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Mulugheta started his musical career early in his life when he joined the struggle for Eritrea's Liberation as a young tegadaly at the age of thirteen and fresh from 7th grade school. At the height of the intense suppression by the occupying Ethiopian forces, many youngsters like Mulugheta had to flee from their homes and join the Liberation forces, where they could get advanced military training in a camp.
It was at these camps that many youngsters learned the skills of survival, self-defense and personal hobbies. Mulugheta recalls his early musical experience at the camp, "If you have a feeling for music, the first thing you learn is to play music before even mastering a Kalishnikov." And thus his musical career kicked off, initially by playing a homemade instrument known as krar, built from "slTania" (an Eritrean-style deep food container). This enabled him to soon become the sole entertainer of his fellow tegadelti. Years later, Mulugheta took the aggressive initiative to learn how to play a box guitar. This effort was successful and landed him an opportunity to work with cultural bands and perform in various parts of the liberated area and the Sudan.
In 1984, Mulugheta went to Holland and pursued his musical career playing lead guitar and keyboard. His unique talent there attracted the attention of several Eritrean musicians. On several occasions, he performed with renowned musicians like Ghideon BeraKi and Ogbay Mesfun in Europe. Furthermore, Mulugheta played all the instruments in Ghideon s CD release, "Tewofainetna," and a previous release, "Gar Nebsi."
In addition to his musical career, Mulugheta was very much dedicated to his academic education. In 1991, he earned a Bachelors degree in Aeronautics Engineering, and in 1996, he moved to the United States as a new-recruit by Boeing into the Seattle area. While working full-time there, Mulugheta continued his musical journey and preformed exciting shows on several occasions.
His solo instrumental CD debut, "Classical Tgrigna Songs," is indeed unique in that it offers not only a smooth style of jazz, but brings a sweet and nostalgic memory to many who recognize most of the melodies. But why oldies? Mulugheta replies, "I believe that old Eritrean songs are so lovely that we need to document them in a better medium than just preserving the old cassettes, assuming they still exist, with poor sound quality."
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#2089 new defect
BuddyPress: bbPress1 importer doesn't check BP group status
Reported by: | r-a-y | Owned by: | netweb |
Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 2.6 |
Component: | Importers | Version: | 2.2 |
Severity: | major | Keywords: | needs-patch |
Cc: | stephen@…, jmdodd@… |
The bbPress1 importer doesn't check to see what the BP group status is when it imports the forum.
So, the forum visibility for a private or hidden BP group forum will be imported as 'Public'.
After importing, if you navigate to a BP user's "Forums > Topics Started" or "Forums > Replies Created", you will be able to view private and hidden forum items.
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Change History (22)
- Cc stephen@… added
- Keywords 2nd-opinion dev-feedback added
- Milestone set to Awaiting Review
bbPress 1.x does not support 'private' or 'hidden' forums, so no visibility settings are able to be imported.
BuddyPress' private and hidden group forum permissions are located in the BuddyPress table _bp_groups
The way forward I think would be to create a new import option for 'BuddyPress Group Forums' as this type of instance uses a customised version of bbPress 1.x specific to BuddyPress in that the setup shares the _users & _usermeta tables for WordPress & bbPress.
2089.1.diff is a very quick & dirty non working example of what I am thinking, a fork of bbPress1.php
Also needing to be added is the extra logic to update *_posts.posts_status publish/private/hidden in converter.php and ensure other importers play nice here to.
- Keywords 2nd-opinion dev-feedback removed
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 2.3
I'd like to see the group to forum status aligned as part of a tool in Tools > Forums. That way we can make it work on existing installations that may already have this problem.
Moving to 2.3.
I'd like to see the group to forum status aligned as part of a tool in Tools > Forums. That way we can make it work on existing installations that may already have this problem.
Agreed, discussed in IRC the other day.
I assume that the idea would be to make the forum of private groups private and the forum of hidden group hidden?
