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THE CAT LEGEND CHARACTER LEXICON
His home burnt to ashes and his parents killed, a young boy teetered on the brink of death. Lady Lily found him and bestowed upon him new life and mysterious powers. Tied to this kind Faery like a son, he was reborn under the name she gave to him: Cat. While his past remains a frustrating mystery to him, he has forged onward with the help of his newfound friends.
-Power: Cat possesses alarming strength and is part Sky Fae.
A fox-eared, fox-tailed half-fae, Sarah was shunned and demonized for her appearance. With no family to speak of and no friends to turn to, she found herself seeking refuge in a charred hovel, where she discovered an unlikely ally in the young Cat. Under the instructions of Lady Lily, she traveled with the boy to the island she has since come to know as 'home'.
-Power: Sarah is a shadowmancer and skilled with a blade.
Cat's younger sister, Libby, was a baby when her parents were killed. No mere mortal, she was born with an untold power dwelling inside her. The Vortex, a sentient drain to all magical forces, lives within Libby like a second soul. No full-faery can stay close to her, and some seek to destroy her. At great, personal risk, Bing gave a piece of himself to the vortex. His sacrifice made it possible for him to approach her, but added another voice to Libby's crowded mind.
-Power: a sentient, living Vortex which dwells within her.
Lady Lily's nephew, Kristin Bing followed her command to guide Sarah and Cat to a new island home. While he would dearly love to remain there with his new friends and Truth (Bing's loving step-mother), Bing can not stay while Libby is on the island. With help, he frees his cousin and childhood friend, Dor from castle Nymndemise. In the process, he burns his bridges by attacking his Lord, Mercutious. Now he travels alone, most recently on the western continent.
-Power: A Greater Fire Fae, Bing's talent is dangerously heightened by faery firewater.
The secret son of Lord Mercutious, Dor was kept hidden away by his mother, Lady Lily in a single lonely room. To keep him disguised from Mercutious and safe from the Vortex, Dor's horns were cut off and his fangs ripped out. He gained his freedom, but lost his magic. Resentful to the very people who sought to aid him, Dorian Nymndemise bitterly laments his losses. Slowly, almost in spite of himself, however, he is beginning to trust and even care for his newfound family.
-Power: Without magic, Dor still has a brilliant mind and a knack for science.
Little Deedra was captured years ago, her mind erased by Threnody's kiss. Very nearly stolen from Castle Nymndemise by the mysterious Magus, she was instead adopted by an affectionate faery named Vali Flynn. When her surrogate father is sent off to war, Dee serves as a nanny in the castle until, at Bing's urging, she escapes with Cat, Sarah, and Dor for the island.
-Power: Dee is learning witchcraft and sorcery.
Lady Lily
Lily Nymndemise is devoted to peaceful coexistence between humans and fae. A kind and benevolent lady to those in need, she is unforgiving to those who persecute the innocent - a fact which her own brother, John Stone learned first hand. Even after she severely punished him, Stone tried to kill young Libby and her brother, Cat. While protecting the children, Lily overextended and expended all of her magic. She is now sustained only by an enchantment placed on her by her husband, Mercutious, with whom she has long been feuding.
-Power: Lily is a Greater Sky Fae.
Mercutious
Mercutious Nymndemise holds the well being of his people in the highest regard. He is frequently at odds with is wife, Lady Lily who feels that fae should not be mixed with humans. Over the years the rift between them grew. While he disagreed with her politically, he still dearly loved his wife. Her collapse was devastating, and he grew cold and distant, allowing John Stone to take control of more aspects of the faery realm than he would otherwise have given. A seemingly reserved and introspective ruler, Mercutious is a bit of a mystery, even to those close to him. Currently, Nymndemise is being held in a magic sleep by John and Leelah Stone. But why?
-Power: He is a shadowmancer.
Alexandria, aka "Truth", Bing has incredible power at her fingertips. As an accomplished witch and the last oracle of Delphi, she can can also sense any lie and knows things no one should know. A peaceful, caring person, Truth is caretaker to her own island haven and den mother to a group of unique children.
-Powers: Subtle and mysterious.
Rose is Lady Lily's mother, and grandmother to Bing, Dor, and by less conventional terms, Cat. Rose was once a wise and powerful faery, but slow, methodical poisoning during her final years left her addled, demented, and eventually dead. Now attached to Truth as a witch's familiar, she has a limited second-life, but still possesses much magic.
-Power: She is a master of light, but her powers have changed somewhat in death.
Chess Morganstern has had a wild and varied past. The elven captain of her own ship, she has been a pirate, an ambassador, and a soldier. Chess has had a long, friendly history with the human oracle,Truth, serving as her soothsayer in sacred ceremonies. Also, despite the simmering animosity between elves and faeries, she quickly developed a rapport with the faery ambassador, Vali Flynn.
-Power: A crafty navigator, sword fighter, and swashbuckler.
Vali Flynn
Vali Flynn, the faery courtier and ambassador to the country fae, has long been loyal to House Nymndemise. After an incident with The Magus, in which he rescued and adopted the young human, Deedra, he was forced to leave the castle to fight in the human wars. When Mercutious fell into an impenetrable sleep, Vali returned to the world of Faery to lead the revolution against John Stone. With the weight of the Faery world on his shoulders, Vali still worries most about his younger sister, Ember, and his adopted daughter, Dee.
-Powers: A Lesser Earth Fae, Vali controls plants, particularly vines and ivy.
Ember Flynn, aka "Sprite", has a passion for excitement and a knack for getting in trouble. With her big brother, Vali, away at war, Ember was alone when plague took her parents. The tenderness of the humans who helped her with their burial opened her to explore beyond the world she knew. With the companionship of her best friend, Nina, she left Faery. She found her brother at the front lines and encouraged him to return with her. She sticks close to Vali and Nina, her only family, now.
-Power: She is a Greater Fire Fae.
Nina, aka "Nymph", is Ember's faithful companion. Doe-eyed and innocent, Nina's sweet demeanor does not stop her from following her best friend into whatever mischief the two might find in their path.
-Power: Her innate gifts as a Nymph will grow with age.
Tom Collins joined with Cat's island comrades in the early twentieth century. While Dor remains suspicious of him, Tom has proven to be a bold and loyal addition to the roster, aiding the group in numerous daring capers. CAPER!
-Power: With no obvious magic of his own, he still has a number of tricks up his sleeve.
Fuscia is the unofficial ring leader of the island's merry band of "gremlins", the name for the youngest generation of the island's inhabitants. The gremlin's consist of Fuscia, her siblings (Magenta and Todd), and a reluctant Libby. An orphan, Fuscia joined Cat and the crew from Colonial America and came to live with them on the island.
-Power: She has a sharp mind and a talent for chemistry.
Magenta is as michevious a raggamuffin as any in the Cat Legend crew. Along with her siblings, Fuscia and Todd, she joined the group in America and came to live with them on the island.
-Power: An unending supply of energy and attitude.
Todd, along with his sisters, Fuscia and Magenta, is an orphan. They joined the Legend crew in America and came with them to live on the island haven with the rest of the motley group.
-Power: A keen interest in computers and technology.
John Stone wants to restore the Fae to glory. At least, that's what he tells them. Mostly, he just wants power. John Stone wishes to be more than a mere Lord. He's looking to re-establish a royal family and he doesn't care who he needs to sacrifice to do it. Brother to Lily and Joseph, son of Rose, he's the last of his family alive. It's a bit suspicious if you ask me.
-Powers: Although he once had wings, he wasn't able to fly. Stone is an Earth Fae. It's rumored he can make the ground shake.
Katrina Stone is the daughter of John Stone. Half-sister of Kristin Bing. Katrina's known for being a bit of a terror. She has a need for attention that borders on creepy. As a toddler, she shows less aptitude for speaking and more for crushing things. It remains unseen what role she'll play in the future.
-Powers: So far she hasn't overtly displayed any magic, however, the things she can do to a metal duck can be described as, "unhealthy".
Mr. Peeps
Mr. Peeps is currently a doddering, old loon who does the bidding of John Stone. He didn't always used to be. In fact, in his younger days he started out as a humble street grifter. Then he worked his way up to con-man before getting in too deep with actual magic. Tales of his exploits can be found in The Magician.
-Powers: Slight of hands and teapots.
Leelah
Leelah has NOT led a charmed life. First married to her betrothed, Joseph Bing, she was unwanted and unloved. Joseph ran back to his secret wife Alexandria. Leelah attempted to raise her son, Kristin Bing with a strict hand, but he follows in his fathers footsteps. Upon Joseph's suspiciously convenient death, Leelah was free to marry her true love, John Stone and bring her son back home where he belongs. With the birth of her daughter, Katrina it appears that Leelah is finally getting the life she always dreamed of.
-Powers: Sparkles.
Threnody
Threnody is known as the Mad Fae of Forget. Completely nuts, she is kept in a cage by Lady Lily to use as a natural amnesia. Whenever Lily needs to wipe someone's memory and/or mind, Threnody is let loose. Just ask Dee. Fortunately, Threnody met a violent end at the hands of Vali Flynn before Threnody could cause any further damage.
-Powers: Amnesia kiss.
Brought to the nameless island by Phrix in his misguided attempt to give her a better life, it turns out that was part of her plan. Most assume she's harmless until things start getting weird. The island's inhabitants begin arguing over stupid things and Cat goes missing. Her machinations cause a rift between the inhabitants until Libby steps in and releases the island from the little witch's clutches. As it turns out, Laura is better known as the Mercury Witch.
-Powers: Mercury poisoning.
Down on his luck, Lazarus can't win. Not much of a villain, but a worse hero, Lazarus was forced to volunteer for the Red Rose during the Faery Civil War. For the cause, Lazarus spied upon Vali's army and reported to John Stone. Obviously, he's not very popular with anyone.
-Powers: Snow and Ice.
The Magus
The Magus, is the spanner in John Stone's works. In the past, every time Stone's plans to conquer humanity were starting to get somewhere, the Magus would jump in and ruin everything! And the Magus would do it with style. Surprisingly, his exploits have left Vali Flynn no choice but to be good frenemies with the mysterious Magus. Unfortunately, the Magus hasn't been seen in a few centuries, not since he took on Nymndemise. Who is the Magus? Only his apprentice, Deedra Flynn knows for sure.
-Powers: Yes.
Phrixus
The leader of the Elves, Phrixus was always his father's favorite, inheriting his name and all of the elven kingdom. Unfortunately, for everyone else, Phrix is an idiot. Anyone who met the two would have known that Frey was the more natural choice to lead the elves. Unfortunately Phrix and Frey's father was an idiot too. His one redeeming quality is his bravery. However, his butler would say it was the fact Phrix is colorblind.
-Powers: He owns the island and the elves.
Frey knows he's smarter than his brother Phrix. He also knows he'd be the more natural choice as heir to the Elven thrown. But Frey has accepted his lot. Heavy is the head that wears the crown and all. However, he didn't always used to feel that way. Don't ask how Phrix got the scar. It makes Frey feel bad. Currently, Frey is engineering the civil war between the Fae. He has enlisted pirates, the oracle and the Faery Ambassador for his cause.
-Powers: He really runs things.
Mendel was the Seer before the Faery Civl War. He had the ability to see through veils of magic to reality. Unfortunately, when sailing on the ship that held Laura he lost his sight, but not his power. No longer able to see in the normal sense, he can no longer see past magic, but he can still detect it.
-Powers: Seeing through magic.
Dante Diaz
Dante is the current Seer. Able to see beyond magic's veil to reality, he's always had trouble telling what he SHOULD be seeing. When he was growing up, his parents just thought he was imaginative. Smarter than most, he quickly learned to pretend he wasn't seeing fantastic creatures and monsters. If not only to keep from being institutionalized, but to keep the monsters themselves from noticing him. Anyone used to seeing the supernatural might be attracted to the church. A methodist minister, Dante believes in free will and the divine, and honestly, a whole lot of other things.
Beatrice is the head of the Black Orchard Witches. This coven of witches includes Truth, Bianca, and Maeve. She is wise and worldly, but that doesn't always mean she's right.
-Powers: Witchcraft.
Bianca is one of the Black Orchard Witches. This coven of witches includes Truth, Beatrice, and Maeve. Outwardly, she appears to be an ice queen, good thing she is inwardly too. Bianca is a master of Alchemy and currently owns a shop in the Zandermacht, which she shares with a Goblin mechanic.
Maeve is one of the Black Orchard Witches. This coven of witches includes Truth, Beatrice, and Bianca. Ruthless and possibly evil, Maeve is currently fighting on the side of good, but that could change as easily as her desire.
Barnabus Black
Barnabus Black is charming and fascinating. Immediate comrades with Chess Morganstern and Vali Flynn, it's surprising to think his primary talent is raising the dead. As Zombie Master, Barnabus has led an interesting life. He is followed by spirits that only he can see. A princess, a wisp, and a wraith. Barnabus becomes very interested in Cat once he realizes Cat can see his parade of the undead.
-Powers: Necormancy.
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Ampleforth College is a co-educational fee-charging boarding and day school in the English public school tradition located in the village of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1802 as a boys' school, it is situated in the grounds of the Benedictine monastery, Ampleforth Abbey. The school is in a valley with sports pitches, wooded areas and lakes. Its affiliated preparatory school, St Martin's Ampleforth, which lay across the valley at Gilling Castle, closed in 2020.

