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Q: Drag and Drop file content when an anchor tag is dropped into TextArea In my application there are 2 textarea's and following is the code where I have added "dragover" and "drop" listeners to this 2 textarea's
// for dragover
handleDragOver : function (evt) {
        var self = this;
        evt.preventDefault();
        console.log ("handleDragOver ", evt);
        return;
    }

// for drop
ShowFileContentDiff : function (evt) {
            evt.preventDefault();
            console.log ("ShowFileContentDiff ", evt);
        }

and following the code to bind this events to 2 textarea's
textArea1.bind('dragover', self.handleDragOver);
textArea1.bind('drop', self.ShowFileContentDiff);

textArea2.bind('dragover', self.handleDragOver);
textArea2.bind('drop', self.ShowFileContentDiff);

Now in my app I have an anchor tag which contains the file Name, I want to show the file content in the textarea when I drag this anchor tag into the textarea.
The filecontents are basically stored in jsonstring in some object.
My problem here is in neither of methods mentioned above I am able to access this anchor tag so that I can  get the fileContent....
Can some one please let me know how to achieve this.?

A: If your anchor has an id you can do this:
ShowFileContentDiff : function (evt) {
    evt.preventDefault();
    console.log ("ShowFileContentDiff ", evt);
    console.log ("anchor's id: " + evt.target.id);
}

A: I was able to resolve this issue, I am using Jquery UI plugin for Drag and Drop functionality which perfectly suits my requirement and gives me the reference of the element being dragged!!
here is the link for the examples on jquery UI site.
https://jqueryui.com/droppable/#shopping-cart

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Ferg Family Adventures: Wedding Wednesday: The Photographers!
Right after we booked our venue, I started looking at photographers, because I heard they book up quickly! This was one area I was willing to splurge on a little bit, because after the wedding, all you have left is the pictures, right?! Well, I emailed one photographer, and she told me to plan on spending $8,000 (yes, eight thousand dollars) on my wedding photography! Am I crazy, or is that a little steep?!?!
Anyways, thankfully, I found a MUCH more reasonable photographer whose style I love! Well, photographers...it is actually a married couple! Elizabeth Scott Photography!
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And of course, some from our very own engagement session!
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My only regret was that we were not able to get into the football stadium (it was locked)!!!
If you want to see even more engagement pics, check them out here!
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Rockslide blocks road to Yosemite National Park
Photo: Ellen Ellery
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- A rockslide has blocked a road into Yosemite National Park that will remain closed at least through the weekend, officials said.
About 4,000 tons (3,600 metric tons) of rock detached from a cliff on Monday, blocking El Portal Road, Park spokesman Scott Gediman said Tuesday.
El Portal Road is a continuation of Highway 140 and the gateway for about a third of the park's visitors who enter from the foothills above the Central Valley on the west side of the Sierra. About 700,000 to 800,000 visitors use that entrance each year, Gediman said.
"This massive slab of rock slid down the cliff, hit a ledge, and broke into many pieces," he said.
Those pieces fragmented further after hitting the base of the cliff and fanned out over an area more than 1,000 feet wide with debris rolling down to the Merced River.
The park can still be reached from the west by way of Highways 41 and 120. The three entrances lead to Yosemite Valley, the park's main attraction.
The closure also cut off the village of El Portal and the city of Mariposa, which are home to most of the park's employees.
The park's eastern entrance is still closed as plow crews clear near-record snowfall on the road to Tioga Pass, which sits at nearly 10,000 feet above sea level.
AP-WF-06-13-17 2322GMT

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Q: Can't Update Access database File From C#.NET I try to learn some coding with Visual C#. I create a form for add and update Access database.
I can successfully add to Access file but I can't update them.
I write a code similar below by some search in internet but I get this error:

ExecuteNonQuery requires an open and available Connection. The connection's current state is closed.

My code is:
public partial class form1 : Form
{
   private OleDbConnection con;

   private void btnUpDate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
            string FirstName = txtFirstName.Text;
            string Family = txtFamily.Text;
            string City = txtCity.Text;
            string approve = txtapprove.Text;
            string OfficeNumber = txtOfficeNumber.Text;
            string OfficialDossier = txtOfficialDossier.Text;
            string Department = txtDepartment.Text;
            string Organization = txtOrganization.Text;

            OleDbConnection oleDBConn = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=Data Source=F:\\Database.accdb");
            string query = "UPDATE Sheet1 SET FirstName=@FirstName, Family=@Family, City=@City, approve=@approve, OfficeNumber=@OfficeNumber, OfficialDossier=@OfficialDossier, Department=@Department, Organization=@Organization WHERE OfficeNumber=@OfficeNumber";

            //string query = "UPDATE aspnet_Users SET FirstName=@FirstName, Family=@Family,  City=@City, approve=@approve, OfficeNumber=@OfficeNumber, OfficialDossier=@OfficialDossier, Department=@Department WHERE OfficeNumber=@OfficeNumber";

            OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(query, oleDBConn);
            cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@OfficeNumber", OfficeNumber);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@OfficialDossier", OfficialDossier);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FirstName", FirstName);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Family", Family);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@City", City);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@approve", approve);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Department", Department);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Organization", Organization);

            try
            {
                con.Open();

                int result = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

                if (result > 0)
                    MessageBox.Show("Success!");
                else
                    MessageBox.Show("Sorry!");
            }
            catch (OleDbException)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("There is a problem!");
            }
            finally
            {
                con.Close();
            }
        }
    }

Where I have mistake? I Don't use of DataSet and DataAdapter. Is problem from there?
I'm using VS 2010

A: Problem 1: You have not Opened the Connection object oleDBConn which was assigned to the OleDbCommand Object.
You have assigned oleDBConn to OleDbCommand  object as below:
OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(query, oleDBConn);//here you have assigned oleDbConn

but you have opened different ConnectionObject con as below:
con.Open();

Solution 1:
Replace This: You should always Open the OleDbConnection (oleDBConn) Object which was assigned to the OleDbCOmmand Object.
 con.Open();

With This:
oleDBConn.Open();

Problem 2: You have created an Extra connection object con (on top of your btnUpDate_Click function) and by mistake you are working with the same.(Opening  and closing the wrong connection object instead of proper one)
Solution 2: Remove the extra connection object created on top of btnUpDate_Click function and replace all con occurences with oleDBConn.
Complete Code:
try
{
oleDBConn.Open();

int result = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

if (result > 0)
MessageBox.Show("Success!");
else
MessageBox.Show("Sorry!");
}
catch (OleDbException ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("There is a problem!"+ex.ToString());
}
finally
{
oleDBConn.Close();
}


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});

Package.onUse(function (api) {
  api.addFiles('package-client.js', 'client');
  api.addFiles('package-server.js', 'server');
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  api.use(['jshint', 'minimongo']);
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For the mousses, soak the gelatine in cold water for 5 minutes. In a small saucepan, bring the chicken stock to simmering point. Remove from the heat. Drain the gelatine, then cover with hot stock and stir until dissolved. Season with salt and, once tepid, cover and refrigerate briefly to chill but not to set.
Meanwhile, put the eggs in a saucepan of cold water. Bring to a simmer and cook for 8 minutes, or until hard-boiled. Drain and cool under cold running water.
Oil 6 125ml dariole moulds. Peel and halve the eggs. Push the egg yolks through a sieve into a bowl. Finely chop the egg whites. Tip into the same bowl, cover and chill.
Once the stock is cold but not set, pour the cream into a large bowl. Add the Worcestershire sauce and fish sauce and season to taste with salt, black pepper and cayenne. Whisk until the cream forms soft peaks. Gently fold in the egg, followed by the cold stock. Test the seasoning and divide between the moulds. Tap each to remove any air bubbles. Cover and chill until set, usually for at least 2 hours.
Shortly before serving, prepare the salad. Trim and wash the leeks. Drop into a pan of boiling salted water and boil for 3 minutes, or until tender. Drain, cool under cold running water and pat dry. Wash and dry the salad leaves. In a large bowl, whisk together the vinegar and oil. Season to taste. Toss the leeks and leaves in the vinaigrette and serve with the mousses and caviar (if using).
To drink: These mousses need a fresh but soft, dry, delicate white such as a Pinot Blanc, unoaked Mâcon or Bianco di Custoza: Monté del Fra Bianco di Custoza 2010, £8.99, Majestic.


