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A beta-1,3-glucanase secreted by Stachybotrys elegans, when grown on minimal synthetic medium containing Rhizoctonia solani cell wall fragments, was purified to homogeneity. The purification method involved ammonium sulfate precipitation and ion-exchange and size-exclusion chromatographies. The molecular mass of the enzyme was estimated under denaturing conditions to be about 94 kDa. The enzyme had an optimum pH of 5.0 and was most active between 40 and 50 degree C. Except for Mn-2+, the enzyme activity was not sensitive to the metal ions tested and K-m of 0.18mg/ml was estimated for laminarin as a substrate. Cell wall lytic activity of purified beta-1,3-glucanase was tested on actively growing R. solani hyphae. beta-1,3-Glucanase induced morphological changes such as hyphal tip swelling, bursting, leakage of cytoplasm, and formation of numerous septae.
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May 23, 2012 by trialbyjeory
Well, there's more to this crane and banner than meets the eye, it seems. Much more. I haven't witnessed it myself yet but I'm told Tower Hamlets council has now done a U-turn and removed the banner from the crane because the owner popped up and threatened legal action. There is also a second banner on the gates of the Bangla City cash and carry that I understand will also be removed fairly sharpish.
On that second banner, I've been sent a fascinating email exchange between a Helal Rahman and a certain Chris Payne. I'll reproduce it here in chronological order.
May 17, 6.58pm
Thank you for your email. The banner has already been installed and it is quite nice except the picture of the Mayor which resembles likes a piece of propaganda manifesto from a third world country. If we were aware that this picture was going to play such a prominent feature in the banner, we would have never agreed for this to be hung on our gate. This does not give a good image of the council's cultural activities, as this is not the norm of an average council in the UK.
I hope that you understand our disappointment.
May 18, 11.40am
Dear Helal,
Thank you for your email below and I am pleased that you like the banner, though I do note your reservation regarding the image of the Mayor.
I have copied this reply to Takki Sulaiman, Head of Communications for London Borough of Tower Hamlets so he can register your disappointment.
Fortuna Associates
Thank you for your response. My partners have expressed their strong feelings against the current banner and would like to request you to either replace it with the copy that you initially sent to us or for you to take it away completely. We have no problems with the previous image which was proposed to us and feel disappointed that we were deceived such manner.
If you decide to change the banner to the original image please do it as soon as possible otherwise we would like you to remove it within three working days.
Thank you for your email below, and I am pleased to be able to tell you that we will arrange for the removal of the Curry Capital banners with the Mayor's image and replace them with banners without his image. We will do this as soon as possible, I am issuing instructions immediately after this email.
We will do our utmost to have this done as quickly as possible though please do bear with me on this.
What do we learn from this? Helal Rahman is, I'm told, the former Labour councillor who owns the Bangla City cash and carry. He had been approached by Chris Payne about installing a banner advertising the area as the Carry Capital 2012. Chris showed him a design that had no photo of the mayor and he agreed to it.
However, some time later, the Lutfur logo banner was installed, and to say it caused a degree of outrage is an understatement.
So who is Chris Payne? Well, longstanding readers of this blog and my former column in the East London Advertiser will know him as the advertising manager for the council's East End Life newspaper. At one point he actually headed up the council's communications department.
The last time I saw him was last October at the Curry Life Chef of the Year Awards where the likes of Eric Pickles and other MPs were guests. It was a Sunday evening and at the time I did think it odd he was there. Having spoken to him this morning, I now know why. He left the council last September and a month later established his new company, Fortuna Associates.
What does Fortuna do, I asked him. "It's a consultancy specialising in income generation with public and private sector clients." Advertising, then? "Yes. Raising money from advertising, marketing, sales and sponsorship opportunities."
Was he commissioned by the council to work on the banner? "Yes, and for anything else on that, you need to speak to Takki Sulaiman. I've been working on this project since March."
So he leaves the council, sets up his own consultancy and then starts touting for business from his former East End Life advertising clients in Brick Lane, and then five months later secures a deal to publicise the mayor from his former boss, Takki Sulaiman.
Chris told me no rules have been broken. I've asked the Department for Communities and Local Government for those rules. I've also asked the council how Chris's contract was advertised and whether it was a tender.
It would also be interesting to know the value of that contract, why the photo of Lutfur was added to the banner, and how much it has cost the council to install and then take down,
Why is our council so consistently incompetent?
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on May 23, 2012 at 2:12 pm HarveyMilk Jr.
Ah, former Cllr Helal Rahman who was deselected as a Cllr then expelled by the Labour Party for standing against them in 2006 and then permitted to rejoin late last year after his 5 years was up. If he keeps this up I'm sure his anti Mayor rhetoric will be noted and rewarded. I wonder whether they'll be so forgiving for other people who were booted out.
I'm quite surprised that there are no rules against this sort of revolving door nonsense it all looks a little odd. It would be really interesting to find out how much these contracts were worth, but I don't think they need to have a reason to want to plonk the Mayors face on stuff I would have thought the rationale behind that was obvious. Takki Sulaiman seems to come up a lot I'm surprised he's still in a job.
on May 24, 2012 at 1:22 am Rotten politics
This is a clear breach of council procurement policy. [CONTENT REMOVED FOR LEGAL REASONS]. This contract was not tendered or advertised anywhere.
It seems the Mayor is only concerned about his photo and not interested in any policy details or why would he allow the useless Takki Sulieman to do what he likes. It's unbelievable Takki has managed to hold on to his job for so long, he is clueless!
on May 23, 2012 at 2:19 pm You couldn't make it up!
Is Chris a tax expert as well?
You didn't mention the issue of whether or not this ex-officer of the Council is now wholly working for the Council or not and/or whether this might be seen as a device for avoiding the payment of tax.
I've no knowledge of whether or not this is relevant but since you will undoubtedly be asking a lot of Freedom of Information questions I thought I'd just throw this thought in for good measure.
Especially since Danny Alexander is now tracking down all civil servants paid other than via the government payroll
see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9283197/Dozens-of-civil-servants-paid-off-pay-roll-for-over-10-years-Danny-Alexander-to-announce-and-they-will-not-be-named.html
But maybe this notion might be a good topic for another blog post – especially given some of your other posts of late…..
My recollection is that all those who are working largely or wholly for one client lose the right to deem themselves self-employed. Ditto the 'employer' is not absolved from the requirement to pay employers NI. Back tax which is unpaid is always payable and fines can also be levied for late payment and any attempt to avoid payment.
Is this the tip of a very dirty iceberg?
on May 23, 2012 at 2:53 pm Newspaniard
Is "incompetent" the right word, Ted?
on May 23, 2012 at 8:02 pm the madmullahofbricklane
Is Harvey Milk Junior really Jenny Fisher. If so she/he is a real pain in the arse, if that isn't all sorts of things!
on May 23, 2012 at 8:39 pm SylhetyManosh
This is the beginning of all the farce yet to come. The cronies and their dear leader are all ready squabbling of who can milk which cow. This farce has cost 3 grand to the council tax payer , at least. But they could have paid their friend double that. We all may feel like victors, by support of petitions and emails. In the end the Mayor was forced by the proprietors threat of legal action. If the proprietor had given permission, no way would they have u-turned, on basis of crime against art.
on May 24, 2012 at 8:30 am Hugh Barnard
Well as we well know, LBTH doesn't care much for rules, especially the [old and new] publicity rules: http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/localgovernment/1841578 the central problem being no process for enforcement and no checks and balances or transparency whatsoever in the 'so-called' council and mayoralty. I think this case is demonstrated here, in that it was private legal action not due process that changed this.
on May 24, 2012 at 10:25 am Nomouse
Yes, it appears Chris Payne of Fortuna Associates has exposed the council to this possible legal action from the owners. Why didn't he obtain permission from the Hanbury St owner(s), as he did with the Brick Lane owners? Why did he not clear the changes to the banner with the owners before it went up? This is just basic stuff. And why should we pay for these fundamental mistakes – if the owners in Hanbury St do find the damage and prove trespass? Mr Payne should pay for this out of his private consultancy pocket – perhaps Fortuna Associates (who else is in this – more council ex-employees?) has insurance to take care of this.
His contract with TH council should be terminated – but it would still be good to know how he obtained this lucrative(?) contract.
on May 24, 2012 at 1:42 pm Nomouse
Okay, so there is an article in the ELA where "Mr Hussain [owner of 49 Hanbury Street] says he only gave permission for a small notice to be put up—not the huge hoarding that appeared which totally covered the artwork."
So perhaps Mr Payne is responsible here as well for receiving permission from an owner for a banner which was subsequently changed. Why on earth did he not clear the changes with the owners? Fortuna have to provide answers here and the council must confirm that residents will not be picking up the tab for this. Just taking it down has cost thousands, before any legal action. And why does the planning application have that strange note about ownership written on it, when Mr Hussain had already been found and was in discussions with Fortuna/the council? This is the ELA article:
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/mayor_rahman_removes_2012_hoarding_blocking_roa_s_crane_mural_after_protests_1_1387183
on May 24, 2012 at 11:53 pm Lex
It 'Paynes' me to say, nice enough guy as he is, those who know Chris Payne will no doubt vouch for Chris's notable lack of attention to detail. It got him into trouble when he was an officer and it's got him into trouble now.
Other than the critical questions that Ted and the other commentators raise about planning issues and how Chris Paynes business Ventura secured this contract so soon after leaving the Council, what I find interesting is why the Mayor awarded Chris/ Ventura this contract and not to one of his Bengali or IFE supporters. I would have thought his friend Mujib of Media Link Worldwide would have been pre-eminently placed to undertake such a contract, especially given that Mujib ran Lutfur Rahmans Mayoral media campaign. The Mayor owes him.
