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Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), whose graduates so often serve on the front lines of community health, is recognized for its social mission, outstanding community engagement across its research, education, clinical, and service initiatives. Most notably, MSM also holds the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching designations (2010 classification and 2015 reclassification) in community engagement, representing a commitment to improving teaching and learning and producing research that makes a difference in communities.
MSM Receives AAMC Spencer Forman Finalists Award for Outstanding Community Engagement
On Sunday, November 4, 2018, the Association of American Medical Colleges announced the 2018 recipients of the association's annual awards at "Learn Serve Lead 2018," their annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The event honored individuals and institutions making significant contributions to medical education, research, clinical care, and community service.
Morehouse School of Medicine's executive leadership, faculty, and staff were in attendance as guests saw examples of MSM's engagement in the community captured in the video below.
Morehouse School of Medicine Recognized for Social Mission
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Award for Institutional Excellence in Social Mission was presented to MSM during the Beyond Flexner 2016 Conference in Miami, Florida on Sept. 19. The purpose of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards is to recognize outstanding social mission leadership in health professions education.
"The award really acknowledges the commitment by students, staff and faculty to our core purposes: improving the health of those who need it most, diversifying the health care workforce, advancing primary care and ultimately creating and advancing health equity," said President and Dean Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D.
This was not the first time MSM had been lauded for carrying out such efforts, which are the bedrock of the institution.
· In 2010, the Annals of Internal Medicine ranked MSM number one in social mission of all medical schools in the U.S. The ranking looked at the output of graduates who practice primary care, work in health professional shortage areas and are underrepresented minorities—factors considered critical in improving the nation's overall health.
· The 2011 W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded study Beyond Flexner noted that "(The MSM mission) is embedded in their curriculum, demonstrated in their community service, and exhibited in their patient interactions."
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Award further affirms that MSM, through its actions, is true to its commitment to serve the underserved.
"Social mission is defined as activities or initiatives that teach, model, or improve community engagement, diversity, disparities reduction, value based care, or engagement with the social determinants of health," reads the award announcement from the Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Beyond Flexner Alliance. "Social mission enhancement means making programs not only better, but fairer."
Morehouse School of Medicine Wins Atlanta Public Schools
2016-17 School-Based Partner of the Year
On October 26th, 2016, at the Atlanta Public Schools "APyeS! Awards," Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) was named the 2016-17 "School-Based Partner of the Year" for its partnership with Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy. The award recognizes the organization voted as the most committed school-based partner within the 11 high school "clusters" in the Atlanta Public School District. Two months ago, MSM was named the "Partner of the Year" for the Booker T. Washington High School cluster, which made it a finalist for the top honor.
Special thanks goes to Lincoln Woods III, Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy's principal, for nominating MSM and allowing it to be a part of the lives of his students. MSM faculty, staff and learners have worked tirelessly to uphold the mission of the institution, and Dr. Rita Finley and her team in the Office of Educational Outreach and Health Careers have done an outstanding job managing this extraordinary pipeline partnership.
Additional national and local recognitions, include:
The Prevention Research Centers Best Practice in Community-Based Participatory Research Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011
The 2005 Outstanding Educational Program Award from the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award in 2002
The 1999 Association of American Medical Colleges Community Service Award
"Health Care Hero" awards from the Atlanta Business Chronicle
An "A+" award from the Atlanta Public Schools
The 2010 Joseph D. Greene Award in community service from the Healthcare Georgia Foundation.


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After Brexit, will... After Brexit, will patients get the medicines they need?
After Brexit, will patients get the medicines they need?
Our primary concern around Brexit has always been patient safety and public health, in particular the uninterrupted supply of medicines to patients in the 27 EU Member States and the United Kingdom
Since the UK public voted to leave the European Union, the potential impact on our healthcare systems has begun to loom large. For most sectors, the issues around Brexit are economic. But medicines are different. As the research-based pharmaceutical industry, the medicines we make improve the quality of life, often save the lives of patients in the UK and across Europe. For us, the primary concern around Brexit has always been patient safety and public health, in particular the uninterrupted supply of medicines to patients in the 27 EU Member States and the United Kingdom.
The scale of the task should not be underestimated, around 1 billion packs of medicines cross the UK-EU border each year. That's around 45 million per month from the UK to the EU and 37 million in the other direction. As the long-running political uncertainty around the future relationship between the UK and the EU continues, our industry has committed to planning for every outcome.
In practice it has meant companies preparing in earnest for a "no deal" scenario. Every company, has made changes to product supply chains as a consequence of Brexit. This includes stockpiling medicines, duplicating drug testing, transferring licences and making plans to ship drugs to and from the EU on ferries leased by the UK government via six new port routes. Medical isotopes for cancer treatment and other supplies with a short shelf life may be transferred by plane in what is one of the biggest supply-chain logistics challenges our industry and our health service partners have ever faced.
Despite these intensive preparations, leaving under a no deal, without a transition period would overnight take the UK out of a regulatory, patient safety, medicines supply and clinical research framework that has taken decades to evolve. Whatever the actions taken by our industry, getting medicines to patients involves a wide range of actors from regulatory bodies to transport companies, wholesalers to governments.
Considering the urgency and the importance of medicines to all our health, we have been concerned by a certain lack of focus, outside of our industry, on protecting medicines supply. We have witnessed positive action in areas such as fisheries, transport and financial services but more needs to be done to protect public health and the supply of medicines to patients.
There are some key actions that should be taken immediately. Despite companies' best efforts, where the transfer of medicines testing from the UK to the EU cannot be completed by the 30 March 2019, then the EU and its Member States should allow the use of medicines currently quality tested in the UK. Similarly, medical devices used in conjunction with medicines that currently hold UK certified CE marks, should be made available to use in the EU in the short term. While the situation at the EU-UK border remains unclear, two-thirds of the pharma companies indicated that border disruption remained their biggest concern. As a consequence steps should be taken to prioritise medicines, active pharmaceutical ingredients, raw and clinical trial materials.
The European Commission and European Medicines Agency have said that any action to resolve the issues is a matter for Member States. Different countries are taking different approaches, however, it is our belief that action at the EU level is the simplest and most consistent route to secure the necessary temporary flexibility on behalf of the Member States in the best interests of patients and public health. Now is the time for action.
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Courtney Evans takes a sip of her Passion Tea and places the cup back on the circular wooden table. Her tearful brown eyes search to fixate on anything as distraction from the topic at hand.
The smell of fresh coffee beans envelopes the Starbuck's adjacent to the Howard University Bookstore as customers stalk around the room, anxious to get their order and begin their morning. Sitting in a dim corner with chilling calm amid the madness are Courtney and her twin sister, Taylor, both juniors at Howard.
It has been a year since Alexis Simpson, their high school friend, was charged in the death of an 18-year-old student at Bowie State University. The twins and others close to Simpson are still trying to cope with the ordeal. What exactly happened that night? This was certainly not the Alexis they knew and loved.
Simpson was charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing her roommate, Dominique Frazier, in her throat on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. Within hours of the fatal stabbing, social networks such as Twitter and Facebook were buzzing with news about the incident. It wasn't long before Howard students, too, knew what had happened at Bowie State in suburban Maryland.
Students in the Washington area have had mixed emotions. Some were mad, and others, simply confused. However, for Courtney and Taylor Evans, the situation hit close to home, and they have been in disbelief.
Alexis Simpson, left, face trial this fall in the stabbing death of Dominique Frazier at Bowie State University..
A year later, many are still baffled. What truly went on in that dorm room? Was it an act of self-defense or pure anger gone wrong? As those close to Simpson await her trial on Nov. 14, they try to make sense of it all.
Many of Simpson's supporters want people to remember that she is human and not see a murdering monster as she has been portrayed. They want everyone to know the Alexis Simpson they remember. Alexis the teenager. Alexis the student. Alexis the young woman who is not without faults, but whose life still shines brightly.
Simpson's friends are relieved to know that for the time being she is in the comfort of her home in District Heights, Md., where she is reportedly confined without visitors as a condition of her release.


