[OSRS] [#177] OS-Fatality: Instant PvP Combat & Everything In-Between!
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Okay look, You made it this far you might as well finish the rest of this thread reading, We are OS-Fatality. We are a PVP server but we are putting emphasis on also the economy side of things, We want the players who can't even PK to be able to enjoy the server.
No progress is the best progress.
Just to put this out there, Tom did nothing wrong as of yet. It was a form of miscommunication mostly on my part and he wanting access.
[Hyperion] Factions of War's PvP Combat.


For parents looking to make the June holidays memorable for their little ones, it's always a challenge to find unique destinations that will not burn a hole in the pocket.
Luckily, you don't have to bend over backward trying to plan an enjoyable yet budget-friendly holiday for your children. Singapore is simply filled with places where you and your kids can enjoy June holiday activities – with some you can even do for free.
Tired of the same old swimming party? Go up a notch by bringing your kids to Sentosa Fun Fest! This annual event features the usual pool party fare, but with several exciting twists. The kids can wade in foam pools, revel in inflatable slides, take on challenging obstacle courses, and participate in exciting water-based activities.
Take your kids to Chinatown for a fun way to learn about different cultures. The bustling streets of Chinatown are home to many interesting facts and trivia about the Chinese culture and traditions. The kids will enjoy discovering the wonders of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum, among other spots. You can also meander through the markets for some interesting find or a taste of the local food.
Or at least how aeroplanes work. The Terminal Three features an aviation gallery that is open to the public, free of charge. Little ones are free to explore the highly interactive displays to help them learn about aviation.
Apart from the usual picnic, take the kids to the park for biking or kite flying. Singapore is home to many awesome parks, including Pasir Ris Park, Labrador Park, and West Coast Park.
A fun getaway doesn't need to equate to days on end of stressful planning or a broken budget. By knowing the right places to visit, you and your children can have the time of your lives this June while keeping spending to a minimum.


An amazing achievement for Year 6 to reach the Harlow finals - well done F&B!
A very cold, windy and wet afternoon, but even that didn't dampen our spirits! We played 4 games, Church Langley (0-2), St Albans (1-2), Henry Moore (0-0) and Roydon (1-0), so 2 losses, 1 draw and 1 win. 2 great goals from Riley and Adam, superb passing and incredibly brave defending throughout - excellent result!
Unfortunately, we just missed out on reaching the semi-final, but once again, all of the children should be very proud of themselves!


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Inge Pohmann (née Hartelt; 1921 or 1922 – 26 January 2005) was a German female tennis player whose career lasted from the end of World War II until the mid-1950s.

Pohmann won the German national singles title in 1950, 1951 and 1953. She was the No.1 ranked player in Germany in 1950.

She was a three-time singles runner-up at the International German Championships in Hamburg. In 1948, playing under the flag of Allied-occupied Germany she lost the final to compatriot Ursula Rosenow. The following year, 1949, Mary Terán de Weiss defeated her in the final three sets, as did Joy Mottram in 1954.

Pohmann competed in the Wimbledon Championships in 1952 and 1955. At both editions she was defeated in the first round of the singles event. In 1952 she partnered Henri Paul Brechbuhl in the mixed doubles event and lost their first match. She teamed up with compatriot Erika Vollmer in the 1955 doubles event and reached it to the third round.

At the international Wiesbaden tournament in May 1954 she reached the final of the singles event which she lost in straight sets to world No. 1 ranked player Maureen Connolly.

In July 1950 she received the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest sports award in Germany. She was the first female sportsperson to receive the award.

She was the mother of tennis player Hans-Jürgen Pohmann.

Major career finals

Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

References

West German female tennis players
2005 deaths
Sportspeople from Wrocław
Year of birth uncertain

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Transformers! More than meets the eye! Transformers! Robots in disguise! This same chorus is to be evident in the life of a follower of Jesus. A follower of Jesus is to be transformed in such a way that he/she is more than meets the eye. And though the body will still look human, the heart, mind, and soul will take on the characterization and qualities of Jesus Christ providing a greater image than what the eye sees. Disciples of Jesus are to be Transformers! Humans in disguise!
Yet in order for this to happen, cooperation with God is critical, meaning I must let myself be corrected and changed into the image of His Son. And there is no way to be transformed into the image of Christ unless I first accept that I need Him. And to do so means I have to give my heart to Him.
The Apostle Paul in Romans 12 has given us the road signs, the marks on the road to transformation. And it's a process of metamorphosis (just like the caterpillar changing into a butterfly) that is obvious to those watching. They will see a human, but not really. They will see a human in disguise – a human acting and responding like Christ.
So in review, a surrendered life is a rendered life, meaning it is being purified into Christ's image, and a renewed mind is a subdued mind, meaning the mind is being restrained/disciplined to think and act like Jesus.
And those who truly want to follow Jesus and be transformed into His image must surrender their lives and their minds to Him. If you're doing these two things, then you are heading on the correct road to transformation.
But there are 6 more signs to read. So let's look for the third one. It's in Romans 12: 3-8.
The third mark of transformation is: Service – a serving soul is a deserving soul.
A life being transformed into the image of Christ will take on His character and this will be displayed to others in using your God-given talents to serve others.
So, as Paul said, if you have the gift to speak the word of God into a situation (to exhort/to prophesy), then speak what God tells you to speak. If serving comes naturally to you, then serve. If you can teach, then teach. If you are a natural encourager, then encourage. If you enjoy giving, then give generously. If you are a leader, then lead. And if you are merciful to the plight of others, then show mercy with a cheerful heart. In all situations you are called to use your talents (even beyond what Paul listed) to serve others.
So the road to transformation looks like this: a surrendered life, a renewed mind, and a heart for service. Is your life being rendered to look like Jesus? Remember a surrendered life is a rendered life. Is your mind being subdued to think like Jesus? Remember a renewed mind is a subdued mind. Is your heart being qualified to serve like Jesus? Remember a serving soul is a deserving soul.
It may not be just yet, but it's where you need to be going. Jesus didn't come just to get people out of the Hell of their future. He came to get people out of the Hell their presently living in by transforming them into His likeness and teaching them how to live.


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CFO of the Year
Small Private CFO Winner: Scott Dendler, Assembled Products
by Arkansas Business Staff
Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 12:01 am 2 min read
Scott Dendler • Controller, Assembled Products Corp. | Rogers
Scott Dendler believes in meticulous organization and planning. In his office at Assembled Products Corp. he has dry-erase boards to plan his daily duties. He said he doesn't always finish his "to-do" list each day and laughs that he is "very rarely a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants" type of guy.
Mr. Dendler, meet the COVID-19 pandemic.
"There were some times I was just shaking my head," Dendler said. "It helps me stay calm if I can put it on a board in front of me. I can see every day, this is what we need to do to stay on task.
"2020 threw a curve ball every which way you went. There was no good way to navigate, but to stay on top of all the job announcements, federal announcements, state announcements. Research, research, research and get in front of it in everything we did — that was critical."
Dendler's experience and even-keel personality helped steer the company through the pandemic. Early in his career, Dendler said, he was more reactionary but time has taught him the wisdom of patience. "Now, it's calm down and stay the course and make sure our ducks are in a row," Dendler said.
Assembled Products has three brand lines, all of which were deemed essential during the pandemic so work went on as best it could. Assembled Products sells motorized shopping carts, mobile desks for use in law enforcement vehicles and a line of power cleaning products.
Fiscal year 2020 turned out to be a good year for the company. "Our business thrived being in that category," Dendler said. "It went from the first three months where everything was uncertain to by the end of the year demand was just tremendous."
Dendler, 52, spent most of his life in Michigan and Houston before moving to Eureka Springs nine years ago with his wife, author Meg Welch Dendler. He got a nice severance package when the company where he was CFO was sold, and he thought he would be a stay-at-home dad for his daughter.
He got back to work a few years later and joined Assembled Products in 2017.
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you didn't get any FATAL errors at the end of the output.
It means every IP with more than 200 connections is going to be blocked.
Set this to the the number of seconds between connection tracking scans.
provided by CSF to get the server even more secured.
ModEvasive module for apache offers protection against DDoS (denial of service attacks) on your server.
-See how many IP addresses are connected to the server and how many connections has each of them.
Now I will explain how to install Mod_security from source.
You can't install Mod_Security if you don't have libxml2 and http-devel libraries.
And restart httpd at the end, type "service httpd restart" into SSH.
antivirus software for linux). More information can be found on clamav.
@daily root clamscan -R /home It means clamav will be scanning /home directory every day. You can change the folder to whatever you want to scan.
Rootkit scanner is scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9%* you're clean of nasty tools.
Don't use the same password you are using for the server on some other places.
information or even root passwords.
things are backups, make sure you will always have an "up-to-date"


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The Silent Village
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The villagers of Cwmgiedd, southwest Wales, are the stars of Humphrey Jennings' unforgettably inventive drama-doc. At Lidice, Czechoslovakia, a mining community's entire male population was executed by the Nazis in 1942. Jennings (often said to be Britain's greatest documentary filmmaker) ingeniously retells the story as if happening in Cwmgiedd, whose inhabitants re-enact the tragic events.
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Q: What is an "async IO operation" in .NET? To cut a long story short - read this article first and then this article. In short - it's the old issue about ASP.NET and randomly switching among threads. Well, not so randomly actually. As the second article explains, this only happens "when your thread performs an async IO operation". So... what the heck is an async IO operation in this case? I'm familiar with the standard Begin...End...IAsyncResult and the event model for asynchronous IO. But I can't see how this could be tied together with a thread switch.
The point is - I'm simply afraid of any "hidden" asynchronous IO that my software could be doing (and which would then provoke a thread switch). But how to identify them?

