Hidden in the midst of obscure, difficult, and often times harsh prophecies from Hosea is one of, if not the most, glorious chapters in all of Scripture. In fact, a chapter so majestic, James Montgomery Boice referred to it as "The Greatest Chapter in the Bible." If that's even close to being true, then it deserves our attention. Hosea chapter 3 is cited below. May our hearts be inclined to read God's Word in such a way that our affections are stirred more for Him with every word that passes under our eyes.
On a surface reading it may be difficult to see this chapter living up to the hype that Dr. Boice has placed on it. In fact, it may be difficult to see anything at all beyond some archaic references and analogies to Hosea and his wife Gomer. Unpacking this passage verse by verse will reveal not only that there is more here than meets the eye, but the glory of the Gospel, indeed the gloriousness of Christ Himself.
The context for Hosea 3 is supplied rather obviously from Chapters 1-2 where the Lord has threatened and prophesied judgment against the Northern Kingdom of Israel. By way of analogy from His own relationship with Israel, God has commanded His prophet Hosea to take for himself a wife of whoredom and to have children of whoredom with her. Throughout this prophecy we find an interweaving of this analogy of Hosea/Gomer with Yahweh/Israel, as God declares that He will strip Israel bare of her adulteries (prostituting herself with other nations and developing a syncretistic religion with Baal). The threatening's bring to mind the Exodus and Wilderness Generation where God chastened, sustained, and prepared Israel for entrance into the Promised Land leaving the audience of Hosea in anticipation of a Second Exodus. The latter half of chapter 2 offers the hope of a New Covenant to reverse the curses that God would levy on the nation, land, and even animals. It is upon this foundation that chapter 3 begins with an optimistic note of redemption.
On this occasion, the Lord is speaking directly to Hosea which echoes the beginning of the book in Hosea 1:2. His directive for Hosea to "love a woman" generically suggests that Gomer has not warranted either mention of her name or mention of her title as a wife. In fact, all that she was has been forfeited. The analogy is carried through to the LORD's love for the "children of Israel". It is curious that up to this point in Hosea a distinction has been made between Israel and her children, though the point need not be pressed home to feel the weight of this passage.
It's necessary to note that the love was not reciprocated. In fact, God's love was extended to Israel despite her idolatry and worship of other gods. This is our first point of association with the Gospel. As we read in 1 John, we love because He loved us first. 1 Jn 4:19 Similarly the driving force beyond God's sending of His own Son was His love. Jn 3:16 The picture being painted through the brush strokes of Hosea 3:1 is that God has an unconditional love for His people. The basis for all that comes afterward is the love of God. The motivation for taking an unfaithful bride to Himself is His own love for her.
2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
In verse 2, we see further action on the part of Hosea in completing the command of retrieval given to him by God, specifically through the act of redemption. While the details are left out, the implication seems to be that Gomer had found her way into slavery and was now on the auction block. Whether this was due to outstanding debt or whether she was part of temple slavery prostitution we are not told. The picture, however, remains the same. She is being purchased by her bridegroom. Some commentators have posited that when a slave was sold on the auction block, they were stripped naked and left ashamed in front of their bidders. While we may not know this detail for sure, it would seem to correspond nicely with the threats given in chapter 2, "lest I strip her naked", "make her as in the day she was born", "make her like a wilderness", "make her like a parched land".
Additionally, the Mosaic amount charged for redemption from slavery was 30 pieces of silver (Ex. 21:32; Lev. 27:4). Here we see Hosea offering 15 pieces of silver and some low quality food. The settlement on 15 shekels gives an indication of the low-worth or the perceived value into which she had now descended. The word "bought" used here indicates a haggling or bargaining on Hosea's part, or what we might call negotiating the price that he would pay. As the purchase process goes, the homer and a lethech of barley may have been intended for use to support Gomer. In other words, already stripped naked of her clothing, jewels, and makeup with which she had once adorned herself to attract her lovers and now stripped of any delicacies in which she indulged from her income, she is now left with nothing but "black bread" and a paltry amount of money to sustain her. Calvin comments, "the parsimonious gift, a sum of money which was but half the price of a female slave, and a pittance of black barley bread, typified the hard fare which the Israelites were to expect at the hand of God in their state of exile." The scene is reminiscent of the aforementioned Wilderness Generation that was led through the desert, stripped bare of the rich foods from Egypt which had become the expectation of their palates, and were left to rely on the providential hand of God for lowly manna and water.
Here we have Gomer on the auction block as it were, stripped naked and bare, ashamed before all those men with whom she had previous relations who now do not want to pay for her, but instead revile her. She is simply reaping the wages of her sin. Sins resultant destitution is not limited to Gomer or Israel, but is universal in its spoiling of all mankind. The wages of sin is death; it's what it requires and what it pays. It cannot pony up 15 pieces of silver or even worthless bread. Sin always promises what it is powerless to deliver. Only one man is left to redeem her, Hosea, her original husband.
Dear Christian if this isn't a beautiful picture of God's redeeming love and the price that He paid, much more than 15 pieces of silver, rather the infinite worth of His Son's shed blood, then there is nothing more that may move our hearts to worship. The Lord Jesus redeemed His bride with His own precious blood. There was no merit in her, nor did any of her adulterers show up with a competing bid. Far from being a trivial amount, it was of infinite worth so that she might realize her own value is not found in herself, but in Him alone to the extent that she might say with all affection of a heart overjoyed with gratitude, My Beloved.
Sweeping color now across the canvas of our Gospel portrait we arrive at verse 3 and read of Hosea's stipulations to his humbled bride. First, we may note the possessive language by which he addresses her and then the time period of "many days" given. By way of analogy, this applies well to God's faithless bride Israel. During this extended period, Hosea instructs her that she will definitively no longer participate in whoredom or have intimate relations with any man, including himself. This deprivation of her most distorted desires are for her purification. This is the hedging-in period toward which God had alluded in Hosea 2:6. She has been publically purchased, will come into possession of Hosea, and will no longer participate in her wanton behaviors. Not only would their marital bed be undefiled, but their marital bed would remain abandoned for an extended time.
Christ redeemed His bride at the cross through the shedding of His blood in the marital (New) Covenant that He now mediates. She has been betrothed to Him, yet she is undergoing the time of her purification until He returns for His bride and consummates their relationship with the celebration of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Of the New Covenant promises, one is purification through the "sprinkling of water" (Ezek. 36:25) a picture that recalls the ceremonial cleansing of Levitical law (Lev. 17:15-16; 22:6; Num. 19;19-21). The symbolic act of Hosea withholding marital relations from Gomer for the purpose of purification would seem to correspond with this anticipated action by God toward His own bride.
4 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.
As this chapter develops even further we find a transition out of the analogy with Hosea and Gomer towards a clearer picture of God's relationship with Israel. This verse begins with the second address concerning the "children of Israel" which again appears in contradistinction with "Israel". Nevertheless, the promise is that the children will be absent king or prince, sacrifice or pillar, ephod or household gods. These accoutrements seem to have a national flavor lending itself to the idea that very gifts that God had bestowed to the nation Israel originally, established under the dynasty of David and now abused and drowned in syncretism by the rogue Northern Kingdom, would be entirely stripped from her. The indication of "household gods" punctuates the negative connotation that this list carries.
The natural, sinful condition of man's heart always inclines him to distort the good desires and gifts that God has bestowed upon him or her through His grace. It was no different in Israel's day through the rampant wickedness that ruled on the throne to the idolatries that the priests led the people into, to the unholy sacrifices offered on the altars. From the public worship to the private closet, the idolatries of the heart were Israel's undoing and theirs is a picture not too unfamiliar from our own. Thanks be to God that He has not only sprinkled His bride with clean water, but that through our purification He has removed all our idols. The prophet Ezekiel makes this connection through his own unfolding of the gospel covenant, "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you." Ezek. 36:25 Hosea 3:4 is nothing less than this promise by God to remove the idols from the heart of His own bride. It would not be sufficient to be washed clean if the tub of mud remained within her reach.
Our third mention of the children of Israel in this passage comports well with Hosea's development of a recurring series of three's throughout the opening chapters of his prophecy (see VERSES 3:4) and introduces the first indications of positive actions that they will accomplish through the sovereign grace of God. First we see a return to the Lord. A return, or turning, involves a change in disposition or what we call repentance. It is forsaking the path that one was on and essentially turning in the opposite direction.
Secondly, we see the children of Israel will seek the Lord. Seeking carries with it the idea of acting on one's desire. Scripture is replete with verses that indicate God will be found when He is sought with the whole heart. Like the merchant in search of fine pearls who gives himself over completely for the Pearl of Great Price, so too will the children of Israel seek the Lord their God and David their King. This necessarily implies a change of heart from one that was seeking idols under every green tree and every public square to one that now seeks the Lord God. Given the removal of idols and subsequent desires for them, those desires are supplanted with fresh desires to seek after God. Notice now the reciprocal possession, this time of the bride for the bridegroom, "their God" indicating a complete reversal of Baalism that was rampant in Israel.
Thirdly, they "shall come in fear of the Lord and his goodness". This is a striking statement and few commenters offer thoughts on this phrase, so I shall tread lightly. We may ask, why would they return in fear of the Lord AND His goodness? It's possible that what is being conveyed here is the transition from fearing God as Holy Judge towards fearing God has Holy Father, or to keep the metaphor alive, as a Holy Husband. The difference is significant. The former fears the wrath of God hovering over them with pending judgment. The latter stands in awe and reverence of God who with compassion and tenderness has redeemed for Himself a people. What is described here is nothing short of an increased knowledge of God at an intimate level not previously known or experienced.
In this verse, placed in terms that are easily understood, is the fruit of a regenerate heart that repents, seeks, and fears the Lord God and it is the direct product of the chastisement that they have undergone. Dear Christians, what a profound and beautiful picture of the Gospel. That the Lord God should be so inclined through His love and mercy to redeem a people for Himself, giving them hearts to seek after Him. How can it be that He would condescend to save those who rebelled against Him? How can it be that He would give His Son for an idolatrous and sinful people? Surely He would have been just to destroy mankind once and for all. Yet for His own glory He has saved some, as in the day of Noah.
Two phrases remain to be addressed, namely the presence of "David their king" and the time period given, "in the latter days". Each phrase has historically carried with it some interpretive difficulties. The mention of a king here is a reversal of verse 4, "children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince" and brings to completion the chastisement that they were to undergo. This implies either 1) A resurrection of King David along with the anticipation of a return to former glory or 2) The expectation of a Greater David and the hope of a greater glory.
The fulfillment of this promise seems more likely with the latter option in the person of Jesus Christ who is in Himself the fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant. Simply stated, Hosea 3:5 is a prophecy concerning the Messianic arrival, coronation, and ascension of King Jesus at which time He will draw all His people to Himself. Held together with the phrase "latter days" we arrive at the prophetic perspective common among Old Testament prophets who so often express the unfolding plan of God as though it were a single event. Thus the expectation of 1st Century Palestine for a Messianic King that would restore the Kingdom of Israel, not a Suffering Servant dying at the hands of sinful men for the purpose of redeeming a people from every tribe, tongue, and nation. While the Prophet does not give a clear indication of when these events may occur, the progressive revelation of God inclines one to see the inauguration of this at Christ's First Advent and the expected consummation at Christ's Second Advent. It is this interadvental period that the King-Preist, Jesus Christ, is both ruling and reigning drawing a people to Himself.
Seemingly, Dr. Boice was not far off when he declared this to be the greatest chapter in Scripture and it's not found in the Gospels, the Epistles, or even the New Testament. But it's found in an oft-overlooked, dusty, neglected book of the Old Testament. Surely, our Lord was right when He declared to His apostles that all things written in the Law, Prophets, and Psalms were testifying of Him (Luke 24).
We were bought with a price. Worthless, yet purchased with the precious blood of Christ. We were purified and made ready for our Bridegroom and we now wait with baited breath for His return.
May our hearts be more inclined toward Christ after meditating on this passage and may our biblical reading and understanding be broadened to include not only the New Testament, but the Old as well such that our minds would be opened to see the gloriousness of the Gospel in the latter and the majesty of God in the fulfillment of all that He promised through His Son in the former.
Our Lord forewarned us that false Christs would come. Mostly we think of these as coming from the outside–but we should remember that they may also arise within the church itself.
We must be extremely careful that the Christ we profess to follow, is indeed the very Christ of Scripture. There is always danger that we may be following a Christ who is not the true Christ–but one conjured up by our imagination and made in our own image.
I confess to a feeling of uneasiness about this when I observe the questionable things Christ is said to do for people these days. He is often recommended as a wonderfully obliging, but not too discriminating, Big Brother–who delights to help us to accomplish our ends, and who further favors us by forbearing to ask any embarrassing questions about the moral and spiritual qualities of those ends.
Within the past few years, Christ has been popularized by some so-called evangelicals as one who, if a proper amount of prayer were made–would help the pious prize fighter to knock another fighter unconscious in the ring.
Christ is also said to help the big league pitcher to get the proper hook on his curve.
In another instance He assists an athlete to win the high jump; and in another case, not only to come in first in a track meet–but to set a new record in the bargain.
He is said also to have helped a praying businessman to beat out a competitor in a deal. He is even thought to lend support to a praying movie actress while she plays a role so lewd as to bring the blood to the face of a professional prostitute!
Thus our Lord becomes the Christ of utility–a kind of Aladdin's lamp to do minor miracles in behalf of anyone who summons Him to do his bidding.
Apparently no one stops to consider that if Christ were to step into a prize ring and use His divine power to help one prize fighter to paralyze another–that He would be putting one fighter at a cruel disadvantage and violating every common instinct of fair play. If He were to aid one businessman to the detriment of another, He would be practicing favoritism and revealing a character wholly unlike the Bible picture of the real Christ. All this is too horrible to contemplate.
Theirs is a Christ of carnal convenience–not too far removed from the gods of paganism.
The whole purpose of God in redemption is to make us holy and to restore us to the image of Christ. To accomplish this, He disengages us from earthly ambitions and draws us away from the cheap and unworthy prizes that worldly men set their hearts upon. A holy man would not dream of asking God to help him beat an opponent, or win over a competitor. No man in whom the Spirit dwells, could bring himself to ask the Lord to help him knock another man unconscious, for filthy lucre or the plaudits of the vulgar spectators.
To teach that Christ will use His sacred power to further our worldly interests, is to wrong our Lord and injure our own souls.
We modern evangelicals need to learn the truths of the sovereignty of God and the lordship of Christ. Christ will not be manipulated by any of Adam's selfish brood! We had better learn these things fast if this generation of young Christians is to be spared the supreme tragedy of following a Christ who is merely a Christ of convenience–and not the true Lord of glory after all!


