Types and Symptoms of Nursing Home Abuse | The Law Offices of Flint & Soyars, P.C.
It's estimated that around 44% of nursing home residents are abused every year. Out of those abused, 1 in 11 is harmed to the point of either critical physical condition or death. Unfortunately, due to fear of retaliation, many victims never speak out about their abuse, which leads to a number of cases going unreported.
Despite the rather high number of nursing home abuse cases, there is a lack of press coverage concerning the abuse. This abuse comes in many different forms and has profound negative effects on both nursing home residents and their loved ones. It's time that an end be put to this senseless and violent behavior, which is plaguing nursing homes all throughout The United States. To help spot nursing home abuse, here are the types of abuse and the symptoms that accompany them.
Physical abuse in nursing homes ranges anywhere from physically hitting or being rough with a resident to neglecting a resident.
Sexual abuse occurs when caretakers make unwelcome sexual advances or remarks toward nursing home residents. This type of abuse includes sexual advances and remarks toward cognitively-impaired individuals who are unable to express themselves adequately.
Psychological abuse runs the gamut from shouting at and talking down to residents, to humiliating and shaming residents. This type of abuse can have a severe impact on a patient's behavior.
Whether done purposely or inadvertently, neglect includes any instance in which a patient's needs are not met. From not providing food and water, to neglecting the maintenance of a resident's personal hygiene, if a resident has unmet needs, that resident is suffering from neglect.
This abuse occurs when nursing home workers allow residents to physically, psychologically, or sexually harass each other.
Signs of nursing home abuse run the gauntlet from physical symptoms to emotional and psychological symptoms. It is important to notice these symptoms so that a person suffering from abuse can be helped in a timely and effective manner. Though these symptoms are not always a clear sign that abuse has occurred, they should be taken into consideration.
Broken and fractured bones are clearly a troubling symptom for someone who is living in a nursing home and does not have a great ability to move on their own. Unless the resident suffered the broken bone from a fall, it's a suspicious occurrence that could have come from someone physically abusing the resident.
Cuts, bruises, and welts are possible signs of physical abuse as well. There's a chance these wounds could have come from accidental injuries, but if they seem to be present a great deal of the time, they are a red flag that must be looked at more closely.
Bed sores are a result of leaving the resident in one position on a bed for a long period of time. Nursing home workers should be changing residents' sheets and repositioning residents so that they get relief from too much skin-to-bed contact.
Frequent infections come from poor hygiene and inadequate cleanliness which could be a result of nursing home workers neglecting to keep up with the routine maintenance of their residents. Though residents could very possibly develop infections from time to time, re-occurrence of these infections is a troubling symptom that must be further examined.
Dehydration is not always easy to detect, but it's a very clear sign of neglect. If a resident's not getting the proper fluids needed to stay hydrated, that resident is being neglected. Common signs of dehydration are weakness, irritability, cramps, and inability to pass sizable amounts of urine.
Inexplicable weight loss can come as a result of nursing home workers not giving resident's adequate amounts of food and nourishment. It can also come as a physiological reaction to severe mental, emotional, and psychological abuse at the hands of workers. Monitoring the causes of weight loss in residents is an important part of detecting if abuse has occurred.
Mood swings and uncharacteristic anger could form as a result of mental, emotional, sexual, and psychological abuse at the hands of nursing home workers. Residents could potentially be acting out this anger and emotional imbalance as a coping mechanism to deal with the abuse that has been done to them. They might be doing this to repress the truth because they fear that if they were to be truthful, they would receive retaliation from their abuser.
Uncharacteristic silence could be used as a form of coping mechanism to block out the pain of abuse. This sort of reclusive mood could also be a way for the resident to ensure that he or she doesn't say anything bad about his or her caretakers. This could be done because of a fear of retaliation from workers at the nursing home.
Refusal to take medication could stem from a poor relationship with the caretakers who are providing said medication. Because the resident does not trust the caretaker, he or she will not ingest anything given to him or her by the caretaker. Depression can also factor into not taking medication, as the resident quite simply does not have the interest or wherewithal to do so.
Hesitance of caretakers to leave residents alone with others could very well stem from the fact that said caretaker does not want the resident to say something incriminating about him or her and the abuse that he or she has done to the resident. When visiting a loved one at a nursing home, it's a good idea to have some alone time with that loved one to see how he or she acts when they're away from their caretaker.
Aimless wandering around the nursing home could be done by some residents who are living in an abusive environment. This type of wandering is done in an attempt to get away from this harsh environment in the best way possible.
Nursing home abuse is a problem in need of solving. To help solve it, awareness must be spread, and vigilance must be practiced. By being aware of the different types of nursing home abuse as well as the symptoms that they cause, it is possible to spot abuse when it is occurring so that something can be done about it.


The fitness of a genotype measures its relative ability to reproduce itself, compared to other genotypes.
Fitness shows to what extent a genotype is favored by natural selection. Fitness values are between 0 and 1. The fittest individual has a fitness of 1, and the fitness of the other members of the population can be expressed as 1 - s, where s is the selection coefficient.
The fitnesses of different genotypes are among the most important variables - perhaps the most important variables - in the theory of evolution. They determine, to a large extent, which genotypes we can expect to see in the world today.
• Measure the relative survival of the genotypes within a generation. Kettlewell's mark-recapture experiment with the peppered moth is an example.
• Measure changes in gene frequencies between generations. We then substitute the measurements into the formula that expresses fitness in terms of gene frequencies in successive generations.
• Measure deviations from the Hardy- Weinberg ratios - this is used in estimating fitness in the case of sickle cell anemia.
A measure of mean fitness is commonly applied in population genetics.
The idea of a fitness landscape is particularly useful for thinking about complex genetic systems.
Figure: a two-peaked fitness surface with local and global maxima.


