As an investor, you may be well aware that you have numerous investment options. Each option comes with its own costs and risks as well as its potential returns or rewards. At first glance, you may simply make an apples-to-apples comparison about the different options available to determine the best way to allocate your funds. However, it is important that you have a firm understanding about how to calculate opportunity cost and what this concept is before you make financial decisions.
If you want to make savvy financial decisions, you must understand how to calculate opportunity cost, but what is opportunity cost? This concept essentially refers to the opportunities that you pass up on because you decided to move forward with another opportunity.
Whether you are comparing two or more opportunities, these opportunities usually are exclusive of each other rather than dependent on each other.
For example, you could buy shares of stock in Company A or in Company B, but you cannot afford to buy shares in both options.
You also could decide to buy a few shares in each company or to hold off and invest your funds at a later date. By doing so, you may get the stock for a better or worse price.
What Types of Opportunity Cost Are There?
As mentioned previously, you could choose between investing In thousands of stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. You could also invest in real estate, a franchise or another business opportunity.
For each opportunity that you are considering, you must analyze the costs and risks as well as the return. When you want to know how to calculate opportunity cost, all relevant factors should be fully explored.
Investing your money is only one option available to consider. You also could consider spending your money or saving it for a rainy day without making an investment purchase.
By spending it, the money becomes unavailable for future purchases. By saving it, you are not acting on a current investment opportunity, but the money is not lost. You can always invest it or spend it at a later date.
Another option available is to diversify your portfolio. The opportunity cost associated with adding yet another stock to your portfolio is that your portfolio becomes overly heavy with riskier investments. Perhaps you are even loaded with tech stocks, and you are not well-diversified in different asset classes.
Proper diversification of your portfolio across different asset types and asset classes can help you to generate a better return. This can also help you to mitigate risk over time.
Now that you are more aware of the different types of opportunity costs available, you may be wondering how to calculate opportunity cost. The first step to take when you want to know how to calculate opportunity cost is to estimate the return of each investment opportunity available.
Then, you will need to determine which opportunity presents the greatest possible return. Your opportunity cost is calculated when you subtract the return of the selected option from the return of the option with the greatest return.
For example, you have the opportunity to purchase stock or to re-invest in your company. The return on investment for a specific stock that you are thinking about buying is 13%.
This is while the reinvestment of funds into your company has an expected return of 10%. Therefore, the opportunity cost if you choose to reinvest in your company is 3%.
You should be aware that it may be impossible to accurately determine opportunity cost until after the fact. Opportunity cost is calculated based on projected or estimated figures.
There are many factors that can influence the overall rate of return that you enjoy from a specific investment. Therefore, many of these factors you cannot control.
You should, however, do your best to determine a reasonable return for each investment that you are considering so that you can determine a more accurate opportunity cost.
For every dollar that you have access to, you have many opportunity cost scenarios to consider. You may make opportunity cost analyses numerous times per day without realizing what you are doing. On the other hand, it may help you to make these calculations if you are not currently doing so.
One of the most common applications for determining opportunity cost relates to making a purchase. When you make a purchase, you may decide between buying junk food or healthy food at the grocery store. Or between buying a home or renting an apartment and more.
You can see that each financial decision you make can affect your finances as well as your lifestyle, health and many other factors. While it may be wise to make smart financial decisions, it is also wise to make periodic purchases that improve your lifestyle and that make you happy.
Finding a balance between these factors is important.
You may also be trying to decide whether you should make an investment and what type of investment to make. Your options may be limited by your investment amount.
For example, you may not have enough money to invest in a large apartment building, but you may be able to buy a small franchise or to buy a small rental home.
When you make an investment, you should carefully understand how your investment decision affects your return. You should also consider future investment opportunities, risk and other important factors.
You also have the opportunity to pay off debts with your funds. However, you need to decide if you will pay off your credit cards, student loans, car loans or mortgage first.
One strategy may be to pay off the highest interest rate credit cards first, and you may follow this by paying off other unsecured debts. Then, you may move on to pay off balances on secured loans that have a lower interest rate.
How you allocate funds can affect how quickly you pay off debts. This is because paying off higher interest rate loans first means that you will minimize interest charges over time.
Understanding what opportunity cost is and how you can use it is important if you want to make savvy financial decisions. This is a concept that you can use in both your personal and business decision-making processes. Each time you decide to spend, save or invest money, you must analyze opportunity costs. More than that, you should understand that there are costs associated with inaction as well. When you understand all aspects of opportunity costs, you can make a more educated decision about how to allocate your funds in different ways.


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Writers of fiction are certainly very peculiar people, their heads filled with emerging worlds and characters, some nearly formed and some not yet possessing a voice or shape. Harold Pinter, in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature wrote brilliantly about this.
'The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by the characters. The characters resist him, they are not easy to live with, they are impossible to define. You certainly can't dictate to them. To a certain extent, you play a never-ending game with them, cat and mouse, blind man's buff, hide and seek'.
I strongly recommend reading the whole speech.
I've just come back from Chile where I was researching for a potential novel. My ideas are in too murky a shape to survive the light of day at the moment, but even if I wanted to blazon them forth, I'd feel very peculiar, actually disloyal, when my new novel, The Missing Boy, is not published until May 27th. I'll be proof reading in a couple of weeks, the very last moment when I can twitch or even jerk my characters into a different perspective. After that, I've given up my control, the puppet strings are cut and they're on their own. Not all writers accept this easily. Henry James, famously, produced different versions of his novels.
I go for the moment of sign off both with trepidation and a sense of relief. My responsibility has been lifted. Then, almost at once, the urge to create a new world begins. Now and again, readers of my books comment rather sniffily, 'You're very prolific, aren't you?', as if good writers should be parsimonious with words. Tell that to Dickens or Trollope or, if it comes to that, Henry James.
So, quite soon, I'll be casting off The Missing Boy Dan, and his parents, Max and Eve, his aunt, Martha and his friend, Freya. We'll still be in a special relationship, of course, but any extension to their lives will be in the imagination of my readers.


