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To follow-up on all the women in IT postings. We have a great female programmer on our team, I'd probably even trade 2 of the guys on the team for another one like her. (Nothing against you other guys and all, but she's really good...)
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Not to disparage the two divas you're talking about, but I found that list rather surprising this morning, and took a look at the source report normally used by PL.ReplyDelete
I think PlanetLotus has a bug at the moment, because the two don't coincide. (I was waiting to see Yancy on Sametime all day so I could tell him, but evidently his real job kept him busy today!)
That being said, I'm currently in agony that the one female developer on my own team is on maternity leave. She's absolutely irreplaceable. (Sorry, Tim and Devin.... but you know it's true!)
Yeah, well... Until Yancy "gets it fixed", congrats are still in order regardless of how "surprising" it looked...ReplyDelete
@Duffbert. Of course. I was simply surprised because I expected the Yellow Day traffic to skew those rankings considerably.ReplyDelete
Kathy Brown and Marie Scott are great bloggers and assets to our community. And I'm delighted to see their names up there in any capacity.
That Ed guy? Not so much.
@Nate - The fact that it's true doesn't make it any less hurtful. Why are you so mean to me? Don't you love me any more? Does this make me look fat? Why do you hate my mother?ReplyDelete
Don't forget the "Notes Design Blog" entries are largely written by Mary Beth Raven. :-)ReplyDelete


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The Art of the Short Story
David Ulin (moderator), Karen Bender, Lincoln Michel, Tara Ison
Bender, when asked why she writes short stories: It was something she could finish. Compared short stories to dreams.
Ison said she prefers writing a solution rather than a resolution. Doesn't feel that the ending of a story needs to tie up every last thread.
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This was a hilarious panel with a pretty formidable group of writers. Both Panowich (Bull Mountain) and Berney (The Long and Faraway Gone) were nominated for the L.A. Times Book Prize this year. Berney also has an Edgar nomination and Bull Mountain was bought by USA Network. Knoll's novel Luckiest Girl Alive is also Edgar-nominated and has been bought by Lionsgate. Knoll will write the screenplay and Reese Witherspoon is producing. Kepnes' novel You: A Novel is in development at Showtime.
Panowich is a firefighter in real life and joked about only being able to write when he's at the firehouse because he's got four kids at home that keep him busy there. He lives in Georgia and wanted to depict Georgians as they really are, not as toothless hicks shown in the media.
Berney's novel was inspired by a real life event in his hometown of Oklahoma City. Workers at a steakhouse were murdered by robbers after being herded into the walk-in freezer. He purposely didn't give the PI in his book the traditional ratty office and has him put up a funny and charming front despite his being damaged. He described it as "an illusion of stability that he can't maintain". His publisher suggested he move the story to a more exciting city, but he was able to keep it in Oklahoma City, which he described as a "mini-Austin" and more interesting than people realize.
Kepnes described her sociopath protagonist as a "veterinarian for people" in that he puts them down the way we do so humanely for sick animals. When he begins stalking a woman who shopped at his bookstore, it's due to what she refers to as "interest at first sight" as opposed to love at first sight.
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Since a lot of these pieces are based on personal experience and observations, the question of identifying the real people involved came up. Baldwin said he'll ask for permission from his and his wife's immediate family, but beyond that he's willing to deal with the fallout. He has lost two friends as a result of writing about them - one he described as a great friendship lost, the other he didn't care about. Bustillo said she disguises people a lot and so far hasn't had any trouble with them.
On the pitching process: Bustillo said to write your best piece, identify an editor who would love it and send it to them. Don't be shy. Find a topic that makes you wonder why no one else is talking about it. Write it and get it out there. As an editor, Baldwin gets a ton of stories about cancer survival, addiction, and experiences of going through parents' belongings after they've passed away, so if you've got something more unique, you have a better chance of getting published.
During the audience Q&A they were asked how they pick pieces to publish and what they're looking for. Lapidos said she has a lot of stuff to read, so you have to grab her in the first paragraph. As an L.A. Times editor, she's looking for pieces evocative of the city and region. Baldwin said he has to be at least slightly entertained or surprised in the first paragraph to keep reading. He also gets too many submissions set in the past - he feels there's a vitality to the present.
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Crime Fiction: Buried Secrets
Lee Goldberg (moderator), Barry Eisler, Gregg Hurwitz, James Rollins
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I've attended so many panels with Lee Goldberg I'm surprised he doesn't get a restraining order. In fact, I think the first time I saw him was at the first FOB I attended, when he interviewed Joseph Wambaugh.
