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The room here it happens: The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio is where many legislations regarding our lives as citizens are made.
Ohio legislators constantly have plenty of bills in motion and it's hard to keep up with them all. Luckily, the Chatterbox is here to help. Here are some of the most important bills in circulation right now:
The Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill allowing adults 21 or older to carry concealed weapons without a license or permit. The current Ohio law requires all people applying for a conceal and carry permit to go through a background check and receive eight hours of training before obtaining their license. The proposed bill would allow any citizen over 21 to carry a concealed weapon without receiving prior examination or meeting any specific requirements.
House Bill 99, which has not undergone a final house vote, would allow teachers in Ohio to carry firearms in the classroom. Teachers would have the right to carry concealed weapons in classrooms as long as they complete 20 hours of initial training along with four additional hours annually.
House bill 109 focuses on protests and police interactions with protestors. This bill says that protesters could face up to 180 days in jail if their protests are deemed as illegal or riots. The bill also states that police officers could sue protesters if they are hurt and it creates a fifth-degree assault charge called riot assault.
House bill 454, a transgender healthcare bill, would prohibit the use of puberty blockers, hormones and gender reassignments surgeries for trans youth under the age of 18. This could not be overridden even by parental consent of these treatments for their children. This bill would also require teachers to inform parents when a child claims that their gender is different than their assigned sex at birth.
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OG Maco was involved in a near-fatal car crash last week that has since left him without his right eye.
The collision also left the Atlanta rapper with a cracked vertebrae, heart palpitations, and multiple skull fractures. While details on where the accident took place have yet to be revealed, Maco took to his Instagram and Twitter handles to brief fans on his condition, including a photo without his eye patch on.
Thank God I ain't too cool for that safe belt.
Multiple skull fractures, broken orbital (surgery next week), cracked vertebrae (surgery next week) and heart palpations.
On Wednesday (August 3), following surgery, he broke the news about his eye and called out the doubters in a lengthy caption.
Y'all bastards had all these jokes like I really didn't lose a eye real quick. I don't mind. Just remember I never did a thing to you. 👌🏾 To see a world where the do-ers and dreamers are ridiculed more than losers and conformity is to worse than missing an eye.


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The Chestnut Group extends portfolio in East Anglia with the purchase of The Black Lion hotel
HOTEL MANAGEMENTINDUSTRYOWNERS & OPERATORS by Zoe Monk on August 21, 2017
The Chestnut Group has announced the acquisition of The Black Lion hotel in Long Medford, a 10 bedroom hotel, pub and restaurant – due to open autumn 2017.
The business was taken over in July with the building's bar, restaurant and garden room undergoing extensive refurbishment to be ready for the launch in a few months time.
Work on the bedrooms will be carried out once the business is open.
Founder of the group, which started in 2012, Philip Turner said, "Our aim is for The Black Lion to be a place that locals are proud of and a destination of choice for the growing number of visitors to the area each year. We are a Suffolk-based business investing heavily across the region to showcase what East Anglia has to offer in terms of food, attractions, countryside and hospitality."
The food offering will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and focus on 'uncomplicated and simple British food'.
In preparation for the launch, the staff for the Black Lion have been working at other Chestnut Group sites, including The Northgate (hotel, bar and restaurant) in Bury St Edmunds, The Packhorse Inn and The Blackbirds Inn in Newmarket and The Rupert Brooke in Cambridge whilst the renovation is underway.
In addition to the current team members, the new team at The Black Lion will include the first graduate of The Chestnut Academy. The Academy was set up in 2015 to offer vocational training and a guaranteed management position for those wanting a career in hospitality.
The acquisition of the Black Lion takes the Chestnut Group portfolio to a total of six.
The Group's first opening was the Packhorse Inn, near Newmarket, which has been awarded five stars (Silver Award) for its accommodation. The portfolio also includes The Rupert Brooke in Cambridge, and The Northgate in Bury St Edmunds, which has recently been awarded five stars (Gold Award) for its accommodation, The White Horse in Easton near Framlingham and The Blackbirds Inn near Newmarket.
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We have updated the design to complete Milwaukie Bay Park! In 2018, we heard from over 1,200 community members on key elements for the park and design alternatives. Your preferences and feedback informed the creation of the Final Design, including a children's play area, water feature, social gathering areas, and opportunities to integrate public art.
Join us at our third public meeting to learn about the Final Design. Talk with project staff and volunteers on key aspects of the project, including how to get to the park, how art can be integrated, types of recreational programming you would like to see offered, and how big park projects are funded.
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Meetings: Pioneer Association – Elks Club; Noon; Feb., May, Nov.; picnic in August. Pioneer Women – First Methodist Church,1st Fri. of each month, noon. To preserve the history of Larimer County and to educate people in the history of northern Colorado.
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Buy ready-made, unpainted bird houses. There are many available unpainted birdhouses at crafts stores and pet stores, and there are also some available online such as at bestnest.com and birdbathandbeyond.com. But if you're the type who's interested in making a bird house from scratch, you could also purchase easy-to- follow bird house patterns online such as from millenniumbirdhouses.com.
Decide on the colors to use. You may be tempted to paint the bird house with splashes of color and a cornucopia of designs. However, it's still best to go with paints in earth tones, in order to keep with the natural bird setting (think beige, brown, tan or soft green). This will also help keep the birds safe from predators (who are attracted to bright colors). White is also a good color as it reflects heat away from the bird house. Don't paint the inside of the birdhouse. Apart from it being a pain to do, it's best to leave it at its most natural to limit the exposure of the birds to toxic substances.
Decide on which paint to use. Remember, birds will be pecking away at their bird house, so keep them safe by using only non-toxic paint. Never use lead-based paint; water-based latex paint is recommended, as well as natural oils such as linseed oil. Check out your options for non-toxic paint at eartheasy.com.
Know the procedure. It's very easy to paint a ready-made birdhouse. First, collect all the materials you'd be needing, which are the following: paint, brushes, rags and some newspaper to protect your floor area. Paint with the first coat, and let this dry. Then, paint over a second coat, and let this dry overnight. Your bird house is ready, though you can make some final add-ons such as a perch outside the bird house where the birds can sit in. You can also provide nesting materials such as feather, strips of paper, yarn or string and place these near the bird house. For bird houses for flickers and woodpeckers, you can cover the floor of the inside of the bird house with a thin layer of sawdust.
There you have it! These are just some of the ways to paint a bird house. The best thing about this project is that you shouldn't feel too pressured to do excellently the first time – your birds will certainly appreciate their new home! Good luck!