There are probably two reasons why the Mayor did not consider giving it to Mujib:
1. The Mayor has decided to work with more white people (ones he can manipulate and control) because he has run out of Bengali ones.
2. To deflect attention away from the common perception that the Mayor only works with and concerned about one ethnic group.
Lex, You are almost there. While Lutfur is not Intelligent he is crafty and devious, I make distinctions between them, he does have around him some sycophantic whites who take the shilling, give advice and make the place look good who are able to say to him, at times, don't do that it will rebound. He doesn't often take the advice.
He is also bright enough to know that Media Link and the Bangla media are enough to present him as a victim of institutionalised racism to Bangladeshis but in the wider world Media Link simply cannot hack it.
He is however caught up in being a third world political cacique who uses and abuses power. His real power base is in the IFE and with the businessmen who have backed him financially.
What seems to be happening is that even though he puts work out to white contractors who are former employees even they can't do the job properly. Payne is obviously inept in that he showed a banner to Bangla City which they agreed with and then put up another with Lutfur's picture on. I understand from contacts in Brick Lane that the banner is going to be changed for one that doesn't have Lutfur's photo.
If that happens it will be a major embarrassment for him in the world outside of the Bangladeshi community but as none of this ever gets reported in the Bangladeshi media he doesn't really care as at the end of the day he can afford, failing criminal charges for financial fraud or vote rigging, to ignore that wider world.
With Livingstone gone he has no chance of getting back into the Labour Party. The extreme left in the shape of Jon Landesman of Left Futures and his ilk can be ignored as they are utterly marginal themselves as will be their pleas for him to be re-admitted.
Failing those criminal charges his position with bought and non existent votes is unassailable. He has created a a personal fiefdom which it is difficult or impossible to dislodge him from and a great deal of the blame lies at the door of Livingstone, the far left and the powers that be which have refused to clamp down on the vote rigging and membership list packing years ago. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
I see there are no comments from the extreme left on what is going on on Tower Hamlets. When Lutfur wad elected it was an almost similar situation to when Respect gained those twelve seats. That is that the revolution was around the corner and the masses were finally going to rise up and make the revolution. Hmmm?
All quite now Messrs Maccurry, Landesman, Ui'Driscoil, Mismadewell and others.
Thought I would share this with you all. http://www.hurryupharry.org/2011/04/05/this -shames-labour/
And some news just in from Bangladesh. Police in Dacca working with British Border Security have arrested 19 people arriving at the British High Commission in the Bangladeshi capital seeking visas for last weeks Mela in East London.
All of the documents presented were,. it seems, forged and all said they had been charged £10 000 for them. The arrangement was that they would travel to the UK for the Mela and then simply disappear.
Allegations of this nature in relation to the Mela are not new and it was one of reasons why the festival was taken away from Lutfur Rahman financial backer the curry king of Brick Lane Siraj Uddin.
When Lutfur became Mayor he handed the festival back to Siraj. Questions need to be asked as to where the £190 000 has gone.
@ Lex
1. It's Fortuna Associates Ltd, not Ventura…unless director Chris Payne has done a swift name change to avoid any obligations after his Fortuna f*up?
2. You say Mr Payne suffers from a persistent lack of attention to detail. That's rather kind to your ex-colleague, isn't it? Besides his "planning issues" (is that his writing on the dodgy planning application?) there are legal issues in possible damage to the wall on Hanbury St and – if the vacant land next door is not also owned by 49/the restaurant – then there is possible trespass, and possible damage to a party wall.
3. You say "The Mayor has decided to work with more white people (ones he can manipulate and control)". How is Mr Payne someone who can be controlled and manipulated when he went so spectacularly out of control, so quickly on his first(?) contract for the council? And when he has a track record of not being attentive to detail in his work?
This company director didn't get final approval from two owners for significant changes in the size and content, and in the Hanbury St instance, location, of this banner. He possibly is responsible for that inaccurate planning application. Thousands of pounds are now being spent fixing two banners of eight that he is responsible for.
At least we are shot of this [CONTENT EDITED FOR LEGAL REASONS] officer who could afford not to pay much attention to detail when we were paying for his lapses. Just assure us Lex, that Fortuna Associates Ltd will be paying for this, and any potential legal costs. Not us.
Mr Payne greedily felt a consultancy beckoning him; a jump to the private sector to sell his prodigious talents back to us at a vastly increased cost. There are possible pitfalls in this kind of thing, though. Please tell this "nice enough" company director.
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Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a daily briefing in Beijing that the U.S. is making false accusations, insisting that China was committed to a moratorium on nuclear tests.
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The State Department report does not prove that China violated nuclear test ban treaties, but says there is disturbing evidence of secret activity at the remote Lop Nur test site in the western province of Xinjiang.
Lop Nur was China's sole nuclear testing site until 1996 when both China and the U.S. signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and vowed to adhere to its terms.
Now, the U.S. State Department says that suspicious activity at the site throughout 2019 raises concerns that Beijing is breaching the treaty's "zero yield" standard for test blasts.
Zero yield refers to a nuclear test in which there is no explosive chain reaction of the type ignited by the detonation of a nuclear warhead.
"China's possible preparation to operate its Lop Nur test site year-round, its use of explosive containment chambers, extensive excavation activities at Lop Nur and a lack of transparency on its nuclear testing activities ... raise concerns regarding its adherence to the zero yield standard," the State Department report said.
Beijing's lack of transparency included blocking data transmissions from sensors linked to a monitoring center operated by the international agency that verifies compliance with a treaty banning nuclear test explosions.
The 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) allows activities designed to ensure the safety of nuclear weapons.
A spokeswoman for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, which verifies compliance with the pact, told the Wall Street Journal there had been no interruptions in data transmissions from China's five sensor stations since the end of August 2019 following an interruption that began in 2018.
A senior U.S. official said the concerns about China's testing activities buttressed President Trump's case for getting China to join the United States and Russia in talks on an arms control accord to replace the 2010 New START treaty between Washington and Moscow that expires in February.
New START restricted the United States and Russia to deploying no more than 1,550 nuclear warheads, the lowest level in decades, and limited the land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers that deliver them.
"The pace and manner by which the Chinese government is modernizing its stockpile is worrying, destabilizing, and illustrates why China should be brought into the global arms control framework," said the senior U.S. official on condition of anonymity.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a daily briefing in Beijing: "China has always adopted a responsible attitude, earnestly fulfilling the international obligations and promises it has assumed.
"The U.S. criticism of China is entirely groundless, without foundation, and not worth refuting."
A military parade shows China's Dongfeng 21D anti-ship ballistic missiles, capable of traveling more than 1,500 kilometers
China, estimated to have about 300 nuclear weapons, has repeatedly rejected Trump's proposal, arguing its nuclear force is defensive and poses no threat.
Russia, France, and Britain - three of the world's five internationally recognized nuclear powers - signed and ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which still requires ratification by 44 countries to become international law.
China and the United States are among eight signatories that have not ratified it.
But China has declared its adherence to its terms, while the United States has observed a unilateral testing moratorium since 1992.
It comes after President Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. is trying to determine whether the coronavirus first crossed to humans accidentally during experiments with bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab.
After information about the outbreak finally became public, Chinese leaders were quick to blame Wuhan's "wet market" where wild animals -- though not bats -- are sold for consumption, leading one source to tell Fox News the debacle is the "costliest government coverup of all time."
"Patient zero" worked at the Wuhan lab, and spread the virus into the local population after leaving work, sources who had been briefed on intelligence told the outlet.
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Lawyers for the 23-year-old German student sentenced on Tuesday to 12 months in prison have announced they will lodge an appeal against the verdict.
Josef S. was found guilty of breaching the peace, serious property damage and aggravated assault during protests against Vienna's right-wing Akademikerball (Academic's Ball) in January this year.
Of the one year sentence, four months were unconditional, with the remaining eight given as a suspended sentence.
Josef, accused of being a member of the extreme-left Black Bloc (Schwarze Block), has already spent almost six months in custody since being arrested on the night of the ball.
Clemens Breitlahner and Kristin Pietrzyk, lawyers for the convicted student, confirmed in a written statement to the Austrian Press Agency on Thursday that they will appeal to have his conviction overturned.
When asked what chances he thought they had, Breitlahner told the magazine Datum, that when a person lodges an appeal within three days of the verdict, the court is required to draw up a written judgement.
"We will carefully review the written judgement and try to find the errors," said Breitlahner. "I'm curious to know exactly how this verdict is justified."
The Vienna Regional Criminal Court's verdict has been sharply criticized by many quarters, including the anti-fascist organisation Offensive Against Justice (Offensive gegen Rechts), the Socialist Youth (SJ), and also the Greens.