Hurwitz is an interesting guy. In addition to being the best-selling author of 15 novels, he also spent time writing for Marvel Comics and has a master's degree in Shakespearean Tragedy from Oxford. He's known for actually trying out things he writes about, from martial arts training to weapons training to spending time in a cult. He described himself as a big fan of anti-heroes. Evan Smoak, the protagonist of his latest novel Orphan X, is a government trained assassin turned pro-bono assassin, who Hurwitz described as "helping people who have normal lives that he can never have". He also said he prefers to think of his characters as protagonists and antagonists as opposed to heroes and villains.
Rollins, whose novels are mashups of time travel, futuristic science and fantasy worlds, said he is always looking for the newest things in science for his stories. He made a joke about having had RFID chips inserted into his fingertips and that he could feel the energy from his microphone with such a straight face that Goldberg (as well as I) totally fell for it. On a serious note, he had recently attended a "body modification" fair in San Francisco and spoke to people who actually have had chips implanted. Again, always looking for new science. He also mentioned that when friends badger him into putting them in his books, he kills their characters horribly.
Eisler, who once worked for the CIA, had written about a surveillance program and worried it went overboard. Then the Edward Snowden story broke and he realized his story didn't go far enough. He has strong opinions on the overreach of privacy by government. He made what I thought was an interesting point: That these days government knows more about its citizens than ever, while we know less and less about what the government is up to. He finds this disturbing. I agree. Eisler also walked away from traditional publishing to publish his book through Amazon. He loves that writers today have choices for reaching an audience.
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Over past few months, ADA has vindicated itself like a stable cryptocurrency when compared to many other coins in the market. So, the team behind cryptocurrency has made real progress with so many plans in play to help the Cardano`s potential.
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Currently occupying the 11th spot in the market cap rankings, Cardano (ADA) is trading a little above $0.038 at the moment. The entire year of 2018 was bearish and even saw ADA drop below its launch price on some exchanges. It's all been downhill since the big bull run of 2017/2018, and it looks like there's not much hope of a recovery – at least not yet.
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From a Daily chart perspective (above), we can see that resistance sits at 0.055 and at the 100 days Exponential Moving Average (blue line), followed much higher by 0.10 – 0.11 and 0.20. The chart shows clear lower lows and lower highs, so the pair is in a textbook downtrend and is not oversold.
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Daily Chart Support: 0.0272 (the exact price differs depending on exchange)
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Daily Chart Resistance: 0.055 and the 100 days EMA
Weekly Chart Resistance: 0.11 and 0.20
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#29572 closed enhancement (fixed)
Customizer: add a framework for rendering controls from JS templates
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In order to facilitate future performance improvements such as lazy-loading Customizer objects and to make it easier to dynamically add controls without Ajax calls, we should introduce a framework for rendering controls from JS templates instead of PHP.
We would maintain the current PHP API and continue support it fully. But we should be able to leverage the framework in all of the core controls in a back-compatible way.
WP_Customize_Control->render_content() would output nothing. We would add a function to
WP_Customize_Control for defining a JS template, and this would always be output in the Customizer controls footer (if possible, even for controls that weren't added with PHP, since any available control type would be able to be added dynamically later). That part may require registering available control types (and custom controls) with the Customizer, since we would want to only output the template once, and not every available control type would have controls added to it initially. All of the arguments passed in PHP when adding the control would be sent through to JS (which might eliminate the need for manually adding things to pass
to_json()). Finally, all added controls of types that have templates would be rendered from their template using the parameters passed when adding the control.
In the future if controls are dynamically created or loaded, any controls with JS templates could have new instances created directly, or by retrieving information in the form of json from an Ajax call (rather than having to get the markup for the control UI from Ajax). This would be a significantly more efficient approach for things like menu items in the Customizer.
Most important thing here: make this completely optional and opt-in. The existing PHP API for controls and Custom controls would be completely untouched; this is something that would improve things internally, and that could be leveraged in custom controls.
Scope for this ticket is to create this framework and to leverage it for the main
WP_Customize_Control. After that, we can explore implementing it in core's custom controls.
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Change History (35)
9 years ago
First-pass, POC, implements the framework in
WP_Customize_Color_Control (as it's mostly JS anyway).
