It is commonplace to see media reports calling elections—wherever they happen—historic and uniquely important. The Wednesday election in Pakistan was no different. Indeed, Pakistan is standing at a crossroads and this election could indeed have been a game changer. However, it was not to be. Going by the numbers at the time this editorial was written, it looks like Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) will come to power. However, the strings will continue to be pulled by the Pakistan army.
Khan, a star cricketer-turned-politician, owes his rise to the army—the most powerful actor in Pakistan's domestic affairs. From underperforming in the last election in 2013 and complaining of rigging, Khan and Pakistan have come a long way. Most other non-PTI parties are today complaining of rigging and Khan is sitting pretty at the top.
It is important to understand why Khan's ascent seems to be a missed opportunity for Pakistan and the region. One, this would be only the second time in Pakistan's history when a peaceful transition of power is happening from one civilian government to another. The first instance, in 2013, was clearly the more significant one. The mandate that Sharif won five years ago was largely on his own. Sharif had himself started his political career as a protege of the Pakistan army in the 1980s. Over time, though, he realized the pitfalls of befriending the army. In 2006, Sharif and his political rival, the late Benazir Bhutto of the Pakistan's Peoples Party (PPP), signed a "Charter of Democracy" where the two pledged "not to solicit the support of military to come into power or to dislodge a democratic government".
After coming to power in 2013 with a handsome mandate, Sharif started to assert himself. He attended the swearing-in-ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He put the former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on trial. He carved out an approach, divergent to the army's, in securing domestic peace with terrorist groups. But the army wasn't going to be a mute spectator and today, Sharif and his daughter—his political heir—are behind bars. The army has taken full control of internal security and external policy. Musharraf is spending time in London, far away from institutions of accountability in Pakistan.
In order to cut Sharif and his party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), or PML-N, to size, the Pakistan army has supported multiple protest movements against the civilian government in the last five years. One such protest was led by Khan and a religious preacher named Tahirul Qadri in 2014. The army's tacit support to the protesters was widely seen as a "soft coup" in operation, and marked the beginning of Khan's ascent in national politics.
Two, this election has seen what has been widely called the "mainstreaming" of terrorist groups in Pakistan. A number of political parties founded by terrorists, including one by 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, have found space on the ballot papers. This could not have been possible without the approval of the army. The results so far indicate that these parties haven't performed well but it will be important to check the final vote share figures. Irrespective of how well these parties perform, Khan himself is seen as soft on extremist groups. He has defended the controversial blasphemy laws that are used to target minorities in the country and has also attacked the vulnerable Ahmadiyyas in his speeches. So, with Khan's ascent, Pakistan is likely to offer an even weaker resistance than before to Islamic extremism.
Three, Pakistan's economy is in poor shape. The debt levels are too high and its foreign reserves can barely cover two months of imports. It is also a time when Pakistan is making a transition from the US to China as its primary economic benefactor. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has worsened the current account deficit and led to a series of commercially unviable projects. The new government will have to urgently seek a bailout either from China or the International Monetary Fund. The former will seek strategic control over critical Pakistani assets and the latter will demand painful fiscal reforms. Having argued for the creation of a welfare state, Khan does not seem to be the best person to undertake this job.
Four, the weak Pakistani institutions have been further decimated in the run up to the election. The judiciary and the anti-corruption watchdog are playing to the tune of Rawalpindi. The media has been put under immense levels of strain and censorship. The army has openly played favourites in the election even as the election commission of Pakistan looked on: defections were engineered within the PML-N, terrorists were allowed to field candidates, political parties were broken up by the "deep state", and no less than the army chief indicated his support for select political parties like the Balochistan Awami Party. Khan, a beneficiary of such degradation, does not offer any hope for institutional repair in Pakistan.
Five, Khan has repeatedly accused Sharif of selling Pakistani interests to his "friend" Modi. Khan has also been a trenchant critic of US presence in Afghanistan. Will Khan be interested in improving his country's relations with India, Afghanistan and the US? For that, he will need to push back against the army's control over foreign policy. Will he?


City Council adopted this item on November 27, 2012 without amendments.
This item was considered by the Toronto and East York Community Council on November 6, 2012 and adopted without amendment. It will be considered by City Council on November 27, 2012.


Capturing the memorable highlights of each year, the Blackhawk yearbook tells a unique story of Central High School. Books may be purchased at the beginning of the year. Spring orders for the books may be more costly.
To purchase a yearbook online, please go to the Activities Office before or after school. The best price of the year is offered at registration, and the price will increase throughout the year. Purchase yours in advance; we do not guarantee extra copies in May.
To be a part of this amazing group, students need to talk to Ms. Ebener in Kemper 14 and their guidance counselors. The Introduction to Newspaper/Yearbook class is highly recommended before joining the Yearbook Staff.


Shortly before he died in 1226, St. Francis of Assisi called together the members of his order and warned them of great tribulations that would befall the Church in the future.
The book, "Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis Of Assisi" (London: R. Washbourne, 1882), documents the prophesy of St. Francis warning about a destroyer pope. Below are photos of the pages of this book recounting his prophesy on pages 248 to 250.


WELD COUNTY, Colo. — The body of a 24-year-old woman was found inside a vehicle that was in a lake on Saturday morning, the Colorado State Patrol said.
The vehicle was seen in Woods Lake east of Severance in Weld County about 6:20 a.m.
The 2002 Toyota sedan had possibly been in the water for up to six hours overnight, the Colorado State Patrol said.
The body of the woman, who was from Pierce, was recovered. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name was not released.
Troopers were investigating how the vehicle got into the lake.


A positive impression can be created initially with good dressing and grooming in the minds of the audience. However, if your voice is squeaky, your words meaningless, or your voice too loud, then their positive impression quickly will become negative. If you want to communicate effectively and positively influence your audience, you must pay special attention to your speaking voice. When you speak, your voice is the primary link between you and your listeners. So if you would like to develop a perfect speaking voice, start with the steps below.


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package compiler

import (
	"github.com/go-task/task/v3/taskfile"
)

// Compiler handles compilation of a task before its execution.
// E.g. variable merger, template processing, etc.
type Compiler interface {
	GetTaskfileVariables() (*taskfile.Vars, error)
	GetVariables(t *taskfile.Task, call taskfile.Call) (*taskfile.Vars, error)
	FastGetVariables(t *taskfile.Task, call taskfile.Call) (*taskfile.Vars, error)
	HandleDynamicVar(v taskfile.Var, dir string) (string, error)
	ResetCache()
}