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When whistle-blowers suffer: Jesselyn Radack
By Plain Dealer guest columnist
By Jesselyn Radack
The case of Thomas A. Drake, a former National Security Agency official indicted last week on charges of providing classified information to a Baltimore Sun reporter, is painfully familiar. In 2002, I became the target of a leak investigation stemming from America's first post- 9/11 terrorism prosecution.
As a Justice Department ethics attorney, I had inadvertently learned of a court order for all copies of Justice's internal correspondence about the interrogation of the so-called American Taliban, John Walker Lindh. Although I had written more than a dozen e-mails on the subject, the Justice Department had turned over only two of them, neither of which reflected my conclusion that the FBI committed an ethics violation in its interrogation and that Lindh's confession might have to be sealed. I checked the hard-copy file, which had been a thick, stapled stack of paper. It had been reduced to three rather innocuous e-mails and fax cover sheets from my boss to senior Justice officials.
I resurrected the missing e-mails from the bowels of my computer archives, gave them to my boss and resigned. I also took home a copy of them in case they "disappeared" again. As a criminal case proceeded against Lindh -- and the Justice Department, by all appearances, still had not turned over the e-mails -- I decided to give them to the media.
The Justice Department then unleashed an investigation that had nothing to do with ascertaining why someone would divulge government documents, and everything to do with plugging the leak. Anonymous senior Justice officials smeared me in the media as a "traitor," "turncoat" and "terrorist sympathizer." They told my new employer, a private law firm, that I was a criminal and would steal client files. They leaned on the firm to fire me. The firm put me on unpaid, indefinite administrative leave instead. When I was awarded meager unemployment benefits, the government assisted the firm in contesting them.
As someone who has been the target of a ruthless leak investigation, I believe, and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 says, that government employees should be protected, not retaliated against, when they disclose conduct evidencing illegality, fraud, waste or abuse.
The worst scandals of the past decade -- including government torture and warrantless wiretapping -- came to light because of whistle-blowers, derisively labeled "leakers." The bigger the crime, the more likely that the evidence of it was classified, privileged or subject to one of the more than 150 hybrid secrecy categories that ballooned during the George W. Bush years. Although a judge later deemed my e-mails nonclassified, their unclassified status didn't prevent the Justice Department from criminally investigating me, referring me to the state bars in which I'm licensed as a lawyer and putting me on the "no-fly" list.
I submit that Drake, the former NSA official, did not leak. He made valid disclosures revealing the failings of several major NSA programs that use computers to collect and sort electronic intelligence. These mistakes cost billions of dollars. He also described how the agency had rejected a program that would collect communications while protecting Americans' privacy -- disclosures eerily similar to those made by Thomas M. Tamm, the former Justice Department lawyer who revealed the NSA's secret surveillance of Americans. Such disclosures are clearly in the public interest. They evidence a violation of law, a gross waste of funds and a patent abuse of authority -- the very definition of a protected disclosure under the whistle-blower law.
Unfortunately, the terms "leaking" and "whistle-blowing" are often used synonymously to describe the public disclosure of information that is otherwise secret. Both acts have the effect of damaging the subject of the revelation. But leaking is quite different from blowing the whistle. The difference turns on the substance of the information disclosed. The Whistleblower Protection Act protects the disclosure of information that a government employee reasonably believes evidences fraud, waste, abuse or a danger to public health or safety. But far too often, whistle-blowers are retaliated against, with criminal prosecution being one of the sharpest weapons in the government's arsenal.
For example, Daniel Ellsberg, the patriarch of whistle-blowers in modern times, disclosed the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study of the Vietnam War, to The New York Times. The publication of the papers helped to end the Vietnam War. But Ellsberg was still prosecuted. Tamm revealed an indisputably illegal secret surveillance program, but he has been under criminal investigation since Dec. 30, 2005, a case that remains open. I am still under investigation by the Washington bar after nearly seven years, despite the hypocrisy of the Justice Department in declining to prosecute -- much less refer to licensing bars -- the lawyers who wrote the torture memos related to detainees after 9/11.
In contrast, when I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, unmasked covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, he was not trying to disclose evidence of wrongdoing; in fact, quite the opposite. He put at risk national security and people's lives to undermine a critic. He was trying to punish former Ambassador Joseph Wilson by outing his wife. Libby was leaking, not whistle-blowing. His disclosure to the media had no intrinsic public value whatsoever, and he was rightly prosecuted and convicted.
The common denominator of whistle-blowers is the same: They disclose information of significant public importance that reveals illegal, unconstitutional or dangerous conduct, often at the highest levels of government. The government should not be allowed to hide illegal conduct under official-sounding labels such as "classified," "privileged" or "state secrets," which confer an aura of legitimacy on alleged crimes, and whistle-blowers should not be prosecuted. The billions of dollars wasted on modernizing the NSA's vast eavesdropping system is what needs to be investigated, not Drake.
Speaking truth to power is hard enough. Government employees should not have to choose their conscience over their career, or their very freedom.
Jesselyn Radack is the homeland security and human rights director of the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit public interest group based in Washington. She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times (McClatchy-Tribune).

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End Times Monkey Portraits Ursine Horses Glass Ceiling Biography
(Montréal, 1967)
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Since the age of 10, Jill Greenberg has staged photographs and created characters using the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, film and photography. Nowadays, she is known worldwide for her uniquely human animal portraits, which intentionally anthropomorphize her subjects, as well as her infamous series 'End Times' about toddlers in distress.
Before that, the Canadian/American photographer managed to make a break through portraying Hollywood personalities like David Bowie, Liza Minelli, Drew Barrymore, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, and many more. These images appeared in numerous prestigious periodicals including Time, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone.
An early adopter of digital effects, Greenberg has developed a world that is more intense, more razor sharp than the one in which we actually reside. Jill Greenberg creates portraits that seize our attention, that create an altered universe staring back at us.
Her series 'End Times' combined beautiful, poignant imagery, impeccably executed, with both political and personal relevance. Greenberg's subject at that time was taboo: children in pain. She utilized this uncomfortable image as a way to break through to the pop mainstream and participate in a growing national dialogue of the real dangers facing the world.
In 2001, Greenberg turned her lens on celebrities of a different sort — namely monkeys and apes, many of whom have appeared in film and television roles. These brilliant portraits were warmly received, and paved the path for photographs of a wide range of other animals, including bears and horses.
Constructing outdoor studios in Calgary and Vancouver, Greenberg photographed grizzlies, black bears, and a polar bear, among others. As with her celebrity and crying baby photographs and monkey portraits, the artist captured an astonishing array of personalities, expressions, and emotions in her ursine friends. She managed to do the same in her beautiful new show 'Horses'. Jaski will host this show soon.
Printed on a massive scale, Greenberg's bears and horses insistently demand our undivided attention; yet the gorgeous prints also seduce us in a subtler (and perhaps more powerful) manner with their sensuous, painterly textures achieved by the artist's expert digital finishing.
Jill Greenberg was born in 1967 in Montreal and lived in Detroit and New York City. At the moment she lives in Los Angeles.
Jaski is the representative for Jill Greenberg in Europe.