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9 years ago
- Keywords has-patch added; needs-patch removed
- Milestone changed from Future Release to 4.1
Took a first stab at this, and it's easier than I expected.
29572.diff implements a framework for rendering controls from JS/Underscore templates instead of from PHP. With multiple controls of the same type, this allows us to only send down the html once, in template form, and the data for each control, most of which was already passed as json. It also utilizes the framework in the core
WP_Customize_Color_Control. As we re-think the upload and image controls in 4.1, those would also be good candidates for leveraging this.
In terms of developers leveraging this API, writing JS templates like this is extremely similar to writing PHP for displaying controls. Devs don't need to do any JS beyond the template, which is added in PHP anyway. Here's what it looks like to implement this in an existing custom control class:
- Make your
render_content()function empty (but it does need to exist to override the default one).
- Create a new function,
content_template(), and put the old contents of
- Add any custom class variables that are needed for the control to the data passed to json by modifying the
to_json()function (see
WP_Customize_Color_Controlfor an example).
- Convert the PHP from
render_content()into a JS template, using
<# #>around JS statements to evaluate and
{{ }}around variables to print. PHP class variables are available in the data object; for example, the label can be printed with
{{ data.label }}.
- Register the custom control class/type. This critical step tells the Customizer to print the template for this control. This is distinct from just printing templates for all controls that were added because the ideas are that many instances of this control type could be rendered from one template, and that any registered control types would be available for dynamic control-creation in the future. just do something like
$wp_customize->register_control_type( 'WP_Customize_Color_Control' );.
Ideally, with the control improvements in 4.0, custom controls should only be necessary when they need to do something with JS. Therefore, I'm okay with effectively removing the core examples of overriding the
render_content() function by moving that logic to JS templates.
@westonruter: any thoughts on how/whether widgets could leverage this? I'm not sure that it would be as useful there given the need to get the widget form from PHP. Menus, on the other hand, would benefit hugely from this. I'll look at leveraging that in the plugin once this lands in core.
Note: framework for dynamically-creating controls via JS is not in the scope of this ticket (as it also requires information about associated sections/panels, priority, etc., which depends on the creation of those models). However, the code should be structured in a way that lends itself to the future build-out of a formalized framework for that. Notably this means naming things so that we can add
render_container-type actions, which would probably be a function in the JS model that custom controls would only override in JS.
This should give us potentially huge performance improvements when dealing with things like menus, since we only need to send the html structure down from the server once, and can reduce individual controls to their data (in json format). That will also facilitate lazy-loading controls based on user navigation.
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9 years ago
Replying to celloexpressions:
any thoughts on how/whether widgets could leverage this? I'm not sure that it would be as useful there given the need to get the widget form from PHP.
No, widgets can't really leverage JS templates as they are now. Widget control form templates are a bit of a mess, and they need to be largely emulating what is on the widgets admin page in order to maintain compatibility with existing plugins.
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- Keywords dev-feedback added
Specific dev-feedback-y questions:
- How do we feel about the concept of "registered control types"?
- Should we go ahead and implement render-container logic, but leave it unused in core, or is it okay to indicate that things will change a bit here in the future to accommodate that? (again, that would be necessary once we formalize the ability to dynamically render controls, and eventually do that for all controls, via ajax for unsupported types).
- Can/should we always export all class variable to json, or should it remain a whitelist, with the requirement of adding custom class variables in subclasses (that's what #29572.diff does)?
- Should we check if the string passed is a WP_Customize_Control before registering it, or okay to assume that it's fine?
I'd like to wait on further work on #21483 so that we can leverage this there, hence high-priority. Would be ideal to get this in sooner rather than later to facilitate additional feedback and further integrations in various core and third-party controls. But not really reasonable to demonstrate this outside of core via a plugin, much like how the Panels API was introduced.
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Replying to celloexpressions:
- Should we go ahead and implement render-container logic, but leave it unused in core, or is it okay to indicate that things will change a bit here in the future to accommodate that? (again, that would be necessary once we formalize the ability to dynamically render controls, and eventually do that for all controls, via ajax for unsupported types).
Re-reading the patch, I think we can just make
WP_Customize_Control::print_template() final for now.
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9 years ago
Replying to celloexpressions:
- How do we feel about the concept of "registered control types"?
I like this, and it makes sense from the point of view of outputting one template per control.
- Can/should we always export all class variable to json, or should it remain a whitelist, with the requirement of adding custom class variables in subclasses (that's what #29572.diff does)?
