Having grandkids has built a fresh new understanding about growth in my mind. With my grandkids now a month old we have a benchmark of how they are doing. Grace Lynn was four pounds and five ounces at birth while Sean Patrick was four pounds two ounces at birth. Grace is now six pounds and nine ounces while Patrick is six pounds and eleven ounces. That's over two and one half pounds for Patrick in his first month.
There is a term attached to these wonderful children; premature. They came into the world before they were supposed to according to the calendar. They were six weeks early. But they were both home from the hospital within eight days of birth which, I am told, is pretty good for "preemies." That term will always be a part of them; they will always be premature babies.
But, my, how they've grown. They have gone from these tiny creatures with little skinny legs to the point where there actually seems to be a marked improvement of muscle tone in their legs to the effect of a measure of firmness. What have my son and daughter-in-law been doing to spure this remarkable growth and improvement in strength? Just feeding them and loving them.
Amazing isn't it? No special regimen of care or special protein drinks or dietary supplements. Just the right food at the right time from two people who love them with all their hearts. The church could learn something from this. Church growth is very much the same as child growth. Feed a church the right food at the right time and love it patiently and it will grow.
"Speaking the truth in love, (that we) may grow up in all things into Him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love." Ephesians 4:15, 16 The right food and love. Growth. Pretty simple.
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Q: How to have folder and controller with same name in ASP.NET MVC? I have a MVC controller called Downloads. http://mysite/Downloads
I also want to put a physical file in a physical folder called http://mysite/Downloads/MyFile.zip.
If I simply create a folder, I get a 403 when browsing to http://mysite/Downloads.
(Most likely because of directory browsing is disabled)
But I want the MVC controller to kick in instead.
How do I do that?

A: If you browse to http://mysite/Downloads/{ACTION} it will fire your controllers action.
The only thing that won't work in your example is the /Downloads with no action. You could re-write this URL to redirect you to your default action.
In addition, you will need to have the routehandler ignore your download files. You can add a line in your global.asax file to ignore all zip files or some other ignore pattern that suits.
routes.Ignore("{resource}.zip");

A: Since .NET 3.5, you can route existing files:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) {
    routes.RouteExistingFiles = true;
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
    routes.MapRoute(
       name: "Default",
       url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
       defaults: new { controller = "Home",
                          action = "Index",
                          id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );
}

So suppose we had a folder on the site root called Markets containing an  audio.mp3 file:
\Markets
\Markets\audio.mp3

Assuming the existence of a MarketsController, if we made a request for Markets, it'd be routed to Markets/Index.
If we requested /Markets/audio.mp3 we'd get the mp3 file and if we requested Markets/AnythingElse, normal routing would apply.