The school is known as the Catholic Eton and has boarding fees of £39,900 per annum.

The school passed an ISI inspection in 2020 and a subsequent inspection for material change, however failed an Ofsted inspection a week later, resulting in an admissions ban from the DfE. The ban was overturned in April 2021 following another Ofsted inspection which reported that they were satisfied with Ampleforth's safeguarding arrangements.

History

The college began as a small school for 70 boys founded by Benedictine monks, at Ampleforth Abbey, in 1803. The school formally constituted as a Roman Catholic boarding school in 1900. Various buildings were slowly added, including the school theatre which was built in 1909. The first performances took place in 1910, and in 1922 a cinema projector was acquired, but could not be used until the following year when electric lighting and central heating were installed.

The first boarding houses were founded in 1926 to accommodate the growing pupil numbers. In 1929, the Abbey gained ownership of Gilling Castle and opened a preparatory school. Gilling Castle Prep merged with the college's junior school in 1992 before taking on its current name St Martin's Ampleforth after absorbing another nearby prep school.

In 2002, girls were admitted for the first time when the sixth form became coeducational. The first girls' boarding house, St Margaret's, was opened in 2004. Coeducation was extended to the Year 9 intake for the 2010–11 academic year and the college is now fully coeducational.

Since the Catholic emancipation, Ampleforth gained a reputation as one of several schools, alongside The Oratory School and Stonyhurst, popular within the Roman Catholic aristocracy and labelled the "Catholic Eton".

College tramway

In 1895, the North Eastern Railway built a  gauge tramway from Gilling station on the Thirsk to Malton Line. The tram was horse-drawn, and provided coal for the college to produce gas. It also transported passengers in open wagons. The tramway closed in 1923 when the college changed to electric lighting.

Education

The school says that its primary concern is to provide pupils with not just academic, sporting and other achievements, but also "a spiritual compass for life": moral principles to give guidance in a secular world; within a context where the "Benedictine ethos permeates pupils' experience".

The Good Schools Guide called the school an "Unfailingly civilised and understanding top co-educational boarding Catholic school that has suffered from time to time as a result of its long liberal tradition." The Guide adds also that there is "A refreshing openness and honesty about the place these days."

Its academic admissions policy is not as exacting as that exercised by some other English public schools. The school is typically between 150 – 200 in the annual league tables of public examination results, although it was ranked 6th nationally in the 2004 "value added" table. It maintains a scholarship set, with about 5% of pupils gaining the offer of a place at Oxford or Cambridge. More than 90% go on to university.

In 2018 the school failed an inspection by the Independent Schools Inspectorate regarding boarding provision, and the school was issued with a formal notice requiring the school to produce an Action Plan to resolve the failings.  The Charity Commission had earlier removed pupil safeguarding responsibilities from the school's trustees, and the headmaster had been suspended from the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference over safeguarding concerns.

In May 2019, the Department of Education performed an unannounced inspection, with poor results. In July 2019 it was reported that the school's acting head was stepping down after 10 months in the job.
However, in spring 2019 the school passed a compliance inspection under a new head.

Following a September 2020 report, still unpublished as of November 2020, the Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson, wrote to the college ordering them to stop admitting new pupils over safeguarding failures; the college said that it intended to appeal. The ban was lifted the following April.

School life
Though originally a boys' school the college is now fully co-educational. In 2009 an OFSTED Social Care report said that the overall quality of care was outstanding; in 2013 it was deemed "excellent".

Houses

The school is arranged into ten houses, with pupils living in separate house buildings, eating together as a house for lunch 6 days a week, and playing sport in inter-house competitions. Each house is named after a British saint. Boys houses are St Cuthbert's, St Dunstan's, St Edward-Wilfrid's (as of September 2018 became Junior House) which were originally two separate houses, St Hugh's, St John's, St Oswald's, and St Thomas's, and girls, St Aidan's, St Bede's and St Margaret's.

