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Panel to monitor, coordinate MBBS entrance exams
Published On: December 26, 2016 12:30 AM NPT By: Republica | @RepublicaNepal
KATHMANDU, Dec 26: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has formed a committee to look into the concerns regarding the MBBS entrance exams of Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) after ordering cancellation of the exams results. The exams were held about a month ago.
A probe committee coordinated by Dr Bhola Ram Shrestha, chief of Medical Service Division at the MoH, recommended canceling the controversial results of the entrance exams. Serious mistakes were made in the publication of the exam results while names of successful candidates were altered, according to sources.
After cancelling the results published in two phases on November 30 and December 2, the ministry has formed a three-member monitoring and coordination committee, according to the MoH. The committee headed by former secretary Dipendra Bikram Thapa includes legal expert Bijaya Mishra and exam expert Sita Ram Budhathoki.
PAHS enrolls 60 MBBS students each academic year.
Health Minister Gagan Thapa has recommended PAHS Chancellor and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to take action against the officials responsible for publishing the controversial results.
MoH has directed the PAHS to involve all the 1,769 entrance examinees in another entrance exam and publish the results fairly on merit basis. The committee headed by Thapa will study the exam process and submit report to the ministry, said Dr Shrestha.
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Steve Berry: The Warsaw Protocol Wednesday, Mar 11 2020
complex mystery and Continued series winner and great read and thriller Auntie M Writes Crime 12:23 am
Steve Berry's adventures have taken Cotton Malone to many places in the world. In The Warsaw Protocol, the action starts in Bruges, a place Auntie M has visited and loved, where a cloth supposedly dabbed in Christ's blood is stolen from a church there.
It's not the first religious artifact revolving around the crucifixion to be stolen. Termed Arma Christi, these relics are usually sold to collectors.
But on the blackmarket comes news of an auction with information sold that will affect power between Russia and the US with Poland. And the price of admission to bid is an object from the Arma Christi collection.
Malone finds himself evading an unusual Polish agent while trying to steal the last relic to gain admission to the auction. It's a race against time in this action-packed suspense thriller, with an emphasis on the strength of Poland.
The hallmark of this series is Berry's ability to combine his exhaustive historical research with a novel plot that thrills readers. Perfect for fans of Dan Brown.
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Each user on a network has an individual connection to the internet and may have a conceptual model of personalized "tube". However, all traffic on a typical network shares the same infrastructure and commingles at some point, and if unencrypted, is available to any other member of the network. TrafficFlow aims to make visible this hidden connection.
Connecting to the table's public network begins the process. The user is directed to a welcome page and asked to place their device on the table, which creates a glowing circle around it. After the table detects the device, they are prompted to confirm that the highlighted device is theirs. As soon as they affirm their connection the circle disappears and their traffic begins to flow. We are looking to show the data as energy – something almost alive.
The prototype still needs significant work in making the device capturing more robust, but the proof-of-concept is functional – and is demonstrated in the below video. Without getting too technical, the system uses several separate systems to function. A router with a custom Linux firmware based on DD-WRT handles the network connections, captive portal and packet sniffing. A Java applet and php script parses the packet output and provides web-based activation which populates a mysql database. The main application is written in C++ using the openFrameworks, openCV and mysql++ libraries. Ameya did the web and database stuff and I focused on the visualization/camera vision software. This is the most extensive software that I've written so far, but it's been worth the work.
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Expansion of Self-Employment and Greater Informality Threaten the Labor Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean
15 May 2019|Press Release
A new joint ECLAC-ILO publication analyzes aspects of fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goal No. 8 (on decent work and economic growth).
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The expansion of self-employment (own-account work), the emergence of new forms of work intermediated by digital platforms and, in various countries, the greater informality seen in salaried employment, are indicators of new setbacks for fulfilling the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 8, which seeks to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
So say the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in a new edition of their joint publication Employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (No. 20, May 2019), available on the Internet as of today.
According to the document, due to the low rate of economic growth projected for 2019 (1.3% on average in the region), at a regional level employment and unemployment rates will not undergo major changes in 2019. More specifically, the rates of urban and national unemployment are seen coming in again at around 9.3% and 8.0%, respectively (the same figures recorded in 2018). In addition, with the exception of countries that have strong inflationary pressure, real wages will remain relatively stable, with modest increases predominating.