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Somizi thought his book was a #1 best seller...
Books / 13 September 2017, 11:05am / Voice Reporter
Somizi Mhlongo. Picture: Somizi/Instagram
'Idols SA' judge Somizi Mhlongo told fans his book was the best selling autobiography in Exclusive Books' history, but then the book retailer said it wasn't.
Exclusive Books dismissed Somizi's claim that his book, 'Dominoes: Unbreakable Spirit', was the highest-selling autobiography ever sold by the retailer.
"So we have just been told that my book is the highest-selling autobiography in the country ever at Exclusive Books. I wanna break the African record which was set by Harry Potter. Am I being too ambitious? No. I don't think so, because I have God and you," Somizi wrote on Instagram.
So we have just been told that my book is the highest selling autobiography in the country ever at exclusive books.i wanna break the African record which was set by Harry potter.am I being too ambitious? No. I don't think so. Coz I have God and U
A post shared by Somizi (@somizi) on Sep 10, 2017 at 2:34am PDT
However, Exclusive Books general manager Ben Williams told TshisaLIVE although Somizi's book was a big hit, it was "below the numbers needed to break the record" for best-selling biography ever.
"We never discuss sales with the media or even the authors so we did not notify him that his book was the highest-selling autobiography. His book did extremely well, but the highest-selling autobiography was Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom and it (Somizi's book) was below the numbers needed to break that record," Ben explained.
Despite this, Ben said Somizi's book was a "best-seller" and continues to rake in the sales, two and a half months after its release.
"It was the best-selling book for at least two weeks after its release and even now it is still in the top three most popular titles sold," Ben said.


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Q: MISRA. Write justification for exception I was wondering how can I write some "excuse" otherwise known as justification in C code for MISRA rules checked by coverity. The only thing I know it is done by writing some C comment in source code but I can not find any example on the internet.
Can anyone help me with this subject? ;)
For example let's say I want to allow exception from Rule 42.7 on line 102 in my file source1.c. :)
Thank you and best regards.
Sorry for my english. :)

A: Write it like this
/* In the code line following this comment, coverity's MISRA checks detect a
   violation of rule 42.7, because the code does indeed .... .
   After review with colleagues Name1, Name2 and Quality Assurance representative
   Name3,
   we agreed however that in this special case,
   characterised by the fact that ....,
   this is not a problem for code quality or functionality, because .... .
   date
*/

Something very similar is mandatory where I work.
In cases like described by Eugene, where names cannot occur in source code which might get published/sold (i.e. in even more formal environments than I outlined), the documentation of who did the review could be in a separate, classified file, referenced by anonymising document IDs.
I am aware that most code checkers have a syntax to silence their warnings,
usually even to silence individual warnings.
I have learned to mistrust this feature, because it is too easy to silence something and then forget about it. To shed responsibility. To forget about the reasons for doing and for silencing this.
If you write the reason you cannot forget it and it can be rechecked later.
If you document (not necessarily name) the colleagues who decided this and e.g. a QA agreement, that can be based on rediscussing.
If you describe the characteristics of the code and the consequences for quality, then it can be noticed when the reason does not match the (modified) code anymore.

A: In MISRA a violation to a rule is known as a "deviation" from the MISRA compliance guidelines here you have how the violations/deviations shall be documented.

Deviation records, a deviation record should include the following information:

*

*The guideline(s) being violated.

*A concise description of the circumstances in which a violation is acceptable.

*The reason why the deviation is required

*Background information to explain the context and the language issues

*A set of requirements to include any risk assessment
procedures and precautions which must be observed.

A: The formal term in MISRA-C would be deviation - and you may only deviate from required and advisory rules/directives. There's two ways you can implement MISRA-C:

*

*Either allow individuals to make deviations - potentially after peer review, or

*Don't allow individuals to make any deviations, but make every deviation project-wide and company-wide, in the internal coding standard.

If you allow individual deviations, you need at a minimum make source code comments at each deviating line. If you wish, you can integrate the deviation procedure with the company quality system (like ISO 9000), but it might become a bit burdensome then. (Which isn't necessarily bad, deviations should be exceptions, not the norm.)
I think it is much better to make a company-wide coding standard however. Not only is this less bureaucratic - it gives the rules more weight, since you can have a consensus among your colleagues how certain things should be handled. You are more motivated to follow rules set by your friends and/or boss.
Also, this prevents everyone who isn't a hardened C veteran - that is, the big majority, to make incorrect calls when to deviate and when not to. Particularly when the big majority of static analyser tools out there are of really sad quality, still.
Some MISRA rules are far from easy to understand, so just handing everyone a static analyser and expect them to work things out on their own from there is a very bad idea. It will likely do more harm than good if they haven't read and understood the MISRA document in detail. More so if you have a particularly broken tool.
You are also missing the chance of writing a simpler, briefer explanation in your coding standard. This is an excellent way of educating less experienced programmers, by explaining a single, local issue in the live code they are working with.
In your coding standard, you are expected to have a compliance matrix, basically a table pointing out how each rule is enforced. By the compiler, by the static analyser, by review etc. Here you can also list all company-wide deviations and point out where to find the rationale about that deviation. And finally, this allows you to filter out all rules company-wide by fine-tuning the static analyser and disabling the rules it shouldn't warn about.


Can Someone Make Me A *SHORT* Drum Loop?
I find myself in need of a short garage band drum loop. Specifically, a short, 8-bar snare roll (although 4 would probably do the trick). I need the snare work to go behind this (.mp4, 176 KB).
Anyone willing to help? The rest of the drumwork I need I can get by with what's in GB, but I can't find anything like this in the default package.
Thanks in advance. I'll be happy to return the favor (vocals, guitar, or bass) should anyone need it.
each is slightly different and they all have different pressure sensitivity.
this layout enables you to create drum rolls pretty easily, because those 3 variations sound really good when played in sequence, and once you've recorded it, all you gotta do is play with the velocity to make it more even.
I don't have a keyboard.
then you can input the midi by hand, or use a program like midikeys to use your computer keyboard to trigger notes.
There's also a little popup keyboard in garageband.
yea, what I'd do is click the drum on that keyboard to approximate what you're going for, then go into the midi editor and create the appropriate variations and velocity adjustments.
Ah! Thanks! I'll give this a shot. But not a rim-shot. Har har.
Able to get anything together?
No time to mess with it until this evening. I'll let ya'll know.
Harumph. The range isn't enough. Even with midikeys and ramping the velocity all the way up, the sound is much too low and doesn't sound much like a snare. And ideas?
hm...that's peculiar, in the GB midi information editor are the notes black or gray?
have you tried other methods of inputing the midi?
No. I don't have time to do some convoluted workaround for my not having a midi controller. This isn't a complaint about anything other than my laziness about buying a damned midi controller keyboard. I need a kind of marching snare line, not unlike the snare line in that DMB song "Crash."
I've got a little extra cash this pay period; I may pop by my local music store and grab a midi controller.


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AHAR gears up to vaccinate 20,000 employees free of cost in association with SRCC Children's Hospital
The vaccination drive is being carried out in a very systematic way so as to avoid crowding.
Indian Hotel & Restaurant Association (AHAR), the apex body of the industry, kickstarted its vaccination drive in association with SRCC Children's Hospital, to vaccinate 20,000 of its employees free of cost. State Cabinet Minister for Textiles and Mumbai Guardian Minister Hon'ble Shri Aslam Shaikh was the Chief Guest in a camp organized in Kandivali today.
The vaccination drive is being carried out in a very systematic way so as to avoid crowding. There are proper check and balances in place to ensure that all Covid protocols are adhered to. The registration information and data for such camps are collected well in advance to avoid any kind of wastage of vaccine. The first camp was held on 17th August and it is being conducted on a daily basis at various locations in the city with 400 vaccines administered daily at one camp.
Commenting on this drive, Shivanand Shetty, President, AHAR said, "We are grateful to SRCC for helping us in this vaccination drive to ensure that our employees are fully vaccinated and are back to work at the earliest. With no income for months, the employees had to endure a lot during this lockdown and this is to enable them to get back to work in a secured way. We are thankful to those who got vaccinated, for extending their full co-operation and request those who are yet to take their vaccine to come forward and make this drive a grand success."
The Minister spoke to AHAR office bearers to understand more about the vaccination drive and also discussed about how the industry has been hit because of the lockdown. He offered his full support to the industry and requested to get in touch with his office for any issues.
Shivanand Shetty
Minister of textile
AHAR
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Историја
Село Бовић је насељено око 1700. године. Православно парохијско звање је основано 1735. године, а црквене матрикуле се воде од 1777. године. Почетком 20. века ту је седиште православне парохије која припада Киринско-Глинском протопрезвирату. Као парохијске филијале под Бовићем се налазе околна села: Козарац, Горња Трстеница, Гољина, Бућица, Табориште и Бишћаново. Бовић тада има 550 српских домова и 2951 православних Срба. То је парохија прве платежне класе са парохијским домом.

