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Siouxsie & The Banshees Nocturne 1983
Nocturne is a live album and DVD by Siouxsie & The Banshees.
It was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on 30 September and 1 October 1983.
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Songs On Siouxsie & The Banshees Nocturne
Israel – 6:48
Dear Prudence – 3:59
Paradise Place – 4:19
Melt! – 3:47
Cascade – 4:48
Pulled To Bits – 3:51
Night Shift – 6:24
Sin In My Heart – 3:34
Slowdive – 4:02
Painted Bird – 4:19
Happy House – 4:12
Switch – 7:00
Spellbound – 3:21
Helter Skelter – 3:41
Eve White Eve Black – 2:46
Voodoo Dolly – 8:47
I don't get it myself. They didn't connect after Hong Kong Garden (not featured) in the late 1970s and early 1980s and ever since, when I've heard them, I've never been motivated to explore deeper.
Buying Siouxsie & The Banshees Nocturne
It is available in different formats from Amazon.com – Amazon.co.uk – iTunes
Is this a great live album? Is it the best live album by Siouxsie & The Banshees?
Do you think people new to the band would be better starting with one of the compilations Once Upon A Time or Twice Upon A Time?
The Best Live Albums Of All Time
Punk and new wave morphed into indie and alternative rock during the early 1980s.
Please vote in my poll to find the best punk and new wave live albums.
What Are The FIVE Best Punk & New Wave Live Albums? (Click on the links to go to the reviews)
Bauhaus Press the Eject And Give Me The Tape 1981 1982
Black Flag Who's Got The 10 1/2? 1985
Black Flag Live 84
Blondie At The BBC 1979
Blondie The Old Waldorf San Francisco 1977
Buzzcocks Entertaining Friends 1979
Buzzcocks Live at the Roxy Club April 77
Chelsea Metallic Fo - Live at CBGB's 1999
Depeche Mode 101
Duran Duran BBC In Concert Hammersmith Odeon 17th December 1981
Elvis Costello Live At The El Mocambo
Elvis Costello Live At The Hollywood High
Ian Dury Live At Rockpalast 1978
Ian Dury Stiffs Live Stiffs (available with the deluxe Do It Yourself)
Joy Division Still
Joy Division Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979
Magazine Play
Pere Ubu Live at the Longhorn April 1 1978
Public Image Limited Paris In The Spring 1980
Siouxsie & The Banshees At The BBC
Siouxsie & The Banshees Nocturne
Stiff Little Fingers Hanx
Stiff Little Fingers Live In Aberdeen 1979
The Birthday Party Live 81 - 82
The Boomtown Rats Live Rats 2013
The Clash Live At Shea Stadium
The Clash From Here To Eternity
The Jam At The BBC 1977 to 1982
The Jam Dig The New Breed
The Jam Live Jam
The Jam Fire & Skill
The Only Ones The Big Sleep
The Only Ones Darkness And Light The Complete BBC Recordings 1977 to 1980
The Police Live!
The Pretenders Live At The Santa Monica Civic 1981 (sold with Pretenders II)
The Ramones Loco Live
The Ramones It's Alive
The Rezillos Live At The Glasgow Apollo 1978 (Almost The Complete Rezillos or Mission Accomplished)
The Ruts Get Out Of It! Live
The Saints Live At The Hop & Anchor 1977
The Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre Live
The Sex Pistols Live at Winterland January 1978
The Sex Pistols Live at Screen on the Green '76
The Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks Live In Sweden 1977
The Slits Live At The Gibus Club 1978
The Stranglers X Cert
The Stranglers Live at the Hope and Anchor 1977
The Teardrop Explodes Peel Sessions Plus
The Tubes What Do You Want from Live
Tom Verlaine Live At The Venue 1982
Various Artists Live At The Roxy
X-Ray Spex Live At The Roxy
XTC Live In Concert
Please also vote in my poll to find the best indie and alternative rock live albums.
What Are The TEN Best Indie & Alternative Rock Live Albums? (Click on the links to go to the reviews)
10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged
Alice In Chains Live 1990 to 1996
Alice In Chains Unplugged
Ani DiFranco Living in Clip
Arctic Monkeys At the Apollo
Ash Live At the Wireless
Barenaked Ladies Rock Spectacle
Bauhaus Gotham 1998
Big Country Come Up Screaming 2000
Big Country Without The Aid Of A Safety Net 1993
Bjork Live Box 1994 to 2001
Black Francis Live in Nijmegen
Blur Live At The Budokan 1995
Blur All The People... Blur Live In Hyde Park
Coldplay Live 2003
Counting Crows Across A Wire Live In New York City
Counting Crows New Amsterdam: Live At Heineken Music Hall 2003
Dance Hall Crashers The Live Record
Dodgy So Far On Three Wheels Dodgy On The Radio
Dropkick Murphys Live On Lansdowne Boston MA 2009
Echo & The Bunnymen Live At The Royal Albert Hall 1983
Echo & The Bunnymen Live In Liverpool
Eels Royal Albert Hall
Eels With Strings Live At Town Hall
Elbow Live At Jodrell Bank
Fields Of The Nephilim Earth Inferno 1990
Frank Black & The Catholics Live at Melkweg
Green Day Bullet in a Bible 2005
Happy Mondays Live
Husker Du The Living End 1987
Imagine Dragons Night Visions Live
Jeff Buckley Mystery White Boy
Jesus and Mary Chain BBC Live In Concert
Laurie Anderson United States Live
Mercury Rev Live In Brixton '92
Mercury Rev Beyond The Swirling Clouds: An Evening At Barrowland Ballroom
Midnight Oil Scream In Blue
Morrissey Beethoven Was Deaf 1992
Morrissey Live At Earls Court 2004
Muse HAARP
Muse Live At Rome Olympic Stadium 2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live From KCRW 2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live Seeds 1992 1993
Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been
Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Nirvana Live at Reading
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
Oasis Familiar to Millions
Pearl Jam Live on Two Legs
Portishead Roseland NYC Live
Primal Scream Live In Japan
Primal Scream Screamadelica Live
Prodigy Worlds On Fire
Pulp The John Peel Sessions
R.E.M. Live
R.E.M. Live At The Olympia
R.E.M. Live Greensboro Coliseum 1989
Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Red Hot Chilli Peppers Live In Hyde Park 2004
Robyn Hitchcock Gotta Let This Hen Out 1985
Shed Seven Live At Leeds 2007
Shed Seven Where Have You Been?
Simple Minds Live In The City Of Light 1986
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation Live (with Deluxe version)
Soundgarden Live on I-5 1996
Spiritualized Live @ Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997
Stereophonics Live from Dakota 2005
Suede Brainshake
Suede Royal Albert Hall, 24 March 2010
Sugar Live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago
The Auteurs Last Stand Live At LSE
The B52's With The Wild Crowd Live in Athens, GA 2011
The Cure Concert 1984
The Cure Paris 1992
The Cure Show 1992
The Cure Bestival Live 2011
The Killers Live from the Royal Albert Hall
The La's BBC In Session
The Lemonheads Rockin' The Shell 1994
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Live From The Middle East 1998
The Mission Ever After Live 1999
The Mission Live At The BBC
The Pixies Live At Vredenburg 1990 (sold with Death To The Pixies)
The Pogues Live at the Brixton Academy 2001
The Smiths Rank
The Waterboys The Live Adventures Of The Waterboys
The Wonder Stuff Cursed With Insincerity 2000
The Wonder Stuff Live At The BBC 1987 - 1994
They Might Be Giants Flood Live In Australia
They Might be Giants Severe Tire Damage
U2 Under A Blood Red Sky 1983
Wilco Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
Because this is such a big category and there are so many very good indie and alternative rock live albums, I have split the poll into two and you may find some of your favourites in the second division. Albums will be promoted when they get enough votes.
You can get these albums from Amazon.com – Amazon.co.uk.
You may also be interested in the poll to find the best new wave and punk rock live albums.
You can see the complete list of readers polls at Live Album Polls.
Posted on February 24, 2015 July 15, 2016 Author Paul SimisterCategories 1980s Live Albums, Indie & Alternative Rock Live Albums, New Wave Live AlbumsTags 1980s Indie, 1980s Punk, 1983 live albums, Siouxsie & The Banshees Live Albums
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Spiegelberg (Poźrzadło) ist ein Dorf an der Trasse A2 Frankfurt (Oder) – Posen (Poznań). Das Dorf liegt in der polnischen Woiwodschaft Lebuser Land in der Nähe des Tourismusortes Łagów.

