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Q: Easy way to insert/remove attribute from specific products Woocommerce i have an e-commerce with Woocommerce and i am searching an easy way to insert and remove existing attribute from specific products.
In particular i have many products with a specific brand (scott) and once a month i want to set attribute promozione = interesse zero for all scott products and after a week remove this attribute from this porducts.
How can i do this?
Thanks

A: yes you can run cron and get all products by get_posts or wp query and insert attribute like wp_insert_term( 'red', 'pa_colors' ); with conditions and then you can get products and remove product attribute as per condition
$product_attributes = get_post_meta( $product->id , '_product_attributes' );

                $temp_product_attributes = [];
                foreach($product_attributes as $product_attribute) {
                    foreach($product_attribute as $pt_k => $pt_v) {
                        if ($pt_k !== $attribute_name) {
                            $temp_product_attributes[$pt_k] = $pt_v;
                        }
                    }
                }
update_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_product_attributes', $temp_product_attributes);

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package jp.koushin_lawfirm.www.entity;

import net.minecraft.entity.monster.EntityMob;
import net.minecraft.entity.monster.EntityZombie;
import net.minecraft.init.Items;
import net.minecraft.world.World;

public class EntityLawyer extends EntityMob {
	public EntityLawyer(World world) {
		super(world);
	}

	@Override
	public void dropFewItems(boolean doesPlayerKill, int level) {
		int j = this.rand.nextInt(3) + 1 + this.rand.nextInt(1 + level);

		for (int k = 0; k < j; ++k) {

			this.dropItem(Items.porkchop, 1);
		}
	}
}

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Culture>Entertainment
Vegan Documentary Game Changers Finally Announces Release Date
Updated September 18 2019. | It's been over a year since the James Cameron-produced documentary "Game Changers" — a film that explores vegan athletes and the myth that you need to eat meat to be strong — premiered at Sundance. But the hype is still strong.
A global theatrical screening event took place on September 16. On October 1, the film will be available to stream on iTunes. The digital copy is currently available for pre-order. It will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray at a later date.
Directed by Academy Award winner Louis Psihoyos (2009's "The Cove") and produced by Academy Award winner James Cameron ("Titanic", "Avatar"), "Game Changers" follows James Wilks, elite special forces trainer and winner of "The Ultimate Fighter," as he travels the world "on a quest for the truth behind the world's most dangerous myth: that meat is necessary for protein, strength and optimal health," the film's website notes.
The LA premiere took place on September 4. "We had the immense honor of having our LA premiere hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chris Paul, and the energy in the room was incredible," James Wilks, narrator and producer, tells LIVEKINDLY in an email.
Wilks is a winner of Spike TV's "The Ultimate Fighter" and elite combative trainer for the U.S. military. "We've known for some time that the film is ready for the world, but after LA, we've never been more certain that the world is ready for the film," he adds.
The premiere attracted a number of other high-profile athletes. "As co-producer/co-writer on the film, and as a woman, to have Serena Williams – the greatest athlete on the planet – attend our NY premiere was an honor beyond words," says Shannon Kornelsen, co-producer and co-writer.
Featuring The World's Best Athletes
Not just another vegan documentary, "Game Changers" builds its story around some of the world's most well-known and winning-est athletes including former bodybuilder, action-film star, and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"No one can relate to it better than I do," Schwarzenegger says in the trailer, "because I lived in that world," he says of his competitive days and the reliance on animal products to build his body. The former action star has recently become outspoken about his shift away from animal products.
The final cut of the film features around a dozen plant-powered athletes. Wilks acknowledges that athletes eschewing meat is still unexpected, "not because it's hard to gain size or strength on a plant-based diet, but because it takes a lot of guts to for professional athletes, most of whom are superstitious about their training and diet, to make big changes like that, since millions of dollars are on the line."
Like "The Cove" — Psihoyos's award-winning documentary exposing the Japanese dolphin hunt — "The Game Changers" promises a fast and unfiltered pace as it explores human physical fitness and the truth about our dietary needs.
Countless studies and some of the world's leading experts on health have found that animal products are detrimental to human health.
Meat and dairy product-heavy diets have been linked to health issues including diabetes, heart disease, and some forms of cancer. Plant-based and vegan diets consistently show the opposite.
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Tearing Down the Protein Myth
"It's a bit surreal, especially since we started this project seven years ago," Wilks said ahead of the September 16 premiere. "Based on the 150 screenings we've done so far, we're feeling pretty optimistic."
Wilks learned that many athletes are already trying to eat a plant-forward diet, but aren't sure how to. "Athletes are in touch with their bodies in a way many 'regular' people aren't," he says. "And so many of them tell us that they can feel animal foods increasing inflammation and slowing them down. It's pretty cool to hear these so many athletic men and women backing up the science with their own personal experiences."
First and foremost, he hopes that the public will enjoy the film. "And then, of course, I hope they come away from it with a deeper understanding of how the food they eat actually affects their bodies, not just based on what someone at the gym or online says, but based on the actual science," he says.
"We've been lied to for a long time," Wilks adds. "Seeing through the myths about meat, protein, and strength gives us a tremendous amount of leverage, not only for our own performance and health but also to help the planet we live on, which is also massively affected by the food we eat."
"The Game Changers" will be available to stream on iTunes on October 1.
Jill Ettinger

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from distutils.core import setup

setup(
    name='data2class',
    version='0.1.0',
    packages=['base', 'base.validators', 'test', 'jsonparser', 'jsonparser.examples'],
    url='http://iraklikhitarishvili.github.io/data2class',
    license='BSD',
    author='irakli khitarishvili',
    author_email='irakli11992@gmail.com',
    description='creating schemas, mapping them to data and validating them'
)


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Q: Dynamic formula propagation for automated Bloomberg data I tried to summarize the idea of my question in the title, but it sounds a lot more complicated than it really is...
For anyone that doesn't know, Bloomberg is a data service provider where you can extract prices for various financial assets (and other things) into MS Excel. The format is quite typical: data is usually arranged in a time-series with dates progressing down rows and various financial products progressing across the columns.
Example: Historical prices for the S&P500 and DAX will appear in columns B and C,
respectively. The date for each price will appear in column A.

A          B          C          D
DATE       S&P500     DAX   'Formula'
02-Jan-14   1,462   7,778    = B * C
03-Jan-14   1,459   7,756    = B * C
04-Jan-14   1,466   7,776    = B * C

As time passes, the list gets longer with new prices, in this case the next price
for 05-Jan-14 would appear (actually the 7th is a Monday).

The problem arises when I have an Excel formula in column D that refers to either columns A, B, or C. As the days progress and the list of prices/dates grows longer (i.e. more rows), the formula in column D doesn't grow with this growing data set.
Is there a way in which MS Excel 2010 recognizes a dynamically sized data set from Bloomberg and automatically propagates referring formulas in adjacent columns downward (without using VBA)?

A: I can think of two possible ways that you could approach this. First, you could write your formula in a way that won't return anything if there is no date from the Bloomberg call in that row. For  example, in your example your formula could be
=IF(A3="","",B3*C3)
You could then paste this down much further than your data will go. Even if the B3*C3 piece of the formula is costly, I don't believe it will slow your sheet down much as excel shouldn't even try to evaluate that piece of the formula unless there is a date in that row.
The other option would be to use VBA. You can take a look here for a relatively simple example.


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Interview: The Case for an Equal Split in Kenya
Kenyans are speaking about divorce more openly than ever before. But women still face insurmountable difficulty when trying to claim matrimonial property after divorce. Human Rights Watch found that the process for dividing up this property discriminates…
The Coronavirus in Europe: From Lockdowns to Power Grabs
COVID-19 in Europe, the Central Eurasian Region, and Turkey
What are some of your biggest concerns about the coronavirus moving through Europe and Central Asia? Europe is one of the world's epicenters of COVID-19 cases. There's an awful death toll in Italy and Spain with the numbers of dead going up…
Interview: Giving a Green Light to Abuse in Russia
The idea that domestic violence is not a serious criminal offense is hard to grasp. How did this happen? Russia doesn't have a national domestic violence law. Some acts of domestic violence can be prosecuted under the criminal code as assault,…
Interview: Safely in Sweden, migrant children can fall through the cracks
In 2015, Sweden received tens of thousands of unaccompanied children, many fleeing war or violence, who either made the dangerous journey alone or who became separated from their parents along the way. In doing so, Sweden demonstrated why it has a…
Nothing to Go Back to – From Kenya's Vast Refugee Camp
Kenya is home to the world's largest refugee camp, Dadaab, which provides shelter to 360,000 mostly Somali refugees. In May 2016, Kenya's government disbanded its department responsible for refugees and announced plans to repatriate Somalis and close…
Interview: Kenya's Forgotten Rape Survivors
Although it is more than eight years since hundreds of women were brutally raped during post-election violence in Kenya, the harrowing events of 2007/8 continue to affect survivors to this day. Destitute, in ill health and often…


Easy to throw together, these pumpkin pie squares are a nice option when you don't want to make a traditional pumpkin pie.
This comforting fall dessert gets its incredible flavor from a liberal sprinkling (yes, 2 tablespoons) of pumpkin pie spice.
Wholesome, naturally sweetened pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting! Vegan, gluten free, and perfect for fall!
Creamy, pumpkiny green smoothie made with just 6 simple ingredients in 5 minutes. The perfect fall breakfast or snack.
These are the perfect easy dessert for fall gatherings, or in place of traditional pie at Thanksgiving.
In honor of the holiday, here is a painfully easy, overnight mousse recipe that will be appreciated by everyone, non-vegans included.
An easy way to use day-old bread for a perfect weekend breakfast to feed anywhere from two people up to a large group!
Pumpkin charlotte is a creamy, no-bake dessert that's perfect for entertaining. It looks fancy, but is so easy to put together!
Ready to give your almond butter a seasonal makeover? Keep reading for the recipe.
Try these recipes and reap the benefits of this crunchy, healthy ingredient.


