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India's ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has warned Canada of "damaging impact" on the ties between the two countries following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's comments on the ongoing farmers' protest in India.
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The BJP also alleged "hypocrisy" on Canada's part stating that the Trudeau government has opposed the minimum support price and import restriction policies required to protect India's farmers, at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
There are also reports that India has informed Canadian authorities Foreign Minister Dr. S Jaishankar will not attend the meeting that is to take place on December 7 due to "scheduling issues".
Meanwhile, The protesting farmers demand legal provisions to ensure minimum support price for all crops.
"It (Canada) also opposes import restrictions to protect India's farmers. The questions posed by Canada to India regarding India's agri policies in WTO are evidence of the fact that Canada has scarce interest in the genuine well-being of Indian farmers and agriculture producers," BJP's foreign affairs department in-charge Vijay Chauthaiwale tweeted.
It also opposes import restrictions to protect India's farmers. The questions posed by Canada to India regarding India's agri policies in WTO are evidence of the fact that Canada has scarce interest in the genuine well-being of Indian farmers and agriculture producers.
— Dr Vijay Chauthaiwale (@vijai63) December 5, 2020
Is India's Allegation Valid?
Jose C Mathew wrote a piece in Business Today, stating Canada is a member of the Cairns Group of Agriculture Exporters, whose main objective in agriculture negotiations at the WTO is to seek increased market access for their agri-exporters, particularly in large markets such as India.
He argues, the Cairns Group wants to enhance its market access in such countries by making them get rid of domestic agriculture subsidies that are provided to local producers, even if these are subsistence-level.
On Friday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) issued a "demarche" to the Canadian High Commissioner to India, Nadir Patel, and informed him that comments made by the Canadian Prime Minister, some Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament on "issues relating to Indian farmers constitute unacceptable interference in our internal affairs". The MEA press release warned of a "seriously damaging impact" on Indian-Canadian ties.
On the occasion of Gurupurab (551st birth anniversary of Guru Nanak) on November 30, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his concern over the farmers' protests in India.
"I would be remiss if I didn't start by recognizing the news coming from India about the protest by farmers. The situation is concerning. We are all very worried about family and friends," Trudeau said while addressing the Candian-Punjabi diaspora on the occasion.
"Let me remind you. Canada will always defend the rights of peaceful protesters. We have intimated our concerns to the Indian authorities," he said.
Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau expresses concern over #FarmerProtest, says we support right to peaceful protest and have reached out directly to Indian authorities @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard pic.twitter.com/ncIxj5kFgt
— Pushkar Banakar (@PushkarBanakar) December 1, 2020
However, such comments made by a western country weren't well received in India. India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava called Trudeau's remark "ill-informed", "unwarranted" and pertaining to "internal affairs of a democratic country".
We've seen some ill-informed comments by Canadian leaders relating to farmers in India. These are unwarranted especially when pertaining to internal affairs of a democratic country. It's also best that diplomatic conversations aren't misrepresented for political purposes:MEA Spox pic.twitter.com/HXtFTrsxCX
Indian farmers, mainly from Punjab, have been protesting against the new farm laws passed during the monsoon session of Parliament. Thousand of farmers are now camping on the borders of Delhi in the chilly winters, demanding a rollback of the legislation.
Before they were allowed to enter Delhi, the farmers faced brutal police thrashing, including the use of tear gas and water cannons. The government is holding several rounds of talks to resolve the issue, however, no conclusion has been reached yet.
The Punjabi Diaspora In Canada
Indian-origin Sikhs in Canada account for only 1.4% of the total population, but some of them hold powerful positions including in the government cabinet. Trudeau's comments triggered anti-India protests in Canada.
India has also raised its voice against such comments from another country and summoned the Canadian High Commission on Friday.
The MEA claimed that such comments encouraged gatherings of extremist activities in front of the Indian High Commission and Consulates in Canada raising issues of safety and security.
"We expect the Canadian Government to ensure the fullest security of Indian diplomatic personnel and its political leaders to refrain from pronouncements that legitimize extremist activism," it said.
India and Canada have shared amicable ties but the same have been strained due to issues relating to Trudeau's closeness to separatist Khalistani organizations and their leaders. This isn't the first time that Indian leaders are irked by the Canadian Prime Minister's actions.
During Trudeau's 2018 visit to India, an official dinner invitation was extended to Jaspal Atwal, a member of a separatist Khalistani organization regarded by India as a terrorist group. Atwal was also convicted of attempting to kill Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a former minister in the Punjab government.
After New Delhi expressed its objection, the invitation was rescinded by the Canadian High Commission. During that week-long trip, Trudeau was snubbed by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who didn't come to receive the Canadian leader on his arrival, unlike the usual protocol where Modi is present to receive foreign leaders.
Following the fiasco, reportedly, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has declined to attend a Canada-led meeting for Covid-related challenges and strategies citing "scheduling issue".
Indian media reported that although Jaishankar earlier attended the Ministerial Coordination Group of Covid-19 (MCGC), led by Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne, he has declined the invitation for the December 7 meeting citing his non-availability on the given date.
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The Accountant and Warrior director Gavin O'Connor is reportedly in talks to direct the upcoming film Suicide Squad 2, according to Deadline. Variety has added his name as a writer as well. Some of the other names that were in play for the Suicide Squad 2 directing job included Jaume Collet-Serra and Mel Gibson. Collet-Serra is now directing Disney's Jungle Cruise.
Directed by David Ayer, the first Suicide Squad stars Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adam Beach, Jai Courtney, Viola Davis, Cara Delevingne, Karen Fukuhara, Jay Hernandez, Joel Kinnaman, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie and Will Smith, most of whom are likely to return for the big screen follow-up. The 2016 original wound up bringing in more than $745 million at the worldwide box office. In the first film, a group of villains have been put together by U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller. They're sent on a mission that is doomed to fail. They have to decide to band together or if it's everyone for themselves.
Gavin O'Connor is known for directing The Accountant starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons. He's also directed and has a writing credit on the 2011 film Warrior, starring Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy. O'Connor has also directed Tumbleweeds, Pride and Glory and Jane Got a Gun, starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton and Ewan McGregor. Warner Bros. is developing a sequel to The Accountant.
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Do you observed Google have to help people discover articles and posts from the information businesses which might be suing them over copyright troubles? The seek large has no preference but to send visitors to individuals who are inclined to make their content material to be had on generous phrases, and to avoid indexing content that others declare copyright to. This has usually been a element driving on-line citizen journalism. It turns out that companies, nonprofit groups, non secular companies, and political campaigns can also be reporters, and that their journalism could have simply as lots have an effect on as citizen reporters or media moguls if it is properly researched and nicely produced.
"Newsblogging" is a term I more or less invented to explain a fashion of running a blog we stumbled onto in 2007, after which refined at the web PR company, Patron Saint Productions. Our method became modern and our outcomes had been terrific, so I spun the service off into a separate business enterprise in 2010. I partnered with a former worker, David Reich, to create SixEstate Communications. I believe that newsblogging will swiftly unfold in the coming years and we're going to see an growing share of information tales produced by way of private organizations, not media stores. Let me explain why this is happening.
We got here up with newsblogging while we determined ourselves between a rock and a hard region with the brand new era. The rock is blogging. It permits "principals" -- CEOs, celebrities, spokespersons, political leaders, and many others. -- to communicate immediately with their parts. The thing is, those materials no longer want to pay attention from me, the PR man, the intermediary. They want to listen from the Big Kahuna herself or himself. The tough location, however, is that the Big Kahunas do not have the time or journalism skills to weblog efficiently. The Big Kahunas are presupposed to manipulate people, make appearances and run companies, for the maximum element, no longer write. They do not have the two hours of awareness required every day to analyze and write a publish really worth studying.
The solution a few PR firms and marketing departments came up with turned into to hire ghost bloggers; however ghost blogging defeats the complete point of running a blog, due to the fact readers need to hear from the Big Kahuna without delay. If you don't expose that you're the use of a ghost blogger, you violate all forms of ethical suggestions concerning transparency, authenticity and disclosure. You chance breaking securities laws. And you chance being outed in a probably embarrassing way. If you do expose you are the use of a ghost blogger, people lose appreciate for the credibility of the blog. While humans are relaxed with the idea of politicians the usage of speech writers, they may be uncomfortable with the concept of blogs the use of ghost bloggers, even when this fact is disclosed.
For my firm, the most important hassle became that blogging is just too vital to leave to the principals. If the Internet is going to be how humans find out and learn about your company, and the main manner of navigating the Internet is via search engines, and those search engines display a strong preference for content material on blogs, properly then you definitely'd higher be running a blog, whether or not the CEO's desirable at it or now not, due to the fact in any other case you will become invisible over time. It's now not that running a blog is a great idea; it's weblog or disappear. We found a way out of this tight jam with newsblogging.