Bemerkenswert ist die Dorfkirche mit ihrem Fachwerk aus den Jahren 1760 bis 1766. Die Fenster und der Dachreiter stammen aus dem Jahr 1859. Auf dem Dorfanger steht das ehemalige Pfarrhaus (1818), ebenfalls aus Fachwerk und bedeckt mit einem Walmdach. Bis 1946 war sie eine Pfarrkirche der evangelischen Gemeinde, mit einer Filiale im Nachbardorf Topper.

Söhne und Töchter
 Hanns von Zobeltitz (1853–1918), deutscher Schriftsteller
 Fedor von Zobeltitz (1857–1934), deutscher Schriftsteller und Journalist

Weblinks
 Dorfkirche im Fachwerk-Baustil
 Bild der Kirche in Spiegelberg

Ort der Woiwodschaft Lebus
Gmina Łagów (Powiat Świebodziński)

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import React, { useMemo, useCallback } from 'react';

import DeleteSuccessModal from '../../../../components/DeleteSuccessModal';
import DeleteWarningModal from '../../../../components/DeleteWarningModal';
import { useSetModal } from '../../../../contexts/ModalContext';
import { useRoute } from '../../../../contexts/RouterContext';
import { useMethod } from '../../../../contexts/ServerContext';
import { useToastMessageDispatch } from '../../../../contexts/ToastMessagesContext';
import { useTranslation } from '../../../../contexts/TranslationContext';
import { useEndpointAction } from '../../../../hooks/useEndpointAction';
import { useForm } from '../../../../hooks/useForm';
import OutgoingWebhookForm from '../OutgoiongWebhookForm';
import { triggerWordsToArray, triggerWordsToString } from '../helpers/triggerWords';

const getInitialValue = (data) => {
	const initialValue = {
		enabled: data.enabled ?? true,
		impersonateUser: data.impersonateUser,
		event: data.event,
		token: data.token,
		urls: data.urls.join('\n') ?? '',
		triggerWords: triggerWordsToString(data.triggerWords),
		targetRoom: data.targetRoom ?? '',
		channel: data.channel.join(', ') ?? '',
		username: data.username ?? '',
		name: data.name ?? '',
		alias: data.alias ?? '',
		avatarUrl: data.avatarUrl ?? '',
		emoji: data.emoji ?? '',
		scriptEnabled: data.scriptEnabled ?? false,
		script: data.script ?? '',
		retryFailedCalls: data.retryFailedCalls ?? true,
		retryCount: data.retryCount ?? 5,
		retryDelay: data.retryDelay ?? 'power-of-ten',
		triggerrWordAnywhere: data.triggerrWordAnywhere ?? false,
		runOnEdits: data.runOnEdits ?? true,
	};
	return initialValue;
};

function EditOutgoingWebhook({ data, onChange, setSaveAction, ...props }) {
	const t = useTranslation();
	const dispatchToastMessage = useToastMessageDispatch();

	const { handlers: formHandlers, values: formValues, reset } = useForm(getInitialValue(data));
	const setModal = useSetModal();

	const saveIntegration = useMethod('updateOutgoingIntegration');

	const router = useRoute('admin-integrations');

	const deleteQuery = useMemo(() => ({ type: 'webhook-outgoing', integrationId: data._id }), [
		data._id,
	]);
	const deleteIntegration = useEndpointAction('POST', 'integrations.remove', deleteQuery);

	const handleDeleteIntegration = useCallback(() => {
		const closeModal = () => setModal();
		const onDelete = async () => {
			const result = await deleteIntegration();
			if (result.success) {
				setModal(
					<DeleteSuccessModal
						children={t('Your_entry_has_been_deleted')}
						onClose={() => {
							closeModal();
							router.push({});
						}}
					/>,
				);
			}
		};

		setModal(
			<DeleteWarningModal
				children={t('Integration_Delete_Warning')}
				onDelete={onDelete}
				onCancel={closeModal}
			/>,
		);
	}, [deleteIntegration, router, setModal, t]);

	const { urls, triggerWords } = formValues;

	const handleSave = useCallback(async () => {
		try {
			await saveIntegration(data._id, {
				...formValues,
				triggerWords: triggerWordsToArray(triggerWords),
				urls: urls.split('\n'),
			});

			dispatchToastMessage({ type: 'success', message: t('Integration_updated') });
			onChange();
		} catch (e) {
			dispatchToastMessage({ type: 'error', message: e });
		}
	}, [
		data._id,
		dispatchToastMessage,
		formValues,
		onChange,
		saveIntegration,
		t,
		triggerWords,
		urls,
	]);

	const actionButtons = useMemo(
		() => (
			<Field>
				<Field.Row display='flex' flexDirection='column'>
					<Box display='flex' flexDirection='row' justifyContent='space-between' w='full'>
						<Margins inlineEnd='x4'>
							<Button flexGrow={1} type='reset' onClick={reset}>
								{t('Reset')}
							</Button>
							<Button mie='none' flexGrow={1} onClick={handleSave}>
								{t('Save')}
							</Button>
						</Margins>
					</Box>
					<Button mbs='x4' primary danger w='full' onClick={handleDeleteIntegration}>
						{t('Delete')}
					</Button>
				</Field.Row>
			</Field>
		),
		[handleDeleteIntegration, handleSave, reset, t],
	);

	return (
		<OutgoingWebhookForm
			formValues={formValues}
			formHandlers={formHandlers}
			append={actionButtons}
			{...props}
		/>
	);
}

export default EditOutgoingWebhook;