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In order to ensure a good experience every time you purchase from us, it's important for you to understand what pieces are returnable and what pieces are not returnable before you purchase.
If your return is postmarked ten days or more after you receive your item, you will receive in-store credit toward your next purchase instead of a refund. This credit will expire one year after the date of issue. Please do not wear any piece you have decided to return. If we receive a return that exhibits wear or other damage, you will be assessed repair charges. In the event of a return, shipping charges are not refundable.
A special order is any piece you order that is not currently in our inventory. In this case, the piece is made just for you. A ring that is changed to a finger size that you specify is considered a special order, and is not returnable.
Purchases of in-stock pieces that are made by noon EST Monday through Friday will be shipped that day and weekend orders will be shipped the next business day. Insured shipping and handling for items up to $25,000 is $30. Items over $25,000 may take longer and cost more. We currently do not offer international shipping.
Delivery time for special orders depends on how much is on the benches at Alex's shop, but four to six weeks is average. When your order enters the queue, we will make sure you know when it is expected to be finished. Once it's ready to ship, we'll call you to make sure you'll be home to receive it. We can also have it held at your local post office if that would be more convenient.


Le Cirque Dubai aims to offer a high-end experience with good value. Le Cirque Dubai is a New York import and is located at The Ritz Carlton Hotel, DIFC. The place is very impressive and the vibe is very French.
Well known for the past 40 years as the go to dining destination in New York, the iconic Le Cirque has finally arrived in the Middle East. The spot in The Ritz-Carlton, DIFC allows guests to experience the restaurant's famed French cuisine, with a twist of Italian flair, in the comfort of a sleek and sophisticated space. The menu takes influence from the NY original, with fresh, light and contemporary dishes at its core.
Continuing the ethos and mantra of the founding Maccioni family, Le Cirque Dubai offers a dining experience new to the region. The place and setting is captivating the hearts of all those who enter. Le Cirque Dubai's core is exceptional hospitality, â la carte menu and enduring experiences, promising an unforgettable evening.
Le Cirque offers intimate dining experiences in its semi private dining area. Customized options are available to ensure any gathering to turn into a lasting memory, savored long after their departure. Their Chef and Sommelier can offer bespoke experiences based on the unique requirements of your event. Private event experiences are available for 8 – 14 guests.
Service at Le Cirque is good and the food is exotic. Tuna tartare with watermelon is a fresh and cooling plate, but there's far too much onion. Beef carpaccio has meat that is sliced more thickly than usual, giving it good bite, with little bits of truffle mayo to lift the dish. Mains such as Ravioli of king crab is cooked perfectly, and the sweet crab meat inside is mouth-watering. It is served with a light bisque-like sauce, there's also a sweet apple compote-type. The asparagus risotto is good and it's creamy, cheesy. Le Cirque has high expectations from clients and this ambitious restaurant gives its best to reach the mark.


