The violent intrusion of religion on the public consciousness in the wake of 9/11 seemed to confirm at least two things to the foreign policy community.
The violent intrusion of religion on the public consciousness in the wake of 9/11 seemed to confirm at least two things to the foreign policy community. First, what some sociologists have called the "revenge of God" was no flight of academic fancy. God was indeed back, if he had ever left, and his activities outside the developed West were becoming increasingly aggressive. Second, this was very bad news. Religion was a negative and irrational force, proof of which could hardly be more marked than the smoking wreckage in New York and Washington. If God was back in the realm of international politics, the American and Canadian foreign policy community was not cheering.
And neither should they have been. Religion which disregards the rule of law, degrades and destroys human community and oppresses the lives of people across the globe is nothing right-minded people should cheer. The problem–according to Thomas Farr in his new book World of Faith and Freedom–is that this is only half of the story.
While the secularization thesis seems to be more or less discredited at this point, whether this is a good thing is certainly not a settled matter. Part of the secularization thesis to which both policy pundits and academics hold is not merely an assertion that religion is passing from political and social influence, but a theory about why it is passing. The why is important. Religion–as the theory suggested–was an irrational force, used to explain events and happenings that could not be understood, debated and settled with the rational powers of the human spirit. But the facts of global religious revival–even religious revival in a liberal cosmopolitan global north–are hard to ignore. Either the secularist PR campaign has run into trouble, or the world spirit is moving in a different direction. So part one of the thesis–that religion is declining–is in doubt. But that hasn't stopped the foreign policy community from clinging to part two: the reason for its decline. The irony, to be clear, is that the foreign policy establishment continues to cling to an explanation of religion linked to a factually debunked social science phenomenon. It's not happening–but we still love the reason for why it would be happening . . . if it were.
Half-truths and half-stories can be worse than blatant lies. They have just enough of the ring of authenticity that we can convince ourselves to believe them. It is true that religion in regions of the world colludes, if not directly causes, terrible crimes of humanity. But it is also true that religion is responsible for some of the greatest achievements and moments of human kind. If religion is a strictly regressive force, how do we explain the acts of mercy, justice and compassion that flow out of so many of the world's great religious traditions?
Thomas Farr argues that this outdated explanation of religion is responsible in large part for the wide-scale religious illiteracy in the foreign policy establishment. On 9/11, United States intelligence, as well as its Department of State, had almost no religious literacy with which to read the terrible events. There were no senior Muslim officials in American embassies overseas or in the Department of State (44). The Arabic specializations that did exist tended to focus on nonreligious aspects of Middle Eastern political culture. The higher echelons of foreign policy leadership were stuck in the same secularist world view that ruled during the Cold War. The CIA posted the dismissive label of "sociology" onto an intelligence analysis of Iran in the 1970s which discerned a religious basis for brewing opposition (31)–and that basic impulse had stuck. Political Islam was conflated with Islamic extremism, neither of which were taken seriously as religious movements, but at best, as merely mobilizing forces for underlying material or ethnic cleavages. The terrible but sad truth of that day was that because of the continued salience of the secularization thesis the American people and their leadership truly had no idea what had hit them. As Farr writes, "indifference and confusion can be every bit as corrosive as outright opposition" (163).
According to Farr, we need to be open to the idea that religion can be a social good. His advice is not to ignore the negative role of extremist religion, but rather to recognize the profound cultural and social capital of religious traditions. We in the developed West are accustomed to modern states capturing social and political loyalties–though even this consensus is beginning to degrade. Outside the global north, the political landscape remains one of strong religions and weak states. Can we imagine human rights progress in places like Iran, Pakistan or Afghanistan that were not tied, in some fashion, to a progressive interpretation and practice of Islam? The goal of American–and indeed also Canadian–foreign policy should not be to replicate a liberal cosmopolitanism we could not perfect at home, but join alongside the religious and cultural stories of the people we meet to cultivate rooted and sustainable societies.
This is what leads Thomas Farr to suggest that religion and its freedom of practice and expression is critical to both security and humanitarianism.
There is no shortage of work to be done on human rights around the world. It may seem bizarre–perhaps even cruel–to focus on freedom of religious conscience and practice, in the place of other more pressing needs. Who cares much what they can believe and practice, if their bellies aren't full, their streets are policed by thugs and their politics are authoritarian? This was much the same argument that Thomas Farr encountered when working in the State Department. Colleagues were baffled and annoyed that Farr would put an issue of this seeming low priority ahead of other more pressing issues. A few bureaucrats and politicians have stronger reasons for being opposed: many of the human rights violations they were tracking and opposing were being perpetuated by so-called religious groups. Why was the freedom of conscience and practice of people like that a priority?
The answer is as strategic as it is philosophical. The American foreign policy establishment has found itself, as in the past, in charge of understanding and facilitating the development of free societies. Americans justifiably draw on their own tradition to construct these systems and structures. In their experience, the free exercise of democratic rights precedes and guarantees all subsequent freedoms. Therefore the first and most important thing to get right is a free constitution and an impartial judiciary. This is why free and democratic elections have become the hallmark for political progress.
But what came first? Farr recalls that free and democratic elections were responsible for the due and legal political ascension of Hamas–a group few people would have described as either "due" or "legal," regardless of how many citizens cast their ballots in favour of them. The point is not that democratic structures are irrelevant, only that they are not decisive when it comes to determining the quality of freedom within a society. They are often the signs of a free and just society, but not necessarily the preconditions. To read American history this way is to read it backward. We don't have the right to go to church because we have the right to vote. We have the right to vote because of the notion that all men and women are created equal in the eyes of God (116). Culture leads politics; culture outside the global north is inseparable from religion.
The point is germane to Farr's foreign policy. He argues that religious freedom, the freedom to worship and practice religion, precedes–or at the very least accompanies–democratic and economic freedom. It is not something that naturally grows out of imposed systems. Instead, democratic virtues must culturally and socially flourish before they can be politically sustained. The suggestion that any idea could culturally and socially flourish in places like Afghanistan or Iraq, apart from a reading and active partnership with Islam, is nonsense. In order to build stable, democratic societies in religiously-charged regions, these religions must be engaged with debating and sustaining the cultural and social goods of democracy.
Put this way, it's difficult to imagine how something as fragile as democracy could be sustained outside of the rooted traditions of a region. Farr notes that great wells of ink have been spilled debating Islam and democracy, but "the question examined was not so much how Islam and democracy could achieve mutual accommodation, but how democracy could emerge without taking Islamic religious beliefs into account or, if one were forced to consider Islam, in spite of it" (86). Here is one of the more important distinctions he makes between tolerance and freedom.
Farr writes that, at best, "tolerance is a term that can mean respect for views with which I disagree" (128). But the implication is that you are also living with something problematic, divisive, perhaps even evil. Religious freedom, on the other hand, is understood precisely as "the embracing and defending of a human good and as a political achievement by the democratic state that protects both religious and nonreligious citizens and promotes the common good" (128). There are plenty of policy pundits and academics content to tolerate religion in Canadian and American society. But the public intrusion of religion of this kind would endanger a host of other rights. Therefore one would never actively seek out such a regressive force to support something as important as political democracy.
This is precisely Farr's problem with promoting tolerance, rather than freedom. The American experiment, he argues, was never a victory of the privatization of religion, but of the foundation of a clear public space for the debate and counter-debate of religious and nonreligious claims, the collusion and contestation of overlapping claims in service of the common good. And neither should our foreign policy aims be to impose this sacred/secular split. Farr writes, "the antidote to religious extremism in the 21st century is not democracy's privatization of religion but democracy's wise and prudent involvement of religion in the public square" (178).
While the first part of Farr's book is dedicated more to the theoretical sources of international freedom, the second part is dedicated to his own experience at the State Department working with the two Ambassadors at Large for international religious freedom. His memoir wields a dizzying grasp of the bureaucratic politics of both his own department and those outside. Of particular interest is what Farr perceived as the stronger relationship the Clinton administration had with issue of religious freedom, as opposed to the Bush administration, wherein, despite the president's well-publicized evangelical faith, little was done to elevate the issue. Indeed, the post of Ambassador at Large went unfilled during the first tenure of the Bush administration for a full year (162).
This second part is a classic reading in modern day politics, and the proximate, often frustrating nature of doing business in both changing administrations and inflexible bureaucratic mindsets. It reads like a history of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act, split into the years securing the IRFA, the Robert Seiple years (1998-2000), the interregnum in which Farr himself managed the IRF office, and finally his time with John Hanford, both in the campaign for Hanford and the aftermath (2002-2006).
While the IRF saw real success in flesh-and-blood human beings who were freed and lives changed through their hard work, Farr cautions against a kind of case-worker optimism so common in NGOs and international aid groups. Government departments–in Farr's view–have higher stakes, even if the immediacy of freeing prisoners and saving families from persecution is more gratifying. "Saving individuals," he writes, "cannot be the core of our international religious freedom policy. It does little or nothing to change the behaviour of governments or the cultures that sustain persecution. It does little or nothing to create the conditions for durable democracy or carry the fight against religion-based terrorism" (158). Farr consistently recounts vexing moral dilemmas borne out of this need: do we put China or Sudan in the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, knowing the strategic importance and investments these states represent to the American people? Do we challenge these states publically and consistently to effect structural change, or work behind the scenes to release the few and influence the culture "drop by drop"? In government these decisions are sometimes made for you at higher levels, but Farr consistently brings across the weighty and unpleasant business of moral integrity in a complex and wounded world. Even pursuing something as politically and policy clear as religious freedom is anything but obvious.
Farr offers at least two issue areas in which to consider the importance of international religious freedom, and tangible policy provisions within each- China and the Middle East. In the Middle East, Farr argues, our first step in engaging Islam is to retool our concept of religion as "normative, not epiphenomenal, in human affairs," and having inevitable public consequences. "Drawing on religious norms, religious actors can affect democracy in many ways, for good and ill" (265). Neither a return to authoritarianism (which Farr suggests increases Islamic extremism) or an exclusive dependence on elites will yield stable democracy. The success of democracy is rather due in large part to a stable covenant between religion and state, not its strict separation. It is this negotiation that is critical in the Middle East. Farr outlines eleven steps that should be taken (269), including creating an Islamic Institute of American Studies, engaging Islamic feminists, exploiting the Internet, expanding the State Department's International Visitor's program, targeting religious communities and Islamic parties in US-funded democracy programs and articulating an appealing religion-state model that can be adapted to different cultures and religions. And while Farr's recommendations for diplomats are explicitly American, at least some of these could resound true to the Canadian diplomats as well, suggesting improvements such as an emphasis on religious literacy and religion specialists staffing the country desk of every country.
In China the path to religious freedom seems to lie along the same line as economic freedom. Farr suggests that Chinese authorities may yet become far more interested in religious communities as an economic asset and driver of modernization, rather than a source of social or political solidity. In this sense, he believes it is worth cultivating the connection between economic and religious freedom more intimately, potentially creating the case that a "free market" for ideas promotes a flourishing free market economy. While such a utilitarian conception of religion is far from itself being a recognized social good, these steps are important arguments which may lead to greater freedom.
Farr's hard-hitting book is part political philosophy, part political memoir and part policy memo. It has the intellectual substance to provoke intelligent debate on important and timely subjects and the weight of political experience to be taken seriously at the highest levels. It is written in an accessible and open style, so that almost anyone from the vaguely interested to the policy junkie can read, enjoy and digest it. What is offered here is more than a treatise on international religious freedom–important as that may be. This is a sustained argument for the significance of religion, and religious freedom in public life generally, around the world, and by extension here at home. In a world of growing faith and questionable freedom political, policy and academic leaders cannot afford to miss this important contribution.