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Presentations from the organizers and best performing teams of the Systems Biology Improver Challenge, which I have covered before, have been put online. There is a ton of interesting stuff here for people like me who are interested in prediction contests, machine learning, and/or medical bioinformatics.
To rewind a little bit, the SBV Improver Challenge was a set of competitions somewhat similar to Kaggle's competitions (indeed, there is a presentation by Will Cukierski of Kaggle among these presentations) in that participants needed to build a predictive model for classifying diseased versus healthy samples for four diseases based on gene expression data (simplifying a little bit), and then predict the disease status for an unlabeled test set. The competitions differed from Kaggle competitions in that the training data sets were not fixed – the organizers just pointed to some suggested public data sets, which I think was a nice way to do it.
The point of these sub-competitions was to establish whether gene expression profiles are truly predictive of disease states in general or just in specific cases.
Different diseases vary immensely in how much predictive signal the gene expression data contains. Psoriasis was much easier to classify correctly based on these data than the other diseases: multiple sclerosis, COPD and lung cancer. The nature of the disease was an incomparable more important variable than anything related to normalization, algorithms, pre-processing etc.
It was suggested that providing the whole test set at once may be a bad idea, because it may reveal information (such as cluster structure) that would not be known in a real-life scenario (for instance, if you were to go to the doctor to get a gene expression measurement from your own tissue.) It was suggested that next time, the platform would just provide one data point at a time to be predicted. Indeed, I have thought a lot about this "single-sample classification" problem in connection with gene expression data lately. As anyone who has worked with (microarray or RNA-seq) gene expression data knows, there are severe experimental batch effects in these data that are usually removed by normalizing all data points together, but this cannot always be done in practice.
Speaking of random forests and GLMs, I was surprised to learn about the RGLM (Random Generalized Linear Model), which is kind of a mix of the two; generalized linear models are built on random subsets of the training examples and the features (like in random forest classifiers) and predictions of many of these models are aggregated to get a final prediction. The presentation is here.
The "lessons learned" presentation discusses (most of) these points and more, and is interesting throughout.
Kaggle is managing this year's KDD Cup, which will be about Weibo, China's rough equivalent to Twitter (with more support for adding pictures and comments on posts, it's more like a hybrid between Twitter and Facebook maybe). There will be two tasks, (1) predicting which users a certain user will follow (all data being anonymized, of course), and (2) predicting click-through rate in online computational ad systems. According to Gordon Sun, chief scientist at Tencent (the company behind Weibo), the data set to be used is the largest one ever to have been released for competitive purposes.
CrowdAnalytix, an India-based company with a business idea similar to Kaggle's, has started a fun quickie competition about sentiment mining. Actually the competition might already be over as it ran for just 9 days starting 16/2. The input consists of comments left by visitors to a major airport in India, and the goal is to identify and compile actionable and/or interesting information, such as what kind of services visitors think are missing.
The Clarity challenge is, for me, easily the most interesting challenge of the three, in that it concerns the use of genomic information in healthcare. This challenge (with a prize sum of $25,000) is, in effect, crowdsourcing genomic/medical research (although only 20 teams will get selected to participate). The goal is to identify and report on potential genetic features underlying medical disorders in three children, given the genome sequences of the children and their parents. These genetics features are presently unknown, which is why this competition really represents something new in medical research. I think this is a very nice initiative, in fact I had thought of initiating something similar at my own institute where I work, but this challenge is much better than what I had in mind. It will be very interesting to see what comes out of it.
I've been eagerly waiting to use the Google Prediction API ever since it was announced, and now (since sometime in May) it's open for everyone who has a Google account (and a credit card). Previously, you had to be able to provide a U.S. mailing address.
Google's Prediction API is basically a nice way to run your classification and/or prediction tasks through Google's black-box set of machine learning tools. The way it works is that you upload your training data to Google Storage, which is something like Google's version of Amazon's S3: a cloud-based storage system where you store your data in "buckets". (Google Storage, like S3, uses the term bucket and, also like S3, requires that bucket names only use lower-case letters.) You can activate both Google Storage and the Prediction API from the Google APIs Console. This is also where you will find (click "API access" on the left hand menu) the access key that you will need to run prediction tasks. You'll have to give credit card details to pay for potential future usage.
The training examples that you put in Storage need to be formatted according to the specification in the Developer's Guide. Once they have been uploaded, you can train a model on the uploaded data, make predictions about new examples, update existing models and more using one of the client libraries or even simpler, just by copying some of the bash scripts shown on the same page (hidden behind '+' signs which can be expanded.) For these bash scripts to work as written on that page, you need to paste your API key into a file called 'googlekey' located in the directory from where you are running the script.
A simple but interesting study, Predicting consumer behavior with Web search, was just published in PNAS. Inspired by Google Flu Trends and other ways of "predicting the present" by tracking web searches in (almost) real time, the article authors try to compare these methods to "baseline" predictors that use other available sources of information. The results indicate that the search-based methods aren't necessarily better than baseline – sometimes they are clearly worse – but the less prior information there is, the better the search based method does compared to the baseline predictor. For example, the revenues of video game sequels are well predicted by a baseline model looking at, among other things, the revenue of the predecessor, but the revenues of non-sequel games are hard to predict by the baseline predictor, whereas the search-based prediction works well. Combining both the baseline and the search-based predictors typically results in a modest increase in accuracy above the best of the two. This suggests that search-based prediction is pretty robust in the sense that it can be used in the absence of relevant information and still give reasonable results. Therefore it may be useful in various kinds of first-pass analysis before building a more accurate predictor based on many different information sources. Another advantage of search-based methods that the authors don't really go into that much is the detection of turning points – like when a trend starts to take off. For example, in their flu prediction examples, an auto-regressive model (a model that uses a weighted average of the last few time points) tracks the actual flu outbreaks almost as well as the search-based model. However, looking closely at the plots, the auto-regressive model always lags a bit behind the search-based predictor. This makes sense, as it is always basing its prediction on the previous time points,and so takes some time to catch on to the fact that the situation has changed radically.
I just realized this is the first major publication where I've seen stated in the Methods section that the authors used Hadoop and Pig to analyze their data. Yet, Benjamin Black tweets that Hadoop is already legacy. Things move fast.
The crowdsourcing company Innocentive, which serves up tough (usually scientific or technical) problems for anyone to solve against a monetary reward, has put up a predictive analytics challenge for which the reward is a whopping USD100,000. You'll have to register to find out what the challenge is about and in order to download the data, but I don't think I'm giving away too much by saying that it's a life science/bioinformatics challenge, albeit one which could be solved without much knowledge of biology. Innocentive has apparently implemented a new system for testing your predictive models against a reference data set, kind of like NetFlix, and they also have a leader board showing the currently best models (measured by R^2 of predictions vs. test set using Spearman's rank correlation). Of course, the final submission from each contestant will be scored on a completely separate test set.


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Q: How to get the display density in a lightning components controller? Is it possible to see if a user is in Comfy or Compact display density in a lightning controller? This is a new feature since Winter '19 and I cant find any documentation about this.

A: You can get Display density information using Salesforce User Interface API. This Link will help you. I don't think you can directly access Salesforce UI-API from Lightning controller, but you can use Apex class to achieve this.

A: If you want your custom components to be responsive to the Display Density use the variable density slds classes.
For example variable classes for padding
slds-var-p-top_large
slds-var-p-bottom_large

Similarly for margin
slds-var-m-around_xxx-small
slds-var-m-around_small

Variable Density Classes Margin
Variable Density Classes Padding

A: If you have some lightning-output-field's inside a lightning-record-view-form or lightning-record-edit-form, you can look for the slds-form-element_horizontal or _stacked class in the DOM using the renderedCallback() method.
For example, in your .js:
import { LightningElement, track} from 'lwc';

export default class lwcComponent extends LightningElement {

   @track displayCSS;
   hasRendered = false;

   renderedCallback()
   {
     if(! this.hasRendered)  // only render once
     {
        const elemsByClassName = this.template.querySelectorAll('.slds-form-element_horizontal');   //check if other elements are rendered comfy or cozy
        if (elemsByClassName.length>0)
        {
            this.displayCSS='slds-form-element slds-form-element_horizontal';
        } else {
            this.displayCSS='slds-form-element slds-form-element_stacked';
        }
        this.hasRenderd = true;
    }
  }

  get myCustomUrl()
  {
      // add logic here to make this dynamic
      return 'myCustomUrl';
  }

  get myCustomName()
  {
      // add logic here to make this dynamic
      return 'myCustomName';
  }

}

Then display a custom built field, in this case a URL, using the dynamically set css and variables:

       My Label
       <lightning-helptext content="My Custom Help Text"></lightning-helptext>

<lightning-formatted-url class="slds-form-element__static" value={myCustomUrl} label={myCustomName}></lightning-formatted-url>

This works well if you have a mixture of standard fields and custom built fields and want them all to respect the user selected Display Density.
Mike

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Hans-Peter Berger ist der Name folgender Personen:

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Italian Anti-Vax Politician, Massimiliano Fedriga, Hospitalized With Chickenpox
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An Italian politician who leads the country's anti-vax movement was hospitalized for four days last week. He was reportedly diagnosed with an infection related to the Varicella-Zoster virus, better known as chickenpox.
The Daily Mail reports that after Massimiliano Fedriga, who is the president of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and a member of the right-wing Northern League party, announced he was ill on his Twitter account, he was lambasted on social media. Many of his critics made comments related to the concept of karma.
Fedriga has argued against the Lorenzin decree which made full vaccinations a requirement for all schoolchildren in the country should they wish to attend class. He stated that he had his own children vaccinated, but didn't believe parents should be compelled to inoculate their children before sending them to school.
President Fedriga stated in 2017 that making the 12 vaccines, including vaccines for chickenpox and the measles, obligatory for schoolchildren was not the way to convince anti-vaxxers.
After being released from the hospital, Fedriga tweeted a message to his supporters.
"I'm fine, I'm at home in convalescence and I thank everyone."
While the responses to Fedriga's post were almost exclusively in Italian, it was hard not to notice the word "karma" throughout.
Microbiologist Roberto Burioni shared the story on his website, MedicalFacts, to say that this is what can happen when adults have not been vaccinated as children. He says that some of these "childhood illnesses" can be far more serious in adults.
At least he had his children vaccinated. Massimiliano Fedriga, critic of Italy's mandatory vaccination rules is in hospital after contracting chickenpox. https://t.co/CTgVC2Y8XT #VaccinesWork #EUhealth pic.twitter.com/sg5hSZKOAc
— Ronnie Moore (@duronronron) March 19, 2019
"[Mr. Fedriga], like many adults, did not get vaccinated… if he had been vaccinated as an adult he would be in perfect health. If he had infected a pregnant woman we would be facing a malformed child or an abortion. The only way we have to avoid such tragedies is to vaccinate us all to prevent the circulation of this dangerous virus, which could have hit a much more vulnerable person."
Fedriga said that critics had warned him that he would get chickenpox from his kids, but since his children are vaccinated, he didn't think he was at risk.
The Lorenzin decree was introduced in 2017 throughout Italy after a deadly outbreak of the measles. As a result of the decree being made into law, parents of non-vaccinated schoolchildren could be fined between $100 and $450. Despite the mandate, the World Health Organization says that Italy has not met the 95 percent recommended vaccination rate, with over 100 cases of measles being reported in January alone.
Unilad reported that Fedriga posted additional messages later to Facebook, writing that he was disappointed to see tweets celebrating that he had been hospitalized. He said he still believes that parents shouldn't be "coerced" into vaccinations, calling those who demand it "Stalinists."

