The vibrant city of Hong Kong is the perfect destination to combine with the idyllic island of Bali. And for Rugby Fans this is your opportunity to watch one of the most exciting events on the Rugby calendar - Cathay Pacific / HSBC Hong Kong Sevens. If you would like to extend your stay and see more of the city, enjoy the bustling street markets or the upmarket malls of Hong Kong. Hong Kong is home to a number of attractions, offering something for everyone.
After a busy few days, take a short flight to Bali where you can relax after all the excitement of the games. The island offers a variety of different beach resorts, from the luxurious gated development of Nusa Dua, to the traditional Sanur where small hotels are scattered along the sandy shores. Head inland to Ubud and you will discover lush rice terraces, ancient temples and thriving arts and crafts communities. Bali is the ultimate place to relax and unwind and with regular connections from Hong Kong it's really easy to combine city and beach in one holiday.
Start your adventure in Hong Kong, a vibrant metropolis where East meets West and ancient meets modern, we recommend spending a minimum of three nights here to really get to know Hong Kong. Take a ride on the Peak Tram funicular railway, watching Hong Kong Island's skyscrapers pass by your window as you climb to The Peak. At the top enjoy the stunning views of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. With over 10,000 restaurants to choose from Hong Kong is a food lovers paradise. A trip to Hong Kong is not complete without at least a little bit of shopping, from street markets to high end shopping centres, you are sure to find something. A holiday to Hong Kong will leave you with unique and unforgettable experiences.
Why not begin your holiday with three nights in the beautiful and bustling city of Hong Kong? With many shopping malls and local markets to explore you'll have no trouble finding a bargain or two and once you're all shopped out take the tram to the top of Victoria peak and enjoy spectacular city views. We recommend spending three nights in Hong Kong.
Just less than four hours flight from Hong Kong you will arrive on the tropical island of Bali. Relax on the beaches, explore the many temples including Goa Gajah, Tanah Lot and Ulun Danau Beratan and take a trip to the rice terraces surrounding the town of Ubud. We recommend spending seven nights in Bali.


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Rose Lorraine (Marcelle Rose Jeanne Tournoux), est une actrice française, née  à Valdoie (Territoire de Belfort) et morte à Beaumont-du-Périgord (Dordogne) le  (à l'âge de 94 ans).

Elle est active de 1932 à 1944. Elle tourne dans 10 films au total dont 5 avec le réalisateur Karl Anton.

Filmographie complète
 1932 : Riri et Nono se débrouillent de Marc Didier - court métrage -
 1932 : Une petite femme dans le train de Karl Anton
 1932 : Un chien qui rapporte de Jean Choux
 1933 : Rien que des mensonges de Karl Anton
 1933 : Un soir de réveillon de Karl Anton
 1933 : Les Surprises du sleeping de Karl Anton
 1934 : Les Géants de la route de Pierre-Jean Ducis - moyen métrage -
 1934 : Mam'zelle Spahi de Max de Vaucorbeil
 1934 : Quatre à Troyes de Pierre-Jean Ducis
 1944 : Service de nuit de Jean Faurez

Notes et références

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Actrice française de cinéma
Naissance en juillet 1909
Décès en août 2003
Nom de scène
Décès à 94 ans
Naissance dans le Territoire de Belfort
Décès en Dordogne

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Fen Bank Greyhound Sanctuary is a registered charity dedicated to the protection and re-homing of ex-racing Greyhounds. We are based at Friskney near Skegness in South Lincolnshire, and were established in December 1997. The Sanctuary, which obtained independent registered charity status in 1998, provides comfortable spacious accommodation for around 20 greyhounds of all ages who have come from all over the United Kingdom. We take in dogs from many sources – trainers, owners, the police, the RSPCA and other welfare groups. Some are cruelty cases, including dogs with physical and emotional scars, dangerously underweight dogs, and dogs seriously ill from neglect.
Fen Bank Greyhound Sanctuary does not support or condone greyhound racing. However, the Sanctuary was founded to be "for the rescue and rehabilitation of ex-racing greyhounds in need". The Sanctuary therefore has to maintain links with individuals and organisations within greyhound racing to be able to provide the best possible chance of successfully meeting its aims.
We welcome visitors every afternoon until 3pm (other times by appointment) – we are waiting for your visit. At busy times you may have to bear with us as we are a working kennel, so the dogs come first!
Each greyhound has a warm kennel, their own run, and in addition there are three large galloping paddocks for free exercise, one of which is covered in several inches of sand. All dogs are walked almost every day and as far as possible they are treated like the pets they are destined to become.
We provide fully-supported homing and follow-up programmes for every greyhound, including vetting procedures and a help line. All our dogs are neutered, inoculated, wormed, health checked and micro-chipped before being placed in a new home. Although we do our best to ensure that our greyhound adoptions go smoothly for both new owner and dog, there are occasions when a homing fails, and we then insist that dogs MUST come back to Fen Bank. A Fen Bank dog is a Fen Bank dog for life.
As an independent registered charity, the Sanctuary relies on donations, our shops at Alford and Spilsby and a programme of events during the year to continue to support the dogs in our care. We are members of the Association of Dogs and Cats Homes and our Honorary Friends are Clarissa Baldwin OBE, Annette Crosbie OBE and John Curran.


What does the helpless Babe lying in an animal feed trough tell us about what God is like? In the story of Jesus' birth as recorded in Matthew and Luke, we are given a window into His breathtaking meekness and humility. From the circumstances leading up to His birth to that beautiful moment in Bethlehem, God forever declared His love and desire for the creatures He made to be with Him and to see His glory.
On Thursday, Jesus and his disciples celebrate Passover: a yearly feast for Israel to remember their slavery in Egy… t.co/CoX9qEp3mo 6 hours 59 min ago.


Each year Communities In Schools (CIS) offers a scholarship to a graduating senior (12th grade) from a CIS school or program in memory of Joan Benner Fuller. The annual award provides $1,500 in tuition assistance to one deserving senior towards education at an accredited college/university, business school, trade school, or training program.
Joan Benner Fuller was a member of the Communities In Schools of the Lehigh Valley Board of Directors. Tragically, she died in a car accident in October 2011. Throughout her life, Joan generously volunteered her time and energy to many worthy causes and advocated for access to art and education for all.
She was a graduate of Moravian Seminary for Girls, Pine Manor College and Albion College, earning her Masters in Education at Lehigh University. Joan worked for the Council on International Educational Exchange in New York City and taught English at South Mountain Junior High School. Joan was passionate about the mission of the Society of the Arts of the Allentown Art Museum (SOTA), serving as an active member and President from 2000-2002. She enjoyed being a Docent for the museum, sharing her appreciation for art with school children and others. With her husband Peter she founded Embrace Your Dreams, an organization that impacts the lives of young people of diverse backgrounds through education that promotes positive values, physical skills and sportsmanship. She was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels. Joan was a member of The Fortnightly Club, Lehigh and Saucon Country Clubs, and was a subscribing member to the Visiting Nurses Association, which supports Sacred Heart Hospitals Hospice and Pediatric Services.
Her family has set up this scholarship in her name to continue her legacy in education.


The month of October is set aside for Domestic Violence Awareness. Yes, it is also unfortunately Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which draws a lot of attention away from DV awareness. Lets not let that stop us my friends!! Women in the US have a 1 in 8 chance of getting breast cancer but a 1 in 4 chance of having domestic violence in their lifetime.
get family and friends together to collect items they need like travel size toiletries, clothes for women and children and/or children's toys.
volunteer – you could work at their 24 hour call center, in their office or at their clothes bank.
Take a selfie or group photo and share why and how you are standing up against domestic violence. Use our printable sign http://ncadv.org/TAS%20placard.pdf and hashtags #tasncadv #STANDwithNCADV #takeastand and we will add you to our twitter feed, Facebook and Pinterest. Email your photos to mainoffice@ncadv.org.
Share what you have already done or are doing to stop domestic violence on our Facebook wall:(www.facebook.com/supportNCADV) or post to your own social media with our hashtags #NCADV # #takeastand #STANDwithNCADV.
Contact your local media and lawmakers by calling, emailing or sending them a letter asking them to be aware and work for change. You can use our statistics at: http://www.ncadv.org/learn/statistics to support your message.
Wear Purple and tell everyone why!
Mobilize your network and hold your own event. Use these resources: http://www.ncadv.org/takeastandmain/get-involved. Then, share your event with NCADV on social media using these hashtags #tasncadv #takeastand #STANDwithNCADV. Send us your event information (when, where, date, time, and link) and we will post it to our national event listing page.
Donate online to NCADV.org or at Mobile Cause by texting #takeastand to 41444 to help give domestic violence victims a voice!
I pray we will do the same.
May He bless you in the month of October and always.


