hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
As we travelled from the bumpy roads of Indian villages to the maze of crowded city streets, we carried in our hearts the greatest treasure available to man—the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The joy of open doors to share this treasure with nearly 4,000 little souls in India is hard to explain. Can words describe the intensity of eyes fixed on colorful pictures of His life and death? Can words explain conviction of heart or transformation of soul from darkness to light, from death to life? My words fail me, only tears take their place as I recall the joy of three weeks spent sharing this treasure with God's little Indian TREASURES!
We visited 11 villages and did 2 four-day Children's Bible Schools during our time in India. We were busy every day, and I loved the situation of having nothing to do each day but prepare for and execute the mission. The single focus is a blessing that we don't normally find in busy modern lives. But the highlight of all the ministry had to be the open door into the slums.
Since our first CBS in Hyderabad in 2001, I have desired to minister to the slum children and their parents. For several years, I repeatedly asked the pastor we work with for that opportunity. He always assured me that it was his desire as well but it never came into fruition. After many years I quit asking. This year, Krystina from Cross Road Bible Church in Australia, joined our team in India. She had been to India a few times before in the early years of our CBSs there and remembered praying with me for open doors into the slums. When she arrived in Hyderabad she asked, "Have you been able to go into the slums yet?" My reply showed my own lack of vision and faith as I said, "No, and I figure if it hasn't happened yet it probably isn't going to." Enter, the faithfulness of God! The very next day the pastor told me that he now had a contact in the slum and would like to take us in to do a children's program! God is faithful, God is willing, and God is able!
Just as a bird gathers sticks and debris to build a nest for her young, so it is with the people in the slums. They live adjacent to a huge garbage dump that is the source of their existence. Combing through the huge mounds of debris they find little scraps of this and that to build their homes, clothe their children, and recycle anything of "value." The dump is their livelihood and the center of slum activity. This is the filth of their everyday existence. Other social problems such as drunkenness, violence, and abuse add to the despair of life in the slum.
On a Saturday morning, Pastor JF and his church people were able to set up a meeting tent at the back of the slum and invite the children in. About 150 children arrived—some happy and fairly clean, some looking bewildered, disheveled, and dirty. All were eager to watch and listen. Krystina started by teaching a simple Gospel song, "One Way God Said to Get to Heaven." I followed with "The Wall Story"—a fun puppet show that we often use as an opening to the Gospel message. Smiles and laughter showed their delight.
From the puppet show, I transitioned into the simple and basic elements of the Gospel: the sinfulness of man, the love of God, and the work of Christ. Little dark eyes were fixed on the visuals as their hearts were fixed on the message. Kim then took over and gave a wonderful explanation of Heaven with beautiful pictures that gave hope of eternity with Jesus. We prayed with the children, telling them that if they had believed in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, then join with us in telling God what is in their heart. Only the Lord knows the condition of their heart, but one head after another bowed with us in prayer and expressed faith in Jesus Christ.
We then distributed laminated Bible verses for them to take home. In this picture, the little girl is moving her finger over each letter of John 3:16 and sounding out the words.
We then handed out the "Jesus Loves Me" coloring books in their language and watched as they had a fun time coloring together. Some adults gathered at the back of the tent, just as eager to join in the coloring.
As the children spent time coloring, one of the pastors asked if I would like to walk around. He took me through the long rows of tents, and I got a better look at life in the slum. I met women nursing babies, doing laundry with bucket and stone, carrying water, preparing meals over an open fire— daily life on display. In another area, a family was gathered to mourn the recent death of a son. A water truck delivered water, and arguments broke out over the rationing of the water supply. I felt emotionally crushed. As I returned back to the tent and the gathering of children, my mind returned to the treasure of the Gospel—isn't this the only HOPE that any of us have to be delivered from the slum of a sinful soul?!
After the coloring was finished, Janet taught the children a wonderful lesson on the faithfulness of God to provide for the lilies of the field, the birds of the air, and the little children that He created! Through the Word of God, the children were encouraged to trust in the Heavenly Father Who knows their every need. We had a beautiful little foam craft for the kids to do and then finished with a hot meal of rice and chicken curry. We fed about 400 people that day, as many parents came in to enjoy the hot meal.
Please pray for the materials that were sent back into the homes in the form of Gospel tracts, verses, and crafts. Through the materials that the children bring home, we hope to reach the parents as well. Please pray that Pastor JF will continue to have open doors to work in the slums and minister to their physical and spiritual needs.
Though we minister to thousands of Indian children each year, there is still opportunity to know some as individuals. God desires to have a victory song in our lives, and I would like to share with you a couple of story "songs" from children in India.
Isaac has been coming to one of our four-day programs for about the last 11 years. Many years ago, we gave out the "Where will you spend eternity" Gospel coins to the children. One of our faithful men at CRBC in Australia drilled holes in hundreds of coins and put a cord through them so that the children could wear them around their neck. I took a picture of Isaac (at the age of about 9) wearing his coin. The next year I gave him the picture to keep. Isaac has come every year since and still wears the coin! This year he was a helper for my senior class, and he brought the picture that I gave him years ago. I was astonished. Now, at the age of 20, he still has the coin and the photo. I said, "Isaac, you still have the coin and the photo after all these years?!" His answer brought tears to my eyes and joy to my heart as he said, "Yes, Auntie. I have a drawer at my house and in the drawer I keep all of the things you have given me from all of the years. The books, the verses, the crafts—they are all still with me." Now there is so much beauty in this because many of you reading this report helped to provide those crafts and books, printed, laminated and cut those verses, and prayed for that boy. Your fingerprints are in his drawer! Be encouraged by the fruit the Lord has brought from your service. Isaac is now a Sunday school teacher at his church and is preparing for the ministry.
Solome has also come to our four-day program for many years. She is a young lady with a very tender heart for the Lord. Many years ago, she came to me with her mother and asked if we could help her in her poverty. She has a bright young mind and desired to go further in her studies but lacked the finances to do so. It broke my heart but I had to tell her we could not help financially (thousands in our sight are in the same position), but we would pray for God to supply her needs to continue her education. This year, she came to the CBS as a helper and I had an opportunity to hear her "song" of God's grace. She is in her second year of college training to be a doctor. She said there are so many poor people in India who need medical help, and she wants to be able to help them—by God's grace. He is supplying her financial and educational needs so she can in turn supply for others. God is faithful!
The Lord does not delight in a one-man show but in using the Body of Christ in unity for a common purpose. My thanks go to Kim, Janet, Desi, Krystina, Jackie, Allie, and Mikel for the love, devotion, and expertise that they each brought to the ministry team. They all kept "their eyes on the prize" through travel delays, extreme heat, power and water outages, and long noisy nights. And they did it all with grace, beauty and laughter!
The open doors we have in India come through the ministry of Pastor JF. He, his family, and church show us great hospitality and love as they welcome us each year to work alongside them in reaching the children of India. Please pray for them.
And my thanks to each of you who so faithfully prayed and supported this work. God is able to take the pennies and nickels that go down the neck of the giraffe (thank you Abundant Life children) and multiply them to spiritually feed many hungry souls. Above all is the powerful effect of humble hearts on bended knees. Thank you for your prayers!


