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package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"net/http"
	"strings"

	"github.com/flynn/flynn/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/flynn/go-sql"
	"github.com/flynn/flynn/Godeps/_workspace/src/golang.org/x/net/context"
	"github.com/flynn/flynn/controller/schema"
	ct "github.com/flynn/flynn/controller/types"
	"github.com/flynn/flynn/pkg/ctxhelper"
	"github.com/flynn/flynn/pkg/httphelper"
	"github.com/flynn/flynn/pkg/postgres"
	"github.com/flynn/flynn/pkg/random"
	"github.com/flynn/flynn/pkg/resource"
)

type ResourceRepo struct {
	db *postgres.DB
}

func NewResourceRepo(db *postgres.DB) *ResourceRepo {
	return &ResourceRepo{db}
}

func (rr *ResourceRepo) Add(r *ct.Resource) error {
	if r.ID == "" {
		r.ID = random.UUID()
	}
	tx, err := rr.db.Begin()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	env, err := json.Marshal(r.Env)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	err = tx.QueryRow(`INSERT INTO resources (resource_id, provider_id, external_id, env)
					   VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4)
					   RETURNING created_at`,
		r.ID, r.ProviderID, r.ExternalID, env).Scan(&r.CreatedAt)
	if err != nil {
		tx.Rollback()
		return err
	}
	for i, appID := range r.Apps {
		var filterSQL string
		var args []interface{}
		if idPattern.MatchString(appID) {
			filterSQL = "app_id = $1 OR name = $2), $3)"
			args = []interface{}{appID, appID, r.ID}
		} else {
			filterSQL = "name = $1), $2)"
			args = []interface{}{appID, r.ID}
		}
		err = tx.QueryRow("INSERT INTO app_resources (app_id, resource_id) VALUES ((SELECT app_id FROM apps WHERE "+
			filterSQL+" RETURNING app_id", args...).Scan(&r.Apps[i])
		if err != nil {
			tx.Rollback()
			return err
		}
	}
	for _, appID := range r.Apps {
		if err := createEvent(tx.Exec, &ct.Event{
			AppID:      appID,
			ObjectID:   r.ID,
			ObjectType: ct.EventTypeResource,
		}, r); err != nil {
			tx.Rollback()
			return err
		}
	}
	return tx.Commit()
}

func split(s string, sep string) []string {
	if s == "" {
		return nil
	}
	return strings.Split(s, ",")
}

func scanResource(s postgres.Scanner) (*ct.Resource, error) {
	r := &ct.Resource{}
	var env []byte
	var appIDs string
	err := s.Scan(&r.ID, &r.ProviderID, &r.ExternalID, &env, &appIDs, &r.CreatedAt)
	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
		return nil, ErrNotFound
	} else if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	if len(env) > 0 {
		err = json.Unmarshal(env, &r.Env)
	}
	if appIDs != "" {
		r.Apps = split(appIDs[1:len(appIDs)-1], ",")
	}
	return r, err
}

func (r *ResourceRepo) Get(id string) (*ct.Resource, error) {
	row := r.db.QueryRow(`SELECT resource_id, provider_id, external_id, env,
								 ARRAY(SELECT app_id
								       FROM app_resources a
									   WHERE a.resource_id = r.resource_id AND a.deleted_at IS NULL
									   ORDER BY a.created_at DESC),
								 created_at
						  FROM resources r
						  WHERE resource_id = $1 AND deleted_at IS NULL`, id)
	return scanResource(row)
}

func (r *ResourceRepo) ProviderList(providerID string) ([]*ct.Resource, error) {
	rows, err := r.db.Query(`SELECT resource_id, provider_id, external_id, env,
									ARRAY(SELECT a.app_id
								          FROM app_resources a
                                          WHERE a.resource_id = r.resource_id AND a.deleted_at IS NULL
                                          ORDER BY a.created_at DESC),
									created_at
							 FROM resources r
							 WHERE provider_id = $1 AND deleted_at IS NULL
							 ORDER BY created_at DESC`, providerID)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return resourceList(rows)
}

func resourceList(rows *sql.Rows) ([]*ct.Resource, error) {
	var resources []*ct.Resource
	for rows.Next() {
		resource, err := scanResource(rows)
		if err != nil {
			rows.Close()
			return nil, err
		}
		resources = append(resources, resource)
	}
	return resources, rows.Err()
}

func (r *ResourceRepo) AppList(appID string) ([]*ct.Resource, error) {
	rows, err := r.db.Query(`SELECT DISTINCT(r.resource_id), r.provider_id, r.external_id, r.env,
									ARRAY(SELECT a.app_id
									      FROM app_resources a
										  WHERE a.resource_id = r.resource_id AND a.deleted_at IS NULL
										  ORDER BY a.created_at DESC),
									r.created_at
							 FROM resources r
							 JOIN app_resources a USING (resource_id)
							 WHERE a.app_id = $1 AND r.deleted_at IS NULL
							 ORDER BY r.created_at DESC`, appID)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return resourceList(rows)
}

func (rr *ResourceRepo) Remove(r *ct.Resource) error {
	tx, err := rr.db.Begin()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	_, err = tx.Exec("UPDATE resources SET deleted_at = now() WHERE resource_id = $1 AND deleted_at IS NULL", r.ID)
	if err != nil {
		tx.Rollback()
		return err
	}
	_, err = tx.Exec("UPDATE app_resources SET deleted_at = now() WHERE resource_id = $1 AND deleted_at IS NULL", r.ID)
	if err != nil {
		tx.Rollback()
		return err
	}
	for _, appID := range r.Apps {
		if err := createEvent(tx.Exec, &ct.Event{
			AppID:      appID,
			ObjectID:   r.ID,
			ObjectType: ct.EventTypeResourceDeletion,
		}, r); err != nil {
			tx.Rollback()
			return err
		}
	}
	return tx.Commit()
}

func (c *controllerAPI) ProvisionResource(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	p, err := c.getProvider(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	var rr ct.ResourceReq
	if err = httphelper.DecodeJSON(req, &rr); err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	var config []byte
	if rr.Config != nil {
		config = *rr.Config
	} else {
		config = []byte(`{}`)
	}
	data, err := resource.Provision(p.URL, config)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	res := &ct.Resource{
		ProviderID: p.ID,
		ExternalID: data.ID,
		Env:        data.Env,
		Apps:       rr.Apps,
	}

	if err := schema.Validate(res); err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	if err := c.resourceRepo.Add(res); err != nil {
		// TODO: attempt to "rollback" provisioning
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}
	httphelper.JSON(w, 200, res)
}

func (c *controllerAPI) GetProviderResources(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	p, err := c.getProvider(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	res, err := c.resourceRepo.ProviderList(p.ID)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}
	httphelper.JSON(w, 200, res)
}

func (c *controllerAPI) GetResource(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	params, _ := ctxhelper.ParamsFromContext(ctx)

	_, err := c.getProvider(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	res, err := c.resourceRepo.Get(params.ByName("resources_id"))
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}
	httphelper.JSON(w, 200, res)
}

func (c *controllerAPI) PutResource(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	params, _ := ctxhelper.ParamsFromContext(ctx)

	p, err := c.getProvider(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	var resource ct.Resource
	if err = httphelper.DecodeJSON(req, &resource); err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	resource.ID = params.ByName("resources_id")
	resource.ProviderID = p.ID

	if err := schema.Validate(resource); err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	if err := c.resourceRepo.Add(&resource); err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}
	httphelper.JSON(w, 200, &resource)
}

func (c *controllerAPI) DeleteResource(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	params, _ := ctxhelper.ParamsFromContext(ctx)
	id := params.ByName("resources_id")

	p, err := c.getProvider(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	res, err := c.resourceRepo.Get(id)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	if err := resource.Deprovision(p.URL, res.ExternalID); err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	if err := c.resourceRepo.Remove(res); err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}

	httphelper.JSON(w, 200, res)
}

func (c *controllerAPI) GetAppResources(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	res, err := c.resourceRepo.AppList(c.getApp(ctx).ID)
	if err != nil {
		respondWithError(w, err)
		return
	}
	httphelper.JSON(w, 200, res)
}