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Education and Science, Investments, Latvia, Legislation
Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis – new education and science minister in Latvia
Today, Latvian Saeima voted in the Reform Party's Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis as the next education and science minister, reports LETA.
46 MPs voted for Dombrovskis. Dombrovskis' candidacy was supported by Unity, the Reform Party, All for Latvia!-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (VL-TB/LNNK) and independent MPs.
28 MPs from Harmony Center voted against Dombrovskis. Greens/Farmers and Imants Paradnieks (VL-TB/LNNK) abstained.
Dombrovskis has set five education and science priorities for 2013-2014, which match former Education and Science Minister Roberts Kilis' initiatives.
Dombrovskis wants to create a link between general and professional education teacher motivation, salaries and performance evaluation.
The minister also prioritizes free general education, vocational education in close cooperation with the labor market, purposeful investments in science. In addition, he wants to raise the quality of higher education in cooperation with the sector's representatives.
Dombrovskis is part of Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and Riga Graduate School of Law teaching staff. He has a degree in economics from Clark University. He also speaks fluently three languages.

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An employment tribunal has ruled that a Poundland employee was unfairly dismissed after giving away over £300 worth of products to customers.
The employee, Mr Zia, joined the company in June 2013 and worked his way up to assistant manager of the Southall store.
As a senior member of the shop team, Mr Zia had the authority to give away free items to smooth over complaints and to encourage customers to spend more money.
Mr Zia gave away more than £300 worth of products over a five-month period. His manager gave away only one pound's worth of stock, and most colleagues averaged around £70.
An investigation into Mr Zia's conduct was carried out but an official report was not written. Instead the case was escalated to a disciplinary hearing. Poundland claimed the button to give away items for free had been discontinued and should no longer have been used. Mr Zia and his colleagues claimed this policy change had not been communicated to them.
The investigating officer made the decision to sack Mr Zia, who then brought claims of unfair dismissal, victimisation, race discrimination and harassment.
The tribunal discounted all claims except unfair dismissal, for which it ruled in Mr Zia's favour.
The amount of compensation will be set at a separate hearing.


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Winners and losers in the new China
Kim Hoe-ryong
Economists too often talk about policy changes in abstract terms, ignoring the drawbacks that even sensible reforms can bring. For years, analysts have been urging China to shift its economy away from heavy industry and toward services and consumption. Yet now that Beijing is taking heed, the costs are piling up.
Most obvious is a deepening gulf between winners and losers. A recent study from Peking University found that China has become one of the most unequal countries in the world. The richest 1 percent of households own a third of total wealth. As the government tries to transition away from coal and steel and toward tech and finance, this divergence is likely to worsen.
In fact, it's already starting to. Regionally, the differences between China's old and new economies couldn't be starker. The rust belt province of Liaoning, long reliant on steel mills, is now in recession. In finance-focused, high-tech Shenzhen, real-estate prices have risen by more than 60 percent in a year, the fastest rate in the world.
For workers, the shift has been just as harsh. Low-skilled laborers in fading industries are facing a contracting labor market and stagnant wage growth, even as state-sponsored venture capitalists plow stunning amounts of money into technology and pharmaceutical startups. Last year, China accounted for 90 percent of newly minted billionaires, overtaking the U.S. for the most in the world. This year, 1.8 million coal and steel workers are facing layoffs.
Signs of a growing divide are everywhere. Although reliable wage data is hard to come by, some consumption patterns are suggestive.
Highway transportation, preferred by the Chinese everyman, is down 19 percent on the year. Air travel, still mostly for the rich, is up 11 percent. International flights are increasingly popular: Chinese flying to Japan to buy toilets, Thailand for beach holidays or Europe for luxury goods are faring quite well.
Yet in many ways, China remains a developing country. More than 600 million Chinese — some 44 percent of the population — are classified as rural residents, with an average nominal yearly income of $1,620. An urban worker earns nearly three times as much, enjoys better public benefits like schooling, and gets an enormous wealth boost from real-estate appreciation.
As bureaucrats in Beijing continue creating jobs for bankers and subsidizing startups, this is creating some alarming tensions: The number of strikes and workplace protests surged to a record 2,774 last year, double the amount in 2014.
China needs to address this divergence quickly. Although the government is offering cash to laid-off workers, the bigger problem is helping them make the transition to new jobs and new lives. Coal miners don't become medical technicians without training, or move to new cities without incentives.
The first step should be relaxing rules that prevent workers from moving. Successful economic transitions require letting labor flow freely, and restrictions on where migrants can work, and where their kids can go to school, only inhibit this process. Retraining programs are also crucial. Many rural towns in China have become magnets for online retailers, as small-time shop-owners enter the digital age; local residents need to have the wherewithal to capitalize on such changes.
Finally, Beijing must address housing costs. In most major cities, and especially those with flourishing economies, low-skilled and migrant workers have been largely priced out. One result is that rural-to-urban migration, once an unstoppable growth engine, has effectively ceased. A program to sell empty housing held by state-owned developers to migrants at affordable prices would help. So would easing restrictions on housing investment for lower-income groups.
China isn't alone in facing such problems. Yet its challenges are enormous. The yawning gap between winners and losers is making life much harder for a government seeking to boost growth and maintain stability. Without changes, China may well end up with neither.
*The author is an associate professor of business and economics at the HSBC Business School in Shenzhen and author of "Sovereign Wealth Funds: The New Intersection of Money and Power."
Christopher Balding


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The whole update-a-day ends after this page, I'm afraid... I'm going to be at a convention in Miami and wasn't able to queue up anything past today since I've been sick all week.
So yeah! Updates resume next week! See you then!!


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Sklon Otkrytij (e Transkription von ) ist ein Gletscherhang im ostantarktischen Coatsland. In der Shackleton Range liegt er nördlich des Nunatak Malyj im Gebiet des Recovery-Gletschers.

Russische Wissenschaftler benannten ihn.

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Taree is almost like a coat dress. She's a dress, but can be worn as an "overcoat". She has a mandarin collar, oversized buttons, and her special feature are the ties that run down the length of the dress on both sides of the buttons. You can leave them open for one look, or tie them for another look. There are also ties on the sleeves.
Taree is a One Size dress (should fit through sizes 12, maybe size 14, too). She is 100% cotton. She's almost like a poplin, but less stiff/crinkly (can't think of the correct word at this moment!). She has pockets! She is about 38.5" long with a 5" hem that can be taken down. Like the Maaya dress, she has belts inside the dress that can be tied behind your back, under the dress for a cinched look. Or, you can pull those belts outside the dress through the side seam under the loop, and tie it in front. Of course, you can also cut them off if you don't plan on using them.


