Using the Winform command in the Maintain language, you can open, close, reset, and perform other operations on your forms at run time.
The Winform Show_And_Exit form command displays a form, then severs the connection of the form to the server while continuing to display the form.
This is non-persistent mode. It is the most common mode for Maintain forms. When an end-user submits a non-persistent form, the form re-establishes a connection with the server.
When you display a form with Winform Show_And_Exit, control passes to the form, and any commands after Winform Show_And_Exit are not executed until the form is closed.
The Winform Show form command (or Winform Show_Active form) displays a form and makes it active so that an end user can use it.
When you display a form with Winform Show, control passes to the form, and any commands after Winform Show are not executed until the form is closed.
The Winform Show_Inactive form command displays a form without making it active. Because the form is inactive, control passes to the next command. Use this command if you want to change some form properties dynamically before displaying the form.
To display an initial form, somewhere in the Top Case of the starting procedure, you must issue the Winform Show command that displays this form (or Top Case should call another function or procedure that executes this command).
The rest of the forms in the procedure are displayed only if the end user does something to display the forms, such as clicking a button. Clicking a button is known as an event to a WebFOCUS Maintain developer, and you use the Event Handler editor to define what happens when an event occurs. For more information, see Defining Events and Event Handlers.
As each form is opened in a WebFOCUS Maintain application, it is stacked on top of the previous form. This means that all your forms remain open until you issue a command to close them or exit the application.
Note: When you close a form, you close every form in its chain, and WebFOCUS Maintain ignores any code after the closing statement.
When WebFOCUS Maintain encounters the Winform Show[_Active] command, it passes control to the named form. Control does not return to the procedure until the user exits the form.
Control is transferred to the form.
The form is displayed, but does not maintain a persistent connection with the server.
Control passes to the next command in the procedure, but not to the form.
When an event that is handled by a function is fired, the function is performed. Control returns to the server until the function is done, then the application displays a new browser page.
The code that differentiates between a persistent and non-persistent form is the code you use to display your form. If you use the default code for Maintain, Winform Show, you create a persistent form. If you use the code that is embedded in the comment text at the top of each new form, Winform Show_And _Exit, you create a non-persistent form.
Forms in Maintain applications that were built in WebFOCUS Maintain Release 4.2 Version 1 or earlier are, by default, persistent. When a user accesses a persistent form, an agent from your server is accessed and sends the appropriate information to the browser. After the user has the form, the WebFOCUS Server agent waits for further instructions while the user makes choices on the form. That agent is dedicated to that user until the user closes the application. This method is appropriate if your application requires navigation from form to form.
With a non-persistent form, when the user accesses a non-persistent form, your server sends the appropriate information to the user, then disconnects the connection. The WebFOCUS Server agent is no longer dedicated to that user, and is available for another user to access. This method is appropriate for single form applications or for the last form in an application that uses multiple forms.
The Winform Close form and self.WinClose commands close a form and return control to the command following the command that opened the form.
Note: You can only issue self.WinClose in the Event Handler editor for a form or one of its controls.
The Winform Close_All command closes all forms.
When you close a form, control returns to the command directly after the command that initially displayed the form, as shown in the diagram below. No additional commands should be placed immediately following the Winform Close command.
Suppose you have four forms: Form1, Form2, Form3 and Form4. Form1 opens Form2, Form2 opens Form3, and Form3 opens Form4. If you close Form2 while you are in Form4, WebFOCUS Maintain closes Form2, Form3, and Form4, and returns to Form1, as shown in the following diagram.
Winform Close closes every form in its chain.
These commands close the specified form and the chain of forms that may have been opened from this one. It returns control to the point just following the Winform Show command that displayed the form.
If you do not specify a form, Winform Close closes the currently active form.
The self.WinClose syntax only works in the Event Handler editor for a form or one of its controls.
If you use one of these commands to close the last form in your application, thus closing the application, you receive an Invalid Response message from your browser. This behavior is expected. You should use the self.WinExit (); syntax to exit your application.
Tip: You can generate the self.WinClose syntax in the Event Handler editor by clicking the Close Form button .
Caution: Closing a form returns control of the application to the command directly after the Winform Show form command that initially displayed the form. No additional commands should be placed immediately following the Winform Close command.
The Winform Get command enables you to assign the value of a property to a variable.
The Winform Set command enables you to set the value of a form property (except for colors).
Note: If the form is not active, you must issue Winform Show_Inactive form before setting the form property.
The Winform Reset form command enables you to reset all the properties of a form and its controls to the original settings.
You cannot set the values of all properties. To see which properties you can set, see Form and Control Properties Reference.
Tip: You can generate this syntax by selecting the property in the property sheet and dragging it to the Procedure Editor or the Event Handler editor. Note that you cannot drag properties that you cannot set at run time.
For information on how to set color properties, see Defining Colors for Your Form and Controls.
All selectable controls, such as list boxes, check boxes, and radio buttons, return to their default selections.
The Winform Show_And_Exit form command exits the application and displays a final form.
The self.WinExit(); command, available only in the Event Handler editor, exits the application.
For more information on the Winform Show_And_Exit form command, see How to Display a Non-Persistent Form.
The self.WinExit syntax only works in the Event Handler editor for a form or one of its controls.
WebFOCUS Maintain ignores any commands after this one.
Tip: You can generate the self.WinExit syntax in the Event Handler editor by clicking the Close Form button .


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Q: CSS to simulate tables: inline divs which also have borders and break text? I'm trying to float two divs inline with each other inside a div of set width.  Additionally they have borders and content that requires wrapping.  It stops working when there's more content than fits on one line.
I'm trying to be avoid using tables to solve this (see solution below) but but no luck so far.  Any one got any ideas?
Edited question: expanding requirements to include:
the divs should minimise their total width and not expand beyond the boundarys of the two main 50% columns.  I've managed to achieve the first and second part (please see my own answer below) however I have an additional third requirement in that as these can be nested, the content then still stays within the two main columns but doesn't expand to fill up to a maximum width of 50% of the columns width.  I'm working on a javascript solution which I won't be able to post back for some time.
<!doctype html>

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Demo</title>

                some text here.

                Less text and there's no problem.

                some text here.

                Putting a lot of text into a div that you want a border around will
                cause it to move down one line.  Instead I'd like it to float inline
                with its sibling div; you can remove the float:left but then it
                completely messes up the border.  An_additional_thing_I'd_like_is_for_long_sentences_to_be_broken_by_the_word_wrap,_but_this_requires_that_the_width_of
                a_column be set and I can't do this as I don't always know how much
                room some_text will need.

 With tables, solution with in 7 minutes.  So much easier:

                        some text here.

                        some text here.

                        Less text and there's no problem.

                        Putting a lot of text into a div that you want a border around will cause it to move down one line.  Instead I'd like it to float inline with its sibling div; you can remove the float:left but then it completely messes up the border.  An_additional_thing_I'd_like_is_for_long_sentences_to_be_broken_by_the_word_wrap,_but_this_requires_that_the_width_of a_column be set and I can't do this as I don't always know how much room some_text will need.

