Cities have grown and perished on the banks of rivers since the dawn of human civilisation. The South Asian population has been supported by the fertile plains created by iconic rivers such as the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Indus. However, modern cities have exploited the same rivers that have nurtured them as they have grown into the burgeoning metropolises that they are at present. Most rivers, in contrast, have been reduced to trickles of filth from the ever-growing human consumption.
What is the urban water crisis in India?
India is the largest groundwater user, but the built reality of urbanisation continues to hinder natural recharge. India has 4% of the world's freshwater resources which support 18% of the world's population. Government estimates suggest that 70% of its surface water bodies are polluted mostly due to urban domestic and industrial waste. The urban population in India is expected to grow dramatically with over 400 million urban residents to be added by 2050. Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore are thus dependent on energy-intensive water supply infrastructure from dam reservoirs, which increases water supply costs. Indian cities are drowning due to heavy rainfall and unplanned growth. Sustainable urban water management is essential for liveable cities in the future.
With crumbling infrastructure, too many people, and unplanned growth of our cities, articulating issues for sustainable urban water management becomes a tall ask. Cities are growing, and in the process, are often irreversibly damaging natural ecosystems. Our choices and aspirations as citizens have been driven towards higher levels of per capita consumption and hence higher volumes of production. Such growth, demands more housing and infrastructure to support services such as water supply, sewage management, solid waste management and transport. It also warrants for higher consumption of resources without taking into consideration the long-term sustainability of this path. In process, wetlands and floodplains within cities become "wastelands" waiting to be grabbed and developed as prime real estate instead of "worthless" empty tracts of land.
Our technology choices for our infrastructure for service delivery haven't always been prudent. After independence, successive governments continued to provide impetus to resource-intensive technology for infrastructure for service delivery. At the same time, with the advent of piped water supply, cities have been divorced from the local freshwater ecosystems that hitherto provided sustenance to its populations. Rivulets and streams flowing through cities end up with no perceived value and hence become dumping grounds of human refuse. Citizens have become used to closing their eyes and noses instead of worrying about the health of the source of water that underpins their own existence.
The consumption patterns of our cities are a result of decision-making of not just the government agencies, but other actors as well, including industries, citizens, and civil society. While government agencies continue to make choices for water management driven by a collective mindset created by archaic educational syllabi in technical education, citizens, both urban and rural, aspire for lifestyles founded on high consumption of water and other natural resources. Consequently, industry continues to dream of growth at the expense of unchecked degradation of freshwater ecosystems. At the same time, civil society also continues to operate in a status quo manner, rather than advocating for integrated management inspired by a wholesome oneness with nature. Thus, each of these actors contribute to the travails of our rivers that flow through our cities.
The issues in managing water and waste in Indian cities are due to disjointed governance practices, and an oft touted solution in the high towers of academics and policy, is Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM). IUWM has not captured the mainstream public eye in India yet. In simpler terms, it is the realisation that nature functions in an interconnected manner, and we have managed to engineer structures that transform these natural resource and nutrient cycles into linear inputs and outputs to our cities. Our cities consume water, and release solid and liquid waste back into the same system, without realising the interconnectedness of the seemingly different freshwater ecosystems. We claim land that was originally meant for the rivers to swell and react by building embankments when the river periodically claims what is hers during floods.
Thus, management of water, sewage, solid waste, land-use planning, and conservation of wetlands and rivers in the Indian city are all linked. However, institutions managing these seemingly different disciplines are different with varying levels of power across functions and levels. Further, the municipal corporation of the city has limited scope as far as planning, financing and managing water supply, ecosystems and waste, despite clear rules for decentralisation. Thus, there is a need for agencies to converge effectively at the local level for integrated management of service delivery, waste management and ecosystem conservation.
From time-to-time, the central government has announced schemes that direct funds towards urban "rejuvenation", "transformation" or "renewal". However, consultants who draft project reports, as well as the engineers and managers who commission them, are often bound by constraints of capacity or initial funds required for innovation in water management infrastructure. In fact, the project mode of funding infrastructure needs to transition to a strategy-oriented financing, wherein cities are financed for a gamut of interventions to transition into integrated urban water management systems. It is probably time that cities start funding water infrastructure from means other than financial assistance from the central government. Green municipal bonds have been useful in some countries, and it might be a good time to develop and access such bonds if Indian cities want to progress towards integrated water management systems.
We as a collective need to explore solutions for urban water management that "build with nature", instead of hindering its natural cycles. Urbanisation can coexist and in fact, nurture healthy freshwater ecosystems, instead of trying to conquer them by engineering infrastructure. Our technology choices, including the materials we choose for construction and the design plans can be in sync with natural processes, like many other cities in the world have already established. In fact, our traditional systems of managing water such as step-wells or rainwater harvesting tanks are proven means of sustainable water management practices. For instance, managing stormwater through natural infrastructure like swales and attenuation ponds, instead of being treated along with sewage in a Sewage Treatment Plant.
Finally, behaviour change of all government and non-government actors within the urban system is integral to this shift to integrated management of urban water. It is often tempting to disregard the role of engaging users in planning, implementation or design of interventions for sustainable water management, but a true transition towards an integrated system can happen only if citizens act as individuals and as a collective. However, communication for behaviour change of users cannot be limited to creating awareness; it has to include building capacities to adopt sustainable lifestyles, participating in monitoring and evaluation of interventions, as well as influencing policy decisions. Furthermore, policies, rules, acts and social norms should all be assessed and tweaked such that they work in tandem to change decision-making behaviour of all actors that make our cities, cities.
There is no argument against the fact that the health of our water bodies puts us at risk from future water stress and also leaves us vulnerable to disasters as well as epidemics. However, the approach towards addressing this impending threat has hitherto been limited to discussions in closed rooms. The approach to managing water in our cities is a combination of innovation in governance followed by finance and technology choices, and not just one-off pilots to implement alternate technology. Finally, a fundamental paradigm shift in all our decision-making is essential, as consumers, as producers, as policy-makers.
About the Author: An engineer, social scientist and a conservationist, Shuchi Vora works on the science-policy interface in freshwater conservation. She graduated from University of Oxford in 2018 where she read Water Science, Policy and Management, and her research was on the effectiveness of water allocation policy decisions in the Mara river basin in Kenya. Prior to Oxford, she worked with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on urban water and multi-stakeholder river basin organisations in the Ganges basin. She is currently based in New Delhi, India.