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The Central Question: Is It 1938?
If today's world resembles Europe on the eve of invasion, carnage, and the Holocaust, then Netanyahu's warnings are prudent and wise. But what if the analogy is wrong?
After Benjamin Netanyahu's speech let me point you toward Jeffrey Goldberg's analysis. Let me also suggest, again, that differences on Iran policy correspond to answers to this one question: Whether the world of 2015 is fundamentally similar to, or different from, the world of 1938.
I've gone into the 1938 question before, here and here, but in light of the theme's centrality to this speech I'll do so one more time. No parallel from history is ever perfect, as Ernest May and Richard Neustadt so memorably argued in Thinking in Time. But as that book also demonstrated, the idea of recurring historic episodes has a powerful effect on decision-making in the here and now. Disagreements over policy often come down to the search for the right historic pattern to apply.
Over the years Benjamin Netanyahu has very explicitly said, "It's 1938 and Iran is Germany." For instance, see the the first minute of the clip below. Netanyahu said he was asked to give a young man a one-sentence summary of the world situation. Netanyahu answered with those six words.
• The threatening power of the time—Nazi Germany then, the Islamists' Iran now—is a force of unalloyed evil whose very existence threatens decent life everywhere.
• That emerging power cannot be reasoned or bargained with but must ultimately be stopped and broken.
• "Compromisers" are in fact appeasers who are deluding themselves about these realities—Neville Chamberlain then, Barack Obama now—and increase danger for the world by wasting time before the inevitable showdown. The tellers of harsh truths—Winston Churchill then, Benjamin Netanyahu now—are trying to spare the world far greater dangers by encouraging action before it's too late.
• The appeasers' blindness endangers people all around the world but poses an especially intolerable threat to Jews. Six million of them were slaughtered because Britain, France, and especially the United States took too long to confront Hitler or even open their doors to refugees. Today's 8 million residents of Israel could be at existential risk if a mad regime, committed to their destruction, gains nuclear weapons. If a national leader says he intends to kill you, you take that seriously.
• As a result of all these factors, no deal with such an implacable enemy is preferable to an inevitably flawed and Munich-like false-hope deal.
That's what follows if the most relevant history is pre-Holocaust, pre-World War II Europe, and nearly everything in Netanyahu's speech can be read in this light. Also, and crucially, it means that the most obvious criticism of the speech—what's Netanyahu's plan for getting Iran to agree?—is irrelevant. What was the Allies' "plan" for getting Hitler to agree? The plan was to destroy his regime.
If, on the other hand, you think that the contrasts with 1938 are more striking than the similarities, you see things differently. As a brief reminder of the contrasts: The Germany of 1938 was much richer and more powerful than the Iran of today. Germany was rapidly expansionist; Iran, despite its terrorist work through proxies, has not been. The Nazi leaders had engulfed the world in war less than a decade after taking power. Iran's leaders, oppressive and destructive, have not shown similar suicidal recklessness. European Jews of 1938 were stateless, unarmed, and vulnerable. Modern Israel is a powerful, nuclear-armed force. Moreover, the world after the first wartime use of nuclear weapons, of course by the United States, is different from the world before that point. That is, all of humanity has faced an existential threat from nuclear warfare through the past 60 years. Eliminating the weapons is the only lasting protection; while they exist, deterrence has been the only way to keep them from being used.
So if it's not 1938, then other models of negotiation can apply, like those the United States used with the Soviet Union through the decades of the Cold War, or with China from the 1970s onward. Iran is then another problematic state, rather than a uniquely Nazi-style menace. (Recall that before the Iraq War Netanyahu made similarly absolutist claims about the undeterrable threat of Saddam Hussein.) Negotiations will therefore include, as they have with other states, a combination of carrots and sticks; a recognition of interests on all sides; and an understanding that negotiated progress is long, halting, and imperfect, but better than the alternative of no progress at all.
[Netanyahu] argues that the agreement-in-the-making would make it a near "certainty" that Iran pursues nuclear weapons because it would retain a nuclear program. This is just plain wrong.
The reality is that the agreement the P5+1 are pursuing would increase Iran's theoretical "breakout" time to amass enough enriched uranium gas enriched to bomb grade from today's 2-3 months to more than 12 months, and it would do so for over a decade. It would block the plutonium path to weapons.
Unless Iran's behavior worsens in ways we have not yet seen, to me and others in the not-1938 crowd it will seem more comparable to other difficult states, for instance the old Soviet Union, than to Hitler's Germany. And unless its behavior improves in ways we have not yet seen, to Netanyahu and many others it will seem like the old threat in a new form, all the worse because of the nuclear element.
That is one more reality for negotiators to deal with. As Jeffrey Goldberg notes at the end of his post-speech report, Obama's task in trying to broker a deal is hard in the best of circumstances, and there's a reasonable chance that after this speech it has become harder.


The best possible conference for obtaining information and meeting with key influencers in the military power sources arena. Get updates on new military and government needs and requirements, and learn about the latest power sources technology from both government and industry spokespeople.
Held alongside Automotive Interiors Expo and Engine Expo, Global Automotive Components and Suppliers Expo 2018 will host more component vendors and manufacturing partners than ever before!
Tier 1, 2 and 3 automotive component manufacturers from around the world will be at the expo to display their very latest technologies and products. Plus numerous more exhibitors will be on hand to discuss how they can participate in cost reduction within supply chains, and how they can offer new, alternative, cost-effective manufacturing and supply solutions.
The event co-hosts Engine Expo and Automotive Interiors Expo, meaning Global Automotive Components and Suppliers Expo will feature over 350 exhibiting component suppliers.
Governments across the globe and international automakers alike have recently become more bullish on the future of electrified transportation. Consequently, the technological development needed to support vehicle electrification must keep pace with rising expectations – batteries with enhanced performance, durability, cost, and abuse tolerance are indeed crucial to the viability of each of the hybrid/electric vehicle powertrains.
AABC was founded to review the status of automotive battery technology and provide informed glimpses into the future.
These questions will be addressed at AABC 2019, where chief battery technologists will present their development trends and projected battery needs, and key suppliers will present their latest offerings and roadmaps for the future. Limited speaking opportunities are available.
Organiser: Cambridge EnerTech (CET) is the premier conference and exposition provider for the energy storage industry. CET was established by uniting six leading energy conferences (International Battery Seminar & Exhibit, Advanced Automotive Battery Conferences – US & Europe, Lithium Battery Power, Battery Safety and Next Generation Batteries) into a remarkable single portfolio where thought leaders address novel technology as well as leading issues confronting the industry across multiple applications. Combined these events have provided a gateway for energy storage professionals for over 70 years.
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This year our programme includes the latest market trends and forecasts from world-renowned industry experts and analysts together with updates on breakthroughs in advanced lead battery technology from the newly-formed Consortium for Battery Innovation.
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food tv Dec. 14, 2017
Mario Batali Fired From ABC's The Chew
Mario Batali. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Food Bank of Ne
Celebrity chef Mario Batali has officially been fired from The Chew, ABC's midday cooking show where he was a co-host.
The news comes just days after an Eater report emerged in which four women accused Batali of groping and sexual assault. In the days since, another woman has come forward to accuse Batali of harassment.
The chef has apologized, and said the allegations "match up with ways I have acted."
In a statement on The Chew's Facebook page an ABC spokesperson said the company has cut all ties with Batali.
Upon completing its review into the allegations made against Mario Batali, ABC has terminated its relationship with him and he will no longer appear on The Chew. While we remain unaware of any type of inappropriate behavior involving him and anyone affiliated with our show, ABC takes matters like this very seriously as we are committed to a safe work environment and his past behavior violates our standards of conduct.
Earlier this week Batali announced that he would be stepping away from his $250 million restaurant empire which includes 23 restaurants, five Eataly marketplaces, and 11 cookbooks.
Mario Batali Steps Down After 4 Women Accuse Him of Sexual Misconduct
the chew
Mario Batali Fired From His TV Show, The Chew

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Going beyond the body and mind for the individual there is a need for a wider awareness of mental health in the workplace. Why people are stressed, what the impact and consequences are, who is at risk, what the potential cost could be – financial and beyond – and how one can minimize the risks and maximize the strengths within and across teams. The mental health fitness workshop equips managers and individuals to recognise the signs and symptoms of good and poor mental fitness. It equips them with a personal action plan and skills to improve wellbeing and support others. Taking preventative steps and early intervention when mental health is challenged increases our ability to stay productive in the workplace.
Become aware of mental health and its impact in the workplace.
Recognise the triggers of stress, and how to address them.
Recognise the symptoms of good and poor mental fitness in yourself, and in others.
Use preventative steps and early intervention methods, to stay productive in the workplace and in life.


Stage Music UK specialise in selling professional instruments to the UKs top bands and musicians. Todays beginners are tomorrows pro's and Stage Music do a great job of personally taking an interest in what every customer is doing and where they're up to in their (future) career.
Coffee machines and a perpetual smile greet every high street store visitor and bringing that same attitude to the site encourages people to come back. Some examples of a clever marketing approach include crazy-low price promotions and no pressure to register a user account with the site by allowing people to checkout as a guest if they wish.
Design goals for the project centred around selling, clearly, but not just selling drums and guitars, but selling the experience of playing at a huge live show. Aiming at professional musicians meant that we had to shout louder than a crowd and try to give each visitor a taste of what a simple purchase from us may lead to.
This is the first time we've put an e-commerce site together that can be used as an in-store Point of Sale application as well. From the merchants point of view we're able to meet two needs and allow instant, comprehensive reporting on the status of the business at any moment.
The Buying Process and Rock 'n Roll (baby)!
Moving from a set of photoshop designs to a working set of templates can be tricky, especially if you don't take the entire buying process into account and end up revisiting sketches and designs in the middle of a build!
This time around we tried a new technique by looking around at what was working well for other e-tailers and breaking elements we liked into stages. We took a 'softly softly catchee monkey' approach by bringing certain information to the visitor at key stage of the buying process. These principles are common in the real world and largely overlooked with online merchants.
First up, we gave people a choice of avenues to any particular item by offering a 'brands' menu alongside the usual product categories. Both lead to the same place and more than one route for the customer is always advantageous.
Secondly, most young artists are price contious, so we recommended that Stage Music offered some of the most popular products, such as the Ernie Ball Slinky range of guitar strings at a ridiculously low price to simply attract attention. The experience of buying from Stage Music will soon reinforce any purchase from the store or online, but the we can't take that first step without contact!
Lastly the impulse purchase, something that you may not have thought about buying, but would work really well with the item which was just added to the shopping basket.


