When you are looking for the perfect ecommerce platform one of the names that you are going to probably come across the most is going to be Shopify, and we have to say that there are definitely great reasons behind that. And even though this is definitely an amazing option for your business in Singapore and it has been deemed one of the best ecommerce platforms made for you by many business owners, there are also some downsides to this platform as well, and that is exactly what we are going to be taking a look at today. Make sure to keep on reading in order to find out more about some of the pros and cons concerning Shopify.
One of the things that really makes this platform as popular as it is, is the fact that people love it for its simplicity and ease of use. This is a great platform for anyone that doesn't have a lot of experience with ecommerce and that wants to learn quickly because the learning curve is small and it won't take a lot of your time, which is something you also need to think about. The interface is a drag and drop one, which means that you will be able to complete every task in just a few minutes and with a few easy clicks of your mouse.
If you really are a novice that isn't very tech-savvy, then something that makes Shopify one of the best ecommerce platforms made for you is the fact that it offers you some amazing customer service. This means that no matter when you come across an issue you can be sure that there will be someone there to help you out since the customer service is available to you 24/7 and you can access it via phone or email, depending on what is the best option for you.
Something that puts a lot of people off when it comes to using Shopify for their business in Singapore, or anywhere else around the world, is the fact that things can end up getting pretty expensive. You need to keep in mind that you aren't just paying for the price of the plan, but you will also have to pay for a template and once you start adding extensions and apps from the App store it is hard to keep track of how much you will actually be paying. All of these are expenses that have a serious way of adding up, so make sure you are treading lightly and really looking at your budget.
If you ask us, there is no downside to Shopify that would stop us from actually using it, and that really shows that we feel this is one of the best ecommerce platforms made for you. Make sure to check it out for your business in Singapore and hopefully it will end up working out.


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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Beyond Partnership: The Jewish Agency and the Diaspora, 1959-1971 (review)
Steven F. Windmueller
Purdue University Press
10.1353/sho.1996.0079
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126 SHOFAR Summer 1996 Vol. 14, No.4 Beyond Partnership: TheJewish Agencyand the Diaspora, 1959-1971, by Ernest Stock. New York: Herzl Press, 1992. 259 pp. No better authority than Ernest Stock could offer such a cogent analysis of the functions and roles of the Jewish Agency. With its companion text, Chosen Instrument, we are introduced to the evolution and growth of this unique transnational institution. While the initial volume focuses on the Agency's functions as a quasi-governmental entity, prior to the birth of the state of Israel, as well as describing the tasks performed during the period 1948-1959, the second volume, Beyond Partnership, surveys the Jewish Agency story for the next twelve-year segment, 1959-1971. Dr. Stock's presentation is more than a record of events; his personal perspectives as Deputy Director between 1960 and 1966 offer the reader a marvelous insight into the politics and personalities associated with the Agency's evolution. The book's value can be measured in three distinct ways. Initially, the presentation ofmaterial affords the reader an opportunity to select specific aspects ofthat institution's agenda, whether it be immigration, governance and the policy making process, youth aliyah, or the agency's interactions with both the Israeli government and world Jewry. Secondly, of particular interest was the selection of items for the appendices. Dr. Stock offers us a combination of documents, including a fascinating case study on the Boston Jewish community's response to the Six-Day War; a copy of several key documents referenced elsewhere in the text, namely the Budget of the Agency (1965-1966) and the Agreement on Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency (1971); and the historic June 1967 correspondence of Israel's Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir to the Chair of the Agency Louis Pincus, reaffirming and redefining the special relationship of the Diaspora to the State of Israel, following the 1967 War. A third feature of particular importance to this edition is reflected in the numerous citations of actual minutes, reports, and official papers. This vast inventory of materials permits a first-hand accounting of not only how the Agency operates but more specifically the roles played by individual decision-makers and the various governing entities, in defining and executing its mandate. For the researcher interested in the "workings" of the Agency and the personalities associated with the development and implementation of policy, Dr. Stock's detailed cataloging of both the actual events and the Book Reviews 127 process for action covering this twelve-year period provides some special insights into this complex policy and service instrument. In the postscript to the book, Ernest Stock reflects on the twenty-year period following his research, noting the fundamental changes associated with the Agency, including the transition of leadership, the change of governance, and the evolution of Israel's role and position within the Jewish world. The Agency story is a unique experiment binding the Jewish people together in a system of governance and organization that deserves consideration and thoughtful study, as demonstrated by this text. Steven F. Windmueller School ofJewish Communal Service Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, by Donna Robinson Divine. Boulder, co: lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994. 226 pp. $38.00. Stimulated in part by the increasing importance of the Palestinian factor in Middle Eastern politics, studies of the history of the Palestinian Arab community have become something of a growth industry over the past two decades. Informed by the diverse and rich Ottoman, Zionist, and Palestinian Arab source-materials that have become available in recent years, Israeli, Palestinian, and Western scholars have produced numerous monographic studies ofvarious aspects of the Palestinian Arab experience in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Palestinian history has now acquired a substance and complexity going well beyond the simplistic and politically driven polar images of a land of desolation versus a happy and harmonious traditional society found in much of the earlier literature on the subject. Professor Divine has mined this new literature on Palestine to write a careful, up-to-date, and generally persuasive overview ofPalestinian Arab history from 1800 to the initial phases of British rule...
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Happy Winter! If we doubted it before, I think the recent weather has put those doubts to rest.
As I am sure you already know, our Mardi Gras fundraising gala is fast approaching – and we really need your help. We need sponsors, and auction items, and volunteers, and attendees (tickets are available NOW, by the way).
So please take a moment and consider how you can best help make this the best Mardi Gras gala to date. And thank you.
This week has been no ordinary entry back into ordinary time! In anticipation of snow, we have been reading some winter favorites like,The Snowy Dayby Ezra Jack Keats,Sadie and the Snowmanby Allen Morgan, andOwl Moonby Jane Yolan. These are beautiful slow paced books that help children understand the special gift that a blanket of snow gives us. Enjoy!
The children are loving the snow! We were so happy to find snow still here when we came back after the weekend, and enjoyed throwing it, rolling in, shoveling it, and moving it.
"Your message is one I have been waiting for years to hear: that there is a desire to create original Catholic art (regardless of the skill level). It took young people to see this! I will contact Dr. Rubin asap."
We are welcoming Mr. Marsh this week for a two day workshop and are very excited. Our objective it to produce a Nativity set that we will be donating to the Gala for auction. We have high hopes!
Parent-Child Night - We will follow PWC for closings.
If PWC closes evening activities, Parent-Child Night will be cancelled and re-scheduled for another night.
The Primary and Elementary Environments are pleased to invite you to Parent-Child night next Thursday, January 17th from 6:30 - 8:00. This is a chance for your child to show you what they do each day at school, a time to demystify their work, and to answer questions such as what are the "metal insects" and what does sandpaper have to do with learning to write and read.
Please click the link below and sign up for only ONE slot for each environment you have children in. Each child may bring just 2 parents/guests in with them. If you have more people interested in coming, they are welcome to come and take turns in the classroom. Expect to spend between 20 to 30 min with your child(ren) while they show you their favorite materials.
This evening is for the children and parents, and we ask that siblings not enter the environments so the parent can focus the individual child and to keep the rooms from getting too crowded. We will have a staff member in the gym for siblings to wait.
Elementary children will have another opportunity to show their parents work in the environment at an Open House opportunity during Catholic School Weeks. Stay tuned for details.
As this format or time is not an ideal toddlers, Mrs. Ashton invites you to join a Parent-Infant class on any Monday to come and see your children in their environment.
Erdkinder will have other opportunities to show their families their work and their environment later in the year.
In order to be considered for Financial Aid for the 2019 - 2020 Academic Year,all currently enrollment families must complete the Financial Aid Application before February 1st.This includes families who have filled out applications in the past, as parents must reapply for tuition assistance each year. For more information and a link to the application, clickHERE.
As announced via email this week, we are excited to announce that RMS will be getting a new HVAC system. Not only will this help us better regulate the temperature in our environments, but it will save us money in the short and long term.
As you might imagine, in a campus our size, replacing the HVAC is a large project. We have been informed by the contractor that they need two weeks with no children in the environments to complete the work. In order to keep the impact of this time as minimal as possible, we have scheduled the work to be done around Easter, when we are already out of session for 10 days. We do, however, need to add days to this break to give the contractors the time we need.
So, please note the following calendar changes!
Teacher In-Service Day scheduled for March 15th will now take place on Monday, April 15th.
April 16th and 17th there will be NO SCHOOL but to use these days productively, they will now be Parent-Teacher Conferences.
The January/February Pizza Form is now available. Orders are due with payment no later than the Wednesday before each Friday. The form is below or always at the top of the Weekly Updates.