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Willis v. United States
Hakeem Willis, Petitioner,
United States of America; Warden Bryan Antonnelli, Respondents.
Paige J. Gossett United States Magistrate Judge.
The petitioner, Hakeem Willis, a self-represented prisoner confined at Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. This matter is before the court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b) and Local Civil Rule 73.02(B)(2)(c) (D.S.C.). Having reviewed the Petition in accordance with applicable law, the court concludes that it should be summarily dismissed.
Petitioner, a federal prisoner housed in the Federal Correctional Institution in Williamsburg, South Carolina, indicates he was convicted of Hobbs Act robbery, conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, and carrying a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. (Pet., ECF No. 1 at 2, ECF No. 1-1 at 1-2.) In 2012, he was sentenced to an aggregate term of 272 months' imprisonment. (Id.) Petitioner indicates that his direct appeal was dismissed and his motion to motion to vacate, set aside, or correct the sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was denied. (Id. at 2-3.)
Petitioner now files this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Petitioner argues that his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) (carrying a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence) is unlawful in light of United States v. Simms, 914 F.3d 229 (4th Cir. 2019).[1] Specifically, he argues that § 924(c) is unconstitutionally void for vagueness and Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a crime of violence under § 924(c)'s force clause or residual clause.
Under established local procedure in this judicial district, a careful review has been made of the pro se petition filed in this case pursuant to the Rules Governing § 2254 Cases, [2] 28 U.S.C. § 2254; the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), Pub. L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214; and in light of the following precedents: Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25 (1992); Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 324-25 (1989); Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519 (1972); Nasim v. Warden, Md. House of Corr., 64 F.3d 951 (4th Cir. 1995) (en banc); Todd v. Baskerville, 712 F.2d 70 (4th Cir. 1983).
This court is required to liberally construe pro se pleadings, which are held to a less stringent standard than those drafted by attorneys. Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89, 94 (2007); King v. Rubenstein, 825 F.3d 206, 214 (4th Cir. 2016). Nonetheless, the requirement of liberal construction does not mean that the court can ignore a clear failure in the pleading to allege facts which set forth a claim cognizable in a federal district court. See Weller v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 901 F.2d 387 (4th Cir. 1990); see also Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 684 (2009) (outlining pleading requirements under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for "all civil actions").
A petitioner cannot challenge his federal conviction and sentence through § 2241 unless he can show under the "savings clause" of § 2255(e) that a § 2255 motion is "inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention." See 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); see also Rice v. Rivera, 617 F.3d 802, 807 (4th Cir. 2010) (providing that if a federal prisoner brings a § 2241 petition that does not fall within the scope of the savings clause, the district court must dismiss the unauthorized habeas petition for lack of jurisdiction). The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has held that a petitioner must establish the following criteria to demonstrate that a § 2255 motion is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of a prisoner's conviction:
(1) at the time of conviction, settled law of this circuit or the Supreme Court established the legality of the conviction; (2) subsequent to the prisoner's direct appeal and first § 2255 motion, the substantive law changed such that the conduct of which the prisoner was convicted is deemed not to be criminal; and (3) the prisoner cannot satisfy the gatekeeping provisions of § 2255 because the new rule is not one of constitutional law.
United States v. Wheeler, 886 F.3d 415, 427 (4th Cir. 2018) (restating the test adopted in In re Jones, 226 F.3d 328 (4th Cir. 2000)).
         As noted above, the United States Supreme Court recently found that the residual clause § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutional. United States v. Davis, No. 18-431, __ S.Ct. __, 2019 WL 2570623 (June 24, 2019). But even assuming Petitioner meets the first two elements of the In reJones test, Petitioner cannot meet the third element because the decision in Davis is a new rule of constitutional law. Therefore, Petitioner is foreclosed from bringing a § 2241 habeas petition in this court to challenge his sentence. Petitioner's remedy, if any, appears to be to seek permission to file a § 2255 motion in the court in which he was sentenced by filing a motion for leave to file a successive § 2255 motion in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.[3]See 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h). Therefore, this case should be ...


If you're a responsible adult, you don't drink and drive. But sometimes it's hard to tell whether you've had too much to be able to safely do so, and breathalyzers aren't always useful. To that end, scientists at UC San Diego have been developing a temporary tattoo than can measure blood alcohol content, the Press Herald reports.
Sweat has shown to provide a more accurate measurement of blood alcohol content than breath. For instance, humidity can skew a breathalyzer. The researchers at San Diego have created a system of micro-sensors that attach to the skin with a temporary tattoo. The tattoo paper delivers a miniscule amount of pilocarpine, which stimulates sweating, then electronically measures blood alcohol. The device can then send the information to a bluetooth device, such as a smart phone. The process takes eight minutes.
The tattoos could serve a variety of functions, from electronically shutting down vehicles of intoxicated people, to being used by bartenders or friends to judge alcohol levels. The team behind them have proposed single use tattoos for a night out. The technology could provide a valuable tool for taking responsibility of drinking habits and safety at low expense.


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So to say the truth, the first time I listened to Hayden James' new EP i wasn't too impressed, especially after his hit "Permission to Love", I was expecting just a little more.
But then I came to notice, most of his tracks really need some time to grow on you. I've had this track on loop the last few days, and I seem to get more and more entranced by it every listen.
The song has a very muted sound to it, both in terms of vocals and in synths. A real hidden sound to it.
The vocals really add weight to the groove of the track. They seem to mend perfectly with the bass line. Almost reminiscent of the very similair Tensnake track "Something About US" I featured previously.
Hope you guys enjoy this and have fun getting down to Hayden's new EP.


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2 More Members Quit Putin's Human Rights Council
Valentin Gefter
President Vladimir Putin's human rights council is down two more members and is coming very close to not meeting its 20-person quorum.
Sixteen people have left the 40-member council since Putin was elected to a six-year term in March.
The latest string of departures follows the announcement that an online popularity contest would play a large role in determining new members.
Veteran rights defender Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, quit the council Friday.
Valentin Gefter, head of the Moscow-based Human Rights Institute, and Boris Pustyntsev, chairman of the St. Petersburg-based Citizens Watch group, have followed suit, the council said Monday.
Currently, new members are chosen by the president from a list of nominees put together by sitting council members.
But last week the presidential administration proposed a new system whereby NGOs would nominate candidates who would then be voted on by Internet users. The winning names would then be forwarded to Putin for the final decision.
Gefter, also a board member at Memorial, an independent human rights group that has been a harsh critic of the Kremlin, said the new method violated the council's statutes.
Pustyntsev called it a "cover-up operation" to cull the majority of the council's members from "government-organized nongovernmental organizations."
The NGO nomination system is expected to begin in July, followed by Internet voting in August.
Alexeyeva Dumps Presidential Rights Council
One of the nation's most prominent human rights activists has resigned from the body after the Kremlin introduced a method of selecting members that...


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Q: Middleware not following the condition - Laravel 5.7 I am trying to implement a user registration system in Laravel 5.7 where I am facing an issue.
I have two tables for Users- Admin(created by copying default Laravel auth),
new routes, new middleware for admin. Every thing works fine while using guards.
I was trying to limit the user login by adding Approve/Disapprove functionality.
I added an extra column - admin(boolean) to the Users table.
In Login controller - LoginController.php Page, I added
  protected function authenticated($request, $user)
    {
        if ( $request->user()->admin != 1)
        // if($user->admin != 1)
        {
            return redirect()->route('approval');
        }
        else
        {
            return redirect('/engineer');
        }
    }

so that, when the admin is 1 I am directed to '/engineer' where as in other case I am directed to 'approval'.
It works as desired!.
Issue I am now facing is that if I try to access the 'engineer'
using user whose not approved I am able to access the page. I am not sure how to restrict it. The page is still restricted to public.
Since the controller will be accessed by both the user and admin, I used __construct in the controller

web.php

Route::resource('engineer', 'engineerController');

engineerController.php

public function __construct()
        {
            $this->middleware('auth:web,admin');
        }

My Understanding is that the condition is only checked when the user logs in and there after its exits.
Do I need to create a new middle ware in order to keep the authorised page intact?
I am a self learner and new to laravel. I am pretty sure that I am not following the right practice. I started something and was trying to follow it till I finish. Please guide me through it.
Along with it please let me how could I have done it better.

