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Reflections: A Research Trip to Nepal
Empower Generation was lucky enough to have three summer fellows this year: Graduate Program and Development Fellow Hannah Girardeau from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and Miller Center Global Social Benefit Fellows Ashraf (Ash) Hammad and Clarissa Nguyen, undergraduate students at Santa Clara University. Ash and Hannah spent the summer conducting monitoring and evaluation research and are currently writing an impact report for us while Clarissa wrote entrepreneur profiles for our 2015 annual report and is now developing videos for our website.
Immediately following the trip, Ash wrote a reflection about his experience. Here he discusses being in Nepal for the first time and learning more about the women entrepreneurs in our network and the hardships they have had to overcome.
I currently study Political Science and Arab, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at Santa Clara University. My interest in the MENA region led to enrollment in a semester-long program with the School of International Training (SIT) in Rabat, Morocco, which culminated into a three-week project where I was able to conduct qualitative research on young Moroccans' definitions of individual freedoms. While a short period, I found the experience tremendously valuable and academically exhilarating. The nature of my studies has always drawn me towards action research on socio-political and economic issues. Early level undergraduate work, however, often involves a small amount of primary research, and it was a very challenging and fulfilling experience to conduct primary research for the first time while abroad.
My time in Morocco ignited a fire inside of me that could not be extinguished, and I felt lost as to how to proceed next. When I discovered the Global Social Benefit Fellowship and the opportunity to work with Empower Generation in Nepal, I felt as if fate had driven me to a solution to the dilemma of how to continue my professional and personal development through the application of my passions.
Admittedly, I knew very little of Nepal when I applied for this fellowship. Through further research, I began to understand the tremendous challenges of energy access within the country and some of the societal pressures preventing women from succeeding in a patriarchal society. While I have always had a passion for social justice and action research, I could never have anticipated just how difficult and gratifying impact research in Nepal could be.
Photo Credits: Clarissa Nguyen
Summer Fellows Ash and Hannah interview entrepreneur Kala Khatiwada of Pragati Saurya Urjah while former EG Communications Coordinator Aakrit Rai translates.
Through our research and publication of an impact report, we hope to help Empower Generation better understand its social impact on women-led enterprises, their sales agents, and customers in order to better serve them. In this pursuit, I have found impact assessment research tremendously challenging and equally rewarding. Our questionnaire varied in depth from simple economic inquiries such as estimated familial income to complex questions regarding empowerment, communal respect, and status as a result of business ownership. Naturally, these questions led to stories about the personal background of each entrepreneur.
I continuously found myself marveled and inspired at the trials and tribulations of daily life and business ownership that these women overcome and continue to face in the context of a male-dominated society, exacerbated by the devastation of last year's earthquake. The conclusion of each interview left me awestruck at the poise, perseverance, and kindness displayed by each woman.
Discussing topics such as domestic violence, human trafficking, conjugal power structures, and educational and vocational opportunities for women in Nepal was extremely difficult. As much as I try and learn about the oppressive nature of living as a woman in a patriarchal society, I can never truly understand it. I consider myself a feminist, but I will never have to face the same hurdles that women face globally. I can sympathize, but not empathize. I am honored and feel privileged to hear the stories of these women and garner their insights.
The past eight weeks have flown by faster than I ever could have anticipated, and although I've been back home for a week now, it still feels like I am still digesting my entire summer experience. Being in Nepal was an immensely positive experience for my professional, academic, and personal development. Empower Generation has a profound social impact on the lives of the entrepreneurs that it supports, and I am extremely excited to articulate my findings into a monitoring and evaluation report.
By Our Generation|October 26th, 2016|Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment, Nepal, volunteers|0 Comments


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Mate Parlovs sporthall () är en sporthall och multiarena i Pula i Kroatien. Den invigdes år 1978 och är sedan år 2008 uppkallad efter den kroatiske boxaren Mate Parlov (1948–2008). Sporthallen är belägen på gatuadressen Galijotska ulica i stadsdelen Veruda och har varit arena för internationella mästerskap, däribland Europamästerskapet i volleyboll för damer 2005 och världsmästerskapet i handboll för herrar 2009.

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Sporthallens totala yta uppgår till 13 274,90 m². Den uppfördes år 1978 och renoverades år 2003 och år 2010. Inomhusanläggningen har fyra hallar: Stora hallen (yta på 1090,20 m² och 2 312 sittplatser), boxning- och judohallen (yta på 411 m²), bordtennishallen (yta på 158,60 m²), en multifunktionell hall (274,85 m² och 100 sittplatser) och en bowlinghall (yta på 305,50 m²). Därtill finns 12 omklädningsrum, sauna och gym.

Vid sporthallen finns en parkeringsplats vars yta uppgår 5.977,30 m² och har 234 parkeringsplatser.

Sporthallen nyttjas av olika idrottsklubbar, däribland ŽRK Arena, MRK Arena, OK Pula, BK Pula, HK Istarski borac, STK Pula, KK Uljanik med flera.

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The Poker Flat concert I alluded to last month is officially scheduled for this Saturday, September 3, on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Andrew Simpson's score combines folksy music-theater elements with a more modernist operatic idiom. We are sharing the 1-2:30 slot with another piece, so I can't say for sure when we will begin, but I feel safe in saying it'll be after 1:30.


The beautifully broken girl fought off heartache to get where she is now. Maybe she isn't healed fully, but she has love within her.
She loves differently but deeply.
She isn't afraid to love you.
She hasn't turned her back on love completely. She isn't afraid to have feelings for you. She isn't afraid to share something with you. She is just afraid that you won't love her back.
2. She appreciates the little things.
She is truly grateful when someone pays attention to the little things in life. That show far more care and affections than the staged to her.
Someone who treated her like she was worthless set the template that'll never happen again. She knows what she has to offer and she won't settle for average. She knows how strong she is, so she won't tolerate your shits.
4. She always cares how you're feeling.
She is slightly concerned about how you are feeling. She will worry when you're sad, sick, stressed and she will do her best to help you.
5. She will give you piece by piece of her heart over time.
She won't give you her heart in whole pieces. She learned to be selective with matters of the heart.
She needs time to trust you. She needs time to realize you care about her.
6. She knows how to fight for you.
She will protect you in any way that she can. She is a warrior and she isn't afraid to fight for those that she loves. She is ready to fight when it is required because she is battled hardened.
7. She knows extreme happiness.
She knows how to look in your eyes and see beauty and perfection. Because you are perfect to her. Because she loves you. With her whole heart.
The beautifully broken girl loves differently.


The passionate magic of a live kirtan with Krishna Das, recorded in Hollywood's famed Cello Studios, produced by rap/rock legend, Rick Rubin.
The best of the three worlds: the passionate magic of a live kirtan with Krishna Das…recorded in the ultimate environment of Hollywood's famed Cello Studios…produced by rap/rock legend, Rick Rubin, known for his transparent, essential sound. Add in to the mix the contributions of a stellar group of supporting musicians, including Ty Burhoe (Tabla), Steve Gorn (Bansuri), Lili Haydn (Violin), John McDowell (Hammond B3, Piano, Djembe, Gorong, Tana, Shakers, Tambourine), Benmont Tench (Hammond B3, Piano) and Benjy Wertheimer (Esraj), along with the heartfull singing of the 50-strong Kosmic Kirtan Posse-the result is both transcendent and exquisitely embodied.


