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Minnesota Goes 'Outside the Box' to Address Opioid Crisis
By Tom Olsen/Duluth News Tribune | July 3, 2019
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Jess McCarthy, an opioid program technician with the Duluth Police Department, leads a "holistic" approach to substance-abusers. Photo by Ellen Schmidt/Duluth NewsTribune.
In his 23 years as a Minnesota public defender, Dan Lew has seen a number of drugs cycle through the criminal justice system, often accompanied by dire warnings from public officials.
When he started in the mid-1990s, crack cocaine and the violence associated with it were supposedly the "be-all and end-all" of the criminal justice system, he said. By the early 2000s, methamphetamine and the dangerous labs where it was being manufactured took center stage.
Later, attention would shift to synthetic drugs and the prolonged effort to shut down Duluth's Last Place on Earth head shop.
Most recently, the deadly effects of a nationwide opioid crisis have grabbed headlines and dominated the attention of police and politicians.
"In each of those, our response has been pretty consistent: more laws, more prosecution, intergenerationally incarcerated families," said Lew, the Northland region's chief public defender since 2014.
"It's been a pretty consistent trend line, and there [are] a lot of fears that today's substance is the worst of them all—yet what outcomes do we have to show for all our work?" he asked.
"We have 5 percent of the world's population incarcerating 25 percent of all those incarcerated."
As officials attempt to combat the growing death toll—with particularly high overdose death rates in Minnesota's St. Louis and Carlton counties—police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, public health officials, and politicians have found common ground on at least one point.
No matter the drug, the decades-old war-on-drugs approach isn't going to stop the grip of addiction.
"Why do we think risking prison is going to be some kind of motivating deterrent?"
"We know if you use opioids, you have a significantly greater chance of dying. And yet, people use opioids," said 6th Judicial District Judge Jill Eichenwald, who presides over a Duluth-based drug court. "They are willing to risk death. Why do we think risking prison is going to be some kind of motivating deterrent? It's just not."
The solution isn't simple, and probably won't come any time soon, officials acknowledge. It will involve a reevaluation of every aspect of the criminal justice system—from enforcement actions to sentencing guidelines to treatment options and much more.
Judge Jill Eichenwald. Photo by Clint Austin/Duluth NewsTribune
In the Northland, officials are already experimenting with initiatives that break the mold, with a program aimed at steering people away from the criminal justice system and at addressing the needs of those suffering from substance-use disorders—though significant work remains.
"If you keep on doing the same thing over and over and over again, and you keep getting the same results, you've got to start looking to other avenues," said Duluth police Lt. Jeff Kazel, commander of the Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
"And I think that's what we've done here. We're thinking outside of the box and looking for other solutions to solve problems. That's what we do as police—try to solve problems."
'Holistic' Approach
Jess McCarthy knows it can be intimidating for people to hear that she works for the Duluth Police Department.
As the department's opioid technician, it's her job to follow up with overdose victims and provide chemical-dependency assessment referrals. But many clients can be skeptical of police because they've had unpleasant past encounters, she said.
"At first interaction with a lot of folks, I try and get them to just ignore that line on my email signature for a little bit," she said. "Because all I am trying to do is help. I am never going to seek out to get anybody in trouble."
In six months on the job, McCarthy said she's contacted about 70 people in the community—and more than 25 have gotten into some kind of treatment program with her help.
But McCarthy said she doesn't coerce people into services or even talking with her. Rather, she seeks a "holistic" approach to help clients set goals that make progress toward treatment, housing, employment, health insurance or other areas of need in their lives.
"Sometimes treatment is not the best option for some people," she said. "Sometimes all they need is stable housing and their life starts getting back in order. Those people are just as successful as the people who went to treatment.
"And some folks I consider to be successful even if they don't stop using. They can limit their use and use more safely, and they're still making progress on their goal."
McCarthy is part of a changing Duluth Police Department. For more than three years, officers have been trained and equipped with the overdose reversal drug Narcan. The department also added a Mental Health Unit, which consists of two officers and two social workers who frequently address addiction issues on the streets.
Those may not be the traditional tasks assigned to police, Kazel said, but they're ethically the right things to do. Beyond that, he said it's fiscally sound policy that serves to reduce the devastating effects of opioids on local communities.
According to Kazel, the drug trade fits the classic supply and demand model. While police have typically targeted the suppliers, agencies haven't always done much to stem the demand, he said.
"If I can take 15 people out of the demand pool, that's going to decrease the sales for illicit drugs out in the market," Kazel said. "It's not going to be as lucrative for someone to come here and sell. There's not as many people here to buy."
'Three-Legged Stool' Approach
Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken advocates for a "three-legged stool" response. The approach recognizes enforcement, treatment, and education as co-equal forces needed to stabilize the issue.
"The war on drugs was started in the Nixon administration, and, interestingly enough, we have no less drugs today than we did back then," Tusken said.
"The idea of arresting our way out of the problem is really foolish. It cannot change the outcomes of addiction.
"By no means will I ever say that enforcement and limiting the source and supply and taking out the people who are poisoning people in our city is not important, but that can't stand alone. What do we do about the people who are yet to use drugs? And then, more importantly, what do we do to have the people who are suffering from addiction find health and recovery?"
Evidence bags containing brown heroin at the Duluth Police Department. The items and drugs were confiscated during drug related arrests. Photo by Clint Austin/Duluth NewsTribune
Tusken said the region has always had an active task force working the enforcement side and made significant strides on the treatment front, particularly with the addition of the Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment's opioid withdrawal unit in 2017.
But he expressed concern that the dangers of opioids are not being impressed upon the people who are most vulnerable.
"In this city, I believe we have to do better with our education and prevention," Tusken said.
"There is an opportunity to engage young people."
"The dollars are tight for the city of Duluth. The dollars are tight for ISD 709 and our schools. And yet, I think there is an opportunity to engage young people in considering the long-term impacts of chemical usage and their health. If there's any area we need to do better at, it's there."
Eichenwald agreed that there should be punishment for dealers who take advantage of the community's most vulnerable. But many people are simply "ensconced" in the lifestyle of using, sharing, and selling drugs for the sake of their own survival, she said.
The judge said addiction issues persist because people are tribal by nature and tend to cast aside those who are different.
"We cannot function as a society and a community if we're 'otherizing' large groups of people," Eichenwald said.
Focusing on Neighbors, Not Outsiders
The police department is taking some "incredibly good steps," Lew said, but he still finds the criminal justice system falling into the same old traps.
He said the people getting charged with selling substances almost always have addiction issues themselves. Nearly every defendant Lew sees has a background marked by childhood trauma and poverty, he said.
"We still struggle with the idea that you're either a consumer or you're a supplier," Lew said. "The world is so much more complex than that. But we can't move beyond those two boxes. I'm afraid we'll be having this discussion again in 10 years with a new substance."
Lew said there remains too much focus on the people who are supposedly coming from outside the community to sell drugs and not on "our neighbors who are consuming this vast quantity of substances."
"I think we're starting to look at it more as a public health emergency," he said, "yet the impulse is still to believe that we can address the public health emergency in the court system."
St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin said it's important to realize that prosecutors aren't seeking to make criminals out of people who have an addiction. He said substance use is a driver for many crimes, particularly thefts and burglaries, and that the court system is an important tool in addressing the defendant's needs.
"It's the behavior that a person engages in that is criminal—be it selling, be it burglarizing, be it in possession of a drug," Rubin said. "That's the criminal act. The reason, in part, might be because somebody has a habit or an addiction. But we don't criminalize addiction. We criminalize the act that was probably committed many times because of an addiction. So, in the sentence, we try to address the causes."
But even prosecutors have shown a willingness to help steer some people away from the criminal justice system.
The St. Louis and Carlton county attorney's offices are among a growing number of jurisdictions that have established pre-charge diversion programs that help some would-be defendants resolve their cases without ever going to court.
Lt. Jeff Kazel, commander of the Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crime Task Force holds a dose of Narcan at the Duluth Police Department. Photo by Clint Austin/Duluth NewsTribune
Diversion programs allow participants to avoid formal charges by completing a probation-like program, with conditions such as remaining law-abiding and undergoing random drug-testing. For those who successfully complete the program, their records remain clean.
"We're trying to address this whole problem in today's society of the collateral consequences of criminal records," Rubin said. "Some people might say, 'Well, they should have thought about that before they committed the crime.' Sure, no argument. However, sometimes they don't.
"Sometimes they turned their life around and learned from it. Is there anything wrong with giving somebody an opportunity to still be held accountable while providing some type of incentive and reward for making better decisions that makes the community safer?"
Still, Lew said more efforts are needed to prevent another generation of mass incarceration and criminalization.
"We can reduce harm by not charging every single soul in the criminal court and not walking more people down that lifetime of being unemployable, unhouseable, unteachable," he said.
"That takes some courage."
EDITOR'S NOTE: As of June 27, there were 62 reported opioid-related overdoses in Duluth, according to police figures. Five of them have been fatal. In more than 75 percent of the overdoses, Narcan was used to revive the victims.
Tom Olsen, a staff writer for the Duluth News Tribune, is a 2019 John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Justice Reporting Fellow. This is a condensed and slightly edited version of an article in an ongoing series on opioid overdoses in the Northland, produced as part of his fellowship project. The full version is available here. To read all stories in the series, go here.
"We see the transformation in front of our eyes," says a member of the team operating out of the rural courtroom where Judge Michelle Anderson offers substance abusers the chance to drop charges if they participate in a rigorous 13-month treatment program.
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Richard A Lawhern PhD on July 16, 2019 at 2:48 pm said:
Non-violent addicts shouldn't be in the criminal justice system in the first place. The same is true for people whose behavior is so bizarre or confrontational that their families don't know how to manage them. Large numbers of our incarcerated are dealing with significant mental health issues. In all prison populations, however, we are dealing with symptoms of a larger pattern of causes. People with addiction share much in common with the homeless: both groups have the highest structural poverty and unemployment rates in the US. And these conditions are at least arguably created by increasing income and wealth inequality that dries up resources essential for upward economic and social mobility.
To take our prison populations truly "outside the box" we must understand that what is needed now lies mostly outside the criminal justice system: (1) harms reduction for people who already suffer with addiction, (2) safe/sober housing for the homeless (3) community crisis counseling support for discharged addicts, (4) prevention anti-drug education as early as 4th grade, continuing into adulthood, (5) job training, economic redevelopment and infrastructure investment to create jobs in America's rust belt and rural West, reducing the hopelessness that makes people vulnerable to substance abuse in the first place.
Most of these changes cannot happen without changes to US tax policy and reductions of the income inequality which now strangles much of the US economy.


