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Stories of New Eden
> Backstory
> Chronicles
King Slaver
The Bertha, a prisoner cargo vehicle, slowed to a crawl without so much as a squeal of tires. The skies were clear and burning blue, and a heat haze wavered up off the scorching bone-white sand.
Bertha's doors opened and a large man with a gun stepped out. He didn't look around but immediately walked on a few paces away from the vehicle, then turned and looked at it silently, standing at ease.
A group of red-clad, head-shaven men shuffled out, single file. Most of them did not look around, either, though whether out of fear of what they might see or a dread that it might be exactly what they expected was hard to tell. The last man to exit the vehicle did glance to either side, taking in the desert fields all around him, buffeted by ugly swamps full of gnarled trees and animals and a musky stench he could smell all the way to where he stood, and, closer by, a huddle of wood and stone buildings that stood on top of black-sanded stalagmite hills, surrounded by deep trenches from which came ugly, grinding sounds. His designation was number 47; a low number, but he'd been informed that they were re-used when their past owners no longer needed them.
Another ugly sound, short and sharp, rang out much closer. Prisoner 47 looked back to the group and found that the man with the gun had shot one of the others, for whatever reason. The dead man lay sprawled in the sand and his blood ran out slowly, absorbed and blackened by the earth. What unsettled the prisoner - he was not shocked, nor aghast, because by now he had exhausted the wells of those emotions - was the silence: not just of the others in the group, which was understandable, but of the guard himself. The shooting obviously hadn't been out of any kind of justifiable motive, any more than the rest of the events that had landed them all in this place, but the calm look on the guard's face showed it hadn't been because of anger, either. It was, simply, the way things were here.
The prisoners, Amarrian all, were marched into the camp that was to be their home for the foreseeable future. They were somewhere in the Minmatar Republic, they had been secretly tried in Minmatar military courts, and they were considered a collective threat to the interests and the freedom of the Minmatar people. Freedom was an important concept, apparently. The Minmatar found it so important, the prisoner thought, they wanted to keep it all to themselves.
It was several weeks before 47 first heard of the King, and by that time he was to all intents and purposes dead himself.
Faith had been a notable part of life in the Amarr Empire. No more, and no less. It was there, always there, in speech and the back of minds, but it was not an important part unless cut off, much like breathing. The citizens of the Amarr Empire were not, whatever outsiders might like to believe, fanatics. They simply accepted faith, and had a tacit agreement among themselves not to violate its major tenets. Civilization, to them, worked much the same way. One did not impinge on another's sphere of being - their liberty, their freedom or their joy - just as one did not, metaphorically speaking, walk into church, lower one's pants and leave a steaming gift to the almighty. Things worked, and people understood what they needed to do and not do in order to to make them work.
The Minmatar understood this, too.
After the murder at their arrival, the group had suffered no more direct attacks, deadly or otherwise, from the guards. None were necessary. The entire colony had been constructed not for the output of its manual labor but to break the spirits of its inmates. Work started under dark blue skies and ended the same, and whatever little sleep there was to be had remained unsettled and light, punctuated by the groans and muffled wails of fellow inmates. They slept in large barracks with little privacy, three per bunk. The guards who walked through would swing their batons against the bunk beds' metal railings, startling the inmates out of tired revelries; and once awake, the prisoners would lie still with open eyes and hear the mournful, hungry howling wails of the slaver hounds drifting over from the swamp. During the day, the sun would beat down on them as they worked, either digging or mining or, in a very few trusted cases, running services for the camp. Noise blared throughout the work areas, echoing off the rocks that surrounded them, vibrating in their tools and in their heads. Food was scarce and revolting, and clothes were rarely washed. The routine wore them out. It kept them numb, too, but only on the surface, leaving them completely susceptible to deeper influences.
The guards played games. One day per week was a holiday, during which inmates were free to rest, roam about or even leave the area altogether. No one wandered; the sun-drenched desert and the swampy woods beyond were formidable repellants. Instead, the guards would hide things - anything from colored pebbles to little skeins or wooden plaques with pictures of Amarrian idols - in the possessions of some random, unknown prisoner, then call out a hunt. If the items were found before sundown, and the right person given up, that individual would usually have their rations withdrawn for the next two days. If the items were not found, everyone lost their rations. That was the basic version of the game, but some guards were more inventive than others, and occasionally offered an alternative to the rations - especially if the target looked like they wouldn't last two days without food.
One liked people to eat sand, or wads of someone else's hair. The prisoner saw a friend ingest so much dirt that his exhalations left little muddy spatters on the ground; and later, overnight, he sat up with the man and held him still as his agonized, bleeding body rid itself of what it had been forced to ingest.
One liked public sex, choosing at random another inmate to accompany the victim. The rest of them had to stand around in a wide circle and maintain absolute silence, hearing only the hoarse, bleating grunts from the center.
One was partial to violence, and breakage.
The prisoner 47, after somehow bearing to watch several of these events, began to notice that certain people had an aura over them. They were safe. They stood where they wanted, instead of hiding among the assemblage. They lost their rations like everyone else if the item hunt turned out empty, but when special rules came into play they stood at ease, solitary and sheltered. All of them had apparently been in the camp for a while.
The prisoner saw them mill about, unobtrusive but entirely unconcerned, as he watched friends and compatriots tortured, molested and beaten. He saw them look at the sky not because they wanted to avoid the sights on the ground, but because they genuinely found nothing else of interest around them. Unconcerned, and unaffected.
It shook him. When he tacitly inquired about these people, every question went unanswered. It wasn't as if they were aiding the guards, or in some manner actively participating in the degradation. Amazingly, 47 felt no real animosity towards the guards themselves: They were the catalysts of pain and suffering, but what they inflicted was so terrible as to render them inhuman in his mind. There was no more point in hating them than there was in despising the weather. But those fellow inmates carrying a secret that in any way related to or amplified the suffering of everyone else around them, those men were nothing but traitors. Worse than that, in 47's opinion, they were evil. They were evil men. Not grey like the guards and the sand at night, but black just through and through.
And he was continually forced to watch the games, week after week after week, until one day something in him simply gave way. While two inmates were fighting in the middle of the circle, seeing who could break the other's right arm first, 47 shuffled over to an ignored little corner of the plaza and picked up a wooden plate on which was painted in gold a picture of an Amarrian saint. It had been the day's bounty and was now being ignored by the other prisoners, who all stood slack and gazed at the fight in the distance. Number 47 held it casually to his side as he walked up to one of the safe men, some older guy inspecting a cloud far above, and swung it back and beat him in the face with all the power he had.
The man crumpled to the ground, blood spurting from a gash on his cheek. Number 47 descended on him. He got in a handful of blows before the guards yanked him onto the ground and adminstered a beating of their own. As he lay on the ground, shortly before he lost consciousness, he caught a glimpse of the other man, lying there not far from him, apparently at ease with himself and the world. The man was smiling. He said something but it was muffled by the blood in his mouth, and all 47 could read from his lips was "hail to the king."
It took him several days to recover, during which he was exempt from labor but given only half portions. No major bones had broken but several were badly bruised, tendons were overstretched, and his skin looked like a relief map. He had a lot of time to think while everything healed. Being yanked from his daily routine, first by the upset that had led to the beating, then by being forced to stay in the sick ward - he hated the routine but it really was all he had - turned him more and more tense, and all he could think about was his growing obsession with inequality.
It was like faith, and in his convalescence he realized that even in this place, where he truly expected to remain until he died, he had clung to his beliefs. Not the great, grand vision of God and Emperor, but the deeper, unspoken truths that lay behind them. Everyone could suffer, everyone did suffer, and 47 had grown up implicitly accepting that life, for all its joys, had plenty of suffering to heap onto its people - but only so long as everyone was equal. Not in the experience of suffering itself, for that, along with life's pleasures and darkness, belonged to you and nobody else; but in open judgment, in evaluation, before the renownedly loving but - secretly, suspected, known in the heart of hearts of all their subjects - uncaring and disinterested authorities.
