The name Walter Henstock appears on an individual plaque attached to the Cotgrave War Memorial and on the Memorial Board in All Saints Church Cotgrave. His grave is in All Saints Church Cemetery. His name also appears on the War Memorial in Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire where he lived for some time.
Walter was born in Cotgrave in 1897 to George and Mary (Nee Smith) Henstock. George worked variously as a Groom, Bricklayer's Labourer, Carrier and Cottager, with son Walter being employed as a Farm Ploughboy when he was 13. George and Mary lived at 11, Gripps Cottages and between 1891 and 1912 had 13 children. By 1916 Walter had moved to Jacksdale where he lived in Back Lane with his sister Mabel and her husband. He was enlisted during his time in Jacksdale and described his employment as 'Lettering Ovens' for a firm in Pinxton, Nottinghamshire.
On 23rd February 1916 Walter began his Army Service as a conscript and went immediately to the Army Reserve. After initial training he was mobilised on the 18th May 1916 and was posted to 2/6 Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment on the 25th May, 1916. 2/6 Battalion was a Second Line unit predominantly used for Home Defence.
On the 25th February, 1917, he was posted to France where he fought with the 59th (2nd North Midland) Division. One year later on 21st March, 1918 he was reported missing in action during the battle of Saint Quentin, becoming a Prisoner of War until his release and repatriation on the 30th November, 1918.
In February 1920 he re-enlisted into the Lincolnshire Regiment as a regular Soldier, but his career was short-lived as he died in the 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln, on the 17th May, 1920 from Acute Pulmonary Tuberculosis, possibly as a result of his lack of nutrition whilst a Prisoner of War. His body was returned to his home town of Cotgrave, where he was buried at All Saints Church, Cotgrave on the 20th May, 1920, aged just 22.
Walter was not married but had a girlfriend to whom he intended to propose. He had bought the ring and on deployment left it with his sister Bessie for safekeeping. Walter never did get engaged and the ring was handed down through Walter's family.
Ethel May, Walter's sister-in-law, moved to Cotgrave in 1924 where in 1939 she married Cyril, one of Walter's brothers. Cyril died in 1974, leaving Ethel a widow. In 1975 she married Ted another of Walter's brothers who was himself a widower. Ted died in 1982 but Ethel survived him and continues to live today (2014) in Cotgrave aged 96.
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The future of downtown Knoxville could be below the surface | News
The future of downtown Knoxville could be below the surface
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(WBIR - DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE) As downtown Knoxville continues to grow in every direction, at least one developer believes the future of the city could actually be found in a part of its past.
Almost a century ago, a hidden gem was buried by road construction. Gay Street was once hilly and had an especially steep slope down the Southern rail yards. It was a busy downtown attraction and by the early 20th century, a cluster of fairly tall buildings going down the hill on both sides of the street were built, according to historian Jack Neely.
"This was a very lively area from everything to saloons and shops. A lot of things that appealed to people getting off the train." Neely said.
However, the slope caused numerous problems for both cars and people coming from the train station. In 1919, the city built the Gay Street Viaduct (lifted roadway) over the rail yards and it changed the overall scene. That is when they raised the second-floor level of several businesses. The old first floors become unusually well-finished basements.
"Some buildings have three levels below Gay Street on some of these buildings. So a lot of these buildings are bigger than they look from the street level," Neely said, "They (original store owners) didn't really lose anything. They just re-ordered all the buildings. But they did cover up the first layer of the buildings and in some cases, the first couple of floors."
The lifted roadway has given way to a lot of myths over the years. Some say that underground is perfectly preserved with turn-of-the-century storefronts or that homeless people are living down there. So we decided to look into it.
What we found to be true, is much more fun in reality than our imagination.
Business owners along that block have access to these corridors through their basements, as well as several entrances on the West Jackson Avenue side of the street. And everyone uses this spot differently, whether turned into a garden or a showroom or even a place to getaway.
"I think the areas below Gay Street are more occupied now than they had been in a long time. For some people, one in particular, I know one who likes to smoke cigarettes in his workplace and he can do that. He has his own private office and doesn't have to share with anyone else and it's kind of a smoker's refuge," Neely said.
The mystery of underground Knoxville may not have been uncovered if it wasn't for developer David Dewhirst whose vision changed the 100 block of Gay Street. Dewhirst was an engineer, but when he came to Knoxville, he jumped on an opportunity he couldn't pass up.
"I literally drove off the interstate to Gay Street . I saw a for sale sign on the building and said that is where I want to be. It was pretty blighted section of town at that time, but it had enormous potential," Dewhirst recalled.
Dewhirst said he started off buying one building, then two, then three until he established Dewhirst Properties. It didn't take long for this developer to stumble upon a piece of Knoxville history within his buildings.
"The very first building I bought when I was coming here in the 90's had this underground portion out in front of it that I didn't even know about until a couple months after I bought the building. I wondered where that door in the basement went and it turned out that basement was originally the first floor of the building."
Dewhirst seems to have a plan to preserve and develop almost every aspect of the area. Dewhirst said the Jackson Avenue project is the only thing holding development back from happening.
"That will sort of complete and fill in subterranean passageways and make it commercially viable. Today, it's still waiting on those ramps to come down and get rebuilt. Those spaces will form some really neat underground urban spaces that you don't find in the suburbs and truly don't find hardly anywhere." Dewhirst shared, "They (people who live on the block) walk out on grade to the back into this pretty amazing urban forest that was left over from Civil War times and it's kind of best of both worlds. Gay Street on top and urban forest out back."
It is a type of development he believes is going on anywhere in the city, and with this history, really couldn't.
"I think the beauty about the urban living is that everything fits together," Dewhirst said, "Residential life, retail, restaurants, clubs, jazz, all kinds of music, commercial interesting office space...Everything flows together and can be on top of each other, beneath each other, within each other."
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A woman has come up with an interesting and hilarious way to make women stay away from her boyfriend.
Holly Cockerill, 24, made a T-shirt for boyfriend Karl Hennan with her face on it and some words for women who might have the intention of flirting with him. She went on to share photos of him wearing the T-shirt on Twitter.
If your reading this you've been looking at my man for too long. And this is how I'd be looking at you if I was here. Hi I'm Holly, his GIRLFRIEND!
Holly's tweet has gone viral with a lot of Twitter users finding it really funny.
babe I really don't wanna wear this stupid f****** top tonight can I take the thing off?


