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<?php
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##	Download Admin Module
##	Version: 0.93
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##	Last Edit:
##	Feb 2 2013
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##	Description:
##	Download Admin Control System.
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##	Author:
##	By Shawn Purdy
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##	Comments:
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class Download_admin extends ADMIN_Controller
	{
	function Download_admin()
		{
		parent::__construct();
		#Libraries

		#Helpers
		$this->load->helper('date');
		$this->load->helper('file');

		#Config
		//$this->load->config('download_config');

		#Models
		$this->load->model('download_admin_model');

		#Load Module User Protection
		$check_perm = $this->backend_model->protect_module();
		$this->data['module_read'] = 'N';
		$this->data['module_write'] = 'N';
		$this->data['module_delete'] = 'N';
		$check_perm = $this->backend_model->get_module_permissions();
		if($check_perm->result())
			{
			foreach($check_perm->result() as $pm)
				{
				$this->data['module_read'] = $pm->read;
				$this->data['module_write'] = $pm->write;
				$this->data['module_delete'] = $pm->delete;
				}
			}
		else
			{
			$this->data['module_read'] = 'N';
			$this->data['module_write'] = 'N';
			$this->data['module_delete'] = 'N';
			}
		}

	function index()
		{
		if($this->data['module_read'] == 'Y' OR $this->ion_auth->is_admin())
			{
			$data['heading'] = 'Manage Downloads';
			$data['query'] = $this->download_admin_model->get_downloads();
			$data['template_path'] = $this->config->item('template_admin_page');
			$data['page'] = $data['template_path'] . '/download_admin/download_list';
			$data['flashmsg'] = $this->session->flashdata('flashmsg');
			$this->load->vars($data);
			$this->load->view($this->_container);
			}
		else
			{
			echo "access denied";
			}
		}

	function add_download()
		{
		if($this->data['module_write'] == 'Y' OR $this->ion_auth->is_admin())
			{
			$this->form_validation->set_message('required', 'The Field %s is Required');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('download_name', 'download_name', 'xss_clean|required');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('userfile', 'userfile', 'xss_clean');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('desc', 'desc', 'xss_clean');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('sort_id', 'sort_id', 'xss_clean');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('isProduct', 'isProduct', 'xss_clean');
			$this->form_validation->set_error_delimiters('
', '
');
			if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
				{
				$data['error'] = '';
				$data['heading'] = 'Add Download';
				$data['template_path'] = $this->config->item('template_admin_page');
				if(!isset($_POST['download_name']))
					{
					$this->load->view($data['template_path'] . '/download_admin/add_download', $data);
					}
				else
					{
					$data['page'] = $data['template_path'] . '/download_admin/add_download';
					$this->load->vars($data);
					$this->load->view($this->_container);
					}
				}
			else
				{
				#Upload file
				$config['upload_path'] = './assets/downloads/files/';
				$config['allowed_types'] = 'zip|pdf|png|jpg|gif';
				$config['max_size']	= $this->config->item('global_upload_limit');
				$this->load->library('upload', $config);

				if(!$this->upload->do_upload())
					{
					$error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());
					$data['heading'] = 'Add Download';
					$data['template_path'] = $this->config->item('template_admin_page');
					$data['page'] = $data['template_path'] . '/download_admin/add_download';
					$this->load->vars($data);
					$this->load->view($this->_container, $error);
					}
				else
					{
					$data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
					$userfile = $data['upload_data']['file_name'];
					$this->download_admin_model->insert_download($userfile);
					$msg = $this->lang->line('added');
					$this->session->set_flashdata('flashmsg', $msg);
					redirect('download_admin');
					}
				}
			}
		else
			{
			echo "access denied";
			}
		}

	function edit_download()
		{
		if($this->data['module_write'] == 'Y' OR $this->ion_auth->is_admin())
			{
			$this->form_validation->set_message('required', 'The Field %s is Required');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('download_name', 'download_name', 'xss_clean|required');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('desc', 'desc', 'xss_clean');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('userfile', 'userfile', 'xss_clean');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('sort_id', 'sort_id', 'xss_clean');
			$this->form_validation->set_rules('isProduct', 'isProduct', 'xss_clean');
			$this->form_validation->set_error_delimiters('
', '
');
			if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
				{
				$data['heading'] = 'Edit Download';
				$data['query'] = $this->download_admin_model->edit_download();
				$data['template_path'] = $this->config->item('template_admin_page');
				$data['page'] = $data['template_path'] . '/download_admin/edit_download';
				$this->load->vars($data);
				$this->load->view($this->_container);
				}
			else
				{
				if($this->input->post('update_download') == 'Y')
					{
					#Upload file
					$config['upload_path'] = './assets/downloads/files/';
					$config['allowed_types'] = 'zip|pdf|png|jpg|gif';
					$config['max_size']	= '20000';
					$this->load->library('upload', $config);
					if(!$this->upload->do_upload())
						{
						$error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());
						$template_path = $this->config->item('template_admin_page');
						$data['heading'] = 'Edit Download';
						$data['page'] = $template_path . '/download_admin/edit_download';
						$this->load->vars($data);
						$this->load->view($this->_container, $error);
						}
					else
						{
						$updatea = $this->upload->data();
						$data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
						$userfile = $data['upload_data']['file_name'];
						}
					}
				else
					{
					$userfile = '';
					}
				$this->download_admin_model->update_download($userfile);
				$msg = $this->lang->line('updated');
				$this->session->set_flashdata('flashmsg', $msg);
				redirect('download_admin');
				}
			}
		else
			{
			echo "access denied";
			}
		}

	function delete_download()
		{
		if($this->data['module_delete'] == 'Y' OR $this->ion_auth->is_admin())
			{
			$this->download_admin_model->delete_download();
			$msg = $this->lang->line('delete');
			$this->session->set_flashdata('flashmsg', $msg);
			redirect('download_admin');
			}
		else
			{
			echo "access denied";
			}
		}
}


The purpose of the study is to assess the effectiveness and safety of risperidone (an antipsychotic medication) compared with placebo after 3 weeks of treatment in patients with bipolar disorder who are experiencing manic episodes. A secondary purpose of the study is to assess the maintenance of risperidone effectiveness versus haloperidol (an antipsychotic medication) after 12 weeks of treatment.
Antipsychotic agents have, for a long time, been used to alleviate the severe behavioral problems associated with manic episodes. Risperidone, widely used in the treatment of schizophrenia, has been shown to be effective in the treatment of manic and mixed episodes associated with bipolar disorders. This is a randomized, double-blind study to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of risperidone compared with placebo after 3 weeks of treatment in patients with bipolar disorder who are experiencing manic episodes. A secondary objective is to estimate the difference between the anti-manic efficacy of risperidone and haloperidol (active comparator) after 12 weeks of treatment. Haloperidol also serves as an internal control for the 3-week treatment period. The study has two 2 phases: an acute period consisting of 3 weeks of double-blind treatment (risperidone, haloperidol, or placebo) followed by a maintenance period consisting of 9 weeks of double-blind treatment (risperidone or haloperidol) or 9 weeks of open-label treatment (risperidone). Patients receive study medication to be taken orally once a day at gradually increasing doses during the first week (risperidone, a range of 1 - 6 mg/day or haloperidol, a range of 2 - 12 mg/day) to achieve optimal effectiveness, while minimizing any intolerance to the drug. Daily treatment continues at the optimal dose through Week 3 of the first phase. After completing the 3-week double-blind period, patients can continue double-blind treatment for an additional 9 weeks at the optimal dose (with placebo patients crossed over to risperidone), or enter the 9-week open-label period of risperidone treatment. Adjustment to achieve an optimal dosage is made for those patients whose medication is changed upon entering the second phase.
The primary measure of effectiveness (acute efficacy) is the change in Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) total score from baseline to the endpoint at 3 weeks of the acute treatment period. Additional efficacy measures for the study assess maintenance efficacy. These measures include the Clinical Global Impression-Severity of Illness (CGI-S) scale; Global Assessment Scale (GAS), which assesses the patient's level of functioning; Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), a scale for measuring psychotic symptoms; and the Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), which evaluates symptoms of depression. Safety assessments include the incidence of adverse events and measurement of vital signs (temperature, pulse, blood pressure) throughout the study; evaluation of the presence and severity of extrapyramidal symptoms by the Extrapyramidal Symptom Rating Scale (ESRS) at specified intervals; and clinical laboratory tests (hematology, biochemistry, urinalysis) at the start and end of both phases of the study. The study hypothesis is that 3 weeks of daily treatment with risperidone is more effective than placebo, as measured by Young Mania Rating Scale scores, in the treatment of the manic phase of Bipolar I Disorder. Acute phase: Risperidone orally, once-daily: 2 mg on Day 1, 1 - 3 mg on Days 2 to 4, and 1 - 6 mg on Days 5 to 21; or haloperidol orally, once-daily: 4 mg on Days 1 to 4 and 2 - 12 mg on Days 5 to 21; or placebo orally, once-daily Days 1 to 21. Maintenance phase: optimal dose of risperidone or haloperidol for 9 weeks (placebo patients cross over to risperidone) or Open-label phase: risperidone for 9 weeks.
Official Title: The Efficacy And Safety Of Flexible Dose Ranges Of Risperidone Versus Placebo Or Haloperidol In The Treatment Of Manic Episodes Associated With Bipolar I Disorder.
Acute efficacy: Change in Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) total score from baseline to endpoint of 3 weeks of acute treatment period.
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Smulevich AB, Khanna S, Eerdekens M, Karcher K, Kramer M, Grossman F. Acute and continuation risperidone monotherapy in bipolar mania: a 3-week placebo-controlled trial followed by a 9-week double-blind trial of risperidone and haloperidol. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005 Jan;15(1):75-84.