Each time he shifted, it hurt like blazes. He was aware of every breath. His body had lost so much weight that his bones clicked against one another. He was willing to die in this place, if that was his secular fate; in this cot or out in the mines. There was little, at this point, he could do about that. But he wanted so badly, with such horrible need, to go to his eventual death as a man of values, not a slack-jawed ghost who hadn't known the meaning of the life slowly leaving him. He needed to know the meaning of things here. He knew it existed; it had to exist, or life no longer made sense and he was a ghost among ghosts. A god, or a guard, or, as it seemed, a king. A ruler of the earth. The perfect authority for this terrible place. The devil.
It had to be, the more he thought of it. The source, not of suffering, which was God's work, but of inequality. The chaos of counterbalance to God's own order.
And he had to meet this king. To understand why the world was the way it was. Not to comprehend it in its entirety - that was given only to God and the most wicked of men - but to understand the balance. To know how this inequality worked, of the camp and the people in it, and through that understanding, to incorporate it as a blip, a sensible aberration that was merely a stray chaotic fluke in a much greater scheme of order.
He understood that he might have a fever, too. Certainly the things he saw crawling on the inside walls of the infirmary could not possibly be there. Not even the ones that sometimes crawled up into the cot with him, with chitters and wet little clicks.
When 47 finally got out of the infirmary, he was a different man. He got into more fights, seeking to beat out the knowledge he needed. Other inmates shunned him. There were more beatings, too, though none so vicious as the first had been.
He got pulled into a game, once. He sobbed into his straw-filled pillow that night and several nights after, and in the days that followed merely fought even harder. If this was chaos, he would be part of it until recognized as its own.
And at last someone gave it away. One of the men with the holy auras, caught unawares behind a supply shed. Once he recognized 47, beneath the flurry of blows, he started to say something, but it was not until 47 had exhausted himself and fallen gasping to his knees that the victim managed to speak. Even then, it was hard; the man's face was swollen up and distended, as if made from lumps of clay. Prisoner 47 crawled over to him and bent over his face, looking down at the mess of blood and flesh he'd brought into creation. Still, the man tried to talk, his tongue pushing away blood that 47 noticed was being watered out and then realized it was from the tears dropping from his own eyes.
"Jungle. The King is in the jungle," the victim told him. "Go there. He will see you now."
That same evening, not for cover but the cool of dusk, 47 ran off, through the desert for either minutes or hours, until the musky scent enveloped him.
He waded through for hours or days. The chittering was loud here, and the things clicked wetly when he held them, but they had protein and liquids and that sustained him. Occasionally there was growling in the distance, which 47 suspected came from wild slaver hounds, but never anything more. It did not worry him that the beaten man had refrained from giving directions. Whoever or whatever this King was - and 47 was just as ready for it being a desiccated tree or some other dead altar where he would lay down and die - he would be found if he wanted it.
When at last he stopped, he did not sleep. Instead, he dropped into some place dark and still. Once he came back to himself he found the night felt different, not brighter but perhaps more still.
Before his eyes, a mix of broken, felled trees and rotting foliage resolved itself into a shack, standing on crooked feet a little above the marsh. He waded over to it, clambered up onto the gap that seemed to be an entrance, and made his way in.
There was almost total darkness inside, though his eyes adjusted remarkably fast. A corner held an empty spread of straw - dry, to 47's amazement - and in the murky gloom of another, a silhouette of deeper darkness gave the impression of a man.
"Sit," the voice said. He obeyed. The straw crackled under his weight. He couldn't help but touch it, languidly running his hands over it in a combination of nerves and obsession. It seemed entirely too pure to be here.
A thought struck him. "We are-" he started, then stopped to cough his voice into action. He couldn't remember when he had last spoken.
"We are in a desert," he tried again. His voice was deep but without much volume. He could feel it echo in his faded body. "How do we even get food, let alone the straw in our bedding?"
He could hear the King's breathing. It turned shallow for a moment, as if he were amused. "Hot-dropped from outside, like all your supplies. Selected prisoners bring the crates into camp under cover of darkness."
"Who selects them?"
The unseen figure, he knew, grinned at him for a moment. Then he said, not unkindly, "Is this why you came here? To ask about the straw in your bedding?"
Prisoner 47 thought it over. It was hard to hang on to thoughts for very long, and he didn't feel certain he could articulate them too well. He slid a hand over the straw and felt how the clamminess of his palms left a slick trail over the surface. It wasn't just that the straw was dry; he was wet. He was soaked.
He had a fever again, he realized.
Something shifted, and something small and inert was suddenly lying in front of him. "Eat this," the voice said.
He did. It tasted greater than anything he'd had for a long time, certainly in the colony itself, though a part of him missed the crunch and chitter of the jungle outside.
He tried to collect his thoughts again. "I think I went mad."
The King replied, "Yes. I think you've gone mad," and waited for 47 to speak again.
The prisoner thought it over. At last he said, "How did you become King?"
There was a hesitation. Then, "I was like you, worn out and broken. But I kept glimpsing something else, as if behind a veil. At last, something in me gave way and let me see the darkness proper, only to find out I'd known it all along. "
The prisoner thought this over, too. "Is that true?"
There was a short laugh. "Maybe. Or maybe I was just good at making connections and reading other people's minds, until the point came where even the guards didn't know what to do with me."
"So you left."
"So I left. I get what I need here. They bring me straw, held over their heads to keep it dry, and they bring food and drink and whatever else I require. If the guards have it, so do I."
"What else is there, in this place?" the King said to him. "Except eventual death, and all your suffering until then. And me, giving you the faith you need."
"Does everyone follow you?"
"No. And they die either way, but the ones who came to know me can live in a little comfort, which is briefly important, and die with understanding, which means so much more."
The King continued, "I decide who is safe. My people do not get chosen for games. If you get hurt, you will be allowed to mend before going on. You will never lose a meal. It's not for everyone."
"I made it here," 47 said. Even with the meal in his stomach, it was hard to think.
"You made it here. You went into the darkness. You can be one of our own, if you wish."
In the darkness, 47 nodded. "What do I need to do now?" he said.
"The same thing you did that let you be led here. Embrace it. Accept it. Know that you belong to it."
"The chaos."
"Oh yes," the King said, as if receiving the right answer to an unasked question. "Exactly that."
The voice grew closer, as if the King had leaned in. "Every man who comes here is a man of faith, a creature of thought come to understand that there is something greater than you. But until you come here you have nothing like the true faith, only carefully selected pieces of it. Here is where you fill in the rest. Here is where you become, at last, a believer of a dark and utter truth. Did you feel it missing, before you came here?"
"Yes," 47 whispered.
"Was it a life that seems now not only distant, but fake as well? False, and incomplete?"
"Yes," 47 said.
"Yes," the King echoed. "Here is all the truth a man of faith, a true man of faith, could ever have sought."
The prisoner knew he was right. Here it was, all of it. In a prisoner's camp where people were broken; in an emptiness full of beasts and starvation. The balance, found at last.
"Thank you," 47 said. It came out choked. He cleared his throat. "Thank you," he said again, loud and clear.
"I'm glad you found the faith," the King told him.
The prisoner 47 left the cabin and began making his way back to camp.
On his way through the marshy wilderness, he heard the growl again, much closer this time. He turned and found himself looking at a slaver hound, realizing in that moment what a terrible joke, what a perfect fulfilment of this life it was to have these beasts here to guard the faithful, diverted from their original purpose of guarding and attacking Minmatar slaves back in the Empire. He could hear the hound's hoarse, deep breathing. Puffs of air wafted from its hungry face.
He stood still, calmly looking back at it. And in that animal face, with its sharp teeth dripping saliva, and the eyes red-rimmed and unblinking, he saw no longer a hunger, but a fellowship.
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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package org.apache.phoenix.mapreduce;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVRecord;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.KeyValue;
import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PInteger;
import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PIntegerArray;
import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PUnsignedInt;
import org.apache.phoenix.util.ColumnInfo;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