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When was first Copa Libertadores?
Since its inception in 1960, the Copa Libertadores had predominantly been won by clubs from nations with an Atlantic coast: Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Olimpia of Paraguay became the first team outside of those nations to win the Copa Libertadores when they triumphed in 1979.
Who Won Copa Libertadores the most?
Independiente, holds the record for the most Copa Libertadores victories (with seven), while Brazil's São Paulo and River Plate follow with 12 trophies each one. No club has ever won all the competitions, but Independiente, Boca Juniors, São Paulo and River Plate won seven different CONMEBOL tournaments.
Who won Conmebol Libertadores?
Sociedade Esportiva PalmeirasCopa Libertadores / Latest ChampionSociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, commonly known as Palmeiras, is a Brazilian professional football club based in the city of São Paulo, in the district of Perdizes. Palmeiras is one of the most popular clubs in South America, with around 18 million supporters and more than 80,000 affiliated fans. Wikipedia
How can I watch Copa Libertadores in Australia?
This is a list of television broadcasters which provide coverage of the Copa Libertadores, South American football's top level continental competition.
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What does Conmebol stand for?
The South American Football Confederation
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, /ˈkɒnmɪbɒl/, or CSF; Spanish: Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; Portuguese: Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) and it is one of FIFA's six …
Has a Mexican team won Copa Libertadores?
During the 18 editions that Mexican football participated in the Copa Libertadores won three runners-up: Cruz Azul (2001), Guadalajara (2010), and Tigres (2015); also, in the Copa Sudamericana, Pachuca won the championship in 2006 and Pumas reached the final in 2005.
Where can I watch Libertadores in USA?
Here is the US streaming schedule for the Copa Libertadores (All times Eastern): Coverage is available through a variety of streaming platforms that broadcast beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS en Español, but the two most reliable to choose from are fuboTV (starting at $33/month) and Fanatiz ($7.99 per month).
Is Copa Libertadores on UK TV?
Where to watch the Copa Libertadores in the UK? In the UK your best bet is using the BBC iPlayer for watching the Copa Libertadores.
What does Concacaf stand for?
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) was founded in 1961 and serves as the organizing body for 41 national associations, including the United States, and spans from Canada in the north to Suriname in the south.
Why Guyana is not part of CONMEBOL?
It has to do with a number of factors. History, tradition, cultural ties with the Caribbean, less travel and expenses, and the fact that they'd not be competitive in Conmebol. It makes sense.
Do MLS teams play in the Copa Libertadores?
Copa Libertadores will not introduce MLS and Liga MX teams after all | OneFootball. President of CONMEBOL, Alejandro Domínguez, has denied rumours that CONCACAF clubs could take part in the Copa Libertadores.
How many times have River Plate won the Copa Libertadores?
River Plate's official international achievements include four Copa Libertadores, one Intercontinental Cup, one Supercopa Sudamericana, one Copa Sudamericana, three Recopa Sudamericana, one Copa Interamericana and one Suruga Bank Championship.
Does YouTube TV have beIN SPORTS?
Sports Plus includes: beIN SPORTS / beIN SPORTS XTRA. Billiard TV. FOX Soccer Plus.
How can I watch Libertadores in USA?
Is Copa Libertadores on BBC?
The second legs of the semi-finals of South America's top club tournament, the Copa Libertadores, will be shown live on the BBC this week.
Has a CONCACAF team ever won a World Cup?
The United States has been very successful in the women's game, being the only CONCACAF member to win all three major worldwide competitions in women's football—the World Cup (4), the Olympics (4), and the Algarve Cup (10).
CONCACAF.
Subsidiaries NAFU (North America) UNCAF (Central America) CFU (Caribbean)
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Is Guyana considered Latino?
Guyanese people are not considered Hispanic because they do not speak Spanish. Because of this, Guyana is usually considered part of South America but not Latin America.
What is CONMEBOL stand for?
What is the difference between Libertadores and Sudamericana?
Copa Sudamericana is South America's second-tier soccer competition, and the Copa Libertadores is the number one club competition in South America. The two club soccer competitions bring some of the biggest clubs on the continent together with a fight for a comment goal.
Why is it called River Plate?
River Plate, who wear white shirts with a red diagonal band, took their name from the English version of Rio de la Plata stamped on crates of imported goods from Britain in the port of Buenos Aires.
How much does beIN cost?
There are only two options for beIN SPORTS CONNECT. There is a monthly subscription for $19.99/month or an annual pass for $179.99. If you take up the annual option you'd be saving a little over $3/month compared to the monthly model. beIN doesn't have any pay-per-view options.
How do I get beIN SPORTS for free?
beIN SPORTS have launched a brand-new, free streaming channel on Roku this week that provides sports fans with access to select games without requiring any authentication. To find the beIN SPORTS Xtra stream on Roku, it's located under The Roku Channel app.
What channel is showing Copa Libertadores?
Where can I watch the Libertadores final in London?
Palmeiras v Flamengo will be shown live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website from 7:45pm on Saturday evening. You can access BBC iPlayer on a number of devices including smartphones, laptops and tablets.
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Towns will become one of the highest paid players in the NBA.
Despite rumours of his discontent in Minnesota and a strained relationship with the front office, Karl-Anthony Towns has committed his long-term future to the Timberwolves.
According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the 22-year-old has signed a huge five-year, $190 million super max extension to cement himself as the cornerstone of the franchise.
There were some doubts over the center's future throughout the summer as he took his time in agreeing to the deal.
He had a lot of concerns to address and it appears that the impending departure of Jimmy Butler has played a part in his decision.
The duo reportedly didn't see eye to eye last season and Butler requested a trade away from the T-Wolves this week and is set to be offloaded before the start of the new campaign.
This will see KAT take the reigns as the leader of this Minnesota team and he released a statement on Saturday, making a promise to bring success to the team.
"On June 25, 2015, I was drafted to and committed to the Minnesota Timberwolves," he said.
"On September 22, 2018, I made a recommitment to the Wolves and have the same feelings of excitement that I felt back in 2015.
"I promise to the fans, my teammates and the organization to keep the vision of the man who drafted me, Flip Saunders, alive and treat his dream of winning with respect and dignity.
"To the fans from Day One and the Timberwolves fans, this is for you. Thank you for believing in me."
The All-Star posted a video on his Twitter page to confirm the deal and wrote "5 more".
If Towns makes one of the All-NBA teams or wins MVP or Defensive Player of the Year this season, he'll be eligible to receive 30 percent of the team's salary cap.
With Butler set to hit free agency next summer, Minnesota was always likely to choose Towns and commit to him for the foreseeable future.
He's arguably the best player they've had since Kevin Garnett and will only get better.
The former Kentucky product has averaged a double-double in each of his three years in the NBA, posting 21.3 points and 12.3 rebounds in 2017-18.
He also shot a career-best 54.5 percent from the field and 42.7 percent from three-point range.
This deservedly saw him earn his first All-Star appearance and All-NBA selection.
Towns has also proven to be extremely durable as he's completed all 82 games in his three seasons in the league so far.
Minnesota fans will be delighted to see the talented young star commit to the franchise and there's certainly a lot more to come from a player who's already established himself as one of the best big men in the league.


