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Buddhist monk, peace activist, author on meditation and mindfulness
In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Thích. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Hạnh.
Thích Nhất Hạnh in Paris in 2006
Thiền Sư
(Zen master)
Thầy (teacher)
Nguyễn Xuân Bảo
(1926-10-11) October 11, 1926 (age 92)
Huế, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, French Indochina
Thiền Buddhism
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Thích Chân Thật
Plum Village Monastery (currently in Từ Hiếu Temple near Huế, Vietnam)
Thích Nhất Hạnh (/ˈtɪk ˈnjʌt ˈhʌn/; Vietnamese: [tʰǐk̟ ɲə̌t hâjŋ̟ˀ] ( listen); born as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo[2] on October 11, 1926[3]) is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, founder of the Plum Village Tradition.
Thích Nhất Hạnh spent most of his later life residing in the Plum Village Monastery in southwest France,[4] travelling internationally to give retreats and talks. He coined the term "Engaged Buddhism" in his book Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.[5] After a long term of exile, he was given permission to make his first return trip to Vietnam in 2005.[6] In November 2018, he returned to Vietnam to spend his remaining days at his "root temple," Từ Hiếu Temple near Huế.[7]
Nhất Hạnh has published over 100 books, including more than 70 in English.[8][9] He is active in the peace movement, promoting nonviolent solutions to conflict.[10] He also refrains from animal product consumption (veganism) as a means of nonviolence towards animals.[11][12]
1.1 During the Vietnam War
1.2 Establishing the Order of Interbeing
1.3 Return to Vietnam
2 Approach
3 Names applied to him
4 Awards and honors
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Born as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Nhất Hạnh was born in the city of Huế in Central Vietnam in 1926. At the age of 16 he entered the monastery at nearby Từ Hiếu Temple, where his primary teacher was Zen Master Thanh Quý Chân Thật.[13][14][15] A graduate of Báo Quốc Buddhist Academy in Central Vietnam, Thích Nhất Hạnh received training in Vietnamese traditions of Mahayana Buddhism, as well as Vietnamese Thiền, and received full ordination as a Bhikkhu in 1951.[16]
In the following years he founded Lá Bối Press, the Vạn Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon, and the School of Youth for Social Service (SYSS); a neutral corps of Buddhist peaceworkers who went into rural areas to establish schools, build healthcare clinics, and help rebuild villages.[4]
On May 1, 1966 at Từ Hiếu Temple, he received the "lamp transmission", making him a dharmacharya, from Zen Master Chân Thật.[13] Nhất Hạnh is now recognized as a dharmacharya (teacher), and as the spiritual head of the Từ Hiếu Pagoda and associated monasteries.[13][17]
During the Vietnam War[edit]
In 1961 Nhất Hạnh went to the US to teach comparative religion at Princeton University,[18] and was subsequently appointed lecturer in Buddhism at Columbia University.[18] By then he had gained fluency in French, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese and English, in addition to his native Vietnamese. In 1963, he returned to Vietnam to aid his fellow monks in their non-violent peace efforts.[18]
Nhất Hạnh taught Buddhist psychology and prajnaparamita literature at Vạn Hanh Buddhist University, a private institution that taught Buddhist studies, Vietnamese culture, and languages.[18] At a meeting in April 1965, Vạn Hanh Union students issued a Call for Peace statement. It declared: "It is time for North and South Vietnam to find a way to stop the war and help all Vietnamese people live peacefully and with mutual respect." Nhất Hạnh left for the U.S. shortly afterwards, leaving Chân Không in charge of the SYSS. Vạn Hạnh University was taken over by one of the Chancellors who wished to sever ties with Thich Nhất Hạnh and the SYSS, accusing Chân Không of being a communist. From that point the SYSS struggled to raise funds and faced attacks on its members. The SYSS persisted in their relief efforts without taking sides in the conflict.[5]
Nhất Hạnh returned to the US in 1966 to lead a symposium in Vietnamese Buddhism at Cornell University, and to continue his work for peace. While in the US, Nhất Hạnh stopped at Gethsemani Abbey to speak with Thomas Merton.[19] When Vietnam threatened to block Nhất Hạnh's re-entry to the country, Merton penned an essay of solidarity entitled "Nhat Hanh is my Brother".[19][20] He had written a letter to Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965 entitled: "In Search of the Enemy of Man". It was during his 1966 stay in the US that Nhất Hạnh met with King and urged him to publicly denounce the Vietnam War.[21] In 1967, Dr. King gave a famous speech at the Riverside Church in New York City, his first to publicly question the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.[22] Later that year, Dr. King nominated Nhất Hạnh for the 1967 Nobel Peace Prize. In his nomination Dr. King said, "I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of [this prize] than this gentle monk from Vietnam. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity".[23] The fact that King had revealed the candidate he had chosen to nominate and had made a "strong request" to the prize committee, was in sharp violation of the Nobel traditions and protocol.[24][25] The committee did not make an award that year.
Nhất Hạnh moved to France and became the chair of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation.[18] When the Northern Vietnamese army took control of the south in 1975, he was denied permission to return to Vietnam.[18] From 1976–1977 he led efforts to help rescue Vietnamese boat people in the Gulf of Siam,[26] eventually stopping under pressure from the governments of Thailand and Singapore.[27]
A CIA document from the Vietnam War has called Thích Nhất Hạnh a "brain truster" of Thich Tri Quang, the leader of a dissident group.[28]
Establishing the Order of Interbeing[edit]
Deer Park Monastery in California
Nhất Hạnh created the Order of Interbeing (Vietnamese: Tiếp Hiện) in 1966. He heads this monastic and lay group, teaching Five Mindfulness Trainings[29] and the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings[30]. In 1969 he established the Unified Buddhist Church (Église Bouddhique Unifiée) in France (not a part of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam). In 1975 he formed the Sweet Potato Meditation Center. The center grew and in 1982 he and his colleague Chân Không founded Plum Village Monastery, a vihara[A] in the Dordogne in the south of France.[4] The Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism [31] (formerly the Unified Buddhist Church) and its sister organization in France the Congregation Bouddhique Zen Village des Pruniers are the legally recognized governing bodies for Plum Village in France, for Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, New York, the Community of Mindful Living, Parallax Press, Deer Park Monastery in California, Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi, and the European Institute of Applied Buddhism in Waldbröl, Germany.[32][33] According to the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation, (the charitable organization that serves as the fundraising arm of the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism), the monastic order established by Thich Nhat Hanh comprises 589 monastics in 9 monasteries worldwide. [34]
He established two monasteries in Vietnam, at the original Từ Hiếu Temple near Huế and at Prajna Temple in the central highlands. Thích Nhất Hạnh and the Order of Interbeing have established monasteries and Dharma centers in the United States at Deer Park Monastery (Tu Viện Lộc Uyển) in Escondido, California, Maple Forest Monastery (Tu Viện Rừng Phong) and Green Mountain Dharma Center (Ðạo Tràng Thanh Sơn) in Vermont and Magnolia Grove Monastery (Đạo Tràng Mộc Lan) in Mississippi, the second of which closed in 2007 and moved to the Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, New York . These monasteries are open to the public during much of the year and provide ongoing retreats for laypersons. The Order of Interbeing also holds retreats for specific groups of lay people, such as families, teenagers, veterans, the entertainment industry, members of Congress, law enforcement officers and people of color.[35][35][36][37][38] Nhất Hạnh conducted a peace walk in Los Angeles in 2005, and again in 2007.[39]
Notable members of the order of interbeing and disciples of Thích Nhất Hạnh include: Skip Ewing, founder of the Nashville Mindfulness Center; Natalie Goldberg, author and teacher; Chân Không, Dharma teacher; Caitriona Reed, Dharma teacher and co-founder of Manzanita Village Retreat Center; Larry Rosenberg, Dharma teacher; Cheri Maples police officer and dharma teacher; and Pritam Singh, real estate developer and editor of several of Nhất Hạnh's books.
Other notable students of Thích Nhất Hạnh include Joan Halifax, founder of the Upaya Institute; Albert Low, Zen teacher and author; Joanna Macy, environmentalist and author; Jon Kabat-Zinn, creator of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR); Jack Kornfield, Dharma teacher and author; Christiana Figueres former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Garry Shandling comedian and actor; Marc Benioff founder of Salesforce.com; Jim Yong Kim, former president of the World Bank; John Croft, co-creator of Dragon Dreaming; Leila Seth, author and Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and Stephanie Kaza, environmentalist.
Return to Vietnam[edit]
Thích Nhất Hạnh during a ceremony in Da Nang on his 2007 trip to Vietnam
In 2005, following lengthy negotiations, Nhất Hạnh was given permission from the Vietnamese government to return for a visit. He was also allowed to teach there, publish four of his books in Vietnamese, and travel the country with monastic and lay members of his Order, including a return to his root temple, Tu Hieu Temple in Huế.[6][40] The trip was not without controversy. Thich Vien Dinh, writing on behalf of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (considered illegal by the Vietnamese government), called for Nhất Hạnh to make a statement against the Vietnam government's poor record on religious freedom. Thich Vien Dinh feared that the trip would be used as propaganda by the Vietnamese government, suggesting to the world that religious freedom is improving there, while abuses continue.[41][42][43]
Despite the controversy, Thích Nhất Hạnh again returned to Vietnam in 2007, while two senior officials of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) remained under house arrest. The Unified Buddhist Church called his visit a betrayal, symbolizing his willingness to work with his co-religionists' oppressors. Võ Văn Ái, a spokesman for the UBCV, said "I believe Thích Nhất Hạnh's trip is manipulated by the Hanoi government to hide its repression of the Unified Buddhist Church and create a false impression of religious freedom in Vietnam."[44] The Plum Village Website states that the three goals of his 2007 trip back to Vietnam were to support new monastics in his Order; to organize and conduct "Great Chanting Ceremonies" intended to help heal remaining wounds from the Vietnam War; and to lead retreats for monastics and lay people. The chanting ceremonies were originally called "Grand Requiem for Praying Equally for All to Untie the Knots of Unjust Suffering", but Vietnamese officials objected, saying it was unacceptable for the government to "equally" pray for soldiers in the South Vietnamese army or U.S. soldiers. Nhất Hạnh agreed to change the name to "Grand Requiem For Praying".[44]
