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In My World
Winner W.Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
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Robin Hammond wins the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund award for his work on mental health in African countries in crisis: Condemned. www.smithfund.org: Those who knew Smith knew also that he needed friends at critical times. Many photographers today are working against the fashions and economics of modern publishing. The Fund was established in 1979 to seek out and encourage these independent voices. In the first thirty years of competition, from many thousands of proposals, the Fund selected 303 finalists who were seeking help in finishing major projects. Each was worthy of a grant. Between 1980 and 2009, thirty-two recipients from fourteen different countries were recognized.
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Honduras Agape
A Decade of Decadence, part 2
infohondurasagapeus	Uncategorized	 May 27, 2020 10 Minutes
Before we move on with the countdown, I thought I would share the virtual mooking accident that took place a few days ago when I went to scoop a giant load of freshly mixed virtual mook and the shovel slipped and gashed into my shin, leaving me to bleed out. Ammm! Blut Aus Nord's "Procession of the Dead Clowns" played a noxious tune in the distance as I heard some fallen angles stumble into Hell. A callous sigh escaped through the gash and the leaves silently quivered with joy as my life-sustaining fluid nourished them.
5. Team TWAT
It was established during the Deathtrap 3000 clustermook of 2012 that two mookers working as a team would hence be referred to as: TWAT (Two Working As a Team). Deeply proud to be a party to the formation of this rare alliance, a TWAT team was defined as a profoundly intricate working unit that forms when a deep relationship is fashioned between the mookers and the mook. TWATs have a deep understanding of the mook, a deep commitment to the mook, and the most disciplined minds that enable full manipulation of the mook and all that is holy therein. A TWAT is normally created in the conventional sense with a Mook Master and a Mooker (i.e.: The Rule of Two, borrowed from the order of the Sith); the Mook Master embodies the power and skill he has acquired with the mook, and the Mooker the role of the protégé that craves his master's knowledge. Although it doesn't always work this way. There have been other instances of TWATs where there's not a clear master, just a special alliance (Quanda and Que Pasa come to mind). Three mookers working as a team can also configure a TWAT, though this this has never been successfully achieved and would upset the Rule of Two. Whatever this configuration detracts from the natural advantages consistent with the Rule of Two, it makes up for by providing the possibility of leverage.
Another caveat… there can only be one TWAT on the squad at any instance in time. If signs of two or more forming TWATs emerge, the Mason or the Mook Master must evaluate the competency of each TWAT, and eliminate the TWAT(s) displaying the least skill. If a TWAT is operating under the guise of a TWAT, this is permissible and even encouraged. Multiple mookers working together is efficient. However, these TWATs are still considered phonies.
The formation of a TWAT allows us to segment into the institution of the time-honored motivational strategy perfected by Senor Jefe: "The Wounded Racoon." This is a tactic employed by a Mason or a Mook Master that drives productivity by disparaging fellow mookers or phony TWATs and making them appear pitiful on the job. The disparaged mooker becomes "The Wounded Racoon." Applying basic psychology, the Wounded Racoon will then boost the confidence and self-worth of the other mookers, effectively increasing the productivity of the Squad and functioning TWATs, and if executed properly, the Wounded Racoon will even be motivated to boost his own performance and refine his mooking skills to compete with the other mookers who see him as a pitiful failure.
I reminisce dreamily of the formation of the first TWAT, high on the unstable boards of the first Deathtrap. Truly something special was born. Alas, Jennifer Call moved on to bigger things in life (entomologist for BASF), and has forsaken us in her new pursuits. Yes, her sister is an animal rights activist, and Jennifer makes a living dissecting insects for pesticide research. Oh the ironies in life! Wonder if she's ever seen a chicken choker?
4. Jefe buys the doombox
This one's dear to my heart. I won't get too far into the unfortunate preceding events, but suffice to say on this particular day the team was in a low place and we were handling adversity we hadn't dealt with before. Those who were there know that I'm referring to the Black Lake mauling, i.e.: the restaurant by the lake that aided and abetted a robbery that claimed, among many other belongings, the 6th generation iPod classic w/ 160 gb of doom that had fed our starving souls on jobsites since 2010. By 2016 Apple had halted the manufacturing of non-touch screen iPods with 160 gb of memory, so I knew to replace it I would have to scour the used electronics market… a risky proposition. Also stolen was a mini amp and the aux speakers I'd picked up at a market in Guatemala (RIP speakers 2010-2016). Those aux speakers were truly something special. Line-in, no power, no charging, no volume control… no play time limitation. They'd blast doom forever. We found ourselves mourning as a team, mixing mook and lifting blocks to the heavens with nary a doom tune in the airways.
I can thank Marco Francisco and Senor Jefe for remedying this tragic situation. Senor Jefe for allowing me to commandeer his less robust but still adequate iPod. I think it had a measly 16 gb of storage capacity… all used to store gospel tracks and inspirational pop & praise CCM which I promptly erased and loaded down with the foulest doom known to man. Marco Francisco for telling Jefe under no uncertain terms that we needed a replacement portable speaker system ASAP and to apportion team funds for the acquisition. Maynor led the way to an electronics tienda where the purchase was made for the machine that would soon become known as the Doombox (2016-present) after the speaker system was tested in front of the merchant behind the jail bars with Worship's Terranean Wake II – The Second Coming Apart. Oh yes… from its genesis the speakers blasted the crushing despair of crumbling pillars, barren wastelands and torrid winds… quenching our thirst and revitalizing our spirits from the funereal depths of despondency and sorrow. Our pallid skin flushed red, and we were whole again. Daniella promised 10 hours of playback on one charge, and the machine hasn't wavered once.
And you can't say I never played Worship music. Long live the Doombox.
3. Sam takes Hans and I for ice cream
One of my fondest memories.
A couple months before our first trip Jefe and I and maybe some others met up with Sam and the crew from Aiken. Sarah Webb, Erin Harris, Morgan ?? and Allison Kelly. Sam promptly designated me as his 'driver'. I wasn't sure what he meant other than muleing, but come to find out that meant taxying Daniella home in the Expedition every night after dinner. Keep in mind at the time I didn't have any kind of license to legally operate a vehicle on the roads down there (guess it doesn't really matter cause the law is just a suggestion in the bush), nor any experience driving in a foreign country, but I quickly adopted Sam's thinking… "who cares?" Solo se vive una vez. Right amigo? I asked him if my old buddy Hans could tag along with us so every night after dinner Hans and I would alternate taking the wheel, carting Sam and Daniela around town. Sam would show us some of the local spots. He'd instruct us how to drive in the bush. I.e.: pass everyone and honk on the way by. He'd tell us about his adventures in Indonesia, etc. Hans and I would drag it out as long as possible just to stay in the air conditioning. The Expedition could get colder than a warlock's newtsack dragged across the clavicle. A few times after dropping off Daniella he had us stop at the ice cream shop on the corner, where main street Quimistan intersects with Holy Road Highway, and we'd go in and eat our ice cream and mingle with the locals. Best we could anyway, as Hans and I couldn't speak ten words of Spanish. That never really mattered though. Looking back now, the time spent with Sam was what mattered.
The relentless procession of time
slips through the sandglass
drawing ever closer the end of hours
yet, in these silent moments,
I treasure the stillness as sapphire
Fell Voices, 2010, Rekevics
We miss you Sam.
2. Jefe's roast
Marco Francisco approached some of us early in the trip in 2017 with the idea of giving Senor Jefe Pastor Rey a 'casting off' of sorts. My co-worker Nicole Dickson wrote a book called Casting Off years ago, cleverly drawing metaphors in the text to knots used in knitting (in knitting, 'casting off' is the final process of drawing the last thread of yarn through the last stitch, finishing a work. I.e. … tying the last knot). This is sort of where we were with Chris in 2017.
We had known it was coming for a couple years. Once he was ordained as a minister, he was on borrowed time at WUMC. One of many repercussions, as it would turn out, was uncertainty surrounding the future of our international mission trips. We were on an eight-year run in '17, and, at least speaking for myself, I went into '17 thinking there was a good chance it would be our swan song. And as the trip progressed I came to terms with it. 2017 was one of my favorite teams. We had a tight group of ten that year. I didn't know exactly what Mark was thinking at the time but he had something in mind for us on our final night together. He asked me to "be thinking about some stories to tell."
