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Winners honored at Business Excellence Awards
KATHLEEN CALLAHANNew Hampshire Business Review
MANCHESTER — Thirteen businesspeople were honored Thursday night at the New Hampshire Business Review's ninth annual Business Excellence Awards, which recognize the efforts and achievements owners and operators of companies with 100 employees or fewer.
More than 300 people attended the event, which was held at the Radisson in Manchester.
NHBR also announced two inductees into the Business Excellence Hall of Fame, which singles out people whose entire careers have been marked by a consistent and impressive record of accomplishments, both in their chosen fields, in their communities, and across the state and beyond. These honorees were selected by a separate panel of judges.
The 2011 Hall of Fame inductees were Howard Brodsky, co-founder of CCA Global Partners, one of the largest privately held companies in the United States and one of the largest cooperatives in the world, and the Singer Family, owner of Merchants Automotive Group, a multifaceted, $200 million auto company, including a long-term fleet leasing division that is one of the largest in the Northeast.
"Each of the businesspeople who receive these honors has a different story to tell," said Sharron McCarthy, president of McLean Communications and publisher of NHBR. "But what they have in common is determination, industriousness and the ability to come up with innovative solutions that have allowed their businesses to survive and thrive, regardless of economic conditions, and a commitment to serving their communities."
Jeff Feingold, editor of NHBR, said, "We would like to salute all of the nominees, the people who nominated them and the winners themselves for their contributions toward making New Hampshire a great place to do business."
Emcee was Erin Fehlau, WMUR's weekday morning and noon news anchor. A portion of the proceeds from the evening benefited Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA, which advocates for New Hampshire children in the state's court system in cases of neglect and abuse.
The winners of the 2011 NHBR Business Excellences Awards were:
Excellence in Business Services -- Guy Sylvester, Absolute Resource Associates, Portsmouth
Excellence in Construction (tie) -- Jerry Kingwill, Cobb Hill Construction, Concord; Jason Foster, Foster's Professional Painting Plus LLC, Claremont
Excellence in Financial Services -- Michael L'Ecuyer, Bellwether Community Credit Union, Manchester
Excellence in Health Care -- Paula Gagne, Regency Nursing Care, Manchester
Excellence in Hospitality -- Emeran Langmaid, A&E Custom Coffee Roastery, Amherst
Excellence in Media & Marketing -- Erik Dodier, PixelMEDIA Inc., Portsmouth
Excellence in Nonprofits -- Brian Young, Nashua Center for the Multiply Handicapped
Excellence in Professional Services -- Thomas Brueckner, Senior Financial Resources Inc., Nashua
Excellence in Real Estate -- Dick Anagnost, Anagnost Investments Inc., Manchester
Excellence in Retail (tie) -- Sy Mahfuz, Persian Rug Galleries, Nashua; Lynda Nelson, Quest Martial Arts Academy, Barrington
Excellence in Technology -- Cheryl Gamst, CCS New England, Nashua
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Would I exchange a lifetime of cleverness for a moment's bewilderment?
As far as you and I are concerned this quote is written by aliens.
As a leader, a parent, a teacher, a person – you must appear to know. The world and you are co-conspirators in this life-sucking and quiet understanding.
Consider that a debilitating amount of your time is spent trying not to look stupid.
We are hired to know, we are paid to know, we are expected to know, and worse – we expect ourselves to know. Knowing has become a prison for us.
Within this paradigm, our freedom and full range of expression has died.
Vulnerability, real and enduring curiosity, being able to stand in the unknown with pure wonder, are no longer readily available to us. Instead we are a well put together and sharp dressed façade who looks like we've got it all handled.
Every morning we and everyone else undergo this ridiculous pleasantry, "How are you?" "Fine, good. How are you?" "Good." No struggling relationship on your part… no stressed out parenting, no indication that you hate your boss, or that you're barely surviving your job, or the fact that you can't survive another meeting, etc… Oh no, you're "fine".
And given how apparently perfect things are, it's our job to get everyone else handled. Guide the way, be decisive, and say the right things.
Without knowing it, you are a good looking corpse whose underlying driver in life is to survive situations and other people by not looking stupid. And your two primary strategies are to pretend or avoid speaking… That's the nice way to say it, I'd prefer to say your strategies are to lie, shut up and lay low.
Don't take my word for it – look. Just look at how much you pretend with others. Particularly when it comes to knowing things.
How's that going for you? What's it like pretending to know things you don't know or pretending to understand things you don't understand? What's it like to be quietly on guard for being found out? Now, of course you don't relate to yourself as a fraud. You relate to yourself as a wonderfully self-aware and nice person who is a truth telling machine! In fact, your authenticity is limitless and if you ever do pretend and lie it's always for a good reason.
If I only knew what it's like where you are.
Can you see that this is everyone's little story?!
Can you see that everyone is a protagonist in their own martyrish screenplay where pretending is a staple for their survival?
None of what I am saying lives in the foreground of our thinking. It is all background stuff. If you can get over your indignance about what I just wrote, you will discover that until I pointed it out, pretending was not on your mind. You'll have to do a little digging to get a real glimpse of what I am saying. And of course your ego or identity won't want to acknowledge it.
What I am saying is damn arrogant and kinda pokey!
What if we stopped winning the 'not look stupid game'?
Try it for a day and see what emerges. Likely, the freedom that you experience will permanently start to erode your need to 'not look stupid'. Let us know how that little experiment goes for you on Twitter or Facebook.


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Thousands Peacefully Gather In Civic Center To Protest Education Cuts — No Arrests Reported
by Bay City News | March 4, 2010 4:17 pm	| in News | 0
6:56 PM: Thousands of people gathered in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza this evening for the Bay Area's largest event of today's "Day of Action" against cuts to California's public education system.
Students, teachers and other school staff and supporters were estimated to have gathered for an event called the "Rally for California's Future."
The rally featured no elected officials as speakers. Instead, organizers gave the microphone to students, teachers, parents and other education supporters who spoke on a stage in the middle of the plaza.
One of the speakers was Ryan Vanderpool, a student at City College of San Francisco, who said "our education and our children's education is being whittled away" by legislators, and that providers and recipients of public education are starting to "recognize we're all in the same boat together."
People traveled to the rally from throughout the Bay Area. Marisa Jimison, a student at Chabot College in Hayward, said she came to protest the "unfair and unjust" cuts to her school.
Jimison, who is studying to become a teacher, said the cuts, particularly to community colleges, are unfairly discriminating against low-income and minority students.
"Where are the low-income people from first-generation families supposed to go?" she said. "It's not right to discriminate against people of poverty, minorities and women, and these are who it's affecting the most."
Parents of students also came to support the rally. Paul Hibser, a San Francisco man who has students in kindergarten and third grade at Rooftop Elementary School near Twin Peaks, said cuts will likely lead to larger classes, or classes combining grades, at the school next year.
Hibser said he was "supporting the teachers, and trying to make sure politicians put the money in the right place."
While many people gathered in the plaza, others gathered on the steps of City Hall and on Carlton B. Goodlett Place, which was closed due to the crowd.
The group on the steps of City Hall included students from San Francisco State University's creative arts department who created giant paper mache puppets, one of which was a skeleton that said, "Still paying my student loans."
Along with the street closure in front of City Hall, traffic was slow around the Civic Center area during the event because of the amount of pedestrians coming to and from the plaza.
The rally at Civic Center was hosted by United Educators of San Francisco, the San Francisco Community College District Federation of Teachers, the San Francisco and East Bay chapters of the California Faculty Association, the Peralta Federation of Teachers, the NoEdCuts Coalition, and the San Francisco Labor Council, along with more than a dozen regional student and labor groups.
The rally was scheduled to end at 7 p.m.
San Francisco police spokesman Boaz Mariles said at about 6:45 p.m. no arrests had been made in connection with the demonstration. He said a group of protesters were walking down Market Street and that police were making diversions if necessary.
5:22 PM:The largest Bay Area event of today's "Day of Action" has kicked off with thousands of people this evening gathering at San Francisco's Civic Center to protest cuts to California's public education system.
The rally has brought many students, teachers, and other school staff and supporters who also participated in various other rallies in the city and elsewhere in the region earlier today.
The event, which is expected to bring an estimated 10,000 people, is scheduled to end at 7 p.m.
By 5 p.m., thousands of attendees were rallying as they listened to the music of the Angry Tired Teachers, a rock band made up of teachers from around the Bay Area. No streets were closed, but traffic in the area is expected to be impacted throughout the event.
4:17 PM: Protesters have left San Francisco State University after picketing on campus earlier today and are headed to the city's Mission District and then to a large rally at Civic Center Plaza, a university spokeswoman said.
Shortly after 3 p.m., hundreds of people were gathered at the intersection of 24th and Mission streets, blocking traffic, said Gloria Tineda, a dental assistant at Smile Center, a dentist's office on Mission Street.
The march has started moving down Mission Street toward City Hall.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Judson True said some Muni buses are being rerouted around Mission Street.
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff participated in the protest at SFSU, part of a "Day of Action" against cuts to California's public education system. University spokeswoman Ellen Griffin said the event was very "peaceful, orderly, and respectful of one another."
Phil Klasky, an ethnic studies lecturer at SFSU who is a member of the California Faculty Association, agreed, saying "it was really a wonderful, well attended event, with unity between students, faculty and staff."
Klasky said about 200 people participated in informational picket lines this morning outside the administration and ethnic studies buildings on campus, and then more than 500 people gathered at Malcolm X Plaza for a noontime rally.
The rally included a performance involving large paper mache puppets, as well as speeches by students, faculty and lecturers, and spoken word, poetry, and musical performances about the budget cuts, he said.
The various events on campus went off largely without incident, besides at least one fire alarm that was pulled in a building on campus, Griffin said.
Many of the students have since left campus and headed to a rally at 24th and Mission streets that will be followed by a march to a large rally at Civic Center Plaza that could be attended by more than 5,000 people.
Klasky said shortly before 4 p.m. that he was at Civic Center Plaza and preparing for the rally there that is expected to feature more than 30 speakers and performers from schools and universities that will call on state legislators to restore funding to public education.

