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from django.test import TestCase
from os.path import abspath, join, dirname
import os
from bbn import BeliefNetwork
import random

# Example from http://www.bnlearn.com/bnrepository/
# Copyright 2013 Marco Scutari.
# The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative
# Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
# ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ )

class BBNUnitTests(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.bif = abspath(join(dirname(__file__), "test_data", "cancer.bif"))
        self.outbif = '/tmp/test%s.bif' % random.random()

    def tearDown(self):
        try:
            os.remove(self.outbif)
        except:
            pass

    def test_from_bif(self):
        bn = BeliefNetwork.from_bif(self.bif)
        self.assertEquals(
            sorted(list(bn.variables.keys())),
            ['Cancer', 'Dyspnoea', 'Pollution', 'Smoker', 'Xray'])
        self.assertEquals(
            sorted(list(bn.probabilities.keys())),
            ['Cancer', 'Dyspnoea', 'Pollution', 'Smoker', 'Xray'])

    def test_to_bif(self):
        bn = BeliefNetwork.from_bif(self.bif)
        bn.to_bif(self.outbif)

        bn2 = BeliefNetwork.from_bif(self.outbif)
        self.assertEquals(bn2, bn)

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Trish Blackwell
Coaching your confidence and courage to that you finish what you start and contribute to the world in a way that matters.
The Confidence Podcast
College of Confidence
About Trish
#101: TODD DURKIN – LASTING IMPACT
By TrishBlackwell on March 17, 2015 in Podcasts, The Confidence Podcast
LASTING IMPACT
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
~ Anthony Robbins
EPISODE #101
In this week's episode, we're going to talk cover
How Todd Durkin has been one of the most influential mentors in my life and what I have learned from him
How to make lasting impact with your life
Some one-one-one time with Durkin himself!
ABOUT TODD:
Todd Durkin, is an internationally recognized performance-enhancement coach, personal trainer, massage therapist, author, and speaker who motivates, educates and inspires people worldwide. He is the founder and creator of Fitness Quest 10 & Todd Durkin Enterprises in San Diego, CA, where his wonderful team focuses on personal training, massage therapy, Pilates, yoga, sports performance training, nutrition, physical therapy, and chiropractic to help transform the bodies, minds and spirits of a broad clientele. He is a 2 Time Personal Trainer of the Year (IDEA & ACE) and has received numerous industry accolades.
Todd trains dozens of NFL and MLB athletes, including Super Bowl XLIV MVP Drew Brees, Super Bowl XLV Aaron Rodgers, former NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson, and athletes such as Kellen Winslow, Shawne Merriman, and a host of others. He currently works with 9 NFL quarterbacks. Additionally, he has trained one Olympic Gold Medalist, an MLB Champion & MVP, two X-Games Gold medalists, 2 Heisman trophy winners, and tens of thousands of other elite and amateur athletes as well as fitness enthusiasts.
Additionally, Todd is the Head of the Under Armour Performance Training Council, where he helps drive new methodologies and training techniques to help Under Armour develop the highest quality programs and apparel for performance training. He has appeared on national television commercials with Under Armour, is a major part of the "Combine 360" program, and speaks at regular events such as the NFL Combine, Super Bowl, and Pro Bowl on their behalf.
Men's Health recently named his gym, Fitness Quest 10, one of the Top 10 Gyms in the US. Todd has appeared on 60 Minutes, ESPN, the NFL Network and has been featured in Sports Illustrated, USA Today, STACK Magazine, Business Week, Prevention, ESPN the Magazine, Men's Health, and countless other media outlets. Todd has authored 35 DVDs on strength and conditioning, functional fitness, massage/bodywork and business/personal growth.
Todd and his staff provide motivational and educational programs and team-building events to companies and conferences worldwide.
He and his wife Melanie reside in San Diego, CA, with their three children, Luke, Brady, and McKenna.
INTERVIEW WITH TODD
Are you truly living?
Impact is all about purpose.
Todd's Top 28 Must-Read Books:
TD's Top 28 Reads of All-Time
CONNECT WITH TODD:
www.toddurkin.com
www.doseofdurkin.com
LISTENER OF THE EPISODE: Alana Copet
Good Evening Trish!
I am writing tonight to let you know I'd like to be listener of the episode. I never miss an episode, I've been with you since day one and love hearing your words of inspiration, encouragement, and your real life struggles.
Sincerely and with much love,
ACCOUNTABILITY COACHING:
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Accountability coaching is for
anyone determined to make this year their best year yet and wanting assurance that they will stay on top of their game and goals, not losing focus or momentum through the year
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Be more of who you are. Be you. Be free.
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This study reports on the adsorption of fluoride ion from aqueous solutions by using fired clay soil, pillared with tea leave ash components. The potential of low cost material fired clay soil and fired clay soil pillared with tea leave ash components for fluoride removal from aqueous solution was evaluated by using fluoride ion selective electrode. Pillaring of clay soil with tea leave ash was done by thoroughly mixing fifteen gram of tea leave ash and three hundred gram of clay soil using distilled water and it was aged for 96 hours until it was dried. Untreated clay soil and clay soil pillared with tea leave ash components were fired in an electrical furnace at 570 C for 3 hrs. Batch adsorption experiments were carried out and the effects of pH, contact time, initial adsorbate concentration, adsorbent dose and temperature of the solution were investigated. Adsorption of fluoride by fired clay soil and fired clay soil pillared with tea leave ash was observed to sharply increase from pH 4 to 7 then decreased. The maximum adsorption efficiencies obtained were 75% for fired clay soil and 90% for fired clay soil pillared with tea leave ash components at pH 7 for both adsorbents. The maximum adsorption capacity obtained was 0.913 mg/g for fired clay soil and 2.746 mg/g for fired clay soil pillared with tea leave ash components. It can be concluded that fired clay soil pillared with tea leave ash is a good and cheap adsorbent with high potential for the adsorption and removal of fluoride from fluoride contaminated water and could therefore serve as effective and efficient adsorbent for treatment of drinking waters in terms of high adsorption capacity.
INDO AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH: 07 pp. 242-435.
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Results about: prostate cancer
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics
A high resolution description of the structure and dynamics of proteins is a very useful tool to study the properties and the function of these important biomacromolecules and, most importantly, to understand how changes in sequence or environment can lead to disease.
Researchers at IRB Barcelona identify a possible therapeutic target for Kennedy´s disease and prostate cancer
Activation of the chaperone protein Hsp70 leads to a decrease in the formation of androgen receptor aggregates, which give rise to muscular atrophy in patients with Kennedy´s disease, a rare condition for which no treatment is available.
The results may also be useful in the search for a treatment for castration-resistant prostate cancer, a disease that causes 30,000 death a year in Europe and for which there is no treatment.
The study, which has been published in Nature Communications, is a collaboration with the University of California San Francisco and the University of Michigan.
The Spanish Association Against Cancer awards funding to five projects at IRB Barcelona
The projects address breast, lung, colon, prostate and melanoma cancer.
Closing in on advanced prostate cancer
Xavier Salvatella, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona, proposes a new approach to combat prostate tumour cells that have become unresponsive to the treatments currently available.
The incidence of prostate cancer is increasing worldwide. In the US and Europe, it is one of the most common tumours and among the main causes of death by cancer.
Treatment for late-stage prostate cancer patients: getting closer to a solution
IRB Barcelona's "Meet Our Scientists" video series brings biomedicine closer to society
The second video, "Magical Choreography" (02:52), is devoted to Xavier Salvatella, ICREA researcher and holder of an ERC grant, awarded in 2015.
This biophysicist studies protein folding using the Androgen receptor as a model—a receptor linked to Kennedy disease —a rare neurodegenerative condition —and also to prostate cancer.
His research could lead to new drug treatments for both conditions. "Doing what we do is an honour but also a responsibility," says the scientist.
Two million euros for a project against prostate cancer
2M€ for studying protein motions and their implications for the treatment of prostate cancer
The European Research Council provides funding until 2020 through a Consolidator Grant given to Xavier Salvatella, biophysicist at IRB Barcelona.
It is known that signalling occurs within proteins; however, how these signals are transmitted remains unclear, and it is a question that could transform the field of drug discovery.
The project will focus on the target protein for the treatment of prostate cancer.