We should stick to a whitelist. If a particular control needs access to other member variables, it can override the
to_json() method.
- Should we check if the string passed is a WP_Customize_Control before registering it, or okay to assume that it's fine?
In PHP 5.2, I don't think it's possible to check that a string is of a particular class (using
is_a() or
instanceof). You can only check the instantiated object. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
9 years ago
29572.2.diff makes several docs changes and marks
WP_Customize_Control::print_template() as final, since that function could change significantly when we eventually introduce a framework for dynamically creating controls.
I'm hoping that we can get a first run of this in in the next week or so, so that #21483 has a few weeks to be worked on before beta, although I'll be offline most of next week so we'll see if any further iterations are needed.
9 years ago
The one remaining issue with 29572.2.diff is that
esc_html() doesn't double-encode a string, but double braces in an Underscore template will. This comes to light with Twenty Fifteen which escapes its control label in PHP:
'label' => esc_html__( 'Header & Sidebar Background Color', 'twentyfifteen' )
The control label also gets escaped using double braces in the JS template, so the ampersand gets double-encoded and ends up looking like
Header & Sidebar Background Color. In the PHP controls,
esc_html() is used and doesn't result in double-escaping.
We can fix this in Twenty Fifteen, but many other plugins and themes also escape their control labels.
I think the solution is to explicitly decode data.label and data.description before they're passed to the control template. This will prevent double encoding.
@celloexpressions: thoughts?
9 years ago
I think that would work, although I wouldn't know exactly how to implement that, so someone else can tweak the patch.
9 years ago
- Type changed from feature request to enhancement
29572.3.diff addresses the remaining double-escaping issue by decoding entities in the label and description before they're passed to the control's JSON attributes.
9 years ago
- Keywords dev-feedback removed
29572.3.diff looks good to me.
9 years ago
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9 years ago
9 years ago
- Keywords commit added
In 29572.5.diff:
- Supply
ENT_QUOTESand blog charset as encoding param to
- Factor out duplicated
html_entity_decode()calls to new
- Include
$quote_styleif defined (PHP>=5.4).
- Add unit tests for new
celloexpressions has given an LGTM for these changes.
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9 years ago
Is there a reason why we just use the double braces? I don't see a reason for not supporting HTML in the control description, like to add a link for example. It would be consistent with the PHP templates.
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Replying to ocean90:
Is there a reason why we just use the double braces? I don't see a reason for not supporting HTML in the control description, like to add a link for example. It would be consistent with the PHP templates.
+1. Makes sense.
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- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
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2 tablespoons extra-virgin オリーブ oil, 2 turns of the pan
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Costa Diadema is the current flagship of the Costa Cruises fleet.
A pilot program tested during 2017 aboard Costa Diadema revealed a more than 50% reduction in food waste in 11 months, equivalent to a saving of 1,189 metric tons of CO2, or the emissions of 231 cars in a year.
According to a statement from the cruise line, the cruise industry is well-placed to harness the benefits of 4GOODFOOD as cruise ships, by their isolated at sea nature, are already adept at using food stores efficiently.
According to a report entitled 'Overview of waste in the UK Hospitality and food sector' produced by WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme), the average shore-based restaurant wastes 284 grams of food per person per meal.
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This compares to the 216 grams measured on the Costa fleet prior to the launch of the 4GOODFOOD program.
"We've taken a good hard look at the value of food and responsible consumption, and come up with practical solutions," said Costa Cruises President Neil Palomba. "4GOODFOOD is unprecedented in global shipping: thanks to this program we intend to cut food waste on our ships by half by 2020, ten years ahead of the deadline prescribed by the United Nations 2030 Agenda."
Palomba added that he hoped Costa Cruises' initiative would act as a catalyst for other cruise line's to follow suit.
"We've laid down a marker for the industry by promoting a more sustainable shipboard food preparation and consumption model, without in any way impairing the quality of the cruise experience," he said. "But the most important aspect – and this is one of our top priorities – is that this project will engage around two million guests a year as well as our 19,000 crew members, meaning there'll be a positive knock-on effect shoreside as well."
Food waste is a key global issue: the UN 2030 Agenda lays down 17 Sustainable Development Goals, one of which is precisely to halve per capita global food waste by 2030.
According to FAO, roughly one third of the food produced in the world every year — approximately 1.3 billion metric tons — gets lost or wasted.