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Surrender" is a mesmerizing religious fairy-tale about an unyielding spirit determined to achieve three important things: faith, family and love.
Surrender can mean many things to many people, even animals. In this fictional story, a religious fairy-tale satire about a Sasquatch named PoBo, we learn what it can mean on many different levels. On one level, PoBo is displaced from his family at an early age amid a war initiated by humans. But with an unyielding spirit to be reunited with his kin—and with music being his best motivator, at least at first—the hairy bachelor decides to set off on a dangerous quest to find them.
PoBo knows the journey will be fraught with danger because he knows he and his family are on the endangered list—a constant struggle to survive. But like an adage he once read in a book, "nothing ventured, nothing gained," he is steadfast to not give up on his goal. Fortunately, and unexpectedly, he gets some assistance from two animals, one of whom is far bigger in his faith than his physical size. PoBo encounters many obstacles along the way, and his own faith is tested repeatedly as time runs out to fulfill his quest.
When we're broken and realize we're not in complete control, it's time to surrender.
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Q: C++ implicit conversions with brace initializers I've recently read somewhere (can't remember where) about using braces to allow multiple user-defined conversions, but there seems to be a difference between conversion by constructor and conversion by conversion method that I don't understand.
Consider:
#include <string>

using ::std::string;

struct C {
  C() {}
};

struct A {
  A(const string& s) {}  // Make std::string convertible to A.
  operator C() const { return C(); }  // Makes A convertible to C.
};

struct B {
  B() {}
  B(const A& a) {}  // Makes A convertible to B.
};

int main() {
  B b;
  C c;