However, weak economic growth will once again lead to the slow creation of salaried employment, which means that an increase is forecast in jobs of poor average quality, especially certain kinds of own-account work, which will contribute a large proportion of the new positions being created. Therefore, the United Nations organizations fear that labor informality will continue to rise, both due to the weakness in the creation of salaried employment as well as increasing informality among existing jobs in some countries. As a result, it is expected that the employment situation will deteriorate, above all in countries that are facing economic crisis in 2019, such as Argentina, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
In the analysis of the region's labor performance in 2018, there is a noteworthy reduction in the gaps between men and women with regard to participation and employment rates, but this is not true of the unemployment rate – and the increase in women working occurs in a context in which the majority of new jobs are of poor quality.
Meanwhile, the expansion of self-employment contributed approximately 49% of the increase in the number of employed people in the labor market last year, while the creation of salaried employment contributed just 37%. Other categories of employment contributed the remaining 14% of new jobs. This composition of net job creation in 2018 indicates that the largest part corresponds to low-quality work, which would verify a further deterioration in the average quality of work in the region, they state.
In the current edition of Employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC and ILO affirm that in a medium or long-term time frame such as that established by the 2030 Agenda, progress on fulfilling SDG No. 8 will be affected by a series of trends that will have a profound impact on labor markets, among them the population's accelerated aging, major migratory movements, and the transformation of the productive structure to achieve environmentally sustainable growth.
Another trend that is affecting labor markets in the region – and which will do so even more sharply in the future – relates to technological transformations, characterized as technological change 4.0, the publication adds.
Recently, with the aim of "harnessing and managing technology for decent work," the Global Commission on the Future of Work convened by the ILO has highlighted the relationship between new technologies and work as one of the aspects that requires renewed efforts for dialogue and regulation. At a regional level, meanwhile, ECLAC coordinates the Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the framework of which the development of policies for the productive and inclusive use of new technologies is promoted, and the seventh session of which will take place in 2020.
"In this twentieth edition of the joint ECLAC/ILO report, a specific aspect very relevant to the relationship between new technologies and decent work is analyzed. Digital platforms create new job opportunities both at a local level as well as in global digital markets. However, in many cases such new forms of work are developed outside of existing regulations, so these workers do not enjoy the labor and social rights established by the corresponding legislation," Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary, and Juan Hunt, the ILO's acting Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, warned in the foreword of the document.
This report emphasizes that digital platforms create different modalities of work that have novel aspects, as well as others that conjure up forms of employment already known in the region, such as the work of agricultural day laborers with the intermediation of recruiters, or working from home. In this way, the current debate about regulations suited to these new forms of work must take into account the specific characteristics of the new modalities of work, but at the same time it can benefit from the guidelines developed in the past regarding those labor relations. Both organizations indicate that the regulation of these new forms of work must be the result of a social dialogue that includes all relevant stakeholders.
Full document: Employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (No. 20, May 2019).
For queries, contact:
Sonia Álvarez, ILO's Press Officer in Santiago. Email: alvarezsv@ilo.org.
ECLAC's Public Information Unit. Email: prensa@cepal.org; Telephone: (56) 22210 2040.
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean. The future of work in Latin America and the Caribbean: old and new forms of employment and challenges for labour regulation
ECLAC and the ILO Point Up the Importance of Promoting Public Policies that Would Invigorate the Region's Labour Markets for the Creation of Quality Employment
In a new joint report, the organizations indicate that despite the recovery seen in labour markets in the first half of 2022, it is expected that in the second half the deceleration of growth will slow the region's capacity to generate quality jobs.
ECLAC Will Release New Figures on Poverty and Inequality in the Region and on the Silent Crisis in Education
The annual report, Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022, will be presented on Thursday, November 24 at a press conference given by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization.
ECLAC and ILO Call for Urgent Measures to Support the Labour Reintegration of Women and Youth
In a new joint report, the two UN organizations indicate that in the medium term it will be necessary to rebuild more resilient labour markets and foster formalization.


