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Objectives Our objective was to validate a Social Vulnerabilities Survey that was developed to identify patient barriers in the following domains: (1) salience or priority of health; (2) social support; (3) transportation; and (4) finances.
Design Cross-sectional psychometric study.
Questions for one domain (health salience) were developed de novo while questions for the other domains were derived from national surveys and/or previously validated questionnaires. We tested construct (ie, convergent and discriminative) validity for these new questions through hypothesis testing of correlations between question responses and patient characteristics. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to determine structural validity of the survey as a whole.
Setting Patients admitted to the inpatient internal medicine service at a tertiary care hospital in Calgary, Canada.
Participants A total of 406 patients were included in the study.
Results The mean age of respondents was 55.5 (SD 18.6) years, with the majority being men (55.4%). In feasibility testing of the first 107 patients, the Social Vulnerabilities Survey was felt to be acceptable, comprehensive and met face validity. Hypothesis testing of the health salience questions revealed that the majority of observed correlations were exactly as predicted. Exploratory factor analysis of the global survey revealed the presence of five factors (eigenvalue >1): social support, health salience, drug insurance, transportation barriers and drug costs. All but four questions loaded to these five factors.
Conclusions The Social Vulnerabilities Survey has face, construct and structural validity. It can be used to measure modifiable social vulnerabilities, such that their effects on health outcomes can be explored and understood.
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- internal medicine
- general medicine (see internal medicine)
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Strengths and limitations of this study
The Social Vulnerabilities Survey is a newly developed questionnaire that meets an important gap, being one of the few tools to identify modifiable social vulnerabilities that may affect the ability of patients to maintain their health.
The domains covered by the survey are those identified by patients as barriers after hospital discharge in prior qualitative studies of patients facing socioeconomic disadvantage.
This study uses multiple methods to comprehensively assess validity of the survey—including face, construct (convergent, discriminant and discriminative) and structural validity.
Validity was assessed only in the inpatient setting at a single large tertiary care hospital, which may limit generalisability.
Hospital discharge signifies a particularly vulnerable time for adverse medical events, with up to 35% of patient being readmitted within 3 months.1 2 Hospital readmissions may be attributable to patient, provider or organisational factors.3 Of these, patient characteristics appear to account for most of the variation in readmission rates across institutions,4 and patient-level interventions are therefore the focus of multidisciplinary efforts to improve post-discharge outcomes.5
Self-management of chronic conditions after hospital discharge requires adequate knowledge, planning and ability on the patient’s part,6 and can therefore be affected by the social determinants of health and more downstream social vulnerabilities (eg, transportation, financial and social support barriers).7–10 In a recent study, patients who reported barriers due to at least two measures of social determinants of health were twice as likely to have preventable readmission than those without these barriers, with the majority of patients reporting the need for more general (non-medical) assistance to stay well after discharge.11 Similarly, in a study of over 13 million patients, there appeared to be a dose-response relationship between health-related social needs and hospital readmissions.12 Recognising the importance of addressing social determinants in improving patient care and health equity, the American College of Physicians recommends improved identification of social determinants of health and their downstream social vulnerabilities.13
Despite their importance, social vulnerabilities are rarely identified or studied, hampering the development of discriminative models to predict hospital readmission and effective interventions to mitigate them.5 14 The main barriers to measuring social vulnerabilities in hospitalised patients are that: (1) they are not routinely collected or available in registry or administrative data, and (2) there is a lack of widely accepted, validated questionnaires. Though Greysen et al created a 22-item survey to measure patient understanding,7 patient engagement with care and barriers to self-care in the post-discharge period, this survey is not specific to patient-level social vulnerabilities (ie, it includes provider and organisation factors), and does not sufficiently detail tangible barriers that can be targeted by interventions. For example, patients are asked whether they had difficulty following a recommended diet, or difficulty taking medications, but there are no other questions in the survey that delve into why patients face such difficulties.
Modifiable social vulnerabilities are the barriers to healthcare access that can be intervened on to improve disease prevention and screening, promote early presentation to care and improve access, uptake and adherence to treatment.15 A validated survey that identifies these social vulnerabilities is essential to identify risk factors for hospital readmissions, in identifying patients at risk for readmission and in developing both patient and population-level interventions that directly address these risk factors. In this study, we describe the development and validation of the Social Vulnerabilities Survey (SVS) in a cohort of medical inpatients in Calgary, Canada.
Development of SVS
The SVS (table 1; online supplemental appendix 1) was developed to explore the role of social vulnerabilities in a patient’s ability to access care and self-manage chronic conditions. It covers four domains of social vulnerabilities, which were selected based on prior qualitative studies of post-discharge barriers in patients with low socioeconomic status.9 10 These domains are: transportation barriers, financial barriers, poor social support and low salience of health due to competing priorities.9 10 Three of these four domains have been previously explored in national surveys or questionnaires validated in international populations.16–18 Questions within these three domains were therefore obtained from these prior sources where available, with items being selected through discussion and consensus of three members of the study team (KLT, M-JS and WAG), and adaptations made based on patient feedback (see Results section):
Four questions relating to having a licence, modes of transportation and frequency of driving (Questions 1, 2, 4 and 5) were obtained directly from the Canadian Community Health Survey—Healthy Aging Questionnaire.17 Two questions relating to travel time to a family doctor’s clinic (Question 6) and travel-related barriers in accessing health services (Question 9) were taken from the Barriers to Care for People with Chronic Conditions (BCPCHC) Survey.16 Two-related questions (Questions 7 and 8) were added to ask about travel time to other health services such as a walk-in or urgent care clinic, and to a laboratory for blood work, respectively. A question about vehicle ownership (Question 3) was added in light of evidence suggesting its associations with health and ability to cope with the demands of illness.19 20
Questions were taken directly from the modified Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey,18 assessing the domains of emotional and instrumental social support (Questions 17–24). A single question asking whether patients live alone (Question 25) was added, due to its association with healthcare utilisation, and to provide context to the relative importance of social support based on living arrangements.21 22
Financial barrier questions about drug insurance (Question 26), not taking medications due to cost (Questions 28 and 29), out-of-pocket medication costs (Questions 30 and 31) and barriers to care due to inability to take time off work (Question 32) were adapted from the BCPCHC Survey. Two new questions were added—one asking for the percentage of drug costs paid out-of-pocket (Question 27), to provide context to patient-reported absolute medication costs, and another asking about affordability of childcare as a barrier to healthcare access (Question 33) due to it being a frequently endorsed barriers in the low-income, non-elderly patient population.23
The fourth domain (health salience in the context of competing priorities) has not previously been studied, with no prior questions or questionnaire designed to explore this concept. Seven questions were created for this domain. The content for Questions 10–13 (which asks whether competing priorities results in ability to self-manage health and access care) and Question 16 (which asks participants to identify competing priorities) are based on the previously-mentioned qualitative studies.9 10 Questions about perceived importance of health and ability to keep healthy were added (Questions 13 and 14), given the importance of these health beliefs on patient willingness and ability to prioritise health.24
Information about the patient’s health was obtained through a separate background information survey (online supplemental appendix 2), which was administered along with the SVS. It comprised of 37 questions asking about socio-demographic characteristics, function based on Older Americans Resources and Services questionnaire,25 stress using the Perceived Stress Scale,26 health beliefs,24 self-rated health27 and prior healthcare use.
We assessed acceptability, feasibility, face validity and structural validity of the SVS as a whole.
Because the objective of the SVS is to identify modifiable and diverse social vulnerabilities in medical inpatients, a single ‘SVS score’ would not be clinically meaningful. Furthermore, we did not pursue domain-specific scoring algorithms for a number of reasons: (1) Questions from three of the four domains were derived from existing questionnaires, of which one (social support) already had a scoring algorithm that had been developed and validated18; (2) Questions within the domains consisted of different types of responses (binary, categorical and open-ended) that are not only difficult to synthesise into a single score, but that also make the meaning of a domain-specific score unclear; (3) For prediction of outcomes, there is evidence to suggest that the use of individual facets (or variables) within a domain may be superior to the use of scores because different facets may have different associations with outcomes.28
Patient and public involvement
While patients took part as participants of the study, they were not involved in the design, conduct or reporting of the study.
Study participants were patients admitted to the internal medical service at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, between December 2014 and October 2015. Inclusion criteria were that patients must be residents of Alberta and that the discharge destination was home or an independent living facility. Patients discharged to non-independent facilities were excluded, as direct patient care is provided in these settings, making social vulnerabilities and the need for self-management less relevant.
Feasibility and face validity
Feasibility of the SVS was assessed for the first 107 study participants, based on the time to completion and the proportion of incomplete surveys. A research assistant administered and timed the completion of both the SVS and the background information survey via an in-person interview. At the conclusion of these surveys, an additional five questions with free-text responses, were administered:
Was the length of the questionnaire acceptable? Why or why not?
How comprehensive was the questionnaire in identifying social barriers to health?
Which, if any, questions would you recommend removing from the questionnaire?
Are there any questions that you feel are missing and should be added?
Are there any modifications you would recommend to the wording of the questions to improve clarity?
Responses were transcribed concurrently during the in-person interview. Survey data were collected and stored in secure REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture), a web-based data management application.
Feasibility and face validity
Free-text responses were analysed using thematic content analysis.29 30 Because the goal of this analysis was to explore face validity, rather than to develop or explore theory, a qualitative descriptive approach was undertaken.31 32 On study investigator (KLT) performed open coding, then organised these into themes that captured different aspects of feasibility and face validity of the SVS. Review and interpretation of codes and the development of themes were undertaken through regular meetings between members of the study team (KLT and WAG). Any proposed modifications to the SVS based on patient feedback were discussed among three members of the study team (KLT, M-JS and WAG), and decisions were made by consensus. A record of changes was kept.
Descriptive statistics for socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the sample population were conducted. For categorical variables, we reported frequencies and proportions. Means and SD were calculated for continuous variables. Because questions were developed entirely de novo for only one (health salience) of the four domains of the SVS, descriptive statistics of response characteristics and hypothesis and known-groups testing (for construct validity—see below) were performed only for this domain.
Construct validity was assessed through hypothesis testing. First, the research team formulated a priori hypotheses about the expected correlations between the health salience questions and patient socio-demographic characteristics, self-rated health, subjective social status33 34 and perceived stress, based on literature. Similar and overlapping constructs were hypothesised to be positively correlated (convergent validity).35 All hypotheses included the direction and strength of correlations: small (0.1≤ r <0.3 or −0.3≤ r <−0.1), moderate (0.3≤ r <0.5 or −0.5≤ r <−0.3) or large (≥0.5 or ≤−0.5).36 Constructs that had no logical overlap were hypothesised to have no correlation, r<0.1 (discriminant validity).35 36 Observed correlations from the data were compared with the hypothesised correlations.
Hypotheses were also formulated about expected differences in responses to health salience questions across known groups, known as discriminative validity.35 Five hypotheses were formulated a priori:
Patients with lower income are more likely to state that money-related concerns make it difficult to focus on health than those with higher income.
Patient not currently working are more likely than those who are working to report that money-related and job-security concerns make it difficult to focus on health.
Patients without permanent housing are more likely to state that their housing situation makes it difficult to focus on health.
Students are more likely to state that school-related concerns make it difficult to focus on health.
Stay-at-home parents are more likely to state that domestic responsibilities make it difficult to focus on health.
Hypotheses were tested by comparing distribution of responses across these known groups, through χ2 testing. P values<0.05 were considered to be statistically significant.
Exploratory factor analysis
Structural validity of the global survey was determined through item factor analysis.35 Exploratory factor analysis based orthogonal factor rotation using the varimax method was first conducted, as the factor structure and the number of dimensions explored in the SVS were unclear (because questions were compiled from different sources, and in some cases, created de novo). Categorical variables with a missing data rate of >20% and nominal variables (where responses are categorical with no implicit or explicit order) were excluded from exploratory factor analysis. Missing responses for ordinal and continuous variables (Questions 6–8, 14, 15, 17–24, 27, 30 and 31) were imputed with the median. Sensitivity analysis was completed, where exploratory factor analysis was re-run using raw data without imputation. The number of factors ultimately retained were based on the following: eigenvalues>1.0, examination of the scree plot, the point at which adding more factors minimally changes the cumulative explained variance, and parallel analysis,.37 A minimum loading of 0.5 was determined to be the threshold at which a variable was retained within a factor. Internal consistency, or the extent to which items within a factor represented the same construct, was evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha for each factor.35
A total of 470 patients were recruited into the study. Of these, 64 were excluded (16 were not internal medicine patients, 19 were not discharged home or to an independent living facility, 2 died in hospital, 14 withdrew consent and 13 were not residents of Alberta). A total of 406 patients were included in the analysis. The mean age was 55.5 (SD 18.6) years (table 2). The majority of the sample was men (55.4%), Caucasian (68.0%), born in Canada (72.4%) and reported English as their first language (85.2%). Approximately 30.5% of the sample were employed, while 9.1% were unemployed and 38.9% were retired.
Feasibility and face validity
The mean time for completion of the SVS and background information survey together was 17 min 25 s (SD 5: 48). Nearly all patients (98.1%) found the length to be acceptable. No patients terminated the survey prematurely, and no removal of questions was suggested. Small wording changes were made to Question 26 for brevity and to Questions 6, 9 and 32 to increase specificity (ie, specifying the mode of transportation when asking about travel time, that ‘travel barriers’ pertained only to transportation barriers, and specifying which health services were being examined when asking about barriers to access, respectively). Participants also recommended splitting a single item into two, in two circumstances. First, for cost-related medication non-adherence, they recommended asking about both skipping medications and not filling a prescriptions (Questions 28 and 29), as these may reflect different levels of financial constraints. Second, participants felt clarity was needed about whose costs were being explored when asking about out-of-pocket drug costs (Questions 30 and 31). The final survey contained 33 questions (table 1; online supplemental appendix 1) in the following domains: transportation (nine questions), health salience (seven questions), social support (nine questions) and finances (eight question).
Response characteristics and construct validity of health salience questions
Distribution of responses for the seven health salience questions are presented in table 3. Approximately 12%–15% of participants described skipping tests, medications or medical appointments due to other life circumstances taking priority; an even higher proportion (30.7%) described difficulty following lifestyle recommendations for this same reason. Despite this, 77.9% of patients indicated that their health was ‘very important’, and 60.2% believed that it would be ‘very easy’ or ‘easy’ to find the time and energy to keep healthy after hospital discharge. When asked about competing priorities that would make it difficult to focus on health, the most commonly reported was finances.
We determined convergent and discriminant validity of the health salience questions through hypothesis testing of correlations. We developed a total of 99 hypotheses (online supplemental appendix 3), 35 of which predicted no correlation between responses to certain health salience questions and background socio-demographic characteristics (discriminant validity), and 64 of which predicted the presence of weak, moderate or strong correlations (convergent validity). These hypotheses were informed by literature suggesting the presence of associations between adherence to lifestyle changes, medications and/or medical appointment-keeping with stress,38 self-rated health,39 subjective social status,40 age,41–44 income45 and employment status.46–48 Of these 64 hypotheses, 39 (61%) observed correlations were as predicted in both strength and direction, with another 16 (25%) in the same direction (but not the same strength) as predicted (tables 4 and 5).
For discriminant validity, one of the 35 hypotheses could not be tested due to the number of missing responses. We demonstrated no correlation, as predicted, between health salience questions and 18 (53%) socio-demographic characteristics (tables 4 and 5). The remaining 16 hypotheses demonstrated primarily small correlations, only two of which met statistical significance.
Discriminative validity was determined through known groups testing. We observed significant differences in proportions as hypothesised:
Patients with low income were more likely to state that money-related concerns made it difficult to focus on health (47.2% vs 22.1%, p<0.01).
Patients not currently working were more likely than those who were working to state that both money-related and job-security concerns made it difficult to focus on health (50.0% vs 26.4%, p<0.01; and 23.9% vs 9.6%, p<0.01).
Patients without permanent housing were more likely to state that their housing situation made it difficult to focus on health (58.8% vs 9.3%, p<0.01).
Students were more likely to state that school-related concerns made it difficult to focus on health (50.0% vs 1.3%, p<0.01).
Stay at home parents were more likely to state that domestic responsibilities made it difficult to focus on health (47.2% vs 22.1%, p<0.01).
Factor analysis of the SVS
Exploratory factor analysis was conducted for 27 of the 33 questions in the SVS. Questions 2, 10, 21 and 33 were excluded from analysis due to a missing data rate >20% (online supplemental appendix 4). Questions 4 and 5 were additionally excluded from analysis due to the nominal nature of response categories (ie, modes of transportation). Exploratory factor analysis demonstrated that five factors had eigenvalues over 1 (see figure 1—scree plot), and that these five factors accounted for 61.4% of the total variance. The five factors were: (1) social support; (2) health salience; (3) drug insurance; (4) transportation barriers; and (5) drug costs (see online supplemental appendix 5), with associated variables and their factor loadings. All questions loaded only to one factor. Four questions (Questions 3, 9, 14 and 15) did not load to any factor. Internal consistency, as measured by Cronbach’s alpha, was reasonable, at 0.94 for factor 1 (social support), 0.78 for factor 2 (health salience), 0.91 for factor 3 (drug insurance), 0.58 for factor 4 (transportation) and 0.74 for factor 5 (drug costs). Within each factor, all variables were correlated with each other (correlation coefficients ≥0.2), but no correlations were >0.9. That is, each factor comprised of correlated but likely not redundant variables.35
Sensitivity analysis was conducted, repeating the exploratory factor analysis on raw data without imputation of variables. Based on parallel analysis,37 five factors were retained. These five factors are the same as the ones noted above (see online supplemental appendix 6 for factor loadings). Questions loaded to the same factors as in the original analysis. The same four questions did not load to any factor, with no additional non-loading items demonstrated.
The SVS is a tool that assesses modifiable social vulnerabilities that may impact the ability of patients to maintain their health. While questions from three domains (transportation, financial and social support barriers) were adapted from prior surveys and instruments, seven questions were created for the domain of health salience in the presence of competing priorities. These questions were found to have high convergent and discriminant validity, with the SVS as a whole demonstrating high structural and factorial validity.
There are few existing validated measures for social vulnerabilities and the social determinants of health. The Social Needs Screening Tool from the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the Accountable Health Communities Screening Tool from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services both ask about housing stability, food insecurity, utilities, transportation and personal safety, with additional questions included about family support/assistance, childcare, employment, education and financial strain.49 50 A similar tool, Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patient Assets, Risks and Experiences instrument has been implemented in health centres across the USA, and includes questions about personal characteristics, family and home (eg, housing status), money and resources (eg, education, employment, food/utilities/clothing/phone security) and social and emotional needs.51 These tools are broad in scope as they are intended to ‘identify any unmet need likely to have a negative impact on health’.49 Criticisms of this breadth include the resultant difficulty in prioritising unmet needs and, more fundamentally, whether identified needs (that span from inadequate housing/food/supports, to transportation needs, to social integration, to stress) are truly actionable by the healthcare provider or healthcare system.46 Furthermore, there are no published validation studies of these questionnaires. Our study addresses these gaps by validating a new tool that focuses on social vulnerabilities that are prevalent,51 evidence-based9 10 and actionable.
The importance of measuring social vulnerabilities cannot be overstated. In a population, only 10%–20% of preventable mortality can be attributed to medical care; in contrast, social factors are overwhelmingly influential in affecting health behaviours and outcomes.46 The SVS can identify patient and population needs so that these can be addressed in a comprehensive, multilevel and multifaceted way. While approaches to social barriers have traditionally focused on population-level interventions and policy development, individual-level practice changes and clinical innovations also have an important part to play.52 If we take cost-related medication non-adherence as an example, individual-level interventions include increasing physician awareness of medication cost though education and provision of resources, so that a more cost-conscious prescribing approach can be undertaken.53 At the institutional and systemic level, electronic health records can be customised to display an alert showing medication costs at the time of prescribing, along with lower cost alternatives.54 55 Default medication orders in electronic health records can also be shifted to generic, lower cost medications (with the ability to opt out).56 Both approaches have been shown to be effective in increasing the prescribing of lower cost medications.54–56 At the population level, broadening prescription drug coverage, removal of coverage gaps and caps and providing ‘first-dollar’ coverage at no direct cost to patients would all reduce out-of-pocket drug costs to patients.57–59 Ultimately, social vulnerabilities cannot be acted on if there is no accurate way to measure them. The SVS is therefore a validated instrument that has the potential to inform the delivery of more patient-centred, equitable healthcare.
One limitation to our study is that we only conducted validation of the SVS in an inpatient cohort. Given the prevalence of social vulnerabilities, and that the social determinants of health influence health and well-being in not just the inpatient population but rather than general population as a whole, the SVS is likely to be applicable and relevant in any patient population. However, we recognise the limitations of extrapolating our data outside of the inpatient cohort. Second, our survey was developed based on the social vulnerabilities identified in qualitative studies of low-income patients in the USA, without similar studies having been done in our specific patient population of interest (ie, general medical patients in Canada). Therefore, the relevance and representativeness of these social vulnerabilities remains unclear. While it is possible that the SVS does not capture other important social vulnerabilities in our patient population, the domains that are included likely remain relevant, with increasing evidence demonstrating their prevalence and/or their associations with hospital readmissions in heterogeneous, broad, populations.60–63 We also note that in our study, we asked specifically about social vulnerabilities that may be missing from the SVS—no patients felt that additional questions in additional domains were needed. Lastly, we recognise that the generalisability of the SVS may be limited due to the specificity of the questions asked. For example, in densely populated cities, licence and car ownership may not be important determinants of healthcare access.
Despite the recognition that social determinants of health and their downstream social vulnerabilities are important correlates of patient well-being and ability to self-manage conditions, there has thus far not been a questionnaire that delves into these social barriers. The SVS is a reliable and valid instrument that identifies modifiable social barriers in medical inpatients. An understanding of these social vulnerabilities is essential in developing interventions, health and social policy that mitigates these vulnerabilities to improve health outcomes.
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Ethics approval was obtained from the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Calgary (REB 14-0696). Each participant included in the study provided written informed consent to participate. Participants gave informed consent to participate in the study before taking part.
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Contributors Each of the six authors meets the authorship requirements as established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. KLT, M-JS and WAG conceived of the study and were involved in study design. LT conducted data collection. KLT, TS and OL were involved in statistical analyses. All authors were involved in data interpretation. KLT drafted the manuscript and all authors critically revised the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the manuscript. KLT acts as the guarantor, accepting full responsibility for the work; she had access to the data, and controlled the decision to publish.
Funding This study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant number 357996). They had no role in the design of the study, data collection, analysis or interpretation, or in the writing of the manuscript.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Some prostitution in the Pikes Peak region might as well be legal, based on information Target 13 Investigates gathered.
Metro Vice & Narcotics told us they are not cracking down on prostitutes who work behind closed doors, unless there's a complaint.
"We're unfortunately beyond the days where we had the resources to be proactive with that and kind of do what you did, but as police officers and catch them in the act," said Colorado Springs Police Sgt. Steve Noblitt, referring to the Target 13 Investigates hidden camera investigation showing sex for money still thriving in the Pikes Peak region.
He said it was a budget issue and the decision was made 2 years ago to eliminate the Prostitution Task Force.
Combine the lack of enforcement with the $50 fine most prostitutes get and we found the door's wide open for them to work the region without much fear. Those who do get busted are almost always working the streets. However, those working in businesses, or online and meeting "Johns" at different locations are in the clear, unless a complaint is filed with authorities.
4th Judicial District District Attorney Dan May told us the small fine most prostitutes get does create a problem.
"It makes it very difficult for us to handle at a local level of closing down places," he said.
Prostitution in Colorado is a class 3 misdemeanor, one step above petty offense.
"If we could see increased penalties it would be easier for us to go in and shut them down on a local basis," said May.
In our research, we found Colorado's $50 minimum fine appears to be one of the weakest in the country for prostitutes. However, "pimping" is a felony in Colorado.
"But you have to get the evidence of pimping and again if it's a closed organization, a lot of times the person's willing to take the charge of prostitution and won't tell you who they're sharing the money with so we can get on with the pimping charge," May said, "and all we get is a $50 fine, which makes it hard to control."