The problem that I have with this is I want people to be able to see that some of my groups exist, but I don't want them to be able to see anything about anything posted in the group or it's forum. If a group is a set to private and it's forum is set to private, topics posted still show up in the global topics feed but just can't be accessed by non members of the group. I would prefer it that these weren't visible at all unless you are a member of the group. I suppose this is more of a problem with how private forums work rather than just how they work with groups.
I would have thought that a private forum, like a private group, is visible to people who can't access it but they cannot see anything about topics posted in it.
Currently, I have set the forums for each of my private groups to hidden and this seems to be working correctly.
Related: #2130
Then in bbPress1.php check if the import is from BuddyPress Group Forums if yes grab BP's 'status'
SELECT * FROM wp_bb_forums JOIN wp_bp_groups ON (wp_bb_forums.forum_slug = wp_bp_groups.slug
comment:6 follow-up: ↓ 8 johnjamesjacoby — 12 months ago
The privacy scopes in BuddyPress Groups and bbPress forums work differently. We'll need to side with one or the other, and there are pros and cons both ways.
bbPress private forums are visible by all registered members. They are private, but they aren't hidden. This means they're still visible, but access is restricted.
bbPress hidden forums are totally hidden to everyone except for moderators and keymasters. This is to allow global access to trusted forum staffers, regardless of who may have created what.
BuddyPress private groups are publicly visible, but their content is hidden until you are a group member.
BuddyPress hidden forums are completely hidden from view.
I imagine we'll want to make all forums hidden that are connected to private/hidden BuddyPress groups. That way the forums are always hidden (except to group members when accessing the group directly, global forum moderators and keymasters.)
There are also a few different methodologies at play. Since BuddyPress never previously had site-wide forums connected to group forums, there was never an issue; they were two separate platforms. Now that we're mixing them together, we may need to have two different settings: privacy, and visibility. That way a forum could be public, but not visible, or hidden, but visible in the forums listings.
... we may need to have two different settings: privacy, and visibility.
That way a forum could be public, but not visible, or hidden, but visible in the forums listings.
I like all the things about this
I'm glad to hear this is being thought about! I would like to weigh in by suggesting that there is value in certain users having access to hidden or private forums without necessarily being capable of moderating those forums.
It would be valuable to allow for site-wide roles with the "read_hidden_forums" capability to override the lack of this permission in the participant role. This would be the preferred treatment, from my perspective. Currently it seems that Participants cannot view hidden forums regardless of the capabilities associated with their sitewide role.
Alternatively a forum role somewhere between Participant and Moderator could also suffice.
:snip: Wrong ticket.
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
(In [4731]) When repairing BuddyPress group forum relationships, also sync up the group forum status. Fixes #2089.
comment:12 netweb — 11 months ago
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
(In [4744]) When updating the BuddyPress root group forum, also update the post_name. Hat tip netweb. See #2089.
ON `group`.`slug` = `forum`.`post_name`
Unfortunately you can't always rely on this. Any other ideas?
comment:15 netweb — 11 months ago
That's the tricky bit, finding a reliable relationship between the tables, I went with post_name as it was the best of the bunch, the only other options were forum_name & forum_desc with whitespace.
With the current bbPress1.php importer we are only importing bbPress tables, if we want any data from the BuddyPress tables so we have a reliable relationship then we have to implement something in the importer like what I did in 2089.1.diff and adding it to wp_postmeta. That will work fine for future imports but will not help anyone who has already performed an import.
The other idea I just thought of would be to put this part of the tool in BuddyPress and NOT in bbPress.