Fiddle with my code here: http://jsfiddle.net/cdepZ/

A: display:table-cell;

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/TAhAv/

A: You are right in wanting to avoid tables with this layout - as you mentioned, this is not tabular data which you are chosing to display.
You mention in your CSS that you cannot set a width on .a_block because you do not know how much space you need. However, when you use a table you are actually setting a width (25%) as each cell is equally split amongst the over-all width.
So to achieve what you want to do (which will match the tables layout), you will have to set a width on these elements.
Here is a JSFiddle of how you could achieve this:
http://jsfiddle.net/ndhrd/39/

A: Set your widths properly with the space you have. Borders take 2px vertically and horizontally as well.
.a_column {
    width: 512px;
    float:left;
}
.a_block, .some_text{
    width: 254px;
    float: left;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}
.a_block{
     border: 1px solid green;
}
.some_text{
     border: 1px solid red;
}

I got it working here:
http://jsfiddle.net/cdepZ/7/

A: Putting a lot of text into a div is now no problem, it will wrap and break any long sentences that go over 50% of it's parent divs' width.  And it will minimise any content that it can whilst maintaining good looking borders.
Nesting this structure can keep it with in the limits of the .a_column but then doesn't allow all elements to expand fully.
I think the only solution is a javascript one :|
http://jsfiddle.net/uHEVJ/1/
<!doctype html>

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Demo</title>

 Used a "display:inline;" div as a container to position each Div inside which has float:left (to minimise it's size)

                    some text

                    Less text and there's no problem.

                    some text here.

                    Putting a lot of text into a div is now no problem, it_will_wrap_and_break_any_long_sentences_that_go_over_50%_of_it's_parent divs' width.  And it will minimise any content that it can whilst maintaining good looking borders

                    Nesting this structure can keep it with in the limits of the .a_column but then doesn't allow all elements to expand fully.

                    Nesting this structure can keep it with in the limits of the .a_column but then doesn't allow all elements to expand fully.

                            some text

                            Nesting this structure can keep it with in the limits of the .a_column but then doesn't allow all elements to expand fully.

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'Though known as a guitarist (Gene Bertoncini, Pete Berstein, Ed Cherry and other top guitar players are writing liner notes to his debut solo CD Melody Messenger, Joel has been writing music almost as long as he's been playing (since 1964). Here are some quotes by some of the jazz elite:
Arranging giant Bill Finegan (Glenn Miller, Sauter-Finegan, many others) about Joel's song Not a Bad November 'This is a classy tune. You should give it to Tony Bennett'.
Phil Woods also said "November' is beautiful, congrats on a great tune and you have my blessing to quote me anywhere' In 1997 The Phil Woods Quintet also performed an original chart: Tiger Phil Woods.
Benny Golson, after playing through Joel's instrumental compositions: 'You're one of the only guys (in jazz) writing real melodies'.
Joel Fass also wrote in 2008 (with Jimmy Norman) You're My Foundation---a song written for the Jazz Foundation of America and viewable on youtube on a video with JFA clients singing and Quincy Jones, Harold Ashby, Freddie Hubbard and others in the video. It has been seen around the world. One may go to youtube and put 'Story of You're My Foundation' in the search box to view this moving video. (The composers also earn royalties when you click on the page).
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Q: r: errors creating package with devtools & roxygen2 I'm writing a package containing several functions to make running and evaluating models more streamlined.
I have a function that I'm going to make the first function within my package detailed with roxygen2 comments, which I can include into this write-up as an edit if necessary, but my issue is more with Package Creation.
I've created a separate .R file for the function and it lives within the R folder in within my package folder. I've run R CMD build pkgname and R CMD INSTALL pkgname successfully.
At the document() stage I run it (from console or whether in my terminal using R -e 'library(devtools);document()', deleting the existing NAMESPACE file first) and I get the following error: Try removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/ 3.5/Resources/library/00LOCK-pkgname.
I've already seen the [issue posted here][1] and haven't had success after deleting the 00LOCK-pkgname folder, for two reasons: when I run document(), even when it throws the above error, it doesn't stop running, it just keeps looping (that happens whether I run this in R or use the Terminal). Additionally, no matter how many times I delete the folder, it keeps re-appearing even though I've stopped running the function.
Any insight into why that error is being thrown and the document() function continually runs in a loop?

A: Best answer I've found is in this blog post: Hilary Parker R-Package Blog Post
The steps I follow to document and install are as follows:

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*Within the project that contains my package, open a new R Script and run setwd('..')

*Run devtools::document()

*Run devtools::install()
This works for me when initially installing my package and also updating it.


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Would you like to see a German Immersion Program in primary school in Canberra?
Join the German Immersion Program Parents & Friends – a committee that wants to set up a German Immersion Program in a public primary school in Canberra. We're looking for more parents/individuals who are also interested in getting such a bilingual program up and running.
Provide a bilingual German and Australian education for children of diverse backgrounds. The aim is to establish and implement a German stream in a public primary school in Canberra.
1. The German Immersion Program would operate within an existing ACT public primary school (i.e. ACT public school system).
2. The German Immersion Program would be open to all who wish to enrol their child in a bilingual program, regardless of previous German proficiency.
3. 80/20 model from Kindergarten to Year 2 and 50/50 model from Year 3 to Year 6.
Students learn to read and write in German and English concurrently. From Kindergarten to Year 2, 80% of classes would be taught in German. The proportion of classes taught in English gradually would increase so that by Year 6 it will amount to approximately 50% of teaching time. This is based on the highly successful Canadian "Early Immersion Program" for bilingual schools.
Option 1- the curriculum of the German Immersion Program would fulfill both the requirements of the ACT curriculum and Thüringen (German) curriculum, if possible.
Option 2 -students are taught the ACT curriculum by German-speaking teachers.
Brigitta has two children, one of whom attends the German Australian Playschool (GAP) and the younger one will soon.