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The 30-year-old completed his move from Derby to QPR on transfer deadline day.
“I’m delighted to be here. It was a whirlwind few hours, but I’m really pleased to be a QPR player now,” Hulse told the club’s official website.
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Association of American Railroads President and CEO Edward R. Hamberger expressed how the rail industry’s position, which remains unchanged, claims forced access is an ill-conceived approach that compromises the efficiency of the entire network.
The Panama Canal Authority said it is confident in the process it uses to move ships through the new locks at the canal, following an accident last week that damaged the Xin Fei Zhou after it made contact with one of the walls at the Agua Clara Locks.
The TMS provider was acquired by fellow logistics software firm Kewill in April, and the companies are progressing on merging products and organizations, Lean executives said in a briefing.
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Ocean carrier Hyundai Merchant Marine joining the 2M Alliance - comprised of Maersk Line and MSC - has fueled speculation about Maersk’s ultimate motives, but the short term impact is a larger share on the transpacific trade, especially from Korea.
The intermodal center, which is scheduled to commence operations in the late summer of 2018, will enable shippers from surrounding states to more easily reach the Port of Savannah by rail instead of truck, the Georgia Ports Authority said.
The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority's board of directors has named Jeff Theobald as its new chief executive officer, replacing James T. McDermott, Jr.