Vaxcel Lighting has great styles with coordinated collections so it is easy to mix and match ceiling fixtures with vanity lights, lamps and wall sconces with ceiling fans, and even carry a theme through from interior lighting to exterior lighting. With twenty years of experience, this company blends woods, metals, and stone to create unique lighting in a variety of styles. Interesting finishes include Athenian bronze, oiled shale, coal patina, and gilded white gold.
These fixtures are not directly attached to the ceiling like flush mounts. They are suspended on short stems and provide more light for a room. The greater illumination is the result of light reflecting off the ceiling and casting an ambient light. Hanging lights, like pendants, drum styles, and chandeliers, offer the brightest type of light, but are not always appropriate for the center of the room. If the ceiling is not high enough to accommodate a hanging light, a semi flush mount is the next best thing.
Homeowners have to gauge the size of the room, the purpose of the lighting, and the height of the people in the house in order to decide which lighting to use. If the center light will be over a dining room table, for example, then it can hang lower because no one will be walking under it. There is less risk of someone hitting their head on the chandelier if it is over the table. Some rooms will not have enough light with a flush mount, so a semi flush or a hanging light is needed. High-vaulted ceilings, for example, are not good for flush mounts because there will not be enough light for the room.
Vaxcel Lighting has an extensive collection of semi flush mounts that will suit any decor. The Lodge collection features designs in woods, such as black walnut and light pine. The rustic style of the Bozeman collection offers lights with metal cutouts that depict moose, bears, trees, and eagles on the semi flush mounts. Stone is also featured in some of the transitional collection called Carlisle.
Vaxcel Lighting has many different types of outdoor lighting to increase the safety and security of the driveway, porch, patio, deck, front pathway, and the back yard. Address lights can help visitors, delivery or service vans, and emergency vehicles find the house. Lanterns and posts can avoid trips and falls, and landscape lighting can show off that garden all night long.
Styles are as beautiful as they are functional. Large center lighting and outdoor ceiling fans are available for that huge deck, outdoor kitchen, or large patio. Gas outdoor lighting is also available among the collections for exterior lighting. The options for lighting outdoors can all be coordinated within collections or mixed and matched among different collections. That provides homeowners with more choices for all the rooms inside the home and all the areas outside.
It is not possible to coordinate lighting designs if it is not possible to see all the designs, finishes, and glass types. Shopping at physical stores limit the options due to lack of space. There is simply no room to display everything, and no room to store all that inventory. Shopping online provides customers with the opportunity to see options from several manufacturers, and to see designs in all finishes and sizes available.


