Estate agent disrupter Purplebricks has launched into the Australian market.
The online platform is now offering sellers in Brisbane and Melbourne the opportunity to advertise their properties for a fixed flat fee which saves them thousands of dollars compared with the traditional high street estate agency model.
The platform will be extended to Sydney, Perth and Adelaide later this year.
CEO and co-founder Michael Bruce said: "Australia is a natural second market for us to target.
"It is a large and fiercely competitive real estate environment, but one where sellers are currently receiving poor value for money.
"We will offer the Australian public far greater transparency and a fairer way to sell their homes.
"We are very excited about the size of the market opportunity there, and believe that the expansion outside of the UK provides both additional returns for investors and the benefit of diversified income streams."
He added: "Since launching Purplebricks into Australia 24 hours ago, the interest and demand from homeowners has been incredible.
The Solihull-headquartered firm will invest £10m into its Australian business over two years.
Ryan Dinsdale, formerly of online broker CommSec, telco Telstra and Virgin Money, will serve as chief executive of the Australian operation.
He wrote on LinkedIn: "I am extremely privileged and excited to be bringing Purplebricks to Australia.
BusinessCloud featured Purplebricks in its maiden edition in June.
Outside of the industry, few people had probably even heard of the firm when it floated at the end of 2015 with a market cap of £240m.
The company was only incorporated in April 2012 so to be admitted onto AIM – the Alternative Investment Market – so soon highlights the impact technology has had on the sector and the way it is changing the estate agency world.
Its research has shown that people understand where technology is improving their experience of selling a property, but they still want the human element.
Travel agents are also being disrupted by online services as more of us look to book holidays online rather than on the high street.