The Auditory/Oral Education Program provides early educational intervention services for children who are deaf and hard of hearing. Services include early and primary education classrooms located at the University of Miami Mailman Center for Child Development's Debbie Institute (Debbie School). Funding is provided through a cooperative agreement with Miami-Dade County Public Schools and the University of Miami Mailman Center for Child Development. The program's mission is to provide an educational environment where children who are deaf and hard of hearing learn to communicate through spoken language by listening and talking. The program's philosophy is based on the premise that early identification and educational intervention in an Auditory/Oral learning environment improves outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing children and allows them to learn to communicate with their families, friends, and people in the wider world.
The Auditory/Oral Education Program provides services for children who are deaf and hard of hearing five hours per day for five days per week for up to 35 children from twelve months to eight years of age and includes three inclusion classrooms and two self-contained classrooms.


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1960s >> 1968 >> no-761-january-1968
What Plan?
The National Plan was dreamed up by the Department of Economic Affairs back in the palmy days of 1965. At the time Harold Wilson described it as a "national crusade for higher productivity" and George Brown wrote that its embodied "all our hopes for maintaining full employment and raising our standards of living." Not surprisingly the Labour Party has since then done its best to give the Plan a quiet burial.
In its aims the National Plan was beautifully simple. The overall objective was to increase national production by 25 per cent (i.e. £8,210 million) by 1970. It pointed out that the balance of payments had been in the red by £750 million in 1964 and that this had resulted in heavy loans from the International Monetary Fund. As a solution, the Plan envisaged a steady improvement in these figures: "we shall need to get back into balance during 1966 and then into surplus; by 1970 we shall need a surplus of about £250 million." This was to be achieved largely by boosting exports which, during I he barren years of Conservative rule, had been expanding at an average rate of only 3 per cent a year. Now they were to be stepped up by "over 5 per cent a year up to 1970. No one can say that this target is crying for the moon(!)" On the other hand, imports were to be effectively controlled and, "taking everything into consideration", these would grow by no more than 4 per cent a year. The trade deficit was in this way destined to be cut dramatically, from £534 million in 1964 to about £50 million in 1970.
The Plan also gave prominence to its schemes for expanding the labour force. "On industry's present plans 800,000 more workers will be needed if the 25 per cent increase in output is to be achieved". The hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the manufacturing and construction industries were to more than compensate for any shake-out in mining, the railways and other declining areas of employment. Prices were going to be magically frozen and, since wages would be creeping up steadily by 3-3½ per cent a year on average, "our personal consumption . . . should rise by one-fifth by 1970." "This is not a policy of restriction. It is intended to increase the value of what our pay packets will actually buy and get away from purely paper increases cancelled out by higher prices."
The future was going to be rosy in other ways as well. Expenditure on health and welfare services was to rise from £1,238 million in 1964/65 to £1,529 million in 1969/70. To meet the housing shortage, half a million new homes were to be built each year by 1970 (as compared to 383,000 in 1964). But these were only details when compared to the underlying ambition. Once and for all the crises and upsets of capitalism were to be abolished—by the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen! "We have had too many crises in the last ten years . . . Sometimes the only quick way of dealing with these crises was by cuts and squeezes at home . . . The whole point of the Plan is to break out of this vicious circle once and for all." (their emphasis)
Although the working class in general greeted the plan with a healthy indifference, it fired the imagination of many economists. By the end of 1965, after the Plan had been in force for a grand total of four months, some of them were becoming quite enthusiastic.
The Chancellor has every reason to feel encouraged by this ending to a year in which exports rose by 7 per cent and the average monthly trade deficit was halved. Even if he did not quite hit his target of halving the total balance of payments deficit during 1965, it is now clear that he cannot have fallen far short of it . . . Mr. Callaghan is running to time towards his objective of eliminating the payments deficit by the end of 1966. (Financial Times, 13/1 /66)
But 1966 was a great year for wrecking illusions. The pundits had a variety of hypotheses to account for the sorry state of the economy but they were united on one issue—all was not going according to plan. Perhaps Victor Morgan, Professor of Economics at Manchester University, spoke for them all when he said:
The year 1966 should stand as an awful warning to those of us, both in official circles and outside, who indulge in the black arts of economic forecasting. At the end of 1965, the government was confidently looking forward, on the basis of existing policies, to a rapid improvement in the balance of payments, and this view was generally shared by academic and business economists. In fact, we have been subjected to another massive dose of deflation, and the current account deficit for the first three quarters, at £234 m., was £87 m. more than in the corresponding period of 1965.
. . . the rate of growth of national output [is down] to an average of a little more than 1 per cent a year.
(Financial Times, 31/12/66)
Callaghan, however, remained optimistic. Nothing had gone fundamentally wrong, he argued. There had been setbacks, for a time economic recovery had even been halted, but dramatic improvements were just round the corner. A sign of this, he claimed, was that the government had "made a good start in repaying (the) debt to the Central Banks. Our reserves have been rising and we have resumed repayment of capital and interest on our North American loans."
Contrast this to what has actually taken place. The final figures for 1967 will not be available for some weeks yet but even so we can see that the Plan is completely on the rocks. Far from being able to repay their debts to the International Monetary Fund and Central Banks, the British capitalist class have applied for further loans of $300 million. Despite the confident prediction that first 1966, and then 1967, would produce a positive balance of payments Callaghan has ruefully admitted that the capitalists still "need an improvement in our balance of payments of at least £500 million a year . . ."
The Plan emphasised the importance of boosting exports by means of rebates to exporters and the need for heavy investment in the nationalised industries to provide the basic growth in fuel, transport and communications which would allow industrial production as a whole to increase. Yet now the government finds itself sabotaging its own plan. Among the economic reforms which followed the devaluation of the pound, two of the most important measures were to abolish refunds to exporters to the tune of £100 million and to reduce public spending (which includes capital investment in nationalised industries) by another £100 million. Apart from all this over half a million unemployed workers know that Labour's brash predictions about creating more jobs have not worked out. And of those workers with jobs, how many now feel confident that their ''personal consumption . . . should rise by one-fifth by 1970"?
The failure to date of the National Plan is a blow to the efforts of the ruling class to strengthen the world standing of British capital. But, in the end, they can afford to take a philosophical view of it all. After all they are still the bosses and, however persistent the difficulties that face them, they can rely on the working class to keep on churning out the profits.—Or can they?
John Crump


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DFI, sigla di Diamond Flower Inc., è un'azienda taiwanese produttrice di schede madri.

Storia e generalità
Fondata nel 1981, inizia come produttore di schede video, settore che abbandona nel 1992 quando avvia quella di schede madri.