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TULSA, Okla. - The Stanford University men's tennis doubles team of junior Sam Warburg and sophomore KC Corkery capped the 2004 season with a national title. The Cardinal All-American tandem defeated Bo Hodge and John Isner of Georgia, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-4. in the finals of the NCAA Doubles Championship to claim the crown.
Like they did in the semifinals, Corkery and Warburg got off to a hot start, grabbing the first set, 6-2.
'Today, we started off well. That's something we've been doing all tournament,' said Corkery.
The hard serving Hodge and Isner would bounce back and take the second set, 6-7 (3).
Corkery and Warburg closed out the match by taking the third set, 6-4. The duo becomes the 14th doubles team in Stanford history to be crowned NCAA Champions. The 14 NCAA Champions rank as the third most in NCAA history, behind only USC (20) and Harvard (17).
Corkery and Warburg end the year with a 19-4 overall record, while Hodge and Isner, the No. 3 seed in the tournament, finish the season with a 40-7 overall record.


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It happened after I updated several windows updates at once. That resulted in the drive giving me this error: "The Bitlocker encryption on this drive isn't compatible with the version of windows. Try opening the drive using newer a version of windows."
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It's worth noting that I have the password, but I've lost the recovery key.
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I kinda doubt the drive is corrupted, but that's why I'm here - to ask if anyone else has had this problem. The error message is pretty clear that it's a compatibility issue, but you never know.
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We are thrilled to announce that from the 2nd November 2015 our Watford office has been approved by the CQC to provide Clinical Case Management services. The service will be delivered by our team of specialist COPD and CHF nurses headed by our Medical Director Dr. Julian Neal.
Julian stated, "This is most welcome news and our CQC Registration has been achieved very quickly because we were able to demonstrate the robust nature of our internal systems and the integrity of our staff. I now look forward to helping to develop our range of services with the assistance of our new team of specialist nurses. The potential for more integrated health and social care models of service delivered with modern technology is huge and I think Telehealth Solutions Ltd is superbly placed to be at the forefront of this development in the UK."
Pete Kerly commented "The 1st Phase of our expansion plan was to be CQC approved in order to gain total control of our fully managed, end to end, Telehealth service to ensure that we can meet the demands of the joint commissioning teams across the UK.
Our product range will be expanding to meet the needs of both commissioner and patients alike. We are very excited to be able to offer a variety of services which enable our commissioners to create the required efficiencies to cope with the ever growing demands being placed upon both the Health and Social Care arena."
This facility will be developed to ensure this service is not restricted to the Telehealth Solutions Ltd technology only. We are well aware that there are commissioners with competitor's technology who would welcome the support of a centrally triaged service to enable them to create the efficiencies locally. Thus allowing their clinical teams to deliver care and support to the right patient, at the right time and in the right place.
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Russian Lawmakers Plan to Extend Their Online Crackdown With 'Fake News' and 'Disrespect' Laws
The Russian parliament has green-lit two new laws that would allow the authorities there to fine or even jail people for disrespecting the government online, and for spreading so-called "fake news."
One law, if finalized, would prohibit posts that show disrespect for Russian society, the state, state symbols, and the authorities there, such as President Vladimir Putin. The other targets "fake news" but would also force Internet service providers to block content which offends "public morality." The Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, approved both overwhelmingly on Thursday.
The new "fake news" law would require news sites to register with the communications regulator Roskomnadzor if they don't want to be blocked without an opportunity to first take down the offending information. Roskomnadzor would be the arbiter of what news is "fake" and what is not.
Russia is hardly the first country to use the recent "fake news" panic as an opportunity for repressive new laws—both Malaysia and Egypt have justified clampdowns on dissent and media freedom as tools to fight disinformation.
However, in Russia the new laws—still awaiting final approval from the parliament's upper house and Putin—are the latest in a list of online-freedom limitations that is getting extremely long.
Over the last few years, the Russian authorities have:
Prosecuted many people for liking comments and sharing memes with "extremist" sentiments, such as mockery of religious figures;
Banned privacy-protecting virtual private network (VPN) services;
Required telecoms providers to store details of citizens' communications and record which citizens are using which messaging apps;
Required encrypted messaging providers to hand over encryption keys (a refusal to comply led to the banning of the Telegram app);
Ordered tech firms to store Russian citizens' data in Russian data centers (something Facebook and Twitter have been pushing back against);
And repeatedly talked about re-engineering Russia's online infrastructure—the so-called "Runet"—so it can if needed be cut off from the rest of the Internet.
Russia has fallen in the international online freedom stakes over each of the last six years. The NGO Freedom House now lists the country as being more repressive online than Thailand and Gambia.