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04:26 AM 15-Jun-2018 Jarret Huang* (B.A. Cambridge) (LL.M. Harvard)
In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42 ('Patel'), a nine-judge coram of the UK Supreme Court ('UKSC') rejected the much-criticised rule-based approach to contractual illegality in favour of a more discretionary one incorporating questions of public policy and proportionality. In deciding thus, the UKSC rejected the 'reliance rule' promulgated in Tinsley v Milligan [1994] 1 AC 340, which had held that a claim would succeed only if it did not have to 'rely on' the illegality to be made out. On the Patel approach, a claimant who had entered into an illegal contract with and transferred money to his counterparty would be able to recover that sum in unjust enrichment subject to the underlying purpose of the transgressed prohibition, public policy, and proportionality.
In Ochroid Trading Ltd and another v Chua Siok Lui (Trading as VIE Import and Export) and another [2018] SGCA 5 ('Ochroid'), the Singapore Court of Appeal provided welcome guidance as to the impact of Patel on the legal landscape in Singapore. Declining to adopt the broad discretion Patel necessitated, the Court of Appeal affirmed the two-step test first laid out in Ting Siew May v Boon Lay Choo and another [2014] SGCA 28 ('Ting') to ascertain a) whether the contract itself (as opposed to behaviour required to fulfil the contract) was prohibited, and b) whether a party would nonetheless be able to obtain restitution of the transferred monies on the ground of unjust enrichment.
Facts of Ochroid
The appellants (Ochroid Trading) advanced money to the respondents (VIE Import and Export) pursuant to a series of investment loan agreements, with dates stipulated for repayment with a 'profit'. In breach of the agreements, the respondents failed to repay the appellants. The appellants therefore sued in breach of contract for the entire outstanding sum and, alternatively, in unjust enrichment for the unpaid principal sums (less the 'profit' stipulated). They also brought claims in tort for conspiracy to defraud and false representation.
Decision of the High Court
The High Court rejected the appellants' claims, finding that the agreements were in fact unlicensed moneylending agreements which were unenforceable under the Moneylenders Act 2008 ('MLA'). The unjust enrichment claim was rejected as a backdoor attempt to enforce an unenforceable contract. The claims in tort were likewise dismissed on the basis that the appellants had themselves engineered the entire charade by requesting the use of fake tax invoices. The appellants then appealed to the Court of Appeal.
Decision of the Court of Appeal
The five-member coram of the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal on largely the same grounds. The unjust enrichment claim was rejected on the basis of the illegality defence, specifically that to do otherwise would stultify 'the fundamental social and public policy' against unlicensed moneylending. Phang JA, for the Court, also took the opportunity to elaborate on the framework with which future cases of illegality in contract would be approached.
Step One: Ascertaining Contractual Illegality
The Court opened its analysis by outlining the law on contractual illegality in Singapore pre-Ochroid, as reflected in Ting Siew May: The traditional division in the law of contractual illegality was between statutory illegality and common law illegality. In both areas, however, a contract would be void and unenforceable if the contract (as opposed to merely the conduct contracted to be done) was prohibited. Ting's central addition to the jurisprudence on the matter was to recognise that in the context of common law illegality, a category of contracts existed which was not unlawful per se, but merely entered into with the object of committing illegal acts. The Court in Ting recognised that for this category of common law illegality, it would be unjust to deem all such contracts wholly unenforceable, since the legal wrongs intended might have been relatively trivial. It was thus decided that the application of illegality to this category of contracts was 'subject to the limiting principle of proportionality'.
The Court in Ochroid then contrasted the Ting position with Patel, juxtaposing the willingness in Patel to apply a balancing exercise of public policy, proportionality, and the purpose of the transgressed prohibition 'across the board in all cases of illegality at common law', with the reticence of the Court in Ting, which applied the principle of proportionality 'in only a very limited sphere' of common law illegality where the contract was not prohibited per se. The Court then outlined three reasons why the narrower position in Ting was preferred over the broader Patel approach:
First, the majority approach in Patel applying the broad 'balancing exercise' for common law illegality but not statutory illegality was said to create an 'unprincipled distinction'. The Court rhetorically posed, 'why should the legal position not be the same, notwithstanding the fact that a contract has been prohibited under the common law (and not statute)?'
Second, the Patel approach was unnecessary to achieve remedial justice in the Singaporean context and instead conflated the principle of illegality with the alternative restitutionary remedies that might follow. The Court found that the 'possibility of restitutionary recovery … substantially mitigate(d) the harshness of the traditional rule'. Further, Ting and the application of the proportionality principle in the context stipulated provided a further avenue for the Court to achieve remedial justice should it be disproportionate to render a contract wholly unenforceable.
Third, the majority approach in Patel engendered uncertainty. The Court cited Goudkamp ((2017) 133 LQR 14) approvingly that 'the policy-based test…requires the courts to weight incommensurable factors', and noted that Lord Toulson had himself acknowledged in Patel that no single factor was determinative. The Court took pains, however, to distinguish this approach from that in Ting, underscoring that the uncertainty created in the latter was considerably reduced because a) Ting was constrained to 'only a residuary area of common law illegality', and b) the balancing principle in Ting was 'anchored to the overarching principle of proportionality', which was a well-established legal principle.
In sum, the approach to ascertaining the effect of illegality in contractual situations remains largely unchanged from Ting.
Step Two: Restitution as another means of Recovery
The second step of the Court's framework examines 'three possible legal avenues for … restitutionary recovery of the benefits conferred' under an illegal contract: a) where the parties are not in pari delicto, b) where the repentance doctrine ('locus poenitentiae') applies, and c) where an independent cause of action arises. The Court took pains to distinguish 'restitutionary recovery of the benefits conferred' from out-and-out enforcement of the contract (and by extension the profits agreed on).
Parties not in pari delicto
Where the parties were not in pari delicto (ie, where the plaintiff was less blameworthy than the defendants), restitutionary recovery would be permitted. The underlying premise of the doctrine is that the party seeking restitutionary recovery is not legally deemed to be 'equally at fault vis-à-vis the other party'. The doctrine was limited to three defined categories: a) where the relevant legislation which caused the illegality was a 'class protection statute' that was intended to protect the class of persons to whom the plaintiff belonged, b) where the plaintiff entered into the contract on the basis of fraud, duress or oppression, or c) where the plaintiff entered into the illegal transaction as a result of a mistake as to the facts constituting the illegality.
The Locus Poenitentiae Doctrine
The Locus Poenitentiae doctrine allows a party to an illegal contract to obtain restitutionary recovery of benefits if he 'repents' before the illegal purpose is effected. The Court held, rejecting the looser approach in Tribe v Tribe [1995] EWCA 20, that 'genuine and voluntary' withdrawal from the illegal enterprise was required for the doctrine to apply. It would not apply in cases where the illegal purpose was frustrated by circumstances outside the plaintiff's control, or had been rendered unnecessary.
Independent Causes of Action
Ochroid was the first Singapore authority to definitely recognise that a claim in unjust enrichment as an independent cause of action could permit recovery of the benefits conferred under an illegal contract. Previously, the position in Top Ten Entertainment Pte Ltd v Lucky Red Investments [2004] 4 SLR(R) 559 was that the reliance principle established in Tinsley 'would preclude a claim in unjust enrichment…if the plaintiff [had] to "rely on" the illegal contract to establish his claim'. This was rejected in Ochroid.
Ochroid recognised two distinct conceptions of reliance which must be disengaged: a procedural sense triggered whenever the plaintiff has to assert (in pleading or evidence) the illegal acts, and a substantive sense which is only engaged when a plaintiff seeks to enforce, and thereby profit from, the illegal contract. The 'procedural' sense of reliance does not allow the plaintiff to profit from enforcing the illegal contract, but simply puts the parties in the position they would have been in if they had never entered into the illegal transaction. This jurisprudential distinction was the basis for rejecting the Top Ten Entertainment position, which treated all reliance as substantive.