Conservationists who want the government to take action on climate change by protecting British Columbia's old-growth forests say they've measured a near-record-size red cedar in the central Walbran Valley.
The Ancient Forest Alliance said the tree that it calls the Tolkien Giant is the ninth-widest western red cedar in the province, according to a list compiled by the University of B.C.'s forestry faculty.
It said the tree has a circumference of 14.4 metres, or 47 feet, stands 42 metres high and lies within a protected reserve.
However, logging is proposed for an area 200 metres away that includes another huge tree the alliance calls the Karst Giant, executive director Ken Wu said Friday.
"It's a tenuous protection, it's not legislated and it's a regulatory protection that can change," he said of the narrow forest reserve around the Tolkien.
"Outside the central Walbran the rest of the upper Walbran is tattered like Swiss cheese. So it means that the little remnants of old-growth are surrounded by clearcuts.
Wu said the old-growth temperate rainforest on Vancouver Island stores more carbon per hectare than tropical rainforests.
He said that when massive trees are logged they stop absorbing huge amounts of carbon and the province's current measures to protect old-growth forests don't go far enough.
While the lower Walbran Valley is protected, the central and upper Walbran are not, Wu said.
The Ministry of Forests said 25-million hectares of forests in the province are old-growth and that 4.5 million are protected.
The province has approved one of eight cut blocks for the Walbran.
Wilderness Committee spokesman Joe Foy said lawyers have negotiated a court agreement with the Teal Jones Group that allows its members to witness the forestry company's logging activities in the central Walbran.
Foy said a B.C. Supreme Court judge narrowed an injunction Thursday that erroneously named the Wilderness Committee as the organizers of a blockade protesting logging of old-growth forest in the Walbran Valley.
He said the injunction unfairly restricted members and the public from photographing or taking video of forestry work, but that is no longer the case.


