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German Institute for Human Rights
International accreditation status and SCA recommendations
In November 2015, the German NHRI was re-accredited with A status. Among its recommendations, the SCA flagged out that government representatives and members of parliament should not be voting members of the Board of Trustees. The SCA also highlighted the need for the NHRI to receive additional funding corresponding to its additional mandates and encouraged the GIHR to advocate for appropriate amendments to its enabling law that would clarify and strengthen its protection mandate as encompassing monitoring, inquiring, and investigating human rights violations.
Impact of 2020 rule of law reporting
Follow-up by State authorities
Some measures were taken in relation to certain concerns raised in ENNHRI 2020 Rule of Law Report.
First, as regards the enabling environment for civil society, the country chapter on Germany of the ENNHRI 2020 Rule of Law Report raised concerns regarding a 2019 ruling of the Federal Financial Court concerning the criteria for civil society organisations to benefit from tax privileges for non-profit associations with a public benefit purpose. While this issue still awaits resolution, the 2020 Annual Tax Law (Jahressteuergesetz) amended some grounds for tax privileges for non-profit associations, including support for people who have been discriminated against on grounds of their gender identity or sexual orientation. However, this is still a far cry from the changes that civil society organisations have advocated for. Among other things, (work for) "human rights" has not been accepted as a ground for tax privilege (see also below, section on human rights defenders and civil society space).
Secondly, as regards independent police complaint bodies and checks and balances, the 2020 ENNHRI rule of law report pointed out the lack of independent police complaints bodies at the Länder level. In 2020, Bremen, Berlin, Brandenburg and Hesse tabled or adopted acts to establish police ombudspersons who shall process complaints by citizens or police officers. However, none of these bodies has the power to investigate independently and to bring cases to court.
Impact on the Institution's work
Protection and promotion of human rights and the rule of law is one of the three core aims in the Institute's strategic planning for 2019−2023. The Institute has engaged with authorities on rule of law issues on several occasions. For example, it approached the Foreign Office in support of the Polish Ombudsman and jointly organised a conference with the Polish NHRI on protecting the rule of law and the importance of an independent judiciary. It used a conference on the 70th anniversary of the ECHR, jointly organised with the German Foreign Office and Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, to gather political and public support for a strong system of human rights protection through the European Court of Human Rights, as the Court is an important guardian of the rule of law. The Institute also promoted the Commission's characterisation of NHRIs as an integral part of a state under the rule of law.
The Institute did not take any specific follow-up initiatives based on the ENNHRI 2020 Rule of Law Report. This is due in part to the topics covered by the Commission's rule report which do not specifically fall in the ambit of the Institute's mandate (e.g., corruption) or are covered by the Institute from a different perspective (e.g., justice system where our focus currently lies on providing training to judges and prosecutors and fostering inter-institutional dialogue to improve prosecution of rightwing, racist and antisemitic crimes).
Independence and effectiveness of the NHRI
Changes in the regulatory framework applicable to the Institution
The Institute's regulatory framework has not changed since the previous report.
Enabling space
Generally speaking, the Institute has very good working relationships with state authorities. Its expertise is highly regarded, and authorities are well aware that its status as NHRI is different from civil society organisations.
However, when Parliament holds a hearing on a draft law, the GIHR is not entitled to participate ex officio, but needs to be invited by a parliamentary party.
Moreover, sufficient financial resources play an important part in securing an enabling environment for an NHRI. While there has been a comparatively small increase in institutional funding for the GIHR in 2019, it should be noted that the requirement of the Institute's broad mandate is not adequately reflected by the current level of funding. In particular, the Institute needs more financial resources for research and monitoring.
Developments relevant for the independent and effective fulfilment of the NHRIs' mandate
As any other organisation the Institute's work has been affected by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Fortunately, the Institute was able to provide the necessary infrastructure for remote work and much of the Institute's work, which consists of research and reporting, can well be done remotely (see below, in the section concerning impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and measures taken to address it).
Human rights defenders and civil society space
As described in ENNHRI 2020 Rule of Law Report, a judgment by the Federal Tax Court of January 2019 has narrowed civil society space through a restrictive interpretation of the statutory criteria for civil society organisations (CSOs) to benefit from tax privileges (as non-profit associations benefitting to the public). Consequently, the ability of a number of organizations to function and proceed with their work in order to actively participate in democratic discourse and social welfare has been affected or at least jeopardized. While the Federal Ministry of Finance had suspended the implementation of the abovementioned judgment and promised a draft to amend the applicable law, it now seems that discussions within the ministry, within the government and among the federal and Länder ministries are currently stuck, and no further development is expected this year (due to federal elections on 26 September). In the meantime, the CSO affected by the judgement has recently lodged its appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court. (1) Generally speaking, it is recommended that the law providing tax privileges to certain CSOs be revised and modernised so as to reflect a contemporary understanding of what "activities of benefit to the public" means and how an enabling space for CSOs can be secured in today's world.
Freedom of assembly has been curtailed for the purpose of preventing the spread of COVID-19. It should however be noted that these measures were not targeted against human rights defenders, neither de jure nor de facto. During the first wave in the spring of 2020, the first measures enacted by the states of the federation (Länder) were framed as absolute prohibitions. However, the Federal Constitutional Court decided in an urgent procedure that the applicable norms had to be understood in a way that required the competent authority to examine whether the assembly could be carried out under precautionary hygiene measures, so as to do justice to the high value of freedom of association in a democratic society (2).
In 2020 the Institute has advised the Foreign Office in the development of a protection programme for human rights defenders. The programme has been launched in 2020 under the name of Elisabeth-Selbert-Initiative and is expected to be further developed in 2021. (3)
(1) https://www.attac.de/presse/detailansicht/news/gemeinnuetzigkeit-bundesfinanzhof-haelt-an-umstrittenem-urteil-fest-1/
(2) https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/DE/2020/04/rk20200415_1bvr082820.html
(3) https://ennhri.org/news-and-blog/germany-launches-protection-programme-for-human-rights-defenders-at-risk/; https://www.ifa.de/en/fundings/elisabeth-selbert-initiative; https://www.ifa.de/foerderungen/elisabeth-selbert-initiative/
Checks and balances
Access to legislative and policy processes/participation of rightsholders
There has been a tendency, equally noted by CSOs, to provide very short timeframes for stakeholder consultations. While ministries, federal and Länder level alike, regularly request written comments from CSOs and the Institute on draft legislative proposals, the timeframe for submitting responses varies greatly from a day or two to several weeks. Providing only very little time for submitting responses might obviously discourage CSO from providing input at all (and, at times, has caused CSOs and the Institute to refrain from submitting input) and it creates the impression that stakeholder consultations are a mere formality and not taken seriously. (1)
Fairness of the electoral process
Following two judgements by the Federal Constitutional Court, so-called overhang seats (Überhangmandate) have been declared unconstitutional and have to be compensated for with additional seats. These resulted from the specific electoral system that combines proportional representation with elements of a majority voting system as well as from the increased number of political parties and decreased number of votes received by the two main parties. As a result, the total number of seats has grown so much that, after the next federal elections, it may exceed 1,000. (2) While all parties agree that an electoral law reform is necessary, the compromise achieved between the parties of the ruling coalition government is expected to heavily favour the currently largest party. Furthermore, many legal experts do not expect that the new law will effectively reduce the number of seats so as to maintain a functioning parliament and hence argue that many parts of the law are unconstitutional. Although opposition parties have lodged a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court, a decision is not expected to be rendered very shortly so that the next parliamentary elections will take place according to the new law.
Implementation of judgements of supranational courts
With its PSPP ruling in May 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) caused concerns among critics that EU-sceptic governments could use the ruling to undermine the respect for and domestic implementation of judgements by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). The judgements and its possible effects have been widely discussed in Germany, including at a conference jointly organised by the Institute and the Polish Ombudsman. One main argument by the proponents of the judgment (and from within the Court as well) against the allegation that the judgement would be used by EU-sceptic governments was that the CJEU should actually have exercised more control and oversight, not less.
Public trust in institutions
Trust of citizens in state authorities, including the public administration and courts has changed under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. While trust in government and parliament was at a medium height in 2019, trust has increased during the pandemic; in recent weeks, however, the level of trust has sunk due to a perceived lack of foresight with a long-term perspective, direction and decisiveness on the part of decision-makers and a perceived lack of effectivity of the measures taken.
Despite a generally high trust in the police, concerns have increased as to right-wing extremist tendencies and institutional blindness towards racism and antisemitism within the police and security forces. This was caused by the repeated detection of such statements and actions within the forces (e.g., in chat groups, through hoarding of weapons or Nazi devotional objects). Moreover, in 2020 the issue of structural racism within the police was widely debated in the wake of the death of George Floyd and worldwide protest against police brutality. Resulting calls (3) for an independent study into racial profiling practices and structural racism among security forces led to division among the Government. The Ministry of Interior consistently refused such a study and has only conceded so far as to include this aspect into a broader three-year study on everyday life of police officer. (4) Experts and opposition parties have denounced this study as being of little use to actually contribute to solving the problem. (5)
The NHRI in the system of checks and balances
The Institute regularly engages with political actors in relevant legislative and policy processes. In 2020 these included e.g., engagement to introduce children's rights into the constitution; engagement to delete the word "race" from the constitutional provision on discrimination and replace it with "racist discrimination"; introduction of a law on human rights due diligence for business enterprises. The broad support for the Institute's proposal on racist discrimination, particularly from organizations of victims of racist discrimination, is a strong proof of the need for an NHRI that has the resources to work on an issue for a long time to bring about.
In 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court requested the Institute to submit an amicus curiae in a constitutional complaint concerning the prioritization ("triage") of severely ill Corona patients.
In its 2019/2020 report to Parliament on the human rights situation in Germany, the Institute brought to the attention of the legislature the practical impact of earlier legislative changes with respect to the deportation of rejected asylum seekers with severe illnesses. The findings of the report, viz. that severely ill persons were deported in violation of Germany's international human rights obligations, were taken up in legislative debates, also by members of the governing coalition parties; so far, however, no legislative action has been taken to remedy the situation.
The main obstacle affecting the NHRI's engagement as part of the system of checks and balances is the lack of resources, which limits the extent of activities and range of issues that the Institute can work on.
(1) A recent example was stakeholder consultation on the 2nd Cybersecurity Law where CSOs were given only two days to draft and submit their comments https://gi.de/meldung/offener-brief-ausreichende-fristen-fuer-verbaendebeteiligung
(2) https://www.dw.com/en/germany-seeks-electoral-reform-to-avoid-xxl-bundestag/a-54694043
(3) https://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Publikationen/Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme_Racial_Profiling_Bund_Laender_muessen_polizeil_Praxis_ueberpruefen.pdf
(4) https://www.dw.com/en/germany-commissions-study-to-address-racism-in-police-force/a-55867763
(5) https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/opposition-kritisiert-seehofers-geplante-polizei-studie,SIa9MtY
Functioning of the justice system
The current legal framework and its implementation currently affects access to justice by certain vulnerable groups.
Access to justice is hindered for persons with disabilities due to the existing law on guardianship, which is based on the concept of substituted decision-making. Presently, a legislative proposal is pending before the Federal Parliament, which would bring about a change to assisted decision-making. However, some elements of the draft are still not in line with the CRPD, as forced treatment and forced restraints, e.g., would still be permissible under certain circumstances. It is not yet clear whether the draft law will be adopted before the end of the legislative period in September 2021. The GIHR, as Germany's CRPD Monitoring Body, has published a position paper on the matter (1).
Access to justice for women victims of gender-specific violence, including domestic violence, depends on the availability of counselling services and, for victims of sexual violence, of easily accessible rape crisis or sexual violence referral centres providing medical and forensic examination as well as trauma support and counselling (Article 25 Istanbul Convention). The funding of counselling services for gender-specific violence is precarious, as funding is not permanent but depends on actual demand, thus rendering it difficult to cover running costs and to keep staff. With respect to referral centres, a study of the GIHR has shown the need for stepping up the cooperation between medical, forensic and counselling services and to develop structures that ensure access for women in rural areas (2).
Access to justice for victims of racist violence depends on the identification by the justice system of the racist motivation of the perpetrator. So far, there is no evidence whether the pertinent legal changes (Sect. 46 of the Penal Code) and the concomitant internal rules for the investigating authorities are effectively applied in practice. Within a project funded by the Federal Ministry of justice and consumer protection, the GIHR is supporting pilot states (Länder) to strengthen the justice system in dealing effectively with combatting racist violence and in dealing with racist discrimination by the justice system. The project reveals the difficulty stemming from the fact that institutions cannot describe the needs they have in this regard as long as they do not have a human rights based understanding of racism. Therefore, the Institute is continuously calling for training of the actors within the justice system on racism and racist discrimination (see, e.g., on the Federal Cabinet's Plan for Combating Right-wing extremism and Racism. (3)
https://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Publikationen/Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme_Referentenentwurf_BMJV_Entwurf_Gesetzes_Reform_Vormundschafts_Betreuungsrecht.pdf
https://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Publikationen/Analyse_Studie/Analyse_Akutversorgung_nach_sexualisierter_Gewalt.pdf
https://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Publikationen/Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme_zu_geplantem_Massnahmenpaket_Kabinettsausschuss_Bekaempfung_Rechtsextremismus_Rassismus.pdf
Media pluralism and freedom of expression
The Institute has not carried out any systematic monitoring in this regard. In the context of demonstrations against the Corona protection measures, journalists' organizations have reported attacks against, and harassment of, journalists by demonstrators.
Impact of measures taken in response to COVID-19 on the national rule of law environment
Most significant impacts of measures taken in response to the COVID-19 outbreak on the rule of law and human rights protection
Overall, parliamentary oversight of the measures taken was limited, due to the fact that the pertinent federal law gives the federal and state governments the power to act by decree (Verordnung). Although general debates are heard in the parliaments, the parliaments of the Länder have not used constitutionally available means of turning their general oversight into a specific oversight, e.g., by making the decrees (or the duration of specific measures) depending on parliamentary consent. The federal parliament consented to the prolongation of the "epidemic situation of national extent" (epidemische Lage von nationaler Tragweite), which triggers the (time-limited) power of the Federal Minister of Health and Ministers of the Lnder to act by decree. However, on these occasions, parliament did not use its powers to review, in detail, the measures taken. One notable exception from this general lack of parliamentary inclusion in the law-making process was the amendment of the Infection Protection Act to adopt a nationwide "emergency break". The amendment was adopted in response to a perceived unresponsiveness of state governments in face of a third wave of infections.
While parliaments have not taken measures to weigh and to protect human rights, courts have done so. However, the less clarity there is about a strategy behind the measures taken (because there is no in-depth parliamentary debate, and the debates of the circle of the prime ministers of the Länder and the chancellor are behind closed doors), the more difficult it is for courts to carry out a proper assessment of the proportionality of a single measure against which the individual case is directed. Thus, the primary role of parliaments in protecting human rights is further weakened.
The Institute dealt with these implications through statements, press releases, and in its annual report to parliament on the situation of human rights in Germany, which was taken up in parliamentary debates.
Most important challenges due to COVID-19 for the NHRI's functioning
The Institute overall managed to cope well with the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has converted many of its public events to online formats, which has often and successfully attracted a larger audience than events that would have taken place in person in Berlin. However, activities such as outreach to members of parliament and political parties, or other activities that require a trustful and confidential environment became difficult or impossible to carry out. While the overall fulfilment of the Institute's mandate remained effective, some projects and activities had to be postponed or even cancelled.
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linguistic lace applied to the starched white collar.
leaving us to pick at our toenails and cancers.
when it came. But we read.
the limpids into a murk of snakes.
This was never a job for scissors.
in the turgid flesh of your text.
"Do you know God?" you said.
I got up, and I ran.
in suspense. Will He love us? Forever?
Ferral Willcox is a U.S. born poet and musician currently living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Ferral's work can be found in Per Contra, Peacock Journal, concis, Calamaro, and elsewhere. Ferral's work was featured in the Q-Street venue of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and she spent two months in residence at Starry Night Retreat in Truth or Consequences, NM.