Sede e stabilimento hanno sede a Xizhi, parte settentrionale di Taiwan, ed ha filiali in Cina, Europa, Giappone e Stati Uniti.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Produttori hardware taiwanesi

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Oldest Latin commentary on the Gospels rediscovered, translated
By Catholic News Agency
|Catholic News Agency
(Credit: DmitryCh via Shutterstock.)
BIRMINGHAM, England – Missing for more than 1,500 years, the earliest known Latin commentary on the Gospels has been rediscovered at the Cologne Cathedral Library and was published in English this week.
The biblical commentary, penned by the fourth century Italian bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia, was originally rediscovered in 2012 by Dr. Lukas Dorfbauer, a researcher from the University of Salzburg.
Fortunatianus's manuscript was widely known to have existed, although many scholars believed it had either been destroyed or permanently lost. St. Jerome had also pointed to the existence of this commentary in his work, Lives of Famous Men.
Dorfbauer found the 100-page document in an unmarked manuscript dating back to about 800 at the Cologne Cathedral Library, which had been digitized in 2002. While other scholars were aware of the document, the majority of its biblical content was overlooked.
But Dorfbauer's curiosity persisted, and he further researched the manuscript to find that it was not just an anonymous document, but rather seemed to date back further than the ninth century.
He began to take notes on the document and cross-checked some of its contents with St. Jerome's writings on Fortunatianus in the fourth century.
"I was able to compare the biblical quotations in the Cologne manuscript with our extensive databases," said Dr. Hugh Houghton, the Deputy Director at the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) at the University of Birmingham.
"Parallels with texts circulating in northern Italy in the middle of the 4th century offered a perfect fit with the context of Fortunatianus," he said, according to The Conversation.
Digital technology was then enlisted from the University of Birmingham's ITSEE department. Houghton, a specialist in the Latin New Testament, began to pull quotes from the rediscovered manuscript and compared it with other 4th century texts by using the university's mega database.
He used a methodology for analyzing the text and found that the comparison "seemed to preserve the original form of Fortunatianus's groundbreaking work."
"Such a discovery is of considerable significance to our understanding of the development of Latin biblical interpretation, which went on to play such an important part in the development of Western thought and literature," Houghton said.
The rediscovered Latin commentary from Fortunatianus now replaces the Vulgate as the earliest known Latin commentary of the Gospels. The Vulgate was translated from Hebrew and Aramaic into Latin by St. Jerome between 382-405, and was known as the earliest form of written Latin commentary of the Gospels.
The 160-chapter commentary mainly focuses on the Gospel of Matthew, but also includes brief references to the gospels of Mark, Luke and John.
Although this new document now predates the Vulgate, Houghton said, "It will still be some time before this work becomes as widely known as the famous writings of later Christian teachers such as Ambrose, Augustine and Jerome."
CRS launches campaign to build greater Catholic response to climate change
Dennis Sadowski
Healing by helping: Welcoming refugees builds community, speakers say
Cindy Wooden
USCCB official sees enthusiasm building for WYD 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal
Tom Tracy
How to make the church synodal? Inclusion, say respondents in 3 countries


Gett operates in the incredibly competitive field of public transportation apps. In an effort to penetrate new markets, Gett approached Moburst with the tall order of scaling its user acquisition in select cities, outside of their usual social networking channels. Additionally, Gett's interest in specific cities required locally targeted campaigns, which can be complex and costly. Gett also needed quality users to submit and confirm their phone numbers before using the app.
Moburst created a unique creative approach for each city emphasizing its distinct characteristics such as weather, language, socioeconomic, and cultural references. Constant optimization and hyper-targeting strategies also took place, encouraging micro-segments to not only install the app but to book rides as well. In Manhattan, for example, Moburst launched a campaign promoting $10 rides anywhere in the city, which generated a massive buzz in the press and social media.
Gett's user acquisition was scaled by more than 400%, while improving user quality, and increasing ROI.
Gett became a household name in each targeted city and was able to generate users that completed the registration process, confirmed their personal details, and booked a cab.
Gett's quality KPIs increased by more than 50%, while remaining within the CPI targets.
"In a short period of time, Moburst acquired high quality users at scale, significantly increasing Gett's brand awareness in key strategic metropolitan markets and driving global revenue growth."


This class is the runtime representation of the condition module present in the letter.
[read-only] True if the Condition has one or more content removed from it, than what was originall assigned.
[override] Called when the module content's associated data object changes.
Bindable/Read-only. The set of control variables for the Condition.
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Cong. Louis Gohmert confirms what most conservatives knew about Boehner in this video. Gohmert ran against Boehner last year and now we know just how frustrating it must have been to work with Boehner who's really a Democrat at heart. He caved to every whim of Obama and is partly responsible for the mess America's in right now.


The template is not difficult to customize. If you find an ideal template but still your requirements are not met, it is clear that it is far from your initial requirements. Finding the most appropriate action plan template is crucial to help you optimize processes and ensure that no objective is lost.
The preparation of sales plans is not a really simple problem, since there are many factors that must be taken into account and a specific design must be maintained. Therefore, it is very essential for the growth of any business, as it helps you to go the right way. Strategic sales plans play an extremely important role when planning your sales operations.
See for yourself how your sales are likely to be much more efficient. At the beginning of the writing of a sales plan, an individual must take into account some aspects. It is also important to learn how to predict sales on your own, because only then can you develop a cash flow forecast and, given that cash is king, you must understand the amount of income you expect to earn in each individual month. The sales plan is used mainly by the commercial organization and the sales companies to increase the development of the company. Planning the template is something very important to do in organizations that function as sales businesses. A typical strategy is to predict sales by investigating the size of the market for the item or service and to estimate what sales will mean that the company obtains a small proportion of that market.