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Full Results #PPW260
Full match results from July 20, 2019 #PPW260 taping at Premier Pro Wrestling studios in Woodstock, IL and Post Show Wrap Up with Justin Barlow.
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**TRIPLE THREAT MATCH**
N.P.K. DEF. "THE BONE DAWG" BRYCE AKERS & PANCHO BY WAY OF PIN FALL
In an opening contest featuring three of PPW's young and hungry talents, N.P.K., who has spent the summer chasing the PPW World Heavyweight Championship, bested two formidable opponents in "The Bone Dawg" Bryce Akers and Pancho after seizing on an opportunity and turning an attempted superplex by "The Bone Dawg" on Pancho into a tower of doom which enabled N.P.K. to pick up the pin and regain some steam just one week after just barely coming up short in his quest for the title.
**SINGLES MATCH**
"AR-15" ALEX RYAN VS. SKYE BLUE THROWN OUT DUE TO OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE
Earlier in the week, it had been announced that PPW fan favorite, Skye Blue, would go one-on-one against "America's Sweetheart" Rebecca Reece. However, when it came time for the contest, it wasn't Rebecca, but rather "King León" Trent Taylor who appeared through the curtain and proceeded to announce that Rebecca would not be in attendance. However, Trent was not without company and offered up his protégé, Alex Ryan, as a substitute to go head-to-head with Skye, but when he sensed that Alex may not have what it took to finish Skye off, Trent injected himself into the contest and he and Alex began a two-on-one assault against Skye until Wrestling Andy ran into the ring for the save. Irate that Alex and Trent would show such disrespectful behavior, Andy and Skye challenged the two to an impromptu tag team match.
**TAG TEAM MATCH**
SKYE BLUE & WRESTLING ANDY DEF. "AR-15" ALEX RYAN & "KING LEÓN" TRENT TAYLOR BY WAY OF PIN FALL
With the odds now evened, Trent and Alex struggled to match in-ring abilities with the formidable tandem of Skye and Andy, resorting to sneaky tactics in order to gain an unfair advantage, but despite their efforts, Trent and Alex could not overcome the opposition and Andy sealed their fate when he delivered and Andybomb to Trent while Skye subdued Alex on the opposite side of the ring, gaining payback for the disrespect shown to Skye in the previous contest.
SEMSEI DEF. JOSÉ ACOSTA BY WAY OF PIN FALL
Despite coming up short in their effort to reclaim the PPW World Tag Team Championships, former champs, Iniestra and Semsei, were not about to simply let new champs, José Acosta and Anakin, walk away after taking their "women" (AKA the PPW World Tag Team titles) and intended to prove why their heated rivalry is far from over by defeating the new champs in separate one-on-one matches with partners barred from ringside. The first match would be contested between the current American Ninja Warrior participant, Semsei, and José who has been riding an emotional and professional high ever since regaining the championships with Anakin and being reunited with his young children after a year of personal struggles. With both men reaching new heights on their road to success, the momentum was traded back and forth into a stalemate, but despite the declaration that tag team partners would be barred from ringside, Iniestra crept down to ringside and was able to hide under the ring undetected by the referee. While Semsei distracted the referee while he and José were tied up in the ropes, Iniestra emerged from under the ring, wielding a chain and used the chain to strike José in the face, knocking him out and enabling Semsei to pick up the win.
"EL MERO MERO" INIESTRA DEF. ANAKIN BY WAY OF PIN FALL
With one win now under their belts, former Tag Team Champions, Iniestra and Semsei, were looking to make their record 2-0 for the night when Iniestra faced Anakin one-on-one, but seeing his partner robbed in the previous match, Anakin was determined to make Iniestra and Sem pay for the injustice. However, the former champs were able to make lightning strike twice when, as Iniestra and Anakin were tied up in the ropes, Sem emerged from under the ring and hit Anakin with the same chain used to knock out José in the match before, allowing the self-proclaimed "special people" to pick up back-to-back wins over their bitter rivals.
**GOSLING GAMBIT**
"MR. ELECTRICITY" CHASE GOSLING DEF. VENTURA, ULTIMO LEÓN, BROTHER DAVE, & NOT BAD CHAD
One week after being confronted by T.J. Steel during a post-match attack on Slick Willy, Chase Gosling decided to send a message to "The Prince of Pro Wrestling" by holding what Chase dubbed the "Gosling Gambit." Wanting to show T.J. he is not afraid of competition, Chase challenged four members of the Premier roster to meet him in a gauntlet style match. The first challenge would come from the Premier Academy in the form of the masked Ventura, but Chase, a former three-time PPW World Heavyweight Champion, made short work of Ventura then awaited his next challenger who was revealed to be another recent addition to the Premier roster, Ultimo León, who fell victim to a leg drop across the back of the neck, putting him out of the Gambit and bringing in the next participant who turned out to be another recent product of the Premier Academy, Brother Dave, who found himself on the receiving end of a top rope splash from the two hundred and fifty pound Chase, making Chase 3-0 in the Gambit and leaving only on challenger left to participate. To Chase's chagrin, his final opponent was revealed to be Not Bad Chad who has spent the past year making a name for himself in PPW and has earned his way into the main event picture on several occasions, going toe-to-toe with the likes of Iniestra & Semsei and World Champion Matt Vine. With a well of big match experience behind him, Chad's strong showing against Chase was indeed impressive. However, it would not be enough to overcome an equally determined Chase who seized on an opportunity and delivered a leg drop across the back of Chad's neck to win the Gambit and send a powerful message to his opponent for #PPW261, T.J. Steel.
**PPW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH**
"VINEACUS" MATT VINE (C) DEF. BRANDON WOLFE BY WAY OF DISQUALIFICATION
With another opportunity to become the face of Premier Pro Wrestling in his sights, "Kentucky's Greatest High Flyer" Brandon Wolfe knew he had to make the most of the chance if he were to dethrone arguably the most dominant champion in PPW history, "Vineacus" Matt Vine, in the 2-out-of-3 falls main event and it seemed his chances were good when he was able to utilize his ariel prowess to throw the champion's focus off and Wolfe scored the crucial first fall with a heavy impact swinging neckbreaker that subdued the champion long enough for Wolfe to get the three count, but Matt answered back and tied the score with his own swinging inverted neckbreaker which brought the match into the third and final fall where both competitors fought tooth and nail for momentum until, in a surprising move, N.P.K. ran into the ring and began attacking Matt with a leather strap, causing the champion to retain the title by way of disqualification, but leaving him reeling in revenge for him doing the same thing to N.P.K. just one week prior. With chaos erupting in the ring, Premier C.O.O., Randy Ricci, intervened and announced that next week at #PPW261, after two back-to-back weeks of assaults with straps, Matt Vine will defend the PPW Championship against N.P.K. in a match made famous by the legendary Wahoo McDaniel over half a century ago — an Indian strap match. The two will be tethered at the wrist with an eighteen foot long leather strap. The goal of the match will be for one man to subdue his opponent enough to be able to touch all four corners of the ring in sequence. The first man to accomplish the task will be declared the winner and will leave #PPW261 as PPW World Heavyweight Champion.
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I live in another state far away from NY State. How do I open a estate bank account after being appointed voluntary administrator by a surrogate court in NY in my deceased parents name if the NY State bank requires me to be in NY State and I am not! There was no will.
Why do you need to open the bank account in New York? Open it at your local bank.


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Q: How to reverse the list inside django template? I have a list and I wanted to order by descinding in django-html template,
How can I do it ?
This is my template code
{% for unique_date in unique_dates %}
    {{unique_date}}
{% endfor %}

And this is my view file
unique_dates = list({a.date for a in attendances})
unique_dates.sort()

A: You can sort it in reverse with:
unique_dates = sorted({a.date for a in attendances}, reverse=False)
# no extra sort needed
This will thus sort the a.date items in reversed order, so with the largest (latest) one first, and the smallest (earliest) one last.
An alternative is to work with the {% for … in … reversed %} [Django-doc]:
{# rendering in reverse #}
{% for unique_date in unique_dates reversed %}
    {{ unique_date }}
{% endfor %}