Critical Operational Issue - How is Critical Operational Issue abbreviated?
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During the FCP session at AspenWorld, speakers from leading member companies will present an overview of the FCP program, and will describe its achievements in identifying solutions for the common critical operational issues facing the chemical and petroleum sectors.
Service providers need intelligent solutions that reduce the financial risks of today's most advanced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and malicious worms, while also addressing critical operational issues like efficient peering and routing policy," said Eric Ogren, Senior Analyst, Security Solutions & Services, The Yankee Group.
Lombardi Software, the developer of TeamWorks(R), an award-winning business process management (BPM) solution, and AMR Research will present a free online seminar exploring critical operational issues facing consumer packaged goods (CPG) organizations.
The company's software enables these companies to address critical operational issues by improving service levels, reducing service costs and preventing customer churn.
The current economy, coupled with several critical operational issues that are currently facing small business managers, has created an environment where managers are looking for solutions - solutions that we are able to provide them for a fee.
While there, he served as a management consultant, responsible for projects addressing the strategic and critical operational issues of major corporations and governmental organizations.
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The two companies will focus initially on five critical operational issues for industry executives today: integration of technical applications and business analysis, better decision-making through virtual collaboration, effective process management by using a common workflow structure, effective knowledge management and outsourcing to enable executives to focus on their core businesses.
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Yes to all of these reasons! I couldn't imagine my life without a dog.
I just loved reading this as it reflects so much about how good dogs are for us. In between reading it I bent over to stroke our year old dog who we are enjoying having with us so much after 5+ dogless years (we were just not ready after that loss…). So true that more people connect/talk when you have a dog, and we'd forgotten how pleasant this is. They give so much and remind us how to live in the moment and be non-judgemental. I feel sad for people who don't like dogs – they're missing out on such a lot of good, positive stuff.
Joyce, a warm welcome to this place and we hope to see you again soon. And so true that dogs remind us to stay in the present and be non-judgemental. Thank you!
A perfect piece – which makes sense because dogs are perfect!!
Thanks Rachel. Indeed, it's easy to overlook the significance of what you say. Especially when you have a great number of them. But it is a very special place when you have a dog, as this article makes clear.
I love reading all these comments regarding my guest post! I am so happy you all enjoyed it!! I will for sure be sharing more! My love for dogs is very strong and I love sharing with others who appreciate knowing just how special they are!
This is one place where you will always be welcome!
Their specialness is noted every single day.
Yes, day after day they are special!
Thank you, Sue. You are a good friend of this place!
In a world where so much is false this makes a refreshing change!
Nice post my Marley gives me unconditional love.
Welcome! Welcome to this place and I hope you find it of interest and hope to see you again.
Welcome to this place and thank you for your comment. I hope to see you again!
That's a great link for your post. Anyway, thank you for your comment!
Amazing, incredible animals! Welcome to this place and we hope to see you again.
Great post, I was not granted the fortune of having a pet growing up but I loved dogs. I volunteer now at animal shelters to be able to be around them and help. This year I plan on getting one for me and my son, for the reasons that were listed in this post! Responsibility and Companionship im sure he could use both. I cant wait to finally become a dog mom.
A very warm welcome to this place. Please do consider telling us a little of your experiences in becoming a 'dog mom'. Hope to see you again.
That's amazing that you volunteer for a shelter! My first post was about helping my local shelter and I love going there every weekend 🙂 Dogs are just so amazing!
Welcome! Lovely to meet you.
That speaks volumes about your love and attention for your dog. Welcome once again and really hope we see many more replies from you.
Hi Paul,Just wanted to let you know that the link for this post for my blog is still incorrect.
The reduced stress part is spot-on. I track my heart rate and invariably, my lowest heart rate occurs when I am meditating, practicing my instrument, or petting my dog. I hope he derives as great a benefit from me.
Oh, that's beautiful! What instrument do you play?
I play piano, flute and classical guitar.
What a great collection of instruments!
That's so amazing and yes I'm sure your dog is benefitting just as much as you are 🙂 and so fun you play classical guitar I used to play all the time! It's been a few years but it is so calming to have an instrument in your hands!
Nice Article. Thanks! For Giving Us Such a Useful Tips of Dogs.
What a wonderful list of quotes over at your place. Anyway, a warm welcome to this place. Hope to see you again.
My little girls are the thing that keeps me sane. That gets me through the hard times I'm facing right now.
Well done! And take things day at a time. My wish is that you will be okay in time.
That last point is so cute! I just posted on dogs too!
Welcome to this place and I hope to see you again.
A warm welcome to this place and thank you. Hope to see you again soon.
Super nice! I agree that dogs are super good for us!
Welcome to this place and lovely to see you here. Yes, we are all agreed that dogs are super, super good for us!
Great article! Dogs are wonderful creatures!
Thank you very much. They most certainly are! Anyway, a warm welcome to this place and I hope to see you again.
Dog's are better than cats if that's what you're trying to get to.
Many share your view. Anyway, a warm welcome to this place and hope to see you again.
Dogs are so amazing and truly enrich our lives! All 3 of mine are spoiled rotten, and I'm so lucky to have them.
Welcome! Glad you commented and, yes, dogs are very special. Hope to see you again soon!
I agree and I love dogs 🐶 I hope to become a vet and can't wait to here more!
That's terrific, Tessy. Presumably you are still a young person with a lifetime ahead of you. A DVM seems like a fantastic goal. Anyway, welcome to this place and we hope to see more of you.
This is great! My dogs are my world! They make the world a better place! I blog about my adventures with them!
This is great! Dogs definitely make the world a better place!
Lovely comment from you! Dogs so definitely make the world a better place!
Welcome to this place! A warm welcome and hope to see you again.
You are quite right, of course!
Thank you for your reply. It was very kind for you to follow Learning from Dogs and quite shortly your own blog will be visited.
I loved reading this, I love my dog 🐶. This post just makes you realise how much they mean to us not just a pet.
Yes, oh yes! They can mean everything to us! Thanks for the comment.
It's not ridiculous, not by far. Anyway, a warm welcome to this place and hope to see you again soon.
Most people do not realize how owning a pet is beneficial to their lives. They think that pets, especially dogs, are a lot of responsibility and unnecessary. Little do they know, dogs come with multiple benefits and can make you a better person!
Oh Rena, how right you are! May I extend a warm welcome to this place and hopefully we will see you again soon.
Absolutely! It was a great pleasure to reblog.


