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Seattle Rocks Out for a Great Cause With the Jive Aces
Britain's Got Talent semifinalists' benefit concert for the humanitarian programs of the Church of Scientology Seattle
Press Release - updated: May 20, 2019
SEATTLE, May 20, 2019	(Newswire.com) - After blowing away the crowds at New Orleans' House of Blues and Birdland in New York, the Jive Aces, Britain's No. 1 jive and swing band, made a high-octane stop in Seattle to promote the work of the Church of Scientology humanitarian initiatives.
With its larger-than-life, big-beat sound, the band, in their trademark bright yellow suits, had the audience dancing to classic tunes from Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Bobby Darin and Louis Jordan.
Fans gave them standing ovations, saying the show surpassed all expectations.
"My hat is off to the most spectacular show band that I've had the privilege of seeing," said one guest. "I loved every moment," said another. "They are true professionals brimming with talent."
The unique concert raised funds for the Church of Scientology Seattle humanitarian initiatives including local chapters of United for Human Rights, The Way to Happiness Foundation, and the Jives' own favorite, the Truth About Drugs campaign of Foundation for a Drug-Free World.
'When I found out about the campaign, the Truth About Drugs," says lead singer, trumpet and ukelele player Ian Clarkson, "that was something that we really wanted to get involved in. Now we go and play in different places and we do it for the Truth about Drugs, and we have booklets that we give out. It really affects people. We've launched 'Mayors Against Drugs' which is mayors getting on board and helping on the Truth About Drugs campaign."
The Jive Aces are featured in an episode of Meet a Scientologist on the Scientology Network.
The Church of Scientology and Scientologists support these campaigns and make their educational materials available free of charge to educators, mentors, community programs and individuals seeking to make this world a better place.
For more information about these programs, watch Voices for Humanity on the Scientology Network.
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Reading The Invisible Hook really got me hooked on learning more about pirates.
How do pirates decide what ransom to ask for?
The answer, from an interview with an actual pirate, might surprise you. Despite what many think, they are very smart and intuitively grasp governance, incentives, and other aspects of human nature. This interview touches on incentives, reinforcement, moral hazard, and anchoring.
How do you pirates decide on what ransom to ask for?
Once you have a ship, it's a win-win situation. We attack many ships everyday, but only a few are ever profitable. No one will come to the rescue of a third-world ship with an Indian or African crew, so we release them immediately. But if the ship is from Western country or with valuable cargo like oil, weapons or then its like winning a lottery jackpot. We begin asking a high price and then go down until we agree on a price.
How do you know a ship in far away coast in the first place and its flagship?
Often we know about a ship's cargo, owners and port of origin before we even board it. That way we can price our demands based on its load. For those with very valuable cargo on board then we contact the media and publicize the capture and put pressure on the companies to negotiate for its release.
From what I've seen, initial demands tend to be about 10 times the previous publicized ransom, is this a rule of thumb?
We know that we won't get our initial demands, but we use it as a starting point and negotiate downwards to our eventual target. But as a rule, yes, that's about right.
Does the length of a hijacking change the ransom that pirates are willing to accept?
Yes. Armed men are expensive as are the laborers, accountants, cooks and khat suppliers on land. During long negotiations our men get tired and we need to rotate them out three times a week. Add to that the risk from navies attacking us and we can be convinced to lower our demands.
What are the key factors to making a successful attack on a ship?
The key to our success is that we are willing to die, and the crews are not. Beyond that, in my case deploy a boat with six men to get close to the ship and leave another in reserve near the coast just in case we need backup. We use sophisticated equipment that allows us to spot our targets from a distance. We always have to be close to the main sea lane and keep in touch with each other using talkie phones.
How much does it cost to outfit a pirate mission?
A single mission with 12 armed men and boats costs a little over $30,000. But a successful investor has to dispatch at least three or four missions to get lucky once.
Are there internal conflicts within the pirate gangs?
No. In piracy, everyones' life depends on everyone else's. There is some professional competition between groups, but we cooperate with information and logistics when it's required. We won't fight amongst ourselves as long as the money is paid as promised. We have never had any conflicts within my group.
Still curious? The Invisible Hook looks at legendary pirate captains like Blackbeard, Black Bart Roberts, and Calico Jack Rackam, and shows how pirates' search for plunder led them to pioneer remarkable and forward-thinking practices.


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Joseph Yun, who joined the foreign service in 1985, has been serving as the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy. | Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images
U.S. envoy for North Korea policy to retire
A top U.S. diplomat overseeing North Korea policy is retiring, the State Department confirmed Monday, a decision that could further hobble U.S. efforts to pressure Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arsenal.
The departure of Joseph Yun, expected Friday, also is likely to raise more concerns about a thinning of the ranks at the State Department, where many top officials have quit since the start of the Trump administration.
Yun, who joined the foreign service in 1985, has been serving as the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy. He is a well-regarded diplomat tackling one of the toughest assignments in the U.S. government.
Yun did not respond to a request for comment as to why he is leaving now. But CNN quoted him as saying the decision was "completely" his own. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had accepted Yun's resignation "reluctantly."
The Trump administration is spearheading a global campaign, primarily using sanctions, to push Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons program. But the White House also is reportedly considering a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea, an action many experts and officials warn could result in a catastrophic number of deaths if Pyongyang retaliates.
State, Defense agree on $40M fund to fight foreign propaganda
Tillerson has pushed for talks with the North Koreans, and President Donald Trump has in recent months indicated an openness to that idea. North Korea, which participated in the recent Winter Olympics in South Korea, has also given signs it may agree to some talks. As a U.S. special representative, Yun would have played a major role in such talks.
Last year, Yun helped negotiate the release of Otto Warmbier, a young American held prisoner in North Korea. Warmbier was evacuated to the U.S. in June in a vegetative-like state, with brain damage, and died soon afterward.
Yun's retirement also comes as the United States lacks an ambassador in South Korea. Victor Cha, an expert on the Koreas who served in the George W. Bush administration, was the leading candidate for that position, but he was dropped, reportedly after expressing concerns about the idea of a pre-emptive military strike.
Nauert said that although the State Department is sorry to see Yun retire, "our diplomatic efforts regarding North Korea will continue based on our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the [North] until it agrees to begin credible talks toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula."
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Yun is one of many high-ranking diplomats who have retired or otherwise quit under Tillerson.
Tom Shannon, the undersecretary of state for political affairs and the highest-ranked career official at the department, announced a few weeks ago that he will retire once his replacement is ready to take over.
The secretary of state has left numerous leadership positions at the State Department unfilled since taking over 13 months ago. Critics fear Tillerson, a former ExxonMobil CEO, is trying to hollow out a critical institution and that the damage to U.S. diplomacy could last years. Tillerson has acknowledged he's been slow to fill many jobs, but he has said those positions are being handled well by other U.S. officials in an acting capacity.
Yun, who has degrees from the University of Wales and the London School of Economics, has held several roles during his diplomatic career, including serving as U.S. ambassador to Malaysia.
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Hans-Georg Türstig (* 18. Februar 1949 in Essen) ist ein deutscher Autor und Übersetzer.