За вријеме Другог свјетског рата село Бовић је дало 155 партизана, међу којима 25 носилаца "Партизанске споменице 1941", а 47 су погинули као борци НОБ-а. Од стране непријатеља убијено је 69 невиних лица, 45 је умрло од тифуса, а 12 су жртве рата. Укупно 173 жртве. Прва паљења и пљачке села од стране усташа почеле су већ 13. августа 1941. године, када је запаљена сеоска православна црква и опљачкане трговине и занатске радње. У децембру исте године спаљене су све куће и економске зграде, отјерана стока и опљачкана имовина, коју становништво није успјело да однесе приликом избјега на Петрову гору.

Побијени мјештани су били презимена: Аралица, Арлов, Борота, Гледић, Ивковић, Јовановић, Кнежевић, Комадина, Комазец, Мраовић, Нишић, Радановић, Ратковић, Станојевић, Варцалија, Зимоња и Живковић — сви Срби.

Бовић се од распада Југославије до августа 1995. године налазио у Републици Српској Крајини.

Духовни живот и култура
У Бовићу постоји храм Васкрсења Господњег подигнут 1734. године. Темпло је осликао 1888. године сликар Јаков Шашел. Поново је сазидан 1890. године, а спаљен 1941. и 1991. године.

У месној православној парохији 1827. године службовали су свештеници: поп Сава Јакшић парох и поп Андреј Вукојевић ђакон. Почетком 20. века парох је поп Миле Стрика, рођен 1846. године а налази се већ три деценије у Бовићу. Он је и председник месне црквене општине.

Године 1905. у Бовићу ради комунална основна школа, у којој ради учитељ Максим Пекић, рођен 1850. године у Медвеђаку. Редовну наставу прати 80 ђака (од 300) а пофторну - 16 (32).

Становништво
На попису становништва 2011. године, Бовић је имао 91 становника.

Према попису становништва из 2001. године Бовић има 150 становника. Многи становници српске националности напустили су село током операције Олуја 1995. године.

Попис 1991.
На попису становништва 1991. године, насељено место Бовић је имало 313 становника, следећег националног састава:

Аустроугарски попис 1910.
На попису 1910. године насеље Бовић је имало 731 становника, следећег националног састава:
 укупно: 731
 Срби — 715 (97,81%)
 Хрвати — 16 (2,18%)

Види још
 Кордун

Референце

Литература
  , Душан Баић, "Котар Вргинмост у НО борби 1941-1945", Београд, 1980.;

Литература

Спољашње везе

 Парохија Бовић
 Радио-телевизија Републике Српске: Идентификовано 14 убијених Срба, 25. 11. 2011.
 Бовић — мапе, временски подаци итд.

Општина Вргинмост
Кордун
Насељена места у Хрватској
Насељена места у Сисачко-мославачкој жупанији
Насеља и општине у Хрватској са српском већином (2011)
Википројект географија/Насеља у Хрватској

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Q: Deploy WordPress From Local Docker to Hosting Provider I've seen articles that teach how to migrate WordPress into Docker containers (see also here). I want to do the opposite.  I am already running WordPress locally via Docker on my Windows 10 laptop.  I want to migrate my local (containerized) WordPress instance into a hosted provider (e.g. WP Engine, GoDaddy, Bluehost, etc.).  I don't think these hosting providers offer containerized WordPress hosting, and even if they did - it likely is more expensive than their traditional infrastructure.
I also like the idea of pushing updates (plugin and theme changes or additions) to my hosting provider via git, like I see described in this WP Engine Git Setup article.
I'd like advice or instructions for this.  I am passable with my Docker skills, but I am new to WordPress.  The most important things I need to understand:

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*How do I preserve articles I've written and published on my hosting provider, when I suddenly "git push" new updates to my hosting provider?

*How do I backup my database on my local computer, given that my containerized WordPress does not have phpMyAdmin included?

*How do I ensure that path names like "http://localhost:8000" that I use for local testing are properly replaced with the proper domain-name when I push?

*Need I be concerned with the docker-entrypoint-initdb.d folder?  Where is the official documentation for this special folder?  Are there other "magic" directories like this I should be aware of?

*How might VersionPress fit into this story, if at all?

*Is there anything fundamentally flawed about what I am trying to achieve?

Ultimately I don't need a "git push" deployment model.  For example, I doubt GoDaddy or Bluehost will offer me the "git push" capability, but their hosting is also less expensive; I could accept an FTP deploy if it was not too burdensom.  But whether I deploy with git or deploy with FTP, I still want the  ability to run my development effort within Docker, and version locally with git.
Also, I am not actually developing brand new WordPress themes or plugins.  I am simply using my local WordPress container to add and test pre-existing themes and plugins.
Background
I am using the docker-compose file shown below.  It will only work if you change "Docker for Windows" Settings->Shared Drives...so that a Windows drive (the "C" drive in my case) is shared.  Here is the docker-compose file:
version: '3.2'

services:
  db:
    image: mysql:5.7
    volumes:
      - type: volume
        source: wp_db
        target: /var/lib/mysql
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress
      MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
      MYSQL_USER: wordpress
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress

  wordpress:
    depends_on:
      - db
    image: wordpress:latest
    volumes:
      - .:/var/www/html
    ports:
      - "8000:80"
    restart: always
    environment:
      WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
      WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress
volumes:
    wp_db:
      driver_opts:
        type: none
        device: ./wp-db
        o: bind

The above allows (I think) all of the WordPress themes and plugins (along with DB modifications) to be exposed on my file system, outside of the WordPress container.  I can then capture these files into git.  My plan is to use the WordPress .gitignore file suggested by Github, or perhaps one of the .gitignore files described in the aforementioned WP Engine article.


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Health/London/National
UK COVID-19 Cases Pass 300,000
At least 300,111 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Britain with a daily increase of 685, according to figures updated by the country's health authorities.
The figures for coronavirus-related deaths remain unavailable on the official website as Health Secretary Matt Hancock has ordered a review into the Public Health England's (PHE) data, Xinhua reported.
The government said that it is now able to better identify outbreaks at an early stage and take steps to ensure appropriate local intervention.
Working with local authorities, the government has recently paused the further easement of lockdown measures in Blackburn with Darwen and Luton as data showed that the incidence of Covid-19 in these areas was higher than in other areas of the country.
Meanwhile, Britain is taking more precautionary measures to prevent the increase of Covid-19 cases.
People returning to Britain from Spain (including islands) from midnight on July 25 will need to self-isolate for two weeks, with the country removed from the travel corridors list, the British government has announced.
Following a significant change recently in both the level and pace of change in confirmed cases, Spain has been removed from the list of countries where people do not have to self-isolate when arriving into Britain, the government explained.
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RadhaRaman Folk Festival Celebrates 10 Years