Huntsville, TN – The Pro Armor King of the Mountain Endurance Challenge lived up to the claim as the toughest Side X Side and ATV race in the country. The course, built by hard-core racers for hard-core racers, pushed all that raced to a level that they never thought was possible. Many of the racers commented that the course was much tougher than they expected, not believing the hype. Although exhausted, the majority of the racers said they would return next year with expectations of an even more extreme course. And the promoters will give it to them, as they vow to push the bar even higher for the toughest SXS and ATV race in the country.
Please visit www.racekotm.com for results, photos and video of the Pro Armor King of the Mountain Endurance Challenge.


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Q: Problems closing tabs I've a WPF app organized with tabs. I added a small button to each tabitem header that allow the user to close the tab.
When the user click on the small button, I remove the tabItem from the tabControl.
tabControl.Items.Remove(tabItem);
As result of this the tabItem dissapears, and that is fine, but here comes the  problem:
The TabItem is not visible(good), but it still exists(bad). If I put a timer inside, the timer execucutes his Tick, and more important, if I've a datagrid with 200.000 records and I close the Tab, The garbage collector don't release the memory as I expected.
I asked google about the problem and I've implemented some of the advices described. It didn't work.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks

A: This is what I've been using, and as far as I can tell it removes the tabitem from memory. The problem with leaving a timer inside of the tabitem, is that the GC won't collect and dispose of it because it detects that the timer is still in use.
The Code:
namespace Reports.Controls
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for Test.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class ReportTab : TabItem
    {
        public delegate void CloseEvents(ReportTab TabIndex);
        public event CloseEvents Closing;

        public ReportTab(string Title)
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            tbTitle.Text = Title;
        }

        private void Image_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            Closing(this);
        }
    }
}

The xaml:
<TabItem x:Class="Reports.Controls.ReportTab"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    >
    <TabItem.Header>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <TextBlock Text="Main" Name="tbTitle" Margin="0,0,8,0"/>
            <Image Height="13"
                   Source="pack://application:,,/Images/Icons/close.png"
                   MouseLeftButtonUp="Image_MouseLeftButtonUp"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </TabItem.Header>
    <Grid>
         //Tabitem stuff
    </Grid>
</TabItem>

Here's the page with the Tabcontrol to add a tab:
void AddTab(string Title)
{
    Controls.ReportTab rt = new Controls.ReportTab(Title);
    rt.Closing += new Controls.ReportTab.CloseEvents(rt_Closing);
    tabControl.SelectedIndex = tabControl.Items.Add(rt);
}

/// <summary>
/// Moves the Tab Control back to the Main tab
/// after a tab is removed
/// </summary>
/// <param name="TabIndex"></param>
void rt_Closing(Controls.ReportTab TabIndex)
{
    tabControl.Items.Remove(TabIndex);
    //This resets the tabcontrol back to it's first tabindex
    tabControl.SelectedIndex = 0;

}

A: Place a user control in your tab, and in the Usercontrol code, handle its own "Unloaded" event.
In there you should be able to clean-up. (unless your timer is preventing the control from unloading, but last time I tried something similar it worked).
And yes, WPF is very dangerous for all those things, if you are not careful you can bleed controls pretty fast...

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Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics is a "textbook" of information prepared at NASA Glenn Research Center to help you better understand aerodynamics. Click Beginner's Guide Index to access the list of slides. Open the slide called Aircraft Motion (with text) and read the explanation on Newton's Second Law and how it applies to the motion of an airplane. Then using the information shown below, complete the problems designed to demonstrate your ability to complete calculations involving the motion of an airplane.
You are the pilot of an airplane sent to drop supplies to victims of an accident that are stranded on a small island. The plane's altitude is always 500 meters and your speed is 89.61 m/s.
Once released, how much time will elapse before the supply package reaches the level of the island?
Will the descent time of the supply package change if the airplane's speed changes?
At what (horizontal) distance in front of the island should the package be released in order to hit the island?
What is the package's horizontal speed when it reaches the level of the island?
What is the package's vertical speed when it reaches the level of the island?
What will be the package's flight angle with respect to the level of the island as it descends?
Suppose the victims on the island can retrieve supply packages that land within 30 meters of the island. The length of the island is 50 meters along the direction you are approaching.
How far in front of the island would the airplane have to release the supply package for it to land 30 meters in front of the island?
How far in front of the island would the airplane have to release the supply package for it to land 30 meters in back of the island?
Time1 will be the time on your watch when you release the package and it lands 30 meters in front of the island. Time2 will be the time on your watch when you release the package and it lands 30 meters in back of the island. Calculate the amount of time you have to successfully drop the package, namely, time1- time2.
What could be done to decrease the package's speed when it reaches the ground?