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By Maxine Mason in History papers on April 14, 2019 .
"With his detailed reconstruction of the formation, training and deployment in battle of OSS Operational Group II, Bob Perdue has written a well deserved homage to this little-known group of Greek-American soldiers. At the same time he has unearthed a fascinating episode of the Second World War, describing the intricacies of fighting behind enemy lines in Greece, the sometimes delicate relationship between Allied soldiers and Greek guerrilla partisans, and the spectacular results achieved by the OSS sabotage teams. The men of OG II came from different backgrounds and their life stories are as captivating as their courage and stamina in combat. Well-written and meticulously researched, this book makes a very good read."
Karel, Editor of After the Battle magazine
"A masterfully researched book. Robert Perdue adds an important missing piece to the history of World War II."
Thomas, Syndicated Columnist
"An important contribution to the history of the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of U.S. Special Operations Forces that today wear the OSS spearhead as their insignia. OSS founder General William Donovan chose this symbol to represent his belief that OSS was the tip of the spear. The Operational Groups were the tip of the tip of the OSS spear."
Charles, President, The OSS Society
"This book is excellent; a riveting well-researched tale."
John Persinos, Publisher/Editorial Director
Robert E. Perdue, Jr., a World War II veteran, was a 1st Lieutenant, Platoon Leader, with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. He has a BS in Botany from the University of Maryland and a PhD from Harvard University. After retirement in 1989 as a Research Scientist with the Agricultural Research Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, his interest turned to history. His memoir of his WW II experience, published in part in After the Battle, led to an interest in OSS events in Greece.
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Any film that features Helen Mirren operating a mounted machine gun in a pretty white dress deserves at least three stars. And a movie that miserably fails in maximizing the fun it could get from its solid cast should not earn anything above the rating of four.
Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malcovich, and Helen Mirren are outstanding actors. All of them are above the age of fifty, which is obviously not the common age for a lead role in action flick these days. That is why I admire Bruce Willis very much. At age fifty-five, he can still star in big-budgeted, stunt-filled action movies without suffering straight-to-DVD or plastic surgery.
In the past few years, most of the images I see in the posters of this genre are "young" men who either look like a supermodel or a wrestler. Or Dwayne Johnson. Or Jason Statham. But anyway, the entire punchline of RED is that we get to see old-er people fire the guns and detonate the explosives.
The lack of reality, physics, and common sense either means that the makers screwed up the plot, or they knew that it didn't matter in its form of entertainment. I'd go for the latter theory because of its classic use of Russian power. One would normally wonder how Bruce Willis got into CIA headquarters so easily, but when one finds out that a Russian helped him, you do not ask questions.
It is evident that the filmmakers and the actors here are having a blast. We see a lot of silly stuff, but we know that it is done in the spirit of fun, and it is fun. But as I have mentioned in the opening of this review, we don't get to see enough. I feel that the script was not worthy of a cast with this caliber. What held the writers back from giving these actors much more to work with? Were they actually worried about the plot? But they already got that covered. They have Russians.


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Norton, MA --- At the Wheaton Invitational Saturday, Men's Track and Field claimed 19 top-five finishes in the non-scoring event. The Engineers faced Colby, Coast Guard, UMass Dartmouth, Tufts and host Wheaton during the meet.
WPI started the day off strong with a second and third place finish in the 60-meter dash. Andrew Whitney (North Kingston, RI) took second in 7.14 while William Kopellas (Needham, MA) was right behind him in third with a time of 7.23, for a personal best.
Alex Rus (Newton, MA) notched one of the victories of the day in the 200 meters with a time of 23.01 while Quinton Schimmel (Monroe Township, NJ) took fourth in the 400 meters in just 51.89, for a personal best. Ben Steeves (Hollis, ME) claimed second in the 800 meters with a time of 1:54.49 which was a personal best and currently ranks fifth in all of Division III Track and Field.
In the 1000 meters, the Engineers excelled with Tom Hanlon (Derry, NH) leading the way in first place in 2:33.12 while Avery Ingegneri (Warwick, RI) took third in 2:35.55, for a personal best, and Brian Brooks (Brewster, MA) claimed fourth in 2:35.74. The success continued into the 5000 meters where David Reynolds (Andover, MA) won the event in 15:08.91 and Jake Scarponi (Barrington, NH) took third in 15:23.65 while Logan Gaudette (Holden, MA) claimed fourth in 15:33.02.
In the 60-meter hurdles, Anthony Algieri (Nutley, NJ) was the representative for the Engineers and took fourth in 8.68, just .03 from his personal best. The Engineers ended the track events with a first-place finish in the 4x400 relay with a team of Rus, Nick Fleury (Hopkinton, MA), Steeves and Matthew Madamba (Stow, MA) in a time of 3:24.14.
Andrew Sifferlen (Sudbury, MA) started out the field events on a positive note with a second-place finish in the high jump with a height of 6 feet 4.75 inches. In the pole vault, Johann Bradley (Slidell, LA) took first with a height of 14 feet and 7.25 inches, a total of six inches above the second-place finisher. For the triple jump, Isaac Frederique (Methuen, MA) claimed third with a distance of 40 feet and a half inch.
The Crimson and Gray claimed three top-five spots in the shot put with Sam Furman (Groton, MA) taking second with 43 feet and a half inch while Patrick Hagearty (Londonderry, NH) claimed third with a distance of 41 feet and 9.25 inches. Tyler Guertin (Holyoke, MA) took fifth in the event with a throw of 41 feet and 8.75 inches.
The Engineers are back in action on Friday, January 31, for the first day of the Tufts Branwen Smith-King Invitational that starts at 4pm.