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Money Must Be Made. A provocation for an alternative Venice
On 2 July, about 4,000 Venetians found an envelope containing eight counterfeit banknotes in their letterbox. These had been designed by eight graphic studios in Venice – Bruno, Tomomot, Fabrizio Berger, Lorenzo Mason Studio, Sebastiano Girardi Studio, Livio Cassese, Tapiro, Fabio Mialich and Erika Froner – and printed by the only industrial print shop still active in Venice itself: Grafiche Veneziane. It was the culminating act of Money Must Be Made, a project conceived in full lockdown by the studios and by Grafiche Veneziane, an idea born as a provocation.
Eight different 'designer banknotes' were created and distributed to emphasise a real problem: the possibility of creating wealth and work in Venice by investing in culture. From the outset, the idea behind Money Must Be Made was to use banknotes in their original conception, as an instrument or medium of exchange. The aim was to use money as a means of attracting public attention to the presence in the city of a community of workers active for the most part in the world of graphic design and publishing, capable of creating high-quality work much appreciated in Italy and abroad, but too often not adequately known or valued even within the restricted scope of Venice itself.
Venice – and this is the message that was being sent out – is also a dynamic community capable of attracting investments even outside the tourism sector; a network of people and business activities that has been able to build a national and international reputation over the years and that wants to continue to believe in Venice for its future in terms of profession and living. The lucky recipients of the banknotes were then invited to visit the project's website and to sign the letter/manifesto explaining the reasons and objectives of the initiative.
Several weeks after the delivery of the envelopes it is time, as the saying goes, to take stock. We have received wide-ranging consensus to our initiative, with close to a thousand signatures and the banknotes being requested from all over Italy. It has been a great show of affection and closeness for all of us and helped cheer us up during a particularly difficult period for those working in the cultural industry. Yet many of the questions raised by our provocation still remain open. The crisis following the Covid-19 epidemic has in fact exposed the stunning short-sightedness of a management of the city's economy based exclusively on tourism monoculture.
With extraordinary effectiveness, one of the eight banknotes shows how Venice has experienced its relationship with tourism to date. The tourist is like the cormorant portrayed on the back of the banknote intent on drying on a bricola. On the one hand it is one of the protected species of the Lagoon, and on the other it is a bird that every day has to devour large quantities of fish, thus contributing to the destruction of the ecosystem in which it lives. In a completely analogous fashion, Venice's economy seems to need precisely that sort of tourism that is breaking the social fabric of the city in order to survive. The tragedy of Covid has broken this vicious circle, perhaps providing the space for the first time in many years to think about an alternative model for growth. It is now a fundamental necessity and a task that can no longer be postponed.
Our project aims to be an initial invitation to look at all that is already good and being produced in the city, to think of Venice as a creative workshop open to the outside, to the world beyond the bridge, still capable of attracting resources and creating jobs for new residents and future citizens.
Offset printing: from reproduction to aesthetic expression


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George Galicz with Igor the eagle at Surrey Zoo in November 1969. Galicz and his birds of prey appeared in sports shows across North America, on television and as special attractions at many large show and events. (Photo courtesy Surrey Archives)
SURREY NOW & THEN: How a zoo in Newton once attracted animal lovers
Life at Surrey Zoo recalled by the daughter of operators George and Muriel Galicz
This story launches Surrey Now & Then, a weekly look back at Surrey-area landmark sites and events, and how they evolved over the years. Email story ideas and tips to tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com.
Lorna Wallace fondly remembers random animals roaming around the Newton house and property where she grew up, even before the place was officially known as Surrey Zoo.
She lived at the corner of 132nd Street and 60th Avenue, on land purchased in 1945 by her parents, George and Muriel Galicz.
"My dad was into birds of prey, that was his passion," recalled Wallace. "He had eagles, hawks, owls, peregrine falcons – he used to raise them, and he was always taking in these injured animals. So I grew up with robins in my bathroom and cougars in our bedroom, everything under the sun. Surrey was bush then, so my dad was kind of the resident animal curator."
He met his match in Muriel, one of Surrey's first licensed kennel operators and a keeper of keeshonds.
Together they officially opened Surrey Zoo in October of 1967, in a ceremony that involved Reeve Roland Harvey and declaration of the animal sanctuary as a Canadian Centennial project.
Foxes, monkeys, cougars, wolves, deer, birds and other creatures lived at the zoo for the next decade-plus, until the municipal council of 1977 opted out of a funding deal.
Today, that corner of Newton is home to Berea Baptist Church and lots of houses, and Wallace lives in Fleetwood.
"My dad pretty much built it by himself, the fencing and all that," Wallace noted. "He used to have a little green donation box, and then he built a ticket booth and I was often in there, making macramés and selling tickets. It was very old-school, and the kids in the neighbourhood were kind of drawn to my dad because of the animals. He put them to work with a wheelbarrow, hauling sawdust and stuff, and keeping them out of trouble. Sometimes I still run into those kids and they tell me the stories, it's kind of neat."
Of the animals, she remembers a Bald eagle named Igor that lived nearly 40 years.
"He (George) got it from his good friend that ran Stanley Park (zoo)," Wallace noted. "It had fallen out of its nest and a fisherman had given it to Stanley Park, and after a year it was a little feisty so he gave it to my dad. He was quite the bird."
Sig Hupfauf, who went to school with Wallace and still lives in the neighbourhood, recalls the day the zoo began to take shape in the early 1960s.
"We thought it was the strangest thing ever for this zoo to all of sudden be in our neighbourhood," he said.
"We used to hang out there, and for us kids it was pretty awesome because you could see all the animals. That was one of the first animal rescues around, right, so any animals that were in trouble or whatever, people dropped them off there and the Galicz's took really good care of them. There was a lot of animals there, you name it. They were very kind people, just very caring for those animals, and it was quite a collection."
Hupfauf said he remembers wolves sticking around the neighbourhood after the zoo was disbanded. "It was a pack of them, but they got pretty domesticated by that time."
By 1976, close to 8,000 people visited the zoo annually, and George Galicz was in negotiations with Surrey council about keeping the zoo in operation. But the municipality turned down an offer to buy the zoo for $180,000 and renew an operating contract for $50,000. A petition to keep the zoo open fell on deaf ears.
"They asked me at the time if I would stay on and run things until the Tynehead Zoo is finished," Galicz said in a newspaper story in 1977.
The Leader news story says Tynehead Zoo was expected to be in operation in about three or four years, and all Surrey Zoo animals would go there if the municipality bought the zoo. But the Tynehead Zoological Park never got built on 40 acres of leased land off Highway 1, and neither did an Asia Pacific Park of Nations tourist attraction pitched there in the late-1980s.
The Galicz family ended up moving to the Sullivan area in the early 1980s, and most of the zoo animals went to other sanctuaries around the province, Wallace said.
"They had many friends with similar interests, in Kamloops and places like that," she said. "Also some of the animals remained with us, but it (the zoo) was just no longer open to public. Some simply lived out their life there. Dad always retained his love for birds of prey, and used to bring them to sports shows throughout the States and Canada."
George Galicz died in 1999 and Muriel followed in 2010, Wallace said.
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Surrey Zoo operator George Galicz holds "Sharkey," a hawk with a broken leg, in January 1977. (Photo: Peter Battistoni, Columbian Newspaper Collection. Image courtesy Surrey Archives)
Surrey Zoo operators Muriel and George Galicz with birds of prey, in an undated photo. (submitted photo courtesy Lorna Wallace)
Berea Baptist Church now stands on the corner where Surrey Zoo was located, at the corner of 132nd Street and 60th Avenue in Newton. (Google Maps photo)
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England player Harry Maguire (6) celebrates with John Stones (5) after scoring a goal against Sweden in the quarterfinals during the FIFA World Cup 2018 at Samara Stadium. Photo: Reuters/PA Images
On one count, England's the FIFA World Cup winner
2 min read . Updated: 13 Jul 2018, 09:24 AM IST howindialives.com
England remains a winner on one metric: club-wise representation in the World Cup
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England's hopes of winning their first World Cup since 1966 ended on Wednesday after their defeat to Croatia in the semi-final. Yet, England remains a winner on one metric: club-wise representation in the World Cup. More players in the 2018 World Cup plied their trade for clubs in football leagues in England than in any other country.
England was the winner on this count when the tournament began. It gained numbers as the tournament progressed, losing its league-leading status only in the finals.
Each of the 32 teams brought 23 players to the World Cup. That's a total of 736 players, and they came from 310 clubs across 55 countries. Five European leagues—English, Spanish, German, Italian and French—dominated, accounting for 51% of these 736 players.
The Premier League accounted for 124 players, or 17%; 28 of the 32 teams had at least one player from an English club. Spain's La Liga and Germany's Bundesliga accounted for 11% and 9% of the total players, respectively. As the tournament progressed, the share of players from English clubs increased: 21% in the Round of 16, 27% in the quarter-finals and 43% in the semi-finals (see chart).
England going deep in the tournament was one reason for the dominance of the Premier League in this World Cup. All 23 players in the English team play in their domestic league. Dependence on the local league was also high for Russia (21 players) and Saudi Arabia (20 players). However, neither is a contender even at the national level nor do they boast of a club culture that is a global draw.
Even if the entire English national team were excluded from this calculation for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, English clubs would still lead Spanish clubs, the next best: 14% versus 13% in the quarters, and 18% versus 13% in the semis. These numbers underscore the dominance of English club football on the global stage. According to the Uefa Club Licensing Benchmarking Report 2016, a rich statistical document on European club football, the average annual revenue of English clubs in the top football division was £244 million, against £150 million for German clubs and £126 million for Spanish clubs.
Among individual clubs, England made its presence felt at every stage in Russia. In the group stage, two of the top five clubs in terms of player representation were English. This increased to three in the Round of 16 and four in the quarter-finals. In the semis, all top five clubs were English, a construct of the homegrown composition of England's national squad.
With England losing to Croatia in the semi-finals, this has changed for the finals. There's no English club in the top six. Instead, there are three players apiece from three Spanish clubs (Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid) and three from French clubs (Monaco, Olympique Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain).
The numbers, in a sense, mirror the club story. English clubs have led in revenues and talent, but they have not won the top prize in European club football since 2011-12. And the Three Lions will have to wait for at least another four years to get their second World Cup.
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School Safety: Preparing for worst-case scenarios at local schools
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — For many people hearing the terms "stop drop and roll," or "duck and cover," were common during drills at school. Many people accepted these drills because our parents reinforced that the training was important. Douglas Parisi is the director of training for Safe Defend and says parents need to do the same with school "intruder" drills.
Lessons from the Field - Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation in America's K-12 Schools: Guidance and Strategies for Improved Results
Attention: Building and Grounds, Capital Projects, Facilities and Maintenance, and Safety and Security Personnel and Leadership The U.S. Department of Education is hosting a webinar series to support educational settings in safely sustaining or returning to in-person instruction.
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School, police investigating possible racism, bullying
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah school district is investigating possible racism and bullying on a school bus after a video surfaced on social media.
Bullying altercation caught on video at Carbon High School under investigation
PRICE, Utah (KUTV) — A cell phone video shows a 14-year-old girl getting hit and assaulted in the parking lot of Carbon High School; her grandmother wants to bring awareness to the situation.
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'use strict';

