I think that is a good idea to keep a list , maybe we can start one up here - then bring this more to the attention of staff .
the same but by a different creator .
Considering I don't shop very much and while i'll usually add the original derive and/or my favorite of those derived from to my wishlist . . .
of derives but I could be wrong there , I dunno really though as that is again just a guess ?
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This has gone on for some time, though in saying that there are some devs that leave their derivables open so with their textures in place. Which makes it easy for anyone to turn around derive from that product and still use the previous textures. In saying that though, there are plenty of texture stealing going on. I had this experience way back with a texture of mine that was stolen form someone I was chatting with in a room. I lodge a ticket in regards to this and they never done anything about it.
So, I really think it comes down to knowing the dev/s, like you know whom you shop with. So you know their work, like you stated. I would suggest that perhaps check back through the derivation tree of others that you may suspect as suspect and not sure with their thieving other peoples art. To see where those maybe stolen textures have come from. Check also with the original dev if they have given consent for others to use those textures in further derivations, this could be on their product, which I have seen a couple do that. You can message them asking if their textures can be used by other devs. I would suggest NOT to name and shame until something is proven, then I still wouldn't. Also, I would notify the dev (if you know them and they don't allow the use of their textures, the product id number (PID) a link, as most have extensively large catalogues. Then the dev can investigate it further.
Thievery has gone on for many years on IMVU. If you aren't the owner of the original texture stolen you have no business making a list of who you think thieves are, at least not officially in IMVU forums (what's left of them). It's become the easy way to make pro. Steal from the web, from games, movies, all kinds of places. Sell a texture 30 times over, recolor it and keep on selling.
It's disgusting and it' one of the reasons I don't create anymore. The honest guy gets the screws put to him or her by the lazy ones. IMVU's downfall isn't far away. Naming and shaming won't do anything. They make new accounts. IMVU doesn't care anymore.
Unless you have proof positive that someone stole a mesh or texture, I wouldn't get caught dead making a list. Staff won't do anything unless you're the original owner and have proof.
I've never been stolen from, at least to my knowledge, but I have found sooooooooo many people stolen from.
And if it's not stolen, it's a file sale.
Everytime I find something stolen, I report it to the original creator (as long as I know who they are).
And once someone "steals", I usually keep a record of it myself, for myself, incase they ever have something I *might* want to buy.
I rather spend my credits on the legit.
You are in luck. This is how I find a good quantity of thieves and report them to the rightful owners. I have been doing my part to try and help ChicByTrinity for a while finding stolen skins from shop, as I find many thieves (Mostly cause I never stop looking in shop) I report them mostly to their owners but, you can also find a nice list here.
You are right to think most of the stuff in new shop is stolen. From what I gather on my daily searches a lot of devs seem to belong to a group or something similar that releases "free" (stolen) textures and they all upload them to IMVU around the same time. I can't always find their original creators, but sometimes I get lucky.
I kept a list of mesh thieves for years, mostly of people who rip stuff from games and other 3D artists, I was in a group with a few gaming experts and between us we'd positively verify where the stuff had been taken from.
We tried to get staff interested but just got hit with the standard "contact the original owner" bull. Well that's fine if you can get hold of them but most of these game companies are as uninterested in eliminating copyright theft as IMVU is ... in other words they'll only bother when it affects their paycheck directly.
Eventually the group died and the list is out of date, many on the list have been disabled (only because IMVU actually get off their lazy arses when it comes to these thieves claiming real money). But the ones that remain on there still duping honest creators into buying and deriving from them make me puke, what's worse is that IMVU have done nothing about them.
I don't want to do such a list here.
Yes thievery is so common on IMVU these days it's become the pathetic norm. Thieving from other creators as well as ripping content from other games and uploading it to IMVU and then having the gall to say you 'made' it. Don't get me started on music, google image searched graphics, and blatant ripping off of company's Trademarked brands.