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Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.	- Rachmaninoff
Perhaps You Are Made of Glass? Laurie Anderson, Zellerbach
By Scot Hacker September 18th, 2012
It's been 26 years since I last watched Laurie Anderson perform ("Big Science"). I was much younger, and so was she. The audience at the time was composed mostly of new wave/punkers with a literary bent – young adults into Fripp and Eno and William S. Burroughs. I remember a raft of white violins descending from the ceiling – with tape heads installed where the bridges should have been – followed by a dozen or so white violin bows lowered into place, strung with reel-to-reel tape instead of horse hair. Each bow harnessed a different sound clip or spoken word recording, and she "played" each one back- and forwards, at any speed or in any staccato word rhythm.
Fast forward to 2012, Zellerbach Auditorium at UC Berkeley. Now 65, Anderson has dispensed with most of her avante-garde gimmicks and boiled it mostly down to pure storytelling , ensconced in more "traditional" violin playing backed by sequencers playing strange loops (a porch swing creaking, compressed air escaping in a repeating cycle with one timing mark off just enough to make you feel vaguely uncomfortable). The stage atmosphere a sea of votive candles peeking out through mellow fog machine vapors, a giant screen filled with solid colors, a smaller one reserved for displaying the paw-scratch "paintings" of her dog (and a few entertaining clips of same dog playing piano – who doesn't love animals on keyboards?)
She still pulls out a few of the old tricks – her digital vocal octave dropper completely changes the tone of her amazing poem/stories (a technique she calls "audio drag"), and she did take time to pop a pillow speaker into her mouth and play a short wah-wah improv, the shape of her mouth and breath conditioning the sound source. But for the most part, her presence is more minimal, more grounded now. At one stretch, she just sat in a big black comfy chair and talked. But the maturation of the performance seemed completely tasteful, appropriate.
Langue d'Amour, from Mister Heartbreak (1984)
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Her poem/stories are still bizarre, but in a more grounded way – she weaves political observations about Battleground America into meditations on why the coloration of the peacock's tail drove Darwin batshit crazy. And throughout, little zen zingers like:
"Of all the things that ever could have happened… most of them didn't."
She has the ability to deliver lines like this with such matter-of-fact precision that you feel like she's pierced the veil of evening fog into something deeper. She takes you beyond without even trying.
Perhaps you are made of glass /
Should a dog strive for Buddha Heart?
(I'm paraphrasing from memory here). In fact there were many Buddhist references peppered into the performance – she's been practicing, and that practice is reflected in the relative minimalism of the vibe. Laurie is aging like a good cheese, not like Jagger.
Performance art, by definition, always has the immediate potential for pretentiousness. But Anderson avoids it like the plague, mostly by being funny. Not comedienne funny, but "Isn't life weird?" funny.
Via Wikipedia: In "The Cultural Ambassador", a piece on her album The Ugly One with the Jewels, Anderson explained some of her perspective on the character ["Bergamot" – with the lowered voice]: (Anderson:) I was carrying a lot of electronics so I had to keep unpacking everything and plugging it in and demonstrating how it all worked, and I guess I did seem a little fishy — a lot of this stuff wakes up displaying LED program readouts that have names like Atom Smasher, and so it took a while to convince them that they weren't some kind of espionage system. So I've done quite a few of these sort of impromptu new music concerts for small groups of detectives and customs agents and I'd have to keep setting all this stuff up and they'd listen for a while and they'd say: So uh, what's this? And I'd pull out something like (Bergamot:) this filter, and say, now this is what I like to think of as the voice of authority. And it would take me a while to tell them how I used it for songs that were, you know, about various forms of control, and they would say, now why would you want to talk like that? And I'd look around at the SWAT teams, and the undercover agents, and the dogs, and the radio in the corner, tuned to the Super Bowl coverage of the war. And I'd say, take a wild guess.
I keep waiting for news about some upcoming collaboration between Anderson and her husband Lou Reed (file under "The most unlikely pairing ever that makes perfect sense") but it never happens.
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Sounds like you saw pretty much the same performance as she gave in Sheffield earlier this year, and you've nailed it, she's like a good aged cheese. I think what made it so special for me was that there was an intense, albeit stripped-down, theatricality to the piece, which created a reverent environment, but then she wasn't too proud to step out of that frame and be a funny, eccentric old woman once in a while.
I particularly appreciated her musings on death ("death is a way of bringing more love into the world"). And the jazz dog clips :)
[PS. not sure what sort of strange styling you've got going on in this text field, but it's almost impossible to type into in Android – some sort of weird kerning going on that makes the cursor appear about 5 letters away from where it actually is]
Tim permalink
Thanks for the writeup!
Scot Hacker permalink
Really well said Dan. I'd love to be her neighbor, or to hear what her and Julian Schnabel talk about over the back fence. I have a feeling she and Amy (my wife) would get along great.
That's bizarre about Android and the textarea. Are you seeing the site via the mobile plugin, or the desktop view?
It is using the mobile theme. Weirdly enough, when I started writing this comment, it seemed fine again. I tried a few things that might trigger the strange behaviour – entering multiple lines, moving focus out of the text box & back in again – and after a little while the cursor seemed to shift by about half a character, but nothing like as misplaced as it was yesterday.
[Shrugs] one of those things.
I HATE intermittent tech problems. Things should work, or they should not. Anything else is a mystery. This is no place for mysteries.
I'm going to choose to blame Android rather than the mobile theme.