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Interxion Plans to build Data Center in Spain
Last week, Digital Realty company Interxion announced its plans to build a data center campus in Spain.
Interxion has bought the land parcel to develop the data center campus within the region. The site location is situated in the smallest municipality of Barcelonès 'Sant Adrià de Besòs'.
Meanwhile, the plot has the capacity to house 15MW of total installed IT power. The construction of the first data center facility named 'BCN1' will begin before the end of this year and is anticipated to complete in 2024.
Interxion's Group Managing Director EMEA, Jan-Pieter Anten stated,
The Mediterranean has established itself as one of the main points of interconnectivity between Europe and the rest of the world through its highly connected network of subsea cables. This move represents a critical step forward in expanding PlatformDIGITAL coverage, further supporting our customers in deploying their critical services around the world as the need for data-driven services continues to ramp up globally.
Furthermore, Interxion Spain's managing director Robert Assink talking about the company's future plans stated that their proposed BCN1 data center and connectivity hub will be an addition to Spain's position as the primary Southern Europe digital hub.
At the moment, Interxion operates three data centers within the country of 'Spain' and all of them situated in its capital city 'Madrid'.
The fourth data center facility will also be developed within the capital city and will be offering 35,000 sqm of colocation space and generating 34MW of capacity.
This year, Digital Realty company Interxion has begun working on a data center facility in Brussels, Belgium, and accomplished the construction of the first facility on a new campus in Paris, France.
Besides Interxion, other companies that are developing the facilities in Barcelona are Merlin, Renta Corporación, and EdgeConneX.
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The woman was murdered in Portland nearly 40 years ago.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Texas in 1999 has been identified via DNA as the person who killed a 20-year-old woman in Portland nearly 40 years ago.
Anna Marie Hlavka was slain in an apartment on July 24, 1979. Authorities said Thursday her killer, Jerry McFadden, was identified using the same technology that led to an arrest last year in California in the "Golden State Killer" case.
Hlavka was found sexually assaulted and strangled with an electric cord. The Portland Police Bureau said at a news conference retired detectives submitted evidence to the state crime lab in 2009 for forensic testing.


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Medical Definition of Computerized axial tomography scan
Medical Author: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
Computerized axial tomography scan: Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images and turns them in pictures. The CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan can reveal some soft-tissue and other structures that cannot be seen in conventional X-rays. Using the same dosage of radiation as that of an ordinary X-ray machine, an entire slice of the body can be made visible with about 100 times more clarity with the CAT scan.
The "cuts"(tomograms) for the CAT scan are usually made 5 or 10 mm apart. The CAT machine rotates 180 degrees around the patient's body; hence, the term "axial." The machine sends out a thin X-ray beam at 160 different points. Crystals positioned at the opposite points of the beam pick up and record the absorption rates of the varying thicknesses of tissue and bone. The data are then relayed to a computer that turns the information into a 2-dimensional cross-sectional image.
CAT scanning was invented in 1972 by the British engineer Godfrey N. Hounsfield (later Sir Godfrey) and the South African (later American) physicist Alan Cormack. CAT scanning was already in general use by 1979, the year Hounsfield and Cormack were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for its development.
The CAT scan is also known as the CT (computerized tomography) scan.
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AHEMEDABAD: Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his D-Company seems to have found a new way to extort realtors without even calling them up. Sources say that two city realtors were recently threatened by D-Company men in Saudi Arabia, while the realtors were on Umrah pilgrimage. They had to cough up Rs 10 crore to extricate themselves from the grip of the underworld and return to India. Security agencies are trying to trace the route by which they have paid the money to Ibrahim.
Police are however at a loss because none of the realtors, both of who are into big constructions in the Walled City, have lodged a complaint about being extorted. Sources say they are afraid of their lives. So security agencies have started a confidential probe.
According to sources, in this case two city realtors along with their group had gone for Umrah pilgrimage recently.
"During their stay in UAE, they were approached by an alleged D-Company man who threatened them and demanded protection money of Rs 5 crore each, if they were to return to India," said a source.
Security agencies are not yet in a position to confirm how much money had actually changed hands. "We suspect an illegal hawala channel was used. We are conducting a confidential inquiry," said a senior official of Gujarat police.
Recently, realtors, top businessmen, professionals and even some politicians have been allegedly come under the radar of the underworld and since quite some time small-time dons like Ravi Pujari and former Dawood Aide Ali Budesh have been calling up targets.
"Ali Budesh has allegedly threatened some MLAs from UP. In June 2018 BJP ex MLA Bimal Shah, a resident of Ahmedabad claimed receiving extortion calls from Budesh," said a state police officer.


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He's not on the market - West Ham confident of Hernandez stay
West Ham sporting director Mario Husillos is confident Javier Hernandez will start next season at the London Stadium.
Tommy Doleman
28 July, 2018 14:20 IST
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Javier Hernandez is not "on the market" and is unlikely to leave West Ham before the start of the season, according to club sporting director Mario Husillos.
The 30-year-old has recently returned to the club after World Cup duty with Mexico, where El Tri advanced from the group stage for a seventh consecutive tournament, only to be eliminated by Brazil in the last 16.
Despite a bright start with West Ham, Hernandez's future has been a subject of speculation after falling out of favour at London Stadium last season, when former manager David Moyes preferred Marko Arnautovic to lead the line.
The striker was a headline signing for the Hammers last year and Husillos, who worked with new manager Manuel Pellegrini at Malaga when it reached the Champions League quarterfinals in 2012-13, believes the former Manchester City tactician's arrival could provide Hernandez with a new lease of life.
Speaking to Marca Claro, Husillos said: "We have many expectations, but offers? There surely won't be any because people know we have him. For the moment he's not on the market at all.
"[Pellegrini's] style is one that favours all attacking players, because it is to maintain possession, attack, reach the area and create opportunities.
"The forwards in general are benefited by this type of play."
Pellegrini's first Premier League match as West Ham manager will be against Liverpool at Anfield on August 12.


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Q: Web Scraping in R Timeout I am doing a project where I need to download FAFSA completion data from this website: https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/application-volume/fafsa-completion-high-school
I am using rvest to webscrape that data, but when I try to use the function read_html on the link, it never reads in and eventually I have to stop execution. I can read in other websites, so I'm not sure if it is a website specific issue or if I'm doing something wrong. Here is my code so far:
library(rvest)

fafsa_link <- "https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/application-volume/fafsa-completion-high-school"

read_html(fafsa_link)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

A: An user-agent header is required. The download links are also given in an json file. You could regex out the links (or indeed parse them out); or as I do, regex out one then substitute the state code within that to get the additional download url (given urls only vary in this aspect)
library(magrittr)
library(httr)
library(stringr)

data  <- httr::GET('https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/application-volume/fafsa-completion-high-school.json', add_headers("User-Agent" = "Mozilla/5.0")) %>%
         content(as = "text")

ca <- data %>%  stringr::str_match(': "(.*?CA\\.xls)"') %>% .[2] %>% paste0('https://studentaid.gov', .)
ma <- gsub('CA\\.xls', 'MA\\.xls' ,ca)

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Q: Index Error: Index out of bounds when using numpy in python I have a code that works fine when I have small CSV's of data but errors out when I try to run large CSV's through it. In essence this code is supposed to place 3 CSV's worth of data into 3 separate dictionaries, combine those dictionaries into a master dictionary, and then preform arithmetic operations on dictionary. The input CSV's look something like this:
time   A  B  C  D
  0    3  4  6  4
.001   4  6  7  8
.002   4  6  7  3

The code that I am using is the code displayed below. The error occurs within the lines 47 and 65 where I am try to preform arithmetic with the dictionary. Any explanation as to why this is going on is greatly appreciated.
import numpy

Xcoord = {}
time = []
with open ('Nodal_QuardnetsX2.csv', 'r') as f:
    f.readline() # Skips first line
    for line in f:
        values = [s.strip()for s in line.split(',')]
        Xcoord[values[0]] = map(float, values[1:])
        time.append(values[0])