A lot of people will steal with the knowledge that they are doing so but a lot will also not even realise it's theft, I will admit that when I first started to create I was so ill informed that I took a texture from google images and used it without permission on a couple of my products, if I had been made aware that this is actually theft and that google images are NOT ok to use, I would never have done so, I only then knew what i'd done was wrong because the owner of the texture actually took the time to message me and educate me on texture theft, she was very understanding and told me how to rectify my error, if she hadn't..I would probably still be doing what I did back then and be non the wiser about it..sometimes the fault lies with the lack of knowledge, IMVU open up a shop placement for you but they don't really stress about what is ok to use and what's not, I know it's written in VGP and TOS but who actually reads that until they get into trouble, it's like the small print on any contract..no one reads it until it's too late.. I'm not saying that people that do this on a regular basis and are clearly ripping textures don't know what they are doing because that is just stupid, they are well aware of it but I do see a lot of new dev's not actually realising that taking from google etc is actually theft, IMVU should run a pre-dev programme to help educate new creators better, hook them up with veteran creators so they learn a little before jumping in, I know as creators we are busy and have little patience when it comes to others encroaching on our dev time but to mentor someone could not only be good for the noobie but also for the vet creator, fresh ideas and thoughts, questions you will be asked that you never really gave much thought to..I dunno..i'm rambling.. I just think that IMVU makes it too easy for people to mindlessly create without knowing all the Do's and Don't's and to protect our own work maybe we should be the ones to pick up the inefficiency of IMVU.
I have had 100% success rate with filing DMCAs. All products were removed from the catalog and many of them got disabled too. I recommend that anyone who finds their textures/meshes in someone else's catalog file a DMCA.
, IMVU should run a pre-dev programme to help educate new creators better, hook them up with veteran creators so they learn a little before jumping in, I know as creators we are busy and have little patience when it comes to others encroaching on our dev time but to mentor someone could not only be good for the noobie but also for the vet creator, fresh ideas and thoughts, questions you will be asked that you never really gave much thought to..I dunno..i'm rambling.. I just think that IMVU makes it too easy for people to mindlessly create without knowing all the Do's and Don't's and to protect our own work maybe we should be the ones to pick up the inefficiency of IMVU.
I kind of agree with that...or at least a little text that you HAVE to read to pass..then they can not feign not knowing.
I get my eyes stolen a lot...I check often and have others do it for me sometimes. (Sometimes I just do not have the heart for it). I have caught a lot of "popular" devs ripping from me and others too. I try to inform the ones I know they are ripping from.
There are a lot of people selling textures too. There is a skin template a lot of popular skin devs use.
I wanted to move from meshing to get away from some of it...but blehhhh people steal that too. I never even knew people could do game rips before. I bought a few things back in the day because I was amazed at how close they got it to the characters X'D I even nearly derived one.
Character "likenesses" was recently added to the ToS so you can not even make a replica even from scratch now. Cosplay is over now.
Wow, I was never aware that replicas were against ToS, I'm in the pooper then because I do a lot of work for people based on characters that they like, jeez..
Oh, I knew that day was coming.
>_> I always swore up and down that IMVU was gonna crack down on it.
Some just want easy profits, with zero originality, imagination and honors for self for actually doing the work. Here's what we have come to, all over the web really.
IMVU used to advertise their cosplay community so it is a bit of a slap in the face that they suddenly changed the ToS to include character likenesses. Roleplaying characters is still pretty big on IMVU too.
I think this is a pretty awful area. i mean some people ask for a "top like this" -links image to an anime character or something-. I mean, there is such gray area. Even if you want to make a shirt like you own, (or something you see online and like) technically someone designed that shirt irl. I know some people like to try to make certain celebrities exact outfits (especially music video costumes) and market them as such too.
Character "likenesses" was recently added to the ToS so you can not even make a replica even from scratch now. :P Cosplay is over now.
Could someone point this out in the TOS for me? I've read through it and can't find it and it's relevent in a convo I'm having with a group of creators.
It is in the Creator Agreement, actually. I just found it.
Under "IMVU, INC. ("IMVU") CREATOR PROGRAM POLICY".
It is not in the VGP or the ToS, only the Creator Agreement. The fact that it is not mentioned in the VGP is pretty confusing, especially if it has been a while since you signed the agreement and read the policy as a refresher.
They are basically saying that they don't really care about copyright but they will use it against you if you dare to claim real money from them.
It's more of a threat than a policy.
Likenesses, meaning direct copies from an interpretation, such as a movie?
I'm a great fan of certain books and I would have no trouble making my own interpretations of them, based on my own reader's imagination, so they're not direct copies from the movie interpretations, celebrities etc. but their own people.
The word "likeness" is a very problematic one, though. Everyone and everything have likenesses to something, by inspiration or by chance. That's why flagging based just on a likeness doesn't seem entirely fair.
Well, then you're in luck. I have been filing DMCA's for almost 6 years by now, thousands of stolen products. They always "remove" the offending items, but sometimes they are still visible and I have to re-send the DMCA.
Let's face it, thieves make money for IMVU and that's why they keep them. They disable real creators for much less.