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Stephanie Davis reaches Olympics less than three years after first marathon
Stephanie Davis, a part-time athlete who ran her first marathon less than three years ago, will represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games after blitzing the field at the long-distance trials at Kew Gardens in London.
Davis finished with a time of 2hr 27 mins 16 sec, almost three minutes clear of second-placed Natasha Cockram at the specially convened race, the first time a one-off trial for the Olympic marathon has taken place since 1980.
It was a personal best for the 30-year-old, who only began racing competitively in 2018 after joining the Clapham Chasers in south London. It also fell well within the 2:29.30 Olympic qualifying standard for Tokyo.
Davis finished her first marathon in a time of 2:41 and has continued to outdo herself with each race, with a 2:32 in the London Marathon of 2019 – despite running with a hip injury and from the massed start – and 2:27.40 in Valencia in December of that year. Friday's trial was her first full marathon since then, due to the disruption caused by Covid-19.
The Glaswegian continues to maintain a career in finance, with a senior role at the asset management company Lazard. Last year she gave an insight into how she maintained a training regime despite holding down a job. She said she ran 60-70 miles a week, around half the level of many elite athletes, but added: "I also do a lot of cross-training, including swimming and going on the elliptical, and cycle to work every day."
In the men's qualifying event there were emotional scenes as Chris Thompson secured a place at the Games at the age of 39. Thompson, who turns 40 next month, also recorded a personal best with a time of 2:10.50. After coming from behind, he surged clear in the final laps of the race around the historic botanical gardens. The 2012 Olympian finished more than a minute clear of second-placed Ben Connor, who had already qualified for the Games.
"I don't know how I've done it – I'm 39 for crying out loud – this doesn't happen," said an overwhelmed Thompson. "This sounds bad but I knew it with two laps to go and I was trying to control my emotions then.
"After 30 minutes I realised I had worked the course out and I realised you can't keep pressing like this. I just entered my own little mind palace and thought: 'This is the rhythm I need.' I feel like someone is going to tell me this didn't happen."
Kew also hosted an early-morning trial for the 20km walk. Callum Wilkinson said he was "disappointed, gutted and embarrassed" to miss the Olympic qualifying standard of 81 minutes after winning in 82:47. Tom Bosworth, who finished sixth at the Rio Games in 2016, came second and already has the required time for Tokyo.
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People Took A Look Back And Chose Their Favorite Boy Group Songs From 2017
Angela Reyes
Fans have recently taken a look back at 2017 K-Pop tracks and chose their TOP 6 favorite boy group tracks from the year.
6. "REALLY REALLY" – WINNER
WINNER's "REALLY REALLY" was a smash-hit in 2017, with numerous groups making covers of the song. It was even one of the missions songs for MIXNINE! To this day, many people still love and adore the song.
5. "POWER" – EXO
EXO's "POWER" was different from all the other songs they released before. While the music video contained lore similar to their other MVs, the song itself was upbeat and was like it came straight out of a superhero movie.
4. "Ko Ko Bop" – EXO
The second EXO song on the list, "Ko Ko Bop" was well-loved for its energetic reggae theme with solid bass guitar sounds. It was all well-received from fans and netizens alike since members Chen, Chanyeol, and Baekhyun helped write the lyrics.
3. "Energetic" – Wanna One
Wanna One's debut track was an instant hit the moment it dropped, received critical acclaim from K-Pop fans all around the world. The dance-pop track had just the right hint of ballad and was a fantastic balance between mellow and pop.
2. "Spring Day" – BTS
This song was popular both in Korea and internationally, with people loving the mix of genres. The song combined pop, rap, world and even had backing vocals from singer-songwriter Arlissa. To this day, "Spring Day" continues to stand solid in the charts.
1. "DNA" – BTS
"DNA" was released during BTS's rise in the Western market, which can be seen with its mostly pop sound, bright colors, and intense choreography. This song was such a hit, and the boys even performed it at the 2017 American Music Awards, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve!


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Q: How do I use parameters and return in C#? For the life of me, every tutorial I look through, every video I've seen, every book I've read, I just can not understand how these things work exactly.
I see passing Values by Value, Value by Reference, Reference by Value, Reference by Reference. Can someone help me understand these with the most basic examples?
Same question in regards to return types. How do they work?

A: The best resource you will find on this is Parameter passing in C# by Jon Skeet.  It gives a very clear explanation.  If after reading that you still have questions, you should try to ask them more specifically so it is easier to help you.

A: Let's back up a bit and start with variables.
Variables always contain some specific information.  For value types, the information contained is the entire value directly.  For reference types, the information contained is only a reference to some other memory location where the real value lives.
In .Net, you can pretend that variables are only really passed to or returned from functions in one way: by value.  Forget passing by reference for now — it will just confuse things.  When you pass a variable by value, the entire information directly held by the variable is copied to the function.  The trick is understanding what this means for reference types, and that is simply that a copy of the reference is taken.
I can demonstrate with a simple code sample:
void Test(int x, dynamic y)
{
    x = 3;
    y.a = "four";
    y.b = "five";
    y = new {a = "six", b = "seven"}; // this will have no effect outside the function
}

int x = 2; // value type
var y = new {a = "one", b="two"}; //reference type

// both x and y are passed by value, but y is a reference type so the reference itself is copied
Test(x, y);

Console.WriteLine(x);  //writes 2, because the test function is working with a copy
Console.WriteLine(y.a); //writes four
Console.WriteLine(y.b); //writes five

In the case of reference types, you can force a true "pass by reference", but you should never do this unless you really know what's going on.  That would look something like this:
void Test(ref dynamic y)
{
   y = new {a = "three", b="four"};
}

var y = new {a = "one", b="two"};
Test(y);

Console.WriteLine(y.a); //prints one
Console.WriteLine(y.b); //prints two

The output is still "one" and "two" because the function replaced the reference for the local variable.  The code that called the function still has the reference to the original memory location, and so outputs the original value.

A: First of all , you only see passing by value , or passing by reference. Not anything else.
Now to understand this concept, imagine you have a set of digital boxes  marked 1,2,3, 4 etc. These boxes contain some data.
Then imagine you have a list of paper that states the same thing, i.e an index with 1,2,3,4.
Now you want to pass one of the contents(data) of the boxes to your friend.
You can do it in one of these two ways.

*

*Passing by Value
Your friend checks your box, and copies it in his box/harddrive whatever. Assume your friend needs to change this data. If he does so, your original box is not affected because he changes the data that is in his box.

*Passing by Reference
You just give the address of the box to your friend, and your friend will USE YOUR BOX instead of copying it. If he modifies the data, it will be from your box, your original data will be changed.
Before you understand return types, you have to understand data types. Begin there.