In July of 1914, many countries, including the United States, fought in World War 1. The war originally started from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, on June 28th, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. The assassination led to many events which turned into WW1. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination and threatened war. Germany backed up Austria-Hungary and Russia took sides with Serbia. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia exactly a month later in July. Within the next few days, Germany declared war on Russia and France. At the time, Woodrow Wilson was president and he made an effort to keep America out of the war. After time went on, events like the sinking of the Lusitania happened. The Lusitania was a large passenger ship that was torpedoed by one of Germany's U-boats in May of 1915. Many American lives were lost and terribly injured. America finally joined the war April 6th, 1917, fighting against Germany. Finally, on the 11th of November, 1918, the war came to an end. The United States calls this day Veteran's Day to remember all the Americans who have served this great country.
Every year, Jordan has a Veteran's Day dinner that Jim Ryan has been sponsoring for the last twenty years. The dinner has been held for at least fifty years now. Every year, Greg Wolf and a guest speaker talk about the importance of veterans and living in a free country. Last year Rebekah Fillmore sang the "National Anthem" and "God Bless America". Rebekah will also sing this year. They call out the names of all the brave men and women who served from Jordan, then sit down to a delicious prime rib dinner.
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DREAM THEATER Guitarist: MIKE MANGINI 'Knocked Us Out' During His Audition (Video)
A little more than a month after drummer Mike Portnoy's sudden departure from DREAM THEATER, the band held three days of auditions in New York City. Over an incredibly productive three-day period, the band played, jammed and spoke candidly and at length with seven of the world's greatest drummers. The remaining members of the band got to know the candidates musically, personally and professionally and thus assessed the fit of each drummer's incredible chops with the band's trademark prog-rock sound.
After intense consideration, the band unanimously chose drummer Mike Mangini (EXTREME, STEVE VAI, ANNIHILATOR) to fill the seat behind the kit which was left vacant by Portnoy's departure late last summer.
DREAM THEATER began telling their intense tale on April 21 when the band took to its Facebook page to give fans a glimpse into the audition process. A video tool that was powered by new technology prompted fans to "like" the page in order to unlock exclusive content. Much to the joy of fans, a trailer for the three-part documentary series on the audition process was then revealed. Those that "liked" the page then received updates on when and where the actual documentary would be airing.
Artisan News Service spoke to DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci about the audition process and the band's decision to turn it into a documentary. You can now watch the four-minute report below.
On the audition process:
Petrucci: "When we realized that Mike Portnoy really left and it sunk in that we had to find a new drummer, we started to think about, 'Well, how are we gonna go about doing this?' and 'Who do we know that would be somebody we would like to consider?' and 'Are there people that we don't know…?' We thought of all different things — are there unknown people that are somewhere in the corners of the practice rooms of the worlds, up and coming. And, of course, there are the people that we know, that we've played with before, or that we know professionally or whatever, and would they be interested? And we started to come up with a list, and we had a short list — [there were] not too many people on there. And then we started contacting them — 'Would you be interested?' and they said 'Yes,' and we set the whole thing up."
On making a documentary out of the new drummer search:
Petrucci: "The initial idea was, 'We have to film this.' That was our first thinking. 'We can't just do this and have no record of it. We have to film this.' So you think about, 'Oh, we'll give a video camera to our manager.' But then when we started to really think about it, it was like, 'Well, why don't do this for real? Is this something that maybe the label would be interested in.' And they were totally interested in it, and their production person really had some great ideas, hired an incredible director and film company to do it, and we went for it — we did it professionally. And I think they did such a great job."
On some fans' speculation that the drummer search/competition was "fixed":
Petrucci: "No. Of course we didn't know all along [who the new drummer would be]. It's just that Mike [Mangini] was the first guy, he was literally the first one to audition. And he came in there and he just knocked us out. He just has all of the elements; [all the elements] are just in place. So it's probably why it kind of came across that way; there was a very natural chemistry between all of us. He's like one of us — East Coast guy, Berklee… he's one of us."
On Mike Mangini being the first drummer DREAM THEATER ever played with other than Mike Portnoy:
Petrucci: "Up until that point, we had never played with another drummer, DREAM THEATER had never existed with another drummer, we never played with another drummer as DREAM THEATER, so it was like the first time we were kicking into a song with this stranger — not that Mike Mangini was a stranger — and it just blew us away. I mean, that could have [gone] any way. If it was somebody else or whatever… And it was like, 'Wow. We could have played these songs in front of an entire audience and it would have been perfect.'"
With the addition of Mangini to the band's lineup, DREAM THEATER moved forward into the studio to begin recording their third release for Roadrunner Records. Guitarist John Petrucci reprises his role as producer, and Paul Northfield (RUSH, QUEENSRŸCHE, PORCUPINE TREE) assumes the same engineering position that he has had on DREAM THEATER's previous two Roadrunner releases. The band will kick off a world tour in July 2011.
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Midway through the first day, though, one of the participants resisted strongly what we said about how to approach another person that you have conflict with. The objection: "it is not our value to confront another with our conflicts." During the break that followed shortly thereafter, the concerned participant shared with us a brochure about how to incorporate Hawaiian values into the workplace and further expressed the reasoning behind her resistance. In the end we did not significantly change our approach to managing workplace conflict. But we did become more aware of the need to be sensitive to the host culture where we live and work. for our own credibility as professionals.
This strong response from the participant helped us to recognize the need for creating space within a training to identify cultural values and incorporate them into the tools offered so that the information will be accessible and relevant to the participants.
While culture varies from cities, states and countries as well as from organization to organization, this article will focus on specifically Hawaiian values. as discussed by Rosa Say in Managing with Aloha and by Peter Apo in Hawaiian Values and the Workplace. Further, I will share some of the ways that I have incorporated the language and values into my workplace-training curriculum. My goal is to help conflict management professionals who work in an environment with strong cultural values, to assess the culture and make sure that you, too, "mālama" the values.
ceived to be good, right, just, and fair by a group.
challenge for the conflict management professional.
In the training I described above, the participant said that she valued harmony in the workplace but that she and some co-workers felt disrespected by the actions of others. Refraining from confronting the others about their behavior supported her value of harmony, but came at the expense of harmony for others in the workplace.
Mainstream Western culture tends to value the use of words to convey thoughts and actions. Hawaiian culture tends to value high context forms of communication, where words are supplemented (and sometimes even superseded) by nonverbal cues. High context communication is frequently used to help save face in a conflict.
The Hawaiian language also has several words with beautiful and complex meanings that represent characteristic Hawaiian values.
Mālama means to take care of, serve and protect. As a trainer who has been invited into an organization, you are there to serve the participants based on their needs as well as to protect the confidentiality and safe space that is being created during the training process. Mālama extends beyond trainers to practitioners who serve as mediators and agents of change. We take care of the individuals and the organization by listening to them, doing our own homework and responding appropriately based on what is expressed as well as what is not. Consider that we would not be asked to mālama the organization if they were able to do it themselves.
is a mediator, trainer and facilitator specializing in workplace and domestic issues.
She is a current Board Member for ACR, has a private mediation practice in Maui, and is a lecturer for the University of Hawaii at Maui College and Manoa-Outreach.


The construction of roman abacus has seven longer and shorter grooves for whole number counting, the former having four beads while the latter has only one. The rightmost two grooves are used for fractional counting.
The abacus was made of a metal sheet and the size was small enough to fit into a shirt pocket, almost like our modern day calculator. This device has helped the basic operation of roman arithmetic and roman numerals.
The computations are made by means of beads which would be slid up and down to indicate the value of each column. The Romans are said to have a flourished economy, and they have discovered the hand abacus. It was almost a copy of the Babylonian abacus but the changes Romans have introduced for decimal system has helped the engineers a lot.
In Rome the hand abacus was used by the engineers, merchants and the tax collectors. The introduction of the decimal system improvised the advanced calculation involved in trigonometry and helped the construction business and the study of astronomy.
In addition to these for the more complicated calculations involved in the roman surveys, they had a reckoning board with unattached strings and pebbles. This has helped in formulating and faster arrival of solution for certain formulas regarding area and circumference.