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Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =13 TeV
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A search for the Higgs boson decaying to two oppositely charged muons is presented using data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. Data are found to be compatible with the predicted background. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09 GeV, the 95% confidence level observed (background-only expected) upper limit on the production cross section times the branching fraction to a pair of muons is found to be 3.0 (2.5) times the standard model expectation. In combination with data recorded at center-of-mass energies s=7 and 8 TeV, the background-only expected upper limit improves to 2.2 times the standard model value with a standard model expected significance of 1.0 standard deviation. The corresponding observed upper limit is 2.9 with an observed significance of 0.9 standard deviation. This corresponds to an observed upper limit on the standard model Higgs boson branching fraction to muons of 6.4×10-4 and to an observed signal strength of 1.0±1.0(stat)±0.1(syst).
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The Vasa Museum, Stockholm
Click here to view the website of the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
It is a great example of how sheer hard work and determination can salvage a historical treasure and bring it back to life as a magnificent reminder of the heritage and identity of a place.
The Vasa is the world's only surviving 17th-century ship and one of the foremost tourist sights in the world. The ship is displayed in a purpose-built museum in Stockholm.
The comment about the Vasa is indeed a very valid one because she has been preserved under cover. I am not sure if you intend to berth the City of Adelaide inside one of the sheds at Sunderland or indeed if there are sheds large enough. I think I saw a picture of Manxman in a large shed.
The reason for mentioning this is that unless (as I have always hoped) you send the rebuilt ship to sea, you will need to preserve her in the best manner and that is under cover. She can be restored and rigged and be very impressive but the thing to guard against is falling between the conflicting possibilities represented by an
iconic presentation, which the Cutty Sark will be when finished, and an appropriately protected testament to the origins of build and fabric. If she is not to sail I would think the best thing is to adopt a stance in favour of preservation and develop a philosophy at an early stage so as to guard against the siren calls of funders for exciting presentation. Otherwise it becomes difficult to maintain a ship as she needs to be when in the open (ie with regular constant work) when she is also valued as an archaeological artefact.
Richard Titchener
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The City of Adelaide at 144 years old is the oldest of only three composite constructed (iron and teak) clipper ships to survive anywhere in the world. Some experts say she is in fact more important to our maritime history than the Cutty Sark- and five years older. The National Historic Ships committee included the City of Adelaide in the core collection list of nationally significant vessels in the UK. In fact the NHS have placed her in the top ten alongside other vessels such as HMS Victory, SS Great Britain and the Cutty Sark.
SCARF has set up a Community Interest Company (SD SCARF CIC) to enable it to raise funds and pledges for the return of the vessel to where she will be cared for by the enthusiastic and passionate people of Sunderland.
The clock is ticking and we need your support to save this important piece of Sunderland's heritage from being 'scientifically dismantled' and bring her back to her rightful home on the River Wear, where she was born.
Please spread to word of this project and keep visiting this blog for the latest news on the project.
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Thankyou for your support!


If Your Name is Misspelled on Your Airline Ticket You Can't Be Tracked – Passports Not Important?
From Senator Lindsey Graham, ridiculous news that the FBI didn't know about Tamerlan's trip to Russia because the airline misspelled his name? What about his passport? He surely had one as Tamerlan Tsarnaev is a permanent U.S. citizen via a Green Card. Do we not check who is coming in and out of the U.S. via stamped passports? If not, why require one?
I cannot travel inside the U.S. without giving the airline the exact name on my passport and that name is checked with my ticket using my passport and/or driver's license when I get to the ticket counter.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) is asking if Tamerlan traveled under an alias? Senator Lindsey Graham thinks the FBI did a swell job after Russia asked them to check-into Tamerlan. He blames Russia for not responding back when the FBI asked if they had additional information, sometime back in 2010 or 2011. Well, what about the report that Russia once again, after Tamerlan returned to the U.S. in mid-2012, asked the U.S. to investigate because Tamerlan met with Islamic militants at least 6 times while in Russia, Dagestan or Checknya? What about that? What about Russia saying the FBI did not respond in any way after the second request.
Well, Maggie, we wouldn't want to look to close at a Muslim. That might be construed as profiling. But, we do make the elderly take off their diapers at airport security. Do you feel safer?
Jim at Asylum Watch, that's a terrible truth.
I'd like to know how the hell these people were given political asylum and yet returned to the area on visits so much. What were they trying to escape, if they returned there so much? Both the Father and Mother appear to be living there [for how long, I don't know] right now. The oldest son returned there.
Our Intel Agencies get tipped off by the Russians to check this guy out. They interview him and give him a pass. By what means was he supporting himself and his wife and child? Able to pay for trips back home…..how? No investigation about any internet tracking or posts?
After spending trillions of dollars on security and intelligence improvements since September 2001, all that it takes to elude the system is to "misspell" your name? Really? As Maggie points out, what about his Passport?
This situation doesn't give me the warm, fuzzy feeling.
Geo, none of it makes sense. I think the parents have been gone for close to years. The Dad is an attorney and could only work as a car mechanic here (mean ole America). I saw him in a video saying he had to go home so that he could pay for Dzho's schooling, and then he outlined everything the U.S. was paying for, including the dorm – but he lived in an apartment, not a dorm.
That's a load of bs. If your name is misspelled you cannot board a plane. They will pull you out of line and question you.
I believe that Tamerlan traveled to Russia on a fake passport. Possibly a fake American passport. That way his name was the same on both documents.
findalis, I think it's BS too but that's their story and Lindsey Graham is helping them spread it around.
Maggie:the older brother did not have a US passport, a green card is only a green card for internal US use; but he would have needed a passport of some kind and a visa to travel to Russia, or else a Russian passport. You can't travel to Russia without a passport, and there are in fact very few countries in the world where an American can go without one. Whatever the case, there would have been a notation of the origin of passport and number, even if the name was written wrong. The FBI story stinks of a cover-up. I don't believe they did a thorough investigation and for sure they didn't continue to surveill him.
More treachery from our government.
Norma, listening to a television conversation this morning I realized he might not have a passport, but he has to have something. He was a permanent legal U.S. citizen. I believe nothing the FBI says now, and it breaks my heart. There is no way they would tell the truth about foreign involvement or U.S. cells, after they dropped two of their own bombs by not doing anything about Tamerlan. We have no way no way to know the truth. I believe they knew him, but this administration would not allow real surveillance, in fact I have an article going up about this. Liars. They are freaking liars, and I am so disappointed in Robert Muller.


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Q: Rails production: No such file or directory - Error opening database in production.log Finally deployed my ruby on rails 3.2 app but when trying to open it from the browser I'm getting a 500 error (production.log gives)
Errno::ENOENT (No such file or directory - Problem opening database)

*

*installed rvm rails 3.2 ruby latest

*working cap deploy with nginx and unicorn

*rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production in production terminal => no errors

My production database.yml ( both tried with and without path to mysql socket, mysqld running fine mysql from terminal i can connect and see all tables in db )
production:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: paintings_production
  pool: 5
  username: paintings
  password: mypass
  socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

A: Since you've confimed your socket file exists:
/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
...but the error message says no such file or directory, you have a permissions problem.
Or perhaps your mysql server isn't configured to use the same socket correctly?
You can find a full mysql/rails unix socket debugging info here: Ruby on Rails 3 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' on OSX

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Q: Is there a way to use AutoMapper's ProjectTo with Entity Framework Core's FromSql? When I call this method of mine
public async Task<List<TEntityDto>> ListFromSqlAsync(FormattableString sql, CancellationToken ct)
{
    var res = await
        Repo.Context.Set<TEntity>().FromSql(sql)
            .IgnoreQueryFilters()
            .AsNoTracking()
            .ProjectTo<TEntityDto>(Mapper.ConfigurationProvider)
            .ToListAsync(ct);
    return res;
}

Like this:
await _queryService.ListFromSqlAsync( $"EXEC chronos.RecentStaffCompanies", cancellationToken);

I get

FromSql' or 'SqlQuery' was called with non-composable SQL and with a
query composing over it. Consider calling 'AsEnumerable' after the
method to perform the composition on the client side.

If I comment out the ProjectTo and map in memory after ToList using Mapper.Map it works
The procedure returns the full object that is DbSet
I hate to have to read the full object to memory to return a subset of the fields. Any way to make this work (DB is SQL Server)
The sproc is
CREATE PROCEDURE chronos.RecentStaffCompanies
AS
    select *
    from chronos.Company c
    where c.CompanyTypeId in (0, 4)
    and c.IsDeleted=0
    and exists(
        select * from chronos.staff s
        join chronos.office o on o.id = s.OfficeId
        where o.CompanyId = c.Id
        and s.IsDeleted=0
        and exists (
            select * from chronos.Journal j where j.StaffId = s.Id and j.IsDeleted = 0 and j.Date >= DATEADD( YEAR, -1, GETUTCDATE() )
        )
    )
    order by c.Name
GO


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My route will pass through the RCoH service area.
Follow me on Strava (link below) to see the full route!
Meet Nora
I'm a runner, running coach, and owner of Team Bird Training. I have always been drawn to running. I played sports throughout high school that involved running, such as basketball, soccer, and track, but wasn't really a runner. I have been running for the past 8 years and have made the leap into Ultra-running.
I grew up in Southwest WI right on the Wisconsin River in a very small town called Muscoda, graduating from Riverdale High School. Granddaughter of Mary Grimm, co-founder of Riverway Communities of Hope.
Nora will run 175 miles
I am running from Kenosha to Dubuque staying on roads totaling 175 miles. I will be attempting this as a straight forward run, which means no lengthy stops. This will be the first FKT (fastest known distance) for that direction (east to west) and that distance on that course.
This run has a two-fold purpose:
To set the FKT and to raise awareness and money for Riverway Communities of Hope. This charity is close to my heart and very personal. My grandmother is a co-founder, and my family has been directly and indirectly affected by the reasons needed for such a charity. I cannot think of a better way to bring awareness that services like these are indeed available and that there are people who are here to help. What better way than to run through the area that this organization helps.


