On November 18th, 2015, the Dean of Arts of the University of British Columbia released a public memorandum announcing the suspension of Professor Steven Galloway from his position as Chair of the Creative Writing Program, pending the investigation of "serious allegations". The memo went on to encourage students who had concerns about their "safety and well-being" to seek support through UBC's counselling services.
This memo was followed up by numerous print, radio and television interviews by the Dean of Arts and representatives of the University, although the "allegations" were unsubstantiated and unexamined and Professor Galloway himself was not provided with any details as to the allegations or the complainants. These actions cast a cloud of suspicion over Professor Galloway and created the impression that he was in some way a danger to the university community.
This impression has been amplified in the public sphere, severely damaging Professor Galloway's reputation and affecting his health. The University has not, however, made any allegations public, citing privacy concerns. No criminal charges were laid against Professor Galloway at the time. None has been laid since.
We therefore request that the University of British Columbia establish an independent investigation into how this matter has been handled by the Creative Writing Program, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and the senior administration at UBC.
We are not requesting that privacy be violated and understand that there are grievance proceedings in process. Justice, however, requires due process and fair treatment for all, which the University appears to have denied Professor Galloway.
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Al Bashir supporters demonstrate against Sudanese government
April 10 - 2020 KHARTOUM
Supporters of the ousted regime of former President Al Bashir protest the new government, April 9, 2020 (RD)
Yesterday, hundreds of supporters of the defunct regime of former President Omar Al Bashir staged a demonstration in central Khartoum – despite the ban on gatherings put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19).
The protesters demanded the government headed by Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok to be replaced, and carried banners calling for the continuation of subsidies on basic consumer goods and the improvement of the living conditions.
The demonstration was reportedly organised by a group called Hashed. The group is known for its loyalty to the regime of the deposed dictator Al Bashir.
This week, the country celebrated the first anniversary of the demonstrations in the Sudanese capital on April 6 last year that marched to the army command in downtown Khartoum, calling for the removal of the totalitarian regime of Al Bashir, and refused to leave. This led to a large sit-in in front of the Defence Ministry and the ousting of Al Bashir in a military coup on five days later.
The demonstrators continued their protests against a military government at the sit-in that grew into a huge opposition centre. They were violently removed by government forces on June 3.
The dismantling of the sit-in, also known as the 29 Ramadan massacre, caused the death of 127 people. About 700 protesters and others present at the sit-in that day were injured.
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June 29 - 2020
Sudan to commemorate slain demonstrators in mass marches tomorrow
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Keira Knightley is expecting her first child
It's been confirmed that Keira Knightley is pregnant with her first child with her husband musician James Righton.
Speaking to Elle UK, a rep confirmed that the actress is expecting her first child but that she would not be making any further comment on the matter.
Page Six reported yesterday that multiple sources confirmed that the actress is expecting after she reportedly avoided alcohol at the Moët British Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday night.
Speaking to Vogue in 2013 on the future possibility of becoming a mother she said: "Would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at."
As a star of this year's incredibly popular The Imitation Game, in which she stars with Benedict Cumberbatch, the A-lister has already picked up a Screen Actors Guild nomination for her portrayal of mathematician Joan Clarke.
Keira and James, who is the keyboard player for the Klaxons, married in the South of France on 4 May 2013. While the couple only had a small ceremony, the likes of Sienna Miller and Karl Lagerfeld attended the affair, and the bride wore a simple Chanel dress.


I probably had about 100 collages under my belt the night my art took me to the hospital.
This was several years ago. I had just finished a collage and it was about 11 pm. The collage piece of art consisted of hand dyed silk, altered watercolour paper with acrylic and the porcupine quills. Everything was glued, nothing was going anywhere, except when I brushed my hand flat against the piece to remove those tricky little art crumbs.
Three porcupine quills embedded into the side of my finger and they were not coming out.
Yes, it hurt, a lot. Calmly but in shock I snipped off two of the three inches of length. Mistake! No way were those quills going to be removed by myself, if anything the barb dug in and expanded, so off to the hospital emergency I went, red face and all.
Thanks to the E.R. Doc a little freezing and out they popped. I am ever so humble after that experience and have a great deal of respect now for the tools of my trade. In hindsight I am really glad that I use peroxide on my quills before I embellish with them.
P.S. Tetanus shots are good things.
Glad to hear it all turned out well. Those pieces will definitely be memorable!