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The American Journalism Project has raised $42 million. Here's the plan for distributing it
By: Rick Edmonds
No pushing in line, please. Having raised $42 million in just six months, the American Journalism Project, an ambitious effort to rebuild local news, is on a fast track to begin handing out some of that money to deserving non-profit digital sites.
More than 25 organizations will be picked for a share of that action beginning this summer. What will it take to get in the door?
Co-founder John Thornton, also the venture capitalist who launched the Texas Tribune, was ready with plenty of detail when I asked him this week how the first round of recipients will be selected.
The "civic news organizations," as Thornton and co-founder Elizabeth Green call them, will include a few start-ups (as the project itself is). More of the recipients will have launched and started publishing but remain nascent as sustainable ventures.
Wrinkle No. 1: though the objective is to create much more high-impact "mission-driven" reporting on state and local governance, the grants will be for "revenue raising and tech capacity," Thornton said.
That is because he and Green (co-founder and CEO of education site Chalkbeat) are looking at some tough math. Clearly, $42 million sounds like a ton of money — more than the combined annual budgets of Texas Tribune (about $10 million), Chalkbeat (more than $6 million) and the Poynter Institute ($9 million and growing).
However, used directly to pay for reporters and editors (assuming average salary and benefits of $60,000), the $42 million would support just 700 journalists for a single year.
So Thornton and Green are focused instead on the project serving as a "catalyst" to help organizations develop diverse and repeatable sources of revenue — second-wave philanthropic grants, memberships, events, perhaps premium paid information services.
Lots remains to be worked out before the grant process begins this summer.
"Right now, it's all a spreadsheet," Thornton said, "the video game version" of the real thing. "Or to mix clichés, battle plans don't survive the first shot."
The project will probably have a two- to three-year horizon for this round of catalyzing investments. Thornton, after a 20-year career in private venture capital, also brings some specific expectations for growth at the sites chosen for funding.
"For $1 in the first year, (we expect) a return of 50 cents; for year two you expect to get $1 back; somewhere between two and five years, each dollar should get double that rate of return."
That has been roughly the growth trajectory of Texas Tribune and Chalkbeat, as well as smaller sites like MinnPost and VT Digger. Philanthropy remains part of the funding mix, but to varying degrees, other sources begin paying for much of the journalism.
As for what it will take to earn support, Thornton and Green have specific criteria for that in mind too.
"First, they need to be entirely driven by public purpose," he said. In other words, a serious reporting agenda without the just-for-fun content for-profit sites typically use to build audience.
"Second, we need to believe in the people, in their journalistic credibility," Thornton continued.
"And ideally we would be looking for (sites that have done) some quality work already and that have at least one business-side person already onboard."
Another sensitive point will be which communities are picked to get a boost to their news ecosystem. I suggested that local newspapers may be in quite different financial and journalistic health city to city. And public media, radio especially, may be moving strongly to plug the gaps — or not.
Thornton said he agreed. "There is lots of variation in both."
Public radio may be key in some places already and even more likely to be the future, he said. The project will be looking for "healthy, vibrant and independent" sites and there may only be "a relatively small number" of those starting out.
"I expect that we will receive some criticism," Thornton said, "but we are not going to be making judgments about the neediest places."
Thornton and I were mainly talking about what's coming the next few months, but the project is designed to have a long lifespan rather than to deliver its impact in one quick jolt. The Knight Foundation's $20 million seed grant, for instance, is being paid over five years. The same is true many of the other $22 million in pledges secured to date.
When Thornton and Green announced what they had in mind last fall, they set an audacious ultimate goal of raising $1 billion. Now is a good time to strike: Philanthropic concern about news deserts and hollowed-out ghost newspapers appears to be surging in 2019.
In the first of two pieces explaining the rationale for the project, Green wrote in September, "venture philanthropy funds, by their very existence, play an important evangelizing function for their specialty cause." So a heavy foot on the accelerator at the beginning makes sense, even if it will take a decade or more for the project to reach full bloom.
A month ago the project announced a half dozen more major funders (Thornton among them), the appointment of a five-person board and the beginning of building a staff.
One might wonder whether the project will compete with similar, recently launched organizations for a scarce pool of philanthropic dollars. I have written about Report for America, which places young reporters directly in newsrooms ripe for expansion, and Civil, a community-governed group of member sites here and abroad that have incorporated donations via blockchain token purchases into their business plan.
Thornton doesn't see alternate approaches as a problem — there's room for all.
"The hope would be that in combination, hitting from different angles … we would be aligned (with other similar efforts). If we can't jointly move the agenda, we ought to go home and do something else."
Thornton and Green met each other only a little over a year ago. Each had pitched a version of the same idea to Peter Lattman, managing director of media of Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective. Lattman suggested the two get together. They did and began run-up planning in consultation with lead funder Knight.
I have heard only a little criticism of the project. There is some doubt about how many potential Texas Tribunes or Chalkbeats can come close to their scale and journalistic success.
Texas Tribune's CEO since its beginning has been Evan Smith, who brought 20 years editing and publishing experience and a high profile in the state as a commentator and interviewer. Green and her co-founder started a site to cover the New York City school debates a decade ago. Chalkbeat now has 50 employees and has expanded to six more cities and states.
Smith told me as I began a day's visit at the Tribune several years ago that for all the venture's closely studied success, Texas's size and wealth presented an opportunity unique or close to it.
"That's completely fair to ask," Thornton said, "but every state house deserves quality public service journalism. Full stop."
"There is only one Texas, only one Evan Smith and only one Elizabeth Green. But Emily Ramshaw (Texas Tribune editor) has suggested that if each of them does the job of three or four people, another site might divide the work up. … We'll find out, but there certainly are elements (of their success) that are replicable."
Both the Tribune and Chalkbeat offer their main news product for free. In her manifesto announcing the American Journalism Project and explaining its goals, Green argues that local news "is a public good; it should be available to everyone, not just those who can pay for it."
With the traditional ad-and-subscription model tanking and billionaires who spring for a bailout "fickle," her organization and others the project aims to seed offer a better "third path," she wrote.
Such social enterprises, she adds, "happen to be the only part of the local news business that is actually growing these days."
Which is not to deny that getting to $1 billion will be a heavy lift, Green concedes.
"There's no guarantee we'll succeed, crazy to think every news organization we support will meet its goals, and easy to think of reasons we might fail. But I'm much more comfortable taking the risk than not. Like so many journalists all across America have already done by starting new local news outfits, we need to set our fears to the side and take every step we can toward what we know our democracy needs."
This article was updated to correct "community news organizations" to "civic news organizations," Thornton and Green's preferred nomenclature, to clarify that the Knight Foundation's $20 million grant is being paid over five years and to clarify that Civil uses blockchain token purchases, not bitcoin.
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Decades ago, political scientists Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye identified "asymmetrical interdependence" as the basic source of influence in international economic negotiations. When a buyer and seller bargain over the price of a house or a car, the person who needs the deal more is at a structural disadvantage. In world politics, power similarly stems from interdependence: The more dependent a country is on external flows of trade and investment, the more concessions it will make to secure a liberalizing agreement. That is why small countries, for which trade constitutes a critical lifeline, usually have less clout.
Britain is unlikely to extract many concessions from a far larger Europe on which it is asymmetrically dependent. Almost 50 percent of British exports go to Europe: They total 13 percent of British GDP, while European exports to Britain total only 4 percent of European GDP. If no agreement is reached, Britain has at least four times more to lose.
Britain will have to prioritize what it cares most about, such as future migration; it is likely to expend its limited bargaining power to achieve those goals. Yet, generally, if anyone is to make concessions to preserve the basic relationship, it is more likely to be Britain than Brussels. And that means retaining current policies.
To enhance British bargaining power, some Tories suggest rapidly signing trade agreements with non-European countries. Yet such trade agreements generally take a decade or more to negotiate and implement, and Britain is so small that it is unlikely to wield more influence on the United States or China than on the European Union.
UK prepares 'Scandinavian-model' EEA-like relation to EU.
The government's 17-page policy plan would allow Europeans to stay in post-Brexit Britain with broadly the same rights as British citizens, with access to healthcare, education, welfare and pensions.
But they would have to apply to join a new register conferring "settled status", and would be subject to British law without recourse to the European Court of Justice.
Swedish police confirm illegal Roma database: "Ethnic registration is illegal in Sweden and the registry also violates the European convention on Human rights, which provides the right to respect for private and family life."
The last general election abruptly changed the dynamic. Labour didn't win, but it surged to a degree without precedent post-1945. And it did so, despite (or because of) the fact that Corbyn was widely depicted as someone who wanted an immigration free-for-all. Despite (or because of) the fact that he was attacked day in and day out as an alibi of foreign terrorists. Despite (or because of) the fact that he systematically repudiated the very right-wing arguments on immigration to which all previous Labour leaderships have grovellingly deferred. Despite (or because of) the fact that he refused to set a target for reducing immigration levels.
Yes, Labour's official position was ambiguous, and yes that may have softened the attitude of some of the 'red' Ukippers, and defused some of the attacks. But in retrospect, and in future, I don't think it can be taken for granted that a broadly pro-immigrant stance is an electoral liability. I think, with the electorate changing, it is possible over the medium term to a) win the argument for maintaining such free movement as we currently have, b) win the argument for de-stigmatising refugees, abolishing the detention centres and ending the appalling conditions in Calais; and c) addressing the decades-long, systematic, racist exclusions aimed at citizens of what used to be called the 'New Commonwealth'.
At the very least, the election showed that provided it has a radical agenda that excites its supporters, Labour doesn't have to be scared of the Crosby smear-and-dog-whistle machine, of tabloid poison, or even of Ukip. The Left can be confident, rather than cowed, in its arguments. It doesn't have to accept either a defensive posture of uncritically crawling to the EU and its version of free movement, or an even more defensive posture of demanding an end to free movement.
Or in other words the wheels are coming off. I think we saw something similar in the last big refugee wave. There was a spontaneous outpour of local support and the everyday racists were cowed. It wasn't led by the classic media structures. They however rushed to get in front of the riot and called it a parade. Even Bild was suddenly supporting refugees. Then after the events of Köln they declared the public mood to have been changed.
Great - so long as Labour gets a grip on the PLP.
Many of the homegrown terrorists who've launched attacks in recent years in places like Paris and Brussels were radicalized in prison -- often while serving jail terms that had nothing to do with terrorism. In France, where a disproportionate number of prison inmates are of Muslim background, authorities are struggling to deal with the phenomenon.
In 2014, Fresnes became the first French prison to separate radicalized inmates from the general prison population -- they were put in an entirely separate wing, one person to each cell, and had different guards from the other prisoners.
After 2015, which began with the January attacks at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Kosher supermarket, and ended with the Bataclan attack in November, some other French prisons began separating inmates too. Several of the terrorists who killed nearly 150 people that year were common criminals who had become radicalized in prison.
In 2016, the French government put money into a rehabilitation program for radicals deemed not too far gone. The prisoners in these new anti-radicalization units received visits from psychologists and historians; they had the chance to attend some workshops or receive some training.
The radical units were controversial, especially after two guards at one prison were attacked in September of last year. In November, the French interior minister announced an end to the program.
Two different news about the French army made the headlines in France this week. Which of the two was widely reported in the English language media is left as an exercise for the reader.
Dans un article à paraître ce mercredi, l'hebdomadaire satirique affirme que le général Richard Reboul, en poste à Bordeaux, utilise un Alphajet d'une base école de la région pour aller passer le week-end dans sa propriété en Provence et en revenir.
According to Le Canard (who else?), the French Air Force chief has used an Air Force jet for flying from Bordeaux, where he's based to his country home in Salon de Provence for the week-end (sure beats the traffic on A61 and A9 tollways).
In other military news, retired army officer Guillaume Ancel has said that he was witness to arm deliveries to the Tutsi genocidaires by French military convoy in Rwanda in 1994. The same Tutsi militia had just been disarmed by the French troops just a few weeks prior. Order for rearming them reportedly came from Hubert Védrine, then chief of staff of president François Mitterand at the Elysée.
Government archives on the Rwanda genocide are still classified, despite Hollande's promise to release them.
Three non-government organisations (NGOs) have filed a lawsuit in Paris against the French bank BNP Paribas, alleging that it knowingly approved a transfer of $1.3 million from the Rwandan central bank to an arms dealer during the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
More than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered during a three-month killing spree by Hutu extremists after a plane carrying the president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down.
Details (in French) in Le Monde.
The leader of France's far-right Front National party (FN), Marine Le Pen, faces formal investigations into the financing of past election campaigns and the tweeting of violent images from the so-called "Islamic State" after appearing in court Friday charged with alleged misuse of European Parliament funds.
Le Pen had refused to obey previous summons issued during her failed bid to become French president.
Prosecutors placed her under formal investigation for breach of trust. They believe the money went to paying FN employees in France, rather than those working in Brussels. The legal step taken means prosecutors believe there is "serious or consistent evidence" that indicates probable involvement in a crime.
In the aftermath of the Suez crisis, Dean Acheson lamented that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a role. In the subsequent decades, post-imperial Britain in fact found several roles: as a fulcrum between Europe and America; as an old hand at globalisation in a re-globalising world; and as a leading exponent of neoliberalism. Thanks to the combination of the financial crisis and Brexit, it has lost all of these functions in one great rush. The windows have shattered and the ceiling has fallen in.
Well yes. But you cannot tell that to tabloid readers, or the Empire nostalgics, fuelled as they are by regular infusions of nationalistic fervour courtesy of the Heil, the Excess, the Telegraph and the Sun.
These people are high on an outpouring of hatred and loathing of foreigners. Most people don't really understand politics or economics, let alone the business of trading relationships and currency fluctuations. It's complicated and too many are willing to swallow the easy answers that appeal to their baser instincts.
When it all goes wrong they'll blame sneaky foeigners and anonymous dagoes who want to do us down. They'll have ganged up on us or some such stupid excuse.
Theresa May could storm out of Brexit negotiations to show voters at home she is willing to be tough with the EU over Britain's divorce bill.
The Prime Minister is preparing a dramatic walk-out in September over the bill, thought to be in the region of £87 billion, it has been claimed, as business leaders were told Ms May was trying to "be as hard-nosed, as hard-headed and as cold-eyed about this as it is possible to be".
The newest member of Theresa May's Brexit negotiating team has been filmed calling for the destruction of the European Union, The Independent can reveal.
In a speech to a right-wing think tank, minister Steve Baker said the EU should be "wholly torn down", before branding it an "obstacle" to world peace and "incompatible" with a free society.
Tory MPs warned Mr Baker's appointment could now risk the UK's ability to secure good Brexit terms, while Labour said it was "extraordinary" and raised a major question about the Prime Minister's judgement.
Wanting to destroy the EU puts him into the mainstream of Conservative thinking.
Inspectors have demanded an urgent investigation into why a Scottish jail is serving up kosher meals to more than 100 prisoners when hardly any of its inmates are Jewish.