Leben und Wirken
Hans-Georg Türstig brach nach dem Abitur ein Studium an der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe ab und studierte von 1970 bis 1973 Indologie an den Universitäten Freiburg und Bonn. Von 1973 bis 1975 setzte er sein Studium in Indien an der University of Pune in Pune fort. Nach seiner Rückkehr arbeitete er als Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft an der Universität Heidelberg, wo er 1979 mit der Arbeit Jyotisa. Das System der indischen Astrologie zum Dr. phil. promoviert wurde.

Nach dem Studium lebte er 13 Jahre in Indien, wo er mit indischen Spiritualisten, Musikern und Künstlern zusammentraf. Dort erhielt er den Namen Sautamali und veröffentlichte seine Erfahrungen in mehreren Arbeiten. Von 2000 bis 2005 lebte er in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Seit 2006 lebt Hans-Georg Türstig in Berlin und widmet sich der Netzkunst.

Schriften

Bücher
 Jyotisa. Das System der indischen Astrologie. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-03283-5.
 Über Entstehungsprozesse in der Philosophie des Nyāya-Vaiśesika-Systems. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-515-03951-1.

Artikel
 The Indian Sorcery called Abhicàra. In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens. Band XXIX. 1985, , S. 69–117.
 Righteousness, Wealth, Pleasure, and Liberation. In: Darshan. In the Company of the Saints. Vol. 90. SYDA, South Fallsburg, NY, 1994, .
 The Roots of Knowledge. In: Darshan. In the Company of the Saints. SYDA, South Fallsburg, NY, 1996.Teil 1: The Vedas and Upanishads. Vol. 112.Teil 2: Three Schools of Vedanta. Vol. 113.
 Saktipata. In: Dialog der Religionen. 7. Jahrgang, Heft 2. Kaiser, Gütersloh, 1997, , S. 27–43.
 Netzkunst als Kunstnetz. Kooperationen der Kreativität im Internet. In: Netzwerker Perspektiven. Roderer, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-89783-374-3.

Herausgaben
 Yantracintāmanih of Dāmodara. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-515-05212-7.
 Die Weisheit der Upanischaden, Klassiker indischer Spiritualität in zeitgemässer Neuübertragung. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12896-X.

Übersetzungen
 Ravi Ravindra: Mystisches Christentum. Das Johannesevangelium im Licht östlicher Weisheit. (The Yoga of Christ.)  Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-13029-8.
 Kathryn Solisti, Michael Tobias (Hrsg.): Ich spürte die Seele der Tiere. (Intimate Relationships.) Kosmos, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-440-07274-6.
 Thomas Merton: Die Weisheit der Wüste. (The Wisdom of the Desert. Sayings of the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century.) Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-14255-5.
 Bruce Lawrence: Über den Koran. (The Qur'an. A Biography.) dtv, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34431-9.

Weblinks

 Website von Hans-Georg Türstig
 Website von Hans-Georg Türstig zum Thema Netzkunst (englisch)

