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EGYPT: STABBING, BOMBING ATTACKS STRIKE NEAR TWO CHURCHES
Copt leaving sanctuary knifed in Minya; bomb explodes near venerable structure in Cairo.
ISTANBUL, May 22 (Compass Direct News) – In separate attacks in Egypt earlier this month, a Coptic Christian suffered severe stab wounds as he left a worship service in Minya, and a car-bombing outside a venerable church in Cairo disrupted a wedding.
Without provocation, three Muslims repeatedly stabbed Coptic Christian Girgis Yousry, 21, as the army conscript was leaving the gates of the church of Saint Mary in Minya, Upper Egypt on May 2, according to Copts United.
The assault left him with severe injuries to internal organs, and he was taken to the district hospital, where he was still receiving treatment at press time.
When Yousry's father went to the police station to report the attack, the Intelligence Services officer in charge threw him out of the station. Three men implicated in the stabbing, Wael Mohammed Hagag, Mohammed Nasr Anwar and Shabaan Sayed Amin, were arrested on May 5 and have been given a 16-day initial incarceration while the investigation is underway.
All three men stand accused of attempted murder without premeditation, which carries a sentence of five to 15 years.
But Mamdouh Nakhla, president of the Al-Kalema Centre for Human Rights, said he thinks it unlikely that they will be convicted.
"From my experience over the last 15 years, in Minya in particular, all cases of attacks and murder against Christians either went without punishment and [the accused] were totally exonerated, or they were given suspended sentences," he said.
Home to Egypt's largest community of Copts (approximately 4 million), Minya is considered a hotbed of anti-Christian violence.
"I am aware of severe injustices happening to Christians who are being incarcerated for no reason," said Nakhla. "This is my experience of Minya."
Local sources told Compass that in the last few months there has been a wave of arrests of Christians who are held with no official charges. Sources spoke of cases where detainees are held for months in prison, where they are badly beaten and tortured.
"Police brutality is a widely practiced policy," said one source, "especially in rural areas, group punishment and systematic intimidation and humiliation are expected practices against all citizens, Christians included."
This month Compass learned of three illegal arrests of Christians that have taken place since November 2008. Two of the men who were detained have since been released.
"When people are released, they have been beaten and electrocuted so that they are hardly standing up," said a local Christian.
Local church leaders believe recent pressure is a response to rumors of an increase in Christian converts in Egypt due to Christian satellite programming, although arrests go beyond converts to Coptic-born Christians.
Makeshift Bomb
In Cairo, a makeshift bomb placed under a car exploded outside a renowned Catholic church building in Zeitoun district on May 9, incinerating the vehicle but causing no injuries.
Panicked passersby called police when the small explosion caused the car to burst into flames outside Saint Mary Church, which Egypt's Coptic community, citing numerous sightings of the Virgin Mary there in the late 1960s, considers a holy site.
Security forces arrived at the scene within minutes and sealed off the area. They found a second bomb, also planted beneath a car. Unable to disarm it, they were forced to detonate it in a controlled fashion, sources told Compass.
The explosion interrupted a wedding and a Bible study that were taking place inside the revered, historic building. Those in attendance were evacuated through a side gate as a precaution, reported Egyptian newspaper Watani. Boutros Gayed, the church's priest, was unavailable for comment.
The bombs were rudimentary. Cell phones were used as detonators and placed with the explosive material into a bag containing shrapnel.
Police have yet to release information about possible suspects or motives, but newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm has stated security forces are investigating possible links to a Hezbollah cell, which uses similar explosive devices.
A spokesman for Hezbollah has denied its involvement, stating that the cell was focused on supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and has never had plans to carry out operations in Egypt.
The head of the Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda, condemned the attack as criminal and pointed to sectarian motives.
"[The bombers] are attempting to tamper with the future of this homeland that they do not deserve to belong to," he said, according to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.
Similarities between this event and an explosion in February outside Al-Hussain Mosque, where one person was killed and 24 others wounded, have led to speculation that the attacks may be part of an attempt to inflame sectarian tensions.
Rumors also have been spread that "extremist Coptic groups" may have planted the devices in order to attract U.S. President Barack Obama's attention to their plight on his planned June 4 visit to Cairo.
"This sounds like a ridiculous suggestion, because the Copts do not even respond to attacks against them," said Ibrahim Habib, chairman of United Copts of Great Britain. "It is not in their agenda, and they have no precedence of violence."
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GAZA CONFLICT TAKING TOLL ON BOTH SIDES OF BORDER
Christians normally permitted to leave Gaza for Bethlehem during Christmas found themselves unable to return home and separated from their families when fighting erupted between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza in late December, reports Baptist Press.
Isa,* a layman at Gaza Baptist Church, was one of those separated from his family. He returned to Gaza on Dec. 26 to take care of some church business. His family remained in Bethlehem, unaware the borders were about to close. "This is the worst it has ever been [in Gaza]," Isa told a Christian worker.
The Gaza Baptist Church building has sustained damage over the past two weeks. According to a Christian worker, the majority of the damage occurred Dec. 27 when a police station across the street took a direct hit.
Another Christian family found themselves separated when they tried to exit Gaza to find safety in Israel, the Christian worker said. The father and his two sons were allowed to go to Bethlehem, but the wife and two daughters were not. The man quickly returned to Gaza, despite the violence.
Residents of Israel are struggling, too.
One Israeli soldier asked a Christian worker to pray for him while he was at war. To the worker's surprise, the soldier didn't ask him to pray for his safety but rather that he wouldn't have to use his gun.
Life must go on — even in scary situations, the Christian worker added.
A nurse in southern Israel was on her way to a hospital one morning when bomb sirens started blaring. "You can't stay in your car, because the shrapnel will kill you," a Christian worker in the area said. "You have to get out of your car and lie in the ditch beside the road."
Schools in southern Israel have been closed because of bomb threats. Many kindergarten buildings have been hit directly by missile fire from Gaza, a worker said; however, no children or teachers were inside at the time.
"Pray that those who want peace will have the victory," the worker said. "There's a lot of praying [among Israeli believers], not only for the soldiers but for the believers in Gaza."
The hope of Christian workers in Israel is that calm will be restored quickly and that the economy will recover.
Employment in Gaza has plummeted, the worker noted. Twenty years ago nearly 100,000 men went into Israel daily to work; before the latest conflict that number had decreased dramatically. Now, with the border closing, it is down to zero.
Flour has been scarce for more than a week in Gaza — in a culture where bread is served with every meal, the worker said. When a bakery does receive a shipment, it is not uncommon for more than 600 people to line up for the chance to get one piece of flatbread.
Even if families have flour, rotating blackouts make baking nearly impossible, the worker explained. They never know when electricity will be available. Some areas of Gaza haven't seen power for five days.
Because food, water and electricity are limited in Gaza, Israel is promising to allow aid to reach Palestinian civilians during a three-hour period each day, according to news reports. Food, water, cooking oil and medicine are among the supplies expected to flow into the area.
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MEDICAL SYSTEM IN GAZA STRIP NEARING ITS COLLAPSE
The latest reports coming out of the Gaza Strip indicate that medical personnel are having difficulty reaching the wounded and that the collapse of the medical system is imminent. Church officials are calling for a cease fire to treat the wounded, reports Catholic News Agency.
According to Caritas Internationalis, a network of 162 aid agencies which helps provide primary medical services in Gaza, its efforts to help the wounded are being severely hampered by the war.
Caritas' president, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, has issued a call for an immediate cease fire, saying, "Caritas and our Catholic Church partners in the Holy Land call for an immediate ceasefire to enable the sick and wounded to be treated. Innocent people are suffering because aid agencies cannot reach them due to the Israeli military action.
"Caritas calls for action from the USA, the EU, and the international community on pressing for an immediate ceasefire to create the necessary environment in Gaza for aid agencies to be able to care for the wounded. War cannot be justified by either Israel or Hamas. Arguments over proportionality are morally repugnant when we are talking about the lives of innocent children."
The latest figures show 87 Palestinian children have been killed in the Israeli attacks.
Caritas' Jerusalem Secretary-General Claudette Habesch offered more details about developments on the ground. "Our staff in Gaza are witnessing a collapse of medical services. People are dying in their homes because they can't get treatment. There are 2,053 hospitals bed sin Gaza and 2,500 people wounded by the Israeli bombardment. Doctors say they lack bandages and antiseptic."
The Israeli offensive against Gaza began after the Palestinian region's ruling Hamas party made continuous rocket attacks on southern Israel, citing Israeli raids and blockades.
Israeli tanks, planes, and ground forces continued their attacks Sunday night. According to Reuters, at least 541 people have died in the 10-day offensive.
Israel had occupied the Palestinian enclave in Gaza from 1967 to 2005.
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ISRAEL: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ON GAZA AND HAMAS
Posted on January 5, 2009 by particularkev
Hear the Israeli government's viewpoint on Gaza and Hamas below:
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UNIVERSITY WHERE LECTURES ON CHRISTIANITY WERE HELD BOMBED
The BBC has reported that Israeli air force jets have bombed the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip, a significant cultural symbol for Hamas, reports Dan Wooding, founder of ASSIST Ministries.
Warplanes also struck Hamas government offices as air raids aimed at forcing Palestinian militants to halt rocket fire into southern Israel continued.
Palestinian medics say nearly 300 people have been killed in the air raids that began on Saturday.
Israel has threatened to launch a ground assault and is now calling up 6,500 army reservists.
Witnesses in Gaza said they saw six separate air strikes on the Islamic University, hitting a laboratory building, just after midnight.
The university is a centre of support for Hamas – the Islamist militant group which controls the Gaza Strip. Many of its top officials graduated from there.
A BBC journalist in Gaza said the university authorities had evacuated the campus a few days ago as they had been expecting a strike.
Some years ago, I accompanied Brother Andrew, the Dutch-born best-selling author of God's Smuggler, into Gaza City and it was then that he revealed that he lectured on "Biblical Christianity" at the Islamic University there.
"I was invited to teach on 'Biblical Christianity' to the students there," he said. "When all they were assembled, they were told that I would speak to them about the Bible and some of them tried to leave the lecture hall, but the Hamas leaders blocked their way and they had to sit through my lecture.
"I was also allowed to bring Arabic New Testaments and hand them out to the students."
Brother Andrew once told the Hamas leaders, "I can't change the situation you face here in Gaza. I can't solve the problems you have with your enemies. But I can offer you the One who is called the Prince of Peace. You cannot have real peace without Jesus. And you cannot experience Him without forgiveness. He offers to forgive us of all our sins. But we cannot receive that forgiveness if we don't ask for it. The Bible calls this repentance and confession of sin. If you want it, then Jesus forgives. He forgave me and made me a new person. Now I'm not afraid to die because my sins are forgiven and I have everlasting life."
Brother Andrew, who is also the founder of Open Doors, the international organization supporting persecuted Christians, is convinced that the number of Muslims involved in suicide bombings will increase in the coming years. Andrew has visited Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian areas regularly since the early 1980's, encouraging the Christians and speaking with radical Muslims about the Gospel. He describes the militant Muslims as deeply depressed.
"They are facing insurmountable problems: they will never be able to defeat Israel and the United States militarily, and their faith makes it very difficult for them to enter Paradise," he says. "Muslims know that they can only be saved by good works, but they also know that they do more evil deeds than good. Many Muslims are convinced that they will end in Hell when they die." They also have to admit that Allah does not answer their prayers. The Koran also shows them no way to be saved. Together, that leads many radical Muslims to choose death in Jihad, the holy war, because that is the only direct way to Paradise. "They see no reason to live, so choose the only reason to die," he said, addressing the 900 attendees of the Open Doors Day in Niedernhausen, Germany, on November 26th, 2005, the 50th anniversary of Open Doors Germany.
Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO: immense interest in the Gospel
"Unless we Christians go to the Muslims and tell them that they do not have to die because Jesus died for their sins too, the dramatic situation in the Near East, Iraq and Afghanistan will not change," he said, reminding Christians of their responsibility. In many encounters with leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and the PLO, he regularly senses a great interest in the message of Christianity. "I have given thousands of Bibles to radical Muslims, and no-one has ever refused. I have also often spoken with them about Jesus who died for the sins of the world, and nobody has killed me for it."
Be an example, don't discuss
Andrew called on Christians to show more courage and mercy towards Muslims, who are desperately seeking meaning in life. Many Christians have resigned in the face of the Muslim challenge. "Muslims do not believe, as we do, that Jesus is the son of God, and that he poured out his blood on the cross for the sins of the world. But that is exactly the answer we must give them in their situation." Christians should seek contact with Muslims, and tell them the Good News in love. "We will never win the encounter with Islam through discussions or sermons. We have to go and show them how Jesus can change people."
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ISRAEL Vs HAMAS: THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE WINNER HERE
I am continually bewildered by the condemnation that is always dumped on Israel when it seeks to protect itself from terrorist aggression. I feel terribly sorry for innocent Palestinian people caught in the middle of this conflict between Israel and Hamas (as well as other terrorist organisations operating against Israel). However, while Palestinians actively support the likes of Hamas, it is difficult for me to accept their criticism of Israel (or that of other nations, whether they be Islamic or Western).
What other nation would sit on its hands when a group is actively terrorising and bombing its citizens? None I would suspect, yet this is what so many expect Israel to do. They must strike at those they know are responsible for targeting and killing its citizens. Hamas must be destroyed for a peaceful resolution of the Gaza Strip situation.
Why is Israel condemned for its occupation of Palestinian lands in Gaza, the West bank and the Golan Heights areas? Did not these areas come into Israeli hands as a result of the Six Day War in which Arab nations attempted to obliterate the Israeli nation? Haven't these Arab nations and Arab groups constantly attempted to destroy Israel and haven't some of these groups and nations made it their pledge to do so? Aren't these areas close to the Israeli border used by terrorist group to fire rockets into Israel – then why shouldn't Israel occupy them if it means protecting their people?
Surely the surrounding nations and Palestinians can't legitimately declare their innocence in the face of Israeli retaliation? Who are they fooling? It seems that quite a number of gullible people and nations out there are buying it – but these people are simply ignoring the origins of the conflict with a biased view.
Hamas has to be stopped or there can be no peace. Hamas cannot defeat the might of the Israeli military – there can only be one winner here.
BELOW: Footage of the conflict in Gaza which needs to be understood in the face of constant rocket attacks on Israel
BELOW: Typical propaganda from anti-Israeli sources (beware – it is offensive):
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Q: Using Metadata/Inheritance to factor out code across multiple classes I have two classes that will represent two very simple databases, and each has a "Save" function which will write what's in the class to a file. Since the code within the "Save" function is very similar, I was wondering if I could factor it out.
One of my colleagues said this might be possible with inheritance and/or metadata, so I tried looking into it myself with Google. However, I couldn't find anything that was helpful and am still unsure if what I want to do is even possible.
If it's possible to factor out, then I think I'd need to have another class or function know about each class's types and iterate through them somehow (metadata?). It would check the type of every data, and depending on what the type is, it would make sure that it's correctly output to the text file.
(I know data like name, age, etc. should be private, but to keep this simple I just had everything be public)
class A
{
public:
  A() : name(""), age(0) {};