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The Novice (Summoner #1)
Author: Taran Matharu
Price : $16.00(AUD)
Publisher : Hachette Children's Group
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Author : Taran Matharu
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First in Taran Matharu's New York Times bestselling epic fantasy Summoner Trilogy, The Novice is an action-packed adventure of a young man gifted--or cursed--with an extraordinary and terrifying power...
Fletcher is working as a blacksmith's apprentice when he discovers he has the rare ability to summon demons from another world. Chased from his village for a crime he did not commit, Fletcher must travel with his demon, Ignatius, to an academy for adepts, where the gifted are taught the art of summoning.
Along with nobles and commoners, Fletcher endures grueling lessons that will prepare him to serve as a Battlemage in the Empire's war against the savage Orcs. But sinister forces infect new friendships and rivalries grow. With no one but Ignatius by his side, Fletcher must decide where his loyalties lie. The fate of the Empire is in his hands. . . .
This paperback edition includes an interview with the author, a special sneak peek of the sequel, The Inquisition, and more.
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Also in the Summoner series
The Outcast (Summoner: The Prequel)
The Summoner's Handbook
A Fine Welcome: Othello's Journey (A Summoner Short Story)
Brilliant and colourful...This superb story, with strong characters and a narrative which both flows with its sweeping backdrop and draws brilliant details, now deserves all the success that will come its way - The School Librarian
Fantasy lovers will love the demonic detail - Sunday Express
An epic fantasy debut - The Best New Children's Books 2015
Influenced by Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings and video games, it appeals to fans of all of these - The Sunday Times
Taran was born in London in 1990 and found a passion for reading at a very early age. His love for stories developed into a desire to create his own, writing his first book at nine years old. Straight after graduating with a First Class degree in Business Administration, Taran was keen to explore a new avenue and get inside the publishing world, landing an internship in Digital Sales at Penguin Random House, from June to September 2013.
At twenty-two, while taking time off to travel, Taran began to write Summoner, taking part in Nanowrimo 2013. Thanks to Wattpad.com and updating daily, its popularity dramatically increased, reaching over three million reads in less than six months. After being featured by NBC News, Taran decided to launch his professional writing career and has never looked back.
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Bipartisan Group Of Senators 'Deeply Concerned' Over CMS' Oversight Of Way Medicaid Pays For Drugs
The senators asked CMS Administrator Seema Verma if she needs Congress to craft legislation to grant the agency more authority with the end goal of creating more transparency in the pricing.
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Lawmakers Ask Medicaid If It Needs More Power To Fix Drug Misclassifications
In a rare move, a group of bipartisan lawmakers from the House and Senate joined forces Thursday to demand greater transparency about what the government pays for certain drugs — and to offer legislation toward that end. The ten lawmakers who penned a letter to Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said they were "deeply concerned" about her agency's oversight of the way Medicaid pays for drugs. The top signer was Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who chairs the Senate Committee on Finance. The ranking member of that committee, Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), as well as the top lawmakers on the House Energy & Commerce Committee also signed on. (Swetlitz, 3/22)
In other pharmaceutical news —
Glaxo Surges After Withdrawing Bid For Pfizer Consumer-Health Unit
GlaxoSmithKline Plc withdrew from the bidding for Pfizer Inc.'s consumer-health unit, the second potential buyer to do so this week, in a development that leaves the U.S. drugmaker with dwindling options to dispose of the business that's valued at as much as $20 billion. "While we will continue to review opportunities that may accelerate our strategy, they must meet our criteria for returns and not compromise our priorities for capital allocation," Glaxo Chief Executive Officer Emma Walmsley said in a statement Friday. Shares of the U.K. drugmaker surged as much as 5.9 percent in London, their biggest intraday gain in four years. (Serafino and Kresge, 3/23)
AbbVie Lung Cancer Results Are Raising Questions About A $6 Billion Deal
Two years ago, AbbVie (ABBV) paid a hefty $5.8 billion to buy a small company with an experimental treatment for small lung cancer, which accounts for up to 15 percent of all lung cancers. The move was a big bet to expand into oncology and lessen dependence on its Humira rheumatoid arthritis medication, an $18.4 billion seller last year that will soon face biosimilar competition. …On Thursday, AbbVie released results of a mid-stage study showing the drug, called Rova-T, generated a lower-than-hoped-for 16 percent response rate in patients. But what really alarmed investors — who sent AbbVie shares down more than 13 percent in mid-day trading — is that the company is no longer seeking accelerated approval from the Food and Drug Administration. (Silverman, 3/22)
The Wall Street Journal:
Health-Care Firms Turn To Drugmaker Executives As Businesses Converge
Health-care companies are tapping executives from drugmakers as they seek out finance and other critical skills found outside their core business to help navigate a recent wave of consolidation. A flurry of mergers is transforming health care as patients increasingly get their medical services outside of hospitals, in smaller venues including drugstores. (Minaya, 3/22)
Amgen Worker In Denmark Broke The Law By Posting A Release On LinkedIn
An Amgen (AMGN) employee violated Danish law by sharing and liking a U.S. press release about a medicine on LinkedIn, but will not be sanctioned, nor is the company being held responsible for the incident, the Danish Medicines Agency has decided. The employee could have faced up to four months in jail and the drug maker might have been liable for a penalty. The press release in question was issued last August and contained positive study results about the Kyprolis cancer treatment when compared with another medicine called Velcade. And the results indicated that Kyprolis should replace Velcade as the standard of care when a patient relapses with multiple myeloma. (Silverman, 3/22)
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Ajit Pai Advisor Arrested on Fraud Charges
Apr 17th, 2018 6:40 PM EDT | Editorial
So get this: one of the industry suits FCC Chairman Ajit Pai brought on as an advisor has been arrested for fraud. The story comes to us in two parts, the first being a Wall Street Journal story about Elizabeth Pierce, former CEO of Alaska fiber optics firm Quintillion, being arrested for fraud. StopTheGap (via TheVerge) then noted Ms. Pierce had been selected by Mr. Pai to head his Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC).
Is it Mr. Pai's fault she's an alleged crook? No, but it surely reinforces my extremely negative perceptions of Ajit Pai that someone brought on to help his radical deregulatory agenda is being accused of fraud.
Ajit Pai, Destroyer of Net Neutrality
Elizabeth Pierce's Alleged Misdeed
The specifics aren't all that important to my point above, but here's what she's accused of doing. Ms. Pierce allegedly forged contracts from potential customers to get some New York-based investors to pony up a quarter of a billion dollars to invest in Quintillion.
"As it turned out, those sales agreements were worthless because the customers had not signed them," U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said, according to The Wall Street Journal. "Instead, as alleged, Pierce had forged counterparty signatures on contract after contract. As a result of Pierce's deception, the investment companies were left with a system that is worth far less than Pierce had led them to believe."
Ajit Pai's Attraction
StopTheGap theorized Ajit Pai may have been interested in Ms. Pierce because she complained about burdensome regulations. From that publication:
Pierce may have attracted FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's attention after publicly complaining the permitting process in Alaska took longer than building fiber cables from scratch and shipping them from Europe. Out of more than 380 applicants, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai picked Pierce in 2017 to head his new broadband advisory committee, tasked with eliminating or streamlining regulations and making life easier for broadband providers to persuade them to expand broadband rollouts.
That seems like a good read on the situation, as Ajit Pai is hell-bent on deregulating Internet-related telecommunications markets, regardless of the facts. Ms. Pierce is allegedly a bird of a similar feather, as she was arguing her company was worth investing in, regardless of the facts.
[FCC Votes with Ajit Pai to End Net Neutrality in Party Line Vote]
To Quintillion's credit, the company discovered the alleged misdeed and self-reported to the U.S. Justice Department. Ms. Pierce then stepped down from her company in August of 2017, and a month later, she stepped down from her BDAC position.
Confirmation bias is a thing. I think Ajit Pai's business philosophies are corrupt and backed up by lies, so it doesn't surprise me one of his industry advisors who cried about regulations was arrested for corruption. I readily acknowledge it could be an unconnected development, but I'm enjoying a moment of "Ha!"
Ajit Pai FCC Net Neutrality
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Old UNIX Guy(@kevinbuterbaugh)
These "bad decisions" pale in insignificance to the one made by the American people on November 8th, 2016.
Old UNIX Guy
John Kheit(@john-kheit)
I do think a lot of regulations are overly burdensome, so I can see someone complaining about that being an attractive pick for someone trying to reduce regulations. Her deeds seem pretty low and I'm not sure how this could have come up in some vetting process. That said, no matter how you cut it, pretty bad decision picking her. And seems to establish a pattern of bad decisions.
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Hana Lišková (born 4 June 1952) is a Czech former gymnast. She finished in second and fifth place with the Czech teams at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, respectively. In 1968 she was ranked 10–13th in all her individual events.

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1952 births
Living people
Czech female artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts of Czechoslovakia
Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Gymnasts from Prague
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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La désignation  en douze ans ou  en huit ans (souvent abrégé G8 ou Gy8) décrit le raccourcissement de la durée de la scolarité au lycée de neuf à huit années scolaires dans beaucoup de Länder en Allemagne. Dans les Länder de Berlin, Brandebourg et Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale, le raccourcissement est de sept à six années parce qu'ici l'école élémentaire va jusqu'à la sixième classe (dans le système allemand). L'argument principal pour ce raccourcissement est la longueur des durées de formation en Allemagne par comparaison avec les autres pays européens.

Passer l' après douze années en Allemagne de l'Est se pratique cependant déjà depuis longtemps.

Critiques
Les plus vives critiques émanent surtout des associations de parents, des professeurs et des élèves des Länder de l'Ouest. Malgré la disparition d'une année scolaire, le contenu des programmes scolaires élaborés pour treize années d'études n'est pas modifié et doit être enseigné en totalité, ce qui alourdit l'emploi du temps, obligeant les élèves à être à l'école jusqu'à 40 heures par semaine.

Cette nouveauté a entraîné dans certains lycées la construction d'une cantine où les élèves peuvent acheter un repas chaud, ce qui leur permet de tenir tout l'après-midi.

Retour au G9 dans les Länder de l'Ouest
À la suite des nombreux problèmes apparus lors des expérimentations G8, et la pression critique qui s'est ensuivie, l'introduction obligatoire de l'Abitur en 12 ans a été remise en question dans de nombreux Länder ouest-allemands depuis 2013 et partiellement ou complètement retirée.

C'est la Basse-Saxe qui, en 2014, a en premier décidé de revenir au Gymnasium en 9 ans. Après une phase de transition, c'est en 2021 que tous les lycéens ont pu passer l'Abitur à l'issue de la 12ème classe.
Dans les autres Länder de l'Ouest, seules Hambourg, Brême et la Sarre s'en tiennent actuellement (en 2022) au G8 comme modèle unique pour les lycées. Dans tous les autres Länder ouest-allemands, le G9 a soit été réintroduit en intégralité (par exemple en Bavière), soit est proposé comme alternative selon les lycées dans des proportions très différentes (Hesse à 95 %, Bade-Wurtemberg avec moins de 10 %). Cependant, la Sarre a décidé en mai 2022 un retour progressif intégral au lycée en 9 ans à compter de l'année scolaire 2022/2023.
Dans les nouveaux Länder (ex RDA), qui ont largement enseigné selon le G8 depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ainsi qu'à Berlin, on ne perçoit en revanche pas de tendance vers le G9.