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If you are currently running 2.0.18.10, no other steps are required than copying the new files over your old ones.
Please note that 2.1 is currently in release candidate stage, so it is imminent for stable release. We will continue to support 2.0 with security patches thru the end of 2014.
Thanks! Unfortunately, the Preview function isn't working for me after updating everything; nothing shows up in the preview. After I reverted back to the old class.postcontroller.php it started working again. Changing the theme to the default Vanilla theme didn't do anything. Anyone else have this problem?
@Shmizzle The only thing that changed in the post controller was the editdiscussion method, which added a permission check. What version were you on previously? Did you clear your browser cache?
I was on 2.0.18.10 and did try clearing the cache. The weird thing is draft saving doesn't work anymore either. Reverting back to the 2.0.18.10 class.postcontroller.php fixes that too.
it sound more like the whole file isn't being read. check the permissions.
Thanks for the suggestion. Permissions are 0644 like all the other files.
If anyone else is experiencing this or can reproduce it, I'd be extremely keen to know.
I was having one of my blond moments there.
nevertheless less it is worth checking the network traffic, for the ajax request, status code and response.
Personally I would not bother with being "selective" just run through the normal update process.
I like the selective update because over the years I've made several minor changes to the core files. I really should have documented the changes I made, but unfortunately I didn't.
Update: It appears that at some point I must not have done a proper selective-update, as I noticed quite a few of the files on my server are different from the files in the current release despite me not modifying them. How that happened and everything still worked okay up until this point I'm not sure, but I'll get around to doing a proper update and let you know if I still have any issues. Sorry for the false alarm guys!
Not trying to harp on you specifically, but this is an excellent reason to never modify the core files. Glad you got your issue sorted.
FilterForm is inherited from Gdn_Model. I suggest your problem is as you say, you are maintaining a fork.
As a maintainer of a fork it is your responsibility to maintain and merge any necessary changes.
I think what must have happened is I missed one of the 2.0.18.x updates along the way. Probably one that came out a couple of years ago before I subscribed to the RSS feed.
Glad you got it sorted. No harm done.
...except the days shaved off my life by the momentary panic of thinking I'd done a bad release somehow.
To all users, please don't send Lincoln into a panic, we need him. A toast you your long life.
I do still definitely appreciate the fact that you always let us know what files changed since the last release though.
Disclaimer: the 2.1 upgrade can't be selective It's cray-cray.


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Q: In VB.NET, how can you toggle between whether your own or another process is in front on the screen? This is not a duplicate.  There are many other questions similar to this, but none of their answers are working for me, not even in Hello World apps.
Essentially I have a VB.NET program and an Adobe AIR program, and I need the VB.NET program to be able to toggle which one is in front of the other.  I've been researching APIs for doing things like this in VB.NET, but none of them have been panning out.  I've even reduced it to a Hello World program which toggles between itself and another .NET executable, but the most it will ever do is flicker orange on the Windows 7 taskbar at the bottom of the screen; whichever executable is in front will simply stay there regardless.
Most of the APIs I've seen on the Internet for this use user32.dll (this is a 32-bit machine, by the way), and they use functions like ShowWindow, SetForegroundWindow, and other kinds of things like that.  Here is but one example that has been tried:
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Public Class Form1

    <DllImport("user32.dll")> _
    Private Shared Function SetForegroundWindow(ByVal pHWND As IntPtr) As _
            <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)> Boolean
    End Function

    Private m_hwndSelf As IntPtr = Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowHandle
    Private m_procApp As Process

    Private m_blnFlag As Boolean = True

    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim prInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("somePath/someProg.exe", "")
        prInfo.UseShellExecute = False
        m_procApp = Process.Start(prInfo)

        Timer1.Interval = 5000
        Timer1.Start()
    End Sub

    Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        If m_blnFlag Then
            SetForegroundWindow(m_procApp.MainWindowHandle)
        Else
            SetForegroundWindow(m_hwndSelf)
        End If
        m_blnFlag = Not m_blnFlag
    End Sub
End Class

This can't be rocket science, and it's probably a mistake I'm making, but I do not see an adequate explanation when searching forums and the like.  Why is this program not toggling which window is in front?  Why does it simply flicker orange?  Other, related functions don't seem to be working either, and neither do other ways of trying to get window handles, so what's wrong in general with my code?  Thanks.

A: The problem lay in how I was attempting to get the window handle.  Instead of using Process.MainWindowHandle, I should've been using FindWindow(String, String) (which is in user32.dll).  In particular:
FindWindow(Nothing, "Program Name in the Taskbar")

Technically this hasn't been verified with using SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr), but it has been verified with another user32.dll function I was trying out earlier, ShowWindow(IntPtr, Integer).


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Nordic Games rebranded as THQ Nordic, refers to 13 unannounced projects
By Joe Donnelly 2016-08-12T12:13:24.224Z
"Who the F*** is Nordic Games?"
In 2013, former publisher THQ closed its doors after several months of financial turbulence. While rivals Deep Silver and Sega jumped on the likes of Saints Row and Relic Entertainment thereafter, Nordic Games—an otherwise unheard of studio at the time—claimed the likes of Red Faction, Supreme Commander, and Darksiders. Today, eight years after its formation, Nordic Games has changed its name to THQ Nordic.
"One could say the most defining moment for our company happened in 2013, grabbing headlines like; 'Who the F*** is Nordic Games?', "'Darksiders Gets Bought By…Nordic Games?', and 'Nordic Games explains who the f they are, plans for THQ assets'," reads a press release issued by Nordic/THQ Nordic.
It continues:
"Whilst we take great pride in our Swedish roots and accomplished a great deal under the Nordic Games masthead, we decided it was time to incorporate the THQ name. Those key brands will continue to shape our business in a meaningful way going forward, and THQ Nordic represents a core approach of doing much more than 'owning' a highly competitive portfolio of IPs.
"We cherish them, and align them with the very best development resources to expand upon them with the level of experience that communities and established fan bases expect and deserve. With this rebrand we are entering the next phase in our company's evolution."
Beyond the marketing speak and mostly superficial rebranding, though, THQ Nordic goes onto outline what's next for the newly-named publisher. "As of now we have 23 game projects in development, 13 thereof have not yet been publicly announced, but are sure to be in the next months," it adds. "Needless to say, the majority of these projects are based on former THQ owned IPs and franchises."
We already know the original Darksiders is getting remastered this year, so I'd bet the much-awaited Darksiders 3 is one of those 13. As for the rest, might we expect another Red Faction instalment? What about Supreme Commander 3? Stick your predictions in the comments below.


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Westlake Senior Quarterback, Sam Ehlinger, takes his pads off for the second half after injuring his thumb during the first quarter against Lake Travis High School and is out for the remainder of the game on Friday, October 7, 2016.
Westlake quarterback Sam Ehlinger will miss the rest of the season with an injured right thumb, Chaparrals coach Todd Dodge said Monday.
The University of Texas-bound senior was hurt while scrambling in the backfield during a 49-7 loss to Lake Travis Friday night at Cavalier Stadium. After the game Ehlinger, his thumb wrapped with ice, said he expected to return this year.
Those plans changed after having X-rays of the thumb taken during the weekend.
To make matters worse for the Chaparrals, backup quarterback Matt Gense has been declared out for the season, too. He broke his collar-bone during a victory over Hays on Sept. 3.
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In July I headed to the Positivus music festival in Salacgriva, Latvia. It's on the border with Estonia and not far -- as the tanks roll --from Russia.
This was the 10th year of Positivus, and I've made eight of the festivals. Latvia has just under 2 million people, so a festival that attracts thousands of visitors is a big event for the entire Baltic region of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. While Positivus is held in what used to be the Soviet Union, Latvia is now part of both NATO and the European Union. They even switched their currency from the Lat to the Euro.
I didn't spend a lot of time discussing politics at Positivus. However I spent loads of time taking pictures, buying a fabulous fabric crown from a Latvian-American woman who had recently moved from Dallas to Riga, talking about British writer Angela Carter with members of British buzz-band "Wolf Alice" and listening to tales from an adorable British tour manager of scrounging random drum kits in foreign countries. While I discussed the music of Soviet-era band Aquarium with a longtime Latvian rock journalist, I didn't think much about politics, beyond the politics of who is allowed backstage.
It was a surprise to return home and find that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was talking about the Baltic states. It turns out Trump isn't committed to making sure Positivus can continue.
Mr. Trump said in an interview with The New York Times that in the case of Russian aggression toward the Baltic states that are recent NATO entrants, he'll have to consider whether their contributions have been met before jumping to their defense.
"If they fulfill their obligations to us," he said, "the answer is yes."
That's a step away from our current pledge to willingly defend NATO allies. Putting American interests ahead of other obligations is part of Trump's "America First" plan, and it's not fair to my friends in Latvia, many of whom have small children, thriving businesses and bustling record labels.
When American forces were on the ground in the Middle East, Latvian forces served with them, part of the much-touted "coalition of the willing." During Positivus, I chatted at a bar with a former member of the Latvian end of the coalition of the willing. The ex-military man liked hearing my American accent, partly because of the Americans with whom he had served in combat.
While the details of our early morning conversation are fuzzy (as early-morning bar chats tend to be) I came away with the feeling that these Latvian forces had our back, and, due to our NATO agreements, we have theirs.
When the Soviet Union ended, the Baltic countries allied themselves with NATO and with the United States, not with Russia. We've made agreements as a nation, and we need to stick to them. If we follow Donald Trump's "America First" plan, we won't be taking care of our friends who've helped us when we needed them. That would be wrong.
Donald Trump would benefit from attending a Latvian music festival and meeting the people who count on our defense under NATO treaties, instead of just courting trouble by inviting Russia to search for Hillary Clinton's missing emails. Might I suggest that he take his Trump jet to the "Fontaine Rock Festival" festival in August in the port city of Liepaja, Latvia.
In Liepaja, Trump might make a solemn and soul-searching stop at the beach side memorial to the Mariners Lost at Sea. A plaque to commemorates the 10 U.S. Navy airmen whose aircraft was shot down nearby in 1950, when our country was trying to win the cold war.
"America's promises do not come with a price tag," President Barack Obama said at the Democratic National Convention. That's the kind of America that I want to represent next time I go to Positivus.