As I consider today being Valentine's Day, I'm struck with the statement, "God is love". This statement is so powerful, I can't wrap my mind around a comparison.
Imagine saying "Lisa is love". That just doesn't work. I'm too messed up – I'm too selfish.
But saying "God is love" is so true. All of his actions ladder up to that characteristic, and he is capable of being all that is wrapped up in that incredibly complex and contradictory little word. He has loved us, despite action or inaction. He has loved us, before we were even created to be loved. That is mind blowing.
Today is a day when we should realize the imperfections of human love for a reason. If Valentine's Day is a let down, it's only because we are searching for a love that is perfect, unblemished. We are looking for a love that completes us, and that is only available from God.
My prayer for today and the years to come is that I would "come to know and to believe the love that God has for us" (1 John 5:21).


they probably are not aliens, more likely perfectly natural occurrences form black holes, pulsars neutron stars and the like.
What is the point of an alien culture creating a fast burst signal only once, these dont appear to be repeating signals. those that have been picked up come from different regions.
There are no UFOs to save us!


Please note as Wednesday July 4, 2007 is a federal holiday; the Iowa City Public Library will be closed on Wednesday and so the July meeting is scheduled to take place on Tuesday July 3, 2007.
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Using rebar3 with Docker – Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
I prefer to avoid installing dev tools on my laptop. I used to create a separate Vagrant instance for each project, but using Docker should provide a lighter weight alternative.
Annoyingly, rebar assumes that it should create the folder for the project, so you'll need to move all the generated files up a level (or put up with an extra subdir). Also, the generated files are owned by root, so you probably want to chown the entire dir.


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Q: Filter array with multiple properties while catering to undefined terms I need to filter an array by 4 object properties based on user input but sometimes user can choose to enter only 1, 2 or 3 terms which gives undefined on properties the user did not enter.
const myTableData = [
    {
        'date': '2020-05-16',
        'duration': 247,
        'low_temp': 373.0,
        'high_temp': 388.0,
        'type': 'XD'
    },
    {
        'date': '2020-05-27',
        'duration': 246,
        'low_temp': 373.0,
        'high_temp': 388.0,
        'type': 'LB'
    },
    {
        'date': '2020-06-04',
        'duration': 247,
        'low_temp': 374.0,
        'high_temp': 388.0,
        'type': 'LB'
    }
];

export async function filter_click(event) {
    let newArray = myTableData.filter(function (el) {
        return el.duration === Number($w("#duration").value) && el.low_temp === Number($w("#lowtemp").value) && el.high_temp === Number($w("#hightemp").value) && el.type === $w("#type").value;
    });
    $w("#table1").rows = newArray;
}

See if even 1 of the user input elements are not filled it gives an undefined which returns an empty array.
Why I cannot use || instead of &&
If I use the OR '||' operator it doesn't narrow down to ALL the properties asked by the user. Example: If 'duration' is 350 & 'type' is 'LB' and the user types in both it will not return ONLY the objects which have both duration as 350 and type as LB, instead it will return objects having either.

A: It will probably help you a lot when you're trying to work through a problem, to make your code easier to read. Right now you have one massive return line that is super hard to read and understand.
A filter function just needs to return true (at any point) if the evaluated item should be included, and false (at any point) if it should be excluded. So you can evaluate each of your fields, one by one, to see if it fails any of the required conditions and should be excluded, whereupon you return false. Otherwise, at the end of the function, if it passes all the tests you know it should be included and return true (the "base case"). This kind of inverse filtering where you test for cases to exclude rather than cases to include can often be much easier to write, read, and reason about.
I would also write the filter function itself as a separate function to make it more clear, easier to read, and easier to maintain.
// Exclude compared item if it fails any of the "tests"
// Otherwise include it (return true)
function filterTable(el) {
  if (el.duration !== Number($w("#duration").value) || el.duration === undefined) {
    return false;
  }
  if (el.low_temp !== Number($w("#lowtemp").value) || el.low_temp === undefined) {
    return false;
  }
  // etc. for each field to be compared

  // Base case - by this point it has passed all tests and should be included
  return true;
}

export async function filter_click(event) {
    let newArray = myTableData.filter(filterTable);
    $w("#table1").rows = newArray;
}

A: Few points

*

*Cache your elements and don't do expensive dom lookups inside your Array.filter()

*Parse your params so you not doing unnecessary casting inside your Array.filter()

*Build up your params and pass them in the correct format to your filter function.

*If a param has been included - test against current filter item, otherwise ignore it

This way you are not doing expensive lookups and casting on every iteration in the filter. You don't need to consider properties unless the associated param has been included.
Snippet:

const myTableData = [{
    'date': '2020-05-16',
    'duration': 247,
    'low_temp': 373.0,
    'high_temp': 388.0,
    'type': 'XD'
  },
  {
    'date': '2020-05-27',
    'duration': 246,
    'low_temp': 373.0,
    'high_temp': 388.0,
    'type': 'LB'
  },
  {
    'date': '2020-06-04',
    'duration': 247,
    'low_temp': 374.0,
    'high_temp': 388.0,
    'type': 'LB'
  }
];

window.addEventListener('load', () => {
  // cache the elements to avoid expensive lookups in your filter
  const $duration = document.querySelector('#duration');
  const $lowtemp = document.querySelector('#lowtemp');
  const $hightemp = document.querySelector('#hightemp');
  const $type = document.querySelector('#type');

  const filterData = (params) => {
    return myTableData.filter((item) => {
      // if we have duration, check it
      if (params.duration && item.duration !== params.duration) {
        return false;
      }

      // if we have lowtemp, check it
      if (params.low_temp && item.low_temp !== params.low_temp) {
        return false;
      }

      // if we have hightemp, check it
      if (params.high_temp && item.high_temp !== params.high_temp) {
        return false;
      }

      // if we have type, check it
      if (params.type && item.type.toLowerCase() !== params.type) {
        return false;
      }