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Parliament vs. People - Betrayer MPs tighten the noose
The Brexit Betrayers in Parliament who seized control last night moved immediately to tighten the noose and to cancel Brexit. They may succeed in the Commons, where 74% of MPs personally voted Remain despite lying with false manifestos to cheat their way to seats in the 2017 elections. Yes, politicians are consummate liars - quelle surprise. What hope had we that they would act with honour and dignity, these swine whose snouts are still coated in the mire of the expenses troughs? Last night the Commons was not so much the Parliament of Britain as Dante's eighth malbolge - pimps, seducers, flatterers dipped in human shit, liars, fornicators, barrators, perjurers, corrupt office-holders, half-wit frauds and peculators. They are the lowest scum in our land.
There will be a reckoning to come. 17.4 million votes will be heard - the clear majority of the nation gave their instruction to this noisome cabal of betrayers. It will prevail, either now through Parliament or later by other means with a new government prepared to use its prerogative powers.
If they imagine the People are blind to their perfidy they are mistaken - as this ComRes poll from the Telegraph shows. It also reinforces that which is the will of the people who decided to Leave the EU - that we now we want to go NOW, on WTO terms.
Pompey's patrician MPs, these bloated, privileged elitist fartbubbles, will have their beliefs prick'd.*
It's worth one again quoting constitutional expert Dr David Starkey -
The People voted 52 to 48 per cent to leave; an estimated 74 per cent of MPs voted to remain.
No representative assembly can sustain such a gulf. Either People or Parliament must give way.
And so it has proved as, in its profound lack of wisdom and in its disregard for the central thread of its own history, Parliament has decided it is the People who should change. Or, rather, be changed.
This is not the first time such a thing has happened. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Communist states were ruled by similarly pampered, out-of-touch and privileged elites who, against all the evidence, claimed to represent the People.
*"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon" - Walter Lippmann
Labels: betrayal, Brexit
Last night, the final flickering of the democracy candle in the UK spluttered out.
Yes, we can vote out the anti-democratic charlatans in the House of ConMen, but under our corrupt party political/electoral systems, we really only have the choice of different anti-democratic charlatans to replace them.
And anyway, by then it will probably be too late. Whatever deal the pro-EU Civil Service and this Remainer Parliament cobbles together with the EU will trap us forever ........ short of a revolution.
Millions will no longer bother to vote. And that's just how the Elite want it.
"Consent of the governed. In political philosophy, the phrase consent of the governed refers to the idea that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is only justified and lawful when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised."
I DO NOT CONSENT
17.4 million is a clear, but not overwhelming, majority of those who voted in the referendum.
It is not a clear majority of the nation, of sixty-six million people, It is only 26% of them. That is the problem facing our MPs, elected by, including others, the Leave voters.
If you don't like the British Constitution, then work to change it.
john cheshire said...
Only three days to go before we are out of the EU.
What have they "taken control" of. What have they betrayed the people for? (The polls cited are pretty damning).
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk has been signed. The locally tolerated satrap has done so. That the pretend parliament has - for whatever reason - not ratified it is irrelevant. A master cannot negotiate with a slave, he just cannot.
So they are going to vote on "options". Hasn't the EU made it clear that their creatures have until 12th April to ratify Brest-Litovsk.
If they can't do it themselves then the sheep must do it via a second refrendum.
Have I missed something (the bit where the imperium said it was open to genuine negotiation) I don't think I have.
Would even cancellation of article 50 (let's forget the legalities for a moment) be acceptable to the imperium? I can see how individual satrapies (e.g. Ireland) would like this. But there is a population that, despite half a century of remorseless propaganda, fundamentally doesn't accept the "inevitability" of "the project". There must come a point where the economic gains are outweighed by the political price.
Couldn't help noticing that Italy has joined China's silk road project. There is also talk that the EU should block it. Is this just a "fuck you" from an angry Italy? If so, you can hardly blame them. This is rather more of a threat to "the project" than any Brexit.
Parliament ignores the British people . Are they also blind to the wider world?
Mr Ecks said...
No--because as Macron's antics show--the globo elite aren't just going to leave us be. Ordinary folk are to be flopped lower than whaleshit--esp ordinary white folk--and they are going to kick us and kick us. Doing nothing is not an option.
I wish we had as many fighters as we do gutless defeatists who just can't wait to tell us how screwed we are and how nothing can be done. I'm way too young to remember 1940--but was it that way then?
Billy Marlene said...
As I sat through this debacle I began to doubt whether the 2016 Referendum had ever happened; was it a dream? Am I succumbing to the first creaks of dementia?
Then a disturbing, yet oddly enlightening, theme entered my mind. It was the final paragraph of Animal Farm.
Anon 8.33 - so much idiocy.
First there is no constitution to change
Second, 52% to 48% of those who voted constitutes a clear majority by any reckoning - and everyone knew when they voted that this would be decided by a simple majority, even if that majority was one vote.
JohnofEnfield said...
Methinks the BREXIT Party will destabilise the so called elite if there is an early General Election. 5% 10% 15% ....... 25% of the vote if the election happens whilst the traitorous act is still fresh in the memory. What answers would they have to a well led Single Issue Party? None of the current "leadership" of any of the main parties would survive such an apocalypse. Meanwhile the EU would feast on our cadaver: NI, Gibraltar, the City of London, the Falklands even Scotland.
The UK does have a Constitution. The only thing that it says expressly is "Parliament alone is the law". Crude majoritarianism is the hallmark of despotic rule too.
The referendum was promised in the first place because Cameron feared that UKIP posed a bigger electoral challenge than it eventually did. The expected surge didn't come because the electorate will not vote for a single-issue party in big enough numbers to significantly affect the arithmetic of Parliament. What Farage, or someone with a similar 'presence', should do is form an avowedly Eurosceptic party, but with a much broader manifesto that exploits the frustrations thrown up by the seismic shift caused by this Brexit betrayal. My feeling is that a 'bigger picture' vision of breaking the stranglehold of Westminster by devolving power and tax raising to the regions (modelled on, say, the Swiss system) would garner massive support and would bring about Brexit as a necessity.
Only a new party, not tainted by corruption and this Brexit embarrassment, can be trusted to deliver such a vision. There is more than enough time to organize such a party before the 2022 election, as the rapid rise of the Five Star Movement and Macron's En Marche will testify.
X is not a majority of the country, the region, the constituency etc can be used to overturn (or rationalise thinking that you should) ANY vote, election or referendum.
Don't even go there.
Don't forget, there is talk of a second referendum. I'm not sure it will happen but if you want to overturn the leave vote, what you're suggesting ain't too smart.
Every Act ever passed by Parliament was by, erm, 'crude majoritarianism' - does that mean that in your eyes not a single law on the statute books is legal?
many MPs new sitting were elected with the most slender of majorities - should they all now be unseated because they owe their places to 'crude majoritarianism'?
What an asinine and jejune outlook you have.
They may have voted to take control of Parliamentary business but all that means is deciding which of the Brexit options to debate and have indicative votes on. None of which are binding on TM. Yes, their favoured option may put pressure on her, but she has a potential scorched earth option that many overlook.
If TM prorogues Parliament and calls a GE, all of those MPs will be sent back to their constituencies, where they will all face their electorate during their campaigns. In the meantime, Government doesn't just stop. Effectively, that could mean (barring use of a SI to extend the deadline) we're out on Friday with no deal. She could just wipe her hands with the lot of them and basically tell them to sort it out themselves once the results of the GE are in.
In the meantime, if we've 'crashed out' with no deal, there will be no European elections and Farage and his band of merry men can stand in the GE. Yes, it means chaos but they've brought it on themselves. Do they really think their constituents are going to happy with them?
Of course, the risk is the next Govt., assuming we've left, could try to take us back in at a later date, but I doubt that they'd get a mandate for it. Political risk would be too high.
Just my opinion and pure speculation but then we'll all know the outcome by 23.00pm on Friday.
I wish we had as many fighters as we do gutless defeatists who just can't wait to tell us how screwed we are and how nothing can be done. I'm way too young to remember 1940--but was it that way then?-Mr X
Appositely someone who was there (although by my reckoning only a preteen), Michael Heseltine wrote the following yesterday:
I dismiss with contempt the image of us as an island wrapped in a union jack, glorying in the famous phrase that captured, for so many, Winston Churchill's spirit of defiance in 1940: "Very well, alone". I was there. I saw our army evacuated, our cities bombed, our convoys sunk. Churchill did everything in his power to end this isolation. Alone was never Churchill's hope or wish: it was his fear ...
Margaret Thatcher would have been appalled to see Britain excluded from the top table. Theresa May dashed across the Channel last week, only to be excluded from a meeting of our former partners, and presented with a take-it-or-leave-it offer. That is what the Brexiteers have done to our country: a national humiliation, made in Britain, made by Brexit.
Heselbollocks, Jack.
We have a defence alliance - NATO, an intelligence alliance - 5 Eyes and any number of bilateral treaties, agreements, mutual aid commitments and co-operation pacts. None of which involve surrendering our sovereignty.
Heselbollocks knows very well that Churchill never intended for the UK to become a satrap state of Europe. We are, and will remain, at the top table on our own recognisance - a member of G7, UN security council, nuclear armed nation, with 4 universities in the global top 20 whilst the EU27 have none.
The EU is for one primary reason - to tie France and Germany together in bonds of iron, so that neither may ever again inflict on us the destruction and loss of life that they have in the past.
"None of which involved surrendering our sovereignty"?
So the US bombing Libya, a then non-enemy, from UK soil, didn't compromise it one jot? When did the EU do anything remotely like that?
This "little Englander, dreaming of empire" meme is a remainiac invention and the tenacity with which they cling to it (and have for decades) is a measure of the sheer paucity of their arguments.
If May, or any British PM is allowed near the "top table" it's only to serve the wine (although if Juncker is there she'd need a fuck of a lot of help!)
Heseltine would have eagerly taken this country into the Euro. He can see (or rather wilfully chooses not to) the utter disaster that is. This is not somebody who understands the thing he professes to be so passionate about (or he understands it perfectly but dare not admit what it's purpose is or how he expects to benefit).
He has the sheer gall to suggest that "brexiteers" are responsible for May's fiasco. Could somebody explain, because I'm fucked if I can see how.
Pugh - That would be the same US whose dead lie in their tens of thousands in French soil because she is prepared to shed American blood to give others their freedom, would it?
The reason for the bombing in Libya was to prevent Ghaddafi from doing what Assad has done in Syria.
Two mad dictators, obsessed by power.
Ghaddafi, Assad and even Sadam Hussein kept their relevant countries under a leash that we have removed and now suffer the consequences of (except, to some extent, Syria, thankfully). I don't care how other countries treat their people but I care how the EU treats 'us' - with contempt and as a ripe fruit to be plucked and a richness to exploit.
Anyway, the 'EU' (aka France) were happy to sell Exocets to the Argies knowing full well where they'd be used.
As I understand things, we (the UK) will, should we be trapped under May's WA, be liable for EU debt as well as having to agree to give immunity from prosecution to all existing and retired EU bosses - a demand that is as disconcerting as it is ridiculous as 'what the hell have they done that requires a specific ruling to protect them or what are they GOING to do that requires it'?