Enter Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson. Kaiser is one in every of the largest HMOs within the U.S. And Halvorson is the organization's outspoken leader. In 2006, he put together an outline of what he idea changed into a compelling plan for health care reform, published it in a e book known as Health Care Reform Now!, and pushed it to the middle of the fitness care debate as U.S. Presidential applicants took their stands leading to the 2008 election. We have been hired to push this schedule on line.
I had stopped doing weblog excursions after a fiasco with Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman Robert Hormats. If folks think there may be no civility at town corridor conferences, they need to see the comment streams when controversial figures do weblog excursions. The ugliest facet of America is found out in the nameless nastiness that passes for "discussion" at the Internet. There is not any way I might recommend a top CEO try and have interaction in an open debate on the Internet on a topic as supercharged as health care reform. The communique becomes ruled via rude and profane people who chase the clever commenters away.
For Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson, we advised a compromise. We would produce a blog, however in preference to it being ghost-written by using a person pretending to be George Halvorson, we'd lease a journalist to weblog the information, and Halvorson would add the "color statement" when he had time or while the information begged for it. At the time, I had George "Loki" Williams on my payroll. George runs the blog SocialGumbo -- a pinnacle social media weblog -- and has a protracted history of investigative journalism at the nearby level. So I positioned him on the health care beat.
Every day, Loki would experience the information feeds for the most important testimonies in fitness care reform, then write them up at the weblog. His activity turned into to locate precise journalism on the problem, summarize it and factor to it at the newsblog. Rather than including one more voice, the blog changed into a survey of different voices, and as such it have become pretty a hit. How successful? The display seize beneath suggests the Google Blog Search outcomes. We had been the variety-one "associated blog" on Google for the word "health care reform" 30 days when we launched the blog.
In 30 days, we had a pinnacle-five fitness care reform weblog. We didn't lose that function for a yr, and simplest then due to the fact we stopped running a blog. Our original settlement was to provide the newsblog for 90 days. That have become six months, then a year. In all that time, Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson, by no means introduced statement to the blog. There was no need to. In 2007, our test changed into over, and a whole new manner of running a blog turned into born: newsblogging.
To provide an instance, Loki might set up a Google Alert for "electronic medical records" to see who's covering that issue. Electronic medical information, or EMRs, are a primary part of Halvorson's platform and have been followed as a major plank in truely each fitness care reform suggestion, in part due to Halvorson's compelling evidence about the efficiencies and improved care they generate. If Loki observed a person at a reputable information supply who has written some thing about EMRs, then he'd cite her or him on the newsblog. Loki could frequently add costs from George Halvorson's writings to his posts, integrating the client's perspectives with the present day debate on-line.
What makes this a whole process for us is when we hook the hired journalist in with the relaxation of the crew. Loki suffers from spellus atrocious, which now not most effective effects in typos but also in an aversion to spell-checkers. So prior to being posted, his posts had been exceeded to an editor, the outstanding Rachelle Matherne, proprietor of FiveByFivePR company. Rachelle would not simply restore the spelling, though. She'd reality-take a look at, link-take a look at, grammar-take a look at, then optimize paragraph period, sentence duration and key phrases, classes, and tags. Finally, she'd tweak the headline and time table the post for launch. We were given so used to Rachelle's treatment that none people blogs without a net anymore -- it's too dangerous.
Images That Won't Get You Sued!
Then there is the art branch. We determined proper away that every put up had to have a piece of artwork that come what may went with the tale, and that we had to have permission to apply the artwork. We quickly increased the definition of art work to consist of snap shots, video embeds, slideshows, or every other visual issue. Most of the art we found via Flickr the usage of CreativeCommons.Org, however we've several resources, both paid and loose, that we draw from. We additionally created rules for art work credits and citations. It's nonetheless stunning to me to see how many blogs use copyrighted paintings with out permission or citation. They are begging for problem.
As time went on, we've got delicate the formulation primarily based on looking the stats. Every post had to have a news quotation from a credible news source and a hyperlink to that source. We discovered that citing celebrities brought on visitors to spike, then drop backpedal. It's very seductive to research visitors effects and engineer blog posts that pop within the Google Alerts, but the recognition has to stay on properly journalism. One of the primary advantages of a newsblog is that it gets your perspective throughout to the media. If a journalist visits your blog and sees the posts are not anything but a gaggle of key-word-laden references to celeb information memories, it doesn't advance your reason even though it brings visitors.
At one point, I stepped back and looked at the beast I had created: the newsblog. What beginner blogger could compete towards a professional journalist, proofreaders, replica editors, optimizers, and site visitors analysts? Some amateurs can compete with pure ardour. But there are handiest five pinnacle spots for any key-word or word. You must manipulate several blogs to come up with the money for the overhead of a blog-sprucing department, but the rewards are worth it. If you run a top-five blog, you're now not only on the top of the weblog search consequences on your term, however you also make the Google Alerts for that time period, which are despatched via e-mail to other people looking the ones terms.
The attain of a top-5 blog is beautiful. You don't simplest make the indicators for your target keyphrases. Because you are a "pinnacle blog" you're making the alerts for almost some thing you assert. If you mention a wholesome eating place on your health care weblog, you might hit the signals for the eating place's name because you're a "pinnacle blog." Your reach is also magnified with the aid of RSS, which makes it clean to parse your content. Anyone who was following the term "fitness care reform" the usage of Google Alerts would see top blog posts from Kaiser Permanente's newsblog of their each day alerts. That's why running a blog is simply too vital to leave to risk. Blogging is the street to online visibility -- in case you blog efficiently, your content material receives visibility in severa engines like google and alerts engines.
Does this newsblogging issue sound like a juggernaut to you yet? Let's upload fuel to fire: hook the newsblog up to Twitter, Facebook, and the opposite social networks. The newsblog we have created for the radio enterprise, Radio 2020, turned into our next big test. The following photo suggests the weblog site visitors graph when we added the social networking hookups at the give up of 2008. When you hook the weblog up on your social networks, you can blog in a single place and have it seem for the duration of the community, as a tweet or popularity replace, or a publish.
If you are like me, your head is spinning proper now. How should this be feasible? How may want to corporate journalism outscore conventional journalism? Where's the credibility? The reliability? The transparency? In newsblogging, they are all there. We do not originate memories as a great deal as call interest to them. That turns out to be a very precious carrier. In reality, that's what a terrific news anchor does, isn't always it? -- guiding us thru stories instead of being the tale. Our journalism wins out because it's higher produced, greater correct, extra "truthful" than conventional journalism due to the fact we cannot take a stand. We're hired weapons. Our news does not have the slant of the pundits or the authority of the CEOs. It's just the news. Told nicely. From an organisation's angle, transparently discovered.
Is newsblogging good journalism? Why is Rupert Murdoch's journalism any higher than, say, the United Auto Workers' journalism, in relation to overlaying the auto industry? Both publishers have an agenda. Ratings is an agenda. The query is whether or not or no longer the schedule is discovered and whether or not or now not the news is well reported. After seeing what passes for journalism nowadays -- video information releases supplied by agencies who pay to have them inserted as memories in newscasts, every so often even with out disclosure -- newsblogging adheres to a higher standard. If your reporting is good and you're transparent, there's no reason your information shouldn't have market share simply because it's produced by using your corporation.
Going one step similarly, I could add that search engines like google and yahoo decide on information made this manner to news made the old school manner, with gatekeepers to memories who charge a rate for admission. Search engines want to factor humans to the quality, most authoritative suits for their searches, however if they are prohibited from scanning the contents of your news, it makes it tough for them to know what you've got and ship readers your manner. On the opposite hand, in case you produce your content material on a weblog, essentially copyright-loose, the search engines like google and yahoo can see it, index it, and point to it. Search engines like and praise those information vendors with significant facts and focused traffic.
Newsblogging gives agencies the PR possibility they have got continually dreamed of: the potential to tell the information your way. NewsCorp receives their say on Fox News, in The Wall Street Journal or The New York Post. Even Comedy Central gets to inform the news its manner, thru The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Newsblogging lets in you to inform the information your manner, with a expert journalist and supporting editors and optimizers. As lengthy as your news is well researched and nicely produced, and the system is transparent, you've got as much credibility as the information produced through these organizations. And you will be rewarded with a most suitable position within the seek effects for your target keywords.
Steve O'Keefe is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of SixEstate Communications, an online exposure company specializing in professional running a blog, referred to as Newsblogging, and on-line media and weblog outreach. Steve wrote the bestselling ebook, Publicity on the Internet, in 1996, which has been revised and up to date several instances and remains a bedrock text in Internet marketing. He additionally teaches Internet Public Relations at Tulane University, and has taught for Stanford University, UCLA Extension, the Public Relations Society of America, amongst others. You can touch Steve here.


