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Here's why a surprising number of healthcare workers are rejecting COVID-19 vaccines despite having witnessed the immense suffering of the pandemic
Joshua Zitser and Sophia Ankel
A nurse administering a dose of the Moderna vaccine in Los Angeles. Twenty to 40% of frontline workers in Los Angeles have refused a shot.
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is above average for healthcare workers.
Insider spoke with three healthcare workers about some of the reasons.
Experts told Insider having "trusted messengers" in local communities would help tackle the problem.
Melody Butler worked as a nurse on Long Island, New York, during the 2009 swine-flu pandemic.
She was pregnant and reluctant to get a mandatory vaccination. "I came across some information that was rather scary about the vaccine," Butler told Insider. "There were reports online that, supposedly, people were getting really sick from it."
Concerned, she approached a colleague, a clinical nursing educator, to discuss the horror stories she'd come across.
"She was able to debunk them on the spot," Butler said. "She explained why they were wrong and helped me to dive deeper into the websites."
She took the time to point out that credible health organizations or authors with legitimate medical credentials didn't make these websites.
"It really surprised me that I had fallen victim to these manipulative websites," Butler said. "I was embarrassed."
Eventually, Butler made an appointment and got vaccinated. Meanwhile, a pregnant friend could not secure a shot because of supply shortages in upstate New York.
"She caught the H1N1 flu and ended up needing to be admitted to the hospital," she said. "Due to the illness, she ended up losing one of her twins."
It shook Butler. "I could have willingly put myself in a similar situation because of this misinformation online," she said.
Butler was motivated to set up a Facebook group called Nurses Who Vaccinate to supply accurate information to colleagues around the US. The group grew quickly, recruiting 1,200 members. Its mission is to convert nurses into immunization advocates.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given it a new urgency as a worrying number of healthcare workers are shunning vaccines.
'There are different tiers to vaccine hesitancy'
Counterintuitively, vaccine skepticism is higher than average among those working in a healthcare setting.
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey of 1,676 American adults found that 27% of respondents were hesitant to get a vaccine. That figure rose to 29% of the respondents who worked in a healthcare setting.
A report by the health nonprofit Surgo Ventures spoke with 2,504 healthcare workers, and 15% of the approximately 1,300 who were offered the vaccine said they had turned it down.
In some states, the numbers are much higher. In Ohio, 60% of nursing-home workers decided against a vaccine in December, Gov. Mike DeWine said.
Up to 40% of frontline workers in Los Angeles have also refused a COVID-19 shot, public-health officials told the Los Angeles Times. In the neighboring Riverside County, this figure rose to 50%.
A vaccination center in Riverside, California, where up to half of frontline workers have refused a COVID-19 shot.
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While these numbers are concerning for public-health officials, it is unclear how many healthcare workers are hesitant to take the vaccine imminently and how many are steadfastly anti-vaccine.
"There are different tiers to vaccine hesitancy," Butler said.
Some are reluctant to be in the first round of vaccinations.
"A lot of nurses just want to see everyone get their second shot and make sure they're OK before they feel comfortable getting it," Butler said.
But others are unlikely ever to be persuaded to get a shot.
"These people are so married to the anti-vaxx cause that they're not interested in being educated or asking questions," Butler said.
Conspiracy theories and misinformation
Despite scientific evidence showing vaccines' safety and efficacy, some people eschew the data in favor of baseless claims and discredited myths.
A widely shared fiction says the shot contains an injectable microchip and suggests the billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is plotting to use the vaccine to track the locations of the world's population.
Tampa, Florida, residents waiting for healthcare workers to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
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Melissa Anne, a nurse at an assisted-living facility in Tampa, Florida, isn't writing them off.
"I leave the door open as a possibility that there may be people with bad intentions behind these vaccines," she told Insider.
Despite social-media giants' policies to crack down on vaccine misinformation, Facebook and Instagram are breeding grounds for false claims.
For example, last week, a widely shared Facebook post inaccurately claimed that a doctor's miscarriage resulted from a coronavirus vaccine.
The woman in question, Dr. Michelle Rockwell, said her miscarriage took place before she had been vaccinated.
"How soulless and predatory of someone to take someone's heartbreak and modify it to further their own agenda," she wrote on Instagram. "Misinformation is spread so quickly because people don't pause and think before hitting the share button."
Dr. Georges Benjamin, the American Public Health Association executive director, told Insider he believed misinformation could be contributing to a lower take-up rate of vaccines.
'They're waiting until spring'
While some healthcare workers do hold these extreme views, others are hesitant about getting a vaccination so soon into the rollout.
Dr. Stephen Noble, a heart surgeon in Olympia, Washington, is not generally opposed to vaccines.
"I'm not a vaccine denier or anti-vaxxer," he told Insider. "I've vaccinated my kids, and I get vaccinated with the flu vaccine every year."
But Noble said he believed the COVID-19 vaccine rollout started too quickly to instill confidence.
"One of the issues that concern me is that we just don't have long-term data," he said. "The vaccine was supposed to be a three-year study, but somehow, we stopped it at six months and said, 'You know what, this data is good.'"
While Noble is declining the chance to be vaccinated now, he is not ruling it out for the future. He said he was considering getting a shot in the early summer once more data was available.
Butler, the founder of Nurses Who Vaccinate, said that she believed Noble's views were widely shared and that many healthcare workers would eventually come around to the vaccines.
"I know some nurses have a timeline in their head," she said. "They're waiting until spring."
While it is true that the vaccine has been rolled out at an unprecedented pace, experts are seeking to reassure people that corners have not been cut.
"It was not developed too fast. It was developed expediently," Benjamin of the American Public Health Association said. "These vaccines have been under development as a class for many, many years. We were able to pivot to the specific type of vaccine for this particular organism very quickly.
"We know, historically, most of the bad stuff that happens with vaccines occurs in the first few months," he said. "We're outside that window now."
Dr. Hemi Tewarson, a visiting senior policy fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, agreed.
"I think there's a real need to make sure that the science is explained in very clear terms," Tewarson told Insider. "The efficacy rate of 95% is fantastic. There were some mild side effects but literally no serious side effects."
Vaccines are the 'best option'
The anti-vaccine campaign against the COVID-19 shots includes some discredited medics, who have fanned misinformation.
Dr. Jane Orient, the executive director of the politically conservative Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, told Insider she is adamant she will never get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The AAPS is a vaccine skeptical group that opposes government involvement in medicine. In December, Sen. Chuck Schumer, then the Democratic minority leader, called Orient a "conspiracy theorist" who spread "myths and falsehoods" after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee invited her to give evidence.
Orient said she believes we should rely on medication, citing hydroxychloroquine — an antimalarial drug that has proven ineffective in treating or preventing COVID-19.
Hydroxychloroquine became a household name after it was praised by former President Donald Trump, who told reporters he was taking it. It is commonly touted by anti-vaccine medics, including one who joined the insurrection of the Capitol in January.
The medications that have been somewhat effective in treating COVID-19 are the anti-viral remdesivir (though evidence suggests it is not very good at preventing death or disease outcomes) and the steroid dexamethasone (which has been marginally effective in patients on ventilators).
That's why the consensus among medical experts is that vaccines are the most effective tool to prevent sickness and death from COVID-19.
Former President Donald Trump announced May 18 that he had been taking hydroxychloroquine for almost two weeks as a preventive measure against COVID-19.
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Studies have shown that the drug does not prevent coronavirus infections in people recently exposed to the virus. Other studies have shown the drug failed to help hospitalized patients.
In April, the Food and Drug Administration reported deaths and injuries from the use of hydroxychloroquine. In June, the FDA revoked the drug's emergency-use authorization after a clinical trial found that the medicine showed no benefit, neither decreasing the likelihood of death nor speeding recovery.
Tewarson, the health-policy expert, said she wanted healthcare workers to know that vaccines were the "best option."