Aspen Fashions by Designer Gwen. Be ready for winter in our Sugar and Spice Spanish Merino shearling sheepskin jacket. This lovely little jacket is done in a beautiful Golden Beige color and adorned with a vine embroidery design down the sleeves. It features a gorgeous matching Toscana collar and flap style hip pockets. Then it has a two button closure and measures 24" long. Goes so great with your favorite jeans and also looks pretty with dresses. Imported. Model SD8042.


This Single Decade Sports Team Auto/Car Rosary is handmade with 8MM LSU Tigers purple and gold glass beads, silvertone Our Father bead, stainless findings, St. Christopher centerpiece, Louisiana State University Tigers logo charm and detailed Crucifix. Select between football, basketball or baseball themed Our Father bead. Has a lobster claw closure, making it perfect to hang from a rear view mirror.


DETROIT (AP) - An all-star lineup of mourners filled a Detroit church with prayers and songs Friday for Aretha Franklin's funeral, honoring her not just as the Queen of Soul but also as a lifelong friend, family member, churchgoer and activist.
Guests at the Greater Grace Temple included former President Bill Clinton, former first lady Hillary Clinton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson.
Robinson, the Motown great, remembered first hearing her play piano when he was just 8 and remaining close for the rest of her life, talking for hours at a time. "You're so special," he said, before crooning a few lines from his song "Really Gonna Miss You."
"Really gonna miss you, really gonna be different without you," he sang.
Ariana Grande sang one of the Queen of Soul's biggest hits, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," and Faith Hill performed "What a Friend We Have In Jesus." The Aretha Franklin Orchestra performed a medley featuring "I Say a Little Prayer," ''Angel" and other songs the Queen of Soul was known for, along with gospel numbers "I Love the Lord" and "Walk in the Light."
Barbara Sampson read a statement from former President George W. Bush, saying that Franklin would continue to inspire future generations. The Rev. Al Sharpton read a statement from former President Barack Obama, who wrote that Franklin's "work reflected the very best of the American story."
Sharpton received loud cheers when he criticized President Donald Trump for saying that the singer "worked for" him as he responded to her death. "She performed for you," Sharpton said of Franklin, who had sung at Trump-owned venues. "She worked for us."
Her body arrived early Friday in a 1940 Cadillac LaSalle hearse. She wore a shimmering gold dress, with sequined heels - the fourth outfit Franklin was clothed in during a week of events leading up to her funeral.
The casket was carried to the church that also took Franklin's father, the renowned minister C.L. Franklin, and civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks to their final resting places at Woodlawn Cemetery, where the singer will join them. Pink Cadillacs filled the street outside the church, a reference to a Franklin hit from the 1980s, "Freeway of Love."
Program covers showed a young Franklin, with a slight smile and sunglasses perched on her nose, and the caption "A Celebration Fit For The Queen." Large bouquets of pink, lavender, yellow and white flowers flanked her casket.
Floral arrangements from singers such as Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett and from the family of the late Otis Redding, whose "Respect" Franklin transformed and made her signature song, were set up in a hallway outside the sanctuary. An arrangement from singer Sam Moore included a card that read, "You know I always adored and loved you to bits and pieces ... Even when we would fuss."
Detroit has plans to honor one of its most famous residents. Mayor Mike Duggan announced during the service Friday that the city would rename the riverfront amphitheater Chene Park to "Aretha Franklin Park." His proposal was seconded by Brenda James, city council president.
Bishop Charles Ellis III of Greater Grace knows well the boldface guest list and surrounding pomp and circumstance, but he has a higher mission in mind.
"It is my goal and my aim to ensure that people leave here with some kind of spiritual awakening," Ellis said. "This is not a concert, this is not a show, this is not an awards production. This is a real life that has been lived, that a person regardless of how famous she became, no matter how many people she touched around the world, she still could not escape death."
"I really believe that this ... is going to be an eye-opening experience for everybody in the world watching," said gospel artist Marvin Sapp, also among the scheduled performers.
Sabrina Owens, Franklin's niece, told the AP she started putting thoughts to paper about events earlier this year as her aunt's health failed. Since Franklin's death, Owens said a close group she described as "Aretha's angels" have "worked tirelessly" and have been guided by a single question: "What would Aretha want?"


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Gustav Stickley
The work Gustav Stickley represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
The Resource Gustav Stickley
David Cathers
Cathers, David M
Biographie (Descripteur de forme)
Arts and Crafts Movement
Stickley, Gustav
Stickley, Gustav, 1858-1942
Designers -- United States -- Biography
Meubles -- Industrie -- États-Unis -- Biographies
Furniture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Meubles -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
Arts and crafts movement -- États-Unis
Arts and crafts movement -- United States
"Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) is one of the iconic and most influential figures of the American Arts & Crafts movement, a self-made man whose furniture company, Craftsman Workshops, and the seminal magazine he founded, The Craftsman, held wide-ranging influence over American interior design and decorative arts for decades. Though best known as a furniture designer, Stickley was an entrepreneur and brilliant manager who assembled a talented team of collaborators to produce lamps, metalwork, textiles, plans for houses, and interiors. The Craftsman and the numerous furniture catalogues he published on a regular basis functioned as effective advertising, helping not only to establish the company's name but also to shape public opinion about the value of design." "This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative account of Gustav Stickley's life and work, with extensive illustrations from private archives, libraries, universities, museums, and the Stickley firm itself. It includes newly commissioned color photographs of Stickley pieces, and a generous selection of images from The Craftsman magazine. The book includes a chronology of Stickley's life and career, a biographical appendix of Stickley's key collaborators, and a complete bibliography."--Jacket
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/// @brief MR line editor
///
/// @file
///
/// DISCLAIMER
///
/// Copyright 2014 ArangoDB GmbH, Cologne, Germany
/// Copyright 2004-2014 triAGENS GmbH, Cologne, Germany
///
/// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
/// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
/// You may obtain a copy of the License at
///
///     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
///
/// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
/// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
/// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
/// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
/// limitations under the License.
///
/// Copyright holder is ArangoDB GmbH, Cologne, Germany
///
/// @author Dr. Frank Celler
/// @author Copyright 2014, ArangoDB GmbH, Cologne, Germany
/// @author Copyright 2011-2013, triAGENS GmbH, Cologne, Germany
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#include "MRLineEditor.h"

#include "Basics/tri-strings.h"
#include "Utilities/ShellImplFactory.h"

#include "mruby.h"
#include "mruby/compile.h"

using namespace std;

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// --SECTION--                                                 private functions
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// @brief checks if the code block is open
///
/// Copied from mirb.c
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

static int IsCodeBlockOpen (struct mrb_parser_state *parser)
{
  int code_block_open = FALSE;

  /* check for heredoc */
  if (parser->parsing_heredoc != NULL) {
    return TRUE;
  }

  if (parser->heredoc_end_now) {
    parser->heredoc_end_now = FALSE;
    return FALSE;
  }

  /* check if parser error are available */
  if (0 < parser->nerr) {
    const char *unexpected_end = "syntax error, unexpected $end";
    const char *message = parser->error_buffer[0].message;

    /* a parser error occur, we have to check if */
    /* we need to read one more line or if there is */
    /* a different issue which we have to show to */
    /* the user */

    if (strncmp(message, unexpected_end, strlen(unexpected_end)) == 0) {
      code_block_open = TRUE;
    }
    else if (strcmp(message, "syntax error, unexpected keyword_end") == 0) {
      code_block_open = FALSE;
    }
    else if (strcmp(message, "syntax error, unexpected tREGEXP_BEG") == 0) {
      code_block_open = FALSE;
    }

    return code_block_open;
  }

  /* check for unterminated string */
  if (parser->lex_strterm) return TRUE;

  switch (parser->lstate) {

  /* all states which need more code */

  case EXPR_BEG:
    /* an expression was just started, */
    /* we can't end it like this */
    code_block_open = TRUE;
    break;

  case EXPR_DOT:
    /* a message dot was the last token, */
    /* there has to come more */
    code_block_open = TRUE;
    break;

  case EXPR_CLASS:
    /* a class keyword is not enough! */
    /* we need also a name of the class */
    code_block_open = TRUE;
    break;

  case EXPR_FNAME:
    /* a method name is necessary */
    code_block_open = TRUE;
    break;

  case EXPR_VALUE:
    /* if, elsif, etc. without condition */
    code_block_open = TRUE;
    break;

  /* now all the states which are closed */

  case EXPR_ARG:
    /* an argument is the last token */
    code_block_open = FALSE;
    break;