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Our company started spending lots of efforts in identifying the changes happening in this field and we are soon gonna make some big announcements about it. In the mean time, lets see the top 5 new products that I came across and what I liked in them.
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Cons: I wish the DevKit is much more cheaper to start with.
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Cons: Developer Kit will be coming soon :(.
Likes: It supports various type of sensors that is Motion, Humidity, Distance. It is open source hardware and provides RESTful API :). A Ruby API is also available with OAuth.
Cons: Now out of stock. I wish it will reopen soon.
Likes: Live updating with social application and connecting with third party devices via WiFi or Bluetooth. We can build more native applications using their API or SDK.
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• USGA's Jeff Hall: "We feel comfortable with process in place"
Paul McGinley attacked the USGA over their decision-making regarding the Dustin Johnson penalty stroke, which totally overshadowed the final day's play at Oakmont.
Speaking in his role as a pundit on Sky Sports, the 2014 Ryder Cup captain criticised the words of USGA official Jeff Hall, who was put in front of the media to explain the ruling and why it took so long to tell Johnson about it.
On the fifth green, Johnson lined up a putt but before he addressed the ball, it moved. The American called in a rules official but everything was deemed fine. However, on the 12th tee, and with a two-shot lead over Shane Lowry, Johnson was spoken to by a rules official, who explained that the USGA were reviewing what happened. A one-shot penalty was the result, but a decision hadn't been made on the matter at the time, leaving the American unsure as to whether he would be receiving a penalty or not.
"He caused the ball to move with his actions near the ball," official Jeff Hall told Sky Sports. "We evaluated the video and discussed it with Dustin and we're comfortable that those actions caused the ball to move and as a result, he was penalised one stroke.
"On the 12th tee, we had a conversation to let him know we were concerned and there may well be a penalty. We asked Dustin whether there was something else that could've caused the ball to move and it was agreed that probably the best thing to do was to have him take a look at the video so he had the benefit of seeing what we saw when the round was over. But we wanted to let him know that there was a possibility there could be a penalty stroke.
But McGinley wasn't impressed with what Hall had to say on the matter.
"It was lawyer speak," said Paul McGinley. "He went round in circles, didn't give us a real explanation. He said his actions caused the ball to move. What actions? We played it ten times over. He quite clearly didn't ground the club, he didn't touch the ball and for me, that wasn't a satisfactory explanation.
Paul McGinley :: Do you agree?
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UK Minister Warns No-Deal Brexit Would Be as Bad as 2008 Financial Meltdown
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807311066820533-uk-minister-brexit-warning/
After just two weeks of peace, a new Cabinet row has erupted over how to handle Britain's exit from the European Union.
Leaving the EU next March without a new trading relationship in place would spark an "a sharp recession at least as bad as 2008," a senior Cabinet member told The Sun.
During the 2008 financial crash, the deepest since WWII, the British economy shrunk by a crippling 4.3 percent and remained sluggish for almost a decade.
Amid the Tories' growing opposition to Prime Minister Theresa May's compromise EU divorce plan agreed at Chequers, the minister urged the government to emphasize the danger of a "no deal" Brexit.
UK Warns of Threats to EU Investment Funds In Case of No-Deal Brexit – Reports
"We have to go public on just how bad no deal would be, and it really would be bad. It's that or Chequers, and people need to understand that," he added.
Tory Brexiteers were immediately up in arms against the minister's warning, calling it yet another attempt to scare votes into accepting May's softer Brexit roadmap.
"These hysterics are a tragic failure of leadership. The British public had the courage to vote Leave despite just such warnings — warnings which were proven to be wrong," former Brexit Minister Steve Baker said.
"The task before every minister today is to find the guts to get on with it, not the excuse to capitulate," he added.
Even though the government has agreed to step up preparations for a worst case scenario in a bid to ramp up on stuttering EU talks, pro-Leave ministers fear the move has already been hijacked by Remain-leaning ministers, The Sun wrote.
During an ongoing visit to France and Austria, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been trying to win support for Brexit proposals set out by Prime Minister Theresa May earlier this month and warning about the costs to Britain and the European Union of failing to reach a transition deal.
Under the plan, the UK would retain close links with, and access to, the EU's single market for goods by following a common rulebook with the EU.
The United Kingdom is currently part of the EU's single market, but if London leaves it after Brexit, Britain will have to negotiate new trade deals with its partners, including the United States.
READ MORE: Putin Will Be 'Only Person Rejoicing' in 'No Deal' Brexit: UK Foreign Minister
Independent MEP: 'We've Got to Be Big and Bold and Not Fear a No Deal Brexit'
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import asyncio

from pypeman import channels
from pypeman.channels import BaseChannel
from pypeman import nodes
from pypeman.test import TearDownProjectTestCase as TestCase
from pypeman.tests.common import generate_msg

class TestNode(nodes.BaseNode):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

class TestingTests(TestCase):
    def clean_loop(self):
        # Useful to execute future callbacks
        pending = asyncio.Task.all_tasks(loop=self.loop)

        if pending:
            self.loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*pending))

    def start_channels(self):
        # Start channels
        for chan in channels.all:
            self.loop.run_until_complete(chan.start())

    def setUp(self):
        # Create class event loop used for tests to avoid failing
        # previous tests to impact next test ? (Not sure)
        self.loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
        self.loop.set_debug(True)
        # Remove thread event loop to be sure we are not using
        # another event loop somewhere
        asyncio.set_event_loop(None)

        # Avoid calling already tested channels
        channels.all.clear()

    def tearDown(self):
        super().tearDown()
        self.clean_loop()

    def test_chan_process_in_test_mode(self):
        """ Whether BaseChannel handling with test mode is working """

        chan = BaseChannel(name="test_channel_test_1", loop=self.loop)

        n = TestNode(name="testme")
        chan.add(n)

        msg = generate_msg(message_content="X")

        # Launch channel processing
        self.start_channels()
        chan._reset_test()

        chan.handle_and_wait(msg)

        self.assertEqual(n.processed, 1, "Channel in test mode not working")
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(n, '_handle'), "Channel in test mode not working")
        self.assertEqual(chan.get_node("testme").last_input().payload, "X", "Last input broken")

    def test_chan_node_mocking_in_test_mode(self):
        """ Whether node mocking input and output is working """

        chan = BaseChannel(name="test_channel_test_2", loop=self.loop)

        n = TestNode(name="testme")
        chan.add(n)

        msg_x = generate_msg(message_content="X")
        msg_a = generate_msg(message_content="A")
        msg_b = generate_msg(message_content="B")
        msg_c = generate_msg(message_content="C")
        msg_d = generate_msg(message_content="D")

        def concat_e(msg):
            msg.payload += "E"
            return msg

        def concat_f(msg):
            msg.payload += "F"
            return msg

        # Launch channel processing
        self.start_channels()

        # Mock input
        chan._reset_test()
        chan.get_node("testme").mock(input=msg_a)

        ret = chan.handle_and_wait(msg_x)

        self.assertEqual(n.processed, 1, "Channel in test mode not working")
        self.assertEqual(ret.payload, "A", "Mocking input broken")
        self.assertEqual(chan.get_node("testme").last_input().payload, "X", "Last input broken")

        # Mock output
        chan._reset_test()
        chan.get_node("testme").mock(output=msg_b)
        ret = chan.handle_and_wait(msg_x)

        self.assertEqual(n.processed, 1, "Channel in test mode not working")
        self.assertEqual(ret.payload, "B", "Mocking input broken")
        self.assertEqual(chan.get_node("testme").last_input().payload, "X", "Last input broken")

        # Mock both
        chan._reset_test()
        chan.get_node("testme").mock(input=msg_c, output=msg_d)
        ret = chan.handle_and_wait(msg_x)

        self.assertEqual(n.processed, 1, "Channel in test mode not working")
        self.assertEqual(ret.payload, "D", "Mocking both input and output broken")

        # Mock both functions
        chan._reset_test()
        chan.get_node("testme").mock(input=concat_e, output=concat_f)
        ret = chan.handle_and_wait(msg_x)

        self.assertEqual(n.processed, 1, "Channel in test mode not working")
        self.assertEqual(ret.payload, "XEF", "Mocking with function broken")