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The Infamous Image board 4chan has been involved in a lot of shenanigans in its eleven years of existence . If Reddit is the front page of the Internet, then 4chan is its asshole. 4chan is the illegitimate child everyone claims to hate, but secretly adores. Most of the pranks and trolls covered in this list were carried out by the /b/ (Random) board, but /pol/ (political incorrect board) and /v/ (Video games board) were active in some of them, not to mention some of them required inter board coordination, so we will be crediting 4chan as a whole for them.
10. Pitbull goes to Alaska:
In 2012, Walmart and Sheets Brand energy strips launched a promotional campaign to bring the rapper Pitbull to whichever local Walmart store that gains the most new Facebook likes between June 20th and July 15th, 2012. The Internet soon got hint of the promotion and decided to have some fun. They were going to send Pitbull to Kodiak Alaska, the most remote Walmart in the country. The entire town of Kodiak has a population of less than 7,000 and is situated far from any major towns. Prior to to the promotion, Kodiak Alaska's Walmart Facebook page had 3,700 likes. In less than a day, the page had over 100,000 likes, making it the biggest Walmart page on Facebook. Kodiak Alaska had won the competition. Being the good sport that he is, Pitbull decided to visit Kodiak Alaska. On July 30th, Pitbull arrived in Kodiak Alaska, visited the Walmart employees as well as local residents and attended a ceremony where the mayor presented a key to the city as a gift.
9. Kim Jong Un wins Time's person of the year:
In the same year as the "Send Pitbull to Kodiak" campaign, 2012, Time magazine was holding its annual "person of the year" event and as many years before, a poll was made available online for fans to vote for their favorite person of the year with the person holding the most votes at the closing of the vote winning the award. One 4chan user caught hint of the vote and invited the other anons to help rig the polls (seen below)
In the following days, several posts were made on the /b/ board asking users to mass vote for Kim Jong Un. They created VBS scripts and downloadable java script programs which were designed to help users vote in bulk. In less than a month, Kim Jong Un was leading the polls with over 3 million votes (Shown Below)
Not satisfied with their victory, 4chan users decided to have more fun with the polls. With the help of automated scripts, they decided to spell "KJU Gas Chambers" with the first letter of the names of the top 14 candidates in the polls. "KJW GAS CHAMBERS" was of course a reference to North Korea's gulag Camp 22 which has been accused of human rights violations from the international community. In no time, operation KJWGaschambers was successful (Shown below)
8. Waterproof Iphones:
In 2013, after the release of apple's iOS7, a group of pranksters on 4chan launched a hoax campaign to sabotage the early adopters by creating a series of Apple-esque advertisements claiming that the latest software update will make iPhone devices waterproof. (Seen below).
Someone also created a photoshoped image of Apple's CEO Tim Cook supposedly promoting the waterproof feature to make waterproof Iphones seem more realistic and authentic (Show below). Twitter, Facebook and other social networks were soon ablaze with lots of frustrated users who had destroyed their Iphones after falling for the prank.
7. Dub The dew – Mountain Dew gets trolled:
In 2012, Mountain dew held an online contest for customers to name its new green apple-infused Mtn Dew drink on the website dubthedew.com . Users of 4chan soon found out about the contest and through inter-board coordination, and the help of scripts, decided to rig the results. They spammed the poll with names like "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "gushing granny" until finally Those names made it to the top.
The site was also hacked shortly afterwards with a scrolling marquee that read "Mtn Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11!", a video "RickRoll" and a pop up box that read "le 9gag are legion" (Shown below)
Mountain dew admitted on its Twitter account that it had "lost to the Internet" and canceled the campaign shortly after.
6. Taylor Swift and a school for the deaf:
In 2012, Taylor Taylor swift and her management held an online campaign aimed at getting Taylor swift to perform at any school on the country. First you had to like Taylor swift Facebook's page and then vote in the poll for your favorite school in the United States. Any school that came on top of the polls would receive a visit from Taylor swift. 4chan users soon heard of the campaign and decided to rig the votes. In large numbers, they voted for Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. They were sending Taylor swift to perform at a school full of people who lacked to ability to hear.
Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing ended up winning the poll very easily. Taylor swift however decided not to play at the school, but she and four other organizations instead chose to give $10,000 apiece to the school. Taylor's management stated that the school had been disqualified because they used unconventional methods to win the poll.
5. Pool's closed:
"Pool's closed" is catch phrase associated with a series of online raids carried out by 4chan and Anonymous against the online social networking site Habbo Hotel, where members of the group formed human blockades to obstruct the entry points of popular hangouts with their avatars dressed in afros and business suits. The first raid was launched in July 2006 after rumors began to spread on 4chan that some Habbo moderators had tendencies to ban users based on the skin colors of their avatars. According to Knowyourmeme, On July 6th, 2006, a group of 4chan users calling themselves /b/lockers decided to raid Habbo Hotel by forming blockades around the entrances of popular hangouts, exploiting a technical issue that wouldn't allow avatars to walk through each other when entering and exiting premises. As a result, the human blockade quickly became a source of frustration to the newcomer.
As time passed and the raids continued, the operation also became more organized and complex with detailed instructions on how to participate. The website went offline shortly afterwards, on that same day.
The moderators soon caught on and begun banning all the users participating in the raid. To this day, any avatars that are black with an afro and a suit are automatically banned.
4. #Cutforbieber:
Cutforbieber is arguably the most daring, or if you love the Internet term, "edgy", prank in this entire list. On January 4th, 2013, paparazzi news blog TMZ published pictures that featured Justin Bieber smoking marijuana. The news went viral and as expected, Bieber's fan-base consisting of mostly underage teenagers were distraught, with several of them venting their frustration on the Internet. One 4chan user had the ingenious idea to convince the enraged fans to self harm in order to force the pop star to stop taking hard drugs.
In less than an hour, thousands of 4chan users had created fake twitter accounts and were posting pictures of people self harming under the hashtags #cutforbieber and #cuttingforbieber; the hashtag was trending in no time.
At this point, hundreds of Justin Bieber fans who thought this was a legitimate movement quickly joined in cutting themselves to save their hero:
It is unclear what percentage of people using the hashtag were trolls and how many were Bieber fans falling for the prank, but from how things were looking, it could have been evenly distributed.
3. Rick Roll:
Rick rolling is most certainly The Internet's most famous and iconic bait and switch prank of all time. It involves posting a web link supposedly relevant to the topic at hand on an online forum, which actually re-directs the viewer to Rick Astley's 1987 hit single "Never Gonna Give You Up." The URL is often masked or obfuscated as a randomly-generated shortlink to conceal its true source from the experienced users. Whenever someone clicks the link and unintentionally summons Rick Astley's song, he or she is said to have been rickrolled.
Like most Internet pranks, rickrolling begun on 4chan, where users would claim to have a link to something very interesting, like Emma Watson's nude photos or leaked movies. However, clicking on the link would redirect you to the "Never gonna give you up" video.
The prank has gone so mainstream now that it has been used by Google, Oregon House of Representatives, hacker group anonymous, and The White house.
Unfortunately, Rick's email was hacked by 9gag back in 2012, and his nude pictures were spread all around the Internet. You can view them HERE (nsfw).
2. Project Chanology:
While most 4chan users will argue that chanology was what "Killed" 4chan, project chanology was one of the most successful Internet movements carried out in real life. The series of protests movements were launched against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous. The project was started in response to the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove video clips from a highly publicized interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January 2008.
The protests went on for a long time, with several Anonymous members (approximately 7000 of them) showing up in front of several scientologist buildings across the globe, wearing masks and holding protest signs.
Anonymous also hacked several of their websites, sent them thousands of blank pictures via fax and got the Internal revenue service on their back by digging into their public records and finding loopholes and instances of them breaking the law.
1. Moot is Time's person of the Year:
Moot winning Time's person of the year is undeniable one of the most influential pranks 4chan has ever successfully pulled off. Like when they voted Kim Jong-un to the top of Time's person of the year, back in 2009, Time magazine was once again holding its person of the year poll. After the link was posted on 4chan, Anons decided to work together to rig the results. Eventually they were able to vote moot to the top of the list, and also managed to vertically spell out "marblecake also the game," a reference to the name of the IRC channel used during Project Chanology raids, by arranging the first 21 nominees' names in a particular order. Time announced that Poole had won the title World's Most Influential Person with 16,794,368 votes on April 27th, 2009.
The announcement from Time magazine read:
In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World's Most Influential Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it's worth noting that everyone moot beat out actually has a job.
Moot of course attended the red carpet event to pick his award:
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Apeldoorn, Netherlands, July 9, 2017 - Japan prevented Netherlands from having udefeated record in the 2017 FIVB World Grand Prix overcoming the hosts on Sunday evening in a five-set thriller 3-2 (17-25, 21-25, 25-18, 25-22, 15-9).
Nakada: "Better serving and blocking were the key to win this match"
Apeldoorn, Netherlands, July 9, 2017 - Japan came from behind and ruled out Netherlands 3-2 (17-25, 21-25, 25-18, 25-22, 15-9) in the Sunday evening game in Apeldoorn.
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11 Anne Buijs 17 15 45 1 4 1 13
4 Celeste Plak 15 13 46 1 10 1 24
6 Maret Balkestein-Grothues 10 9 29 1 7 0 13
3 Yvon Belien 8 5 14 2 20 1 13
14 Laura Dijkema 6 3 7 2 8 1 17
19 Nika Daalderop 3 2 11 1 3 0 0
1 Kirsten Knip 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Femke Stoltenborg 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
9 Myrthe Schoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Nicole Oude Luttikhuis 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
18 Marrit Jasper 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
20 Tessa Polder 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 Nicole Koolhaas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Sarina Koga 22 20 63 2 4 0 17
11 Yurie Nabeya 13 13 33 0 5 0 19
9 Haruyo Shimamura 10 7 24 3 14 0 15
4 Risa Shinnabe 9 8 21 0 11 1 11
10 Koyomi Iwasaki 7 5 8 2 8 0 12
13 Mai Okumura 6 2 7 2 6 2 9
19 Mari Horikawa 4 4 16 0 1 0 4
3 Nana Iwasaka 3 1 5 2 7 0 9
7 Yuki Ishii 3 3 11 0 1 0 3
6 Haruka Miyashita 1 1 1 0 2 0 3
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16 Risa Ishii 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
20 Mako Kobata 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Kotoe Inoue 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Polish archaeologist Milosz Giersz mqust have felt like Howard Carter when he breached the 1,200-year-old Peruvian tomb. Much of the 110-acre site north of Lima had been plundered, but the team's aerial and geophysical imaging showed something promising beneath a ridge where the looters had been dumping their rubble for decades. First they uncovered a ceremonial room containing a stone throne. Beneath that was a large chamber sealed with 30 tons of stone fill. Their persistence paid off when they discovered a huge carved wooden mace in the loose rock. Giersz explains, "It was a tomb marker and we knew then that we had the main mausoleum." They had found the first intact imperial tomb of the Wari empire, which thrived between 700 and 1000 A.D. Digging secretly for months in one of the burial chambers, the archaeologists collected more than 1,000 artifacts: inlaid gold and silver jewelry, bronze ritual axes, silver bowls, gold tools, an alabaster drinking cup, knives, coca leaf containers, and painted ceramics (PHOTOS HERE). The riches surrounded 3 Wari queens, who were also honored by human sacrifice. Giersz and his colleagues discovered that 60 people had been mummified and buried with the royals – some of them killed for the occasion.