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Sustainable development achievable through efficient policy frameworks, says Oyo-Ita
By NAN
07 May 2016 | 2:17 pm
Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita
The Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HoCS), Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, said on Saturday in Abuja that efficient public procurement policy and strategies were critical to the nation's sustainable development.
Oyo-Ita said this at the opening of a retreat organised by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) for its staff.
The Head of Service, who was represented by the Head of Procurement, Mr Akindele Oyefeso, said the theme of the retreat, "Government Policy Formulation/Strategy and Sustainable Development',' was apt now in the life of the nation.
"Mere developments are not enough; societies must go for sustainable development if the earlier joy is not to turn to later misery, or the blessing to become a curse.''
She commended the Bureau for the retreat, saying it is a very healthy thing to do.
According to Oyo-Ita, her office acknowledges the BPP's efforts to ensure that the culture of due process had root in public procurement.
She said:"We share your belief that transparency, efficiency, fairness and value for money are the inalienable fundamental principles of sound public procurement.
"We promise to be by your side every inch of the way as you journey to entrench these principles in our nation's public procurement system.
"For if we get it right in our public procurement, we will get it right as a nation.''
A former Special Adviser to the President on Due Process, Prof. Kunle Wahab, said Sections 5 and 6 of the Public Procurement Act 2007, which highlight the functions and powers of the bureau, should be reviewed.
Wahab also urged the Bureau to examine the various complaints of those affected by the operations of the Act and proffer remedies where necessary.
"The time has come for you to note and examine the negative perceptions of the stakeholders and the general public and correct these where necessary.''
Wahab said the bureau was indeed living up to expectations and urged it to develop guidelines for the procurement process in education, health, judiciary, military and the National Assembly.
He also encouraged the bureau to source research grants in different areas of public procurement that might be made available to universities to improve the system.
He recommended that branches of the bureau should be established in the geo-political zones to achieve its set goals and objectives.
The BPP Acting Director-General, Mr Ahmed Abdu, said the aim of the retreat was to reorientate the staff on the expectations and policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari's administration.
He said this would remind them of their roles in the effort to reform public procurement to move the nation forward.
"Retreats are platforms for creating awareness and the BPP's retreat seeks to create awareness in reforming the country's procurement processes."
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Edinburgh's abandoned restaurant with erratic opening hours and strange rules
Aghtamar Lake Van Monastery in Exile was an Armenian eatery notorious for its random opening times and extremely eccentric owner.
Hilary MitchellEditor
Aghtamar Lake Van Monastery in Exile was an Armenian eatery.
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Whenever you drive along Abbeyhill at the foot of the Royal Mile, you pass a very unusual single storey sandstone building with cyrillic lettering above the doorway. But have you ever stopped to wonder what it is - or what it used to be?
Well, wonder no more, because we've looked into its history, and it was way weirder, more entertaining and unusual than we could ever have imagined. Think a real life Fawlty Towers, but with an Armenian twist. But let's start at the very beginning.
55 Abbeyhill was built in 1896 as a police station in a unique style, with castle-like elements, corner turrets and animal figure gargoyles. It was used as a police station until at least 1932, as there are records of officers being based there at that time.
So far, so normal. But after the police service moved out of the property, the story of this building takes a fascinating twist.
From the 1980s until at least 2008, the small ex-police station became arguably the strangest and most mysterious restaurant in Edinburgh. It was called Aghtamar Lake Van Monastery in Exile, an Armenian eatery notorious for its random opening times and extremely eccentric owner.
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For years, the restaurant was the stuff of legend. If you could track down the owner and make a booking (no easy feat - one reviewer says it took a "month of phone calls") you could access some utterly amazing food in the form of a ten-course Armenian banquet that diners raved about.
The man behind this delicious spread was Petros Vartynian, an unusual business owner who had a reputation for throwing customers out of the restaurant for - amongst other things - asking for more food or wine, turning up a few minutes late (he would refuse to give people directions to the restaurant), or failing to join in with one of his Armenian dancing tutorials.
We were also told that Vartynian, who still lives in Edinburgh, would ask customers to help with the washing up, and if people didn't finish one of their courses they weren't allowed any more food.
The last online review for the Aghtamar was left in late 2008, so it seems likely it stopped operating regularly at that time, although there are some accounts of people dining there as late as 2011. However, the building has gradually fallen into disrepair since and is now classed as "at risk".
According to a now-archived blog post by local writer Jonny MacFarlane, the interior wasn't particularly welcoming. Jonny spoke to a friend who had the rare honour of eating there, who said:
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"The main eating hall was vast, cold and dark with only candle-light to guide your steps. There didn't appear to be electricity.
"A giant moose head adorned the wall and various different posters advertising the Armenian tourist board were scattered around.
"There was a ghetto-blaster in the corner playing what sounded like red army choir music from an old, scratchy cassette.
"The whole place had a Soviet era, beyond the iron curtain feel. There were no amenities like heating, menus or salt and pepper.
"The best dish had minced pork and rice rolled up in cabbage leaves. The whole thing was steamed and served with a very nice salad with an amazing dressing. Dessert was also very memorable, a sort of fruit trifle, with very pungent flavors."
One group once asked for Turkish instead of Armenian coffee - forgetting that Turkey and Armenia have serious historical beef. They instantly regretted it:
"In a sudden rage the owner unceremoniously threw out the entire group, ignoring their apologies and protestations. I think most saw the owner as part of the charm, temper and all. It wasn't really about a meal, it was about an experience."
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The article also says that an Armenian newspaper reported in 2012 that the restaurant was going to be turned into an Armenian Cultural Centre.
in a recent interview, Peter himself spoke to the BBC about his time managing the restaurant.
"I'm not really a cook, not a trained cook," he said.
"I just realised I could make my hobby into my work. I was encouraged by friends when I would host privately.
"I was trying to smash the barriers of general dining, the whole process.
"I'm not doing it for financial rewards, I would only do it if they (the guests) were coming here for some reason I was looking for.]
"People were so keen, I couldn't control the numbers," he added. "Some nights we had guests in the three figures, people would bring chairs from home for more seating."
However, it's currently on the Buildings At Risk Register and the Edinburgh City Council's planning officer hasn't added any information about planned renovations, so it's fair to say that's unlikely.
But whatever happens to it in the future, the next time you drive past this iconic building, you can imagine was it was like to dine at the bizarre Aghtamar Lake Van Monastery in Exile: Edinburgh's most unusual and mysterious restaurant.
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Flame Away: Does the 'Net Make People Nastier?
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 27, 2007 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Last week, I ran across this article from the Associated Press about how the anonymity (or perception of same) that we have on the Internet leads some people to say and do things they would never say or do in their "real life" relationships.
It's a phenomenon I've discussed here before, but some of the responses to last week's blog post (which I'll quote – at least those that are fit for a family forum) brought that fact home again. Some people get downright mean when they're communicating electronically, and it's hard to believe that all of them act that way in their offline lives.
Now, this is by no means a universal thing. It seems as if being online often has an effect similar to imbibing alcohol. You know how some folks, when they drink, still act pretty much the way they do when they're sober but a little more relaxed, while others get all happy and funny and still others turn vicious? Likewise, people are affected differently by the act of slipping into an online persona.
For instance, there's a person I had known in the "real world" for many years and had never been at all close to. I found her loud and abrupt and often rude, avoided her socially whenever possible but stayed connected to her because of other mutual relationships. Then we found ourselves exchanging email – and the person she became in her written messages was like someone entirely different. The negatively I had come to expect from her in response to everything I said was gone. Her messages were polite and friendly and thoughtful, and for the first time, we become friends of a sort.
But I've seen the opposite happen too many times, watching in amazement as someone I had always liked turned into an online monster, flaming people left and right, using language I'd never heard them speak, taking offense at the slightest disagreement.
When I write on a controversial subject, I expect to get lots of replies from those who disagree with my opinions. And after many years at this, I expect that a certain number of those won't be very nice about it. In fact, I know a lot of writers – and their publishers – who feel the more heated the responses, the better; it always means a higher hit count and for every reader who says "I'm unsubscribing because I think you're an idiot," three more start reading because after all, it's human nature to crave a little spice now and then, both in our food and in our discussions.
In fact, quite a few media personalities of all political persuasions have built multi-million dollar careers by ranting and raving on every topic. Those who have become household names get lots of hate mail, but their books keep selling, their radio and TV shows keep getting top ratings, and the money keeps pouring in.
When they're espousing ideas we don't like, we think of them as hotheads. When their philosophies and ideologies match our own, we tend to see them as brave souls who "tell it like it is." Abe Lincoln said you can't please all the people all the time, but pleasing half the people and making the other half mad as heck seems to be a formula that works very well for those with thick skins and a penchant for fame and fortune.
Maybe one reason for the popularity of extremists is the very fact that most people don't dare express themselves that strongly in their own everyday lives. Expressing every negative thought that crosses your mind tends to have a less than positive impact on career growth, marital happiness, budding friendships and other real life circumstances that are important to most of us. So traditionally, we've let the professional ranters speak for us.
The Internet has made it easier for ordinary folks to let their hair down and pull out all the stops and express all those secret, nasty feelings themselves. The phenomenon of "flaming" – launching personal attacks on others out of proportion to whatever the flamer is responding to – first gained a foothold in newsgroups and mailing lists. It's carried over to blogs, where you don't even have to give your opponents the opportunity to respond if you don't want to. And on the 'Net, you can say mean things without risking your reputation by using a "screen name" that gives no clue to your real identity.
But has the Internet really made people meaner and less civilized? There have always been times and places where people say cruel things (listen in to any group of teenagers discussing those outside their clique). Some people just aren't very nice, in general. And some people who generally are nice get carried away with their emotions when they feel very passionately about a subject. I'm not so sure that, deep down, people are any meaner today than they were a few decades or centuries ago (after all, they often gunned one another down in the streets in the Old West, and look at all the beheadings and such in Medieval times). But the 'Net has made it easier to do your dirty work more anonymously and to spread it to a wider audience.
What do you think? Are you surprised at the nastiness that sometimes comes out in online discussions? Do you say things in email that you wouldn't say in person, or do you know others who seem to turn into a different person when communicating online? Do you think the Internet is causing us to become less civilized?