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Ancient/Medieval Jewish History Jewish History Study
Jewish Moneylending
The profitable money business between Jews and Christians often became tense.
By Norman Roth
The following article recounts the history of the main commercial occupation of Jews in Christian Europe, moneylending. It is reprinted with permission from Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia (Routledge).
Jewish Law Took an Interest in Interest
General histories of the Middle Ages, and even more specialized ones such as those on medieval commerce, say two things about Jews: they were "usurers" and they engaged in the slave trade. One of the oldest Christian accusations against Jews in the medieval period was, indeed, that of usury. If by "usury" we accept the Canon Law definition of any profit whatever, then Jews were of course usurers; but the modern understanding of the term is rather the taking of excessive interest, and to avoid that argument, and the pejorative connotations of the term, "moneylending" is preferred in this article.
Biblical law forbids taking or giving interest to "your brother" (a fellow Jew), whether money or food or "any thing." The Talmud interpreted this very strictly, so much so that even greeting someone from whom you have borrowed, if such greeting had not previously been the custom, is forbidden. [For Biblical law regarding moneylending, see, for example, Exodus 22:24, Deuteronomy 23:20-21, Leviticus 25:35-37.]
The Bible further permitted lending money on interest to a "stranger", but prohibited it to a fellow Jew ("your brother"). The Talmud observes that even the borrower transgresses the commandment if he borrows on interest…
Originally, the medieval rabbinical attitude toward lending money on interest to Gentiles was very conservative, restricting it to scholars (not only as a means of income but because it was felt that they would be cautious about such loans and limit the interest charged) or to cases where it was absolutely necessary for livelihood.
Moneylending Yielded High Profits for Little Risk
Ultimately, however, the potential of great profits and the widespread demand for moneylending made it universal among Jews. Mordecai B. Hillel of Germany (b. 1298) wrote that there is no profit in any form of commerce like that to be made in lending money. Ibn Adret in Spain observed that it has become permitted for everyone to charge interest on loans to Gentiles, "and now all have made themselves 'sages' in this respect, adding that he heard in the name of Rashi, that this is because taxes have constantly been increased and there is no longer any limit to "because of livelihood" (i.e. in order to meet their tax burden, Jews had no alternative.)
As noted elsewhere, fanciful theories have been advanced as fact with regard to Jews either having been "forced," or voluntarily choosing to abandon landholding, and with no alternative choosing moneylending as a livelihood. Not one scrap of evidence has ever been produced to support such theories, and in fact there is no evidence. Undoubtedly the above statement by authoritative rabbis are correct: the ever increasing tax burdens, on the one hand, and the relatively large profits to be made with virtually no risk, on the other, encouraged Jews to engage in moneylending on ever larger scales.
Christian Moneylending: Ignored Laws, High Interest
Another factor that has sometimes been suggested, the lack of alternative availability of lenders owing to church prohibitions on usury, ignores reality in favor of theory. While it is true that canon law, beginning in the late twelfth century and throughout the thirteenth, placed absolute prohibitions and harsh penalties on Christian lending on interest, it is also true that these measures were frequently ignored in practice even by churches, monasteries, bishops and the popes themselves.
Italian merchants were present in France and Germany and ever ready to lend money, charging such rates of interest as the market would allow. It has frequently been pointed out that the rates of interest charged by Jews never approached the rates charged by Christian lenders, including Church authorities…
Strange Relationships
Just as Jews lent money to Christians, so they also frequently borrowed money from them, also on interest. Indicative of this strange and often uncertain relationship that existed between Jews and Christians is an interesting responsum concerning a Jew who had borrowed money from a Christian and asked a Jewish friend to give him the money to repay the debt. Then some other Christians came and robbed the houses of the Jews (the question was whether the debtor was not required to return the money that his friend had given him, since it would anyway have been stolen, had he not given it to him: the answer was. that h e was obligated to repay it.).
However piously Church officials protested against "usury;" they were themselves quite willing to borrow money from Jews. Already in the ninth century we hear of priests selling church vessels to Jews, and later such object were frequently given as pledges for loans, in spite of the protests of the cantonists and civil law…Jews also had to be careful about taking surety objects that later could be claimed to have been stolen (although at times laws protected Jews against such charges) or "bloodstained garments" that could be suspicious.
It was certainly prudent and necessary to have some form of security, in the way of pledges, for loans to Christians, since it was often easy enough for the borrower simply not to repay the loans…Eventually it became necessary for civil authorities, and particularly the kings, to enact measures protecting the moneylending privileges of the Jews and to ensure that they were repaid.
Did Jews Actually Charge Exorbitant Interest?
There is not doubt that some Jews, at least, charged what today would be considered exorbitant rates of interest. There is the report, for example, of the abbey of Saint-Benigne in Dijon (France), which in 1196 borrowed 1700 livres (pounds) from a Jew at the rate of 65 percent. For eleven years the abbey could not pay anything on the loan so that the debt had grown to 9825 livres. In Marseilles, the abbey of Saint-Victor in 1185 owed 80,000 sous to the Jews of the city and granted them some property, which would have included churches in payment. To avoid this "scandal" of Jews owning churches, the bishop of Antibes assumed the debt himself.
On the other hand, it must be realized that these rates of interest were annual, and rarely did loans to individuals, at least, remain unpaid for as long as a year…As we have seen, though, in some cases the debtors made few or no payments for years, and then complained bitterly about the high interest.
"You shall grope at noon as the blind man gropes in the darkness."


Francis John "Mickey" Hinchee, born Oct 19 1934, Bronx, New York; died 1983, Massachusetts; married Aileen Smith (children: Michael & Melisa Hinchee).
Robert "Bob" Hinchee; married Gail Houle (children: Scott, Karen & Steven Hinchee).
Daniel James "Dan" Hinchee, born Sep 15 1939, Bronx, New York; died May 14 2001, Dayton, Ohio; married Janet Tracy (children: David & Mark Hinchee).
Ellen Hinchee; married George Tatarow (children: Michele, Kathleen & Donna Tatarow).


