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Fulgencio Obelmejias (born January 1, 1953), sometimes known also as Fully Obel is a Venezuelan former boxer, who was world super-middleweight champion.

Biography
Obelmejias was born in San José de Río Chico. He represented his native country at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, where he lost his first fight to Ricardo Arce of Argentina. He also competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, where he was eliminated in the first round by Cuba's eventual bronze medalist Luis Felipe Martínez.

Professional career

He began his professional career, in the Middleweight division, on January 30, 1977, knocking out Franklin Suzarra in the first round at Caracas. After another win over Suzarra, he embarked on a tour of Mexico and southern California, having six consecutive fights in those areas from October 1977 to April 1978. In his first fight abroad as a professional, held at Mexico City, he worked for nine rounds in only his third professional bout before knocking out Jesus Garcia Ortiz. His second to last fight of that tour was against Abel Cordoba, whom he beat by a ten-round decision in Tuxtla Gutierrez on February 27. His last fight on that tour, against Rudy Robles in Tijuana on April 3, marked the beginning of a seventeen fight knockout win streak. He knocked out Robles in four rounds.

After the fight with Robles, Obelmejias had six consecutive fights in his native Venezuela, including a win over Johnny Heard. He then returned to Mexico, to fight for the Fecarbox Middleweight title against Carlos Marks on December 17 in Culiacán. He won the regional title, as well as a top ten ranking at the Middleweight division by the WBC, by knocking Marks out in nine rounds.

Obelmejias kept winning fights by knockouts, and, on March 3 of 1980, he got one of the biggest wins of his career, when he beat former WBC world Jr. Middleweight champion Elisha Obed in three rounds at Caracas.

After eight more wins, all by knockout, Obelmejias was made the number one contender for the world Middleweight title by the WBC.

When his first chance to become a world champion arrived, on January 17 of 1981, many Venezuelans had faith that he would become world champion; his record at the time (30-0 with 28 knockouts) impressed many boxing fans. However, Obelmejias lost for the first time, being handed an eighth-round knockout loss by then world champion Marvin Hagler in an HBO Boxing televised fight that took place at the famed Boston Garden, home of the NBA basketball's Boston Celtics.

Obelmejias won eight fights in a row, all by knockout, before being given a rematch by Hagler. Among those beaten during that new streak were former world Jr. Middleweight champion Eddie Gazo, beaten in two rounds in Caracas, future world champion Chong-Pal Park, knocked out in eight rounds, also in Caracas, and Alfredo Escalera's cousin, Reyes Escalera, also beaten in two rounds, in Barquisimeto.

On October 30 of 1982, he and Hagler had a rematch which was, once again, shown in the United States by HBO. The second time around, Hagler defeated Obelmejias by a knockout in five rounds at Sanremo, Italy. Both Hagler and Obelmejias fell in love with Italy and the country's culture. Obelmejias established himself there immediately after the rematch with Hagler.  Hagler moved to Italy as soon as he lost the world Middleweight title to Sugar Ray Leonard in 1987.

After his rematch with Hagler, Obelmejias won nine straight bouts before being upset, on July 27 of 1985, by Clarence Osby.  Amongst the quality fighters that he defeated during that nine fight winning streak were Jeff Lampkin, beaten by an eight-round decision, Jerry Celestine, also beaten over eight rounds, and Eric Winbush, who was beaten in Monte Carlo by another eight-round decision.

Then, on May 30 of 1986, he became the Caribbean Light-Heavyweight champion, when he outpointed Tomas Polo Ruiz over ten rounds at Isla Margarita.

He lost the title in his first defense, when he was knocked out by future world champion Leslie Stewart in four rounds, at Trinidad and Tobago on November 15 of 1986.

After one more win, he was given a third try at becoming a world champion, when the Lineal and WBA Super Middleweight champion, Obelmejias' former rival, Chong-Pal Park, offered him a shot.

The third time proved to be the charm for Obelmejias, when he beat Park by a twelve-round decision on May 23, 1988 at South Korea. With that win, Obelmejias had fulfilled his lifelong dream; as well as the dream of his fans' of becoming a world champion.

His stint as world champion did not last long, however, and he lost the title during his first defense, 370 days after winning it, being knocked out in eleven rounds by In-Chul Baek, also in South Korea.

Retirement
Obelmejias retired for good after three more wins; he was approaching, at 38, the mandatory boxing retirement age of 40 in Venezuela after his last fight, a ten-round decision win over Eduardo Rodriguez.

Obelmejias had a record of 52 wins and five losses, with 41 wins by way of knockout.

Professional boxing record

See also
List of super middleweight boxing champions
List of WBA world champions

References

External links

Fulgencio Obelmejias - CBZ Profile

1953 births
Living people
Boxers at the 1975 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Venezuela
Olympic boxers of Venezuela
Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Venezuelan male boxers
Middleweight boxers
People from Miranda (state)
20th-century Venezuelan people