      // include this item
      return true;
    });
  }

  document.querySelector('#filter').addEventListener('click', (e) => {
    // build up the params to filter by
    const params = {};

    if ($duration.value) {
      // parse to int
      params.duration = parseInt($duration.value);
    }

    if ($lowtemp.value) {
      // parse to float
      params.low_temp = parseFloat($lowtemp.value);
    }

    if ($hightemp.value) {
      // parse to float
      params.high_temp = parseFloat($hightemp.value);
    }

    if ($type.value) {
      // convert to lowercase for comparison
      params.type = $type.value.toLowerCase();
    }

    console.info(filterData(params).length);
  });

  // few tests below
  let params = {};
  console.info(filterData(params).length === 3);

  params = {
    duration: 246
  };
  console.info(filterData(params).length === 1);

  params = {
    duration: 247
  };
  console.info(filterData(params).length === 2);

  params = {
    duration: 247,
    low_temp: 373.0
  };
  console.info(filterData(params).length === 1);

  params = {
    low_temp: 374.0,
    high_temp: 388.0
  };
  console.info(filterData(params).length === 1);

  params = {
    type: 'lb',
  };
  console.info(filterData(params).length === 2);

  params = {
    high_temp: 388.0,
  };
  console.info(filterData(params).length === 3);
});
<input id="duration" value="246" />
<input id="lowtemp" value="373.0" />
<input id="hightemp" value="388.0" />
<input id="type" value="LB" />
<button id="filter">filter</button>

A: how about a for loop and a bool array?
for (i = 0; i<array.length; i++)
     if thing != array[i]:
          bool[i] = false

for (each in bool):
    if each == false:
         do something;

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made with vintage textile from Burkina Faso, West Africa. this beautiful textile was handwoven in small strips that were then hand sewn together to create a shawl with stunning tassels. the whole process takes weeks. even longer when you consider that they often grew the cotton! This beautiful vintage fabric is enriched by it's imperfections such as distress patterns, small holes or stains.


"Other people do know the answers to my questions, but there are no others in the world, the other reviews - these are parts of some other languages and worlds. I do not always hear them, and even was I there for real?
cause. 2013, oil on canvas, D 100 cm.


First things first: this picture is not exactly news and neither is this dress, both date back to 2011. And yet, it is one of these pictures and one of these dresses which exude something timeless. One of the reasons might be that it is rather a classic black and white picture. Another reason is probably that it features a little black dress, a true wardrobe staple. Most importantly to note, however, is that the photographer behind the lens was Alasdair McLellan and the designer behind the dress no other than Stella McCartney. For me, reason enough to deserve a little place in my archives.
Marzena has a deep interest in everything new—people, cities, styles, books or new banana bread recipes. When she is not working on strategy and communication for the Berlin based start-up Amazine, she loves spending her time exploring new places, drinking strong coffee and writing stories for her blog, reading the latest issue of The Gentlewoman and taking instagram pictures.
My pleasure Supal! Thank you for the lovely comment and for mentioning David Tlale (whose collection was new to me). I can definitely see the connection between both.


I was awarded a silver medal for the technet article on SSPR with one-way trust. Lets go for gold again next time!
Wim Beck FIM 2010: SSPR with one-way trust Søren Granfeldt: "Maybe a little more deep but nice article"
Ed Price: "Great topic. Good detail. Love the robust References section!"
You can find the complete list of January's TechNet Gurus on following blog article.


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Roland Teaser Video for 909 Day, 30 New Products Coming
Rounik Sethi on Tue, August 23rd 0 comments
It turns out 909 Day is very real. This teaser video 'A Future Redefined' is a glimpse into a number of big product announcements from Roland and a live streaming event.
Well, as it turns out 909 Day is very real. In this teaser video called "A Future Redefined" we're given a glimpse into a number of big product announcements from Roland. In fact, there are 30 new products and services coming.
Last week we published an article on a possible release of 3 new Boutique synths and AIRA synths, including a "System-8". It looks like we might have that to look forward to a whole lot more from 909 Day which is coming on 9th September 2016.
It's such a big deal they've even created a new website for this event… oh, and the event is a 24-hour Online Musical Instrument Festival."
With 30 music products (and services) to predict, we're here to make things easier for you. For a start here are the categories they will be broken down into:
Dance DJ
I love the last one. "New Categories"!
Here's what Roland tell us about the upcoming event:
Roland's 24-hour "must-watch" online music festival fuses liveliness and diversity with artist performances, new product debuts, and interviews, spanning multiple time zones from major cities around the world. What does the future of musical instruments sound like? Don't miss it.
On their new The Future Redefined website, the 24-hour music instrument festival will be streamed live with artist performances from a number of locations: LA, New York, Toronto, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Tokyo and more…
Navigating the website, we can see that Roland will update their timetable for the day with more specific information. There's a whole page dedicated to the celebration of the TR 909 too.
"For 33 years the TR-909 has been one of the most definitive sounds in electronic music, and the beating heart of DJ culture. Join us as we celebrate 33 years of the "909" with the release of many new and inspiring electronic instruments."
Here's some more info from Roland, via their official press release for The Future Redefined:
"Hamamatsu, Japan – August 23, 2016 – Roland announces the first-of-its kind 24-hour online music festival "The Future. Redefined." More than 30 new Roland musical instrument products are scheduled to debut during streaming video broadcasts from VIP events in eight major cities around the world on September 9 (#909day). Roland will introduce new synthesizers, digital pianos, electronic drums, DJ equipment, BOSS guitar-related products, and a new genre of musical instrument never offered before by Roland.
Roland's exclusive music and musical instruments festival will span multiple time zones and feature live performances, new product debuts, product demonstrations, and interviews with leading artists. Starting at 4:00UTC on September 9th, Roland will unleash new musical instruments in Tokyo, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Toronto, NYC, Los Angeles and more.
Fans of Roland and BOSS around the world are encouraged to watch the unique festival online at tfr.roland.com on September 9. Beginning August 23, this dedicated website will also provide festival schedule information, artist lineup updates, and new product previews leading up to #909day."
Here's a mock-up by GearNews on what they think an AIRA System-8 synthesizer could look like:
Web: http://tfr.roland.com
Twitter: #909day
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Books . Movies
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. It's a clock.
It was too early in the morning to be fangirling but I couldn't help it! If you are a fan of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy and are eagerly awaiting the movie adaptation of Catching Fire like me, then you are in for a treat! Subway has released an exclusive online debut of an all new TV spot featuring Christina Aguilera's contribution to the Catching Fire OST and IT. IS. PERFECT.
Post by Subway.
Coincidentally, I also finished rereading Catching Fire in the van on the way to work this morning. Collins deserves a lot of credit for making me feel like I was reading it for the first time! Granted that I first read the book three years ago and I never found the need to read it again until a month before the movie is shown because it's just too heartbreaking, but all the emotions I felt - happiness, grief, faith that the spirit will triumph over any adversity, panic, despair, disgust at human folly, rooting for my favorite fictional characters who do not have the odds among their favor, among others - are still there, magnified even more because being older (and hopefully wiser) has made me understand more from this dystopian fictional universe that, truth be told and frighteningly so, might not be too far from reality.
Others have turned their noses up on the series because it "belongs to the Young Adult genre". Excusez moi, but The Hunger Games is much more than that. Yes, there's a love triangle between three teenagers, but there are a lot more at play - complex characters with different motivations, subterfuges, deception, the consequences of having an insatiable thirst for power, politics, the society's skewed obsession with celebrities and reality TV, friendships and alliances even while having preconceived prejudices... I could go on all day, but I guess what I'm trying to say is don't knock it 'til you've read even the first few chapters at least.
What it all boils down to is that Catching Fire is my favorite book in the trilogy and I am counting down the days until I am inside the cinema, watching the movie.
Rose said…
i'm very, very excited for the movie as well. i guess it's time for me to re-read the book again. thankfully, i'm not much of a purist when it comes to cinematic adaptations of my favorite books. there will always be modifications.
hayyy, peeta! <3
Aileen A. said…
OMG I am fangirl too! :))) I am excited for the next movie, and I agree, it's not really just for the young adults. I actually think it's a bit 'heavy' for young adults if they really 'read between the lines'. :))
krissy said…
And it's not like they can fit a whole book into a two hour-movie. Whatever they do, they can't please everyone. :D
Yep, it's a book written for adults with teenagers as the main characters, so maybe that's where the confusion started XD


