A few days ago, James turned 37 weeks old, so he has been out of the womb for the same amount of time that he was in the womb, as I gave birth at 37 weeks pregnant exactly. This got me reminiscing about my pregnancy and I thought now would be the perfect time to look back and share my pregnancy highlights.
We were trying for a baby, so I had a feeling I might be pregnant before I even tested because for a few days I had an unusual craving for sweets. I took a pregnancy test and it was positive! We were so happy, but also very scared and excited at the same time! I couldn't stop smiling, and even though the following morning I had a very important meeting to attend, I didn't sleep a wink at night, thinking about the tiniest of lives growing inside me and about how that little piece of news would turn our worlds upside down and bring so much joy to our lives!
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I was stroking my bump when I felt a gentle tap on my belly from the inside out. I let out a little scream, grabbed Matthew's hand and placed it where I had felt the tap, hoping that it would happen again. Within a few seconds, we felt several more gentle pokes – they were definitely baby kicks, not gas! From that moment until the day I gave birth, the kicks were like our own private conversation. This is a moment I will never forget!
'It's a boy!', said the sonographer. I was beyond pleased and couldn't wait to meet my precious little baby boy. The family was overjoyed to have another little boy to cuddle and spoil, my husband was happy to have his own mini-me, and we started making plans of family holidays with the children, going crazy over the baby blue clothes and brainstorming boys' names. Then I got really scared when I realised I knew nothing about looking after little boys!
I was saying goodbye to my baby bump and saying hello to my baby boy. That last push, filled with adrenaline, pain, fear and excitement, was over before I knew it. Had it not been for paracetamol and gas and air, it would also have been drug-free. I was in a lot of pain during the last hour of my pregnancy, so in a way I was desperate for it to end, but it was also difficult to let go, when I realised it was the end of one of the most memorable periods of my life. That last push gave me simultaneously a sense of nostalgia and relief. Holding James for the first time was so surreal and I will never forget the look he gave me with his big beady eyes when he was placed onto my chest.
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Hi Ysis, I'm loving your pregnancy recap. I'm near the start of my journey, 18 weeks, so I love reading this, Your bump pictures are brilliant! I already feel really attached to mine and can't wait for it to get really big. I'm checking out the Palmer's competition now. Thanks girl! You and your gorgeous boy take good care.


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Anna at the 2011 Met Gala in Chanel. Photo by Getty Images North America.
For the first time in its history, the red carpet arrivals at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit will be live-streamed online on Monday, May 7, 2012, from 6:30-8:30PM (EST), on the Vogue, Amazon.com/Fashion, and the Met's website.
This year's Costume Institute exhibit is Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.
The livestreaming will be hosted by Vogue's William Norwich and Elettra Wiedemann (daughter of Isabella Rossellini) and will include interviews with gala co-chairs, including Carey Mulligan, Miuccia Prada, and Anna Wintour.
The hosts will also ask attending celebrities five additional questions chosen from viewer submissions on Twitter (#MetQuestions) during the streaming.
These are some of my favorite looks of hers from Met Galas in the past.
Anna at the 2010 Met Gala. Photo by Stephen Lovekin.
Anna after the 2009 Met Gala.
Anna with her daughter Bee at the 2007 Met Gala. Photo by Peter Kramer.
Follow the Met on Facebook.com/MetMuseum and Twitter.com/MetMuseum to join in the conversation about the exhibition and gala benefit. Use #ImpossibleConversations and #MetGala hashtags on Twitter.
I love that first dress you featured. It's quite dramatic!
Drooling over the second dress and that jacket! Critics, meh what do they know? She looked fab!
I like the 3rd dress.
Thank you for the heads up on this event...I may just tune in. She's worn some gorgeous dresses.


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WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon WWE Network at the 2014 International CES at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas on January 8, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 10 and is expected to feature 3,200 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 150,000 attendees.
"The Texas Rattlesnake" strikes just HOURS before his Stone Cold Podcast returns to the WWE Network tonight after Raw.
Never one to mince words, Stone Cold Steve Austin discussed the current WWE product on his podcast, specifically its flagship show Raw. Austin put over the NXT product basically because it's a, get this, a wrestling show whereas every week Monday Night Raw is "like wrestling for morons." His words, not mine, though I've said the same thing a hundred times (to my cat, every Monday night.)
"It's (NXT) simple, it's to the point. It's not dumbed down like Monday Night RAW. On Monday Night RAW it's like they want to fill in every blank for you. It's like wrestling for morons. They've over thought it."
Austin did explain that NXT is a one hour show so it can be streamlined and there's less room to take chances or get creative but maybe that's exactly what Raw needs — a little less time to fill in 180 minutes of air time.
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New Orleans Looking at the history of home-based work both in healthcare and daycare and its roots in domestic work going back to USA colonial times and branching directly out from plantation life at the end of slavery, it really goes without saying that the Court's decision and creation of a new classification of "partial public employment," was made all the easier for the Justices because these workers were not only lower income but almost universally female and in the vast majority African-American, Latino, or new immigrant from scores of countries. Informal, temporary, casual, contingent, or precarious work, no matter how described, is often so and always hits many, if not all, of those categories.
Less obvious perhaps is that one of the unexamined impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow 5-4 decision in Harris v. Quinn is the persistent challenge in organizing the precariat or informal workers anywhere around the globe: how do you create an employer? And, yes, I said an "employer," not employment. Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, touched on this problem in a glancing fashion in one of her first statements reacting to the decision when asked about next steps in Illinois, she said that they would discuss alternative "models" for how to represent these workers in the future. Without saying so explicitly, Henry was undoubtedly already moving forward on a strategy to see if there might be the political will and weight in Illinois to trump Justice Samuel Alito's "partial public employee" classification by changing the "model" in such a way that these workers were not caught between fish and fowl, but were either full public employees or full private employees.
In Illinois the model was straight forwardly political, first moving from one governor to another and advancing the rights and entitlements of homecare workers from none at all to check-off to meet-and-confer to a representation election to a formal collective bargaining agreement. The political work could not be uprooted with a change of governor's because the union methodically worked the legislature regularly and in giant lobby days to increase appropriations and reimbursements to raise wages for DORS workers as well as reimbursement rates for private companies also represented by Local 880 and later Healthcare Illinois. Changing governors could not end bargaining rights simply based on executive orders as was the case in Michigan and other states, because the legislature also had overwhelmingly endorsed the collective bargaining right of these workers. There were Illinois legislators who literally loved these ladies and over the years had gotten to know them and care about their promises thanks to the union's constant efforts. It was heartwarming and consistent with the local union's culture to see long-time leader, Flora Johnson, whom I have known for years, quoted in papers all over the country speaking of her long journey from less than $6 per hour to over $13 due to her fight with the union. In Illinois the model was to make the state government the employer, and it was embraced by all parties until Harris v. Quinn.
California offered the other major model which involved creating a separate authority which would act as the employer, and would operate on a county-by-county basis as almost a joint partnership between the state and the county leveraging their participation with the federal reimbursement system. Perhaps the authority model is safer in spite of Harris v. Quinn, but it would take better gamblers than I am, and lawyers that I am not, to know for sure. The only sure bet is that the Right to Work Foundation is likely looking for clients all over Los Angeles and the Bay Area already to challenge agency fees there on the grounds of this decision. The New York model remained largely dominated by nonprofits, and since they were organized first under the NLRB, that system classifies home care workers as private employees. Home daycare workers in New Jersey and New York State though were organized more along the lines of the Illinois model, and certainly we ran the bulk of both of those organizing efforts, so lawyers are probably billing hours to CWA and AFT now.
We have the same problem with the local unions that ACORN International has organized in the Indian cities of Bengaluru and Chennai that now have over 10,000 members. Street vendors, food vendors, domestic workers, mahdi or dockworkers, all operate informally without employers though they have huge employment issues which only unions can address. What I have referred to elsewhere as the Maharashtra or Mumbai Model duplicated in many Indian cities and states sets employment and social security standards for various classifications of informal workers from auto rickshaw drivers to domestic workers. Enforcement is predictably minimal to nonexistent, but that's also why unions, once they win registration procedures for such workers, as we have now in the state of Karnataka and already exist in Tamil Nadu and other states, can enroll and represent such workers as our members directly.
In the neoliberal informalization of labor throughout the globe the employer objective in the race to the bottom is to evade any regulations and any responsibility for the workers who ultimately do the work. This problem previously caged in the public sector as subcontracting and privatization, has now leapfrogged into USA direct public employment standards through Harris v. Quinn. At the heart of the fight, ahead of even union security, will have to be the fight to create employment standards and clear accountability of an "employer" by any name necessary in order to secure for these precarious workers guaranteed and adequate terms and conditions of employment.
New Orleans As terrible as the impact of the Supreme Court's Harris v. Quinn decision is for unions and their capacity, the equally profound and perhaps more permanent implication may be in its attempt to create different sets of rights and entitlements for a permanent precariat in public sector employment. The 5-4 majority decision written by Justice Samuel Alito denigrated home-based healthcare aides by referring to them as "partial public employees" creating a new, dangerous, and previously unknown labor classification in order to pretzel his decision in such a way that it could inflate the importance of some family member caregivers and camouflage a huge setback in the long organizing campaign to formalize what had been completely informal, precarious work.
The historic changes that organizing and unionization has established over 35 years of organizing home-based, informal workers are essential to understand no matter how the court has tried to disguise and devalue the importance of the contribution. When we first began organizing these workers they were not just minimum wage workers, they were lucky to be even that. Domestic workers only received minimum wage coverage under the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1978 and though now we recognize home healthcare workers as a critical piece in the health care mosaic and a cost saving, humane option to nursing homes, these jobs were just evolving in the 1970's from their historic position as household servants. Workers were seen as unskilled and classified as homemakers, chore workers, and generally, unskilled domestic labor. Like domestics they had a series of clients, often traveling throughout the day until reimbursement was won for them to get pay for these hours, and received no benefits, holidays, vacations, health insurance, or even much respect.
Nonprofits first entered the field in some markets, and still are significant in New York, offering to match desperate families with workers able to meet the need. For profit companies with names like McMaid, quickly followed with efforts to make the workers independent subcontractors and match workers with clients while receiving Medicare reimbursement dollars. Moving from home to home to provide their special service, the workers were only marginally tied to the company paymasters since they provided no fixed worksite. In the early days there were shapeups where workers showed up for their checks, until unions used these check days to sign-up the workers. Requirements for regular training might create the only time a worker would meet others working for the same company.
When the United Labor Unions affiliated with the Service Employees in 1984, we had contracts covering this work with nonprofits in Boston and a bargaining order and no members but big dreams if we could get more legal and financial resources for our homecare local 880 in Chicago. In Justice Alito's classification of "partial public employees" he is ignoring years of litigation at every level of judicial review that established through the NLRA that these workers when handled by private companies were not independent contractors nor where they government employees. As state reimbursement programs grew in states like Illinois, California, and elsewhere, entities like the Illinois Department of Rehabilitative Services (DORS) became significant employers and providers of home health workers, organizers were forced to establish the rights and entitlements of these workers at every level just as they did under the NLRA. Some states with smaller programs, like Arkansas where Local 100 represents these workers, simply did the right thing and classified them as public employees, even while paying minimum wages. Other states with more extensive health and benefit systems, like Illinois, balked at integrating tens of thousands of workers in benefit programs that were already in many cases overburdened and underfunded. The compromise negotiated through constant bureaucratic and political struggle was to ease these workers, and later home daycare workers as well, into many of the rights and protections of public employees without accreting them fully into health and pension programs and instead concentrating on wages and some health coverage, all of which were won as critical milestones of substantial progress through unionization on the way to a future promised land.
What the Supreme Court is now trying to do through the backdoor of Harris v. Quinn is tear down the houses that our unions have built to hold safe and secure the employment of these workers. Classifying them as "partial public employees," and somehow not only different, but inherently substandard and diminished in comparison to firefighters and police for example opens the door to a definition of permanent precarity in a cruel paradox since these workers, just like fire and police, often are also among the few public servants with life and death of the public literally in their hands. In the Hobby Lobby decision, Justice Alito tried to warn the religious and rightwing zealots that they should not take the religious exception into other attacks against minimum wages, discrimination, and other worker entitlements. Sadly, nothing I have seen in this decision is a similar call for restraint in not expanding the diminishment of rights and entitlements for precariously employed, but public subsidized workers, way past the simple issue of paying servicing fees to a union, putting dark clouds in front of millions of workers in the future.