Some houses are paired into buildings named after people who have been instrumental in the school's history. Hume House building, named after Cardinal Basil Hume, combines St Cuthbert and St Edward-Wilfrid houses. Nevill House building combines St Dunstan and St Oswald houses. Bolton House building was formerly St Edward and St Wilfrid houses before their merger in 2001. Fairfax House building combines St Margaret and St Hugh houses.

Controversy

Fee-fixing

In September 2005, Ampleforth was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found by the Office of Fair Trading to be operating a fee-fixing cartel in breach of the Competition Act of 1998. All of the schools were ordered to abandon this practice, pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 each (with minor exceptions) and make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared. Mrs Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that they were unaware that the law had changed, and that private schools had not known that they had become subject to competition law.

Safeguarding

Initially several monks and three members of the lay teaching staff were accused of molesting children in their care over a period of several decades. In 2005, Father Piers Grant-Ferris admitted 20 incidents of child abuse. The Yorkshire Post reported in 2005: "Pupils at a leading Roman Catholic school suffered decades of abuse from at least six paedophiles following a decision by former Abbot Basil Hume [later a cardinal, and Archbishop of Westminster] not to call in police at the beginning of the scandal." Following the case, the Abbot, Fr  Cuthbert Madden, offered a "heartfelt apology" to the victims of one member of staff.

The College thereafter established a safeguarding policy, later judged inadequate (see below), but which was said to follow the local inter-agency procedures of the North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Board and the guidance given in the Education (Independent School Standards) (England) Regulations 2010 and the National Minimum Standards for Boarding Schools. In accordance with this policy, in 2016 Fr Madden temporarily stepped down from his role of Chairman of Governors during the investigation of indecent assault allegations made by four former pupils. Based on the evidence available no further police action was taken, however the English Benedictine Congregation refused to allow him to resume his role.

In April 2018, the Charity Commission appointed a lawyer to take charge of safeguarding at Ampleforth College, as it was not satisfied that the trustees of the charities that run the college had made enough progress in improving pupil safeguarding.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) investigated the English Benedictine Congregation, including Ampleforth College and Downside School, amongst other institutions, and published a report in August 2018. Ten individuals from the two schools, including monks, were convicted or accepted a caution for abuse. The report said that abuse was inflicted on pupils over 40 years, but the schools tried to cover up allegations. The Chair of the Inquiry, Prof. Alexis Jay, said that the schools for decades tried to avoid giving any information to police or authorities, with monks being "secretive, evasive and suspicious of anyone outside the English Benedictine Congregation", prioritising "the reputation of the Church and the wellbeing of the abusive monks" over safeguarding. New procedures were introduced in 2001 following the Nolan Report, recommending that abuse should be referred to the statutory authorities, however allegations continued to be handled internally.

The Department for Education released a report in November 2020 following an inspection, claiming that the school in some respects appeared to have relapsed in the year since the change of leadership. The school was forbidden from admitting new pupils. The school responded that it had taken "very considerable steps forward" and put in place "a robust safeguarding regime, a new senior leadership team, and a new governance structure that has effectively separated the abbey from the college", and said that it intended to appeal the decision. The admissions ban, due to come in place on 29 December, was delayed. In his first interview on the matter,  headmaster Robin Dyer stated in December 2020 that there was "no evidence expressed in the report" of any instances "to do with emergencies [or] to do with harm to children". Arguing that the Ofsted report was "less than complete" and had little to do with his tenure as headmaster, he requested that a new inspection be conducted in January. Following a further Ofsted inspection, in April 2021 the admissions ban was lifted by the Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson. Inspectors reported that they were satisfied with Ampleforth's progress, and the Department for Education signed off on the schools safeguarding action plan.

An Ofsted report, following an inspection at the end of 2021, found that the school did not meet independent school standards or national minimum standards for boarding schools in several areas. They rated the school "Inadequate" for "Overall experiences and progress of children and young people", specifically those with  special educational needs and/or disabilities; "How well children and young people are helped and protected"; and "The effectiveness of leaders and managers"; although rated the quality of education as "Good". The school disputed these findings as unsubstantiated or factually inaccurate, citing evidence, including quotes from a police report, that were inconsistent with Ofsted's findings. The school also referenced multiple independent audits which contradicted the report, and two Ofsted surveys which found 100% of parents felt their child was safe and happy, and 99.6% of students felt safe. Local MP Kevin Hollinrake stated that "I want to make clear that I am supportive of the school in this situation, and I feel that there is a fundamental dispute of the facts behind the assessment, that needs to be resolved".

Notable headmasters
1992–2003: Leo Chamberlain
2019–2022 : Robin Dyer

Notable Old Amplefordians

The school has educated many notable figures including King Letsie III of Lesotho, Rupert Everett, David Stirling, Lord Fellowes of West Stafford, Lord Bamford, Sir Antony Gormley, James O'Brien, Timothy Oulton, actor James Norton, painter Vincent Haddelsey, Rugby World Cup winner Lawrence Dallaglio, author Piers Paul Read, and historians William Dalrymple and John Keay.

St. Bede's Preparatory School, Bishton Hall

Also Charles Stafford-Northcote, fHeadmaster of St. Bede's Preparatory School, Staffordshire (closed 2018) of which Lord Bamford was a former pupil and after: The University at Grenople. He donated the school's swimming pool roof with the proceeds of his inheritance from his father; Joseph Cyril Bamford (founder of the machinery company JCB). Also the Dukes of Norfolk (Earls of Arundel) went to Ampleforth with their family attending St. Bede's beforehand.

References

External links

 Ampleforth College official site www.ampleforthcollege.org.uk
 Profile at the Independent Schools Council website
 Profile at The Good Schools Guide
 OAs Online – alumni website

Schools of the English Benedictine Congregation
Catholic boarding schools in England
Roman Catholic private schools in the Diocese of Middlesbrough
Benedictine secondary schools
Boarding schools in North Yorkshire
Private schools in North Yorkshire
Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Educational institutions established in 1802
1802 establishments in England

Co-educational boarding schools

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Q: How to get specific menu items from joomla? This question is bit specific for Joomla.
I have a main menu consisting of:
Home|About US|Privacy Policy|Portfolio|Contacts US.
Each menu item is link to an article.
Now on the complete site there are many places in the components and modules where I need to show two links : Privacy Policy & Portfolio.
Can someone please guide me? I do not want to hard code the links as the item id would differ in production.

A: There are 2 ways you can do it:
Option 1:
Joomla loads menus every time page is loads. You can access the menus by calling the following methods.
// Get default menu - JMenu object, look at JMenu api docs
$menu = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu();

// Get menu items - array with menu items
$items = $menu->getMenu();

// Look through the menu structure, once you understand it
// do a loop and find the link that you need.
var_dump($items);

This method is faster because you don't need to query database. Simple operation in memory.

Option 2:
Get it from the database. Either get menu link from jos_menu based on alias or something, or get article # from jos_content by article alias, then create the link
$db = JFactory::getDBO();

//  Load by menu alias
$query = "SELECT link FROM #__menu WHERE alias = 'privacy-policy'";
$db->setQuery($query);
$url = $db->loadResult();
$url = JRoute::_($url);

//  Load by article alias
$query = "SELECT id FROM #__content WHERE alias = 'privacy-policy'";
$db->setQuery($query);
$articleId = (int) $db->loadResult();
$url = JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=$articleId");

A: In Joomla there is an option to link with any menu with a particular hyperlink option. From backend menu structure where you put article link, from there you can selection other link as well.

A: The easiest way to accomplish this in 2.5+ is:
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$menu = $app->getMenu();
$menu_items = $menu->getItems('menutype', 'mainmenu');

Just replace 'mainmenu' with the menutype that you want to pull. This would equate to the system name for your menu, the same as you would select in the menu module.
Edit in response to @betweenbrain's question below:
Get the menu object the same way as above, then:
// To get menu items filtered by access level of current user.
$filtered_menu_items = $menu->getItems(null, null);

// To get all menu items, unfiltered.
$all_menu_items = $menu->getMenu();

A: The standard way to do it is here:
http://docs.joomla.org/Help32:Menus_Menu_Item_Menu_Item_Alias
Just make a second menu with just  Privacy Policy & Portfolio in and as a menu item type choose System Links > Menu Alias Item.
Then you can choose to link it to the menu item from the menu you created already.
This way you will be able to change the original article link any time and all the alias will update.

A: <?php

$menuitemid = JRequest::getInt( 'Itemid' );
if ($menuitemid)
{
    $menu = JSite::getMenu();
    $menuparams = $menu->getParams( $menuitemid );
    $params->merge( $menuparams );
}

$propvalue= $params->get('property_name');

?>

A: Isn't it easier to create a new menu containing two aliases to the menus you want then load them anywhere on the website using {loadposition} or whatever?