  /* all states which are unsure */

  case EXPR_CMDARG:
    break;

  case EXPR_END:
    /* an expression was ended */
    break;

  case EXPR_ENDARG:
    /* closing parenthese */
    break;

  case EXPR_ENDFN:
    /* definition end */
    break;
  case EXPR_MID:
    /* jump keyword like break, return, ... */
    break;

  case EXPR_MAX_STATE:
    /* don't know what to do with this token */
    break;

  default:
    /* this state is unexpected! */
    break;
  }

  return code_block_open;
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// --SECTION--                                                 class MRCompleter
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// --SECTION--                                                    public methods
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool MRCompleter::isComplete (string const& source, size_t lineno, size_t column) {
  char* text = TRI_DuplicateString(source.c_str());

  mrb_state* mrb = mrb_open();
  mrb_parser_state* parser = mrb_parser_new(mrb);
  parser->s = text;
  parser->send = text + source.size();
  parser->capture_errors = 1;
  parser->lineno = 1;

  mrbc_context* cxt = mrbc_context_new(mrb);
  cxt->capture_errors = 1;

  mrb_parser_parse(parser, cxt);
  bool codeBlockOpen = IsCodeBlockOpen(parser);

  TRI_FreeString(TRI_CORE_MEM_ZONE, text);

  mrbc_context_free(mrb, cxt);
  mrb_parser_free(parser);
  mrb_close(mrb);

  return ! codeBlockOpen;
}

void MRCompleter::getAlternatives(char const *, vector<string> &) {
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// --SECTION--                                                class MRLineEditor
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// --SECTION--                                      constructors and destructors
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Les Enfants du Top 50 est une compilation créée pour fêter les 30 ans de l'émission culte Top 50 et parue le .

Cet album de reprises de titres essentiellement classés dans le Top 50 des années 1980 (années 1990 pour certains) a été réalisé par Jean-Félix Lalanne.

Liste des pistes
T'en va pas d'Elsa par Joyce Jonathan
Il est libre Max d'Hervé Cristiani par Yannick Noah
Petite Marie de Francis Cabrel par Zaz
Le Géant de papier de Jean-Jacques Lafon par Mickaël Miro
Une femme avec une femme de Mecano par Lara Fabian
Elle a les yeux revolver de Marc Lavoine par John Mamann
Le Coup de soleil de Richard Cocciante par Grégoire
La Groupie du pianiste de Michel Berger par Judith
Ils s'aiment de Daniel Lavoie par Brice Conrad
On se retrouvera de Francis Lalanne par Lara Fabian et Yoann Fréget
Tandem de Vanessa Paradis par Natasha St-Pier
Une autre histoire de Gérard Blanc par Chimène Badi
Tout doucement de Bibie par Élisa Tovati
Désir, désir de Laurent Voulzy et Véronique Jannot par Joyce Jonathan, Élisa Tovati, Brice Conrad et Mickaël Miro
Ouragan de Stéphanie de Monaco par Maude

Classement hebdomadaire

Références

Lien externe

Compilation musicale sortie en 2014
Album compilation collectif
Album de reprises

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October 11, 2011 News & Opinion » Environment
The ocean up close
Skidaway Institute prepares for Marine Science Day
By Jessica Leigh Lebos jll@connectsavannah.com @typeitloud
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This hatchling loggerhead sea turtle came from Ossabaw Island
As far as sea creatures go, it doesn't get much cuter than a baby loggerhead turtle.
Three inches long with beady eyes and an upturned beak that looks very much like a grin, the newest resident at the UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium could be Savannah's next heartthrob once visitors get a peek at the Ossabaw Island-hatched Caretta caretta during Skidaway Marine Science Day this Saturday, Oct. 15.
You'll be able to watch the little dude (or dudette; the turtle's gender and official nickname are yet to be determined) paddle around his tank in one of the behind–the–scenes tours given throughout the day, though his handlers admonish hugs and kisses are strictly off limits.
That's all right — there's plenty more that can be touched in other parts of the aquarium and around the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) campus, including whelk, horseshoe crabs and the controls of a remotely–operated vehicle (ROV) that spends most of its time on the ocean floor.
"We're bringing our science to the people," says Mike Sullivan, SkIO's enthusiastic external affairs coordinator. "Everyone on the campus is excited to show what we do here."
Live oaks drape the internationally–acclaimed academic nexus, perfectly situated for marine research on a section of the Skidaway River also designated as part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
Housed on the 700–acre former cattle farm with SkIO and the UGA aquarium are the Department of Natural Resources' underwater archaeology program, the UGA Shellfish Research Laboratory and Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary's administrative and research headquarters. Georgia Tech, Savannah State and Georgia Southern all maintain lab facilities here as well.
Though not a degree–granting body, the Institute is part of the University System of Georgia, hosting scientists and graduate students who conduct research (mostly funded by the National Science Foundation) that can have an effect around the globe.
Citing projects that take his scientists from the Continental shelf ecosystem that pulls nutrients from the Gulf Stream to the melting ice shelves of the Arctic that shop unarguable evidence of global warming, SkIO director Dr. James Sanders upholds the Institute's mission to take a broad view of the oceanic systems, the atmosphere and how they relate to each other.
Local issues like water quality have also been studied at the Institute, including a long–term analysis of how the presence of certain microbial species increased and others decreased during the explosion of residential development on Skidaway and Wilmington islands from the mid–'80s to the early 2000s (the changes leveled off as the islands reached their current density.)
"Even when we focus on our coastal environment, there are larger implications," says Dr. Sanders, who, like the scientists and students hustling through the hallways carrying test tubes and boat ropes, is dressed for a day on the dock in shorts and deck shoes. "The work that goes on here is likely to be noticed around the globe."
Though the dress code may be casual, there is a definitely a buzz of brains working in the laboratories.
While most people think marine science is limited to the study of "charismatic critters" like our friend the loggerhead turtle, much time and effort is spent at the Institute on what can't be seen with the naked eye, including chemical and geological processes as well as marine biochemistry, toxicology and chemical ecology.
"We find new stuff about the way the world works all the time," says Sullivan. "We're trying to discover the information that going to be in the next textbook."
Back over in the aquarium's classrooms, educator Anne Lindsay prepares petri dishes and rows of microscopes in advance of Marine Science Day, when schoolkids and their parents can observe phytoplankton, pet a snake and even dissect a shark.
More than just a "aren't sea things pretty" kind of day, this "marine science sampler" promises to bring down–and–dirty opportunities for budding scientists, as evidenced by the stingrays and other dead things in jars.
"We prefer to call them teaching specimens," smiles Lindsay.
Outside the aquarium towards the river, Marine Science day participants can catch crabs off the dock and help create new marine ecosystems by bagging oyster shells. The research vessel Savannah is being shined up for tours.
But the draw for anyone who digs trucks, technology and/or robots will be the opportunity to move an ROV around the bottom of the Institute swimming pool.
"This is the same kind of machine that capped off the Deepwater Horizon leak," says Gail Krueger of Gray's Reef Sanctuary, which utilizes the ROV to investigate marine life about 20 miles off the coast of Savannah.
The organization also holds a regional competition every spring to see what high school team can build the best ROV. "That's a pretty great example of how hands–on science can be fun and have a big impact."
Perhaps even more relevant is a workshop offered by SkIO professor Bill Savidge called "The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fair," designed to help quell anxiety around creating a successful project and push people beyond the requisite volcano made from vinegar and baking soda.
"We hope we can take some of the mystery out of the process and show the students and parents how to make the science fair a rewarding experience," says Dr. Savidge.
Debuting at the event will be the outdoor installation of a 7 foot–long shrimp sculpture in honor of one of coastal Georgia's most ubiquitous sea creatures.
SCAD metals professor Ed Barbier created this and five other massive, scientifically–accurate sculptures that will be on display at SkIO for the next few months.
The gigantic nature of the tribute provides a telling perspective on the massive scope of marine science and the effect it continues to have on the planet, something the scientists at SkIO want to convey.
"We not only want to create new scientists, we want to create stewards." says Lindsay. "The next generation will be the ones taking care of the oceans."
Skidaway Marine Science Day
When: Saturday, Oct. 15, noon–4pm
Where: Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, 10 Ocean Science Circle, Savannah
Cost: Free and open to the public
Info: www.skio.usg.edu.
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Tuscaloosa Christian stumbles in season opener
By Joey ChandlerSports Writer
Aug 17, 2018 at 10:24 PM Aug 17, 2018 at 10:24 PM
COTTONDALE -- Tuscaloosa Christian struggled against defending CFA state champions Russell Christian during a 41-8 loss in its football season opener on Friday night.
TCS held Russell Christian to one touchdown in the first quarter, trailing 6-0, before Russell dominated the field.
"That is just mental. That is 100 percent mental on our part," TCS coach David Arsenault said. "I take responsibility for not having us ready to play four quarters, because we basically played OK for a half a quarter and then mentally gave in and lost our technique."
Russell Christian quarterback Caleb Taylor contributed to all but one of Russell Christian's first-half scores. He threw three touchdown passes to Jared Mcmullen and ran for a touchdown to pace his team to a 35-0 halftime advantage.
"I won't take anything away from (Taylor). He's a great athlete, but I think it is the same thing. Just terrible, terrible technique on our part," Arsenault said. "Should have been easy tackles, but we were just missing them because we weren't doing what we were taught to do for three weeks now, and we've got to get better."
TCS scored its lone touchdown at the end of the third quarter off of a 1-yard run by Coleton Burnette. Landon Pate connected with Josh Wideman on the two-point conversion.
TCS (0-1) travels to Lighthouse on Friday.
"Hopefully the team will take a look at tonight and really think about what kind of team they want to be and think about what their identity is as an individual and as a team," Arsenault said. "Hopefully we will respond positively to it."