A: Async IO operations refer to situations where the calling thread does not block in order to wait for IO. Examples include the BeginXXX operations on streams, network connections etc.
When you set up a call using BeginXXX a threadpool thread will be used to execute your callback while a device driver typically handles the actual IO. Thus a number of different threads may be involved.

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Faculty Job: Myths & Realities - an interview with Margaret Frank
Interview series of early career plant biology faculty
Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty
I did my undergraduate at Barnard College, it's the Women's College at Columbia University in New York City. New York City is not the first place you would expect to fall in love with Plant Science, but I ended up taking a couple of plant courses during that time and they really sparked my passion for plants. My first job in plant science was in my college's greenhouse, the Arthur Ross Greenhouse. It was like a little nature haven in the middle of Manhattan. I took care of the desert and tropical plants in the greenhouse, and learned a lot about the diversity of plant families. After college, I applied to over 50 lab tech jobs, and I ended up getting a lab manager lab position at the Harvard University Herbaria working in a molecular systematics lab. I applied for graduate school during that year when I realized that I wanted to be able to ask my own scientific questions. I earned my PhD in Cornell's Plant Biology program working with Mike Scanlon on the comparative evolution of shoot meristem developmental programs in the seedless plant lineages - the bryophytes, lycophytes, and monilophytes. After my PhD, I moved to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Saint Louis where I developed my own research program on graft genomics with Dan Chitwood and Blake Meyers. In 2018, I was delighted to have the opportunity to move back to Cornell where I've started my own lab in the School of Integrative Plant Science.
Margaret Frank
What inspired you most to pursue your current career?
It was spring 2005 when I took a plant physiology class and realized plants are extremely complex and there are a lot of open questions. I spent the following summer working in a research lab at Barnard College that was funded by a Howard Hughes SURP. I worked on cloning a gene that controls shoot apical meristem maintenance in Arabidopsis. In retrospect, I was a very slow researcher, but I really loved being in lab. From that point on, I aggressively pursued research opportunities.
What is the major focus of you research team?
We work on the local and long distance signaling of plant grafting. On the local level, we are looking at the involvement of cell-to-cell signaling during graft junction formation. With regards to long-distance signaling, we are using comparative genomics to investigate the putative function of mobile messenger RNAs to serve as long-distance signaling molecules. We do most of this work in tomato and relatives in the Solanaceae family, because these crops are routinely grafted for agricultural production, they exhibit a high level of grafting success, and they are an excellent model system when it comes to molecular genetic resources.
Getting the lab setup Summer 2018
Which conferences do you regularly attend?
I love going to meetings, and I can't wait for travel to safely resume. I usually attend the annual Plant Biology conference hosted by ASPB, the Plant and Animal Genome meeting in San Diego, and this year I went to Botany as well. I also like smaller, more intensive conferences like FASEB Mechanisms in Plant Development, the Gordon Plant Molecular Biology meeting, and Plant Vascular Biology.
Who are your current collaborators?
We collaborate broadly. Our main work focusses on grafting, but we do a lot of other research that has to do with promoting sustainable agriculture. We have collaborations that range from the local level, where we're involved with Cornell's Digital Agriculture initiative, to the international level, we just started a BSF-funded project with Idan Efroni's lab. Collaborations are crucial in science, especially when you're in a new lab. The projects that we're able to tackle are made so much stronger through our collaborations.
About your job hunt
How long did it take you from the beginning of searching faculty jobs to get one?
I was quite lucky. I started applying in the fall of 2016, and signed a job offer with Cornell in 2017. I sent out 10 applications between September 2016 and January 2017. I was planning to be on the market for 2 years, so I started applying early.
During your job hunt, what did you learn about yourself or about the process of finding an academic job?
I was told many times that finding and landing a job is about having a good fit with your future academic home. I didn't really believe this was true until I went through the process. It's an awesome experience when your research, teaching, and outreach goals fall in line with the vision of your school.
Based on your experiences and the feedback you got during the job search, what do you think are key skills and accomplishments that a successful candidate must demonstrate?
It's important to distil your research vision down to a clear message that gets people excited about what you're proposing to tackle in your new lab. Departments are hiring someone who is going to carry out a research program for decades to come, and they want to bring in research that they are excited about. I think it's also important to be flexible with teaching. A lot of schools have specific teaching needs that they need to fill. If you can only teach a narrow range of classes, then it is hard to create that fit within a department.
Which published paper was the most influential for your career or getting the faculty job?
My biggest papers are not out yet. They are coming soon. There are some people who go on the job market after they have a big paper. I think there are a lot of people who go on the market with a collection of papers, skills, and a clear research vision. I fall into the latter category. I was involved with plant phenotyping and quantitative genetics work early in my postdoc and then I moved into long distance signaling and applications in agriculture later in my postdoc. The combination of those skills helped me to find my unique future research niche that I have used to build my lab.
First tomato grafts by Hannah Thomas and Jenny Probst (Summer 2018)
Advice for job applicants
Beyond your research and publications, how did you prepare for the academic job hunt during your postdoc?
I was a visiting scientist at University of Georgia for one semester (September 2016 to March 2017) and that was also when I sent in all of my applications. I remember locking myself in the office and writing my research statement. I also received a lot of helpful feedback from my host, Alex Bucksch, who had recently been on the market. It's hard to prioritize applications when there's lab work to be done. I was lucky to be in that environment where I was physically separated from most of my data collection. It's really helpful if you can separate yourself from the lab, even if it's just for a week or two, and invest that time in your future job search.
How did you prepare for the actual job hunt? How did you identify potential opportunities, prepare your application materials, and prepare for interviews?
I applied to a range of positions hosted in Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Plant Science, and Agriculture departments/sections. I also applied to a USDA job, but there was a hiring freeze shortly after I submitted that application. I was really focused on having colleagues who I could work with and having access to research facilities and field space. My other consideration was geography; I'm in dual career relationship and we both needed to have fulfilling jobs.
About you as a faculty member
What were the initial challenges to starting your own lab?
Ordering supplies and organizing the lab was my biggest initial challenge. The best piece of advice that I received when I was starting my lab was to think about all of the supplies you need to take a live plant and run a gel of a PCR product amplified from that plant. It took me about 3 months to order all of the supplies to get there, and that does not count the time it took to train new people and get experiments running. I was fortunate to higher one of my former REU students for the summer who helped me accomplish that first PCR. I was also lucky to get an excellent PhD student in my lab right off the bat. Now that the lab is up and running, bringing in new students and postdocs has more or less flowed naturally. The lab has filled up faster than I expected and now we have a community where people can learn from each other, which is AWESOME!
Field planting (Summer 2019)
What qualities do you look for when recruiting for your lab?
I look for people who are driven, creative, and curious. I also prioritize interpersonal skills - it's important that everyone in the lab respects each other and can communicate clearly with one another.
How do you manage "work-life balance" as a faculty?
The simple answer is RUNNING. Running has definitely helped me cope with the ups and downs of the job. The more complex answer is that work-life balance has been a two way street. Sometimes it's all work, like when I'm coming up on a grant deadline, and other times it's all life, like when our first child was born last fall. Now that we have a baby at home, I've learned that my science life provides balance for my home life.
Whom do you like to thank for supporting and inspiring you along this journey?
I have so many people to thank, but I'll focus on my science mentors. My undergraduate mentors - Kristen Shepard, Hilary Callahan, and Matthew Palmer; my PhD advisor - Mike Scanlon, my postdoc advisors - Dan Chitwood and Blake Meyers; and my faculty mentors who are helping me navigate life as a PI - Adrienne Roeder and Jim Giovannoni.
Socially distanced field planting (Summer 2020)
If prospective students and postdocs want to reach you, where can they contact you and read about your work?
Email: mhf47@cornell.edu Lab
Website: https://www.franklab-cornell.org/
Twitter: @Margare41291282
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Posts Tagged 'Journal of Interpersonal Violence'
Rape prevention: Kenya's approach
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 10, 2016
In: cities/geography | education methods/programs | Essays | Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts | social articles | women
Kenya's unique approach to rape prevention should have the rest of the world taking note.
You may have seen the story circulating around the internet lately about a group of boys in Kenya whose quick thinking and intervention stopped a rape in progress.
Here's the program that taught them what to do.
Trigger warning for discussion about sexual assault and prevention programs.
By Parker Molloy
For years, Kenya has faced an epidemic of sexual assault.
1 in 4 women and girls living in Nairobi have been sexually assaulted. Schoolgirls were frequently raped by friends and boyfriends. Clothes have been torn from women's bodies in public.
Here's what they did.
In 2010, the group No Means No Worldwide began offering self-defense classes to Nairobi schoolgirls, teaching them how to fight back against rape.
