European Union nurses who want to work in the UK will in the future be required to pass an International English Language Testing System exam if they cannot prove they are proficient in using English, despite concerns about the test's robustness.
At a meeting today, the Nursing and Midwifery Council approved the policy and guidance for the new rules, which will come into effect next year.
It brings rules into line with English tests for applicants from outside the EEA.
The council also agreed that any allegation against a nurse or midwife already on the register that raises concerns about their knowledge of English should in the future be considered grounds for fitness to practise procedures.
From January 2016, the NMC will require applicants from countries in the European Economic Area – which includes the European Union and Scandinavia – to produce evidence showing their English language competency.
This evidence will include either having passed the IELTS within the past two years, having trained on a pre-registration course that included at least 75% clinical interaction in English, or having practised for two years in a native English country that required language assessment for registration.
If they cannot demonstrate competence, the applicant will have to pass the IELTS test, with a minimum of 7.0 in each of the four areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
In an NMC consultation of on how to implement the new rules, almost 40% of the 723 registrants and organisations who responded said they did not agree with the types of evidence the regulator was proposing to accept, as previously reported by Nursing Times.
Most respondents who were unhappy questioned the use of IELTS, claiming that it only assessed academic knowledge of English and does not demonstrate competence in a clinical setting.
There were also concerns that the suggested minimum score of 7.0 was too high.
At the NMC council meeting today, council member Stephen Thornton noted there was a lack of support for the NMC's plans on how to implement the language checks.
"I am pleased though that, despite that, we are going to move forward on this and hope we will support this because I think it's important to remember what our core purpose is – it's about protection of the public and patients," he said.
He said the NMC would need to persuade organisations and individuals about the use of the IELTS.
When asked by a council member about the potential negative impact of using the test, NMC director of registration Alison Sansome admitted that when the General Medical Council introduced the IELTS test in 2014 "they did find a lot of [European doctors] failed that test initially".
But, she said, that meant it was important for the NMC to communicate effectively with applicants to ensure they prepare fully in advance.
Meanwhile, NMC director of strategy Jon Billings said the IELTS was very established, noting it was already used by other healthcare regulators.
NMC chief executive and registrar Jackie Smith said the regulator would be monitoring how many applicants fail the test.
She said: "It's important that we provide information to the council on the numbers of EU applicants who fail the English language controls so we can understand the implications in respect of the flow of new applicants to our register.
"We are not apologetic about his – it is fundamental that you should be able to communicate and it's about public protection and that's our job," she added.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is making "excellent" progress in improving the way it handles fitness to practise cases, despite criticism from the body overseeing its work, says its chief executive.
Concerns have been raised about the robustness of the English language test being proposed to check that all overseas nurses are competent to work in the UK.
Another nail in the coffin for full time staffing levels. It almost seems as if there is a hidden agenda to create an over reliance on temporary agency staff (I wonder who really benefits from that?), or push nurses into healthcare assistant roles and get them to do the same job for less. Of course patient safety comes first but an academic test for a job in a clinical setting? A non UK nurse with 15 years intensive care experience is unlikely to put a patient at risk. Of course communication in a clinical setting is critical but that doesn't require such a high score on an academic language test. I think the fact that there are not enough nurses covering shifts and providing continuity of care will be far more damaging to both patients well being and even more so to NHS budgets. I am really starting to believe there is a conspiracy to destroy full time staffing levels. I just haven't worked out the agenda behind it yet. Perhaps it is a problem, reaction, solution approach that will ultimately be used to champion further privatisation? Nurses from beyond the EU that have the right IELTS pass and a certificate of sponsorship from a Trust are being refused visas by the Home Office. Go figure? To sum up, not enough home talent being produced, non EU candidates that qualify being turned away, qualified EU candidates that fail an academic language test rejected, greater shortages leading to more stress and a migration of homegrown talent to greener pastures? Am I missing something? Where is this all going?
Council member Stephen Thornton "noted there was a lack of support for the NMC's plans" but is nevertheless "pleased that, despite that, we are going to move forward on this" because "it's about protection of the public and patients." Presumably nobody told him that no UK patient has ever been harmed because of the language ability of a nurse. He continues: "the NMC would need to persuade organisations and individuals about the use of the IELTS." Well, he should know it's been used for some years now by NMC (for international applicants) as well as every other regulator - and it's universally unpopular!
NMC director of registration Alison Sansome admitted that when the General Medical Council introduced the IELTS test in 2014 "they did find a lot of [European doctors] failed that test initially" but thinks the NMC just needs to "communicate effectively with applicants to ensure they prepare fully in advance". Oh dear, that's the standard line, straight from the IELTS website - a little more homework (like actually looking at the test!) might have revealed that its the writing test that causes all the trouble: band 7.0 often requires the examinee to write in English better than they can write in their own language (and better than a large proportion of our home-grown nurses).