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Indigo Care Services Limited
Lymewood Court Nursing Home
Archived: Lymewood Court Nursing Home Good
The provider of this service changed - see new profile
Inspection carried out on 15 September 2020
During an inspection looking at part of the service
Lymewood Court Nursing Home is a care home providing personal and nursing care for up to 46 people. Accommodation is provided across two units, both of which are situated on the ground floor of the building. across three units with one unit specialising in providing care to people living with dementia and one specialising in supporting people requiring rehabilitation following discharge from hospital. There were 21 people using the service at the time of the inspection.
People's experience of using this service and what we found
The systems for checking on the quality and safety of the service had improved. However, we identified that further improvement was needed to in relation to monitoring and review of records to ensure that they contained clear up to date information about people's needs.
Safe systems were in place for the management of people's medicines. This was an improvement from the previous inspection.
Information and guidance was available to protect people from abuse. Family members told us that they felt their relatives were safe living at the service.
Risks to people were considered and planned for and clear plans were in place to keep people safe in the event of any emergency. Safe recruitment processes were followed to ensure staff were suitable to work with vulnerable adults. There was enough suitably skilled and experienced staff on duty to safely meet people's needs.
Accidents and incidents were recorded and where required actions were taken to prevent further occurrence. This included making changes to procedures and further staff training to mitigate any future risks. There were clear procedures to prevent and control the spread of infection. The service had managed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The service had an on-going improvement plan to continue to improve the service that people received. These plans involved improvement initiatives from the Clinical Commissioning Group.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection and update –
The last rating for this service was Requires Improvement (report published 24 May 2019) and there was one breach of regulation. At this inspection we found improvements had been made and the provider was no longer in breach of regulations.
Why we inspected
This was a planned inspection based on the previous rating.
We carried out unannounced focussed inspection of this service on 24 May 2019. A breach of legal requirements was found. The provider completed an action plan after the last inspection to show what they would do and by when to improve the systems to assess, monitor and improve the quality and safety of the service.
We undertook this focused inspection to check they had followed their action plan and to confirm they now met legal requirements. This report only covers our findings in relation to the Key Questions Safe and Well-led which contain those requirements.
We looked at infection prevention and control measures under the Safe key question. We look at this in all care home inspections even if no concerns or risks have been identified. This is to provide assurance that the service can respond to coronavirus and other infection outbreaks effectively.
The ratings from the previous comprehensive inspection for those key questions not looked at on this occasion were used in calculating the overall rating at this inspection. The overall rating for the service has changed from Requires Improvement to Good. This is based on the findings at this inspection.
You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for Lymewood Court Care Home on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
Inspection report published 16 October 2020 PDF (opens in a new tab)
Inspection carried out on 25 March 2019
About the service:
Lymewood Court Nursing Home provides both nursing and personal care in one building for up to 46 people, some of whom live with dementia. When we inspected 34 people lived at the service.
People's experience of using this service:
The providers processes for checking on the quality and safety of the service were not always effective in identifying and mitigating risk to people. The provider did not have sufficient oversight of the service to ensure consistent leadership and the delivery of safe care. There was a lack of partnership working with external agencies which delayed a safeguarding investigation.
The provider reflected on the concerns raised prior to the inspection and our findings. They advised us after our inspection that they had implemented a series of changes to their systems and approach to governance to bring about the required improvements.
We have made a recommendation about infection prevention and control. People were not fully protected from the risk of the spread of infection and risks to their health and safety. Clinical waste was not safely managed, and equipment used for people was not kept clean and hygienic. Action was taken at the time of the inspection to mitigate the risk of the spread of infection.
We have made a recommendation about the safe use of medicines. The management of medicines had improved in response to concerns raised by the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and following our first day of inspection, however further improvements were required. Medication administration records (MARs) lacked information about prescribed creams and how they were to be used. There also needed to be a consistent approach to ensuring the safe management of medicines.
Safe recruitment processes were followed to ensure staff were suitable to work with vulnerable adults. There was enough suitably skilled and experienced staff on duty to safely meet people's needs.
A full description of our findings can be found in the sections below.
Why we inspected: This inspection was prompted by information of concern which we received from partner agencies about people's safety. As a result, we undertook a focused inspection to look into those concerns. This report only covers our findings in relation to the key questions we ask is the service safe and well-led. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for Lymewood Court Nursing Home on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
Rating at last inspection: Good (Published 20 November 2018). The service has a revised rating of requires improvement.
Enforcement: The provider was in breach of regulation 17 because the governance of the service was not effective. You can see what action we told the provider to take at the back of the full version of the report.
Follow up: We will continue to monitor intelligence we receive about the service until we return to visit as per our re-inspection programme. We will work alongside the provider, local authority and clinical commissioning group (CCG) to monitor progress. If any concerning information is received, we may inspect sooner.
Inspection report published 24 May 2019 PDF (opens in a new tab)
Inspection carried out on 11 October 2018
During a routine inspection
What life is like for people using this service:
Improvements had been made since the last inspection to the way medication was managed. Medication was managed safely and people received their all their prescribed medication on time. People were protected from abuse and the risk of abuse because staff understood their role and responsibilities for keeping people safe from harm. People and their family members told us the service was safe. Risks people faced were identified and measures put in place to minimise the risk of harm occurring. People were protected from the risk of the spread of infection because staff followed good infection control practices. The premises and equipment were well maintained, kept clean and they underwent regular safety checks. People's needs were met by the right amount of staff who were suitably skilled and experienced.
Improvements had been made to the environment since the last inspection. Adaptations had been made to the environment to better meet people's needs. People's needs and choices were assessed and planned for. Care plans identified intended outcomes for people and how they were to be met in a way they preferred. People told us they received the right care and support from staff who were well trained and competent at what they did. People were supported to maintain good nutrition and hydration and their healthcare needs were understood and met. People who were able consented to their care and support. Where people lacked capacity to make their own decisions they were made in their best interest in line with the Mental Capacity Act.
Improvements had been made since the last inspection to how people were cared for. People were treated with kindness, compassion and respect. People told us that staff were kind and respectful of their privacy, dignity and independence. Staff used techniques to help relax people with positive outcomes. Family members and other visitors to the service were made to feel welcome at the service.
Improvements had been made since the last inspection to how people's needs were responded to. People received personalised care and support which was in line with their care plan. People, family members and others knew how to make a complaint. They were confident about complaining should they need to and felt their complaint would be listened to and acted upon quickly.
Improvements had been made since the last inspection to the leadership of the service. There was a positive culture that was person centred and inclusive. People, family members and staff all described the management team as supportive and approachable. They told us many improvements had been made to the service since the last inspection and that they were fully engaged and involved in the running and development of the service. Effective systems were followed to check on the quality and safety of the service which lead to improvements being made.
More information is in Detailed Findings below
Rating at last inspection: Requires Improvement (report published on 08 December 2017)
About the service: Lymewood Court Nursing Home is a residential care home that provides personal and nursing care for up to 46 people, some of whom are living with dementia. At the time of the inspection 44 people lived in the service.
Why we inspected: This was a planned inspection based on the rating at the last inspection. We saw improvements had been made since our last inspection and that the service has improved to good.
Follow up: We will continue to monitor intelligence we receive about the service until we return to visit as per our re-inspection programme. If any concerning information is received we may inspect sooner.
Inspection report published 20 November 2018 PDF (opens in a new tab)
Inspection carried out on 7 November 2017
The inspection took place on 07, 08 and 15 November 2017. This first day of the inspection was unannounced.
Lymewood Court is a purpose built service, all bedrooms and communal areas are located on the ground floor. The service is registered to accommodate 46 people, there were 41 people living at the service at the time of this inspection.
A registered manager was in post at the time of the inspection visit. They were registered with the Care Quality Commission in July 2017. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are 'registered persons'. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.
The last inspection of the service was carried out in March 2017 and found that the service was not meeting all the requirements of Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations. We asked the registered provider to take action to make improvements in relation to people's safety, dignity and respect, management of medicines and quality monitoring systems. We received an initial action plan and subsequent actions plans outlining actions completed to date and those that were ongoing. At this inspection we found that the provider had made improvements however we found further improvements were required to become fully compliant with the Fundamental Standards of Quality and Safety.
We have made a recommendation about the management of some medicines. Improvements had been made to the management of medication, however further improvements were required. Some prescribed medication not safely stored and administered in line with national guidance.
People received their prescribed medication on time and medication administration records (MARs) had been signed to indicate this. Where medication was not administered the circumstances for this was recorded. Medication such as eye drops were labelled on opening and used within the expiry date. Handwritten entries made on MARs were signed by two staff to ensure the accuracy of the information recorded.
Improvements had been made to the safety of the environment. People were protected against the risk of fire. Repairs had been carried out on fire doors and automatic closure devices were used for holding fire doors open. Pathways to external fire doors were clear from obstructions and regular checks were carried out to ensure this was maintained.
Improvements had been made to minimise the risk of the spread of infection. Cleaning schedules had been put in place and followed for the cleaning of equipment used by people to help with their comfort and mobility. Each person had their own hoist sling which was stored in their bedroom.
Improvements had been made to the recruitment of staff, however further improvements were required. The required checks on applicant's criminal background had been carried out before they were allowed to started work at the service. However references obtained for some staff employed since the last inspection had not been obtained in line with the providers recruitment procedure.
Improvements had been made to the system for communicating people's needs, however further improvements were required. Wound care provided to one person was not effectively communicated making it difficult to establish the actual care provided. Agency nurses were still heavily replied upon to ensure people were supported by the right amount of suitably skilled staff. However the same nurses who were familiar with people's needs were blocked booked well in advance thus improving communication and consistency of care for people. In addition two permanent nurses had been recruited since the last inspection and further appointments were in the process of being made.
Improvements had been made to assessments, care plans and supplementary care records so that
Inspection report published 8 December 2017 PDF (opens in a new tab)
Inspection carried out on 28 February 2017
The inspection took place on 28 February and 01 March 2017. This first day of the inspection was unannounced.
A registered manager was in post at the time of the inspection visit. They were registered with the Care Quality Commission in June 2016. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are 'registered persons'. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run. The registered manager was absent from work at the time of our inspection. However in February 2017 an interim manager was appointed to manage the service in the absence of the registered manager.
The last inspection of the service was carried out in September 2016 and found that the service was not meeting all the requirements of Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations. We asked the registered provider to take action to make improvements in relation to people's safety, dignity and respect, management of medicines and quality monitoring systems. We received an action plan which showed all actions would be completed by 31 December 2016. However at this inspection we found that the registered provider had not met these legal requirements and we found further breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
CQC are now considering the appropriate regulatory response to the concerns we found. We will publish the actions we have taken at a later date.
The management of medication was unsafe. Some people did not receive their prescribed medication because stocks had run out and other people did not receive their medication on time. Medication administration records (MARs) for some people had been signed to indicate they had received prescribed medication which was not given. One person had been administered eye drops which had passed their use by date. Handwritten MARs had not been signed by two staff to ensure the accuracy of the information recorded. There was a lack of advice sought from healthcare professionals about the possible effects on people when they did not receive their prescribed medication. This put people's health safety and wellbeing at risk.
Although some improvements had been made to the environment there were ongoing concerns which put people's safety at risk. Some remedial work had been carried out on fire doors; however they did not provide people with full protection in the event of a fire. Some failed to close properly, others were damaged and a fire door to a bedroom which was occupied was held open with boxes. Trailing wires and equipment obstructed pathways to external fire doors. We alerted the Fire Safety Authority about our concerns following the inspection.
Equipment used to help people with their comfort and mobility was not clean which increased the risk of the spread of infection.
The recruitment of staff was not safe and thorough. The required checks had not been carried out on staff before they started work at the service. Staff were allowed to start work without some of the appropriate checks having been obtained on their character and suitability to work with vulnerable people.
There was a high use of agency nurses at the service. Agency nurses were called upon to ensure that people were supported by the right amount of suitably skilled staff. However the system for communicating people's needs onto agency nurses was inadequate which lead to people receiving ineffective care and support.
Assessment's carried out to plan people's care were not always reflective of people's needs. Charts which were in place to monito
Inspection report published 13 April 2017 PDF (opens in a new tab)
Inspection carried out on 2 September 2016
The inspection took place on 02, 07 and 12 September 2016. This inspection was unannounced.
Lymewood Court is a purpose built service, all bedrooms and communal areas are located on the ground floor. There is a car park to the front of the building and gardens to the rear. There were 45 people using the service at the time of this inspection.
A registered manager was in post at the time of the inspection visit. They were registered with the Care Quality Commission in A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are 'registered persons'. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.
The last inspection of the service was carried out in May 2014 and we found that the service was meeting all the regulations that were assessed. However this was the first inspection under the current provider who was registered in June 2016.
At this inspection we found a number of breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. You can see what action we told the provider to take at the back of the full version of the report.
People's health and safety was put at risk because parts of the environment were unsafe. Pathways were uneven and had pot holes and a build-up of moss which posed a slip trip and fall hazard. Items of equipment which were stored in communal areas obstructed fire exits and people's access to areas of the service. Staff removed the equipment after we raised our concerns with them. Some fire doors to people's bedrooms failed to close properly putting people's safety at risk in the event of a fire. The fire doors had been repaired by the second day of our inspection.
The management of medication was not always safe. An open medication trolley was left unattended on a corridor and people who use the service and visitors could have accessed the content of the trolley. Medication administration records (MARs) were not always signed at the right times. Medication for one person was pre dispensed and placed in a pot half an hour before they were due to be administered to the person. Handwritten entries made on some people's MARs had not been countersigned to check the accuracy of the record made.
Food items were not always safely stored and foods which had exceeded their use by date were kept. Pureed foods were put in the freezer without a label displaying what the content was and without dates to show when it was stored and a use by date. The system for labelling pre prepared foods which were put in the fridge was unreliable because staff were unclear about the information provided. Sauces in the dining room and other food items which were kept in the food stores had passed the use by date. All unlabelled food items and out of date food had been disposed of by the second day of our inspection.
People's confidentiality, dignity and privacy were not always respected. Some people's bedrooms could be viewed from the car park at the front of the building. Although bedrooms were fitted with curtains there were no nets curtains or blinds which could be used to promote people's privacy when they occupied their rooms with their curtains open. People in bed could be seen from the car park outside. The doors to offices where care plans and other personal records belonging to people were stored were left open. In addition staff communication books and monitoring records detailing personal information about people were stored in communal areas.
Although there were systems in place for checking on the quality of the service they did not always identify areas for improvement. When areas of improvement were identified the registered provider failed to act upon them to ensure the health and safety of people who used the service and others. Action plans developed in conjunction w
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FORT DAKOTA, D.T. - 1865-1869
"Seeming Protection" on the frontier
Italicized words located in glossary
Fort Dakota was a typical outpost of the frontier period. As with most temporary posts of the time, it looked more like a village than a fort since the chances of a frontal attack were remote. Few outposts across the frontier displayed stockades or other defenses. The big threats at Fort Dakota consisted of an occasional Sioux Indian running off with post horses or harassing settlers encroaching their homeland. Fort Dakota was a loosely grouped collection of buildings constructed from local naturally occurring materials surrounded by a simple rail fence to keep the grazing stock from wandering.
During the mid 1860's, members of the 6th and 7th Iowa Cavalry, and Brackett's Minnesota Cavalry were spread thinly at their posts in the Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado Territories. The number of active military posts on the northern frontier grew from five in 1860 to over thirty in 1868. Many of these were tiny garrisons large enough for only a company or two, often built beside a river by unskilled enlisted men. They used whatever materials were handy at the time such as wood, stone, and mud. These outposts were lonely little islands, situated in the midst of a vast sea of prairie grass or clustered at the foot of a mountain.
Although quiet when the Civil War began, Indian warfare emerged on the northern prairies in August of 1862, when the Santee Sioux broke out violently in Minnesota. This conflict quickly overlapped the artificial borders set up by the whites and spilled into Dakota Territory. Settlers throughout Dakota panicked and fled as rumors of war and its resulting atrocities reached settlements and farms. The thriving community of Sioux Falls, established in 1856, was one of the several communities in Dakota Territory abandoned during this time. The Sioux set the community on fire after it was abandoned and only one building survived.
The Santee Sioux, who united with the western Sioux bands, had been driven west into Dakota Territory and were determined to save their homeland from encroaching settlers and broken treaties. During the Civil War, in 1863-1864 the U.S. Government assigned volunteer and state Infantry and Cavalry troops to campaign deep into Dakota territory to remove the Sioux threat on white settlements. These campaigns left the Sioux as bitter enemies to the whites. By 1865, Sioux and Cheyenne war parties raided through most of Dakota Territory.
Members of the 6th IA Cavalry
On patrol somewhere in Dakota - Circa 1860's
Captain Daniel Eicher - 6th Iowa Cavalry
The United States government understood that a military presence in Dakota Territory would help settlers feel safe, and perhaps encourage others to move to the frontier. Therefore, a military post was established on the abandoned site of Sioux Falls City. On May 5th 1865, Lt. Colonel John Pattee of the 7th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry laid out the area for two posts, one at Sioux Falls, the other along Firesteel Creek. Pattee left Captain Daniel Eicker with a company of the 6th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry as the garrison of the post, which the volunteers dubbed 'Fort Brookings' after early settler W.W. Brookings. The men of the 6th were relieved by Company "M" of the 7th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry in the fall of 1865. They were soon joined by a company of Brackett's Minnesota Cavalry Battalion who wintered with them at the new fort. In the spring of 1866, the Minnesota Cavalry departed and were mustered out. The men of the 7th Iowa remained as the sole unit at the desolate post until the arrival of the 13th United States Infantry in June of 1866.
By late 1865, the Civil War had ended and most of the wartime volunteer and state units were withdrawn from Dakota Territory. These volunteers were replaced by hastily reorganized regiments of the regular Army, such as the 13th US Infantry. One company of this unit was transported by the steamer "Rubicon" to Sioux City, Iowa. From there they traveled outside the border of the United States of America into the Indian territory of Dakota at Fort Randall. Then, the troops marched another week to reach their final destination.
Upon their June 8, 1866 arrival, the 82 men of Company "D" relieved the remaining 19 ragged men of Company "M" 7th Iowa Cavalry. These men were eager to leave and be mustered out of service as soon as the fresh troops arrived.
Upon their arrival, the members of the 13th found four buildings: two enlisted mens barracks, a stone commissary building, and a stable along the river. Their commander, Colonel Kilburn Knox, renamed the post Fort Dakota, and put his men to work, improving and enlarging the post. By the time the Federal Government closed the post three years later in 1869, there were eighteen buildings. .
Colonel Kilburn Knox - 13th US Inf. (Circa 1863)
Tour of Fort Buildings
Illustration: soldier during 'fatigue duty'
As with most posts on the frontier, the main assignment of the soldier was "fatigue duty", a military term for manual labor. Soldiers who enlisted to provide services to make the frontier safe were often shocked to suddenly find themselves brevet architects. As one officer later commented,
"They most often made poor laborers, and labor made them poor soldiers."
Throughout this period, drudge labor occupied most of the time and energy of the troops at Fort Dakota.
During the four years of its existence, the political climate around Fort Dakota changed quickly. The pressing need for protection by the federal troops to reassure prospective settlers lessened as the Indian threat diminished. Within one year of its establishment, there was a petition before congress to have the post shut down since its immediate need had passed. This vacant expanse of land occupied by a handful of soldiers at Fort Dakota was seen as prime real estate. Land speculators vied for the chance to be the first to purchase and parcel out these holdings as soon as the army would relinquish them. Frequently the soldiers from Fort Dakota were called out to evict squatters from the boundaries of the military reservation, only to have others soon follow in their place.