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Reverb Bands Together: Green Music Group Launch
Driving sustainability mainstream
Roberta Cruger rocru
The green supergroup performs John Lennon's "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)." Photos by RCruger
It's an eco-SWAT team: members of Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, The Roots, and Guster mingled with music biz denizens, environmental nonprofits, and earth-friendly music fans to party with purpose. Brought together by Reverb, which has greened more than 85 rock tours since 2004, the newly formed Green Music Group gathered over Grammy weekend for a jam session at Jane's House, as an alternative to Hollywood's glitzy galas. Launching an impressive eco-coalition, the GMG intends to turn up the volume on greening the music industry. Do the Union of Concerned Scientists and Barenaked Ladies seem an unlikely partnership?
Jeff Garlin, producer/star of Curb Your Enthusiasm chats with the Sierra Club. Laurie David of Stop Global Warming also hung out without her ex/Garlin's co-star, Larry David.
How about Linkin Park and the Wolftrap National Park for the Performing Arts? Willie Nelson and the Brooklyn Bowl? All these acts, plus other founding members, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson's Brushfire Records, and the Warner Music Group, have joined forces with nonprofits and venues around the country to create a supergroup of green power.
"We're putting muscle behind our efforts," says Elliot May of Reverb, manager of Strategic Partnerships, who handles everything from collaborative educational campaigns to tour sponsorships with environmentally-minded businesses like Clif Bar's Green Notes.
The brainchild of Guster's Adam Gardner and his wife Lauren Sullivan, Reverb noticed that lots of separate efforts could have more impact collectively as a high-profile community. On its own, the eco-org has worked with 1,783 enviro-groups and reduced CO2 by 67,000 tons. It's greened tours, from Coldplay to John Legend, with biodiesel fueled buses, recycling, reusable bottles for band and crew, and backstage catering with organic food served in biodegradable products. They also do fan outreach with Eco-Villages, and guide venues and events, such as the upcoming reignited Lilith Festivals. This new coalition seeks to amp up efforts, May explained:
Partnering with all these entities, which we've been working with individually, is a way to sharpen the teeth on environmental issues. We're in a unique position to glue all these aspects of the music community together and create environmental change in the industry. To make our projects more sustainable and reach the next level, the Green Music Group brings bands and nonprofits together, like the Hip-Hop Caucus with venerable institutions like Oxfam.
Starting in March, every month will present a new challenge, starting simply with the Sierra Club and Barenaked Ladies hooking up to get people outside on its trails. Future campaigns will involve Headcount and 1Sky for voting or the Slow Food movement for eating sustainably. With each call-to-action GMG will connect a musical artist with a nonprofit partner, using the organizations' tools to engage fans.
Other nonprofits in this eco-collaboration include: Do Something, Climate Counts, Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, venues such as Miami's American Airlines arena and Massachusetts' Comcast Center, and Linkin Park's Music for Relief which has planted nearly a million trees and raised $3 million.
Sign up with Green Music Group to received an email newsletter with monthly updates and a chance to win an eco-friendly guitar autographed by one of the founding members. Every initiative will offer prizes, like free VIP concert tickets, entire music catalogs, bikes, a year's supply of ice cream, or a new Apple iPad. To achieve the ultimate goal of eliminating the carbon footprint of music concerts involves everyone from bands to concertgoers.
More on Reverb:
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O.A.R. to Headline Campus Consciousness Tour
SXSW Steers the Music Biz onto the Green Track
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Quickly deploying billions to recapitalize Da Afghanistan Bank, the Afghan central bank, could help revive the country's moribund commercial-banking system.Photograph by Mohammad Jan Aria / Xinhua / Getty
Some Hope for Afghans in Need
The Biden Administration has agreed to release $3.5 billion in frozen funds, but will they reach a desperate population?
By Steve Coll
Embargoes imposed to coerce dictators also punish suffering populations. For years, lawyers, economists, and policy wonks have searched for technocratic solutions to this dilemma—for example, by designing "targeted" economic and travel sanctions against individual leaders and their cronies. As America's use of sanctions grows, such efforts have become a booming field of public-policy design and, occasionally, bold experiments.
The Biden Administration's announcement this week that it will release $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan-central-bank funds to a new Swiss foundation—the Afghan Fund, whose mission will be "to benefit the people of Afghanistan"—is such an experiment. The foundation's bespoke rules will increase Afghan participation in deliberations over the money's fate and broaden international responsibility, yet allow the Biden Administration to wield a veto over any disbursements. The Taliban are not a party to the project.
Unfortunately, it seems doubtful that the Afghan Fund will achieve the Administration's stated purpose—"to help provide greater stability to the Afghan economy," as a joint Treasury and State Departments announcement this week put it—anytime soon. The Afghan economy is in desperate condition, and hunger is spreading. Quickly deploying the $3.5 billion in reserves to recapitalize the Afghan central bank, known as Da Afghanistan Bank or D.A.B., could help revive the country's moribund commercial-banking system and fund needed imports, among other things. Yet the Taliban have not been willing or able to change their management of the central bank to meet Washington's requirements—for example, to remove one of the bank's deputy governors, who is a listed by the U.S. as a terrorist. The Biden Administration went public this week with demands that the Taliban demonstrate that D.A.B. will be free from political interference, and that the regime adopt money-laundering-prevention measures and accept outside monitoring.
In political Washington, perhaps the greatest obstacle to releasing the reserves remains the Taliban's support for Al Qaeda and other legally designated terrorist groups. The Taliban's hubristic willingness to provide haven to Ayman al-Zawahiri, a direct author of 9/11, who was discovered hiding in downtown Kabul and killed by an American drone in late July, has cemented the already formidable bipartisan resistance in Congress to doing business with the restored Islamic Emirate, as the Taliban regime calls itself. Taliban spokesmen have denied knowing that Zawahiri was hiding in Kabul. But, according to a briefing by the Biden Administration, senior members of the regime's Haqqani faction knew of his presence. The family network's most powerful figure, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is the acting interior minister.
The Afghan Fund's plan to empower Afghan leadership might improve the odds, long though they may be, that the Taliban will eventually implement the reforms that Washington and European allies require. (Other countries besides the U.S. have frozen Afghan deposits.) The Administration has named two Afghan-born finance experts, Anwar-ul Haq Ahady and Shah Mehrabi, as "co-founders" of the Afghan Fund. They are to appoint a diverse committee of Afghan advisers.
The fund's creation is "a very positive first step," Mehrabi told me. D.A.B. "was the envy of our neighbors" during much of the life of the Islamic Republic, the NATO-backed government that collapsed in August, 2021. During the past year, Afghanistan "has suffered a brain drain," he added. "We need to rebuild."
In the short run, the Afghan Fund might also be able to obtain Taliban coöperation and American acquiescence for relatively small disbursements to benefit civilians, such as the manufacture of bank notes. But the over-all record of technocratic innovations like the Afghan Fund is not encouraging. One problem is complexity. The foundation's decision-making board so far has four members—Mehrabi, Ahady, a U.S.-government representative to be named, and a Swiss-government representative to be named—and can make decisions only unanimously. That is potentially a recipe for gridlock. The board may expand to include a European Union member. Suggestions that an apolitical member of the current D.A.B. staff be appointed have so far been turned aside. "The devil is in the details," William Byrd, a development economist who worked for years in Kabul for the World Bank and is now a senior expert at the United States Institute of Peace, told me. Byrd had not examined the Afghan Fund's design when we spoke this week, but, from past experience, he said, "the nuts and bolts of the arrangement are going to be quite important and could very well determine its success or failure."
At the World Bank, Byrd was involved in the early development of the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, a mechanism that regulated large flows of international-donor funds to the fledgling government led by Hamid Karzai. That fund's relative success, Byrd argued, came from "simple management arrangements with clear responsibilities, along with sound financial engineering, governance, and accountability." As the new Afghan Fund operates, "the last thing you would want is for the U.S. to be heavily involved."
By sending the money to Switzerland, the Biden Administration has made plain that the funds are not U.S. property but, rather, are part of the sovereign wealth of Afghanistan. Yet the Administration's decision to award itself a veto over disbursements reflects a reality that it would be reckless on counterterrorism grounds—not to mention politically untenable in Washington—to simply hand the money over to the Taliban, given the restored emirate's record. The Taliban's closure of secondary schools to girls and failure to protect Hazara minorities targeted by the Islamic State make a decision to release funds even more unlikely.
In the end, Washington's veto, like the imposition of economic sanctions, is best understood as power politics. And the ineluctable fact that nations battle hard over resources such as multibillion-dollar piles of cash is one reason that clever technocratic designs like the Afghan Fund have failed in the past. Rich countries generally don't hesitate to leverage their financial advantages, and dictators and extremists generally don't care what international lawyers or policy wonks want them to do.
The oil-for-food program, conceived by the Clinton Administration to relieve Iraqi civilian suffering under Saddam Hussein, is one case study. During the program's life, between 1996 and 2003, Hussein skimmed off hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to shore up his police state, while the U.S. used its U.N. veto to play hardball, slowing and blocking exports to Iraq in ways that exacerbated Iraq's humanitarian crisis, as recounted in the ethicist Joy Gordon's book, "Invisible War."
The Afghan Fund may turn out to be just a Swiss bank account for funds that will remain blocked for years. Yet the initiative offers at the least the possibility that Afghans themselves will play a leading role in deciding what to do next. Mehrabi said that reforms to prevent money laundering at the Taliban-controlled central bank, which are among the Biden Administration's requirements, should be achievable and could allow for confidence-building in Kabul and Washington alike.
"Look, people are dying of hunger," Mehrabi said. "State and Treasury deserve to be commended; they've brought a lot of attention to relieving the hardship. But we need to be concerned about the structure of the economy. We need to be able to go ahead and rebuild these institutions." As for the Taliban, he added, "I cannot answer the question of whether they will coöperate." ♦
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And here's the second half of the mini-series that introduced Moore's new Deathblow to the Wildstorm universe.
In the previous entries, about works like Violator Vs. Badrock and Spawn: Blood Feud, a lot of people were saying, "Well yeah, it's bad, but look at the quality of character he was saddled with!" In this mini-series though, he doesn't have that excuse. There was a previous character named Deathblow, Michael Cray; he died in Wildstorm's "Fire Fom Heaven" event (also written by Moore and also quite awful).
Here, in this three-part mini-series, Moore was tasked with creating a brand new Deathblow from scratch. The sky was the limit... so how the heck did we end up with this?


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Redesigning the User Experience for alloFactor Practice Managment System involved developing a new skin, a new set of icons and deploying images to make the user interaction intuitive and pleasurable. Standardising the typography, layout and spacing, defining a colour palette and developing usability guidelines were part of the project.
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Think back to a time when you failed at something, when someone rejected your ideas and wrote them off without even blinking. Each "third time's the charm," "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again," and "close but not quite" can become a long string of personal heartache. And while you may not be a weak person, there is only so much you can take before you just want to throw in the towel. It's human nature.
Thomas Edison. One of the most important inventive minds of the 20th century was told by his teachers that he was "too stupid to learn anything." His teachers' predictions seemed to ring true, as Edison was fired from his first two jobs for not attaining a suitable level of productivity. Interestingly enough, being shunned from the working world was his ticket to success. Free from the handcuffs of societal standards, Edison's creative genius was unleashed: He went on to hold more than 1,000 patents and invented world changing devices including the phonograph, electrical light bulb – which he failed at developing nearly 2,000 times – and a movie camera.