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Michael Dell Says Blockchain Technology Is 'Underrated'
Michael Dell is a fan of blockchain, which could help boost his company's infrastructure business.
The 56-year-old billionaire told The New York Times' DealBook that blockchain is underrated.
The remarks came during an interview with the Times' newsletter DealBook on Saturday.
Michael Dell is bullish on blockchain technology.
The founder and CEO of Dell Technologies said that blockchain as a category is "probably underrated," but declined to comment on whether bitcoin was underrated or overrated. The remarks came during an interview with the New York Times' newsletter DealBook on Saturday.
Dell was an early adopter of bitcoin. His company, which sells a variety of products from hardware to cloud computing services, began accepting the cryptocurrency as a form of payment in 2014. It later stopped transacting with bitcoin in 2017 due to "low demand."
Tesla's Elon Musk halted bitcoin transactions for his company in May, citing concerns about its environmental impact. Bitcoin mining requires more electricity than some countries consume in a year. And some institutions are wary of crypto generally following a recent run of high-profile trading errors that put millions of dollars at risk for investors.
Dell's interest in blockchain technology ties back to the company's infrastructure business, where selling data storage and other services netted it $8.4 billion in revenue in the second quarter. Its 56-year-old billionaire founder recently listed blockchain tech alongside autonomous vehicles and AI-driven biotech as a potential revenue driver for the company.
"At the center of you know the increasingly connected intelligent world is an enormous amount of data," he told Yahoo Finance. "And all that data requires infrastructure and technology to manage it. And so we're the world's leading provider of all of that."
The price of bitcoin has been highly volatile in 2021. The digital coin plummeted in May, dropping to as low as $30,000 following a broad market sell-off. It's continued to bounce up and down in recent weeks, falling to around $42,000 last month after China announced an outright ban on cryptocurrencies. Its price has since rocketed up to over $55,000 after George Soros' investment firm confirmed that it is trading bitcoin.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated that Dell was "going to pass" on bitcoin. Dell told Insider he was going to pass on the question of whether bitcoin is over or underrated. This story has been updated to reflect this correction.
https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-dell-blockchain-is-underrated-but-will-pass-on-bitcoin-2021-10
Posted in Technology in BusinessTagged #blockchain #Dell #Michael #Technology #Underrated
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It's official! My one way ticket to Bergen is finally booked and paid for, and the best thing about it is that it cost me £35! I will need to pay for my cases but that will only be an additional £14… Cheap and cheerful, and the best airline that I have ever travelled with!
I am very excited now I have this booked, and also excited at the fact B is coming back to Southampton for a few days before I move. This will enable me to move some of my things in advance and also allow us to spend some time together here too. We already have a lot of things planned; dinner at our favourite Caribbean restaurant Coco Rio, a visit to Bristol to see my lovely friend Nicole and some other stuff too!
The Norway job hunt continues… I'm trying to stay optimistic as I am aware it will be difficult for me to find a job prior to me moving. However, there is no harm in me looking and trying! My CV is all completed and it's looking very snazzy! I figured in order for me to stand out from the crowd, I had to create it in Photoshop and do something different. Fingers crossed it will get me noticed.
← Out With a Bang!


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External events served to unite him more closely to France.
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Focus Ireland has said the Government policy must make a much greater shift away from delivering more homeless emergency accommodation and towards delivering a lot more social housing.
The charity said delivering more social housing would also help people struggling to find someone to live in the rental market as it would directly result in freeing up many units in the private rented market that are currently used for HAP tenancies.
The charity also said the current situation would be much worse without the work of Focus Ireland as it helped over 400 families to secure a home last year – in partnership with the State – and move on from homelessness. However, the latest figures show that the crisis is deepening despite this good work by state agencies and NGO's as the Government continues to shy away from tackling the deeper issues which are driving more people into homelessness.
"Families need homes not more hubs. We know this can be done as Focus Ireland provided over 150 homes last year in partnership with the State and through the support of our donors. However, the Government is still not delivering enough social housing and we are in very real danger of the short term fix of homeless hubs becoming a long-term situation. Government figures show that too many local authorities are failing to meet the social housing targets, and where the target is met that only highlights how inadequate the targets are as they are far too low given the critical demand for such housing. Governments in the past were able to deliver social and affordable housing much more effectively, even when the country was much poorer than it is today. We need greater ambition and greater delivery of housing.
Meanwhile, Focus Ireland said that its own figures show that the numbers of families becoming newly homeless each month in Dublin has nearly doubled in one month rising as 95 families became newly homeless in Dublin in January compared to 50 in December. Focus Ireland said that each year there is normally a seasonal drop in the number of people who are homeless in December and then a spike in the numbers in the January or February figures. This is due to a number of reasons such as extended family taking in people over Christmas but the situation is not sustainable and the families return to homeless accommodation after a short period.
Focus Ireland also noted that these figures do not include all those families who have been assessed as homeless by local authorities and are receiving homeless support funded by the Department of Housing. The Minister's still unexplained decision to exclude from the monthly figures homeless families who are accommodated in premises 'with their own front' door means that the monthly figures show only part of the problem. Focus Ireland called on the Department of Housing to publish the number of families living in 'own door' emergency accommodation, which is the practice in England and Scotland where similar properties are used to accommodate homeless families.
Focus Ireland has also again called for two key actions which must be taken by the government to help ease the crisis.
Develop a specific family homelessness strategy given the scale of this crisis. Focus Ireland has called for the government to introduce a specific sub-strategy for addressing the needs of homeless families. There must be a real impetus when there are children and vulnerable people involved, and we think there has been a failure to grasp that by the government.
Set a cast iron deadline that no family or person will be homeless for longer than six months. This will require new measures to prevent men, women and children losing their homes and improved measures to help those who are already homeless. Many are trapped in hotels or bed and breakfasts in one room with their children.


Off-Cycle opportunity to join Soc-Gen in Sales/Trading role on their Structured Products (Cross-Asset Solutions) desk.
I saw a lot of off-cycle positions being offered by Socgen lately.
Which location is that for?
But are you looking for this position on the website or they offered it to you?
A friend of mine did the same off-cycle you are talking about last year and he was really unhappy about it because he had to work like a donkey and in the end they didn't confirm him.
I hope that helps for your decision.
Is that the structured product off-cycle advertised in LA?
Offered, but I'm very hesitant. Have not heard good things.
Really? I've heard its a solid bank, what have you heard?
I was referring to their off-cycle opportunities having a bad reputation.
my friend was not in nyc.
try to ask to other guys that were in the same team as yours: it really depends on the members of the team you work with.
I thought they were europe operations only.
Nah, they definitely have US operations but its not nearly as big.


This blog is fairly new so there has been little time to receive awards. We came close with the nomination for the Senior Living Award. My good friend Susan Cooper at Finding Our Way Now has issued an award to all her blog supporters. That would include this blog.
Yes, leave it to Susan to create an award for her supporters!


Thanksgiving is a time to surround yourself with family and friends. Take time to reflect on the year and what you are most thankful for. As this Thanksgiving quickly approaches we at Star Thermoplastics are most thankful for our customers and our employees.
To our customers – We thank you for bringing us interesting and complex applications for TPEs. You keep us energized and push us to innovate new products and solutions for you each and every day. We thank our customers that have been with us for years; your patronage is greatly appreciated. We thank our newer customers; we look forward to building a long-lasting relationship with you and providing many TPE solutions. We wish you all a joyful Thanksgiving.
To our employees – We thank you for working hard each and every day. Thank you for putting up with Chicago's ever-changing weather. You are what makes the wheels turn, and without you, Star Thermoplastics would not have been able to accomplish so much. We thank your families for supporting you and your work schedules. We can't say it enough. THANK YOU.
In honor of Thanksgiving, we want to share with you some of our favorite holiday recipes and the best ways to use the TPEs around you this Thanksgiving.
LINKS TO RECIPES: Pretzel Parker House Rolls Recipe, New England Sausage, Apple and Cranberry Stuffing, Scalloped Potato Gratin, and Banana Cake with Mocha Frosting and Salted Candied Peanuts.
We would love to hear what your favorite holiday recipes are. Please share them in the comments below.
If you're interested in adding TPE to your product give us a call (708) 343-1100; we know you will be thankful that you did.