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Q: C# OpenFileDialog Stored Paths In my application I have two places where the user needs to select a file. In both cases, the files are in different directories, but they are generally the same between runs.
The OpenFileDialog appears to be defaulting to the last directory used, but this is useless to me since it is almost always the wrong folder, and I end up alternating between the two folders. What I would like is to somehow have the first dialog remember the path that was used the last time it was opened, and the second to remember its own path as well.
Example: Path A is C:\foo\bar\something\x.dll, Path B is C:\foo\baz\whatever\y.xml
Dialog a opens and I select A, then later dialog b opens(defaulted to A) and I have to navigate back and up to B.
When I open the app again dialog a opens (defaulted to B) and I have to navigate back up to A again.
I would like to avoid all of this extra navigation by remembering the paths separately. Is there a good way to do that?

A: When you open each dialog, just set the dialog's InitialDirectory property to the folder that was last used for that dialog.
Granted, this will require saving the directory for each dialog, but it will provide the behavior you are looking to achieve.

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Careers in Advertising Photography
By Grace Bordelon
Photo Editor Job Description
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Advertising photographers take pictures of people, products and services for advertisements that end up in magazines, newsprint, on TV or online. Photography of the owner of a business or the featured product shot beautifully can draw attention to an advertisement in a way that the text cannot -- it catches your eye. Photographers in advertising work alongside advertising, marketing, TV and public relations professionals to present a desired look for the client that can encourage sales or simply create a desirable brand image.
It is common for an advertising photography to have a bachelor's degree in visual art photography or commercial photography. Those in this career will also benefit from course work in advertising, marketing and graphic design. Course work in advertising photography will teach about common stylistic choices, the technical side of setting up a beautiful shot and the photo-editing skills to perfect it. A photographer starting out in the field should develop a professional portfolio that showcases the range and creativity of his work.
Fashion photographers subjects range from children for department store catalogs to high-fashion models in the latest trends. This is a competitive field to move up to the highest-paid and glamorous positions. Fashion photography often involves a lot of creativity and great control of your subject as you can pose them to get a certain look, develop elaborate backdrops and dramatic lighting schemes. Fashion photographers starting out will often provide their services for free to build up their portfolio with desirable subjects, and as they gain work experience, it is common to join a photo agency that will arrange and book shoots.
Product or still photography is a large portion of the advertising photography market. Nearly every product being sold at some point has been shot by a professional who considers the lighting, placement, background and overall look and feel of an image. The result ends up on everything from labels to store websites and billboards. As a product photographer, it is important to be able to communicate with a client and translate his desired brand or ideas around a product to the final image.
Headshot and Service Photography
Many professionals need professional headshots that introduce them to the world. Adding a headshot to advertising for a small business can personalize an ad and encourage consumers to trust and arrange their services. Services can be more complicated to photograph. An example would be a waiter attentively seeing to a table in a restaurant. Service photography needs to appear natural and not staged to achieve the proper effect.
Freelance Photography
Although many advertising photographers work with advertising agencies, it is also common to work freelance in this field or with a representing agency. This can be a lucrative career, but one that depends on showing the photographer has the skills and style that are exceptional in the field and worth being sought out. Some of the best photographers in the field have a specific "look" that defines their work, which can range from lighting to props.
Salary and Outlook
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, photography as a general career pays an average salary of $29,130. It is reasonable to skew this salary higher for professional photographers in advertising as it is a growing and lucrative field. The level of skill and recognizable style are highly important as are location. Advertising photographers working in major cities will have greater opportunities for work by being close to head offices and advertising agencies.
2016 Salary Information for Photographers
Photographers earned a median annual salary of $34,070 in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On the low end, photographers earned a 25th percentile salary of $23,480, meaning 75 percent earned more than this amount. The 75th percentile salary is $52,220, meaning 25 percent earn more. In 2016, 147,300 people were employed in the U.S. as photographers.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Photographers
American Society of Media Photographers: Business Resources
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook: Photographers
Career Trend: Photographers
Grace Bordelon is a public relations professional, teacher and writer. She owns her own boutique public relations firm that specializes in the advertising, gaming and software industries. She also teaches at a major design school for fine artists, commercial artists and graphic designers. Bordelon holds a B.A. in international economics and an M.A. in English from Bard College.
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by Bill Dwight on Thursday, September 09, 2010 at 11:29 AM | LEAVE A COMMENT!
Every family has it own little nuances, and there's no one "right way" to prepare your kids for the real world.
That's why making it easy to customize FamZoo has been a core design principle from the outset. You should be able to configure your Virtual Family Bank in a way that makes sense for your family and your unique values.
The following video is just one example of how you can customize FamZoo to match a unique perspective. Has you family customized FamZoo to emphasize a particular value, perspective, or technique? If you're comfortable sharing, we'd love to hear about it!
Hey everybody! Bill Dwight here from FamZoo.com.
Just recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Shane Barkley, the author of Dad Cents - Teach Your Children the Biblical Principles of Money.
We talked for hours. And the more we talked, the more excited we got.
That's because it became clear that FamZoo is a really easy way to take the principles described in Shane's book and put them into into practice with your family.
Let's take just one simple example. In Chapter 18, Shane introduces the "60% Rule". That's the idea of learning to live on 60% of your income. In other words, just 60% goes towards spending. Where does the rest go? Giving, saving, and taxes.
In his book, Shane recommends introducing your kids to the 60% rule early on. How? Divide their allowance into different parts or categories for spending, giving, saving and taxes.
Taxes on kids? Yep! I know what you're thinking. My first reaction was, hey, I don't want to tax my kids! But, the more I thought about it - Shane's approach makes a lot of sense.
It warms kids up to that unavoidable concept and makes their first real paycheck experience less of a shock. But more importantly, the pooled tax money goes to an outing or an item that's fun for the family. Everyone (parents too!) chips in for the benefit of the whole family. That's a good thing.
Now, to track all this stuff — how allowances are being divvied up into categories, how much is currently in each one, interest you're awarding on savings, and so on — Shane recommends setting up a system he refers to as the Family Bank.
Now you can do all this on a spreadsheet (like I used to do), or even pencil and paper. But, this is where FamZoo comes into the picture. We make it super easy to set up your own Dadcents Family Bank. We automate everything we can — like allowance and interest delivery. And the cool thing is that you and your kids can access it online from a browser, or from a cell phone when you're on the go. Plus we have all kinds of extra built-in tools to help you teach your kids good personal finance habits. You start really simple and then get more and more sophisticated as they grow from young kids to tweens to teens.
So, let me show you how easy it is to set up your own Dad Cents Family Bank on FamZoo.
After registering your family on FamZoo and adding your family members, you're ready to set up your family bank.
We have a simple wizard that walks you through some of the most common bank setups.
One setup, the Spend-Save-Give plan, is a pretty close match to the Dad Cents approach. We'll start there and then make a few additions. Let's update the account names to match what's in the book. Let's set the interest rate on the savings to be pretty aggressive and monthly as Shane recommends.
Click on save and we're almost there. You can see we have a three-way split in allowance right now, so let's make a couple of tweeks to exactly match the Dad Cents approach.
First, let's add an additional Giving account for the special Offerings. As Shane describes in the book, this will be for periodic donations to charitable projects of your child's choosing.
Second, let's add an account for the family Taxes.
Now, all we have to do is edit the allowance and update the split percentages to match what's suggested in the book.
That's it. We're all set to go.
Back on the Overview page, we can see that weekly allowances are automatically scheduled to be delivered each Friday.
Likewise, monthly interest payments are automatically scheduled for delivery.
Now, if your child needs to make a withdrawal for a purchase or a donation, just click on the minus button next to the right account. You hand the money over to your child (or pay for the item yourself using whatever means is appropriate) and deduct that amount from their account.
In the case of a deposit, your kid hands the money over to you. You click on the plus button to credit the right account and put the real money wherever appropriate. Just remember, like a real bank, you owe the balance to your depositor. It's your kid's money and you need to be able to redeem it upon request.
So, that's a very quick intro to setting up your own Dad Cents bank in FamZoo.
If you have any questions or comments, don't hestitate to contact us at FamZoo.com.
Or, you can contact Shane at DadCents.com.
Thanks for watching, and we look forward to hearing from you!