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As many as 98,000 patients die each year in the United States due to medical errors.
Preventable medical errors cost the nation $17 billion to $29 billion in health care, lost income, and other expenses.
A cultural shift is taking place, with hospitals and other institutions changing from "blame and shame" practices in dealing with medical errors to a more nuanced understanding of why they occur and how to prevent them.
Hospitals and insurers recognize a list of "never events"—medical harms that should never happen because they are preventable with safety protocols.
Medicare, Medicaid, and several private insurers refuse to pay for costs associated with never events.
The tort system is not a good remedy for resolving most cases of medical injury.
Contrary to widely held belief, most injured patients never sue their doctors.
Efforts are under way to find more effective alternatives to malpractice litigation to compensate victims of medical error.
In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine released a report titled To Err Is Human that made front-page news. It revealed that 44,000 to 98,000 patients were dying each year in the United States due to medical errors. Deaths from medical error were exceeding deaths from breast cancer or motor vehicle accidents. The report estimated that deaths and injuries from preventable medical errors cost the nation from $17 billion to $29 billion in health care, lost income, and other expenses. Although the report reflected several decades of ongoing research into the problem of medical error, it succeeded in attracting far more attention from the media, the public, and policymakers than previous studies of the issue.
Since the release of the IOM report there have been notable efforts to prevent medical errors and to improve the care of patients, families, and clinicians affected by mistakes. A cultural shift is taking place in the medical profession, with hospitals and other institutions changing from "blame and shame" practices in dealing with medical errors toward a more nuanced understanding of them. Hospitals now frequently offer workshops, grand rounds, and public lectures on topics related to medical mistakes. In response, physicians appear more willing to talk about their own mistakes and even to write about them, both in medical journals and in articles and books for a general audience, although fears of liability continue to make it difficult for them to be fully candid.
Campaigns led by the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement and other patient safety advocacy groups to work with hospital trustees and staff on ways to avoid life-threatening errors.
Recognition of a list of "never events": medical harms that should never happen because they are preventable when patient safety protocols are followed. Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and several other major private insurers now refuse to reimburse hospitals for costs associated with some never events, while hundreds of hospitals have agreed not to bill injured patients for these costs (see box, "Never Events").
The requirement by The Joint Commission—which accredits 5,000 hospitals and other health care institutions in the United States—for accredited institutions to have policies and procedures for disclosing medical mistakes to patients and families.
A trend in state government to enact "I'm sorry" laws, which prevent expressions of sympathy, remorse, or—in some cases—fault from being used as evidence against physicians in medical malpractice lawsuits.
Development of alternatives to malpractice litigation in compensating patients and families harmed by medical error.
This is a sampling of the 28 medical errors that should never occur—known as "never events"—as compiled by the National Quality Forum. The list is widely recognized by hospitals and insurers.
Source: The National Quality Forum.
Are patients in U.S. hospitals safer today than they were when To Err Is Human was released? Are they more likely to be told the truth if they are harmed by medical mistakes? Are they more likely to receive fair compensation if their injuries have medical or financial consequences? The consensus is: maybe.
In 2005, patient safety leaders Lucian L. Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health and Donald M. Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement concluded that the IOM report had dramatically expanded conversation and concern about a major but poorly understood health care problem. It had also prompted many safety improvements as hospitals and professional groups worked to reduce specific medical errors. Among the improvements noted were the identification of never events and subsequent data on the effectiveness of changing practices in avoiding these injuries. A visitor to any U.S. hospital will see some evidence of greater awareness of patient safety as a shared responsibility of health care professionals. Hospital staff wear buttons inviting people to ask if they have washed their hands. Computer screen savers sport images of germ-laden unwashed hands. Posters in the elevators remind staff to avoid using abbreviations that could be misread or misheard when writing prescriptions or giving instructions.
However, greater awareness and changes at the margin still do not always translate into systemic adoption of verifiably safer practices. Leape and Berwick gave several explanations. First of all, health care is more complex that any other contemporary system in terms of its technology and human factors: there are more things to improve, and more ways to fail. In addition, the culture of medicine prizes individual identity, skill, and authority; encouraging a culture of safety means persuading strong-willed individuals to conform to safe practice standards and to think of themselves as part of "systems." Finally, board members and CEOs of health care institutions may be reluctant to make patient safety an ongoing priority, perhaps because talking about improving safety suggests that an institution is not already safe.
Turf issues can also stymie efforts to make health care safer. Some institutions still tolerate "work arounds"—adaptations to poorly-designed systems—rather than showing frontline staff how to distinguish between safe and unsafe practices and how to challenge system flaws that put patients at risk. Ironically, the growth of "patient safety" and quality improvement, or QI, as relatively new professions within health care along with continuing efforts to improve error disclosure can actually lead to new systems flaws. When responsibility for patient safety, QI, and disclosure training is "siloed" into different departments rather than integrated into organizational priorities, the system may be serving turf interests rather than patients' interests.
No physician can responsibly argue that lying or concealing the truth about medical mistakes is an acceptable option. The American Medical Association's Code of Ethics stipulates that patients are owed truthful and complete information about their health, including the aftermath of known or suspected errors. However, culture change is slow. The "hidden curriculum" in teaching hospitals may undermine what residents are taught about their truth telling obligations: if they never see senior colleagues acknowledge and disclose mistakes, residents may conclude that to do so is not in their career interests, either. And some institutions still react to adverse events by communicating with their lawyers rather than their patients, even though both hospital defense counsel and insurers may argue for full, frank, and fast disclosure as the soundest defense strategy.