Residents have pledged £100,000 of a £180,000 target to fund the installation of Hastings' first community energy project.
The Ore campus of East Sussex College will host a large solar PV array, which is scheduled for installation at the end of February.
The installation will be funded by the community and will allow the college to access lower priced energy. Community investors will receive a five per cent return.
This project is part of the 1066 Local Energy campaign launched by Energise Sussex Coast.
Kate Meakin, campaign manager, said: "We are so happy with the enthusiastic response we have got from local people. This shows the appetite for making the most of our sunny area and investing in new clean energy projects.
Energise Sussex Coast partners, Brighton Energy Co-operative, will install the solar array.
By investing in the project people become members of Brighton Energy Co-op. Members are given the opportunity to ring fence their investment for Hastings projects only. To invest visit: brightonenergy.org.uk/view-share-invitation.
Temperatures set to plummet again in Hastings and Rother next week after a warmer and wet weekend.
A Journey Home: Capturing Hastings through the eyes of town's taxi drivers.
Person taken to hospital after getting hit by train near Hastings.


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By now the majority of us will have heard some combination of these letters, the most likely one being VR and usually accompanied by the phrase "Oh yes! The goggles!".
VR - Virtual Reality: The one with the goggles. A headset is worn by a user in order to take part in an experience. You are taken completely out of reality and put in a virtual world.
AR - Augmented Reality: Visuals are put on top of the real-world, augmenting the real world around the user. There are headsets that do this, the HoloLens for example, but most commonly it is used on mobile phones (Snapchat face filters, Pokémon GO – that is AR or very similar).
XR - Extended Reality: A term used to combine immersive experiences that use VR, AR and other human-machine interactions from technology and wearables.
MR - Mixed Reality: An experience that combines both elements of VR and AR where real-world and digital objects interact.
But those super-stylish goggles are only part of it - sound plays a huge part too.
For VR experiences, the idea is that a user should become fully immersed in a virtual world. Completely removed from reality. In this type of experience visuals are heavily relied upon by the user to make them believe that they are in a different world. If the virtual world is not reacting seamlessly to the users actions then they will not be fully immersed. Similarly the main challenge of the sound design is then to ensure that the sound marries the environment completely. Much like traditional linear films, the sound-design and Foley must match the visuals otherwise you end up with a poor product (or very amusing if it ends up being so bad it is good) but, for the most part, that is not the desired outcome. And again, like traditional linear formats, bad sound design or 'wrong' sounds, stick out like a sore thumb whereas good sound design should go unnoticed.
The biggest difference when sound-designing for VR is that because it is a virtual world, there is rarely anything linear about it so you can not just do a track lay, run it off and play it. You have to design for specific interactions or moments. Or for longer pieces of audio, for example atmosphere, there is not always a predetermined amount of time that you will be in one scene. So you have to design it to be able to continue for long periods of time, without getting repetitive or dull, but at the same time it has to be able to be stopped at any point. Or have extra layers brought in at any point. And still make sense in the environment.
The biggest challenge when sound designing for VR experiences is real-time user interactions. Again because nothing is linear, you can not just design a long bit of audio with perfect fades and automation. That all has to be calculated and done in real-time in the experience. For example say in an experience a user had to roll a ball that had bells in it.
You do not know how hard the user will throw the ball so you do not know how long the ball will roll or how fast it is going. The challenge as a sound designer is to create a sound, or a bed of sounds, that can last less than 1 second (for the clumsy who may accidentally drop the ball, like myself) but can also last a long time. And at the same time it has to be designed real-time in the experience to react to the physics and movements of the ball, e.g. pitch and volume reacting to how fast the ball is moving.
When it comes to AR experiences, as the name suggests, it is about augmenting the world around you rather than completely immersing the user in a new environment. Augmented reality is still a relatively new technology so pure AR experiences are only starting to emerge or be explored. There are AR headsets which come with built in audio features such as the HoloLens or the new Magic Leap, but at the moment most AR content is viewed via mobile or tablet just through the devices speaker. With VR you can usually rely on the user to be wearing headphones which allows for the sound design to shine and take over, immersing the user in the new environment.
So, as well as the challenges of non-linear content like VR, the other challenge when designing for mobile AR experiences is you have to bear in mind the users physical environment.
The sound design from the phone has to complement the users physical space rather than replace it, whilst at the same time being detailed enough to convince the user that there is something else in their environment despite the fact the user can see the real world.
A fully immersive experience requires all senses to be 'fooled' into thinking they are somewhere they are not. In VR and AR, visuals play a massive role as it is what a user focuses on. The virtual world needs to work and respond in a way that makes them believe that what they are seeing is real. However, as the way we hear and experience sound just in our day-to-day lives is so ingrained in us as humans, we are subconsciously aware of what we are hearing 24/7. When a sound feels out of place we notice it immediately. Therefore if the sound does not match or respond to the virtual environment, no matter how pretty the virtual trees or buildings are, the user will not believe they are in a virtual world and the immersion would break. Which is why sound is such a core part of immersive experiences and needs to be crafted properly in both VR and AR.