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Harp and Company
February 26, 2016 Susan Reynolds
PINEDALE, WYO. — ALEXANDRA FULLER is driving south from Jackson Hole toward Pinedale to visit the oil patch where 25-year-old Colton Bryant, fourth generation Wyoming oil worker and the subject of Fuller's "The Legend of Colton H. Bryant" (Penguin Press: 204 pp., $23.95) worked and died. On Valentine's Day night 2006, Bryant fell 26 feet from the catwalk around an oil well's conductor pipe. She is listening to Neil Diamond singing "Forever in Blue Jeans," one of Bryant's favorite songs. "Who the hell listens to Neil Diamond?" Fuller asks, turning it up to hear the lyrics: "Money talks, but it can't sing and dance."
Money talks pretty loudly in this part of the country. In the past 10 years, oil and natural gas have been pumped out of the ground here at breakneck speed. Rigs that used to be 80 acres apart are now often less than five. Roads are lined with dead animals: mule deer, pronghorn sheep, antelope, all hit by trucks heading in and out of production areas around the clock. Communities have spread to accommodate workers, 60% of them from out of state. Groups of trailers, their windows covered in foil to keep out the light, throw a metallic glare across the Mad Max landscape.
It is not uncommon for a writer to be inhabited by her characters, but Fuller has quite a case. Bryant was a motor hand, employed by the Patterson-UTI Drilling Co. on the Mesa Oil Field, rig 455. Fuller never met him, but re-creating him has dragged her into a world of greed and power and destruction and beauty. Fuller, who is 38, married with three children, calls Bryant "the boy." Not every night, but some nights, she leaves a space in her bed for him. It's not the usual kind of love, but it's one kind.
Fuller's first book, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," was a memoir of growing up in Rhodesia. Her next, "Scribbling the Cat," evoked her travels with a Rhodesian ex-mercenary in Africa. "The Legend of Colton H. Bryant" is the leanest of the three. It is a book more channeled than written, sparse and beautiful.
"I feel like a whole different person did each of these books," she says. If K, the soldier in "Scribbling the Cat," bubbled up from the heart of darkness, Bryant is the flip side of the coin. "This boy got inside my soul," Fuller acknowledges. "I felt embodied by him."
Wyoming, the author's home since 1994, reminds her of white Rhodesia, an association with pros and cons. The self-reliance and self-containment are familiar to Fuller, as are the often-cavalier attitudes toward safety and health. Even after Bryant died on a rig with questionable safety standards, his father, Bill, still works for the oil companies and is adamant in his loyalty. "Oil and gas put food on the table," he told Fuller, who has heard many parents proclaim they'd rather have their boys die on oil rigs than in Iraq.
In 2004, Fuller wrote a piece for the New Yorker about the crystal methamphetamine epidemic in Wyoming's Sublette County and its correlation with oil and natural gas production. After she read Bryant's obituary, she called his parents, who agreed to speak with her.
"I had just had a baby," Fuller says, "and I cried the whole way through the interview. Bill reminds me of my father."
Fuller is not a huge fan of journalistic reserve. She pieced Bryant together using stories from friends and family, but love is the glue that holds all that together. His blue eyes; the time he sold rocks to make money. "The stories people told me were the stories I needed," she says. Her goal was to fix a picture of Bryant, of his soul. "In Africa," she says, "dead people talk to the living. This was the most spiritual thing I've ever written. It was as if Colton had lived for a book."
Oil and gas companies have reported 89 industry-related deaths in Wyoming since 2000, a number that almost no one finds believable. "We keep throwing heartbeats at these rigs," says John Fandeck, a local ranch hand who has worked for both the oil companies and Wyoming Game and Fish. "Young guys think working on a drilling rig is sexy, like being a test pilot."
When someone dies in an industrial accident, the state produces a "fatality narrative." Bryant's fatality narrative is a pretty dry piece of work. Date and time of accident and notification are duly noted. Up in the right-hand corner, in a thin chicken scrawl, are the letters "Wyo." These letters are the only evidence that a human being has even laid eyes on the document. Perhaps they were written by Fuller as she pored over documents and interviewed family members and otherwise pursued her deep need to understand the death of a young man she never met.
'Didn't want to get old'
Back in Pinedale, Fuller meets Bryant's best friend, Jake for coffee. Jake (who is referred to in the book by only first name, possibly to protect him from retribution) works for the oil companies and is proud of what he does. He is convinced that Bryant knew his life would be short and that he was at least partially responsible for his own death because he was not wearing a safety harness. "Colton didn't want to get old," he says. "He lived every day as if it would be his last. Drilling wasn't about money for him. It was about being like his dad."
The fact that Bryant was not wearing a safety harness the night he fell is painful for everyone concerned. But his friends and family seem to understand. Harder to understand is the lack of a railing around the catwalk.
Jake remembers spending that Valentine's Day evening at home with his wife and feeling that something wasn't right. The couple heard the helicopters on the oil patch, got a call from a mutual friend and raced to the clinic in Pinedale, then to the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, where Bryant died at 2:50 a.m.
"His death made me look at my own life, working 90 hours a week, missing so much of my life," Jake says. Like most people in this business, he's had brushes with death; sour gas, supervisors not paying attention. "It's a way of life. Accidents are inevitable. Colton knew he was required to have fall protection, especially on an icy deck. There should have been handrails."
According to Jake, Patterson-UTI's bedside manner left much to be desired. The company's representative appeared at the hospital, introduced himself and said, "I can't believe it. I've been up twenty-four hours with another accident and now I got to deal with this bullshit."
His request for a drug test was met with refusal. Bryant never drank or did drugs, but, Jake says, "if there's one thing these companies are good at, it's drug testing." Jake has been tested nine times in the last year alone.
Jake says that what made him trust Fuller was her honesty. "I don't know why I'm here," she said when she first met him. "Something makes me want to write about your friend. Something greater than you and me."
That something — the devastation of the American West in the name of greed — has led many Western writers toward activism. Annie Proulx, who lives in Wyoming, has just completed a commemoration of the state's Red Desert, 6 million acres threatened by oil and gas developers, to accompany a book of photographs by Martin Stupich.
"Many tries for conservation by people who love the place have come and gone over the decades," she writes, "defeated by the prevailing attitude of 'show me the money,' by the congressional cold shoulder, by lack of knowledge of what is in that high desert, by the complex mixture of politics and culture, and by the momentum of our times, inexorably propelled by shifting global histories, which, like massive continental plates, have thrust us into the present."
And yet, says Terry Tempest Williams, who teaches at the University of Wyoming and has written for decades about the local landscape, there is a new sense of desperation on the part of oil executives and local politicians.
At a recent reading, a representative from state Sen. Kit Jennings' office, wearing a belt buckle with an oil rig in bas-relief, told Williams he didn't appreciate the way she talked about the "rape of the land," and threatened to speak with University of Wyoming President Tom Buchanan. Several days later, Buchanan told her he'd received a call, but her job was not at risk.
Proulx and Williams are not the only writers who have felt compelled in the last decade to take a stand. Ther's also Rick Bass, Pam Houston and John Nichols. In that time almost a quarter of the land in Wyoming — some of it critical habitat — has been leased to oil companies.
As for Fuller, she understands how difficult it is for people whose livelihoods are threatened to speak out. After Patterson-UTI offered Bryant's family $7,000 in compensation, his mother, Kaylee, told them, "My son is worth more than $7,000." In the end, though, the family took the money. "These are companies," Fuller says, "that make over $6 million per well."
That's where the writers come in. "There's only so much they can take away from us writers," Fuller says. "Precisely because we're not in it for the money."
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Why I still prefer Prototype to jQuery
posted by Glenn Vanderburg on January 12, 2009
tagged: javascript ajax prototype jquery
Like most programmers who've done Rails development, I've become very familiar with the Prototype library for JavaScript. Even apart from being built into Rails, Prototype was a natural choice for me. I knew JavaScript pretty well before I started working with Prototype, and was very pleased by how the library filled in some of the weak spots in the language. Additionally, having already been a Ruby programmer for a few years, Prototype's philosophy seemed very natural; it clearly draws inspiration from Ruby.
Along the way, though, I've been hearing an increasingly strong chorus in favor of jQuery. I had taken a cursory look at jQuery and was impressed, but didn't see anything compelling enough to make me switch. But increasingly the voices favoring jQuery have included people I really respect, including (over the past few months) several of my colleagues here at Relevance.
I've now spent serious time working on two different projects with jQuery. I've worked alongside some experienced jQuery users, and really increased my knowledge and level of comfort with jQuery. The work has included a reasonable variety of JavaScript tasks, from simple to complex, so I've had a chance to enjoy jQuery's sweet spot and also to see how it stretches.
And here's the capsule summary: jQuery is a very nice piece of work, and makes some common tasks easier than their Prototype equivalents. Where it's good, it's very good indeed. But its design is uneven, and its scope is limited. For me, at least, Prototype is still the tool of choice. I think it's a richer, more thorough, and overall better designed library.
I don't intend this to be an anti-jQuery screed (although I will rant a little about a couple of things that seem particularly poorly designed). Neither is it an exhaustive comparison of Prototype and jQuery. Simply put: praise has been lopsided in favor of jQuery of late, and I feel like singing the praises of my personal favorite.
Note: in this post I'll be showing code examples using both Prototype and jQuery. To keep things straight, I'll color-code the listings. Prototype samples will have a green background:
// This is Prototype!
$('form').hide();
Samples using jQuery will have a yellow background:
// This is jQuery!
$('#form').hide();
The occasional sample that shows the "Plain ol' JavaScript" way to do things will have a grey background:
// This is ordinary JavaScript!
document.getElementById('form').style.display = 'none';
Where jQuery Comes Out on Top
jQuery clearly has a core focus and philosophy that unifies its design. The idea seems to be that, since most of what you want to do with JavaScript is to find HTML elements and manipulate them, the design should be optimized in favor of that common use case. And jQuery certainly excels in that case. The jQuery documentation emphasizes the ability of many jQuery methods to be "chained" (because they return the jQuery object). I'm personally more impressed with the implicit iteration: when jQuery is used to find a set of elements, modifications are automatically made to all of those elements.
I would describe the "three pillars" of jQuery this way:
searching for elements using CSS selectors
operations implicitly applied to all found elements
ability to chain operations
Each of those are powerful features, but more importantly, they work beautifully together. They allow jQuery programmers to express complex manipulations of the DOM in very concise ways, without losing clarity.
This section isn't very long, so someone skimming this post might get the idea that I don't think jQuery has a lot going for it. But I really admire this aspect of jQuery. The coding style that arises from these features shapes the way you do everything in jQuery. Furthermore, the fact that three such simple ideas can have such enormous positive effects on code written using the library speaks volumes for the power of good design.
It's just a shame that the rest of jQuery is not as well designed.
In some ways, it's harder to make the case for Prototype, because that case depends on numerous small details, some of which are strengths of Prototype, and some of which are weaknesses of jQuery.
However, I have to say that, while jQuery wins in this area, it doesn't win by as much as some would have you believe. Most of the comparisons I've found on the web are rather ridiculous, because they compare jQuery against very poor examples of Prototype usage. Take this example:
// Good jQuery
$('blah blah').addClass('foo');
// Prototype (explicit iteration)
$$('blah blah').each(function(element) {
element.addClassName('foo');
There's a much better way to do that in Prototype:
// Prototype (implicit iteration)