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7 Conversation Starters for Family Dinners
Derek Maul
Families miss a golden opportunity when they don't take the time to sit around the dinner table and talk. The Jones household is in desperate need of some dinner conversation starters. Five minutes into the meal, Tony (a.k.a. Dad), having patiently waited for the initial feeding frenzy to settle down, asks 12-year-old Emily, "What's new at school?"
"How about you, Jason?"
Families miss a golden opportunity when they don't take the time to sit around the dinner table and talk.
So what should Tony do? He's not about to reach for the TV remote. Yelling won't solve anything. But he refuses to give up. Instead, Tony decided to reclaim the family dinner hour. One strategy involved a literal stack of cards with conversation starters on them, including the following 7 conversation starters for family dinners.
1. About Current Events
"It's been a busy week in the headlines. Let's all share one item that makes us really glad we live in this country."
2. About History
"If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go? Would you take anyone with you? What would you do?"
3. About Today
"Talk about the most difficult thing you had to deal with today. Maybe homework? Or a rude person? Or you got disappointed about something? How did you get through it?"
4. About Discovery
"Share two things you know now that you didn't know when you woke up this morning. How did you learn them?"
5. About Dreams
This is for everyone, Mom and Dad included. "Tell the family about your ideal job. Then talk about how you might get from here to actually having that job."
6. About Family
"Imagine someone walked in and gave this family (not just you) $20,000. What could we do with that money that we'd all appreciate?"
7. About Vacation
"What's your best idea for a two-week family vacation? Where would you like to go and what would you like to do?"
For more conversation starters, download the Q & U app!
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Deepak Chopra castigates Donald Trump for not being reality-based. Another irony meter explodes.
Policy oracknows | September 27, 2016
I'm sure that most of you watched the Presidential debate on Monday night, just as I did. Over the years, these debates have always always painful for me to watch, given the candidates' tendency to answer the question they want to answer rather than the question actually answered; to find ways to spew prepackaged talking points into answers, whether they're related to the question or not; and, above all, to see how much spin they can get away with. Particularly annoying is when they pander to their base with particularly brain dead bon mots. Candidates from both parties do it, of course, but…
Scientific medicine is "truly nonsense"? Orac says no!
Physical Sciences oracknows | June 26, 2015
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oracknows | June 15, 2014
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Years ago I knew Richard Dawkins as a fellow evolutionary biologist (met him only once, at a memorial event for WD Hamilton, but we have numerous mutual friends and colleagues). To be frank, and I'm only being frank now because I'd prefer not to use my real name, Dawkins was considered a bit of an enigma. He had great fame (and fortune and privilege) but that was without doing much important research. I always defended him back in those days. His fame came from The Selfish Gene and his subsequent books, and his popularization of science was well done and important. Those who complained,and…
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The Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe is Proof of Natural Selection
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tags: The Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe is Proof of Natural Selection, animals, giraffe, evolution, creationism, intelligent design, dissection, necropsy, autopsy, recurrent laryngeal nerve pathway, vagus nerve, cranial nerve X, evolutionary legacy, Richard Dawkins, streaming video This video, including comments by Richard Dawkins, documents a necropsy (an autopsy on an animal other than a human) carried out in a classroom on a giraffe. In this video, we follow the pathway of the recurrent (inferior) laryngeal nerve, an important nerve that is a branch of the Vagus nerve (tenth cranial nerve…
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David Sloan Wilson, pissing off the angry atheists
ddobbs | May 26, 2010
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Gleanings: Illusions, genomics, Freud, lighting the brain, and eating alone
Traveling. But here's what I'm reading during train, plane, and bus rides -- and over meals:  Gravity-defying ramps take illusion prize. This contest always produces fascinating stuff. This time, the ball rolls up. Video here.  Vaughan Bell ponders cortisol, dopamine, neuroplasticity, and other things that set off his bullshit detector. Riff launched from a post from Neuroskeptic on cortisol and childcare scare stories, equally read-worthy. Dan Vorhaus does a wonderful round-up of reactions and implications stemming from the news that genetic testing is coming to Walgreens. Best blog-…
Did Religion Have an Evolutionary Value?
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Quoth Richard Dawkins: "I am proud to have presented the [AAI] award to Bill Maher"
oracknows | May 3, 2010
It just so happens that I was up quite late last night doing--what else?--writing yet another grant application (well, two actually). Even though the grants aren't due until Wednesday, Tuesday happens to be my operating room day, meaning I need to get this done and buried by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. In any case, I had been planning on just posting a rerun or two, as is my wont when real life gets so crazy that even my rapid-fire blogorrhea is curtailed, and then someone had to go and send me something that merits at least a brief bit of Insolence. Try as I might not to get sucked…
In defense of paleontology
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Last week I posted about the increasing problem of incivility at comment sections for blogs and news sites. As I noted at the end of the discussion thread that was started, I plan to return to the topic in depth, perhaps as part of an article or study. My thoughts on the topic are apparently at least partially shared by Richard Dawkins. In a post yesterday, Dawkins lashed out against many commenters at his own site, noting their "remarkable bile" and extreme reaction to a change in comment and editorial policy at RichardDawkins.net. The full post should be read, but here is just an…
Leakegate: Leake verballed Richard Dawkins
tlambert | February 16, 2010
If you think his misrepresentations about what climate scientists told him were bad, check out what Jonathan Leake did to Richard Dawkins: Top Scientist Gives Backing to Astrology However, Seymour's theories won qualified support from an unexpected source. Richard Dawkins, professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University, who once suggested that astrologers be prosecuted under the trades descriptions act, said that although he had not read the book Seymour's ideas sounded interesting. Dawkins responded "No. I most emphatically did NOT give my support to Percy Seymour. I…
The Evolution of an Internet Meme
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I sort of love the "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" posters that have become the darling of interior decorating bloggers and graphic design jokesters alike in the past few years. I even have one of the posters hanging in my apartment. Then I saw Merlin's version. At first I LOLed, and then I was like "huh." How did we get here? How did this meme evolve from stoic World War II propaganda to hilarious Richard Dawkins jokes? And thus, the phylogenetic tree of "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" posters was born: High res here.
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing: Why Too Many Y's?
gregladen | December 7, 2009
I have yet to meet anyone who has read this book, myself included. But apparently some sciency blogger picked up a copy the other day and noticed a near absence of female scientists represented in the anthology. Why? Y, apparently. As you probably know, Richard Dawkins is presently being raked over blogospheric coals for having edited a volume of science writing that includes only about 3.6% of its works written by females. The observation was first made here at hgg, and has been discussed here at The Intersection, here at Aetiology, here at Questionable Authority, at Blue Lab Coats, here…
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The dog as rat
razib | August 25, 2009
Speaking of Richard Dawkins, he's back to science, in this case an excerpt from his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution: The evolution of the dog, then, if Coppinger is right, was not just a matter of artificial selection, but a complicated mixture of natural selection (which predominated in the early stages of domestication) and artificial selection (which came to the fore more recently). The transition would have been seamless, which again goes to emphasise the similarity -- as Darwin recognised -- between artificial and natural selection. Nothing new in the…


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I can also try to find simple problem in pflow that i don't like and made a decision that pflow is not right tool.
Lat say this: - To write a long expression I need to waste couple hours to build a tree in Box3 and minute to write it in Expression node in TP.
You just to much love box2,3. They not near to Ice and Houdini.It's too much subjective thinking.
I see your point BUT have you actually timed the evaluation? I may be wrong but I suspect that running that expression versus a data op, the expression is going to be slower. If you had time, I would be curious to see the results.
I could write an essay on the problems with PFlow. I know them very well. But, for me, I prefer Box3 over TP in general because the straight forward math of Box3 comes very easy to me. It makes it a good fit for me. Our facility uses both and I have seen the times where TP falls short and where PFlow falls short.
But all in all, I am not happy with where these tools are at in max and I am anxious to see where Oleg and Autodesk take them from here. I am learning Houdini because I need more.
btw…writing expressions or using scripts in max particles is most often NOT a faster solution.
I make a scene with 4 helpers,10k particle per sec., 200 frames, 1 step/frame, near 83k particles at the end - so results on picture. I just run slider from 1 to 200 and take a timestamp.
Also i find that TP emit this count in 0,0,0(without any action) 13 sec compare 3 sec to emit in pflow.
So hard to say where is time loss to do a clean result. But anyway tp is slow in this case.
Ye i'm also more and more sitting in houdini. For max not sure what they can add in future, not like this friendship with physx.
PhysX might not be bad. As long as it is a unified system that works with itself and is stable…I don't care what they use.
I wasn't sure, I suspected that Box#3 would be faster, of course maybe there is a slowdown in the way you formed your expression too, dunno. Have you tried the new math node in TP5 out of curiosity?
AFAIK expressions is much faster then maxscript in calculations. It's fun to check in 2013 where particle redraw is faster.
It would be cool to check tp5 but cebas not hurry up to provide demo.
It depends on a lot of things, not the least of which is the developers implementation. I have seen Bobo create scripted operators in PFlow that evaluate and scale nearly as fast as Box3, but there are a lot of box3 functions that completely kill the system if done though script. In general, coded, pre-compiled tools are faster than scripts or expressions.
Sure but expressions are much faster then any scripted operator. Here i did the same test with scripted node. Look at the time it take and compare that i posted above.
"The recompiles of Box#2 and Box#3 are available for Max 2013 now.
Please keep in mind that in order to be able to use the recompiles, you need to install 3ds Max 2013 Product Update #3 (or higher) and the latest Subscription Extension.
Please send a request to Orbaz Support with your serial number(s) to get the links.
No, if you own them Oleg is allowed to release recompiles of the existing plugins. However, there will be no update/new features (that stuff will only be exposed to the Autodesk releases).
EDIT: After readin Oleg's Orbaz forum post I am not sure. If it is a requirement I am guessing that the Subscription requirement is needed for MassFX compatibility or read-only option. Why don't you ask Oleg about the situation?
Details: For Box#2, you just need 3ds Max 2013 Product Update #3 (or higher). For Box#3, you need the Product Update, and the Subscription Extension installed first before installing Box#3. This is due to a deeper level of integration of the Box#2/Box#3 release with 3ds Max 2013.
Now, the question - how many Box#3 users are not on the subscription?
I use but every 4th release only and with subscription going up 45% or so it is cheaper just buying the release i will use in production as stand alone.
I'm not a Box #3 user but I've just let my subscription expire today, and since an upgrade costs £1830 (inc tax) which equals a staggering $2,892 whether it's a single release cycle or a multiple release cycle, it's going to be years until I upgrade again, if at all. Especially in light of the recent financial results from AD.
I'd had enough of being coerced into subscription, pestered into buying a 3-year subscription, poor support for new authorisation codes (4-5 days to get a code) before prices go up and then not getting anything that I didn't already have particle-wise for my trouble.
The whole Creation Suite thing was just the straw that broke the camel's back, even more so that recompiles for Box #2 didn't arrive until well into the 2013 cycle.
I'm just going to wait for the dust to settle and then see if XBR was worth it.
It just seemed an apt time to actually tell them enough was enough.
That's exactly my thoughts, with subscription costs going up next term it's not worth it anymore if you only skip one release (and i skip at least 2 usually)…if it would be just for box3 it would mean it went from 500 bucks per single orbaz license to the price of almost a whole max license if you skipped one or two releases and using subscription just to keep the tool around not to mention you might need a suite subscription deal. not with me.
else you do not get to use Box 3.
and I can see why people are upset.
What most people are upset about is not only the separation that you mention but the teired approach to the baseline application.
This means if you don't buy into the "Suite" you don't get the full baseline product any more. So the Standalone version of Max is now different than the "Suite" version of Max.
Instead of using software that bridges the divides in a cross platform suite, ie things that transfer data seamlessly between applications, as the "suite subscription incentive" AD is using a single application specific product, ie Box#3, as the "suite subscription incentive" which by all methods of reason makes no f'king sense what-so-ever.
That concept got rolled back, right?