"None of us want to go to the hospital and have a risk of death. That's terrible," she said. "So getting the vaccine to enough people is what is really going to prevent that."
While there are some approved treatment options, like monoclonal antibody treatments, Tewarson said these were insufficient to prevent the spread of COVID-19. "Yes, they're good," she said. "But they're just a tool."
Different kinds of experience and racial disparities
To understand why so many healthcare workers choose not to be vaccinated, people also need to recognize the different levels of knowledge within the industry, Benjamin said.
"The knowledge base of a physician or a nurse working in the hospital is different to the knowledge base of a nurse's aide, for example, or someone working in a nursing home," he said.
"A lot of our nursing homes are staffed with a larger degree of people who have less professional training," he added. "Not that they're not professionals, but they have less professional training than the nurses in the hospitals."
On top of that, people's experience of the virus has been drastically different.
While nursing-home staffers, for example, have seen the virus affect older populations, nurses in intensive-care units are likely to have seen really sick people of all ages dying every day.
A doctor checking the vital signs of a patient at the intensive-care unit of Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California, on January 3.
Nursing-home employees have some of the lowest vaccination rates among healthcare workers. Analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of more than 11,000 long-term care facilities found that about 78% of residents got at least one dose in the first month of vaccinations, but only 38% of staffers did.
"I think that people's perspectives on the disease are different," Benjamin added. "And I think their knowledge base, their core basic health knowledge base is very different. So we need to educate people from where they were and bring them all up to a similar level of knowledge about the risks and benefits of the vaccine."
On top of this, the experience of healthcare workers is also shaped by their backgrounds.
Tewarson said that it "gets more complicated when you break everything down," adding: "Like Republicans, rural residents, and people of color are all showing more hesitancy across the general population ... And that certainly also translates to when you're thinking about healthcare workers."
A nationwide poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Undefeated last year found that seven in 10 Black Americans believed that people were treated unfairly based on race or ethnicity when seeking medical care.
Noble, the heart surgeon who has turned down the vaccine, for now, said: "We live in a system of inequity, social determinants of health, and in a system of institutional racism that lends itself to not listening to Black patients and even providers."
He added: "And the healthcare system doesn't appear and respond appropriately. So with the vaccine, you're going to have a hard time trying to convince the public, let alone healthcare providers that work within the system on a day-to-day basis."
How to tackle vaccine hesitancy?
Health systems, medical facilities, and state officials have tried different ways to encourage more healthcare workers to get vaccinated.
Some employers have announced incentives, including cash bonuses, gift cards, raffle tickets, and even free breakfasts at Waffle House.
Others — especially those in sectors that have been changed radically by the pandemic — have discussed making vaccines mandatory in their workplaces.
Vaccine mandates are not unheard of. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, 15 states have laws that require healthcare workers to be vaccinated in certain circumstances to keep high-risk patients safe. Most hospitals have made the flu vaccine mandatory.
But mandating coronavirus vaccines is more complicated, as the Food and Drug Administration has authorized them for emergency use rather than giving them full approval, so they are still considered experimental.
Benjamin worries that mandating vaccines could backfire.
"One of the things that I've learned in all my years of practicing health and medicine is that the minute you tell people they have to do something, then people won't do it," he said.
Benjamin said he preferred using the "power of persuasion," putting out "good information" through "trusted messengers."
This is what Butler, the founder of Nurses Who Vaccinate, has done so successfully.
"We're really trying to get ahead of the misinformation. We want people to hear it from us first," Butler said.
"So that's what we're really trying to help our colleagues to be proactive rather than always being defensive," she added.
"When they see their uncle share something on Facebook about the vaccine, they've already heard about it from us, and they're like: 'Oh wait a minute. I know this isn't true.'"
Editor's note: This article was amended to clarify that claims about hydroxychloroquine's efficacy in the treatment of COVID-19 are baseless, and its use has proved lethal.
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Sino-Mongolian Coal Relationship Continues Downward Spiral in 2013
Publication: China Brief Volume: 13 Issue: 17
By: Alicia J. Campi
August 23, 2013 10:40 PM Age: 9 years
The Mongolian Minister of Mining, Davaajav Gankhuyag, meeting with journalists in an August 9 press conference, confirmed the continuing decline in coal exports to China, Mongolia's most important trade partner: "The slow speed of economic growth of Mongolia is caused by a drop in China's demand and the fall of coal prices by almost 40 percent." The value of the first seven months of Mongolian unprocessed coal shipments to China declined nearly 50 percent to $582 million, versus $1.1 billion in 2012, as volume dropped by more than 20 percent, from 10 million metric tons in the same period in 2012 to only 8 million tons this year (The Mongol Messenger, August 16). In the first quarter of 2013, Mongolia's GDP grew at an annual rate of 7.2 percent, as compared to 16.7 percent in the first quarter of 2012 (the country's growth for all of 2012 was 12.3 percent). The World Bank has now lowered its prediction for Mongolia's 2013 GDP growth from 16.2 percent to 13 percent. [1]
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In April 2012, Mongolian authorities, motivated by inflamed anti-Chinese public rhetoric prior to parliamentary elections, intervened to stop the takeover by Chalco (Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd.) of a private Canadian-owned coal mine, Ovoot Tolgoi, which had been shipping all of its product to Chinese customers ("Mongolia's Coal Development Policies Tied to Goal of Reducing Proportion of Chinese Investment," Eurasia Daily Monitor, September 4, 2012). One month later, Chalco's acquisition plan triggered an onerous tightening by Mongolia's Parliament of foreign ownership investment regulations for the mineral sector, which were devised to stop foreign state-owned companies (e.g. Chalco and Chinese coal producer Shenhua) from investing in Mongolia ("The Bumpy Path to Sino-Mongolia Cooperation in the Mining Sector," China Brief, February 1). Since then, virulent anti-Chinese sentiment, including attacks on Chinese workers, has been a major factor in Mongolian domestic politics for all political parties. China has not been able so far to respond with sufficient reassuring measures to calm these concerns.
Chalco, as the number one importer of Mongolian coal, also has run afoul of the Mongolian government's exploitation of its 7.5 billion metric ton state-owned coal deposit in the Gobi called Tavan Tolgoi. The Tavan Tolgoi coal pricing agreement, in place since 2011, allowed Chalco to purchase raw coal excavated from the East Tsankhi tract at $70 a ton, which was considerably below the 2011 world price of about $100. In July 2011, the Chinese company paid U.S. $250 million in advance, but in January 2013 Mongolia stopped all Tavan Tolgoi coal deliveries to Chalco because the government claimed it had run out of funds and could not pay the private truck transport costs to the border, and so it demanded that the agreement be renegotiated. Since the Mongols had delivered only 2.5 million metric tons (worth US$170 million) of the 3 to 4 million tons promised, Chalco, strongly supported by Beijing authorities and the international mining community, threatened to take legal action.
With world coal prices collapsing, the Mongols were in a weak bargaining position. Shipments resumed in late April, after the Mongolian side agreed to pay a higher interest rate on missed deliveries and reduce fees for road transportation to the border. Chalco in turn agreed to pay $3 per metric ton more than the world price rate of $56 under an enlarged $350 million contract (Business-Mongolia.com, April 23). With the continued deterioration of world coal prices, the Mongols had to accept a lowered coal price of $47 per ton in July. Nevertheless, Deputy Minister of Mining Oyun Erdenebulgan promised to pay off the Chalco debt this year with delivery of an additional 3.6 million tons by increasing Tavan Tolgoi total output and reducing coal extraction costs (Ministry of Mining website cited in InfoMongolia.com, July 25 and The Mongol Messenger, August 16) Once this obligation is fulfilled, the Mongols will be able to diversify Tavan Tolgoi sales to other foreign partners.
The Mongolian Government also has implemented other initiatives to slow the pace of coal exports to China—sometimes under the mantle of environmental protection. For example, the Mongolian Ministry of Environment and Green Development on August 16 announced the closure of Tsagaan Khad, a coal customs stockyard on the Mongolian side of the border with China. It cited environmental damage from coal haulage, but there are reports that this measure has yet to be enforced (Platts, July 3).