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NGO HONORS DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN
in Chandigarh, North Post
2 Apr :Hamari Kaksha, a drop-out prevention programme where volunteers work with disadvantaged children derailed by issues such as behavioral problems, poor attendance, illiterate parents and repeated failures in class rooms. Most of these children are vulnerable and victims of their circumstances.
Hamari Kaksha teaches them to face disappointment and win. Mr. Ramesh Vinayak, Resident Editor, Hindustan Times, was the Chief Guest, who honored out of school children and drop outs who are first generation learners and displayed rare grit and determination when they joined back the main stream and passed with flying colors. Dr. S.S. Dahiya, Director, SIE, Sector – 32, Chandigarh honored the student volunteers of State Institute of Education, who volunteered to take out time out of their busy academic schedule to teach these children in the evening. Ms. Khushinder Sharma, DEO, Chandigarh Education Department, gave away prizes to out of school children who are ready to go to join the main stream and are thinking of making big despite all odds.
45 out of 100 students were honored. Gift items, stationery and cash prizes were given as motivational incentives. Community at large joined hands with the volunteers of Hamari Kaksha and brought eatables, stationery items as gifts for these children. Volunteers of Prayaas presented the children with school bags and pencil boxes.
Ms. Anuradha Sharma, President of Hamari Kaksha welcomed the guests and said, "In India, we have given equality of opportunity in education to each and every child, but now, the need of the hour is to retain these first generation learners in schools. Mr. Ramesh Vinayak stressed that the need of the hour is that the community, youth, teachers and people with resources to join hands with such organizations to uplift the next generation of children to make India smiling. He applauded the efforts made by student volunteers and said that schools cannot do it alone. It is the responsibility of people at large to work with these socially and economically disadvantaged groups and enhance their capacity to continue their education.
Students presented a colorful show highlighting the problems like child labor and drug addiction, which they face in day to day life. Ms. Sarita Tewari, Secretary, thanked all the guests and said, "The presence of such dignitaries will propel all the volunteers to work for the down trodden with renewed zeal".
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Q: Send mail in php with data in table(Mysql) I need to send an email with the data that is in the mysql table. I am using joomla1.5.
  $dataarray = $this->getData(); // returns data from table
  $header = "

";
  $body = "Here I need to add table data";
  $footer = "

";
  $mailer->setSubject('Mailing');
  $mailer->setBody($header.$body .$footer);

I dont how to do that. Please someone help me.
Thanks in advance.
vinay

A: You can use the JUtility class to send the mail:
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $recipient, $subject, $message, true);

$recipient is the email address you're sending the mail to, and the last parameter is a flag indicating whether the email uses HTML or not ( true = uses HTML ).
However, if you have to send a lot of mails, it would be better to use the Joomla mailer instead of calling JUtility each time.
$mail =& JFactory::getMailer();

$mail->setSender(array($from, $fromname));
$mail->setSubject($subject);
$mail->setBody($body);
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->addRecipient($recipient);
$mail->Send();

I hope it helped!
I'm editing, I forgot to mention how to work with your data
To craft the body of the message, it would depend on how your data is returned.
If it's an associative array, you should do something like this:
$message = "Hello {$dataarray[ 'name' ]}, thank you for adding a comment to our article {$datarray[ 'article_title']}!";

If your "getData()" method is returning an object.. well in fact crafting the message is just building a string and filling it with your data.
For very large emails, I usually have a template like this:
Hello %%USERNAME%%, thank you for adding a comment to our article %%ARTICLE_TITLE%%!

And then what you should do is:
$message = file_get_contents( 'your_template.tpl' );
$search = array( "%%USERNAME%%", "%%ARTICLE_TITLE%%" );
$replace = array( $dataarray[ 'name' ], $dataarray[ 'article_title' ] );
$message = str_replace( $search, $replace, $message );
That's all!

A: This is the way php mail function works.
<?php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Now you need to get the values (i.e. message) from mysql tables.
You can use normal mysql commands to fetch those data and thereafter use the php mail function.


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Rana Dajani es una bióloga molecular jordana y profesora Asociada en la Universidad Hachemita.
Dajani tiene un Ph.D. en biología molecular otorgado en 2005 por la Universidad de Iowa. Fue recipiente de una beca del en el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados Radcliffe de la Universidad de Harvard, y una beca de la Fundación Eisenhower. La Dra. Dajani ha sido beneficiada dos veces para participar en el Programa Fulbright. Ha sido profesora visitante en Yale, en el Centro de Células Madre de Yale y becaria en la Universidad de Cambridge y el Centro de Terapia de Células Madre de Jordania.

La revista británica Muslim Science Magazine la ha catalogado como una de las científicas más influyentes en el Mundo Islámico, y la ha ubicado en el lugar 13° entre las "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" in CEO Middle East Magazine.

Honores y premios
La Embajada de EE.UU. en Jordania en conjunto con la Oficina de Ambiente, Ciencia, Tecnología y Salud para el Medio Oriente y África del Norte ingresó a la Dra. Dajani al Salón de la Fama de Mujeres Científicas en 2015. Este honor reconoció su trabajo y teorías en evolución biológica e Islam, haciendo énfasis en investigación sobre diabetes, cáncer y células madre. Ha sido instrumental en el establecimiento de los términos legales para el uso de células madre en Jordania, los cuales han abierto la puerta a su regulación en el resto del Mundo Árabe e Islámico.

la Dra. Dajani es una activista de los derechos a la educación científica de las mujeres, así como del estudio de la teoría de evolución biológica en relación con el islam. Ha fundado y dirigido el programa We Love Reading que ha estimulado el alfabetismo práctico de niños a través de 30 países. We Love Reading ha formado y entrenado a 730 mujeres en técnicas de narración y en 2017 obtuvo el premio King Sejong de la UNESCO. El resultado de esto condujo al establecimiento de 330 bibliotecas en Jordania, enriqueciendo la alfabetización de encima de 10,000 niños, 60% de los cuáles eran niñas. Por este trabajo recibió los honores siguientes: el 2015 Star Award por mayor impacto en la educación; el premio de 2015 para los 50 Innovadores Sociales más Talentosos en el  honor para el 50 Más Talented Social Innovators en el World CSR Congress; el premio  OpenIDEO a la "Mejor Idea" para niños refugiados del año 2015; recibió además el premio de la Biblioteca de Congreso a las mejores prácticas en 2013; en 2009 recibió el premio Synergos otorgado a innovadores sociales en el Mundo Árabe.

En 2010, la Dra. Dajani fue hecha participante de la Clinton Global Initiative de la Fundación Clinton. En 2014, Dajani ganó el Premio WISE de la Qatar Foundation, y el 2014 recibió la Medalla de Honor Rey Hussein, y en 2009 recibió el premio del Centro Rey Hussein para Investigación del Cáncer. En octubre de fue seleccionada por el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados Radcliffe como participante del Programa Radcliffe en la Universidad de Harvard.