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Briefing: on investment in childcare and single parents in work
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Since 1918, we've campaigned to build a society in which the UK's two million single parents are valued and treated equally. We've supported single parents to use their voice and have a say in the issues that affect their lives. We've influenced government policy and public attitudes to make real change for single parent families.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years. We couldn't achieve positive change without your help.
Here are some of the big campaign wins we've achieved in recent years.
Shout loud. Be heard. Go to the top. Don't give up. Believe in people justice.
Government listens to parents' child maintenance concerns
The government has announced new ways to limit child maintenance avoidance and tackle non-payment – directly responding to the concerns of single parents and our Maintenance Matters campaign. Changes include:
Ways to tackle child maintenance avoidance including increasing the ways to challenge a calculation by reintroducing the 'assets variation', making it easier and quicker to include unearned income data held by HMRC in a calculation and more resource for the Financial Investigation Unit
New powers to tackle unpaid child maintenance including collecting maintenance from joint and business accounts
These announcements are a welcome step forward in our campaign for a fairer Child Maintenance Service.
Domestic violence training for Child Maintenance Service (CMS) staff
Frontline staff working for the CMS including Child Maintenance (CM) options will now receive mandatory domestic violence training. Gingerbread, alongside MPs and other charities, has campaigned for steps to be taken to ensure staff communicate sensitively and respond appropriately to survivors of domestic violence. As a result, the government has piloted a new training scheme, which is set to roll out nationally in 2018. This is a fantastic step forward for our Maintenance Matters – achieving real change towards a fairer CMS.
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Single parent families to pay less for family holidays
Our 'We are the 1 in 4' campaign calls for fairer family ticket prices for one-parent families. We were thrilled when Virgin Holidays announced they were introducing tailored single parent family prices for their holidays in the Caribbean. This is a fantastic example of what the campaign is calling for – a recognition that families come in all shapes and sizes, and that family ticket prices should reflect this.
Government announces closure of a loophole in the Child Maintenance Service (CMS)
A small number of non-resident parents are avoiding payments by having a joint bank with a new partner. New rules, brought in within a few months, will enable the government to take owed child maintenance from joint bank accounts – this could mean an extra £390,000 will be collected.
We've been campaigning to close loopholes in the CMS that allow paying parents to avoid paying accurate and timely child maintenance. We know this announcement only scratches the surface, but it's a welcome step forward.
London Mayor provides more support for childcare
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is introducing a new childcare deposit scheme across all organisations in the Greater London Authority (GLA) including Transport for London and the Metropolitan Police. The announcement was a direct result of our Upfront: a childcare deposit guarantee campaign – supporting parents to pay for the upfront costs of childcare and helping them to (re)enter employment. We continue to work with the London General Assembly to support their plans.
I think all single parents should be aware we have voice...if we don't campaign for single parents no one else will.
All Mayoral candidates commit to improving London's childcare
We called on the next Mayor of London to better support parents to pay for the upfront costs of childcare, helping them get back into work. We secured meetings with the top five mayoral candidates to discuss how they could commit to Upfront: a childcare deposit guarantee. All candidates committed to the campaign – they recognised how this could help parents get back to work, offer more accessible childcare, and meet the needs of London's 320,000 single parents. Single parents shared their own experiences of juggling work and childcare in a series of campaign blogs.
The more an issue is talked about, the more strength it gathers.
Tax credit cuts scrapped
The government proposed cuts to working tax credits to take place in April 2016. This would have had a devastating impact on the lives of many single parent families. We campaigned alongside single parents to speak out against the proposed cuts. Parents wrote campaign blogs, were active on social media and attended meetings in parliament to discuss the importance of tax credits – allowing them to make ends meet.
I was involved in the tax credit campaign and it made a real difference not just to my family but millions of others.
The End Child Poverty coalition launched its Money Matters campaign in response to the government's plans to remove income as a measure of child poverty. We called on the government to maintain income-related measures of child poverty – although poverty is a complex issue, we know that income matters to children's lives. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of online campaigners, we successfully lobbied the government and secured a commitment to publish details of household income. As a result, the government is still accountable and can be continue to be challenged on child poverty.
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Cuts to child maintenance charges
We lobbied the government to drop all charges introduced for parents accessing their Child Maintenance Service (CMS). We secured a reduction in the upfront fee single parents have to pay to access the service from £100 to £20. We also succeeded in cutting collection charges for single parents from seven per cent of their maintenance payments to four per cent. This reduced the financial burden for thousands of single parent families across the country. Gingerbread continues to campaign for a fairer CMS for single parent families.
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Q: How to auto adjust margin to Auto center vertical & horizontal using jQuery and CSS margin I'm trying to center a block element (img or div) to a container which has a % width and height %.
Here's what I did. http://jsbin.com/ibakuw
 $('#container img')
    .css({
      'margin': ($('#container').height() - $('#container img').height()) / 2 + 'auto',
      'background':'red'});

I don't want to use this  {position:absolute; top:50%; height:240px; margin-top:-120px; }
approach to center vertically because the elements overflows my browser or container. I just need it to be constraint within the browser.
Please help. thank You!
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I added   $(window).resize(function() { here http://jsbin.com/ibakuw/5
var contHeight = $('body').height(),
    paddVertical = ($('#container').height() - $('#container img').height()) / 2,
    paddHorizon =  ($('#container').width() - $('#container img').width()) / 2;

$(function() {

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  $(window).resize(function() {
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      });
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});

A: Check out my example here http://jsfiddle.net/z8gph/
Unless I have your exact setup this is the closest I can get to answering your question.
First position the outer and inner containers relative.
Using jquery to center vertically you get the height of the outer container minus the inner container and divide that by 2.  Then set the top with .css of the inner container to the result.
var center = ($("#outer").height()-$("#inner").height()) / 2;
$("#inner").css({"top":center});

EDIT
check out my new example http://jsfiddle.net/z8gph/1/
If you want it to work without setting margin: 0 auto; to help center horizontally see here http://jsfiddle.net/z8gph/2/