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The Elder Scrolls Legends will launch on the Nintendo Switch later this year, Bethesda Softworks announced as its E3 presentation. An exact date was not given.
The game is a card-collecting role-playing game that originally debuted on PC, Mac and mobile platforms in 2017 and now has had over 11 million players. It has received regular updates through its life, and earlier this month Bethesda turned the development of the game over to Sparkypants Studios to reinvigorate the title.
Players of the PC or mobile version of the game will have extra incentive to purchase the game on Switch, as the player progress will carry over to the Switch version when it launches, via the player's Bethesda.net account.
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Jonathan Dismang (born July 30, 1979) is a Republican member of the Arkansas Senate. A resident of Beebe in White County near Little Rock, he has served in the Arkansas General Assembly since 2011. Dismang served as President Pro Tempore of the Arkansas Senate in the 90th Arkansas General Assembly and 91st Arkansas General Assembly.

Political Career
He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives before he was elected to the Arkansas Senate in 2010. From 2011 to 2013, he represented Senate District 29, which then included parts of White, Pulaski, and Faulkner counties.
 Following redistricting in 2013, Dismang represented District 28 until 2023, when he was redistricted into District 18.

Background
Dismang is a graduate of the Church of Christ-affiliated Harding University in Searcy in White County. He is chief financial officer of Whitwell and Ryles Real Estate Investments, LLC, and owns a cattle company.

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External links
 Official page at the Arkansas General Assembly
 Campaign site

1979 births
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Living people
Republican Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives
People from Beebe, Arkansas
People from Randolph County, Arkansas

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On Thursday, a community meeting about changes to two of the buildings at Pacifico turned into an opportunity for frustrated neighbors to vent about the current conditions, which they claim are creating an ongoing nuisance at Pacifico and by extension the adjacent neighborhoods.
In addition, the first floor of Building B would serve as the Yolo County Navigation Center, operated by Communicare.
Since this past fall, neighbors have been coming forward to city council to complain about ongoing problems at the Pacifico site – this includes drug use, drug sales, litter, noise, expletives, people loitering and more. There is a good deal of dispute as to whether the facility itself and its current residence are creating this nuisance or rather a part of a larger pattern of problems in the area.
At the meeting, the county discussed some mitigation measures, including some sort of barrier between the bike path and Pacifico in hopes of keeping outside problems from reaching Pacifico.
At the meeting, one resident, John Slater, drew a clear distinction between their complaints about the current users and the new proposal.
On the other hand, many residents are concerned with the concentration of people with mental illnesses in their neighborhood.
Matthew Lang suggested that a recent development on Mace had given its in-lieu fees to Pacifico. He explained, "What they are doing is concentrating into one facility that has a lot of beds a huge number of people with mental illness.
"We are actually 'ghettoizing a neighborhood,'" he explained, likening it to Cabrini Green, the facility from Chicago. He suggested instead of one large facility that concentrates the population, we should have a bunch of small facilities across the town to service those needs.
Supervisor Jim Provenza attended the meeting on Thursday and told the Vanguard, "I am going to look into the situation.
"I understand that some changes have already been made (including removal of problem tenants) and others are planned," he explained.
He noted that many of the neighbors in attendance "again raised concerns they've been expressing (to the council) about some of the activities taking place in the neighborhood around Pacifico.
"We've been in communication with Yolo County Housing (YCH) for several months about the need for additional monitoring and oversight of Pacifico," Councilmember Frerichs said.
"YCH has met with neighbors, and folks have said they've started to see improvements, although I believe more work is needed on the underlying existing issues, which are separate from the newly proposed residential treatment units and resource center," he added.
The neighbors at the meeting seem to believe that the city and county need to address current concerns before going forward with an additional project at this site. The county's perspective is that they are already working to address these concerns, but they believe by creating facilities to deal with mental illness, they will be better equipped to address these concerns.
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. . . the county discussed some mitigation measures, including some sort of barrier between the bike path and Pacifico in hopes of keeping outside problems from reaching Pacifico.
THAT is hilarious on several levels . . . thanks for the nugget.
Still not clear – the problem is the current conditions not the proposal. What is the city going to do to resolve the current conditions?
To get back to the warrier (wall/barrier), I am puzzled what this is to do. The management company, I believe, believes the problem is coming from the bike path, the neighbors seem to think the problem is coming from within the complex. So, is the intent of the warrier to keep people in, or keep people out? Is perhaps the problem people on the inside attracting more people from the outside? It doesn't seem that there is a call for a warrier all along the bike path, so how is it only one complex has a leakage? I've always rather found one of the nice things about the design is the complex's incorporation with the bike path. And how exactly does a warrier stop the unwanted beings? This isn't like the US border wall which is impenetrable without some major effort, and one would assume there will be an end to the warrier, or a gate, or a way to knock it down or climb over it, or a way in the front. So what exactly is the plan here? A warrier is only as strong as it's weakest point of penetration.