A: You would need to define a Middleware that would check if the Engineer is approved or not.
Obviously, you would also need to keep that in an is_approved column for example.
<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;

class CheckEngineerApproval
{
    /**
    * Handle an incoming request.
    *
    * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
    * @param  \Closure  $next
    * @return mixed
    */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        if (! auth()->user->is_approved) {
            return redirect('user.approve');
        }

        return $next($request);
    }
}

Then, add it in your $routeMiddleware array in your Kernel.
protected $routeMiddleware = [
    //
    //
    'engineer.approved' => \App\Http\Middleware\CheckEngineerApproval::class,
];

Finally, you can add the Middleware in your Controller's constructor as well.
public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware(['auth:web','admin','engineer.approved']);
}

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package org.osc.core.broker.model.entities.appliance;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;

import org.osc.core.broker.model.entities.BaseEntity;

@Entity
@Table(name = "APPLIANCE")
public class Appliance extends BaseEntity {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Column(name = "model", unique = true, nullable = false)
    private String model;

    @Column(name = "manager_type", nullable = false)
    private String managerType;

    @Column(name = "manager_software_version", nullable = false)
    private String managerSoftwareVersion;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "appliance", fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
    private Set<ApplianceSoftwareVersion> applianceSoftwareVersions = new HashSet<ApplianceSoftwareVersion>();

    public Appliance() {
        super();
    }

    public Appliance(String model, String managerType, String managerSoftwareVersion) {
        super();
        this.model = model;
        this.managerType = managerType;
        this.managerSoftwareVersion = managerSoftwareVersion;
    }

    public void addApplianceSoftwareVersion(ApplianceSoftwareVersion applianceSoftwareVersion) {
        this.applianceSoftwareVersions.add(applianceSoftwareVersion);
        applianceSoftwareVersion.setAppliance(this);
    }

    public void removeApplianceSoftwareVersion(ApplianceSoftwareVersion applianceSoftwareVersion) {
        this.applianceSoftwareVersions.remove(applianceSoftwareVersion);
    }

    public String getManagerSoftwareVersion() {
        return this.managerSoftwareVersion;
    }

    public void setManagerSoftwareVersion(String managerSoftwareVersion) {
        this.managerSoftwareVersion = managerSoftwareVersion;
    }

    public String getModel() {
        return this.model;
    }

    public void setModel(String model) {
        this.model = model;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Appliance [model=" + this.model + ", managerType=" + this.managerType + ", managerSoftwareVersion="
                + this.managerSoftwareVersion + ", getId()=" + getId() + "]";
    }

    public String getManagerType() {
        return this.managerType;
    }

    public void setManagerType(String managerType) {
        this.managerType = managerType;
    }

    public Set<ApplianceSoftwareVersion> getApplianceVersions() {
        return this.applianceSoftwareVersions;
    }