In 2014, major Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian leaders, as well as Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist leaders, met to sign a shared commitment against modern-day slavery; the declaration they signed calls for the elimination of slavery and human trafficking by the year 2020. Nhất Hạnh was represented by Sister Chân Không.[45]
Health[edit]
In November 2014, Nhất Hạnh experienced a severe brain hemorrhage and was hospitalized.[46][47] After months of rehabilitation, Nhất Hạnh was released from the stroke rehabilitation clinic at Bordeaux University Hospital, in France. On July 11, 2015, Nhất Hạnh was flown to San Francisco to speed his recovery with an aggressive rehabilitation program through UCSF Medical Center.[48] He returned to France on January 8, 2016.[49]
After spending 2016 in France, Nhất Hạnh traveled to Thai Plum Village.[50] He has continued to see both Eastern and Western specialists while in Thailand.[50] He is still unable to speak.[50]
On November 2, 2018, a press release from the Plum Village community confirmed that Nhất Hạnh, now aged 92, had returned to Vietnam a final time and will reside at Từ Hiếu Temple to "live his remaining days". In a meeting with senior disciples, he had "clearly communicated his wish to return to Vietnam using gestures, nodding and shaking his head in response to questions."[7]
Approach[edit]
Thích Nhất Hạnh in Vught, the Netherlands, 2006
Main article: Plum Village Tradition
Thích Nhất Hạnh's approach has been to combine a variety of teachings of Early Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhist traditions of Yogācāra and Zen, and ideas from Western psychology to teach Mindfulness of Breathing and the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, offering a modern light on meditation practice. Hạnh's presentation of the Prajnaparamita in terms of "interbeing" has doctrinal antecedents in the Huayan school of thought,[51] which "is often said to provide a philosophical foundation" for Zen.[52]
In September 2014, shortly before his stroke, Nhất Hạnh completed new English and Vietnamese translations of the Heart Sutra, one of the most important sutras in Mahayana Buddhism.[53] In a letter to his students[53] Nhất Hạnh explains that he wrote these new translations because he thought that a poor choice of words in the original text had resulted in significant misunderstandings of these core Buddhist teachings for almost 2,000 years.
Nhất Hạnh has also been a leader in the Engaged Buddhism movement[1] (he is credited with coining the term[54]), promoting the individual's active role in creating change. He cites the 13th-century Vietnamese king Trần Nhân Tông with the origination of the concept. Trần Nhân Tông abdicated his throne to become a monk and founded the Vietnamese Buddhist school of the Bamboo Forest tradition.[55]
Names applied to him[edit]
Nhất Hạnh at Phu Bai International Airport on his 2007 trip to Vietnam (aged 80)
The Vietnamese name Thích (釋) is from "Thích Ca" or "Thích Già" (釋迦), means "of the Shakya clan".[13] All Buddhist monastics in East Asian Buddhism adopt this name as their surname, implying that their first family is the Buddhist community. In many Buddhist traditions, there is a progression of names that a person can receive. The first, the lineage name, is given when a person takes refuge in the Three Jewels. Thích Nhất Hạnh's lineage name is Trừng Quang (澄光), meaning "Clear, Reflective Light". The next is a Dharma name, given when a person, lay or monastic, takes additional vows or when one is ordained as a monastic. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Dharma name is Phùng Xuân (逢春), meaning "Meeting Spring". Additionally, Dharma titles are sometimes given, and Thích Nhất Hạnh's Dharma title is Nhất Hạnh.[13]
Neither Nhất (一) nor Hạnh (行)—which approximate the roles of middle name or intercalary name and given name, respectively, when referring to him in English—was part of his name at birth. Nhất (一) means "one", implying "first-class", or "of best quality"; Hạnh (行) means "action", implying "right conduct" or "good nature." Thích Nhất Hạnh has translated his Dharma names as Nhất = One, and Hạnh = Action. Vietnamese names follow this naming convention, placing the family or surname first, then the middle or intercalary name which often refers to the person's position in the family or generation, followed by the given name.[56]
Thích Nhất Hạnh is often referred to as Thầy "master; teacher" or as Thầy Nhất Hạnh by his followers. Any Vietnamese monk or nun in the Mahayana tradition can be addressed as "thầy". Vietnamese Buddhist monks are addressed thầy tu "monk" and nuns are addressed as sư cô "sister" or sư bà "elder sister". On the Vietnamese version of the Plum Village website, he is also referred to as Thiền Sư Nhất Hạnh "Zen Master Nhất Hạnh".[57]
Awards and honors[edit]
Nobel laureate Martin Luther King, Jr. nominated Thích Nhất Hạnh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967.[23] However, the prize was not awarded to anyone that year.[58] Nhất Hạnh was awarded the Courage of Conscience award in 1991.[59]
He has been featured in many films, including The Power of Forgiveness shown at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival[60] and the 2017 documentary Walk with Me by Max Pugh and Marc James Francis.[61]
Nhất Hạnh, along with Alfred Hassler and Sister Chân Không, became the subject of a graphic novel entitled The Secret of the 5 Powers in 2013.[62]
Nhất Hạnh has been chosen to receive 2015's Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award.[63][64]
In November 2017, the Education University of Hong Kong conferred an honorary doctorate upon Nhất Hạnh for his "life-long contributions to the promotion of mindfulness, peace and happiness across the world". As Nhất Hạnh was unable to attend the congregation in Hong Kong, a simple ceremony was held on 29 August 2017 in Thailand, where John Lee Chi-kin, vice-president (academic) of EdUHK, presented the honorary degree certificate and academic gown to Nhất Hạnh on behalf of the university.[65][66]
Writings[edit]
Vietnam: Lotus in a sea of fire. New York, Hill and Wang. 1967.
Being Peace, Parallax Press, 1987, ISBN 0-938077-00-7
The Sun My Heart', Parallax Press, 1988, ISBN 0-938077-12-0
Our Appointment with Life: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone, Parallax Press, 1990, ISBN 1-935209-79-5
The Miracle of Mindfulness, Rider Books, 1991, ISBN 978-0-7126-4787-8
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha, Parallax Press, 1991, ISBN 81-216-0675-6
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Bantam reissue, 1992, ISBN 9780553351392
The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion, Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra, Parallax Press, 1992, ISBN 0-938077-51-1
Hermitage Among the Clouds, Parallax Press, 1993, ISBN 0-938077-56-2
Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice, Harmony, 1994, ISBN 978-0-385-47561-7
Cultivating The Mind Of Love, Full Circle, 1996, ISBN 81-216-0676-4
The Heart Of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, Full Circle, 1997, ISBN 81-216-0703-5, ISBN 9781888375923 (2005 Edition)
Transformation and Healing: Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, Full Circle, 1997, ISBN 81-216-0696-9
Living Buddha, Living Christ, Riverhead Trade, 1997, ISBN 1-57322-568-1
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart, Shambhala Publications, 1997, ISBN 1-59030-404-7
Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962–1966, Riverhead Trade, 1999, ISBN 1-57322-796-X
Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers, Riverhead Books, 1999, ISBN 1-57322-145-7
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, Broadway Books, 1999, ISBN 0-7679-0369-2
The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation, Beacon Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8070-1239-4 (Vietnamese: Phép lạ c̉ua sư t̉inh thưc).
The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist/Christian Awareness, Daniel Berrigan (Co-author), Orbis Books, 2000, ISBN 1-57075-344-X
The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-Day Mindfulness Retreat, Unified Buddhist Church, 2000, ISBN 81-7621-189-3
A Pebble in Your Pocket, Full Circle Publishing, 2001, ISBN 81-7621-188-5
Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings, Robert Ellsberg (Editor), Orbis Books, 2001, ISBN 1-57075-370-9
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames, Riverhead Trade, 2002, ISBN 1-57322-937-7
Be Free Where You Are, Parallax Press, 2002, ISBN 1-888375-23-X
No Death, No Fear, Riverhead Trade reissue, 2003, ISBN 1-57322-333-6
Touching the Earth: Intimate Conversations with the Buddha, Parallax Press, 2004, ISBN 1-888375-41-8
Teachings on Love, Full Circle Publishing, 2005, ISBN 81-7621-167-2
Understanding Our Mind, HarperCollins, 2006, ISBN 978-81-7223-796-7
Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Walking Toward Enlightenment, Parallax Press, 2007, ISBN 1-888375-75-2
The Art of Power, HarperOne, 2007, ISBN 0-06-124234-9
Under the Banyan Tree, Full Circle Publishing, 2008, ISBN 81-7621-175-3
Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being, Parallax Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-888375-79-4
The Blooming of a Lotus, Beacon Press, 2009, ISBN 9780807012383
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life. HarperOne. 2010. ISBN 978-0-06-169769-2.
Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child, Parallax Press, 2010, ISBN 1-935209-64-7
You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment, Shambhala Publications, 2010, ISBN 978-1590308387
The Novice: A Story of True Love, HarperCollins, 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-200583-0
Works by or about Thích Nhất Hạnh in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala Publications, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59030-926-1
Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm, HarperOne, 2012, ISBN 978-1846043185
The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala Pocket Classics, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59030-936-0
The Art of Communicating, HarperOne, 2013, ISBN 978-0-06-222467-5
How to Sit, Palrallax Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1937006587
How to Eat, Parallax Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1937006723
No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering, Parallax Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1937006853
How to Love, Parallax Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1937006884
Is nothing something? : kids' questions and zen answers about life, death, family, friendship, and everything in between, Parallax Press 2014, ISBN 978-1-937006-65-5
Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise, HarperOne (1705), 2015, ASIN: B014TAC7GQ
How to Relax, Parallax Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1941529089
Old Path, White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha Blackstone Audio, Inc.; 2016, ISBN 978-1504615983
At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life, with Jason Deantonis (Illustrator), Parallax Press, 2016, ISBN 1941529429
The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries, Palm Leaves Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-941529-14-0
How to Fight, Parallax Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1941529867
The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now, HarperOne, 2017, ISBN 978-0062434661
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"Princess of the Night" is a single by British heavy metal band Saxon, featured as the opening track and single from their 1981 album Denim and Leather; the song was written as a group production of all five members of the band at the time: Peter "Biff" Byford, Steve Dawson, Pete Gill, Graham Oliver, and Paul Quinn. The lyrics of the song deal with narrator's affinity of a steam locomotive of the LMS Princess Royal Class.