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Nina Kennedy (WA) will be the youngest athlete to don the green and gold at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing (CHN), but don't let age fool you.
This rising star of the pole vault has previously reaped the benefits of international experience at youth and junior world championships and she has spent the past six weeks competing in Europe under the guidance of her renowned coach Alex Parnov (WA).
Beyond that, the 18-year-old Australian Flame debutant will start with a new personal best of 4.59m from the Jandakot City Track Classic in her home town of Perth (WA) earlier this year. The performance, at the time, was the biggest ever by leap outdoors by a junior athlete anywhere in the world.
"I am so, so excited. I've been looking forward to this for quite some time now, I set the goal (of being on this team) a long time ago and the event is almost here. It's a week away, it's amazing," Kennedy said.
"I never dreamt of the year that I have had. To jump 4.50m was awesome, but to get to 4.59m was totally unexpected. I was totally in the moment in that competition and I look back thinking 'wow, what an amazing night.' I'll always treasure that."
"I went to youth, then world juniors and now I'm on the senior team. I've learnt so much already and can only learn more here. This is the start of something for me and I can't wait to take it all in and improve even more."
Two-time Commonwealth champion Alana Boyd (Qld) will start alongside Kennedy in the women's pole vault.
A co-captain of the Australian Flame, Boyd is the Australian pole vault record holder with a career best mark of 4.76m. She has been the national champion four times and her international resume includes starts at three instalments of the IAAF World Championships and a further two Olympic Games.
The Australian Flame jumps contingent also includes Fabrice Lapierre (NSW), Brooke Stratton (Vic, long jump), Eleanor Patterson (Vic, high jump), Brandon Starc (NSW, high jump) and Joel Baden (Vic, high jump).
A gold medallist at the IAAF World Indoor Championships and Commonwealth Games, Lapierre has returned to impressive form since moving his training environment to Phoenix (USA), where he is coached by Dan Pfaff. Stratton will compete at an open age major international championship for the first time, after being forced to withdraw from the 2014 Commonwealth Games with injury. She set a new personal best of 6.73m during the Australian Athletics Tour to ensure her selection
The Commonwealth champion for the women's high jump, Patterson will enjoy her maiden start at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing. The winner of the gold medal at the 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships, the Leongatha (Vic) based charge soared to a massive 1.96m at the Australian All-School Championships that same year before Glasgow 2014 victory last season.
Patterson at her best is within striking distance of the longstanding national record of 1.98m, with a performance of this nature set to see her challenge for a medal.
Starc competed alongside the Australian Flame for the first time at the IAAF World Championships two years ago, with Beijing 2015 providing the Youth Olympic Games medallist and Commonwealth Games finalist with an opportunity to improve upon his season best leap of 2.30m at the Sydney Track Classic. Baden soared to 2.29m late in 2014 to come into contention for Australian Flame selection and has recovered well from an injury that forced his withdrawal from much of the Australian athletics season.
The Australian Flame team for the IAAF World Championships is 45-strong, boasting 42 individual athletes and the women's 4x400m relay. Three athletes will also compete in exhibition masters events to bring the overall squad size to 48.
The first wave of athletes will arrive in the Chines capital today, while the remainder of the team will continue their preparation for Beijing 2015 at a team camp in Wakayama (JPN).
At the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow (RUS), Australia won three medals – two silver (Sally Pearson, Kim Mickle) and one bronze (Jared Tallent) – and scored 27 points to place 16th of 203 competing nations.
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UPDATE: Received a tweet from Salem Patch reporter John Zorabedian that the city council intends to override the mayor's veto of the Pinto Jobs Plan. I hope, but don't expect, that they have a good explanation for why this is a good piece of legislation for the taxpayers of Salem, and not just a good piece of legislation for the 11 city councilors. This makes them all look bad.
It sounds like the principal at Witchcraft Heights Elementary School wants nothing to do with Jim Fleming's proposal to rename that school. See Salem Patch for more info. He's not just the principal, he's also an alum.
Speaking of alums, there is a Facebook group for alums of Witchcraft Heights. Did you go to Witchcraft? Join up. There is currently a small discussion about the renaming proposal going on there.
My guess is that the proposal dies in committee. The timing is bad with the cost involved, and I'm not hearing anyone who is really gung ho about it in the first place. There are probably other, less expensive ways to give Lenny O'Leary his due.
Mayor Driscoll recently vetoed Councilor Pinto's City Coucil Jobs Plan (not the official name) legislation that would make it legal for councilors to jump straight from council into a city payroll position. His position here baffles me. He can't come out of it looking good. The mayor, in her letter to council, proposed that council amend the legislation to allow a councilor to sit on a city board (usually low or no compensation) immediately, but keep the restriction of a one year wait before they could take a full time city job. She cites this rule as a check on the mayor, which makes sense. Council can't act on the veto for seven days. Driscoll's proposal was sent to committee.
Under Pinto's proposal, the mayor could, for example, say to Councilor Lovely, vote my way on the St. Joe's Senior Center proposal, and I'll make you the new City Solicitor (has Joan finished law school yet?). Or, for a more timely example, could say, Joan, don't run against me in the next election, and the solicitor job is yours.
On the other hand, Councilor Pinto (I only use him as an example because it's his proposal) could say to a department head, hire me into your department, I will get my friends on council to fund it, plus a 20% bump in your department's operating budget.
Why make horse trading easier? Are these councilors in service to the city, or to themselves? Perception is reality, and the perception here is dirty.
I watched the city council meeting last night, and shared some of my thoughts on Twitter. Here are my observations:
1. Wow, Teasie Riley-Goggin loves to hear herself talk. Also, she REALLY finds a lot of importance in podiums. Anyone want to bet how many consecutive city council meetings she speaks at?
2. Jerry Ryan looks much better without the facial hair. It doesn't make you look older Jerry, just creepier. You don't drive a panel van, do you? Shave it off.
3. I think Sosnowski may have admitted that he doesn't really keep on top of his council mail. He lost his budget reports.
4. If you asked Tom Furey how the weather was, I think he'd answer with, "I'd like to thank the mayor for providing us with this beautiful day." He's turned boot licking into a science.
5. The council approved the hiring of a budget analyst who reports to the council. I think this is a good move, and hopefully will help council identify needless spending in the budget. (I know, who am I kidding?) It should also help them understand the budget. Paul Prevey's comment that he doesn't know a fraction of what the budget is about is truly frightening. Apparently it was a long time project to get this position approved. Joan Lovely stated that she'd worked on it for years. To hear the council go on and on you'd think they had just won an Academy Award. It was funny how proud of themselves they were.
6. If it took ten years for council to hire an analyst, how long do we think it will really take for them to find a permanent home for the city hall annex? Does anyone have less than the three years that was the opt-out in the proposed lease for 120 Washington? Anyone? Bueller? Not a chance. Flush!
7. The Furey proposal to change the rule Pinto used to stop the mayor from speaking was sent to committee.
8. Where was John Ronan last night? His job is to be there. Also, Pelletier was late. Shows disrespect to the citizen speakers.
9. I knew Rosemary O'Connor years ago. Good to see she's still at it.
In the future it will be said, "Pinto was for hack-O-rama before he was against it"
mike blatty March 28, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Nice reporting, G! This is so much better than attending one of those BORING sessions. Don't know how you can stand it!
We would would be better off if Pelletier never showed up with his gallon of coffee.He represents Dunkin Dounuts but does nothing for his ward.
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First Kings - The Whole Room Was Exploding Out Into Space Album
First Kings Romania Sea Clouds Vaporwave Ambient 2017
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2 Heard Through A Wall 2:30
3 Wetwork 1:41
4 Gone Under Grove 3:05
5 Warp Sea 2:27
6 Magician Longs To See 4:49
7 Asleep In Heaven 1:24
8 Asleep In Heaven (Vinyl Dial Remix) 2:39
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Q: Set store cookie not working in Magento 2 I'm trying to make my first Magento 2 module so I'm new to this...
Basically what I'm trying to achieve now is:
check if a store view was set in a cookie before
  if yes: do nothing.
  if not: set English store view.
this is my code:
<?php

namespace HeziDebby\GeoIpRedirect\Plugin;

use HeziDebby\GeoIpRedirect\Model\GeoIpRequest;
use Magento\Framework\App\FrontControllerInterface;
use Magento\Framework\App\RequestInterface;
use Magento\Store\Api\StoreCookieManagerInterface;
use Magento\Store\Model\Plugin\StoreCookie;
use Magento\Store\Model\StoreFactory;

class GeoIpRedirectPlugin
{

    /**
     * @var StoreFactory
     */
    private $storeFactory;
    /**
     * @var StoreCookieManagerInterface
     */
    private $storeCookieManager;
    /**
     * @var GeoIpRequest
     */
    private $geoIpRequest;
    /**
     * @var StoreCookie
     */
    private $storeCookie;

    public function __construct(
        StoreFactory $storeFactory,
        StoreCookieManagerInterface $storeCookieManager,
        GeoIpRequest $geoIpRequest
    )
    {
        $this->storeFactory = $storeFactory;
        $this->storeCookieManager = $storeCookieManager;
        $this->geoIpRequest = $geoIpRequest;
    }

    public function beforeDispatch(
        FrontControllerInterface $subject,
        RequestInterface $request
    ){

        if(!$this->storeCookieManager->getStoreCodeFromCookie()){
            $store = $this->storeFactory->create();