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AusAID Cuts
Posted by Andrew Leigh 7sc on November 18, 2013
I spoke in parliament about cuts to AusAID:
Government is about choices and those choices tell us a lot about people's values. A top priority of this government is to give a $4 billion tax cut to mining billionaires. The beneficiaries will be among the world's richest people. At the same time, this government is cutting over $4 billion from aid to the world's poorest people. That cut will affect aid workers, too. We have seen this government forcibly integrate AusAID into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in a botched process with little care for the passionate development workers who have been involved. We saw a terrible initial briefing in which AusAID workers were herded like cattle into the middle of the DFAT auditorium, while those in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade looked down upon them from the atrium and one of the DFAT officials reportedly mimed machine-gunning the AusAID staff.
We have also seen this government breaking its pledge to new graduates who had accepted jobs with AusAID. There was an assurance from Minister Eric Abetz that, despite Public Service cuts, the government would continue to support graduate recruitment but that pledge has been broken. The government has terminated the contracts of about 20 graduates, many of whom had turned down offers from other agencies and had signed contracts with AusAID. Georgia BurnsWilliamson said:
'When I was first hired it was one of the most exciting days of my life. … AusAID was my dream job.'
She had quit her job as a tutor at the University of Melbourne and had passed the security clearance. She also said:
'It's like being told you've won the lottery and then someone saying, 'Oh sorry, we've made a mistake'.'
Darwin-born Michael Currie had accepted a job with AusAID and then rejected offers of graduate programs at two other government departments. He said:
'I thought I was doing the right thing telling them so they could give those offers out to the other candidates.'
Emily Hadgkiss, 27, had resigned as a researcher in public health at a hospital in Melbourne. She said:
It was a surprise to me that that decision was made.
She says she was 'aware there'd be changes and cuts' but that those were not supposed to affect the graduate program. As Georgia BurnsWilliamson put it:
'The bigger loss is all the people in developing countries who desperately need aid for basic services who are now going to miss out because there's been such a cut to the budget.'
This government has broken its promise to these young Australians and it is going to hurt the world's poorest in order to help some of the world's richest.