The single itself peaked in its popularity at 57 on the UK Singles Chart.

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Saxon are from Barnsley, an industrial town in north-central England with several railways, which, according to singer Biff Byford, is famous for "bus scrapyards". Byford said, "Princess of the Night is a song about a steam train that ends up on the scrapyard."

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MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota state officials and Chinese government representatives signed an agreement this week promising they'll cooperate on investment opportunities — a move that Minnesota officials hope will be beneficial to the state.
"What we hope is to at least establish a framework, putting Minnesota on the map with potential investors," said Tony Lorusso, executive director of the Minnesota Trade Office.
The letter of understanding signed Wednesday in St. Paul calls for Chinese and state officials to meet annually to discuss ways to enhance investment in Minnesota. The two governments plan to collaborate on ways to promote Minnesota at trade fairs and other events in China, Lorusso said.
Last year, China spent over $1.2 billion on Minnesota-manufactured goods. But the Minnesota Trade Office knows of only two direct investments by Chinese firms in Minnesota — a taconite plant on the Iron Range and a sales office in Eden Prairie for a Chinese company that makes water fountains.
The Chinese government and private firms have billions to invest. So far, most investments in the United States have been in U.S. Treasury bonds.
Kent Kedl, a Shanghai-based business consultant, said attempts to woo Chinese investment are worth it.
Private efforts are also boosting Minnesota's name in China, he said. A "Minnesota Shanghai Club" has more than 250 members from both countries, who discuss trade and investment issues.
"Minnesota is way out ahead of the pack in doing this," Kedl said. "I wouldn't say that Minnesota is 'broadly' known in China because this (China) is a pretty big place, but the delegations that Minnesota has been sending over the years and the long connections that Minnesota has is making the state more well-known."
Chinese officials have similar investment agreements with Ohio, Virginia, South Carolina and New Mexico, Lorusso said.


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If you were worried about Twitter's changes to its blocking policy, you can calm down now: the change has been reversed and everything is back to normal. And if you had no idea the block function had briefly changed in the first place, you apparently didn't miss much.
The Twitter block feature traditionally cuts off contact between users, but the company's recent policy change simply changed the "block" button to something more akin to a muting function. In the past, users who felt uncomfortable (or just annoyed with someone) could use the block button to keep that user from following them, messaging them, or adding them to any lists. Blocking would also result in a notification being sent to the blocked user that they had been stonewalled.
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Such a function does have its uses, and many users against the change agree that a mute-style button would be welcome — just not at the expense of actual blocking. And Twitter seems to agree: the announcement reassures users, "We never want to introduce features at the cost of users feeling less safe. Any blocks you had previously instituted are still in effect." OK, glad we got that settled Twitter.