" I don't care how other countries treat their people"
So the Holocaust and the mass murders by Stalin and Mao and Assad don't bother you at all ?
I see that even if we leave we are going to be reduced to driving clockwork noddy cars by 2022 because that is what the EU wants. Honestly it makes you weep. If there is to be a GE I suspect that most of these horrors, the Letwins et al, will be re-elected because they are "good" local MPs. Single issue parties do not do well at election time.
I wonder what we can do at a practical level to make our masters lives a misery? Most people do not have the stomach for revolution, the protest needs to cause little trouble for the protester but a maximum to the govt. rather like a small amount of sand can do horrible things to precision machinery, we need some imaginative grit in the engine of government.
We have local elections soon, I suggest that people vote for anyone except the Cons, Labour or Liberal. Yes it could cause chaos with the greens running things but it might start to wake up people.
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Characterisation of the diagnostic window of serum glial fibrillary acidic protein for the differentiation of intracerebral haemorrhage and ischaemic stroke
Cerebrovasc Dis. 2009;27(1):37-41. doi: 10.1159/000172632. Epub 2008 Nov 15.
Florian Dvorak 1 , Isabel Haberer, Matthias Sitzer, Christian Foerch
1 Department of Neurology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Background: The rapid differentiation between intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) and ischaemic stroke (IS) using biomarker testing would allow the prehospital, cause-specific management of stroke patients. Based on single measurements made during the acute phase of stroke, the value of serum glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was reported to be higher in ICH patients than in IS patients. The aim of the present study was to characterise the diagnostic window of serum GFAP for differentiating between ICH and IS.
Methods: 63 stroke patients admitted within 6 h of symptom onset were prospectively included. ICH (n = 18) and IS (n = 45) were diagnosed using brain imaging. Blood sampling was scheduled for 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h after stroke onset (if applicable), and serum GFAP was measured using an ELISA test.
Results: For the first 24 h after stroke, median GFAP values in IS patients remained below the detection limit. Between 2 and 6 h of stroke onset, serum GFAP was significantly higher in ICH patients than in IS patients (p < 0.001 for all 4 time points). According to a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis, the overall diagnostic accuracy of GFAP in differentiating between ICH and IS was >0.80 within the 2- to 6-hour time window. Two hours after stroke onset, serum GFAP values were significantly correlated with ICH volume (r = 0.755, p = 0.007).
Conclusions: The time window between 2 and 6 h after stroke onset is best for using GFAP to differentiate between ICH and IS. In the very early phase (i.e. <2 h), sensitivity for detecting ICH is low, thus hampering the application of GFAP as a near-patient test in the prehospital phase.
Copyright 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel.
Brain Ischemia / classification
Brain Ischemia / complications*
Brain Ischemia / pathology
Cerebral Hemorrhage / classification
Cerebral Hemorrhage / complications*
Cerebral Hemorrhage / pathology
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein / blood*
Stroke / blood*
Stroke / classification
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Dogs can be like children. They are cute, funny and make us swoon. They are loving and funny. However dogs can also be distructive at times. They may have unwanted behavior such as peeing and pooping in different parts of the house. They may also try to destroy furntiture. They may also be quarrelsome with other dogs.
But dogs can generally be trained to behave well. They can learn what to do in different situations in order to avoid being troublesome.
Dogs have different temperaments. A lot of the dog's behavior may depend on his breed and size. Some dogs have a lot energy and may want to run around and play to release their pent up vigor. If they are not given the chance to exercise and go for walks, they can be bored and therefore release their angst by tearing things apart.
On the other hand, there are dogs who are naturally quiet and want to be left alone. They are contented with sitting quietly on the sofa or rug and chiling. However when they get stressed out unnecessarily they can also cause trouble.
1. Start them early – Dogs are like kids. You need to spend time with them in order to teach them how to properly act around others. You need to make them feel that you are the parent and therefore they need to follow you. You can give them rewards and punishment to reinforce behavior.
2. Reward system – Rewarding a dog can work with both puppies and even adopted dogs. Dogs learn well when given a motivational treat such as delicous food and doggie treat snacks.
3. Punishment – Punishing a dog is not bad. It does not mean you will hurt them or abuse them. You may impose punishmentment by taking away their favorite toy, doggie bed or treats. You can also put them in a crate for short periods of time when they misbehave.
4. Reassure them – Some dogs may have felt abused or have had bad experiences with previous owners. This can cause them to have toilet accidents and make them feel ashamed or shaken. They may have been hurt or threatened and as a consequence they become aggressive as well. The best way to deal with this is to be kind and understanding.
Know when to pamper and know when to set a bit of distance. Take into account a lot of examples from the famous Dog Whisperer Caesar Milan.
Teaching a dog to behave properly may take time and effort. Invest time into this and your dog will be a good companion. Neglect your dog's training and he will turn out to be rowdy.
1. Have a regular schedule – Give your dog's meals on time. A lot a certain time for walks and exercise. This routine will help your dog form good habits.
2. Notice bad behavior – Never neglect bad behavior. When your dog pees in a corner, scold him. There is no need to hurt him but you need to let him know that he has done something wrong. Never ever hurt a dog because he will just feel anger for you and eventually will never follow you.
3. Teach him or her about other dogs and animals – A lof of times dogs may misbehave because they are the only animals in the house hold. Bringing your dog to a dog park allows him to get to know other dogs.
4. Show him love – Love is the best way for a dog to know that he or she should behave well. If a dog loves you he will tend to follow you.
Doggie training and discipline is now much easier with the help of the internet. All you just need to have is a lot of patience.
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Evaluation of the Fahamu transition plan: 01/09/2012-31/12/2013
The proposed external evaluation seeks to find out to what extent members of the Board of Trustees, Senior Management Team and other members of staff of Fahamu have implemented recommendations provided by the Change Manager as part of the transition process of the organisation
ABOUT FAHAMU
Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other's differences and realise their full potentials. Fahamu strengthens and nurtures the movement for social justice in Africa by generating knowledge to serve activism, bridging the gap between theory and practice - Tuliwaza (translates to we think or reflect); creating learning for, by and across movements – Adilisha (translates to teach or promote justice); amplifying Africa-centred voices, perspectives and solutions on policy and in decision making at all levels – Utetezi (translates to advocacy); and creating platforms for analysis and debate – Pambazuka (translates to awaken).
ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT
The Fahamu transition plan was meant to set out the main purpose, steps and activities in the dual process of handing over functions formerly performed by the Fahamu office in Oxford, United Kingdom to the Fahamu offices in Africa. In addition, the transition period sought to conduct a general re-organisation of Fahamu's work in Africa, including the strengthening of the governance and institutional capacity of the Fahamu offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Dakar, Senegal, as the Anglophone and Francophone African hubs.
Fahamu employs full and part time staff across three offices—Nairobi, Dakar and Oxford—and a number of consultants across Africa and the Diaspora. However, more than 80% of Fahamu's programmes and resources are currently in Africa. The rationale for the transition to a fully African institutional structure derives from this reality, together with the Pan-African spirit and mandate of the organisation, which have motivated a discussion among members of the Fahamu Senior Management Team, members of staff and Board of Trustees on a "Fahamu Africa Strategy" since 2011 with the aim to move progressively towards an African-based organisation with a fully African governance structure.
An Interim Senior Management Team was appointed together with a Changer Manager in order to support the completion of Fahamu's Africa transition. The role of the Change Manager was to lead the diagnosis of the organisation's management and financial systems, governance structures and human resources; conduct a collective visioning and conceptualisation exercise for Fahamu's Africa governance and institutional structure, with the participation of members of the Board and staff; provide recommendations for the strengthening of Fahamu's institutional and human resource capacities and develop a detailed transition plan and provide support for its implementation.
This proposed external evaluation seeks to find out to what extent members of the Board of Trustees, Senior Management Team and other members of staff of Fahamu have implemented recommendations provided by the Change Manager as part of the transition process of the organisation. It is expected that the transition period has resulted into a number of policy and practice changes at various levels of the organisation as has been envisaged at the beginning of the process. In addition, the evaluation seeks to find out if various resources namely personnel, financial such as the support from Oxfam Novib have been adequately utilised towards the achievement of an Africa-centred Fahamu.
The main purpose of the proposed evaluation is to find out if the intended outcomes of the transition period have been achieved. Specific objectives include the following:
-	To know what outcomes (intended and unintended) have been achieved by Fahamu during the transition period;
-	To find out if the intended outcomes have been achieved in a cost-effective and cost-efficient way;
-	To examine whether outcomes have contributed to some policy and practice changes within Fahamu during and after the transition period;
-	To know to what extent Fahamu contributed to women's empowerment and furthering of gender equality;
-	To establish lessons that can be learnt from Fahamu's experiences and shared with other stakeholders and allies.
Specific tasks
-	A review of Fahamu documents including various strategic plans, annual reports, documentation on the Fahamu transition plan, Change Manager reports and financial records among others;
-	Collecting feedback from beneficiaries of Fahamu's work across the continent and Diaspora through emails, telephone calls, face to face interviews, Skype calls and focused group discussions (where possible) among other methods;
-	Conduct interviews with members of the Board of Trustees, Senior Management Team and members of staff of Fahamu to assess their appraisal of the implementation of the Fahamu transition plan;
-	Obtain views, comments and feedback from various partners, stakeholders, friends and allies of Fahamu in particular those who closely followed the transition period of the organisation
-	To write a report on major findings of the transition period (01/09/2012-31/12/2013) and propose recommendations to Fahamu and its stakeholders.
-	A detailed review of the Fahamu transition plan;
-	An assessment of the various governance and leadership levels of Fahamu: Board, Senior Management Team and members of staff;
-	A written report of not more than 35 pages on major findings and recommendations on what Fahamu ought to improve.
Evaluator specifications
•	At least five years of experience in working with non governmental organisations;
•	At least a Master's degree in organisational development or related fields in social sciences;
•	Proven experience in research, monitoring and evaluation;
•	Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines;
•	An excellent communicator with good negotiation skills;
•	French, Kiswahili and any other African language skills will be desirable.
Consultancy duration
The consultancy is for 15 working days starting from 7 April 2014. A first draft of the evaluation report should be submitted on Monday 28 April 2014.
Applications should be provided by Monday 31 March 2014. Applications received after this date will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Interested candidates are invited to submit to the following:
•	Curriculum vitae of the consultant or team of consultants that highlights experience with similar assignments;
•	A detailed description of:
➢	Their understanding of the assignment
➢	How they intend to work on this project
➢	A detailed methodology and workplan
➢	Their expected daily fees in United States Dollars