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GENERAL TERMS OF USE - JAMENDO
JAMENDO is a platform for the online distribution of musical works providing services for artists, users and companies. The JAMENDO services are operated by the company under Luxembourg law:
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The services provided by JAMENDO can be found on www.jamendo.com and are hosted by Jamendo S.A. and its service providers, Broadcasting Center Europe (www.bce.lu) and Radionomy SA (www.radionomy.com).
These General Terms of Use govern the use of the JAMENDO Services. By using JAMENDO Services, whether or not they require a registration, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use.
These Terms of Use were updated in January, 2018.
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The Member commits to provide JAMENDO with correct and comprehensive information and maintain up-to-date information by using the User Account, to which registration gives access.
2.2 - Use of username and password
A username and password give access to Services restricted to Members, as well as to the User Account. The username and password are strictly personal, and should not under any circumstances be shared with or disclosed to third parties.
Members are personally responsible for their identification details and must use them in accordance with the provisions of these General Terms of Use.
Each Member shall hold JAMENDO harmless from and against any wrongful use of the Member's identification details and/or resulting in a loss arising from said identification details, whether or not fraudulent, caused by the Member's own acts or omissions, or those of a third party who has accessed the Member's identification details. Please note that JAMENDO provides no guarantees to its Members on this last point and does not have the necessary technical resources to verify the real identity of persons registering for its Services or take responsibility for the acts or omissions of such persons. JAMENDO may not be held liable in the event of a theft of identification details and/or the identity of one of its Members.
If a Member notices or suspects any fraudulent use of his or her User Account, said Member must immediately inform JAMENDO by sending an e-mail to legal@jamendo.com.
CLAUSE 3. USE OF SERVICES
3.1 - Artist Account creation
Registered Members may create one or more Artist profile by going on https://artists.jamendo.com and providing the requested information in the Artist profile creation form.
The Member represents and warrants that he or she will provide correct and complete information and maintain up-to-date information by using the Artist Account, to which the Artist profile creation gives access.
3.1.1 - Works publication and withdrawal by Artists
Artists shall publish their Works directly online through their Artist Account by clicking on "Upload your music".
For each publication, the Artist commits to fill in the requested information sheet by specifying for each Work and each Album, the real name of all right holders and the License selected (see Clause 3.1.2 below).
The Artist is responsible for providing JAMENDO the Materials that may be used for the distribution and promotion of the Works simultaneously with providing the Works with.
The Artist may withdraw all or part of his Works at any time, through his Artist Account.
In any case, the Artist represents that he has been informed and accepts that any Works that have been downloaded by Users or any third party authorised by JAMENDO prior to their withdrawal from the Services may continue to be distributed, shared and reproduced by any means. The Artist represents that he will hold JAMENDO harmless from and against any third-party claims in this respect.
3.1.2 - Selection of the Creative Commons License or "CC" License
Artists shall select a CC License when they publish their Works and Materials on JAMENDO, for each Work or for an entire Album. Depending on the type of CC License chosen by the Artist, Users may benefit from more or less extensive rights on the Works and the Materials of the Artist. Certain CC Licenses enable Users to make commercial use of the Artist's Works without compensation for the latter. Should the Artist wish to participate in the Commercial Programs offered by the JAMENDO LICENSING service, which may or may not give rise to compensation for the Artist, it is advisable for the Artist to preferably opt for a non-commercial CC License (NC) from among the six (6) CC Licenses listed below.
(1) CC-BY (Attribution) : enables users to distribute, remix, arrange, and adapt your work, even for commercial purposes, provided that credit of the original creation of the Work is attributed to you by citing your name.
(2) CC-BY-SA (Attribution - Sharing under the Same Conditions) : enables users to remix, arrange, and adapt your Work, even for commercial purposes, provided that credit is given to you by citing your name and that the creations derived from your Work are distributed under identical conditions.
(3) CC-BY-ND (Attribution - No Derivative Works) : allows redistribution, whether or not for commercial purposes, provided that the original work is distributed unmodified and in its entirety, with attribution and citing of your name.
(4) CC-BY-NC (Attribution - Non-commercial Use) : enables users to remix, arrange, and adapt your Work for non-commercial purposes and, although the creations derived from your Work must credit you by citing your name and not constitute a commercial use, they shall not be distributed under the same conditions.
(5) CC-BY-NC-SA (Attribution - Non-commercial Use - Sharing under the Same Conditions) : enables users to remix, arrange and adapt your work for non-commercial purposes provided that you are credited by citing your name and that the creations derived from your Work are distributed under the same conditions.
(6) CC-BY-NC-ND (Attribution - Non-commercial Use - No Derivative Works) : this license only authorizes users to download and share your Works provided that you are credited by citing your name, but they may not be modified in any way whatsoever nor used for commercial purposes.
3.1.3 - Rights granted to JAMENDO
The Artist grants JAMENDO, for the duration the Work is online, the worldwide, royalty free and non-exclusive rights to:
reproduce and have reproduced, fix and have fixed on any media, publish and have published, broadcast and have broadcast, distribute and have distributed or transfer in any format, the Works and the Materials provided by the Artist;
adapt the Works and the Materials in any format to meet JAMENDO's or its partners' requirements;
use the Works and the Materials on any media to promote the Artist and JAMENDO;
monetize the JAMENDO's services by inserting advertisement that may or may not remunerate Artists.
3.1.4 - Member Artist obligations
The Artist guarantees that he is the sole right holder on the Work or that he officially represents and has the capacity to commit in the name of all right holders on the Work.
The Artist also guarantees, or guarantees on behalf of the right holders he represents, that he holds sufficient rights on the Work and that he is not bound, in any possible way, to any public or private entity, and especially but not limited to, that he is not a member nor contractually bound to any collecting society in the world, nor any entity performing the same duty, any private company and notably distributing company, broadcaster, producer or label, in a manner that would restrict his right to grant to JAMENDO or its Users, the rights and Licenses provided for by these General Terms of Use.
The Artist commits, or commits on behalf of the right holders he represents, not to violate these General Terms of Use and notably the obligations enumerated in the current Clause, for the duration of Works being on JAMENDO, and not act in any manner which may conflict with rights acquired by third parties, notably JAMENDO's Users, which may continue after an eventual withdrawal of the Works from JAMENDO.
The Artist guarantees JAMENDO, from and against any claim which may result from the violation of the obligations enumerated in the current Clause.
The Artist commits not to promote competitors from JAMENDO or JAMENDO LICENSING on the Services including, but not limited to, Artists' profiles, Albums' page, Works' pages, forums, chatting area, and pages dedicated to JAMENDO or JAMENDO LICENSING on third parties services (notably social networks).
JAMENDO may request the Artist to complete and sign a Certification at the time the Works are uploaded in which he reiterates some of the obligations enumerated in the current Clause and in these General Terms of Use.
3.2 - Technical Information
The Works may be downloaded in MP3 format and may be offered in different formats from time to time depending on the evolution of the Services. Third-party software may be required for the downloading of the Works.
JAMENDO does not warrant that the Services will operate without interruption or error, nor that access to the Services will be granted at all times, in particular in the following situations:
faulty use of the Services owing to unsuitable equipment;
malfunctions caused by Your Internet service provider; Internet network congestion.
JAMENDO may temporarily suspend the operation of the Services in order to implement improvements or perform maintenance and will use best endeavours to give You advance notice of any suspension.
3.3 - User obligations
3.3.1 - Use of Artists' Works
Each Work is made available to Users under one of the Licenses offered by JAMENDO. The chosen License is indicated on the page dedicated to each Work by an icon or any other mean. By clicking on this icon, You can find information about the terms and conditions on which the Artist and JAMENDO allow You to use the Work.
You commit to use the Work in conformity to these General Terms of Use and the License under which the Work has been published, and more generally, not to infringe any intellectual property rights held by Artists.
JAMENDO offers the possibility for Artists and Users to insert on their blogs, personal websites, social networks profiles and more generally any website, a software composed of a code, a Widget and a player allowing one or more Works to be played. This insertion, and the way in which the Works are distributed, must comply with the provisions of the Licenses and these General Terms of Use. Additionally, they must also comply with the guidelines of Your hosting company.
You agree to hold JAMENDO harmless from and against any claims by any third party in relation to any complaint and/or action regarding the insertion and/or distribution of the Works.
3.3.2 - Use of JAMENDO services
You undertake not to post inappropriate or abusive content and to act loyally towards JAMENDO, its partners and all Users.
Accordingly, You undertake to refrain from publishing, by any mean, any content or information, in any form whatsoever:
that may directly or indirectly harm any third party (natural person, legal person or group of persons);
that is defamatory, insulting, obscene, immoral, offensive or violent, or that incites any type of political, racist or xenophobic violence (whether physical, verbal or psychological violence), and more generally that violates the laws in force;
having the nature of personal information concerning a Member or any third party without said person's express consent;
that infringes the intellectual property rights of their authors and/or other right holders, whether alone or incorporated into or in association with any other content;
and not using technologies of such a nature as to reduce, disrupt and/or prevent the normal operation of the Services;
You also undertake not to infringe the intellectual property rights of the content to which You have access when using the Services.
You agree that You are solely liable for the distribution of any text, information, data, hypertext links, music, sound recordings, photographs, drawings, videos, messages, tags or any other Materials through the Services.
In the event of a failure by a User to comply with any of the provisions of the General Terms of Use, JAMENDO may, without any prior warning, take any measure and notably shut down the User Account. Furthermore, JAMENDO may bring legal proceedings against the User.
In the event of a claim, complaint or proceedings arising out of wrongful conduct by a User or Member that directly or indirectly breach the provisions of these General Terms of Use, JAMENDO may take action against the User or Member whose acts gave rise to the claim, complaint or proceedings.
CLAUSE 4. PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
Please refer to the "Privacy Policy" section on JAMENDO's website.
CLAUSE 5. DONATIONS
Users can support Artists by making donations using the payment service provided by JAMENDO and notably Paypal. By using this service, you are subject to this service's general terms of use and JAMENDO may not be held liable for said use.
The Artist shall provide the information required for this purpose in his Artist Account and notably his Paypal account name in order to receive the donations.
CLAUSE 6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Apart from the intellectual property rights regarding the Works, JAMENDO is the sole holder of the intellectual property rights relating to the trademarks, patents, software, logos, graphics, photographs and animations contained on the Services. They may not be reproduced without JAMENDO's express consent.
JAMENDO hereby grants You a license to use them, strictly limited to accessing, downloading, reproducing on any digital media and use them, for private and personal purposes only, within the framework of Your use of the Services and for such time as You are registered for the Services.
When providing JAMENDO with content, of any kind whatsoever, excepts for Works which are subject to a specific treatment in these Terms of Use, You grant JAMENDO a worldwide, royalty free license for the duration of the publication of said contents. This license authorizes JAMENDO to reproduce, display, translate, digitize and use for advertising, commercial or non-commercial purposes, modify and adapt all of the contents for its Services. JAMENDO is also authorized to grant all of these rights to any third party or to any partners, for the exercise of these rights in accordance with the provisions of these Terms of Use.
With respect to the all Works and any other copyrighted material owned by third parties in the Services and/or on any Jamendo website, Jamendo is an Online Service Provider under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act or "DMCA" (17 U.S.C. § 512). Jamendo has implemented procedures to promptly remove such content or information submitted by users when it receives a proper notification of claimed infringement ("Notification"). Such Notification must be in writing and include the following six (6) elements: (1) physical or electronic signature of a person who is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right alleged to have been infringed; (2) identification of the copyrighted work alleged to have been infringed; (3) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, and which should be removed (or have access disabled); (4) information sufficient to permit Jamendo to contact the complaining party, such as name, address, telephone number, and if the complaining party has an email address, the email address where the complaining party can be reached; (5) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and (6) a statement that the Notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. The remaining procedures will be followed with respect to any counter-notifications received by Jamendo as well. Please submit any such takedown notice under the DMCA to copyright@jamendo.com with a copy mailed to:
Jamendo S.A.
76 avenue de la Liberté
CLAUSE 7. LIABILITY
7.1 - JAMENDO's responsibility
JAMENDO may not be held liable neither regarding third party content and services described in paragraph 7.2, nor for the content published on Services by Users, without a prior notification.
JAMENDO have no general obligation to monitor content transferred or stored via its Services. If you find or consider that content on JAMENDO is manifestly illegal or violate these Terms of Use you can send a notification by e-mail to legal@jamendo.com or click on the link "Report abuse or copyrighted content" located on Works' pages. You may also consult the page "Report Abuse" in which you will find more information about the procedure to respect in order to report an abuse.
JAMENDO may not be held liable in case of any damages, direct or incidental, including but not limited to profit or customers loss, loss of data or information stored on the Services, all Users being advised to store a backup copy of all their data and contents stored on the Services.
7.2 - Services and contents provided by third parties
JAMENDO's Services may include links to other websites, and services and contents provided by third parties, including but not limited to social networks sharing buttons (for example Twitter and Facebook). JAMENDO does not have the control on these services and contents nor on websites accessible by said links.
JAMENDO's liability may not be held for the use of these materials provided by third parties. By using these services, You accept to be subject to the service's terms of use and/or privacy policy.
CLAUSE 8. TERMS OF USE MODIFICATION
JAMENDO may modify these General Terms of Use at any time. Unregistered Users shall refer to the latest version available on JAMENDO's website. Registered Members will be informed of the modifications through their User Account or through a newsletter.
Without manifestation by the User of his will to unregister from JAMENDO, the new version of the General Terms of Use shall be considered as tacitly accepted fifteen (15) days after the notification to the User by JAMENDO of the existence of a new version.
CLAUSE 9. SEVERABILITY
In the event that one of the Clauses of the General Terms of Use is held to be invalid, the parties hereby agree that the other Clauses of the General Terms of Use shall remain valid and that the Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect.
CLAUSE 10. APPLICABLE LAW
These General Terms of Use are governed by the laws of Luxembourg. Any dispute relating to their interpretation and/or their execution shall be referred to the Luxembourgish jurisdictions excluding any other competent jurisdiction.
CLAUSE 11. LANGUAGE
These General Terms of Use have been originally drawn up in English. In the event of any discrepancy between these General Terms of Use translated into other languages and the English version, the English version shall prevail.