public class CsvToKeyValueMapperTest {

    @Test
    public void testCsvLineParser() throws IOException {
        CsvToKeyValueMapper.CsvLineParser lineParser =
                new CsvToKeyValueMapper.CsvLineParser(';', '"', '\\');
        CSVRecord parsed = lineParser.parse("one;two");

        assertEquals("one", parsed.get(0));
        assertEquals("two", parsed.get(1));
        assertTrue(parsed.isConsistent());
        assertEquals(1, parsed.getRecordNumber());
    }

    @Test
    public void testCsvLineParserWithQuoting() throws IOException {
        CsvToKeyValueMapper.CsvLineParser lineParser =
                new CsvToKeyValueMapper.CsvLineParser(';', '"', '\\');
        CSVRecord parsed = lineParser.parse("\"\\\"one\";\"\\;two\\\\\"");

        assertEquals("\"one", parsed.get(0));
        assertEquals(";two\\", parsed.get(1));
        assertTrue(parsed.isConsistent());
        assertEquals(1, parsed.getRecordNumber());
    }

    @Test
    public void testBuildColumnInfoList() {
        List<ColumnInfo> columnInfoList = ImmutableList.of(
                new ColumnInfo("idCol", PInteger.INSTANCE.getSqlType()),
                new ColumnInfo("unsignedIntCol", PUnsignedInt.INSTANCE.getSqlType()),
                new ColumnInfo("stringArrayCol", PIntegerArray.INSTANCE.getSqlType()));

        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        CsvToKeyValueMapper.configureColumnInfoList(conf, columnInfoList);
        List<ColumnInfo> fromConfig = CsvToKeyValueMapper.buildColumnInfoList(conf);

        assertEquals(columnInfoList, fromConfig);
    }

    @Test
    public void testBuildColumnInfoList_ContainingNulls() {
        // A null value in the column info list means "skip that column in the input"
        List<ColumnInfo> columnInfoListWithNull = Lists.newArrayList(
                new ColumnInfo("idCol", PInteger.INSTANCE.getSqlType()),
                null,
                new ColumnInfo("unsignedIntCol", PUnsignedInt.INSTANCE.getSqlType()),
                new ColumnInfo("stringArrayCol", PIntegerArray.INSTANCE.getSqlType()));

        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        CsvToKeyValueMapper.configureColumnInfoList(conf, columnInfoListWithNull);
        List<ColumnInfo> fromConfig = CsvToKeyValueMapper.buildColumnInfoList(conf);

        assertEquals(columnInfoListWithNull, fromConfig);
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetJdbcUrl() {
        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        conf.set(HConstants.ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM, "myzkclient:2181");
        String jdbcUrl = CsvToKeyValueMapper.getJdbcUrl(conf);

        assertEquals("jdbc:phoenix:myzkclient:2181", jdbcUrl);
    }

    @Test(expected=IllegalStateException.class)
    public void testGetJdbcUrl_NotConfigured() {
        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        CsvToKeyValueMapper.getJdbcUrl(conf);
    }

    @Test
    public void testLoadPreUpdateProcessor() {
        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        conf.setClass(CsvToKeyValueMapper.UPSERT_HOOK_CLASS_CONFKEY, MockUpsertProcessor.class,
                ImportPreUpsertKeyValueProcessor.class);

        ImportPreUpsertKeyValueProcessor processor = CsvToKeyValueMapper.loadPreUpsertProcessor(conf);
        assertEquals(MockUpsertProcessor.class, processor.getClass());
    }

    @Test
    public void testLoadPreUpdateProcessor_NotConfigured() {

        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        ImportPreUpsertKeyValueProcessor processor = CsvToKeyValueMapper.loadPreUpsertProcessor(conf);

        assertEquals(CsvToKeyValueMapper.DefaultImportPreUpsertKeyValueProcessor.class,
                processor.getClass());
    }

    @Test(expected=IllegalStateException.class)
    public void testLoadPreUpdateProcessor_ClassNotFound() {
        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        conf.set(CsvToKeyValueMapper.UPSERT_HOOK_CLASS_CONFKEY, "MyUndefinedClass");

        CsvToKeyValueMapper.loadPreUpsertProcessor(conf);
    }

    static class MockUpsertProcessor implements ImportPreUpsertKeyValueProcessor {

        @Override
        public List<KeyValue> preUpsert(byte[] rowKey, List<KeyValue> keyValues) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented");
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


pS2 expression induced by American ginseng in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.
BACKGROUND: Alternative medicines are frequently used by patients with breast cancer for general health benefits. American ginseng, an herbal remedy, purportedly alleviates treatment-induced postmenopausal symptoms. METHODS: Estrogenic potential of American ginseng root extract to induce the expression of pS2, an estrogen-regulated gene, was evaluated in breast cancer cell lines MCF-7, T-47D, and BT-20 by Northern and Western blot analysis. Competitive studies were performed with ginseng in combination with tamoxifen. Cell proliferation assays were performed using the tetrazolium dye procedure and direct cell count. RESULTS: Ginseng and estradiol induce the expression of pS2 RNA and protein in MCF-7 cells, whereas tamoxifen suppresses expression. Neither ginseng nor estradiol induced increased pS2 expression in T-47D or BT-20 cell lines. Although estradiol exhibited a proliferative effect and tamoxifen had an inhibitory effect, ginseng demonstrated no significant effect on cell proliferation. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study suggest that ginseng may exhibit estrogenlike effects on estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells by inducing pS2 expression and that the effect of ginseng may be mediated in part through the estrogen receptor. Because ginseng does not exhibit a proliferative effect, it may play a protective role against breast cancer rather than serve as a mitogen.


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require 'rho/rhocontroller'
require 'json'
require 'helpers/application_helper'
require 'helpers/browser_helper'

class NotificationController < Rho::RhoController

def notify_callback
	@callback_data = @params.to_json
	Rho::WebView.executeJavascript("document.getElementById('actResult').innerHTML= JSON.stringify(#{@callback_data})")
end

def notify_beep
	Rho::Notification.beep({'frequency' => 1000, 'volume' => 3, 'duration' => 5000})
end

def notify_playfile
	if @params['file']
		Rho::Notification.playFile(Rho::RhoFile.join(Rho::Application.modelFolderPath('Notification'), 'media2.wav'), '.wav')
	else
		Rho::Notification.playFile(Rho::RhoFile.join(Rho::Application.modelFolderPath('Notification'), 'media1.mp3'), '.mp3')
	end
end

def notify_vibrate
	Rho::Notification.vibrate(@params['time'].to_i)
end

def notify_showstatus
	Rho::Notification.showStatus('MyAlert', 'This is status message', 'click to hide')
end

def notify_showstatusconf
	Rho::Notification.showStatus("Test", "This is a status message", "Confirm")
end

def notify_hide
	Rho::Notification.hidePopup()
end

def notify_showpopup
	@props = { 'message' => 'This is a pop up for hide ',
		'buttons' => [{'id' => 'yes', 'title' => 'yes'}, 'No', 'Cancel'],
		'title' => 'MyTitle',
		'icon' => '/app/Notification/icon.png'}
	Rho::Notification.showPopup(@props)
end

def notify_showpopup2
	Rho::Notification.showPopup({
		'title' => "Displaying a pop up",
		'message' =>"Message will get display in notification bar and dialog will get displayed when comes to foreground",
		'icon' => "info",
		'buttons' => [{'id' => 'ok', 'title' => 'ok'}]
	})
end

def notify_showpopup3
	Rho::Notification.showPopup({
		'message' => "Test Message",
		'types' => [Rho::Notification::TYPE_NOTIFICATION]
	})
end

def notify_showpopup4
	Rho::Notification.showPopup({
		'message' => "Test Message",
		'types' => [Rho::Notification::TYPE_NOTIFICATION],
		'icon' => Rho::RhoFile.join(Rho::Application.modelFolderPath('Notification'), 'icon.png')
	})
end