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Interview with Julian Issa - Cofounder and CEO of fethr
Julian Issa is a Cofounder and the CEO of fethr, a friend finding app with a twist. fethr uses AI and machine learning to connect members based on their personality and varying social needs. It is the ideal way to find a meaningful connection. Whether you're looking for a fellow online gamer, or a fun night out, fethr is a friendship app you should really try out. fethr was launched in April 2020, by Julian and his fellow cofounders, Miguel Bravo and Gerardo Rodriguez. It has since been featured by media outlets such as Techround and BBC.
In our interview with Julian, we explore his origin story and entrepreneurial journey.
Hello Julian. Thank you for participating in this Q&A session. Firstly, tell us a little about yourself, your background and your origin story in general?
Julian: Thanks for having me! I had quite a unique upbringing. I was born in Cheltenham to Lebanese immigrant parents who came to the UK at the height of the Lebanese Civil War. I was raised by a single mum along with my two sisters before heading to Westminster Cathedral Choir School where I sung as a chorister for five years.
Singing has stayed with me since. At the University of Bristol, I became really involved in opera before heading to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a scholar. I'll save the rest for later but my family is now based across Madrid, Athens, Beirut, Manila and London.
I find your career journey very interesting. You've worked as a Financial Executive, an Opera Singer, and now you are the Founder of a friendship networking company. Please give us an overview of your career journey and help us connect the dots?
Julian: Just like being an entrepreneur, the life of a performing artist is tough. Actually much more tough than of a founder. I decided to temporarily pivot from opera when I was 24 but the experience of working across the world as a business analyst in places like the U.S., Australia, Singapore, India, Southern Africa and Peru, eventually drew me away from singing. Wedding requests from family and friends remain popular but it is mainly a hobby.
I have always been drawn to doing things I am passionate about, whether that is singing or travelling. After working at a tech consulting firm for a year in London, I had the itch to dive into something more purposeful. Since becoming a founder, I feel very confident to say this is what I will be doing for a while.
In Angela Duckworth's fantastic book, 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance', she talks about the importance of exploring a few passions before focusing on one. For me, entrepreneurship is definitely that.
Has your entrepreneurial journey been influenced by any present or past business leaders, and how?
Julian: I am fortunate to have come from a family of entrepreneurs – all incredibly determined, optimistic with a high-level risk appetite. My grandfather was a soldier who set up a convenient store in his garage, which eventually became a distribution centre for consumer goods. He, along with my uncles, saw the demand for nappies was not being met in the domestic market as they kept running out of stock. They decided to start importing nappies from Europe. These nappies had slight defects – a strap was slightly misplaced, for example. So they would fix the defect and package them up. Demand was so high that they became producers, and eventually specialists in the space, producing everything from wet wipes to adult pull-ups. They have had their highs but lows as well. Lebanon is now going through one of the worst economic crises the world has seen. Their ability, in the face of such adversity, over the years to keep going despite the unstable market conditions is inspirational.
To get to the point, a quote I live by is "a smooth sea never made a skilful sailor."
What key challenges have you faced in your entrepreneurial journey, and how have you navigated these?
Julian: My entrepreneurial journey is a rollercoaster. You're going to fail, every single day. Whether that's trying to get to product-market fit or raising money.
When the times are good, don't get ahead of yourself, and when the times are bad, the times will get good soon.
Weekly therapy, and a morning routine of meditation, Wim Hof breathing exercises and HIIT do help a lot.
We would like to explore your friendship app startup in more details. Please tell us where the idea for fethr came from, what's its value proposition, and who's it's target market?
Julian: As a business analyst I would move to a new city every three to six months, and building community every time was difficult and time consuming. By the time I had met my people I was on the next flight to the next destination with the same problems. So fethr is a friendship app for meaningful connections. We use AI techniques like natural language processing and machine learning to enhance friendship compatibility. In plain English, we make it much easier for you to find that ideal connection.
There is a big market gap at the moment in the friendship space. A lot of dating apps have started to look at it but suffer with the problem of transitioning their current solution to the friendship space.
Finding a friend and a romantic partner are different and so need different approaches to both product and branding.
The current solutions for making connections out there are outdated, and are not addressing the market need, or more specifically, the need for meaningful connection. Our target market at the moment is very much newcomers to cities. More specifically, digital nomads, a fast growing market who underline loneliness as their key reason for returning home.
On a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being Facebook and 5 being Tinder, where would you say fethr lies in terms of market similarities and value proposition?
Julian: On this scale, I'd say we are a 3.5, although Lunchclub and Hinge are two companies that we would prefer to align ourselves with. fethr is "Lunchclub for your social life."
What is it about fethr's value proposition that makes it unique when compared to its competitors?
Julian: We reduce the time it takes our members to find that ideal connection by using AI techniques like machine learning and natural language processing to enhance friendship compatibility. We are also creating an environment that is all about meaningful connection. Really excited for how we are crafting our product into 2022 to address our customers' problem.
How have you gone about building brand awareness and business credibility for fethr?
Julian: As a first-time founder, I think it has been a bit different to what it will be like in the future when raising further rounds or as a more experienced founder. Founders should focus on building the best product for their customers' needs. As first-time founders we have to build our own credibility, network and reputation, so that we could have the runway (money from investors) and acquisition channels (partnerships and press) to build the product and get it to our customers. In terms of business credibility for the customer, that has been driven by partnerships with venues and universities, and brand awareness through our social presence and press campaigns.
What are the future expansion plans for fethr?
Julian: We are very much focused on building on from the MVP we just launched with. Plans for 2022 include expanding outside of London and also some really exciting product updates.
Before we conclude this interview, is there anything else you would like to add?
Julian: It would not be a founder interview without shameless plug. So, if you're new to London or are looking for more in your social life, download fethr!
Thank you Julian for participating in this Q&A session. We wish you all the best.
Julian: Thank you.
This article was originally published in Issue 9 of The Business Anecdote.
Julian Issa
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Violence in Jamaica: an analysis of homicides 1998–2002
G Lemard,
D Hemenway
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Correspondence to:
Dr G Lemard
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Room 314B, Boston, MA 02115, USA; glemard{at}hsph.harvard.edu
The aim of the study was to create a profile of Jamaican homicide victims and to describe the circumstances, motives, and the weapons used in homicide incidents. The authors read the police narratives for all Jamaican homicides 1998–2002 and coded them using a predetermined set of variables. Analyses were conducted to describe victim characteristics, motive, and weapon use. The majority of homicide victims were male (over 89%), and 15–44 years old (80%). The rate of homicide for males age 15–44 years was 121 per 100 000 compared with a rate of 12 per 100 000 for females in the same age group. The main motives for homicide were disputes (29%) and reprisals (30%). Gunshot wounds were the cause of death in 66% of all homicides. Guns were used primarily in reprisals, robbery, and drug/gang related homicides; in half of all dispute related homicides the perpetrator used a knife. Homicides in Jamaica are not primarily gang or robbery related. Rather, they are mainly caused by arguments or reprisals. Homicide has become a common feature of dispute resolution in Jamaica.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2005.010488
Jamaica has a high and rising rate of homicide. In 1970, the homicide rate was 8.1 per 100 000; by 2002, it had risen to 40 per 100 000 people (fig 1). Jamaica now has the world's third highest homicide rate behind South Africa and Colombia.1 Historically, violence in Jamaica was dominated by rivalry between two political parties which armed young men in their fight for power.2 Many attribute the current homicide rate to urban poverty, the drug trade, and the illegal importation of firearms.3–5 A high level of lethal violence reduces tourism, creates economic hardship, and strains an already burdened health system.6,7
Reported murder rate and election years, 1970–2002.
The goal of the study is to create a profile of the victims of homicide, the recorded motives, and the weapons used. It responds to the 49th Annual World Health Assembly's call to characterize the problem of violence and to promote steps for violence prevention.8
Detailed information from 1998–2002 (n = 4873 cases) was obtained from the Jamaican police (data on homicides before 1998 are incomplete). Disaggregated police records are not in the public domain, but were made available to the authors. Police data provided the age and sex of the victims, the motive, and the weapon used. Each homicide also has a brief case narrative, which was read in detail. From the narratives, data on the characteristics of homicides were extracted using a standardized data collection instrument.
Four variables were investigated: victim demographics—that is, age and sex; implement used (gun; knife; machete or ice pick; and other, such as blunt instruments, acid, or rope); and motive for the homicide (dispute; reprisal; robbery; drugs/gang; rape; other, such as mob killing, political, and unknown). Disputes were classified if the victim and perpetrator were involved in a quarrel/fight at the time of the homicide. Reprisals are revenge killings; underlying causes could be previous robberies, dispute, or drug and gang related activity.
Frequencies were calculated and the data were cross tabulated. Pearson's χ2 test was used to determine levels of statistical significance.