I can't speak for the other team members, but riding up those winding mountain roads to La Montanita or Laguna or Tierra Amarilla etc., jamming to Mournful Congregation's The Book of Kings or Au Champ Des Morts, a brilliant French black metal band translating to "To the Fields of Death" (highly recommended – their debut EP kills) – my head gets to spinning in the most sentimental ways. It becomes really easy to enter tranquil states of self-hypnosis, recalling events previously thought lost. Of course, it also means missing Mater talk about the revolution and the imminent rise of the South. A steep price to pay for exploring those hideaways of the mind. But… thinking about some stories to tell wasn't a tall order. They came flooding into my mind in torrents. Quickly, the challenge became, "all right, which do I single out?"
Needles to say, when the time arrived, Mark offered some brilliant opening remarks, likening the event at hand to the old Celebrity Roast hosted by Dean Martin, a series of TV specials airing before my time. And needless to say, when my time came to offer up the dumpster fire debacle at the youth yard sale and Chong's straight drive through Rose Glen's second story window, I couldn't find the words. I remember the exact order we were sitting in around the table. Emotions were stirred and tears were shed, and I hated myself afterwards for crapping out on everyone. Looking at it now though through a lens of needed perspective, and two trips later (that's right – 2017 wasn't our swan song after all to the Federation's chagrin), it was undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, special moments of fellowship we've shared together.
1. The concert in La Montanita
We had a weird team in 2016. I guess because it was Quanda and KCs first venture, plus we had Rogaine, plus Colon the choad was with us and still to this day no one knows who that kid was. Plus I had skipped the previous year in 2015 to pay my corporate debt, so it was a completely different team than the last one I'd been on in 2014. Also, 2016 was just a hard year. So I guess that all culminated to make this #1 so special to me.
The last days are usually the most emotional for me. The awards ceremony in Tierra Amarilla and Jefe's roast, hugging Rosa and her kids goodbye in 2013. Last year Wilbur, Body Pump, Lama, Lucia and I rode down the mountain on our last day in the back of Wilmur's truck in the pouring rain. We discussed horror franchises. Which is better… Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th (easy answer). Body Pump was laughing so hard at the absurdity of it all she was shivering. Vibrating like an x-box controller… I couldn't tell if she was crying or just wet. Mater's hollering out the window of the cab, "is it raining back there?"
Recalling Rutger Hauer's C-Beam speech in Blade Runner… All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
This La Montanita concert was also on our last day. And it was also a Mater b-day event. Remember at the end of Star Wars Episode VI when the camera cut to different city centers around the galaxy showing the celebrations following the emperor's overthrow? Well, that's sort of what La Montanita looked like on the afternoon of Thursday, May 26, 2016, as Mater and Jefe moshed with the kids in the schoolyard and the La Montanitan quartet played us their mariachi strings. Village folks from all around gathered and danced to the music. Marcos already wrote about this but we presented Carlos with a National team jersey. That was one of the brightest moments our team has ever had. The kids played soccer in the streets, and then blew up a beachball, and yelled "PU CHI CAAA!!!" at the tops of their lungs every time it went airborne. I remember watching Mark hug Jerry happy birthday, and wishing Hunter was there to play Wagon Wheel for us. It was the grandest fiesta, at the most needed time. The village leader, the man with the sharp reading eyes, thanked us and wished us all a farewell.
Sometimes it feels like the best moments can't be truly appreciated without the worst moments. To understand something, you have to understand it's opposite. Meaning requires context, etc. You can't appreciate the light without the dark, or vice versa, etc. The Black Lake Mauling made the La Montanita concert what it was.
Anyway, that's all I've got folks. I hate we can't be there. Reflecting on these things has helped a little, but I doubt any of us can say we wouldn't rather be there. With a little fortune and grace from above, maybe in October we can make some more moments, like tears in the rain.
Marco to resume the helm of this portal tomorrow and he will finish it out. Doom on.
B-Rad,
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How to cast a magic legal spell? ➲ Without Prejudice
You have the right to remain silent … in your civil legal dispute. By the time you approach a lawyer to assist with your civil legal dispute, you may have already discussed the matter in detail or sent text messages/emails to the other party, their agent, insurance company or lawyers. Whilst you might think you are progressing the matter: ➲ This is generally a mistake!
James D. Ford GAICD
Founder, M.D. & General Practice Lawyer
Everything you say might be used against you in a Court of Law!
"Without Prejudice" or "Without Prejudice Except/Save as to Costs"
What is "Without Prejudice" Privilege?
Statutory Public Policy Exceptions
The Protection does not extend to the determination of who pay legal costs
Sample Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) provision [for illustrative purposes]
Most people [unless they are experienced with litigation or legal dispute resolution] will unknowingly proceed to communicate with the other side on an "open" basis.
We recommend you use the same specific legal terms a lawyer uses to invoke Without Prejudice Privilege, being:
➲ "Without Prejudice" or "Without Prejudice Except/Save as to Costs":
Use these words at the very top of any written correspondence, or prior to any verbal discussions with the other side using words to the effect of "This phone call is being made/meeting is being held on a Without Prejudice basis as part of a genuine attempt to understand the matter and to work towards an amicable settlement".
The following explanation is extracted from the judgment of Hammerschlag J. in Martin Patrick Dowling -v- Ultraceuticals Pty Ltd [2016] NSWSC 386 at para. 25:
"Without prejudice privilege prevents admission into evidence of settlement negotiations between parties, when litigation between them is in contemplation.
The privilege extends to protect without prejudice communications between parties to litigation from production to other parties in the same litigation. In Rush & Tompkins Ltd v Greater London Council [1989] AC 1280 at 1305, in an oft quoted passage, Lord Griffiths said:
I have come to the conclusion that the wiser course is to protect "without prejudice" communications between parties to litigation from production to other parties in the same litigation. In multi-party litigation it is not an infrequent experience that one party takes up an unreasonably intransigent attitude that makes it extremely difficult to settle with him. In such circumstances it would, I think, place a serious fetter on negotiations between other parties if they knew that everything that passed between them would ultimately have to be revealed to the one obdurate litigant. What would in fact happen would be that nothing would be put on paper but this is in itself a recipe for disaster in difficult negotiations which are far better spelt out with precision in writing.
If the party who obtains discovery of the "without prejudice" correspondence can make no use of it at trial it can be of only very limited value to him. It may give some insight into his opponent's general approach to the issues in the case but in most cases this is likely to be of marginal significance and will probably be revealed to him in direct negotiations in any event.
In my view this advantage does not outweigh the damage that would be done to the conduct of settlement negotiations if solicitors thought that what was said and written between them would become common currency available to all other parties to the litigation.
In my view the general public policy that applies to protect genuine negotiations from being admissible in evidence should also be extended to protect those negotiations from being discoverable to third parties.
(see Hong Kong Bank of Australia Ltd v Murphy (1992) 28 NSWLR 512 at 523; Glengallan Investments v Arthur Anderson [2002] 1 Qd R 233 at [34]; Dr R. J. Desiatnik, Without Prejudice Privilege In Australia (2010, LexisNexus Butterworths Australia) at 49–53)."
It is a magic legal spell ➲ but it's far from bulletproof!
Using the words Without Prejudice will invoke a magic legal spell of privilege both at common law and under the relevant local evidence legislation protecting the contents which follow from being introduced into evidence.
We caution you not to misuse or be overconfident regarding the privilege protection afforded by these words, as they will not bulletproof your communications in all situations.
As is so often the case in the law, there are many exceptions to the general rule.
In every case the Court will look beyond the words to the nature of the communication to determine whether the contents are truly protected
For example, where a statement contained in a Without Prejudice communication relates to an objective fact that is not related to a substantive issue in dispute between the parties, the part of the communication containing the statement is not privileged.
Another of the many exceptions to the Without Prejudice Privilege specifically provided for by the Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) is s.131(2)(g) [the entire provision has been provided at the bottom of this article for illustration purposes] which will [for public policy reasons] pierce the Without Prejudice Privilege where the Court is likely to be misled by existing evidence or an inference drawn from the existing evidence unless the privileged communication or document is adduced to contradict that evidence.
The privilege will not be allowed to act as a cloak for perjury, blackmail or other "unambiguous impropriety" …
In Unilever plc v The Procter & Gamble Co. [2000] 1 WLR 2436 at 2444, Walker LJ referred to one exception as follows:
"… One party may be allowed to give evidence of what the other said or wrote in without prejudice negotiations if the exclusion of the evidence would act as a cloak for perjury, blackmail or other "unambiguous impropriety" … But this court has … warned that the exception should be applied only in the clearest cases of abuse of a privileged occasion."