Ycoord = {}
with open ('Nodal_QuardnetsY2.csv', 'r') as f:

    f.readline() # Skips first line
    for line in f:
        values = [s.strip()for s in line.split(',')]
        Ycoord[values[0]] = map(float, values[1:])

Zcoord = {}
with open ('Nodal_QuardnetsZ2.csv', 'r') as f:
    f.readline() # Skips first line
    for line in f:
        values = [s.strip()for s in line.split(',')]
        Zcoord[values[0]] = map(float, values[1:])

# Create a master dictionary of the form {'key':[[x, y, z], [x, y, z]}
CoordCombo = {}
for key in Xcoord.keys():
    CoordnateList = zip(Xcoord[key], Ycoord[key], Zcoord[key])
    CoordCombo[key] = CoordnateList

counter = 0
keycount1 = 0
keycount2 = 0.001
difference = []
NodalDisplacements = {}

#Find the difference between the x, y, and z quardnets relative to that point in time
while keycount2 <= float(values[0]):
        Sub = numpy.subtract(CoordCombo[str(keycount2)][counter], CoordCombo[str(keycount1)][counter])
        counter = counter + 1
        difference.append(Sub)
        NodalDisplacements[keycount1] = Sub
        keycount1 = keycount1 + 0.001
        keycount2 = keycount2 + 0.001

counter = 0
keycount3 = 0
keycount4 = 0.001

Sum = []
breakpoint = float(values[0])-0.001

while keycount4 <= breakpoint:
    Add = numpy.sum(NodalDisplacements[keycount4][counter], NodalDisplacements[keycount3][counter])
    Sum.append(Add)
    keycount3 = keycount3 + 0.001
    keycount4 = keycount4 + 0.001
    counter = counter + 1
    if counter == 2:
        counter = 0
print Sum

A: probably a line of your csv file does not contain 5 elements or the line is empty.
In your logic I would suggest to use
for line in f:
   line = line.strip()
   if not line: continue
   if len(values) != N_COLS: continue # or error...
   # other ...


The Women's Only 5K is a wonderful annual event that raises money and awareness for the treatment of breast cancer. Ward Black Law has been participating in this event for 4 years. Please come by our table and get a free travel manicure set!
The Ward Black Law team at the 2012 Women's Only 5K Walk & Run.
If you haven't signed up, but would like to participate, it's not too late! Arrive at The Women's Hospital Education Center (801 Green Valley Road, Greensboro) at 7:30 to register! For more information you can visit the event website.
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Q: Is new/faster RAM worth it compared to older memroy witht he same size? I am currently building a new PC i5, rx480, SSD and also need a new mainboard (obviously) i could use my old RAM 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 or i could buy a new set at around 100€ (16GB as well 2800-3200 MHz not sure yet).
Will there be a notable performance boost in gaming mainly a MMO called black desert.

A: Your question the way it is asked, is really a matter of opinion.  You should reword it to meet the sites requirements.
However, having said that, the answer is probably no.  Faster memory is faster.  However, how much faster is the key.  Generally speaking, you are looking at single digit percent speed gains.  Unless you are running very memory intense applications that are constantly reading and writing to memory, you wont see any difference.  Even if you are, you probably wont see the difference in the short term.  The general user isnt running in memory databases or large data manipulation where faster memory would show a difference in speed.


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VINELAND SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES SCHOOL BUS ADS
Cumberland County, Local News, VinelandBy 98.7 The Coast November 19, 2015
A new report says you could soon see ads on school buses in Vineland. The Daily Journal reports that the school board there approved placing ads on buses that the district uses. The report says that the ads could produce $10,000 a year, which could pay for a lot of the fuel costs that buses…
FAMOUS SHARK MARY LEE RETURNS TO JERSEY SHORE
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The Mary Lee has returned. The famous shark that has been spotted numerous times near the Jersey Shore was found near Long Beach Island on Thursday morning, according to OCEARCH. The group tracks the location of a number of sharks. The great white shark was found multiple times off the shore in May. The tracking…
GROUP ANNOUNCED TO BRING NEW BUSINESSES, MARKET ATLANTIC COUNTY
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A new group will be helping to spur on economic growth in Atlantic County. Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson announced the formation of the Atlantic County Economic Alliance, which is a private sector directed, nonprofit economic development corporation that will aim to bring new business and retain current businesses in the county. The organization will…
WILDWOOD POLICE WARN OF PHONE SCAM GOING AROUND
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In recent weeks, the Wildwood Police Department has received reports of a possible phone scam targeting residents in our area. According to those that have been contacted, the caller claims to be a representative of "Windows 7" and asks for information about the resident and their computer system. In at least one case, the resident…
ROAD WORK TO SHUT PART OF MILL ROAD DOWN NEXT WEEK
The Absecon Police Department wants to make the public aware of a road closure that will be occurring on South Mill Rd, between the intersections of Ohio Ave and Wescoat Roads. Atlantic City Electric will be performing work which will require the roadway to be closed starting on Monday (November 23rd) with a completion date…
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New Jersey rank worst when it comes to tax competitiveness. A new study done by the Tax Foundation ranked New Jersey last among all 50 states. New Jersey came in dead last for overall tax climate and property tax structure, third from last in individual income tax structure, and fourth from last in sales tax…
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Wildwood High School senior Chris Mormile is the first athlete in school history to be signed to play NCAA Division I baseball. With his parents and coaches surrounding him, Mormile took pen in hand and signed on to play baseball for Wagner College in New York City. Mormile said his decision to attend Wagner was…
EHT POLICE ANNOUNCE FREE CAR SEAT CHECK
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On Thursday, November 19th, the Egg Harbor Township Police Department's Traffic Safety Unit in conjunction with the Atlantic County Office of Highway Traffic Safety will offer free car seat checks in the parking lot of Storybook Land in Egg Harbor Township. Times will be from 1pm to 3:30 pm. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to…
MARMORA AND PLEASANTVILLE RESIDENTS CHARGED IN NIGHT CLUB ROBBERY
Atlantic County, Cape May County, Local News, Pleasantville, Upper TownshipBy 98.7 The Coast November 18, 2015
Two suspects have been charged for robbing from a night club in Somers Point. Police there say charges have been filed against Larry Albury Jr., of Marmora, and Horny Velasquez, of Pleasantville. Both were charged with burglary, theft, and conspiracy for taking property from the club while it was closed. Police say they recovered $16,000…
HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE THURSDAY, UP TO INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE
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Mensa Brands Becomes Asia's Fastest Unicorn
Gunderson Dettmer represented client Prosus Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in internet and technology companies, as an investor in the $135 million Series B financing of Mensa Brands, an India-based startup that helps digital brands scale operations. This round has led Mensa Brands to become India's (and Asia's) fastest unicorn.
Founded in May 2021, Mensa Brands has managed to raise more than $300 million in equity and debt within six months of starting the business.
In the announcement of the transaction, founder and CEO of Mensa Brands Ananth Narayanan said, "We are grateful for the confidence from our investors and our brand partners. Our deep focus on technology and digital brand building, has allowed us to grow three times of our initial plan and we at Mensa Brands are primed to build global breakout brands from India. I am especially proud that more than 50 per cent of our brands are led by women founders and that Mensa supports small and medium-sized businesses across the country."
The Gunderson deal team was led by Jolyn Ang and included Benjamin Teo.
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Mensa Brands
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Ian and I love photography. In fact, we enrolled in photography class way back 2009 and joined several photo marathons. We also printed out some of our photos and put it in the photobook. As of now, we have more than 20 photobooks and 10 big photo albums. O db, kami na adik sa pictures. Well, we decided to print it out kasi naman mahirap kung naka save lang sya sa pc, cd, dvd or even usb kasi for sure in the future pwede syang mabura or mawala, kaya much better na naka print na sya db.
And since we love photography, we put up photobooth business which helps us in our expenses. So if you need photobooth on your special day, please don't hesitate to call or email us. Oh by the way, please do like our facebook page. Thanks!
Anyway, to make the long story short, I just want to share our family photoshoot and also the pre-birthday shoot for our dear Rhaine. Dar, our photographer and the owner of Frames Perfect Studios is our friend's partner in life. Honestly, I love his shots, halos lahat ng kuha nya gusto ko kaya ang hirap mamili ng ipapaprint kaya no choice ako kung hindi ipa-print lahat. Haha. Now, sharing with you guys some of the BEST and my favorite shots during our shoot. Now, if you want to book for your special events like birthday, baptism, wedding or even just a special occasion, I highly recommend Dar and promise hindi kayo magsisisi, isama nyo narin pala ang photobooth namin ha.
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Q: How to make smooth media-query transition back and forth? I've been digging all day long with this and can't make it work properly. I'm not a coder, so maybe that's the problem. Anyway, I'm trying to make my logo appear nicely when screen size changes. I realize I can't do it with display:none; to display:block; so I have tried visibility, opacity and height transition.
If you look at this code below, you'll see that when going from larger screen to smaller, there's sort of delay that appears before fading out, then height animation plays. However, if you go from smaller window to larger, it transitions like 2x faster. I'm not sure how to make it reverse, so animation is smooth going back and forth. I tried to play with numerous snippets from the web, but nothing let's me control the animation properly.
My idea is to hide logo on mobile devices, but when ppl flip a tablet, a nice transition would let logo appear for larger screens (and not only mobile, just re-sizing desktop browser would make it look more professional). Hope you can help.