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With the help of his interpreter (right), the author, Luong Phuc Nguyen (left), confirms the progress of Operation Hamaghe Shay with the acting commanding officer of the 6th Kandak of the 1st Brigade of the 205th Corps in February 2011. Canadian Forces Combat Camera
A soldier's hard look back at Canada's Afghan mission
A young dentist's ideals led him to Afghanistan as an infantry officer. After two tours, he began to question what was ultimately achievable.
with Luong Phuc Nguyen August 27, 2021
Policy Options Podcast · A soldier's hard look back at Canada's Afghan mission – In Their Words 02
It has been more than 10 years since my second and last tour with the Canadian Forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a time that also marked the end of Canada's presence in that province and the beginning of its training mission in Kabul.
I first came to North America as a refugee from the Vietnam War, hearing stories of the Fall of Saigon from my parents who carried me out of the country of my birth as a toddler. It's a legacy that inspired me to join the Canadian Forces Reserves after graduating from dental school and completing a residency in 1999, commissioning as an infantry officer because I wanted the challenge of leading soldiers into battle. Little did I know that I would be doing more than just training in Valcartier, Que., on the weekends.
My time in Afghanistan gave me a glimpse into the operational challenges of the military mission that decision-makers in Ottawa assigned to our armed forces. It raised questions for me about whether the mission was ever able to fulfil our foreign policy objectives.
Author mentoring Afghan soldiers with the help of his interpreter in 2011. Source: Luong Phuc Nguyen
How we got there
When Canada first entered Afghanistan in October 2001 under Operation Apollo, sending special forces and a battalion into battle, my fellow soldiers watched with pride as our comrades won grueling battles in distant mountains. Yet, that deployment lasted less than a year before those soldiers went back to Canada. In 2003, we were even more thrilled when Canada returned to Kabul with rotating battle groups as part of Operation Athena, then moved to the province of Kandahar, which Taliban myth considers the birthplace of the Taliban movement.
As the violence intensified in Kandahar and nearby Helmand province, culminating with the pitched battles of 2006 and Operation Medusa, Canada seemed poised to stay the course. Then-prime minister Stephen Harper's famous vow to not "cut and run" in March of that year convinced me that Canada was finally going to lead the world using its fine soldiers, sailors and airmen.
The next year, 2007, I took a sabbatical from the clinic where I was practicing general dentistry and started the first of two tours as an infantry officer of the famed Royal 22e Régiment (the Van Doos). I spent most of my first tour as a duty officer on shift at the provincial operations centre, where we tracked and co-ordinated all our forces in Kandahar, managing every firefight and dealing with the aftermath of every improvised explosive device blast.
I also spent a couple weeks in April 2008 commanding an Afghan National Police mentoring team after three of its members were wounded in combat at the start of that year's fighting season (the cyclical period from April to October where the Taliban surge from their winter quarters in Pakistan into Afghanistan to harvest poppy and fight Afghan forces). Our team took part, along with the Afghan National Army, in pitched battles in Zharey district, west of Kandahar City, sometimes exchanging fire with a ghostly enemy who would fire from afar and melt away within a series of compounds in grape fields. It left little time for actual mentoring. In one noteworthy battle, with Afghan soldiers in the lead and my team watching from our blocking position, an insurgent-held compound was destroyed by a 500-pound bomb.
After returning to Canada and my normal life as a dentist for a bit more than a year, I volunteered to go back in 2010 as the operations mentor for an Afghan National Army battalion. By 2010, the U.S. surge had flooded the province with troops. The outpost I had defended in 2008 with six Canadians and eight Afghans now housed more than 100 U.S. soldiers. I found a much less violent place – one that had flourished in the years since my first tour – thanks to the hard-earned progress that previous rotations had made.
The author (right) conferring with then-lieutenant-colonel Michel-Henri St-Louis, commanding officer of the 1R22eR Battlegroup during Operation Hamaghe Shay in February 2011. Source: Canadian Forces Combat Camera
When we handed our area of operations in Kandahar over to U.S. forces in 2011, we were confident that we had achieved the mission we were assigned after years of grueling counter-insurgency, which had reduced violence and built up security forces.
Our mission was mainly understood to accomplish the following:
Conduct combat operations to drive out insurgents and maintain security to create a secure environment for development and reconstruction.
Facilitate the delivery of programs and projects that support national economic recovery and rehabilitation.
Train members of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) and senior officials in the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defence to provide them with the tools necessary to sustain their own security.
There was often an inherent and inevitable conflict between providing security for an area by conducting operations in the most-effective manner possible and developing the operational skills of Afghans by having them take the lead – because we knew that once we left, they would need to take over security. Especially in the early days of our deployment to Kandahar, it was necessary to use all the combat power and tactical acumen at our disposal to be able to win intense battles and take strategic ground from the insurgents. Not only was it necessary to win, the goal was to win without taking any casualties. The death of a Canadian soldier, sailor or airman – already a tragedy – was felt deeply by fellow comrades and their families, and would always grab the headline in the next day's news, overshadowing any success an operation had.
Toward the end of our Kandahar mission in November 2011, the winter months became calm enough – thanks to our gains in security and the surge in American forces – to allow more complex operations to be carried out. Afghan security forces took the lead in carrying out operations at the brigade level, involving thousands of troops. It was hard to shake a tendency to want to shape the operations to the liking of Canadian commanders on the ground, but the progress in building the ANDSF was palpable and measurable toward the end of our mission.
The Afghan mission also showcased the importance of cultural sensitivity, empathy and the added value of diversity in an organization. The bulk of our lead-up training rightly focused on soldiering and operational skills, which would allow us to win battles – the most difficult part of the mission. This left little time to educate soldiers on more human subjects such as Afghan culture, which was a one-afternoon or one-morning lecture. Most soldiers deployed had no in-depth knowledge of the complexities in the country or sometimes even what the different ethnicities (Pashtun, Hazara, etc) were. Worse, many Canadian members were clearly uncomfortable dealing with Afghan locals. Mandatory diversity training had been introduced in years past, but it was sometimes derided by troops who resented it in cases where they felt their own leadership had no buy-in. Teams with ANDSF partners and local leaders did best.
Many other lessons were noted, and it is to the credit of our Canadian Armed Forces that they could be disseminated and applied so quickly from one rotation to the next. Leaders gained experience, and new equipment was issued, which enhanced our capabilities and improved our ability to survive and win. Thanks to Joint Task Force Afghanistan's ability to learn and grow, Canada became the only nation that had several American battalions with hundreds of soldiers under its command until the end of the Kandahar mission. Canada's hard-won credibility and skill continues today as it leads a multinational battle group in Latvia facing Russian forces along with using its experience in training and mentoring Iraqi and Ukrainian soldiers.
What did Canada accomplish?
In the end, even if Canada had done better in Kandahar or Kabul in the accomplishment of its mission, it is difficult to believe that the course of the conflict would have prevented the current situation with the Taliban in power in Kabul. Accomplishing our mission simply wasn't enough to win the war.
Before we deployed in 2010, the minister of national defence spoke to us in our giant mess tent on the importance of our mission. What resonated most with me was when he said it was difficult to predict what the future would hold for Afghanistan. That shocked me. I couldn't comprehend how someone could send people into harm's way without telling them that their efforts would win the war. I realized later the hard truth of that statement, that Canada was but one country out of many operating under the leadership of the United States in Afghanistan. Ultimately, the future of Afghanistan rested with the Afghan leadership and its relationship with its biggest patron.