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Q: How to split a PHP loop in 2 parts? I have a weather json from where I get a wether forecast for 8 days. My problem is that I want to show the result in a table of 2 rows of 4 days each.
I managed to do it but in a very odd way that was pure begginer's luck during a trial-error-trial attempt :-) I don't even understand quite well why it is splitting the result in 2 rows... but it works!!! The only thing I could not do was to include a "hr" line between the 2 rows, to make the table easier to read.
You can see the result here http://www.meteocaldas.com/previsao_ds.php
With current code I am displaying each day forecasted values inside the same "td" in different lines using "br". I have been reading that it is not correct to use "br" inside "td" so I am not sure that I am doing the righ thing. Wouldn't it be better to use a table with 4 columns (one for each day) and have different rows for each of the values?
Is there any way to rewrite this code to make it more efficient and look less "childish"? :-) Thanks in advance!
<?php
     (...)
 $decoded = json_decode($rawData, true);
?>

<?php for($k=0;$k<8;$k++){
$dailyvalue = $decoded['daily']['data'][$k];

    $dailyTime = $dailyvalue['time'];
$dailyIcon = $dailyvalue['icon'];
$dailyTempMax = round($dailyvalue['temperatureMax'],0);
$dailyTempMin = round($dailyvalue['temperatureMin'],0);
      (...)
 ?>

<?php echo strftime("%a %d",$dailyTime) ?>

<?php echo '' ?>

<?php echo $dailyTempMin.'º' ?>

 <?php echo $dailyTempMax.'º' ?>

        (...)

 <?php if ($k == 3) {
    echo '
';
  } ?>

 <?php
}
 ?>

A: Why don't you simply stack two different table on each other ?

A: As per your comment-request, here's some sample-pseudo code, based on your code above:
<?php
    (...)
$decoded = json_decode($rawData, true);
for($k=0;$k<8;$k++){
    $dailyvalue = $decoded['daily']['data'][$k];

    $dailyTime[$k] = $dailyvalue['time'];
    $dailyIcon[$k] = $dailyvalue['icon'];
    $dailyTempMax[$k] = round($dailyvalue['temperatureMax'],0);
    $dailyTempMin[$k] = round($dailyvalue['temperatureMin'],0);
}

?>

<?php
echo "
";
for($k = 0; $k <= 3; $k++){
    echo "".strftime("%a %d",$dailyTime[$k])."	"; // this will make the "datetime" row
}
echo "

";
for($k = 0; $k <= 3; $k++){
    echo "	"; // this will make the "icon" row
}
echo "

";
for($k = 0; $k <= 3; $k++){
    echo "".$dailyTempMin[$k]."º	"; // this will make the "MinTemp" row
}
echo "

";
for($k = 0; $k <= 3; $k++){
    echo "".$dailyTempMax[$k]."º	"; // this will make the "MaxTemp" row
}
echo "
";
// put stuff you want between the tables here
echo "
";
for($k = 4; $k <= 7; $k++){
     // proceed to do the same as above

Mind you, there are further ways you can reduce the screen clutter (like moving the table-drawing for loops into a function), but this is the general gist of it


I took an old radio from 1937 and modified it so that it became an iphone dock. Find this pin and more on light it up by wizzbangz. Diy gadgets joel the joule thief homemade gadget ideas and projects for men women teens and kids steampunk inventions how to build easy electronics cool spy gear and do it yourself tech toys.
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Be creative with all that obsolete electronic products around you. Jul 13 2018 ideas of recycled and upcycled electronics waste. It feels so good to make cool stuff.
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An old radio hacked into an iphone dock.


Over the last 15 years, Bob has demonstrated an unbeaten track record as both a President and Chief Financial Officer, managing businesses involved in the Oil and Gas Industry. Before Flow Data, he worked for Synergy Energy out of Dallas, TX (a holding company for Bell Supply, and Catalyst Artificial Lift). Wasson operated as the Chief Financial Officer for the company, which distributes pipe and valve fittings to oilfields. He also worked 14 years with John Crane in various positions.
Bob's motto: The past is to be respected – but it is the future where we'll find our greatness.
Mohamed designs and commissions automation and control systems for O&G exploration, production, transmission, and storage processes. His expertise is recommending and developing control system infrastructure for Midstream and Upstream clients. Mohamed has nearly a decade of experience with instrumentation, automation and control systems, in both onshore and offshore E&P, midstream transmission, processing plants, and refineries. He holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mohamed's motto: For extraordinary results, attitude is as important as ability.
Richard's time with Flow Data dates back to 2008 as an I&E Technician and later as an Application Engineer. A graduate of West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, he's a proud Mountaineer and member of the Flow Data team. In 2010, he took on the role of Region Operations Manager for Flow Data in the Appalachian and now continues to serve customers well from our office in Connellsville, PA.
Zack began his career with Flow Data in 2008 and had established himself as an integral part of the team and a great resource to his clients and colleagues. He served as a Panel Shop Technician, I&E Technician, and in recent years was promoted to Application Engineer and Project Manager. Zack has developed an extensive technical background and knowledge of oil and gas automation for both the upstream and midstream – and serves our customers across the United States.


We've added a new Tools menu to the SinglePoint dashboard that allows agents to calculate pro-rate and short rate cancelations in SinglePoint. From the Tools menu, select Prorate/Short Rate, enter dates, premium, and calculate. Coming soon to this menu: VIN Lookup!
Agents recommended that we make changes to the quote printouts … so we did. The Quote printouts in SinglePoint now display a larger, bolder heading, creating a more legible quote. These little refinements really make a difference. Check them out!
SinglePoint's VIN-to-trim matching algorithm is a huge time saver. A simple RMV lookup on a vehicle can fill in VIN, trim, mileage, and the correct symbols with ease.
But we have heard from you about vehicles that don't always neatly fit the mold. We have been working hard to find the best balance of form and functionality.
SinglePoint will first validate that you have entered the VIN correctly. It will then automatically match it with any available trims in our system. If it is not successful, you can enter year/make/model/trim and calculate symbols by cost new.
Various SinglePoint and carrier rating bug fixes including the mysteriously disappearing dropdown arrow.
For carriers providing multi-Quotes, the sort order for Premiums has been amended from highest rate to lowest rate.
Improved the Date Picker functionality so that the effective date now has arrows forward/back for months and years.
Enabled Lexis Nexis credit retrievals for two insureds during Home quoting for Andover and Norfolk & Dedham.
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Q: App crashes on Android after upgrading to the latest Titanium SDK I was trying to upgrade my application to the latest Titanium SDK (5.2.2). It works fine on iOS but having some issues on Android. The app crashes after changing the SDK version.
The app uses camera, storage and locations. So, added the permissions for that. Here is a part of my tiapp.xml file for the same:
<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <!--CHANGE added package for iBeacon support for android -->
    <manifest android:versionCode="16" android:versionName="2.12" package="me.AppName.app">
        <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" android:targetSdkVersion="23"/>