A: I think you should create a new menu in joomla then make aliases type of menu items, you should do this to make sure you don't get duplicate content issues.
I think Alex answer is ok if you want to do it with code but its harder to maintain and for someone to understand who comes along. As it is a menu item it doesn't belong in a component or module in my opinion.

A: To get all the menu items in joomla backend/administrator. Tested in Joomla 3.3+
<?php
// Create JApplicationSite instance to get all menu
$site = new JApplicationSite;
$menu = $site->getMenu();

// Get menu items - array filtered by access level of current user. Replace with `getMenu` to get all items or check @don-gilbert's answer.
$menuItems = $menu->getItems(null, null);

// Build please select option for no itemid
$selectOption   = array();
$selectOption[] = JHTML::_(
                    'select.option',
                    '',
                    JText::_('COM_REDSHOP_PLEASE_SELECT'),
                    'id',
                    'title'
                );

// Merge items to build select list.
$items = array_merge($selectOption, $menuItems);

// Just print array to understand the structure
echo "<pre>";
print_r($items);
echo "</pre>";

// Or create a select list directly using array.
echo JHtml::_(
    'select.genericlist',
    $items,
    'menu_item_id',
    '',
    'id',
    'title',
    $this->detail->menu_item_id
);

A: $app = JFactory::getApplication();
$menu = $app->getMenu();
$items = $menu->getItems('menutype', 'mainmenu');

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Thus, the nation's biggest retailer wants a work force of about 1,200 in ``an area that has an abundance of the kind of work force we're looking for'' - students, housewives, and retirees. And this is the area to find them.
Tucson is home to the University of Arizona, with a student population of 34,725. The state's warm winter weather has attracted retirees from other parts of the country for decades. Currently, nearly 13 percent of the Tucson area population is 65 or older. In five southern Arizona counties, 137,943 people are Social Security beneficiaries.
Nearly 14 percent of the area's population consists of ``homemakers.'' Tucson will be the 10th city with a telecatalog center. Sears has established centers in such locations as Greensboro, N.C.; Roanoke, Va.; Mobile, Ala.; Louisville; Johnson City, Tenn.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Witchita, Kan.; and Provo, Utah. Most of them are southern; most have low wage scales.
The telecatalog centers are a new development for Sears. In past years, it has had telephone units in stores accepting catalog orders.
Now a single centrally organized order system can search through inventory in any of seven distribution centers throughout the country. An order clerk can advise a customer whether or not a requested item is available and how soon to expect its shipment. If one distribution center has run out, the clerk can reserve the item from another.
To avail themselves of the telecatalog service, customers usually consult printed catalogs. To get a catalog, they must place catalog orders or make a catalog purchase in a retail Sears store. They can buy a catalog at a store. A ``hard-line'' catalog is published once a year; ``soft-line'' catalogs are mailed out six times a year.


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Sharpen Sales Grow More Than 200% in 1H 2020
Sharpen Sales Grow More Than 200% in 1H 2020sitemanager2020-07-31T19:17:16-04:00
INDIANAPOLIS, July 20, 2020 – Sharpen Technologies, developers of the agent-first omnichannel cloud contact center platform, experienced continued rapid growth in the first half of 2020, with a 236% increase in new bookings compared to the first half of 2019. Recent customer wins came from the mid-market and enterprise sectors and across multiple verticals, including retail, telecom, outsourcers, and financial services.
In March, as COVID-19 swept the globe and employees were ordered to shelter-in-place, Sharpen launched Quick Start, a highly successful program that enabled businesses stuck with legacy technology to move to the cloud quickly. Simultaneously, the platform's flexibility allowed all existing Sharpen customers to seamlessly move to a WAH model overnight, with many reporting dramatic improvements in call times, CSAT scores and bottom lines. A leading fintech company, with 700 agents worldwide, experienced a reduction in handle times by 4.5% and increased utilization by 6%, resulting in a projected savings of more than $850,000 annually.
"The value of Sharpen has never been more evident than in these last six months," stated Chief Revenue Officer Ty Baldwin. "With agents continuing in a WAH model, and supervisors forced to manage their teams remotely — a trend we believe will remain — Sharpen continues to invest in features and functionality that help agents perform at levels even they hadn't thought possible."
One new customer, Radio Systems Corporation, the largest manufacturer of pet products in the U.S. and parent company of PetSafe, SportDog and Invisible Fence Brand, chose Sharpen over NICE inContact and Talkdesk for its "cloud capabilities, simplicity of licensing, and of course, the overall value," said John Bates, Manager of the Contact Center Technology Team. "When stacked up against other top choices, Sharpen was the best value when looking at features and functionality we'd gain for the cost. The simplicity of having an all-inclusive license cost per user frees us up from worrying about paying for functionality we're not using. Sharpen being cloud-native was a big factor in our decision as well. It is not an existing on-premise product that has been refactored and migrated or just hosted in a cloud environment."
Velocity, a privately-owned telecom and network services provider with more than 500 employees, selected Sharpen over Genesys, Five9, and NICE inContact, to replace three disparate voice, email and chat point solutions and streamline operations. "We chose Sharpen over other providers we evaluated because of the way they regarded us from the very beginning of our interaction with them," remarked Ginger Duhaime, Senior Director of Support Services at Velocity. "It was clear that our business was not only important to them, but they demonstrated they were actively listening to our current state and future requirements. Through the evaluation process, they provided the insight and expertise to quote, and ultimately deliver, a solution that is the perfect fit for our organization. We quickly formed a strong partnership where we genuinely believe everyone at Sharpen is invested in our success."
The momentum of 2020 follows a successful 2019 for Sharpen, where the number of new agents put into production increased more than 300% from 2018.
"At a time when every dollar counts, Sharpen's simple pricing model, white-glove account management service, and agent-first features provide a tangible ROI," Baldwin noted. "And, it does so while allowing agents to provide exceptional customer service with every interaction."
About Sharpen Technologies
Sharpen Technologies is the world's first, truly agent-first contact center platform built in the cloud for the cloud. The omnichannel platform lets users work from anywhere and seamlessly transition between calls, texts, webchats, emails, social media, video, etc. all in real-time and in a single interaction. Sharpen was recognized by Frost & Sullivan's Contact Center Buyers Guide, North America (2019) for its "dramatic ROI," "out-of-the-box integrations" and "powerful reporting and analytics tools," while Nemertes Research called Sharpen a "Top-Rated Contact Center Solutions Provider" (2018). The company has been named one of the "Best Places to Work" by Inc. magazine (2019) and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce (2017, 2018). Visit Sharpen on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and the Sharpen blog.
©2020 Sharpen Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. Sharpen Technologies and the Sharpen logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Sharpen Technologies. All other company names and logos may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.
Kelly Keane
Sharpen Technologies
kkeane@sharpencx.com
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HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2006--ACE Limited (NYSE:ACE) announced today that its subsidiary, ACE INA Holdings Inc., has agreed to sell $300 million of 6.70% Senior Notes due May 15, 2036. The notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by ACE Limited.
The net proceeds from the sale of the senior notes and available cash will be used to repay all $300,000,000 of ACE INA Holdings' 8.30% Notes due August 15, 2006.
The joint book-running managers for the offering are Banc of America Securities LLC and Wachovia Capital Markets LLC.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus, a copy of which may be obtained by directing a request for the same to Banc of America Securities LLC, Prospectus Department, 100 West 33rd Street, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10001 or Wachovia Capital Markets LLC, 8739 Research Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262. Alternatively, the prospectus may be obtained by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at http://www.sec.gov.