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ICC World Cup 2019: Australia beat England by 64 runs, qualify for semi-finals
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England, the host team of the ICC World Cup 2019 has been knocked out after losing to Australia by 64 runs - Photogallery
England, the host team of the ICC World Cup 2019 has been knocked out after losing to Australia by 64 runs. The game started with England winning the toss and choosing to bowl first. Aaron Finch who was declared the Player of the match scored 100 runs off 116 balls, David Warner scored a half-century with 53 runs off 61 balls, Alex Carey scored 38 runs off 27 balls. In 50 overs and at a loss of seven wickets, Australia scored a defendable total of 285 runs. England's Ben Stokes scored 89 runs on 115 balls, giving England a good start but Australian bowler Jason Behrendorff dismissed several players from the opposing team taking five wickets. Australia's Mitchell Starc who took four wickets praised Behrendorff's bowling effort; he said, "Dorff bowled awesome, beautifully, and deserved his five wickets - and it's great to see him do so well here at Lord's against England. I've bowled a fair bit with Mitchell Johnson in the past and this showed again today that there's no reason why you can't play two left-arm when the pitch and match-ups suit. Dorff actually asked me if there was anything of note about the wicket here and, to be honest, I didn't have much for him as I haven't been here for about four years." England was unable to chase the total, they scored only 221 runs in 44.4 overs. (AP) ()
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Mechanical properties of glass beads filled polypropylene composites
Chak Yin Tang, J. Z. Liang, Kam Chuen Yung, R. K.Y. Li, S. C. Tjong
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
In this study, the mechanical properties of glass beads filled polypropylene composites have been investigated. Polypropylene (PP) was filled with different volume fractions and different sizes of glass beads (GBs). The glass beads used were: 4, 11, and 66μm in diameters. Tensile specimens of PP/GB composites were injection molded and their mechanical properties were found by a series of uniaxial tensile tests. Young's modulus, work of fracture, Charpy impact strength and tensile strength of the specimens were determined. The results illustrated that the Young's modulus increased almost linearly with increasing glass bead concentration according to the Einstein equation. The work of fracture increased with the glass bead concentration until the maximum work of fracture was reached. Further increase in the glass bead concentration could cause the work of fracture to drop. Moreover, small toughening effect was resulted from filling PP with GBs. While there were improvements in the elastic modulus and the work of fracture, the tensile strength was however sacrificed. Increase in glass bead concentration caused the tensile strength to decrease. The fracture surface of the composite was examined by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Hence, the enhancement in the work of fracture was explained.
149 PART II
Work of Fracture
Young's Modulus
Tang, C. Y., Liang, J. Z., Yung, K. C., Li, R. K. Y., & Tjong, S. C. (1998). Mechanical properties of glass beads filled polypropylene composites. Key Engineering Materials, (149 PART II), 823-828.
Tang, Chak Yin ; Liang, J. Z. ; Yung, Kam Chuen ; Li, R. K.Y. ; Tjong, S. C. / Mechanical properties of glass beads filled polypropylene composites. In: Key Engineering Materials. 1998 ; No. 149 PART II. pp. 823-828.
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Photo: Paul Kim/Washington Nationals
Play-by-Play Voice Charlie Slowes Expects Nats to Heat Up with Weather
May 1, 2018 /in Featured, Sports /by Joel Goldberg
Cable television is a luxury for many people these days. That means that Nationals fans who wish to follow their team could have trouble accessing MASN, the Nats' home broadcasting network. Hence, the importance of radio.
"Sometimes all it takes is a comeback like this to turn your fate around," an authoritative voice crooned over the airwaves.
That was Charlie Slowes, the play-by-play announcer for the Nationals' radio affiliate 106.7 FM The Fan, speaking on April 16 during a tight game between the Mets and the Nats. A few pitches later, Michael A. Taylor, who entered the game with a .193 batting average, walked to force in the go-ahead run, and the Nats went on to win 8-6.
Taylor's go-ahead walk came at a critical juncture early in the season. The Nats lost eight of their previous 11 games entering the series against the Mets, who stormed out of the gates to a 12-2 record. The Nationals ended up taking two of three games in the series to stop their early season skid.
For all 14 seasons that Nats baseball has existed in DC, Slowes has been the voice calling the games, engaging fans through the airwaves. When we got a chance to chat with Slowes off-air, he noted that it's important not to sound the alarms just because of a slow start.
"You're talking about a tenth of a season," Slowes told On Tap the morning after the April 16 game, adding that there's reason to keep the faith in a reigning first-place team. "I'm always excited at the start of a season. They've got Scherzer and Strasburg at the top of the rotation. They've got a backend of the bullpen that they didn't really have last year, with a track record of success. Bryce [Harper] looks like he's primed for a big, big year."
Slowes noted that this April was abnormally cold and dismal, hardly the kind of weather that wakes Major League hitters out of their offseason slumbers – even the cherry blossoms stayed in their beds a few weeks longer than expected.
"Hell, let's see the weather get warm," Slowes said. "It hasn't really been baseball weather. But you figure by May, it will be."
Any baseball fan worth his weight in pine tar knows that warm weather and hitting go together like spaghetti and meatballs. Moreover, key pieces in the Nats' lineup were missing at the start of the April 16 game. Adam Eaton, Anthony Rendon and Daniel Murphy – essential pieces in the Nationals' batting order – spent time out of the lineup in April because of injury.
The Nationals entered the April 16 game with MLB ranks of 13th in runs scored, 19th in team batting average and 15th in team on-base plus slugging. At the end of 2017, the Nats ranked fifth, fourth and fourth in those categories, respectively. With a fully loaded lineup, one would expect the numbers to more closely resemble last season's.
But unlike last season, when the Nats finished 20 games ahead of the second-place Marlins, our team has more to worry about than just their own performance. The National League East has vastly improved.
For example, the Mets welcomed back their young pitching phenom Noah "Thor" Syndergaard and potent hitters Michael Conforto and Yoenis Céspedes, all of whom missed significant time in 2017. Meanwhile, the Braves and Phillies have started to reap the benefits of their "rebuilding" phases. For both teams, a talented crop of young prospects has finally begun to arrive at the Major League level.
But maybe a little competition isn't so bad.
"Maybe that will be a good thing," Slowes said. "When you are a runaway winner in the division, and you don't play any meaningful games, then September becomes a little bit more like spring training. Then you've got to flip a switch [when the playoffs begin]."
After a shaky performance coming out of this year's spring training, the Nationals needed to search hard to flip that proverbial switch. If nothing else, the Nats – to invoke another idiom – have gotten a wake-up call to start the season.
For more info on the Nats' 2018 season, go to www.mlb.com/nationals.
Nationals Park: 1500 South Capitol St. SE, DC; 202-675-6287; www.mlb.com/nationals
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Breakout Batter: Meet Michael A. Taylor
March 31, 2018 /in Featured, Sports /by Joel Goldberg
The "A" has always stood for Anthony. Now, it stands for his performance.
Michael A. Taylor, center fielder for the Washington Nationals, established himself last season as one of the young players to watch in Major League Baseball. He finished among the top three Gold Glove candidates at his position in the National League despite playing in a mere 118 contests. In his injury-abbreviated season – Taylor spent most of July and part of August on the disabled list with a strained right oblique – he swatted 19 home runs and stole 17 bases. Only five other National League players can say the same about their 2017 campaigns.
"I think [one] of the major changes I made [was] my view going into the game, and what I consider successful for me a lot of the time," Taylor says. "I would get caught up in the result, and baseball is a game of failures day in and out – whether that's just swinging at good pitches or moving a runner [and] making hard contact."
Hard contact was something that drew Taylor into the spotlight late in 2017. In September and October of the regular season, he had one of the best stretches of his career in terms of power, notching seven home runs that included an inside-the-park grand slam against the Phillies. Taylor's power took the national stage in the playoffs, when he hit yet another grand slam, this time to seal a win over the Cubs and force game five of the National League Division Series.
Then, in game five, he hit a three-run bomb into the Cubs bullpen in left, giving the Nationals the lead in what ended as a heartbreaking 9-8 loss. That's nine home runs in 33 games among September, October and the postseason, for whoever is counting. Taylor isn't one of them.