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Integrating SVG into your site
Posted in Guest Posts, Web Design
Support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is now excellent across all modern browsers, and the image format appears in sometimes surprising contexts on many different kinds of web pages. But despite existing as a standard for almost two decades, SVG remains somewhat new for some designers and developers, leaving them confused as to how it should used on their site.
First, some reasons as to why you should be using SVG:
Tiny file size
When well-designed and delivered (more on that below) a typical SVG is far smaller than an equivalent PNG, meaning that pages that use them load faster for users, with lower bandwidth costs for you.
Infinitely scalable, with no loss in quality
Because they are built from mathematical descriptions, rather than the fixed pixels of bitmap graphics, SVG drawings can be scaled up and down with no loss in quality, making them perfect for modern responsive sites.
Addressable drawing components in the DOM
SVG is sometimes referred to as "drawing with markup": every single element in an SVG illustration is addressable via the DOM, meaning that CSS and JavaScript can manipulate parts of an SVG document live in the browser without influencing the whole. Unlike bitmap graphics, every separate shape in an SVG can have its own id or class.
Easy to modify and adapt
That same quality of addressable drawing components means that well-formed SVG documents can be modified very easily, in any text editor, without needing the specialised apps required for bitmaps. And because SVG is DOM-addressable, elements in the drawing can be modified with CSS.
Creations and constructions
The qualities of SVG make it ideal for many images on your site, including:
line illustrations and drawings
Tools for the trade
While you can create an SVG document using any text editor, a vector illustration application like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape is usually a better choice (although it should be noted that other apps — including 3D programs like Blender and server-side apps — can export SVG too).
Regardless of what you use, you should be aware that SVG creation from apps can still sometimes leave a bit to be desired: the resulting document is often over-coded, and occasionally poorly formatted. The .svg file can be made smaller, more compact and easier to alter by passing it through an optimizer like SVGOMG. Sometimes passing a malformed .svg document through the W3C validator can help you spot problems in the drawing.
Integrating SVG
There are three primary ways that SVG can be used directly on a web page:
Directly in the code
Because SVG is based on XML, it can be integrated directly in the code for your page. Inlining the SVG code reduces latency and the overall load time of your page (although this may not continue to have quite the same advantage as the adoption of HTTP2, and its associated advantages in loading, grow over time). It also has the advantage of being directly addressable with CSS and JavaScript.
Referenced as an <img>
Just like bitmap images, an SVG file can be referenced from an <img> tag, or via CSS as a background image. This is often the best course of action if the components of the SVG don't need individual attention once the image is presented on the page, since interactive CSS and JavaScript will be nullified by the security restrictions of HTML images. (However, the SVG image as a whole can still be manipulated, using CSS or JS on the page itself.)
Inserted as an <object>
A slightly older-school approach, but one that allows full CSS and JavaScript interactivity to be retained inside the .svg file, while leaving the code of your page uncluttered. Has the same potential latency issues as the <img> approach.
Additions and complications
As mentioned, there are a few things vector illustration applications currently don't do with SVG. While you'll have to add these features via a code editor, they can make a great addition to your site:
Adaptive SVG
As I mentioned, individual components of SVG can be labeled with an id or class, meaning that they can be manipulated within media queries:
@media screen and (max-width: 900px) { path#right { display: none; } }
This means that you can turn off and on different features of an SVG illustration at different viewport sizes, creating opportunities for adaptive logos (as shown above) or illustrations that show greater or less detail as the viewport shrinks and expands… which is entirely suited for responsive design, which is about showing visitors relevant content at an appropriate level of detail for where they are, and what device and screen size they are using, rather than "squishing" the same content down into smaller and smaller spaces.
Check out this adaptive branding module:
See the Pen Adaptive Branding Module: Coca-Cola by Dudley Storey (@dudleystorey) on CodePen.
And this prototype:
See the Pen Adaptive SVG Branding Module Prototype by Dudley Storey (@dudleystorey) on CodePen.
SVG Interactive Imagemaps
Individual shapes in SVG can also be linked; unlike linked HTML elements, which always create rectangular "hotspots", linked SVG shapes are always pixel-perfect to the actual shape, meaning that they are perfect for interactive maps and other applications:
See the Pen Interactive Geographical Map w/ SVG & JavaScript by Dudley Storey (@dudleystorey) on CodePen.
There are two particularly under-appreciated aspects of SVG: <pattern> and <filter>. Patterns take a "swatch" of an SVG illustration and tessellate them across the viewport, making them a perfect method of creating easily-adjustable, scalable, and fast-loading background image patterns.
See the Pen SVG Scales by Dudley Storey (@dudleystorey) on CodePen.
Browsers have matured to the point at which using SVG as a first-class image format in your sites is now a foregone conclusion, taking full advantage of vector graphics. With this brief guide, I hope that you are inspired to use SVG more in your own sites and web experiments.
By Dudley Storey
in Guest Posts, Web Design
Dudley Storey is a designer, developer, writer and teacher, and author of several books, most recently Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5. He teaches web development at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, although he was born and raised in New Zealand. He writes books and his blog (thenewcode.com), and presents at conferences.