Chairman of the Mongolian Coal Association board, Luvsandavaa Davaatsedev, in response to queries about the decline in shipments to China (in 2011, Mongolia was China's largest supplier of coal, exporting 20 million metric tons), even as China increased its coal imports 40 percent since April 2012, has said: "Even if we don't export our coal, China won't be ruined and run out of coal, because there are so many competitors exporting coal to China. We placed second or third as China's top coal exporter three years ago. But today, we aren't even included in the top six. We've lost our position in this market because of trying to export coal at higher prices. Mongolia accounted for about 40 percent of China's coal imports at our peak period. Now, we account for only 17 percent. It's hard to take back our lost position." (UB Post, August 6)
In addition to pressuring the Chinese for better prices for less coal product, the Mongolian Government for the past year has taken a number of steps to diversify its future Tavan Tolgoi coal customers, especially by wooing Japanese and South Korean investors . This trend has accelerated with the re-election of Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj in late June. In Tokyo it was reported that during early August meetings between the two governments on how to implement their Economic Partnership Agreement, Mongolia would give Japan privileges in the mining sector and establish "stable conditions to extract coal and copper" ("Japanese Prime Minister Abe Declares Mongolia's Increasing Importance for Tokyo's Foreign Policy," Eurasia Daily Monitor, April 18; Nikkei, August 4). Mongolian media reported on ongoing negotiations to exempt Japanese private companies from high mineral export taxes and additional waivers of laws and regulations limiting investment in the financial and communications sector (InfoMongolia.com, August 8). It is expected that these special preferential conditions will be announced in September when Mongolia's Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag visits Japan.
Meanwhile, South Korean companies are now favored as international investors for construction in Mongolia's transportation sector. Samsung was awarded a $483 million contract in early May to build the 267 kilometer railway from the Tavan Tolgoi coal field to the Chinese border. It is only one of the large Korean companies that are benefitting from Mongolia's decision to expand Russian broad gauge rail lines throughout the country. This decision adds $3 to the cost of each metric ton of delivered coal, because the coal must be transferred to rail cars that are suitable for the smaller, internationally accepted, gauge used in China (News.mn English service, May 10). Kyeryong Group is involved in major construction projects for redevelopment of the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and will construct a 365 km highway between Ulaanbaatar and the northern border town Altanbulag, the site of a Mongolian-Russian free trade zone (UB Post, July 7). Once the domestic rail and road networks are in place, Mongolian minerals will have access to passage north through Russia to Pacific customers, expanding the reach of Mongolian exports beyond nearby Chinese buyers.
Mongolia knew that its actions against Chinese FDI in the coal sector, reduction of raw coal exports to China and revision of mining investment legislation would agitate foreign investors, but it may have not predicted the extent of the ramifications. These developments, accompanied by continuing problems over how to operate and develop the country's large copper-gold deposit of Oyu Tolgoi (OT), which is controlled 66-34% by Rio Tinto/Turquoise Hill and the Mongolian government, have roiled the investment climate. According to figures released in mid-August by the Ministry of Economic Development, total FDI fell 43% in the first half of 2013 to US$961 billion, with geology, mining and petroleum FDI down by a third (Mongolian Daily Economic Update, August 18). Mining Minister Gankhuyag admitted that recent revisions to mining and investment legislation have caused doubts among investors because they were not properly researched and thought out: "Outside experts came to the conclusion that aside from unfavorable foreign influence, political actions and laws that were resolved for political reasons before the election facilitated to bring stability in the investment environment [put it] into a risk situation." (The Mongol Messenger, August 16).
It is clear that Mongolian President Tsakia Elbegdorj is aware of the precarious economic situation his nation faces because of the fall-off in foreign investment, declining tax revenues and slowing growth. In August he convened a special meeting with present and past members of the National Security Council including former Presidents, Prime Ministers and major political party parliamentary chairmen, to gather a wide range of views. He then asked the national Parliament to interrupt its summer holiday to meet for a special weeklong session, starting September 2. The Parliament agreed to the special session to discuss proposals to change the controversial 2012 Strategic Enterprises Foreign Investment Law (Business-Mongolia.com, August 16). However, this parliamentary action should not be interpreted as leading to any major reversal of Mongolia's brand of resource nationalist mineral policies. Rather, it is likely that the Elbegdorj administration's efforts to reduce Chinese economic penetration and trade monopoly, while simultaneously expanding coal and other mineral exports to new Northeast Asian customers as well as finding new non–Chinese FDI partners, will be altered in degree but not in substance.
1. Mongolia Economic Update, April 2013, World Bank < https://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/EAP/Mongolia/MQU_April_2013_en.pdf >.
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Editorial: Election shock—but Morrison can be fought
The election result has shocked everyone—from the pollsters to the pundits, Labor and even Scott Morrison himself.
Change the Rules never seriously mobilised workers
Thousands of union members gave up their time to doorknock, phone-bank and staff polling booths for Change the Rules. But the campaign has been a spectacular flop.
Mental health crisis but offshore detention can still be fought
Although the Liberal government made a big show of re-opening the Christmas Island detention centre in the lead-up to the election, refugees were hardly mentioned during the campaign.
Labor never campaigned on clear call to tax the rich
In the aftermath of Labor's shock loss, commentators have blamed its plans as too radical and ambitious. But the real failure was their unwillingness to fight for their policies as attacks on the rich.
Election result shows why climate action must mean a fight for jobs
The election result was a heavy blow that has left many supporters of climate action reeling.
New Labor leader Albanese moves the party right
Anthony Albanese, a leading figure in the party's left faction, is set to be elected as new leader of the Labor Party unopposed. Even the right-wing of the party is backing him.
Greens hold seats but pitch to Liberal voters
Against expectations, The Greens held their seats at the election, winning a Senator in each state and re-electing Adam Bandt in Melbourne.
More Black deaths in custody as police inflict brutal trauma
In April, the family of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day led a vigil to mark 26 years since the release of the landmark report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
New campaign fights to decriminalise abortion in NSW
A new lobbying group, the Pro-Choice Alliance, formed by 60 medical and health organisations around NSW, has shone a light on the state's archaic and sexist abortion laws.
The push to ban NAPLAN at Mount Alexander
There has been more criticism of NAPLAN after outages disrupted this year's online tests. State governments are continuing to push to replace it.
Jokowi wins Indonesian election after cave in to religious conservatism
Incumbent Joko Widodo has claimed victory in the 2019 Indonesian presidential election against Prabowo Subianto.
Venezuelan coup collapses, but dangers remain for Maduro
Juan Guaido's farcical coup attempt in Venezuela collapsed within hours. But the threat remains—as the crisis in the country continues and the US continues...
Caster Semenya, sport and sex tests
"Hell no." This was the response from two time Olympic champion Caster Semenya after the athletics governing body ruled that she would need to take testosterone lowering medication to continue to compete in the women's division of her two best events.
Bob Hawke—Australia's Thatcher
Bob Hawke has been lauded for his consensus politics, but he waged a brutal assault on unions and Labor's own working class supporters, argues Ian Rintoul
Extinction rebellion manifesto—How do we build a climate movement that wins?
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The author assesses the challenges posed by the advent of the internet and e-commerce to conventional franchise laws, with particular reference to Hong Kong and the PRC.
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A number of court decisions are discussed in this month's report: a Court of First Instance judgment has extended trade mark protection by allowing marks to be registered in respect of services provided in connection with retail trade; and the Court of Justice has controversially refused to accept jurisdiction on a reference made by a national competition authority. The report concludes with a look at the issues relating to the 'modernisation' of the Working Time Directive.
In the first case in this month's report the court concluded that the abandonment of trademark use justified use by others; in the second case the court held that a dealer who signed a general release of all claims against a motor vehicle manufacturer in order to secure the manufacturer's approval of the dealer's proposed sale of its dealership, was not barred from bringing an action against the manufacturer. In the last case dealt with in this month's report, an oil company's decision not to renew a gasoline station franchise was held to be in compliance with the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act.