During the five year study period (1998–2002) the Jamaican police reported 4873 homicides. Most of the homicides (76%) occurred in Kingston, the capital city, and surrounding areas. The majority of homicide victims were male (89%) and were between 15 and 44 years of age (80%) (table 1). The mean age of the victims was 32 years with a minimum age of newborn and a maximum age of 90 years. Fewer than 2% of all homicide victims were under the age of 15; among these children, boys and girls had almost equal chances of being victims. At the age of 15, homicide victimization increased rapidly. For 15–44 year olds, the rate of homicide for males was 121 per 100 000—almost 10 times the rate for females. The homicide rate decreased considerably for males aged 45 years and older (61 per 100 000 for males 45–59; 28 per 100 000 for males aged 60+).
Percent and rate of homicide by victim sex and age, 1998–2002
The two main motives of homicide were disputes (29%) and reprisals (30%) (table 2). Drug or gang related activities were the third motive of homicide accounting for 20%, followed by robbery (14%). Disputes were the most common motive for female homicide (43%). Drugs/gangs and robberies accounted for only 20% of all female murders. Thirty females were raped and killed between 1998 and 2002.
Motive for homicide by victim sex and age, 1998–2002
For children 0–14 years, the main motive for homicide was dispute, for people aged 15–44 the main motive was reprisal, and for people aged 45 and older the main motive was robbery. Drug and gang activity played a greater role as a motive for homicide of people aged 15–29 than in any other age group but still accounted for only 26% of their homicides. In no age group was the main motive drugs and/or gang activity.
The implements most commonly used in murders were guns (66%), followed by knives (19%), and machetes or ice-picks (6%) (table 3). Guns were overwhelmingly used in gang and drug related homicides (94%), reprisals (86%), and robbery (76%). On the other hand, the knife was used in 48% of dispute related homicides, double the rate of gun use. Of 30 rape homicides, "other" implements were used in 60% whereas the gun was used in only 13%.
Motive, victim sex, age, and weapon used in homicides, 1998–2002
Guns were the weapon most often used in all age groups, except for children 0–4 years old. Gun homicide as a percentage of all homicides was highest for victims 15–44 years of age, the age group which accounted for 80% of all homicide victims.
This study has various limitations. First, the data come exclusively from police reports. Currently in Jamaica, the police have the most comprehensive record of reported homicides in the country. The national registry is unable to classify the cause of death for the majority of victims of homicide. Second, fatal shootings by the police are not included in homicide reports and are therefore excluded from this database. These killings are not insubstantial.9 Third, the data deal only with deaths; non-fatal violence is excluded. The health department has only recently developed a system for collecting data on victims of violence who present at hospital emergency rooms.10 Finally, motives are sometimes ambiguous; the first author therefore read every case narrative to clarify the reason for the homicide.
Jamaica has had a rapidly rising homicide rate for over 30 years. Over time, Jamaica has developed a culture of violence. The police narratives illustrate how common it has become for someone to be murdered—even in minor disputes over a cooking pot, cigarettes, or a bingo game. In 2002, there were many more people killed in disputes than were killed in all homicides in 1970.
Reprisal killings perpetuate violence. Many of these are revenge murders for previous murders. A saying in Jamaica is "If you can't catch Harry, you catch his shirt". In other words, if you cannot exact retribution against the right person, then hurt the nearest person related to him. This makes retribution easy, increasing the likelihood of continued killings. Reprisal killings accounted for far more deaths in 2002 than all homicides in 1970.
The violence problem in Jamaica is particularly acute in Kingston and other urban areas. A study of high school students in the country capital found that almost 80% had witnessed violence in their communities, and 45% in their homes.11 A study of 11–12 year olds in Jamaican urban areas found that a quarter had witnessed severe acts of physical violence, 8% had been stabbed, and over one third had had a family member or close friend murdered.12
The Jamaican society needs sustainable efforts to support the prevention of violence. This can be done by fostering non-violent approaches to dispute resolution.13 A national peace education curriculum could be developed and pertinent methods borrowed from projects such as the Hague Appeal for Peace.14 As homicide victimization increases greatly after adolescence, teaching conflict resolution skills in the schools at an early age would be useful for breaking the cycle of violence.15 The justice system can also be strengthened and access to conflict mediation services improved.
Young males in urban areas are particularly at risk of homicide victimization. Increasing protective factors for boys is vital.16 Programs geared at young males could lead to more positive social behavior and lower the risk of involvement in violence.17
Jamaica also needs help in limiting gun trafficking. Two thirds of Jamaican homicides are gun homicides and firearm availability increases the risk of homicides.18 The Jamaican government needs to find non-violent strategies for reducing access to illegal firearms.
Finally, timely and accurate data on violence are useful to inform policies and interventions.19 A comprehensive violence injury surveillance system that links data among health departments, vital records registries, and the police needs to be developed. Tools for this can be borrowed from the CDC/WHO Injury Surveillance guidelines or the National Violent Death Reporting System in the United States.20,21
In Jamaica, there is a higher risk for being killed because of a dispute or reprisal than robbery or drug/gang activity.
Males between 15–44 years are at high risk for being victims of homicide.
The gun is the main weapon used in homicides, but the knife is used in nearly half of all dispute related homicides.
Violence has become the norm for dispute resolution and Jamaica has developed a "culture of violence".
Strategies for promoting a culture of peace are needed in Jamaica.
We would like to thank the following people for their help: Richard Weisskoff, PhD, Anthony Harriott, PhD, Maria Elena Villar, MPH, Deb Azreal, PhD, and Matthew Miller, MD, MPH. We would also like to thank the Statistics Department of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Centers for Disease Control, and Prevention and the Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for their support.
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Figueroa M, Sives A. Homogenous voting, electoral manipulation and the 'garrison' process in post-independence Jamaica. J Commonw Comp Polit 2002;40:81–108.
Levy H. They cry respect! Urban violence and poverty in Jamaica. Kingston: Centre for Population, Community and Social Change, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of the West Indies, 2001.
Sives A. Changing patrons, from politicians to drug don: Clientelism in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. Lat Am Perspect2002;29:66–89.
In: Harriott A, ed. Understanding crime in Jamaica: new challenges for public policy. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2003.
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Zohoori N, Ward E, Gordon G, et al. Non-fatal violence-related injuries in Kingston, Jamaica: A preventable drain on resources. Inj Control Saf Promot 2002;9:255–62.
Krug EG, Mercy JA, Dahlberg LL, et al. World report on violence and health. Biomedica 2002;22 (suppl 2) :327–36.
Harriott A. Police and crime control in Jamaica: Problems of reforming ex-colonial constabularies. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2000.
Ward E, Arscott-Mills S, Gordon G, et al. The establishment of a Jamaican all-injury surveillance system. Inj Control Saf Promot 2002;9:219–25.
Soyibo K, Lee MG. Domestic and school violence among high school students in Jamaica. West Indian Med J2000;49:232–6.
Samms-Vaughan ME, Jackson MA, Ashley DE. Urban Jamaican children's exposure to community violence. West Indian Med J2005;54:14–21.
World Health Organization. Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention 2005: changing the face of violence prevention. Geneva: WHO Press, 2005.
Hague Appeal for Peace in cooperation with the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs. Hague appeal for peace disarmament education and changing mindsets to reduce violence and sustain the removal of small arms. New York: Town Crier Printing, 2005.
Butchart A, Phinney A, Check P, et al.Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the recommendations of the World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, World Health Organization, 2004.
Blum RW, Ireland M. Reducing risk, increasing protective factors: findings from the Caribbean youth health survey. J Adolesc Health2004;35:493–500.
Cooper WO, Lutenbacher M, Faccia K. Components of effective youth violence prevention programs for 7- to 14-year-olds. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med2000;154:1134–9.
Hepburn LM, Hemenway D. Firearm availability and homicide: A review of the literature. Aggress Violent Behav2004;9:417–40.
German RR, et al. Updated guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR, July 27, 2001/50(RR13):1–35. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5013a1.htm (accessed December 2005).
In: Holder Y, Peden M, Krug E, eds. Injury surveillance guidelines. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2001:16–91.
Paulozzi LJ, Mercy J, Frazier L Jr, et al. CDC's national violent death reporting system: Background and methodology. Inj Prev 2004;10:47–52.
Funding: this research was supported in part by Grant/Cooperative Agreement U49/CCR422425-01 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The contents of the publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. The CDC had no involvement in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, in the writing of the report, or in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
Competing interests: none.
Ethics approval: this research was deemed exempt from IRB approval by the Human Subjects Committee at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Posted on November 15, 2013 by Tara Dairman
Welcome to the first post in my brand new new blog series, Foodie Kidlit Friday! Every other Friday, I'll be talking to authors of great food- and cooking-themed books for kids and teens, giving books away, and sharing recipes from my own forthcoming foodie middle-grade novel, All Four Stars.
To kick the series off, I am so lucky to welcome the talented Kelly Fiore to the blog! Kelly's debut young adult novel Taste Test was published on August 27 by Bloomsbury USA–it's received excellent reviews, and this particular reader just couldn't put it down. 🙂
Kelly not only agreed to answer my questions, but is also giving away a signed book and swag to one lucky commenter (details at the bottom of the post), so be sure to leave a note and enter!