def notify_showpopup5
	Rho::Notification.showPopup({
		'message' => "Test Message",
		'types' => [Rho::Notification::TYPE_TOAST]
	});
end

def notify_showpopupcb
	@props = {'message' => 'This is a pop up for callback',
		'buttons' => [{'id' => 'yes', 'title' => 'yes'}, 'No', 'Cancel'],
		'title' => 'MyTitle', 'icon' => '/app/Notification/icon.png'}
    Rho::Notification.showPopup(@props, url_for(:action => :notify_callback))
end

def notify_showpopupcb2
	Rho::Notification.showPopup({
		'title' => "Displaying a pop up",
		'message' => "Test Message",
		'icon' =>  "info",
		'buttons' => [{'id' => 'accept', 'title' => 'yes'},{'id' => 'cancel', 'title' => 'no'}],
		'types' => [Rho::Notification::TYPE_NOTIFICATION_DIALOG]}, url_for(:action => :notify_callback)
	)
end

end


MSF Canada's Stephen Cornish is writing from South Sudan, where he is witnessing first-hand the humanitarian crisis currently affecting the world's youngest country.
Since the outbreak of conflict in South Sudan last December,andnbsp;http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26798721over a million people have been displacedandnbsp;by seemingly unending violent battles over key cities in the states of Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile -- places you likely have heard little about given the tiny sprinkling of coverage this situation has received in international media.
What coverage the ongoing crisis in South Sudan has received so far has been dominated by two messages: One, that a falling out last year between members of this young country's first ever government ended up reigniting long-simmering ethnic tensions in South Sudan, which eventually exploded into open conflict. Two, that the United Nations is predicting a dire nutritional crisis of "man-made origin" to take place before the end of this year, citing the potential forhttp://www.unicef.org/media/media_73048.htmlandnbsp;up to 50,000 children to perishandnbsp;if intervention isn't scaled up in time.
There is, however, another crisis looming in South Sudan, one that affects hundreds of thousands of civilians seeking to escape the brutal violence of the current conflict. Fortunately, this "protection crisis" can still be averted -- but only if urgent measures are taken as soon as possible.
Since the outbreak of violence last December that sparked South Sudan's current misery, armed men on both sides of the conflict have terrorized the country's civilian population with killings, random attacks and other forms of brutality. In the face of such unrelenting violence, it was fortunate that the United Nations already had a mission on the ground in South Sudan. Known asandnbsp;http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unmiss/UNMISS, the mission's initial mandate was to help the country develop peacefully -- a state-building objective in which it has so far been demonstrably less than successful. But a second mandate issued in May 2014 to protect civilians has meant that UN bases throughout the country have been able to provide a shelter of last resort to thousands of South Sudanese fleeing for their lives.
These Protection of Civilian (POC) sites were initially ill-equipped to provide adequate food, water and shelter for the thousands of people seeking help, but they did offer refuge from violence, and therefore a fundamental form of protection. But severe overcrowding has combined with South Sudan's notorious rainy season to turn a number of the UNMISS sites into waterlogged cesspools of misery. The living conditions are abysmal, with water and food in continuing short supply, and most people confined to low-lying areas, which have become swamps of infestation and disease. Violence, malnutrition and the recent scourge of cholera have only added to their misery. Months into a new mandate to protect civilians, and the definition of "protection" appears to apply in only the most narrow sense: Contained by wires and barricades designed to keep violence out, the people inside many POC sites are under dire threat from disease, malnutrition and strife within.
Frustratingly, basic sanitation is all that is needed to counteract some of the most immediate health threats. While some managers of these UN sites have wisely insisted on improving drainage, digging more latrines and putting greater distance between tents, others have chosen to ignore the dangers -- in some cases suggesting that the displaced were used to living in such conditions so changes weren't necessary, or simply shrugging as if there were no way to improve drainage despite the UN's own heavy machinery sitting idly nearby.
In one particularly abhorrent situation, despite being thanked by camp leaders for preventing the spread of cholera,andnbsp;http://www.msf.ca/Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which is working to provide healthcare to those trapped in the misery of many POC sites, was long denied five metres of land to install an isolation area, latrines, and a morgue at a safe distance from a new tented hospital -- basic measures that are necessary to prevent the further spread of disease, including cholera, measles, hepatitis, malaria and kala azar.
By offering protection from the violence of South Sudan's conflict, the UN has directly saved thousands of lives, and is to be commended and thanked for its efforts. But now the world body is arguing internally over who should continue to protect the civilians in its charge. There are voices in UNMISS who want to hand over the camps, despite the fact that there is no one else who can guarantee the residents physical security.
For civilians who have been so clearly traumatized, the camps have become both protection and prison. Overcrowded, disease-infested and sometimes flooded by sewage, the POC sites are failing to truly protect the civilians in their care. A true commitment to protection must include safeguarding vulnerable people against hunger, disease, sexual violence, unnecessary mental anguish and being forced back out into conflict zones merely to survive.
The UN and the major donors must see to it that funds are made available to improve living conditions for people under the care of UNMISS in South Sudan. The POC sites must improve, and the arguments must cease. The UN is to be congratulated for its efforts so far in saving thousands of people from the worst of South Sudan's recent conflict; now it must save those living under its care, who find themselves trapped in another form of hell.


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Q: CORS: Preflight works but the main request fails I have setup C# WebApi 2.2 with OWIN.Cors setup like below:
public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
        {
            app.UseCors(CorsOptions.AllowAll);

            IdentityModelEventSource.ShowPII = true;
            ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
            ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls
            | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11
            | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12
            | SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;

            ConfigureAuth(app);
        }

And also have following setup in the Web.config
<handlers>
  <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" />
  <remove name="OPTIONSVerbHandler" />
  <remove name="TRACEVerbHandler" />
  <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*." verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
</handlers>

Now, the Preflight request from Angular works perfectly, sample below:
**Response Headers**
    access-control-allow-credentials: true
    access-control-allow-headers: authorization
    access-control-allow-origin: https://localhost:4200
    access-control-expose-headers: Request-Context
    content-length: 0
    date: Sun, 30 May 2021 05:10:41 GMT
    request-context: appId=cid-v1:04c910be-c0d6-4c56-b923-d591b73940c1
    server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
    x-powered-by: ASP.NET
    x-sourcefiles: =?UTF-8?B?RTpcRHJvcGJveFxTbWFydFRhc2tcQmFja2VuZFxTbWFydFRhc2suQ29yZVxTbWFydFRhc2suV2ViQXBpXEdlbmVyYWxcQXBwU2l0ZVNldHRpbmdzXGRldg==?=

**Request Headers**
    :authority: localhost:44366
    :method: OPTIONS
    :path: /General/AppSiteSettings/dev
    :scheme: https
    accept: */*
    accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br
    accept-language: en,en-GB;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8
    access-control-request-headers: authorization
    access-control-request-method: GET
    origin: https://localhost:4200
    referer: https://localhost:4200/
    sec-fetch-dest: empty
    sec-fetch-mode: cors
    sec-fetch-site: same-site
    user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36

But the Get request fails with the error (Do note, the endpoint in WebApi controller is not even hit):
Error in Console logs:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at
'https://localhost:44366/General/AppSiteSettings/dev?hostname=localhost'
from origin 'https://localhost:4200' has been blocked by CORS policy:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource.