Having established that merely procedural reliance on the illegal contract would not bar recovery in unjust enrichment, the Court also clarified whether, after a claim in unjust enrichment was prima facie made out, a separate defence premised on illegality and public policy might prevent recovery. The Court held that the principle governing this question was Birks' stultification principle, which would bar recovery in unjust enrichment if to permit recovery would 'undermine the fundamental policy that rendered the underlying contract void in the first place'. In considering whether the principle of stultification was engaged in a particular case, the Court identified factors like a) whether permitting recovery would provide a lever with which similar plaintiffs could get their counterparties to perform the illegal contract ('the lever argument'), and b) whether it would create a safety-net for those seeking to engage in similar illegality ('the safety-net argument'). The Court did not place express limits on the other factors to be considered.
The Court also suggested, albeit tentatively, that the stultification principle would also apply for other independent causes of action like the vindication of property rights.
Contractual Illegality
Post-Ochroid, the starting point for analysis in cases of contractual illegality is ascertaining whether the proportionality exception in Ting will apply. However, two issues arise from this approach:
First, the taxonomy-heavy approach raises questions of consistency and justification. The Court in Ochroid rightly criticised (at [114]) the difference in treatment depending on whether illegality was statutory or by common law when rejecting the Patel approach, but chose to maintain the disparate treatment in keeping the Ting exception. The result is that in situations where the contract is not prohibited, but has been entered into with the object of committing an illegal act, a claimant whose illegal act was prohibited by statute will be in a worse position than one whose act was prohibited by common law. Insofar as the origin of the legal prohibition does not reflect on the relative blameworthiness of the acts, one may question why this distinction is drawn. This taxonomical uncertainty is exacerbated by situations where there exists both common law and statutorily-derived prohibitions, and their precise interface is uncertain.
Granted, one might argue that the Ting exception remains desirable because of the remedial jurisdiction it provides in a narrow and more 'deserving' category to assuage the harshness of the law, but a) if remedial jurisdiction is desirable in common law situations, it should also be in the statutory illegality context, b) the availability of an independent cause of action in unjust enrichment would prevent loss in these more 'deserving' situations nonetheless, and c) the potential for the contract to nonetheless be enforced on grounds of proportionality may be at tension with the 'substantive' notion of reliance (ie. it potentially allows the claimants to rely on an unlawful act to profit if the contract is enforced, as opposed to just preventing loss). By contrast, the removal of the exception will avoid situations where claimants are able to avail themselves of a proportionality-based exception on purely fortuitous situations outside their control.
Proportionality vs Stultification
Second, and separate from the uncertainty the existing categorisation creates, questions arise from how the 'proportionality' exception would cohere with the principle of stultification. In particular, given the willingness of the Court to apply the principle of stultification in other situations like in adjudicating independent claims in tort or for property, why should the principle of stultification not also apply in the Ting exception instead of proportionality? Insofar as the Court deems the Ting category of exceptions worthy of disparate treatment and access to the proportionality principle, it may be questioned why the disparity is aggravated by the application of proportionality as the governing principle instead of stultification. The Court suggested that stultification being an 'underlying thread throughout…the law relating to restitutionary recovery pursuant to an independent cause of action' would be a 'desirable outcome', and questions may also thus arise of the outer limits of stultification, and whether it should take on a broader character like the proportionality test has.
Ochroid has done much to clarify the law in this area, and is certainly to be welcomed. Nonetheless, three areas may be examined for further consideration:
Identification of 'the fundamental policy'
First, in reference to the stultification principle, there may be uncertainty as to what the 'fundamental' policy which rendered an underlying contract void and unenforceable in the first place is. In cases where a prohibition has multiple causes and seeks to achieve a range of different objectives, identifying the precise 'fundamental' policy may not be as simple as in Ochroid.
Overlaps between the Restitutionary Avenues
Second, and as recognised by the Court (at [170]), there are clear overlaps between the in pari delicto doctrine and the independent action in unjust enrichment. The duress or mistake which causes the parties to not be 'in pari delicto' could also serve as an unjust factor for an unjust enrichment claim. One may thus question whether it is necessary for this doctrine to remain distinct and separate.
Misdirected Moral Opprobrium
Third, one may question whether Lord Sumption's view in Patel that restitutionary relief in the form of unjust enrichment should always be available ought to have been dismissed so quickly. The Court in Ochroid deemed at [146] that Lord Sumption's approach had 'little to commend it', noting that 'even in the context of restitutionary relief, there will be cases where to allow the claim in unjust enrichment would bring the court into disrepute and undermine the integrity of the law'. The example provided was to question whether restitutionary relief should be granted even in claims involving a contract to commit a murder. Lord Grabiner QC suggested that it was 'difficult to think of a more offensive or objectionable outcome' than to permit recovery in such a scenario, but this polemic can be unpacked further:
A contracts to pay B $10,000 to murder C. B is unable to because of C's untimely (but unrelated) death. The potential 'undermining' of the integrity of the law is largely ameliorated by the existence of alternative (criminal law) means for the state to seize or impound the money transferred. Thus, even if A would otherwise be able to reclaim the $10,000 through an independent action in unjust enrichment, he would remain barred from the money by such measures. The practical effect is thus the same: A is not able to enjoy the $10,000, and the 'integrity' of the law is not compromised. Instead, it may be argued that the 'integrity' of the law is in fact enhanced: rather than conflating i) the moral opprobrium directed at A with ii) his rights over the money, Lord Sumption's approach has the benefit of clearly delineating a) the application of the unjust enrichment remedy and b) the tools the state has for seizing the money. A morally-suspect individual like A is still able to own and dispose of property, and he should not be denied money that would normally be his in the context of a void contract, subject to criminal law seizure, solely because of moral outrage.
If anything, one might suggest that B keeping the money, as would likely happen if A's unjust enrichment claim failed, would be similarly deleterious for the 'integrity' of the law. B fully intended to murder C, and is similarly blameworthy. The moral outrage ought to be with either A or B keeping the money, not solely against A. The way to address this issue is to have that money denied to both parties, as opposed to giving B an unjustified windfall.
Granted, one may question whether there always exists an alternative means for the state to seize or confiscate the money involved, which may vary by country and offence, but the broad principle remains. Insofar as A (and B) are parted from the money, the integrity of the courts is largely protected. With that overarching concern settled, attention can be turned to the precise logic of the Court in refusing the restitutionary application of unjust enrichment in illegal contracts. The Court in Ochroid quoted Lord Mansfield in Holman v Johnson (1775) 1 Cowp 341 approvingly, that a claimant 'may be equally undeserving, but it was not for his sake that the rule operated'. Rather, it was premised on protecting the integrity of the courts. The integrity of the courts is important, but the court should also not lose sight of the integrity of its doctrines. There should be more compelling explanations for the rejection of Lord Sumption's position, which is largely in line with the orthodox application of unjust enrichment, than merely moral outrage.
The Court in Ochroid echoed that in Ting, noting that 'the law relating to illegality and public policy is generally confused (and confusing)…given the nature of the subject itself'. The Court rightly underscored the 'important threshold point that any approach…needs, in the circumstances, to be as straightforward as possible'. The Court has provided welcome clarity and a useful framework for analysis in this sphere. The rejection of Patel and the potentially uncertain multifactor analysis underscores Singapore's commitment to (commercial) certainty in this area of law. While areas of law like taxonomy in cases of illegality or how to ascertain the 'fundamental policy' in stultification remain to be developed, Ochroid is a strong pragmatic step in this inherently nebulous field.
* The author wishes to thank Mr Harry Francis Millerchip and Dr Andreas Televantos. The views in this article should not be taken as representative of any organisations I am affiliated to. All errors herein are my own.
** This blog entry may be cited as Jarret Huang, "Ochroid Trading: Illegality and Unjust Enrichment after Patel v Mirza" (15 June 2018) (https://www.singaporelawblog.sg/blog/article/212)
*** A PDF version of this entry may be downloaded here