Author mentoring Afghan soldiers at a command post with the help of his interpreter during Operation Mard Kala in 2010. Source: Luong Phuc Nguyen
What legacy is left after all that has been sacrificed?
Today we are left wondering if our sacrifices were in vain. It has been argued that dying for your country is never a wasted death no matter what the outcome. But many of us have needed to find further meaning. The most bitter of us console ourselves with having done our best, sometimes while cursing – unfairly – the Afghan soldiers who failed to defend their own country. Many others moved on the moment they left Afghanistan. For them, their tour was but one of many stepping stones in their careers.
As someone who had no ambitions to climb the ranks in the army and who had volunteered for humanitarian reasons, it has always galled me how people who had ostensibly risked their lives to rebuild a country could be so indifferent to that country's future. I hoped that the years I had sacrificed – years when I could have earned much more as a dentist – would have built a country capable of both defending itself against its enemies and developing itself for the benefit of its wonderful and ethnically diverse people. For many former soldiers, accomplishing the mission that Canada asked them to do was enough. For me, winning the war was more important. There was a definite disconnect for many between the mission they experienced, and the stated and unstated policy objectives Canada had put forward to justify that mission. If the objective was simply to fulfill our obligations to NATO and become a credible member of that alliance, as many experts have noted, it could certainly be argued that that objective was met just by participating. If, however, Canada's objective was to avoid Afghanistan becoming a haven for terrorists, today's events could very well jeopardize that.
With the fall of Kabul and the return to power of the Taliban, much of what Canada touted as its legacy thanks to its successful mission is in doubt. The roads we built and most development projects will continue to benefit Afghans, but the security forces and governance we supported have been defeated, with only remnants resisting in the Panjshir Valley, 150 kilometres north of Kabul, as of this writing. The only certainty I am left with is the knowledge that 20 years of our presence have exposed Afghans to an information and media explosion that has changed their society forever. It's a country that has gone from zero to 18 million cellphone subscribers paying affordable prices for often better reception than we have in Canada. It's a country where in 2011, I was able to spend many afternoons with my Afghan brothers-in-arms watching translated films like Waterworld, X-Men cartoons, Pakistani and Indian dramas, and the Afghan version of Let's Make a Deal. An estimated 60 per cent of Afghans today are younger than 25 and have grown up immersed in this wealth of information, an awareness of the diverse ethnicities and cultures of their country and a sentiment of national pride. We can only hope that this will allow them to eventually triumph.
Author in 2008 with his small police mentoring team at a small outpost. Source: Luong Phuc Nguyen
The way ahead for Canada
The way forward is difficult. As of this writing, Canada has not recognized the Taliban government, and the Trudeau government has said it has no plans to do so. Canada will find it tough to support the resistance fighters in Panjshir Valley without the involvement of larger nations. What Canada can do more easily is evacuate vulnerable Afghans under the American umbrella at the Kabul airport and in the coming months accept a number of vulnerable Afghans who manage to apply for asylum here.
Afghan interpreters especially need to be brought to Canada for their safety. Our interpreters shared the same or often even greater risks than we did. The threats were not aimed just at them but at their entire families. Our mission could never have accomplished its stated objectives without their presence, skill and courage. When interpreters initially signed up, they were promised a chance to emigrate to Canada if they could prove they were in grave danger and had completed 12 months serving with us. Unfortunately, that excluded many of our interpreters, who are still in danger today. The Taliban have no such 12-month threshold before branding them traitors. The Canadian policy may have made sense in 2011, when it would have incentivized them to bring their important skills to other national contingents still present in Afghanistan, but it seems unnecessarily harsh now that the Taliban have overrun the country.
I also cannot stop thinking about the brave Afghan soldiers and officers whom I had the honour of mentoring during my second tour. They often had not been back to their home provinces in almost a year, and had to take buses dressed in civilian clothes through Taliban-infested roads to get money to their families. Those Afghan soldiers then saw rotation after rotation of fresh and motivated Canadian troops hungry to fight, and had to endure their cursing when they did not show as much drive to go on patrol. On Aug. 16, U.S. President Joe Biden derided Afghan forces by declaring that "Americans shouldn't die in a war that Afghans aren't willing to fight." This ignores the thousands of Afghans who died fighting year after year in even larger numbers as the U.S. drew down its own troop numbers. In 2018, sometimes 40 to 60 Afghan soldiers and police officers were dying every day, so many that the casualty figures were no longer made public after that year.
The reasons for the collapse are much more complex than the simple question of bravery, and many articles and books will continue to be written detailing them. As for security units in Kandahar, into which we had invested so much, they fought on for weeks even as district after district fell, starting with Panjwai on July 3. In mid-July, Afghan forces even attempted to counterattack and take back the Afghan-Pakistani border crossing at the town of Spin Boldak. In the end, one group of police officers were reduced to eating slimy potatoes to sustain themselves during the house-to-house fighting.
As I watch the evacuation in Kabul, I'm reminded of the stories my parents told me about the Fall of Saigon. My grandfather had been a senior military judge who had condemned a lot of Communists. My mother, a pharmacist, feared reprisals against government and military families would bring a bloodbath. Just in case, she had procured cyanide.
To get me out, my parents first tried to put me on an orphan flight with Operation Babylift even though my mother thought she would never see me again. I often think about how desperate you would have to be to give up your child, knowing you would never see him again, to give him the best life you could. In the end, I was lucky I didn't end up on that particular flight: the plane crashed, killing many of the children on board.
From Newsweek magazine on May 5, 1975, the author as a toddler after being evacuated from Saigon along with his parents that year. Source: Pal Fusco, Newsweek
Finally, a week before the Fall of Saigon, my aunt, Kim Oanh, and her American husband, my uncle Mike Cook, were able to get an embassy worker to evacuate us to the airport in the middle of the night without alerting our neighbours. My father wrote about the utter shame and loss he felt when the word "Apatride" ("No Country") was stamped on his immigration form, because South Vietnam no longer existed. The country he had grown up in, and fought for, was now gone. Yet, thanks to his medical degree, for which he had studied in French, he was able to redo his internship and residency in Quebec and rebuild his life there. It was truly La Belle Province. Today, Canada is our home and will be the home of our descendants.
In Why I Hate Canadians, satirist Will Ferguson once described Canada as the land of second chances. It can be one for the many vulnerable Afghans who have risked their lives fighting for a better country. It can also be a country that will help Afghans still in Afghanistan to have a second chance to rebuild their country.
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Luong Phuc Nguyen
Dr. Luong Phuc Nguyen is a general dentist who has worked in private practice in Ontario and Quebec since 1998. He volunteered to deploy with Canada's Joint Task Force Afghanistan as an infantry officer in 2007-08 and again in 2010-11. He re-enlisted as a part-time reservist with the Canadian Army in February 2021. The views expressed here are his own and are not endorsed by the Canadian Armed Forces.
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Q: HTTP 400 Bad Request trying to create a bulk API job using RestTemplate Am trying to use spring RestTemplate to create a bulk API job. Below is the code
HttpHeaders headers= new HttpHeaders();
headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
headers.add("sforce-enable-pk chunking","chunksize=10000");
headers.add("X-SFDC-Session","MYSESSIONID");