$$('blah blah').invoke('addClassName', 'foo');
The invoke method in Prototype will apply a named method to each element of a collection.
Prototype's DOM methods are also chainable, even when using invoke.
Where It's a Wash
Critics of Prototype have tended to focus on three issues: code size, performance, and namespace pollution.
These days, Prototype and jQuery have about the same code size. Prototype is a little larger, especially since it doesn't ship with a minimized version. But if you care about code size, that's easily remedied. It's not hard to run a JS minimizer. It's also worth pointing out that the very small code size gap is not gratuitous; Prototype has more functionality. (In looking at this issue, I've compared core Prototype against core jQuery, and also Prototype+Scriptaculous against jQuery+jQuery.ui.)
Although Prototype's performance has not always been good, it has improved a great deal, in many cases by learning lessons from how jQuery has done things (and in some cases, the patches were even submitted by the jQuery developers). Today, Prototype's performance is close to that of jQuery, and the very poor performance Prototype used to have for some situations (and in some browsers) has been eliminated.
The other issue is namespace pollution. Prototype adds several top-level names to the JavaScript global namespace, and adds numerous new methods to built-in JavaScript classes. There is a potential for namespace collision, either with other JavaScript libraries or with new JavaScript features. (And it's more than just potential; real collisions of both kinds have occurred.) jQuery, on the other hand, takes care to limit its use of existing JavaScript namespaces, and can be configured to use only one global name (jQuery).
I fully understand the dangers of Prototype's approach, but after living with both it and jQuery for some time, I've come to appreciate that it also has important benefits. JavaScript is a language that is extremely dynamic and open, and also deeply flawed. Prototype's developers have chosen to take advantage of that openness to try to fix (or at least smooth over) many of JavaScript's biggest weaknesses. The fact that Prototype's facilities feel well integrated into the language is a huge win for me, and it seems to be worth the cost. I don't expect this argument to convince anyone; this is the kind of thing that boils down to taste and priorities. But for me, Prototype's and jQuery's approaches to namespace management have complementary costs and benefits, and I don't think this is a good reason to choose one library over the other.
Where Prototype Wins
Now I'll describe where I think Prototype has the advantage, touching on three different areas: a more polished API, some issues with the way jQuery uses this, and a broader, more versatile array of programming facilities.
API Polish
I've already mentioned how beautifully designed jQuery's core is. The problem is that the parts of jQuery outside that core are often poorly designed, in ways that really frustrate me. I'll describe four.
When using the each method for iteration, the arguments to the iteration function are in the wrong order. (I know, I know … if you program the "jQuery way" you won't actually use those arguments. I'll address that later.) Here's an example:
// jQuery (non-idiomatic)
$.each(collection, function(index, item) {
item.whatever();
When iterating over a collection, you nearly always want to work with the element of the collection, and you rarely need to actually refer to the index. The arguments should be the other way around, so that you could omit the index argument in the vast majority of cases where you don't need it. Here's the equivalent in Prototype:
// Prototype
collection.each(function(item) {
Prototype's each does pass an index argument to the iteration function, but it's the second argument, so it can be omitted if not used—which is nearly always.
But jQuery can't even be consistent about this. Here's how jQuery's map works:
// jQuery
var result = $.map(collection, function(item) {
The argument order for map is item, index—just what you want, but it's sad that it's inconsistent with each.
And jQuery's map is broken in other ways as well … the traditional definition is that the result array has the same number of elements as the original, but with jQuery's version that's not true. (What I refer to as "the traditional definition" of map is the one used by Common Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Ruby, Python, Perl, Scala, and more.) I won't dwell on the details of how jQuery's map is broken, but one consequence is that it's impossible to use it to produce an array of arrays, because any arrays returned from the mapping function will be flattened into the result array.
jQuery has a unique method. It returns all the unique elements from an array; that is, it eliminates the duplicates. Very handy. But for some reason, it only works on arrays of DOM elements. It silently fails (by returning a copy of the original array) if you pass it an array of anything else. This is a known problem, but the bug was "fixed" by just updating the documentation to make the behavior clearer. How difficult would it have been to make it work correctly? (Answer: not very, because the bug report came with a patch and tests.) Prototype's uniq method works in both cases.
Finally: jQuery also has an inArray method. You can call it like this:
$.inArray(value, array)
But what does it return? Well, "in array" is a question that has a yes or no answer, so I'm guessing a boolean. Let's see what the docs say:
Determine the index of the first parameter in the Array …
Ah, it returns the index. But that's OK … JavaScript supports the notion of "truthiness", meaning that objects other than true and false can be used where a boolean is expected. Truthiness is useful, because it means boolean results can actually be useful outside of strictly boolean contexts, and returning the actual index in this case is a great example of that. So as long as inArray returns false, null, or undefined if the value is not in the array, we're in good shape. But I left out part of that documentation above. The rest of it is:
… (-1 if not found).
Gack! How useless is that? The name of the method implies that it's a boolean query, but the result value is not useful in a boolean context. And if you just try using it that way, making an assumption based on the name, you'll have fun debugging it, because there won't be an error; it'll just always be true.
For fifty years, programming languages have been using two common names for the job that inArray does: index and position. Having a method called inArray that works like this is just sloppy library design.
Leave this Alone!
When complaining about iterator arguments to jQuery's each, above, I mentioned that the "jQuery way" is not to use the arguments to the iterator function at all. That's because when jQuery's each calls your iterator function, it does so in such a way that the variable this is bound to the current item. So the idiomatic way of using each in jQuery is:
$.each(collection, function() {
this.whatever();
That's the kind of decision that makes really simple cases very easy, but only at the expense of a lot of confusion when things are a bit more complicated. That's because this is already an important variable in JavaScript, and the callback often needs to refer to the value of this from the scope in which it was defined. Functions in JavaScript are closures, and programmers often need to exploit the ability to refer to variables in the surrounding scope.
Here's an example. I have an object (called chart), and in a method on that object I need to iterate over an array (stored in the property columns), generating a header for each item using buildHeader, which is another method on chart. Within methods of chart, of course, chart is referred to as this. The basic JavaScript way of doing that is:
// Ordinary JavaScript, in a method body.
for (var i=0; i<this.columns.length; i++) {
this.buildHeader(this.columns[i]);
But that manual iteration sure feels clumsy; it would be nice to be able to do that with each. Let's do that with jQuery:
// jQuery (incorrect example)
$.each(this.columns, function(i, item) {
this.buildHeader(item);
But that doesn't work; this within the iterator function has been rebound to the current item. The this variable from the surrounding scope has been shadowed by a different this that refers to the current iteration item. But unlike i and item, this has been shadowed implicitly, by jQuery's implementation of each.
The preferred jQuery way to write the example is to provide an alias for this that doesn't get shadowed by each:
// jQuery (correct example)
var me = this; // provide alias for this
$.each(this.columns, function() {
me.buildHeader(this);
But notice that this in the iteration function is a different this than in the immediately preceding line, even though conventional JavaScript closure semantics would lead you to believe they were the same. When building a complicated class, jQuery's (ab)use of this can make things very confusing.
Here's how to do the same thing in Prototype:
$A(this.columns).each(function(item) {
Messing with this implicitly is a terrible design decision. It breaks the conventional semantics of JavaScript, rendering the resulting code unclear, and presenting barriers when you need to exploit the usual semantics. I understand the desire to have an implicit iteration variable; good names might be it or item. Unfortunately, JavaScript doesn't provide a mechanism for jQuery to set those variables from outside the function; it can only manipulate this. But that's not enough justification for the design choice jQuery makes.
If jQuery's each were properly designed, one could write the basic iteration idiom this way:
// jQuery (with hypothetical fixed 'each' method)
$.each(collection, function(it) {
it.whatever();
Would that be so bad? No; in fact, it would be a huge improvement. This style is just as easy in the simple case, and far less troublesome in more complex cases.
Broader Scope
I mentioned earlier that jQuery has a core of functionality built around querying and manipulating DOM elements. It also has mature support for Ajax operations. Beyond that, though, jQuery doesn't aim for very extensive facilities. (Of course there are numerous plugins and add-ons that do all kinds of things, as there are for Prototype.)
Prototype, even in the core library, has broader goals. It also has good facilities for DOM searching and manipulation, and for Ajax operations. To a greater degree than jQuery, though, Prototype attempts to raise the level of JavaScript programming across the board. To me, the result is a big win for Prototype.
For example: Prototype includes a nice, simple class-based inheritance facility for JavaScript. That might seem a bit heretical for a prototype-oriented language like JavaScript (and especially for a library called Prototype). But the strength of the prototype-oriented style of OO is that it gives you freedom to move beyond the class-based mechanisms. That doesn't mean that classes are useless; actually, they're the most appropriate way of organizing your code a lot of the time.
Prototype also adds useful new basic types (such as ObjectRange, Template, and a true Hash) and adds a wealth of supplementary methods to most of the built-in JavaScript types, greatly increasing the ease of basic programming in the language. For advanced JavaScript programming, Prototype's new Function methods are worth the price of admission all by themselves. jQuery makes working with the DOM very easy, but is sparing in its assistance related to other JavaScript objects. Prototype, on the other hand, helps across the board.
So while jQuery might be easier to get started with, Prototype grows with you better. Most web developers get started with JavaScript by doing relatively simple DOM manipulation, and jQuery really excels there. But as you get more comfortable and begin trying to do more, you may find that jQuery doesn't help you as much. Prototype makes JavaScript programming lots of fun even in circumstances where jQuery feels constraining.
I don't think this makes a slam-dunk case for Prototype over jQuery. And certainly jQuery could improve; its design is not fundamentally limited. (For that matter, many of what I consider the missing pieces in jQuery are available as plugins.) It's unfortunate that some of jQuery's API flaws can't be fixed without breaking compatibility, but in a future version even that may be an option.
At a minimum, though, Prototype can hold its own. For me and many others, it's still the JavaScript library of choice.
(Thanks to Stuart Halloway, Chad Humphries, Larry Karnowski, Adam Keys, and Jason Rudolph for their comments—in some cases pro, in others con—on a draft of this article.)
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Some of my October Purchases.
The Chanel Lipgloss is literally my favourite purchase I have made in a while. This crushed cherry colour is gorgeous and very rich, and it lasts for absolute ages! I have tried the other products so I am confident to say they are all very good, especially the foundation. I am blessed with very clean skin and I usually only moisturise and don't apply any foundation but this one is super light and covers blemishes extremely well. Also, the Cherry in the Air! I have always been in love with Escada's perfumes but this one must be my favourite. It was limited edition and I was lucky to get one of the last ones left in the store!
And finally, got these beautiful boots on my way back from work today from Miss Selfridges. They are quite high but the chunky heel makes them super comfortable and they seem very warm.
I hear amazing things about the Chanel lipgloss! It may be time for me to invest!
You should definitely invest! It is so so worth it. Definitely my favourite purchase and the colours are so lush.