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A ribbon cutting is planned next month for the opening of the Buddy & Maria Elena Holly Plaza and the newly renovated Fine Arts Gallery of the Buddy Holly Center. The gallery is housed in Lubbock’s historic railway depot. Directly west of the depot, across Crickets Avenue, is the new Buddy & Maria Elena Holly Plaza. The West Texas Walk of Fame is to be relocated to the plaza, along with the familiar statue of Holly. The ribbon cutting ceremony is scheduled to take place at the plaza at 4 p.m. on May 9th, a Monday.
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- The Journey Begins
- The Ninth Doctor
DVD release (with cover blurb) Edit
- Each issue came with a DVD release covering two episodes.
- Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
- "I could save the world but lose you..."
- Rose and the Doctor discover the Slitheen — a criminal family from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius — are behind the alien spaceship ending up in the River Thames. But why fake a crash landing? And just how can the Doctor and Rose escape the Slitheen-infested trap of 10 Downing Street and save the Earth?
- "I am alone in the Universe."
- The Doctor thinks he is the only survivor of the Time War, doomed to live with being the last of his kind. But a mile below ground the Doctor comes face to face with the Time Lords' greatest enemy, a Dalek, the most ruthless creature in the universe. But it's chained up and weakened — until Rose takes pity on it, and then all hell breaks loose!
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- The three Slitheen actors (Paul Kasey, Elizabeth Frost and Alan Ruscoe) also played Autons in Rose.
- The HMS Taurean was used to launch the missiles that attacked 10 Downing Street.
- "Buffalo" is a password for the UNIT website.
- The sonic screwdiver first appeared in Fury from the Deep in 1968.
- The Sixth Doctor carried a sonic lance.
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- Group Editor: Claire Lister
- Art Editor: James King
- Designer: Carly Giles
- Writers/Sub-Editors: Neill Corry and Kieran Grant
- Contributing Writer: David Bailey, Gary Gillatt, Jason Loborik and Jacqueline Rayner.
- Illustrators for this part work included Tom Connell, Nick Foreman, Carl Lyons, Lee Sullivan, Peter McKinstry and Paul Williams.
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- This issue came with a free set of seven Doctor Who file dividers to help organise pages.
Online content Edit
- The supporting website  gave online subscribers unlimited access to the magazine content as they were released (and the Doctor Who: Battles in Time comic strip pages). Subscription cost £3 per month or £25 per year.
- The supporting website also offered online games, downloads, wallpapers, and other content.
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After two years of debate, Japan's Defense Agency has chosen an American airplane as the basis for its new jet fighter. The General Dynamics Corporation's F-16, officials said, will be Japan's support fighter, codenamed FSX.
The decision, though not yet officially announced but confirmed by knowledgeable sources, is widely viewed as a major concession by Japan to the need to maintain close security ties with the United States.
Japanese defense officials had earlier favored domestic development of the plane, a course strongly urged by its aerospace industry.
United States congressional and defense officials had called instead for Japan to purchase an American jet.
According to well-informed sources, however, the Japanese intend to use only the basic design of the F-16 fighter's body.
The Japanese, the sources say, told General Dynamics and US defense officials last week that they require the use of Japanese-designed equipment for all of the plane's sophisticated electronic systems like radar and onboard computers.
The plane will have to be extensively modified, they say, to meet Japan's requirements. In addition, they are asking that the production of the plane take place entirely in Japan.
The Japanese plane, says one informed American source, ``is as close to domestic development as you can get with a US airframe.''
The FSX issue has been linked by congressional leaders to Japan's huge trade surplus with the United States.
Senator John Danforth (R) of Missouri had earlier pressed Japan to buy an American plane, arguing it would be a more cost-effective decision than domestic development.
The senator, a leader on trade issues, accused Japan of barring its market to a superior United States-made product. Mr. Danforth praised the initial decision, announced earlier this month, to drop the domestic development option and choose either the F-16 or McDonnell Douglas Corporation's F-15.
However, the American source says, the Japanese plan will produce few, if any, jobs for American workers.
Japan currently builds the F-15 fighter under license from McDonnell Douglas. According to company officials, about 40 percent of the contents of the plane comes from the US.
In the case of the FSX fighter, however, Japanese officials want to reduce that to zero.
The decision in favor of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, over the rival F-15 Eagle, was mainly based on cost, a Japanese official explained.
The unit price of the F-15, a sophisticated interceptor, is almost twice that of the lightweight F-16 fighter.
Japan plans to build at least 100 FSX fighters by the mid-1990s. The F-16 cost per plane, Japanese officials say, is estimated at 5.5 billion yen (about $38 million).
The aircraft is to be used mainly for defense against ships and for ground attack, with a secondary role as an air combat interceptor. It will replace an existing fighter, Japan's only domestic-made supersonic plane.