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Life of our International: Bread, Land and Peace a great success
April 2nd, 2018 INTERNATIONAL, October Revolution, THEORY
The IWL documentary Bread, Peace, and Land, directed by Brazilian comrade Martín García, links the October Revolution of 1917 to today interviewing eight leaders of the workers, peasants, women's, Palestinian and revolutionary struggles in Brazil, Spain and Palestine.
Thousands of workers, activists from the popular movement and student activists have seen the documentary, which emphasis the importance of rescuing the lessons of the October Revolution and using them for today's struggles.
In one showing by the ISL for one young women it was her first political meeting ; up to that night she did not 'like' politics because she felt it was disconnected from reality, "it was all discussion and argument" that meant nothing to her. The film made a connection, "you watch international events on TV which also seem disconnected". Bread, Land and Peace made it real and "I understood what I was unable to see before, how events internationally affect ordinary people, workers and peasants."
Where the film was shown:
Brazil: CSP CONLUTAS Congress, 1,200 trade union leaders and activists watched the film. 10 November in São Paulo, 200 people attended.
Also shown in cities in the State of São Paulo such as the region of the ABC (a region of three industrial cities) and in the State of Minas Gerais.
Argentina: Launch, 4 November, at the Hotel Bauen, around 250 people, militants and guests (Engineering workers, sacked from Pepsico, a delegate from the Sealy factory, young people who are approaching the party and old supporters and friends). 240 tickets sold.
Chile: Rancagua, mining city in Santiago, around 50 people and in the south Valdivia 12 people.
El Salvador: University of El Salvador, comrades are organising a presentation for the trade union federation.
Costa Rica: In a banana producing zone of the Caribbean called Nagera, and on December 15 in San José.
Paraguay: 100 people watched the first presentation. A second showing in Curuguaty with 20 people, mostly peasants.
Colombia: Bogotá at the party headquarters; on the same date in Cartagena; and in Ibagué.
Peru: Lima, 21 people.
Ecuador: Quito with 35 people, with the participation of comrades of Socialist Democracy.
Mexico: Poza Rica, Veracruz: oil workers, teachers, and pensioners; in Torreón, Coahuila; to the metro workers of the DF; in the state of Durango in Escuela Normal Superior; in Gómez Palacio, Durango State; for the workers of La Jornada, of the trade union, Sitrajor.
England: ISL held its 6th meeting on the October Revolution, where the film was presented. In Liverpool with 8 people; in Manchester with 9 and soon to be shown in London.
Spain: 40 people in the Co.bas union, Seville; at Tocina auditorium and probably in a couple of faculties; in Catalonia there were 4 showings; in Madrid it premiered on 1 December, with 120 people.
Portugal: Presentation of the film on 18 November in a community called "Friends of Minho" in Lisbon with 30 people present; 42 in Jantar; and 47 in the local party headquarters.
Italy: In Bari, followed by a debate; in Milan; in January it will be presented in several cinemas in Bari, Cremona, Vicenza; another in Milan and Bergamo.
Uruguay: A showing with 19 people; and in a meeting a showing with 19 people; and in a meeting of women with 11 comrades.
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Ever since 1993, Sweden had managed not to let in any goals in football, when playing Bulgaria. The teams have met many times, bit Sweden has always won without letting the Bulgarians make any goal. In the World Cup qualifier tonight, this nice trend was broken. Bulgaria scored 1-0 against Sweden in the beginning of the game. I am sad they did. I like nice trends.