Fares said he had no details on the terms of the deal.
The action was led by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader jailed by Israel for life for five murders. By the end of strike, some 850 were still participating. Barghouti's lawyer was finally allowed to meet him a month after the strike started.
"I am today warning the Security Council that unless urgent measures are taken to de-escalate, the crisis risks spiraling out of control with devastating consequences for Palestinians and Israelis alike", he said via a video link.
Israeli officials had dismissed the strike as a political move orchestrated by Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who has always been seen as a potential successor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Eighteen prisoners were hospitalized during the strike and will return to prison when their medical condition improves, the prison service said. But his wife Fadwa dismissed the footage as a "fake... meant to break the morale of prisoners" and called on Pope Francis to intervene.
The United Nations has set up an emergency fuel operation to help maintain essential services for water, health and sanitation, but 'our reserves will run out in the coming weeks, ' he warned.
The restoration of the bi-monthly visits, a system that worked until past year, was one of the demands of the strikers, who also called for the end of solitary confinement, torture, medical negligence and administrative detention, as well as access to education and medical care.
As Abbas met with Trump, Palestinians observed a commercial strike and held public demonstrations in solidarity with the prisoners. As a "gesture" for Ramadan, which began Friday, the Service is granting terrorist prisoners a second visit by family each month, which will be paid for by the PA.
In a press statement later Saturday, Fatah movement expressed "its pride in the resistance and triumph" of the prisoners, saying that they recorded "the highest of level of pride and dignity for the entire Palestinian people".
In 2013, the late anti-apartheid figure, Ahmed Kathrada, and Fadwa Barghouti launched the International Campaign to Free Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian Political Prisoners from Robben Island (South Africa), where the notorious apartheid-era prison in which Nelson Mandela and his comrades were incarcerated, is located.