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Foo Fighters Concert Review Salt Lake City – October 11, 2011
Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters rocked the Maverick Center in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 11, 2011.
Dave Grohl Playing Lucite Dan Armstrong Ampeg Guitar
I was seventeen years old when I bought my first two Foo Fighters albums. Their debut self titled album and their second, "The Colour and the Shape". I listened to it locked in my bedroom so my parents wouldn't hear as they thought I was headed the wrong direction by listening to what they considered to be loud and unorganized rock music. Yet it seems over the last thirteen years the Foo Fighters have been the most consistent for me, never letting me down with what they have to offer. That is why on October 11, 2011, I was not going to miss seeing them at the Maverick Center in West Valley City, Utah.
It was ten years ago when I first saw them live on the main stage during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. My greatest memory of that night, besides the freezing cold was Dave's clear guitar; a Lucite Dan Armstrong Ampeg. I thought at the time I couldn't love the Foo Fighters more than I already did, but I was wrong. The most recent show at the Maverick Center flooded my brain with memories of why I have never stopped listening to one of the last great, raw, natural rock bands in history. Dave Grohl as a front man is his true calling in life. He plays guitar with pure heart. He sings with full conviction. It amazes me that he can sing the way he does for two and a half hours. So many full and good classic Dave Grohl screams. He has a raw love for what he is doing that draws you so far in you almost forget that there are hundreds of screaming people around you. Let alone what the guitars themselves do for your senses.
Dave had around 6 guitars changes as well as all of the other members of the band. The Foo Fighters are crowd pleasers playing their old and new melodies mixed well throughout the night keeping you on your toes. You keep hoping their next song is one you can cross off your list of favorites, which is exactly what they did for me. Dave also pleases all who attend by having a really long extension of the main stage so he can walk down through the crowd. It didn't matter where your seat was, at some point you would always have a good close up of Dave. He doesn't interact too much with the rest of the band except for when Taylor Hawkins sings "Cold Day In The Sun". They show everyone how their long friendship stays in tact as Dave teases Taylor by singing harmony into Taylor's mic instead of his own. Mid-way through Dave takes on Chris Shiflett for a guitar solo war in which the crowd equally cheers for both band members.
But Dave wants the world to know it's not just about Dave as he takes time to fully introduce the band and give them their props. Even the keyboardist who only plays on four songs. The band as a whole is so engaging that you forget about the technical glitches; like the vocals not being loud enough on some songs and one of the TV monitors turning on and off throughout the night. Dave points out that if you want to be a true rock and roller, all you need is a guitar. He proves this by starting their encore with just his acoustic. They finish the show with Dave bringing out his memorable Lucite Dan Armstrong Ampeg, (he saves the best for last.) As the last few chords of "Everlong" are played, you feel the conclusion of an amazing night of memorable music.
Highlights of the night were "My Hero", "Learn To Fly", "Walk", "Monkey Wrench", "All My Life", "Everlong" and the acoustic "Times Like These". The entire set list, (at least to the best of my knowledge), is below. Truly one of the greatest highlights of the night was before The Foo Fighters even began playing. Cage The Elephant's drummer had emergency surgery due to his appendix bursting and who better than Dave Grohl to fill in on their last 5 songs. No one plays drums quite like Dave. Salt Lake City really did get a special showing unlike any other. The band is touring to promote their lastest album "Wasting Light". The album offers classic Foo guitars and drums with a solid, matured and well mixed sound. Dave also promised they would record another album and come back out on tour. If you missed this time around, be sure that you don't miss the next because it was one true rockin' night to remember!
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Let It Die
This Is a Call
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Long Road to Ruin
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Daily Current Affairs IAS | UPSC Prelims and Mains Exam – 12th December 2019
SRC: Human Rights watch
There has been an outcry for justice for the victims after the rape and murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad and the burning of a rape survivor in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh.
History of Rape law:
First introduced in the Indian Penal Code in 1860.
The first Law Commission under the chairmanship of Lord Macaulay decided to put the criminal law of the land in two separate codes. (Indian Penal Code & Code of Criminal Procedure )
Indian Penal Code IPC :
Section 375 of the IPC made punishable the act of sex by a man with a woman if it was done against her will or without her consent.
Her consent has been obtained by putting her or any person in whom she is interested, in fear of death or of hurt is considered to be Rape
Sex with or without her consent, when she is under 18 years is considered rape.
Exception : sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his wife, the wife not being under 15 years of age, is not rape.
Section 376 provided for seven years of jail term to life imprisonment
Mathura custodial rape case 1972
In 1972 a young Adivasi girl named Mathura was allegedly raped by policemen in the Desai Gunj Police Station in Maharashtra.
In the trial that ensued, the sessions court came to the conclusion that she had sexual intercourse while at the police station but rape had not been proved and that she was habituated to intercourse.
The sessions court acquitted both the policemen, the High Court reversed the order of acquittal.
When the case reached the Supreme Court, it overturned the High Court verdict saying that "the intercourse in question is not proved to amount rape".
SC 1978 verdict, said no marks of injury were found on the girl after the incident and "their absence goes a long way to indicate that the alleged intercourse was a peaceful affair".
Controversy and Criminal Law (Second Amendment) Act 1983
Controversial SC 1978 verdict sparked widescale protests across the country seeking a change in existing rape laws. This led to Criminal Law (Second Amendment) Act of 1983.
Section 114A in the Indian Evidence Act of 1872 was inserted which presumed that there is absence of consent in certain prosecutions of rape if the victim says so. This applied to custodial rape cases.
Section 228A was added which makes it punishable to disclose the identity of the victim in Rape case
Law Commission:
Law Commission in its 172th report recommended widening the scope of rape law to make it gender neutral.
While the rape law in India even today remains gender specific, as the perpetrator of the offence can only be a 'man', the 172nd report led to the amendments in the Indian Evidence Act in 2002.
Nirbhaya case in Delhi 2012 &Criminal Law (Amendment) Act in 2013
Parliament made the amendments on the recommendation of the Justice J.S. Verma Committee, which was constituted to re-look the criminal laws in the country and recommend changes.
The 2013 Act, increased jail terms in most sexual assault cases and also provided for the death penalty in rape cases that cause death of the victim or leaves her in a vegetative state.
It also created new offences, such as use of criminal force on a woman with intent to disrobe, voyeurism and stalking.
Unwelcome physical contact, words or gestures, demand or request for sexual favours, showing pornography against the will of a woman or making sexual remarks stalking was made punishable acid attack was increased to 10 years of imprisonment.
Offences against minors (Kathua Rape case in Jammu and Kashmir)
Led to the passing of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018 which for the first time put death penalty as a possible punishment for rape of a girl under 12 years;
The minimum punishment is 20 years in jail.
The minimum jail term for rape, which has remained unchanged since the introduction of the IPC in 1860, was increased from seven to 10 years.
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2017 report:
A total of 3,59,849 cases were reported against women in 2017.( 2016, 3.38 lakh , 3.2 lakh cases 2015) The number of cases reported has increased. U
Uttar Pradesh has again topped the list with 56,011 cases of crime against women, followed by Maharashtra with 31,979 cases and West Bengal at 30,002.
Crimes against women constitute murder, rape, dowry death, suicide abetment, acid attack, cruelty against women and kidnapping.
'Cruelty by husband or his relatives' accounts for 27.9 per cent of the crimes against women.
'Assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty' comprise 21.7 per cent, followed by 'kidnapping and abduction of women' with 20.5 per cent and 'rape' with 7.0 per cent of reported cases.
Rape data :
'Rape' stands with 7.0 per cent of reported cases.
A total of 32,559 rapes were reported in 2017 in India.
Madhya Pradesh has recorded the highest number of rape cases at 5,562 cases being reported in 2017. Uttar Pradesh is second to MP.
Delhi, saw a decline in reporting of rape cases, in 2017, 13,076 were reported, which is the lowest in the last three years.
93.1 percent cases the accused were known to the victims.
Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura can be seen as moderately safer than other states as they recorded the lowest number of cases.
Make the criminal justice system tougher on an offender committing sexual crimes against women and children.
Punishments must reinforce people's faith in the rule of law, not undermine it. Analyse
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Venezuela Restructures National Electricity Comp. Amid Power Outages - Official
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The Latin American country's losses from large-scale power outages in March exceeded $2 billion, local research firm Ecoanalitica said on 2 April.
Venezuela is launching a restructuring of the national electricity company Corpoelec amid power outages, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez stated.
"Following orders of the president, we have established the power supply general headquarters. We have identified two areas of our work: responding to an emergency situation in the electrical system caused by criminal attacks, and creating an 'armoured' system to counter various attacks", Rodriguez said during a headquarters meeting in the state of Bolivar, broadcast by Venezuelan state television.
"In this regard, it was decided to restructure and modernise the national electric power corporation Corpoelec", Rodriguez added.
The statement comes after spontaneous protest actions were held in Caracas and several other cities at the end of March demanding the restoration of electricity supply.
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US Pre-Positions Humanitarian Aid for Venezuela in Curacao - State Department
In early March, Venezuela suffered the worst power outage in its history, when as many as 21 out of 23 states were left without electricity. Venezuela's national electricity supplier, Corpoelec, has stated that the incident was caused by "sabotage" at the Guri hydroelectric power plant, which generates electricity for nearly all of the country.
Major power outages continued across the country later in March, with Caracas stressing that the country's power system had suffered several attacks. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in particular, mentioned "electromagnetic attacks" on power transmission lines.
READ MORE: US Threatens to Counter Russia in 'Western Hemisphere' Amid Venezuela Row
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Venezuela's Power Grid Suffered From 4 Massive Attacks in March - Communications Minister
Venezuela has been facing an intense political crisis since 23 January, when opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the country's "interim president", contesting the last year's presidential elections. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who was sworn in for his second presidential term on 10 January after winning last May's election, which part of the opposition boycotted, qualified Guaido's move as an attempt at staging a coup orchestrated by Washington.
The United States promptly recognised Guaido, along with some 50 other countries, whereas Russia, China, Cuba, Bolivia and a number of other states have voiced their support for the legitimate government under Maduro. Mexico and Uruguay have refused to recognise Guaido, instead declaring themselves neutral and promoting settlement of the crisis via dialogue.
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A Committee constituted to review and suggest modifications and changes in the provisions of the Section 126 and other sections of the Representation of People Act 1951 and provisions of Model Code of Conduct has submitted its report. The panel was headed by senior deputy election commissioner Umesh Sinha.
The provision prohibits conduct of Exit poll and dissemination of their results during the period mentioned therein, in the hour fixed for commencement of polls in the first phase and half hour after the time fixed for close of poll for the last phase in all the States.
Violation of the provisions of Section 126 is punishable with imprisonment upto a period of two years, or with fine or both.
Amend Section 126(1) of R P Act to impose the "campaign silence period" on print, electronic media and intermediaries. The definition of intermediaries, as per Section 2(w) of the Information Technology Act, includes telecom service providers, internet service providers, web-hosting service providers, search engines, etc.
Bring in changes in the model code of conduct to ensure that parties release their manifesto at least 72 hours prior to polling (or 72 hours prior to polling for first phase in a multi-phase election).
Star campaigners should desist from addressing press conferences or giving interviews on election matters during silence period. Also, in a multi-phased election, there should be no direct or indirect reference seeking support for parties/candidates in constitutencies observing silence period.
Intermediaries should ensure that their platforms are not misused to vitiate free and fair polls. This would include a notification mechanism by which EC may notify the platform of potential violations of Section 126 of R P Act.
While EC will appoint an officer to liaise with the intermediaries, the latter should open a special grievance redressal channel for EC and have a dedicated team during election period to interface with and take quick action on receipt of EC order to take down or disable content in violation of R P Act.
Intermediaries should report to the Commission on measures taken to prevent abuse of their platforms, including generating publicly-available action taken reports. All political advertisements may be clearly labelled as such and be pre-approved by a EC-appointed content monitoring committee.