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Q: Setting an active gcloud account in docker container Currently i'm setting up a Kubeflow Pipeline on GKE.
The goal is to start a trainingjob on the ML Engine and later on serve it on GKE.
The trainingjob gets launched in a Docker container. (Every step in a pipeline must be a container.)
I'm getting the following error when running the container:
ERROR: (gcloud.ml-engine.jobs.submit.training) You do not currently have an active account selected.
Please run:

  $ gcloud auth login

to obtain new credentials, or if you have already logged in with a
different account:

  $ gcloud config set account ACCOUNT

to select an already authenticated account to use.

The docker containers gets credentials via service account as suggested in following answer.
FROM tensorflow/tensorflow:1.8.0-devel-gpu-py3

RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y -q ca-certificates python-dev python-setuptools wget unzip git

# Components to run ML Engine job on cluster
RUN cd / && \
    wget -nv https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/release/google-cloud-sdk.zip && \
    unzip -qq google-cloud-sdk.zip -d tools && \
    rm google-cloud-sdk.zip && \
    tools/google-cloud-sdk/install.sh --usage-reporting=false \
        --path-update=false --bash-completion=false \
        --disable-installation-options && \
    tools/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud -q components update \
        gcloud core gsutil && \
    tools/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud config set component_manager/disable_update_check true && \
    touch /tools/google-cloud-sdk/lib/third_party/google.py

ENV PATH $PATH:/tools/node/bin:/tools/google-cloud-sdk/bin

RUN mkdir /workdir

COPY . /workdir

RUN export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/workdir/ml6-sandbox-cdc8cb4bcae2.json

ENTRYPOINT ["bash", "/workdir/ml-engine/train.sh"]

The error finds place in train.sh where i'm submitting a trainingjob:
gcloud ml-engine jobs submit training $JOB_NAME \
    --job-dir $JOB_DIR \
    --runtime-version 1.8 \
    --python-version 3.5 \
    --module-name trainer.run_train \
    --package-path ./trainer \
    --region $REGION \
    --config=trainer/config.yaml \
    --stream-logs \
    -- \
    --data-dir $DATA_DIR \
    --version $VERSION

In my run_train.py, i'm getting the Google Application Credentials the following:
os.environ[
        "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS"] = '/workdir/ml6-sandbox-cdc8cb4bcae2.json'

Train.sh works standalone.

A: You only need to set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS env variable when using the client libraries.
As you are using the gcloud CLI change this line:
RUN export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/workdir/ml6-sandbox-cdc8cb4bcae2.json
to
gcloud auth activate-service-account yourServiceAccount --key-file=/workdir/ml6-sandbox-cdc8cb4bcae2.json

This will log your service account as the the active account used by gcloud.
Also, this service account needs to be granted with the proper roles.