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Q: concat strings to Reference react fc prop by constructed name from inside the component I have a series of commonly named properties, and I'd like to have the un-common part of the name used in other places. I know that wording is a little convoluted, but perhaps an example will help. What I want is something like:
const MyComponent = ({lgProp, xlProp, mdProp, smProp, defaultProp}) => {
    let current = defaultProp;
    let myString = 'foo';

    ['sm', 'md', 'lg', 'xl'].forEach(size => {
        const newValue = // somehow get the value of the property ${size}Prop
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            myString += ` ${size}: ${newValue}`;
            current = newValue;
        }
    });
}

The canonical answer to this type of question seems to be here, but all of the answers there either refer to dynamically referencing keys in objects, or dynamically referencing variables in pure JS in the Window or this scope. I can't seem to make any of them work for referencing property names.
There are also several sections on dynamically creating property names for components, but that's the wrong direction for me.
Things I've tried:
newValue = `${size}Prop`;         // string
newValue = [`${size}Prop`];       // string
newValue = [${size} + 'Prop'];    // string
newValue = this[${size} + 'Prop'] // TypeError

I mean, there are only so many props, so I could just write a bunch of if statements, but that seems so inelegant. Is there an attractive/elegant way to variably reference the prop names?

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Global ticketing giant Ticketmaster has acquired blockchain-focused live events firm Upgraded, according to an Oct. 18 press release.
Ticketmaster, a division of the world's largest live-entertainment business Live Nation, plans to use blockchain technology through the partnership as a way to provide more transparency and better control ticket distribution.
Additionally, the company hopes it will protect clients from fraud associated with the existing ticketing system, which works in the form of printed or PDF-based tickets.
The blockchain live events company Upgraded will enable Ticketmaster to digitize traditional tickets into interactive units protected by blockchain technology via encrypted barcodes. The press release notes that the new solution will be available without special requirement from a venue to replace existing access control hardware.
The new tech deployment will be incorporated in the Ticketmaster infrastructure along with a number of other initiatives to improve and protect both the ticketing process and fans, including such services as Presence, Verified Fan, and the facial-identification tool Blink Identity.
Recently, Ticketmaster reportedly faced a lawsuit on an alleged "unfair business practice" by condoning the scalping of mass amounts of tickets for resale, which violates the company's own policies.
The ticketing giant has been allegedly allowing fake accounts to bypass the multiple ticket limits to conduct mass sales on a secondary market. Previously, Cointelegraph reported that Ticketmaster claims that 60 percent of the "hottest tickets" are purchased by bots.
In July, major U.S. crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase introduced its crypto gift system, allowing customers to exchange coins on their e-gift cards for goods and services through brands including Ticketmaster, Google Play, Uber, and others.