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Lena Dunham Naked Truth About Vogue Shoot
By Michael Smith on January 18, 2014 1 Comment
Lena Dunham has opted to not answer the naked truth about her recent Vogue shoot. The 27 year-old daughter of sexual pop artist Carroll Dunham has rather craftily eluded the point brought up about her Vogue cover and the photographic spread which has, obviously to most who view it, been retouched.
The actress and filmmaker released a statement via French Slate which addresses the photoshoot itself, but, only pays minimal lip service to the photoshop issue. In fact Lena expresses ignorance of the photoshopping allegations and claims that the real issue seems to be why Vogue featured a woman who was different from the norm.
This appears to be the star/producer of Girls personal theme song. Her answer, earlier in the month at a press conference for her television show, to the question as to why it is always her character who appears nude in random scenes was that, if the journalist was not "into her" that was fine. Making the issue about her body shape, which is fat according to Howard Stern, and that she seemingly feels the need to inflict her less-than-perfect nudity on the public. Which was not the point of the journo's question at all.
The website, Jezebel offered a "bounty" to anyone who could provide the "untouched" photographic originals of Dunham's shoot. Lena took to Twitter to tweet her disdain about the bounty and has, through her phrasing of the post, made the issue about her versus the magazine's apparent photoshopping of the images.
To have a professional member of the entertainment industry claim complete ignorance of photoshopping by a magazine that has been caught out before strains credibility of said professional. Surely Dunham is not so naive to think that people really believe the issue is all about her body image and not about distorting images presented to the public as the truth.
Lena Dunham?
Equally naive is Vogue's claims that the pictures were not retouched. Photographs are photoshopped, almost, as a part of the process. The public have known about the retouching of photos for years. Even before Photoshop, airbrushing took place on a regular basis. Lena Dunham's photo shoot for Vogue would have been "touched up" even without addressing her waistline. The naked truth is that pictures of women have always been "perfected." Whether by Playboy airbrushing out veins from the centerfold's naked breasts or any other magazine toning down facial wrinkles or acne.
As a part of the entertainment business, as well as the "news" business, magazines sell the dream. The idea that every actor and actress is perfect. There are no double-chins, craterous wrinkles, "love-handles" or sagging breasts/butts. Stars, even non 'A' listers like Dunham are perfect; for the camera. This perfection is finely honed via the many "tricks" of the trade and for anyone to claim ignorance of the procedure strains that individual's credibility.
Lena Dunham has worn the title of feminist with pride. She also, apparently, takes great pride in showing off her natural assets as often as possible on her television show. Does Dunham have a fixation with appearing naked? Considering the style of art that her father produces it would be surprising if she did not have a desire to flaunt her body.
Although, to be fair, she could just be trying to prove a point with her "nonsensical" nudity on Girls. It has been opined that the actress is trying to live down the brutal description of shock jock Stern who referred to Lena as "a little fat chick" who resembled the feminine version of actor Jonah Hill. While that could be the case, Lena's statement that she does not have a problem with folks who are not "into her" seems to negate the Stern argument.
In effect, self posturing motives aside, the naked truth about Lena Dunham's photoshopped Vogue shoot is that it doesn't matter. Only those who insist on seeing all the warts, double-chins and wrinkles of their idols care. It has certainly been well publicised that all magazines indulge in the photoshopping of the rich and famous who adorn their pages. They even "touch-up" photos of the not rich and famous, i.e. models; it is part of their job to sell the dream. Whether that dream is one of perfection or perceived beauty it is all part and parcel of the package for every participant in the magazine, not just Lena Dunham.
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Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Role of Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin in Prolonging the Platinum-Free Interval and Cancer Antigen 125 Trends During Treatment
JS Tanguay, MBCHB, MRCP, FRCR*,
J Ansari, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR*,
L Buckley, MSc, PhD† and
I Fernando, MBBS, FRCP, FRCR, BSc*
* Clinical Oncology, University Hospital Birmingham; and
† Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit, Division of Cancer Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to JS Tanguay. E-mail: jake.tanguay{at}velindre-tr.wales.nhs.uk
Background: Epithelial ovarian cancer's response to platinum retreatment depends on the duration of response to first-line platinum therapy. Platinum-free interval predicts subsequent platinum sensitivity and is a prognostic factor. Little has been published on the effect of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) in the prolongation of treatment-free interval.
Methods: Patients treated with PLD were reviewed to assess response to platinum retreatment after PLD and to establish the use of cancer antigen 125 (Ca125) trends. All patients treated with PLD had progressed within 12 months of prior platinum therapy. Cancer antigen 125 fluctuations were categorized as the variances from the baseline (±10%, ±10%-25%, and >25%). The response to chemotherapy was defined as Ca125 reduction from the baseline of more than 50%, clinical, or radiological response.
Results: Fifty-nine women were identified. The response rate (RR) to PLD was 28.9%, and the median overall survival from PLD initiation was 62 weeks. The number of women demonstrating more than 25% reduction in Ca125 from the baseline increased progressively with each cycle; at cycle 2, 11%; cycle 3, 18%; cycle 4, 22%; and cycle 5, 27% (trend significant between cycles 2 and 4, P = 0.004). Fifteen patients were re-treated with platinum after progression after PLD with 80% (12/15) of the patients responding. The RR to platinum retreatment after PLD compares favorably with the historical data on the response to second-line platinum retreatment.
Conclusions: The sole use of early Ca125 trends in PLD treatment before cycle 4 may result in an erroneous discontinuation of PLD in potential responders. Retreatment with platinum after PLD may yield a good RR in selected patients even those with disease progression within 12 months after prior platinum treatment.
Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/IGC.0b013e3181a1c7aa