  void Save(void)
  {
    std::string filename = "A.txt";
    std::string data;

    data += name                + "\n";
    data += std::to_string(age) + "\n";

    std::ofstream outfile(filename);
    outfile.write(data.c_str(), data.size());
    outfile.close();
  }

  std::string name;
  int age;
};

class B
{
public:
  B() : ID(0), points(0) {};

  void Save(void)
  {
    std::string filename = "B.txt";
    std::string data;

    data += std::to_string(ID)     + "\n";
    data += std::to_string(points) + "\n";

    std::ofstream outfile(filename);
    outfile.write(data.c_str(), data.size());
    outfile.close();
  }

  int ID;
  int points;
};

int main(void)
{
  A a;
  B b;

  a.name = "Bob"; a.age    = 20;
  b.ID   = 4;     b.points = 95;

  a.Save();
  b.Save();

  return 0;
}

A: A possible solution could be to use metaprogramming (not sure what you mean by metadata), i.e. templates to reuse the common parts
template<typename T1, typename T2>
void TSave(const std::string fname, const T1& p1, const T2& p2) {
    std::string filename = fname;
    std::stringstream data;

    data << p1 << "\n";
    data << p2 << "\n";

    std::ofstream outfile(filename);
    outfile.write(data.str().c_str(), data.str().size());
    outfile.close();
}

class A {
  ...