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Q&A: What about sex and dating?
Sex and Dating After a Spinal Cord Injury
Prior to my injury, there was a way of life that I knew to be. Post-injury, I had to realize that I could still have that way of life, I just had to flow with it, if that may be a word. Meaning that some things did change but I didn't change as a person. I was still the same guy, there were just some things I had to do differently. So, I do have a relationship now that is very significant to me in my life, and all that we do is just learn how to handle things and problems as we go. Sometimes, a lot of my friends, or you know we encounter things in study groups, different things like that, and we always say, most of us get to hide our problems. But they say Jeremy, "you don't get to hide yours, yours is out in the open and everyone can see it coming." And with that, in relationship to relationships, I couldn't hide it. So, it was something that was evident, and it was out front, so there was basically the first thing that we had to deal with. She saw me coming in a wheelchair, and to this day it is so amazing, she says," Jeremy because of your personality and your spirit, I never saw your wheelchair."
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I have dated off and on. I've had a nine month relationship, another nine month relationship, and a couple of shorter ones. I've had more luck online than I have not on online, and the reason for that, I think, is because I know all my friends' friends already, and I'm not meeting anybody new through them. So, I get online, and lots, and lots, and lots of first dates, and a few that won't even make it to the first date part when I mention them wheelchair. You know, it's okay if it is a deal breaker, then I don't even want to waste my time. But that works. Sex happens; if it's a good relationship, then it's definitely part of the relationship.
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I know that a lot of people always say, like, there's guys out there that don't care if you're in a wheelchair, and to me it's just like, well where are they? Because, like, I don't know, I find it, like, it does make a difference that now I'm in a wheelchair, I'm not going to say like, "Oh my god, I was the prettiest girl at my school and oh my god, I had all the guys." But back then I was, I felt attractive. And you know, now that I'm like this, I'm still look the same; if I'm still the same person, why aren't guys attracted to me now?
I was dating someone for a few months since the incident, and this is a lot to take on for someone. So, I think that it's going to take someone very special to be a good match for me.
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Of course, I was in a relationship, but my partner never left me, and I kind of was pushing him away, but he never left. But we just broke up, maybe like three years ago, so it kind of I guess made him closer to me , where I wanted to be not close to him—because I knew there was going to be some issues that were going to be kind of strange to face, where I would just rather have not.
Well, my husband today is who the intimacy happened with from the beginning; I never dated anyone except for him. I was so nervous that I sat down with him. And because I was nervous not only for the intimacy, and people in wheelchairs will appreciate this, the other stuff that goes on, the bathroom. You can intermingle the two because they go hand-in-hand sometimes because you don't have any control. And so, I was so scared that that would interfere, that I was like, "okay." I sat him down when we were dating, and I was like, "okay, sometimes I pee my pants, sometimes I have accidents." And he's like, "I don't care, and I'm like, "oh wow, you are just like heaven-sent." Like I couldn't believe it, he just didn't care, and he still doesn't. But our situation is a little bit different. Like I waited until marriage to have sex. But he was so understanding, and it was all new, like I didn't know what was going to happen. And so, for the first while it was like, "okay, how do we figure this out? How do we do this?" And we did, and it kind of made it fun and interesting, it wasn't just normal boring—not boring, but it's all great. But it was different for him and for me, and so we just kind of learned together.
During the early convalescence, while Mike was still in those first few months, still living in nursing homes, he and I absolutely still cuddled, and kissed, and felt very boyfriend and girlfriend, and wanted to sleep together and be close to each other. And, the question of two things: sex and driving—when are we going to have sex, and when are you going to drive again. And those were, kind of, the two interesting things that we, kind of, covered. So, we talked about the options with several different medical personnel along the way. Probably when he got to Ohio was when we first started experimenting, so five months probably after the accident, with different, both with the Viagra and Cialis, options. He even did injectable, oh; I can't even remember the name of those now—Caverject, injectable, Caverject, and then a penile pump. So, we were absolutely all about what's going to work and how are we going to get this back.
I don't have a problem dating girls. You know, I guess, you know, you just have to, I guess, weed out the people that can't see past the wheelchair. Because, there's always the, you know, the girl who's like, "err, you're in a wheelchair, I can't date you." You know, but, it's actually, it's actually all right, you know, because I never really had a problem getting girls before, so it's not really an issue now.
I was challenged to date again, and found out that people still like you even if you're in a wheelchair. So it was the eye-opening thing that "yeah, I can have a normal date life as well." So, that's been a good adventure I have to say.
Before we got married, we talked, and I didn't know if I could have kids or not. But luckily, with medication and all, we were able to be intimate, and we had kids the old-fashioned way. There was no artificial or anything. And it's funny, because even early on, I didn't know, and I was always curious, "okay, what's next? Will this be a barrier for dating or for getting married?" And again, small town, I knew I wasn't going to stay there, but you never know when you are going to fall in love. So, when I met Kim, and then we dated a year, and then I went off to college, and she stayed home, she was still nursing. But then she came to Tuscaloosa, and it was a friendship, and it grew and there was nothing off limits.
You know, I was worried about what my wife might think. And not being able to perform, especially as a guy, I mean that's your number one thing. I mean there's nothing worse than feeling like your partner's disappointed. But, like where as my wife, she wanted to make sure that I was happy just as much as she wanted to make sure that, or I wanted to make sure she was happy. But definitely at first, you're like, "how does it all work?" And you're trying to figure out how to get satisfaction, and it just comes in a different way and it's just one of those things that takes time.
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The chair is just another part of me; I'm still the same person. So, relationships shouldn't be harder for people who can't walk than people who can. People still like you for who you are because you're still the same person.
I've been doing the online dating thing recently because people don't approach me. And I don't know how much is that because I'm pretty and that's intimidating, or because I'm in a wheelchair and that's intimidating. You just put them together and that's a lot of intimidating for folks. But, at the same time, it's not like I would want to date somebody who wouldn't have the nerve to approach me. You know what I mean? So, I feel like it weeds out a lot of assholes because, you know, if the chair is going to be an issue, I want to know upfront that the chair is an issue.
I had a boyfriend at the time, that didn't last very long. We broke up a month after I got back to school, and so, so that was then, I was like; no one's going to love me anymore because obviously, he couldn't. You know, for a while it was, really threw me for a loop, and I didn't know how to be. And I think that that's a hard thing you have to learn, you know, and I think a lot of people go through that when they're younger. I think eventually you have to be comfortable with yourself, and confident in yourself and be comfortable with your disability and how it affects you for anyone else to be—and that's friends but it's much more important with intimate partners is that if you're comfortable with yourself, then they can be too.
They're attracted to who you are, not who you are (motioning to wheelchair). It's a big difference. And, I learned that over the years, because this analogy—Barbie's best friend is actually in a wheelchair, it's Wheelchair Becky. You can Google this. And, there was this analogy—years ago this girl told me, and she said, "Why date wheelchair Becky when you can have a Barbie?" So my first thought was, "Oh my God, why date wheelchair Nick when you can have a Ken?" The reality now to this day, there's many reasons why to date wheelchair Nick. Because, I bring much value and I have much assets, and I can bring much more to the table than just the average guy. And, I am in confident who I am, and I know who I am. It's not being cocky, it's being confident.
The friendships, as far as female, the injury was a gift. It spared me the shallow women of the world. I never bought dinner for someone that didn't care about me as a person. So, in many ways it was a huge gift.
Dating is a funny thing, you know. And especially for a woman who've had children before, and someone who was married happily for a long time to say, "Oh, how about dating?" Because in the front end of my injury, it was definitely not on my radar. I skipped the sexuality class because it's like, "Oh, my God! That's the last thing on my mind." But, I think once you acclimate into living with the spinal cord injury and doing all the things that needed to be done first, you know, I did selfishly think about, you know, "where do I go from here as a woman?" You know, because I was 37 by then, and I still had so much love to give and receive in my opinion, but, you know, I have a finite amount of time. If I sit around and wait for someone to ask me, it may take a lot of time and I might not like that person, and so on and so forth. And so, I decided to give myself worth, that I wasn't going to put myself on the clearance rack, and that I am capable of speaking my mind. So, I actually did the asking so that I can pick and choose who I wanted to be with. Sexuality after injury was very scary for me. You know, I can count how many people I've been with, you know, in my entire life with one hand and have few fingers left over. So, you know, it's a very personal thing for me and I've got to say the way I looked at my body was very different. You know, with an injury, it's relatively low, and you know, I've had two C-sections. So, you know, my body has "life marks," is what I say. So, I don't think I went in to the physicality of sexuality until like much into my dating, because it felt so much more private to me. In order for me to let somebody in that privately, like, I have to "know you-know you" kind of thing. So, for me, it took a lot longer than probably other people, because I needed to be comfortable to be that vulnerable.