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← Is government "review" into the Post Office IT scandal a parody?
Courts too ready to accept flawed computer evidence – which puts countless innocents in prison, say legal and IT experts. →
Has the Post Office IT scandal deepened?
Letters published yesterday from the current and former CEO of the Post Office, Nick Read and Paula Vennells, are likely to deepen the sense of injustice felt by victims of the Horizon IT scandal.
The letters raise more questions than they answer – which was expected. But what is less clear is why the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee of MPs missed an opportunity to question the CEOs on Zoom.
The committee gave Covid as the reason for not questioning Read and Vennells. But the committee has declined to say why it did not question them on Zoom. Parliamentary debates were being held on Zoom in April.
The same committee of MPs missed two opportunities last year to ask the Post Office why it was spending tens of millions of pounds in the High Court defending Horizon when the system was known to have fundamental weaknesses and bugs.
The committee's failures raise questions of whether its MPs have been too willing to defer to civil servants and business ministers who could have stopped the scandal in 2011 but didn't.
By that time, concerns about Horizon were being raised by former Defence minister James (now Lord) Arbuthnot. Computer Weekly broke news of the Horizon scandal in 2009.
Since the year 2000 hundreds of sub-postmasters have had their lives ruined by being forced to pay the Post Office tens of thousands of pounds shown on a faulty Horizon system as missing but which was not missing. The Post Office has still not returned much of the money it wrongly acquired from sub-postmasters. And sub-postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted over the "missing" money have still not had their criminal convictions quashed.
Vennells was CEO from 2012 to 2019 and Read took over from her last September. Their letters gave replies to the BEIS committee's written questions about the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
Journalist Nick Wallis, in his analysis of Vennells' letter, raises many questions about her replies, all of which are likely to remain unanswered.
Read's letter also raises more questions than it answers.
Read says the Post Office accepts that it "got some things wrong in the past".
Had MPs been able to challenge him on Zoom, they could have asked whether the ruin of hundreds of lives and at least one suicide – that of sub-postmaster Martin Griffiths who died after the Post Office put him under pressure to pay money wrongly shown on Horizon as missing – is given due concern by Read's statement, "We accept we got some things wrong in the past".
And does Read's statement cover the Post Office's not handing over evidence at the theft trial of pregnant sub-postmistress Seema Misra that could have helped her avoid jail and prove her innocence? The withheld evidence was of a bug in Horizon that made money at branch level "simply disappear". The evidence was revealed in Nick Wallis' BBC Panorama documentary The Great Post Office Trial.
The committee's first question to Read was when the Post Office had identified a major problem with Horizon and what was its nature.
Read's answer gave no specific date or year or what the major problem was. He said,
"The extent of issues became apparent to Post Office during the Group Litigation and is set out in the High Court judgment .which found that the potential for bugs to affect branch balances in historical versions of Horizon was greater than Post Office believed".
Had MPs been able to question him on Zoom, they could have asked whether in fact the Post Office has known of serious and widespread Horizon problems for nearly 10 years.
He could, further, have been asked why board advice in 2016 was that Horizon was not fit for purpose but still directors went into a litigation costing tens of millions of pounds in defence of Horizon's robustness.
Read could also have been asked why the Post Office was content to fund an arguably hopeless litigation but not content to pay back in full the money the Post Office had wrongly acquired from Horizon scandal victims.
Some of Read's answers suggested he could not speak for the period before he joined as CEO in September 2019. On Zoom, however, MPs could have asked him why, if he could not speak for the 20-year period before he joined in September 2019, there was any point in the committee's questioning him at all about the Horizon scandal.
Another of the questions the committee asked Read was when the Post Office became aware that local Horizon terminals could be accessed centrally and altered. He gave an indirect reply.
He said, "I first became aware of the position as found by the High Court when the Horizon judgment was handed down (December 2019). As I was not involved at the time, I do not wish to speculate how Post Office's knowledge of remote access issues evolved over time."
Again, if interviewed on Zoom, he could have been asked about a "management letter" to Post Office directors in 2011, from c0nsultants Ernst & Young, which referred to the issue of remote access to branch Horizon systems. The letter said Ernst and Young has "again identified" weaknesses in the Horizon system and it warned that staff at Horizon supplier Fujitsu have "unrestricted access" to sub-postmaster accounts that "may lead to the processing of unauthorised or erroneous transactions". [Source BBC Panorama's The Great Office Scandal].
Why then did the Post Office continue to prosecute, make people bankrupt and remove their livelihoods when it was known that Horizon could be to blame?
Read's letter also said that the High Court judgement "did not determine whether bugs, errors or defects did in fact cause shortfalls in the individual claimants' accounts but it found that they had the potential to create apparent discrepancies in postmasters' branch accounts".
This may be incorrect. The judgement said,
"It was possible for bugs, errors or defects of the nature alleged by the claimants to have the potential both (a) to cause apparent or alleged discrepancies or shortfalls relating to Subpostmasters' branch accounts or transactions, and also (b) to undermine the reliability of Horizon accurately to process and to record transactions as alleged by the claimants.
"Further, all the evidence in the Horizon Issues trial shows not only was there the potential for this to occur, but it actually has happened, and on numerous occasions…"
Read also referred in his letter to openness and transparency but has given no media interviews on the Horizon scandal.
The unchallenged letters to the committee from Read and Vennells may, for the victims of the Horizon scandal, have made things worse.
It was always known that the committee could ask tough questions of Read, Vennells and Fujitsu but for what purpose if MPs were not going to be able to ask follow up questions?
Those whom Horizon victims already regard as largely unaccountable have now been able to make their own points to MPs.
It is still open to the committee in its report to criticise the contents of the letters. But select committee reports are usually quickly forgotten.
The committee ought not to have deferred to the Post Office, civil servants and ministers. Instead it ought to be acting as advocates in Parliament for the scandal's victims. The committee could have tried to stop the scandal years ago.
Paul Scully MP, business minister who wants an "independent" review and doesn't support a judge-led inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal
Perhaps the most disappointingly predictable letter was from the business minister Paul Scully. His formulaic paragraphs to the committee were almost identical to what he has said in Parliamentary debates on the scandal.
It is easy to be reminded of the electronic message inside some greetings cards. Every time you open the card you get the same automated message.
Indeed, in all of Scully comments, speeches and written replies about the scandal, he has said nothing of which the Post Office would disapprove. But he does not seem to mind antagonising victims by repeatedly referring to the need for an independent review and not a judge-led inquiry.
The letters published yesterday, particularly Scully's, are a reminder that former sub-postmasters will not move forwards in their campaign for justice by relying in any way on ministers, civil servants or the BEIS committee.
Donations for a QC's complaint to the Parliamentary ombudsman
Paula Vennells breaks her silence – Nick Wallis
Former Post Office CEO and Fujitsu play the blame game in Horizon IT scandal – Computer Weekly
BEIS committee publishes Horizon IT scandal letters
Vennells sparks outrage by blaming everyone but herself – from tech workers to lawyers and even the postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted – for IT scandal – Mail Online
4 responses to "Has the Post Office IT scandal deepened?"
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I value your posts, but am concerned about the potentially scammy ads appearing alongside your content. I myself have a WordPress account/hosted blog and pay some small fee (circa £17.00 pa IIRC) to keep it ad free. Any help?
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Thank you. Useful advice.
Thank you, Tony.
Let me see if I've got this right.
Paula Vennells was paid a minimum of £720,000 p.a. for exercising what must have been exemplary executive expertise. However, in her eagerness to present herself as an innocent, claims to have been ignorant of flashing-neon-signed issues? Or, Ms Vennells was wilfully content to accept bland reassurances from juniors without sight of evidence? I doubt trainee managers on say, £20,000 p.a. would be so malignly negligent.
As for Parliament and the civil servants – what a cosy cabal of cowardice – utterly inept and shameless.
Yet again, the British public has been betrayed by the dishonourable who are, evidently, more interested in protecting themselves and shovelling public money into their own purses rather than fulfilling their duties.
Btw, this scandal has also highlighted how the honours system has been debased.
Thank you Zara. A cosy cabal of cowardice – well put!

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Ahead of the official launch, a new Vivo Y83 device has been listed in China Telecom website. The listing shows the phone renders, specifications, pricing details and its release date. The Vivo Y83 also certified by Tenaa on May 3, 2018.
Update: The Vivo Y83 announced officially. The device features a 6.22-inch display with a resolution of 1,520 x 720 pixels. It comes with an aspect ratio of 19:9. It has almost non-existent bezels on the two sides and top, and a slim chin. MediaTek Helio P22 SoC powers the device. There are 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage and expandable up to 256GB by a microSD card. It runs on Android 8.1 Oreo, and also comes with Face Unlock functionality. In the camera department, there is a 13MP rear with f/2.2 aperture and a LED-flash, and an 8MP front with features like AI Makeup & beauty effects. It is powered by a 3,260mAh battery.
The passed certification hints that Vivo Y83 will be launched in China and only a few weeks away from the official launch. As per China telecom listing, the smartphone is expected to be released in China on May 20.