Références

Liens externes
  www.g8-in-bayern.de – Le  en huit ans en Bavière

Enseignement en Allemagne


On July 29, 2013, Mary Jo Foley posted an article to ZD Net: Did Walmart just sell out of Microsoft Surface RTs?. We just confirmed this news ourselves with a visit to the Walmart web site.
This is good news for Microsoft®. It may signal a bottom for their efforts to enter the consumer market for mobile devices (at least tablet computers) and a turn towards positive results, especially if other prominent brick and mortar retailers like Best Buy®.
We also liked what we saw of the enterprise business preview of Windows 8.1 released on July 30, 2013.
Perhaps no company is in a better position to speak to the needs of enterprise IT organizations than Microsoft. The preview presented new features of Windows 8.1 specifically designed to provide PC and Network administrators with tools to streamline the task of migrating users to the new platform. Other tools designed to enhance business computing trends — mainly mobility — have been added to the platform.
This marketing collateral speaks at length to the needs of the administrative teams supporting end users. In contrast to the marketing collateral published when Windows 8 was released, the touch feature option is not emphasized. A lengthy section talks about Apps, the Windows Store, and workarounds for organizations looking for other ways to migrate applications to the new platform.
But what about the large installed base of computers with the Windows XP operating system in use at enterprises and comparably sized organizations in the public sector? From what we've seen of the documentation on how to upgrade these older systems, there is still too much ambiguity about whether or not existing hardware will or will not support newer operating systems, not to mention Windows 8.1. We aren't sure Microsoft can do much more to lessen the difficulty of this experience for this portion of its customer base. As well, we aren't sure the organizations supporting these computers will want to step through the custom installations likely to be required for Windows 7, and, perhaps, 8.
Why Isn't Flash Player Available for Most Tablets?
We own a Samsung Galaxy Note 2.1 10.1. Our business requires us to frequent websites with Shockwave features, which require Flash player on clients. But our tablet does not support Flash Player. So we can't use our tablet to visit some of the websites we use on a daily basis. At least we couldn't until we bought a Puffin Browser for our tablet. We will write more about the Puffin Browser in another post to this blog, but for our purposes in this post, we will simply say the Puffin Browser works.
Laptops, desktop computers, and even hybrid laptop/tablet computers are all entirely capable of supporting Flash Player. So we think it's safe to say excluding tablet users from accessing Shockwave features on websites benefits PC manufacturers. At least two of these manufacturers are also prominent manufacturers of consumer printers — Dell and HP. Adobe, who also happens to be the ISV behind Flash Player and Shockwave, has deep relationships with each of the printer manufacturers (after all, Adobe is also the ISV behind PostScript).
Given the above points the whole issue of Flash player and tablets is controversial. At present it appears Adobe is highly selective about just which tablet manufacturers can support Flash Player.
When we consider this problem, we can't help but think the industry has cannibalized itself.
Stephanie Clifford and Quentin Hardy authored an article, Attention Shoppers: Store is Tracking Your Cell, which was published on July 15, 2013 in the online edition of The New York Times. We're interested in this topic, meaning technology to track the behavior of retail customers within a store. As far back as 2002 we had some involvement with ISVs developing solutions for the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) market. These ISVs were working on very similar technology.
ISVs with technology brick and mortar retailers can use to compile this type of information have a near term opportunity to cash in. There are network and business intelligence components to the technology. We think it will take sometime before retailers can demonstrate relationships between store visits, shelf life for products, and likely buyer behavior. But the starting point, meaning systems to collect the information, appears to be in place.
Of course, there is a side benefit for retailers who choose to implement this technology. They will be able to pinpoint retail customers checking store prices for items against online competitors.
We use VisualVisitor on this blog and Talking-SharePoint (a week day blog we write for one of our clients, Rehmani Consulting, Inc).
The business information provided by VisualVisitor helped us identify an influential contact who had gained substantial familiarity with our products from a past employer. So this contact turbocharged the process with her endorsement of our product.
We identified website visitors from a couple of deals in progress. By observing the pages they visited on our website, including the length of their visit to each page, we could catch early indication of a change in purchase direction on the part of one prospect.
We don't know of many businesses likely to complain about a shorter sales cycle.
We are also big users of Google Analytics. So reviewing historical information about website visits collected with VisualVisitor against data collected from Analytics helps us understand better how our overall market is reacting to the marketing collateral we publish on these websites.
It's also very useful to have access to the search engine queries leading businesses to our websites. One of our clients purchases click ads with Google. When we correlate queries to click ad campaign objectives, we can remediate market place misunderstandings, while, at the same time, we add value to this client's campaign by helping them fine tune impressions to communicate the right message to a realistic audience, given their objectives.
We last wrote about "Ready, Fire, Aim" product development strategies in early 2012. But we are presently working with a couple of clients who have implemented the same strategy. So it makes sense for us to take a post to this blog to update our position on the method.
While we understand why this method makes sense for many early stage technology businesses, we still must express our strong advice to very closely monitor product performance, together with market perception of product performance, as products designed with this methodology are rolled out to the public for purchase.
"Ready, fire aim" does not include enough product testing time. So we advise clients to actually expand product testing as cash becomes available to pay for beta programs, etc. Product testing should include not only the technical performance of the product, but also the product concept. Manufacturers need to test the assumptions about markets upon which products were originally conceptualized. It's best to pour cash into testing efforts earlier than later.
Early stage technology businesses implementing this technique should also make the best effort possible to carefully pick the customers who will be first to implement the products in targeted markets. Certainly revenue is a tough driver on this one. Most technology businesses will jump at an opportunity to service a large and influential customer very early in a product cycle. But why take the risk of closing a big sale with a prestigious and influential customer only to find your product is not working as advertised? A much better strategy would look to see the market at the periphery with some early sales to ensure the product is working as advertised and as expected.
Where possible, we advise not using a "Ready, Fire, Aim" method of building products. So, if possible, make sure to carefully position and prove your product concept before you build it.
Public relations collateral — press releases, news articles, public appearances — must be micro managed by ISVs to produce targeted results. Microsoft® recently debuted a free app for Office for the iPhone. The public relations campaign for this product should have been better managed to provide Microsoft with a product introduction to the small, smart mobile device market worth the effort.
The iPhone Office app breaks new ground. Microsoft eschews the recent strategy of forcing markets into the Microsoft scalable computing architecture (including PCs, the Surface Tablet, and Windows Phone 8), and, instead, brings the Office suite to the most prominent example of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend in enterprise computing, the iPhone. So this should be a huge win, with substantial public approval, right?
Not so fast. The Wall Street Journal editorial team, a set of entrenched Microsoft skeptics, managed to turn this very promising new product and the new direction in product marketing it exemplifies, into a no better than a "C-" quality set of announcements. On June 18, 2013, Ms. Katherine Boehret, produced a write up on the iPhone Office app launch for the Journal's "The Digital Solution" column: At Work With Microsoft Office on an iPhone .
We think Microsoft's Public Relations team should have better managed Ms. Boehret's introduction to this product. The point she makes about the need for an Office 365 account, for example, is really not an issue for what we can't help but take to be the market for this app: employees working for enterprise businesses. Most of these organizations maintain Office 365 accounts. So the $100.00 annual cost for a basic subscription to Office 365 will not be an impediment to enterprise IT's plan to outfit personnel with this app.
Her point about a missing Outlook component for the app is also not much of an issue. Microsoft recently debuted Outlook as a cloud application, which will certainly be accessible to any iPhone owner with the above mentioned Office 365 account. In fact, it's easy to sign up for the free Outlook online Software as a Service (SaaS) offer without an Office 365 account.
But these points were portrayed in her article as big issues, marring an otherwise "beautiful" app. To repeat: we think Microsoft's Public Relations team could have done a better job introducing Ms. Boehret to this new product. Perhaps her observations of internal struggle at Microsoft about the new strategy as a reason for the less than satisfactory design of the iPhone Office app are accurate.
On July 5, 2013, the TechCrunch website posted an article authored by Ms. Natasha Lomas, "Android 'Master Key' Security Hole Puts 99% of Devices At Risk of Exploitation". Despite our hope they will react otherwise, we think consumer markets will continue to operate "as usual" and continue to purchase small, smart mobile devices built on the Android O/S.
As we wrote over a year ago, we think this complacent market attitude will only change if financial institutions retreat from their long standing commitment to absorb the cost of any breaches of online security systems, and start passing them through directly to consumers. We don't see these institutions changing this position any time soon. Further, the well publicized intention of the U.S. Dept. of Defense, to protect the security of U.S. Ethernet networks and websites, reinforces the reasonableness of our assumption.
One would think an article like this one, by Ms. Lomas, would prompt consumers to look closer at competitive devices from Microsoft®. After all, Windows 8 is a proprietary operating system. Further, we think Microsoft has expended a considerable energy over the last year, or more, to build a brand for itself as THE most secure cloud services provider. But the continued misses of Microsoft's public relations and marketing communications efforts for consumer markets will likely undermine any advantage they would otherwise gain from this article.
Pricing also plays a role here. Tablets and smartphones built on the Android O/S are, for most consumers, the least expensive option. In contrast, Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is the most expensive "stock" option (the 64GB version is about $70.00 more expensive than a comparable iPad). Consumers will simply expect each Android OEM to provide them with a fix for the security hole publicized in Ms. Lomas' article. But even if this hole is plugged, others may soon come to light.
On July 3, 2013, Michael Hickens, the Editor of the Wall Street Journal blog, CIO, published a post on Ford Motor Company, 'The Morning Download: Ford Test-Drives Software-Driven Manufacturing'. This piece is an example of the power of a combination of content marketing, with an appeal to authority. Early stage technology businesses looking for a marketing communications strategy to either create a groundswell of market sentiment, or a method to shift unfavorable market sentiment will do well to consider this combination of tactics.
Any student of industrial automation and process control systems can see the hyperbole in the title to Mr. Hickens' post. Certainly Ford Motor Company, and each of its peers in the automotive industry have been using "Software-Driven Manufacturing" since the early 1970s. So what's really new about the current effort Ford Motor has undertaken? This short post doesn't delve into the details. Rather, it merely names to each of the prestigious stakeholders in this new technology — Boeing Corporation, the Massachusetss Institute of Technology, and the U. S. Dept. of Energy — and reports the approach is something along the lines of 3D Printing technology. The reader is then left to find out the additional specifics required to put the real news story together.
The title to this short post implies there is something new about all of this. Unsuspecting readers will likely assume the technology is earth-shaking given the stakeholders and the Mr. Hickens' use of terms.
A lot of online marketing communications follow this same formula. Pick someone with a reputation to write a keyword-rich article on technology familiar to your customers and you'll likely achieve the change in sentiment objective you're after. LinkedIn's Influencer feature is a perfect example of this type of content marketing.
In this article we think Mr. Hickens is making an effort to paint Ford Motor with the colors of a leading technology innovator. Unfortunately those with a knowledge of the history of process control and industrial automation will, in all likelihood, simply look back, with regret at the real era of innovation for this industry back in the early 1970s. Somehow influential media missed it way back then . . .