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 Учредительное собрание (1789—1791) — с 9 июля 1789 года название Генеральных штатов Франции созванных 24 января 1789 года;
 Национальное собрание Венгрии (1920) - парламент Венгрии в 1920 году избрано 25-26 ноября 1920 года и восстановивший монархию в стране;
 Национальное собрание Венгрии (1945-1946) - парламент Венгрии избранный 4 ноября 1945 года, и принявший 31 января 1946 года «Закон I», отменивший монархию и установивший республику;
 Учредительное собрание Вольного города Данциг - парламент Вольного города Данциг избранный 9 марта 1919 года и принявший его конституцию 18 мая 1920 года;
 Учредительное собрание Грузии — парламент Грузии, избранный 14-16 февраля 1919 года и принявший Конституцию Грузии 1921 года;
 Национальное учредительное собрание Дании - парламент Дании избранный в 1848 и принявший Конституцию 1849 года;
 Учредительное собрание Италии — парламент Италии, избранный 2 июня 1946 года и принявший 22 декабря 1947 года конституцию Италии 1947 года.
 Учредительный сейм Литвы - парламент Литвы, избранный в 1920 году и принявший Конституцию 1922 года;
 Учредительное собрание Латвии — парламент Латвии, избранный 17-18 апреля 1920 года и принявший Конституцию Латвии 1922 года.
 Учредительное собрание Эстонии — парламент Эстонии, избранный в 5-7 апреля 1919 года и принявший конституцию Эстонии 1920 года.
 Учредительное собрание Дальнего Востока — парламент Дальневосточной республики, избранный 9-11 января 1921 года и 27 апреля того же года принявшее Конституцию Дальневосточной Республики.
 Немецкое национальное собрание — парламент Германии, избранный 16 февраля 1919 года и принявший конституцию Германии 1919 года.
  — парламент Австрии, избранный 19 января 1919 года и принявший конституцию Австрии.
 Всероссийское учредительное собрание — парламент России избранный 12 ноября 1917 года и распущенный ВЦИК советов рабочих и солдатских депутатов 6 января 1918 года.
 Украинское учредительное собрание — парламент Украинской народной республики, частично избранный в 1918 году
 Конституционное собрание — парламент Российской Федерации, который должен созываться при необходимости пересмотра глав 1, 2 и 9 Конституции Российской Федерации
 Национальное собрание Норвегии — парламент Норвегии принявший её Конституцию;
 Законодательный сейм Польши (1919-1922) - парламент Польши избранный 29 января 1919 года и принявший 17 марта 1921 года Конституцию 1921 года;
 Законодательный сейм Польши (1947-1952) - парламент Польши избранный 17 января 1947 года и принявший 22 июля 1952 года Конституцию 1952 года;
 Учредительное собрание Франции (1848) - парламент Франции избранный 23-24 апреля 1848 года и принявший 4 ноября 1948 года Конституцию Франции 1848 года;
 Учредительное собрание Франции (1945) - парламент Франции избранный 21 октября 1945 года и составивший проект Конституции Франции отклонённый в том же году на референдуме;
 Учредительное собрание Франции (1946) - парламент Франции избранный 2 июня 1946 года и составивший Конституцию Франции 1946 года принятую 27 октября 1946 года;
 Национальное учредительное собрание Чехословакии - парламент Чехословакии избранный 26 мая 1946 года и принявший 9 мая 1948 года Конституцию Чехословакии 1948 года;
 Великое национальное учредительное собрание - парламент Югославии принявший конституцию 1888 года;
 Национальное учредительное собрание Югославии - парламент Югославии избранный 28 ноября 1920 года и принявший Видовданскую конституцию;
 Учредительное собрание Югославии - парламент Югославии созванный 29 ноября 1945 года и принявший Конституцию 1946 года.