JSONObject jsonBody=new JSONObject();
jsonBody.put("operation","query");
jsonBody.put("Object","account");
jsonBody.put("contenttype","CSV");

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The above code is failing with HTTP 400 Bad request. Please suggest,

A: This works:
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HTTP.Open ('POST', '/services/async/38.0/job');
HTTP.Header['Content-Type'] := 'application/json';
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Cont_Object := TJSONOBJECT.Create
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Q: how to join multi tables using sqlalchemy on flask I'm currently working on flask server using sqlalchemy.
I've got a issue with join query.
I wanna get result same as below query which will return matches user joined team and after joined date.
SELECT *
            FROM `match` as m
            join (
                SELECT  team_id,update_date
                FROM team_member
                where user_id = 108
            ) as mt
            on m.request_team_id = mt.team_id
            or m.against_team_id = mt.team_id
            WHERE mt.update_date <= timestamp(m.match_date,m.match_start_time)
            AND (m.match_status = 'PROGRESS' OR m.match_status= 'DONE')
            order by m.match_date desc

but when I use subqueryload like below
Match.query.options(subqueryload(Match.team)).filter(TeamMember.user_id == user.user_id)\
            .filter(or_(Match.match_status == 'PROGRESS', Match.match_status == 'DONE')).\
            filter(TeamMember.update_date <= func.timestamp(Match.match_date, Match.match_start_time))\
            .order_by(Match.match_date.desc()).all()

This executed query twice when I turn on query debug and wrong results.
I wanna execute only one query for this result.
how to solve this issue?
if there is no solution, should I use raw query but it can not be bind to model right?
Here is my models.
class User(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'user'
user_id = db.Column(db.INTEGER, primary_key=True)
email = db.Column(db.VARCHAR(200), unique=True)
team = db.relationship('Teams', secondary='team_member', primaryjoin=user_id == TeamMember.user_id)

class Teams(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'teams'

team_id = db.Column(db.INTEGER, primary_key=True)
team_name = db.Column(db.VARCHAR(100),nullable=False, index=True)

class TeamMember(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'team_member'
user_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.user_id'), primary_key=True)
team_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('teams.team_id'), primary_key=True)
role_name = db.Column(db.Enum("M","P"), default="P")
user = db.relationship('User', backref=backref("team_member", cascade="all, delete"))
team = db.relationship('Teams', backref=backref("team_member", cascade="all, delete"))
update_date = db.Column(db.DATETIME(), default=datetime.now())

class Match(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'match'
match_id = db.Column(db.INTEGER, primary_key=True)
mc_id = db.Column(db.Integer)
request_team_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('teams.team_id'))
request_team_name = db.Column(db.VARCHAR(100))
against_team_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('teams.team_id'), nullable=True)
team = db.relationship('Teams', foreign_keys=[request_team_id, against_team_id], backref="matches", uselist=False,
                       primaryjoin="or_(Teams.team_id==Match.request_team_id, Teams.team_id==Match.against_team_id)")


