDR's Autumn Competition Litigation Symposium began with a panel on state aid and Brexit, chaired by George Peretz QC of Monckton Chambers.
He invited fellow barrister, Emma Mockford of Brick Court Chambers to look at the impact which the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union might have on state aid enforcement.
Mockford noted that Theresa May's government had put in place regulations for state aid in the event of a 'no deal' Brexit, but that if Prime Minister Boris Johnson's deal is confirmed, or any other deal struck between the UK and EU, that deal would regulate state aid terms.
This reflected the May government's desire for continuity, a level playing field between the two sides even in the event of no deal, and for maintaining the intra-UK single market between the devolved regions of the UK. The provisional regulations would domesticate the EU regime to the UK and require modification to stay in UK law.
The 'no deal' rules would be enforced by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), but the details of how that would work are unclear, including how decisions would be challenged, with the most likely avenue being judicial review via the High Court. However, she wondered what the courts' appetite would be for taking on the government and there are plenty of potential situations currently not covered by the regulations.
As for the Johnson government, the hints are, in Mockford's eyes, that it seems to be less keen on state aid rules and general continuity than its predecessor and there is no clarity about what will happen after December's general election.
She felt that state aid is a good proxy or test for the UK's intentions towards the EU, as it will reflect how much the country wants to engage with Europe:
"If you are keen on having a close regulatory relationship with Europe, you know state aid is going to be part and parcel of that regime and then you are either going to need a domestic regime, or you are going to need provision for that in a withdrawal agreement. If you are not so keen, maybe you can live without it."
She was followed by Giedrė Padaigienė, senior associate at Lithuanian firm WALLESS, who looked at the European perspective, with particular reference to the situation in Ukraine.
Padaigienė said it was in the interests of the EU for the UK to continue to apply European state aid regime. The EU has cooperation agreements with third countries around the world and "all those agreements have different state obligations" which vary in scope.
None of them give immediate solutions to what an agreement with the UK would look like, given its unique position, however, Ukraine's association agreement could set a good example, offering complete access to the single market for goods, but not services.
Access for services instead relies on Ukraine applying EU rules in several areas, including state aid. Ukraine has had to implement domestic state aid regime, observed by an independent authority which applies European rules and European Court of Justice case law.
"The deep involvement of EU in Ukraine is not the best option for the UK's future relationships, but Ukraine's commitment to take over the European state aid rules comes from their wish to enter the European Union and this comfort with European rules, which is not the case with the UK," she argued, adding: "It should be of interest and aimed for from both side to agree some compliance in this area."
Mockford added that EU state aid rules will apply to Northern Ireland and that the European Commission will be responsible for applying them, giving it a continuity role. The UK's role in this is unclear, the Commission has an obligation to keep it informed about its activities, but how far that would go remains to be seen.
Peretz ended the panel by noting that any deal on state aid or any other matter has to be sold by EU leaders to their own countries and that allowing the "UK goods and possibly services to come in without control and without tariffs when the UK is free to throw as much subsidy at them as it wants" is not going to go down well, so having state aid rules will be a necessity for the future relationship between the UK and Europe.
COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS
Talking of Europe, Andrew Hockley of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner then chaired the next panel, which looked at what to expect from Margrethe Vestager's second term as Commissioner
John Clancy, a senior advisor at FTI Consulting and a former EU trade spokesperson, gave an update on current activity at the Commission. It had not been a good start for President-Elect Ursula von der Leyen, he said, due to the slow pace of getting Commissioners in place. However, he praised her as a dynamic personality and a leader with vision, much needed as she will face a large workload.
Vestager has been awarded a new dual role as executive vice president with a remit to get Europe 'fit for the digital age'. This will see her taking on a more political role than she is used to in the competition sphere, where she can focus on the law.
"That blurring of the lines between policy and competition law seems as fuzzy as ever," agreed Hockley.
On the political side, Matthew Levitt of Baker Botts said that European countries are increasingly asking the Commission to take policy into account when enforcing merger control, with scrutiny of the decision to block the Siemens-Alstom merger.
Germany has a system that allows mergers which were prevented on competition grounds to be permitted on political grounds, but the UK has an opposing system, so it is not clear what such a system would look like on a European level.
"There are a lot of questions to be answered, which will make this a very hard policy to push, but I don't see it going away," he argued.