“Churches are not transforming people but rather servicing them,” says Sylvia Ronsvalle of Empty Tomb, Inc., in Champaign (www.pnnonline.org). She’s coauthor of a new study, “The State of Church Giving Through 2000,” which found that benevolent giving–contributions that support the broader mission of the church–reached its lowest point since 1968 in 2000, while giving for internal operations of the congregation remained strong. “People are concerned about keeping the lights on and the staff paid at their churches, which are valid needs. But those activities ought to be the platform from which to reach out to a hurting world as Christians practice their religion. Instead, congregation members appear to be emphasizing their own comfort over the needs of their local and international neighbors.”
Square miles urbanized in the Chicago and northwest Indiana area, 1970-’90, according to U.S. census figures (www.sprawlcity.org): 307.3. The Chicago area ranks 13th in the country by this measure of sprawl, behind Atlanta (702), Houston (639), New York (541), and even Oklahoma City (307.7). Adding more than 300 square miles of city in 20 years sounds pretty dire unless you know one fact not mentioned on the Web site: the state of Illinois contains 55,593 square miles of land.
“In every sphere of life, the trend has been to shift increasing amounts of risk to the average American,” writes David Moberg in the August 16 issue of In These Times. “Although sold under the attractive names of ‘choice,’ ‘freedom’ and ‘flexibility,’ the typical result has been to threaten their livelihoods. For example, riskier defined-contribution pension plans–like 401(k)s, which Congress still hasn’t protected and regulated–have been replacing defined-benefit pension plans. Growing numbers have no pension plan at all….Safety nets are diminishing: While the boom economy in the late ’90s reduced poverty somewhat, the numbers of people in ‘extreme poverty’ actually increased, as welfare and other assistance was cut. Fewer families have health insurance, and the insurance they do have covers less.”
My Mastercard was maxed out, so I paid it off with my Visa. In the October issue of the “Illinois State Comptroller’s Quarterly” comptroller Daniel Hynes reports that “$1.220 billion of fiscal year 2003 revenues were used to pay 2002 bills.”
And she’s just getting ready to talk about the pollution. “Nobody cares about rural people,” writes Becky Bradway, a native of downstate Buffalo (E Magazine, September/October). “Let’s be real about that. They’re the butt of jokes; they have no power. A friend who teaches in Illiopolis joked that everyone in the town is inbred. They all have the same last names. Uh-huh, I said. Tell me about it. Feuding strands of my cousins’ family, the Pattons, wind all over Central Illinois. The inbreeding isn’t a matter of genetics, but of attitudes and ideas and career options and life choices that limit them to a 10-mile radius. Kids look to the chemical plant, figuring they can get a job there after they get married. They marry soon after they graduate high school, or even before. Some want to leave but lack opportunity or nerve, so they stay stoned, vandalize, fight, or maybe kill themselves driving too fast on the curving country roads.”
From another city’s file. According to a Graham Foundation summary of Charles Waldheim’s October 2 lecture here, Detroit is now so emptied out that “the city will loan tractors to residents so they can farm the vacant land next to their houses.”
“The real ethical challenge in Chicago journalism today isn’t some uncool ’70s holdover with a bad rug chasing young chicks. It’s at the very top,” opines Substance (October). “There, op ed and Power Point propaganda has replaced reporting as the basic source for ‘news.’ Of course, it’s cheaper to let a guy like Paul Vallas (backed by a few quotes from selected talking heads, all saying the same things) be the sole sources for a news story. The ‘editorial board briefing’ is certainly easier on a newspaper’s ‘bottom line’ than to send a couple of reporters out chasing down every lie and double-checking every ‘fact’ for weeks


Dagenham & Redbridge team news: Same again for Woking trip
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No changes expected for clash with Cards
Three could be a magic number for Dagenham & Redbridge at Woking this weekend: boss John Still could name the same team for a third game in a row as Daggers chase a third win and a third clean sheet in succession.
Having impressed away to Guiseley last weekend, Still opted to keep the same starting XI when Daggers hosted Lincoln City on Tuesday and to a man they all performed again in a 1-0 win.
It would be a tough call, then, for the ex-Barnet boss to elect to change a winning team that is performing well.
Once again, it means Elliot Justham will start in goal, with a back four of Curtley Williams, Scott Doe, Craig Robson and Joe Widdowson in front of him.
Andre Boucaud and Matt Robinson will anchor the midfield, while Chris Assombalong and Fejiri Okenabirhie will be tasked with providing Daggers’ width.
Havig struck his second goal of the season against the Imps on Tuesday, Luke Guttridge will again operate in the whole behind striker Oliver Hawkins.
That means the likes of forward Paul Benson and winger Jordan Maguire-Drew will once more have to settle for a spot on the bench.
Luke Pennell (ACL) remains out for the forseeable future, but Luke Howell (knee) has returned to light training and should hopefully be fit to play at some point in September.
Probable XI: Justham; Williams, Doe, Robson, Widdowson; Boucaud. Robinson; Assombalonga, Guttridge, Okenabirhie; Hawkins