This has been referred to as the "unambiguous impropriety" exception to Without Prejudice Privilege.
The privilege may not protect you in a later unconnected or unrelated dispute
It is possible the privilege might not extend to protect your Without Prejudice communications from being disclosed and used as evidence in a later unconnected or unrelated dispute.
How far the privilege extends was of primary concern in the judgment of Hammerschlag J. in Martin Patrick Dowling -v- Ultraceuticals Pty Ltd [2016] NSWSC 386 at paras. 38-39:
"Put another way, protection is given to induce lack of inhibition in making potentially damaging statements to facilitate dispute resolution. The policy protects those statements from disclosure in a later dispute if, fairly viewed, having regard to the subject matter of the later dispute, the party making them would be expected legitimately to have had the same inhibition.
Each case will of course turn on its own particular circumstances. There is no bright line. Ordinarily, however, one might assume such a legitimate expectation if the subject matter of the two disputes is exactly the same. Where the subject matter is not the same, the nature of the connection will need to be examined to determine whether the policy will be served by protecting disclosure."
It was ultimately held by Hammerschlag J. in the Ultraceuticals case that the Without Prejudice evidence was not privileged from disclosure.
Hammerschlag J. reasoned at para. 45:
"The subject matter of this dispute is different and divorced from the Star dispute. Dowling and Ofer could have had no legitimate expectation of protection from disclosure of material which becomes relevant to the second dispute, only because it is alleged that it falsifies statements separately made by them in a different context.
Extending protection in such circumstances would encourage dishonesty, not candour, in settlement discussions."
If foundational elements of the Privilege are not found ➲ the privilege could be pierced
Hammerschlag J. in the Ultraceuticals case went on to consider further arguments regarding why the Without Prejudice privilege might not apply, reasoning at para. 45:
"Ultraceuticals submitted that the privilege does not extend to the documents for the additional reasons that when the documents were brought into existence litigation was not contemplated; the documents do not record communications made for the purpose of negotiating a compromise; …"
Privilege can be waived (intentionally or unintentionally) or deemed to be waived by the Court
Hammerschlag J.'s reasoning at para. 45 (cont.):
"… and by positively asserting that the Star dispute was of a different character to that asserted by Ultraceuticals, Dowling and Ofer have waived any privilege.
These submissions are well founded."
You don't have to use precise or exact words but Doing this ➲ removes any doubt as to your intentions
We recommend using the exact legal phrases we have provided above so there can be no doubt that your intention is to invoke the protections afforded to you by these universally accepted legal terms.
It is useful to understand that it is not strictly necessary to use exact or prescribed wording in order to activate protection.
Alternative phrases such as "Off-the-Record" or "Settlement Negotiations" may be equally recognised and offer the same level of protection.
The important point is that the other party should be placed on notice that this is a special conversation / communication, where what both parties say/write are protected (in the dispute of the matter on its merits) by the judicial system.
The public policy reason behind this protection is that it encourages open + frank settlement negotiations.
The additional words "except as to costs" or "save as to costs" are optional.
We recommend using these additional words to raise the stakes in any settlement negotiation.
These extra words help to focus parties attention on the fact that what is being discussed, including the settlement offers being made, can and will be used in the matter of deciding legal costs, should the matter proceed to litigation.
Whether or not these additional words are used, any without prejudice communications can be submitted to the Court/Tribunal in order to assist the judge/tribunal member with the determination of Costs [the second stage of civil litigation]. This is where the Court/Tribunal decides who pays what legal costs, and at what level or scale are the costs to be paid.
The public policy reason behind this approach is to encourage the parties to make reasonable settlement offers.
If a party declines to accept a reasonable settlement offer and proceeds to cause both parties to incur the substantial time + expense involved in Court/Tribunal Proceedings.
Then, if the declining party loses the case or wins and is awarded a sum less than the settlement offer which was declined.
The conclusions to be drawn as a result are as follows:
1⃣ The declining party would have been better off accepting the settlement offer when it was made; and
2⃣ If the declining party did accept the settlement offer it would have saved both parties [and the Court] a lot of time + money.
In this situation, the successful party can expect the Court could make an adverse costs order even though they were successful "on the merits".
The declining party might still need to pay part [indemnity or 100% costs are only awarded in very rare cases] of the other party's legal costs as the Court proceedings could have been avoided.
In an abundance of caution, if you are in any doubt you should always speak to your lawyer in the first instance.
As noted above, Settlement Negotiations from both sides in a civil dispute can be very strategic and have $$ implications which can materially vary the results obtainable on the merits of the case.
"EVIDENCE ACT 1995 (NSW)
131 EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE OF SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS
(1) Evidence is not to be adduced of--
(a) a communication that is made between persons in dispute, or between one or more persons in dispute and a third party, in connection with an attempt to negotiate a settlement of the dispute, or
(b) a document (whether delivered or not) that has been prepared in connection with an attempt to negotiate a settlement of a dispute.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if--
(a) the persons in dispute consent to the evidence being adduced in the proceeding concerned or, if any of those persons has tendered the communication or document in evidence in another Australian or overseas proceeding, all the other persons so consent, or
(b) the substance of the evidence has been disclosed with the express or implied consent of all the persons in dispute, or
(c) the substance of the evidence has been partly disclosed with the express or implied consent of the persons in dispute, and full disclosure of the evidence is reasonably necessary to enable a proper understanding of the other evidence that has already been adduced, or
(d) the communication or document included a statement to the effect that it was not to be treated as confidential, or
(e) the evidence tends to contradict or to qualify evidence that has already been admitted about the course of an attempt to settle the dispute, or
(f) the proceeding in which it is sought to adduce the evidence is a proceeding to enforce an agreement between the persons in dispute to settle the dispute, or a proceeding in which the making of such an agreement is in issue, or
(g) evidence that has been adduced in the proceeding, or an inference from evidence that has been adduced in the proceeding, is likely to mislead the court unless evidence of the communication or document is adduced to contradict or to qualify that evidence, or
(h) the communication or document is relevant to determining liability for costs, or
(i) making the communication, or preparing the document, affects a right of a person, or
(j) the communication was made, or the document was prepared, in furtherance of the commission of a fraud or an offence or the commission of an act that renders a person liable to a civil penalty, or
(k) one of the persons in dispute, or an employee or agent of such a person, knew or ought reasonably to have known that the communication was made, or the document was prepared, in furtherance of a deliberate abuse of a power.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) (j), if commission of the fraud, offence or act is a fact in issue and there are reasonable grounds for finding that--
(a) the fraud, offence or act was committed, and
(b) a communication was made or document prepared in furtherance of the commission of the fraud, offence or act,
the court may find that the communication was so made or the document so prepared.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2) (k), if--
(a) the abuse of power is a fact in issue, and
(b) there are reasonable grounds for finding that a communication was made or document prepared in furtherance of the abuse of power,
the court may find that the communication was so made or the document was so prepared.
(5) In this section--
(a) a reference to a dispute is a reference to a dispute of a kind in respect of which relief may be given in an Australian or overseas proceeding, and
(b) a reference to an attempt to negotiate the settlement of a dispute does not include a reference to an attempt to negotiate the settlement of a criminal proceeding or an anticipated criminal proceeding, and
(c) a reference to a communication made by a person in dispute includes a reference to a communication made by an employee or agent of such a person, and
(d) a reference to the consent of a person in dispute includes a reference to the consent of an employee or agent of such a person, being an employee or agent who is authorised so to consent, and
(e) a reference to commission of an act includes a reference to a failure to act.
"power" means a power conferred by or under an Australian law."
This article was written by James D. Ford GAICD | Principal Solicitor, Blue Ocean Law Group℠.
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namespace spec\CultureKings\Afterpay\Model;