Error in Chrome Network Tab

Cross Origin Resource sharing error: MissingAllowOriginHeader

On inspecting the failed request. This is what I find:
**Response Headers:**
    access-control-expose-headers: Request-Context
    cache-control: private
    content-length: 40070
    content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    date: Sun, 30 May 2021 05:10:43 GMT
    request-context: appId=cid-v1:04c910be-c0d6-4c56-b923-d591b73940c1
    server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
    x-aspnet-version: 4.0.30319
    x-powered-by: ASP.NET
    x-sourcefiles: =?UTF-8?B?RTpcRHJvcGJveFxTbWFydFRhc2tcQmFja2VuZFxTbWFydFRhc2suQ29yZVxTbWFydFRhc2suV2ViQXBpXEdlbmVyYWxcQXBwU2l0ZVNldHRpbmdzXGRldg==?=

**Request Headers:**
    :authority: localhost:44366
    :method: GET
    :path: /General/AppSiteSettings/dev
    :scheme: https
    accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
    accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br
    accept-language: en,en-GB;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8
    authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IjY....
    cookie: _ga=GA1.1.1.....
    origin: https://localhost:4200
    referer: https://localhost:4200/
    sec-ch-ua: " Not A;Brand";v="99", "Chromium";v="90", "Google Chrome";v="90"
    sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
    sec-fetch-dest: empty
    sec-fetch-mode: cors
    sec-fetch-site: same-site
    user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36

I wanted to confirm if my settings are working fine, hence I removed the Web.config part and now the response too fails, sample below:
**Response Headers**
    allow: OPTIONS, TRACE, GET, HEAD, POST
    content-length: 0
    date: Sun, 30 May 2021 05:00:39 GMT
    public: OPTIONS, TRACE, GET, HEAD, POST
    server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
    x-powered-by: ASP.NET
    x-sourcefiles: =?UTF-8?B?RTpcRHJvcGJveFxTbWFydFRhc2tcQmFja2VuZFxTbWFydFRhc2suQ29yZVxTbWFydFRhc2suV2ViQXBpXEdlbmVyYWxcQXBwU2l0ZVNldHRpbmdzXGRldg==?=
**Request Headers:**
    :authority: localhost:44366
    :method: OPTIONS
    :path: /General/AppSiteSettings/dev
    :scheme: https
    accept: */*
    accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br
    accept-language: en,en-GB;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8
    access-control-request-headers: authorization
    access-control-request-method: GET
    origin: https://localhost:4200
    referer: https://localhost:4200/
    sec-fetch-dest: empty
    sec-fetch-mode: cors
    sec-fetch-site: same-site
    user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36

As a conclusion I think CORs is atleast working for OPTIONS request perfectly fine, but the main requests are failing. The interesting part is that GET Request is not even hitting the endpoint in the controller.
Do let me know if you have any ideas on how to solve this.

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Headquartered in Missoula, MT, Aqua Creek Products spends its time ensuring people of all ages and ability levels can take full advantage of these precious few summer months.
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By Peter Koenig
The Town of Deerpark Museum is pleased to offer two fine art prints by nationally recognized artist Peter Koenig. These charming prints titled "Apple Pickin' Time" (fall) and "Snow Day" (winter) pay homage to the Huguenot 1863 Schoolhouse and to those who seek to preserve this important aspect of our heritage. The artist is in the process of creating the entire four seasons Schoolhouse series. Spring and Summer will be completed in 2011. A portion of these sales will be donated to the Town of Deerpark Museum. Peter Koenig has been selected for four consecutive years (2007-2010) as one of the top traditional artisans in America, according to a panel of experts convened by Early American Life magazine. The expertsѣurators from such prestigious institutions as the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, American Folk Art Museum, Hancock Shaker Village, Heritage Center of Lancaster County, Old Sturbridge Village as well as others in the field, independent scholars and professional instructorsѳelected the top craftspeople working with traditional tools and techniques. Koenig's work shows mastery of the art form, heritage techniques, and workmanship, according to the judges. "The judges look for authentic design and workmanship, whether the piece is a faithful reproduction or the artisan's interpretation of period style," said Tess Rosch, publisher of Early American Life. "Scholarship, as well as use of period tools and techniques, is particularly valued." To see more of Koenig's work go to peterkoenigart.com or earlyamericanlife.com and click on "Directory". Peter and his wife, Nancy Fitzpatrick Koenig reside in the Town of Deerpark. ORDER FORM FOR PRINTS
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PAID POST BY TOTAL
Do self-sufficiency, low carbon, competitiveness and abundance add up to a winning recipe for solar?
Presented by: Total
Published 4:45 AM ET Wed, 31 May 2017 Updated 10:54 PM ET Thu, 12 Nov 2020
Unlimited, low-carbon and found everywhere, sunlight is shaping up to be the energy source of the second half of the 21st century. Solar production costs are now quite competitive. At the same, solar power also helps user countries become energy self-sufficient and addresses public concerns. Marc de Lataillade, vice president, Solar at Total, believes all the prerequisites are in place for solar to play a leading role in the global energy mix.
Another 30,000 panels every hour
The face of the global energy industry is changing. One notable shift is the growth of renewables, which, according to the IRENA1 annual report published in the spring of 2017, had a stellar year in 2016, installing more than 160 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity worldwide2.
Even more remarkable is that, for the first time in 2013, more additional solar than wind power capacity was installed over the year. The totals were 75 new gigawatts commissioned in 2016, versus 54 gigawatts for wind power.
Thanks to steep declines in its production costs, mainly upstream3, solar power is slowly but surely carving out a choice spot for itself in the planet's renewable capacity. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), it should make up 13 percent of the global power mix in 2040, as another 30,000 solar panels are installed worldwide each hour between now and 2021.
200,000 solar panels occupying 300 hectares and producing 86 MW — the Prieska solar power plant supplies affordable, reliable, clean energy to South Africans.
Three technologies to capture an infinite supply
Three technologies4 are used to capture this unlimited energy source5.
Low-temperature solar thermal power accounts for 70.7 percent of world production. It uses the sun's rays to produce heat directly at less than 100 degrees Celsius for housing, industry and the service sector. Capacity doubled between 2007 and 2012, to 233 gigawatts-thermal (GWth).
Photovoltaic solar power — 28.6 percent of global production — converts solar radiation to power directly. Total capacity soared from 9.9 GW in 2007 to 318 GW in 2016. Between 1980 and 2016, the cost of manufacturing a photovoltaic panel plummeted from 24 euros per watt to less than 0.5 euros per watt.
Concentrated solar power (CSP) — also known as thermodynamic solar — produces a tiny 0.7 percent. It concentrates the sun's energy using towers, Fresnel reflectors or parabolic trough collectors to generate power. At end-2013, roughly 70 such power plants, 48 of them in Spain, supplied 3.12 gigawatts in nine countries in the world.
These figures need to be kept in perspective: In 2015, solar energy represented only 1 percent of the global energy mix and produced 257 TWh6. So a strong push will be needed to make good on the IEA's predictions.
Total across the photovoltaic solar chain
Total wants to be part of that push. Marc de Lataillade, Total's vice president, Solar, points out that the company has "solid ambitions in renewable energies and thus solar, aiming to have low-carbon energies account for 20 percent of its portfolio 20 years from now."
It's one reason Total acquired an interest in 2011 in SunPower, a North American company that is a leader in its market and makes the world's best-performing solar panels, with a conversion efficiency of 24.1 percent. Moreover, "Total wants to accelerate its solar project development activity internationally," says Marc de Lataillade. "With Total Solar, we want to be more active and operate in the market's main segments. That includes utility-scale solar plants connected to the grid, currently the biggest chunk of the market, as well as grid-connected or off-grid ground-mounted and rooftop systems for the industrial and commercial segment. The latter segment strikes us as especially promising as businesses, encouraged by lower costs, get interested in "greening" their power production. With our program to bring solar to Total's sites, including our 5,000 service stations, we're proving by example that it's feasible and cost-effective." In other words, Total aims to be integrated across the solar value chain, doing everything from manufacturing solar panels to managing utility-scale power plants and installing rooftop systems on homes and industrial and commercial buildings. All on a global scale.
For more on the subject: Total Connects with 'Microgrid' Start-Up to Improve Energy Access in East Africa
Is Africa the land of opportunity for solar?
Nearly 1.5 billion people currently lack access to affordable, reliable power. And most of them live in Africa, which has the highest solar resource in the world. Solar power can therefore play a key role in energy access there. But it isn't the only factor that suggests the continent will be a growth market.
For one thing, it currently has a low electrification rate, especially in light of a demographic and economic spurt "that creates real forward momentum" according to Total's vice president, Solar. He adds that: "The African power market will grow twice as fast as the global market."
"African governments and decision makers are keenly interested in solar power. Solar supports a form of energy self-sufficiency, it's low-carbon and fast to set up, and its costs are increasingly competitive with other energy sources."
Now all that's needed is an acceptable cost per megawatt-hour. Power generated in Africa often still costs more than $100 per megawatt-hour. Bringing that down will require controlling the cost of building production units — panels alone account for 30 percent of the physical investment for the entire system — cheaper financing and regulations that support seamless integration into the existing grid. "Today there are no technological reasons stopping us from building a solar power production unit," says Marc de Lataillade. "However, each project is different and we have to conduct a detailed study beforehand to find out the state of the existing grid and applicable regulations, to accurately size our solution. Some grids lack the capacity to support the addition of an intermittent energy source. We have to figure out where we fit in and provide hybrid or storage solutions where necessary." In that regard, what makes solar attractive is that it's a distributed energy source, easy to locate near consumers.
It works well in projects involving national grids, nano units or micro-grids — village or local production units — and multiple access to energy initiatives such as "pay-as-you-go" that are revolutionizing power usage. "Africa will very likely use the same recipes for distributed renewables that it did for telephones and banking — rapid technological leapfrogging," says the Total senior manager. "It's up to us to provide the technical and commercial solutions that go with it."
For more on the subject: Access to Energy: When Business Issues Meet Social Impacts
Countries such as South Africa and Morocco have gone that route by opting for structured, phased programs, planning installations that will have to guarantee a megawatt-per-hour price currently set at under $60. "The solutions we can offer depend pretty heavily on existing regulations. The equation we have to crack for solar to grow rapidly is how to encourage sizeable investments — an installed megawatt costs around $1 million in capital expenditure. That means guaranteeing all stakeholders, developers and investors long-term returns over a period of around 25 years," says Marc de Lataillade.
There is no off-the-shelf solution. Each case is unique and quite often local regulations have to change to put projects on a permanent footing and design them for a wide variety of energy sources. "Solar alone won't solve the challenge of energy in Africa," warns Marc de Lataillade, who thinks that "sources working in partnership will be the answer. Local authorities will have to put together the right mix. One in which solar offers many economic, political and social advantages, while meeting strong public demand for more sustainable energy production and use. Let's not forget that solar is an infinite resource," he says in conclusion.
For more on the subject: Babyloan and Total, Microfinancing Access to Energy
1 The International Renewable Energy Agency, an intergovernmental organization that supports countries in their transition to a sustainable energy future, and serves as the principal platform for international cooperation.
2 Bloomberg New Energy Finance cites 150 gigawatts.
3 According to BNEF, after falling 50% between 2010 and 2015, the price of photovoltaic panels decreased another 15% in 2016, to around $0.60 a watt in the global market.
4 Source: CNRS News.
5 Sunlight supplies some 400,000 zettawatts (ZW) of energy a second, or 145,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts (145.6 quadrillion watts) each year.
6 Source: Enerdata.
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API Users
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See the [examples](https://github.com/agacek/jkind/tree/master/jkind-api/src/jkind/api/examples) for how to use JKind API.