"I try not to make too much of statistics," he says. "I go out there and try to do my best."
Regarding his unexpected, late-season mash fest, Taylor says he thinks it's a byproduct of a good approach in his game.
"Home runs will come. When I try to force home runs, I end up putting myself in a bad spot, swinging too hard or swinging at pitches out of the zone."
Taylor's approach will be much-scrutinized at the start of 2018. For the first time since 2015, he's the favorite to start in center field at the beginning of the season. In 2016 and 2017, respectively, trade acquisitions Ben Revere and Adam Eaton filled that role. Thanks to Taylor's breakout 2017 and his superb defense, Eaton is now moving to left field while Taylor hunkers down as the "field general" in center.
The potential scrutiny doesn't seem to faze Taylor, who maintains a calm, composed demeanor in on-camera interviews. Part of his confidence stems from a positive relationship with Nationals fans. Even during his first two-plus seasons in the majors, during which Taylor hit a combined .228 and struck out more than once a game, he says fans had his back. In 2017, Taylor returned the favor, lifting his average to .271 with an OPS of .806.
"One thing I can say about fans in DC [is] they've been very supportive through my whole career. I'm very grateful for that. Even the years I felt like I didn't perform as well as I'd like, they still were behind me and very supportive."
Taylor is also lucky in some respects. In June, then-Nationals Manager Dusty Baker called him "one of the most fortunate dudes" he had ever managed, according to Patrick Reddington of SB Nation's Federal Baseball blog. For example, although he didn't start opening day in 2016 and 2017, he did see significant playing time both seasons because of injuries to Revere and Eaton. This year, he also has the benefit of two experienced, talented outfielders – Eaton and Bryce Harper – flanking him in left and right.
"They make it really easy on me," Taylor says of Eaton and Harper. "Those guys have a lot of experience and are great outfielders. I think we work very well together. We're all on the same page. They make it easy and encourage me to go out there and take the lead."
Adding to the rocky beginnings of Taylor's career is the fact that he's had three different managers since the beginning of 2015. This season, Dave Martinez takes over, and based on Taylor's attitude, it's just another fortuitous turn.
"Davey has been great. [He] communicates with the guys every day. It's been very laid-back and energetic. I've really enjoyed spring training with him, and I'm looking forward to a full season."
A full season is actually one concern lingering around Taylor, even now that he has established himself as a serious player. In spring training, what the Nationals called "tightness" in his right side – the same side as his oblique strain last season – forced him out of the lineup on March 5. Luckily, he returned to the Nationals' Grapefruit League lineup on March 17, going one for three with a pair of strikeouts.
So what's Taylor's goal for 2018? Play in 162 games? Reach the 20-home-run, 20-stolen-base plateau? Make up for that near miss at a Gold Glove?
"To win a World Series," he says.
If Taylor, with all of his good fortune, helps the Nationals bring home the World Series trophy, he can go ahead and add "plus" to that "A" in the middle of his name.
The Washington Nationals' home opener is on Thursday, April 5 at 1:05 p.m., when they will host the New York Mets at Nats Park. For more information on Taylor and the Nats' 2018 season, visit www.mlb.com/nationals.
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How To Talk To Non-Technical People (for Developers)
Gregory Klein | January 13, 2017
Effective communication between developers and non-technical people can be somewhat of an art form. It's an inherently tricky skill for each party to nail down given the amount of space that exists between technical and non-technical worlds. Nonetheless, there is still overlap and that's why effective communication is so important. This post is geared towards developers and offers some perspective in terms of high-level styles for effectively communicating with non-technical people.
Don't Be Pedantic
Let's clear the air! Most developers are pedantic. I'll even go out on a limb and say that being a pedant is somewhat endorsed within the developer community — this mainly has to do with encouraged transparency regarding depth of knowledge, both good and a bad thing in my opinion.
At my last job I found that there was an ongoing problem where many developers would pretend to have no idea about what they were being asked or told if the subject was technical, and the wording wasn't exactly correct. It was seldom that the folks who created that problem would actually listen to what people were trying to say, but instead only listened to what was actually being said. The root of the problem stemmed from pedanticism.
An example could be the following: A project manager or product owner asks a developer, "When can we start using machine learning? I've heard that's really where things are going.", or, "Isn't there an API that you can pull into the code for that?" — I know, it can be frustrating, but rather than the classic, "What the hell are you talking about?" response, a good response might be "I'm not sure if I understand, what's the motivation behind your question?", or "Sure, I'll search for a third party that may serve our needs."
The first perspective assumes that non-technical people don't care how much developers know, but instead how capable they are of delivering what is being asked for. So, perspective number one: flexing your brain when talking to a non-technical person doesn't help.
What should you do instead? Be empathetic for the person you are talking to, gauge out their technical understanding of what's being discussed, and intentionally decide on what to correct them on, which details are worth diving into, and which are a waste of time; pick your battles.
Control Your Speed
A simple piece of advice that may sound funny, but goes a long way — speaking slowwwly. Obviously not too slowly, but at a pace that comes across as controlled. This can be beyond helpful for a non-technical person, especially when something is being explained; it could mean the difference between an important piece of information going over their head, and actually being acknowledged/processed.
I'll often consider myself the non-technical party in a discussion if I'm listening to an app idea that involves an unfamiliar context. On top of the fact that it's obviously more difficult to understand or learn something new when the delivery of content is overly fast-paced, it's jarring in other ways as well. For example, feeling like I finally have a breath of fresh air after talking to someone who may have just downed three shots of espresso, or ate aderall for breakfast, doesn't exactly make me want to work with them in general. The reason isn't just because they're fast paced, it's because they appear to have no control over their speed and the way they're presenting themselves.
A controlled pace of speaking comes across as professional and stable, which can be immensely important when giving a first impression. Perspective number two: controlling the speed you speak at goes a long way.
Will slowing down always be the answer? No. The idea is to match the pace of the person with whom you're having a technical discussion, and it's especially important if that person isn't technical.
Hold Back From Over-Explaining
One of the first lessons I learned in the client world was that over-explaining can backfire. I was hired by a packaging company to build an iOS application that would serve as an interactive troubleshooting guide. One of the features allowed users to tap a thumbnail picture in the app, and the image would grow to fill the upper half of the screen, leaving the bottom half available for scrollable text. My first approach resulted in skewed images because of the differences in the initial and target aspect ratios. The client expressed his frustration with me, so I was pretty eager to get it right. After I came up with what I thought was a really cool solution, which took into account the different aspect ratios and a buttery-smooth transition, I felt the need to explain it. Bad idea. I actually got yelled at!
The point I'm trying to make is that someone who is non-technical can be pretty off-put by getting more information than what's necessary or what they can understand. I think it's worth pointing out that in my case, I was explaining something that I thought could only be considered as "good news", but the negative effect it had made me feel as though I told him everything was broken and the app was never going to get finished. Perspective number three: technical explanations might not be as helpful as simplified ones.
Empathy and curiosity each play large roles in effective communication. I'm well aware that being empathetic can bite you, but it's a quality that can also lend itself to more productive conversations — like helping the person who is talking be intentional about the energy and speed they're using, or allowing them to understand how much information they should deliver. Curiosity comes into play when something isn't clear to the listener, because it can help them focus their attention towards what was actually trying to be said rather than the made up story that the person asking or telling is being an idiot.