If you're spending 3 weeks in Europe and want to get a taste of its most famous cities in one go, this is the route for you! Whether you're a first-timer to Europe or coming back for more, these European capitals and star cities each have their own unique character.
Visit 10 cities in 7 countries. See the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Wall in Berlin. Ride the waterways of Amsterdam and Venice. Travel between cities on comfortable trains with captivating views.
Visit young and cosmopolitan Milan, the finest place for Italian cuisine, coffee, and of course fashion!
Don't miss: the Cathedral Square and its entertaining surroundings. View the city from the cathedral roof.
Got more time? Watch a soccer game at the San Siro stadium. Or take a day trip to celeb hotspot Lake Como.
From Milan's magnificent Central Station, take a train to Venice in just 2.5 hours.
Arrive by train in Venice to be greeted by romantic views of canals, bridges, and boats.
Don't miss: riding a gondola ferry (traghetto) across the Grand Canal, or splash out on your own private ride.
Got more time? Stroll from Rialto Bridge to the squares of San Polo for markets and an afternoon spritz.
A direct train takes you through the scenic Brenner mountain pass to Munich in 7 hours.
The Bavarian blockbuster, Munich. Expect a warm welcome, impressive architecture and culture galore.
Don't miss: the Kunstareal district. Full of world-class museums and galleries, it has something for everyone.
Got more time? Enjoy local beer at the Hofbräuhaus beerhall after a stroll through the Englischer Garten.
Next, take a Railjet train from Munich to Vienna in just 4 hours.
Follow in the footsteps of Mozart and Beethoven and visit Vienna, where you're never short on entertainment.
Don't miss: the Schönbrunn Palace with its extensive gardens, sculptures, and truly decadent interior.
Got more time? Get your thrills at the Vienna Prater, the world's oldest amusement park.
Direct EuroCity or Railjet trains will take you on to Budapest in 2 hours 20 minutes.
Explore the grand sights of Budapest. Check out Buda Castle by day, and the Chain Bridge by night.
Don't miss: the chance to unwind in this spa city. Take a dip in the Gellért or Széchenyi thermal baths.
Got more time? Take the train to Balatonakarattya and around Lake Balaton to see rural Hungarian life.
There are direct day trains (6 hours 45 minutes) and overnight trains (8 hours) to Prague.
From medieval cobbled streets to rooftop restaurants, the magic of Prague will charm you.
Don't miss: the astronomical clock (orloj) striking the hour. While you're there, explore the Old Town Square.
Got more time? Wander from the saintly statues of Charles Bridge up to the splendid castle complex.
It's a 4.5 hour direct train ride from Prague to Berlin.
Historic sites and a vibrant social scene await you in the dynamic, ever-changing capital of Germany.
Don't miss: hearing stories at the poignant Berlin Wall Memorial or graffiti-decorated East Side Gallery.
Got more time? Head to the Grunewald for a stroll through woodland or a swim in its freshwater lakes.
The high-quality Intercity Berlin train reaches Amsterdam in 6 hours 20 minutes.
The "Dam". Tolerant, open-minded, and a labyrinth of narrow streets and canals. Expect the unexpected.
Must-do: For a different perspective of the city, try a canal cruise. If you prefer dry land, rent a bike!
Reserve a seat on a Thalys train to Paris and you'll be there in less than 3.5 hours.
Enjoy the good life in Paris with a glass of red Bordeaux wine while resting your feet by the River Seine.
Don't miss: standing before the Eiffel Tower in one of the most Instagram-worthy moments of your life.
Got more time? Check out art classics (think Mona Lisa) at the Louvre or modern art at the Centre Pompidou.
From Paris, you can travel by TGV Duplex train to Nice in 6.5 hours.
It's time for you to relax and take it easy in the capital of the French Riviera. Nice!
Don't miss: soaking up the sun on the Promenade des Anglais with its cafés, palm trees, and pebble beach.
Got more time? It's just 7 minutes to sandy beaches in Villefranche-sur-Mer, and 20 to Monte Carlo casino.
If you're heading back to Milan, a direct train will get you there in under 5 hours.
This itinerary is designed to give an example of what is possible with a Eurail train pass. It's made for independent travelers who want to shape their own Europe itinerary. 3 weeks give you enough time to spend 2 nights in all these famous cities. In each destination you have the freedom to make your own plans.
The best train pass to use to follow this itinerary is the Eurail Global Pass. It gives you the luxury and flexibility to travel by train in all these countries on any day of your trip. Want to spend more time in a city and less in another? With Eurail, that's not a problem! Simply choose a train pass with a longer validity period.