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Madoff Trustee Sues Fund for Return of Money
Irving Picard, the Madoff Trustee. Irving Picard, the trustee brought in to liquidate Bernard L. Madoff's Investment Securities LLC has sued Kingate Management Ltd. for $255 million transferred to the firm just prior to the alleged Ponzi scheme fell apart, reports Bloomberg News. Reuters reported that the transactions occurred last October and November.
Bloomberg News explained that Picard was appointed as trustee under the Securities Investor Protection Act to conduct an investigation into Madoff's activities and assets. Picard has, to date, recovered about $1 billion, said Bloomberg News.
The complaint, which was just filed in Manhattan's U.S. Bankruptcy Court, states "transfers of $100 million to Kingate Global Fund Ltd. and $155 million to Kingate Euro Fund Ltd. from Madoff firm accounts in October and November were improper," said Bloomberg News. "This complaint seeks the return of the Kingate Global transfers and the Kingate Euro transfers…. Both the Kingate Global transfers and the Kingate Euro transfers are and continue to be customer property," Bloomberg News quoted.
The complaint names Bank of Bermuda Ltd., which, said Bloomberg News, is a unit of HSBC Holding Plc, as a defendant. It seems Bank of Bermuda wired the money from Madoff to Kingate, said Bloomberg News, citing court documents.
The Largest Ponzi Scheme in History
On March 12, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 fraud counts in what is believed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Last November, Madoff told his investors that his fund held more than $65 billion, but in reality, he only had a fraction of that amount. Since his guilty plea, Madoff has been held at the Manhattan Correctional Center and faces a June sentencing and up to 150 years in prison.
In previous Madoff news, said Bloomberg, Picard sued Banque Jacob Safra (Gibraltar) Ltd. and Vizcaya Partners Ltd. in an attempt to recover $150 million, it withdrew from Madoff's money-management business, said Reuters. Bloomberg said, according to information in the complaint, Kingate Global invested $963.5 million with Madoff from March 1994 to December 11 and Kingate Euro invested $767.4 million with Madoff starting January 1996, via 155 wire transfers to a JPMorgan Chase & Co. account.
Last week, court appointed liquidators in the United Kingdom sued Peter Madoff, Bernard Madoff's brother, for recovery of a vintage Aston Martin, reported the Wall Street Journal. The car was purchased with monies derived from Madoff's U.K. business, London-based Madoff Securities International Limited (MSIL). Just prior, a filing was made in New York for a personal involuntary bankruptcy for Bernard Madoff in an attempt to recover personal assets of Madoff and his relatives, said BizJournals. According to The Wall Street Journal, the filing said investors' claims are based on breach of contract, conversion, and fraud. The filing also states that because of Madoff's guilty plea in his criminal case, the claims are not disputed.
Earlier this month, investors petitioned a federal judge to rescind an order that prevented a forced bankruptcy. Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicated they intend to seek forfeiture and disgorgement of Madoff's assets in both the criminal and civil cases. But, according to the attorney representing the investors behind the bankruptcy petition, it is unclear if they intend to distribute any such funds to Madoff's customers and what rules would govern any such distribution.
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Arts & Life, Music
How music makes sense of disaster
By: Noah Caldwell
It was just before midnight on Thursday, June 20th and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion was taking the stage at the Canadian Legion hall in downtown Calgary. The New York-based group, which plays "scuzzy" rock and roll (their words, not mine) was the most anticipated band of the Thursday lineup of the Sled Island festival, an annual gathering of local and international talent that houses comedians, artists, filmmakers and musicians for the better part of a week. The East Village Riverwalk block party had just ended a mere two blocks away, and those who weren't sauntering home were stumbling to the hall for the show—the trio commenced a gritty set, rumbling into the wee hours of the morning, and culminating in a 25-minute encore that oscillated between melodic and downright unhinged. It was only the second night of the festival, and already a tangible crescendo was growing that was supposed to last all weekend.
In the morning, the remainder of Sled Island was cancelled. For several days the Bow and Elbow rivers had exceeded their banks following heavy rains, and the flooding that had already hit Canmore and High River—"over there" for many Calgarians—was inundating the city mercilessly. By mid-morning on Friday over 75,000 people had been evacuated and the nervous pacing of those trying to get in touch with friends and family had begun across the city. For Sled Island, a year of preparation was trounced by two days of precipitation; scores of shows and showcases featuring hundreds of artists were planned for the weekend, and the insurance bought by the festival didn't come close to covering wholesale cancellation. With a multitude of grounded musicians milling around the city, accompanying financial misfortune was the retching feeling of music stopped mid-song.
But music scenes don't remain mute for long, and the problem of having dozens of bands with no place to play was resolved within the day; Calgary's musical ecosystem again found equilibrium, but this time in an improvised, slapped-together sort of way. Houses and bars that had escaped the flooding began to invite bands in for impromptu performances. "Flood Island" concerts, as the phenomenon quickly came to be known on social media, were widespread and effective. Nova Scotian singer Gianna Lauren played a house party. A fundraising concert put on by two surviving Sled Island venues raised $12,000 for the Red Cross. Dent May played the Tubby Dog hot dog joint, a soiree in which the American singer "leapt on countertops, benches and into the audience." It was the sort of organic spontaneity that mirrors real life—an atmosphere that music festivals bend over backwards to achieve via branding and re-branding and alternative venues and overly lax look-the-other-way drug policies.
There is an obvious phoenix-from-the-ashes moment here, but perhaps we should be interested more in the questions that follow such a moment: how do we make sense of destruction and creation coexisting so intimately? Shouldn't a disaster be a time for mournful quietude, for repose and recovery? How does art grow from sadness?
Several references poke their heads up as I look around for ways to answer—or at least tickle and tease—these questions. I have always admired Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy's opinion of the "tortured artist" and whether or not misery aids the artistic process: "It's a very damaging mythology….the part of me that is able to create, managed to create in spite of the problems I was having. Almost as if that was the only healthy part of me." Pardon the gratuitous metaphorical leap, but if the city is Jeff Tweedy, then the collective musical output in the days following the Calgary flood is the "healthy" part of his soul that can still yell or sing or harmonize over the sound of the oncoming waters. Artistic creation coexists with destruction only so it can spite it with an obstinate resilience.
It follows that art generally, and music in particular, has the power not only to spite sadness but also to explain it. Countless news reports and government briefings have, and will continue to, explain objectively what happened over the course of a few days in Calgary, enumerating damage and monetary loss, and predicting all too unreliably when "cleanup" will be over. But a song can mourn, lament, chastise, uplift, berate, and rejoice all in four minutes time. (This is akin to Salman Rushdie's point that literature and politics "fight for the same territory," in terms of creating meaning from an event.) A song can ask us rhetorical questions that ignite reflection; take Springsteen's lyrics from 1973 about a veteran returning home from Vietnam: "Have you thrown your senses to the war, or did you lose them in the flood?" (It should be noted here that the "flood" reference was not purposeful, though if you'd like to draw some meta-comparisons, be my guest.) In one line, Springsteen was asking both the veteran and the American public as a whole where their senses had gone concerning the conflict in Indochina.
Perhaps a real world analogue to the Calgary flooding would be helpful. Near the end of 1926 the Mississippi River reached unprecedented water levels, drenching as many as ten different states along its banks. Between Christmas and April of the following year 16.5 million acres were flooded, 1,000 people were killed, and up to a million were displaced. Southern Louisiana was hardest hit on April, 15th, when 15 inches of rain fell in 18 hours. Levees upstream from New Orleans broke, flooding most of the Plaquemines parish (the levees that held out were subsequently dynamited by political bosses in an attempt to save the rich—white—neighborhoods by flooding the poor—black—ones).
Nothing in Louisiana was immune to the effects of the Great Flood of 1927. Huey Long, a populist politician, won the governor's office the following year by denouncing the callous disregard for the poor during and after the flood. President Coolidge's hollow promises to those in refugee camps cost him the African American vote. The outflow of poor black families from the south—and into, mostly, Chicago—changed the demographics of both regions irreversibly.
But the greatest cultural effect—the high water mark on the post-flood collective psyche, if you will—was musical. As David Evans of the University of Memphis puts it, "the most varied and intense artistic reaction to the flood came from blues singers and composers." Blue Belle, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace and other colorfully-pseudonymed performers wrote songs about the flood's power; all are laments for a broken homeland that can't be fixed. Levees (really, their mechanical failure) became metaphors for the inadequate safety nets afforded to the poor black farmer. You could say that such destruction and sadness was easy pickings for the misery-prone genre of the blues. Or, you could say that the genre was created out of such destruction and sadness, and gave it a reason to spread to other areas—ever wondered why New Orleans and Chicago are the two cities most associated with the blues?
The musical side effects of the disaster were not fleeting, and the folkloric power of the flood lasted longer than the generation that witnessed it. The most famous song about the flood was written in the 1970s by Randy Newman (yes, that Randy Newman whose crooning guides you through "Toy Story"), called "Louisiana 1927." Its prelude is orchestral and comforting, invoking the old south of plantations and porches and sweet tea. That mythologized past is promptly dissipated by the piano's entrance, and by Newman drawling, "What has happened down here is the wind has changed." Place-names abound (Plaquemines, Evangeline), connecting Newman and the listener with the land, culminating in the George Harrison-esque mantra of "Louisiana, Louisiana."
Newman was born sixteen years after the flood, so he certainly didn't witness the disaster, nor did he create "Louisiana 1927" as an archival record of history like Pliny the Younger at the destruction of Pompey. But in 2005 the levees broke, again, and the most marginalized people in New Orleans were, again, disproportionately affected. Folkloric dirges like Newman's were the strands connecting Hurricane Katrina to the Great Flood of 1927, connections that provided a cross-historical sympathy to lean on. As Geoffrey Himes wrote in the New York Times, "Lousiana 1927" became "the state's unofficial anthem in the wake of the 2005 tragedy."
To my knowledge, the flooding in Calgary and southern Alberta has not disinterred racial divides, or revealed political corruption, or forced lasting demographic changes. Nor do I know whether any of the artists playing at the impromptu "Flood Island" shows sang about the flood itself, or even offered songs of reflection relevant to the crisis at hand (finding a setlist for a concert at a hotdog stand is endlessly frustrating). But I do know that every person listening and tapping his or her foot to the beat was doing so because it meant that the flood hadn't won. (And I'll bet you tickets to next year's Sled Island festival that songs will be written about Calgary, 2013.)
For more flood-resistant musical endeavors check out the Calgary Folk Festival this weekend—the organizers have rearranged several venues to ensure the music would go on despite water damage. Among others, Steve Earle is playing, and I can't think of another raspy folk legend more suited to articulating woes and providing artistic solace all in one go.
Noah Caldwell, a native Vermonter, studied history at McGill and politics in Edinburgh. He now lives in Colorado and studies the complex dynamics between waiting tables and launching a new media journalism career.
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The Defendant
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● Art. 6 – Par. 1
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International Level
National Level
Long-term detention in a psychiatric institution without the required medical care constitutes degrading treatment
Rooman v. Belgium 18-07-2017 (no. 18052/11)
The case concerned proceedings brought by Mr Rooman on account of the lack of psychiatric care in the facility in which he was being detained. The Court found in particular that the national authorities had not provided adequate care for the detainee because of the lack of care staff who could speak German, the only language he knew and one of Belgium's official languages. It held that Mr Rooman, who had been detained for 13 years without appropriate medical support or any realistic prospect of change, had been subjected to distress of an intensity exceeding the unavoidable level of suffering inherent in detention. The Court observed, however, that there was still a link between the reason for Mr Rooman's detention and his mental illness. The lack of appropriate care was due to factors unconnected with the nature of the institution itself.
Article 5§1
PRINCIPAL FACTS
The applicant, René Rooman, is a Belgian and German national who was born in 1957 and is detained in a social protection facility in Paifve (Belgium).
In 1997 Mr Rooman was convicted of theft and sexual assault. While in detention he committed further offences. On 16 June 2003 the Liège Court of First Instance ordered his detention in a psychiatric institution. On 21 January 2004 Mr Rooman was admitted to the Paifve facility.
Mr Rooman made an initial application for release on a trial basis. On 27 January 2006 the Mental Health Board recommended finding an institution that could admit him and provide him with therapy in German, the only language he could understand and speak. After various reviews of his situation, the Mental Health Board rejected his application for release on 26 January 2007, noting that there was no institution that could meet the security and language requirements in his case.
On 13 November 2013 Mr Rooman applied for release for the third time. In January 2014 a report from the Paifve social protection facility observed that he did not speak French and had very little contact with his fellow patients and with staff. The report concluded that he should remain in detention, citing among other reasons his "untreated mental health problems". The Mental Health Board rejected Mr Rooman's application for release on a trial basis, finding that the requirements of an improvement in his mental state and guarantees for his social rehabilitation were not met and pointing out that "the mere fact that he only speaks German does not mean that the Paifve social protection facility has not taken all the necessary steps to provide him with the care his condition requires." The Higher Mental Health Board upheld that decision. In June 2014 the Court of Cassation quashed the decision of the Higher Mental Health Board on the grounds that it had not addressed the applicant's argument that he was not receiving care appropriate to his situation, in view of the fact that he spoke and understood only German and that no German-speaking staff members were available in the facility where he was being held. The case was sent back to the Higher Mental Health Board, which on 22 July 2014 requested the Mental Health Board to appoint a panel of Germanspeaking experts to provide an update of the expert psychiatric report issued in January 2009. It also instructed the head of the Paifve facility to take all the necessary measures to ensure that the requisite care was made available, by at least providing the services of a German-speaking psychiatrist and psychologist.
In parallel with these appeals, Mr Rooman also started proceedings against the Belgian State. On 10 October 2014 the urgent-applications judge found that there had been a breach of his right of access to health care and that his situation amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment. The judge ordered the Belgian State to appoint a German-speaking psychiatrist and medical auxiliary and to provide Mr Rooman with the care routinely provided to French-speaking detainees.
Lastly, Mr Rooman filed a negligence claim against the Belgian State. On 9 September 2016 the French-language Brussels Court of First Instance found the State liable for negligence and ordered it to pay Mr Rooman 75,000 euros (EUR) in compensation to the applicant.
THE DECISION OF THE COURT
The Court noted that all the evidence before it tended to show that the main, if not the only, reason for the failure to provide therapeutic care for Mr Rooman's mental health problems was that communication was impossible between the medical staff and the patient. In several reports the Mental Health Board and the professionals who had met Mr Rooman had confirmed that the provision of therapy had been impeded by the language barrier and that the patient's lack of progress resulted from the absence of such care. The president of the Brussels Court of First Instance, and later that court itself, had also noted that it was the lack of therapy in German that had restricted practical access to the care that was normally available. Although Mr Rooman had been able to meet qualified German-speaking staff, this had been in a non-therapeutic context, except in the case of a German-speaking psychologist who had visited the facility to see him between May and November 2010.
The Court did not underestimate the efforts made by the mental health bodies to find a solution in Mr Rooman's particular case. However, those efforts had been thwarted by the authorities' failure to take appropriate measures to bring about a change in his situation. Not until the decision of the Higher Mental Health Board and the order by the president of the Brussels Court of First Instance in 2014 had the practical measures recommended for years been taken through the provision of a German-speaking psychologist, although this arrangement had ended in 2015.