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Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, University of Georgia
Chagos islands, at International Court of Justice and on to UK campaign trail
The new print edition of the American Journal of International Law includes my essay on last February's International Court of Justice decision respecting the Chagos islands. This post describes that publication and takes note of developments since it went to press.
My essay, "International Decisions: Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965," 113 AJIL 784 (2019), may be accessed at this SSRN link or at the AJIL website.
The essay outlines the ICJ advisory opinion, which is available here. It explains that the Chagos Archipelago, a group of islands located in the Indian Ocean, was considered part of Mauritius when both formed a British colony. But after Mauritius won independence in the mid-1960s, the United Kingdom kept the archipelago, naming it the British Indian Ocean Territory, then forcibly removed its inhabitants and leased it for a US military base, CNIC Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, that is still there today. The legality and effects of these actions lay at the heart of the ICJ's advisory proceedings, instituted following a request by the United Nations General Assembly.
The abstract elaborates:
"Decolonization and its quite valid discontents lay at the center of the recent International Court of Justice advisory opinion regarding the territory and populations of the Chagos Archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean. Answering questions posed by the UN General Assembly, the concluded that because these islands were detached from Mauritius as a condition of independence, the decolonization of Mauritius had not been completed in accordance with international law. The Court further ruled unlawful the United Kingdom's continued administration of the Chagos Archipelago and called upon all UN member states to aid completion of the decolonization process. As detailed in this essay, the advisory opinion contained significant pronouncements on decolonization, on the right of all peoples to self-determination, and on the formation of customary rules respecting both."
Notably, all on the ICJ bench agreed with the result except for the U.S. judge, Joan E. Donoghue, who maintained that the court ought not to have exercised its discretion to consider the issue on the merits.
Since 2017, for the 1st time in the court's history, there has been no ICJ judge from the United Kingdom. As my essay indicates, UK officials spoke out against the court's advisory opinion, framing it as a bilateral dispute over sovereignty, and stating that Britain would not "cede sovereignty to Mauritius" until Britain determined the archipelago "is no longer required for defence purposes."
After the essay went to press, the United Kingdom reiterated that position in a 30 September 2019 letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, requesting that it be circulated to the General Assembly.
Two weeks earlier, Pope Francis had weighed in, on behalf of the Chagossians. In his words:
"Not all things that are right for humanity are right for our pocket, but international institutions must be obeyed."
Maintaining the current British policy is the Tory government led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Its policy stands in contrast with that of Labour, the Tories' principal rival; as the Guardian reported on Friday:
"Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to renounce British sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands and respect a UN vote calling for the archipelago to be handed back to Mauritius."
In short, the immediate fate of the islands may depend – not unlike Brexit – on the Britain's next general election, set for 12 December.
My UN Audiovisual Lecture marks Children's Convention 30th anniversary
On this, the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations has just published "Child Rights, Conflict, and International Criminal Justice," my 1st contribution to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. (See also here.)
The 41-minute lecture's available in video (here) and audio formats (SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts).
After noting the particular harms that children endure in armed conflict and similar violence, the 8 November 2019 lecture proceeds to trace the developments in child rights that led to adoption, on 20 November 1989, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Next, it describes parallel developments in two other key legal fields, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. After looking at relevant provisions of the Child Rights Convention and other instruments – in particular, the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court – the lecture concludes by evaluating efforts to ensure the rights of the child by preventing and punishing international crimes against and affecting children.
Also provided is a list of related materials on which the lecture relies.
My thanks to all at the Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs for the honor of commemorating the treaty, about which my lecture observed:
"As for the 1989 Child Rights Convention itself – today it has 196 parties, including the Holy See, the State of Palestine, and every UN member state except the United States of America. Because of its nearly universal acceptance, as well as its comprehensive contents, the Convention has served for the last thirty years as the pre-eminent global charter on child rights and protection."
Remembering The Boss: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (1920-2019)
"For those of us who enjoyed the rare privilege of clerking for Justice John Paul Stevens … there was only one Boss. And it was not Bruce Springsteen."
WASHINGTON – So begins "Justice John Paul Stevens leaves behind a rich legacy that we cannot forget," the op-ed I published last week in the Washington Post. It offers personal and professional reflections on the Supreme Court Justice, for whom I served as a law clerk in OT'88.
He died last Tuesday, just months shy of his 100th birthday, after serving on the Court for an extraordinary 3-1/2 decades, from 1975 to 2010.
I'd written as well in the past about aspects of his career:
"John Paul Stevens, Originalist," 106 Northwestern University Law Review 743 (2012)
"John Paul Stevens and Equally Impartial Government," 43 University of California Davis Law Review 885 (2010)
"John Paul Stevens, Human Rights Judge," 74 Fordham Law Review 1569 (2006)
"John Paul Stevens and the American Century" (SCOTUSblog, April 20, 2010)
"Three More Anecdotes from Clerks" (Blog of Legal Times, April 11, 2010)
"Steeped in Tradition" (Blog of Legal Times, April 9, 2010)
Memorial services for Justice Stevens begin this morning, with a ceremony in the Court's marble rotunda, where he will lie in repose till midnight, with interment at Arlington National Cemetery tomorrow.
It's an honor to be in attendance at these historic events.
(At top, 2007 AP photo (credit); below, poster for 2009 symposium I organized while a law professor at the University of California-Davis
Command responsibility in 2018 judgment, topic of ICC Forum essay
Honored to have contributed on the doctrine of command responsibility to the newest edition of ICC Forum, an online publisher of essays on human rights and international criminal law. My essay was one of several responding to this question, posed by the editors:
"What does the Bemba Appeal Judgment say about superior responsibility under Article 28 of the Rome Statute ?"
My own response, entitled "In Bemba, Command Responsibility Doctrine Ordered to Stand Down," amplified an argument I'd made in an EJIL: Talk! contribution last year (prior post).
Specifically, it traced the development of the international-humanitarian- law/law-of-armed-conflict-doctrine that places on military commanders a burden greater than that shouldered by other combatants. It then turned to the International Criminal Court Appeals Chamber's 2018 judgment in Bemba. The majority's interpretation of the ICC Statute's command-responsibility provision, my essay argued, risks tolerating "derelictions of duty" so as "to condone indiscipline," and thus "to increase the risks of the very harms that the doctrine of command responsibility is intended to dispel." As a result, perhaps "no one can be held to account."
Other invited experts who contributed essays were: Miles Jackson, Associate Professor of Law, Jesus College, University of Oxford; Michael A. Newton, Professor of the Practice of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University Law School; Nadia Carine Fornel Poutou, Executive President Association of Women Lawyers of Central African Republic; and Leila Nadya Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at Washington University School of Law.
ICC Forum is supported by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law; UCLA Law Professor Richard H. Steinberg serves as Editor-in-Chief.
Parsing U.S. crisis and confrontation: latest experts' roundup at Vox
"On sundry occasions in US history, the president has defied a check that a co-equal branch of the federal government has sought to place on him (to date, the president has always been a man). Such defiance, alone, is confrontation. But confrontation soon will escalate to crisis if the legislative or judicial branch abdicates its duty fully to check unwarranted executive behavior."
The passage is drawn from my comment in response to the question whether the United States is in a "constitutional crisis" or "confrontation." My comment appears as part of an expert legal roundup at Vox, compiled by journalist Sean Illing.
The comment begins with the observation that the U.S. Constitution is the product of crisis, and also a bold, 230-year experiment in which "Americans dared to promise equality in an unequal world, to prescribe government by the rule of law rather than the whim of one man" Setbacks continue. Respecting the promise of equality, "persons of color, women, and others continue to struggle … for their due place in the American polity." Respecting the prescription for rule by law, it remains to be seen whether the unfolding separation-of-powers confrontation will constitute crisis.
The full roundup is here. Also contributing were: Victoria Nourse, Georgetown Law; Keith Whittington, Princeton; Jessica Silbey, Northeastern Law; Peter Shane, Ohio State Law; Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law; Alice Ristroph, Brooklyn Law; Sanford Levinson, Texas Law; Aziz Huq, Chicago Law; Tom Ginsburg, Chicago Law; and Ilya Somin, George Mason Law.
In memory of a champion, Judge Patricia McGowan Wald (1928-2019)
Over the last decade it was my honor on occasion to invite Judge Pat Wald to join in a project, to contribute a writing or to speak at an event. Invariably she accepted with the same wry caveat: "Yes, if I am still here by then." Happily she always was still "here," enlivening every project to which she contributed. But now she is not. News media reported that Patricia Anne McGowan Wald died in her Washington home yesterday, having succumbed at age 90 to pancreatic cancer.
Many obituaries will focus on her prodigious and inspiring career in the United States: her journey, from a working-class upbringing in a single-parent family, to practice as a lawyer on child rights and in the Department of Justice, to service, in the District of Columbia Circuit, as the 1st woman Chief Judge of a U.S. Court of Appeals, and quite recently, as an Obama appointee to the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
We international lawyers also will recall Wald's fierce service as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. There, she took part in noted judgments, among them a genocide conviction in Prosecutor v. Krstić and a "turning point" appellate ruling in Prosecutor v. Kupreškić.