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We scoured the web for opinions and feedback about the features and qualities that make a good air purifier. From the in-depth discussion on the usual subreddits to the advisory information published by agencies like the California air resources board, there is a lot of good information on the web that discusses the principles of air purification.
Sadly there's also a lot of hype. Devices like the notorious Ionic Breeze have been making bold claims without hard evidence for a very long time, and it seems like there are always new products appearing with similar claims. Ionizer-type devices can help take particles out of the air if they're well-designed, but mostly they dump ozone into your air, and that causes more problems than it solves. It's bad enough that the CARB has an entire website of advisories about this kind of device and a registry to help you avoid buying one.
There is a chance that a cheap air purifier will use "HEPA-like" filters that don't actually meet that standard, but the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers with their Verifide program are trying hard to make sure that you don't get stuck with a fake. They test with three categories of pollution: large particles, pollen-size particles and smoke-sized particles.
Since the legit filters are all so similar, the differences between air purifier models, generally speaking, can be reduced to three questions: how much of your room's air can it push through the filter, how loud is it and how much will it cost you to run?
The first question is also answered by the AHAM's Verifide program. Most air purifier manufacturers participate in the program, where an independent lab gives each device a "clean air delivery rate" certification. Generally this certificate also advertises a room size that will be effectively cleaned at that rate (or you can calculate it yourself) based on the tested performance for cleaning smoke particles.
We picked products in two size categories: CADR 200, which should be effective in rooms up to 320 square feet, and CADR 100, which should be effective for a room smaller than 150 square feet.
We looked closely at retail sites and other reputable reviews from major publications to see what people love and hate about their purifiers, then we looked for devices in our size categories that should be easy to maintain with economical filter refills.
We spoke to experts who work with the California Air Resources Board to get an idea of what an air purifier can help with. The good news is that air purifiers can definitely help anybody who's worried about air quality, but they aren't a cure-all.
Small particles are the most prevalent form of air pollution. This includes everything from pollen to the soot in smoke, and fortunately this is the easiest class of pollution to clean. At 10 microns, particles are small enough to be easily inhaled, and air quality indexes usually track particles automobile emissions at the 2.5 micron particle size, where it seems to have the most effect on our bodies.
Ultra-fine particles are the very smallest particles, smaller than 0.3 microns. The sources of ultra-fine particles are everywhere, but the effects they have on our health are less well-understood.
Volatile Organic Compounds are basically gas vapors, most of which you can smell. These come from many sources: plastic, food, your dog and the paint on your walls. There are activated carbon filters that can remove VOCs, but if they're big enough to be effective they will be expensive and need to be replaced frequently. Generally speaking, if you've got a source of VOCs that's a problem, you should get it out of your house or vent the air rather than trying to filter it.
Some sources of air pollution are more difficult to manage than other. If you live in an area where smog and dust from a nearby freeway is an issue, then closing doors and windows and using an air purifier can make a big difference. If you're dealing with smells from a nearby sewage treatment plant… there's not as much you can do except close your windows and hope for the wind to blow the smell somewhere else.
An air purifier is, for the most part, a high-efficiency filter and a fan. Some models add features like static generators to clump particles, and a few include sensor circuits to turn the fan speed up only when it's needed, but the basic task of cleaning your air is accomplished by moving as much of you room's air as possible through a filter.
We asked our experts what a HEPA filter will or won't remove. Does an air purifier capture viruses, for example?
While an air purifier can be very effective at removing dust, spores and other bothersome particles that are floating through your room, it can't do anything about the particles trapped in your upholstery (let alone your pet's hair).
If you have a home or apartment with airtight windows and doors, an air purifier can pretty easily clean out the dust and air pollution that wafts in when you open your doors, but if you're moving around and kicking up dust inside the room, things get tricky. The more dust you kick up, the more air you'll need to move through the filter to keep the air clean.
If you've got leaky windows and door, things get even more tricky, with some homes in warmer parts of the world changing the inside air for outside air one or two times per hour.
Most CADR room-size calculations aim for three air changes per hour, so they should be able to keep up with indoor sources of pollution like cooking and infiltration of dirty outside air, but it's difficult to clean the air in just one "zone" of a house unless you can actually seal it off.
Cleaning carpets and furniture: Dust mites, skin cells and other particles accumulate quickly in carpet and upholstery, so vacuuming and cleaning regularly can take care of a lot of the dust that's in your living space. A vacuum with a HEPA filter or a central vacuum that keeps the dust outside can make an even bigger difference. If you find that your vacuum is cumbersome for regular use, hand-held vacuums can make a big difference in keeping the sofa dust under control.
Pets and allergy solutions: If you're allergic to your best friend, what can you do? The Asthma and Allergy Foundation suggests you can get a little bit of relief by making sure not to give your pet access to your bedroom, but you're still going to have to keep the rest of your house very clean. An air purifier will help with the dander and other pet-dust that's floating through the air, but there are still particles in your carpet, upholstery and hiding in your pet's hair.
Don't smoke inside: An air cleaner will be better than nothing if you're dealing with second-hand smoke, but there's really no way to remove the odor of tobacco smoke or all the danger of exposure if it's in your house.
Put out the candles, too: Sadly, the romantic glow of candlelight also spreads soot and other particles into the air. Soy or Beeswax are better than paraffin, and an air purifier will help manage the smoke that's in the air, but it'll be much cleaner if you don't light them at all.
Seal windows and doors: If you're more concerned about the air quality outside than inside, weather-proofing your doors and windows can keep the infiltration of polluted air to a minimum. Even if you do decide to go with an air purifier to deal with the pollution that comes into your house when you open the door, a well-sealed house will cut down on AC or heating costs.
CADR and room size: Picking the right air purifier for the job is the most important choice. The "Clean Air Delivery Rate" is a lab-tested measurement of the number of cubic feet of air that the purifier can filter per minute: multiply that by 1.5 to get the number of square feet it can easily handle with an 8' ceiling.
CADR is often listed for dust, allergens and smoke, but the smoke rating is the one to watch when picking a general-purpose air purifier. They tend to be very similar numbers.
Types of air cleaning: There are a few different technologies on offer that can help make your air more breathable, but the technology we focused on for this review is HEPA filtration. Filters are effective and fairly economical; other technologies might add some benefits, but they're either very expensive or they aren't very effective with large volumes of air.
Timers and sensors: If you're looking for a filter to leave on 24/7, then you'll want the lowest noise and most energy-efficient model you can get. If you can keep your room sealed from indoor or outdoor pollution except at certain times during the day, though, a timer or an air quality sensor means you won't be running your air purifier more than necessary.
Fan noise: A quiet machine may make a big difference for quality of life, you don't want to trade air pollution for noise pollution.
We ran each of these air purifiers in a two-bedroom townhouse located near the 55 Freeway in Orange County, California. Air quality isn't as bad as some parts of the state, but the outside air isn't great. Our tester also just moved in, and the windows are sadly lacking in weather sealing.
We logged air quality with a Dylos particle counter, which uses lasers to track how many tiny particles are floating through the air: results definitely show an improvement when running an air purifier, even when cooking or with a toddler running around in the same room.
In a 238-square-foot living room, the CADR-100 machines struggled to keep up with heavy activity, though performance wasn't all that bad during nap time. This casual, real-world testing definitely reinforced to us the importance of picking an appropriately-sized air purifier if you want to keep up with dust and leaky windows.