And then he leaped into his brother's platoon in Vietnam and Al was in the photo and IT WAS EVEN SADDER!
Man, I loved "Quantum Leap." This high-school plotline is chock full of things I loved in high school.
In the first panel I drew a little heart for Andrew.
People are always exploiting Dave for his car ownership. I've never owned a car, so this is basically the way I live my life.
I wrote a lot of material for this storyline that didn't make it into the final version. My original idea for "Unstuck in Time" was that I would keep dragging it out as long as humanly possible to see how long people would put up with it. But "Doppelganger Gambit" ended up inadvertently filling that function. So I cut a lot of strips to shorten "Unstuck in Time" to a less annoying length.
I mention this in a later Sunday feature, but earlier drafts of this storyline included two fairly long sequences in Dave's high-school life that I cut. One involved Dave's first encounter with the Dave Conspiracy and explained how he was recruited into that organization (besides being named Dave). The other had Dave calling the teenage Helen for help. I liked a lot of things about the latter idea, including that it gave me a chance to draw pimply teenage Helen, but in the end I dropped it, mainly because I couldn't figure out how Dave would get Helen's high-school-era phone number.
pretty lame andfiller-y overall. Bah. Fie on this strip.
Although "screw causality" is a pretty good thing for Dave to think.
Oh, Majel, you minx. Some people in the comments have asked whether Majel is supposed to be spectacularly attractive. I think what matters is that Dave finds her attractive. Majel probably reflects a lot of the things he likes in a woman, including a touch of evil.
The sign in the first panel advertises "E's Fuzzy Brown Bear" and "Cory-Ellen's Witches' Brew," drinks named after friends of mine at a coffeehouse called the Cubby Hole outside Vassar. Many members of the college geek contingent were regulars at the Cubby Hole. The Cubby Hole was still around when I visited the campus last year, but it no longer has the old drinks, alas.
Dave does not trust people to put things in his coffee. Would you?
there and my mother brought a cake shaped like an elephant.
Ha! How is this the future? My laptop RIGHT NOW is thinner than that!
baggy. Which is too bad, because I looked totally hot in it.
And Sam played her the song because he didn't want to tell her that John Lennon was going to die, but he had already told her that their brother was going to die, but that wasn't the thing he was there to fix, so all he managed to do was bring everyone down? It WAS sad!
In retrospect, it might be for the best that the show was cancelled when it was. OR NOT FOR THE BEST AT ALL!!!
Dave really should have made Todd say "Oh great and mighty Oracle" before dispensing the forbidden knowledge.
I'm unstuck! Go back and forth in time!
One day old … the next I'm in my prime!
Freshman year … the first in our group!
Just like Sam on TV!
I don't know if I should be disconcerted by your apparant lust for prolonguing the undignified suffering of your comedy characters far beyond that required by the plot.
It's kind of hard to tell the difference between pimples and freckles at this distance. I guess I'll take Dave as an authority on Miss Majel's fairness of face.
So, how did Dave join the conspiracy?
Jerking me 'round! You're such a tease!
You just want my car keys!
Those damn low-cut t-shirts and tight-fitting jeans!
Those damn teen-age hormones short-circuit my brain!
Oh, you're a solid ten!
I did this before, and I'll do it again!
Got sweaty palms … and shaky knees!
I'm gonna do … just as you please!
Shaenon, now that you live in Berkeley you'll have to get a car so that you can be righteously indignant about ONLY using it to drive to BART. It's the Berkeley way!
Poor Dave looks so sad.
I assumed that part of the joke from today and the other day was that Majel was a pimply teenager, but Dave is seeing her through the double lens of nostalgia and teenage hormones.
Screw cars! I'm next to a BART station!
I'm trynig to imagine life without a car. How do you get around if you need to leave town?
You bum a ride from a friend who does have a car.
Or, worse, you ask your mom.
Of course, if you don't want to feel like a shulb for doing so, you pay for gas.
This strip is quite good at instilling a false sense of security in the reader, who at this point is wondering what Dave's purpose or goal in this temporally detached misadventure is going to be.
I don't know why, but at first I thought panel 3 was invoking the unmistakable stylised titles of the hit '80s American TV series "Honk Scree Honk", which I evidently haven't seen and, upon several seconds further thought, doesn't actually exist.
I dunno, I always liked this strip. We really see how much Majel still means to him, in that he imagines scoring with her will make him over into the person he's always wanted to be. Which ultimately makes his interaction via email with her at the end of the story mean more in terms of his character development.