API Developers
==============
JKind API requires JFace and SWT libraries, the latter of which is
platform dependent. To handle this, the project depends on a user
library called JFace which needs to contain:

 * org.eclipse.swt.{platform}.{os}.{arch}
 * org.eclipse.jface
 * org.eclipse.core.commands
 * org.eclipse.equinox.common

For 64-bit Windows with Eclipse installed in c:/eclipse you may simply
import the user library from the provided file
"JFace.win32.x86_64.userlibraries". Otherwise you will need to
manually configure the user library (or modify and then import the
provided file).


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"Graveyard" é uma canção dacantora norte-americana Halsey. Foi lançado em 13 de setembro de 2019, como o segundo single de seu terceiro álbum de estúdio, Manic (2020).

Antecedentes
Em março de 2019, Halsey anunciou que seu próximo terceiro álbum de estúdio seria lançado em 2019 e que ela quer que seja "perfeito". Durante uma sessão de perguntas e respostas em 7 de agosto de 2019, ela afirmou que o álbum é "mundo de fantasia menos distópico" e que reflete sua visão de mundo atual. Em 3 de setembro de 2019, Halsey revelou a arte da capa e a data de lançamento de "Graveyard" em suas mídias sociais. O anúncio foi feito um dia depois que os fãs questionaram o cantor sobre as próximas notícias. A música foi disponibilizada para pre-save mediante anúncio.

Créditos

Créditos adaptados do Tidal.

 Halsey  - vocais
 Louis Bell  - produção, engenharia de discos, programação, teclados
 Jon Bellion  - produção, teclados, programação
 Amy Allen - vocais de fundo, guitarra
 Mark Williams - produção, guitarra, teclados, programação
 The Monsters and the Strangerz  - produção, engenharia, teclados, programação
 Chris Gehringer - mestre em engenharia
 John Hanes - engenharia de mistura
 Serban Ghenea - mistura

Desempenho nas tabelas musicais

Apresentações ao vivo
Halsey tocou "Graveyard" pela primeira vez no MTV Europe Music Awards de 2019 em 3 de novembro de 2019. Em 25 de novembro ela cantou a música no American Music Awards de 2019.

Histórico de lançamentos

Certificações

Singles de 2019
Canções gravadas por Halsey

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Q: Laravel get values that contains string in where clause I'm trying to get in where clause the cities that contains certain string.
For example, if I search for 'Alexandria' I want the results to have also 'Alexandria' and 'Alexandria, Romania' results.
I tried the following code but this is not working:
if(!is_null($city)){
  $query-> where('rent', '>=', $min_price)
  ->where('rent','<=',$max_price)
  ->where('city', 'like', '%'.$city.'%');
}

I also tried the following way but it throws ' Column not found: 1054'.
if(!is_null($city)){
  $query-> where('rent', '>=', $min_price)
  ->where('rent','<=',$max_price)
  ->where(strpos('city', $city) === true);
}

Can you please help me with some ideas on how can I solve this?
Thank you!

A: first explode $city by space and then use orWhere with like
if(!is_null($city)){
  $query-> where('rent', '>=', $min_price)
  ->where('rent','<=',$max_price)
  ->Where(function ($q) use($city) {
          $words = explode(' ',$city);
          foreach ($words as $word){
          $q->orwhere('city', 'like',  '%' . $word .'%');
      }
   });
}

i think there are better solutions but this is what i found for now.

A: You have to split it up with an explode on the ','. You might also like to try ', ' (with a space at end) depending on how consistent your data is and if you need the country part of the string to be searchable.
Note that I changed your original input variable to $searchTerm, and it gets split into $city.
function ($query) use ($searchTerm, $max_price, $min_price) {
    if (! empty($searchTerm)) {
        // Break search string apart into separate search terms. Split on comma.
        foreach (explode(',', $searchTerm) as $city) {
            // For every search term check if it can be found in any of the searchable fields.
            $query-> where('rent', '>=', $min_price)
            ->where('rent','<=',$max_price)
            ->where('city', 'like', '%'.$city.'%');
        }
    }
}