This testing also showed us the value of having some way of knowing when you need to turn up the fan on your air purifier. If you're buying for a busy household you might just keep it running on full blast, but it quickly became obvious that that wasn't necessary if our test-toddler was asleep and nobody was cooking. The Winix and Coway air purifiers, with their built-in air quality sensors, definitely make a lot of sense for someone who doesn't have a way to test their own air.
We set up two air-tight testing chambers to run filtration rate tests. We have no reason to be skeptical about the testing done by AHAM and Intertek, but the published clean air delivery rate tests only show performance at the fastest fan speed. We ran controlled tests at both high and low speed settings to see how much performance you're giving up in order to turn down the noise.
For testing, we introduce controlled pollutants into our sealed test chamber: 10g of titanium dioxide, a very fine white powder that mostly has particles in the 0.3 to 1.0 micron range. (This is the same compound that makes paint white.) We also burned 1.5 grams of Dunhill pipe tobacco (about half a bowl in a small pipe) to generate some ultra-fine smoke particles and see if these devices could be at all effective in cleaning up second-hand smoke.
The Dylos counts both small (.5 micron) and large (10 micron) particles, but we're publishing the small-particle rates since performance for each was very similar.
We ran two tests for each purifier, at high and low fan speeds, for an hour each. We normalized the start times used values from the logs to give a similar baseline.
Along with the performance tests, we also checked noise output of each model. We measured the sound pressure level at a 3 foot and 10 foot distance with the lowest and highest fan settings. Testing was done by our resident sound engineer using the REW suite and a calibrated mic, with levels verified against a calibrated SPL meter.
As expected, the noise level was quite high at full blast, but we were pleasantly surprised at how quiet most of these air purifiers are on the lowest fan speed. The Coway really deserves a special mention here: on low settings, both Coway and Winix are so quiet they're difficult to measure, but the Coway won by a decibel.
At full blast it was Honeywell who had the edge, but this is where it's important to realize that low noise is typically directly related to a low performance. Honeywell performs better than the others on low, where it's louder than the competition; on high, it's quieter and lags behind on air cleaning.
We checked on filter replacement costs to see who is charging the most reasonable price to keep your air purifier running for the long term.
Because filter life will vary depending on how much each filter picks up, we also measured the filter area that the cost of a refill gets you. This is still going to be, largely, a matter of personal preference: like the cabin air filter in your car, most people can use these filters for much longer than the manufacturer rates them for without seeing a change in performance.
The activated carbon component of these filters is, in every machine except the Levoit, a replaceable pre-filter. The pre-filter does double-duty catching hair or big particles (something that could also be done with nylon mesh) and doing a very little bit of work capturing volatile organic compounds. You can read other reviews if you want to see details on how poor these skinny filters are at capturing smells or fumes.
If you have the option of buying a replacement HEPA filter and not replacing the carbon filter, you could cut down your filter cost significantly. On the other hand, if you're willing to trade a little bit of airflow for slightly-better-but-still-negligible performance with VOCs, one Amazon purchaser has claimed success stacking the carbon prefilters to get more active surface area.
In any case, the life of a HEPA-type mechanical filter is as long as you're willing to put up with the performance it offers. When it catches a lot of particles it will start to literally clog up; new particles are still captured, but it will take more time and electricity for your purifier to filter the air in your room. Unless you're using it in a dog kennel or a woodworking shop, though, you can probably run the same filter for much longer than one year.
We also verified the kilowatt-hours of electricity each machine uses on highest and lowest speed to see what the long-term cost of ownership will be. We calculated the cost based on 20 hours/day of low-speed and 4 hours/day of high-speed use. That's close to a worst-case cost scenario, since hopefully you'll be able to turn each machine completely off after running it for a few hours a couple of times per day. We used the U.S. national average of 12 cents per kilowatt-hour, your local rates will of course vary.
Winix has a competition-blasting air purifier in their 5300-2. Leveraging a big HEPA filter with an efficient and quiet fan, this machine is cheap to run and quiet enough that you might not even know it's there. Even if you have a smaller room, this is our pick.
Simply put, this is a good price for a HEPA-type air purifier that's certified to clean a room of up to 360 square feet. That's 2,880 cubic feet of air, and the Winix will circulate that much through the filter more than four times in an hour at top speed. That in and of itself is not remarkable: HEPA filters are all basically the same, and this size class is a popular one since it will clean most living rooms easily and a bedroom even more quickly.
The big price-hike for air purifiers of this size tends to occur when a manufacturer includes an air quality sensor and Wi-Fi. Honeywell and Whirlpool are offering their no-sensor big-room filters for about $150, while Dyson, Blueair and Philips add sensors and a Wi-Fi connection for about $200 more. For the same price as the "dumb" purifiers Winix offers an air quality sensor to automatically turn up the fan, but it will never ask you to reset your router.
For the cost of this device, it's not easy to build a machine from furnace parts, let alone get an air quality sensor and magnetic-latch filter cover. This is one of the best-performing machines in its class, and it's cheaper to run it all the time than many much smaller competitors.
Coway is the other value-leader, but their 1512HH still typically costs $100 more than the Winix with the same features. Performance is basically the same; Winix uses a few watts more electricity when it's sitting on the lowest speed, but it makes up the difference quickly by using 15 fewer watts at full blast without sacrificing performance.
The filters cost nearly the same on Amazon, and there are far more places we found selling Winix-compatible refills. The Coway filter does offer slightly more surface area when you measure the depth of the pleats, but if you're replacing filters at the recommended rate of once per year you'd probably never get even close to clogging either brand.
The biggest difference we saw between Winix and Coway in day-to-day testing is that Coway has tweaked their auto-speed system to run at high speed for slightly longer at bigger intervals. While the Winix purifier sped up for a few minutes, slowed down, then sped up again five minutes later if there was still dust moving around the room, Coway's speed controller will turn up the fan for five minutes at a time with longer breaks.
It's difficult to control the individual particles that flow past the tiny sensors on these machines so we couldn't really test their accuracy, but in our day-to-day use both purifiers turned on when we expected and didn't seem wasteful.
Winix and Coway are both using an electrostatic ion generator of some kind to boost efficiency. (Winix calls it "PlasmaWave.") Based on the performance differences with the filter-only Honeywell machine it does seem like the effect could be significant, and if Winix's ion generator is slightly more efficient it would explain the slight edge they have shown in our test and the tests run by The Wirecutter.
PlasmaWave only drew 10 watts more when we turned it on, and the CARB approval certification means it isn't creating ozone at nuisance or harmful levels the way some machines do with this type of system.
If you want a few perks, Winix also makes the 5500-2, which has a remote and will auto-dim the control panel when you turn off your lights. The price for the two models is often identical, so if you have a very long walk to the other side of your bedroom and you think you'll want to turn the machine on or off when going to bed maybe that will be worth seeking out. The 5500-2 has a listed filter refill that's slightly different, but based on the certified performance rating we can't imagine how the real-world performance would be any different.
The 5300-2 has a "night" feature that turns off the control panel lights, but it only works in the auto-speed mode. You'll have to ignore or cover up the lights if you want to leave the fan running on a constant speed to make background noise while you fall asleep.
The Winix – 5300-2 took top spot for air-cleaning performance, though only by a hair.
The noise output is second quietest, but that was also a close race. It also plays a friendly song when you turn it on or off.
Winix's power efficiency is the best we've seen.
Replacement filters for the 5300-2 are competitively priced and easy to find.