Also, the expression on Dave's face in the last panel is hilarious.
Hmm. So if Dave were to have died here, just how screwed would causality be?
If I understand the Narbonic time model (which I freely admit that I don't), Dave getting his past self killed here would create a timeline in which he died at 16, and thus never went to work for Narbonics Labs, and thus never became unstuck in time and accidentally killed his past self. His failure to go back in time and kill himself would then create a timeline in which he lived to be hired by Helen and sent back in time, where he'd kill himself, thus creating a timeline in which he died at 16 and was never hired by Helen and so didn't go back in time and so on.
How bad this is depends on a couple of variables that I don't think we have enough information to determine. Firstly, there's the question of whether events are absolutely deterministic, or if there's enough chaotic variation that Dave could break out of the infinite cycle of killing and not killing himself by doing something else instead. The other is whether changing a timeline creates an alternate one, or overwrites the original.
In the former case, Dave will spawn an infinite number of alternate universes, in half of which he died at 16 in a car crash while possessed by his 26-year-old self, and in the other half of which he died at 26 in his 16-year-old body and left a mindless shell in Helen's keeping. This, while depressing for Dave, doesn't much affect anyone else, and coincidentally generates an endless supply of fuel for future time-travel shenanigans – except that that technology won't be invented.
In the latter case, we fall into an infinite cycle of the universe being repeatedly overwritten by a different history. This is probably bad, though my brain keeps throwing its metaphorical hands up in despair every time I try to figure out just how it would affect everyone else beyond the point where the timeline changes.
This sort of thing is the basic for Niven's Law of Time Travel: "If it is possible to travel in time and change the present by doing so, then the only stable timeline will be one where time-travel capabilities are never invented, or at least never used." This rule isn't airtight (among other things, there are edge effects), but it's pretty solid unless multiple timelines can exist simultaneously. This was already suspected for the Narbonicverse, but Skin Horse has since made it canon.
If they don't have bacon shakes, they are a second class establishment. That is all. That is ALL!
In response to John Campbell: I've always enjoyed the thought that rather than spawning an infinite number of universes, half of which are like A and half of which are like B, A and B merely spawn each other, and coexist in a happy equilibrium.
For some reason this week of Narbonic: Director's Cut is getting me a little bit tense. Could it be… that it's hitting a weensy bit closer to home than usual?!
@Leon: I know exactly how you feel. The girl that I had a crush on, but barely spoke to … and given another chance, I'd probably do the same as Dave. Glrbsk.
I'm Dave; I'm feeling well!
If you can't tell, I'm back in high school!
And now, here comes Majel!
Puts me through hell, 'cause I'm a nice fool!
I've lived! I've seen the world!
I'm not a kid; I've got experience!
Dave is wordlessly deciding to disregard the t-word that says that only the most naïve, enfeebled, insane or uselessly wacky people will believe your completely plausible story about having been sent to the future or mind-swapped with your best friend.
I approve of the use of bold italics for that most weighty of conversation subjects.
On the contrary, Dave does trust Helen to put things in his coffee. If she ever game him a coffee that was safe to drink, he'd know she was up to something really evil.
Is sitting here and talking to me!
I feel my chance unravelling!
There's dejection in your gaze!
You clearly think that I am crazy!
But I'm telling you it's real!
The way I feel before!
I simply can't get through!
And say I'm a time-traveller!
Wow. Kent's a long way to drive for coffee from Elyria.
I love Majel's eyes in the last panel, you can just see the roll.
You know, for people who have been ignoring the spoilers, and who got here from a spoiler-free source. Which is NOBODY.
This is definitely one of the more memorable exchanges in this webcomic. Those two have surely had an unjustly rocky professional relationship over these long, cold, lonely years.
Well, I'm steeling my nerves and I'm seizing the day!
Saying the things that I wanted to say!
Now I'm zipping and slipping, and what do I see?
Mell says she won't go out with me!
See, only the bad get old!
The most disturbing thing about the future is that apparently Dave has asked Mell out. More than once.
I'm with you, Joshua. Dave asking Mell out even once is mind boggling. What's even more puzzling is that he apparently survived the experience.
Well, future Dave is SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER evil and insane.