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Microsoft Security Bulletins for October 2014
It sounds like this was a pretty busy month for the folks who create security patches at Microsoft …
Welcome to the Microsoft's October 2014 Patch Day overview. It provides an in-depth analysis and information about all security bulletins and updates that Microsoft released for its products since the September patch day. Microsoft released eight security bulletins this month fixing a total of 24 vulnerabilities in company products such as the Microsoft Windows operating system, Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office.
Three of the bulletins have received the highest severity rating of critical and five the second highest rating of important.
You find details about those patches below including a video summary by Microsoft, distribution of updates as well as deployment and download information.
Microsoft announced today that it will add outdated versions of Silverlight to the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking feature starting November 11, 2014. All versions of Silverlight older than Silverlight 5.1.30514.0 are affected by this.
A total of eight bulletins have been released on this patch day that fix a total of 24 vulnerabilities.
Affected products include Microsoft Windows, Microsoft .Net Framework, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.
Three of the nine bulletins received the highest severity rating critical.
Microsoft suggests to deploy the bulletins MS14-056, MS14-057 and MS14-058 first (the three critical ones).
Video Summary
Operating System Distribution
As far as client operating systems are concerned, all but Windows Vista are affected by three critical and one important bulletin. Windows Vista in addition to that is affected by another important rated bulletin.
Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 are affected by two critical, two important and 1 moderate bulletin, while all other server operating systems are affected by two critical, one important and moderate bulletin.
Windows Vista: 3 critical, 2 important
Windows 7: 3 critical, 1 important
Windows 8.1: 3 critical, 1 important
Windows RT: 3 critical, 1 important
Windows RT 8.1: 3 critical, 1 important
Windows Server 2003: 2 critical, 2 important, 1 moderate
Windows Server 2008 R2: 2 critical, 1 important, 1 moderate
Server Core installation: 2 critical, 1 important
Other Microsoft Product Distribution
Microsoft Office 2007: 1 important
Microsoft Office for Mac: 1 important
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack: 1 important
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: 1 important
Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010: 1 important
ASP .NET MVC: 1 important
The suggested deployment priority for the October 2014 is to deploy all three critical vulnerabilities with the highest priority, followed by vulnerabilities MS14-060 and MS14-061 that address issues in OLE and Word second.
Tier 1: MS14-056 Internet Explorer, MS14-057 .Net Framework and MS14-058 KMD (all critical)
Tier 2: MS14-06 OLE, MS14-061 Microsoft Word (all important)
Tier 3: MS14-059 ASP.NET, MS14-062 Message Queuing, MS14-063 Fat32
MS14-056 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2987107) – critical – remote code execution
MS14-057 – Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3000414) – critical – remote code execution
MS14-058 – Vulnerability in Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3000061) – critical – remote code execution
MS14-059 – Vulnerability in ASP.NET MVC Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (2990942) – important – security feature bypass
MS14-060 – Vulnerability in Windows OLE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3000869) – important – remote code execution
MS14-061 – Vulnerability in Microsoft Word and Office Web Apps Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3000434) – important – remote code execution
MS14-062 – Vulnerability in Message Queuing Service Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2993254) – important – elevation of privilege
MS14-063 – Vulnerability in FAT32 Disk Partition Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2998579) – important – remote code execution
Microsoft has released three security advisories this month.
Update to Improve Credentials Protection and Management (2871997) – This update improves "credential protection and domain authentication controls to reduce credential theft".
Availability of SHA-2 Hashing Algorithm for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (2949927) – This adds support for SHA-2 signing and verification functionality.
Update for Microsoft EAP Implementation that Enables the Use of TLS (2977292) – Enables the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.1 or 1.2 through the modification of the system registry.
Non-security related updates
Update for Windows 7 – Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7 (KB2952664)
Update for Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB2989542)
Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB2994023)
Update for Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server 2012 (KB2995387)
Update for Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB3000988)
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – October 2014 (KB890830)/Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – October 2014 (KB890830) – Internet Explorer Version
Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 – Update to support the new currency symbol for the Russian ruble in Windows (KB2970228)
Update for Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server 2012 – August 2014 update rollup for Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 (KB2975331)
Update for Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server 2012 – September 2014 update rollup for Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 (KB2984005)
Update for Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 – September 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB2984006)
Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Update for .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, and Windows 8 (KB3005628)
Update for Windows 7 – September 2014 update for DVD playback in Windows 7 SP1 (KB3001554)
Update for Windows 8.1 – Some versions of the OneDrive desktop app for Windows do not update automatically (KB2990967)
Update for Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Server 2012, Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP Embedded – A September 2014 time zone update for Russia is available (KB2998527)
How to download and install the October 2014 security updates
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The October 2014 security patches are made available via Windows Update to all systems running client or server based versions of Windows.
If automatic updates is enabled, the updates will be downloaded automatically to the system once the system picks them up.
It may still be a good idea to check for updates manually as it may take some time after the release before they get downloaded to the system automatically.
Tap on the Windows-key, type Windows Update and select the result from the list displayed to you.
There you need to click on check for updates to run a manual update check.
Microsoft will make the updates available on the Microsoft Download Center as well for manual download and in form of monthly security ISO images.
Microsoft Security Response Center blog on the 2014 Bulletin Release
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October 2014
List of software updates for Microsoft products 2014
Our in-depth update guide for Windows
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Le village est un lamidat  et compte au total 3 462 habitants en 2005

Le village possède des gisements de marbre, néanmoins, cette ressource, comme celles présentes dans l'arrondissement de Poli également très riche en ressources naturelles, n'est pas exploitée.