In its early stages, the program focused on providing women in the poorest parts of Kenya with self-defense skills. The program focused on empowering women, not shaming them.
After launch, program founders worked to develop Your Moment of Truth, a separate program for boys.
During early No Means No sessions, girls told instructors that the biggest problems were the boys themselves. The most common attackers were boyfriends.
Upworthy. August 6 at 6:50pm ·
"If they say the boys are actually the problem, the boys can actually be part of the solution."
upworthy.com|By Parker Molloy
Rape by friends and boyfriends dropped by 20% in schools teaching the Your Moment of Truth program.
Later this year, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence plans to publish a study highlighting the positive effect this training has had on boys.
The study found that boys who go through training were more likely to intervene when witnessing a girl being assaulted, and they were less likely to verbally harass girls.
Additionally, schools featuring this program found that rape by girls' friends and boyfriends dropped dramatically.
By 2017, every secondary student in Nairobi will undergo assault prevention training.
By teaching kids when they're young, they're being empowered for the future. Educating young generations is key in effecting long-term social change.
In many parts of the world, assault prevention starts and ends with what women can do to avoid putting themselves in "high-risk" situations. These are not effective.
Researchers used Kenya's scenario to test the two methods.
One group of women received the No Means No training while the other took a life-skills class. Girls who received the No Means No training saw a nearly 40% decrease in rapes in the year following the program. Girls who took the life-skills offering were raped at the same rate.
Not only is teaching women how to avoid "high-risk" situations ineffective, but it shifts the blame to the victim for being raped instead of putting it on the rapist for actually committing the crime.
Committing a crime is a choice, and the No Means No program empowers young boys to choose not to commit that crime.
The world should take a cue from Kenya: Empower girls and teach men not to rape.
This is a proven program, and it's time to roll it out around the world. Suggesting that women are somehow "asking for it" because of something they wear or something they do won't help stop rape.
Kenya's approach is wonderful because it empowers and educates instead of blaming and shaming.
If there's hope of removing rape from the world, it needs to start with early education on the topics of consent and assault.
The program learned that many boys believed it's justifiable to rape girls who are out alone after dark, wear miniskirts, or are taken on expensive dates.
No Means No developed Your Moment of Truth to highlight life's tough choices, which, in this case, included whether it's OK to rape someone. The program was a huge success.
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Abusive relationships? A study "Why women refrain from breaking it"?
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 25, 2013
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Abusive relationships? Why women refrain from breaking it? And vice versa…
As a resident doctor at AUB Medical Center (Beirut), Lubna Abul-Husn took a deep interest in domestic abuse.
Ten years ago, she interviewed dozens of patients, cataloging their experiences at home with "intimate partner violence," a term that refers to physical, emotional and verbal abuse of a close partner or spouse.
Kareem Shaheen published in the Lebanese daily The Daily Star, this Oct. 19, 2013: "Why do women in Lebanon stay in abusive relationships?"
Lubna Abul-Husn then spent a year in France studying family legal medicine, returned home and ended her engagement with a fiancé from her province.
Her fiance broke into her home, killed her, her mother and her sister, before committing suicide, according to her colleagues at the time.
File – Women activists protest against domestic violence near the Parliament in Beirut, Monday, July 22, 2013. (The Daily Star/Mahmoud Kheir)
"It was devastating," said Johnny Awwad, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and head of the division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at AUB Medical Center, and Abul-Husn's colleague.
Awwad, along with other doctors at AUB, completed the analysis of Abul-Husn's research. The paper was finally submitted for publication this year in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
"We couldn't really look at this paper for the longest time," he said. "We had been avoiding looking back at this phase but I don't think that gives her justice."
The study polled 100 married women aged 20-65 who were visiting the AUB Medical Center for gynecological care. 91 women responded to the survey.
It is one of the few studies that tries to quantify the prevalence of domestic abuse in Lebanon, and that looks at the reasons behind why women here stay in abusive relationships.
But perhaps its most startling discovery is how even women in these relationships find it completely normal for such abuse to happen – a testament to how ingrained the gender imbalance is in society.
"Intimate partner violence is an underestimated problem in Lebanon and has been largely ignored by the local authorities," the study said.
"The Lebanese health care system has failed so far to play a proactive role in identifying and referring abused women, mostly because the recognition of an abusive pattern in women is often blurred by cultural and societal taboos."
Over 40% of the women polled said they had suffered from physical abuse. A third endured sexual abuse, nearly two-thirds were victims of verbal abuse, and 19% said they had experienced emotional abuse.
More than a fifth of the women had suffered social isolation imposed by their husbands.
The top reasons women expressed as a reason for staying in an abusive relationship were a lack of familial and social support, lack of financial resources and fear that their husband would take away the children.
In 8 of the cases that suffered physical abuse, medical attention was required and three cases were admitted to hospital with vertebral fractures and miscarriages.
But the study went further, selecting a subsample of 33 women and asking them open-ended questions on their husbands' treatment.
All the women, including those who were abused, said they were satisfied with their husbands' treatment.
"Many abused women are totally resigned to their situation and decide to stay in an abusive relationship because of the fear of losing their children, the need to conform to social expectations, the lack of financial independence, the lack of family support, and the duty to obey their spouses," the researchers said.
Domestic abuse appeared to usher in other social ills.
Women who suffered physical and verbal abuse were more likely to be smokers.
Husbands who had a history of alcohol abuse were more likely to impose social and economic isolation on their wives.
Declining monthly income made it more likely for a husband to use a weapon against his wife, while a higher number of children offered a protective factor for women, illustrating the challenges wrought by economic, security and political instability in the country.
The head and the extremities were the most frequent areas of the woman's body suffering from physical injury, and hitting was the most frequent mechanism of abuse followed by slapping and pushing.
The rate of domestic violence in Lebanon is in sync with other developing countries and Arab societies, where comparable rates of abuse are present as well as similar justifications for staying in abusive relationships.
As part of their recommendations, the study's authors, who are all doctors at AUB Medical Center, said that health centers in Lebanon ought to routinely screen patients in order to identify victims of domestic abuse.
Awwad said that such a step, while there is no evidence that it reduces abuse, would be a first step toward referring victims of abuse to support groups and treating the root causes of some of their problems.
But part of the issue is that the conversation around domestic abuse in Lebanon often focuses on anecdotal cases of violence, rather than tracking the prevalence of the issue in society.
"It is not enough to create support groups in our society that come and tell you that he's been hitting you, he's been abusing you, come to us and we're going to support you," Awwad said.
"Then what? Who is going to support the kids and secure her re-entry into society that stigmatizes her," he said. "They cannot create another society for her. It's a dead end, unfortunately, in this part of the world."
That is partly because of the tribal nature of Lebanese society.
"Lebanon is a big tribe," he said. "Where you go people would know you and would stigmatize you. You would have to travel and leave the country. So you'd have to stay with the family and your husband and believe that it's normal."
This, Awwad said, leads to an acceptance of domestic abuse as a normal part of existence. The other issue is cultural.
The study's authors said that domestic violence against women tends to be seen as a private, internal matter and not a major public health issue in Arab societies that are "patriarchal and characterized by male authority and dominance."
That is reflected in how intimate partner violence had been largely ignored by local legal and religious authorities.
Awwad and his colleagues point to the initial rejections by religious authorities of domestic abuse legislation, which they saw as usurping the role of religion which already deals with the issue of domestic violence, and the continued failure to pass laws against domestic abuse.
A law protecting women from violence has been in legislative limbo for a long time due to Parliament's failure to convene. Religious authorities initially opposed the legislation because they said Islam already deals with women's rights and domestic relations.
"It would be a good step to pass this law," Awwad said, adding that it could help deter some abuse, but would not be able to erase the "inherent right" that many men feel they have in wielding power in the household.
That built-in inequality is what poses enormous challenges to those who seek to challenge domestic abuse and society's complacency toward it. There is little recourse but to begin at a young age, when minds are malleable and prejudice has not yet taken hold.
Values such as equality of women should be introduced at an early stage in education in order to combat such attitudes, Awwad said.
"I think it needs a generation, unfortunately," he added.
Note: Let's give priority for women acquiring full citizenship rights as men have.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on October 19, 2013, on page 3.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Oct-19/235036-why-do-women-in-lebanon-stay-in-abusive-relationships.ashx#ixzz2iBqWpFD1
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Q: Sort items on a Listview c# Here is my question, I got a listview in which one of the columns I add the name of the files from a certain directory (including the extension) and it can be a number or a string. Lets say i got the following files
11.jpg
1.wav
2.mp3
aas.rar
vzs.zip
1ex.exe