        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA"/>
        <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera"/>
        <!-- Allows the API to download data from Google Map servers -->
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_GPS"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
        <!-- Allows the API to cache data -->
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
        <!-- Use GPS for device location -->
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
        <!-- Use Wi-Fi or mobile connection for device location -->
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>
        <!-- Allows the API to access Google web-based services -->
        <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES"/>
        <!-- Specify OpenGL ES 2.0 as a requirement -->
        <uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00020000" android:required="true"/>
        <!-- Replace com.domain.appid with your application ID -->
        <uses-permission android:name="me.AppName.app.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"/>
        <!--CHANGE permissions for iBeacon -->
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN"/>
        <!-- * -->
        <permission
            android:name="me.AppName.app.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" android:protectionLevel="signature"/>
        <application android:hardwareAccelerated="true" android:theme="@style/Theme.NoActionBar">
            <activity
                android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
                android:label="@string/app_name"
                android:name=".AppNameActivity"
                android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:theme="@style/Theme.NoActionBar">
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
                </intent-filter>
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
                    <data android:scheme="AppName"/>
                </intent-filter>
            </activity>
            <activity
                android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
                android:name="org.appcelerator.titanium.TiActivity" android:screenOrientation="portrait"/>
            <activity
                android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
                android:name="org.appcelerator.titanium.TiTranslucentActivity"
                android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:theme="@style/Theme.NoActionBar"/>
            <activity android:configChanges="screenSize" android:name="ti.modules.titanium.ui.android.TiPreferencesActivity"/>
            <activity
                android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|screenLayout|screenSize|orientation"
                android:label="AppName"
                android:name="com.facebook.FacebookActivity" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"/>
            <activity android:label="AppName"
                android:name="com.facebook.LoginActivity" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"/>
            <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps"/>
            <meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationId" android:value="@string/app_id"/>
            <meta-data
                android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY" android:value="SomeKey"/>
            <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version"/>
            <!--CHANGE added services for iBeacon support for android -->
            <service android:enabled="true" android:exported="true"
                android:isolatedProcess="false"
                android:label="iBeacon" android:name="com.radiusnetworks.ibeacon.service.IBeaconService"/>
            <service android:enabled="true" android:name="com.radiusnetworks.ibeacon.IBeaconIntentProcessor">
                <meta-data android:name="background" android:value="true"/>
                <intent-filter android:priority="1">
                    <action android:name="me.AppName.app.DID_RANGING"/>
                    <action android:name="me.AppName.app.DID_MONITORING"/>
                </intent-filter>
            </service>
            <!-- * -->
        </application>
    </manifest>
</android>

This is a part of my logcat response:
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.app.Activity.checkSelfPermission, referenced from method org.appcelerator.titanium.util.TiFileHelper2.hasStoragePermission
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 33: Landroid/app/Activity;.checkSelfPermission (Ljava/lang/String;)I
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0017
[WARN] :   V8Object: (KrollRuntimeThread) [196,197] Runtime disposed, cannot set property 'userAgent'
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.app.Activity.checkSelfPermission, referenced from method ti.modules.titanium.media.MediaModule.hasCameraPermission
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 33: Landroid/app/Activity;.checkSelfPermission (Ljava/lang/String;)I
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0012
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.app.Activity.checkSelfPermission, referenced from method ti.modules.titanium.media.MediaModule.hasStoragePermission
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 33: Landroid/app/Activity;.checkSelfPermission (Ljava/lang/String;)I
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0012
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.app.Activity.checkSelfPermission, referenced from method ti.modules.titanium.media.MediaModule.hasCameraPermissions
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 33: Landroid/app/Activity;.checkSelfPermission (Ljava/lang/String;)I
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0012
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.app.Activity.requestPermissions, referenced from method ti.modules.titanium.media.MediaModule.requestCameraPermissions
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 88: Landroid/app/Activity;.requestPermissions ([Ljava/lang/String;I)V
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0037
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.app.Activity.checkSelfPermission, referenced from method ti.modules.titanium.filesystem.FilesystemModule.hasStoragePermissions
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 33: Landroid/app/Activity;.checkSelfPermission (Ljava/lang/String;)I
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0012
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.app.Activity.requestPermissions, referenced from method ti.modules.titanium.filesystem.FilesystemModule.requestStoragePermissions
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 88: Landroid/app/Activity;.requestPermissions ([Ljava/lang/String;I)V
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0025
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Trying to load lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.compression.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Added shared lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.compression.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.compression.so 0x4193fb00, skipping init
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Trying to load lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libcom.liferay.beacons.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Added shared lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libcom.liferay.beacons.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libcom.liferay.beacons.so 0x4193fb00, skipping init
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Trying to load lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.map.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Added shared lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.map.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.map.so 0x4193fb00, skipping init
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Trying to load lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.barcode.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Added shared lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.barcode.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.barcode.so 0x4193fb00, skipping init
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Trying to load lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.styledlabel.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Added shared lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.styledlabel.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libti.styledlabel.so 0x4193fb00, skipping init
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Trying to load lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libfacebook.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Added shared lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libfacebook.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/libfacebook.so 0x4193fb00, skipping init
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Trying to load lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/liborg.iotashan.TiTouchImageView.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: Added shared lib /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/liborg.iotashan.TiTouchImageView.so 0x4193fb00
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/me.AppName.app-2/liborg.iotashan.TiTouchImageView.so 0x4193fb00, skipping init
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to find class referenced in signature (Landroid/view/SearchEvent;)
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.view.Window$Callback.onSearchRequested, referenced from method android.support.v7.internal.view.WindowCallbackWrapper.onSearchRequested
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve interface method 15187: Landroid/view/Window$Callback;.onSearchRequested (Landroid/view/SearchEvent;)Z
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x72 at 0x0002
[INFO] :   dalvikvm: Could not find method android.view.Window$Callback.onWindowStartingActionMode, referenced from method android.support.v7.internal.view.WindowCallbackWrapper.onWindowStartingActionMode
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve interface method 15191: Landroid/view/Window$Callback;.onWindowStartingActionMode (Landroid/view/ActionMode$Callback;I)Landroid/view/ActionMode;
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x72 at 0x0002
[DEBUG] :  dalvikvm: GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 4331K, 32%% free 10408K/15164K, paused 19ms, total 19ms
[DEBUG] :  AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
[WARN] :   dalvikvm: threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x41661d40)

What could be the possible problem here? Can anyone look around?
Thanks!


AC Hotel by Marriott Ciudad de Sevilla is rated 4.2 out of 5 by 317.
Rated 4 out of 5 by BilldelDoral from Buen hotel en area residencial Ver comentario inicial. Seria un poco repetitivo. Quedamos satisfechos. Gracias.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Pepe from Muy bueno Solo indico una deficiencia, los ascensores son ruidosos y bruscos.
Rated 1 out of 5 by Enrique from Cancelación de reserva de booking Cancele la reserva de booking en el plazo de la aplicación, obtuve confirmación de dicha cancelación y sin embargo el hotel me cargo la habitación a mi tarjeta de crédito. Informe del problema llamando personalmente al hotel y la respuesta fue que ellos no tenían conocimiento de dicha cancelación lo cual me resulta del todo inverosimil.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Anonymous from Genial! Mejoraría solamente el aislamiento acústico. Por lo demás, todo de 10.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Anonymous from De viaje familiar Todo muy cómodo aunque en las habitaciones se escuchan a los otros clientes.
Rated 1 out of 5 by GJohnson from Do not go for leisure. I went for my birthday weekend to Seville. The hotel could have been nicer if it was not so delapidated and shabby on the outside, paint peeling off the exterior. There are few staff to attend you, so shout for service at the bar. The pool is on the 3rd floor, along with the gym. Both are too small. Although we requested a large room we were given room 421, a small room, overlooking the tiny pool area. There was damp in the room and the wall paper was perling off. The A/C did not work. The bathroom was clean and the beds comfortable. This hotel is about a 30 minute walk to the centre, but you csn catch the 37 bus which is outside to the right. The hotel is for business and not for leasure.


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Q: What ads to choose if pubcenter is not supported I have developed a xna game. Pubcenter in my country is not supported. I have found a few solutions:

*

*AdRotator : combining some primary ad network with AdDuplex, but what ad network(s) to choose ? What probabilities and etc ?

*Nokia ad exchange : something new on the market, i found nothing about what ecpm could be?
So what is the best option for me ?
Of course it is interesting about how those ad networks are compared to pubcenter by ecpm, fill rates to expect what i can get .


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Q: Javascript Events are not working in Tablet-pc? I have developed a web application in asp.net 3.5. It is consuming lot of javascript/JQuery events and working properly in normal browser in pc, but my client is saying that these are not working in tablet-pc/android and IPad . Like I have a dropdownlist in which I am firing keypress and mouse click events in javascript, and these are perfectly working in normal browsers, I need to be in working form all these in IPads and android tablet-pcs.

A: The click events won't work on the iPad as it is touch screen - click vs touch I guess. Have you considered using JQueryMobile rather than JQuery? I is optimised for touch devices - as it states on the very front page of the site.
Rather than using click it has a whole host of events you can hook into i.e. tap, swipe, taphold etc... It would be easy enough to hook the same function into a click and a tap event i.e.
('myelement').bind('click', function(event){
   myClickFunction();
});

('myelement').bind('tap', function(event){
   myClickFunction();
});

There are possibly (almost certainly) more elegant ways to do this - but that's just a start really.