Pollen Presses are the Ganja Gadget every stoner should get after a grinder. If you save up enough keif from all the weed you grind up, a pollen press will turn that powder into a convenient and smokeable mini brick.
If you have a quality grinder it'll have a part in the bottom seperated by a screen. When you grind up weed the crystals and fine bud dust will drop down into that chamber. That powder is what is called keif or keef.
The pollen press uses two caps to pressurize keef put into it's center. The caps push in on two opposing solid cylinders, closing the space in between them. If you put your keef in that spot and turn the caps you'll have a very dense and potent brick of almost pure THC.
To use it simply collect your pollen, remove one pin and put your pollen in the middle. Once in the press, place the removed pin back in the press and screw the lid closed. For best results, let sit overnight allowing pollen to ferment together and form a hard mass. Remove from the press and enjoy! Nice to give as a present to your friends.
The pollen grinder sold from Grasscity.com is great quality for it's price. This is an item you'd expect to be double maybe even triple it's price.


 Numbers 20:5 Interlinear: and why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place? no place of seed, and fig, and vine, and pomegranate; and water there is none to drink.
"Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink."
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it [is] no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither [is] there any water to drink.
Why did you take us out of Egypt and bring us to this terrible place? There's no place to plant seeds, fig trees, vines, or pomegranates! And there's no water to drink!"
and why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place? no place of seed, and fig, and vine, and pomegranate; and water there is none to drink.


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After saving thousands of lives, Syria's White Helmets are nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The Syrian Civil Defence Units, also known as the White Helmets, have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Credited with saving over 56,000 lives and comprising about 130 volunteers, the group of rescue workers may now receive the world's most recognizable 'peace prize' for their work, Global Voices reported.
In a recent interview with Public Radio International, 29-year-old White Helmet Ishmael Alabdullah gave from Aleppo what could be seen as the White Helmets' philosophy:
"When you see human beings suffering, you need to do something to help them. I consider everyone who is staying in Aleppo, all of them, are heroes."
On their website, the White Helmets explain "what it takes to save a life":
"In the deadliest conflict of our era an unlikely group of heroes has emerged. Former tailors, bakers, teachers and other ordinary Syrians have banded together to save lives from the rubble of bombardment and the violence of war in Syria. Forming the Syria Civil Defence, their distinctive uniform of a white helmet now symbolises hope for millions."
"When the bombs rain down, the White Helmets rush in. In a place where public services no longer function these unarmed volunteers risk their lives to help anyone in need, regardless of their religion or politics. These volunteer rescue workers have saved over 60,000 lives."
"The White Helmets motto is taken from the Quran: 'to save a life is to save all of humanity'. In a conflict where too many have chosen violence, the White Helmets wake up every day to save the lives others are trying so hard to take."
"Their bravery has inspired people across the planet — from the children in Syria who play at being rescue workers, to the students in Norway who awarded them their town's peace prize, and to their nomination now for the Nobel Peace Prize."
The 'Nobel Peace Prize for the White Helmets' campaign is being supported by over 120 organizations.
Syrian organizations include:
Syrian Nonviolence Movement; Kesh Malek; Dawlaty; Women Now for Development; Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression; The United Medical Office of Eastern Ghouta; Syrian Network for Human Rights; Douma Local Council, Homs Media Center; Free Syrian Lawyers Union and Baytna Syria.
International organizations include:
The Asfari Foundation; Christian Aid; International Trade Union Confederation; Islamic Relief UK; Pax Christi Vlaanderen; Syrian American Medical Society; Doctors of the World UK; Mayday Rescue; Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies; Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations; Karam Foundation; Syria Relief and Development; and Bridge of Peace.
The White Helmets were nominated by, among others, Jo Cox, the UK Labour Member of Parliament who was brutally murdered by a 52-year-old man on June 16, 2016. Following Cox's death, her husband Brendan launched a memorial fund set to raise money for causes supported by the late MP. The three causes chosen were the 'Royal Voluntary Service', an NGO which assists the elderly, 'HOPE Not Hate', the movement 'fighting for a modern, inclusive Britain' and, finally, the White Helmets.
In just five days, the campaign managed to raise close to £ 1.35 million (1.7 million US dollars) with over 41,000 contributions and has since surpassed the £ 1.5 million goal (1.9 million US dollars). Cox's family was even presented with an honorary white helmet by the head of the White Helmets, Raed Saleh, a highly symbolic award as it is "normally reserved for volunteers who have lost their lives rescuing civilians in Syria". Saleh also released the following video on behalf of the White Helmets.
In March 2016, Amnesty International accused the Assad and Russian regimes of targeting hospitals as a strategy of war, saying that they "appear to have deliberately and systematically targeted hospitals and other medical facilities over the last three months to pave the way for ground "forces" to advance on northern Aleppo". In June 2016, The New Yorker's Ben Taub published a harrowing account of what he called 'the shadow doctors'. He wrote:
"In the past five years, the Assad regime has assassinated, bombed, and tortured to death almost seven hundred medical personnel, according to Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that documents attacks on medical care in war zones. (Non-state actors, including ISIS, have killed twenty-seven.) Recent headlines announced the death of the last pediatrician in Aleppo, the last cardiologist in Hama. A United Nations commission concluded that "government forces deliberately target medical personnel to gain military advantage," denying treatment to wounded fighters and civilians "as a matter of policy."
Many more hospitals have since been bombed. At least 375 strikes on medical facilities have been documented since the start of the Syrian Revolution, according to Physicians for Human Rights. Under such conditions, many of the men and women treating the wounded in makeshift underground hospitals can range from first year medical students to people with no medical training at all.
Similarly, the first responders comprising the bulk of the White Helmets are ordinary civilians, from bakers to nurses, painters to tailors, which is why supporters of the campaign are asking the public to sign a statement in support of the White Helmets receiving the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
Syria Civil Defense Syrian heroes Nobel Peace Prize


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Basescu: DNA cannot accuse me of anything, nobody can state on the basis of evidence that I took bribe
Traian Basescu is increasingly vehement when he comes to Elena Udrea's defence. The former president claims that both he and the former Tourism Minister are two targets for television channels but avoids saying that the two of them are targets for state institutions.
"Categorically, I and Elena Udrea are two moving targets for the television channel of the old snitch Felix and for the television channel of the young snitch Ghita. I can't believe that state institution can make me their target. Of course any person has to offer explanations," Basescu stated on Thursday when leaving the PMP headquarters.
The former president also claims that the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) cannot accuse him of anything because nobody can state on the basis of evidence that he took a bribe. "As much as some would like, I don't have the outlook of ending up there for the simple fact that there is no person in Romania that could say he gave me a cent. Many could say that but they would have to prove it. I am not nervous," Basescu added.
In what concerns the Elena Udrea case, Basescu states that he maintains his point of view. "I have the conviction that the judiciary will be fair in Elena Udrea's case and the denunciations will not be proven, because Elena Udrea is not the kind of person to whom one could go with a bag full of money," the former president stated.
Traian Basescu also made some statements about the Microsoft case. "Someone was saying that Basescu knew about Microsoft. I never denied the fact that since 2012 I received from intelligence services reports on the acts, but the acts had already been made, I could no longer prevent them. I saw how the propagandists of lies were rolling their eyes talking about how Basescu told Vreme to no longer talk to Sandu. I can't tell anyone not to talk to someone, but I sure recommended him to see what he did while he was at the ministry," Traian Basescu added.
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Q: Image uploaded to S3 becomes corrupted I'm having issues uploading a file from postman to aws lambda + s3. If I understand correctly the image has to be a base64 string and send via JSON to work with lambda and API Gateway so I converted an image to a base64 and I'm using the base64 string in postman

The file uploads to S3, but when I download the s3 object and open it I get

So I don't think I'm uploading it correctly. I've used a base64 to image converter and the image appears so the base64 string is correct before sending it via postman so something in my setup is off. What am I doing wrong? I appreciate the help!
upload.js
const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
const s3 = new AWS.S3();
exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {
    let data = JSON.parse(event.body);
    let file = data.base64String;

    const s3Bucket = "upload-test3000";
    const objectName = "helloworld.jpg";
    const objectData = data.base64String;
    const objectType = "image/jpg";
    try {
        const params = {
            Bucket: s3Bucket,
            Key: objectName,
            Body: objectData,
            ContentType: objectType
        };
        const result = await s3.putObject(params).promise();
        return sendRes(200, `File uploaded successfully at https:/` + s3Bucket + `.s3.amazonaws.com/` + objectName);