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How marathon runners help the homeless (without even knowing it)
Father-daughter team turns a common race practice into a clever opportunity to help the less fortunate.
Sidney Stevens
January 27, 2014, 2:30 p.m.
Michael (right), Madi and Jack Resnic have plenty of discarded clothes to donate after a recent MLK Day race. (Photo: JoAnne Resnic)
On a chilly November morning in 2007, Michael Resnic and his 9-year-old daughter, Madi, hurried from their home near the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia to watch the city's annual marathon. It was their first race, and they eagerly joined thousands of spectators lining the raceway to cheer on 30,000 runners. But as the giant spectacle unfolded Madi noticed something odd. The runners were casting off their hoodies, hats, shirts and gloves as the race heated up, leaving them strewn along the race route.
Perplexed, she looked up at her dad and asked, "Why are they throwing away their clothes?" It was an innocent enough question, one that might have died with a quick parental "I don't know." But the sheer volume of discarded clothing — most of it barely used — wasn't something Resnic could easily brush off. Instead, he ran back to the house, grabbed a trash bag, and he and Madi stuffed it full. Later they donated the nearly 50 items to a local homeless shelter.
What started as a real-time teachable moment about waste in our throwaway society and sustainable reuse has since turned into a nonprofit group called Clothes-Pin (Clothes for People in Need), which is run by the Resnics.
"I'm sure a lot of people have seen clothing discarded at races and thought there's got to be a better way," says Madi, now 16 and a high school sophomore. "It's not like I'm someone special. I'm just like anyone else who saw something and decided to do something about it. Everyone has that power."
In the seven years since that first race, the father-daughter duo, along with a growing army of volunteers that include Madi's friends from school and Resnic's co-workers, have collected a mountain — over 100,000 pieces — of marathon clothing. Clothes-Pin now averages 12 to 15 races a year, not only the Philadelphia Marathon but also events in Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, Baltimore, Bethlehem, Pa., and San Francisco. This year, the Resnics will also head to Boston for the Heartbreak Hill half marathon sponsored by Runner's World magazine, and eventually hope to attend an international race. (In the photo above, Madi, wearing a red vest, and friends from school gather around the bags of discarded clothes they collected at the 2013 Philadelphia Marathon.)
Nearby folks reap the benefits
Their goal wherever they go is to make sure clothing gets to a homeless shelter near the race. "The idea is to keep clothing in the community in which it's donated," says Resnic, a LEED-certified architect. In many cases, shelter residents themselves turn out to lend a hand. "There's a group of guys from Bethesda Project that we work with in Philadelphia who come almost every year to help us," says Madi. "When you're doing service with the people who are receiving it, it just brings a different spirit to the whole experience. It's really special and one of my favorite parts."
In addition to picking up discarded clothing along raceways, the Resnics have also begun donating gently used sneakers that they collect at pre-race health and fitness expos where runners typically get their race numbers and buy gear a couple of days before a marathon. In addition, Clothes-Pin also recently partnered with sports apparel retailer Athleta to place sneaker drop-off buckets in its Philadelphia-area stores.
"Runners are kind of particular about the miles on their sneakers," says Resnic. "They give them up after 300 to 500 miles. It's amazing how new they look, and to people on the street they're like gold."
Also new is a partnership with Under Armour's "thirds" program, allowing Clothes-Pin to distribute new apparel that the sportswear maker chooses not to sell due to minor flaws in coloring or misprints. On New Year's Day, for instance, the Resnics handed out Under Armour sweatshirts and jackets at a shelter for teens living with HIV/AIDS.
"We've sort of created a new model for reuse of clothing that looks a little different than the traditional model of giving to Goodwill or the Salvation Army," says Resnic.
This is only the beginning
For the most part, it's been a happy process of making things up as they go along and allowing Clothes-Pin to evolve organically. But the Resnics have also started thinking more about the future — deciding what they want the organization to look like in years to come and how to raise additional funds so they can keep widening their reach to more races around the nation and the world.
One thing that's not in doubt is their full-on commitment as a family. Recently, the youngest Resnic, 10-year-old Jack, started pitching in, and Madi's passion just keeps growing. "This may be overstated," she says, "but I think when you do service you feel like you've gotten more than you've given. I have such a great outlook on life because of this. It will always be a part of my life."
For Resnic, Clothes-Pin is really about spreading some love. "We're embracing the community, we embrace our volunteers, and we embrace those less fortunate," he says. And in return, he's received an unexpected personal gift of his own — the kind of quality family time that most parents only dream about. "To work with your kids in a sustainable and meaningful way is an exceptional opportunity," he adds. "I see this as something we all continue to do into the latter years of our lives."
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Palestine Book Awards 2022 Winners Announced
The winners of 2022's Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced on Friday evening in an event in London to recognise authors and their contributions to literature on the subject of Palestine.
Seven books were handpicked by the panel of judges and saw their authors presented with awards in five categories.
The 11th PBA was held in person for the first time since 2019, after COVID forced MEMO to host the event online. The awards ceremony followed an informal event held yesterday at London's P21 Gallery, in which authors of the nine shortlisted books discussed their work with the audience and participated in a lively debate.
The 2022 Palestine Book Awards ceremony was opened by British journalist, author and former associate foreign editor of The Guardian, Victoria Brittain.
2022 Winners of 11th Palestine Book Awards announced
Creative Award Winners
Heba Hayek - Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
Mosab Abu Toha - Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Translation Award
Dalia and Mouin Rabbani, for their translation of Mohammad Sabaaneh's Power Born of Dreams
Academic Award Winners
Ashjan Ajour - Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi - Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practising Resistance in Palestine
Lynn Welchman - Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
Counter Currents Award Winner
Saree Makdisi - Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Sara Roy
Brittain thanked MEMO's Director Dr Daud Abdullah, the organisation's staff, the judges and the shortlisted authors in her speech. She mentioned the ongoing Israeli occupation and the thousands of Palestinian prisoners and administrative detainees still under detention, stating that they are enabled by "indifference from Washington and London", who remain the "biggest supporters" of the occupation.
Brittain praised the PBA, its staff and its authors as "voices [that] are a great hope against tyranny everywhere" and emphasised that they have significant support from the wider Global South.
Distinguished Political Economist and Senior Research Scholar at Harvard University's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies Sara Roy then addressed the audience, speaking about the importance of ensuring that Palestine continues to feature in such events and books.
Roy spoke about her life and work in Palestine, reflecting on the lives of her family, who survived the Holocaust, and on the lives of Palestinians living under occupation. In doing so, she offered powerful connections between her past and present, exploring themes of terror, hunger and humanity.
This year's Academic Award was presented to a number of authors, including Ashjan Ajour for her "path-breaking study of one of the most critical aspects of Palestinian resistance" in Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes, and Lara and Stephen Sheehi for their Psychoanalysis Under Occupation, which shows how psychoanalysis in the context of Palestinian lives under Israeli occupation "can mean life or death."
Lynn Welchman won the same award for Al-Haq, A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organisation, which studies the creation and development of the rights group that has: "For 40 years challenged Israeli policies of stripping away Palestinian rights and changed the outside world's perceptions of a shocking reality."
The Translation Award was given to Dalia and Mouin Rabbani for their work on MEMO cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh's book Power Born of Dreams, a unique artistic creation showcasing scenes that Palestinians under occupation are subjected to on a regular basis. The judges described the translation accompanying the artwork as "first class".
Addressing the audience, Sabaaneh gave an effective and resonating speech in which he expressed opposition to attempts to discourage him from returning to the West Bank due to potential dangers. "We are travelling to fight, to resist, to create a life for the next Palestinian generation," he insisted, igniting applause from the audience.
Two winners were awarded the Creative Award: Heba Hayek for her book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies – a novel depicting a young girl's life in the Gaza Strip and exile in Europe – and Mosab Abu Toha for his compilation of poetry from Gaza, entitled Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza.
Saree Makdisi, Arab-American literary critic and professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, won the Counter Currents Award for his offering, Tolerance is a Wasteland, which exposes the deep contradictions between Israel's public image and the everyday realities of Palestinians under occupation. Judges aptly ruled it: "A fine exploration of how a culture of denial is manufactured for the comfort of liberals."
The evening ended with a Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Keynote Speaker Roy. Roy previously won a PBA award, having written extensively on the Palestinian economy and its decline over the decades.
MEMO's much-anticipated flagship annual PBA event results from months of dedication by the team and years of literary work by the authors.
Nominations start in January with submissions from national and international publishers. To submit books published in English on the topic of Palestine for consideration for next year's awards, visit the Palestine Book Awards website, where the opening date for next year's awards will be listed in the new year.
Power born of dreams: my story is palestine
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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha's accomplished debut contrasts scenes of...
Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine
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Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
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"I believe this operation was a response which must now be followed up at an international level within the United Nations if possible, so we can go all the way with sanctions against Bashar al-Assad, and prevent this regime from using chemical weapons again to crush its own people," François Hollande added in an announcement to the press.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will host foreign ministers and senior officials from the 67 nations that make up the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS [...] The coalition has made great strides leading the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. It is a perfect example of multilateral and bilateral foreign policy, just as the White House is calling for big cuts in funds to the United Nations.
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The fourth round of UN-led Syria talks, dubbed Geneva 4, wrapped up last week with a tentative agreement between warring sides on an agenda for future negotiations [...] For nine days, United Nations special envoy Staffan de Mistura met separately with delegations from the Syrian government and three different opposition groups in an effort to end six years of bloody war.
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Is queuing at the bar an affront to the idea of the pub, or "excellent Britishness"? Are there any practical arguments against it or is the reaction purely emotional?On Saturday, for logistical reasons, we ended up in a gin-and-dining waterside pub a bit off our usual beat where we saw a remarkable queue for the bar, 20+ deep at times, cutting right across the main service area and towards the front door.
We Tweeted about it…
A queue. In the pub. pic.twitter.com/sRyXh2mHd9 (https://t.co/sRyXh2mHd9)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) August 4, 2018 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/1025805973045301248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
…not meaning to convey any particular judgement, only that it was unusual. As is often the case, that kind of minimalist openness elicited an interesting range of responses.
"It's a sad reflection of the lack of experience in "real" pubs by millennials. It's not McDonalds #FFS"
"Have people forgotten how bars work?!"
"I think anywhere with this automatically loses their pub status."
"I ignore it and do what I've always done — go to the bar."
"I'm a big fan, saves having to concentrate. Just chill and wait for your turn."
"Excellent Britishness on display. Makes you proud."
"I'd prefer queuing to having to fight your way through a swarm of barflies."
If you believe that the point is the most efficient and fairest service of food and drink, the queue does indeed make a great deal of sense. In almost every other aspect of British life it is considered practically sacred.
But the pub… The pub is supposed to be a jumble. And when we say "supposed to be" we mean "is usually portrayed as". Look at this famous painting, 'Behind the Bar' by John Henry Henshall, from 1882:
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These days, as pubs have been cleaned up or closed, the scrum at the bar is about all that remains of the old tradition of gleeful disorder.
In response to our Tweet*Terry Hayward shared a link to a 2012 blog post on this subject (http://terryhayward.blogspot.com/2012/07/end-of-line.html) which contains the following stirring story:
I decided to make a stand and I began to bypass the queue. Two men at the back of the queue saw what I was doing and felt the urge to make a comment, and I heard the use of the word "queue jumper". I turned to them, and I could see that they, like me, were men of the world. They weren't here to order Burgers, or Bangers & Mash , or Turkey Dinosaurs and a Fruit Shoot, they just wanted a good pint of fine foaming ale.
I asked them when they'd ever seen people queue like this in a pub before. They conceded it was unusual but used the Homer Simpson defence, "It was like it when I got here".
"Ah", said I, "but by standing there you're only making the situation worse, more will come and queue behind you. It's time to break ranks. Are you in?"
They looked at each other nervously, but after a brief moment they agreed. It was time to make a stand. So, we started to move to the vacant areas of the bar but, being British and being naturally polite, we made sure we took others with us. We weren't here to push in; we were here to ensure that centuries of tradition were not being thrown out of the window.
But, again, check that nostalgic instinct (https://boakandbailey.com/2018/07/the-problem-with-nostalgia/): what if, as one person hinted on Twitter,* queuing might make the pub more of a level playing field for women? (It's interesting that Mr Hayward's story uses the phrase "men of the world".)
Or, indeed, for anyone other than large, confident people with sharp elbows?
It's perhaps no surprise that the current spate of pub queuing seems to have started at branches of Wetherspoon which, for all its down-to-earth reputation, is also often a step ahead when it comes to making previously excluded groups (and their spending money) feel more welcome.
On balance, we don't think queues are the end of the world in pubs like the one we visited on Saturday. Places that aren't in historic pub buildings, with little history about them, and where*the number of punters greatly exceeds the bar staff because head office insists on adherence to an ideal wage-percentage. In fact, it was pretty convenient, keeping things clipping along so we could get our drinks and Pub Grub before moving on to a Proper (queueless) Pub.
But something would certainly be lost if queues started appearing at, say, The Royal Oak, London's best pub. Or, at least, overt, obvious queues, because of course there is a queue, even though the bar has two sides open to service. It's just invisible, managed by staff and customers between them, through a system of eye contact, deference and polite murmuring.
Queuing in Pubs: Feels So Wrong, But So Right (https://boakandbailey.com/2018/08/queuing-in-pubs-feels-so-wrong-but-so-right/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (https://boakandbailey.com)
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The biggest race day of the year is fast approaching and it's time to book in at Moda Tapas. Brasa. Bar!
To celebrate the occasion, well-known chef Javier Codina will be hosting his very own "Melbourne Cup Table Menu." Priced at a reasonable $95 per person. The share style menu is nicely portioned based on the number of guests seated at each individual table.
All the guests will be able to taste each of the delicious offerings from each course. As the menu is served in stations down the table, for guests to help themselves.
For more information and to book call (07) 3221 7655 or click here.