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A campaign ad went viral last week — something that, despite political consultants' best efforts, doesn't often happen. It begins with an elderly woman sitting in her living room in Wisconsin. As her middle-aged son listens, she describes her concern that she someday may not be able to pay for the drugs she needs to treat her multiple sclerosis.
Her son, it turns out, is Randy Bryce, a first-time candidate for federal office. Bryce's opponent in 2018 will be one of the Republican health care plans' most prominent advocates, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. As the ad circulated through social media last week, Bryce — or @IronStache, as he's known on Twitter — quickly became internet famous as an advocate for expanding, not taking away, health care.
This time he's more serious. Labor journalist Mike Elk reports for Payday Report that he's attracted endorsements from state politicians and unions, and enlisted the help of Bill Hyers, who managed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2013 campaign and who has worked with former Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). Bryce has two challengers in his district's Democratic primary, but his bid for the nomination has attracted far and away the most attention.
We spoke with Bryce about his path to politics, the causes he would champion in office and political reporters' assertions that a mustachioed ironworker fighting for the working man is, basically, "Bruce Springsteen's discography" in human form. The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
John Light: What prompted your decision to run?
Then, just the week before May, there were some people from the Working Families Party that approached me and said, "You're a working guy. We're looking for that kind of a candidate." And that had me starting to seriously think about it.
Then, during the May Day march in Milwaukee, which I participated in, one of the state senators walked up to me and he said, "I know some people who are looking for someone to get behind. Can I forward your information?" So, that's kind of where I got sucked in. That's where I told them yes.
JL: How did you first become interested in politics?
RB: I was the political coordinator for Ironworkers Local 8, headquartered in Milwaukee. I recently resigned before I announced that I was running. So I would attend city council meetings because I had been aware of how local politics helps our members get jobs. But I became extremely involved when I was trying to keep Scott Walker from being elected governor. That race was when I dove into the deep end.
JL: And what was it about Scott Walker that prompted you to get so involved?
I'll get a message from somebody that works across the country saying 'Hey, I support you, I sent you an hour's worth of work as a donation.' And that really hits me. I'm very appreciative of that.
RB: Well, I saw the way he treated the county workers, and I didn't want that expanded to the state level.
JL: Tell me some of the ways in which your view of your district and your district's needs differs from Paul Ryan's view.
RB: Well, to start, I've always been committed to standing with working people to get us as much as I can — to get better wages, to get safe working conditions, to have access to health care. I've been an ironworker for 20 years and Paul Ryan has been in Congress about the same amount of time. I look at what's happening with him in office, and I see all the good paying auto jobs leaving. General Electric, an entire factory-worth of some of the best-paying jobs in Waukesha County, is going up to Canada. And now, especially with this health care thing, he's trying to make rich people richer, and strip us of our health care. It's a very cruel thing that he's doing to us.
RB:: Everybody saw themselves in it, and people want to be heard. That's going on throughout the country. We want to be healthy, and we can't be ourselves — we can't work, our kids can't grow — if we have to spend all of our time trying to get money for our elders to go see a doctor. It's an intergenerational issue that effects everybody, regardless of where they live and where they're from.
JL: I read that the video brought in quite a lot of donations. How much have you brought in since this video started being passed around online?
RB: It's been great. We surpassed 10,000 people that donated, and the average contribution has been around $28. For me, that's perfect. I appreciate the small-dollar amounts because I know how hard it is to make money in today's economy. So that's great. I'll get a message from somebody that works across the country saying "Hey, I support you, I sent you an hour's worth of work as a donation." And that really hits me. I'm very appreciative of that.
JL: Speaking of money — the recent special election in Georgia's 6th District was the most expensive ever. And a lot of that spending was done by super PACs and dark money groups funded by out-of-state, sometimes anonymous donors. These groups often work closely with Paul Ryan, so if you threaten his congressional seat, they'll likely start spending heavily in your district. How will you contend with that?
No person who works a full-time job should have to depend on any kind of government assistance. That's corporate welfare and I'm completely against that.
RB: Well, it's not like my message deals with discovering electricity. It's a basic message. And all I'm trying to do is raise enough money to get my message to people in the first district so they know that there's somebody like them as an alternative to Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan is speaker of the House, but he hasn't been speaking on behalf of working people's houses.
JL: The president and both parties were watching the four special elections this spring very closely. What was your takeaway from them? Or do you feel that it's dangerous to read too much into them?
RB: If you're going to look at anything from them, you need to look at the history of the areas. Just how close [the elections] were says a lot. The over performing [by Democrats]. People are not happy with this extreme message that the Republicans are pushing upon us.
JL: Let's just say, hypothetically, that the Democrats retake Congress in 2018, and you're one of the new members of Congress. What are three things you'd want to see your party do right away?
We need to get rid of this closed door that we have in the government — the way that they're passing laws is in secrecy, behind closed doors. We need transparency so that working people have trust in the government again.
It's wrong that the representatives are able to choose who their voters are. The voters should be the ones choosing who their representatives are.
RB: It's definitely an issue. In Wisconsin, on the state level, there were thousands more votes for Democrats, yet Republicans gained more seats. There's a fine line between demanding that justice be served and coming across as — I don't know if "whining" is the right word? Looking for an excuse? But overall, it's wrong. It's wrong that the representatives are able to choose who their voters are. The voters should be the ones choosing who their representatives are.
RB: Well, we just talked about gerrymandering. The two times I ran were for State Assembly and State Senate — and especially for the Senate, it was one of the most heavily gerrymandered districts in the state.
And then, for the State Senate, I was asked to run because of the John Doe investigation of Scott Walker. It was a possibility that that was going to blow up that summer, and they wanted a good candidate in place if it did. Plus, it helped me get the message out to try and help Mary Burke, who was running for governor against Scott Walker. So, I knew what the probable outcome was going to be, but there were reasons I got in anyway — in order to make someone fight for the seat.
RB: I've already had people, like in the grocery store, who are Republican-leaning voters who know I'll talk to them — we have stuff in common — come up and say, "Hey, I hear you're running against Paul Ryan; I think that's great." We even had some union members who voted for Trump. They thought he was going to be really great for working people. But people are fed up. And all I have to say is, "Are you healthy? Look at Paul Ryan's kids. They're all healthy. They have great health care. He's trying to take away your ability to see a doctor." And he's not here. He's not here. So I'm reaching a lot of people.
We're definitely counting on turning up the vote. Just the way that our launch took off shows that there is excitement everywhere — not just in this district, but across the country — for people willing to stand up to see one of their own elected.
And they're like, "Well," and they kind of hang their heads. He's not doing anything. So there's a lot of buyers' remorse.
JL: A lot of articles I've seen cast you as a Bruce Springsteen song come to life. How do you feel about that description?
RB: It's funny and flattering at the same time.
JL: You're a Springsteen fan?
JL: Thanks for taking the time.


