Lead applicant organizations must have legal corporate registration in an eligible low or middle- income country.
International organizations are eligible to apply as co-applicant organizations, provided that they have regional chapters or offices with appropriate legal status to operate and manage funds in the eligible countries where the research will occur.
A number of countries considered high-risk may not be eligible as locations for research.
Applicant organizations will need to declare any conflicts of interest and should not have any past or current affiliations with the tobacco industry.
The Call for concept notes on the Economics of Tobacco Control in Low and Middle-income Countries (LMICs) offers up to CA$1 million over a maximum of four years to support evidence-based research on the economic rationale for the adoption of tobacco-control policies across LMICs in four regions: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Beyond the generation of evidence, this Call also encourages collaborations between multiple institutions within countries or regions that enable research teams to actively engage in policy dialogue and policy-making processes.
The consortium-building stream is best suited for multi-disciplinary applications that aim to develop and test new solutions to practical problems at national or regional levels. The consortium model is intended to strengthen LMIC institutional leadership in tobacco control research by bringing together teams of individuals that can conduct high quality research and translate that evidence into solutions.
The momentum-building stream is appropriate for projects of a shorter duration and covering a narrower geographic scope. They may involve the collection of primary data, and/or analysis of secondary data. These may be projects that aim to develop and pilot novel ideas or projects that complement ongoing initiatives.
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Q: Using ls command result in a loop I want to use the result of ls command in a loop to check if for example the first line is a directory, second etc.
For example I have this folder that contains one directory the script should display:

18_05_2018 is directory

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A: Create a file named is_file_or_directory.sh containing:
cd "$1" || echo "Please specify a path" && exit
for i in *; do
    if [[ -d $i ]]; then
        echo "$i is a directory"
    elif [[ -f $i ]]; then
        echo "$i is a file"
    else
        echo "$i is not valid"
        exit 1
    fi
done

Make that file executable with:
sudo chmod +x is_file_or_directory.sh

Run the script specifying as a parameter the path that you want to analyze:
./is_file_or_directory.sh /root/scripts/

Output:
jeeves ~/scripts/stack # ./is_file_or_dir.sh /root/scripts/
databe.py is a file
is_file_or_dir.sh is a file
mysql_flask.py is a file
test is a directory

Here's a more detailed explanation of what is happening under the hood. The variable $1 is, in Bash, the first parameter sent to the script. In our case it is the path where the script will perform its actions. Then we use the variable $i in the loop.
$i content will be every file / folder name in the path $1. With -d and -f we check if $i is a file or a folder.

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Tracking donor aid for global health goals: A systematic comparison of four approaches applied to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health.
How much aid really supports reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH)? New research published in The Lancet Global Health shows that four high-profile estimates – from the Countdown to 2015, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and the G8's Muskoka Initiative – indicate substantially different levels and trends, especially for individual donors and recipient countries. This can have major implications for how we assess past aid efforts, which could in turn affect future aid policies and health outcomes. This new research offers important insights for how we track aid for the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's, and Adolescent Health; for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and for any global health goals.
Read the accompanying Comment here.


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Big Learner Relay for Children in Need - Driving Instructors Across The Country Raise Funds for Children in Need
Wednesday 11 November 2015, 10:30
Big Learner Relay for Children in Need
Hampshire driving instructor Louise Walsh is the inspiration behind 'The Big Learner Relay for Children in Need' planned for November this year. This 14 day event, now in its second year, features driving instructors and pupils across the country all getting together to raise money for charity.
The idea is to relay a top box, (the kind that driving instructors have on the roof of their cars), from one driving lesson to another around England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
With many months of planning the 2,800 mile route is set and driving instructors are preparing to take part. Each instructor will come up with ways to raise funds in whichever way works for them, their pupils and the businesses.
Some are getting together and are going to do something as a local group, some are working with local driving instructor associations, and some are just doing things within their franchises or on their own.
Ideas so far include sponsored lessons, fancy dress lessons, PJs for Pudsey and car washes. But by far the biggest fundraiser is 'sponsor a spot'.
Pupils are donating money to sign a coloured spot and stick it on their instructor's car.
A selection of driving instructors is involved on a more committed level by being lead cars. This is to ensure that every leg of the relay has a confirmed instructor and pupil in place to carry the top box to ensure the relay runs without a break in the chain. The lead cars demonstrate the diversity in this profession;
independent schools, franchises both national and local, Instructor trainers, instructors teaching in diesel, petrol and electric cars and instructors who specialise in teaching people with disabilities.
Instructors in every part of the country are planning on joining the relay and convoying behind the top box car.
Not wanting to miss out on any of the fun, Louise is travelling the whole of the UK route in the back of each lead car's lesson.
She comments: "I am so looking forward to meeting the hundreds of participating instructors, taking photos, cheering the convoy on, updating the live feeds, communicating with the media and wearing my Big Learner Relay T shirt with pride as we travel around the country."
The relay starts in Northern Ireland on Monday 26th October then crosses the water and continues its convoy on Friday 30th October, convoying around the UK finishing in Swindon on the 13th November which is the Children in Need Appeal Day 2015
14 days, 2800 miles, 180 lead driving lessons and many thousands of instructors and pupils joining the convoy!
Last year's total stood at over £65,000 and this year promises to be another great success.
Webmaster's note - For obvious reasons the timing could be a little flexible!
Please use this link for further details:
http://www.biglearnerrelay.co.uk/press-release
Location The Rose & Crown (Eli's) Car Park

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package jp.go.aist.six.util.search;

/**
 * A kind of the PropertyBinding that restricts a string property
 * to the matching pattern.
 *
 * <p>
 * This class does not define the meta characters
 * for regular expressions.
 * Therefore, the interpretation of the matching pattern is
 * left to users.
 * </p>
 *
 * @author  Akihito Nakamura, AIST
 * @version $Id: LikeBinding.java 473 2013-02-20 08:41:32Z nakamura5akihito@gmail.com $
 */
public class LikeBinding
    extends PropertyBinding
{
    private static final long  serialVersionUID = 3485964549468893824L;

    /**
     * The matching pattern.
     */
    private String  _pattern;

    /**
     * Default constructor.
     */
    public LikeBinding()
    {
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a LikeBinding with the specified property
     * and matching pattern.
     *
     * @param   property
     *  the property to restrict.
     * @param   pattern
     *  the matching pattern.
     */
    public LikeBinding(
                    final String property,
                    final String pattern
                    )
    {
        super( property );
        setPattern( pattern );
    }

    /**
     * Sets the matching pattern of this binding.
     *
     * @param   pattern
     *  the matching pattern.
     */
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                    final String pattern
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    }

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     *
     * @return
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     */
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    /**
     * Determines whether another object is equal to this LikeBinding.
     * The result is true if and only if the argument is not null
     * and is a LikeBinding object that has the same property,
     * relation type, and value.
     *
     * @param   obj
     *  the object to test for equality with this LikeBinding.
     * @return
     *  true if the given object equals this one;
     *  false otherwise.
     */
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                    final Object obj
                    )
    {
        if (!(obj instanceof LikeBinding)) {
            return false;
        }

        if (super.equals( obj )) {
            LikeBinding  other = (LikeBinding)obj;
            Object  other_pattern = other.getPattern();
            Object   this_pattern =  this.getPattern();
            if (other_pattern == this_pattern
                    ||  (other_pattern != null  &&  other_pattern.equals( this_pattern ))) {
                return true;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Computes the hash code for this LikeBinding.
     *
     * @return
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     */
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    public int hashCode()
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        final int  prime = 37;
        int  result = super.hashCode();