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* Bruun, Patrick. ''"The Christian Signs on the Coins of Constantine."'' '''Arctos''', Series 2, vol.3 (1962), pp.5-35.
* [[w:Jacob Burckhardt|Burckhardt]], Jacob (1818-97). ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=5HAOTTr4TMkC&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Age of Constantine the Great].'' (1st ed. 1852; 2nd ed. 1880). University of California Press, 1983. 400pp. ISBN 9780520046801
* Elliott, Thomas George. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=R_bFQgAACAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Christianity of Constantine the Great].'' University of Scranton Press, 1996. 366pp. ISBN 9780940866591
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World Cup 2010 Stadium Maps
This website has put together a collection of satellite views of the 2010 World Cup stadiums in South Africa. All the stadiums have now been built but Google has caught some of the stadiums in mid-construction and, in the case of the Mbombela Stadium, even before construction started.
Google have plans to launch Street View in South Africa before the start of next year's World Cup and I wouldn't be surprised if the satellite imagery is updated sometime in the next six months.


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Lord Sifton Of Fleet?
Hard Covers, Soft Coverage
Meghan Clarke
Michael Sifton strolls out the front door of his Markham office carrying a Tim Hortons coffee. It's before 7 a.m. and Sifton's Cadillac SUV is the only car in the lot. I am joining Osprey Media Group's president and CEO for a drive to one of his newspapers, The Barrie Examiner. Today is not a typical trip, though. At a scheduled meeting with his publishers, Sifton will announce a new benefits package for workers at Osprey's non?unionized newspapers-he says the announcement shows that, despite three recent labour disruptions, the company is investing in employees and boosting morale.
It's lightly snowing as we edge along a back route from Markham to Highway 400. Sifton talks like he leads, with confidence and conviction. His honesty is his greatest attribute-and perhaps his biggest flaw. Sifton speaks candidly about his deep distaste for unions, blaming them for Osprey's setbacks. Nevertheless, he is disappointed that collective bargaining agreements prevent workers at his unionized papers from taking advantage of his new package.
Labour woes aside, Sifton is upbeat. He meets his chief financial officer, John Leader, in the Examinerparking lot, where they joke about sporting the same corporate uniform: navy pinstriped suits. Inside, employees greet Sifton with updates on their latest projects. He talks to one about a mitten drive for the needy and inquires about another's deceased father.
Upstairs, in the Examiner's loft-style meeting room, Sifton calls the group to order. He casually leans on the podium while he gives his unrehearsed introduction. Sifton, 43, calls the new package an evolutionary step that will standardize benefits across the company. After his quick remarks, he grabs a muffin and coffee and sits across the room while Leader follows with a brief PowerPoint presentation. Sifton adds to his CFO's talk, pausing to make sure the group understands details of the plan, like which costs the company will cover. Overall, the publishers are receptive to the plan, which Sifton says is more tax effective. After the meeting, the room buzzes with talk of trade secrets sales skills, and praise for the plan. Later on, Sifton leads a tour around the Examiner's new premises, a Beaver Lumber store he revamped during his tenure at Hollinger International Inc.
Osprey was created almost two years ago, when Sifton bought 29 papers, including The Kingston Whig-Standard, from Conrad Black's Hollinger. In late January of this year, the company ended nine months of negotiations with CanWest Global Communications and scooped up more southern Ontario assets, including four dailies: the St. Catharines Standard, the Niagara Falls Review, the Welland Tribune, and the BrantfordExpositor. The company is focused on acquiring daily and weekly Ontario newspapers outside major metropolitan markets and is expanding rapidly. It currently has over 60 daily and weekly papers, with a total Ontario circulation of 1.3 million.
In the newspaper business there are two types of owners-those who love newspapers and those who don't. Sifton has been called both a paternalist and a capitalist, celebrated for his avuncular leadership and his lack of micromanagement, and condemned for embracing modern financial realities. He takes pride in being the folksy CEO who greets employees on a first-name basis-like his father-yet wants to be respected for his own accomplishments. He bought a preexisting newspaper chain at top market value and was recently embroiled in a number of lengthy labour disputes. Still, Sifton is smartly amassing a collection of small-town products with little or no competition. Can the fourth generation newspaperman run Osprey like a family business and still be ruthlessly corporate when it comes to the bottom line?
Outside the Cobourg Daily Star In downtown Cobourg, five picketers stand bundled in toques and scarves, carrying signs that read "Local 30248 on Strike." The group is a mixture of Daily Star employees and workers from the Port Hope Evening Guide, both Osprey papers that have been on strike since October 11, 2002. It's now three weeks before Christmas and the end is nowhere in sight.
Northumberland Publishers, a subsidiary of Osprey, has filed a complaint with the Ontario Labour Relations Board citing unfair labour practices by the union. The newspaper company asked the board to declare that the Communications Workers of America (Local 30248) breached its duty to bargain in good faith by coercing and manipulating its members, referring to the union's generous strike pay as evidence. Guide andDaily Star employees were paid $500 per week in strike pay, more than most of the paper's part-time workers earn in salary. In Sifton's opinion, "The union has bought the strike. It's Christmas come early."
But employees at the papers deny that the high strike pay is preventing them from settling with the company. Gord Bullock, a scanner operator from the Daily Star, says, "The publisher [Mike Walsh] and Mike Sifton think we're staying out longer because we're being paid well-that's not the case at all. Who wants to stand outside in the cold?" (A few months later, Bullock and Sifton would be equally at odds over Bullock's fate post-strike. Bullock said he was laid off on March 5; Sifton's interpretation was that his contract was not renewed.)
In the initial negotiations, Osprey offered pay increases of 2.5 percent in the first year and two percent in the next two years, which the union thought was insufficient. Nigel Sones, the business agent for the local, says the union wants cost of living, calculated by Statistics Canada in July 2002 as 2.9 percent. John Miller, head of the newspaper stream at Ryerson University's School of Journalism, says, "Sifton pays his reporters peanuts. "Top-paid reporters at the Guide and Daily Star earn $522.65 per week, about $250 less than their counterparts at the Osprey-owned Peterborough Examiner. Miller, who showed his support at the picket line, thinks Osprey's ailing finances contributed to the strike. "Sifton paid a lot for the papers, which means he's heavily in debt," he says. The strikers disagree. They claim that the company is making money-profit that's not trickling down to the local level. According to the union's literature, "The truth is that, year after year, contract after contract, employees have been promised better wages when there are better times. Unfortunately, when the better times arrive, the company continues to under-pay and under-value its employees."
Strikers are frustrated with the company's top-down negotiating tactics. "Management was proposing to take away sick days," says one employee on the Daily Star line. Currently, Guide and Daily Star employees are entitled to three-quarters of a sick day per month, but Osprey proposed eliminating three from workers' contracts. "Sick days are X numbers of days that an employee gets to claim that they're sick," says Sifton, "so they're really additional holidays." On December 5, 2002, the company met with the union to renegotiate the original three-year offer. Instead of agreeing to cost of living, Osprey spread the increases over four years and the union dismissed the proposal as a copout.
During negotiations, Osprey did adjust the dental plan and mileage compensation and put forward special increases for certain job classifications, including composing, flyer inserting, and advertising But a wage comparison after the adjustment reveals that workers at the Guide and Daily Star still earn less than most employees at other Osprey papers. Composers make $13.05 an hour, while their counterparts at the Lindsay Daily Post are paid $16.02 an hour and at The Peterborough Examiner $20.56 an hour. Sifton attributes the wage discrepancy to size-circulation at the Guide and the Daily Star averages 3,078 and 5,335, respectively-and a shoestring budget. "In a small business you don't have the ability to pay the same as a big business," says Sifton. "The company's gone as far as it can go. We'll operate the way we have to operate."
Osprey published both papers with the help of managers from its other properties. In early December, union workers from the papers gathered at Queen's Park in Toronto to support the New Democratic Party's antiscab legislation, but their enthusiasm got them kicked out of the legislature. That same day the group picketed Osprey's headquarters in Markham, with signs proclaiming "Michael Sifton: Scab Boss," "Conrad Black Come Back, All Is Forgiven," and "Osprey Media: Scab Inc." In a newsletter detailing the events, the union criticized Sifton's absence at the protest, but he counters, "I can't communicate with these folks by law because it would be considered bad faith bargaining."
The union and the company met for a second time on February 5, 2003, but the bargaining session was a bust. The union rejected the company's latest offer (2.5 percent in the first year, two percent in the next two years, and a total increase of three percent in the fourth year) by a margin of almost 70 percent. However, less than two weeks later, the union revoted 62 percent in favour of the deal after the company refused to arbitrate. The settlement includes severance packages for full-time and part-time employees laid off during the nine months following the strike.
Employees returned to work late February and began rebuilding the credibility of the papers, which some speculate is in jeopardy. In an article for The Independent, an online publication, Miller wrote that during the strike, "Coverage of local issues has declined, several advertisers have pulled out, and reader cancellations have put a dent in pre-strike circulations." According to Osprey's figures, though, the dent is really only a nick: by the end of the strike only 44 and 66 subscribers deserted the Guide and the Daily Star, respectively. The 110 cancellations amounted to a miniscule 1.3 percent drop in total circulation. But the scab-produced papers had their share of typos; the first issue carried a picture of a boat on the water with a headline that read, 'Saling along.'
In light of the recent strike, Sifton's announcement in Barrie might seem ironic-he antes up at the nonunion shops, yet leaves workers at two unionized papers pacing outside in the cold. Sifton credits his attitude about unions to his background and says, "We worked very hard to keep it nonunion." His father instilled in him a familial management style where one-on-one negotiating warded off the threat of organization. Although Sifton has defeated several union drives, over half of his papers are unionized. He says, "More and more of what we're seeing is this interest from the unions in targeting Osprey."
Although both strikes ended mid-February (and a three-month lockout at the Sudbury Star ended in late January), Osprey is not yet in full flight. The company is carrying a debt load of close to $500 million from the Hollinger and CanWest purchases. Some believe the Hollinger buys were made when the papers were at top market value, which may be affecting Osprey's ability to pay competitive wages. But Doug Knight, former Financial Post publisher and president and CEO of Knight Paton Media Corp., says Sifton cleaned up in terms of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. "Mike paid less than eight times EBITDA for the papers from Hollinger, which is extraordinary. In the United States, the same papers are going for 10, 11, 12 times EBITDA." Plus, Osprey has strong financial backers, including the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Scotia Merchant Capital. Sifton and his merchant bank partners are considering turning Osprey into a publicly traded commodity, but he says, "I don't think it will occur for at least the next 12 months."
In July 2001, the company began operations by purchasing 16 daily and 13 weekly Hollinger properties. Then in November of that year, it bought two more dailies, the Sarnia Observer and The Chatham Daily News. On January 27 this year, it paid $193.5 million for CanWest's four small daily and 21 weekly southern Ontario newspapers. This last buy almost doubled the company's size, making Sifton the owner of more daily newspapers than anyone in Canada, outranking Sun Media (Quebecor), with 15, and CanWest, which now runs 13 big-market dailies.
While Osprey's financial status is top secret, it is palpable that the company's got a stronghold on the community newspaper market. Sifton's strategy combines the old Thomson model of maintaining a war chest of smalltown papers-papers that usually have zero competition because the communities aren't large enough to support more than one-with a tight geographical focus. "We like the characteristics of smaller newspapers," says Sifton, "where there's a special bond between community folks and their daily or weekly newspapers."
Employees at the St. Catharines Standard, Osprey's new flagship, are rejoicing about its new ownership. The paper has been through a series of ownership changes recently, jumping from Southam to Hollinger to CanWest, and is feeling secure about its future with Osprey. Andrea Kriluck, The Standard's region editor, believes the paper is an excellent fit with Osprey's existing portfolio. "The Standard is very much a community paper," she says.
According to Fred Laflamme, publisher of the Whig-Standard, Sifton's philosophy is respect for the bottom line equals respect for the byline. Kriluck says, "Mike Sifton is a man who has a long history in newspapers. He really understands what newspapers are all about." Laflamme adds, "He absolutely respects the integrity of the local newspaper. His view is the newspaper knows best what's happening in the local marketplace."
Eric Reguly, business columnist for The Globe and Mail, says Osprey is positioned to become a force in the small to medium-size newspaper market. Because most of Osprey's papers are monopolies, they are insulated from having to compete locally for advertising. But the Toronto Star's David Olive says, "It's too early to speculate about who might emerge as the dominant owner." Compounding Osprey's labour challenge is its need to compete with community newspaper giants like Metroland, a Torstar subsidiary, and Knight Paton Media Corp. The strikes in Port Hope and Cobourg cost Osprey its advertising contract with Canadian Tire-the money went to Osprey's nemesis, Metroland.