Here's a little more info about Taste Test:
If you can grill it, smoke it, or fry it, Nora Henderson knows all about it. She's been basting baby back ribs and pulling pork at her father's barbeque joint since she was tall enough to reach the counter. When she's accepted to Taste Test, a reality-television teen cooking competition, Nora can't wait to leave her humble hometown behind, even if it means saying good-bye to her dad and her best friend, Billy. Once she's on set, run-ins with her high-society roommate and the maddeningly handsome—not to mention talented—son of a famous chef, Christian Van Lorten, mean Nora must work even harder to prove herself. But as mysterious accidents plague the kitchen arena, protecting her heart from one annoyingly charming fellow contestant in particular becomes the least of her concerns. Someone is conducting real-life eliminations, and if Nora doesn't figure out who, she could be next to get chopped for good.
Tara Dairman: Welcome to Foodie Kidlit Friday, Kelly!
Kelly Fiore: Hi Tara – it's so great to be here! Thanks so much for the opportunity to chat with your readers! 🙂
TD: Let's jump in with some food talk right away. Your main character in Taste Test, Nora, is a serious cook—though her taste is more down-home barbecue than haute cuisine. Does that reflect your own culinary background, or was it more of a conscious choice you made specific to Nora's character?
KF: It's a little bit of both, I think. I'm from Maryland, where we're know more for our blue crab feasts than barbecue, but I grew up next to the grill while my dad cooked his famous pork ribs. Like Nora says in the book, barbecue has its own language and I feel closest to the North Carolina style, with an emphasis on pork.
When I wrote Nora, I wanted to write her as a spunky, present-day Joey Potter (from Dawson's Creek): a not-so-rich, not-so-uppity smartass who could hold her own next to tough competitors. I wanted her to be an expert in something that wasn't considered "fancy" so that she could prove that the art of cooking isn't just about ingredients – it's about technique and flavor, too.
TD: One of the (many, many) things I loved about Taste Test was how each dish cooked by a teen contestant on the show reflected his or her personality. What was your method for coming up with the right choice for each character? Did you have to make lists and charts, or were you able to come up with the right food-fits on the fly?
KF: I think the food writing was, by far, the most difficult part – I worried a lot about things feeling authentic. It's surprisingly (or not surprisingly?) hard to write that momentum of a food competition – the vigor and energy, along with the cooking itself. I'm glad you feel like the food reflects the contestants because I tried to make sure each contestant, especially Nora and Christian, was cooking food that they had experience with in their "everyday" life. I actually have a back log of recipes I didn't use for the book because they really didn't have a place in the final manuscript.
In terms of method, this is where I checked out the cooking competition Top Chef for ideas on themes and ingredients chefs gravitated toward. But, because this is a book for teens and I wanted teens to actually cook the recipes at the end of the book, I tried to pick things that would cater to their tastes as well.
Courtesy of YA Books Central, where you can enter another giveaway for Kelly's books! (Click image to go to that post.)
TD: Taste Test is your debut novel, but you have more books on the way. Will they feature foodie themes, too, or go off in a different direction?
Unfortunately, no food 😦 But I have two books coming out over the next year and a half or so. Just Like the Movies is my sophomore novel, again from Bloomsbury USA. It's about two girls – a bubbly-but-insecure track star and a quiet-but-sarcastic wallflower – who have nothing in common except an appreciation for great movies and the desire to have a perfect, Hollywood love story. When they meet by chance at a screening of Titanic, they formulate a plan to help spring their love lives into action – by using movie strategies made famous on screen. This book has everything – flash mobs, makeovers, meet-cutes, and, of course, the infamous John Cusack/Boombox scene – but this time, it's using an iPod and speakers. 🙂 Just Like the Movies comes out in July of next year.
In contrast, my first novel with HarperTeen, The People Vs. Cecelia Price, is a far darker, more gritty subject. It's still YA, but it focuses on the inner workings of a family that is struggling with addiction, and the aftermath of an unexpected death. The main character, Cecelia, is in custody for the murder of her brother, Cyrus. As we get to know CeCe, we find out how incredibly damaged and volatile her life had become – and how she had to shift from part time student to part time drug dealer in the blink of an eye. The People vs. Cecelia Price is scheduled to release in Winter 2015.
TD: These sound so different and intriguing, Kelly–congratulations on your success in writing and selling such a variety of books!
Last question: It's Friday night. Are you at home trying a new recipe, or out on the town, trying an exciting new restaurant?
Since Book Club was last night and I had a delicious night out with some girlfriends, tonight I'm staying in. I think I'm going to make a spicy marinara with pasta for dinner tonight. I canned a heap of tomatoes over the summer, but I have a feeling they won't last through to next year. Being married into an Italian family means Sunday Sauce (or Sunday Gravy, as some Italians call it) almost every weekend.
Thank you so much, Kelly! Happy writing (and eating)!
Kelly Fiore has a BA in English from Salisbury University and an MFA in Poetry from West Virginia University. She received an Individual Artist Award from the Mid Atlantic Arts Council in both 2005 and 2009. Her debut young adult novel, Taste Test, is available now from Bloomsbury USA. Her forthcoming titles include Just Like the Movies (July 2014, Bloomsbury USA) and The People Vs. Cecelia Price (Winter 2015, HarperTeen). She lives in Maryland with her husband, son, and two very feisty cats.
Giveaway details: Kelly has been kind enough to offer the following prizes for one lucky commenter! (This is a US-only giveaway.)
-a signed hard copy of Taste Test
-a "foodie" charm bracelet with kitchen-themed charms
You can earn one entry by leaving a comment here, and up to two extra entries by posting about this interview on Twitter and/or Facebook! Please include a link to your tweet or FB status in your comment to qualify for the extra entries.
Sample tweet:
Win a signed copy of @kellyannfiore's TASTE TEST at @TaraDairman inaugural #FoodieKidlitFriday interview! http://bit.ly/1apItGj
Sample Facebook status:
Meet YA author Kelly Fiore and enter to win a signed copy of her foodie novel TASTE TEST! http://bit.ly/1apItGj
Thanks again for reading and entering! Good luck!
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9 thoughts on "Foodie Kidlit Friday: Interview with Taste Test author Kelly Fiore (and giveaway!)"
Jess Lawson on November 15, 2013 at 8:37 AM said:
OMG, I want this book NOW. Food? Cooking competition? A character based on Dawson Creek's Joey Potter? I am swooning over here. This looks fabulous. Just Like the Movies sounds adorable as well. Congrats to Kelly!
Joy McCullough-Carranza on November 15, 2013 at 9:51 AM said:
All three books sound terrific, and like you said, Tara, so distinct from one another. I love to find writers like that. Congratulations, Kelly! And Tara – fun new series!
Jenny Goebel on November 15, 2013 at 9:56 AM said:
Sounds like a book worthy to be devoured! I love the idea that the dishes reflect the characters' personalities. Thanks, Kelly, for the delicious interview! And, Tara, I'm looking forward to more foodie blog posts from you. I'm thinking Fridays are gonna make me very hungry from now on.
Krista Van Dolzer on November 15, 2013 at 10:20 AM said:
I tweeted! https://twitter.com/KristaVanDolzer/status/401397101159915520
I've been DESPERATE to read TASTE TEST since I first heard about it LAST YEAR. I keep waiting for my library to order it, but I should probably just give in and buy it (or bug my library to order a bunch of copies)…
*lures Jess, Joy, and Jenny away with Jell-O*
Maryanne (mfantaliswrites) on November 15, 2013 at 2:19 PM said:
These books sound fantastic, and since "In Your Eyes" is my wedding song, I'm totally looking forward to that scene in "Just Like The Movies"! I do think quite a bit about how movies impact (and maybe twist) our expectations of real life, being a costume drama fanatic as I am… since Colonel Brandon, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Rochester never did actually show up in the real world. Neither did Lloyd Dobler, come to think of it, but my husband knows all his lines. 🙂
Tweet, tweet: https://twitter.com/mfantaliswrites/status/401458252749082624
Sarah Hilbert on November 15, 2013 at 7:52 PM said:
Kelly, you had me at Joey Potter! I love reading books with great characters (like ALL FOUR STARS–wink, wink), and Nora sounds like she fits the bill. Actually, all three of your books sound amazing!
Love the idea of this new series of posts, Tara!
kellyfiore on November 16, 2013 at 3:04 PM said:
Tara, you have wonderful readers! Thanks everyone for your kind comments. Maryanne — funny story. We we're going to use the lyrics in the book itself, but found out we'd need to buy the rights to do it. Yeah. Um. That didn't happen. So the song is in the book, but no lyrics 🙂 Thanks again Tara for having me!
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Seattle, WA, Dec. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Black Washingtonians and their families experience significant inequities across multiple facets of life; the effects of which compound over time and cross generations, according to a report released today. Challenge Seattle and Washington Roundtable, business associations whose member companies represent 300,000+ employees in Washington state, partnered with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to conduct the research.
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This new feature has already been included by more than 220 banks on the global level. JPMorgan believes that with the help of this introduction, banks can better perform their international payment businesses due to an increase in the digital transactions by customers on TransferWise, Ripple, and Revolut. John Hunter, the head of JPMorgan's global clearing, says IIN's development is working towards expansion now. He also added that though it was introduced with the aim of sorting out sanctions, now they are focusing more on settlement.
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Execution By Q3
According to Hunter, this feature will be in force by third quarter 2019 and will be possible for both payments, within the country as well as outside it. This introduction of the testing environment will provide users with safe messaging, file transfer, and data modeling. Hunter feels it will remove problems like tooling, data, and ecosystem. And with the help of developers, all this can be possible.
Apart from IIN, JPMorgan is also establishing a sandbox that will be used by the fintechs to put applications into use.
Under the current scenario, IIN services are free but will have a fee attached eventually.
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