        String  pattern = getPattern();
        result = prime * result + (pattern == null ? 0 : pattern.hashCode());

        return result;
    }

    /**
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     * This method is intended to be used only for debugging purposes.
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     *
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As I've mentioned before, I've never been a huge fan of the J. Geils Band. I do love the song "I Musta Got Lost" because, as my theory says, every band has one good song. "Flamethrower" was kind of a funky, fun tune, but past that I never got into J. Geils. The lead vocalist of the J. Geils Band was Peter Wolf and he always brought a little too much "Great Googly Moogly" schtick to the role of front man for me.
With that as a backdrop, imagine my surprise, when in 2002 I was driving down to the Plaza area of Kansas City and a Peter Wolf song came on the Public Radio station I was listening to. I had long since given up on terrestrial radio, public radio was the only place to find interesting, new music by the artists I loved. There's only so many times I can listen to "Born To Run". Anyway, I'm in the car and this song comes on, "Nothing But The Wheel" by Peter Wolf. It's an amazing country-tinged weeper with none other than Mick Jagger warbling along on the harmony vocal. I almost lost control of the car the song was so good. I immediately went out and bought the album it was from, "Sleepless" and I must say it's not only a great Peter Wolf album, it's a great album period. It's clearly his masterpiece. I read somewhere a critic who said, Wolf had put out a better Van Morrison album than even Van Morrison's last record. High praise indeed. Not only Mick shows up, but so does Keith Richards on the bluesy duet "Too Close Together". In the liner notes it's funny to hear Wolf describe the different approaches Mick and Keith take to their craft and to the recording of a song. Keith's guitar tech brought in a case of vodka and a case of orange soda. Who knew Keith drinks like a teenage girl. I love every song on that album but especially "Hey, Jordan" ("that's a boy's name on a girl…Hey, Jordan, don't go home alone"), and "A Lot of Good Ones Gone". It's a must have in my books.
Then I went backwards in his catalog to "Fool's Parade" his album from 1998 and while it was not the revelation that "Sleepless" was, it was real solid, rootsy album. I'm not sure what people mean when they say "rootsy" but I know it when I hear it. It's real music, recorded by real musicians. There's a grittiness to this music that I like. It's not music you'd play at a party, it's "sitting on the deck, having that last bourbon nightcap" kind of music. It's 2 am, and you're about to slip into bed with her…. or him, or both of them, I don't judge. I think that pretty much captures the ethos of BourbonAndVinyl. After listening to "Fool's Parade" I was a certified fan. Usually I go crashing through an artists entire catalog at that point, but I didn't with Peter Wolf. Probably because one of his strongest albums, other than "Sleepless," his first solo album, "Lights Out" is unavailable on CD, vinyl or download. I'm a completist and if you can't get 'em all, why start.
Flash forward 6 years and Peter Wolf has again returned with a good, solid album in "A Cure For Loneliness." I really like this record. I never really write bad reviews, if I don't like something I choose to say nothing. I don't want to fall into the "haters gonna hate" category. I'm more in the "eaters gonna eat" column. Anyway, "A Cure For Loneliness" is not a life changing record like "Sleepless" but it's a great, solid record. It's got that same, nightcap feel to it. There are a number of great songs here. The opener, "Rolling On" sets the mood with a story of a man quietly on his way. "Peace of Mind" and "Fun For a While" are beautiful songs, beautifully sung. Wolf brings so much emotion and dare I say, soulfulness to his singing, that I could listen to the guy all night. All of these songs have a touch of country, a touch of the blues and a whole lot of beautiful singing. "It's Raining" is probably my favorite of the up-beat tunes, and by up-beat I mean non-ballad, there's no full out "rock the house" tunes here.
My issues with the record are knit-picky. There are 2 live tracks here. I don't know why but I've always felt like putting live tunes on a studio record is cheating but that's just a personal thing. One of the live tunes, "Wastin' Time" is one of the better tunes here but the other, a bluegrass version of the J. Geils' song "Love Stinks" is awful. I wasn't crazy about the original version of "Love Stinks", although I certainly agreed with the sentiment for most of my young life until I met the Rock Chick, but the world didn't need a bluegrass version of "Love Stinks". "How Do You Know" is a good song here, but it was already released as a bonus track on "Midnight Souvenirs" years ago. Again a knit but it feels like cheating. In six years you couldn't write one more tune? He does a ballad here, "Tragedy" (not the same song as the duet with Shelby Lynne on "Midnight…") that borders on maudlin. "It Was Always So Easy (To Find an Unhappy Woman)" is a bluesy/country stomper that should resonate but for some reason misses the mark with me.
"A Cure For Loneliness," despite it's flaws, still gets the BourbonAndVinyl recommendation to buy. Pour something strong, and as always, Enjoy!


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The Range Rover Sport SVR is one of the fastest SUVs available, with a supercharged V8 engine that puts out 575 horsepower. 0-60 happens in a scant 4.3 seconds, on it's way to a top speed of 174 mph.
To demonstrate just what a beast the Range Rover Sport SVR is, they took the fire-breathing SUV to the world-famous Tianmen Road in China, which consists of 99 turns. A Ferrari 458 Italia completed the run in 10 minutes and 31 seconds. Land Rover believed they could do better.
So they strapped Panasonic Jaguar Racing driver Ho-Pin Tung into the driver's seat and set him loose on the course.
"I am used to high speed racing, but these 99 turns were something unique. Maintaining concentration was the biggest challenge as the road twists and turns constantly, with huge drop-offs to the side. The consequences of getting it wrong would have been really serious so I focused on establishing a rhythm and the Range Rover Sport SVR made this easy – it may be an SUV but it has the performance and agility of a supercar and can take you to places a supercar can only dream of."
As you can see in the video above, the Range Rover Sport SVR set a new unofficial record of 9 minutes 51 seconds for the 11.3km ascent at an average speed of 42.8 mph, beating the previous best by nearly 40 seconds. Now that's impressive!
It's crazy to think that an SUV can outperform a supercar, especially on a road as technical as this. But seeing is believing.
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Well what can I say!? This book absolutely blew me away. I had just finished The Major Crimes Team Vol 1: Lines of Enquiry and wondered if the author could deliver another fabulous book…well OMFG …he could …and he did!
The main storyline was about a couple who have to turn to criminal activities to save their children. It was a roller-coaster of a ride indeed…however, the other sub-plots for me, were just as –if not more–interesting to follow.
Graham Smith has a way of making the reader feel as if they are part of the journey. The writing style is what captured my interest–the word choice and voices of the characters, for me, stood out and made each one unique in their own right. The tortured soul of DI Evans, the promiscuity of DC Lauren Phillips and the alleged 'innocence' of the new team member DI John Campbell, to name a few…had me captivated from the first page. I think I have found a new favourite author!! #Fangirl for sure!!!
The very pages of this book got under my skin…I actually cannot wait to find out what happens next and loved the way this book ended. Graham Smith is another author I will be keeping a close eye one for sure. I cannot express in words how great this book was. I would, however, suggest that you read The Major Crimes Team first to get yourself familiar with the characters — however, it is not a must as both books can be read as stand-alones!
Click the link below and grab yourself a copy #bookjunkies as you will NOT regret it!
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Another View of Mount St. Helens
Provided by: Frederick Marlowe
Summary authors & editors: Frederick Marlowe
The above photo was taken from a Cessna aircraft on 29 March 1987 and shows a view of snow covered Mount St. Helens almost 7 years after the momentous eruption of 18 May 1980. From the volcano's crater, sulfurous plumes could still be seen venting from the expanding lava dome, and once near the crater, the pungent smell of sulfur saturated the cockpit. To give some perspective, the crater's diameter is one mile (1.6 km), our altitude was approximately 8,000 feet (2.5 km), and the lava dome was about the size of a large, 4-story house. At the mountain's base, the remnant of Spirit Lake was half-filled with huge logs, felled by the shockwave from the eruption and propelled into the lake by devastating mudslides. From the altitude the photo was taken, these logs looked like toothpicks. See also the Earth Science Picture of the Day for May 17, 2002 and July 23, 2002.
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Cascades Volcano Observatory
Smithsonian Volcano Update
Mount St. Helens Image Set
Categories: _GeologyLinks | Geology | Mountains | Volcanoes |
Geology Links
Geologic Time
General Dictionary of Geology
Mineral and Locality Database
This Dynamic Earth
USGS Ask a Geologist
USGS/NPS Geologic Glossary
USGS Volcano Hazards Program