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Well, as far as sex, like I said, I was a very sexually active person, and when I first woke up with the injury, the only thing I was worried about was why this catheter was in me and I can't feel it. To be honest with you, being on a wheelchair teaches you something else. It's like, for one, the feelings that you get when you see somebody that you're attracted to is not physical, it's mental—because I still feel the same way if I see somebody I like, I still get the same urges but the physical aspect doesn't happen. And another thing is, just like your senses if you're blind or something else, your other sense get heightened. I just learn my way around and found out you don't need to be pouncing on somebody for somebody to be feeling good.
I would love to date. I was single prior to my injury, but I was in the prime of my dating, I was 42-years-old, and I was dating. I didn't have a significant other, but I would meet guys, and we would go out for coffee or things like that. But there was no special someone, but I would love for there—for him to find me. I really would.
Early on, you feel that all of the sudden, you're unlovable. That, you know, you've been destroyed, you've been ruined, you've been maimed, whatever your, sort of, self-description isn't really the case. And, you know, the relationships that I've had since then, and I've had a number, I almost made my disability a bigger thing than any women has. And, you know, that's pretty amazing. But, yeah, as in the rest of life, it's sort of get on with it, and there's a way to deal. Now, maybe you're not going to be, you know, an athletic porn star, but most women I don't think really want that.
But I've had a couple of dates, yeah; I've actually had some dates. They weren't people that I met; these are people that I already knew. So, but no relationship really formed from it, but I wasn't even sure if I was ready for a relationship. So, I've kind of started thinking, "okay, I just want to focus on building a friendship with somebody and seeing if it can go to a relationship." But at the moment I'm comfortable, I feel like I look good.
Dating, well you know, I was 44 when I had my accident. I was married, I had children, I knew what sex was like, I knew what good sex was. So it wasn't a priority for me, because I was older. To say, "oh my gosh, now I have this spinal cord injury, my life is over, I can't sex," on, and on, and on. Which, of course is not true, because anybody with a spinal cord injury, anybody with anything can have sex, and can enjoy sex. But, dating was not a big thing on my list after my divorce. So I would say, I've had a couple of relationships, but they were, they were never long term, they were for pleasure of someone's company. And they weren't to try to find out whether I could have sex, or how good it would be, or anything like that. It was really to enjoy the person. Now, I have to say that while sex can be very good, it's not the same—for me, for me, for other people, perhaps. But for my body and my sensation, what I'm able to enjoy and feel, it's not the same, but it's good, and that's what's important.
That's another thing, a big thing that I was, like, upset about because I used to be quote-unquote out there like a player, which nothing to brag about. And the thing is, there's a whole lot of ways of doing what you got to do, all it is about is communication with your partner.
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I was always fearful that I would never have the ability to perform. But you know what, there is different things, different emotions, that become—it's, I think it's more romance, more passion; to be able to hold, to be able to be with someone. It's unfortunate that it happened, but allowing yourself to find the beauty in love, to find the beauty in romance and passion, and finding a different way to have sex is ok, because it makes it twice as good, like you're feeling that emotion come on. Because boy I'll tell you, I love it. It doesn't happen a lot, but I love it.
I actually just stared dating a guy. He's actually been my neighbor for 10 years, and then after my accident, he was the one that stayed close to me. He's actually one that has helped me more than anybody throughout this whole thing. So, we actually just started dating in June to try it out, so I am excited.
It was scary at first, I mean, because you're so used to things being in a certain way, and that's just not that way anymore. You have to get to know yourself again. What might have worked before doesn't work now, and vice versa. So, you have to find other things that may work for you. I didn't think I had any feeling for over five years. I was devastated by that. And then discovering I did have feeling it's just different, you know. So, that was quite an experience. Yeah, I went a long time thinking, "oh, because we do it normally, I can't feel it normally." So, it kind of shut me and my ex-husband off. And his basic thing was he didn't want to hurt me. I'm like, well, I'm already in a chair, so it's not like he could hurt me anymore than I'm already am hurt. So, it wasn't until I met my current husband that discovering different things. You know, just trying out different things and being more trial by error.
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During the process of my rehabilitation, the opposite sex started to come towards me, I started to draw them in. So, it would actually change my mind and my outlook, "Oh wow, maybe I'm not that bad."—"Oh, maybe a wheelchairs a good thing."—Or, "Maybe it's just that thing that, that opens that person's eyes, or turn that person's head, or makes the difference to that person." So, that was one of the things that helped me get over that barrier.
I was single for a few years and that in itself is scary. Trying to take this confidence that you've bolstered in yourself, and take it out to the dating world in your mid- thirties with a disability for the first time. I found that people were very receptive to me, and that once you start speaking with somebody, that they start paying attention to your character and less to what you're sitting in, or how you're getting from here to the door. So, that bolstered my confidence as well. And then I fell absolutely in love. It was beautiful. A storybook romance, absolutely.
Sex and dating. So, I got out of a long term relationship, I was in a relationship for about a year, so it must have been six months since I've been single. Sex and dating—dating right now is a little sparse, but it's happening. I tried OkCupid, tried some online dating but there is something about that online dating that I just don't like, it's just super uncomfortable. So, now I just go out, and hang with friends and meet people as I meet them. And sexual activity, I have a friend that sometimes we have sexual intercourse with I guess. Marriage? Yeah, if I can find that lucky woman, notice that I said that lucky woman because I am the charm. And children, I'm not interested in children right now, so that will be something you would have to ask me in about 10 years.
I dated when I was in high school. Let's put it this way, I think having a positive attitude is rule number-one. And, I think by having a positive attitude, accepting my disability, you know, I dated a lot in high school, frequently in high school. You know, I guess maybe I didn't have a problem meeting girls because I always had a place for them to sit, right here next to me. After I got married, my wife and I wanted to have children, and I was very concerned with the fact that I went through all the chemotherapy and the radiation therapy at such a young age, you know, how was that was going to affect me being able to father a child. And, you know, went through all the appropriate tests I needed to do to make sure I didn't have any defects or anything like that, and had the ability to father a child. I have a beautiful girl, young girl, named Hannah, she's six-years old, and I have a fifteen- month-old son named Jack, and they are the joys of my life.
Well, when you get home, you know it was—you just got to experiment, try different things. It may not work anymore, there's different ways to make it work, you know. And I don't think it's all about the sex part, it's just being together, you know what I mean. Me and Hope just, me and my wife, it's not about the way it used to be, it's still love no matter how you do it.
Nothing changed in the performance, it just lasts longer. You know what I mean, that's just it. And I mean I was told by doctors "be prepared that there might not be any performance." There's no problem there. We're lucky. I mean, we've gone to groups and stuff, and they're like, "that's one thing that we miss." I'm like, "just work on it," you know. There's classes you can go to and stuff, but we were lucky. That was one thing that we didn't have to worry about. He's taking me on a date next week. So yeah, I'm excited. I don't know what's going on, but I just know we're going on a date.
When I first woke up, that's one of the first thing I asked, and it was like, "no, you're okay, you can still have sex, still make children, and this and that." I was always okay with that, and like I said, based on my lifestyle before that with football and gang activity, it's like I always had lady friends so that was never just a problem. I'd say about three women that I actually liked in college and one probably in Atlanta that I really liked. One reason she didn't want to be with me, she was like—she loved me, and she liked the person, she loved hanging out, she loved talking, loved everything about me, but her main concern was would she have to take care of me once we got older. And so, that's the one time that I know that really affected dealing with the wheelchair. But outside of that, most of the girls just thought—they look past the wheelchair—they just thought I was a ladies' man, so it was kind of trust issues. But yeah, that's like the only one that I can really say was affected by the wheelchair.
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I remember watching a videotape when I was a patient at the Rehabilitation Institute that a young woman on the videotape was complaining that nobody would approach her because her wheelchair was a barrier between her and the rest of the world. And, the more I watched her, I realized that the barrier was her attitude; she was afraid of the rest of the world, and she put the barrier up, and so therefore, people didn't cross that barrier. The trick is understanding that not that much has changed if you have a spinal-cord injury, and that might sound like a crazy thing to say, but it's true.
I've had a couple of girlfriends since then. It's different, for sure, because a lot of girls, like I said, aren't sure how to start the conversation, or, "should I say 'hi,' or should I flirt with this guy, I'm not sure...He's cute, but he's in a chair, I don't know what to do," you know, it's kind of like that. Like I said, you just have to start the conversation, and if you let them know it's okay, then it will be okay
I don't know that we—I'm sure that we had a specific conversation, but at the same time, I think it was just, it was as much about allowing things to develop and unfold. Obviously, there's a physical limitation, and, you know, in exploring what can be done relative to that, whether it be through drugs, or stimulants, or prosthetic or whatever. But at the same time, it's that really the communication was just more a matter of, it just kind of developed naturally. And even today, as we've been together for a fair amount of time, but we're also both older, and we have got a lot of pressures of life, and kids and everything else. The conversation is really no different now than it is for anybody that's in this stage of their lives, able bodied or not.
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Definitely the male plumbing does not work the way it used to with the level of paralysis that I have, but that doesn't mean that my wife and I can't still be intimate and be together. And it's thinking things through from a different level as to what that intimacy looks like. We don't rely on the actual physical act of sex to have that happen, we have to be creative and look for other ways to be close.