Osprey competes with Torstar for ads and readership, especially around the Greater Toronto Area. "Torstar's strategy is to build a ring around Toronto," Reguly says, "to lock up all the advertising from Oshawa to Hamilton and north to Barrie, in the economic heartland of Canada." But Sifton isn't concerned. He jokes, "I should have a real negative relationship with [Star publisher] John Honderich. John goes into my markets and gives away the Toronto Star. You go into a store in Barrie on a Saturday, and there are big racks of free newspapers."
Sir Clifford Sifton, a newspaper publisher from Brandon, Manitoba, founded the Sifton newspaper dynasty in 1899 when he bought the Manitoba Free Press (later the Winnipeg Free Press) from the Canadian Pacific Railway. The empire was passed on to two of Sir Clifford's five sons, Clifford Jr and Victor, but was divided by a family quarrel in 1953. Victor got the Winnipeg Free Press and the rural Free Press Weekly. Clifford Jr , Sifton's grandfather, took the Regina Leader-Post, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, several radio and television stations, and a few smaller companies and properties. In 1960, he formed Armadale Communications, the family's holding company, which also operated the Toronto Buttonville Municipal Air-port (still Sifton-owned), and founded Toronto Life magazine in 1966.
As a boy, Sifton travelled to Saskatchewan with his father and used the presses at the Leader-Post and theStar Phoenix as jungle gyms. In the newspaper business, he went from cub reporter at The Brockville Recorder and Times to reporter at the St. Catharines Standard and the Canadian Press, to cooperative advertising salesman. In 1992, he became publisher of the Star Phoenix and the Leader Post, relocating his family to Saskatoon. Bill Peterson, editor of the Star Phoenix at the time, says Sifton was "this 30-ish guy who wanted to get really involved-he just had a different approach than his dad."
Peterson remembers meeting Sifton's father, Michael Sr., in 1972 when he was working as a night copy boy at the Star Phoenix. "I'd been there a couple of months. I was working away one night, and I looked up and there's Michael Sifton Sr. coming to introduce himself. Scared the crap out of me. But he was a gentle, approachable guy." Sifton's father knew every employee by name, despite only visiting his papers a handful of times per year. But the family was most famous for its benevolent newspapering and no-layoff policy-during the Depression in the 1930s, amid wholesale-layoffs elsewhere, the Siftons never jettisoned a soul.
Today, many westerners haven't forgiven Sifton for the sale of the Leader-Post and the Star Phoenix to Conrad Black in 1996. The papers had been the twin jewels of the Sifton empire since 1928; Sifton blamed the sale on Saskatchewan's shrinking tax base, and more importantly, the need for a new press, which at the time came with a steep $15 million price tag.
The sale was finalized on February 29, 1996, and Black appointed Sifton chairman of the Sterling group of newspapers. Sifton's first big move as a Hollinger executive was to fire roughly 170 employees from the two papers he'd grown up with, an order he fulfilled two days into the new regime. At Hollinger, Sifton began creating a new culture-still evident at the papers he bought from Black-appointing new publishers, senior management, and support staff. He standardized the ideology of his employees, preferring community-conscious and volunteer-oriented individuals. Anyone who didn't merge with the company's new business philosophy was dismissed. "They just weren't the right folks to lead the operations the way I wanted them led," says Sifton.
Sifton sits beside his large oak desk, behind which his father governed Armadale. His Markham office is large and mostly bare. Above his desk, on a map of Ontario, colour-coded pushpins track Osprey's properties and its competition. Sifton shows me a photograph of an osprey bird in flight, the winner of a company-wide photo contest. Under the window are photos of his two daughters, 15 and 13, and his son, eight, whom he rarely spends much time with during the week. His routine is rigorous-in the office by 7 a.m., and while he'd like to be home by 7 p.m., it's rare that he is. But he's a hockey dad on weekends, conducting conference calls between games.
Sifton plays Osprey's multimedia CD-ROM on his laptop. Images of beaming faces flick on and off the screen, while testimonials boast that Osprey's papers connect communities. Sifton sits watching quietly until the words "past," "present," and "future" fade in and out of view, followed by black and white photographs of his ancestors. Sifton's voice booms from the speakers, "Newspapers are in my blood….You could say I'm perpetuating the tradition." He grumbles, "I hate that part."
But despite his family's success, Sifton's colleagues don't connect his accomplishments to lineage. Paul McCuaig, publisher of the North Bay Nugget, says Sifton's ancestry "looks good on a resume or a corporate video, but it doesn't draw much water." Don Babick, retired president and chief operating officer of CanWest Publications Inc. (formerly Southam), concedes that Sifton's father may have influenced his decision to pursue a career in newspapers. But he adds that Sifton secured his own reputation in the industry by being part of the team that restructured the Canadian Press from 1996 to 1999 and saved the venerable newswire from bankruptcy "He is an extremely good operator who is passionate about the business," says Babick.
Sifton personally reinforces the company motto, "Building Better Communities." According to Laflamme, Sifton thrives on his regular tours of newsrooms. "He's done it 16 times before," the Whig-Standard publisher says, "and there's nothing new to see except staff members. But that's what it's all about."
Outside Sifton's office window, planes rumble out of Buttonville. Although he's surrounded by the past, Sifton says he's moved on. "It's not the fact that my great-grandfather was a publisher-it's because this is me," he says. "I'm not doing this because of some tradition."
For a man who refuses to see himself as a scion, Sifton still acts very much like the paternalistic manager of a family-owned business. He prefers dispensing gifts to loyal employees rather than negotiating with union bosses. McCuaig says succinctly, "He expects a certain level of performance and a day's work for a day's pay" And indeed, Sifton is strategic, pragmatic, and forever focused on making his papers profitable.
Going forward, Osprey's future hinges on Sifton's ability to manage his hybrid of family values and corporate governance. So far, despite the union woes, his balancing act seems to be working.
Meghan Clarke was the Managing Editors, Circulation for the Summer 2003 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
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Adele is a world-famous young singer/songwriter whose first album '19' (made when she was 19) came out in 2008. Her voice and songwriting captured the ears of music lovers and she still holds them today. She followed the path with more albums named after her age (21 and 25), and in between wrote and recorded Skyfall, for the James Bond film in 2012.
Her songs are generally done with piano accompaniment, but all of these lessons show how a guitarist might approach them. Most of these were put together by Vanessa, with one each from Max and Neil.
Lesson 1: Lovesong - Adele - Guitar Lesson
Adele is a British singer-songwriter and really doesn't need any introduction at all.
Lovesong is the tenth track on her huge selling 2nd studio album '21.' It was originally written and recorded by the English alternative rock band The Cure and appears on their 1989 album 'Disintegration.'
This lesson is primarily based on an acoustic version as performed at KCRW, in which she was accompanied by only one guitar player along with a synthesizer.
The song features a very cool bossa nova groove in the key of Am, where the guitar is capoed on the 3rd fret. The playing involves random picking, muting, slapping the strings and a lot of embellishments such as hammer-on's and pull-off's.
Anyone trying to tackle this song should be comfortable fingerpicking in general.
Lesson 2: Daydreamer - Adele - Guitar Lesson
Daydreamer is a lovely tune by British singer Adele and appears as the first track of her debut studio album '19', released in 2008.
The song features a fingerpicking arrangement with just a few chords in the key of A and one chordshape.
We take a close look at the picking patterns with its syncopated feel and the entire progression, which includes a few time signature changes.
Lesson 3: Make You Feel My Love by Adele - Guitar Lesson
This haunting and beautiful rendition by Adele is a great lesson for all you fingerpickers out there. Played with a capo on the first fret, this lesson will provide you with a challenge in emulating the piano parts while simultaneously playing the vocal melody.
A must learn song for anybody serious on taking their fingerstyle playing to the next level!
Lesson 4: Rolling In The Deep - Guitar Lesson
Rolling In The Deep is a fun guitar song from Adele's album 21. It uses mostly power chords and barre chords, with a steady strumming pattern, and some syncopated changes and accents. The lesson is done in the key of Bm, which is the key where most of her live performances are even though the studio version was done in Cm. It also takes a short look at a more acoustic-based arrangement in the key of Am. There is a vocal lesson on this at TotallyVocals.com as well.
Lesson 5: Someone Like You - Adele - Guitar Lesson
Someone Like You is a beautiful song from Adele's second album, 21, and was originally played on a piano. In this lesson we take a look at how to play a similar arrangement on the guitar. The song is in the key of A, and we capo the guitar at the second fret and play it in the key of G. It will be very translatable and doable this way. We will of course take a look at the fingerpicking pattern for the right hand as well as the chords and the specific fingerings for the left hand in order to get as close as possible to the inversions which were used on the piano.
Lesson 6: When We Were Young by Adele - Guitar Lesson
When We Were Young is a soul ballad by British singer-songwriter Adele. It's taken from her 2015 album '25' and was released as the 2nd single early 2016.
It features a piano arrangement in the key of Cm/Eb, but translates very well to the guitar by capoing it at the 3rd fret and using shapes in the key of Am/C instead. A few chords might be challenging still.
We take a look at a couple of ways for the right hand, as in one could fingerpick through the song, or strum it, or use a combination of both. It's highly encouraged to find your own way of playing it.
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Sometimes I sit in my kitchen, or on my sofa in the living room, I close my eyes and imagine food. Just food. I can see colourful ingredients, vegetables, seafood, spices and herbs, or beautiful dishes carefully prepared on plates. I don't have to do anything, these pictures appear naturally in front of my inner eye. It's a helpful gift and the reason I never fear running out of inspiration, as long as I take my time to sit down with a cup of tea, relax and let go my kitchen ideas will come to me.
Culinary daydreams are fun and I particularly enjoy the ones about new sandwich creations. It makes me feel like a child in a toy shop. I can pull any ingredient out of the imaginary shelf, mix wildly and create whatever comes to mind on the plates, or I can keep it simple and work (or dream) minimal. Fruit and ripe cheese is always a great match, but there's so much more, sweet and salty, creamy and crunchy, sour and spicy, fresh and aged aromas, there are endless possibilities.
It's an exciting process as I never know how it will taste until I finished taking the last picture and enjoy the first bite. Some recipes are hard to imagine but I always follow my gut feeling (literally) and that's quite reliable. Today I felt like cumin guacamole, it's a great fusion of this distinctive spice and the wonderful velvety fruit, they truly bring out the best in each other! I merged this duo with the salty taste of the sea, fresh herbs and some hot spiciness. Shrimp, avocado, coriander and red chili peppers stuffed between a bun, my daydreaming was right, it was delicious!
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Cut 1 avocado into slices, chop the second one with a fork and mix with 2 tablespoons of the sour cream. Season with lemon juice, cumin, salt and pepper to taste.
Divide the guacamole between the 2 buns and spread it voluptuously on the bottom half. Lay the shrimp and avocado slices on top and sprinkle with the remaining sour cream, the chili pepper, crushed pepper and coriander leaves. Enjoy!
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Proud Boys member arrested on assault, weapons charges in Portland
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Activist Alan Swinney of Texas attends a "We The People" rally as a conglomeration of groups opposed to their rally demonstrate, background, across Market St. on Independence Mall Saturday Nov. 17, 2018, in Philadelphia. Hundreds assembled to oppose the rally, which drew less than fifty supporters. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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A member of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, is under arrest and facing nearly a dozen charges in Portland. The charges allege Alan Swinney pointed a revolver at counterprotesters and fired a paintball gun and mace at them on two separate occasions in August.
Swinney, who is scheduled for a court appearance Thursday, was charged in a secret indictment Sept. 11 but not arrested until Wednesday.
"In summary, the indictment alleges that Swinney used a paintball gun on August 15, 2020 to cause physical injury to another person," the statement from the Multnomah County District Attorney's office said.
"Further, the indictment alleges that Swinney used a paintball gun on August 22, 2020 to once again cause physical injury to another person; that he also carried and then pointed a revolver at someone which placed that person in fear of imminent serious physical injury and that he unlawfully discharged mace or a similar substance toward another person."
Swinney remained in custody Wednesday and it wasn't immediately clear if he had retained an attorney or would be assigned a public defender.
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Portland has seen protests almost every night for more than four months since George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis. Many of them end in vandalism of police and government buildings and violence against police officers.
The Proud Boys have visited Portland several times since Trump's election, often drawing a response from hundreds of counterprotesters.
During Tuesday's presidential debate, President Donald Trump refused to condemn armed militias. When prompted about the Proud Boys, he said: "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by."
On Wednesday, when asked to clarify his remarks, President Trump told reporters he doesn't know who the Proud Boys are. He said, "I don't know who Proud Boys are, but whoever they are, they have to stand down and let law enforcement do their work."