This lovely, dainty plant caught our attention and was collected growing wild with buffalo grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) around Nature's Valley. With its little mauve flowers creeping on long green stems through the grass, it looked as if the buffalo grass was flowering.
It has many long, thin stems that root where they touch the ground, forming mats about 20cm high and 50cm wide. The stems and leaves are bright green and soft. The small, serrated leaves are grouped near the base of the stems with the little violet-like flowers at the tips. The delightful little flowers, appearing in early summer (October - January), are deep purple with 5 narrow petals; 3 pointing upwards and 2 pointing downwards.
In nature, Monopsis unidentata is found growing in damp, sandy flats and rocky slopes from Riversonderend in the southern Cape and further along the east coast to KwaZulu-Natal. It is a fast growing perennial that loves sunny, wet spots.
There are 13 species in the genus Monopsis, found in central and southern Africa. The only other species grown at Kirstenbosch is Monopsis lutea or yellow lobelia, which also flowers in summer. Another flat growing perennial, it creeps along, also preferring damp places, but the flowers are bright yellow and the stems are far fewer, longer and thicker than those of Monopsis unidentata. In nature it is found growing in damp areas, from the Grootwinterhoek mountains in the Western Cape to Humansdorp in the Eastern Cape.
Bees visit these flowers and may be the pollinators.
Monopsis unidentata flowers throughout the summer, creating a beautiful display when planted in pots, along the front edge of borders or around ponds. To enjoy a mass of flowers, space the plants about 30cm apart. They are also very attractive twining through other plants.
Even though Monopsis unidentata prefers damp areas, it will grow just as well in ordinary light garden soil if it is kept moist throughout the year. It is unaffected by cold weather, but dies down for a short time in winter and shoots again in the spring.


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Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (Florence, 12 februari 1923 – Rome, 15 juni 2019) was een Italiaans filmregisseur, toneelregisseur, ontwerper en producent van opera-, theater-, film- en televisieproducties.

Internationaal werd hij bekend na een Oscarnominatie voor zijn filmversie van William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet (1968). Ook zijn televisieserie Jezus van Nazareth uit 1977 kreeg veel waardering en wordt in sommige landen nog steeds uitgezonden tijdens het paasweekeinde.

Biografie
Zeffirelli groeide op in Florence onder toezicht van de Britse expatgemeenschap. Hij was sterk betrokken bij de zogenaamde Scorpioni, een Engelse vrouwengroep die de inspiratie vormden voor zijn semiautobiografische film Tea with Mussolini uit 1999.

Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog vocht hij met partizanen en ging daarna aan de slag als tolk bij de Engelse troepen van de 1ste Schotse Garde. Na de oorlog studeerde hij kunst en architectuur aan de Universiteit van Florence. Hij werkte samen met regisseurs als Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini en Luchino Visconti en schakelde al snel over naar film.

Zeffirelli regisseerde tal van operaproducties in Italië, maar ook in de Verenigde Staten. Noemenswaardig is zijn productie van Tosca met Maria Callas.
In de jaren zestig maakte hij naam als ontwerper en regisseur van zijn eigen toneelstukken in Londen en Tito Gobbi in het Royal Opera House uit 1964, maar ook zijn producties voor de Metropolitan Opera in New York, waaronder La bohème en Turandot. Ten slotte was zijn decorontwerp van Madama Butterfly in het najaar van 1985 voor de opera van Chicago opmerkelijk.

Zeffirelli was politiek actief en in de jaren zeventig lid van de Italiaanse senaat voor de christendemocraten. In 1994 in 1996 werd hij opnieuw gekozen als senator, nu als vertegenwoordiger van het conservatieve Forza Italia.

Door vele religieuze groepen is hij beschuldigd van wat zij noemen de blasfemische weergave van Bijbelse figuren in zijn films, maar hij kreeg ook kritiek uit de hoek van de homoseksuele beweging vanwege zijn openlijke steun aan de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk met betrekking tot homoseksualiteit.

In 2007, teleurgesteld over de manier waarop paus Benedictus XVI zich presenteerde in de media, bood Zeffirelli openlijk zijn diensten aan als imageconsultant. Hij zou hierover gezegd hebben: "Ik ben een christen tot in het diepste van mijn geest".

Zeffirelli overleed in Rome na een lang ziekbed.

Werk (selectie)
1964: Falstaff (1964)
1965: La bohème
1967: The Taming of the Shrew
1968: Romeo and Juliet, ook bekend als Giulietta e Romeo – nominatie Academy Award (regie)
1972: Brother Sun, Sister Moon, ook bekend onder de naam Fratello sole, sorella luna
1977: Jesus of Nazareth
1979: The Champ
1981: Endless Love
1982: Cavalleria rusticana
1982: Pagliacci
1982: La bohème
1983: La traviata — nominatie Academy Award (artdirection), winnaar BAFTA (productieontwerp); met Teresa Stratas en Plácido Domingo
1985: Tosca, live productie van de Metropolitan Opera
1986: Otello — nominatie BAFTA (buitenlandstalige film); met Plácido Domingo
1990: Hamlet
 Don Giovanni, televisieproductie van de Metropolitan Opera)
1993: Storia di una capinera, ook bekend als de Spreeuw
1994: Il tabarro
1996: Jane Eyre
1999: Tea with Mussolini
2002: Callas Forever

Erkenning
1999: Kristallen Bol voor zijn uitzonderlijke artistieke bijdrage aan de film in de hele wereld op het Internationaal filmfestival van Karlsbad
november 2004: een hoge Britse onderscheiding.

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 Interview: Maria Callas en Callas Forever
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This concert marks the end of an era for Duchy Opera: 14 years of musical leadership from one of the most prodigious talents of his generation.
Paul Drayton has been at the helm of the company in almost every sense, as musical director, composer, libretto translator, chorus master and pianist for innumerable concerts.
During these years he conducted A Masked Ball, The Wreckers, Tosca, Semele, The Vampire, The Merry Widow, Carmen, Die Fledermaus, his own opera The Hanging Oak, La Traviata and The Merry Wives of Windsor, at venues including village halls, schools, community centres, theatres such as the Northcott Exeter, the Wharf Tavistock and the Hall for Cornwall, and of course at the Minack.
He has directed, programmed and played for our concerts and shows in a vast range of venues, from country houses to Heartlands, from Mevagissey Jubilee Hall to the Tresanton Hotel St Mawes, and almost all points in between.
A keen educationalist, he has been at the forefront of Duchy's initiative The School Run, taking opera to Cornish Primary and Secondary schools, and wrote and directed The Mermaid of Zennor incorporating 270 Primary school children plus the company into a touring production.
And all of this has been done with great humour, tact, insight and energy…. Paul, it has been a privilege to be associated with you.
Members of Duchy Opera gathered on Sunday to honour Ann McCormick, (seen here with Chairman Andrew Lancaster) with a presentation gift.
Ann has put down her pen after a mind-bending 24 years working meticulously with members of the D.O. Council, taking the minutes at their (often rather long!) monthly meetings.
Her first chairman was Michael Latham: others were David Peters, Derek Reed, Jenny Richards, Paul Collins and others in between. She will still be kept busy, though, as Secretary of the Friends of Duchy Opera, a job she has also done for a number of years. Thank you, Ann.