Notes et références

Liens externes
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CBSE Class 6 History Chapter 7 Notes - Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave Up War
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Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave Up War Class 6 Notes History Chapter 7 - PDF Download
Ashoka the great holds an important place in Indian history. His life has been followed by many, and students must learn about him to learn insights into life's meaning. Class 6 Chapter 7 Ashoka, the emperor who gave up war, is a marvellous approach by the CBSE board to teach students about Ashoka the great. NCERT Class 6 History Chapter 7 notes have been prepared by eminent teachers, presenting Ashoka's story concisely and insightfully. The depiction has a story-wise flow, which grabs the attention of the students throughout the notes. Moreover, the notes have several thoughtful, intriguing questions and activities at the end of the chapter, helping the student clear their concept and score high in the examination. The PDF version of the notes will allow the students to learn the chapter's ideas conveniently.
Access Class 6 History Chapter 3 - Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave Up War Notes
The Empire of Ashoka
The realm that Ashoka administered was established by his grandfather, Chandragupta Maurya, over 2300 years prior.
Chandragupta Maurya was helped by a wise man named Chanakya. His ideas and teachings were written down in the famous Arthashastra.
Some of the cities of Ashoka include the following capitals, namely Taxila, Ujjain and Pataliputra. Ujjain connects north and south India. Craftspeople, merchants, and other essential officials lived in this place. In other areas, there were villages of farmers and herders.
Many forests were located in Central India, where people used to go in search of food. It was a vast empire, and people spoke different languages, lived a different lifestyle, ate various kinds of food, and wore clothes of other patterns.
Difference between Empires and Kingdoms
Emperors need more resources than kings because empires are larger than kingdoms and need to be protected by armies. Emperors also need a larger number of officials who collect taxes.
Ruling an Empire
Because the empire is so large, different regions have different ways of ruling. The area around Pataliputra was under the direct control of the emperor.Officials were appointed to collect taxes from farmers, herders, crafts persons and traders, who lived in villages and towns in the area.
Officials also punished those who disobeyed the ruler's orders, and many of these officials were given salaries.
Messengers went to and fro, and spies kept a watch on the officials, and of course the emperor supervised them all, with the help of members of the royal family, and senior ministers.
There were vast areas between the provincial centres, here the Mauryas tried to control roads and rivers, which were important for transport, and to collect whatever resources were available as tax and tribute.
Ashoka- A Unique Ruler
A Unique Ruler He was the most famous Mauryan ruler, and was the first ruler who tried to take his message to the people through inscriptions.
Most of Ashoka's inscriptions were in Prakrit and were written in the Brahmi script.
The Kalinga War
In ancient times, coastal Orissa was known as Kalinga.
Ashoka fought a war so that he could conquer the great Kalinga. But remained horrified when he found out the results of the war.
He was terrified to see all the bloodshed and the massive loss of lives in both the kingdom.
Ashoka is the only king in the history of the world who gave up conquest after winning a war.
Ashoka's Dhamma
Ashoka's dhamma did not involve worship of a God, or performance of a sacrifice.
He was also inspired by the teachings of the Buddha.
A number of problems such as the people in the empire followed different religions, and this sometimes led to conflict, troubled him a lot.
Slaves and servants were ill-treated, besides, there were quarrels in families and amongst neighbours.
Ashoka's role as Emperor is to solve all the problems that occur in his kingdom.
Therefore, Ashoka appointed several officials known as dhamma mahamatta who went from place to place teaching people about dhamma.
Ashoka got his messages inscribed on rocks and pillars, instructing his officials to read his message to those who could not read it themselves.
He also sent messengers to spread ideas about dhamma to other lands, such as Syria, Egypt, Greece and Sri Lanka. He built roads, dug wells, rest houses, and he also arranged for medical treatment for both human beings and animals.
Class 6 History Chapter 7 - Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave Up War Notes
Class 6 History Chapter 7 Notes is a helpful note series that has helped the students in many examinations. The students can download the PDF version of the notes on their laptops, computer, tablets or android devices. They can now get the notes of History Class 6 Chapter 7 at their convenience, which will help them revise the night before the examination.
Chapter 7 – Social Science
NCERT Class 6 History Chapter 7 Notes depict important points related to Emperor Ashoka's life, battles, life-changing moments, preachings and impact on society. The following sections will reveal the details.
A Very Big Kingdom = An Empire
This section speaks about Emperor Ashoka's dynasty. In this section, the students will learn about his family tree, the period when he ruled and his subordinates. Emperor Ashoka got the abe support of Chanakya, whose ideas were depicted in Arthashastra. The empire consisted of important historical cities like Taxila, Pataliputra, and Ujjain. This section also included details of the people's occupation during that period. They have segregated the professions according to different regions of the empire. It also included details of the clothes, languages and food habits of these people.
How Are Empires Different From Kingdoms?
This small section speaks about the differences between an empire and a kingdom. In terms of size, an empire is much larger than a kingdom. Therefore, it needs to be ably supported by resources, protected by big armies, and maintained by many officials for different purposes like collecting taxes.
Ruling the Empire
Since the size of an empire is huge, it needs to be controlled in parts. For example, Emperor Ashoka controlled the city of Pataliputra and the area around it. Several officials were appointed for tax collection, providing judgment and punishing the wrong-doers. The section also included information about spies having an eye on these officials. A provincial capital was set up to control other regions like Ujjain and Taxila. However, Emperor Ashoka maintained some control over these regions. These centres were also granted provision to make their local rules and customs.
This section considers the tribute concept, which is regarded as an offering from people willing or unwilling to give.
Ashoka, a Unique Ruler
This portion of the notes of History Class 6 Chapter 7 details the uniqueness of Emperor Ashoka in his approaches. For example, he introduced the concept of inscriptions for sending messages to the people. He used Brahmi script, one of the mother languages of most Indian languages, to prepare these inscriptions in Prakrit.
Ashoka's War in Kalinga
The Kalinga war is the turning point of Emperor Ashoka's life. The ancient name of the coasts of Orissa is Kalinga. Ashoka was previously considered a destructive, heartless human being who made other states suffer severely in battles. The Kalinga war is the outcome of such an attitude. However, Ashoka was horrified at the bloodshed, violence and pain that the war brought. Therefore, after the war, he gave up conquest, being the only king in the world's history.
What was Ashoka's Dhamma?
After the Kalinga war, Emperor Ashoka was a changed person. He introduced a new Dhamma, which is mainly based on services for others. It did not include any sacrifices or idol worshipping. His officials were called the dhamma mahamatta, whose job was to go places and preach about the ideas. He also ensured that his ideas spread to foreign lands like Greece, Egypt, Syria, and Sri Lanka.
Along with his preachings, he devoted his life to the services of other people. He dug wells, built roads and upgraded medical assistance for both humans and animals. This section speaks about Ashoka's dhamma.
Exercise Unit 5 total Solutions: 6 Questions (2 short questions 4 Long questions)
Key features of NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 7
The key features of the class 6 history chapter 7 notes include:
A concise yet detailed approach is followed to include all the salient points of the chapter.
The solution set contains several pictures that will grab the attention of the students to the concepts.
The solution follows a continuous flow while presenting the concepts to the students.
The solution includes a set of questions and activities at the end of the chapter so that the students will practice them before their examinations.
The solution is provided in the PDF version so that the students can download them at their convenience.
1. Why does Emperor Ashoka hold an important place in Indian history?
Emperor Ashoka is considered as Ashoka, the greatest by all people in the world. His life is the ideal example of how a hard-hearted person can transform into someone who devotes his life to others. He has been an inspiration for many throughout decades, and students must learn life lessons from him. Moreover, this chapter is very important in terms of examination, and the students must learn about his life and contribution to society.
2. Why should a student study the NCERT Solutions for Chapter 7 Ashoka the emperor who gave up war?
The NCERT solutions are an important asset to learn about Emperor Ashoka in Chapter 7, social science. Students must learn and get inspired by the life and ideas of Emperor Ashoka. They will understand the reasons why there are still so many followers of him all over the world. The notes provide a concise and detailed solution, which will be attractive for the students. The students can score high marks if they study this pointwise solution set before the examination.
3. Why did Ashoka give up on war?
Ashoka was a valourous king of the Mauryan dynasty. He is deemed to be the first ruler who had conveyed his messages to his subjects in the form of inscriptions which were mostly in Prakrit and were written in the Brahmi script. He had fought in the war of Kalinga, which was the name of coastal Orissa. But the war had an immense effect on the king. He was horrified and traumatized by the destruction and the violence that the war had brought along with it. Owing to this, he had pledged never to participate in any kind of war in the future. This is the reason he had distanced himself from war.
4. What is Ashoka's Dhamma?
Ashoka dhamma is a set of edicts that the Mauryan king had formulated in order to teach his subjects. These do not follow the teachings of the earlier kings who had suggested the worship of certain gods or had supported the ritual of sacrifice. Ashoka had felt that as the ruler of his people, he was a father figure to them and had the role and responsibility to impart and teach them about certain life values. This was the reason that the Ashoka Dhamma came into existence.
5. What gave rise to the Ashoka Dhamma?
Ashoka was troubled by various things that were happening around him. The first one was the conflict that would often arise because the members of his kingdom had followed different religions. Another thing that was prominent in his kingdom was the great number of animal sacrifices. There was all the mistreatment of the slaves and the servants. Ashoka, as the king of his subjects, took it upon himself to solve these disputes. He believed it to be his responsibility to be able to create an Empire where everyone lived in peace without violence and bloodshed of any kind. To achieve this, he appointed under him officials whose duties were to visit from place to place and teach the people about dhamma. These officials were known as the Dhamma Mahamatta.
6. Why was Ashoka's kingdom called Empire Class 6?
Ashoka is termed as the greatest ruler that has ever been known in the Mauryan dynasty. This empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya, his grandfather. His kingdom was called an empire, because contrary to a kingdom, the empires require more resources, as empires are usually larger than the kingdoms. Ashoka had ruled an empire that consisted of many cities. Because of the many areas of land that the empire covered, there was a need for many officials who would keep a check on all the people and collect taxes.
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By Chris Potter April 3, 2020
Savage Recognized for Supporting Military and Environment
NEW YORK, NY – March 26, 2020 – CUMULUS MEDIA's Westwood One radio and podcast host Michael Savage was today appointed by President Donald Trump to the Board of Directors of the Presidio Trust for a term expiring May 4, 2023. Along with the National Park Service, the Presidio Trust manages the Presidio of San Francisco, the former military fort that is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Known primarily for his radio show and podcast The Savage Nation, Savage also holds a doctorate in ethnobotanical research from the University of California and both a Master of Science in botany and a Master of Arts in anthropology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The United Nations has recognized his research, which includes a master plan for greening the U.S. as well as work on Native American trial folk medicine.
About The Savage Nation
The Savage Nation® delivers a bold perspective on American ideals and culture. With his unparalleled determination to unearth the truth about liberalism and national security, Michael Savage is a champion for America's borders, language, and culture. His passion for traditional values such as the English language keep listeners tuned in wherever they are. Savage has repeatedly been named by Talk Stream Live as one of the most influential and most-listened-to streaming talk show hosts. Savage hosts a two-hour radio program each weekday and an hour-long podcast.
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Steve Bruce: Greedy players killing football
SUNDERLAND boss Steve Bruce has hit out at the "greed'' he says is ruining football.
Clive Hetherington
Bruce was hurt by striker Asamoah Gyan's season-long loan move to United Arab Emirates side Al-Ain for a reputed £200,000 a week – tax-free.
Sunderland also pocketed a £6million loan fee – but Bruce, whose side host Stoke this afternoon, feels Gyan's decision to go sums up the state of the game.
He said: "The power now is with the players. For all the greatness of the Premier League, money and greed now spirals out of control.
"If Arsenal can't keep hold of players, we have to accept that Sunderland are going to find it difficult, too.
"If we're not careful we're going to alienate the man in the street. The vast amounts of money being thrown around are quite ridiculous.''
Meanwhile, Matthew Etherington has hailed Stoke boss Tony Pulis for his golden touch.
Etherington, 30, praised Stoke's summer signings and believes Pulis will be able to get the best out of them.
He said: "They're all brilliant signings – and it shows just where this club is going right now."