This work will introduce an additional criteria EclipseLink users can apply to a descriptors default queries in turn providing them with a filtering option. This filtering option will allow users to leverage the existing additional join expression from a descriptor query manager and allow parameters to be passed to it.
See the following blog from Doug discussing filters and their current usage though a descriptor customizer.
Simplify the definition and usage of EclipseLink's additional join expressions using Eclipselink metadata.
Allow additional criteria to be specified through the use of annotations and xml.
Allow for JPQL fragments to specify the details of the additional criteria.
Allow for a mechanism to pass parameters to the additional criteria.
Easy to use and forward compatible.
Respect the general JPA look and feel.
The following sections will detail the metadata changes and modifications that are required. The additional criteria will be available in the form of annotations and xml and will be used to form the descritor query manager's additionalJoinExpression that is applied to all queries for that descriptor.
* and should not be changed for the life span of that entity manager.
* properties set on the entity manager factory.
* Additional criteria is not supported with any native queries.
* (Required) The JPQL fragment to use as the additional criteria.
An additional criteria complex element will be created to allow future expansion.
The additional criteria can be overridden from the eclipselink-orm.xml. XML file merging will be available as well in its current form, simply expanded to include the additional criteria. The following will be the order of precedence used to determine the which additional-criteria is applied to the descriptor.
The additional criteria will be used to form the additionalJoinExpression from the descriptor's query manager.
The following sections will detail the core changes and modifications that are required.
The additional criteria will be used to form the existing additional join expression stored on the descriptor query manager. Care must be taken by those users who currently set the additional join expression directly through a customizer. Adding additional criteria will be AND'ed to this expression.
The metadata will set the additional criteria through the following new API on the DescriptorQueryManager.
The jpql fragment will be parsed into the additional join expression at post-initialization time. Any parsing exceptions will be thrown at that time.
We will tie into the existing JPQL parser to parse the additional criteria where the only alias allowed will be 'this'. We will prepend the following select statement with the additional criteria JPQL fragment and harness the selection criteria from that resulting query and set it to be the additional join expression.
The JPQL will be parsed at descriptor postInitialization time. Multiple selects will not be supported in the JPQL fragment.
At runtime, users will provide parameters to their additional criteria during EntityManager create or through a set property call before any query execution. Changing the parameters during the lifespan of the EntityManager is not defined and could lead to a 'corrupted' cache and unpredictable results.
Parameters are global in scope and are added to the active JPA context (server session) and will be applied all additional criteria that accept the same parameter name at query execution time.
NOTE: Users must be careful when selecting their parameter names so as to not conflict with existing JPA and Eclipselink properties.
Setting the following property on the EntityManager would return all employees of Oracle.
This additional criteria accepts two parameters across a 1-1 relation and is order by id.
Exception: Additional criteria specified on a descriptor within an inheritance hierarchy using views is not supported.
Future: Allow additional criteria to be specified at the mapping level.
This page was last modified 17:16, 9 March 2011 by Guy Pelletier. Based on work by Samba Siva Rao and Doug Clarke.


Many people in Chicago suffer from sleep apnea but are unable to deal with CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure machines. Many sufferers complain of claustrophobia, irritation from the mask, dry throat and nasal passages, and the chance the mask may come off during the night. For these people, an oral dental appliance is a practical alternative.
Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder. Anyone suffering from the condition will stop breathing periodically throughout the night. This disorder is caused by physical obstruction of the airway. The interruption in breathing generally lasts for 10 seconds or so. This is often followed by gasping or emitting a choking sound as the person fights to resume breathing.
It is normal that muscles relax when you sleep; this includes the muscles in your mouth and throat. For most people, this is a not a problem, but for others it is. As these sufferers begin to relax, the tissue and muscles in the mouth and throat relax to the point where they block the upper airway, which blocks the normal flow of oxygen to the lungs.
When this happens, the person partially awakens, the brain signals the respiratory system, instructing it to work harder to overcome the effect of the obstruction.
Before the dentist becomes involved, the individual suffering sleep apnea in Chicago will undergo a sleep study. The results of the study will tell the severity of the condition. The severity has a great deal to do with the solution.
Mandibular advancement devices (MADs) look very much like a common sports mouthguard. They fit in the mouth. The device snaps over both the upper and lower dental arches. There is a hinge that connects the two components. The device works by pushing the tongue and lower jaw forward. This action prevents the muscles of the throat from collapsing into the airway. The device allows the person to breathe normally while sleeping.
If you are a sleep apnea sufferer, make an appointment with the Art of Modern Dentistry in Chicago.


Today, why do we mourn for Jerusalem?
How can a Jew weep on Tisha B'Av for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Beis Hamikdash which took place thousands of years ago, when he sees how beautifully Jerusalem has been rebuilt in our days?
Perhaps we can learn a lesson from Rabbi Gershon Kitover, brother-in-law of the Ba'al Shem Tov, who arrived in Jerusalem two and a half centuries ago with the first group of Chassidim to settle in the Holy Land. He looked around at a city which sported foreign legations and all the signs of a serene community restored, in sharp contrast to the desolation described by Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban) in his famous letter reporting on his visit to the city some five centuries earlier.
Rabbi Gershon broke into tears. Now, he said, I fully understand the words of the prayer that Jews say at the end of the final ne'ilah service on Yom Kippur, when the gates of Heaven are about to close. As they stand at this dramatic moment, weakened in body from a long day of fasting and strengthened in spirit from prayer and repentance, they strive to send one more prayer heavenward, invoking the 13 attributes of Divine mercy. The opening lines, sounding more like a Tisha B'Av lamentation than a Yom Kippur prayer, cry out: "I recall, O G-d, and I am overcome by emotion, as I see every city solidly built on its foundation, while the City of G-d is reduced to the depth of the grave. Nevertheless, we are with G-d and our eyes are turned to G-d."
'Every city' - said Rabbi Gershon - refers to the Jerusalem of Below, the city of brick and mortar; while the 'City of G-d' refers to the Jerusalem of Above, the heavenly city characterized by the Beis Hamikdash.
It is certainly painful to contrast these ruins with the prosperity of foreign cities. But the pain is indescribably greater when one sees the contrast between material prosperity and spiritual ruin before his very eyes. Small wonder that this great man of spirit, who finally realized his lifelong dream of reaching Jerusalem, was moved to tears when he sensed the awful contrast.
The above account of Rabbi Gershon Kitover's experience and observation is recorded by one of the great halachic authorities, Rabbi Yosef Tumim, who served as rabbi of Frankfort, Germany two centuries ago. In his classic commentary on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, "Pri Megadim" (661a Eshel Avraham), he quotes his father as the source for this moving story about Rabbi Gershon Kitover.
A footnote to this is the sentiment expressed in the last line of the above mentioned prayer - "Nevertheless, we are with G-d and our eyes are turned to G-d." This sense of hope amidst mourning reminds us of the story of a father who took his young son to the Western Wall for the first time. It was Tisha B'Av, and the youngster asked his father why grown men were weeping.
"Here," said the father, "our Beis Hamikdash once stood. The Har Habayis (Temple Mount) on which it stood was surrounded by four large walls. Now the Beis Hamikdash is destroyed, as well as the walls around the Har Habayis. All we have left of all our sacred glory is this one wall where you see people praying. Is it any wonder that they cry when they remember what once stood here?"
"But Father," responded the son, "isn't it true that Mashiach will soon come to redeem us, rebuild the Beis Hamikdash and the four walls around Har Habayis? We should take comfort in the fact that one of those walls is already standing, and there are only three more to go!"


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package com.example.tylerpelaez.didit;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Debug;
import android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout;
import android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton;
import android.support.v4.app.DialogFragment;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.PopupWindow;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.io.EOFException;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.SortedMap;
import java.util.TreeMap;

import static android.app.Activity.RESULT_OK;
import static android.content.Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE;

/**
 * Created by tylerpelaez on 4/6/17.
 */

public class TaskViewFragment extends Fragment {

    private TaskListAdapter mTaskListAdapter;

    private String filename = "content";

    private int requestCodeSent = 55;

    public TaskViewFragment() {
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        mTaskListAdapter = new TaskListAdapter(getActivity(), new ArrayList<Habit>());

        setHasOptionsMenu(true);

        //getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);

        FileInputStream fis;
        File file = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), filename);
        try {

            fis = new FileInputStream(file);
            ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);

            ArrayList<Habit> habits = (ArrayList<Habit>) ois.readObject();

            // Necessary for the adapter to be updated
            for (int i = 0; i < habits.size(); ++i) {
                mTaskListAdapter.add(habits.get(i));
            }

        } catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }catch(ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch(IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    @Override
    public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_main_fragment, menu);

        return;
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.task_view_fragment, container, false);

        ListView listView = (ListView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.list_view);

        listView.setAdapter(mTaskListAdapter);
        if (mTaskListAdapter.getCount() == 0) {
            Habit habit = new Habit("Exercise");

            habit.addDescriptor("Sit-Ups", "Number");

            TreeMap<Date, ArrayList<Descriptor>> toAdd = new TreeMap<>();

            ArrayList<Descriptor> desclist = new ArrayList<Descriptor>();
            desclist.add(new Number(5.0));
            toAdd.put(new GregorianCalendar(2017, Calendar.JANUARY, 5).getTime(), new ArrayList<Descriptor>(desclist));
            Log.d("debug", "2017/1/5 is " + new GregorianCalendar(2017, 1, 5).toString());
            desclist = new ArrayList<Descriptor>();
            desclist.add(new Number(2.0));
            toAdd.put(new GregorianCalendar(2017, Calendar.JANUARY, 6).getTime(), new ArrayList<Descriptor>(desclist));
            desclist = new ArrayList<Descriptor>();
            desclist.add(new Number(10.0));
            toAdd.put(new GregorianCalendar(2017, Calendar.JANUARY, 7).getTime(), new ArrayList<Descriptor>(desclist));
            desclist = new ArrayList<Descriptor>();
            desclist.add(new Number(1.0));
            toAdd.put(new GregorianCalendar(2017, Calendar.JANUARY, 8).getTime(), new ArrayList<Descriptor>(desclist));
            habit.setLog(toAdd);

            mTaskListAdapter.add(habit);