.wrapper {
 width: 500px;
 background-color: #0C6;
}
.nav {
 background-color: #69C;
}
.logo {
 max-height: 0px;
 background-color: #FC3;
   -moz-transition: 1s;
  -o-transition: 1s;
  -webkit-transition: 1s;
  transition: 1s;
 visibility: hidden;
 opacity: 0;
}
@media screen and (min-width: 500px){
.logo {
 max-height: 200px;
 visibility: visible;
 opacity: 1;
}
}
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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A: You need a transition on both ends, and your transition value is invalid:
.logo {
    max-height: 0px;
    background-color: #FC3;
    -webkit-transition: max-height 1s linear, opacity 1s linear;
       -moz-transition: max-height 1s linear, opacity 1s linear;
         -o-transition: max-height 1s linear, opacity 1s linear;
            transition: max-height 1s linear, opacity 1s linear;
    visibility: hidden;
    opacity: 0;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 500px){
    .logo {
        max-height: 200px;
        visibility: visible;
        opacity: 1;
        -webkit-transition: max-height 1s linear, opacity 1s linear;
           -moz-transition: max-height 1s linear, opacity 1s linear;
             -o-transition: max-height 1s linear, opacity 1s linear;
                transition: max-height 1s linear, opacity 1s linear;
    }
}

A: Ok finally made it work after playing around and researching a bit. Once I learned to control animation with delays on both sides it became easier.

.wrapper {
 width: 500px;
 background-color: #0C6;
}
.nav {
 background-color: #69C;
}
.logo {
    height: 0px;
    background-color: #FC3;
    visibility: hidden;
 opacity: 0;
 -webkit-transition: visibility 0.5s linear, opacity 0.5s linear, height 0.5s linear 0.8s;
 -moz-transition: visibility 0.5s linear, opacity 0.5s linear, height 0.5s linear 0.8s;
    -o-transition: visibility 0.5s linear, opacity 0.5s linear, height 0.5s linear 0.8s;
    transition: visibility 0.5s linear, opacity 0.5s linear, height 0.5s linear 0.8s;
}
@media screen and (min-width: 500px){
.logo {
    height: 100px;
    visibility: visible;
 opacity: 1;
 -webkit-transition: height 0.5s linear 0.3s, visibility 0.5s linear 0s, opacity 0.5s linear 1s;
 -moz-transition: height 0.5s linear 0.3s, visibility 0.5s linear 0s, opacity 0.5s linear 1s;
    -o-transition: height 0.5s linear 0.3s, visibility 0.5s linear 0s, opacity 0.5s linear 1s;
    transition: height 0.5s linear 0.3s, visibility 0.5s linear 0s, opacity 0.5s linear 1s;
}
}
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<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>

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Thanx to the following:
http://www.greywyvern.com/?post=337
and Rémi Breton answer at:
CSS transition shorthand with multiple properties?
hope this can be useful for others as well!