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A map of the area. Yousef is from Syria and traveled through Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has attempted to enter Hungary and hopes to eventually reach the Netherlands.
"I only dream about living without shame and without fear."
This story was written by Irena Abdelalem Abdelmaksoud, a protection officer who specializes in working with unaccompanied children at CWS partner Info Park in Belgrade, Serbia. All comments are the opinions of the author or speaker.
Yousef* is a 26-year-old who comes from Lattakia, Syria. He was a teenager when the Syrian war started. He said that at that time he still had hopes that war would soon be over. He dreamed of becoming a medical practitioner.
"Growing up as a gay person in Syria means growing up in shame and fear. In most cases, anything that stands out in our society, anything different from our rigid beliefs is cast away as something unnatural or wrong." He adds that in Syria there are no opportunities for young persons from the LGBTQ+ community to learn anything about sexuality or sexual orientation, because that topic is strictly taboo and even asking questions about it can put you at risk of being labeled a "deviant" or "perverted". He says that he struggled for years to accept himself. He tried to turn to religious books or religious classes, but he couldn't find a place that would include or accept him. Instead, with every book and every class, he felt more ashamed and terrified of what would happen to him if anyone found out. This led to him suffering from depression, anxiety, substance abuse and self-harming in his early adolescent years.
As the years went by and the war and devastation in his country continued, his hopes further diminished. Yousef left Syria in 2018, fleeing forceful militarization. "I couldn't participate in the killings. I couldn't carry a gun or shoot someone." He first volunteered for an NGO in a refugee camp in Turkey where he helped a translator. But since he was travelling as a "single man" he was not able to neither seek asylum there nor obtain any documents. Therefore he decided to leave Turkey in hopes of reaching Europe. He was forced to travel alone, without a smuggler's assistance and avoiding larger group of migrants, all while fearing for his own safety. "Even though many people left their countries, they still carry their beliefs and even social norms with them. This means that LGBTQ+ refugees are in danger throughout their journey. I heard stories of people being brutally beaten when the word in camp got out that they are gay." Yousef went through Greece, North Macedonia and Serbia following the migration routes he found online before reaching Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Bosnia he was stuck for over a year, residing outside official centers while trying to continue further. On several occasions he was intercepted by the border police who beat him and stole all of his personal belongings, including money, mobile phone and even clothes, before pushing him back to Bosnia. In February 2021, on another one of his attempts, Yousef and his friend hid in a luggage compartment of a bus for 12 hours, hoping that the bus would take them to the Netherlands. Instead they were arrested by the police in Budapest who took them to the border with Serbia and ordered them to walk forward. "I tried to ask for asylum there. I thought: it's European Union; maybe I will have a chance to start my life over. But the police said 'no asylum' and took me to the border."
After his push-back from the Hungarian border, Yousef was identified by the Info Park's field team in Belgrade. Info Park provided him with a daily shelter, warm meal and NFI [supplies]. IP's cultural mediator briefed him on the registration and accommodation procedures, as well as the services available to him with the official asylum and reception centers run by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration. However, Yousef refused to go to the official center fearing that it would not be safe for him. "People notice things when you're different. They comment on the way I look or talk or walk. One comment can be enough to put me in danger." Instead he decided to sleep rough [outside] in Belgrade and plan how to continue further irregularly. "My goal is to reach the Netherlands. I read a lot online about their country. Maybe after all this, I could still continue my education and find a job. I always felt passionate about helping people. Also, if I was a doctor, maybe my family would be proud of me. Maybe they would not care so much about other parts of me. You know what's funny? Most people are dreaming about finding their true love, the love of their life. But I only dream about living without shame and without fear. Without pretending and without looking over my shoulder. To wake up and be able to be me. And to know that it's okay."
Yousef was last seen by IP's team in March 2021 while he was still trying to go for a "game" (irregular border-crossing). Since then, there is no information on his whereabouts.
*Name changed to protect identity.


The major determinant to increasing speed is the ability to propel our body in a forward direction. During high speed running we generate force through the ground orientated both in a vertical and horizontal direction. It is how well we orientate this horizontally that mores so determine sprint performance.
short bursts of speed. So, most sports!!
The hip extensors (glutes and hamstrings) are the muscle group, predominantly responsible for generating this horizontal ground reaction force and in particular the hamstrings are believed to play a very important role.
Study by (Morin et al., 2015) showed athletes able to produce the highest amount of horizontal ground reaction force were able to highly activate there hamstrings just prior to striking the ground and also showed greatest amount of eccentric knee flexion torque – 'force generated while the hamstring muscle is lengthening'.
through, momentum will carry his shin forwards quickly. Role of the hamstring here is to control that movement (eccentric knee flexion as described above) so he does not over stride and 'hit the brakes' (or tear his hamstring as it lengthens rapidly).
In regard to hamstring injury, it can be seen why a decreased capacity of the hamstrings may lead to injury or recurrent injury, due to the significantly high loads that are placed on them.
Now, I am not saying the only reason for hamstring injury is fault of the hamstring muscle groups itself. There are other potential factors, for example pelvic positioning, poor glute function, lower back pathology, core strength issues just to name a few.
Reason for this post is more so to pay attention to the large functional role the hamstrings have in sprinting itself and make sure this is not neglected in rehabilitation or training.
Quite often for example, clinically we may see an athlete complaining of constant or recurring hamstring 'tightness or injury'. Despite always stretching, possessing good glute function and core strength they continue to acquire tight hamstrings or re-injure.
There is often the belief that if my hamstrings are tight, they need to be stretched, and if I do this often enough, I won't have tight hamstrings anymore. In fact, what may be transpiring is constant overload of the hamstrings if they do not possess the capacity for performing the strenuous task of sprinting.
You can stretch all you like, if hamstring capacity is not addressed problems will most likely continue. As explained, there may be various reasons for hamstring 'problems' though I'd like to address this possibility which is often neglected.
Over the next week, I will post a series of videos highlighting some progressive exercises for the hamstrings I commonly use in regard to sprinting and why.
Morin, J.-B., Gimenez, P., Edouard, P., Arnal, P., Jiménez-Reyes, P., Samozino, P., . . .
in Horizontal Force Production. Frontiers in physiology, 6, 404-404.