Helena Raulus, head of The Law Society's Brussels office, looked further at the implications of Brexit. If the deal goes through, there will be a transition period, but a no deal scenario would overnight turn the UK into a third country, bringing a loss of rights of audience in European courts.
She highlighted examples from Ireland and Belgium as to what the future might look like. For a lawyer from England and Wales or Northern Ireland, requalifying in Ireland can be automatic, although for Scotland there is a certain amount of work to do.
However, the Irish practicing certificate will only carry weight through establishments in Ireland, so those carrying such certificates in London will find they lack rights in Brussels.
On the positive side, "the Brussels Bar has been extremely welcoming", pushing the Belgian government to adopt provisions which allow for UK lawyers to offer legal services in Belgium.
There is a complication however, as after 2020, that registration will not be able to continue without EU nationality and the Law Society is talking to the Belgian Bar about tackling this issue.
The final speaker of this panel was Cansin Karga Giritli, a lecturer at University of Glasgow School of Law, who considered the digital agenda and the use of pricing algorithms in competition cases.
Many retailers have been found to be monitoring online via algorithms, adjusting prices accordingly. These algorithms can harm consumers in a number of ways, including setting high prices through collusion, because they allow that collusion to be sustained without an active human role.
This creates problems in terms of liability and in understanding the outcomes produced by the algorithms. "The Commission has made it clear that undertakings cannot hide behind algorithms. They should know how their algorithms are working and they have to take necessary measures to ensure compliance with competition law," she said.
Levitt then returned to say that, anecdotally at least, it is believed that the success of the plaintiff bar has killed off leniency applications, with fewer and fewer being made.
The Commission's statistics for the 2018-19 volume of fines show consistency with the last 20 years, the total number of cartel decisions was also consistent, but the number of undertakings and associations found guilty of cartel behaviour has really fallen off over a five-year period to 2019 – only 108 in that time, compared to 180 in the five years before that.
This suggests, Levitt said, that fines per company and cases are getting bigger, and the decision-making over leniency applications has got more complicated, he said, pointing to the lack of uniformity of leniency across Europe, lack of clear definition of cartels and the damages risk.
If the authorities are committed to cartels enforced, and he raised doubts as to whether Vestager is, more initiatives and more sophisticated measures are needed to detect and enforce them.
The day's penultimate panel looked at abuse of dominance cases under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU.
Panel chair Vincent Brophy of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft ran through the legacy of the Intel case – the Commission's first billion-dollar fine – and its legacy. The case still rumbles on after more than a decade and has been followed by cases against Qualcomm, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. With technology clearly a focus for Vestager before her re-appointment, more cases are likely to be considered.
Brophy also looked at the pharmaceutical sector, which lends itself to abuse of dominance and significant follow-on cases. Such cases include those against AstraZeneca, Servier, Johnson & Johnson and Aspen Pharmacare.
Many of these cases were non-exclusionary excessive price cases, a type of case resisted by economists as it is not aligned with free markets, but significant cases, nonetheless.
Paolo Palmigiano, head of competition at Taylor Wessing then took over to look at excessive pricing. He introduced the debate between the interventionist and non-interventionists attitudes to the issues.
He looked back to with the United Brands case in 1978, in which the court found that charging a price which is excessive which has no reasonable link to the price of the product is an abuse. This led to a two-stage test: whether the difference between cost incurred and charged is excessive; and whether the price is unfair of itself or compared to others.
He also ran through the qualifications for abuse of dominance, comparing the time and effect, use of various mechanisms to establish excessive pricing.
Italy is an important jurisdiction when it comes to these cases and Gennaro d'Andria of 3D Legal - Dandria Studio Legale was well-placed to consider this and the merits of the jurisdiction, particularly with reference to the Aspen case. "This is very trendy topic," he said.
"In Italy we have a consistent body of caselaw concerning enforcement in abuse of dominance cases," mostly in the import and telecommunications.
D'Andria said the risk in Italy as a jurisdiction is the threat of appeals. It is better to wait for the Italian competition authority to make its final decision before bringing a case.
Brophy noted that in the era of the 'Italian torpedo,' Italy was considered to be the jurisdiction where a party could hide because it was so slow, but that is less the case now, said D'Andria.