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STEPANAKERT, Artsakh (A.W.)—Armenia's newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reaffirmed his belief on Wednesday that Artsakh's authorities must be included in the negotiations in the Artsakh peace process.
"I am ready to negotiate with the President of Azerbaijan within the framework of the [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, but I believe that the format of the negotiations is flawed as long as one of the sides of the conflict—the Artsakh leadership—is not a part of the negotiations," Pashinyan said during a meeting with Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan in Stepanakert.


At the most recent meeting of the Hope Mills Board of Commissioners, town leaders began to take concrete steps toward dealing with a serious issue of flooding along streets near C. Wayne Collier Elementary School.
A large number of trees that once stood on the property at the elementary school were removed not too long ago.
A recent rash of hurricanes and increased rain has turned the roads surrounding the school into frequent sites of flooding, posing both a traffic hazard for people driving there and a regular flooding headache for people with homes near the school.
Warner said the loss of the trees on the property at C. Wayne Collier is the heart of the problem.
When the trees were in place, the water running off from the property was absorbed by the roots of the trees and the ground.
Without the trees, the water runs off downhill, toward the ditches and the road in front of the school.
"We've had so much rain, it's affected us more than it ever has before,'' Warner said.
At the last commissioners meeting, town officials were joined by representatives of Cumberland County Schools, including CCS Superintendent Dr. Marvin Connelly. A representative of the North Carolina Department of Transportation was supposed to be at the meeting but was unable to attend.
Warner said Hope Mills town manager Melissa Adams is quickly working to convene a committee that will seek both a short-term solution for the flooding issue and a long-term fix as well.
Members of the committee will include someone from CCS and the DOT, along with town representatives, including Beth Brown, who is in charge of storm water, and Don Sisko, who heads the town's public works department.
Warner said having representatives from all three groups will help make it easier to find a solution rapidly.
There is already a previous plan, drawn up in 2011, that could be modified to provide a solution to the flooding, Warner said. It needs to be explored to see if funding for dealing with the problem can come from DOT, the town of Hope Mills or the school system.
There will also be a question for funding ongoing expense if a retention pond and filtration system are placed on the school property, Warner said. "We'll let the committee make some recommendations and bring them back to the board,'' Warner said.