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Q: Running a BackgroundWorker continuously I need to be able to continuously run my BackgroundWorker. The DoWork event contains a pool threaded process and the OnComplete updates my UI.
I have not been able to find a way to infinitely loop the BackgroundWorker.RunWorkerAsync() method without the whole program freezing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: I have done this in the past when needing something to run in the background.
If you try to run the backgroundworker while it is running, you will get an excpetion!
That is why i make the BackGroundWorker start itself when it is done in the completed event.
And then it will loop forever.
private void Main_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   // Start Background Worker on load
   bgWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
}

private void bgWorker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
   Thread.Sleep(1000);   // If you need to make a pause between runs
   // Do work here
}

private void bgCheck_RunWorkerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
{
// Update UI

// Run again
bgWorker.RunWorkerAsync();   // This will make the BgWorker run again, and never runs before it is completed.
}

A: You have to make a loop in your DoWork-Method. To update your UI you shoud use the ProgressChanged-Method. Here is a small example how this can look like
 public Test()
    {
        this.InitializeComponent();
        BackgroundWorker backgroundWorker = new BackgroundWorker
            {
                 WorkerReportsProgress = true,
                WorkerSupportsCancellation = true
            };
        backgroundWorker.DoWork += BackgroundWorkerOnDoWork;
        backgroundWorker.ProgressChanged += BackgroundWorkerOnProgressChanged;
    }

    private void BackgroundWorkerOnProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        object userObject = e.UserState;
        int percentage = e.ProgressPercentage;
    }

    private void BackgroundWorkerOnDoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
    {
        BackgroundWorker worker = (BackgroundWorker) sender;
        while (!worker.CancellationPending)
        {
            //Do your stuff here
            worker.ReportProgress(0, "AN OBJECT TO PASS TO THE UI-THREAD");
        }
    }

A:  timer.interval=60000 // 1 min

private void backgroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
    {
        timer1.Start();

    }
 private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        try
        {
           //Do something
        }
        catch
        {

        }
    }

A: on backgroundworker completed event, just start background worker again

A: If your program is freezing, it may be because your infinitely looping background worker thread is spinning, using 100% CPU.  You haven't said why you need it to run in an infinite loop, but you could start by putting a Thread.Sleep in that loop.


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Overlord VS TenSura VS So I'm a Spider, So What?
Posted bymacksamson October 19, 2019 Posted inLight Novels, Overlord, So I'm a Spider, So What?, TenSuraTags:edgy, fantasy, isekai, light novel, Overlord, overview, TenSura, vs
Prior to starting this blog, I had already written three separate reviews for Overlord, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, and So I'm a Spider, So What?, all of which are published in English by Yen Press. However, I realized that my feelings regarding all three of these are very similar. So, in this unusual blog entry, I'm going to review all three of them… simultaneously. For reference, I have read the following volumes at this point; 10 for Overlord, 6 for TenSura, and 6 for Spider.
All three try to subvert modern isekai conventions, and whether or not they succeed changes depending on who you talk to. The main characters of each are transported to the series' respective worlds in unusual forms: Overlord's Momonga in the form of his lich-like avatar from a dead MMO, TenSura's salaryman who gets named Rimuru upon his reincarnation as a slime, and Spider's unnamed main protagonist in the form of a spider. All three end up revolving around these characters exploring their worlds and becoming stronger over time.
On paper, they have their own satisfying, JRPG-like progression system, where you feel genuinely cathartic once they have entire nations at their whim. But in practice, it doesn't work out so well. In Overlord, Momonga- a.k.a. Ainz's- avatar is already at maximum power, and all the custom monsters that his minions created are already devoted to him with every fiber of their being. The problem is that the author tries to have Ainz in a struggle of ideals, where he doesn't want to kill anyone, but also doesn't want to disappoint his minions. The latter is a moot point (because his minions already love him no matter what), and the former is kind of toggled on and off like a switch. As often as he tries to be "diplomatic" to gain new allies, he mostly ends up just brute forcing it and killing people violently and theatrically in spite of himself.
TenSura is similar, but more light-hearted. Rimuru at least has more interesting powers in that he absorbs creatures and learns their abilities, but when he gains the ability to assume a human shape, he uses it all the time and defeats the purpose of the Slime gimmick. In the end, though, the light-hearted nature of TenSura backfires. Rimuru is written as an utter saint and is never questioned when he murders in cold blood; at least Overlord TRIED to have an existential crisis, as moot as it was given its context.
So I'm a Spider, So What? had the best potential. The main character is reincarnated in a dungeon filled with powerful enemies that could kill her in one hit. As a result, she has to use clever strategies and status attacks to chip away at big enemies' HP and kill them very unceremoniously. By the time the second arc starts, she conforms to the OP protagonist trope, but it feels like she earned it.
My ultimate complaint with all three of these series is their characters. Ainz is likable when he's a super badass, but that's very rare. As cool-looking as his minions are, Shalltear is the only one whose company I enjoy. The rest of the characters in Overlord are villagers and warriors who end up on the receiving end of Ainz's boot. They exist to have you sympathize with them in order to push the moral ambiguity angle, but the characters themselves are incredibly unremarkable.
TenSura isn't much better. The only character I liked is Milim, a character that shows up in volume 3, but- of course- tends to spend a lot of time offscreen, at least up to where I left off at volume 6. Everyone else is just as boring as Overlord, sometimes even more so.
Out of the characters in Spider, the titular protagonist is by far the best. Despite how her chapters are written in monologues, she has a sassy personality that makes Spider a joy to read. However… notice how I said "her chapters." The story alternates between her and her classmates, who also got reincarnated. In particular, the human chapters focus on Shun, whose new name is Schlain. Schlain is a straight-up human, which defeats the subversiveness of the spider gimmick. He's at least not overpowered, but that ends up turning him into a whiny YA protagonist who basically has to passively do what his reincarnated class teacher says. The others are almost worse. A male classmate (forgot his name) gets reincarnated as Katia, a girl, which seems like a ham-fisted attempt to comment on gender identity without actually commenting on gender identity (sort of like in Levithan's Every Day, my second least favorite novel of all time). Hugo is one of the first major antagonists, and basically a clone of Seifer from Final Fantasy VIII. The biggest problem with these characters is that they are introduced poorly. The prologue immediately starts with the class getting blown up and reincarnated, thus you do not get to see any of what they were like prior. As a result, the story expects you to feel the emotions of Schlain as he sees his classmates' new forms without ever seeing their original forms. If you have that level of sympathy, cool. I don't.
The writing styles of these light novels are vastly different from each other. Overlord has a very poetic D&D quality to its writing. However, it only gets good when SOMETHING ACTUALLY HAPPENS. A lot of it is other kingdoms discussing various politics that you know mean nothing because Ainz is just gonna smash everything, and it bothers me so much. On the flipside, it makes the few good sequences feel cathartic. TenSura, however, is the most boring. Action scenes could be good, but go by quickly and unceremoniously, which sucks because the author is actually pretty good at building up to major fights, and it all goes to waste. I don't need tension, especially not for isekai, but novels like Cautious Hero are able to be enjoyable despite having no tension thanks to straight-up great writing. Spider is polarizing to read, because it feels like it's by two different writers. As previously discussed, the spider's chapters are great, and Schlain's are tedious beyond all reason. Most notably, Spider's plot is structured to where the spider's events happen decades before Schlain's, but it doesn't seem to serve any real purpose. In fact, the structure almost backfires; we get what I presume to be a preview of the climax of the entire series at the end of volume 5, which makes everything in the subsequent volumes feel like padding since we all know how it's going to unfold in the first place. Well… it'll only be a problem if this thing publishes into the double digits.
Lastly, let's compare the art. The illustrations for all three books are incredible, in their own unique ways. Personally, I think the illustrations of Overlord take the cake, though, as they are gloriously detailed and look almost hand-painted. Spider's is a more vibrant take on Overlord's, and TenSura's is super charming and cartoony.
Verdict: Overlord 7.65/10, TenSura 6.5/10, Spider 8/10
These three light novels have taken the community by storm over the years, and I personally don't understand why. While I think So I'm a Spider, So What? is by far the best of them, it has its own glaring issues. Overlord and TenSura could've been really good, but their authors just seem to be at a crossroads with committing to the best ideas they had for them. I don't think they're the worst, but I think they are easily outclassed by other isekais that I'd recommend, like Cautious Hero, Torture Princess, and Otherside Picnic. If you enjoy power fantasies in general, then there wouldn't be any harm in giving them a try.
There Was No Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One Myself! Volume 1 Review