Gray Knob Trail is a hiking trail in Low and Burbank's Grant, New Hampshire. It is within White Mountain National Forest. It is 1.5 miles long and begins at 4,369 feet altitude. Traveling the entire trail is 3.1 miles with a total elevation gain of 986 feet. Along the trail there is a spring. Near the end of the trail are restrooms.
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The most luminous galaxy known in the Universe — the quasar W2246-0526, seen when the Universe was less than 10% of its current age — is so turbulent that it is in the process of ejecting its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
Quasars are distant galaxies with very active supermassive black holes at their centres that spew out powerful jets of particles and radiation. Most quasars shine brightly, but a tiny fraction  of these energetic objects are of an unusual type known as Hot DOGs, or Hot, Dust-Obscured Galaxies, including the galaxy WISE J224607.57-052635.0 , the most luminous known galaxy in the Universe.
For the first time, a team of researchers led by Tanio Díaz-Santos of the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, has used the unique capabilities of ALMA  to peer inside W2246-0526 and trace the motion of ionised carbon atoms between the galaxy's stars.
"Large amounts of this interstellar material were found in an extremely turbulent and dynamic state, careening throughout the galaxy at around two million kilometres per hour," explains lead author Tanio Díaz-Santos.
The astronomers believe that this turbulent behaviour could be linked to the galaxy's extreme luminosity. W2246-0526 blasts out as much light as roughly 350 trillion Suns. This startling brightness is powered by a disc of gas that is superheated as it spirals in on the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core. The light from the blazingly bright accretion disc in the centre of this Hot DOG does not escape directly, it is absorbed by a surrounding thick blanket of dust, which re-emits the energy as infrared light .
This powerful infrared radiation has a direct and violent impact on the entire galaxy. The region around the black hole is at least 100 times more luminous than the rest of the galaxy combined, thus releasing intense yet localised radiation in W2246-0526 that is exerting tremendous pressure on the entire galaxy .
"We suspected that this galaxy was in a transformative stage of its life because of the enormous amount of infrared energy," said co-author Peter Eisenhardt, Project Scientist for WISE at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"ALMA has now shown us that the raging furnace in this galaxy is making the pot boil over," adds Roberto Assef, also from Universidad Diego Portales and leader of the ALMA observations.
If these turbulent conditions continue, the intense infrared radiation would boil away all of the galaxy's interstellar gas. Models of galaxy evolution based on the new ALMA data indicate that the interstellar gas is already being ejected from the galaxy in all directions.
 Only one of every 3000 quasars observed are classified as Hot DOGs.
 The full name of this remarkable object is WISE J224607.57-052635.0, it was found by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft and the rest of the name gives the precise location of the quasar on the sky.
 ALMA is uniquely capable of detecting the faint, millimetre-wavelength light naturally emitted by atomic carbon.
 Because of the expansion of the Universe the infrared radiation from W2246-0526 is redshifted to longer millimetre wavelengths — where ALMA is very sensitive — when it is observed from Earth.
 In most other quasars this ratio is much more modest. This process of mutual interaction between the central black hole of a galaxy and the rest of its material is known to astronomers as feedback.
This research was presented in a paper "The Strikingly Uniform, Highly Turbulent Interstellar Medium of The Most Luminous Galaxy in the Universe", by T. Díaz-Santos et al., and will be published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The team is composed of T. Díaz-Santos (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile), R. J. Assef (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile), A. W. Blain (University of Leicester, UK) , C.-W. Tsai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA) , M. Aravena (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile), P. Eisenhardt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA), J. Wu (University of California Los Angeles, California, USA), D. Stern (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA) and C. Bridge (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA).


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Q: HAproxy: Redirect to https in backend My workplace has a HAproxy which we use for routing to webservers needing only one public IP. Some of our customers want https some do not.
I would like to enforce https on a per backend basis.
I found this, only it does not say if this config is for frontend or backend. Maybe it will work for both?

http-request redirect location  [code ] [] []

or this:

mode http
redirect scheme https if !{ ssl_fc }

So I thought Id put this in some of the  backends:

http-request redirect location https://www.somedomain.com [code 301]

Will this work? Our lab env. is tied up so I cannot test it in a timely fashion.

A: I created my own test backend..
This works:
backend lb_customername
          mode http
          redirect scheme https if !{ ssl_fc }

          balance roundrobin

          server server1 10.0.0.51:80 maxconn 200
          server server2 10.0.0.52:80 maxconn 200

A: From the HAProxy documentation for redirect scheme
May be used in sections
defaults    no
frontend    yes
listen      yes
backend     yes

So this will work (copied from a working deployment)
backend https_for_all_traffic
    redirect scheme https if !{ ssl_fc }

    server https_only 10.21.5.73:80

Since the !{ ssl_fc } check is essentially just another ACL, you could even combine it with other ACLs and forward only certain traffic:
backend https_for_some_traffic
    # Detect traffic to admin pages
    acl secure    url_beg    /admin

    # Force any HTTP admin traffic to HTTPS
    #  the conditions are combined with an implicit AND
    redirect scheme https if !{ ssl_fc } secure

    server both_http_and_https 10.21.5.73:80

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Walery Płoskiewicz (ur. 9 grudnia 1878 w Przasnyszu, zm. 27 sierpnia 1944 w Warszawie) – ksiądz, pedagog, pisarz, kapelan AK.

Życiorys
Studiował teologię w Seminarium Duchownym w Płocku. Po święceniach kapłańskich W 1901 został kapelanem biskupa Jerzego Szembeka z którym w 1903 przeniósł się do Petersburga. Tam na Akademii Duchownej uzyskał doktorat z prawa kanonicznego. W 1910 mianowany kanonikiem honorowym kapituły mohylewskiej i kanclerzem kurii. Pracował też w sądownictwie kościelnym, pełnił obowiązki wizytatora kościołów. W 1917 delegowany do pracy w Komisji Likwidacyjnej do Spraw Królestwa Polskiego, w Wydziale do Spraw Kościoła Katolickiego.

