Hospice use is growing, but transition often happens late. Social workers are key in encouraging difficult but important discussions among families and treatment providers that can help them make better palliative care decisions.
It's an all too familiar story. Michael is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. His physician admits that she can't cure the disease but can offer aggressive treatment that might prolong Michael's life. She may do so because she believes in the medical arsenal, the family or patient demands it, or she may not have the training in end-of-life care or the communication skills to cope with Michael's response to his diagnosis or to attend to his deeper needs. The health care team doesn't discuss hospice because to do so might be admitting defeat or deflate the spirits of all involved.
Michael's wife and children are grateful there's something that can be done and they encourage him to fight for his life, lovingly pledging to support him in the battle. Like his physician, they may not believe that treatment will prolong his life, but it's all they have to cling to or it's how they hope to shield him—or themselves—from absorbing the truth. They're either unfamiliar with hospice care or they reject that option. They'll prefer not to acknowledge, at least in Michael's presence, the terminal nature of his illness.
A common end to this story is that Michael will search for hope in the physician's treatment plan and take up his family's rallying battle cry for one of many reasons. The simplest is that, like all humans, he's programmed to survive. The others are more complicated.
Michael may endure the treatments offered, despite their harsh side effects and the toll they take on what quality of life remains, in the hopes that there will be more and better life afterward. Even if he doesn't have faith in the medical team's apparent optimism, he may consent to treatment because he doesn't wish to disappoint his family by failing to fight the good fight. Or he'll agree simply because no one has explained his medical condition; described the full range of options, including hospice; or asked how he feels or what he wants.
Regardless of the reason, treatment will continue until Michael's impending death can no longer be ignored, when he will be transferred, perhaps semiconscious, to hospice care only days before dying—his psychological and spiritual needs never having been addressed.
Some would describe this as a vignette about denial on the part of physicians, family members, and patients themselves. Others reject the term "denial" and suggest that this scenario is better discussed as the consequence of an inability to communicate. The result—a failure to face the terminal nature of an illness—often robs patients and family members of all but the briefest experience of hospice, leaving too little time for them to gain the care and comfort hospice is designed to provide and denying them the dignity to make their own informed choices.
Gerontologist Joan M. Teno, MD, MS, and other researchers at Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine reviewed random samples of Medicare claims data from the last 180 days of the lives of 800,000 adults aged 66 and older who died in 2000, 2005, and 2009. While their findings, published earlier this year in The Journal of the American Medical Association, reveal an increase in hospice use, they also indicate that patients entered hospice much later, often in the last three days of life, and after an increasing number of intensive care stays and multiple hospitalizations.
When treatment endures with little hope of curing the illness, patients' quality of life may be diminished as their lives are prolonged, says Ann Callahan, PhD, LCSW, an associate professor in the department of social work at Middle Tennessee State University. "This reduces the duration of palliative services that could have minimized suffering associated with aggressive treatment." Not only may patients abide unnecessary pain, fatigue, hospitalizations, and procedures, but without access to hospice services, "these individuals and their family members may not be as prepared for death as they could otherwise have been," Callahan notes.
She adds that spirituality and social support reduce death anxiety, "and the social worker can work to promote these factors of resiliency." Patients who don't receive hospice care or who come to it too late may have been left to struggle on their own with overwhelming anxiety and existential dread throughout the course of treatment.
"There are many reasons that can lead to a delay or failure to offer hospice care," Callahan says. Among these factors are restrictive hospital requirements, insurance eligibility issues, hospice admission criteria, the medical staff's ability to provide prognoses, and cultural attitudes toward hospice care—all of which social workers may be able to help overcome.
However, experts suggest the persistence of hope beyond its true usefulness to the patient is the more common reason and the more difficult—though certainly not impossible—to address. Social workers and hospice staff point to the preference by physicians, patients, and family members for so-called curative treatment when a cure should not be a chief factor in the decision not to choose hospice care.
Sometimes the silence on these issues begins with medical professionals. Many are not trained in end-of-life issues and find it difficult to speak to patients about dying or they sense a patient's reluctance to engage in a conversation about death. As a result, they offer instead some hope that treatment may allow the patient to live longer.
Patients and families pay a price when, in discussions, everything isn't on the table or they aren't invited to have a voice. There is a cost to silence: the lost opportunities to speak truthfully from the heart and make real, informed decisions based on information they can understand.
While social workers may approve of hospice care, they must act on their patients' desires. Yet patients often don't have adequate information on which to base decisions. "If social workers don't have a conversation with the patient about the options and their possible benefit, there is no way to know what the patients really want. They may suffer through aggressive care they may not even want but are enduring either because it was offered or for the sake of their family," Reese says. "They definitely need a social worker to facilitate this conversation.
It's equally important that the conversation be ongoing. "People often jump into aggressive treatment, and there are no established ground rules for checking in at regular intervals to see if the game plan needs to be changed," Janssen explains. "We get stuck in the momentum of our actions and initial choices. The patient who was eager for that first round may inwardly have doubts about the second round, but no one asks, 'Do you still want to go this route?'" It's often assumed, he adds, "that patients will want today what they wanted yesterday. But when the care plan becomes rigid and fixed, choice is imperiled and people are pressured to stay fixed in an aggressive course to the bitter end." The narrative, he insists, needs to stay fluid and allow the patient to make new choices as events unfold.
"Once it becomes clear that treatment won't prolong life, patients and their families must face the hard questions about what happens during and after death. The processing of such profound information has to occur within the context of a larger death-denying culture and as an affront to human nature that propels us to cling to survival," Callahan says.
"It's often very important for the patient to be able to talk with family members about issues important to them in order to die peacefully. These may include resolving conflicts, seeking forgiveness, forgiving family members, saying thank you, discussing spiritual beliefs and concerns, or just seeking emotional support with anxiety and anticipatory grief," Reese says.
She says it's important to "respond with honesty and compassion about the patient's condition as well as ensure the patient understands what they are being told about the terminality of their disease." The information "must be specific to what the patient wants to know, sensitive to the patient's ability to process the information, and involve collaboration with others," she explains.
"I've come to believe there is no real right or wrong for patients and families," Janssen concludes. For all his years of experience, he shares with social work interns the only two assumptions he makes about this work. "No matter what it looks like to us, our patients and their families are doing their best. It's not our job to judge or push an agenda." The social worker's task is to understand how patients and family members' choices make sense for them, support an honest conversation about how they want to spend the rest of the days or weeks remaining, and help them move in that direction, he says.


I'm Veronica and I've been working as a clinical therapist for roughly the past 8 years. Over the course of this time I've worked with a variety of individuals; children, teens, young adults, men, women and those who don't identify as one or the other gender or identify as a different gender. On the hot topic of gender, one thing has come up time and again in my sessions, particularly with females (teens or adults alike). I very often hear females say they prefer to be friends with males because "it's less drama" or they don't feel judged as harshly by men. It saddens me to hear this so often and caused me to reflect on why so many hold this opinion.
I have multiple theories, one being that females who think this way have quite possibly been hurt deeply in the past by a "friend" which leads to this distrust in other girls/women. If that's your experience, I am very sorry you went through that and hope you can realize that not all females will recreate this hurt and cause intentional or collateral damage along the way. Perhaps it's a situation of a few "bad apples" (read: possibly hurting individuals themselves exuding negative energy) who leave this bitter taste in your mouth and this doesn't necessarily represent the majority.
Another theory is that sometimes we feel threatened by other females because we are conditioned to constantly compare ourselves. I say we because, even as a professional, I struggle with this regularly and I know I am not alone. If we constantly compare ourselves and believe we don't measure up to other women why would we want that constant reminder, right? I get it. I do. It's sometimes self preservation to reject females and gravitate toward male friendships. But, I firmly believe we are shortchanging ourselves if we don't let female friendships blossom in our lives as they can be so rich and fulfilling. After all, who is more likely to truly empathize with us and understand us than those who may have similar experiences, pressures and insecurities.
As females we can play a vital role of building one another up and supporting each other. Every Belle deserves at least one female bestie in her life (if not a village of Belles) to lean on. Let's model that type of fierce lasting friendship. Let's leave competitiveness, comparisons and hurtful actions at the door and embark on a revolution.