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Фон-дю-Лак () — город в штате Висконсин, США. Административный центр одноимённого округа. Население города составило 42 992 человека по данным переписи населения 2010 года. Название «Фон-дю-Лак» происходит от французского «Fond du Lac», что означает «низ озера».

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Фон-дю-Лак расположен на южном берегу озера Уиннебейго, в 95 км к северо-западу от Милуоки.

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По данным переписи населения 2010 года, численность населения города составила 42 992 человека.

Расовый состав города:
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 афроамериканцы — 2,6 %
 индейцы — 0,8 %
 азиаты — 1,7 %
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package com.tlongdev.spicio.domain.interactor;

import com.tlongdev.spicio.SpicioApplication;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.component.DaggerInteractorComponent;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.component.InteractorComponent;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.domain.interactor.impl.TvdbSearchInteractorImpl;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.domain.model.TvdbSeriesOld;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.domain.repository.TvdbRepository;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.module.DaoModule;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.module.FakeAppModule;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.module.FakeNetworkRepositoryModule;
import com.tlongdev.spicio.module.FakeThreadingModule;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verifyNoMoreInteractions;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

/**
 * @author Long
 * @since 2016. 02. 28.
 */
@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class TvdbSearchInteractorTest {

    @Mock
    private TvdbRepository mRepository;

    @Mock
    private TvdbSearchInteractor.Callback mMockedCallback;

    @Mock
    SpicioApplication mApp;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {

        FakeNetworkRepositoryModule networkRepositoryModule = new FakeNetworkRepositoryModule();
        networkRepositoryModule.setTvdbRepository(mRepository);

        InteractorComponent component = DaggerInteractorComponent.builder()
                .spicioAppModule(new FakeAppModule(mApp))
                .networkRepositoryModule(networkRepositoryModule)
                .daoModule(mock(DaoModule.class))
                .threadingModule(new FakeThreadingModule())
                .build();

        when(mApp.getInteractorComponent()).thenReturn(component);
    }

    @Test
    public void testSearchResult() {

        String searchQuery = "thrones";