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Neil Wilby
Journalist and Justice Campaigner
Tag: Hugh McDonald
'Get the white vote angry'
In October, 2020 I published an article on this website headlined 'Search for the truth'. An overview of a journalistic investigation into allegations of a multi-agency cover-up of child sex abuse in Oldham, Greater Manchester (read in full here).
The genesis of those highly emotive accusations, and indeed now its centrepiece, oft-repeated on social media, is an email sent by a BBC journalist to the Council's leader at the time, Jim McMahon.
A subset is a reply that Oldham Council sent to a letter from the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) dated November, 2012. Its Chair, and author of the HASC letter, Keith Vaz MP, had met, immediately prior to its sending, a child sex abuse survivor from Oldham, Samantha Walker-Roberts (who has waived her right to lifetime anonymity) and her campaigning husband, the now deceased Steven Walker-Roberts. The latter also made written submissions to the Committee as part of a wider Parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse.
Together, the email and the letter are alleged to prove that McMahon, now the MP for Oldham West, is complicit in the cover up and, due to his position at the time, central to it.
The accuser is Raja Miah, a local political activist (pictured above), whose output on social media and his other internet platforms frequently attracts the attention of the police and litigation lawyers.
These are, by any measure, grotesque allegations to make against anyone, let alone a family man with two young children who lives in the town he has served since 2003 and, of course, works in his constituency office there. He was brought up a short step away in Middleton, just beyond the Oldham Borough boundary.
Miah is best known as the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of two spectacularly failed schools, which led to him being blacklisted by the Department of Education and an investigation by the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) into alleged misappropriation of millions of pounds of public funds. This followed a referral by the Serious Fraud Office.
The deep dive into the schools finances, strongly championed by the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Angela Rayner MP, has now been passed back to Greater Manchester Police by the NECC. To add to at least six other criminal investigations following complaints brought against Miah, and his closest supporters, by prominent local politicians.
Police sources say that both the Deputy Mayor, Bev Hughes, whose portfolio includes policing, and the chief constable, Ian Hopkins, are now both watching matters in Oldham much more closely. Better late than never, one might say.
Raja Miah strongly denies any wrongdoing. He was, however, kicked out of the Labour Party two months ago, a matter to which he has not alluded at all, amongst his quite prodigious social media ramblings.
It is no coincidence that Jim McMahon instigated and led the investigation into safeguarding, financial and governance irregularities at those schools and that the Miah 'vendetta' (Raja's own word) began soon after the publicity outfall from that blacklisting and his consequent fall from public grace.
The MP told a local newspaper at the time:
"I have no doubt that the campaign of harassment and abuse [by Miah] is intended to intimidate me into withdrawing from the long-standing and ongoing investigation into allegations surrounding Collective Spirit Free School and the Manchester Creative Studio School – a matter which has been widely reported, debated in Parliament and subject to review by the Department for Education.
"I am thankful for the messages of support [I have received], but equally disappointed that such a sensitive and distressing issue [child sex abuse] has been used for political gain by others, and that some feel it appropriate to share wider."
A great deal of time has been spent looking at the merits of the two core allegations – and the documents that Miah relies upon to underpin them. As with so much of the Miah output, there is little or no substance to them. That is also, on any independent view, clearly the case here.
The Keith Vaz letter was, I'm told, addressed to Charlie Parker, who was Oldham Council's highly-rated chief executive at the time. In terms of protocol, that was entirely correct: A council chief executive is also one of its two statutory officers, paid a very generous salary to deal with, and co-ordinate, the response to such serious enquiries.
It was Parker who also wrote the reply to Vaz just over four weeks later. The contents are highly sensitive and cannot be repeated here. It can be stated with certainty, however, through the lens of this journalist at least, that the response was measured and appears to answer, in some detail, the two questions put to the Council by the HASC Chair. It is obvious that there was also input, as one might fairly expect, from a number of other officers concerned with child care and safeguarding in Oldham.
Miah, in an article he published without the specific authority of its subject, the child abuse victim referenced above, states that the letter was addressed to McMahon and copied to Parker. It wasn't. It is further claimed that the Council refused to answer the questions asked by the HASC. That, again, is, quite simply, untrue. A further Raja lie is that the letter references Paul Waites, now a convicted sex offender. It didn't.
The allegations linking McMahon to the letter and a 'cover-up' are contrived and fatuous. Anyone stating otherwise is simply not adjacent to the facts, or is running a quite evil agenda. Or both. His parliamentary office holds no copy of the letter and he does not have any recollection of having had input into it. The allegation that he deliberately withheld circulation of the letter is completely without merit. Simply because it was not his letter, or reply, to control.
It is a similar story regarding what is now widely known as 'the Lee Rigby email'. Further evidence, Miah claims, that the MP was, at the material time and when Council leader, orchestrating a cover-up and preventing a wider broadcasting of concerns over alleged grooming of girls in local shisha bars.
In another lengthy piece on his Recusant Nine website he recycles documents from 'a dossier' given to him by former councillor and local Justice of the Peace, Hugh McDonald. Another with a deep grudge against McMahon, following his supension from the Labour Party in July 2013. McDonald was said at the time to have leaked sensitive police information to the press and to a safeguarding organisation. He later admitted his actions to council officials and apologised.
The fact that he has now released that same information, and more, to Raja Miah, in what seems a further pursuit of a common grudge against McMahon, can be fairly characterised as reprehensible.
It also goes to show that there was no genuine contrition at the time McDonald made his admisssions of guilt – and what now looks to be a very hollow apology. Indeed, he told the Oldham Times in November, 2019 that he 'had no regrets' about the incident and that 'leaking information was a good thing'. The fact that McDonald sat as a magistrate for 35 years makes his actions even more unconscionable.
It is said that the 'dossier', to which Miah refers frequently, is the Standards Pack provided to McDonald, by the Council, during the investigation of the complaints against him.
This is the email at the heart of the present McMahon controversy, drawn from the dossier:
As a journalist, and also from the more detached, neutral perspective of an investigator, I've read this email many times. It doesn't say what Raja Miah, and 'the Rabble' with whom he has surrounded himself, want to believe.
I am also aware, via policing contacts, that there was a Gold Group running alongside the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) set up in 2006 in the wake of Operation Messenger. That investigation reported, publicly, in 2010 that 'child sexual exploitation is rife in Oldham, with police dealing with 26 individuals in the past 12 months'.
Messenger was a dedicated Greater Manchester Police squad 'battling a dark underworld of child rape and abduction in the Borough'. The force, working in tandem with other partner agencies, also said at the time that 'in many of the local cases they had dealt with, the young people do not see themselves as victims. Drugs, money or housing could be received in exchange for sex'.
Apart from the BBC investigation led by Jonathan Ali, it is in my knowledge that Andrew Norfolk of The Times (in 2012) and Geraldine McKelvie of The Daily Mirror (in late 2019) have both spent time in Oldham making journalistic enquiries, conducting interviews with a view to publication. In both cases no story ensued. These two journalists had, to their eternal credit, shone the first light on grooming scandals in Rotherham and Telford, respectively. Exposing police and council cover-ups in both cases.
Sally Chesworth, renowned former producer of BBC's File on 4, and now producer of BBC's Newsnight, has also taken a preliminary look at Oldham. She was born and brought up in the town. We have spoken regularly about the difficulties in grounding a story about the alleged CSA/CSE scandal in Oldham when there is a dearth of victims willing to come forward. It was Sally whom, along with Maggie Oliver, broke open the Rochdale grooming scandal in 2013 by way of an iconic File on 4 edition (listen here).
I spoke at length with Maggie about Oldham in a meeting in Manchester at the end of August, 2020. She elected not to get involved with the allegations of a CSA/CSE cover up in the town because of the questions surrounding the integrity of the main proponent, Raja Miah. A wise and propitious stance to take.
Returning to the Miah allegations, it was the Gold Group referred to above, headed at the time by Oldham's Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Catherine Hankinson (now an assistant chief constable with West Yorkshire Police), that received credible intelligence regarding potential disruption at the funeral of Lee Rigby by far-right political activists and the attendant racial tensions. It was that to which Cllr McMahon (as he was then) alluded in his dealings with Kevin Fitzpatrick.
The claim by Raja Miah that the funeral of the fallen soldier was used to prevent the disclosure of CSE taking place at shisha bars in Oldham is not true. An email briefing was sent by GMP to councillors and officers of Oldham Council outlining an early stage investigation, and premises under surveillance. There are no circumstances where the police, or council, would have made this public during an intelligence gathering phase, and where the leaking and proposed reporting could have compromised an ongoing police investigation.
Discussions took place between the BBC and the police about the intelligence and it was agreed that, once a fuller picture emerged, it would be shared. It was during these discussions where the intelligence that the far right could use the funeral of Mr Rigby to protest was revealed. Whilst it is correct that this was shared with the media, as it would be in normal circumstances, it is not the case that the information relating to shisha bars would have been made public at such an early stage in a covert investigation, in any circumstances.
Once a clearer picture developed about the risk of venues, such as shisha bars, the usual process was followed to ensure local parents, such as colleges and others with safeguarding responsibilities, were informed. Further, the practitioner's guidance (read here) was updated to include shisha bars on the list of high-risk venues. GMP also interacted with media enquiries and the matter was reported by the Manchester Evening News, BBC Manchester and Radio 5. at the very least. The MEN ran this piece about the shisha bars, for example (read here).