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At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a 1988 photography book by Sally Mann. The book is published by Aperture and contains 37 duotone images of 12-year-old girls. The girls are the children of friends and relatives of Mann in her home state Virginia. Unlike Mann's later work, the images within the book do not feature nudity. The book is dedicated to Mann's husband, Larry.

Reception
The Museum of Contemporary Photography stated the book "capture[s] the confusing emotions and developing identities of adolescent girls," particularly praising an image entitled 'Candy Cigarette'.

Andy Grundberg from The New York Times gave a favourable review, stating "Ms. Mann is at her best when she concentrates on flesh and blood. Her picture of a girl in a tank top, taken over the subject's shoulder from behind so that all we see is the curve of her shoulder melding with the shape of her breast, shows how powerful simplicity can be."

The subject of the images within the book created a minor controversy; however, Mann's work was only protested following the release of her next book, Immediate Family.

References

External links
Official profile at the publishers website

1988 non-fiction books
Books by Sally Mann
American non-fiction books

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Home Insights Magyar and Deutsche Telekom Agree to $95 Million Settlement
Magyar and Deutsche Telekom Agree to $95 Million Settlement
29 December 2011 Publication
On December 29, 2011, Magyar Telekom Plc ("Magyar") of Hungary and its majority owner, Deutsche Telekom AG ("Deutsche Telekom") of Germany, agreed to pay a combined $95 million to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") charges with the Department of Justice ("DOJ") and Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Magyar agreed to pay a $59.6 million criminal penalty to DOJ and entered into a two-year deferred prosecution agreement in the U.S. District Court for the Easter District of Virginia. Magyar's 60 percent owner, Deutsche Telekom, agreed to pay a separate $4.36 million criminal penalty for failing to keep accurate and detailed books and records. Separately, Magyar also agreed to pay $31.2 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest to settle civil charges with the SEC.
According to court documents, Magyar's conduct related to legislation in Macedonia that was intended to liberalize the Macedonian telecommunications market. Magyar is alleged to have entered into a secret agreement with senior Macedonian government officials to delay or preclude the issuance of a telecommunications license to a new competitor and mitigate other adverse aspects of the new law. As part of this agreement, Magyar paid approximately $6 million to intermediaries under sham contracts with the intention that the money would be used to make payments to the government officials. Magyar also allegedly promised a Macedonian political party the opportunity to designate the beneficiary of a business venture in exchange for the party's support.
Magyar also allegedly used intermediaries to pay bribes to government officials in return for their support of Magyar's acquisition of the state-owned telecommunications company on favorable terms.
The SEC also filed a complaint against three former Magyar employees: Elek Straub, Andras Balogh, and Thomas Morvai, for their role in these activities.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-crm-1714.html
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2011/lr22213.htm
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2011/comp22213-co.pdf
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Watt Plaza
The Watt Companies is a private, fully-integrated real estate operating and investment company involved in commercial development, homebuilding, asset management and the realization of capital investments for its shareholders, investors, partners and customers across the United States.
In its 60-year history, Watt Companies has developed over eight million square feet of industrial and office space and built more than 50 shopping centers.
Watt Plaza is a twin 23-story office tower complex that encompasses 900,000 square feet in the heart of Century City. The plaza was awarded Gold LEED Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance (EB O&M) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Part of the LEED points need to achieve this certification came from the installation of 3M Prestige 40 window film, which was applied to every window in the two towers.
01. Project
02. Client
03. What We Did
Window Film Retrofit
Case Study: Watt Plaza
Replacing all of the windows was cost prohibitive and would send the existing panes to a landfill, but the glass allowed too much heat load to accumulate in the buildings. Demand on the HVAC system was excessive, and a solution was needed to reduce the cooling demand and lower energy costs.
"We have made a significant effort to transform Watt Plaza into a shining example of environmental innovation," said Nadine Watt, President of Watt Plaza. Part of that innovation starts with transforming the single pane windows into high-performance glass.
1875 Century Park E, Los Angeles, CA 90067
Film Type Installed:
3M Prestige Window Film
Windows Covered:
Installation Time:
Two months, with two crews working nights and weekends
Payback Period:
kWh Savings:
804,000 annually
Rebate:
3M Window Film Installer:
Campbell Window Film
Keeping a crystal clear view out both day and night was essential, and the exterior aesthetic needed to remain the same. Brad Campbell from Campbell Window Film was asked to help with a solution.
"Reflective window film products were sampled but caused problems with seeing out clearly and changed the look of the towers from outside," Campbell said. "Our 3M Prestige 40 was chosen because of its high heat rejecting performance properties as well as its non-reflective appearance, which allows easy viewing out and maintained the original look of the towers."
Installation was completed at night and on weekends to ensure the buildings' tenants were not disturbed. The whole project was completed in just two months, and the tenants noticed a difference immediately. The offices remain cool throughout the day and the lowered demand on the HVAC system dramatically reduced energy consumption.
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Lists READING November 15, 2021
30 More South Asian Books To Read in 2021
In June 2021, I published a reading list of 84 books by South Asian authors that have released this year. Of course, it was one of my absolute favourite posts on this blog and I loved curating it. While I had taken months to search and select titles for that list, it was no surprise I had still missed quite a few books releasing in 2021. So when I came across these thirty South Asian books after publishing that post, I had to bring them to your notice! ✨
N A V I G A T E
01. A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
02. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love by Huma Qureshi
03. Barakah Beats by Maleeha Siddiqui
04. Maya and the Sword of Gringak by Meera J. Pillai
05. The Archer by Shruti Swamy
06. Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah
07. Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed
08. The Singles Table by Sara Desai
09. Mercury Boys by Chandra Prasad
10. Piece by Piece by Priya Huq
11. Are You Enjoying? by Mira Sethi
12. The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
13. Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz
14. A Mystery at Lili Villa by Arathi Menon
15. A Will to Kill by R.V. Raman
16. House Number 12 Block Number 3 by Sana Balgamwala
17. The Samosa Rebellion by Shanthi Sekaran
18. Untold by Kamini Ramdeen, Gabrielle Deonath
19. Arzu by Riva Razdan
20. Two Houses by Suleena Bibra
21. The Set Up by Falguni Kothari
22. The Eminently Forgettable Life of Mrs Pankajam by Meera Rajagopalan
23. Unbelonging by Gayatri Sethi
24. The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy
25. Aarti and the Blue Gods by Jasbinder Bilan
26. Let Us Look Elsewhere by Mona Dash
27. Song of Draupadi by Ira Mukhoty
28. The Misfortunes of Lolita by L. Akhter
29. The Illuminated by Anindita Ghose
30. Sita: A Tale of Ancient Love by Bhanumathi Narasimhan
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A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
Niki Randhawa has always made practical decisions, which is also why she became an analyst for stability despite her love for music and art. When she's laid off, Niki realizes that practical hasn't exactly paid off for her so she throws caution to the wind and flies to her friend's wedding. Arriving in India, just in time to celebrate Diwali, she meets London musician Sameer and Niki is immediately drawn to him. Free-spirited Sam helps Niki get in touch with her creative side and with her Indian roots in this adult contemporary romance.
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Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love by Huma Qureshi
A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn't understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer understand each other away from home. The underlying themes of loneliness, secrets, family and displacement and also the desire to belong to someone, to some place; a yearning for love, intertwine these stories by a British-Pakistani author, and make it a collection about mothers, daughters, children, and lovers.
Barakah Beats by Maleeha Siddiqui