NMC director of strategy Jon Billings said the IELTS was very established, noting it was already used by other healthcare regulators. Great - but nine wrongs don't make a right!
NMC chief executive and registrar Jackie Smith said "the regulator would be monitoring how many applicants fail the test." Newsflash, Ms. Smith - you'll never know, because nurses are not going to fork out on the application until AFTER they've secured the required IELTS score - you'll only see applications drop away to near-zero. And don't think you can compare figures with international applicants - nursing schools in India, Nigeria, Philippines, etc. offer their students extensive tutoring in how to pass the IELTS. European applicants won't be able to afford that luxury.
But Ms. Smith crowns her contribution with "We are not apologetic about his – it is fundamental that you should be able to communicate and it's about public protection and that's our job." The defiant tone is revealing, as is the (expected) reuse of the "public protection" excuse (for which there is no evidence, of course). She is right, though, about the fundamental need to communicate - unfortunately, an IELTS certificate (at any grade) does not improve the listening or speaking skills of an EU nurse's UK-trained colleagues or those of his/her patients (which, together, are the real problem).
Take a look at the NMC's Code, specifically #7 - "Communicate clearly". The first four points amount to a good description of "patience and tolerance" in communication. Point 7.5, however, feels like a blunt bolt-on: "be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English." It's obviously there to support this IELTS 7.0 nonsense, but did it not occur to the NMC that indigenous nurses are the worst offenders? We SHOULD expect our own nurses to realise that a thick regional accent, obscure colloquialisms and generally sloppy speech habits can make it difficult for other English people to understand them, let alone non-natives (even if they do have an IELTS 7.0 certificate). Expecting our overseas colleagues to make up for our own national deficiencies as communicators is, frankly, an embarrassment, especially when the "solution" will cut off the supply of EU nurses and the overarching justification is a danger than has never occured.
I don't wish to sound facetious but it is a fact that I heard the Scottish nurse with Ebola interviewed briefly on BBC TV News and did not understand one word she said.
However, I wish her a speedy recovery.
"The system" is never going to allow the regulators to use anything BUT the IELTS test - it's run by the British Council, a quasi-charity that's important to the UK government, and represents 75% of the income that keeps them afloat.
The biggest issue is the required score - 7.0 on all four parts (reading, writing, speaking and listening) represents a substantial hurdle for applicants. This is a VERY high standard, effectively the same as that required of doctors coming from overseas and higher than most UK universities require for entry to graduate and even post-graduate studies. The writing section is the most problematic - 7.0 on this module is very difficult indeed, requiring very few "mistakes" in punctuation, spelling, declension, tenses, sentence structuring, etc - in short, a level of written communication in English that is NOT required for any regular nursing duties. The NMC should lower the required score at least in the writing section to 6.5 or even 6.0 - doing so would not affect the "communication ability" of registrants.
The overall 7.0 "average" required is not logical. Examinees will very rarely score equally across all four sections - they will usually score lower in the writing section (see above) than the others and will therefore inevitably achieve an "average" higher than 7.0 if they manage 7.0 in the writing section. So, by setting the requirement as they have, NMC are effectively asking for "better than 7.0" in speaking, listening and reading. Not fair.
Non-EU nurses (and all overseas doctors) undergo a practical test, a component of which is a subjective assessment of their communication abilities in a clinical setting. The NMC seems to have ignored this important difference. The IELTS test is arguably the only viable choice when candidates are situated on the other side of the world, its limitations compensated by the practical test. The NMC has been remiss in defaulting to IELTS for EU candidates without adding some other mechanism in place of the practical test.
The responsibility of the employer has been downplayed in all of this. Given the inadequacies of the IELTS, not to mention the large number of EU nurses already working in the UK without having sat the exam, the NMC should be issuing strict guidelines to employers. Without doubt, the majority of "offenders" (the source of the widespread reports of "nurses who can't speak English properly") are agencies who have employed nurses directly from EU countries with nothing more than an "amateur" (and commercially expedient) assessment of their language facility. If we DON'T see a flood of fitness procedures based on language then the NMC will have failed the profession by throttling future supply whilst tolerating the worst offenders. Will the agencies' clients demand that nurses supplied be in possession of IELTS 7.0 certificates, irrespective of when their PIN was obtained? - in the current market, I highly doubt it.
The NMC has failed spectacularly to solve the problem, has left gaping holes and has throttled the last remaining source of nurses for an NHS that will, more surely than ever, remain desperately short of nurses for years to come. A shameful performance.
Wake up NMC and listen to experienced nurses and English language teachers. Please for once, just listen to the voice of the profession instead of riding roughshod over it as usual.
With all of the above comments it must be very clear by now that the profession knows that you are wrong. Your actions are now endangering the very people you claim to protect - our patients. You have been presented with evidence,questioned about the safetyof this exam and yet you are still going to "move forward". Ok, so when you are desperate for nurses and the public is seriously at risk due to shortages,this decision will come back to haunt you. How dare you imply that nurses (or indeed anyone who disagrees with you) do not have our patients best interests at heart. Your job is to regulate professionally, you have not done this and as a nurse I have lost confidence in you as a regulator. Is the NMC fit for purpose?
IELTS is very expensive (155 or 200 GBP), takes a whole day of my life and is valid only for the two years.