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More than a few pairs of eyes are on Cirrus Insight, the Laguna Hills, Calif., CRM app developer that integrates Salesforce with Gmail. Nearly 7,300 pairs of eyes, to be precise.
We know. Our last two pieces on the 13-employee provider -- our Nov. 26 piece, Cirrus Insight to Unite Salesforce, Gmail on Mobile Devices and our Cirrus Insight Brings Pardot, Hubspot Marketing Automation to Gmail piece on Feb. 6 generated this interest.
So why’s the little two-year-old provider so hot at the moment?
Customer: Winning Over Employees
Endeavor, the New York City global nonprofit that connects entrepreneurs with established businesses and industry moves and shakers in emerging and growth markets, is a Cirrus Insight customer.
They currently support 326 companies, more than 800 entrepreneurs and more than 2,000 active mentors. They claim to have created 200,000-plus high-quality jobs and generated $5 billion in revenues in 2011.
Endeavor uses Salesforce to manage its global operations, and Google Apps for email, calendar and contacts.
Where does Cirrus Insight enter the picture? With Endeavor’s AppExchange app that connects Google Apps with Salesforce.
Peter Olivier, project manager for the Endeavor Access platform, where Endeavor manages its clients, told CMSWire his organization has been using Cirrus Insight’s apps since last summer. Initially just himself and a couple colleagues, Olivier said the entire New York City-based team is using it, and there are plans to roll it out to 200 more worldwide.
“We are in that crew of people who are excited about Cirrus,” Olivier said. “The reason Cirrus has been so successful and useful to us is that it allows you to develop critical information that is in your CRM or Salesforce and get it into the place where people make decisions.”
And that would be, in this case, the Gmail inbox. How are you going to write that email? Who are you going to send it to?
“Those things are happening in the inbox,” said Olivier, whose team is almost complete with a migration from Office to Gmail for its enterprise email system.
No Justification of Resources Needed
Traditionally, people on Salesforce struggle to enter pertinent information on customers. “You ask them to write an email, and then go someplace else to go log that in. It’s asking a lot,” Olivier said. “People get tired of that.”


Water The Roses is a family-owned business that wants to help you protect your water sprinkler investment.
“Winter is coming” is an understatement when it comes to your sprinklers. The Midwest has various precautionary options for environmental conditions due to the dryness of our land-locking. We’re here to help you avoid issues when it is the season to water the roses.
Here’s why it’s important to winterize your sprinkler system…
- When water is frozen in the pipes it can lead to cracking and pipe fitting will crack too!
- Auto-drains in sprinklers systems can fail.
- Repairing a sprinkler system could cost anywhere from $350 to $700.
- Protect your investment!
Being proactive will keep you from spending that amount of money on an event that could have been avoided. We take the time to make sure you are avoiding damage to rotors, sprinkler heads, backflow systems, and valves with our winterization process. Let Water the Roses winterize your sprinklers before it’s too late!
Water the Roses is a family owned business. We want to make sure that your family never has to go through the horrible consequences that come when your sprinkler system is not properly winterized.
Water The Roses
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Phone Number: 801.360.0087
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Saina Nehwal's defeat to Nozomi Okuhara in the quarterfinals of the Singapore Open comes in a surprise as the Indian had got the better of the Japenese on the last three occasions. Sindhu with her hard-fought win sets up a semifinal clash with Okuhara.
District Judge Olivia Low on Monday sentenced the woman, Chia Yun Ling, to 47 months in prison and ordered her to pay a fine. Her husband, Tay Wee Kiat, a former information technology manager, was jailed for 24 months.
Udhayakumar Dhakshinamoorthy, who works at minimart had courted a 12-year-old girl with gifts and called her his 'wife', grooming her to engage in progressively intrusive sexual acts with him over a period of three months.


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This is The Sims 3 Generations princess TV for The Sims 2. It's adjustable up and down the wall if you have the Apartment Life expansion pack with the use of the [ and ] keys. As with all the photos here, you can click the photo for a larger picture. Enjoy!
I just downloaded this TV, and a bunch of other stuff from your site. It's really wonderful! I'm really excited about using it in my game. Things like this really keeps the game fun for me. Thanks!
Thanks so much! I don't get a lot of comments here (except spam lol) Glad you like it. :-)
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Abhishek Bachchan has opened up about his journey amid father Amitabh Bachchan’s financial woes
Abhishek Bachchan is giving a glimpse at how his father faced quite a few challenges financially because of which he had to drop out of Boston University.
During an interview on The Ranveer Show podcast, Abhishek recalled when he returned home because his family was going through a hard time.
The 45-year-old actor went on to reveal that there was a time when his father Amitabh did not know how he would get dinner for the family.
At that point, the Ludu star called his father and said,
“You know dad, I think I want to leave college half-way and comeback and just be with you, try and help you in whatever way. At least you’ll know that your boy is next to you and he’s there for you”.
To which Big B said, "I’m glad, come back. Bhasha sikho (learn the language). Because Shakespeare doesn’t work over here. And I realise that today, that I was very out of context."


Download here: Episode 12 - Androids, Human Presence and the Uncanny Valley
Hiroshi Ishiguro is Professor of the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, and the group leader of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University.
If you've ever seen an Android robot in the news, it probably came out of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. Starting from the robotic replicate of his then 5 year old daughter, Prof. Ishiguro then went on to model a female android after Ayako Fujii, the NHK news announcer. Finally, his latest robot Geminoid which is a close copy of himself, is able to replace its creator in lectures and interviews.
His robots are highly actuated to give them human like facial expressions and reflexes. Because the AI needed to interact in a human-like manner is not always advanced enough, Prof. Ishiguro has been looking to partially teleoperate his robots. Another approach investigated is to make his robots autonomous by having them perceive and react to their world through a sensor network of cameras.
Using these robots as a tool, Prof. Ishiguro has invented and explored the field of Android Science which looks at both the appearance and behavior of humanoid robots and their impact on human robot interactions. In particular, he is looking to verify the existence of the uncanny valley and to explore how to make androids which sufficiently resemble humans to be likable. Ultimately, the question is now to understand what human presence really means.
What is your take on androids? Will androids ever become indistinguishable from humans, both in looks and behaviour? Will they become unrecognizable like the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica, or remain awkward like Data from Star Trek? Take the poll, then tells us below:
What would you do with your own robot android?
In this last installment of the Jack Graham's Selkies story Mangan sets his Selkies free with a new schooling algorithm in a sea full of sharks. Will this new generation of robotic swimmers escape the jaws of the sharks? Tune in to find out...


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The Order of the Silver Trowel
The Order of the Silver Trowel is a degree offered to elected Illustrious Masters, installed Illustrious Masters, or Past Illustrious Masters of Councils of Cryptic Masons or Royal and Select Masters. It base on biblical history of the annointing of Solomon as King of Israel to follow his Father, David, to the throne of Israel. Charters for Grand Councils of Silver Trowel are issued by the Grand Council of North Carolina as custodian of the degree. Please contact the General Grand Recorder for further information.