Our Weekly Monthly Edit is here, just in time to sign off for the week. I hope you are kicking back with a glass of wine in hand right now, ready to enjoy a warm couple days off work. Please, enjoy it for me. This week has been a busy one…I've been in California, Texas, and I'm now enroute back to California for our makeover project with Lowes. I'm super excited to see this space come together over the weekend! We will be painting, drilling, and styling for the next 48 hours. Follow along on Snapchat (username: WitInRealLife) and Instagram for a sneak peek.
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Ray (Alex Breaux) is bad at hiding things. A swimmer with a chance at Olympic glory and a lucrative endorsement deal, he spends all of Lucas Hnath's Red Speedo nearly naked: a slab of ultra-lean meat in a bathing suit. He's not smart, rich or happy; he can only swim, and even that may end if the dope is caught doping. Like everyone around him—his sleazy lawyer brother (Lucas Caleb Rooney), his coach (Peter Jay Fernandez), his ex-girlfriend (Zoë Winters)—Ray lives in a bubble of self-deception and rationalization, but he can barely conceal how hard it is to breathe in there.
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Monopolies for Children? Pediatric Exclusivity and the Orphan Drug Act
By Alexander T. Tabarrok
In November of 1997 Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA). Section 111 of that Act offers drug sponsors six months of additional market exclusivity if those sponsors conduct pediatric studies on new drugs or currently marketed drugs still under some exclusivity provision.1 Section 111 sunsets in January of 2002; thus questions have arisen as to whether Section 111 should be reauthorized.
The pediatric exclusivity provisions of the FDAMA are modeled on similar provisions established in the 1983 Orphan Drug Act. Some background on that Act may be useful in evaluating Section 111. Beginning with the Kefauver-Harris Bill of 1962, which for the first time required drug sponsors to submit to the FDA clinical studies on effectiveness in addition to safety, the costs and the time necessary to receive a new drug approval rose dramatically. By 1983 the research, testing and development of a new drug could take up to twenty years, seven of which could be spent on the FDA's approval of the New Drug Application. In addition, the total costs of bringing a new drug to market were in the hundreds of millions. Studies of the FDA showed that the increase in costs and time to market had resulted in substantial drug lag and drug loss. New and beneficial drugs were taking longer to reach the market, thus resulting in the death of many people who would have lived had the approval process been more expeditious, and many drugs were simply no longer being created because the costs exceeded any potential revenues. (See Tabarrok 2000 for review of many studies of the FDA)
Since the costs of obtaining FDA approval were the same regardless of whether the projected market was 20,000 patients or 2 million patients, FDA regulation has had especially negative consequences on drugs intended for small markets. The Orphan Drug Act was created in an effort to reduce drug loss in the area of rare diseases, "rare" defined as fewer than 200,000 cases in the United States. The Orphan Drug Act gave sponsors of drugs for rare diseases, tax breaks, subsidies and seven years of exclusivity, meaning that for seven years, no other company could obtain permission to market a similar drug.
The essence of the Orphan Drug Act is that rather than lowering the costs of producing new drugs the FDA increased the benefits by giving sponsors monopoly rights. The 7 years of exclusivity granted under the Act are considerably more generous than even a patent. A patent protects against competition from a drug with the same chemical structure, market exclusivity protects against competition from any drug with a similar effect. The FDA has thus barred firms from marketing a drug because it treated the same disease as a drug that the FDA has previously granted exclusivity under the Act.
The Act has generally been regarded as successful in producing more drugs to alleviate rare diseases (Arno, Bonuck and Davids 1995). Almost a thousand drugs have been granted orphan status. The number of such drugs is misleading, however, as many would have been produced even without the Act. The definition of "rare" is also potentially misleading. Millions of American suffer from cancer, so cancer is not rare, but a drug may be granted orphan status to treat ovarian cancer or cancer of the bladder. Thus, a drug used to treat ovarian and bladder cancer could be an orphan in each category, even though the total population served would be well over 200,000. Even more absurdly, the market for a drug may be divided into a prevention and a treatment category and if either of these categories is below 200,000, orphan status granted. Moreover, the same drug can be an orphan for more than one disease! It's likely, therefore, that the Act has raised drug prices not only for true "orphan" diseases but for many others as well.
It's interesting to note that when originally enacted the standard for orphan status was "no reasonable expectation that the costs of development will be recouped from US sales." Even this standard suggested that many drugs would be labeled "orphans" even though they would be profitable without that designation, since worldwide sales could well exceed US sales. To prove that there was no reasonable expectation of cost recoupment, pharmaceutical firms were supposed to submit financial data to the IRS. The pharmaceutical industry didn't like this provision, however, so it lobbied to have the requirement weakened. In 1984 the standard for orphan designation was weakened to fewer that 200,000 potential US patients at the time of the request for designation of orphan status. The latter clause was important since in the early years of AIDS, when the disease affected relatively few people, it allowed many AIDS drugs to be designated as orphans despite the fact that the market for these drugs was expected to grow very rapidly. It will surprise many to learn, for example, that AZT was designated an orphan drug despite the fact that AZT has generated billions of dollars of sales. Initially, Congress had also restricted the exclusivity to drugs which could not be patented; that restriction was dropped in 1985. Thus, over time the Act has become significantly more beneficial for US drug manufacturers. Not surprisingly, the Act is widely supported by the drug industry.
The increase in the incentive to produce new drugs may outweigh the increases in prices caused by the Orphan Drug Act. Unfortunately, no major cost-benefit analysis has yet been performed. It could well be the case that the true number of new orphan drugs created is small relative to the increase in prices.
The pediatric exclusivity provision of Section 111 sought to treat a problem similar to that of orphan drugs: the lack of pediatric labeling for most drugs. Pharmaceutical firms have been reluctant to perform clinical trials on children not simply because the pediatric market is often small relative to the adult market, although this undoubtedly plays a role, but also because of the difficulty of obtaining informed consent. Phase I clinical trials, for example, are meant to determine a drug's basic properties and safety profile in humans. Studies in this phase are conducted on healthy individuals who are typically paid to participate in the trial. Substantial ethical concerns are raised by the participation of healthy children in these trials, especially when such children are not old enough to give informed consent and when any payment may be made to the child's parents. Pharmaceutical firms are also concerned about liability.
To overcome these concerns, Section 111 offers pharmaceutical firms six months or market exclusivity on top of any patent rights or other monopoly rights granted under the Patent Term Restoration Act (Waxman-Hatch Act) or under the Orphan Drug Act. As with exclusivity under the Orphan Drug Act, grants of pediatric exclusivity are liberal. The grant of exclusivity, for example, is for the adult version of the drug and not just the pediatric formulation. Pediatric information is not useful for all drugs (e.g., pediatric dosing information would not be useful on a drug intended to treat Alzheimer's), thus only those drugs for which the FDA believes pediatric information would be worthwhile are eligible for exclusivity under Section 111.2 Nevertheless, the Act contains no cost-benefit provisions that would indicate when the value of pediatric information justifies the higher prices created by the extension of monopoly rights. The Act, for example, may sometimes require millions of adults to pay substantially higher prices in order to create pediatric information which is of little value to a comparatively few patients.
Moreover, the six months of additional protection extends to the active moiety of the drug. In non-technical terms, an acceptable pediatric study of any version of a drug qualifies that drug for exclusivity on all versions. If a drug is tested as a cream, for example, the extension under pediatric exclusivity also applies to the drug in spray, oral tablet or injectable form. As with the Orphan Drug Act, pharmaceutical manufacturers have lobbied to extend the monopoly rights under Section111. For example, under the interpretation of the Act promoted by pharmaceutical firms the monopoly rights granted under Section 111 would apply not simply to any version of the drug currently existing but any version created in the future. Pharmaceutical firms have also pushed an interpretation of the Act which would extend monopoly rights to combination products involving the drug study for pediatric purposes.
It should be noted, that the pediatric studies necessary to qualify for the six-month extension of monopoly rights do not need to demonstrate safety and efficacy in children nor need they be sufficient to establish pediatric labeling. The lack of such requirements is probably wise given the difficulties with conducting clinical trials on children, as indicated above, and given that such trials would in part be a costly duplication of the adult trials. Nevertheless, the lack of well-defined standards for the required studies once again raises the question of whether the value of the resulting studies exceeds the costs to adult drug consumers.
Both the orphan Drug Act and the pediatric exclusivity sections of the FDAMA raise issues in the ethics or redistribution. In essence, Section 111 is a cross-subsidy from sick adults to sick children, just as the Orphan Drug Act is a cross-subsidy from people who are sick with common diseases to people who are sick with uncommon diseases. Although the utility of public policies designed to increase pediatric information and the number of orphan drugs is beyond question, it is not obvious why sick adults and sick people with common diseases should exclusively bear the burden of such policies.
A final wrinkle. In December of 1998 the FDA promulgated a final rule, "Regulations Requiring Manufacturers to Assess the Safety and Effectiveness of New Drugs and Biologic Products," which took effect in April of 1999. If Section 111 is the carrot, then the FDA's Final Rule is the stick motivating pharmaceutical firms to complete pediatric studies (Karst 2000). The final Rule is intended to "complement" Section 111. In effect, if due to cost or other considerations adequate clinical trials are not completed under Section 111, the final Rule gives the FDA authority to require that such studies be conducted. Importantly, the final Rule can be applied to off-patent drugs in addition to drugs currently under patent or other monopoly right. The legality of the Final Rule is under question and some have suggested that the FDA would or should trade support for Section 111 in return for industry support for the Final Rule or its equivalent (Karst 2000). Given the questionable value of both Section 111 and the Final Rule a trade in which both were retained would be undesirable.
1 Under some conditions the effective exclusivity extension can last up to a year.
2 Technically, the FDA must request a sponsor to perform pediatric studies, but sponsors may initiate the request process.
Arno, P.S., K. Bonuck, and M. Davis. 1995. Rare Diseases, Drug Development, and AIDS: The Impact of the Orphan Drug Act. The Milbank Quarterly 73 (2): 231-52.
Karst, K.R. 2000. Pediatric Testing of Prescription Drugs: The Food and Drug Administration's Carrot and Stick for the Pharmaceutical Industry. American University Law Review 49:739-72
Tabarrok, Alexander. 2000. Assessing the FDA via The Anomaly of Off-Label Drug Prescribing, The Independent Review 5 (1): 25-53. Available online at http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=21&articleID=240. Accessed December 123, 2004.
Alexander T. Tabarrok is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, Assistant Editor of The Independent Review, and Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University.
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Multicolor Crochet Stitch Pattern "Waves"
This crochet stitch pattern is very easy to do: the single crochet stitches and the double crochet stitches. The rapport of pattern in horizontal - 14 stitches, in vertical - 4 row. Pink and purple waves alternate. You can use other colors in your work, and not two, and more colors.
For an example make chain stitches a multiple of 14, plus 10 chain for the symmetry of the pattern. The first stitch of the first row make in 3rd chain from hook (2 turning chains).
6 row (pink): single crochet in each loop of previous row.
7 row: as 3rd and so on.