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Q: Horizontal Recycler View with multiple item at once I want to show multiple itemview at once like this

I am using recycler view 23.2.1
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.2.1'

My recycler view xml
       <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
            android:id="@+id/gallary"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:scrollbars="horizontal" />

Corresponding Java code
 mRecyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.gallary);
 mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this, LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false);
 mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);

With this configuration I getting only one item at once. Like image below

It seems like wrap_content in recycler view is not working as the space between images are there. Is there anyway to remove the space between the items.
I found one bug related to wrap_contect in recycler view link which is fixed. Not sure if this is causing the problem. Any help to fix this will be appreciated
My row view:
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/image"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:src="@drawable/facebook" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/titletv"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@+id/image"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:text="Testing"
            android:textSize="@dimen/fourteen_sp" />

        <ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/mainimgloading"
            android:layout_width="24dp"
            android:layout_height="24dp"
            android:layout_centerInParent="true"
            android:layout_gravity="center" />

    </RelativeLayout>

</LinearLayout>

A: Your parent LinearLayout for your row cannot be match_parent you must use wrap_content for your width or else you will get what you see there.
if you had a vertical recyclerview then you would be using wrap_content for your height and not your width


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Legal weed stores will be 'very chic, very modern'
Samples on display at Farma, a marijuana dispensary in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 4, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JOSH EDELSON )
Brett Bundale, The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:21AM EST
This is what the end of cannabis prohibition will look like in New Brunswick: An upscale showroom with black ceilings, grey walls and a once-illicit drug displayed in brightly lit glass cases.
"Think along the lines of a jewellery store. Very chic, very modern, very clean-cut lines," New Brunswick Liquor Corp. spokesman Mark Barbour says in an interview.
"That's where the product will be kept, in locked glass cases, and from there the transaction will be made and proceed to a point-of-sale area."
With less than seven months to go before recreational marijuana is legalized, provinces and territories are scrambling to come up with plans to sell cannabis.
But only scant details have emerged about what the retail experience of buying legal weed will be like.
Ottawa lawyer Trina Fraser predicts it won't be much akin to buying a bottle of scotch.
"Think more like tobacco as opposed to alcohol," she says. "It's not going to be like you'll walk in and there are samples."
New Brunswick's retail scheme -- which appears to be the most advanced among the provinces -- offers an early peek at how consumers will buy the drug.
The province has issued construction specs featuring a standalone brick store with a black awning featuring the CannabisNB logo.
But despite the upscale interior, the entrance will reflect governments' cautious embrace of cannabis: Stern security guards will swipe identification cards to confirm customers are 19 and over before allowing them to step inside.
Beyond this forbidding first interaction, staff in a reception area with glossy white tables and bright green chairs will explain safe and responsible recreational cannabis use, harm reduction and the laws of the land. Formalities taken care of, customers are escorted into a gleaming 3,000 square-foot weed retail store.
The first customer will walk through the doors in July, more than a year after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fulfilled a campaign pledge and introduced legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
In a single day, buying cannabis will go from a black-market purchase, steeped in surreptitious dealings and paranoid dealers, to a modern shopping experience. A drug long condemned as the stuff of street gangs, organized crime and outlaw motorcycle clubs will be branded, packaged and displayed in stores.
A once-clandestine act will become a government-sanctioned transaction, complete with a healthy excise tax and consumption taxes on top.
While it appears the distribution of wholesale cannabis and online sales will be largely government-controlled, provinces and territories have opted for one of three retail models for over-the-counter sales: Private, public or a hybrid of the two.
Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and P.E.I. have announced government-run stores, similar to the Crown-owned liquor stores in those provinces.
Alberta, Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador have said the private sector will operate cannabis retail outlets in those provinces, while British Columbia has decided on a hybrid retail model.
Saskatchewan has hinted at a private model, but has yet to confirm its retail plans. Yukon suggested it may initially limit sales to government outlets, but as with the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, the territory is still in public consultations.
Governments are also still hammering out exactly how much the product will cost, how much it will be taxed, the minimum age for buyers, where smoking pot will be legal and driving impairment rules.
"This is basically like the entire country turning 19 at the same time," says Rosalie Wyonch, policy analyst with the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto.
"Education is going to be a large part of the customer service of these retail stores. Chances are most consumers will not be particularly familiar with the product and could be completely nervous."
While some budtenders, as they're often called, may essentially hold the hands of the uninitiated -- walking them through cannabis awareness, education and consumption tips -- staff at other stores could offer a more bare-bones experience.
"For the provinces that will go Crown corporation for retail, it's probably going to be a very polished experience," Wyonch says. "Someone who has never thought of smoking weed could walk into the store and feel comfortable. There would probably be significantly more amounts of customer service staff to help you with products and explain things."
Provinces that opt for a private retail model, however, will likely have a full spectrum of service tied to price, she says.
"There might be very nice stores that give a really good experience -- and are slightly more expensive -- and there will potentially also be a little hole in a wall down a side street where you don't get very much customer service, you don't get to ask any questions, but it's pretty cheap and the people that were used to dealing with the black market would be fine there," Wyonch says.
Given the main goal of legalization is to stomp out the black market, she says private retail could render the black market obsolete more quickly. Wyonch says private stores would create a more competitive marketplace and lead to better geographic coverage than government-built stores.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario, for example, plans to open 40 stores in 14 municipalities next July, a number she says is unlikely to meet the full market demand.
However, consumers in all regions will also be able to access marijuana online.
But in order to eliminate the black market, buying pot will have to be convenient, says Jenna Valleriani, a University of Toronto PhD candidate in sociology and addiction studies.
"For people who have purchased from a friend or acquaintance for 15 years, those are really hard purchasing patterns to shift," she says. "If you did have to go to a retail shop and wait in line for an hour, that's likely going to deter people from going there."
Fraser says no province will open a complete network of retail stores the day cannabis becomes legal.
Even in the provinces with a private retail model, she says licensing operators could make for a sluggish rollout of stores.
"It's going to unroll over time and what that actually looks like for consumers is going to depend on what province or territory you're located in," says Fraser, a partner at Brazeau Seller LLP, who specializes in cannabis law. "We're going to see an ongoing evolution of shifting from a black or grey market to a legal one."
She notes Ontario is contemplating "a pretty stark retail store environment."
"I assume there is going to be some type of menu available to choose from," Fraser says. "I don't suspect anywhere in Canada you'll have a legal retail store that will look like a dispensary where you walk in and can see and in some cases smell the product."
As with prescriptive alcohol rules that followed the end of prohibition, strict cannabis laws will likely loosen over time as consumers become more accustomed to the drug.
But Valleriani says the "stoner stereotype" could persist for some consumers.
"I think there will be a lot of residual stigma leftover," she says. "I'm not really convinced, for example, that an elementary school teacher is going to want to be seen walking out of a cannabis shop."
Valleriani calls some cannabis legislation being proposed unnecessary, such as New Brunswick's plan to make it mandatory to keep the drug under lock and key.
"There is absolutely some hysteria around cannabis in the home and young people," she says, adding that fears legalization will lead to dramatically higher consumption are unfounded.
"I think we can expect a small uptick in adult use and then it will level off," Valleriani says. "There will initially be a bit of a spike because it's a novelty for many people."
One sector of the cannabis market that is expected to see growth in Canada is marijuana-infused food, or edibles.
Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie University professor of food distribution and policy, recently published a report that helped push Ottawa to include the legalization of edible cannabis products in Bill C-45.
"There is a good portion of the Canadian population that would be willing to try edibles," he says, pointing to his research that shows of the 68 per cent of people in favour of legalization, 93 per cent would try an edible product. "That's a lot, so we need to be ready for this. Not adding edibles to the legislation may have exposed consumers to unwarranted risks."
But don't expect a cannabis bakery around the corner come July. The legalization of edibles, like brownies and muffins, will lag by a year.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The 2017 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships kick off tomorrow and once again, Oregon's Edward Cheserek is at the center of attention. Arriving fashionably late to the pre-meet press conference at the Presidential Suite at palatial Kyle Field, it didn't take long for the NCAA's top coaches and athletes to sing the praises of the 13-time NCAA champion.
Holloway's head coach, Mike Holloway (no relation), also shared his respect for the Oregon senior.
The fact that both the Holloways want Cheserek to succeed is noteworthy as he is the only thing standing between Florida and their fourth indoor title in the last eight years. Going by seeds, the Gators are projected to score 53 points. Oregon is the only other team slated to score more than 30, but should Cheserek pull off the mile-3k-5k triple and anchor the Ducks to a third straight DMR title, he'd lift Oregon's projected score to 43 — within striking distance of the title should some Gators falter or some Ducks rise up.
Cheserek, who doubled at NCAA Indoors as a freshman and tripled as a sophomore and junior, said that in an ideal world, he wouldn't mind a reduced workload. But he and the Oregon coaching staff reached the decision to triple together, and Ducks coach Robert Johnson believes a triple (or quadruple) is the "proper progression" after Cheserek won the 3k, 5k and DMR at NCAAs last year.
LetsRun.com's DMR preview already laid out the case for why I believe Cheserek will run the DMR, but in case you needed any more evidence, he was practicing handoffs today on the track.
The Oregon women are expected to run away with the NCAA team title. Literally; they don't have a single field event athlete entered in the meet. In an interesting twist, the Georgia women — the #2 team by seed projections — don't have a single athlete entered in the running events.
Georgia head coach Petros Kyprianou has turned the Bulldogs into a national power on the strength of the program's jumpers and multi-eventers, but he'd still like to create a well-rounded squad.
Johnson admitted that while he may not have any field eventers in Texas this weekend, that is an anomaly.
Oregon has won that award — which takes into account cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field — every year since it was established in 2009. If the Ducks win the indoor meet as expected this weekend, they'll be ⅔ of the way to a historic XC/indoor/outdoor sweep, something that has never been accomplished by a Division I women's program.
Both Johnson and Kyprianou said that they had no issues with the scoring system.