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Knuxx of Ontario recently spoke with professional MMA fighter Jeff Sharkey. Jeff is coming off a split-decision win over Robert Thomas at The Score Fighting Series event 5. Congratulations to Jeff on his amazing performance! Be sure to check out the interview below. Thank you for the interview.
Congratulations on the win! That was one hell of a fight! I gotta ask, did you ever feel that you were going to be able to finish him? It appears as if you had him hurt on multiple occasions.
"I thought I was going to finish him in the first round and then again in the second. He has an good chin! Very tough dude. I was sure he was going to sleep, but he stayed in there and kept his composure."
This is your first time in the cage in over 2 years. Was there any ring rust? Did you ever think that it would be like starting over again?
"There was a bit of ring rust for sure(laughs). Although I have been fighting thai boxing in the time away from the cage, it's not the same feel as an mma fight. I came into this fight very confidant and well prepared. I was expecting a KO to be honest. I knew he is a great fighter, but, I just felt I would land the right punch or kick to get the finish. It didn't happen though."
At any point in the fight did you feel gassed? You appeared to slow down slightly in the third round or were you just getting more comfortable inside the cage?
"I felt great in the fight. Near the end of the third I was a bit tired, but I never felt without power or exhausted. I was maybe to comfortable. I could have pushed the pace a bit more near the end because I didn't want it to go to decision. I felt I was winning, but you never know how the judges are going to see it. I think I could have finished him, had I done a few things differently."
Were you surprised by the amount of kicks he was throwing early in the fight? We knew he was a Thai boxer but he was throwing a bunch of wild kicks in the beginning.
"I expected him to throw a lot of kicks. We prepared for that. I train with a ton of great strikers so it's nothing new to me. My coach, Kru Alin halmagean is an amazing striker himself, so I knew how to handle his kicks."
Did you win Fight of the Night honors? Because that was by far the most entertaining fight on the card!
"Unfortunately I didn't win fight of the night. I am glad that it was entertaining though. I don't want to ever have a boring fight. To me, that's worse then losing."
What is next for your fight career? Are you looking to have another fight soon? When can we expect you to get back in to the cage?
"I would love to fight again soon. I love to fight. The Score is a great promotion to fight for. I'm going to rest up this week and talk to my manager and see what's next."
How come it has taken so long to get back in to the cage? Were you just busy or was there some injuries?
"I took some time away from mma to work on my weaknesses and learn and grow. I wasn't injured or anything. I just wanted to return to mma sharper and more prepared. In this sport you have to be more then tough. You have to be smart."
Is there anyone you would like to thank?
"I would like to thank my coach, Kru Alin Hamlagean, my sponsors Joya, autobahn auto service, house of champions mma, Adrian Wooly, Claude Patrick, Will Romero, Jason Meisel, Josh Hill, Denis Puric, Shane Cambell, Mukai, all my training and sparing partners. All my friends and family that support me. And my gf Maria Bastasin. Thank you for your time."
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Excellent hiking in a ribeira that offers panoramic views and an insight into the many inhabitants' fascinating everyday lives.
A vast ribeira home to thousands of people and their agriculture – sugarcane, breadfruit and bananas – Paúl is renowned throughout the archipelago for its grogue, and one of its trapiches (sugarcanejuicing apparatus) is still driven by oxen. Highlights include Passagem, with its charming municipal park nestled among impressive almond trees and bougainvilleas. Beyond the villages of Lombinho and Cabo de Ribeira, up a steep incline, a panoramic view of the valley and ocean opens out. The road ends at Cabo de Ribeira, but a steep cobbled footpath continues to Cova, an impressive ancient crater now filled with verdant cultivation. Walk up or down, depending on your fitness and appetite for climbing; there are plenty of little shops and a few restaurants en route.