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The 1932 Newfoundland general election was held on 11 June 1932 to elect members of the 28th General Assembly of Newfoundland. This vote proved to be the final general election held by the Dominion of Newfoundland. As a result of a riot which occurred in 1932 due to Newfoundland's deteriorating economic situation, Prime Minister Sir Richard Squires dissolved the House of Assembly and called an election. His Liberals were reduced to two seats while Frederick C. Alderdice's United Newfoundland Party won 24 seats and was elected to government.  The size of the House was reduced from 40 to 27 as an economy measure.

Alderdice was not able to rescue the public finances. By this time Newfoundlanders despaired of the ability of their politicians to solve the problems. The British government commissioned a report from William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree which was scathing about the political culture of Newfoundland.

The price of British government financial aid was the abandonment of responsible and representative government. The legislature was dissolved. The Commission of Government came into operation on 16 February 1934 ending more than a century of legislative democracy in Newfoundland.

Results

Results by party

*As Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party

Elected members
 Bonavista North
 William C. Winsor United Newfoundland Party
 Bonavista South
 Herman W. Quinton United Newfoundland Party
 Burgeo-LaPoile
 James A. Winter United Newfoundland Party (speaker)
 Burin
 Samuel J. Foote United Newfoundland Party
 Carbonear-Bay de Verde
 John C. Puddester United Newfoundland Party
 Ferryland
 Michael A. Shea United Newfoundland Party
 Fogo
 Harold J. Earle United Newfoundland Party
 Fortune Bay and Hermitage
 Harris M. Mosdell Independent
 Grand Falls
 Kenneth M. Brown United Newfoundland Party
 Green Bay
 Roland G. Starkes Liberal
 Harbour Grace
 Harry A. Winter United Newfoundland Party
 Harbour Main-Bell Island
 Charles Furey United Newfoundland Party
 William J. Browne United Newfoundland Party
 Humber
 F. Gordon Bradley Liberal
 Placentia and St. Mary's
 Phillip J. Lewis United Newfoundland Party
 Placentia West
 William J. Walsh United Newfoundland Party
 Port de Grave
 James S. Ayre United Newfoundland Party
 St. Barbe
 George Whitely United Newfoundland Party
 St. George's-Port au Port
 William H. Abbott United Newfoundland Party
 St. John's East
 Gerald G. Byrne United Newfoundland Party
 L. Edward Emerson United Newfoundland Party
 St. John's West
 Frederick C. Alderdice United Newfoundland Party
 Patrick F. Halley United Newfoundland Party
 Trinity North
 John G. Stone United Newfoundland Party
 Trinity South
 Harold Mitchell United Newfoundland Party
 Twillingate
 Norman Gray United Newfoundland Party
 White Bay
 Joseph Moore United Newfoundland Party

References

External links

See also
General elections in Newfoundland (pre-Confederation)

1932
1932 elections in North America
1932 elections in Canada
Politics of the Dominion of Newfoundland
1932 in Newfoundland
June 1932 events

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Downing Depot News
By Editor | April 29, 2021
Wagon Bridge over Fabius River, Memphis, MO
Railroad Bridge West, Memphis, Missouri
Broadwater Cut and Wagon and Foot Bridge, Memphis, Missouri
Submitted by Judy Sharp
Summer is almost here? Summer is almost here! The Depot Museum doors will open for the season in another month. Generally, we'll plan to be open two Friday–Saturday times per month. Although we decided not to have the Smorgasbord again this year, we're already planning on it for sure in 2022. Instead, we're coordinating our schedule around events planned by the Hall Museum, Lancaster (June, August, September dates are set); Scotland County Antique Fair (late August); Downing Appreciation Days (early September). So here's our tentative schedule:
FRI/SAT, 7–8
FRI/SAT, 21–22
SUNDAY, the 6th (no smorgasbord, but we'll be open in case some people miss the notice)
FRI/SAT, 11–12 (Hall Museum, Lancaster is having special tours on Saturday, 6/12, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.—visit both of us)
FRI/SAT, 2–3 (for the July 4th celebration and fireworks in Downing)
TUESDAY, 10th (Missouri Statehood Bicentennial—Hall Museum will celebrate with an ice cream cone social, and an art competition with Circus theme—plan ahead on your art entry, it has to be in for judging on Monday the 9th—check with the Hall Museum for the rules)
THURS, FRI, SAT, 26–27–28 (Downing Depot will have a booth at the Scotland County Antique Fair on the square at Memphis; instead of the Depot building being open, look for us on the west side of the courthouse near the main door)
SUNDAY, 5th evening before and after the Appreciation Days church service
ALSO (tentative plans are to have an afternoon program in September, maybe on the 5th, "Saluting Our Veterans & Families," with sharing of memories, songs, light refreshments, and an open house for our new Veterans Room. We hope to gather many veterans and their families for this special event—firm details will be coming.
THURS, FRI, SAT, 9–10–11 (open during Downing Appreciation Days)
FRI/SAT, 17–18 (Tour Schuyler County History—Hall Museum, Lancaster; Lauer Blacksmith Shop, Queen City; and our Depot Museum, Downing, will all be open for tours, 10 a.m. to time? Glenwood–Schuyler Co. Community Center will be serving lunches, as well as local restaurants.
FRI/SAT, 22–23 (closing for the 2021 season)
Recently I've been inventorying books and such that Terry Arnold donated to the Depot Museum, from the SCGS organization. As you may know they are closing down due to lack of attendance and lack of people requesting information from them. It seems that today's genealogy researchers believe they can get everything useful online. Let me tell you, the SCGS building has a wealth of information that just isn't part of anything microfilmed or transcribed into digital. Our Downing Depot Museum is the same way. I'm often amazed at the old, but fresh information found there.
Local history museums are given lots of documents as well as the many physical items and photos—bits and pieces of this and that. Bonnie Hayes did a great job with preparing the rural schools' binders, but in the past few months I found quite a few additional papers to add to the four binders she'd organized. They became stuffed and hard to browse. Now they are split to seven binders, plus Downing has its own set and Glenwood and Schuyler R-I each have their own set of binders. There's lots of old and interesting info to review in the history of 60+ schools—their original names (you've probably heard of Pull Tight, but how about Backaction, Possum Hollow, or Mud-Head?), dates they were established, and surnames that are still around today. And of course, there were schools in Scotland County that connected to Downing as their hometown.
History is a funny thing. You may like looking at some old thing someone's great-grandfather had, but you'll remember it longer if you know why he had it, what it was used for, or how it had to be used. If you can relate that great-grandfather to your neighbor's mother's family that lived… well, it hangs around in your head and you're probably better off for knowing there were different ways of doing things long ago, people struggling to make livings in kinds of jobs that may now be rare—blacksmithing, weaving, threshing, delivering mail by rail.
We hope to see you sometime when we're open (see above schedule), but if at another time you'd like to research something or bring a visitor to the Museum, just give one of us a call. We'll be glad to help out. Call Jerry or Margaret Scurlock, 660-379-2467, Carol or Don Scurlock, 641-929-3915, or Judy Sharp, 660-342-1454. We'll see you in Downing, at the Depot.
Additionally, can you ever have enough old railroad pictures? What engines ran through Downing? The Museum has pictures of the last train through town and the Doodlebug, but those aren't the old steam engines and trains. There are pictures of bridge crews working near Centerville, an agent with some men standing at a mail car, and some men posing on a hand pump car. Ah, but new information came along the other day. Terry Arnold is closing down the Scotland County Genealogical Society (SCGS) building and allowed me to scan some railroad postcards that Helen Louise Depuy of Mobile, Alabama, had donated to them.
So now the Depot collection has two pictures of steam locomotives and coal cars pulling trains—one east and one west of Memphis; the CB&Q depot at Crawford in 1953; the railroad track with a bridge over the track far in the background, labeled "Broadwater Cut and Wagon and Foot Bridge, Memphis, Mo." (does anyone know where this was?); and a color card of a wagon bridge over the Fabius River, Memphis, Mo. On this card a wagon and team are stopped on the left end of the bridge with a man looking across the river toward us (the photographer). It's great to find new information.