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This Alberta lawyer hired a private investigator to tail a judge. Who is John Carpay?
John Carpay may not be a household name, but you've likely heard about some of the causes pushed by the freedom-fighting, controversy-courting Alberta lawyer.
Remember the Nova Scotia man who fought to keep his namesake vanity licence plate: "Grabher?" That was Carpay's case.
Heard about the free speech "crisis" on university campuses? He's been trumpeting that for years.
During this pandemic, Carpay and his colleagues at the registered charity and legal advocacy organization he founded, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, have railed against COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, insisting coronavirus "isn't the unusually deadly killer" it's been made out to be.
To his supporters, Carpay is principled and smart, a "daredevil" who takes positions that go against the current zeitgeist.
His detractors label him and his organization as an American-style advocacy group that's latched onto legal cases in Canada in a way that stokes culture wars and political division.
But his latest exploit, friends and foes seem to agree, may have gone too far. Carpay, it was revealed this week, hired a private investigator to tail a Manitoba judge — one who was presiding over a case in which Carpay was involved.
With investigations now underway by law societies and the police, speculation is mounting: Will Carpay and his centre, a darling of those who oppose perceived government overreach, survive the scrutiny?
The bombshell dropped at the start of this week.
Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal was presiding over a case in which seven Manitoba churches are challenging public health restrictions. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is representing the churches.
Joyal told lawyers in court that while running errands recently he discovered he was being followed.
"I have since learned that I was being followed by someone who was working for a private investigation agency," he said.
Joyal also said that a minor around the age of 14 had gone to his private residence and rang the doorbell looking for information as part of the surveillance effort.
"That private investigation agency was apparently hired by a person or persons for the clear purpose of gathering what was hoped would be potentially embarrassing information in relation to my compliance with COVID public health restrictions," Joyal told the court, according to a transcript provided to the Star.
"Without wishing to sound apocryphal … the situation I have just described raises the spectre of potential intimidation and it can also give rise to possible speculation about obstruction of justice, direct or indirect."
Carpay then revealed to the judge it was he who made the hire.
He explained the hiring of the private investigator was in the context of determining whether government officials were complying with public health orders. He disclosed surveillance was being conducted on a number of public officials and that the instructions were to carry out the surveillance "for observation only" — not to knock on anyone's door.
"It was a bad decision to have done this observation during a court case," Carpay told the court. "That was an error in judgment and I'm deeply sorry for my error in judgment in that regard. And I'm very sorry about the impact that this has had on His Lordship and family members."
In a public statement, Carpay apologized and said the decision to hire the investigator "was not discussed with Justice Centre clients, staff lawyers or board members."
A statement by the JCCF board said: "No member of the Board had any prior notice or knowledge of this plan and had not been consulted on it. Had the Board been advised of the plan, it would have immediately brought it to an end."
Carpay has taken an indefinite leave as president. Calls and emails from the Star to the JCCF and Carpay went unanswered this week. In a statement posted online, Lisa Bildy, the interim president, said Carpay "owned this mistake and will deal with whatever flows from it. In the meantime, many people in this country are counting on the Justice Centre to continue its work."
The law societies in Alberta and Manitoba confirmed they are looking into the matter and the Winnipeg Police Service said it is also investigating.
The incident now raises a question of "integrity" for the JCCF and Carpay, said a former board member, Marco Navarro-Genie, who served from 2013 to 2018. He was also the group's vice-president for a short time in 2019, but left because he and Carpay "didn't get along."
"You're … doing the same thing that you're accusing the politicians of doing, which is living by a different standard than the standard that you set," he said.
"This is the clincher for me."
He said he questions the statement that no one on the board knew what Carpay was up to in Manitoba. Based on his six years of service on the JCCF's board, Navarro-Genie said, he knew Carpay to be someone who would call one or two board members about an important decision.
"If there was involvement at the board level, then that would show an even greater hole in the prudence of the organization."
Since his 20s, Carpay has never shied away from controversy and speaking his mind.
When he made his first run for public office as a Reform Party candidate in 1993, he was quoted in a student newspaper saying unemployment insurance had "become a general social program for beach-seekers and ski bums." He claimed at the time he was misquoted.
During the same campaign, Carpay came under scrutiny for his ties to a newspaper belonging to an "ultraconservative" group called the Northern Foundation whose president was reportedly banished from the Reform Party after the Toronto Sun reported she had ties to "racial extremists."
Carpay told the Vancouver Province he was unaware of the president's associates and said he joined the group as part of an intellectual journey. "I was dissatisfied with the (Conservative) government and this was kind of a think-tank group."
Over the decades, he has penned hundreds of columns and letters to the editor, archives show.
In 1994, he railed against what he called the "homosexual political agenda." In 1995, he decried mandatory helmets for cyclists, saying that "freedom … is the right to make stupid choices as well as smart ones." In 2001, he took the then-Ralph Klein government in Alberta to task for spending "far more than the most ideological socialist government in B.C. ever did."
More recently, in 2018, Carpay made national headlines when he spoke at a Rebel Media event and seemed to compare the Nazi swastika to the Pride flag — words for which he later apologized.
"How do we defeat today's totalitarianism?" Carpay said in front of a crowd.
"Because again, you've got to think about the common characteristics. It doesn't matter whether it's a hammer and sickle for communism, or whether it's the swastika for Nazi Germany, or whether it's a rainbow flag, the underlying thing is a hostility towards individual freedoms."
Carpay founded the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms in 2010. It describes itself as "a voice for freedom in Canada's courtrooms" with a mission to "defend the constitutional freedoms of Canadians through litigation and education." It proclaims on its social media platforms, "We sue the government."
The cases it has pursued have included those dealing with public-speaking engagements promoting right-wing Americans; issues involving transgender rights; vanity licence plates on cars; and COVID-19 public health restrictions.
Often, the JCCF puts out punchy press releases to drum up publicity for its cases.
"Indigenous man gets his 'NDN CAR' license plate back from Manitoba government," reads one JCCF news release from 2019.
"Six-year-old told by teacher that 'girls are not real': case to proceed to a full hearing," reads another from 2020.
During this pandemic, Carpay has repeatedly spoken out against COVID-19 lockdown measures. In one video posted online, he stated, "COVID simply isn't the unusually deadly killer that politicians make it out to be." He accused media of "fear mongering" and argued that car crashes posed a greater risk to Canadians under 70 than the virus.
Carpay and the JCCF's work has been spotlighted multiple times by controversial conservative commentator Ezra Levant. Earlier this year, in the midst of filing lawsuits on behalf of churches that were prevented from holding worship services due to COVID-19 restrictions, Carpay appeared on Rebel News' The Ezra Levant Show, in which Levant introduced Carpay as "my own friend and a friend to our viewers."
"I think you're doing more religious liberty litigation in Canada than any of the so-called civil liberties groups who've gone silent and I want to thank you for that on behalf of our Rebel viewers," Levant said.
On the surface, the JCCF's stated goal, to "defend the constitutional freedoms of Canadians," sounds commendable and "neutral," said Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, a professor in the department of communication, media and film at the University of Windsor.
However, the organization is "very much part of the right-wing cultural war apparatus."
"They've taken a page right out of the American cultural conservative rights playbook."
More than lawyers, or even activists, Carpay and his colleagues are "provocateurs," who have, among other things, created "hysteria" over the issue of free speech at Canadian universities, she said in offering her assessment, citing a JCCF campaign started years ago to build "free speech walls" on campuses.
"They take on the left and so-called social justice warriors, but they're warriors as well. They're the cultural warriors of the right."
Its recent representation of churches fighting lockdown measures during the pandemic undermines any notion of the common or public good, she argued.
"It's very American — it's all about individual liberty."
This week, Karine Levasseur, a professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba, filed a complaint with the Canada Revenue Agency, arguing that some of the JCCF's published materials questioning the lethality of COVID-19 strayed from its charitable purpose.
"What expertise do JCCF board members have related to epidemiology to challenge the lethality of the COVID-19 virus?" she asked.
Getting a complete portrait of where the JCCF gets its funding is not easy.
On its website, the JCCF says it "gratefully acknowledges" the financial support from the Aurea Foundation, the Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation, the Donner Canadian Foundation, as well as 10,000 private individuals.
The Aurea Foundation was established in 2006 with a $25-million endowment from the Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation, according to the Munk foundation's website.
"The Aurea Foundation gives special attention to the investigation of issues related to the political and economic foundations of freedom, the strengthening of the free market system, the protection and enhancement of democratic values, human rights and human dignity, and the role of responsible citizenship."
In an email, Frank Penny, secretary-treasurer for the Aurea Foundation, said the foundation made its last grant to the Justice Centre in 2015. He would not say how much had been donated.
The Hecht foundation website states one of its objectives is "economic education that promotes the principles of a free market and its relationship to individual freedoms." One program it funds is the JCCF's "Campus Freedom Index," an annual report that gives Canadian universities grades based on how well they uphold free speech on campus. The foundation confirmed it has given money to JCCF but would not provide details.
In 1997, the Star reported that the Donner foundation, controlled by the American heirs of a wealthy steel magnate, had, after four decades of donating to "uncontroversial mainstream" projects, felt Canada was becoming "too liberal" and started dishing out "cash for the favourite causes of the new, market conservatism."
The JCCF is not on the foundation's 2020 list of grant recipients. No one from the foundation responded to the Star's queries.
Some of the JCCF's financial support has come from the United States. The Virginia-based Atlas Network, which promotes a "free, prosperous, and peaceful world where the principles of individual liberty, property rights, limited government, and free markets are secured by the rule of law" and connects 500 think-tanks around the world, has previously described the JCCF as one of its global partners.
A spokesperson said Atlas provided JCCF about $23,000 in grants over a five-year period until 2017 and that JCCF has not been a partner since July 2020. The reasons were not specified.
Filings with the Canada Revenue Agency show that the JCCF reported $1.7 million in assets in 2020 and $2.6 million in revenue — $2 million of that was in gifts for which the charity issued tax receipts.
The website charitydata.ca shows that in recent years, the JCCF has received many donations from churches, Christian societies and pro-life associations.
It's difficult to say if recent events will severely impact the group's heavily relied upon donations.
While Carpay's associates say they are shocked and dismayed by his decision to hire someone to follow a judge, they say they haven't lost faith in his organization's freedom-fighting mission.
Michel Kelly-Gagnon, president and CEO of the Montreal Economic Institute, is listed on the JCCF website as a supporter. He told the Star that Carpay is a bit of a "daredevil."
While he said he believes what Carpay did was an "absolute mistake" that left him "baffled," he said he's not prepared to withdraw his support.
"I still think they're doing good work, so I don't see why I would take out my name because they're caught up in a controversy," he said.
Kelly-Gagnon said the JCCF's conception of individual liberty falls in line with what he calls the "classical liberal or old whig" tradition, which appeals to him.
"They don't mind taking cases that are controversial," he said. "They're an organization that defends individual rights of Canadians and often takes cases that, quite frankly, few people would be willing to defend — not that they're not defendable but might be less socially popular in the current zeitgeist. They are taking cases that are contrarian to that overall mood."
Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the conservative online magazine The Western Standard, for which Carpay is a regular contributor, describes Carpay and the JCCF as "the most prodigious and aggressive organization in Canada fighting against government overreach and authoritarianism during COVID-19 lockdowns."
"They have represented churches, businesses and individuals that have unreasonably had their basic freedoms stripped. … Those of us who have been opposed to the lockdowns see them as fearless champions while most of our politicians, media, and institutions have become complicit."
Fildebrandt said hiring a private investigator to shadow a judge was wrong, "but I can see how he felt justified" given the numbers of government officials who've been caught breaking their own restrictions.
The loss of Carpay, if it becomes permanent, could be felt deeply by the JCCF in foundational and financial ways, said Navarro-Genie, the former board member.
"John made most, if not all, the big decisions," he said.
Carpay is a "gifted fundraiser" when it comes to encouraging individuals to hand over money, he said, adding that the foundations that make up for a large chunk of the JCCF's funding could also be taking a hard look at the situation.
The JCCF does advocacy work and often represents its clients pro bono. Navarro-Genie called donations "rocket fuel" for such an organization.
Scott Byers, a partner with Progressive Barristers in Toronto, said he was surprised that "any lawyer" who is "anywhere along the ideological spectrum" would engage in what Carpay did.
One of the "sad ironies" of the situation between Carpay and the Manitoba judge is that "the JCCF is part of this conservative legal tradition that denounces what they characterize as activist judges who they accuse of engaging in a kind of a free form social engineering that's divorced from the plain text of the law," he said.
As far as having a group like the JCCF around in Canada, "I think there's absolutely room for and a role for organizations like the JCCF," he said.
"I don't agree with them," Byers added, "but that doesn't mean that I don't think that they should be, you know, permitted to engage in the kind of advocacy work that they do, but that has to happen within the bounds of the law."
Kieran Leavitt is an Edmonton-based political reporter for the Toronto Star. Follow him on Twitter: @kieranleavittDouglas Quan is a Vancouver-based reporter for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: @dougquan
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	{
		return $this->remoteAppkey;
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Q: Conditional RewriteBase - set base path only if localhost I want to set the base path for my localhost (but not for live). I have researched widely and this looked like a simple solution:
  <If "%{HTTP_HOST} == '127.0.0.1'">
  RewriteBase /localpath/
  </If>