use CultureKings\Afterpay\Model\Money;
use PhpSpec\ObjectBehavior;
use Prophecy\Argument;

class MoneySpec extends ObjectBehavior
{
    function it_is_initializable()
    {
        $this->shouldHaveType(Money::class);
    }

    function its_amount_is_mutable()
    {
        $this->getAmount()->shouldReturn(null);
        $this->setAmount(2.43)->shouldReturn($this);
        $this->getAmount()->shouldReturn(2.43);
    }

    function its_currency_is_mutable()
    {
        $this->getCurrency()->shouldReturn(null);
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    }
}

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Q: How to add param to form adf I have a jsff page.
In this, I define a <af:form id="f1"></af:form>
How do I add parameter to action attribute in this form?
I used <f:param ... /> tag inner this form:
<af:form id="f1">
<f:param value="#{param.id}" name="id"/>
...
</af:form>

but it's not working.

A: If you want to pass a parameter. Do that in the commandButton/commandLink. Or else you could pass a attribute to the form.
Passing a parameter
   <af:commandLink text="click here"
                                    action="#{testbean.buttonClicked}" >
                                    <f:param name="et1" value="etc"/>
                                    </af:commandLink>

Access it In the Bean
   FacesContext facesContext= FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
   Map requestMap=facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap();

Or
Passing an Attribute
<af:form id="f1" binding="#{testbean.form}">
<f:attribute name="et1" value="etc"/>

In the Bean
In Action Method
String value2=(String)form.getAttributes().get("et1");

Or best yet use
af:setPropertyListener
In the command component
 <af:commandLink text="click here"
                                action="#{testbean.buttonClicked}" >
   <af:setPropertyListener type="action" from="etc" to="#{et1}"/>
   </af:commandLink>

In the Bean on action method
 String value3=(String)evaluateEL("#{et1}");

A: put a button or link or ... in your form and use:
    <af:setActionListener from="value" to="#{...Scope.yourParam}"/>