  // This works.
  // Conversion chain (all thru ctors): char* -> string -> A -> B
  b = {{"char *"}};

  // These two attempts to make the final conversion through A's
  // conversion method yield compiler errors.
  c = {{"char *"}};
  c = {{{"char *"}}};
  // On the other hand, this does work (not surprisingly).
  c = A{"char *"};
}

Now, I may be misinterpreting what the compiler is doing, but (based on the above and additional experimentation) it seems to me that it's not considering conversions by conversion-method.  Reading through Sections 4 and 13.3.3.1 of the standard, however, I wasn't able to find a clue why this is.  What is the explanation?
Update
Here's another interesting phenomenon I'd like explained.  If I add
struct D {
  void operator<<(const B& b) {}
};

and in main:
  D d;
  d << {{ "char *" }};

I get an error, but if instead I write d.operator<<({{ "char *" }}); it works fine.
Update 2
Looks like Section 8.5.4 in the standard may hold some answers.  I'll report my findings.

A: There is one user conversion possible.
In b = {{"char *"}};
we actually do
b = B{{"char*"}}; // B has constructor with A (and a copy constructor not viable here)

so
b = B{A{"char*"}}; // One implicit conversion const char* -> std::string

in c = {{"const char*"}}, we try
c = C{{"char *"}}; // but nothing to construct here.

A: Digging through Section 8.5.4 of the standard and following various cross references therein, I think I understand what's going on.  Of course, IANAL, so I might be wrong; this is my best effort.
Update: The previous version of the answer actually used multiple conversions.  I've updated it to reflect my current understanding.
The key to unraveling the mess is the fact that a braced-init-list is not an expression (which also explains why d << {{"char *"}} won't compile).  What it is is special syntax, governed by special rules, that is allowed in a number of specific contexts.  Of these contexts, the relevant ones for our discussion are: rhs of assignment, argument in a function call, and argument in a constructor invocation.
So what happens when the compiler sees b = {{"char *"}}?  This is a case of rhs of assignment.  The applicable rule is:

A braced-init-list may appear on the right-hand side of ... an assignment defined by a user-defined assignment operator, in which case the initializer list is passed
  as the argument to the operator function.

(Presumably, the default copy assignment operator is considered a user-defined assignment operator.  I couldn't find a definition of that term anywhere, and there doesn't seem to be any language allowing the brace syntax specifically for default copy assignment.)
So we are reduced to argument passing to the default copy assignment operator B::operator=(const B&), where the argument being passed is {{"char *"}}.  Because a braced-init-list is not an expression, there is no issue of conversion here, but rather a form of initialization of a temporary of type B, specifically, so called list initialization.

If no viable initializer-list constructor is found, overload resolution is performed again, where the
  candidate functions are all the constructors of the class T and the argument list consists of the elements
  of the initializer list.

So the compiler strips off the outer pair of braces and performs overload resolution using {"char *"} as the argument.  This succeeds, matching the constructor B::B(const A&) because there is again list initialization of a temporary of type A in which overload resolution succeeds to match A::A(const string&) for the argument "char *", which is possible through the one alloted user-defined conversion, namely, from char* to string.
Now, in the case of c = {{"char *"}} the process is similar, but when we try to list-initialize a temporary of type C with {{"char *"}}, overload resolution fails to find a constructor that matches.  The point is that by definition list-initialization only works through a constructor whose parameter list can be made to match the contents of the list.

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Museums are getting smarter about bringing their audiences closer to the subject, and even closer to each other, finds Veronica Simpson.
'Museums are places where time is transformed into space,' says Nobel prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk, in a short filmed monologue for his Museum of Innocence.
Not content with creating entire fictional worlds in his novels, Pamuk decided to conjure a physical space alongside the imaginary one of his Museum of Innocence novel. He conceived and developed both book and museum over the same time period, starting in the early Nineties. Through both writing and installation, Pamuk wished to evoke the vanished glamour of Istanbul in the Seventies, a time of economic growth, increasing liberalism, consumerism and lavish parties. He collected objects either strategically or serendipitously and used them to construct a narrative around his young, affluent protagonist, Kemal, and the intense but doomed romance that blossoms between him and a young, distant relative.
Though the book was published in 2008, the Museum did not complete until after Pamuk found the right 19th-century building in the heart of Istanbul's Beyoglu neighbourhood, where much of the narrative is set; filled with 1,000 objects, it opened in 2012 and went on to win the 2014 Museum of the Year Award.
Each chapter of the book is represented in his museum as a vitrine, with the relevant objects, images and textures presented, like one of Joseph Cornell's evocative boxed tableaux.
A highly edited but still enchanting version now appears in Somerset House: 13 of the 53 chapters /tableaux, along with the aforementioned filmed monologue and a haunting documentary that traces the very real routes taken by the fictional Kemal as he roamed the streets of Istanbul at night, mourning his losses.
You don't need to read the book to enjoy that voyeuristic sense of guilty pleasure you get from imagining the lives that resonate around the objects in a vitrine: for example, the illicit ménage a deux implied by a rusting antique metal wash basin, complete with vintage razor and brush, and a single vivid red lipstick -- its colour instantly evoking a flamboyant femme fatale of the mid-20th century.
The experience of gazing in these vitrines brings you up close and personal with the lives of real and imaginary people, whether they are Pamuk's characters, fantasies entirely of the visitor's making, or the real individuals who once owned and treasured the black and white photos of glamorous dinner parties, or clasped the ornate opera bag embroidered with silver thread.
Though Pamuk's museum is a very personal take on how a past space and time can be brought to life, it is probably all the more powerful for its unique focus and idiosyncrasy.
But he has touched on a trend that is pervading the whole heritage and culture sector, as curators seek new ways to draw audiences close and intensify engagement. Instead of focusing on the usual culturally conservative narratives of past heroes and myths, and placing their subjects -- and objects -- on pedestals, the emphasis has shifted so that the whole of humanity, and all of human experience, seems to be up for examination and interrogation.
I have sung the praises before of Museum Rotterdam's contemporary exhibition arm and its ongoing dedication to a programme that reflects the voices of ordinary Rotterdammers, along with their very real issues and challenges.
But I had reason again to admire its work on a recent visit to the city. Curator Nicole van Dijk was just setting up the final displays in the museum's permanent space -- a rippling glass, Rem Koolhaas-designed building, which is now home to Rotterdam's local government offices as well.
The museum has been without a permanent home for the past couple of years, and responded by initiating a kind of social and cultural inventory of the city, resulting in some fascinating pop-up exhibitions (covered previously in FX). In the course of its research, via social media, workshops, performances and events, the museum generated a huge amount of information about Rotterdam's diverse communities and economies. For its new home, Museum Rotterdam has mined this rich seam of information to come up with a new exhibition that gets even closer to the individual citizen.
In fact, it follows the stories of five ordinary Rotterdam characters. These are genuine citizens, such as Max, a Rotterdam-born urban gardener, who has helped to regreen parts of the city through both orthodox and unorthodox methods; or Zeynep, a young woman who was born in Rotterdam of Turkish parents, and who is just launching herself as a fashion designer; there's Kamen, a Bulgarian builder, who has lived in the city for 11 years, but who travels back regularly to his Bulgarian home town in his van; and Joyce, who is in her fifties, originally from the Caribbean-Dutch island of Curaçao, but whose life now revolves around various communities of Rotterdam's elderly, for whom she is a carer.
All five individuals are represented by a large-scale model of themselves, taken from 3D scans and robotically carved out of foam. These figures stand atop a three-tiered presentation that aims to reveal the city through their eyes. Photos of shops, parks and places they frequent are pasted on to the top tier.
Below that there is a 'mind-map' graphic representing the network of people they are connected to within the city, while on the bottom layer, a similar but more complex graphic maps all their key venues for work, rest and play, on a plan of the city.
Digital tools combine with this analogue presentation in novel ways -- each 'ordinary hero' has had their journeys across the city recorded on an app and their routes and venues will be mapped on to the accompanying city via coloured string. The results of this exercise are illuminating -- Max, for example, travels across the entire cityscape on his bike.
'He owns the city,' says van Dijk. While Kamen either stays close to home or gets out of town altogether, to his construction jobs.
Through these people and their stories, van Dijk hopes to kick-start a whole new era of engagement for the museum, staging events, seminars and performances in the space to knit the community closer to the museum and each other. In this way, the museum becomes a space where people find time for their fellow citizens. How revolutionary is that?