            $store->load('EN','country_code');

            $this->storeCookieManager->setStoreCookie($store);
        }

        return null;
    }
}

There are 2 things which I do not understand:
1) I'm debugging with Xdebug and I have set a breakpoint on the condition line, the weird thing is that in one page load, the debugging stops on this breakpoint more then once, why is that happening?
**edit: it happens because of other non related requests to frontcontroller
2) The cookie is not being set after this line

$this->storeCookieManager->setStoreCookie($store);

And in the next time the debugger stops on the condition, the cookie is set to the default store view(it actually loads the default store view the therefore the cookie is 'default).
Thanks in advance!

A: I recently struggled with this same dilemma - I went through 3 iterations of different approaches and finally found one that seems to be working:

*

*Create an interceptor (plugin) on the \Magento\Store\Model\StoreResolver::getCurrentStoreId() method

*Utilize the \Magento\Store\Model\StoreSwitcher to switch to the desired store

Module Files
etc/frontend/di.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\Store\Model\StoreResolver">
        <plugin name="my_custom_store_resolver_current_store_id" type="Vendor\Module\Plugin\Model\StoreResolverPlugin"/>
    </type>
</config>

etc/di.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Vendor\Module\Plugin\Model\StoreResolverPlugin">
        <arguments>
            <argument name="cache" xsi:type="object">Magento\Framework\App\Cache\Type\Config</argument>
            <argument name="runMode" xsi:type="init_parameter">Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_TYPE</argument>
            <argument name="scopeCode" xsi:type="init_parameter">Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_CODE</argument>
        </arguments>
    </type>
</config>

Plugin/Model/StoreResolverPlugin (the magic)
<?php

namespace Vendor\Module\Plugin\Model;

/**
 * Dependencies
 */
use Magento\Framework\Serialize\SerializerInterface;
use Magento\Store\Model\StoreSwitcher;

/**
 * Store Resolver Plugin
 */
class StoreResolverPlugin extends \Magento\Store\Model\StoreResolver
{
    /**
     * @var \Magento\Framework\Serialize\SerializerInterface
     */
    private $serializer;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Store\Api\Data\StoreInterface
     */
    protected $_targetStore;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Store\Model\StoreSwitcher
     */
    protected $_storeSwitcher;

    /**
     * Get Target store
     *
     * @return \Magento\Store\Api\Data\StoreInterface
     */
    protected function getTargetStore()
    {
        if (!$this->_targetStore) {
            list($stores, $defaultStoreId) = $this->getStoresData();
            $default = $this->getDefaultStoreById($defaultStoreId);

            try {
                $this->_targetStore = $this->getRequestedStoreByCode('english');
            } catch (\Magento\Framework\Exception\NoSuchEntityException $e) {
                $this->_targetStore = $default;
            }

            // Switch stores
            $this->getStoreSwitcher()->switch($default, $this->_targetStore, $this->_targetStore->getUrl());
        }

        return $this->_targetStore;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function aroundGetCurrentStoreId(\Magento\Store\Api\StoreResolverInterface $resolver, callable $proceed)
    {
        list($stores, $defaultStoreId) = $this->getStoresData();

        $storeCode = $this->request->getParam(self::PARAM_NAME, $this->storeCookieManager->getStoreCodeFromCookie());
        if (is_array($storeCode)) {
            if (!isset($storeCode['_data']['code'])) {
                throw new \InvalidArgumentException(__('Invalid store parameter.'));
            }
            $storeCode = $storeCode['_data']['code'];
        }
        if ($storeCode) {
            try {
                $store = $this->getRequestedStoreByCode($storeCode);
            } catch (\Magento\Framework\Exception\NoSuchEntityException $e) {
                $store = $this->getTargetStore();
            }

            if (!in_array($store->getId(), $stores)) {
                $store = $this->getTargetStore();
            }
        } else {
            $store = $this->getTargetStore();
        }
        return $store->getId();
    }

    /**
     * Get serializer
     *
     * @return \Magento\Framework\Serialize\SerializerInterface
     * @deprecated 100.2.0
     */
    private function getSerializer()
    {
        if ($this->serializer === null) {
            $this->serializer = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance()
                ->get(SerializerInterface::class);
        }
        return $this->serializer;
    }

    /**
     * Get store switcher
     *
     * @return \Magento\Store\Model\StoreSwitcher
     */
    private function getStoreSwitcher()
    {
        if ($this->_storeSwitcher === null) {
            $this->_storeSwitcher = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance()
                ->get(StoreSwitcher::class);
        }
        return $this->_storeSwitcher;
    }
}

Notes

*

*The plugin is completely overriding the getCurrentStoreId() method. This is only executed on the frontend scope as it is only defined in etc/frontend/di.xml. The "magic" happens in the getTargetStore() method. You can load stores via the store repository as I did here, or you can choose to load them another way if you want to include more dependencies.

*

*The main difference with the overridden getCurrentStoreId() method is the replacement of the getDefaultStoreById() calls with getTargetStore().

*It seems that the only reason this works is because the store switch is only executed once:

*

*The first time the script is run, $this->_targetStore is not yet defined and the switch is executed.

*If you would like to redirect your users to another store URL, I believe the place to do that would be right after the $this->getStoreSwitcher()->switch() call.

*My implementation encloses the contents of aroundGetCurrentStoreId() in an if statement that check if my module is enabled. If not, I call $proceed().

I would definitely love to hear whether or not this works for your case and if you have any other thoughts or ideas to consider.

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V geometrii je konvexní mnohoúhelník takový mnohoúhelník, jehož všechny vnitřní úhly jsou konvexní, tedy velikostně menší nebo rovny úhlu přímému (180 stupňů).