"..." can be SessionScope,pageFlowScope,etc

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The airport's arriving and departing passenger capacities per hour:
inbound 1900 pax/h
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In total 3 000 pax /h (terminals T2 & T3)
During the European Football Championships EURO 2012, during which Poznań was one of 4 host cities in Poland, the proven capacity of the airport (19 June 2012) was 11.369 passengers per day. That includes 21 football national teams in VIP standard.
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Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a chronic, slowly progressing disorder of the brain, the spinal cord, and the optic nerves. About 250,000 Americans are diagnosed with MS annually, with women being affected slightly more often than men. In about two thirds of patients, the disorder begins between the ages of twenty and forty. The most common initial symptom is the sudden loss of vision in one eye and/or a tingling or feeling of numbness in an arm or leg. Weakness in the limb can cause fumbling or an unsteady gait. Other symptoms include mental changes, slurred speech, and difficulties with bladder control.
Typically, the first symptoms disappear in a few weeks or months. Some people go for years--five, ten, or even more--before having another attack. A few people never have a second attack. The fact that MS can be so erratic in its development is one reason that discovery of a cure has been elusive: If a certain approach works is it because It's really effective or because the patient went into remission? The diagnosis of the disorder is usually made after a series of attacks give a high probability of MS. An examination of the spinal fluid helps give a conclusive diagnosis. It's important to remember that not everyone is crippled by the disease. Many people have mild symptoms and lead an essentially normal life.
Anyone who suffers form MS should, of course, be under the care or a neurologist. There is, as yet, no cure, but there are drugs that can help relieve symptoms. There are also natural treatments that are primarily of help in retarding the progression of the disorder. No matter what treatment or drug is used in fighting the disorder, it is very important for MS patients to adopt a generally healthy lifestyle with an adequate diet, good stress control, and sufficient sleep.
The cause of MS remains a mystery. We know what happens. The myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves is destroyed. But, we don't know precisely why. Interestingly, people from higher latitudes are at higher risk for developing the disorder: High-risk areas include the northern United States, Canada, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Northern Europe, New Zealand, and Tasmania. The intriguing exception to this geographic distribution is Japan, where MS is rare. The peculiar geographic spread of the disorder has led researchers to study environmental factors as contributing to MS. There does also seem to be evidence that diet plays a part.
Viruses have long been studied for their relation to MS. Recent research in Norway proposed a connection between exposure to a virus such as Epstein-Barr at a critical age--between thirteen and twenty-and the development of the disease, the speculation being not that the Epstein-Barr virus causes the disease but that it acts as a trigger. The measles virus has also been implicated in this way.
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In the meantime, we are left with some natural means that have proven helpful in retarding the progress of the disorder. I should mention that all of the suggestions I am about to make have been found to be most effective when started early on in the development of the disorder. Someone who has suffered from MS for a long time and is severely symptomatic will probably have less success with natural methods than someone newly diagnosed.
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Democratic Republic of Congo – Announcement of the provisional results of the presidential election (10 January 2019)
The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) announced the provisional results of the presidential election of December 30 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
As the minister said this morning, we welcome the commitment to democracy shown by the Congolese who voted in an atmosphere of calm. We also applaud the work done by the monitoring missions of regional organizations, the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union, and Congolese civil society.
As both the monitoring mission and the president of the African Union Commission said last week, we expect the democratic choice of the Congolese to be respected. If the presidential candidates wish to contest the provisional results and obtain greater clarity, they should do so using legal means.
We call on all the parties to preserve the calm that has prevailed since Election Day.
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'King Kong 3-Disc DVD Set' Review
Posted on March 11, 2014 in Reviews J-L // 0 Comments
Written by: Wayne C. Rogers
Let me state right off the bat that I had mixed feeling about the 2005 version of King Kong when I first saw it at the movie theater. There were things I liked about it and things I didn't. I won't say I hated the film; nor, would I say I loved it.
Well, for some strange reason I bought a copy of the three-disc set of the film with the extended edition on it. Of course, the price was only $2.99, plus $2.99 for shipping and handling. I figured six bucks was a great price to pay for seeing the extended version. Maybe I'd enjoy the film more this time around. The set also included several hours of extras which really showed you the hard work everyone put into the making of this exceptional movie.
Like director, Peter Jackson, I'm a big fan of the 1933 version of the original King Kong movie. I also liked the 1976 version, but that may have been because Jessica Lange was in it. After The Lord of the Rings, I was certainly eager to see what Mr. Jackson would do with the big fellow. I think because of the three "Rings" movies, everyone was expecting something that would blow them right out of their seats.
Unfortunately, it didn't happen…at least not at first.
It took a few years and a lot of DVD sales for this 200-million-dollar epic to break the 700-million-dollar mark. In other words, it made its money back, plus a sizable profit.
Well, this time around, however, I found myself not only enjoying the movie for pure entertainment, but also its artistic merits like the performances of the actors, the special effects used to create 1933 New York City and Skull Island sequences, the soundtrack music, and the giant gorilla, Mr. King "Badass" Kong.
It's possible I liked this film better the second time because several years had passed since last seeing it, plus I wasn't expecting anything from the movie. If anything, I thought I wouldn't enjoy it and was surprised when I got right into the film and felt like I was with the actors on their journey to Skull Island and in their attempt to capture the big lug.
What I now think of King Kong doesn't benefit Peter Jackson one iota. I doubt he even cares. Anyway, he's now busy, getting the third Hobbit movie ready for the screen. I hope my review might encourage some readers to view the 2005 version of King Kong. Or, if they've already seen the movie and didn't like it, to give the film another chance, especially the extended edition, which is thirteen minutes longer. It includes actions sequences when the sailors are crossing the swamp as they go after Ann Darrow and the attack upon them at the bottom of the gorge. When I watched the film in 2005, I remembered thinking that the swamp scene was cut really short compared to the 1933 version of the movie.
It just wasn't as exciting.
Well, now it is.
As most horror and movie fans know the movie's about producer/director Carl Denham attempt to get his film finished in 1933. All he needs is financial backing, a leading lady, and then to make the voyage to Skull Island where something mysterious lives.
Denham (played by Jack Black) finds his leading lady in vaudeville entertainer, Ann Darrow (played by the lovely Naomi Watts). Once that is done and the writer of the screenplay, Jack Driscoll (played by Adrian Brody), is trapped on the tramp steamer, Denham orders the ship's captain to set sail. They make the long voyage to Skull Island, which is enacted perfectly within the film with great music by James Newton Howard in the background. When the ship's crew and the movie cast reach the island, they encounter a tribe of the most hideous looking cannibals I've ever seen in a film. These are hungry people whose eyes light up when they see fresh food in front of them, but they really get excited about the beautiful Ann Darrow and the possibility of sacrificing her to the great Kong.
There's nothing like a human sacrifice to get the hormones roaring!
After a big shootout in the village, the members of the steamer make it back to their ship after having lost good number of men. The natives, however, want Ann. One of them sneaks onto the ship at night and kidnaps her. The crew and Ann's love interest, Jack Driscoll, go after her. Unfortunately, they reach the village too late to save her from the clutches of the giant gorilla. As Kong disappears into the wild jungle with Ann in his grasp, part of the crew decides to go after her in a desperate attempt to save her life, or even worse, from Kong's love.
"Why don't you give me a kiss, Big Boy?"
As Ann and Kong develop a relationship with each other on the journey to the ape's lair, a dozen men start making their way through dangerous, deadly environment that will claim the lives of most of them before Ann is finally saved by Jack. Then, it's a mad dash back through the jungle with Kong dead on their heels. He's one angry ape at losing the love of a lifetime. Allow me to note that King Kong is no fool. The gorilla swiftly recognizes Jack as a fellow competitor for Ann's affection and doesn't like it one bit.
Neither would I.
Once Kong reaches the village only minutes behind the two lovebirds, Carl Denham gases the ape with dozens of bottles of chloroform. Kong is then made a captive and taken back to New York City so Denham can make a fortune with the new Eighth Wonder of the World—the mighty King Kong.
Viewing the movie the second time, I expected everything to be CGI effects and thereby to hopefully enjoy the quality of them more. I now feel that an excellent job was done on the creation of King Kong, especially with regards to the hard work of Andy Serkis, who played Golem in Lord of the Rings. Serkis studied the movements and actions of wild gorillas in Africa for weeks and was able to recreate them on stage in New Zealand for Peter Jackson. Also, Andy Serkis had an actual role in the movie as Lumpy, the sailor with the black eye patch on his face. I kept looking at Lumpy and saying to myself, "I know that face from somewhere.
The creation of the cannibal's village, the vast jungle, the dinosaurs and other creatures that do battle with the sailors were expertly done in my opinion. I soon forgot I was watching CGI effects and got caught up in the story-telling of the movie and in the plight of the characters. I didn't even realize it until about two hours into the film.
Though I initially didn't like Jack Black in the role of Carl Denham the first time, I found myself getting caught up in his enthusiasm for making his movie at whatever the cost. I loved his famous line, "I'm a producer. You can trust me." I know that had to cause a lot of laughter in the theaters around Los Angeles when the movie first came out.
I also didn't realize that Colin Hanks played Carl Denham's assistant, Preston. I've been a fan of Colin's since Band of Brothers and Orange County came out. He's becoming a fine actor like his dad.
Naomi Watts plays Ann Darrow in the film, and I was simply amazed by her performance, considering how often she was actually acting in front of a green screen. She carried off the role perfectly and gave the late Fay Wray a run for the money as the lady in distress who's loved by a giant, furry hunk.
Adrian Brody also gets high marks for his performance as Jack Driscoll, a playwright who agrees to write a screenplay for the easy money and then finds himself in love with the lead lady and having to compete for her attention with a giant gorilla. That can't be easy for any screenwriter. Brody managed to pull it off with unbelievable success.
Last, but not least, I want to mention Thomas Kretschmann who played Captain Englehorn. For the first half of the movie, I thought he was really Liam Neeson. He captured the role of a rugged tramp steamer captain as if he'd been playing it for years. Evan Parke as Hayes, the captain's second in command was also ideal. All of these wonderful performances by the secondary cast added up to a great movie.
With the fantastic acting, the magnificent special effects, and the fabulous directing, I have to finally add the contributions of James Newton Howard and his musical score. A movie of this caliber would be nothing without the right type of music playing in the background. The music sets the mood for things to come and adds to the action and love sequences. The music is great to listen to by itself.
The Extended Edition of King Kong is well over three hours in length. Six hours of behind-the-scenes featurettes are on the three discs in this set. They go into great detail discussing all aspects in the making of the movie. This is absolutely fascinating to those who love movies and how they're made.
I would highly recommend this film to anyone who loves horror and action films. I'm glad I gave this movie a second shot. It deserved it and much, much more. I hope you, too, will give it another chance if you didn't enjoy it at the theaters in 2005. I already want to watch it again.
wayne C. Rogers