W 1918 powrócił do kraju. Papież Benedykt XV odznaczył go tytułem swojego prałata. Objął stanowisko referenta do spraw religijnych w Ministerstwie Spraw Zagranicznych. W 1922 osiadł w Łucku na Wołyniu, był tam prałatem kapituły, następnie zaś kapelanem sióstr nazaretanek w Warszawie. Nauczał religii w gimnazjum żeńskim. W l. 1934–36 pełnił obowiązki rektora kościoła św. Andrzeja. W 1936 znalazł się ponownie na Wołyniu: został proboszczem kolegiaty w Ołyce. W 1939 wrócił do Warszawy. Ogłosił prace: Z dziejów diecezji kresowych i Władza biskupów katolickich w świetle prawodawstwa imperium rosyjskiego. Wiele artykułów zamieścił w petersburskim Życiu Kościelnym.

W czasie okupacji niemieckiej brał czynny udział w tajnym nauczaniu, był kapelanem AK podczas powstania warszawskiego. Zginął podczas ewakuacji klasztoru.

Bibliografia
 Tadeusz Górski Walery Płoskiewicz (1878-1944) [w:] Polski Słownik Biograficzny tom XXVI wyd. 1981 s. 809
 Walery Płoskiewicz - Biała Księga  Martyrologium duchowieństwa — Polska

Członkowie Komisji Likwidacyjnej do spraw Królestwa Polskiego
Duchowni diecezji łuckiej
Kapelani Armii Krajowej
Ludzie urodzeni w Przasnyszu
Ludzie związani z Łuckiem
Polscy nauczyciele
Polscy pisarze
Powstańcy warszawscy
Prepozyci ołyckiej kapituły kolegiackiej
Urodzeni w 1878
Urzędnicy Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych II Rzeczypospolitej
Zmarli w 1944

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At what age does goth stop being cool?
Thread: At what age does goth stop being cool?
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Originally Posted by yuzukelly
Hrm, there is a difference between wearing those costumes either in your personal life and at a job. If it's at a job, I agree they should wear more appropriate clothing. but if it's after they're done and some guy wants to put on makeup and a spike collar and walk around, no one is asking you to look at them.
Most respectable adults wear formal attire when they are "hanging" around their friends in public. Unless it's just being casual and goofy and not really giving a fuck. It's not taking it seriously and absorbing it as a part of who you are. If you are what you wear then there is no substance to you whatsoever. It's just the simple loathing of people who try to look "mysterious" or "scary" by wearing ridiculous clothing and face paint. The most interesting, or even deranged people for that matter, you can imagine are those debonair looking successful types who have bright white teeth, wear suits and ties, and go golfing. Those are the scary ones because they could hide a body in their basement for decades, and decades, and decades, and decades, and decades, and no one would expect it. I am one of those people. Again there are the exceptions of just hanging around the house, or when Halloween rolls around, rock concerts, being an asshole in video chat etc...
The point is. People who give into alternative fashion trends make themselves targets. It's much more mature to present yourself by being astute, affable, and square even if you're not.
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yuzukelly
Fire Treasure
Rank: Crimson Soil
Did I just give a serious opinion in another joke thread. Ah well.
my sig is gone !!
No, it's not a joke thread. Did you notice that others agree and have also given their input on how ridiculous it is?
Yeah :P but if an adult doesn't go out of their way to hurt other humans, has a job and supports himself and takes care of his responsibilities, those kind of people are more respectable than the ones who just look the part. Like I said, I agree with the looking professional while at work thing, but if one is going to judge others based on how they like to dress in their free time, is there really substance to that person?
There is a stereotype that goes along with how you look... but it really doesn't affect me and there's no point in mocking them if it makes them happy and they're not treating other people like crap.
BlueEyeLens
Sometimes you can't throw out the old with the new. Some of us that still do live the 90's, do so because that's how we lived and becomes part of us. What others may think or judge, doesn't matter to us. Why should it? It really all comes down to the personalty of a person, how the person carries themself. Sure there's people out there that "look the part" just for attention, they're easy to notice, but easily ignored.
Your mentality is what defines you, not what you put on your skin.
Mugwump
SEX PIG
Last edited by Mugwump; 06-29-2013 at 04:33 PM.
Thought mugwump was gay? I must be wrong though because I think him and Yuzu want to bang.
Anyway, it's not a joke thread and was being taken seriously until both of you ruined it.
Originally Posted by Shangs
you can imagine are those debonair looking successful types who have bright white teeth, wear suits and ties, and go golfing. Those are the scary ones because they could hide a body in their basement for decades, and decades, and decades, and decades, and decades, and no one would expect it. I am one of those people.
Very serious.
*Correction
No, I was being serious with that statement. Of course I added that "I am one of those people" in there for the lulz. But some of the most monstrous, sadistic, and generally fucked up overall people that have existed, (in American culture for example), were well dressed, non suspect very successful people. And if they weren't successful they were "good guys" who no one would ever have thought to have been that way.
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representation from the file and generates code.
implementation when compared to the burden placed on the programmer?
functions, etc.).  Therefore, the following tweaks are recommened.
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In modern heathenry, one of the goals is to construct known, established practices into our modern way of life. As an orthopraxic (translated: Correct Practice) worldview, we have the responsibility of establishing the right actions and method, and never is this more important than when dealing with the divine.
One of the issues that plagues modern heathens is the lack of understanding of sacred space. The base issue with this seems to evolve out of the personal relationship many modern heathens seek with the divine. The overculture in modern America points to an orthodoxic view of a "Personal Jesus." When many come and begin conversion to a Germanic tribal belief, they often bring this same concept [I.E. baggage] to a heathen mindset. To anyone who would like to begin a study on the concept of baggage, Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity by James Russell is a good place to begin. Using this train of thought, one would have a "personal" god on hand and thus they would be able to interact with that god on demand.
In addition, many modern heathens have no dedicated sacred space. Without a dedicated space to worship the gods, they do so in the profane [read:non-holy]. They instead use some form of hallowing ritual, such as the infamous hammer hallowing. The issue with these aren't that they are modern, only that they don't fit the concept's real purpose. Sacred space isn't a thing you just make at your behest, it is something you build through prolonged gifting. The most common example most modern heathens know of is the hammer hallowing ritual. There are several variations but they all go fairly similar. It is in essence the same thing as casting a circle in Wicca and other similar veins of thought. You can essentially do this everywhere whenever you choose to.
However, the Germanic gods were gods largely of locality and cult. To worship, you had to go to them and go in their space. We see this in establishment of local cults and dedicated sacred worship sites. Eliade builds on this concept in the Sacred and the Profane with the idea of hierophanies. Hierophanies are manifestations of the sacred, and can include theophanies, which are manifestations of a god. The hierophanies are the appearance of the divine and represent the pattern of the world. They are also act as the spiritual center of the universe. These sacred sites act as an anchor around which the world of man wraps itself. This is known as the Axis Mundi.
With this concept, we begin with the establishment of the sacred in the world. A common example of this is a cosmic tree or pillar that literally is the center of the world (Yggdrasil can be included as an example). Man, who wishes to be near as possible to the divine, will live as close to the spiritual center as allowed. Thus geography is established as the center (the sacred space), the known world (a world of order) and the foreign world of nature (chaotic and occupied by others).
So, established is the concept of a sacred space, the question is how does it differ from a profane, or common, space? This is where the Axis Mundi lies and is the crossing point into the world of the divine. This is the domain of the Holy. While each praxis will vary, there will be established rules within the space of the divine. Pulling an example from Abrahamic belief, Moses is required to remove his shoes in the presence of the burning bush, a theophany. In a previous Real Heathenry article, bowing was discussed and examples were shown of what happened if you didn't. As listed in Groves and Sacred Spaces in Germanic and Scandinavian Heathenry, by Gary Golden, an example of things forbidden in a sacred space were violence, body fluids, etc. There are examples in sagas of men being required to bathe before even looking upon a sacred mountain. Rules were made and followed, or repercussions could happen.
The take away is that there were rules to obey, and there were rules because this was not a place of man but the divine. This was a place where men came only for singular reasons, e.g. to gift. This was a place to tread lightly, or risk damaging the luck bestowed upon your group. This was the dominion of gods and the connection man had with them. As such, you obeyed their rules and did everything properly, or else you would risk their disfavor.
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Is this a full or a partial list of spaces?
Is this an exhaustive list of* sacred spaces? No, just the basic theory behind it. Would you be able to clarify your question with a bit more detail?
I'm still learning about heathenry and i find this concept of sacred spaces to be fascinating. I had never even considered it until i read this article but now its a very obvious concept.
Is there any information on sacred spaces within the arch-heathen homes? It is an area I have been trying to research with very little luck.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll be ordering it payday.
Any suggestions on kinfetch and ancestoral spirits? I have read quite a bit from the Ango-Saxon aspect over the years, but most sources put it only in one or two chapters and the material is generally a same and not all that in-depth.