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I was invited onto Blog Talk Radio on Friday night to discuss the Kelvin MacKenzie outrage. Here's an extract from my interview.
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New Clip: I speak on Blog Talk Radio about the Kelvin MacKenzie debacle
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PRESS RELEASE: Following an attack in Akobo county, northern Jonglei state, MSF is treating 13 patients in neighbouring Upper Nile state; all except one of them suffer from gunshot wounds and the majority are women and children.
Following an attack in Akobo county in northern Jonglei state on Friday 8th February, MSF is treating 13 patients in two health facilities in neighbouring Upper Nile state; all except one of them suffering from gunshot wounds.
The majority of patients are women and children, including a 34-year-old pregnant woman and a three-year-old child, both with gunshot wounds.
"Our patients tell us they were migrating from their village in Walgak toward the Sobat River with their cattle when they were attacked", says Michiel van Tongeren, MSF Project Coordinator in Nasir.
"They say the attackers were armed with guns and many people were killed. They report that it was mostly women and children as the men were faster to escape.
"Some people returned to bury the dead and help the wounded, but then they became scared and fled again."
An MSF team currently in Ulang – the area to which a large number of people fled following the attack – is identifying wounded people in the area and stabilising patients in a healthcare facility. Once stable, patients are transported by boat to the organisation's hospital in Nasir.
MSF's surgical team in Nasir has operated on 12 patients since Monday 11 February and is continuing to operate on more patients as needed. All patients are currently in a stable condition.
"Right now, it is not clear just how many more wounded people are hiding in the bush who have not yet been able to access medical care", says van Tongeren.
"We are trying to find them and refer them to our hospital in Nasir for treatment. We will start carrying out mobile clinics to identify more wounded and provide medical care for this vulnerable population who survived the attack."
MSF has repeatedly sounded the alarm on the high levels of violence affecting the population in Jonglei, a state where access to healthcare is already tremendously difficult. In November 2012, the organisation issued a report documenting the devastating impact of extreme violence on the lives and health of civilians in the state.
"It is not only the direct consequences of violence, such as gunshot wounds, that we are concerned about", says Raphael Gorgeu, MSF Head of Mission in South Sudan.
"Our experience working in Jonglei shows that there are less visible, but equally serious indirect consequences. Entire communities have to flee for their lives deep into the bush. Without shelter, food or safe drinking water, they are susceptible to malaria, pneumonia, malnutrition and diarrhoea."
MSF has been working in Jonglei state since 1993. MSF provides primary and secondary healthcare through its health centres in Pibor, Uror and Nyirol counties, as well as emergency medical care when required in response to outbreaks of extreme violence.
Patients in need of surgery are referred to MSF health facilities in Nasir (Upper Nile) and Leer (Unity), and in some cases, to Boma hospital and to Juba teaching hospital. In November 2012, MSF published the report 'South Sudan's hidden crisis: how violence against civilians is devastating communities and preventing access to life saving healthcare in Jonglei'.
For further information, please contact Sandra Smiley, MSF UAE Press Officer, on 44 7889 178 472.


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Shackan Indian Band
Current activities
- Government representatives are working to build relationships with the Nicola Tribal Association outside of the B.C. treaty process.
Treaty stage
- Not involved
Completed agreements
- None for treaty.
Other Agreements
- Nicola Watershed Pilot Memorandum of Understanding (Upper Nicola, Lower Nicola, Coldwater, Nooaitch & Shacken First Nations) - 2018
- Shackan Indian Band First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund Revenue Sharing Agreement (Kwoiek Creek Hydro Project) - 2014
Forestry Agreements
- Shackan Indian Band Interim Agreement on Forest & Range Opportunities - 2009 (PDF, 1.4MB)
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BTS star Suga will begin his mandatory military service in South Korea, and it seems the group's dedicated ARMY fan base may need to give him some space.
Bighit Music, the group's label, announced in a news release Monday that Suga — the second eldest BTS member — will begin his "required service" on Friday. The label said "there will not be any official events" marking the start of his enlistment or his first day at training camp.
"We kindly ask fans to refrain from visiting SUGA at his workplace during the period of his service," the statement continued. Fans have previously gathered at military bases to see off BTS members.
Bighit added: "Please convey your warm regards and encouragement in your hearts only."
Last month, Bighit announced that Suga, 30, took steps to terminate his enlistment postponement.