        }

        listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {

                Intent graphIntent = new Intent(getActivity(), GraphActivity.class)
                        .putExtra("Habit", mTaskListAdapter.getItem(position));
                startActivity(graphIntent);
            }
        });

        return rootView;

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.action_add_habit:
                launchCreateHabitScreen();
                return true;

            default:
                // If we got here, the user's action was not recognized.
                // Invoke the superclass to handle it.

                return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        // Check which request we're responding to
        if (requestCode == requestCodeSent) {
            // Make sure the request was successful
            if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
                Habit newHabit = (Habit) data.getExtras().getSerializable("returnHabit");
                mTaskListAdapter.add(newHabit);
            }
        }
    }

    private void launchCreateHabitScreen() {
        Intent createIntent = new Intent(getActivity(), CreateHabitActivity.class);
        startActivityForResult(createIntent, requestCodeSent);
    }

    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        super.onPause();

        File file = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), filename);
        if (!file.exists()) {
            try {
                file.createNewFile();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                return;
            }

        }
        FileOutputStream fos;
        try {
            fos = new FileOutputStream(file);

            ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);

            //Log.d("adapter:", Integer.toString(mTaskListAdapter.getCount()));
            oos.writeObject(mTaskListAdapter.habitList);
        } catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return;
        }
    }

    public void updateHabitFromDialog() {
        if (getContext() instanceof MainActivity) {
            mTaskListAdapter.habitList.get(((MainActivity) getContext()).mPosition).goalCompleted(((MainActivity) getContext()).mDescriptors);
            for(int i = 0; i < mTaskListAdapter.habitList.size(); ++i) {
                Log.d("TEST", mTaskListAdapter.habitList.get(i).log.toString());
            }
        }
    }

}

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Chris Hogg, "China Lends More than World Bank," BBC News, January 18, 2011, sec. Asia-Pacific, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12212936.
 Ma et al., "Greening the Belt and Road."; La Rocca, Green Infrastructure Finance.
 Rozenberg and Fay, Beyond the Gap.


You can update your profile on hipages as many times as you like, so don't let it seem daunting. It's better to start with something, you can always add to it later.
Your thumbanil is what appears in any directory searches, but also is what is shown to potential customers when they are connected with you through the hipages Get Quotes Service. You could either use your logo as your thumbnail, but we find using your face works well as it gives people something to connect with.
Your headline should be a short summary of who you are or something about you. This shows in any directory search results, but also on your hipages profile.
Your description is your chance to tell people looking at your business who you are. Include some things about you and your business, like how long you've been in business or why you like doing what you do. Highlight your services and any specialities. Think of this as your online pitch, what would you to say to people you meet in person for the first time – add this to your description.
Your images can be sorted into numerous galleries, including multiple images of a single job or of specific themes i.e. for a builder you might have a gallery for; roof restorations, kitchens, bathrooms etc. These images are your chance to show potential customers the quality of your past work. If you don't have any photos of past work, send in a few photos of you on the job or in front of your van. Adding a personal touch to your page really helps.
You can do this all your self from your login area, but don't forget our graphics team are always here to help. If you don't have the time or the inclination to do it yourself, why not let us do it. It's a free service and that is what we are here for. It's as simple as taking a photo of your business card and SMS'ing it to us. Of course you can send us more than that. You can email, SMS or even post us any relevant photos, your logo or any text you want added to your page and we can care of the rest.
Your profile is your online representation of your business. It's also the first thing we send to your potential customer when they are connected with you. So you should make sure your page represents who you are as a business.
Looking for inspiration? Check out these profiles.


Opinion journalism brings new ethical obligations as well. These can be summarized in two words: intellectual honesty. Are you writing or saying what you really think? Have you tested it against the available counter arguments? Will you stand by an expressed principle in different situations, when it leads to an unpleasing conclusion? Are you open to new evidence or an argument that might change your mind? Do you retain at least a tiny, healthy sliver of a doubt about the argument you choose to make?
Even more basically, Kinsley might suggest the following: have you arrived at your conclusion by a cogent or coherent argument? Is your characterization of the opposing points of view charitable and accurate? Have you drawn on commonly agreed on facts in the construction of your argument? And we could go on.
Kinsley's comment, nonetheless, is certainly welcome. Especially in light of articles that consider the pernicious, the outrageous, the preposterous Bill O'Reilly to be merely an entertainer. If only it were true.
And so Lisa's rock does not keep away tigers after all. The trip as you might imagine was an academic job interview. In the department was a recent Ivy League graduate in religion (it was one of those combined philosophy and religion departments) who asserted the mounting evidence for the causally efficacious role of prayer on health. Such was, as he pointed out, the subject matter of his research. I can't help but think that my shock at such a silly and possibly heretical thesis was written on my face. I wonder how the research was received down in Hoosier country.
Gee, George. You say "incredibly" but you don't bother to point to any of the court's actual reasons for its positions. Unlike twice or thrice weekly columnists, and once a week TV pundits, courts publish detailed *arguments* for their positions. These arguments offer *reasons*. Sometimes they please people, sometimes they don't. But that fact does not make them credible or incredible. They are incredible if they distort facts, or if they reason badly, or have no basis in the law.
>The court's ruling was a crashing non sequitur: that the public duty to provide something (quality education) entails a prohibition against providing it in a particular way (utilizing successful private educational institutions). The court's ruling was neither constitutional law nor out of character, and it illustrates why the composition of courts has become such a contentious political issue.
>But Thursday's ruling ultimately could affect these and other voucher programs. The court found that taxpayer support for private schools in general is unconstitutional because Florida's constitution requires "a uniform, efficient, safe, secure and high-quality system of free public schools." Private schools aren't "uniform when compared with each other or the public system," the justices wrote. They're also exempt from public standards on teacher credentials and requirements to teach about a wide range of subjects, such as civics, U.S. and world history and minorities' and women's contributions to history.
So missing from Will's argument is a discussion of what the court meant by "uniformity," one of the central legal issues in their ruling. And its absence surely makes the Florida court's ruling look silly and arbitrary. And so Will can make the following Cornynesque assertion: "The court's ruling was neither constitutional law nor out of character, and it illustrates why the composition of courts has become such a contentious political issue." Having avoided the content of their argument by straw man, will can turn to attacking the motivations of the judges (all five democrat appointees) and the people who were pleased by the ruling (the NEA). A crashing non sequitur indeed. Don't misspell misspelling.
None of this means the court's decision was right–which it probably was however–but it's certainly not wrong on Will's childish and confused libertarian whining. After all–what happens if the state gains financial access to private education? Then they will have the means and the power to enforce "uniformity"; that means the science class will have to teach something other than creationism.
>As Newsweek notes, these stirrings for the mainstreaming of polygamy (or, more accurately, polyamory) have their roots in the increasing legitimization of gay marriage. In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is *utterly logical* for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement — the number restriction (two and only two) — is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.
>On the other hand, polygamy was sanctioned, indeed common, in large parts of the world through large swaths of history, most notably the biblical Middle East and through much of the Islamic world.
So he does realize that gay marriage does not imply polygamy (or polyandry) and vice-versa. The connection is not logical or causal but merely psychological. Krauthammer's argument–though studded with n0t-that-there's-anything-wrong with-thats–does little to camouflage its illogical appeal to simple prejudice.
Things are going really badly for Republicans and the Bush administration, so notes E.J.Dionne in the *Post*, but he adds that it's not "flatly false" to claim that things are going so hot for Democrats either. He makes this surprisingly weak-kneed remark in the context of a discussion of the phony "balance" stories that infect the national argument; bad news for the Bush administration must necessarily be accompanied by bad news (however contrived) for the Democrats, otherwise, charges (however specious) of "liberal media" will fly. And so Dionne complies.
>The Democrats' real problem is that they have failed to show how their critique of the Republican status quo is the essential first step toward the alternative program they will owe the voters in the presidential year of 2008.
>This failure has made it easier for Republicans to cast anti-Bush feeling (aka, "Bush hatred") as a psychological disorder. The GOP shrewdly makes the president's critics look crazed and suggests that opposition to Bush is of no more significance than, say, the loathing that many watchers of "American Idol" love to express toward Simon Cowell, the meanest of the show's judges.
Dionne believes and so ought to argue that the Republican argument is intellectually irresponsible, wrong, fallacious, pernicious–outrageous. But he concedes to the Republican strategy he criticizes when he says that it's not "flatly false" to claim things aren't going well for the Democrats. If Dionne could be considered the typical Democrat, they're right.
>The most pernicious element in the movie is the character at the moral heart of the film: the beautiful, modest, caring, generous Pakistani who becomes a beautiful, modest, caring, generous . . . suicide bomber. In his final act, the Pure One, dressed in the purest white robes, takes his explosives-laden little motorboat headfirst into his target.
For Krauthammer, anything short of spitting condemnation of terrorism constitutes self-loathing anti-americanism. The film's failure to condemn the bomber constitutes an endorsement to Krauthammer's woefully shallow dichotomous mind. For our part, the youth's falling in with radical Islamic terrorism was a tragedy in the real sense of the term. His generosity and spirituality were exploited to nefarious ends. And, as is the case with all tragedies, he was the agent of self-destruction. The view identifies to some extent with him (but not his aims) because that is what fictional tragedies are all about. So, at the very least, Krauthammer is guilty of genre confusion: fictional tragedies must be assessed in different ways than actual documentaries.
At the moment, there are too many real world problems caused by views akin to those of Krauthammer and his Republican friends for him to be trying to unearth evidence of Hollywood anti-americanism. Perhaps he should turn his attention to those and save the aisle seat for Roger Ebert.