What i am trying to do is sort them just like on windows, Numbers 1st and then the other ones..
1.wav
2.mp3
11.jpg
1ex.exe
aas.rar
vzs.zip

Thanks in advance.

A: check
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During the past three decades, there has been a momentous change in the global economy. One of the most troubling and puzzling features -- the failure of poor countries to catch up to developed countries -- has seemingly been overturned.
But, as so often happens in economics, reality has often failed to behave as theory predicts. Economist Lant Pritchett has documented that between 1870 and 1990, inequality between countries soared, with Europe, Japan, the US and a few other countries pulling away from the pack. Of course, much of that divergence was probably due to the impact of colonialism -- it's hard for a country to get rich when it's under the thumb of another country. But even after decolonization, poor countries struggled to catch up for several decades. Economists Robert Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin found that between 1960 and 1985, poor countries continued to lose ground relative to rich ones.
So was growth theory simply wrong? Maybe. All growth theories contain a fudge factor representing a nation's fundamental capacity for productivity -- the education of its populace, the quality of its political institutions, war, damaging government interventions and so on. Controlling for measures of these things, Barro and Sala-i-Martin found that developing nations had tended to catch up -- the problem was that too many poor countries fell into civil war or embraced communism or failed to educate their burgeoning populations, degrading the institutions needed to sustain growth. Economists settled on the uncomfortable idea that most poor countries didn't have what it takes, politically, to grow.
Then something amazing happened. Shortly after Barro and Salai-Martin's 1992 landmark paper, the story of global growth seemed to change. Many poor countries languished in the 1990s due to low resource prices (poor countries are often natural resource exporters). China, which had been slowly making up lost ground since the end of Mao Zedong's rule in the 1970s, saw its growth accelerate in the 1990s. India and Indonesia also started to catch up, thanks in part to their own economic reforms. These countries were so large -- together accounting for almost 40 percent of the world's population -- that their growth began to drive down global inequality.
Meanwhile, the divergence documented by Barro and Sala-i-Martin was reversing. Beginning in the 1990s, developing countries started to grow faster than developed ones. Outside of Africa -- where a series of bloody wars sent a number of countries into chaos in the 1990s -- the pattern was even stronger.
In the 2000s, commodities prices rebounded, and natural-resource exporting countries began to share in the new wave of global growth. Meanwhile, China accelerated yet again, following its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 and a burst of productivity growth. The gap between sprinting developing and slow-growth developed countries became even greater.
Then came the Great Recession. Rich countries and poor countries alike were hit hard by the global financial crisis, but -- unlike in previous downturns -- the poor countries didn't suffer more. Catch-up continued. Global inequality kept falling.
Now, a decade after the crisis, economists are starting to reevaluate their long-held beliefs about global convergence. Dev Patel, Justin Sandefur and Arvind Subramanian of the Center for Global Development recently looked at multiple datasets on per- capita incomes around the world, and found that no matter which measure is used, the relationship between starting income and subsequent growth has been negative since around 1990.
In other words, the idea that rich countries grow more slowly has gone from fiction to fact. No longer do textbook economic theories need to be fudged -- reality has caught up. It appears that the war, bad policies, and dysfunctional institutions that afflicted developing nations in the mid- 20th century were a temporary phenomenon.
And the implications for the world are enormous. With economic clout comes geopolitical heft -- the influence of the old colonial powers will steadily diminish, while their ex-colonies assume more global leadership. Some countries will even make the leap from developing to developed status, as South Korea has already done. Trade between emerging markets will continue to increase, bypassing the rich economies entirely.
But most of all, the world will simply be a more equal place. Gone are the days when a few countries could lord it over others, secure in the illusion that their society had a secret sauce that others could never emulate.


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Which "Big-5" country will score the most points in Eurovision Song Contest 2017?
Bookmakers have predicted Italy
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1 Italy Francesco Gabbani - Occidentali's Karma 1.1 1.1 1.05 1.04 1.1 1.08 1.06 1.06 1.07 1.05 1.06 1.08 1.08
2 France Alma - Requiem 11 9 8 15 11 13 11 15 10 8 11 11 11
3 UKUnited Kingdom Lucie Jones - Never Give Up on You 8 9 12 15 11 9 15 11 13 12 11 11 10
4 Germany Levina - Perfect Life 51 51 51 26 34 35 29 29 34 30 34 41 26
5 Spain Manel Navarro - Do It for Your Lover 201 81 81 67 67 75 67 67 61 60 51 51 51
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Live animals are banned from stage at Eurovision
Italy boycotted the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, saying that it was too old fashioned
The longest running losers are the Cypriots, having never had a victory
Morocco has participated in Eurovision Song Contest. But only once. It was in 1980 and they ended second-last. Morocco only received points from Italy
In 1981 the UK act Bucks Fizz stunned viewers with their Velcro rip-away skirts and within 48 hours, Velcro had sold out across the country


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Q: On initial load of my app why is the ui-router state not set? When I go to my app at https://localhost/my-app/resources/index.html, I have logic to go to my self-defined default state. However when I want to go directly to a specific part of my app (i.e. https://localhost/my-app/resources/index.html#/orders/draft) the state is not getting set (nor is the template loaded into the ui-view directive). Once that initial load is done (with the default state set), then I can do direct urls to my hearts content.
I think I'm missing some basic concept in how things are loaded in my app, but I would expect that the state would get set since the url is defined in $location.url()
A snippet of my code to handle states on initial load:
$http.get("Navigation").then(function(response){
    var navigationObjects = response.data,
        directUrl = $location.url(),
        stateName = null;

    scope.availableStates = ims360RouterStateService.getAvailableStates(navigationObjects);
    if (!directUrl)
    {
        scope.updatePrimaryState(scope.availableStates[0]);
    }
    else
    {
        //TODO there's probably a better way to do this
        //parsing out the state name, requires that the state name matches the url, this fails when I have a place holder (such as an id to a resource)
        stateName = directUrl.substring(1).replace(/\//g, ".");
        $state.go(stateName);
    }
});

In this code I get navigation objects from the server which determine which ui-router states the user has access to. All my defined states are then filtered down to the availableStates which are what I use for my navigation ui.
Additionally, the "updatePrimaryState(...) includes a call to $state.go(...)
So, why is the state not set on initial load? And if that IS expected behavior, then what is a good way to direct the user to the url specified?
UPDATE
I created a plunker that shows the expected behavior (http://plnkr.co/edit/m9gQLOZmqaAY88wSc6wC?p=preview). I tried to duplicate my issue, but in the simple case it just works as expected. So obviously there is something on my end that is incorrect, but my setup is very similar to that in the plunker. To test the scenario I am seeing in my app you'd need to:

*

*launch the plunker view in a separate window

*After verifying that the state is set, copy and paste the link into a new window.

*In this new window, the app should go directly to the state that matches the url. In the plunker this works, but in my app, it does not.