Two weekends ago, I made the trip to Upper Marlborough, MD, to the Capital Challenge Horse Show. I received an invitation to the Ariat National Adult Medal Finals. It was a goal that I had set early in the year and was so happy when I found out that I had qualified. This was the first time I had competed at any type of big indoor horse show. My horse show experience as a junior really didn't involve much more than the local circuit, and to quote a good friend, "I peaked at the children's hunters." The Capital Challenge was an amazing show—extremely well run, well thought out and organized. The property was beautiful with plenty of room to school and warm up. The bright fall foliage provided a picturesque backdrop to the large outdoor ring. I was able to show in the outdoor ring in the Adult Hunter division on Thursday. The footing was amazing and the ring was lovely to ride in. I was riding a horse named Cooper, who I had only had the opportunity to ride a couple of times before, so it was great to get into the ring and get a feel for him. He was a superstar. He is a very traditional type Warmblood who has more of a Thoroughbred look. His stride is massive, and he has a rocking horse canter and loves his job. He was a joy be around and to compete. After two successful trips I felt good and was looking forward to the Ariat final the next day.
After some very early morning schooling and a light hack, Cooper and I were ready! Well, Cooper was ready and I was NERVOUS! The indoor ring looked extra impressive and I started to worry. What if I went off course? What if I chipped the first jump? What if I chipped ALL the jumps? What if I let myself and my trainers down? My trainer noticed that I was starting to look a bit pale and she gave me one of these speeches that football coaches give in movies. It went something like this: "Renee, you are prepared. You know your job there in the ring. You cannot expect to be perfect but you need to react to the things that happen while you are on course. So I need to you pull your shoulders back, lift your chin up and go in there and ride like we know you can. Just go ride. You can do it!" I listened to her words, took a deep breath and started to relax. I was second to go in the order so I watched the first trip, heard the score and then walked into the ring. Cooper raised his head slightly and pricked his ears. He knew it was time to compete. I asked for the canter and he picked up his lovely, "to-die-for" 12′ foot canter towards the first line. I found the right distance into the line and gently squeezed to make the 5 strides. I looked over my shoulder to the oxer off the right rollback turn and found it right out of stride. I slowed a bit through the next roll back turn to the oxer/vertical one stride but sat patiently with my upper body to the deeper distance. He easily jumped up over the oxer and smoothly over the vertical. I found a nice forward distance to the skinny jump away from the gate and had my eye up counting the 6 bending strides to the oxer. Cooper swapped to the right lead in front but got stuck in the cross canter behind. I knew that would be a big ding on my score but didn't get too worried about that (I still had a job to do!) and turned my head to find the nice forward in to the 4 stride towards the in gate. We continue past the gate and up to the 1 stride and in a bending 7 towards the Ariat oxer. Cooper has a left drift and I didn't hold my left leg enough so the oxer got a bit far away but I didn't tip (well, not a lot anyway!) up his neck and touched the tack on the landing to get him back. As I rounded the corner to the last jump, I sighed a huge sigh of relief as I saw the distance right out of stride. I talked softly to Cooper telling him what a good boy he was as we completed our courtesy circle. I had survived! It felt great.
As I walked out of the ring, I started to replay the course in my head as I waited to hear my score. I was satisfied with how I had ridden and how I reacted when things didn't go exactly as planned. The cross canter was definitely reflected in our scores but I wasn't upset. I couldn't have asked for a better horse there with me in the ring! After my trainer and I had a recap of the course, Cooper and I walked back to the barns. As he walked beside me, I scratched his nose and told him again what a good boy he was. He took good care of me and I couldn't thank him enough for giving me such a great experience at my first Ariat Finals. After stuffing Cooper full of his favorite Paddock Cake treats, I went back up to the ring to cheer on my friends. Even though riding is an individual sport we all support one another through the highs and lows, lost stirrups and blue ribbons, chips and victory gallops. One of my barn mates even drove down from Baltimore to wish me luck (and attempt to video) from the stands. Thanks Cindi!
Yawn…. Cooper is tired after a long weekend.
It was great to watch the rest of the class and my competitive nature slowly took hold as I watched from the stands. It felt great to get the first one under my belt, but I've already set my first goal of 2013 and it definitely includes making it back to Ariat finals. I would like to thank Ariat for sponsoring the class and paying the entry fee for the exhibitors! It was a wonderful class and certainly one that I'll look forward to next year.