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The Little Black Dress Society: Because Abuse is Never in Fashion
Jenna C Laszakovits
Every woman needs a few things in her life: Friends. A support network. A fantastic little black dress.
And loved ones who always, always treat her with love and respect.
But unfortunately, not all women are so lucky, particularly when it comes to the last item on the list. And that's what Amanda Graybill has set out to change.
Through her organization, the Little Black Dress Society, Amanda brings together women (wearing little black dresses, of course!) in small groups across the country to connect, build lasting friendships, and work together to end domestic violence, an issue that still affects one in three women worldwide.
We sat down with Amanda to learn more about abuse, her heartbreaking personal drive behind LBD's mission, and her vision for a future where every woman is loved, respected, and safe.
What sparked your desire to start the Little Black Dress Society?
When I was 4 years old, I received my first little black dress as a gift from my friend's mother.
And this dress came at a critical time in my life—when my world was turned upside-down. After losing his job, my father became an alcoholic. He became verbally and emotionally abusive in our home. It was because of this that I grew up believing that abuse was the norm, and I began to be attracted to abusive males.
But during that time, it was this dress that made me feel special; I could have worn it every day. I want women to feel as special as I did wearing mine. Any woman that has gone through any abuse loses her self-esteem and self-respect. It is important that we help her see her significance. My desire is for them to know that they are worthy of love and respect; that they are beautiful.
The little black dress is a classic fashion icon that I hope will bring into light the subject of abuse that people tend to shy away from. But it is also my belief that it isn't really about the dress, it's about the woman wearing it!
Can you tell us a little about the different forms of abuse?
Physical abuse is the form that comes to the minds of people first. Many don't ever bother to look beyond it. However there are many other forms: Sexual abuse, verbal abuse (like name calling, demeaning, or telling someone she is worthless), and emotional/psychological abuse. This includes controlling behavior such as threatening someone, or limiting what she can wear or who she can talk to or be friends with.
It's said that can be difficult for a woman to recognize when she's in abusive relationships. Why? Do you think that's true?
Yes, definitely, because it has become her idea of normal. She really loves the person who is abusing her, and she hopes for him to change. She keeps thinking that the situation is going to get better.
Our organization reaches out to women from all walks of life providing a sort of support group within our chapters. They do not have to announce that they are abused, but they can benefit from the group by opting to receive information via email, Facebook, and our website. Just getting information out there about what an abusive relationship looks like has helped many a woman take the first steps toward getting away from her abuser.
What should someone do if she is in an abusive relationship?
Get out. But in order to do that, you need to have a plan of action. Soon, we will be posting an "escape plan" outline on our website to help women create a plan. We also will be printing brochures. All too often I hear women will say, "If I only got out, then I would not be here today."
What should someone do if he or she has a friend in an abusive relationship?
Be a good listener. Encourage her, and help build up her self-esteem. And help her outline a plan and help find a safe place for her.
Finally, how can women get involved in spreading awareness for the cause?
First, don't ever shy away from the topic! Be an educator about abuse, and share what you know with loved ones and those you care about.
You can also support organizations like LBD. Become a sponsor by volunteering or donating to shelters and other organizations that support the cause.
And finally, you can attend networking and community involvement events.
What's next for the Little Black Dress Society?
Our current focus is building up the number of chapters nationwide over the next 3-5 years, and eventually globally. There is no societal or economic differentiation—abuse affects everyone. And the more societies that are formed, the greater the impact.
Our societies adopt local shelters, and they become a part of the lives of the women coming into the shelters. Those women can then grow to feel empowered, and once they have their self-esteem back, they can in turn help other women and "pay it forward."
In addition to expanding nationally, we are getting ready to launch in Uganda. I feel that there is an immense need in areas like this because of the lack of respect of women in the society. In the next couple years, I would love to be able to travel and host speaking engagements for the women in Uganda personally. I am currently considering the idea of getting people in the U.S. to sponsor women in Uganda. This would include writing correspondence, perhaps providing some financial assistance, but most importantly touching their lives and giving them an outlet for sharing with other women, which brings healing.
In addition to launching this brilliant organization, Amanda has written the moving short story, "The Little Black Dress," that shares the story of a little girl and her most prized possession. To learn more about Amanda or the Little Black Dress Society and how to help, visit www.lbdsociety.com or follow her on Facebook.
Jenna Chavez-Laszakovits is an entrepreneur, educator and writer. She owns her own technical consulting business where she educates her clients on integrating technology into their daily lives. She has written articles for local papers in San Antonio, Texas, writes weekly tech tips for her Facebook business page Technical-Consulting-SA and recently started her own tech blog, www.prettytechy.com. In her down time, she likes to break free of the technology and travel with her husband as well as attend various sporting events.
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What an adorable card. Love he techniques you showed and look forward to more. You always show something I had not thought of. Thanks for sharing your talents.
I LOVE the video! What a sweet card with some great techniques! What a treat! I don't get to blog and comment as much as I would like - sorry I haven't been around in a while.
Beautiful card I love the rocky outcrop, perfect for the puffins. As ever a terrific video, always enjoy watching you work. More please, and more commentary, I really like hearing your voice!
Such a cute card, JJ! I love how you added so much texture with your ink blending, and your design is fabulous!
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Wimbledon School of Art
The Surrey Institute of Art & Design
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The Royal Institute of Oil Painters ROI, Mall Galleries, London
The Royal Society of Marine Artists RSMA, Mall Galleries, London
The St Ives Society of Artists STISA, Cornwall
The Chelsea Art Society CAS, London
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
Art for Youth London, Mall Galleries
The Waterside Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
The Little Picture Gallery, Mousehole, Cornwall
The Market House Gallery, Marazion, Cornwall
Peter Barker Fine Art, Rutland
Oliver Bull (b: West London, 1970) has painted since childhood. Encouraged by family – his mother, Anne Bull SWA, was a talented painter and member of both STISA and CAS – he benefited enormously from exposure to work by their friends Ken Paine, Debra Manifold, Kimm Stevens, Terence Cuneo and Ken Howard. He studied at Wimbledon School of Art; The Surrey Institute of Art & Design – gaining a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design – and spent 6 years working as a designer/concept visualiser.
Currently based in West Cornwall, Oliver paints en plein air and from a studio above the small fishing village of Mousehole – the exceptional light and coastal geography of the South West provides endless opportunity. A painter and surfer for some 30 years, he has a unique feel for the moods and atmosphere of the Atlantic coast. In very simple terms, his paintings are an emotional response to the marine environment; ambient impressions of a place he loves!
Oliver is a member of the St Ives Society of Artists and the Chelsea Art Society. A regular exhibitor at the Mall Galleries, his work is held in private collections throughout the world...
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Taylor Swift Grows Up on Reputation
Love and sex take the lyrical lead on the singer's sixth studio album.
by Ilana Kaplan
The drama is alive and well on Taylor Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation. Like Dark Betty on Riverdale, Dark Taylor is so fun when she's being rebellious. But while there are moments of personal drama (a song dedicated to Kim and Kanye, jabs at ex boyfriends), the record is Taylor Swift's declaration to the world that she's not the good girl you think she is.
Though some of Reputation has it's allusions to gossip and scandal in the Swift realm, the way that it was marketed through the vengeful "Look What You Made Me Do" was misleading—a curveball that quite effectively drummed up interest. In reality, the album's overarching theme is all-encompassing love and lust; fans of the singer should be familiar with the former, but the latter is new territory.
Where Red chronicled her many heartbreaks and dating escapades, Reputation seems to focus entirely on a singular romance: her current boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, presumably. And this isn't juvenile love—like sending messages through bedroom windows and the like; it's more passionate than that, and she spends the entirety of the album making sure you know it.
On "Dress," she croons, "I'm spilling wine in the bathtub / You kiss my face and we're both drunk…Only bought this dress so you could take it off." On "Delicate," she wonders, "Do the girls back home touch you like I do? / Long night, with your hands up in my hair." On "So It Goes…" she talks of back scratches and claims "You know I'm not a bad girl, but I do bad things with you." On "…Ready For It?," she sings "In the middle of the night, in my dreams / You should see the things we do" and talks further of turning her bedroom into a "sacred oasis" on "Dancing with Our Hands Tied."
For fans looking for the old Taylor, ones who crave the acoustic balladry and airy pop gems of Fearless or 1989, They're few and far-between on Reputation. Although, 1989 fans will certainly find "Getaway Car" as a complementary piece to the woozy, magical, Imogen Heap-produced "Clean."
On the production side, Taylor further sheds her country roots, opting to play with R&B, EDM, and rap, which, with listening, becomes excessive—her collaboration with Future and Ed Sheeran, "End Game," is one of those moments. And while the new Taylor is alive and well on the record, there is an exception: the stripped-down final track "New Year's Day," which within the context of the entire album feels out of place. In fact, it feels more like a track a person would send a lover—a referenced memory that those two may only know.
In all, Reputation breaks down the two worlds that Taylor straddles: the private, deeply in love young woman and the public pop star who believes drama follows her at every turn. What this album offers fans is a glimpse into both—the bite-sized memories of her personal life and her take on the headlines that precede her. While Swift is still, as always, incredibly in control of the narrative, these shared anecdotes feel sincere.
Eleven years into her career, Taylor still remains the master of blurring the lines between reality with fantasy, leaving her fans to parse through the lyrics for something deeper, more explosive. With Reputation, she lets them in just a little closer.
Reputation is available only for purchase on Apple Music here.
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SimplyCast Launches COVID-19 Case Management Use Case
SimplyCast has launched a use case to support the mapping of COVID-19 cases in real-time.
This use case will help officials track new and ongoing cases from a single dashboard.
SimplyCast is proud to be able to support ongoing COVID-19 response efforts.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 27, 2020 - SimplyCast, an ISO 27001:2013-certified leader in engagement automation for organizations in over 175 countries has launched its COVID-19 Case Management use case.
Built using SimplyCast's existing technology, the new use case will easily allow medical and emergency officials to track new and ongoing cases from a single dashboard. The use case is designed to be used by organizations or government entities of any size and is scalable as such.
"I'm proud that the technology stack we have developed over the last decade is capable of supporting organizations during this time," said Saeed El-Darahali, President and CEO of SimplyCast. "Now more than ever, organizations need digital support to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and SimplyCast is ready to support them."
This use case is part of an array SimplyCast has developed. You can see them all here:
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SimplyCast is an ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018-certified, leading provider of engagement software for organizations worldwide. Providing both emergency and non-emergency communication technology, SimplyCast offers 20+ communication tools and channels to help organizations maximize their efficiency. The company's 360 engagement platform is a feature-rich solution combining marketing automation, inbound marketing, and interactive communication. With customers in over 175 countries, including many of the most recognized brand names around the globe in retail, non-profit and hospitality industries, SimplyCast provides organizations the ability to effectively reach customers on their preferred mode of communication.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee convict serving prison time for a 2001 rape has been charged with killing two women later that year, prosecutors said.
A Shelby County grand jury has indicted Thomas Maupin, 70, on murder charges in the deaths of two women whose bodies were found in a remote area of Memphis in 2001.
Maupin is currently serving an eight-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2017 to stabbing and raping another woman in Memphis, also in 2001.
Dentures collected by investigators, in that case, had been placed in a police property room with a sexual assault kit, including DNA evidence. But the rape kit evidence became part of a heavy backlog and wasn't tested until 2016, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed AB 725 [Levine] and SB 386 [Glazer], measures that would have banned smoking in state parks and on state beaches.
"The bill prohibits smoking on state coastal beaches and throughout the State Park System, and requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to post signs to notify the public of the smoking ban.
"Last year I vetoed Senate Bill 1333, a similar measure, because I believed that such a far-reaching prohibition in every state park and on every state beach was too broad.
"In addition, the fine prescribed in this bill for lighting one cigarette is excessive: over $250 dollars [AB 725] $485 [SB 386], after the mandatory assessments."
"If people can't smoke even on a deserted beach, where can they? There must be some limit to the coercive power of government."