After my app is loaded, the state loaded is the empty state named: "" with the url "^".
UPDATE 2
After digging into the code looking for the difference, I found that when the angular "$locationChangeSuccess" is broadcast, the listener in ui-router is not initialized yet. I'm finding the difference is that we have a separate (reusable) login app that is bootstrapped initially, which then upon successful login, bootstraps the actual app. At the time the actual app is bootstrapped, the $locationChangeSuccess has already been broadcast and the ui-router listener isn't initialized yet to catch it.
My thought has been to rebroadcast the event after my app is bootstrapped, but I'm still having timing issues where the event listener is seemingly the last thing initialized. I first added it to a myApp.run() block, but the broadcast was still happening beforehand. Putting the broadcast into the app's main directive's link function (where the ui-view is) works, but not sure this is a good approach. Is there a better way?

A: I've just found this http://niclassahlin.com/2014/05/31/kickstarting-angular-ui-router/ and it works like charm for me.
With the next code in your app.js you could achieve the initial state:
app.run(['$state', function ($state) {}])

A: I figured I'd better go ahead and post my 2nd update as the solution, which it was for my case:
After digging into the code looking for the difference, I found that when the angular "$locationChangeSuccess" is broadcast, the listener in ui-router is not initialized yet. I'm finding the difference is that we have a separate (reusable) login app that is bootstrapped initially, which then upon successful login, bootstraps the actual app. At the time the actual app is bootstrapped, the $locationChangeSuccess has already been broadcast and the ui-router listener isn't initialized yet to catch it.
Putting the broadcast into the app's main directive's link function (where the ui-view is) works, but not sure this is a good approach.
Hope that helps.


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Have a look at this short video to see what will be happening in SATs week.
A guide to helping your child develop as a reader can be found here.
English - SATs revision - Year 5 with Mrs Scott looking at information texts.
Reading comprehension - working on retrieval of information from a text.
Year 5 and 6 Spelling list which from which the weekly Year 5 and 6 spellings are taken.
Homework Expectations – Year 5 and 6 Homework will be set every Wednesday and should be returned by the following Wednesday. Pupils are expected to complete every set task. Generally, homework will be one piece of written work or a worksheet and a set of spellings to learn.
Additionally, children must read and record their reading in their diaries at least three times each week. Updates on what we have been doing can be found on the Year 5 and 6 page of the English Martyrs Website: www.englishmartyrs.rutland.sch.uk. Work in books is expected to be of the same standard as work in school, with neat handwriting, diagrams in pencil and care take to include appropriate punctuation and good spelling.
Year 5 and 6 had an awesome day at the School Games at Loughborough University. We watched 4 netball games in the morning before watching the athletics in the afternoon. It was an inspirational day and we are extremely thankful to Mr Thomas for arranging it.
Year 5 and 6 had an awesome day at Forest Schools. We built dens in the morning before playing capture the flag in the afternoon. It was great fun!
Year 6 have started to learn the ukulele with Mr Joyce - it is great fun.
Key Stage 2 Liturgy 14.9.18.
Well done to the Year 5 and 6 Football teams who played on Tuesday - you were awesome.
Well done to the 15 children from KS2 who took part in the Brownlee Foundation Triathlon on Tuesday. They were awesome. Sadly, this year the Brownlee Brothers were unable to attend the event.
Year 6 visited the Warning Zone in Leicester on Friday. It was an amazing experience which taught us about staying safe. We were incredibly lucky to be joined by the High Sheriff of Rutland - a sponsor of the Warning Zone who very much enjoyed sharing the experience with us.
A number of Year 5 and 6 children came in on Saturday to help out with the gardening day. They were a superb help - painting, planting, weeding and litter-picking.
As part of Art Week - Year 5 and 6 had a body percussion session with Maggie from the Rutland Music Hub - it was hard work but also great fun.
Later in the week we will be looking at the Work and Life of Kandinsky and producing some art work in his style.
Year 5 and 6 have learned about Kandinsky - we had a go at painting in the same style. It was great fun.
Year 5 and 6 had a fantastic still life workshop with staff and students from Catmose Collage. We learned about Cezanne and tried to replicate his style. It was great fun.
Well done to the 6 children from Year 5 and 6 who took part in the County Cross-Country. They were awesome!
We went to Oakham Castle to look at the Remembrance Poppy Display. We are very proud that we made some of the poppies.
Year 5 and 6 had a fantastic Crime and Punishment day at Oakham Castle: it was a fun and interactive way to learn about Law and Order through time.
Year 5 and 6 led the Remembrance Liturgy on Friday 9th November. It was great and the feedback from Parents and Governors was really positive.
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Well done to all of the Year 5 and 6 children who took part in the UKMT Maths Challenge. We are proud of all of you. We are especially proud of the 3 Gold, 1 Silver and 6 Bronze award achieving students.
Year 5 and 6 have done an amazing job of designing and constructing wooden viking ships. We have explored sanding, cutting and joining techniques for wood. The results are fantastic.
Well done to the Year 5 and 6 Basketball team who played on Thursday. They won two games and lost the third leaving them second in the group. They were amazing!
Congratulations to the Maths Challenge Team of Imogen, Will, Ruby and Joanna. On Friday, they competed against Westwood Primary in March. After 4 rounds both schools were tied at 124 points each. Fortunately, Joanna solved the tie-break question correctly giving us victory by 10 clear points. Well done all and thanks for Mr Timms for facilitating our participation.
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What are negative prices and how do they occur?
Negative prices are a price signal on the power wholesale market that occurs when a high inflexible power generation meets low demand. Inflexible power sources can't be shut down and restarted in a quick and cost-efficient manner. Renewables do count in, as they are dependent from external factors (wind, sun).
On wholesale markets, electricity prices are driven by supply and demand which in turn are determined by several factors such as climate conditions, seasonal factors or consumption behavior. This helps to maintain the required balance. Prices fall with low demand, signaling generators to reduce output to avoid overloading the grid. On the French and German/Austrian Day-Ahead market and all Intraday markets of EPEX SPOT, they can thus fall below zero.
In some circumstances, one may rely on these negative prices to deal with a sudden oversupply of energy and to send appropriate market signals to reduce production. In this case, producers have to compare their costs of stopping and restarting their plants with the costs of selling their energy at a negative price (which means paying instead of receiving money). If their production means are flexible enough, they will stop producing for this period of time which will prevent or buffer the negative price on the wholesale market and ease the tension on the grid.
Are negative prices a theoretical concept or gets the buyer really paid for buying electricity?
Negative prices are not a theoretical concept. Buyers are actually getting money and electricity from sellers. However, you need to keep in mind that if a producer is willing to accept negative prices, this means it is less expensive for him to keep their power plants online than to shut them down and restart them later.
Negative prices are a comparably rare phenomenon, as several factors have to happen at the same time. However, they are nothing unusual. In Germany, where inflexible power generation from renewables is increasing, 146 hours on 24 days with negative prices were observed on the Day-Ahead market in 2017. On the Intraday market there were 185 hours on 34 days. If these markets were not coupled, negative prices would occur more often, and price peaks would be more acute.
They were first introduced in 2008 on the German/Austrian Day-Ahead and 2007 in the German Intraday market. In 2010, they were introduced on the French Day-Ahead and Intraday markets. The Austrian and the Swiss Intraday markets, launched in 2012 and 2013 respectively, also provide the possibility of negative prices.
Are there limits of negative prices? If so, why?
Yes. There are price caps that are reached extremely rarely. They are an economically logical barrier for power trading.
Aren't negative prices killing producers?
No. Negative prices are a signal, an indicator for market participants. If producers decide to keep their production up, they have calculated that this is the best, most cost-efficient way for them considering the costs of shutting down and restarting their plants.
In addition, negative prices are an incentive for producers to invest in the development of more flexible means of production that can react more efficiently to fluctuating energy supply in order to increase security of supply and prevent negative prices.
Are there any means to soften or prevent negative prices?
Liquidity – based on wide offer and demand – is key for lowering the occurrence of negative prices. This is where cross-border trading solutions come in. On the Day-Ahead market, Market Coupling provides a solution for the optimal use of cross-border capacities between two or more markets. Thanks to the Market Coupling in North-Western Europe (including France, Germany, Benelux, Great Britain, the Nordic and Baltic countries), negative prices arebuffered or prevented. For instance, in case of low or negative prices in Germany, France and Benelux, Denmark and Sweden will import electricity until the cross-border capacity is fully used or prices converge.
On the Intraday market, the trading system M7 can use cross-border capacities in an optimal way and hence buffer volatility, which also helps to decrease the number of negative prices. As a result, the "quality" of negative prices both on the Intraday and the Day-Ahead markets today is different to the extent that they did not reach -1500 € as in 2009 before the integration process took off.
Are final consumers benefitting from negative prices?
Prices on the wholesale markets reflect market fundamentals and the evolution of supply and demand. Power Exchanges like EPEX SPOT provide a transparent and secure price signal to the actors of the wholesale markets. Please contact suppliers on the question if low or negative wholesale prices have an impact on prices for final consumers.
What is the impact of negative prices on transmission grids?
Negative prices are a signal of tense situations in the power system. Please contact the transmission system operators for more information of the impacts on grids.