A: There are touch events for a touch screen device:
touchstart: a finger is placed on a DOM element.
touchmove: a finger is dragged along a DOM element.
touchend: a finger is removed from a DOM element.

Maybe you want to try working with those.  That being said, it is good to use events like change (or onchange inline with the element) for a drop down list because it is will work no matter what changes it (keyboard, mouse event or touch event).
Here is a resource to learn more.

A: You can use a combination and try touchstart instead of tap
('myelement').bind('touchstart click', function(event){
   myClickFunction();
});


Our spacious Workout Area features floor-to-ceiling windows, a stylish interior, TVs, selected background music, special rubber flooring providing comfort and minimizing risk of injury and a fresh and controlled air conditioning temperature to ensure maximum comfort during your workouts.
The Workout Area is fully equiped with Technogym® strength-training and cardio machines, free weights and a wide selection of other fitness equipment such as resistance tubes, BOSU® balance trainers, foam rollers, floor mats and fitballs in order to meet all your training requirements.
In the Cardio Training zone you will find a wide variety of aerobic machines (Treadmills, Ellipticals, SkillMill™, Wave, Vario, Stationary Bikes) to cover all your workout needs.
The area is at all times supervised by a team of Fitness Instructors that are there to provide you with any advice and assistance you might need during your workouts.
Upon becoming a member of Fitness Together, you will undergo a short interview with one of our Fitness Instructors in order to review your Health History, to discuss and set Fitness Goals and to map out a tailor-made exercise program specially designed for you based on your preferences, fitness level and lifestyle.
For a more personalized workout experience, we recommend trying a Personal Training session. With Personal Training, you can workout under the full attention of a dedicated Personal Trainer of your choice. Your Personal Trainer will lead you through tailor-made and varied workouts designed especially to help you achieve your personal health and fitness goals and to encourage and motivate you in order to perform at your best during your workouts.
Our Fitness Instructors can create a tailor-made workout program for you which you can follow during your individual workouts at the Workout Area. The program will be designed based on your current fitness level, your goals and your lifestyle and will be sent to you in a digital form that can be accessed at anytime through your smartphone. This service is offered complimentary to all our Members.


Phil gets an off-world assignment this week and his robot counterpart Kari takes over and she and David discuss HBO's Westworld's latest episode Akane No Mai. Make no mistake, this is Kari's favorite episode to date, filled with more blood and gore and emotion than usual. So many spoilers this week and more! Tune in to the latest!


The joyous time of the holiday season brings with it several factors that can cause stress to become out of control. But there a few simple and all natural ways that work wonders for combating that extra pressure this season!
'Tis the season to be jolly, right? But we've all been there; the stress can be intense! Many times it's as simple as forgetting a Christmas gift and realizing you only have $4 in your bank account. Maybe it's the extra pressure of spending money and wrapping gifts, decorating your home perfectly, attending all the church events in a timely and punctual manner while making sure you didn't forget one thing for the perfect Thanksgiving dinner. I've done that! One year shortly after my husband and I first got married, I realized I had no poultry seasoning for the small turkey we'd just bought. Everything was closed in the teeny rural town where we lived at the time and I had to make due with salt and pepper. To this day, every year, I buy poultry seasoning when I make my holiday dinner shopping trip. We now have 10 (possibly more) unopened jars of the stuff hanging out in our spice cabinet because I'm afraid it'll happen to me again!
But this happens to the best of us. Sometimes it is just too much and we need to de-stress. So here are a few simple and all natural ways to help you combat the stress the holidays can place on us.
Another perfect way to relax is curled up with a piping hot cup of tea, next to a candle or diffuser. Teas have been known to be medicinal and have many wonderful herbs that will calm the mind and soothe away your holiday stress. My mother and I frequent a shop in Ft. Collins, Colorado and admittedly, I spend a lot of money there every time I visit her. But the aromas of the Spice and Tea Exchange are unexplainable. My mind is immediately soothed just walking in the store and being hit with the aroma of teas and spices from around the world. If you know of a similar business in your area, consider going in and asking about teas that will help with relaxation. Oftentimes, chamomile teas offer a calming effect on the mind and coupled with a scented candle, it'll be hard for the holiday stress to not melt away. Peppermint teas and lemon teas also offer soothing and stress relieving flavors and aromas. Or, you could go for the Sleepy Time tea by Celestial Seasonings that even our small rural grocery store stocks.
In addition to herbal teas, taking a stress-reducing supplement like Xivvium For Stress a few weeks prior to the stressful event can help keep high-tension get-togethers running smoothly. What I like about this supplement is it is a broad-spectrum that combines herbs, vitamins, and nutrients such as 5-HTP, St. John's Wort, and Valerian Root to promote stress relief – all the right stuff to help you when you need it the most!
As we breathe in the scents of the oils, our brain is prompted to think positive thoughts, and the scents can stimulate a calming effect. Using essential oils while deeply breathing in through the nose (and smelling the wonderful aroma of the oils) and exhaling fully through the mouth can be one of the most effective ways to destress all naturally, immediately, on your own in the privacy of your own home. In addition to lavender, try diffusing chamomile, ylang-ylang, rose, vetiver, and bergamot to relieve stress.
The simple act of calming the mind's constant chatter can help the human body unwind. Depending on your personal spiritual belief system, you may prefer the term prayer, however, both will have a similar destressing effect on the brain. Prayer and meditation can help you avoid getting too frustrated with the "little things" in daily life and help you look at the "bigger picture." Spirituality (or religion, if you prefer) can also offer much-needed comfort and strength when dealing with stressful situations. Relaxing the mind can help us realize what's important and which things we should let go. Deep breathing while praying or meditating will also help provide oxygen to the brain and keep our body calm as we release the tensions of the day from our body. Breathing deeply will help your body's functions and breathing slow down. Your heart rate and blood pressure will lower, your muscles will relax and release the tension, and even your brain will become less active.
This is a personal favorite of mine. I like diffusing essential oils, and I enjoy my nightly meditation. But there is just nothing like lighting a candle and having the lovely warm glow light up your day. And science has agreed that candles do have a calming effect on the mind. The gentle, mesmerizing quality of their light makes them a perfect aid for any relaxation routine. The low light that comes from a candle is captured by your sight and sent straight to your brain for processing. Because of our associations with candlelight, the body begins to relax both emotionally and physically. You can also take the science of relaxing with candles one step further though; by lighting scented candles proven to transform your mood. Like essential oils, adding in a calming scent to the soothing glow of candlelight will not only have the waxes melting, but stress melting away as well.
This doesn't mean that you have to go on a spending spree and be generous with your bowstring tight budget. But, one of the best ways to stay calm, content, and cheerful this time of year is to act generously with your loved ones, co-workers, and friends and the way you compliment them or help them. Tell your co-worker you love her dress, or make sure to compliment the food your neighbor made for you out of genuine affection. You can also generously offer to do loved ones dreaded errand. If a friend is stressed, offer to give her your soothing candle to try or invite her over for a chat and a cup of your favorite relaxing tea. Helping others will always help you and it will be mentally beneficial for everyone involved. And isn't that really what the holiday season is about anyway?


and down are never the same.
We had ice all day yesterday. Last night I heard rain falling in a loud voice. The Stars were shining brightly, twinkling little fairy lights. I stopped to wonder…how can this be?…even so, the vision of a morning sparkling in the sun struck me as unbelievable.


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Jonesboro är administrativ huvudort i Union County i den amerikanska delstaten Illinois. Den tredje debatten mellan Abraham Lincoln och Stephen A. Douglas ägde rum i Jonesboro den 15 september 1858.

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Q: Compass compile error on Sencha Touch 2.2.1, undefined $font-family value and mixin problems Using this tutorial with Sencha Touch 2.2.1, I'm not able to compile my project because of an undefined $font-family variable:
error application.scss (Line 2 of _Class.scss: Undefined variable: "$font-family".)
Sass::SyntaxError on line ["2"] of
/Users/mac/Sites/apps/MyApp/touch/resources/themes/stylesheets/sencha-
touch/default/src/_Class.scss: Undefined variable: "$font-family".

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
Note: This was a bug in the previous version (Sencha Touch 2.2).
application.scss
  1 $base-color: #7A1E08;
  2 $base-gradient: 'glossy';
  3
  4 @import 'sencha-touch/default/all';
  5
  6  @include sencha-panel;
  7  @include sencha-buttons;
  8  @include sencha-sheet;
  9  @include sencha-picker;
 10  @include sencha-toolbar-forms;
 11  @include sencha-tabs;
 12  @include sencha-toolbar;
 13  @include sencha-carousel;
 14  @include sencha-indexbar;
 15  @include sencha-list;
 16  @include sencha-layout;
 17  @include sencha-form;
 18  @include sencha-loading-spinner;

NOTE: I have Ruby 1.9.3p448 installed.