Taking into account the fact that German was one of the three official languages in Belgium, the Court found that the national authorities had not provided adequate care for the applicant's condition. His continued detention in the Paifve social protection facility for 13 years without appropriate medical support or any realistic prospect of change had entailed particularly acute hardship, causing him distress of an intensity exceeding the unavoidable level of suffering inherent in detention. Whatever obstacles Mr Rooman might have created through his own behaviour, the Court considered that this did not release the State from its obligations towards him.
The Court concluded that Mr Rooman had been subjected to degrading treatment on account of his continued detention in the conditions examined during the period from his admission to the Paifve social protection facility on 21 January 2004 until the present day, apart from two periods when he had access to a German-speaking psychologist, from May to November 2010 and from July 2014 to the end of 2015.
There had therefore been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention.
Article 5 § 1
The Court observed that Mr Rooman was being detained in a social protection facility that in principle was appropriate to his mental health condition and his degree of dangerousness. Under Article 3 it had found that he had not been provided with appropriate care and had been held in unsuitable conditions for 13 years, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention.
The Court noted that it had consistently held that as long as a person's detention as a mental health patient took place in a hospital, clinic or other appropriate institution, the adequacy of the treatment or regime was not a matter for examination under Article 5 § 1 of the Convention.
The Court pointed out that there was still a link between the reason for Mr Rooman's detention and his mental illness. The failure to provide appropriate care, for reasons unconnected with the actual nature of the institution in which Mr Rooman had been held, had not broken that link and had not rendered his detention unlawful.
There had therefore been no violation of Article 5 § 1.
Just satisfaction (Article 41)
The Court held that Belgium was to pay the applicant EUR 15,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage. Separate opinion Judge Karakaş expressed a separate opinion, which is annexed to the judgment(echrcaselaw.com editing).
degrading treatment
Psychiatric institution
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Lippert-Rasmussen, K. (2022). A Puzzle about Disability and Old Age. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 39(1), 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12539
Sønderskov, K. M., Vistisen, H. T., Dinesen, P. T. & Østergaard, S. D. (2022). A positive update on COVID-19 booster vaccine willingness among Danes. Danish Medical Journal, 69(2), [A01220047].
Albertsen, A. (2022). A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution . Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(10), 658-661. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2021-107418
Lippert-Rasmussen, K. (2022). Algorithm-based sentencing and discrimination. I Sentencing and Artificial Intelligence (s. 74-96). Oxford University Press.
Sønderskov, K. M., Vistisen, H. T., Dinesen, P. T. & Østergaard, S. D. (2022). COVID-19 booster vaccine willingness. Danish Medical Journal, 69(1), [A10210765]. https://ugeskriftet.dk/dmj/covid-19-booster-vaccine-willingness
Bor, A. & Laustsen, L. (2022). Candidate evaluations across the aisle: Cross-cultural evidence that out-partisans value candidate warmth more than in-partisans. European Journal of Political Research, 61(4), 878-900. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12475
Dinesen, P. T., Sønderskov, K. M., Sohlberg, J. & Esaiasson, P. (2022). Close (Causally Connected) Cousins? Evidence on the Causal Relationship between Political Trust and Social Trust. Public Opinion Quarterly, 86(3), 708-721. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfac027
Petersen, M. B., Christiansen, L. E., Bor, A., Lindholt, M. F., Jørgensen, F., Adler-Nissen, R., Roepstorff, A. & Lehmann, S. (2022). Communicate hope to motivate the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 12, [2502]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06316-2
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Petersen, M. B., Jørgensen, F. & Lindholt, M. F. (2022). Did the European suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine decrease vaccine acceptance during the COVID-19 pandemic? Vaccine, 40(4), 558-561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.12.026
Mus, M., Bor, A. & Petersen, M. B. (2022). Do conspiracy theories efficiently signal coalition membership? An experimental test using the "Who Said What?" design. PLOS ONE, 17(3), [e0265211]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265211
Räsänen, J., Gothreau, C. & Lippert-Rasmussen, K. (2022). Does overruling Roe discriminate against women (of colour)? Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(12), 952-956. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108504
Kerry, N., Al-Shawaf, L., Barbato, M., Batres, C., Blake, K. R., Cha, Y., Chauvin, G. V., Clifton, J. D. W., Fernandez, A. M., Galbarczyk, A., Ghossainy, M. E., Jang, D., Jasienska, G., Karasawa, M., Laustsen, L., Loria, R., Luberti, F., Moran, J., Pavlovic, Z. ... Murray, D. R. (2022). Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1982), [20220978]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0978
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Rees, F., Geiger, M., Lilleholt, L., Zettler, I., Betsch, C., Böhm, R. & Wilhelm, O. (2022). Measuring parents' readiness to vaccinate themselves and their children against COVID-19. Vaccine, 40(28), 3825-3834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.091
Geiger, M., Rees, F., Lilleholt, L., Santana, A. P., Zettler, I., Wilhelm, O., Betsch, C. & Böhm, R. (2022). Measuring the 7Cs of Vaccination Readiness. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 38(4), 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000663
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Posted on September 15, 2018 by Bryan Walters
Big Blacks blast Huskies, 53-21
Point Pleasant senior Josh Wamsley (2) runs the ball past a handful of Herbert Hoover defenders during a Week 4 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va.
Point Pleasant sophomore Travis Donahue (76) takes down a Herbert Hoover ball carrier during a Week 4 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Bryan Walters|OVP Sports)
Point Pleasant junior Nick Parsons (42) dives into the end zone during a Week 4 football contest against at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Bryan Walters|OVP Sports)
Point Pleasant senior Eddie Mayes (56) tries to knock the ball loose from a Herbert Hoover defender during a Week 4 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Bryan Walters|OVP Sports)
Point Pleasant senior Cason Payne (7) shakes off a Herbert Hoover defender during a Week 4 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Bryan Walters|OVP Sports)
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Maybe there's a reason that the Cardinal Conference doesn't want to bring them back.
The Point Pleasant football team improved to 7-1 against its former league foes on Friday night following a resounding 53-21 Homecoming victory over visiting Herbert Hoover in a Week 4 non-conference contest at Ohio Valley Bank Track and Field.
The host Big Blacks (4-0) scored the initial 32 points of regulation and amassed 327 yards of total offense in the first half en route to building a sizable 39-7 intermission advantage.
Both the Red and Black and the Huskies (1-3) traded touchdowns over the course of the second half, with Point Pleasant twice building leads of as much as 39 points. The Red and Blue added the final score with just under 10 minutes remaining to slow down a running clock, but the guests ultimately ran out of time on any kind of comeback attempt.
The Big Blacks — who won the Cardinal Conference title outright in 2011 — had to leave the Class AA-based league in the fall of 2012 due to being bumped up to Class AAA.
Point Pleasant has since won 7-of-8 outings against Cardinal Conference opponents, with the lone loss coming to then-defending Class AA state champion Mingo Central (36-34) on a Hail Mary pass in Week 1 of the 2017 campaign.
PPHS — an original member of the Cardinal Conference when it was founded — has also re-applied and been denied access twice since returning to Class AA back in 2016.
It was the sixth straight home victory for Point Pleasant, as well as the program's seventh consecutive regular season win. Point has also secured a triumph in its last six Homecoming contests.
On a night in which the hosts produced 336 of their 448 total yards on the ground and had three different players score a pair of rushing touchdowns, PPHS coach David Darst noted that his troops once again put together an offensive display of firepower.
More importantly, the 12th-year mentor was also pleased with how his team is progressing headed into another big matchup seven days from now.
"We thought the kids seemed a little distracted before the start of the game, being Homecoming and all, but they really woke up and came out ready to play," Darst said. "Our offense was really clicking once again and I thought our defense played well for the most part, although we did seem to lose some intensity as the lead continued to grow.
"That's a good offensive team over there, but I'm really proud of our kids for the way they got after tonight. It's time for us to get ready for that next challenge … and Pikeville will be a challenge for us."
Point Pleasant averaged 12.9 yards per carry on the ground, with seven different backs producing double-digit yardage by night's end. The Big Blacks also surrendered a season-high 213 rushing yards on 46 carries, an average of only 4.6 yards per tote.
The hosts — who outgained HHHS by a substantial 254-79 margin in the first half — built a quick 19-0 advantage after 12 minutes of play.
Nick Parsons barreled his way in from five yards out with 6:04 left in the opening canto for a 6-0 lead, then Brady Adkins added touchdown runs of six and 57 yards in a 2:32 span to end the quarter.
Josh Wamsley then hauled in a 35-yard pass from Cason Payne at the 7:58 mark of the second for a 25-point cushion, then Parsons added a 17-yard scamper with 5:19 left before halftime for a 32-0 edge.
The Huskies finally cracked the scoring column with 3:09 remaining in the first half as Ben Kee rumbled 15 yards to paydirt for a 32-7 contest. The guests, however, were never closer the rest of the way.
Payne completed the first half scoring on a three-yard scamper with 1:37 left, giving the hosts a 39-7 lead at the break.
Point Pleasant was plus-1 in turnover differential and also held a 13-5 edge in first downs at the intermission.
The Huskies tried to get sneaky with the second half kickoff, trying an onside squibber that technically didn't cover 10 yards.
Christian Holland, however, quickly gathered the onside kick and returned it 47 yards to paydirt for a 46-7 advantage just eight seconds into the third period.
Kee tacked on a seven-yard run with 4:18 left to close the gap down to 46-14, but Payne added the final Point Pleasant score on a 21-yard scamper at the 2:01 mark for a 53-14 advantage.
Rhett White scored on a one-yard run with 9:56 left in regulation to wrap up the 32-point outcome.
The Big Blacks claimed a 21-12 advantage in first downs, but did finish the night minus-1 in turnover differential. The hosts were flagged three times for 25 yards, while Herbert Hoover was penalized six times for 32 yards.
Payne led Point Pleasant with 118 rushing yards on nine carries and also went 7-of-9 passing for 112 yards and one score.
Adkins was next with 90 yards on six attempts, followed by Parsons with 34 yards on five totes and Hunter Bush with 34 yards on one carry.
Wamsley led the Point wideouts with three catches for 70 yards, with Aiden Sang adding two grabs for 26 yards. Oliver Skeie was also 5-of-7 on PAT kicks in the triumph.
Wamsley recorded an interception at the 3:25 mark of the first quarter. Nick Leport and Wyatt Stanley also had a quarterback sack apiece for the hosts.
Kee paced Herbert Hoover with 198 rushing yards on 20 carries, with Dylan Kennedy following with 13 yards on six tries.
Rhett White was 5-of-16 passing for 50 yards and threw an interception. Kee also led the wideouts with two catches for 24 yards.
Point Pleasant completes a three-game home stand on Friday when it hosts Pikeville (KY) in a Week 5 matchup at OVB Field. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
https://www.mydailytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/09/web1_9.18-PP-Wamsley-1.jpgPoint Pleasant senior Josh Wamsley (2) runs the ball past a handful of Herbert Hoover defenders during a Week 4 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. Bryan Walters|OVP Sports
https://www.mydailytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/09/web1_PP-Donahue-1.jpgPoint Pleasant sophomore Travis Donahue (76) takes down a Herbert Hoover ball carrier during a Week 4 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Bryan Walters|OVP Sports)Bryan Walters|OVP Sports
https://www.mydailytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/09/web1_PP-NParsons-1.jpgPoint Pleasant junior Nick Parsons (42) dives into the end zone during a Week 4 football contest against at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Bryan Walters|OVP Sports)Bryan Walters|OVP Sports
https://www.mydailytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/09/web1_PP-Defense-1.jpgPoint Pleasant senior Eddie Mayes (56) tries to knock the ball loose from a Herbert Hoover defender during a Week 4 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Bryan Walters|OVP Sports)Bryan Walters|OVP Sports
https://www.mydailytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/09/web1_PP-Payne-1.jpgPoint Pleasant senior Cason Payne (7) shakes off a Herbert Hoover defender during a Week 4 football contest at OVB Field in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Bryan Walters|OVP Sports)Bryan Walters|OVP Sports
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Ethiopia says its jets are 'pounding' targets in Tigray
by: CARA ANNA and SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press
Ethiopians read newspapers and magazines reporting on the current military confrontation in the country, one of which shows a photograph of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, on a street in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. Ethiopia moved Saturday to replace the leadership of the country's defiant northern Tigray region, where deadly clashes between regional and federal government forces are fueling fears the major African power is sliding into civil war. (AP Photo/Samuel Habtab)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia's air force is "pounding targets with precision," a military official said Monday, as the federal government continues its offensive against the heavily armed northern region of Tigray and no clear route to peace is seen.
Neighboring Sudan has sent more than 6,000 troops to the border, a military official there said, while Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed again sought to calm concerns that the deadly confrontation could slide into civil war and destabilize the strategic Horn of Africa region.
It remains unclear how many people have been killed in the fighting that erupted last week in Tigray as Abiy's government comes under increasing international pressure to calm tensions. The United Nations and others have warned of a brewing humanitarian disaster affecting up to 9 million people.
The northern Tigray region is largely cut off from the outside world, making it difficult to verify each side's assertions. Each accuses the other of starting the fighting.
Ethiopian Maj. Gen. Mohammed Tssema, who spoke of the "pounding" by the air force, in a Facebook post also denied as "totally wrong" a claim by the Tigray regional government on Sunday that a fighter jet had been shot down.
The Tigray regional government, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, did confirm the federal government's aerial assault, saying in a Facebook post that the air force had carried out more than 10 such attacks so far.
Ethiopia's prime minister has shown no sign of opening talks with the TPLF, which once dominated Ethiopia's ruling coalition but is now regarded by the federal government as illegal after it broke away last year as Abiy sought to transform the coalition into a single Prosperity Party. The TPLF felt marginalized by Abiy's political reforms and defied the federal government by holding a local election in September.
"Concerns that Ethiopia will descend into chaos are unfounded," Abiy said in a brief statement Monday, and vowed that what he calls a law enforcement action "will wrap up soon." Abiy on Sunday reshuffled his Cabinet to make major changes to his government's military and intelligence leadership in an apparent move to bring supporters of the military offensive to the forefront.
"There's no indication this is anything but a full-scale federal government attempt to remove the TPLF leadership. They seem intent on that course," International Crisis Group analyst Will Davison told The Associated Press. "No one's interested in negotiations at this stage. At least, no one's interested in making concessions toward them."
He asked: "If this conflict becomes entrenched, will the federal government start to look for a negotiated solution and the Tigray leadership do the same?"
Diplomats and others assert that the conflict in Tigray could destabilize other parts of Ethiopia, Africa's second-most populous country with 110 million people, scores of ethnic groups, and other regions that have sought more autonomy even as Abiy, who won the Nobel just last year, tries to hold the country together with exhortations of national unity.
The conflict in Tigray pits two heavily armed forces against each other in the heart of the strategic Horn of Africa, and experts worry that neighbors including Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia could be sucked in.
In a sign of rapidly escalating tensions, Sudan's leader said his country is concerned about the fighting and urged the warring sides to find a peaceful solution to their disputes. Sudan forms Tigray's western border.
Gen. Abdel-Fatah Burhan, head of the ruling Sovereign Council, issued the statement after chairing a meeting of Sudan's National Defence Council, the highest body that makes decisions in security matters in the country. He called on the international and regional communities to "carry out their duties for the stability of the region and peace opportunities in Ethiopia."
A military official in Khartoum said the Sudanese military has deployed more than 6,000 troops to the area bordering Ethiopia since the start of the fighting in Tigray last week. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
Sudan has already sealed off its borders with Ethiopia's Tigray and Amhara regions. But it is bracing for a potential flow of people fleeing the fighting.
"We have completed our preparedness," Lt. Gen. Shams el-Din Kabashi, a member of the Sovereign Council, said in an interview with the Youm al-Taly newspaper published Monday.
Magdy contributed from Cairo.
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Q: Benefit of developing managed package in a scratch org with namespace Why should I develop my managed package in scratch orgs that have a namespace? As opposed to having no namespace.
As far I can overlook it only a handful metadata seem to need a namespace prefix. For example, Aura components need prefixes to reference field. But if I just LWC...