An auto-speed system turns up the fan only when it's needed, which means it saves power and doesn't make unnecessary noise.
If you have a 24"-by-15" spot for it, there's not much reason to buy a smaller machine. If you need more capacity, buy two.
Coway has garnered a lot of positive press and good will with the AP-1512HH. This is, by all accounts, a great air purifier. At the end of the day, though, any advantages it has over the Winix 5300 are slim at best, and the purchase cost is higher.
If you're looking for the very quietest machine you can possibly find that still has room-clearing performance when you need it, Coway manages to have an ever-so-slightly slower fan at its lowest speed. It's just a hair quieter, draws 2 watts less electricity, and will take a few minutes more to clear out particles. On highest speed, Coway and Winix are indistinguishable for noise levels, though Winix is cleaning very slightly faster and with 15 fewer watts used.
Delivering similar performance to our top pick, the Conway is built with a slightly smaller shape and comes at a higher price. It operates so quietly that you'll wonder if it's still running. We just wish its replacement filters were easier to find.
We should note that the air delivery rating from AHAM's certified test is a whole cubic-foot-per-minute higher for Coway than it is for Winix, so there's undoubtedly enough margin of error in our testing that you can call it a wash. The time to clear 50% of the particles in a sealed room is close enough between the two that you'd need to count by the second, and our testing tool only logs by the minute.
The Wirecutter has recommended Coway's air purifier for years, and it seems they mostly picked Coway over Winix because those filters are slightly more expensive than Coway's if you're buying from the manufacturer directly. Shopping around, the price difference all but disappears. If you're worried about getting genuine refills, Home Depot also has the Winix filters for less, and Coway filters are hard to find outside of one probably-authentic Amazon listing.
If you find Coway's model on sale and you like the shorter-but-deeper shape, it's a great air purifier, but it's so similar to the Winix in performance and features that looks are probably the only reason you'd prefer it.
The Coway – AP-1512HH runs neck-and-neck with the Winix in every category but cost.
This fan is so quiet on low speed we were a bit shocked to see how well it's still filtering.
Power efficiency is slightly worse on the highest speed, but it would only add a few dollars to your power bill over a year compared to the Winix.
Compared to Winix, Coway replacement filters are not as readily available in the U.S.
Honeywell has one of the biggest and best-known lineups in this product category, and the HPA200 is the machine in that line that matches the 310-square-foot capacity bracket of the other bestsellers and top picks we tested.
This is a capable air purifier. The filter quality is as good as any other we've seen, though Honeywell uses two small filters to allow compatibility of refills across the entire HPA line. Literally, each step up from HPA100 to HPA200 to HPA300 adds 155 square feet of capacity by adding another 6"-by-10" filter and 100 CFM worth of fan output. This is a neat inventory management trick, but it almost certainly hurts the efficiency of the air purifiers themselves. The economy-of-scale effect isn't reflected in the price of filter refills, either.
On high speed, the HPA200 is a little bit quieter than our top pick, but it's also moving a bit less air. It uses more power to do so, probably because of the shape of the baffle used to create a good seal around two rectangular filters.
On low speed, Honeywell has made the opposite compromise: the fan runs faster, makes more noise, and still uses more power than our top pick. That means it's doing more work when it's on the lowest setting, but the Winix will save significant watts using the auto-speed air quality sensor to turn up the fan and use power when it's really needed.
If the Honeywell were a significantly cheaper machine to buy than the Winix, it might be worth picking it up to use only occasionally for solid and reliable performance. Tracking the price, though, Honeywell is almost never cheaper than the Winix. Our top pick goes on sale a few times a year for even less than its already-great average price.
If you really don't have space for a 24" x 15" tower fan, the GermGuardian – AC4825 is slimmer, though not much shorter. On high speed it's the quietest machine with adequate performance for a small room.
The GermGuardian is a relatively good air purifier for $80 (it's far more effective than Levoit's under-powered model). Compared to our top pick, though, the $70 price difference disappears within two years if you use the GermGuardian all day every day and replace the filter after six to eight months as the manufacturer recommends. If you can fit the extra width in your room and budget an additional $70 up front, the Winix will be a far more efficient and easy-to-use machine.
Compared to the Winix, GermGuardian lacks the auto-speed feature, and the filters are more expensive despite being only one-third as big. On low speed it's actually louder than the Winix and draws six times more electricity. The small filter and fan also gives more of a "whistle" than "whoosh" sound, and that might annoy some.
Though not as energy efficient as our top pick, the GermGuardian has a slimmer profile and it's a bit quieter when set on full blast. It comes at a lower price point, but its pricey replacement filters can soon erode that savings.
If your budget is tight and you just need something while contractors make plaster dust renovating the next-door apartment for a week, this will clean the air in a 100-square-foot bedroom relatively well. The long-term cost of filters and electricity, though, give us pause.
The fact that this machine isn't certified and listed by independent tests from the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers is concerning, though Guardian Technologies claims to use the same testing methodology for the "100+" CADR rating they list in the manual. Its performance matches the AHAM-listed Honeywell in our testing, so we don't have too many doubts about the claim.
In use, this is only a tiny bit louder than the GermGuardian, and its performance was almost identical. It's not necessarily as easy to fit in a room, though, and we prefer the simple "I, II, III" rotary switch on the GermGuardian to the cryptic "germ, allergy, general, turbo" scale Honeywell uses their touch panel.
Levoit is a fairly new player in the home appliance field, and the LV-H132 has gained a lot of positive buzz since it launched last year. It's a quiet and attractive device, with thoughtful features: there's a blue night-light, but also a no-light mode for those of us who hate the tiny LEDs that plague our bedrooms. The filter also seems well-built and it should last as long as Honeywell's for half the replacement cost.
The low noise output and power draw from this air purifier, though, seems to be an indication that it simply isn't trying to move as much air as other devices we tested. Levoit lists "100 CFM" in the manual and some advertising copy, and if that were true it would probably match the performance of the Honeywell and GermGuardian, but given the performance we saw in testing and the low noise and power draw it's moving far less air than that.
It's not entirely surprising that a new, small company that's flying under the appliance-manufacturing radar wouldn't work as hard to get certification from AHAM's Verifide program. The Guardian company certainly doesn't seem in a hurry to get on the list, and their device is widely heralded as a great pick. Levoit's performance, though, seems like a pretty clear case of over-rating a device and hoping nobody checks. We're thankful we didn't spend a lot of time testing their bigger, more expensive "CADR 135+" PUR131 model.
We reached out to Levoit for comment, and their engineers didn't think we got a unit with defective electronics or anything else that would cause a sub-standard test result; they didn't directly comment on the result, either.
There are a lot of lessons we learned about what air purifiers can and can't do, but we're impressed by the abilities these machines have when doing their main job, cleaning most of the particles out of your air. If you live in a place with bad outdoor air quality, or if you've got a lot of things inside that are making your indoor air quality worse, then any of these machines will make a difference.
Winix has a great air purifier in the 5300-2, but it's the auto-speed sensor that really makes it our top pick. Without lab equipment it might be hard to guess when you should have an air purifier turned all the way up and when it can sit at low speed; Winix takes care of that for you, and you can trust that it'll clean your air as fast as anything else.
You can get faster performance for really big rooms if you buy a giant machine with four times more fan power and filter area, but most of us would probably be better off (and definitely save money) buying three or four of this model to take care of hotspots.
The runner-up from Coway is in most respects an equivalent machine. We're a little bit happy that it's more expensive and that it isn't as easy to find Coway filters, since that makes picking the Winix as our winner even easier.
This Winis unit is quiet, efficient, powerful and easy to use. If you've got air quality concerns and 24" tall by 15" wide isn't too big for your space, this is an easy pick at a very competitive price point.