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Josep Maria Llovera i Tomàs (Castelló d'Empúries, Alt Empordà, 1874 - Barcelona, 1949) fou un eclesiàstic, sociòleg i escriptor català.

Biografia
Estudià a Girona i a Roma. Fou ordenat sacerdot a Roma i el 1919 va ser nomenat canonge de la seu de Barcelona. Fou també professor de sociologia del Seminari Conciliar de Barcelona. Formà part de l'anomenat "Grupo de Democracia Cristiana", del també sociòleg Severino Aznar i del moviment catòlic "Acció Popular". Amb motiu de la fundació del partit Unió Democràtica de Catalunya fou consultat sobre la seva conveniència, però no hi va tenir un paper actiu. Fou consiliari de la Lliga Espiritual de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat. Va formar part de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia, de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans, de la qual fou el primer president, el 1923, en una junta formada, a més d'ell, per Pere Màrtir Bordoy i Torrents (secretari), Pere Coromines (tresorer), Jaume Serra i Húnter, Lluís Carreras, Jordi Dwelshauvers, Alexandre Galí, Josep Maria Capdevila, Pere Capdevila, Tomàs Carreras Artau, Ramon Turró i Bartomeu Xiberta.

Obra
 1909 "Tratado de sociología cristiana", que és la seva obra més coneguda.
 1922 Obra integral del pontificat de Benet XV.
 1944 "Idea integral del sacrificio eucarístico".
 1945 "Verdaguer, aspecto sacerdotal de su obra poética"..

Traduccions
Va traduir al català:
 L'obra completa d'Horaci, en vers català
 La Ilíada d'Homer, en concret, les quinze primeres rapsòdies o cants.
 LHimnari Litúrgic 1927 - La Sinopsi evangèlica de Lagrange.
 Ciceró. Alguns Discursos.
 1931 Les Confessions de Sant Agustí.

 Referències

 Bibliografia
 Jaume Medina, Una polèmica a la premsa vigatana entorn de la imitació dels ritmes clàssics en català: Josep Fonts, Joan Franquesa i Josep Maria Llovera; a AUSA· XXI · 151 (2003) p. 75-87, Patronat d'Estudis Osonencs Disponible en línia
 Jaume Medina, Set articles de Josep Maria Llovera sobre la imitació dels ritmes clàssics, a Faventia 26/1, 2004 95-111 Disponible en línia
 Jaume Medina, Les versions rítmiques de Josep Maria Llovera, a Faventia 27/1, 2005 125-138 Disponible en línia

 Enllaços externs
 Traducció en hexàmetres dels versos 430-488 de la Ilíada''''' per part de Josep M. Llovera, a Revista de poesia, Vol. II, núm. 9; Setembre 1926, pàg. 123. Disponible en línia a l'Arxiu de Revistes Catalanes Antigues

Religiosos catalans del sud contemporanis
Científics catalans del sud contemporanis
Canonges catalans
Castellonins
Escriptors altempordanesos contemporanis en català
Religiosos altempordanesos
Traductors del llatí al català
Traductors del grec al català
Traductors de la Ilíada al català
Morts a Barcelona
Científics altempordanesos
Traductors catalans del sud contemporanis
Escriptors catòlics
Científics catòlics
Assagistes catalans del sud contemporanis
Sociòlegs catalans del sud contemporanis

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Q: Convert GUID to varchar(32) How can I convert a GUID which is 36 characters to a VARCHAR(32)?
I'm trying to copy data from one table to another. There are two similar columns from these two tables.

*

*Table1.colx is a GUID so it is 36 characters in length in total due to the hyphens

*The corresponding column is table2.colx but it is a VARCHAR(32)

I am looking for a way to convert a GUID to VARCHAR, but I've got to remove the hyphens.  So far I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to find a way to do this.

A: I assume this is SQL Server, from the SSMS tag.
Convert the GUID to a string, then replace the hyphens with empty strings:
REPLACE(CAST(table1.colx AS VARCHAR(36)),'-','')


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See Barbarians, Pirates and other characters as they stroll about. Learn to throw an axe or shoot an arrow.
Take in a show or demonstration. Watch the parade or shop the Marketplace. There will be lots of family friendly things to do and see. Spectators are FREE.


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Q: How to Show Telerik Report in ReportViewer in Asp.net? I want to show Telerik Report in Telerik ReportViewer in Asp.net page. I have create a Class Library Project and Telerik Report in it, configure correctly, it show data in preview. Also created an asp.net website and AddReference of class Library Project in it.
Now, how do I show Report in Telerik ReportViewer Control?

A: You can use the following code:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!IsPostBack)
    {
        var instanceReportSource = new Telerik.Reporting.InstanceReportSource();
        instanceReportSource.ReportDocument = new YourClassLibrary.YourReport();
        this.ReportViewer1.ReportSource = instanceReportSource;
    }
}

You can also set the ReportSource declaratively from the ReportViewer properties.