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J.J. Abrams: 'Star Wars' Director?
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J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the next Star Wars movie, according toTHR!
Sources have reportedly confirmed thatJ.J. and execs are nearing a deal to make it official.
J.J. was not the only director to be considered! Supposedly, Ben Affleckwas in contention as well.
Back in November, it was announced that Star Wars helmer George Lucassold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4.05 billion – a deal that allowed for the making of more films.
J.J. also directed films in the popularStar Trek series.
I'll wait til Disney confirms it.
Also of note, the press release adds that screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan (Empire Strikes Back) and Simon Kinberg (Sherlock Holmes) will be consulting on the project. We previously learned that the two would have a hand in the scripts for further sequels/spinoffs, but it appears they're also collaborating on Episode VII. Michael Arndt is writing the screenplay. Hit the jump to read the full press release.


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A new program will allow ethnic Japanese between 18 and 30 who have basic Japanese skills to work in Japan for up to five years. | BLOOMBERG
Preferential visa system to be extended to foreign fourth-generation Japanese
by Mizuho Aoki
Online: Mar 30, 2018
Last Modified: Mar 30, 2018
Foreign fourth-generation descendants of Japanese will be able to work in Japan for up to five years under a preferential visa program to be introduced this summer, the Justice Ministry said Friday.
The new program applies to ethnic Japanese between 18 and 30 who have basic Japanese skills equivalent to the N4 level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Applicants will also be required to have support from residents they know in Japan, such as family members or employers, who can get in touch with them at least once a month.
Among those planning to apply are people who spent their childhoods in Japan with their parents before losing their jobs during the 2008 global financial crisis. Some of their parents later returned to Japan, but their grown-up fourth-generation offspring could not because the visa system only grants preferential full-time working rights and semi-permanent status to second- and third-generation descendants.
"The door has been closed for fourth-generation people. So there are definitely people who really need the new program," said Angelo Ishi, a third-generation Japanese-Brazilian professor in the sociology department of Musashi University.
At present, fourth-generation ethnic Japanese are required to meet certain conditions to get a visa, such as being single minors who live with their parents, but can't work full-time.
Under the new system, minors will be able to work. The new program begins on July 1, and the Justice Ministry expects around 4,000 descendants of Japanese emigrants from such places as Brazil and Peru to enter Japan each year. But the ministry said the new system is not aimed at alleviating the national labor shortage, but at nurturing people who can "bridge Japan and the Japanese-descendant communities abroad.
Critics are skeptical. They say the new immigrants could be used as cheap labor at factories or construction sites in dire need of labor, especially ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
"I believe one of the reasons behind the change has to do with the Olympics," said Kiyoto Tanno, a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University who is an expert on foreign labor issues. "But such demand could disappear. That's why, I guess, the ministry placed a cap on the number of years."
Demand for Japanese-Brazilian workers has indeed been growing over the past few years, particularly in the manufacturing sector, according to Takaharu Hayashi, president of Avance Corp., a staffing agency catering to ethnic Japanese in Aichi Prefecture.
When the economy slumps, the Japanese-Brazilian temporary workers are the first to be laid off, which is exactly what happened during the 2008 global financial crisis, said Hayashi, who has been running his staffing business for over 30 years.
Japan saw a huge influx of Japanese-Brazilians following the revision of immigration laws in 1990 that granted second- and third-generation descendants the right to work with full-time and semi-permanent status.
The number of Japanese-Brazilians steadily grew to a record 310,358 in 2007, before the government offered them incentives to repatriate during the financial crisis. In 2016, the number stood at 176,391, according to the ministry.
Hayashi of Avance said he has already received many inquiries about the program from fourth-generation Japanese-Brazilians.
"Many want to come to Japan … We can easily find at least 500 or 600 people," he said.
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The Central Evangelical Church Monte Alto was founded 14 years ago by Pastor Hector and his family. A few years ago, the church had grown to have a membership of more than 60 people, but it suffered a sudden split and now has a membership of 30 people. This incident did not discourage Pastor Hector and his wife because they remain faithful to their calling to serve and rescue families in their community.
The church is located in zone 18 of Guatemala City. This area is called a "red zone," where poverty, drugs, and violence are prevalent. Despite all these challenges, Pastor Hector and his wife know that God has called them to work there and serve the most needy.
It is a Pentecostal church founded on solid doctrine. One of their main focuses is evangelism. The church is currently ministering to children in the community. Every Saturday they provide lunch and then teach them about God. It is a church that believes in expanding the Kingdom of God, and they already have two small church plants as a result of their work. They currently have a plan to plant a church in a village where there is no evangelical church. They were given the opportunity to enter that community through a clothing drive where they took clothes, shoes, and food to give to the people of the village as they preached the Gospel.
Also, as part of the church's ministry, some members go every week to the local hospital to preach the Gospel and bring hope to those who are ill. The church dreams of not only helping the community spiritually, but also giving their members tools in order to reach those in need. They want to reach their community through different strategies, including training people in marketable skills.
Providing full education scholarships to Christian schools with lunch and a snack 5 days per week.