        List<TvdbSeriesOld> seriesList = new LinkedList<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
            seriesList.add(mock(TvdbSeriesOld.class));
        }

        when(mRepository.searchSeries(searchQuery)).thenReturn(seriesList);

        TvdbSearchInteractorImpl interactor = new TvdbSearchInteractorImpl(
                mApp, searchQuery, mMockedCallback
        );
        interactor.run();
        verify(mRepository).searchSeries(searchQuery);
        verifyNoMoreInteractions(mRepository);
        verify(mMockedCallback).onTvdbSearchFinish(seriesList);
    }

    @Test
    public void testSearchFail() {
        String searchQuery = "thrones";

        when(mRepository.searchSeries(searchQuery)).thenReturn(null);

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I was over in Llangollen this morning carrying out an inspection of an activity provider. It was a bit of a shock when I got up at 7 0'clock this morning to see that it was really damp and overcast but it did improve by the time I got to Betws y Coed. All went well with the inspection and thanks to Rich and Tom for the warm welcome.
I was running AMI trainee workshop yesterday and we were lucky enough to have staff from an activity centre to be mock students for us. This meant that each of the MIA trainees had two clients to look after for the whole day which worked out really well and was a win win situation for all concerned. The other bonus was the weather was dry and warm (ish).
We made an ascent of the direct start to Seniors Ridge (2) then up to Cwm Cneifion via the obvious gully and after a bit of a chat we decided to go for Cneifion Arete (3). After a lunch stop on the top of the route we opted for a quick ascent of Glyder Fawr via Y Gribin and then down Seniors Ridge. It was only when we arrived back on the main path from the diagonal path from Cwm Cneifion that it started spitting with rain but thankfully it didn't come to anything. For more photos of the day click here.
I've just returned from another round of rope assessments for PGL. I visited 3 different centres over the last week travelling from Lancashire to Shropshire and then ending the tour in Lincolnshire. I arrived home this afternoon after a 4 hour journey but what surprised me was the difference in temperature - it was 4 degrees and very foggy near Grantham this morning but when I arrived home it was a balmy 10 degrees.
It was another warm day today with the freezing level above the tops. Most of the snow which was around on Tuesday has all but gone except for the very high or sheltered north facing tops. As you can see of this shot of Glyder Fawr from Llanberis at lunch time today there's no snow but there are still quite sizable patched still on Snowdon especial on the paths so please be careful and avoid if you haven't the boots or crampons to deal with these conditions.
The freezing level was up at about 900m this morning but there was still a fair bit of snow around at above 600m on Moel Eilio this morning but the snow pack was pretty wet.
I've been away again for the last few days conducting some more rope assessments for PGL. I was down in the Brecon Beacons to start off with at a centre not far from Hay on Wye for a couple of days and then headed off across to Swindon for another couple of days at one of PGL's new centres in Liddington. I had a good mix of assessments to carry out including climbing, abseiling and high ropes courses. The staff were very enthusiastic and jolly despite having to put up with my bad jokes!


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Marius Corbett, född 26 september 1975 i Potchefstroom, är en sydafrikansk före detta friidrottare som tävlade i spjutkastning.

Corbett blev 1994 juniorvärldsmästare i spjutkastning och följde upp detta 1997 genom att vinna VM i Athen. 1998 noterade Corbett sitt personliga rekord 88,75 vilket fortfarande är afrikanskt mästerskapsrekord i spjut. Rekordet noterade han i Kuala Lumpur under Samväldesspelen 1998 där rekordet även räckte till guld.

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Födda 1975
Sydafrikanska spjutkastare
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UK Subs är ett engelskt punkband som startades 1976 i London. Gruppen består av Charlie Harper, Nicky Garratt, Pete Davies och Paul Slack.

Gruppens låt "Warhead" spelas i filmen This is England.

Diskografi
Studioalbum

Singlar och EP (topp 50 på UK Singles Chart)
1979 – "Stranglehold" (# 26)
1979 – "Tomorrow's Girls" (# 28)
1979 – She's Not There / Kicks (EP) (# 36)
1980 – "Warhead" (# 30)
1980 – "Teenage" (# 32)
1980 – "Party In Paris" (# 37)
1981 – "Keep On Runnin' (Till You Burn)" (# 41)

Samlingsalbum
1983 – Punk And Disorderly III - The Final Solution1990 – Hardcore Breakout USA1995 – Hardcore Breakout USA Volume 21996 – The British Punk Invasion Vol 21997 – The Punk, The Bad & The Ugly1998 – At War With Society1999 – A Triple Dose Of Punk2003 – Angry Songs and Bitter Words''

Externa länkar

Officiell webbplats
Diskografi på Discogs

Brittiska punkband
Brittiska musikgrupper
Musikgrupper bildade 1976


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As we predicted, no chance of a Grexit.
Posted: July 23, 2015 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: economics, EU, Europe, Greece, Greek deal passes, Grexit
As we said, seemingly alone amongst politics-watchers, the storm in a teacup – albeit a very big, expensive teacup – is duly passing.
The Greek prime minister secured the votes after a debate into the small hours
Greece has taken a crucial step towards a bailout after its parliament passed a crucial second set of reforms.
The passage of the measures means that negotiations on an €86bn European Union bailout can begin.
The reforms include changes to Greek banking and an overhaul of the judiciary system.
Thousands demonstrated outside of parliament as the bill was debated, with protests briefly turning violent as petrol bombs were thrown at police by a few anarchists.
There had been fears of a rebellion by MPs but Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was easily able to must the support required. In total, the measures received 230 votes in favour and 63 against with five abstentions. Among those who voted against were 31 members of his own Syriza party. However, this represents a smaller rebellion than in last week's initial vote. Demonstrating the breadth of understanding that the reform package had to pass,former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was one of those rebels in the first vote who returned to vote with the government this time.
Speaking before the vote, Mr Tsipras stressed that he was not happy with the measures that creditors had imposed. Well, he could hardly have appeared chirpy, could he? That would have been political suicide.
"We chose a difficult compromise to avert the most extreme plans by the most extreme circles in Europe," he told MPs.
Representatives of the European institutions that would provide the bailout funds will begin negotiations in Athens on Friday.
Last week, Greece passed an initial set of austerity measures imposed by its creditors. These were a mix of economic reforms and budget cuts demanded by the eurozone countries and institutions before bailout talks could continue.
This second set of measures passed early on Thursday morning were of a more structural nature, including:
a code of civil protection aimed at speeding up court cases
the adoption of an EU directive to bolster banks and protect savers' deposits of less than €100,000
the introduction of rules that would see bank shareholders and creditors – not taxpayers – cover costs of a failed bank
More contentious measures – phasing out early retirement and tax rises for farmers – have been pushed back to August. As we said, these issues were always going to be the can that got kicked along the road. The political fallout will need to be managed by the Greek Government and that cannot occur in a few days.
Negotiations will now begin on approving the terms of a third bailout, with the aim of completing a deal by the middle of next month. It's a tight timetable but doable. What is not clear is that Mr Tsipras still has to decide whether a successful conclusion of negotiations should be followed by early elections. Our bet is not.
The deal explained
On Wednesday, the European Central Bank (ECB) increased its cash lifeline to Greek banks.
The emergency injection of an extra €900m (£630m), the ECB's second in a week, came just hours before the vote.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirmed on Monday that Greece had cleared its overdue debt repayments of €2.05bn and was no longer in arrears. The repayments, which included €4.2bn to the ECB, were made possible by a short-term EU loan of €7.16bn.
Greece's next major deadline is 20 August, when it must pay €3.2bn owed to the ECB, followed by a payment of €1.5bn to the IMF in September.
Essentially, the deal is akin to a Bank lending money to a drunken defaulting home owner to repay the mortgage they unwisely lent them in the first place. There is a lot of talk about how irresponsible the handling of the Greek economy has been by successive Greek Governments – not to mention that tax avoidance is something of a national sport – and that is all true.
What has been especially annoying in much recent commentary has been the characterisation of the Greek people themselves as lazy. In fact, the opposite is true. They put in some of the longest hours of any workforce in the EU. Needless to say, the Greek people know this, and their anger at having to carry the burden of the stupidities of generations of those that rule them is justified. That they could be working more productively is hardly the point. At some stage, the role of both private management, union leadership and political governance needs to be taken into account. It's not all the fault of the "bleedin' workers".
What also needs to be factored in is that for decades now Europe has been lending Greece money for Greece to spend on vanity infrastructure projects supplied to them by Europe – arms is a classic example, manufactured mainly in Germany – Greece has a ridiculously large navy, for example – so the EU is at the very least as culpable in helping the Greeks to get into this mess in the first place.
Historically, Obama's intervention to urge the Europeans to settle with Greece will be seen, for those attuned to geo-political balances – as the tipping point. What is encouraging is that some of the other economic basket cases in Europe have not instantly put their hands up for extra funds. It appears that brisk diplomacy – along the lines of "Shut up, guys, we need to sort this out, we'll look at your situation down the track" – has worked in a timely fashion. But the Eurozone is not out of the woods yet.
One good start for Europe would be to substantially reduce the overhead structure of running the EU itself. The peoples of the constituent countries might be more amenable to pulling their heads in if they see the bloated and out of control Euro bureaucracy being made to do the same. No matter how pro-EU anyone is – and we are pro-EU, for political reasons more than economic ones – the Eurocrats need a serious haircut, and fast.
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Donald Trump: the man who will finally kill off the Republican Party, or just a very naughty boy?
When will Pakistan work out how to end this disgusting brutality? Woman hanged by her brothers for getting married.