Unfortunately the RewriteBase statement NEVER fires - even if I make it != '127.0.0.1'.
I'm not sure if it is an issue with IF/RewriteBase combo, because if I put RewriteBase outside the  statement it does work.
Is there ANY WAY to test for LOCALHOST and then execute the Rewritebase command??

A: You should be matching %{SERVER_ADDR} instead of %{HTTP_HOST}.
<If "%{SERVER_ADDR} == '127.0.0.1'">
    RewriteBase /localpath/
</If>

A: @Anonymous's answer was helpful, but in my case HTTP_HOST worked better. Sharing in case it helps anyone else:
<If "%{HTTP_HOST} == 'myhostname'">
RewriteBase /localpath/
</If>


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Janine Sides is a director, writer, and cinematographer in her third year at the University of California's Graduate School of Cinematic Arts. She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work as director and cinematographer. Janine has had a long relationship with the image, and uses it to narrate fairytales and childhood experiences. Janine Sides started taking pictures when she was sixteen-years-old, thanks to the support of a high school teacher. After earning a bachelor's degree in journalism, Janine began working as a photojournalist in the Washington D.C. area. She has traveled all over the world for non-profits, government organizations, and publications photographing world events. While working as a photographer, Janine started shooting short films and working in the independent film community in the D.C. area. She also made documentary films for the U.S. Department of State before starting the USC Cinematic Arts graduate program. While at USC, Janine has received the Sun Cinematography Scholarship and the Edward Thomas Troutner Endowed Scholarship.
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Q: How to let users type in clozes in PDF? I am using the code here to replace some text with a cloze, or "fill-in-the-blank". Students will fill in their answer there. Is there any way to let users type in the missing word in the blank, in the PDF, and save it with their answers in the blanks? They'll have access to Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

A: You can use ConTeXt widgets.  Originally these were described in the Interaction manual but the chapter has been deleted.  I guess Hans has something new in the making.  You can still read the old source code, though, and there is a little bit in the Garden.
\setupinteraction[state=start]

\definefield[cloze][line]

\starttext

Frogs have four \field[cloze] and two eyes.

\stoptext


Last Friday, September 14, 2012, on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in his role and duty as the Successor of Saint Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, and as, therefore, the Chief Bishop of the Catholic Church, appointed the present Auxiliary Bishop of Denver, His Excellency, the Most Reverend James Conley, to be the ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln, succeeding your columnist, who has had the undeservedly wonderful privilege, for a bit more than the last 20 years, to be the eighth Bishop of this extremely fine Diocese. If all goes according to our new Bishop's wishes and according to our diocesan planning, Bishop Conley will be formally installed as the Bishop of Lincoln in the course of a Sacred Liturgy in our Cathedral of the Risen Christ on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving this year, November 20th, preceded by an introductory Vesper Service the evening before. Over the coming years, I hope and pray that all in our Diocese of Lincoln will get to know Bishop Conley, as I have been privileged to know him. In knowing him, a person will be able to see and experience a warm, loving, hard-working, highly learned, modern (in the best sense of the word), and exceptionally able church administrator and pastor. I have always thought of him in terms of G.K. Chesterton's definition of a "true conservative", one who sometimes has to take a fence down, but never does that until he first knows for sure the reason why it was put up.
I personally feel that God has answered our two years of ardent prayers for our new Bishop in the best possible way. I am certain that Bishop Conley will win the hearts of all, will be an enormous and constant blessing to us here in Southern Nebraska, and will spiritually enrich our Diocese of Lincoln with his goodness, efficiency, broad experience, and outstanding talents. We certainly now must spend some time thanking God, Who, through Christ's Vicar on earth, has given us such a precious gift in the person of our new spiritual Shepherd.
One of the positive aspects of Bishop Conley's appointment is that we already have had many contacts with him, and that he already knows something about our Diocese, having visited us at various times. In recent years, for example, he had visited, in his capacity as the Auxiliary Bishop of Denver, the seminarians at Saint Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward who are studying for the priesthood there for that Archdiocese. He also had celebrated ordinations in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (the "FSSP") at their Seminary of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Denton.
As a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, he served under two Bishops who previously had been priests of the Diocese of Lincoln before being named to the episcopacy, Bishop Thomas Olmsted, who later had been transferred from Wichita to the Diocese of Phoenix, and the present Bishop of Wichita, Bishop Michael Jackels. He is a seminary acquaintance and classmate of various priests of our Diocese, and has retained some close and cordial friendships with a good number of our Lincoln priests over the years.
Another connection with Denver involved the sixth Bishop of Lincoln, the Most Reverend James V. Casey, who was originally a priest of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. At first he was nominated to be the Auxiliary Bishop of Lincoln in 1957, to help Bishop Louis B. Kucera, who had suffered a heart attack the previous year and was somewhat incapacitated. However, before Bishop Casey could take up that role, Bishop Kucera died on May 9, 1957. Shortly afterward, Bishop Casey, whose appointment as Auxiliary Bishop was voided by the Kucera death, was named by Pope Pius XII to succeed him as the Bishop of Lincoln. He pontificated here for ten years. until he was appointed as the Archbishop of Denver on February 22, 1967, by Pope Paul VI.
As our Diocese of Lincoln prepares itself for its new Bishop, it might be useful, in addition to offering many extra prayers for Bishop Conley, who will become our "servant-leader", to note a few of the things that the Code of Canon Law says about Bishops: "By divine institution, Bishops succeed the Apostles through the Holy Spirit Who is given to them. They are constituted as the Pastors in the Church in order to be the Teachers of doctrine, the Priests of sacred worship, and the Ministers of Church governance. By their episcopal consecration Bishops receive, together with the office of sanctifying, the offices of teaching and of ruling, which, however, by their nature, can be exercised only in hierarchical communion with the Head (the Pope) of the College (of Bishops) and its members." (Canon 375).
"Bishops to whom the care of a Diocese is entrusted are called Diocesan Bishops. The others are called Titular Bishops." (Canon 376). "The Supreme Pontiff freely appoints Bishops or confirms those lawfully elected." (Canon 377). "In the Diocese entrusted to his care the Diocesan Bishop has all the ordinary, proper, and immediate authority required for the exercise of his pastoral office, except in those matters which the law or a decree of the Supreme Pontiff reserves to the supreme authority or some other ecclesiastical authority." (Canon 381). "The Diocesan Bishop governs the Particular Church entrusted to him with legislative, executive, and judicial authority in accordance with the law. The Bishop exercises legislative power himself. He exercises executive power either personally or through Vicars General or Episcopal Vicars in accordance with the law. He exercises judicial power either personally or through a Judicial Vicar and Judges in accordance with the law." (Canon 391). "In all juridical transactions of the Diocese, the Diocesan Bishop acts in the person of the Diocese." (Canon 393).