    } catch (error) {
        return sendRes(404, error);
    }
};
const sendRes = (status, body) => {
    var response = {
        statusCode: status,
        headers: {
            "Content-Type": "application/json",
            "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": "Content-Type,X-Amz-Date,Authorization,X-Api-Key,X-Amz-Security-Token",
            "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": "OPTIONS,POST,PUT",
            "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials": true,
            "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
            "X-Requested-With": "*"
        },
        body: body
    };
    return response;
};

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A: When building the params you should add content encoding, otherwise you're just uploading the text data:
const params = {
  Bucket: s3Bucket,
  Key: objectName,
  Body: objectData,
  ContentType: objectType,
  ContentEncoding: 'base64'
};

edit
Okay I have checked the file, I think you might be misunderstanding what will happen when you store the image in base64.
Windows or a browser for that matter can't read a jpg file in base64 (as far as I know), it must be converted first. When you have an image in the browser with a base64 source, the browser handles this conversion on the fly but the base64 data inside the "helloworld.jpg" container is useless in windows without converting it.
There's two options, either convert once it reaches your server then upload directly as utf8 or have a layer in between, converting the image as it's requested.

A: The problem might be the passing format of image in Body, as it is not getting passed as expected by s3.upload parameters (It says Body key must be Buffer to be passed).
So, The simple solution is pass the Body as buffer, if your file is present in any location in the directory then don't pass it like

// Wrong Way

const params = {
   Bucket: 'Your-Buket-Name',
   Key: 'abc.png', // destFileName i.e the name of file to be saved in s3 bucket
   Body: 'Path-To-File'
}

Now, the problem is the file gets uploaded as Raw Text, which is corrupted format and will not be readable by the OS on downloading.
So, to get it working pass it like

// Correct Way According to aws-sdk library

const fs = require('fs');
const imageData = fs.readFileSync('Path-To-File'); // returns buffer
const params = {
   Bucket: 'Your-Buket-Name',
   Key: 'abc.png', // destFileName i.e the name of file to be saved in s3 bucket
   Body: imageData // image buffer
}
const uploadedFile = await s3.upload(params).promise();

Note: During answer i was using -> "aws-sdk": "^2.1025.0"
Hope this will help you or somebody else. Thanks!

A: I got it working by adding the base64 string in JSON format like so

and then sent
let decodedImage = Buffer.from(encodedImage, 'base64'); as the Body param.
updated upload.js
const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var s3 = new AWS.S3();

exports.handler = async (event) => {

    let encodedImage = JSON.parse(event.body).base64Data;
    let decodedImage = Buffer.from(encodedImage, 'base64');
    var filePath = "user-data/" + event.queryStringParameters.username + ".jpg"
    var params = {
        "Body": decodedImage,
        "Bucket": process.env.UploadBucket,
        "Key": filePath
    };

    try {
        let uploadOutput = await s3.upload(params).promise();
        let response = {
            "statusCode": 200,
            "body": JSON.stringify(uploadOutput),
            "isBase64Encoded": false
        };
        return response;
    }
    catch (err) {
        let response = {
            "statusCode": 500,
            "body": JSON.stringify(eerr),
            "isBase64Encoded": false
        };
        return response;
    }

};