I know I spend a lot of time talking about vocabulary and primary sources and things that happened a long time ago. I constantly remind you to plug in your laptops, use school appropriate language, and wait in the student zone until I dismiss you. I'm a teacher, that's what I do. It might seem like I'm only interested in compliance for the sake of tidiness and ease of management, but this is what I really want for you.
I want you to not to be stupid.
It doesn't matter to me if you're geniuses or not. It would be cool for one of you to win a Nobel Prize, but that's not my measuring stick of success either. I simply want you to not be stupid. I want you to be informed enough to vote for leaders you agree with rather than names you recognize from television commercials. I want you to stay away from harmful substances that excite you in right now but addict you in the long term. I want you to keep you hard-earned money safe and use it for what's important to you, not for lining the pockets of swindlers and scammers.
When late-night talk show hosts interview people asking them to locate North Korea on a map, I want you to be some of the few that know exactly where to point. When somebody claims that all Arabs are Muslims or vice versa, I want you to correct them. I want you to read things on the Internet and not immediately believe them and share the link with everyone you know.
You don't have to be the smartest in the world. You don't have to break academic records. Just be smart enough to make healthy decisions for you, your family, and the world.
You don't have to like everybody. Not everyone has to like you. I don't know if you know this, but I don't like everybody. I'm cool with that, and I don't expect everybody to like me. You don't have to agree with everybody either. But, you don't have to be a jerk. Speak your truth with love and walk away from who insist on fighting with hate.
Smile. Wave at people as you walk by. Say thank you to the people who bag your groceries or serve you food. Laugh at little kids who tell you jokes. Hold the door open for people with arms full of boxes. Pick up a friend whose snow machine has broken down. Little things make a big difference in the lives of others and your own.
I want you to stay out of jail.
If you're being nice, I shouldn't have to add this item, but I'm going to anyway. You will make mistakes, and you will suffer the consequences of those mistakes. That's a natural part of the school of life. But, you can keep your mistakes on the legal side of things. I've seen the good in each and every one of you. I know that people are multi-faceted. I know that that people who do good things can have bad sides and people who do bad things can have good sides. Let your good sides shine and not be dulled by the bad. Nobody's perfect, but serious mistakes can overshadow even the good.
I've never been to jail myself, but I've corresponded with students and former students who have, and it doesn't seem like an easy place. Respect yourselves and those around you enough that you don't do anything that will land you in jail. Keep your record clean so you can get the jobs you might someday want.
I want you to die after me.
I've heard it said that no parent should have to go to the funeral of their own child. I think the same thing should apply to teachers. I've been to funerals of my students and former students. I don't like them. I cry a lot, and I feel this overwhelming guilt that maybe I didn't do enough, connect enough, try enough in some way that might have prevented the premature death. And sometimes I know I did give my best, and it still wasn't enough.
But it 's not so much that I want you to stay alive to prevent me from crying or experiencing guilt. I want you to stay alive so that you can live a life. I want you to experience the thrill of holding your firstborn child. I want you to know the satisfaction that comes from accomplishing a major goal. I want you to love and be loved for as long as possible.
You were meant for happiness. Sometimes we experience unhappiness as a result of our own choices or the choices of others. But, no matter what you've done, no matter what anyone else has done, I believe you can still have an overall happy life.
That's going to look different for all of you. I did the college thing and the marriage thing and the teaching thing and the children thing. I did the move far away from my family thing. I'm happy most of the time (or at least often enough that my Inupiaq name translates to happy). That might not be your path to happiness. You can be happy staying right where you are. You can be happy across the globe. You can be happy working a dream job. You can be happy with lots of posterity or none at all. You can be happy going out every night with friends or cuddling under the covers with a good book.
Find something that lights you up. Then pursue it with everything in you. Find a few things that light you up, and build your life around those things and others who like the same thing. You get to choose. It's your life.
So, I'm going to keep quizzing you on geographic locations and making you do weekly gratitude journals and talking about the Industrial Revolution. I'll continue to tell you to search up something when you have a question and repeatedly ask, "What's a better way to say that?" Just remember, I have high hopes for you. All of you. And they mostly have nothing to do with the classroom.
Note to Readers: My students actually call me Angie. Some prefer variations including: Pangie, Super Angie, and Angela (but the last one is only when they want to annoy me).
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Within the past few months, I have seen several Internet and hardcopy authors criticize certain Wiccan practitioners for using the statement "Because that's the way it's always been done," or some such, when asked to justify a particular practice or belief. The general complaint is that this shows a lack of individual thought and demonstrates a blind adherence to doctrine, whether that doctrine is the work of a published author or the practices of a particular group or coven. It is held by the critics that this is somehow antithetical to the adventurous spirit of Modern Wicca.
In point of fact, I agree with the spirit behind this criticism - to paraphrase Socrates, the unexamined faith is not worth practicing, and I am no fan of lemming-ism. However - and this is, in my mind at least, an important "however" - there is a time and a place for "doing it like it's always been done."
My experience has been that spontaneity takes a lot of practice. That is to say, one's ability to improvise and extemporize - comfortably and to one's personal satisfaction - is proportionate to one's actual and perceived competence in the skills, abilities and attributes being called on in the course of that improvisation or extemporization. Of these two, perceived competence is probably more important, on the whole, than actual. I have witnessed people with no "real" ability at something winging it with phenomenal results, simply because they believed, in that moment, that they were capable of doing it. Conversely, I have seen people who I knew were technically competent to a high degree blow it badly, because for some reason, their confidence in that moment was not what it should have been. But, everything else being equal, it is axiomatic that confidence increases with practice and proficiency. The more I practice, the better I believe myself to be, if only by an infinitesimal degree, so the more confidence I have, if only by that same infinitesimal degree.
On the whole, people learn "fastest and bestest" within a framework. The framework is, hopefully, provided by people who have "done the research," tested the theories and practices that make up the framework, made the mistakes inherent in the framework, and learned how to predict and/or avoid them. The framework, however, by its very nature, cannot be tailor-made to each and every student. It must focus on generalities in order to be of use to more than one student. Even if it is not explicitly stated within the framework, what is being taught to or required of the student is what has been found to be the "bestest for the mostest," over the history of the framework. In other words, what has been found to work most of the time for most of the practitioners is what normally composes a healthy system.
What separates a "Traditional" from an "Eclectic" system is the acceptability within the framework of adjusting the components when certain of those components no longer work most of the time for most of the practitioners. A "Traditional" framework will resist and discourage adaptation, while an "Eclectic" framework will embrace and encourage it. This is true not only in the Craft but in many other disciplines, notably - in my experience - the martial arts. (Yeah, yeah - stop groaning...)
When the martial arts first became popular in America, a tremendous amount of emphasis was placed on the traditional forms of whatever style was being taught and practiced. Nowadays, the emphasis has shifted to free-style, mixed-system practice where slavish adherence to traditional style is frowned upon, because it is seen to limit the survival options of a combatant.
What we must remember is that this current, free-style trend actually grew out of the earlier, hide-bound traditional practices. The man usually credited with unleashing the mixed martial arts movement, Bruce Lee, was himself the product of a rigorous foundation practice in Wing Chun, an undeniably traditional and traditionalist style. Lee in fact took a lot of flak from his elders and contemporaries for his heretical and unorthodox ideas and practices, but in the long run, it seems to have been his way that emerged as the most popular and successful.