Enquiries have revealed that the leaking of the confidential email to BBC reporter Kevin Fitzpatrick was done via a long term associate of Hugh McDonald, Joe Fitzpatrick (Kevin's father). He was central to the Phil Woolas Representation of the People Act court case (read more here) in which emails were disclosed wherein it emerged that Fitzpatrick senior had sought to create community tensions to 'get the white vote angry'. He later became the chairman of the United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP) in Oldham.
As to the proposition that McMahon, and other Labour councillors, were either engaged in, or part of, a longer term 'cover-up' of child sex abuse in the town, there is no apparent basis to support such an inflammatory, damaging allegation: A high profile GMP investigation had been running for seven years, a safeguarding hub was active in the town and, from analysis of other documents in the Miah 'dossier', it is clear that the local police inspector running CSA matters, Haydn Roberts, was very much on top of the job and an active, and lucid, communicator. Notably, with his partner council.
That is not to say that everything was, or still is, perfect. Far from it. Mistakes and poor decisions will have been made in individual cases, or on a wider systemic scale. That is the nature of the job, and particularly so when dealing with highly sensitive, very personal caseloads where most, if not all, the actions or remedies require a judgement call from officers or social workers operating in a very difficult, stressful environment.
The present leader of Oldham Council, Sean Fielding, says:
"Child sexual exploitation is abhorrent. It would be naive to think that cases of child sexual exploitation do not take place, and the council and our partners must be equipped to prevent and detect them in all their forms.
"I am grateful to the survivors who have spoken about their experiences and am confident that if the Council, or our partners, could have done more to protect or support them, and others, that Malcolm [Newsam] and Gary [Ridgway] will identify this."
Messrs Newsam and Ridgway are, of course, two of the most renowned child sex abuse investigators in the country. Both presently engaged on an Oldham strand of a wide-ranging, independent Assurance Review commissioned by the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Their report on the Rochdale and South Manchester strand, published earlier this year, was very widely acclaimed in the media and by public officials. Maggie Oliver also has great confidence in the capabilities and integrity of those two investigators. Not a view shared by 'Raja's Rabble', who frequently seek to undermine them.
The most recent update on the Oldham Assurance Review can be read in full here. Their work spawned two high profile police investigations, Operation Green Jacket and Operation Exmoor (read more here) where large numbers of victims and alleged perpetrators have now been identified.
A similar wide-ranging police investigation, codenamed Operation Hexagon, has been established alongside the Newsam and Ridgway review in Oldham. It was recently revealed, by the force, that it was set up in November, 2019.
Former ally of Raja Miah, and himself a past Labour councillor in Oldham, Khazir Rehman, has this to say about the allegations against Jim McMahon:
"In 2014, at the height of Jim McMahon's reign in Oldham, I was an Assistant Cabinet Member, part of the administration. These were my words after Shabir Ahmed [a leader of a Rochdale grooming gang better known as 'Daddy'] was put away [sent to prison], 'If supporting Keeping Our Girl's Safe (KOGS) can save one girl from being abused, I would have done my job'. My ward areas, Fitton Hill and Hathershaw, had extensive work done in them, with Oldham Council funding, your money, it was my sole decision where these funds went to PREVENT grooming, by upping the game in raising awareness so that we could get more intelligence and train young people to recognise abuse.
"Jim McMahon said to me, 'you are a bright lad and your heart has always been in the right place on many issues.' Only a person whose own heart is in the right place would say this about someone else. Jim supported me in this work and congratulated me, after Ann Coffey MP, Parliamentary Chair for Missing and Runaway children, came to Oldham and took evidence of our response to the Rochdale grooming scandal, after the report was published.
"The press descended on Oldham to speak to us about the work we were doing, it was innovative; pumping cash into local organisations and generally supporting crackdowns on grooming gangs. Jim and I were two people that took no prisoners when it came to grooming, we said it how it is. Oldham was the only place in the WHOLE COUNTRY where we fought the hardest in this way against grooming gangs. Does this sound like an administration covering up grooming? No, we went after it and spent thousands of pounds on prevention. Here is the Coffey Report (at this link), commissioned by Police and Crime Commissioner at the time, Tony Lloyd, now the current Rochdale MP. Does this sound like an administration that was hiding child abuse? Please read the report, I know it does not fit with some people's narratives, but I request if this is going to be a trial by social media, then give us a fair hearing as I was part of that council administration that certain people are accusing".
With specific reference to the 'Lee Rigby email', this is what Kaiser (as he prefers to be known) has to say:
"If Jim McMahon is guilty of stopping a news report to protect the town from violence from the far right, and other thugs, that may have reacted at a sensitive time in our country's history, then I am guilty also, as I supported him. The balancing act of public safety, public order, trumps disclosure of sensitive information. The investigation did not stop into the grooming allegations, which was only [police] intelligence at that point. Public order and protecting people's lives and property will almost always trump any other consideration. Jim did his job correctly."
On the issue of child safeguarding, the last words go to Jim McMahon:
"I take safeguarding very seriously and if others have concerns about it, they should be reported to the appropriate authorities immediately.
"Throughout my time as a councillor, and latterly as council leader in Oldham, I acted in the public interest and did my utmost to ensure that the leadership and culture was in place to protect vulnerable people.
"Any suggestion to the contrary isn't just offensive, but more actively seeks to undermine public confidence. Moreover, it is blatant defamation.
"I find it incredible that Raja Miah, the failed former CEO of the crisis-hit Collective Spirit Free School and the Manchester Studio School feels qualified to make judgements about matters of safeguarding."
Regrettably, Jim McMahon is far from alone in those views, as will be more fully articulated in another excoriating piece, solely concerned with those failed schools, which will be published on this website next month.
Interestingly, a co-director of Miah in one of a labyrinthine web of companies, Cllr Shoab Akhtar, was in the copy line of the 'Lee Rigby email'. The company was RISE 2010 Community Interest Company (CIC). Cllr Akhtar says:
"I was invited by Raja Miah to be a director of the CIC in 2011. At the time, I was Deputy Leader and lead for community cohesion in Oldham. Raja had enjoyed success in his role with PEACE and, whilst I was reluctant to take on other commitments at that time, I did so.
"However, there were no meetings called during the year or so I was a Director of RISE and, in an unpaid advisory role, I had nothing to do with its running. My resignation followed the news that Raja was to became involved in free schools.
"I was, and am, opposed to that concept. I later became aware that over £40,000 had, apparently, been transferred from one of those schools [Manchester Creative Studio] into RISE. As there were no board meetings, it is difficult for me to see how that transaction [or transactions] came about".
The former Mayor of Oldham added: "At all times, everything from my part was transparent and the connection with Raja Miah's company was included on the Council's Register of Business Interests and registered at Companies House".
On the wider issue of CSE, and in the context of grooming, it is often said, and it forms a key part of the false narrative shared by Raja Miah, and his attendant Rabble, that grooming gangs are left unchallenged because of the reliance of the Labour Party on votes from the Asian community.
Firstly, as one prominent local leader has articulated frequently, 'That is seriously divisive and hugely offensive to the Asian community in Oldham; to suggest that we are all, somehow, complicit in sexual abuse. It is a matter of fact that the vast majority from all communities in the town find abuse abhorrent'. Unsurprisingly, other influential Asians I have spoken to about this smearing are outraged by what the Miah supporters are propagating on social media, unchecked by the local police.
Secondly, it is not the case that child sexual exploitation crimes had been allowed to go unpunished. Though there were, plainly, serious mistakes made in the early stages of the Rochdale grooming scandal, and the Operation Span police cover-up that followed, it is a fact that the abusers were, ultimately, held to account for their actions. The role played by Malcolm Newsam and Gary Ridgeway cannot be overstated in shining a bright light on the Rochdale (and South Manchester) failings.
For those prepared to put in the hard yards, rather than simply rely on a lazy, tailored Raja Miah narrative that suits a particular, and mostly far right political agenda, there is sufficient evidence in the public domain to demonstrate that Oldham Council were open about the characteristics of this type of abuse, and covered it in blog posts (read here and here) and in Council meetings (read here) at that time. There was, it appears through this lens at least, no hiding from the crimes, information withheld or the crisis not fully acknowledged. In short, no cover-up.
As rehearsed earlier in this piece, there is also evidence available of significant work undertaken to review practices around CSE, the introduction of the multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH), and the expansion of best practice across the Greater Manchester region. Moreover, funding was provided for the performance of the play "Somebody's sister, somebody's daughter" in secondary schools to inform young people of the lurking presence of CSE.
Project Messenger, running alongside the police operation of the same name, became an enlarged Project Phoenix team, which kickstarted a week of action to raise awareness of CSE, at which time the 'It's Not Okay' website was launched (see here). Included in that initiative was a Practitioners Guide to High Risk Venues (read more here). This includes the shisha bars that were at the centre of the concerns in 2013 and led to the covert police operation. Stalls were also placed in Oldham Market to raise wider public awareness of the problem.
A freedom of information request made last year shows that in the 10 year period between 2008-18, Greater Manchester Police recorded 502 alleged cases of child sex exploitation. It is not clear how many related to grooming or how many resulted in convictions. The police have been asked to clarify.