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Meeting the Covid-19 challenge
Kingston University experts examine how politics played a key role in the impact of Covid-19 in democratic countries
Posted Friday 25 September 2020
As the UK enters a new phase of government-imposed measures designed to combat Covid-19, a team of experts from Kingston University has released a report examining the initial response of eight democratic countries to the pandemic, and how local, national and international politics played a pivotal role in the outcomes.
The report, Covid-19 and Democracy, First Cut Policy Analyses: Country Case Studies, looks at how the eight countries responded from April to June 30, during the early stages of the pandemic. The UK, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Israel, Japan, Taiwan and the USA were all included in the study.
Project lead Dr Peter Finn, from the University's School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences, said one of the main aims was to look at the way policies had, or hadn't, been implemented and how these decisions fed into the outcomes for each nation and impacted their death tolls. "Each country has its own narrative around coronavirus. In the UK there have been some economic successes, such as the furlough scheme, but the death toll from the virus has been tragic," Dr Finn said.
"This report illustrates the political nature of the way the Covid-19 pandemic has been handled to date, demonstrating why the political ramifications of the pandemic will take years, if not decades, to play out."
One area of focus was how democratic countries prepared for the pandemic - by obtaining PPE, establishing a test and trace infrastructure, developing nuanced communication campaigns, and how the capacity of their healthcare systems enabled them to cope once it hit.
The researchers observed that Germany had benefited from a robust healthcare system and early intervention - working quickly with scientists and leaders at different levels. "Germany engaged very early on, designing and stockpiling tests during the time lag between the outbreak being identified and hitting its population," Dr Finn said. "When the first outbreaks occurred, the government and health authorities were immediately able to roll out testing. As a consequence, its death rate, although in the thousands, is currently far below the UK.
"Leaders such as Angela Merkel seemed to get a grasp of the situation much earlier, indicating strong leadership appears to have been key, although this is a moving picture," Dr Finn added.
Prior experience of pandemics also appeared to help inform preparedness, the report found. Countries such as Taiwan that had endured similar crises before, such as the SARS outbreak in Asia from 2002 to 2004, seemed better placed to face the challenges posed by Covid-19.
Interestingly, Bulgaria had also been better prepared because its government often closed schools when the country was hit by seasonal flu outbreaks, Dr Finn said. That meant the public adjusted more easily when Covid-19 arrived.
Examining politics and policy at local, national and international level, the study found that regional healthcare management had contributed to poor responses in some countries, while coordinated responses between local authorities in others resulted in better outcomes. At a national level, pre-existing political divisions, national prestige and geopolitics were extremely influential, it found.
One of the over-arching themes was that politics mattered and could not be separated from Covid-19 and the outcomes for each nation, Dr Finn explained. "There were a lot of calls early on, and you still hear them now, to take the politics out of Covid-19," he said. "But the politics around how different countries are run, how governments are put and held in place and politics around the funding of healthcare sectors are really important. This has influenced the pandemic to date and is going to continue to do so."
Once a successful vaccine for Covid-19 was found, the global politics around its funding and distribution, particularly in the face of anti-vaccination campaigners, would be immense, Dr Finn predicted.
In the meantime, with Europe entering a second wave of coronavirus, Dr Finn and the contributors to the report have warned that all countries need to continue to prepare. "Until there is a vaccine there is very little place for complacency in Europe. As we have witnessed, Covid-19 takes hold very quickly within communities. Unless there are measures put in place, leaders at different levels are coordinating responses and the public are listening, then the figures just exponentially grow," Dr Finn said.
"The recent tightening of restrictions announced by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson demonstrates the perilous situation many countries, including numerous democracies, find themselves in, he added. "At present, leaders need to think about how they maintain a balance between managing behaviour to mitigate against a second wave and protecting the openness and accountability that should define democratic governance."
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THE DANGER OF FALLING - Streams New EP
Greenville, NC - Imminence Records' promising melodic hardcore up-and-comer from West Virginia, The Danger Of Falling, is streaming their label debut EP entitled Hope/Well in full. The five track EP, that includes the lead single "Myself/Alone," is out now on Imminence Records and is brimming with conviction and an essence that has quickly drawn in fans all around the world. The EP will see the band as contenders for newcomer of the year acclaims come the end of the year.
"We are exceptionally happy with the outcome of the new material and fully believe in every note and every line. Thank you for all the love you've given us!" - Lucas Smith (Vocals)