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Okanagan parks society treks the Fur Brigade Trail
Okanagan Similkameen Parks Society holds 54th annual general meeting
Mar. 6, 2019 10:45 a.m.
The Okanagan Similkameen Parks Society has issued an open invitation to its annual general meeting in Summerland on March 15.
The main item on the agenda is the Hudson's Bay Company Heritage Brigade Trail, including the documentary Trekking Through History, which will be introduced by director/producer Erick Thompson. Historian Randy Manuel will also be on hand to discuss the history and restoration of the Brigade Trail.
The event starts at 7 p.m. in Centre Stage Theatre, next to Summerland Secondary School, at 9518 Main St.
Included in the film are historic reenactments and rare film footage from 1971, shot during the original retracing of the trail. There is also recent documentation of the trail.
Manuel was one of the original participants in the restoration of the HBC Heritage Trail, which OSPS has supported and contributed to over the years.
Related: College names Manuel, Shepherd and Terbasket as 2017 honorary fellows
This year, the OSPS honours explorer Harley Robert Hatfield as a celebrated pioneer, who researched and rediscovered the HBC Fur Brigade Trail. He received a Heritage Canada Foundation award in 1981 and Mount Hatfield, a 2,227-foot summit on Mason Ridge of the Hozameen Range, east of Hope, is named for him.
Hatfield remained in good health and full of spirit until a couple of weeks prior to his passing on February 14, 2000, at the age of 94.
The AGM will begin with a short meeting, where the financial statements for the prior year will be presented for approval, and where the 2019 board of directors will be elected. The AGM is open to the public free of charge, but donations are welcome.
Related: Osoyoos Oxbows added to habitat preserve
The OSPS works to acquire and preserve parklands for the health, recreation, education and natural enjoyment of the public, to seek preservation of habitat for wildlife, and to protect natural biotic areas for scientific study. Formed in 1966, the OSPS has successfully established Cathedral Lakes Park, Conkle Lake Park and Okanagan Mountain Park.
Steve Kidd
Senior reporter, Penticton Western News
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Monday, March 19, 2012 / 4:27 pm
One For The Money DVD & Blu-Ray Release Announced
Lionsgate will debut One For The Money on Region 1 Blu-ray Disc (plus Digital Copy), DVD, Digital Download and On Demand on May 15th. Katherine stars as the feisty bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in the comedic, action-packed film based on the first novel in the best-selling mystery series by Janet Evanovich. A supporting cast that includes Jason O'Mara, Daniel Sunjata, Sherri Shepherd and Debbie Reynolds, join in Stephanie's non-stop adventures with her family, the men in her life and her unusual new job.
The home entertainment release of One For The Money includes featurettes, a gag reel and a deleted scene.
BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
"Making the Money: Behind-the-Scenes" featurette
"Bond Girls: Kicking Ass in the Bail Bonds Industry" featurette
Deleted Scene
Please note special features are subject to change prior to release.
The Region 2 version of the movie will be released in the UK and Europe on June 18th.
Categories: Film, News
Tags: Daniel Sunjata, Debbie Reynolds, Janet Evanovich, Jason O'Mara, One For The Money, Sherri Shepherd, Stephanie Plum
Caroline said:
i can't wait to watch this movie..:) i from costa rica, and the movie isn't in the movies theaters.. too bad 🙁
Saris said:
I'm from Czech Republic and hopefully I'll see the movie on April 12. I've been waiting for it so long!
Isabela Scursoni Trevisan said:
I live in Brazil and here the movie just will debut April 12, it was canceled two times already, but I think this time is for real! We are all very anxious for the premiere, Katherine Heigl we love you, rest assured!
Maria Beatriz said:
Estreia Logo No Brasil Por Favor!!!!!
Tomi said:
Hurray!!!!! I will be having a party at my house when the DVD comes out.
All the girls will be here to see Ranger and Morelli….:-)
raquel said:
13 abril , estreia no Brasil \o/ até rimou
I cant watch this movie in format dvd in my bluray samsung 🙁
No puedo verla que puedo hacer? Mi bñuray dice que verifique la region
I cant watch this movie in format dvd in my bluray samnsung
Que hago? Mi bluray dice que verifique la region y no se que region es, nunca me habia pasado eso con el bluray


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Q: Insert a new column with generated sequence IDs in mySQL database I have the following records and I need to insert a new column called "records" with generated IDs in an ascending order; how do we do that in "MySQL" database ?
TERM_CODE   SUBJ_CODE   CRSE_NUMB   SCHD_CODE       CREDIT_HRS
201710  CHEN                311           L             93
201710  CHEN                311           L             96
201710  CHEN                314           L             78
201710  CHEN                314           L             81

to be like below:
Record  TERM_CODE   SUBJ_CODE   CRSE_NUMB   SCHD_CODE   CREDIT_HRS
1        201710       CHEN         311         L          93
2        201710       CHEN         311         L          96
3        201710       CHEN         314         L          78
4        201710       CHEN         314         L          81

My DDL is the following:
Field          Type    Collation    Null
TERM_CODE   varchar(28) utf8_bin    NO
SUBJ_CODE   varchar(20) utf8_bin    NO
CRSE_NUMB   varchar(24) utf8_bin    NO
CRSE_LVL    varchar(50) utf8_bin    YES
PIDM         double                 NO
Count        double                 YES
Earned      varchar(20) utf8_bin    YES
Job_Type    varchar(50) utf8_bin    YES
COST        varchar(50) utf8_bin    YES
COST_DES    varchar(83) utf8_bin    YES

A: This question can be broken down into three steps:
1. Adding a column
Suppose the table name is table_name, then to add a column called records with type int, execute this command:
ALTER TABLE table_name ADD record int;

2. Updating that column for all rows with a number sequence
To do this, you will need an additional field. Suppose we choose the name @rank for this field. This is how you update that column with a number sequence:
SET @rank:=0;
update table_name
set record=@rank:=@rank+1;

3. (Optional) Adding AUTO_INCREMENT property
You might want to add an AUTO_INCREMENT property to the record, so that you do not need to manually decide the value of record. To do that, the column record must be a primary key.
If the table already has a primary key, you must drop it first by using this command:
ALTER TABLE table_name DROP PRIMARY KEY;

And then you can add AUTO_INCREMENT property to the record while setting it to primary key:
ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE record record int AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY;

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Der Orangefleck-Doktorfisch (Acanthurus olivaceus) ist eine Art aus der Familie der Doktorfische (Acanthuridae) und gehört in dieser der Unterfamilie der Skalpelldoktorfische (Acanthurinae) an.

Verbreitung

Sie leben im östlichen Indischen Ozean und im Pazifik, von Japan bis zu den Marquesas und von Mikronesien bis nach Hawaii bis 45 Metern Tiefe immer über Geröll und Sandboden und in der Nähe von Fels- und Korallenriffen. Im westlichen Indischen Ozean wird er durch den nah verwandten Kreisdorn-Doktorfisch (Acanturhus tennenti) ersetzt.