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Oklahoma Legislator Proposes Hoodie Ban
By Denver Nicks
Oklahoma could join a list of states where it is illegal to wear a hoodie in public, if a state senator's proposed bill goes through.
Republican state senator Don Barrington has authored a bill to ban wearing a mask, hood or other face-covering in order to hide one's identity in a public space, Oklahoma's Channel 6 reports. The measure includes exceptions for holidays and special events like Halloween and religious beliefs.
Similar laws are already on the books in 10 states around the country, including Florida, California, New York and Washington, DC.
Proponents say hoodie bans help deter crime by preventing people from hiding their identity while entering a store or other public space, but critics of the measure argue that such laws restrict free expression and exacerbate problems with racial profiling in communities of color.
[Channel 6]


These little handmade birdhouses & planters were born from the desire to combine a love of horticulture, design & the up-cycling of materials.
Adrienne graduated from the Botanic Gardens with a BA in Horticulture in 2015 and runs her gardening business; Queen of Spades, based in Dublin.
With her background in design from her days as an interior designer, and a passion for all things crafty she is always trying to find new and fun ways to brighten up peoples outdoor spaces, whether it be a small balcony or large garden.
And don't worry she'll have lots of plants too.


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Ileburg ist der mittelalterliche Name von:

 Der Stadt Eilenburg in Nordwestsachsen
 Die Herren / Grafen zu Ileburg aus dem Hause der Wettiner
 Das Adelsgeschlecht derer zu Eulenburg (Adelsgeschlecht)
 Ein Markenname der Firma Franken Brunnen, siehe Sachsenquelle

Siehe auch:
 Ihleburg

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Blogs Research at the School of Music
John Bird Lecture Series
Arts & culture, Popular music
City Scale
Jessica Kelly
Ken Dewey
Ramon Sender
San Francisco Tape Music Center
For the last week or so I've been in the San Francisco Bay Area conducting a bit of final research for my book, San Francisco and the Long 60s. I've had a few loose ends to tie up at the library of the University of California, Berkeley, and some catching-up on recent developments at the Grateful Dead Archive of the University of California, Santa Cruz, before my 2015 publishing deadline. As I type this on my hotel balcony, I can look up and see a whale breaching in the Pacific. There are certainly worse places to spend a research leave.
One of the plans I had for this trip was to trace the path of a 'happening' that took place in March 1963 across the Russian Hill and North Beach areas of San Francisco: a piece called City Scale, by Ramon Sender (composer), Ken Dewey (playwright), and Anthony Martin (visual artist), in affiliation with the San Francisco Tape Music Center. So I gathered my indentured research assistants, bribed them with promises of pizza and chocolate, and headed over to the foggy hills of the city, armed with a 'score' of the work – basically a handwritten sketch outlining the main points in the six-hour event, with no absolute coordinates, street names, directions, tempo or timing.
The only sure piece of information I had was that the piece began at the location of the Tape Music Center, 1537 Jones Street, and that the audience was walked up a hill overlooking North Beach, where they could witness a choreographed 'car ballet' in the streets below. At the same time there was a trombonist stationed in a tunnel nearby, playing into the traffic. When the audience walked back to the Tape Music Center there was a woman in a dressing-gown, standing in the window of a nearby piano tuner's shop, singing Debussy. Another part of the happening involved a 'book-returning ceremony' at City Lights Bookstore, followed by a light show projected against the blank wall of a Wells Fargo bank. There was more to it, but those were the main tangible events.
Put together, these clues summon any number of mental images: a crisp spring night, planned events set against the backdrop of an unsuspecting city, audience blending with citizenry, citizenry becoming performers in a city-wide performance piece. It must have been an incredible night. When I met Ramon Sender a few years ago I suggested that he run City Scale again; as much as he would like to, he said that health and safety restrictions would never allow that kind of thing to happen today. So now it's just a semi-documented, un-mapped performance event that took place one night over 50 years ago. What could I possible glean from stumbling around San Francisco trying to re-trace it?
Well, first of all, it's important for me to understand how much the city has changed over these last fifty years. So much of the backdrop for City Scale just doesn't exist in the same way now. I already knew this, of course – I have many childhood memories of extensive building works around the Embarcadero in San Francisco, only one small piece in the evolving urban puzzle – so was prepared to spend part of the day second-guessing, back-tracking, and ignoring physical proof of radical change.
Jones Street
One such change is that the Tape Music Center left its Jones Street location shortly after City Scale for a much bigger space on Divisadero, very close to the burgeoning Haight-Ashbury community, where they remained until relocating to Mills College in Oakland in 1969. So although we began retracing City Scale at 1537 Jones Street, we did so by looking at a non-descript apartment building, no doubt full of people wondering what I was doing standing in the middle of the street taking pictures of their front door. I can confirm that no residual music was discernible in the middle of the street, nor was any emanating from the windows.
On the corner of Jones and Pacific is a series of shops, any one of which might have been home to the piano tuner and the bathrobe-besuited soprano. My hunch was that it was the shop with the three windows, but my research assistants and I failed to reach a consensus on that. What was certain was that the liquor store sign across the street has probably been hanging there since at least 1963.
We trudged up the hill to where we imagined the audience was taken to hear the tunnelled trombonist and to watch the car ballet. The most obvious marker here is Russian Hill, a stunning little piece of real estate with some of the more breathtaking views in a city full of breathtaking views.
Although there were plenty of old mansions standing proudly where they've probably stood for a century, there were also some unfortunate reminders of the tendency, even in San Francisco, to build unlovely structures that then blight the landscape for decades. In at least one instance these structures block out the one bit of view that City Scale was designed to exploit.
Sometimes our view was blocked by foliage, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it did give us an interesting investigative problem.
One anecdotal memory of City Scale was the sight of Coit Tower lit by a full moon, with the car ballet taking place on the streets below it. A roughly contemporary 1960s view toward Coit Tower from Russian Hill suggests how effective this might have been. The vantage from last week was rather less clear, though the relatively light redevelopment of North Beach allowed me to zoom in on a couple of residential blocks that might have served as backdrop to the car ballet.
Among the more surprising developments in the Russian Hill area since the 1963 performance of City Scale is the arrival of wild parrots in San Francisco. We encountered some of them as we walked down Russian Hill toward North Beach, and I wondered what they might have contributed to City Scale, had they (a) been there at the time, and (b) not been too shy to chatter to the audience.
Our descent into North Beach concluded with a trip to City Lights, where audience members in City Scale had been given books to 'return' to the front desk. That was a lovely bit of theatre, but it was also a powerful symbolic gesture: City Lights is a vital, living icon of the Beat generation, which was decidedly on the wane in 1963. What City Scale represented was a motion toward progressive artistic production, and certainly the interactions between key players in the Tape Music Center and agents in the nascent counterculture from that point onward affected the 'next wave' of artistic production in the city, which is the focus of my book. So we paid due respect to North Beach history by browsing the shelves at City Lights, taking a picture of Jack Kerouac Alley and going on our way.
My task now is to make sense of all of this, keeping Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks' crucial Theatre/Archaeology (Routledge, 2001) close at hand. This extended excavation was merely intended to feed into a very brief section of my book, but sometimes the longest tangents provide the most interesting insights.
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I have published a change of season in Lapland in Photographs before but during the same time I was working on a short video that showed the change.
Take a look below to see as winter approaches.
For the change in photographs see my post Winter is Coming.