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Q: Mediator in .net Core 6 WebApi Object disposed exception I have the following WebApi constructor:
public MyController(ILogger<MyController> logger,
    Channel channel,
    AuditManager auditManager,
    IMediator mediator)
{
    _logger = logger;
    _channel = channel;

    _channel.EventFinished += async (o, e) =>
    {
        await mediator.Publish(new EventFinishedNotification(e);
    };

    _auditManager = auditManager;
}

Basically i'm subscribing to the _channel.EventFinished event (which fires when one of my end points is called). When this occurs, on the call to mediator.Publish i get a

Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: 'IServiceProvider'.'

exception. Any ideas why ?

A: It happens, because you subscribing to IMediator instance resolved from DI. Here compiler makes private class for delegate after += and "caches" the instance of IMediator inside of it.
When your controller method execution ends, DI is disposing container. And if event triggers after that, your method calling mediator.Publish, which uses Service Locator pattern inside and tries to resolve required services from IServiceProvider. Because it already disposed, you catch an exception.
There are several ways to handle it:

*

*Change way how it works and architecture, for example change classic events to in process event raising. (Of course it require additional code)

*Create hosted service for that purposes, which will works with DI and lifetime correctly, for example:

public sealed class ChannelHostedService : BackgroundService
{
    private readonly IServiceProvider _serviceProvider;
    private readonly Channel _channel;

    // Resolve channel from DI or initialize it in constructor.
    public ChannelHostedService(IServiceProvider serviceProvider, Channel channel)
    {
        _serviceProvider = serviceProvider ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(serviceProvider));
        _channel = channel ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(channel));
    }

    protected override Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
    {
        // Code for start channel listening.

        // Our new subscriber.
        _channel.EventFinished += async (o, e) =>
        {
            // Here we creating new scope from IServiceProvider to handle our event
            using (var scope = _serviceProvider.CreateScope())
            {
                // Mediator resolves from our scope.
                var mediator = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IMediator>();
                await mediator.Publish(new EventFinishedNotification(e);
            }
        };
    }
}

Then register it in your DI container in Startup.cs
services.AddHostedService<ChannelHostedService>();

In this example we are injecting singleton IServiceProvider in singleton BackgroundService, and creating new service scopes for execution from IServiceProvider. Obviously, in this case your Channel should be a singleton.
I didn't see your code, and don't know what is Channel and why you initializing subscription in controller. But this approach works fine for subscriptions, e.g. when we want to read events from message brokers: RabbitMq, Kafka, etc. We just initializing channel once in DI or in background service constructor, and then it works till our app is down.
Hope it helps.

A: Ok just for anyone else's benefit it looks like calling the mediator publish from the callback initialised from the constructor as i was doing was the issue. I've wrapped that bit of code in a separate service and that works fine.


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New York City Legionnaires' cluster rises to 22 cases, health officials report
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (WABC) -- The number of people affected by Legionnaires' Disease in Upper Manhattan has now risen to 22, including one fatality., health officials report.
The person who died has not been identified but is said to be older than 50 with underlying medical conditions.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Gray Davis during a television interview Friday acknowledged meeting with then-Enron CEO Kenneth Lay last year during the state's energy crisis, but said that he ignored his advice.
During a broadcast of the PBS show "Now With Bill Moyers," Davis said he met with Lay over several months at the request of the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Davis' comments came as Enron struggles to reorganize under bankruptcy protection. Davis earlier this week demanded the federal government investigate Enron's influence on the California energy crisis.
The broadcast targeted Enron's influence on the Bush administration's energy policy. In a previous interview for a Frontline/New York Times show, Lay said he also had made contact with the Clinton administration and with Davis.
Davis political critics and Republican challengers for the governor's seat have blasted him for his handling of California's energy crisis.
Davis said he had hoped Lay would be "an honest broker" who could help solve the energy problems by acting as a liaison between the state, other independent power generators and the Bush administration. "I have no apologies for talking to Ken Lay," Davis said. "Every government official in the Clinton and Bush administrations said, 'Have you talked to Ken Lay?' I did learn a good deal talking to Ken Lay. I learned his view was quite different than mine. I did ask him for advice on a number of things, and he generally gave me advice that I did not take. In fact, I can't remember any advice I took."
Davis said Lay urged him to require electricity customers to pay the record wholesale prices being charged in late 2000 and last year.
Lay also urged the governor to allow private companies to assume control of the state's power grid and to further deregulate the electric system, Davis said.
"He comes across as having no ax to grind," Davis said. "He had a huge ax to grind in seeing that energy deregulation was not changed in any way."
But Davis' political rivals did not accept his explanation.
Secretary of State Bill Jones reiterated his demand that Davis return Enron campaign donations. Since 1996, Davis has received $119,500 from Enron, including $42,500 since becoming governor. Davis has said he will not return any money, but adds he no longer accepts campaign contributions from energy brokers or generators.


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Giovanna De Maio is a visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. With a background on Russia and international security, as well as on Italy's relations with Russia, EU and United States, De Maio's research analyzes Italian domestic and foreign politics, in light of the challenge posed by the rise of populism in the European Union and of the political instability in the Mediterranean. In particular, De Maio is working on the evolving topic of "direct democracy" in the Italian case and its possible consequences on democratic stability.
Prior to joining Brookings, she worked as a trans-Atlantic post-doctoral fellow at the French Institute for International Relations in Paris, where she provided expertise on the impact of the sanctions towards Russia (and Russia's counter-sanctions) on the Italian economy, and at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States in Washington, D.C., where she analyzed the ties between Russia and eurosceptic parties in Italy prior to the national elections in 2018.
De Maio holds a doctorate in international relations from the University of Naples, L'Orientale; an advanced certificate in diplomatic studies from the Società Italiana per l'Organizzazione Internazionale in Rome; and a master's and bachelor's degree from the University of Naples, L'Orientale. In her doctoral dissertation, Giovanna focused on the 2014 conflict in Ukraine and provided a comprehensive analysis of the crisis from the perspective of Russia, including an assessment of the decisionmaking mechanisms within the Kremlin and mythmaking processes addressing Russian public opinion. She conducted field research in Moscow and spent five months as a special guest of the Brookings Institution, where she completed research on EU energy security vis-à-vis Russia.
Prior to enrollment in her doctoral program, De Maio was a trainee at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, where she worked reviewed NGO projects proposals and country-targeted action plans in the fields of human rights, democracy, and rule of law.
De Maio writes regularly a number of policy-oriented articles, working papers, and policy briefs different outlets such as the Observatory for International Politics of the Italian Senate, the GMF, Brookings, and the Institute of International Affairs.
De Maio holds a doctorate in international relations from the University of Naples, L'Orientale; an advanced certificate in diplomatic studies from the Società Italiana per l'Organizzazione Internazionale in Rome; and a master's and bachelor's degree from the University of Naples, L'Orientale. In her doctoral dissertation, Giovanna focused on the 2014 conflict in Ukraine and provided a comprehensive analysis of the crisis from the perspective of Russia, including an assessment of the decisionmaking mechanisms within the Kremlin and mythmaking processes addressing Russian public opinion. She conducted field research in Moscow and spent five months as a special guest of the Brookings Institution, where she completed research on EU energy security vis-à-vis Russia.
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Q: Php session variable echos old value Hello so I have a session_start is inside of my header file which is required in every php file. In my header file I have a cart icon that shows the quantity of items inside of my cart file.
The issue I'm having is that the cart icon doesn't show the current  number of items unless it is refreshed again after the item has been added to cart.