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Legal Scholarship Workshop
This is a workshop designed for Junior Researchers from across the University. All nontenured professors, fellows, and students are welcome at all sessions even if they do not wish to read the papers. 1Ls interested in academia are also welcome. Senior faculty are welcome at the sessions after asking Professor Bernstein.
This year the Legal Scholarship Workshop will feature speakers from many different stages in their careers doing many different types of legal and interdisciplinary scholarship—including law and economics, law and philosophy, law and sociology, and law and organizational sociology. This will help us understand the unique benefits and challenges of writing and presenting in these different areas, and the types of topics that are best suited to junior and senior scholars. Most sessions have two presentations (two are extended by a half hour). We now have many speakers coming live while others will be virtual. This might change as the situation and rules change, but since both mediums are likely to be used by Universities even when the pandemic is a distant memory, learning how to present both live and on zoom is a useful skill to have.
Legal Scholarship Workshop: Simone Sepe (live), Professor, University of Chicago School of Law, (with Alan Schwartz, Sterling Professor, Yale Law School)
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Will raising the age for required withdrawals from your retirement account make a difference?
The Secure Act, which passed the House of Representatives, aims to increase the age for required minimum distributions to 72 from 70 1/2. Will this change be impactful for you? Currently, retirees are required to begin distributions from retirement accounts (IRA's, 403b's, 401k's) the year in which they turn 70.5. Withdrawals typically start at about 3.65% of your prior year end balance and go up from there. By the time you reach 80 years of age, your RMD is close to 5% of your balance annually. For those who do not need the distributions, there are limited options available. You can donate your RMD as a qualified charitable distribution to avoid taxation (check with your CPA each year to make sure the IRS is still offering this option), or you can move the money into a taxable investment account for reinvestment and pay the required taxes. If allowed additional years to defer your RMD, that may help your funds last longer. If you have any questions about your account or withdrawal strategy, please give your Portfolio Manager a call. We are happy to help!
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If you could delay making required withdrawals from your retirement accounts until age 72 instead of 70½, what would the effect be? While you may end up with more savings as a result, the difference probably wouldn't be enough to make or break your retirement, financial advisors say.
As part of the Secure Act, a bill before Congress that aims to improve the nation's retirement savings, the age at which you must begin taking required minimum distributions (or RMDs) from retirement accounts would increase by 18 months. "It really wouldn't make that much difference for most people," said certified financial planner Mark Wilson, president of MILE Wealth Management in Irvine, California. "Most people can't afford to delay taking money from their accounts anyway."
The Secure Act was passed by the House of Representatives in late May and now awaits Senate action. In addition to increasing the age for RMDs, the bill would make it easier for small businesses to band together to offer 401(k) plans; require businesses to let long-term, part-time workers become eligible for retirement benefits; and repeal the maximum age for making contributions to traditional individual retirement accounts (right now, it's 70½). It also would make it easier for annuities to be offered in retirement plans.
Whether all of the provisions will make it into a final measure agreed upon by both chambers of Congress is uncertain. And other retirement bills in the mix that seek additional changes — including one that proposes an RMD age of 75 — are unlikely to gain any traction until legislators are able to finalize the Secure Act. Required withdrawals apply to 401(k) plans — both traditional and the Roth version — and similar workplace plans, as well as most individual retirement accounts (Roth IRAs do not come with required withdrawals until after the account owner's death).
Current law says you have to take your first RMD for the year in which you turn 70½, although it can be delayed until April 1 of the following year. In all subsequent years — including the one when you take your first RMD by April 1, if you go that route — you must take the required amount by Dec. 31. If you're working and contributing to a retirement plan sponsored by your employer, RMDs do not apply to that particular account until you retire. The amount you must withdraw is basically determined by dividing the balance of each qualifying account by your life expectancy as defined by the IRS.
Advisors say that if you were to leave the money in the account to continue growing, the higher balance at age 72 would mean a higher RMD — both because of the higher balance and a shorter life expectancy than at age 70½. "If the life expectancy tables aren't changed, you'd just have to withdraw a larger amount," said Kristi Sullivan, a CFP and owner of Sullivan Financial Planning in Denver.
However, a later RMD age could potentially allow wealthier people extra time to do some tax planning to minimize the impact of those withdrawals when they do need to take them. For example, some advisors recommend moving money to a Roth IRA from a traditional IRA or 401(k). While you'd have to pay taxes on the amount converted, you'd pay no taxes on those Roth withdrawals down the road. And, you can spread that conversion over several years to minimize the annual tax impact.
At the same time, however, the Secure Act also proposes changing the rules that apply to inherited retirement accounts — the so-called stretch IRA. It would require most nonspouse beneficiaries to withdraw the money within 10 years of the original account owner's death. Right now, the amount that must be withdrawn by those beneficiaries is based on their own life expectancy — which often is far longer than a decade. "Losing the stretch IRA would change a lot of planning," Wilson said.
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As people may be aware, a 'WordPress theme' is like a suit and tie for WordPress. The default WordPress comes with its own theme, which is plain and ready for you to customise to suit your needs.
Because most people are not proficient in HTML, CSS or PHP and prefer to save a few dollars where they can, they sometimes choose to purchase a pre-made theme from one of the many websites that sell their themes for anywhere from $10 to $200.
Some people believe if you are purchasing a cheap pre-made theme for your professional business, your website won't be taken seriously. But this is not always the case.
Some start-up businesses simply do not have the funds to spend up big on branding and marketing and need to build a web presence on the cheap – so they buy an inexpensive theme and pay someone in India to make any changes for them.
For some businesses this will be adequate, as they are not looking to stand out from the crowd with their website, they simply want to come across as professional enough to get by.
We have worked with WordPress themes for people who already use them for their website, or are seeking to purchase one they like the look of, and require someone to make the necessary changes to it.
What we do find, in many cases, is that pre-made themes are heavy and bloated, have too many options and are difficult to wrangle or customise.
Because a pre-made theme is made for everyone, it is not tailored to any particular business and as a result, includes every possible feature under the sun. This adds 'weight' to the code, pushing up load times and if you don't have speedy web hosting, your website may load excruciatingly slowly.
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UPDATE: CAPSTONE successfully deployed solar arrays. NASA continues to resume communications
UPDATE 10:30 am Los Angeles time: "Mission operators have re-established contact with NASA's Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft. Additional updates will be provided," said NASA
Very good news from NASA regarding the CAPSTONE spacecraft.
NASA's Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) has successfully deployed its solar networks, was stabilized and began charging its onboard battery, according to a post on the NASA blog.
But, even so, the communication problems encountered recently, led to the postponement of a maneuver to correct the trajectory of the spacecraft, scheduled for July 5.
In addition, there is another problem for the NASA team that coordinates the CAPSTONE spacecraft and that the little data doesn't show exactly how fast the spacecraft travels through space and its approximate position.
There have been losses of contact between NASA and one of its spacecraft or satellites in the past, but in most cases, contact was resumed.
That's what NASA is doing now, trying to resume communications with CAPSTONE, and most likely the space agency will have success.
Let's hope this will happen and they don't lose control of the spaceship at all, because this could affect the Artemis program.