}

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Do French people actually say Zut alors?
What does Zoot mean in French?
Is Zut alors rude?
How do you use alors?
Does alors mean therefore?
What are the 5 accent marks in French?
What are the French accent symbols?
What is the most common French accent?
What are the three accents in French?
How do French accents work?
What is accent Circonflexe in French?
Where do French accents go?
What is grave accent in French?
Why is French so hard to pronounce?
Is French easier than English?
What word takes 2 hours to say?
How long does the longest word TAKE to say?
Which is the longest word in English?
Zut alors ! This is another expression you'll probably have heard said in more English than French. It's an old fashioned soft curse that is often translated as "darn" or "shoot". The "alors" is added on to give it extra emphasis except it has lost its power over the years.
(also: flûte!) oh damn!
Zut alors or zut ! Zut which is more common than the old-fashioned "zut alors" is actually just a very polite way to say merde. It's like saying "shucks" or "dang" to avoid swearing in front of people you shouldn't swear in front of.
Alors has several meanings. It can be used to mean 'then' or 'in that case'. For example, Si tu sais conduire, alors tu peux prendre la voiture. (If you can drive, then you can take the car.)
ALORS (adverb) means 'so,' or 'then' ie: 'well I guess this will/did happen' / 'So what are we going to do? ' Along with AINSI (adverb) 'so, I decided to leave' , they are words commonly used to explain the consequences or effect of an action.
The 5 French Accents are:
Accent Aigu (é)
Accent Grave (è)
Accent Circonflexe (ê)
"C" cédille (ç)
Tréma (ë)
The Five French Accent Marks
ç – la cédille (the cedilla)
é – l'accent aigu (the acute accent)
â/ê/î/ô/û – l'accent circonflexe (the circumflex)
à/è/ì/ò/ù – l'accent grave (the grave accent)
ë/ï/ü – le tréma (the trema)
Acute accent
Accents in the French Alphabet
The Aigu Accent (L'accent aigu) The aigu accent is placed above the e vowel and changes the sound to ay.
The Grave Accent (L'accent grave)
The Cedilla (La Cédille)
The Circumflex (Le Circonflexe)
The Trema (Le tréma)
French uses four accents: The acute, which only goes on the e: é The grave, which goes over e, a, or u like this: è, à, ù The circumflex, which typically goes over the e (like this: ê), and occasionally over a (â), o (ô), and u (û)
The circumflex, aka "little hat," is the only French accent that may be found on each of the five vowels. In any given word, the circumflex may serve one or more purposes: Indicate a spelling change from Latin. Distinguish between words that would otherwise be homographs. …
Accents are used only on vowels and under the letter c. An accent aigu ( ) is only used on an e (é) and produces the sound ay, as in "day." It may also replace an s from old French. When you see this letter, replace the é with an imaginary s to see if its meaning becomes more evident.
E accent grave On the letter e, the grave accent is a pronunciation marker, indicating that the pronunciation is [ɛ]. In French, this sound is most commonly found in closed syllables. When spelling out loud, è is called e accent grave.
The French language tends to be difficult to pronounce at first because there are simply sounds that native English speakers aren't used to making. To begin with, French is more evenly stressed. This means that while some parts of a word are stressed, it's not as distinct as in English.
Because as this post is going to explain, French is actually one of the easiest European languages to learn. In many ways, it's even easier than learning English! And as French is a world language, spoken by over 220 million people, learning French can give you access to a huge chunk of the world.
Casey Chan. The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you about two hours to mumble through.
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Donald Trump Jr. Speechwriter Cribbed Himself
Passage in speech had similarities to magazine article
Donald Trump Jr.'s speech to the Republican National Convention generally got good reviews — except for that one part. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Jeremy Silk Smith
Posted July 20, 2016 at 8:44am
A day after Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention was overshadowed by plagiarism allegations , Donald Trump Jr.'s address in Cleveland Tuesday also echoed some previously used language.
But Trump Jr.'s issue is different from Melania's.
Special Coverage: 2016 Republican National Convention
The speech got generally good reviews. But this part caught the attention of "The Daily Show":
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— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 20, 2016
In his speech Tuesday, Trump Jr. said, "Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class, now they're stalled on the ground floor. They're like Soviet-era department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers, for the teachers and the administrators and not the students," Trump said.
That's very similar to a two sentences from a recent article in The American Conservative :
"What should be an elevator to the upper class is stalled on the ground floor … Our schools and universities are like the old Soviet department stores whose mission was to serve the interests of the sales clerks and not the customers."
Who's Going to Get Fired Over Melania Trump Speech?
Others jumped on the story, as the controversy around Melania Trump's speech was still swirling, alleging another cribbed passage for the second straight night.
But F.H. Buckley, who wrote The American Conservative article, waved them off — he had worked on Trump Jr.'s speech and cribbed himself.
Except it wasn't stealing…
— Frank Buckley (@fbuckley) July 20, 2016
Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller quickly defended the speech and blamed the uproar on, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton:
1/2 Nice try Clinton machine – Francis Buckley is a friend of Don Jr.'s and worked with him on the speech.
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) July 20, 2016
2/2 Your time would be better spent searching for Crooked Hillary's missing emails rather than disparaging a real American Patriot.
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I'm a mixing and mastering engineer working with rock and indie bands worldwide.
Previously at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in London, now freelance.
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Hey Sara, the work & magic you have injected into this album is nothing short of top class. It's been fantastic to work with another person who won't stop until it's exactly right. You have completely brought all 13 songs to life! Thank you so much for everything.
Music Mix Pro mastered my album and I couldn't be more happier with the outcome!!! They are fast efficient and reliable I heavily recommend anyone to use Music Mic Pro!!!
Extremely friendly and professional, produced stellar work. We used Sara for our new EP "In The Dark" and the results speak for themselves. Myself and the Full Fat band would recommend and use definitely work with her again.
Sara Carter did such an amazing job on our project for the Wistful Sleepers EP! She is very professional and the turnaround time was very quick. She took our direction very well and ultimately sent back a finished project that we are more than happy with. She definitely has an excellent ear. I would highly recommend Sara for your next music project. You won't be disappointed!!!
I'd like to just personally say how thankful I am for all the work you have put into this passion project mine.
I didn't really know what to expect when I gave it to you but the outcome was beyond anything I could have hoped for.
You really showed me the importance of a great mixing and mastering engineer and I feel like it has added so much to the final product.
Regardless of what happens to the album we will always be thankful for everything you have put in.
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Satoshi Nakamoto started the Bitcoin project in January 2009,proving the world that a peer-to-peer electronic cash system is feasible and secure. As a result,more people are now using the underlying blockchain technology to solve problems in various industries.
This paper outlines how UOC, which inherits the underlying blockchain technology of bitcoin, and its revolutionary Specified Range Trusted Random Number Generator (SRTRNG) can help developers efficiently process transactions in nonfinancial spheres, such as online games.
To achieve our goal,three basic techniques:Polymerized Smart Contract (PSC),Self-Certified Storage Chain (SCSC) and Proof-of-Game (PoG) are proposed.And they can be respectively used in teh field of blockchain technology,computer technology and mathematical theory.
It is important for us to define the word Transaction accurately. Satoshi Nakamoto knew that so he defined it meticulously in his Bitcoin paper. If defined ambiguously, it will cause enormous difference in practice.
The description of the word transactions in many bitcoin-related documents(especially the Chinese translation) is interpreted as an exchange,which UOC believes is inaccurate or even ambiguous.
UOC believes that transaction processing or transfer in the financial context is more appropriate than exchange.
For example, in the banking system, a request of moving X dollar from account A to account B is a transfer instead of an exchange. An exchange, rather, means that A and B form an agreement and then one renders a service to another.
The following is the definition of transactions from the Bitcoin paper, which helps us to understand the difference between an exchange and a transfer.
Transactions:We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the coin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin. A payee can verify the signatures to verify the chain of ownership.
Apparently, the Bitcoin paper is mean to describe the ownership of digital assets.
Script transaction processing has been implemented in the blockchain of bitcoin,but Satoshi Nakamoto has not defined it in his paper.
It was not until the description and comparison of its equivalent functions appeared in Ethereum that the concept of smart contracts became widely known in the blockchain world.
Bitcoin scripts,like those of Ethereum smart contracts. Are designed to address more complex transfer requirements, such as executing something when a certain requirement is met, or even involving more than two parties in a transaction.
These settings provide transaction processing with unlimited possibilities.
Bitcoin scripts and Ethereum smart contracts are the same in terms of basic functions. We agree with Ethereum's opinions on the disadvantages of Bitcoin scripts, including a lack of Turing-completeness, value-blindness, a lack of state, and blockchain-blindness.
However, UOC thinks that it is unnecessary to improve Bitcoin scripts. In other words, risks exist in Ethereum smart contracts.In other words,there are some risks in the improvement direction of Ethereum smart contracts.
All Bitcoin's transactions are built from outside, including scripts transaction, however, Ethereum's transactions can be built from inside. The latter approach brings substantial risks to application development, and now many Ethereum-based applications have already presented significant loopholes in the use of smart contracts.
Scripting system is responsible for logic processing. UOC believes that logic processing should not involve digital assets ownership, which entails sole proprietorship.For example, the result of a lottery game has an effect on players' digital assets ownership, but the process of the lottery has nothing to do with the digital assets ownership.
UOC is not saying that Ethereum's idea of building smart contracts as a solution is wrong. What UOC is saying is that there can be a different approach to the problem.
UOC believes there are two kind of assets: exclusive and non-exclusive ones. Bitcoin deals with the former one perfectly but it fails to handle the non-exclusive ones.
UOC define the non-exclusive one as public resources that can be used by anyone.
For example, lands, water, minerals and public facilities are public resources. Instances and monsters in online games are public resources. Players can participate in the raid to obtain equipment, money or any other assets as reward.Game publishers offer public resources for a profit. The more the profit, the more they are incentivized to provide better service.
Based on Bitcoin, UOC brings in the concept of public resources. Without changing Bitcoin scripting system for transactions, UOC suggests an external plug-in solution which is referred to as Polymerized Smart Contract(PSC).
PSC aims at describing a logic and returning a result.
PSC is secure. Because implementing PSC does not result in a change in the ownership of digital assets, there is no harm even when PSC is attacked or defamed. The possibly worst situation is that A does not transfer money to B, and B does not provide A with any service.
This situation is acceptable to UOC. Just as a bookkeeper may be selective about which transaction to be recorded, some transactions are neglected or even rejected maliciously.
PSC adopts the Self-Certified Storage, which is in itself secure. Therefore, there is no point in attacking, defaming or forging PSC.
PSC enables executable language to run on blockchain nodes as plugin. It supplements transaction processing with custom scripting functions. It does not describe the ownership of digital assets but returns the result only.
Blockchain nodes provide PSC with CPU power for one or more applications. CPU power is an optional plug-in model for nodes.
To ensure the consistency, anti-attack, and anti-defame of the PSC results of all nodes, UOC extends a technology that is widely used in smaller areas.
This technology, which has no clear definition yet, has long been used skilfully and conventionally in an anonymous network, and it is a P2P encryption information transfer mode based on time axis.
SCS,a sophisticated information transfer mode, utilizes an asymmetric encryption method, can ensure that the parties involved in the message delivery do not have any ambiguity during the message delivery and that the data will not be falsified by anyone other than themselves.
For example, A is going to send a message to B. A encrypts the message with A's private key, serving as a proof that A encrypted it and it is not forged. When B receives the message, B decrypts the message into its original form with A's public key. To guarantee that only B has access to the original message, this message is also encrypted with B's public key.
UOC put a timestamp and hash at the beginning and the end of the chain of SCS so as to ensure the data uniqueness and completeness of the data. Even if A broadcasts forged messages, A will have to send another message to conceal the double spending problem caused by previous broadcasts. But what A will do is not allowed, for it has already left its digital fingerprint on the chain as a proof.
This system of transferring and storing messages based on encryption is referred to as Self-Certified Storage Chain(SCSC) by UOC.
UOC adds service nodes that run PSC based on Bitcoin nodes, with the intention of providing different applications with plugin CPU power support.
Every node is able to selectively support different applications with CPU power, and service nodes operate PSC, collect users' messages, pack messages after verifying and deliver final results.
On determining representation in majority decision making, UOC does not adopt the one-CPU-one-vote proof-of-work as Bitcoin does. Rather, UOC adopts the Proof-of-Game. Bookkeepers are selected according to the gaming results. The chain with a higher rank will grow the fastest and outpace any competing chains behind it.
UOC discovers a brand-new mathematic model, bringing the traditional mathematic model which is a solution to the mathematical problem of playing mental poker without a trusted third party with efficiency and universality. And we call it Proof-of-Game.
This is also a very interesting election system.
(1)All nodes have the right to sign up for an election. Everyone can join the election so as to prevent incentivization of money and power.
(2)No CPU power is required for mining. Because the consensual result is produced quickly, less time is required to generate a block.
(3)Nodes pay for election registration. This is a transaction. When the election ends, after the transaction fees are deducted, registration fees will be returned to nodes.
(4)Nodes can sign up for the election in 24 hours before the game starts. The result will be announced in 12 hours after election ends.
The game-theory-based mathematic model is designed for solving the mental poker problem, i.e., there are three players in a poker game without trust in each other and a third party, and they can still play the game with fair shuffling and dealing in a trusted environment.
With the support of Proof-of-Game, UOC is able to involve everyone in the game and produce one block per 10 seconds, which is fast enough to maintain seamless gameplay.
UOC continues the legacy of Bitcoin's pioneers. UOC enriches the description of the digital assets ownership by adding the description of public resources; uses Proof-of-Game to greatly increase the speed of generating blocks; adopts PSC, a programmable plugin for Bitcoin scripting transactions; and protects PSC against risks by utilizing SCS chain.
UOC is a fully decentralized ecosystem that supports serverless CPU power, seeing unlimited possibilities in blockchain-based online games.