- Milestone changed from 2.3 to 2.4
Going to move this to 2.4, so we can think about actually fixing this bit so that it can be rerun later.
comment:17 netweb — 10 months ago
Storing the direct SQL query I used for reference here:
SELECT `forum`.`ID`, `forummeta`.`meta_value`, `group`.`id` FROM `wp_posts` AS `forum` LEFT JOIN `wp_postmeta` AS `forummeta` ON `forum`.`ID` = `forummeta`.`post_id` AND `forummeta`.`meta_key` = '_bbp_old_forum_id' LEFT JOIN `wp_bp_groups` AS `group` ON `group`.`slug` = `forum`.`post_name` WHERE `forum`.`post_type` = 'forum' AND `group`.`id` > 0 GROUP BY `forum`.`ID`;
comment:19 netweb — 4 weeks ago
- Milestone changed from 2.5 to 2.6
Punting to 2.6 to see if we can find an acceptable way of linking legacy BuddyPress group forums to the bbPress1.php import process.
Have a hunch this will be something we have to implement on the BuddyPress side of things.
comment:20 johnjamesjacoby — 2 weeks ago
- Owner set to netweb
- Status changed from reopened to new


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We are so quick to judge her even without knowing the whole story, its like she have to prove herself innocence, if not she always be guilty, with or without the evidence.
What happened that we started to act this way?
Some people said we should start being neutral. I Agree we should be neutral, but having suspicious and thinking that Avril might do wrong is not neutral because that is already making an assumption without knowing the whole truth.
With some of her fans defending her and calling them names, I think its ridiculous because this is her fansite and its normal for her fanbase to stand up for her, what we expect them to do so, remind silent? And they are not blind in my opinion, as there are still no solid evidence that Avril did do anything wrong ( in many issues not only with Chad ).
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Last Saturday, 6th June, saw a balmy evening in London's historic Smithfield when a record 10,000 spectators turned out for the third annual Smithfield Nocturne. With some of the best riders in the UK set to do battle on the city streets, special guests included Sir Paul Smith and Belgian cycling legend, Johan Museeuw.
The Nocturne's diverse programme of events kept the crowds well entertained. The Folding Bike race, featuring the now trademark 'Le Mans'-style start, was the most keenly contested yet, with the top twenty riders in each of the two heats going forward to the 40-rider final. After a 30-metre dash and wearing office attire, competitors hared around the five laps of the course before Keith Henderson crossed for first place. A creditable mention should also go to Rapha's very own Graeme Raeburn, a fast finishing second and surely the only man in London to own a Brompton autographed by Bradley Wiggins.
The Cycling Weekly Support Race saw a host of amateur cyclists testing themselves on the tight city circuit, while the Citihub Team Challenge led to a fierce relay battle, one eventually won by a team including Rapha's very own John Cannings.
As twilight approached the action became more intense still. In the Elite Women's race, the field quickly became strung out, with many riders finding the early pace too hot to handle. It was left to a select group featuring Dani King, Lucy Garner and Hannah Barnes to lead the race home, with Barnes getting the better of her two rivals in the final sprint.
Making its debut at the event was the fixed-wheel skid competition and London's fixie community turned out in numbers to see who could pull the longest continuous skid along the finishing straight. There were some sterling efforts, with plenty of spills ensuring a raucous reception.
The climax of the event was, as ever, the Men's Elite Criterium. With a field that boasted Olympic, world and national champions, the action was fast and furious, the riders racing for 1 hour and 5 laps, and at speeds of up to 45mph. On the close Smithfield circuit the crowd were treated to a thrilling race before Russell Downing of CandiTV-Marshalls Pasta secured victory. He was closely followed by Tony Gibb of Plowman Craven, with rising pro-tour star Ben Swift (Katusha) in third.
Reflecting on the event afterwards the Nocturne Series Director, James Pope, said: "The Smithfield Nocturne has been a key UK event for three years now. 2009 was bigger and better than ever before. Our spectator base just keeps growing and growing [and is] a real testament to how cycling is growing in London and the rest of the UK." He continued: "It was great to see everybody enjoying something fresh, exciting and free in the capital. The races proved to be a spectacle once again and the Elite race couldn't have been more thrilling."
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