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GREECE …. Far from a Tragedy.
You may immediately assume, that as a woman of Greek background (born to Greek parents), my ancestral inclination may lean towards pushing the hard sell on Greece.
But there are millions of Philhellenes in the wider world, without the DNA birth stamp, who are far better placed than me to espouse the values of the country which founded democracy, modern medicine and various other legacy doctrines which remain as prescient as ever.
Greece's prominent mantle in history will always speak for itself.
Right now in 2014, in media headlines world over, it remains depicted as a Greek tragedy because of the devastating effects of the financial crisis.
Yes, we have some work to do. A lot of work. Perhaps, a massive cultural shift is in order. Maybe the karmic wheel has staged a full revolt on corruption. Maybe the country that founded these democratic principles has been chosen, once again, to lead the way on the world stage, and go from revolution to evolution.
I visit Greece every year, mostly in the winter, because my dad moved there 20 years ago. (I've been there around 25 times!). I was also based there in a professional capacity as a reporter for an Australian Network in our year of light, 2004, reporting on the European Championship win and then the Athens Olympics. In the months and days leading up to the event, I witnessed a type of stamina and resolve that led to miraculous endeavours, all executed in brilliant fashion. When those magical few weeks were over, Greek pride was back on full display.
The imported skills of the Greek diaspora played a vital role in the success of the Games.
It is time to mobilize our influential diaspora again, this time for the long haul. We need to remind our motherland that temerity, passion and order will once again prevail against seemingly insurmountable challenges. The challenges are not just economic. One of the largest obstacles remains the Greek mindset, which at times suffers by adopting the stance of victimization. But that's a storyline that won't help Greeks, and it certainly won't mobilize the country in a productive way. Drawing on the country's many strengths will.
It's time for Greeks to remind themselves of who they are. It's not just about rebranding Greece, its about reconnecting Greece and Greeks all over the world in a formidable alliance that showcases our collective strength.
Check out this brilliant video… which is sourced from a global campaign aimed at uniting the diaspora.
http://onegreece.org/
It's known as the Hellenic Initiative (THI) which is a global, nonprofit, secular institution whose vision is to mobilize the Greek diaspora and philhellene community to invest in the future of Greece through programs focused on crisis relief, entrepreneurship and economic development. http://hellenicinitiative.com/web/
Recently I hosted the Australian launch of the Hellenic initiative. The impressive global citizen Andrew N. Liveris gave the keynote speech. Andrew is a truly remarkable Greek. A Darwin boy, Andrew is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company, a global specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics company based in Midland, Michigan. In 2012 annual sales were approximately $57 billion. Andrew was most recently appointed Co-Chair of President Obama's Advanced Manufacturing Partnership in the United States. He is also the Chairman on THI, and such is his pull that he even attracted the support of former US President Bill Clinton to the launch of THI in Athens.
Above are also some pictures from the launch of the Greek Festival earlier this year. As you can see, it attracted our nation's leaders, and invoked a positive collective consciousness in regards to helping Greece move forward. The conclusion: it's only through the unqualified support of the wider diaspora that lasting and positive change will ignite enduring change.
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Land deal for Everett casino plan under scrutiny
By Andrea Estes, Shelley Murphy and Mark Arsenault Globe Staff,November 21, 2013, 1:23 a.m.
Despite Charles Lightbody's claim that he had no stake in the Everett casino plan, several people, including a state investigator and an Everett businessman, say he has boasted that he stands to make millions if the state approves Wynn's casino license and he buys the land.(wbz-tv)
Controversy is threatening the only Eastern Massachusetts casino proposal to receive clear voter approval, as a federal grand jury and two state agencies investigate whether a businessman with an extensive criminal record has a hidden ownership in the Everett property where Steve Wynn wants to build a $1.3 billion gaming resort, according to people with direct knowledge of the investigations.
In response, officials at Wynn Resorts are rewriting the sales agreement for the former industrial land, slashing the price the company will pay if the casino is built to minimize the possibility that any undisclosed partners could benefit from a gambling business.
Federal prosecutors, as well as the state gambling commission and the attorney general, want to know whether Charles A. Lightbody, who served jail time for assault with a dangerous weapon and pleaded guilty for his role in a massive identity theft ring in New York, is a secret investor who could profit if the casino is approved, according to the people familiar with the inquiry.
The scope of the grand jury's investigation is unclear, but prosecutors have called several witnesses to testify about the land deal. Meanwhile, FBI agents have questioned an associate of Lightbody who also has a criminal record and was a co-owner of the property.
Lightbody acknowledged to the Globe through his attorney that he was initially part of the group that owned the 30-acre parcel, but his attorney insists he withdrew before Wynn negotiated the option to buy the property in late 2012. However, several people interviewed by the Globe say that Lightbody has boasted he will make a fortune if the casino is built.
Wynn officials say they never dealt with Lightbody, and that they performed background investigations on the legal property owners. But investigators for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission who reviewed the land option "raised concerns about potential participants who had not been disclosed to us," Wynn Resorts confirmed in a statement to the Globe.
Wynn had offered to pay about $70 million for land that a company called FBT Everett Realty LLC bought in 2009 for little more than $8 million, according to people familiar with the deal. Wynn officials would not disclose the new price, but said it would be the amount the sellers could expect to get if the land wasn't about to become a lucrative casino. The partners of FBT Realty, Dustin DeNunzio, Paul Lohnes and Anthony Gattineri, would have no ongoing stake in the casino either, under the agreement.
"We have agreed with the sellers to amend our option agreement to clearly confirm ownership and to reduce the option price to reflect fair market value without casino use," read the Wynn statement.
Wynn Resort officials say they are unaware of the federal or attorney general investigations into the land deal, though they acknowledge that gambling commission investigators have been asking questions about the property. They also stressed that the commission found no fault with Wynn's conduct in negotiating the option to buy the property.
Officials at the gambling commission, whom Wynn officials have consulted about the revised land sale, declined to comment.
Wynn has good reason to make certain there's no hint of criminal involvement in his project, the only clearly viable gaming proposal in one of the biggest untapped gambling markets in the United States. Any taint could result in his project being rejected.
Wynn's Everett proposal is the only project in the eastern part of the state that has been fully approved by voters. Voters in Milford and East Boston have rejected rival proposals, though developers of the casino proposed for East Boston, at Suffolk Downs racetrack, hope to press on by relocating to neighboring Revere where voters supported the casino.
But Wynn is still waiting to hear whether he passed a state background check, a process that proved damaging to Suffolk Downs.
In October, Suffolk Downs dropped Caesars from the $1 billion casino proposal just before the release of a state background check that raised several concerns, including a licensing deal the company signed with a firm owned in part by a businessman allegedly tied to Russian mobsters. The revelation helped turn the tide against the project in East Boston.
"The (Massachusetts) Gaming Commission looks to New Jersey as its model — that is the strictest regulatory authority in the country," said Clyde Barrow, a gambling expert at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. "In New Jersey, if your attorney is seen having lunch with a mobster, you're in trouble."
Ironically, Lightbody is best known recently for fighting against a casino project, spending thousands to encourage a no vote on the East Boston proposal; he was also charged with punching a casino supporter.
Lightbody's attorney Timothy Flaherty said Lightbody joined with several other investors to purchase the former Monsanto Chemical Co. land in Everett back in 2009 before Wynn proposed a casino for the site. Lightbody's name was never in the official records, a common practice in Massachusetts, but Flaherty said he was part of the group that planned to bring commercial development to the land.
However, Lightbody transferred his interest in the land before Wynn signed an option to buy it in December 2012, Flaherty said, though he wouldn't say exactly when the transfer took place.
He called Lightbody "a respected member of the business community who is known throughout Revere for his charitable good works." Lightbody is also a major property owner north of Boston and he contributed at least $1,500 to Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria's campaigns.
But Lightbody also has an extensive rap sheet, including two convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and a 2004 arrest at a Connecticut casino for causing a disturbance. He was charged with criminal mischief, and breach of the peace and ordered to "stay out of casinos."
Steve Wynn has proposed building a $1.3 billion gaming resort on land in Everett. Wynn's proposal is the only one in Eastern Massachusetts that has received clear voter approval.(David L Ryan/Globe Staff)
Two years later, Lightbody was named in a 39-count indictment in New York that accused nine men of stealing people's identities by posing as employees of the Department of Homeland Security. Using the personal information they collected from unsuspecting people they telephoned, they bought goods worth more than $1 million, authorities said.
When police arrested Lightbody at his 6,000-square-foot Revere home, the house was so full of allegedly stolen merchandise — including plasma TVs, designer handbags, cameras, and jewelry — they had to rent a tractor-trailer to haul the loot away, according to news coverage at the time. Lightbody eventually pleaded guilty, though he claimed much of the merchandise taken from his home was not stolen. He was ordered to pay $16,000 in fines and sentenced to three years' probation.
Law enforcement officials investigating the case said that Lightbody was particularly dangerous, writing in their application for a search warrant that they should be allowed to enter without knocking first because Lightbody had "numerous charges . . . of a violent nature."
Despite Lightbody's claim that he had no stake in the Everett casino plan, several people, including a state investigator and an Everett businessman, say he has boasted that he stands to make millions if the state approves Wynn's casino license and he buys the land. However, they could not confirm whether Lightbody made the remarks before or after the option to buy the land was formally signed.
"I hear it from everybody because he's a big mouth and tells everybody," said the businessman, who asked to remain nameless for fear of retaliation. "He's telling everybody that $18 million — that's his share."
Gary P. DeCicco, a business associate of Lightbody who was once convicted of mail fraud, was part of the group that attracted Lightbody to invest in the Everett property, in hopes of attracting Home Depot and Walmart to develop the site, according to DeCicco's attorney, Joseph Oteri.
The FBI agents "talked to him about a whole bunch of stuff involving the Everett land and the deal," said Oteri, adding that the state gambling commission also subpoenaed his client several months ago, but when he showed up, they didn't question him.
"He has no hidden ownership in it," said Oteri, who said DeCicco pulled out 18 months ago when the original commercial development plan collapsed. "As far as he knows Lightbody got out, too. He knows of no role Lightbody had, except as an investor."
Oteri defended his client's reputation.
"He's an entrepreneur," Oteri said. "He's a kid who starts with nothing, built up a moving business, made a considerable amount of money and started developing. . . . He's a real go-getter. The guy works prodigious hours."
Boston attorney Thomas J. Butters, who represents FBT Everett Realty, Lohnes and DeNunzio, said his clients are "experienced and highly thought of local businessmen." Butters declined to comment on the new, reduced price agreement, but said he still supports the casino. "We are hopeful that the Gaming Commission will approve the license," he said.
Asked about the inquiry, a spokeswoman for the US attorney's office, Christina DiIorio-Sterling, said, "We do not confirm or deny grand jury investigations."
Despite the controversy, Mayor DeMaria said he remains confident the Everett casino will be approved.
"I'm committed to the project and issues regarding Charlie's somewhat ownership of the property are going to be resolved," he said.
Andrea Estes can be reached at andrea.estes@globe.com. Shelley Murphy can be reached at shelley.murphy@globe.com. Mark Arsenault can be reached at mark.arsenault@globe.com. Michael Rezendes and Frank Phillips of the Globe staff contributed to this report.