var expect = require('chai').expect;

var jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');
var PasswordResetter = require('./../../../app/services/PasswordResetter');
var secretConfig = require('./../../../config/secret');

describe('TestActivator', function() {
	var secret = 'topsecretstring';
	var token;

	describe('generateToken()', function() {

		it('should generate valid token', function() {
			var email = 'john@snow.com';

			token = PasswordResetter.generateToken(email, secret);
			expect(token).to.be.a('string');
			expect(token).to.have.length.above(10);
		});
	});

	describe('verifyAndGetUser()', function() {

		it('should extract tokens correctly', function() {
			var email = PasswordResetter.verfiyAndGetEmail(token, secret);
			expect(email).to.be.a('string');
		});

		it('should return null if token is invalid', function() {
			var email = PasswordResetter.verfiyAndGetEmail(token, 'someSecret');
			expect(email).to.be.null;
		});

	});

});


I have two treeview controls, one is the source and another is the destination.
PopulateSourceTreeview() ' Private subroutine to populate treeview dynamically.
But what's happening is once I drag a node from source to destination, some nodes in Source treeview is getting duplicated, i.e it's again being added, especially the ones that have child node. But the one which don't have child nodes are not getting duplicated.
I am not sure where the problem comes from. Did you try tracing the drag and drop operation with the debugger? Maybe this would show why the nodes are duplicated. Additionally you can check this online example which demonstrates similar.
Yes. I started the debugger too, but couldn't figure it out.
<telerik:RadTreeView ID="RadTvwDestination" runat="server" DragAndDrop="true" DragAndDropBetweenNodes="true"
Dim sScript1 As String = ""
sScript1 += "alert('You cannot add a source node over the destination node of same type category.')"
Also I have one more problem. When I drag and drop a node from source to the destination treeview and change the style of newly created node on destination view , the style of the corresponding dragged node from source treeview also changes which I don't want.