The daily cost of normal prison meals per prisoner is about £2, but a report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland said that kosher food was four times as expensive, resulting in an extra annual bill of just under £242,000. Kosher food outlaws pork and shellfish and means that meat cannot be prepared next to dairy products.
Inmates are believed to have started converting to Judaism after watching Orange is the New Black, the TV show in which a character called Cindy Hayes, played by Adrienne C Moore, converts to Judaism to get "better quality food"
Kosher food also outlaws haggis, but I doubt they serve it in Her Majesty's prisons anyway. I hope they force them to observe Yom Kippur, Tzom Gedalia, Asara B'Tevet and Shiva Asar B'Tammuz.
I suppose having to observe the Ramadan fast would put prisoners off converting to Islam?
Maybe the food isn't that good? There are probably enough genuine Muslim prisoners that it would be prohibitive to pay that sort of price for them.
Sir John Chilcot has said he does not believe Tony Blair was "straight with the nation" about his decisions in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The chairman of the public inquiry into the 2003 conflict said the former prime minister had however been "emotionally truthful" in his account of events leading up to the war, meaning he relied on both emotion and fact.
PARIS -- President Trump was not expected to attend France's Bastille Day, which this year will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I.
But then he learned there would be a military parade.
French President Emmanuel Macron told Trump in a June 27 phone call about the event, which this year will feature U.S. and French troops marching through the historic streets near the Arc de Triomphe, fighter jets cutting through the skies above, and flags, horses and military equipment on display -- the sort of spectacle that Trump wanted to stage at his own inauguration in January.
Trump told Macron he would be there, according to a White House official, and French and U.S. officials rushed to schedule a last-minute trip that will last about 27 hours and include dinner at an opulent restaurant in the Eiffel Tower and a visit to Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb.
It is easy to understand why he would want to get away from Washington. Still the decision to visit Paris and not another city was unexpected - for just about everybody.
Mr Macron invited him several weeks ago, and Mr Trump "was very excited to respond and to accept the invitation," said a senior administration official. It was a surprising development - particularly since the US president had just pulled out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.
Until recently he had a negative view of the city. "Paris is no longer the safe city it was," he said on MSNBC in 2015. "They have sections in Paris that are radicalised, where the police refuse to go there. They're petrified."
During the presidential campaign, he said that a friend, Jim, had visited France and told him not to go there. "France is no longer France," said Mr Trump, quoting "Jim".
He had little evidence for these remarks. Now he seems to have forgotten about them. This morning at the airport he seemed to be having fun.
The Macron about-face on Trump is a "classic alpha male strategy," Jeremy Shapiro, research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told me. "First, establish dominance. Second, from a position of strength, reach out a hand of magnanimous friendship."
Macron asserted his position of strength early. The newly elected French president took to Twitter on June 1 to counter Trump the moment he announced he was taking the United States out of the Paris climate accord. Macron immediately launched a cheekily titled "Make Our Planet Great Again" campaign in which he invited American scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs to move to France and bring their talent and ideas with them.
Macron is not just doing this to make a new friend. He wants Trump -- and the US -- to play a bigger role in the global response to challenges such as climate change, terrorism, and conflicts in places like Syria.
"Macron is a realist," said Martin Michelot of the German Marshall Fund. "He doesn't want to see an isolated America because he then thinks it will defend its interests more aggressively, which will probably be bad for international cooperation in a lot of fields."
Part of that realism has been to cast a calculated eye to the rest of the European board in play. Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel is distracted by the coming German federal elections in September, not to mention what appears to be a distinct distaste for Trump, and Theresa May is caught up in the headaches of Brexit. Macron, on the other hand, is fresh to the stage in both France and the world. Becoming a conduit to Trump is a savvy play.
The operation escaped the direct intervention of the Single Resolution Board, as it did not believe the public interest was at stake. The board ruled out that the financial stability in Europe would be affected by the collapse of these two banks that jointly hold €55 billion in assets.
As part of the liquidation process, all shareholders and junior bondholder assets were wound down but senior creditors [ie. EU CBs] were saved. The Commission accepted Italy's argument that extending further the losses could affect the financial stability and the regional economy of the Northern region. Without public support, EU officials argued that the shock would have been more significant, as all branches would be closed on Monday, all jobs lost and credit lines frozen.
As part of the deal, the two banks will materially disappear- although part of their structure will remain. Around 60% of the branches will be closed and 40% of the staff fired.
The use of public money contrasted with the recent restructuring of Banco Popular, the first resolution led by SRB on 7 June.
"What this means, I believe, is that a country with its own currency would not be subject to the kind of self-fulfilling panic that is now arguably hitting Italy."
The Italian government will inject 5.4 billion euros into the bank, giving it a 70-percent stake, as part of a total boost of 8.1 billion euros. Under the deal, the government must exit within five years.
Trump's right, America is a loser on trade. Darn those Germans for being so good at it.
Published in this well-known commie rag sheet USA Today.
Subtitle is: If they won't throw away all of their advantages, how can America's coddled CEOs be expected to compete?
This op/ed piece is from "a visiting professor at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs", not the regular staff and is not necessarily representative of the MSM.
A House committee has earned a rare bipartisan round of applause for beginning to roll back the US president's ability to wage war.
The House Appropriations Committee recently approved an amendment to revoke the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which allows the president to undertake war against al-Qaeda and its affiliates without Congressional approval. The law, passed shortly after the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001, has been used to approve conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Sales of guns and ammunition in the United States have dropped precipitously since Election Day, according to FBI statistics, trade groups, gun shop owners and corporate reports, what many say is the result of electing a president who has vowed to protect gun rights.
But that overall decline has been accompanied by some unusual growth: Gun clubs and shops that cater to black and LGBT clients say there has been an uptick in interest in firearms since November among those who fear that racial and gender-based violence could increase during Donald Trump's presidency.
Great piece without one mention of the nuclear button.
Realize ... for survival sake ... to break from the rest of the continent.
Declare Republicans a TERRORIST GROUP (!) and act accordingly.
Continuing its 29-year tradition of broadcasting an annual reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, National Public Radio accompanied that broadcast with line-by-line tweets of the founding fathers' statement Tuesday.
But some Twitter users interpreted the tweets as an attack on President Donald Trump, calling NPR "propaganda" and said the radio station was "calling for a revolution."
"We at NPR would like to apologize to those who were offended this Fourth of July by our publishing the American Declaration of Independence."
What did he do as a 1-year old to get such a low rating?
He had already done it, having been born a son to Fredrick Trump. Very bad father. So sad.
Takata is bankrupt because the US imposed a $1B fine on the corporation for marketing defective equipment said to have killed eleven US vehicle passengers to date.
VW is not bankrupt despite US fines totaling $14B because either (1) VW is a 'systemically significant' financial services beneficiary protected by the German hegemon,(2) current and future VW earnings belie bankruptcy calculations (3) DoJ cannot identify 16 and 94 deaths over seven years with any specificty attributable to VW 'clean diesel' emissions but not US commercial and municipal fleet 'clean diesel' emissions,(4) the US is not a leader of GHG mitigation, and (5) BoJ is not 'bailing out'either Takata, GM, or VW.
Clarification - Israel deplores any expression of anti-Semitism in any country and stands with Jewish communities everywhere in confronting this hatred.
This was the sole purpose of the statement issued by Israel's ambassador to Hungary. In no way was the statement meant to delegitimize criticism of George Soros, who continuously undermines Israel's democratically elected governments by funding organizations that defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself.
I think Europe has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel and disappear.
And what is killing the EU ? Are you ready to find out?
Why, trying to restart the Israel/Palestine peace process.
As an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and a former lawyer, Renee Rabinowitz might seem an unlikely figurehead in Israel's culture wars.
Rabinowitz has been thrust into the spotlight over an issue that has become an increasingly familiar problem for airlines flying in and out of Israel: ultra-orthodox men who refuse to take their seats next to women, demanding changes in seating and sometimes causing delays.
After successfully suing the country's national carrier, El Al, for gender discrimination and winning a landmark ruling, Rabinowitz's stand now means that flight stewards can no longer request female passengers move seats to accommodate ultra-orthodox men who do not want to sit next to them.
El Al mentioned they "will respect the verdict" and train their employees.
Wanna bet there will be designated orthodox only seat rows?
Death Sentence for Arizona Senator McCain?
Personally I wish everyone well and the best health care medical specialists can provide. The government should we willing to extend health care to all as a basic human right. Corporatism and Politics often play an evil role in welfare of all the nation's citizens. From a political view, I hope the senator retires sooner than later.
Arizona senator and former presidential candidate John McCain was reviewing treatment options after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, his office said. President Trump wished the 80-year-old a speedy recovery.
The latest cancer diagnosis comes after doctors removed several malignant melanomas on McCain's skin in the 1990s and 2000s, including an invasive melanoma in 2000.
McCain's daughter Meghan McCain issued a statement after the diagnosis was made public, saying that her father remained "confident and calm."
"We hope John McCain gets better very soon because we miss him," Trump said at a White House event billed as a start to its "Made in America" week. "He's a crusty voice in Washington. Plus we need his vote. And he'll be back. And he will be back sooner than somebody else would be back. He'll be back soon. But we need that vote. And we need a number of votes. Because we need to repeal Obamacare."
Always about himself. Notice the assumption that after getting all that expensive state-funded health care, he's still certain that McCain will vote to deny it to lots of other Americans.
o, don't be so harsh. Why only this past Monday, NPR reported.
DAVIS: Audie, President Trump also spoke about John McCain today. He described him appreciatively as being one of D.C.'s crusty voices, and he said he was hoping to get him back in Washington soon in particular because he needs his vote. Now, what we know about McCain according to the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix - as you said, he's recovering back at home. And the next step is they're waiting on the tests of a pathology report. And once they have that, they'll know if any additional care is necessary and if he could potentially be kept away from Washington for some time.
Here it is Thursday, and the press can't back peddle fast enough.
Remember, children: There is no death in America!
I am reminded how many months the US public waited for Gabby Giffords (superhero) to resume her seat in the odious congress.
The most common length of survival following diagnosis is 12 to 15 months, with fewer than 3% to 5% of people surviving longer than five years. Without treatment survival is typically 3 months.
Increasing age (> 60 years of age) carries a worse prognostic risk.
Is the a fair or accurate summary of present geo-political risks?
Slang is almost always older than you think. English speakers have been calling stylish people "fly" since at least 1953. Though it's everywhere now, the first known use of OMG goes back to 1917. And the Oxford English Dictionary's latest update shows that the same is true of woke: The term, which has spread virally in recent years after being embraced by the Black Lives Matter movement, has been used to describe those who are aware since the early 1960s.
Here's how the OED defines it.
woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice; frequently in stay woke.
The OED added that word, along with scores of others, in its quarterly update this June. Before editors add any word, they dig to find the earliest examples they can of it being used.
frequently exploit the ambiguity of this term for unknown reasons.
The Hill team reports on DICTION.
A journalism stylebook is supposed to provide universal guidelines for writers when it comes to stylistic things like punctuation, capitalization, and so on. This includes choosing certain words over others. The original intent of word preference was to use words that are more neutral than others.
"Censors" Rather Than Editors Quash Free Speech Rights?
Even when individual authors do not adhere to the bias of AP Style, it often doesn't matter. If they submit an article to a mainstream media outlet, they will likely see their words edited to conform. A pro-life author who submits a piece taking a position against abortion will see the words "pro-life" changed to "anti-abortion," because the AP Stylebook instructs, "Use anti-abortion instead of pro-life and pro-abortion rights instead of pro-abortion or pro-choice.
And there's one more problem. Journalists don't always use the AP Stylebook when it would "water down" words that favor liberals. For example, the guide instructs journalists to "try to avoid describing political leanings." However, journalists usually ignore the guide in referring to Republicans as "right wing." At the same time, they almost never describe Democrats as "left-wing."
For example, the guide instructs journalists to "try to avoid describing political leanings." However, journalists usually ignore the guide in referring to Republicans as "right wing." At the same time, they almost never describe Democrats as "left-wing."
Well, very few, probably less than 50, Congressional Democrats are really 'left wing'. Neo-liberals, the majority, are NOT 'Left wing' in any traditional sense, though they try hard to redefine terms. Anything to be able to keep taking the money.
Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are among 43 U.S. Senators who have co-sponsored the Anti-Israel Boycott Act [H.R. 1697/S. 720], a bill that the ACLU wote the First Amendment" in a letter to lawmakers urging them to oppose the bill.
Violators of the law "would be subject to a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison" according to the ACLU's letter.
Speaking in the Senate on French President Emmanuel Macron's support of Israel earlier this week, Senator Schumer criticized the BDS movement as anti-Semitic.
"Anti-Zionism, unfortunately, continues to bubble up in many different forms. There is perhaps no greater example than the pernicious effort to delegitimize Israel through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. The BDS movement is a deeply biased campaign that I would say, in similar words to Mr. Macron, is a 'reinvented form of anti-Semitism' because it seeks to impose boycotts on Israel and not on any other nation."
Quite the authoritarian pivot, wouldn't you agree? I can't wait to see what the Russians will force Teh DERPs do next!
Icelanders repeatedly warn visitors of what might seem the obvious dangers of approaching crashing surf or water at 175 degrees Fahrenheit, often to little avail. There's more to Iceland visitors' poor behavior than simple lack of preparation, however. The Icelandic public has been losing it recently over visitors' bad behavior, sick of people who treat the country as some sort of fire-and-ice theme park where elves arrive to magically tidy up their mess.
Barely a week goes by without a tale of inappropriate public pooping going viral. Indeed, this story of tourists in East Iceland using a porta-potty as a luggage locker suggests restrooms themselves are among the few public places to be spared the wrath of visitors' bowels. Iceland's sparse population might possibly be leading tourists to bad behavior because they take perceptions of its emptiness to extremes and assume there's almost nobody there.
Although Novalja, and in particular Zrće beach, attracts young tourists from all parts of the world, the town's Mayor, Ante Dabo, has had enough of one particular group - the Brits.
After Brexit, it should be easy to keep them out of the country.
In recent months, the tourism industry has started to experience something unheard of just 12 months ago--mass cancellations.
The main culprit in the wave of cancellations is the ever strengthening króna, which together with already high prices has made visiting the country unfeasible for a large segment of travellers. The króna appreciated 10.6% last year and you'd have to go back to 1934 to find a period when the króna increased more in value.
::INCIDENTALLY:: The world "slackers" appeared in an NYT headline 25 June, 1917 with respect to reported militancy emerging from an "Amazonian" battalion of Russian "tigress" mothers.
I think it was less about brutality than about fear of reprisal and escalation, a policy which held true between them until Croydon was accidently bombed in the later stages of the Battle of Britain.
Best known in France for her instrumental role in legalising abortion in the 1970s, she went on to serve as the first president of an elected European Parliament.
Ms Veil, a liberal, later re-entered French politics, returning to the cabinet in the 1990s.
President Emmanuel Macron described her as "inspiring" and the best of France.
She became one of the 40 "immortals" of the Académie Française in 2010 - a great honour in France.
Ms Veil was France's minister of health from 1974-79, in which role she made access to contraception easier and fought a long battle to legalise abortion.
The law which did so, passed in 1975, is known as "la loi Veil".