Traveling on Interstate 90 somewhere in upstate New York. This is one beautiful state.
MAKING A CROSS COUNTRY road trip isn't easy. It's especially grueling when you're under a schedule with minimal time to stop except for gas, bathroom breaks, and to eat, sleep and pay tolls.
Although we spotted many signs directing us toward New York City, we did not go that way.
Despite the challenges, there's a certain sense of adventure and accomplishment in completing a long-distance journey. It's a great way to see the country. My husband and I traveled 3,029 miles on a late May road trip from Minnesota to Massachusetts and back. I've already taken you to our destinations of Somerville and Medford.
Ohio is a big state to traverse from west to east. Be ware of state troopers here. They were thick on the Interstate, the highest number we saw in any of the nine states we drove through.
Now it's time to take you other places.
Finally, after 2 1/2 days of travel, we reached Massachusetts.
Our room at the Super 8 Motel in Princeton, Illinois, where we met Carl, the desk clerk. See that picture of the Chicago skyline? Carl once worked in the second building from the right. We loved Carl. The quiet room overlooked a field and the John Deere dealership. Total cost: $66.81.
Seeing our son for the first time since Christmas and watching him graduate from Tufts University.
Discovering beautiful Baldwinsville, New York.
Staying at an historic state park lodge in Indiana.
Sitting around a campfire and talking with an inspiring young couple at the state park.
The friendly people we met everywhere.
Especially welcoming and helpful hotel staff.
Seeing the diversity of the U.S. landscape.
The pie at Myrtle's Cafe and Pie in Princeton.
A Grant Wood themed rest stop in Iowa.
Finally finding our way out of Buffalo, New York.
Road construction was expected and endured. Everywhere.
Too many dead deer along the Interstates, especially in Pennsylvania with New York coming in second.
A less than welcoming Illinois hotel clerk who refused to give us an AARP discount because the hotel "had met its quota for the night." I've never heard of this before. We didn't believe him and left. He had a bad overall attitude.
Cleaning an apartment kitchen used by college students.
Getting lost in a really bad part of Buffalo, New York, for 1 ½ hours.
Crazy and dangerous drivers in Buffalo.
Failing to see Niagra Falls once we reached the general falls area only to encounter road construction and no directions how to get to the American side of the falls.
Morning rush hour in Hartford, Connecticut, on a rainy Monday.
Nearly being hit head-on when a vehicle crossed the center line on a state highway in Iowa.
Too many miles (600 driven one day) and not enough sleep.
FYI: Check back next week as I showcase specific places from our trip.
This was our first bad experience with traffic in Iowa. I'd definitely say the most dangerous drivers we encountered were in Buffalo, New York. That state happens to have pull off areas along the interstate specifically for stopping to text. Signs advise that texting can wait. It's a great campaign I'd like to see in all states.
I can say these type of road trips have their highs and lows – moving cross country via road trip last year from Nevada to Florida – I can now say "Yes, it does take 2 days to cross the State of Texas!" – ha! Think of the good memories for years to come, especially seeing your son graduate 🙂 Happy Weekend – Enjoy – ADVENTURE ON . . .
Two days to cross Texas? Oh, my. Yes, I will always hold on to the good memories. Always.
Wow, nary a bad word about the infamous bad drivers of Massachusetts.. Thank you very much Audrey.
Oh, I heard all about the bad drivers in Boston before we left on our trip. But we did not encounter them in the safety of Somerville and Medford or driving in and out of the city.
It's all a myth Audrey, lol.
To me road trips are fun if you do not have a schedule to adhere to, but with places to be and people to see you couldn't enjoy the road trip as much, I understand. Maybe you can do a road trip again sometime with no time lines to meet. Perhaps something to look forward to……………………..
Maybe. On the way home, we were able to travel at a bit slower pace allowing for minimal exploring. One of the problems is lack of vacation time. Although my husband has been with the same company for more than 30 years, he only gets 10 days of vacation annually.
Perhaps retirement will give you the time you need but alas there's always that pesky financial situation. I am personally looking into retirement in the near future and have begun scoping out real estate options!
Yup, there's always that financial issue.
Are you looking in small town Minnesota?
Small towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the UP of Michigan. My wife and I have family in those areas. I have looked into some of those areas you have showcased in your blog and I believe it will be a tough decision to make! I do know one thing for sure it will be a small town! Cost of living is a major factor and we have found some reasonable numbers to work with on this. Wow utilities are so much lower than what we pay for in Alaska. In the middle of winter we have paid upwards of $600 per month for heating and we do not have a huge house! It is about 1700 square feet. Throw in all the other bills and the house costs us about 2,600 per month (payment, taxes, utilities, etc.). Alaska is not a retirement area!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy, cow! No wonder you can't retire in Alaska! It's always good to be around family as you age.
Family a big YES, and shorter winters! All the family we have here in Alaska has started moving out already!
So time to join the family wagon train, right?
Catch up time: I am behind on postings regarding your Tuft adventure. Your photo essay for each posting were engaging and informative. Your appreciation for people watching, old buildings and architecture I could totally relate to. The experiences found in traveling i hope you found outweigh the inconveniences. Traffic and parking are certainly top on everyone's biggest annoyances. But to be able to experience the people, Caleb's friends and landscape he is a part of are reassuring to a parent this is a world he is meant to be in and helps you better understand where he is coming from. if nothing else you have even a more appreciation for your rural SW Minnesota roots. .
You are correct on all counts in this comment.
The $60/night is not the usual. A typical hotel room would be more in the $100-120 range. Your prices are always higher, so it seems to me.
Being in the van for 3,029 miles was not difficult with so much to see.
Some good ups and downs for sure. We've had some bad experiences at hotels as well, Not fun! Where did you stay in the state park??? Did you camp?
Oh, Jackie, we are not campers. We stayed in a lodge. A beautiful lodge. I will be posting about it. Eventually.
Great pictures. I can't believe that you found a hotel for less than $70.00.
Actually, two for less than $70.


There is no Dojo listed in Warboys. This page shows 20 Martial Arts Schools found within 12 Miles of Warboys. Based on the information available from these Dojos, Karate, Tang Soo Do, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Shotokan Karate, Jiu-Jitsu (Jujutsu/Jujitsu), Judo & Boxing are the most offered Martial Arts in Warboys area. Most of these schools offer self defense classes for men, women and children near Warboys.
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Distance is shown approximately from the downtown area of Warboys. For a list of Martial Arts Schools near you, Search with your complete address. Click on a Dojo name to view details. Clicking on 'Map' next to a Dojo will show the school on the Map.
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I ORDERED SOME PARTS ON 7/1 AND STILL HAVNT EVEN GOT A SHIPPING CONFIRMATION YET AND THEY CHARGED ME SALES TAX TWICE.JUST WANT TO KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HAVE DELT WITH THEM YET???
RE: TQ RACING,ANYONE DELT WITH THEM YET??
I have dealt with them twice.
The second time I ordered on June 15. Online it said the order shipped on June 25. Well, it didn't. I called them on July 2nd asking the status. Some guy on the phone told me that part of my order was "lost" in the warehouse. Whatever the hell that meant. He said the parts would definitely be shipping on July 6. Well, I waited until last Thursday and finally had enough. I opened a dispute case with PayPal because they wouldn't answer any of my e-mails. That did the trick. They sent a delivery confirmation number to me so now I'm just waiting to see if the parts actually show (they mailed the parts the DAY AFTER I opened my complaint, July 13th).
My hope was they would do a little better customer service and support wise, but they have been one big disappointment. I would rather order my parts from Hobbythek in Germany than have to deal with them again.
I would strongly suggest to anyone thinking about parts from these guys to NOT order from them. They popped into different forums in May acting like they would be a huge supporter of the large scale hobby, but that does not seem to be the case. If they can defend their actions (or inactions) then maybe I would order from them again, but with the e-mails that I sent and phone calls, it doesn't sound like they give a damn.
A claim is the best way to light a fire under their butts it seems. The guy I'm working with has been pretty good about finding out about the parts (his name is Karlton). I've received some parts, but others are on backorder. Which parts did you order? I'm waiting for some shock ends and shock rebuild kits. I've got two shock ends that are literally stretched out but still work. I have to put some fuel tubing to keep the play to a minimum. Hopefully their company is just going through some growing pains. I'll be waiting before I order from them again though, if ever again.
Do you have a web address for them?
Did you ever get your issue resolved? I still haven't received all my parts (6 weeks). I have pushed my dispute to a PayPal claim now. I just want what I didn't receive refunded to me. I will not ever purchase from them again.
Here is a place to give feedback. It is called www.resellerratings.com.
I had them added out there. It is a great place for online shopping if you are looking at a place you have never heard of (especially with electronics).
I'll leave feedback as soon as PayPal decides on the claim, maybe sooner.
Isn't this pretty much the same thing? just a different body?
That's the exact same one, with a different body.
Well, I received most of my parts from them. Not all but most of them. I guess I'll just see if they ever send me the backordered parts (tqrc). I received almost the entire first order from them again (I'm not going to complain about duplicated parts) so I closed my PayPal claim.