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D3FAI And NATHASSIA "Change The World" Together
"Change The World" is the first collaboration between one of Argentinian's hottest emerging producers, D3FAI and Dutch electronic music artist NATHASSIA.
Electronic music artist Federico Fragala AKA D3FAI (Revealed/Spinnin'/Dim Mak/Outlaw) has been making a big name for himself in recent years with support from the likes of Tiësto, Afrojack, David Guetta & Steve Aoki. With official remixes for Hardwell and a collaboration with Blasterjaxx along with global touring his future is bright.
NATHASSIA (pronounced Natasha) being half Dutch & half Indian, emanates a mesmerising quality. Her vocal style, music and live performances bring together both eastern and western cultures in spellbinding style. Described as "TORI AMOS FOR THE KISS FM GENERATION", "PJ HARVEY FOR THE CLUB ENVIRONMENT" & "THIS GENERATIONS KATE BUSH". Having tasted initial global success as a featured artist including A List on UK Radio & live on Dutch national radio with the likes of Soulcast & Moonbeam NATHASSIA has gone on to successfully forge her own style & sound as an electronic music artist with recent support from Blasterjaxx, Andi Durrant & BL3ND.
Together, their collaboration, "Change The World" is nothing short of amazing. Released via ArchangelUK Recordings, the tune is full of big room vibes that is contagiously danceable. Going forward, we'll be anxiously on the edge of our seat to see if more collaborations are to come from the ingenious duo.
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Juvenile inmates have more mental health hospitalizations, study finds
Depression, substance abuse and other mental health problems account for a much larger share of hospital stays for children and teenagers in the juvenile justice system than for other hospitalized adolescents.
July 20, 2015 - By Erin Digitale
A new study shows that the children and teens in the juvenile justice system are more likely to be hospitalized for mental health problems than those not incarcerated.
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Juvenile inmates are much more likely to be hospitalized for mental health problems than children and teenagers who are not incarcerated, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
In addition, the hospital stays of these inmates are longer, suggesting that their underlying mental health problems are worse.
The new study, published online July 21 in the Journal of Adolescent Health, examined almost 2 million hospitalizations of California boys and girls over a 15-year period. Mental health diagnoses were responsible for 63 percent of hospital stays by young people in the juvenile justice system, compared to 19 percent for those not in the system.
Although mental health problems have been previously documented in juvenile inmates, the study's large size and assessment of hospital stays gives new insight into the widespread nature and severity of their mental health diagnoses.
"We know young people in the juvenile justice system have a disproportionate burden of mental illness, but I was really surprised by the magnitude of the problem, because hospitalizations typically occur for very severe illness," said the study's lead author, Arash Anoshiravani, MD, clinical assistant professor of adolescent medicine. Mental-health hospital stays were even more common in detained girls than boys, he noted. "If you just looked at girls, 74 percent of their hospitalizations were for mental illnesses," he said. "That's pretty sobering."
Anoshiravani is also an adolescent medicine specialist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and medical director of the Santa Clara County Juvenile Custody Institutions.
The study examined all California hospital discharges between 1997 and 2011 for 11- to 18-year-old kids. Data on non-California residents were excluded, leaving 1.9 million hospitalizations. Of these, 11,367 were for patients who had come from or were being discharged to a juvenile detention facility.
Arash Anoshiravani is a clinical assistant professor of adolescent medicine at Stanford and medical director of the Santa Clara County Juvenile Custody Institutions.
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Hospitalized juvenile inmates were older, more likely to be male, to be African-American, to be from larger urban counties and to have public health insurance than their nonincarcerated counterparts.
Median hospital stays were about one day longer for inmates than noninmates (six compared with five days). However, for certain categories of hospitalization, the gap in length of stay was much greater: Teens and children transferred to substance-abuse treatment facilities had a median stay of as long as 71 days if they were in the juvenile justice system, versus 28 days for nondetained young people. Because more juvenile inmates are publicly insured, these longer stays increase public expenditure, too.
The types of mental health diagnoses did not differ much between the groups: Depressive disorders, substance abuse and conduct disorders were the most common mental health problems in both groups, with conduct disorders occurring somewhat more often in detained youth. The types of diagnoses suggest that many incarcerated teens' mental health problems developed in response to stressful and traumatic childhood experiences, such as being abused or witnessing violence, Anoshiravani said.
"They're regular kids who have had really, really horrible childhoods," he said, adding that he hopes the new data will motivate social change around the problem.
They're regular kids who have had really, really horrible childhoods.
"We are arresting kids who have mental health problems probably related to their experiences as children," he said. "Is that the way we should be dealing with this, or should we be getting them into treatment earlier, before they start getting caught up in the justice system?"
Other Stanford-affiliated authors of the paper are Olga Saynina, social science research assistant; Lisa Chamberlain, MD, associate professor of pediatrics; Lynne Huffman, MD, associate professor of pediatrics; Ewen Wang, MD, professor of surgery; and Paul Wise, MD, professor of pediatrics.
The work was funded by an early career investigator award from Stanford's Child Health Research Institute, of which Chamberlain, Huffman and Wise are members.
More information about Stanford's Department of Pediatrics, which also supported the work, is available at http://pediatrics.stanford.edu.
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Diary Of A Busker Day 635 Sunday September 21st 2014 Winchester (1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 12:30-2pm, 2. Opposite Pavilion, Time: 2:15-2:45pm).
I was going to set up at Vodafone but Danny Ward was there, singing and playing his guitar: a very nice, very old Epiphone acoustic, it was.
A man donated after Albatross, saying, 'That reminds me when I was on holiday with me wife'. I said, 'Oh, in '69?', thinking he might have heard it when it came out, but he said, 'No, '86. The band played it every night, and I remember it was '86 'cause we were at Manchester airport and there was a plane crash'. Oh dear. Oh well, he bought a CD, which makes Albatross Song Of The Day, again. I reckon it's also Song Of The Year.
15 minutes in, Ron turns up, and whadayaknow, he's here for the duration. He did what he did before: stands by me on my left, moving ever so slightly to the rhythm…then he'll step out and do his thing for a few minutes, or until the end of the song. He'll quite often use the short bollards near the road (short? – he's only a bit taller!) He'll rest his palm on the top, use it as a pivot, and dance around the bollard. But the weird thing – or maybe it's not so weird – is alot of people think he's part of the act! Or my dad! A few have said, 'Is he with you?' I say, 'I know him – Ronald. He's not with me, though'. But people love it! After one song, when he was dancing, people at the table across the road started clapping. Someone even gave him a pound, which he tried to pass to me. I said it was for HIM, he should keep it. Another person gave us each a pound! And one woman said, 'Are you gonna be in the papers again, Ron?', as she was walking by. I wonder what that was about.
But there's no denying: Ron dancing attracted alot of attention. People looking from across the street, everywhere. And the money. I couldn't believe what was in the bucket at the end of the hour and a half. It must have been £30, at least. That's double the usual, and that was because of Ron. There was even a bunch of tourists who had their photo taken with him, with me playing in the background. Ron's a hit! But it's because he's so short. A man of normal height just wouldn't be the same. Funny world.
When he finally decided to go, it was 2 o'clock, and I thought, 'I'm packing up, too, if he's leaving!' It was so funny. People must think it's a gimmick: a guitar player with a dancing midget. But I don't mind him. He doesn't hassle me or bombard me with loads of questions, and he's not some weird freak…and he brings in the punters!
At the 2nd spot, some Indian women who Ron had tried to dance with earlier, walked by. One said, 'It's you again!' I said, 'Yeah, without the dancing man'. 'Yeah, your dancing partner', she said.
Earnings: £44.14p (Including 1 CD)
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According to my own very brief experience with same, the public love it when you play together. Or, well, play/dance together.


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Any TMNT fan worth his salt knows that the upcoming Turtle movie is not the first one to be released. This page will tell you all about each of the Turtle movies and other related trivia. It's a radical page to check out and get caught up on each of the movies leading up to the new one.
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Zach Gasior · May 8, 2013
So many fans are curious to learn who Will Arnett will be in Michael Bay's/Jonathan Liebesman's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Well now your wait is over TMNT fans, Arnett has been spotted wearing a badge on set as Vernon Fenwick.
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Bay's flick renamed to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
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BREAKING NEWS: Paramount pictures revealed the official movie logo at CinemaCon and it now reads "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". The "Teenage Mutant" aspect has been added to the former title "Ninja Turtles" to finally complete the name that Peter Laird and
Danny Woodburn has been cast as Master Splinter
Master Splinter has been officially cast for Michael Bay/Jonathan Liebesman Ninja Turtles 2014 film. Its apparent that Danny Woodburn will be Master Splinter but its not specified if Woodburn will be a voice over or if he will put on


David G. White and I took his latest two paintings down to The Registry Theatre last night to be hung for the Friday Feb 3 opening reception at 7pm. The Registry show is one of those year-round BOX-initiated engagements that continues to give BOX artists show-and-sell ops beyond the BOX Art Show & Sale. You can get a peek at the art for free, but for the jazz show at 8pm you'll need to pony up a well-spent $22. Chatting with Lawrence McNaught, Director of Programming and Development at The Registry, he said it's going to be a killer show featuring the Bernie Senensky Quartet doing Take 5 – The Music of Dave Brubeck. The piano will blow your mind.
Grab your tickets online, or at Centre In The Square box office, or you can take your chances at the Registry door. See you there.
You remember The Registry Theatre, right? Awesome intimate venue for 150. Downtown Kitchener at Frederick and Weber.
saw new work from Christina Preece, too.
Mr. James Nye emerges with his work.
I found interesting things to shoot.
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Hey, that's post #100 for makebright!
Looking forward to the next hundred.
Eeep! Sorry I took so long to move!
No worries, Joe! You created an opportunity and didn't even know it. Best 5 minute wait of the week.
wowwww..this is awesome Darin, you always rock!!! I always enjoy reading your blog posts.
Congrats on post #100 my friend! This community is lucky to have you!
I love the 5 minute puddle shot too. Well worth the wait!
Muchas gracias to all the commenters! I really appreciate you taking the time to give some feedback.