Billy Gasparino and Jenna Dillon-Gasparino were savvy enough to wait out the housing boom of a decade ago as renters. Not until 2010, well into the bust, did they buy a house in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, less than a mile from the beach, for $810,000.
Only four years later, the couple see new signs of excess in the housing market and have decided to go back to renting. They are close to a deal to sell their house – for $1.35 million, a cool 67 percent gain.
"It just seems like the housing market came back so strongly, so fast, that maybe there's a little bit of a bubble there," said Mr. Gasparino, 37, an executive with the San Diego Padres.
Their decision reflects a new reality in many of the nation's largest metropolitan areas. An analysis by The New York Times finds that in the country's most expensive places, including New York, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, buying a home again looks like a perilous investment, based on the relationship between their prices and rents or incomes. And in a longer list of areas, including Boston, Miami and Washington, prices have risen enough that buying is no longer the bargain it looked to be a few years ago.
The Times also created an online calculator that enables prospective buyers and renters to analyze their own decision. For example, for a typical person considering the purchase of a $500,000 house who expects to live there seven years, it might make more sense to rent if a similar place is available for $1,956 a month or less.
Thanks to low interest rates and home prices that remain 13 percent below their 2006 peak nationally, buying continues to look like a good deal in much of the country. In the once-frothy markets of Phoenix, Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla., for example, the typical home price is still 30 to 40 percent below 2006 levels, even more if one accounts for inflation.
But across much of California and the Northeast, prices are now high enough that the costs of owning a home – property taxes, repairs, fees to real-estate agents and mortgage interest – may outweigh the financial benefits, including the tax break.
It is the latest change in a yo-yo pattern over the past decade. From 2004 to 2006, the math overwhelmingly favored renting rather than buying across most of the country, even as many Americans mistakenly decided that home prices could never fall. From 2009 to 2011, buying was an extraordinary deal in most of the country. Even the markets that have experienced huge price increases are far from the clear-cut bubble conditions of the mid-2000s, but they're inching closer with every bidding war.
Since the start of 2011, prices have risen 33 percent in the San Francisco area, 30 percent in Miami, 24 percent in Los Angeles — and even more in some of the most desirable neighborhoods within those areas.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, home of the sharpest recent price increases, the sale price of a home is about 20 times what it would cost to rent a home of the same size for a year. That ratio, based on an analysis of data from Zillow, is the same as in 2003, when the San Francisco real estate market had yet to become an out-of-control bubble but was well on its way there.
When low mortgage rates are taken into account, buying a home in San Francisco looks somewhat more attractive — but with a 10 percent down payment and prevailing interest rates, buying a home is 6 percent more expensive than renting a place of the same size, the same premium for buying as there was during the dot-com boom in 1999. Just two years ago, buying in the San Francisco area was 24 percent cheaper than renting an equivalent place.
The potentially overvalued markets are the result of three forces. They are taking place in local economies that suffered only minimally during the recession that began in 2008 and have experienced strong job growth since then.
They are fueled further by the low-interest rate policies that are aimed at bolstering the overall national economy but don't discriminate based on geography. Even as San Francisco's housing market is at risk of overheating, buyers there get the same ultralow mortgage rates engineered by the Federal Reserve as home buyers in depressed Detroit or Cleveland do.
And the new booms are taking place in markets where restrictions on building hinder developers from responding to rising demand by constructing more housing. That distinguishes the major California markets from the strong local economies in Texas and elsewhere. The Dallas area and the San Francisco area added similar numbers of jobs last year, but local governments in Dallas issued permits for nearly four times as many new housing units.
There are important caveats, of course. The wisdom of buying versus renting depends heavily on each person's financial situation, plans and preferences. And the cliché about all real estate being local holds; each neighborhood can have its own unique dynamics in the for-sale and for-rent housing sectors that must be considered.
Home buyers in even the highest-price markets can take some solace in the fact that prices aren't as outlandishly high relative to rents as they were in 2006. But they should also know that homes are also priced richly enough to leave no room for error.
It's a bit like the current consensus opinion of economists on the value of the stock market: not in a bubble, necessarily, but certainly expensive enough to make a buyer wary. While home prices may stay high for months or years to come, buyers are leaving themselves vulnerable to a decline toward more normal historical valuations. Renters avoid that risk, even if they also don't get some of the upside if the bull market for houses in places like Santa Monica, Nob Hill and TriBeCa has longer to run.
"If you thought home values in the Bay Area or Southern California were such that we might see another housing correction, that radically starts to advantage rental housing," said Stan Humphries, Zillow's chief economist, who argues that current prices are reasonably well justified, while acknowledging that prices are high enough to leave buyers exposed.
The real estate market in Venice, where the Gasparinos are selling their house to lock in the gains, shows the forces shaping the new boom markets. Besides the tech employment there on Silicon Beach, as the local boosters put it, the supply of housing can't expand to meet that rising demand. The area is filled with block after block of low-slung houses and apartments, and density restrictions stand in the way of constructing tall buildings.
That combination has been enough to send the median price per square foot of homes that are sold up 49 percent since late 2010 in the 90291 ZIP code, according to Zillow, and the median rent per square foot up 23 percent in the same span.


On a recent project I did we provided a service for providing video data for many different clients like browsers, mobile apps and more. This service was in charge of fetching data from other external services and hiding all the "complexity" from the clients. The service authenticated the calling user with a passed JWT token.
After that it called another service to fetch video data that checked if user the authorized to watch the video. With that it will get the last viewed point in the video, so the user will have a great experience as continuing the video from his last watched point. And last item was to check if the user has signed the proper waiver for watching the video (fitness and health videos).
We used python 3.6 as of programming language, with the "serverless" framework. It was deployed to lambda functions.
For automation we used Travis.
We used git as our version control on Github.
Our testing was built with pytest both for unit tests and integration tests.
At first we ran all the code and external services http calls as sequential code one after another.
But as we decided to improve the response time, we moved some independent calls to run in parallel and we cut the response time in almost 40%.
We used DynamoDB from aws. For storing waivers signing and for storing cached responses from other services.


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Q: How to convert string to Integer and add it arrayList How can I convert the string to Integers and how can I create an ArrayList with these integers?
My String contains only numbers and there is a gap between my numbers.
For example, given the string st1 = "1 2 3 4" or str2 = "11 20 23 24".
I need an ArrayList for str1 like "1, 2, 3, 4"
I tried to use Integer.parseInt(str1) and Integer.valueOf(str1) but these work for such as str1 = "1234"

A: This method will convert such strings to an ArrayList<Integer>:
public static ArrayList<Integer> toStringList(String string){
    String ints[]=string.split(" ");
    ArrayList<Integer> list=new ArrayList<>();
    for(String str:ints){
        list.add(Integer.parseInt(str));
    }
}

Remember this method will convert your string such as "1 2 3 4" to a list with 1 to 4 values. If you want to convert it to 1234 you should first remove the spaces:
String str="1 2  3 4  ";
str = str.replaceAll(" ","");
Integer number=Integer.parseInt(str); //equals 1234

A: You could do so to convert a list of strings to integers. Following @Tim code
        String st1 = "1 2 3 4";
        String[] array = st1.split("\\s+");
        List<Integer> integers = Arrays.stream(array)
                .map(Integer::valueOf).collect(Collectors.toList());
        System.out.println(integers);
        //[1, 2, 3, 4]

A: This code will convert any number found within the string to its integer. This will solve your problem.
String str = "1 2 3 4 5 11 12 13 14 15 1 12 123 1234 12345";
int stringLength = str.length();
int[] answer;
String intBuffer = "";
int j = 0, countSpaces = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < stringLength; i++) {
    if (str.charAt(i) == ' ') countSpaces++;
}
answer = new int[countSpaces + 1];

for (int i = 0; i < stringLength; i++) {
    if (str.charAt(i) != ' ') {
        intBuffer = intBuffer + str.charAt(i);
        if (i == stringLength - 1)
            answer[j] = Integer.parseInt(intBuffer);
    } else {
        answer[j++] = Integer.parseInt(intBuffer);
        intBuffer = "";
    }
}
for (int i = 0; i < answer.length; i++)
    System.out.println(answer[i] + " ");