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package io.sovaj.basics.core.utlis;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.DataFormatException;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

public class ZipperUtilTest {

    @Test
    public void testZipUnzip() throws IOException, DataFormatException {

        String StringToZip = "ceci est une chaine de caracter a compacter";

        byte[] zippedString = ZipperUtil.zip(StringToZip);
        String unzippedString = ZipperUtil.unZip(zippedString);
        Assert.assertEquals(StringToZip, unzippedString);
    }

    @Test
    public void testZipUnzipStringFromXMLFile() throws IOException, DataFormatException {

        String StringToZip = IOUtils.toString(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/acmessagesbusinessHours.xml"), "UTF-8");

        byte[] zippedString = ZipperUtil.zip(StringToZip);
        String unzippedString = ZipperUtil.unZip(zippedString);
        Assert.assertEquals(StringToZip, unzippedString);
    }

}

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Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' Coming To Ireland And The U.K.
0 0 Tom White Tuesday, August 25, 2015
If you have no idea what people are referencing when they say "this isn't even my final form" or "over 9000", then move to another article. But if you are a Dragon Ball Z fan in Ireland and the U.K., rejoice, as the beloved anime series' latest big screen spectacular, Resurrection 'F', will be coming to our shores for a limited run from September 30th.
Fresh off it's own record breaking limited engagement in the U.S., where it raked in $5.58 million and became the first independent anime movie to break the domestic Top Ten (bear in mind, this is off only one showing a day in a select number of theaters over the course of a week), this is the second Dragon Ball Z movie to be personally supervised by series creator Akira Toriyama and features the return of iconic villain Frieza in an adventure that promises to feed the appetite of DBZ fans hungry for more.
A full list of participating cinemas can be found here.
The Movie Bit: Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' Coming To Ireland And The U.K.
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Boot Polish and the Ballad: Poetry by the Palouse Country Cowboy Poets
Last night I drove from my new home in Moscow, Idaho to a small town called Uniontown, WA. Early in the last century, Uniontown was still booming with river transport along the Snake River and the pre-industrialization of farming. Today, Uniontown is still at farming community, but its population is down to about 1200 souls.
The Dahmen Barn was on its way out too. The old structure was slated to be torn down. Through many members of the community, the barn was transformed from a sagging pile of lumber into a community art space. Today it is filled with art studios, workshop space and a gift shop. This is where I would get to experience an evening of cowboy poetry.
The event was put on by the Palouse Country Cowboy Poets. This group of farmers, ranchers, vets, teachers and community members has been meeting for the past 40 years or more. The organization currently boasts 35 regular members, some who have been with it for as many years.
It was a packed event with 40-50 people in attendance. What got me excited was the $7 admission. I can't remember the last poetry reading I attended where the audience members had paid to listen to a poet recite work. Eric Larson emceed the event and even got in a poem of his own toward the end.
Cowboy poetry is a form of the ballad. The first ballads appeared in Europe during the 15th century. They were narrative or told popular stories of the time. Think of ballads as courtly pop radio songs. Ballads use a regular rhythm and simple ABAB rhyme scheme. Some better known ballads are "The Man From Snowy River" from Australia and The Rime of The Ancient Mariner.
What impresses me a great deal is the memory of the poets who performed their own and others work. Almost all of the poems were recited by memory. Although cowboy poetry is written down, it began as an oral tradition–something recited around the campfire or cook stove at night. In the early days, not every cowboy was literate. The ballad's rhyme and meter helped the trail rider commit it to memory. Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…
Howard Norskog read last night. Speaking to one of the other poets during the intermission, I found out that Mr. Norskog is well known in the cowboy poetry world. He is a three state champion and the author of four books and four recordings.
Here, he is reciting his ballad "The Lost River" accompanied by Maxine on her accordion.
The evening also featured a few songs. It was a great experience and one that I hope to repeat. There are things to look forward to in rural Idaho.
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Why Are Marketing ROI Report So Confusing For Entrepreneurs?
To help me understand what's going on in my business to ensure I was making a profit.
What I heard was that I needed to do a "profit and loss statement" for the tax man, the rest I just forgot for the next 5 years. I went on to make sales and worked really hard. And I never really looked at or read the profit & loss statement, so it was a hard lesson to accept later when I realized that I was not making a profit, nor was I building wealth.
Now there were many psychological reasons as to why I didn't hear what my accountant was telling me all those years ago. For me, the main reason was, I was afraid of measuring my own business success. I was afraid to look at what ROI marketing was telling me and what was happening to it and me. I was not open to hearing or seeing the signals that my business and marketing was telling me.
When I started REALLY reading marketing reports, my sales and profits improved. And other business owners started asking me to help them. Every entrepreneur I have spoken to is passionate about their business and has a true desire to help their customers. But it was only when I allowed myself to learn the skills of measuring, analyzing and interpreting the marketing reports, that my own business performance improved.
Marketing ROI reporting is an easy way for us to measure the Return On Investment of our marketing efforts and help us determine what's working. Then we can focus on the tasks that make us a profit, and that makes owning and running a business, fun.
As a marketing consultant and teacher of inbound marketing, I've spent a lot of time teaching entrepreneurs the skills of how to measure, analyze and interpret their ROI analytics reports. I often find clients come to me for help when they need to know the answer to a marketing problem, but don't know how to use the analytical tools. In the early days of my business I would look for marketing problems that I thought were important and I would spend hours over-analyzing things. I wasted hours and hours analyzing marketing data until I got "analysis paralysis". And all the time the marketing ROI reports were giving me signals, I just had to be open to reading and seeing those signals.
For example, recently a new client was wanting me to break down their existing buyer persona into new groups. While a good project, when I started working with their reporting system I noticed the hidden profit that the ROI report was screaming at me that needed attention.
The marketing reports were showing me that the client had 9 landing pages on their website and were averaging 20 to 40 new leads every month. Now that's a great performing website, but there were signals that no one was seeing. One of the landing pages had an average conversion rate of 23% while other landing pages had conversion rates of 3.2%.
After looking at the landing pages I was able to determine that the one outstanding landing page had 2 important elements that the other 8 landing pages didn't. And by us taking the time to add these two elements to the other landing pages the client would get a huge increase in their conversion rate.
Let me break down the numbers for you. Let's say it was costing the business $3 per click using AdWords or Facebook advertising to get a visitor to their landing pages. For the landing page with the 23% conversion rate, the cost per lead is $13.04 (100 x $3 / 23) while the other landing pages with the 3.2% conversion rate, the cost per lead is $93.75 (100 x $3 / 3.2). That is a big difference!
I personally found that when reading and looking at the marketing ROI reporting in this different way, it put more profit into my business with the least effort. It took some time for me to change my habits and master the new skills when looking at marketing reports, but it has been a profitable and rewarding for journey. So when a client wants help analyzing their marketing reports, I like to share this story with them, and quite often together we start finding a lot of hidden value and improvements in their marketing.
We have all access to powerful marketing analytical and reporting tools that are telling us what to do next, it's just a matter of starting to see the signals and observe what the reports are telling us.
You might want to check out our free guide by downloading our ebook, "The 6 Marketing Metrics your Boss Actually Cares About".