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Supporting Countries in Transition: A Framework Guide for Foundation Engagement
This guide contains three main sections. The first section offers an overview and conceptual frame for understanding contemporary national transitions that face familiar challenges but also new global complications. As used here, the term 'transition' refers to the opening created by the formal end of an authoritarian regime or armed conflict in which new possibilities for transformative political, economic and socio-cultural change become possible. The focus is particularly on the earliest period of such a transition, when events unfold most quickly, and multiple paths are open to achieve important structural advances in democratic participation, economic reform, rule of law and human security.
The second section explores the comparative advantages and limitations of private foundations in relation to the larger aid sector operating in transitional contexts. Lessons learned from private foundations involved over many years in cross-border grantmaking receive special attention. Because local philanthropy also plays an important role during transitions -- and helps sustain support over the long run -- consideration is given to how international and local foundations can work effectively together in transitional environments.
The third section presents informed risk-taking as a logical and practical framework to help foundations achieve disproportionate positive outcomes through the programmes they undertake in particular transitions. Drawing on the sector's collective wisdom following decades of global experience in transitional settings, as well as aspects of the broader aid industry experience, it gives actionable guidance on the strategic questions and considerations that can help foundations to put the principle of informed risk-taking into practice.
Given their comparative flexibility and speed, private foundations can make targeted interventions with relatively small amounts of money that can result in potentially large rewards. They can marshal seasoned talent and diverse in-house expertise in responding to transitional challenges. With their relative independence and legitimacy, foundations also have more latitude to be experimental and catalytic in their funding priorities.
'Failed' philanthropic interventions in past transitions in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Guatemala and Somalia have led some to a wait-and-see approach rather than a proactive one.
The creation of a donor network or affinity group focused specifically on post-authoritarian and post-conflict transitions could be a further step.
With a few practical steps, the sector could set itself a more focused agenda in order to leverage its natural advantages and better respond to these unique historical openings. In so doing, foundations might profoundly assist these societies as they seek to establish the political, economic and social conditions to prevent a relapse into mass violence or repression.
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Are the two serving IAF officers publically debunking the critics?
With the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the plea on the Rafale deal next week, the remarks by top serving Indian Air Force (IAF) officers against the critics of the deal are totally misdirected. Nobody is questioning the capabilities of the Rafale fighter aircrafts as such.