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Lawtech start-up focused on security raises further £1m
Posted by Nick Hilborne
Thornton-Berry: Rapid growth
A lawtech start-up specialising in identity and source of funds checks for conveyancers has attracted high-profile investors including the co-founders of Funding Circle in raising £1m.
ThirdFort said it was looking capitalise on increasing demand after increasing the number of law firms it works with from 100 in February this year to 450.
The seed-plus investment round means the company has now raised £2.7m in all.
James Meekings and Andy Mullinger, co-founders of Funding Circle, and David Rutter, founder of R3, were among the new investors, with London law firm Mishcon de Reya increasing its original £100,000 backing for the business, which was a member of its MDR LAB legal tech accelerator in 2018.
That year, Thirdfort announced a £400,000 pre-seed funding round led by Alex Chesterman, the founder of Zoopla property website and the Lawyer Checker conveyancer risk management solution.
Managing director Olly Thornton-Berry said he expected to have 1,000 law firm clients in a year's time.
He said the team had grown during lockdown from 15 to 25, and he expected it to grow to 35 by the end of the year. The firm has offices in Manchester and London.
He described lockdown as crucial to the firm's rapid growth, accelerating change in a way that was "transformational".
Thirdfort uses photos taken by users of their documents and both photos and video of themselves to verify identity. Users access the service via a mobile app.
For money laundering checks, it uses open banking technology to let the user connect to their online banking and retrieve bank statements. There is also a questionnaire in the app for the user to complete.
The service was launched in March 2019 and recruited three law firms in its first few weeks. By October 2019, this had grown to 20 firms.
He said three main types of law firm currently used Thirdfort – City firms, regional and high street firms and volume conveyancers.
Along with Mishcon, which uses Thirdfort across the firm, he said the City firms included Boodle Hatfield, Penningtons and Streathers.
Mr Thornton-Berry said that while most of the regional and high street firms used it for conveyancing, where the need for risk and compliance was "most acute", it was being gradually adopted by other departments.
"We want our product to be more than a conveyancing solution," he said. "We want it to be a new standard in the legal industry."
Mr Thornton-Berry came from a private equity background, investing in software companies. He co-founded Thirdfort with schoolfriend Jack Bidgood, who was in banking.
Mr Bidgood was frustrated at the "antiquated" process he had experienced when buying a property, but the real trigger was that a friend of theirs lost £25,000 to a fraudster.
Mr Thornton-Berry said the fraudster successfully posed as a lawyer after hacking into the friend's email system. He persuaded the friend to transfer the deposit money for a flat to him. The friend never recovered the £25,000.
"We came across many people who had heard of experiences like that," he explained.
He said Thirdfort was unlikely to look for further external investment for the time being because it had achieved profitability and wanted to grow organically.
"We're excited about shaping the industry and helping lawyers compete in a very challenging landscape," he added. "Lawyers need to use technology like ours. We do everything on our smart phones now."
Thirdfort
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A fee for bringing an employment tribunal will be charged for the first time from April 2013, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.
There will be a refund for any individual who wins their case.
The amount that will be charged and how it should be paid will be subject to consultation starting by the end of November.
There is currently no fee for an applicant who wants to make an employment tribunal claim.
The low-paid, or those without an income, may also have the fee waived or reduced at the start of the process, under the new scheme.
"We are ending the one way bet against small businesses," Mr Osborne told the Conservative conference in Manchester.
The chancellor also confirmed that, from April 2012, the qualifying period for a claim for unfair dismissal will be that the individual must have been in the job for at least two years.
At present they only need to have been working for one year.
"We respect the right of those who spent their whole lives building up a business, not to see that achievement destroyed by a vexatious appeal to an employment tribunal. So we are now going to make it much less risky for businesses to hire people," Mr Osborne said.
Last year there were 236,000 employment tribunal claims - of which only some were unfair dismissal claims, with an average award for successful complainants of £8,900.
Under Mr Osborne's plan, workers will still be able to take action immediately if they suffer discrimination, but by reducing the risk of tribunals for unfair dismissals the government hopes bosses will feel more confident about hiring people.
The GMB union has criticised the plan.
"The very notion that reducing the rights of workers of between 12 months and two years service to bring unfair dismissal claims will create a single new job is quire frankly absurd. Job creation is not the real reason the Tory party want to take away these rights," said Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said the move was a "charter for bad bosses".
However, business lobby the CBI, welcomed it.
"We have been urging the government to do everything it can to make it easier for firms to grow and create jobs, and this will give employers, especially smaller ones, more confidence to hire," said director general John Cridland.
In 2010-11 the cost to the taxpayer of running employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal in England, Wales and Scotland was more than £84m, according to the Ministry of Justice.
The Treasury said that more than 80% of applications made to an employment tribunal did not result in a full hearing.
Almost 40% of applicants withdrew their cases, but employers still had to pay legal fees in preparing a defence. More than 40% settled out of court and there was no record of how much applicants settled for, it added.
Martin Edwards, employment law expert at law firm Weightmans, said: "The changes may have mixed results. Someone who has not worked long enough to claim unfair dismissal may claim they are a whistleblower or a victim of discrimination instead, causing employers even more hassle than before.
"But people who have to pay to bring a claim may regard that as a significant disincentive to litigating a dispute."