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Biografia
Trascorse l'infanzia e gli anni da studente nella casa di suo nonno, il medico Bartolomej Kux, ebreo colto ed erudito, ma con tendenze allo scetticismo. Strauss terminò gli studi liceali presso la sua città natale, dove operò attivamente nel circolo autogestito M. M. Hodža. Dopo la maturità iniziò a studiare medicina a Vienna ma terminò gli studi presso l'università tedesca di Praga. Tra il 1938 e il 1939 svolse il servizio militare per un anno. Lavorò come medico a Palúdzka e Ružomberok.

Il 1942 fu l'anno della conversione dall'ebraismo alla fede cattolica dopo due anni di lotte interiori. Prima del termine della guerra fu deportato nel campo di concentramento di Nováky e per pochissimo scampò alla fucilazione. Continuò poi a lavorare come chirurgo a Bratislava e tra il 1946 e il 1956 fu primario a Skalica. Tra il 1956 e il 1982 lavorò come chirurgo presso l'Ospedale Statale di Nitra.

Pensiero
Anche sotto l'influsso di suo nonno il giovane Strauss maturò una visione piuttosto panteistica del mondo - e questo lo riempiva di paura ed incertezza. Dopo la prima adolescenza iniziò a dubitare sui valori del mondo, spettatore di aspri conflitti ed ingiustizie sociali. In molti dei suoi fratelli ebrei vedeva tutt'altro che buoni esempi; dall'altro lato però ammirava la vita di tanti rabbini cassidici. Al termine degli studi liceali si avvicinò alle teorie comuniste e studiò le opere di Mehring, Engels, Lenin, Plekhanov e Bukharin. Fu fortemente influenzato dal surrealismo di Breton, Eluard, dal poetismo e dal dadaismo.