Vlastnosti
 Všechny úsečky, jejichž krajní body leží uvnitř konvexního mnohoúhelníku, mají s tímto mnohoúhelníkem všechny své body společné.
 Každá polorovina, v níž konvexní mnohoúhelník leží, a jejíž hraniční přímka má s mnohoúhelníkem společnou právě jednu jeho stranu, se nazývá opěrná. Konvexní mnohoúhelník je průnikem všech svých opěrných polorovin.
 Vnitřní úhel konvexního mnohoúhelníku je průnikem opěrných polorovin příslušných dvěma sousedním stranám. Součet velikostí vnitřních úhlů n-úhelníku je roven "  ".
 Úsečka spojující dva nesousední vrcholy se nazývá úhlopříčka. Počet úhlopříček konvexního mnohoúhelníku je právě "  ".
 Mnohoúhelník, jemuž lze opsat kružnici, je konvexní, a nazývá se tětivový. Pokud mu lze kružnici vepsat, nazývá se tečnový.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura

Související články
 Geometrický útvar
 Konvexní
 Planimetrie

Externí odkazy

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Using the system introduced by Froom and Shimoni, we were only able to include 607 patients (19.9 %). However, we found an AUROC of 0.864 indicating a good discriminatory power. We were not able to calculate the goodness of fit using mortality data from the original article, as these were not provided. Thus using the predicted values in our cohort, we found a Hosmer-Lemeshow χ2 (eight degrees of freedom) of 71.7, p < 0.001.
The two biochemical based risk stratification systems tested in this external prospective study were both able to predict in-hospital mortality with good discriminatory power but unacceptable calibration. However, we were only able to include 19.9 % of our cohort when calculating the score developed by Froom and Shimoni.


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On December 7th, the Senior Executives Association recognized the 2016 and 2017 recipients of Meritorious and Distinguished Presidential Rank Awards – the highest honor a civilian federal employee can receive.
The awardees we recognized at the event, and with whom those of you who attended the event were socializing throughout the day, included at least two Nobel prize winners; scientists who have revolutionized their respective fields and, indeed, created new ones; career leaders who have made decisions impacting huge swaths of our economy; and heroic members of the Federal law enforcement community who are leading the international effort to combat trafficking and global terrorism. To cite just a few examples.
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For the evening I turned the 'top' back into a dress, this is what I wore to the cinema to watch Batman. I love this dress, but it was a little bit on the tight side, I should of gone for a size up!


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Q: CTest: How to set WORKING_DIRECTORY globally? Recently, I have been building a simple test-suite with CTest. In its most simple form it looked something like this:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)
project(testsuite)
enable_testing()

add_test(NAME test_0
  WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
  COMMAND script.sh arg-0)

add_test(NAME test_1
  WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
  COMMAND script.sh arg-1)

add_test(NAME test_2
  WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
  COMMAND script.sh arg-2)

However, as it was growing, I quickly became tired of having to repeat WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} in every test.
Question: Is there a way to set WORKING_DIRECTORY globally (or, yet better, locally within each test subdirectory)? Something like
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)
project(testsuite)
enable_testing()

set(DEFAULT_WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR})

add_test(NAME test_0
  COMMAND script.sh arg-0)

add_test(NAME test_1
  COMMAND script.sh arg-1)

add_test(NAME test_2
  COMMAND script.sh arg-2)

The closest to a solution so far is a recommendation of my dear colleague to define a test-generating function:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)
project(testsuite)
enable_testing()

function(add_my_test TEST_NAME TEST_COMMAND TEST_ARGUMENTS)
  add_test(NAME ${TEST_NAME}
    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
    COMMAND ${TEST_COMMAND} ${TEST_ARGUMENTS})
endfunction()

add_my_test(test_0 script.sh arg-0)
add_my_test(test_1 script.sh arg-1)
add_my_test(test_2 script.sh arg-2)

This works fine but it feels like an unnecessary level of indirection.
In the end, I opted for using a fixture to copy the necessary parts into the build folder, test there and clean up again; this is probably a cleaner and more idiomatic solution. Nevertheless, out of curiosity I would still be interested in a solution to the original problem.

A:
Is there a way to set WORKING_DIRECTORY globally

No. The default WORKING_DIRECTORY for add_test is specified in documentation.

This works fine

Do it. I would do:
macro(add_my_test)
  add_test(
    WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}"
    ${ARGV}
  )
endmacro()

add_my_test(
  NAME test_1
  COMMAND script.sh arg-1
)

You can also roll your own functionality 'Overwrite' cmake command using a macro and restore its default behavior , but I believe just a wrapper function is great and clean.


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Profession: Blues Musician
Biography: Muddy Waters was one of the most influential blues musicians of all time. His impact extends to blues, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, hard rock, folk, jazz, and country. The Rolling Stones named themselves after his 1950 hit song "Rollin' Stone".
Water's use of amplified electric guitar helped define his legendary style, which transformed the rustic blues of the Mississippi into an electrified urban sound and made him the pioneer and father of modern Chicago blues.
His hits include "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "Louisiana Blues", "Hoochie Coochie Man", and "I'm Ready". Waters has received six Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992, and is a members of the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".
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Generation: Greatest Generation
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Amplify's tagline so far has been 'because remarkable women aren't a supply problem'. So does this mean it's a demand problem?
Hidden in our mindsets which shape our language are the ways that we've constructed manhood and womanhood. That women aren't 'demanded' (asked, encouraged, told from a young age, etc) to run for the highest political offices around the world is a threat to all of us.
It's a threat because, with the rise of the #MeToo reckoning, we've also seen the rise of the anti-#MeToo movement – the one that's always been there, persistently telling women to just 'stop being so hysterical, just calm down'. With the President of the United States openly mocking the #MeToo movement, it can feel at times that equity is a long ways away.
There are places in this world where women aren't even considered people – where they are told from birth that they don't have thoughts unless a man tells them what to think. This is argued as biology, when we've shown that in fact, it's not a biological fact at all. It's a story. It seems like the battle for the last bit of this decade will be the battle of facts and truths vs. fake news and propaganda. And it's important to note that facts, truths, fake news and propaganda all come to us via stories. It's just a matter of determining which stories we want to buy into.
Look at Malala and what she's been able to accomplish – from a Nobel peace prize, to significant influence around the world – and who has always stood behind her, telling her that she was just as capable as any man? Her father. Because he knows stories HAVE to change – he started by changing his daughters story about what was possible, even when the world around her told her that she didn't matter. Our stories, institutions, and organizations – and the people in them and running them – matter a great deal.
Hollywood has been working to change the conversation on this, and while I like the occasional celebrity gossip, I've never followed Hollywood so closely until this past fall.
At Cannes this year, 82 women staged a protest representing each of the 82 female directors who've been in competition in Cannes's 71-year history—compared to the 1,688 men (that's less than 5%). I'm not quite sure how we can say equity NOT a demand problem. Are there really no women directors out there? Hard to believe. So, it seems as though in many arenas, supply has not been the issue. And if it's not a supply problem, then perhaps demand might be the source of the issue.
Equity is a demand problem in the sense that women's accomplishments can be invisible – because of where the balance of power sits. (And I don't think this is only true re gender – we're seeing the same type of thing playing out right now in the US in regard to race)
The Harvey Weinsteins / Bill Cosbys / Jian Ghomeshis of the world were able to get away with what they did for years 'because that's the way it's always been'. This is shocking and yet, not shocking all at the same time. Shocking because it's now visible after years and year and years of abuse. Not shocking because we all let it happen because it part of the stories we told ourselves about how the world works.
It's only been 100 years in Canada that women have been able to vote – aka, be considered people under the law. And relatedly – own property, control their finances, and most importantly, control their bodies (still not fully resolved). Our institutions, organizations and the people who run them matter a great deal. Changing our stories is MONUMENTAL and, I think, the hardest part.