After Refresh cart and icon both equal 20

header.php (contains session start)
<i class="fa fa-shopping-cart fa-3x" aria-hidden="true">
<?php
    echo ($_SESSION['$q']);
?>
</i>

cart.php ( require header.php)
<?php
    $cart = json_decode(json_encode($_SESSION['cart']));
    $_SESSION['$s'] = 0;
    $_SESSION['$q'] = 0;
    $index = 0;
    for($i = 0; $i < count($cart); $i++)
    {
        $_SESSION['$s'] += $cart[$i]->price * $cart[$i]->quantity;
        $_SESSION['$q'] += $cart[$i]->quantity;
?>

What am I doing wrong? I know I can make the page refresh when the item is added but I would like to stay away from using that.

A: Depends if your adding the products to cart with javascript/ajax or not? If you are, then the page has already rendered so the cart wont change - you either need to manually update the cart quantity with js or do a page refresh.
If you are not using JS to add the product, then chances are you are accessing the sessions in the header before you are updating the new qty in that session


Abstract : [en] This paper deals with the problem of the origin of the verbal endings in Middle Persian and Parthian and seeks to show a feasible history of their evolution from proto-Iranian onwards. Starting from the assumption that the present indicative of Western Middle Iranian emerged from two old tenses, viz. present and imperfect, my aim is showing how both tenses converged in a single paradigm and how traces of both appear here and there.


Is the gospel message really enough? Can we seriously expect people to respond in faith and repentance to words – spoken or written – and so be saved? Do we not need miracles, signs, wonders, healings, exorcisms? Look at the growth experienced by churches who major on such things, and then look at the number of conversions experienced throughout our entire denomination. Are we not getting something seriously wrong? Are we trapped in a past when people were more word-centred, when they didn't have TVs, computers and all the trappings of the visual culture that shapes the minds of people today? Do people not need to see God acting in dramatic, visible ways before they will respond to Jesus? Are we doomed to paddle along as a tiny minority in a Christian world that is rapidly leaving us behind? Are word-centred, sermon-preaching churches a relic of the past, only fit to be visited by those who want to see how things used to be?
We could respond in various ways to these questions, though not, I trust, with an 'amen' to the objections they pose. We might, for example, unpick the 'successes' of the wonder-workers with some hard questions of our own. The challenge issued by a medical doctor some years ago to one of the most prominent of these miracle peddlers to produce several of his best successes in healing for medical examination remains unanswered. You can't believe all you hear, or indeed all you think you see. We have, however, all too often thought that pointing out the failures of others somehow lessened the significance of our failures, so we need a better response.
Surely if we wanted to justify a focus on the miraculous in mission we could turn to the Book of Acts. Isn't it full of healings, exorcism, and all the other miraculous phenomena, even raising the dead? Case proven! Or is it? Look a bit more carefully, and you will see a very different picture. Try the conversion of Sergius Paulus, the Roman governor on Cyprus, recorded in Acts 13. Wasn't he converted as a result of the miraculous blinding of Elymas by the Apostle Paul? Luke does write, 'When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed' (v12). The lesson seems clear. But read the rest of the verse: 'for he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord'. The crucial factor in his conversion was the content of the gospel message, the words spoken by the apostle. That was the means of his conversion. The miracle was no more than a visual reinforcement of what Paul had to say about the Lord. The lesson of Acts 13 is not the one we might initially have expected. The word of the gospel is sufficient.
None of this is to overlook the role of the Holy Spirit in bringing the gospel home to the sinner's heart with saving power. As others make much of the Spirit giving miraculous gifts, we need to highlight constantly the miracle which, according to Scripture, the Spirit will perform in all ages, namely the giving of new life to those who are dead in sin. It is as Jesus said to Nicodemus: 'unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God' (John 3:5). To know that this is the case keeps all who speak the gospel humble. It is not our eloquence, cleverness or persuasiveness that bring anyone to saving faith: it is the work of the Spirit of God. If the Lord had not opened Lydia's heart (Acts 16:14), Paul could have preached to her for the rest of his life and she would not have been saved.
A focus on the ministry of the Word of God in evangelism is essential and in no way detracts (or it should not) from the miraculous working of the Spirit in granting new life to the spiritually dead. Nothing else can act as a substitute, however impressive it may seem on the surface. God has promised that his word will not return to him empty but will infallibly accomplish his purpose (Isaiah 55:11). We should not be intimidated by claims of miraculous phenomena or assertions of their necessity for evangelistic success. Having been born again, every Christian has experienced the greatest miracle performed by the Spirit in human life, and the Lord has promised that miracle in connection with the proclamation of his word, and in no other connection. Our confidence in the gospel is confidence in the Spirit who gives life, and we must never lose sight of that precious truth.


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Description: Portrait of the the iconic musician and actor Grace Jones.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Nicholas Anglin began his artistic journey as a graphic designer. With the life-changing opportunity to pursue his teenage/childhood dream of exploring the art scene in one of the world's toughest cities, New York which he now calls home.
Seeking inspiration, he used documentaries about the city's art scene to rekindle his passion and regain motivation. With his brush as resistance to the mundane, he began to paint under the moniker of Nuwarhol. To explore the artistic abyss of his surroundings - NU. To depict a state of mind, armed with conflict - WAR - or shrouded with joy. To leave him high on life - HOL - with art as his fuse.
Dedicated to making people rediscover their senses, he ingenuously fuses popular culture, street art, music, and fashion. Nuwarhol makes his subjects iconic through his use of bright colors and symbols, which have become signature features of his work. His style has often been compared to the likes of and often been described as a mash up of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Nuwarhol is evidently working his way towards becoming one of the greats in the art scene.


Should You get a Massage Before or After a Chiropractic Adjustment?
Unfortunately, muscle tension and spinal dysfunction are both all-to-common problems. Millions of Canadians suffer pain and discomfort from them. Fortunately, there are excellent and effective treatments available: massage therapy treats the soft tissues of the body, like muscles, and chiropractic adjustments treat misaligned joints, like the spine.
These ailments are so common, many people who suffer from one, also suffer from the other. So it stands to reason that lots of people can benefit from a combination of both massage therapy and chiropractic adjustment. Indeed, Chiropractic adjustment and massage therapy can be even more effective when combined than they are used independently. If you have no time to go a massage therapist then you may use deep tissue massagers in your home before or after a chiropractic adjustment.
Ultimately, there is not a single correct answer to this question for all patients. Instead, the answer will depend on the specific details of your situation. At a consultation with your chiropractor and massage therapist, they can help you figure out which arrangement will serve you best.
If you seem to require frequent and regular chiropractic adjustments, then having your massage after the adjustment may be beneficial. After your chiropractor has adjusted your joints into the right position, you don't want muscle tension to wrench them back to misalignment. A massage right after your adjustment can help keep your muscles relaxed and neutral, so that the proper alignment is allowed to hold and stay in place. This way, the benefits of the adjustment will last longer and you might not need to book your next ones as frequently.
As an added bonus, many patients enjoy having a massage after an adjustment because it feels great! After the abruptness of a chiropractic adjustment, a soothing massage is a great way to achieve blissful relaxation. There is nothing quite as satisfying as walking into your appointments with a painful back sporting one of these cool workout shirts and walking out with a well-adjusted and relaxed body. Between appointments, a home massage system with heat can help until your next appointment.
If you suffer from a particularly tight muscle, then it is a good idea to have it treated with massage before you go in for your chiropractic adjustment. If the tight muscle is close to the joints that your chiropractor will treat, then its tightness could interfere with the adjustment. Receiving a massage first ensures that there are no tight muscles in the way and your chiropractor will be able to access the joints better.
While chiropractic adjustments are very rarely painful or uncomfortable, muscle tightness or spasms could cause pain during the procedure. Prior massage can protect against this pain. If this is your first time receiving a chiropractic adjustment, then having the massage first can help you relax beforehand.
Whichever order you ultimately pursue, a combination of these two treatments can be remarkably effective for relieving pain, restoring mobility, and improving your quality of life. If you are unsure of the order that will be best for you, consult with your therapists. You can also experiment by trying both arrangements to see what works best for your body.