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'use strict';

var assert = require('chai').assert;
var Config = require('../lib/config');

var ok        = assert.ok;
var deepEqual = assert.deepEqual;

describe('Config', function() {
  it('module exists', function() {
    ok(Config);
  });

  describe('constructor', function() {
    it('returns an empty object if a path doesn\'t exist', function() {
      var config = new Config();

      deepEqual(config, {});
    });

    it('returns an empty object if a path exists but the file is empty', function() {
      var config = new Config('test/fixtures/empty.json');

      deepEqual(config, {});
    });

    it('returns an empty object if a path exists and file has settings', function() {
      var config = new Config('test/fixtures/config.json');

      deepEqual(config, {
        foo: 'bar',
        baz: 5,
        'bazinga-blah-blah': 'hello'
      });
    });

    it('strips single line comments from JSON strings', function() {
      var config = new Config('test/fixtures/single-line-comments.json');

      deepEqual(config, {
        foo: 'bar',
        baz: 5,
        'bazinga-blah-blah': 'hello',
        url: 'http://bas.com'
      });
    });

    it('strips multi-line comments from JSON strings', function() {
      var config = new Config('test/fixtures/multi-line-comments.json');

      deepEqual(config, {
        foo: 'bar',
        baz: 5,
        'bazinga-blah-blah': 'hello',
        url: 'http://bal.com'
      });
    });

    it('throws error when JSON is invalid', function() {
      assert.throws(function() {
        new Config('test/fixtures/invalid-config.json');
      }, 'Error when parsing file in test/fixtures/invalid-config.json. Make sure that you have a valid JSON.');
    });
  });
});


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How do you identify the signs of emotional abuse?
When you are in it, it's almost impossible to do so. Because being in an emotionally abusive relationship is like being in a maze: all you can do is go up different paths, which almost always turn out to be dead ends. You lack on overview; not least because your abusive partner is intent on closing down your horizons, and creating a kind of tunnel vision in which all you see is him.
Boy, that works well for him!
So, the first sign of emotional abuse is the obsessive way that you focus on your partner. Sure, in the early infatuation period of healthy relationships you will spend a lot of time dreaming about your new partner; but then thoughts of your partner, and what you share, make you very happy. They do not eat away at you.
The fourth sign of emotional abuse is your isolation. Of course, it is hardly surprising that you become estranged from the world outside your abusive relationship; once you accept his truth that everyone you encounter judges you and finds you sorely wanting.
The fifth sign of emotional abuse is your increasing de-personalization. Not only does the world outside your abusive relationship seem less real and important, but you also find yourself shrinking as a person; and connecting less and less with other people, in any meaningful way.
The sixth sign of emotional abuse is your increasing dependency on your partner. Abused women stop driving, and stop doing all sorts of normal adult activities on their own, including, going to the cinema, or restaurant, or taking a flight, alone. They function more like small, frightened children than adult women.
The seventh sign of emotional abuse is emotional shut down. There is defensiveness – which is a fairly normal response to being constantly under attack – and there is emotional shut down. Abused women, and I was certainly one of them, often feel emotionally numb, or even dead. You can easily come across as withdrawn and curiously emotionless, because you no longer know how to communicate emotionally.
The ninth sign of abuse is an overwhelming sense of worthlessness. Your partner has told you how worthless you are more times than you have had hot dinners, and you have argued with him. But still, you ended up taking his judgement on board.
The tenth sign of abuse is your self-loathing. Again, your abusive partner has treated you as if you were loathsome, and you have swallowed that judgement also.
The twelfth sign of abuse is catastrophizing. There is no such thing as a small mistake when you are in an abusive relationship. Everything is a 'hanging offence': socks not neatly paired in the sock drawer, dinner not waiting on the table, talking to a friend, making an innocent remark, interrupting the great man when he is talking, you do it –whatever it is – and it will be a heinous crime.
The thirteenth sign of abuse is your negativity or, if you prefer, extreme pessimism. Not that it feels that way to you; to you, you just 'see things the way they are'. (In reality, you see things through a very dark lens; his lens.) Your world looks hopeless. Your future looks hopeless. Nothing good will ever happen to you again, in your whole life. You may fight like a tiger to ensure that good things happen to your children, but you, personally, live in a parallel universe where only bad things happen.
The fourteenth sign of abuse is that you have stopped laughing. You certainly don't laugh when you are around your abusive partner; your laughter does not meet with his approval. You have long since stopped being light-hearted. How could it be otherwise? Your heart stores the full load of all the abusive things he has ever said and done.
Abused women, invariably, lose sight of the person they were before they went into their abusive relationship. They think that younger, vibrant self is dead.
The signs of abuse are what you have suffered: they are not who you are.
They are simply the trauma that, for the time being, has submerged who you truly are. That trauma may have dimmed your light, but it cannot extinguish it. It is very hard, unbearably hard, living the way you are living now. But there is a fast track to healing.
If you take one thing from this article, let it be this: you are not the trauma that has been inflicted on you. You deserve so much more than the misery of an abusive relationship.
I didn't suffer overt emotional abuse - he didn't make comments like "you're worthless", but he did reject nearly everything I said, any opinion, any feelings.
I didn't get hit either, well, not after the police told him off for pushing me around one day.
But I am numb and feel as if I am full of tears.
I don't feel like I can heal.
I know it says (above) "you can heal quickly" but I seem to be bogged down in the grey that the relationship and proximity to him created.
Keep reminding yourself that living in a dog house like a dog doesnt make you a dog.
I have just left a very long-term emotionally abusive marriage and though I was pretty certain that I would leave and stay left, with the support of professionals in the domestic violence services, I still second-guess myself, especially after contact with my ex or people he has spoken to. He obviously doesn't see himself as being violent or abusive, insisting that he doesn't do what the abusers programs say are violent behaviour, but when I read the signs in this post, I don't need any convincing. He is no longer overt in his abuse (after being arrested) but his ability to put subtle and covert blame on me while trying his hardest to get the family back by appearing remorseful is mind-boggling. I am crying reading this post - thank you for the hope that trauma doesn't define who we are. I have symptoms of what I have suffered, but that doesn't mean they are going to be with me forever!


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Start of a new season of Schools League events and so the first of this season's Saturday morning training.
As usual we will be spending much of the time working on the basics of orienteering with focus on map symbols, control descriptions and map reading and orientation.
For those with more experience we will move on to attack points and route planning.
As usual training will begin at 9.30 and we will be finishing at 10.30 in plenty of time for you to do a course.
See the event details page for parking and assembly information.
Although the session is primarily aimed at Families and Juniors, adult orienteers are welcome to attend when the coaches will be happy to work with you to devise something that suits your needs.
And if you are an experienced orienteer and can spare time to help the next generation of orienteers you would be especially welcome!


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Q: Syncfusion MVC Report Viewer Parameters from Query Im trying to render SSRS Parameters on Syncfusion Report Viewer with Razor Engine
How can i do this?
Can i do this without define hardcoded parameters on my Controller?

A: We can able to pass the parameter values to report from Razor View as shown in below code example.
        @(Html.EJ().ReportViewer("reportsample")
.ProcessingMode(Syncfusion.JavaScript.ReportViewerEnums.ProcessingMode.Remote).ReportServiceUrl(VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/api/SSRSReport")).ReportServerUrl("http://mvc.syncfusion.com/reportserver").ReportPath("/Report Project1/InvoiceTemplate")
                              .Parameters(param =>
                              {
                               param.Name("InvoiceID").Labels(new List<string>() { "InvoiceID" }).Values(new List<string>() { "10250" }).Add();
                              })
        )

Also, you can able to  populate the parameter values from query as given in below MSDN articles,
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157187.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd220464(v=sql.105).aspx


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Q: Why is the 3rd argument not parsed in getopts bash I am trying to write a simple script to do something depending on the input arguments. Here is what I have written
#!/bin/bash
usage() { echo "Usage: $0 [-l <string>] [-p <string>] [-d <string> ]" 1>&2; exit 1; }

while getopts ":l:p:d" o; do
    case "${o}" in
        l)
            l=${OPTARG}
        echo "$l"
            ;;
        p)
            p=${OPTARG}
        echo "$p"
            ;;
        d)
            d=${OPTARG}
        echo "$d"
            ;;
        *)
            usage
            ;;
    esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

if [ -z "${l}" ] && [ -z "${p}" ] && [ -z "${d}" ]; then
    usage
fi

Its able to parse the inputs given as -l and -p properly but the third input -d is not parsed.
Output:
sagar@CPU:~/$ ./play.sh -l "l is parsed" -p "p is parsed" -d "d is parsed"
l is parsed
p is parsed

This works
sagar@CPU:~/$ ./play.sh -p "p is parsed"
p is parsed

Whereas this doesn't work
sagar@CPU:~/$ ./play.sh -d "d is parsed"

Usage: ./play.sh [-l <song name>] [-p <song name>] [-d <song name> ]

What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks for your help in advance.