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Q: Find the actual DbSet for CRUD actions dynamically I have searched on this site and am having trouble getting the actual DbSet from my context. I am trying to retrieve each dbset dynamically based on tablename.
 var dynamicdbset = GetDbSetByTableName(uploadTableName); //Dbset name is Mytables

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            using (var db = new MyEntities())
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The issue here is it is returning some generic dbset but I can't use linq nor can I do a simple operation like
dynamicdbset.Where(t = > t.Id == 123).Single();

I need to be able to get the dbset dynamically by tablename and also query the data the same way I would be able to do if I create it specifically like
var value = context.MyTables.FirstorDefault()

A: The returned dynamic DbSet is actually just a wrapper around the real DbSet object, which you could simply cast to. The problem is, however, the type of the DbSet could not be inferred without using a generic method.
The following would work but it is probably least preferable:
private IEnumerable<T> GetDbSetByTableName<T>(string tableName)
{
    System.Reflection.PropertyInfo[] properties = typeof(ClearGUIEntities).GetProperties();
    var prop = properties.FirstOrDefault(p => p.Name == tableName + "s");

    using (var db = new ClearGUIEntities())
    {
        var dbset = prop?.GetValue(db);

        return new List<T>(dbset as IEnumerable<T>);
    }
}

Now, to work around this, we have at least two options:

*

*Create an interface (with all the base properties you need) that is implemented by all the DbSets. This way, we can cast the dynamic object without having to specify a type while converting.

*Return an IEnumerable<dynamic> which can be cast on the fly.

Option 1
public interface IBaseProperties
{
    int Id { get; set; }
    string Name { get; set; }
}

public class MyTable : IBaseProperties
{
    // Add these with either T4 templates or create partial class for each of these entities
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

private IEnumerable<IBaseProperties> GetDbSetByTableName(string tableName)
{
    System.Reflection.PropertyInfo[] properties = typeof(ClearGUIEntities).GetProperties();
    var prop = properties.FirstOrDefault(p => p.Name == tableName + "s");

    using (var db = new ClearGUIEntities())
    {
        var dbset = prop?.GetValue(db);

        return new List<IBaseProperties>(dbset as IEnumerable<IBaseProperties>);
    }
}

// ...
// Using it
// ...

var dynamicdbset = GetDbSetByTableName("MyTable");

int id = dynamicdbset.FirstOrDefault().Id;

Option 2
private IEnumerable<dynamic> GetDbSetByTableName(string tableName)
{
    System.Reflection.PropertyInfo[] properties = typeof(ClearGUIEntities).GetProperties();
    var prop = properties.FirstOrDefault(p => p.Name == tableName + "s");

    using (var db = new ClearGUIEntities())
    {
        var dbset = prop?.GetValue(db);

        return new List<dynamic>(dbset as IEnumerable<dynamic>);
    }
}

// ...

// At this point, you can basically access any property of this entity
// at the cost of type-safety
string id = dynamicdbset.FirstOrDefault().Id;
string name = dynamicdbset.FirstOrDefault().Name;

BTW, the casting to List<T> is necessary because you're using the object outside of the using block, at which point it would have been disposed.
new List<IBaseProperties>(dbset as IEnumerable<IBaseProperties>);

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Q: Partial order $\leq$ on measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ Let $M(X,\mathcal{A},\mu)$ be the vector space of finite signed measures on a measurable space $(X,\mathcal{A})$. Show that
$$ \mu \leq \nu \quad \Leftrightarrow \quad \mu(A)\leq \nu(A) \quad \text{for all A $\in \mathcal{A}$}$$
defines a partial order on $M(X,\mathcal{A},\mathbb{R})$.
I've read about what partial order is. I know I need to show reflexivity, antisymmetry and transivity.
For reflexivity I have that $\mu(A)\leq \mu(A)$. For antisymmetry: if $\mu(A)\leq \nu(A)$ and $\nu(A)\leq \mu(A)$, although I know there is something about the measures not being comparable (for some A, we might have $\mu(A)\leq \nu(A)$ and for some $B$ that might not hold, then they are not comparable. Finally, for transitivity: if $\mu(A)\leq \nu(A)$ and $\nu(A)\leq \lambda(A)$, then we have $\mu(A)\leq \lambda(A)$.
I don't think that is correct at all or that's what I am supposed to do.
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!


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Civil Society Coalition against Torture and impunity in Tajikistan
TJ in UN
Police officer faces charge of power abuse causing death of 50-year-old man
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The Prosecutor-General's Office has instituted criminal proceedings against I. Idiyev, an officer of the Interior Ministry's office in the Dousti district of the Khatlon province under the provisions of Article 316 (3) of Tajikistan's Penal Code – excess of powers. Th proceedings have been instituted within the framework of the criminal proceedings instituted over the death of 50-year-old resident of the Shahritous district (Khatlon province) Tolibjon Doustov; the men died after being detained by officers of the Dousti police department.
The Prosecutor-General's Office has instituted criminal proceedings against Idiyev for excess of powers, while Doustov's relatives were insisting on instituting criminal proceedings against the police officer for torture.
Recall, Tolibjon Doustov died on July 26 this year after being detained by police officers. According to an official version, he died of heart attack. Meanwhile, Doustov's relatives insist that it was a violent death.
Tolibjon Doustov was reportedly detained by police officers in a café in the administrative center of the Shahritous district on July 26. Several hours later, his relatives found him dead in a hospital in the Qubodiyon district of Khatlon province.
Doustov's mother, Mehri Davlatova, says her son was detained by police officers on July 26, a day after he celebrated his 50th anniversary. "His friend phoned us and said that policemen arrested Tolibjon. According to him, they were sitting in a café when police officers came and took Tolibjon with them. We immediately applied to the police stations in Shahritous and Qubodiyon districts but we did not found him there. Later on, we were informed that he is in a hospital in the Qubodiyon district. When we came there he was already dead. We were told that he was detained by officers of the police station in the Dousti district," said Mehri Davlatova.
She is sure that her son died after being beaten by police officers. "We think police officers beat him on the way to the police station and when they took him to the hospital in Qubodiyon, he was already dead," the woman said.
According to the Qubodiyon local law enforcement authorities, Tolibjon Doustov was arrested by three officers of the drug trafficking department at the Interior Ministry's office for the Dousti district on suspicion of involvement in drug trafficking. He reportedly died of heart attack that happened on the way to the police department.
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The Coalition Against Torture has completed a 30-day campaign under the slogan "Rights! Dignity! Development!"
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits
This site has been supported with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Civil Society Coalition against Torture and impunity in Tajikistan and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union


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Q: Is there a way to remap a Google Form query to a different (existing) column in Google Sheets? Is there a way to remap a Google Form question to a different (existing) column in Google Sheets? I had to create a new form question, and its data gets placed in the far right column. That's not convenient for our users. There is already a column in the correct place, but the question for it accidentally was deleted from the form.