Pakistani-American Nimra has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school". She's nervous but she has Jenna, her best friend. Middle school is tough: the teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around other kids. Desperate to fit in, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to join the school's popular 8th grade boy band. When the band signs up for a talent show, Nimra's lies start to unravel in this middle-grade contemporary.
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Maya and the Sword of Gringak by Meera J Pillai
Maya is the average teenager and all she is looking forward to is her dream date with Dhruv, the boy she's had a year-long crush. Events set into motion and change her very existence as secrets from the past are revealed to her, leaving he reeling under their impact. Now she must embrace a destiny that will make her the savior of Earth while a whole new world of fantastical beasts, myths and legends, and a parallel universe is uncovered in this YA fantasy by an Indian author.
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The Archer by Shruti Swamy
As a child, Vidya exists to serve her family and make sense of a motherless world. One day she catches sight of a class where the students are learning Kathak, a precise, dazzling form of dance. So Kathak quickly becomes a part of her life as she leaves home for college, marries her best friend, and battles for her time, her future, and her body. But can she give herself over to her art and also be a wife in the carefully delineated society of Bombay, India in this collection of short stories set in 1960s-70s.
Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah
Leila Syed received a call where her brother-in-law's voice is filled with panic. He's at his son's nursery to pick up Max but he isn't there. Leila was supposed to drop Max off that morning, but she forgot. Racing to the carpark, she grasps the horror of what she has done: Max has been locked in her car for six hours on the hottest day of the year. But she's too late. And what follows is an explosive, high-profile trial that will tear the family apart in this gripping courtroom drama by a British-Bangladeshi author.
Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed
Seema still struggles with her father's long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now, nine months pregnant and estranged from the father of her unborn son, Seema seeks reconciliation with her family: her ailing mother who is traveling alone to California from Chennai and her devoutly religious sister living in Texas. Pushed apart and drawn together, this adult fiction follows three generations of a Muslim-Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change.
The Singles Table by Sara Desai
After a devastating break-up, celebrity-obsessed lawyer Zara is determined to never open her heart again. She builds her career and helps her friends find romance through the wedding season. She's never faced a guest at the singles table she couldn't match. Former military security specialist Jay has no time for love but when charismatic Zara crashes into his life, he enters a chaos he wants to avoid. So they make a deal in this rom-com: she'll find his special someone if he introduces her to his celebrity clients.
Mercury Boys by Chandra Prasad
Saskia feels like an outsider at her new school, not only is she a transplant, she's biracial in a population of mostly white students. When she encounters a vial of liquid mercury and touches an old daguerreotype, she is somehow able to visit the main in the portrait. Sharing this revelation with her classmates, Saskia provides guidance to other girls as they steal portraits of young men and try the dangerous experiment: forming a bond with their own mercury boy in this YA fiction where history and speculative collide.
Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin's Hijab by Priya Huq
As Nisrin, a Bangladeshi-American girl, nears the end of 8th grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about her homeland while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime for wearing a headscarf. Deeply traumatized, Nisrin spends the summer depressed and isolated. The night before class starts, she makes a decision: she is going to start wearing hijab, much to her family's dismay. This choice puts Nisrin on a path to discovery in this middle-grade graphic novel.
Are You Enjoying? by Mira Sethi
From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home–including the bedroom–these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor, compassion, psychological acuity, and emotional immediacy. From childhood best friends agreeing to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret to a young woman with an anxiety disorder in an illicit love affair, every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved in this debut short story collection.
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
In August 1947, Deepa's life in New Delhi begins to unravel as her secret Muslim boyfriend Amir, who sends her origami love notes, must now flee with his sister and their parents to Lahore, Pakistan. He promises to return to Delhi to marry Deepa after the violence of Partition has ended. Soon after his departure, Deepa's parents are killed and nine months later, she gives birth to Vijay. In present day, Shanthi in Atlanta finds clues that lead to her the real reason her deceased father Vijay has abandoned her and her mother 30 years ago.
Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz
Following the violence in Burma (now Myanmar), an uncertain journey by river brings her and her mama, baba, and brother to Bangladesh. Months after rebuilding a life in this new place, Samira sees surfer girls and decides she'll become one. With her brother's help, she pushes past her fear of the water and begins secret surf lessons, forging a friendship with the Bengali surfer girls. But as more Rohingya seek refuge, it becomes harder to leave behind fear in this middle-grade novel in verse.
A Mystery at Lili Villa by Arathi Menon
Cousins Arj, Tam, and Mira are spending their summer vacation in Elathoor, a little billage in Kerala, India when their family home, Lili Villa, is broken into and some jewelry is stolen. The Terrific Three set out to solve the mystery but soon discover that there is no shortage of suspects. In a throwback to unscheduled summer vacations, there is plenty of sibling sparring, some intrepid sleuthing, and an endless parade of mouth-watering snacks in this cozy middle-grade mystery.
A Will To Kill by R.V. Raman
Ageing millionaire Bhaskar has invited his relatives to the remote, and possible haunted, Greybrooke Manor, high up in the misty Nilgiris, India. He knows his guests expect to gain from his death, so he writes two conflicting wills. Which one of them comes into force will depend on how he dies. Bhaskar also invites Harith Athreya, a seasoned investigator, to watch what unfolds. When a landslide leaves the estate temporarily isolated and a body discovered, Athreya hopes to unravel this mystery.
House Number 12 Block Number 3 by Sana Balgamwala
Nadia, in 20th century Karachi, Pakistan, has been waking up in the middle of the night in fits of anxiety, avoiding friends and family, and skipping university classes. There is no acceptable diagnosis for her behavior and maybe she is possessed by a jinn or is inclined to madness. Her mother is at pains to keep it hidden from the community, worries about the taboos that mental illness brings. The home that has sheltered the Rahmat family for decades becomes the narrator in this literary fiction.
The Samosa Rebellion by Shanthi Sekaran
Muki's grandmother's arrival from India coincides with big changes in Mariposa, a fictional island country where the president divides citizens into butterflies and moths with the former being those who have lived for longer generations and the latter being recent immigrants like Muki's family. When Muki and his friends find a cap being built to imprison Moths before sending them away, and when his grandma is captured and taken there, a secret rebellion comes underway in this middle-grade contemporary.
Untold: Defining Moments of the Uprooted by Kamini Ramdeen, Gabrielle Deonath
Thirty-two emerging voices share deeply personal moments relating to immigration, infertility, divorce, mental health, suicide, sexual orientation, gender identity, racism, colorism, casteism, religion, and much more in this collection of real stories that explores the South Asian experience in the US, UK, and Canada. Every story sheds light on the authentic truths of living as womxn with hyphenated identities while balancing the push and pull of belonging to two cultural hemispheres in this Brown Girl Magazine anthology.
Arzu by Riva Razdan
It's 1991 and India's economy is opening up to foreign investment for the very first time. In Bombay, the pampered daughter of a newspaper mogul finds the situation particularly tense and she, Arzu, escapes to New York City with her snobby. Revelling in the heady independence that NY offers, Arzu finds herself poised on the brink of an idea that could change the nature of an entire industry back home. Now she must prove her worth to investors and silence her critics in this fiction.
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Two Houses by Suleena Bibra
Priya wants to land the collection of the year for her family's NYC auction house, gaining the approval of her father in the process. She also wants to never see her childhood rival turned auction-house competitor's smug, handsome face. Neither of those options seem likely since Gavin is dead set on winning the same collection and he has extensive art world connections, and charm to spare. When they're both invited to a posh country estate to spend the week wooing the prospective client, sparks fly in this contemporary romance.