Publicaciones y charlas
Dajani es miembro del Consejo Consultivo de Mujeres Jordanas. Ha publicado en varias publicaciones arbitradas, además de las revistas Science y Nature. Entre sus charlas y disertaciones se cuentan en el Simposio Templeton-Cambridge de Periodismo en la Universidad de Cambridge; el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts, la Universidad McGill, y en la conferencia Belief in Dialogue del British Council.

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Verlon Collins, 80, of Venice, FL and formerly of New Palestine, IN passed away on October 21, 2022. He was born on October 26, 1941 in Botto, Kentucky to his parents, Caleb and Susie Napier Collins. He spent his career working as a heavy equipment operator and also work at Publix in Venice. Verlon was a member of First Baptist Church in Venice.
He is survived by his wife, Deanna Thompson Collins of Venice, FL; his daughter, Susan (Clint Cross) Collins of New Castle, IN; four brothers, Charles (Janet) Collins of Georgia, Caleb (Ann) Collins of Manchester, KY, Carl (Patricia) Collins of Niceville, FL, and Wayne (Glenna) Collins of Manchester, KY; three sisters, Ruby (John) Nightlinger of Lakeland, FL, Martha (Anthony) Cheek of Niceville, FL, and Bobbi Dean (Warren) Heatherly of La Follette, TN; and many nieces and nephews.
Verlon was preceded in death by his parents of Manchester, Kentucky; four brothers, C.B. Collins of Manchester, KY, George (Deloris) Collins of London, KY, Steve (Donna) Collins of London, KY, and Roy (Vanda) Collins of Manchester, KY; and two sisters, Gladys (John) Collins Pease of Indianapolis, IN, and Betty (Roscoe) Collins Bowling of Mt. Sterling, KY.
Services will be held at Frist Baptist Church in Venice, FL on November 1, 2022 with a visitation starting at 10am and a memorial service starting at 11am. Farley Funeral Home in Venice is in charge of arrangements.
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A 20 year-old man came down with appendicitis in October last year. He posted the bill on Reddit and it has gone viral. The US Health Care system is a topic of much debate, not only in the US but around the world. A lot of countries get 'free' health care, so needless to say, this has stirred up a lot of conversation.
The original cost was over $55,000. Because the 20 year-old man was on his father's insurance, the cost was lowered to $11,000.
A Canadian's mother had foot surgery and her only charge was $60…for cable.
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We don't take political sides here in any way, but it's hard to deny that these costs are absurd. No matter how you think this should be fixed, I think we can all agree that it needs to be.
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Shall Sweden grant to US the extradition of Julian Assange?
Updated 5 April 2012
As the media campaign against Assange have increased the Swedish government desperate hopes for a judgement which would they believe would distract domestic opinion from the scandalous arms-agreements with Saudi Arabia. Professors blogg was first in Sweden in drawing attention to the sensitive issue of the then phantom funding of the cover company used for the intelligence and weaponry-trade operation with the Saudis. It has been now disclosed it was one of the Defense Intelligence apparatus which put up the financing to FOA. When the scandal was in the eve to break FOA accused Assange and WikiLeaks of blackmailing Sweden to create nationalistic momentum. Now that investigations pursues regardless the resignation of Minister Sten Tolgfors, the government of Sweden expect anew to play the chauvinistic "Assange card" with the help of the MSM. For own political purposes the extradition of Assange is pressed upon more than ever by the Swedish authorities. It has become indeed the Swedish government case against Assange.
Read also background: Charges against Assange drawn up in US
The perils posed by these revelations on a prospective indictment, makes urgent to re-consider political issues of the situation Julian Assange would face now in Sweden, in case been extradited there. In spite of Sweden's official silence, and the denial by the mainstream media articles, the extradition of political prisoners in Sweden is ultimately decided at a political level. Ergo, the risks for an extradition of the Wikileaks founder to USA - in case it will be requested - cannot be assessed solely attending to juridical arguments.
According to the interview with Julian Assange and lawyers Jennifer Robinson and Geoffrey Robertson [1], the USA shall most certain seek the extradition of the Wikileaks founder. The reason - as mentioned in the interview - being that a US Grand Jury investigation has been on-going in Washington since last year - preparing aggravating charges on espionage. Such charges, most likely in connection with the Wikileaks Pentagon-disclosures, would entail for Julian Assange "up to ten-years in a maximum security prison", according to the legal experts. Meanwhile, a recurrent misconception - or deliberately misinformation - published in the international media, is to consider the deportation of Julian Assange from Sweden to the USA as, statistically speaking, "highly unlikely".
But facts reveal the contrary: Regarding the open extradition requests from the USA since 2000, Sweden has granted such extradition in the TOTAL OF CASES in which the prisoner was in Swedish territory. This is based in statistics according to Sweden's Justice Ministry (see below "The myth on that Assange's extradition from Sweden to US is not likely").
I put forward the above also in a brief interview conducted at the Royal Court's premises in London on December 5th, after the verdict on the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's appeal to the Supreme Court [Click on this Youtube link for this brief "interview"]:
It is exactly this risk of extradition/rendition to the USA from the part of Swedish officials that made Julian Assange reluctant to come to Sweden (after the Swedish extradition request and the smear campaign that ensued in Sweden). I also refer the reader to the post This is Why, in which the reasons for this apparently Swedish revenge are summarized. This analysis was previously treated in the Professors blogg's article "Sweden will grant extradition of Julian Assange to US if not stopped by international political pressure NOW"
By Marcello Ferrada de Noli
From the part of official Sweden and the geopolitical interests this country represents, the reasons for the "legal" actions and corresponding smear campaign against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, are solely political. This, aside Sweden's own vengeful campaign motivated by the Wikileaks revelations with regard to some government wrongdoings.
Corollary, the situation (confronted by Wikileaks) should not be understood as primarily juridical. Together with a brief review of the actual Swedish statistics on extradition cases as requested by the US, the aim of this article is to call for the examining of political answers around the extradition-issues. In my opinion, the debate has maintained a quasi-excessive focus on the legal aspects.
Obviously, the tremendously positive impact that Wikileaks have already in the world developments is to the highest extent political. Further, it is precisely Wikileaks geopolitical potential for revolutionary changes (not only regarding changes in government-ethics or local redistribution of political power, but also changes in the economic distribution and in societal structures) what also might explain the participation of the various NATO-countries (full members or vassal countries) involved in the current offensive against the Wikileaks organization.
The bottom-line here, regarding the juridical discussion on the extradition "risks", is that Sweden does not really need sophisticated legal arguments to comply with its own part of the geopolitical assignment. If asked to, they will extradite Julian Assange, in one or another formula.
Different political traditions and legal systems