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Our team will visit you once a year, or when instructed, to clear out any septic tanks you may have to ensure the risk of blockage and overflowing is significantly reduced.
Many properties will have septic tanks installed due to the home being too remote for it to be connected to a main drainage sewage system. We provide the perfect solution in removing of any waste from your septic tanks so that any blockage in your sewage system is in working order.
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While the digital market is striving to make life easier for its users, there are many apps that simply hoax and don't provide the promised content. You would see the word 'free' but when you actually download the app, you will be asked for payment to continue. Isn't that highly irritating?
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The previous version had a great interface but had some minor bugs that needed a fix for an overall improvement in the user experience. With that, there is more new exciting content that has been added for the users. Now, you can get access to all the latest ringtones and not just the old ones. New movies and music have been added to keep the content fresh and evolving. The idea is to pleasantly surprise the users whenever they open the app!
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Fallout 76: Wastelanders Review
They say war never changes, but if that's true, nobody told Fallout 76. Following a rough launch in 2018 that was plagued by bugs, server issues, and a generally lackluster game, Bethesda has, to its credit, not given up: it's consistently delivered a slew of updates that've brought new content, features, and more in an effort to revive a game that stumbled and fell before it ever really got a chance to run. Wastelanders, its latest free update that's more like a full expansion, is a dramatic overhaul of Appalachia from top to bottom it desperately needed. It finally introduces mostly interesting human NPCs, an abundance of fun new quests, and satisfying alterations to existing areas. As a result, Fallout 76 is starting to feel like a true Fallout game – even if it's still not as consistently enjoyable as its predecessors.
Wastelanders' believable and intriguing story fast-forwards the world a year and focuses on the sudden repopulation of Appalachia after rumors of a hidden cache of valuable lost treasure start to spread. During the base game's story, an inoculation against the Scorched plague was discovered (hey, timely!), so this next chapter is all about distributing that vaccine and convincing the new Raider and Settler factions to work with you.
In concept, Wastelanders has an interesting format for an expansion to a persistent online world. Rather than segmenting content and delineating between new and old quests, Wastelanders' new quest is organically threaded throughout the world, fundamentally changing what Fallout 76 is. MMORPG expansions often pressure new players to finish the original story and every expansion, in order, on top of all the repeatable open-world content and end-game activities, but here many old and new quests overlap. That makes the new content feel seamlessly integrated, even if you're dusting off a mid-level character from just after launch. Although, it can be annoying that there is no indication of whether or not a quest is new or old other than whether it includes a human NPC or not.
Playing as a brand-new character does have some weird quirks.
However, playing as a brand-new character does have some weird quirks. For starters, lots of the best and most interesting dialogue hinges entirely on your SPECIAL stats, and in many cases require far higher stats than you would likely have early on. It's a little silly to have to exit a conversation, pop some stat-boosting pills, and then have the same dialogue over again just to get a better result. I guess that's Fallout in a nutshell to some extent, but still kind of bizarre.
If you're starting new and going directly into Wastelanders' story, eventually you'll also hit a point where Fallout 76 requires you to be at least level 20 before going any further. This means you'll be forced to step off of the Wastelanders path and run into the base game's countless optional fetch quests, left-behind letters, and holotapes recordings. Those are hard to go back to after interacting with the much more compelling human NPCs in the Wastelanders story. If I were to do it over again I'd probably hold off on starting Wastelanders until I was high enough level to complete it without having to take a break in the middle.
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Visually, Wastelanders makes some improvements to the wasteland, but overall it still basically looks like Fallout 4, which didn't look cutting edge back in 2015. The lighting system in particular has clearly been upgraded since launch though, especially in the wilderness, bringing out more saturation and colors in trees and wildlife. Shadows feel more pronounced as well. However, this introduces some new bugs from time to time with weird shadow clipping through terrain or the draw distance causing textures to pop in and out in a noticeable way. At least it never crashed on me, which it often did back at launch. As recently as a few weeks before Wastelanders came out I recall quests that were still bugged or missing waypoints, so it feels like a big stability improvement.
You can flagrantly steal items in full view of any NPC and they don't even blink.
While the introduction of actual human characters is definitely an upgrade over the faceless robots we've seen since launch, Wastelanders' NPCs are generally a bit awkward. They're often facing the wrong direction when conversations start and several of the voice recordings are jarringly low quality. At base camps such as the Blood Eagle Raiders' Crater and the Settlers' Foundation, you'll spot NPCs just sort of standing around and not really doing much, which is a big step down from what single-player Bethesda games like Fallout 4 or Skyrim have led us to expect. They have nowhere to be and nothing to do – they're just vending machines with faces. You can even flagrantly steal any items you want in full view of any NPC, even from their shops or homes, or even shoot them, and they don't even blink. It flies in the face of how Bethesda RPGs are usually designed.
Another use for NPCs is that Fallout 76 now lets you have ally NPCs… but they don't follow you around on actual missions like Fallout fans would expect. Instead, once you complete a series of side quests for them, they just live at your camp with you and offer you recurring missions. It's a bummer not getting to go questing with them in place of or in addition to other players, but at least their presence does help make your camp feel less lonely.
Many of the new quests rival the best from any Bethesda game in terms of storytelling.
All that being said, many of the new quests themselves are extremely well-written and entertaining, rivaling some of the best from any Bethesda game I've played in terms of storytelling. One standout moment comes when you have to track down a demolitions expert named Lucky Lou. In doing so, you'll meet a tracker with a deep, computerized voice box that can't translate all the words she wants to say, resulting in some excellent dialogue that would otherwise be very vulgar coming off as childlike. Seeing her get frustrated with her own words is hilarious, as is the quest itself.
Lou leaves behind a series of amusing notes alongside some very dangerous experiments. It's a great example of Bethesda doing what it does best: you could blow through a given quest in 15 minutes without exploring the environment, but as soon as you slow down, listen, read, and look at your surroundings, compelling new layers of storytelling are revealed. Coming face to face with Lucky Lou and then actually talking about what you saw is precisely what was missing from Fallout 76 before this update, and it's refreshing to have that sort of two-way dialogue system back once again.
It's aggravating, though, that sharing these story quests socially is so awkward. They're instanced so that you can make dialogue choices like in other Fallout games, but in practice, it's a bad experience. When you enter as a team you get two options: everyone goes in solo, playing through their own versions, or you can accompany your team leader and watch them have conversations and make decisions and don't get credit for completing the mission yourself. This might be nice for high-level players who want to help others catch up, but horrible for friends that want to play the story and progress together.
In practice, questing as a party is a bad experience.
In terms of the amount of new content Wastelanders adds to Fallout 76's roughly 50-hour pile, your mileage will vary depending on what you like to do. If you want to seek out and complete every new quest that's been added, that could easily take you upwards of 30 hours (even as an established character) between the various main quest paths, side quests, and ally quests. Not to mention the new end-game content like raiding Vault 79, daily tasks, and events. But if you only care about the new main story content, that's maybe 10 hours for a beefed-up, end-game ready character, and double or triple that at least if you're starting fresh.
Microtransaction Reaction
Fallout 76 is loaded with microtransactions. First and foremost, there is a cash shop called the Atomic Shop which sells things like outfits to wear over your armor and emotes, which can be had for around $10-$15 and around $5, respectively, with some variations. It's fairly standard for this type of game these days and the prices are reasonable, with frequent sales. The only items that really affect gameplay are the repair kits, which eliminate the need to visit your camp or a workbench to repair items. This mostly cuts down on travel time, which saves caps, but doesn't directly give you any kind of competitive edge.
Bethesda also offers a premium subscription plan, called Fallout 1st, for $13 per month or $100 per year. The biggest benefits, on top of some exclusive cosmetics, a monthly stipend of atoms, unlimited scrap storage, and a free mobile survival camp site you can summon almost anywhere to dorp off scrap and take a rest, is the ability to play in a private instanced world with just you and up to seven friends (who don't have to be subscribers). It is a bit odd that Bethesda thinks not having to play with many others in the world is worth paying a premium for, given that the social aspect is arguably the whole point of an MMORPG in the first place. Take from that what you will.
Regardless, compared to the cost of Atoms in the shop, it's actually not a terrible deal, given that 1,000 Atoms costs $10 and you get 1,650 Atoms monthly with your subscription. In other words, if you're planning to spend money in Fallout 76, 1st is the way to go, but based on my experience you don't need to in order to progress through the content smoothly.
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Slick Watts: How A Tryout Created A Sports Icon
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The city of Seattle has had its fair share of iconic basketball players. From home grown talent like Doug Christie and Jamal Crawford, to legendary players like Payton and Kemp, Bird and Jackson and Plum and Osahor. Before any of them there was Slick Watts. The first true icon of Seattle sports. A trend setter who changed street culture, helped usher in a new style of play and signaled a changing of the guard that reverberates to this day. The story of how Watts came to be a Seattle icon has seldom been told. It involves setback, intense training, overcoming self doubt and what might be the most important car wash in Seattle history.
In the spring of 1973 Watts was in Louisiana having just finished three standout seasons at Xavier in Louisiana under legendary coach Bob Hopkins. Watts, like any other successful college player was eagerly waiting to find out where he would be drafted.
"I thought they drafted alphabetically," Watts recalled with a smile. "So I was waiting for the whole draft to hear my name thinking it was going to be near the end anyway."
While the NBA draft was very different than it is today, featuring 20 rounds and a total of 211 picks, it was definitely not done in alphabetical order. When the final pick was made, Watts' name was not called. Before Slick could even process this seemingly huge setback, his college coach spoke to him.
"Coach Hopkins told me 'be prepared, I'm going to get you a tryout' and I trusted Coach completely.
Coach Hopkins quickly delivered on his promise to the young guard.
Bill Russell Coaching His First Sonics' Home Game
"I got a call from Bill Russell," Watts explained "He asked 'boy can you play?I'm gonna send you a ticket and I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do!'"
Russell was the new head coach of the Seattle Supersonics. A team that wasn't even a decade old at the time and still searching for an identity. In Russell the Sonics had a recognizable face with an unmatched pedigree as a winner both as a player and coach with the Boston Celtics. In Slick, Russell was eyeing one of several options to help the Sonics backcourt adapt to a changing style of play in the NBA.
"The game was starting to change," Remembers Sonics' legend Fred Brown who was already establishing himself as a top guard in the NBA when Slick arrived. "Small guards who could change the pace of the game like the Washington Bullets Kevin Porter and Tiny Archibald of Kansas City were the reason. Russell saw that Slick was the ideal player to do that for us."
Watts knew if he were to have any chance of making the opening night roster he would have to come in ready to show his skills.
"After I got the call from Russell, I went straight to the gym for about three weeks." Slick said of his initial preparation, "I played ABA all-star Jimmy Jones one on one every day. Sometimes for hours at a time." After around a week, Jones told Watts how he felt about the little guards game.
"Jones told me 'Little Watts you're pretty good! You're gonna make it! It gave me a lot of hope him saying that. It got me inspired to get on the plane and get to Seattle."
Walking into the gym at what was then Seattle Pacific College (now University) Slick surveyed his competition of between 50-100 other players from around the country.
"I was a little nervous at first." Watts openly admits, "When I first walked in that gym everyone was big and tall and strong. Bigger than anybody I had seen in my life."
As many young adults faced with a real challenge, Slick was instantly filled with doubts.
"I called my dad and said 'I'm coming home'" Watts recalled. His dad would have none of it. "He said 'Nope. You're not coming home! You can do it!'"
Spurred on by the faith his father had in him, Slick went to work and quickly had a realization that he could bring something nobody else in the tryout was willing to bring.
"The thing I noticed was everybody was shooting but nobody was excited about defense." Watts remembered with a chuckle, "So I made a point to be as intense as possible. I'd run and find my man, get into him and irritate him. They'd yell 'I ain't got the ball man! get off of me!' No! My intention is to not let you get the ball!'"
Watts' tenacity on the defensive end quickly made an impression on Coach Russell.
"Russell used to laugh some times." recalled Watts, "I would get so excited about playing defense he'd say 'boy you're like KC Jones! Always going after everyone!"
His play also stood out to Fred Brown.
Fred Brown circa 1978
"I can't say enough about the wonderful job Slick did. He pushed the ball up the floor and played hard nosed defense. He was ideal for what Russell was looking for. He had the drive to do well."
Brown, who had played against Watts while in college, gave Slick some of the best advice anyone could give the young aspiring guard.
"I told him to just keep his mouth shut." States Brown, "We had these veteran guards who had been around a while so he couldn't be talking a lot of stuff."
Instead of talking trash, Watts let his effort and game speak for him.
"I came in in twice as good condition as anybody." Watts said of how prepared he was physically for the tryout, "I knew that coming in I was the underdog and I couldn't afford to take a play off."
Brown's own account mirrors Slick's.
"Slick was just a hard worker. He worked hard everyday trying to do what his skills allowed him at the time. He was a hard worker on defense. He was a hard worker on offense and he would always push the ball."
Several days into the tryout came a pivotal moment that may or may not have played a major part in Slick making it through the open tryout period.
"One day, I was out washing Coach Russell's car," Slick says with a chuckle, "and when I came back in the gym nearly everyone was gone. I asked one of the players what had happened and he said he and nearly everybody else had been cut. The rumor was Coach had played a bad round of golf and was in a bad mood so he chose that particular day to cut everyone. Then I see Russell and he looks at me and says 'Boy! You are lucky you were washing my car! If you'd have been in here you might have been cut too!"
It's not clear how serious that statement by Russell was, but Slick still chuckles about it close to 50 years later.
"I'm always thankful I was outside washing his car when that went down." Slick says with a laugh, "If I had been in that gym my career might never have happened."
Having proven himself in the tryout and having survived the purge of players by Russell, Slick was invited to training camp.
"Slick went to the veteran camp and made it through." Recalls Brown, "He played sparingly because Russell still had other guys under contract, but he always performed once he got in because he always went 100 miles an hour. He could really go."
Brown's assessment is backed up by Slick's stats. After playing very limited minutes the first 9 games, Watts finally got his chance to show what he could really do. On December 1st in a game against Atlanta, Watts would torch the Hawks for 21 points in just 17 minutes. The next game would be his true coming out party as he lit up Kevin Porter and the Bullets for 24 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists. Both games were on the road.
"By the time we got back to Seattle the fans were yelling 'PUT SLICK IN! PUT SLICK IN!' Recalls Watts. "It meant a lot to me but I didn't let it go to my head because if I made a couple bad plays in a row they started yelling 'TAKE SLICK OUT! GET HIM OUT OF HERE!'"
Watts would score in double figures in 20 of the 62 games he played as a rookie including four were he reached a double double.
In his third season in the NBA, Watts became the first player in the league's history to lead the league in assists and steals in the same season. By the time his career ended Watts had played 437 games over six seasons. He averaged double figures in scoring twice, over eight assists per game twice, over two steals three times and finished with career averages of 8.9 points, 6.1 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game. An iconic NBA career made possible by preparation, hard work and a car wash that has led Watts to become a pillar of the Seattle community. Since retiring her has spent decades as a PE teacher, basketball coach and community leader. After everything he achieved, Watts says he has one pice of advice able all others.
"Always be prepared to outwork everybody. You can't control how big you are or how gifted you are, but you can control how hard you work and how you approach your work. If you give it everything you have, then you'll wind up exactly where you should be."
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Sgt. Major Matsunobu Shigeru
'in that he at Hong Kong between 7th December 1944 and 18th August 1945 being in the service of the occupying power in violation of the laws and usages of war concerned in the ill treatment of civilian residents of Hong Kong while in custody of the Japanese Gendarmerie causing them physical suffering and particularly to Mr. AXEL OLSSON, CHENG TSUUNG HAN, NA YIN CHE, CHE HOK YING, CHAN LUK CHAU, CHIU HOK CHEUK, KWOK KWOK YIN and LING CE KEING, YUEN FO TO, some of the said residents."
The Accused was a non-commissioned officer of the Japanese Gendarmerie. On 15 May 1944, he was transferred from Korea to the Special Intelligence Department of the Eastern District Gendarmerie in Hong Kong. From 1 March 1945, he was posted to Stanley Gendarme Station as Commanding Officer.
The case concerns ill-treatment of civilians. According to the Judge Advocate [Lt. Col. D.A.Wright, AJAG, Land Forces, 19 August 1946], nine civilians were specifically mentioned but "it was clear from the phrasing in the particulars of the charge that it was not restricted to these nine named persons, and the Prosecution, as they were entitled to do, led evidence relating to the alleged ill-treatment of two other residents, Suen Chuen-wo and Hui Yee-dai".
The Prosecution sought to establish that the Accused was responsible for the infliction of ill-treatment on certain civilians, which included beating, suspension by thumbs or wrists, and water torture. All these happened in Stanley, Wong Nei Chung, at the Supreme Court, Central Police Station and No. 7 Police Station Gendarmerie.
The Prosecution relied primarily on live victim testimony.
In order to prove the seriousness of the treatment actually inflicted, including beating and water torture, the Prosecution relied on expert evidence of a doctor. He argued that torture contributed to the death of the victims in question notwithstanding a then prevailing disease (tuberculosis).
The Defence was in essence a complete denial that the Accused ill-treated or tortured any of the aforementioned civilians, although he admitted that he had interrogated them.
Additionally, the Defence argued that due to the publicity of the trial, the public were inclined to think all gendarmes ill-treated and tortured the local inhabitants. However, only a handful of them mistreated members of the public.
The Defence also claimed that the victims' families might have a grudge against the Accused, and therefore exaggerated their testimony.
On the point of water torture, the Defence challenged certain witnesses' testimony, arguing that the severity of the water torture was exaggerated. At the same time, the Defence continued to argue that what actually happened to individual witnesses never happened.
Major G. B. Puddicombe (Advocate) (The Victoria Rifles of Canada)
Mr. Fujita Tetsuo (Japanese Barrister)
Lieut. J.R. Haggan, R.E.
A.M. Scott (Civil Servant, Waterwork Office)
Axel Olsson (Warehouse Foreman)
Denis Victor (Manager of a dancing hall)
Chiu Mok-cheuk (Clothes Merchant)
Ling Ce-Kiang (Employee, Cable and Wireless)
Chan Luk-chau (Employee, Cable and Wireless)
Yuen Man-ching (Clerk, Nethersole Hospital)
Dr. T.P. Wu (Medical Practitioner)
Hui She Siu-kee (Unemployed, Wife of Hui Yee-dai)
Suen Chun-ho (Employee, a barber?s shop)
Kwok Kwok-yin (Import and Export Merchant)
Na Ying-Cheun (Employee, a barber?s shop)
Che Hok-ying (Employee, a barber?s shop)
Major K. Hussain (War Crimes Investigation Unit)
Sergeant Matsunabu Shigeru (Accused)
Capt. Ogura Kuraichi (Gendarme Captain, Commanding Office of Hong Kong Island)
W/O Jurasawa Hideo (Warrant Office, Hong Kong District Gendarmerie)
Held that the Accused was guilty.
No Petition was recorded.
According to the Judge Advocate, "After a well-conducted and careful trial the Court found the accused guilty of the charges as laid and sentenced him to 8 years imprisonment. The sentence is, in my opinion, a very lenient one, considering the brutal and systematic ill-treatment meted out by the accused to these civilians as disclosed by the evidence".
Elsewhere in the review, the Judge Advocate noted indirect evidence and hearsay evidence. He noted a number of procedural issues (of a minor
nature).
Nevertheless, the Judge Advocate advised confirmation of findings and sentence.
Hong Kong; Kempeitai; Gendarme/Gendarmes/Gendarmerie; Civilians; Place of Detention; "concerned in"; Committed; Torture; Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment; Unlawful killing; War Crimes; Violations of laws and customs of war