The Set Up by Falguni Kothari
When Aditi comes home late from work as a pediatric resident one night and her grandfather offers this pitch: just three dates with three boys, she reluctantly agrees. But she's too busy with med school and dreams of a love for ages like her parents, not an arranged marriage. Now all she has to do is be utterly ineligible and problem solved. But soon she finds there is more at stake than just three bad dates and her heart is on the line, and maybe her grandfather's too in this rom-com novella.
The Eminently Forgettable Life of Mrs Pankajam by Meera Rajagopalan
When Mrs. Pankajam starts losing her memory, her doctor recommends she keep a diary to maintain a semblance of continuity in life vents. At first, she is reluctant, but as she puts pen to paper, she finds herself to have lived two lives: one of ordinary fulfillment in her experiences as a wife to her husband and a mother to her two daughters, and the other a life of desires and observations that only her mind is privy to. Now Mrs. Pankajam must discover herself anew in this Indian realistic fiction.
Unbelonging by Gayatri Sethi
Drawing upon her life story as a Tanzanian-born-Punjabi turned American educator and mother of biracial children, Sethi tells an intimate tale of stepping into her power while confronting misogyny, racism, and empire by deftly interweaving verse, memoir, and a bold call to action as she recounts her experience searching for home in the diaspora. Spanning decades and continents, this personal lesson asks: where do those relegated to the margins find belonging?
The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy
Sara is studying at a prestigious British university and seeks a reprieve from her loneliness by practicing the craft she learned in India when younger: pottery. She recalls her childhood, the lost dog, Chinna, and the life of her revered pottery teacher, Elango—a Hindu who faced prejudice after falling in love with a Muslim woman. Switching between Sara's diary entries and Elango's life a decade earlier, this literary fiction explores the fragility of peace and the many ways in which the East encounters the West.
Aarti & the Blue Gods by Jasbinder Bilan
Aarti has lived on the island with Aunt for as long as she can remember. Like the weather, Aunt rules her world with rare warmth. Aarti's only comforts are a book of Indian myths full of blue gods, a fox's friendship, and a toy rabbit she finds in a locked room. Then, she learns Aunt has been feeding her lies. Fate intervenes when a half-drowned boy washes up on the beach. With his help, Aarti hopes to remember who she really is and perhaps find a way home in this middle-grade fantasy.
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A young boy refuses to ferry his boat. A woman orders a British accent to fit in. A lover sends messages into the void. Disconnection and desire go hand in hand in this powerful collection. From the bustling streets of Mumbai, India to the glitz and glamour of Vegas, and the everyday streets of London, this beautiful short story collection explores human frailties and triumph.
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Born of a dangerous sacrifice, Draupadi and her brother are called forth to avenge Drona's insult to their father. While the brother is expected to kill Drona on the battlefield, Draupadi's role is not set out, but she dreams of fire and blood. From beloved daughter and princess to wife of the brave Pandavas and queen, she finds herself exiled to the forest, humiliated and determined for vengeance. The mythological retelling shows the exceptional women who have been the beating heart of the epic, Mahabharata.
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Frank has a plan to keep his head down, work to support his mother, and graduate high school on time when his parents move him to the middle of nowhere. He does not have time to soothe the ache in his chest when he watches Lolita Abri, her river hair, her petal-soft smile. No, not when his own family is falling apart. Yet, as Lolita and Frank's paths keep crossing, the cruelty of their peers against Lolita escalates, and painful truths are unleashed in this YA romance.
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After the sudden death of her celebrated husband, Shashi is alarmed to realize that overnight, she has lost her life's moorings. Meanwhile, their fiercely independent daughter Tara, a Sanskrit scholar, has been drawn into a passionate involvement with an older man, which threatens to consume her in a way she didn't imagine. Amidst a rising tide of religious fundamentalism in India that is determined to put women in their place, the two look at themselves and at each other in a new light, in this Indian debut.
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Higher than expected loan losses and fewer overall unit sales drove America's Car-Mart profits downhill in the third quarter ending Jan. 31.
The Bentonville-based buy here, pay here car dealer posted net income of $4.092 million, or 47 cents a share, which was reported Thursday (Feb. 18) after the market closed. Net income fell short of Wall Street's expectation of 50 cents per share and well below the$7.451 million reported in the same period last year.
Total revenue – unit sales as well as interest income – rose 4.5% to $137.48 million in the quarter over the $131.5 million reported in the year-ago period. Revenue also outpaced the $132.35 million consensus estimate by Wall Street analysts.
It's been a tough year for the used car dealer as its fiscal nine-month results weren't much better. For the first three quarters of fiscal 2016 Car-Mart returned net income of $8.203 million or 93 cents per share compared to $22.2 million or $2.45 per share in the same nine-month period last year. Fiscal year earnings include a $1.28 charge related to a special $3 million contribution to the company's provisions against credit losses that took place in the second quarter.
Revenues for the nine-month period rose to $413 million from the $393 million reported a year ago. Same store revenue rose 1.3% in the nine-month period, but so did the company's net charge-offs.
Company executives said the competitive climate and a particularly tough January has forced some management restructuring.
"With our growth and the changes we have seen in the industry, it is time to make a few management structure changes that we believe will allow us to continue our success out into the future," said William "Hank" Henderson, CEO of America's Car-Mart Inc. "We have promoted Leon Walthall to the newly created position of Field Operations Officer where he will be leading our Regional Vice Presidents of Operations. Leon has been with the Company for over 27 years and has had tremendous success both as a General Manager and for the last six years as a Regional Vice President."
Jeff Williams, the chief financial officer for the previous 10 years, will also take on the role of president.
"I am confident that expanding their scope of influence will be very beneficial and a move in the right direction to realizing the true potential of our company," Henderson said.
He explained why profits faltered in the quarter. Lots on average sold 25 cars per month, which was down from 28 in the prior year period. The average sales price was up by $835 to $10,599 in the quarter. Overall gross margins fell to 40.3% in the quarter because of higher wholesale volumes and losses, slightly higher repair costs, and the effect of a higher average selling price.
"We feel good about the quality of the vehicles we are selling and the credit profiles of our customers. However, we continue to struggle with our sales volumes as we haven't yet seen relief from the operating environment," Henderson said.
He described competition as "still very intense." The company has also taken a more conservative underwriting approach after recording too many defaults. Net charge-offs as a percent of average finance receivables rose to 6.6%, up from 6.5% in the prior year quarter. The accounts over 30 days past due stood at 5% at the end of the quarter (Jan. 31), down slightly from 5.2% a year ago. Higher charge-offs also pushed up the company's provision for credit losses to 26.9% in the quarter, versus 25.9% a year ago.
Williams said one of the company's biggest concerns is finding its footing on the sales side of the business and also making sure its infrastructure costs are in aligned.
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The executives said they plan to work on reducing expenses and improving productivity and strike the right balance between risk and volume. The company continues to generate solid levels of free cash which it is using to repurchase shares. In the recent quarter the company bought back 252,513 shares for $6.5 million. Since February 2010, the company has repurchased 4 million shares or 34% of the its outstanding stock.
Shares of America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ: CRMT) closed Thursday (Feb. 18) at $25.52, up 26 cents on the day. The stock has been on an upward run over the past week gaining 14.85% over the past 30 day period. That said, shares are still well off of their 52-week high of $57 reached in June of last year. During the past 52-weeks the shares have ranged in price from $20.67 to $57.77.
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Никита (Никета) Топия (ум. 1415) — албанский феодал из рода Топия, правитель Круи (1392—1394, 1403—1415).