German tourist Marcel Gleffe has been hailed a hero after reports emerged detailing how he rescued 20 teenagers from the horror shooting in Norway.
Gleffe was preparing to visit the island with his family when Anders Behring Breivik opened fire of the youngsters at the campsite.
Gleffe told German magazine Der Spiegel that many of the teenagers initially feared he was Breivik's accomplace: 'They were everywhere in the water. I threw lifejackets with a rope attached to them and pulled them aboard, they were all screaming and crying.
Gleffe revealed how he used his initiative after recognising the tragedy that was unfolding within miles of where he and his family were staying.
He said: 'I just did it on instinct. You don't get scared in a situation like that, you just do what it takes.
'I know the difference between fireworks and gunfire. I knew what it was about, and that it wasn't just nonsense.
'I recognised the sound of the automatic weapon straight away.
'Then I saw two youths who swam away from the island. Then smoke grenades came and several bursts from the automatic weapon.
Gleffe returned to the water no fewer than four times before he was instructed to stop by the police amidst fears for his safety.
'I took between four and five trips. After that the police asked me to stop.
'The youths were good. They supported each other and were organised, and said who needed first aid and who had to be taken into the boat first.
'They were happy to get help, but they were unsure whom they could trust,' he told the local Dagbladet newspaper.
A minute's silence was held in Norway at noon today in honour of those killed in Friday's bombing and massacre.
Breivik appeared before a court today and had requested an open hearing for his first appearance so that he can explain his atrocities to the public. But he was denied the request.


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namespace quic {

// Singleton utility. Example usage:
//
// In your header:
//  #include "net/third_party/quic/platform/api/quic_singleton.h"
//  class Foo {
//   public:
//    static Foo* GetInstance();
//    void Bar() { ... }
//   private:
//    Foo() { ... }
//    friend quic::QuicSingletonFriend<Foo>;
//  };
//
// In your source file:
//  Foo* Foo::GetInstance() {
//    return quic::QuicSingleton<Foo>::get();
//  }
//
// To use the singleton:
//  Foo::GetInstance()->Bar();
//
// NOTE: The method accessing Singleton<T>::get() has to be named as GetInstance
// and it is important that Foo::GetInstance() is not inlined in the
// header. This makes sure that when source files from multiple targets include
// this header they don't end up with different copies of the inlined code
// creating multiple copies of the singleton.
template <typename T>
using QuicSingleton = QuicSingletonImpl<T>;

// Type that a class using QuicSingleton must declare as a friend, in order for
// QuicSingleton to be able to access the class's private constructor.
template <typename T>
using QuicSingletonFriend = QuicSingletonFriendImpl<T>;

}  // namespace quic

#endif  // NET_THIRD_PARTY_QUIC_PLATFORM_API_QUIC_SINGLETON_H_


MyWorkpapers RiskFlow system fully automates the identification of material balances in the Audit Plan, with each financial statement area (represented by the Lead Schedules) being marked as either material or not depending on whether the balance displayed is greater than Performance Materiality. This concept is illustrated in the below image.
Obviously there is more to determining whether a balance is material or not than a simple comparison of the balance against the Performance Materiality set, non-financial qualitative factors potentially causing a particular class of transaction or balance to be material. Accordingly, in the Audit Plan you are able to quickly and easily override the automatic materiality determination as follows.


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Draft Rules For Private Equity And Venture Capital Financing Says Minimum Size Of The Fund Will Be Tk 100m
By Ruhul Kader
The Financial Express Reports: to facilitate funding arrangement for prospective private firms the securities regulator has drafted private equity and venture capital financing rules, with a proposal of creating an 'Alternative Investment Fund' to work further.
The report claims, the securities regulator took the initiative considering the prospects of many local firms having fund shortage. The officials of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) said after the commencement of the rules, the Alternative Investment Fund will make equity and quasi-equity investments in those prospective firms.
The draft says, the proposed investment fund will have to be operated by a fund manager under the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (Alternative Investment) Rules, 2015. The fund managers will raise capital for a fund from the eligible investors who may be Bangladeshi, foreign and NRBs by issuing units of the fund.
The Trustee, registered with the securities regulator, will have to play a vital role in ensuring the interest of the unit holders under the Trust Act, 1882. The Trustee will receive payments from eligible investors for subscription of units and deposit the money received by the fund in a scheduled bank account maintained entirely for the purpose of the fund. The BSEC officials said the proposed rules are likely to be approved by this month (June).
Fund Size And Investment Rules
Minimum size of the fund will be BDT 100 million and the initial subscription by the sponsors can't less than 10 per cent of total size of the fund.
The report says, since the purpose of forming such fund is to facilitate early stage private firms, investment primarily should be focused in early stage private investments. The draft says, at least 75 per cent of the fund shall be invested in non-listed securities and early stage private firms. No more than 25% of the fund will be allowed to invest fund in listed securities and units of alternative funds managed by other fund managers.
The draft also says, the tenure for a fund shall be for five to 15 years and the tenure has to be mentioned in the constitutive documents. Investment is a fund has to be locked for a specific period of three years.
There is an apparent need for private equity investment given the fact that startups ecosystem in Bangladesh is growing rapidly. However, until now nobody knows how private equity investment should work since there is not guideline or regulation. Furthermore, there is no regulation for VCs too. This draft is a critical addition to the ecosystem and a very good move. We'll keep keen eyes on updates on the draft and bring it to your attention.
Source: The Financial Express
DSEC, investment regulations, private equity, Startup Eco-system, VC funding
Ruhul Kader
Ruhul Kader is a technology and business analyst based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Future Startup and author of Rethinking Failure: A short guide to living an entrepreneurial life. He writes about internet business, strategy, technology, technology policy, and society. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Australian Defence Force to help assess the bushfire damage
Australian Defence Force reservists will be rolled out across the nation to help count the cost of the bushfire crisis.
Overnight flare-ups are expected to have razed more properties in NSW and Victoria as scores of thousands of residents remain displaced by hundreds of uncontrolled blazes.
Southerly winds whipping across Australia's southeast posed a danger even too great for firefighters, who were told to leave some areas, with authorities expected to return today to assess damage.
Australian Defence Force reservists will be rolled out across the nation to help count the cost of the bushfire crisis. (EPA)
The federal government has announced up to 3000 Australian Defence Force reservists will be deployed to help handle the bushfire fallout. (AAP)
Six people remain missing in Victoria, with grave fears for their wellbeing.
In NSW thousands of properties are without power and it's feared the widespread bushfires will have an ongoing impact on the state's energy supplies.
The federal government has announced up to 3000 Australian Defence Force reservists will be deployed to help handle the bushfire fallout.
One of the first jobs for authorities will be to assess the extent of property damage and gauge whether residents can safely return to their homes.
Canberra fire downgraded to advice level
Loved ones remember fallen firefighter Bill Slade
Temperatures today are forecast to be milder, with some hopeful outlooks for centres that have been hard hit by bushfires.
Royal Australian Air Force members disembark civilian evacuees bags from a Royal Australian Navy MRH-90 helicopter at the RAAF Base in East Sale, Victoria. (AAP)
The far east Victorian town of Mallacoota is due to receive some rain over the coming three days with a maximum of 23C forecast for Sunday, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
At Nowra on the NSW south coast, a maximum of 22C is expected.
Forecast winds could still pose a dangerous risk by fuelling the fires in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.
© AAP 2020
Australian Defence Force
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After trying to off himself (it didn't work), R&B singer Houston did the next best thing: he gouged his eye out.
According to sources, the singer first attempted to jump out of a London hotel window last Thursday. Prevented from doing so by his security staff, Houston was locked in his room, at which time the injury occurred. No additional details as to his current condition or whereabouts have been disclosed.
Featured in a McDonald's commercial, Houston's 2004 hit single "I Like That" peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100 singles chart. The song also featured Chingy, Nate Dogg and I-20.
Houston's debut album, "It's Already Written," has sold 208,000 units to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan, having peaked at No. 14 on The Billboard 200.
No word on why he became so self-destructive.