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The issue of lesser-evil voting – perhaps the most important issue dividing and paralyzing the left – with an unprecedented strategy.
In his recent Truthdig piece, "The Rats Revolt," journalist Chris Hedges discusses a fable for activists just published by legendary political dissident Ralph Nader. I haven't read Nader's book, but it's enough for organizers like me to know that two of the left's leading public intellectuals are united in calling for revolt. And (since symbols are vital to movements) that they've given us a highly effective symbol for organizing current revolt: the rat.
With crucial strategy to discuss, it would waste precious time to dwell long on movement symbolism here. But, besides its adoption by leftist opinion leaders like Hedges and Nader, the rat splendidly serves the purposes of organizing revolt. In the face of onrushing climate apocalypse, we are all rats on a sinking ship. And to the elites blithely ignoring climate apocalypse – partying on the Titanic – we who care deeply about the matter are clearly noxious vermin; the brutal treatment of the Standing Rock water protectors as terrorists (championed by Republican pols with scarcely a murmur of protest by Democrats) is both telling and typical. My family's experience resisting fracking under PA's Democratic governor Rendell (Virginia Cody is my wife) was parallel.
But – provided the revolt movement chooses appropriate action – there's a positive, active side to the rat symbol; it needn't just represent passive victimhood. Indeed, my case here is that Democrats are engaged in mafia-like behavior – electoral extortion – that demands "ratting out." Finally, it's appropriate in view of rats' historical role in transmitting the bubonic plague, since the movement strategy I propose here is heavily focused on plaguing Democrats.
Say what? Why plague Democrats, with a president as horrible as Trump in charge and ruling Republicans arguably turning ever more fascist? Indeed, hasn't Noam Chomsky himself, an icon to most leftists, branded today's Republican Party "the most dangerous organization in human history"? So what's up with organizing a mass revolt against Democrats? Isn't it insane to elect the most dangerous organization in human history?
First off, I'm not saying we should vote Republican, or even run the risk of electing Republicans by voting for third parties. Far from it! Asserting we should vote Republican, or even risk Republicans winning, would contradict my fundamental assertion that Democrats extort our votes. Anyone who takes Chomsky's assertion that Republicans are the most dangerous organization in human history seriously – and no one takes it more seriously than climate justice activists like me – is poised to understand how Democrats exploit the threat of brutal Republican misrule as a turbocharged tool of electoral extortion.
If Democrats didn't make a rationally compelling threat, they wouldn't be practicing extortion. Just as the mob makes a rationally compelling threat: they provably can and will kill your whole family. That Democrats make their totally rational threat unsuccessfully is suggestive evidence of just how loathsome voters find today's Democrats. Even more so, it's compelling evidence that U.S. voters on neither the right nor the left are terribly rational. The left, in particular, has shown a piss-poor grasp of Chomsky's logic.
Anyone acquainted with Chomsky's dry, matter-of-fact style speaking style should realize that he's not given to emotionally charged hyperbole. In fact, I seem to recall that he adopts that style deliberately, wishing to persuade by facts and logic rather than emotional appeals. So when he makes an assertion as outrageous sounding as calling Republicans the most dangerous organization in human history – and openly acknowledges how outrageous his assertion sounds – he's basing it on the scientific logic of climate apocalypse, a logic regrettably almost totally absent from U.S. political discourse.
With an unprecedented climate fiasco menacing our species – perhaps to the point of extinction – a Republican Party not merely rejecting climate science, but proactively attacking it as a dangerous conspiracy, is logically humanity's most dangerous enemy ever. Which is why leftists must choke back our vomit and vote for Democrats. But we hardly need to stop there. We should torture Democrats with righteous wrath for strong-arming us into voting for their own loathsome party. A party with no room whatsoever for climate justice.
By voting for Democrats, we're voting for a party that overwhelmingly supports fracking and militarism – the first a direct, and the second an indirect, assault on the prerequisites of emergency climate action, as ably laid out Naomi Klein in This Changes Everything. If leftists needed a scathing indictment of Democrats and their policies, the latest IPCC report is clearly that indictment. Anyone secretly hell-bent on promoting human extinction need not look crazy by backing Republicans; Democrats' policy commitments will work just fine.
But in a political system with only two viable parties, Republicans are demonstrably far worse, beyond appeal to reason (just like any other mob enforcer). For any reasonable person concerned about climate, Democrats' electoral extortion must succeed. And must be repaid with bitter resentment. That's what movement organizing – and the time between elections – is for.
So, the logic of U.S. politics cries out specifically for a Rats' Revolt, one devoted to "ratting out" Democrats for their anti-climate electoral extortion. Moreover, the notion of "ratting out" couldn't be more appropriate to the nature of Democrats' extortion. After all, ratting out mob higher-ups to the feds is a disloyal act of revenge or self-protection (both apply here) undertaken by fellow members of the mob. Perhaps those future "rats" were even coerced into the mob under threat of force and therefore owe the mob no real loyalty. Such is the case for all climate justice voters strong-armed into voting Democrat – coerced into the Democrat mob – under the rationally unthinkable threat of Republican rule. Climate justice voters in our hearts, we would – in a genuine democracy – vote for a climate justice party like Greens in a heartbeat. We owe neither love nor loyalty to a Democratic Party that holds our votes hostage – in fact we hate it—but we will never be safe or free until we "rat out" Democrats' electoral extortion racket. And torture Democrats – the ones we were coerced into electing – into providing effective remedies.
Democrats clearly have a vested interest in quashing democracy through electoral extortion. And their pretenses of wishing to protect us from Republican fascism and insanity are the purest hypocritical lip service. For there's a vastly more effective method of sparing us Republican barbarity than demanding we vote for Democrats. It's called ranked choice voting, and if Democrats really gave a damn about protecting us from Republicans, they'd be tripping over one another to sponsor bills to make it U.S. electoral law.
While I don't have space here to discuss ranked choice voting in detail (all people who cherish democracy should use the link above to inform themselves), ranked choice voting would forcefully close the curtain on Democratic Party extortion. Every climate justice voter who wished to vote third party – right now, that should mean every climate justice voter – could safely vote, say, for the Green Party candidate and list the Democrat as a second choice. If the Green candidate didn't win enough first-place votes to stay in the race, the Green voters' votes would then go to the Democratic candidate. In that way, voting Green would not automatically entail taking a vote away from Democrats. Prospective Green voters would no longer face a compelling dilemma of conscience when voting for their (vastly) preferred party. And climate justice activists like me could – in good conscience – throw all energies into working to build Greens (or the most promising climate justice party). And Democrats would be faced with serious competition from the environmentally and socially conscious left. The same sort of competition that forced 1930s Democrats to embrace the New Deal.
Coercing Democrats to embrace ranked choice voting would open the door to further reforms crucial to "making U.S. elections safe for democracy." I speak of the hurdles deliberately placed to keep third parties from appealing to voters, whether it be ridiculous barriers to ballot access or scandalous exclusion from major media debates. Currently, both Democrats and Republican show their "mafia" thuggishness by reveling in these anti-democratic practices. With Republicans, this should be no surprise, since fascistic anti-democracy thuggishness is actually a large part of GOP appeal. Whereas Democrats have zero rational grounds for anti-democratically suppressing progressive third parties—except, of course, the threadbare argument of risking electing Republicans. A risk easily removed by enacting ranked choice voting. Democrats' flagrant resistance to ranked choice voting, like their persistence in third-party-suppressing practices, makes an utter mockery of the party name.
But Democrats' role models in strong-armed extortion – the mafia – never showed much interest in democracy either.
In this article, I indicated why leftist activists – especially climate justice activists – should take up Chris Hedges' and Ralph Nader's call to start a "Rats' Revolt." I also sketched the organizing theme and overall strategy for such a revolt. In my next piece, "Chuck Schumer, the Low-Profile Teflon Don," I'll illustrate the needed tactics for executing our strategy of "ratting on" and "plaguing" Democrats who extort our votes.


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Sha Na Na lost one of its iconic members as saxophonist, Lennie Baker, died at the age of 69 from an undisclosed serious infection. The group gained national acclaim in 1969 when they played the Woodstock Festival; Baker would join the group a year later. His most notable contribution was singing vocals on 'Blue Moon', featured in the musical Grease. Baker and the rest of Sha Na Na were featured in the 1978 film version, where they played a fictional band named Johnny Casino and the Gamblers. The group extended their reach to television as well, with a show that aired from 1977 to 1981. After 30 years as a member of Sha Na Na, Baker left the group in 2000 and performed with a local group called The Spellbinders.
Prior to his death, Baker performed 'Blue Moon' in 2014 at his alma mater's Whitman-Hanson High School production of Grease in 2014. It was a fitting appearance, particularly considering his deep roots in the Massachusetts area. Baker also attended Northeastern University and was a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
Baker's nephew wrote in his obituary, "Lennie was a people person. He had many friends and truly enjoyed time spent with all of them. His generosity was abundant. He was always willing to share all he had with friends and family." Although he was never married, Baker was very close to his brothers and their children. His legacy will live on not only through his contributions to rock and roll, but in the memories of those who knew him personally.