The point here is that it was from a traditional, stylistic foundation that Lee launched himself into the stratosphere of experimentation and improvisation. Undoubtedly, a tremendous natural talent helped significantly, but much of his success in the creation of Jeet Kune Do was due to diligent and repetitive practice of the basics of other styles; what other people had "always done."
I am currently studying a hybrid self-defense system that is a perfect case in point. It is the distillation of traditional martial arts into a lean, mean, compact system that is designed for one purpose only. But in order to distill those older, more traditional arts, the founder of this system had to have had more than a passing familiarity with the traditional systems - at some point, he had to do it "the way it had always been done." Having gained some measure of proficiency and understanding from that, he was able to adapt those elements that he thought useful, and leave behind the rest. But the understanding that allowed him to do this successfully required initial work within the given framework.
The interesting thing is that this hybrid, highly eclectic system now has its own doctrine of training and insistence upon practicing in a prescribed manner, so the circle has come round again, it seems, and the non-traditional has become its own tradition. But again, the reason for this is simple: this has been found to be the framework that works best for the majority of practitioners over the course of time.
(A related observation, which is important in my analogy to the Pagan community, is that the majority of the students in my current school do not participate in elective free-style sparring. The reasons for this are doubtless manifold, but I suspect that one of the major reasons is that most people feel safer and more comfortable in the predictable repetition of the normal training sessions, and are uncomfortable in the spontaneous environment of sparring. Just as many Pagans may feel safer and more comfortable in the predictable repetition of a "traditional" practice, as opposed to the spontaneity of eclectic practice and experimentation.)
One extremely important thing, and one that may be close to the heart of this whole issue, is the necessity of a provision within the framework of explaining WHY things are done/taught the way they are, and I suspect that the root criticism of the authors I mentioned at the beginning is that people are either working within a framework that doesn't provide such explanations, or the practitioners themselves did not absorb that information.
I personally feel that this is one of the most heinous crimes a student can commit. Part of the whole matrix that one is absorbing when one studies a system is not just the how but the WHY - which is usually what determines the how, anyway! If the framework within which you are studying anything, particularly religion and spirituality, does not provide the why behind the how, there can only be two reasons: 1) Part of your responsibility as a student is to try and figure out the why, or 2) the system is effed up and you need to bail. Requiring - even forcing - a student to stretch beyond current capability and understanding is mandatory in a teaching framework; it wouldn't be teaching if the student wasn't required to expand some facet of their life or self. Sometimes this occurs easily, and sometimes the framework has to force it to a degree, i.e. the "just one more rep!" that is so popular - and so dreaded - in workout classes. No one really wants the pain and discomfort of that "one more rep," but most of us wouldn't be in that class if we didn't want the results.
No system is worthwhile if it never explains the why, or if it perpetually holds out the promise of that explanation to tantalize and manipulate the student. By the same token, the framework cannot constantly adjust and modify itself to fit the wants and desires of each student - that would result in chaos, and all the students would suffer. In the best scenario, a framework/teacher says, "We do it this way because yada yada yada, so we want you to try it this way until you're comfortable with it. Then we think you will see why we do it this way." After diligent practice, the student either becomes comfortable with the technique, or modifies and personalizes it in such a way as to remain compatible with the overall framework. Such minor adaptations are usually overlooked by the framework/teacher as long as the student's overall progress is satisfactory and within the framework. More importantly, during this process, the student comes to understand why that system does that thing in that way. But the real leap - and learning - comes when the student understands why their adaptation works for them, as opposed to the traditional way. Understanding the why behind the traditional way and the corresponding why behind the individual's way is terribly important, but it is often a difficult thing to articulate.
What I have observed in both the Craft and the martial arts is that people will offhandedly say something that can be interpreted as saying "I do it because so-and- so says so," or "I do it because it's always been done that way," when that is not what is actually meant. Most - but, unfortunately, not all - people don't want to launch into long, involved, technical dissertations on why they choose to do things a certain way. It is assumed, I think, that by providing a bona fide for a practice, one is stipulating that one agrees with the particular why behind that particular how, which one assumes is conveyed by that bona fide. When I say "I place Air in the East because my Trad does it that way," I really mean, "I place Air in the East because I agree with all the reasons my Trad teaches for placing Air in the East - and then some - but they are far too numerous to go into right now." By the same token, I think it is PERFECTLY all right to simply mean, "I place Air in the East because the Trad I am studying now does it that way. I don't know all the reasons, but I am going to put Air in the East until I have a good reason not to, because I trust my teachers and coven-mates." We make a big deal about intuition in the Craft, but when someone says, "What Scott Cunningham says sounds good to me, and I'm going to work with that until something better comes along," it seems to fill some of us with eclectic outrage.
As those of us who are parents know, "Because!" is never the best answer to "Why?" but sometimes it's a good answer at the time. While it fills some Pagans with all kinds of apprehension, "I can't tell you why right now" is sometimes a valid answer, provided it is clear that the student simply hasn't absorbed enough of the matrix yet for an involved and technical explanation to be of any real use. The real point is that, "I can't tell you right now" is the improper statement of the case; what is really meant is, "I can attempt to explain this to you right now, but my experience as a teacher leads me to believe that at your present level of advancement you will either 1) misinterpret the explanation, 2) not comprehend it at all or 3) be unduly confused by it, so it is my judgment as your teacher that I should not attempt the explanation at this time." Again, we often resort to verbal shorthand that does a disservice both to the student and the teacher. It behooves those of us who teach to take the time to be more explicit in these types of situations, and it behooves those of us who are students - in whatever sense - to have the courage and grace to simply say, "I'm doing it this way because I trust my teachers," whomever and whatever those teachers may be at the time.
As a teacher in the Craft I have to find a balance between providing information to my student and overloading that person, between giving everything to that individual on a silver platter and challenging them with puzzling out the answers on their own. It is a dicey proposition, most times. And sometimes I find myself saying, "Because I want you to do it this way for right now." Sometimes I say that because, like a tired parent, I've had all the "Whys?" I can take for one day. But most times it's because I believe that, if they do it that way - like I did, and my teacher before me did - the reason will make itself clear, and having found that answer themselves, they will cherish it all the more.
When I come across someone who is doing things "just because," it is not my responsibility to take that person to task for what appears to me to be a lack of understanding and motivation. That person is not required to justify to me why they do anything the way they do, and if they do it "just because," that is a perfectly valid answer, regardless of my feelings to the contrary. I have no patience whatsoever for dilettantes, dabblers, posers and "fluffy bunnies" - and I do realize that some of these hide behind the screen of rote and tradition - but I must find patience for those who come to our religion not as a subject for scholarly dissection, but simply as a source of spiritual fulfillment. For those who are lost, wounded, saddened and yearning, the why is not so important - what is important is belonging. If putting Air in the East - no questions asked - promotes that belonging, isn't that enough? Is it, in the long run, really that important? Isn't the important thing that we follow our Goddesses and Gods, wherever They may lead?
When the Goddess calls - I mean really calls - do you ask Her why?