What is the "to" at the end? Is it the subject of the sentence?
If the "to" is at the end is indeed the subject, is this construction common?
I assume its to stress the "it"? or what part of the sentence does it stress, if any?
You have only 3 words. One of them is verb, another one is used in Genitive, there is also one in Nominative - "to" which should be the subject of the sentence. Yes, it's quite common expression and the accent falls on "to".
"to" is also the Accusative form, hence my confusion. Thanks for explaining!
It has touched me - is this literal, or also comparable to the English expression where you are describing something as emotionally resonant?
Both, and with the very vague 'to' - the emotional version seems more probable. However, it's emotional meaning is different than in English.
If you mean that you watched a beautiful, sad movie - that's "wzruszyć", and the sentence will be "Wzruszyło mnie to". The same if your friends gave you a really well-thought present which made you almost cry, and similar contexts which are positive.
In Polish, if something "dotknęło cię", that actually means that it offended you a bit, made you sad. "Dotknęło mnie to" could be a next phrase after a sentence saying "He said that I've gotten a bit plump" or "The boss said that my work performance is not that great, although I think that I actually work really hard".
What a great clarification, thank you!
why is "to" at the end of this sentence? what is its function?
Well, technically it's the subject, some unknown "it".
So a little like "that hurt my feelings". Okay, that makes more sense to me. Thanks.
The first example clearly had "Dotknęło mi to", but "Dotknelo mi to" counts as a mistake. (I usually skip the special Polish symbols because I don't want to add another language on my PC or to use a mouse).
However, "Dotknelo mnie to" counts as a correct answer.
No, "Dotknęło mi to" makes no sense. "dotknąć" takes Genitive, "mi" is Dative.
Strange. For 'Dotknąłeś mnie' the main answer was 'Did you touch me?' but for this one, it gets present perfect as a main answer..
From the point of view of a Polish speaker, Present Perfect is often a past tense. And we don't distinguish between different past tenses.