The Supreme Court of India today dismissed a petition which sought quashing of criminal cases against Gujarat policemen in the alleged encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan, who according to the plea was a "terrorist as deposed by David Headley" who plotted to kill the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.
A bench of Justice P C Ghosh and Justice Amitava Roy said "so many issues were involved. We have to look into so many things" and so the appropriate High Court was best equipped to hear it.
"The person who has a locus can move the High Court under article 226" said the bench.
"You withdraw it or we will dismiss it. It will be better if you withdraw as then all issues will remain open", the bench told Sharma who refused to withdraw it.
Sharma filed the petition following a recent testimony by US national and Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley, who deposed that Jahan was a member of the Pakistan-based terror group.
Taking into account the statement of ex-Home Secretary G K Pillai, the petition had also urged the court to look into former Home Minister P Chidambaram "changing an affidavit" filed in the Supreme Court, which originally described Ishrat and her slain aides as LeT operatives.
Stating that the "killing of a terrorist is not an offence under the Indian law", the petition asks the Supreme Court to drop charges against policemen accused of staging a fake encounter outside Ahmedabad in 2004. Four people, including Ishrat, were killed in the encounter.


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I am responding to Mr. Olsrud's article from Wednesday, titled "when did the EPA become the bad guys".
Go read the piece, if you haven't. I'll wait.
I was really disappointed when I read this. Given the stature and experience of the author, I was hoping for something better and more convincing.
The first difficulty I have with the piece is the unwritten implication Olsrud makes. He doesn't quite say, but instead implies, that because in the 1970s, he thinks the EPA did some good things, that the EPA should still be around today, 40 years later, and anyone suggesting otherwise is in the pocket of industry.
Suppose we all accept, for the sake of argument, that there was a legitimate environmental problem in the 1970s, and that creating the EPA was the right way to go deal with that problem, and that the EPA was wildly successful at solving the problems it was created to solve.
That has no bearing on if the EPA of today should exist.
Creations of government have a nasty habit of being nearly immortal. Try to think of a government program or department that has substantially disappeared.
It is perfectly reasonable to suppose that a government might start a group to deal with some particular task, and once that task has been achieved, disband that organization.
We can think of rare examples – like the Manhattan Project, or the Apollo program. Problem identified; team assembled, mission accomplished, team disbanded.
Olsrud claims that the EPA has been wildly successful. If we agree with him, what's the harm in suggesting that the EPA kick back and retire?
The point is, we shouldn't assume that all government entities should be immortal. We should cherish the idea that an agency or team can be created, do its job, and then be dismantled or tremendously downsized when it's goals have been met.
This is how business works. It has to.
The next thing Olsrud claims is that industry didn't self regulate, and therefore, federal law and the EPA were the only way to combat problems in specific rivers and cities.
Suppose all of that's true.
How is that relevant to North Dakotans in 2015? What unbearable pollution is happening in our state? Does Olsrud understand that there are already multiple state-level regulatory agencies?
We have some of the cleanest air in the entire country, yet we generate a big pile of our energy from coal. I have always felt, on all occasions and all travels in this great state, that my air is clean enough. We do not live in Detroit, Chicago, or Boston. We live in North Dakota – an entire state with a population less than any of the cities he mentioned.
It may very well be that the EPA was necessary at the time and place he said it was – suppose for argument that we agree that it was. That doesn't mean it is necessary today, in North Dakota.
Next, he claims that the mood in the country has changed. He apparently bemoans the fact that our politicians have recently been accusing the EPA of overreach.
The mood has changed. It's been 40 years. The air and water in dense urban areas is much cleaner. Taxes are higher; homes are nicer, life expectancy is up, we've had an African American president, and a bunch of people think we're about to have a female president.
Our world was probably unimaginable to Nixon.
Critically, we've had an energy crisis. We've had a few of them, actually. We depend on electricity like never before. Homes were still being built with 100 amp main panels in the 1970s. Now many homes have multiple 200 amp services. In the 1970s, we were single car, single television households. Now we're multiple TV, multiple-car households. Most of us have dishwashers. Most of us have electric dryers. Our water heaters are larger; our air conditioners are bigger.
We're on the cusp of an electric car revolution.
Our energy needs are higher than ever, and yet, our energy costs are being made artificially high by regulatory action, by entities like the EPA. Since the 1970s, as a nation, we've turned our backs on Nuclear power. As a nation, we've drastically increased the cost of finding, shipping, and burning coal.
Despite what the climate scientists tell us, it's still pretty darn cold here in the winter. I pay attention to my electricity bill. I might be very likely to prefer a lower energy cost even if it meant marginally dirtier air.
In fact, I have a wood burning stove in my living room now. I don't think that's what the EPA wanted, but that's what I did.
So, yes, it's a much different world now than it was in 1970. Nearly everything – and especially Energy – is more expensive, and part of that is the EPA's fault.
Olsrud seems to think that although environmental and economic conditions have radically changed, people's opinions about the cost/benefits of the EPA shouldn't.
The next thing he mentions is just bizarre. Olsrud stresses in multiple places that the EPA is a federal organization, and only a federal organization could have addressed the problems of yesterday and keep addressing problems in the future.
He never explains why federal involvement was thought necessary in the 1970s, and, his explanation of why he doesn't trust state officials to regulate polluters is very strange.
In effect, his entire argument is that it's harder for industries to buy federal officials than state officials.
It might be more expensive, but it's certainly not more difficult. And there's no evidence it's less common.
How does he think federal office works?
Does he not understand that the EPA serves at the pleasure of the executive branch? Does he not understand that the Obama administration used its executive powers to limit the ability of normal people along the Gulf Coast to go and sue BP after the Deepwater Horizon disaster?
The Obama administration initially protected BP from a near endless queue of potential litigants. He claims that state legislators could be bought by state industries, but we know that employees and elected officials at the federal level are regularly engaging in pay for play to benefit their industry friends and donors.