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Challenging the Legality of Gene Patents
Written by SHAHARYAR AHMAD | STAFF WRITER
As the nascent field of genetics looms large across the frontlines of tomorrow's medicine, the impact of the legality of gene patents today will have far-reaching consequences on how we may conduct genetic testing to assess the prognosis of various diseases.
Genes are the hereditary units of living organisms. They are composed of stretches of DNA and RNA that code for other RNA chains and proteins, one of the chief building blocks of life.
On May 12, 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit charging the patents of Myriad Genetics, a Utah based molecular diagnostics company, on two genes associated with the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer to be unconstitutional and invalid.
The plaintiff in the lawsuit filed, Association of Molecular Pathology, et. al. vs. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Myriad Genetics, et al., represented women patients, breast cancer survivors, cancer research and health advocates, researchers, genetic counselors, and various scientific associations consisting of "150,000 geneticists, pathologists, and laboratory professionals," according to the ACLU.
This lawsuit was filed against Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation because they have patented the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 on the human genome.
Under the First Amendment, the plaintiff charged the gene patents of Myriad Genetics to be unconstitutional because genes are the products of nature and therefore, cannot be patented.
The patents, which were originally granted in 1994 and 1995 for BRCA1 and BRCA2 respectively, allow Myriad Genetics to set its own terms and costs for genetic testing of these genes. Because all genetic testing must go through Myriad Genetics, this consequently makes it nearly impossible for at-risk women to access alternate genetic tests or get second opinions about their results.
The lack of alternate modes of genetic testing as a result of the gene patents has already yielded serious consequences. Kathleen Maxian from Buffalo, New York, is presently suffering from a late-stage ovarian cancer that she believes could have been prevented.
Maxian's sister, a breast cancer survivor, attained a genetic test from Myriad Genetics that showed that she was negative for genetic mutations.
It would be years later however when her sister found out that she did have a BRCA genetic mutation when Maxian realized she could have sought preventative surgery to counter the ovarian cancer before its exacerbation. The ACLU attests that numerous labs across the U.S. could have stated that they are capable of providing a form of comprehensive genetic screening that would have helped people like Maxian, and would do so were it not for the patents.
As 20 percent of our genes are already patented, Dr. Greg Moehring, Associate Professor and Chair of chemistry, medical technology and physics, said, "Companies will patent as many genes that are commercially useful, if things continue as is."
It is important to note that although Myriad Genetics' gene patents may trim the milieu of BRCA testing to one company, the patents do not hinder scientific research itself. According to Myriad Genetics, their patents do just the opposite by facilitating research and ensuring a full disclosure of their discoveries.
Since the discovery of the BRCA genes about 20 years ago, almost 10,000 research papers regarding such genes have been published. Furthermore, Myriad Genetics provides testing, at cost, to any researcher funded by the National Cancer Institute.
In March, 2010, a New York federal district court ruled that the patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 by Myriad Genetics were invalid. Sixteen months later, in July 2011, a federal appeals court ruled that gene patents can be obtained by companies but companies cannot patent methods to compare those gene sequences.
In response to its unanimous ruling in another decision, the Supreme Court directed the appeals court in March 2012 to reconsider its initial ruling regarding validity of gene patents, according to the Genomics Law Report.
In August 2012, the federal appeals court however, ruled once again that companies can obtain gene patents. The Supreme Court agreed in November 2012 to hear the plaintiff's arguments on gene patenting in its current session.
Sam Broadbent, third-year chemistry major, said "It is frightening to believe that human genes can be patented and a select few individuals can have the right over the specific gene."
He added, "With the current rate at which genes are being patented, it gives foresight into a future in which human genes are more aggressively controlled due to patents. This case serves as an important milestone in how far human genes can be patented and controlled by individuals."
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<?php

namespace Pimcore\Controller\Action\Admin;

use Pimcore\Controller\Action\Admin;
use Pimcore\Model;

abstract class Element extends Admin {

    /**
     *
     */
    public function treeGetRootAction() {
        $type = $this->getParam("controller");
        $allowedTypes = ["asset","document","object"];

        $id = 1;
        if ($this->getParam("id")) {
            $id = intval($this->getParam("id"));
        }

        if(in_array($type, $allowedTypes)) {
            $root = Model\Element\Service::getElementById($type, $id);
            if ($root->isAllowed("list")) {
                $this->_helper->json($this->getTreeNodeConfig($root));
            }
        }

        $this->_helper->json(array("success" => false, "message" => "missing_permission"));
    }

    /**
     * @return array
     */
    protected function getTreeNodeConfig($element) {
        return [];
    }

    /**
     * @throws \Exception
     */
    public function getVersionsAction()
    {
        $id = intval($this->getParam("id"));
        $type = $this->getParam("controller");
        $allowedTypes = ["asset","document","object"];

        if ($id && in_array($type, $allowedTypes)) {
            $element = Model\Element\Service::getElementById($type, $id);
            if($element) {
                if($element->isAllowed("versions")) {

                    $schedule = $element->getScheduledTasks();
                    $schedules = array();
                    foreach ($schedule as $task){
                        if ($task->getActive()){
                            $schedules[$task->getVersion()] = $task->getDate();
                        }
                    }

                    $versions = $element->getVersions();
                    $versions = object2array($versions);
                    foreach ($versions as &$version){

                        unset($version["user"]["password"]); // remove password hash

                        $version["scheduled"] = null;
                        if(array_key_exists($version["id"], $schedules)) {
                            $version["scheduled"] = $schedules[$version["id"]];
                        }
                    }

                    $this->_helper->json(array("versions" => $versions));

                } else {
                    throw new \Exception("Permission denied, " . $type . " id [" . $id . "]");
                }
            } else {
                throw new \Exception($type . " with id [" . $id . "] doesn't exist");
            }
        }
    }

    /*
     *
     */
    public function deleteVersionAction()
    {
        $version = Model\Version::getById($this->getParam("id"));
        $version->delete();

        $this->_helper->json(array("success" => true));
    }

    /*
     *
     */
    public function getRequiresDependenciesAction()
    {
        $id = $this->getParam("id");
        $type = $this->getParam("controller");
        $allowedTypes = ["asset","document","object"];

        if ($id && in_array($type, $allowedTypes)) {
            $element = Model\Element\Service::getElementById($type, $id);
            if ($element instanceof Model\Element\ElementInterface) {
                $dependencies = Model\Element\Service::getRequiresDependenciesForFrontend($element->getDependencies());
                $this->_helper->json($dependencies);
            }
        }
        $this->_helper->json(false);
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    public function getRequiredByDependenciesAction()
    {
        $id = $this->getParam("id");
        $type = $this->getParam("controller");
        $allowedTypes = ["asset","document","object"];

        if ($id && in_array($type, $allowedTypes)) {
            $element = Model\Element\Service::getElementById($type, $id);
            if ($element instanceof Model\Element\ElementInterface) {
                $dependencies = Model\Element\Service::getRequiredByDependenciesForFrontend($element->getDependencies());
                $this->_helper->json($dependencies);
            }
        }
        $this->_helper->json(false);
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    public function getPredefinedPropertiesAction()
    {
        $properties = array();
        $type = $this->getParam("controller");
        $allowedTypes = ["asset","document","object"];

        if (in_array($type, $allowedTypes)) {
            $list = new Model\Property\Predefined\Listing();
            $list->setCondition("ctype = ?", [$type]);
            $list->setOrder("ASC");
            $list->setOrderKey("name");
            $list->load();

            foreach ($list->getProperties() as $type) {
                $properties[] = $type;
            }
        }

        $this->_helper->json(array("properties" => $properties));
    }
}

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This section describes the methods exposed by the DevExpress.devices namespace.
Returns information about the current device.
An object containing information about the current device.
The device information provided by this function may differ from the actual device on which the application is running if an emulated device is specified for the application (see DevExpress.devices.current(deviceName)). The actual information about the device is available via the DevExpress.devices.real() function.
Overrides actual device information to force the application to operate as if it was running on a specified device.
The required device name or an object specifying platform information.
The string values accepted by the input parameter are: "iPhone", "iPhone5", "iPhone6", "iPhone6plus", "iPad", "iPadMini", "androidPhone", "androidTablet", "genericPhone", "msSurface" and "desktop". The method can also take on an object containing more detailed information on the current platform.
The following values were deprecated: "win10" and "win10Phone". In new applications, use the string values listed above.
Returns the current device orientation.
The "portrait" or "landscape" value specifying device orientation.
Returns real information about the current device regardless of the value passed to the devices.current(deviceName) method.