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Q: How can I pass a condition into my function? this is my function:
I want to pass a condition to change my "selectedConformityStatus" in line 7.
const externalFilter = function () {
  if (!__externalFilter) {
    __externalFilter = {
      gridApi: undefined,
      selectedSubjects: [],
      selectedGeneralRequirement: "my_responsibility",
      selectedConformityStatus: [
        "conforms",
        "no_conforms",
        "not_applicable",
        "initial_status",
      ],
      selectedAnalysisResultStatus: "all",
      isExternalFilterPresent: function (params) {
        return (
          (this.selectedSubjects && this.selectedSubjects.length > 0) ||
          this.selectedGeneralRequirement !== "all" ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.length > 0 ||
          this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus !== "all"
        );
      },
      doesExternalFilterPass: function (node) {
        const systemOperatorId = _.get(this, "loggedUser.systemOperatorId");

        let systemOperator_AllRequirements = false,
          systemOperator_Requirements = [];

        if (systemOperatorId) {
          const systemOperatorEntry = _.get(
            this.project,
            "systemOperators",
            []
          ).find((s) => _.get(s, "systemOperator._id") === systemOperatorId);

          if (systemOperatorEntry) {
            systemOperator_AllRequirements =
              systemOperatorEntry.allRequirements === "yes";
            systemOperator_Requirements =
              systemOperatorEntry.requirements || [];
          }
        }

        const subjectCondition =
          !this.selectedSubjects ||
          this.selectedSubjects.length === 0 ||
          this.selectedSubjects.includes(
            _.get(
              node,
              "data.dataOverride.subject._id",
              _.get(
                node,
                "data.dataOverride.subject",
                _.get(node, "data.requirement.subject._id")
              )
            )
          );
        const generalRequirementCondition =
          !this.selectedGeneralRequirement ||
          this.selectedGeneralRequirement === "all" ||
          (this.selectedGeneralRequirement === "my_responsibility" &&
            (systemOperator_AllRequirements === true ||
              systemOperator_Requirements.some(
                (r) =>
                  _.get(node, "data.requirement.generalRequirement._id") ===
                  r._id
              ))) ||
          _.get(node, "data.requirement.generalRequirement._id") ===
            this.selectedGeneralRequirement;
        const conformityStatusCondition =
          !this.selectedConformityStatus ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.length === 0 ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.includes(
            _.get(node, "data.conformityStatus")
          );
        const conformityAnalysisResultStatus =
          !this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus ||
          this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus === "all" ||
          (this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus === "all_awainting_analysis" &&
            [
              "awaiting_analysis",
              "awaiting_correction",
              "awaiting_review",
            ].includes(_.get(node, "data.currentStatus"))) ||
          _.get(node, "data.currentStatus") ===
            this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus;

        return (
          subjectCondition &&
          generalRequirementCondition &&
          conformityStatusCondition &&
          conformityAnalysisResultStatus
        );
      },
      setGridApi: function (params) {
        if (params && params.gridApi) {
          this.gridApi = params.gridApi;
        }
      },
      onChangeSubjects: function (subjects) {
        this.selectedSubjects = subjects || [];
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeGeneralRequirement: function (item) {
        this.selectedGeneralRequirement = item && item.value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeConformityStatus: function (value) {
        this.selectedConformityStatus = value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeAnalysisResultStatus: function (item) {
        this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus = item && item.value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onFilterChanged: function (item) {
        if (this.gridApi) {
          this.gridApi.onFilterChanged();
        }
      },
    };
  }
  return __externalFilter;
};

I want to pass a condition to change my "selectedConformityStatus" in line 7.
Like,
if (__checklist.project.analysisData?.actionPlan == 'yes') {
  let selectedConformityStatus: [
    "conforms",
    "no_conforms",
    "not_applicable",
    "initial_status",
  ]
} else {
  selectedConformityStatus: [
    "conforms",
    "no_conforms",
    "not_applicable"
  ]
}

I allready tried like that, pass the condition with the !__externalFilter), but the project brokes.
const externalFilter = function () {
  if (!__externalFilter && __checklist.project.analysisData?.actionPlan == 'yes') {
    __externalFilter = {
      gridApi: undefined,
      selectedSubjects: [],
      selectedGeneralRequirement: "my_responsibility",
      selectedConformityStatus: [
        "conforms",
        "no_conforms",
        "not_applicable",
        "initial_status",
      ],
      selectedAnalysisResultStatus: "all",
      isExternalFilterPresent: function (params) {
        return (
          (this.selectedSubjects && this.selectedSubjects.length > 0) ||
          this.selectedGeneralRequirement !== "all" ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.length > 0 ||
          this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus !== "all"
        );
      },
      doesExternalFilterPass: function (node) {
        const systemOperatorId = _.get(this, "loggedUser.systemOperatorId");

        let systemOperator_AllRequirements = false,
          systemOperator_Requirements = [];

        if (systemOperatorId) {
          const systemOperatorEntry = _.get(
            this.project,
            "systemOperators",
            []
          ).find((s) => _.get(s, "systemOperator._id") === systemOperatorId);

          if (systemOperatorEntry) {
            systemOperator_AllRequirements =
              systemOperatorEntry.allRequirements === "yes";
            systemOperator_Requirements =
              systemOperatorEntry.requirements || [];
          }
        }

        const subjectCondition =
          !this.selectedSubjects ||
          this.selectedSubjects.length === 0 ||
          this.selectedSubjects.includes(
            _.get(
              node,
              "data.dataOverride.subject._id",
              _.get(
                node,
                "data.dataOverride.subject",
                _.get(node, "data.requirement.subject._id")
              )
            )
          );
        const generalRequirementCondition =
          !this.selectedGeneralRequirement ||
          this.selectedGeneralRequirement === "all" ||
          (this.selectedGeneralRequirement === "my_responsibility" &&
            (systemOperator_AllRequirements === true ||
              systemOperator_Requirements.some(
                (r) =>
                  _.get(node, "data.requirement.generalRequirement._id") ===
                  r._id
              ))) ||
          _.get(node, "data.requirement.generalRequirement._id") ===
            this.selectedGeneralRequirement;
        const conformityStatusCondition =
          !this.selectedConformityStatus ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.length === 0 ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.includes(
            _.get(node, "data.conformityStatus")
          );
        const conformityAnalysisResultStatus =
          !this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus ||
          this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus === "all" ||
          (this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus === "all_awainting_analysis" &&
            [
              "awaiting_analysis",
              "awaiting_correction",
              "awaiting_review",
            ].includes(_.get(node, "data.currentStatus"))) ||
          _.get(node, "data.currentStatus") ===
            this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus;

        return (
          subjectCondition &&
          generalRequirementCondition &&
          conformityStatusCondition &&
          conformityAnalysisResultStatus
        );
      },
      setGridApi: function (params) {
        if (params && params.gridApi) {
          this.gridApi = params.gridApi;
        }
      },
      onChangeSubjects: function (subjects) {
        this.selectedSubjects = subjects || [];
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeGeneralRequirement: function (item) {
        this.selectedGeneralRequirement = item && item.value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeConformityStatus: function (value) {
        this.selectedConformityStatus = value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeAnalysisResultStatus: function (item) {
        this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus = item && item.value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onFilterChanged: function (item) {
        if (this.gridApi) {
          this.gridApi.onFilterChanged();
        }
      },
    };
  } else {
    __externalFilter = {
      gridApi: undefined,
      selectedSubjects: [],
      selectedGeneralRequirement: "my_responsibility",
      selectedConformityStatus: [
        "conforms",
        "no_conforms",
        "not_applicable",
      ],
      selectedAnalysisResultStatus: "all",
      isExternalFilterPresent: function (params) {
        return (
          (this.selectedSubjects && this.selectedSubjects.length > 0) ||
          this.selectedGeneralRequirement !== "all" ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.length > 0 ||
          this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus !== "all"
        );
      },
      doesExternalFilterPass: function (node) {
        const systemOperatorId = _.get(this, "loggedUser.systemOperatorId");