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More suspected al Qaeda militants killed as drone strikes intensify in Yemen
Hakim Almasmari. Mohammed Jamjoom and Ben Brumfield, CNN
Updated 9:10 PM EDT, Thu August 8, 2013
U.S. drone strikes increase in Yemen
At least eight suspected U.S. drone strikes occur in the past two weeks
Tally: At least 34 people die in that period
The heightened strikes parallel the closing of U.S. embassies and consulates
Al Qaeda's group in Yemen is cutting down on attacks
Drone strikes against militants in Yemen are intensifying as the U.S. Embassy there and in other Middle Eastern and African countries remain closed amid terrorism fears.
At least eight suspected U.S. drone strikes have been reported in the past two weeks alone. They have killed at least 34 people, according to a tally by Yemeni officials.
Three separate strikes were reported Thursday.
In central Yemen's Mareb province, eight people were killed in an early morning drone strike, including four with links to al Qaeda, local security officials said.
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Two civilians were among those killed in the strike, which targeted two vehicles, the officials said.
"Mareb was a previous stronghold for al Qaeda, and a number of members of the group still live in the province," a security official said.
Later Thursday, a drone strike killed two al Qaeda fighters in the southern province of Hadramout, security officials said.
One of the officials who confirmed the strike said the two militants killed were active members and were recruiting youngsters to fight with them.
Residents told CNN that the drone had been roaming the sky over the province since dawn and was flying at a low altitude.
"When we hear it flying above us, we know there will be a strike later in the day," said a local in Hadramout who asked not to be named.
Three people were killed in the third drone strike, which also took place in Hadramout, two security officials told CNN. One of the officials said one of the three people killed was a suspected al Qaeda militant.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the terror group's Yemeni affiliate, shot down a Yemeni military helicopter in that province Tuesday, a government official said.
A day earlier, two drone strikes in Shabwa province killed a total of six militants, according to several official sources in Yemen not authorized to be named.
Al Qaeda message
The heightened strikes parallel the temporary closing of U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa over fears of an imminent terrorist strike. The United States on Tuesday urged all Americans to leave Yemen.
It was unclear whether this week's strikes were related to the security alert in place in the country since U.S. officials intercepted a message from al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to operatives in Yemen telling them to "do something."
The message was sent to Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the leader of AQAP. U.S. intelligence believes al-Wuhayshi has recently been appointed the overall terror organization's No. 2 leader.
Local security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that they do not believe any of those killed Tuesday or Wednesday were senior al Qaeda members.
A U.S. official echoed those comments, saying that of those killed in recent drone strikes, none were "household names."
"There are no all-stars no longer with us," the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Bergen: al Qaeda in Yemen, on the ropes
AQAP recoil
AQAP appears to have lost some of its effectiveness in the past year, while Yemen's military has made gains.
Yemen's government foiled an al Qaeda plot to capture oil and gas facilities and to seize two key southern ports early this week, a spokesman for the prime minister said. An official downplayed the terror organization's ability to carry out such an attack.
"AQAP has neither the manpower nor the capabilities to capture ports or seize pipelines," the official said. Government forces can handle any assault they may attempt, he said.
AQAP has not mounted a large-scale suicide attack on Yemen's security forces since May 2012, when more than 100 soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber as they trained for a parade in Sanaa, the capital.
In July, a bomb killed several soldiers there.
Many of AQAP's operatives, including its leadership, have retreated into remote areas to regroup after a Yemeni military offensive last year.
Yemeni security forces have over the past 18 months recaptured swaths of territory that were briefly held by AQAP, particularly in the south.
Local criticism
But the drone strikes are stirring anger among Yemenis.
The country's Nobel peace laureate, Tawakkol Karman, condemned Thursday's attack.
"The killing conducted by unmanned planes in Yemen is outside the law and worse than the terrorist activities of individuals and groups," she said.
She said that the strikes are "degrading" to Yemenis and violate their human rights.
CNN's Laura Smith-Spark and Barbara Starr contributed to this report


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Teaching girls STEM will boost Australia's academic results
Teaching girls STEM will boost Australia's academic results. Picture: AAP Image/Claudia Baxter
by Annie O'Rourke
Teenagers sit thousands of tests throughout their school life and many of them have fairly limited significance.
But every so often, there are those overwhelmingly important tests we need to pay attention to.
PISA - the Program for International Student Assessment - which occurs every three years, is one of those. The reason why it's such a crucial indicator of how our Australian teenagers are doing is because PISA measures the ability of 15-year-olds, right across the globe, to use their science, reading and maths knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges.
Rote learning will not improve PISA results. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images
You can't rote-learn your way to achieving great PISA tests scores. Schools cannot prop-up their students' marks by drilling them, the way they might do for Australia's NAPLAN tests.
PISA is simply about getting teenagers to apply, often creatively, what they have learnt in English, Science and Maths, to find answers and solutions to real issues. Concepts like collaborative problem solving and financial literacy are built into PISA tests.
In fact, the skills PISA tests are analysing are very much aligned with the skills that are increasingly valued by employers. And that is why we should all be very concerned that Australia continues to slide down international rankings in PISA tests.
RELATED: Why are Australia's PISA results so bad?
There has been an important conversation about the performance of this year's Australian teenagers taking part in the PISA testing. For the first time, we have failed to exceed the OECD average in maths, and we've also slumped down science and reading rankings. Australian teenagers are three years behind top performing countries in mathematics, and almost two years behind in science.
These results are worrying, especially given STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills are in massive demand, and that demand will only increase in years to come.
STEM-based jobs make up 75 per cent of the fastest growing occupations and higher paying jobs. The digital economy and new technology are transforming the future economic landscape. And demand for workers with skills in STEM is growing exponentially.
A recent examination of Australian job ads found that jobs requiring enterprise skills - skills like critical thinking, creativity and teamwork - have grown by over 200 per cent in the last three years.
We need to increase the number of girls learning STEM subjects. Picture: Tait Schmaal
Australia's STEM skills crisis is also disproportionately impacting our girls. Only 16 per cent of people working in STEM-skilled professions today are women - and about the same percentage of women are graduating from uni or TAFE with a STEM-related degree.
This disparity has real-world consequences, not just for Australian girls, but for our society and economy, and if left unchecked, could entrench new workforce inequalities for generations of women.
This concern is shared by government, parents, peak business bodies like the Business Council of Australia and the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia, and successful grassroots movements that have sprung up in recent years to spark girls' interests in STEM and technology.
So how do we reverse our slide down global STEM rankings and empower young girls to see STEM and entrepreneurship as a fun and rewarding career pathway?
Like any complex problem, the solution will take a village. Government, industry and even parents must come together to ensure our girls have the mindset, the skill set and the tool set to navigate the future of work.
RELATED: What next for Australia's education system after abysmal PISA results?
We can start by demystifying the pathway into STEM and entrepreneurship. And we need to spend more time teaching our teenagers how to creatively apply the knowledge they gain in the classroom in real-word scenarios.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg recently launched The Academy for Enterprising Girls. The initiative is designed to be a fun and engaging platform for Australian girls aged 10-18 to develop their business skills, digital literacy and STEM capabilities.
The Academy for Enterprising Girls is the product of an alliance of government, business, technology, and education sectors all working together to upskill and prepare girls for a future workforce reliant on innovation, creativity and agility.
It involves an interactive online platform, which is now live, and features videos and contributions from high-profile business women and young 'girl founders', who are already running their own businesses.
We need to teach teens — especially girls — skills for the future workforce. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images
Women like Melanie Perkins who started Aussie success story Canva - a leading tech start-up now valued at over $1 billion. Julie Trell who founded muru-D to support founders creating technology to solve challenging global problems. And 13 year-old Tea Devow, a young Canberra girl who has started her own Indigenous clothing label.
In the year ahead, the Academy for Enterprising Girls will also offer a self-paced online e-learning program and an extensive in-person workshop program, across more than 90 Australian communities, beginning in NSW, QLD, Tasmania, ACT and NT. We live in a rapidly-changing global economy. We need to take these PISA scores seriously and we need
to begin prioritising teaching our teenagers, especially our girls, the skills that will be most valuable to them when they leave the classroom. If we don't do this, we risk generations of young Australians being locked out of jobs in the future.
Annie O'Rourke is the CEO of 89 Degrees East and Director of the Academy for Enterprising Girls.
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Two C16 bastles of exactly the same width and on exactly the same alignment now joined together by later buildings. However these later buildings must be replacement for buildings contemporary with the two bastles, otherwise they could not be so well matched and aligned so originally this was a single bastle complex. The southern bastle must have been the first built and was originally freestanding, as its brye door (with a deep draw bar) is at its northern end. This has been heightened to look like a Scottish style tower. The Whitfields were really gentry status, although the Clarhyll brach was a junior branch of a Northumberland family. If, as Gatehouse suspects there was a building between the two bastles from the date of the construction of the second bastle then this may have been a timber hall making this building look like a gentry status house between two tower-like 'chamber' blocks, although the use of ground floors of these bastles as bryes should be well noted. The bastles were certainly later developed into a fine grand house.
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Q: Install ios 5 simulator to xcode 5.1? I am currently using xcode 5.1 with Mac 10.8.5. But i can not install ios simulator in this xcode? any one tell me how to install ios 5 simulator ?