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Q: Remove cover art with mp3agic I'm using mp3agic to edit mp3 tags automatically, so that my radio displays everything the way I like it. However, my radio seems to hate big album art images, resulting in not parsing the rest of the mp3 tag. Hence, I want to use mp3agic to remove all cover art. There is a method named ID3v2.setAlbumImage(byte[] albumImage, String mimeType) which is implemented by the AbstractID3v2Tag as seen here. First I thought about throwing in null values, but after looking at the code this has no effect.
Question: How can I delete existing album art with the setAlbumImage method? Is there a better suited method?

A: Take a look at this example for retagging: https://github.com/mpatric/mp3agic-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/mpatric/mp3agic/app/Mp3Retag.java#L94
This might be the best solution, because you can not delete but just read and write the image as far as I know.
I hope this helps you to find a solution

A: There is no easy way to remove album images through the exposed methods. I've added a new issue to the project in github to have this feature added.
https://github.com/mpatric/mp3agic/issues/46

A: Maybe you could read the existing tag, remove it and then rewrite the tag with the fields that you wanted in the target file.

A: Short Answer
According to the current javadoc [that I didn't find online, only by compiling the current source myself] that can be done by using the
clearAlbumImage();

function of the ID3v2 interface.

Example
Here's an example on how to use it:
Mp3File mp3file = new Mp3File("example.mp3");

ID3v2 id3v2Tag;

if (mp3file.hasId3v2Tag()) {
    id3v2Tag = mp3file.getId3v2Tag();
} else {
    id3v2Tag = new ID3v24Tag();
    mp3file.setId3v2Tag(id3v2Tag);
}

id3v2Tag.clearAlbumImage();
mp3file.save("example.mp3");

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Q: Why jQuery loader not working? When my website starts loading it should display loading upto when my website gets loaded. For that I have used jQuery plugin. The following is js file
/*
 * jQuery showLoading plugin v1.0
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2009 Jim Keller
 * Context - http://www.contextllc.com
 *
 * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.
 *
 */

    jQuery.fn.showLoading = function(options) {

        var indicatorID;
            var settings = {
                'addClass': '',
                'beforeShow': '',
                'afterShow': '',
                'hPos': 'center',
                'vPos': 'center',
                'indicatorZIndex' : 5001,
                'overlayZIndex': 5000,
                'parent': '',
                'marginTop': 0,
                'marginLeft': 0,
                'overlayWidth': null,
                'overlayHeight': null
            };

        jQuery.extend(settings, options);

            var loadingDiv = jQuery('

');
        var overlayDiv = jQuery('

');

        //
        // Set up ID and classes
        //
        if ( settings.indicatorID ) {
            indicatorID = settings.indicatorID;
        }
        else {
            indicatorID = jQuery(this).attr('id');
        }

        jQuery(loadingDiv).attr('id', 'loading-indicator-' + indicatorID );
        jQuery(loadingDiv).addClass('loading-indicator');

        if ( settings.addClass ){
            jQuery(loadingDiv).addClass(settings.addClass);
        }

        //
        // Create the overlay
        //
        jQuery(overlayDiv).css('display', 'none');

        // Append to body, otherwise position() doesn't work on Webkit-based browsers
        jQuery(document.body).append(overlayDiv);

        //
        // Set overlay classes
        //
        jQuery(overlayDiv).attr('id', 'loading-indicator-' + indicatorID + '-overlay');

        jQuery(overlayDiv).addClass('loading-indicator-overlay');

        if ( settings.addClass ){
            jQuery(overlayDiv).addClass(settings.addClass + '-overlay');
        }

        //
        // Set overlay position
        //

        var overlay_width;
        var overlay_height;

        var border_top_width = jQuery(this).css('border-top-width');
        var border_left_width = jQuery(this).css('border-left-width');

        //
        // IE will return values like 'medium' as the default border,
        // but we need a number
        //
        border_top_width = isNaN(parseInt(border_top_width)) ? 0 : border_top_width;
        border_left_width = isNaN(parseInt(border_left_width)) ? 0 : border_left_width;

        var overlay_left_pos = jQuery(this).offset().left + parseInt(border_left_width);
        var overlay_top_pos = jQuery(this).offset().top + parseInt(border_top_width);

        if ( settings.overlayWidth !== null ) {
            overlay_width = settings.overlayWidth;
        }
        else {
            overlay_width = parseInt(jQuery(this).width()) + parseInt(jQuery(this).css('padding-right')) + parseInt(jQuery(this).css('padding-left'));
        }

        if ( settings.overlayHeight !== null ) {
            overlay_height = settings.overlayWidth;
        }
        else {
            overlay_height = parseInt(jQuery(this).height()) + parseInt(jQuery(this).css('padding-top')) + parseInt(jQuery(this).css('padding-bottom'));
        }

        jQuery(overlayDiv).css('width', overlay_width.toString() + 'px');
        jQuery(overlayDiv).css('height', overlay_height.toString() + 'px');

        jQuery(overlayDiv).css('left', overlay_left_pos.toString() + 'px');
        jQuery(overlayDiv).css('position', 'absolute');

        jQuery(overlayDiv).css('top', overlay_top_pos.toString() + 'px' );
        jQuery(overlayDiv).css('z-index', settings.overlayZIndex);

        //
        // Set any custom overlay CSS
        //
            if ( settings.overlayCSS ) {
                jQuery(overlayDiv).css ( settings.overlayCSS );
            }

        //
        // We have to append the element to the body first
        // or .width() won't work in Webkit-based browsers (e.g. Chrome, Safari)
        //
        jQuery(loadingDiv).css('display', 'none');
        jQuery(document.body).append(loadingDiv);

        jQuery(loadingDiv).css('position', 'absolute');
        jQuery(loadingDiv).css('z-index', settings.indicatorZIndex);