In an effort to simplify online collaboration and procurement, plastics e-marketplace provider Omnexus Americas Inc. last week announced an alliance with Elemica Inc., an integrated trading hub founded by 22 of the world's largest chemical companies.
In an effort to simplify online collaboration and procurement, plastics e-marketplace provider Omnexus Americas Inc. last week announced an alliance with Elemica Inc., an integrated trading hub founded by 22 of the worlds largest chemical companies.
Elemicas Connected Solution product suite links members ERP systems through a single connection to the Elemica hub. The company also offers suites of logistics and supply chain software called Elemica Web Solutions and Elemica Supply Chain Solutions, respectively.
But despite what AMR Research Inc. analyst Louis Columbus sees as excellent ERP connectivity technology, Elemicas greater strength may be in the service it delivers.
"The people leading Elemica have been very, very clear that theirs is not a product company but more a utility company, like an electric company or a phone company," said Columbus, in Irvine, Calif. "They are trying to be the dial tone of the chemicals industry."
Omnexus brings to the table an e-procurement platform for buyer and supplier collaboration and transaction and a close relationship with supplier enablement software provider Ariba Inc.
For the alliance to be ultimately deemed successful in creating a revenue stream for each company, they will have to jointly develop products, according to Columbus.
"If [Omnexus and Elemica] were going to build a product together, theyd be hard pressed not to look at supplier enablement," he said. "Because of the strong ties Omnexus has with Ariba, I suspect their punch-in, punch-out technology would fit into" a jointly developed solution.
Officials from Omnexus said an integrated platform would ship late next quarter or early in the following one but added that a decision has not been made to jointly develop additional products.
Currently, more than 40 global suppliers are represented between the two companies. Omnexus suppliers include BASF AG, Bayer AG, Dow Chemical Co., DSM N.V. and DuPont.
Elemicas founding members include BASF, Bayer, DuPont, DSM and others.


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Harrison Ford retiring from Indiana Jones Adventure
He'll be replaced by audio-animatronics.
DISNEYLAND, CA — Actor Harrison Ford, age 77, has informed Disneyland officials that he will no longer be playing Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones Adventure ride. A spokesperson for the actor says that the repeated performances for each ride vehicle, involving rope climbing and outrunning large boulders, was becoming too much for Ford, especially when combined with his multiple daily performances in Florida's Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular.
The ride will be closed for "refurbishment" in early November. Look-alike animatronics will be installed at that time, replacing Ford.
In the future, Ford will limit himself to appearing in the stunt show only. This will free up more time for his hobbies of helicopter rescues and landing small aircraft on busy taxiways.
Johnny Depp will still continue to appear in the Pirates of the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Do you think he deserves a break after only 22 years? Let us know in the comments below!
Cover photo: Ford, seen here napping between ride vehicles. Photo by Loren Javier [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr.
October 14, 2019 by Marty in California, Florida
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train to be rethemed to Cool Runnings


Version 1. There once lived in Lake Winnebago a giant fish, which most believe to have been a sturgeon. There was one part of the lake that herds of moose, elk, and deer liked to swim across in their migrations. The fish would wait until they were in the deeper water, then attack them by dragging them under the waves and swallowing them whole. Nobody would paddle his canoe into the area for fear that he and his boat would fall victim to the same fate.
The hunting of cervids by this fish went on for years, until one day some hunters found the fish floating dead in the water near the shore. It soon became apparent what had killed him: when they examined his underside, they found elk horns protruding through his flesh. He had swallowed a huge elk whole, but could not digest its massive horns.
Inasmuch as alligators do not live that far north, it is rather more likely that Carver has euhemerized a legend about the killing or sacrifice of a Waterspirit.
Links: Fish Spirits, Lake Winnebago.
Stories: featuring (spirit) fish as characters: The Man who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds, The Were-Fish, The Greedy Woman, Wolves and Humans, River Child and the Waterspirit of Devil's Lake, The Spirit of Maple Bluff, Lake Wąkšikhomįgra (Mendota): the Origin of Its Name, The King Bird, Fish Clan Origins, The Blessing of a Bear Clansman, Trickster's Adventures in the Ocean, Otter Comes to the Medicine Rite, Hare Visits the Bodiless Heads; featuring sturgeons as characters: Redhorn's Father, River Child and the Waterspirit of Devil's Lake, Wolves and Humans, The Twin Sisters, see also White Flower; mentioning elks: Elk Clan Origin Myth, The Animal who would Eat Men (v. 1), The Elk's Skull, Hare Recruits Game Animals for Humans, Deer Clan Origin Myth, The Creation Council, Hočąk Clans Origin Myth, Spear Shaft and Lacrosse, Buffalo Clan Origin Myth, Origin of the Hočąk Chief, Little Fox and the Ghost (v. 2); See The Girl who Refused a Blessing from the Wood Spirits; set at Lake Winnebago (Te Xete): Lake Winnebago Origin Myth, The First Fox and Sauk War, White Thunder's Warpath, Traveler and the Thunderbird War (v. 2), The Wild Rose, The Two Boys, Great Walker's Warpath, The Blessing of a Bear Clansman, The Fox-Hočąk War, Holy Song, First Contact (v. 2), Lakes of the Wazija Origin Myth, The Two Children (?).
Themes: an aquatic creature eats cervids whole: The Waterspirit of Rock River; being swallowed whole: The Hill that Devoured Men and Animals, Hare Gets Swallowed, The Waterspirit of Rock River, The Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth, The Bungling Host, The Dipper.
1 Charles E. Brown, Wisconsin Indian Place Legends (Madison: Works Progress Administration, 1936) 10. Dorothy Moulding Brown, Wisconsin Indian Place-Name Legends, Wisconsin Folklore Booklets (Madison: 1947) 9.
2 Paul Radin, "Short Tales," Winnebago Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society) Winnebago IV, #7i, Story #18, "The Elk Crossing the Stream."
3 Captain Jonathan Carver, Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, 1956 ) 37.


The term "Service Bus", or "Enterprise Service Bus" (ESB) has been around for about a decade. As web services and Service Oriented Architecture have become common place in applications the need for standardization and "SOA Governance" has risen. There are a number of vendors providing products with "ESB" or Service Bus functionality.
There are many ideas and opinions on what features "Service Bus" should provide, the following three patters can be used to provide a high level view of service bus architecture.
The team gained wide recognition in 2004 after the publication of the book "Enterprise Service Bus: Theory in Practice" by David A. Chappell. The team ESB is typically used to refer to a system used within an organization, or enterprise to manage and govern the use of services within that organization. We typically think of the ESB integrating with SOAP based web services, though this is not a requirement.
As there are a number of companies developing software that is sold as an "ESB", the definitions of the functionality provided by an ESB can vary.
When we think of a service bus, we typically think of web services, SOAP and request-response communication. The message bus pattern shares many similarities with the service bus patterns, but differs in that the way information is exchanged between systems. The message bus typically transmits messages asynchronously, and may well use a durable store to provide reliable delivery. Messages are not necessarily SOAP messages; they could be test-based, binary or EDI documents.
In 2007 the first version of the Service Bus was released under the name of "BizTalk Services". An article written by Microsoft in The Architecture Journal titled "The Internet Service Bus" provides a description of the ISB pattern, and relates if to the BizTalk Services capabilities. The article describes an Internet Service Bus as follows.
Whilst an ISB shares a lot of the functionality of an ESB, the ISB is different in that is hosted by a third-party, and is offered as a service and customers are billed for using that service.
The Architecture Journal article "The Internet Service Bus" can be found here.