If any person or organisation has any other evidence of child sexual abuse, past or present, they are urged to get in touch with the police or the specialist unit at Oldham Council. Or, if mistrust of authorities is present (not unusual) then please contact the Maggie Oliver Foundation where specialist help is also available (see here).
A recent report published by the Home Office, following an investigation into Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation [Characteristics of Offending], concluded in its Executive Summary that "group offending was predominantly carried out by older white males" (read full report here).
As a postscript, it might also be noted that Oldham's most notorious paedophile was a white, middle-aged male.
In November, 2006, Ronald Castree, a part-time taxi driver from Shaw, was arrested for the murder of 11 year old Lesley Molseed. He was convicted the following year at Bradford Crown Court and sentenced by Mr Justice Openshaw to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 30 years. Castree was found guilty of Lesley's murder by a 10-2 majority. She had also been sexually assaulted. The murderer had a previous conviction for kidnapping and assaulting a young girl, aged just nine years old.
Coincidentally, this was the jury margin by which Stefan Kiszko was found guilty in 1976. He was ultimately cleared by the Court of Appeal in 1992.
Stefan's conviction remains one of the most grotesque miscarriages of justice in police history (read more here).
This is a developing news story and will be updated. Follow Neil Wilby on Twitter here, and on Facebook here.
Right of reply has again been offered to Raja Miah. He has declined all previous invitations.
Other political party group leaders in Oldham, Cllr Hobin (Failsworth Independent Party), Cllr Hudson (Conservatives) and Cllr Sykes (Liberal Democrats) have also been invited to comment. The latter proved to be accessible, helpful, articulate and informative. Cllrs Hobin and Hudson opted to remain silent.
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An investigation that began several months ago, in Oldham, into allegations made by a local political activist of a large-scale, multi-agency cover-up is nearing completion, with most of the key players interviewed or spoken to.
The claims are repeatedly made by Raja Miah, who posts and broadcasts on social media under the style 'Recusant Nine' and blogs under the 'Welcome to Oldham' banner. He has a substantial following on Facebook, and his trenchant views appear to find favour, particularly, on the right wing of the political spectrum; there is a lesser presence on Twitter, a gap filled by an account with the handle, Oldham Eye.
Many believe the latter social media account is controlled, or influenced greatly, by Raja, but the actual identity of the operator is a closely guarded secret amongst camp followers. Who provide almost identical answers when asked.
Earlier this week, a meeting took place with a well-known survivor of child sexual abuse in Oldham, Samantha Walker-Roberts. She has waived her legal right to lifetime anonymity and it was an important stepping stone in the investigation, adding significantly to the information matrix. It also emphasised how brave Samantha, and those other survivors who speak out, really are.
But the meeting only took place after local police were involved to ensure that a safe space could be created for Samantha, and, to a much lesser extent, myself. Their response was speedy, appropriate and professional.
This was considered necessary, because on the previous evening Raja Miah had made public the intended meeting as part of an incessant smear campaign with which he appears to be currently obsessed. Against a background of sustained, highly personalised abuse being directed at me by a group of his supporters, who took exception to two articles published about their 'leader' in the past week or so (read here and here).
As evidenced by their responses to those articles, the Recusant Nine fanatics are, it seems, immune to any reasoned argument, facts or evidence – and far too ready to attack, in seriously unpleasant terms, those who question their party line.
The police are already well aware of Miah and he is currently the subject of investigations into complaints made by local MP, Deborah Abrahams, by way of section 106 of the Representation of the People Act, 1983 and at least one other made against him under the Protection of Harassment Act, 1997.
Soon to be at least two, as a further package of evidence is being prepared, by me, for submission to the detective chief inspector in Oldham who is leading the extant investigations over Miah's recent course of conduct.
The threshold for a journalist to take such action is high; we expect criticism as part of our vocation, often in robust terms. But what has been experienced over the past ten days, goes far beyond that – and is perceived to be a campaign very much intended to cause distress and alarm, to the extent where coercing discontinuance of the Oldham investigation is the primary aim.
Another Oldham MP, James McMahon, has stated publicly, and at length, that Miah is running a deliberate campaign of harassment and abuse against him, also, and at least some of the comments he makes are 'blatantly defamatory' (read more here). The impact on both his professional and personal life is said to be considerable.
Samantha, it was disclosed to me at our meeting, has asked her lawyer to advise on the merits of a privacy, data breach claim against Raja Miah as she has no recollection of giving permission for her story to be published on the Recusant Nine website. She cannot trace any messages, either, where such permission was either sought or given.
She is also concerned, and has expressed publicly, as well as to me in more detailed terms, that Miah is running his 'CSE cover-up' campaign for his own personal and political ends and not with complainants, victims and survivors at its centre.
On any independent view, there is considerable merit in what Samantha says: The focus is, plainly, the vendetta (his own word) that Miah is running against those he perceives to have done him wrong. Particularly, Jim McMahon, over his part in the investigation into a shocking catalogue of failures at schools that Raja founded and ran in the Manchester area. Those failures include operational and infrastructure shortcomings, low Ofsted ratings, large-scale financial irregularities, low staff morale, safeguarding failures, and the grooming of a 14 year old girl at one of the schools. Raja Miah denies any or all wrongdoing.
For clarity, my investigation into the CSE allegations, made by Raja Miah, does not in any way replace, or intend to trespass too greatly on, the Assurance Review presently in progress in Oldham, headed by two of the country's leading child sexual exploitation experts, Malcolm Newsam and Gary Ridgway. Although some minor crossover is inevitable, as the wider online allegations made against Oldham council (and the police) form part of their terms of reference. The Review was commissioned by the Greater Manchester Mayor.
Their report is expected to be finished within the next few weeks and go out for consultation with interested parties. It is very keenly awaited, particularly in the wake of their widely acclaimed Review, also commissioned by Andy Burnham and published in January 2020, into widespread failings by police and councils in Rochdale and South Manchester.
Even in that light, Raja Miah has consistently sought to undermine the efficacy of the Oldham CSE investigation, without any regard for the integrity and track record of the two investigators, their high standing, professionally, or the toxic atmosphere, created almost entirely by him, that may have discouraged witnesses coming forward to give evidence to the Review or provide Newsam and Ridgway with viable lines of enquiry.
It is anticipated that my own findings on the merits of the Miah allegations, and the background to them, will be published within the next week or so. Raja grounds his campaign, that only began in the Autumn of last year, on a dossier leaked to him by a former councillor, Hugh McDonald.
In simple terms, its centre-piece is a one-eyed view of an email, sent to Jim McMahon over seven years ago by BBC journalist, Kevin Fitzpatrick, in which a number of other senior councillors are copied, including Mr McDonald. I have previously challenged Raja, publicly, on his Facebook page on that very point. He did not respond to that plainly expressed enquiry. Indeed, that was one of the tipping points, as it was becoming tiresome asking for evidence and/or substantiation and being blanked. I am, of course, now blocked from viewing any of his posts.
From information now in my possession, and taking a wider, much more enlightened view of local and national intelligence that was being fed into the Gold Group of partner agencies, at that time, it is evident that the 'Lee Rigby' golden nugget, weighted so heavily by the discredited Oldham activist in his criticism of Mr McMahon, and others, has lost a great deal of its lustre: There were credible policing grounds, to those who needed to know, to support the postponement of certain actions until the funeral of the fallen soldier had taken place.
More of that, and a closer scrutiny of the rest of the Recusant allegations, will follow. In the meantime, the author's eye is drawn to this statement by much-criticised Leader of Oldham Council, Sean Fielding: "What disturbs me is that the comments on social media [led by Raja Miah] piece together historic incidents, much of which is in the public domain, over a long period of time to give the impression that the allegations relate to young people at risk today."
Right of reply has again been offered to Raja Miah.
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DFI Announces the Tenth John Mitchell Lecturer To Speak at the DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations & Piling
Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Bengt H. Fellenius, Dr.Tech., P.Eng., former Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa, will be the tenth John Mitchell Lecturer. He will speak at the DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations & Piling, May 21-23, 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden at Stockholmsmässan.
Bengt is an internationally active geotechnical consultant and professional engineer specializing in foundation studies. A charter member of DFI, he was an original member of the DFI Board of Trustees, recipient of the DFI Distinguished Service Award in 1993, the Hal Hunt Lecturer in 1999 and the Osterberg Lecturer in 2010.
Dr. Fellenius is a third-generation geotechnical civil engineer and a native of Sweden who received his
M.A.Sc. degree at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1962. After a few years of practice, first as a structural engineer and then as a geotechnical engineer, he joined the Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI) as research engineer. During that time he completed a doctorate degree at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He left Sweden for North America in 1972 working in Canada first for a contracting firm and then a consulting firm before opening his own consulting office. He moved to Ottawa and was a professor in civil engineering, specializing in foundations, at the University of Ottawa for almost 20 years before leaving to concentrate on his consulting practice. He has published more than 300 technical documents, mostly on piling and deep foundations.
The John Mitchell Lecture was established at the 1991 4th International Conference on Piling and Deep Foundations in Stresa Italy. The Lecture was named in honor of John Michael Mitchell, one of the earliest organizers of the DFI International Conferences and a pioneering supporter of DFI's role as a leader in the global industry.