Hashtag fitspo, fitspiration, bodygoals, motivationmonday, transformationtuesday, instafit, fitstagram - whatever your hashtag of choice, we all love stalking Instagram's plethora of insanely fit people. Who can blame us? These stunners aren't only nice to look at, but they provide one hell of an excellent source of motivation.
Just one glance at any of these fit Boston babes' Insta pages and you'll be lacing up your sneakers and booking it to the gym. So if you're in need of a little extra boost of inspiration to follow through on those New Year's resolutions, just take a gander any one of these Instagram accounts.


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Explores both the psychology of workplace bullying as well as the legal environment in which it occurs. It defines what workplace bullying is while examining the factors which contribute to such behaviour and the conditions that can lead to a toxic work environment. This book examines the risks and liabilities involved, provides practical advice on how to deal with such situations and gives an overview of general risk management through grievance procedures.
8. Role of the Fair Work Commission.
Do you want bullying with that?


AT&T has snuck into the television-delivery market on silent cat feet. Without fanfare, the company formerly known as SBC has begun providing TV-over-IP service to a lucky handful in its hometown of San Antonio, Texas. Ironically, that's the same state where arch-rival Verizon has premiered its own television service. Unlike Verizon's capital-intensive all-fiber-optic approach, which extends fiber directly into the home, AT&T is building fiber only as far as "nodes" in the neighborhood, then compressing the signal into copper lines for the final leg of the journey. AT&T's initial offerings include 200 channels, including all the major networks, and some on-demand programming. This is a huge story and I'll get back to it as soon as I know more.
Levi Strauss has redesigned its iconic jeans for the iPod. The Redwire DLX Jeans have a "docking cradle" to hold the music player—while concealing the telltale bump—plus a red ribbon to allow easy removal of the iPod, a joystick track-navigation control built into the watch pocket, a wire retractor to manage the earbud cable, a distinctive white leather patch, and bluffed back pockets with hidden stitching. Pricing and pictures were not available at presstime but the new product probably won't look much like this picture of my 550s with a nano stuck in the watch pocket.
This blog has a new name. What was formerly the Diablog has become From the Edge. The new name fits in more neatly with Maureen Jenson's From the Top and Geoffrey Morrison's From the Lab. It also signals a change in content. Starting this week, short news items will start appearing in this space several times a week. Now you'll have an excuse to stop by more often. The news briefs will join the short reviews that have been appearing every third week. The longer, quirkier, dual-voiced Diablog commentaries, my labors of love, will continue at the rate of about one a month. So there you have the new format: news, reviews, and commentaries. Or as it says in the subhead, dispatches, demos, and diablogs. Please visit and comment often.
Following are a few postcards from the now-concluded 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This is not a weighty wrapup or even a best-of-show story, just a few things that caught our fancy.
We're in Vegas! We're in Vegas!
Venice: La Serenissima, and serene it is. Gondolas ply the blue-green waters of the canals while thundering water-buses hop round the exterior of the islands in a blue-grey lagoon kissed by Adriatic sea air. Tourists cheerfully lose themselves in a maze of quiet pollution-free streets. Unleashed dogs walk themselves, tails wagging. Workers patiently replace wooden piles under sinking buildings while old folks haul lightweight shopping carts over pedestrian bridges. People are gentle and tolerant in this 1250-year-old former nation-state, and that's a good thing—because there you are, in a supermarket, aiming your digital camera at home theater gear. I could have killed you.
Let's face it, i-anything is pretty hot now that the iPod has become the fastest-growing product in consumer electronics. Sales of MP3 players shot up by 255 percent during the first eight months of 2005, and you can bet Apple's smallest and prettiest child was the driving force behind that dizzying growth. Enter Klipsch, one of the few good speaker brands you're likely to find in a national chain store. Now that the the company's iGroove is playing on my desk, I'd say Klipsch deserves its piece of the pie.
Hey, it's holiday gift-giving season! Or as I like to call it, Yuletide. I've already dug out the stocking mom made with the train in felt and sequins. What are you putting in it this year?
You're a little quiet today.
Will better sound help a non-iPod product succeed in a iPod-centric world? JVC is betting on it with the Alneo XA-HD500. Now, I'm not saying the iPod sounds bad. The minis and nanos I've heard sound pretty good. But the Alneo has an edge in transparency that becomes immediately obvious with a high-end classical recording like Mozart's Clarinet Concerto (K622), as played by the Michelangelo Chamber Orchestra with soloist Antony Michaelson. Normally I don't expect miracles from MP3 files, even when ripped at 192 kilobits per second, but I was amazed at the fragile beauty of the string sound and the air that surrounded the solo instrument. I was hooked.
Do I get to pick a topic for a change?
One of the most mortifying moments of my life came when I realized I'd lost my Sony MDR-NC10 noise-canceling earbuds. Well, I didn't exactly lose them—what I lost was one of the rubber earpieces. I was ransacking the front pockets of my Levis in the men's room of the Dallas airport and the friction of dragging out the earbuds must have dislodged the precious morsel of rubber. That effectively exiled the MDR-NC10 to my useless-gear drawer. Living without them was so impossible that I broke down and bought the successor model, the MDR-NC11.
So you finally made it to China.
Who are we? Why are we here? Is that enough existential questioning for you?