A: If you don't already develop your managed package directly in your namespaced packaging org, with explicit namespace references in your metadata, you probably do not need to. They are required for that purpose, since metadata with explicit namespace references can't be pushed into ordinary non-namespaced scratch orgs.
Namespaced scratch orgs can be useful testing tools because you can see how your code behaves in a namespaced context, if you're doing things like dynamic SOQL. That doesn't mean you should use them as the main development locale, though, and of course the namespaced org doesn't represent a customer environment where you have a package boundary and unmanaged metadata outside it - so the utility can also be deceptive.
Most metadata works well in non-namespaced contexts, sometimes with a bit of extra logic to add a namespace prefix where needed if the code should be running in a namespaced or managed context.
Plug: Salesforce.org's open source CumulusCI build toolchain offers extensive support for managing metadata that can be deployed cleanly into both namespaced and non-namespaced orgs; I'm on the release engineering team there. The open source Nonprofit Success Pack and EDA projects are both great examples of managed packages developed primarily in non-namespaced scratch orgs.

A: The purpose of namespaced orgs is so that you can develop changes to your namespaced package without risking hosing your packaging org (at least, it reduces the probability). Add to that 2GP (Second Generation Packaging) with namespaces, and you can break your monolithic application into byte-sized pieces that can be developed and upgraded independently of each other. If you've ever had a project large enough for this to matter--and I have worked on such a beast--you would appreciate the beauty of being able to create smaller, more manageable chunks that can independently developed by multiple developers with less risk of overwriting changes.
While it's true that a decent number of metadata types don't need namespaces to work correctly, the natural assumption is that you want to have your metadata in a repository as your Source of Truth. This brings some challenges to the table. For example, when you retrieve metadata from your packaging org, the namespaces will naturally appear in your repository, including custom labels, Visualforce merge fields, and so on. When you deploy non-namespaced components to the packaging org from the repository, the code in your repository will no longer match your packaging org's actual metadata.
Also, just as an aside, you can't use LWC everywhere, at least not yet, so if you need Aura, you still need namespaces. And while some ISVs, etc out there have built tools that support translating to/from namespace-aware code and metadata, it would be far easier to not have to depend on such tools to begin with. Finally, I'd like to say that while DX and 2GP still offers some particular challenges to some types of apps, it is quickly reaching a point where it should be usable for just about everyone. We're even in the process of transitioning our Unlimited Edition org to 2GP, something that wasn't possible a year ago, and yet is now within reach. If we can do it, most other projects should be able to, too.