        let systemOperator_AllRequirements = false,
          systemOperator_Requirements = [];

        if (systemOperatorId) {
          const systemOperatorEntry = _.get(
            this.project,
            "systemOperators",
            []
          ).find((s) => _.get(s, "systemOperator._id") === systemOperatorId);

          if (systemOperatorEntry) {
            systemOperator_AllRequirements =
              systemOperatorEntry.allRequirements === "yes";
            systemOperator_Requirements =
              systemOperatorEntry.requirements || [];
          }
        }

        const subjectCondition =
          !this.selectedSubjects ||
          this.selectedSubjects.length === 0 ||
          this.selectedSubjects.includes(
            _.get(
              node,
              "data.dataOverride.subject._id",
              _.get(
                node,
                "data.dataOverride.subject",
                _.get(node, "data.requirement.subject._id")
              )
            )
          );
        const generalRequirementCondition =
          !this.selectedGeneralRequirement ||
          this.selectedGeneralRequirement === "all" ||
          (this.selectedGeneralRequirement === "my_responsibility" &&
            (systemOperator_AllRequirements === true ||
              systemOperator_Requirements.some(
                (r) =>
                  _.get(node, "data.requirement.generalRequirement._id") ===
                  r._id
              ))) ||
          _.get(node, "data.requirement.generalRequirement._id") ===
            this.selectedGeneralRequirement;
        const conformityStatusCondition =
          !this.selectedConformityStatus ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.length === 0 ||
          this.selectedConformityStatus.includes(
            _.get(node, "data.conformityStatus")
          );
        const conformityAnalysisResultStatus =
          !this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus ||
          this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus === "all" ||
          (this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus === "all_awainting_analysis" &&
            [
              "awaiting_analysis",
              "awaiting_correction",
              "awaiting_review",
            ].includes(_.get(node, "data.currentStatus"))) ||
          _.get(node, "data.currentStatus") ===
            this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus;

        return (
          subjectCondition &&
          generalRequirementCondition &&
          conformityStatusCondition &&
          conformityAnalysisResultStatus
        );
      },
      setGridApi: function (params) {
        if (params && params.gridApi) {
          this.gridApi = params.gridApi;
        }
      },
      onChangeSubjects: function (subjects) {
        this.selectedSubjects = subjects || [];
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeGeneralRequirement: function (item) {
        this.selectedGeneralRequirement = item && item.value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeConformityStatus: function (value) {
        this.selectedConformityStatus = value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onChangeAnalysisResultStatus: function (item) {
        this.selectedAnalysisResultStatus = item && item.value;
        this.onFilterChanged();
      },
      onFilterChanged: function (item) {
        if (this.gridApi) {
          this.gridApi.onFilterChanged();
        }
      },
    };
  }
  return __externalFilter;
};

I guess it's pretty simple, but I'm not beeing able to figure out.

A: You can just create an array and declare its value in your condition
    let selectedConformityStatusArray: [];
    if (__checklist.project.analysisData?.actionPlan == 'yes') {
          selectedConformityStatusArray: [
            "conforms",
            "no_conforms",
            "not_applicable",
            "initial_status",
          ]
        } else {
          selectedConformityStatusArray: [
            "conforms",
            "no_conforms",
            "not_applicable"
          ]
        }

then in your code just add the array to your selectedConformityStatus key as value
      gridApi: undefined,
      selectedSubjects: [],
      selectedGeneralRequirement: "my_responsibility",
      selectedConformityStatus: selectedConformityStatusArray,


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3KND Radio Are Finalist For The 2020 Dreamtime Awards!
Radio 3KND is selected as a finalist for the 2020 Dreamtime Awards, in the category of Organisation/Business of the Year. The Dreamtime Awards is an opportunity for First Nation people from across our country to come together and recognise our excellence in the categories of Sport, Arts, Education, Health and Community. The awards are attended by the country's most high profile political and community figures, sporting stars, entertainers and personalities.
The Awards recognise excellence across a number of categories. The inaugural Dreamtime Awards were held in 2017 at The Star in the Sydney suburb of Pyrmont. What a way to end our year with this deadly nomination. Our crew have been amazing and we have pride in what we do.."We love connecting to community". Thank You to all who have supported KoolnDeadly 3KND in 2020 for we have more to come in 2021.


Earlier in the day, we reported that the LG G Pro 2 may be priced at Rs. 49900 in India and the launch is expected to happen soon. Well, it has turned out to be true. The LG G Pro 2 is now available in India online at a hefty price of Rs. 49,990.
The LG G Pro 2 was unveiled in February at MWC and it has now made its way to Indian shores. The LG phablet has been in sale in some parts of the world and reportedly, it has been doing pretty well.
The device is now available in India through the online retailer Snapdeal and it is priced at Rs. 49,990. Considering the device is available in stock, the official launch should happen pretty soon. The LG G Pro 2 features specs comparable to the likes of Galaxy S5 and One M8, thus the price.
LG will launch the G3 next month, so we are not really sure people would want to lap up to the G Pro 2 but considering it's a phablet, it should do well for itself. Tell us, will you buy the LG G Pro 2 or wait for the LG G3? The answer seems quite obvious to me though.


A new HTC device was recently spotted in the Geekbench and AnTuTu databases. The device, which bears a model number 2Q7A100 seems to be powered by a Snapdragon 710 SoC and is equipped with 6 GB RAM and 128 GB of storage. Further details about the device and an expected launch date are elusive.
We've been expecting HTC to launch a few devices in 2019 and the first signs of it are already being seen. A mid-range HTC smartphone was spotted doing the rounds on Geekbench and AnTuTu. The model HTC 2Q7A100 seems to be powered a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 SoC with 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storage running Android 9.
The phone scored a score of 6979 in Geekbench's RenderScript test and 169617 points in the AnTuTu benchmark. Not much is known about this mysterious device apart from the fact that it will have a display resolution of 2160 x 1080 pixels. The Snapdragon 710 is an excellent upper mid-range chipset but Qualcomm has already announced the Snapdragon 730 as its successor. HTC could have rather used the new chipset, but it is possible that this phone has been in development since quite some time.
HTC's journey so far has been riches to rags story. Revenues for the company have been tanking and the latest releases such as the U12 Plus haven't been able to really turn the tables despite being good devices in their own right.
There have been absolutely no leaked pictures or renders of this new HTC device so we do not expect an official launch anytime soon. Still, it is good to see HTC not completely giving up its efforts and we hope the company delivers well this year.