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Epichoristodes wankwia es una especie de polilla del género Epichoristodes, tribu Archipini, familia Tortricidae. Fue descrita científicamente por Razowski en 2014.

Distribución
La especie se distribuye por República Democrática del Congo.

Referencias

wankwia
Insectos descritos en 2014
Insectos de África


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<?php

class pakePhpExtensionTask
{
    public static $tasks = array(
        'clean' =>          array('Clean all temporary files', array('pakePhpExtensionTask::_clean_build', 'pakePhpExtensionTask::_clean_config')),
        'configure' =>      array(null, array()),
        'build' =>          array(null, array('pakePhpExtensionTask::configure')),
        'install' =>        array('configure, build and install extension. (options: --with-phpize, --with-php-config)', array('pakePhpExtensionTask::build')),
        'reconfigure' =>    array('reconfigure. needed if you change config.m4 file (options: --with-phpize, --with-php-config)', array('pakePhpExtensionTask::_clean_build', 'pakePhpExtensionTask::configure')),
        'test' =>           array('run tests', array('pakePhpExtensionTask::build')),
        '_clean_build' =>   array(null, array()),
        '_clean_config' =>  array(null, array()),
    );

    public static function import_default_tasks()
    {
        foreach (self::$tasks as $taskname => $taskdata) {
            if ($taskdata[0] !== null)
                pake_desc($taskdata[0]);

            call_user_func_array('pake_task', array_merge(array(__CLASS__.'::'.$taskname), $taskdata[1]));
        }
    }

    public static function run_configure($task, $args, $long_args)
    {
        $dir = dirname(pakeApp::get_instance()->getPakefilePath());
        $cfg_file = $dir.'/'.__CLASS__.'.yaml';

        $need_to_write = true;

        if (isset($long_args['with-phpize'])) {
            $phpize = $long_args['with-phpize'];
        } elseif (file_exists($cfg_file)) {
            $cfg_data = pakeYaml::loadFile($cfg_file);
            $phpize = $cfg_data['phpize'];
            $need_to_write = false;
        } else {
            $phpize = pake_which('phpize');
        }

        if (!file_exists($phpize))
            throw new pakeException('"'.$phpize.'" is not available');

        if (isset($long_args['with-php-config'])) {
            $php_config = $long_args['with-php-config'];
            $need_to_write = true;
        } elseif (isset($cfg_data)) {
            $php_config = $cfg_data['php_config'];
        } else {
            $php_config = dirname($phpize).'/php-config';
            $need_to_write = true;
        }

        if (!file_exists($php_config))
            throw new pakeException('"'.$php_config.'" is not available');

        if (!file_exists('configure'))
            pake_sh(escapeshellarg($phpize));

        if (!file_exists('Makefile')) {
            pake_sh(escapeshellarg(realpath('configure')).' --with-php-config='.escapeshellarg($php_config));
        }

        if ($need_to_write) {
            pakeYaml::emitFile(array('phpize' => $phpize, 'php_config' => $php_config), $cfg_file);
        }
    }

    public static function run_reconfigure() {} // virtual task

    public static function run_build()
    {
        pake_sh(escapeshellarg(pake_which('make')), true);
    }

    public static function run_install()
    {
        pake_superuser_sh('make install');
    }

    public static function run_clean() {}
    public static function run__clean_build($task, $args, $long_args)
    {
        $dir = dirname(pakeApp::get_instance()->getPakefilePath());
        $cfg_file = $dir.'/'.__CLASS__.'.yaml';

        if (file_exists('Makefile'))
            pake_sh(escapeshellarg(pake_which('make')).' distclean');

        if (file_exists('configure')) {
            if (isset($long_args['with-phpize'])) {
                $phpize = $long_args['with-phpize'];
            } elseif (file_exists($cfg_file)) {
                $cfg_data = pakeYaml::loadFile($cfg_file);
                $phpize = $cfg_data['phpize'];
            } else {
                $phpize = pake_which('phpize');
            }

            if (!file_exists($phpize))
                throw new pakeException('"'.$phpize.'" is not available');

            pake_sh(escapeshellarg($phpize).' --clean');
        }
    }

    public static function run__clean_config()
    {
        $dir = dirname(pakeApp::get_instance()->getPakefilePath());
        $cfg_file = $dir.'/'.__CLASS__.'.yaml';

        if (file_exists($cfg_file)) {
            pake_remove($cfg_file, '');
        }
    }

    public static function run_test($task)
    {
        $php_cgi = '';

        $_php_cgi = self::_get_php_executable().'-cgi';
        if (file_exists($_php_cgi)) {
            $php_cgi = ' '.escapeshellarg('TEST_PHP_CGI_EXECUTABLE='.$_php_cgi);
        }

        pake_echo_comment('Running test-suite. This can take awhile…');
        pake_sh(escapeshellarg(pake_which('make')).' test NO_INTERACTION=1'.$php_cgi);
        pake_echo_comment('Done');

        $path = dirname(pakeApp::get_instance()->getPakefilePath()).'/tests';
        $files = pakeFinder::type('file')->ignore_version_control()->relative()->name('*.diff')->in($path);

        if (count($files) == 0) {
            pake_echo('   All tests PASSed!');
            return true;
        }

        pake_echo_error('Following tests FAILed:');
        foreach ($files as $file) {
            $phpt_file = substr($file, 0, -4).'phpt';

            $_lines = file($path.'/'.$phpt_file);
            $description = $_lines[1];
            unset($_lines);

            pake_echo('     '.$phpt_file.' ('.rtrim($description).')');
        }

        return false;
    }

    private static function _get_php_executable()
    {
        static $php_exec = null;

        if (null === $php_exec) {
            $root = dirname(pakeApp::get_instance()->getPakefilePath());

            if (!file_exists($root.'/Makefile')) {
                throw new LogicException("Makefile is missing. You have to build extension before testing it!");
            }

            $makefile_rows = file($root.'/Makefile');
            foreach ($makefile_rows as $row) {
                if (strpos($row, 'PHP_EXECUTABLE = ') !== 0)
                    continue;

                $row = rtrim($row);
                $parts = explode(' = ', $row);
                if (!isset($parts[1]) or strlen($parts[1]) == 0)
                    continue;