Negli anni degli studi praghesi maturò ricchissime esperienze culturali, che però più tardi, in retrospettiva, percepiva solo come "etichetta, cerotto su un mondo interiore affranto e misero. Confusione esteriore che dominava su una dimensione interiore peccaminosa ancora più confusa. A muovermi furono le incertezze morali, il desiderio di uscire dalla mediocrità generale e la gran fame di verità, purezza e sicurezza, anche al di fuori dei tanto reclamizzati problemi sociali...". Dopo questa fase iniziale giunge il primo stadio della conversione di Strauss al cristianesimo. L'autore lo caratterizza come un appello ad uscire da se stesso e alla vita con gli altri, alla vita per il mondo, specie per il mondo del futuro.

Il secondo stadio della conversione iniziò durante il servizio militare a Ružomberok, grazie soprattutto all'influsso della famiglia Munk. Furono i membri di questa famiglia ad introdurlo alla letteratura cattolica, specie con Lippert e Guardini. Ma Strauss lesse molto anche Maritain, Blondel, Gilson, Guitton, Rilke, Papini, Bergson e altri. Eppure non riusciva completamente a staccarsi da alcuni pensieri di Nietzsche, Breton e altre idee pubblicate sulla rivista Psyché.

Nella terza fase della conversione (a partire più o meno dal 1940), l'autore accolse l'invito al battesimo specie grazie agli incontri col sacerdote Jozef Kožár, che per più di sei mesi lo introdusse al Nuovo Testamento. Poco prima del battesimo svolse gli esercizi spirituali sotto la guida del padre gesuita, Ján Dieška, e infine il colloquio col padre provinciale gesuita Jozef Mikuš.

Nel periodo successivo alla conversione rafforzò la propria fede attraverso la lettura di letteratura religiosa, specie l'Imitazione di Cristo e la Filotea e in generale addentrandosi profondamente nella vita liturgica della Chiesa. Di non poco conto in questo senso fu anche il sostegno di sua moglie Mária, nata Loydlová.

Opere
La traduzione dei titoli in italiano riportata accanto al titolo originale dell'opera nelle parentesi quadre [...] ha solo carattere indicativo, non essendo state ufficialmente pubblicate versioni in lingua italiana delle opere di Strauss.

Die Kanone auf dem Ei, 1936 (poesie).
Schwarze verse [Versi neri], 1937 (poesie).
Všetko je rovnako blízke i ďaleké (Kaleidoskop z cesty po Švajčiarsku) [Tutto è uguale vicino e lontano (Caleidoscopio di un viaggio in Svizzera)], 1946.
Mozaika nádeje [Mosaico di speranza], Bratislava, 1948.
Stĺpy [Colonne], Ružomberok, 1948.
Aforistické diárium [Diario aforistico], Ružomberok, 1960.
Krížová cesta pre chorých [Via Crucis per i malati], Ružomberok, 1964.
Postila dneška [Postilla di oggi], Ružomberok, 1965.
Zápisky diletanta [Appunti di un dilettante], Bratislava, 1968.
Zákruty bez ciest [Curve senza strade], Bratislava, 1971.
Roztrhnutá opona [Cortina strappata]. Ružomberok, 1972.
Rekviem za živých [Requiem per i viventi]. Bratislava, 1991.
Nádhera nečakaného. Úsmev nad úsmevom [La meraviglia dell'inatteso. Sorriso su sorriso], (Pensieri e aforismi), Bratislava, 1992.
Kvety z popola [Fiori di cenere], Martin, 1992.
Mozaika nádeje [Mosaico di speranza] (edizione ampliata), Bratislava, 1992.
Ecce homo, Bratislava, 1992.
Tesná brána [La porta stretta], Bratislava, 1992.
A slovo zdúchal duch [E lo spirito soffiò la parola], Bratislava, 1992.
Krížová cesta (Mozaika meditácií) [Via Crucis (Mosaico di meditazioni)], Bratislava, 1993.
Za mostom času [Oltre il ponte del tempo], Košice, 1993.
Kolíska dôvery [Culla di fiducia], Trnava, 1994.
Odvrátený hlas. Poznámky ku všetkému i k životu [Una voce allontanata. Note su tutto e sulla vita], Bratislava, 1994.
Torzo ticha [Lo scheletro del silenzio], Bratislava1995.
Život je len jeden [La vita è una sola], Bratislava, Bratislava, 1996.
Človek pre nikoho [Uomo per nessuno], Bratislava, 2000.
Sme mocnejší než čas. Apokalyptické tiene [Siamo più potenti del tempo. Ombre apocalittiche], Bratislava, 2005.

Scritti selezionati:

volume 1: S výhľadom do nekonečna [Uno sguardo sull'infinito], Prešov, 2010.
volume 2: Hudba plaší smrť [La musica fa paura alla morte], Prešov, 2010.
volume 3: Rekviem za neumieranie [Requiem per il non morire], Prešov, 2010.
volume 4: Skalpelom i perom [Con il bisturi e con la penna], Prešov, 2010.
volume 5: Ozveny vnútorných hlasov [Echi di voci interiori], Prešov, 2010.
volume 6: Aforistické iskrenie [Scintille aforistiche], Prešov, 2010.
volume 7: Život je provizórium [La vita è tutta provvisoria], Prešov, 2011.
volume 8: Slovenské básne [Poesie in slovacco] Prešov, 2011.
volume 9: Nemecké básne[Poesie in tedesco], Prešov, 2011.
volume 10: Preklady [Traduzioni], Prešov, 2012.