Aussehen

Der Orangefleck-Doktorfisch macht im Laufe seines Lebens einen erstaunlichen Farbwechsel mit. Jungtiere bis sechs Zentimeter sind rein gelb, sie haben noch keinen orangen Fleck. Bei einer Länge von zwölf Zentimeter sind sie oliv, die hintere Hälfte ist etwas dunkler, der orange Fleck ist ausgeprägt. Im Pazifik werden erwachsene Tiere ab einer Länge von 25 Zentimeter dunkel olivbraun. Orangefleck-Doktorfische werden bis zu 30 Zentimeter lang.

Verhalten

Der Orangefleck-Doktorfisch lebt einzeln, in Paaren oder in großen Schwärmen, zum Teil zusammen mit anderen Doktorfischen.

Literatur

 André Luty: Doktorfische – Lebensweise – Pflege – Arten. Dähne Verlag, Ettlingen 1999, ISBN 3-921684-61-7
 Hans A. Baensch/Helmut Debelius: Mergus Meerwasser-Atlas Band 1. Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-110-0

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I'm writing to you with your article on exclusion (TES of October 9 2015) in front of me. It's good to have a light shone into this dark corner. To put it in journalistic terms this is collateral damage happening right here at home with full official approval. Now it's time to capitalize on your efforts and get into action. I'm writing to you in the form of an open letter because others share our commitment and may take your article and this letter in reply as an invitation to act. I hope you approve!
Your final two sections 'When 'no excuses' is an excuse' and 'Progress not attainment' provide a succinct summary of the problem and open the door to the solution.
There is a powerful force driving exclusion and you bring into the open with your first statement in 'When 'no excuses' is an excuse'.
What is an SEND child? They are they more than their disability, they are the same as all the other children, different from each other. But instead of focusing on their strengths, their hopes and their successes we trap them in the system of diagnosis and intervention that separates them from the other non-SEND children and then we send them on their way and often away.
Everyone from the Minister of Education downwards accepts that this is the correct procedure. Well not everyone. You can see the consequences of renaming difference as illness but you are fenced in by a system that catches many of us in its net. We are told that the small minority of children who cause all the problems must have something wrong with them because they are so different to the healthy others. As you rightly say records of behavioural incidents are used as rap sheets, but, and this is a big but, to use them as a basis for diagnosis of deficit and subsequent intervention as you mention would only be doing more of the same, keeping their difference and their illness at the centre of our thinking. Julie Dixon, the primary pupil referral unit head you quote, says that schools struggling to avoid excluding children cannot get the help of educational psychologists when they need it most. Why do we need a psychologist? Because if only we can get a diagnosis of deficit by a professional who does that kind of work, we'll know what to do. Try to get specialist input in school. Send them away to special school maybe with all the other ill children.
So here's the problem. We know that no two children are identical and a significant minority of children seem to be more than usually different to the others. We know that they are not physically ill but they have something wrong with them that makes them behave in ways we don't like. In a very few cases we can tell by a blood test that a person is different but mostly we look at what they do, how they behave, and use that to fit them into a category of illness. We can put all of this different minority into a catch-all group, and label it SEND. Some people would say that we could put all children into the SEND category at some time in their lives but let's keep it narrower than that. Within the big group we have smaller subgroups which are defined by specific behaviour. If we collect enough data we can assign children to their correct subgroup and may be able to suggest corrective strategies including medication, if we believe that change is possible. This presupposes that SEND is a fixed deficit of an individual child and we can design services to address the deficit.
To sum this up; the SEND child is fixed, they are what they are so services must adapt.
In 'Progress, not attainment' you write that Dixon gives advice to heads and SEND coordinators as an expert in behaviour and this is effective in reducing exclusions. That is a good thing. We recognise that some of these children with SEND do need highly specialized teaching and this may be in a specialized setting, not via exclusion but by planned action. It's important to remember that the system of diagnosis of SEND and its subcategories of deficit is highly uncertain and many children are poorly understood at the same time as they are clearly struggling in school. You quote Sam Baars as saying that schools should look beyond the behaviour to its cause, the undiagnosed need that is driving it. This is asking a lot, for teachers as frontline professionals to be highly developed experts in all aspects of behaviour and mental illness. In practice the cause is usually to be guessed at by teachers, doing their best as always.
If all teachers cannot become behaviour experts this creates another problem, but at least it is a consistent problem and results in the most available categories of deficit, like ASD and ADHD and increasingly Attachment Disorder are the most likely to be assigned to children who are different. The current diagnostic system concludes that these children are mentally unwell and an adaptive service will do its best by giving them different treatment to their friends in school and we can call this inclusion.
All this exists, the diagnostic deficit focused process, the lack of training of teachers and the shortage of specialists like educational psychologists who might be in a better position to make more informed guesses.
And now at last we come to the point of this letter.
You quote Baars as saying that there is an opportunity to create a new system, valuing childrens' progress rather than attainment and you add that 'we stand a chance of creating a better future, a truly inclusive one, in which children who have SEND are understood and helped not shown the door.' I might just edit this slightly by removing the label to say that we can create an inclusive future in which children are treated equally, understood and helped and not shown the door.
You draw this together in your last paragraph, a turnkey, where you do the same dreaming as you've always done.
We're teachers, we already have permission to stay with children's needs, to be imaginative and kind. Indeed if we asked the parents and carers of children they would probably say they expect it of us and we certainly have their permission.
We need to be able to say 'This is what we do and this is how we do it'.
What need to share our successes, to develop a clear voice to say that the future starts here, today with a structured way of working to create inclusion and allow exclusion to wither on the vine.
What kind of structure could possibly produce this result? The solution-focused approach can certainly make a strong contribution.
We've made a great start, now let's do more of what works.