Interested in applying for the FDW 3rd call 2nd round that will open on the 1st of October? If so RVO.nl is organizing an information session on the 3rd of October 2017 in The Hague.
At this session, project partners will provide 'lessons learnt' from the 1st round of the 3rd round. You will gain a clear understanding of recently approved projects. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) will offer its advice about the lessons learnt, including a Q&A session. In addition, the session is also a networking opportunity.
If you are actively thinking about the ambition level of your FDW proposal, why not join the PPPCafe on October 5th? There we explore how PPPs could be set up to tackle more systemic change, drawing on lessons from mid-term reviews of three PPP facilities.
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Discover & research the 33 schools in Cleveland, TN. Narrow by grade level, religious affiliation, and sports offered and get advice from other parents on Noodle.
300 Minnis Rd, Cleveland, TN 37323
Parkview Elementary School is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more
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Ocoee Middle School
2250 North Ocoee, Cleveland, TN 37311
Ocoee Middle School is a coeducational public school for students in grades 6 through 9. learn more
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750 Mouse Creek Nw, Cleveland, TN 37323
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3635 Georgetown Rd North West, Cleveland, TN 37312
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3119 South West Varnell, Cleveland, TN 37311
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Cleveland High School
850 Raider, Cleveland, TN 37312
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473 8th North West, Cleveland, TN 37311
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1000 South Lee Hwy, Cleveland, TN 37311
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802 20th Nw, Cleveland, TN 37311
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501 20th St Ne, Cleveland, TN 37311
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4340 Mouse Creek, Cleveland, TN 37312
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An American actress who has been in movies and television,Annette Sinclair is currently single. Previously she married to Bob Seger, rock musician,soundtrack,composer, and producer. The couple married on 8th November 1987 and divorced in 1988.Some of her famous movies are for Hide and Go Shriek (1988), Instant Karma (1990) and Thief of Hearts (1984).There is no more information about her parents in social sites.
Annette Sinclair is single.She has worked in television series too.Her first television series is Matt Houston ,she has a character of Marciain Episode :"Butterfly". She has worked in many television series ,her first movie is Weekend Pass(1984) ,she has a role of Maxine .Her other television series are Finder of Lost Loves(1985) and Full House(1989).She has a role of Vicki Selman and Miss Borland.
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Bob Seger, rock musician, soundtrack, composer, and producer. The couple married on 8th November 1987 and divorced in 1988.