Although we may finally have reached a consensus that injured patients are owed the basic truth about how they were harmed, we have not reached consensus about what else they may be owed, nor how this will be provided to them. There is increasing awareness of alternatives to the undeniable burden of litigation, such as health courts and other nonadversarial approaches (see box, "Alternatives to Litigation"). But in the absence of a universal health care system in the United States, compensation for medical harm varies from one state to the next. In states where there is no history of cooperation among physicians, hospitals, insurers, and plaintiffs' attorneys, starting a conversation about nonadversarial approaches can be hard.
Swift and fair compensation should be part of an ethical process of disclosing medical errors. But malpractice lawsuits are anything but swift—they take about three to five years. And they appear to be an inefficient means of awarding compensation. A study of settlement payments from 1990 to the present, published online in Health Affairs in 2005, found that jury awards of any size constituted just 4% of payments to injured patients: 96% of malpractice claims resulting in payments were eventually settled outside of court. These findings suggest that improving hospitals' ability to negotiate settlements with injured patients is a more productive use of resources. Several nonadversarial approaches are in use in the United States, and others are being tested.
The Lexington model, developed at a Veterans Administration hospital in Kentucky, is a comprehensive approach to disclosure, apology, and fair compensation.
The COPIC, or 3Rs, model, developed by COPIC, a Colorado-based insurer of physicians and hospitals, provides no-fault compensation for certain out-of-pocket expenses associated with adverse events.
The University of Michigan model, developed by the risk managers of the university's health care system and based on the Lexington model, has greatly reduced lawsuits and cut legal costs.
The health courts model, being piloted in several states, uses administrative courts with judges trained in evidence-based medical practice.
Medical harm is a health care problem that usually has a health care solution. One of the persistent difficulties in finding a health care solution is the longstanding tendency for health care professionals and the general public to associate medical injuries with the tort system, especially with "frivolous" lawsuits filed by people who do not have legitimate claims. However, most injured patients never sue their doctors, and the tort system is not a good remedy for resolving most cases of medical injury.
The tort system is not—and was not designed to be—a fairness-based system. It was designed to affix blame and award damages. As award formulas are based on lost income or earning potential, and as plaintiffs' attorneys are paid out of awards, these attorneys have little financial incentive to take on clients with low incomes or earning potential, including women who do not work outside the home. Empirical research has found that low-income, uninsured, and elderly patients are much less likely to file malpractice suits than are other patients with equivalent medical injuries. Elderly patients in particular fear disrupting their relationships with health care providers and tend not to pursue compensation for injuries.
Lucian Leape has noted that the lack of a universally accessible fair-compensation alternative to the tort system, as exits in Scandinavia and New Zealand, means that injured patients have little choice but to use a system that does not meet their needs: there is simply no other place for them to go. Judicial reform efforts such as health courts may provide some relief, particularly for major injuries. However, reformers should not neglect the health care system itself as the place where injured patients can either receive or be denied justice.
Just as physicians and hospitals can learn how to tell injured patients the truth about how they were harmed, so hospitals and insurers can learn how to provide fair compensation for these injuries. Mindful of the maxim "to permit is to promote," policymakers and insurers who want to reduce malpractice lawsuits can encourage hospitals in their states to adopt successful models of fair compensation, such as the University of Michigan's risk management strategy of early settlement or the no-fault "3Rs" approach (see box, "Alternatives to Litigation"), or to develop and test new models that have the potential to be both fair and efficient.
Reducing the variation in how institutions prevent and respond to medical errors is another continuing challenge with ethical and policy dimensions. Policymakers can help by removing impediments to sharing data on successful patient safety efforts and malpractice settlements. Such impediments include the common practice of sealing malpractice settlements, which makes studying the details of harmful incidents or identifying patterns of similar injuries across institutions in the same region difficult. The movement by insurers to use the lever of reimbursements to prohibit hospitals from recovering the costs of never events is another innovative way to compel them to remain vigilant about patient safety. Leape and Berwick argue that for preventable injuries to become true "never events," leaders will need to be as focused on patient safety as they are on the bottom line.
We are not sure how many patients are still being killed by medical mistakes each year. In 2005, Leape and Berwick concluded that, despite progress on various fronts, it was as yet "hard to see" evidence of national, systemic impact: some patients, in some units, at some hospitals, were certainly receiving safer care, but other patients, in other units, at other hospitals, were certainly not. We do know that there is not nearly enough funding dedicated to research on medical error as a health care problem, relative to other major causes of death in the United States.
Leape and Berwick note with concern that by 2004 the already tiny budget of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) had been largely restricted through earmarks, making it impossible for the agency to support ongoing research programs on patient safety. Understanding medical error as a health care problem and bringing safety from the margins to the center requires a serious and sustained commitment to funding research on its causes and on how to help patients, families, and clinicians recover from these devastating incidents.
Talking about mistakes—"to err is human"—is only the first step in the slow work of culture change. Preventing patients from being harmed in the course of seeking help, and treating harmed patients not as adversaries but as the most vulnerable persons in our health care system, continue to be challenges.
Nancy Berlinger, "Medical Error," in From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists, Policymakers, and Campaigns, ed. Mary Crowley (Garrison, NY: The Hastings Center, 2008), 97-100.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Includes books, videos, reports, and white papers resulting from IHI's programs and strategic initiatives.
Patient Safety Network of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Includes links to frequently cited books, articles, and resources by subject, as well as a newsletter and a glossary.
Nancy Berlinger, After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Virginia A. Sharpe, ed., Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform, Georgetown University Press, 2004.
Atul Gawande, "When Doctors Make Mistakes," in Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, Macmillan, 2003.
Thomas H. Gallagher et al., "Patients' and Physicians' Attitudes Regarding the Disclosure of Medical Errors," Journal of the American Medical Association, February 2003.
Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, National Academy Press, 2000.