A: Use QUERY to copy the columns into the order you want on a separate sheet and work on that copy.


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Last week I posted some pictures of men who were not practicing good safety in regards to heights. Today I'm going to post just one picture of a man on terra firma, to test your powers of observation.
As we move through later life, we need to keep ourselves occupied with small projects, as exemplified by guy in the picture below. But we must make sure we are working safely. See if you can spot anything he's doing wrong.
I know, I saw it right away too — no safety glasses or hearing protection! What is he thinking?!
Oh, and I caught something else really important — he's not wearing gloves!
I might be getting up in years, but I am still sharp as a needle. How about you?
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After doing four posts with pictures that show why women live longer than men, I should have known that it would be only a matter of time until more pictures surfaced. And surface they did! I got an e-mail last week with many pictures that weren't part of the ones I had published. In fact, there are enough for two posts! Today's post is the first of the two. These pictures all have something to do with men and their lack of fear (read: sense?) about height and safety.
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Week before last my blog post called A Job Well Done featured pictures of some results of people's doing their work poorly. Today's post is more pictures of other results.
The first few are some products that demonstrate a lack of knowledge in either the designer or in those executing the designs.
The t-shirt maker was right, at least, in knowing that the name of the continent begins and ends with an "A."
This next one shows that someone needs to learn some basic English grammar.
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Does it frustrate you when people don't do their jobs well? Doing a poor job seems to be the MO of many people these days, as in not putting the fortune inside the fortune cookie. The "inspiration" for this blog post is the confluence of several events recently. One is my having started to work as a barista at a local Starbucks this summer. I wanted to have a part-time job, and since I love people and coffee, Starbucks seemed like the perfect place to apply to work. I am enjoying the job very much, and there is surprisingly much to learn, and to remember! I really want to do my job well, for the sake of my customers and of the other partners in the café.
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Ehkzu Artzu: re: Should all of Jackie Evancho's songs use all her singing range?
re: Should all of Jackie Evancho's songs use all her singing range?
Giving a songwriter Jackie to work with would be like giving a violinist a Stradivarius to play.
It is a double-edged bow, though. A song that fully exploits the "instrument" that is Jackie--from a songwriter's POV--would be a song few others could sing, whereas if they write a great one-octave song with catchy hooks and the like, a million singers could perform it.
But the songwriters Team E wants are the songwriters who want to write for the Stradivarius.
I don't understand the logic of requiring that everything she does show off everything she can do, either. That's why I didn't say that.
Mariah Carey is a good comparison, since she has--or at least had--a very wide range, like Jackie. And I don't think all her songs always show off all she can do...just the ones we remember. Just the ones that set her apart.
I said that the Lion King song (that she sang for the PBS Capitol 4th celebration on the 4th of July 2013, and which isn't a wide-ranging song) was probably appropriate for the occasion, and that something like Nessun Dorma wouldn't have been.
At the same time, Jackie fans should understand that it didn't distinguish her as much as a more fully Jackie-exploiting song would have done. This fact isn't incompatible with accepting the limitations of the occasion.
"To make the best of life as it is--and as it can be made to be."
As for what's "the most important," it's true that I've heard plenty of wide-range songs that weren't good songs, and a lot of one-octave pop songs that were.
But if Jackie's next three albums comprised nothing but one-octave songs--no matter how well-written and Jackie-appropriate they were otherwise--it would be like seeing a concert on the loveliest grand piano on Earth, played by the best piano player, but where the whole concert only used, eight of its 88 keys.
I can't believe any of Jackie's fans have such a tin ear that they'd find that acceptable.