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"""Utility mechanism to retrieve OIDs/tables from large numbers of agents"""
from __future__ import generators, nested_scopes
from twisted.internet import defer, reactor, error
from twisted.python import failure
from twistedsnmp import agentproxy
import traceback
from twistedsnmp.logs import massretriever_log as log

from twistedsnmp.pysnmpproto import oid

def proxies( protocol, addresses, proxyClass=agentproxy.AgentProxy ):
	"""Given protocol and set of addresses, construct AgentProxies

	protocol -- SNMPProtocol instance
	addresses -- tuples of (ip,port,[community,[version]]) to be
		passed to the AgentProxy constructor.
	proxyClass -- the proxy class to use for the retrieval
	"""
	return [
		agentproxy.AgentProxy( protocol=protocol, *args )
		for args in addresses
	]

class MassRetriever( object ):
	"""Table for retrieving value sets from multiple agents

	The object wraps a single query, it cannot be shared among
	multiple queries!
	"""
	def __init__(
		self, proxies,
	):
		"""Initialise the retriever with client AgentProxies

		proxies -- sequence of properties to query in batches
		"""
		self.proxies = proxies
		self.partialDefers = []

	def __call__(
		self, oids=(), tables=(), iterDelay=0.005, *arguments, **named
	):
		"""Do mass retrieval of oids and tables from our proxies

		oids -- individual (get) oids for each Agent
		tables -- multi-value (getTable) oids for each Agent
		** named -- passed to proxy object's get and getTable
			methods, so retryCount and timeout can be specified

		returns a DeferredList with the results of all queries
		raises ValueError if no proxies, or neither oids or tables

		The DeferredList's callback recieves a set mapping:
			{ (ip,port) : valueSet }
		where valueSet is a set mapping:
			{ queriedOID : dataValues }
		where dataValues is as returned from get/getTable on the
		proxy object.

		Register callbacks on the DeferredList to recieve a set of
		results in (success,result) format, where success is a boolean
		and result is either the result or an ErrBack object.
		"""
		if not self.proxies:
			raise ValueError( """No AgentProxies specified from which to retrieve""" )
		if not oids and not tables:
			raise ValueError( """Nothing specified to be retrieved""" )
		self.result = {}
		self.finalDefer = defer.Deferred()
		self._arguments = arguments
		self._namedArguments = named
		self.smallBatch( oids, tables, iterDelay=iterDelay )
		return self.finalDefer

	def smallBatch( self, oids, tables, index=0, iterDelay=.01 ):
		"""Do single-proxy batches iteratively

		This is the most robust algorithm I've come up with so far,
		it has the rather poor feature of limiting queries to
		1/iterDelay per sec at maximum, but it avoids the annoying problems
		which crop up using nonBatch or proxyBatch implementations.

		Practically speaking, systems seem quite capable of servicing
		a few thousand requests/sec if there's enough processing power,
		but twisted's strange performance characteristics make it
		difficult to write a beast that works to that level AFAICS.
		"""
		if not self.finalDefer.called:
			if index < len(self.proxies):
				proxy = self.proxies[index]
				self.singleProxy(
					proxy,oids,tables
				)
				reactor.callLater( iterDelay, self.smallBatch, oids, tables, index+1 )
			else:
				dl = defer.DeferredList( self.partialDefers )
				dl.addCallback( self.returnFinal )

	def returnFinal( self, dataList ):
		"""Handle final defer callback from completion of all partialDefers

		When all proxies have completed (successfully or not), we callback
		our finalDefer to let our client know about our status.  finalDefer
		gets a pointer to self.result, and the method also returns
		self.result, just for good measure.
		"""
		if not self.finalDefer.called:
			self.finalDefer.callback( self.result )
		# we're just discarding all the failure/success statistics here
		return self.result

	def singleProxy( self, proxy, oids, tables ):
		"""Add configured callbacks for a given agent proxy

		proxy -- the proxy to be queried
		oids -- single oids to be queried (get)
		tables -- multi-value oids to be queried (getTable)
		"""
		if oids:
			d = proxy.get( oids, *self._arguments, **self._namedArguments )
			d.addCallback( self.integrateSingleResult, proxy=proxy )
			d.addErrback( self.handleSingleError, oids=oids, proxy=proxy )
			self.partialDefers.append( d )
		if tables:
			d = proxy.getTable( tables, *self._arguments, **self._namedArguments )
			d.addCallback( self.integrateSingleResult, proxy=proxy )
			d.addErrback( self.handleSingleError, oids=tables, proxy=proxy )
			self.partialDefers.append( d )
	successCount = 0
	def integrateSingleResult( self, value, proxy ):
		"""Integrate single agent-query result into mega-result

		value -- dictionary value as returned from get/getTable
			of the proxy object
		proxy -- the proxy which was used to retrieve the value

		returns value, if a pre-existing dictionary for proxy
		(determined by ip,port) exists, updates that dictionary
		with the new values, otherwise creates a new dictionary
		and updates that.