The second source for confounding in this (international) debate is to equate the legal system or legal traditions of Sweden - and the Swedish modality of implementing justice or legal matters - with what occurs in the USA or some other countries in Europe including the UK. USA and the UK enjoy highly legal or even "legalist" traditions. In Sweden the administration of justice is not that clear-cut, and sentences or evidence gathering in the onus probandis are not that restrictive like in USA or UK courts.
Things in Sweden work out more in the searching of consensus, and for consensus to be reached among a variety of opinions (in Sweden interests are called "opinions") the determinant is not the objective truth (which one might eventually find in a rigorous application of known law). The determinant is to find compatibility of the interests involved. Sweden is a highly pragmatic country. This pragmatism might help to explain the enormous economic success and international prestige Sweden achieved by wavering the "neutrality" position in the post World War II era.
No wonder why Sweden is still the second largest weapon export-country per capita in the world; or that Third World countries - at least until a few years ago - opted for the purchasing of Sweden's manufactured goods irrespectively of other disadvantaged items, such as economic or technical, which normally are included in such decisions. The idea of making business with the "right" country, with a neutral and non-aligned Sweden, was paramount. But now we painfully now that from the Swedish part, it was pure pragmatismo.
After the Berlin wall collapsed, as the so-called Campo Socialista collapsed, also as consequence of the revolutionary apathy in the rest of the world (meaning, the cause was not only the political decimation from-within of the domestic Soviet power), facts started to be known - in much thanks to the Wikileaks cables - bringing unequivocal clarity on the issue of Sweden's "neutrality". In fact, the emerged truth was that Sweden's real political sympathies had always been actively for the Americans; at least among the right-wingers that now rule both government and the leadership of the main opposition party - the social democrats.
Minister Sten Tolgfors may have summarized the pro-American devotion of the Swedish leadership - even if symbolic expressed - when he declared openly at the times of the drastic increasing of Swedish troops in Afghanistan under US command: "I love America". According to a US Embassy cable disclosed by Wikileaks, the Ambassador reports that Minister Tolfors had expressed (in a meeting at the US Embassy in Stockholm) how easy is for him to gather political support for Swedish troops in the war (Afghanistan) under NATO command. The Cable further states that "Tolgfors told the Ambassador that he loves the USA" ("Tolgfors berättade för ambassadören att han älskar USA"). [Published here in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet the 2 December 2010]. [2]
But Sweden's pro-US commitment is far far more concrete than such candid declarations of sympathy from the part of its current rulers. It has much more to do with corporate, multinational ownership or common profit interests, than with purely cultural identifications - or imitations. And it has to do with the loyal status of Sweden in the NATO, as clearly demonstrated elsewhere in the fields of Intelligence and civil-population surveillance [See Note 3, FRA-lagen), or in direct large-scale military operations with Swedish occupation troops under USA command, as in the case of Afghanistan; or in the Swedish participation in the Iraq war with artillery-weaponry assistance; or in the Swedish Air Force direct participation in the recent NATO operations in Libya. The Sweden democrats (Sverige demokrater) was the only party which opposed the Swedish intervention in Libya. All the rest, from left-wingers to right-wingers endorsed the pro-NATO government proposition).
Sweden will surely comply with a US request for the extradition of Julian Assange, if so asked. Who knows if this is already scheduled. This would correspond exactly with both Sweden's record and statistics on this matter (at least from 2000 and onwards), but paramount because this correspond to the current Sweden's direction in the context of a legendary line of "pragmatism" in international politics.
Some illustrations. At the time of Tolgfors' love declarations above, which were political words stated in a political context, we witnessed the drastic increasing in Swedish troops, under US command, in the military occupation of Afghanistan. And at the same times the Swedish Parliament approved the Surveillance Law (FRA-lagen) as it has been requested to the Swedish government by the US. And the trial against The Pirate By went on. And it went on at the same time that America put pressure on the Swedish government on such legislation to preserve American music/film industrial interests. Bottom line: Official America put forward American business and interests, capitalists have always done the same and why would they do different in the name of surplus-value, which is capitalist's God and raison d'etre. And Sweden? Sweden's rulers apparently run in Sweden also America's rulers interests. What is the explanation of this? I will come back to it in another post.
And, who doesn't "love America" Minister Tolfors? I heard Julian Assange himself saying in the CBS 60' minutes interview that he praises the American Constitution, from the early libertarians. And I happily agreed. Nevertheless, one main reason of my respect for those people, my American colleagues or friends (I lived in Boston in several periods during the 90's, while researching and lecturing at Harvard Medical School) it is exactly because no one there would ever accept, or even think, that their government and Parliament would change or shape some American legislation because the Embassy of another country is asking them in secret to do so. Do I explain myself clear?
Sweden's record in extradition, deportation
Looking back into history in the record of Sweden with regard to political extraditions or political deportations, we find unfortunate, nasty illustrations. We might find Russians forced to deportation to the former Soviet Union during the Stalin era. We might find political refugees deported with Swedish police escort to their countries of origin to stand torture and death. And we might find asylum seekers delivered in secrecy at Stockholm airports to the US intelligence services for being transported to torture elsewhere that in the USA.
What I mean is that Sweden has been capable - for political reasons in the believe of own national interest (I do not accuse Swedes of bad or "diabolic" intentions) to crucify their own juridical principles when it comes the moment of international political transactions that are judged critical. The history of Finland is a living proof of that. And the reference to the deals with Germany during the 40's, which I recently took in my article Sweden, NATO and Assange, should also be considered in the context of Sweden's realpolitik when it has come to decide matters of political extradition or deportation in the context of international governmental pressure.
That is why I have said that - In response to the risk of Assange's deportation to the USA - the most effective answer has to come in the form of an international political pressure. This means that Wikileaks supporters must try to find echo in their local political parties, their own constituency and their elected people. To knock the doors of the mass organizations, trade unions, student organizations, the offices of decent people with position in government, decent journalists, etc. To get and build support out of the box.
With the above I do not mean that the legal efforts would be secondary. Not at all. Just put them together in a political strategy. The main struggle is in the political arena and its rules have not been designed by us. Otherwise we would have chosen the ideological front, why not philosophy. But rules of engagement are not decided by our dreams. The reality of this important episode in the young life of Wikileaks has been decided by old and experimented masters of political confrontation and psychological warfare.
The myth on that Assange's extradition from Sweden to the US is not likely
In the labyrinth of news around the court deliberations in London on the Assange-extradition, I have traced the origins of such myth to a dispatch by Malin Rising, a Swedish journalist working as correspondent for Associated Press.