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'I don't know which school my child has to go to': Limpopo parents await placement for kids
Russel Molefe, correspondent
Limpopo Department of Education is still facing the challenge of placing pupils.
The Limpopo education department is still struggling to place some children ahead of the new school year.
Pupils are set to return to inland schools on Wednesday.
One parent said she was frustrated and could not plan anything because of the delay.
The Limpopo Department of Education is still facing the challenge of placing pupils on the eve of inland schools reopening on Wednesday.
Department spokesperson Mike Maringa described the situation as "overwhelming", with a high number of parents turning out at various circuit offices on Tuesday seeking placement for their children.
The hardest hit areas were the Pietersburg and Ellisras circuits in the Capricorn and Waterberg districts, respectively, due to various reasons such as relocation of parents, late applications and parents wanting their children placed in a school of their choice.
"The department is working around the clock to ensure that every learner is placed for the academic year 2023.
"The department will first process applications received between May and [the] end of July last year. Parents who applied for internal grades last year will be assisted between Thursday and Friday this week," Maringa said.
READ | Back-to-school clock is ticking as more than 1 300 pupils seek placement
Though the department earlier warned it would not entertain the issue of a school of choice by parents, it had now announced the matter would be addressed on Monday.
At the beginning of the 2022 academic year, a large group of parents stormed the head office in Polokwane and held the head of department and other officials hostage over the issue of pupil placement.
Some parents hanging around the circuit office in Polokwane on Tuesday - and who spoke to News24 - expressed frustration at the department's slow pace.
Sophie Sebola said she applied for the placement of her child within a stipulated period, but did not receive any response.
Sebola added:
It is something like this that frustrates some of us. It disrupts all the planning because I don't even know at this moment which school my child has to go to and what are the expectations there.
The SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) in the province said it believed "things will go according to plan" during the start of the academic year.
Speaking to News24 on Tuesday, Sadtu provincial secretary Sowell Tjebane said teachers started reporting for duty on Monday.
READ | Parent frustrated as child remains unplaced despite early online application
However, Tjebane was concerned about all the required stationery and other materials being delivered to schools.
"Year on year, we were informed about the [stationery] delivery, but this year we were never taken on board. We will embark on our method of gathering information. We will have a clear picture on Friday."
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On this page you will find a full tutorial, which will guide you through the different functionalities of the Tikkie Fast Checkout API. You can also use this Postman Collection to learn and explore what you can do with the Tikkie Fast Checkout API.
Tikkie Fast Checkout API uses a so called 'merchant token' for authentication. To use the API, you need to obtain this merchant token. For production a token will be provided to you during the on boarding process. In the Sandbox environment however you can create a merchant token yourself using below API call.
merchantToken String Body true The token that can be used to access the API.
The following tutorials will assume you have a valid API key and Merchant Token.
After obtaining your merchant token, you can call the endpoint of the Tikkie Fast Checkout API. Below steps will go through the process of creating an order, finalizing the payment and then checking the status of the order.
This operation will create a new order. When the customer of your (web)shop visits the checkout page this operation needs to be called in order to generate the URL needed for the 'Tikkie Fast Checkout' button.
Body The payload, containing the details of the order. See the technical details for a full specification of the format.
Of the return attributes, the checkoutUrl is of special importance since this is the value that you need to provide to your customer in order to pay. For our tutorial we can now copy/paste this url and open it in our browser. We can now finish the payment in our sandbox environment. Once the payment is done proceed to the next step.
This operation will fetch the order for a given orderToken and return its status. It will also include payer information if the order was paid for. Typically you will not use this operation if your web application supports webhooks.