Even after retiring from the ICTY, Judge Wald championed international criminal justice, placing particular emphasis on women. It was my privilege to welcome her interventions on these subjects, and at times to aid publication of her contributions (Pat's computer savvy was, it must be said, rudimentary).
Just last year, our Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law was honored to publish Pat's essay "Strategies to Promote Women's Participation in Shaping International Law and Policy in an Era of Anti-Globalism," based on remarks she'd given here at the University of Georgia School of Law Dean Rusk International Law Center. They were a highlight of our 10th birthday conference for IntLawGrrls blog, not least because Pat referred to us assembled scholars and practitioners as "you 'young people' in the room." She traced the beginnings of international criminal justice, then said:
"I do not suggest that the process of integrating women as upfront participants in international courts, let alone the inclusion of the crimes most commonly committed against women as worthy subjects of international criminal law jurisprudence, has been completed. More accurately, these developments had just gotten off to a reasonable start at the moment that global politics seem to have begun to shift toward a so-called anti-globalist populism. My central point, therefore, is that we must strategize in the face of a desired, yet elusive future."
Her strategies: ally to strengthen international law, international legal education, and global-mindedness in many sectors, including the arts; "protec[t] the venues in which women have had significant impact," including the International Criminal Court and related forums; and work globally to raise women's awareness "about educational opportunities, rights to land ownership and profits, how to start a small business, how to farm efficiently, how to participate in voting or run for office, and about legal rights to divorce or separation."
Issues like these were prominent in a special issue of the International Criminal Law Review, "Women and International Criminal Law," dedicated to the Honorable Patricia M. Wald, for which I served as a co-editor along with Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Beth Van Schaack, and Kathleen A. Doty. Wald herself wrote on "Women on International Courts: Some Lessons Learned" for vol. 11 no. 3 (2011). And as shown in that issue's table of contents, additional contributors included many whom Judge Wald's life and work had touched: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Harvard Law Dean Martha Minow, along with Kelly Askin, Karima Bennoune, Doris Buss, Naomi Cahn, Margaret deGuzman, Katharine Gelber, Laurie Green, Nienke Grossman, Rachel Harris, Dina Francesca Haynes, Jennifer Leaning, David Luban, Rama Mani, Jenny Martinez, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Katie O'Byrne, Lucy Reed, Leila Nadya Sadat, and David Tolbert. The issue stemmed from a 2010 roundtable (pictured below) that then-Executive Director Elizabeth "Betsy" Andersen hosted at the American Society of International Law, an organization Judge Wald long supported.
Pat's support for IntLawGrrls predated this event. In 2009, she had contributed a trilogy of essays to the blog: 1st, "What do women want from international criminal justice? To help shape the law"; 2d, "What do women want? Tribunals' due attention to the needs of women & children"; and 3d, "What do women want? International law that matters in their day-to-day lives".
In keeping with the blog's practice at that time, Pat dedicated her IntLawGrrls posts to a transnational foremother, "a wonderful German/Jewish woman, Gisela Konopka," a University of Minnesota social work professor with whom Pat had collaborated in a lawsuit against the Texas Youth Authority. In her lifespan of 93 years, Konopka, Wald wrote, "fought in prewar Germany for children's rights, was put in a concentration camp, managed to get out and work her way through occupied Europe to America, where she became the champion of children, especially girls, who got in trouble with the law." Explaining how Konopka had influenced her, Judge Wald penned a sentence that today does service as her own epitaph:
"She inspired me as to what an older woman can do right up to the point of departure to help those behind."
"Glimpses of Women at the Tokyo Tribunal," draft manuscript, posted online
Coomee Rustom Strooker-Dantra, 1937 (credit)
I'm very pleased to have posted a draft of my most recent paper, Glimpses of Women at the Tokyo Tribunal, online. The work arises out of my ongoing scholarly research into the roles that women and others played in the post-World War II international criminal trials. (prior posts) This research focuses primarily on trials at Nuremberg rather than at Tokyo; however, as this essay indicates, the issues and even the personnel in the two forums overlapped considerably.
Many women are brought to the fore in Glimpses; for example: 5 American lawyers, Virginia Bowman, Lucille Brunner, Eleanor Jackson, Helen Grigware Lambert, Grace Kanode Llewellyn, and Bettie Renner; 1 Dutch lawyer, Coomee Rustom Strooker-Dantra, who had been born in what is now Myanmar; and 1 American, memoir-writer Elaine B. Fischel, who assisted defense counsel but did not herself become a lawyer until after her Tokyo service.
From left, Eleanor Jackson, Virginia Bowman, Grace Kanode Llewellyn, Bettie Renner, and Lucille Brunner, in Los Angeles Times, 15 April 1946 (credit)
Other women also figure – including some who have been introduced into the Tokyo narrative through a documentary, a feature film, and a miniseries, each analyzed in the essay.
Intended as a chapter in a forthcoming essay collection marking the 70th anniversary of the Tokyo Trial judgment, this draft manuscript forms part of the Dean Rusk International Law Center Research Paper Series at SSRN. It may be found in numerous SSRN sites, including the International, Transnational and Comparative Criminal Law eJournal, of which I am the Editor-in-Chief. I was honored to have presented it during last November's American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting Research Forum at UCLA Law.
Here's the abstract:
Compared to its Nuremberg counterpart, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East has scarcely been visible in the seven decades since both tribunals' inception. Recently the situation has changed, as publications of IMTFE documents have occurred alongside divers legal and historical writings, as well as two films and a miniseries. These new accounts give new visibility to the Tokyo Trial – or at least to the roles that men played at those trials. This essay identifies several of the women at Tokyo and explores roles they played there, with emphasis on lawyers and analysts for the prosecution and the defense. As was the case with my 2010 essay, "Portraits of Women at Nuremberg," the discussion is preliminary, offering glimpses of the Tokyo women in an effort to encourage further research.
The full manuscript may be downloaded here.
Elaine B. Fischel with Tokyo defense counsel, 12 September 1946 (credit)
Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law & Faculty Co-Director, Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law; ICC Prosecutor's Special Adviser on Children in Armed Conflict. Click for bio & disclaimer.
"Child Rights, Conflict, and International Criminal Justice," lecture taped 8 November 2019 and published in United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
"Glimpses of Women at the Tokyo Tribunal" (21 February 2019 SSRN draft)
"In Bemba, Command Responsibility Doctrine Ordered to Stand Down" (ICC Forum 27 May 2019)
"International Decisions: Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965," 113 American Journal of International Law 784 (2019)
"Justice John Paul Stevens leaves behind a rich legacy that we cannot forget" (Washington Post 17 July 2019)
"Protecting Children: A Welcome Addition to Efforts to Redress Wartime Harms" (Just Security 6 November 2018)
Arcs of Global Justice: Essays in Honour of William A. Schabas (Margaret M. deGuzman & Diane Marie Amann eds.) (Oxford University Press 2018)
Benchbook on International Law (ASIL/Diane Marie Amann ed.)
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selected public remarks
"Women at Nuremberg," University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, 30 January 2018
Launch of International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor Policy on Children, November 16, 2016, The Hague, Netherlands
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DMA @ Digital Commons
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DMA @ Twitter
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DMA @ Just Security
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DMA @ NYT Room for Debate
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organizations of note
African Committee of Experts on the Rights & Welfare of the Child
African Studies Institute, University of Georgia
American Soc'y International Law
Canada as Chair of Group of Friends on Children and Armed Conflict
Child protection @ Geneva Call
Child Soldiers International
Children & Armed Conflict @ Security Council Report
Children & Youth @ International Center for Transitional Justice
Children @ Human Rights Watch
Children @ International Committee of the Red Cross
Children @ UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Children's Rights International Network
Dean Rusk International Law Center @ Georgia Law
France UN Mission on Children & Armed Conflict
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
Global Campaign for Ratification of Crime of Aggression Amendments
Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
ILO International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour
Institute for International Criminal Investigations
International Rescue Committee, Georgia
National Institute of Military Justice
Protect Education in Insecurity & Armed Conflict
Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
SSRN eJournal: Dean Rusk International Law Center Research Papers Series
SSRN eJournal: International, Transnational & Comparative Criminal Law
UN Committee on Rights of Child
UN Security Council Working Group on Children & Armed Conflict
UN Special Envoy for Global Education
UN Special Rapporteur on sale of children, child prostitution & child pornography
UN Special Representative for Children & Armed Conflict
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
UN Special Representative on Violence Against Children
UN Task Force on Children & Armed Conflict
War Child International
Watchlist on Children & Armed Conflict
of note online
ASIL Cables
Cambridge Rev. Int'l Affairs blog
Carol Rosenberg @ Twitter
Children & International Law seminar resource
Global Military Justice Reform
Jess Bravin @ Twitter
Justice in Conflict
LeMonde's Corine Lesnes on USA
LeMonde's J.-P. Rémy on Africa
Linda Greenhouse: Supreme Court
Open Society Justice Initiative websites on ICC proceedings
Réseau Olympe
The IntLawGrrls Archive
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Another ode to my favourite meal(!), bread. But here bread is a metaphor for nourishment as a whole, of our basest of needs. I refer to the crust of pain de mie, a French brioche like sandwich bread that is a nostalgic childhood food. "Mie" means the 'crumb' of the bread, which in baking terms is the interior. This type of bread has a fine crumb, whereas baguettes have an airy, open irregular crumb structure.
The funny thing is, in America and probably England, nobody wants the crust, the dry undesirable part that children cut off, yet the crust in France is the best part, the one with all the flavour and crunch, and the flavourless (and caloric middle) is often discarded. My favourite part of a baguette is the quignon! (tip of the baguette you break off – one piece only! as you walk along the cobblestone).
J'en mange, mais, c'est où la reste?
Je dois chercher du pain ailleurs.