        //
        // Set top margin
        //

        var indicatorTop = overlay_top_pos;

        if ( settings.marginTop ) {
            indicatorTop += parseInt(settings.marginTop);
        }

        var indicatorLeft = overlay_left_pos;

        if ( settings.marginLeft ) {
            indicatorLeft += parseInt(settings.marginTop);
        }

        //
        // set horizontal position
        //
        if ( settings.hPos.toString().toLowerCase() == 'center' ) {
            jQuery(loadingDiv).css('left', (indicatorLeft + ((jQuery(overlayDiv).width() - parseInt(jQuery(loadingDiv).width())) / 2)).toString()  + 'px');
        }
        else if ( settings.hPos.toString().toLowerCase() == 'left' ) {
            jQuery(loadingDiv).css('left', (indicatorLeft + parseInt(jQuery(overlayDiv).css('margin-left'))).toString() + 'px');
        }
        else if ( settings.hPos.toString().toLowerCase() == 'right' ) {
            jQuery(loadingDiv).css('left', (indicatorLeft + (jQuery(overlayDiv).width() - parseInt(jQuery(loadingDiv).width()))).toString()  + 'px');
        }
        else {
            jQuery(loadingDiv).css('left', (indicatorLeft + parseInt(settings.hPos)).toString() + 'px');
        }

        //
        // set vertical position
        //
        if ( settings.vPos.toString().toLowerCase() == 'center' ) {
            jQuery(loadingDiv).css('top', (indicatorTop + ((jQuery(overlayDiv).height() - parseInt(jQuery(loadingDiv).height())) / 2)).toString()  + 'px');
        }
        else if ( settings.vPos.toString().toLowerCase() == 'top' ) {
            jQuery(loadingDiv).css('top', indicatorTop.toString() + 'px');
        }
        else if ( settings.vPos.toString().toLowerCase() == 'bottom' ) {
            jQuery(loadingDiv).css('top', (indicatorTop + (jQuery(overlayDiv).height() - parseInt(jQuery(loadingDiv).height()))).toString()  + 'px');
        }
        else {
            jQuery(loadingDiv).css('top', (indicatorTop + parseInt(settings.vPos)).toString() + 'px' );
        }

        //
        // Set any custom css for loading indicator
        //
            if ( settings.css ) {
                jQuery(loadingDiv).css ( settings.css );
            }

        //
        // Set up callback options
        //
        var callback_options =
            {
                'overlay': overlayDiv,
                'indicator': loadingDiv,
                'element': this
            };

        //
        // beforeShow callback
        //
        if ( typeof(settings.beforeShow) == 'function' ) {
            settings.beforeShow( callback_options );
        }

        //
        // Show the overlay
        //
        jQuery(overlayDiv).show();

        //
        // Show the loading indicator
        //
        jQuery(loadingDiv).show();

        //
        // afterShow callback
        //
        if ( typeof(settings.afterShow) == 'function' ) {
            settings.afterShow( callback_options );
        }

        return this;
         };

    jQuery.fn.hideLoading = function(options) {

            var settings = {};

            jQuery.extend(settings, options);

        if ( settings.indicatorID ) {
            indicatorID = settings.indicatorID;
        }
        else {
            indicatorID = jQuery(this).attr('id');
        }

        jQuery(document.body).find('#loading-indicator-' + indicatorID ).remove();
        jQuery(document.body).find('#loading-indicator-' + indicatorID + '-overlay' ).remove();

        return this;
        };

In html file I used the script as following..

and my div tag is as following..

    Here is where we will load something via ajax.

    This container must have an id attribute

but i am getting error as following..
TypeError: jQuery(...).showLoading is not a function
function()

Please help me to solve this issue.
Thanks in advance.

A: First things first.
The event below is fired after the whole content is loaded on the page:
$(document).ready()

So, why would you attach a loading window to this event as it was supposed to be shown while the page gets loaded?
Checking the plugin website, the example given is to attach it to a click event, so the loading window will popup while the AJAX call is being executed.
Unless your whole page is loaded from an AJAX call started on a click event, I'm pretty sure their example wouldn't fit your idea.