Bibliografia
RYBÁK, P.: P. Strauss – bojujúci zvon tejto doby [P. Strauss – campana battente del nostro tempo]. In: Viera a život [Fede e vita], 1992, n. 3.
BÁTOROVÁ, M.: Paradoxy Pavla Straussa [I paradossi di Pavol Strauss], Bratislava, 2006.
Riviste: Listy Pavla Straussa [Lettere di Pavol Strauss], Liptovský Mikuláš, 2007 – 2010, n. 1 – 18.
LETZ, J.: Slovenská kresťanská filozofia 20. storočia a jej perspektívy [La filosofia cristiana slovacca del XX secolo e le sue prospettive], Krakow/Trnava, 2010, pag. 82 - 86, 96-98, 354.
Weag, G.: Strauss - due fratelli, Bratislava 2011, DVD Live AID, 65 min.

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Q: How To Filter A Dataframe On a Factor I used cut2 from the Hmisc package to create grouped PenRages in my data1 dataframe below.  How do I filter my dataframe on the PenRanges so that I only get the rows with a group of [ 0.0, 12.8)?
         District     Retail      Loans    Penetration    PenRanges
         24           746982    53471.38    7.158322      [ 0.0, 12.8)
         23           182797   101471.48   55.510473      [53.0,114.3]
         13          204865    97036.50   47.366070       [39.8, 53.0)
         13          935916   315321.53   33.691221       [26.1, 39.8)

I tried pen1 <- subset(data1, PenRanges=="0.0, 12.8"), but it did not work.

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Painting by American contemporary artist Michael Carson. All rights reserved.
American artist and contemporary painter, Michael Carson is a modern-day-old-school painter. He's from Minneapolis, MN and has a degree from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Design. Originally a graphic designer, he didn't complete his first painting until three years after graduating college. The rest, as they say, is history.
Carson is primarily a figurative artist who's work hints that his subject has a hidden story, a secret. It's that secret, that Carson is trying to coax out of them and expose it to the world. This creates an intense intimacy to his paintings and quite frankly, makes them quite mesmerizing.
Just looking at his work I see the loose style and energy of Toulouse-Lautrec. But, I also see the wholesomeness and demeanor (though he's certainly dirtied it up a bit) of Norman Rockwell's work. While researching Carson, another name came up: John Singer Sargent. His name isn't what immediately popped up in my mind, but as soon as I reviewed Sargent's work, I could totally see the influence there.
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And with that said, Give Us Art salutes you Michael Carson!
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He is also an incredible figurative, modern painter. I just didn't want to do two artists that are so similar so close together. But, Malcolm Liepke is on my short list for new posts. Fear not!
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The Keanu Reeves 'Constantine' Is A Better Movie Than You Remember
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Released in 2005, director Francis Lawrence's Constantine starred Keanu Reeves as the DC Comics/Vertigo character, though fans were quick to note that this movie version of John Constantine didn't look or sound much like the one from the comics. Originally created by Alan Moore, the Constantine of the Hellblazer comics is an irreverent, foul-mouthed Brit with blond hair while the movie version is played by the dark-haired Reeves - who thankfully does not attempt a British accent as he did in 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula - and the action moves to Los Angeles.
For some fans of the comics, the differences were a deal-breaker, which may have had something to do with the film's poor critical performance - it only has a 46% on Rotten Tomatoes. Also telling, however, is that Constantine came out on the heels of Reeves's role in the Matrix trilogy, leading to unfair comparisons to those very different films. Also, comic book movies hadn't really found their footing yet in 2005. After all, the first Guillermo del Toro Hellboy came out only the year before and Iron Man was still three years away.
Whatever the reasons, a lot of people dismissed Constantine when it first came out, despite the presence of a truly devilish devil and no shortage of visual panache. With Reeves back in the spotlight thanks to the John Wick franchise, it's time to take another look at this unsung gem of a movie. You might be surprised to learn that 2005's Constantine is a better film than you remember.
Peter Stormare Plays One Of The Most Memorable Movie Satans
Photo: Warner Bros.
Early in the film, Constantine is told that his is the only soul Satan will come up to collect in person, which is exactly what happens during the climax. Played by Peter Stormare, we're first introduced to Constantine's Satan as boiling tar drips down onto the floor from his bare feet and stains the hem of his white pants. Decked out in a white suit, he pulls up a chair to taunt Constantine, and the combination of Stormare's gentility and strange mannerisms sell one of the most unforgettable devils ever put on screen.
If you aren't sold on Stormare's Satan the moment he shows up, you will be by the time he confronts the "half-breed" angel Gabriel. "Son of perdition!" Gabriel calls him. "Most unclean!" Stormare smiles and practically purrs, "I do miss the old names."
Hell Is Depicted As Undergoing A Perpetual Nuclear Blast
When it came to creating the look of hell in Constantine, director Francis Lawrence had a unique vision. "His idea was that hell is a parallel universe," visual effects supervisor Mike Fink explained. "It exists in another dimension as a complete replica of our world. You have the same buildings, the same streets, and the same rooms. The difference is that everything seems to be perpetually hit by a nuclear heat wave. This universe keeps decaying forever. It just never stops."
Creating the effect took seven vendors and an extended period of filming, but the result is a vision of hell like no other. Palm trees burn as a ruined LA skyline looms on the horizon. A radioactive wind picks apart everything in sight and cadaverous demons swarm among the souls. To get the visuals right, the FX team looked at actual footage of nuclear blasts that had been declassified for the 1984 TV movie The Day After.
The Film Is Littered With Visual Tics And Gags
Whether it's as subtle as the numbers 666 hidden in the logo painted on the wall of the bowling alley where John Constantine lives, or as obvious as the billboard that reads "got faith," there are plenty of visuals buried in Constantine's textured depiction of LA.
The film's MacGuffin is the Spear of Destiny, which pierced the side of Christ, and it is found buried beneath the concrete ruins of what was probably once a church, its three crosses now forming a nod to Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified. Another time, as Constantine is bent over coughing in the rain, he looks up to see a billboard that says "Your time is running out... to buy a new Chevy."
'Constantine' Is A Supernatural Film Noir
A hard-drinking, chain-smoking freelance exorcist who has literally been to hell and back, the John Constantine of the movie is a detective character brought into a world populated by supernatural beings who he calls "half-breeds," and he is caught up in a wager between God and the Devil.
The movie trades in plenty of film noir staples. Constantine has been around and seen it all, or so he thinks until a woman who is more than she appears brings new trouble into his life. There are doubles - Rachel Weisz appears as a pair of twins - and double-crosses, and everyone is playing a long game with much higher stakes than they thought. What starts out as a simple enough investigation turns out to be part of a much bigger conspiracy. And, of course, while there's no Maltese Falcon, Constantine does have its very own MacGuffin, in the form of the "Spear of Destiny," the lance that pierced Jesus Christ.
Constantine even delivers a Philip Marlowe-style voiceover before the credits roll. Leah Schnelbach makes a good case for Constantine as a modern film noir over at Tor.