		Note: Implication here is that, if two proxies for the
			same ip and port are being scanned, their results
			will comingle, and potentially overwrite one another.
		"""
		self.successCount += 1
		log.info( 'success %r', proxy )
		log.debug( '  success value %r: %r', proxy, value )
		self.printStats()
		key = proxy.ip,proxy.port
		set = self.result.get( key )
		if set is None:
			self.result[key] = set = {}
		set.update( value )
		return value
	errorCount=0
	def handleSingleError( self, err, oids, proxy ):
		"""Handle single-agent error by making result[key][oid] None

		err -- handle complete failure of a single proxy to retrieve
			values.
		oids -- the oids being queried
		proxy -- the proxy being queried

		Values are added to the (ip,port) dictionary for the proxy
		with value None iff the root OID does not already exist in
		the dictionary.

		returns None
		"""
		self.errorCount = self.errorCount + 1
		log.info( 'Error: %r %s', proxy, err )
		self.printStats()
		if isinstance( err, failure.Failure ):
			actualError = err.value
			trace = err.getTraceback()
		else:
			actualError = err
			trace = log.getException( err )
		if not isinstance( actualError, error.TimeoutError ):
			log.error(
				"""Retrieval for proxy %r encountered unexpected error: %s""",
				proxy, trace,
			)
		if isinstance( err, (KeyboardInterrupt,SystemExit) ):
			if not self.finalDefer.called:
				self.finalDefer.errback( err )
			return None
		key = proxy.ip,proxy.port
		set = self.result.get( key )
		if set is None:
			self.result[key] = set = {}
		for oidObject in oids:
			oidObject = oid.OID( oidObject )
			if not set.has_key( oidObject ):
				set[oidObject] = None
		return None
	def printStats( self ):
		"""Print heuristic stats for the retriever"""
		log.info(
			'errors=%s success=%s total=%s',
			self.errorCount,
			self.successCount,
			len(self.partialDefers),
		)


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11 Thoughts About Surviving R. Kelly Now That I've Had a Chance to Process It All
Filed to: R KellyFiled to: R Kelly
Surviving R Kelly
sexual predator
docuseries
Photo: Michael Loccisano (Getty Images)
Like what I can only presume was the vast majority of black America, I spent a significant portion of the past weekend either watching the dream hampton produced/directed Lifetime docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly or talking about it. The discussions dominated social media and actual face-to-face interactions with people. Nothing in recent memory did such a thorough job or had the space to lay out such a bulletproof case as to why one Robert Sylvester Kelly ain't shit.
Even somebody I know who has managed to attempt to defend R. Kelly on many occasions hit up a group chat and said that the doc changed his perception. One down, many a wayward soul to go.
The series brought to light issues new and old, and now that I've had a chance to really process what I saw, here are some of the overarching thoughts (they will not be in the order of the timeline presented in the documentary).
1. There is no more "plausible deniability" for those who defend R. Kelly. Because some folks either hate reading or just don't (or both), perhaps (and I recognize that I'm being gracious) they managed to miss all of the articles and exposés written about him. But now? Everybody can see it, lock, stock and barrel, and if you're defending him at this juncture, you need to admit to yourself that you're defending an abusive, sexually assaulting, violent, psychopathic monster. There are no more equivocations rooted in ignorance on the table. You want to fire up "Step In The Name of Love?" You support a monster and I'm not sure you're my kind of people. Step into the arena with that shit, hombre.
2. I haven't seen much on my own social media timelines in defense of R. Kelly, but there has been some. Most folks die on the false equivalency hill: "We gon' focus on R. Kelly but not XYZ person?" I will never, ever understand why people struggle with walking and chewing gum at the same time. But some people do. Two things can be true at the exact same time.
To also imply that this is some sort of agenda to bring a black man down when the white men have skated ignores all of the articles that exist about the Weinsteins of the world, but right now it's R. Kelly's turn. The same folks who defend(ed) Bill Cosby are the ones somehow supporting R. Kelly. No surprise there, though I am surprised how hard people will go to share their ignorance. You want to like and support terrible humans, do that shit by yourself; why niggas need to let others know is beyond me.
3. Everybody is to blame. And when we exhaust everybody, everybody else is to blame, too. Friends, employees, radio stations, the record labels, concert venues, etc. R. Kelly had so many enablers around him it's mind-boggling. And the parents of some of the victims need to go ahead and start a support group for parents who fed their children to R. Kelly. Put Sparkle and her family in there, too. I understand how and why Sparkle is so upset with herself because she should be.
So so so many folks ignored their instincts and every employee who saw any of that untoward stuff they were able to articulate in the documentary needs to go to jail, too. Complicity, thy name is R. Kelly's staff and handlers. The manager who forged the documents so that Aaliyah, a 15-year-old baby, and who said he was there and just wanted to talk to Aaliyah, who looked scared and concerned, good lord, man. I imagine some of those folks interviewed—not the victims, the enablers—have wrestled with those memories for decades. Or at least I can only hope that mental anguish has made their souls uneasy.
4. While the last episodes got a bit heavy into the reality show game and took a little bit of the wind out of the sails of the documentary (to me), the early episodes were remarkably hard to watch while being compelling and important. It was effectively Pedagogy of the Abuser. I entirely understand anybody who couldn't watch it for fear of being triggered in some ways. It was devastating for me to watch as a human.
5. dream has noted as much, but how Charlamagne Tha God managed to stay in the documentary is baffling to me. His statements weren't so vital that they couldn't have been chopped. With all of the issues with CTG that came up this summer, he couldn't have been axed between July and whenever the final cut was submitted for airing??? How in the world does a whole documentary that basically screams "trust black women" end up with a man who effectively said, trust black women except the women coming out against me, those women aren't trustworthy. That's some mixed messaging for that ass.
6. I both genuinely don't understand and genuinely understand how R. Kelly has managed to evade prison. On the "don't understand" side, it's like, how do the patterns and the crimes that women are stating he committed not be enough to get this nigga out of there? I mean, he's sleeping with children (many, many), and doing what amounts to sex trafficking and kidnapping; or if you believe that the women clearly wanted to be there since they showed up on their own (more on this later), then he's effectively torturing them. Something somewhere is a crime punishable by law.
On the entire other end, again, because this was happening to black girls and women, nobody cared. Even the one juror who managed to end up on camera basically said he didn't like how they looked or talked, etc. He effectively said, "I don't trust those black women." It has been said numerous times, but if those girls and women were white, R. Kelly probably wouldn't even be alive right now. But alas, black girls and women.
7. If this case and documentary don't illustrate to you in any way, shape or form just how devalued black girls and women are then there is literally no reason to ever discuss issues in the black community with you. It's literal living proof of a man being allowed to bulldoze his way through his selected targets without any recourse and because of his money and resources is able to continue to do it with a sense of invincibility. I mean, good God.
8. We have got to stop assuming both what we'd do in the event of some sort of psychological trauma and telling others what THEY should do in the event of being put in situations of abuse and vulnerability. It's so easy to get caught up in the "If they didn't want to be there, they should have left; clearly, they wanted to be there," when you've never been abused. The truth is, if you haven't been, you don't know. And be thankful about that because so many people unfortunately have.
I'm SO SO SO glad they had actual psychologists on the documentary explaining victimization and how it can and does occur. I especially appreciated the explanation about how abusers level up by starting small and pushing the limits, basically starting with something that may seem a little odd (asking all of the girls and women to call him "daddy") and ultimately ending up with some sort of mind control and controlling them with food and isolation and even making them urinate in buckets. How sick of a human being do you have to be for this to be your organized effort? R. Kelly-level sick is the answer.
9. Consider this: We saw testimony from several women who were WILLING TO TALK for the camera. How many women weren't? How many women's lives has he damaged??
10. I cannot stress how sorry I feel for his children who are all old enough to now process (I think only one is still a minor) what was happening in their lives as children and seeing from whence they came. I can't imagine what it is like to know that your father is R. Kelly (or any abuser) whose damage is so expansive that somebody was able to pull a six-hour documentary together and probably has more if needed. I am praying for them.
11. We need a new world for folks who are musically brilliant but trash human beings. I got so tired of hearing the word "genius" about him considering the likely muse for all of it was little girls.
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Q: Simple regex to match content from a website log Having a log with the following lines, I would like to get the following three capturing groups, the ones marked with bold:

"mywebsite.com:80 1.1.1.1 u311 - - [26/Sep/2017:11:28:26 +0200]
  "GET /website&format=json HTTP/1.1" 200 2820 1s
"https://mywebsite.com/index.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64;
  x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113
  Safari/537.36" 1/1194130 "

Which are:

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*u311: It's a user id. Always starts with u and have different length (u32, u412, u9), so the regex should match until the next blank space.

*1s: It's the loading time of the website. It's always a integer followed by an s.

*https://mywebsite.com/index.php : The website url, it sould be matched as it has a https:// at the start.

I'm a bit lost as I'm don't use Regex that much. I've tried the first one by using ^[u][0-9] with no luck, as that's only matches a string starting with u followed by a number.
Here's the Regex if someone wants to try it directly: https://regex101.com/r/so66ku/1
Can someone please tell me how can I match those three capturing groups?

A: Since I don't know the regex flavor you're using, this solution may not work, but most probably it will:
(\bu\d+).*?(\b\d+s\b).*?"(https?:\/\/[^"]*)"

will capture the three submatches into different subgroups.
This regex uses word boundary anchors to make sure that we're at the start/end of a "word" when looking for u123 or 123s.
I'm allowing both http:// and https:// addresses - if you only want https://, just remove the ? after https.

A: you can use the regex
(?:u\d+|\d+s|https?:\/\/[a-z.\/]+)