  void Save(void) {
    TSave("A.txt", name, age);
  }

  std::string name;
  int age;
};

class B {
  ...

  void Save(void) {
    TSave("B.txt", ID, points);
  }

  int ID;
  int points;
};

Live Example

A: What you are looking for is serialization: saving objects to a file (and one day or another, restore the objects).
Of course, you could write your own serialization framework, and Marco's answer is an interesting start in that direction.  But alternatively, you could consider existing libraries, such as boost::serialization :
#include <boost/archive/text_oarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/text_iarchive.hpp>

class A {
private:
    friend class boost::serialization::access;
    template<class Archive>
    void serialize(Archive & ar, const unsigned int version)
    {
        ar & name;
        ar & age;
    }
...
};
class B {
private:
    friend class boost::serialization::access;
    template<class Archive>
    void serialize(Archive & ar, const unsigned int version)
    {
        ar & ID;
        ar & points;
    }
...
};
main() {
   A a;
   B b;
   ...
   {
      std::ofstream ofs("myfile");
      boost::archive::text_oarchive arch(ofs);
      arch << a << b;
   }
}

As you see, it's still needed to say what's to be written to the file.  However, the code is simplified : you don't have to worry about file management and transformation of data.  And it works also with standard containers.
You won't find a C++ trick that automatically determines for a class what's to be saved.  Two reasons for that:

*

*C++ allows metaprogramming, but it is not reflexive: there are no standard process to find out at execution time which members compose a class.

*In an object, some data can be transient, i.e. it means only something at the time of the execution and depends on the context.  For example pointers:  you could save the value of a pointer to a file, but it will mean nothing when you reload it later (the pointer is only valid until you free the object). The proper way would be to save the object that is pointed to (but where, when, how?).

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Manager Carlo Ancelotti is certain Chelsea captain John Terry will remain with the club despite the overtures of Manchester City.
Terry is a target for City boss Mark Hughes, who believes he can tempt the England skipper away from Stamford Bridge, but - despite much speculation over the defender's future - Ancelotti remains convinced he will stay.
Ancelotti who, like Terry, is currently on Chelsea's tour of America told BBC Sport: "I am sure he will remain at Chelsea. I am sure, 100%. He has a contract for three years more and this is the situation now."
Striker Salomon Kalou, meanwhile, believes that City's astonishing bargaining power will not turn Terry's head.
A deal of up to £200,000 a week is thought to be on offer in addition to a transfer fee of around £30million but Kalou does not believe money comes into it.
Kalou said: "He doesn't pay attention to that. Maybe if he was paying attention to that it might disturb a little bit of the team, but you can tell he is not disturbed by this situation."


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Amazon and e-Bay Flunk UK Retail Site Test
Written by Fred J. Aun
The UK Web sites for Amazon and eBay were among the worst performing retail sites of 50 tested in June by site review specialist Sitemorse. In fact, with Amazon coming in at 46th place and eBay at 47th, the sites couldn't do much worse.
Sitemorse tested the first 125 pages of the retailers' sites and ranked them using several criteria including function, accessibility, code quality, performance and metadata. The top score attainable by a site was a 10.
The top-scoring site was that operated by UK furniture maker/retailer DFS, which scored 9.54. Alas, the much deeper-pocketed Amazon scored 1.86 and the similarly well-heeled eBay only managed a 1.56. Sitemorse Founder Lawrence Shaw said the low scores related to failure of some rudimentary site functions and features, such as page descriptions, problems Sitemorse
repeatedly finds
when testing both sites.
"Amazon used to lead the pack and be a benchmark of how to do E-Commerce, but I don't think consumers are getting a very good experience now when they go to the Amazon site," Shaw said. "When you look at the number of broken links, poor HTML _ all the basics you need to make a Web site work _ they fail pretty
miserably."
The testing of the Amazon site for accessibility found that 56 percent of its top 125 pages fail basic requirements. "Following
the Target case, (in which Target paid $6 million to settle a Web site accessibility lawsuit) I would have thought U.S. retailers would make some effort to get the very basics, like ALT text for images (text to describe the picture), correct," Shaw said.
He said he finds it almost inexcusable for major E-Commerce sites to be riddled with broken links, a problem that will send frustrated prospective customers off to competitor sites. "As an example, Shaw noted Amazon's
link to its own Web Services page was inoperative. "Not a good advert for them if they can't link to their own sites," he commented.
On the bright side, Shaw said Sitemorse is seeing trends toward improvement in its regular testing of 250 top global retail sites. "At the top end of the table, the scores are going up to the nines and, even 10s," he said. "When we first started doing these tables, a lot of sites got four or below. It was very unusual to get a seven."
There are several benefits to doing a thorough sweep of an E-Commerce site and fixing the basic problems. Aside from providing better user experiences and aiding search engines to find site content, good site structure reduces the workload of a company's customer-service staff. "We're finding now, at some sites that are scoring eights or nines, that the number of calls to call centers is reduced and inquiries about problems are down," Shaw said. "This happens
if customers go to a Web site and don't find errors or bad-performing pages."
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Give me a chance Sven pleads Dyer
Kieron Dyer has urged Sven-Goran Eriksson to give him a chance to finally do himself justice in an England shirt by handing him a run in the national side - starting this weekend in Liechtenstein.
Dyer has so far earned 14 caps, six of them in a starting role, but he can still only pick out one international game which he is truly proud of.
Discounting his encouraging debut against Luxembourg because of the nature of the opposition, that is the friendly in Italy under Peter Taylor in November 2000.
That was when he was picked in his favoured central midfield role, but he has otherwise had to put up with a multitude of cameo appearances or games out of position on the left flank.
Given his admiration for Paul Scholes - "an unbelievable player from a different planet" - it is nevertheless exactly in that left-wing role where his only real England chance is likely to come.
Dyer may have allowed previous opportunities to pass him by, failing to impress with starting roles on the left against Paraguay and Australia under Eriksson.
However, he is still determined to make an impression if, as expected, he is selected there against Liechtenstein in Saturday's Euro 2004 qualifier.
Then again, Dyer, who is prepared to study videos of Robert Pires, a right-footed player who has mastered that flank, insisted he would only truly settle into the position given time and experience.
Dyer said: "I honestly think that the manager believes I can do a good job, and I believe that I can too.
"It's just that I have to play more games there and get more knowledge of the position. I can get that by starting against Liechtenstein and Turkey."
He added: "When I first went to Newcastle, I played there for a number of games. But it's extremely hard when you play 20 games in central midfield for Newcastle and then a new position for England.
"You need to play there for a sustained period and I don't get that for Newcastle.
"It's not a mental thing, it's a question of getting used to it. There are times on the left when you don't touch the ball for 10 minutes and it's knowing where to find that little hole."
Although Newcastle team-mate Jermaine Jenas, as well as Liverpool's Danny Murphy, could rival Dyer for the left-sided role, he appears likely to start there in Saturday's game.
Indeed, having been seemingly placed in the first-choice line-up in training yesterday, Eriksson's only real selection decision has been over Sol Campbell's fitness.
Dyer, meanwhile, must wait for his chance to move inside, even though Scholes, David Beckham and Steven Gerrard are all just one booking away from being suspended from the Turkey game.
"Hopefully I would be next in line. If Paul Scholes was injured and another midfielder was picked, I would be frustrated," he concluded.