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2012 Legislative Leadership Series
All this week, KUNC State Capitol Reporter Bente Birkland will be speaking with with four key House and Senate leaders to talk about their expectations and priorities for the upcoming session.
How One Fee Can Impact The Whole Of Colorado's State Budget
Published January 12, 2017 at 6:30 AM MST
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The interior of the Colorado state capitol building's gold dome. This picture was taken June 20, 2005.
Colorado lawmakers are required to pass a balanced state budget every legislative session, but that could prove challenging for the 2016 -2017 fiscal year. The governor's office of state planning and budgeting submitted a budget proposal to lawmakers last fall. They've identified over $926 million in funding needs mandated by new constitutional and statutory demands on the general fund, which makes up the largest part of the budget. But the revenue doesn't match up.
"We identified over $926 million of needs against only $426 million in available money, so we had a $500 million gap that we had to close," said Henry Sobanet, director of the governor's office of state planning and budgeting.
To understand Colorado's state budget constraints, you have to understand the taxpayer bill of rights, also known as TABOR. Under the constitutional amendment passed in 1992 by state voters, Colorado officials have to get voter approval to raise or implement new taxes. It also caps state revenue with an equation. If the state collects taxes above the inflation rate plus population growth, taxpayers get the surplus money back - unless voters say the government can keep it.
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It helps to think of TABOR like a glass. The bottom portion of the glass is taken up with cash funds that the state collects from fees, including the hospital provider fee. The middle of the glass comes from the income and sales taxes the state collects in the general fund.
As the fees portion of the glass fills up, the easier it is for the general fund to spill over the top -- triggering more money in TABOR refunds -- something the governor's office wants to keep from happening because of the existing funding gap.
Under the proposed $28.5 billion budget, the collections of the hospital provider fee will be reduced by $195 million, preventing state revenue from exceeding the TABOR limit.
"All the money counts toward the same [TABOR] limit, but when we pay rebates we can't use the hospital fee for the rebates so we have to carve out money in the general fund to pay for growth in the hospital fee program," said Sobanet.
"So we've proposed limiting the hospital fee program to bring the total amount of money underneath the total limit. That saves money in the general fund, which pays for the regular Medicaid program, K-12 education, higher education, and public safety issues like department of corrections, mental health. So that's how we're managing it now."
It's a strategy legislators have used before. The problem, according to Sobanet, is that the hospital provider fee is counted toward the TABOR limit, taking up more and more of the glass.
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Henry Sobanet, director of the office of state planning and budgeting.
It's a per-patient fee charged to hospitals that is used to pay for health care for people who can't afford insurance plans and offset some of the costs of Medicaid. It's matched dollar for dollar by the federal government, but the state doesn't get to keep the money, it gets redistributed back to hospitals.
"I think the TABOR limit that we have from referendum C is pretty manageable. The design of the hospital fee program is why we are bumping up against that limit. The rest of state government is below population plus inflation growth since the Great Recession," Sobanet said.
For the past two legislative sessions, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Democrats and some Republicans in the legislature have tried to make a permanent solution to the hospital provider fee issue. They wanted to put the fee into a separate enterprise fund, which would put the money in its own glass where it wouldn't contribute toward TABOR limits. The measure was defeated in the Republican-controlled Senate. Some Republicans like TABOR, and would rather have the money go back to taxpayers than into funding government services.
Changing the hospital provider fee to a separate fund may not happen in the 2017 session since Republicans retained control of the state Senate in the November 2016 election.
"I think TABOR is the limit that people wanted, and I think if the hospital fee were designed differently the growth of the state would generate the tax revenue we could use to pay for the services people want," Sobanet said.
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Q: To check if all the files exists in a folder using powershell Hi I am new to powershell.
I have a folder 2017 which has 12 subfolders( from Jan to Dec). Inside the subfolders, there are many more folders(Eg Jan will have 31 folders, Feb will have 28 folders, March will have 31 folder and so on). Inside these folders there will be 10 files. I need to write a script wherein I have to loop inside these folders,subfolders and check if these 10 files are present. Can anyone please guide me?
I will need to add conditions like: If the 2017 folder does not have 12 files then fail, if the Jan folder does not have 31 folders then fail, if the files within these 31 folders are not present then again a failure(there will be 10 files inside each of the 31 folders). Any suggestions on how this can be implemented?
Please let me know if there is any information that is required.
Thank you.