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Q: How to change the public access level of a blob in Azure using setAccessPolicy How to change the blob access policy?
At the moment I am able to create some test blobs using the azure quick start. This works great but the blobs have a public access level of private by default in my case. I want to set public access level from Private (no anonymous access) to Blob (anonymous read access for blobs only).
I did some try & error and I found that setAccessPolicy could help me out. I want to implement this but I don't fully understand the .setPermissions("permissionString"). Do I need to change this to something like "anonymous read access for blobs only" or am I missing something?
My try & error code:
public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException
    {
        BlobServiceClient blobServiceClient = new BlobServiceClientBuilder().connectionString(connectionString).buildClient();
        String containerName = "testblobs"+ UUID.randomUUID();

        BlobSignedIdentifier identifier = new BlobSignedIdentifier()
                .setId("name")
                .setAccessPolicy(new BlobAccessPolicy()
                .setStartsOn(OffsetDateTime.now())
                        .setExpiresOn(OffsetDateTime.now().plusDays(1))
                .setPermissions("permissionString")); //what should I put here?

        BlobContainerClient containerClient = blobServiceClient.createBlobContainer(containerName);

        try {
            containerClient.setAccessPolicy(PublicAccessType.CONTAINER, Collections.singletonList(identifier));
            System.out.println("Set Access Policy to 'Public read access for blobs only'.");
        } catch (UnsupportedOperationException err) {
            System.out.printf("Set Access Policy failed because: %s\n", err);
        }

        String localPath = "pathtofile";
        String fileName = "myfile.bpmn";
        File localFile = new File(localPath+fileName);

        BlobClient blobClient = containerClient.getBlobClient(fileName);

        System.out.println("\nUploading to Blob storage as blob:\n\t" + blobClient.getBlobUrl());

        blobClient.uploadFromFile(localPath + fileName);

        System.out.println("\nListing da blobs...");

        for (BlobItem blobItem : containerClient.listBlobs()) {
            System.out.println();
            System.out.println("\t" + blobItem.getName());
        }
    }

When I run this piece of code it will throw the following exception and I think it's because of the .setPermissions("permissionString") is not set correctly.
Exception stacktrace:
Exception in thread "main" com.azure.storage.blob.models.BlobStorageException: Status code 400, "InvalidXmlDocumentXML specified is not syntactically valid.
RequestId:74403433-a01e-0086-17c1-1727cd000000
Time:2020-04-21T09:43:11.5943935Z00"
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490)
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Any help on explaining the .setPermissions("permissionString") to me with some code examples how to set public access for blobs would be great.

A: Permissions that are applicable for a blob container are defined here.
Depending on the permissions you wish to include in your access policy, you can choose from one or more of the following permissions: Read (r), Add (a), Create (c), Write (w), Delete (d) and List (l).
Please note that ordering of these permissions is important. They must follow the following order: racwdl.
Also note that specifying permissions in shared access policy is optional so you can leave the permission string as empty as well.


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White House announces Mid East coordinator Philip Gordon
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Philip Gordon will be joining the National Security Staff as Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region, the White House said Monday.
Gordon has been a member of President Obama's foreign policy team for four years and has formulated US policy on Libya, Syria and Iran.
Deputy A-G: Huldai lacks the authority to open Tel Aviv's cultural events


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Bloomberg (USA): recover if oil prices after market collapse?
May 19, 2020 IMMEconomics
Most important for the global economy raw materials are in serious trouble. In just 11 days of March, oil prices fell almost from $ 50 to $ 20, breaking the market range. The coronavirus was spreading at an alarming rate, and the country had entered a deep freeze. This killed the demand for everything from diesel to aviation fuel. Then came April, and oil has received new blow. According to some estimates, consumption decreased by one third, as the world entered into a deep recession. Oil was so much that the store was crowded. And then the unthinkable happened. 20 April prices fell below zero, and the sellers were willing to pay to buyers, only to sell arms to unnecessary oil.
May brought some relief. It seemed that the worst of the decline in demand is behind us and in China with Germany again appeared tube. The country began to loosen the restrictive measures, and this gave an impetus to consumption. At the same time, Saudi Arabia, Russia and their friends in OPEC began an unprecedented restriction of output, which helped to reduce the glut in the market. Prices also crept up since the end of April, and on may 18, arrived in new York to $ 30 per barrel. However, the magnitude of the decline was so great that the recovery process will be long and slow. Someone doubts that oil will ever return to pre-crisis level.
— 37,63 dollar
Price at market close on 20 April for a 42-gallon barrel of WTI. The price of oil first began with a minus sign.
29 million barrels per day
Reduced consumption of oil in April, according to the International energy Agency. This is one of the worst months in history.
The reduction in the number of working U.S. oil rigs for two months on may 8. The data of the company "Baker Hughes" (Baker Hughes).
Why is it important
The oil market is important for all sectors of the global economy. The decline in prices has become such a powerful impact on the budgets of oil-producing countries that in early April they began hasty action by making it a month later after OPEC and its allies abruptly interrupted long-term partnership. Interfered with the President, Donald trump, who demanded that Saudi Arabia and Russia to end the quarrel and restore oil prices since the closing of the company threatened thousands of jobs in the United States.
It was a sign that these are unusual times. America, have long been believers in the free market, suddenly thinking about voluntary production cuts. Trump initially praised cheap oil and gasoline, but then almost ordered the global manufacturers to help to raise prices.
Historic collapse
Demand for oil this year is a record decline.
The rise will start from a very low level, and the industry have a very difficult time. In a global economy there is a historic decline, and Britain faces the worst for more than three centuries a year. Very much affected airlines do not expect a quick recovery, because the demand will still be low. And yet it cannot be excluded that the weakening of the requirements for social distancing will lead to the return of coronavirus, and with a vengeance, and then repeat all the horrors of the last two months.
The Russian army will soon get a new "big guns"
The foreign Ministry sent Russia a note of protest in connection with "the visit" Putin in the Crimea
Even more than last year: Ukraine increases grain exports
Trump and Russia: what are the motives?
Al Jazeera (Qatar): the effective Japanese drug and the "red zone" of exclusion. Detailed information about the Russian way of dealing with the coronavirus
When Japan led his own blitzkrieg
In Britain, cars drove into the crowd: there are victims
Famous military explained how NATO ships cover Ukraine from Russia
There is a completely different life: different fates of migrant workers — the same reason to leave the Ukraine (the Apostrophe, Ukraine)
Medvedchuk: Ukraine's economy is rapidly crumbling, and the Prime Minister tells the Parliament the nonsense about "future growth" (TV Channel 112, Ukraine)