South Korean law requires all able-bodied men to complete about 18 months of military service between the ages of 18 and 35. The seven BTS members range in age from 25 to 30. Bighit Music announced in October 2022 that BTS members would be joining the army.
"BIGHIT MUSIC has focused to the milestone moment when it would be possible to respect the needs of the country and for these healthy young men to serve with their countrymen, and that's now," the label said in an October statement.
To help the BTS stars carry out their mandatory service, Bighit also said that the musicians will take a break from group work and pursue solo endeavors. BTS will reunite in 2025, Bighit said in October.
Suga, born Min Yoon-gi, is the third BTS artist to fulfill his military commitment. In December 2022, the eldest BTS member, Jin, became the first to begin his enlistment.
According to the Associated Press, Jin and then-new conscripts took part in five weeks of basic military training at the base, including rifle shooting, grenade throwing and marching practices.
J-Hope, 29, began his service in April.
With multiple BTS members now in the South Korean military, Bighit urged devoted fans to keep an eye out for "unauthorized tours or package products that illegally use the artist's intellectual property" and said it would take "appropriate measures" against such efforts.
"We ask for your continued love and support for SUGA until he completes his service and returns," the statement concluded. "Our company will also strive to provide all the support he needs during this time."


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Reputed helmet manufacturer, Shark, have released a limited-edition Johann Zarco replica design on its flagship model, the Race-R Pro.
His victory in the Moto2 championship made Johann Zarco the first two-time Moto2 World Champion and the first-ever French rider to claim two World Championships. Following this feat, Zarco is all set to begin his maiden season in MotoGP, riding for the Yamaha Tech 3 team.
The Shark Race-R Pro was developed with inputs from their supported riders who made sure that it was everything it was supposed to be – at par with the lightness, stability, comfort and ventilation required at the top level of racing. It is fabricated from carbon aramid fibre and features a double-blade spoiler to supplement high-speed aerodynamic force. Variable density in the visor makes sure that vision is not compromised on any level.
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When it comes to choosing a finance broker for your business, it's important to consider what incentives they are getting as part of the transaction. Good finance brokers are like trusted advisers to their clients, where they have taken the position of the traditional bank managers of 20 years ago. Some brokers might be swayed and not necessarily have their client's best interest at heart, particularly where flex commission can be applied.
So, what is a flex commission system and why is it so important to be cautious of finance brokers who might be involved in one? In the most basic terms, a flex commission is where the amount of commission is dependent on the interest rate charged to the consumer. The higher the rate, the more brokers can make.
The new legislation from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to be introduced in November 2018, prohibits lenders from entering into agreements where the benefits paid to a broker are determined by the interest rate, and the broker can set or influence the rate. The instrument will also place controls on fees charged by brokers, which are designed to stop brokers from increasing their fees and charges to make up for any loss resulting from the ban on flex commission. The ban will apply to all regulated credit contracts and consumer leases, excluding home loans.
Although there are new laws being introduced that aim to halt this practice, as things stand, flex commissioning is still a very real issue that needs to be considered carefully by you or your company before choosing a finance broker.
Whilst we do pay brokers incentives here at BCashflow Positive, we certainly do not enter into any agreements where there is flex commission involved. We also don't take brokers on fancy holidays to try and sweeten the deal. Our core focus is providing flexible and transparent debtor factoring to Australian businesses by unlocking cash from their sales invoices.
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An unidentified social media service tipped off authorities that Keith Matheis, 67, had messaged a child exploitation file to someone, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday.
The Elmwood Park native, it turned out, "engaged in sexually explicit chats with multiple users he believed were under 16 years old," Grewal said.
He also "arranged to meet one suspected minor child in Montclair in order to have sex with him," the attorney general said.
Matheis also sent "child sexual abuse materials" to several recipients – including a photo of his genitals to "a victim he believed was 15," he said.
Detectives from the state Division of Criminal Justice Financial & Cyber Crimes Bureau arrested Matheis during a raid at his home on Monday, Grewal said.
They charged him with luring, showing obscene materials to an underage victim for sexual gratification and possession and distribution of child pornography, among other counts.
Matheis remained held Tuesday in the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court.
Grewal, meanwhile, said the actions of the "dangerous child predator" have raised "concerns about other potential victims."
He urged anyone with "relevant information" about Matheis to contact state investigators confidentially at: 888-648-6007.