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Apple Preparing a Mystery Feast for Hungry Fans
Apple is a company long known for its exceptionally aesthetically pleasing products that are simple to use and loved by millions. However, the company hasn't released anything new since the iPad in 2010, simply refreshing the iPhone, iPad and Mac over the past few years.
Chris Ciaccia
May 29, 2014 11:26 AM EDT
Updated from 10:10 a.m. to include news about Beats new product.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Apple (AAPL) - Get Apple Inc. Report is a company long known for its exceptionally aesthetically pleasing products that are simple to use and loved by millions. However, the company hasn't released anything new since the iPad in 2010, simply refreshing the iPhone, iPad and Mac over the past few years.
That's all about to change, though.
Last night at the Re/Code conference, Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue talked about Apple's product lineup for the second half of 2014, boasting that the company's product portfolio is the best in the 25 years he's been there.
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"I have been working with Tim [Cook] since 1997," Cue said during the interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. "We started the online store together. Cook is extremely thorough, he has tremendous vision. He cares tremendously about building great products. Looking at the executive team, the reason we are successful is because of our focus. We are not smart enough to do 100 great things. We want to do a few incredible things, and that hasn't changed. We're going to keep going down that path... Later this year, we've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple."
Given that Apple is a company known for looking at industries, be it music (iTunes and iPod), phones (iPhones) or tablets (iPad), waiting them out, and then surpassing the competition, it's surprising to hear Cue talk about a product portfolio and pipeline that is that strong, especially given how secretive Apple is with its plans. While Cue obviously did not give anything away, it's clear he's talking about several new initiatives and areas where Apple does not currently play, a fact that CEO Cook has said publicly in the past.
Recent speculation has surrounded Apple moving into wearable technology, with a device known as the iWatch, being one area where Apple does not currently participate.
Apple's rumored device is not set until at least the third quarter (most likely a Sept. release), so wearable technology market and its players have some time to figure it out before Apple comes in and dominates, just as it did with the iPod, iPhone and iPads.
The iWatch could initially be a much larger revenue driver for Apple than the iPod or the iPhone was, though that comes off a much larger customer base. "Our working assumption is that iWatch will largely be adopted as an accessory device and therefore sold into the existing customer base like the iPad rather than to new customers like the iPod or iPhone," Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty wrote in February research note about Apple. "Assuming an ASP of $299 and Apple customer base penetration rate similar to the iPad, we see up to $17.5B of revenue in the first 12 months compared to $12B for the iPad and $2.5B for the iPhone."
With wearable technology set to become the next big thing, Apple is intent on moving into the health and fitness market from a software perspective, as well as a hardware perspective.
Apple may wind up announcing Healthbook, an app similar to Passbook, that will store all of your health and fitness related data in one place, on the software side.
Of the more notable features included in Healthbook, it tracks steps taken and calories, as well as monitoring things like blood pressure, oxygen levels, sleep activity and even monitors your breathing. There are several other features included in the app, but these are some of the most important.
It's expected that Apple will unveil Healthbook at next month's Worldwide Developer Conference, where it's expected to show off its next mobile operating system, iOS 8.
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Following that, there's the potential for Apple to get into the mobile payments industry, something that has been seeking leadership and a standard for a few years. Companies like eBay (EBAY) - Get eBay Inc. Report with its PayPal unit, Square, BrainTree (also owned by eBay), Google (GOOG) - Get Alphabet Inc. Class C Report Wallet and a host of others have competed in the mobile payments space, but there appears to be no industry standard, as of yet.
On a recent earnings call, Cook noted the opportunity for Apple with mobile payments, using TouchID, a feature on the iPhone 5s. "The mobile payments area in general is one that we've been intrigued with, and that was one of the thoughts behind Touch ID," Cook said on Apple's fiscal first-quarter earnings call. "But we're not limiting ourselves just to that. So I don't have anything specific to announce today, but you can tell by looking at the demographics of our customers and the amount of commerce that goes through iOS devices versus the competition that it's a big opportunity on the platform."
Then there are other potential products, including the long-awaited Apple branded television, an iPad-MacBook hybrid, as well as product refreshes to the iPhone and Apple TV.
In a research note yesterday, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek laid out Apple's product roadmap, noting we can expect to see the next iPhone later this year, with the iTV potentially coming in 2015.
While the timeline of the product roadmap isn't quite clear yet, judging from Cue's boastfulness, as well as recent public comments from Cook, Apple's product pipeline is in terrific shape, countering a trend that has plagued the company since Steve Jobs passed away in Oct. 2011.
For all that's left to do, we simply play the waiting game.
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--Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York
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Falcons Upended 78-40 by St. Joseph's College (CT)
West Hartford, CT - The Albertus Magnus College Women's Basketball team dropped a 78-40 decision to Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) opponent and host St. Joseph's College (CT) on Saturday afternoon.
The Falcons shooting woes continued for the third straight game, shooting just 27.5% from the field and 26.7% from beyond the arc.
St. Joe's (CT) received a balanced scoring attack with four players in double figures. Albertus was led by freshman guard Lianna Carrero (Hamden, CT/Hamden) who had a game high 18 points and five rebounds.
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