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Statement by USCM CEO & Executive Director Tom Cochran on Nationwide Injunction of Executive Order Sanctuary Cities Provisions
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran issued the following statement on today's ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California:
The nation's mayors applaud today's decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California which granted San Francisco and Santa Clara County's motion for a nationwide preliminary injunction, thus enjoining nationwide the provisions in the interior enforcement executive order applying to sanctuary jurisdictions. We stand with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and the leaders of other local governments who have challenged the provisions in the executive order.
The Court found that the Counties demonstrated that they are likely to succeed on their claim that the Executive Order purports to wield powers exclusive to Congress and violates the Tenth and Fifth Amendments.
Today's decision comes just hours after a meeting the Conference of Mayors had with Attorney General Jeff Sessions in which the mayors and police chief present were told that the definition of a sanctuary city is based on compliance with 8 U.S.C. 1373.
The Conference has long opposed the withholding of funds from so-called "sanctuary cities," which, of course, is a political term not a legal one. In partnership with police chiefs, mayors have strong reservations about any efforts, either through executive action or legislation to deny federal funds to cities that aim to build trusting and supportive relations with immigrant communities.
By Sara Durr|2017-04-26T11:36:53-05:00April 25, 2017|Criminal and Social Justice, Immigration Reform, Mayors and Police Chiefs, Media Advisories, News, Press Room|


The International Rabia Platform declared 14 August -- the day when hundreds of peaceful pro-democracy protesters were massacred in Egypt in 2013 -- as "the World Rabia Day."
"We declare August 14 as the World Rabia Day in order not to forget the Rabia massacre and to support the pro-democracy struggle of Egyptians," the group said in a statement Wednesday.
The ouster sparked peaceful pro-democracy protests across the country in which thousands of demonstrators set up camps at al-Nahda and Rabia al-Adawiya squares in Cairo.
"In the aftermath of the coup, more than 6,000 people were killed, thousands were left injured and more than 20,000 were arrested," the International Rabia Platform said in the statement.
"The Rabia sign was born at the Rabia al-Adawiya square as a freedom, democracy, justice and legitimacy symbol and within short time spread all over the world," the statement said. "The Rabia sign became the freedom sign of not only Egyptians but all the world's oppressed peoples."
Rabia means four or fourth in Arabic. Just a few hours before the massacre on August 14, anti-coup protesters in Egypt were struggling to voice their demands to the world by raising their four fingers.
The platform called on the international community and all people who believe in democracy to commemorate the Rabia victims and to support the democratic struggle of Egyptians.
On August 14, not only Egypt's democracy, but also the universal values of humanity were attacked, the statement said.