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Former President Obama Declares 'India Must Cherish And Protect Its Muslim Population' And He Is Absolutely Right To Say This
By Andrew Bieszad on December 7, 2017 in Featured, General
Former US President Obama on visit to India said that India must protect and cherish its Muslim population:
As a debate rages over growing intolerance in the country, former US President Barack Obama on Friday disclosed that he had privately told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that India must not split on sectarian lines and that it must cherish the fact that Muslims here identify themselves as Indians.
"Particularly in a country like India where you have such an enormous Muslim population that is successful, integrated and thinks of itself as Indian and that is unfortunately always not the case in some other countries where a religious minority nevertheless feels a part of. I think that is something that should be cherished, nurtured and cultivated.
"And I think that all farsighted Indian leadership recognises that but it is important to continue and reinforce that," he said speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit.
Obama, who was making his first visit to India after demitting office earlier this year, was reminded of his speech at Siri Fort auditorium on January 27, 2015 — the last day of his last visit to India as US President — in which he sounded caution "against any efforts to divide ourselves along sectarian lines" and pointedly asked if the message was directed at the Modi-led BJP government.
He said the message was meant for "all of us" and "the same thing" was told "in private to Prime Minister Modi".
"If you see a politician doing things that are questionable one of things as citizens you can ask yourself is am I encouraging or supporting or giving licence to the values? If communities across India are saying we are not going to fall prey to division then that will strengthen the hands of those politicians who feel the same way."
Asked how Modi responded to his message on religious tolerance particularly in the wake of Western media highlighting incidents of lynching in the name of cow protection and love jihad cases, Obama dodged a direct reply saying his goal was not to disclose his private conversations with other leaders.
But, he said, Modi's impulses recognize the need for unity in India "to advance to the great nation status that India possesses and will continue and amplify in the years to come".
He said he had shared the concern in public in the United States of America, in Europe "because people feel worried and insecure about all the changes some of which are economic but some of which are cultural and social".
"There are demographic changes taking place. Migration. People start looking different. There is a collision of cultures. People see much more vividly the differences between people."
In an interactive session punctuated with humour and loud applause from the audience that included Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, Obama said all humans inherently try to make distinctions to make themselves feel more important than others.
And these distinctions, he said, "are sometimes based on races, on religion, on class and always based on gender".
He said a counter narrative had always been taking place at all times in the world but has become louder now.
"It) sometimes happens in Europe, in America and sometimes you see it in India where those old tribal impulses re-assert themselves."
He said some elected leaders try to push back against those impulses and some try to exploit them.
Obama also spoke of how he admired Modi and his predecessor Manmohan Singh alike for their "political courage".
Asked about his relationship with Prime Minister Modi, Obama paused a bit and said: "I like him and I think he is that he has a vision for the country that he is implementing and is in many ways modernising the bureaucracy."
He heaped praise on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has come under attack from the ruling BJP, saying he was a great support in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
"But I really was also great friends with Singh, and when you look at the work and the steps that Singh took to open up and modernise the economy and launch what I think was really the foundations for the modern Indian economy. That is also important.
"Here is the bottom line. Because India is a democracy, it has politics. And that is a healthy thing. As a non-Indian and as US President my job was to work with whichever party was in power. Keep in mind that Singh was primary interlocutor with me when we were saving the country from a global financial meltdown.
"But) Prime Minister Modi was the primary partner in unlocking the Paris Accord. Neither of those things was easy and both required some political courage back here in India."
Obama jokingly said he had avoided journalist Karan Thapar's attempt to get him into any diplomatic trouble.
"What I want to be very clear about is, that what I found with both leaders was that strong US-India relations were important; India's movement towards a more modern economy that would give opportunity and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty was important; that electrifying the countryside was important; rebuilding infrastructure was important. And each leader obviously had a certain view about how that was going to be accomplished. And I found both of them to be engaged, honest, direct with me.
"So you would not get me to play those games when it comes to my good friends in India," he added with a smile, to loud laughter from the audience. (source)
I have repeatedly said before the saying "A broken clock is right twice a day," meaning that even in the midst of things that are incorrect, there is always at least a portion of truth which must be acknowledged. Obama was certainly not a good president and there are MANY issues with him. However, if Obama says something that is objectively true, his past or present sins do not invalidate the truth of his statement because to make such a statement assumes that the validity of a fact depends on the moral righteousness of the person saying it. Likewise, Muslims in large numbers have a well-established reputation for causing much trouble, and it is for this reason that many people do not like their presence. Both of these facts are established and supported by solid evidence. However, they are not metrics by which to prove or disprove other facts- the well-earned public dislike that Obama has does not perpetually invalidate all future statement he makes, and likewise the actions of many Muslims does not mean that many Muslims are incapable of making true statements or having real grievances in society.
One of the major forces driving the rise of National Socialism today is the fact that, as we have pointed out repeatedly, much of what the National Socialists say is actually true. This the the deadly poison of National Socialism, for by making itself a movement that (often- certainly not always) proclaims difficult but undeniable truths, those who hear that National Socialists speak will assume and trust the National Socialists have the answer and are looking out for their interests.
This error is made likewise in reverse with people who are not liked. People many times will assume a statement is false because it is made by a person they do not like, because the equate the validity of the statement with their views on the person making the statement. This is also wrong, because even a person who is evil, distasteful, or disliked can make correct statements, and the feelings or opinions that a person has about someone do not unto themselves prove or invalidate a statement.
Obama is correct on the idea that India must protect its minority populations from abuse or destruction at the hands of the larger majority, especially for unjust reasons. India right now is going through a nationalist revival. As we have pointed out, Hindu nationalists, known as "saffron terrorists" by the color of their robes, are engaged in systematic attacks against Christians all across India. The level of persecution is bordering on the edge of genocide, and as we at Shoebat.com can attest to from our research and work on the ground, there are active plans under way to engage in a mass extermination or forced conversion of all non-Hindus to Hinduism in pursuit of the creation of what nationalists are calling the 'Hindutva Rashtra,' or a "pure Hindu" nation based on racialism and a worship of the elite with the caste system restored to its full and ugly state. It is, in a literal a sense, a true form of "Aryanism" and "national socialism" because it is the same philosophy that Germany and Japan of the previous century borrowed for their nations.
While Christian persecution is severe in India, Christians are a fraction of the population, standing at just over 2% of the population. While they are being persecuted and are going to face more severe persecution in the future, the fact is that the majority of the persecution in terms of volume will be directed against the Muslims because the Muslims constitute India's single largest minority group, standing at approximately 14% of the population. While the Christians may suffer more in terms of proportion, as they are so small they could be completely wiped out, the Muslims will be equally hunted down too.
The comparison between the proportion of Christians as opposed to Muslims in India is similar to the proportion of Chinese people to Hispanic people in the USA. India, Christians are very small in number and tend to be concentrated in the southern areas of India in the states of Goa, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu just as how in the USA the Chinese populations tend to be concentrated in select urban area.. Muslims in India are everywhere, and there is not a place you can go where you will not see at least one, similar to how owing to the tremendous Hispanic populations such persons will be found even in the smallest and most isolated American towns.
Can you imagine in America if somebody said "we need to wipe out the Chinese and the Hispanic people to create a pure 'American' society? Would somebody of good will in such a situation say "we will just save the Chinese- those Hispanics will get what they deserve" or "we will just help the Hispanics, those Chinese deserve to be massacred anyways?" Such an idea or statement would be monstrous because it would involve the murder of millions of people simply for the cause of nationalism, yet this is exactly what the Hindu nationalists are proposing to do, and the moral position is to stand against all evils because of the fact that they are evil. It does not matter if Obama is Muslim or not, if Obama was a good president or not, or even if in this particular case Obama was making a malicious statement or not because what he said reflects a reality, that there is a growing intolerance of all non-Hindus in India by the Hindu supermajority, and they are preparing to engage in a full-scale massacre of all minorities- Christians and Muslims alike- in their quest to make a 'racially pure' India.
It is true that Muslims commit violence against Christians. However, one cannot fight evil by supporting evil in the name of defeating evil, because all are just different faces of the same object. Christ said that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and evil will not cast itself out. It can only be cast out with that which is good, and while Islam is an evil religion, the Muslim people have the potential as long as they live to renounce Islam and accept the salvation that Christ offers. Islam cannot be defeated by mass murdering the Muslims just as the Spanish did not defeat the Aztecs by a wholescale massacre of the Indians of the Americas, but by fighting against them when necessary and converting the others to the true Faith.
However, mass murder is NEVER an answer to any problems, especially for Christians. God died so that man might life, and while fighting is at times necessary, the kind of wholesale, indiscriminate murder of innocent people that these and other nationalists are calling for is a sin that cries to Heaven for vengeance just as with homosexuality, the abuse of the widow and the orphan, and the depriving of a working man of his justly earned wages. Sin is never the answer to sin, and Christians must respond with love, balancing mercy and justice, and not the ways of the world, for it is the ways of the world that cause the rise of such ethnonationalism and was one of the many reasons Christ had to come in the first place.
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Q: Grouping with Linq only when all elements in a group have value in a column I try to create groupings of lastReadings, where I can create client's and competitor's prices. I try below code, but this approach does not eliminate the readings that are only Client's. With below table I need to eliminate the readingsId 5 and 6, for products C and D as there is no match and pass further only the comparable ones.
readingId   ProductId     Distributor   Price
1           A             Competitor    8.0
2           A             Client        8.1
3           B             Competitor    8.3
4           B             Client        8.4
5           C             Client        8.8
6           D             Client        8.9