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The starting point of the concept was an observation : over centuries, in Europe, our predecessors were great travellers. They were so because they were building networks of influence or walking for religious pilgrimage. They were so also because they travelled to study in universities, to develop commercial activities, to find work or, like the Jews or the Gypsies, because they were driven out of their home and had to settle somewhere else. And there are also the immigrants, coming from Europe or its close Mediterranean or African neighborhood.
During these moves, these travellers, well- or unknown, carried with them their ideas, their believes, sometimes also their way of working, building, farming, etc.
At the end, all these Routes tie in with overlayed « cobwebs » or networks that structre the European space and also illustrate the continuous course of ways of living and of thinking, from one end of Europe to the other, from a city to antoher one, from a region to another one. All together, these Routes provide a reading grid that allows to understand the history of Europe, the steps of the shaping of its identity made of the plurality of its culture, trough space and time.
Nowadays, re-discovering these Routes is a wonderful way to know our past and to understand how was formed the European civilisation, to understand on which ways ideas, arts, technics spread out to form our society.
The concept of the Routes, rich and interesting, needs to be based on a precise historical knowledge. This great scientific work leads today to great achievments that allows the Routes to be interesting and appreciated.
A trap exists and may distort this programme. The Cultural Routes are a wonderful tool to develop an « intelligent tourism ». It's great. But the economic and social benefits for territories crossed by these Routes may lead to a temptation : elected representatives, storekeepers, tourism stakeholders trying to shape the Routes according to their particular goals.
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Mum's simple hack to transform 'odd' wall
Kristine Tarbert
·Features and Health Editor
25 December 2019, 3:59 pm
What a difference. Photo: Supplied/Zoe Gilpin
If you're someone who wants to add more green into your house or apartment, but don't know how to do it without becoming a gardening expert (keeping them alive inside can be hard work!) then this super simple trick is for you.
What started as a blank white wall in a bit of an awkward space has been transformed into a virtual indoor oasis. And there is no watering required.
D.I.Y decorator and home expert, Zoe Gilpin, said she got the idea from seeing artificial vertical gardens being used outdoors in cafes and office foyers.
Our home was built in the late 90s and has a few oddly placed walls which divide spaces, but also create wall spaces which I don't quite know what to do with," Zoe tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
Photo: Supplied/Zoe Gilpin
"I'm a huge plant lover and love having plenty of greenery in our home. So decided my plain wall was the perfect place to try it out."
After measuring the wall Zoe went and bought panels from Bunnings – 50x50cm English Elm Artificial Hedge Tiles.
"Once we had the panels, we clipped each square together to make one giant rectangle. Each panel has clips on each side so it's really easy to do this," Zoe tells us.
"We then trimmed the edges so that it was the right size to cover the entire wall. To hang, we simply drilled holes near the ceiling skirting to hang the top of the panels from.
"Then where needed, used more screws to hold the panels flush against the wall. It's definitely a two person job, but a super easy one which was done within 40 minutes!"
All up, the project cost just over $200, but the space is completely altered. And the fact that it is an artificial wall has many benefits.
"An artificial vertical garden was the obvious choice for many reasons," Zoe says. "An artificial garden was also more budget-friendly for us as the initial purchase of real plants, the equipment to hang them and the maintenance and upkeep would end up being a constant expense.
"The room doesn't get much natural light so real plants don't tend to live for long.
"And we have small kids, so the smarter option was to go with faux plants."
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I have been a big Francine Rivers fan ever since I read Redeeming Love! I just love how she is able to minister through storytelling with themes pointing back to the bible. Rivers is one of my favorite Christian authors because I connect with the way she is able to teach through fictional books. After reading a book of hers, I am inspired to dive deep into the bible to find God's voice and get to know the stories in the Word. This is my third book I have read of Rivers', continue reading to hear my thoughts on "A Line Of Grace" Francine Rivers book review!
This compilation of the five books in the best-selling A Lineage of Grace series shares the stories of the five unlikely women who changed eternity. Tamar, betrayed by the men who controlled her future, she fought for her right to believe in a loving God. Rahab, a woman with a past to whom God gave a future. Ruth, who gave up everything, expecting nothing, and God honored her. Bathsheba, her beauty stirred the passion of a king, her pain moved the heart of God. Mary, all eternity had been waiting for this moment and she responded in simple obedience to God's call. Each was faced with extraordinary —even scandalous— challenges, each took great personal risk to fulfill her calling, and each was destined to play a key role in the lineage of Jesus Christ.
A Lineage of Grace is a historical fiction book, meaning it is loosely based off five different stories in the bible. The theme of each story aligns with that of the bible and a lot of the character's are the same with some added additions of characters and events. I like how Rivers was able to put me right in the middle of each story. Each novella is completed with about 4 bible studies that touches on the different theme's of each novella. She brings the stories back to the bible, which was my favorite part. I was able to visually paint a picture which helped me to better understand the stories in the bible when I went back to read. Through this book, I was constantly reminded how amazing God is. If he can use a child, prostitute, foreigner, adulterous and a poor woman then He can certainly use often overlooked me.
The first three novellas which were the stories of Tamar, Rahab and Ruth were page turners. I literally read all three novellas in 2 days. I was already very familiar with Ruth but did not know much about Tamar and Rahab prior to reading A Lineage of Grace. The last two novellas about Bathsheba and Mary were also good read but were a lot longer than the first three and tended to be a bit harder to read. It was nice to imagine what Mary's perspective could have been like as the mother of Jesus. All in all, I recommend A Lineage of Grace. It is a good read and though it does not fully stick to the events of the bible, it brings you right back to the Word with the bible study and by encouraging you to read the bible for yourself.
If you read A Lineage Of Grace, let me know your thoughts in the comments.