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Greater Pacific Capital talks to 15 year old Felix Finkbeiner who at the age of nine developed the idea of Plant-for-the-Planet. The school assignment to prepare a report about the issue of climate change proved to be an inspiration. While conducting his research he came across the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who had worked to plant over 30 million trees across Africa as part of her 'Green Belt Movement'. At the end of Felix's presentation he shared the idea that the children of the world could plant 1 million trees in every country on Earth. On 28th March 2007 the first tree was planted in Felix's school, thus marking the official launch of Plant-for-the-Planet. After one year 150,000 trees had already been planted and in 2008 Felix was able to reach a larger audience after he was elected to the UNEP children's board during the International UNEP Children's Conference in Norway. Since then he has travelled the world with his message and is difficult as any executive to book time with. We have loved meeting withi him two years ago and hearing his ideas and thoughts.
Before you came up with the vision and initiative behind Plant for the Planet was climate change an issue that you had already thought about previously and was it a concern that you had been exposed to whilst you were growing up?
My birthday gift for my 5th birthday from my aunt was a huge polar bear, taller than me. In the following years t-shirts, pyjama, blanket, calendar, posters, … everything had a polar bear picture. To save the polar bear was my intention when I shared my ideas with my classmates 9 years old in grade 4. Later I learned that it is not about the polar bear, but it is about us humans. We have to save our own lives. With 10 I was joining a UNEP-Children conference and I met 700 other children in my age coming from 100 countries. I shared my vision with them and as I was joining my first democratic election that day, I was elected as a member in the seven headed children board of the UNEP. For two years I was responsible for Europe.
I understand that you have a goal of planting 1000 billion trees by 2020. What would help you in achieving this goal and how big an impact would it have on climate/poverty crisis?
Half of all photosynthetic activity on this planet is by phytoplankton in the ocean the other half by trees and other plants on land.
Each tree can bind 10 kg of CO2 per year in average. These 12.6 billion new trees planted during the last six years of the Plant-for-the-Planet Campaign are binding 126 million tons of CO2 every year. Reaching our goal of 1.000 billion trees these trees will bind 10 billion tons of CO2. Today we humans produce and exhaust by our fossil living standard 33 billion tons of CO2 a year. As the CO2 emissions are unfortunately increasing these additional trees will absorb a quarter of the human made CO2 emission. Tree planting is not enough, but it is easy and it is an important first step. In addition we have to reduce our CO2 emissions and have to share the remaining budget fair among the world citizens.
If every person is planting 150 trees we can easily reach the 1.000 Billion Tree goal. The rich part of the world could plant 5 times the amount about 1.000 trees and for the poor part tree planting could become an income possibility. In 2009 and 2012 I met with Prof. Muhammad Yunus to develop Tree Planting Grameen Concept. As trees planted in poor tropical regions absorb double the amount of CO2 compared to a tree in rich Europe or North America such a global dimension adds up for several reasons.
You see yourself as a global citizen with your focus being on overcoming global challenges. Do you find it frustrating that most people see themselves as national citizens and have not looked at the bigger picture up until recently?
150 species get extinct every single day and extinction is forever. If we continue like that we, the human species is on the way to destroy its own livelihood. This is a minor problem for the planet, but a major problem for us humans. I am personally convinced that we can still leave that path of extinction if we change our behavior: Leave the fossil fuels in the ground, the sun is sending 5.000 times more energy to our planet than we need. The fossil fuels are much too valuable to be burned and the future generation will need it for more intelligent actions then to moving a car or heating a house.
For short-term economic competition burning fossil fuels is the better concept. But to reach such a U-turn we have to think and act globally.
The European Union got the Peace Nobel Price 2012 and this was a very wise decision from Oslo and it is a sign for the world. It is the task of our generation to start a Global Union. We have to learn that we are global citizens. If an African is starving it is a problem of "inner" politics and not of "foreign" affairs.
Who would you say inspires you to push forward with your initiative in the face of negativity and what motivates you to spread your message worldwide?
What motivates me most is the fact, that I am convinced that it is very easy to make the world a better place and it is possible to change the today's world into a sustainable order. The main global challenges we are facing as humankind are the climate crisis and poverty-crisis: 30.000 humans, mainly children are dying of starvation every single day. In an incredible rich world where there is enough food and resources to feed everybody. Nobody has to starve. Every day we dig out as much carbon out of the ground as it took the sun one million days to store it there. We can live without fossil energy on a good living standard for all 7 and soon 9.5 billion citizens.
Our biggest obstacles are ignorance and convenience of some adults. One friend explained me the thinking of some adults by the example of the monkeys: If you let a monkey choose whether it wants one banana now or six bananas later the monkey would always choose the one banana now. And as some adults seem to act like theses monkeys we are facing huge problems.
Therefore we need global binding rules: Global rules how to deal with the environment and global rules for social justice. We have already global binding rules for the economy by the World Trade Organization (WTO). And we have environmental ideas by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and social suggestions of the International Labour Organization (ILO). We just have to make the UNEP and the ILO as strong as the WTO, or we have to combine these three law sets into one to let the world look very differently: economically, socially and environmentally in balance, in short: sustainable.
But to do so we have to understand ourselves as global citizens and not as national citizens. By tree planting we act already as a global family. We are planting trees all over the world, in the meantime in 193 countries. Wangari Maathai started that movement in Kenya and we children we are just continuing her work worldwide: 12.6 billion trees planted in six years are a first step; 1,000 billion trees are our goal. Imagine if we will have reached that goal by 2020 we will have proved to everybody that it is possible to change the world if we all work together as global citizens. Young and old, rich and poor, black, colorful and white, healthy and sick, we can all plant together.
It is clear to see that your presentations and speeches have gone viral in a relatively short space of time, how does it feel to be responsible for generating so much interest on a topic which is so important and often difficult to approach?
There are many, many more and many much younger than me. Already 20 years ago in 1992 Severn Suzuki a 14-year old girl from Canada spoke at the plenary of the UN-Summit of Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro. Her video on YouTube got 20 million clicks in 20 years. Today and that is our hope, we can reach 20 million people in two days by social media. So it is much easier to spread the word in our days. In 2009 Yugratna Srivastava from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh spoke at the UN General Assembly in New York. She is my age, Vice President of the Youth Board Plant-for-the-Planet and I work close together with Yugrantna since 2008.
Many of us do not only grow up as digital natives, but we also grow up as global citizens and we learn that we only have a chance when we combine our forces. I met so many children and youth all around the world that I know that I do not do anything special. There is a generation if youth growing up in all countries of the world. The social media are our benefit.
I join school every day and I am just missing 20 school days a year. Every second week-end I give a presentation, the other weekend is for friends. So I think I live a normal life of a political active child, as there are many others in the world. We know that the future is too important to let only the adults be responsible for it. I know exactly, if I would stop being active for any reasons, many others of my friends would take over. We, the young generation know that we have to shape our future by ourselves.
I understand that you run academies (one day workshops) to educate children so that they have a better understanding on how they can help with climate change. How have you found that they respond to the academies?
It all started in my school and my parents just learned from time to time during the first year how thinks developed out of my classroom into other classes, into other grades and into other schools. I think they were proud.
One year after I started there were 500 media reports on a single day. And my parents were no longer proud, but shocked. Since that day my dad was involving and was starting the idea of academies. His intention was that I could one day step back behind many other children. Originally he wanted to protect me, by involving other children that could also give presentations. Academies are one-day workshops where a child is empowering other about 80 children to also become active. In the meantime we have had 256 academies in 29 countries with 17.000 participants in the last four years. We just did it and learned that it worked. Our goal is to reach one million children and youth until 2020.
My family and me we are all working as volunteers and my father was helping me to build up an office with 17 employees coordinating all the global activities. After school I always come in the office for one hour and my father and others inform me about all what happened during the day. My mother is taking care that I do not exaggerate.
It is clear to see that your vision and focus is that of a determined young man. Where do you see yourself and the initiative 20 years from now?
My dream is that our generation will learn to act as global citizens. We have to overcome our national interests. We have to agree on global contracts to reduce our consumption of resources and to share our resources. We have to learn that the future is no longer divisible. Either we all live in peace or nobody. I started with 9 and I am 15 years old now. By my short experience of six years I learned that it probably will be a lifelong task.
I strongly believe in the collective intelligence and not in the great man theory: Not a single person will change the world, but only a global movement. We were organizing together with the UNEP global consultations during children and youth conferences in Norway in 2008, South Korea in 2009 and Japan in 2010 with several thousand participants. We were connected with laptops and if one were inserting an idea, all the other saw it and could react and insert their own ideas and vote for others. Out of these consultation- processes we developed our 3-Point-Plan.
Plant a trillion trees until 2020
Leave the fossil fuels in the ground
Fight poverty by climate justice
These consultations give us a certain authorization. In Germany several opinion research institute ordered by Shell 2010 and Bertelsmann 2009 found out that 75% of the youth think that both the climate crisis and the poverty crisis are the two main challenges of our generation.
As the climate crisis is developing exponentially I am afraid that we do not have another 20 years of time. Either the adults, the today powerful, will support us in our effort for a global sustainable lifestyle and we can change the system in an evolutionary process or there will be young people to start a global revolution. It will not last long time to reach the tipping point and then could be any event to start a global revolution. Remember it was a greengrocer committing suicide in Tunisia in December 2008 that started the Arabic revolution. 20 years in East-Germany the people were singing in churches "We are the people" and during a press conference in Berlin one politician answered the question of a journalist with the words: "These new regulations are valid immediately". So the Berlin Wall, the iron carpet and the communism disappeared.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: First Financial Northwest, Northern Oil and Gas, Echo Global Logistics, RCI Hospitality Holdings and Covenant Transportation Group
Zacks July 9, 2018
Is (LXFR) Outperforming Other Industrial Products Stocks This Year?
Chicago, IL – July 9, 2018 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include First Financial Northwest, Inc. FFNW, Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. NOG, Echo Global Logistics, Inc. ECHO, RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. RICK and Covenant Transportation Group, Inc. CVTI.
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Think Small as U.S.-China Trade War Breaks Out! 5 Top Picks
The United States and China have imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on each other's imports, with Beijing accusing the United States for triggering the 'largest scale trade war'. Corporates, undoubtedly, are fretting over the risks a trade war will pose to their earnings.
However, small-capitalization stocks remain fairly immune due to their high domestic exposure in terms of revenue generation. Thus, investing in sound small caps seems sensible for now.
Tit-for-Tat Tariffs Open Trade War
President Trump has slapped tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports, delivering on his promise to his political supporters. The goods in discussion include farming plows, airplane parts and semiconductors.
This is the first time that the United States has levied tariffs on Chinese goods following months of warnings from Trump to Beijing demanding a change in its unfair practices with respect to technology and innovation. Trump has, in fact, upped the ante, by saying that the United States may eventually impose tariffs on more than $500 billion in Chinese imports or nearly the total amount of U.S. imports from China last year, should Beijing retaliate against the scheduled actions.
But, the Chinese customs bureau had earlier said that it would impose tariffs on American products immediately after U.S. tariffs come into effect. And that's exactly what they did. China also slapped tariffs on $34 billion of U.S. imports. A commission of China's State Council said that it applied tariffs on 545 products "including agricultural items, vehicles and aquatic products," per state-run Xinhua News Agency. President Xi has already informed its government to get ready for a full-fledged trade war with the United States, according to Chinese officials.
Escalation of Trade War Will Hurt U.S. Most
The direct impact of trade conflict on China's economic growth is expected to be limited between 0.1% and 0.3% this year, per economist estimates. Liang Hong, chief economist at CICC, added that the Asian nation's intension to open up its market "can stay on course", while the economic growth target of 6.5% for this year is within reach.
The U.S. economy, in the meanwhile, is expected to take more beating. After all, U.S. levies in turn will affect American firms with investments in China. Planned U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods will hurt companies around the globe since $20 billion of the $34 billion goods targeted are those of foreign companies, mostly owned by Americans.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney said that U.S. economic growth could be hit by as much as 5% in the event of a trade war, while the world economy will take a hit of just over 1%. And why not? The world's largest economy would be affected the most as it is "pursuing trade wars on multiple fronts, including its disagreements with Canada and the European Union" DBS said in a note.
DBS added that "in each skirmish the U.S. targets different economies and consumers, but the retaliation from each counterpart falls on the same group of American consumers and businesses. The reckoning is in the pipeline, in our view."
Trade War Escalates! Invest In Domestic Producers
But there are some companies that might benefit from the rising U.S.-China trade tensions. Among such companies are domestic producers of goods. Due to their limited international exposure, they offer higher protection than their large- and mid-cap counterparts against any economic upheaval. These stocks also have solid growth narratives as their promising outlook remains unfazed by the change in tariffs.
We have, thus, selected five such stocks that should make meaningful additions to your portfolio. These stocks flaunt a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) or 2 (Buy). The search was also narrowed down with a VGM Score of A or B. Here V stands for Value, G for Growth and M for Momentum and the score is a weighted combination of these three metrics. Such a score allows you to eliminate the negative aspects of stocks and select winners.
First Financial Northwest, Inc. operates as the holding company for First Financial Northwest Bank that provides commercial banking services in Washington. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #1 and a VGM Score of B. In the last 60 days, four earnings estimates moved north, while none moved south for the current year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings jumped 21.5% in the same period. The company's expected earnings growth rate for the current year is 77.5% compared with the Banks - West industry's estimated rally of 25.1%.
Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. engages in acquisition, exploration, exploitation, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas properties in the United States. The company has a Zacks Rank #1 and a VGM Score of A. In the last 60 days, one earnings estimate moved up, while none moved down for the current year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings climbed 33.3% in the same time frame. The stock's expected growth rate for the current year is 157.1% versus the Oil and Gas - Exploration and Production - United States industry's projected rally of 21.7%.
Echo Global Logistics, Inc. provides technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management solutions in the United States. The company has a Zacks Rank #1 and a VGM Score of A. In the last 60 days, two earnings estimates moved north, while none moved south for the current year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings increased 4.3% in the same period. The stock's expected growth rate for the current year is 69.8% versus the Transportation - Services industry's estimated rally of 14.4%. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. engages in the hospitality and related businesses in the United States. The company has a Zacks Rank #2 and a VGM Score of B. In the last 60 days, two earnings estimates moved north, while none moved south for the current year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings increased 8.5% in the same period. The stock's expected growth rate for the current year is 52.5% versus the Leisure and Recreation Services industry's projected rally of 17.9%.
Covenant Transportation Group, Inc. provides truckload transportation and brokerage services primarily in the continental United States. The company has a Zacks Rank #1 and a VGM Score of A. In the last 60 days, four earnings estimates moved up, while none moved down for the current year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings advanced 9.4% in the same period. The stock's expected growth rate for the current year is 134.5% versus the Transportation - Truck industry's estimated rally of 45.4%.
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Collaboration with Chinese province of Cheijiang intensified
A high-level delegation from the Chinese Province of Zhejiang, led by Vice-Governor Mrs Liang, visited the Province of Flevoland in September. Flevoland has had an amicable relationship with the Province of Zhejiang for 20 years. King's Commissioner Leen Verbeek and Horizon jointly welcomed the delegation in the Provincial Government Building. Besides participating in the China Business Week in Rotterdam, this visit mainly intended to strengthen the ties with European partners now that the relationship with the USA is under pressure.
The possibilities of deepening and strengthening the economic ties were explored during the meeting. A strategy will be developed with Zhejiang's European office, supported by Horizon. The Chinese business community can rely on the support of the Dutch national and local authorities when it wants to expand its operations to the rest of the world and to Europe in specific.
The Province of Flevoland, with its central position in the Netherlands, Schiphol only an hour's drive away and Amsterdam in its vicinity, has drawn more than average attention. In particular the space that can be offered, and the moderate cost compared to the Randstad conurbation appeal. This, even more now that connections via Rotterdam are at their peak with the Container Port on Flevoland's coast in Lelystad.
As a result, Horizon sees great foreign direct investment opportunities to arise from this more intensive collaboration.
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Q: Can I display multiple rows from a selected cell value? I am building off of a previous question I asked. My problem is I want to create an automated email system that notifies my when a certain cell gets updated relative to a specific person. See Can I automate an email off google sheets based on specific updated columns and rows? for my previous post.
I have the code and it is working great. However, now I am looking to display another Column from the edited row.
Is there a way to display another column from that Row? Like if X12 was edited. Can I also Display B12 and H12. That way it displays my control ID as well as my Control owner?
function sendNotification(e){
  var ss = e.source.getSheetByName('Datasheet');
  var cell = e.range.getA1Notation();
  var row = e.range.getRow();
  var col = e.range.getColumn();
  var cellvalue = e.range.getValue();
  var subject = 'SUBJECT'+ ss.getSheetName();
  var name = ss.getRange(row, 9).getValue(); //get column 9 for current row
  var ControlID = e.col(2).getvalue();