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A Multinational Overview of the LGBTQ+ Panic Defense in Remembrance to Its Victims
Posted by White, Darius | May 3, 2021 | American Politics(B), Jamaica(B), Law(B), LGBT Rights(B), New Zealand(B), Philippines(B), Social Justice(B), U.S.(B), Women(B) | 0 |
People that commit hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity should be held accountable for their actions but, there is a legal loophole that is used around the world to soften their punishments. The LGBTQ+ panic defense, also known as the gay or trans panic defense or the homosexual advance defense, is "a legal strategy that asks a jury to find that a victim's sexual orientation or gender identity/expression is to blame for a defendant's violent reaction." [1] It has been used to mitigate cases of hate crime or murder to manslaughter or justified homicide. The penalties for the latter two are much less severe, with justified homicide absolving the actor of any criminal liability. [2] The defense is used in three ways in the court of law. Defendants can argue that a sexual proposition from the LGBTQ+ victim triggered a nervous breakdown or panic using a defense of insanity or diminished capacity, or that it sufficiently provoked them to induce the defendant to kill the victim using a defense of provocation, or that the victim was about to cause the defendant serious bodily harm using a self-defense argument. [3] The gay and trans panic defense should be banned because they dehumanize the LGBTQ+ community, legitimize homophobia in the court of law, and dishonor a victim's right to justice.
This multinational overview will commemorate five victims killed in queerphobic attacks by examining their cases and detailing the sociopolitical, legal, and historical landscapes surrounding the LGBTQ+ panic defense and rights in their respective five countries. With the cases in the foreground and the country's landscape in the background, each case study, first and foremost, honors each of the victims. The power of sharing stories, names, and memories will be made clear by the end of this study. The New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S. case studies may emanate hope but, for the other two, the Philippines and Jamaica, the outlook is bleaker.
Ronald Brown – New Zealand
The first study takes place in New Zealand. Ronald Brown, 69, was a grandfather and salesman from Onehunga, an Auckland suburb. He met Ferdinand Ambach, 29, at a bar and they left together. Brown made an unwanted sexual advance, prompting Ambach to brutalize him with a dumbbell and a banjo. On December 7, 2007, Brown's body was found on his stairs with the banjo shoved down his throat. [4] Using the defense of provocation, Ambach's lawyer successfully reduced his verdict of murder to manslaughter, claiming that Brown's possible rape attempt triggered a "monstrous rage" in Ambach. [5]
Although justice was flouted for Brown, his memory is honored by the fact that he will be the last person in New Zealand to be a victim of the LGBTQ+ panic defense. The Crimes Amendment Act (2009) was royally assented on July 12, 2009 with the purpose of abolishing the partial defense of provocation, making New Zealand the first country in the world to ban this defense. [6]
Andrew Negre – Australia
The setting of the next case study is Australia. Andrew Negre was a 37-year-old outgoing man who lived in southern Adelaide, South Australia with his girlfriend. After making friends at the local tavern, he joined them for a boozy party back at their house on March 31, 2011. At the party, Negre jokingly straddled Michael Lindsay's lap which prompted him to tell Negre to stop. He apologized and Lindsay accepted his apology. Later that night, Negre asked Lindsay to sleep with him. Lindsay declined so, Negre offered to pay him for sex. Lindsay lost it. He viciously attacked Negre then asked his friend, Luke Hutchings, to check Negre's pockets. Lindsay then put on gloves before stabbing him 25 times. Following the murder, Lindsay and Hutchings dumped Negre's body into a creek. [7] At the trial, even though Lindsay did not use the LGBTQ+ panic defense, the Judge was required to explain to the jury that "the crime of murder may be reduced to manslaughter if there was a reasonable possibility that the crime was committed as a result of provocation…a situation [that] would arise if Lindsay suffered a sudden and temporary loss of self-control as a result of conduct on the part of Mr. Negre." [8] The verdict? Lindsay was found guilty for murder twice, while Hutchings was found guilty of assisting an offender. [9] Even though the verdict saw justice for Negre, the law, or lack thereof, still provided a chance for the provocation defense to prevail.
In the past two decades, the provocation defenses have been challenged in the Australian states. Tasmania became the first state to abolish the defense of provocation in the Criminal Code Amendment Bill (2003). [10] Likewise, in the Australian Capital and Northern Territories, the provocation defense was abolished in 2004 and 2006, respectively. [11] In Victoria, the panic defense's legal history is a bit more complicated. The provocation defense was abolished in 2005, but a new crime called "defensive homicide" was implemented. This simply shifted the defense strategy's provocation approach to an issue of self-defense; therefore, it did not guarantee the end of the LGBTQ+ panic defense in Victoria. [12] It was not until nine years later, when the Crimes Amendment Bill (2014) abolished the defense homicide, that the LGBTQ+ panic defense was finally banned. [13] Additionally, Western Australia and New South Wales respectively banned the provocation defense in 2008 and 2014. [14] Furthermore, Queensland's Criminal Law Amendment Act (2017) established that an unwanted sexual advance does not merit a provocation defense. [15] And most recently, South Australia became the final state to abolish the defense in 2020. [16] Thus, as of 2021, the LGBTQ+ panic defense has been de facto abolished in all of Australia, making it one of the only two countries to do so.
Nikki Kuhnhausen – United States
The third case study is set in the U.S. Nikki Kuhnhausen was a 17-year-old teen living in Vancouver, Washington when she met David Bogdanov, 25. The pair met at a bar on June 5, 2019, drank together, and later engaged in sexual contact. The morning after, the two reunited in his car where she then revealed her transgender gender identity to him. Describing his emotions as "enraged, disturbed, shocked, and uncomfortable," Bogdanov consequently strangled her to death. [17] Although he was charged with second-degree murder, there were further calls for a hate crime charge to be added and public concern that the trans panic defense may have come into play. With large crowds rallying together for Kuhnhausen and demanding justice, not only was Bogdanov charged with a hate crime but, "Nikki's Law," banning the LGBTQ+ panic defense, was also passed in her home state. [18]
The defense strategy still endangers queer lives elsewhere in the U.S. Since the 2013 American Bar Association (ABA) resolution urging governments to take legislative action "to curtail the availability and effectiveness" of the defense, only D.C. and these 12 states have prohibited its use in their courts: California, Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Hawaii, Virginia and Washington. [19] Bans have also been introduced in the state legislatures of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. [20] Meanwhile, at the federal level, in the House of Representatives and the Senate, two bills called the Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2019 were struggling to make it out of the committee level under the Trump administration but, are gaining ground under the current Biden one. [21] This century has seen significant advances in LGTQ+ rights, yet this barbaric loophole persists. Therefore, the U.S.'s governments, at all levels, ought to adopt the ABA resolution's two proposals. The first requires "courts…upon the request of a party, to instruct the jury not to let bias, sympathy, prejudice, or public opinion influence its decision about the victims, witnesses, or defendants based upon sexual orientation or gender identity;" and the second specifies that a non-violent sexual advance or the discovery of a person's sex or gender identity does not constitute a legally adequate provocation to mitigate the severity of any crime. [22] Until this happens, and the defense is banned nationwide, this country's aspirations of "liberty and justice for all" will continue to be a dream rather than reality.
Jennifer Laude – Philippines
Case study number four happened just northwest of Manila in Olongapo, a port city in Subic Bay, formerly known as "one of the U.S. Navy's most important overseas military bases." [23] In October 2014, 26-year-old Jennifer Laude and U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton left a nightclub for a nearby hotel. There, upon finding out Laude was transgender, Pemberton strangled her from behind until she was unconscious then, left her to drown in a toilet. He returned to his ship, USS Peleliu, that was docked in the Bay and confessed to his shipmate about what happened. [24] Olongapo Regional Trial Court found him guilty of homicide, and not murder, with the judge's reasoning corresponding with the defense of diminished capacity, "he reacted out of passion and obfuscation." [25] On September 13, 2020, six years into his 10-year sentence (already reduced from 12 years), President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he had granted him an absolute pardon, officially nullifying Pemberton's sentence. As a privilege that Pemberton earned for "good behavior," Duterte defended his decision saying, "if there is a time when you are called upon to be fair, be fair." [26]
But this blatant disregard of justice cannot not be deemed as fair. The panic defense's success, lessening Pemberton's charge from murder to homicide, and his subsequent early release is interpreted by some Filipinos as messages that trans lives matter less, that the justice system is unequal, and that the LGBTQ+ panic defense is valid in their courts. [27] Furthermore, as a former colony of the U.S., this controversial case unfolds against a backdrop of colonial historical relations. The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) is a bilateral agreement that "ensures that the two countries have a predetermined process to be followed if an [American] service member is arrested and charged with a crime." [28] Some Filipinos feel that this an unequal agreement favoring the Americans. For example, Filipino personnel deferred to U.S. authority in determining where Pemberton was to be detained via Article Five (Criminal Jurisdiction) of the VFA. [29] The past Status of Forces Agreement, which ended in 1991, addressed criminal actions by American service members through the U.S. military justice system, effectively protecting them from prosecution in Filipino courts. Under this agreement, abuse and violence against Filipina women and girls perpetrated by American military personnel were rife at or around the bases. [30] Some Filipinos, reminded by this troubling past, have responded to Pemberton's release with public outrage, protests, and social media hashtags that express their frustration with the U.S.'s ongoing military presence. The successful use of the panic defense, Duterte's pardon, and unequal military treaties are an affront to the Philippines's sovereignty and democracy, endangering LGBTQ+ lives.
Dexter Pottinger – Jamaica
In the final case study, the story begins in Jamaica, where fashion designer, video director, LGBTQ+ activist, and Jamaica's 2016 "Face of Pride," Dexter Pottinger, 34, successfully built his celebrity before his tragic death at the hands of Romario Brown. [31] On August 29, 2017, at Pottinger's home in Kingston, Brown stabbed Pottinger after he entered the room and approached him while in an aroused state. Pottinger tried to walk away, but Brown followed and stabbed him 24 more times. Following this, Brown took a bath and then stole his TV, watch, and car. In addition to his charges of larceny from the dwelling and simple larceny, Brown's initial charge of murder was mitigated to manslaughter using the provocation defense. He was sentenced a total of 17 years (12 for manslaughter) in May 2019. [32]
Homosexuality is criminalized in Jamaica and, like Laude's story, it is related to vestiges of colonialism. That vestige is the Offences Against the Person Act of 1864 (OAPA), which was inherited from the British Constitution and remains as a holdover from the colonial era. The first of these "buggery" laws, Article 76, calls for 10 years of imprisonment and hard labor for men convicted of having homosexual sex; while the next law, Article 77, calls for seven years for just attempting it. Worse, Article 79, concerning gross indecency between two males, can refer to any kind of physical intimacy. So, being caught holding hands in public can be justification for a two-year prison sentence. [33] Although the buggery laws are not wholly enforced, these laws are emblematic of the widespread prejudices against the LGBTQ+ community. Essentially, from a legal standpoint, all gay men are criminals. This is troubling for two reasons. First, it leaves gay men vulnerable to arbitrary arrests and detention. And second, if gay victims are considered criminals in panic defense cases, it could influence courts to charge suspects with justifiable homicide or manslaughter instead of murder. [34] Considering the widespread homophobia present in Jamaica, demonstrated by the fact that a majority of Jamaicans believe that homosexuality is immoral, oppose repealing the buggery law, and are against amending the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms to protect LGBTQ+ rights, a panic defense ban would likely not end anti-queer violence. [35] But it would at least ensure adequate justice for the cases that make into court.
 Hate crimes based on sexual orientation represent 16.7% of hate crimes in the U.S., gender identity-based hate crimes are on the rise, and 1 in 5 lesbian, gay, and bisexual and 1 in 4 transgender people will experience hate violence. [36] Because crimes like this are often unreported, these startling statistics are just a portion of the true numbers. [37] Considering the global persecution directed against the LGBTQ+ community, this legal strategy needs to be banned in order to safeguard justice for victims of gender identity and sexual orientation-based hate crimes.
Out of 197 countries, only two have banned the panic defense. Even though there are bans in New Zealand and Australia, Ronald Brown's and Andrew Negre's stories cannot be forgotten because cases are still going on elsewhere in the world. Saying their names and commemorating their stories can create meaningful change, demonstrated by Nikki Kuhnhausen's mother and step-father who campaigned for justice. Their efforts were not in vain because Washington's LGBTQ+ panic defense ban, Nikki's Law, will forever honor her story. But, in the U.S., only 12 states and D.C. ban the defense. Worse, President Duterte's pardoning of Jennifer Laude's killer sent an implicit message to the international community that LGBTQ+ lives matter less. And in Jamaica, how are gay men supposed to beat the panic defense when, according to the buggery laws, they are already considered criminals? It is highly unlikely that there will be international interventions to this issue so, a grassroots approach could be more successful in banning the defense. So, remember their names, honor their memories, and be cognizant of your community around you because by doing so you can have a positive impact through just telling a story.
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[21] H.R.3133 – Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2019, H.R. H.R. 3133, 116th, 1st. (as introduced, June 5, 2019). https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3133.; S.1721 – Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2019, S. S.1721, 116th, 1st. (June 5, 2019). https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1721.
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