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Below is an essay on "Be Yourself" from Anti Essays, your source for research papers, essays, and term paper examples.
Most people these days have devoted their time, energy and money in showing off. Their lives revolve on being someone who they are not. They become so absorbed trying to live the lifestyle to which they do not belong. They love to be seen even though there is nothing to see (in them).
They love to be shocking to get attention. They are like colorful balloons. They look pretty on the outside but all air in the inside.
These people seem to have everything except themselves. In their pretending they have forgotten who they really are. They have come to be ashamed of their past life, friends and mostly their past selves. They will desperately protect their status quo even if their actual status is a big K.O.
But these pretenders cannot escape themselves in the end. Their shallow ways of life will soon evaporate. And then, they will only be left with themselves, their real selves. They will have to look at the man in the mirror whom they hate and deny.
On the contrary, a person of substance is a person who does not pretend. He knows who he is, no more no less. He is joyful of his strengths and aware of his weakness. He tries to improve himself, but he does it based on reality. He does not change his "acting", but he changes his being. The more he changes himself for the better, the more people respect him. He does not need to pretend to be someone who is not because he knows it is useless.
A person of substance does not try to win the approval of others. But others try to win his approval. He does not have the desire to shock and awe others. He knows that silent waters run deep.


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Brett Kavanaugh, Who We Warned Would Support Murdering Babies, Just Supported Murdering Babies
By Andrew Bieszad on December 10, 2018 in Featured, General
In July 2018, I wrote an article about Trump's Supreme Court nomination Brett Kavanaugh. There was much excitement about him among those who are opposed to abortion because he claims to be Catholic. I cautioned and said the Kavanaugh should not be trusted because he has supported abortion before, and that if the opportunity came and he viewed it as politically expedient he would not hesitate to support it:
Something that is disturbingly consistent with American "Catholic" Supreme Court Justices is that for the most part they are not Catholic at all, or if they do practice, their adherence to the zeitgeist comes before the practice of their Faith. In this way they are no different than Protestants, for the Protestant Revolution beginning with Luther made good citizenship and adherence to the social ethos of the time synonymous with religious piety. Ethics are good, but only so far as they align with morality. While one should not strive to be unethical, it is possible to be unethical but moral. Likewise, one also must avoid being immoral in the name of being ethical.
The fact that he supports infanticide – so far as one can tell based on past experience- is a warning sign.
Has he changed? We do not know. Even if he says he has changed, given the ability of American justice nominees and politicians to completely change their position in the name of holding on to what power they have or may obtain is a consistent problem.
Nobody really knows what this man is thinking or going to do.
Sure enough, the Supreme Court had an opportunity to hear a case about defunding Planned Parenthood, and Kavanaugh stood with the liberal justices and in so doing has allowed for abortion to continue:
Planned Parenthood will continue to receive Medicaid funding in Louisiana and Kansas after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear cases in which the states sought to stop the organization from participating in the program.
The Supreme Court's decision not to take up the case leaves intact lower court decisions that allowed Planned Parenthood to continue to receive Medicaid funding.
The issue at question was whether individuals on Medicaid who received medical care from places such as Planned Parenthood have the right to challenge a state's decision to cut off funding from the organization.
In Louisiana, U.S. District Judge John deGravelles ordered the state to keep funding Planned Parenthood in 2015, and in 2016 a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit upheld that decision. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Kansas had upheld a lower ruling finding that Kansas was wrong to cut off funding from Planned Parenthood.
"We are pleased that lower court rulings protecting patients remain in place," Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen said in a statement. "Every person has a fundamental right to health care, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much they earn."
Louisiana sought to cut off Planned Parenthood following the release of videos in 2015 that purported to show Planned Parenthood staff discussing the sale of fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood has denied any wrongdoing.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissented from Monday's decision not to hear the case, saying that they believed the court did not get involved because the issue of abortion was at play.
"What explains the court's refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named 'Planned Parenthood,'" Thomas wrote. He argued that the court should have taken up the case in order to resolve the question over whether an individual can challenge state decisions regarding Medicaid.
Four justices are needed to accept a case. The decision is the first on abortion to come before a more conservative Supreme Court with the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Medicaid is jointly funded by the state and federal government, and covers low-income people, pregnant women, and people with disabilities.
The challenge mirrors others occurring at the federal level. The Trump administration is considering cutting off abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, from family planning grants that pay for birth control, testing of sexually transmitted infections, and screenings.
Federal funds are banned from going toward abortions except in the cases of rape, incest, or if a woman's pregnancy threatens her life, but the Medicaid program in 15 states pays for abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. (source, source)
The man said he supported abortion before.
Why is anybody surprised he is supporting it now?