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2016 NCAA Division II Tennis Championship preview
DENVER, Colo. - The 2016 NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Tennis Championships begin on Wednesday at the Gates Tennis Center and Metro State University in Denver, Colorado, as a part of the DII Spring Sports Festival.
Action begins at 8:00 a.m. on the women's side and features one Top 10 matchup as the only unbeaten team in the field, top-ranked BYU-Hawaii (22-0) faces No. 9-ranked Columbus State (21-6). The 11:00 a.m. matches feature a Top 5 showdown as defending national champion and No. 3-ranked Armstrong State (28-1) faces No. 5-ranked Lynn (28-3).
There is one unranked team in the field among the Round of 16 in Concordia (NY) (12-6). There are no first-time qualifiers to the Round of 16 this year but one team to keep an eye on is No. 2-ranked Saint Leo (21-2) - the Lions are making their second NCAA Round of 16 appearance in school history and in their first trip in 2014, Saint Leo advanced to the semifinals with wins over BYU-Hawaii and California (Pa.).
Men's action begins at 2:00 p.m., with the highest spotlight match features No. 3-ranked Hawaii Pacific (17-3) against No. 4-ranked Lander (19-5) taking place on the campus of Metro State. The final matches of the day begin at 5:00 p.m. with both top-ranked Saint Leo (24-1) facing No. 15-ranked Cameron (16-4) as well as No. 2-ranked Armstrong State (24-2) in action against unranked Edinboro (23-3).
Defending national champion Barry did not qualify for the Round of 16 meaning we will have a new DII men's tennis champion crowned in Denver. No. 35-ranked Ferris State (23-4) punched its ticket to Denver and the Round of 16 for the first time since 2005 - thanks to a clinching singles win by appropriately-named freshman Til von Winning.
Seven schools are represented in the Round of 16 with both men's and women's teams - Armstrong State, Cameron, Concordia (NY), Hawai'i Pacific, Indianapolis, NYIT and Saint Leo. If Cameron can pick up a win in the Round of 16 with either men's or women's tennis team, head coach James Helvey will achieve his 800th career head coaching victory.
Live stats and video coverage of matches tomorrow can be found on NCAA.com.
Saint Leo comes from behind to bounce out undefeated BYU-Hawaii
Top-ranked Armstrong Atlantic takes down No. 8 Saint Leo 9-0
West Florida sweeps West Alabama; BYU-Hawaii beats Hawaii-Hilo


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Arsenal prepare bid for exciting defensive-midfielder | The Transfer Tavern | Where football transfer rumours fly or die!
Arsenal fans in the Transfer Tavern almost spilt their eggnog in celebration as it appears the club will finally strengthen a wafer-thin area of the squad, bolstering their defensive midfield ranks in January.
French outlet Buzzsport state that Arsenal are preparing a January bid for out of favour Paris Saint-Germain ace Adrien Rabiot, who is keen to leave the French capital in January.
Arsenal are long-term admirers of the 20-year-old but have had to wait with Rabiot being promised more first-team football action, though that has not been forthcoming this term- raising the youngster's desire to leave.
Rabiot's determination to seal an exit from the Ligue 1 giants has not gone down well within the club's ranks but there's no shortage of suitors for the talented midfielder, with Tottenham Hotspur and Roma also tipped to make a move in the new year.
Arsenal desperately need recruits in defensive-midfield after losing first-choice Francis Coquelin until February, giving the Gunners only Mathieu Flamini and Mikel Arteta as options- both of whom have spent time injured this season.
Another injury in this area could derail Arsenal's title ambitions and may have a knock-on effect in the other competitions, with Arsenal beginning their quest to seal a third successive FA Cup in January and facing a mammoth Champions League double-header against Barcelona.
Arsenal fans, is Rabiot the signing you need? Let us know in the comments below!


Here come the holidays. Here come the presents, parties, food, last-minute shopping trips, frantic wrapping and over scheduling that often leads to debt, exhaustion and depression. I used to put those things first, but now I focus on the really important gifts of the season.
You deserve all of that.
31 Days is like an advent calendar in your inbox designed to deliver the meaningful gifts you so deserve. The gifts are meaningful, some are magical, and all of them remind you to fully embrace the simplicity and meaning of the holidays with purpose and intention.
Click right here for a sample of last year's gifts.
For the last two years, this program has been offered for $3.10, but it is worth so much more. As more people participate, I invest more time and money to make these gifts available and meaningful. If you've participated before, you understand the value of the program, but I also know that for some, $3.10 is barely in the holiday budget.
I was going to raise the price, but instead I'd like to leave it up to you.
After you click Add to Cart below, you will see the minimum price of $3.10. Leave it there or enter a new dollar amount to pay what you want.
edit the price to what you want to pay (minimum $3.10 per name). Please don't adjust quantity when checking out.
Complete the purchase and send your receipt to bemorewithless @ gmail . com with the names and email addresses. I will add them to the 31 Days mailing list.
Q: How do I sign up? A: Click the red Add to Cart button. If you choose the "checkout" option, you'll have an opportunity to add any email address to receive your gifts. If you choose the Paypal option, your gifts will go to the email address associated with your Paypal account. Q: How can I give this program as a gift to someone else or to a group of people? A: click the red button above, "add to cart" and edit the price to what you want to pay (minimum $3.10 per name). Please don't adjust the quantity. Complete the purchase and send your receipt to bemorewithless @ gmail . com with your names and email addresses and I will add them to the 31 Days mailing list. Q: When do I receive my first gift? A: December 1st. Q: Is there a deadline to join? A: I recommend joining as soon as possible so you can start receiving gifts on December 1st, but you can register anytime in December and still have access to all 31 gifts. Q: Do I need special login information or a password? A: No. Everything will be delivered via email. Q. I didn't receive my first gift on December 1st. Where is it? A. Please check your gmail promotions folder or spam folder. If you still don't have it, please contact me and I will help. Q: This isn't a question, but I need help! A: Great, I'm happy to help! email me: bemorewithless@gmail.com.
I love this idea and can't wait to start! Do the emails come from your email above? I want to set up my email client so that it gets flagged as important so that I don't miss any!
Hi Jodie, Yes the gifts will come from bemorewithless@gmail.com. Each email has links to the prior gifts as well to ensure that you don't miss any.
This is so much fun! I've loved doing this in previous years. What a wonderful quote too.
I love this idea and signed up right away as a birthday present to myself (my birthday is Dec. 1 so this is perfect). However, I opened the PDF file and then it disappeared. Can I get access to it again? Not sure what happened…thanks.
Hi Amy, Sure! Email me: bemorewithless @ Gmail.com and I'll send one right over.
Hi Courtney, Thank you for this beautiful gift! The samples from last year are inspiring and calming. I just signed up for this year's 31 Days, and love the idea of pay what you wish. I am so grateful for this opportunity, and my wish for you is a December filled with light and peace.
Thanks, Courtney, but I finally figured it out, so I'm fine. Now just looking forward to things starting on Dec. 1!
I'm so excited to receive this – I ordered it for me :). And I LOVE your inspirational website. Thanks!
I have literally been watching and waiting for this post–this will be my third year participating, and it's just such a nice way to celebrate the season. Can't wait for Dec. 1!
I find everything you publish to be truly inspirational and would love to sign up for the 31 Days and A Simple Year programmes but I live in the UK – am I still able to join?
Hi Jane, You can join from almost anywhere! Let me know if I can help.
I just signed up! I can't wait for December 1st!