The journalist had published time ago a "Question & Answers" article headed "Questions and answers about the Julian Assange sex crimes case and Swedish extradition rules". The piece was also distributed word-wide by Yahoo news and it is found in numerous sites among other ABC News, Salom.com, etc.
To start with, Julian Assange has not been convicted of any crime at all. He has not been in trial for such crimes, at all. He has not even charged with any such crime.
On the extraditions issues, one of the items read:
"Q: Assange's lawyers say there's a "real risk" that Sweden would hand him over to the U.S. How likely is that?
"A: . . . Swedish legal experts say he would be no more likely to be handed over from Sweden than from Britain. Because of the current extradition proceedings between Sweden and Britain, handing him over to a third country would require approval from both countries, says Nils Rekke, legal chief at the Stockholm prosecutor's office. Rekke notes that Britain is a closer ally to the United States."
However, Sweden has not excluded it would be willing to go along with a US demand on extradition:
Rekke did not deny that Sweden would be willing (or "like") to hand over Assange to the USA, what he really said is that "Sweden cannot do as Sweden likes" in that specific matter "before asking Britain first"!
This is instead what Christian Science Monitor wrote quoting Rekke:
"If Assange was handed over to Sweden in accordance with the European arrest warrant, Sweden cannot do as Sweden likes after that," and, "If there were any questions of an extradition approach from the US, then Sweden would have to get an approval from the United Kingdom".
Is there any doubt that the meetings held in London by top government leaders of USA, UK and Sweden - exactly on the days of the verdict on Assange's extradition, were also a top opportunity to decide issues on the above?
The fact is, regarding the "open" requests of extradition from the USA, Sweden has granted extradition to the USA in ALL OF CASES in which the asked person was in Swedish territory:
"Q: How common is it that people are extradited from Sweden and Britain to the U.S.?
A: Since 2000, the U.S. has requested the extradition of seven citizens from Sweden, according to the Swedish Justice Ministry. Five of the requests were approved, and two were rejected because the suspects were no longer believed to be in Sweden. Britain and the U.S. signed a fast-track extradition treaty in 2003 intended to speed the transfer of terror suspects. Since it came into force in April 2007, 23 people have been extradited from the U.K. to the U.S., according to British government figures. Extradition lawyer Karen Todner said Assange would probably stand a better chance
of resisting extradition to the U.S. if he were in Sweden than if he were in the U.K."
Again: Regarding the "open" requests from the USA, Sweden has granted extradition in the TOTAL OF CASES in which the prisoner was in Swedish territory. This is a fact.
"Death penal" argument
Another argument is that Swedish law would ultimately inhibit any deportation or extradition to a country that - like in the case of USA - exercise death penalty.
But it also has been put forward that Sweden - thanks to international agreements of Temporary surrender [4] could be able to legally "borrow" a convicted person for interrogation elsewhere.
It would be certainly a way for Sweden to by-pass the legal restriction referring to "Death-penal countries". What it would happen afterwards with Assange - for instance if he is taken to a military trial and sentenced to ten years in a maximum-security prison elsewhere - it would be claim by the Swedes it is not their responsibility as they acted in "good faith".
Nevertheless, the "death penalty" argument is also negated by known, proven Swedish praxis. Sweden had in fact deported individuals (even refugees applying for asylum in Sweden) to countries with full active death penalty. We have also the case of the extraordinary renditions to USA of people under arrest in Sweden (see below). Let us not forget that Sweden has in fact been sanctioned by International Human Rights organizations due to this praxis. Just one illustration on those events: The United Nations Committee Against Torture ruled 19 of May 2005 that Sweden had violated the International Ban of Torture. This, for Sweden's direct collaboration in the CIA rendition flights, rendering to the Americans asylum seekers while those were under the "custody" of Sweden.
Deportation by illegal "rendition"
Sweden has a record of giving – in clandestine operations - prisoners categorized by USA as terrorists. That was during the so-called rendition, or extraordinary rendition times. As a matter of fact, Julian Assange has been already signalled as such in the USA (see below).
The most notorious among these cases was the rendition in Stockholm of political prisoners that were taken by CIA personnel and taken Egypt.
A particular aspect in he context of the "legal" processes agitated in the case Assange is that as main collaborator with the mentioned CIA operation was signalled the lawyer and former Minister of Justice Thomas Bordström. He is the co-owner and legal partner of Claes Borgström, the lawyer representing the nominal accusers of Julian Assange. In fact, Claes Borgström was the instigator of the re-opening of the case against Assange. And also the fact is that Thomas Bordström has publicly bragged in his blog from USA "Bordström samhället", that is his company ("our law firm") the one representing the plaintiffs in the Assange accusations.
Thomas Bordström's responsibility in the secret arrangements arises with the times clearer and clearer. Bordström first denied direct involvement or knowledge of the events. However, Margareta Zetterström, who was a close associate to the late Anna Lindh -Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time of such events -, revealed in her book that Boström did know about it. Zetterström's article in Aftonbladet [5] mentioned that Thomas Bordström declared in an interview in Dagens Nyheter, that even if he had the information before the rendition took place,
"That it should not have made any difference, we would not have stopped anything" (Thomas Bodström).
In regard to the praxis of "rendition of terrorists" from the part of Sweden to the USA – and for which no of such legal niceties as extradition agreements or permissions are required - the question would be to which extent Julian Assange is also considered being a "terrorist".
Well, a "Cyber terrorist" Assange has been already called, and by no less than the Pentagon, according to this report. And it gets "better". Vice President Biden, who actually was the one attending the above-referred conference in London representing the USA government, had likened Julian Assange to a "high-tech terrorist" according to the Guardian.
Let us hope that neither in this case the Guardian is saying the truth.
La lotta continua
Marcello Ferrada-Noli
[1] Foreign Correspondent Andrew Fowler's interview with lawyer Jennifer Robinson, Journalist/Publisher Julian Assange and lawyer Geoffrey Robertson. The interview has been recently aired by Youtube. Follow this link to see the interview.
[2] Josefine Sköld, "Moderaterna: "Vi älskar USA". Aftonbladet, Stockholm, 2 December 2010
http://mobil.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article12687187.ab?partner=www
[3] M Ferrada-Noli, "The Swedish Surveillance Law (FRA-Lagen) debate". The Professors blogg, 22 September 2008
http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/2008_09_22_archive.html
[4] Sweden Versus Assange. Extradition/ US Extradition
http://www.swedenversusassange.com/US-Extradition.html
[5] M Zettersröm, "Vi har rätt att få veta". Aftonbladet, Stockholm, 20 January 2009
http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/article4219230.ab
Other articles on the Swedish case against Assange in the Professors blogg
5 October 2011. Radical-feminism. What is scientific research and what it is not. End of story
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treisiroon said...
Kudos for an excellent review of the situation as it stands now.