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Q: How to not parse a string with a number as a date? I want to format a date string but for all other strings just return that input.
Now when the input is a string that contains any number e.g. "You are number 1", the string is parsed as a valid date "1 Jan 2001".
const value = new Date(input);
if (!(value instanceof Date && isFinite(value as unknown as number))) {
  return input;
}
// format date and return

How can I check if that string is really a string containing just a number or a date as string?
The input date string might always have the same pattern but ideally it shouldn't matter.

A: Not that happy with the solution but it is working fine so far.
transform(input: string) {
  if (!isNaN(input)) {
    return input;
  }

  if (input.replace(/[^0-9]/g, '').length < 6) {
    return input;
  }
  // format the date ...
}

Test for that:
it('should ignore string and number values', () => {
  expect(pipe.transform('abc')).toBe('abc');
  expect(pipe.transform('This is not a date')).toBe('This is not a date');
  expect(pipe.transform('9999')).toBe('9999');
  expect(pipe.transform('000010')).toBe('000010');
  // will be parsed as a date
  expect(pipe.transform('Tue Sep 20 2022')).not.toBe('Tue Sep 20 2022');
});

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Q: How to send deep form data as array or object? I am putting all passengers info together like this with input names:
passenger[1][name]
passenger[1][surname]
passenger[1][idnumber]
passenger[2][name]
passenger[2][surname]
passenger[2][idnumber]

When I post like this, they are not getting as object or array like how we do in php.So, I don't know how can I do this, because I need all those informations.
I tried to make a data names like passenger_1_name but there is another problem getting appear.
How can I use variable name in key name ?
Like passenger_COUNTERVARIABLE_name ?

A: I think what you are looking for is
let passengerName = 'john', passengerSurname = 'doe';
let passengers = [];
passengers.push({name: passengerName, surname: passengerSurname})

Gives out
[
  {
    "name": "john",
    "surname": "doe"
  }
]

A: It might not be possible to get multidimensional array as we get in PHP, But below input names will provide you the work around for your problem.
passenger_name[]
passenger_surname[]
passenger_idnumber[]

You don't need to assign keys in your input names, browser will handle this.
On server side you will get three different array for each information with same keys, you can loop over single array and get other corresponding values based on keys.
var passenger = [];
for(i=1;i<=form.passenger_name.length;i++){
    passenger['name'][] = form.passenger_name[i];
    passenger['surname'][] = form.passenger_surname[i];
    passenger['idnumber'][] = form.passenger_idnumber[i];
}

console.log(passenger);