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Duncan Lloyd – Musical Director
Duncan Lloyd began his musical career as a chorister at Southwell Minster under the tutelage of Kenneth Beard. As a violinist, he played with the internationally renowned Nottingham Orchestra directed by Christopher Adey and read Music at Manchester University. He has a PGCE from Durham, a Diploma in Education Management from Sheffield Hallam and his NPQH.
Duncan has thirty years teaching experience, most recently as Director of Music at The Minster School Southwell. He co-wrote the School's successful bid for Specialist Music and Humanities status and ran the very successful Chorister Outreach Programme. During his sixteen years as a Tenor Lay Clerk, he founded The Ensemble of Southwell and the Djanogly Community Orchestra and Jazz Band, typeset the New Southwell Psalter and, with Simon Bell, founded The Minster Girls' Choir. He composes and arranges and has recently had works performed by musical groups in Nottinghamshire and North Yorkshire.
Duncan has extensive experience as a conductor of both choral and orchestral groups and has led extremely successful concert tours throughout Europe. He played viola in the Pollyanna Quartet and has played both viola and violin in many leading ensembles in Nottinghamshire.
Duncan and his family relocated to North Yorkshire in August 2014 and he is very much looking forward to taking up his new role with the Lancaster Singers in 2015. He continues to work as a freelance instrumental and vocal teacher and has been acting Music Director at Kendal Parish Church since December 2014.
Marco Fanti - Principal Guest Conductor
Marco Fanti is based in his native Bologna where among a range of posts he teaches in the music department at the University of Bologna and directs Coro Athena, a mixed-voice choir. He studied violin, singing and orchestral conducting at the Conservatorio G. B. Martini, Bologna and also holds qualifications in Classical literature and Italian linguistics.
He has directed the Romanian State Symphony Orchestra and Lario Symphony Orchestra and has given choral workshops in the USA and Europe.
Recently he was chosen to conduct a national competition for young artists and to work with the orchestra of Teatro Communale in Bologna. In the summer of 2014 he was invited to lead workshops in Japan.
In the UK he was Musical Director of the Lancaster Singers from 2009 to 2014 and of Preston Cecilian Choral Society from 2010 to 2014, travelling regularly from Bologna to Lancashire for rehearsals, workshops and performances.
Mavis Fletcher – Deputy Musical Director
has been Vice Chair of Lancaster Singers for more than 20 years and as part of that role has arranged training and development weekends with eminent conductors for the choir, Come and Sing days in connection with the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD) and helped arrange the choir singing tour to Italy in 2011.
Mavis, a graduate of the Royal College of Music, Manchester, has taught in schools in Lancashire both Primary and Secondary and also in Adult Education at Alston Hall College and at the University of Central Lancashire.
She has been an active church musician for more than 50 years, leading choirs and playing organ or piano for services and concerts. As a lover of singing she has sung with several choirs and for many years led and sang with the Avenham Singers a much loved ensemble of 6 voices who gave concerts all over Lancashire and in Germany too.
Now a Trustee of ABCD, Mavis was Chair of the NW Region and a member of its National Advisory Council for about 15 years and is still actively involved locally in arranging singing days, training and conducting courses and for the last 8 years has been administrator for the abcd NW Children's Honour Choir working with composer Bob Chilcott.
Nationally she is involved in helping to plan the annual Convention for ABCD which attracts choirs and music leaders from all over the world. In 2015 she is the Artistic Director when the Convention comes to Manchester and as such puts together the varied programme of seminars and plans the Gala Concert inviting presenters from many parts of the world.
Since September 2011 she has worked as director alongside Marco Fanti training the choir and conducting concerts when Marco was unable to travel. She has also commissioned new music by Bob Chilcott and Will Todd especially for Lancaster Singers.


And she absolutely, positively, without a doubt LOVE IT! I'm just not sure who enjoyed it most, Malaysia, her parents, her MiMi and Auntie Shanel, the teacher or the 2 other parents who paid more attention to Malaysia than they did their own little ones. Haha! OMGosh this little girl steals the show no matter where she goes. Isn't she just the perfect little model for this hot little leotard number? She's in the Mini Bee's Parent & Tot class which is for ages walking to 24 months. During her time in class she will get to enjoy the trampolines, foam pits, and many other great gymnastics equipment.
She wasn't to sure about jumping on this.
She wasn't even heavy enough to sink.


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Former Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx, now of Sixx: A.M., wrote an op-ed about the opioid epidemic from the perspective of a recovering addict.
The government estimates 142 drug overdose-related deaths per day—more than car crashes and gun homicides combined. The majority of these drug overdose statistics are due to prescription opioids and heroin. In 2015, there were more than 30,000 opioid overdose deaths nationwide, and that number is growing.
After getting hooked on prescription opioids, many users will then turn to heroin because it is cheaper and easier to get a refill. "I am here to tell you that all addicts are worth saving," wrote Sixx.
"I know that my continuing sobriety is not the result of my actions alone," wrote Sixx, about the support he receives from his friends and family, AA, sponsors, health insurance, money, time and resources to support his continuing recovery efforts.


Description: Tansy ragwort is a tap-rooted biennial (sometimes perennial) that can grow up to 4 feet tall. It was introduced from Europe in the early 20th century and can spread in contaminated hay. In its first year, it puts out a rosette of dark green ruffled or lobed leaves, and in the second year displays conspicuous daisy-like yellow flower heads. The plant typically sets seed in August, with individual plants producing up to 150,000 seeds.
Impact: Tansy ragwort is prolific in disturbed areas and pastures, where they can establish extremely dense populations. In the 1960′s and 70′s, it caused significant economic damage to livestock owners in Oregon due to its toxicity and the inability of livestock to detect/avoid dried leaves mixed in with other silage. Efforts to biologically control tansy ragwort in Oregon have resulted in a reduction of impact "below economic threshold levels". However, it is still considered widespread throughout the region and due to its ability to retain seed viability for 15 years, it is difficult to eradicate from sites.


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package de.tum.in.niedermr.ta.runner.execution.args;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

import org.junit.Test;

import de.tum.in.niedermr.ta.core.common.constants.CommonConstants;
import de.tum.in.niedermr.ta.runner.start.AnalyzerRunnerStart;

public class ProgramArgsReaderTest {

	static final Class<?> PROGRAM_CLASS = AnalyzerRunnerStart.class;
	static final int ARGS_COUNT = 3;
	static final ProgramArgsKey ARGS_0 = new ProgramArgsKey(PROGRAM_CLASS, 0);
	static final ProgramArgsKey ARGS_1 = new ProgramArgsKey(PROGRAM_CLASS, 1);
	static final ProgramArgsKey ARGS_2 = new ProgramArgsKey(PROGRAM_CLASS, 2);
	static final ProgramArgsKey INVALID_ARGS_0 = new ProgramArgsKey(String.class, 0);
	static final ProgramArgsKey INVALID_ARGS_10 = new ProgramArgsKey(PROGRAM_CLASS, 10);

	@Test
	public void testReader() {
		String[] args = new String[ARGS_COUNT];
		args[0] = "abc";
		args[1] = "";
		args[2] = "x" + CommonConstants.QUOTATION_MARK + "y";

		ProgramArgsReader reader = new ProgramArgsReader(PROGRAM_CLASS, args);

		assertEquals(args[0], reader.getArgument(ARGS_0));
		assertEquals(args[0], reader.getArgumentUnsafe(0));
		assertEquals(args[1], reader.getArgument(ARGS_1, true));
		assertEquals("xyz", reader.getArgument(ARGS_1, "xyz"));
		assertEquals(args[2].replace(CommonConstants.QUOTATION_MARK, ""), reader.getArgument(ARGS_2));

		assertEquals("[0] = abc; [1] = ; [2] = x\"y;", reader.toArgsInfoString());
		assertEquals("[1] = ; [2] = x\"y;", reader.toArgsInfoString(1));
	}

	@Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
	public void testGetWithEmptyNotAllowed() {
		ProgramArgsReader reader = new ProgramArgsReader(PROGRAM_CLASS, new String[ARGS_COUNT]);
		reader.getArgument(ARGS_0, false);
	}

	@Test
	public void testCheckValidProgramArgsKey() {
		try {
			ProgramArgsReader reader = new ProgramArgsReader(PROGRAM_CLASS, new String[ARGS_COUNT]);
			reader.checkProgramArgsKey(ARGS_0, true);
		} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
			fail();
		}
	}

	@Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
	public void testGetWithInvalidProgramArgs1() {
		ProgramArgsReader reader = new ProgramArgsReader(PROGRAM_CLASS, new String[ARGS_COUNT]);
		reader.getArgument(INVALID_ARGS_0);
	}

	@Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
	public void testGetWithInvalidProgramArgs2() {
		ProgramArgsReader reader = new ProgramArgsReader(PROGRAM_CLASS, new String[ARGS_COUNT]);
		reader.getArgument(INVALID_ARGS_10);
	}
}

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Capacity: ranges from 10TPD to 500TPD. ABC Machinery also could make Turnkey Project according to different customers' requirements.
For standard equipped oil press line, usually it includes cleaning, crushing, flaking, cooking, oil pressing and oil filtering process. But according to different customers' requirements, different raw materials and different capacity, we will design and CUSTOMIZE different processing technology for each project. For example, cottonseed and peanut need shelling before oil pressing, sesame does not need crushing and flaking before pressing; or some customer will require extruding process for soybean raw materials, etc.