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NH Dems Dominate in Congressional Race Polls
As primary day approaches, Republican candidates like Matt Mowers and Matt Mayberry are battling tooth and nail for their party's nomination. Mowers has a strong 48-17 percent lead, but winning the NH-01 primary is the easy part, according to a new UNH poll.
Both Republicans trail incumbent Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas in head-to-head matchups by nearly 20 points.
The numbers are similar in the NH-02 race as well, where Democrat Rep. Annie Kuster has a double-digit lead over both of her potential GOP challengers, Lynne Blankenbeker and Steve Negron.
From the Granite State Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center
And in the hotly-contested GOP U.S. Senate primary, the gloves have come off in the waning days. A PAC backing Corky Messner has dropped an attack ad attempting to link retired Gen. Don Bolduc to progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
It's a dubious accusation at best. ("The charges in this advertisement are comical and obviously false," says Bolduc senior advisor Josh McElveen.) But even if it works, Messner has an 18-point gap to make up to catch incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Bolduc's in basically the same spot.
Across the political board, the polls tell the same story: New Hampshire Democrats leading in federal races, while Gov. Chris Sununu has a solid lead for governor. And in New Hampshire political circles, it's hard to find insiders or analysts who believe the polls are far off the mark.
It could just be the power of incumbency: Not a single 2020 challenger in the major races is within 10 points of the current officeholder, regardless of party.
Or it could be that Granite Staters are more like their fellow New Englanders than Republicans care to admit. In the six New England states, there are three Republican governors but just one federal officeholder: Sen. Susan Collins, who's currently fighting for her political life in Maine. Republicans control half of New England's governorships, but just one of the 33 U.S. House and Senate seats.
It could be that Granite Staters are purple enough to embrace a Republican for statewide office, but too blue to send any help to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell in Washington.
NHGOP sources tell NHJournal these polls are irrelevant because they miss the X factor: Trump. NHGOP chairman Steve Stepanek has been talking for months about the more than 100,000 potential voters without college degrees who are likely Trump supporters but didn't turn out in 2016. If the Trump organization and state party can get these blue-collar, working-class voters to the polls, they could easily flip a congressional seat.
In fact, if Republicans can get just a third of these people to vote, Shaheen could find herself in a tight race (She only beat Scott Brown by 16,000 in 2014.)
There are a lot of "ifs" in that scenario, and all the political pros NHJournal talked to agree: They'd rather be in the Democrats' position than Republicans.
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Escalating and relentless attacks on human rights defenders, an assault on us all
At Amnesty International, #WeDefend the rights of human rights defenders. Join us.
By Guadalupe Marengo, Head of Global Human Rights Defenders Programme, Amnesty International
During the last few weeks, we have seen how attacks on human rights defenders continue to escalate all over the world as those in power increasingly become more averse to criticism and resort to a wide array of tactics to silence them.
As I was starting to write this piece, I received the news of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab's sentence to two years in prison for shedding light during TV interviews on allegations of human rights abuses in Bahrain. Also in Bahrain, Ebtisam al-Saegh was re-arrested last week in relation to her human rights work. She had already been detained in May, beaten and sexually assaulted during interrogation, and is at risk of being tortured again.
A few days earlier, we learned that the Chinese authorities were preventing Peace Nobel prize winner Liu Xiaobo from leaving the country to receive urgent medical treatment. Liu was recently released on medical grounds after being jailed in 2009 for 11 years for "inciting subversion of state power" after he co-signed a call for political reform in China. We heard the very sad news of his death yesterday.
In Turkey, ten human rights defenders, including our Amnesty International colleagues, were arbitrarily detained as they were attending a training workshop and remain incarcerated as I write. They are Idil Eser, Director of Amnesty International Turkey; İlknur Üstün, Women's Coalition; Günal Kurşun, lawyer, Human Rights Agenda Association; Nalan Erkem, lawyer, Citizens Assembly; Nejat Taştan, Equal Rights Watch Association; Özlem Dalkıran, Citizens' Assembly; Şeyhmuz Özbekli, lawyer; Veli Acu, Human Rights Agenda Association; Ali Gharawi and Peter Steudtner both consultants delivering the training. They are currently being investigated on suspicion of "membership of an armed terrorist organisation", a ridiculous and baseless accusation. This follows last month's arrest of Taner Kılıç, chair of Amnesty International Turkey, and scores of other human rights defenders and journalists that have been detained in recent months.
In Angola, Rafael Marques de Morais and Mariano Brás Lourenço have formally been charged with 'defamation of a public authority' and 'outrage to a sovereign body' in relation to an article they published on a questionable acquisition of public land by the Angolan General Public Prosecutor. Both charges carry a penalty of one and three years in prison, respectively. Similarly, Jean-Marie Kalonji, an activist with the youth movement Quatrieme voie/ il est temps campaigning for peace and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was arrested by military security forces in Kinshasa. His colleague and lawyer, Sylva Mbikayi, was arrested a few hours later when he attempted to visit Jean-Marie at the place where he was detained.
In Honduras, Bertha Zúniga, coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and daughter of murdered human rights defender Berta Cáceres, was also attacked by the end of June. Bertha Zúniga and her colleagues, Sotero Chavarría and José Asunción Martínez were travelling by car, when individuals wielding machetes attempted to stop and attack them. That same week, unidentified intruders entered the home of Mario Luna Romero, a Yaqui Indigenous leader from northern Mexico fighting for the right to water in his community, and set fire to his partner's car. To date, despite previous threats and attacks against him, no effective protection has been provided to him and his family.
In Guatemala, members of the Centre for Environmental, Social and Legal Action (CALAS) have been the target of a renewed smear campaign after they challenged the license of the San Rafael mining company in court and the Supreme Court of Justice notified the provisional suspension of the mining company's licence. At the end of June, paid advertisements were published in a national and a regional newspaper signed by the suppliers of the San Rafael mining company, accusing CALAS of dividing the community. The situation in San Rafael remains highly tense and could facilitate further attacks against CALAS' members.
In Venezuela, lawyers Raquel Sánchez and Raiza Ramírez received anonymous calls threatening them with prosecution by military courts and telling them to leave the country. Their crime? Defending people who have been arbitrarily detained and expressing concern at the repeated use of arbitrary detentions and military courts to prosecute civilians as a mean to silence dissent.
In Cambodia, the government decided also last week to ban the NGO coalition Situation Room from monitoring next year's elections, in a blatant attempt to silence the work of civil society. In Hungary, we have seen the recent passing of a new NGO law that unduly restricts the right to association and stigmatises NGOs that receive foreign funding, in what is an escalating crackdown on critical voices in the country.
These are just some of the most recent attacks against human rights defenders worldwide, but the list is longer.
The attacks are relentless and I despair with the world leaders who are not doing enough to effectively protect those at risk for defending human rights. Instead of working to ensure a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and civil society, those in power are getting more and more averse to criticism and dissent, targeting those who are working to shed light on human rights abuses and challenge the abuse of power. And while the space for civil society continues to shrink, brave human rights defenders are still standing up against such abuses in every corner of the world.
Human rights defenders cannot operate effectively and contribute to making a safer, more just world unless adequately equipped and protected to carry out their work. But despite world leaders claims that they want a better world for all of us, they have not taken enough actions to revert the increasing risks and attacks human rights defenders are facing. That's why these attacks are attacks on us all.
This week presents an important opportunity for states to reaffirm the key role and legitimacy of human rights defenders during the forthcomming High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), held under the auspices of the United Nations General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, to review progress towards implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, commonly known as the 2030 Agenda.
Will world leaders ensure that human rights are put at the forefront of the discussion? A first urgent step for them is to speak and act for the protection of human rights defenders.
Those who defend human rights are instrumental in delivering a world free from want, persecution, discrimination and violence. They need commending and world leaders must start acting now!
#WeDefend the rights of human rights defenders. Join us.