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« Index of Musician Biographies
:: Lol Coxhill to Joe Diffie
Jim Croce Biography
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Born January 10, c. 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died in a plane crash September 20, 1973, in Natchitoches, Louisiana; married wife Ingrid, 1966; one son, Adrian. Education: Bachelor's degree in psychology, Villanova University, 1965.
Gentle love songs and humorous character songs are the legacy of Jim Croce, whose tragic death occurred just before the release of what would become a top-selling album. His music, like his stage manner, was accessible and warm--the common man singing of the commonplace in such a way as to make it all new for his audience. According to Time, Croce was "a lean, needling, fun-poking man in work boots and work shirts ... He took a mad kind of joy in the commonplace, and tomorrow was always the best of all possible times."
Born in Philadelphia on January 10, 1943 (some sources say 1942), Croce began playing the accordion at the age of six. Later, he purchased a 12-string guitar and learned to play it while attending Villanova University, where he earned a degree in psychology in 1965. It was also in college that he became emcee on the school radio station, hosting a three-hour blues and folk show. His early musical attempts, including coffeehouse performances and the recording of an album with his wife, Ingrid, proved less than profitable. By 1970, after settling on an old farm in Lyndell, Pennsylvania, Croce's financial situation became so difficult he was forced to pawn off his guitars and go back into the construction business, doing only occasional studio work for commercials. Despite the fact that his musical talent was being used mostly for "background 'oohs' and 'aahs,'" Croce remained optimistic: "I kept thinking, maybe tomorrow I'll sing some words."
Driving trucks gave Croce time alone to think, and out of those hours came a number of songs, many of which would later become hits. Traveling the country again, Croce played at coffeehouses and on college campuses, where his slightly nasal tenor voice delivered a series of well-received songs, most of which featured tight melodies and combined folk, blues, and pop styles. It was just such a trip he was making on September 20, 1973, when his chartered plane crashed in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
In the wake of his death, his first solo LP, You Don't Mess around with Jim, rapidly tripled its sales, selling over one million copies by February 1974, and reached the number one slot on Billboard 's chart of best-selling LP's in the same month. The album yielded two hit singles: the title track, featuring one of the humorous Croce "characters" ("You don't step on Superman's cape / You don't spit into the wind / You don't pull the mask off the ole' Lone Ranger / And you don't mess around with Jim"); and "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)." Also included on the album was "Time in a Bottle," which featured the kind of sensitive lyrics and melody that only hinted at Croce's great potential as a composer. Issued as a single in 1973, it too achieved hit status.
I Got a Name, recorded just a week before Croce's death, was released posthumously and yielded three hit singles: the oft-covered ballad "I Got a Name" in 1973; and in 1974, "I'll Have To Say I Love You in a Song" and "Working at the Carwash Blues." The album joined You Don't Mess around with Jim on the charts early in 1974, occupying the number two slot, while Life and Times (featuring the well-loved "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," who was "Badder than ole' King Kong / And meaner than a junkyard dog") occupied the twenty-second spot. All three albums were certified gold during 1973, as was Photographs and Memories, released in 1974.
Commented Time magazine in 1974, "Croce had the gift to sing evocatively about a genuine slice of life: the young working class of Middle America." Sadly, his songs of hope and of tomorrow's possibilities surged into popularity only after his last recordings had been made. The haunting top-selling ballad "Time in a Bottle" explains the ultimate irony of Croce's late-arriving success: "There never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them..."
by Meg Mac Donald
Jim Croce's Career
Jim Croce's Awards
Croce earned gold records for You Don't Mess around with Jim, Life and Times, I Got a Name, and Photographs and Memories.
Selective Works
You Don't Mess around with Jim ABC (later on Lifesong), June 1972.
Life and Times ABC (Lifesong), February 1973.
I Got a Name ABC (Lifesong), November 1973.
Photoqraphs and Memories: Greatest Hits ABC (Lifesong), September 1974.
The Faces I've Been Lifesong, October 1975.
Time in a Bottle: Greatest Love Songs Lifesong, February 1977.
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown: Greatest Character Songs Lifesong, October 1978.
Nite, Norm N., Rock On, Vol. 2, Harper & Row, 1978.
Stambler, Irwin, Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul, St.
Martin's Press, 1974.
Time, February 11, 1974.
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I will always love "Time in a Bottle'" in a special way because it is one of our(Joseph and Mary)songs,going back to 1974! Now that I have lost him to mental illness,all I have is "Time In A Bottle." Thank you,Jim and Ingrid.
Just want to say that Jim may be gone but his music will be eternal. His music will never be matched. Nothing comes close.
Please amend my previous post. Though there are two spellings in John Denver's birth name in my sources, I believe the correct one is "Deutschendorf". I.e., please insert an "s" between the "t" and the "c" in the way I previously spelled it. I appreciate your help. - 'Gator sends
Lauren's entry evoked memories of singing "I'll Have to Say I Love You" as a lullaby to my daughters, along with Henry John Deutchendorf's (John Denver's) "For Baby (For Bobbie)" and "Follow Me"--songs from a happy era, as evidenced by the melodies. I hope my daughters recall my singing as specially as Lauren does her father's.
jim is a very talented man, his got a beautiful voice and great words in his songs. my dad loved his music and now my dad has passed his left us with a very special memory of the music he use to sing us.im 20 years old. And ill never forget the songs that were sung to us, they were and stil are very special to us.
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Game of Thrones – The Bastards of Westeros
by Chris Walk | Mar 21, 2014 | Television | 0 comments
Another great Game of Thrones featurette has been released. This time around we get to take a look at the "Bastards" of the story. Bastards of the Westeros is narrated by George R.R. Martin himself, as he explains the significance of the characters and also the prejudice that seems to come with being born out of wedlock. It's pretty interesting, if you didn't previously know so, that each region of The Westeros has its own surname for a bastard. We also get a peek into the story line that will come about this season when we are introduced to Ellaria Sand, a bastard herself, who will play a big part alongside the Red Viper. Enjoy.
2 more weeks Towelites! Game of Thrones returns with its fourth season on April 6th!
~CynicNerd


The Sunday Roast – The Myspace Files … Continued.
Another dip into the archives this week and more material from my lost Myspace blogs (Thanks, Myspace). I've also been having a think on how long I actually want to do these roasts and is it time for a break. Still, for now, this was what I was doing three and four years ago.
Hello all and welcome to this weeks Sunday Roast as I sit in my bedroom and wonder … What the hell was that noise which sounded like huge chunks of rubble falling down the cavity between the plasterboard and outer brickwork? Disturbing, I'll say. As a result of that, if this roast ends abruptly, then you'll know my house has collapsed.
I think the noise may have resulted due to some small animal inside the body of the building. I have a loft above me where I have piled all my clutter of the last few years. I really must get up there one day and start a good old clear out. However, I am a little apprehensive about what I may find up as I'm sure I used to have a cat.
Now once again, history repeats. Only yesterday, I heard something grinding in the walls. Trouble is, the house is in a block of three. Rodents can get in anywhere. I know they're not in the house, but I'm afraid … I may have to venture to check if the poison is still intact.
Dare I enter the loft of doom?
All an illusion … (Originally posted on Myspace, September 2009).
Okay, while up the loft, I found this jigsaw. It reminded me of another piece which was in a roast about the same time as the last.
While out shopping this week, I spent ages in a novelty shop looking at a Magic Eye book. You know, the books which are full of optical illusion pictures that you have to focus on to see the hidden images.
Songs which irritate. (Originally posted on Myspace, September 2009).
I was walking around a shop this week and they were playing the song Up Up and Away (in a beautiful balloon) by 5th Dimension.
Now I never realised how much I hated that song until I heard it after many years. It gave me horrendous flashbacks to the sort of light entertainment radio programs I had to endure at home on a Sunday when I was a kid before being hurled kicking and screaming to Church. Arrrggghh!
The other one I hated from that time was Leaving on a Jet Plane. Now I can see a theme starting here. I reckon it was from an early age of being force fed these atrocious songs which resulted in my fear of flying.
Only I could be traumatised by middle of the road Pop.
And it is true, I really do hate flying. I know the odds but believe me with my luck, if I climb aboard a plane, it will crash. It's why I don't travel abroad. Yes, I could go by water but even then, I bet an plane would hit the boat.
Clowning around (Originally posted on Myspace, September 2010).
Street entertainers, why do they do it? Nobody likes them and we all cross the road to avoid having to encounter them. It's the same as clowns. Bad enough being a clown, but what type of person paints his face and goes onto the high street and accosts children with funny shaped balloons and asks if they want to play with his rubber sausage? I wont really say what sort but in the UK, we have a register for them.
Then you get those folk who think it's highly hilarious to paint their body and remain motionless all day. What the hell induces folk to dip themselves in a gigantic tin of Dulux, then stand still for six hours?
Entertaining? It's as much fun as watching paint dry.
That's all for this week's re-runs. I'm thinking of taking a break from roasting. May be here next week, maybe not. We'll see.
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Paige Williams is a young woman with a troubled past. She yearns for friends and a new life in peaceful Kanner Lake, Idaho. Finding a dead body isn't going to help, especially when she knows the victim. But Paige can't call the police. How could she possibly explain she's clueless where the body came from? And what if her face ends up on TV? She's forced to take matters into her own hands, even as the real killer remains on the lam . . . watching her.
When you pick up a novel and the main character discovers a body in her hot tub by page four, chances are you're probably going to read on to find out how it got there. But when you know the author of the book is Brandilyn Collins, you'll want to hunker down and prepare for the thrill-ride. Violet Dawn marks the start of a new "Seatbelt Suspense" series for Collins. Closer to her first two suspense novels Eyes of Elisha and Dread Champion for its third-person narrative and multiple character story arc, Violet Dawn is a solid first book. Savvy readers might manage to guess the final twist, but even if you do, it will only heighten the suspense.
Paige is immediately a sympathetic character, and I found myself completely empathizing with her struggles. But Violet Dawn isn't only Paige's story. The book also follows to a lesser degree several other intriguing characters—police chief Vince Edwards who's grieving his son's recent death, rookie reporter Leslie Brymes who's desperate for the "big story", coffee-shop owner Bailey Truitt, and of course, the villain who calls himself Black Mamba. There are also several eccentrics haunting Bailey's Java Joint, who are destined to make readers chuckle. Many of their fun musings can be read at the Scenes and Beans blog (kannerlake.blogspot.com).
Even more sympathetic than Paige are the heart-rending flashback scenes following an abused girl named Rachel Brandt. Sometimes time jumps can be unnecessary and boring in novels, but not in Violet Dawn. Rachel's scenes are some of the best written in the book, embellishing and deepening the story. Which just goes to show Brandilyn's skill. She's able to switch between thrilling suspense numbers to the compelling character pieces without losing us.
There were a few times when I was slightly distracted by what I affectionately call "Brandilisms," being Collins' penchant for using imaginative verbs and metaphors, but these have also become a familiar trademark many fans will enjoy.
A thrilling, taut page-turner, Violet Dawn is Brandilyn Collins at her best. Book two, please!