Биография
Представитель рода Топия, родственник (возможно, племянник или даже сын) Карла Топия.

После смерти Карла Топия Никита управлял регионом к югу от Дурреса, он начал борьбу с его дочерью Еленой за обладание Круей. В 1392 году Никита Калам захватил Крую и стал правителем замка и его окрестной территории. Елена Топия и её муж Марко Барбариго бежали в княжество Зета.

В 1394 году османский султан назначил правителем Круи своего вассала Константина Балшича, который женился на Елене Топия. В 1402 году Константин Балшич скончался, и городом стал вновь управлять его вдова Елена Топия.

В 1403 году Никита Топия захватил Крую у своей двоюродной сестры Елены Топия, объединив под своей властью все владения рода Топия.

Никита Топия поддерживал хорошие отношения с Венецианской республикой, которая была заинтересована в том, чтобы иметь некоторую буферную зону между своими и османскими владениями. Его дочь Мара в 1407 году стала женой князя Зеты Балши III (1403—1421).

Никита Топия стал посредником во время переговоров между своим зятем Балшей III и Венецианской республикой во время Первой Скутарской войны (1405—1412).

В конце 1411 года во время одного боя Никита Топия потерпел тяжелое поражение от Теодора II Музаки. Он попал в плен и при вмешательстве Дубровницкой республики был освобожден, но вынужден был уступить роду Музаки некоторые владения на реке Шкумбини.

В 1415 году после смерти Никиты Топия турки-османы присоединили район Круи к своим владения.

Источники
 Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994), The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5
 Spremić, Momčilo (2004), Ćulibrk, Jovan, ed., Crkvene prilike u Zeti u doba Nikona Jerusalimca (in Serbian), Cetinje, Belgrade: Svetigora, Publikum, pp. 73-108

Дворянство Албании
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A pair of second period goals gave Lake Forest a 2-0 victory over visiting Adrian College, the fourth-ranked team in the country, Friday night.
Forester junior forward Lexi Morgan scored what proved to be the official game-winner at the 6:26 mark of the second period. Her fifth goal of the season and fifth career game-winning score was assisted by freshman forward Abigail Tucci, whose three points this season have all come in the last two games.
Lake Forest doubled its lead at 9:40 when freshman forward Grace Black netted her first career goal. Junior defenseman Julia Unterseher set up the score, poking the puck past the Bulldog's goalie from the right side of the net to Black, who sent it across the line.
The two goals were more than enough for Forester junior goaltender Jacque Rogers, who turned away six shots on goal in the first and third periods and nine in the second for her third shutout of the season and 15th of her career, seven more than any other player in program history. Rogers also climbed to 10th in the nation in save percentage (.946) and 16th in goals against average (1.40) and continues to lead the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association in both categories.
Adrian outshot the Foresters 21-19 on the night.
Lake Forest improved to 10-4-4 overall this season and 7-1-3 in NCHA play while Adrian fell to 14-4-0 overall and 10-1-0 in the league. The teams will face off again in Alumni Memorial Field House Saturday afternoon at 1:00. It will be the final regular season home game for Forester senior Amy Budde.


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Gardagul on	 06.11.2019
Oct 23, · It was in that Cyndi Lauper released her ninth studio album, Bring Ya to the Brink, a follow-up to her collection of jazz standards and the more new-wave sound of 's only-released-in- Japan Shine.
Mujas on	 07.11.2019
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Yozshurn on	 06.11.2019
Obwohl Frau Lauper noch nie ein Dance-Album gemacht hat, ist sie trotzdem zurück zu ihren Wurzeln gekehrt, zur Musik, die Spaß macht. Dennoch lohnt es sich auch, auf die Lyrics zu achten, die ganz und gar nicht oberflächlich sind. Mit Bring Ya To The Brink ist Cyndi Lauper .
Vora on	 10.11.2019
The album features a duet with Tony Bennett on "Makin' Whoopee". Lauper co-produced the album with Russ Titelman. The album consists of a collection of cover versions of jazz standards songs, in addition to a cover of a contemporary song re-arranged into a jazz song.
In , Lauper won the Tony Award for best original score for composing the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, making her the first woman to win the category by herself. The musical was awarded five other Tonys including Tony Award for Best New Musical. In , Lauper was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the cast recording.
Samugal on	 11.11.2019
May 27, · Album. Bring Ya to the Brink Cyndi Lauper. Released May 27, Bring Ya to the Brink Tracklist. 1. High and Mighty Lyrics. 2. Into the Nightlife Lyrics. 3. Rocking.
Faubar on	 10.11.2019
Bring Ya to the Brink is American singer Cyndi Lauper's ninth studio album and was released on May 27, in the United States, with a worldwide tour later that summer. The album is a /5(49).
Vozuru on	 07.11.2019
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The Scottish Youth West side warmed up in style for their Spanish adventure after a two-goal victory at Lesser Hampden.
With the players ready to head off to the Mediterranean for the Donosti Cup, Jim Smith's squad tackled Queen's Park's Pro-Youth side in a challenge match.
It was a tough game for the under-15 side but the 2-0 victory sets them up nicely for their foreign excursion.
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The West experimented with their line up, playing Ryan Shields, of St Mirren Boys Club, as a lone striker, which allowed them to play five in the midfield.
Queen's Park continued to press, in particular down their left flank, but West contained their opponents and the combination of Connor Drummond and St Mirren youngster, Brad Newlands, was solid in the centre of defence.
It was good play out of defence in the 20th minute that led to the opening goal.
Midfielder Campbell Gibson, of Harmony Row, was able to slot through an inch-perfect pass that split the Queen's defence to allow Shields to turn the defence and fire low past the diving keeper to give his side the lead.
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West continued to tinker with their system and the pace of substitute Gavin Millar caused the Queen's defence all sorts of problems in the last half hour.
Daniel Drummond and Campbell Gibson had managed to shut down the midfield to West's advantage and it felt that there was another goal in the match – but for which side?
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Helmuth Theodor Bossert (Landau in der Pfalz, 1889. szeptember 11. – Isztambul, 1961. február 5.) német származású régész, hettitológus.

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Tanulmányait Strasbourg, München, Freiburg és Heidelberg egyetemein végezte művészettörténet, történelem, régészet, és a német nyelv és irodalom szakokon. 1913-ban írta doktori értekezését a freiburgi plébániatemplom oltáráról. Az első világháborúban önkéntesként szolgált. A háború után egyetemi karrierjét feladva a berlini Wasmuth tudományos kiadónál vállalt állást, valamint itt publikálta első munkáit.

A nagy gazdasági világválság miatt 1929-ben a Wasmuth-tól elbocsátották, de a publikálást folytatta. 1930-tól foglalkozott az akkor még hettitának gondolt luvi írással. 1933-ban ösztöndíjjal utazott először Törökországba. Elsődleges célja a nemrégiben megtalált hattuszaszi levéltár teljes feltárása és publikálása volt. Eckhard Ungerrel együtt megpróbálta átvenni Boğazkale feltárását Kurt Bitteltől és Hans Gustav Güterbocktól azzal az érvvel, hogy Bittel és Güterbock nem elég hazafias. Bittel szerint Bossert ragaszkodott a horogkeresztes birodalmi lobogóhoz és a náci karlendítéshez, amikor egy francia miniszter látogatta meg az ásatásokat. 1934-ben az Isztambuli Egyetem egy megüresedett állását kínálták fel neki, amit elfogadott, és 1959-ben kapta meg az egyetem tiszteletbeli professzora címet. Az állással együtt megkapta a török állampolgárságot is.

1939 és 1946 között a második világháború miatt a kutatás szinte teljesen leállt. Csak 1946-ban indult újra Halet Çambel és Bahadır Alkım részvételével a jelentős karatepei és adanai ásatásokkal. 1947-ben Karatepén Azittavadda feliratának megtalálása óriási jelentőségű volt a hettitológia számára, mivel ez volt az első olyan bilingvis (luvi–föníciai) felirat, amelynek nagy terjedelme a luvi hieroglif írás megértését nagy lépéssel előrevitte. Adanában pedig az arameus–föníciai keveréknyelvű Kilamuva-sztélé megtalálása fűződik a nevéhez, ami gyakorlatilag az egyetlen egykorú helyi forrás Szamal történetéről. 1955-től főleg Mopszuhesztia területén ásatott.