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Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands): A story of cultural preservation
After years of residential schooling and cultural suppression, First Nations across the country are taking remarkable steps to rebuild their cultural heritage. Canadian Geographic explores Haida Gwaii and takes a look at Haida efforts to protect monumental cedar and save their native language.
Forest guardian Jaalen Edenshaw pauses in the Skidegate Plateau, a heavily logged region on the west coast of Graham Island. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
Logs are piled high on a cutblock in the Skidegate Plateau, once home to a lush cedar forest. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
Forest guardians Lana Wilhem (at left), Gerry Morigeau and Edenshaw flag a wire fence used to protect young cedar from browsing deer. In the 100 years since their introduction by colonists, deer have had a profound impact on cedar regeneration, shifting the forests toward domination by hemlock. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
Garner Moody carves a small totem pole from yellow cedar in the Skidegate carving longhouse. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
Moody works with cedar every day, and says it is becoming increasingly difficult to find. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
Haida elder Norman Price is drawn to the view from his porch in Skidegate and the red cedar totem pole that took him two years to carve. It was raised last July 1, his 80th birthday. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
Morigeau (at left), Edenshaw and Wilhem search for monumental cedar in the Skidegate Plateau. An unfinished Haida canoe (at right) was likely abandoned in the 1800s when small pox devastated the native population. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
A stump-scattered cutblock provides a dramatic backdrop in the Skidegate Plateau. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
A young student sketches eagles and bears at George M. Dawson Secondary School in Masset. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
As Edenshaw continues his survey near the Yakoun River, truckloads of timber roll down the road. (Photo: Farah Nosh)
By Christopher Mason
With photography by Farah Nosh
Cedar: A fight for the forest
For thousands of years, the Haida have used the towering cedars and spruce of Haida Gwaii as an outlet for their creativity, and for transportation, warmth and shelter. Because of their dependence on trees, the relationship between the Haida and the forests was, and remains, one of respect and protection.
"Our people used the forest fairly extensively," says Guujaaw, president of the Council of the Haida Nation and an expert carver. "But if you were able to look back over time, the use of it wouldn't even show up because it was only one tree at a time."
But that delicate balance was upset as European presence grew over the years, bringing an ever-increasing demand for lumber. Disease decimated the Haida, reducing the population of some 10,000 in the late 1700s to 588 in 1915. In their weakened state, they were no match for loggers.
"There really was not much resistance at first," says Guujaaw, who is leading the Haida in their fight to win back control of the forests. For the past 50 years, the fight has involved blockades along logging roads. Now it also means lawsuits and legislation.
In November 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that governments have a legal duty to consult with Aboriginals before allowing logging, mining, new roads and other development on Crown land that is subject to Native land claims. The ruling marked the first time that Canadian courts recognized that the "honour of the Crown" extends to negotiating with Aboriginals before deciding the fate of resources on land subject to land claims.
Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) (Map:Steven Fick/Canadian Geographic)
"The Crown, acting honourably, cannot cavalierly run roughshod over Aboriginal interests where claims affecting those interests are being seriously pursued," Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the unanimous Supreme Court ruling. "When the distant goal of proof is finally reached, the Aboriginal Peoples may find their land and resources changed and denuded. This is not reconciliation."
The decision upheld a 2002 British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling ordering the province to consult the Haida on a tree-farming licence issued to Weyerhaeuser Co., which had allowed the company to log and manage the forest on one-quarter of the land claimed by the Haida.
As a result of these rulings, the Haida have also organized themselves, creating Haida Heritage and Forest Guardians, which conducts forest surveys for the Council of the Haida Nation. The CHN, in turn, negotiates agreements with governments regarding which lands can be logged, and how many trees can be cut down. These agreements are largely the reason the annual take by logging giants has fallen from a peak of 2.2 million cubic metres in the early 1970s, to about 1 million cubic metres today. The goal is to reduce that figure by another 25 per cent pending approval by the B.C. government of a land-use plan that would give the Haida a stronger voice in negotiations with the government and logging companies. "We're in a real transition period right now," says Guujaaw. "I think it will become a little more stable and I think we'll have a controlling interest over the logging that does occur."
More stories from our Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) coverage:
Q&A - Cedar and culture
Keeping the language alive
Q&A: Learning the language
Music - A cultural rebirth


Over had said he wanted to do a tower crane or two, so I picked him up from the train station near to me, brought him here for egg and chips, then made our way into Manchester.
This was the first on our list. Billed as the smallest in manchester, but it has a lovely long jib.
Report - High Point/Yorkshire Bldg Society, Bradford - July 2011.
Report - North Yorkshire tower crane.


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Q: Setting up a Database Diagram in VS2012 & SSDT? I'm working myself through this book called Head First C#.NET as I want to get into programming.
Basically the book was written for VS2010, but since my employer has bought me a MSDN License, I decided to go for VS2012 instead.
One of the assignments in the book is to create a local database, and make a database diagram for it. Unfortunately, this functionality has been removed from VS itself from VS2012 and upwards.
I've already googled it, and read that this was replaced by SSDT. Hence, I installed SSDT but I'm still not able to view and/or create a Database Diagram.
Is the "Diagram" functionality completely deprecated from 2012 and should I be looking at something complete different to get what I want / need?

A: According to this post, there is no diagram support in SSDT.


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Geri Halliwell Breaks Her Silence After Mel B Reveals Their Romantic Past
07:46 1 Apr 2019
Geri Halliwell releases a statement
Geri Halliwell and Mel B have been the centre of attention since Mel revealed they had a romantic night together years ago.
It has since been reported that their relationship actually lasted a whole year.
Halliwell however, has slammed these claims in a statement released to MailOnline over the weekend.
A post shared by geri 💫✨ (@therealgerihalliwell) on Mar 12, 2019 at 6:20am PDT
The statement reads, 'It has been very disappointing to read about all these rumours again, especially on Mother's Day of all days.'
'Geri loves the Spice Girls: Emma, Melanie, Melanie and Victoria.'
A post shared by Spice Girls (@spicegirls) on Nov 5, 2018 at 2:42am PST
'She would like [the fans] to know that what has been reported recently is simply not true and has been very hurtful to her family.'
'Moving forward, Geri can't wait to see the girls and all the fans on the tour, have an amazing time with everyone, and make some new memories.'
A post shared by Spice Girls (@spicegirls) on Nov 10, 2018 at 2:10pm PST
Shortly after this, Geri shared a post on Instagram for Mothers Day.
She has a 12-year-old daughter called Bluebell and a 2-year-old son called Monty.
'Happy Mother's day to all the people who take care of someone. love Monty & me , And the rest of our family.'
A post shared by geri 💫✨ (@therealgerihalliwell) on Mar 31, 2019 at 1:49pm PDT
#happymothersday 💕
Mel B made the confession in an interview with Piers Morgan
Mel confessed that she and Geri Halliwell had one romantic night together years ago.
Ever since, the pair have been on headlines all across the country.
A post shared by Spice Girls (@spicegirls) on Jan 14, 2019 at 7:19am PST
Piers asked her, "did you sleep with Geri like that?"
Mel began to nod her head as a big grin came over her face.
"She's gonna hate me for this cause she's all posh in her country house with her husband."
Mel B says, "it's all in the past."
Scary Spice reportedly called Victoria a 'bi**h'
The Sun have reported that Mel B also calls Victoria Beckham a 'bi**h' in the same interview.
She allegedly talks about Victoria's absence from the Spice World Tour.
When asked about Posh, Victoria responds, 'bit of a bi**h.'
She explains her hostility towards the singer has to do with Beckham's refusal to join them for the reunion tour.
A post shared by Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) on Mar 8, 2019 at 8:54am PST
Spice Girls come to Croke Park on Friday the 24th of May for their Spice World Tour.
Geri Halliwell Mel B Spice Girls
Emma Bunton Breaks Her Silence On Mel B & Geri Halliwell Fling
Mel B Reportedly Upset That Geri Is 'Making Her Out To Be A Liar'
Ovie Soko Responds To Rumours He's In A Relationship With Amber Gill


Other Numbers LNCS 10421, P.85-93.
Abstract The fragmented programming system LuNA is based on the Fragmented Programming Technology. LuNA is a platform for building automatically tunable portable libraries of parallel numerical subroutines. This paper focuses on the parallel implementation of the IADE method for solving 1D partial differential equation (PDE) of parabolic type using LuNA programming system. A fragmented numerical algorithm of IADE method is designed in terms of the data-flow graph. A performance comparison of different algorithm's implementations including LuNA and Message Passing Interface are given.