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John Conyers Steps Down As House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
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Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) announced on Sunday that he's stepping down as the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee while he's under a probe by the House Ethics Committee for sexual harassment and age discrimination, ABC News reported.
A layer who worked with Conyers on the House Judiciary Committee accused him of "sexual discrimination." That is in addition to a former staffer with whom Conyers settled a sexual harassment case for more than $27,000 with funds taken from his congressional budget.
While a chorus of voices are calling for Michigan's Democratic Rep. John Conyers to step down over sexual misconduct allegations, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi wants to step on the brakes, calling for "due process" Sunday on "Meet the Press," NBC News reported.
"John Conyers is an icon in our country. He has done a great deal to protect women – Violence Against Women Act, which the…right-wing – is now quoting me as praising him for his work on that, and he did great work on that. But the fact is, as John reviews his case, which he knows, which I don't, I believe he will do the right thing," Pelosi added.
It came to light on Tuesday that Conyers settled a sexual harassment claim with a former employee in 2015 for more than $27,000. Former staff members also accused Conyers, 88, of making repeated sexual advances on female staff.
The high-ranking, longest-serving member of Congress allegedly requested sexual favors from some of his female staff and allegedly transported other women to Washington with whom he was suspected of having affairs. The former staff member filed her complaint in 2014 with the congressional Office of Compliance. It accused Conyers of firing her because she declined his sexual advance.
After the news broke, GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan called the report "extremely troubling," and Michigan's Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga was among the first to call for Conyers' resignation. In his initial response to the report, Conyers seemed to deny paying the settlement.
But he later clarified that he indeed settled the case through his congressional budget but denied the allegations. This comes against the backdrop of President Donald Trump backing Alabama's GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct with underaged girls when he was in his 30s.
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Having a clean work area means much more than a sparkling, fresh building. Plenty of studies have shown that employees working in a clean and orderly office are positively impacted, which improves their productivity significantly.
Keeping your work area neat and orderly matters a lot: studies have reaffirmed the fact that if your place of work is cluttered, information-processing becomes difficult, let alone focusing on priorities, tasks, and projects. Other than reduction in productivity, an office that is messy will also negatively impact your emotional, professional, and psychological well-being: however, the silver lining is that clean-up of your workspace is a low-cost, high-impact activity that has perceptible and immediate benefits for both the workers and the business owners alike.
A major cleaning challenge of a workplace is the paper clutter, simply because documents can easily get displaced. This causes immense stress in a situation when your superiors in the office or the clients are waiting for you to furnish the required documents. Equally stressful is not having a clue regarding what to do with client files, reports, memos, or other documents, for which a company eventually has to invest money just for storing multiple copies of same documents. A remedy to this problem can be setting up guidelines to determine what needs to be kept and what should be tossed out.
De-cluttering is an important part of cleaning up. Once you get rid of things that you aren't using, it frees up time for you to concentrate on important office tasks. Also, you can get more work done in much lesser time in a tidy office. Therefore, you can rejoice in a feeling of accomplishment when the day ends and head for home on time for your personal needs, like being with your family, relaxing, or even exercising.
When your clients, prospective employees, visitors, vendors and colleagues visit your office, they are likely to form an opinion about you and your office at first sight. If your workplace is messy and cluttered, it won't inspire a confidence in them regarding your professionalism or in your ability to manage finer details.
If you approach office cleaning as a team event, it could turn into an opportunity for bonding among your employees and may also result in improved relationships within your team. This would lift the employee morale and in turn, your office will get transformed into a cleaner, happier, healthier and safer workplace: a win-win situation, isn't it?