World Cancer Day 2019 highlights the need for urgent action to increase early-stage cancer detection, screening, and diagnosis to significantly improve cancer patients' chances of survival. Taking place under the theme of "I Am and I Will(link is external)," today's World Cancer Day, led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), aims to inspire and encourage action from individuals, the health community, and governments to improve public awareness and access to early detection, screening, and diagnosis.
In 2018, there were more than 18 million new cases of cancer diagnosed, of which nearly 5 million cases of breast, cervical, colorectal, and oral cancers could have been detected sooner and treated more effectively. Early detection, screening, and diagnosis have been proven to significantly improve patient survival rates and quality of life as well as significantly reduce the cost and complexity of cancer treatment. However, barriers to achieving higher rates of early cancer detection need to be addressed now at the individual, health system, and governmental level to significantly reduce the personal and financial burden of cancer worldwide.
Universally, the majority of cancers are amenable to early detection. When a cancer is detected at an early stage—and when coupled with appropriate treatment—the chance of survival beyond five years is dramatically higher than when detected at a later stage when the tumour has spread and the disease is more advanced.
Early diagnosis can also significantly reduce the cost of treatment. Studies in high-income countries show that treatment costs for early-diagnosed cancer patients are two to four times less expensive than treating those diagnosed with advanced-stage cancer. A US study estimates the national cost savings from early diagnosis at $26 billion per year. A study of Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia found early intervention initiatives such as cervical cancer smear tests, colonoscopy screenings, and mammography screenings (combined with treatment) to be "highly cost effective." Despite this, millions of cancer cases are found late, leading to expensive and complex treatment options, diminished quality of life, and avoidable deaths.
Masculine gender norms, combined with a broader lack of men's health promotion, can prevent help-seeking behaviour even when men might suspect cancer early on. The strongest factor associated with men's help-seeking behaviour has been shown to be the encouragement and support of spouses and family members.
This news release originally appeared on the Union for International Cancer Control website on February 4, 2019. It has been lightly edited for style.


I have been at Bennington for 22 years, my first 7 was in the grade school then I moved up to high school Business. I have a BS in Business from ESU, a BS in Business Education from K-State and my MA in Education is from Baker University.
Accounting I - Description: Students will be introduced to the basic accounting concepts, principles, cycles, and equation. This course will take the students through a sole proprietorship service business and a partnership merchandising business. Working on the day-to-day transactions through the month end accounting. This will help provide them with the skills necessary to proceed further in accounting or to conduct their personal business. Using online working papers at aplia.com.
Personal Finance - Description: Students will be introduced to skills needed to help them become better consumers. The program will feature Dave Ramsey's Foundations-- which will include but not be limited by: Saving and Investing, Credit and Debt, Financial Responsibility and Money Management and Insurance/Risk Management and Income Careers.
Banking & Finance - Description: Students will be provided with an overview of the American monetary and banking system as well as types if financial institutions and the services and products that they offer. Course content may include government regulations; checking, savings, and money market accounts; loans; investments; and negotiable instruments.
Investing - Description: Students will be introduced to the world of investing, with its abundant opportunities and ever-present risk. The focus is on strategies for investing for the long term, as a part of an overall approach to financial planning that will empower young people to take control of their financial futures.
Business Essentials - Description: This course will introduce students to a variety of information to learn about the various business aspects in our society today. This is a basic business class, which will touch on many areas including but not limited to: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Economics and Customer Service.
Computer Graphics - Description: Students will learn to develop projects such as a catalog, newsletter, web page and many others using the applications within the Adobe Suite. These programs include: Photoshop, lndesign, Dreamweaver and Flash. The instruction will be at an introductory level so we have a chance to look at all products.
Media Technology - Description: Students will develop the skills needed to put together the school yearbook. They will study the ethical issues involved and the leadership skills necessary to motivate a staff for the entire year. Students will sell ads and raise money to cover the cost of the yearbook. Students are responsible for taking pictures, designing pages, and working with deadlines. With teacher approval.
Particular Topics in Media Technology (IHT) - Description: Students will be working on projects for the community and school. These will include but are not limited to web pages, brochures, bulletins, and newsletters. Students will be treated as if there were at a job, and there will be no formal classroom instruction. With teacher approval.
Internet Marketing (Broadcasting) - Description: provides a basic understanding of producing video for a variety of uses. Topics include analyzing the pre-production, production and post-production process, as well as exploring the equipment and techniques used to develop a quality video production. Students will learn the basics, from the creation of a project to editing and recording, camera features, angles, lighting, mounts and sound, for delivering a finished product through digital editing. Emphasis will be placed on news, commercial, and interview writing as well as broadcasting and public address skills. Requirements may include filming and broadcasting events outside of the school day and extra hours outside of the classroom. Some student projects may be used for Twin Valley Channel 93 content.
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Doing Mission
by Samuel Rowen
It is important for missionary strategists to take note of the ebb and flow of people in urban areas, and to realize that things will not continue the same forever.
A painting I once saw in Sao Paulo, Brazil, showed a dense forest of bodies, with crowding so great that people were being pushed into the ocean to drown. The common image that rises before one's eyes when the subject of urban growth in this century is raised, is one of unremitting expansion at an accelerating rate until population goes from shore to shore without brakes. Many of the projections published give the impression that the rate of increase is speeding up each year, and that cities will continue to flow outward as long as there is space. The photos of Mexico City, of the urban megalopolis of the Western world, and of the cities of Japan add credence to this image. However, the statistics do not show such a uniform and ever-increasing movement.
Daniel Vining, Jr. (Scientific American, April, 1985) discusses the relative growth in terms of "core" and "peripheral" urban areas. Core areas are those of the inner city, where there is a dense population. In most urban areas of the Third World, the core areas have not disintegrated as have many in the U.S., but continue to attract large numbers of people. However, the rates of growth are quite varied according to the influence of a number of identifiable factors. Vining's study related the experience of 46 countries on all continents, though lack of reliable statistics from the years 1950 to 1970 did not allow a complete coverage of Africa.
The factors that cause urban areas to grow at a rate much higher than the national average are evident. People in the city typically enjoy a higher standard of living than those in rural less developed countries (LDCs). They enjoy not only higher incomes but better housing, better health services, more adequate transportation, education, and the general excitement and variety of activities that cities provide. In many countries there are also other factors that push people to the cities. People move as commercial agriculture takes over or plantations expand, buying out small landholders who can no longer earn a livable wage. In this and similar ways there is a continued stimulus to move.
With the increase in the number of people, there are greater markets for products, so industrial investment also increases in the urban area, near markets, near the source of supply, and at the place where skilled workers are available. All of these factors increase pressure on the political system to increase investment in the urban infrastructure-roads, electricity, telephones, water, and sanitation services. These further increase the advantages of the core over the outlying periphery, and so even more people are drawn to the cities.
There comes a time, however, when such growth is too much. For instance, Cairo has reached such a high concentration that the advantages have diminished. The transportation system has become so clogged that walking is faster than riding a bus, and much faster than driving and trying to find a parking place.
As the urban dweller's economic level increases to a certain threshold, from $2,500 to $3,000 per capita earnings annually, the problems of the core become such that the area around the core becomes more attractive. Core population increase begins to drop, while the near periphery continues to expand. An example of this is Caracas, Venezuela. The limited space in the valley which the city occupies has been filled and wherever possible the waves of population have washed up the mountain sides, either in squatter settlements or high rise apartments. The result has been that as better roads reach into other valleys, other urban areas become attractive for industries, so both to the east and west of Caracas there are cities that are increasing in population at a higher rate than the core.
In some countries another factor appears to have stunted the core growth. Santiago, Chile, and Lima, Peru, are cases where there was an economic slump during the 1970s that decreased the attraction of the city. These countries already had a relatively large industrial base, and in the case of Santiago, Chile, the recession of the late '70s and '80s signaled a radical reduction in employment opportunities in the city. Expansion decreased rapidly.
A further factor is evident in the communist countries, where people's movement is controlled at the local level. In these countries, though similar to the LDCs, they have been able to limit the growth of cities and in some cases even reduce the population. Ho Chi Minh city and Pnom Penh are two examples where people were forced out of the cities to work in the country, thus limiting the urban growth.
Governments are forced to make some hard decisions if urban areas are not to become unmanageable. Either they can make the decision to invest in outlying areas so that the whole country develops together, or there will be continuing pressure on the core. However, since those in the core have the political clout, they apply pressure to upgrade the services in the core, which may exacerbate the problem.
It is important for missionary strategists to take note of the ebb and flow of people in urban areas, and to realize that things will not continue the same forever. The huge capital invested in church buildings of the inner cities of the U.S. should make people think twice about investing in real estate instead of in human resources. Church planting strategies should aim more at people, at providing "koinonia" with smaller and less expensive facilities. The church should always be in a position to fold her tents and migrate when necessary. -James H. Emery, Missionary Internship.
Organizational Lifestyle
Success in business is determined not by an I executive's skills alone, nor by the visible features-the strategy, structure, and reward system—of the organization. Rather, the organization itself has an invisible quality—a certain style, a character, a way of doing things—that may be more powerful than the dictates of any one person or any formal system. To understand the soul of the organization requires that we travel below the charts, rule books, machines and buildings in the underground world of corporate cultures."
In this way Ralph H. Kilmann ("Corporate Culture," Psychology Today, April, 1985) applies the concept of culture to organizational life. He says, "Culture provides meaning, direction and mobilization, a social energy that moves the corporation into either productive action or destruction." The birth of a new organization is accompanied by a burst of energy. The corporate culture forms rather quickly in the light of the organization's mission. Everyone is captivated by this dynamic drive and energy is directed toward the organization's goals.
A culture may be very functional at first. However, with the passage of time it becomes an entity in itself. Energy and resources are directed toward sustaining the life of the organization. Even when the culture of the organization becomes dysfunctional, members of the organization "learn the ropes" and work toward the maintenance of the organizational culture. Even when new "top" executives enter the culture and vow to bring about change, they find that the culture is often bigger than they are.
Mission agencies exhibit many of the characteristics Kilmann mentions in his article. Most of the agencies began with great dynamism and energy when a vision of a task was borne by an individual or group of individuals. Over time the organizations grow and develop a distinct lifestyle. When a mission agency gets caught in a rut it seems almost impossible to escape. Kilmann offers not only a way of assessing the corporate cultures that have emerged in mission agencies, but also a sense of hope about how these cultures can change and be renewed.
Organizations develop norms of appropriate behavior. They consist of such things as whether or not it is proper for a member to disagree in public with the "boss." The norms are not necessarily written, but they become known by the members of the corporation. People who violate these norms soon find themselves in cultural conflict." The need to be part of a family gives leverage to cause people to comply with the norms.
Conflicts become intense when there is a gap between the desired norms and the accepted norms. The courage to question the accepted norms requires the courage of a prophet. However, the prophet is not without honor, except in one's own culture. People outside the organization may find the individual's ideas and behavior appropriate, but inside the organization this kind of behavior is problematic and "counter-revolutionary" forces quickly come into play.
The author has developed an instrument to measure the gap between what the culture is and what it should be. It is called the Kilmann-Sacton Culture Gap Survey. Over 400 norms were collected from more than 25 different kinds of organizations. These were reduced to a final set of 28 norms which were derived statistically and clinically. An organization can be evaluated in terms of these norms. The manner in which an organizational culture has become dysfunctional can then be assessed.
The purpose of the organizational cultural evaluation is to close the gaps. Kilmann notes, "Without a supportive culture, every action by top management will be discounted by the groups below-even top-down efforts to change the culture." Organizational renewal is related to understanding how corporate cultures become dysfunctional and the processes of cultural change.
Since 1970 there has been almost a 100 percent in-I crease in single parent families ("The Atlanta Constitution," May 15, 1985), according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Single parent families now constitute 25.7 percent of all family situations. In 1980 it was 21.5 percent and in 1970 it was 12.9 percent.
Premarital births, separations, and divorces were the main reasons for the growth in one parent families. There was an increase in the percentage of males heading the single family households, but females still lead over 90 percent of these households.
Increasing studies indicate the psychological scars that children bear when they come from home situation: providing poor or inadequate parenting. When one out of every four homes has children lacking adequate pa rental models, it means that a proportion of the missionaries of the next generation will be coming from these kinds of home experiences. There is no indication that the trend is about to slow down or reverse itself.
The problem is not simply that the missionary pool will include large numbers of candidates who grew up in single parent homes. There will also be more single parent applicants. There is the problem of how this will impact the preaching of the gospel. A Japanese pastor remarked that the spread of the gospel in his land will be accelerated when there are sufficient models of the Christian family to be seen by his people. If the glory of God is to be declared among the nations, it will require strong Christian families. The present situation is not too promising. Will the day come when single parent homes will be in the majority? A reversal in this trend is important for the future shape of missions.
Popular Education
Popular education means education for the people. It comes "out of a Latin American reality of stucturally induced poverty, but has much to share with education all over the world." Francis O'Gorman discusses the underlying assumptions of this approach to education ("Popular Education in Brazil," Occasional Essays: Latin American Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies, XI:1,June 1984).
In listening to the proponents of popular education, it is easy to transfer many of the same concerns to the development of leadership in the church. A peasant from Northeastern Brazil expressed the need as: "Our struggle is that the poor should see with their own eyes, hear with their own ears, speak with their own mouths and walk with their own feet."
Popular education represents a threat to the establishment in that it attempts to break the dependency relationships of society. The outcomes are aimed at bringing about a shift in the concentration power. Ross Kinsler makes a similar point in his article about theological education by extension (TEE) when he asks if TEE is service or subversion. He concludes that it is subversive, because it is trying to subvert the power structures of the church away from the hierarchically clergy centered church to a people-of-God-centered church.
O'Gorman says that popular education was "catapulted into the '80s by an effervescent and disquieting socio-political awareness that the world, as it is lived by the oppressed poor, calls into question the world presented by the dominant powers in society." From the Base Communities of Paraiba, Brazil, in February, 1982, the following comment emerged.
There are two ways of getting to know life; from books and school, and from daily life. The knowledge of the "great ones" is a knowledge which we learn in the family, in school and in their organizations. The knowledge of the poor people is a knowledge which we learn in the family, in school and in the community. In the family, in school and in the organizations of the "great ones," as well as in our own family and school, the rule is: one commands and the others obey, one speaks and the others keep silent. We do this so often that we end up thinking that this is the normal way for things to happen. And everyone begins to act this way. But in the community things are different: we learn to liberate ourselves by thinking together, deciding together, and acting together.
O'Gorman notes that "popular education is for and by the common people." The language of the article is politically charged. This should not cause excessive concern because all of community life, whether in society or in the church, is political in nature. In looking at the church as community, it is important to assess the political dimensions of that life together. Shortly after the apostolic age, the church took on a form of political life with power residing at the top and the masses expected to be responsible to the decisions that flowed down. The attempts by the church to recover the understanding of the priesthood of all believers have not been too successful. The Reformers, though giving strong verbal assent to the doctrine, never altered totally the political structures of the church.
Education is still the key to power. However, education is still controlled by schools. Unless one has the right schooling labels, it is difficult to see oneself as having control over one's life. The emergence of popular education in Brazil has some important lessons for the church, if it wants to break the existing power grip and return to the priesthood of all believers.