The busy lifestyle of a bivocational pastor sometimes takes its toll on pastor Jim Hunsucker.
Bivocational pastors can work long hours. Some log 90 hours every week between two or more jobs. The long hours can impact their families and their ministries, and make it difficult to find time to build solid relationships.
"My wife has to remind me that I'm still a husband and father," said Hunsucker, a 15-year veteran of bivocational ministry.
Hunsucker has served for the past year and a half as pastor of Wadeville Baptist Church in Mount Gilead.
He spends most weeknights visiting members of his congregation or handling any church-related issues that need his attention. It's not uncommon for his average workday to extend well into the night.
He also is the youth pastor, the associate pastor and the minister of music.
In addition to his many roles at the church, Hunsucker owns a computer repair business.
With all of the responsibility, he said he loves life as a bivocational pastor.
Lester Evans, Baptist State Convention of North Carolina senior consultant for bivocational ministries, said Hunsucker's story is common among the more than 1,400 bivocational pastors who serve North Carolina Baptist churches.
Evans said bivocational pastors have many needs, but one of the greatest is to connect with other pastors who share similar ministry experiences.
"Many bivocational pastors tend to become lone rangers because they are out there by themselves and they begin to think that they are the only ones going through these troubles," Evans said.
The North Carolina Baptist Bivocational Ministers Association elected new officers during its July 13-14 retreat at Caraway Conference Center near Asheboro. From left: Randy Shuler, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church, Brevard, was elected secretary-treasurer; David Willis was chosen as vice president-program; Gary Henderson, pastor of Orrum Baptist Church, Orrum, was picked as vice president-membership; and Tony Medlin, who works with Union Baptist Association's bivocational ministries, was elected president.
Every summer bivocational pastors from across the state have an opportunity to connect with their peers during the North Carolina Bivocational Ministries Conference.
The annual conference features plenary and group sessions tailored to the needs of bivocational pastors and their spouses. This year's conference was held July 13-14 at Caraway Conference Center near Asheboro.
Hunsucker and his wife look forward to the conference every year. He not only enjoys meeting fellow bivocational pastors, but the conference also allows him to spend quality time with his wife and experience personal spiritual revival.
"It's a nice relief from what goes on from day to day," he said.
Prior to attending the conference for the first time, Hunsucker felt no one could identify with his day-to-day routine. Yet, it did not take long for him to understand there are many pastors like him.
Next year's North Carolina Bivocational Ministries Conference will be held July 12-13 at Caraway Conference Center. For more information, contact Lester Evans at levans@ncbaptist.org.


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1 Samuel 2: Political tunes and a bit of misbehaviour
Marlowe	09. 1-2 Samuel, Bible, Old Testament	1 Samuel, Bible, Eli, Elkanah, Hannah, Hophni, Old Testament, Phinehas, Ramah, Samuel, Shiloh	1 Comment
The opening of 1 Sam. 2 continues the story from the previous chapter. Hannah has given birth to her long-sought child, nursed him, weaned him, and given him over to the priests at Shiloh as promised. In this chapter, she sings a song of thanks/praise/hope/future prediction/other stuff that really isn't connected to her situation very well. Mostly, it goes on about how "the bows of the mighty are broken, / but the feeble gird on strength" (1 Sam. 2:4) and other social reversals. Really, it's the mighty vs meek stuff that a former "cultural Christian" like me associates with Jesus.
There are only really two parts (that I could identify) that make any kind of sense in relation to Hannah. One is the line about "the barren has borne seven, / but she who has many children is forlorn" (1 Sam. 2:5). The "borne seven" bit need not be literal. As Claude Mariottini writes, seven is just a significant number, so "seven sons" is really just a stand-in for "perfect number of children." You will remember the same phrase used in Ruth 4:15, in praise of Ruth. So it's not necessary for Hannah to have a literal seven sons for this passage to have been through applicable to her (she does come close, though, as she later has 3 more sons and 2 daughters). If we want to read into the text a bit, the second half of that stanza could be taken as a reference to Peninnah, if we want to imagine her embittered by Hannah's fortune reversal for some reason.
Samuel learning from Eli, by John Singleton Copley, 1780
The talk of a future monarch toward the end (1 Sam. 2:10) may also explain why the song was situated here, if we accept the interpretation that she is blessing Samuel, or perhaps foretelling his involvement in the future social change.
The stuff about how "not by might shall a man prevail" (1 Sam. 2:9) feels Deuteronomistic-y. In Deuteronomy itself, we had the curses and the blessings, which argued that Israel's future fate rested not on its own political or military prowess, but rather on its adherence to God's law. Through Joshua and Judges, we saw small armies defeat much larger armies by having God on their side. In Joshua 7, for example, the Israelite fails not because of any tactical failure, but because one man among them disobeyed a religious rule. Once that man (and his entire family) was punished, the Israelite army was able to defeat their enemy (albeit while also going into battle with a much larger number of soldiers, but we're talking about the cause and effect that is explicitly stated, not the one that's comically implied).
There's also a bit in there about God killing people, bringing people to life, and raising the dead. While the obvious interpretation for me was that the point of this stanza was to illustrate how all-powerful God is (he can even bring people back from Sheol!), my study Bible disagrees:
Brings to life probably refers to birth rather than to resurrection from the dead; likewise the next line probably refers to deep trouble or desperate injuries and recover from them. Sheol, the place of the dead under the earth, like Hades among the Greeks (Is. 14:9-21); but the term is sometimes used of conditions near death (Pss. 86:13; 88:3-7).
Which seems poetically plausible, if not necessarily the Occam's Razor explanation.
John Hobbins over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry has some interesting notes on the structure of the song (if you're into that kind of thing, go read the whole post):
Enjambed 2:2 structures have generally gone unnoticed in the study of ancient Hebrew verse. I treat them as lines on a par with widely acknowledged non-enjambed 2:2 lines like Psalm 3:8a, 9. The result: 1 Sam 2:1-10 turns out to be an 18 line poem, a widely attested poem line length in ancient Hebrew literature. 1 Sam 2:9b and 10c turn out to be 2:2 lines which arrest the tempo of the material intake of the poem by virtue of their conciseness. They are crucial lines: "for not by strength / will man prevail," and "YHWH judges / the ends of the earth."
After Hannah's song, we get a sample of the next story (which involves Eli and his sons), then a brief revisit with Hannah, then finally launch full on into Eli's family troubles. But since following that structure messes with my heading use, I'll just tell you right now that Hannah makes Samuel a new robe every year – bringing it to him when her family does their annual Shiloh visit – and has five more kids.
There appears to be evidence of some stitching together from different sources here. I mentioned above that the story of Eli's family is separated by an update on Hannah's doings. Prior to the interlude, Eli's sons (unnamed) are bad priests because of something to do with how they take their portion from the sacrifice.
First, it seems that the issue is that they are dipping their forks into the cauldrons where the sacrificial meat is boiling, and keep for themselves whatever sticks. But then it seems that this is actually standard, accepted practice (or was at the time in Shiloh, anyway). Then, the issue seems to be that they are taking their portion from the raw sacrificial meat, before it has been burned. Which is either an issue because the raw meat hasn't technically been through motions of being consecrated, or it's an issue because they are then also taking their portion later on while the meat is boiling.
In other words, I came away unclear as to whether the issue is that they taking their portion at the wrong time, or that they are double-dipping.
A third possibility was brought up by Brant Clements, who accuses the sons of "filching the best parts of the sacrifices."
Whatever their crime is here, it's clearly compounded by the fact that Eli's sons are threatening worshippers who refuse to give in to their demands.
After Hannah's interjection, we get a very different passage. Eli's sons are suddenly named (it's Hophni and Phinehas, whom we met in 1 Sam. 1:3), and now their crime is that they "lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting" (1 Sam. 2:22).
Before we get to the obvious, I should point out that the reference to the "tent of meeting" here is also quite interesting. So far, the impression that's been given is that there is a permanent structure – a temple – at Shiloh, and that we are no longer using the exodus tent that Joshua set up there in Josh. 18:1. My study Bible refers to the inclusion as "an error" (p.333).
But back to the temple women, Brant Clements sums up the questions to be asked about the reference to them:
Who are these women? Just what services do they perform? Is this temple prostitution (a common practice among Israel's pagan neighbors)? Are the women rightfully there and wrongly used? Or is their presence another indication of just how bad things have gotten in Israel?
It looks to me like Eli was known as a reasonably decent priest, but it was a known historical fact that his line did not continue the priesthood. It seems that various stories sprang up independently of each other to explain this, including the two here in which his sons were just awful.
In the latter part of the chapter, an unnamed "man of God" (1 Sam. 2:27) comes to Eli and tells him that the priesthood that had been granted to his familial line is hereby revoked, and that his sons will both die on the same day. While the man is not named here, my study Bible claims that his name is Abiathar, citing 1 Sam. 22:18-23 and 1 Kg. 2:26-27. We'll see when we get there!
1 Samuel 1: Another miraculous birth
Marlowe	09. 1-2 Samuel, Bible, Old Testament	1 Samuel, Bible, Eli, Elihu, Elkanah, Ephraim, Hannah, Hophni, Jeroham, Old Testament, Peninnah, Phinehas, Ramah, Ramathaim-zophim, Shiloh, Tohu, Zuph	Leave a comment
After the respite of Ruth, we are welcomed back into the Deuteronomist History with another genealogy. This time, it's to situate Elkanah, an Ephraimite living in Ramathaim-zophim (apparently shortened to Ramah).
His genealogy runs: Elkanah > Jeroham > Elihu > Tohu > Zuph. This last name is, apparently, seen in the "zophim" portion of the place name.
Elkanah has two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Unfortunately, Hannah appears to have been barren, which seems to have caused Peninnah to "provoke her sorely, to irritate her" (1 Sam. 1:6). We're assuming that this means Peninnah is lording her fertility over her sister wife, but that's not exactly clear, at least not in English. It would be just as easy to read Hannah as feeling irritated and provoked simply because Peninnah has had children while she has not.
Elkanah and his wives, Maciejowski Bible
We've seen this dynamic before, such as Gen. 16:4, when Hagar becomes pregnant and is said to have started flaunting herself before Sarah.
Every year, the family goes to Shiloh to make a sacrifice. At this point, it seems that Shiloh is the de facto capital of Israel and centre of worship (Josh. 18:1), since Jerusalem doesn't seem to be available yet.
When Elkanah makes his sacrifice, he gives portions to Penninah and to all her children, but gives only one to Hannah, "because the Lord had closed her womb" (1 Sam. 1:5). This seems entirely reasonable – why should Hannah receive more than one portion when she is just one person?
My New Bible Commentary offers another possible reading:
The portions were of meat, part of a sacrificial meal. Hannah received only one, since she had no mouths but her own to feed, if RSV is correct; but a 'worthy' or 'double' portion is not impossible – the Hebrew text, though obscure, at least suggests it, and such an act by Elkanah would partly explain Peninnah's conduct. (p.287)
If that's the case, then perhaps the situation is less Sarah/Hagar and more Rachel/Leah – in that case, Jacob favoured Rachel and poor Leah kept pumping out babies, each time hoping that this one would finally make her husband love her (Gen. 29:21, 29:31, 29:33, 29:34, 30:20).
Unfortunately, the whole mess is not helped by Elkanah, who appears to be utterly clueless. When Hannah, in grief that she cannot have children, stops eating, Elkanah says to her: "Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?" (1 Sam. 1:8).
No, dude. Just no. A husband is not the same as a child. Not only is the quality and tone of the relationship completely different, it's doubly different in a society that views fertility as a divine blessing and barrenness as a curse.
A Misunderstanding
Hannah's immediate reaction to her husband's inept attempts at comforting is not recorded, but after dinner, Hannah leaves her family to Pray to God by the temple. She weeps and prays silently, moving her mouth but not speaking out loud. She also vows that if God gives her a son, she will promise him into temple service.
As she prays, she is seen by Eli, a priest along with his new sons, Hophni and Phinehas (apparently a different Phinehas from the one in Numbers 25). Seeing her weeping and moving her mouth without making a sound, he assumes that she must be a drunk, so he comes forward to chastise her.
This detail seems important, but I'm not sure why. Is it to set up the fact that Eli is a poor judge of character?
At least he relents when Hannah explains her situation, and he sends her away with a hope that "the God of Israel grant your petition which you have made to him" (1 Sam. 1: 17).
Hannah's Son
Sure enough, when the family gets back to Ramah and "Elkanah knew Hannah his wife" (1 Sam. 1:19), God watches over them and Hannah gives birth to a son at the appropriate time after that. She names him Samuel, for "I have asked him of the Lord" (1 Sam. 1:20).
The next time the family is set to go back to Shiloh, Hannah hangs back, saying that she doesn't want to return until Samuel is weaned. Elkanah tells her that it's her call, and he and the rest of the family head to Shiloh without her.
When Samuel is weaned, she brings him up to Shiloh along with a three-year-old bull (according to my study Bible, the Hebrew text has it as three bulls instead), some flour, and some wine. After the sacrifice is made, Hannah presents her son to Eli to fulfil her vow.
Abbie over at Better Than Esdras explains that the birth story may have been appropriated for Samuel by a later editor. The evidence, she argues, is in Hannah's justification for her choice of name.
She cites 1 Sam. 1:20 and 1 Sam. 1:28. In both cases, the words Hannah uses suggest a pun not on the name of Samuel, but on the name of Saul:
Isn't this outrageous? Somebody took a birth legend for Saul, and simply changed the details to make it about Samuel. Interestingly, Saul was from a different tribe (Benjamin) and was never a priest. Samuel's relationship with Eli continues in the next chapter, and eventually he meets Saul, so I'm not really sure how this all fits together. (It's entirely possible other details were changed, such as the location and the identity of the priest, to match established stories about Samuel and Eli.)