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25 true stories capture the full range of the fear and courage experience in the second book of the 'Timeless Wisdom' Series. At times humorous, often poignant, these stories shine a light on just what it means to be human.
The first in the 'Timeless Wisdom' Series, these stories are sourced from around the world. They are of the everyday and the extraordinary. The result is a book that explores all that is best about human nature.


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Q: https server how to create a list of trusted certificates, Client always get unknown CA My system is Linux.
I try to create a tlsv1.2 https server with Openssl which need check client's certificate, but when Client tries to hands shake with Server, after Client sends Certificate to Server, Server will reply Unknown CA.enter image description here
I can confirm that it is the problem of the certificate, because I will SSL_CTX_set_verify(IEctx, SSL_VERIFY_PEER, NULL) After the comment is removed, the handshake can be completed.
Is it because the server does not trust this certificate?
Does the server set the trust certificate through SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list()?
    init_openssl_library();
    SSL_load_error_strings();
    // build the SSL objects...
    const SSL_METHOD* method = TLS_server_method();
    SSLeay_add_ssl_algorithms();
    if (!(NULL != method)) fprintf(stderr, "SSL Method Error\n");

    IEctx = SSL_CTX_new(method);
    if (!(IEctx != NULL)) fprintf(stderr, "CXT New Error\n");
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    SSL_CTX_set_verify(IEctx, SSL_VERIFY_PEER, NULL);

    SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(IEctx,"sat-root.crt",NULL);
    STACK_OF(X509_NAME)  *list;
    list = SSL_load_client_CA_file("Root.pem");

    if (list == NULL) {
        printf("Failed to load client CA file from \"Root.pem\"\n");
        //return -1;
    }
    SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(IEctx, SSL_load_client_CA_file("Root.pem"));
    SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file(IEctx, "sat-root.pem", SSL_FILETYPE_PEM);//root CA
    SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file(IEctx, "sat-cli_mca-mica-dev_55937-13-1_56000020.pem");//Chain CA
    if (SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(IEctx, "sat-key_dev_55937-13-1_56000020.pem", SSL_FILETYPE_PEM) <= 0) {//Private Key
        ERR_print_errors_fp(stdout);
        return 1;
    }
    if (!SSL_CTX_check_private_key(IEctx)) {//Check Private key
        ERR_print_errors_fp(stdout);
        return 1;
    }
    if (!IEctx) {
        ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
    }
    IEssl = SSL_new(IEctx);
    SSL_set_fd(IEssl, listener);
    FD_SET(listener, &master);
    if (select(fdmax + 1, &read_fds, NULL, NULL, &tv) == -1) {
        perror("select");
        return 4;
    }
    for (int i = 0; i <= fdmax; i++) {
        if (FD_ISSET(i, &read_fds)) { // 我們找到一個!!
            DC_DEBUG_NL("we find one");
            if (i == listener) {
                DC_DEBUG_NL("i == listener");
                // handle new connections
                addrlen = sizeof remoteaddr;
                newfd = accept(listener, (struct sockaddr *)&remoteaddr, &addrlen);

                if (newfd == -1) {
                    perror("accept");
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                    DC_DEBUG_NL("add new fd");
                    SSL_set_fd(IEssl, newfd);  //新增到 master set
                    if (newfd > fdmax) {     //持續追蹤最大的 fd
                        fdmax = newfd;
                    }
                    int r = SSL_accept(IEssl);
                    if (r == 1){
                        DC_DEBUG_NL("scuess to accept");
                    }
                    nbytes = SSL_read(IEssl, IEEEBuf, sizeof(IEEEBuf) - 1);
                    DC_DEBUG_NL("IEEEBuf[nbytes]=%s", IEEEBuf);
                    string webpage = "/ntfy/0";
                    string RequestBody = "";
                    string SendstrPacket = "";
                    char chRequest[500];
                    SendstrPacket = https.TransToPacketFormat(P_IE2030, RequestBody, webpage, "", H_Create);
                    StrToChar(chRequest, SendstrPacket);
                    int result = SSL_write(IEssl, chRequest, strlen(chRequest));
                    if(result != -1){
                        DC_DEBUG_NL("scuess to write");
                    }
                }