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You must reach a combo streak of 250. You will first be able to earn this around level 4-2. Just make sure to keep attacking the enemies and countering or throwing Pablo if you have the upgrade that causes a Pablo attack to interrupt an enemies attack to avoid an enemy attack breaking your combo streak.
There are currently no gaming sessions for the Streaky Goodness achievements that you can join - why not register and make a new session?


You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.
Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.
I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.
Look, I'm going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I've been around for a while, and I'm not going to play into the hype that I'm some great, you know, discovery.
'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.
I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.
Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.
I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.
I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.
To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.


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package com.vaadin.client.connectors;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.function.BiConsumer;

import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Composite;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.IsWidget;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;
import com.vaadin.client.data.DataSource;
import com.vaadin.client.ui.HasRequiredIndicator;
import com.vaadin.shared.Range;
import com.vaadin.shared.Registration;
import com.vaadin.shared.data.selection.MultiSelectServerRpc;
import com.vaadin.shared.ui.ListingJsonConstants;
import com.vaadin.shared.ui.abstractmultiselect.AbstractMultiSelectState;

import elemental.json.JsonObject;

/**
 * A base connector class for multiselects.
 *

 * Does not care about the framework provided selection model for now, instead
 * just passes selection information per item.
 *
 * @author Vaadin Ltd.
 *
 * @since 8.0
 */
public abstract class AbstractMultiSelectConnector
        extends AbstractListingConnector implements HasRequiredIndicator {

    /**
     * Abstraction layer to help populate different multiselect widgets based on
     * same JSON data.
     */
    public interface MultiSelectWidget {

        /**
         * Sets the given items to the select.
         *
         * @param items
         *            the items for the select
         */
        void setItems(List<JsonObject> items);

        /**
         * Adds a selection change listener the select.
         *
         * @param selectionChangeListener
         *            the listener to add, not {@code null}
         * @return a registration handle to remove the listener
         */
        Registration addSelectionChangeListener(
                BiConsumer<Set<String>, Set<String>> selectionChangeListener);

        /**
         * Returns the caption for the given item.
         *
         * @param item
         *            the item, not {@code null}
         * @return caption of the item
         */
        static String getCaption(JsonObject item) {
            return item.getString(ListingJsonConstants.JSONKEY_ITEM_VALUE);
        }

        /**
         * Returns the key for the given item.
         *
         * @param item
         *            the item, not {@code null}
         * @return key of the item
         */
        static String getKey(JsonObject item) {
            return getRowKey(item);
        }

        /**
         * Returns whether the given item is enabled or not.
         *

         * Disabling items is not supported by all multiselects.
         *
         * @param item
         *            the item, not {@code null}
         * @return {@code true} enabled, {@code false} if not
         */
        static boolean isEnabled(JsonObject item) {
            return !(item.hasKey(ListingJsonConstants.JSONKEY_ITEM_DISABLED)
                    && item.getBoolean(
                            ListingJsonConstants.JSONKEY_ITEM_DISABLED));
        }

        /**
         * Returns whether this item is selected or not.
         *
         * @param item
         *            the item, not {@code null}
         * @return {@code true} is selected, {@code false} if not
         */
        static boolean isSelected(JsonObject item) {
            return item.getBoolean(ListingJsonConstants.JSONKEY_ITEM_SELECTED);
        }

        /**
         * Returns the optional icon URL for the given item.
         *

         * Item icons are not supported by all multiselects.
         *
         * @param item
         *            the item
         * @return the optional icon URL, or an empty optional if none specified
         */
        static Optional<String> getIconUrl(JsonObject item) {
            return Optional.ofNullable(
                    item.getString(ListingJsonConstants.JSONKEY_ITEM_ICON));
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the multiselect widget for this connector.
     *

     * This is used because {@link #getWidget()} returns a class
     * ({@link Widget}) instead of an interface ({@link IsWidget}), and most
     * multiselects extends {@link Composite}.
     *
     * @return the multiselect widget
     */
    public abstract MultiSelectWidget getMultiSelectWidget();

    @Override
    protected void init() {
        super.init();

        MultiSelectServerRpc rpcProxy = getRpcProxy(MultiSelectServerRpc.class);
        getMultiSelectWidget().addSelectionChangeListener(
                (addedItems, removedItems) -> rpcProxy
                        .updateSelection(addedItems, removedItems));
    }

    @Override
    public AbstractMultiSelectState getState() {
        return (AbstractMultiSelectState) super.getState();
    }

    @Override
    public void setDataSource(DataSource<JsonObject> dataSource) {
        dataSource.addDataChangeHandler(this::onDataChange);
        super.setDataSource(dataSource);
    }

    /**
     * This method handles the parsing of the new JSON data containing the items
     * and the selection information.
     *
     * @param range
     *            the updated range, never {@code null}
     */
    protected void onDataChange(Range range) {
        assert range.getStart() == 0
                && range.getEnd() == getDataSource().size() : getClass()
                        .getSimpleName()
                        + " only supports full updates, but got range " + range;
        List<JsonObject> items = new ArrayList<>(range.length());
        for (int i = 0; i < range.getEnd(); i++) {
            items.add(getDataSource().getRow(i));
        }
        getMultiSelectWidget().setItems(items);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isRequiredIndicatorVisible() {
        return getState().required && !isReadOnly();
    }
}

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theatre activist; and Ms. Anju Bhalla, Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
The Government should strengthen local level village institutions to focus and serve cultural needs. The Responses and Recommendations of the Conference were conveyed to all the UNESCO offices in South Asia and to the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris.