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Nigel Farage on the future of the Euro
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(Reuters) - Britain fell deeper into recession than initially thought in the first quarter of 2012 due to a slump in construction output, raising the likelihood that the Bank will opt to inject more stimulus to protect the economy from the euro zone debt crisis.
Britain is in its second recession since the 2007-2008 financial crisis, and the prospects for a recovery are cloudy as leaders in the euro zone, Britain's biggest trading partner, are still far from resolving their debt woes.
The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has indicated it is ready to pump more money into the economy, having paused its quantitative easing programme at 325 billion pounds this month, amid growing worries about a break-up of the currency union.
"The economy is not recovering properly and with the uncertainty over Europe hanging over the outlook as well, our suspicion is the MPC will sanction further QE at some point later on this year," said Philip Shaw, economist at Investec.
The Office for National Statistics said the economy shrank by 0.3 percent in the first quarter of this year, more than an initial estimate of a 0.2 percent decline, and confounding analysts' forecasts for an unchanged reading.
Year-on-year, the economy contracted by 0.1 percent, the first annual decline since Q4 2009.


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Is Alcoholism Hereditary and What Factors Contribute to a Drinking Problem?
By Michelle Liew|2019-04-02T13:49:05+03:00March 17th, 2019|Categories: Health & Wellness, Lifestyle|Tags: alcohol, alcoholism, anxiety, behavior, depression, health, health tips, human body, relationships|
A drinking problem is one which people who crave alcohol wish they didn't have. Is alcoholism hereditary or is it caused by other factors? Alcohol consumption is dangerous when it becomes excessive. We explore whether alcoholism is hereditary and list the factors that contribute to excessive drinking. This article suggests a few ways to help your loved ones cope with alcoholism as well. What is alcoholism? Alcoholism, or Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), refers to a pressing physical need to consume alcohol, regardless of the negative impact
How to Fight Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms and Stay on the Path to Recovery
By Guest Author|2018-09-18T16:30:47+03:00September 18th, 2018|Categories: Health & Wellness, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: addiction, alcohol, alcoholism|
It's possible to fight alcohol withdrawal symptoms safely. You need to know your level of dependence on alcohol, the symptoms and how to fight them. After years of alcohol addiction, you may reach a point and say enough is enough. This is when you are going to experience alcohol withdrawal symptoms. That's because you might be tired of waking up with a hangover, blacking out, and not knowing what you did the previous night. But because you have been used to drinking heavily, your body
Alcohol Addiction: Signs That Someone You Love Is Suffering
By Valerie Soleil|2019-03-23T14:14:10+03:00February 28th, 2017|Categories: Family & Parenting, Health & Wellness, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, family|
Many people would be able to agree that alcohol addiction is a type of disease that is very difficult to live with. Most of the time, alcohol addiction can affect all aspects of someone's life and that includes the people around them. Friends and family of the person who is suffering from this affliction may want to help them but might not know how or where to start. Helping anyone with these issues can be a difficult thing to do, but the help that you
The Effects of Giving Up Alcohol Showed in 20 Before and After Photos
By Amy W.|2019-03-31T21:31:57+03:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Health & Wellness, Natural Health|Tags: alcohol, alcoholism, body, fat, health, mood|
Would you like to actually see the effects of giving up alcohol? These before and after photos will show you why you should cut it a little this Christmas. It can be so nice to go out on the town and just not have a care in the world. Everything fades away for a few hours, but then the morning after comes. With all the joys of 2016, you'd be hard-pressed to find an adult that hasn't felt the dry mouth, nausea and brain-splitting headache
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Alcohol problems are part of the social fabric of this country. We use it to celebrate triumphs, ease the pain of defeats, and as a means of breaking the ice in social interactions. However, a lot of people have alcohol problems, and sometimes our beloved ones become victims of alcohol addiction. When used properly, alcohol is moderately harmless, and can even have some minor health benefits; unfortunately, when misused, alcohol can be very dangerous and deadly. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that
The Little Known Factor That Can Ruin Your Life
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If you want to improve your life, you must overcome alcoholism and substance abuse. An estimated 13 million Americans suffer from substance abuse, with 2 million problem drinkers. If you belong to this group, then you must put it behind you to advance your life. Here are some ways addiction can ruin your life: More Than a Health Risk When it comes to addressing this issue, most people are vaguely aware of the health dangers, as well as the social cost to their relationships, but
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Q: Create Temporary Table in a Stored Procedure Including "WITH" [MySQL] I have a stored procedure written in MySQL, and I want to store its results in a temporary table. Here is the code:
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE GetRequiredItemsCount(
    IN item VARCHAR(16),
    IN parent_item_count INT)

    BEGIN
/*      DROP TABLE IF EXISTS required_items;
        CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE required_items AS */

            WITH RECURSIVE bom_temp AS (

                SELECT bom.item_id, bom.component_id, bom.bom_multiplier
                FROM bom
                WHERE bom.item_id = item

                UNION ALL

                SELECT child.item_id, child.component_id, child.bom_multiplier
                FROM bom_temp parent
                    JOIN bom child ON parent.component_id = child.item_id
                )

            SELECT DISTINCT component_id, SUM(bom_multiplier)*parent_item_count
            FROM bom_temp
            GROUP BY component_id;
    END$$
DELIMITER;

It is currently working, but when I remove the comments from the part CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE required_items AS, it raises error.
I think the problem is the use of WITH, but I could not find any similar cases on the net.
I would appreciate your suggestions and comments, thanks!
P.S: "bom" table is generated as follows:
CREATE TABLE bom (  item_id VARCHAR(16),
                    component_id VARCHAR(16),
                    bom_multiplier INT NOT NULL,
                    PRIMARY KEY (item_id, component_id));

INSERT INTO bom (item_id, component_id, bom_multiplier)
VALUES  ("001", "002", 1),
        ("001", "003", 1),
        ("002", "004", 3),
        ("002", "005", 3);

A: The error message was pointing out the incorrect column name for SELECT DISTINCT component_id, SUM(bom_multiplier)*parent_item_count. The problem was solved when I appended AS required_amount to that line.


Police today arrested two persons on the charge of dealing in endangered animal parts from Aalital VDC of Dadeldhura district.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint police team deployed from Zonal Police Office, Seti and Area Police Office, Jogbudha seized the animal parts and an illegal gun from a house belonging to Damber Bahadur Karki of the VDC. The illegal items were hidden in a goat shed.
District Police Office, Dadeldhura said the police team led by sub-inspector Govinda Singh Bohora of Area Police Office, Jogbudha seized seven feet wide and six feet long skin and bones of a leopard and arrested Karki. Meanwhile, a joint police team deployed from Seti Zonal Police Office and Area Police Office, Budar led by sub-inspector Dil Bahadur Mahara also arrested Prem Bahadur Dangi of Ghanteshwor VDC, Doti on the basis of information given by Karki. Mahara informed that the police team had also seized an illegal gun from Dangi's house.
SP Bipin Karmacharya of Dadeldhura Police Chief said that Karki and Dangi were preparing to sell the leopard skin and bones.
He informed that the duo arrested along with the seized materials was handed over to the District Forest Office, Dadeldhura for the further investigation today.


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Q: MySQL DELETE FROM with subquery as condition I am trying to do a query like this:
DELETE FROM term_hierarchy AS th
WHERE th.parent = 1015 AND th.tid IN (
    SELECT DISTINCT(th1.tid)
    FROM term_hierarchy AS th1
    INNER JOIN term_hierarchy AS th2 ON (th1.tid = th2.tid AND th2.parent != 1015)
    WHERE th1.parent = 1015
);

As you can probably tell, I want to delete the parent relation to 1015 if the same tid has other parents. However, that yields me a syntax error:
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AS th
WHERE th.parent = 1015 AND th.tid IN (
  SELECT DISTINCT(th1.tid)
  FROM ter' at line 1

I have checked the documentation, and run the subquery by itself, and it all seems to check out. Can anyone figure out what's wrong here?
Update: As answered below, MySQL does not allow the table you're deleting from be used in a subquery for the condition.

A: I approached this in a slightly different way and it worked for me;
I needed to remove secure_links from my table that referenced the conditions table where there were no longer any condition rows left. A housekeeping script basically. This gave me the error - You cannot specify target table for delete.
So looking here for inspiration I came up with the below query and it works just fine.
This is because it creates a temporary table sl1 that is used as the reference for the DELETE.
DELETE FROM `secure_links` WHERE `secure_links`.`link_id` IN
            (
            SELECT
                `sl1`.`link_id`
            FROM
                (
                SELECT

                    `sl2`.`link_id`

                FROM
                    `secure_links` AS `sl2`
                    LEFT JOIN `conditions` ON `conditions`.`job` = `sl2`.`job`

                WHERE

                    `sl2`.`action` = 'something' AND
                    `conditions`.`ref` IS NULL
                ) AS `sl1`
            )

Works for me.

A: Isn't the "in" clause in the delete ... where, extremely inefficient, if there are going to be a large number of values returned from the subquery?  Not sure why you would not just inner (or right) join back against the original table from the subquery on the ID to delete, rather than us the "in (subquery)".?
DELETE T FROM Target AS T
RIGHT JOIN (full subquery already listed for the in() clause in answers above) ` AS TT ON (TT.ID = T.ID)

And maybe it is answered in the "MySQL doesn't allow it", however, it is working fine for me PROVIDED I make sure to fully clarify what to delete (DELETE T FROM Target AS T).  Delete with Join in MySQL clarifies the DELETE / JOIN issue.