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Q: Conditionnally assign pixel values of one image to another I have two images ( of the same size): A and B
A is the mask, it contains regions that have zero value and others that have RGB values.
B is the RGB image that i want to change the values of some of its pixels to their correspondent A's pixels (pixels that have the same position and that are different from zero).
I think it would be something like this:
if A(i,j) <>0 then B(i,j)=A(i,j)
except that i don't know how to write it in python...
can anyone help?

A: If you read the images with opencv:
h = b.shape[0]
w = b.shape[1]
for y in range(0, h):
        for x in range(0, w):
            if a[y,x] > 0:
                b[y,x] = a[y,x]

Or better, as points @Dan Mašek in the comment
import numpy as np

def apply_mask(img, mask):
    img = np.where(mask > 0, mask, img)
    return img

Notice that in numpy arrays, the height comes first in shape. Opencv loads the image into numpy arrays.

A: To apply the mask for src, you can use cv2.bitwise_and:
cv2.bitwise_and(src, src, mask=mask)


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Q: Is it possible to convert a windows assembly to mono? I have a closed source assembly (isn't obfuscated or anything like that), but I was wondering if there was an application that will take that assembly and convert it to mono (especially for use on linux). Is this automatic or do I need to do something. I haven't done any mono... ever.

A: Assuming that everything required by the assembly is supported by Mono, you shouldn't have to do anything - it should already be binary compatible. That's one of the points of IL :)

A: Use Mono Migration Analyzer to make sure that it is Mono compatible. If so, any .net assembly may be used a Mono based project. If it's an executable, test with mono myapp.exe from shell.


The annoying buzz terms, the weird company names, the phony hype—few things in the world of business can be as absurd as the ad-tech industry. So who better to point out such ridiculousness in comedic fashion than the minds within an ad-tech company?
That's what Sonobi is up to today with the release of its "Bro-Bot" campaign, highlighted by images and videos that center on characters such as "Bryn Bottenfeld, CEO and Chief Disruptor for Adifibly." Say "Adifibly" three times out loud and hear the douchiness that Sonobi is trying to rail against in its endeavor. The effort includes an integrated strategy involving out-of-home (transit media such as New York subway ads), social video (YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn) and print ads in Fast Company.
Created by agency White Lightning & Judge's Son, the initiative truly focuses on a four-video series that first introduces the Bro-Bot phenomenon with The Douche before going into three other characters: The Middle Man; The Disruptor (the aforementioned Bottenfeld); and, The Narcissist.
"We created intentionally over-the-top daily life and business scenarios where the short-sighted somewhat egotistical robot complicated matters unnecessarily and absurdity ensued," said John Donahue, chief marketing officer at Sonobi, which offers publishers, agencies and advertisers a media-planning system called JetStream.
And a chief underlying pitch is: Sonobi is an ad-tech company which claims—unlike many of its competitors, the narrative goes—that it actually understands advertising and creativity.


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PUBLISHED: April 3, 2016 at 10:35 am | UPDATED: April 7, 2016 at 8:54 pm
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The woman fatally shot by law enforcement officers at French Lake Wildlife Management Area in Aitkin has been identified as 50-year-old Denise Fairchild of Aitkin.
Fairchild was shot in the torso the evening of March 29 and died three hours later at North Memorial Medical Center, according to a news release from the Hennepin County medical examiner.
Her death is considered a homicide and is being investigated by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Forum News Service reports that a preliminary investigation showed Fairchild was shot after she threatened to kill herself and fired a gun at least twice at officers.
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Jan Lind
Leaving the officers to live with what occurred even they they had no choice.
adamh2o
And the amazing thing is that none of us white folks are going to hold a riot. Imagine that.
Maybe its because she was not killed within seconds of the cops arriving at the scene.
Neither was Jamar and neither were most of them, except Tamir. And he shouldn't have been waving around a fake gun that looked real, and he shouldn't have reached for his gun when the cops pulled up.
You just proved my point. they were both killed within seconds.
How did that prove your point? I just said Tamir was the only one killed within seconds and he had it coming because he reached for his gun.
So a kid playing in the park deserves to be killed. I bet you would feel different if it was your kid.
So please enlighten us, how were the responding police officers supposed to know the gun wasn't real or that he wasn't a gang banger ordered to kill a cop as part of a gang initiation? Tea Leaves or Ouija board at the dispatch center? A palm reader before coming in duty? Read his mind? I feel sorry for the kid but I also feel sorry for the officers who had no alternative but to protect themselves.
Gndydncr
Maybe its because she didn't attack a cop within seconds of the cops arriving at the scene.
Where's the outcry for this woman? Why the selective outrage?
So I guess her life doesn't matter. Like I said……selective outrage.
You just choose to not see the difference between the cops shooting someone as soon as they show up at the scene or negotiating with that person.
Or maybe her circumstances didn't support your narrative. So she's not important Yup…I'm close. Aren't I?
They tried for 90 minutes to talk her out of suicide and then shot her in the body. Is that not different than shooting someone in the head after a handful of seconds
I don't quibble with what the police had to do with this poor woman. It's an unbelievably difficult and imprecise job. One that gets second-guessed by Monday morning QBs who never had to make life & death decisions with less than all the information available and adrenaline pumping like crazy. But I'm closer than you'd like to admit.
Like I said this woman was given a chance some people are not.
She didn't have a cop's gun in her hand behind that cop's back.
What are you talking about, there have been hundreds of killings by cops over the last few years.
Around 900 a year lately and so far less than 10 cops found guilty in over 5-10 years. I'd guess your "gentile giants and innocent woman beaters" should change their evil ways.
That's because there are two sets of laws. 1 for citizens another for cops. If you don't see that you have your head in a place that I won't go.
I wouldn't let you either because there is too much leftover matter from you having your head in your own place.
So what were you arrested for that you hate police so much?
And hundreds of police officers killed. In just the first three months of 2016 16 officers were killed by gunfire or vehicle assault by a felony suspect.
Well, that's what happens when criminals attack cops.
You grab a cop's gun and you get to die. She didn't grab a cop's gun.
What if you are a kid playing in a park
Lotsa gang bangers pretend to be kids playing in parks while they sell dope to other kids.
No, she fired at the officers who defended themselves.
I was NOT sticking up for her. I was telling a mentally challenged person why the cops didn't negotiate with Clark.
Please read all of my posts before you respond like that.
Brian needed instruction.
Your boy grabbed a cop's gun and said he was ready to die before 61 seconds were up. What's to negotiate there?
Brian is making a fool of himself.
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Q: Pandas transform rows with specific character i am working on features transformation, and ran into this issue. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
I have a table like this
And I want to create an output column like this
Some info:

*

*All the outputs will be based on numbers that end with a ':'

*I have 100M+ rows in this table. Need to consider performance issue.