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Q: A class-based state machine? In C++ I'm trying to make a simple state machine for a game, based on classes.
stateMan.setState<mainMenuState>();

I have a class with the declaration as:
class stateManager
{
  ...
  template <class T>
  void setState(void);
}

And the test code as:
template <class T>
void stateManager::setState<T>(void)
{
  T* blah = new T;
  delete blah;
}

And obviously this doesn't work since function template partial specialization 'setState<T>' is not allowed.
Would there be a better way to do this besides doing it non-OO?

A: The definition of the member function template should be this:
template <class T>
void stateManager::setState(void)
{
   //...
}

That is, it should be simply setState instead of setState<T>. The latter syntax is used in function template specialization. Since T is a type parameter, the specialization would be considered as function partial template specialization which is not allowed.

A: Hard to say without the details, but you could do a base State class, and the different states inherit from it.
If you still want to use classes for this, you can see an interesting
example using boost.mpl.

A: Another option that avoids templates would be to define a pure virtual base class for your game states, and then pass references to different game-states to your function.  For instance,
//pure virtual base class that will define the state interfaces
class base_state { /*...*/ };

//a derived state class
class mainMenuState : public base_state { /*...*/ };

class stateManager
{
    //...

    //you can pass any derived base_state to this function
    void setState(base_state* state);
};