                $php_exec = $parts[1];
                break;
            }
            unset($makefile_rows);
        }

        if (!$php_exec) {
            // Fallback
            $php_exec = 'php';
        }

        return $php_exec;
    }
}

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All posts tagged "Social Media"
Home / Posts tagged "Social Media"
EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why I Read the Comments
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#FergusonFridays: White Anti-Racism, Social Media, and the Problem of Self-Serving Allying
By Heather Laine Talley on September 26, 2014
Since Michael Brown's murder, the Internet has been abuzz with content focusing on what white people could and should do to counter racism. Others have...
The Gentle Critique in Activist Spaces: A Newby's First Year Journey on Social Media
By Guest Contributor on April 9, 2014
By Kimbo Grama Can the online become the lifeline? We're told, it's not possible; we're told that that people we meet in online forums are...
Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now
By David J. Leonard on April 4, 2014
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is very much the future – of black popular cultural studies, feminist scholarship, social media activism, and so much more. Someone...
Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now, a Feminist we Love (Video)
How I Use Pinterest To Explore the Difficulties of Violence Against Black Women and Girls
By Sonya Donaldson When I first used Pinterest, it was with the same intent and fervor of many of those who create boards that feature fashion,...
Feminists We Love: Zerlina Maxwell (Video)
By Heidi R. Lewis on October 18, 2013
Zerlina Maxwell holds a JD from the Rutgers University School of Law and a BA in International Relations and Affairs from Tufts University. Over the...
Library of Congress digs into 170 billion tweets
By Catherine Morrisey on January 9, 2013
An effort by the Library of Congress to archive Twitter posts has amassed more than 170 billion tweets, which the library is now seeking to...


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Washington neo-con hawk, Ambassador Dan Fried, promoting the American imperial hegemonic efforts against Russia and Syria and why expansion of NATO into former Soviet states is a "good thing".
At the core of ISIS philosophy is the instigation of an apocalyptic war that will end the world. That's what they are striving for apparently. And with a little help from their friends, they look likely to achieve it.
Obviously not read out on air??
five minutes earlier on rnz national news(the link is no longer up?) the news reader stated that the u.s. had launched missiles at the airbase from which the gas attack had been launched??????
The whole false flag gassing event has many sides to it with little evidence for it actually happening as our news keeps describing it.
The photos are obviously phoney. The claims just don't stand scrutiny.
Trumps illegal missiles had a very high failure rate yet to be explained but it may be that Russia intervened.
NATO is influenced and high positions by potentially some NAZI sympathisers and their offspring.
So we need to watch carefully as the possible ascendance of Germany's long held wish to punish Russia for causing the Third Reich eventual defeat as they already have already savagely defeated Greece as another agnostic country that resisted the Third Reich during the last war, and played some part of their downfall.
Watch carefully this man, NATO secretary Jens Stoltenberg; as he appears to be A WARMONGER.
His father was of German heritage whom emigrated to Norway.
"Jens Stoltenberg born in Norway has been described as a cautious politician, belonging to the right wing of social democracy.
This fits the NAZI model of thinking.
In this link this speech by Jens Stoltenberg gave to NATO as he was installed as Secretary general of NATO clearly shows deeply how he hates the Russians and embraces the German Fatherland.
Germanic past losses during the 1st & second wars still have a driving influence on a wish to win back some pride by reversing past history.
We need to be wary of long held hatred of the past displayed by some of these players.
Frightening to listen to that guy. it's like listening to a man-child defending his right to play with guns, and risking hurting others.
The question is why is he interviewed and not resoundingly challenged when he spewed crap out over state owned RNZ.
He is a propaganda bank distributing war justification to listeners.


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The heavy rain and winds has meant the river is running quite fast at the moment and reaching our island a challenge in itself compared to summer time when the children dart back and forth building camps. Water gushed over their wellies and I shivered at the prospect. However once there they reached the island wellies and socks came off and they braved the cold water and rough river bed bare foot to reach the large tree usually at the head of the island but now submerged in water.
You have to admire their spirit as they posed for photos showing no sign of cold. I was rather hoping my triplets would come out hearing the squeals and commotion as I know they would have been crazy enough to join them; as for me, swimming the river in summer was enough of a challenge and I happily settled for capturing their moment of fun from the bridge with cosy warm toes!
One for the Gymnastics club back home!