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April was an eventful month in China. Here's a summary of the most important Internet censorship news that we detected.
There was an extraordinary Internet outage in China on April 12. Many reported that all foreign websites were unaccessible for about two hours. Our data confirms that several websites that are otherwise not blocked were not accessible, but interestingly other foreign websites were still available. For more info on what happened, check out our answer on Quora. Some people suggested that the authorities were trying out a new version of the Great Firewall, which would be more restrictive than before. Our data does not support this claim. As you can see in the first graph below, there has not been any major change in the number of major websites that are blocked in China. Furthermore, the second graph shows that foreign websites were actually faster to access in April than during previous months.
Google Drive was launched on April 24. Within three days, it was blocked in China. This is similar to Google Plus which was launched on June 28 last year, and confirmed to be blocked since July 4. It is likely that the Great Firewall has a special team dedicated to monitoring and blocking new Google services. They are probably keen not to repeat the mistake of Google Mail which was left unblocked and, meanwhile, switched over to encrypted communications only (meaning that email content can't be intercepted). The authorites would probably like to block it. The only reason we can see that they don't is that they're afraid of the reactions because so many (especially educated, big-city people) are already using it.
Curiously, https://google.com was blocked on March 29 (and has been blocked before) but https://www.google.com is not blocked. The latter redirects users in China to http://www.google.com.hk (note the HTTP, as in not encrypted). Much more importantly, the encrypted Hong Kong version of Google at https://www.google.com.hk remains unblocked. While not on by default, it does allow Chinese users to search for any of the hundreds of keywords that are otherwise blocked.
https://code.google.com was blocked on March 29 and has stayed that way, though the unencrypted version remains accessible (http://code.google.com). The same thing happened to the encrypted version of Google Maps (https://maps.google.com) - the unencrypted version also remains (http://maps.google.com).
Several previously unblocked keywords were blocked on Google Search. These include google: 九长老 - a reference to the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee, google: 政变 - meaning coup d'état, google: 共匪 - meaning communist bandit, and google: 滤霸, 驴爸 which was unblocked again on April 27.
The encrypted version of YouTube - https://www.youtube.com - was accessible in China for several days in March. Since March 29, though, it has been fully blocked again, suggesting that the Great Firewall is now better at blocking encrypted websites. HTTPS makes online censorship more difficult in that intercepting network devices don't know what the web traffic is. So while a web request to http://www.youtube.com can be blocked simply by detecting that the user is trying to access a blacklisted URL, a request to https://www.youtube.com can only be hindered by either blocking the IP address of the server or by DNS poisoning the domain lookup. The former is difficult because IP addresses tend to change over time, and the latter is imperfect because it's decentralized and easier to get around than other forms of censorship. For example, the encrypted YouTube URL was tested eight times during April. Five different IP addresses were returned on the different test occasions. Only on three of the occasions was a completely different IP address returned (suggesting DNS Poisoning). On all eight test ocassions though, the website was blocked. This suggests that the Great Firewall is now either blocking ranges of IP addresses, or continuously monitoring changes in IP addresses and blocking them accordingly.
weibo: 王立军, the former Chongqing police chief who triggered the biggest political scandal in China in many years, was blocked on or before April 10 (but was not blocked on April 3). As part of the same scandal, weibo: heywood was blocked on or before April 14. weibo: 薄熙来 himself was blocked on or before April 10.
Other keywords were unblocked. weibo: 蔡赴朝, the name of a CCP politican, was unblocked on or before April 21. weibo: 女同 - lesbian - was unblocked on or before April 7.
You can lookup and test any keyword for censorship on Sina Weibo here. Also much recommended are BlockedOnWeibo, a blog which publishes frequent news on keywords blocked on Weibo, and WeiboScope, a database of deleted Weibo posts.
Other major Weibo news of April is that Sina is still avoiding fully implementing real-name registration requirements and that Sina as well as Tencent Weibo turned off commenting for three days starting on March 31.
The English en.wikipedia: Huang_Qi entry (a currently imprisoned human-rights activist) was blocked all of April, and then unblocked again in early May.
http://www.paypal.com was inaccessible on a couple of occasions in April and is consistently very slow in China.
http://www.ameblo.jp was unblocked in March and stayed unblocked throughout April.
http://www.netflix.com was blocked on March 26 and has stayed blocked since.
http://www.isohunt.com was blocked on April 4 and has stayed blocked since.
http://cn.uncyclopedia.wikia.com - A Chinese-language wiki - was blocked on April 9 and has stayed blocked since.
http://www.bigpoint.com - a gaming website - was unblocked at the end of March and has stayed accessible since.
http://www.kony2012.com - a campaign website - was partially blocked already in March and fully blocked throughout April.
http://www.sinocism.com - a blog covering news in China - was blocked at the end of March and has stayed blocked since.
There are many ways to get around the Great Firewall of China: VPNs, proxies, Tor etc. Some of them cost money and some are free. They are all bound to be unreliable though because they depend on a server used to tunnel the web traffic in order to circumvent the censorship. If the IP address of the server being used is blocked, the service ceases to work. It can be fixed of course, by changing to another server, but meanwhile you may find yourself without any means of accessing blocked websites. Until now.
FanQiang@GreatFire.org is a circumvention tool that is very difficult to block. This is because it relies on email and not HTTP traffic. All you need to do is to send an email to FanQiang@GreatFire.org and enter the URL of the website that you want to view as the email subject. Within a few seconds (sometimes longer) you will receive a PDF version of the website.
For example, create a new email with the subject http://boxun.com and send it off to FanQiang@GreatFire.org. You will receive an updated PDF copy of that website - blocked in China - shortly thereafter.
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AOA to all: it is good news on the side of KPK but in Punjab and Federal did not have courage to fight the case. But the KPK members of the assembly should take place before the national assembly for up gradation of APS in BPS-17. Because most of members belong to KPK and most of them are attending the same in national assembly session. so, it my request to the KPK approach to KPK national member to putup case in the National Assembly so that up-gradation be made throughout Pakistan.
Punjab Govt has upgraded the post of stenographer equal to Fed Govt stenotypist from BPS-14 to BPS-15 and also granted time scale promotion to its employees.
Fed Govt should also upgrade the post of Stenotypist from BPS-14 to BPS-16 and likewise upgraded Assistants and introduce time scale promotion for all employees.
My department was working with ministry of education but in result of 18th amendment/devolution it is now in Punjab govt. So my designation is stenotypist and in Punjab stenotypist is called stenographer. Now in recent upgradation BS-14 to 15, some of my seniors are refusing to upgrade my post with objection that stenographer has been upgraded and I'm stenotypist. What is the solution now?
As the posts of clerks were upgraded, specially assistant from BS-14 to 16, is it fair upgrading the Stenos from 14 to 15? As stenos have always been in higher grade than assistant.
after grade 15 in Punjab nobody protested against this decision steno association is also silent in Punjab and federal why?
AOA - to All Steno Brothers: What will be the fate of Stenotypists and Stenographers those who were appointed in 1980's. I was appointed in 1984 in BPS-12 and now in BPS-14 no time scale no promotion only upgradation. When I was appointed Junior Clerk was in BPS-5 now in BPS-11 and Assistant/Head Clerk was in BPS-11 now in BPS-16. There is no promotion only two grade up (IS IT JUSTICE By this way Stenotypists should be in BPS-17 but no justice and those who are nearing to retire will get any benefit or not. JUSTICE MAY BE DONE ELSE ALLAH TAA'LA WILL ASK YOU. IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE. DO JUSTICE WITH US.
A.o.A khalid sb ye jo case supreme court me he, APS k time scale keliye ya 10% Quota from APS to Suprintendent? Prom from BS-16 to BS-16????
All our colleagues i.e. APS/STENO are looking toward you sir, because u r the only leader of our community. Once again you are requested to kindly lead our community accordingly.
AOA, Dear Colleagues, Please approach to Shahbaz Sharif or Maryam Nawaz have positive thinking and on the other hand, the government is going to complete the tenure. It is a good chance to approach to them. Our struggle should be like the time scale like ie. in Private Secretary case. The same criteria should be fixed. If any body go to writ in court, the decision should be in our favour.
2. APS (After Completion of 5-years service in BPS-17)....Granted BPS-18.
Nobody is looking us and time is going fast and faster nearing to retirement if justice do not make in time means no justice we the seniors are not warded BPS-17 why?????????
Dear Zulfiqar Awan sahab. I am ready to file case of time scale BS-17 to APS but who will support me? I spent a lot of money on litigation from my own pocket.
Kash aap 10% qouta for promtion in Supdt categoery case file na krte tu na time waste hota aur na money.
Hope you would be fine, we feel great after your coming into action once again that too after so many months, my humble suggestion is we must stick to time scale as you rightly suggested on the pattern of P.S this way we can get promotion up to BS-18 at the minimum. We will not disappoint you as this is fight of all of us and we have to be united being limited in Nos but thanks God working with very high ranked officers which will definitely give us an edge. It is never too late to chose the right path and then stick to it and we must now concentrate on time scale promotion for APS and no other thing. Another humble suggestion is late sitting allowance is not being given to APS who worked most in late hours with the senior officers but could not get this being in BS-16, this condition of BS-16 must be finished and LSA be allowed to APS/P.S also. Further more special Pay for APS/P.S must also be raised at least 100% because it is too meager an amount, keeping in view their nature of duty. My regards to my great leader and brother and do not worry we all will share as much we can and Insha Allah we will get our genuine right too.
Thanks for reply. I hope all of our colleagues depressed from the present Government becoz this Government will not give us benefit. One more thing depressed me that every Govt. give the favour to LDC UDC AND ASSISTANT but STENO/APS are NOT. I cannot understand this discrimination between two category.... i.e. LDC/UDC/ASSISTANT AND STENO/APS.