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When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed
Thursday, Dec 17, 2020 - 8:56
Authored by Dennis Prager via PJMedia.com,
You may have seen the video of the family thrown off a United Airlines airplane because the 2-year-old daughter would not wear a mask.
Though the family wore masks and the father promised to cover his daughter's face with a mask that he placed on her face, it made no difference. Though the child was completely asymptomatic, and though it is exceedingly rare for a child to transmit COVID-19 to an adult - that is why Sweden kept its schools open all spring and summer, with its students not wearing masks - the airline had its orders, and the flight attendant duly obeyed them.
As I watched the video, I wondered what the flight attendant thought.
For example, did he think this was absurd, not to mention cruel?
Did he know that 2-year-olds present virtually no health risk?
Did he wonder why adults can sit without masks inches from other passengers while eating but a 2-year-old seated only next to family needed a mask?
Or did he think he was performing a noble service in kicking a family off an airplane because their 2-year-old wouldn't wear a mask?
I hope he thought he was enforcing an idiotic rule and had no choice.
Then there is hope for him and for America. Otherwise, he's an irrational automaton, among the scariest people in any society.
Does United Airlines think it's enforcing a rational and humane policy, regarding 2-year-olds as dangerous disease spreaders?
Here is what we can assume:
United Airlines has made the calculation that if it doesn't enforce every directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two bad things will result:
1) People will be too scared to fly United;
2) If anyone gets COVID-19 after a United flight on which a 2-year-old was allowed to fly without a mask, the airline will be sued.
Regarding children and mask-wearing, the CDC website states, "Masks should NOT be worn by children under the age of 2." The CDC capitalizes "NOT."
So, while the CDC is adamant children under the age of 2 must NOT wear a face mask, a child who just turned 2 constitutes a mortal danger to others on the plane — and must be ejected from the plane if she just won't cover her face.
Welcome to America 2020.
It is not overstated to declare the year 2020 the year it became legitimate to question whether America could still declare itself either "the Land of the Free" or "the Home of the Brave." Maybe it really is time to replace the national anthem with some other song that doesn't have us singing what so many of us no longer believe in. When half of America sings those words, they are no longer referring to themselves or what they want America to be. About half of us — more or less, the half that voted Donald Trump for president — still believes that America should be the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. But half of us, including the entire elite — the major media; the entire educational system from elementary school through graduate school; national, most state and all major city bureaucracies; and the Democratic Party — neither value freedom nor seek to be brave.
When I see Americans walking outdoors with masks on, my first reaction is to mourn the death of reason and my second is to wonder what college they attended. Because one of the many other awful things colleges do to most of their students is make them afraid: afraid not only of dying if they pass another human being while walking their dog but also of dying from global warming, and afraid of any ideas not inculcated into them by their school. That's why they and most of their professors object to conservatives speaking at their school. To the brainwashed, different ideas are frightening and make them feel "unsafe" (hence, "safe spaces" at so many colleges).
When viruses killed the equivalent of about 165,000 Americans in 1968 and about 225,000 in 1957 (numbers adjusted based on the current U.S. population), healthy Americans did not quarantine; no one hid behind masks; no school closed; no store or restaurant went out of business. Why? Because people understood that viruses and death are tragic parts of life, and it never occurred to them to deprive children of their studies, their friends and their childhood. It didn't occur to Americans that because some people contracted a virus and died, 99% of the population should stop living and earning livelihoods. In that America, the news media were not singularly dedicated to frightening Americans. And most important, the left had not yet succeeded in ruining the country; after all, far fewer Americans went to college at that time, and high school and elementary school teachers still viewed their vocation as a call to teach, not indoctrinate.
All of this explains how we got to the place where United Airlines could throw a 2-year-old girl off an airplane while presumably half the passengers supported her eviction and the other half was cowed into silence.


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A competição da estrada contra o relógio masculino foi um dos eventos do ciclismo nos Jogos Pan-Americanos de 2019, em Lima. Foi disputada nas ruas do Circuito San Miguel no dia 7 de agosto.

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On a Storyteller's Night är det brittiska melodiska hårdrocksbandet Magnums femte studioalbum, utgivet i maj 1985. Illustrationen på skivans omslag utfördes av Rodney Matthews.

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Alla låtar är skrivna av Tony Clarkin.

Skiva 1
"How Far Jerusalem" — 6:25
"Just Like An Arrow" — 3:22
"On A Storyteller's Night" — 4:59
"Before First Light" — 3:52
"Les Morts Dansant" — 5:47
"Endless Love" — 4:30
"Two Hearts" — 4:24
"Steal Your Heart" — 3:59
"All England's Eyes" — 4:47
"The Last Dance" — 3:39

Skiva 2 (utökad utgåva 2005)
"How Far Jerusalem" [Demo] — 5:45
"Endless Love" [Demo] — 3:49
"Before First Light" [Demo] — 4:26
"All England's Eyes" [Demo] — 4:50
"Come On Young Love #1" [Demo] — 3:47
"Come On Young Love #2" [Demo] — 3:30
"Les Morts Dansant" [Demo] — 5:07
"The Last Dance" [Demo] — 4:09
"Interview with Tony Clarkin and Bob Catley" — 24:46

Singlar
 "Just Like An Arrow" (mars 1985)
 "On A Storyteller's Night" (maj 1985)

Brittiska musikalbum
Musikalbum 1985


RATIONALE: Much of what is known about college drinking comes from self-report survey data. Such surveys typically ask students to indicate how many drinks they consume within a given period of time. It is currently unclear whether college students and researchers use similar operational definitions of a single drink. This information is critical given the widespread reliance on survey data for assessing the correlates and consequences of college drinking. OBJECTIVES: This study investigated whether college students define standard drink volumes in a way that is consistent with the operational definitions commonly used by researchers. METHODS: Students (n = 106) were administered an alcohol survey and then asked to perform three tasks. The tasks involved free-pouring fluid into empty cups of different sizes and estimating the volume of a single beer, a shot of liquor, or the amount of liquor in a mixed drink. The volumes poured by students then were compared with standards used in a well-known nationwide survey (i.e., 12 oz of beer and 1.25 oz of liquor in a shot or mixed drink). RESULTS: In every cup size of every task, students overestimated how much fluid they should pour to create a standard drink. In all three tasks, the magnitude of the discrepancy increased with cup size. Collapsed across cup sizes, students overpoured shots by 26%, mixed drinks by 80%, and beer by 25%. When a more liberal serving size of liquor (1.5 oz) was used as the standard, the results of the mixed drink task remained unchanged. However, the volumes poured by students during the shot free-pour task differed from the standard in only one cup size. CONCLUSIONS: The data suggest that college students drink more alcohol than indicated by their survey responses, raising questions about the validity of widely used alcohol surveys. Efforts to educate students about the alcohol content of standard drinks should be enhanced.


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Warwick town clerk resigns
By ZACK DeLUCA
Modified: 7/12/2019 4:00:46 PM
WARWICK — After years of service Town Clerk Rosa Fratangelo has resigned from her position due to personal reasons. She has also resigned from her dual position as the Town Secretary.
"Rosa's work in the Town Clerk's office was exemplary and the Board of Selectmen had no complaints with her work," said Board of Selectmen Chair Lawrence "Doc" Pruyne in an emal.
"We will miss her excellent work ethic and precise minutes," wrote Pruyne on Monday.
Pruyne went on to remember fondly how Rosa went above and beyond in her role. He said that when the new state regulations for information requests at Town Clerks' offices kicked in, a mandate he described as "convoluted and difficult to decipher,"Fratangelo managed to make it easily understandable.
Fellow Warwick Selectmen member Todd Dexter echoed Pruyne's thanks in another email, saying her performance and attention to detail will be missed.
He went on to state that the need for an interim town clerk is very real. Anyone interested in the position should contact Town Coordinator David Young.
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Search - The Recorder newspaper, in Greenfield, MA.


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[1] A. Green, Overview of ICCDF, Proc. ICCDF, Gainesville, FL,February 2003, in press.
[2] A. Green (ed.), An alternative to oil: Burning coal with gas(Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1981).
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Q: How to read EDB file in C++ I'm writing a program to read edb file in c++
I've tried with esent windows library and I got "The database page size does not match the engine" error on "JetAttachDatabase"
And i also tried "libesedb" library, but i can't understand how to use it.
Is there any other way to read edb in c++ or how can I fix errors