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Jorge Caetano (Rio de Janeiro, 1962) é um ator e diretor de teatro brasileiro, integrante da "Nova Dramaturgia Carioca".

Formado pela Cal em 1989, trabalhou ao longo desses anos com alguns dos principais diretores brasileiros. Fundou o grupo de teatro Companhia Casa de Jorge, junto com Julia Spadaccini, Ana Kutner, Pedro Henrique Monteiro, Thais Tedesco e Isabella Lomez.

Em 1995 adaptou a obra-prima de Charles Dickens na peça Scrooge, encenada pela Companhia Teatro Autônomo. Em 2007 dirigiu "Não Vamos Falar Sobre Isso Agora"

Atualmente é diretor da Companhia Casa de Jorge, que apresentou seu segundo trabalho - Os Estonianos, de 2008, que mereceu entrevista no programa televisivo do diretor Sérgio Britto, que foi seguido pelo espetáculo: "O Céu Está Vazio", de 2009.

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I want to deal here with some questions about the nature of the "true self". What does this mean and why do we need a self?
Well, there is an implication that a purity of self is desirable as a bastion against the multitude of outside influence.
No matter what happens, the self is a reliable constant, remaining long after you've left that job, split up with that partner, or abandoned those plans for self-improvement…!
In a slightly more negative way, there is an innate desire to "find" ourselves, to connect with something transcendent that allows us to escape the drudgery of mundane existence.
We are on a search to uncover our authenticity, to make sure that we don't waste a drop of finite, fragile life.
Some synonyms Google provides are: ego, I, oneself, persona, person, identity, character, personality,psyche, soul, spirit, mind, intellect, inner man/woman/person, inner self, one's innermost feelings, one's heart of hearts.
So, there are a lot of options here for locating the "true" self: within a kind of metaphysical soup of mind, ego and spirit, containing dashes of thoughts, feelings and impulses – as distinct from the physical body.
This all sounds rather ephemeral so far. I would venture to say that Google is not really sure what the true self is.
What we've done is establish that to have a "true" self, we must go beyond "thinking man", from self-aware to self-reflexive.
Having established this, perhaps we are to equate the self with the mind: that collection of thoughts, emotions and memories that makes each of us unique.
Being material creatures, we are often tempted to think of abstract concepts spatially, as though the self is lurking somewhere in the dark depths of our organs, lodged perhaps between the lungs and the heart.
In reality, we are conceptually removed from the weight of flesh and bone.
My mind can be floating in a country far away from my physical location, conversing with people I no longer know or will never meet, or simply raking through abstract ideas that have no visual form.
It also changes so much over time: I am not the same person I was last year, last week, probably not even yesterday. So much can happen in a day.
Why should we even bother looking for it?
Why would we even want to have a true self at all? Why not have a false self, or live with multiple selves (as long as that didn't warrant us labelled with a mental health disorder)?
It could be rooted in a need to have an anchor, an enduring essence within the constant sea of uncertainty.
Perhaps it is part of becoming an adult and individuating away from one's parents, background, friends, inherited traditions and behaviours.
However, some say that the self is already here, comfortably hiding inside until one should only look properly.
So does this mean that we are born with a core self that has been obscured by the influence of others and the environment, and we must find it again? Or, that the self we were given by others is false and inauthentic, and therefore we must find a new one?
We take what we like, and leave behind what we don't like. What we have left is an adult self, a "true" self, something self-created and original. And it is not so much to do with the nature of the self we choose as the fact that we have made the choice.
Having found our true selves, some would say that the true self is who we are when no one is watching. I disagree with this fundamentally because the idea that we consist of our purest essence when alone implies that we are somehow muddied by the presence of others, who distract and tempt us away from our true path of authenticity.
If the self is so easily influenced, then it makes for a rather flimsy and insubstantial anchor. I would argue that we only really become fully human in the presence of others, not just with those who are physically with us but also as part of the social web.
Many studies have shown how babies raised in orphanages where their physical needs were cared for, but never touched or held, suffer a much higher than average rate of death in infancy.
This is because the self, the "personality", is not a static object but a dynamic process that requires the presence of others to find expression.
Is having a true self illusory?
Perhaps it's not so much a case of finding our way back to ourselves as seeing past all the trappings of our individual identity to something beyond our own selves.
We might think of what we want as a "true" self, but really we want to step outside ourselves and connect with some deeper purpose.
It's not very common to openly talk about a longing for a deeper purpose, but I don't know anyone that this wouldn't secretly resonate with.
Each person wants some unique aspect of their identity to become known and make a difference, whether that's bringing joy to others through becoming an entertainer, or a fantastical ability to design bridges that help people get from one place to another.
That's the crux, isn't it? The true self isn't lurking somewhere in isolation inside us, but manifests and becomes real when we mature and step outside ourselves.
It doesn't physically exist as a static object but is a process of growth and expansion, becoming more than we were or thought we could be.
The true self is who we are when we authentically connect with others. We stop thinking about the "I" and starting thinking about "we". But before we can see clearly we must become aware of ourselves, and therein lies the eternal paradox.
I am taking liberty in expressing my opinion. Well the article written, words used, and some of the sentences indicate your innate deep desire to evolve yourself spiritually. The self does exists but to explore we require a very high degree of acceptance and respect of our own existence. After all, we all here on this earth are with a purpose to achieve and objective to fulfill. We may be good or bad. This is all subjective , all of which is subjected to experiences, influences, opinions of self and others. The evaluation should always flow from our on self wisdom without any prejudice and without putting any thumb on the scale. The self is the only strong denominator or as mentioned by you " anchor point" to all our worldly interaction. It is not flimsy but a sheet anchor.
Well at the outset I am just expressing my thinking and opinion and replying to you. At the subjective level self truly exists and it has a large role to play in our life. The SELF is a reference point or bench marks which gets created from the day we are born. It a Perching point from where we see and feel the events happening through any or all the senses. These happenings and event gets assimilated and stored for further retrieval & analysis. They provide cues for decision which we want to take in life situations. This happening on getting stored is called as experience. Every experience that we go through leaves a streak of learning or lesson that we need to learn from that. Next time when we take decision, we become smarter as we get the necessary cues from this library to arrive at decisions. Since living life is a continuous process, we continue building our self-brick by brick every moment. Till the age of 13 years the development of the self is dependent on our elders and the social and cultural environment that we live in. After that age in addition to these factors our logical mind which gets developed starts governing our learning process. Lastly self is like a mirror. If the mirror is clear we see our clear reflection and if the same is dirty or smoky then we are not able to see our self properly. Self is similar to that. Thus development of self if done with self-awareness and we learn the right lessons from happenings and incidents, we retain the clarity of the mirror. Taking right decision is wisdom, which can come from the cues of past experience. Wisdom is like a correct decision and similar to churning of buttermilk. When we churn butter milk, the butter floats on the top. Hope I have answered your question. God bless you.
I like your topics, as they cover a lot of self-reflection. Am also loving how you break down the subject into little digestible pieces. Do keep it going!
Aww that's really sweet, thanks! Glad you like it.


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