Despite astute critiques and available resources for alternative modes of thinking and practicing, individualism continues to be a dominating and constraining ideology in the field of pastoral psychotherapy and counseling.
Philip Rieff was one of the first to highlight the negative implications of individualism in psychotherapeutic theories and practices. As heirs and often enthusiasts of the Freudian tradition of which Rieff and others are critical, pastoral theologians have felt the sting of his charge, and yet the empirical research that Barbara McClure presents in this volume shows that pastoral counseling practitioners still resist change. Their attempts to overcome an individualistic perspective have been limited and ineffective because individualism remains embedded in the field's dominant theological and theoretical resources, practices and organisational arrangements. Only a radical reappraisal of these will allow effective pastoral counseling practices to emerge in a post-individualistic mode.
Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling makes a strong case for the failure of pastoral counseling to shake off its individualistic presuppositions, but goes beyond mere critique to offer a vision of a way forwards. McClure proposes several critical transformations of thought and practice: broadening and deepening the operative theologies used to guide the healing practice, expanding the role of the pastoral counsellor, reimagining the operative anthropology, reclaiming sin and judgement, nuancing the particular against the individual, rethinking the ideal outcome of the practices, and reimagining the organisational structures that support the practices. Only this level of revision will enable this ministry of the church to move beyond its individualistic limitations and offer healing in more complex, effective, and socially adequate ways.
Barbara J. McClure is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Graduate Department of Religion and the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Before teaching at Vanderbilt, she spent seven years as a practicing pastoral counsellor in Atlanta, Georgia.