Deadend, the depressed member of the Stunticons. I always liked this guy and I still like this incarnation of him as well. A clever recolour of the Animated Jazz body, he looks like he has a new head, but it is just a clever bit of painting!!
The Motormaster. Leader of the Stunticons!
The Motormaster here is based on the wrestler Randy Savage apparently. He comes with his instructions and a g1 style tech spec card. He is a recolour of Animated Optimus Prime and sports a new paint job and newly sculpted head. He is the only Voyager sized figure from the set. Appropriate considering how he is the leader after all.
SDCC and Wonderfest makes an interesting weekend!
The San Diego comi-con and Wonderfest both happened to be on the same weekend this year. Both have some very interesting toy goodies to show off and have me very excited for the rest of the year.
My Wallet however is very fearful.
Wonderfest in Japan had an awesome slew of figma that have been previously unannounced. Comi-con had some excellent news in regards to Transformers: Prime toys and Masters Of the Universe as well.
Botcon 2011 Stunticons Boxset. Wooooo!
I finally received my boxset of this years Botcon toys. Impressions are good so far!
I really like the box art this year. Simple and effective!
A little shot of all the Stunticons. They are as most Botcon toys are recolours of existing figures. This year three of them have a new head.
They are nicely packed in the box and well cushioned in the foam. Tech Specs and instructions are underneath the foam. Each year there is a Botcon badge included.
This year, I managed to make it in quickly enough to get the 1st day ordering badge. I am pretty happy with that as I usually manage to miss out on that one!
I quite like this, as it is the Stunticon Decepticon symbol. In a badge for me!
Good thing is the toys are pretty good as well.
Reviews and shots in progress.
The Cars a movie by Pixar was one I never got around to seeing. The sequel however is another story, mainly because of it having some amusing Japan sections.
After seeing it though, I thought the story was predictable and average at best, but I was terribly impressed at how they managed to make the whole world carry the car theme. Mountains shaped like Cadillacs as just one small example. This made me enjoy the movie much more than I thought I would. All the characters were well suited to their assorted vehicles. Two in particular caught my eye, and so the hunt for the toys began.
At the toy sale the other day I picked up this funky little Red Hulk figure. It appears that he is quite photogenic. As I also had a whinge about the retail Price for this guy normally, I brought out my Marvel Legends Hulk. Long story cut short comes down to, boring, long night shift at work = photos snapped.
Fluff ball of Fun?!??? GRIZZLOR!
Oh, how the plastic crack addiction weaves it's magic. Here I am grabbing more Masters of the Universe figures and a weird one at that! This guy is from the She-Ra, Princess of Power line, but the toy was in the Masters Of the Universe line (as most of the bad guys were). I saw a review of this guy and thought he looks like a bit of a cool and interesting figure.
Had a lazy day, went to a little toy selling fare that I rock up to every now and then. Made some $$ caught up with some pals. Surprisingly I didn't spend a lot today! HUZZAH!
Ironfist.. errr, I mean Fisitron!
To keep the ball rolling on the Botcon 2011 figures and because I suspect my box 'o' Stunticons will be here soon, I have done these pictures NOW. And it helps that Fisitron is a recolour of Ironhide and Ratchet, which I have covered before.
Badly Written Bios - Fisitron.
Fisitron is an overly enthusiastic maker of tools, and the genius behind some of the most effective weapons in the Autobots arsenal. In his cozy lab he makes whatever comes to mind. For each strange gizmo he dreams up, he also manages to develop devices that can turn an Autobot into a one-bot wrecking crew. He always keeps a pair of nucleon shock gauntlets handy. Although Fisitron created Optimus Prime's laser axe, it is often credited to his rival Skyfall.
OK, for a start is 'weapondry' even a real word? I can see my spellchecker doesn't like it. Surely they mean 'weapons' or 'weaponry.' Or even perhaps 'Armourer'? All of those would be a better option than some random combination of letters or odd suffixes to get their meaning across.
I think the message of this sentence is a little bit off. I would recommend dropping the 'he also' as with it, it implies that he is creating other strange things, like a "flavour-wave" that are unrelated to weapons and the weapons that are dangerous are just a side project, which is not the case.
The shock gauntlets look like they are just a side comment with no relevance. It could have worked better is it was something like "His Nucleon Shock Gauntlets were one of his earliest inventions." Which justifies what they are and keeps them in theme of his inventing and weapons creation.
Finally, the spelling of 'cozy' as opposed to 'cosy' although I suspect this is an American fascination with phonetic spelling, like 'apologize' and 'apologise' and dropping the 'u' from 'colour.' I will let this slide.
On the positives, we finally have the correct usage of 'Although'!! Well, they use it often enough, so they were bound to get it right at least once. Huzzah!
Highbrow, one of the toys from the 'Hunt For the Decepticons' line at the end of the Revenge of the Fallen series. Or was it 'Autobot Alliance'? I don't know, they sometimes put too many damn names to these series sometimes. I am just glad it wasn't the 'Revenge Battles' or 'Blah blah Battles' since Hasbro have a passion for the word 'Battles' in their series names.
I got Highbrow for a couple of reasons. The first is because like Mindwipe, he is named after a Headmaster character. Unlike Mindwipe though, there is more than just a name similarity. They both have propellors on their arms. The second and most important reason for my getting him by a long shot, is that he is based on a World War II fighter bomber, the p-38 lightning. Google it, it's very interesting.
Wooo! Dinobots! 5 of Them!!
Oh, hang on, they aren't the G1 Dinobots lead by Grimlock. Oooooh, so these are the Dinobots released under the Power Core Combiner line? The leader isn't Grimlock, it's Grimstone. Aaah, ok. That's not so exciting then.
I will admit right now that I dislike the Power Core Combiner Transformers. I bought Smo(u)lder with the incredibly cleverly named Chopster and I was most disappointed with it. The teams also look just as bad. Except for these Dinobots. So I thought I would try them out….
Welcome to my first "Badly Written Bio" segment where I will rant and rave either about grammar, writing style or the message conatined within. Our lucky first contender happens to be the Power Core Combiner of Grimstone. Come on down!
Grimstone is here for two main reasons, please read the following bio, taken right from the side of his box.
Grimstone has always dreamed of power and the privilege it brings. Despite his hunger for power, however <WHA? Why is this here??>, he has always considered the needs of others before himself. He believes it is the responsibility of the powerful to protect those less fortunate – A belief he intends to aggressively enforce now that he has his own Power Core Team.
Now here we have another badly written bio. An unnecessary 'however.' As well as the point that Grimstone here intends to "aggressively enforce" his beliefs upon others. "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" is the call of Optimus. "As long as it's MY type of freedom," should be in a sub-clause.
Sure they may be beliefs that are well intentioned, but surely thrusting your views on others is only going turn them off. Just like various zealots of many flavours, both religious and non-religious, although to be honest I can't think of many that aren't religion centric off the top of my head. Aar, Autobots, Transformers and politics. Gotta love it. All this and they went to the effort of changing the Seacons to be more friendly. I sometimes wonder if these bio-writers ever re-read what the write.
In this bio I see little that separates this Autobot from the Decepticons. Here we have an Autobot willing to use force on others to make them follow his ideals. Unless it means that now Grimstone is more powerful HE will protect those weaker than him. If that is the case, then it should have been worded differently. Perhaps the wording "aggressively defend" instead of enforce would be better.
In my post box today were these little fellars. One Grizzlor of the Masters of The Universe or Princess of Power series depending on how you think about it. One 'The Faceless One' complete with a face, although it does lack any particular details really. I guess he could look a bit like Lord Voldemort. and best of all, one Fisitron A.K.A Ironfist of the Animated variety, shame about the name change (no doubt due to licensing and suchlike), but he did use Fisitron as his pen-name.
Pics in the works, hopefully up at the same time as this.
Big the Cat and Froggy by Jazwares.
Ever since his debut in Sonic Adventure, Big has been one of those characters that makes me groan a little bit evrey time I see him. Partly because I am still haunted by his levels in S.A. I mean fishing in a Sonic game? What is this? Legend of Zelda or something? Come on, that was juts silly and about the only real interest I had was finishing it so I could play as Super Sonic.
Big has had cameos in other games, he proved his worth as a character in Sonic Shuffle and showed up for bits in Sonic Adventure 2 and I even grew to like him in Sonic and SEGA All-stars Racing. He actually was a good strength characters in Sonic Chronicles as well and his rain dance move was pretty effective. His voice though, man it was irritating in all his appearances. I did learn something very important from Big though.
OOOOh! Stealth Force. The Transformers that don't transform. I have been keen on the SF series for a while, mainly because of the M.A.S.K possibilities contained therein. Most of them were overpriced when they cam out towards the middle of the Revenge Of The Fallen line. Electronic Optimus and the normal Soundwave were the only ones I was interested in all the rest were waaaaaay over priced.
No with the Dark of The Moon movie using the forms and the game of the movie featuring them quite heavily (almost to the detriment of robot mode), I spied this new line of larger electronic sized cars and was intrigued, especially since Barricade is in the line up too.
Bumblebee didn't interest me at first, but then after seeing the movie and playing the game, I kept an eye out for a sale, as the original $50 retail price (I kid you not!) is one of the larger rip-offs that we Australians have to put up with. Luckily the toys sales abound and the price came done to $30. Still a rip-off considering how the US is looking at an 18.99 price, but not too bad I guess. So I got one. This way he can go up against Barricade!
Animated Cheetor. Shmexy to the maxx!!
Regular readers of my blog (I thank you ) will know how much I love the Animated series of Transformers, so I think it is only fair to put a fan-boy-alert in this review. Animated Cheetor here is a recolour of my favourite figure of the line. He is Blurr with a new head and I love the Blurr mould the most.
Woooo, so for the 20th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog, SEGA are in the process of making the rather cool looking and hopefully good game of Sonic Generations. The actual date of the anniversary is the 23rd of June 2011, so since the game isn't ready for release just yet, SEGA have released a demo version of it to the Playstation Network and Xbox. The demo lets you play through 1 level as Classic Sonic.
I have come to the conclusion that I quite like these MOTUC figures. After my experience with Scareglow, I jumped onto the web and ordered Sy-Klone and Moss Man. Why? Well when I was a young-un, I had Sy-Klone as one of the few Masters of the Universe figures that I owned. The other one was Stinkor (Come on Mattel, give us a Stinkor!!). I really liked both of them and seeing how this Classic version of Sy-Klone looked, I thought I would try and reclaim some of that youth.
The reason this is a surprise is because I just discovered this picture on my laptop, amongst a bunch of Sonic toy figure shots. I remember taking this a good 6 months or so ago. I think there had been bushfires and the like, but it is quite spectacular.
Actually, this was on the same day as this post. Wonder why I didn't use it. Oh well.
The Robots, An old comic I found.
Do you remember these guys? I sort of do… While searching around and have a bit of a reorganise, I found this old comic that I got with one of these toys. The toys were robots of different types, and they all had a 'suction' cup on the bottom, but it was very large. Pressing a button on their back would make them smack their fists together.