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Boy with no arms forced to leave restaurant after manager has a few things to say
Three-year-old William Bancroft was excited to go to IHOP for the first time and knew exactly what he wanted – pancakes.
The little boy was born without arms and is used to eating his food with his feet.
As the manager watched William use his feet to pick the syrup bottle up he approached his family's table.
What he said next has sparked complete outrage and forced the huge breakfast chain to apologize.
Alexis Bancroft / Facebook
It was the first time three-year-old William Bancroft and his family went for breakfast at IHOP.
It was a Saturday morning, and William wanted pancakes. William, from Arkansas, eats his food the only way he knows how, with his feet.
"That's all he knows," William's mother, Alexis Bancroft, told the local station KARK.
His mom Alexis Bancroft makes sure he always washes his feet before eating, and this time was no exception.
But when the manager approached the family's table he told them that the boy was raising concerns about the health code, according to The Washington Post.
William, who was born without arms, was sitting on the table and touching the syrup container with his feet.
But before he could eat, a manager at the franchise in Hot Springs, Ark., told William and his family that the boy was raising concerns about the health code.
Alexis Bancroft was forced to leave the restaurant with her family and is now taking action against the IHOP manager.
When the two left their table, a veteran and two women left with them to show their support for the family.
There was also a baseball team in the restaurant and the children were asked if they had washed their hands.
All of them said they hadn't so one of the adults gave them a syrup container so that they could all touch it as a way to show support also.
Alexis shared her experience on social media and asked if anyone was ever questioned about washing their hands in a restaurant.
She has also asked that others join with her in boycotting the restaurant until changes are made to their policies.
Alexis Bancroft told KARK that the incident at IHOP was the first time her son had been discriminated against in a restaurant because of how he has to eat.
IHOP has since apologized, saying the company and its franchisees do not tolerate "discrimination of any type."
An IHOP spokesperson told The Washington Post that the manager is currently on leave.
What is wrong with people, if he had arms I'm sure he would love to use them!
I think William is a little star to be able to use his feet and be independent – you go young man, you're going to go far and God bless you!
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By John Webster, Friday, January 18th 2013
This week's Facebook-initiated Open Compute Summit has been depicted by TechCrunch blogger Alex Williams as an event that benefits Facebook first and foremost as it builds out its data source business model. His well-written post basically says that significant revenue growth for Facebook can come from selling data generated by Facebook users. But to maximize profitability under this data sales model, Facebook wants to drive the cost of data center infrastructure to some point below that of commodity boxes—servers and storage arrays for example. How to do that?
One way is to apply the open source software process to hardware, driving down IT hardware costs while driving up the ability to customize IT infrastructure.
The open source software community has traditionally assumed that their software would run on commodity hardware. It has to run on something, so why not write software that runs on the cheapest hardware available.Apache Hadoop is a classic example of this paradigm. Hadoop is open source, Java-based software running on racks of commodity servers that are wired together using a standard, low cost 1 Gb Ethernet fabric.
But servers are boxes full of different components—processor modules, interface cards, power supplies—and the list goes on. Suppose data center IT people could roll their own Hadoop clusters using servers that they built from a list of standardized parts? Indeed, if given that opportunity would they even build boxes that look like today's commodity servers?
That's the point of this blog post. The Open Compute Summit and the Open Compute Project it showcased is about much more than just giving Facebook and other social media giants like them a lower cost IT floor. There's the potential for enterprise IT to extract significant value from the Open Compute Project as well by rolling their own data center components. No more racks full of stuff displaying the logo plates of the Ciscos, Dells, EMCs, HPs and IBMs of the world. No logos at all in the enterprise data center.
I can hear those vendors now: "You're dreaming. That will never happen. Our customers depend on us and will never replace us with stuff they build." Maybe, but I remember hearing similar pronouncements at the coming out party for open source software.
Here's why I think that resting on one's own iron is not something the enterprise IT vendors should be doing as a response to the Open Source Project. Technology refresh cycles—the process of replacing the outdated with the new—adds significant cost to IT budgets. This process makes IT even costlier when technologies that progress at different rates are bound together in the same device. Consider the ubiquitous and lowly power supply commonly found in incredible abundance within today's data centers.
During his opening keynote, Frank Francovsky of Facebook and Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation used power supplies as an example. Suppose a new power supply technology were to come along that could dramatically reduce the data center's electricity bill. However, because each device in the data center typically has its own embedded power supply, enterprise data centers would have to replace all of their devices in order to take advantage of this new energy saving technology. What would more likely happen is that devices would be replaced on a typical three-year refresh cycle with those that feature low power consumption. Energy costs would go down gradually.
But if power supplies were standard parts that could be used interchangeably among devices (servers, switches, storage arrays, etc.) and swapped out at will, there would be no need to wait. Energy cost savings could be substantially realized once the lower power-consuming power supplies became available.
Enterprise IT has historically been challenged to justify its very existence. Decades ago, the likes of EDS and other IT services outsourcers challenged enterprise data centers with a lower cost for IT services model. This caused many enterprise executives to conclude that IT was not required to be one of their core business competencies and either threw their data center management staff, or in many cases their entire data centers, overboard.
Now and in the same way, the many cloud services providers are challenging enterprises once again to a duel over the cost of IT. If the cloud vendor can host enterprise apps for a fraction of the cost charged by internal IT, how then do enterprise executives justify internal IT infrastructure? And if internal IT is to compete on a level footing with the cloud, doesn't it then have to lower its cost to provide the same services?
I believe that the cloud services providers will find the Open Compute model compelling for the two reasons for which the Project was started: lower infrastructure cost and greater operational flexibility. But in order to compete with them, enterprise IT executives will have to follow suit by reducing their costs and maximizing their flexibility. Therefore, the Open Compute Project will be worth at least a review by enterprise IT. As one Summit attendee quipped on his Facebook page: "Facebook has just turned a computer server into a Lego-style assembly project."
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NLS Wins Information System Contract from Eesti Loto
After a competitive procurement process, Eesti Loto, based in Tallinn, Estonia, awarded a seven-year contract (including possible extensions) to Novomatic Lottery Solutions (NLS) for the provision of an Information System to manage its sales in all channels.
NLS proposed a truly modern, state-of-the-art technology platform designed to enable lottery sales over every channel.
Built around proven, up-to-date Service Oriented Architecture and making use of an extensive library of APIs, the platform enables sales over a wide range of POS devices, including existing devices and large-scale retail POS systems.
NLS' advanced lottery platform features the latest technologies that will allow Eesti Loto to exceed its players' expectations and set new standards in lottery operations and services, both in the short- and long-term.
The solution will deliver out-of-the-box all the necessary options to drive new business and offer new lottery content for players across all channels—mobile, retail, internet—as well as the flexibility to handle whatever the future may bring.
BYOT Philosophy
"The NLS omni-channel solution gives Eesti Loto the ability to create an entirely new player experience by breaking down the barriers that used to exist between channels," said Frank Cecchini, NLS Managing Director & CEO.
"Eesti Loto will have the freedom to incorporate best-of-breed services and content, deploy the most appropriate POS devices and deliver a whole new experience to its players," he explained.
"We are extremely excited to be working in partnership with one of the most technically advanced lotteries in the region and are looking forward to working with Eesti Loto to realize the benefits of a truly modern system where technology is not a barrier to growing the business," ended Cecchini.
NLS' pioneering BYOT (Bring Your Own Terminal) philosophy allows Eesti Loto to utilize existing assets or deploy modern tablet or mobile devices. The solution utilizes NLS' Thin Retail Client, which enables the lottery to use any third-party hardware for its POS.
Eesti Loto will deploy this solution across new Linux-based POS systems, as well as Android devices for smaller retailers. This strategy will significantly strengthen its retail footprint by improving the lottery's instant ticket sales channel and enabling lottery sales at smaller retail locations.
In-Lane Lottery Sales
Eesti Loto will also plan to collaborate with its retail partners to roll out the NLS POS Embedded solution thereby allowing supermarkets to offer Eesti Loto's lottery games and instants tickets at in-lane locations within the stores.
Under the new contract, which includes two possible one-year extensions, NLS will additionally provide Eesti Loto with eInstants from the extensive NLS portfolio of entertaining games.
The excitement at Eesti Loto was perhaps best captured by Eesti Loto CEO Heiki Kranich, who said: "This will be a major jump forward! We selected the NLS system and team because they are the most ready to support our inventive team who rely on technology to open doors to new possibilities and maintain Eesti Loto's reputation for innovation and technological leadership in a country where these qualities are the norm. NLS provides an advanced, secure and robust multichannel system with player registration methods that will allow Eesti Loto to achieve its commercial objectives as well as further implement our KYC and Responsible Gaming strategy. NLS is future-ready, and so is Eesti Loto!"
Full Solution Alternative
NLS is a full solution alternative vendor for international lottery markets delivering games and services that can be integrated with any third party solution. The NLS system supports all sales channels simultaneously, creating a truly omni-channel offering while at the same time increasing lottery revenues and returns to good causes.
With ISO 27001 certification, WLA Security Control Standard Certification and numerous lottery audits, NLS solutions guarantee the highest levels of security and reliability.
NLS is part of the NOVOMATIC Group, one of the biggest global producers and operators of gaming technologies, with revenues of about EUR 4 billion, more than 28,000 employees and activities in 80 countries.
NLS was established in 2014 after the acquisition of Icelandic lottery provider Betware and quickly became a player in the international lotteries business.
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Q: Pointer points different data type I read that if we use pointer, the data type must be the same. But I've test this code, and there is no error. I think there'll be an error there. But nothing happens. The program works like it should be.  Why can we explain this?
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#include<stdio.h>

int main(){
float i, j, k, l;
int *c1, *c2, c[1];

printf("Enter i : ");
scanf("%f", &i);
printf("Enter j : ");
scanf("%f", &j);
printf("Enter k : ");
scanf("%f", &k);
printf("Enter l : ");
scanf("%f", &l);

c1 = &c[0];
*c1 = i+k;
c2 = &c[1];
*c2 = j+l;
printf("\nMatrice c is [%d ; %d]\n", *c1, *c2);

return 0;

}
output :
Enter i : 1
Enter j : 2
Enter k : 3
Enter l : 4

Matrice c is [4 ; 6]

Process returned 0 (0x0)   execution time : 1.447 s
Press any key to continue.

I've edited this code
printf("\nMatrice c is [%d ; %d]\n", *c1, *c2);

to become
printf("\nMatrice c is [%f ; %f]\n", *c1, *c2);

And the output is error.
Enter i : 1
Enter j : 2
Enter k : 3
Enter l : 4

Matrice c is [0.000000 ; 42581666233418238000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.000000]

Process returned 0 (0x0)   execution time : 1.164 s
Press any key to continue.

A: int* c1;    //pointer to int
int c[1];   //int array with one element
c1 = &c[0]; // c1 points to the the first and only element of the array.

c[0] = 5;   // the first element of the array c is 5
*c1 = 5;    // The element to which the pointer is pointing is 5 (dereferencing)

In your code, the problem is that the array size is not enough.
There is no element c[1] so the behavior is undefined.
This results in segmentation fault most often but you were unlucky.
Declare the array c as int c[2];.
Also, note what does the [] operator.
If you define a variable it shows how much elements would this array hold - how much memory should be allocated.
In expression array[N] is the same as *(array + N)


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UAE : Rebar prices fell by 17% in June 2022
Rebar prices in the local market in the UAE recorded a sudden drop in June, touching 2,530 dirhams per ton, down 16.6% compared to prices last May, which were around 2,950 dirhams per ton, according to sources working in the building materials trade.
The sources linked this decline to several reasons, including the drop in global rebar prices, and the decline in the severity of the repercussions of the geopolitical crisis in Eastern Europe on imports of raw materials from Russia, which began to restore normal export levels of raw materials and billet until before the Russian-Ukrainian war despite from Western sanctions, in addition to the availability of new sources of import.
Rebar prices in the UAE fell during the month of May by 8% to 2,950 dirhams per ton, after they jumped to an average between 3,200 and 3,300 dirhams per ton during the months of March and April of this year, against the background of the geopolitical crisis between Russia and Ukraine that began on February 24.
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