Scrollable Picture box in Windows Form using C#.
While I was working on my personal Comic Reader Application, I came across a problem which was quite difficult to find solution for. A scrollable picture box, as simple as it might sound, it quite isn't.
I used C# 4.5 version for this particular project of mine and needed a zoom in/out, scroll a large image and such in a Window Form.
The solution I found out to be the most effective after spending hours searching Google results was a tad bit too simple. The PictureBox control should be enclosed in a Panel with AutoScroll property set to True.
Simple as that, however the PictureBox control can easily be resized programmatically using the Dimension or Width property.
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Newcomers to professional Hearthstone, Team HSP shows us what they're made of.
One of the original websites for Hearthstone, Hearthstone Players has formed their own team, seeking to combine a vast knowledge-base with top-notch, high level play. After a year long deliberation the site creator, Jimmy, decided to take it to the next level and established Team HSP. As the Team Manager, he has brought together some of Hearthstone's finest talent, ready to take their place among the game's professional players.
I caught up with Jimmy recently, and asked him some questions regarding his team, and what makes them shine..
Hello Jimmy, nice to have you with us. For starters, what made you decide to form a pro team?
Is there anything unique about your roster, and how they came to be?
Does the team plan to practice together, or will they have individual practice groups?
What will the team focus on when not preparing for an event?
Will the team try to compete in as many tournaments as possible?
Fans enjoy the special rule set events (think Challengestone), does your team plan to participate in, or perhaps host them?
We look forward to hearing more about Team HSP, and what they bring to the Hearthstone community. Be sure to check out their Team Page for more in-depth information, as well as Twitter and Twitch links.
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The Five Year Forward View NHS future blueprint declares that a 'radical upgrade in prevention' is needed both to improve people's lives and to achieve financial sustainability of the health and social care system.
The NHS in England spends more than £15.5 billion per annum treating illness which directly results from alcohol and tobacco consumption, obesity, hypertension, falls, and unhealthy levels of physical activity. Most of this treatment is avoidable.
Providing targeted advice and integrated care to tackle excessive alcohol consumption and smoking.
Creating healthy environments in health and care settings to improve diets and keep people in work, and support action to reverse trends in childhood and adult obesity.
Intervening earlier and managing conditions better to keep people healthier for longer and reduce their care needs.
Some of the greatest improvements in health outcomes have resulted from addressing the causes of diseases rather than just treating their consequences. Focusing on primary prevention has the potential to yield significant savings over the medium and longer-term.
The vision for prevention in Surrey Heartlands places preventing ill health and disability at the heart of the health system. We will drive a fundamental shift towards prevention and early intervention during the whole life. This will be through both the delivery of the prevention initiatives detailed within this workstream and by working alongside each of the clinical workstreams to map and deliver opportunities to intervene to improve and maintain people's physical and mental health.


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Q: tensorFlow throws me the error ValueError: Layer sequential expects 1 inputs, but it received 2 input tensors I am trying to do my first neural network based on the code my teacher gave me but when I try to fit the network I get the follow error:
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/training.py:1224 test_function  *
    return step_function(self, iterator)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/training.py:1215 step_function  **
    outputs = model.distribute_strategy.run(run_step, args=(data,))
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/distribute/distribute_lib.py:1211 run
    return self._extended.call_for_each_replica(fn, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/distribute/distribute_lib.py:2585 call_for_each_replica
    return self._call_for_each_replica(fn, args, kwargs)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/distribute/distribute_lib.py:2945 _call_for_each_replica
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/training.py:1208 run_step  **
    outputs = model.test_step(data)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/training.py:1174 test_step
    y_pred = self(x, training=False)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/base_layer.py:976 __call__
    self.name)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/input_spec.py:158 assert_input_compatibility
    ' input tensors. Inputs received: ' + str(inputs))

ValueError: Layer sequential expects 1 inputs, but it received 2 input tensors. Inputs received: [<tf.Tensor 'IteratorGetNext:0' shape=(10, 784) dtype=float32>, <tf.Tensor 'IteratorGetNext:1' shape=(10, 10) dtype=float32>]

the line that throws me an error is this
model.fit( x=x_train , y=y_train , batch_size=10 , epochs=10 , verbose=1 , validation_data = [x_test,y_test])

I try changing the brackets by parentheses but it doesn't work
The data is
from keras.datasets import mnist
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from keras.utils import np_utils
import seaborn as sns

(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = mnist.load_data()
x_train = x_train.reshape(x_train.shape[0],x_train.shape[1]*x_train.shape[2])
x_test = x_test.reshape(x_test.shape[0],x_test.shape[1]*x_test.shape[2])

x_train = x_train/255
x_test = x_test/255

y_train = np_utils.to_categorical(y_train,10)
y_test = np_utils.to_categorical(y_test,10)

the model:
model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(32, input_dim = 784))
model.add(Activation('relu'))
model.add(Dense(10))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))

A: All you need to do is put the validation data in a tuple instead of a list.
So change this:
model.fit( x=x_train , y=y_train , batch_size=10 , epochs=10 , verbose=1 , validation_data = [x_test,y_test])

to this:
model.fit( x=x_train , y=y_train , batch_size=10 , epochs=10 , verbose=1 , validation_data = (x_test,y_test))

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"If I got another head job, he was the first guy I was calling. ... I would hire him in a heartbeat," said Edsall, the Susquehannock High grad and former Maryland head coach, who was fired in October.
"Joe is as good of an offensive coordinator, quarterback coach and play-caller as there is around. He'll do a great job at Penn State. They got a steal. Those kids will love him."
Moorhead, Franklin connect at Penn State
Edsall should know. Moorhead was his offensive coordinator when they were leading the Connecticut Huskies to bowl games, including the Fiesta, following the 2009 and 2010 seasons.
Edsall continued to follow Moorhead closely after he took his first head coaching job at FCS Fordham. He inherited a 1-10 team and immediately transformed into a big winner. His Rams went 38-13 the past four seasons, including three straight NCAA playoff berths.
Bodani: Nassib's PSU story still mostly untold
Moorhead's offenses were high-powered and fast-paced but balanced. In his final three seasons the Rams averaged more than 36 points and 450 total yards per game. He seemed to prefer read-option attacks, which promotes the quarterback as a running threat — something James Franklin embraced before arriving at Penn State.
Edsall said he wanted to bring Moorhead with him to Maryland but couldn't make it happen.
"He was able to take all the pieces we had and put them together ...," Edsall said. "He's not one of those guys who is stubborn and says, 'This is how we have to do it.' He's going to take his personnel and utilize their abilities to the max for the offense to be successful.
"James really helped himself with that hire."
One example of that success is quarterback Michael Nebrich. Edsall recruited him to Connecticut, although he eventually joined Moorhead at Fordham. There, he completed 73.5 percent of his passes for 4,380 yards, 35 touchdowns and only seven interceptions in 2013 — ranking second nationally in pass efficiency.
But the Rams also have run the ball well the past two years with Central Dauphin East grad Chase Edmonds. His 2015 totals include 1,648 rushing yards (6.3 per carry) and 20 touchdowns.
Moorhead doesn't boast a well-known football name, like recent Ohio State assistant hire Greg Schiano. And Edsall said he believes that helped block Moorhead from landing bigger head coaching jobs.
That's an issue that could be solved by success in a premier position at Penn State.
"He's not a self promoter. He lets his resume speak for itself," Edsall said. "I was around a guy like that before in Tom Coughlin. He was an outstanding coach at Syracuse and Boston College, and when he got his (big) opportunity as a head coach ...
"If things go the right way, maybe in one or two years (Moorhead's) going to be a head coach in an FBS conference."
He does own an intriguing football foundation, too. He knows the famed WPIAL around Pittsburgh from his playing days at Central Catholic. He went on to earn an English degree while quarterbacking at Fordham.