Let me know if you have some good ideas. Thanks!
Here is some copy and paste-able sample data:
 df = pd.DataFrame({'Number': {0: '1000',1: '1000021', 2: '15:00', 3: '23424234',
  4: '23423', 5: '3', 6 : '9:00', 7: '3423', 8: '32', 9: '7:00'}})

A: Solution #1:
You can use .str.contains(':') with np.where() to identify the values, otherwise return np.nan. Then, use ffill() to fill down on nan values:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.DataFrame({'Number': {0: '1000',1: '1000021', 2: '15:00', 3: '23424234',
  4: '23423', 5: '3', 6 : '9:00', 7: '3423', 8: '32', 9: '7:00'}})
df['Output'] = np.where(df['Number'].str.contains(':'),df['Number'].str.split(':').str[0],np.nan)
df['Output'] = df['Output'].ffill()
df

Solution #2 - Even easier and potentially better performance you can do some regex with str.extract() and then again ffill():
df['Output'] = df['Number'].str.extract('^(\d+):').ffill()
df

Out[1]:
     Number Output
0      1000    NaN
1   1000021    NaN
2     15:00     15
3  23424234     15
4     23423     15
5         3     15
6      9:00      9
7      3423      9
8        32      9
9      7:00      7

A: I think this is what you are looking for:
import pandas as pd
c = ['Number']
d = ['1:00',100,1001,1321,3254,'15:00',20,60,80,90,'4:00',26,45,90,89]
df = pd.DataFrame(data=d,columns=c)

temp= df['Number'].str.split(":", n = 1, expand = True)

df['New_Val'] = temp[0].ffill()

print(df)

The output of this will be as follows:
   Number New_Val
0    1:00       1
1     100       1
2    1001       1
3    1321       1
4    3254       1
5   15:00      15
6      20      15
7      60      15
8      80      15
9      90      15
10   4:00       4
11     26       4
12     45       4
13     90       4
14     89       4

Looks like your DataFrame has string values. I considered them as a mix of numbers and strings.
Here's the solution if df['Number'] is all strings.
df1 = pd.DataFrame({'Number': {0: '1000',1: '1000021', 2: '15:00', 3: '23424234',
  4: '23423', 5: '3', 6 : '9:00', 7: '3423', 8: '32', 9: '7:00'}})

temp= df1['Number'].str.split(":", n = 1, expand = True)
temp.loc[temp[1].astype(bool) != False, 'New_val'] = temp[0]

df1['New_val'] = temp['New_val'].ffill()

print (df1)

The output of df1 will be:
     Number New_val
0      1000     NaN
1   1000021     NaN
2     15:00      15
3  23424234      15
4     23423      15
5         3      15
6      9:00       9
7      3423       9
8        32       9
9      7:00       7


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Q: Query multiple custom post types in single loop I'm aware there are several other posts that cover similar ground to what I'm about to ask.
I have three custom post types running, in addition to 'posts'. I want to run a loop that pulls all posts categorised under a particular category
 <?php
          $args = array(
    'post_type' => 'testimonial',
    'posts_per_page' => 1,
    'tax_query' => array(
        array (
                'taxonomy' => 'testimonial_category',
                'field' => 'slug',
                'terms' => 'home'
    )
)
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
                $postcount = 0;
            ?>
            <?php if ($query->have_posts()) : ?>
                <?php while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>
                    <?php $postcount++; ?>
//loop here
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

This is the code I have at the moment, not sure how I condense this into pulling in multiply post types from one category.

A: Just change the post_type bit to:
'post_type' => array('testimonial', 'other_post_type', 'another-post-type'),
Assuming that taxonomy is valid across all 3 post types. Otherwise you'll have to leave that out.
Why? You can pass an array to post_type field.

A: $args = array(
    'post_type'      => array( 'testimonial', 'post' ),
    'posts_per_page' => 1,
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );

Edit Note:
To query for multiple post types you would add an array() of post types instead of just querying for one.


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This Mercedes Camper Van Is Your Perfect Gateway Into #VanLife
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By Will Sabel Courtney
Dive into the online world of camper vans, and it's easy to find yourself lost in an endless feed of high-end, super-opulent rigs. But as much as we all dream of luxurious vans decked out like Brooklyn apartments and off-road RVs as large as houses and as capable as military transports, you don't need nearly that much capability to enjoy the best part of what the Instagrammers call #vanlife. All you really need is a van that offers up a great place to sleep and a spot to cook.
Which is exactly what Caravan Outfitter's Backroad camper van delivers.
Now, if this particular van looks a bit familiar, well, that's likely because it looks and seems an awful lot like the Mercedes-Benz Weekender that the Bavarians unveiled earlier this year. Both vans are based on the Metris platform, both feature a Westphalia-style pop-top roof for sleeping and added airflow, and both offer a simple-yet-elegant entry into the camper van life. (Indeed, as New Atlas pointed out, Caravan Outfitters sources some parts from Reimo, the same German RV manufacturer that supplies Mercedes with pieces for the Weekender.)
The Backroad, however, has the added benefit of not only being already available, but being slightly less expensive than the Mercedes, which is expected to start in the mid-$70K range. A new one will set you back $67,511, according to Caravan Outfitters's website, although that's before buyers are tempted by such options as the $1,450 solar roof package that feeds electricity into the 90 amp-hour accessory battery beneath the driver's seat or the $1,840 Fiammas 45 side awning.
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