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'We Safeguard the Future': An Afghan Midwife on the Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital Attack
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Compared to the world-class maternity wards and birthing facilities available to mamas here in Singapore, the women of Kabul, Afghanistan had only one safe place to give birth in – the Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital.
Zahra Koochizad has been working as a midwife with Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, aka Doctors Without Borders) since 2018 in Kabul, Afghanistan. She comes from a family of midwives and that, coupled with her strong desire to serve her own people, inspired her to become a midwife too. On May 12th 2020, the Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital was attacked, killing 24 people, including 15 mothers. Zahra was on duty that day as the midwife supervisor at the maternity ward.
When I first saw news of this attack in May, I was quick to keep scrolling and paid no mind to the story – there's already so much happening in the world (Covid-19! The Black Lives Matter movement! The ongoing fight against misogyny!). Did we really need to hear about more tragedy? But when my fellow mama friend, MSF Communications Officer in Singapore Sarah Bagharib, sent this op-ed to me, I couldn't look away and my heart shattered.
Afghanistan has been plagued by war for over 40 years due to the conflict between its government and the Taliban, who holds power over much of the country. Under their militant regime, the country has faced brutality, massacres and famine. Could the women and infants who were safe in the Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital have really posed a threat to the militant group, for them to conduct such a senseless act?
Below, Zahra shares her thoughts about the day of the attack.
The Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital post-partum room. Women stay around 6 hours on average, when they are not facing complications. (Image: Sandra Calligaro)
As midwives in Afghanistan, we bring new life into this country under conditions more difficult than in most. Approximately 130 million babies are born worldwide every year. This also means there are millions of women needing assistance to go through their pregnancy and labour. Giving birth, in my opinion, is one of the most glorious and most critical moments in a woman's life.
My passion to see new life coming into the world and my strong desire to serve my own people made me choose to become a midwife. It also comes from my family's involvement in this vocation. Some of my aunts and cousins also work as midwives in different hospitals in Kabul. They also chose this profession because of their desire to serve, and because they learned that, in Afghanistan, most women who die in childbirth, died from preventable complications.
Despite some improvements over the past years, Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal and newborn mortality rates in the world, and the need for specialised care is vital. In Switzerland, five mothers will die per 100,000 live births. In Afghanistan, this number jumps to 638 who will die; this does not include the 15 mothers and five unborn babies who were systematically shot dead in the maternity ward where I work a month ago.
One of the biggest challenges that every midwife and pregnant woman in Afghanistan faces is insecurity. I've painfully experienced this first-hand.
Zakia (32 years old), and her twins, Qassim and Abbas (Image: Sandra Calligaro)
I'm the midwife supervisor in the MSF-run maternity wing of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul. The attack there occurred on 12 May. I remember that day; we had very nice weather, the air was fresh, and I felt a sense of peace when entering the hospital. Once I arrived, I saw my colleagues working; they all looked motivated and eager to start a new day of providing services to pregnant women in need. On a daily basis, we are used to tragedy in our communities, but nothing could have prepared us for the horror to come.
In Afghanistan, a maternity ward is one of the few spaces where women are the leaders. The terrorists entered an area where no men are ever allowed to go. They stormed the maternity wing armed with guns, killing pregnant women, new mothers and newborns. Their leader must be very proud; celebrating a victory over an army of one-day old babies and women wearing only their hospital robes.
Entrances to psychosocial unit and office. (Image: Frederic Bonnot/MSF)
A hospital is supposed to be a protected space. It says this under international humanitarian law and yet the assault on my maternity wing is not an exceptional case – attacks on healthcare happen frequently here. But what is different about this attack than all the others?
Because, as midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country. We are at the bedside of pregnant women giving birth to the country's future and we need to be protected. To safeguard a maternity wing like mine is to safeguard our future, along with the midwives working there. Midwives like our beloved Maryam, who was killed in the most incomprehensible way as she assisted soon-to-be mothers giving birth.
On the day of the four-hour assault on Dasht-e-Barchi maternity wing, the terrorists not only attacked pregnant women and newborns, but also the decades of work involved to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in Afghanistan. Because of this attack, the western area of Kabul, with more than one million inhabitants, and women coming from far away provinces, no longer have access to any comprehensive obstetric and newborn care.
Their only option now is a 50-bed hospital close by, but with only seven beds devoted to maternity services, I do not know if the pregnant women who go there, or to other hospitals, are being cared for as they need. Will they receive the help they need? Will they have the means to pay for hospital services? Will they survive their labour if they are not admitted to any hospital?
I am scared to think about what will happen to those women who would have otherwise come to us.
Marzia (30), Mohamad Jawad (25) and baby Fayaz (Image: Sandra Calligaro)
Each month, the MSF-run maternity wing provided quality services to more than 1,200 mothers who delivered their babies there. I know that if the women in the Dasht-e-Barchi area need childbirth assistance, they would go to the 50-bed hospital, but if they have any complications, they will not be admitted there. There is no operating theatre for emergency cases, for example. And with the COVID-19 pandemic, the options for women who have complications or special needs are even fewer, and farther away, than before.
Most patients that come to Dasht-e-Barchi belong to the Hazara community and don't have the means to pay for their treatment in other places. Some of the women arrive at the hospital in terrible conditions.
I can recall one patient in particular. She came to us for the first time, but she could hardly walk and looked very pale. She came from an area that's on the outskirts of Kabul. I examined her and realised she had severe anaemia; there was no antenatal care available where she lived. Due to the lack of means to buy food, she was not eating properly, and when I asked her when she had last eaten, her answer was 'yesterday'. My heart broke upon hearing that, but I was so happy to see her recover and give birth to a healthy baby.
Her story is just one of the thousands that describes the reality of life for patients in the Dasht-e-Barchi area; some of whom would come to the hospital and not have money to get back home.
All of our patients and the wider community were very happy to count on our maternity wing that provided services for free, especially since government hospitals charge some amount of money. I am saddened to see how poverty, lack of a good health system, lack of resources, insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic are limiting possibilities for people to receive proper healthcare. Healthcare centres in Kabul are already operating at reduced capacity because some of their staff are infected with COVID-19.
One of the wards in the maternity hospital (Image: Frederic Bonnot/MSF)
I am hurt, my life has changed, but I am still committed to continue my work. I know my people need us and expect me to get back on my feet again with the support of MSF. I cannot forget all those patients who need a helping hand and a good level of care. I also want to honour all of those patients who have become our friends and have been praying for me. I do not want to disappoint them, especially now, when many are also suffering from COVID-19 pandemic.
I see our people suffering from greater obstacles, in a situation which is already critical – and the need for healthcare services has never been greater.
– Zahra Koochizad
MSF midwife supervisor Zahra Koochizad pictured (on the left) with a fellow colleague looking at the on-going construction work of the maternity wing of Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital
MSF announced on 15 June its decision to end activities and withdraw from Dasht-e-Barchi in Kabul following the brutal attack. An MSF midwife working for the organisation, two children aged 7 and 8 and six other people present at the time of the attack were also killed. The decision comes with the understanding that while no information has emerged about the perpetrators or motive of the assault, mothers, babies and health staff were its deliberate target, and similar attacks may repeat in the future.
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) is a Nobel Peace Prize awarded international medical humanitarian (aid) organisation that provides free, quality medical assistance in over 70 countries to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. It upholds principles of neutrality, impartiality, non-discrimination and independence and adheres to medical ethics in our care. MSF provides aid ranging from surgeries, HIV/AIDS treatment, malnutrition treatment, vaccination programmes, tuberculosis (TB) treatment, mental health programmes, maternal health/pediatric care, water and sanitation and more. More than 85 cents of every dollar donated goes directly to MSF's social mission. To learn more, visit msf-seasia.org.
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An investigation has begun after a newborn child slipped out of a nurse's hands Tuesday morning at Uniontown Hospital. The child was then airlifted to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh.
According to a release from the hospital, just after 6 a.m. a child slipped from the hands of a 30-year veteran nurse at the Family Beginnings Birthing Center while the nurse was seated and caring for the infant.
The hospital said the infant was immediately assessed by medical personnel and a full battery of tests were performed. According to the release from the hospital, no injuries were initially discovered, but the child was transferred to UPMC Children's Hospital as a precaution.
On Tuesday afternoon, Eli's family told WPXI that their son had a fracture and bleeding on the right side of his skull. His family said he was in stable condition and that his injuries wouldn't require surgery.
Eli's mother, Jacqueline Hunt, told Lewis the first time she saw her son he had a neck brace on.
"The pediatrician came in and told us that (the nurse) was feeding him and burping him, and she was drowsy and fell asleep and dropped him," Hunt said.
The hospital said an internal investigation is being conducted. In addition, Eli's family contacted Uniontown police, who responded and are investigating the incident.
"If she was tired, she should have known professionally not to pick up this child," Hunt said.
According to Hunt, she was told about the incident about an hour after the incident happened -- not immediately.
"It's just heartbreaking. I mean, if it was an accident, you can admit and tell us it was an accident. There's no need to lie," Hunt said.
The hospital's release sent to WPXI Tuesday included the following statement:
"At Uniontown Hospital, we are committed to making a healthy difference in every life we touch and when such an unfortunate incident occurs, we take it very seriously and personally. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the child and the family. We are sorry that such a wonderful event has been overshadowed by an unfortunate situation. We are thankful that it appears that this incident did not result in significant injury and we will continue to work to ensure that we do all we can to prevent such incidents from occurring."
Eli was taken to Children's Hospital as a precaution because he wasn't eating normally.
"I just want to make sure my boy is OK," Hunt said.
Lewis reported the neck brace was removed Wednesday morning.
Eli's mother tells WPXI he can eat normally, and the skull fracture will heal over time.
In an updated statement Wednesday, Josh Krysak, coordinator of community relations at Uniontown Hospital, confirmed that after testing negative for injury at Uniontown Hospital, doctors at Children's discovered Eli had "a minimally displaced skull fracture" but that "all indications we have received point to a full recovery."
Additionally, Krysak said they're continuing to also support the nurse involved in the incident.
"We are also supporting the nurse involved in the incident, recognizing her dedication to her job and the anguish she is suffering. Her official status remains under review as we continue to gather information regarding what occurred," he said.
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Reissues - 2002/2003 (Bio) at the Harry Nilsson Web Pag...
Harry Nilsson Biography
[Articles] [Dates]
Reissues - 2002/2003
From Everybody's Talkin' #18
After years of suffering through a drought, Nilsson fans are enjoying a flood of new Nilsson CDs.
Back in the UK ...
BMG's label in England, Camden, has reissued several of Harry Nilsson's albums on CD. Two of the CDs are "two-fers" - Duit on Mon Dei / Sandman and ...That's the Way It Is / Knnillssonn. The third new CD is A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night with the album as it was originally sequenced plus the songs from A Touch More Schmilsson in the Night added as bonus tracks. The final new CD from the UK is Pussy Cats. The songs on Pussy Cats are the same as on the US Buddha reissue.
The new Camden CDs are in standard jewel boxes with cardboard sleeves like the previous Camden reissues. The photos on the front of the sleeves show the original album covers pasted for display in a store window under a banner reading "NILSSON." Harry's reflection can be seen in the window � very nice!
The back of each sleeve is a small image of the original album cover and a track listing. The CD booklet covers match the original album covers. The "two-fers" have both album covers on the front of each booklet with one album in front of the other. The back has the other album on top.
Curtis Armstrong wrote the liner notes for the Duit on Mon Dei / Sandman CD. Curtis interviewed Perry Botkin and Van Dyke Parks for the article and it's a great read. The booklet also reproduces the lyrics and other images from both album covers.
Curtis's excellent liner notes for ...That's the Way It Is / Knillssonn are a continuation of the Duit on Mon Dei / Sandman CD's notes. Again the booklet reproduces all the interesting images from the original album covers.
Andrea Sheridan wrote the new liner notes for A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night. Andrea's article reveals information about the sessions that I didn't know and haven't read anywhere else.
Japanese Reissues ...
In Japan, BMG has released several new CDs. The Pandemonium Shadow Show CD includes "As I Wander Lonely" and "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune" ("Canadian Release Version") as bonus tracks. Aerial Ballet bonus tracks are "Sister Marie", "Miss Butter's Lament", and "Girlfriend". Aerial Pandemonium Ballet bonus tracks are "You Can't Do That" (alternate version), "Isolation", "Joy" (alternate version), "Early In The Morning" (alternate version), "Walk Right Back/Cathy's Clown", and "The Filler". The bonus tracks on Harry are "I Will Take You There" (alternate mix), "I Will Take You There" (mono single version), "Waiting", "Rainmaker" (monophonic single version), and "Wasting My Time".
The reissue of Nilsson Sings Newman includes the same bonus tracks as the US Buddha release, "Snow", "Love Story" (alternate version), "Cowboy" (alternate version), "I'll Be Home" (alternate version), and "Living Without You" (alternate version).
The Japanese reissue of The Point! Is essentially the same as DCC's recent reissue. It includes "Down To The Valley" and "Buy My Album" as bonus tracks.
Nilsson Schmilsson has the same bonus tracks as the Buddha US reissue - "Without You" (demo), "Driving Along" (demo), "Gotta Get Up" (demo), "Coconut" (demo), "Down" (demo), "The Moon Beam Song" (demo), and "Jump Into the Fire" (single version) � plus Harry's Italian and Spanish versions of "Without You" - "Per Chi" and "Si No Estas Tu".
Like the earlier UK reissue, Son of Schmilsson has two demo versions of "Joy" as bonus tracks. The A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night reissue includes the same "Touch More" bonus tracks as the Camden reissue. The Japanese Pussy Cats reissue has the same track listing as the Buddha US reissue.
Duit on Mon Dei includes a single bonus track, a demo of "Turn Out The Lights". Sandman and ...That's the Way It Is have been reissued without any bonus tracks.
Knnillssonn includes Harry's performance of "Ain't It Kinda Wonderful" from Gene Wilder's film, The World's Greatest Lover.
The final new Japanese CD is Greatest Hits which has the same track listing as the recent US collection with the same name. A reissue of Son of Dracula was planned and announced by BMG in Japan, but was never released because of licensing problems with Apple.
Revisiting the Pointless Forest ...
The most exciting of the new reissues is from BMG's new Heritage label in the US. On November 19, 2002, Heritage released a new CD of Harry Nilsson's The Point!. The album is re-mastered and comes in a slipcase with two booklets. The first is a reproduction of the comic book; the other includes new liner notes by Curtis Armstrong and artwork including the original The Point! cover designed by Dean Torrence before he decided to use the needlepoint version.
There are four previously unreleased bonus tracks on the album:
"Life Line" (Take 4) is an early piano/organ vocal take.
"Down To The Valley" is an alternate version of the song - remixed and including the coda which was cut off the single release. Curtis describes it as very "Pet-Soundsy."
"Think About Your Troubles" (Take 4) is a completely different version of the song recorded with the orchestra in 1969.
"I'll Never Leave You" (demo) is included as a "hidden" bonus track. The song was originally intended for the The Point! but was removed at the last minute. The Point! version remains lost, but this demo was discovered on an unrelated tape, unmarked. Unfortunately, it is also incomplete. On the tape it cuts off abruptly after ninety seconds. They are, however, an exquisite ninety seconds.
Although it has not been officially announced, according to Curtis Armstrong, the next album to receive the deluxe re-issue treatment from BMG/Heritage will be Nilsson Schmilsson [Note: The release of NS has been delayed until 2004].