JUBA (Bloomberg) -- Malaysian state energy company Petroliam Nasional Bhd. is interested in developing oil blocks in South Sudan, President Salva Kiir's office said.
Kiir and Petroleum Minister Ezekiel Lul Gatkuoth on Tuesday held talks with a Petronas delegation headed by Mohd Anuar Bin Taib, the company's executive V.P., according to a statement published by the Presidential Press Unit in the capital, Juba. The company is interested in investing in blocks (A) and (B), it said, without providing further details.
South Sudan, which has sub-Saharan Africa's third-biggest oil reserves, is resuming crude output curtailed by almost five years of conflict before a peace agreement was signed last month. Petronas has had a presence in the country for "several years" and is interested in expanding its business, Anuar said.


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All Hail the King
By Elissa Lerner
History's favorite edition of the Bible is celebrating its four-hundredth birthday this year to much fanfare. Writers and scholars have been lauding the poetry, idioms, and history of the King James Bible since January. The Globe Theater in London even used twenty actors to read all sixty-six books during the week leading up to Easter. For the latest in literary tributes to the quadricentennial of the King James edition, look no further than the June issue of Harper's. The magazine explains the lingering influence of the book this way: "Reading the King James Bible aloud is no longer the cornerstone of an American education, even for the religiously devout…Yet the language of the King James Bible remains our language." It is in that spirit that the magazine has allotted a forum within its pages for notable poets and novelists (Howard Jacobson, Marilynne Robinson, Charles Baxter, Paul Guest, Benjamin Hale, Dan Chiasson, and Jonh Banville) to select a verse or short passage from the edition and address it as they see fit.
[#image: /photos/590953c5019dfc3494e9e506]Howard Jacobson tackles the first thirty-one verses of Genesis (pre-Fall, if you're wondering) in a contemplation of God-the-Artist and what it means to have created "good because it reveals an idea." Marilynne Robinson shares the mystery behind the phrase "twinkling of an eye" from 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, which originated in a translation by John Wycliffe and his heretical Lollards in pre-Protestant England. Charles Baxter puts himself in the shoes of "a certain man" who witnessed the hanging of Absalom in 2 Samuel 18:9-10. And Dan Chiasson springboards from James 1:23 ("For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass") into a poem about how he interviewed (or didn't interview) Janet Malcolm, whose new book "Iphigenia in Forest Hills" originated as an article in the magazine:
She'd interviewed herself, I realized later;
I was bystander to a rendezvous.
I stared at my reflection in the mirror.
Janet Malcolm wrote the questions she had answered.
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