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Q: PHP Catchable fatal error: Object of class webhook could not be converted to string My webhook class below, along with the test, produces that error.
When I echo out $this->callable_object it outputs invoice, and when I echo out $this->callable_method it outputs created. For some reason this line return $object->$this->callable_method( $this->event->data ); produces that error and I'm not sure why? It should be the same as $invoice->created( $args );
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class webhook {

    private $event;
    private $callable_object;
    private $callable_method;

    private $types = array(
        'invoice.created',
        'invoice.payment_failed',
        'invoice.payment_succeeded',
        'invoice.updated'
    );

    public function __construct( $event ) {
        $this->event = $event;
        $this->valid();
        $this->parse();
    }

    public function valid() {
        if( !in_array( $this->event->type, $this->types ) ) {
            throw new Exception( 'unknown event' );
        }
    }

    public function parse() {
        $parts = explode( '.', $this->event->type );
        $this->callable_object = $parts[0];
        $this->callable_method = $parts[1];
    }

    public function get_event_type() {
        return $this->event->type;
    }

    public function get_event_data() {
        return $this->event->data;
    }

    public function get_callable_object() {
        return $this->callable_object;
    }

    public function get_callable_method() {
        return $this->callable_method;
    }

    public function execute() {
        $object = new $this->callable_object();
        return $object->$this->callable_method( $this->event->data );
    }

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A: Tell php how to parse construct like this:
$object->$this->callable_method( $this->event->data );

Change to:
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A: u_mulder is right in his solution, but too explain further...
Here's what you have at the moment: $object->$this->callable_method( $this->event->data );
PHP will try to recurse down the properties to callable_method, which means that it is looking for a property $this on $object, and since $this cannot be converted to a string, you get an error.
This is basically like in Maths, provided the following 1+1x1+1 the result would be 3, when we actually mean (1+1)x(1+1) which would be 4. We add the brackets in Maths to add importance (don't shoot me for terminology, you get the idea)
Like in maths, we can do the same with PHP, but we use curly braces instead
$object->{$this->callable_method}( $this->event->data );

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ALDUS DRONE HAS SHIFTED DIRECTION!
All of 2018 we were ecstatic to build a delivery service infrastructure utilising aerial drones for multiple sectors. However, during the course of the year it became evident that multiple legal challenges the service faces far exceeded our current capabilities and the timescales until launch were beyond what we could ever be satisfied with.
It is with this realisation, that our new direction is focused on establishing a delivery service via ground based robots and autonomous vehicles!
This does not mean we are abandoning drone deliveries, just freezing it until it is more accessible for implementation to the market in the future.
This new direction is with immediate effect and we feel passionately for this market!
Keep a lookout for our bots rolling around on the street, in your offices, and shopping centers!
To 2019 and the fresh new challenges it brings!