Returning to the UK, Palmigiano reported that the chair of the CMA had written to the government with concerns that cases at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) are being run all over again, rather than just considering the particular issue at hand, making the system take far too long and suggested reducing the standard of review, something which, he said, makes lawyers nervous.
Brophy ended the panel by noting that the CAT was originally modelled on the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), with minimal hearings and written submissions.
MASTERCARD AND BEYOND
The symposium's final panel was chaired by Kenny Henderson of CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, and concerned the big case of recent times, Mastercard, with the Supreme Court preparing to hear the appeal.
Mark Sansom of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has acted for Mastercard on the case and he began by giving a briefing on the issues before the Supreme Court.
He explained the two main grounds of appeal. The first is that the test for certification was wrong owing to the standard that the CAT set, that the Court of Appeal incorrectly interfered with the business of a specialist tribunal in its subsequent ruling and that Canadian law (from where key precedent came) should not be slavishly applied in England. The second ground was that there is no bar to a tribunal considering distribution or compensation as relevant considerations in weighing up whether to approve the CPO application.
Sansom went on to give a detailed overview of the arguments made by both cases.
Richard Murgatroyd from RBB Economics gave the expert's view, saying that for any damages regime to work and any economist to be credible, regard has to be given to the result of any direct damages claim.
He was sceptical of economic studies in such cases because they are often operating at a high level and not answering the same questions to those being asked in a particular case.
Similar data is needed to the direct damages, that is, data which directly refers to how parties were affected by the alleged misconduct.
Establishing pass-on is possible in many cases, but doing so reliably is difficult due to the many variables in each case and dataset.
Economists need to have an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of a case and when proceedings become inquisitorial, once a report has been submitted, a change of approach is required.
Sansom noted that in the United States, overcharging cases have failed on grounds of remoteness and there is a long way to go on the understanding of how the UK regime will work on this. He called for a system which allows meritorious claims but rejects those which are not.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's Boris Bronfentrinker, who has acted for Walter Merricks CBE on the Mastercard case, made a late entrance, arriving directly from court and giving a quick overview of the policy factors under consideration for the courts.
He considered the difference between the differing types of class, whether mass groups of the public or smaller groups of companies.
The issue of third-party funding was also raised and Bronfentrinker observed that the CAT is not looking to eliminate cases on funding arrangements.
There is "immense pressure" to settle on opt-out claims, he said, because they allow for the possibility of recovering money that is unclaimed by class members, whereas if a judgment is made, the money will not be recovered.
On the opt-in side, there should be no more or less pressure than on normal cases, he concluded.
CLASS ACTIONS 2020
Before the symposium came to a close, Ariel Flavian of Herzog Fox & Neeman and Brunel University, gave a short address, introducing the 2020 Global Class Actions Symposium, due to be held in London in June.
The event then closed with a brief address from CDR editor-in-chief Ben Rigby, who thanked delegates and speakers for their contributions throughout the day.
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KHCC was 'not involved or consulted' in government's prohibiting decision for cancer patients
The KHCC in Amman. (Supplied)
Jordanian cancer patients across the Kingdom were distraught to learn last week that the government had decided to stop referring them to the King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC) for free treatment.
Underprivileged cancer patients were entitled to an exemption from the Royal Hashemite Court that allowed them free treatment at the KHCC, however, the government said that that will no longer be the case.
The government explained that they did this to reduce costs by referring cancer patients to governmental hospitals instead.
On Sunday, the KHCC released a statement stating that they were not involved or consulted in the government's decision.
The statement read:
"The King Hussein Cancer Center confirms that it was not involved – nor was it consulted - in the government's decision to cease the referral of a large number of patients to the Center.
For many years, the Center has assumed the responsibility of covering the treatment costs of thousands of underprivileged cancer patients through "Goodwill Funds". However, these funds cover only a small portion of treatment as cancer care is prohibitively expensive.
The King Hussein Cancer Center – the most prominent, comprehensive cancer treatment facility in the region – confirms that it will continue to treat its patients according to global standards and in line with its humanitarian mission, which is to provide lifesaving treatment to its patients.
The Center calls on all stakeholders to reverse this decision and to work together immediately to develop sustainable solutions for cancer care coverage."
The Ministry of Health insisted last week that they were continuing to refer patients to the KHCC if a suitable treatment was not available for them at any of the country's governmental hospitals.
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