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Derby Specsavers team celebrate after winning national award for excellence
The team are 'proud' to be recognised
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The Specsavers Derby team: Hayley Barnes, contact lens assistant, Nazia Parveen, contact lens assistant, Kirstie Baker, P.A to the store director, Uan Gohil, store director, Raj Gohil, store director, Susan Hand, contact lens supervisor and John Green, contact lens optician (Image: Specsavers)
A Derby opticians is celebrating after winning the Specsavers Award for Excellence in overall performance at an awards ceremony in Birmingham recently.
The team at Specsavers Derby, in the Intu centre, was recognised for its passion and for acting as a role model for other stores across all parts of the business. The bi-annual ceremony rewarded brilliance in Specsavers stores across the country.
There were more than 200 entries submitted by stores across 13 categories for this year's awards. The store was also shortlisted in two other categories: 'excellence in audiology' and 'excellence in contact lenses.'
'We are so proud to have been recognised with this award,' says Specsavers Derby store director, Uan Gohil. 'We focus on excellence in all areas of our business, from our customer service and work in the community to our staff training and development and our expertise in optical services, audiology and contact lenses.'
Uan Gohil, store director at Specsavers Derby
Uan continues: 'It was a brilliant night of celebration and getting our hands on this award, we really feel is the best we could have imagined. It shows that Specsavers sees our store as a role model for excellence, over hundreds of others across the country.'
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Category judge and director of Specsavers retail in the North, Tim Sutton, praises the store, saying: 'The partners should be immensely proud of the enormous scale that this business has grown to, without losing any of its local and family feel, coupled with exemplary store standards.'
To find out more or to book an appointment, visit Specsavers Derby: 22 Crown Walk, West Mall, Intu Centre, Derby, 01332 294939
Specsavers' store nominated for excellence in three categories at national awards
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New year, new opportunities at Derby College
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The addition of fish. When the level of ammonia and nitrite at zero you can add fish. Remember a simple rule is 2.5 cm of fish per 10 liters of water, 5 cm – 15 liters and 10 cm – 35 litres of water. Unlike freshwater, most marine fish live alone. If you want to have multiple fish of one species or several species similar in color and size – they sit down in the aquarium at the same time. Otherwise the fish stuck in the aquarium, just kill the newcomer. This rule is especially true for zabrosom, clowns and some other fish species. Fish should be added in small groups so as not to trigger a rise in ammonia levels. If you add more than one fish at a time, the ammonia level will rise.
Feeding. It is best to feed the fish twice a day. Live food is not necessary for most fish species. A combination of frozen shrimp and formula 2 (food-based algae) is fine. The use of several types of frozen feed to provide the fish a varied diet is to be welcomed, as well as supplementing the diet with salad "Romen"or "lettuce", as well as spinach. Dry food should be used carefully with hardy marine fish.
Substitution of water. The standard filtration system about 50% of the water should be changed every month (for densely populated aquariums).
Drugs. The only drugs that are suggest that you add is sulfate and copper citrate. Various antibiotics, dyes, etc. can ruin the filtration system in one way or another. Use them only in quarantine aquariums.
Installation and maintenance of aquarium with tropical fish. Follow the General principles of maintenance of tropical aquariums, to avoid problems. Many aquarists are advised not to use ground filters, in addition to fairly powerful systems.
So, proceed with the installation.
Before installing the aquarium make sure it is at the proper level and smooth the surface.
Rinse the soil and carbon before use.
Add Amquel or another dechlorinator.
Set the temperature in the range of 24-25'C.
Set the pH within 6.5 – 6.7 and check once a week.
Aquarium salt – 1 tablespoon per 15 l of water.
Feeding – frozen foods and alternate food in the form of flakes.
Substitute 50% of the water once a month.
When the aquarium is fully filled with water, it weighs approximately 4.5 kg per 3.5 liters. So do not put the aquarium on unstable and uneven surfaces, if you do not want he fell on the floor.
– During shipping the cardboard package parts RUB against each other, thereby creating the semblance of dust, rinse the aquarium before use.
– Fill the tank with water and add dechlorinator.
– All tropical fish need warm water, only the silver carp can survive in cool.
– There are a number of reasons why the level of acid-base balance should be within 6.6. For example, pathogenic microorganisms multiply much slower in acidic water, ammonia is less toxic in acidic water.
– Many of the fish raised in water with salt, as fish lose salt from their bodies through the gills, while in demineralized water. Salt is not evaporated, so add it once and then when podmena water.
– Many fish are carnivorous by nature and feed on larvae, worms and crustaceans. Frozen shrimp, as they are quite big in nature will replace the meat you feed and also reduce the tendency to attack one fish to another. A small piece of shrimp should be broken down into the number of pieces corresponding to the number of fish in the aquarium. These pieces should be put in warm water to thaw them. Then drain the water and cleaned and thawed shrimp feed in the aquarium.
And finally. As water evaporates and leaves minerals in the aquarium, with a portion of the new water, add essential minerals. It will make water hard and create not biodegradable residue. Also add dechlorinator and salt, adjust the pH level before you add the water to the aquarium. Replace the charcoal and sponge filters. You can still clean the ground.


This includes rock and pop musicians, classical musicians, country musicians, jazz musicians, folk musicians, and any others one might mention.
Well, they're back, thanks to Zach de la Rocha who, with some like minded musicians, has established The Sound Strike which encourages artists to boycott Arizona.
In one way it's a joy to see musicians coming together to do what they can to wipe out an ill-conceived, unjust, inhumane, and probably unconstitutional law: SB 1070 in Arizona that purports to be a border defense statute but in effect discriminates against anyone who might not look or sound "American" to someone else.
In another way, it's a shame that our American rights and our human rights are still being attacked by ideologues who in this one state (one in which I reside, I must admit) have managed to gain enough power to enact such a law.
I urge your support, or if not your support, at least your serious consideration of what The Sound Strike has to say.