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How Rotary Encoder Works and How To Use It with Arduino
Com in this tutorial, we will learn how a rotary encoder works and how to use it with arduino. A rotary encoder is a type of position sensor which is used for determining the angular position of a rotating shaft. It generates an electrical signal either analog or digital. According to the rotation movement, there are many different types of rotary encoders which are classified by either output signal or sensing technology. The particular rotary encoder that we will use in this tutorial is an incremental rotary encoder and its the simplest position sensor to measure rotation. This rotary encoder is also known as quadrature encoder or relative rotary encoder and its output is a series of square wave pulses. Lets. Take a closer look at the encoder and see its working principle heres how the square wave pulses are generated. The encoder has a disk with evenly spaced contact zones that are connected to the common pnc and two other separate contact pins, a and b, as illustrated now when the disk will start rotating step by step. The pins, a and b will start making contact with the common pin and the two square wave output signals will be generated accordingly, any of the two output pins can be used for determining the rotation position if we just count the pulses of the signal. However, if we want to determine the rotation direction as well, we need to consider both signals. At the same time, we cannotice that the two output signals are displaced at 90 degrees out of phase from each other.
If the encoder is rotating clockwise, the output a will be ahead of the output b. So if we count the steps each time the signal changes from high to low or from low to high, we cannotice that at that time the two output signals have opposite values. Vice verse, if the encoder is rotating counterclockwise, the output signals have equal values. So considering this we can easily program our controller to read the encoder position and rotation direction. Thats the basic working principle of our rotary encoder so now lets make a practical example of it. Using the arduino, the particular model that i will use for this example comes on a breakout board and it has five pins. The first pin is the output pin a the second pin. Is the output pin b? The third pin is the button pin and, of course, the two other pins are the vcc and the ground. Pin we can connect the output pins to any digital pin of the arduino board, heres the arduino code. First, we need to define the pins to which our encoder is connected and define some variables needed for the program. In the setup section, we need to define the two pins as inputs start the serial communication for printing the results on the serial monitor, as well as read the initial value of the output a and put the value into the variable. A last state. Then, in the loop section we read the output a again, but now we put the value into the a state variable.
So if we rotate the encoder and a pulse is generated, these two values will differ and the first, if statement, will become true right after that using the second, if statement, we determine the rotation direction. If the output b state differ from the output a state, the counter will be increased by 1 else. It will be decreased at the end after printing the results on the serial monitor, we need to update the a last state variable with the a state variable thats. All we need for this example and heres its demonstration. If we start rotating the encoder, we will start getting the values in the serial monitor the particular model that i have makes 30 counts each full cycle. In addition to this basic example, i made one more example of controlling a stepper motor position using the rotary encoder. You can find the source code of this example on my website, article thanks for watching and for more tutorials and projects visit.


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Robots are interesting. Clones are not.
I dunno what it is about clones, but I've yet to see a TV series or movie based on them that I found worthwhile. Even SW: The Clone Wars
is interesting for everything but the clones. I just kinda zone out when the episodes focus on them. (Usually still worth watching for the gorgeous artwork anyway. Love those crazy alien worlds!)

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Takeout from all over the Globe every Thursday and Sunday in your backyard!
1 – Red Curry with Chicken แกงเผ็ดไก่ฟักทอง – $18 per order
This is a classic Thai dish, perfect for cozy winter nights. Tender pieces of chicken swimming in a rich coconut red curry broth
accompanied by a variety of fresh veggies. Flavored with Thai basil and ginger. Served with jasmine rice.
2 – Red Curry with Vegetables – $17 per order
Same spiel but with a garden variety of veggies, including peppers, zucchini, green beans, carrots and cauliflower.
This curry is medium spicy and has a grassy freshness from loads of Thai Basil. Served with jasmine rice.
3 – Chicken Satay & Peanut Sauce เนื้อสะเต๊ะ – $18 per order
Skewers of chicken marinated in spices, basted with coconut milk and grilled to perfection then served with our house made spicy peanut sauce
(This sauce is so good you’ll want to put it on everything). Three skewers comes with a side of jasmine rice and tangy green papaya salad.
4 – Thai Fish Cakes with House Made Sweet Chili Sauce – $18 per order
Two good sized fish cakes served with a side of our green papaya salad and purple stick rice. The fishcakes are made with tender white fish
combined with scallions, green beans and Thai Basil. Seasoned with kaffir lime leaf and a touch of curry.
A side of our house made sweet chili dipping sauce goes along side.
5 – Tom Yum Soup (ต้มยำกุ้ง) – $9 per order
This is one of the national dishes of Thailand, a tomato based soup made with seafood, and a broth flavored with the
holy trio of lemongrass, galangal, and kaffir lime leaves. Our version has baby bok choy and mushrooms.
6 – Pork Laab (ลาบ) – $11 per order
A Thai salad, but it’s not a vegetable salad, instead it’s a meat salad! The minced pork is wonderfully seasoned with fish sauce,
chili flakes, lime juice, toasted sticky rice to give it some crunchy texture and nutty flavor, as well a wonderful assortment of fresh herbs
to bring it all together. Served with Lettuce leaves to wrap it up in.
7 – Som Tam (ส้มตำ) or Green Papaya Salad – $9 per order
This is a appetizer portion of our Som Tam. This crunchy fresh salad is made with green papaya, cucumber, cabbage,
string beans and cherry tomatoes. It’s got and extra kick from the addition of Thai Basil and mint.
The sweet and sour dressing has palm sugar, tamarind and lime. Topped with toasted peanuts.
8 – Thai Iced Tea – $5 per order
This is a 16 ounce serving of sweet creamy goodness. The most famous drink in Thailand, so good it could be dessert.
Made with a strong brew of vanilla scented Assam Tea combined with sweetened condensed milk and half and half.
Pickup slots are every 15 minutes and is limited to 3 orders per slot.
Please Note – These Dinners are preorder only with a limit of 20 servings per dinner, so get your reservations in early!
Pickup is at our Tiny Black House at 16 Foster Street Montpelier, VT 05602
Every Thursday and Sunday starting on December 3, 2023 we will be cooking takeout dinners. Every dinner will feature a different country. That means we visit 2 countries per week! If we decide to revisit a country within the season, then it will be an entirely new menu. We pick dishes that have a wide reach, though sometimes we will throw an “eccentric” dish in there as well. We do our best to offer vegetarian options where it is applicable. In other words, if there is not a vegetarian option that we are interested in, then there won’t be any (usually there is though). What there will be very little of however is Vegan foods. Not that we dislike vegans (one of us is a huge Rastafari fan), but a lot of the countries we visit just don’t have options that fit that bill. On that note, we do cook ITAL a couple of times a season. If you don’t know what that is…look it up. This endeavor is not just about food for us, it is also deeply rooted in understanding and experiencing another piece of humanity’s culture. So, to that end, we use recipes that come from people native to these countries. In other words, we keep it as real as we can!
So onward to the “how it works” part of this introduction.
1 – We are only 2 people so we only cook around 20ish servings When the menu says Sold Out, it is truly Sold Out.
2 – We post the menu for Thursday’s dinner on Tuesday evening and for Sunday’s dinner on Friday evening. It is 100% first come first serve. We will not hold a spot for you. We do not decide what country or what dishes from said country we will offer until the day we post the menu so asking ahead of time ‘What’s on the menu?’ is pointless.
3 – All dinners are pre-order only. If you have ordered takeout before, the system will feel very familiar; if not, it is self-explanatory. All orders will be pre-paid through the ordering system (we do not know most of you so that is just how it is).
4 – For any orders that are over the amount that 4 people would eat, we reserve the right to contact you and possibly decline the order. The reason for this is we want as many people as possible to get a chance to try our takeout. If you are hosting a dinner party, this is not the method to get it catered…we don’t do that usually and that is not the purpose of these meals.
5 – If the food is spicy, gluten-free, vegetarian or vegan it will be noted with an icon next to the dish in the ordering system. It is usually in the description of the dish as well. We DO NOT do customized dishes. You do not get to pick and choose what ingredients you want and do not want, there are plenty of restaurants out there who will happily do that for you. For instance, if the dish is full of cilantro, and you dislike cilantro, don’t order that dish! Again the reason for this is twofold: we are only 2 people and also because we will not change the ingredients in the dish since all of the ingredients are part of that dish, and are almost always central to the taste of the dish.
6 – We buy local where it is applicable. The vast majority of our dishes contain a lot of ingredients that cannot be grown in Vermont so before you speak…think. Vermont does not produce plantains or chadon beni therefore we must procure many items elsewhere. What we try and do whenever we can is buy those more “exotic” ingredients through the stores of immigrants in Vermont so we are supporting their businesses. Sometimes they cannot get something, for example, breadfruit. In those cases, we would hold that particular menu until the time someone we know is coming to town from an area of the country where you can get that item and we ask them to bring it with them.
Now I’m sure the question on your mind is, how do I stay in the know?! Well, we try and make it easy for you. The menu will go LIVE on Tuesday evenings and Friday evenings on the website directly below this page. Click the “Place Order Here” button and place your order. After we post it to the website we will also post on our Instagram page that the menu is LIVE and let you know what country it is as well. Then it will also go out to our newsletter subscribers. We will not email you, call you, text you or send you smoke signals! We sell out every meal deep in the NEK each summer and I would assume Montpelier will not be any different. Look at it as a Limited Edition offering where there are only 20 slots and you have to try and snag one. Sometimes you will get in, sometimes you will not.
Every meal will be authentic and different and we will be rotating through the Caribbean Islands as well as Central American countries and a few northern South American countries. We reserve the right to diverge to both Africa and Asia occasionally as we cook outstanding dishes from some of those countries as well.
Basically, we cook whatever we feel like cooking.
Every dish we make we have cooked countless times and the vast majority are based on friends and family recipes.
We believe this might be some of the best World food in the Northeast. So get ready to Come on out and pick up some stellar world food to take home and enjoy in the comfort of your home this winter! And by all means, don’t take our word for it, read the real-world reviews below!
Tonight's Cuban dinner was one of the best this season. I loved the shrimp, croquetas and stewed black beans.Mark* A very, very loyal customer!
Thank Karin for making my favorite desert.
Just wanted to say thanks again for the lovely Indian meal(s). It is the bright spot in what was otherwise a fairly shitty day.Lin* a customer we dig so much we sometimes create a field on the order form just for her commentary!
We are so grateful for the delicious Ethiopian feast you prepared and we devoured this evening. It was a perfect birthday dinner and I have to say that we gorged. Thank you for all the care you put into the planning, preparation, and serving. I can't believe how much we ate, and the generous portions just kept coming. Wow!Susan
Guys, that was legitimately the best fucking Sri Lankan food I've ever had!Glorious leader* that is his title, we didnt make it up
The food is fabulous!!! Thank you so much Karin!!Tessa
just have to say ITS SO GOOD! Omg. So happy I was able to come. I was eating the collards with my hands in the car. Great Job!Morgan* grew up in the south
That PoBoy sandwich was certainly the best fish sandwich I've ever hadd, the crunch, the pickley slaw. The gumbo, the natchidoches pies, we were in awe!Sean
Thank you!! Everything was obscenely good.Tim
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Mini NRF24L01 Wireless module
Market similar to the smallest completely replace the inline module.
The NRF24L01 is a monolithic transceiver chip that operates in the world’s common ISM band of 2.4-2.5GHz. The wireless transceiver includes: Frequency Generator Enhanced SchockBurstTM Mode Controller Power Amplifier Crystal Amplifier Modulator Demodulator Output Power Channel Selection and Protocol The setting can be set to extremely low current consumption via the SPI interface. When the transmit power is 6dBm in transmit mode, the current consumption is 9.0mA. The accept mode is 12.3mA and the current consumption mode is lower in standby mode.
Ball open ISM band, the maximum 0dBm transmit power, free license to use.
Support six channels of data reception
1. Low operating voltage: 1.9 ~ 3.6V low voltage operation
2. High rate: 2Mbps, because the air transmission time is very short, greatly reducing the collision in the wireless transmission (software set 1Mbps or 2Mbps air transfer rate)
3. Multi-frequency: 125 frequency points to meet the needs of multi-point communication and frequency hopping communication
4. Ultra-small: built-in 2.4GHz antenna, small size, 15x29mm (including the antenna)
5. Low power consumption: When working in answer mode communication, fast air transmission and start time, greatly reducing the current consumption.
6. Low application cost: NRF24L01 integrates all the high-speed signal processing related to the RF protocol, such as: automatic retransmission of lost data packets and automatically generate response signals, NRF24L01 the SPI interface can use the microcontroller’s SPI interface to connect or use the microcontroller I / O port to simulate, the internal FIFO can be with a variety of high and low speed microprocessor interface, easy to use low-cost single-chip.
7. Easy to develop: As the link layer is fully integrated on the module, very easy to develop. Automatic retransmission function, automatic detection and retransmission of lost data packets, retransmission time and the number of retransmission software control can automatically receive the response signal does not receive the packet automatic response function, after receiving the valid data, the module automatically sends a response Signal, no additional programming Carrier detection – Fixed frequency detection Built-in hardware CRC error detection and point-to-multipoint communication address control Packet transmission error Counter and carrier detection function can be used for frequency hopping settings can be set at six simultaneous receive channel address, can be selective The open receive channel standard pin Dip2.54MM pitch interface for easy embedded applications.