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Q: Check if an object has changed Is there a more native way (e.x. a built-in function) with less userland code to check if an objects property values have changed instead of using one of those methods:
The serialize approach
$obj = new stdClass(); // May be an instance of any class

echo $hashOld = md5(serialize($obj)) . PHP_EOL;

$obj->change = true;

echo $hashNew = md5(serialize($obj)) . PHP_EOL;

echo 'Changed: '; var_dump($hashOld !== $hashNew);

Which results in:
f7827bf44040a444ac855cd67adfb502 (initial)
506d1a0d96af3b9920a31ecfaca7fd26 (changed)
Changed: bool(true)

The shadow copy approach
$obj = new stdClass();
$shadowObj = clone $obj;

$obj->change = true;

var_dump($shadowObj != $obj);

Which results in:
bool(true);

Both approaches work. But both have disadvantages compared to a non userland implementation. The first one needs CPU for serialization and hashing and the second one needs memory for storing clones. And some classes may not be cloned.
Doesn't PHP track changes at object properties? And does PHP not expose a method to make use of it?

A: What you are trying to do?
You are trying to compare object with itself, after some chain of "unknown" operations to check if the object has changed. If this is true, there are some logical points to observe. At first, if you want to compare object with itself, you've got only two options:

*

*Remember the whole object state (for example hash, or just copy whole object)

*Track changes over time

There is no other logical approach. Comparing memory allocations, real objects, copying objects, comparing hashes, is all in point one. Tracking changes, saving changes inside object, remembering meantime operations, inside point 2.
So in my opinion this question is sort of backing up data questions. In that case there are many, many solutions but none of them are hardcoded inside php as far as I'm concerned. Why?

The answer is simple. PHP guys have got the same problems you've got :). Because if this would be hardocded inside php, then php should run / use one of those mechanisms (1) or (2).
In that case every object that you create, and every operation you made should be written somewhere to remember every state / object / something and use them for comparison in the future.
While you need this solution, almost ~100% of websites don't. So hardcoding this inside php would made ~100% of websites work slower and your work faster ;).

PHP hypothetical solution?
The only solution (maybe built in php in the future) I can think of is making some kind of php config flag: track objects, and only if this flag is true, then run all the php mechanisms of tracking objects states. But this also mean a huge performance gap. As all the ifs (if tracking, if tracking, if tracking) are also procesor and memory time consuming.
There is also a problem, what to compare? You need to compare object with same object, but... Few minutes ago? Few operations ago? No... You must point exactly one place in code, and then point second place in code and compare object in those two places. So hypothetical auto tracking is... Kind of powerless, as there is no "key" in the object state ofer time array. I mean, even if you got magic_object_comparer function, what it should look like?
<?php

    function magic_object_comparer() {} // Arguments??
    function magic_object_comparer($object_before, $object_after) {} // you must save object_before somewhere...??
    function magic_object_comparer($object, $miliseconds) {} // How many miliseconds?
    function magic_object_comparer($object, $operations) {} // How many operations? Which operations?

    magic_comparer_start($object);
    // ... Few operations...
    $boolean = magic_comparer_compare_from start($object);
    // Same as own implementation...
?>

Sadly, you are left with own implementation...
After all, I would propose to implement some kind of own mechanism for that, and remember to use it only there, where you need it. As this mechanism will for sure be time and memory consuming. So think carefully:

*

*Which objects you want to compare. Why?

*When you want to compare them?

*Does all changes need to be compared?

*What is the easiest way of saving those states changes?

And after all of that, try to implement it. I see that you've got a huge php knowledge, so I'm pretty sure that you will figure out something. There are also many comments, and possible ideas in this question and discussion.

But after all maybe I explained a little why, there is no build in solution, and why there should not be one in the future... :).

UPDATE
Take a look here: http://www.fluffycat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/. This is a great resource about php patterns. You should take a look at adapter, decorator and observer patterns, for possible elegant object oriented solutions.

A: While I too am looking for a very fast/faster approach, a variant of method 2 is effectively what I use.  The advantage of this method is that it is (pretty) fast (in comparison to an isset()), depending on object size.  And you don't have to remember to set a ->modified property each time you change the object.
global $shadowcopy; // just a single copy in this simple example.
$thiscopy = (array) $obj; // don't use clone.
if ($thiscopy !== $shadowcopy) {
// it has been modified
// if you want to know if a field has been added use array_diff_key($thiscopy,$shadowcopy);

}
$shadowcopy = $thiscopy; // if you don't modify thiscopy or shadowcopy, it will be a reference, so an array copy won't be triggered.

This is basically method 2, but without the clone.  If your property value is another object (vobj), then clone may be necessary (otherwise both references will point to the same object), but then it is worth noting that it is that object vobj you want to see if has changed with the above code.  The thing about clone is that it is constructing a second object (similar performance), but if you want to see what values changed, you don't care about the object itself, only the values.  And array casting of an object is very fast (~2x the speed of a boolean cast of a bool) .. well, up until large objects.  Also direct array comparison === is very fast, for arrays under say 100 vals.
I'm pretty sure an even faster method exists...