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Yet as we know, this is not just an issue for the United States. Right here in Australia, 439 indigenous people have died in police custody - and not one single person has been successfully prosecuted for any of these deaths.
Indigenous leader, and great friend of the Edmund Rice Centre, Pat Dodson, led the Royal Commission into Indigenous Deaths in Custody back in the early 90's. Yet since that landmark report was handed down no fewer than 439 indigenous people have died in police custody or prison - and not one single person has been successfully prosecuted for any of these deaths. This is our nation's great shame.
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To challenge this great injustice this is the reason we at the ERC have developed the Let's Talk program. Let's Talk engages and educates young people in cross cultural learnings, breaking down the misinformation and prejudice and highlighting the horrors and impacts of racism. Such work is central to our mandate at the ERC, in how we can make the long term systemic change that will ensure our country is one we can all be proud of.
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People usually go for the looks of the car when it comes to maintaining the car, but they forget the fact that the looks just serve the purpose of bragging, but play a negligent role in the safety of you. The real safety of passenger is mainly dependant on the tyres used. The same is confirmed by a survey too. This survey states that a good tyre ensures a good grip on the road which in turn leads to a reduction in the risk of meeting with an accident. Shopping for 185/60 R14 tyres online will always be one of the best options.
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View more >In the neighborhood effects literature, collective efficacy is viewed as the key explanatory process associated with the spatial distribution of a range of social problems. While many studies usefully focus on the consequences of collective efficacy, in this paper we examine the task specificity of collective efficacy and consider the individual and neighborhood factors that influence residents' perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy for specific tasks. Utilizing survey and administrative data from 4,093 residents nested in 148 communities in Australia, we distinguish collective efficacy for particular threats to social order and assess the relative importance of social cohesion and neighborhood social ties to the development of collective efficacy for violence, delinquency and civic/political issues. Our results indicate that a model separating collective efficacy for specific problems from social ties and the more generalized notions of social cohesion is necessary when understanding the regulation potential of neighborhoods.
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Defending Champ Jacobson, Watson, Mahan, Singh Join Travelers Field
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Defending champion Fredrik Jacobson and past champions Bubba Watson (2010) and Hunter Mahan (2007), along with Vijay Singh and Anthony Kim have officially committed to compete in the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands, June 18 -24.
From a tournament press release:
"The commitment of these players sets the stage for another great field and outstanding competition in June," Travelers Championship Tournament Director Nathan Grube said in a tournament press release. "Many of the PGA TOUR's top players have expressed their interest in playing the Travelers Championship and we look forward to announcing additional commitments to our field in the near future."
Jacobson, who will make his fifth appearance at the Travelers Championship, looks to defend his 2011 title. After capturing his first career victory on the PGA TOUR at the Travelers Championship in 2011, he was able to continue his success throughout the rest of the year. At the end of last year, he finished third in the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia followed by a runner-up finish at the WGC-HSBC Champions. Jacobson's victory at the 2011 Travelers Championship propelled him to his first ever appearance at the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola and his best finish in the FedExCup and Money List Rankings at 29th and 26th respectively.
Watson will make his sixth appearance at the Travelers Championship this June. After capturing his first career victory on the PGATOUR at the 2010 Travelers Championship, Watson added two wins in 2011 and helped the United States win the Presidents Cup in Australia. In his first three events to start 2012, Watson has earned three top-25 finishes, including a tie for fifth last week at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. He is currently 21st in the 2012 FedExCup regular season standings and 19th in the OfficialWorld Golf Rankings.
Mahan is currently 21st in the Official World Golf Rankings and earned a tie for sixth in his 2012 PGA TOUR debut. Mahan had a strong season in 2011, which included a career best nine top-10 finishes and a seventh place finish in the final FedExCup standings. He also played in his third Presidents Cup for the United States and finished 4-1 to help secure the team victory. Mahan will be making his 11th appearance to TPC River Highlands this summer and currently holds the top spot for all-time money at the tournament with more than $2.3 million in earnings.
Singh will look to build on his past success at TPC River Highlands, as he will make his eighth appearance. The 48-year-old has 34 career victories on the PGA TOUR including three major championships, as well as winning the 2008 FedExCup.
Entering his sixth season on the PGA Tour, Kim has three career victories, most recently at the 2010 Shell Houston Open. His best finish in2011 was a tie for fifth at The British Open, which was his third career top 10 in a major championship. Kim will be making his third trip to TPC River Highlands where his best finish was a T11 in 2009."
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We started driving people in licensed taxis to airports and seaports on the 1st of July 2018. We have nearly been going a year now as a taxi transfer company and the business is going from strength to strength. The reason for this blog post is that we have now transferred just over 1000 people to airports across the United Kingdom. In addition to transferring over 1000 people to airports, every person made the check in at their airport on time and in an orderly and safe fashion.
As a company we have driven over 100,000 miles in the past 11 months, from transferring customers going on holiday by train to transferring customers flying from airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick. We witnessed drone attacks at Gatwick, we witnessed snow on the motorways to and from Heathrow and we have witnessed smaller things like a pigeon fly into the open window of one of our taxis and join the taxi transfer to Bridport momentarily.
If you are travelling to London Heathrow, we advise leaving Dorchester or Weymouth at least six hours before your scheduled flight. You may not understand why we advise allowing at least six hours, but about 1 in every 10 transfers to Heathrow that we have completed, we have witnessed severe accidents which on occasion have closed the motorways completely. If you are flying from London Heathrow airport, you are advised by the airport to arrive at least three hours before your flight and while you can often make it through security quickly, there are regular hold ups which can cause delays at security points of upwards of 90 minutes.
If you are travelling to London Gatwick, we advise leaving Dorchester or Weymouth at least 7 hours before your scheduled flight is due to depart the airport. The main route we chose to travel to Gatwick airport is the M25 and the M23, this particular stretch of the M25 is some of the busiest motorway in the United Kingdom and congestion can be very unpredictable and very common. While on a good journey to Gatwick we often arrive within two and a half hours of departing Dorchester or Weymouth, one journey took over 5 and a 1/2 hours due to an accident on the M23 and we have had many journeys to Gatwick which have taken over 4 hours to reach the airport.
If you are travelling to Bristol airport, we advise leaving 5 hours before your scheduled flight from either Dorchester or Weymouth, the main reason for this is that at certain times Bristol airport is over used and under staffed. On many occasions we have witnessed ques at the departures hall of over 1000 people trying to check in and get through security. The airport is to small to handle the massive volumes of people who use the airport and on school holidays and in the summer time the airport frequently grinds to a halt.
All our prices include the parking charges which our taxis have to pay to use the airport parking facilities, we also do not charge waiting times if your flight is delayed. The price we charge for airport transfers is a fixed twenty-four-hour rate, the price falls well below the tariffs set out by West Dorset district council and it is sometimes up to 50% off from the licensed taxi meter rate. To all the people who used a Hill Taxi for an airport transfer or a seaport transfer, we are very grateful for you using our service and thank you very much for allowing us to transfer you.
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We can really complicate life, can't we? There are so many demands on our life. There are so many things that we think we must do we have lost sight of what is really important. Jesus comes along and would say to us, "Stop filling your life with so many other things and let Me fulfill your real need." You see, Jesus knows what satisfies, and He offers it to all His followers. He said, "Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need." The real secret to this life is to live in His Kingdom, instead of our own. We need to live in this world with heaven's priority. God loves you. Trust Him, live for Him and He promises that He will give you everything you need.