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ALBION are waiting to see whether Pablo Ibanez will agree to become their third summer signing.
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Q&A: Teresa Baranowski
Teresa Baranowski (12) poses in her senior girls soccer shirt. This was Baranowski's fourth year on the girls soccer team.
Sarah Bredar, Author
Q: How long have you been playing soccer?
A: "[I've been playing] since I was three."
Q: What made you want to try out for the LC team?
A: "[I wanted to] continue my soccer career."
Q: How long have you been on varsity?
A: "[I've been playing] since freshman year, when I got pulled up [from JV]."
Q: What is your favorite memory from playing?
A: "[My] favorite memory would have to be [at each game that] we won, [it] brought the team closer together, and we began to trust each other and listen to each other more as the season went on."
Q: As a senior, what were your goals for your last season at LC?
A: "[I wanted the team to] win sectionals, regionals, semi-state, and make a state appearance."
Q: What is it like having your brother play on the boys team?
A: "Me and my brother played on the same team for many years. Our dad coached us. When I turned 10, we went to a premier team. We were put into different age groups, but we [still] play for each other and we test each others' limits and always look to improve each other whether it's new moves or shooting."
Q: How do you both connect the two teams during training?
A: "We recently had a scrimmage, the girls versus the guys team, and we both play in the middle so we had to mark [or guard] each other and it brought back lots of memories from where from when we were little."
Q: Do you play on a team outside of LC?
A: "My last club season was last year; I will be playing with friends for the winter indoor soccer [season]."
Q: How has being on the team affected your high school experience?
A: "Being on the LC team has shown me [many] good and bad experiences that could happen when I'm older. The most valuable lesson I learned was junior year when I was announced captain. I knew I had to step up and take on a leadership role. It's going to be a big help when I'm older because it gave me confidence in everything I do."
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Column: Ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment would help all kinds of Americans — including men
By Patt MorrisonColumnist
It would be some kind of symmetry if, 100 years after American women got the vote through the 19th Amendment, they finally acquired constitutional equality through the Equal Rights Amendment.
One week into the new year, Virginia's newly Democratic legislature is expected to ratify the ERA -- the 38th state and final state required to make official the amendment that Congress passed in 1972.
But wait – there's more. Congress unusually added and extended a deadline for the states to ratify, and that expired more than 30 years ago. Democrats are ready to extend the deadline to certify the amendment, and there's buzz that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), with an eye to shoring up GOP support from women, may be willing to do the same.
How an amendment that looked like a slam-dunk nearly 50 years ago got lobbied almost out of existence is a story Linda Coberly knows well. She chairs the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition's legal task force, and though much has changed to improve women's rights and status since then, she says the ERA is still vital, both legally and symbolically.
In January, when the newly constituted legislature convenes in Virginia, it may very well become the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Then maybe all hell breaks loose. What happens then?
We really are in an unprecedented situation. The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress in 1972. And when Congress passed the ERA and sent it to the states for ratification, it included in the preamble a deadline for ratification. But the deadline that Congress included on the ERA is not in the amendment itself; it's contained only in the joint resolution of Congress that passed the amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. And as a result, it can be changed. And there are bills pending in our Congress right now that would do just that.
How different is the landscape for women's rights and women's legal status from what it was in 1972 when Congress passed this? Have a lot of state laws, even federal laws perhaps, undercut or obviated the need for such an amendment?
Well, yes and no. A lot of the laws that were in existence at the time of the ERA's proposal in the '70s have been changed. There are fewer laws today that explicitly discriminate on the basis of sex.
So, for example, there used to be laws in some states that stated that after a divorce, the woman received support from the husband or, in a custody situation, the mom gets custody.
Some of the arguments against the Equal Rights Amendment in the '70s were that passing it could potentially eliminate those kinds of laws, which were, according to many people, protective of the rights of women. But those laws have been changed already.
And we now, instead of defaulting to the mother, actually look at the best interests of the child. And instead of defaulting to a husband paying alimony, we look at the relative income of the two spouses, all of which is a much better system, obviously, because it gets more directly at the thing that the law was designed to prevent or protect.
So this could arguably benefit men in instances like this?
Oh, it certainly could benefit men. What the ERA would do is really create a constitutional equality principle that would hold that we can't have laws or government practices that discriminate on the basis of sex. And that would include laws that discriminate against men.
You asked about what has changed, and is it still necessary to have the Equal Rights Amendment after all that's happened in the last several decades.
And I guess I have two responses to that. One is that if the ERA is mostly symbolic, as some people say it is, I don't see that as a reason not to ratify it. I see that as a reason to ratify it. If it is symbolic, if we already embrace the principle of no discrimination on the basis of sex in our laws, then isn't it an important symbol to put into our nation's governing document?
But more broadly, I do think it adds something and it adds something important. All of the constitutions that have been created since World War II have a constitutional equality principle in them. And the United States has played an important role in bringing those constitutions about.
And yet the ERA is still the subject of opposition in our own country and isn't part of the Constitution. So why not? The fact that it is opposed in some small quarters tells me why it's still necessary. And we know now from the events of the last several years that laws that protect against discrimination on the basis of sex can be limited. They can be repealed. Rights that exist can be rolled back. And there are many areas where we don't have statutes that protect against discrimination on the basis of sex.
We don't have laws that people can use to challenge discrimination by the federal government in certain respects, or discrimination by law enforcement, or discrimination in how law enforcement agencies prioritize different kinds of complaints -- discrimination, for example, against women who have been raped and whose rape kits aren't tested, or discrimination against victims of domestic violence.
Let's talk about the opposition and what it looks like now, and what it looked like almost 50 years ago when the Equal Rights Amendment looked like a slam dunk to pass and pass quickly. You had a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, who had a significant voice and scared people into saying, well, this will mean same-sex bathrooms, this will mean drafting women. What's changed? What is effective now in the opposition to the ERA?
The opposition to the ERA today uses a lot of the same talking points as Phyllis Schlafly did. When I testified in support of the Equal Rights Amendment ratification effort in Illinois [which passed it in 2019], I got questions from opponents about same-sex bathrooms and whether passing the Equal Rights Amendment would mean that we had to eliminate any men's and women's bathrooms in public buildings.
I got questions about whether it would make it impossible for there to be an all-male draft -- really all the same points.
A lot of the parade of horribles that Phyllis Schlafly talked about in the 1970s has not come to pass in the states that have equal rights amendments. I think the opposition is largely the same in terms of its talking points. But it's much, much smaller.
And you know, at one point of history, when the Equal Rights Amendment was originally sent to the states for ratification, it had very broad bipartisan support. It had overwhelming support in Congress.
It was part of both parties' political platforms, and states fell all over themselves to be the first to ratify it. The first ratification came within hours of it passing in Congress.
It wasn't until several years in that the opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment began to really coalesce around Phyllis Schlafly and the progress slowed. And it did, I think, capitalize on fears that men and women had at that time about some of the cultural changes that were happening in our society, including women working.
That was a big narrative of Phyllis Schlafly, that the Equal Rights Amendment would hit home to homemakers, which she thought was a really big problem because she thought women should be homemakers.
And we're now far enough past the entry of women into the workforce in significant numbers that the issue about the fears about women working I don't think exist anymore in the same way they did.
Now, don't get me wrong, there are lots of issues that affect the equality of women in the workplace. But I don't think we have the same kind of somewhat irrational fear about what will happen to our culture if women start working outside the home.
I think it's certainly true that the Equal Rights Amendment would make it impossible to have an all-male draft.
In fact, the Pentagon recommended, didn't it, Selective Service registration for women a couple of years ago?
It did. And [Sen.] John McCain recommended it. And in fact, there was a federal judge in Texas not long ago who held that an all-male draft would violate existing rights against sex discrimination under the 14th Amendment.
We now have women serving in all aspects of the military, including in combat. And it would seem really incongruous to have an all-male draft in 2019 when women already serve with distinction in all aspects of the military.
What about measures that have been corrective over the years? For example, if you have a program for STEM for women to bring more women into science and technology, engineering, mathematics, what would happen to programs like that were the ERA to pass?
Well, I think we would need to take a look at those programs and we can take some lessons from the way that minority set-aside programs have been evaluated in the past. And they have not gone away. They have had to evolve and change to focus more specifically on underrepresented populations or disadvantaged populations.
And I think we would see the same thing in respect to women-owned businesses. I don't think there's any reason to think that those would be abolished, that those kinds of protective measures would immediately be abolished, which is sometimes what you hear from the opposition.
When you're amending the Constitution, you're necessarily dealing with broad principles. So it is always a little bit challenging to say in very specific terms what the effect would be on a given case. And I say that not to be cute about it, but because that's the nature of what you're doing with the Constitution.
What impact could it have on the transgender community and protections for people there?
First of all, the Equal Rights Amendment protects against discrimination on the basis of sex, so, for example, if there was a state law or a state practice that discriminated against women, and that state law or practice had an impact on a trans woman, the trans woman would be able to sue under the Equal Rights Amendment because of being affected by discrimination on the basis of sex, meaning in that instance, discrimination against women.
There's another question, which I suspect is what you're getting at, which is, would the Equal Rights Amendment provide an additional protection against discrimination on the basis of trans status? There's actually a related issue that's pending before the Supreme Court right now. The issue arises under Title VII and Title IX, which are federal statutes that prohibit certain kinds of discrimination on the basis of sex. And the Supreme Court is going to look at whether those statutes also prohibit discrimination based on some distinction between the sex that you were born with and your expressed gender.
We'll have to look at the reasoning of the court's decision, whatever it is, and think about how that would impact the court's interpretation of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Of course, there are concerns about what this would mean for abortion and reproductive rights, for pregnancy, for maternity leave.
Again, I think it is it is difficult to say with any specificity what specific kinds of restrictions on reproductive rights, for example, would fall under an Equal Rights Amendment analysis and yet would survive under the constitutional protections that exist today for abortion rights.
I have heard some opponents of the ERA, including one member of Congress during the House Judiciary Committee hearing, say essentially that passing the ERA would instantaneously invalidate all restrictions on abortion in all 50 states, making abortion available on demand for nine months.
I have no reason to think that that's true. I think that's fear-mongering.
Do you have any personal stake in this, a sense of why this matters to you?
I grew up in a relatively conservative community in rural Michigan and had nothing to do with the Equal Rights Amendment when I was a kid. Nor did my mother.
I got involved in this when the chairman of my law firm -- I work at Winston & Strawn -- heard a story on NPR about the Nevada ratification [in 2017]. And he summoned me to his office and said, 'I need to talk to you about something really important that we have to get involved in. It's the Equal Rights Amendment.'
We put together a team. We started doing research. We did work to support the ratification effort in Illinois. Illinois did ratify, which was one of the most rewarding and exciting days of my entire career.
And I see it as incredibly important for our young people today, for my daughters. It really has come home to me about how important it is that they are able to look at our nation's founding document and see that they have a right to equal treatment under the law.
Patt Morrison
Patt Morrison is a longtime Los Angeles Times writer, columnist and podcaster who has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes. Her broadcasting work has won six Emmys and 12 Golden Mike awards. Both of her nonfiction books have been bestsellers: "Rio LA," her book about the Los Angeles River, and "Don't Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice and the American Newspaper." She the first woman in nearly 25 years to be honored with the L.A. Press Club's lifetime achievement award. Pink's, the legendary Hollywood hot dog stand, named its veggie dog after her.