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The Love Story Of Choi Woo Shik And His Ex-Girlfriend Is Back In The Spotlight, Similar To Choi Ung's 'Our Beloved Summer'!
January 26, 2022 Fufa Entertaiment, News
Along With The Increasing Popularity Of 'Our Beloved Summer', Choi Woo Shik's Old Words About His Ex-Girlfriend Are Back Viral. Check Out The Full Narrative Below.
Choi Woo Shik 's old words about his ex-girlfriend are attracting attention again. Because his love story is very similar to his character in the SBS drama " Our Beloved Summer ".
Recently a video where Choi Woo Shik appeared on a tvN program " Taxi " in 2015 went viral again. At that time, Choi Woo Shik admitted that he had dated a girl who helped him become an actor.
Choi Woo Shik said, "I used to date (with my ex-girlfriend) for about 5 years. On the one hand, I started acting because of her." Actors like Rain and Lee Jun Ki are driving people crazy'."
"So at that time, I thought it wasn't bad to study acting first before learning to direct. At that time, my boyfriend helped me audition online in Korea. I passed the audition and came to Korea from Canada."
Unfortunately, their relationship had to run aground halfway. However, Choi Woo Shik always tries to maintain a good relationship with the girl.
She said, "I couldn't do much for him when I was dating him. So after we broke up, I tried to buy him good food and keep in touch with him."
Seven years later, this content is getting attention again. This is because Choi Woo Shik's character in "Our Beloved Summer" named Choi Ung has a very similar love story to him.
"He really is Choi Ung!" said a netizen. "Thank you very much to his ex-girlfriend," added another netizen. "Wow, a date with Ung-Shik (Choi Ung and Choi Woo Shik)," said another. "Who is his ex-girlfriend? I envy him," said another netizen.
Meanwhile, "Our Beloved Summer" has aired its last episode on Tuesday (25/1) last night. Later this drama's broadcast slot will be replaced with " A Business Proposal " starring Kim Sejeong and Ahn Hyo Seop .
Choi Woo Shik Discusses His Dating Style, Admits He's Stupid When Falling In Love
When His Cute Character Got Attention, Many People Started Digging For Information Online To Find Out What Choi Woo Shik's Dating Style Is Like In Real Life.
Recently, Choi Woo Shik has melted the hearts of many with his role of Choi Woong in his first romantic drama, " Our Beloved Summer ". The 1990-born actor revealed his style when dating.
In "Our Beloved Summer", Choi Woo Shik is the sweetest man who does everything and anything he can for his girlfriend. Kook Yeonsoo. When his cute character got attention, many people started digging for information online to find out what Choi Woo Shik's dating style is like in real life.
They discover that he is really pure-hearted around the girl he likes. In a previous interview, Choi Woo Shik said that he became a different person from his real personality when he was in love. But I'm different when I'm in a relationship," said the Korean-Canadian actor.
Choi Woo Shik continued, "I think I'm pretty stupid when I'm in a relationship. I can't purposely do things to get what I want from him like some people do, or play hard to get it."
He laughed and added, "I actually had a crush on a lot of girls in the past that I ended up not dating. I just secretly like them that's all. I just don't know how to read girls' minds. It's really hard."
Wow! Paulo Dybala Has Decided to Leave Juventus and Defect to Inter Milan?
If you loved Supplier A, this movie was made for you


Marcos Valella is a Miami-based artist who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from FIU, and his Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa. He has exhibited his work nationally and it forms part of many public and private collections. He is the recipient of Here and There, Bass Museum of Art Grant and the Mildred Pelzer Lynch Fellowship. Marcos is featured in various publications such as Artforum, The New Yorker, The Miami New Times, El Nuevo Herald, and Time Out New York.
He will be exhibiting his work at FIU's College of Architecture + The Arts Miami Beach Urban Studios in the Paint City exhibition, which opens on April 5.


Yesterday Ricky and I decided to head to the Old Town of Hastings to enjoy some local caffeine. George Street is lined with quaint shops, fancy dining, some pubs (of course), and enough cafés that we walked the full length of the strip to pick and choose where we'd try.
There were some cozy ones that caught my eye, but as soon as we came upon Hanushka Coffee House it was clear there was no competition.
The whole interior is lined floor to ceiling with book shelves.
I've passed Hanushka before – even peeked in the dark window when it's been closed – but part of me didn't believe they were actual books. Wallpaper I thought. Because that's just too good to be true.
But we stepped inside and were met with the absolute authentic bookworm aesthetic.
It was super small with tables and eclectic unmatched chairs crammed against each other, but it felt immediately like wrapping yourself in a sweater woven out of a library. It felt like the England I'd always imagined when daydreaming about my future travels there.
Being Britain, it wasn't too loud. Instead it was buzzing with the quiet murmur of conversation. Everywhere people had a book or two they'd taken off the shelf to peruse over their americanos and nibbles.
Luckily Ricky and I snagged one of the last available tables. We claimed it by hanging our jackets off the backs of the chairs and then headed to the counter to order something tasty.
They've got your typical coffee choices, a selection of artisanal teas to make David's Tea jealous, sandwiches, cakes, and even wine for the classy crowd.
Considering how nice it was, we were surprised when two lattes, a caramel square, and a sticky toffee cheesecake cake to only £8.90, or roughly $17 in Canadian. We'd spent double that easy at the other cafés we'd been at in the last few weeks.
More importantly? It was super delicious.
We relaxed and chatted, feeling all warm and fuzzy. Every so often we ran our fingers along the spines of the books beside us. Birds of the World, The Guinness Book of World Records 2001, and the entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica in a neat row.
We stayed so long, we even ordered more drinks. I got to try one of their lovely herbal teas with rose hip and apple. Came in a lovely personal sized pot with three cups worth inside. I think it was only £1.80.
It was such a lovely place, and if we hadn't been heading to dinner with plans to meet friends afterward, we could have easily stayed for hours longer.
It's not always open, but if you want to drop by it's definitely in business Saturday afternoons. Perfect place to chat with friends or even just treat yourself to a date with a book. I can't recommend it enough!
"It felt immediately like wrapping yourself in a sweater woven out of a library" … now that would make an interesting sweater/project/ebay item!
I want the cakes and teas and coffees and books and the PLACE! I will let them keep the sausages…not good for my cholesterol and liver.


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Clemensia cincinnata är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av William Schaus 1911. Clemensia cincinnata ingår i släktet Clemensia och familjen björnspinnare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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I started making some rough cuts with my 3/4″ MDF and ended up realizing I had miscalculated a few measurements. This is why it's good to dry fit stuff! Plus things are not always square and perfect. I used clamps to get a basic idea of what I was doing and get the exact measurements. I ended up changing a couple. I'm not an expert…I was in awe of the carpenters who can just take measurements and then go back to their shop and create the entire thing which fits perfectly.


The capital of Finland stretches along the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland and is located on more than 300 islands connected by numerous bridges. The population of the city is 622 240 people and grows by 5-8 thousand every year. At the same time Helsinki is one of the most sparsely populated capitals in Europe.
In 2011 the city took the first place in the list of 25 world best cities made by the British magazine Monocle. However this is the only city in Finland that has trams and an underground.
In the capital there is the biggest in Western Europe functioning Orthodox cathedral – Uspensky cathedral built in 1868 from old walls of the fortress of Borsmud on the Aland islands.


The holiday season should be filled with joy. But for many, it can be a time of stress, anxiety and sadness. This is especially true if you have experienced loss- loss of a loved one or a potential loved one for those who struggle with infertility.
As others celebrate, you find yourself suffering silently behind a fake smile.
You are not alone. You belong to the silent sisterhood of mourners for the loss of a wanted child through still birth, miscarriage, and/ or repeated negative pregnancy tests.
I want to acknowledge and celebrate you as you are right now no matter how you feel. I want to arm you with some holiday survival skills so that you are not knocked down to your knees the next time someone asks "why are you taking so long to have a kid?" or "just relax and you will get pregnant".
When you are feeling sad and overwhelmed, the last thing you want to do is to socialize and put on that happy face. But the holidays bring increased demands at work and pressure to attend every social function with work, friends, and family.
Say no – instead of feeling obliged to go to every social function, decline gatherings that will trigger you. For instance, you do not need to attend your girlfriend's party where conversations are child focused. Allow yourself self-preservation and self-love. Instead, offer a private get together with your friend(s) 'sans' kids to catch up at a later date and that might mean a time outside of the holiday season.
Take a breather when you do go to holiday gatherings. Give yourself permission to walk away from well- intentioned but unwanted questions or remarks that are hurtful. When I was going through personal fertility challenges, I did not arm myself with quick come backs. If that works for you, rehearse your lines. Feeling beaten up and exhausted, I preserved my energy without feeling the need to explain myself. Instead, I would nod and smile politely, and then excuse myself from the conversation. One trick to avoid unwanted conversation is to busy yourself by serving food or drink or cleaning up. It's a win-win. Your help will be appreciated as you are distanced safely from the small chatter.
Create support around you by sharing your story or circumstance with one empathetic friend, co-worker, or family member. They can be assigned to deflect or deal with the unwanted questions while you walk away.
Be authentic – you don't have to pretend everything is all peachy when you are aching inside. If you are uncomfortable with letting out your emotions as I was at parties, allow yourself a safe space to do so, such as the bathroom or outside (while getting some fresh air) and talk it out with your community of support after the party.
Keep a journal– get your emotions out by writing it down.
Connect with your partner and have a nice quiet date night to keep the love alive!
Practice gratitude daily– create a routine when you wake up, before you go to bed, or before meals, where you think about one thing you are grateful. Allow your mind to focus one positive thing in your life, even if it's for 5 minutes at a time. You can practice this in the moment when you are at that dinner party after someone says something hurtful.
Take a screen shot of these simple tips and bring it with you to your next gathering. I wish you peace and love on your Pathway to Pregnancy.