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Q: Change background colour of selected li item I have made a nav with a list that gives a list item the class .selected when on the current page. I am trying to add a background colour to this class which works, but I can't get it to fill the whole li item. It's not adding any background colour to the left of the navs selected li item. Not sure if this makes sense?
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nav li {
  border-right: solid 1px #fbfbfb;
  display: inline;
  font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
  font-size: 15px;
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  text-align: center;
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nav ul {
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try to cahnge it margin of li to either padding or a border of same size.
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A: The list item with class selected is being completely filled according to the instructions you've given to the browser to display the li element with a margin-left: 15px; and padding: 22px 15px 22px 0;. The padding you have specified says there should be no padding to the left of the content in the list item (the last value of 0).
Try removing margin-left: 15px; and change your padding to padding: 22px 15px 22px 15px; for your nav li element, like so:
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The biggest gathering of Dakotas in 75 years. More than thirty Douglas DC-3 Dakotas and C-47 Skytrains, as well as hundreds of paratroopers, will mark 75 years since the D-Day invasion heralded the liberation of Western Europe. Daks from as far away as the USA, Canada, and Australia will join others from Europe.
The Daks over Normandy event is held in two locations: from 2 to 5 June at Duxford Airfield in the United Kingdom and from 5 to 9 June at Caen Carpiquet Airport in Normandy, France.
In the first phase, the aircraft will gather at the UK's Duxford Airfield from 2-5 June. On 5 June, some 250 men and women in WW2 style uniforms will board the Daks for the flight to Normandy, where they will commemorate the historic jump that preceded the D-Day Landings.
Daks Over Normandy will be repeated at Caen Carpiquet Airport in Normandy, France from 5-9 June. The events will include static and flying displays, as well as meet-and-greets and the chance to board Dakotas.
Tickets will only be available in advance, from the event website. Ticket sales begin February 1, 2019.
Please see the event website for the latest information.
This entry was posted in and tagged air show, C-47, Daks over Normandy, DC-3, history, parachute, UK, WW II on June 2, 2019 by maxflight.
Wings Over New Zealand is having another of our popular Forum Meets, this time at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, situated at Wigram, in Christchurch on Saturday 30th of June 2018. There will be guest speakers, a chance to mix with fellow aviation fans and special guest Bryan Cox, the legendary WWII Corsair pilot, instructor, author and still flying at 93 years old. This event is NZ$10.00 at the door, but you need to let me know if you're coming so you will be on the list.
This entry was posted in and tagged Air Force, Air New Zealand, Aviation Geek Fest, Aviation museum, helicopter, history, Museum, warbird on June 30, 2018 by maxflight.
We talk with Adventure Pilot's Brian Rutherford about aircraft route planning, air navigation, and iFly GPS. Also, Ryanair flight cancellations and pilot pay, a Bombardier CSeries order, and headway made for NextGen.
Adventure Pilot's Brian Rutherford and the iFly GPS air navigation solution.
Brian Rutherford is sales and marketing manager for Adventure Pilot, makers of iFly GPS air navigation solutions. Brian describes the current air navigation landscape, the role of GPS and ADS-B, and how they work together. We look at the iFly GPS offerings and features.
iFly GPS is a multi-platform air navigation solution for iOS, Android, Windows, and dedicated systems that provides support for ADS-B traffic and weather. iFly GPS moving map navigation includes advanced features like geo-referenced hi-def VFR and IFR charts, de-cluttered vector mode, AutoTaxi+, RealView, and the comprehensive Active Alert System.
Brian holds a private pilot's certificate and comes from the world of online retail, working at an Amazon subsidy called Woot.com as a buyer. He was a Sr. Brand Manager for a licensed apparel company called BioWorld. Brian also served on the board of EAA Chapter 1246, one of the largest chapters with 100+ dues-paying members.
Find Adventure Pilot on Instagram and Facebook, and be sure to listen for the special 10% discount code available to Airplane Geeks listeners!
Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary has had to offer pilots a pay raise to get them to keep flying. This after "a rostering debacle" when the airline changed its holiday year. See also Ryanair cancels flights after 'messing up' pilot holidays and Ryanair may face legal action over flight cancellations.
Engine delays from Pratt & Whitney will reduce 2017 CSeries deliveries to 20-22 from the 30 aircraft planned. Bombardier Chief Executive Alain Bellemare told analysts "This is a short-term issue that Pratt is actively addressing." Meanwhile, Bombardier negotiated a letter of intent for 31 firm and 30 option CSeries orders from an unnamed European customer. The airframer says the order is not related to news that Airbus plans to take a majority stake in the program.
Multiple runway options allow the FAA to reduce the separation between aircraft because of improved wake categorization standards. The FAA has implemented this capability at some busy U.S. airports including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Performance-based navigation lets aircraft fly more directly from departure to arrival using satellite signals. Initial operational capability is three months ahead of schedule in the Northern California Metroplex. Between September 2014 and April 2015, the FAA conducted a phased implementation of 44 routes covering the greater San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento.
Surface operations have improved. The FAA has implemented the System Wide Information Management (SWIM) Surface Visualization Tool (SVT) ahead of schedule at five terminal radar approach control facilities. The system allows tracon controllers to better monitor congestion and plan for changes on airport runways and taxiways, especially during inclement weather.
Data comm has been implemented at towers across the nation, approximately two and a half years ahead of schedule.
Stratux – A Raspberry Pi-based homebuilt ADS-B In receiver. Also available in the iFlyGPS store. For more information, see Live Weather and Traffic for Less Than $120 from EAA.
John Mollison tells us that "Old Guys and Their Airplanes" (OGTA) released the award-winning documentary film South Dakota Warrior. The film explores the character behind World War Two's Battle of Midway hero, LtCDR John C. Waldron.
Waldron established himself in history by leading his torpedo bomber squadron (VT-8) in what appeared to be a futile attack against the Japanese carrier fleet during the opening moments of the crucial battle on June 4, 1942. The story causes the viewer to examine the qualities and responsibilities of leadership. Waldron, along with 28 other men of his squadron, was killed during the battle. He valued his Native American (Lakota) heritage and made reference to this fact as a personal inspiration.
Sky Spotters – an entertaining comic from XKCD.
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged Bombardier, CSeries, history, iFly GPS, Navigation, NextGen, Ryanair on November 8, 2017 by maxflight.
The history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and the controversy surrounding their burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Also, battle lines forming over privatization of air traffic control, Southwest pilots take a stand, Iran orders more airplanes, a high altitude long endurance pseudo-satellite, tanker news, the Knightwatch E-4B, and your favorite airplanes.
Sarah Rickman is the editor of WASP News, published by Texas Woman's University (TWU), the home of the official WASP Archives. The Women Airforce Service Pilots flew for the U.S. Army in World War II. Since 2003, Sarah has been a WASP oral historian for TWU, recording many of these ladies' stories on audiotape.
Sarah tells us about the history of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). We also discuss the current controversy about the burial of WASPs at Arlington National Cemetery, the United States military cemetery.
Two new books on the WASP will be published this spring: WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds from the University of North Texas Press, and Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot, from Texas Tech University Press.
Sarah received the Combs-Gates Award for 2009 presented by the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio. Her grant is to research and write the story of the WASP who flew for the Ferrying Division in World War II. In addition to her books on the WASPs, Sarah is the author of numerous magazine and journal articles about the WASP.
Sarah is a former reporter/columnist for The Detroit News and former editor of the Centerville-Bellbrook Times (Ohio). She earned her B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University McGregor. She describes herself as a former journalist and former novelist who "found" herself when she met these amazing women who flew airplanes for the Army back when many women didn't even drive cars.
The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee conducted a "markup" hearing February 11 on the Aviation Innovation, Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2016 (H.R. 4441). The bill was amended and the Committee voted to send the legislation to the full House for consideration.
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) voiced its opposition to privatizing ATC by submitting a statement in opposition to privatized ATC.
National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) President and CEO Ed Bolen said the association would remain undeterred in opposing the bill as it makes its way through the legislative process.
National Air Transportation Association (NATA) President & CEO Thomas L. Hendricks calls ATC privatization a "threat" to general aviation. More at the NATA Congressional Action Center.
Under the sanctions, Iran's commercial aviation capability suffered greatly. That's all changing now. Iran Air has signed a purchase agreement with ATR for 20 firm and 20 option ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft. The deal is valued at €1 billion.
Solar-powered, long duration drones and other aircraft are development by companies like Google and Facebook to provide Internet service using them as pseudo-satellites. Now the British military is purchasing two solar-powered "Zephyr" high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) UAVs from Airbus. These autonomous unmanned systems would be used for long-term surveillance missions, and possibly to provide communication and ground support in remote areas.