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Village of Lewiston community reeling after fire rips through Brickyard Brewing Co.
by: Angelica Morrison
Posted: May 27, 2020 / 06:18 PM EDT / Updated: May 28, 2020 / 07:19 AM EDT
LEWISTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — It was a very emotional day for a lot of folks in the Village of Lewiston Wednesday, the very popular Brickyard Brewery Co. went up in flames.
"A lot of love, blood, sweat and tears went into this. But, this community is amazing and we'll put it back into it again," said James Fittante, he's the architect for the building that housed the Brickyard Brewing Company.
He's also a village resident, who lives around the corner. When he heard the news — he came running.
"Huge flames coming out of the top and smoke just everywhere. You couldn't even see down Center Street, all you could see was flashing clouds of smoke with all the utility vehicles," he said.
Fire officials say, they still don't know what caused the blaze at the Brickyard Brewing Company, late Tuesday night.
The brewery is right next to the Brickyard Pub and BBQ, which is a sister business. Officials say a firewall helped to protect that business — it only sustained water and smoke damage, the brewery, however, didn't fare so well.
"When something like this happens, it affects more than just them, it affects the whole town it's like people," said Roger Passero, owner of Viva Nostalgia. "It's not just a faceless business, everyone around here, all the business people know each othe. We work hand-in-hand, when it comes to festivals, and different types of events and things."
A go fund me has been set up for the employees of the Brickyard Brewing Company. To find more information visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/brick-by-brick-a-benefit-for-brickyard-staff?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR2KtnqcUrLQlMtlK3S9451rWALNRnM-bi8y2Nt6f3sSirPcmr-En3P6Qic
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Q: How do I get the type of a generic interface by type name? Ok so here is my problem:
I have an xml file that has a recording of a method and it's parameters. this xml file recorded a list of ID values with a .net generic interface type name of the following:
System.Collections.Generic.IList`1[CoreLib.Domain.MyClass]

I know most of these parameters are going to be the Generic List or Dictionary. when I attempt to use the GetType on the string value i am reading from the xml, it all returns null, and if I attempt to set the throw exception flag to true, it throws the following message:

"Could not load type 'CoreLib.Domain.MyClass' from
  assembly 'TestLibrary, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
  PublicKeyToken=null'."

What is the best strategy for getting something that I can pull back an actual type that I could populate? Thank you in advance!
UPDATE I have attempted to add assembly references to the string name like the following:
Type.GetType("System.Collections.Generic.List`1[CoreLib.Domain.MyClass,CoreLibrary]")

or
coreLibAssembly.GetType("System.Collections.Generic.List`1[CoreLib.Domain.MyClass,CoreLibrary]")

Both result in a null object, or if I request an exception be thrown, the same message that I got if I didn't specify the assembly name. I have also attempted to use the Assembly Binding Log Viewer, but no application appear in the list, and nothing seems to appear within the app after I run my code (it is in a test project being executed by nunit).
Any thoughts?

A: You can generally pass the string, as you have it, into Type.GetType().  For example:
Type t = Type.GetType("System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.Int32]");

I suspect in your case, the CLR does not know how to resolve the type CoreLib.Domain.MyClass.  You may need to help it along by specifying the assembly, as in this example taken from MSDN:
Type.GetType("System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,[MyType,MyAssembly]]")

If after specifying the assembly it's still "blowing up" (next time, suggest you define that better e.g. with a specific error, exception or stack trace :-) try running the Fusion Log Viewer as Administrator (else it silently fails) to log binding failures.

A: I have figured it out. the problem is how the assemblies are referenced, and how the GetType method figures out what assembly goes where. I ended up solving this issue with the Assembly Resolver anonymous delegates for GetType:
    result = Type.GetType(typeName + ",mscorlib", //<-- needing to identify the mscorlib  for generics!
        //this anonymous delegate method is used by the GetType Framework to identify and return the correct assembly for the given assembly name.
        //most of this is default, except to handle the mscorlib library
        delegate(AssemblyName potentialAssembly)
        {
            if (potentialAssembly.Name == coreLibAssembly.FullName)
                return coreLibAssembly; // this was never called, I had to check the namespace within the rest of my code
            else if (potentialAssembly != null)
                return Assembly.Load(potentialAssembly);
            else
                return null;
        },
        //this anonymous delegate is used to return the type specific to the assembly. this method is called for each nested generic,
        //so we don't have to parse the type string name by hand.
        delegate(Assembly potentialAssembly, string inputTypeName, bool ignoreCase)
        {
            if (inputTypeName.StartsWith("CoreLib.Domain"))
                return coreLibAssembly.GetType(inputTypeName, true, ignoreCase);
            else if (potentialAssembly != null)
                return potentialAssembly.GetType(inputTypeName, true, ignoreCase);
            else
                return Type.GetType(inputTypeName, true, ignoreCase);
        }, true);

now, if the generic Type.GetType(string typeName) doesn't work, I use this code to parse through the type string, and match assemblies to their corresponding type names within the given typeName string variable.


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Q: LinqtoExcel trouble reading Dates I have a CSV where one of two of the columns are dates, "Due Date" and "Review Date" and both have the format dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm
In my row to use for LinqToExcel these two columns are:
[ExcelColumn("Due Date")]
public DateTime DueDate { get; set; }

[ExcelColumn("Review Date")]
public DateTime ReviewDate { get; set; }

Main problem is these are MinValue despite all rows in the CSV having a value. I thought maybe it's to do with how it parses the date, so even importing it as a string it come through as null.
I've encountered this problem before and in the past I've just renamed the column... don't know why it solved it but it did, but this time I'm stumped. I can't get it to read the date at all.
How do I get it to read in the date?
Current code to read it in
var csv = new ExcelQueryFactory(folderPath);
var addressSheet = csv.Worksheet<AddressDto>();
var data = addressSheet.ToList();

I don't need to specify a sheet name for a CSV file.


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Jeffco Board of Education to decide on use of shuttered school buildings
The future use of the 16 elementary school buildings being closed is still to be decided
Andrew Fraieli
afraieli@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Sixteen elementary schools will be closing after this school year due to a vote by the Jefferson County Board of Education in November. With their closing, the future use of the school buildings is called into question.
JeffCo Public Schools signage at the district offices.
By Rylee Dunn
Posted Monday, January 23, 2023 10:05 am
Included in that November vote was a resolution from the Board to create a community-involved process for giving recommendations on decisions involving the use of these buildings, according to Chief of Strategy and Communications for the District Lisa Relou. Part of that process is creating an advisory committee that includes District staff as well as additional specific ad hoc members based on the location of the building being considered, Relou said in a Board study session earlier this month.
According to Relou, there will be a "step-by-step process including value assessment, engagement with local municipalities and special districts, proposal collection, legal review and community engagement, all in an effort to make the best determination possible as to the future of the property."
The Board is the only body capable of declaring a building to be surplus, and therefore able to be sold by the District. Usage proposals from outside organizations are expected, and the committee — which will be decided upon by Feb. 1 — will draft a rubric to guide decision-making on these proposals by Feb. 21.
"This first process, we have this property, we've talked with the city, and now we're going to have a public information session," Relou said. "We might have an open house where it's open most of the day where people can come in and see the property, and then we host a meeting where we give more information. And when we really open this, we're going to collect the intent to propose — just getting a sense of what people might want to do in these buildings."
The next step after creating a rubric for these proposals will be March 1, when the Board studies the first round of properties that might be considered as surplus. Next would be March 9, when the Board votes on that round of properties.
"We're in the process of scheduling, reaching out to all our option schools to see what their needs are or desires might be, so that we are certain that we wouldn't push things through the surplus process without first understanding if those particular things are of interest to our internal folks," Relou said.
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Value of cycling lanes in the eye of the beholder
Sport | Architecture
Despite a growing body of research that shows the addition of cycling lanes in a neighbourhood positively correlates with increases in residential property values, the public perception of this value varies dramatically by neighbourhood type.
The study was conducted by Emma McDougall and Brian Doucet of the University of Waterloo's School of Planning. It was part of a larger research project co-led by Doucet, and Dawn Parker and was funded in part by the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge and the Region of Waterloo.
McDougall and Doucet interviewed real estate agents and developers in three adjacent mid-size cities-Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo. By analysing the knowledge, perceptions, and experiences of those on the front lines of the housing market, they gained insight into overarching market trends and buyer preferences and how cycling infrastructure and cycling culture is sold and marketed in different types of neighbourhoods.
Their central finding was the stark difference between urban core, and suburban attitudes towards cycling, influenced by lifestyle, buyer demographics and build form.
"Realtors and developers in the dense urban cores are able to market cycling as a means of transportation and for its contribution to a hip urban lifestyle," said McDougall. "This is in opposition to the sprawling suburbs, where incoming buyers prioritize internal amenities - though cycling was seen as a positive for recreation and a healthy lifestyle for some suburbanites."
The researchers argue this study can help planners and policymakers interested in building cycling infrastructure look beyond cycling statistics and explore both the different attitudes towards cycling and mobility and the spatially uneven networks that exist between car-oriented suburbs and the compact urban cores.
"Our analysis of the way in which cycling is positioned in the home buying and home building process in different parts of the city can help interpret the complex and, in some cases, contradictory ways in which cycling is part of a neighbourhood's identity," said McDougall.
The study titled Polarized Paths: 'Selling' Cycling in City and Suburb was recently published in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie.
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A thin thread of viscous fluid falling onto a moving belt generates a surprising variety of patterns depending on the belt speed, fall height, flow rate, and fluid properties.
To understand the rich nonlinear dynamics of this system, we have developed a new numerical code for simulating unsteady viscous threads, based on a discrete description of the geometry and a variational formulation for the viscous stresses.
The code successfully reproduces all major features of the experimental state diagram of Morris et al. (Phys. Rev. E 2008). Fourier analysis of the motion of the thread's contact point with the belt suggests a new classification of the observed patterns, and reveals that the system behaves as a nonlinear oscillator coupling the pendulum modes of the thread.