Many people in the US believe strongly in the idea of "exceptions", and that each person should be looked at as an individual. This is not a bad idea in the absolute sense, as one should evaluate each person based on what one knows, and that too often generalities can result in wrong assumptions.
However, one must also not forget that generalities are important and good because they are often times accurate, as they are based on collective patterns of behavior rooted in real fact. There is a reason why one associates certain characteristics with certain groups of people, because if one looks at a large body of said people, one will see these characteristics repeated among them with enough frequency to notice a pattern in said group as opposed to other groups.
For example, not all Americans look like the man below:
However, by comparison, one would be challenged to the limits of one's capacity to find such a person in an equivalent cultural context in most other parts of the world, save maybe parts of the UK, Canada, or Australia.
The idea here is that for all of the claims about "individualism" and "no stereotypes," the saying that "a tiger doesn't change its stripes" is because most people remain consistent in their views. People can change and do (St. Paul in the Bible, for example), but this must be evidenced by a change in behavior and action. When St. Paul became a Christian, he did not still persist in following the old Jewish rites and rituals, but adopted those of the Faith as he genuinely converted and this is evidenced by his actions.
There should be no surprise with Kavanaugh. He supported abortion before, there is no change to say he stopped supporting abortion, so why would anything change now?
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Please submit your favor- ite, recent photograph to be considered for Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8" x 10", or 1 MB or larger) and must not be in print elsewhere. Include a short description of the scene/ event, as well as your name, brief biodata, and the type of camera used. Send to locallens@afsa.org . 106 DECEMBER 2022 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY MARYUM SAIFEE n SAMARKAND, UZBEKISTAN T his photo was taken in October on a cold, rainy day in the Silk Road city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Pictured here, a beekeeper selling honey and beeswax at the Siab Bazaar, which is next door to the 14th-century Bibi Khanym Mosque. e mosque was built on the orders of Timur (Tamerlane) in honor of his "senior" wife, whose nickname was Bibi Khanym. The bazaar was full of spices, nuts, tea, vegetables, fruit, and beautiful textiles. n Foreign Service Officer Maryum Saifee has served in Cairo, Baghdad, Erbil, and Lahore. Before joining the State Department, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jordan and an AmeriCorps volunteer in Seattle, Washington. She is currently a senior adviser in the Secretary's Office of Diversity and Inclusion. This photo was taken with an iPhone 12.
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Arrests made in sobriety checkpoint on Harding Blvd.
BATON ROUGE – Law enforcement conducted a sobriety checkpoint Thursday night in the 3100 block of Harding Boulevard.
The checkpoint was conducted from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday.
A total of 612 vehicles were screened.
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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Jan. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OnBrand, a leading publication that features insights and opinions on the latest in branding and marketing, today announced the release of the State of Branding Report 2019. The report, developed annually with Bynder, a global leader in digital asset management (DAM), aims to get inside the head of the modern marketer and reveal their biggest challenges for 2019, their priorities, and how they plan to stay on top of the latest trends within marketing and branding.
The data, representing 501 marketing and branding decision-makers at organizations based in the United States and the United Kingdom, shows that identifying the right technology to serve as an extension of a brand continues to be a top challenge for today's brands. Similarly, while marketers still rely heavily on social media to reach their consumers, they are becoming increasingly wary of how continuous algorithm changes may be disrupting engagement opportunities with their audiences.
Brands are more reliant on social media, but not without some hesitation: Respondents identified social media networks as the most fruitful channels for reaching audiences and influencing buyer behavior. However, 65% feel algorithm changes are the biggest threat to online brand engagement.
Owning a strong customer experience is key in cutting through the digital noise: 29% of respondents felt "excellent customer service" was the most effective way to differentiate a brand and engage consumers—more so than the product itself (13%) or the quality of brand campaigns (15%).
It's time to ramp up investment in branded visual content: 67% of marketing decision-makers will invest more in creating branded visual content than they did in 2018. Why? To boost visibility and engagement with their target audiences (42%) and to stand out from the competition (22%).
Brands are striving to personalize, but are struggling: Last year's report revealed "personalization" was top-of-mind for branding and marketing decision-makers. It seems brands are still figuring out how to ensure personalized content targets the right audience, and if their company is equipped with the right tech to support personalization efforts. This year, when asked about the biggest challenges associated with personalization, 25.7% of respondents mentioned they're struggling to get that personalized message to the right audience, 23% are caught on identifying the right technology to support personalized experiences, and 21.8% find it difficult to balance personalization and brand voice.
Investing in tech: emerging vs. established: 94% of respondents feel it is "very" (63%) or "somewhat" (31%) important for their company to invest in new technologies in 2019, with customer experience and engagement proving to be the number one motivation. Experimental technologies such as AI (45.1%), virtual reality (36.3%) and voice assistants (40.3%) are on investment radars, but more established outlets—such as mobile apps (65.7%), progressive web apps (50.1%), and digital asset management software (46%)—still make up the largest slice of most marketing budgets.
OnBrand Magazine is sponsored and developed by Bynder. The full report is now available for download here.
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