The Zephyr, originally developed by UK firm QinetiQ, has a 23m wingspan and yet only weighs 55kg and cruises at 20km.
The first air-to-air refuelling from a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport.
For the first time, a Boeing's KC-46 tanker refueled a Navy F/A-18 using its hose and drogue system.
Naval Air Systems Command plans to release a new draft request for proposal later this year for an unmanned aerial refueling tanker. According to sources, the final RFP for the Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System (CBARS) is due out in FY 2017, with contract award in FY 2018.
David finishes out his discussion of Doomsday Planes with the converted 747-200Bs, otherwise known as the E-4B Nightwatch that serves as the National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC).
Rob gives us the results of the call for our listeners to tell us what their favorite airplane is and why. Like many others, Micah had trouble picking just one.
Bruno Misonne composes music that incorporates the sounds of aviation in very unique ways. His latest creation is "The Sound of Flaps." Bruno tells us this was "the most challenging project ever created. Everyone who regularly takes the plane becomes aware of this characteristic sound of flaps extending or retracting, a sound that becomes very audible when you are sitting in the cabin above the wings! It has been challenging to find a way to mix that sound with music since at first glance it seems quite impossible to do in such way that the result is pleasant!
The Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee's Airman Certification System working group (chaired by AOPA) has been tasked with developing new certification standards, handbooks, and test development guidance for aircraft mechanics.
Opening music courtesy Brother Love from his Album Of The Year CD. Outtro by Bruno Misonne from The Sound of Flaps.
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged Airbus, ATC, ATR, history, Iran, Southwest, Tanker, WASP, Zephyr on February 17, 2016 by maxflight.
John Mollison tells us how his artwork and his interviews capture the human side of aviation history. In the news, we talk about the FAA reauthorization bill, and consider if United Airlines is getting better. Also, spraying airplanes to fight the Zika virus, the A-10 gets a reprieve, and Icelandair steps up their game with a Stopover Buddy.
Artist and writer John Mollison has interviewed well over 100 highly decorated airman since 1999 including: Medal of Honor recipients Joe Foss and Leo Thorsness, Presidential candidate and Senator George McGovern, bestselling author Robert Mason, and Morris Jeppson, the Bomb-Electronics Officer aboard the Enola Gay, to name a few.
In his words, John "Interviews old guys and draws their airplanes." He uses the process of capturing an exact, historically accurate rendering of a particular combat aircraft to learn more about the human side of history.
John interviews the pilots and aircrew of particular aircraft to to learn: What makes people go to war? What makes people cope with stress? How do people define success? And most importantly, what can be passed on to future generations so they can avoid the mistakes of the past?
His artwork and historical contributions, including his "Old Guys and Their Airplanes" documentaries can be viewed at: www.oldguysandtheirairplanes.com and www.johnmollison.com.
On Feb 3, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee announced bill H.R. 4441, the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of 2016, the AIRR Act.
The AIRR Act proposes privatizing ATC via a federally chartered not-for-profit organization, third class medical reform, certification reform, and user fees for airlines and Part 135 charter operators.
CEO Oscar Munoz was upbeat and enthusiastic in the earnings call, 79% of the United pilots ratified a two-year contract extension, United operations are improving, United is building its San Francisco hub as the primary U.S. gateway to Asia, Boston-based PAR Capital Management increased its stake in the carrier to 8.9 million shares or 2.4% of the airline.
The British government is asking all airlines that fly from areas affected by the Zika virus to spray their planes with insecticide before coming back to the U.K.
Want To Go Skiing With Icelandair's CEO?
Icelandair and WOW Air are competing with low fares between the U.S. and Europe using Iceland as a waypoint. But now Icelandair is stepping up the game and testing an idea where passengers enjoy Iceland's sights during a layover, before proceeding to their destination. Under this program, passengers can request an Icelandair Stopover Buddy to act as a kind of free tour guide.
Jeff Pino was president of Sikorsky aircraft from 2006 to 2012. Recently, he was the Vice Chairman of XTI Aircraft Company, developing the Trifan 600 VTOL for the commercial market. Pino and was killed February 5, 2016 in the crash of his P-51 Mustang in Arizona.
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged A-10, FAA, history, Icelandair, Sikorsky, United Airlines, XTI Aircraft on February 10, 2016 by maxflight.
The history of an early aviation pioneer, update on hidden city ticketing lawsuit, Jetblue starting flights to Havana, jet engine big data, a possible narrowbody future for Rolls Royce, Leap-1B begins flight testing, and the Airbus A400M crash.
Craig Harwood is a professional Engineering Geologist and as a hobby he enjoys researching and writing about history.
His book Quest for Flight draws out of obscurity and documents the fascinating backstories in the conquest of the skies. The work and influence of American aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery serves as a framework for understanding the western contributions in the quest for flight in America.
Montgomery was a scientific inventor in the late 1800's who observed and tried to mimic bird flight. His research caused him to turn to soaring birds for inspiration and he demonstrated controlled flight with his manned gliders.
We talk about societal attitudes toward flying at the time, the different motivations of early pioneers, and the roles of women in early aviation. We also discuss how the stories of others were overshadowed by the Wrights, who actively worked to protect their position as the originators of manned flight.
Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West is available from publisher The University of Oklahoma Press and Amazon.com. You can contact Craig Harwood via email.
The 1946 movie Gallant Journey starred Glenn Ford as John J. Montgomery.
A Chicago judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by United Airlines against a 22-year-old. Last November United Airlines and Orbitz filed a civil lawsuit in against Aktarer Zaman who created Skiplagged.com. That site helps people with the "hidden city ticketing" strategy for low cost airfare. United and Orbitz claimed that Skiplagged provided "unfair competition" and promoted "strictly prohibited" travel.
The suit was filed in the Northern District Court of Illinois, but the judge in Chicago has now ruled that court has no jurisdiction because Zaman didn't live or do business in that city.
Travelers should make arrangements directly with Cuba Travel Services for these flights operated by JetBlue.
The Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan jet engine has over 5000 sensors, creating 10 Gigabytes/second of data per engine, or 2.04 Terebits/second for a twin engine airplane. P&W estimates data streaming will reach 12 Petabytes each year and they have partnered with IBM to create the data center capacity.
Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney and some other partners teamed up to form International Aero Engines in 1983 to produce the V2500 engine for the Airbus A320 family and McDonnell Douglas MD-90. In 2011, P&W bought out Rolls Royce, which effectively removed RR from the narrowbody market. Now the departing CEO of Rolls-Royce said P&W parent company United Technologies Corporation is an "obvious" potential partner.
Competing with the P&W GTF on the A320 family is the CFM International Leap-1A. The Leap-1B is sole sourced for the B737 MAX. and the Leap-1C variant powers the Comac C919.
An Airbus A400M military transport plane crashed outside Seville one mile from the airport, killing four test crew and injuring two others. The aircraft was on its maiden test flight before being delivered to Turkey.
David Sudworth brings us his story of a perfect flying day in the UK.
John J. Montgomery aloft in "The Evergreen" — photo from the San Diego Air & Space Museum archive.
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged A400M, CFM, glider, history, jetBlue, Orbitz, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, United Airlines on May 13, 2015 by maxflight.
Brian Lusk is the Corporate Historian for Southwest Airlines and a long time airline veteran. He writes for Southwest's blog, Nuts about Southwest and Tweets as @blogboy. We talk with Brian about preserving airline history, the Frontiers of Flight Museum, and Southwest at AirVenture 2011.
Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron have their Australia Desk report. Be sure to listen to the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and follow the show on Twitter at @pcdu. Steve's at @stevevisscher and Grant at @falcon124.
This week on Across the Pond, Pieter Johnson talks with Gareth Stringer Deputy Editor of Global Aviation Resource (@gaviationr) about The Hanger, a social media portal for all those interested in aviation. Gareth is @Gareth_Stringer on Twitter.
Will the A380 fly for U.S. airlines?
What do you want from Oshkosh 2011?
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged AerCap, American Airlines, Aviation museum, Cessna, China, Delta Air Lines, history, Known traveler, Wichita on July 19, 2011 by maxflight.
Aviation historian Anne Millbrooke is our guest. Anne is the author of the award winning book Aviation History, as well as Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation: A Guide to Contemporary and Historical Terms Found in Aviation Literature. She is an Adjunct Professor of History at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and also at the American Public University System. Anne is a writer, researcher, coach, speaker, and you can follow her on Twitter at @AMWriter.
Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast provide their Australia Desk Report. Follow their show on Twitter at @pcdu, Steve at @stevevisscher and Grant at @falcon124.
In this weeks Across the Pond segment Pieter Johnson talks to Gareth Stringer, Deputy Editor of Global Aviation Resource about UK airshows and some interesting visits. Follow Gareth on Twitter @gaviationr and Pieter at @Nascothornet.
Thanks to Scott Spangler for his contribution.
Post photo by Stephen Tornblom.
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged accident, Air France, airline capacity, American Airlines, Cirrus, Delta Air Lines, E170, FAA, history, Republic Airways on May 3, 2011 by maxflight.