see the regex101 demo

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John Doble is a fiction writer and political scientist born in Atlantic City and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated with Distinction from the University of Delaware where he later earned an MA in Political Science. As a student, he was a janitor, waiter, butcher's assistant, cab driver, and public-school teacher. He also worked in the New Hampshire Presidential Primary for Pete McCloskey and in Al Lowenstein's campaign for Congress. Upon graduation, John worked for Wilmington's reform mayor Tom Maloney.
In 1977 John and his wife Elizabeth moved to NYC where he became research director at Public Agenda, a not-for-profit co-founded by Dan Yankelovich and Cyrus Vance. Later he founded Doble Research Associates where his clients included the Kettering Foundation, the Clark Foundation and the State of Vermont, among many other nonprofit and governmental organizations. He now serves as a Senior Research Associate at the Kettering Foundation, whose president is former HEW Secretary, Dr. David Mathews.
His articles about public opinion have appeared in Foreign Affairs (coauthored with Dan Yankelovich), Technology Review, Judicature, The Public Understanding of Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and The Kettering Review, among other publications.
Over the years, John increasingly turned his attention to writing fiction. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and a well-received collection, Lefty and Other Stories, was published by Clemson University and nominated for the Southern Book Award.
His plays have been produced across the US and in the UK and include The Mayor who Would be Sondheim, Reunion Run, and To Protect the Poets (all in the NYC Fringe Festival); A Serious Person (Best Play/Belper Prize, Belper, UK; Best Playwright, Hollywood Fringe; and the 2020 Georgia College Drama Prize); Tatyana and the Cable Man (Best Play, Midtown International Theatre Festival); Coffee House, Greenwich Village (59E59 Off Broadway and the LaBute Festival, St. Louis); Twilight Time (Valdez, Alaska); Nothing New Under the Sun; and ESP.
John's first screenplay, THE AMEN SISTERHOOD, received the prestigious 2020 Humanitas New Voices Award. Working with his Humanitas mentor, the internationally renowned filmmaker Ligiah Villalobos, John has created, in SISTERHOOD, the story of five women fighting to drive the drug dealers out of their inner-city neighborhood.
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Q: Oracle bulk insert missing audit entries I've a Java/Hibernate/Spring application with oracle's audit (11g non-clustered) enabled, and it seems to be properly configured.
However, some entries are not being written to SYS.AUD$.
Here's my scenario:
I've a transaction which performs 8 inserts on Oracle, which are shown by hibernate's showsql, and are in fact written into the DB.
I've an AUDIT INSERT RULE BY ACCESS for the given table, and, I expected to see the 8 audit entries on Oracle's AUDIT for the given transaction, but i got only 4 inserts logged.
Sometimes, 5 entries are logged, and sometimes 3, tough.
I've managed to track down that this behavior is related to hibernate.jdbc.batch_size property value.
In the described scenario the value was set to 10.
If I change the value to 0 however, which disables jdbc batching, everything works just as expected and I always get the 8 insert audit logs.
I thought it could be a bug on ojdbc driver, but the bug persisted even after I upgraded to the latest version.
Disabling jdbc batch is not an option for me. Is it a bug ? Any thoughts on how to overcome this?

A: I think it is related to Direct-Path INSERT.  If you use FGA, (I think) the Direct-Path INSERT will not occur so that the audit always works.  I think you will have to choose one - Direct-Path INSERT or audit.
Why do you need jdbc batching?  What type of app is this?  Have you done performance testing with it on and off?


Trump Cuts White House Budget In Half - First Year!
First lady Melania Trump has cut the budget for the White House's East Wing operations by more than half compared to the initial year of former first lady Michele Obama.
Fox News reviewed spending reports issued by the White House during both the former administration and the current one.
During former President Barack Obama's first year in office, a similar report showed that 16 people were working for Michelle Obama, costing taxpayers $1.24 million a year.
As of June of 2017, four people were working for the first lady, with an overall cost of $486,700 — less than 40 percent of the amount spent under Obama.


George W is proving to be a master of the political bait-and-switch scam, saying one thing for political gain, then quietly switching to an entirely different position in his budget proposals. In January's "State of the Union" speech, Bush declared that his number one economic priority was "jobs," adding with a rhetorical flourish that "when America works, America prospers." Indeed, with the high-tech bust, with more corporations moving our jobs offshore, with the job crash following September 11's terrorist attack, and with job-busting finagling by top executives of outfits like Enron–the number of unemployed Americans has risen by 40 percent in the past year, and job programs are needed more than ever, so Bush's rhetoric was on target. Two weeks later, however, came his budget, which is where a president's real priorities are written in ink. Far from pushing jobs, George whacked the meager job-training budgets already on the books, particularly for programs to help those most in need today–laid-off workers and young adults. For example, "youth opportunity centers" are effective training and job-search programs that help move young people from poverty to work, and Bush even visited one in Portland just days before his state of the union speech. He lauded the program and got his picture taken with trainees, but back in Washington, he took the axe to these centers, chopping 80 percent of their funding!
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How Far We've Come is an exhibition of Fallah's ongoing series of portraits of immigrants from his community in Los Angeles. His work investigates the complexities of belonging and otherness in the very place one calls home. He paints his subjects' bodies surrounded by their possessions and domestic environs while disguising their skin colors and features. Fallah's work is of analogously global ancestry, influenced by the pattern and detail of Persian miniatures, the portrayals of class and domestic life of 17th-century Dutch art, and the brashness and saturation of American visual culture. He often uses shaped canvases, referring to portraits in various contexts, such as a locket or stained glass. The exhibition incorporates the artist's interest in installation practices and thus will include a sound piece and wall drawing in addition to his paintings. The sound piece, "What It Means to be an American," is a half hour long sequence of voices speaking about their experiences living in the United States as an immigrant or part of an immigrant family. These clips are from his interviews with the subjects of many of the portraits in the exhibitions, and others.
The title of the show, "How Far We've Come," situates us at the point of progress, yet still implies the unwritten, "yet still how far to go." This is an expression often used when discussing civil rights issues in the United States. In further idiomatic play, the artist will paint the walls of the gallery with the Farsi translation of the lyrics of "[Coming to] America" by Neil Diamond released in 1980. The idealistic song celebrates America as a land of immigrants. Its tone sounds strange to a contemporary listener, as the current regime has turned immigration into a dangerous vulnerability that needs to be fixed. The song resonates with the show's title "How Far We've Come," as it touches on the long and tumultuous obstacles that immigrants face to come to the United States. Fallah himself is an immigrant who came to the United States from Iran (via Turkey) at a young age. By making work about other immigrants, Fallah responds to the interrogation he personally faces about his own American identity- explicitly so at border crossings and implicitly in everyday interactions in a predominantly white country.
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St. Laurentius ist eine ehemalige, seit 2019 profanierte katholische Pfarrkirche im Kölner Stadtteil Lindenthal, die in den Jahren 1961 bis 1962 nach Plänen des Architekten Emil Steffann erbaut wurde. Die Kirche stand unter dem Patrozinium von Laurentius von Rom und ist seit 2001 denkmalgeschützt.