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'Buhari is aware of the enormous hope Nigerians reposed on him'
By Onyedika Agbedo
Permit me to quip the old adage that to whom much is given, much is expected. President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, is aware of the enormous hope Nigerians reposed on him.
Osita Okechukwu
Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, in this interview with ONYEDIKA AGBEDO, gives insight into what President Muhammadu Buhari's second term in office, which will commence next Wednesday, will look like. He says the President understands the level of hope Nigerians have reposed on him and will work harder to meet their expectations.
President Muhammadu Buhari would be sworn in for a second term in office in four days time. As one of those who vehemently supported his re-election, what should Nigerians expect from the president in the next four years?
Permit me to quip the old adage that to whom much is given, much is expected. President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, is aware of the enormous hope Nigerians reposed on him. To that extent, my answer on what Nigerians naturally expect of him will be benchmarked by placing in proper perspective his three cardinal programmes viz., economic recovery, war against corruption and security. These were the cardinal programmes Mr President culled from the manifesto of the APC. Those who know Buhari will agree that he is not a pretentious person that makes pledges out of political exigencies.
Accordingly, Nigerians should expect accelerated drive in the development of critical infrastructure, the foundation of which President Buhari has been laying for the last three years within the meager resources available.
Without being immodest, Mr President has embarked on the most massive infrastructural development in the country since independence — 5,000 kilometers of federal roads, 5,000 kilometers of standard gauge rail lines, additional 5,000 megawatts of electricity and self-sufficiency in food production. These are the critical infrastructure that this country needs.
Naturally, some of us on the Eastern Corridor railways axis are expecting Mr President to commence construction work on this line that goes from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri, covering about 18 states of the federation. The same will be applicable to those on the Coastal line axis, which goes from Calabar to Lagos.
But the railways appear to occupy the interest of the President more than other sectors of the economy. Why?
No, far from it! He just started from an angle which is very capital intensive and which most of our youths only hear of but never boarded. The economic recovery programme of Mr President is massive, ranging, as stated above, from railways to agrarian revolution.
In the agricultural sector for instance, Mr President is on recovery mission of what our ancestors did with land through rice, cotton, cocoa, palm plantation, sorghum and cassava farming. Agriculture is his poster boy in his economic diversification policy. This is why there is near consensus in the approval of the reappointment of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, for another term. People applauded his reappointment for his uncommon ingenuity in revamping agriculture from an uncanny perspective.
A lot of Nigerians feel the President has not done enough to curb the spate of insecurity in the country despite his military background. What is your take on the issue? Will the situation get better in his second term?
Methinks Mr President has done a lot to contain insecurity of different variants. It has persisted for two main reasons. One, it is asymmetrical and secondly the material conditions which gave birth to them are also myriad. This means that you are not fighting a conventional army or enemy and secondly their grievance is of ancient type.
This where the anti-graft war comes in because the main cause of insurgency is gross unemployment, despondency and deprivation. When you have a population where 60 per cent are youths, it is advantageous if they are busy and disadvantageous if they are idle. The sages say that an idle mind is a devils workshop. This is our sordid scenario and why the solution seems a mirage. Otherwise, what Nigeria has spent on security in the past three years is humongous and unintended. It is only an experienced general that would muster such courage to commit huge funds to security in the face of competing demands for social infrastructure.
How do you think the president should balance political appointments across all the regions in his second term against the backdrop of accusations that his appointments so far have been lopsided in favour of the North?
I had read Mr Presidents speeches and could recount him pledging inclusiveness. As I said earlier, he is not pretentious and cannot pledge inclusiveness if he doesn't mean it. At least in Emefiele's appointment he wasn't clannish. That's a good starting point and one hopes he will disappoint naysayers and bigots.
The APC is again facing the same challenge it encountered in 2015 with regards to the election of the presiding officers of the National Assembly. Do you think the party would prevail this time?
I beg to disagree, as our leadership, to the best of my knowledge, has not zoned all the principal offices in both chambers. Why don't we give our leadership the benefit of the doubt? For the irony is that we act sometimes as if Nigeria is a Nollywood country. Nollywood in the sense that on one breadth we accuse Mr President of being aloof, undecided and all manner of aphorisms. And when he says Senator Ahmed Lawan is my choice for President of Senate, the same people will also shout that he is undemocratic and dictatorial. All one knows is that all the six geopolitical zones will be adequately allotted principal office or offices in the National Assembly in the fullness of time.
As a political scientist, why is it becoming increasingly difficult to enforce party supremacy in the country?
Supremacy of the party like any other concept or coin has two sides. At times some dictators use the concept to oppress members unduly and sometimes the concept is used judiciously for the collective interest of all.The concept of party supremacy is better administered in a political domain where the electoral process is to a greater measure free, fair and transparent. In this scenario, a political party is aware that each time its primary is not free, fair and transparent, it will loose the seats it could have won. This is the bedrock of internal democracy in political parties. It means that we should all collectively work towards free, fair and transparent elections. That is the magnum opus.
Atiku Abubakar is challenging Buhari's victory at the tribunal. How do you think the case would play out given earlier calls on him to drop the bid by many people including eminent lawyers in the country?
One cannot in all honesty comment so as to avoid being charged for contempt of court. The only thing one can narrate is the experience of our group, the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO), since Buhari ventured into electoral contest in 2003. The Atiku camp is aware that Mr President has a vote bank of 12 million votes. The vote bank was on display in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.
But the Atiku camp had always insisted that the vote bank no longer exists due to Buhari's alleged poor performance in office?
There is an admonition my father of the blessed memory was wont to dish out at issues like this. He would caution that one should not tell his children that he was used to coming first in the class when it is a lie because some of your classmates are alive.
Any pragmatic observer of the presidential election knows that Buhari made millions of votes where he used to make millions. He performed poorly where he used to perform poorly. He even got lower than we anticipated in Kano and Kaduna States. A lot of people forget that Buhari, for the first time, scored over a million votes in the Niger Delta and made 25 per cent in three out of five South East states. Luckily, nobody has said election was rigged in the South; what happened was low turnout.
What is your take on the INEC server result being canvassed by PDP?
One doesn't know how they came about INEC server when the Commission said they don't have such server? Is it not akin to one building a Facebook result out of Facebook domain? In actual fact, one commends His Excellency Atiku Abubakar for pulling PDP out of the loop. However, the expectation of victory was based more or less on Nollywood episode, because of Buhari's cult followership in the North and the vote bank.
Secondly, the restructuring hype, which raised a huge support base in the South, especially in the South West, collapsed the day 'AtikuPlan' was released. It was then discerned that it was not as robust as being canvassed by Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Afenifere and their ilk.
Thirdly, the last straw that broke the camels back was when Atiku publicly pronounced that he would sell the NNPC to his friends. It was a big shocker to all the managers of states and local government councils who survive under the canopy of the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC). For them, the sale of NNPC simply means the end of monthly oil windfall.
You made reference to restructuring. Why is President Buhari shying away from the issue?
May I at the risk of sounding like a broken record repeat that President Buhari is not a pretentious person, otherwise he wouldn't have renewed his commitment to true federalism after the 2019 presidential election. All I know about Mr President is that he knows he cannot railroad any change down the throat of Nigerians as he did when he was military head of state. He is a democrat convert, who believes in consensus and the power or art of compromise.
He could have made the issue of financial autonomy of state legislature and judiciary a campaign programme. Remember that he took the bold step to sign into law the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, No. 4 Bill, 2017 Fourth Alteration, on May 7, 2018. If he is shying away from restructuring would he have gone ahead on May 16, 2019, to assemble all the stakeholders after the election to brainstorm on the amendment made to Section 121(3) of the 1999 Constitution as it affects the State Legislature and the Judiciary?
Today, to effectively make sure that the third tier of government operates in the spirit of true federalism, the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has made a simple proposal on how best to monitor public finance at the local level and the governors are resisting it. They are calling on Buhari to stop NFIU. Even those who shout restructuring are leading this pack.
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Parents have named Stanford University their top dream college -- the school they most wished their student could attend if cost and acceptance were not issues -- in a Princeton Review survey for most of the past decade. Part of the draw: The faculty at our No. 2 school features a stunning array of innovative and important thinkers, including 17 Nobel laureates, 31 MacArthur fellows, and four Pulitzer Prize winners. Stanford is the hardest school in the country to get into, accepting 4% of applicants. Once there, the educational demands can be intense. Students often describe themselves as "ducks," because they try to appear serene while paddling desperately to keep going (there's also a popular Facebook group for students called "Stanford University Places I've Cried"). But the results speak for themselves, especially in nearby Silicon Valley. Not only does Stanford have a 94% graduation rate, but its former students also founded Google, Yahoo, Cisco, and many other tech companies. Recent Stanford grads report earning average annual salaries of $72,700 to PayScale. At the same time, Stanford is generous with aid. Parents earning less than $65,000 are not expected to contribute anything to their students' college costs; those earning less than $150,000 aren't expected to pay tuition. Stanford's Mission-style campus is vast, and most students use bicycles to get around. An NCAA Division I school, Stanford has a longstanding football rivalry with the University of California-Berkeley. Traditions include the Halloween Mausoleum Party, which is held at the Stanford Mausoleum, the burial site of Leland Stanford Jr. His father, a California governor and railroad baron, founded the university in his memory after the boy died at age 15.
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Q: Doctrine2 association persist slow as hell I have a while loop in where I create the main entity Order, this entity has a lot of fields and associations but persists fast, very fast.
But it as a  oneToMany unidirectional (manyToMany) association, which takes forever... This association is small, only two fields so I don't know why it takes so long.
I have an array of $items, exactly 17 items. Inside the while loop, foreach Order I add theese 17 items inside the assoc.
while($i < 53000)
{
    // ...
    foreach($item as $k => $v)
    {
        $item = new Item();
        $item->setName($v['name']);
        $item->setValue($order[$v['column']]);

        $order->addItem($item);
    }

    // ...