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The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature
By Thomas E. Peterson
The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature offers a perceptive re-assessment of Italian literary culture, focusing on the nature of modernity through the literature of those who revolt against established norms and expectations. By exploring selected works from authors such as Deledda, Foscolo, Ungaretti, Bertolucci, and Valeri, Thomas E. Peterson considers the categories of vatic poetry, the feminine voice, and the writings of those situated on Italy's cultural periphery.
As practitioners of literary Italian, Peterson argues that these authors are conscious of their role in preserving both language and tradition during a period of great upheaval and national transformation. At the same time, they use their writings to move towards change, combat alienation, and reconfigure the self in relation to the community. In treating the act of authorship in terms of its cultural and didactic significance, Peterson successfully bridges the gap between traditional literary critical monographs and the trend toward cultural studies.
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The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature offers a perceptive re-assessment of Italian literary culture, focusing on the nature of modernity through the literature of those who revolt against established norms and expectations.
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This may also be due to the user pressing F12 while APP.exe has focus.
The output window may have more diagnostic information.
HEAP[APP.exe]: Heap block at 00000000077C5DA0 modified at 00000000077C5DB4 past requested size of 4
Windows has triggered a breakpoint in APP.exe.
This may be due to a corruption of the heap, which indicates a bug in APP.exe or any of the DLLs it has loaded.
This may also be due to the user pressing F12 while APP.exe has focus.
The output window may have more diagnostic information

When I clicked the new folder I get a exception saying my app.exe has triggered a break point. and the app crashes. I have tried using different flags from OFN_EXPLORER and such else, but with no luck.
MSDN dosn't give a lot of info about the flags. can you help?

A: As I commented above, you need to change the filters to be correctly terminated (note the "||" at the end):
char szFilters[]= "Text Files(*.txt)|*.txt|Register File Definition Files(*.rgf)|*.rgf|All Files(*.*)|*.*||";

Not doing so will definitely cause a problem as the filter string will be parsed beyond its end.

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This Infosheet describes the job of a typical backbench Member of the House of Representatives—that is, a Member who does not hold a parliamentary or party office.1 The term 'backbencher' refers to the Member's seating position in the Chamber of the House, where the front bench is occupied by Ministers and shadow ministers.
However, it should be noted that much of what is described here applies to all Members—the Speaker and frontbench Members also represent their constituents as well as carry out their various additional responsibilities.
While there is no formal 'job description' that sets out what a backbench Member does, it is possible to identify aspects of work common to all backbenchers.
A Member is expected to be a spokesperson for local interests; an ombudsman and facilitator who deals with concerns about government matters; a law maker; an examiner of the work of the government and how it spends the money it raises from taxation; and a contributor to debates on national issues. If a Member has been elected with the support of a political party (as most are), he or she is also expected to participate in party activities.
Most Members can thus be viewed as having three roles—that of parliamentarian, constituency representative, and party member. Each of these roles is examined in more detail below.
The different roles can place competing demands on a Member's time—for example, Members must leave their electorates to attend Parliament. When Parliament is not meeting, parliamentary committees on which they serve may be conducting inquiries in different parts of the country.
Individual Members' expertise or experience and the nature of their electorates can influence Members' work priorities and their decisions as to where their most effective contribution can be made.
What skills does a Member need?
Members require a broad range of skills to enable them to make an effective contribution across the breadth of their work responsibilities. Individual Members have different sets of skills, developed through education and their work before becoming a Member of Parliament. These may influence where a Member chooses to make his or her main contribution. For example, research and analytical skills are important in committee inquiry work, and in the examination and preparation of legislation; good communication skills are important in all aspects of a Member's work, but are particularly so in working with constituents, in debating legislation and in lobbying. Negotiation skills, organisational skills and problem-solving skills are just a few of the other skills required by Members. As in any field of work, Members develop existing skills and acquire new ones, simply because of the wide variety of tasks they are required to undertake.
One of a Member's most important skills is communicating—receiving, understanding and evaluating information from many sources, and passing on information and opinions in Parliament and elsewhere—to the government and to individuals and groups.
Being well informed and having up to date information is vital if a Member is to understand and debate the great range of legislation and other issues dealt with by the House and provide an effective representational link between his or her constituents and the Parliament.
Members spend a great deal of time reading, although they cannot expect to read all the material sent to them. Major national and regional, and sometimes overseas, newspapers and journals are priority reading in order to be informed on day to day news and views. In addition, hundreds of reports are presented to the House each year and a Member with an interest in even just a few policy areas may read hundreds of pages of reports annually in order to keep in touch with the subject matter. Members may also read articles and listen to television and radio programs in their area of interest. They also need to read and digest detailed research on specific topics done for them by personal or parliamentary staff. Parliamentary or party committee work may require more reading and research in relatively specialised areas.
Another major parliamentary occupation is speaking. Making speeches in the Chamber is the role with which the general observer is most familiar and which probably attracts the most publicity, although in fact other tasks such as office work or committee work may take much more time. Nevertheless most Members are regularly called upon to speak in the Chamber of the House and in the Federation Chamber, usually in support of, or in opposition to, a piece of legislation. There are a number of other opportunities for Members to speak in the House to raise issues of particular interest to them or their constituents—for example, during the adjournment debate at the end of each sitting day, and the weekly private Members' business day when bills and motions may be sponsored by private Members. (For further information about opportunities for Members to raise matters of concern see Infosheet No. 6 'Opportunities for private Members'.) While at Parliament House Members also spend time talking with colleagues, MPs from other parties, journalists, visitors and the parliamentary staff who administer the operations of the House.
A key aspect of communication for a Member is keeping constituents informed of developments in government or party policy and the implications of government decisions and activity. Members also spend a great deal of time communicating on behalf of their constituents—by taking up the cases of individuals or by relaying the concerns of electors generally to the government or to their parties. Every aspect of a Member's work involves communicating—writing many letters, talking to large numbers of people, both privately and in public forums, and, perhaps most importantly of all, listening.
The House of Representatives has a system of committees which carry out investigations; conduct inspections; hear people's views and proposals; analyse evidence; discuss and debate aspects of an inquiry in detail and report their conclusions. Depending on the inquiry topic, much of this work is done away from Canberra. The committees set up by the House (including some set up jointly with the Senate which also has its own committees) investigate matters of public policy, examine the activities of government and make recommendations for change. Committees are given wide powers of investigation. They are valuable vehicles for the receiving and giving of information and provide a direct link between Members and the Australian community.
Each parliamentary committee consists of both government and non-government Members. Most Members of Parliament, except Ministers and some of the principal office holders, serve on committees. Backbench Members are generally members of more than one committee. Committee work is an important part of the duties of Members and makes considerable demands on their time.
As well as attending meetings and public hearings, in order to make a contribution to the work of a committee, a Member must spend time studying the subject matter of the inquiry. The demands are greater on those Members who are committee chairs because they must lead the work of their committees and be the spokesperson for their work. Committee meetings are held in Canberra both when the House is meeting and at other times, and most committees also hold hearings, public meetings or informal discussions in a number of places throughout the country.
At the conclusion of their investigations committees present a report to the House which may spend time debating it. At a later time the government provides the House and the committee concerned with a response to the recommendations made by the committee.
Nearly all Members belong to a political party—very few of the 150 Members of the House are Independents (i.e. not members of a political party). Members are expected to contribute to the development and amendment of the policies of the party to which they belong. Each party has its own ways of doing this but in all parties Members are given opportunities to put forward the interests of their constituents and their own personal views. All parties hold meetings of their parliamentary members, usually weekly when the Parliament is sitting, at which policies are discussed.
Both the government and opposition parties make extensive use of backbench party committees, each committee specialising in a particular area of government. These committees look at legislative proposals and government policy, and may help to develop party policy. While parliamentary committees work towards the production of individual reports with recommendations that the government may, or may not adopt, party committees have a continuing role in commenting on and adapting party policies.
Party committees usually meet weekly on parliamentary sitting days, often prior to or after parliamentary sittings in the morning, or at night. A Member may be on more than one party committee and most backbench Members spend a considerable amount of time on these activities.
Members provide a direct link between their constituents and the Parliament. The federal electoral divisions in Australia have an average of approximately 110,328 eligible voters. Electoral divisions differ greatly in area, ranging from approximately 32 sq. km. (Grayndler, NSW) to over 1.6 million sq. km. (Durack, WA). Each Member maintains an office in his or her electorate. Some Members representing very large electorates may have electorate offices in more than one centre. Members in large electorates spend a great deal of time traveling within the electorate.
In the electorate Members and their staff spend most of their time supporting their constituents' interests. Sometimes this requires the personal intervention of the Member who may write to a Minister, phone a public servant, or call in to a Minister's office to enlist their personal involvement in addressing the matter. Many of the inquiries or calls for assistance fall within the areas of social welfare, immigration and taxation. A Member also deals with problems concerning family law, postal and telephone services, employment, health and education. Many Commonwealth and State functions overlap and when this occurs cross referrals of problems are made between federal and State Members, regardless of political affiliations.
Members have influence and standing outside Parliament and typically have a wide range of contacts with government bodies, their political party, community groups and individuals. Personal intervention in a constituent matter by a Member traditionally gets priority attention from government departments. If the matter is purely an administrative one, the Member may contact the department or authority concerned, where the case will be dealt with by the relevant section. If the matter is urgent, the Member may approach the Minister directly or, if the Member feels the case requires public discussion or a change of policy, may bring the matter before the House—for instance, by addressing a question to the responsible Minister or by raising it in debate. Members can also advise constituents on the preparation of petitions to the House. Petitions can only be presented to the House if the problems concern matters on which the House can act (see Infosheet No. 11 'Petitions').
Members also make representations to the government on behalf of their electorates as a whole on matters of special interest to the electorate. A major road construction or other significant project within the electorate, or the prospect of closure of a local industry which would cause unemployment or other problems for the area, are examples of electorate issues that might be raised by Members. Such matters are more likely to be the subject of questions on notice (see Infosheet No. 1 'Questions') or to be raised in the House than are problems of individual constituents. Members' representation of community views on national issues is also important in shaping policy.
Members frequently meet constituents who are visiting Parliament House. Some constituents seek out Members to lobby them on a particular problem. Mostly however, the constituents are simply visitors to the national capital who want the chance to meet their Member. Members also find time to meet groups of school children from their electorates and show them around the Parliament. Parliament House has an education centre where visiting school groups can learn about Parliament and meet with their federal representative.
It is the constituents who pass judgment on the performance of Members of Parliament at each election. Members must prove themselves fit for the task of being their parliamentary representative. All Members who wish to make a long-term commitment to improving the governance of Australia need to be dedicated to serving the interests of their electorates and proving themselves worthy of re-election.
Members work long hours in the House, on parliamentary committee work and in their electorates.
Generally when the House is sitting, it meets for between 7.5 and 10.5 hours a day and sometimes even longer. It is not unusual for a Member's day to begin with a breakfast meeting at about 7.30 a.m. and to end with House rise at 8 p.m. or later. Members are not present in the Chamber all the time, but they keep in touch with proceedings via television monitors in their offices and other locations throughout Parliament House, and are ready to attend in the Chamber at any time to vote in a division, to make a speech or to lend support to a colleague. Meetings of the Federation Chamber (the House's second debating chamber) and parliamentary committee meetings and hearings also take place while the House is sitting, and Members have to allocate their time carefully to avoid demands on them to be in two places at once. When not attending these formal meetings of the House, Members do research, write speeches, meet constituents, are lobbied by interest groups, raise matters of concern with Ministers and participate in party meetings and party committee work.
The hours worked by Members in the electorates are similar to those worked in Canberra. In their electorates, Members meet with community leaders and organisations; make presentations; visit schools; attend party meetings; handle constituent inquiries; speak with the media and keep themselves up to date with developments in the electorate. Travelling time between different centres in larger electorates can add significantly to the amount of time needed to keep in touch with community views—some electorates in Australia are larger than many countries.
The many demands on a Member can easily fill days and evenings for seven days a week. This is especially the case when the House is sitting and electorate responsibilities must be fitted in at the weekend before the Member returns to Canberra. Members from electorates in parts of Australia furthest from Canberra spend many additional hours travelling at the beginning and end of each sitting week. These working hours also affect Members' families and Members need to prioritise their activities carefully in order to maintain a balanced perspective on issues.