Geschichte
Die seit 1924 existierende Gemeinde St. Laurentius hatte lange Zeit keine eigene Pfarrkirche zur Verfügung, sondern feierte in der Kapelle des Lindenthaler Hildegardis-Krankenhauses ihre Gottesdienste. Ab 1959 änderte sich das, als der Bau einer neuen Pfarrkirche mit Pfarrzentrum vorangetrieben wurde und schließlich der Architekt Steffann mit den Entwürfen beauftragt wurde. Die Grundsteinlegung erfolgte am 28. Mai 1961, und ab 4. November 1962 konnte die Kirche für gottesdienstliche Zwecke genutzt werden. Vier Jahre später, am 6. Februar 1966, nahm Weihbischof Augustinus Frotz die offizielle Weihe vor. 1967 wurde St. Laurentius mit einem der ersten Kölner Architekturpreise ausgezeichnet.

Am 17. April 2001 wurde St. Laurentius unter der Nummer 8534 in die Denkmalliste der Stadt Köln aufgenommen. In den Folgejahren des neuen Jahrtausends fusionierten in Lindenthal insgesamt vier Pfarrgemeinden, darunter St. Laurentius, zu der Pfarrgemeinde St. Stephan mit insgesamt fünf Kirchengebäuden. Da die Nutzung von St. Laurentius seit 1985 stetig nachgelassen hatte, stellte man 2014 den Antrag auf Profanierung.

Mit einem letzten Gottesdienst am 22. Oktober 2017 wurde die Kirche außer Dienst gestellt und am 13. November 2019 gemäß  durch Erzbischof Rainer Maria Woelki profaniert.

Im November 2016 wurde die Planung zur Umnutzung als Hörsaal von der Universität Köln öffentlich ausgeschrieben, die Kirche ist als Gebäude 157 im Lageplan der Universität enthalten.

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Von außen ist der Kirchenbau ein sehr schlichter Kubus mit unstrukturierten, fast völlig geschlossenen Wänden aus Trümmerziegeln. Der Abschluss zum Dach ist mit Metall verkleidet, darunter verläuft auf drei Seiten eine sehr schmale Lichtfuge. Nur die einzelne Glocke, die von innen auch manuell geläutet werden kann, markiert das Gebäude als Kirche.

Auf der Eingangsseite verbindet ein Atrium mit überdachtem Umgang die Kirche mit den Pfarrbauten. Hier liegt auch die mit der Kirche durch einen schmalen Gang verbundene Taufkapelle. Im Zentrum des Atriums ist ein Brunnen in den Boden eingelassen, dessen Wasser als Symbold der vier Paradiesströme in vier Himmelsrichtungen fließt.

Das Innere ist ein ebenso schlichter, säulenloser Saal mit unverputzten Ziegelwänden, dessen Boden sich zum leicht erhöhten Altar – an der einzigen Wand ohne Lichtfuge – hin leicht absenkt. Die eigentliche Beleuchtung des nur diffus belichteten Raums erfolgt durch einen 24-flammiger Radleuchter, der einerseits mit seiner kreisrunden Form einen Kontrast zur kubischen Raumform bildet, andererseits Gemeinde und Altarbereich räumlich verbindet.

An der Altarwand, hinter dem Standort des Tabernakels ist ein winziges Fenster eingelassen, in dem das – so von außen sichtbare – Ewige Licht aufgestellt ist. Korrespondierend öffnet sich ein ebenso kleines Fenster an der gegenüberliegenden Wand zum Atrium. An der nördlichen Wand, direkt am Eingang, bietet eine hochgelegene Wandnische Platz für die Orgelempore. Gegenüber in der südlichen Seitenwand öffnet sich eine rechteckige Nische mit einem kleinen Marien-Andachtsort.

Ausstattung

Das Portal der Kirche ist eine Arbeit von Theo Heiermann; von Karl Otto Lüfkens stammt der große Radleuchter aus dem Jahr 1962. Die zentralen liturgischen Objekte Tabernakel, Altartisch, Ambo und Osterleuchter entwarf Klaus Balke. Älteren Datums sind das Altarkreuz aus dem 15. Jahrhundert und eine Madonnenfigur, die um 1500 im schwäbischen Raum entstand.

Den Grundstein, der den Heiligen Laurentius in seinem Martyrium zeigt, gestaltete – ebenso wie den Boden des Atriums – der Bildhauer Jochem Pechau.

An der Außenwand ist eine einzelne Glocke angebracht, die 1961 von Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock gegossen wurde und den Schlagton c2 hat.

Eine einmanualige Orgel mit 15 Registern wurde 1967 von Leo Verschueren in den Niederlanden gefertigt.

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Einzelnachweise

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Pfarrkirche des Erzbistums Köln
Kirchengebäude der Moderne
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Erbaut in den 1960er Jahren

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