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Patient safety in critical areas
We can all learn from mistakes, but there are many mistakes that are fatal and must be avoided, especially when it comes to medical and health care. 4 out of 10 patients worldwide suffer damage in primary and outpatient healthcare.
80% of these damages can be prevented. In this context, patient safety is presented as a discipline in which all types of hospitals and health centers work. At the end of the day, caring and healing is its reason for being. However, little is said about how hospital electrical safety can help ensure the well-being of patients.
What is patient safety?
In 1948, the Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated, according to which, "everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living that ensures health and well-being, as well as their family…".
Although health care is an unquestionable human right, the reality is that in many cases this care is deficient, especially when it comes to the poorest countries.
In this context, the culture of patient safety acquires relevance and governments, states and institutions around the world have put on the table a series of measures and recommendations with the aim of clarifying the parameters that define what patient safety is. And, in this way, work on safe and quality healthcare.
The World Health Organization defines patient safety as a discipline whose objective is « to prevent and reduce the risks, errors and damages suffered by patients during the provision of healthcare. » The WHO also supports that the cornerstone of safety culture is « the best continuous based on learning from errors and adverse events. »
Along the same lines, Cristián Rocco and Alejandro Garrido, authors of the publication Patient Safety and Safety Culture, consider that this discipline should pursue the objective of "reducing damage and reducing error since error is an inherent condition of human condition".
In the case of Spain, the 2016 National Study on Adverse Effects linked to Hospitalization (ENEAS Study) reviewed 5,624 medical records, in which 8.4% of adverse events were found. 4.4% led to death and 42.8% were preventable. Once again, if we extrapolate this data to the 4.6 million hospitalizations in 2006, more than 7,300 deaths a year could be prevented.
Consequences of the lack of patient safety
In many cases, the most immediate consequence of unsafe patient care is death. There is a lot of news that we can read throughout the year about people who have died due to late care in collapsed health centers, for example. Along these lines, the Rocco and Garrido study mentions To Err is Human, a 1999 study published by the United States Institute of Medicine, as a reference.
Within the framework of this study, 30,000 medical records were reviewed, detecting 3.7% of adverse events, of which 58% were preventable and 13.6% resulted in death. The authors of the publication extrapolated these data to the volume of annual hospitalizations. They concluded that health care-related adverse events could cause between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths in the United States, at a cost of between $ 17 million and $ 28 million a year.
The conclusion is clear: as the American publication says, erring is human, but a culture of patient safety helps reduce this margin of error and save the lives of thousands of people.
Most common adverse events
The first step to an effective and quality patient safety culture is risk prevention and the detection and investigationof medical errors and common adverse events. In this sense, a 2005 ENEAS study established that the most common adverse events were related to:
Nosocomial infection
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At a global level, the WHO also points out very similar worrisome situations:
Medication errors are among the leading causes of preventable harm and injury in healthcare.
Infections affect 7 out of 100 hospitalized people in high-income countries and 10 out of 100 in low- and middle-income countries.
25% of patients suffer complications due to unsafe surgical procedures. In most cases, the patient dies directly during the intervention or immediately afterwards.
Unsafe injection practices in healthcare settings.
Diagnostic errors affect about 5% of adults who go through ambulatory care.
On the other hand, there are other types of adverse events related to the facilities of the hospital or health center. In this case, we would be facing two main types of accidents:
Accidents related to the building and its facilities.
Natural disasters: accidents related to the environment and meteorological problems.
Is there a regulation on key aspects of patient safety?
As we said before, in the professional field patient safety has become a subject of study and on which to legislate both at the national and international level. In this sense, there are some important key events and documents for promoting a culture of patient safety:
In 2004, the World Alliance for Patient Safety (now the Patient Safety Program) was created. The main objective that is set is « above all, do no harm », as its motto says.
Since 2005 there is the Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety, considered the first center in the world dedicated exclusively to patient safety and collaborating with the WHO.
In 2006, within the framework of the Warsaw Declaration on Patient Safety, the following needs were outlined: establish an Incident Notification System, promote a systematic approach to the culture of patient safety, and involve citizens and patients in improving this security.
In the case of Spain, the country has the National Health System Patient Safety Strategy, a document whose main objective is to promote and improve the culture of safety in health sector organizations.
In Colombia, for example, in the field of hospital security, they have the RETIE certificate (RETIE Technical Regulation of Electrical Installations). The objective of this certification is to guarantee « the protection of people, preventing, minimizing or eliminating risks of electrical origin ».
The importance of hospital safety
Although there is much legislation and interest in promoting a culture of patient safety, it focuses exclusively on the human sphere of action, focusing on how to avoid human errors that result in harm to the patient. However, there is not much scientific literature focused on hospital safety, a key pillar also in health care.
Hospitals are unique spaces, intended for the care of patients and sick people or those who require some type of surgery. For this reason, it is a health scenario where security must be applied in a concrete way both in relation to the facilities and to the medical work within the hospital center.
Although it is not common for electrical failures to occur in hospitals … So it can happen. This is demonstrated by data from the report Structure Fires in Health Care Facilities, prepared in 2017 in the United States by the National Fire Protection Association NFPA. The study collects information for the period 2011-2015 and detects an average of more than 5,700 fires in Health Centers. The second cause of these fires was failures in electrical installations.
Hospital protection and engineering: solutions
As experts in hospital engineering, we want to talk about some guidelines to take into account to guarantee the good state of the electrical safety of a hospital or healthcare center. They are as follows:
It is necessary to have an uninterruptible power supply system so that more critical areas such as the ICU or operating rooms always have specific loads in the event of the main power system failure.
For the automatic detection and location of electrical faults it is necessary to have an IT power supply system.
Have a team of experts who offer advice on electrical safety.
To avoid contact voltages in critical areas, the most sensitive areas of hospitals are the ground connections.
Patient safety is essential to provide efficient and quality medical care. However, in most cases the approach given to this culture of patient safety focuses on the human sphere, without taking into account the importance of avoiding risks in hospital electrical installations.
However, from ETKHO with this article we have wanted to value the importance of hospital engineering and of having high quality technological solutions to preserve patient safety.
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Testing Pakistan's Conventional Response below the Nuclear Threshold
By Rameshwar Roy
Issue Courtesy: CLAWS | Date : 17 Sep , 2017
The Doklam issue stands resolved after a nearly 73-day standoff, at least for the time being. It has been a tremendous battle of nerves and resolve on part of the Indian Army's to not only intervene in time, but hold on to their positions steadfastly and give adequate time until diplomatic parleys finally found a successful breakthrough. This has once again shifted focus back to India's traditional adversary – Pakistan.
Time and again, whenever there is a terrorist strike in J&K or elsewhere in the country, there are endless debates in the media, news papers get filled with all kinds of ideas on responses that must be galvanised into powerful actions in order to make Pakistan pay more for its misadventures against India which it routinely denies and stresses the activities as having been carried out by 'non-state' actors that they are never aware of. This hide and seek has been going on since the decade of the nineties more proactively, but at large for close to seven decades.
Often enough, there has been a debate on the possibilities of a conventional war under the nuclear threshold. However, it is about time to debate and discuss Pakistan's threshold of conventional response to India's trans LoC raids that Delhi should decide to undertake at a time and place of its choosing the moment it is able to trace back its linkages of terrorists striking Indian territory that lead back to the Pakistan establishment or terrorist outfits based inside Pakistan. The latest trend in Pakistan is that these terrorists outfits are in the process of being 'converted' into a legitimate political force by forming political parties with stakes in governance making it even more difficult to detect and act against them.
There are two specific instances, when it nearly came very close to a full-scale war scenario. First, when mountaineous heights in the Kargil sector, overlooking Srinagar-Leh highway were occupied in May 1999 by the Northern Light Infantry (NLI) having the full back up of the Pakistan Army; and second, when the Indian Parliament was attacked in 2002 by Pakistan-supported terrorists belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the follow on full-scale mobilisation undertaken by the Indian Armed Forces in preparation to an armed response to Pak-sponsored terrorism in India.
However, in these cases, actual conflict and full scale mobilisation follow through was controlled due to what some believed to be 'deft diplomacy' while some others argued the nuclear flashpoint on either side. Whatever may be the case, the fact of the matter is that these terror strikes on India from across the border have continued unabated with a varying degree of intensity and frequency. The number of terror camps and launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has gone up as per Indian Army's Northern Army Commander Lt Gen DevrajAnbu. Militants waiting to cross over to this side (via the LoC from PoK) are nearly 250 in north Kashmir and around 225 in south of PirPanjal (Jammu region) he said recently. The internal NIA raids on separatists and the killing of top militant leaders by security forces have helped in improving the security situation in Kashmir.
In September 2016, in response to the terrorist attack on Uri very close to the Line of Control in which 19 Indian Army soldiers were martyred, a response called 'surgical strike' was crafted and undertaken by the Indian Army. The term generated more political spin offs than military pay offs. But once again, it did not put a complete stop to the regularity of terror strikes in the Kashmir valley.
Notwithstanding the statements at the global level against terrorist strikes, the situation on ground has remained unaltered for decades now, due to the conflicting interests of various stakeholders on the Global War on Terror (GWoT). It emerges that the response to these terrorist strikes have to be undertaken by the victim states themselves, given that there appears to be just no possibility of a joint or collective action at the regional or global level.
The attack on the Amarnath pilgrims on 10 July 2017, in which seven yatris were killed and 14 seriously injured, has once again sparked a debate on the possibility of taking stronger action against the perpetrators of the crime. However, one big change that has taken place this time is that unlike earlier occasions, the terrorists groups operating from Pakistan particularly the LeT have not really come forward to stake claims to this strike fearing an adverse reaction from the international community. That notwithstanding, the method and timing of the attack are clear indicators that this strike too was on the lines of an established pattern of the past.
This brings us to the real question of India's options to deal with such situations adequately not only to douse the public outcry on this unabated heinous crime, as also to raise the costs to the supporters of this proxy warfare that seems to be waged with impunity. For long, New Delhi has taken the moral high ground of not getting involved in a 'tit for tat' action to this low-cost, vaguely deniable interference by Pakistan; but that seemingly has only emboldened India's adversary.
Pakistan has smartly tried to takeIndia's 'increasing' threshold of tolerance and its own 'nuclear umbrella' for granted. What has given boost to its recent boldness is its strategic partnership with China and veto power protection given by Beijing to keep Jaish-e-Mohammed Chief Maulana Masood Azhar.
There have been heightened activities of Pakistan-supported terrorists in the valley with proactive trans-LoC support from across. There are rumblings already of Chinese getting emboldened to interfere in J&K scenario due to its own strategic partnership with Pakistan, based on the Indian response of siding and interfering on behalf of Bhutan in the just concluded standoff in Doklam. Besides, the 'nuclear and Chinese umbrella' that is being enjoyed by Pakistan, it has the strategic assets of home-grown terrorists at its disposal. Therefore, considering all these factors, Pakistan continues to pose a serious and potent challenge to India's security establishment.
The conventional capability of Indian armed forces has clearly been recognised to have an edge over Pakistan. It is in the nuclear domain that they have brought in the angle of the low-yield battlefield nuclear weapons (TNWs). In talks of India's 'measured responses' to terrorist strikes, particularly in raising the cost of its proxy war against India, Delhi firstly must recognise the big differential that exists in the use of force. India does not have the luxury of responding with any cheaper options against Pakistan's cannon fodder, i.e., home-grown terrorists. India's response necessarily has to be using its conventional capabilities like the one displayed during the surgical strikes which can be termed as a loose term though, militarily. The real problem lies in controlling the escalatory ladder, as regards the dynamics of fallout that may arise in such a situation.
A significant positive that has emerged recently has been the US aid to Pakistan now reduced to half and that too made strictly conditional. The Trump administration seems to be totally disenchanted as far as Pakistan's contribution to the war on terror is concerned. India's stand on the Doklam issue has found favour with the international community particularly East Asia and South Asian nations although all may not have unequivocally accepted it in as many words. It is time for India to test waters with Pakistan and ensure that this rogue nation state, similar to a 'North Korea in the making' is indicated India's limit of tolerance in no uncertain terms.
Courtesy: http://www.claws.in/1797/testing-pakistan%E2%80%99s-conventional-response-below-the-nuclear-threshold-rameshwar-roy.html
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Time to Close our Borders and Stop Immigration
August 24, 2017 ~ jackmitchellpolitics	~ Leave a comment
Firstly let's get one thing straight, I am not racist, I am not xenophobic, I am not a white supremacist, I am not a white nationalist, I am not a neo-Nazi, I am not a fascist, I am not a chauvinist, and I am not any of the other possible insulting labels that liberals will try and give me after they read this blog post.
Lets start by looking at some statistics:
At the latest consensus (which was 6 years ago so the figures will now be more exaggerated), the number of immigrants coming to Great Britain was seen to rise by 3 million in the first decade of this century, and there are now more than 3 million households in this country who's first language spoken is a foreign language. As for in London, only 40% of Londoners now define themselves as white British and white Brits are a minority in 22 of the 33 boroughs (just to be clear I know the race of Brits is irrelevant because anyone can be a native Brit non-immigrant no matter what skin colour they have. I'm just trying to put into perspective how the 'stereotypical' British person, i.e. white, is now becoming a minority). At the end of last year net migration was a staggering 335,000! Far from unsustainable. Of course that means the Bliar and Brown Labour government can't be solely blamed for the unsustainable number of people currently living on this tiny island, the Conservatives as well.
Over the past few years there has been far too much immigration and it is now getting out of hand. Britain is losing its culture and its identity and because of multiculturalism we Brits are now struggling to define who we are. What are British values? Once it was tea, scones, Wimbledon, the Queen, Parliament, our treasured NHS, the justice system, schools, universities, the Beatles, David Beckham. Now all that's been 'watered down' and Britain now stands for political correctness instead. A society where freedom of speech is banned because of the fear that minorities will be offended. To be clear, I personally I think different cultures are fantastic! Travel the world and experience different cultures just like I did: New Zealand, Malaysia, Poland, Stevenage; but don't bring different cultures here to replace our culture, because that's what multiculturalism is. Even Angela Merkal, the main face behind the EU's freedom of movement policy and also with the welcoming of a million Syrian refugees, has admitted that multiculturalism has been a failure.
As for the economy, well you always hear the same argument from liberals all the time that "immigration is good for the economy, immigrants pay more in taxes than they take in benefits", when in fact immigration does not have much of an impact on the economy. The previous Labour government claimed that immigration contributed £6billion to the economy, but they were not taking GDP per head into account. A study by the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee found that when GDP per head was taken into account, "there was no evidence that immigration provided any significant economic benefit to the existing UK population". Immigrants themselves are the main economic beneficiaries. As for the argument that immigrants proportionately pay more tax, the same HLEAC report concluded that "the fiscal impact (of immigration) is small compared to GDP and cannot be used to justify large-scale immigration".
Britain is full and too overcrowded! Again, you get the same argument from liberals; "2/3rds of Britain is countryside there is plenty of room!" What, are immigrants expected to live in fields? There isn't enough infrastructure, not enough places in schools, not enough hospital beds, not enough social housing. I've only been driving a car for two years and I now already see the differences that the extra 750,000 people in Britain since I first started driving my car, have made to extra traffic. Being in a traffic jam in London at 2am is not cool. Of course that means that there is an argument that immigration would be more beneficiary to Britain if more money was contributed to public spending, but that ain't going to happen with this Conservative government. There is also the fact that 93% of immigrants who move to Britain move to England, making England the 2nd most densely populated nation within the EU.
As for the NHS, there is no denying that the NHS has benefited from immigration massively, but the NHS didn't have to depend on immigrants. The easy option was chosen, and instead what should have been done was to train more British people as medical staff. 35% of NHS doctors are foreign qualified, compared to 5% in Italy, 10.5% in Germany and 15% in France.
Now before all the lefties pound me for what I've so far wrote in this article, lets bring up the obvious fact that the Establishment and the corporate elite benefit massively from immigration because capitalists make extra profit by exploiting immigrant workers with a cheaper wage. But when left-wing media outlets such as Huff Post and the Guardian bang on about the increasing rich-poor divide in Britain, they always fail to highlight that one of the main reasons for this is mass immigration.
Finally i'm going to tell you the main reason I want our borders closed, something personal to me and I assume that none of you liberals will be able to argue against this. After a brain injury left me severely disabled, I now have a speech impediment meaning I can't talk clearly or loudly. At home in Barnsley, I will confidently talk to any stranger certain that they will be fluent in English and are likely to understand what i'm saying. However with me travelling a lot, spending a lot of time in London, i'm finding it harder to talk to people in general, because more people in general now have a foreign language as their first language. With them communication with me is near enough impossible. There's nothing more frustrating for me than to try and give directions to a Turkish Uber driver.
I understand that there has been massive benefits to this country from immigration and I understand that there has been times where Great Britain has needed immigrants. I am quarter Polish, my Grandad moved to this country from Poland at a time when immigration was needed after WW2 to help rebuild this country. That was a war in which he fought himself alongside the British allies, and I am proud to say I am quarter Polish and a close descendant of an immigrant. But immigration now needs to stop! I am not saying that immigration needs to stop forever, I am not saying "never let anyone in". But before we open our borders again, more schools need to be built, more hospitals need to be built, more social housing needs to be constructed and more infrastructure needs to be put in place. Then hopefully by that time, we'll have fully departed from the bureaucratic EU, and will once again be able to control our own sovereign borders with a sustainable immigration policy.