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The facelifted Hyundai Tucson has made its Indian debut at Auto Expo 2020. The 2020 Hyundai Tucson with BS6 petrol and diesel engines will be launched soon.
The facelift brings subtle design changes to the Hyundai Tucson. At the front, the tweaked grille and the Penta LED projector headlamps and the new bumper is with new partitioned housings for the fog lamps are among the main changes. The profile of the Hyundai Tucson remains unchanged, except for the new design for the machined alloy wheels. At the rear, the tail lamps have been revised.
The 2020 Hyundai Tucson has a more appealing interior design with revisions to the dashboard, central AC vents and the touchscreen infotainment system. While the old model had a beige-black interior, the new model has a black interior. The vertical central AC vents have been replaced with horizontal AC vents. There's a new touchscreen infotainment system with a floating-type 8-inch HD display.
The compact SUV also features a panoramic sunroof, wireless smartphone charging, 8-way electrically adjustable and ventilated front seats, push-button start with keyless entry, Infinity premium sound system and Hyundai blue link telematics technology.
The new Hyundai Tucson also debuts the BS6 versions of the old model's 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines. The 2.0-litre petrol develops 152 PS of power and 192 Nm of torque, while the 2.0-litre diesel here generates 185 PS of power and 400 Nm of torque. An all-wheel drive system will be optionally available. Also new for MY2020 is an 8-speed automatic transmission, which will be available with the diesel engine.
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Taxes: AFIP raised close to $ 11 billion in 2021
The improvement in tax resources will exceed inflation, so that it will have an improvement in real terms, a figure that will support the position of the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, in the negotiations he maintains with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Most of this rise was achieved in the first months of the year.
In April, tax collection rose 105% in nominal terms, all due to the low base of comparison left by 2020. Precisely, in that month, the previous year, there had been the hardest moment of the closure of activities that ordered the government to counteract the contagion of Covid-19.
After that, the rate of improvement was shortened until it stopped in the last months of 2021 in the order of 58 to 59 percent nominal, always above the inflation rate.
The behavior is due to the contribution made by the withholdings on exports from the countryside, above all due to the effect of the rise in the prices of soybeans and grains sold by Argentina.
Also, throughout the year, there were certain extraordinary income that will not be present in 2022, because its extension was included in the 2022 Budget that was rejected by Congress.
One of the resources that Guzmán will not have this year, if a new law is not approved, is the Solidarity Contribution, known as the Wealth Tax, which contributed some 500,000 million pesos, according to private estimates.
The Value Added Tax (VAT), which is one of the pillars of the collection, ended the year at a level of the order of 2.3 trillion pesos, while the other base, the Income Tax, would exceed $ 3 trillions.
Meanwhile, Social Security contributions and contributions ended with income of the order of 2 trillion pesos.
Most of the recovery of these taxes was registered in the second semester, and is explained by the recomposition of registered employment.
The final data will be known this Monday, when the Ministry of Economy publishes the spreadsheets with the data.
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HomeINTERNATIONALRyan Giggs Blames 'Rough Sex' For Bruise On His Ex-girlfriend's Wrist After He Bought An Agent Provocateur Paddle
Ryan Giggs Blames 'Rough Sex' For Bruise On His Ex-girlfriend's Wrist After He Bought An Agent Provocateur Paddle
Former Manchester United fooballer and assistant manager, Ryan Giggs says a bruise on his ex-girlfriend's arm was sustained during "rough sex" and not as a result of a hotel room assault, a court has heard.
Kate Greville, a Public relations expert claims she was dragged naked across a Dubai hotel room and locked out in the corridor by Giggs during an alleged bout of violence, alleging she sustained a bruised wrist in the incident. She also claims he headbutted her, allegations he denies.
Giggs says the claim is "completely manufactured" and a "pack of lies", and on Wednesday, August 10, a jury at Manchester crown court were shown "loving" messages sent between them in the days after the September 2017 incident.
In one message, Ms Greville tells Giggs: "Tan is coming along nicely. My sex bruise is coming along nicely too!!"
In defence, Ms Greville said a friend, Elsa, noticed her bruised wrist and she blamed it on sex because she was "embarrassed" to reveal it was the result of domestic violence.
"I told her it was as a result of sex", she said, telling jurors her message to Giggs was a reference to that.
"I was making light of the fact I had told Elsa it was a sex bruise. It's 100 per cent wrong, but I was making light of it."
Christopher Daw QC, Giggs attorney, called her evidence "ridiculous", and insisted sex was the real reason for her injury.
"It was a bruise caused by rough sex the two of you enjoyed a lot", he said.
Ms Greville replied: "That bruise wasn't caused by rough sex."
When she said she could not remember receiving any bruises during sex with Giggs, the lawyer produced a series of messages between the former couple about their sex life.
"I'm sorry to have to take you through this", he said, showing jurors Ms Greville's message which read: "I want you so badly, rough."
She went on: "I want it to hurt a little. Not in a weird way, I just want you to shock and surprise me."
When Giggs called it "a fine line", Ms Greville replied: "We just have to have fun finding that line then."
The court also heard Giggs had sent Ms Greville a picture of an Agent Provocateur sex toy – a paddle - and talked of being "a bit more assertive" in the bedroom.
"We never used that paddle. Not once. Or any", said Ms Greville.
Facing cross-examination from Giggs' barrister on Wednesday, Ms Greville said she would face "consequences" if she did not follow the former footballing star's instructions.
In a statement, she had described herself as a "slave to Mr Giggs' every need and every demand", and told jurors: "That's what I felt like.
"When Ryan said to do something, I would do it. If there was resistance sometimes, he made me feel like I had to do everything he said, otherwise there would be consequences."
Greville said Giggs "had a negative impact on my relationships with my family" and "interfered with my ability to interact with my family".
"He damaged relationships with my friends and isolated me from certain people", she said from the witness box.
"He wasn't consistently horrible. Overall it made me lose confidence and self-belief.
"He was hot and cold, like two different people, making me feel two extremes, consistently.
"He made me feel good, made me feel bad, made me feel good, made me feel bad."
She denied speaking to journalists since the breakdown of the relationship and Giggs' arrest in November 2020, and when asked if she was looking for compensation, she replied: "Absolutely not."
The relationship began when both Giggs and Ms Greville were still married, and she told the court she believes they first slept together in December 2014.
She accepted "the majority of the time he was kind and loving", but said Giggs was "not nice" for the last year and a half of their relationship.
"Towards the end of the relationship, it was pretty much relentlessly awful", she said.