 if (name === 'NAME' && (col === 23 || col === 24 || col === 31 ||
col === 32) === true) {

MailApp.sendEmail({
  to: "EMAIL",
  subject: subject,
  htmlBody: "

"+
  "The following cell has been updated.

"+
  " Cell: " +
  cell + "

" + "Control ID: " + col +
  "
Update: " + cellvalue + "
" +
  "

Thank you.
"
})
} }

So in the email it would state: if X12 was the updated cell
The following control was updated B12. The owner is H12
The updated Cellvalue = X12
I can format how it looks but I can't figure out how to display the same row but a different column of the updated value.

A: Me again - yeah this is totally possible. All you need to do is pass variable row to a getRange() and use the number of the column you're trying to get the values from.
This script should do the trick.
function sendNotification(e){
  var ss = e.source.getSheetByName('Datasheet');
  var cell = e.range.getA1Notation();
  var row = e.range.getRow();
  var col = e.range.getColumn();
  var cellValue = e.range.getValue();
  var subject = 'SUBJECT'+ ss.getSheetName();
  var name = ss.getRange(row, 9).getValue(); //get column 9 for current row

  if (name === 'NAME' && (col === 23 || col === 24 || col === 31 || col === 32) === true) {
    var control = ss.getRange(row, 2).getValue(); //get value for column B in current row
    var owner = ss.getRange(row, 8).getValue();   //get value for column H in current row

    MailApp.sendEmail({
      to: "EMAIL",
      subject: subject,
      htmlBody: "The following cell has been updated:
"+
      " Cell: " + cell +
      "

" + "The following control was updated: " + control + ", the owner is: " + owner +
      "
Update: " + cellValue + "
" +
      "

Thank you.
"
    });
  }
}

All I've done is added two variables, using getRange() like I mentioned earlier:
var control = ss.getRange(row, 2).getValue(); //get value for column B in current row
var owner = ss.getRange(row, 8).getValue();   //get value for column H in current row

Once you've got var control and var owner, you can use these in your email body, I have also added that to the script above. You can play around with the formatting but I based it off of the template you provided in your question. The email should end up looking something like this (note: 'b4' and 'h4' are just the examples values I entered into the cell itself):

Hope this helps achieve your goal.


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Author: Rupert Guinness; Graham Watson (Photographer); Bart Hazen (Photographer); Dan Jones (Photographer); Shayne Bannan (Foreword by)
With major wins in the bag from its first five months of racing, Orica-GreenEDGE, Australia's first professional men and women's international road cycling team, has already made its mark at the highest levels of international competition. This is the story of its first year as told through the images of its team photographers, with words from Rupert Guinness, Australia's foremost cycling journalist. Taking readers into the heart of the team, this intimate behind the scenes portrait records all the highs and lows, the personalities, and the races won and lost. We'll learn how the team was established and we're given access to the training camps, allowed on the team bus, and in the team hotels. We're there as Molly Meldrum and Vanessa Amorosi record the team song, we're on the road with the great Robbie McEwen as he rides his last race. This is a big, beautiful, and revealing book that has to be on the shelf of every Australian cycling fan.
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Today the Crew start heading to Rendcomb to start getting ready for CU!2014!! It's really exciting that THE day has finally arrived! The best bit is that it gets better – on Saturday the Cast arrive !!
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UAE, Kazakhztan issue protocol amending agreement of mutual visa exemption
Filed on May 24, 2017
The countries also signed an MoU on the implementation of a project to establish a petrochemical complex of Mubadala in Kazakhstan
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UAE is a preferred destination for the people of Kazakhstan
His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, signed a protocol on Tuesday amending the agreement of mutual exemption of pre-visa requirement for holders of diplomatic and special passports to also include holders of ordinary passports.
The UAE Foreign Minister and his Kazakh counterpart also witnessed the signing of an MoU on the implementation of a project to establish a petrochemical complex of Mubadala in Kazakhstan.
During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on a number of issues of common concern in the light of developments in the regional and international arenas, as well as ways of boosting bilateral relations between the UAE and Kazakhstan and mechanisms to strengthen them in all fields including economic, trade, cultural and renewable energy.
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed stressed that the agreement will strengthen relations and support cooperation and coordination and enable the citizens of both countries to travel easily and facilitate communication between the peoples of the two countries.
Also read: Pre-entry visa no longer needed for this country
He added that the visit was successful after signing several Memoranda of Understanding, holding the first meeting of the Consular Consultations Committee between the two countries and holding the first forum for Emirati-Kazakh businessmen to promote economic cooperation.
He noted that UAE-Kazakh relations have developed since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1992, expressing the UAE's interest in more opportunities for growth and progress in various sectors between the two countries.
The UAE FM also highlighted the huge growth of tourism movement between the two countries, noting that the number of Kazakh tourists to the UAE during 2016 reached more than 99,000 visitors. He thanked the Government of Kazakhstan for confirming its participation in the Expo Dubai 2020, which he said is a major platform for fruitful partnerships at various economic and cultural levels and an important opportunity to promote countries on the economic, tourism and cultural levels.
Sheikh Abdullah said that the UAE believes that the participation of Kazakhstan will enrich the exhibition and will give Kazakhstan the opportunity to present its culture and achievements which are internationally respected.
He also valued the hosting by the Government of Kazakhstan of the special meetings on Syria, expressing the hope that negotiations by the Syrian parties will lead to constructive and positive results.
The Kazakh Foreign Minister welcomed the visit of Sheikh Abdullah, commending the outstanding bilateral relations between the two countries.
He stressed that the UAE is a preferred destination for the people of his country and that signing the agreement will increase the number of Kazakh tourists to the UAE.
The meeting was attended by Dr. Mohammed Ahmed bin Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Mohammed Sharaf Al Hashemi, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Economic and Commercial Affairs.
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Stickney Farm Park was opened by HRH The Duke of Kent on 5 April 2005. It had to close temporarily in 2009 as a result of the recession combined with and an e-coli outbreak at a similar visitor attraction in Surrey. It reopened in time for Easter 2010, but was forced to close it doors permanently in April 2011, at which point many of the animals were re-homed. In the autumn of 2016, the site was reopened under new ownership as the Ark Wildlife Park. The Meridian Mark has been retained and can now be visited once again.


Visiting Paris is always a special experience. Once you take care of accommodation by booking one of our wonderful Parisian curated apartments, your other main concern would be where to eat. Paris is small but has a huge restaurant offer for all tastes. However, it can be tricky to experience a good French bistronomy (bistro + gastronomy) cuisine without falling into the many tourist traps or taking a 40 minutes trip to a recommended restaurant.
The 7th arrondissement is a posh and beautiful neighborhood, close to all the main attractions like Tour Eiffel, Champs Elysées, St germain… Therefore, a very practical place to stay in order to visit Paris ( see our selection of property in the 7th arrondissement ) as well as a quiet spot filled with delicious restaurants. Here's a wonderful selection of the best Bistronomy experience in the 7th arrondissement by True Foodies ! Hope you like it.
Sylvestre Wahid – 2 Michelin stars, for an incredible unforgettable meal in the super elegant Thoumieux hotel.
Les Cocottes – one of the best bistros in Paris or perhaps anywhere, this is one of chef Christian Constant's many bistro's (Violon d'Ingres is also on this list!). You will find deliciously prepared classic bistro cuisine with a twist !
Tomy & Co – modern & creative food in a cool laid back space. The chef deliciously enhances locally sourced seasonal products. You will love it!
David Toutain – Michelin starred, mostly fish restaurant with sophisticated gastro-bistro cuisine. We love the modern & beautiful design.
Chez l'Ami Jean – On a more traditional note, try this classic Basque cuisine in an authentic Basque surrounding – very Bistro!
Le Violon d'Ingres – Michelin starred – Chef Christian Constant's star address. Tasty classic French dishes with a twist. Delicious.
Divellec – Michelin starred fish & seafood restaurant – classy, elegant place. The dishes taste as good as they look !
Arpège – on the world's 50 best restaurants list – with 3 Michelin stars – Chef Alain Passard's organic vegetarian cuisine changed the world of gastronomy.
Bistro Belhara – an absolutely classic French Bistro hidden away on a small street near the rue Cler market street. Experience the true French bistro atmosphere with great classic French food and a cosy, discreet dining room.
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