Happy times were here again during alumni weekend November 2 and 3.
BC Law's 2018 Reunion began at noon on November 2 and lasted until the wee hours of November 3 as some 500 alumni and friends descended on the Newton campus and the Ritz-Carlton for the festivities.
Friday events included a 50th anniversary celebration of clinical education featuring a luncheon for the founders of the Legal Assistance Bureau (LAB) and three hours of storytelling sessions by alumni and students of the Law School's clinical programs. The Alumni Assembly hosted a conversation with William Evans, former Boston Police Commissioner and now Chief of Police at Boston College. Sandwiched in between was a Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy panel on how the disenfranchisement of criminals challenges democracy. The day ended with a dinner and bar review.
Saturday's activities shifted to downtown Boston, where the Black Alumni Network held its annual meeting, and judges Paul J. Barbadoro '80, George H. Foster Jr. '83, Elizabeth C. O'Neill LaStaiti '68, and Wilber P. Edwards Jr. '84 offered perspectives from the bench. Then it was on to the Dean's Council Reception, reunion dinners for classes ending in 3 and 8, and the half-century dinner for the 50th reunion class and alumni who graduated earlier.
Discussions were animated, old friendships were renewed, and reminiscences were plentiful throughout the weekend.


A wonderful natural round cut Emerald gemstone set in the luster of a 9ct yellow gold British hallmarked ring mount.
Surrounded by a glistening cluster of forty natural white diamonds and complete with diamond set split shoulders, this diamond ring is elegant and stylish.
Ideal as a special dress ring or as a contemporary engagement ring, give her the ring she loves and deserves!


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Q: Error while compiling Java files into DLL assemblies I have been trying to convert a Java class into DLL using IKVM.
IKVM converts that easily without errors. But while running it in VS, it throws the following exceptions:
System.TypeInitializationException: 'The type initializer for 'sun.security.jca.Providers' threw an exception.
**1 of 2 Inner Exceptions** : TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'java.security.Security' threw an exception.
**2 of 2 Inner Exceptions** : -     InnerException  {"Method not found: 'Void System.IO.FileStream..ctor(System.String, System.IO.FileMode, System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemRights, System.IO.FileShare, Int32, System.IO.FileOptions)'."}  System.Exception {System.MissingMethodException}.

I can't understand the reason of these Exceptions.
My Java Code is :
package aesgzip;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class AESGzip {

    private static final String key = MyKeyString;
    private static final String IV = MyIV;

    public static byte[] decrypt(byte[] encrypted) {
        try {
            IvParameterSpec IVSpec = new IvParameterSpec(IV.getBytes("UTF-8"));
            SecretKeySpec KEYSpec = new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes("UTF-8"), "AES");

            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5PADDING");
            cipher.init(2, KEYSpec, IVSpec);

            return cipher.doFinal(encrypted);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }
}

My C# Code is :
using System;
using aesgzip;

namespace AESTest
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            byte[] b = Convert.FromBase64String(myBASE64String);
            byte[] x = AESGzip.decrypt(b);
           Console.WriteLine(x);
        }

    }
}


This magnificent Crucifixion masterpiece has been created from cold cast bronze plated resin with hand painted color highlights. It has been crafted with much attention to detail and the linear contours and color contrasts are amazing! John the Beloved Apostle, Our Lady and Mary Magdalene are at the base of the Crucifix at the foot of Christ. This glorious statue would make a great addition to your indoor or outdoor decor.
The dimensions are 11"H x 8"W x 5"D. The approximate weight of the item is 3lbs.


Microsoft has integrated Bing Search content with Hotmail interface. Now you can add any content searched on Bing to your emails being composed and sent using Hotmail. For example, you are writing email to friend about recently watched movie. You can use this "quick add" feature to insert and link that movie photos and review available on different websites.
1. Login into your Windows Live Hotmail account.
2. Click New button to create new email message.
3. On right side checkout Quick add box.
4. Click onImages, videos, restaurants as per requirement.
5. Search for relevant content and click insert button.
Specific content will be added to your compose email box with reference link for more information on Bing search result pages. Quick add is a handy feature to add more information to your email composed in Hotmail. Specially the image feature, add as many images you want quickly without any fuss.
As pointed by Hotmail Team, this feature is currently available in select areas including: Australia, Canada, China, India, US, and UK.
I can't see the quick add side in my email…!!! please help me..