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Reports: Chinese carrier asking Boeing for compensation
BEIJING (AP) — One of China's three major state-owned airlines has joined carriers that are asking Boeing Co. for compensation after suspending use of its 737 Max jetliner following two fatal crashes.
Executives of China Eastern Airlines Ltd. said at a news conference Tuesday the carrier has "lodged claims" with Boeing over the disruption, according to Chinese news reports.
The reports by state television, the China Youth Daily and other outlets gave no financial details. But they said the impact on China Eastern was limited because the suspension came during a slow travel period.
A public relations manager for China Eastern who would give only his surname, Ye, declined to give further details.
China was among the first governments to order carriers to suspend use of the 737 Max last month following crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed a total of 346 people.
China is, along with North America and Europe, one of the biggest global markets for jetliners. That makes how Chinese carriers and regulators react to Boeing's problems critical for the company.
Investigators suggested a flight-control system was to blame for both 737 Max crashes. Boeing says it is working on new software to get planes back in the air.
On Thursday, China's biggest aircraft leasing company said it will decide how to proceed with planned 737 Max purchases once it sees how Boeing resolves potential problems.
State-owned China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Ltd. has ordered 100 737 Max planes but suffered no immediate disruption because it has none in its fleet, said a company spokeswoman, Song Xuan. The company buys Boeing, Airbus and other foreign aircraft and leases them to Chinese carriers.
"We expect there might be a little bit of delay in delivery, but that is not for sure," said Song.
Boeing estimates Chinese carriers will buy 7,700 jetliners over the next two decades.
The Chinese government alternates orders between Boeing and Airbus in order to maintain competition and hold down prices.
A state-owned manufacturer also is developing a Chinese competitor to the 737 and Airbus's A320.


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Come by to see our lip balms, hard lotion bars, and quilts, as well as other the other cool crafts.
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Q: I getting trouble when i am creating this type play store app icon anyone can help me enter image description here
how can I turn the image right side without photoshop please help me!!

A: I have converted your logo to meet your specifications here : https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9866151?hl=en-GB#zippy=%2Chigh-res-icon
This is the logo that should be uploaded successfully to the Google Play Store (32-bit PNG 512 x 512) and have been made not to get cropped by Google Play:


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Pilar McCloud
Diversity and Inclusion Specialist – The Pilar McCloud Experience
Pilar McCloud is the CEO & Founder of A Sweet Creation Youth Organization which was founded in the Onlyville section of Providence Rhode Island. Pilar is the former Chairwoman of The NAACP Providence Branch Youth HS & College Chapters an has been an officer & Executive Board member. Pilar previously served as the New England Area Conference Advisor for the YouthWorks Committee serving the 15 chapters of the NAACP in the New England area that have active youth councils. Pilar was also Co Director of Unified Solutions an incubator organization for grassroots nonprofit organizations in the city of Providence.
After working with youth in various communities for over a decade Pilar completed her 3rd term as an AmeriCorps member at Youth Build Preparatory Academy as the Mentor Team Leader. She has mentored youth with Big Brothers Big Sisters of The Ocean State, GoodWill Industries, The Met HS & Nathaniel Greene Middle School & is a member of The National Mentor Partnership, which was initiated by The White House.
Pilar has facilitated at Blackstone Valley Prep, Nathaniel Greene Middle School and Youth Build Preparatory Academy. She teaches Civil Rights & Social Justice as well as The Phenomenal Women's group at Greene Middle School & Institute For The Study & Practice Of Non Violence. Pilar has received several awards an accolades including The Youth Build 2015 Humanitarian Award, The National Secretaries of State Medallion Award in 2015 for Civic Leadership & Advocacy, along with being the 2015 NAACP Rosa Parks Award winner & the 2017 YWCA Woman of Achievement Award as well as recently becoming an inductee in the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr Hall of Fame & is the Institute For Nonprofit Practice 2021 Change Maker award recipient just to name a few. Pilar is certified in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion from the University of South Florida MUMA College of Business, as well as currently taking classes to be certified in Inclusion and Equity at the University of South Florida MUMA College of Business.
The Accidental Entrepreneur: When Life Hands You Lemons...
Being your own boss is potentially one of the most rewarding and liberating experiences. However, passion and a great idea are not enough to guarantee success; the likelihood of achievement is significantly enhanced with deliberate forethought and planning. When Elaine Dickson embarked on her entrepreneurial journey it was in response to an unpleasant and unexpected life event. Looking back there are critical enablers that could have made her startup journey less bumpy. Join us as Elaine shares her story and some of the building blocks that were crucial to her success.
Startup Story: Jaia Robotics
Join us for a Startup Story featuring Ian Estaphan Owen, Co-Founder of Jaia Robotics! Startup stories showcase local innovators, startups and small businesses with their own session dedicated to sharing what they've learned with the Venture Café Community.
The Future of... FinTech Data Analysis
Suraj Sait and Morgan Prior currently intern at Marstone, Inc., a leading provider of digital investing solutions. During their internship, they chose to analyze trends in user behavior related to risk tolerance questionnaires using a variety of statistical tools. Using their analysis, they then explored classification of users by persona and built a predictive model for classifying users by risk level. In this presentation, Suraj and Morgan will highlight their key findings, as well as the data science concepts which underpin them.
Thursday Gathering: The Future of FinTech Data Analysis (06/24)
Startup Story: USEFULL
USEFULL is on a mission to help colleges, corporate offices, campuses, and communities design plastic out of the day-to-day, starting with single-use cups and containers. USEFULL is a Boston-based circular solution that partners can implement. USEFULL provides the technology and inventory - returnable stainless steel cups and containers - to take the place of single-use to-go options. Watch the recording of their story below!
SeaAhead BlueGreen Innovation Challenge Finals
Join SeaAhead as they celebrate the Finalists from the 2020-2021 Blue Green Innovation Challenge. Finalists pitched their concepts and answered questions from the audience about their innovations.


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Darrien was infected with the Techno bug in 1995, when he first heard Laurent Garnier playing a twelve-hour set at the 'Stufenbau'. The functionality of techno music and the fact that it was so different from the rest of the nineties rave-music fascinated him immediately and eventually captured Darrien's heart. He began mixing this particular style as a DJ the same year. First mixes were followed by first mixtapes, which led to first bookings and things took off from there.
These days Darrien is well known to the scene as a well established DJ playing techno and tech house music mainly at clubs all around Switzerland with a focus on his hometown Zürich.
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