I received a lot of questions about propwash after my last how to tune your quad video. So I decided to make a video on this subject! Hope it can help some of you!
hehe that title for the tread is an attention getter. I really expected to see you bringing the quad in after smacking a tree with two good props or something.
Good explanation video of how to work around a common problem. Just knowing WHEN propwash is likely to happen and thinking about what you are doing in those situations is plenty to cure 90%. I just got my new build tuned. No filter changes no special adjustments. Just a good tune and the knowledge I have gained over two years of flying to stay out of my own dirty air. My last two videos were smooth enough it scared me. I never get video with out some wobbles at some point.
To echo the PsyBorg, I clicked the bait expecting EDF or something.
how do you mean you where expecting edf?
From the title... "How to fly without props" and not "How to fly without Propwash" that leaves a LOT to be interpreted. I went from knowing your style of flight to think maybe you damaged several props but still managed to save the flight. From fixed wing perspective most think that not using props means edf's or turbines in the case of the big fueled models. Its easy to assume a lot from the title.
It does however get attention and I think its the let down of not seeing some spectacular flying without props on a quad that lead to the comments I am sure you may get.
When I saw the title that said how to fly without props I was thinking you might do some EDF powered flights and were just using a catchy title.


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When his brother Bunny vanishes from the Toronto City Hall skating rink, Spencer, a budding filmmaker, finds himself plunged into the stuff of movie thrillers: kidnapping, terrorists, intrigue, a missing document, a world-famous pop star, disguises, romance and a rogue alligator. As he races the clock to save his brother, he must sort the real from the make-believe and unravel a murder mystery involving his grandfather. The last time Spencer got tangled up in an adventure from his grandfather's past, he didn't believe it was for real. Now he can't get anyone to believe him when he says that Bunny has been kidnapped and that someone is going to die. Coda is the sequel to both Speed, part of The Seven Prequels and Jump Cut, part of Seven (The Series).
Fourteen-year-old Preston Craft is organizing a film festival for his school's film club. When one of the films goes missing two days before the festival begins, Preston is convinced it was stolen and is determined to get it back. The only indication of the theft is a suspicious shadow that Preston noticed right before he discovered the film was gone - but Preston is legally blind and no one quite believes him. However, not unlike the gritty private eyes in the classic black-and-white films he adores, Preston refuses to give up. Can he solve the mystery based on such a shady clue?
When Alicia, a talented violinist at Riley Donovan's high school, is found bludgeoned to death in a field on the outskirts of town, suspicion immediately falls on Carrie, the teen's musical rival. But Riley isn't convinced of Carrie's guilt, and even though her police-officer aunt tells her to stay out of it, Riley goes searching for the truth. Did Carrie really kill Alicia in a fit of jealous rage, or is there another explanation for Alicia's death?
In this sequel to Exposed, Raven is once again fighting for the underdog. When a desperate wave of teen suicides threatens to overwhelm her school, Raven does some digging and learns that all of the victims have one thing in common: issues with anxiety. With help from Team Retribution, Raven links the deaths to an unauthorized drug trial at a shady medical center. To find out more, she goes undercover, but things quickly get out of her control. Soon she's not sure what is real and what is a drug-induced fantasy.