            }

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Personality Number 2
Destiny #11
" We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot."
Flea is an Australian-American musician, co-founder and composers of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, who is co-founder of Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a non-profit music education organization for the underprivileged children.
He was born on Tuesday October 16th 1962, in Melbourne, Australia.
Flea appears friendly and unpretentious. He has a soft and warm exterior. Others perceive him as gentle, safe harbor. People are drawn to Michael because, among other reasons, he appears warm and unthreatening.
Balzary's dress is neat and clean. His clothing should be comfortable, soft, and flowing. Flea should avoid plain and understated clothes, and make an effort to be a little more daring and exciting in his appearance. This will balance nicely with his perceptive and open personality.
The opposite sex is attracted to Michael's gentle and attentive nature, yet senses the passion beneath his surface. Balzary has sex appeal.
Exercise is important to Flea's appearance and to promote the level of strength he radiates.
Michael is very patient and understanding, and a wonderful listener. He makes others feel important and loved.
Balzary is sensitive and becomes tense in a disharmonious atmosphere. He has experienced quite a bit of negative criticism as a child, which made him shy growing up. Though he may be well past that shyness, a bit of the vulnerability has remained with Flea and is often sensed by others.
Michael is a peacemaker. Arguments leave him drained. People sense Balzary's desire for harmony. But he must avoid being the blank tablet for others' projections. People may underestimate his strength, but this is a mistake. Flea is strong. He bends, but does not break.
He has a fine sense of beauty and excellent taste. There is a grace in Flea's movements, reflecting his keen sense of harmony and refinement.
You and Michael
About Michael's Personality number
Balzary's Personality number often serves as a censoring device, both in terms of what Michael sends out, as well as what he allows to approach.
It discriminates in the kinds of people and information Flea lets enter his heart and mind.
Read more about our numerological interpretation of Flea's personality number . . .
Other celebrities with personality number 2 as Flea
Nicki Minaj (1982)
A Trinidadian-born American rapper, singer and songwriter who earned public attention after releasing three mixtapes between 2007–09 and became the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously charting on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Paul Walker (1973-2013)
An American actor who played in films as She's All That and Varsity Blues, but became known, in 2001, for his portrayal of Brian O'Conner in the street racing action film The Fast and the Furious, repeating that role in five of the next six installments
Tiger Woods (1975)
An American professional golfer who has been World Number One for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer, and has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years
Shia LaBeouf (1986)
An American actor and director who became known among younger audiences as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, for which he received a Young Artist Award (2001) and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003
Celine Dion (1968)
A Canadian singer and businesswoman who became known in the 1980s by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest where she represented Switzerland
Nina Dobrev (1989)
A Bulgarian Canadian actress and model, best known for her role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, and as Elena Gilbert on The CW's supernatural drama, The Vampire Diaries.
Amy Adams (1974)
An American actress and singer who is the recipient of two Golden Globe Awards, has received five nominations each from the Academy Award and BAFTA, and was named one of 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2014
Odell Beckham Jr. (1992)
An American football wide receiver for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), who was a letterman in football, basketball and track in his Isidore Newman Highschool in New Orleans, and is ranked 4-star recruit by Rivals and Scout
Christina Aguilera (1980)
An American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and record producer who has been recognized as a pop icon, earned the title "Princess of Pop", and has earned five Grammy, one Latin Grammy Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Reese Witherspoon (1976)
An American actress and producer, best known for her role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, which earned her the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress
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Something of a hidden gem in the heart of Dubai, the peaceful gardens are maintained as a gift to the city's residents. This is one of six centres around the world – each as architecturally stunning as the last.
A great option if you're visiting the city, it's regularly open for cultural events and architectural tours. Open Skiesspoke to the president of the Ismaili Council UAE, Amiruddin Thanawalla, to discover more.
The centres are symbolic markers of the permanent presence and core values of Ismaili communities around the world. Architecturally unique, they are bridges of friendship and understanding, and serve to enhance relationships among communities, government and civil society.
The main purpose of the centre is to encourage mutual exchange and understanding between diverse peoples, communities and faiths. Each building incorporates spaces for social and cultural gatherings, intellectual engagement and reflection, as well as spiritual contemplation. Through its design and function, the centre reflects a mood of humility, forward outlook, friendship and dialogue. The centres [globally] are not only places for spiritual search, but also spaces for broadening intellectual horizons and fostering an appreciation of pluralism.
The centre hasn't yet conducted a census of its community, but whenever it hosts a special congregation or a high-profile event, it witnesses a gathering of around 2,500 people.
Egyptian architects Rami El-Dahan and Soheir Farid sought inspiration from the Fatimid mosques of Cairo. Maintaining their focus on the human scale and the recent past, they also drew on the insights of the late Hassan Fathy, who was renowned for his "architecture for the people". Architecture is very important to His Highness the Aga Khan (the imam of Ismaili Musims). He founded the Aga Khan Award For Architecture in 1977 to highlight architectural projects of excellence in communities where Muslims have a significant presence. The prestigious global award unveiled its shortlist of 19 nominees at the Ismaili Centre, Dubai, in May.
The gardens are a gift to Dubai's residents. Extending what the Aga Khan suggested at the foundation-stone laying ceremony, the centre seeks to create a sense of equilibrium, stability and tranquility. This sense of balance and serenity finds its continuum in the wealth of colours and scents in our adjacent Islamic garden, which the Aga Khan Trust For Culture helped to develop as a public park.
Ismaili Centres seek to foster knowledge and understanding both within Muslim societies and with other cultures. Events include musical performances, book launches, seminars, lecture series, professional training for early childhood educators in our early learning centres, exhibitions, suhoor, museum previews and architectural tours. The centre was also recognised by the Dubai Culture And Arts Authority, with the inaugural Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Patrons Of The Arts Award in 2010 for its significant contribution towards the development of Dubai's cultural sector.


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Tag: David Souter
Humor Law
Souter's Books
Katie Zezima in the New York Times:
Justice Souter told a Weare neighbor, Jimmy Gilman, that the two-story farmhouse was not structurally sound enough to support the thousands of books he owns, according to The Concord Monitor, and that he wished to live on one level. [my emphasis]
Wow. That's gotta be quite a collection.
Tags David Souter, Kate Zezima, The New York Times
Barack Obama Law Political Philosophy Politics The Opinionsphere
Replacing Souter
There's a few different schools of thought on how Obama should go about replacing Justice David Souter. Dahlia Lithwick – a few months ago – called on Obama to make his next appointment "a hero, a bomb-throwing, passionate, visionary, liberal Scalia." Others are just calling for Obama to place someone liberal enough to counter-balance the extreme conservatives appointed by Bush. Conservatives and right-wingers are calling on Obama to appoint someone "moderate" – though given the political circumstances, it is almost guaranteed that they will not accept any appointment, no matter how "moderate." All of this is based on a rather direct analysis of the Supreme Court – presuming that decisions are and will be made based on political viewpoints.
I'm not trying to say that we should accept Justice Roberts's oft-cited analysis of the judge as umpire – just calling the law as he sees it. I thought Obama made an excellent point back in July 2007 when he critiqued this view:
When Roberts came up and everybody was saying, "You know, he's very smart and he's seems a very decent man and he loves his wife. You know, he's good to his dog. He's so well qualified."
I said, well look, that's absolutely true and … in the overwhelming number of Supreme Court decisions, that's enough. Good intellect, you read the statute, you look at the case law and most of the time, the law's pretty clear. Ninety-five percent of the time. Justice Ginsberg, Justice Thomas, Justice Scalia they're all gonna agree on the outcome.
But it's those five percent of the cases that really count. And in those five percent of the cases, what you've got to look at is—what is in the justice's heart. What's their broader vision of what America should be. Justice Roberts said he saw himself just as an umpire but the issues that come before the Court are not sport, they're life and death. And we need somebody who's got the heart—the empathy—to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old—and that's the criteria by which I'll be selecting my judges. Alright?
Ed Whelan over at the Corner is trying to make a big deal out of what he's calling Obama's lie – which is that judicial philosophy is unimportant. He cites the above quote as proof Obama thinks judicial philosophy is unimportant – but he doesn't seem to have read it closely, as you can clearly see Obama say:
[I]t's those five percent of the cases that really count.
The person Whelan really should be attacking – if he believes judicial philosophy is unimportant – is Justice Roberts who sought to minimize the role of politics in his decisions (at least in his pre- and post-appointment rhetoric.)
But what I'm interested most in is a justice who can move the other members of the Court – either through personality or their compelling understanding of the law. One historical type that has moved the Court would be a politician – such as Sandra Day O'Connor or Earl Warren – whose personality drew other justices to accept some of their decisions, and gradually shaped the Court over time. This is why I think it's a bad idea to appoint a liberal version of Justice Scalia – whose personality actually hurt his politics. Jennifer Granholm is a good possibility on this front. As would Hillary Clinton or Al Gore if they were only younger.
In the alternative, Obama could appoint an ideologically interesting thinker – who is liberal, but nevertheless, thinks outside of the box. The two people that come to mind on this score are Cass Sunstein and Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is probably too young yet – and Sunstein has not only encountered surprising resistance to his appointment to an obscure position, but he probably would like an opportunity to take a crack at enhancing that position and testing his theories on libertarian paternalism.
Finally, I like Harold Koh for the post – even though it is unlikely he fits into any of the above two categories. He's national security thinker with a great resume. I don't know his record on most issues – but I've heard him speak on national security law – my main interest – and he has strong, nuanced positions, viewing our national security apparatus as a whole system rather than as a series of isolated issues. He would be a strong voice in reigning in an executive branch that has barely pulled back in terms of it's assertions of power in the national security arena.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, (Londres, 22 de juny de 1887 – 14 de febrer de 1975) va ser un biòleg, escriptor, humanista, professor universitari i internacionalista britànic, conegut per les seves contribucions a la popularització de la ciència a través de llibres i conferències. Va ser el primer director de la UNESCO.

Biografia
Huxley formava part d'una família distingida. El seu germà era l'escriptor Aldous Huxley, i era germanastre d'un altre biòleg, el premi Nobel Andrew Huxley. El seu pare va ser l'escriptor i editor Leonard Huxley i el seu avi patern va ser el biòleg T. H. Huxley, famós per ser col·lega i donar suport a Charles Darwin. El seu avi matern va ser l'acadèmic Tom Arnold.