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The Dom and the Sub: A look into the secret world of Singapore's BDSM scene
The moment someone knocked on the door of the hotel room, the play was afoot. A man in his late 20s entered the doorway, his eyes darting around furtively until they met mine. I was seated on a chair, hemmed in by the queen-sized bed and the wall.
The man waved and grinned at me, giving a slight nod that translated to, "What's up, man."
The smile instantly disappeared when the third individual in the room arose from the bed. Clad in a black vinyl bodysuit that hugged her slim frame, Mistress E slyly asked if the man had been a good boy. Meekly, he uttered "yes, mistress," a phrase I'd hear multiple times over the course of the next hour. The lady ordered him to strip off all his clothes, and he did so, unbuttoning his blue shirt and pulling down his pants.
The man — let's call him Blue — would have been stark naked if not for a plastic apparatus fastened to his groin. It was a "chastity cage" secured over his penis, bolted by a small padlock, to prevent him from getting hard. A slit at the bottom of the cage allowed him to urinate.
The cage, Mistress E told me with a laugh, had been attached for a week already.
The Mistress
Photo: Mistress E
A few days prior to the session, I had met Mistress E in a café — the outcome of winning her trust through dozens of email exchanges. Out of all the professional dominatrices I had contacted on a popular social media platform, she was the only one who responded agreeably. Which was great, because I was dying to know about a client pictured on her page with his tongue (allegedly) smeared with her feces.
Mistress E did not give the impression of someone who'd let a man eat her shit. She did, however, exude an aura of quiet confidence and an air of surreptitiousness, the kind that comes naturally to someone who's living a double life.
In her mid-20s, she holds a day job that involves toiling away in a Raffles Place office, but her secret side hustle is being a dominatrix — a dominant woman who takes on the role of humiliating (willing) men as part of a BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism) erotic kink. In such relationships, the dominant person is referred to as the "dom," while the person in the submissive slave role is referred to as the "sub."
When it comes to sexual liberty, let's just say that mainstream society here isn't exactly open to anything out of the ordinary — hell, we have a section in the Penal Code that still criminalizes sex between men. Though it's not enforced, the fact that the government refuses to take it down says a lot about Singapore's uptight attitude towards carnal matters.
But it's 2018, and surely a new generation of young Singaporeans are no longer bound by conservative thoughts and conventional routines when it comes to bonking, or at least about getting off. BDSM sex toys here have been flying off the shelves since the phenomenon of Fifty Shades of Grey, while an actual festival about sexual wellness is taking place this weekend. So is kinky the new normal?
Relatively speaking, Mistress E is new to the professional BDSM scene. She only started charging for her dominatrix services four months ago. Having turned pro, she identifies herself as a "humiliatrix," deriving pleasure from the psychological control of subjecting men to humiliating acts.
"Personally, I really like cock and ball torture," she laughed. "I like that it's highly uncomfortable for men to have their most cherished parts at my mercy."
Photo: Ilyas Sholihyn / Coconuts Media
That would explain why her online page is filled with images of men's penises and nutsacks painfully distressed. Her subs have had their dicks clipped by clothes pegs, bound in red rope, and roughed up with chopsticks. Yes, chopsticks.
She's also very good with her feet, Mistress E claimed proudly, whipping off her snakeskin stilettos and showing off her well-pedicured toes. I'm no foot fetish guy, but she does have nicely-shaped feet, I suppose.
The Foot
The foot in subject. Photo: Ilyas Sholihyn / Coconuts Media
"Where's my tribute?" Mistress E asked Blue in a menacing manner. The man was now kneeling butt-naked in front of her on the cold linoleum floor. The safe word of the day had been given out.
The "tribute" refers to the offering the sub is expected to give the dom for her services — so yes, our friend Blue was paying good money to be treated like absolute scum. Mistress E's rate goes for about $(redacted) an hour, and this amount was fished out. She showed him some mercy by letting him kiss her foot once every time he gave her a S$50 note.
Tossing the wad of cash aside, the dominatrix explained that she hadn't washed her feet for a week, and how it'd be very nice if Blue cleaned them for her… with his mouth. And so he did, essentially making out with her feet, as your humble reporter shuddered respectfully in the shadows. This culminated with Mistress E shoving half her foot into Blue's waiting mouth.
The Misconceptions
The reason why Mistress E agreed to let me be a one-man audience to her hidden world is this: She wants to show that BDSM is more than just the mainstream perception of bondage, pain, and leather. There's a wider spectrum of emotions and intellect in the activity, she said, declaring that she is in no way a sadist.
"Contrary to what people may believe, it's not all about pain or tying people up," she mentioned. "Porn is a very bad representation."
Other misconceptions, she says, include that BDSM necessarily involves sex (untrue most of the time); that BDSM is practiced by broken people (fetishists lead normal lives, she insists); and that BDSM is abusive (it is always consensual).
"The important difference between escorts and us is that we do not explicitly pleasure them — we are just catering to their erotic fetishes."
We mull bringing up the fact that we just saw a man ejaculate in excitement when she placed her foot in his mouth, but it seems rude to mention at the time.
It's like any other self-employed job, she says. "You have a skill set and there are clients who'll approach you with their individual fantasies. My job is to utilize my skill set to craft a scene within the confines of their fetishes and limits."
Again, she stressed that it is all consensual. "At any time they feel uncomfortable or want to stop, they can."
Let's hear it for safe words!
The Humiliation (Part 1)
Blue was made to lie down so the dominatrix could literally walk all over his body, laughing as she stood on his chest and prodded at his still-encased manhood. The small key for the chastity cage dangled temptingly near Blue's face — it was tied around her right ankle.
"I beseech you mistress," he wheezed. No really, he used the word "beseeched."
The time came to free willy. She slapped his penis, calling it "small" and "useless." Then she grabbed Blue by his throat and slammed his back against a wall, looking him in his eyes and verbally degrading him as she proceeded to knee his groin hard several times.
The Clientele
Prior to any session, Mistress E makes it clear to clients that no sex is involved, and intimate touching of her is not allowed.
The dominatrix describes her typical clientele. Singaporeans are generally softcore in their fantasies, she says, and most of the time they'll want her to dress up as a typical office lady.
Munching on shit though? That's definitely not our idea of soft-core. As mentioned earlier, one post on her site involves a picture of a half-naked sub with his tongue caked in what appears to be both feces and urine.
"Yes, I know it's very extreme. Only a small number of people are into it, and I do cater to it," she explained, stating that most of the other dominatrices in the Lion City don't accommodate scatophilia. Logistically, it would be difficult — one has to both maintain a strict diet and be able to "perform" on command.
She declined to reveal further details about her other clients, citing that utmost privacy was important to them. Blue being the obvious exception. Speaking of Blue…
Now with each of his nipples clipped with bells, Blue lay on the bed as the dominatrix used a red nylon rope to tie his hands together with his palms clasped firmly onto his erection.
She whipped out a latex glove and a tube of lube. "How many fingers are we doing today?" she pondered, snapping on a glove. "I hope I have enough lube for five fingers." Oh snap, son.
The game here was that for every time she inserted her finger into his ass, he was allowed to stroke his penis. Eventually, she managed to fit in two fingers into Blue's anus.
"Wow, two fingers, that's a new achievement for you," she exclaimed.
"You'd better not cum."
The tools of her trade. Photo: Ilyas Sholihyn / Coconuts Media
Mistress E found that most men here aren't into receiving too much physical pain — they don't even want visible marks to be seen on their bodies beyond a session (something we can imagine could be problematic for a normal home life).
As to why Singaporeans could be drawn to BDSM, she attributes one possible reason to the recent mainstream popularity of 50 Shades of Grey — which she says portrays a wrong image of BDSM, mind you. "It's just not so taboo anymore," she said.
For his part, Blue said he believes that steep levels of stress and lofty expectations inherent in Asian societies make the sessions appealing.
"It pushes you to want to… release. (*ahem*) To let go and find an avenue. And this is my avenue."
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And release, Blue did.
Mistress E by this point had moved on to the leather "flogger," a fierce-looking thing I imagine could put an eye out. With the first crack of the whip, it grazed his thighs, uncomfortably close to his testicles, which retracted inward — a reaction that I vicariously felt a little.
Another thing I felt was 100 percent certain I'd made the right decision in turning down her invitation to personally undergo a session.
The dominatrix then stood on the bed, towering over the groaning man. Yanking at the rope to control his tied-up hands, she puppeteered Blue in stroking himself, all the while stepping on his face. After a couple of moments, he yelled in ecstasy as the, um … grand finale arrived.
Mistress E used her feet to wipe up the sperm that had landed on his body and commanded Blue to clean her sperm-stained foot.
With his tongue.
He was then allowed to hit the showers, and I was left to ponder exactly what I'd just witnessed.
Photo: Kai Schreiber / Flickr
Having cleaned up, Blue told us his foray into BDSM got serious in his late teens — when he realized that he experienced sexual euphoria by playing a submissive role in the bedroom. Being a sub is only reserved for the bedroom, he clarifies, and he leads a pretty normal, confident life outside of that.
"What actually goes through your head during the process?" I enquired of the half-naked man who had just unashamedly been put through the ringer with a stranger watching it all unfold.
"I feel like I'm in this zone — I think the common term in the BDSM circles is a 'sub space." I just feel this euphoria where I just feel so submissive and in this zone where I want to please (Mistress E)," he revealed.
"I just want to do whatever she asks and hopefully get rewarded at the end of it."
The New Norm?
Blue adjusts the towel wrapped around his waist in a bid to protect his modesty. "Why are you wearing the towel? He's already seen it." Mistress E laughed, checking her phone for notifications. "Eh, shy lah," he remarked, before grabbing his clothes.
The vibe in the room was complex, both had been almost shockingly comfortable letting a stranger hover by the bedside and watch them play out their kinks.
Honestly, there seemed to be no awkwardness whatsoever on the part of the dom and the sub, which is much more than we can say for ourselves.
As I walked to the door, they even cheerfully waved goodbye as I exited the room, as though I'd just met a couple of old friends for coffee. And in truth, the two of them seemed perfectly content playing out their roles in the safety of their controlled environment.
Walking out into the bright sunlight, I wondered if Singaporeans really have been suppressing their inhibitions, whether there is some underlying streak of sexual liberty craving to break out, and how many other similar scenes are unfolding behind closed doors in our sometimes staid city.
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Q: A SQL query that used to work does not work anymore I have an SQL query that works on older version of MySQL4 but won't work on my current version of 5.5
I'm hoping someone can see what I can't see with this.
select tblprefix_groups_permissions.permission_name
  from tblprefix_groups_permissions, tblprefix_users, tblprefix_permissions
 where tblprefix_groups_permissions.permission_name = tblprefix_permissions.permission_name
 and tblprefix_groups_permissions.group_id = tblprefix_users.group_id
 and (tblprefix_users.user_id = '==NUMERIC ID=='
 and (tblprefix_permissions.permission_name = 'ADMIN::SETTINGS::VIEW'
 or tblprefix_permissions.permission_name = 'ALL'))