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Q: jQuery unobtrusive validation min - max or zero I have a form with 6 text fields. The validation is standard for 4 of them, with just and min / max value. However, for 2 of the fields, the value of a text field can be either 0 or between 2 values.
I can use min: x, and max: y, or range: [x,y], for the between 2 values part but there doesn't seem to be a way to say max: 0 || range [x,y].
As a work around I removed the validation for 2 fields from the jquery validation and written some custom validation for those 2 fields. The issue is when the form is submitted it is tied into the .net code and the custom validation isn't working properly. I can keep on adding custom code, but I was hoping there would be a simpler solution.
Edit:
Sorry , I will try to make it clearer. I have a html textbox and the value can either be 0 or anything between 100 and 1000. Using the asp.net jquery validation from microsoft (https://github.com/aspnet/jquery-validation-unobtrusive), I can use the range values [100,1000] or the min: 100 and max:1000 validation. But what I need to do is:-
say the value is either 0 or min: 100 / max: 1000,
or
value 0 or range [100,1000]
Hopefully this clears up what I am hoping to do


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Q: Where can I save plugin data? I created a plugin which has a shortcode that displays a button in a form. I would like to track the button clicks with an onclick() script and save the amount of clicks to a meta field. I am just not sure where to save this data. I don't want this data to be saved to a posts meta field, as this isn't post specific. Should such data be saved to the wp-options table? What's the best way to do this?
Thanks!

A: If it's not post specific then it should be saved as an option in wp_options with add_option() or update_option().


The origin of life is among the great unsolved scientific problems of our age. To advance our knowledge of the processes that led to the emergence of life, the Simons Foundation established the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life (SCOL). The collaboration supports creative, innovative research on topics such as the astrophysical and planetary context of the origins of life, the development of prebiotic chemistry, the assembly of the first cells, the advent of Darwinian evolution and the earliest signs of life on the young Earth.
In the past decade, a small number of researchers have developed a "systems" approach to origins-of-life research that connects disciplines, technologies and institutions in new collaborations. It is likely that answers to important scientific questions may come in the next decade, making this a significant moment in the changeover that results from an influx of new talent, new instrumentation and a growing global community of researchers.
The collaboration is now inviting applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support independent research on topics related to the origins of life at one or more laboratories or research institutions in any country. For more information on the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life, please click here.
The collaboration seeks to engage the ideas and creativity of researchers around the world by providing an array of opportunities for postdoctoral fellows to interact with colleagues from different disciplines and programs, both online and in person, including webinars, workshops and annual symposia. As fellows are expected to participate fully in all SCOL events, these opportunities are designed to not only strengthen the collaboration but also provide the most fruitful mechanism for bringing a growing origins-of-life community together. Applications from all origins-related disciplines are encouraged.
Candidates must have received their Ph.D. or equivalent degree within five years of the fellowship's start date. Applications may be submitted from scientists in domestic and foreign nonprofit organizations; public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories and units of state and local government; and eligible agencies of the federal government. There are no citizenship or country requirements. Preference will be given to postdocs who are not in currently funded SCOL Investigator labs.
Appointments last for three years, contingent upon continued research on questions relevant to origins of life as assessed by annual progress reports. The annual stipend will be $62,000 USD. The stipend may be supplemented by the host institution or the mentoring PI. There will be up to a $10,000 allowance for health insurance or equivalent insurance in the country in which the fellow's institution is located, for the fellow and his or her family. The allowance is only for health insurance and not any other benefit(s). Any unexpended health insurance funds may be reallocated to the research allowance. An annual allowance of up to $20,000 may be used for supplies, publication costs, small equipment and other research-related expenses. Of the $20,000 allowance, up to $6,000 of it may be used for research-related travel and up to $3,000 of it for relocation costs of the fellow and his or her family to the host institution. Relocation costs must be in accordance with the policies of the host institution. Payment cannot be made directly to fellows. No indirect costs may be taken.
Policies and procedures governing this award can be found at the following link.
The application process has two phases. In the first phase, applicants submit a first-stage proposal via proposalCENTRAL. The submission deadline for first-stage proposals is Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. First-stage finalists will be notified by Tuesday, November 6, 2018, and must submit a second-stage proposal by Tuesday, December 4, 2018.
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To apply, after you log in, select the grey GRANT OPPORTUNITIES tab on the right side of the page and scroll down to the Simons Foundation section. Then click on APPLY NOW in the LIFE SCIENCES-SIMONS COLLABORATION ON THE ORIGINS OF LIFE FELLOWSHIPS row. For assistance with proposalCENTRAL, please call 800-875-2562 or email pcsupport@altum.com.
Two confidential letters of recommendation, from current or former advisors (other than the mentoring PI) or other scientists familiar with your work.
Confidential letters of recommendation must be submitted through proposalCENTRAL (see instructions document in proposalCENTRAL) by Thursday, September 6, 2018, 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. Note: this is prior to the first-stage proposal deadline.
The SCOL steering committee will review all first-stage proposals and forward recommendations to the Simons Foundation science staff for their review. Successful finalists will be notified by the foundation on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, and will be invited to submit a second-stage proposal online via proposalCENTRAL.
The deadline for second-stage proposal submission is Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.
The original narrative that was submitted and approved with the first-stage proposal. Changes to the narrative are not allowed.
501(c)(3) determination or equivalency letter (foreign institutions only). The Simons Foundation requires a determination letter from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stating exemption under 501(c)(3) and, furthermore, either a 509(a)(1), (2) or (3) classification. If an international institution is selected for funding and does not have the aforementioned documentation, the Simons Foundation will require the institution to complete an equivalency determination with NGOsource (see Policies and Procedures).
The steering committee of the SCOL will review, rank and recommend candidates to the Simons Foundation. The SCOL will award up to five fellowships in 2019.
New users first need to create a user account on proposalCENTRAL (pC) at https://proposalcentral.altum.com/. (For instructions on how to create an account, see the FAQ How do I create a proposalCENTRAL user account? below.) For all users with a pC account, log in under APPLICATION LOGIN at https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ and select CREATE NEW PROPOSAL. Scroll down to SIMONS FOUNDATION and then click APPLY NOW for the Life Sciences-Collaboration on the Origins of Life Fellowship program in order to start the first-stage proposal and access the templates. After all sections are completed, you will be able to click on the SUBMIT button to send.
No, the Simons Foundation only accepts first-stage proposals submitted online through https://proposalcentral.altum.com/.
No, however, successful finalists will need an institutional sign off for the second-stage proposal.
Candidates who hold or will hold a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree at the time of activation of the fellowship are eligible to apply.
Yes, first-stage proposals may be submitted from scientists in foreign nonprofit organizations; public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories and units of state and local government; and eligible agencies of the federal government.
Yes, bio sketches are required for both the mentoring principal investigator(s) and postdoctoral fellow applicant.
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The institution that will administer the fellowship.
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The grant is awarded to the fellow's host institution.
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