A: You are missing : in while statement passing arguments
#!/bin/bash
usage() { echo "Usage: $0 [-l <string>] [-p <string>] [-d <string> ]" 1>&2; exit 1; }

while getopts ":l:p:d:" o; do
    case "${o}" in
        l)
            l=${OPTARG}
        echo "$l"
            ;;
        p)
            p=${OPTARG}
        echo "$p"
            ;;
        d)
            d=${OPTARG}
        echo "$d"
            ;;
        *)
            usage
            ;;
    esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

if [ -z "${l}" ] && [ -z "${p}" ] && [ -z "${d}" ]; then
    usage
fi

Run :
./script.sh -l "l is parsed" -p "p is parsed" -d "d is parsed"

Output :
l is parsed
p is parsed
d is parsed

Run :
./script.sh -d "d is parsed"

Output :
d is parsed


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Images of real, violent death are now routine on screens big and small, and nobody knows what they're doing to us
I was pretty young, but I remember with fascination and horror the stills from the Zapruder film of the John Kennedy assassination. Frame by frame, Life Magazine, which in those days defined news photography, in early 1964 ran the grainy color 8mm images of the murder—Kennedy grabbing his throat as the first bullet hit him, then Jackie cradling him, finally a red blur as the killing round went through his head.
There must have been comparable, mass-circulated, images of death from before JFK's, but I don't remember any. The ones that came after I do remember well: Martin Luther King Jr. crumpled on the Memphis balcony; Bobby Kennedy dying, his face almost luminous as he's comforted by the Filipino waiter in Los Angeles; the Viet Cong commando executed during Tet; the anguished girl crouching, screaming, alongside the dead student at Kent State.
They were signature moments from a world gone mad, and they left a mark because they were rare. They were rare because the news media shied away from pictures of death and dying. That was never because the pictures weren't readily available. No metro newspaper ever complained about a shortage of grisly pictures. Images of shotgunned murder victims, limbs severed in car wrecks, impaled motorists were never hard to come by.
But the pictures were considered distasteful, more likely to cost subscriptions than to sell papers. I once asked an editor from the National Enquirer why his tabloid hadn't published photos of Princess Diana dying in her wrecked limousine in Paris, by all accounts a harrowing scene captured by a platoon of paparazzi. Two reasons, he said: Our readers would hate us, and we'd get thrown out of the supermarkets.
Beyond that, the logic went, such images were rarely ever needed to tell the story. That was the thinking.
But that was then. We have entered a new age when it comes to images of death. Video of violent killings has become routine. Round-the-clock news channels, lacking fresh video, run continuous loops of snuff film.
How many times have I seen the 12-year-old in Cleveland with a toy gun shot dead by a cop with a real one; the teenager in Chicago as he's shot and shot again, incredibly, 16 times, by a policeman; the Paris club-goers running into the alleyway, filmed from above, some dying, others stumbling past the bodies; the ISIS videos of hostage slaughter, images generally carried by our media right up to the moment when blade meets throat.
And the inexhaustible supply of surveillance video, a mainstay of local news now, more images of beatings and shootings. Our public records rules generally ensure that once that footage is entered in court filings, they are in the public domain, and media can use them as well (without having to pay anybody.)
We are in a new era. Violent death has become normalized as daily spectacle. That's not disputable. But I see no evidence that anybody in the media has paused to ask themselves whether that might not be such a good thing.
Now, I fully agree that if not for the fact that images of police violence have been made public, instances of murderous brutality might have gone unnoticed and unavenged. But that doesn't require saturation 24/7 repetition by news channels.
That footage becomes routinized not because news media are seeking justice. It's because they're lazy; they have in hand cheap and compelling footage; they won't let archaic standards of taste and public service lose them viewers to the tiny screens of social media that have no standards of either; and they haven't wasted a moment reflecting on whether they might be doing harm.
And are they? Who knows. The effects of media violence on audiences have been examined for as long as there have been media. The problem is, the overwhelming mass of research has focused on fictional violence—movies and TV—for the simple reason that until now there hasn't been all that much real violence graphically displayed in the news. (Typically, news coverage has been of people reacting to violence they witnessed, or reporters describing violence after it occurred. Even so, there's evidence that it inspires others to have a go, whether via school shootings or suicides.)
The scarcity of imagery has ended. Now, the public is routinely watching as real people are beaten or put to death. And nobody knows how we're being affected.
To me, it's hard to imagine that the generation of children who are looking on, whose parents are admonishing them to pay attention to the news—on the quaint theory that news prepares them to understand their world and function as citizens—are not drawing disturbing conclusions about that world, about what's normal and what's expected.
If the media, unwittingly, are inducing audiences to swallow their outrage and accept repugnant and murderous behavior as normal, we all have a problem. Instead of being vehicles for exposure and reform, they have become instruments of a general coarsening of expectations. And then we're all victims.
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6 thoughts on "Images of real, violent death are now routine on screens big and small, and nobody knows what they're doing to us"
Gary Wasserman says:
Nice column. Needs repeating. There's also that group of violent acts that are done in order to be broadcast.
J Rock says:
Someone in Boulder bought the Lincoln it happened in.
Psychologists discovered that enhancing specific and narrowed emotions to the most narrow points would enhance the reception and desire for a product advertised in the background. Now we live in a culture of the real extremes and the false extremes but I meet very few who seem to know that the mindless simplicity of a simple task done well and correctly is one of the true spiritual rewards of life. I miss the good humans who had just each other. No electricity, no engines, just others, and the cows and goats and soybeans. And the train passing thru. North was happy, south was somber. Weather was important. Oh well.
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greg gelburd says:
Images go deeply into our psyche, particularly in developing brains, meaning people under the age of 25 years. With no real control over what we see, or rarely a warning, and with images on video games becoming more realistic, our poor little brains are hammered with horrible images daily. Give me a book any day……
Gurgle Brook says:
Just talking last night about the sad monotypical effects of media violence I was trained to avoid 50 years ago. The control of the information is extensive in how it only tells the side of it that works for perpetuation with the target audience. I keep wondering when I read the psychological research, twenty years ago?, where they had discovered that extremely narrow negative or positive emotions when evoked would produce a tremendous increase in sales of items pictured or mentioned without connection but simultaneously. I am sad about the good films I have missed and sometimes mystified by the talk speak of mono channel tv addicts but there is an acceptance of extremes that would have been very out of place in the old villages of my early travels. I am at the library, twenty or thirty people quietly working away, all disturbed just now by someone talking loud and rude and being feisty when the guard came and threw him out. And like so many now he used obscenity that I learned long ago was not public speech. My sympathies to all who are aware and conscientious and good hearted while they keep themselves in healthy balance. And now again with this environment the challenge of civility and progress remains a goal. Pleasant days to you. Jon.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Edward Wasserman's Blog wrote:
> edwardwasserman posted: " I was pretty young, but I remember with > fascination and horror the stills from the Zapruder film of the John > Kennedy assassination. Frame by frame, Life Magazine, which in those days > defined news photography, in early 1964 ran the grainy color 8mm" >


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What's your favorite movie to watch while you sew for the holidays?
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without a doubt…"It's a Wonderful Life"! LOVE, LOVE that movie and I find something new in it every year that I hadn't noticed before.
Love Actually, of course! There is no better Christmas movie. The music! the stories! and even the end credits make me cry!
La Pastorela, the southwestern version of the shepherds trek to visit the baby Jesus.
I just watched "Christmas with the Kranks"! HILARIOUS!!!! Guess that's my new favorite. My old favorite movie to watch while sewing for the holidays would have to be "Elf".
Love the Charlie brown movies!
I love them all! And add to the traditional ones (It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, etc.) all of the newer ones on the Hallmark channel. I'm a sucker for holiday movies.
I always like to watch It's a Wonderful Life or Frosty the Snowman or Charlie Brown's Christmas.
My guilty pleasure is I love watching British shows while sewing. I think I know all the words to Saxondale.
White Christmas is my favorite – thanks.
"The Holiday" – Thanks for the fun!
I have to know a movie really well to watch it while I am sewing, so any of my favorites like The Christmas Story or How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the classic cartoon version!).
"Polar Express" makes me feel like a kid again!
I do not get to watch movies while I sew, no tv in sewing room. I do listen to Christmas music though and quite often sing along.
I do not watch movies while I sew. I listen to audio books while I rip.
Sleepless in Seattle…very 'girly' movie, but love it.
Anything on the Hallmark Channel!
Its a Wonderful Life. Thank you for the countdown.
It's a Wonderful Life! There were a lot to pick from – so many favorites!
Home alone 1 and 2. Is my favorite while sewing or crafting.
This is our 1st year with the Hallmark channel sew i am watching all the Hallmark Christmas movies this year.
I don't really watch any movies while I sew; I do listen to lots of Mannheim Steamroller and the Windham Hill Solstice series, though.
I don't watch Christmas movies when I sew, really. But I love to watch I Love Lucy on my laptop. I've seen every episode several times and can repeat the dialog. I like watching The Big Bang Theory also.
The Christmas Story has become a classic in our house.
I don't watch movies when I sew. I listen to audio books or CDs of old tunes.