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Mendocino sheriff adjusts "patrol protocols" in response to COVID pandemic
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MENDOCINO Co., 3/16/20 — In an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mendocino County, and to protect people in front line services such as law enforcement officers, and paramedics, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office is making some changes to patrol protocols.
The two biggest changes are that that they will be attempt to deal with non-emergency issues via the phone, and that they will ask, "additional screening questions of the reporting party to address and assess the general risk of COVID-19 exposure for responding personnel," when responding to emergency calls.
These measures are important to assure the safety of first-responders one of the populations that is most at risk during this pandemic.
There are additional measures concerning fingerprinting and access to the MCSO stations, all those details are in the press release from the MCSO, which explains the new policies in detail:
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Lieutenant Quincy Cromer #2651
In response to the updated information being distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Mendocino County Department of Public Health regarding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office has implemented new patrol protocols to better protect the public and agency employees.
The Sheriff's Office remains dedicated to providing the highest level of service to the public and has implemented these changes to comply with the directions and guidelines being distributed by the CDC and Mendocino County Department of Public Health.
Effective immediately, Sheriff's Office employees will attempt to primarily handle non-emergency calls for service over the telephone. Sheriff's Office dispatchers are being asked to obtain telephone numbers or other contact information for reporting parties so deputies can contact those subjects on the telephone to take a report or address their law enforcement needs.
This will not change the response protocol for in-progress crimes, violent offenses, situations where there is a risk to the general public, and coroner's cases. In these situations, Sheriff's Office dispatchers will be asking additional screening questions of the reporting party to address and assess the general risk of COVID-19 exposure for responding personnel. It is important that the general public understands that these questions are to enable emergency personnel to serve the needs of the public, while ensuring appropriate safety precautions are in place to limit and mitigate possible COVID-19 exposure.
Additionally, the Sheriff's Office will be closing the public entry for the Fort Bragg Substation and other outlying offices until further notice. Sheriff's Office personnel and staffing will not be changed during this time, although the outlying offices will be closed to the general public.
Members of the public who are requesting law enforcement assistance from the Sheriff's Office are encouraged to call 911 for any emergencies, and for non-emergency calls they can contact the 24-hour Sheriff's Office Dispatch Center at 707-463-4086 (Ukiah), 707-961-2421 (Fort Bragg), or 707-459-7833 (Willits).
The main Sheriff's Office in Ukiah will remain open to the public; however live-scan fingerprinting of the public will be temporarily suspended. Persons who are required to register with law enforcement agencies pursuant to state law will still be registered by Sheriff's Office personnel. Those who need to register pursuant to state law are being asked to call the main Sheriff's Office in Ukiah at 707-463-4411 to schedule an appointment.
Walk-in traffic at the main Sheriff's Office in Ukiah will be primarily handled over the telephone or the lobby phone for non-emergency calls for service, criminal reports, or situations where deputy contact is requested.
For additional information regarding the COVID-19 virus, please contact the call center at 707-234-6052 or visit the following websites:
– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/
– Mendocino County Department of Public Health: https://www.mendocinocounty.org/community/novel-coronavirus
The Sheriff's Office would like to thank the public in advance for your cooperation and understanding during this time and will send out additional information and updates to these protocols as they become available.
Captain Gregory L. Van Patten #1184
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Lo último sobre el cierre de escuelas del Condado de Mendocino - todas las escuelas de Mendocino cambiarán a "clases modificadas" (actualizado 9:50 pm)
What you need to know about COVID-19 in Mendocino County (updated 6pm, 3/17)


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The original form of Quonset hut was markedly different from the steel buildings and metal building kits we know today. Initially modeled after the semi cylindrical Nissen hut developed by the British, Dejongh and Brandenberger modified the Nissen model into a structure containing wooden lining, insulation, and tongue and groove wooden flooring and, thus, the Quonset hut model was born. The first Quonset hut design used arched rib members of steel in T sections measuring two inches by two inches by one quarter inch, and measured sixteen feet by thirty six feet in its entirety. The members, or ribs, were covered with sheets of corrugated steel that were borne by wooden purlins. Part of the difficulty with this initial design arose from the fact that the Quonset huts were used for more than one purpose, and some required a special layout to accommodate showers, latrines, dental offices, bakeries and isolation wards, to name a few, as well as all the equipment necessary for those additional uses.
During the World War II years, the Quonset hut design was gradually modified from a structure using the original semi circular design of the Nissen hut to a twenty foot by forty eight foot interior living space with vertical side walls, which structure, in the end, required less shipping space than tents with wooden doors and frames. A major problem with the original curved design was that the curve of the walls began immediately at the floor and decreased the effective width of the hut. A new vertical structural rib was developed to support a four foot high side wall. The floor plan for this redesigned Quonset hut measured sixteen feet by thirty six feet. Multiple interior designs and a larger forty foot by one hundred foot warehouse were eventually developed when it became apparent that the huts would be needed for purposes other than housing troops and materiel. Other modifications, such as four foot exterior overhangs, were added, then scrapped, and drab olive paint for camoflaging in war zones was eventually applied to these steel buildings at the factory. After the war ended, the United States Navy sold its surplus Quonset huts to the public at a cost of one thousand dollars per hut. Many universities acquired them for student housing. Some of the returning soldiers even chose to purchase these steel buildings for their homes.
The Seabee Museum and Memorial Park in Davisville, Rhode Island contains an historical display of Quonset huts as a homage to the original Quonset hut factory in Davisville and to the association between Quonset huts and the Seabees that has existed since World War II. A grouping of the huts, about ten in all, is located immediately next to the Museum parking lot and throughout the Memorial Park itself. In addition to this display, Quonset huts can still be found in use all over the world.


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Q: jmeter dont foud the path while is woring in the browser i can't get a path response in jmter (http://localhost:3000/X) the reponse message is "not found" with 404 cod,while the path (http://localhost:3000) is working with 200 code any one to help please
you can click to see the response of each path
http://localhost:3000
http://localhost:3000/X

A: So what?

*

*If you open https://stackoverflow.com/ in JMeter or browser you will get HTTP Status Code 200

*If you open https://stackoverflow.com/X in JMeter or browser you will get HTTP Status Code 404 because this URL doesn't have any candidate page.
If you expect the non-existent page to return HTTP status code 404 and don't want JMeter to mark this result as failed - add a Response Assertion as a child of this request and configure it like:


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Q: remove one querty string from REQUEST_URI (PHP) I'm having an issue removing a particular query string from a url. I want to keep the rest of the queries but simply dump the last one. The problem is the query string could have a different value each time, so I dont know how to do this.
For example my site url might be:
http://sitename.com/index.php?Cat=Bus&Origin=UK

What I want to do, is keep Cat=Bus and remove Origin=UK
So if I try to change the origin to Germany I write:
echo 'Germany';

So it takes the page it is on:
http://sitename.com/index.php?Cat=Bus&Origin=UK

Using Request_URI.
I want to then strip it of &Origin=*
Then once thats done pass it into a string and add whatever the new origin is on the end.
I figure:
$theURI = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

But I have no idea how to go from start to finish.
$amended = $theURI - '&Origin=*'

and then end up with
echo 'Germany';

I just don't know how to express that $amended function in PHP.
Could somebody help? This is being used for sorting between countries

A: Depending on how you're getting the origin (static url vs dynamic url), it's a simple manipulation of the $_GET superglobal.
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; //edit: I usually use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], so try this if REQUEST_URI fails
$get_param = $value; //$value can be germany, england, poland, etc etc
$url .= "&Origin=".$get_param;
echo "$get_param";

I hope this helps

A: If you know the exact variables and they are not that many, you can do with Dale's comment:
echo 'Germany';

If not you could use str_replace:
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$url = str_replace("origin=" . $_GET["origin"], "", $url);
$url = preg_replace("#&+#", "&", $url);
...
echo "Germany";