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Q: How can I use non-adjacent cells on another sheet for a Data Validation drop-down, and only show non-blank values? I have a few, non-adjacent cells on one sheet which I want to use as a Source for Data Validation in a cell on another sheet.  However, it seems Data Validation doesn't natively permit this.
So, I tried to do a work-around that involved putting formulas into some adjacent cells on another sheet which would reference the values I wanted from the first sheet.  Then, I named the second range and referenced that name in the Data Validation Source field.
Now I have a problem where, if one of the cells from the first sheet is blank, a cell on the second sheet that references a blank on the first will show 0 instead of being blank.  I tried to work around this by doing something like =IF(Sheet1!A1="","",Sheet1!A1).  However, this doesn't actually make the formula result the same as a blank cell.
This all mostly becomes problematic when I want my Data Validation to include an in-cell drop-down.  My choices here appear to be either to have 0 or a blank line in the drop-down wherever there are blanks in the Source data.  If the blanks were true blanks, this wouldn't happen.
So, is there any way to work around this?

Example:
Sheet1
A1= Value1
A5= Value2
A9= Value3
A13= Value4
A17= (Cell is blank)
A21= (Cell is blank)
Sheet2
A1 =Sheet1!A1 (returns Value1)
A2 =Sheet1!A5 (returns Value2)
A3 =Sheet1!A9 (returns Value3)
A4 =Sheet1!A13 (returns Value4)
A5 =Sheet1!A17 (returns 0)
A6 =IF(Sheet1!A21="","",Sheet1!A21) (appears blank)
Sheet2!A1:A6 is named Validation.  At Sheet3!A1, Data Validation is applied with source =Validation and an in-cell drop-down.  The in-cell drop-down shows:

Value1
  Value2
  Value3
  Value4
  0

(Blank cell included)
Under these conditions, I'm looking for a configuration that will result in a drop-down in Sheet3!A1 that only shows Sheet2!A1:A4 while also keeping Sheet2!A5:A6 available should they ever be populated.  Alternately, the drop-down in Sheet3!A1 should show only Sheet1!A1,Sheet1!A5,Sheet1!A9,Sheet1!A13 while also keeping Sheet1!A17,Sheet1!A21 available should they ever be populated.
It seems I need a way to either:

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*Directly address the non-adjacent cells in Sheet1, in my Data Validation Source
OR

*Get the cells in the Validation range in Sheet2 to actually return blank cells when their targets in Sheet1 are blank.

A: Using the method described in your original post How do i make a Data Validation drop-down exclude blanks.
Couple this with these methods:
Public Sub ClearDataValidation(destrng As Range)
   destrng.Validation.Delete
End Sub

Public Sub LoadDataValidation(srcrng As Range, destrng As Range)
   'Verify a 1x1 sized Range was passed
   If destrng.Rows.Count <> 1 Or destrng.Columns.Count <> 1 Then
      InvalidValue destrng.Worksheet, "LoadDataValidation", _
            "Range: " & destrng.name & " was passed to method. This method expects a " & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
            " 1 Row x 1 Column Range to be passed.  Anything outside of the 1x1 " & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
            "size will result in invalid conditions"
      Exit Sub
   End If

   With Range(destrng.Address).Validation
      .Delete
      .Add xlValidateList, xlValidAlertStop, xlBetween, DistinctValues(srcrng)
   End With
End Sub

Usage:
LoadDataValidation Range("Table1[column1]"), Range("destinationCell")