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Do you know the elements that make up a strong financial plan?
While my husband Mike and I have been following our financial plan for more than 18 months now and have made great progress on paying off our debt, we still have a few items we need to take care of.
The missing pieces are critical to the health of our financial plan so we are adding them to our financial goals for the month of March. Without these pieces we are putting ourselves and our family at unnecessary risk.
To make it easier for you to implement these steps and build a solid financial plan for your family, I have created a free download.
On this free checklist, I have broken down the pieces into three categories — the foundation, the building blocks, and the protection. Think of your financial plan as a house. You first need to lay a solid foundation, then you build it up, and finally, you protect it from crumbling down.
These are the core pieces that will provide the stability to reach your long-term financial goals. While each piece listed below is important, the items in this group are what you should start with when building your financial plan.
☐ Net Worth Analysis – Calculating your net worth will clarify your current financial picture. Your net worth is the difference between the total value of your assets and the total balance of your debt.
☐ Monthly Budget – Each person or family should have a written budget that is updated monthly. This document outlines your expenses and details how you plan to allocate your income to your expenses, saving plans, and avenues for giving over the next month. It should be updated monthly, as your circumstances may change from month to month.
☐ Will or Estate Plan – Each person should have a will or estate plan, even if you don't have any children or many assets. However, this is absolutely crucial if you do have children and/or own a house or any other type of property. If you don't have a will and you were to die today, what would happen to your children and/or your home? Dying without a will would add unnecessary burden to your loved ones as the courts would decide who would receive your property and take guardianship of your children.
☐ Debt Elimination Plan – If you have any kind of debt, then you need a plan to get rid of it. The average American household has $203,067 of debt with $15,611 of it on credit cards. We use the snowball method to eliminate our debt, but use whatever works for you and stick to it.
These are the pieces you will use to build your financial house and help you achieve financial security and eventually, true financial freedom.
☐ Emergency Savings – A major obstacle that has the potential to throw your financial plan off course and prevent you from reaching your goals is an unexpected emergency. If you have any type of non-mortgage debt, then build a starter emergency fund of $1,000 to $5,000. If you don't have any non-mortgage debt, then build this up to 3-6 months of expenses.
☐ Retirement Savings Plan – In this day and age, Americans must take retirement planning into their own hands. Social Security benefits are likely to continue to decrease as time goes on, and most employers today offer defined contribution plans instead of pension plans. This shift has put the responsibility of retirement planning into the hands of employees rather than employers. A retirement plan could include participating in a 401(k) plan at work, contributing to a Roth or Traditional IRA, and additional investments in a separate brokerage account.
☐ College Savings Plan – If you have children or foresee yourself needing a higher education in the future, then having a plan for college funding should be on your list. Once you have paid off your non-mortgage debt and have a plan for funding your retirement, your next focus should be on saving for your kids' college expenses. 529 plans and ESAs (Educational Savings Accounts) are two of the best options.
☐ Giving Plan – In order for your financial plan to be well-rounded, you must give to others. Whether it be as a tithe to your church, a gift to a friend in need, or a donation to a charity for a cause you feel passionate about, give to those who could use your financial assistance. Even donating a few dollars will warm your heart and provide you with a feeling of satisfaction as you display generosity toward others.
In building your financial plan, you need to protect what you have created. Insurance will protect you from potentially catastrophic occurrences that could tear down the financial home you have built or derail you on your journey to financial freedom.
☐ Health Insurance – As of January 1, 2014, most Americans are required to have health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Health insurance provides protection from high costs associated with a serious accident or illness. A broken bone can easily thwart your progress toward meeting your financial goals if you don't have insurance to cover the medical expenses.
☐ Auto Insurance – In the U.S. you are required to have auto insurance coverage if you drive. I recommend shopping around for lower rates, but this is not an expense that you can get away with cutting from your budget.
☐ Homeowner's/Renter's Insurance – Just last spring, the apartment where my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were living burned down. They lost roughly 95% of their belongings, but luckily they were home and able to get their dogs got out safely before the fire became uncontrollable. They were smart and had renter's insurance, so slowly but surely they were able to replace their lost items and find a new place to live. If your home were to be damaged in a fire or get burglarized, having sufficient insurance coverage would make the horrible event a little less terrible.
☐ Life Insurance – If you have any amount of debt, then you should have life insurance to cover it when you die. It is often recommended to have 8-10 times your annual income in life insurance, but determine an amount that is appropriate for your situation. In case something were to happen to either of us, Mike and I have enough life insurance for each other to pay off all of our debts, cover college funding for the kids, and give the other the option to take time off work for a while. We both have a policy through an insurance company, and Mike has a policy through his work, as well.
☐ Disability Insurance – According to the Social Security Administration, a 20-year-old has a 1 in 4 chance of becoming disabled before reaching his retirement age. Consider if you were to become injured or ill and were not able to work for several months. If your income stopped, would you be able to meet your financial obligations? If not, then you probably need to get disability insurance. Most employers offer sufficient coverage, but you may want to look into getting additional coverage as well.
By the way, for insurance, we like USAA a lot. Their customer service is first rate and their rates are extremely competitive. Check them out if you get a chance.
My hope is that this checklist will empower you to get started on creating your own financial plan if you don't already have one. Or, if you are like us, you may find some pieces that are missing from your existing plan that may be putting you and your family at risk.
Set a deadline for checking off each item, and before long, you will feel more secure about your financial situation and have the satisfaction in knowing that you are working toward true financial freedom.
Participate in the conversation. Is there anything that I missed? What would you add to the solid financial plan checklist? Share in the comments below.
Thanks for making this list to help us have a good financial plan in the future. I never knew that it is important to have a will ready as early as possible because it can really be a problem to your family since you will never know when you will be gone. With that in mind, I will start listing down my assets or properties first then start looking for an expert to help me out. This is very timely since I actually have acquired another property this year.
My gosh, we still need to write a will. We've been putting it off because my husband and I can't agree on who will be our daughter's guardian, but still! It needs to happen.
So awesome. I love and totally LIVE off bullet point lists. Thanks for being a great resource for people!
Thank you for your kind words, Pech! Glad to see you are giving and that you find joy in doing so. We still need to prepare our wills, too, but we are going to do it this month. Promise!
As always a great post, Monica and as an estate planning attorney I could not agree more with you on the importance of drawing up an estate plan. Many people have a hard time with this.
Thank you so much, Beate! It is an easy thing to put off, but it is so important. I'll admit that my husband and I still need to prepare our wills. It has been on our to-do list for years, but it is on our goal list for March, and we will get it done!
Thank you for reading, Jason! I am glad that this post is helpful.
For me, its been all about making good investments, both in and out of the office. All your points are excellent as well, even for a single guy with no dependents.
Thanks, Bill! I really appreciate you stopping by!
all really good pointers and tips! currently working on rebuilding my emergency savings after using them for a non-emergency – a wedding!