Below is what I get so far:
    private IEnumerable<PriceComparison> getPriceComparisons(string competitor)
    {
        IEnumerable<IGrouping<string, LatestReading>> groupingsByProductId =
                            from latestReading in LatestReadings
                            group latestReading by latestReading.ProductId;

        IEnumerable<PriceComparison> priceComparisons
            = from grouping in groupingsByProductId
              select new PriceComparison
              {
                  ProductId = grouping.Key,
                  MyPrice = (from latestReading in grouping
                             where latestReading.Distributor == Client
                             select latestReading.Price).FirstOrDefault(),
                  CompetitorPrice = (from latestRading in grouping
                                     where latestRading.Distributor == competitor
                                     select latestRading.Price).FirstOrDefault()
              };
        return priceComparisons;
    }

Actually as I write this post, I concluded that for the additional created groupings with "no competitor", competitor price is there as 0, so later I can easily eliminate such groupings and the code works. But somehow this approach of creating "empty" groupings does not feel right, is there a better way to only focus on the groupings excluding products C and D?

A: I think the Join is more suitable for what you are trying to achieve, like this
var priceComparison =
    from a in LatestReadings.Where(r => r.Distributor == Client)
    join b in LatestReadings.Where(r => r.Distributor == Competitor)
        on a.ProductId equals b.ProductId
    select new PriceComparison
    {
        ProductId = a.ProductId,
        MyPrice = a.Price,
        CompetitorPrice = b.Price
    };

A: You can do something like this:
//...

IEnumerable<PriceComparison> priceComparisons =
              from grouping in groupingsByProductId
              where grouping.Any(p => p.Distributor == Client)
                  && grouping.Any(p => p.Distributor == competitor)
              select new PriceComparison
              {
                 //..
              };

This makes sure that you get only the groups that have a price for both Client and Competitor.