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Field trip: Spring butterflies on Shaston Ridge on Sun 15th May
On this walk led by Andrew Graham, along with other spring downland butterflies, we will be seeking out the Duke of Burgundy, an easily overlooked species for whom Wiltshire is a southern stronghold, living in small colonies on grassland or woodland clearings, laying its eggs in small batches underneath the leaves of Primroses and Cowslips.
We will be joined by Dr Sue Clarke, an ecologist who has been advising landowners for a number or years on how to help Duke of Burgundy (on the left below) and the also rare Marsh Fritillary butterflies (on the right) to flourish.
We will rendezvous at the Old Shaftesbury Drove, a Byway open to traffic, where it crosses the Ansty to Alvediston road at Grid Reference ST 965250; WhatThreeWords: ulterior.enormous.drilled.
There is room for cars to park along the track on both sides of the road.
For anyone wanting a lift, or to share cars, meet at the Nadder Centre car park to set out at 10:30 and rendezvous at the start point to set out at 11:00. [Please note these times are later than published in our programme, to give the best chance of sighting butterflies.]
The walk will be taken at a gentle pace, but will involve some steep slopes and roughly grazed ground so supportive footwear is advised, as perhaps is a walking pole.
The route planned will take 2 to 3 hours, with the aim of returning home for a late lunch. You may want to bring some refreshment, though, especially if the weather is warm. No need to book.
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Type 93 (siluro) – Siluro pesante giapponese, usato durante la seconda guerra mondiale
 Type 93 (lanciafiamme) – Lanciafiamme spalleggiabile giapponese, impiegato durante la seconda guerra mondiale
 Type 93 (mitragliatrice pesante) – Mitragliatrice pesante giapponese in calibro 13,2 mm, adoperata durante la seconda guerra mondiale
 Type 93 (autoblindo) - autoblindo giapponese 6×4 utilizzata durante la seconda guerra mondiale.


It was the first time that I was going to go to India in order to search for Syriac manuscripts in the jungle of Kerala, and thus I was waiting with understandable excitement for my turn at the visa department of the Indian embassy, a beautiful little villa up in the hills of Buda. In the meantime I was gazing at the poster of a new Bollywood film on the wall. Behind the young lovers in traditional Indian vest there emerged an exotic building, gleaming with a thousand lights and promising a thousand wonders of the fabulous India. It took some time until I realized that this building was the Chain Bridge of Budapest. Later in India I got to know that Bollywood directors liked to shot their musicals in Budapest precisely because it appears so exotic to the Indian public.
Der Betrachter ist im Bild, the viewer is in the picture, was the title of the introduction into reception aesthetics by Wolfgang Kemp in the 80s. And not only in the interpretation of the picture, as Kemp meant it, but also in the pictures made by the viewer. As for example in the pictures of Liu Maoshan every European city is being converted into Song-period Chinese landscapes.
The Persian blog شبزنده ها Shabzendehâ, "Vigils" – in elegant Humanist Latin we could translate it Lucubrationes – published on Farvardin 8, 1388, that is on March 28, 2009 this beautiful series of three hundred photos on Budapest (first click on the green "Shabzendeha Pictures" inscription, and then on the "Budapest 09" button in the upper left part). شهر خیلی قشنگی هست, امیدوارم از عکس ها خوشتون بیاد "The city is beautiful, I hope that this is also conveyed by the pictures", writes Omid H. Hassam, and we have to agree with him. Although he took photos almost exclusively in the city center, nevertheless these pictures are not the well known postcards, not the usual cuttings living in our head, and not even the clearly structured Western tourist photos focusing on the perpetuation of one single object. In these photos the structures become loose, and they are dominated by lights, cross-cuttings and movement. In these pictures Budapest is an Eastern city which has seen better days and is chaotic, but also vivid and hiding a thousand secrets, a little Tehran.


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Binance, Bermuda Ink $15 Million Crypto Investment Agreement
Bermuda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Binance to develop a global compliance center in the British Overseas Territory.
By Nikhilesh De
Apr 27, 2018 at 8:20 p.m. UTC
Updated Sep 13, 2021 at 7:53 a.m. UTC
Nikhilesh De
Binance plans to set up its new global compliance center in Bermuda over the next few months, Premier David Burt has announced.
Speaking at a joint press conference on Friday, Burt announced that a memorandum of understanding has been signed, under which the Binance Charity Foundation will put $10 million toward educational programs related to the tech. An additional $5 million will be invested in blockchain startups.
On top of that, Binance will help the Bermuda government develop a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as establish a new office in the country.
Burt said during the press conference:
"Through this partnership, Binance proposes to develop its global compliance base here in Bermuda, creating at least 40 jobs in Bermuda with at least 30 jobs for Bermudians ... [and] as soon as practical, develop a digital asset exchange in Bermuda subject to all required legal and regulatory processes, and finally, work collaboratively with the government of Bermuda and all necessary oversight agencies in the development and improvement of the robust legal and regulatory framework."
Binance CEO and founder Zhao Changpeng said Bermuda's government and regulatory bodies "are one of the most approachable on the planet," and said his company would "commit to helping the local economy."
The exchange has already begun working with a local law firm to ensure the startup's new office would be compliant with relevant laws, he added.
During the press conference, Zhao also addressed the recent lawsuit filed against Binance, noting that "the Hong Kong high court has already rejected it and ordered Sequoia to repay our legal fees."
In his closing remarks, Burt also mentioned the new legislation Bermuda intends to pass regulating initial coin offerings. Burt claimed that Bermuda intends to "comprehensively govern" initial coin offerings that are conducted within the country's borders.
"We want to ensure that Bermuda is the world's number-one place for regulation inside of this space. We have a reputation to protect, we will protect it but we will work with all persons who we believe represents future growth for the people of this country and future opportunities and jobs," Burt said.
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Vytjie Mentor has been dropping more truth-bombs at the state capture inquiry on Tuesday afternoon.
Vytjie Mentor told the state capture inquiry Tuesday how she was offered a cabinet position by a businessman accused of masterminding corruption under then-president Jacob Zuma.
The judicial commission heard she had been seeking a meeting with Zuma and was surprised when she was driven to the Johannesburg house of the Guptas, a wealthy business family.
Ajay Gupta told her a cabinet reshuffle was pending and that she would be offered the job of public enterprises minister, a key role overseeing state-owned businesses at the heart of the graft allegations facing Zuma.
At this, she lost her cool and raised her voice, demanding how he knew about the reshuffle, at which point Zuma walked into the room.
The probe is looking into allegations Zuma organised the systematic plunder of government coffers by the Guptas and allowed them to choose ministers. Vytjie Mentor said she found the meeting "strange and discomforting".
Mentor also went on to detail how she lived in fear, when she found her hotel door lock had been broken shortly after expressing that discomfort.
#VytjieMentor breaks down as she tells #StateCaptureInquiry concerns about her safety suspecting her hotel door has been tempered with. She has given damning evidence accusing Ajay Gupta of offering her a ministerial job and that Zuma was unfazed about it.
Zuma, 76, stands accused of being in the sway of the Guptas, allegedly granting them lucrative government contracts and deals with state-owned businesses.
He was forced to resign in February when ruling African National Congress lawmakers turned against him.
The inquiry, which is headed by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo, opened this week and could take two years to deliver its findings.
The former president has separately been charged with 16 counts of graft linked to an arms deal from before he became president and will next appear in court on November 30 as the criminal case against him continues.


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