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An improvement in wages comes with a trade-off.
The U.S. labor market kicked-off the new year with better-than-expected results. Employers added 200,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate remained at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent. While employment growth was strong, the biggest story was the jump in wage growth, which grew 2.9 percent over the last 12-months. This is substantially better than the 2.6 percent growth workers saw for most of 2017, and the highest since June 2009. However, the jump in wage growth is not without trade-offs. With rising wages comes the risk of inflation, which could have a dampening effect on stock prices and force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates faster than expected. This is an issue discussed in our recent Market Snapshot. January's report also showed labor force participation remaining steady and 62.7 percent and underemployment rising by one-tenth of a percent to 8.2 percent.
Economists and officials at the Federal Reserve have been puzzled by the lack of wage growth given the strong pace of hiring and low unemployment rate. That time may be over. Wages in January grew at 2.9 percent over the last year, and December's wage growth was revised up from 2.5 percent to 2.7 percent. This positive move likely means that the tight labor market is forcing employers to pay more for qualified workers. This is a trend worth watching, as rising wages could stoke inflation growth and lead the Fed to increase interest rates at a faster pace. Improvement in wage growth comes at a good time as consumers look to continue spending and savings rates are near all-time lows.
The labor market added 200,000 jobs in January, more than the 175,000 that economists were predicting. This is marks the 88th straight month that the U.S. has seen job gains, and is a positive sign that employers see a robust economy. The unemployment rate stayed level at 4.1 percent in January, while the underemployment rate rose slightly from 8.1 percent to 8.2 percent. One area for concern, is that given the low unemployment rate and fast pace of hiring, more industries will begin to experience labor shortages. This could become particularly acute in industries like construction.
Jerome Powell will take over the reigns as Fed Chairman on February 3rd, replacing Chairwoman Janet Yellen. Powell has historically shared similar policy views as Yellen, and will likely attempt to stay the course. However, his chairmanship comes at a difficult time, with the specter of inflation on the horizon and a policy path of rising interest rates. With wage growth improving and signs of inflation showing up in the economic data, Powell may need to raise rates faster than anticipated. This will be a difficult test earlier in his tenure, as raising rates could hurt stock valuations and make him politically unpopular.
The education and health services sector experienced the largest employment increase over the past month of 38,000. Health care made up 21,000 of those jobs.
Construction sector employment continued to improve as 36,000 jobs were added in January. This is 3,000 more jobs than were created in December, and the sixth straight month of job gains for the sector.
Employment in the leisure and hospitality industry rose 35,000 from December, with 31,000 of those jobs coming in food services and drinking places.
The manufacturing sector, which had a turnaround year in 2017, continued to add jobs, growing employment by 15,000 jobs in January.
The Bottom Line – The U.S. labor market remains on a steady track and looks to continue its growth into the foreseeable future. While economic growth remains strong, rising interest rates, labor shortages, and inflation growth may prove to be headwinds in 2018. With Jerome Powell set to take over the Fed chairmanship on February 3rd, it is clear that he is inheriting a more volatile economic situation than was the case in 2017. With three quarter-point interest rate increases anticipated for this year, it will be up to the Fed to decide how it wants to handle the potential threat of rapidly rising inflation. If wage growth continues to improve and inflation picks up, the Fed will be left to consider the trade-offs between adding more interest rate hikes and potentially harming the stock rally, or leaving the current rate path unchanged and risk runaway inflation. Neither choice is popular.


To the right is a house under attack by subterranean termites. Termites have been attacking this house from some time. This is a job for Isopthor.
The first step of using Isopthor is to install In-ground Stations around the building at points near where termites are likely to be foraging in the ground for food. The Stations contain non-toxic food preferred by termites. This food is called Interceptors.
Above-ground Stations are used only when a point of termite attack in the building can be located. Bait is placed in the Station when it is installed. After the termite colony is eliminated. Above-ground stations are removed.
The Isopthor Station is designed to both speed the process of termites finding the Station and to increase the percentage of installed Stations at which termites are intercepted.
This is made possible because of the arrangement of the Interceptors in the Station and the high preference termites have for the wood used to form the Interceptors.
...so it's time to put Isopthor to work.
To the right we see the Station after it has been filled with Isopthor Termite Bait. The Interceptors have been omitted in this view but are actually still in place.
The termites were feeding on the Interceptors but have now switched to feeding on the Isopthor Termite Bait.
The termites made this switch because they prefer to eat Isopthor Termite Bait even more than they prefer to consume the Intereceptors. This is because Isopthor Termite Bait is designed ti be highly preferred by termites.
Termites can't resist Isopthor which leads to the colony's quick demise.
Here we see both Stations have been located by termites. The Stations have been replenished with Isopthor Termite Bait several times.
Isopthor has severely affected the termite colony. The best evidence of this is the small number of termites left feeding. These few remaining termites have been severely affected and are in no shape to cause much more damage to the building.
Soon these few termites will be gone as Isopthor succeeds in completely eliminating the colony and stopping further damage to the building.
Above-ground stations are then removed...but In-ground stations stay at work.


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Jennifer Aniston is joined by Steve Carell on the set of their Untitled Morning Show Series to film some evening scenes on Sunday (March 24) in Los Angeles.
The pair were surrounded by cast and crew members as they waited to film a news report scene on location.
Jennifer has been very busy on set lately! She just was seen filming reshoots for her new Netflix movie, Murder Mystery, with Adam Sandler.
Nice to see new pics of Jen. Can't wait to watch this show.


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Westminster could get £8m bill for blocking Oxford St pedestrian plan, Sadiq Khans office warns
Westminster council could be ordered to repay the £8 million of public funds wasted on plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street, Mayor Sadiq Khan's aides have warned.
Transport for London chiefs are angry at the way the Tory-run council blocked the part-pedestrianisation of the UK's main shopping street last month.
TfL and Westminster had worked together on a scheme that would have closed Oxford Street to traffic between Orchard Street — the western end of Selfridges — and Oxford Circus.
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The aim was to improve the traffic and pedestrian-clogged environment in advance of the opening of Crossrail on December 9, which is due to deliver thousands more visitors.
Sadiq Khan's plan to make Oxford Street traffic-free halted by council
Val Shawcross, Mr Khan's former deputy mayor for transport, said the failure to remove buses and taxis from Oxford Street would worsen its poor safety record. She said the decision "undermined" the Mayor's Vision Zero policy of eliminating road deaths and serious injuries in London by 2041.
Ms Shawcross told the TfL board: "It's a very shocking decision. It's a blow to the global image of London and the retail sector. It's a very poor safety area for pedestrians now." Mr Khan is expected to hold crisis talks with Westminster leader Nickie Aiken next month.
Sadiq Khan's aides have hit out at the block (PA)
The council's decision came on the day that House of Fraser revealed it was closing its flagship Oxford Street store. TfL commissioner Mike Brown said it was unprecedented for a major retailer to desert the area, "bringing into sharp relief" the need for radical improvements. TfL said if a safety scheme to be proposed by the council to tackle the impact of Crossrail was not up to scratch, moves would be made to recover the £8 million. TfL has also refused to fund the council's £400,000 safety study.
Westminster believes wider improvements are needed between Marble Arch and Tottenham Court Road, and north and south of Oxford Street.
Councillor Richard Beddoe said: "We are pleased the Mayor seems to have accepted our suggestion for a meeting. Our scheme will respond to safety issues related to the Elizabeth line opening and turn the area into a global, iconic destination."