Definition: The Expansion through Internationalization is the strategy followed by an organization when it aims to expand beyond the national market. The need for the Expansion through Internationalization arises when an organization has explored all the potential to expand domestically and look for the expansion opportunities beyond the national boundaries.
But however, going global is not an easy task, the organization has to comply with the stringent benchmarks of price, quality and timely delivery of goods and services, that may vary from country to country.
International Strategy: The firms adopt an international strategy to create value by offering those products and services to the foreign markets where these are not available. This can be done, by practicing a tight control over the operations in the overseas and providing the standardized products with little or no differentiation.
Multidomestic Strategy: Under this strategy, the multi-domestic firms offer the customized products and services that match the local conditions operating in the foreign markets. Obviously, this could be a costly affair because the research and development, production and marketing are to be done keeping in mind the local conditions prevailing in different countries.
Global Strategy: The global firms rely on low-cost structure and offer those products and services to the selected foreign markets in which they have the expertise. Thus, a standardized product or service is offered to the selected countries around the world.
Transnational Strategy: Under this strategy, the firms adopt the combined approach of multi-domestic and global strategy. The firms rely on both the low-cost structure and the local responsiveness i.e. according to the local conditions. Thus, a firm offers its standardized products and services and at the same time makes sure that it is in line with the local conditions prevailing in the country, where it is operating.
So, in order to globalize, the firm should assess the international environment first, and then should evaluate its own capabilities and plan the strategies accordingly to enter into the foreign markets.


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Magnetisk longitud eller magnetisk meridian, benämns även isogon, är en linje som förbinder orter med samma avvikelse mellan magnetisk nord (kompass-nord) och geografisk nord. Dessa linjer är inte raka utan följer det jordmagnetiska fältet mellan den magnetiska Nord- och Sydpolen. Kompassnålens avvikelse kallas missvisning (magnetisk deklination).

Missvisningen undergår en långsam förändring med tiden. Inom Skandinavien är ändringen mellan 0,1 och 0,2 grad per år. Utöver denna så kallade sekulära ändring finns kortvariga variationer med olika perioder och storlekar. Den normala dagliga variationen ligger mellan 0,1 och 0,4 grader. Vid magnetiska stormar kan missvisningen under en tid av några timmar och upp till flera dagar ändras någon grad, i sällsynta fall upp till 4 grader.

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Laccio table long by Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer were originally used as stools. They were used in studios and workshops as a poufs. Today, the Laccio`s tables serve as a side table. However you use this piece of furniture it express the Bauhaus form and is always an eye-catching.
Most well-known works of the designer M.Breuer are the steel armchair B3 "Wassily" as well as the cantilever chairs B32 and B64 called "Cesca" and the coffee tables "Laccio".
The frame of the Laccio tables is made of chrome-plated tubular steel, the table top is made of easy-care laminates coated in white or black, or with tempered glass and now also with white or black marble.
Steel frame in chrome, easy care laminate table top white or black coated, now also a tempered glass or marble-your choice.


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Q: Highmaps Graphics with Laravel5 Good morning ! I am preparing my database for use HighMaps with Laravel5, I receive this JSON form since Laravel.
[{"hc-key":"es-vi"},{"hc-key":"es-cs"},{"hc-key":"es-lo"},{"hc-key":"es-z"}]

Higchamps needs the following format:
 var data = [{ 'hc-key': 'es-pm', value: 0 },
                { 'hc-key': 'es-va', value: 1 },
                { 'hc-key': '', value: 52 }];

How could I send the format data that Highmaps need?
The sql in controller is this:
$provincias= DB::table('provincia')->lists('hc-key');

A: Since I'm not really sure where you would get the "values" you speak of, and, I'm assuming you know where those values come from, the easiest way I can come up with quickly is to use json_decode and json_encode.
$data = '[{"hc-key":"es-vi"},{"hc-key":"es-cs"},{"hc-key":"es-lo"},{"hc-key":"es-z"}]';
$data = json_decode($data);
foreach ($data as $item) {
    if ($item->{'hc-key'} == 'your_key_here') {
        $item->value = 'your_numeric_value_here';
    }
}
$data = json_encode($data);


The following teams received a bye into Round 2: Westdyke, Hibernian 23's, Renfrew, Dunfermline Athletic, Montrose, Cove Rangers, Rangers Development, and Hamilton Academical 23's.
The following teams received a bye into Round 1: Dundee City, Stranraer, Airdrie, Motherwell Development, Clark Drive, Stirling University Development, Moray, Stewarton United, Buchan Youth, Kilwinning, Mid-Annandale, Renton Craigandro, Edinburgh Caledonia, Clyde, Jeanfield Swifts, Blackburn United Development, Borders, Morton, Rutherglen, Glasgow Girls Development, Dryburgh Athletic, United Glasgow, Lothian, and West Park United.
All matches to be played on Sunday 17th February.