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The Walking Dead Finale Left Melissa McBride Speechless
Corey Chichizola
Published: Mar. 13. 2016 8:42 AM
Things are really heating up on AMC's apocalyptic hit The Walking Dead. We've been awaiting the massive threat that is Negan and the Saviors all season long, and last week saw Rick and the group going in to face the threat essentially blind. Perhaps not the best plan. With the group of crazies now in control of Maggie and Carol, and Negan and his bat slowly approaching the fray, it seems like the last few episodes of the season are going to be pure chaos. We've been warned that the season finale will be absolutely gruesome, and now actress Melissa McBride (aka cookie lady Carol) has opened up regarding her reaction to the script.
It was so very dark. I couldn't say anything after I had finished reading it. I felt like I had dropped into a black hole.
This statement, which comes to us from Comicbook.com, is a pretty serious reaction- especially since it was just the words on the page rather than the action of performing the scenes.
Overall, the cast and crew's reaction to the upcoming season finale is rather surprising. They work on a show that has had some of the most gruesome imagery in television history. We've seen Gareth eat Bob's leg in front of him, the Governor take a sword to Hershel's neck, and we all remember how utterly gruesome Noah's death was. After all of the craziness that has happened over The Walking Dead's six seasons, you'd think the cast would be a bit numb to the show's violent nature.
We're all expecting Negan to take his signature bat Lucille to one of the main characters' heads in the season finale. Now the question is: who is going to fall victim to Negan? I've been pretty staunchly convinced that Abraham or Daryl were going to get it, much to fans' chagrin. However, after reading Melissa McBride's statement, I'm now worried that something more disturbing is going to happen. While Abraham or Daryl's death would surely anger fans, it presumably wouldn't put McBride in a black hole- she's seen characters die before. Instead, I'm now worrying for the fate of the most innocent characters: Judith and Maggie's unborn child.
We've seen a bunch of kids meet their maker in The Walking Dead. In addition to the freshly dead Sam and Ron, Lizzie, Mika, and Sophia have all been killed in the past. Killing off baby Judith seems so unbelievably tragic that it might be the exact darkness that the cast has been referencing. And in regards to the comic books, Judith has been dead for quite some time- she and Lori perished together during the Governor's attack on the prison. But would AMC show such a controversial and disturbing death on the TV show?
Only time will tell, as the countdown to the finale continues.
The Walking Dead airs Sunday on AMC. Melissa McBride will also be appearing on the aftershow, Talking Dead tonight, March 13th.
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Scenic view of the Oktoberfest grounds. Yes, those are people.
On Monday, I recapped our trip to Oktoberfest last weekend. To say it was an experience is an understatement. Today, I'm going to give you 10 tips for attending Oktoberfest. This way, if you are contemplating or planning your own visit, you'll have a leg up on us.
There are a ton of people. We knew it would be busy going in, especially since the weather was nice, but I was still astounded by the sheer volume of people.
We also knew the tents would be busy, but we had no idea how busy they would be. Thankfully, we found someone pretty quickly who resold a part of her reservation to us. By the time we had arrived, the tents had been closed and in order for more people to be admitted in, people would have to leave (which doesn't happen a whole lot). Once you're in, you're in. And once you're out, you're out. There's no popping in and out of the tent.
All of the tents are equally busy. Just pick one, get in line (if you don't have a reservation), and wait. However, each tent does seem to have its own "personality" i.e. the Hofbrauhaus tent is the tourist tent with lots of Australians and Italians, but they're pretty much all one big party with beer.
If we decide to go again next year, the decision will be made early and we will be getting reservations. I don't really want to mess around with trying to get in next year. There are usually minimums on reservations, so we will have to figure out which one works the best for us. If you're interested in getting a reservation yourself, check the official Oktoberfest website starting in January. Some tents begin selling reservations then, others start later, and not all tents sell reservations to the general public. Do some homework and figure out the best option for you.
Arrive early! The tents open at 9 AM, and the beer starts flowing at 10 AM. If you want a space in a tent and you don't have a reservation, get there early. Getting there early will also let you scope things out a bit.
We decided to buy tracht to wear this year. Awesome decision. I usually am not big into wearing costumes, but dressing up in a dirndl was fun. And it was completely normal. Although, if you don't feel like buying tracht, no big deal. Most people weren't wearing it anyway, so it's not like you would stick out for wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
Take cash, and a lot of it. Each maß of beer costs roughly 10 euro. Dinners cost anywhere from 7 - 20 euro each, depending on what you order. Make sure to take extra cash to buy a resold reservation voucher, in case you get that offer. We didn't account for this, but are glad we took more cash than we thought we needed. That being said, they do have ATMs, but who wants to leave a tent to get more cash just to have to wait all over again to get back in? Yea, me neither.
Don't dance on the table. I repeat, do not dance on the tables. The benches are fair game, but once you put a foot on a table, a security guard will yell at you. And if you keep doing it, they won't blink an eye at throwing you out. We saw it happen, twice.
Plan early. Hotels raise their rates during Oktoberfest and if you want a good deal, you better book early. Hotels rooms aren't really an issue if you book last minute, but you will pay for it. Usually starting at about 200 euro per night.
So there you have it, 10 things we learned from attending Oktoberfest 2014. It was a great time, but more planning, if we decide to go next year, will make it even better. If you have any other questions about attending Oktoberfest, put them in the comments and we will try our best to answer them.


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MSNBC host admits to being 'a socialist'
Glenn Beck is seen here on GlennBeck.TV, a feature available exclusively
to Glenn Beck Insider Extreme members.
GLENN: Let me play Lawrence O'Donnell, this is said on
MSNBC on Friday, not a
peep from the mainstream media on this. Nothing on this.
VOICE: "I, Glenn, unlike you, I am not a progressive. I am not a liberal who is
so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive."
VOICE: "I'm not either. Liberals amuse me."
VOICE: "I'm a socialist. I live to the extreme left. The extreme left of you
mere liberals. Okay? However, I know this about my country: Liberals are 20
percent of the electorate. Conservatives are 41 percent of the electorate. Okay.
So I don't pretend that my views, which would ban all guns in America, make
Medicare available to all in America, have any chance of happening in the
federal government. Okay. You can sit there and pretend that liberals should run
more liberal in conservative districts. The reason -- you love the loss of the
Blue Dogs -- you have because it disproves your point."
VOICE: "Chris, you can't go to break."
VOICE: "The only way you have a chairman Barney Frank, there's only one way
that's by electing Blue Dogs. It's the only way you have..."
GLENN: Do you understand what he just said? What he said is, A, I'm a socialist.
Do you have that?
PAT: Let that sink in for a second. There's a guy on national television,
supposedly a journalist, I don't know what he is really, what is he? A
commentator.
STU: Commentator and former actor.
PAT: He's a socialist. That's right, he was.
STU: Former actor.
PAT: That brings a little more clarity to it.
GLENN: What a surprise. It does. Okay. So there's Lawrence O'Donnell on NBC and
he's a socialist. There's the first thing that he said. But the second is, you
know, you progressives, you're so ashamed of being called a liberal that you
changed to progressive, you have to change the word to progressive. I'm not
ashamed of who I am. I'm a socialist. But you progressives think that what they
should have done is run farther to the left. The socialist says no, no, no. The
best thing you can do is hide behind the Blue Dog democrats, elect them, because
then you'll get Barney Frank as your chairman. You see?
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: So what he's saying is live in the shadows. At the same time he's saying
I'm not ashamed of who I am. He's saying live in the shadows.
PAT: But he's also admitting this is a rare moment of all honesty and clarity.
He's also admitting this is a center right nation and there's no way liberals
can ever have a Barney Frank as a chairman without hiding behind the shadows.
GLENN: Right. You'll never get -- because nobody agrees. He says what I know
about my country is no one agrees with me. So hide. That's incredible.
PAT: It is.
GLENN: Now, nobody is doing anything on this. Nobody's showing that. It's no big
deal, apparently. Well, I wonder when I start to expose George Soros starting
tomorrow night -- and tonight, really -- I don't know if you saw Friday's show.
But Friday's show we showed you how in 15 days how this damn thing -- how it
will just shimmy apart. And I'm going to get into that again later on on this
broadcast today. I know Pat is very excited to talk.
PAT: Yes, I am.
GLENN: Economic theory.
PAT: I have a thrill going up my leg. That doesn't happen to me very often.
GLENN: Thrill or a chill?
PAT: Thrill. It's an absolute thrill. Chris Matthews type thrill.
GLENN: I'm going to show you and the reason you have to understand that, you
have to understand what's happening on that, is because it's all related. It's
all related. It's related to what the president is saying over in India. It is
related to George Soros. It's related to the birth pangs. It's all related. And
once you see it, you will never see the world the same way. It really is the
blue pill and the red pill. Beginning today, this week, is blue pill and red
pill, would you agree with that?
PAT: Where one pill makes us taller and one pill makes you small.
GLENN: Stu, would you agree with that, that this is the week -- do you know
enough about what we're presenting this week on Soros and everything? Have you
read enough of this research? I think this is blue pill/red pill, this is the
"Matrix." Go back to sleep if you want to or see the "Matrix."
STU: I think you made a good argument. Pat, as you said, there's just been stuff
I've seen in outlines I've never come close to hearing.
PAT: It's unbelievable. We do this every day, how do we not know about it.
GLENN: I will tell you the answer on how we don't know about it in just a
second. I thought about it this weekend, like you and Stu just said, I can't
believe it. I can't believe it. I was the same way. And I know the answer. And
going in you should know the answer.