The SQL statement should be pretty self explanitory as to what it does, I don't see where the hangup could be. It is suppost to return a list if it returns nothing then the user is rejected.

A: It looks like you have wrongly placed the quotes here:
ADMIN::SETTINGS::VIEW''

Anyway... are you sure that works in MySQL 4?
BTW, you can remove the outer brackets.

A: The statement is correct, I overlooked the fact that the statement also checks to make sure the Permission is in the Master Permissions table ie: tblprefix_permissions.permission_name I had not put the permission into the Master Permissions table yet
So that makes me stupid or just tired LOL sorry guys, good work though and thanks for the quick responses


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Beyond the Veil es el segundo álbum de estudio de la banda noruega de metal gótico Tristania. Es el último material donde participó el vocalista, guitarrista y compositor, Morten Veland.

Se considera como el mejor disco de la agrupación con grandes influencias sinfónicas, con un toque de black metal en conjunto con un fuerte doom metal; características que definieron al metal gótico desde sus inicios.

La potente voz de Vibeke Stene se destaca bastante en el álbum, con sus agudos tonos y con sus notas altas. Su voz se registra como soprano lírica.

"Angina" fue publicado como el único sencillo del álbum el 18 de mayo de 1999, junto con otros dos temas adiconales: "Opus Relinque (radio edit)", una elaborada mezcla de death.industrial y una breve canción hasta entonces inédita, "Saturnine".

"Heretique", es otro tema destacado y apareció acompañado con un vídeo no oficial, a pesar de que la banda no lo lanzó como un sencillo.

Concepto musical
Las secciones instrumentales son similares a los del álbum anterior, ya que incluso en este caso se dedicó un espacio considerable a los elementos de la música clásica, especialmente enfatizado en el coro en latín y en la creatividad personal de Pete Johansen con el violín.

Sin embargo,  la diferencia entre las dos trabajos es notable, dado que Beyond the Veil deja el sonido sombrío de Widow's Weeds para acercarse más a los del death metal.  Con una base más pesada ofrece algunas canciones más épicas que las que se encontrarían tradicionalmente en el doom metal.

En sentido, se superpone el sonido de los instrumentos acústicos y teclados que rompen la monotonía, aspecto que hace que sus densas canciones sean más "digeribles". En comparación con el álbum anterior, las partes de soprano Vibeke Stene son algo más reducidas.

Los principales compositores son Veland, quien también es el autor de todos los textos y el tecladista Einar Moen, los temas abordados por las letras de canciones son básicamente el mismo que el anterior álbum.