"Cases such as this one highlight the need for parents to vigilantly monitor their children's online activity and educate their children about the potential dangers of social media," Division of Criminal Justice Director Veronica Allende added.
She and Grewal commended the detectives and attorneys of the Division of Criminal Justice Financial & Cyber Crimes Bureau who conducted the investigation and made the arrest. They also thanked Montclair police for their assistance.
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For years, Sharon High School parents had help finding their sons and daughters among the sea of gowns on graduation day: boys all sported deep maroon, while girls wore pristine white.
But last year, students approached principal Jose Libano with a proposal: end the tradition, which alienated some students. Now, all graduates wear maroon.
Around the region, longstanding customs of assigning graduation colors by sex are giving way to new realities, driven by transgender student activists and supportive educators and classmates of all stripes.
The change reflects a growing awareness that simple categories of male and female do not fit every teenager.
Some are transgender but unprepared for a highly public declaration, students and educators said; some are sorting out their gender identity, and others feel they are not strictly male or female but somewhere in between.
At Sharon High, a vote by students to embrace a single robe color was a simple gesture that demonstrated the school's inclusiveness, said senior Elizabeth Weiss, 17.
"It was just the color of a gown, and it was so that everyone could feel safe and welcomed at graduation," Weiss said.
The idea of boys wearing maroon, red, or blue gowns while girls wear white — it is almost always white for girls — might conjure images of grads fluffing bouffants and pompadours beneath their mortarboards, but the gender divide still exists at some Massachusetts schools. It is unclear how many, because the state does not keep records of graduation policies.
Duane E. Fox, president of University Cap & Gown in Lawrence, said many of the 400 high schools his company serves across New England, New York, and New Jersey have long used one color for all students, but others are just now making a change.
Fox, who has outfitted grads since the early 1970s, has observed a gradual shift across the past five or six years that moved into high gear this spring, as about a dozen schools, mostly in Massachusetts, eliminated gender divides.
"It has created a lot of extra work for my office, I will say that. We've had orders already packed and shipped to the schools that they've called us and changed — I won't mention any schools," he said with a laugh.
Gina Flanagan, principal at East Longmeadow High School, said her district has worked to implement changes since the Massachusetts Transgender Equal Rights Act took effect in 2012, barring discrimination in housing, employment, and public education.
A 2013 state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education guidance document encourages schools to reevaluate gender-based policies, including dress codes for graduations and proms.
"We're trying to support the new law . . . but we're also, more importantly, trying to support students who might feel uncomfortable on a day that really is an important day for them," Flanagan said. "
The high school will move to red gowns for all students next spring.
Emily Dunlop and Joe Piemonte, student leaders of East Longmeadow High's Gay Straight Alliance, said the group encouraged peers to respect transgender classmates — though not everyone was immediately supportive.
"A lot of kids took to Twitter, and they were kind of protesting people's existence," said Dunlop, 17. "That was kind of hard to see . . . but there was also a lot of positive support."
"Even if we only reached one person, it's still one more person that's more accepting," said Piemonte, 18.
Jennifer Faulkner, the group's faculty advisor, said that even as gay, lesbian, and bisexual students have become widely accepted by peers, until recently she had not seen much progress for transgender students since she graduated high school in 1996.
"But they're catching up rapidly, especially in Massachusetts, because the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has been so supportive," Faulkner said.
Flanagan said the change also reflects evolving attitudes about men and women.
"In 2015, when we're constantly trying to promote our female students to get out there and feel that they are just as qualified for anything as a male student, it seems a little archaic to separate by gender," Flanagan said.
While East Longmeadow and Sharon shifted to a single gown color, other schools have found varied ways to resolve the issue.
Franklin High School students voted to maintain blue and white robes but let each student choose a color, according to Peter Light, the school's principal.
"I think we were able to move it forward, in that we don't discriminate on any group of students on any basis, and yet we were able to keep some of the tradition of Franklin High School," he said.
At the Bromfield School in Harvard, students also chose to keep blue and white robes, but to assign them randomly, said principal James F. O'Shea.
The issue remained in flux last week, O'Shea said, with some still opposed to abandoning tradition.
"It mostly comes from the young women," he said. "It has been expressed to me that they've seen themselves in the white robes; it's part of their image of graduation."
At University Cap & Gown, varied solutions mean workers must be especially attentive.
"We're used to packing by gender. In a lot of cases, that's how it's been for 80 years," Fox said. "Now, when they're packing the order, they really have to read those labels."
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