On the contrary, what we know about regulators and elected officials in the state of North Dakota is that they live in North Dakota. It is flagrantly bizarre to assume that people in Washington DC have more legitimate concern for the air and water quality of North Dakota than do actual North Dakotans.
The feds are perhaps interested. But the locals are implicated.
Not only are people who actually live here more likely to care about the environment here, but they're more likely to be removed from office if they mismanage their responsibilities here. A federal entity which badly mismanages North Dakota but does a good job of pleasing residents of California and New York can count on near-eternal popularity at the federal level. As North Dakotans, we just don't have the population to matter to anyone who has a sphere of control that covers the entire US. That would be the EPA.
No, it isn't. The air and water in my backyard doesn't belong to the EPA, it doesn't belong to the federal government, and it sure doesn't belong to any damn self-styled "experts".
The so called "experts" at the EPA tried to propose that cattle couldn't kick up dust, and that any farmers with frisky cattle be subject to a $30,000 per day fine.
The "experts" at the EPA seem to think that we'd be better off not having lead bullets.
The "experts" at the EPA demanded diesel emissions systems that make our farm and construction equipment run hotter, break sooner, use more fuel, and cost more money to repair. That's why a bunch of relatively new heavy equipment is running around with all of its emissions gear discarded.
I am not an anti-intellectual. I am sure that lots of people at the EPA are indeed experts at measuring environmental pollutants and studying their effects on humans. I bet they do good science, and I'm glad I can reference it when I make decisions. But policy is more than just measuring pollution.
I am not an anti-intellectual. I am sure that lots of people at the EPA are indeed experts at measuring environmental pollutants and studying their effects on humans. I bet they do good science, and I'm glad I can reference it when I make decisions.
But policy is more than just measuring pollution. The EPA may be experts on pollutants, but they are not experts on individual preferences. They may be able to accurately tell me that I'll live 7 days longer if I stop using lead ammunition. But only I can decide if 7 more days of a life with expensive and underperforming ammunition is a trade I want to make. The may be able to accurately tell me that cars with 40hp engines are better for my respiratory system, but only I can decide that cars with considerably more horsepower are better for my soul.
My previous criticisms of Olsrud's piece aside, the main problem, as a matter of principle, with Olsrud's piece, is that he incorrectly assumes that the EPA has the pertinent knowledge, moral and legal authority, and motivating self-interest to make appropriate environmental tradeoff decisions for every family, home, and business in the entire US.
The EPA doesn't know my preferences. It doesn't have the right to tell me what I should want. And it is not motivated by what makes me happy, or even by what makes the largest number of people happy.
That's the problem. That's why more people are attacking specific policies of the EPA, and for some of us, the entire agency.
I'll talk more about this in a future article.
For now, I'll say this: There may be some very good arguments for keeping the EPA around and allowing it to run roughshod over the interests of North Dakotans – but Olsrud's article didn't provide those arguments.


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Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram who was released from Tihar Jail after 106 days of confinement in the INX media money laundering case in a press conference on Thursday said, "My record as a minister and my conscience are absolutely clear. Officers who have worked with me, business persons who have interacted with me and journalists who have observed me know that very well."
New Delhi: Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram who was released from Tihar Jail after 106 days of confinement in the INX media money laundering case in a press conference on Thursday said, "My record as a minister and my conscience are absolutely clear. Officers who have worked with me, business persons who have interacted with me and journalists who have observed me know that very well."
Attacking the current government on the current state of the economy, Chidambaram said, "Prime Minister (Modi) has been unusually silent on the economy. He has left it to his ministers to indulge in bluff and bluster. The net result, as the Economist put it, is that the government has turned out to be an 'incompetent manager' of the economy."
Chidambaram said the BJP government believed problems faced by the economy were cyclical even after seven months of this financial year.
"The government is clueless on economy, it is stubborn and mulish in defending catastrophic mistakes like demonetisation, flawed GST, tax terrorism," he said.
"We will be lucky to end the year if growth touches 5 pc. Please remember Dr Arvind Subramanian's caution that 5 pc under this government, because of suspect methodology, is not really 5 pc but less by about 1.5 pc," he added.
Chidambaram also raised concern about the situation in Kashmir post the revocation of Article 370 and said, "As I stepped out and breathed the air of freedom at 8 pm last night, my first thought & prayers were for the 75 lakh people of the Kashmir Valley who have been denied their basic freedoms since August 4, 2019." He further said that given the chance he would visit Kashmir.
Chidambaram sais that he was particularly concerned about the political leaders who have been detained without charges. "Freedom is indivisible, if we must preserve our freedom, we must fight for their freedom," he said.
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Ventura José Emilio Pérez Mariño (Vigo, 29 de diciembre de 1948) es un jurista y político español. Ocupó, entre otros cargos, el de diputado en el Congreso, magistrado de la Audiencia Nacional y alcalde de Vigo.

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En 1993 pidió la excedencia voluntaria en la carrera judicial para presentarse como candidato independiente en las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados, puesto que alcanzó desde el número uno de la lista del PSOE por la provincia de Lugo. El 13 de febrero de 1995 renunció a su acta de diputado a instancias del partido. Cuatro días antes, Ventura Pérez rompía la disciplina del grupo parlamentario votando en contra del gobierno en cuatro ocasiones y solicitaba públicamente la dimisión del presidente del Gobierno, Felipe González; la formación de un gobierno de gestión y la convocatoria de elecciones anticipadas.

En 2003 encabezó como independiente la lista del PSOE en las elecciones municipales del 25 de mayo en el Ayuntamiento de Vigo. Pese a no haber sido la lista más votada, la coalición del PSOE (8 concejales) y el BNG (7 concejales) representaba la mayoría de la corporación local y Pérez Mariño fue nombrado alcalde. El 29 de noviembre del mismo año resultó derrocado tras una moción de confianza exigida por el BNG, con los votos favorables a su gestión del PSOE y grupo mixto (2 concejales), y contrarios del PP (10 concejales) y BNG. Finalmente, el BNG había roto el pacto de gobernabilidad y retirado su apoyo al alcalde tras meses de dificultades y desencuentros en el gobierno local. Corina Porro, entonces portavoz del Grupo Municipal Popular, agotaría el mandato edilicio constituyendo un gobierno en minoría. El 5 de julio de 2005 Ventura Pérez renunció a su acta de concejal alegando motivos "estrictamente personales".

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