Contrary to popular belief, most short links on Twitter are not malicious, according to Zscaler Security Research.
With bit.ly, Tiny URL and other similar services enabling users to compress web addresses in such a way that hides the true destination, some researchers have warned of a spike in malicious links.
URL shorteners are popular on Twitter, with bit.ly representing 40% of all links and Tiny URL responsible for 5% of links.
But a study of more than one million URLs by Zscaler, carried out before Twitter introduced a security system to scan all links used in tweets, showed that only 0.06% of them represented a security risk.
Researcher Julien Sobrier retrieved 1,314,615 URLs from Twitter's public timeline before protection was put in place and found only 773 led to malicious content, not including spam.
Bit.ly represented around 40% of malicious links and Tiny URL accounted for 6%, reflecting the proportion of overall number of links.
Despite introducing a scanning system similar to Twitter's, bit.ly's phishing and malware protection does not appear to be making it any safer than other URL shorteners, said Sobrier.
"The figures show it is actually much safer to follow links from Twitter than from some search results on Google," he said.
Observers have commented that although the threat of URL shorteners has been blown out of proportion, the study looked only at the public timeline and did not include direct messages, which is where cybercriminals are focusing their efforts, according to Twitter.


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Professor Lietzan speaks at The Federalist Society's COVID-19 & the Law Conference
Written by Karen Neylon · June 18, 2020
Professor Erika Lietzan spoke at The Federalist Society's COVID-19 & the Law Conference, contributing to the panel Regulation or "Don't Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste." She focused on decisions by regulators to de-regulate during the crisis — decisions to exercise enforcement discretion, to waive paperwork requirements, and to remove otherwise applicable restrictions — including decisions made by FDA…
Professor Trachtenberg panelist at Federalist Society conference
Written by Karen Neylon · January 28, 2020
Professor Ben Trachtenberg participated in a panel discussion, "Title IX and Due Process at Universities" at The Federalist Society conference in Jefferson City on January 27, 2020. The panel moderator was Judge Stephen R. Clark, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. The other panelists were Brent Haden, a partner in The Law Firm of Haden & Colbert, and Andy…
Do Regulatory Reform Efforts Inevitably Entrench the Administrative State?: Teleforum Set for August 22
Written by Karen Neylon · August 21, 2018
Professor Thom Lambert and J. Kennerly Davis, Jr., will be the speakers in a teleforum scheduled on August 22, "Do Regulatory Reform Efforts Inevitably Entrench the Administrative State?" The forum brings together two speakers well-versed in regulation and regulatory reforms. But they have differing approaches and perspectives on the fundamental assumptions of the current regulatory system.…


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