A: Code to to meet the specification is pretty simple in PowerShell -- if you really only need to "FAIL".
Though the simplest version (shown first) doesn't indicate the failure location, there's a simple enhancement suggestion at the bottom for filtering for the failing directories:
$BasePath = 'C:\'   # Parent of the 2017 directory
#  *\*\*  --> MONTHS\DAYS\FILES
$totals = dir "$BasePath\2017\*\*\*" -file      |
          Group-Object directoryname -noElement |
          measure count -minimum -maximum -sum

IF ($Totals.Sum -ne 3650 -or $Totals.Maximum -ne 10 -or $Totals.Minimum -ne 10) {
  "FAIL"
} else {
  "Succeed"
}
$Totals  # just show the totals if you wish

The 3 asterisks in the search Path are wildcards for the three directory levels: :  MONTH level, DAY level, and FILES. 2017***
Many PowerShell cmdlets allow full wildcarding in multiple 'directory' elements of a a path specification.

*

*MONTH level (the 12 months of the year)

*DAY level (28-31 depending on month)

*FILE level (should be 10 each)

The final file pattern could be changed to something like "*.log" or whatever will match  a correctly added file.
Each 'day' directory should have 10 files, and in 2017 there were 365 days * 10 files per days so the total expected is 3650 (easy to add a check for leap year if you need to check 2016 or 2020 etc.)
If shown, Group-Object output (for my 'C:\Program Files' directory) looks like this:
Count Name
----- ----
  203
   12 C:\Program Files\7-Zip
    3 C:\Program Files\Appli...
   18 C:\Program Files\Beyon...
    4 C:\Program Files\Bonjour
   20 C:\Program Files\Class...
   ...

Measure-Object output (stored in $Totals) looks like this:
Count    : 41
Average  :
Sum      : 747
Maximum  : 203
Minimum  : 1
Property : Count

Since every directory must have 10 files, each should have exactly 10 DIRECTORY names (in the GROUP-OBJECT count) therefore the MINIMUM and MAXIMUM must both be 10.
You could identify the failing directories by filtering the Group-Object results with
| Where-Object Count -ne 10

Enjoy.


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