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Q: Class returns empty list I am trying to write a function which cleans up URLs (strips them of anything like "www.", "http://" etc.) to create a list that I can sort alphabetically.
I have tried to do this by creating a class including a method to detect the term I would like to remove from the URL-string, and remove it. The bit where I am struggling is that I want to add the modified URLs to a new list called new_strings, and then use that new list when I call the method for a second time on a different term, so that step by step I can remove all unwanted elements from the URL-string.
For some reason my current code returns an empty list, and I am also struggling to understand whether new_strings should be passed to __init__ or not? I guess I am a bit confused with global vs. local variables, and some help and explanation would be greatly appreciated. :)
Thanks! Code below.
class URL_Cleaner(object):
    def __init__(self, old_strings, new_strings, term):
        self.old_strings = old_strings
        self.new_strings = new_strings
        self.term = term

    new_strings = []

    def delete_term(self, new_strings):
        for self.string in self.old_strings:
            if self.term in string:
                new_string = string.replace(term, "")
                self.new_strings.append(new_string)
            else:
                self.new_strings.append(string)
        return self.new_strings

    print "\n" .join(new_strings) #for checking; will be removed later

strings = ["www.google.com", "http://www.google.com", "https://www.google.com"]
new_strings = []
www = URL_Cleaner(strings, new_strings, "www.")

A: Why are we making a class to do this?
for string in strings:
     string.replace("www.","")

Isn't that what you're trying to accomplish?
Regardless the problem is in your class definition. Pay attention to scopes:
class URL_Cleaner(object):
    def __init__(self, old_strings, new_strings, term):
        """These are all instance objects"""
        self.old_strings = old_strings
        self.new_strings = new_strings
        self.term = term

    new_strings = [] # this is a class object

    def delete_term(self, new_strings):
        """You never actually call this function! It never does anything!"""
        for self.string in self.old_strings:
            if self.term in string:
                new_string = string.replace(term, "")
                self.new_strings.append(new_string)
            else:
                self.new_strings.append(string)
        return self.new_strings

    print "\n" .join(new_strings) #for checking; will be removed later
    # this is referring the class object, and will be evaluated when
    # the class is defined, NOT when the object is created!

I've commented your code the necessary reasons.... To fix:
class URL_Cleaner(object):
    def __init__(self, old_strings):
        """Cleans URL of 'http://www.'"""
        self.old_strings = old_strings
        cleaned_strings = self.clean_strings()
    def clean_strings(self):
        """Clean the strings"""
        accumulator = []
        for string in self.old_strings:
            string = string.replace("http://", "").replace("www.", "")
            # this might be better as string = re.sub("http://(?:www.)?", "", string)
            # but I'm not going to introduce re yet.
            accumulator.append(string)
        return accumulator
        # this whole function is just:
        ## return [re.sub("http://(?:www.)?", "", string, flags=re.I) for string in self.old_strings]
        # but that's not as readable imo.

A: You just need to define new_strings as
self.new_strings = []

and remove new_strings argument from the constructor.
The 'new_strings' and 'self.new_strings' are two different lists.


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Q: trigger search from select within jquery ui autocomplete How do I trigger/call jQuery UI Autocomplete event handlers from each other, for example, triggering a search from the select handler?
Thx, Lille

A: The answer above is only valid for jQueryUI 1.8.x
Since jQueryUI 1.9.x you must add a timeout:

scott.gonzalez says:
  "There were some pretty big changes to autocomplete between 1.8 and
  1.9, specifically selection is now synchronous where before it was asynchronous."

more:

scott.gonzalez says:
  "What's happening is selecting an item always closes the menu. Closing
  the menu tells the autocomplete to ignore any pending searches. This
  includes the search that you're manually triggering immediately before
  the menu closes. It's also worth noting that you're running a
  duplicative search, since you're triggering the search before the
  value updates."

select: function(event, ui)
{
    var that = $(this);
    setTimeout(function() {
      that.autocomplete("search");
    }, 1);
},

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/RB4N3/

A: To trigger a search:
$("#my-autocomplete").autocomplete("search", "SearchTerm");

In general, call jQueryUI widget methods using $("selector").widget("method" /*, options */)


Oh dear: NBN, ABC and … 4chan?
Sometimes when you're setting up a completely new company, you need to draw on existing sources for inspiration — anyone in business knows this. It's perfectly OK to learn from the best.
Looks surprisingly similar to this? That's not the Australian Broadcasting Company by the way — it's the American one.
However we're fairly sure this version isn't authorised — either by NBN Tasmania or 4chan /b/.
Oh dear: What colour should Tassie's NBN cables be?
thought that the logo looked more like NBC.


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Q: Node.js - Oracle Driver - retrieving Clob field I am trying to pull data from an Oracle DB using Oracle Driver (1.4.0) for NodeJS-4.2.2, Express (4.13.3).
I am able to write the output to a stream (file), but not able to assign that to a variable object. Below is the code snippet. Anyway that I assign the clob field output to a var ?
{
                    if (err) { console.error(err.message); return; }
                    if (result.rows.length === 0) { console.log("No results"); return; }

                    var clobe = "";
                    var lob = result.rows[2][1];
                    if (lob === null) { console.log("BLOB was NULL"); return; }

                   // lob.setEncoding('utf8');
                    lob.on(
                        'end',
                        function()
                        {
                            console.log("lob.on 'end' event");
                            res.end();
                        });
                    lob.on(
                        'close',
                        function()
                        {
                            console.log("lob.on 'close' event");
                            connection.release(function(err) {
                                if (err) console.error(err);
                            });
                        });
                    lob.on(
                        'error',
                        function(err)
                        {
                            console.log("lob.on 'error' event");
                            console.error(err);
                        });
                    lob.on('data', function (chunk) { clobe += chunk; console.log("Added chunk("+chunk.length+") to clob("+clobe.length+")");});

                    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'application/json' });

                    lob.pipe(res);
                }

A: use
  oracledb.fetchAsString = [ oracledb.CLOB ];

and your CLOB will be retrieved as a string
Docs

A:     if (lob === null) {
      console.log("CLOB was NULL");
      return;
    }
    var clob = "";
    lob.setEncoding('utf8');  // we want text, not binary output

    lob.on('end', function() {
      console.log("lob.on 'end' event ", clob);
    });
    lob.on('close', function() {
      console.log("lob.on 'close' event");
    });
    lob.on('error', function(err) {
      console.log("lob.on 'error' event");
      console.error(err);
    });
    lob.on('data', function (chunk) {
      clob += chunk;
      console.log("Added chunk("+chunk.length+") to clob("+clob.length+")");
    });


Come along to the Country Women's Association stall in Hornsby on Friday 7th September and buy a cake or two and help raise much-needed funds for drought-stricken farmers. The stall, near the water fountain at Westfield Mall from 10am to 1pm, will also sell handmade crafts and other goodies.
Connect with your fellow Mt Colah-ites on Saturday 9 September when Mt Colah Pharmacy and Friends of Mount Colah are throwing a morning tea from 10am at 601 Pacific Highway, Mt Colah. There will be a sausage sizzle, cake stall, raffles, prizes and kids' corner. All proceeds to go to the Friends of Mt Colah Community Group.
The Lions Club of Hornsby is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its Charter and for its special event on 11 September it wants to hear from former members and friends to help make the anniversary a memorable one. The special guest is PIP Barry Palmer AO and his wife Anne. The event is on Tuesday 11 September at Hornsby RSL Club Showroom, starting 6.15 for 7.15. Dress is black tie/after 5, and tickets are $65 per person for a two course dinner and coffee. For more information or to book tickets, contact Chairperson Pauline Henenbery on 0416 226 781.
On September 23, Hummingsong Community Choirs will present SONGS & STRINGS, its annual spring concert, an uplifting program showcasing the six choirs that make up Hummingsong and select items sung en masse. They'll be supported by the talented Sydney Grammar String Sextet. Hummingsong has an ongoing commitment to support Women's Community Shelters and aims to donate $20,000 from the sale of SONGS & STRINGS concert tickets to WCS' Outreach Program, supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse.
St Alban's Anglican Church in Pembroke Street, Epping is to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War. The service will be held on Remembrance Sunday, 11 November at 9.30am. The Service will acknowledge service men and women from all conflicts, but will focus on soldiers connected to the St Alban's Parish who are commemorated on the Church's World War I Honour Board. Many descendants and relatives of these men will attend and participate in the service.
This service follows a similar one held in 2016.


▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Mitchell H. Charap, M.D.; Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
Although the periodic health examination was introduced over 80 years ago, it remains a controversy in internal medicine. There have been few data from controlled studies to document the examination's efficacy for adults; nevertheless, its popularity is increasing and health screening has become a multimillion-dollar industry in the United States. Conclusions drawn from poorly designed studies 65 years ago led to the acceptance of periodic examination as a means of detecting disease and reducing mortality. First, physicians associated with life insurance companies and, later, private practitioners began offering these examinations. By promoting the periodic health examination, the medical profession created interest among the general population. The impact of health screening is still unknown today, and well-designed studies are needed to resolve the controversy.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 1981;95(6):733-735.


The clear air of Liechtenstein makes the countryside extra piquant! The vineyards on the slopes of the rocky mountains and the castles and palaces throughout this small country make it a super vacation spot.
While some European countries are undergoing political and social strife and turmoil like Greece or Spain there are some smaller lesser-known countries that most people rarely speak of but I found one of the safest places in Europe was the small little country of Lichtenstein, a landlocked country surrounded by Switzerland and Austria. The capital is Vaduz which we entered by train from Zurich as there are no airports in Lichtenstein because the country is so small. I had the chance to visit Balzers which is home to an amazing castle and historical church and the highlight of my trip was the town of Ruggell, a small town close to the border of Switzerland, which has an amazing nature- preserve for all of us Eco-tourists looking for rare plants and animal species.
My lack of knowledge of the German language wasn't too much of a barrier, I found people in Lichtenstein were happy to work on their English as I attempted to communicate with them and they were glad to share their historical differences of the larger more well-known countries that surround them.
Visitors to Liechtenstein are treated to well marked signage and friendly people who won't might helping out if a tourist exhibits a puzzled face as they visit their lovely tiny country in Europe.
The population of the entire country is less than 50,000 people and it is only 160 square kilometers in size. From the Rhine Valley to the mountains of the Eastern Border to the city of Malbun known for snowboarding and skiing I always felt secure. Like most of the safest countries in the world for tourists, the biggest danger in a small country like Lichtenstein is probably the raw natural setting being tackled by inexperienced nature enthusiasts.
I rented a bicycle for a few days and enjoyed the good roads and incredible views and I am sure I saw one of the Lichtenstein Royal Family in the Schloss Vaduz, the historic castle used by the Royal Family. This was one of the benefits of visiting a small country; a great and very safe destination that I would likely re-visit in the winter to take advantage of the skiing.


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Marie Yvan Michel Olphe-Galliard, né le  à Angoulême (France), et décédé le  à Toulouse (France), est un prêtre jésuite français, docteur en théologie, professeur en théologie ascétique et mystique à l'Institut catholique de Toulouse. Il est un des fondateurs du Dictionnaire de Spiritualité.

Biographie

Famille
Fils d'Alexandre Olphe-Galliard, officier d'artillerie, et de son épouse, née Marie-Louise Poute de Puybaudet, il descend d'une ancienne famille notable de la région gapançaise. Son frère, Dom Jean, devient moine de la congrégation de Solesmes, et supérieur de l'abbaye Sainte-Marie-de-Paris, et sa sœur, Marie, religieuse bénédictine. Il est le petit-fils de Léon Olphe-Galliard, ornithologue distingué.

Au moment de sa mobilisation, sorti soldat  du service militaire, il est ordonné prêtre en 1931 et devient aumônier du Stalag VIII C aux côtés de l'abbé Jean Kah. Il est ensuite nommé supérieur religieux de la résidence jésuite de Toulouse.

Œuvre
Homme d'écriture et fidèle disciple de saint Ignace, Michel Olphe-Galliard fit des recherches dans le domaine de la spiritualité ignacienne et rédigea de nombreux articles à ce sujet, s'attachant particulièrement à la tradition mystique française du .  Il fut l'historien désigné pour mettre de l'ordre dans l'héritage caussadien.

Il est notamment l'auteur de La Théologie mystique en France au , le père de Caussade où il offre un vaste tour d'horizon de la France mystique du , se proposant de situer Caussade dans son contexte historique et d'étudier ses rapports avec les grands courants religieux de son temps.

Il fut aussi très marqué par les écrits de sainte Thérèse d'Avila et de saint Jean de la Croix. Membre du groupe fondateur du Dictionnaire de Spiritualité - ouvrage de référence publié sous la responsabilité de la Compagnie de Jésus - il y contribua en tant qu'éditeur scientifique.

Publications

Auteur
Nos sens et Dieu. Charles Baudouin, Germain Bazin, Paul Claudel,  Mircéa Eliade, Stanislas Fumet, Père Lucien-Marie de Saint-Joseph, Michel Olphe-Galliard. Paris, D.D.B Desclée de Brouwer, 1954.
L'Obéissance. O. Rousseau, M. Olphe-Galliard, R.P Corselis, R. P Tesson. Poitiers, édition du Cerf, 1965.
Chrétiens consacrés. Paris, P. Lethielleux. Montréal, Bellarmin, 1971.
La Théologie mystique en France au , le père de Caussade. Beauchesne, 1984.

Contributeur
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité : ascétique et mystique ; doctrine et histoire. Tome II a : Cabasilas - Comotto / Paris : Beauchesne - 1953.
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité: ascétique et mystique ; doctrine et histoire. Tome II b : Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement - Cyrille de Scythopolis / Paris : Beauchesne - 1953.
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité : ascétique et mystique ; doctrine et histoire. Tome III : Dabert - Duvergier de Hauranne / Paris : Beauchesne - 1957.
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité : ascétique et mystique ; doctrine et histoire. Tome IV a : Eadmer - Ezquerra / Paris : Beauchesne - 1960.
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité : ascétique et mystique ; doctrine et histoire. Tome IV b : Espagne-Enquerra. Paris: Beauchesne, 1961.

Continuateur
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité : ascétique et mystique ; doctrine et histoire. Tome V : Faber - Fyot. Paris : Beauchesne - 1964.
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité : ascétique et mystique ; doctrine et histoire. Tome VI : Gabriel - Guzman / Paris : Beauchesne - 1967.
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité : ascétique et mystique ; doctrine et histoire. Tome VII, première partie : Haakman - Hypocrisie / Paris : Beauchesne - 1969.

Préfacier
Leçons de théologie spirituelle, Joseph de Guibert. Apostolat de la prière, 1955.
Adorer Dieu, en esprit et en vérité. Irénée Hausherr. Paris : P. Lethielleux, 1967.

Éditeur scientifique
Lourdes, 1858, témoins de l'événement. Léonard Cros, préface de Pierre-Marie Théas. Paris: P. Lethielleux, 1957.
Lettres spirituelles. Jean-Pierre de Caussade. Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1962-1964.
Prière de vie, vie de prière. Irénée Hausherr. Paris : P. Lethielleux (Toulouse, impr. Cleder), 1964.
De l'abandon à la Providence divine. Jean-Pierre de Caussade. Paris : Desclée de Brouwer, 1966.
Traité sur l'oraison du cœur; instruction spirituelle. Jean-Pierre de Caussade. Desclée de Brouwer ; Montréal: Bellarmin, 1981.
La Perfection du chrétien. Irénée Hausherr. Paris : P. Lethielleux, 1968.