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California Proposal To Legalize Killing Gays Hard To Stop
Attorney General Kamala Harris is tasked with drafting a title and 100-word summary of ballot measure proposals. Despite anger over a plan that authorizes the killing of gays and lesbians by "bullets to the head," legal experts say she has little choice but to let the process continue. HECTOR AMEZCUA HAMEZCUA@SACBEE.COM
For less than the cost of an Apple iPad, Matt McLaughlin started a statewide legal conversation.
An attorney from Huntington Beach, McLaughlin in late February spent $200 to propose a ballot measure that authorizes the killing of gays and lesbians by "bullets to the head," or "any other convenient method."
McLaughlin's "Sodomite Suppression Act" now is testing the limits of free speech and raising the question: Why can't the state's initiative process screen out blatantly illegal ideas?
The Legislature's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus wrote a letter to the State Bar, asking for an investigation into McLaughlin's fitness to practice law. More than 3,800 people signed a petition to State Bar President Craig Holden asking that McLaughlin lose his law license for advocating to "legalize the murder" of gays and lesbians.
Yet the measure is likely to proceed to the signature-gathering stage. At the moment, its fate rests with state Attorney General Kamala Harris, who is charged with writing a title and summary for the proposal. Legal experts say she has little choice but to let the process continue and that McLaughlin is unlikely to face professional repercussions.
Over the years, the $200 price tag for submitting an initiative has enabled California political activists to draft and submit thousands of orphan causes: eliminating divorce, requiring public schools to offer Christmas caroling, making criminals of those who lie during political campaigns.
Carol Dahmen, a media consultant in Sacramento who started the petition to disbar McLaughlin, argues that this one is different. Along with disbarment, Dahmen wants to draw attention to reforming the system, calling McLaughlin the "poster boy of what is still wrong with the initiative process."
"It's an interesting discussion about free speech, and I get that," Dahmen said. "But this is a lawyer, and he's advocating for murder."
To begin collecting signatures for a ballot measure, advocates must first submit their idea, along with $200, to the attorney general's office. As of Sunday, the office had received 125 public comments as officials consider whether to draft the title and 100-word summary for McLaughlin's measure.
Legal experts point to a 1978 case in which then-Attorney General Evelle Younger rejected a measure he believed dealt with multiple subjects. The proponent sued, and the state Supreme Court ruled that Younger did not have the authority to delay or impede the initiative process while claims of a measure's invalidity are determined.
Asked what authority Harris might have to block the current measure, political and election lawyer Tom Hiltachk said, "None." He said the process of issuing a title and summary to an initiative proponent is a ministerial act and is not subject to discretion.
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"While you might say that this initiative is 'clearly' illegal (and I would agree), the notion of what is or is not 'clearly' illegal is not always so cut and dried," Hiltachk wrote in an email. "If you give the (attorney general) discretion, there may be cases in which she refused to issue a title and summary asserting that the measure was 'clearly' illegal."
"While in this case, it seems foolish and perhaps unwise to issue a title and summary, the better approach is the current approach, prohibiting discretion, so that 'close cases' are not inappropriately derailed by a recalcitrant AG."
Vikram Amar, a law professor at UC Davis, echoed that view.
"This one drips of evil, so the instinct is to say 'Well, there's got to be a way to avoid wasting everybody's time,' " he said. "But in the law we often have limitations that are built not for the easy cases but because we are worried about the hard cases."
He said California law "generally favors judges making these decisions about what's legal (or) not rather than elected political officials like the attorney general."
"I could see a reason for wanting to kill it right now... I don't want to go to a BART station and have some idiot with a clipboard put this in front of me and say, 'Hey, do you want to sign this to put it on the ballot?' But that may be something we have to just deal with."
Even outraged activists aren't focusing on Harris, instead turning their attention to McLaughlin's standing and California's initiative filing fee.
Originally designed to cover the cost of analyzing and verifying a petition, the filing fee has not increased since 1943, with several attempts failing in the state Capitol.
The growing number of proposed initiatives – from 47 in the 1960s to nearly 650 in the 2000s – prompted lawmakers to revisit the issue in recent years. They contended that raising the fee would help defray the average $8,000 in administrative costs for state officials to prepare the title and summary for each proposal. It could also dissuade people from pitching multiple variations of a plan, or from turning in what would generally be viewed as a frivolous proposal.
The Sacramento Bee
Kim Alexander, an expert on ballot measures, said she believes raising the filing fee is a good idea. Alexander said while she generally opposes changes that make the initiative process more restrictive, those serious about advancing a successful measure are going to need considerable resources.
"Increasing the fee, even to $500 or $1,000, would help ensure that those who put initiatives into circulation are sincere in their efforts," said Alexander, president and founder of the California Voter Foundation. "I don't think the fee should cover the costs, but it should provide more of a disincentive for people to submit initiatives for which they have no serious intention of attempting to qualify, which seems to happen a lot if you follow initiatives in circulation that fail."
The most recent legislation, in 2011, would have raised the fee to $2,000. The language was stripped from the measure and it became a vehicle for requiring that all initiatives appear only on general election ballots.
Before that, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a pair of similar bills by Democrat Lori Saldaña in 2009 and 2010, writing he "cannot support increasing the fee ten-fold," and adding that "while well-funded special interest groups would have no problem paying the sharply increased fee, it will make it more difficult for citizen groups to qualify an initiative."
Jennifer Fearing, the president of Fearless Advocacy and a veteran of lower-wattage campaigns, said she isn't sure "there's a price that stops crazy."
"It's important to preserve access to direct democracy even if some jerks can get over the first and lowest hurdle on occasion," she said.
While it's exceedingly unlikely McLaughlin's measure would qualify, the signature threshold for November 2016, at 365,880, is unusually low.
Fearing said unless he could come up with $1 million to pay signature collectors, and upward of $10 million to advertise, "we are all just going to have to hope he's having his shameful 15 minutes of infamy."
McLaughlin's plan refers to "buggery" or "sodomy" as "a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." Under the proposal, "... any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification (would) be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method."
Credit: WarOnWomen via Twitter
Anyone transmitting "sodomistic propaganda" to a minor would be fined $1 million per offense, and/or imprisoned up to 10 years, and/or expelled from California for up to life. It would ban lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, or those who espouse sodomistic propaganda, or who belong to any group that does, from serving in public office, holding government jobs and obtaining public benefits.
"This law is effective immediately and shall not be rendered ineffective nor invalidated by any court, state or federal, until heard by a quorum of the Supreme Court of California consisting only of judges who are neither sodomites nor subject to disqualification hereunder," it states.
Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, wrote in a letter to the bar president that he's deeply disturbed a bar member would promote such "pitiful, evil and hateful sentiments" and called on officials to review his conduct and determine whether he meets the standards for membership.
On Thursday, the Legislature's LGBT Caucus, of which Lara is a member, released its letter to the State Bar requesting an investigation into McLaughlin's "provocative and potentially unethical actions."
"I support freedom of speech, but calling for state sanctioned execution of a protected class calls into question the proponent's character and judgment," Lara said.
Attempts to reach McLaughlin were unsuccessful, and the telephone number he provided to the state goes to a voice mail that is full.
The State Bar lists his status as active. The bar is aware of the public calls for disbarment, and the Office of Chief Trial Counsel takes them seriously, spokeswoman Laura Ernde said. However, she said the bar can't comment further since the investigation process is confidential by law.
Though the petition asserts McLaughlin is "immoral" and "unfit to practice law," ethicists said the bar would have a hard time finding he should be disciplined.
"It's offensive to anybody with a rational mind, but I don't know that it necessarily rises to the level of an ethics violation," said Jonathan Arons, a legal ethics attorney in San Francisco.
David Cameron Carr of San Diego spent a dozen years at the State Bar disciplining lawyers and the last 14 defending them. He said while attorneys could be disciplined for acts of "moral turpitude," that requirement relates to the ability to perform their work.
"This is not obviously the kind of act of moral turpitude that calls into question his fitness to practice law," Carr said.
Lawyers are disciplined as part of a process that closely mirrors criminal prosecution or civil lawsuits. The chief trial counsel must go into State Bar Court, file a case, and then prove it out to an independent adjudicator. Carr anticipates that the State Bar will look at the conduct, but doesn't see a prosecutable discipline case with McLaughlin.
"It's incredibly vile, and it's offensive and disgusting," Carr said. "That said, we have the First Amendment that protects speech, and the scope is pretty broad."
Originally published in Capitol Alert | The Sacramento Bee by Christopher Cadelago.
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Q: User.threads.list returns not all threads I trying to get all threads for my test user.
Accordingly to user profile(Users.getProfile), "threadsTotal" = 45771
So, I expecting to get 45771 threads for Users.threads.list.
But, I am getting only 599 results.
I using following params in request:
:fields => "threads(id),nextPageToken",
:includeSpamTrash => true,
:userId => "me",
:maxResults => '100'

In logs I see 6 successful api calls.(100+100+100+100+100+99 results)
With :maxResults => '20' I getting only 319 results.(With 16 successful api calls)
How I can get all threads for my user?

A: It looks like this might be related to the number of threads in the trash and the spam folder.  I found the discrepancy between the threadsTotal value in the response to users.get_profile and threads.list.count to be equal to the number of threads in the trash.
I also checked users.get_profile.messageCount and messages.list.count and found a similar result.
This problem disappears for me when I set :includeSpamTrash to be false in the users.threads.list parameters.


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