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Fact Check: Video Showing Dr. Anthony Fauci Saying, 'No Reason To Be Walking Around With A Mask' Is From Early March, NOT Recently
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Did Dr. Anthony Fauci say "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask?" Yes, but he said it in early March 2020, and much had changed by May. Federal health experts, including Dr. Fauci began recommending that Americans wear a mask in public on April 3, 2020.
The video of Fauci's March 8, 2020, CBS interview was posted on YouTube on May 6, 2020 titled "Dr. Anthony Fauci: "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask." | 60 Minutes Interview" (archived here) which opened:
Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci tells 60 Minutes: "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask." 60 Minutes on March 8, 2020
Click below to watch the video on YouTube:
This is an outdated interview and the recommendations of the CDC and Dr. Fauci have changed since it aired.
The YouTube video of the interview was posted on May 6, 2020, and has had more than 1.5 million views, weeks into the COVID-19 outbreak.
The footage is from an episode of "60 Minutes" that aired on March 8, 2020, with an interview by CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook with Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
In early March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was noting that because masks were in short supply, it recommended that masks were only for medical professionals and health care workers, a sentiment echoed by Fauci.
Here is a transcript of their conversation:
LaPook: There's a lot of confusion among people and misinformation surrounding face masks, can you discuss that?
Fauci: The masks are important for someone who's infected to prevent them from infecting someone else. Now, when you see people and look at the films in China and South Korea whatever, everybody's wearing a mask. Right now in the United States people should not be walking around with masks.
LaPook: You're sure of it? Because people are listening really closely to this.
Fauci: Right now, people should not be worried. There's no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And often there are unintended consequences. People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.
LaPook: And can you get some schmutz sort of staying inside there?
Fauci: Of course, but when you think mask you should think of health care providers needing them and people who are ill. The people who when you look at the films of foreign countries and you see 85% of the people wearing masks that's fine, that's fine. I'm not against it if you want to do it that's fine.
LaPook: But it can lead to a shortage of masks?
Fauci: Exactly. That's the point. It could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it.
The official "60 Minutes" YouTube page has been updated to note that since the interview aired, recommendations have changed:
In March, Fauci told 60 Minutes that masks should largely be reserved for healthcare providers. In April, the recommendations were broadened to include simple masks for the general public."
Wearing face masks has become a controversial topic but as of May 27, 2020, the CDC recommends that Americans wear a cloth face-covering amid the coronavirus outbreak while in public, which you can read here.
Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover when around others
• You could spread COVID-19 to others even if you do not feel sick.
• Everyone should wear a cloth face cover when they have to go out in public, for example to the grocery store or to pick up other necessities.
o Cloth face coverings should not be placed on young children under age 2, anyone who has trouble breathing, or is unconscious, incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance.
• The cloth face cover is meant to protect other people in case you are infected.
• Do NOT use a facemask meant for a healthcare worker.
• Continue to keep about 6 feet between yourself and others. The cloth face cover is not a substitute for social distancing.
Fauci's stance on wearing a mask has evolved since early March as now more than 100,000 Americans have died of COVID-19.
On May 27, 2020 he told CNN why he was wearing a mask. You can see the video here.
"I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing," Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and a member of the White House's coronavirus task force, told CNN's Jim Sciutto on "Newsroom."
Fauci said he believes that while wearing a mask is not "100% effective," it is a valuable safeguard and shows "respect for another person."
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Rutilus' Victory Column? Victory Arch?
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Elkins 2015: 24-5 writes:
"The coins may well represent the victory arch at Ostia of…
Very plausible. But this 'near Ostia' business had me worried. A little Livy (7.17) cheered me up:
This led to a rising of the whole of Etruria, and under the leadership of the Tarquinians and Faliscans they marched to the salt-works (salinas). In this emergency C. Marcius Rutilus was nominated Dictator—the first Dictator nominated from the plebs—and he appointed as Master of the Horse C. Plautius, also a plebeian. The patricians were indignant at even the dictatorship becoming common property, and they offered all the resistance in their power to any decree being passed or any preparations made to help the Dictator in prosecuting that war. This only made the people more ready to adopt every proposal which the Dictator made. On leaving the City he marched along both banks of the Tiber, ferrying the troops across in whichever direction the enemy were reported to be; in this way he surprised many of the raiders scattered about the fields. Finally he surprised and captured their camp; 8ooo prisoners were taken, the rest were either killed or hunted out of the Roman territory. By an order of the people which was not confirmed by the senate a triumph was awarded him.
Here's a handy map to help visualize the geography.
This is all in relationship to these asses (RRC 346/3 and 4) on which I've written a bit before.
Family Lore and False Triumphs
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For it was customary in most families of note to preserve their images, their trophies of honour, and their memoirs, either to adorn a funeral when any of the family deceased, or to perpetuate the fame of their ancestors, or prove their own nobility. But the truth of history has been much corrupted by these laudatory essays; for many circumstances were recorded in them which never existed; such as false triumphs, a pretended succession of consulships, and false alliances and elevations, when men of inferior rank were confounded with a noble family of the same name: as if I myself should pretend that I am descended from M'. Tullius, who was a patrician, and shared the consulship with Servius Sulpicius, about ten years after the expulsion of the kings
Cic. Brut . 62. Cf. the now lost inscription from the Fabian Fornix and RRC 415/1
Discussed (if I remember rightly) in Wiseman, 'Resplendent Aemilii'
Equestrian Statues
I'm really enjoying reading Hölkeskamp's piece in Galinsky's edited volume on Memory. This is from p. 173. I feel like I found the missing link connecting two portions of the republican coin series! Those alluding to Tremulus' equestrian statue and those referring to Octavian's.
Cicero on the Sabine Character
I always find myself looking for this quote and having to hunt it up elsewhere. It seemed prudent just to stick it on my own blog.
My Orator—for that is the title I have given it—I have handed to your Sabinus. His nationality made me think that he was a proper person to whom to give it: unless he too has availed himself of the licence of candidates and has suddenly adopted this surname. However, the modesty of his look and the gravity of his conversation seemed to me to smack somewhat of Cures. But enough about Sabinus.
Cic. Fam. 15.20 written in April(?) 44BC to Trebonius, a good friend with whom Cicero often jokes. Latin here.
Sabinus is probably a slave, perhaps a freedman. The name will have been given to him to indicate indigenous Italic stock. The joke is that aspiring politicians might claim this cognomen for the same sort of associations which made it appealing to slave owners. Cicero pushes the joke further by legitimating the ethic connotation of the man's name by crediting him with the moral characteristics usually associated with that ethnicity.
The letter continues with another geographical 'joke' of sorts. Cicero observes:
that in old days those remaining at Rome were accustomed to write on public affairs to their friends in the provinces; whereas you are now bound to write to us: for the Republic is there
Just as Sabini might not really be Sabines, so too the res publica can be separated from Rome itself. Both allude to the anxieties of the day.
Ploughing Rituals
Sometimes the following coin types are discussed in relationship to the foundation of colonies or the extension of the pomerium (RRC 321 and 378).
I thought of them when I read this bit of Forsythe.
My brief attempt to see if the coins might show us the genitals of the oxen came to nothing. That in and of itself may be significant.
"They Made Me Do It."
The oldest excuse in the book. This example of it comes from Cic. Rab. Post. 29:
Therefore, I say, that he was compelled by force to act as he did,—by force which, as our great poet says "Breaks and subdues the loftiest dignity." He should have died, you will say; for that is the alternative. And so he would have done, if, while his affairs were in such a state of embarrassment, he could have died without the greatest disgrace. Do not then, impute his hard fortune to him as a fault; do not think the injury done to him by the king his crime; do not judge of his intentions by the compulsion under which he was, nor of his inclination by the force to which he submitted. Unless, indeed, you think those men deserving of reproach who have fallen among enemies or among thieves, and who then act differently under compulsion from what they would if they were free. No one of us is ignorant, even if we have had no personal experience of it, of the mode of proceeding adopted by a king. These are the orders given by kings,—"Take notice," "Obey orders," "Do not complain when you are not asked." These are their threats,—"If I catch you here tomorrow, you shall die." Expressions which we ought to read and consider, not only for the purpose of being amused by them, but in order to learn to beware of their authors and to avoid them.
It reminded me of a fragment from Pacuvius' Atalanta:
Omnes, qui tamquam nos serviunt
Sub regno, callent domini imperia metuere (Pac. 72-73).
All, who are enslaved, like us,
Under a king, are callous to any fear of orders, in a word—they are tame.
The translation is my own. This may mean I am in agreement of a sort with Wiseman via Leigh:
In late-republican Rome, tragedy was par excellence the exemplary genre for revealing the ways of kings and tyrants.
From p. 32 of Roman Drama and Roman History. Corresponding footnote:
[Leigh 1996 is on ILL order.]
A Modius, clearly!
I've worried about what a modius looks like. This is a great illustration of one from the Neronian period. That is all.
(It's the container standing on the table in front of Ceres.)
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Our preschoolers do a program called First Look, where the activities focus on three truths. "God made me. God loves me. Jesus wants to be my friend forever." Each week they will have worship time, a Bible story video, activity and prayer time, as well as play time on the playground or in the gym.
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God has given many kinds of gifts to the church to help us carry out His calling. The gift of administration is often overlooked but is of great importance to the fulfillment of our mission. We desire to honor those who serve our church in this way!
"And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues."
We believe in the power of God to restore us inwardly and outwardly. We carve out a time of prayer and counsel during each service dedicated to healing, restoration, and seeking His will in our lives.
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We encourage everyone to plug in to a small group or mentoring relationship through the Athens Vineyard. Our small groups run on a 'semester' schedule with a variety of topics and group structures for men, women, couples, and families. We also encourage students to connect with a 'home away from home' through our Adopt-a-Student/Adopt-a-Family program. Our church facilitates and values mentoring relationships. We have sign ups twice a year to mentor or be mentored. This is an awesome way to pour out and be filled.
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