Entrà a estudiar zoologia a la Universitat d'Oxford, on va graduar-se com a primer de la seva promoció. Posteriorment, va començar a treballar com a professor al mateix centre, fins que va traslladar-se el 1912 a la Universitat de Rice, lloc que va abandonar el 1916 per l'esclat de la I Guerra mundial. El 1925, va tornar a exercir com a professor de zoologia al King's College de la Universitat de Londres, però el 1927 deixà l'ensenyament definitivament.

L'11 de setembre de 1961, a Morges, Suïssa, fundà juntament amb sir Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989), Guy Mountfort (1905-2003) i Max Nicholson (1904-2003) el Fons Mundial per la Natura (World Wildlife Fund for Animals - WWF). El 1958, va ser distingit per la Societat Linneana de Londres amb la Medalla Darwin-Wallace.

Obres
 Essays of a Biologist (1923)
 Animal Biology (amb J. B. S. Haldane, 1927)
 Religion Without Revelation (1927, revisat 1957)
 The Tissue-Culture King (1927)
 The Science of Life (amb H.G. Wells & G.P. Wells - 1931)
 Scientific Research and Social Needs (1934)
 Thomas Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake (1935)
 We Europeans (amb A. C. Haddon, 1936)
 The Living Thoughts of Darwin (1939)
 The New Systematics (1940)
 Evolution: the Modern Synthesis (1942)
 Evolutionary Ethics (1943)
 Touchstone for Ethics (1947)
 Man in the Modern World (1947) eBook
 Heredity, East and West (1949)
 Biological Aspects of Cancer (1957)
 Towards a New Humanism (1957)
 New Bottles for New Wine (1958)
 The Humanist Frame (1962) elaborat a Essays of a Humanist (1964)
 From an Antique Land (1966)
 The Courtship Habits of the Great Grebe (1968)
 Memories (2 vol., 1970 i 1974)

Escriptors anglesos en anglès
Biòlegs anglesos
Professors de la Universitat d'Oxford
Professors de la Universitat de Londres
Directors Generals de la UNESCO
Humanistes europeus
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Alumnes de l'Eton College
Alumnes del Balliol College
Membres de la Royal Society
Knights Bachelor
Morts a Londres
Professors de la Universitat de Rice
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The British Chamber's Annual General Meeting is set to take place on the 31st May, where the results of the President of the British Chamber will be announced. Following the changes in the articles of association, members will also be given the opportunity to vote for a new Council to be put into place.
Last year's AGM, the British Chamber opened its doors to Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo who spoke about Gibraltar's place in Europe. We also discussed the progress of the events organised in 2016.
The formal agenda this year will allow us to report on the work that was done in 2016, as well as giving a summary of our financial performance for that year. It gives us a chance to discuss how that work has continued on into forming the programme for 2017 and the progress made in the current year.
We'll also be taking a look at the big issues facing the chamber in 2017; the negotiations of the UK leaving the EU being the obvious example. We'll discuss how the chamber is planning to aid you in this process and our strategy. Make sure you keep the date free and join us to discuss the progress we made as an organisation in 2016.


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The 20 Point Memo That Should Land Joe and Hunter in Federal Prison for 20 Years Each
January 25, 2023 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 15
As reported earlier by Cristina Laila – According to emails uncovered from the "Laptop from Hell," Hunter Biden sent his business partner, Devon Archer, a very detailed email on Ukraine on April 13 12, 2014 – just one week before Joe Biden visited Ukraine to meet with then-Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
It appears that Hunter Biden was emailing Devon Archer information he received from a briefing his father and Vice President Joe Biden held earlier. Or the information may have come directly from top-secret documents. Divulge
22-point plan
Devon Archer
Laptop from Hell
15 Comments on The 20 Point Memo That Should Land Joe and Hunter in Federal Prison for 20 Years Each
joe6pak January 25, 2023 at 1:30 pm
It's shit like this that is motivating the TRAITOROUS BASTARD to ramp up the commitment in Ukraine. All these corrupted traitors in DC are doing their best to not have their dirty deeds uncovered. The fact that law enforcement, the military, and the judiciary are all silent makes it clear that they are all in on this!
No mercy January 25, 2023 at 1:33 pm
I worry more about what manufactured crisis they're gonna drop on us to deflect from this.
JDHasty January 25, 2023 at 1:36 pm
What we can hope for is that it be completely impossible for anyone to not recognize the roll the Republican establishment plays in these Democrat scandals. No one will be able to deny that without their buy off and participation the crocked bastards have been outed, prosecuted and thrown in prison by now.
Dave Huff January 25, 2023 at 1:43 pm
If either Joe or Hunter are even indited let alone convicted of anything, I'll be a surprised…
AbigailAdams January 25, 2023 at 1:48 pm
20 years in prison is another waste of our money. Treason is treason. Isn't it prosecuted as such anymore, or is that also part of the ancient cave scribbles of America's past?
I pray Jordan's committee on weaponization of the Federal gov't results in the dismantling of the DoJ, et al. We've got to prosecute those guys before anything can happen to the Bidens.
Terms of Engagement January 25, 2023 at 1:54 pm
Espionage is a lower Level of Treason
Treason is a Higher Level of Espionage
You can have One without the Other
You can have One with the Other
Cisco Kid January 25, 2023 at 2:07 pm
joe6 is correct, they are pushinlg for a direct military war between NATO and Russia to deflect from this scandal.
Suddenly tanks are just Okey Doky although the Logistics tail for 31 Abram's is massive and sophisticated. Besides we don't just have spare Abrams sitting around. Jets will be next.
In the meantime Vlad is buying all the hardware the traitorous Pedo left behind in Afghanistan.
Putin is dying and while I doubt he will launch nukes at NATO, he can certainly nuke every city in Ukraine and probably will.
The Pedo will push until he gets hus ass covering wag the dog war.
nco77 January 25, 2023 at 2:24 pm
Sorry, Joe has the right initial after his name (D), which means no arrest, no charges, no convictions.
It's the modern day version of the get out of jail free card.
Cmn¢¢guy January 25, 2023 at 2:25 pm
FIFY
"crocked crooked bastards"
Pelosi comes to mind.
TSUNAMI January 25, 2023 at 2:34 pm
Try them according to law and if found guilty, hang the fuckers.
I volunteer to pull the handle.
Wild Bill January 25, 2023 at 2:46 pm
Maybe if millions of patriots were in the streets yelling "No Justice No Peace" we could some action on the Biden crime family. Too bad that's just a pipe dream.
Tim - FJB January 25, 2023 at 3:27 pm
"Maybe if millions of patriots were in the streets yelling "No Justice No Peace" …"
The streets would run with blood.
Not the same as with the ANTIFA/BLM crowd.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
PeteyB January 25, 2023 at 3:51 pm
Awwww, poor poor babies. But Trumpy boy is soooooooo innocent.
Well you can always dream in your shorts but cum next Monday this will be just another fantasy, a MAGA fantasy. I farted!
Anonymous January 25, 2023 at 4:08 pm
Since they have not/will not be charged with anything,
on top of Linseed Graham and Pence piping up to defend their lifelong friend "Regular Joe" (vs Incontinent Joe),
tells you all anyone needs to know that the government is inhabited by treasonous, parasitic criminals.
He should've been DECAPITATED decades ago, not installed as fakePOTUS. IMHO
ex jarhead January 25, 2023 at 8:13 pm
how much "hard time" have GWB's girls Lois l and Clinton server?
The UNOPARTY has power because it has protected UNIPARTY very well for 65 years!
GWB' girl Clinton is in prison then hope will worry!


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We present a method that allows us to prove that the volume product of polygons in ℝ2 with at most n vertices is bounded from above by the volume product of regular polygons with n vertices. The same method shows that the volume product of polygons is bounded from below by the volume product of triangles (or parallelograms in the centrally symmetric case). These last results give a new proof of theorems of K. Mahler. The cases of equality are completely described.
Both authors were supported in part by the France-Israel Research Network Program in Mathematics.