A: I found how to solve this problem.
looking at the sencha-touch 2.2.1 docs on the Upgrading Themes From Sencha Touch 2.1 to 2.2 stay:

The most important change to be aware of is the move away from using
  mixins for each component.

with that say. They changed the way to include components using @import instead of @include like this:
@import 'sencha-touch/default/src/Panel';

also notice that the docs use @import 'sencha-touch/default/Panel'; but the right way to do it is adding the src/_the_component_ directory e.g. @import 'sencha-touch/default/src/Panel';
I also didn't create a new directory with the config.rb and theme.scss. I just modified the app.scss file that already exists in my_app/resources/sass/app.scss
Then under the sass directory with the terminal I used $ compass compile and finally works.
Here is my code:
# apps.scss
$base-color: #af2584;

@import 'sencha-touch/default';
@import 'sencha-touch/default/all';

@import 'sencha-touch/default/src/Button';
@import 'sencha-touch/default/src/Panel';
@import 'sencha-touch/default/src/Sheet';
@import 'sencha-touch/default/src/MessageBox';
@import 'sencha-touch/default/src/Toolbar';
@import 'sencha-touch/default/src/carousel/Carousel';

A: I ran into the same problem. The solution was to add @import 'sencha-touch/default';.
I also got rid of all the sencha-specific includes, since the "all" covered them, so you would have:
@import 'sencha-touch/default';
@import 'sencha-touch/default/all';


ShutterstockTime your takeoff for Tuesday to save money.
Saving money on airfare is an art.
We've discussed when to book Thanksgiving travel, which destinations get more expensive as you procrastinate, and which US airports have the cheapest flights.
Now, another piece of the puzzle: CheapAir.com analysed over 4 million domestic flights since the beginning of 2014 and found that the cheapest days of the week to fly are Tuesday and Wednesday, presumably because no one wants to go anywhere midweek.
The news isn't shocking. Of course you'll pay more to fly anywhere after business hours on Friday night. But it does quantify the difference: The average low airfare on Tuesdays and Wednesdays is $US373, compared to $US440 on Sundays — a difference of $US67.
Below, take a look at CheapAir's findings.


Bottled water, collapsible water-containment vessels, water purification tablets and filtration straws are absolutely must-have items. The human body can last only about three days without water, so don't even think of neglecting this most important category.
Stock non-perishable foods that don't require cooking. These include canned goods (tape pocket-sized manual can openers to several of the cans), MRE meals and dehydrated or freeze-dried foods. An assortment will cover nearly any situation and offers diverse taste and texture preferences.
You need to stay up to date on all news pertaining to your situation, no matter what it may be. Batteries die, the sun doesn't always shine and the electrical grid will surely be down, so stock a radio powered by elbow grease.
Shelters can get destroyed in minutes and take months to rebuild. Create your own portable shelter with the help of 550 paracord, and protect yourself from the elements with a heavy-duty tarp. Learn to construct various configurations that suit your purpose. If things get bad again, just pack it up and relocate.
Having fire allows you to keep warm, cook or heat your food, purify your water and provide you with a comforting feeling during the aftermath of a disaster. Always carry a durable lighter. They are compact, easy to use and provide enough fuel for hundreds of fires. An alternative is waterproof matches.
This isn't really on most people's radar when thinking of survival supplies, but a USB drive containing all your personal information will make your life much easier when things get back to normal after an emergency or natural disaster. From identification to insurance needs to irreplaceable photos, a USB drive takes up no space but provides so much peace of mind.
A knife is your all-around, go-to tool during survival or emergency situations. Choose one that has full-tang construction (the blade and handle are one solid piece), fits comfortably in your hand and sharpens quickly.
A firearm, knife, baton, pepper spray, baseball bat—anything that will help you protect yourself from someone taking advantage of a bad situation. When times go bad, good people will do anything to survive. Others will use the surrounding chaos and lawlessness to perform criminal acts. Don't let yourself or your family members become victims. Choose a weapon well beforehand, become proficient using it and always keep it near.
Unless you are a lifetime student of survival skills and techniques, you'll need a reference guide. From constructing shelter to water purification, a comprehensive guide provides descriptive details and useful illustrations for a plethora of survival scenarios.
Don't underestimate the importance of your carrying bag. Poorly constructed packs can rip, break or be uncomfortable. Test several before you purchase to assure the best fit as well as easy accessibility while out in the field.
Every survival situation is different. But the bare necessities needed to survive them vary little. Food, water, fire and shelter must be considered first. Then ancillary items including tools and communications/signaling devices should be included. Consider the above group of basics to be your starting point when preparing for nearly any emergency or natural disaster that could come your way.


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Орден Красного Знамени — государственная награда Чехословакии.

История

Орден Красного Знамени был учрежден постановлением № 6/1955 правительства Чехословакии 8 февраля 1955 года, которым изменяется присвоение почетного звания Герой Чехословацкой Республики и основывается Орден Красного Знамени, Орден Красной Звезды, медали «За заслугу в обороне государства» и медали «За службу государству».

Статут ордена позднее был изменен постановление правительства № 44/1955 от 9 сентября 1955 года и № 52/1958 от 20 августа 1958 года.

Положение

Орденом Красного Знамени награждаются военнослужащие чехословацкой Народной армии и воинских частей Министерства внутренних дел ЧССР, проявившие незаурядную храбрость в боях с врагами, а также за выдающуюся деятельность в укреплении вооруженных сил ЧССР и обороноспособности государства.

Описание

Знак ордена — серебряная пятиконечная звезда красной эмали, на которую наложена золотистая пятиконечная звезда меньшего размера. Между лучами большой звезды видны по два листика лавра.

Реверс знака: пятиконечная звезда красной эмали с серебряным медальоном в центре. В медальоне:
 до 1960 года — гербовой коронованный лев Богемии со словацким щитком на груди;
 после 1960 года — герб ЧССР.

При помощи фигурного звена в виде двух липовых ветвей, обвивающих булаву, знак ордена подвешен к орденской ленте.

Орденская лента муаровая красного цвета с полосками тёмно-красного цвета по краям.

 Для повседневного ношения имеется планка, обтянутая орденской лентой с металлическим миниатюрным знаком ордена в центре.

Советские кавалеры ордена
 Ахромеев, Сергей Фёдорович
 Вашурин, Пётр Семёнович
 Плиев, Исса Александрович
 Плохов, Алексей Александрович
 Фомичев, Михаил Георгиевич
 Язов, Дмитрий Тимофеевич
Безбоков, Владимир Михайлович

Награждённые организации
 Военная краснознаменная командная академия противовоздушной обороны имени Маршала Советского Союза Г. К. Жукова 1978

См. также

 :Шаблон:Орден Красного Знамени (ЧССР)