A: Man, this really made me angry today when I upgraded from Xcode 5.0 to Xcode 5.1 and discovered that I no longer had a functional iOS 5.1 simulator. There was nothing in the Software Update process that gave me any heads-up whatsoever that this would disable iOS 5.0/5.1 simulators. Bad Apple! Bad!
Anyway, here's the workaround I came up with. It seems pretty clean.

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*I noticed that in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads there was an old file sitting around called Xcode.SDK.iPhoneSimulator.5.1-5.1.dmg (thank god I never cleared out that cache directory).

*I double-clicked this disk image to mount it, and then double-clicked the .pkg file inside that. The package installer then placed the contents into a subdirectory of /Platforms.

*I then moved /Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator5.1.sdk into /Applications/Xcode/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs and restarted Xcode.

Bam. Done. Back in business.
Note: Another approach, if you happen to have a thorough Time Machine backup of your full system, as Pandey Laxman pointed out earlier, is simply to restore the contents of /Applications/Xcode/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator5.1.sdk from an older backup. In my case, I wasn't able to do this because my development system is a MacBook Air that I keep backed via Time Machine up onto a permanently-installed 32GB SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB flash drive (as well as two extra Time Machine backups on separate network drives). Anyway, because the backup drive is relatively small, when I first set up Time Machine on this system, I had excluded /Applications from my backup (something I don't recommend doing).

A: In order to develop for the latest version of iOS, you need the latest iOS SDK, which requires the latest version of XCode, which in turn requires the latest version of OSX (at least as of writing this iOS 8.3 requires XCode 6.3, which requires OSX 10.10 - all the latest and greatest).
I would guess that Apple doesn't want to support iPad 1s and old iPhones anymore running iOS 5.  Thus, they've done what they could to discourage developers from supportting them.
I, personal, put a lot of effort into coding to support iOS 5 through 8.  I am not in hurry to throw that backwards compatibility away, but obviously developing for the most current version of iOS takes priority.
To get to the point, you can't install or run an iOS 5 simulator on OSX 10.10 Yosemite.  I couldn't get an iOS 6 simulator to run either for some reason (even though I was able to install it in XCode 5).
I did, however, find a solution so I could use simulators for iOS 5 through 8 on my machine.
How?  Setup a dual boot into an older os and install some software which can no longer be downloaded, but I tracked down.
I've posted the steps and all the software here.  Nothing is difficult about any of this, but it will take many hour of downloading and running installations, ect.  Reserve a day to do this while working another machine most of the time.

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*Create a partition on your hard drive from which you can run OSX Lion.  I found 32 GB was large enough.
You may also want to create an additional partition at the same time rather than use a flash drive in step 2.  I also made it 32 GB, but it could probably be a lot smaller (8? maybe even 4 gig?).

Here's a link to help with that:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/how-to-create-a-test-partition-for-the-os-x-yosemite-beta/

*Create a bootable installer drive for Lion.  You can use a flash drive, or the extra partition suggested in step 1 (that's what I did when the only flash I had on me was acting up).

Here's the os:
OSX 10.7.2 Lion
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmycZWygE8EUlhCYWlOWjlCcHM/view?usp=sharing
Here's directions for doing this:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/11807/os-x-lion-convert-os-x-lion-dmg-installer-to-a-bootable-usb-thumbdrive-install-without-an-optical-drive/

*Run the installer.  Restart the machine whiling holding down the "option" key on the keyboard to select your boot device.

*Once you have Lion up and running, you need to upgrade it to 10.7.5 (sorry I didn't have that to post to begin with).
Simply use the basic software update mechanism to do this.

*Install XCode 4.6.  Here's the software:
XCode 4.6.3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmycZWygE8ETnlFQ1BSYVV1ZUE/view?usp=sharing

*Normally, you ought to be able to install an iOS 5 simulator via XCode, but Apple has blocked this.
You can however, install it manually as others have described in this thread for the various sdks (as long as you already have the software!)

Here is the software (since we don't have just happen to be lucky enough to have it previously installed):
Sorry, I don't have 5.1, only 5.0
iOS 5.0 Simulator
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmycZWygE8ETndPOFJyUVg0b3M/view?usp=sharing

*Install the command line tools if necessary.  Again, XCode ought to allow you to do this, but it will fail when you try the normal way.  Go ahead and give it a try.
Here's a dmg instead which you can install yourself that is compatible with this setup:

Command Line Tools (XCode 4.6 / OSX 10.7)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmycZWygE8EWm9QTW5HYV9PUnM/view?usp=sharing

*Get your project to build in this new environment.  There are permission issues and such when you try to cross over to your primary drive.
I found the easiest way to get everything working was to copy whatever I needed to the Lion drive and make sure all the relative paths were identical.
I also had to play a bit with the code because what compiled for the 7 and 8 sdks didn't work perfectly with this one.  That's on you.

*I believe the iOS 6 simulator will already be installed for you, but otherwise you should be able to download that still via XCode if needed.
Enjoy having all these simulators now!

A: you need to copy the simulator SDK to Xcode 5.1.
First copy the simulator SDKs from your previous installed Xcode.
then paste it in
Xcode 5.1 "Show Package Contents->Contents->Developer->Platforms->iPhoneSimulator.Platforms
->Developer->SDKs folder
There restart the Xcode 5.1.

A: Unfrotunately ,Xcode 5.1 in OS X 10.9 or 10.8.5 the iOS 5 simulator is no longer available.
Better to use some older versions like 4.6 for use iOS 5 simulator

A: using of Xcode 5 under OS X v10.8 then if you go to Preferences -> Downloads you should see the 5.0 and 5.1 simulators available under Components. You can download and install directly from there.

If you're using Xcode 5 under OS X v10.9 then the iOS 5 simulator is
  no longer available.

A: xCode 5.02 up to available iOS 58 simulator but after updated the xcode through 5.1 the available simulator start from iOS 6

iOS Simulator
Performance issues can arise when running apps within the iOS Simulator on OS X Mavericks with a simulated OS version of iOS 6.1 or earlier.
A workaround is to disable timer coalescing while using the iOS 6.1 or earlier simulator by executing the following command in a Terminal window:
sudo sysctl -w kern.timer.coalescing_enabled=0 (15501929)

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-Xcode/xc5_release_notes/xc5_release_notes.html


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Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as Jonathan Cecil, was an English theatre, film, and television actor.

Early life
Cecil was born in London, England, the son of Lord David Cecil and the grandson of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. His other grandfather was the literary critic Sir Desmond MacCarthy. He was the great-grandson of the Conservative Prime Minister, The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.