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Dr Angela Brodie died from Parkinson's disease earlier this year aged 82
Described as one of the most important breakthroughs in the treatment of the disease, Brodie’s work has helped save the lives of thousands of women.
At the heart of her research was the development of aromatase inhibitors, which help to prevent recurrence of breast cancer in post-menopausal women by reducing oestrogen produced by the body, thereby cutting off the fuel that promotes the growth of cancer cells.
When she was 10, Brodie began studying at a Quaker boarding school where she was 'inspired to be of use to the community'.
While her discovery was initially met with scepticism, Brodie’s persistence eventually paid off in 1982.
“We presented our data at the National Institutes of Health and they brought up one objection after another,” said her husband Dr Harry Brodie, a bio-organic chemist, with whom she often worked.
“Then we happened to go to a meeting in Europe and we ran into [British oncologist] Charles Coombes.
Angela's work helped save the lives of thousands of women
He said, ‘Send me the material. I can do it.’ He had 11 patients in London and they responded.
”From the clinical trials they found 30 per cent of the London patients saw their cancers go into remission. The findings directed scientists and drug companies to other chemicals and new strategies that help block the growth of breast cancer. It was Brodie’s father Herbert who first got her interested in science. He had been an organic chemist who helped develop polyurethanes. When she was 10, Manchester born Brodie began studying at a Quaker boarding school where she was “inspired to be of use to the community”.
In 1961, after receiving a doctorate in biochemistry from Manchester University, she moved to the United States on a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.
Angela was recognised as a scientist whose research led to a new drug for breast cancer patients
Much of her work into aromatase inhibitors was carried out at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where she met her husband Harry.
He had synthesised the first aromatase inhibitors as part of his research into contraceptives but, unable to make them 100 per cent effective, his wife suggested the hormoneblocking compound be reused as a way to treat breast cancer.
Brodie, who retired last year, died of complications from Parkinson’s disease and is survived by her husband and son Mark.
Another son John died in 2006.


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OFFICIAL: Inter sign Lukaku from Manchester United
Serie A By: Ikponmwosa Umweni | 08/08/2019
Inter have officially signed striker Romelu Lukaku from Manchester United on a long-term contract for a reported €75m. The 28-year-old Belgium international has been heading towards the Old Trafford exit door for a number of months after a string of ineffective performances left him on the fringes of United's first team - particularly during the second half of the season.Lukaku has been a long-term target of the Nerazzurri, with Antonio Conte desperate to bring the former Chelsea striker to San Siro with Serie A side has an official club's website confirming the deal after has put pen to paper on a five-year contract with Inter after completing his transfer on Thursday afternoon despite interest from Juventus.
Lukaku enjoyed a successful first season with the Red Devils, firing 27 goals in all competitions - reaching double digits in the Premier League for a sixth successive campaign. But the goals were harder to come by last season, even though Lukaku still managed to notch 15 times.View this post on Instagram