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How your small business can win big with global markets — exporting made easier
Only about 25% of small businesses in Canada export, but new programs offer help over the hurdles
The co-owners of Farm Fresh Pet Foods in Edmonton — Nicole Porterfield, left, and Kim Good — expect exports to make up 30 per cent of sales in the coming year.Jennifer Dooley/Heads and Tails Photography
Denise Deveau
Exporting was not part of the plan when Nicole Porterfield and Kim Good took over Farm Fresh Pet Foods in Edmonton.
"Our initial goal was to sell across Canada through independent pet supply stores and small chains," Porterfield says. "But the market in Canada was only so big."
So four years ago, they pitched their product to a subscription box company in the United States. When they got the green light, however, the co-owners soon learned that securing cross-border customers is a lot easier than landing an export permit to sell to them.
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"We spent a year figuring out who the right person was to talk to. Then we had to get that right person on the right day in the right mood," Porterfield says. "Kim and I started to wonder if this was their elimination process to see how many would give up."
Still, they persevered. And in 2016, they started building stateside logistics and distribution partnerships.
Today, five per cent of Farm Fresh Pet Foods are sold in the U.S. Porterfield estimates that will grow to 30 per cent within the year, as they sign on distributors in additional regions.
But while the potential of international expansion is clear — in a recent poll by the Royal Bank of Canada, 77 per cent of business owners of all sizes said that global trade has increased their revenues — so are the barriers for entrepreneurs.
In a survey of its 4,200 members, the Canadian Federation of Independent Small Business found that only about 25 per cent exported products and services. Reported barriers included lack of resources and expertise, lack of information on trade opportunities and lack of appropriate financing.
There were significant challenges reported by those who do engage in exports as well, among them: the costs of shipping, duties and taxes, export rules and regulations, currency fluctuations and global uncertainty.
For all that, says Pierre Cléroux, vice-president, research and chief economist at the Business Development Bank of Canada, there are strong arguments for pursuing exports. "Statistically, businesses who export perform better than other businesses in terms of revenue and profit growth," he says.
The problem, says Monique Moreau, vice-president of national affairs for CFIB, is that most entrepreneurs don't know about the supports available to them — and feel that organizations like Export Development Canada and the Trade Commissioner Service are only interested in big enterprises.
"The reality is, both have developed resources over the years to encourage small businesses to export," she says. "If you invest the time and energy into peeling back the layers of the onion and finding where the resources are, there are promising opportunities."
In May, for example, both EDC and TCS are participating in a program called the "Canadian Export Challenge." Organized by Startup Canada, it offers entrepreneurs the chance to apply for a cohort of like-minded businesses, which are then connected to potential partners, updated on trade missions and market intelligence. The organization also hosts a one-day global "accelerator" for intensive networking and invites member companies to compete for $25,000 and $100,000 of in-kind support to go global.
"It's an opportunity for accepted businesses to accelerate access to markets, mentors, customers, and capital," says organization president Victoria Lennox.
The rise of the digital economy helps any business looking for international momentum, though, says Lennox. "Selling online allows business to expand their markets so quickly."
Andrew Dale would agree. The founder of LeDaveed, which produces luxury leather bags, he's had his eye on international sales from the day he launched in July of 2016. "Leather bags are a $50 billion market worldwide," he says. "It's a huge, huge market driven by Asia and the U.S."
And indeed, with the help of a fashion magazine feature in 2017, revenues from exports jumped from 10- to 60-per-cent. "We doubled our business when we went international," he says. "Without that access we wouldn't have a business."
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Besides impairing cardiovascular and kidney function, Type 2 diabetes is known to be a risk factor for bone fractures – but exactly how diabetes makes bones more fragile has been unclear.
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Five young innovators win share of £50,000 and a year of support at the 26th Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs
Category Art, Business, Challenges, Events, Incubator, Members, Mewe news, Partnerships
Five winners of the Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs (DBACE) have been announced, winning a share of £50,000 for their creative business. Activate the City!, Black Ballad, Bukky Baldwin, Mental Health: The Arts & Petit Pli.
DBACE 2019 celebrates creative enterprise for social good by supporting young entrepreneurs aged 18-30.
Each winner receives a share of £50,000 of investment to grow their business alongside 12 months of business support.
Winners announced at ceremony hosted by multi award-winning broadcaster Gemma Cairney.
DBACE 2019 champions creative innovators from diverse backgrounds across the UK.
2 JULY 2019 – Five winners of the Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs (DBACE) have been announced, winning a share of £50,000 for their creative business. With the creative industries contributing more than £100 billion to the UK economy every year, DBACE supports young UK-based entrepreneurs driven by a mission to drive and sustain social value through enterprise. The programme is part of Deutsche Bank's global social enterprise programme, Made for Good, and has been delivered in partnership with not-for-profit creative industries incubator MeWe360.
The winners were revealed at a ceremony hosted by Gemma Cairney (BBC Radio 1) at The Conduit in the heart of London's West End. The five winners are:
Activate the City! – Karen Jelenje
Encouraging and empowering young people in Bristol to become community champions and work locally to transform vacant and redundant space that would otherwise be used for fly tipping, loitering and illegal activity. The youth-led transformations become public space to provide wider social and economic benefits in disadvantage communities.
Black Ballad – Bola Awoniyi & Tobi Oredein
A subscription lifestyle media brand empowering black women globally by celebrating their culture, community and stories. By championing black female writers and creators, the Black Ballad membership provides access to content, events and experiences that rebalance the lack of representation in media.
Bukky Baldwin – Ibukun Jesusanmi Baldwin
An ethical fashion and textiles company based in Manchester aiming to empower marginalised communities. The brand has been collaborating with refugee and homeless charities to provide individually catered training programmes that are both practical and holistic in nature.
Mental Health The Arts – Angela Awuah
An early intervention creative arts academy for young people in South London between the ages of 13 and 25 with direct and indirect experience of mental illness. Educating, equipping and empowering young people to cultivate creative coping mechanisms through talks, workshops and the arts.y raising money and donating to groups who can help those most in need.
Petit Pli – Ryan Mario Yasin
Designing out waste across the entire garment value chain by engineering versatile garments that grow as the wearer does. The garments are embedded with a patent-pending auxetic structure, which expands bi directionally to mimic the growth of children aged nine months to four years – that's seven sizes and seven times less waste.
DBACE supports ambitious individuals from all backgrounds with sustainable ideas that will improve the lives of others and the communities we live in. Beyond winning a share of the £50,000, the prize package includes ongoing support for the year ahead, providing the winners with bespoke business support, mentoring and access to industry networks as part of a 12 month membership with MeWe360.
Established in 1993, the longstanding awards of 26 years have undergone a transformation in 2019. Now focusing on social creative enterprise, Deutsche Bank is working with MeWe360 to develop a programme that has encouraged entries by entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds, broadening the cohort of applicants and the variety of creative enterprises involved.
Nicole Lovett, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility UK, Deutsche Bank comments: "After more than a quarter of a century supporting emerging creative enterprise in the UK, this year was the right time to look at DBACE with fresh eyes to ensure it reflected modern Britain and welcomed inspiring entrants with great ideas from a multitude of backgrounds. The quality of the 2019 applicants has been outstanding, making the judging very difficult indeed.
"The five winners demonstrated original and exciting creative business ideas with sustainable models that look ahead to ongoing success. The prizes awarded mean far more than money, they offer a year of support and mentoring to give our winners every chance of success, shining a light on
their ingenuity and the importance of the creative industries to the wider UK economy".
Kevin Osborne, founder and CEO of MeWe360 comments: "We are looking forward to working closely with the five winners in the coming year and to support them with mentoring and networking so that their businesses thrive. We're immensely proud to have been invited by Deutsche Bank to partner on this year's DBACE and are excited by the potential of the partnership to help many future young entrepreneurs on their
journeys to success."
For more details about DBACE, visit www.dbace.org