Lista de canciones

Créditos

Tristania
 Vibeke Stene - Vocales Femeninos y Coros
 Morten Veland - Voz Gutural, Guitarra y Coros
 Anders H. Hidle - Guitarra y Coros
 Rune Østerhus - Bajo
 Einar Moen - Sintetizadores y programación
 Kenneth Olsson - Batería y Coros

Miembros de sesión

 Østen Bergøy - Voz Limpia Masculina
 Pete Johansen - Violín
 Jan Kenneth Barkved - Voces Limpias en "Heretique" y Coros
 Hilde T. Bommen, Maiken Stene, Sissel B. Stene, Jeanett Johannessen, Rino A. Kolstø - Coros

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Beyond the Veil en Metal Storm
  Beyond the Veil en Encyclopedia Metallum

Álbumes de 1999
Álbumes de metal gótico
Álbumes de Tristania
Álbumes en inglés


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First strike in Amazon's history in United Kingdom, at Coventry's warehouse
Despite its refusal to recognize trade union organizations, and an employee intimidation tactic, the American company could not prevent the first British strike, organized by the GMB.
By Eric Albert (London, Correspondence)
A piece in British union history was written, on the night of Tuesday 24 to Wednesday 25 January, in the cold and in front of a simple handful of employees. Shortly after 12:00 a.m., the first strikers of an Amazon warehouse in Coventry, in the center of England, came out of the barriers surrounding the premises and joined some trade unionists who were waiting for them. For the first time in the United Kingdom, the American giant of online sales experienced a strike, which stretched all day on Wednesday.
The direction of Amazon minimizes the scope of the event. There will be "zero impact" for customers, the Coventry center operated "normally" on Wednesday, and only "a fraction of 1 % of our employees in the United Kingdom [75,000 in total] voted for the strike". However, this line of defense amounts to ignoring the important dams that British trade unionists have managed to bring down.
"We have been trying to organize around Amazon for ten years," said Amanda Gearing, of the GMB union, who is behind this strike. She has long spent unsuccessful days distributing prospectuses in the parking lots of the American firm warehouses. She also spotted the buses that the employees used to go to work, and took them to try to approach them. In vain.
dispute on wages
On the one hand, Amazon's management did not want to hear about unions recognition. On the other, the employees were themselves very reluctant. "In the warehouse, there are around forty different languages, and many are wary of unions. For them, it often rhymes with Mafias," said Darren Westwood, one of the very rare employees to dare to speak with an overdraft.
he is 57 years old and experienced the distant period of "Closed Shops", these companies where each new employee was forced to become a member of the business union. His attitude was therefore different, but even he was hardly interested in this story. "Honestly, when I left the warehouse, I went around with my car the trade unionists who tried to approach me," he confides.
Everything changed in August 2022. During the Pandemic of COVID-19, the employees of Amazon had faced a work resurgence. In warehouses, anger rose on working conditions and health protections deemed insufficient. But hope was to obtain a strong increase in salary. Employees, whose remuneration is 10.50 pounds (12 euros) per hour, hoped for a sharp increase. "The rumor was circulating that we would go to 12 pounds per hour," said Mr. Westwood.
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Among the twinkling lights and shooting stars, almost 300 attendees gathered to honor Linda Dietz, President of the Board of Directors at Mane Stream's EQUUS XXVI Gala on November 4th at Fiddler's Country Club in Bedminster. The gorgeous venue, live band and delicious food made for a brilliant fundraising event which had outrageously fun items and exciting vacations in both the live and silent auctions.
A Junior Committee worked diligently to create a heartfelt video highlighting the stories of two participants and the impact Mane Stream has on their lives. We look forward to sharing this piece with everyone soon.
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Q: Extracting values from XML using Python I have the following xml extracted from another xml file.
<notifications>
  <notification name="ccmSmtp" oid="1.3.6.1" status="current">
    <objects>
      <object module="callhome" name="ccmSmtp" />
    </objects>
    <description>This is a description</description>
  </notification>
  <notification name="ccmAlertGroup" oid="1.3.6.1" status="current">
    <objects>
      <object module="callhome" name="callHome" />
    </objects>
    <description>This is a description</description>
  </notification>
  <notification name="ccmAlert" oid="1.3.6.1" status="current">
    <objects>
      <object module="callhome" name="callHome" />
    </objects>
    <description>This is a description</description>
  </notification>
  <notification name="ccmSmtp" oid="1.3.6.1" status="current">
    <objects></objects>
    <description>This is a description</description>
  </notification>
</notifications>

I'm using the following Python code.
from xml.dom import minidom

xmldoc = minidom.parse('example.xml')
grammarNode = xmldoc.childNodes[2]
notificationsNode = grammarNode.childNodes[9]
print notificationsNode.toxml()

This python code gives the output of the xml which i have given above.
I tried the following to get the attribute values
notificationlist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('notification')
print notificationlist[0].toxml()
notification1 = notificationlist[0]
key = notification1.attributes.keys()

Using this I'm able to get only the values of the fist set of notification.
How is that i can get all the values of the attributes and store it in separate variables?

A: If you want to get the attributes for each item in notificationlist, you could do this:
attrslist = [dict(node.attributes.items()) for node in notificationlist]
print attrslist[0]
# => {u'status': u'current', u'oid': u'1.3.6.1', u'name': u'ccmSmtp'}
print attrslist[0]['status']
# => current

From here it would just be a matter of iterating this new list and pulling the attributes by name for each <notification> element in notificationlist.
for n in attrslist:
   status = n['status']
   oid = n['oid']
   name = n['name']
   # blah

A: Assuming that your 'notificationlist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('notification')' is generated from xmldoc which is the output value you listed you should have four elements.  Thus just focusing on element 0 with notificationlist[0] will only address that first element.  Here is some code with a modification to your samlpe xmldoc to make the discriptions differ by prepending aaa, bbb, ccc, ddd.  You can capture the data by replacing the print statements---
for x in notificationlist:
  print '*' * 15
  print x.getElementsByTagName('description').item(0).childNodes[0].data
  print
  for y in x.attributes.keys():
    print y
    print x.attributes.getNamedItem(y).nodeValue
    print '-' *15

***************
      aaaThis is a description

status
current
---------------
oid
1.3.6.1
---------------
name
ccmSmtp
---------------
***************
        bbbThis is a description

status
current
---------------
oid
1.3.6.1
---------------
name
ccmAlertGroup
---------------
***************
     cccThis is a description

status
current
---------------
oid
1.3.6.1
---------------
name
ccmAlert
---------------
***************
       dddThis is a description

status
current
---------------
oid
1.3.6.1
---------------
name
ccmSmtp
---------------