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TORONTO, Oct. 29 /CNW/ - Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Partners, the
Medicinal Chemistry arm of Dalton Pharma Services, announces that it has
achieved a targeted milestone in its Medicinal Chemistry agreement with
Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. The milestone achievement triggered payment
of an undisclosed amount.
Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Partners is utilizing their medicinal
chemistry expertise to design and synthesize novel compounds against an
antiviral target selected by Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. Peter Pekos,
President of Dalton Pharma Services, said: "We are pleased to achieve this
milestone in our exciting partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd.
It is a pleasure working with the talented team at BI."
Dalton Chemical Laboratories Inc. o/a Dalton Pharma Services is a Health
Canada approved contract pharmaceutical manufacturer that supplies chemistry
and analytical services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in
the areas of chemistry, medicinal chemistry and fine chemical manufacture.
Dalton provides cGMP manufacturing and sterile filling services to its
customers at any stage of the regulatory process (Phase I, II, III or
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Hotel Terme - Angolo Terme
Viale Terme, 53 - Angolo Terme1-877-662-6988
Hotel Terme offers hotel accommodation in the Camonica Valley area.
Enjoy a spot of lunch or an evening meal at this 3 star Angolo Terme hotel's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit your taste. Make the most of your trip to Italy by taking some time to relax as you will find massage/treatment rooms and spa services on site. Why not go for a swim as this hotel features a seasonal outdoor pool, a good way to unwind. There is also a bar/lounge where guests can enjoy drinks after a long day.
Free Wi-Fi is provided so you can check your in-box whenever you like. Planning a meeting? This hotel has a meeting room, as well as a business center. Other amenities include an elevator (lift) and a garden.
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A free buffet breakfast is served each morning.
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Spa/Wellness Centre
- Entire property is non-smoking
- Pets accepted
- Outdoor swimming pool
- Internet/Email services
- Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
- Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).
Check-in: between 2 PM and 8 PM.
Check-out: before 11 AM.
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- Pet fee: EUR 5 per room, per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 20-25 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
Book your pet-friendly accommodation at the 80-room Hotel Terme. Digital TV channels offer entertainment at the end of a busy day. Business travelers will have access to safes and phones during their Camonica Valley visit. Every room comes with an ensuite bathroom.
- Extra beds
Distances from Hotel TermeLago Moro Park - 1.6 km / 1 mi
Incisioni Rupestri di Luine Park - 2.6 km / 1.6 mi
Archeopark - 3.6 km / 2.2 mi
Presolana-Monte Pora Ski Resort - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Scanapa Ski LIft - 6.3 km / 3.9 mi
Le Chiese delle Diocesi Italiane Sanctuary - 6.6 km / 4.1 mi
Montecampione Ski Area - 7.9 km / 4.9 mi
Basilica Santa Maria Valvendra - 10 km / 6.2 mi
Church of San Giorgio - 10.3 km / 6.4 mi
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele - 10.4 km / 6.5 mi
Torre Civica - 10.5 km / 6.5 mi
Palazzo Tadini - 10.6 km / 6.6 mi
Colere Ski Resort - 11.1 km / 6.9 mi
Fantoni House Museum - 12.6 km / 7.9 mi
Parrocchiale di Ognissanti Church - 12.7 km / 7.9 mi
The preferred airport for Hotel Terme is Bergamo (BGY-Orio Al Serio) - 43.2 km / 26.8 mi.
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MIAMI (AP) - In the latest challenge over digital age technology and privacy rights, a federal appeals court wrestled Friday with the authority of law enforcement to obtain and use records from cellphone towers, which reel in a treasure trove of user information every minute and can link suspects to crime scenes.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown issued a second executive order on Friday to deal with California's drought, taking additional steps to help fight wildfires and assist cities and farmers.
DENVER (AP) - The federal government has reluctantly agreed to let Colorado be the first state to collect taxes from the legal sale of recreational marijuana, but it also has made clear it doesn't agree with the move and may try to stop it, if isn't tightly controlled.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma plans to hold its first double execution in nearly 80 years, Gov. Mary Fallin said Thursday.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - With concealed weapons now legal in all 50 states, the National Rifle Association's focus at this week's annual meeting is less about enacting additional state protections than on making sure the permits already issued still apply when the gun owners travel across the country.
NEW YORK (AP) - The tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands is taking on the United States and the world's eight other nuclear-armed nations with an unprecedented lawsuit demanding that they meet their obligations toward disarmament and accusing them of "flagrant violations" of international law.
PROVO, Utah (AP) - When Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees announced last month that he's gay, the bigger headline behind his revelation was that he is one of the few publicly out Mormons.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) - A California effort to lead a national debate over the growing wage gap between CEOs and average workers took its first step in the state Legislature on Thursday with support from Democratic lawmakers, organized labor and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said Friday that he is leaning toward a run for president and will likely make an announcement in his home state of Kentucky sometime in March or April.
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a new setback for the health care law and the people it's supposed to help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reporting error that's fouling up the filings of 800,000 Americans.
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The popular creative writing reading series turns the page on a new chapter in literary voices at Colorado State University.
The program welcomes emerging and established literary voices in Fort Collins to participate in a variety of events, such as public readings, audience Q&A, book signings, class tours, and other outreach activities.
No series of local literary events is complete without the authors of CSU. The series therefore also highlights graduate students of the Creative Writing MFA program, as well as faculty and alumni authors.
The series kicks off Thursday, September 16 at 7:30 p.m. with Kirstin Valdez Quade, who will be reading on Zoom.
Quade is the author of The five wounds and Holiday night and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award winner. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, The Southern Review, America’s Best News and The stories of the O. Henry Prize.
The Zoom link will be available on the Creative writing reading series website.
Libraries and Creative Writing Program partner to expand reach and impact
The Creative Writing Reading Series has a new partner for this year: CSU Libraries. A strong supporter of creative art at the University and Fort Collins, the Libraries have contributed $ 10,000 to the program and provide administrative support. The funds come in part from the Burns Family Endowment and the Liggett Family Endowment.
“With the support of the libraries, we were able to immediately book national bestselling author Lauren Groff,” said Ramona Ausubel, Creative Writing Reading Series director and assistant professor.
It’s not just about the big names, however. The real goal is to build partnerships and relationships that improve communities.
“We are delighted to collaborate with the Creative Writing Program,” said Meg Brown-Sica, associate dean of scholarly communication and collections. “We used to run a parallel guest author program. What we have achieved is that when CSU departments join forces to collaborate on high impact programs, we can make the most of our resources and deepen our impact on CSU and Fort Collins.
Ausubel agrees that the program will have a far-reaching impact: “The collaboration will help us build stronger bridges between the English department, libraries and the literary community in all kinds of exciting and meaningful ways. “
The Libraries and Creative Writing program also recently collaborated on the creation of a new post of writer-in-residence in libraries. Senior Writer-in-Residence Eliana Meyer (MFA ’22) will help coordinate the Creative Writing Reading Series events at the Morgan Library. She will also strengthen the creative art at the University by working with outreach librarians and library marketing staff. The residency program was piloted by libraries earlier this year with poet in residence, Grace Cooper (BA ’22).

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Air India bailout: Revival package for debt-ridden national carrier in final stages, says civil aviation minister Jayant Sinha
The revival package is being undertaken after the government failed to divest the Air India to private operators due to huge liabilities.
Air India bailout: Discussions on revival package for beleaguered airline at 'advanced stage', says Jayant Sinha
Last week, the finance ministry reportedly rejected aviation ministry's proposal to waive Air India's working capital debt of Rs 30,000 crore in one go.
Fuel price hike: SpiceJet CMD says current situation 'quite scary', asks govt to give domestic carriers 'level playing field'
Ajay Singh's comments came against the backdrop of domestic carriers suffering financial reverses in the wake of rising oil prices and depreciating rupee.
The direction was issued after the air hostess moved a plea challenging the ICC's 20 July decision rejecting her request that a local commissioner be appointed to examine the witnesses.
peaking at the inaugural event of the new domestic terminal building of Gorakhpur Airport, he said, "Today airfare is less than that of an auto-rickshaw. You will ask how is that possible? When two people take an auto-rickshaw they pay a fare of Rs 10 which means they're charged Rs 5 per kilometre but when you go by air you are charged Rs 4 per kilometre."
The regulations are intended to enable visual line-of-sight, daytime-only drone flight operations.
SpiceJet's biofuel flight comes at a time when the airline industry is grappling with spiralling fuel prices that are impacting their profitability. However, use of biofuel for regular flights would take some time.
Activists gather in Delhi's Jantar Mantar to protest growing incidents of mob lynching, call for directives to prevent vigilantism
Many activists gathered in Delhi's Jantar Mantar to protest against the rising hate crimes in the country and called for directives to curb vigilantism
Raghubar Das refutes Swami Agnivesh's claim that attack on him was 'pre-planned', says he was not informed of Jharkhand visit
Refuting Swami Agnivesh's claim that the attack on him in Jharkhand last month was "pre-planned", chief minister Raghubar Das today said he or the state authorities had no information about the social activist's visit to the state.
Government seeks Parliament's approval for $143 million capital injection in Air India during current fiscal year
The government last month shelved a plan to sell a majority stake in Air India due to lack of interest from bidders
Opposition members raise slogans against Jayant Sinha over garlanding row, demand apology from BJP leader
Opposition members in the Lok Sabha on Thursday raised slogans against civil aviation minister Jayant Sinha for garlanding men convicted of lynching a meat trader in Jharkhand.
Civil Aviation Ministry working on another version of regional air connectivity scheme UDAN, says Jayant Sinha
The existing scheme, known as Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN), seeks to connect unserved and under-served airports in different parts of the country
Civilian drones likely to fly from October; Civil Aviation Ministry to implement regulatory framework for UAVs
Drones for civilian purposes are likely to start flying in India from October onwards, a senior official said, as the Civil Aviation Ministry expects to soon put in place the regulatory framework for unmanned aerial vehicles.
Anatomy of lynching: Hapur violence exposes police failure in controlling mobs; tightening intel, raising awareness are key
Hapur is notorious for cases of mob violence. Several videos have appeared showing Dalits being thrashed and local goons being left at the mercy of the people.
'Don't indulge in shoot-and-scoot politics': Jayant Sinha challenges Rahul Gandhi to open debate on Ramgarh lynching case
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha, on Thursday, challenged Congress president Rahul Gandhi for an open debate on the Ramgarh lynching case.
Jayant Sinha garlands Ramgarh lynching convicts: Union minister 'expresses regret', says law will take own course
On Friday, Sinha sparked a political row after he garlanded eight men convicted of hacking to death cattle trader Alimuddin Ansari last June
Jayant Sinha garlands Ramgarh lynching convicts: Rahul Gandhi shares petition seeking withdrawal of minister's 'Harvard alumni status'
The petition states that Jayant Sinha recently garlanded the convicts in the Ramgarh lynching case and his actions have "shocked the nation".
'People have freedom to meet anyone': Nitin Gadkari defends Giriraj Singh and Jayant Sinha in exclusive interview with Firstpost
Nitin Gadkari said that debating such issues was irrelevant for the unity, unification and future of the country.
'Govt will honour you for killing somebody': Opposition criticises Jayant Sinha for garlanding Ramgarh lynching convicts
After being criticised, Jayant Sinha had defended the accused, saying the high court had granted them bail in the Ramgarh lynching case.