Ссылки

 Order of the Red Banner

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Siemens Awarded Medical Informatics Honor
Oct 14, 2015 | Company News |
Siemens Healthcare Medical Imaging Technology Group and inventors Tommaso Mansi, Ingmar Voigt, Razvan Ioan Ionasec, Bogdan Georgescu, Etienne Assoumou Mengue and Dorin Comaniciu will receive a 2015 Edison Patent Award granted by the Research and Development Council of New Jersey in the medical informatics category for their patent for "Valve Treatment Simulation from Medical Diagnostic Imaging Data." The invention addresses the challenges of quantitative and individualized heart valve therapy planning and guidance by robust modeling of valve anatomy through machine learning and simulating therapies using an individualized computational valve model.
"We are extremely honored to accept this esteemed award," said Dorin Comaniciu, vice president of Medical Imaging Technologies, Siemens Healthcare. "Having this breakthrough technology recognized by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey is extremely rewarding and further validates our leadership position in innovation."
Established in 1962, the Research & Development Council of New Jersey was created to serve as a unified voice for the three R&D sectors —industry, academia and government — to work with the state to create an environment in which R&D could thrive. Since then, the council has been dedicated to cultivating an environment supportive of the advancement of research and development in New Jersey. Over 50 inventors and 12 New Jersey companies and universities will be recognized at this year's event.
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Dave James
3DMark's next benchmark will show how badly your PC's GPU copes with real-time raytracing
Futuremark are introducing a new 3DMark real-time raytracing benchmark later this year to test Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing API on your graphics card. And it is going to give your current-gen hardware a serious kicking.
Check out our pick of the best graphics cards you can buy right now.
The big tech news coming out of the Game Developers Conference this week has been around the advent of real-time raytracing for games. Nvidia and Microsoft have teamed up to bring about this long sought-after feature, with the big M launching the DirectX Raytracing standard and Nvidia doing their classic, GeForce-only, proprietary thing with RTX acceleration for the Nvidia Volta GPU architecture exclusively.
Futuremark have also been working with Microsoft to show the power of their DXR API, even without the hardware acceleration of Nvidia's RTX or AMD's own Radeon Rays tech. Their real-time raytracing tech demo just uses the DirectX 12-based DXR feature, and they have stated that it's been run in real-time using current GPU hardware.
That said, all of the real-time raytracing demos we've seen this week have been run on current GPU hardware, it's just that GPU hardware has been a $3,000 Volta-based Titan V.
Futuremark have reiterated that the DirectX Raytracing features are likely to only be used for effects such as accurate reflections and enhanced shadows to begin with, and traditional rasterization rendering will continue to dominate. But they do point out that modern GPUs are now capable of still carrying out the rasterization workloads while running small amounts of raytracing on the side.
Current GPUs will be able to run the DirectX 12 compute workloads that make up the bulk of the DirectX Raytracing tasks, but how well they'll continue to render is still up for debate. But we'll know by the end of the year as Futuremark are looking to include a DXR-based benchmark in an upcoming 3DMark update.
At the beginning I expect most graphics cards will seriously struggle with the increased demands of raytracing, and it's going to be fascinating watching the technology and the hardware develop towards the day when real-time raytracing is the de facto standard in game rendering.
But even if your current DX12 graphics card can't cope with doing both the raytracing and the rasterization of a game, it may still be worth keeping it around when you upgrade your GPU. Future gaming rigs could have old graphics cards sitting next to new ones, acting purely as AI and compute co-processors.
Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
Microsoft Hololens hands-on
Windows Game Mode preview


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Liberation Deferred?: The Ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists
CAROL LEE BACCHI
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttzjx
Liberation Deferred?
This book offers an intellectual history of the English-speaking Canadian woman's suffrage movement. It argues that the motivations of a great many suffragists were affected by their membership in a social elite that saw the need to regulate society's future and hoped the family would remain the foundation of that future.
Subjects: History, Political Science
(pp. vii-ix)
(pp. x-xi)
[Illustrations]
(pp. xii-2)
Compared to those of other English-speaking, industrialized communities, Canada's suffrage movement started late and success came rather easily. The first suffrage association appeared in Toronto in 1877, disguised as a Women's Literary Society. Between 1877 and 1918 some twenty-two organizations specifically committed to woman suffrage sprang up in cities across the country. The issue never attracted a groundswell of support. At its height in 1914, the movement probably had a total membership of ten thousand men and women, only 0.2 per cent of the adult population at that time. Still, by 1918 all women over twenty-one years of age had...
The Making of a Suffragist
While it is impossible to determine the precise circumstances which made a woman interested in the suffrage issue, clearly the backgrounds of the female suffragists were similar in several ways. Most, almost 60 per cent, worked. All were well-to-do. The majority were well educated. Almost all had some reform connection. Each of these factors could and did encourage women to become politically active.
Among those who worked, some became suffragists because of their anger at discrimination in their pay packets or restrictions on their career ambitions, while the homebound suffragists seem to have been motivated more by their frustration with...
2 Suffrage Organization in Canada: Feminism and Social Reform
The suffrage movement in Canada was launched by women with a strong feminist commitment, frequently the same moving spirits who tried to batter down the sexual barriers constructed to keep women from prestige occupations. These women challenged the sexual division of labour and even suggested that married women had a right to work, a radical innovation in this period. This feminist clique, centred in Toronto, created a network of hard-core activists who provided organizational leadership and who revived interest when the movement lapsed into despondency. Because of the unpopularity of their views, they remained an ideological and numerical minority.
3 The Political Ideas of the Suffragists
Many Canadian suffragists themselves recognized two approaches to the suffrage question, the feminist and the social reform approach. Flora Macdonald Denison distinguished between 'social service suffragists,' those with a prior commitment to reform, and 'real suffragists,' those who believed that 'men and women should be born equally free and independent members of the human race ...'¹ The categories, quite clearly, were not exclusive. Most feminists were also enthusiastic, dedicated social reformers. Even Mrs Denison, a leading feminist, felt sure that woman suffrage would rectify crimes against childhood and other social evils. Otherwise, she emphasized, she would not work for it...
4 In Defence of the Church
Several historians have noted the close connection between the Protestant Churches and the social reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.¹ The revelation of declining Church memberships and poor attendance at services convinced some Protestants, and a few Catholics, to make their message more socially relevant. This led to the enunciation of a social gospel which stated that Christians had a duty to remove visible social ills and help to create Christ's Kingdom on earth. Their good works would testify to their salvation.
The social gospel played an important role in the political awakening of women. Clearly,...
5 Temperate Beginnings
The temperance movement, a movement closely tied to Protestant evangelicalism, provided the single most popular route to suffrage activity for many men and women in Canada. Some 27 per cent of the male leaders belonged to temperance associations. Woman suffrage won their support largely because they believed that enfranchised Anglo-Saxon, Protestant women, the most vocal anti-liquor element in the community, would vote in prohibition. Female prohibitionists, who were equally convinced that women's voices would swing the political balance in favour of prohibitive liquor legislation, constituted almost 25 per cent of the female executive membership. Most of these became suffragists after...
6 The Secular Reform Movement
Woman suffrage attracted two types of reformers, those who concentrated upon improving the individual through controlling his behaviour, and those who looked to causes rather than effects in their reform strategy. The temperance suffragists fall into the first category. In the second we find municipal reformers, child welfare reformers, teachers and public school inspectors, juvenile court judges and directors of reformatories, settlement workers, and members of Humane Associations, Welfare Leagues, Parks and Playgrounds Associations, Municipal Ownership, City Improvement and City Planning Leagues. Of those identified, approximately 30 to 35 per cent of both male and female suffragists belonged to such...
7 Race Regeneration, Evolution, and Social Purity
The ideology of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century reform in Canada, as expressed in the suffrage movement, was complex. The movement included prohibitionists and municipal reformers. Attitudes towards the government ranged from the moderate interventionism of the COS to a more complete State Welfarism. One unifying theme, however, underlay the entire movement and made sense of its diverse strands – a concern for the future of the Anglo-Saxon race. Most of the reforms in some way aimed at strengthening and preserving this kin-group against internal weaknesses and external threats. Two areas in particular caused concern: the declining birth rate, especially among the 'better...
8 The Suffrage Fringe: Labour and the Organized Farmer
The organized farmers in the Prairie West – the Saskatchewan and Manitoba Grain Growers' Associations and the United Farmers of Alberta – and some elements of the Canadian labour movement were among the earliest and staunchest advocates of woman suffrage. Yet very few farm or labour men or women managed to penetrate the ranks of the overt suffrage societies which form the basis of this study. These remained predominantly an urban phenomenon, dominated and run by male and female journalists, lawyers, teachers, clerics, and businessmen, a professional and entrepreneurial élite. In general, farmers, their wives, and members of the labouring classes preferred...
9 The Politics of Success
The takeover of the suffrage movement by social reformers committed to other causes guaranteed its success. The general reform movement became very powerful in early-twentieth-century Canada as its analysis of social problems seemed increasingly relevant. The suffragists profited politically from the strength of their allies. Moreover, once it became clear that female enfranchisement was imminent, politicians from all shades of the political spectrum proved willing to introduce the legislation on the off-chance that the women might feel some sense of obligation to support their benefactors.
Ideologically, the domination of the movement by men and women who had no intention of...
Some eight years after women received the vote, a former Manitoba suffragist, Anne Anderson Perry, analysed its effects. The franchise, she felt, had changed very little. Few women participated in politics, as workers or candidates. Most followed or deferred to men much as they had before. Women, of course, attended political conventions, decorated platforms, and helped male politicians achieve victory, but they continued to take a secondary place to men. There were certainly exceptions, women whose able contribution to public life made conspicuous the absence of larger numbers. Moreover, women seemed indifferent to the great issues which had preoccupied their...
Bibliographical Essay
The standard work on the Canadian woman suffrage movement is Catherine Cleverdon'sThe Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada,first published in 1950 by University of Toronto Press and recently (1974) reprinted with an excellent introduction by Ramsay Cook. Cleverdon's study is a thorough and scholarly narrative of incidents and events at both the federal and provincial levels. Similar descriptive narratives have been written about the American movement by Eleanor Flexner (Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States,Massachusetts: Belknap Press 1968), the English movement by Constance Rover (Woman's Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866–1914,...