    $em->persist($order);

    $i++;
    if($i % 200 == 0) // I've tried multiples values in here but everything is slow.
    {
        $em->flush();
        $em->clear(); // Commenting this, doesn't speed up things neither.
    }
}

Of course I know that for every Orderthere are 17 Item created, but as Item object is so small, I don't think it needs to take that long...
With the Item forEach, it takes about 35 minutes to end the script. If I remove that, the script only takes 4 minutes to run, which is ridiculous...
The relation mapping is as follows
  manyToMany:
    items:
      targetEntity: AppBundle\Entity\Item
      cascade: ["all"]
      joinTable:
        name: order_has_item
        joinColumns:
          product_id:
            referencedColumnName: id
        inverseJoinColumns:
          item_id:
            referencedColumnName: id

It is unidirectional so no mapping for Item is created.

A: You're generating 53000 Orders, of which each has (as you say) around 17 Items. That's 954000 database entries being generated.
You're persisting every 200 Orders, so each call to $em->persist() creates 3600 entity objects and DB entries.
There are, at least, two performance hits:

*

*Doctrine will generate 3600 entities with all bells and whistles.

*The database indices of the affected tables are updated on each insert.

Also, don't forget that if you're doing this in the dev environment, Symfony will log an ass-load of stuff (see app/logs/dev.log) and has several debugging features on.
So, how can you shove nearly a million entries into your DB? Doctrine is unfortunately very bad at really bulk operations. It is usually a better to use a native SQL query (though, sacrificing portability … but who cares, anyway):
$em->getConnection()->executeUpdate(/*INSERT etc. …*/);

When inserting objects that relate to each other, it's a bit more difficult, because we must ensure consistency:
try
{
    $conn = $em->getConnection();
    $conn->beginTransaction();

    foreach ($orders as $order)
    {
        $conn->executeUpdate(/*INSERT the order …*/);
        $orderId = $conn->lastInsertId();

        foreach ($order->items as $item)
        {
            $item->orderId = $orderId;
            $conn->executeUpdate(/*INSERT the item …*/);
        }
    }

    $conn->commit();
}
catch(\Exception $e)
{
    $conn->rollback();
    throw $e;
}

// NOTE: the try/catch wraps *all* orders, so if one order fails *no*
// orders will be saved. Alternatively, put the try/catch into the loop

(I kept the code short for readability, you'll get the idea. Not tested, just from the top of my head.)
Have a look at the Doctrine documentation to learn more about native queries.

By the way, in your example, if you only write to the DB when ($i % 200 == 0), you're going to loose your ($i % 200) last items. You'd need to write something like:
$amount = 53000;

while($i < $amount)
{
    // do your thing

    $i++;

    if($i % 200 === 0 || $i >= $amount)
    {
        // flush/clear
    }
}


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Future expansions of the Micro Brick Battle system will include aerial combat, additional armored vehicles, and Campaign Modules for specific historic battles. We also plan to host Micro Brick Battle tournaments at events around the country starting in mid-2017. This will coincide with the release of our companion card game Bricks of War™, now in development process.
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Albany County woman brought drugs to Downstate inmate: police
Abbott Brant
Poughkeepsie Journal
An Albany County woman was arrested on a number of charges Saturday after attempting give drugs to an inmate inside Downstate Correctional Facility, police said.
State police from the Wappinger barracks said Cohoes resident Erin N. Kowalewski, 39, was a visitor at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill Nov. 4. While there, she intended to provide drugs to an inmate.
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According to police, Kowalewski was in possession of Diazepam, Suboxone, Hydrocodone, and marijuana.
Kowalewski was charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband and fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both class D felonies, as well as second-degree promoting prison contraband and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both misdemeanors.
She also received a violation for unlawful possession of marijuana.
Kowalewski was arraigned before the Town of Fishkill Court and sent to the Dutchess County Jail in lieu of $2,500 cash or $5,000 bond. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 8.
The state police were assisted by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Office of Special Investigations.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Dec. 3, 2018 - Efforts to strengthen Barbados' border security got a much needed boost yesterday with the donation of over US$1.1 million in Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) equipment to the CARICOM IMPACS/Joint Regional Communication Centre (JRCC).
This new computer equipment, donated by the US Embassy's Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, will allow the JRCC to expand its APIS capacity and process the information of more travellers to the Caribbean region.
To facilitate this process, Minister of Home Affairs, Edmund Hinkson, said Government was seeking to bring amendments to the Barbados Immigration Act and other related Acts before Parliament by the end of the first quarter of next year.
He made this disclosure during a ceremony to handover the equipment and announce the expansion of the APIS system at the JRCC grounds.
Mr. Hinkson said those amendments will include the requirements needed for the submission of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data and other recommendations that have been included in the harmonized legislation.
He noted that the receipt of the equipment would facilitate the full operationalization of the expansion of the APIS system which was "slowed" even after contributions were made by the European Union and the United Kingdom.
"This investment of equipment will not only enhance the capabilities of the JRCC, but the sophistication of systems has created a level of efficiency that will generate further value by consolidating several functions that would otherwise have to be completed across multiple systems, and thus require greater resources," he said.
The Minister added that the system would assist Barbados and the region in not only fighting crime, but addressing issues such as pandemics and migration.
"We are only too aware, especially at this time, that irregular migration is more of an issue than ever before, as persons continue to seek betterment in the face of social, political and economic challenges," Mr. Hinkson said.
He added that the operations at the JRCC were vital to the border security operations in Barbados and throughout the region.
"As small-island developing states, we recognize that we must come together and cooperate to be a formidable presence, as we cannot fight these threats on our own. We have to do so as a collective as a country, regionally and internationally," he said.
Mr. Hinkson added that while the world becomes "more and more of a village", threats become more present, and new crime fighting techniques were needed to effectively address traditional and emerging threats.
"We must arrest at the core, the transshipment of illicit drugs and arms into our countries. We have no choice but to win this battle," he stated.


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