Notes et références

Naissance en mars 1900
Naissance à Angoulême
Décès en janvier 1985
Décès à Toulouse
Jésuite français
Écrivain spirituel
Mystique
Professeur à l'Institut catholique de Toulouse
Prêtre catholique français du XXe siècle
Décès à 84 ans


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by Paul Lilly — Sunday, June 02, 2019, 10:56 AM EDT
GandCrab Ransomware Crew To Retire After $2 Billion Shakedown Of Victims
It is said that no good deed goes unpunished, but on the flips side, there are bad deeds that get rewarded. So it goes for the hackers responsible for GandCrab, a popular form of ransomware that was sold to clients on the dark web, who are now retiring and going legitimate with their earnings.
The hackers claim that GandCrab netted its clients around $2 billion, all extracted from victims who opted to pay for a decryption key after falling prey to the ransomware. Whether that figure is accurate or not is up for debate. However, the hacking group also claims it "earned more than $150 million per year" from GandCrab and is now "leaving for a well-deserved retirement."
"We have proven that be doing evil deeds, retribution does not come. We proved that in a year you can earn money for a lifetime. We have proved that it is possible to become number one not in our own words, but in recognition of other people," the hackers wrote in a forum post.
The celebratory retirement post also puts out a request to stop any advertising campaigns for DandCrab, and for its affiliates to stop distributing the ransomware within 20 days. It also instructs current victims to buy a decryption key now, because once DandCrab is pulled from commission, the keys go with it.
According to BleepingComputer, DandCrab exploded in popularity in January 2018, when the hacking group starting promoting its ransomware on the dark web. It filled a void left by TeslaCrypt, CrytpoWall, and other major ransomware campaigns.
Hello, #GandCrab :) 🦀🧐😊🤪 pic.twitter.com/ICHixxoIkI
— Marcelo Rivero (@MarceloRivero) April 17, 2018
While active, the hackers would often taunt and joke with researchers. They would inject "Hello" messages to specific researchers in its ransomware, that those researchers would discover when analyzing DandCrab, and named their command and control servers after popular security outfits.
It was not a laughing matter to the group's victims, however, and the hackers would sometimes be vindictive in their exploits. For example, after AhnLab released a mitigation for GandCrab, the hacking group said it was releasing a zero-day threat for the AhnLab V3 Lite antivirus software.
That is all supposedly behind them now. The group claims it has invested its earnings into various legitimate businesses, both online and in the real world. So in this particular instance, it would appear that crime does in fact pay.
Tags: security, Ransomware, gandcrab


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Sun Yung Shin
신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin (she/they) is a Korean-born writer and is author of four books of poems: The Wet Hex (forthcoming in June 2022); Unbearable Splendor (Minnesota Book Award winner); Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black (Asian American Literary Award). They are the editor of three prose anthologies: What We Hunger For: Refugee & Immigrant Stories about Food & Family; A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota; (co-editor of) Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. And they are also the author of two illustrated books for children: Cooper's Lesson (bilingual Korean/English) and the (co-author of) forthcoming Where We Come From co-written by Diane Wilson, Shannon Gibney, and John Coy and illustrated by Dion MBD. They are a 2022 MacDowell Fellow.
Their work has been supported by the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Their poems have been published in POETRY, BOMB magazine, the 2021 Gwangju Biennale, and many anthologies, journals, and other venues. They frequently collaborate with galleries, museums, visual artists, and musicians. They co-direct Poetry Asylum with poet Su Hwang and live in South Minneapolis, where they are also a writing teacher, craniosacral therapist, and equity consultant. Currently they are a Benedict Distinguished Lecturer at Carleton College and teach with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and elsewhere. They also design and make rebellious, everyday jewelry as Tyger Tyger Jewelry. Please find their author self sunyungshin.com. @sunyungshin on FB, IG, and Twitter.


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Polaroids with Everything Everything
Words: Jason Williamson / 26 November 2015, 10:30 GMT
We catch up with genre-defying Manchester-based Everything Everything for some monochrome Impossible Polaroids before they hit the stage at Brixton Academy on their Get To Heaven tour.
Everything Everything's third LP, Get To Heaven, featuring the singles "Distant Past", "Regret", "Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread" and "No Reptiles" is out now via RCA.
We gave Get To Heaven an 8.5 in our review, noting "this is pop music with complex narratives, and if the masses are willing to listen, they could be the band that recharges the UK charts with genuinely meaningful music." Chief lyricist and singer Jonathan Higgs gave us a guided tour through the record track-by-track.
We also caught their intensely brilliant performance that night at Brixton Academy in live photos.
Having wrapped up their UK shows, they play across Europe through November/December before returning to support Foals for a stadium tour in February, with dates in Glasgow, Manchester, London, Birmingham and Leeds.
BW 2.0 Impossible Project 600 type film by Impossible and shot on Polaroid 600 series by Jason Williamson.
Track by Track: Everything Everything on Get To Heaven
Why Johnny Marr wants a revolution


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Science, Health and Technology
UBC experts available to comment on wildfires and associated air quality
UBC experts are available to discuss the wildfires in B.C. and associated health risks.
Combing through someone's phone could lead to end of relationship – or not
For some people, the thought of their partner, friend or colleague snooping through their phone, reading their texts and emails, is an automatic deal breaker. However, some relationships can survive the snooping, a new study examining the motivations behind phone snooping has found.
Steroids can reduce lung cancer risk in COPD patients
New UBC analysis shows steroid inhalers may also reduce patients' risk of lung cancer by as much as 30 per cent.
Scientists revisit the cold case of cold fusion
Scientists from the University of British Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Google are conducting a multi-year investigation into cold fusion, a type of benign nuclear reaction hypothesized to occur in benchtop apparatus at room temperature.
B.C. needs a dedicated species at risk law—one that focuses on recovery
Not only is B.C. home to the most species at risk in Canada, it also lacks dedicated species at risk legislation. On May 22, the International Day for Biological Diversity, UBC researchers Sarah Otto and Cole Burton discuss British Columbia's efforts to develop comprehensive species at risk legislation.
A new way of diagnosing and treating disease—without cutting skin
University of British Columbia researchers have developed a specialized microscope that has the potential ability to both diagnose diseases that include skin cancer and perform incredibly precise surgery—all without cutting skin.
UBC's School of Biomedical Engineering nears student gender parity
UBC's new school of biomedical engineering (BME) is closing in on a milestone of student gender parity.
Celebrate science at UBC Science Rendezvous Festival
UBC will be hosting Science Rendezvous, a national festival that takes science out of the lab and onto the streets, on Sat. May 11, 2019.
Climate cues and tree genes best predictor of leaf burst in spring
Thousands of people await the blooming of cherry trees as a welcome sign of spring every year. Now, thanks to new work by researchers at UBC and Université de Montréal, it may soon be possible to predict more precisely when the first tiny buds will burst forth.
Canada's west coast surf culture downplays concussion risk
Interviews with surfers on B.C.'s west coast indicate they don't take concussion as seriously as the data suggests they should.
Matchmaking for healthier bees
While poor hygiene may be a deal breaker in human relationships, in bee colonies it can be a matter of life and death.
Huntington drug successfully lowers levels of disease-causing protein
An international clinical trial has found that a new drug for Huntington disease is safe, and that treatment with the drug successfully lowers levels of the abnormal protein that causes the debilitating disease in patients.
New research suggests no mental health benefits to eating your placenta
Eating your placenta provides no mental health benefits for new mothers, suggests new research from the BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services' Research Institute and the University of British Columbia.
Big problems, tiny solutions
Vikram Yadav, a chemical engineering assistant professor who joined UBC's faculty of applied science four years ago, is using some of the world's tiniest creatures—yeasts and bacteria—to find solutions for some weighty problems.
Are Canadians kept in the dark about potential drug safety risks?
Government warnings about potential drug safety risks vary significantly across countries, according to a new international study co-authored by researchers at the University of British Columbia.
Teens prefer harm reduction messaging on substance use
A new study from researchers at the University of British Columbia and University of Calgary found that when it comes to substance use, a harm reduction message resonated the most with teens, instead of the typical "don't do drugs" talk.
UBC professor finds ketamine alleviates acute pain during ambulance rides
Dr. Gary Andolfatto didn't anticipate that furthering his pain management research would become a personal mission—but he didn't expect to injure himself either.
Good mousekeeping: en suite bathroom makes for happier mice
Mice have a strong preference to nest away from their own waste and should be housed in a system of cages that allows them to create a toileting area, according to work led by researchers at the University of British Columbia.
UBC experts on 4/20 cannabis events
Annual 4/20 cannabis events take place this Saturday—the first such events since cannabis was legalized in Canada. The following experts are available to comment on a variety of related topics, […]
Scientists join UBC as new Canada Excellence Research Chairs
Two internationally recognized researchers join the University of British Columbia as Canada Excellence Research Chairs, bringing international talent in the fields of forest bioproducts and precision cancer drug design.