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The need for transformation in UK detention centres
Seeking asylum in the UK is like falling from the frying pan into the fire. The first in Transformation's series on prison abolition.
Abbey Kiwanuka
Out and Proud Diamond Group demonstrate against the deportation of Aidah Asaba. Credit: Demotix/Ruth Whitworth.
I escaped persecution in Uganda bearing cigarette burns on my palms and legs, and scars on my face, as a result of constant beating. When I came to England, I thought that I had come to the Promised Land - the country where I was going to be treated as a human being.
The United Nations Charter on Human Rights defines an asylum seeker as someone who is seeking life-saving sanctuary, having fled persecution for reasons such as sexual orientation, politics, religion, ethnicity or racism. Such a person is not supposed to be extradited or deported. We are entitled to free legal aid and medication.
Since being awarded asylum with the help of groups like Medical Justice, I have visited over 30 detainees to offer support. Each time it is the same story. Nothing seems to change.
Shortly after I applied for asylum I was taken to Oakington Detention Centre in Cambridge. The living conditions in detention centres are terrible. The rooms have no windows, no form of sanitation whatsoever, no ventilation. Each small room has a toilet, bathroom and a bedroom, all separated just with curtains. It's obvious why detainees are not allowed to have mobile phones with cameras.
The major problem starts when the administration lock room doors at 5pm and at night. That means nobody should use the toilets as the rooms have no ventilation. The smell stays in the room, breathing becomes difficult. In the evening, however hungry you may be, you have to eat sparingly as you have no chance of visiting the toilets.
There is nothing more disturbing and distressing, tormenting and traumatising, than being an asylum seeker. Being an asylum seeker transforms you into an object without value, a vessel without honours: you feel demeaned, stigmatised, isolated, and rejected. You are disowned not only by your community and country of origin, but by your potential host. They look at you and through you and decide you are unreal, a fake and a liar and that all you deserve is deportation.
Twiith, a 23-year-old lesbian from Uganda, has scars all over her body inflicted by those who performed an exorcism on her. After being detained, it took her nearly two weeks to see a doctor. The doctor stated clearly that her scars were consistent with her story. However the Home Office dismissed her claim and kept her there, against detention rule 35, which states that torture victims should not be detained.
Twiith is not the only person struggling with help in the Detention Centre. She told me: "As I was there struggling with my illness, my room-mate took a medicine overdose to take her life. They rushed her to hospital. I tried to ask the officers where she was and how she was doing, but they all couldn't tell me, this worsened my sickness, my stress, I felt death was the only option at this time, and no one from the authorities came to talk to me or ask me how the situation of my roommate trying to kill herself while watching her was affecting me. No one cares. You can die of depression when they think you are just acting".
Lacking medical attention is a serious problem in detention centres. Detainees fall sick and need medical attention; doctors are booked slowly, or doctors are booked but offer no treatment.
Henry Lutaya, a former Harmondsworth detainee states: "I had problems of ill health myself, I told the nurses about it and they promised to book a doctor for me. However, each time I went to them, they told me the doctor was busy. Finally, after about two weeks, I saw the doctor and the doctor was blaming me for failing to see him that Wednesday he had told me to see him. When I told him that the nurses told me that he was busy, he said it was a lie, he had been free all the time. I was very shocked and I didn't know why the nurses did that".
The detention centre doctor who was supposed to help me instead created more anger and stress. Despite his apparent wisdom, before him I felt desperate, heartbroken and finished. I left his office crestfallen, moving like the living dead. I looked death straight into its face, I saw it burning and blazing in the eyes of the guards and in the eyes of my fellow detainees.
Being locked up again behind bars brought fresh memories of what I had gone through in my country. I saw death in every aspect of life: in my mind, in my thinking and my dreams. Death to me seemed to be the only way to escape the challenges that I faced. My parents and grandparents are all dead. I had only one sister who was 10 years old. It is this sister who kept me going and, without her, I would be dead by now.
Given the terms and conditions enshrined in the United Nations Charter on Human Rights, what is the Home Office supposed to do? If the Home Office were to in a consistent way, asylum seekers would be given due respect, treated with dignity and regarded as human beings.
Except in reality, we are treated worse than prisoners. We are not respected, our freedom is strictly limited and non-existent, we are denied access to legal consultation; we don't have access to public media such as the internet, as vital information is always blocked, we are given no privacy, we are kept in inhabitable rooms without ventilation.
The Home Office either has to shut down detention centres or make the changes necessary to improve the situation and the condition in these centres. Among other areas, they have to make sure that rooms are ventilated, that meals are balanced, that medical care is provided, that social interaction and freedom of contact between various wings inside detention centres is allowed and that detainees have the freedom of accessing or enjoying direct contact with their legal representatives and other ordinary visitors.
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Many people have questions surrounding their diagnosis, treatment or other issues related to living with HIV. Unless they know someone else living with HIV they often struggle to speak to someone who really understands things from their perspective.
The Peer Support Project provides a confidential environment for one HIV positive individual to meet with another more experienced HIV patient, who will listen to your concerns and fears and share what it's like living positively.
The service is open to all current HIV positive patients in NHSGGC, regardless of how long they have been diagnosed, and who could benefit from speaking to another person living with HIV. This could be related to issues such as; shock of diagnosis, stigma, relationships, disclosure, work, social isolation, beginning treatment and other constraints or questions a person might have related to living with HIV.
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Assemblymember David Chiu introduced a bill that seeks to end towing practices that harm low-income people.
SACRAMENTO (KGO) -- Assemblymember David Chiu introduced a bill Monday that seeks to end towing practices that harm low-income people. Assembly Bill 516 would eliminate towing conducted as a debt collection tool.
The Bay Area is known for high costs including steep towing fees. The average fee to retrieve a car from a tow yard is $500.
"When you add daily storage, parking tickets, additional standard fees and fines the cost to retrieve a car could often skyrocket to $1,500," said Chiu, who represents District 17.
Chiu says it is having a devastating impact on low and middle class residents. On Monday, he introduced a bill to eliminate poverty related tows if the owner has 5 or more unpaid parking tickets, if the car registration is more than six months out of date or when a car has been legally parked for more than 72 hours; information law enforcement and meter maids have access to when calling a tow truck company.
Mary Lovelace says she was working as an interior home improvement specialist when things got rough.
"I was unable to continually look for work once they put the boot on my car," said Lovelace.
Lovelace says some of the parking tickets she received were for being parked in places she wasn't.
"I went to try to register my car last year and was shocked to discover that I had over $1,600-worth of unpaid parking ticket fines on my vehicle," said Diane Tober.
If the bill passes, two dozen statutory grounds for towing cars will remain in-tact.
"Towing should be used for traffic flow and public safety reasons, not to push poor people further into poverty," said Chiu.
Chiu says enforcement mechanisms will remain to ensure Californians who are able to afford to pay parking tickets and registration fees still do.
AB 516 is expected to be heard in policy committee in April.


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Q: find Interval of Convergence I need to find the interval of convergence for the power series $(-2x)^n/e^{2n}$ from $n=1$ to $\infty.$
Now, I have used the ratio test to get to a point of $ -2x/e^2$ which is great (and hopefully correct) but I for the life of me cannot work out how to calculate the actual interval of $R=...$
Can anyone a) tell me if my ratio test is correct, and b) help me with how to calculate $R=$
Thanks

A: Here are three different methods.

Using geometric series
\begin{equation}
\sum_{n=1}^ {+\infty}\dfrac{(-2x)^n}{e^{2n}}=\sum_{n=1}^ {+\infty}\left(\dfrac{-2x}{e^{2}}\right)^n
\end{equation}
We must have:
$$\left|\dfrac{-2x}{e^2}\right|<1 \implies -\dfrac{e^2}{2}<x<\dfrac{e^2}{2}$$

Rewriting the series as follows, we can apply other tests:
$$\sum_{n=1}^ {+\infty}\dfrac{(-2x)^n}{e^{2n}}=\sum_{n=1}^ {+\infty}\left(-\dfrac{2}{e^{2}}\right)^nx^n$$

Using D'Alembert test
$$\lim_{n \to +\infty}\left|\dfrac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}\right|=\lim_{n \to +\infty}\left|\dfrac{2^{n+1}}{e^{2n+2}}\dfrac{e^n}{2^n}\right|=\dfrac{2}{e^2}:=l_1$$
Now
$$\rho=\dfrac{1}{l_1}=\dfrac{e^2}{2}$$

Using Cauchy-Hadamard test
$$\lim_{n \to +\infty}\sqrt[n]{|a_n|}=\lim_{n \to +\infty}\sqrt[n]{\left|\left(-\dfrac{2}{e^{2}}\right)^n \right|}=\dfrac{2}{e^2}:=l_2$$
Now
$$\rho=\dfrac{1}{l_2}=\dfrac{e^2}{2}$$

If $x=\pm \dfrac{e^2}{2}$, substituting in the initial sum we notice it diverges.
In conclusion:
$\displaystyle{\sum_{n=1}^ {+\infty}\dfrac{(-2x)^n}{e^{2n}}}$ converges $ \iff x \in \left(-\dfrac{e^2}{2},\dfrac{e^2}{2}\right)$


thout any breakage either to the concrete or the mould. This system gives architects, planners and property developers the freedom in being able to realize almost any requirements in designing.
Snow is white and makes our image of the world resemble a black-and-white print. However, ever since white emerged as the trend color not just in winter does much parade in white. So what is so special about this particular color?