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Gies Business names Experiential Learning office for Magelli
May 20, 2019 seoexpert University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 0
Gies College of Business is proud to announce the Office of Experiential Learning will now be known as the Magelli Office of Experiential Learning. The naming, which was approved by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees at their May 16 meeting after consultation with the Chancellor's Joint Advisory Committee on Investment, Licensing, and Naming Rights, will honor longtime faculty member and friend Paul J. Magelli. At Gies Business, learning by doing is in our DNA, and it's how we help students put their purpose into practice. For 25 years, there was no greater champion of that philosophy than Magelli.
"Paul Magelli stood tall even among the giants of this College's history, and he left an indelible mark on thousands of students," said Jeffrey R. Brown, Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor of Business and Dean of Gies College of Business. "He was a true visionary, who spearheaded some of the incredible experiential learning programs that have become cornerstones of the Gies Business experience."
For many years, the Office of Experiential Learning has been the vehicle that has delivered the promise of learning by doing to Gies students. Opportunities to gain hands-on experience are ingrained throughout the curriculum at Gies Business, and they include working on real-world projects for Fortune 100 corporations, mid-sized and startup companies, and nonprofit organizations. Undergraduate students conduct projects in Business 301 – the largest experiential learning course in the nation – and through Illinois Business Consulting, the world's largest professionally-managed, student-run consulting organization. Graduate students in finance, management, technology management, and the MBA program also regularly consult for and analyze businesses.
The results of these efforts by the Magelli Office of Experiential Learning speak for themselves. Of the many students who participated in semester-long client projects over the last two years, 89% say learning by doing improved their Gies experience, and 95% say they have a better story to tell recruiters. Clients clearly see the benefit as well, rating their satisfaction with Gies experiential learning as a 4.8 out of 5. Out of the 125 clients who participated in a project with Gies students, 96% say they would do another project.
"This is the direction higher education is moving and we are at the forefront," said Andrew Allen, the Director of the Magelli Office of Experiential Learning. "Experiential learning at Gies is not just a one-off course. It's embedded in the design of our programs. As a result, our employers and alumni tell us that our graduates are better prepared to hit the ground running and add value from day one on the job."
Magelli devoted much of his life to education. He earned three degrees from the University of Illinois, and then he returned to work at the university in various capacities from 1989 until his death in 2016 at age 85. Magelli served as an assistant dean of the MBA program, assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, associate dean and director of budgets, and visiting professor of economics. His mission at Illinois was clear: to create an environment that ensured engaging, meaningful, hands-on experiences for each and every student.
"Our family is so humbled and pleased that Gies College of Business has chosen to honor Paul in this special way," said his wife Karolyn. "He devoted so much of his life to the University of Illinois, and he took great joy and pride in mentoring students and preparing them for success in life. The naming of this office in Paul's honor is the perfect way to ensure his legacy lives on for future generations of students and entrepreneurs."
Under Magelli's leadership, the College established the Office for the Study of Business Issues in 1995, which later became Illinois Business Consulting (IBC). In 2004, Magelli was instrumental in establishing what has become the Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, another initiative that builds on the College's commitment to experiential learning through real-world entrepreneurial opportunities.
"Gies Business' leadership as an early adopter and continued innovator in experiential learning is a direct reflection of Paul's influence," said Brown. "He knew that students could discover their purpose when they gain real-world experience guided by the wisdom and expertise of business leaders, and he worked enthusiastically and tirelessly to provide that experience for as many students as possible."
For thousands of alumni, faculty, and industry professionals, Paul Magelli's name is synonymous with experiential learning and its long and proud history at Gies College of Business. The Magelli Office of Experiential Learning is a fitting tribute to this outstanding educator and mentor, and it is also a reflection of the College's continued commitment to innovation in learning by doing—a commitment that began with Paul Magelli.
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The 1.5 m solar telescope GREGOR was built at the Observatorio del Teide by a German consortium led by the Leibniz-Institut for Solar Physics (KIS), with the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung Lindau and the Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen (until 2008) as partners. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Astromomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic contributed to the telescope or the instrumentation. Since 2014 GREGOR is used for scientific observations.
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Q: structured/combined logging with Log4J I hope you can help me.
I have a web service that needs to log transactions. Since there are many hits, the log statements appears disjoint/fragmented in the log file.
I've considered passing a StringBuilder instance through-out the layers and appending the statements to this instance, then I log its contents once at the very end (finally clause in the main controller) before returning a response to the client.
This seems unnecessary and I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do it with Log4J.
Can anyone shed light on the issue?
Thanks

A: the good things is that you are using Log4j. The library itself implements the concept of nested diagnostic context (org.apache.log4j.NDC) and mapped diagnostic context (org.apache.log4j.MDC). I reckon you should definitely have a look at both, because those allows you to build some sort of the context that you can use in your log output layout.

A: You might consider turning the problem around: instead of consolidating all of the pieces of an entry when logging at runtime, consolidate them later during the analysis of the data.
For example, we have an application that logs a lot of data, where fast response is important. We recently implemented a (custom-built) system that logs to what is effictively a relational database. However, the logging portion of it is optomized for logging; we simply append tuple data to the logfile in the order that the application generates it. We have tools that can do queries against this format, and also plan to generate  new versions of the database stored in a different format when we start getting annoyed that every query against the log format effectively requires a table scan of every table in the database.
Even if you can't make direct use of this technique, just considering it may give you ideas for doing something better within Log4J.

A: Do you really need to have all the log statements in order I mean they are being logged as they occur. If you change the order you might miss the sequence of some events which you may need to track down tricky bugs.
Can you not add an identifier to your messages like start them with a thread id or user id from which the request is originating, this way you can then run queries on the logs using something like grep.
grep userId *.log

the statement will return all the log statements for that user in the correct order and its fast.
We use this technique on a high throughput trading platform and it is the easiest way of following a trade or user request through the system in the log files.
It also doesn't require extending or writing your own logger.

A: We needed to solve something similar in the past. We have created an enveloped message object holding also metadata about message (e.g. user transaction id) and a custom appender class. In this appender class we are using instanceof statement to get the metadata  from the envelope instead just simply calling toString (which should return a nice log for general appenders).
Or you can consider using SLF4J and it's standard capability to pass Marker objects with log messages. E.g. see Javadoc for their debug(Marker marker, String msg) method overload.

A: One more idea, instead of passing a StringBuilder instance through-out the layers, which might lead to pretty awkward API (additional method parameters), you could consider using java.lang.ThreadLocal to hold the current context that could be dumped to the log at the very end.


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Rahul Dravid Signed as Brand Ambassador for LaunchMyCareer
New Delhi, 31st August 2022: The world's first youth-focused, career-success platform – LaunchMyCareer (LMC) is delighted to announce Rahul Dravid, Former Captain, Indian Cricket Team, as its brand ambassador. Mr. Dravid will feature in LMC's upcoming 360° campaigns, propelling LMC to expand its pan-India reach. Signing an iconic sports figure such as Rahul Dravid will enable the edutech start-up to swiftly reach its target audience, while also striking the right chord with parents, wider family members, schools and other parties interested in the future development of our young people.
LMC is the world's first youth-centric, career-success platform, preparing students to succeed in the workforce of tomorrow. It immerses today's youth within a dynamic landscape of careers through career discovery, career guidance, study abroad guidance, and career-linked learning.
As an upcoming edutech power brand, LMC aims to democratize "access to professional career guidance for holistic career success," making this readily available to everyone. A prolific team of trained and seasoned career counsellors who provide value-driven guidance and support throughout the student lifecycle ensures that only the highest service and quality standards are maintained.
The platform has been officially launched and can be accessed at launchmycareer.com. The core offering can be enhanced through subscription to additional premium guidance and support packages that can be availed of at very reasonable prices.
Commenting on the launch, Ankur Aggarwal, MD, and Co-Founder of LaunchMyCareer said, "We are thrilled and honoured to collaborate with one of India's most iconic sports persons and celebrities, Mr. Rahul Dravid. We are looking forward to achieving bigger and greater things this year, and no one could have been a better ambassador or growth partner for us."
"Mr. Dravid is not just a fabulous cricketer, but also a great coach. He has always taken a special interest in mentoring and nurturing young cricketers from all walks of life. Having such a towering coaching personality on board is a matter of great pride for us. It will further motivate us in our mission to guide and mentor students in the right direction to help them realize their true potential." added Mr. Aggarwal.
Rahul Dravid, ambassador of LaunchMyCareer on the release of the collaboration said, "I am glad to be a part of such an amazing venture. Kids these days are already looking to experiment with their choices while searching for what more they can accomplish. I wish LaunchMyCareer all the best and I am positive it will add value to India's growing student fraternity."
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