A: The alias should be included after the DELETE keyword:
DELETE th
FROM term_hierarchy AS th
WHERE th.parent = 1015 AND th.tid IN
(
    SELECT DISTINCT(th1.tid)
    FROM term_hierarchy AS th1
    INNER JOIN term_hierarchy AS th2 ON (th1.tid = th2.tid AND th2.parent != 1015)
    WHERE th1.parent = 1015
);

A: You cannot specify target table for delete.
A workaround
create table term_hierarchy_backup (tid int(10)); <- check data type

insert into term_hierarchy_backup
SELECT DISTINCT(th1.tid)
FROM term_hierarchy AS th1
INNER JOIN term_hierarchy AS th2 ON (th1.tid = th2.tid AND th2.parent != 1015)
WHERE th1.parent = 1015;

DELETE FROM term_hierarchy AS th
WHERE th.parent = 1015 AND th.tid IN (select tid from term_hierarchy_backup);

A: For others that find this question looking to delete while using a subquery, I leave you this example for outsmarting MySQL (even if some people seem to think it cannot be done):
DELETE e.*
FROM tableE e
WHERE id IN (SELECT id
             FROM tableE
             WHERE arg = 1 AND foo = 'bar');

will give you an error:
ERROR 1093 (HY000): You can't specify target table 'e' for update in FROM clause

However this query:
DELETE e.*
FROM tableE e
WHERE id IN (SELECT id
             FROM (SELECT id
                   FROM tableE
                   WHERE arg = 1 AND foo = 'bar') x);

will work just fine:
Query OK, 1 row affected (3.91 sec)

Wrap your subquery up in an additional subquery (here named x) and MySQL will happily do what you ask.

A: If you want to do this with 2 queries, you can always do something similar to this:
1) grab ids from the table with:
SELECT group_concat(id) as csv_result FROM your_table WHERE whatever = 'test' ...

Then copy result with mouse/keyboard or programming language to XXX below:
2) DELETE FROM your_table WHERE id IN ( XXX )

Maybe you could do this in one query, but this is what I prefer.

A: you can use the alias in this way on the delete statement
DELETE  th.*
FROM term_hierarchy th
INNER JOIN term_hierarchy th2 ON (th1.tid = th2.tid AND th2.parent != 1015)
WHERE th.parent = 1015;

A: You need to refer to the alias again in the delete statement, like:
DELETE th FROM term_hierarchy AS th
....

As outlined here in MySQL docs.

A: @CodeReaper, @BennyHill:
It works as expected.
However, I wonder the time complexity for having millions of rows in the table? Apparently, it took about 5ms to execute for having 5k records on a correctly indexed table.
My Query:
SET status = '1'
WHERE id IN (
    SELECT id
    FROM (
      SELECT c2.id FROM clusters as c2
      WHERE c2.assign_to_user_id IS NOT NULL
        AND c2.id NOT IN (
         SELECT c1.id FROM clusters AS c1
           LEFT JOIN cluster_flags as cf on c1.last_flag_id = cf.id
           LEFT JOIN flag_types as ft on ft.id = cf.flag_type_id
         WHERE ft.slug = 'closed'
         )
      ) x)```

Or is there something we can improve on my query above?


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To help you interpret the price charts, the following examples may be helpful. In the first chart below (for 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch and 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch page sizes), the price to produce 10 copies of a 50 page book will fall between $19.25 and $24.25 per book. The price to produce 15 copies of a 40 page book will fall between $18.50 and $19.25 per book.
Please note that the maximum number of pages is 120.


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Every Portlander's dream-garden: a big bed of healthy kale plants!
Between harvesting a bounty of hot-weather veggies and summer vacations, it's hard to focus on planning fall and winter crops. But now is the time to do it.
Don't worry if you missed the mid-July window for sowing seed of winter vegetables like cabbage and broccoli: local plant nurseries were a step ahead of you, and are brimming with healthy starts that you can plant in the ground from now through the end of the month. It costs a little more to buy starts than to grow from seed, but harvesting your own kale, cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts this fall and winter will more than compensate.
If you haven't already, head over to the nursery and pick up your seeds and starts – and some mushroom or planting compost if you don't have any home-made garden compost. Unless you're planting real acreage, you can probably get the prep and planting of a smallish garden plot done in an hour or so.
You'll notice that there are variations between the charts… some are more strict about what you can plant than others. Just know that, while most of these charts give specific windows of time during which you can plant from seed in our region, every garden is different. And every gardener is different, too. What works for your neighbor might not work for you unless you water like she does, or you have the same light exposure. So, adopt an experimental frame of mind and give it a try!
Before planting starts, amend your soil with garden compost (if you use a bagged manure-based product, mix it thoroughly into existing soil). Keep new starts well watered – never let them dry out! – and mulch with straw, grass clippings or compost to help retain soil moisture.


We are very proud of our pupils' academic achievements and we have an excellent record for reaching standards of attainment above national figures. Our approach of having high expectations and well-planned and interesting activities enable our children to succeed. However, this is just part of the story. A programme of exciting trips, visitors and themed days in school and our dedication to teaching all aspects of the curriculum means that every child has the opportunity to shine. We are as proud of our children's artistic abilities, sporting prowess, singing, musicianship and performance skills as we are of their academic attainment. We really do value the "whole-child" and are passionate about helping the children develop all of their talents.
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Q: setInterval not working in Opera I am trying to make an element blink (by toggeling visibility of the element) but its not working in Opera for whatever reason. Works fine in Firefox and Chrome.
Here's a fiddle with a working sample: http://jsfiddle.net/UDWkK/2/
I don't think I have made any obvious errors.
Tested in Opera 12
Code:
var blinker;
function blink(elem) {
    clearInterval(blinker);
    blinker = setInterval(function() {
        if ($(elem).css('visibility') === 'hidden'){
            $(elem).css('visibility', 'visible');
        } else {
            $(elem).css('visibility', 'hidden');
        }
    }, 500);
}

A: As @nevermind noted in the comments above the problem is not with Opera. The problem is with the jsFiddle iframes. Note that jsFiddle is still in alpha stage. Hence there are bound to be some quirks. Hopefully the developers will fix it soon.
Nevertheless the code you provided doesn't really need jQuery, and setInterval works perfectly fine in Opera 12. For example this is what I did, and it blinks away nicely: http://jsfiddle.net/XwEhj/

A: I think you are in a corner buggy case.
When it's comes to user interface, it's not a good practice to rely on the state of the graphic objects to find out the state of the view. In other terms, you don't want to "read" the state of the view in the HTML elements, but rather in a variable or a set of variables called a view model.
I suggest that you rewrite your code this way, and I think there's a good chance to work around the bug:
var blinker;
function blink(elem) {
    clearInterval(blinker);

    var visible = false;
    blinker = setInterval(function() {
        visible = !visible;
        $(elem).css('visibility', visible ? 'visible' : 'hidden');
    }, 500);
}


Police are seeking a suspect who stabbed a man as he was walking his dog last night near the Panhandle in the Upper Haight.
According to police, the incident occurred near Page and Ashbury Streets at 9:07pm when a 33-year-old man walked past the suspect, who is described as a male in his fifties.
The suspect approached the victim and began shouting slurs before he produced a knife, stabbed him and fled westbound on Page Street.
The victim, who suffered life-threatening injuries, was transported to a hospital for treatment and the suspect has not been arrested.