Brought up in Oxford, where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was educated at Eton, where he played small parts in school plays and at New College, Oxford, where he read modern languages, specialising in French and continued with amateur dramatics.

At Oxford, his friends included Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. In a production of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, he played a lunatic called Troubadour and a woman who sells pigs. Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said

After Oxford, he spent two years training for an acting career at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he was taught (amongst others) by Michael MacOwan and Vivian Matalon and where his contemporaries included Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.

Career
Cecil's first television appearance was in playing a leading role opposite Vanessa Redgrave in "Maggie", an episode of the BBC television series First Night transmitted in February 1964, which he later called "a baptism by fire because I was being seen by half the nation". After that he spent eighteen months in repertory at Salisbury, of which he later commented, "You learnt how to make an entrance and make an exit." His parts at Salisbury included the Dauphin in Saint Joan, Disraeli in Portrait of a Queen, Trinculo in The Tempest, and "all the Shakespeare".

His first West End part came in May 1965 in Julian Mitchell's dramatisation of A Heritage and Its History at the Phoenix, in which he got good notices, and his next was in a Beaumont production of Peter Ustinov's Half-Way up the Tree, directed by Sir John Gielgud.

In film and television, Cecil almost always played upper class English characters. His screen work included the roles of Cummings in The Diary of a Nobody (1964), Captain Cadbury in the Dad's Army episode "Things That Go Bump in the Night" (1973),  Bertie Wooster in Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse (1981), Ricotin in Federico Fellini's And the Ship Sails On (1983), and Captain Hastings (to Peter Ustinov's Hercule Poirot) in Thirteen at Dinner (1985), Dead Man's Folly and Murder in Three Acts (both 1986). He has been called "one of the finest upper-class-twits of his era".  In 2009 he appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders.

He also worked in radio, where his credits included The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Brightonomicon. He also appeared in The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately, playing characters with very bad foreign accents. Additionally, he stood in for Derek Nimmo in the role of the Bishop's Chaplain, the Reverend Mervyn Noote, in the second series of the radio episodes of the ecclesiastical sitcom All Gas and Gaiters, which ran for twenty episodes. In the series of adaptations from P. G. Wodehouse What Ho! Jeeves (1973–81) he played the recurring character Bingo Little.

He narrated audio books of many of P. G. Wodehouse's books, performing voice characterisations for each character, and becoming possibly the most known narrator to ever perform the series.

Cecil wrote occasionally for The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement. In one piece he noted

He also admitted that "most of my experience has been in comedy, that's the way life has taken me ... if I have any regrets, it's that I didn't do parts with more depth".

Personal life
Cecil was married twice. He met actress Vivien Heilbron when they were both studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and the couple married in 1963. They were divorced after he met the actress Anna Sharkey while appearing at London's Mermaid Theatre in 1972; he and Sharkey married in 1976.

Cecil died from pneumonia on 22 September 2011 at Charing Cross Hospital in London, aged 72. He had suffered from emphysema.

Filmography

Nothing But the Best (1964) – Guards Officer (uncredited)
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1964) – Giles Jinkson
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) – Young Man (uncredited)
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) – Man (uncredited)
Otley (1968) – Young Man at Party
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) – Spot
Lust for a Vampire (1971) – Biggs
To Catch a Spy (1971) – British Attaché
Up the Front (1972) – Captain Nigel Phipps Fortescue
Dad's Army (1973) – Captain Cadbury
Are You Being Served (1975) – Customer
Barry Lyndon (1975) – Lt. Jonathan Fakenham
Under the Doctor (1976) – Rodney Harrington-Harrington / Lord Woodbridge
Joseph Andrews (1977) – Fop One
Rising Damp (1980) – Boutique Assistant
History of the World, Part I (1981) – Poppinjay (The French Revolution)
Farmers Arms (1983) – Mr. Brown
And the Ship Sails On (1983) – Ricotin
The Wind in the Willows (1983) – (voice)
Thirteen at Dinner (1985) – Captain Hastings
Dead Man's Folly (1986) – Captain Hastings
Murder in Three Acts (1986) – Captain Hastings
The Second Victory (1987) – Capt. Lowell
Little Dorrit (1987) – Magnate on the Bench
Hot Paint (1988) – Earl of Lanscombe
The Fool (1990) – Sir Martin Locket
A Fine Romance (1992)
As You Like It (1992) – Lord
Day Release (1997)
RPM (1998) – Lord Baxter
Fakers (2004) – Dr Fielding
Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006) – Provost Cunningham

References

External links

Jonathan Cecil, In the dressing room with Noel Coward from Times Literary Supplement of 6 February 2008, text online
Jonathan Cecil, Very much his own man, from The Spectator of 18 September 2004, text online

1939 births
2011 deaths
Male actors from London
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Jonathan Hugh
Deaths from pneumonia in England
English male film actors
English male television actors
English male stage actors
People educated at Eton College
People educated at The Dragon School
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors

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We are all back in Australia now but what an amazing experience we have had. Our main task was to run renewable educational programs and to deliver medical and school supplies but we experienced so much more. Looking back through all our photos it's hard to believe it was just ten days. We have seen some spectacular scenery and met many wonderful people. We enjoyed working as a team and learned lots from each other as well as from the Fijians.
Many villages, schools and medical centres have no electricity or a very limited supply via petrol or diesel. The fuel is expensive and difficult to transport. Fijian Villages have a plentiful supply of sunlight and most are near rivers and streams. Renewable energy has got to be the best solution for these remote locations. Over the next few years we hope to run more educational programs in schools and villages. If you or your school would like to be involved please contact us via email. We are hoping to run a number of trips next year. The experience is life changing!
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What sort of things make one culture different from another?


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by Joshua Gulick — Friday, September 19, 2014, 11:30 AM EDT
Rattle and Hum: U2 And Apple Working On 'Non-Piratable' Music Format
U2's collaboration goes way beyond the album Apple forced on iPhone users at the launch event. According to a report in TIME, the band and tech company have been working on a project that could give bands a new way to deliver albums to their audiences. Hopefully, this new album format doesn't involve auto-downloads.
Itunes already puts album artwork front-and-center. The new album format Apple and U2 are developing is expected to make new uses of album artwork. Image credit: Apple
People involved in the project are stressing that, although this new format is expected to be difficult to pirate, it's not based on major new technology. Instead, the new format is based on presenting albums in a different way – one tied heavily to the album's artwork. When it comes to the effect of music piracy and how to handle it, opinions are easy to come by, but a solution that's fair to all parties has been elusive since digital music downloads hit the Internet. Apple and U2 are giants in the music industry, but whether they have a real fix remains to be seen.
Tags: Apple, music, Piracy, downloads, u2, NASDAQ: AAPL
Via: The Guardian


Phishing: Phishing employs the use of email messages, websites, and phone calls that are designed to steal credentials or launch a malicious cyber-attack. Adversaries aim to compromise trusted users by obtaining their private credentials (i.e. password and login information) or through installing malware on the corporate system or network.
Baiting: Baiting mimics the Trojan Horse tale to get inside the walls of an organization unsuspectingly. In this attack, the adversary leaves a malware infected floppy disk, CD-ROM, or USB flash drive in a location sure to be found (bathroom, elevator, sidewalk, parking lot), gives it a legitimate looking and enticing labels (i.e. Payroll) and simply waits for the victim to use the device.
Quid Pro Quo: Quid Pro Quo means like for like. The Adversary calls random employees at a company, claiming to be calling back from technical support. Eventually the Adversary will hit someone with a legitimate problem and have the user type commands that provide access or the ability to covertly launch malware.
Best Suited For: Any organization who takes security seriously. Social Engineering seeks to exploit an organizations weakest link: its people.