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America's 100 Best BBQ Restaurants
365 BBQ Joints in 365 Days
Daniel Vaughn
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Kerlin BBQ in Austin, Texas, is the best barbecue joint in the country. Or at least that's the conclusion Johnny Fugitt arrived at after traveling the country and eating 365 barbecue meals in 365 days, a journey he chronicled in his new book, The 100 Best Barbecue Restaurants in America.
Neither the barbecue of Aaron Franklin nor Justin Fourton swayed the needle for Fugitt as much as that of Bill Kerlin. When I spoke to Kerlin about his top-billing he was predictably excited. "I was definitely surprised. I was just hoping to make it in the book." But what about John Lewis and la Barbecue, heralded as Austin's best in two local Top 10 lists last year? From his blog, Fugitt seems to have skipped them altogether. The same goes for Killen's Barbecue in Pearland. Expecting Fugitt to hit them all is unrealistic, but those are some pretty big names to skip. I mean, he made it to a Dickey's Barbecue in Utah (they didn't make the Top 100), but not la Barbecue or Killen's Barbecue.
Not to sell Kerlin and his barbecue short. Last year, Thrillist called it one of the best new barbecue joints in the country. They've been featured on Lonely Planet and in Travel + Leisure. Kerlin clocked in at #9 on Fed Man Walking's list of the ten best barbecue joints in Austin, and it snuck up to #7 in a similar list by the Austin American-Statesman's Matthew Odam. The Kerlins opened their trailer too late to be eligible for the 2013 Texas Monthly Top 50, but we gave it a positive review last year and a 4.0 rating, which would make it eligible for the next Top 50. The people enjoy Kerlin BBQ, but lately they've been getting attention for something other than their smoked meats.
The bombshell came in January of this year. Bill's wife, Amelis, had been busy perfecting her kolaches. They featured smoked meat from Kerlin's pit and represented a way to differentiate Kerlin in a crowded barbecue market in Austin. Their kolache business got so popular that it was outpacing the barbecue, and they cut their barbecue hours to just Fridays from 11-2; just three hours of barbecue per week. (Fugitt visited before this change in early 2014, foreshadowing in a blog post "It doesn't get much better than Kerlin BBQ").
Kerlin's bacon and jalapeno kolache (yes, I know it's really a klobasniky)
In March of this year, possibly spurred on by some major recognition by Bon Appétit as one of the best barbecue joints in Austin, they had a slight change of heart. Rather than just serving barbecue on Fridays, they brought it back to three days a week (kolaches are available four days a week). Bill Kerlin explained the desire to get back to barbecue. "We had so many customers asking us to do it, plus we love to cook." Now you can enjoy the country's best barbecue on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Maybe this new distinction will spur them on toward broader hours.
You might question his choices, but what Fugitt accomplished was a major undertaking. He dedicated a year of his life to traveling the country for barbecue, and didn't receive funding from sponsors for taking a year off of work. It's hard to question his fortitude. In doing the legwork and actually eating the food in all of these restaurants, he has done more than most publications who throw together their best-of barbecue lists based on hearsay and popularity. This book is the anti-popularity contest, otherwise Kerlin BBQ would probably not have taken the top spot.
As for the rest of Texas, they are well represented. A full 20% of the Top 100 are in the Lone Star State. There's Kerlin BBQ at the top, and both the Granary in San Antonio and Franklin Barbecue appear in the Top 10. Fugitt's home state of Missouri gets twelve slots while New York City and Kansas City enjoy the #2 and #3 picks respectively. The rest of the book has some misses in my opinion (Gates BBQ in the Top 25?), but the Top 100 is mostly full of hits, and this book will make for a good guide if you'd like to find out for yourself.
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Darren Lay
BBQ has come a long way. Once thought to be Second Class culinary food. But I'm happy to say that BBQ now is forefront in America. I love it, I smoke it, I eat it and I Dream it. Not easy to cook good BBQ, takes time and experience to do true Q!
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Can't wait to read the book
Cody Marx Bailey
Fargo's Pit BBQ is the best BBQ joint in the whole world, and I'll stand on Aaron Franklin's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
Rage Nowski
I'm sorry, but it seems like the author picked and chose where he went for his bbq. If you are REALLY looking for the top 100 bbq joints in the US, you would go to more than 365 bbq joints. This was either a planned operation for people that would pay him or not charge him at a bare minimum OR he had a set number of bbq joints in a given area. Had he done the true 100 BEST bbq joints in America then probably 75% of them would have been in Texas. The fact that I see nothing about Snow's BBQ in Lexington tells me that this is probably a yankee who knows zilch about bbq and is just looking to make a buck writing a book. Nice try, but NO. Rather than do a 365 bbq joint tour, do something better. Go to a town where there is a famous/popular bbq joint and ask around……For instance, in Lockhart TX there are 4 bbq joints in town that are highly regarded. Blacks is always given the highest marks from people outside of town…….However, locals from and around Lockhart laugh at Black's food….It is by far the worst bbq in Lockhart, bar none. The giant beef ribs are nasty gnarly looking lumps of fat with a couple of bites of meat and they're WAAAYY too expensive for what you get. The brisket is tough and chewy and underseasoned. You would be better off going to Smitty's or Kruez' or even Chisolm Trail. That's just an example. TL;DR- Author actually knows nothing about BBQ except where his producers/supervisors tell him he needs to go so he goes to eat shitty BBQ and gives it high marks because he's used to REALLY shitty bbq.
Does he mention that in his reviewing methodology restaurants were asked to comp his meal?
I have read the book. He has left out many great barbeque restaurants, including Sweatman's in South Carolina.
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Chapter 6 Non-Spoiler Review
Posted by Steve on December 13, 2019 at 07:49 AM CST
Director Rick Famuyiwa is back for another round of Mandalorian craziness with "The Prisoner" His last chapter, "The Child", is my favorite chapter of this short season so far, so, could he live up to my expectations? Sadly, in my non-expert, humble opinion, no.
It's a weird one that felt like an episode of "Doctor Who" more than the Mandalorian. This entire chapter takes place off-planet which will please some but like the set pieces themselves, the episode felt aimless and lost. I've wanted this series to lean more toward the sci-fi aspect, and this is that show attempting that, it just misses the mark for me.
First off, at 40 minutes it's a whole ten minutes longer than last week's episode and man do you feel every minute of it. I can't believe I'm saying this but it's too long! It's methodical in its approach, and that's fine, but it drags a bit. And, normally, in a set piece like this, I'm feeling anxious, but I really just wanted it to wrap-up.
Alright, so what's this episode about?
The Mando, still short on credits after giving all of them to Peli last week, called in a favor to an old buddy, a criminal "skip" called Ran (Mark Boone Jr.) He stakes out on a floating base of operations where he presumably runs scams out of and manages to avoid any New Republic attention.
Bran's got a job for Mando that involves rescuing one of Bran's partners who ran afoul of some competitors. The caveat is that it's a team effort and they need the Razor Crest to pull off the job. For the Mando, who likes to work alone, this isn't ideal, but he needs the money. He's familiar with at least one of the them besides Bran, but that only furthers the tension.
There's "Mayfeld" (Bill Burr), a former Imperial sharpshooter, a droid named "Zero", a Devaronian brute named Burg (Clancy Brown), and a female Twi'lek named Xi'an (Natalia Tena) who has a history with Mando.
The squabbling amongst the group starts right away and is relentless, as they attempt to measure up against the famous "Mandalorian" And the obvious backstory between the Mando and Xi'an is very on the nose. It isn't until the group is en route though that things get really tense as Baby Yoda makes his presence known.
After poking around the ship and pushing Mando's buttons, he and Burg get into a fight. During the tussle, the door opens revealing the little green baby. The Mando stiffens as they all stare curiously at the baby, assuming it's a pet.
Mayfeld even picks him up at one point, putting Mando on high alert, just as the ship comes out of hyperspace. They've arrived at the floating prison.
They dock and begin to make their way around the prison, peeking in cells along the way. Zero stays behind, serving as the team's eyes and ears on the mission. Some New Republic security droids show up and the team seems unprepared even they knew droids were aboard. They also say they're "exposed" but were causally walking about, even making jokes along the way a second ago. Weird.
Anyways, the Mando manages to get in behind the droids and takes them all out, albeit with some difficulty as the team watches.
Turns out the droid less ship isn't so droid less and is manned by a single New Republic Officer named Davan (Matt Lanter) who clearly wasn't expecting company. He's very jumpy and is holding a tracking beacon that will bring the New Republic security down on them in a hurry. While arguing about killing him (Mando doesn't want to) Xi'an kills Davan with a knife but not before he could activate the beacon. They now have 20-minutes to complete their mission before the New Republic shows up.
They do get to their "asset" who turns out to be another Twi'lek (Xi'an's brother) named Qin. He too recognizes Mando, referring to the time he left him behind, so it's not the sweetest of reunions. This is where things really start to fall apart for the team.
I won't continue with the recap but think Maze Runner or Cube and you're on the right track. It's a game of cat and mouse that will remind you of your favorite slasher movie where the Mando turns into Batman, in more ways than one. And there are three specific cameos at the end that will turn Star Wars Twitter giddy for the next little while.
So, what did I like and didn't like about this episode?
Famuyiwa's directing is great, there's no doubt about that, but the character work here wasn't great for me. Too many little holes in the story that added up to a bigger mess. For example, in one scene, Mayfeld goes from being very concerned about the beacon, to not caring at all, willing to shoot Davan.
Also, what advantage would he have keeping that specific, and very important, bit of information from the group? The one thing that could ruin the mission and have them all killed?
And, what's the plot of this show? Just week to week encounters as he looks for ways to earn credits I suppose. This episode did next to nothing to further that, but it did reveal some more about the state of the New Republic, which I enjoyed very much.
The look and feel of the prison ship, the droids, and then that "thing" which caps off the chapter are excellent. But that brings up another issue for me, the use of the space once on the ship felt out of step. It's purposeful to have the ship look the same no matter which way you turn, that's how you create claustrophobia and paranoia. And the Mando certainly takes advantage of this. But then why didn't Zero use this same strategy to get the team to where they needed to go?
And speaking of the team, yeah, they just didn't do it for me save Zero. I'm not a Bill Burr guy so I found him not up to the level he needed to be. He didn't carry himself with the swagger necessary to pull of a job like this and he's duped way to easily later. His temper didn't match his temperance, let's put it that way.
I did like Ran, played by Mark Boone Jr., as the "boss" but his fate is very predictable, he says as much very early on. And while it's always nice to see familiar faces such as Matt Lanter, Clancy Brown, and Natalia Tena, you must give them something to do besides quiver, grunt, or hiss. Like I said, the lone standout for me was Zero, but I'm partial to droids so.
Christopher Yost wrote the script for this chapter and the concept is a good one but felt entirely too convoluted for what will most likely be a Season One blip. I shouldn't feel the runtime on a 40-minute chapter, but I did. And for the first time, Baby Yoda felt like a prop to me, wedged into the chapter.
This is the first chapter that felt "low-budget" to me and took me out of the season for the first time. Hopefully this chapter will grow on me over time.
Till next time…MTFBWY!
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