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In conducting exit interviews, I am sure to use a spirit of open and honest feedback with the goal of continuous improvement. As I reflect back on some of the interviews I've done over the years, I recognize that negativity has been forefront in the ultimate departure of some former employees. Negativity doesn't make a bad employee, it just provides a challenge to their role and to management. There is definitely credibility to the fact that some employees will hit their ceiling and likely no longer be a fit in the culture we are building and strengthening. However, negativity affects how employees interact with their peers, how they view the company goals, how they react to challenges, and how they view the culture of the company – and can absolutely affect the role they fill.
If you manage people then you will eventually encounter a negative person. This is not the most pleasant aspect of a manager's job and unfortunately can not be avoided. The rest of your team will be let down when negativity is ignored or not discussed. Managing negative people is not only possible, but it is also rewarding when you can help the employee turn the negativity around. The best approach is to not let the negativity get started in the first place, but if it starts to destruct your team then it's time for some coaching!
Open communication is always the most constructive way to approach conflict. We use "straight talk" at PFSbrands and find that our culture embraces the ability to be able to talk "straight" without ridicule in regard to any situation. As a coach or mentor, you must be able to communicate how negativity is affecting not only the employee, but also the team, the company, and possibly other relationships. Negativity is contagious and it spreads like wildfire. Be courageous enough to have a straight talk conversation before a problems gets out of control.
It's important to not take an employee's negativity personally. Being defensive and abrasive is not constructive. Dealing with difficult people is uncomfortable for all parties, but mostly the negativity is not directed at you. The employee is unhappy with his/her life, her work, or something different altogether. Listen to the employee's concerns – you may be able to help solve legitimate workplace concerns.
While emphasizing the need for a positive attitude moving forward, focus on the encouraging aspects of his/her performance and the contributions they bring to the company. Be optimistic and reflect his/her capacity to contribute. Set goals for change and continue to help build a positive self-image.
Focus on creating solutions with an action plan. Action goes hand in hand with our goal setting beliefs at PFSbrands. Create options and goals for how the employee can create more positivity moving forward. By writing down actionable goals, the employee is much more likely to accomplish it. Ask how you can help and work together to solve this problem.
Follow up is very important. Schedule a meeting to discuss progress. Lead by example and demonstrate positive behavior with all employees. Recognize and praise positive improvements and positive attitude. Don't forget to write down your follow up meetings to continue to document the improvement process.
Problems and setbacks are inevitable in business, but each one can be a learning experience. As a leader you are responsible for strengthening a positive working culture that builds and strengthens with time.
As I continue to reflect, I realize that if an employee is a good cultural fit for our company, then I view any negativity as a challenge. A challenge to make a difference in that employee's life, a challenge to make me a better leader, and a challenge to keep making our company a great place to work.


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Memorial Sloan Kettering's Chief Executive Resigns From Merck's Board of Directors – Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica (10/04/2018)
Posted on October 4, 2018 by wsw staff |
Memorial Sloan Kettering's Chief Executive Resigns From Merck's Board of Directors
Dr. Craig B. Thompson, the chief executive of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, said Tuesday that he would resign his seats on the boards of drugmaker Merck and another public company, the latest fallout from a widening institutional reckoning over relationships between cancer center leaders and for-profit health care companies.
Thompson has served on the board of Merck, the maker of the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda, since 2008. He has been on the board of Charles River Laboratories, a publicly traded company that assists research in early drug development, since 2013.
Thompson, who is 65, received $300,000 in compensation from Merck in 2017, according to company financial filings. He was paid $70,000 in cash by Charles River in 2017, plus $215,050 in stock.
The compensation for the two corporate boards is in addition to what he is paid as chief executive at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the nonprofit institution that is one of the nation's leading cancer center. In 2016, he received $6.7 million in total compensation from the hospital and related organizations, according to the most recent Internal Revenue Service filings.
The resignations are effective immediately. A spokesman for the hospital said the compensation he received from both companies this year would be deferred until he is 72.
"I believe this is the right decision for Memorial Sloan Kettering and will allow me to redouble my focus on MSK priorities: quality patient care, faculty, scientists and staff," Thompson said in a memo sent to the hospital staff. He has been the chief executive of the hospital since 2010.
The move followed two tense meetings at the hospital on Monday, spurred by articles by The New York Times and ProPublica, about insider deals among hospital officials and undisclosed industry relationships.
At one meeting with hospital staff, Thompson apologized for his handling of staff reaction to the issues outlined in the articles, and acknowledged that he had not adequately reined in the industry relationships of the hospital's former chief medical officer, Dr. José Baselga, who has since resigned.
At another meeting, reserved for medical staff members, some doctors said they were interested in calling a no-confidence vote in the hospital's top leaders, and asked what steps they needed to take to do that, according to several participants in the meeting.
In an interview Tuesday, Dr. Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, the president of the medical staff, said a small number of doctors had wanted a no-confidence vote in the hospital's leadership, but were now satisfied by Thompson's decision.
"These same colleagues are not interested in moving forward with a vote of no confidence," Abu-Rustum said. "The steps that have been made and taken since the meeting by our leadership have addressed the most important concerns to the medical staff and the associate medical staff and really represents a real progress."
In addition to resigning his board positions, Thompson also said Tuesday that the hospital would give physicians a greater voice in its operations and would conduct an analysis to understand what had gone wrong at the hospital in recent weeks "so that we ensure our path forward is expertly guided by what we learn."
Over the past month, articles in The Times and ProPublica have outlined leaders' ties to for-profit companies, including an exclusive deal the hospital made with an artificial intelligence startup to license images of 25 million tissue slides. The company was founded by Memorial Sloan Kettering insiders, including a member of the executive board, the chair of the pathology department and the head of a research lab. After members of the pathology lab objected to the deal, the head of the department announced he would divest his stake. Another article detailed how a hospital vice president held a nearly $1.4 million stake in a newly public company as compensation for representing Memorial Sloan Kettering on its board. The hospital said last week that a new policy would prohibit compensation in such situations and that the vice president would turn over his stake to the hospital.
Thompson's decision to leave those boards does not affect the eight other Memorial Sloan Kettering officials who serve on the boards of outside companies. A task force that was created in the wake of the crisis over conflicts of interest is considering a policy that would prohibit executives from holding such roles, hospital leaders have said.
Thompson also holds an equity stake in Agios Pharmaceuticals, a cancer startup he founded based on research he conducted at the University of Pennsylvania before joining Memorial Sloan Kettering. Thompson settled lawsuits several years ago that were filed by Penn and an affiliated research center, which contended that he hid research to start Agios and did not share the earnings with Penn or the research institute. Thompson disputed the allegations.
Thompson's seat on the Merck board was brought up at Monday's staff meeting. Douglas A. Warner III, chairman of the hospital's board of directors, said that when Thompson arrived at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the hospital board viewed his position at Merck as a "good thing."
On Monday, Warner said, "we need to step back from that now and ask ourselves whether that continues to be appropriate, whether it's appropriate in the future."
Merck said in a statement that "Dr. Thompson's expertise, perspective and dedication to patient care have contributed greatly to Merck's mission. His contributions demonstrate why it is so important to have leaders from the medical community represented on the board." A spokeswoman for Charles River referred questions to Memorial Sloan Kettering.
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It was a dark and stormy night. Yawn, right? This classic bad first sentence represents all that is wrong with first sentences. Whether you're writing a book, an essay or an article, your opening sentence should grab your readers attention and not in a bad way with a cliché such as above. An opening sentence should make your audience beg for more. An opening sentence should also represent what is to come in the rest of your book or paper or article.
An opening sentence serves the important purpose of dragging your readers in and making them want more. You can do so with a variety of methods such as stepping into the action, humor, a direct quote, a definition, or an interesting fact. We will explore these ways, but in truth, there are many more you could utilize as well.
So how do we make a great first sentence? In a fictional book or story, you want to pull your readers in by stepping directly into the action. Mia couldn't understand how she had ended up in the ditch, but she knew one thing – she must find the man in the purple suit before the sun set. By starting at this point in Mia's story, we can then take her back at some point to get background info, but we have made the readers wonder what is going on and what will happen next.
Humor is also a good way to engage readers from the start. People who are amused will want to continue to be amused. Humor needs to be used only for a topic that can be written about humorously. We wouldn't start an article about the rising crime rate in America with an amusing anecdote about our uncle. However, an article about family members all being different could use that same anecdote to pull the reader in. My uncle likes to tell my friends that he spent fifteen years in prison – before the age of 16.
Beginning with a direct quote can pull our reader in from the start and lead into our topic in an interesting way. A quote from Tesla, for example, could begin an article about inventions. Be sure you give credit where credit is due when using a quote. "I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men," Tesla is reported to have said.
Another method for beginning is defining a word. The definition of dragon Is "a mythical monster like a giant reptile," but we know dragons can be found in the Bible and therefore are not myths at all, but are real creatures. By giving this definition, I lead my readers into an article on what are thought to be mythical creatures that are mentioned in the Bible. I have used my definition to lead into an interesting fact which is another method you can utilize for a first sentence.
As mentioned before, an important thing to remember is that your opening sentence should lead into your first paragraph to set the stage for what your paper or book or article will be about. If I start with a fact like, The only three people to ever escape Alcatraz are believed to still be alive today, but then the rest of my paper went on to discuss the dangers of smoking, you would feel tricked by my first sentence and rightly so. Following through with your opening sentence gives your readers the confidence to not only to continue reading but also believing that you know what you're talking about.
Keep these facts in mind as you take a stab at writing your next opening sentence for a great start to anything you choose to write.