A: I can offer you another solution to the problem, In fact to detect "if an object has changed" we can use observer pattern design principles. May that way should be better for some people who want to get notify about changes in object.
Contracts/ISubject.php
<?php

namespace Contracts;

interface ISubject
{
    public function attach($observer): void;
    public function detach($observer): void;
    public function notify(): void;
}

Contracts/IObserver.php
<?php

namespace Contracts;

interface IObserver
{
    public function update($subject);
}

Subject.php
class Subject implements ISubject
{
    public $state; // That is detector

    private $observers;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->observers = new \SplObjectStorage(); // That is php built in object for testing purpose I use SplObjectStorage() to store attach()'ed objects.
    }

    public function attach($observer): void
    {
        echo "Subject: Attached an observer.\n";
        $this->observers->attach($observer);
    }

    public function detach($observer): void
    {
        $this->observers->detach($observer);
        echo "Subject: Detached an observer.\n";
    }

    public function notify(): void
    {
        echo "Subject: Notifying observers...\n";
        foreach ($this->observers as $observer) {
            $observer->update($this);
        }
    }

    public function someYourLogic()
    {
        $this->state = rand(0, 10);
        echo "Subject: My state has just changed to: {$this->state}\n";
        $this->notify();
    }
}

Observer1.php | Plus you are able to have as many ConcreteObserver as you want
class Observer1 implements IObserver
{
    public function update($subject): void
    {
        if ($subject->state < 5) {
            echo "Observer1: Reacted to the event.\n";
        }
    }
}

Clinet.php
$subject = new Subject();

$o1 = new Observer1();
$subject->attach($o1);
$subject->someYourLogic();

A: There is no built-in method, I'm afraid. The shadow copy approach is the best way.
A simpler way, if you have control over the class, is to add a modified variable:
$this->modified = false;

When I modify the object in any way, I simply use
$obj->modified = true;

This way I can later check
if($obj->modified){ // Do Something

to check if it was modified. Just remember to unset($obj->modified) before saving content in a database.

A: We can implement it without observer.
For pure php, we can use $attributes & $original to check what has been modified check this explanation if needed.
$modifiedValues = [];
foreach($obj->attributes as $column=>$value) {
    if(!array_key_exists($column, $obj->original) || $obj->original[$column] != $value) {
        $modifiedValues[$column] = $value;
    }
}
// then check $modifiedValues if it contains values

For Laravel user, we can use the isDirty() method. Its usage:
$user = App\User::first();
$user->isDirty();          //false
$user->name = "Peter";
$user->isDirty();          //true


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On running the Lbic gauntlet
Noel Grima Sunday, 5 December 2021, 08:32 Last update: about 3 months ago
Experienced mariners tell you that the wind they fear most in Malta is the Lbic (South West) rather than the Grigal (North East).
In the context of the few kilometres that separate Malta from Gozo, this is even more clearly understandable. For the island of Comino offers more than adequate cover in the case of the Grigal whereas there is no corresponding cover in the case of the Lbic.
So on a day like last Monday with a Force 9 wind blowing and wave after wave crashing on the rocks, one comes to appreciate all the more the skill and courage of the sailors and captains that manoeuvre the ships in such treasonable conditions. And correspondingly the crews of the other ships in the Maltese seas, the catamarans and the fast ferry crews, etc.
Even in the worst times of the storm, the Gozo Channel ships kept crossing, switching the route to pass behind Comino and slinking into Mgarr Harbour protected by the cliffs on one side. The passengers arrived, shaken and white-faced, but safe.
The Gozitans are a hardy people. On any day, stormy or calm, by 5.15am you can see them crowding around the pay-booths, in a blaze of tail-lights. They then pack a full day's work in Malta before returning to their family.
The people of Gozo have learned to live with the risks of their geographic position, keeping an eye on the weather and trimming their plans to it. Thus last Sunday many anticipated their crossing because Monday would be worse, they reasoned. Today weather forecasting has made great strides and is reasonably accurate.
It is very understandable that the residents of Gozo seek more ways to render the hardship less. The new fast ferries are being quite patronised and offer, it would seem, a welcome alternative to plunging in Malta's crowded roads.
One other alternative to adding on to the already crowded roads would have been the re-instatement of the cargo ship which used to ply between Sa Maison and Gozo. That's one decision that must be reversed, for the good of all.
One other alternative that gets mentioned in this context and which surfaces at every election is the tunnel between the two islands. I think that by now we have a better idea of the costs and risks of such an undertaking.
I am sure the idea, in itself, is quite feasible, technically speaking though I am not so sure we have the human resources to match, seeing the havoc caused by the recent floods on newly-built roads. We also have now a better understanding of the environmental costs of such an undertaking which outweigh, in my opinion at least, any gains to be made.
On the other hand, the environmental objections that used to be made to block adjustments to the heliport and turn it to a minuscule airport opening the way to further enlargements later on if required, are now less sustainable. The price would have been a couple of fields whereas since the heliport opened in 1995 more than a couple of fields have been lost to development. So where's the gain?
As it is now, people coming from the UK have to endure a three hours plus flight, a two hour bus ride and a half hour ship crossing before they get to Gozo. No wonder only the really determined make it to the end.
In my mind, Gozo is still very much a Do-it-yourself island which may explain the dearth of big hotels and facilities on the island. This DIY approach is best seen in the innumerable farmhouses and houses one can rent.
The DIY approach offers flexibility but stands or falls with ensuring that standards are kept. In this pandemic time a slipshod approach is the worst one possible. It nullifies all the heroic efforts to overcome the waves and the winds.
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Hi welcome to another Crane Engineering product review! I'm here today with Brad Parkhurst, Brad is one of our application engineers here at Crane Engineering. So, Brad, what are we talking about today?
Today we're talking about the Gorman-Rupp Eradicator Series product enhancement. What they did is they went and improved their Super T pump line and created this Eradicator series solids management system.
So, Gorman-Rupp came up with this product enhancement because in the field they were seeing that even with their solids passage pumps that they have currently, the severest applications with wet wipes, even in industrial chicken feathers, and plastic bags, hair, rags, were still getting plugged in their pumps. So what they did is they said, ok, what can we do to enhance their current leading self-priming pump?
What they came up with was the tooth, and the serrated edge on the wear plate and what these do is two things. One, the serrated edge prevents solids from trapping between the impeller, and the wear plate. Two, the tooth will actually take the solids and prevent them from wrapping or collecting in the eye of the impeller and allows them to pass through the pump.
Another feature they added to the Eradicator Solids Management System is this inspection port. And the reason that they did this is you can remove this inspection port and be able to get your hand into the eye of the impeller.
Now in the first version of this pump, you actually had to remove this whole complete assembly in order to get back to the backside of the impeller. So, with this inspection port it's easier for the operator to be able to remove the port, get back to the pump, remove any debris that might be in there, and then be able to put it back on with ease, and then be back up and running and also with that, you no longer have to do any adjustment on your wear plate so this all stays solid and no additional maintenance.
So Brad, how would you install this on a Super T?
So there's one of two things we can do. If you have a new application and you're looking to put this exactly into your new pump, you can buy that pump with this enhancement already into it. Or, you can take a regular Super T pump which has this assembly already in it, we can remove this front plate assembly, and then install this whole assembly back into the existing pump. Everything lines up, dimensionally, o-rings, everything is put into place and you're up and running just as you normally would.
So with any upgrade there's gotta be some sort of drawback, right? It's not all pros and no cons so what is the drawback with installing one of these?
So with this enhancement obviously there's a little bit of obtrusion to the flow path to the eye of the impeller. What this causes is just a slight reduction in efficiency. And what Gorman-Rupp has done is said ok, any pump that's plugged, is a zero efficiency pump, because it's not working. To reduce the efficiency just slightly but keep the pump running, everyone's gonna love that. So if you ever run across, that you're looking to apply this to an existing application, please talk to an application engineer. They'll need to run through the calculations just to make sure that your existing system will work with this enhancement.
So, already, we've had this product for probably a couple years now right? It's a couple years old. So we've seen it installed in a number of places in our region, so what are municipalities and industrial customers saying about this upgrade?
So we've installed it in multiple applications, the ones that we've done have been retrofits to the existing pumps. And those applications with the old version were seeing plugging one, to two, to three times a week, sometimes more. And currently, they've been running now for a couple months and we have had zero reports of plugging. So it's actually operating quite well.
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