If you haven't already been collecting this awesome series of Mini Big Head figures from Plex, then boy have you been missing out! This next release will be volume 4 for the Mini Big Head series, and will feature characters mainly from the Buu era of Dragonball Z. This series has been touted by fans, for not only bringing us beautiful little sculpts of our favorite characters, but also for including characters rarely ever rendered in 3-D! Special thanks to The Hobby Fighter Blog for this news!


It is an annual extravaganza that accompanies fashion week & let me tell you, its was MADNESS.
Coming from someone who loves black friday & lives for the 4:30am Target mad dashes... this was insane. You could barely move. The escalators would get so jammed at the bottom that police had to stand there and push people out of the way so that there wasn't a massive stockpile of human bodies at the bottom of each escalator. Streets were barricaded off & filled with thousands of people. I came to learn that the people in the industry don't usually come out unless they have to work. It was quite an experience. I came, I saw & I don't really want to do it again.
5 - I got to meet Keiko Lynn who is one of my favorite bloggers & an inspiration. Isn't she gorgeous!
6 - Kim Kardashian sighting! Too much make-up & too many peeps screaming for me.
9 - Intense conversation with Jay McCarroll about what special face we should make.
So long Fashion's Night Out! Until next year... maybe.
That sounds crazy, but it looks like you had so much fun!


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Frank Zelek
Frank Zelek, 88, of Emerson, OH, passed away December 16, 2019 at his home surrounded by family. He was born April 2, 1931, in Dun Glen, OH, a son of the late Stanley and Mary (Gazda) Zelek.
Frank was an independent truck driver and a coal miner. He was a U.S. Army Veteran during the Korean War era which resulted in a training accident and he was released of his duties as a Tank Commander. He was a member of the Dillonvale American Legion McCook Post #529 and the Colerain V.F.W. He was also a member of St. Adalbert Catholic Church.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his siblings, Mary Cameron Matusik, Stanley, Walter "Babe," and Joseph Zelek.
Frank is survived by and will be deeply missed by, the love of his life for 65 years, Rosemary Koenig Zelek; daughters, Deborah (Frank) Kovalski of Rayland, Cynthia (Thomas) Supinski of Rayland, Kathy King of Bridgeport, Tammy (Robert) Kelley of Adena, Carol (Greg) Cornett of St. Clairsville; sister, Helen Gullo of Emerson; twelve grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.
Frank was fun, loving, kind, and generous to all. He will always be greatly loved and deeply missed by family and friends.
A private service will be held.
Arrangements entrusted to Wilson Funeral Home, Dillonvale.
To offer online condolences visit wilsonfuneralhomes.com.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to Valley Hospice, 10686 State Route 150, Rayland, OH 43943.
To send flowers to Frank's family, please visit our floral section.


The sunny, steaming hot morning when I visited L'Hôpital Sainte-Thérèse in Hinche, Haiti, the maternity unit was overflowing with busy midwives checking charts and administering care, nurses-in-training in white and yellow uniforms obtaining requisite clinical hours, as well as a few obstetricians checking on patients. Of course, there were expectant mothers, mothers who had just given birth, and those who were being prepped to deliver their babies. Husbands and other family members milled about slowly, but deliberately, bringing food and water to their loved ones, or just sat on benches and waited.
In each of the maternity units – antenatal, postpartum, and labor and delivery – there was a bed for every woman. No expectant mother laid on the ground waiting for space. In fact, I even saw some empty beds. That is not always the case I was told. Some times of the month are busier than others, but each mother can be accommodated.
Some expectant mothers – many with swollen feet and ankles – walked around slowly outdoors in the sunlight angling for some type of momentary relief from the constant wave of contractions. Others laid in bed with worried eyes anticipating the incumbent pain they faced. When I visited labor and delivery, one mother's screams were piercing and she wasn't even pushing yet. Another woman was calm, smiled, and gave me a quick wave as I walked by despite her contractions. Midwives were attending to their care – calmly and respectfully.
The mothers in postpartum care sat with their babies who were asleep and breastfed those who were awake. Husbands, aunts, mothers, or sisters sat at their besides intent to help. Each of the mothers had a look of subtle relief knowing their babies had arrived healthy and alive and they were, too.
Some mothers weren't as lucky, however. A few Certified Nurse Midwives from Arizona who were volunteering with Midwives for Haiti said two premature babies around twenty weeks didn't make it in the early morning hours. The mothers rested in postpartum care where three midwives check on women to ensure there is no hemorrhaging or other delivery complications.
Midwives for Haiti has brought a new level of respectful, quality maternal health care to Haiti's Central Plateau, an area that is quite difficult to reach through the mountains for locals and primarily serves a rural population. Through training and staffing Midwives for Haiti has saved the lives of countless women who choose institutional births at L'Hôpital Sainte-Thérèse. They only lose between one and four mothers per month. Most of the women who do not make it are transferred from outside clinics and are pronounced dead at the hospital. Midwives for Haiti also provides training and clean birth kits to traditional birth attendants who deliver the vast majority of babies across all of Haiti.
In Haiti, 85 percent of women still opt to give birth at home with traditional birth attendants, or matrons as they are called. Most women who decide to give birth at L'Hôpital Sainte-Thérèse come because there are complications with their pregnancies or they live nearby and have easy access to the hospital for delivery with trained midwives. Some women even stay multiple months at the hospital on bedrest.
I saw that compassionate care when I spent more time in the maternity ward later that day.
A 20-year-old slender, frail woman had come to the hospital at only eight weeks pregnant, but also had what the midwives and nurse volunteers suspected were kidney stones. The woman wailed in pain constantly and flailed around on her bed even though she was hooked to an IV. She nearly ripped it out several times.
The pain was so excruciating that she didn't cry. I saw no tears. I just heard constant wailing.
The midwives and nurse volunteers worked to figure out ways to alleviate her pain. Her husband finally joined her and stood by her bedside. He left to clean her bucket where she constantly vomited during the day. He poured what little water he had left from his water bottle in it.
The woman, still in unbearable pain, hopped out of bed and backed into the wall. She slid down almost to the floor before she fell back into bed again.
The midwife, Miss Val, asked her husband if he could afford to buy pain medications. Equally as young as his wife, he looked bewildered wondering if he had enough money to purchase the medications. It was also getting late in the afternoon and the pharmacy would close soon.
He left and returned sooner than I expected with two doses of tramadol, a pain medication that would be injected every six to eight hours to provide his wife relief. The cost was about $5 US, a fortune for a very poor Haitian.
Miss Val went to the supply closet and prepped a syringe. She walked over to the woman and calmly told her that she needed to turn on her side and that she was going to pull down her skirt to give her the shot of medication.
After nearly fifteen minutes the woman's wails minimized substantially. The throngs of pain subsided. Her flailing stopped. I could tell she could finally feel the slight breeze from the four fans on the walls that she couldn't appreciate when she was experiencing excruciating pain.
When I left L'Hôpital Sainte-Thérèse I hoped her husband could afford more medication. Realistically I knew he probably couldn't. Walking away I couldn't get the woman out of my mind, but I was relieved to see that she as well as all of the other women I met were afforded quality, compassionate maternal health care by Midwives for Haiti.
Update 5/5/2015: One of the great things about meeting stellar health workers and living with them for just a few days you make bonds you'd never think you'd make.


Modern circle-shaped plant hanger designed to hang from a rope or cord and hold standard 6" plant pots.
Dimensions: 18" x 18" x 6.5"
How do you water plants in a plant hanger without spilling water everywhere?
There are several ways to do this, but our favorite is to simply place a tray or bowl under your plant to drain excess water into when watering. You can also use a plant pot with a built-in drainage tray, or a pot with no drainage hole (but be sure to use the right potting soil mix and plant only drought-tolerant plants, like succulents, or cacti, if you do this).