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While this is a season of politics, this blog is not meant to be political per se. Rather, I hope that you will read it as a principle of humanity and leadership in any group of people that you can apply to your personal leadership style at work and at home.
What kind of leader do you prefer to follow in the organizations that you are involved with?
What kind of leader do you desire to be as you progress on your journey in life?
What kind of example, culture, and legacy do want to pass on to your children, and grandchildren?
CAN YOUR STRENGTHS BECOME YOUR WEAKNESSES?
Doesn't the statement "Strengths carried to extreme become weaknesses" seem counterintuitive? If you are interested in learning about what some of your weaknesses may be, think first about what your strengths are.
Aggressiveness- How does it affect other people if you become extremely aggressive?
Fun-loving- Might others get a bit tired if you are never or rarely serious?
Detail-oriented- If you overly dwell on details, is it possible that you might find it difficult to get much done while driving others crazy?
Laid-back- If you withdraw too much, is there a chance that you may get run over?
The list goes on. While you shouldn't try to do away with your strengths because they are given to you as part of your purpose, if you desire to improve your relationships, consider reeling your 'gifts' in a bit. I'm guessing that you'll begin finding more joy.
Like many things in life, moderation will typically help you find balance.


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Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I'm gone – that I'm dead. To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad. And my killer is watching her every move.
I remember little from my life, just flashes and flickers, so all I can do is follow along as Emma tries to solve the mystery of my disappearance. But the deeper she digs, the more suspects she uncovers. It turns out my friends and I played a lot of games – games that ruined people's lives. Anyone could want revenge . . . anyone could want me – and now Emma – dead.
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KARACHI, Oct 3: Six people were shot dead and seven others wounded when a bus carrying employees of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Organization (Suparco) for Friday prayers was ambushed by armed men on the Hub River Road here.
The Suparco bus, with 35 employees, dropped some people at one mosque and then proceeded towards an Imambargah near the Baba Wilayat Shah shrine to drop the remaining persons. As it reached the junction of a link road and the Hub River Road, three unidentified armed men on a motorcycle intercepted it and sprayed it with bullets.
The shooting took only a few minutes, and the assailants sped away without facing any resistance.
Five people died on the spot and eight others were wounded, two of them seriously. Edhi ambulances shifted the bodies to the Rizvia Imambargah. The dead were identified as Athar Ali, 30; bus driver Mohammad Qasim, 50; Hashim Raza, 40; Raza Ali, 40; and Hawaldar Mohammad Rafiq Shahid, 40.
The victims were first taken to the nearby Murshid Hospital. Later, the injured were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and the Civil Hospital.
One Suparco employee, Syed Wasiul Hasan Zaidi, who was operated upon at the Civil Hospital, succumbed to injuries.
The injured taken to the JPMC were Munawar Ali Zaidi, 26; Asghar Zaidi, 30; Syed Itrat Hussain, 40; Ali Hussain, 30; Asif Ali Jafri, 38; Aslam Abbas, 45; and Pervez, 42.
DIG Operations Tariq Jamil termed the incident a sectarian killing and said an investigation had been initiated.
Police refused to speculate as to whether the killings were motivated by any particular incident. However, the police suspected the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi behind the killing.
SSP Investigation Zone-IV, Niaz Ahmed Khoso, told Dawn that the bus had left Suparco around 12:45pm. It stopped at the junction of the link road and the Hub River Road near the Suparco checkpost where some people got down, and 13 employees remained on board.
Witnesses told the police that as the bus driver went towards the Imambargah, three motorcyclists intercepted it. Two of them, holding sub-machine-guns, sprayed the vehicle with bullets. Police found 35 spent shells on the spot.
Following the incident, the Hub River Road was closed for traffic for some time as ambulances and police vans rushed to the scene.
Five bodies of those killed were sent to the Rizvia Imambargah for final rites amidst a tense atmosphere in the area.
A heavy contingent of police and Rangers was deployed to maintain peace. The funeral prayers for three of them would be held there on Saturday after Zuhr prayers.
The body of Raza Ali was being sent to his native Multan city and the body of Mohammad Rafiq was received by his family. The body of Mohammad Qasim was taken away by his family to Korangi No2 1/2 for offering funeral prayers at a mosque. He belonged to interior of Sindh.
The news of the killing spread like wildfire and tension was felt even in other localities such as Ancholi Society, Abbas Town, Jaffar-i-Tayyar Society. Shops were closed in these localities in mourning. A demonstration was held in front of Shah-i-Khurasan near Purani Numaish.
On Aug 16, a well-known doctor was shot dead in a sectarian killing in Malir. Earlier, five brothers were shot dead on Aug 9 on Jahangir Road by some motorcyclists.
An activist of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Saadat Ali, was shot dead in New Karachi and Syed Mohabat Hussain Naqvi, 55, was killed in Nazimabad on June 12 in sectarian killing.
On Feb 27, two owners of a bakery were shot dead on M.A. Jinnah Road. Nine people were shot dead on Feb 22 by two motorcyclists outside Imambargah Muntazirul Mehdi in Al-Falah Society, Malir.


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Schnucks Folds of Honor Campaign Raises $1.25 Million to Support Veterans' Families
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ST. LOUIS, July 16, 2019 – Schnuck Markets, Inc. today announced that Schnucks customers, vendors, and the company donated a total of $1.25 million to the Folds of Honor Foundation, a nonprofit that provides educational scholarships to the spouses and children of veterans who were killed or injured in the line of duty. Schnucks' six-week "Round up at the Register" campaign allowed customers to round up their purchase to the nearest dollar to benefit Folds of Honor. The $1.25 million will provide 250 college scholarships for veterans' family members. The "Round up at the Register" campaign took place from Memorial Day through Independence Day at all Schnucks stores across the five states where the company operates.
"We thank our generous customers, vendor partners, and teammates for their enthusiastic support of such a worthy cause," said Schnucks Chairman and CEO Todd Schnuck. "We can never do enough to express our gratitude for military veterans and their families, but we are proud that our customers and our company were able to demonstrate that gratitude by increasing this year's Folds of Honor total by 14 percent over last year."
"We were so excited to see that Schnucks' and its customers came back even stronger in their second year of supporting us," said Folds of Honor Founder Major Dan Rooney. "We are humbled by the continued support and so grateful that these funds will allow us to continue to support service members and their families who sacrifice so much for all of us."
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A god is a person. Do note that person does not mean "human". All humans are persons but not all persons are humans. The concept of "person" was actually developed during theological debates during the 5th century common era to distinguish between a god and forces of nature.
A god has a will, a plan, and acts to enforce this will/plan.
The god's will cannot be disputed by humans. The god answers to no human and no human has the authority nor the weight to dispute the will. Humans may try to defy the will, but it will still not be disputed.
I am not an expert but I will try my best. My understanding is that God is a being/existence that would have adequate capabilities to create the known universe as based on God's own will.
I would suggest a reading of defining God by what He is not.
The Tâo that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tâo. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.
God is the idea of All Knowledge & All Power. In whichever form that idea takes.
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