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Ilaria Borletti Buitoni (Milaan, 22 maart 1955) is een Italiaans politica.

Borletti begon haar carriere bij de partij Scelta Civica, maar stapte in 2015 met enkele partijgenoten over naar de Democratische Partij.

In 2013 werd ze verkozen als gedeputeerde van de Kamer van Afgevaardigden, en werd in februari 2014 onderstaatssecretaris onder minister Massimo Bray in het Kabinet-Letta. Deze positie werd in december 2016 verlengd.

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Travelport unfazed by limited penetration in China, hopeful of bright future
Travelport is confident of delivering sustainable growth in the coming years, but it is still waiting for the regulatory environment to open up in China.
Spring Airlines embarks on exciting journey of retailing
Just like carriers in the U. S. and Europe, China's Spring Airlines, too, is positioning itself for being a platform of choice for all travel needs.
Google: time for the travel industry to see through its do-no-evil mantra
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Google might pose the biggest long-term threat to the profitability and growth of airlines, hoteliers and travel intermediaries that they have ever seen.
Fight or flight – the transformation of corporate travel management
Consumerisation and rapidly evolving technology are spearheading a dramatic shift in corporate travel management. How the industry responds will determine whether these changes represent insurmountable challenge or significant opportunity.
Air France KLM banks on its entrenched sales strategy in China
Indirect offline distribution has opened up for foreign carriers in the last couple of years. Air France KLM is making the most of its association with offline and online agencies built over the years to maximize sales.
Hotels have the data to be better with email
You rarely see hotels send emails to customers because the vast majority of the hotel's digital media efforts revolve around securing the booking – very little is done after the booking has been made.
Ryanair to launch next wave of digital services
European low cost carrier Ryanair says it will launch "One Flick" functionality which will allow passengers to change their flight details (upgrading to Leisure or Business Plus options) or buy reserved seats or fast-track ancillaries from within the airline's mobile app to upgrade its mobile app .
Airlines – don't crowd the inbox
Ancillary revenue guru IdeaWorks has taken a detailed look at six airlines' post-booking email marketing efforts. IdeaWorks found that the big revenue earners for airlines – bags and seats – are not promoted as actively as car hire and hotels which are less lucrative.


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Q: Why do dynamic elements under a directive have a wrong scope if added after transclusion? Consider the following example, where one element is included statically into the directive definition, and other one is added later (using jQuery):

angular.module('test', []).directive('transcludeThis', [function () {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        transclude: true,
        replace: true,
        template: '

'
    };
}]);

$(function() {
  angular.bootstrap(document, ['test']);
  $('#transcluded').append('
Dynamic (jQuery):
').find('*').each(function() {
      var $this = $(this);
      $this.append(angular.element($this).scope().$id);
  });
});
<transclude-this>

Static:

</transclude-this>

Why is the dynamic element not in the transcluded scope?

A: Because that dynamic element did not exist when the scope for the directive was created. If you are using angular you should create your dynamic elements inside of the directive and then the scope will be maintained.


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Q: Why should we care about sufficient statistics? So I just learned the concept of sufficient statistics and I don't entirely understand why it's important.
I can think of two reasons but I'd like to get a confirmation for them:

*

*Is it because it reduces the dimension of the data (from let's say $R^n$ to $R$ in the case where $\overline{X}$ is a sufficient statistic) which could be computationally significant?

*It's a sought out property of statistic like unbiasedness and consistency (although I'm not sure why we'd care about sufficiency while I understand why we care about the former two).

A: Your reasons are both correct. Sufficiency is 'sought out'
because, along with other conditions (unbiasedness and completeness), it helps to identify
estimators that have the smallest variance. The intuitive idea
is that for purposes of estimating the parameter the sufficient
statistic contains all relevant information. (For other purposes,
such as testing goodness-of-fit to a particular distribution, all
of the original data may be required.)
Uniform. For example, if you are trying to estimate $\theta$ in
$Unif(0, \theta),$ you might consider three candidate
estimators: (a) double the sample mean, (b) double the
sample median, and (c) $(n+1)/n$ times the maximum
observation among $n$. All three are unbiased. Only (c)
is sufficient and it has the smallest variance of the three.
Indeed, (c) has the smallest possible variance among
unbiased estimators.
Specifically, when $n = 5$ and $\theta = 10,$ the standard deviations
of these estimators are 1.69 for (c), compared with
2.58 for (a) and 3.78 for (b). So there is a considerable
difference in the variability of these estimates. (I mention
standard deviations instead of variances because SDs have
the same units as the mean.)
Poisson. As another example, if you are trying to estimate the mean $\lambda$,
of a Poisson distribution, the sample mean
and the sample variance are both unbiased
estimators of $\lambda$, but the mean is sufficient
and has the smaller variance.
Specifically, if $n = 5$ and $\lambda = 10,$ then
the sample mean has SD 1.42 and the sample variance has SD 7.22.
Note: Completeness, mentioned above, is a somewhat technical property and, in general,
difficult to prove. I suspect you will encounter it soon, but
now may not be the time to think about it.


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COVID-19 Scams: Keep Your Guard Up Online
By Kevin Keeney
UPDATED April 2, 2020: Several new scams have been identified by Federal authorities that are tied to the recent passage of the economic stimulus package. Many of these scams are disguised as notices of eligibility or award. Others are offering pre-payment loan services in advance of a payment.
Often, cell phone text messages with links to sites are being aggressively used to attempt to steal banking information. All electronic and phone-based notifications relating to the economic stimulus package should be treated as fraudulent.
The news surrounding the spread of COVID-19 evokes strong feelings which often result in action. Some people react with fear and look to prepare in order to safeguard their family. Others react with empathy and think "how can I help others in this time of need?"
Unfortunately, some see this as an opportunity to profit through online scams.
The barrier for entry into online fraud continues to drop. Common tools used by scammers such as fake documentary videos, fraudulent donation websites, and email phishing campaigns can be built in minutes. This has enabled online fraud to become very targeted towards current news headlines. Using these tools, scammers prey on consumers when they are most vulnerable. The current rash of COVID-19 related scams is a timely case in point. Some COVID-19 scams seen to date include:
Attempts to capture personal data, including passwords, by entities posing as the World Health Organization (WHO) or CDC (Centers for Disease Control).
Opportunities to invest in companies on the quest to develop a cure.
E-mails with fake claims about local cases that include malicious attachments.
Sales of non-existent treatments or supplies to combat the virus.
Requests for donations to support victims or fund research to expedite a cure.
What can you do to protect yourself and your personal data?
Never click on a link or download an attachment from unknown email, no matter how relevant the content may look.
Keep the anti-virus / anti-malware software on your computer up to date.
Turn on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for your critical financial and personal accounts. Sites that use MFA require both a password and a secondary means of identification (such as a code sent by text message) before allowing entry. This means that even if your password is compromised your account cannot be accessed.
Be leery of emails claiming to be sent directly from public health organizations like CDC or WHO. Instead, proactively seek out updates from these official public health resources directly from their websites.
Take medical advice only from licensed healthcare professionals, not from ads received in your inbox or via social media.
If you wish to make a charitable donation related to a public health need, do so directly through the official websites of nationally recognized, audited non-profit organizations.
Do not make a donation over the phone when solicited through phone dialing campaigns (even if they offer a callback number). Reputable organizations will never pressure donors to send money rapidly by cash, gift card or money wire.
COVID-19 is being used to scam consumers today, but tomorrow it could be Social Security benefits or any other headline of the day. By remaining vigilant and implementing the practices listed above, you can minimize the risk of becoming a victim.
Kevin Keeney
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